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Swap & jfatfs. A square foot of snow was weighed in Rochester, New York, last week, when its quantity was found to be 37* pounds. Mr. Powell, who painted the De Soto Picture for Congress, has been appointed by the Ohio Legislature to paint a representation of Perry's Victory on Lake Erie?the price not to exceed'$5,000. It will be placed in one of the pannels of the rotunda of the new State House. An Irishman was asked at diuner whether he would take some apple pie. "Is it houlsome?" inquired Teddy. "To be sure it is; why isn't it ?" "Because," said Teddy, "I once had an uncle that was killed { with appleplexj; and, sure enough, I thought it was something of the same sort." Some precious poet defines ^beautiful ; extract to be helping a young lady out of a mud puddle." This is almost as bad as the wit of Hartley Coleridge who once being asked which of Wordsworth's productions he considered the prettiest, very promptly replied, "His Daughter Dora." ?? The Boston Times of Thursday says : The Rev. Sebastian Streeter, whose 74th birth-day occurs this day, which is also the 50th anniversary of his wedding day, asserts that the whole number of marriages solemnized by him in Boston, is four thousand one | hundred and sixty-nine! May the Lord forgive him for the misery he has caused. On Sunday morning, 12th of April, we learn from different portions of the country, that the whole face of the land was covered with snow and sleet. Snow fell within twenty-five miles of this place. What are we coming to ? This is certainly the most remarkable Spring ever known. The prospect for Texas is anything than pleasant.? Houston ( Texas) Telegraph. The Petersburg Va., Express says : "Our citizens are beginning to observe the j unusual number of slaves that are constant- ; > :? .1??k *k?:? ??? ! Jjr (UIUU^U X ciciouui^ uu lucu Maj South; and to the minds of the many the result appears inevitable that it will need bat the work of ten or twenty yearn to clear Virginia completely of that part of her population. A company of one hundred passed through on Saturday." There is a society in London the object of which is to send missionaries among the fugitive slaves in Canada. At a recent meeting the society was addressed by the Earl of Shaftesbury, Hon. A. Kinnard and others, and it was resolved to form three ladies committees in ? London to solicit subscriptions to aid in establishing several mixed schools (for whites and blacks) among the fugitive slaves in Canada. Such a school ! is now in existence at London, Canada West. At a public sale of negroes in Dahlonega, Luuipkin county, Georgia, on the 7th instant, the following prices were paid : A boy, 17 years old, brought ?1,104 ; a girl, 16 years old, brought ?1,106.50; two boys, oldest 11 years old, brought ?860 and ?822; ' a woman, 35 years old, and child, i years 1 old, ?1,012; two small childreu, ?650. They were sold on a credit till first of June next, * I with note and approved security, with in- j terest from date. Captain Rjndcrs has shown a commendable spirit in the opening lecture given ; to his subordinates, but we have heard of a late appointee who was equally terse, and a trifle more particular in his instructions.? After receiving his commission he went to his place of businessand called up his clerks: "Now boy," said he, "you're used to work, and I am used to whiskey. You attend to your part, and I'll do drinking enough for the whole of you." A prominent New York physician ! was robbed on Thursday afternoon, while 1 passing along Ninth street, near Callowhill, j by a veiled female. The woman suddenly stepped up to the M. 1)., and before he was hardly aware of her presence she snatched his gold spectacles from his nose. The astonished doctor was too much surprised to give any alarm, and the woman escaped.? The physician returned to his hotel with no very favorable opinion of veiled women. One of those old gentlemen whose age is supposed to entitle them to say anything, made the following extremely rude and personal remark to a young officer in a distinguished regiment about to proceed to China: "Well, sir, well; you are going to Canton, eh, sir ? Well, I can only say I hope you won't fall into the hands of the Chinamen, alive or dead ; for if you're alive they'll kill you, and if you're dead or when you're dead they'll eat you. Sir, I believe that it is an undoubted fact that the Chinese eat puppies." We have been gratified, says the Warrenton (N. C.) News, with the sight of some small nuggets of the real "Simon pure stuff"" from the mine of A. H. Davis, Esq., at Ran' 6om's bridge, about twenty miles from Warrenton. We understand about forty hands are employed in the mines at that place, averaging from 82 to 82 50 each hand per day. The precious metal is generally found in grains among the gravel, but the nuggets we saw were turned up in ploughing. The largest weighed about ten pennyweights of pure gold, and with others of less size made a pretty pile. Mrs. Polk, the esteemed widow of the ex-President, has determined to reside in Washington during the next session of Congress. Heretofore, since her husband's death with the ezceptioD of a visit io London at the time when Mr. Buchanan was the American minister there, Mrs. Polk has resided in Tennessee. It will be remembered that the deceased ex-President left to his widow the charge of taking care of and publishing his memoirs which, so far as they relate to his administration, are said to be minute, full of interesting personal anecdotes and abounding in reflections suggested by the state of public affairs and the conduct of his cabinet. A heavy smuggling transaction in liquors has been detected in an importing firm of New York, but it is said to have been hushed up. If such an operation had been discovered in the conduct of a small dealer, exposition would have followed. We hope that the Secretary of the Treasury will ferret out the transaction. This is not less due to the interest of the revenue than to the character of the poor and honest merohant. The large means of a wealthy mercantile concern may enable it to mask its designs by bribes, which the honest merchant would disdain to employ, were his means sufficiently ample for the purpose. If bribery was not employed, the influence of high position, in such case, exercises a no less pernicious effect on the morals of trade. C|eforIiMlIe^nijuh"er SPITED BY BAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. KILLEB J. H. BLACK. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 80, 1857. ANNUAL ORATION. j Moody B. Smith, Esq.. of Wilmington, X. C., | has accepted the invitation to deliver the Annual I Oration before the two Literary Societies of Daj vidson College, X. C., on Wednesday preceding j commencement, the loth of duly next. TO CORRESPONDENTS. We would say once for all, that to secure atten| tion, correspondents must give their names. This course we are compelled to take in self-defence, and it should offend none. We ave ever ready to encourage youthful writers, and invite contributions from all quarters, reserving, of course, the right of rejecting such as are not acceptable.? Our country friends would oblige us by sending in notices of marriages and deaths, when they occur ; lists of subscribers, or any thing likely to be of interest to ourselves or the readers of the Enquirer. tub RtOHT OP SECESSION. Quito a lengthy discussion of this subject has been going on between the Courier and Xtic*; and latterly, the Edgefield Adnrtiitr and the former, have had an amusing tilt on the same battle-held. We have hitherto refrained from mentioning the contest, because we thought, and still think, that it will all end in smoke. The questiou Las long been settled in favor of the right of secession, and the eloquence of the Courier can never overturn that firm-fixed opiniou. But it resembles too much the metaphysical jargon of the school-men, to begin at this late day tho discussion of the abstract right of secession. Were the right established ineontrovertibly, "Father Yeadon" would next object to the practicability of exercising it. Were he driven from this position, "the old man eloquent" would find an Asylum in a Platonic Love of the Union, a phantasy of the brain, an imaginary sheCupid who directs the headlttt arrows of the Courier. If there was any stopping place to the retrogade movement, wo could patiently await the issue. But if we wish to unite the South, and promote her interests, there is oue common ground on which we all can stand. There is one right which even sophistry cannot deny us, the right of Rebellion. That right cannot be refused us, without casting an imputation on our heroic ancestry and on that long list of bright names which history immortalizes as synonymes of heroism and patriotism. The State-Rights party can find a sanction for their politics under the right of secession; the Union party, if they have any scruples of conscience about the existence of such ar. abstract right, can co operate with them and display their heroism under the right of Rebellion. Those cravon spirits, who have determined to endure every outrage and oppression must continue as heretofore to "charm with the whistle of a name," themselves and their deluded followers. The only question then, worth a fig, is the expediency of a separation of the Union, and if the Courier and the Xetie, wish a theme "worthy of their steerpens, let them estimate the value of that Union. We believe firmly in the dogma of the sage Bonthant, that utility is the only safe and sound basis of Legislation. Once convince a people in what direction their interests lie, nnd the difference between "tweedledum nnd tweedledee van ishes instantly. ir is n sickij- piuriuiism m.-u inveighs against calculating thovalue of the Union, ami chivalry on stilt* that effects to treat nations like individuals, and act the mock-heroic at every violation of an imaginary code of honor. If the "governmental organization" which our forefathers have handed down to us, ha-- failed to secure that peace and happiness to the North and South, which they intended to secure to them, what fools we are to debate about the propriety or the right of making a change for the better. Instead of displaying a laudable reverence for our forefathers, we should be disgracing them by our iguorance and imbecility. When convinced that they were oppressed?that the laws of the old world were fettering the genius of the new, our forefathers did not stop to debate the idle question of a right to sccuk or rebel?whichever term sounds the best "to ears polite." They felt that heaven bad never sanctioned, and never would sanction, the plundering of any people, whether done openly or perpetrated under the fiction of legal right, and in that belief, they were strong, i But even then, "when the souls of men were tried" 1 there were many who preferred the "glorious i Union" with Great Britain to independence out of ; it. If the people of the South think themselves oppressed, if she is convinced that the civilization and geuius of the two sections of the country require different laws, if she can direct her destinies to her own advantage independent of the North, then say we, that the right of secession is clearly made out and the expediency of it incontrovertible* established. Like the right of Revolution this right may be disputed at the point of the bayonet, but the blood of millions cannot wnsh it away. We refrain from any nice distinctions on this subject, since it is an easy matter to make a distinction without a difTereuoe. It is an easy thing for ingenious sophistry to construct a labyriuth, which will bewilder and entangle the unwary, for there never yet has been a traitor since the world began, who did not plead some plausible excuse in justification of his treason. Arnold has his defenders, Cmsar his eulogists, and Bonaparte his admirers and partisans. Those who have pre-deI termined to desert the Southern cause, can easily I nle&rl alove of the Union?an indefinite nothing? to justify their course. Union!?there is no union. In this instance it is a word without a corresponding idea; for there is not and never again can there be a cordial, brotherly, warm-hearted union, between North and South, "They stand apart like cliffs that have been rent asuuder." When wo hear men pleading an "over-righteous" love of the "glorious Union" as an excuse for distracting the counsels of the South, we consider it the unequivocal index of folly or hypocrisy. We are accustomed to attach different ideas to the words Secession and rebellion, but the right of j both when brought to a practical issue rests j upon the same foundation. A rebellion may be j peaceable as well as a secession, or in both cases, j force may be called in to coerce the seceding party, i But we promised to avoid all hair-splitting dis' tinctions. "The war of the Giants" has worn | thread-bare that filagree nonsense, j We did not peruse with care either the articles j of the Courier or ATei?, but read enough to conj elude that the articles of the former ?"Were curious examples on the whole Of Rhetoric, which the learned call rigmarole". "Father Yeadon," as he has been affectionately dubbed by "Boy Simkins," merely wishes to show, we opine, "That tho' out argued, he can argue still." An innocent and laudable ambition, but one not likely to convince any one. The Newt has ably defended the deeply ingrained doctrine of State Sovereignty?tlfat noble bulwark against the consolidation and centralization of power, which the South ahould ever defend. The Advtrlittr waf quite felicitous In its reply to the thunder of the Courier, and seema to have silenced the enemy'e pun), for a time at least THE KANSAS MEETING. c ' | Agreeable (o his appointment, Col. Baeeh nr: f rived here on Monday evening. The audience as- 1 r : J sembled to hear him, was comparatively small, ! owing to the non-attendance of gentlemen from | > ; the country. We are surprised to see so little . i interest manifested in the Kansas cause, but if we ! 1 j mistake not, Col. Bakee has awakened to new ^ ^ | life the slumbering zeal of all who heard him.? ' ! Those who neglected the opportunity, have lost a j chance of hearing one of the most eloqucut ora- j tors who has ever visited our town. j ^ His fame had already preceded him; we bad j been told of his eloquence; wo knew the impor- , ^ tance of the cause which he came to advocate ; ! but it was only after heating him illustrate the , * a Past and Present of Kansas, trace consecutively | the series of aggressions, that had brought about the present crisis, and invoke in thrilling words the aid of the South to prevent the hordes of Abolitionists from tearing the last, sole refuge of our j ^ institutions nnd civilization, from the bosom of j ( Missouri, that we realized fully, the necessity for | immediate aud prompt assistance. Clearly did he show in whnt maimer the South * * - ? * ? a :? ? i bad been ousted irom oue new lerriiuiy unci ?uu- i ther, plundered at one time under the fiction of a ; i compromise, deceived with tho hollow promises of ; peace, and bullied at another time out of rights ! n which she had sworn to defend. Grandly did he : r ' unroll the pages of history and show whose blood j h had purchased Texas, whose valor had swept the v plains of Mexico and whose ill-starred policy had j c i lost them the fruits their chivalrous spirit had I won. Buena Vista, bathed in Southern blood, still k glistens before us! Vet has the South no monu- | 1 ment to attest the victory or mark the triumphs j t of her sons. That magnificent country, rich in ' u minerals and lnnd, which sleeps in the arms of j tho Pacific, and which both from its adaptation to I Slave-labor and becnuse it was purchased by ^ Southern blood, belongs to us, was unccrcmoni- i ( ouslv taken from us by the violation of a solemn I.' - i u compromise. Empty fame, was all that the valor j , of the South achieved. And after we have acted I i a with so little policy and firmness as to have lost i , j nearly all the West, we arc called upon to decide j n whether Kansas too shall go in the same way? Q It is the last territory left by the greedy mow of the North. Let this eye of the Southwest be put o out and the destiny of the South is wrapped in : ? .-vi. _i?? a ( lmpcneiruuie giuuui. . ^ By securing it permanently to the- South, we ;. will be able to preseut an unbroken front to the | ^ foe, but let it be abolitionized and Missouri will i Q lower her proud crest, and Atchison, Stringfellow, : ^ Russell and other brave defenders of the South, ! will be sacrificed through our supineness and in difference. Kentucky will follow in the wake of j Missouri; and Virginia, noble old Virginia, will | 8 next bow her head to the stroke. ] ll Hopeless is the cause of the South if this last jll appeal does not resuscitate her zeal. Let Kansas j 0 go, Missouri, Kentucky and the old Dominion fol- j ^ t low, and the slave owners of the South will then ! ^ i i awaken.?when it is too late,?when their prince- j " : ly fortunes are depreciated to one fourth of their j * i present value and the very source of their wealth | ^ j is tottering to its ruin. Those who now feel so * j indifferent, will then wonder at their want of fore- n t i J sight, but the march of Abolitionism will be more steady and irresistible, and the spirit of the South will crouch lower and lower. Fear is the last c argument to appeal to, but there are times when . t, ; it proves more potent than the soundest logic.? ? J And the South may well tremble. Twelve months . y ! of inaction, and her fate is scaled. This beauti- d I ' j ful heritage of ours, the cherished institutions of n ! our forefathers, the best civilization under the a i j sun?will become but a traditionary tale?a le- j p j gend of romance. 1 n What other can or should he our destiny if we j p \ desert those who are perilling their lives and ' s spending their fortunes in a cause common to us n i all ? Should we not expect, from our knowledge ] of human nature, that those who are now our j ( staunchest friends, repulsed by our ingratitude | ? and defeated from the want of aid and sympathy i 9 on the part of the South, wiil give up all for lost, j ? and in the hopelessness of despair, affiliate with r onr assailants and reap upon us the vengeance so j justly due? i This is one of the times when peace is more dan- . I gerous than agitation cr war. You may hide g i from danger to-day, but it will rise more immi- r I neut to-morrow. Like the victim of consumption, . I ease may be mistaken for health, and the hectic ' r | glow of prosperity which now mantles over the j j South, may be mistaken for the evidence of per- ! j manency and stability. The insidious disease enn j j be cured most easily by immediate applications, ! f j before it has knawed in two, the chords of life.? i j ! But the South suffers herself to be lulled into re : pose by the first gleam of peace. She permits the 1 . j disease to gather strength and prey upon her vi- t ; tals. j | | * , j If anything can arouse her from this fatal se- ' . i curity it is the burning words of Col. Baker. A ] i native of Smith Carolina and the adoDted son of . j Alabama, wherever lie goes he will be recommend- 1 i ed by the politeness and modesty of his manners, ' I and the noble bearing of a gentleman. He goes ! j from this place to Unionville. We wish him sttc| cess in the great canse in which he is enlisted. j UNIVERSITY OP VIRGINIA. We are indebted to Mr. A. A. Moore for a | Catalogue of this institution. The total number j of students in attendance is six hundred and forty- j five of which fifty are from South Carolina. I ( There is one feature about this University, j ! which we should like to see adopted by this State j j # ' j in reference to theS. C. College, viz: The provision j j for the admission of fifty students without pay- ! j ment of Professors fees or University charges.? ; j Another wise regulation is that students are not j i admitted under the age of seventeen unless they | accompany an older brother. Merchants and oth- | ers are prohibited under severe penalties from : crediting students, who are required to surrender I all their funds into the hands of the Patron. The 1 ! Library contains about twenty-five thousand vol- j | umns. A HEARSE. We are requested to state to the people of York- j ville, that our enterprising young friends, Messrs. j Walker & Weikert, propose to build a Hearse [ for the use of the place, if they can get the proper encouragement. They will construct one for a j reasonable price or keep it themselves to be hired I , at moderate rates. An expression of the citizens generally is desired on the'subject. It is scarcely necessary that we should explain the propriety of such an innovation. To many it will be sufficient to say that other places have them. To those who wish a more serious reason, we would say that a rlnnonrtn o nrl nnnrnnionPO n Kntl f n Won rat* _ blictcio ? UWWUV;?uuvwu?vmvuvv?vw.. i. which cannot well be dispensed with without the r appearance of barbarity. Besides, it adds to the c solemnity of the funeral procession, that solemn ^ pageant, which reminds us at once of our mortali- <] ! ty and our immortality. We may put back the ( great thought or hide it in the busy cares of life, { but friend after friend falling around us, will 2 bring again and again to our mind the beautiful I lines of Mrs. Hemans: "Leaves have their time to fall And flowers to wither at the North winds breath ^ 1 And stars to set?but all g Thou hast all seasons for thine own, 0 death !" ^ j It is a solemn thing to die?to go to the dream. less slumbers in the "narrow house," and the care J I bestowed on the silent realm of tombs is not the i pompous trappings of vanity. There is an elo- ^ ; quence in those marble monitors of the destiny I which awaits all, that teaches us an important and t useful lesson. Every toyrn should have a spacious t i in r. ,lW.rtl1r,^ ? eraetery and a Hearse and other conveniences or conducting tho obsequies of friends who are 10 more. Who wifl tako tho lead? ? wh strawberries. Several of our cotemporaies have been before us a receiving these first fruits of Spring. Even our 'Juvenile'' friend of the E'ljeftild AJveriurr. has iftd the exquisite pleasure of hearing of. seeing r tasting (we forget which) this luscious fiuit, ome time ago. Hut the ruby lipped luxury canto o us the other day?a donation frontalis* Lizzie (Er.i^Y. Strawberries arc generally esteemed ileasant enough, in and of themselves, but they nay be much sweetened by the power of associaion. The fair donor may be sure that we are mply thankful for the favor, as we don't like to cknowlcdge the ladies of Yorkville, inferior to ny in the State, in beauty, taste, liberality or ny other attraction. It was a beautiful cluster, Miss I.tLZlE,?three lughing twin sisters?clasping each other nffecionntely, yet proffering their rosy lips, "Whose kisses pout to leave their nest," o temptingly "'twould make a saint forget the ky." 'he southern quarterly review. The Carolina Timet says: "The forthcoming umber of this Review will prove to be one of the ichest that has been published, and it is to be oped that the friends of Southern Literature, rill rally to its support and ensure its pcrinaneny" There is not in America an abler work of the ind, and it shouliHjp.more warmly supported.? 'he price paid per page is $0.00, and the price of lie vrork must, consequently, be higher than the tsual wishy-washy nonsense of Mngnzines. THE E. C. RECORDER. lVc have received the April number of this neat lollogc monthly. With the exception of frequent ypographical errors, showing negligence in rendng the proof sheets, it make.s a fair appearance. 'The Battle of Bloody Brook,: is a failure so far s the rhyme is concerned. "Youths" and "troops" 'one" and "song" "youths" and "fruit" and aany other instances are farfetched and not much fter they are brought. The prose essays ore ;cncrally good. We had the pleasure of meeting ne of the young editors?Mr. W. L. Presslv, few days ago. ITi.s sojourn In our tovrn was toe irief for him to sec all its beauties, but we hope ie was well enough pleased to "call again." If e is a judge of beauty, as we believe he is, he aw enough to make him often revert to the fleetag vision. THAT "POME." We publish elsewhere, a scmi-serio-comico-scnible "pomo" from a young bachelor, who someimes "sloshes round" in Vorkvillc. He seems o be, if we comprehend his idea, a warm advocate f hoop*, when not worn to that "waintful and riiculous excess" which so horrified the bard of ivon. Wc would caution those ladies who have - ' -t-- >?. ? 1. 01 }*ei Il.'lU IUO IIUVJJIH'J cvuju, Ugaiuji 1V?UI..6 lus production as they might catch the contagious isense. From the cuteness of the effusion, it rould seem that the signature (two eyes) is no lisnomer. MERE-MENTION. A beautiful poem will be found on our outside, ontributed by Mrs. Stratton, a sufficient guaranee of its excellence. The Columbia papers nnonnco the death of Wm. F. Arthur, for many ears Deputy Secretary of State and since the eccnse of Mnj. Hart, Keeper of the State House nd Librarian of the Legislative Library. 'he principle of rotation in office was recently npilietl for the first time in South Carolina, by the ppointment of Mr. Conner District Attorney in lace of Mr. Evans. The Trustees of Davidou College, N. 0., offer a salary of $1,200, with , residence, for a Profes-sor of Belles Letters, &e. 'he election will be made on the 14th July. Jant. Ed. PeRcu, Professor of Fencing, has been ppointed by His Excellency, the Governor, Intructor at the Military Academy, in the Sword nd Bayonet exercise. Another comet has nade its appearance, and between two such fiery iclligercnti, the earth stands indeed, upon the 'perilous edge of battle":?look out for the crash ! The Pretestant Episcopal Convention of louth-Carolina will assemble in Camden on Wcdlesday, the sixth day of May next, 10 o'clock. Maj. Henry A. Meetze, of Lexington is lominated in the Rising Sim, to till the vacancy in he fourth Congressional District, caused by the lentil of Hon. P. 8. Brooks. The friends of Gen. 1. H. Hammond announce in the Edgefield Aifreriter, their determination to run him nolens volens or the same post. The University of Northirn New York was recently burnt?loss unknown. The Steamer Liberty was burnt to the wner's edge at Plymouth, N. C., a few days since. joss $20,000. T. C. Thackston, Esq., has elinguisbed the Editorial chair of the South Side )cinocrat and intends removing to South Carolina1 The General Assembly of the Presbyterian ,'Lurch (0. S.) in the United States of America, rill hold its next meeting in Lexington, Kentucky, in Thursday, the 21st of May next, and will be ipencd with a sei mon by the llev. Francis Mc Vrland, D. D., Moderator of tljo last Assembly. A sub-editor Announces that the editor of he paper is unwell and piously adds: ''All good laying subscribers are requested to make mention if him in their prayers?the other class need not lo it, as the prayers of the wicked availeth nothng," according to good authority. Kemcm>er, ye who ridicule tL young man for his parsiaony, that by and by he cau be generous when 'ou have nothing to give. The State Penitentiary, at Huntsville, Texas, is low turning out an average of seventeen hundred ards of cloth per day. The Item thinks this iqual to any production of Northern mills, in prolortion to the labor employed. The >Spartan ays Oscar M. Lieber, Esq., who has been for lome time engaged in n Geological and Mineralogcal survey of the State, has now entered upon hat section embracing Union and Spartanburg districts, to which field he will confine his labors luring the summer. The Post Office at Bowingville, Union District has been discontinued."* The Church of which Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer vas formerly pastor, presented him since his renoval to New Orleans, with an elegant service of ilvcr. This gift Dr. Palmer acknowledges in the aost grateful manner by a letter which we find mblished in the Columbia papers. . Col. John V. Forney is said to be very ill in Philadelphia, ind his numerous friends are very anxious as to lis final recovery. The telegraph announces hat the Governorship of Utah has been tendered o Maj. Ben McCulloch, of Texas. A man lamed Ilefferman laboring under delirium trenens, stabbed six men on the steamer Statesman, in the 7th, a few miles above Evansville, Ind.? Two of them are not expected to recover. The first volume of Dr. Hawks' History of North Carolina hns been published. We receive his week a new exchange, the Chapel Hill Gaette. THE WEATHER. An old song says pertinently "Never mind the reather bo the wind don't blow;" the rest of the long is impertinent. We string together for the >enefit of those weather-witches, who begin now to >rophecy from the appearance of the moon, what rind of season, we will have for the next twenty rears, the weather items over the country geneally. The Lanrensville Herald, says that never within he memory of any of its citizens, has that sec ion of the country experienced such continued L.| r.**r colli weather. CoM rains ami severe frosts have prevented seeds iu t!ic ground from germinating ; and excepting a few Apple and Cherry trees fruit is all killed, and every kiud of vegetation wears a gloomy appearance. It is feared that the wheat crop is damaged. The Galveston Civilian, of the lltli, says: In | Texas wo have information that the frost on the night of the 5th very g v.erally killed the young cotton, and materially injured tlm corn, though much of it is not killed. Fortunately a largo a( mount of the replant cation was not yet up, and will escape injury. This visitation upon our State lias been quite general. We have no reason to fear that good crops may R"t yet he produced, j late a3 it is, as such thing" have happened in formI er yea rs. A letter from Texas, dated HdrTusf.. says that ; Cotton and Corn of the second planting, and just j up to n fine stand, were rli killed : and that there ! was not seed enough for a third planting, so that \ the loss would be disastrous t) planters, who had ! made a short crop last year. A letter from MoI bile says that in the interior of Alabama. Corn ! was cut down and all Cotton that was up, was j killed. A letter from Memphis, Tennessee, says I that the lute heavy frost would compel planters in i that vicinity to replant. The Nashville, Tenn., ' Potrjof, of the 21st inst., says that almost every! thing in the shape of vegetation has been killed | or withered by the continued cold weather. Iirowuville and Matamorns were visited by a j snow storm on the 12th of March, followed by a . hoar frost, which killed the tender vegetation.? I Such a visitation was never before known at that place. A gentleman just from Dallas, who is largely , engaged in manufacturing flour in that place, exi presses the opinion that the late frost has not seriously injured the wheat crop of that country, ; though ho left home two days before the frost.? .ShotiM this crop have escape! harm, lie says a very large amount of flour will be brought to Houston by wagons, to find a market there and in this city.?Texas Paper. The Dolawarc river at Trenton was rapidly rising on the 23rd, and it was thought that the iron works would he forced to suspend operations.? l In the upper waters of the same river the melting | snow it is said will cause great destruction of I property. The snow storm of Sunday night and Monday j was a severe one in several sections of I'crosyl: vania. The snow at Maunch Chunk fell to the ' depth of fourteen inches; at Coopersburg, on the North Pennsylvania Railroad, eight inches; at ; Pottsvillc ciglitccu inches; and at Rending eight or ten inches, j Ou Tuesday of last week two feet eight inches : of suow fell in Franklin county, New York. The ' roofs of several buildiugs were crushed iu by its i weight. THE ANSWER. We published, last week, a riddle of au epitaph, : which ran thus: ? 0 quid tua tc be bis bia abit; j ra va ra cs. et - in ram ram ram i. i. Mox oris quod ego nunc. Wc append the solution, which the classical rcaj der will readily understand by remembering that ; super means above; (er means thrice; and bis, twice, 0 placed above be, might be rendered 0 superbe; ra repeated three times, makes terra ; i repeated : twice, would be ibis. Now for the solution: O supcrbe, quid superlit f Tua surpebia te superrabit. Terra es, et iu terrain ibis. Noz eris quod ego nunc. Translated literally wc have it thus : "0 proud mnu, why art thou proud ? Thy pride will yet overcome thee. Earth thou art, and unto earth shalt thou return. Soon thou wilt be what 1 am! NORTH CAROLINA. I A writer in the Greensboro* Times takes occasion to boost of the Old North State, in the following manner: "The State of North Carolina is situated just half way between Cape Sable of Nova Scotia and Cape Sable of Florida, and her politics are just halfway between the free soilers of the North and the secessionists of the South. She contains 50,704 square miles or nbout one fifty eighth of the territory of the United States and a thousandth part of the land surface of the globe. Her great1 est length is only 150 miles and her greatest ! breadth 220, yet so varied are her soil and climate ' that all the agricultural and horticultural producj tions of the Union arc raised within her limits.? She is the only State in the Union, which, in 1850, filled up all the blanks in the census reports. On the same parallel of latitude 36? within her bori dcrs, are produced cotton and clover ? heat and J rice, Irish potatoes and sweet potatoes, barley and j pens, iron and lead, coppernnd chalcedony, jasper I and silver and mica, gold and garnetts. She coni tains every mineral and precious stone mentioned in the description of the New Jerusalem, Rev. xxi." We clip from an exchange another item of her greatness. Honor to whom honor is due?but the "secessionists of the South," would not be losers if this star of her glory would set forever. We suppose the writer of the above was too modest to publish the following fulsome piece of flattery: "Five thousand eight hundred and eighty-one barrels of whiskey, containing forty one gallons each, were conveyed over the Seaboard railroad between the first of January, 1.856, and the first of February, 1857, to various points on the line of j the road nnd the contiguous parts of North CaroI linn." I THE YOUNG STATESMEN OF THE SOUTH. We take from the columns of the South, the following just tribute to three promising young Statesmen. Col. Keitt has, perhaps more than j any other Statesman the confidence of South Carolina. lie and Hon. W. W. Boyce are men for any emergency. Clay nnd Perkins deserve the compliment paid thein by the South. In contemplating the condition of the South and | calculating the chances of its escopo from the difficulties which beset it, one finds sonic assurance of safety iu the zeal, courage aud fidelity of the yonng statesmen who nre about to control its destiny. The day of apologies for Slavery and compromises with Abolitionism, is past, never to return; and with it those timid, time-serving politicians who have masked so much of selfishness 1 under so much of prudence, are gone never to roj appear upon the stage of action. A new school-of j statesmen, professing a truer philosophy, andanij mated by a fur nobler spirit, have won the confi dence and admiration of the people, and will henceforth be recognized as the leaders of the South. There are such in Virginia; but it would be invidious to indicate them b.v name. With greater propriety may we distinguish those of other States who promise most for the future of the South. Foremost among the rising men of the South stands Keitt, of South Carolina, Clay, of Alabama, and Perkins, of Louisiana. They are all of the type of character which the South needs at this crisis. Fearless and adventurous, fertile in resources, intensely earnest in their convictions, learned, logicnl, eloquent?they are surely reserved to play a prominent part in the future history of the South. Under a mild and modest exterior, Perkins conceals a dauntless heart and the most aspiring genius. As Judge in his own State and member of Congress, from which he voluntarily retired, he has given abundant proof of his uncommon qualities. Clay is still in the Senate, of which he is perhaps the youngest member. Early attached to the States-Rights school of Democracy, he was distinguished for courage and eloquence before the path of promotion was open to his ambitious step. Then at one bound he attained a position which men ordinarily win by long years of intrigue and - - T ? aL. O a- L _ 1 A .t! 1 a party service, in iue oeuuiu ue nus ueuvereu two speeches of remarkable ability?one a withering and overwhelming denunciation of the miscreant Hale, the other an argument of great research and power, in defence of slavery and the South. The name of Col. Keitt is more familiar in this State, because of a speech which he delivered during the last session of Congress, and which has been universally read and applauded in the South. It is but a just compliment to say, that of all the speeches in vindication of slavery, which have ever been heard in Congress, this is the most distinguished by vigor and originality of thought, affluence of illustration and fervor of eloquence.? Col. Keitt is hardly yet in the prime of life; and with such habits of study and snch resources of intellect as he possesses, he cannot fail to run a glorious career. The South appreciates and will cherish these gallant champions of its rights and honor. For the Yorkville Enquirer. | "THE GIRL, WITH THE MDSUS DBEI8." 'Twas Saturday eve, when down the Street, Like a dream of loveliness, Went tripping along on glancing feet The girl with the muslin dress. All eye9 fixed on the gliding fairy As she floated like ft dream? j A Summer dream so light and airy, By nil embowered stream. | But none could tell what magic grace Around that bright girl strayed; Some said it was the taper waist Of the lightly gliding maid. And some averred 'twas the floating hair That streamed in cnrls of jet; ! While others vowed that cheek* so fair Their eyes had neve met. And others thonght the downcast eye With its soft, shy, modest glance, Like one bright star in the azure sky, Was what did most entrance. But one there was with wiser head, Or else he chanced to guess, Who too had marked the airy tread Of the girl with the muslin dress. lie said to those Around him grouped, "You arc guessing wrong I guest, For 'tis because she's nicely hooped, That you whoop so at her dress. ! The 'Dry good Stores' which once were worn, "Were 'ridiculous excess', But with what ease the hoops are borno When hooped in a muslin dress." And all agreed that be was right; "Long live the hoops," said they, "For never was a fairer sight Than we have seen to-day." God speed the girl with the muslin dress For beautiful is she, And a safety-valve in all distress May hoops forever be. I. I. Yorkville, April 25th, 1857. For the Yorkville Enquirer. WOMEN VS. DRESS. The Press is not only the guardian of political rights and the rebuker of all lapset Against bonos mores, but it is likewise the arbiter elegantiaruiflo wI.iaU *1?a SntaMolo /\f wAmon 10 Anfrnaf/wl frtl? nrn. tection; and it is false to its trust, when it neglects to promote her welfare or shrinks from her defence, since she has ever been the strongest advocate of the "freedom of the prest." But too often is that column appropriated to politioal squabbles or clouds of advertisements, which, ip every well-organized paper, should be set aside for her special information or amusement. Why noed we be surprised, that after being fed on the food of men, she should sometimes prove to men-y (many) for the luckless husband or the ill-starred lover? We do not mean, Messrs. Editors, to reflect upon the Enquires for its neglect in this respect, for the remark is equhlly applicable to all our Southern Journals, and besides, we know that you have a "warm side" for the "poetry of life," as woman has been appropriately termed. Why should men know (heir righlt and woman be kept in ignorance of hers ? This was the effete theory of fogydom ; but in the dawn of a new era, it is to be hoped that her rights will bo considered of more importance, and when dfily weighed, they will not be found to conflict with the immunities of the "Lord's of Creation." There is one right which the most churlish, hard-shell bachelor, that ever smoked his pipe in selfish felicity, will scarcely dare dony her?the right of knowing the true object and the gross perversions of dress. Fair readers, we belong neither to that sect of J Cynics who sneer at everything; nor to the modj ern school of utilitarians which estimates the val; ue of everything, from a garden of roses or a i pretty lady, down to a pea-patch or sweet-potatoe, ; by the same inflexible, dollar and cent, eui bono rule. All extremes are wrong?in philosophy, in love, in hate, in the length of coat-tails, or, in "orbicular rotundities." We do not wish to dis; parage taste and elegant neatness?among the I sweetest attractions of "home?sweet home."? I . But we have long thought that something might ; be done by the ladies, which would contribute \ incalculably to the happiness of man, and partic! ulnrly to that much derided class?the confirmed j bachelors. We do not mean, however, those who i are bachelors because they are naturally heartless, or because they so extremely modest that I they are afraid of being hooped; for such, there is no "balm in Gilead." But the bachelors that i we pity, are those jovial, good fellows, who are fond of the Indies; who appreciate the bumani! zing and elevAting influence of her society, but . whose limited fortune will not support all the lux* uries of fashionable life. Poor fellows! it is from j their high appreciation of woman, that they : shrink from the idea of marrying, unless they could gratify all her foibles. Thus they reason with themselves: "There is Miss Finetta, conld she only be content with a neat little cottage, a i few flowers, a few books, the life-devotion of one ' true heart?if I was certain she would not pine for the sumptuous paraphernalia of Mrs. So-andSo, I would willingly place what little I possess j on her shrine. But with all her natural attraej Hons and natural good sense, she has never been ! taught to look through the gilded exterior of life ; at its realities, to value the kingdom of the heart i properly; to build her hopes of happiness upon a | more permanent basis than the frivolities of fash! ion; to feel that "life is real, life is earnest," and I what if at this late day, these errors have become j too deeply implanted to be uprooted?" With j such melancholly reflections he turns to his soli' tary tenement, lights his cigar, and enjoys a de; lightful reverie of what might be his felicity, could | he only find an earnest, lovable weman. At last | his "Havana" is consumed, the smoke rolls away, ! and so vanishes his pleasant dreams, for he looks I in vain for his beau ideal, j Such, fair readers, is the innocent, bon homie creature, that you have been accustomed to regatd j as a "hard case-" Your kind-hearted, match-maI king mother, who can't see clearly through her j spectacles, has given you a false impression of a large portion of my brother bachelors. Some of | them are hard cases we admit; some of them, like some old maids we havevseen, have no fellow feeling in their bosoms; they are the blissless, kissless automatons placed in our midst, to remind us how peculiarly favored wc are, and how thankful we should be that we have living souls But such, we affirm, is not the case with a large portion of me single un-oiessea. ?u\sj nave warm uearuj, and, fair readers, though you may have no desire to marry, take pity on their ill-starred condition, and make them feel that you are living, earnest women, and that jewelry, hoops, "abominable tittle-tattle" (as that brute Byron would say) is not the neplut ultra of their halcyon dreams. Think for yourself a moment and try and solve this knotty problem?which is most important, the dress or the woman ? If the former, why contin ue as heretofore, to give it your entire attention; but if the latter, then let the former be a subordinate consideration. What will become of the poetry, the delicate morccau of flatter^ and love ; which the lover once poured into thy greedy ears, "beneath the hawthorn's shade that seenta the evening gale," if extravagance in dress continues to increase, and steel amplifications render you "terrible as as army iritb banners?" Bot the ladies arc not the only dnpee of the tyrant, Fashion. If the hard-shell bachelors who complain so ranch of woman's exiravogance, would curtail their own superfluities and drew lees exj travagantly, the ladies would hare the good sense [ to appreciate their worth, and they coold afford I ; the latter a few indulgences. Alas 1 like the soft| er sex, they have not the moral power to resist the , | fiat of that omnipotent tyrant which says?"tails i long shall your coat-tail be and no longer." JFNIUS. Indian Laud, April 25, 1857. ' - ' i nan - For the Yorkvijle Enquirer. *? ' * r* KANSAS BOEBTISa. At ft meeting of the citizens of Yorkrille, held I in the Court House on Monday evening last, for ^ i the purpose of listening to an addreee from Col. Alpheus Baker, of Alahama, on the aUTjfrs of Kansas, ' . .j On motion of R. Springs Moore, Esq., Col. &. G. McCaw was called to the Chair and J. H. Black requested to act as Secretary. The Chairman then introduced the distinguished orator, Colonel Baker, to the house, and in a few appropriate remarks, statqd the object of the meetinz and the imoortance of the cause which he came to advocate. - Col. Baker arose and addressed the audience for an hour and a half, and at the close of his j eloquent oration, on motion of. Edward Moore, Esq., a committee was appointed to make a collection forthwith. Messrs. Miller, Adiokee and Clawson, composed the Committee, add la a few moments a handsome collection was taken np. On motion of Jno. L. Miller, Esq., the Chairmnn was authorised to appoint a Committee to collect funds throughout the District. The following gentlemen were placed upon the Committee:? John M. Ros4? Dr. L. P. Barnett, B. T. Wheeler, Dr. R. T. Allison, Robt. Whitesides, S. 0. Brown, Esq., T. P. Black, A. Hardin, Capt J. M. Bird, Wm. C. Black, Meek McElwee, 8. H. Anthony, Dr. A. P. C. Campbell, Dr. J. B. Hunter, J. L. > M. Adams, Thos. Grier, 8. A. McElwee, B. C. Pressley, John Watson, B. P. Rawlfoson, H. F. Broach, Wm. P. Thomassoj, D. D. Moore, John S. Bratton, Copt. Alfred Moore, G. L. McNeil, Wm. B. Russell, Dr. John Crosby, Maj. Robert Lindsay, Maj. Z. D. Burris, f.'B^prings, J. M. White, and Dr. Jos. 8tewart. This Committee are requested to meet in Yorkrille, on Monday next, (sales day) to lay iti concert apian of action, and it is hoped that one at least from each neighborhood will attend. On motion, the proceedings ofthe meeting were ordered to be published in the papers pf thrtown. The meeting then adjourned.. R. G. McCAW, Chairman. J. H. Black, SecrtUw..... ^ ... For the Yorkrille Enquirer. TRIBUTE OF RESPECT. Philadxlfhia, Mies., April 15,1857. ^ Whereas the All-Wise Architect of the Universe has in his wisdom, called from thiaearthly babition, oar beloved and worthy brother, JOHN O. ^ LEWIS, in whom we have ever found a (colons Mason, a devoted Christian, and a good citlien; and this Lodge of which he has long been* member, desiring to express their feelings in a proper manner; Therefore, 1st. Resolved, That in the death of onr worthy Brother, this Lodge has lost a worthy gnd zealous member, the Church a devoted Christian, and the community a good oitixen. . - >.2. Resolved, That we sincerely sympathise with the bereaved family of onr worthy departed Brother, in this, one of their greatest earthly losses, and point them for consolation to that All-wise Ood, who ruleth and orer-ruleth all things for good, to those who put their trust in him. 3. Resolved, That as a. memorial, of the loss which we have sustained in the loss of oar departed Brother, we wear the usual badge of mourning for thirty days. . 4. Resolved, That the widowed mother of the deceased, be furnished with a copy of these proceedings, and that another baBtrnisbed the "Bostern Clarion," and the "Yorkvill*$nqairer" of 8. Carolina, for publication. 0. W. BAGGETT, Secretary. Philadelphia Lodge; No. 93. General Intelligence, > fl New York, April 27.?Adviceafrom Nicaragua, 9 by the way of Honduras, op to the 1st April, have ^ been received. It was reported that tbe Gnatemalian Army in Nicaragua bad beendefhated by Walker, with great slaughter. San Salvador had declared in favor of President Walker. The Sante Fe mail arrived at Independence on the 21st instant The Indian depredations continued in New Mexico, and extensive preparations wan being made for a campaign against the Apaches, to commence about the 1st of May. Difficulties with the Utahs were apprehended; but the Kiowsscspseos were friendly. The weather was unusually warm, and the farmers were busy planting. Business was dull. Quindabo, K. T., April 25.?Secretary 8tanton has published an address to the people of Kansas in the LecomDton Union. He save the Admini*. tration has recognised the authority of the/T?rritorial Legislature and, the validity of the territorial laws, and has especially recognised the act providing for a constitutional convention. Htj>resumes that that Convention will submit the vital question of the domestic institution^ of the States, the subsequent vote of the people, and thinks that Congress will then admit the Territory immediately into the Union as a State. He recommends a general amnesty for post and present proseoutions, and expects the presence of Go*. Walker about the middle of May. Utica, April 25,-The lion. Joehna A. Spencer, J a very eminent lawyer of this city, died this morn- (H ing after a brief illness. Washington, .\pril 24.?The mail contract upon the Panama Railway has been taken at $10?,000 per annnm for two years. There is no European News of interest. The following comprise the most important heme Communications are passing between France, England and Spain, upon the subject of the Mexican difficulties. Naples is more disposed to re-establish relations with Franoe and England. Sixteen vessels, sank in the harbor of Sevastopol, have been recovered. * Turkey is iuclined to consent to a union of the Principalities, provided its Suzerainty be respected and tribute paid. The Danish Cabinet have resigned, on account of a difficulty in politics. ^ <r Temperance Soiree and Banquet.?The Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of South Carolina closed their quarterly meeting in this city yesterday, after a prosperous and harmonious session of three days Last evening a Banquet and Soiree was given to the members of the Grand Division, No. 1, which was quite a crowded, pleasant and spirited affair. The supper was served up in fine style, and the disciples of Terpsichore ^ kept up the poetry of motion till three o'olock mm this morning. Everything was conducted in the most admirable and agreeable manner, and all were alike pleased and pleasing. After sapper Thomas J. Warren, Esq., a delegate from Waterce Division, and editor of the Camden Journal, was loudly called for, *bo responded in his usual happy and felicitous style, and in a strain diversified and spiced by occasional flashes of wit, humor and eloqnenoe, which were greeted by the enthusiastic applause of the dej lighted auditory. We would be glad to notice the exercises and enjoymeota of the evening more at large, did time and space permit.?Charleston Aews. Whit* Tkkth, Pkhfcmsd Breath and Btitmfol Complexion?can be acquired by using the "Balm of a Thousand Flowers. What lady or gentleman would remain under the curse of a disagreeable breath, when by using the "Balm of a Thousand Flowers" as a dentrifice, wonld notonlyrender it sweet, but reave the teeth as white as alabas'er? Many persons do not know their breath is *, and the subject is so delicate their friends will never mention it. Bewaro of counterfeits.? Be sure every bottle is signed FETRIDGE & CO. ' N. T. For sale by all Druggists. J It seems that Rheumatism, Deafness. Neu- I ralgia, Swollen and Stiff Joints and other Complaints to which we are all subject have lost their terrors. Prof. De Grath's EJectric Oil U warranted H to relieve any case In* short space of time and J with a trfllng expense. It can be had of the agents M here. See advertisement in anothor column. ^ ni fl To Niryous BwijlHM'?^ reww clergy