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Scraps & Jfatls. ! The firet sugar cane imported into Lousiana was brought from St. Domingo. Madame Otto Goldsmidt,|JennyLind, gave birth on the 31st of Maroh, at Dresden, to a daughter. Our principles are the springs of our actions; and our actions are the springs of our happiness or misery. Ten thousand Norwegians will probably settle in the West during the coming summer. The story of the discovery of the ruins of the tower of Babel is confirmed by the Journal de Constantinople. Dr. H. Reynolds, of Indiana, was expellee from the National Medical Association, which recently met in Nashville, Tennessee, for recommendinga patent medicine. Havana.news says a brisk trade is - - i 1? J? noted in toe article 01 coones, iour cmguco having arrived since previous advices, say 1,322 "in bulk," in'addition to 450 spoiled on the passage. Fashionably dressed women have now in Paris a diameter precisely twelve feet.? Geometricians can calculate the circumference. They hold on the arms of the cavaliers by means of handkerchiefs slipped through the same and are helped to boquets and refreshments attached to the end of a long stick. Dates from Galveston to the 28th ult., at New Orleans state that there was almost a famine for breadstuifs in the counties above Bastrop, and S2.G2 was demanded for a bushel of com. A meeting of the citizens of Bastrop was to'be held to procure aid for the sufferers. > A married lady who was in the habit of spendiog most of her time in the society of her neighbors, happened one day to be taken ill, and sent her husband in great haste for a physician. The husband ran a short distance and then returned, exclaiming, "My dear, where shall I find you when I get back!" Mr. Nathaniel Willis, father of.N. P. "Willis and of "Fanny Fern," who has been in the editorial harness for the long period of 54 years, has recently sold his paper, "The Youth's Companion" and is now an associate editor instead of sole conductor of that journal. It is stated that Buneos Ayres hides ?the best quality in market?now sell in New York for 34 1-2 cents per pound, while last June the price was 23 cents. This is a rise of fully 60 per cent, in eight months, though the present supply is not less than usual at this season of the year. The editor of a French paper, in mentioning the cause of its discontinuance, says: "Our journal has had but one solitary subscriber?a dealer in groceries?who paid in articles out of the store. For two weeks the two editors of the paper lived exclusively on salt fish and champagne." Hon. Eobert J. Walker, Governor of Kansas, was to have left Washington for that territory on Monday of last week. Thus far, his appointment seems to have given general satisfaction to the settlers, excepting, of course, the disciples of Horace Greeley, whose dearest project is to bring about civil War. The business of the Bauk of England is conducted by about eight hundred clerks, whose salaries amount to about S190.000. The bank in the year 1S50, had about twenty millions of bank notes in circulation. In the name year there were about five millions deposited in the savings banks of the metropolis. * The Persian Ambassador at Paris, Ferouck Khan, has just presented to Louis Napoleon four Arab horses of the purest blood, from his master, the Shah. The peculiarities are two?that they arc larger than any blood horses hitherto seen, and that they have no manes. Paris was very much delighted with the beauty of these animals. John Dean, who recently kicked up a great hub-bub by marrying Miss Boker is rusticating in the pleasant little village of Franklinville, a few miles east of Riverhead N. Y. He is boarding in the family of Mr. John N. Sayer, and is being tutored and polished by the llev. Mr. Reed, a Congregational clergyman, preparatory to his debut among the fashionables in Fifth avenue, New York city. Mr. Bancroft is said to have realized fifty thousand dollars by his "History of the United States." Mr. Prescott, the celebrated historian, derives a large revenue from his literary efforts. The recent work of Dr! Kane on "The Arctic Regions," has likewise been signally successful. We mention these facts with pleasure. They show that American genius is fully appreciated. We are emphatically a reading people. The Galveston (Texas) Xews of the 7th instant gives highly favorable accounts of the growing crops in that State?quite different from the last advices. A week or two ago, the people in the western counties were reported to be almoststarving, but now the prospects of good crops are encouraging. The Palestine Advocate learns that ten inches of snow fell in Hopkins county, on the 11th ultimo. Two hundred and ninety-four shares rtf VflmKorrn "RonV Strtf?k V>plnno>incr t/i tho VI HVfTMWIIJ ATMUU ? Q W ?V estate of Joel It. Smith, deceased, were recently sold at an average of nearly $30 per share, for shares of $25. The whole number was divided into lots of 20 shares, the first lot bringing $29 25, (the lowest sold) and the last $30 10J, (the highest.) Good evidences we should say of the Institutions prosperity, and the efficiency of its officers. Infidels often grumble about the cost of preaching, who, by the by, are the poorest paid set of men in the United States, as a whole, with here and there an exception; and who, in order to live, must have donation parties, as though they were paupers, because they were preachers of eternal realities. The cost of all the elergy in the United States is but $12,000,000 annually, j while the criminals cost $10,000,000, the lawyers $76,000,000, and intoxicating li-' quors $200,000,000. The Legislature of New York has a- j bolished the custom of days of grace on com-1 mercial bills to take effect on the 1st of July j next. All bills of exchange, drafts and checks shall then be deemed due and payable on j presentation, without any days of grace being allowed thereon. It has also been en- , acted that notices of non-payment and of nou- j acceptance^ promissory notes, checks, drafts ! or bills of exchange may be served through the post-office, with the postage thereon pre- j paid. C{}e?flrkiriIIe(?nqmrtr; =============================== j i edited dy ( SAM'Ii W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLEB. J. H. BLACK. I YORKVILLE, S. C. I THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1857. CHURCH DEDICATION. We are requested to state that the new Metho- 1 dist Church at Rock Hill, in this District, will be ' dedicated on the third Sabbath in next month.? Several ministers are expected to be in attendance. THE CHARLESTON COURIER. The Courier, at a rather late day, replies to the "crudities of the Esquirer," published sometime ago on the Right of Secession, TJr more correctly, on the contest then raging between the News, Courier, and Advertiser, on that subject.? Here is the first objection which the Courier makes: " 1. The Enquirer has imitated the bad example of the Edgefield Advertiser, aud given name, as well as locality, to our editorial plurality, and that too with an epithet or adjunct intended, to ?i.<> looot ;n rirlio.nl/> and incivility, if not in I oaj tuv *vuovt . positive unkindness. This is in violation of one of our own rules, viz: never to speak of a brother editor by name, unless in kindness, or to pick a quarrel with him, or by way of retaliation. If the Enquirer comes, however, within either of our exceptions, it should make the matter plain, and not leave a shade of doubt to rest on its intentioo.? We might retaliate, if we saw fit, and name names, and append epithets by way of designating physical or other infirmities, or otherwise in ridicule I of our assailants, but we forbear. It will suffice, for the present, to remind the juveniles, who have been irreverent towards one of our firm, exaggerated into a premature fatherhood or patriavclinte of the press, and that not by way of fitial respect, but of flagrant irreverence, that the little children, in the Bible, "who enmo forth out of the city and mocked" Elisha, and said unto him, "go up thou bald head; go up thou bald head"; were torn to pieces "by two she bears out of the woods". " In reply to this charge, we would say, that the scope of our article was limited to reflections on the "knightly tilt" and its probable results, and that we showed as much courtesy to the Courier a3 we did to the Advertiser, imitf ting likewise the bad example of the former in the use of names and complimentary adjuncts. We cannot see why the editors (plural) of the Courier object so strenuously to patriarchal epithets, since they seem to think superior age, gives one editor a right to sneer at another, to vent his crudities unmolested, to make monkey-faces at his juniors of the press and enjoy various other inviolable immunities.? We used names becauso it was most convenient, and we adopted the innocent, and witty epithets (as we thought) of the Courier and Advertiser, and if they turn out to be two-edged swords instead of tiny pop-euns as we supposed?why let them cut their inventors. As for the charge of irreverence we utterly repudiate it, upon the ground that all editors are and should be equally responsible at the bar of public opinion, as they are equally public servants. In return for the scriptural allusions we would remiud the piously disposed "plurality" of the Courircr, that the "Devil may quote scripture for his own purposes." "2. The Enquirer wantonly imputes to us insincerity in our views, and in spite of our express advocacy of the glorious and unalienable right of rebellion and revolution, (the only unalienable political right,) by the plain and discourteous intimation that were we, or a named member of the firm, convinced, of the incoutrovertibility of the right, we, or he, would then resort to all sorts of special pleading, to evade, even in cases imperiously demanding it, the practical assertion of the right. We knoty not who made this village newspaper, or either of its editors, a searcher o' hearts, and infallible interpreter of the motives of others. All wt have to say further, on this head, is that a gratuitous impeachment of sincerity, or motive, is an abuse of the freedom of the press." We confess that the idle dispute as to whether a State should take her destinies into her own hands, when necessary, under the Right of Secession or of Rebellion, did wear the appearance of over-exquisiteness, and smack, if not of insincerity, at least of elegant trifling. Besides we desired to draw from the Courier the practical end that it had in view. It is not our fault that we failed to accomplish that object, and we have tho consolation of knowing that others besides ourselves have rend the political, hair-splitting lucubrations of the Courier without perceiving any useful purpose which such a lavish expenditure of earnestness and logic is likely to subserve. We know not who made the plurality of tho Courier, arbiters of the freedom of the press or censors for the State generally. We claim the right of enjoying the fruits of democracy, by judging for ourselves the j limits of editorial propriety, though, we are willing to restrain ourselves within the latitudinous i interpretations which the Courier practically gives | to the freedom of the press, viz: the libctty of I exercising our wit on others without extending a ; like privilege to the discomfitted knight who writhes under our lash. "3. The Enquirer says?"If we wish to unite : the South, and promote her interests, there is one | common ground on which we all can stand. There : is one right, which even sophistry cannot deny us, j l,a "Rifrht nf Rphpllinn." That oj/r n-round. i what Mr. Calhoun, in his great Michigan speech, I called, "the glorious right of rebellion and revo- j lution." Why, then, the quarrel of the Enquirer ! with us? Why??but for an unprovoked hostility, i or prejudice, because we have dared to have ami j to express an opinion of our own, on an abstract, j but deeply interesting question of constitutional ' law, which threatened, if uot coming events, mny ] possibly, ere long, bring to a practical issue. It is plain from this quotation from our article, ! that we were taking a practical view of the sub- j ject, and neither seeking or specially avoiding a quarrel with any one. The Courier and Neus were discussing an abstract right, and we desired j to draw down their electricity from the clouds, and i direct it to the true point at issue between the ! North and South. But the Courier prefers remaning in nubibus. It is a matter of indifference to ns, whether it goes with the South, when she puts her robes of independence about her, under the plea of secession, State-Rights or Rebellion. We will stand with it on either platform; but why, if one right be admitted, should we not grant to j our brothers the other, since the final issue must me the same in either case ? Or, in other words, if the Courier admits that a State or States, when the Constitution i9 flagrantly violated, can and j should resort to the Right of Rebellion, can it not permit those who are ticklish about terms, to call j it the Right of Secession? In seeking for a plat- i form on which the South could stand united and firm, we certainly displayed no "unprovoked hostility," nor sought to awaken the ire of our city cotemporary. But we do protest against the cool and complacent manner in which it talks about "a ! deeply interesting question of constitutional law,'' | after the constitution is virtually nullified. If we I are not wrong in supposing that the South at no j verv future dav must resort to disunion, whv then ' the only practical question is, how shall we unite for that purpose ? " 4. We willingly bear the reproach of love and reverence for the Union?that Constitutional U- | nion, which "our heroic ancestry"?"that long | list of bright names, which history immortalizes, I as synonymes of heroism and patriotism"?bled in ; the field and toiled iu the couucil to bequeath us, j as a priceless heritage, aud which notwithstand- I ing malign influences, North aud South, we hope 1 to perpetuate, as best for the North and best for j the South, and best for the human race." Here we diverge again, after almost becoming co-rebels. We have lost all hopo of pepetuating the "Constitutional Union," and think a blind and ! unwise love or a silly reverence for the fiction of a name, useless to ourselves and disgraceful to j our forefathers. It was not in this manner they acted when placed in similar circumstance?, for I England, like ourselves, Lad the semblance of a | Constitution. She pretended that her robberies were legal, and had we undertaken to discuss the niceties of the law, we might have been "hewers of wood and drawers of water" to this day for mother England. "5. The Enquirer stands self-disqualified, by its own confession, to award the palm in the knightly tilt between the New* and Courier, on the question of Secession, by the admission that it "did not peruse with care, either the articles of the Courier or the JVfirs", and until it does, we plead to the jurisdiction and the competency of the Court. We let the fifth stricture of the Courier go for what it is worth, though we beg to be excused from re-perusing the "crudities" of the Courier. "G. The Enquirer assumes, in the very face of our flashing guns, that our fortress has been silenced, by the one gun battery of Prince Arthur, when we have, at least, given him tit for tat, or a Roland for his Oliver, and put the Neics to the dernier resort, the desperate extremity, of citing the feeble support of the man in buckram, who directs the harmless thunder of the Yorkville Enquirer. ? * * *1 We wercmistanen m supposing wc gu...-> ...v Courier had been silenced, and we take pleasure in making the correction. It did fire once or twice afterwards, and we are sorry to say, became so enveloped in the smoke of its own battery, that it mistook us nlso for an enemy, and began to di rect its merciless thunder at the Enquirer. But certainly it will stop the bombardment when it sees its mistake, or at any rate when it sees what little impression it is likely to make. We conclude with the hone that the Courier, will not be quite so exacting of courtesy till it learns that due to others. It claims the privilege of applying such flattering terms as "juveniles," but objects to the more courteous one of "father". The Courier is so fond of pleasantry that it should be more indulgent towards it in others. a jaunt to rock-hill. We had the pleasure of visiting for the first time, on Saturday last, the enterprising village of RockHill. The section of country lying between this place and Rock-IIiil is one of the most beautiful and inviting in the District. It is generally level, yet sliglitly undulating, and is studded with natural groves, aud neat and elegant residences. The farms also display the fruits of the .new agricutnral spirit which is beginning to pervade the entire country. An appearance of neatness, taste, progress and comfort, was visible at every step. The rich verdure of the wheat-fields gives promise of, at least, an average crop. In fact, from present TOni hp oven more than an av appcaruuuco) MIVIV ernge yield if it is not injured by the rust. Cotton, of course, here as elsewhere, is backward and unpromising. At Rock-Hill we found assembled in the new Methodist Church, the intelligence and beauty of the vicinity, listening to our townsman, Col. Wm. C. Beattv. We were too late to hear the beginning of his argumentative and practical speech, but judging from the closing remarks it was convincing and unanswerable. lie was followed by Gen. Allston, who, contrary to his usual custom, and somewhat to the disappointment of the numerous admirers of his oratory, read a sensible and well written paper, elucidating the evil effects of Alcohol on the constitution. We believe with Gen. A., that it is to lgnoranoe on this point that much of the reckless and suicidal indulgenoe in intoxicating liquors must be attributed. Especially would we call attention to one idea which he suggested?the peculiar liability of the student to this temptation. That mental and physical exhaustion and langour, necessarily attendant upon sedentary habits and literary pursuits, seems to invite the enlivening presence of Bacchus, when in reality, exercise is the oJy natural and iunoccnt remedy. The appeal of Gen. A., to the student, to abstain from all Indulgence, to listen not to the song of the syren, to blast not the fondly cherished hopes of parents and friends, was very impressive and we hope will have a beneficial influence on the neighboring schools?if they need it. At the close of Gen. Allston's oration, Rev. Mr. IIill arose and gave us a few spirited, extemporaneous remarks, which, judging from the enthusiasm of the audience, wore woll received. By this time, the ever watchful appodto deolared that it would be an agreeable change to leave the "feast of reason" for the feast spread out invitingly in an adjoining grove. We will not attempt a description of the table, but fair bands had spread it, and the dainty cake, the strawberry pies, and the good old, substantial ham, all attested the culinary skill of the ladies in that vicinity, and seemed to say, that a fortunate bachelor might find it to his advantage to go there often. We believe a large majority of mankind will take a hint from a good table, sooner than in any other way. After doing ample justice to the nic-nacs, the "Sons" and "Daughters" of Temperance adjournci to the Academy for tho purpose of initiating fhe new converts?twelve in number. Those de termined to have a "wee drop," occasionally started for home, and so the pageant ended. We were too late to join in the procession, but that, together with the music, deserves a place in the picture. HAIL. STORM. Wc learn through a note from Fort Mills, that about 3 o'clock, on Thursday evening last, that vicinity was visited by a frightful hail storm, which destroyed the growing crop, vegetation, fences, &c. The ground was covered with green leaves as thickly as if the autumnal blasts had stripped the forest of its foliage. The hail drifted in some places one and two feet deep, and it was of such great size, as to have endangered the life of anyone exposed. No person, however, was injured that we have heard of. The hail storm was Bucoeeded a short time afterwards, (8 o'clock, P. M.) by a rain, accompanied with heavy thunder and lightning. The barn of Mr. A. Baxter Springs, was struck by the lightning aud burnt down. In its range downwards, the flash killed one mule and two fine milch cows. It was with great difficulty that the remainder of the team shut up inside were rescued from the flames, as well as the stables and other buildings in the vicinity. Besides the destruction of the barn, one of the best in the country, Mr. Springs lost a large amount of fodder, oats, &c., together with a granary attached, containing wheat and other grain ; carriage and harness, plantation gearing and various implements. We have not learned the full extent of the damage done, nor the scope of country visited by the storm; but in the vicinity of Clay Hill it laid waste the wheat-fields aud damaged cotton to a considerable extent. MERE-MENTION. Willie again graces our poets corner. We have received another contribution from tho ele gatit pen of Mrs. Strntton. it win appear in our next.*" The Camden Journal says,.that during the past week the Wateree has overflowed its banks, and that the water has considerably damaged the growing crops. The Anderson Gazette announces the death of Major Joseph Tyler Whitefield, one of the oldest and most'respected citizens of that District. lie died on Tuesday morning last, at his residence. "The Carolinian announces the death of James Boatwright, Esq., one of the oldest residents of Columbia. He died after a life of more than eighty years, respected by all who knew him. They intend celebrating the Fourth of July with considerable pomp in Winnsboro'. The Carolinian learns by a private letter that Hon. A. P. Butler is seriously indisposed at Edgefield. His health has not been good for sometime. The New Or I leans Times states that a young gentleman in that j city lost some $47,000 at a fashionable game n few days since. He yni<l every dollar of it the ' next day, and immediately left the city a ruined ; ma". The Anniversary of the settlement of i Jamestown was celebrated 011 Wednesday last j with imposing ceremonies. Ex-President Tyler I delivered an oration, and ft poem written for the I occasion, was recited by Mr. James Barron Ilope. J We learn from the South Carolinian that , the Governor has appointed J. G. Bowman Librarian of the State House, an 1 Thco. Starke I | Keeper of the State House and Grounds. It 1 is designed to erect ami endow a German University in Cincinnati. The funds are to be raised by subscription, and the chairs to be filled by importations from Gottengen and Hnlle. The projectors intend to purchase a college edifice already j erected. A young lady 01 sixteen, 01 uisun* ! guished birth nnd fortune, is about to marry the j hero of the Crimea, who is sixty years of age. Tomattoes arc selling in New York at thirI tyseven and a half cents per dozen. They were brought from Bermuda. The Times learns from a gentleman, who arrived in Columbia on Tuesday evening, from Edgefield, that the health of Judge Butler had improved, and he was regarded much better. Mrs. LaBorde, wife of Prof. M. LaBordf. of the South Caroliua College, died a few days since. Official despatches received, warrant the belief that Brioham Yocno has fled from Utah. Advices from Mexico just received, state that Col. CRAnu's invading party Mia-1 been attacked nnd completely routed by the Mexicans. Fifty had been taken, among the number Col. Craiiii, and the whole party had been ordered to be shot. The prospect of the Sugar crop in Louisianais said to be uncommonly good. It is stated it will far surpass in value, if not in absolute yield, any heretofore grown. A NEW EXCHANGE. The Walhalla Banner, jnst started in the town of Walhalla, Pickens District, is gladly placed on our exchange list. It is a large, handsome, well printed sheet, and exhibits favorably the taste of the publishers and editors, F. N. Garvin & r>? ti.o Rrttinnr in issued at the extremelv low price of SI.00 per annum. We -wish it all success, and congratulate it, upon being the organ of such a delightful paradise as Walhalla is described to be. GENERAL INTELLIGENCE. The European news Is unimportant, The following items may interest a portion of our readers : "It is rumored that there is a discovery of an extensive conspiracy in Spain. Officers of the expedition against Mexico are embarking at Madrid. A private lettor from Madrid of the 25th ult., states that the Carlist conspiracy lately discovered in Spain was really deep and extensive.? The rumor runs that it was to have been accompanied by a Democratic rising, had a double ob| ject been obtained?namely, the simultaneous nsj slnntlon of the Queen of Spain and the Emperor of the French, and for which two Sundays were intended?that of Palm and that of Easter. Both parties would have combined to overthrow the present regime, and then, as a matter of course, would have bifurcated according to the natural tendencies of each. The French Government has decided, it isjRiid in the best quarters, on taking a more nctive^mrt i in t)io Chinese war than was till very lately intended. Grdors have beep givpn to get ready for immediate embarkation a small expeditionary force of 1,000 men, with everything requisite for field or garrison service. John Evelyn Dennison has boon chosen Spcakor of the House of Commons without opposition.? The Dutchess of Gloucester is dead; she was the last surviving daughter of George the Third. Switzerland has accepted the proposition of the four powers for a settlement of the Ncufchatel difficulties. The officers and troops to be engaged in the cxi peditiou against Mexico were embarking at Mad| rid, The news from Naoapag'M is nfill indefinite, but the rumor runs that W.UKgu has taken rufugp on a British Ship-of-war. He may yet onrve out a noble destiny in spite of his proscnt gloomy prospects. ANNIVEKSAKY tJULKlillATiUA. The Auuiversary of the Palmetto Association was celebrated with considerable eclat on Thursj day liist in Columbia The orator of the day, | Gen. McGownu of Abbeville, is sflid by our Coj lnnibin exchanges, to have done ample justice to I his magnificent theme, paying an eloquent Iributo to the dead of the Palmetto Regiment. lu the evening the remnant of the gallant band, was entertained at a hsn Isomc supper given by the City Council. Among a variety of toasts and post-prandial speeches, the Carolinian thussketchj es the spirited effort of our gallant statesman, Hon. Lawrenpo M, Kcjtt; "Mr. Keitt said it was out of his line to mike a set speech, but with the permission of tho company, he would ramble along, and give an incident or two which he had derived from General Quitman ; and others in relation to the Palmetto Regiment? a few of which we report. "Gen. Quitman told him that when a portion of his brigade was ordered into battle, Col. Butler was refused to be allowed to go, because the Pal! mottoes were actually broken down by fatigue and privation, and he tfgs too feeble for the duty, j He detailed tho New York Regimen* r?i;J unotjjer, ' and ordered them forward. Col. Pierce M. Butler demanded "a place in the picture." " No, sir, your place is in the hospital." "Sir!" said he, elevating his noble figure, with fire flashing from his eagle eye. "Never, sir, while the enemy is in sight, and our flag moving onward!" He could not resist him?his demand was aooeded to, and the regiment took its "plaoa In the picture," a brilliant light on the canvass. Gen. Quitman told him, too, that the flag of the Palmetto regiment was the first that waved over the city of Mexico. "Sir, I was with that regiment at the gates of the city, and when I called for a flag, to plaut upon that gate, the Palmetto flag was the only one there, l ar.4 tll.U-t was the flag that first spread its folds in triumph over the Capital of Mexico." "Mr. Keitt mentioned this glarjops testimony to the brave Palmetto boys, because an effort had been made to supplant them and falsify truthful history. "Another incident he could not omit, in his desultory ramble. While others bad spokeu of gallant commanders, who had fallen in the post ofhonor, there were others and many subordinates and privates, to whom he could award a passing tribute did time allow, but be would only allude to one?who had been there, but had fallen in anothj er field battling for the Palmetto State, lie allu! ded to the noble Brooks?his poor friend Brooks | ?his colleague?his companion?his room-mate. : He spoke of his nobleness, his gentleness, his mng nanimity, and related many beautiful incidents in ! illustration of bis character. He could not trust I himself to sneak more of him. but his object was now to mention an incident be derived from him, relative to bis younger brother who fell at Churubusco. ' 'Poor Preston S. Brooks bad designed and was having executed to wear a signet ring, in memory ; of bis noble spirited brother, when he himself was taken from the scene of all his earthly honors aud labors. "When another regiment fled, and all the horrors I and scourges of war were pouring down upon the I gallant Palmettoes, bathed in the blood of their j comrades?when Shields said "who will follow me," and Butler said "we will"?Brooks, yes, ! the stripling Brooks, cried out, "yes, all will folj low you to the death"-'?and he did. The same : ball that pierced his body shivered his musket? and a shivered musket was to adorn the signet, with I the motto satis memisse. When this brother left ! home, Brooks told him, his father said to his old j body servant, "go with him and take care of him 1 ?I confide my son to you." How did the good j old negro act? when the baptism of blood was go: ing on?when the perils were lingering around? when the ignition oi stratagem was everywhere? with none to watch the wounded boy but this old servant, he was at his labor of love, taking care i of his charge. Crushed bones worked out from 1 the wound?he gathered them up and preserved j them. The noble spirit passed out, and the corpse alone was left. What did the old and faithful slave? the soldiers helped him to make a rude coffin. With his own hands he placed the earthly remains of his beloved young masterin this hearse j ?he conveyed it to Mexico?he carried it to Vera Cruz?he bore it on shipboard and by railroad, to i his old master's home, and delivered the body and ! the bones of l?er child to the widowed and bereaved mother, at the lintel of his birth-place. This is literally true. In classic story?in legendary annals?in ancient or modern time?where is the equal of this touching story? "Mr. Keitt discoursed much eloquence in alluj sion to the noble deeds and daring of the Palmet; to regiment, and asked, what was it that made each one a hero? Ifwas the memory of F->rt | Moultrie?of Eutaw?of King's Mountain an 1 the j glorious days of Seventy-Six. In the hour of danger and in the crisis of battle the voice of those ; fitdds was shouting to them, that they were the trustees of the honor, the pride and gallantry and j heroism of South Carolina?and bravely did tliey i redeem this sacred obligation. It is due to the men who were in this campaign that its history should be written. When the State gathered a! round the bier of her slaughtered chieftains; she ! pledged herself that this gallant baud should be I taken care of.?nod that its deeds should be recorI ded in history. Courago and patriotism must 1 have exemplars in every age, or they will dimin| ish. The Pal met toes have acted, and made hisj tory?the State should record it." ttgt> WEATHER, CROPS, *c. *" " *i.- r-ii >ve cup irom various sources me luiiumug items nbout tbc calamities and prospects of the country generally: There was a very severe rain storm experienced in New Hampshire nnd Vermont on Monday and Tuesday, lasting some thirty-six honrs. The rivers were all rising rapidly, and some dnm; age by freshets was anticipated. In Harrison county, we learn from the Tex! as Republican, of the 18th of April, that frost afj ter frost had occurred until not only the cotton corn nnd fruit was killed, but large saplings and hickories. The Unionville Journal says that from Saturday week to the following Monday, very heavy rains fell in the District, causing the water courses to overflow their banks, and doing considerable injury to bottom lands. We learn from the Weldon (N. C.) Patriot that the low lands of the Roanake river are buried under water to the depth of from three to twenty feet. Crops, fenoea, and everything are swept away by the current. There is a rise in the river of thirty or forty feot above ordinary tides. There litis bceu a rise in tlit Cape Fear River, above Fayetteville, N. C., of forty feet. Along the Roanoke lliver, in North Carolina, the low lands are covered with water to the depth of twenty feet in some places. Crops, fences, &o., have been swept away by the flood. The papers in Michigan complain of a great scarcity of provisions. Instances of great suffering. and almost starvation, in particular neighborhoods are reported, property has been sacrificed at ruinous prices, and farms mortgaged to obtain the means of subsistcnoo. We learn, says the Raleigh Standard, that the wheat crop in this and the surrounding Counties looks well, as a general thing, though in some -localities, it is being injured by the chinch bug. The crop put in is larger than any previous mm. 'I'lin into wnt.ni nnd nnnimis ruins which wa have had in this section have imparted new life to vegetation of all kinds. The Caddo Gazette, of the 2d, says: During the week the weather has been quite balmy and spring-like. On Thursday wo had here very heavy showers, and though the rains are warm we have had rather too much. The planters with whom we have conversed seem to think they will be able to obtain pretty fair stands of both corn and cotton. Some predict that 1857 will be an abundant crop year. The Concordia Intelligencer of Friday last publishes the following paragraphs: The second nnd third days of May were distinguished hy almost constant vain, taming ?ff quite cold with some frost on Sunday night, The wanther has now become somewhat warmer. We hear that the chilled and stinted stand of cotton on many of the principal plantations is fast disappearing under the ravages of the cutworm. The Baton Rouge Sugar Planter, of Saturday, eay9 i Qne of the storms of wind nnd rain you have often read about bqt seldom seen, visited us on Friday, nnd for a while threatened a demolition of everything resisting its progress. The rain was very welcome, and the effect is nlready viuiblo in tl;o improved appearanoe of vegetation. We were quite content to take the wind so long as it brought rain with it. No damage has been done so far as wc could learn. After a long continuance of the coldest and most disagreeable weather that we have ever experienced, we now have beautiful Spring weather ?the growing vegetation all looks refreshed and improving, and everything wears a vigorous and lively aspect. We learn from several of our country friend* that the cotton and Corp props art looking remarkably well within the last few days, and if this weather continues, we may look for n good crop, considering the backward season.?Orangeburg Southron. An intelligent planter in Macon county, Ga., ? one of the best cotton growing regions of thai State, in a letter to his commission house in Columbus, Ga., dated April 27th, says : "Most ol the planters in this neighborhood have plowed uf their cotton nnd planted over, nnd the second planting js jqst coming up. The crop is three weeks later than usual. Nearly everybody has plowed up their ccrn and planted aver. Wheat i? somewhat, injured but not seriously." By the steamer It. L. Cobb, which arrived from Tuscaloosa on Thursday evening, we learn that the river at that place was rising rapidly when she left?and the opinion of good judges in that sectiou seemed to be that there would be a creator freshet durinc the present month than has been known for many years. The bottom lands on the river are even now nearly all covered with water, and the probability is that many thousand acres of growing cotton and corn will be destroyed by suomar&ion.? Mobile flail)/ tribune. The rise in our river, says the Cheraw Oazelle, noticed last week, continued until the water was in less than three feet of the highest water mark. The damage to the crops is considerable, but not to the extent we feared. The oats in many places are uninjured. The wheat, perhaps, did not fare so well. Much corn will have to be planted over, and in low places the cotton is des| troysil/ It is not too late, however, to plant the ! low bottoms where the oottoi} hi>s been destroyed, in corn. So wc hope, upon the whole (though the cotton may be lessened in some degice.) the corn crop will be extended so as to fully counterbalance the loss in that staple. We need scarcely add, that many planters who arc now buying corn (yea sending to Egypt for it) at $1 00 to $1 ,26 per bushel, will fara better by the freshet. - ?* ? ? CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. Chablesto.v, May 18, 1857. The Ladies' Floral Fair at the Hall of the South Carolina Institute has been the most prominent local event of the past week, and is the absorbing j topic of conversation in all circles. It opened on j Wednesday last, and will continue six days, closing i on Wednesday the 20th instant. It has already I been visited by more than five thousand persons, ; the immense Hall, both floor and galleries, being j crowded every day from five o'clock in the after! noon till eleven at night, and the rush seems rather to increase than diminish. I believe I stated in ! my letter last week that the proceeds of the Fair, ! which will amount to a handsomo sum, will be j nppiopriated to the benefit of the Young Men's Christian Associatimi, and the enterprise has en' .i * * L t* _ /It ; nsteu tne sympaxnywnu support 01 every i,iinsuan ! denomination in the city, and hence the immense | success. It is announced that the Calholio Mitecllany, a paper which has been published for many years | in this city, under the direction and control of the j Bishop and Catholic clergy of the diocese, 1ms been discontinued for the waut of adequate sup; port. It was a double-sheet, subscription price three dollars, and has been in a lingering condi lion for some time. This is not a very flattering indication of the prosperity of "the order" in this section. Dr. Corcoran, a priest of some talent and literary pretensions, was the ostensible editor, occupying the tripod and wearing the gown and I slippers in a manner and with a dignity becoming | the man who managed the artillery and dispensed the harmless thunder of that immaculate sheet.? He has survived his organ, and it may be well for i him if he docs not treat his enviable notoriety in the same way. May we not write upon its tomb! stone, "requiescat in pace?" Oreat preparations arc being made to receive the City Council of Memphis on the 27th instant, at whiohtime tlioy propose to return the visit lately paid them at the recent Railroad Jubilee. The festivities are to continue for three days, and quite I an occasion is proposed to be gotten up, and altogether a numerous attendance is anticipated. The I manner in which our delegation was received and J 1 ~ treated at Memphis deserves some return, and I have no doubt but that the hospitalities of the great and growing Palmetto Metropolis will be j equal to the emergency, nobly sustaining its reputation, and meeting the high expectations of its friends. The nuptials of the Atlantic and the i Mississippi were celebrated at Memphis on the first and second of May, and this may be called ! the infair or bridal party. Charleston ami Mcmj phis are now linked togeiherin iron bonds, and a , great and populous highway of trade and trav! el is at last opened with the broad and fertile valley of the great Father of Waters. Time will more fully dcvelope the results of this union, but the consequence cannot be otherwise than beneficial to both sections. Verily the millennium has not yet come, neither has the comet, and the descendants of Cain are not all dead, and man, instigated by wicked and perverse passions, is still at war with his race, and deeds of violence and blood are still committed in i this enlightened aud Christian land, and in the open face of day. A man by the name of Farley was struck on the head with a stick of wood by a fireman on the Northeastern Railroad on Friday last, from which wounds he died in the Roper Hosnital on Saturday. A iurv of inonest was ! held on the boctyr by Coroner Kingmnn, ftnd a verdict returned in nccordance with the above facts, and the fireman has been lodged in jail to await his trial. Mrs. Ann Braggiatta was tried on last Thursday on the charge of killing one Catharine Welser, her husband's paramour, by stabbing her in the neck with a knife in her own house at five o'clock on the morning of the fourth of May. Several of the most eminent lawyers in the oity volunteered to defend her, and the jury, after an absence of not more than twenty minutes, returned with a verdiot of "not guilty." No fear was entertained by her friends as to the result, for it was clear to all that the act was justified by the oircumstanoes, and the only regret which I have heard expressed, was that she did not extend her operations further, and rid the world and society of the incumbrance of both ofthe guilty and abandoned parties. MAGNOLIA. For the Yorkville Enquirer. WHAT NEXT 1 It most have been a very unpleasant task for Diogenes to sit in his tub and sneer at everything good, bad and indifferent. It is even unpleasant to "hold the mirror up" for the improvement of those we think wandering off into shoals and quicksands, and qttcmpt by gentle rciqonstranoe to win them back again. But we will venture no apology for the startling question?What Next ? We don't oare to be always carping on intemperance, for we know that many good fellows have a proclivity that way and we would not like to hurt their feelings by insinuating that hell was mad<$ of good fellows just as truly as it is paved with good intentions. Besides, Intemperance is not the only vice of the nge. A contrast for instance, between town and country life, would exhibit prevalent evils in both, and give the satirist an excellent opportunity for read, j ing a useful lesson?if listened to. It is really amusing to bear the Judgment passed upon eaoh other by the advocates of town and country life. "Impolite, ill-bred, verdant!" This comprises the bill of exceptions which the overfastidious city coxcomb brings against the artless, unsophisticated rustic. And after all what does it mean ? By these three terms so often found on the lips of ezquitilet, they simply mean that the man raised in the country is not acquainted with the formalities of etiquette?that he cannot enter a drawing room in a certain prescribed manner, and that he understands not the tuaviter in modo of dangling a graceful rattan, or, of repeating for the thous[ andth time some stereotype bon mot or stale com1 pliraent of Chesterfield's. And this is the entire | sum and substance of the charge. They mistake | simplicity of manners and genuine, unaffected i feeling, for ill-breeding, and seek to wrap the ' whole world in the stiff formalities which reduce them to mero mechanical beings. When we do the countryman justice this is his most comraen. liable quality?the chief beauty of country manf ners and life. J More serious charges can be brought to his . door. In the first place from being secluded from i the world, lie is apt to become narrow and con! trqeted in his views, If he does not take a paper and oannot borrow one, he finally becomes so far benighted as to be perfectly uncompanionable.? A bountiful supply of assurance?the front urbanut of Horace?and a certain amount of polish ?a portion of it the beneficent gift of the bootblack?is all that is necessary to make a respectable appearance in town. In fact the whole mystery of town life consists in keeping up appearances. But in the country the case is different. Books and information are absolutely necessary to the farmer, supplying as they do, the place of company, beguiling the tedium of leisure hours and giving a zest to the long winter nights, which the coxcomb spends at the theatre or at some ! other re9poctable place. True, the rustic can live after a manner, without information, but there is a wide difference between the happiness of the man, whose cultivated mind contemplates, in the spirit of philosophy, the various phenomena of nature around him, and of the ucll clodpate who goes on in incorrigible stupidity, failing to draw one useful lesson from the flowers that spring beside his path, and from the brook that murmurs by his cottage door. The one lives, the other only exists. Were education not neglected, country life offers the stronger inducements to the man who desires to live, morally, happily and socially. We say socially, because it is difficult to conceive of a more unsocial state than the daily routine of dull formalities in town. Everything is stiff and affected?if you make a call of ten minutes an hour must be spent at the toilet;?you are ushered into a parlor finely furnished perhaps, yet cheerless and comfortless ;?instead of neighborly chitI chat or matter of fact conversation, the evening ! passes away in frivolous inanities, diversified oc! casionally with delightful strains on the well[ thumped piano. | Hut even this faint attempt at sociability is I coqjined to a small portion of the population of i cities and towns. Chilling formalities freeze up all that flow of social feelings which renders home I so attractive, and even in the midst of the noise, ' the dust from flying carriage wheels, and the cease loss uproar and oonfusion on every hand, the heart 1 sighs for companionship, nnd turns from the ex| ternalitics of fashionable life to the artless feelj ings nnd sympathy of rural society. The virtues I some times found in the country are very rarely to be met with in the poisoned atmosphere of the city. You will find imitations of all the virtues | and blessings of life; of charity, benevolence, ; disinterestedness, friendship, religion. But like the exotics to be found in the hot-house, they are I of little service and refresh not the soul, like the natural verdure of the woodlands, or the flowers ; of the meadow. JUNIUS, i Indian Land, May 10, 1857. ? More Lawyers. The following gentlemen were, on Tuesday last, admitted to practice in the Law Courts of this ' State: Thos. W. Allen, Abbeville; W. B. Culp, Colum; bia; W. L. DePass, Camden; P. C. Dozier, Williamsburg; F. W. Hoadley, Columbia; J. H, Hudson, Marlboro'; Jas. F. Izlar, Orangeburg; S. W. Maurace, Willamsburg; John C. McClenaghan, ! Marion; F. M. Mclver, Cheraw; T. II. Muse, Barnwell; Thos. P. Oliver, Orangeburg; Henry J. Smith, Greenville; R. P. Todd, Laurens; J. 1 Waties, Columbia; C. W. Wolfe, Orangeburg. Col. A. Baker?Kan***. We were pleased to meet with Co!. Alpbeus Baker, yesterday morning, and learn from him that bis mission throughout the State thus far in securing material aid for the Southern party in Kani so" has proven abundantly successful. | In Union District the handsome amount of $1000 was subscribed, $000 of which has been already forwarded by Gen. Gadberry. Greenville has subscribed $500: LAurens $300; Winnsboro S100, with a pledge to increase the ; amount to $1500. The young gentlemen at the Mount Zinn College | in Winnsboro' also contributed to the amount of | $40. " But what has gratified us more than all else, we have heard, was the fact stated by Col. Baker that the young gentlemen in the South Carolina College had subscribed and paid up a little over $400. This is worthy special notice. When it is known by our friends in Kansas, that the young men And boys of South Carolina are 1 striving to excell each other in their efforts to con- " tribute to their relief, tbo value of the donation, must be greatly enhanced. All honor then to the yonng gentlemen of the Sonth Carolina College, and Mount Zion Institute. May their noble example prove a stimulus to others in doing their duty nobly and promptly.?Carolina Timet. For the Yorkville Enquirer. - _ V- . A RIDDLE. 'Twos God who first created me, With all things which on earth you see; And gave me life that I might grow, And show his power here below. I was not long allowed to live, Because my Maker did conceive, That after death T should become, More useful both to God and man. Now after death I did remain, In substance very near the same, Till God looked down with grace divine, And gave me life a second time. My form and nature now were changed, My nearest friends became estranged, I lived And moved but could not find, A friend or helpmeet of my kind. Then God again withdrew my breath, But I felt not the pangs of death ; My life to me he did deny, Yet 'twas decreed I should not dieBut when that life from me was fled, I truly and indeed was dead? But thus I did not long remain, For Go-t to me gave life again. When this third life was given me, I of my kind did many see, But I, the greatest of them all, Devoured them both great and small. Again of life I was deprived, (And never since that time have'IJivecL) My Maker took from me my breath; But still I nothing knew of death. ' And now more wondrous I beoame, * For monarchs knew and feared my name. - x No foe before me ever stood? T? * J ' V J ? t V * i>y me were nations uroncnea in oiooa. To me in part the charge was given, To guide rebellions man to heaven; To snccorhim in time of need Whilst in this lower world be stayed. Ofttimes have J the bungiy fed, The suffering soothed?the weary ladWhile thousands through my vengeanoe Ml, Millions by me were saved from hell. When I on earth resigned my trust, I mingled with my native dust? - . Although thru lives to me were given, It was not mine to taste of Heaven. In Holy Writ my name is foundThere, all my deeds are written down ; Now search that Book with special care And you may read my history there. DENNIS. Monroe, S. C., May 11th, 1857. "UsDivrosD Soeth."?The Hon. Thomas B. Cooper, of Cherokee county, Ala., loBg a Whig and lajte a Know Nothing. ba? given in his adhesion to the Democratic party. Mr. Hilliard sh'owed the way, and hundreds and thousands bf troe men of the opposition will walk into it. JJr.Obaper has represented his county in the Legislature several times, notwithstanding the heavy P?nocratic majority.?Montgomery Adotrtiter. Sudden Death.?We regret exceedingly to announce the sudden death, on Monday last, of Mrs. Lipsey, wife of Capt. T. B. Lipeey. Mrs. L. was, we understand, at Church on the day previous to her deathj in her usual health.?Chetter Standard. "Electric Oil."?The operation of this Oil in removing rheumatic pains and other ills, is indeed astonishing. Like every eood riHicle. it has a base counterfeit, entirely useless; but the Wparatlon of Prof. De Grath, of Philadelphia, nu received testimonial from Congressmen, Mayors of Cities, Merchants, Hotel Proprietors, all of the highest character, rttesting its beneficial effects in cases under their own observation. It Can be had of the agent here. See advertisement in another column. "Woodland Cream"?A Pomade for beautifying the Hair?highly perfumed, superior to any French article imported, and for half the price.? For dressing Ladies Hair it has no equal, giving it a bright glossy appearance. It causes Gentle, men's Hair to ourl in the most natural manner.? It removes dandruff, always giving the Hair the appearance of being fresh shampoed. Price only fifty cents. None genuine unless signed FETRIDGE & CO. Proprietors of the "Balm of a Thousand Flowers.'" For sale by all Druggists. Cod Liver Oil in Gonsuption.?Why it so often fails?why it should not be regarded as it is by a great many, as an almost "specific." See what Pr. BLIS8 says of it in his advertisement of this week, to be found in another column, fivery person predisposed to disease of the lungs should not fail to read it carefully. : -* To Nervocs scitkrrtta.?A retired Clergyman, restored to health in a few days, after many ye are of great nervous suffering, is anxious to make known themeans of cure. Will send (free) the prescription used. Direct the Rev. JOHN M. DAGNALL, No. 59 Fulton-street, Brooklyn, N. T. Ctnmturtial YorkviHe Market WEDM8DAT, May 20. Owing to the unfavorable reports of the Foreign iuarseis, ana me sm&u amount on en ng, mere nas been but little doing in the Cotton Market, since our last report; and ander those circumstances, oar former quotations could not be sustained.? We quote from 10} to 12}. An extra fine article would command a slight advance on those figures. Corn, 90 ? $1; Corn Meal, $1 ; Fzovr, $3 12} ? S3 37} ; Peas, $1; Bacon, 12} ? IS}; ^ Lard, 13 ? 14; Butter, 15 ? 18; Chickens, none j in market; Eggs, 10 ? 12}. I Columbia Market. Mat 18. I Cotton.?Onr previous weekly report closed on j a rather dull demand for the article, with prices j tending iu favor of sellers. The week just brought to a close has presented ! no new feature ; the supply still continues limited, ! with a dull and inactive demand, and the tendency | of prices are in favor of buyers. On Saturday morning, the news from Liverpool by the Asia, to ; the 2nd instant, came to hand, reporting cotton I dull, at a decline of }d. Sales of the week 45,000 bales, of which speculators took 4,500, ?ad exporters 5,000 bales. These accounts had a very depressing effect on > our market, and in the course of the day prices gave way } to } oent on the current rates in the early part of the week. The sales of the week foot up about 470 bales, and we now quote inferior 10 I @10}; ordinary 10$@10?; middling 11@11}; good middling 113^1121 fair ?nd ~ O - ?* 1 ) choice 18J cents. Bacon.?We hare no material or quotable change to notice in the bacon market, and we therefore rontinue to quote 13@18$ for hcg round; sides 18?. and hams 13^@13| according to quality. Corn.?There is an active demand for this article, and as the stock on sale is light, prioes are 4 full and firm at $1@$1.06 per bushel, j Peat?The article of peas is scarce at present, and with a good demand, prices are looking up. We now quote $1@1.05 per buahol. j Flour.?The flour market has been quiet but