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Straps # Jfacts. Dr. W. C. Ravenel has been appointed Port Physician of Charleston. The Louisiana sugar crop promises a larger yield than for several years past, 250,000 to 800,000 hogsheads, against only 78,000 last year. The Salt Lake mail passed at Leavenworth on the 29th of May, 250 wagons and 2,000 emigrants, seceders from the Mormons, on their way to the States. About 1,000 of them are going to California. According to the published list of taxpayers in Baltimore, there is not one millionaire in the whole city. The wealthiest inhabitant in it is rated at only 8730,000; while the next to him in wealth is the pos sessor of but $480,000. Dr. David Dale Owen, of Indiana, has been appointed by Governor Conway to make a geological survey of Arkansas, and will enter upon the discharge of his duties about the middle of October, by which time he will have completed the survey of Kentucky. Counterfeit new cent pieces are in circulation, intended no doubt, to mix with the genuine in large quantities; they will easily deceive persons at a casual glance, but being of pewter, like all that kind of coin, have a greasy feel and a slumpy sound that any body will recognize. P. B. Manchester, a noted banker who committed forgeries and robberies in Cincinnati, abont two and a half years ago, to the amount of 8300,000, was arrested at the Michigan Central Deppt, on Thursday last, through the instrumentality of a Cincinnati merohant, who had been fleeced by him. There is a block of granite on Boon Island, about 14 feet in extreme, length, 10 feet wide, and from 5 to 6 feet in height, which was lifted from its bed in the ledge, and carried up an inclined plane of from 12 to 15 degrees, to a distance of near 60 feet. This occurred during a northeast snow storm, in 1852. The Secretary of the Treasury is of the opinion that the close of the present fiswill finfl o onrnliia nf fwonfr.tBn I V?I mil UUU ? uui |/? uo v? vfiVMy-HKV millions of dollars in the Treasury. The late reduction of the tariff, he thinks, will result in an increase of revenue from increased importations; and he has already determined to recommend another large extension of the free list. Judge Morgan, of New Orleans, rendered a decision a few days ago', in which he refused to declare void the decision of the Supreme Court of that city, ordering the will of Daniel Clark to be probated. The Delta says, this is an additional and all but final step towards the attainment by Mrs. Gaines of the rights for which she has been so long oontending. Brigham Young is said to have within his jurisdiction 20,000 fighting men, armed and equipped, who are bound to fight for the Mormon Church till the last man has expired. The population of Utah is estimated at 100,000; besides which there are 200,000 adherents of Mormonism in adjoining States and Territories, according to Judge Hammond. We exported from Key West last year, says the Key West of the Gulf, about 3100,000 worth of sponges; and the exports of this year, stimulated by tbe advanced price will probably reach $300,000, or about one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of sponge. About forty boats and two hundred men are engaged in the business, who catch the sponge in the shallow waters of South Florida, as far west as Cedar Keys. The enormous increase in the manufacture of whiskey in the West, within tbe past few years, is attracting considerable attention at present, on account of the purposes to which the product is applied. Much the large portion of it is manufactured into alcohol, the shipments of which to France have been enormous. A Cincinnati paper states that only a few days ago 10,000 barrels of alcohol was sold to one house in New Orleans, intended for shipment to France. It is said to have been demonstrated, as the result of a scientific commission detailed for investigation upon the coast of Norway, that the "Maelstroom," or whirlpool, has no existence; at least it is not to be found at the point designated upon the maps ! It seems, then, that not only large ships and whales,.but Edgar A. Poe and all the rest of us have been "sucked in" by it. What an opening for the credulity and wonder of youth has thus been corked up! Ex-President Fillmore and ex-President Pierce have both accepted invitations to attend the Bunker Hill celebration in Boston. Lt. Gen. Scott, another invited guest, will be escorted to Boston by the National Guards, of New York, and on arriving at the former city will be escorted to his quarters by the National Lancers. Ex-President Tyler has also been invited by both branches of the Massachusetts Legislature and the Bunker Hill Society to participate in the celebration. The Mine?ota Republican, published at St. Anthony, says that men are now held as slaves, as property, in Minnesota. Every year men who come from the South bring their slaves as body servants to the hotels, and take them away again. And it has positive information that a southerner is now holding his slaves at Stillwater, ana declares that under the Dred Scott decision he defies the authorities to interfere. He intended to remain in the territory, and thus to render slavery a permanent institution. Mr. Lieber gives in his report the following statistics. The cost of the fence in this State is set down at $7,948,500, and has to be renewed every ten years. The value of our stock, according to the census returns of 1850, was 815,060,005, as follows: horses 896,171; asses and mules 837,483; milch cows 8169,244; working oxen 820,507; other cattle 8563,935; sheep 8285,651; swine 81,065,503. The increased value of copper is also astonishing. For the year 1856 it increased in value over 8150.00 per ton, and is always in brisk demand ! 1 never yet found pride in a noble nature, nor humility in an unworthy mind. Of all trees, I observe God hath chosen the vine, a low plant that creeps upon the helpful wall: of all beasts, the soft and patient lamb: of all fowls, the mild and guileless dove. When God appeared to Moses, it was not in the lofty cedar, nor the sturdy oak, nor the spreading palm, but in a bush, a humble, slender, abject bush?as if He would by these selections check the conceited arrogance of man. Nothing procureth love like humility?nothing hate, like pride CJp ?orkb!ffeinquirer EDITKD BY BAM'L W. MELTON JOHN L. MILLEB. JOSEPH H: BLACK. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 18, 1857. EXTRAVAGANCE. The two leading characteristics of the present age is the impatience to get rich, and the extravagant manner in which fine fortunes are spent. It really appears that one half of mankind are grasping and hoarding up money without any object, and the other half spending it in mere frivolities. The miser is a detestable character in himself, yet were there not scattered through the land this close-fisted, flint-skinning class, to act as counterirritants or anti-spasmodics, the wealth of the country would be squandered so recklessly and prodigally, that universal bankruptcy would be the prevailing cry. This extravagance is the more reprehensible since it rages in a free government ?a republic which boasts of its conservatism and its democratic and puritanical elements. It was one of the blessings which our patriotic forefathers imagined they were securing us, that with the overthrow of a titled nobility, and the ponderous trappings of the aristocracy, a new order would be introduced where simplicity of manners would prevail, and individual merit graduate the standing of every one. This is the glory of republicanism and the crowning beauty of the democratic idea. But the tendency of the age, if not antirepublican, is certainly anti-democratic. Wealth must ever have its influence; it is puerile to imagine otherwise. It has a legitimate power under every system of government, and should have.? But when it over-steps the limits to which the economist assigns it and aspires to rule the world and bend genius and intelligence at its will, it becomes a dangerous element?especially dangerous to a democratic government. Knowledge has been sententiously termed pow* er, but when knowledge itself becomes venal and no longer competes with wealth?the palm of superiority?the consequence is, that without any operation of law, a dr. facto order of nobility arises, more odious than in older countries, where merit and worth have ennobled a family and many of 1 *' 1?' ?tMiniimit?Oft tlipnutrh a uie uncesirai iinura u.i <. ? 0 lineage long. In such a system there is something that strikes the fancy. Around it the hues of romance have been so entrancingly thrown, that for a moment, we lose sight of the oppression and misery which supports its splendor and magnificence. Republicanism, however, was to desstrov the entire system and institute perfect eI quality, with merit as the sole olaim to pre-eminence. It is useless to say that it has failed to accomplish this object. It has only substituted the nobility of wealth for the nobility of merit.? It has taken away a plausible pretence for a tyrannical system, and substituted one more oppressive in its operations and more degrading in its final consequences. And what are those consequences ? The most alarming consequences is, that integrity, merit, magnanimity, talent?everything that adorns and ennobles man?loses all attractiveness, and virtue is no longer regarded as self-rewarding. When such is the case, an inordinate desire for riches at once seizes all classes. Riches in any way?the shortest way?is the universal motto. Wild speculations, every species of fraud, loose morals and general venality, follow as secondary effects.? And in this way we may account for the apparent paradox, that an inordinate craving for, and extravagant waste of wealth are the prominent characteristics of the age. Those who have not the precious boon are forced to keep up appearances or fall back into plebian insignificance. Those who have it, in order to magnify their wealth and increase their influence, make a display to which the nobility of the old world are strangers. In the following extract from a Northern paper, the extravagance of the age is lucidly traced to some of its ruinous consequences. "More than four sevenths of the marriages in Massachusetts are among the foreign-born. Wby is it? For the most simple reasons: the foreign born can afford to get married, and the nativeborn cannot; and this must be, so long as our extravagant mode of life continue. In social life there never was a people tending to deeper and more destructive social corruption?and that is most evident from the records of all the ccuite, and the columns of all the newspapers?than Americans. Our fathers used to tell of the proflitnuw of Paris: their children tell of the mysteries of New York?a city not far behind any in Eu rope. And making proper allowances for size, how far is New York ahead of our other oitie9 and towns? Once was the time when a wife was j a "help meet;" now, in a thousand of cases, you can change the "meet" to "eat," and make.it read | more truthfully. We boast of our system of education; we have j female high schools, female colleges, female medical schools, and female heavens. Our girls are ' refined, learned, and wise; they can sing, dance, j play pianos, paint, talk French and Italian, and all the soft languages, write poetry, and love like Venuses. They arc ready to be courted at ten years, and can be taken from school and married at fifteen, and divorced at twenty. They make splendid shows on bridal tours, can coquette and flirt at the watering places, and shine like angels at winter parties. But Heaven be kind to the poor wretch that marries in the fashionable circles. What are they at washing floors ? Oh, we forgot; nobody has bare floors now?how vulgar that would be! What are they at making bread and boiling beef? Why, how thoughtless wo are? to be sure they will board, or have servants.? What are they at mending old clothes ? But there we are again; the fashions change so often that nobody has old clothes but the rag-men and the paper-makers now ! What are they at washing babies'faces and pinning up their trousers? And here is our intolerable stupidity once more; having children is left to the Irish! What lady thinke of having children about her now? or if she is so unfortunate, don't she put them to wet-nurses tc begin with, and boarding-schools afterwards! We repeat?we have come to a point where young men hesitate and grow old before they can decide whether they can marry, and afterwards keep clear of bankruptcy and crime. What is the consequence ? There are more persons living a single life?are there more lending a virtuous life ? Il is time for mothers to know that the extravagance they encourage is destructive of the virtue of theii children; that all the foolish expenditures making to rush their daughters to matrimony, are, instead of answering that end, tending to destroy the institution of marriage altogether." THE EXAMINATION | In the Female College i9 progressing finely; but we must defer an extended notice untill the next issue, when we will try and give the particulars. COURT OP EQUITY. This is the week of Equity Court. Hi9 Honoi Chancellor Dunkiu presides. Business is despatched at a reasonable rate, but we must poetpone further notice till its close. CORRECTION. In the last issue, we inadventently confused the proceedings of the Old and New School Presbytein yafornnno tn tlia fllnverv question should have referred to the latter. We have since received the Herald, and give elsewhere the action of the General Assembly in reference to the Independent Presbyterians. THE CROPS. From our limited observation, and the general report from different sections of the country, the crops are growing finely, barring those destroyed by hail. Cotton of course, cannot recover sufficiently to make a large yield, but wheat is of more importance just now, and we have never seen a better prospect for an abundant harvest. Corn is late but doing well. Oats are fine. THE COLLEGE. We publish, from the Carolinian, a succinct ; i statement of the proceedings of the Board of Trus1 tees at their meeting, last week, resulting from the recent disturbances in our State College.? This action, it will be perceived, is in its results the most radical possible. Presidents, Professors and students have been "exonerated" and scattered; a Corporal's guard have been detailed (pro tempore, we suppose, to counterbalance the weight of outside pressure;) find more and worse than all, decided resolutions have been adopted, without premeditation and in the most alarming haste, substituting in place of the College a system of education totally at variance with that heretofore pursued in South Carolina, and requiring for its maintenance and efficiency different aims, different motives and an essentially different social organization. Add to these considerations the several individual instances when very worthy men, without fault, we believe, have been made to suffer the severest injury, and we have a series of measures, inconsistent, radical, destructive of public confidence, and as such meriting a positive and unqnaliffcd condemnation. In no particular, we think, can the action of the Board receive the sanction of public opinion. But it is not our design now to enter into a discussion of the several points presented in the minutes of the Board. Having just returned to our post, we have not been able to ascertain the real history of this unfortunate affair, a very important portion of which, necessary to a candid | and enlightened criticism, evidently remains to be made public. Nor do we design to reflect, in any degree, upon the motives or the good sense of the distinguished members of the Board. Such an effort would be worse than ridiculous. We have spoken of their action under the belief that it is the result of misplaced confidence?of a too firm reliance in the integrity of those who, we believe, will bo proved to have been faithless to their charge. An esteemed and intelligent correspondent has promised to furnish us with a careful statement, in detail, of the entire history of the affair. We trust we shall receive it in time for publication next week, when we may be able to write more at length and in a style better in keeping with the great importance of the subject. THE TEMPERANCE DEMONSTRATION, By the Union Division announced in our last is, sue, came off on Saturday last. Owing to the pressure of crops and the prevalence of sickness in the neighborhood, the cOucourse of people was comparatively small. Mr. S. A. McElwek acted as Marshall of the day and under his lead, while cheered by the music of the Ebenezer Band, the ' Sons" and "Daughters" were formed into a procession and marched to the atand.^ The meeting was opened by an appropriate prayer by Col. Wm. C. BEATxr. Mr. B. C. Pressly was then announced,who in a speech of considerable length, depicted in vivid colours the evils of intemperance and fully sustained his reputation as a promising young orator. He was followed by Mr. J. H. Black, who after a brief speech, was followed by Col. Wm. C. Ueatty. wis remaras Wfre specially airected to that class of objectionists who claim to be temperate yet cavil about the "secrecy'' of the organization, the Bible axithority for total abstinence, and a thousand minor points, really insignificant, if they wished in their hearts to promote the cause of religion and morality. At the close of Col. B's remarks, Mr. Milks JonNSON sung a couple of Temperance songs which appeared to delight the hearers very much. The assembly which was remarkably courteous and attentive, then dispersed, while the Marshall again formed a procession and marched to the Division Room to initiate two new converts to the cause. Among others present on this occasion, we noticed Gen. Allston of Rock Hill, and Messrs. John G. En lor, Samuel Ei Moore, and others from Yorkville. It is usual to give the ladies rn paxxant a compliment, but they did not have an opportunity to display their taste, as the Committee of Arrangements dispensed with the pic-nic, nnd as to their beauty and personal attractions?"the world knows them by heart"?to quote a phrase from Webster. We learned that the Union Division, and in fact that all the Divisions in the district were promptly co-opemting with the Yorkville Divisions, to make the Demonstration ia July worthy of the noble cause. HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS. This distinguished statesman has been enthusiastically received by the Mississippinns on his return home. These demonstrations cannot be mistaken. It shows clearly, a reaction in the popular mind in favor of those men who have been staunchest rtafoncr> of the fionth. In time of a pre vailing panic those who counsel retreat or submission may be exalted temporarily, but with a returning sense of duty and honor, the traitorous laurels will be stricken from their brows. There was a time when Col. Davis could not so boldly have uttered the sentiments of his speeches of Yicksburg and Jackson without the malediction of timid politicians. But Mississippi appears at last, to have come up to the platform of her heroic statesman and applauded him, while he dcdeclarod:? "He [Col. Davis] was no alarmist; he had a contempt for panics and a scorn for panic-makers; but he would tell them that in 1860 the monster ! crisis was to be met. Then shall American patriotism pass the ordeal of fire, fie hoped for the | best; but a sense of danger imposed upon him the duty of warning them to prepare for the worst. ! The time had been when the puling newspapers of . the opposition would have denounced him as a [ traito>* for uttering this sentiment. It was a time when patriotism was construed to be submission to I degredation and wrong, for the sake of a Union whose soul was perishing away, and which was , being periled only by such submission. He thank, ed Heaven that time was passed. It was not the , Revolutionary time: 0, no, submission wasnn uni uttered word in that day of bold resolve and high , achievement. It was a period intermediate beJ tween now and then?a 'dark age' in our political , history. But he need not adjure them to preparation. They were preparing. , "That iron interlink, now in progress with Charj leston on the Atlantic, was such preparation. The , Southern Railroad was originally a conception of ! JohnC. Calhoun. He sought this commercial and p social intimacy between Mississippi and South j Carolina. And?who would think it??it was . stigmatized at the time as a project of treason ! Ilow flagitious, then, according to the quaint judgment of that day, must be Mississippi's perfidy; for she has made the treason practical?the loco, motive traitor is partially on its way! It would ' bring the South in iutimato communion with heri self; it would develope her resources within the South?and that was her great need." The name of John C. Calhoun?the prophetic statesman of the South?is at last heard with the , respect which his philosophic mind and unwavering patriotism deserved. It will yet ring more potently along the rich valley of the Mississippi, over the prairies of the West, and through the whole South, as daily events develope his wisdom and foresight. Among other topics in his brief review of the Pierce Administration, Col. Davis adverted to the acquisition of Cuba. The failure to accomplish this object is attributed to the Lower Hoyse, which withheld supplies and refused a vote of confidence in the Government. The acquisition of the fertile island is very desirable to the South, but as to the practicability of the measure there i is less certainty. What inducement can be held 1 out to tempt the North to aid in its acquisition ? What but the emancipation of the slaves or the purchase of their favor by some corresponding fleecing operation. Cuba should belong to us.? It would promote the interests of the island as well as our own. To use a poetical figure?it lies la the bosom of the South, and must at no very future clay, be fondled in her arm*. But will it not be under the guidance of a Southern Republic that this oppressed and ill-governed land will first feel the renovating influence of freedom and freetrade ? MERE-MENTION. On the first page see the continuation of the well-written story by Mrs. Stratton. Also an original poem ; quite rendable, and a communication, descriptive of the peregrinations of a young gentleman of this place, through various scenes and places. We would call attention to the address to the Frienda of Temperance, by Judge O'Neali., to be found in another column. The following names nro 9pokcn of in connection with the vacant senatorship: Ex-Governor Hammond, Hon. Francis Pickens, Judge Withers, Chancellor Daboan, Col. Orr, Col. Memminoer, Col. Chesnut, Mr. Keitt, Mr. Botce, and others. Com. John C. Stevens died of enlargement of the heart, at his residence in Hoboken, on June 10th, aged 72 years. He leaves property to the amount of several millione. The Charleston papers mention the death of Col. J. Charles Burst, a worthy Representative of that city in the State Legislature. Gen. John B. Walbach, the oldest officer in the United States Army, died al his residence, in Baltimore, Wednesday night, ir the 93d year of his age, after an illness of three days. Setii Kinman, who presented the buck horn chair to the President, has received an appointment for assisting to remove certain Indians on the Pacific coast. His salary will he nboul ?1,800 per annum. Much interest is just now being manifested in &%rqnch from the Memphis and Charleston Rail Railroad to connect Tuscumbia and Florence. The New York Tribune says that sixteen murders have been committed in that city since the first of April. Jobs A. Gilmer, Esq., of Greensborough, N. C., has accepted thrnomination for Congress in that District, and made his opening speech at Graham or Tuesday last. Mr. Robert Burns, the eldest son of the poet, died at Dumfries, Scotland, on the 14th ult. Prof. Carlisle of Wofford College, has been nominated for the mathematical chair ofS. C. College, Col. Maxcy Gbkoo is nominated for the Prcsiden cy. Powers' statue of the Greek Slave wil be sold at public auction on the 23d June. It is reported that all the crops in Tennessee art dying for want of rain. "I love thee still,' as the quiet husband said to the chattering wife Bus?to kiss. Re-bus?to kiss again. Blunder-bus?two girls kissing each other. Omni-bui r, trios oil tLo trirla in the room. Bus-ter?a pen eral kisser. Epluri bus mum?a thousand kissef in one. Wendell Phillips defines a politi cinn as "one who serves God as far as he can with out offending the devil." This is epigraniatic anc not far from the mark. Ambition often put! men upon doing the meanest offices, so climbing ii performed in the same posture as creeping. Always do as the sun does, look at the bright sid< of everything; it is just as cheap and three timei as good for digestion. As sins proceed, thei ever multiply; and, like figures in arithmetic, tb< last stands for more than all that went before it The Indianapolis Journal advances a nev and very striking theory of the "Aurora Borealis,' viz: "That a comet has at some time hit thi earth or Northern Pole, and run into Syjimes Ilole, leaving its tail sticking out, the flapping o which makes the auroral light." "Bimelelech my son," said a boss butcher to a twelve year old one day, as he was about to make his first effor at fish peddlingin the street, "Bimelech, my son if you expect to sell any fish you must blow you, horn." Mammon is the only God that is wor shipped in every clime without a single temple and by all classes without a single hypocrite. "I know of oo such thing as genius," said Ho oarth to Mr. Gilbert Cooper ; "genius is nothing but diligence." NEWS ITEMS. Kansas is again attracting attention. It is no so certain thatit will be a slave State, since Nor them emigrants have been pouring into it of late Gov.ijWalker is calling down the imprecations o the Southern Press by his manoeuvres in favor o the Abolitionist?viz : sending the constitntioi back to the people to be ratified, and thus givinj the North time and opportunity, yet, to pluck tin victory out of the hands of the South. The famine in Michigan is causing considernbh distress?many families actually starving. There has been a great conflagration in Con stantinople, by which 1300 houses were destroyed Serious politico-religious riots have taken placi in Belgium, growing out of anti-Catholic feelings - - .nj ll.. UOnvents, monasteries, tunojcr, mm uiguvj, . Palace had been attacked. The troops interfered and at the latest accounts order was nearly re stored. GREAT EXHIBITION. Eldbed's Troupe will exhibit in this place 01 Tuesday next. Every person that can open theii eyes should be here to see the elephant. THREE EVENTS. The Charleston Mercury thus adverts to threi important events?events likely to have a control ling influence on the future of our country, ant fearfully ominous to the future of the South : "In one short month, three events have occuret which apparently have attracted little or no notict in the South, and in certain Presses, none at all The slavery question has broken up the Younj Men's Christian Association in New York?it ha: separated the New School Presbyterian Church and has entered into the American Tract Society for future discussion in its circulations. Men can become used to almost any endurance Sonic of the ancient Asiatics wore horse-hnii shirts, filled with vermin, with but little annoy ance. Although periodically overwhelmed by it! eruption, the population about Mount Yesuviui continue to build within the reach of its terribh lava. But a few years ago, the first breach be tween the North and the South, in the Methodis Church, produced a profound sensation of indig nation in every homo in the South. But when are we now ? Church after Church separatesreligious associations are broken up?and ever the streams of religious literature, looking to th< salvation of men's souls, as its high and holy aims, are to be polluted with Abolition incendia rism, and we hear it with scarcely an emotion.? Some Southern Presses pass over these event! without a notice, and others advert to them as they might do to the breaking up of a count] meeting, or a paltry street riot. As great politi cal events, threatening the peace of one half ofth< Confederacy in their sure developments, they ar< treated as unworthy of regard. Allured by th< Government, or paralyzed by an abject spirit o submission, they turn their insensate indignatiot on those of their brethren in the South who wil not and cannot remain passive under the might] meanings these events show forth. They cal them ultra disturbers of the peace of the South and enemies to its prosperity ana inus saiery; ant thus it has been, from the first beginning of th< Abolition agitation in Congress in 1834. Undei the passive inactivity of the South, how vast hai been the progress of things since that day? Bu there they are still shouting peace and denounc ing action." TEMPERANCE IN CHESTER. From the subjoined Address to the friends o Temperance and the report of the Committee o Arrangements, it will be seen that our friends ii Chester are wide awake. The Committee submi the following report: "The Presidents of the C. & S. C. Railroad G. & C. R. R-, and K. M. Railroad, have kindly consented to allow delegates to pass, coming anc returning, for one fare, over their Roads. Th< President of tbo S. C. R. R. allows the same privilege, provided SO delegates pass over that Road, As two, or more public meetings will be held (taring the Convention, the Committee b&7e written to several abie speakers, to be present on the occasion. The meeting is expected to convene on Tuesday afternoon at 8 o'clock. .Public meeting Tuesday evening 8 o'clock, and Wednesday afternoon, sufficiently early to allow members of the Grand Divisii n to reach Yorkville for an evening j session. i "We make no appeal to the friends of Temper- , ! ance, hoping and believing there will be a grand 1 I turn out of delegates, in Chester, on 21st. July." SraiNOFiKLD, .lune tith, 18A7. To the Frinula of Temperance: The meeting of the State Temperance Society will be held at Chesterville on Tuesday the 2l9t day of July. It-is expected the meeting will coraj mence as soon nfter the arrival of the ears as pns! siblc; - say ut or before 3 p. m. The meeting it ! will be observed, begins the day before the Grand Division meets, nt York: it is expected to adjourn time enough to reach Yorkville before the mcotiiig there, the evening of the 221. It is hoped every organization of Temperance will be fully represented. Temperance Societies, Divisions of the Sons of Temperance, Rechnbites, and Cadets are expected to send up delegates?the more the better. 1 Our friends at Chesterville are making preparations to give Temperance a rousiug welcome. Dr. Walker, well known as an ardent and devoted ; friend of Temperance; the successor of Chester's , leader in this great cause, the late Jas. B. McCully, Esq., writes to me "we intend holding two mfintincra nno Tuesdnv mailt, the other .?V?....6w, O 1 | Wednesday morning about 11. We give the Delegates a dinner at 8 p. m." , " Brethren and friends, let delegates be speedily appointed. The work is a great one?every one ! who can give us a good word, a smile, or even an k encovraging nod, will be welcomed. , Let us all to the work. John Belton O'Neali., President State Temp. Society. , CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. , Charleston, June 15, 1857. , This is the last day of grace which the tax-pay, ers are allowed, and those who are so unfortunate, , as to pay their dollar (the assessed value of their heads) and have the receipt in their pockets bej fore seven o'clock, this evening, will not be allowr I ed to vote for the next Mayor and Common Coun. ! cil. My disfranchisement for one year, depends pretty much upon the length of this letter, as it , is now five o'clock, and it is my design to finish it and stop at the City-Hall, and deposit the price of my capital extremity, as I go to the Post Office, , so I shall blame you, Messrs. Editors, if I should not be a qualified voter at the next election. It is true, I might have attended to this matter before, but it was snch a small nffair that I I could not bring my mind to bear upon it for , more than a minute at a time, and that always , happened to be when I did not have the money. . It might he the best in the end, for me not to vote at all, for then, let who would be eleoted, I could hnve the privilege of finding fault with the ' * * * H? 'it- aL- a.? , ! city Uovernment ana quarrelling wita mo city j father? as much as T chose. Yon know that the , \ priTilcge of grumbling is very highly esteemed by i U9 republicans, and if there is any sin, of which we are guitless, it is that of being pleased with j ; our rulers, especially those whose special business ^ j it is to impose taxes, and appoint days for their 3 payment. I saw a young man this morning, who . told me, withn striking elongation of countenance, } that all his taxable earthly chatties, consisted of ? a second hand buggy, which cost him fifty dollars, T on which he had to pay twenty-five dollars tax, ^ which he seemed to think, was going it rather too strong on the skinning principle. Those who f dance, must expect to pay the piper, and those who , live in big cities, and walk paved streets by gas, light, mu9t expect to pay for the privilege. , We can now ride on a railroad to Memphis, f which the city of Charleston helped to build, and that is certainly worth something. The new Fish Market is a magnificent structure, and is decidedt ly an ornament to the Ferry boat wharf, and altogether useful, as a biding place for drunken hrr mauity, who may have the fear of the police before their eyes, as it has not yet been opened for the accommodation of those who deal in the finny . tribe, and other monsters of the mighty deep.? And, I am sure, that every tax payer in Charles^ ton, feels proud, when he looks upon that palatial, Fifth Avenue structure, and reflects that his money helped to build it. It is looked upon here, as rather a misfortune to bo encumbered with a large property, and a man is looked upon as particular* "ly fortunate, who is able to be wealthy, with all the drawhftCKs turn weaiin now enwns. f And there is the Artesian Well, an enterprise at f once, "grand, gloomy and peculiar," and which 1 should immortalize the gigantic intellect that con ceivcd it. But the conception is all, for the man 2 who carried it out, has not yet been found?peri haps he is yet to be rocked in his cradle. And 2 i though, it has cost the city a cool seventy-five thousand of hard cash, yet we should be proud to leave it to posterity, as a monumont of our genius and enterprise. And though an ornament to that 1 part of the city, yet it is not valued alone for that, for its useful qualities are equally prominent and s striking, as I am told it is designed by the founders to turn it into a free observatory, where the mass es can go to-moirow, and look at the Comet. Not from the bottom of the well, but from the top of the cupola, as you must know it has a steeple, alj most as high as St. Michaels. You must not laugh r at the idea of a well having a steeple, as you know that we city people have a great many things, that you do not have away up in the country, so far away from the sea-shore and city taxes. 5 The weather is hot as blazes and dry as a tinder - box, and rain is badly needed, but there.is but lit1 tie prospect of our being blessed with the muchneeded showers for some time-to come. I saw a 1 friend from Yorkville last week, who told me that ! the farmers in that section were complaining of j too much rain. I wish we could transfer a little s of the samples that has blessed other sections, to > our thirsty and exhausted cisterns, for we shall ' soon be sadly in need of good drinking water.? . The weather for the last week has been exceedr ingly hot, and has only been rendered tolerable to ' seething, melting humanity, the occasional sea, breezes that blow in from the Bay. ; Two of the daily papers ftave honored the com' | ct witli a complimentary parngraph, and apprized _ j their readers of the near approach of this heav 5 enly visitant which is so soon to honor this muddy, - mundane sphere with a mnstard-pot visit. It is ' said now to be visible to the naked eye about three r o'clock in the morning, at an angle of forty-five de grees above the Eastern horizon, but there is " much disappointment expressed in the fact that it , has no tail, which induces some to doubt its genur : inencss, while others are disposed to believe it " | some Yankee invention got up for the purpose of [ j frightening Southerners into submission. If it > ! should prove a base fabrication, the public can sue f and recover damages from the astronomers, newsj papers and nlmanac makers who have made themr selves particepi criminis, or accessories before the I fact in the herculean humbug, the spurious issue j of heavens coin. The time appointed for it3 ar? rival at a small town in Missouri, is twenty minr utes past ten o'clock to-morrow morning, which s will give us time to notice the result in the nfter' noon's paper, as we have already made arrangements to get the news by telegraph direct from St. Louis. Palmetto Division is trying to make up a com^ pany of thirty, the number required by the S. C. * I Railroad, on condition of the reduction of fare, to 1 -visit Yorkville during the meeting of the Grand ' Division on the 23rd of July. We hope to be able to raise the number, as we are all anxious to see 1 I and shake hands with our brethren of the banner [ district. The Enquire!! is highly prized and ? much sought for here, for the noble stand it has taken in behalf of the good cause. It is consider[ ed authority in all matters connected with the sub ject of temperance in the up country. The cause 1 is prospering here, and lnrge accessions to our ^ ranks are being made at every meeting. The Ga! dets of Temperance now near two hundred strong, ' ire going to hare a grand celebration on the fourth of July, under the direction of their indefatigable leader and Patron, J. Alma Pelot. Nathaxjrl Ttlee of oar Division has gone as a delegate to ( the meeting of the National Division at Providence, Rhode Island. The home delegation is under the < command of the old war horse, Ebknezer Thay- J ee, who is known to every temperance man in the , State, or ought t<fbe. MAGNOLIA. For tho Yorkville Enquirer. BETHEL. ACADEMY. i Mr?*rs. Editor*:?The Trustees of the Bethel Academy wish to express through the medium of your paper, the satisfaction which they have felt at the Examination to-day, of that Institution.? The third Session, tinder the directiou of the present instructor, has now closed. The method of imparting instruction, as exemplified iti the examination, commends itself to every intelligent mind. It is thorough, and if carried out, will not fail to meet the wants of our age and send out youth trained, mentally and morally, for all the conflicts of life?capable of doing and daring all that duty requires. There is no royal road to knowledge. Its steps are difficult, and they must be surmounted by personal and persevering efforts. But there are facilities at the Bethel Academy which are as rare as they are precious. Those we would not monopolize. The Academy is at a distance from the gatherings of multitudes?it is retired. In view of the mountains?its pure water and refreshing breezes insure health. In the midst of a plain, hospitable and pious community, good morals are secured. With an exnerienced Tfinchar. whn nn. derstands fully his duties?gentlemanly and pious, who exercises a paternal government over his pupils?from suoh advantages parents may justly expect their children to make progress in intellectual culture, moral excellence and bodily vigor. Such advantages are not confined to the rich, for one hundred dollars per annum, cover all necessary expenses. Secure a good education for your children and we make an investment from which large dividends may he expected?blessing them and blessing others. By Order of the Board of Trustees. JOS. ADAMS, President. S. L. Watson, Secretary. June 12th, 1857. * For the Yorkville Enquirer. NOT LONG. "They will n6t last long," says some good man, when speaking of the Sons of Temperance. We enquire in reply; How long ? May not their works "last so long as eternity endures ? Suppose your unconsidered flout have the effect of influencing some one individual so far as to continue his social glas9?his sober hilarity, until the habit grows and ends in oonfirmed drunkenness and a drunkard's grave, think you, my.good man?you, my spiritual guide and exemplar, that this, this plunge in the eternal fire" will not last lonyf? When we reflect how a good or an evil example may roll on, swelling and booming in its mighty influence from generation to generation, until 'Night comes, last night; the long dark, dark, dork night, That has no morn beyond it, and no star,"? think you, this is long enough to rear up for our words and oar actions a blissful reward, or a fearful responsibility ? Is the Holy Land, the birth place of the Incarnate God, and of Christianity, still blessed with Christianity? Yet is not Christianity still onward in its mighty march? ' What is now the state of the land of the puritan fathers ? Are not the east era States or uns union nuea wua unitarians, Universalists, Millerites, Latter Day Saints, &c. &c ??yet notwithstanding all this, the progress of the Church of Christ is forward with a steady step. How long does a Bible Society?or a Tract Society last? Yet, are they not right and proper? Why do they not last??not beoause they" are not blessed of God, bat the caase is foand in man?poor frail humanity. "They will not last long," say you. The Pharisees and the Sanhedrim,' no doubt, said the same of the Rechabites, yet they had maintained their total abstinence principle for three hundred years, when they were publicly blessed of God, and assured that some of them would continue and be blessed for ever. , - ... If each Division prove the humble instrument in reclaiming one and only one soul from a drunkard's death, and this moral virtue be afterwards ripened through the Church into a christian grace, will the Sons, no matter how short their existence, have lived in vain?and will not such fruits of their labors cover a multitude of sins ? More Divisions than one in York have already contributed a member to the Church. PETER PONDER. For the Yorkville Enquirer. TEMPERANCE COMMITTEE. Yobhyillb, June l$th, 1867. According to appointment, the Committee of Arrangement from the different Divisions, Sons of Temperance, in York District, met to-day at 11 o'clock, A. M.f in the Division Room. Capt. J. C. Phillips was called to the Chair, and D. J. Logan requested to act as Secretary. The following Committees were ascertained to be in attendance from their respective Divisions : King's Mountain Division?R. Hare, A. Cody and A. W. Flannigan. York Division?John H. Adams T. H. Smith and D. J. Logan. Centre Division?A. G. Lawrence A. P. C. Campbell, Adam Beamguard and ffm. McGill, Betk-Shiloh Division?J. T. Foreman and Sam'l Smith. Bethesda Division?Dudley Jones, Sam'l Hemphill, George Burris and V. E. McElhaney. Union Division?Jno. B. Pankey and Albert Johnson. Bock Hill Division?Daniel D. Moore. Concord Division?J. A. Barnett, J. J. Barnett, A. B. Bigger, J. C. Philips, D. T. Partlow and S. D. Carothers. Bethel Division?J. D. P. Currence, N. B. Campbell, J. P. McKenzie, Wm. I. Stowe and J. L. Adams. - . % On motion It was Resolved, That the Pic-Nic, suggested by the joint Committee of York and King's Mountain Divisions, be prepared, and that the Committees proceed to make the necessary preliminary arrangements for the same. On motion, It was Resolved, That each member of the various Divisions be requested to prepare at bis home, his contribution for the Pic-Nic, to consist of such articles of provision as he may choose to contribute. On motion, It was Resolved, That the furious Divisions in this District are recommended to apnmnt nnmniittees of voune men beloneine to the Order, for the purpose of procuring contributions in money, from those who are UDable to contribute provisions j and that said money be placed in the hands of a Committee from each Division, to be expended for the purpose of procuring articles of provision for the Pic-Nic. Qn motion, It was Resolved, That each Division bo requested to furnish suph a variety of articles of provision as will make in itself, a fic-Nio complete. The business before the meeting having been dispatched, On motion, the Committee adjourned, sine die. J. C. PHILLIPS, Chairman. D. J. Logan, Secretary. South Carollua College. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, held on Thursday, the following resolution, after discussion, was adopted: That this Board having heard at large the statement of the President of the College, and of every member of the Faculty, are of opinion that there is no issue of veracity made by the proceedings which have called together this Board : that they exonerate the President from an^ imputation ppot) his character, and hereby express their confidence in his purity and integrity. The following resolutions were also adopted: That this Board perceives no grounds for any sh&rge affecting the honor or integrity of any on# >f the Professors of this College. That it is expedient to make essential modifies:ions in the educational system of the South Caroina College, that the curriculum of studies be- so :xpanded as to require many more professors or schools. That the selection of the schools be optional on the part of the applicants for College. That a committee of fivobe appointed njder the nbove resolution, aii'l that they report to the Board in November next. The following gentlemen constitute the committee: Wm. C. Preston, C. 0. Memminger, B. W. Barnwell, B. F. Perry, 8. McAliley. That this Board "deem it neeesssry to the interests of the College to reorganize the government, nnd that the President and Professors be requested forthwith to resign their offices,/ On this resolution the vote was llfto 8. In accordance with this resolution, the President and Professors all tendered their resignations at the evening meeting, which were accepted. Ballots were then had for several professorships, and the following gentlemen were re-elected to those previously held by-them: Prof. JoixnLeconte, Prof. Joseph I.econtc, Prof. W,.J.. Rivers. Rev. Wbitefoord Smith was elected Professor of Sacred Literature. Mr. L. McCsndless, of Camden, was elected Profess: r of Roman Literature. The Professorship of Logic and Metaphysics, and that of History and Political Economy, were left to be filled in September next. It was also determined that the Faculty be authorized and requested to appoint from their number a Chairman to discharge tho duties of President until the next meeting of the Board. That the exercises of this College be suspended * until the first of October next, and that immediate notice be communicated to the Faculty. ' A committee of three was appointed to address the citizens on the state and re-organization of the College. __ _ . The late Professors will retain their houses until required by their successors. The Board adjourned to meet on the Wednesday afte.' the second Monday in September, at 7 p. m. Old School and Independent Presbyterians. We give below a full report of the proceedings of the Qeneral Assembly in relation to the Independent*. From the conciliatory manner in which \he reply to the Overture of the Bethel Presbytery is written, we have hopes that this breach in the Church will be healed up at last: "Overture No. 21, from the Bethel rresbytery, was taken up, in reference to a proposed nnion between the Bethel Presbytery'and the Independent Presbyterian Church, once known as the followers of the late Rev. W. C. Davis. Upon which the Committee make the following report: n While the Qeneral Assembly is greatly gratified with the spirit of charity and brotherly lore, which the Overture indicates as subsisting between the Presbytery of Bethel and the Independent Church, and would sincerely rejoice at the consummation of the proposed union, it yet cannot sanction the precise terms of the covenant which has actually been made. The privilege claimed by die Independent ministers of holding and teaching doctrines not in harmony with the Confession of Faith, is a privilege, even if harmless in this particular case, might be abused as a .precedent .and lead in other quarters and relations to setidus mischief. The Assembly expresses the desire that these min-i isters may soon be able to embraoe our standards without reservation, and that .in case, the Presbytery of Bethel is hereby authorized to ratify the union without farther application 4o this Body, bnt in the event that the Independent ministers and churches cannot relinquish their peculiarities with a good conscience, this. Assembly will cheerish them in the bonds of Christian love, but cannot see its way cled'r to embraoe them in the same denomination. Dr. Leland would occupy a little timein explaining: Nearly fifty years ago, W. C. Davis, of Sonth Carolina, thought he had fonnd ont some new ex planations or me uospei. These be published in a book entitled "The Qoapel Plan." It was charged that the book taught error; and in process of time it came up before the Assembly and was examined. At this point, the honr of adjournment was announced, and the Assembly adjourned, Dr. Leland having the floor. Closed with prayer. ' 8j o'ctocf, P. M. The unfinished business of the.morning was resumed. Dr. Leland regarded this matter as important, and he would be brief. In the rangrfof the Bethel Presbytery are some nine or ten cbnrohee of Independents, and some four ministers holding about the same views as ourselves, and they are aeeirous to unite with us. When W. C. Davis' book was examined, by the Assembly; it was condemned for holding certain errors: e. g. that the active obedience of Christ has no justifying efficacy; that the first act of faith has so holiness in it; that man, by nature, is not a anbjeot of moral law, etc. Mr. Davis was ? arraigned by his Presbytery and saw {bat he was likely to be condemned, ana alLat onoe he discovered that Presbyterianlsm waa all wrong and Independency right. He took no preachers with bim, yet, in a short time, he was snrronnded by ministers and licentiates, and the ohnrobes that Want off with Davis. For a considerable time there baa been a strong desire to unite with us, yet their ministers wish to make.a proviso that while they receive oar standards they have leave to preach Davis' peculiar doctrines, it was not so with the people. He hoped the report would pass. W. J. MoCormiok wes sorwto hear the history of that people brought np. these people ignored the past. Their Confession had been improved three or four times and now very much alike, indeed almost identical with our own. The difficulty, be thought, laid in regard to their request to preach these peculiar doctrines alluded to, bat regard should be bad to their explanations of these doctrines. 7 Oar Presbytery, after a careful and long examination came yery cordially and entirely to the conclusion which the presbytery has Qpread.befeft the Assembly. He thought this should have some weight. The discussion was arrested, as the hoar for the election of Directors for the Western Theological Seminary had arrived. * * * * * * . * . The discussion was resumed by Mr. McCormick. mi J?I? -M? '? - mere waa t?:i luieuae ueejre on ooia Biues jor m Union, and the Presbytery had entire unanimity, yet he would bow to the Assembly, whatever be its decision. God's Spirit he felt was here. Dr. Thornwell?This is a perplexing case. The' Presbytery deelare the churches orthodox, and yet they olaim the right to teaeh three articles of faith entirely at varianoe with onr standards. The design of the Overture was not to interrupt the harmony existing between the parties, and yet not compromise onr doctrines. The idea contemplated in the Overture is as little as we could do and yet as much as we could do. He was acquainted with the chnrches and thought them In the main sound, and in regard to the ordination of their ministers, it is regular and Presbyterian. Dr. Breckinridge was willing to take all the churches, let the ministers do as they might, if they agreed to onr doctrines. The foarteen churobes ought not to be confounded with three or four ministers. He was willing to take all on the terms of the report on the Overture; on their own explanations of their.doctrines, none. Mr. Leland thought that anything looking like a separation of those churches from their ministers was a thing to be deprecated. The report on the Overture was adopted unanimously.'' Weather, Crop* 4ff An official letter from Cape de Verde, says that the crops, though not abundant, are sufficient to keep the people from aotual Want,. More than twenty thousand of the inhabitants, in-lhe Islands of Archipelago have falhia victims to the cholera. "Our informant" says that while ho' was at the house of Be F. C. Jeter, in Union District near Qosben Hill, j Thursday last, about 3 o'olook, p, m., a very heavy hail storm cams on and prevailed for near a half hour, "more of leas" completely riddling and raining the cotton crops in Its course. It seemed to range nearly parallel with Broad river, as be thought; from wkjeh fortunate circumstances, it is not apprehended', that, any person in this District suffered from 1ft lavages,? Not so however, in another case, which happened on the same day, and abeot the mum time, to wit : In the upper part of this. Dietripfc, a tremendous storm ppsscd on a line nearly parallel the ligp between this and York District, beginning about T.nvi q' Turn Onf. nn H AMaetna fit a t>whn at Lannier'a Ferry. The most serious sufferers from this storm we have beard of, are Messrs. Dr. Wade Douglass, Win. Coirear, Josiah Jordan and James MoFadden, each of whom !?* lost nearly, if not quite, his, whole cotton and wheat crops. The range, of this storm was at a right angle to that in Union, and about two miles from, and parallel to that whieh we gave an account of some two weeks ago. Who can give a reason for this '.?Chttter Standard. The wheat crop is very line, even from much of the worn out land large yields of wheat will repay the husbandman for his toil, If no disaster befalls the crop. In many places the wheat is already turning, andyill soon be {eady tor the afptie. To this Distriot a good orop of wheat wiU beaded send, for from a? quarters we hear the