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j?rra]>$ # Jfarls. ' Never run in debt, unless you see a way to get out again. A story is told of the revenge taken by a Nantucket shipmaster against a United States Consul who was very rarely to be found in his office, although upon his sign were the words, "In from 10 to 1." The indignant captain, after trying to find the Consul several days without success, took a paint brush and altered the official's sign so that it read, "ten to one he is not in." The New York Herald records the arrest of the bar-keeper of the Howard Hotel, on a charge of embezzling 820,000 from his employer, having abstracted about 820 per day from the drawer for seven years before he was detected. His wages were only 825 per month, and yet he kept fast women, fast horses, owned a fine house on Thompson ? * .1 street, and dressed extravagantly. The last mail from Carthagena brought an address to the public from Sauta Anna, in which he pronounces the manifesto recently published over his name a forgery, which, he has reason to believe, was got up and printed at Havana. He states that he has not yet been able to publish the promised history of his deeds to his countrymen, because there are some data which have yet to eome into his hands. Gov. Walker's official correspondence oontains a defence against the charge of the South, declaring that he never proposed to make suggestions to the Convention, and stating that while the South has charged him with the intention of admitting abolitionist vagrauts as voters, the Black Bepublicans have oharged him with the desire of bringing thousands of Missourians into the Territory to settle the contest. Husbands are frequently sold, but not always after this style. Charles Schroder was arrested in Lancaster, Pa., last week, on the complaint of his first wife, for having married a second. He was lodged in jail, and in the meantime, Louise, his first wife, saw itlina, the second, agreed npon receiving from her six dollars, current money, to let her have the husband and not appear as a witness. The "six dollar" husband was accordingly discharged. It appears from a report which is in circulation that it is very unpleasant to be born in a certain house in Chester co., Pa. Since the year 1794 there have been five executions for capital offences in the county. Edward Williams, who was hanged in 1830, and George Pharaoh, who was executed in 1851, were both born in a house which stands abont a mile from West Chester. Ingram, who was recently hanged in Illinois for the murder of his wife, also first saw the light in this same unlucky house. The best abused man in the country is the Hon. James B. Clay, sou of Henry Clay, and the newly elected Representative to the next Congress from the Ashland district.? The opposition journals all over the country are hurling at him their bitterest anathemas. j They denounce him as the degenerate son of the great old Whig leader, and a base apostate from the faith of his futher. Nor i9 he alone the subject of their abuse. Thev nrn ... nmidi mmi i h.n' Wp againft tile uisuiui tu?t eiecicu iiiui. Being oat ia the country we had not the pleasure of hearing the temperance ad-1 dress of Prof. Carlisle. A gentleman of in-1 telligence told us that he had heard Gen. ! Carey, Judge O'Neall, and other temperance lecturers, but never anything of the kind to equal this in chasteness and impressiveness. It was addressed principally to the young men. At the conclusion of the address some thirty signatures were added to the list, and reorganiied the old State Society, before which there will be delivered a monthly address.? TTiH?s&oro' Register. The late news from England giving an account of Mr. Ten Brock's horses, Prior and Prioress, losing the Goodwood Cup, has caused quite a stir among the sporting gentlemen, many of whom profess to be in the confidence of the owner of these great racers, and declare that it was not designed that they should take this cup?but by a little jockeying to make it upon the next stakes. Both horses had made better time than won the cup. Why they fell back in the race, is a matter of conjecture. Those feeling an interest in the matter, must "wait for the wagon." The next report may tell the tale. A postal convention has been concluded between the United States and Hamburg. The mails are to be exchanged by means of the United States or Hamburg mail steamers running direct between New York and Hamburg. The postage between the United States and Hamburg under this arrangement is ten cents the single letter of half an ounce in weight or under, prepayment optional, and two cents on newspapers, pre-payment required. The rates to all countries and places beyond Hamburg, whether upon letters or printed matter, are identical ly tne same in all respects as the rates charged via Bremen, under the United States and Bremen postal convention. A gentleman of Cincinnati states that Nicholas Longworth, who was, in his native State, a shoemaker, practiced law on his removal to that city during the years between 1804 and 1820. He once received as a legal fee for defending a horse thief, two second copper stills. The gentleman who had them in possession refused to give them up, but proposed to Mr. Longworth to give him a lot of thirty-three acres on Western Row, so called, in lieu of them?a proposal, which the latter, whose sanguine opinions of the value of such property were ahead pf his time, gladly accepted. This transaction formed the basis of an immense fortune, the naked ground being now worth over twer millions of dollars The New York Evening Post, in paying its respects to the late Southern Convention, held at Knozville, takes - occasion to say that "the deliberations of Southern Convention of late years have been regarded by sensible men with pretty mack the degree and kind of interest that the bystanders feel in contemplating miscellaneous dog-fights in a country village. No one cares who owns the dogs, nor what provoked the quarrel.? The interest consists simply in watching the fluctuations of the struggle, and in seeing the combatants roll over each other in the dirt; it ceases the moment they are separated." As the editor may well be supposed to draw comparisons from matters with which he is most familiar, his very refined description of the Convention speaks well for his associations and his party. Exquisite dogs! they snarl at the white man, and wag the tail to the negro.?Ckarfciton Stanford. CjreforkMIIe^ram KDITF.T) BY JOHN L. MILLER JOSEPH H. BLACK. YORKVILLE, S. C.. < * *> ? THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1857. PROPAGANDISM--THE TRUE POLICY OF THE SOUTH. So long ns the North seemed guided by reason and her aggressions had not assumed such a maligant type, we of the South were willing to submit to the undisturbed current ot events, and permit slavery to propagate by its own expansive power or subside from .its own impotence. But the character of the crusade against our peculiar institution is such, that we can no longer with safety to ourselves, with a due sense of our honor and our rights, or with an eye to our paramount interest remain quiescent, and permit the issue to be determined against us by the fanatical encroachments of freesoilism. Opposition and persistent wrongs have induced us to investigate the question of slavery in its moral and economical aspects, and from that investigation we have been led to regard it a blessing and not a curse, an institution of heaven for wise purposes, and the just gradation of the races by which no oppression is felt by the subjugated, and no natural law violated by the dominant caste. And if we expect to secure permanency to an institution, and an order of civilization which we think arc best calculated to develope all the resources of the South, physical and mental, we must adopt a new policy?that of propagandism. Instead of waiting for the slow and strongly resisted spread of oar civilization, we must thrust it out into the wildernesses of the West and South-West, and where the fertile prairies spread beneath a burning sun, send that species of labor which alone can make them the garden spots of the world. Imagine n solid wealth and a splendid civilization supplanting the primeval forests and dotting with churches, schools and towns, the broad savannahs of the South West. Where the buffalo now roams, and the ill-fated Indian is unmolested in his barbarous rites, will spread like a wreath of snow the whitening cotton fields and be heard the careless corn-song of the happy negro. The glowing sun which euervutcs the Caucasian will be his strength, nndthe poisonous malaria which blasts the white man, will pass him by uninjured. Such will be the desirable result if we can succeed in establishing our institution in those rich domains, so well adapted to it from climate and from situation. .But unless we take this course, or adopt some new policy, what will be the consequence? The selfishness and fanaticism of freesoilism will leud it to appropriate n magnificent country which it cannot develope, while the outward pressure on our stationary civilization will cause its decay and ultimate destruction. What else can be the result when deprived of the power of resistance, and its vital energy weakened by exclusion from new fields of enterprise and the prospect of more glorious triumphs ? The lessons of history teach unmistakeably this fact?that a civilization canuot remain stationary. It must proceed to fresh victories or decay from the want of stimulus and enthusiasm. It is needless to refer to the civilization of the Mussulman, gradually perishing as it lost the spirit of proselytism, to the older systems of the East, to the Grecian and Roman, and likewise to the Feudal which rose upon their ruins.? The moment they became stationery, the vivifying principle appeared lost and they again relapsed into the darkness from which they originated. JJUI u<78~Ta fmTTuTOTJ ul jTfnpn'gilTillTs'ui "TJ" tie: putin operation? How with a restriction on the slave-trade, and a large majority in Congress opposed to the removnl of that restriction, can we plant our institutions in the western wildernesses, before the influx of emigrants inimical to our civilization shall virtually exclude us forever from that fertile land ? There is but one avenue open to the South. Let her unite and test the inclina tion of the North to do us justice in the Union, by bringing up the question in a definite shape, and with the clear understanding that South of the Mason & Dixon Line, the territory is to be forever open to Southern slaves, or else the Union is dissolved. This will of course, do away with many fine spun theories, but it will place the South in an attitude of defence where chicanery and duplicity cannot reach her. And there will be no injustice done to cither section of the Union, because Northern emigrants have a wide territory open to them and let them occupy it, while to the South, the South-West justly belongs. There will be no room for evasion on this platform. If the North desires a continuation of the Union she would accede to the proposal, restore the lost equilibrium, and give peace once more to the country. If she does not desire to preserve the Unicn, it shows a mean and craven spirit in us to cherish longer the fatal alliance. There could be no doubt as to the result of such & decisive course. The North would refuse to comply with our reasonable demauds, and by that refusal, let us understand that the warfare on slavery is to be persistent and unflinching. Our only hope would then be disuuion. But we arc told that this is ultraism. Is it not in reality the true and the only conservatism for the South ? Is xtnot even desirable, when we look at the complicated interests and permanent antagonism between the North and the South ? This seems to be the growing opinion with the South even while she clings with faint hopes to the democratic party.? To this result the Knoxville Convention, in which the real sentiments of the Southern people may be supposed to have centered, seemed to look. Iu the able speech of Mr. Bryan on recalling the American squadron from the African coast, he uses the following significant langnage :? "Thus, with the Northern majority, with British influence to back it, irretrievably opposed to every measure beneficial to the South, nothing more is to be hoped for, during the continuance of tho Union, than the formation of a Southern party, the propagation of a sound and enlightened Southern opinion, and the preparation of the Southern inind for those issues necessarily resulting from such a coalition." Looking to the same issue, the President of the Convention, Prof. DjjBow, uses the following language in relation to the rights and resources of the South: Therefore, without discouragement should the Southern Convention continue its appeals, teaching the people? 1. That they have rights more to be valued and defended than any theories or sentiments about Union and a thousand times more important, because involving everything for which Government or Union is at all to be valued. 2. That they have resources, which, though adequate to render them an important member of the Federal Union, are at the same time sufficient to enable them to exist without that Union, and to maintain the rank of a first class power whenever it shall be deemed necessary, and that it is the duty of the people of the South to develop these resources, and to increase this sense of independence, security and power, by opening up the avenues of intercommunication, by stimulating agriculture, by promoting commerce, by steamships, and by steam-mills, and more than all of these, by a system of home education, which shall save our children from the poiBon which infects the springs from which they have hitherto been in the habit of drinking. Nor let it be forgotten, that all of the great republics of ancient times were the growth of the South, and went hand in hand with the existence of slave institutions. The Southern slaveholders of Greece and Rome carried the civilization and the arts and the arms of antiquity over the world, and with them all the refined notions of liberty, of law, of public polity and taste which have come down to modern times. The Savior of the world found and left it slaveholding. The ten millions of inhabitants that constitute the present slaveholding States, and the four millions of slaves, make up an aggregate as large as that of Great Britain when she contested the revolution, or struggled against Napoleon and the armies of Europe; it is five times the population of the United Continental Colonies, very nearly equals the strength of Prussia, is three times that of Sweden and Norway, and about the same as Belgium, I'ortugah Hollaud, Denmark, Switzerland and Greece combined, whilst its territory falls little short of that of the whole of Europe, excluding Russia and Turkey. In productive wealth, the means and resources of the South are perhaps not excelled by those of any other nation in the world. With a variety of climates and soils adequate to the production of every article adopted for the necessaries or the luxuries of life, whether in food, clothing, or ornament, and actually producing tho raw materials of them, not only in quantities sufficient for the home consumption, but to constitute in our relations with foreign countries, from three to fourfifths of the whole American commerce; employing the shipping and the merchants of our neighbors feeding their looms aud their spindles, adding wealth and opulence to their marts, and rendering indissolubly connected with us the greatest powers of Europe. It is the cotton bale that makes the treaties of the world, and binds over the nations to keep the peace. No other competitor with us has been able to stand for a moment. ENGLAND IN THE EAST. Never, as at the present time, since the memorable trial of Hastings gathered together the in olliwnnop -wpfllth and henutv of Enaland. and e licited the great speech of Sheridan which no pen could record, and the glowing invectives of Burke clothed in resplendent diction and gorgeous imagery, has India and the East been to the English, and to the world, an object of so much attention and solicitude. That splendid empire founded by the genius of the justly persecuted IIartinos, which has so long poured the riches of the East into the lap of England, is again the scene of commotions nnd attrocities not less dangerous nor less bloody, than when the celebrated Hvn?n Ali threatened to put an end to the English rule, and the harmless Rohillas were inhumanly butchered, their villages plundered and burned, and the if women violated without pity or remorse. That misrule and oppression which awakened almost to a frenzy the virtuous indignation of Burke, thai picture of a great countryjouce proud, independent and gifted with genius and a language whose beanty and flexibility was calculated to subserve all the purposes of poetry and philosophy?of a country venerable from the antiquity of its mosques and the splendour of its priesthood, and tempting from the palatial wealth and the unresisting effeminacy of its inhabitants, by one bold stroke ol unpriuciple policy, subjugated to a trading company, and taxed and plundered with the merciless rapacity of a Jew, might well attract the attention and call forth the anathemas of the humane and philanthropic. Were not that charity spurious which pretends to sympathize with the happy negro of the South, it could find full vent for it; ravings in the English tyranny in the East,and no doubt but that the Burke of to day, could product evidences of misrule and extortion not inferior to the oppression of the Begums or the iuvasion ol Rohilcund. But time will bring around the reversions ol fortune, and when the hour of retribution arrives, terrible the revenge of the injured is sure to be.? The lower their degradation has been, the deeper their infamy, the more abject their*- submission, the greater will be their vengeance and more atrocious their deeds. India, a few months ago, as quiet as the lamb under the shears, is now one scene of commotion. The mysterious cake and the symbolical lotos have spread the flames of re bellion through all that once passive realm. Already the mutineers have reaped a terrible revenge on the F.nglish resident in the revolting dis-I T? r>?llli -C.. m . *- u" refuge in a room; one of them, very young and beautiful, concealed herself under a sofa. The other five were subjected to outrage by the mutinous soldiery, and then beheaded. The blood trickled under the sofa, and the young female concealed there, betrayed herself by uttering a shriek, She was seized and taken to the harem of the King of Delhi. An extra from the Delhi Gazette, gives the following picture of the horrid massacres perpetrated at Delhi: "Give full strength to your imagination?think of everything that is cruel, inhuman, infernal, ami you cannot then conceive anything so diabolical as what these demons in human form have perpetrated. On the 2d we marched from Peniptit to Rnae. At this place some of the poor fugitives from Delhi met with the most barborous treatment. Wc burnt four villages on the road, and hung sever Lnmberhars. One of these wretches had part ot a lady's dress for his kummerbund?he had seized a lady from Delhi, stripped her, violated, and then murdered her in the most cruel manner, first cutting off" her breasts. He said he was sorry he had not an apportunity of doing more than he had done. "Another lady, who had bid herself under a bridge, was treated in the same manner, then hacked to pieces, then her mangled remains thrown ont on the plain. We found a pair of boots, evidently those of a girl six or seven years of age, with feet in them. They had been cut off just above the ankle. We hung many of the villians, and burnt the villages as we came along.? A man who witnessed the last massacre in Delhi, where he had gone as a spy, gives a horrid account of it, stating that little children were thrown up in the nir and caught on the points of the bayonets, or cut, as they were falling, with tulwars." But the English are confident of success and are gloating their imaginations on the prospect of future retribution. A correspondent of the Time? says: " But let it be remembered that the game to be played out at Delhi is one of which it is impossible to over-estimate the value of the stakes, and one, therefore, not to be lightly takeu in hand, nor to be conducted otherwise than in a cautious, if also in an alert and vigorous mood. I have no fear but that the blow will be struck soon enough for the security of the empire. And when the retribution has come, as come it surely will, when the puppet King of Delhi is taken or slain, when the streets of his capital are choked with dead, nnd every English bayonet is bent and bloody with the strife, then you will read the ghastly tale of the attroeities perpetrated in the accursed city, unsurpassed in kind, as will I think appear, by anything recorded iu history of the crudest sack of a captured town, and will rejoice that your murdered countrymen and country-women are fully if fearfully avenged." It is impossible to give all the causes of the mutiny. English papers attribute it to a reactiou in favor of Mahomtnedanism, and to the intrigues of the ex-King of Oude. Of course the blame will be fixed on him, since the English are bound to pay him an annual pension of fifty thousand pou nds, which he will forfeit if the charges are proved against him, and this will not be difficult in a country notorious for chicanery, bribery and subornation. Thus we see Eugland continues the old game inaugurated by Hastings, of deposing at pleasure Indian Princes whose ancestral line is more ancient than the proudest blood of Eugland, and for the pitiful pretext that they still have a little spirit left to feel their degradation, and a spark of ambition to aspire to pristine dignity, a small 8tipened is cut off, and themselves and their sepoys taunted with treason and rebellion. In the same spirit of aggression and rapacity the English are now laboring to establish a permanent foothold in China, to subvert the Celestial empire, and make that great and populous nation a tributary like Bengal, Bombay and Madras, to support the artificial growth and greatness of the Britanic realm. She has secured the connivance of the United States ; Russia is occupied in appropriating a different portion of Asia, and the French arc still employed with the magnificent scheme of Bonaparte, of planting the lilies of France on the eternal pyramids of Egypt. Thus free to act as her ambition diotates, unless checked by the oourage of the Chinese or the rebellion of the sepoys, England ill soon have appropria- i ted the richest moiety of Asia, while protesting j with the United States about the peaceable acqui- | sition of Cuba. It is the glory of the Republican- | isin, that it goes to elevate, not depress, the conqaered. Equalization is its basis, and instead of I oppression and taxation, without representation, i it raises all who can be elevated to the blessings j and immunities of citizenship. For this reason the j United States should no longer hesitate to spread Republicanism and secure the fertile tropical islands, which must else become thp prey of nations whose interest it will be to keep them ignorant and enslaved. - MERE-MENTION. From the last annual report made by the Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the j Diocese of Texas, it appears that there are 535 communicants in Texas. On Wednesday of j last week, a leopard attached to the extensive ! menagerie and circus of Mr. Eldrrd, died within j the enclosure of that establishment nt Baltimore, | and on Friday an Asiatic lioness also died. Both j | animals it few day? previously seemed quite af' flicted, no doubt in consequence of the oppressive heat, the excitement of removal, and long confinement. Both were highly prized animals. The humanizing and restraining influence of the marriage relntion is suggested by a fact reported in the London Time* on the authority of the chaplain of the Surry jail. Of 2,357 prisoners, only | 370 were married men. A lnrge omnibus | depot and stables were burned in New Orleans on ; the night of the 13th. Seventy mules and fonrJ teen omnibuses were destroyed, besides a large amount of feed. Loss, $30.000. The Mattoon (Illinois) (Joztllf, edited by Mr. Vax Dorrs, formerly a Whig, opposes the Black Republican j doctrine of negro equality, political and social, and advocates the re-establishment of slnvery in [ that State instead of such equality. A nervI ous grocer at Newark, N. J., had $040 in bills, ') and fearful of robbers, plaoed it in a measure of ' oats for safe keeping. His horse ntc it by way of dessert with his next meal. An ex-Senator of 1 the Massachusetts legislature has been sent to the 1 House of Correctfbn for drunkenness. In 1852 he was one of the warmest advocates of the Maine I liquor law. A murderess named Charlotte, ' Jokes is now in the prison at Pittsburg, Pa., a waiting public execution. A few days ago her 1 sister wrote to her to send her some money to purI chase a new dress, that she might go to see her ' hung! Consoling, truly. Six thousand cot -r ton looms, it is stated have been stopped in New England, in consequence of tbe high price of coti ton. Hon. Ciias. McBkth and F. D. Richardson of Charleston, are put in nomination for the Mayoralty of Charleston. It is said the estate of the late ex-Governor Sprngue, of Rhode Island, amounts to six millions of dollars. 1 Wm. B. Astok, of New York, pays a tax of $23,1 000; Nicholas Lonowurtii, of Cincinnati, pays ' | $17,000. 1 In 1057, a man was prosecuted in Loudon for ^ I selling coffee, which was just then introduced, as a nuisnnce and prejudice to the neighborhood. The flies are so bad at York, Pa., that they 1 tormented a cow to death, a few days siuce. The Artesian well, at the St. Louis Sugar Refinery, has attained the depth of 2200 feet. It is still progressing at the rate of three to six iuches per day. The city authorities of Keokuk, Iowa, ! search the hotel registers, and when they find a 1 stranger has passed thirty days there, they charge ' him two dollars for street improvements. The workmen engaged in boring an artesian well in Stryker, a village about 00 miles from Toledo, : Ohio, found a pure diamond last week, at a depth ! of about 100 feet. Tlie diamond is of the size of " nn ordinary marble, and worth at least $l,UUU. ' Svdxky Smith once commenced a charity sermon by saying, "Benevolence is a sentiment common to human nature. A neversees B in distress without wishing C to relieve him." The Branch Railroad from Little Rock to Memphis, has secured 89,200 acres of land, under the act of Congress, and the Cairo and Fulton road, a total ot 1,125,000 acres. The main trunk traverses Arkansas from southwest to northwest, diagonally. and is 301 miles long in Arkansas, and 771 miles in Tennessee. TheCharlotte Whig learns that a few days ago the people of the coun' ty of Rutherford refused to sanction a subscription of $100,000 to the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railroad. The vote was: for sub SCripilPu, DO? . uit?niwjori ity against it 112. A man in tlie qniet city ' of Boston keeps a drinking shop and a coffin warehouse in the same building, and the customers of the different establishments are frequently seen leaving the building together. The girls of Northampton have been sending a bachelor editor a bouquet of tanzy and wormwood. The wretched individual says hedon't care ; it's sweeter than matrimony, anyhow. The actual number of men conveyed to Nicarrua from the State of California to the flag of General Walker during the last two years, as shown by the books of the old Accessory Transit Company of Cuarlp.s Morgan & Sons, were no less than 7,000 men shipped up the San Juan river, and 3,600 received from California. Mr. Bostwjck, late Secretary of State to Gen. Walker, says that he can prove by documentary evidence that no less than 5,700 filibusters have found their graves in Nicaragua. The Carolinian learns that President Buchanan will make no more foreign appointments till Congress convenes. The same paper says that the friends of Hon. John S. Preston have urged his claims for the mission to Russia. The fifty-sixth signer of the Declaration of Independence died just fifty-six years after signing it. The receipts of wheat at Wilmington, over the North Carolina and Wilmington Railroad, had reached, on Saturday of last weok, 20,000 bushels, since the new crop began to come in. The New Bedford Mercury says there were 2,000,000 pounds of whalebone in the United States when the hoop fashion came in vogue, and this was selling at about 60 cents per pound. Since January 1st, 1857, the imports of this article reach 1,800,000 pounds; yet there is now little or no stock in the market. What remained in the sea- j board cities has been nearly all bought up at j $1 20 per pound. The CuroHnian says that the Columbia Mills have advanced the price of osnaburgs to 13 cents, and of yarns to 22 cents per pound. The high price of cotton has rendered this necessary. The amount realized from the sale of tickets in Portland, Me., of Mr. Everett's Oration on the Charactor of Washington, was $331. At Brunswick, the sum roceived was about $550. The first bale of new Cotton was received at Savannah on Wednesday last. It was from the plantation of Mr. Allen Gibson, of Marion County, Fla. The first bale was received at Savannah, last year, on the 1st of August. The editor of the Selma Sentinel has been shown a silver shekel, which was struok in a mint of Judea 1750 years ago. The coin which is the property of an Israelite living in Selma, in whose family it has been 500 years, is about the size of ! a half dollar, but the silver is so impure that its intrinsic value is but fifteen cents. Bennett says the efforts made in the Knoxville Convention > to exclude the reporters of the Northern press, | and understood to be specially directed against the New York Herald, show how little gratitude he receives for his "endeavors to protect the people of the South from the delusions attempted to be practiced upon theml The Columbus Sun in a paragraph says: "Let the first thing you look at when taking up a newspaper, be the new advertisements. They are inserted for your information and accommodation, and 70a ought to ap preciate the kindness of the advertiser by reading his advertisement. Clarksville, Va., experienced a severe fire on the.morning of the 18th inst. Ten storehouses, comprising half the business portion of the town, were destroyed. The Black Republicans of Wisconsin held a convention, to which negroes were not admitted. Thereupon the negroes, who had been stolen from the South, called a separate convention. Several of the Abolition politicians tried to get into this last convention, but Cuffee refused. . ... ... .. .. SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. We have hitherto said but little on the College question, as our district has never patronized this institution to any great extent, aud consequently, it was not a matter likely to interest our readers. But now, since the storni has somewhat abated, a calm view of the present state and future prospects of the College will not be inappropriate. It becomes a matter of more special interest, since it it will devolve on the Legislature to remodel or reorganize the institution; and from the determined opposition on the part of some, it is not improbable that there will be in the Legislature, a party ready to dismantle it altogether. But the College is too closely associated witti toe great ana glorious names in our history, to be put idly by like a worthless garment. No one can tell the strength and intensity of the affection for that spot where the plastic mind was moulded, and the young aspirations first fonnd gratification in the richest lore of congenial though departed spirits. There is no stronger link binding the human heart. Its alumni, howerer much they may now cavil, will rally to a man in its defence, with the first note that threatens its ruin. Nor can we think that a very strong party can be brought to contemplate such a measure as the final dissolution of the College. An ornament to the State, notwithstanding its mismanagement?wisely and judiciously organized it may become a source of pride. The difficulties which have embarrassed the institution are not remediless, and though it may require & radical change, there is nothing in such alternative to mako us desire its destruction. The question now before the people of 8. Carolina, is, shall the University, instead of the College system, be adopted ! The relative merits of the two systems require a more elaborate comment than we can at present give. But whether there be a radical change or not in the system of studies, there must be a thorough reform in the method of government. There is no one branch of education more essential to youth than learning tc obey, for he who never learned this important les - ^+/-? AAmTnnnr] Tin! son, vur uc?cr uc i|umiiau w vumiuuuu. this truth has heretofore been ignored, and experience shows that perpetual disturbances is the consequence. We think that our Legislator? should give the entire question a thorough investigation, and adopt some plan which will secure rigid discipline and permanent tranquility in the future. Neither the President, Professors noi Trustees, are so much to blame as the Legislature, which should, ere now, have elaborated s more perfect system, and by this means avoided the recent suspension and disgraceful insubordin ation of the students. For years past these re suits have been brewing, and a permanent refor mation should long since have placed the Collcg* on a firm basis, and inaugurated an era of success and prosperity. WESTERN EMIGRATION, From a glance at our advertisements it will b< seen that there is now a large qunntity of-land foi sale in our district. The mania for moving Wesl has nevar been greater, although the crops promiso tn be abundant and provisions plenty. Tr those desirous of developing the resources of the State, this tide of emigration presents a picture altogether disagreeable. Its direct effect on the State will be, to retard the progress of that agricultural reform, which has been in agitation foi the last few years. And it is questionable whether those emigrating will better much their condition. There aro difficulties te be met, privations to he suffered, and isks to be run, which should make men hesitate, ere they break up the associations of life, and go forth to tabernacle among strangers in a strange land. A mistaken view of the nature of wealth and the true objects of life, wo imagine, influences many of those who are leaving forever the land of their nativity. A man who has the comforts and conveniences of life around him here, is much richer than any one can possibly be in the far West, no matter what may be his resources. For money is not wealth, any farther than it is the synonyme of all th&t is desirable or all that renders us happy. And there are many pleasures here which money cannot purchase in the West. Years must elapse before social life can be fully developed, before convenient churches can be built, good teachers and good academies be procured, and all the appliances to make men moral, happy and intelligent, be put in operation. Nor should it be imagined that fortunes are to be made in the West by any new and simple process. Industry and economy are the only honest paths to affluence. Circumstances may be favorable, but these qualities are indispensable requisites. The same negligence or indolence which has prevented them from securing an independence here, must wherever they go operate against them. But let it not be inferred that we would check altogether the spirit of emigration. There are many in the older States who have no strong ties to bind them, no comforts to leave behind, no associations to make them cling to any particular spot of earth and repeat, with the fervor of Scott, ' This is my own?my native land." To such the West proffers strong inducements. The cheapness of the land will enable them to secure homesteads with very limited means. To this class we would say, go. With industry aud economy you bail SUUU gtttu bUO giviiuuo J/Uiii^v v* illdependent," for which the haplesa bard of Scotia vainly sighed. On our first page will be found an instructive article on this subject. PARSON BROWJILOW, At the late session of the Southern Commercial Convention, nt Kuoxville, Tenu., a discussion arose as to the propriety of admitting the reporters of some of the Northern papers. The editor of the Fairfield Register, who was present, gives the subjoined synopsis of the remarks made on that occasion by the "fighting Parson," W. G? Browxlow, Esq., editor of the Knoxville Whig: "lie (Brownlow) was in favor of admitting any and all reportors. If his satanic majesty were to send a reporter from the infernal regions, with red and inflamed eyes, aud scorched whiskers, and with the odor of brimstone about him, let him be admitted. We, of the South, fight against principalities aud powers; and the wicked spirits in the high places of this world, with the flesh and the devil. We can outspeak them, and outwrite them, and if necessary, can out whip them. He was for fighting them in the.Union, not out of the Union. He was fur holding on to the pursestrings of the government, the navy and the standing army, and when the time comes for the South to unite as one man, he would know no division, no Whig, no Democrat, no Know Nothing. And when driven to the wall he was for uuiting together against their adversaries, and giving them the d?1 and rubbing it in." THE PALMETTO REGIMENT. We have received the address of Gen. Samuel McGowax, before the Palmetto Association in Columbia. The heroic deeds that immortalized that gallant Regiment form the theme of the Address. Its hardships, chivalric bearing and well-tried heroism are told in a manner worthy of the inspiring subject. The Address will be sold at 25 cents a copy for the benefit of the Association. OUR DAILY EXCHANGES. Our thanks are due to the Charleston Mercury, that able and independent exponent of Southern 1 Rights, for its.kindness in sending us a daily for our weekly exchange. Any commendation of our j able cotemporary from us would seem supererog- ' atory, since it has & national reputation and an ! influence extending throughout the South. We J hope that it may in the future be guided by the same lofty spirit of independence and patriotism which has illustrated it- past career, and that it may be the last star stricken from the diadem of Carolina. To the South Carolinian we are also indebted for its courtesy in sending its daily. It is one of our most valued exchanges, and our sole reliance for the latest news since the Times has cut us off with a Tri-weekly. We have of course no just grounds for asking such a favor, since our weekly sheet cannot be esteemed a quid pro quo for an able daily. THE FAMILY CIRCLE GLEE BOOK. We are indebted to Messrs Adickbs & Co., for - ? ? n-.i* .f iL. a copy or tins most excellent collection ui me popular songs, glees and choruses of the day. It contains over two hundred pieces, welt selected and arranged for the piano, seraphin, and melodeon. Lovers of amateur music will not fail to secure a copy by an early call. Price $1.25. THE RISING SUN. John A. Chapman, Esq., supersedes Jamia M. Crosson in the editorial charge of this paper. A neat And piquant salutatory announces the change, and induces us to hope that in losing an able editor, our cotemporary has found another worthy of his mantle. We gladly welcome him into the fraternity. SUGAR CANE, MILLS AC. From numerous experiments made by farmers in this vicinity, it is generally thought that the Sugar Cane will prove a real blesing to the country. The only difficulty apprehended is the procuring suitable mills for extracting the syrup.? Where can these be procured ? SOMETHING SWEET. The art of refining the Sugar Cane Syrnp has i been attained to perfection by Mr. Dudiy Jones, ) judging from a specimen left at our office. It cannot be excelled by the finest Orleans molasses ; in tho delicacy of its luscious flavor and its bright, - rich amber color. Call and examine it. LAND AC., FOR SALE. Attention is directed to me advertisement 01 Messrs. Grier & Byntjm, Executors of the estate t of A. Hoyl, deceased; also that of Mr. James L. McCarter. , CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. Charleston, August 24,1857. , An election for a representative to fill the un, expired term of J. Charles Blvm, deceased, . commenced this morning. The candidates are Wm. Whalet and Theodore G. Barker, and the L friends of both parties are very active and sani guine. Quite an effort has been made to get up an excitement, but it has been, in a great measure, a failure, as the very small vote of to-day very clearly indicates. Great efforts were made by , the friends of Barker to make it appear that i Whalet had been a Whig, and ar letter was paraded before the public, and published in all the city papers at five cents a line, which was purported to have been written by Mr. Wiialet to Judge , Mao rath, in which he declared himself in favor . of the Cincinnati Convention, but it was all no go, t and Barker will evidently be beaten notwithstanding he was too young to have any antecedents, , either good or bad. There was only 766 votes , polled up to twelve o'clock to-day; they may be , holding back for a demonstration to-morrow. , There was a free fight yesterday afternoon at , the ferry boat wharf on Sullivan's Island that . would have done honor to the days of knight er. rantry, or the more daring spirit of modern chivalry. It commenced just as the last boat was , leaving, and quite a number of persons were eu, gaged in it, both natives and foreigners, and sticks and knives were freely used. One man (a native) , had his head deeply gashed with a piece of timber, , and an Irishman was dangerously stabbed. How the matter will end it is hard to tell, but it is more ? than likely that something serions 'will grow out of it. Matters of this kind do not generally close with the first act, and this will not turn out to be the farce of Hamlet with the part of Hamlet left out. We have had all sorts of weather during the last two weeks?wet and dry, and hot and cool, and still the city remains healthy, and it is now pretty well'established that we are to have no epidemic this full. The merchants are preparing for an extensive fall trade, with a confidence almost amounting to a certainty that they will not be disappointed. The summer absentees will soon begin to re turn, and oar streets will soon be crowded with the busy, bustling, hurrying throng that herald the opening of an active business season. I cannot tell where the fall fashions will be stowed away, as there are about as much hoops and crinoline on King street now as can find room for comfortable and convenient navigation. Mrs. Flora McFlimset with "nothing to wear," will soon be expected on Change, and set the fashionable world in a flutter. The battle for wealth is still being fought with a fierce and unyielding ferocity that knows no cessation, and recognizes the binding obligations of no armistice. We waste our lives and exhaust our energies in a bootless haste to be rich?we devour each other, and grow fiat upon the labors and honest industry of others ; but what avails and what of happiness does it bring us in the end ? Just as we imagine we have reached the base of the rainbow, and are ready to grasp the fabled crock of gold, the fickle phantom ?elades our grasp and flics away at our approach. Just as we are prepared to live, we are called upon to die and leave .all that we hold dear. Yes, the rich must die, and lose in a moment's time the carefully hoarded wealth of a life-time of anxious care and toil?of weary days and sleepless nights. I have been led to this train of reflection by the news of the sudden death of one of our wealthy merchants, whom fortune had favored with an abundance of this world's goods while yet in the prime and vigor cf life, lie had just purchased a princely residence, and was preparing to enjoy life in a style that become his position in the world. But a few days elapsed, and that spendid mansion pctinoH the sounds of wailine. lamentation and wo. That rioh man whom thousands had envied, and sought, with obsequious diligence, to win his smiles and fayor, now lies a cold and emaciated corpse in that very room which he had fitted up and furnished with such care, and where he ex: pectcd to spend a long aud happy life in the society of his friends, and in the many enjoyments which wealth can bestow. But the gay saloons of that stately mansion arc now draped in mourning, and the songs of mirth and rejoicing are changed to the wails of anguish and desolate hearts. The Knoxville Convention is over and the preambles, resolutions and speeches appear very well on paper, but whether they will ever be made available by practical application, is another thing, and amounts to a question which may not bo so easily solved. We are eminently a talking people, and are disposed, too often,to satisfy ourselves with words, and stop short of their practical illustration. We are all convinced of the necessity and importance of a direct line-of European steamers from some Southern Port, and a home literature; and they have both been discussed in all the Commercial Conventions that have ever ass-mbled, anil ye* we have neither, and I fear it will be many a long day before we do, unless we g.) to Work, and prove our faith by our deeds. While we arev talking and debating and disputing among ourselves, the North is up and doingrand that is why they have ever outstripped us in the race of commercial prosperity and national greatness. As the Mayor's election approaches the anxiety and excitement increases, and the friends of the j parties are going to move heaven and earth for the success of their respective candidates. It iff thought that Whausy's success for the legislature will foreshadow that of Richardson for the Mayoralty, but if Bakker should win the day, Macbeth may be the chief executive of the city. The city is burdened with a heavy debt* and the taxes must be kept up to their present rates for sfrtfral years to come, let who will be Mayor. But when her railroad dividends begin to come in, she may be able to take some of the burdens off tbe people. Mayor Milks has spent a good deal of money, but he lias done more for the city than any other Mayor ever did. -. MAGNOLIA. A Banter for John Bull?9100.000 The Savannah Georgian, of Monday, makes a banter to John Bull, **asfs a banter." That paper says that the excitement among the lovera of tbe Turf, has attained to such a pitch in Savannah, since the result of the Goodwood race has been made known, that they have determined to get np a match race between the United States and 1W. land, to be run in this country, under luch terms of agreement as shall fnlly test the'superiority of the horses of the two countries. Says the Georgian : "It was not expected by many that Mr. Ten Broeck's horses would be successful in the Goodwin race, and since thay have been so unfairly weighted in the Handicap races, and there at present seems no probability of inducing any of the owners of English horses to make a match with Mr.' Ten Broeck, we are authorised by responsible gentlemen to make the following challenge?which is open to the world?viz : To run a race of fonr miles and repeat, at such time as mAy be agreed upon, post entries for one Hundred Thousand Dollars aside, the hones to carry weight for age, to be run over the Ten Broeck Courts at this place. : "In order to induce our English friends to accept this banter, we-are authorized to say farther, that in the event they should do so, and lose the race, five per cent npon the money Btaked, or in other words, five thousand dollars will be allowed them to pay the expenses of their horses." The course at Savannah is' considered one amongst, if not the best, in the United States, and if John Bull believes in the superiority of his horses, he will not allow this banter to pass. As the . JJeorgian says, Mr. Ten Broeck has set the English people an example of the confidence of American sportsmen, by going to England without any indoeeuMtiU, and running -his hwuea uudee taauy apparent disadvantages?and now it remains for them to imitate that example. f j ! ^ ? Governor Walker In Georgia. Mr. Howell Cobb, a Delegate from the County of Houston, in the late Georaia Democratic Convention, in a letter addressed to. the Macon Telegraph, defends the Resolutions adopted by the Convention with respect to Governor Walker, and uses the following language: "The Georgia Convention, in view of Mr. Wal-< ker's unjustifiable course, said: And this Convention has full confidence that Mr. Buchanan will manifest his fidelity to the principles which carried him into office, by recalling Governor Walker; there is nothing but what is perfectly reasonable and proper in this. What else could the Convention require ? It could not ask that Governor Walker should ber;iu??f, for rebuke simply would not be adequate to his offence. It could not ask that further instructions should be given Governor Walker, in which he should be directed to abstain, for the fatnre, from interfering in matters over which the Convention of Kansas alone bad control, for that would not remedy a past injustice. But above all, it would have been criminal in the Convention of Georgia to have asked less (and it wonld be criminal in Democrats everywhere, to be satisfied with less) than Walker's recall. " Will he be recalled f is the momentous question. I do not hesitate to say he will be, he mutt be.? That Mr. Buchanan will permit so gross a violation of the principle of non-intervention to go unpunished, is an unreasonable supposition." A Chance that People May Get Cheated. The Boston Traveler notices the introduction of a new metal, called "Oreide," formed by the combination of several metalic substances, and strikingly resembling gold. It was first produced in Prance, and is brought here under patent. A company in Connecticut are now manufacturing ware from this material. It resembles gold very closely, and much of that which has reoently been sold for gold chased plate, is nothing bqt oreide. The cost of this metal is about eighty cents per ponnd, and yet its appearance is such that it would readily be taken for gold by most casual observers. It is not a pure metal, bqt a oompound of aereral metals, refined to such a degree that it does not easily oxidize or tarnish. These qualities make it a valuable acquisition to the metalic arts. When tested with nitric acid, ebullition takee place, bat no spots remain. This quality, though valuable for utensils, makes it a dangerous metal for dishonest men. It can be nsed in counterfeiting gold ao rapidly, that it will be exceedingly difficult to detect counterfeit from the true coin. When placed side by side with gold, it requires scrutiny to decide which is gold and which oreide. In France a law has already beon passed to prevent frauds by compelling, under severe penalties for neglect, all manufacturers of "oreide" to stamp the word upon the articles produced. I?- Tbe Cincinnati Enquirer, edited by Jndge Walker formerly of the New Orleans press, and a Vlrsrinian by birth, makes the statement with re ference to Mr. Buchanan's relations to Governor Walker, that is sustained by too much other proof, direct and circumstantial, to leave any doubt of its correctness. The Enquim says : "The President assumes bis full share of responsibility for Walker's policy"; and it was notoa his, but on their account, we objected to the course of some of the journals in attacking the Governor and sparing the President It had not the manly bearing which is expected from chivalric gentlemen, and looked too much like servility to power and place for our taste. Now, we happen to know in the most certain and direct manner, that while Mr. Buchanan regrets certain expressions whioh have fallen from Gov. Walker in his speeches, he has not the slightest hesitation in justifying, sustaining and upholding the whole conduct and policy adopted by the Governor in Kansas, and on that ground he and his, friends are ready to do battle against all opposers." Chinese Sugar Cane. Mr. Haltimanger, of Springfield, Ga., sends to the Savnnnrh Netct, an account of his experiment with the Chinese Sugar. The yield of syrup wae about 10 per cent, of the juice. He says as to the result: My seed planted nearly half an acre; no pains had been taken to put the ground in a high state of cultivation, neither was it worked with an eye to a report for the public; and turning out 86 gallons of fine syrup?which was ground and boiled in two days?pays better than any thing I ever planted. The Abbeville Independent Prett says that Mr. Jefferson Douglass, au enterprising farmer of that vicinity, has left at that office quite a beautiful and liberal specimen of molasses made from the Chinese sugar cane grown by him the present year. With the exception of a slight gresnith or /reek taste, it appears to be equal to any article ever tasted. A similar specimen, made by Mr. C. T. Haskell, of same District, was also seen. Mr. D'a crop consists of half an acre only from whioh he confidently expects to make near one hundred gallon? of syrup. Homicide.?A homicide was perpetrated sever* nl days ago in the lower and South-Eastera portion of this District, by one J. D. Blackmon, upon the person of a than named James Honey, originally a North Carolinian. It occurred at the house of said Blackmon, a place of ill repute. Honey attempting to enter the house against the express orders of the proprietor. He was shot with a gun, somewhere about the hip. and lived several days afterwards. Blackmon, and his son, the latter having been present at the fracas, decamped and . have not been arrested. The balance of Blackmon's family?some four females, have been lodged in jail at this place, committed, we have understood, as accessories to the act.?Lancaster Ledger. A "Font" or Ttpe.?As a scrap of information with which few of our readers are acquainted we give the proportion in which they oocur in print Letter e, 1200; a, 850; t, 900; n, o, s, i, 800; h, 640; r, 620; d, 440 ; I, 400; ?, 340; e, m, 300; 1 /, 250; tp, y, 200; g, b, p, 170; e, 120; *, 80; q, 60; J, x, 40; a, 20. 11 Besides these are the combined letters, fi, 50 i /, 40; fl, 20; 15; ffl, 10; 10; a, 6. This refers to the smalt letters only, leaving out poiftts, capitals, small capitals, figures, italics, spaces and