Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 27, 1857, Image 2
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' 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
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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..
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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
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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
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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