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Straps # | ., . i The cost of the" police of the city of | London daring the last year was ?44,794. ?? The dolumbta Tim?*, of a recent date, j announces the death of Dr. A. Fitch, for j many years a Druggist in Columbia. The Carolinian says: We note the first introduction into this market of the new j sugar cane syrup. Capt. H. C. Davis, of j Fairfield district, has consigned a small quantity?about ten gallons?to Mr. E. Hope. The Carolinian says, under the head of "Geogia and South Carolina united," that by a despatch received on Monday evening last, it is informed of the connection of the Georgia and South Carolina Railroads, by the completion of one of the tracks. The Bishop of London has prepared a ! prayer, to be used by the churches of" his diocese, for the restoration of the "power j and influence of British sway over the less civilized tribes of India." What would the Bishop say if the slave traders were to have similar prayers said before they make a foray upon the "less civilized tribes of Central Af . ft no*. A patent medioine vender of Rochester appeared in the streets of that city in a new and elegant business carriage drawn by a pair of fine elks. The elks, which are swift footed, handsome animals, are entirely tame, and well trained to their work. Although surrounded by a large crowd of gazers, they stood as fearlessly and calmly as a pair of ponies, and started obedient to the wish of their driver, without any baulk or hesitation. The Batavia (N. Y.) Times says that a few days sinec, two men traveling on foot, on the Attica railroad, when within two miles of the village, found ten or fifteen cords of wood, whioh had tumbled over on the track. They went to work cleariug it off, and knowingthat it was about time for the Attica train, one of them went back some distance, and succeeded by swinging a basket in stopping it For this noble act, which probably saved . lives snd property, the Conductor gave them ten cents each, and a ride to town! Henry Porter, U. S. Judge for the District of North Carolina, was appointed a Judge by Jefferson in 1801; was ten years old when the Declaration of Independence was declared; heard General Washington deliver his first message to Congress, and attended his levee, was acquainted with Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, and elder Adams, Charles Carroll of Carrolltou, William Pinckncy, and other distinguished men who figured in the early history of the country, and was for a long time associated with Chief Justice Marshall. Mr. C. C. Bennet, says the Boston Adcertiser, is now visiting Boston, with a view to obtaining subscriptions for a book containing a fac-similie of Washington's account with the United States, kept during the years 1775-83, from the time when he took command of the army at Cambridge to the surrender at Yorktown. Daring this period, as is well known, Washington accepted no compensation for hi9 invaluable services in the public cause; but he kept an exact account of his expenditures, making them alone a charge upon the treasury. This account, of which a fac-simile is eontained in the book before us, occupies sixty-six foolscap pages, and is a model of official neatness. The whole is in Washington's own handwriting. Frequent notes in explanation of particular charges show how scrupulous he was in carrying out the plan he had formed to make no charges upon the public, beyond the amount of his expenses. The aggregate expenditure for the eight years was ?16,311 17s. Id. Of this sum a little more than one-third was paid for household expenses, about one-sixth was spent for secret intelligence, about one-quarter was paid for expenses in recouuoitering and in traveling, sometimes with and sometimes without the army, and the remainder was used to defray charges of a miscellaneous nature. The amount must be regarded as very moderate. The fac-simile is executed in good style, and presents every appearance of being an exact copy of the original account. Those who wish to possess this interesting memorial, now have an opportunity to acauire it at a moderate exnense. ?? r-~r j -- ? | i sugar, though I have no doubt it would ans- j l wer the purpose. My experiments all, I con-, s sider very unfair and imperfect, because I (i have not only labored under the disadvan-1T tage of not having proper vessels for boiling, f but I have myself no experience and but t little knowledge about the process of making j c molasses or sugar ' li ? * 1 Charleston Courier. J. Maxcy Timmons, Esq., has presented to the Darlington District Agricultural Society a report on Sorgho, which appears in the Family Friend of the 26th iust. He describes the result obtained as follows: "Three experiments, with numerous others that Mr. Ward and I have tried, couvince me that at the lowest calculation, taking the cane rs it grows on an average, large and small, it will yield one gallon of juice to ever twenty canes, or five gallons to every hundred canes?and that eight gallons of juice boiled in properly constructed vessels, will yield one gallon of syrup. I have acurately measured the ground, and counted and calculated the cane, so that I am able to lay down the following statistics as reliable. Here I have put the figures lower than in my experimental journal, because I preferred to be on the sure side. I have laid down four feet as the distance apart for i l- .1 l ; . i planting, inougu my uuuuiusiou cow is mat three feet or three and a half at most, is sufficiently wide, which of course would make the yield greater. One acre of land that will yield 15 bushels of corn, will, planted in Chinese Sugar Cane, in drills four feet apart, make 17,500 stalks; twenty canes to the gallon will make 875 gallons of juice; eight gallons of juice to one gallon of syrup will make 8109 3-8 gallons of syrup. This, at only 1 fifty cents a gallon, will make about fifty-fire i' dollars per acre. Besides you then have the J blades and tops for feeding your horses and cows, or the seed for feeding your fowls, all ' of which eat it most greedily. Aside from j making molasses or sugar, it is highly worth 1 the attention of our planters for feeding 1 stock. One acre of land that will make fif- . teen bushels of corn, will yield in Chinese 1 Sugar Cane 17,500 pounds of provender, averaging the cane, after it is cured, at only j j one pound each; then, at only fifty cents per hundred, it is worth eighty seven dollars J and fifty cents per acre. If planted nearer , than four feet, the yield will be greater.? ! ] Besides the cane may be cut down once or j, twice for feeding, in the early part of the , ? year, and then mature more seed. Not be- t incr nrenared for it. I have not trier! to make . \.+.' Ckfakljjlk^npml -I; EDITKT) BY i" JOHN L. MILLEB JOSEPH H. BLACK. I ' - YORKVIL^E, S. C. y THTJESDAY MOBNING, 6EPTEMBEE 3, 1857.J. THE DESTIXY OF SLAVERY. " The Kuoxville Convention agitated the question discussed some time -agn in this State, of exempting from levy and sale, one or more ne groes. The object of such a provision ^Would be ' to disseminnte slavery more generally by offering a strong inducement to every man to become an owner. As a portion of the general* principle of fixing or entailing property, the measure wouldhave an objectionable feature, but as a matter of expediency to meet a temporary crisis, it certain^ ly deserves the serious consideration of the Southern States. The institution of slavery, we are told, was never more permanent tban.at the present time, since the Southern people regard it as sanctioned by heaven as well ns sustained by the true economical principles: but from viewing the question in every shape, we ureinduced to believe that it occupies an equivocal position, i A comprehensive policy on the part of its defenders will enable it to resist the outward pressure which was never so strong as at present, while shortsighted measures or a culpable negligence ..will secure its speedy downfall. The South has never taken a philosophic view of the question. TV'ith characteristic apathy, it was not until recently investigated in a morgl point of view. But there is one aspectin whiohit merits far more consideration thAn it has hitherto received?that is the inherent antagonism between free and'slave lalor. This is the real danger to the South. Politicians who sec only one thing at a time, and that through a glass darkly, imagine that the slavery agitation springs from the morbid sentimentalism of a Wilberforck, turned into capital by shrewd designing men. The danger resulting from such a shallow view is quite apparent. We were lead into the mistaken ifea that it yas^o.*sible to harmonize the free and slavery systems. Intelligence, we were told, was all that was needed to allay the '*fitful fever" of the abolitionists.? Consequently argument, friendly remonstrance and patriotic appeals were resorted to, but all in rain. The silent workings of that deep-soated antagonism has hitherto proved resistless and must continue resistless, so long as we trust '.;o superficial expedients and mistake the true issue. Let it then be clearly understood that the great error into which this radical error has deluded us, is that it is possible to live in the Union without an incessant warfare between the slave and nonslaveholdiug sections. For under this delusion many still wish to preserve the Union, and will talk as eloquently about a compachvhich has survived its ability to be usefal, as the rrincess of fairyland did about the unpoetical Bottom. It is time, however, to look at facts as they arc. The Southern people must choose between two things?the disruption of the union or the restriction and final extinction of slavery. If the now inis umbra can longer hold them spell-bound, then let them relinquish the hope of peace and quiet until slavery is restricted to such narrow bounds, that it ceases to be profitable, and losing all inherent power of resistance, falls from its own impotence. Out of the Union we could preserve slAvery?in the Union we cannot. Once free to adopt our own internal police system, and to reg- i ulate slavery, we could organize the institution | upon more humane principles, and fix it upou a i firmer basis. Then the exemption of one or two | slaves from levy or sale, united with a judicious homestead law, would form one of the mo9t dc- j sirable phases of Agrarianism. It would aot as t sr. admirable antidote to that antagonism between | labor and capital, which, though scarcely felt ] under our more genial civilization,'grinds into the < dust the hireling where slavery exists in its most odious form, under the euphonious misnomer of ( free-labor. . t wm ? I CONSERVATISM. , There arc some terms, which, from their liabili- j tv to abuse, should never he introduced into our political vocabulary. In fact, the meaning of all ( terms used to designate parties and party-policy must ever be changing and fluctuating. It is the great danger of pinning our faith to any party, that its policy will change while the name under which it won favor and triumphed, remains the 1 same. Such for instance is the democratic party. 1 We once rightly looked to it as the safe-guard of 'i American freedom and the bulwark of the consti- i tution. We of the South and of South Carolina, 4 most especially, almost idolized it, because we esteemed it the great barrier to consolidationism and all its attendant evils. We wondered how any one at the South could affiliate with the Whigs, when their avowed principles would manifestly place the rights of the Southern people?already in a minority?at the disposal of a majority ; indeed with a lasting antipathy for the institutions aud the free-trade proclivities of that section.? And did we not know the power of prestige and 1 the deception in names, we would have regarded ? it altogether an inexplicable mystery. But that party had adopted a historic name, baptized in the best blood of heroes and endeared by association with all that was great or splendid in the past. Many who could not discriminate between the tendencies of the two policies professed to be Whigs, because that had been the title of heroes and heroic statesmen. And thus for a time, a party decidedly anti-republican in its tendency was popularly supported, and what is far more surprising, supported at the South, when the success of its 8 principles would have been fatal to the patent interests of that section. Ultimately, when the de oeptivo charm of a name wore off, and partisan ( warmth subsided into sober reason, the Democrat- o ic party triumphed. J All men capable of understanding the simplest L proposition, knew that a strict construction of the v constitution?the basis upon which the party was j: bottomed?was unexceptionable, and the only bar- s rier to the innovations and extravagances which I has hitherto ruined all our republican precursors, t With this avowed principle it triumphed, but so f uncertain is the landmarks of party organiza- t tions, that it would be difficult to show wherein c that party differs practically from the old line f Whigs. Here then we see an illustration of the proposition we advanced, that all terms designa- ii ting parties are liable to be perverted by the im- ti perceptible transition of the parting from one tl platform to another. But how much more liable a to abuse is such a term as conservatism, when it is V impossible to define and apply it satisfactorily to t; my proposition. To us of the South, conserva- T tism would signify a restoration of the last equi- f< librium between the North and the South. In j is New York it will have a meaning altogether dif- n ferent. It resembles a garment worn by connoijeurs in the art of dress and known under the op- j probrious title of turncoat, which has different j lides to suit different tastes. It is a convenient | b subterfuge for that intangible class of politicians j ti iround whom the nebulte of undefined proposi- r( ions and theories float in eternal chaos. If it tt neans anything it is something that no oneunder- w itands, and consequently, no one can affirm that pi t is not perfectly good. It is an euphemious term | st vhich tickles the poular ear, and serves as a cloak 1 bi or pretentious mediocrity. Let the South then ! rc le ware of the boasted conservatism of the Dem-; w icr&tio Party for it is a turncoat that suits both j a? atitudw. ' y >. RUSSELL'S MAGAZINE/, We have received the September numberof this; new Southern Monthly, and tBe promptitude with wilich it makes its periodical visits, is not its least attractive feature. Tn this respect it takes thevl lead of all its precursors at the South. The' energy displayed by its editors must, we Relieve, se-cure it success. The number before us presents | an agreeable variety of nil that constitutes literature "from grave to gay, from lively to severe." k uThr Katun and Claim* of I lit Paradox" is in- ' geniously illustrated, while at the same time, the author offers some justifying arguments for this mode of thinking. Especially do we approve of hirrcference (o political coasistency, and the ab-' surdity of thnt public, which supposes that a change of opinion must necessarily imply a want of firmness or love of truth. We see in the every day affairs of life, how often we are influenced by j circumstance?, and forced to act contrary to our i actual inclinations by the pressure of nnlooked j for contingencies; but, how much more imperious- j ly is the statesman swayed when the interests of j his country and perhaps of the world are at stake; 4 and he is compelled to choose, not in accordance with his abstract principles, but often to adopt a i policy, as the least of two evils, which appears to j run counterto his most cherished theories. But j so inconsistent is the mass of mankind, .that while j they profesB n reverence for truth and a holy hor^ ; ror atduplicity, they convert the truth into.a lie by ) an absurd attempt to appear consistent and act oat practically, a most dangerous deceit, by placing themselves in the position that they believe what they do not believe. The article 011 the 'Paradox " suggests several other points worthy of consideration, but we have only time for a cursory glance. . ^ ' ... ' H'hm I bade thee adiru" is a song, telliug the I old, old story of love changeless in absence, and only brightened by the temptations which has ; assailed it, when the eyes of beauty sought to daz- i zle, and the blandishments of youth or wealth ] strove to fetter the heart. When will love cease j to be the inspiration of the poet, or the world I weary of listening to the over-varying, yet really j identical tale ? Truly said Keats, "The poetry j of earth is never dead," for while the heart pul- j sates with the purple tide of life ; while the soul has aspirations for the good, the beautiful or true ; while the dew-drop hangs upon the rose or stile I more lovely, the bright eye-drop suffuses the blushing cheek of beauty; while there is sympathy for the miserable, appreciation of the virtues or emulation of the good; while, in short, the heart knows the- trick of love and thrills responsive to some kindred throb, will men think, feel ! and act poetry, however, they may preter.d to des- ! pise itsetherial purity, or seek to ignore its divine afflatus. ' - 14 E*teovrt" in the present number, wssumes a more attractive garb, and in the scene of the 41 Rivals," there is a striking exhibition of a rare j and valuable talent, the ability to clothe virtuous ! and elevated feelings in a garb so attractive, that ( the reader feels as if he would willingly sacrifice ! all baser pleasures for the superior bliss of an approving conscience. This should more fre- | quently be the aim of the novelist and the poet. A man of ordinary capacity may feel strongly and portray vividly the commonest emotions, but it should be the aim of the writer to teach men to feel the elevated emotions which refinement, virtue and purity awaken and which many a grovelling mortal never knows. In the European Correspondence, wo find no little valuable information, matters of fact knowledge, which letter writers too frequently overlook for more elegant trifles that they might have written at home without the trouble of traveling so fur. "A few thoughts on Southern Civilization" is Mill continued and this?the third number?pleases is much better than its predecessors, its it seems more logical nnd more definite.. We have thus instily glanced at the few articles.we have found ;ime to read. 44 The Editor * Table" is .an agreeable melange >f the raciest tit-bits of the current nterature>? kltogether* we would commend the presenfnum)cr of Russell to our readers, and those of them, vho have not yet subscribed, should no longer lesitate, as it is now a permanent '.'institution" mil they are lotting much who sure their three dol-. us. PERSONAL. Due-West, S. C.. August 20, 1857. Messrs. Editors:?Enclosed you have two dolars, the subscription price of the Enquirer. I vns much surprised at the want of common couresy and disregard of justioe, in the editorial alusion to the Faculty of Erskine College in last reek's paper. You will confer a favor by disconinuing the visits of the Enquirer to me at your larliest convenience. Yours. , Such petty spite as the above evidences, always >ears with it, its own condemnation. It was ob'ions from our article that we cherished the warmist affection for our alma mater, and only sought o promote her interests. A polite intimation ] hat we had been misinformed would have elicited ' m ample apology. On account of the deep in- ( erest manifested for the welfare of Erskine, we i night have beeu excused a momeuts indignation | it what we deemed a suicidal policy. Such a \ eeling, if uot a virtue, must be to virtue closely , illicd. But the littleness of the anger expressed ( n the ahovojnote is only surpassed by thecontempible insignificance ofthe revenge. He would inform ] he courteous author thatour voice will not be sti- j led, in the least, by thecomplimentary style of his j lommunication, and when the occasion presents < tself, we will continue to perform, what we be- < IVTC iu ut tuc uui; vi Up puutiv jvutuanni, uuu earlessly attack the " high places " of prejudice ,nd error. KANSAS. We have before us two letters from distinguished Carolinians, who have visited Kansas, on the sitution of affairs in that territory. Tho Hon. Jos. L Woodward says that the pro-slavery cause is lopelessly lost, though at the same time he somerhnt paradoxically asserts that the Republican iarty will not go to the polls, and in this manner offer by default, the pro-slavery to out-vote them, le thinks there is a "wheel within a wheel" or hat they have ulterior aims which have not been ully developed, but are fraught with dire evils o the South. The letter seems to be carefully onned, though the reasoning seems somewhat inciful. Gen. Gaduerrt writes what may be construed ato a direct contradiction or incidental confirmaion of Hon. J. A. Woodward's letter. He says he pro-Blavery party will triumph and will send pro-slavery constitution to Congress. Ho thinks Waller must finally side with the Southern parp. Which of those two are right we canuot say. 'ime alone can solve the problem when once the i stters of party are coiled around a people. We 1 ill publish the letter of Gen. Gadberry in our n i * . Is FOREIGN ITEMS. j e The great enterprise of laying a telegraphic ca- ! a le across the Atlantic has been temporarily frus- 11 ated by the breaking of the cable. The squad- J a )n had returned to Plymouth to consult as to fa- o ire operations. It is generally thought that they I C ill renew the attempt in October with fairer pros- j a jets of success. The latest advices from India j d ate that Delhi had not fallen. The English force J s Bfore that town amounted to 7,000 or 8,000 Eu- 0 >peans, and 6,000 Natives who still proved trust- j G orthy. The whole of Oude had risen, but no i 1 irious fears were entertained but that the English d ould finally triumph, and the bankers in Cnleut-' 1 ta were gaining confidence. There is a slight dif- J ficulty between Turkey and Franco but is not likely to-prove serious. Cotton markets continued ; _1_ /mere-mention. Mr. Guthrie, ex-Secretary of the Treasury, is , n candidate for United States Senator for Kentucky. Revs. Lester and KKi,r.v,*of this State, addressed the Grand Division of the Sons of Temperance of North Carolina, at itslnje session, j The Western Recorder, a Baptist paper, con- p tains on account of the expulsion of a member of that Church, on a charge of laziness. ylu the vicinity of Bobnville, Missouri, there are some fifty or sixty ncres of ground u 'der vineyard, which will produce this year about J5,0OQ. gaRons of wine; worth there $2 a gallon. flie Legislature .of Alabama .the.Senate stands, twenty-, eight Democrats and five Know Nothings, and the House eighty-five Democrats to fifteen Know Nothines. Democratic majority on joint,ballop only ninety-three.-", Steps are being taken in Fred? erick and ..other counties of Virginia, to get up petitions to the next Legislature, asking that body to confer npon the county courts power to sell free negroes, in cases where those depending upon thorn for support are neglected, the money to go to the maintenance of their ^amiliea; or, in case of refusal to pay their just debts, that similar action be had. The Florida Penintular^ Jells of a live oak tree, measuring 37 feet in circumference, which throws a shade at noon, 45yards in diameter. This tree has but five branches?one occupying a central position; the other four forming angles, five feet from the ground, and extending in horizontal dines, giving the tree the appearance, from a distance, of a small hammock, with a large tree in the centre. A company?88 in number? diued under the shade of this tree, at noon, and hitched their horses to the limbs. A kiss, says an ingenious authority, is like the creation, because it is made of nothing, and is verj good. Fifty-four years ago the first camp-meeting was held in the United Statos. ft was held in Kentucky, and the Methodists, Presbyterians and Baptists cordially united on that great occasion. A sale of $18,000 worth of mules was made in Lynchburg, Vs., Tuesday,'at from S140'to $150 per bead. The Grand Duke of Baden has granted a general amnesty to the numerous political refugees who left their country in 1848. A sale of negroes took place near Greensboro', N. C., a few days since. A woman 63 years old, brought $415 ; a woman 50 years old, $551; ? on ttoopo Aid $1,320: a bov 18 vears old, n yjyjj , , $1,316: a boy 15 years old, $1,075; ahoy 10 years old, $800; ft girl 10 years old, $910; a boy 6 years old, $460. During the past month the thermometer nt Topeka, Kansas, indicated 108? of heat, nnd at Quindaro 106?, and yet we are told that slavery cft-.not exist there, because the climate is too cold. Among the list of patents granted during the past week is one for "improvement in hoops for ladies' skirts." A man in Vermont drank a half pint of gin. which contained a drachm and a half of strychnine. It affected him unpleasantly and made him faint, but strange to say, he survived."': The citizens of the Fork (Richland) havo formed ft' Regulating CInb." and have voted, in case they detect a negro trader, to punish him with fifty lashes applied . to the bare back, deeming this punishment not iuadequate to so heinous an offence as that of instigating negroes to pilfer the substance of their owners. Hon. Jons H. TViif.eler, late United States Minister to Nicaragua, will soon issue a history of that country, which will embrace numerous personal observations and a consecutive account of h? war in that region. The oldest Postmaster in the United States is John BiLLrsos, who has held the office nt Trenton since the year 1805. The native tribes of Africa regard the white complexion as an effect of disease.-""'" A lake, whose bed is covered with nn rnrxhaosfihle supply of crystalized homx has been discoT- ' ered in California. This is the only place in the world where borax is found in this form: Locis T. WinFALt, formly of this State lins been , eWfod to the Senate of Texas. The value ?f taxable properly in Georgia increased thirty , millions of dollars last year. The State tax has ] in consequence been reduced to eight cents on one . hundred dollars or about one-twelfth of one per , cent. Here is a prnctical commentary upon the , internal improvements policy of that noble Com- . monwealth. A shawl was sold in Pbiladel- ( phia, the other day, for $1,425. In the same , city, women make shirts for six cents, nnd live on ( stale bread and mouldy cheese. On the in- j spection of the wheels of an evening passenger , train, atT.owell, Mass., lately, a number of hens , were found roosting upon the truck frame of ono j of the cars, having gone to roost in Boston, and { maintained their position till they arrived at Lo- ] well. On Monday nnd Tuesday of last , week, an clcctiou was held in Charleston for a ? Representative, to supply the place made vacant j by the death of Col. .T. Ciiari.es Blum. Mr. W. , Whai.et, was elected by a majority of 620 votes, ? over his competitor, Mr. T. G. Barker. j [t has been decided in the General Land, Office, j (bat a colbrtd man, whose ancestors were brought j into this country as slaves, is not entitled to preemption of the public lands. This is the first ( :ase based on the decision in the Dreo Scott case. , Five miles of the track of the Memphis & 7 Little Bock Railroad are laid, and thirty ready f for the iron. The locomotive is at last an institution in Arkansas. The first bale of new < Dotton produced in this State was received in ( Charleston on the 28th ultimo, from the plonta- \ :ion of Mr. M. Butler, Lewisvillc, St. Mathews. t rhe first bale last year was received on the 14th. c Euokne Sue, the celebrated French roman- ^ st, died at Paris on the 3d ult. He was born hi , 1808, and was, consequently, not fifty years of ^ lge at the time of bis death. In Iowa, 0 where a negro can live and flourish and propa- Q ;ate, Republicanism denies him free suffrage; but i ~ Mnlno u liorn n nartm ia a nnveltv. the ricrht is c " **Mw ~ v *" " ' " " o k jivcn?comparatively?"to nobody and nothing." j rhc Canadians seem to be getting out with color- a id folks. Solomon Northrop, an alleged fugitive a slave, undertook to lecture iu Statesville, but such 0 l row was kicked up that he ran and locked him- u self iuto a voom in fear of personal violence. t Jen. Houston will not resign his scat in the Sen- | ite at present. He intends to go to Washington \ ind proclaim that the Waco Convention killed Jcncral Rusk, and also to pronounce Buchanan li l traitor if he supports Walker in Kansas. c The speaker of the N. H. House of Represcnta- I ives has been arrested for selling spirits contrary a o law. J. H. Paque, Texas, stnrted out c lunting with just thrco bullets, including the one e u his gun. He returned in a few hours with four li leers, fairly shot dead, and one of his three bul- ii ets in his pocket. An expanding auger is v< .mong the latest inventions. It is a curious de- * ice, and will make holes of twenty-two different * izes, varying five-eighths of an inch to two inch- si s in diameter. It is simple and easily adjusted, b ,nd is not liable to get out of order, or clog, and h he holes made with it are smooth. There is n , horse in Newport, R, I., that is for ty-fivc years Id. He is yet in good condition. The li Jharleston Standard says that the first bale of a >ew cotton already mentioned, was sold onSatur- o ay last for 19 cents, to T. S. & T. G. Budd, and si hipped per Steamer Marion, which sailed at 1 h 'clock, P. M., for New York. Gen. Mc- a Iowan says that at Vera Cruz, 10th of March, Ij 847, the Palmetto Regiment mustered nine hun- si red and seventy-four men. On the 19th June, B 848, when the remnant set oat for home, four G hundred and thirty-three had been buried?ri!Bixty four fallen in battle, and three hundred and sixtyniie dylug in; the hospital."" Mbbriman Tuckkk, of Alamo, Texas, bos recently imported several liorued gnus and ibexes from Africa.? Their flesh is esteemed a far greater luxury, than that of h kid.: "By experiments made during ldetyear by Professor Smyth, at Edinburg, with a series of earth-thermometers, imbedded in the earth at varying depths, it w*6 proved that there was a gradually increasing heat of one degree, Fahrenheit, for every forty feet of depth ; so that at less than two and a half miles, water would be lit boiling: heat,: and at; less than Out, hundred miles depth, all things must be in a state of fusion. The Due West Telescope mentions that the Rev. P. A. Sloan will shortly publish a'bdok on slaverv. ' - . y ^i'i? *1 : 1 PUBLIC SALES. ? >>:. J ! .. We direct the attention of the reader to the advertisements of the Commissioner in Equity, L. C. IIinton, P. A. Thomasson, and G. L. Thomasson, who offer valuable property at public sale. COTTON PLANTER AND SOIL. " ' Wc have before us, thus early, the September number of this popnlar Agricultural Monthly. It is filled as usual, with valuable " information for Agriculturists and Horticulturists, and is beyond cavil, the best thing of the kind published North or South. It is published at Montgomery, Ala., at the extremely low price of $1 Oil. MOORE SYRUP. Capt. D. D. Moore, of the Indian Land, has sent us a splendid specimen of Syrup which he manufactured from the Chinese Sugar Cane. The result of the experiments thus far, though made under serious disadvantages, is sufficient to stimulate our fanners to renewed efforts. With proper machinery, there onn be no donbt of the manufacture of a superior article for table use. BANK OF CHESTER. ,. {il The editor of the Pickens Keowce Courier has been shown a counterfeit one dollar bill on the Bank of Chester. The counterfeit is an indifferent one. The name of D. Boyd is signed as Cashier, and J. Washington as President. The bill bears date of 29th February, 1857. The person who passed the bill gave his name as Hampton, and said he was travelling from North Caro Una to Georgia. The Bank of Chester issues no bills of a less denomination than five dollars. DANCING. ; . ; f ^ " Come trip It aj you go On the light fantastic toe." ' Madame Pjbuoas has created quite a reaction in favor of this delightful amusement. She has now a flourishing school of gents and ladies fair, and her past success is a sufficient earnest that she will give them every accomplishment in the graceful art. We are pleased to see our town awakening on the subject, as there is no social pleasure which has more to recommend it, and less to which we could reasonably object, than " chasJ ' ing the glowing hours with flying feet." CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. . CHAELKSTOii, August 31, 1857. Notwithstanding the sterotypc complaints of the dullness of the times, yet we have a sufficient ( number of exciting and interesting "local items" to keep the eyes of Young America open and , spice the monotony of every day life. The fact ] is, Charleston is getting to be rather too large a , place to be ycry dull at any time, even in the dog i days, when every .body is either out of tiwu or | supposed to be. We can now get up a crisis to i order at a moments warning, but we dare not | make the same amount of noise over it that they ? do in New York and ptber Northern cities. The ( newspapers here are constrained to be muui 011 t some of the most exciting and absorbing incidents 1 of city life. We must keep up our character for t order, propriety and morality, and in order to do i which effectually we are obliged, sometimes, to * refuse to tell tales out of school. It is a maxim of law, and perhaps a good one, that a man shall 1 not be compelled to bear witness against himself, r A negro man named Hector was snot about ten o'clock last night on King street near the city t lines, supposed to have been done by one Wil- r otam West, a private on the city Police. He was t shotinthe back with a revolver, and died iii less * than half an hour. A ball and several smnll r shot were taken from his body. A coroner's in- u lust was held on his body this morning and a n verdict returned in accordance with the above b facts. Something rather dark and mysterious is t nvolved in the origin of the difficulty which may e pet be brought to light. Although the matter is li rather too grave a subject for poetry, yet it is t thought that "The Loves of'the Angels "had o something to do with it. Tho victims that have v jeen sacrificed at the shrine of bloody Mars are p lunierous, but Venus cau also boast of her full fi ihare. Man is indeed a strange being, " fearful- V y and wonderfully made,,; and often docs be " nake fearful and wonderful use of his faculties. The world we live in, and which is now near six housand years old is still a problora to be solved )y some philosopher that is yet to be rocked in lis cradle. The death of Mr. Geougk 13,. Locke, one of >ur most respected and influential wholesale nerchants, took place on S iturday at Charleston, dass., and was announced by telegraph to his auiily and friends in this city yesterday. The Incensed wa-i a native of the town in which ho lied, but for forty years he bad been a resident if this city. He left home a fort-night since, in >ad health, hoping that travel and change of air night be of advantage to him. Rut the arch nemy of man had claimed him for his own, and lis house is now desolate. Close upon the heels of the above sad inteli;ence, the wires brought the melanchollv news if the death of Mr. Chas. Juoxot, the President nd principle stockholder of the Mount Pleasant "erry Company. lie was seriously injured on iaturday by a railroad accident nearWilkeabarre, 'a., and died of his wounds yesterday. He was j n] man of large uicaus and indomitable industry, j ,nd leaves ? family, together with'a large circle i .j f friends and relatives. It has recently been a j latter of reniurk how rapidly our old and sus- j 0, aiued citizens are dying. Scarcely a week passes j jj lint some oue of mark and standing is not.sudden- i y cut off. m An alarm of fire was sounded about 11 o'clock 1st night occasioned by the explosion of a can of [ fu amphene in a house on the Court House square. I M t appears that a negro girl was filling a lamp, | nd neglecting to extinguish the wick, the flame I C(j ommunicnted with the combustible fluid, which | cn xplodod with a report like that of a cannou, fil- | ,ls ng the room with Homes, aud dangerously burn- j ilg the girl. She was able to give the alarm, : ht rhich brought immediate assistance, or the house . hi 'ould have been burned up and her in it. She sc r w 'as stripped of her burning clothes, and the flames e(j uppressed without any material injury to the j sc uilding. Accidents of this kind are constantly w; appening, notwithstanding the many fearful war- | _ ings. hi The market is flooded with new books, and the terary circles are on the qui vive for the latest ^ gony. We are emphatically a reading people, aud 8h ur booksellers are rather hurried to keep the to apply equal to the demand. "Nothing to Wear" , as been voraciously and universally devoured by jj II sexes, ages and conditions, but more especial- th r by the ladies of the Miss Flora McFlimskv co \f iamp. Since the death of Miss Charlotte ^ eonte, and the publication of her life by Mrs. w] A9KSLL, the works of the author of "Jane Eras" I -as.- xr . - jl, bare gained additional popularity and are in general demand. And ttlp productions-or her. tiriv younger sisters,, are nefiriy as much sought J* and as highly esteemed as her own. They are fortunate iu being among the few authors whose works have outlived the writers. We hard jceen kindly furnished by'the Messrs. Uouetehat,"with rather a novel poetical produc: tlon entitled "Oysteria ; or the Lores of the Oysters," a neatly bound vo'unie from the press of T. J, Cbowex, 6!)9 Broadway, N\ V., containing 72 neatly printed pages, nnl hands ?niely and substantially done up in tun-din. It is from the popular and prolific fen of A. Fisiib Shki.lt, Esqr., who says in l is preface that he had it printed for bis own diversion and that of a few particular friends; but I think it is likely to bave^awider range and.a more popular run than, the. author iu-. tended. Like Bykon, he was disappointed by waking up on the morning after its publication and finding himself famous. How true is the proverb that fame runs after some people aud they cannot avoid it, while others run after fame all <t* *- ;r ' their lives and are never able to overtake it?? Such is the uncertainty of earthly glory and renown. If any of yonr readers should be sending to town for an inrnica of bonks, tell them to be certain and call at Cototehats, No. 0 Broad street, the store house with the brown store front, and lay in a supply of "Oysteria" for the.wioter amusement of their rending customers. Thad intended to close this letter without the slightest allusion to the weatheri but I find it impossible. I cannot consent to light an old friend that has helped me out of many a scrape by furnishing me with a paragraph when every other subject bad failed.! The "home delegation"?those who have neither money nor time to shut up shop and go to the moantains, the North or the springs, are hoping against hope, that the "heated term" has burnt out its fuel, and that tbe cool and bracing autumn breezes will soon be along and 'blow away the dust, mosquitoes and sand flies/and make city life once more, not only tolerable but buoyant, pleasant and attractive.' 'The general atmosphere to-day feels something like the whispering and invigorating heralds of "the sere and yellow leaf." ' MAGNOLIA. For the Yorkville Enquirer. Musts. Editors:?Permit me to call your attention to the notice of "Erskine College'' contained in your issue of the 20th inst. In the closing remarks there made, you express your regret at the "culpable" course which the Faculty of that Institution has pursued with respect to the "Sonsrof Temperanoe," of which order a Division has been formed in Due West. You are pleased to represent the Faculty, in their "folly" or "stubboroness," as opposing this organization, by urging the old objection of secrecy. Yon speak as if you had really learned that the Faculty had enlisted in a crusade ngainst the Order. Will you be good enough to state the facts, which have rendered it proper on your part to make this representation, and that, too, so respectfully. DUE WEST. August 26, 1857. We willingly insert the above communication, and as willingly comply with the request, to give the facta upon which we predicated oar animadTCrsions on tho "culpable" course pursued by the Faculty in regard to the Sons of Temperance.? Feeling a deep solicitude for the weal of Erskine, ami believing that organization calculated to elevate the moral status of the students, immediately on our arrival, we made enquiry if the rumor we bad. heard was true, that the Faculty really dislounteuanoed that society ?. The answer received was a positive affirmative. As several of those interrogated were members of the Senior Class, and (roung gentlemen in whom we placed and still place ;hc highest confidence, we saw no room left for icepticisin; however desirous we might have been io believe the contrary. Such a decisive announcenent, coupled with the significant fact that the nembers of the Faculty had not taken the initioive and aided in inaugurating the society by lenclng it their moral influence, seemed sufficient ;roun<l upon which to bottom our charges. Briefly these were our principal reasons for mating the representation that we did?sufficiently espectful as we thought, and certainly with the test intentions. ' Does not "Dae West" think hese "facts," in the absence of contrary testioony, would carry conviction to any jury and ?usnin our conclusion? The columns of the Enquires ,re open for reply, and there isnotme who would ejoice more than ourselves, to hear that the Facilty are with tho Sons?that our informants .were mistaken, and that the students , can no longer :ave even the shadoir of an excuse for listening to hat Syren, who too often allures into her Calypsombrace the youth of splendid intellect and briliant genius. It will afford us no little pleasure o.disabuse the students and the public generally f a false impression, and to be able to do this, rill fully console us for having comraittedthe unardonable sin (?) of speaking plainly, what we rmlv believed to be the truth. Wo hope "Due Pest" will place the question reel hi in curia at his 'earliest convenience." For the Yorkville Enquirer. TO MISS P?. Let me hear that low, sweet voice once more, That soft and plaintive strain ; Its gentle breathings bid me hope That Love shall live again. It stirs the thoughts of by-gone days ?Of Catnba's fairest flower, When Hope's bright stream rolled gently by Love's sweet filysian bower. Darkness alas! now vails this heart: Those eyes are-dimmed with tears, And pain has changed to pensive sighs ? The joys of other years. Then let me hear that voice once more, And dream the dreams of youth, ; Rut let the strian be sweet as when i It breathed of Love and Trnth. " I BEN. | The Cure of Caneera. i There is a great uncertainty in the science of ! i cdicine, although physicians generally seem to i1 link it is the only science in which there is posi- ' , ve certainty. We are induced to make this re- I i ark from facts which have lately come within j ' lr own knowledge. Mr. Land, of Greenville 1 j istrict, has the secret of curing all cancers?can- | . irs which have baffled the scientific skill of the | 1 edical world. We know of several cases in this ' ! immunity where the must experienced ami sk.il- i il physicians have failed to do any good, and yet r. Laud has, in a very short period, effected en- I re cures. He is an uneducated, ignorant man, | t id yet can accomplish more than the most learn- j 1 I physicians of Europe or America. There was a ise, which he had the other day, illustrating this | t isertion. A distinguished gentleman of the low 1 country, known nil over the United States, by V-.l. I U? ..? o '1 3 puDlic services in uom uruucucs 01 tuuguM, id beeu afilicted for years with a cancer. He jJ is consulted, and been the patient of the most j ? ientific and skilful physicians in the U. States ithout any good result. Some years ago he visit- ' 1 Paris, and there placed himself under the pre- -i ription of the most emineut surgeon of France , j ithout deriving any benefit. He heard, through ^ friend, of this ignorant quack in the mountains, ^ ade inquiries about him, came up and placed : mself under bis medical treatment! In a short ^ me he returned,?uudcr the belief, that this quack j td done more for him than all the scientific Medi- ' .1 world of France and America! If the cure | . lould prove permanent, we shall have some more . 1 say about it. In no case has Mr. Land failed 1 J cure cancers. His prescription is a secret, and : ii s applications are unknown evon to his patients. ' o e says the Doctors have laughed at him so much, j I at they never shall know his remedy. What a j ii mmentary this is on the science of medicine!? c en of learning and ability, who devote their o iiole lives to medicine, cannot cure a cancer, j ]; hilst this old ignorant quack never foils to core. . d Patriot and Mountaineer. Arrival Extraordinary.?Professor Charles ' De Grath, Introducer'of the jjenuipe De Grath's Electric Oil. i.s now in^town, having arrived from Harrisburj:. pa., yesferday afternoon. The professor is stopping at that timc-bohered establishment, the Fonntain Hotel. The Fountain f#wtbe house-wh ere General Lafayette stayed daring his visit to Baltimore* and appears th be the favorite hotel with nil great men. We understand the Pro. feasor intends to deliver-a. lecture this morning at o'clock, at the Centre Market, when and where lie will fully convince his hearers of the beneficial effects oMii' far famed Ehsotric Oil in assnaging , the sutf. rings of hnmanity.?Bdl. $??.?This Great Remedy can be had of the a^euts here. See 1 hdverliserneut Tn another" coTumn." ' " Columbia JTarket. August 81. Cotton.?There has been so little dauein cotton i during the past week, that.we can say' bit Uttlaon the state of the market, except that the demand vfr strll -good and - prices eery fall,'itv i'rtn?e~bf | from 12@15 cents extremes. On Wednesday the udvices from Liverpool by the; America to. the 15th instant came M hafidj reporting cotton firm with an advancing tendency, although prices were unchanged. The sales of the week are not given.? Speculators and exporters took?,000 bales, Iheee ! accounts had no effect on our marked there being | too little of the article offering U) be any test of : their influence, and'the little that was offered was freely taken at the following quotations, vix: Inferior 12012} ordinary 12$@18; middling 18J i @18}; good middling"!8f @14}; fair14}@14$; aud choice 16 cents. J Country Cureti' Bctcoh.?Thzre is none of this article forsile/jaqd therefore we afe compelled to omit quotations''altogether. Corn.?-The ptock 0f corn is light, and prices are very firm",' at $t/l2@$tri6 bushel. Coir Peas.?This article is still very scarce, and when offered freely comands $1.26 bushel. Flour.?The flour market is quiet without any material Change in prices. We still quote $6}@ $6} for common to superfine brands, and extra family flour iff bbl. Iipmtal Married?On Friday, 28th nit., by* James Jefferys, Esq., Mr. "NATHANIEL'SMITH and Mrs. ELIZABETH C. REYNOLDS, all of this district. ' - . .. Dikd?In Lincoln County, North Carolina, Mrs. CATHARINE A. McLEAN, wife qf Dr. William B. McLean, on the morning of the 18th August, 1857. A sketch, of the life and character of every eminent servant of the Lord* who. haa .passedfrpm his service on earth to his service in Btavp, is doe to society and to the Church of Christ r> When a long life of consistentpjcyr is clowned bjna triumphant death, a^Ie^so]) is taught qf the truth and vitality or the religion of Jesus, which thaeufferer can neither gainsay nor deny. .This lesspwis the more impressive, when we And a loving wife and affectionate mother wiHing to leave a devoted husband and lovely children, to enter upon the iPttihge tfh'd untried scenes of eternity"! wheif^b find a timid shrinking woman calm aBtheverJd^ful in contemplation' of the agohy of thf <|eath-straggle and the tertrors <rf tho graie.' Such was'the victory over the endearments of home and the fears of death of Mrs. McLean. Let us imitate the virtues of her life, that our lust end may be as peaceful and happy. CfttbariaeiAUison. Hot-^wne born October 31st. 1 1812, in Chester Bislrict," Soutli Carolina. In ery early life, she'connected herself with the church of Bethesda,. after having given-imtjsfactory evidence of a change of heart.. She was married, December 29th, 1885, to James M. Stringfellow. TWo iovely chil iren, the fruit Of this marriage, -died in inthncy and left bar-Childless The furnace of affliction purified, but did not consume. She learned to say "the Lord .gave and the Lord hath taken away, blessed be* the name of the Lord." Bht the greal -trial of bcr life (as the ..writer has heard her say) was the loss of her beloved husband, whom, she nursed with the most untiring assiduity and tenderness during a lingering illness of several years. Mr. Stringfellow'died 21th of November, 1844. After a widowhood of more than 3 years, Mrs. Stringfellow was married to Dr. Wm. B. McLean, of Lincoln County, North Carolina, on the 31 February, 1848. She then had to fill the difficult and responsible position of stepmother to six children, tome of tbem almost grown. We speak (hat we do know, when we say that never were the duties of a step-mother mora fully, faithfully and effectionately discharged.? Seldom bos an own mother been so loted, so honored and so revered as she was by all of her husband's first children. Mrs. McLean did not seek .to win the regard of her?tep-ohildren by a .weak couiplianoe with all their wishes. She was firm as well as affectionate. She taught them what was 1 right and insisted upon its performance. The faithfulness, with which these children nursed her during her.eickness of six weeks?and the agency with which, they hung over Iter" dying bed, prove how wise and judicious. had'4ydeh her authority. From the very first of-this illness,- she did not believe that she would B*$, and.though for a time, her faith was obscured, it soon passed from under the cloud and shone with Increasing brightness "Until faith was sweetly lost in sight, And hope in full supreme delight." Ood had in the last two years cut many of the cords that hod bound her to the earth, and had fAn*Ai,A/I tliA MimlnrAil nr.dti r\C tlw.oo /*am1u 4a Vila luaiciivu iuc cuuuci vu viimj u* *uugv wviug ?u u 10 eternal Throne. She had lost her mother, two of her own and three of her step-children in that brief space of time. She was ready to follow her loved ones, she was weary of life, but not becanse of its sore trials and irksome ditties, but because, as she often said, she could not live without sin. She spoke to the writer of the kindness and affection of her husband and children, and of her love for them, but all was nothing in comparison with her desire to escape from the polu'tion of sin and to be with Christ. During the last four or five weeks, she i as not troubled with a doubt about her personal salvation, nor the least anxiety about the two little children she left behind her. She spoke constantly and cheerfully of her approaching dissolution. All was peace with her, "the peace of j God that passeth nil understanding." To her Pas- \ tor she said, "What a blessed hotnw; we have pre- ' pared for us, and what a precious Saviour who prepared it at such cost to himself." To her only brother she said, on parting with him a few days before she died, "remember that I died a true believer;'' She. declined taking medicine towards the last of her illness and gave as a reason, that she was so near the portals of Heaven, that she did not wish to be called back to a world of sin. But upon being reminded, that it was her duty to use all appoiuted means, she complied with the directions of the physician. During her sickness, the great characteristics of her life?perfect unselfishness nnd a tender regard for the feelings of others became more marked and prominent.? She had a kind word or a kind look for all who ceme about her, and' "did all she could to avoid giving, trouble. In great weakness and pain, she gave the most minute directions about household matters, so that they might be spared trouble even when she would be in the grave. All her name rons conversations with her husband and children were calculated to cheer, to comfort and to :onsole. She lived for others and her last thoughts were for the happiness and wellbeing of those who would survive her. She took Him for her exemplar, who went about doing good, who lied that others might live, and who suffered that that others might kuow no pain. We believe that j the now rejoices at his right hand, and that the W V - < 1 / - at- -j At-. -1 - anguiness 01 uer iauu, auu me clearness ui uw vidence (which her Pastor, Dr. Morrison, said le never saw equalled) were but a foretaste of her jappiness above. Died?Of Dysentary, in Lancaster District, on he Ctli instant, JOHN ROBERT, infant sof of R. :i. Porter. In this district, on the 27th instant, an infant laughter of James Janes, aged five weeks. I > O.iD TAX.?All persons who have not LI, paid their ROAD TAX, are required to do o cn or before the 20TH INSTANT. F. H. SIMRIL, In tend ant. Sept 3 85 8t ^TEW CORN MILL.?The undersigned _ v takes this method to inform the public that is CORN MILL, attached to his Tannery, will e in operation on and after SATURDAY NEXT, th instant, and on every TUESDAY, WEDNES)AY and THURSDAY, succeeding. J. HERNDON. Sept 3 35 tf [" N~SELF-DEFENCE.?Capt. A. OLSZEWSKI, of North Carolina, late of Poland, nvites the Gentlemen of Yorkville to form a class f from 10 to 15 for the purpose of FENCING.? lis terms are $10 for TWENTY-TWO LESSONS 4 u small and broad sword fencing, broad sword ex- ^ rcise and cane defence. The SCHOOL will be pened as soon as the Class is formed. This many and honorable exercise is useful both in selflefence and in defence of oar liberties and homes. Sept 3 36 tf