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* ^traps & Jfads. I - S . ' - ~ " ?A singular marriage lately took place in Wilkes county, N. C. A man named ; Holloway married his step mother, the secUu ond wife, the widow of his own father ! She - had six children, three of them by his father,and three by himself; and having nine v children of his own, the couple set up housekeeping with 15 children. ?? The Carolinian in a paragraph in < regard to the Methodist College,. says:? i This edifice is nearly completed. It will < furnish, educational facilities which many, i no doubt, will immediately avail themselve < of. Under the patronage of the large and ] , influential body of Methodists, it must sue ceed as an institution of learning. < ??It is stated, "by authority," that a jJ new fashion is about to be introduced by tho <' ladies of Buffalo?no less in fact thau an ! * immense calash, which is to be attached to :' the" waists of the dear creatures, to bo raised J and lowered at pleasure, like the top of a baggy. Buffalo papers frantically ask, "what; ! j! The Carolinian says that the work I, qq the State House is progressing with all I possible rapidity under its present efficient management. The basement story is nearly eompleted, and makes a beautiful appearance. The masonry within?the bricks being.very fine?is unusually firm and substantial in ap-, pearance. When completed, it will be a most imposing structure. L. F. Fowler, who was recently tried at Union Court, on a charge of negro stealing, and acquitted, and also charged with felony in Georgia, made his escape from 1 Mr. Washington, who had him in charge ' on his way to Georgia, on the 12th ult., by 1 jumping-out of the car window, atLewisville, 1 on the S: C. Rail Road, leaving his hand- 1 cuffs and chain in the car. The band-bill states that it is believed he received assistance in Columbia which enabled bim to . escape. The Postmaster General has made an ( order that all Postmasters whose compensa- ( tion exceeds twelve dollars and fifty cents per , quarters shall be supplied with wrapping pa- j per, twine and sealing wax for the use of their offices by the Post Offices Department, , : and the rule adopted March 12, 1855, has been repealed. All Postmasters whose com- j pensation is less than twelve dollars and fifty cents per quarter can purchase, for the ( - ? use of their offices, a reasonaoie amount 01 these articles, provided the net proceeds iB not less than twenty dollars per year. We have a few further particulars of Brigham Young's threat. Capt. Van Vlieat, Government Agent at Palmetto, Kansas, has jnst returned from Salt Lake. He reports that the Mormons refused to permit the United States troops to enter the city, and that Gov. Young publicly declares that he will burn the prairies, and thus deprive the animals of the expedition of subsistence, and burn his own city, if necessary, before he will submit to demand of the government. The report of the murder of surveying companies by Indians are contradicted.? Charleston Standard. We learn from the Charleston papers, that the following only are the suspended Banks. Bank of the State of South Carolina, Branch Bank of the State at Columbia, Planters' Bank of Fairfield, Branch Bank of the State at Camden, South Western Bail Boad Bank, Planters' and Mechanics' Bank, Bank of South Carolina, Fanners' and Exchange Bank of Charleston, Bank of Hamburg, Bank of Newberry, Exchange H/xlrtrnkla PoAnloo' T?anlr nf flKnr. INI11& U1 VU1UUIVW} JL wvyivo ^uua Vk VMM* . leston. And we learn from the same source (bat the following are the Banks paying specie: Union Bank of Charleston, State Bank of Sonth Carolina, Bank of Charleston, Commercial Bank of Colombia, Merchants' Bank of Cberaw, Bank of Chester, Bank o^Camden, Bank of Georgetown. The steamer Baltic brought from Liverpool ?72,000, (363,465.) The day before the Baltic sailed, it had been ascertained that ?270,000 more, (1,350,000,) just received by the Red Jacket, from Australia, had been taken up for the United States. This amount has, it is said, arrived by the Persia. The California steamer now due will add 81,500,000, making the large aggregate of 83,213,495. When the hoarders, large and small, perceive that English capitalists are sending gold in large amounts invested in our low-priced, well secured, paying stocks, and in the purchase of t our equally depressed produce, the firmness f of their grasp on their money bags will be- j i' come relaxed, and they will hasten to place i their hoarded treasure again in the keeping y of the banks.?Charleston Evening News, i We saw yesterday a letter from the 1 eminent house of Cuddy, Brown and Co., ( of New Orleans, to one of their correspond- 1 ents in this county, proposing to send a car- 1 go of cotton direct to Liverpool, for account of the producers. We understand that Mr. Shepherd Brown, the head of the house, ( proposes to go to Liverpool himself for the j purpose of superintending the sales of cotton { Kt. tiia firm Thin in n move in tbfl SUi^l^U UJ Uiu M>M*. ? ' ? ? ? J right direction, and we hear that quite a > umber of planters who are out of debt, are j entering eagerly in the proposed arrange- j ment. It will pay unquestionably. A ship- ( ment from new Orleans, within any reasona- ( ble time, will find the Liverpool market al- ( most bare of American cotton, and the car- j go will assuredly meet a ready sale at good i prices. This is but the beginning of the f end. Our planters and merchants will learn y a little gumption by and by.? Yichsburg s Southron. The Carolina Spartan says: "We are glad to see that the fearless and incorruptible O'Neall is hurling his anathemas at ( the banks from the Bench. In his charge f to the Grand Jury at Union Court, he called attention to this subject, as one belong- j ing to the Grand Inquest of the State. He :, does not hold that their charters give them j unlimited power to work injury to the peo- < pie. He said that 'the banks, at present, ( instead of being beneficial to the people, had become mere brokers' offices, and should be made to know their proper places.' Onoe they were shielded under 'vested interest,' Ji and a charter once granted could not be : * amended or repealed. This pretension could j1 not stand the test of examination, and has j1 been abandoned. Now, the Legislature can 1 * amend, modify or repeal at pleasure. And 1 this is the true ground; for no Legislative |1 body has power to enact irrepealable laws. I Laws are to be made for the good of the people, and whenever they operate injurious- t ly, it is the bounden duty of the Legislative a authority to Wot them from the statute books.' B - ^ - . C|t?ffrk)jille in|mrer| EDITED BT fOHM L. MILLER.. JOSEPH H. BLACK YORKVILLE, S. C. * THURSDAY MOENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1867. THE NEXT LEGISLATURE. It is now the oth of November. In a few dayB >ur Legislature will oonvene to deliberate on the important issues before the country. Among >thers the "Situation of the Banks," the "Senatorial Election " and " School Reform," including the disposition of South Carolina College, will perhaps attract most attention. No doubt our Legislature will, in accordance with the genius of the age, be imbued with an economizing spirit.? [twill meet under circumstances calculated to elicit angry discussion, and a stormy session will soon be the exciting drama, before the people. In our last, we designated what wo thought the proper course to be pursued, in relation to the Banks. To visit the full penalty of the law upon them, seems the only method "of restraining imprudence, extravagance, and fraud in the future, [u our dealings with individuals, " the quality of mercy " should not be " strained," but with Banks the case is different. Mercy to them, is robbery to the people. With a strong will, and honest intentions, much can be done to rectify our disturbed currency, taud very much to guard against the recurrence of a similar crisis. We know that the Legislature cannot, by its fiat, remove instantaneously the present embarrassment, but it can, by a determined and fearless course, excise the cause, and in a few months the public pulse will beat freely and vigorously again. The Senatorial election has of late been lost sight of in the bank-agitation, but it will doubtless create no little "shuffling of the cards" when it comes to the test. We do not know the complexion of the Legislature well enough to make a correct surmise as to its choice. Hon. R. B. Rhett, Col. Pickens and Col. Chisnut, will have many staunch friends to press their claims. The tendency of the day is to make the election turn | 1- nnnnlnrifv find not a tegt Of i UlCIXIJ* VU ptOVUHl J/vrwi?..V| ? any vital political principle. Such beiDg the sase, the election will fall to the person who understands best that important phase of statesmanship, yclept in common parlanoe, "Log-rolling." A reformation of the school system is, we think, the most important and the most difficult duty devolving on the Legislature. The main difficulty Is contained in the following question : how can we induce the poor to permit their children to be educated ? It must be evident to every person who has bestowed the least attention on the subject, that ignorant pareuts, not appreciating the blessings'of learning, and not fearing the blighting influence of that mental malaria?ignorance, bave no inducement to deprive themselves of the feeble labor or the company of their children.? tfor have they any motive to force their children to school against a truant inclination, which oftentimes is only the index of vigorous, native taljnts. From the ignorance of the parent, the good which the present system might effect is neutralised ; the thousand vices which spring from the foul and festering soil of ignorance continue rampant, and the fair visage of the beautiful Goddess >f Wisdom is left to "blush unseen." Literature, be cheapest, the purest, the most excellent of all uxuries, is practically cut off from that class which most needs the solace of philosophy, the lympathy of the poet, and the genial humor of he wit and scholar. We do not propose at this ime to suggest any correction for this evil, and ' inly mention it in order to direct the attention of >thers to it. The South Cunolina College is again on its feet, jut from the feeling manifested a few months lince, we do not think the people will be satisfied o leave it in an equivocal position. On one point ivery person appears decided?that the expense >f the College, comparatively, far exceeds the jenefits resulting to the State. Not that we beieve the State so penurious as to begrudge a few housand dollars in the noble cause of education, >ut because what is intended as a blessing, be:omes practically a curse when misapplied. We fill venture to make a few suggestions as to its future management. In the first place, we fear :he situation is an unfortunate one. Columbia is i beautiful and healthy town, but its warmest idmirers have never accused it of being remarka>ly moral. In a town of its size, the vices most infriendly to studious habits and the development ?f moral character must necessarily be found.? iVere a healthy site in the country selected, and and enough purchased to secure it against evil leighbors and corrupt influences, we tjill venture be assertion that dissipation would be diminished >ne half, and that two would then graduate, foreve y one that does now, in proportion to those who inter College. But whether the College be removed >r not, it cert ainly needs careful supervision, and t would be no little improvement if it were taken rom under the control of the students and subected to a stricter discipline than it bas ever cuown. The whole secret, of the insubordination, which we so often witness, lies, and can only lie, n the want of'strict discipline. Students are rery much like other gregarious animals, when me breaks the fence, the rest follow. It is only >y restraining the first dereliction that they can >e peaceably governed. G&N. JOHN A. ALSTON. We give elsewhere from the Register, the result >f the election for a successor to the lamented I0D8ON. We understand that Gen. Alston will iccept. No one could be found better able to ill the important and useful post. The Mount Sion Institute has long had an enviable reputation n the State, and we feel assured that it will be 'ully sustained under the charge of the President sleet. A gentleman and a scholar, wherever he foes, Gen. Alston will command the respect and steem of his students. He will leave a flourishng school at Rock Hill, and while we regret his oss to the District, we rejoice that he has found i more extensive field for the useful talents with which nature and art have endowed him. May luccess attend him. PRIORESS IN ENGLAND. Mr. Ten Bboeck has finally succeeded in a- I dueling a victory over English horses on English \ 5round. After experiencing several defers, the i American mare, Prioress, has won the Cesare- I witch stakes. The first trial resulted in a dead ! leat between Prioresss and El Hakoni and Queen ; Bess. Prioress won on the next trial by one i ength and a half. The value of the stakes was j two thousand guineas. The horse, Lecompte, is lead. MELANCHOLY AFFAIR. On Saturday morning last, Mr. James Allen, j Senior, was shot by T. J. Bell, Esq., and died n a few hours afterwards. This sad occurrence lappened nearly opposite "Stowe's Hotel." Mr. Bell gave himself up and was admitted to bail, >ut on the death of Mr. Allen was arrested and s now in jail. The whole matter will undergo egal investigation. THANKSGIVING DAY. His Excellency, Gov. Allston, has appointed , he 19th, of November as a day of Thanksgiving nd Praise, as will be seen by referenoe to official lotice In another column. OUR CORRESPONDENTS. On our first page, road the " Gray Cat of Cattle Grymme."?It recalls to mind the shadowy days of eld, when " Merrie Englande " was still nnder the thrall of superstition. It has the true characteristic of genius, the ability to give a shuddery reality to the creations of fancy. We hope P. D. S., will become a constant contributor. " M."?We regret that no name accompanies your otherwise unexceptionable article. It presents a Tivid picture?portraying in dark colors the evils of Intemperance. But it is never advisable or prudent to publish without a responsible name and we hope " M " will lay aside his reserve in the future. "School teaching a Science."?We have here something in the comic vein,which our bon-hommie readers will not fail to appreciate. We have no doubt but that it requires somo science to " teach the young ideas how to shoot," but it i9 too often the case that the sigh-*nee is all on the part of the little truant. "Ida."?We scarcely know how to answer your interrogatories. Our own opinion is that it is much more difficult to find a good husband than a good wife, but after all, the "mystery" exists in being suited. Choosing a husband is just like choosing a bonnet or dress. If he pleases you and you pleaso him, that is all that is necessary. * 1? nr\rva1 ns?ioc V?n vinrr Ho aenmte ruie can uc giTcu ?OVUIV IHUIV9 a passion for Sir Brainless, others wishing Solomons, and others again feeling a deathless affection for a pair of moustache. The nearest we can come to a general rule is, to qualify yourself to make a good wife; don't marry in a hurry, and the right man will fiud you at la9t?yeu will kuow him by the way he tells his tale. Hare you rend "A marriage of Persuasion" in Ruitrll, for November ? RUSSELL, FOR NOVEMBER. "Russell" is fast taking hold on the confidence, and above all, on the affections of its readers. It is always expected promptly at the first of each month, and it has not yet failed to meet this expectation. Thi9 promptitude contributes mnch^ towards making it an agreeable visitant, for just in proportion to the value we attach to a periodical do we visit upon it maledictions for its delay. An able and punctual serial oreates a periodical appetite for its monthly banquet. Unless a Magazine can do this, its popularity will prove ephemeral and its existence transitory. After a calm view of all the causes which detract from the success of a magazine, which depends upon its merits and ability for support, none appear so. pervading and general as the want of a reading public. This assertion will appear inconsiderate, but it is nevertheless true. In our own State, how many are there who take Jtuttell, who will not oven read the ablest articles in it? Will one half of them read the article on Civilization, or the review of the work of Wm. Oilmore Shims and the life of Edoar Allan Poe ? The fact cannot be disguised that all works of taste are signally ignored. Out of the literary coteries of Charleston and Columbia, we are not hazarding too much when we say that each district in the State could afford about three or four appreciative readers of the abovenamed artioles. And "to give the devil his due" those would probably be distributed in the follow ing proportion .* One Divine, ono Editor, one Teacher, and occasionally, a young lawyer without clients who prefers reading to drinking and smoking, and has cultivated unconsciously an aes thetic taste. We are aware that plain speaking seldom commands a premium. *!t is much easier to flatter up a people with belief of progress, than to satisfy them that they have defects-?radical defects. The Southern people ore not a reading people. They buy books but they do not read them. In most every house you will find a copy of S?haksreare, Byron and Milton, yet how few will you find who have read, or can read appreciatively these established classics? How then can they be expected to relish such an article as the sketch of Edgar Poe, when they have never seen his "lUven" "Annabel Lee" or his prose talcs? But to glance at the contents of Ruttcll for November, we begin with the leader, "Characteristics of Civilization." The leading idea is that "true progress in Civilization" is the "general diffusion of happiness." The elevating and humanizing influence of Christianity is duly acknowledged. "A marriage of Persuasion" is a brief story, with a good moral, but it is the same old story, marriage without love and misery without end. The "Trip to Cuba" is what its name purports?a sketch of various scenes in that fertile isle. When it becomes a Southern State (?) such an article will prove more interesting. We pass by several articles, prose and poetry, "Voices from the Forest;" "The Messenger Rose;" " European Correspondence;" " Herndoii," "The Household Skeleton" Romance and Early History of the American Isthmus ;" " The Voice, the Hand, and the Silhouette," to glance at the review of Simms' poetry. The characteristics of these, according to the writer "are, richness and force of thought, affluence of expression, a versatile range and breadth of sympathy, a comprehensive imagination, at times delicately suggestive, subtly metaphysical, aDd again, bold, rugged and original." His defects or blemishes are set down as "occasional great diffuseness," verbal mannerisms " and " an invincible repugnance to the distasteful duly of correction?tba labor litii(r.11 Mr. Simms has ever been truly Southern in all his efforts, literary or political. " His song has ever been of the South?of the splendor of her sunsets "rolling down like a chorus;" of the fragrant luxuriance of her woodlands in spring?of the grandeur of her mountain solitudes, of the self devotion of her heroes and statesmen, and the tenderness and beauty of her women." We owe to Mr. Simms a debt of gratitude. In boy-hood, when the truant fancy first sought the dalliance of " young romance," it was the pen of Simms that supplied the aliment and "lapped the glad senses in their sweetest trance." We will never forget the reading of Mellichampe?our first novel. What a bright world dawns upon the soul when the golden gates of fairy-land first open to the view! And shall we not love the magician who unlocbe this world of bliss ? We speak with fervor of a " First Love," but it is only when that | First Love is a genial book, a favorite poem or i romance, that the affections know no change or j shadow of turning. New hopes may come, a [ broader ambition may compass the soul, the selfishness of manhood may supplant the disinterestedness of youth, the eye may grow keener in detecting the frailties of our fellow men, this world may yield us a portion of its horrors and ditappointmenti, but in every vicissitude, we will look back and regret that mental dawn, made radiant with the hues of poetry and the splendid dreams of youth, when the heart knew no ambition, and the world could afford no pleasure, more alluring than the pages of legendary lore. Edgar A. Poe, the poet and the critio is wellportrayed, and his profound insight and analytic power ably vindicated. Like Byron, there is thrown around his life an interest which melancholy and sorrow, when linked with greatness, ever inspires. But he possessed all the essential characteristics of genius. His poems, tales, and critioisms, give evidence of what he might have achieved under happier auspices. Seldom, perhaps never before, have poet and critio been so I admirably blended in one man. It becomes a matter of interest to know what one who has written the most perfect of poems, thinks of the poet's mission. In the following extraothe condenses his views of poetry: "We Bhall reach, however, more immediately a distinct conception of what true Poetry is, by mere reference to a few of the simple elements which indace in the poet himself the true poetical effect. He recognizes the ambrosia which nourishes his soulp in the bright orbs that shine in Heaven?in the volutes of the flower?in the clustering of low shrubberies?in the waving of the grain fields?in the slanting of tall eastern trees? in the blue distance of mountains?in the groups I of clouds?in the twinkling of half-hidden brooks ?in the gleam of silver rivers?in the repose of Sequestered lak?s?in the star-mirroring depths of lonely wells. He perceives in it the songs of birds ?in the harp of JEolus?in the sighing of the , night wind?in the repining, voice of the forest? l ! in the surf that complains to the shore?in the ! fresh breath of the woods?in the scent of the vi- | ole'?in the voluptuous perfume if the hyacinth? j in the suggestivo odor that comes to him at eventide, from far-distant, undiscovered islands, over dim oceans, illimitable and unexplored, ne owns it in all noble thoughts?in all unworldly motives --in all holy impulses?in all chivalrous, generous, and self-sacrificing deeds. He feels it in the beauty of woman?in the grace of her step?in the lustre of her eye?in the melody of her voice ?in her soft laughter?in her sigh?in the harmony of the rustling of her robes. Ho deeply feels it in her winning endearments?in her burning-enthusiasms?in her gentle charities?in her meek and devotional' endurances?but above all ?ah." far above all?he kuecls to it?he worships it in tbe faith, in the purity, in the strength, in the altogether divine majesty?of her love. * * * To recapitulate, then:?I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as The Rythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is Taste. With the Intellect or with the Conscience, it has only collateral relations." Our readers must subscribe for Russell if they wish a monthly feast of such viands as the above named nrticles. r' mere-mention. When all the white people of the United, State9 reduce their expenses one shilling a day it makes a difference of eighteen millions of dollars a week, and of over fifty millions every month. A railroad meeting was held at Hendersonville, North Carolina, on the 6th ultimo, to devise and consider the best method of constructing a railroad frcm Greenville, South Carolina, to Paint Rock via. Hendersonville and Asheville. The Steamer Baltic brought the sad news of the death of Thomas Crawford, the Sculptor. He died in London on the 18th of October. At the mecting of the nextCongresstwonewStates will be in readiness for admission into the Union?Oregon and Minnesota. The Raleigh Register announces that the Bank of the State of North Carolina suspended specie payment. This is the mother bank, and we suppose the children will follow the example. B. Bmndreth, the "pill doctor," is a candidate for the New York State Senate. mu_ Bl.J. T.,Ur,rI Pontrol Hank noonrdtner to a 111C XViluug I9inuu D ? ? statement of its condition published on the 12th instant, had a circulation of $386,702, and just seven dollars in specie ! This is inflating the cur* rency with a vengeance. Hon. John S. Pbkston, of Columbia, arrived in New York ic the Baltic from Liverpool. The Qazettc says that there was a slight fall of snow in Cheraw, on Friday night last. Within the past ten days $2,760,000 in specie has arrived in the United States?$1,050,000 at New York, and $800,000 at New Orleans. Mortimer Thompson, alias "Doesticks," was married in New Haven on Saturday, to Miss Anna H. Yan Clevf. of Minnesota. The Carolina Timet says that Mr. Howard H. Caldwell, of Newberry, is about to give to the world another volume of poems. It will be issued in about three weeks, by Messrs. Whittemoiie, Niles & Hall, of Boston. Tho book will embraoe about three hundred pages. Hon. A. O. P. Nicholson has been eleoted by the Legislature of Tennm.see a Senator from that State, to succeed Hon. John Bell, whose term of service expires March 4, 18-59. At Cincinnati, on Tuesday of last week, 500 hogs sold for December delivery, at $5. Slop fattened hogs have declined to 4 a $4. 75 gross. The St. Louis Republic***- rtoioaiWc sale o-f 300 boge- -*t $4- p?? cwt., and and says offers to sell 200 more at the same rate were made on Saturday, but found no purchasers. During the whole of the revulsion in 1837, the number of failures reported in New York was about five hundred: but the returns under the bankrupt law in 1841 showed that five thousand took the benefit of that act, showing liabilities amounting to about fifty millions of dollars. Lastyenr "only one person in 16,168,449 who traveled by railway, was killed" from "causes beyond his own control." The Charleston Mercury says that atlast accounts there was not enough cotton in New York to load one ship?there being only a little over seventeen hundred bales. When did such a thing happen before ? The Anti-Slavery Society of Pennsylvania recently passed the following" Resolution: "Rctolred, That ia the election of James Buchanan to the Presidency, the cherished hopes of the slaveholders have thus far been realized ; his course of policy towards Kansas and his letter ?t.? Vnoinnd fllercrvmen nrovine him to be IU l>UO ilwTT uujj.uus. 0%/ 4? - w a pro-slavery politician, whose consistency on that subject is still without a flaw." AGRICUI/TVRAX FAIR. On next Monday begins the Fair in Columbia, so long talked of, and which we are told will surpass anything of the kind ever seen in the State. We suppose the Rail Roads will make all necessary arrangements for accommodating an extra number of passengers, stock &c. We learn from the Columbia Times that a grand tournament is contemplated as the closing scene in the drama.? Besides this, it is proposed to open with an Agricultural Ode and a handsome award is proffered for the best effusion. We like the idea. When the Romans cared only for "wars and the rumours of wars" it was the classic numbers of the , Mantuan Bard which brought them back to a love of Nature, of rural life, of the shepherd's pipe, the lowing herds, and the hum of the busy j bees. We are not so warlike as that wolf-nursed i race, but the charm of the poets song may win us from the demon of speculation, rapacity and ambition, and diffuse an appreciative taste for less splendid but more substantial joys. We hope, therefore, that the present occasion may elicit a generous rivalry and the victor shall be honored 1 in our estimation above the " Knight of comely ' raein and gallantry." We hear of several going down from our District, though we can as yet 1 make no estimation of the amount orquality that 1 will be contributed to the exhibition. The Carolinian makes the following appeal to all who are interested in the Agricultural pros- s perity of the State?and who are not ? < ll-~ 11?K I0?k ond T3th of this month. I ) | A/U IUC IVkU, livu, 4?vu ??? ? f the annual Agricultural Festival of the State is to be celebrated at Columbia. We entreat the fanners, the planters, and above all, the women, 1 with their bright Bmiles and cheerful faces, to crowd in upon the city. Help us drive off this 1 gloom, which money trouble has thrown over us. Help to cheer us up. Come down with every 1 thing you can show, either useful, curious or beautiful. Our railroads will bring you down for half price?they will transport your articles for. nothing; our hotels will furnish you the creature comforts; our merchants will be most happy to fill your bills, (yes, credit you, sooner than be counted nioe,) and the newspapers will say won- ' drous good things about the new life-blood your presence has infhsed into the people, and the hap- ] piness you have produced. Turn out, then, and 1 let the world feel that the Southern agriculturist stand firm, upon his " Southern institution," and has neither been compelled to suspend or turn out his operatives to starve. We are only in suspense. Back us with the bone and sinew of the country, and you need have ! no fears of suspension. The Timet follows in the same strain : The Seoretary is now at his post ready to dis| charge all the duties incumbent upon him. The grounds have been put in complete order under the superintendence of that efficient manager, Mr. Geo Hall, and already fast horses are being trotted round the sweeps to see how they'can make it | show. .jA few article* have already been received, and <tr - . . / wc have every prospect, notwithstanding the financial pressure, of a glorious run upon the hotels of the town, and the merchants' exchanges, bazaars, &c, Our landlords and merobants say come on and crowd them out if you can; they have hotels of great expansibility, well-filled larders and are determined to give satisfaction. An idea seems to have gotten out that there was a dreadful state of things in Columbia?panic, bank suspensions, failures, no money, and all that kind of scare-crow talk has been the cant of the croakers amongst us and those who have money to invest. Never was there a greater mistake. Some of our banks have suspended, it is true, hut they are not broke. The old Commercial stands firm yet?a glorious monument amongst the panic stricken. Our merchants are sound,?have fine stocks of goods and are anxious to sell them.? The market seeinot wanting in eatables, and drinkables seems to be inexhaustible. All we want is a little bracing up?a little confidence, and we know of nothing that will do more towards securiug it than a big rush from the country daring the Fair. Among the farmers and planters there is no pressure, only what arises from the temporary depression of the great Staple. They have made fine grain crops, the health of the country has been generally good, they have not been speculating in stooks, and theirindebtedness, which is not great, is based upon actual, bonajide property?not bonds, mortgages and fictitious wealth, based on Western rail roads, lands and lota. Their very presence will give the drooping spirits of onr mercantile and manufacturing community new life, and if we can only thahe off the panic, all will be well. Come one, come all, then, and let the Southern rural population show that they are not effected by Northern pressure, and that thev have something worth meeting for. as well as looking at, at their annual Agricultural Festival. MUSIC. A Concert will be given by the young ladies of Limestone Springs Female High School on the 11th of this month. Amateurs and all who appreciate the "concord of sweet sounds" will not miss such an entertainment. In the musical department, as in all others, this school has no superior in the State. Remember the 11th! KANSAS. Gov. Walker is again calling forth the maledictions of the Southern Press, for his interference in matters. not falling legitimately within his sphere. His instigating the soldiers to vote was an outiage on the South, ttnd furthermore he puts his veto on the votes of Oxford precinct. For the last, the administration, it is said, utterly condemns him, as he had specific instructions not to act as judge in the matter. There is a rumor that Walker and Stantok will both be recalled. The Journal of Commerce thus comments on this last act of the impartial Governor. "This action is important in a double sense. It determines the complexion of the Legislature, since Johnson and Douglas Counties, composing a district, eleot enough representatives to turn the scale either way, and the rejection of the vote of Oxford precinct gives the whole number to the free State men. The Legislature is, therefore, Free State by a decided majority. "In the next place, the action of Gov. Walker is of importance and interest, because it clears the skirts of the Democratic party from even the suspicion of frand. The vote of Oxford precinct being oonsidored fraudulent, the responsibility of the fraud is local, and rests only upon those who perpetrated it; but since it teas defeated by Democratic officials, those officials ought to receive the praise, and will surely receive the blame, if any, which attaches to their impartial conduct. Whatever may be the merits of the case,?and we take them to be as reported,?it appears that the Democratic officials in Kansas, inspired by the spirit of Mr. Buobanan's Inaugural and Message, and in spite of Republican misrepresentation and slander, are administering affairs with a degree of impartiality which may be said to lean rather against their otcn party than towards it. Thus Mr. Buchanan's promise, repeated by Gov. Walker, that the fairly expressed will of the people of Kansas should control the election, is fully and signally redeemed." The latest news is contained in the following telegram: "Prirate despatches received in this city, (New York,) front Lawrence,Kansas, say that Governor Walker and Secretary Stanton bad fled from.Benicia, inconsequence or tne threats' of The" ultras.? The people of Lawrence offer them an asylum and protection." On the rumor that Walker is to be recalled, the Charleston Mercury justly remarks : "All the mischief which Walker can do, is done already to Kansas. The Convention to frame a Constitution for Kansas, assembled on last Friday. Within twenty-four hours after the Convention assembles, it will be known whether the pro-slaveryparty is prostrnted or not. AH the appliances, as the representative of the Government, whioh Walker can bring to bear, and all the committals to his policy he can effect, will have been enforced, before the disapprobation of the Government can reach him. Walker can do no more. It is settled now whether Kansas will be a slave or free State by the action of the Convention. The recall of Walker and Stanton is therefore useless, bo far as the South is concerned. the Convention determines that Kansas shall be a slave State, Walker will depart himself. He will have failed in his treacherous purposes, and will find Kansas too hot a residence even for his audacity. But if the Convention determines that Kansas shall be a free State, why not let him, so far as the South and Kansas are concerned, enjoy the felicities of his triumph? The time was when the recall or coerced resignation of Walker would have benefited the South; and that time was when he first fairly and clearly violated the non-jntervention policy of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, by urging and dictating by threats, for himself and the Administration, the reference of the Constitution the Convention might make to the people. The proper time was when two Southern States, in their Democratic Conventions, requested the President of the United States to recall him. At this time, the recall of Walker would have satisfied the South?would have satisfied the requisitions of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. But to leave Walker and Stanton in the Territory, clothed with all the authority of the Government, until hi, has exhausted all his unprincipled efforts to cheat the South, and make Kansas a Free State, and then to recall him, when it is known that he would be rejected by the Senate, may be a policy as shallow as it is vain, to screen th6 Administration from responsibility.? Our only hope for Kansas is in the Southern spirit of the Pro-slavery party in the Convention. The unprincipled efforts to defeat them, might nerve them to a sterner determination to assert their rights. If the Convention, by a majority of but one single vote, wm sena a rro-Btavery uonsumtlon to Congresspthc South will yet win Kansas. HON. W. W. BOTCE. Mr. Boyce recently addressed his constituents in Chester, and the Standard gives quite a full report of his views. His political principles were fully expressed in his speech in this place, but we subjoin the following remarks on the financial revulsion, in which be more lucidly explains his plan of guarding against its recurrence in the futnre: The great object is to have a 8tate currency, perfectly safe and of fixed value. The evils-to be guarded against are two-fold; undue expansion by the banks, and unnecesary entanglement of our banking operations with the financial vicissitudes of other communities. Now, follows ? ideas not to be adopted instantly, but as soon as may be prudent, hereafter when the existing pres- I sure has passed away: 1st. There should be no bank bills under $20, and to accomplish this purpose I would urge an amendment of the Constitution of the United States, to ensure uniformity throughout the country. The object of paper money being simply to J facilitate exchanges, I cannot conceive any im,- | Bginable reason founded on the public good, why , the minor exchanges?that is, all exchanges un- ! der $20?should not be in gold and silver. There ; is no doubt whatever that the supply of specie would be ample for this purpose. The California j g Id mines alone are producing 20,000,000 per | annum, and every man could have his pocket full ; of gold, if there were do small bills id circulation. To this extent, then, the circulation would be per- \ fectiy sound, perfectly independent of banks ex pensions, pressures or panics, i aayuuui mc una at hand to show to what extent the circulation of bank bills would be cut off by this provision, but i it would be considerable. But the advantage does not stop here. The fact that all the exchan- i ges under $20 had to be made in specie, would create a necessity for Bpecie, and ensure a constant I demand upon the banks for specie, which would 1 of itself be of incalculable advantage, as constan- \ tly acting as a preventive against undue expan- j sion. Having practical experience of the advan- ! tage of a specie currency at Washington, where ; all the dealings of the Government are in hard money, I am amazed that any intelligent comma- , pity will cling to an exclusive paper medium of j i circulation. Our State seems to have abhorrence ' of gold and direr, for to absolutely banish them from circulation, they fill up their currency with i paper, even to $1 bills. That the currrency un { dcr $20 should be specie seems to me so manifest : a proposition, that I am at a loss to argue it?it seems like proring an axiom. I will conclude upon this point by alluding to the example and exEerience of those great nations that stand at the ead of cirilization, England and France, where one could suppose the subject of currency would I be understood, if any where. They permit no small paper bills. They wouldas soon perinitthe plague. .England allowed no bills under $25, France none under $20. So such on this poin'. ? 2. As a further provisions to preveut over issues by the banks, I Wbuld repeal'the present penalty, of fire percent, due the State suspension, and in*stead thereof substitute the following provision': every bank bill on which specie is refused, to bear an interest of ten per cent., until specie payment is resumed. This will be a better safeguard, I think, than the present five per cent, penalty, because it will be more apt to be enforced, and will be what it ought to be, a compensation in damages to the parties injured, by having a depreciated cnrrency in possession of the bill-holders.? The present penalty amonnts to nothing, in my opinion. The State will in all probability release it; at least, I should desire to s?e them do so, and suoh is, I think, the general wish. The provision, l suggest, coatd not be released 07 tne oiaie, auu its enforoemetit might safely be left to the promptings of individual interest - 3. Require the banks to retain in their vaults specie to the extent of one-third of their circulation. This provision would hare carried oar banks safely through tho present crisis. It is this which gives the New OorleanB banks so much back-bone at present. 4. My next proposition is, that the usury laws be repealed, and the banks as well as all individuals be permitted ts loan their money out at what-" ever they can get for it. The usury laws prohibit the taking of more than seven per oent for the loan of money. Suppose the Legislature were to enact that tho owner of a house should not receive more than a rent equal to seven per cent. 8ociety would exclaim with one voice, such a legislation is an infringement of the right of property, and absurd in the extreme. And society would be right, too, for there is no difference in principle between the eases. If it is wise to permit the owner of a house to receive what he can for the use of it, why is it not wise to permit the owner of money to do the same thing. The usury laws are the relics of a barbarous age, and belong to the same school of legislation as prohibitory tariffs. They all go upon the idea that the people are only grown up children and need guardians. I do not agree to this idea. I think the people have sense enough to take care of themselves, and each one understands his own interests better than Government does. I am a free trade man, and favor the largest liberty to capital and industry, having an earnennvintinn that if triulfl in loft free, whether in goodfl or money, it will regulate itself wisely. - If money is worth mere* than seven per cent., let the owner receive it; if it is worth less be will not be able to get jb If free trade in money is allowed, the great principle of supply and demand will regulate its price with unenng certainty. To make make money plenty you have only to unite capital to unrestricted competition. By our law the banks cannot receive more than six per cent, on their discounts As money is worth more than this; they cannot afford to loan at this price, and henoe seek custom beyond the limits of the State. To prevent this evil, I say abolish the usury laws, and let the banks loan their money out for what they can get. The result will be to make them desire a home business, as it would be more under their^wn eyes and consequently safer By Abolishing the usury laws we will open a new field of profitable investmeqt to the people and the banks, and infinitely release our banking Bystemfrom the jeopardy it is placed in by being exercised in other States. 5. The banks of South Carolina should be confined to the banking business of the State of South .Carolina. They should be permitted this in its amplest range, but not one step beyond. The praotice of our banks having agents in New Orleans, Mobile or other cities loaning money and dealing in exchanges and having officers in New York shaving notes there, is to my mind monstrous, and Bbould be extirpated by the roots? should be absolutely and peremptorily forbidden, and forbidden, too, by penalties that could enforce obedienee. Can anything be imagined more prejudicial to the interests of the people of this State, than for our financial safety to be constantly put in jeopardy by speculations of agents and bank officers in distant States? It is a game at " "wfinnf ffie peop7el>r south Carolina have everything to lose and nothing to gain. I do not think it Decessary to enlarge upon this proposition. By permitting our banks to speculate in the various forms of money, making in distant States, we run all the risks of the financial disasters of those States without any counterbalancing advantage. The people cannot possibly gain anything by this operation, and yet they may lose a great deal.?' Banks are institutions chartered for the public good. As the public good cannot be promoted, but may be vastly prejudiced, by this transference of our banks to other States, I say it should be prohibited? Chenter Standard. CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. Charleston, Not. 2, 1867. < . / We are beginning to open our winter campaign of amusement, with a fair prospectof a good run, a large attendance, and a smashing business. The Theatre has been open a week, and crowds are attracted thither nightly. The Company is said to be a good one, and thus far they have not only given satisfaction, but they have acquitted themselves with much applause. The ladies are handsome aud sing like nightengales, and the mpn are gay, gallant, and act well their parts, and there all the honor lies. There is also on hand a menagerie of living wonders on exhibition on King street, which com* prises the fat woman, the Indian Giant, snakes of all sorts and sizes, a dwarf, and Mrs. CraxiNOuam and her bogos babe, together with a number of other things not laid down in the programme or set forth in the bills. The fat empress of this little animated kingdom is a blooming lass of sweet sixteen, weighing five hundred pounds net, and moves about like s French dancing master on a tonr to the land of big rivers and steady habits* Proudly and serenely seated upon her throne, she, holds her nightly levee, and dispenses her smiles.' on those whom she thinks most deserving of them. Great preparations are being made for the approaching Fair, and there is no donbt bnt that we will have a crowded and brilliant time. The rush will be great, and onr merchants and hotel keeners are preparing for the worst. Several of the Southern States will contribute liberally, and the beauty and chivalry of the seaboard and the mountains will there meet and mingle in one gay and joyous whirl of fashionable rivalry. The managers and directors are busy, and every arrangement will be made and every facility offered for one of the most orowded and successful affairs of the kind that has transpired for many years. Last Saturday was spent in manufacturing voters ! fo'r the coming Mayor's election. Those who ; found it impossible to pay their tax when the 1 Treasurer's office closed on the fifteenth day of j July last, and were willing to make oath that they were present for the purpose of paying them, but j could not for the rush of the immense crowd, was ! permitted to come forward, and make an affidavit to that effeot, was allowed to pay the same between 1 this and the day of election, and bo furnished with the certificates of qualified voters. Sixty-six were thus made, forty of whom it is supposed will vote for Richabdsox.- In my next I shall be able to tell you who will be the Mayor of Charleston for the next two years. . ' j 'k~ King street is alive every afternoon with "fuss and feathers," and it would astonish-jon to see ' " 1 -'J -- WntMAdUn ilnna nn !n ilrv. ! ttie noou UUC UI gnjr uuuiaunj uvuv -j/ J goods that does congregate there to walk, and qaix and flirt, and sec and be seen between the hours ! of Ave and six. The women are peeping oat at the top of their skirts and the men are ch^^g hoops like school-boys. Whale-bone and ketts, high heeled boots and little bats, patentleather belts and monkey jackets, are just at thhc time the peculiar rage of upper-ten-dom, and the besetting sin of the second-hand aristooraoy. The Banks are beoming a little mor* liberal, and times, of course, becoming easy to the same extent. Paper notes on .suspended Banks can now be had, if one does hare to pay a high price I for them. And bad money, yon know, is better ! % * % * ' * '/ < ^ V. than none, espec'iaKy in t?ese Equally tita? of monev {M-cssnre and Bank suspensions. The times are chmgcable, and we comfort ourselvee the idea that the next change will be fo* tbe better, for we are oooiident they cannot be worse, who survive the present.financial equinox, maf well be proud of their position, and inspire confidence in the future. . j. Our cotton market la rather improtlng^awi boot- three hundred bales were sold tor-daya!* slight advance. The prioes ranging from 10| to 12J. The arrivals onjBatnrday by the 8outh C? olina Railroad was 464 bales, and 200 by the N. Eastern Railroad, We are looking for relief from the present pressure, to the opening of thaeettsfii market; and that is believed by some to be about the only chance. j There is to be a lectnre at Temperance Hall this evening by the Bey.-Mr. Caxfbsci of HMfe' ville, on the subject of bringing about wnore harmonious system of actionamong the different temperance organizations. He is also csuvasslng for a paper which Is about to be published at Naibville, and which is to advocate all the bsnoyoiea| objects of the day. Mr. Hamxoxd, the proprietor of the Meant Vernon Ioe Cream Garden, hsa opened a ladies restaurant; where the dear creatures can go and take their oysters and hot coffee, wife a* 6ft** luxury they, may desire, while their husbands or? at the theatre or the billiard tobies. Women w}tt have their righto whether toe men will allow them or not. MAGNOLIA. ' mV * For the Yorkvflle Enquirer. * school. teaching?a. scixsck. Scexe.?Old log school-homo?one tog tawed out for light?dap-hoard door?school-master within enthroned on hie chair wielding the rod of kitppwtr?other conveniences to natch. / Schoolmaster.?Class in Geography ready ?? (8ome bellow out yes, sir!?others, notyetdfrf) Come on?oan't watt. Now boys feffn a Una J0L stand in a line?lean on your dinners. Geography f Class,? Geography is a description of the eAff??, Schoolmaster.?(William, you and Charlfetyit that laughing.) What is a Hem? . fe Little Boy UL?Jim is pinching me! Schoolmaster?Come np here Jim, this (Boy cornea along with finger in his mouth.) Wife> did you pinch John for t , , J7m.?He pinched me first! Schoolmaster,?Come up here, John. Now both. of you etaud. there till I get through with, this Class. What is a - (Sit, still! or Til wear you out.; w&at is a HemispbereT Class.?Half a sphere ! Schoolmaster.?(I moat have less fiiss'ofljSlr^ hear my ears!) What are the natural SthtitiHIgr Class.? Islands, continents, straits, (crias of a?," no,) peninsulars, islands, isthmus, oceans, (soma j little fellow?no 1 not oceans!) mountains. Little Boy, 2d. ? Make Bill Lumpkins quit push* ingmel ' Schoolmaster.?(Bill Lumpkins, behave yett* self. J What is a Continent ? Close.?A continent is?a continent ia^.lfift body of? . ..? Schoolmaster.?A largo body of Wh4t$* <<s->' Clou.?A large body of water surrounded by .x fc land! . JT^* ?& Schoolmaster.?la that right* (Ctloa oGm*r\ no sir 1 Bright little fellow?laud surrounded by wafer!) Class.?Tee, sirl Schoolmaster.?I must have silence I on the floor?tries to look savage,) What is a VoI<^?.? . Clasr^A mountain with a hole on top. ", Little Boy.?I with you would do thfrwna. Schoolmaster.?Go way and don't 'rTtbrtw jj i What is a?T Lem, come up hera thi* adnnte^ what were you jerking that book <jat o?$mtife^L hand for 7 ~ Lem.?It was my book, sir. ' 76^^ Schoolmaster.?(Pulls out his wateh Andltek# flgety.) Boys! get yonr lessons there. What ia a Moantain ? Class.?Don't know sir. Schoolmaster.?(Quite impatient.} 60 and sit down and get this lesson over?you don't half know it. Don't you come heft again with lessons as that! Next class come. (The curtain . \ <-<p> drops.) - - ? ?! ? For the Yorkville Enquirer. FEMALE EDUCATION. . Messrs EditorsIt is really strange that you man think /it tho loiftoa mn aoTitnm TrfiaMi&nf." anything relating to what you tennthe" softer sex," unless it bo a oat at their drawing, crinolines, hoops, bonnets &c., just as if the drgarandf 10^ woman were one and indivisible. Don't you know- * as well enough to know, that we will w?*r whatever is fashionable, in spite of the " strait jacket of critioism," and, begging the pardon, of the" "lords of creation," I maintain that we are right in so doing. . It is oar business to attend to matters of taste, to embellish the home circle, to act the poetical i counterpart of prosy" man?ih" . short to fill the positions of daughters and wist*. What is it makes the little girl with roso-dimpled cheek and merry langh diffuse gladness wherwg?/" she goes? What bat that inherent, womanly, disposition to please, that nicety in dress, that innate modesty, that attention to .of life? And the same Waifs which please in the sobool-girl, please in the woman. . The duporiwkto please is the basis of all her charms. * AwSffl that makes her stndioas of what if-r erudite men are accustomed to term^-MTdUties. She cannot be a woman, without bring at. the: same time, a " creature of fashion," as some gal- . Innt editors have called her, meaning thereby, we suppose, that she has no soul 1 But we carenct for such ungenerous imputations. 'In the hour of affliction man finds out that she has a hdjtifeta^ sympathise with his griefs, and a' soul equffW&fc his proudest dream of heroism. aCU.'.y But it is not, as her defender that we W|lfii.~ -' Her vindication is written in nnmberies^f&fiof charity,in the daily kindnesses whichmalrveiw|^t rudest CotUge "sweet home,"?in thtratniaS| and elevating influence which she exercises over . the impulses and aspirations of man, no less ftf ! in the beauty, Gods own signet, which has given her a power above brute force, and one, to which, i even the " lords of erection " ate amenable. Bat | it is to Cail y our attention to what gentlemenmight to understand, but what tbey alwaya.overipjok, in i the attempt to teach rhs something they d¬ know. It is the mystery of chooaiag^a^Khmufg^ Yon will readily grattt thatmoman's noblest ambitiou should be to make a good wife. MangpS$ selfish nature will compell him to admit&afciv^ But how can she be expected to ? | unless she have a good husband ? singe man is so profound how ia'be to solYcjhb-mystery-?? Now if you can tell usiow to sob ^3t a husband, or. any ofthe " harder sex,"let the secret out; j?aot, the "creatures of fashion " will try enjl take cara of themselves. -ibA. yry#. ; A StmcHSTiTio!!.?The"" causes of the revolt against the British power in Indii hesbeen a subject of curious and difficult study, The English 'bud it is as diffioult-to ascertain, those, onuses as r'to put down the.rebellion. It has transpired that two.pbropheciesnr supernatural traditions long current among the native population point to an end of the British sway at this period of time. No matter how peurile in themselves these superstitions have undoubtedly a great influence upon the'peo'ple of Hindoo tan, and will have mors and more; as they seem near being realised. One of these notions is that the Koh-i-noor diamond ' . .. .