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. & jfarts. ?: , ??ilu Gaston county, at the late Superior Court, Jacob Rudicill, tried for the murder of Michael Mendenhall, was convicted of man-slaughter; and sentenced to 12 months imprisonment and pay a fine of 81,000. The Supreme Court of Tennessee, in session at Knoxville, decided, the other day, that betting on an election held out of the State, is not indictable in Tennessee.? Betting on the result of an election in Kentucky, for instance, is not an offence against the laws of Tennessee. Mississippi is to be added to the list of States which have prohibited the circulation of bank notes of a less denomination than five dollars, A law to this affect went into operation the first day of November. This applies to the foreign bank notes, as there is no bank of issue in Mississippi. ; ?The Alexandria (Virginia) Sentinel learns by a gentleman from the neighborhood of Dumfries, in Prince William county, that large numbers of hogs are dying there of the Hog Cholera. One farmer had on/1 fttfA fwplVA P?/>h JVOV Otru W r? v Vvuv.w v *. w W?v~. The vomitings, purgings and cramps which mark the disease are such as at once to suggest the name by which it is known. - ??- "Ion", of the Baltimore Sun, says that in case Brigham Young avowed an intention to resist the United States authorities, it is believed that half his Mormon followers would desert him, as they already suffer from his tyranny. This Mormon question has assumed a really serious aspect, although the Administration does Dot seem to regard it as of much importance. The products of the California miners the last six years are put down at $444,091,000) those of Australia, since their discovery, at $296,904,000 in all?an increase of about one third, according to the best statistical writers, on the value of precious metals known in 1850. The total value of gold and silver in the world at the present time, then, is upwards of ?2,000,000,000. * Major McCulloch, United States Marshal, has returned to Galveston, from his Northern and Western tour. The Civilian says he denies the soft impeachment of being afflicted with the Nicaragua fever. A colony of sixty it is said, would go to Nicaragua from Fort Bend and adjoining countries, with implements of husbandry as well as of warfare, intending to become permanent settlers and cultivators of the soil. A letter to the St. Louis Leader, dated Fort Laramie, September 14, gives a most favorable report of the health of the United States army for Utah. It soys: "We have scarcely any unfit for duty, and have not lost a man by disease on the route." | The progress of the army has been at the rate of seventeen and three-fourths miles per day. Twenty-five miles have been accomplished without difficulty. Tho city of Washington is very nearly rivaling Baltimore in scenes of riot and dis/ order. Hardly a day passes that some outrage is not committed, and the offenders are seldom brought tojustice. On Saturday night last and Sunday following, the city was completely under the sway of rowdies?the police having not the slightest authority. Armed bands of ruffians patrolled the streets, assaulting peaceable citizens, firing pistols, and defying all municipal power. A proposition has been made so to amend the marriage law of Illinois, as to requirethat the prospective husband and wife, on any given day, enter in the office of any officer legally empowered to do such a duty, a written declaration to become man and wife. From that day, for one year, let them associate as lovers, or break the engagement if the choose; then, at the end of the year, if they again express their determination to become busband and wife, let the contract be sealed. The Southern Recorder learns from a gentleman of Crawford county, that aJMrs. Nancy Eubanks, formerly a Miss Dickson of Hancock, was terribly gored in the s.tomach by a bull on the 6th Oct. ult., ripping it open from side to side, letting out her entire intestines. She gathered them in her apron and climbed three fences in that awful conJ:.: -i 1J 1 U.,? ? U1UUU j 5UC WUUiU uavo l/CUU A1IICU she could have escaped, had it not have been for a fice dog she had aloDg with her at the time who kept the bull at bay. Mrs. E. is in the 71st year of her age, and was alive on the 26th ult., though not considered out of danger. Among other innovations which the mammoth steamer Great Eastern is about to inaugurate, will be the publication of a daily paper on board for the benefit of the traveling publio?the regular "public" of travelers?whom she may be bearing across the .ocean. But this startling features is anticipated on the western waters of the New v World; for the New Orleans and St. Louis packet steamer James E. Woodruff now s&ilB equipped with the force and material for the pnblioation of a regular daily paper on board during he$ trips up and down the river, with a job office attached for the printing of bills of fare and other work. The vintage has been progressing in the State of Missouri for some week and is now about ended. The yield it is said is unprecedentedly large?the vintners are reaping a larger crop than they had provided for; and in consequence there is a scarcity of barrels and cellar-room. The Louis BVsticlie Post says the grape9 are unusually large and juicy, and if ordinary care is taken in the vintage, the yield of wine will be better as well as larger than ever before, as they contain a greater percentage of sugar than has been the case in any year since 1848.? The wine this year grown in Hermann and vicinity will amount to about 100,000 gallons. Our exchanges from the hog feeding districts generally speaks of inactivity existing, although the packing season is at hand. At Cincinnati, a sale of500 head has been at made $5, deliverable on the 10th of December. This is a clear decline of $2 per hundred pounds from the prices current about the first of August. Packing operations will commence in that city, weather favoring, about the fifth of this month. At Henderson, Kentucky, $6 is reported to be the ruling rate. At Madison Indiana, early in the season, about 25,000 head were contracted for at $6.30 net. At Evansville and along the Wabash, buyers will not operate in the uncertainty of prices; there are some contracts on the Wabash at $5. At Cincinnati it is expected the prices may go down to $4. At Chicago, sales have been made, net $4.75 a $5.25 gross. At Burlington, Iowa, prices equal to S5 net, delivered, have been accepted.?Memphis Appeal. Cjftjwkbtllf inquirer! edited bt JOHN L. MILLEB JOSEPH H. BLACK YORKV.ILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1857. ABSENT. Both the editors have gone to Columbia to attend the Fair. This will account for the scarcity of editorial matter in the present issue. NOTES BV THE WAY. Monday Evening. Dear Enquirer:?We are now in Columbia, and are beginning to have an inkling of the Fair.? When we left Yorkville this morning, the cars were by no means crowded, but we gathered up before reaching this place, quite a full supply of human cattle, together with choice representatives of the brute creation. From York, a fine horse, the property of Mr. Gwinn, and some fine "Suffolk'* and "Corbett" pigs?the ownership unknown? were brought down to-day. Mr. Anderson, at ^ - - ~ t _1 I McConnellsvilie, put on uoara some p?u?o m uvexhibited. At Chester, among other curiosities, we were shown a lot of mammoth corn, the pro- 1 duction of Mr. John McAfee, on Little Sandy River. The ears would measure at least fifteen inches, and were large in proportion. A squash weighing sixty-two pounds?of a beautiful rose color? a real shanghai squash, was likewise sent down as an offering from Chester to the bountiful Ceres. We did not meet with as many rarities as we expected, owing, perhaps, to the inclemency of the weather. To-morrow, however, they will crowd in. We met with no nccidennt on the road until ' dinner-timo, when we accidently had the pleasure of dining with some of the fair daughters of York. We made the acquaintance of Mr. Gilmard of 1 the Register, on the platform at Winnsboro', but did not have time to enquire if Mr. Boyce had answered his interrogatories satisfactorily or notThe cars make an awkwnrd approach to Winnsboro,' coming up unceremoniously in the rear, and giving only an oeriputal view of its countenance. After the usual quantity of smoke, yawning, little, delays, and other necessary evils, we were in Columbia. Most of the York delegation put np at "Host's." York, Union, Newberry, and, particularly, Abbeville, aro well-represented hereWe can but admire the spirit with which Abbeville enters into a public enterprise. Candidates are beginning to "buzz" around al- J ready. It will be a busy season with them until ^ the session is over. We met Col. Asumore at "Hcxt's," and we judge that the Bank complications have not let him sleep on roses the last few weeks. We look for an able report from him on the condition of the Banks. Col. Chksnut is in town, and from what we can gather, we think his prospect for being elected Senator is very flattering. Many of Hammond's friends will go to him in preference to. Pickens or Manning. But we are yet on the threshold of the Fair? , when we see more, we will try and give a "bird's- , eye-view" of note-worthy objects. ^ MANAGERS OP ELECTIONS. 1 We publish on our first page, from the Edgefield Advertiser, an address to the managers of elections 1 in South Carolina, Asking unanimous action, ^n ] order to eecure to them hereafter, a sufficient re- < muneration for their services. This address is i carefully prepared, and we have only refrained < from laying it before our readers in the hope of ] securing more attention, when the meeting of the < Legislature should draw near at hnnd. It has 1 long struck us as a desideratum to discover some ] method by which the purity of the ballot box should be rigidly preserved, and the simplicity of republicanism retained. A corrupt ballot box is the prelude to every oth.er political vice. It is 1 the first stepping stone to the "vaultingambition" of corrupt mediocrity. A corrupt ballot box and 1 a corrupt jury, are the two evils against which re- 1 publicans must guard, if they hope to secure per- 1 manence and stability to their free institutions, or if they wish not the blessings of liberty perverted into the curse of licentiousness. So long as these are preserved in their primitive purity, so long as they are mediums for the honest expression of opinion, then political rights are secure aud private rights respected. As to the method of guarding against the perversion of the elective franchise, we think many . of the suggestions made in the above-named article worthy, at least, the consideration of our Legislature. Managers should be men of strict integrity?above collusion?animated by a sense of justice and of the responsibility of their positions, and besides all this, they should be invested (if they are not already) with the power to 6uppres3all "treating," whether in "ginger-cakes" or "old rye" on the day of election. After the die is cast, we have no reasonable objections to any reasonable demonstration of friendship or rejoicing, but while the contest is pending, everything that smacks of bribery, every meretricious exp.dient, every artifice which would delude the voter from casting bis suffrage for the meritorious candidate, should be indignantly frowned down by the virtuous and patriotic, as well as suppressed by the strong arm of Law. We commend the article from the Advertiser to all. r\ suggests many points which are worthy of notice. THE SABBATH IN YORKVILLE. There are about fifteen hundred inhabitants in the little town of Newberry ; of this number we may say?that one in seven, or two hundred persons out of this population of fifteen hundred souls pay regard to the Sabbath day. i Thirteen hundred people who habitually neglect I to attend places of public worship?though we have six in number?a majority of whom spend that day in what? in seeking, we suppose, their own pleasure and amusement.?Rising Sun. The above extract, from an article in our plainspeaking cotemporory, gives us, comparatively, an exalted opinion of Yorkville. Two hundred persons divided between six churches! Why it reminds us of the folly of the Egyptian in building the mighty pyramid for one sepulchre! It leally looks like a wasto of money to build six churches for two hundred people when they would about make one congregation. Whenever we see a small congregation we conclude immediately that the pastor does not do his duty. A | minister once accosted an old Deacon who had the i happy faculty of sleeping soundly beneath the "droppings of the sanctuary." "Brother E , ' I noticed you sleeping during the sermon?you j ought to break yourself from this habit?don't ! you think you had better take a little snuff?"? j "Don't you think you had better put a little snuff I in vour sermon ?" was the quiet reply. But in I addition to preaching good sermons at stated times, there are many other duties devolving on those I who dedicate themselves to God. The minister j should be in deed, as in name, a pastor?the gentle j j shepherd of a loving flock. The young should j | reverence, respect and love him. He should lead ' | a pious, simple, exemplary life, adorned by the I "beauty of holiness" and energized by a pure and living faith. Above all, he should preserve the freshness, the goodness and innocent impulses of youth, like the Priest of Apollo, so admirably des! cribed by the gentle Fenelox: "With all his in- , j tellectual superiority, he was cheerful and condei soending: there is no grace in the utmost gaiety of youth that was not exoeeded by Tebkosieis in his , age; and he regarded young persons with a kind of parental affection, when he perceived that they had a disposition to be instructed and a love for I virtue." Every minister should make the Vicar \ of Wakefield his dnily companion. Religion never j wore a more fascinating garb, since it was personified in the meek and lowly Jesus, than when it beautified, under every misfortune, the life of the good old Vicar: " Coniparod with this, how poor Religion's pride. In all the pomp of method, nnd of art, When men display to congregations wide, Devotion^ every grace, except the heart." It is not our intention to sermonize on sermons and ministers, but we cannot but regret that the tendency of the age is to formality, and that pastor* too much neglect domiciliary visits, overlooks g the religious training of the young, imd content, forso much gold, to deliver so many sermons.? I From a contrast, however, with Newberry, we flatter ourselves that Yorkville has little reason to complain of inefficiency in her ministers. We horn five churches in this place?nil of them respectably attended. The Old School Presby terian alone has a regular congregation exceeding the entire church-going community of Newberry. We do not make this comparison in the way of a boast, but it should certainly be set down to the credit of the place. It is a common observation that no where, as at this place, is the Sabbath belter kept, or the same attention and decorum observed during religious ceremonies. But there is still room for improvement. DIRECT TRADE. One good effect seems about to spring from the crisis. The planters of the South are beginuing to look to a direct communication with J^urope as the only chance of extrication from the present troubles. If we wait for New York to move, we may expect the wheels of trade to remain stationary for the next two or three years. A financial crisis such as the present, neither comes or passes iway in a few days ; it is the growth of years of fraud, extravagance and speculation, and years of prudence, caution and suffering is the inevitable forfeit. There is no possibility that the North can recover from such a revulsion in a few months. Confidence may be partially restored, but credit, the very life-blood of all mammoth companies, will be long restrained within prudent limits.? Business will be conducted on such a contracted ind cnutious system, that the price of every article, not absolutely necessary, will be depressed to m unreasonably low rate. In this way, men may jegiu soon to do a safe butinett, but it will be long *' " ~~A? 5?a- ?-!?!. ?Ka+ tflftl Anil untrlf ire tncy enter imo it mm mm. ...... ivhich elevates the price of commodities and real :state. Supposing then that this propositior. is correct, s it not apparent that the true policy of the South is to turn from the bankrupt North to England and the rest of Europe? Is not this the very policy which for years our statesmen and jconomists have advised and urged upon us ?? A.nd now, when it is no longer a theory dimly >een, but a necessity strongly felt, the South should gladly bail such a fortunate means of csjape?a means which only requires ordinary energy, and* which will be fraught wifh blessings ivhich every one must prize, who feels one patriotic throb, or who values Southern independence. We understand that an enterprise is now on foot in this State, looking to a direct trade with Europe. The projectors have an agency in Chester, and are themselves responsible and trusnworty men. This is no chimera of the brain, but a palpable, tangible,reasonable enterprise, which interest and patriotism unite in commending to the favor of the South. The proposition is, as we understand it, to advance thirty dollars on each bale, and then after deducting all expenses from here to Liverpool of freight, commission &c., to pay over whatever may be realized. This is fair, a ud is better than the only other resource left the planter?to part with his cotton at a great sacrifice. MERE-MENTION. Mr. E. B. Clinton, of this place, was on Saturday last, elected Captain of the " Brier-Patch" Beat Company, vice Copt. Miles Wallace, resigned. InNcwJersey.theDcmocrntshnve electedsix out of eight Senators. The Senate will thus stand: 15 Democrats to 6 Opposition. In the House: Democrats 53, Opposition 25. Massachusetts has gone largely Black Republican, and Banks is elected Governor by a large plurality. The Alabama Legislature assembled on Mondav last. The amount of specie sub ject to draft by Government, is nine million eight hundred thousand dollars. Corn is offered at twenty-three cents a bushel by the farmers along the Wabash Valley, deliverable at their own expense in Vincennes, Indiana. The Americans have carried Maryland by an increased majority as compared with the last Presidential Election. Judge Macijetu has been elected Mayor of Charleston, over Mr. Richardson, Esq., by 125 votes. Hon. Jno. S. Preston arrived in Columbia a few days since, from a visit to Europe. As usual, the proprietors of the South Carolinian propose to send that excellent journal during the Session of the Legislature, to subscribers, for One Dollar, postage free. John E. Ward has been elected President of the Senate of Georgia, John W. II. Underwood Speaker of the House, and Alexander Spear Clerk of the House. Hon. Mr. Toombs has been re-elected by the Georgia Legislature to the Senate of the United States. The numerous frionds of Bishop Andrew, will be pained toleain that lie is in very bad health. The North Carolina Christian Advocate thinks it doubtful whether he will be able to attend the session of the Methodist Conference to be held in that State this month. If he is unable to attend, Bishop Pierce will take his place. Two female horse thieves were arrested a few days since at Louisville. In looking over the schedule of articles to be presented to the different Indian tribes, for which the Secretary of the Interior invites proposals, we observe the item " two hundred dozen scalping knives." Our band went up involuntarily to the "place where the hair ought to be." It is estimated that the wheat crop of Wisconsin, for the year 1857, will amount to eighteen millions of bushels?being an increase of six millions over 1856. A few days since, Jacob Drinkhocsb, died in Philadelphia. He was a soldier of the revolution, and perhaps the last witness of the execution of Major Andre. TheWilmington/7rrcrWsay8that in the vicinity of Asheville, N. C., last week, snow fell to the depth of five inches. The latest advices from California say that the Mormons intend to remove to the Russian Possessions, should the Federal Government seriously interfere with them. The Saints at Carson Valley were to leave for Utah, about the last of October. They bad received orders from Bbioham Young to form a cavalry company. Levi Sumrall died in Clark county, Miss., on the 21stult., leaving fiftynine grand children, one hundred and twentyseven erreat errand-children, and two great-great grand-children, besides his own children, all now living in the county of Clarke. He has also had twenty-two grand-children who died before hira. Gen. J. Pinckney Henderson has written a letter, in which he states that if the Legislator of Texas is willing to trust him in the seat of the United States Senate which Gen. Sam. Huston will leave at the close of the present Congress, in 1869, he will accept the office. The Chicago Times says that during the fire in that city, on Monday, a Milwaukie fireman named Cooper, was taken out of the ruins of Barnum's store, after having been buried there for about two hours. He was insensible when first taken out, but soon revived, and commenced swearing at his rescuers for not digging him out sooner. Another letter has been reoeived from Charles 9 Sir ms kb, in which " he only regrets that he will ! not be able to return to America in season to give Mr. Banks bis vote for Governor of Massachusetts." IIo purposes to illuminate the country with his presence some time this month. Dispatches received by the Government atWash; ington, confirm the report that the Mormons in| tcml to resist the entrance of the United States 1 troop? into Utah. CHARLESTON CORRESPONDENCE. Ciiarlkstok, Nov. !?, 1857. Tho agony is over, the election is past and Charles Macbeth is elected, and tbo consequence is that 1204 of the free and independunt voters of the city of Charleston nre elated with success, | while 1081 nre depressed with disappointment.? Tho successful enndidato was elected by a small majority, and tho result was considered extremely doubtful until trio close of the polls.? Every possible effort was made by both parties, and every inch of ground was stoutly and stubbornly contested. Money was freely nsed and the floating vote was bought up at high prices.? Money is said to make the mare go, but this time it made the Mayor go. There was considerable excitement, at the polls, butnosecnesof violence or rowdyism were enacted on the day of the election. The inauguration of the new Mayor and Aldermen took place in Council^chamber at one o'clock on Friday last, before an anxious and imraeusely crowded assembly. The occasion is always one of intense interest, and the desire to witness the imposing ceremony is participated in to a greater or less degree, by all. When the doors were opened, the rush was so great that it was feared some might be crushed and seriously injured.? Fortunately the excited and tempestuous sea of humanity became in a measuro quiet, and the threatened danger passed off without any serious personal damage. The annual examination of the Cadets of the Citadel Academy commences to-morrow, and will probably continue throughout the week. A good deal of interest is generally manifested on occasions of this kind, and the attendance is large. The ladies, who always have a smile and a good word for the gay, the gallant and the brave, will honor the occasion with their presence, and light the gloomy pathway of the student with the bright beams that flash from beautys eye. We learn that the graduating class will be large, and that it embraces many who have talents of a high order. The State may justly be proud of her mili'ary schools, which have already given some distinguished men to the country. Our citizeus were aroused from their slumbers at the still and silent hour of one o'clock on Saturday morning last, by the startling cry of fire. On repairing to the spot, it was found to have originated in a large three story brick building situated at the corner of King and Queen streets, and occupied as a dry goods store. The timely discovery of the flames, and the promptness and activity of our firemen, prevented the spread of the fire, and confiued it to the locality of its origin. The goods were damaged more from the water than the fire, and the injury to the building was rather slight A fight of rather aserious nature occured about an hour before the alarm of fire was raised, between a party of the city police and some twenty members of the Charleston Fire Engine Company. It nppeares that the letter had been ont for the purpose of serenading their Captain who had recently been elected an Alderman of the second ward. And on their way hack to their engine house, being in rather a merry mood, they met a couple of members of another fire company who taunted the Charleston boys with some jeering remnrks, when a fight ensued, and the police, in interfering to suppress the disturbance, was soon compelled, in self defence, to become a party in the fight, nnd some telling blows were given, and some severe wounds inflicted. The disturbance was finally quelled and the ringleaders arrested anil lodged in the Guard House. The high taxes on buggies and carriages has put some ingenious Yankee to work to dodge the responsibility and evade the law. The vehicles set forth in the ordinance, as liable to taxation, are set down under the denomination of "two wheeled' and "four wheeled." Two of our carriage makers brought out a new nflfnir last week which they call a "three wheeled phaeton," and which is not liable to be taxed under the provisions of the present ordinance fixing the amount of taxes on that species of property, as it is neither "two wheeled" or "four wheeled." The third wheel s in front and follows immediately after the horse, as it is in duty bound to do when the horse goes forward. Many advantages is claimed for it over the old fashioned vehicles, one of which is, that it can be turned in a smaller space. Who will now dispute that this is an age of progress, when young America is going itou three wheels? Our cotton market is slowly improving, nnd the sales of Saturday which amounted to seven hundred bales, was made at a small advnnce; extremes being 111 and 12;]. The arrivals on Friday by the South Carolina Road was 1300 bales, and 80 bales by the North Eastern Road. If cot ton continues to come in at this rate, and prices still advance, money matters will soon be easier, and the money pressure will soon be pnssed. Cotton is the only thing that/can put money in circulation, and it is to be hoped that the planters will not hold back their crop for higher prices, but send it at once to market and sell it for what it will bring. .MAGNOLIA. P. S. The sales of cotton this morning amounted to 700 bales at prices ranging from 12 to 13 cents, 343 bales being nt the latter figure. The arrivals now by Railroad is near one thousand bales per day, and the sales will soon equal that number, which is about the ordinary business of this market at this season of the year. The market is regularly improving both in price and quantity, and the stringency of the times must soon relax under its reviving and healthful influence. We have looked to this source all the time for relief, and now wo can soe glimpses of the bow of promise which portends a brighter day. Sonth Caroliua College. The Grand Jury of Abbeville for the Fall Tenn made the following presentment, which the Anderson True Carolinian thinks is rather overstepping their legitimate sphere: "That the South Carolina College, under its present Faculty, is not fulfilling the design had in view in its organization by the Legislature. The present Faculty have shown themselves utterly incapable of governing the students, and the Grand Jury are really surprised that the Trustees should have replaced them in their Professorships, nfter having so justly turned them out. They would recommend, therefore, that until the College be placed under the control of a Faculty capable of governing it, that the annual appropriations thereto be withheld. In our opinion, under its present management,~it is a nuisance." A Baxkrcpt Law.?Those who imagine, says the Washington Star, that a project for a bankrupt law will be seriously urged on Congress at the approaching session are mistaken. We have carefully noted the signs of the times in that connection ever since the beginning of the suspension of the banks, and can see nothing to justify any such impression. It is, however,- evident from the tone of more or less newspapers on the subject, that thousands of those who have of late failed are not a little anxious for such Congressional legislation. Nevertheless, they will seek relief after that fashion in vain. The truth is, it is not Ho onnntrr that is bankrupt ? but bankers, and I ?~ ? J . . | here and there a merchant. When the unfortu| nate bankrupt law growing out of the financial , troubles of 1837 was passed, the country at large was in a business oonditiou to afford something j like an apology for suoh legislation. Now, howI eter, the cose is so different that any member of i < 4 * 1 Congress who might essay to fu'.aer sncli a propo- j sition might be well nigh hooted out of theCapi- i tol. For the Yorkviltc Enquirer. alone. Remembrance frets iny heart in solitude, As the lone mouse, wnen all the bouse is still, Gnaws at the wainscoat. Ai.KXAsnp.b Smith. How lone I feel nmid this solitude Of busy men, aud daunting pomp, and trade, Where on each brow, pale cave sits high enthroned, Mid wrinkles, like old Rome amid her hills: Where worth in dimes is told, and the bright gold, The meanest nets can rail with dazzling sheen: Where mau no longer strives as erst of old, To emulate the moral hero's fame, And build on virtue such a monument, Tl,n? nvnn SiMiinhim will lnnd ar.nlaud. Ah Mary! what could hope to this heart lend, Were not the little world around thee bright, With all the hues of poetry and love ? To thee my soul flies from the busy mart, And when the uncouth, haggling words of trade, Fall on the ear with hard, mctalic ring, I hear them not, for thy low, gentle, toue, Like music in the oceans pearly shell, Still holds ray heart in soft delicious trance. Thou fair Magician! " Egeria of the soul !" Thy beauty, like the fabledlamp. can build A palace in the fairy world of dreams, Of gold, agate, sapphire, and rubies rare, And diamonds from famed Golconda's mine, All draperied in splendid sunset hues, And regal in its graceful statelincss. This is the radiant worRin which I live, Even in the solitude of selfish men, Each pusliiDg on amid the jostling crowd, To gain some goal, much better lost than won. And when I see in the broad light of day, (These golden days which God throws down in love) One brother should'ring for another's place, The thought will rise, unwelcome though it be, As a skeleton at a marriage feast, That when a few short summers come and go, lie will usurp some elder brother's grave ! Then, Mary, does my heart revert to thee, So free from all the selfishness'of earth, So lovely in thy innocence?so pure, That like the violet in the bright sunlight, The clearest noon cannot one defect show : Withal so modest, that thy maiden grace, Wins a new lustre from the dainty blush, That tremDies on uiy my cnees ana orow, As the red roso reflects upon the white. And then thy beauty more exquisite glows, From the broad contrast with the garish world, That seeks to hide in silk and jeweled pomp, The heartlessness of the dark hall within. How then can I forget tbee, and go forth, To mingle with the cold deceptive herd, That crowds the hurried thoroughfares of life, In chase of phantoms, shadows but of self? Yet such is life; we're forced to join the throng,And strive to shun the loneliness of thought? To fly from self to self, in endless pbange, Till happy only when we're lost in self. Such is the end of human hope and toil! And as I contemplate the little all, I feel how lone it is to wander thus, Amid the noise and hum of busy men, While one bright star on the hori#)n's verge, Beckons me off to the bright realm of dreams. DeVEAUX. Columbia, Nov. 7th. THANKSGIVING. At a meeting of the Tewn Council of Yorkville, held on the 11th instant, the following resolution was adopted, and is given for the information of our citizens : Resolved, That the citizens of Yorkville be, and are hcrehy requested to suspend all branches of business and close the doors of their establishments, on the 19th instant, in order that the duties of Thanksgiving and Prayer, enjoined on that day by His Excellency the Governor, may be properly and entirely observed. F. H. SI.MRIL, Intendant. J. IIerndon, Clerk. From the New York Express, 5th. * Third Hunger Sleeting?Great Assembly- at Tompkins Square and the Park. Another meeting of the unemployed was held onThursday, (this morning,) on Tompkins Square, in pursurance of a call from the committee appointed for that purpose, in various newspapers. While to the previous call only some one or two thousand individuals responded, mere was ro-uay, on the Square, a crowd of some four or five thousand growling and clamoring for "work," "flour" or "bread." The sight was awful. Several fierce Dutch and Irish orators addressed the assemblage, to the | effect that they must procuro or deviso some I means for the relief of their starving families, urging the crowd to assemble every day, and to march every day to the City Hall, and there petition the "Government" for employment, for relief, and finally, if necessary to compel them to give it ' asserting that they have a perfect right to do, so, as every workman, who is willing to work, has a right to a living. They sny^thev will dow demonstrate every day, and thu3 increase their strength; and render their movement popular, and that the number participating iu this movement having ? already doubled since the beginning, they hope that the movement, before long, will not be less than 30,000, and living in a land of plcnty, they will have the power to better their terrible situations. It was then resolvedf to march to the City Hall and to present there to the Mayor and Common Coundll their resolutions, "which were read, to the following effect: , Whereas, The terrible distress actually existing nmong the laboring classes gave cause to several meetings, and peaceable yet mournful processions throughout the city, for the purpose of obtaining "work" from private resort, but having entirely failed in this, and arrived at the gloomy conviction that during the present crisis it will be impossible to get employment by individual exertion, they Submit to H? Honor that ho may cause the employment of thg-ujoemployed By employing them at public worra, such as tho Central Park and the new Reservoir, in leveling streets and other work which has loug been contemplated. The resolutions were unanimously adopted. A line of march was then formed, which, headed by three drummers and a transparency with the inscription of work carried in front, proceed; ed through St. Marks Place, Third Avenue, Bowery j and Chatham street, to the City Hall. They I marched on the sidewalks, and these were entirely blocked up along several streets as they j passed. # The picture represented whs very alarming; and it was viewed by the spectators, when they passed, with surprise and astonishment. ~ Arrived in front of the City Hall, two members ??.? tr,r> ,.onrl IVrifYi the ?tpn>< the neti U1 IU6 guiillliiikvw ?VW? V... r- g tion and resolutions iu English and Germau: "To convene without delay the Aldermen and commonality of the city, for the purpose of or daining the immediate employment of workmen ' at the Central Park, Grand -Reservoir, New Post I Office, levelling or sewering streets, or any other public works so indispensable for the sanitary condition of the people, and the comfort anil 'safeI ty of the wealthy themselves." Every human-being has a right to live?not as a mere charity, but as a right; and Governments, monarchial or republican, must find work for the ' people, if individual exertion prove not sufficient. After repeated readings and short explanations ; on the importance of this document, the committee I went into the corridor of the hall leading to the Mayor's office. Introduced by some attendants, i Mr. Bcelcr, acting as Chairman, in the absence of i Mr. Smith, (who had retired in consequence of seeing his own?more violent?resolutions not adopted at Tompkins Square,) presented the above petition. The Mayor attentively read it, and answered substantially as follows: He, the Mayor, expressed his deepest sympaI thy with the contents of the petition, as perfectly agreeable to the proposals in his message, to the Common Council; that he would do all in-his power for the aluviation of the terrible misery now ! resting upon the people; and that he would bring the memorial next week to the deliberation of the Common Council; that he hoped the committee would endeavor to keep the masses quiet, and to make them wait until the decision of the authoriI ties is given. Several papers had pretended that the whole movement was a political one, and es- | pecially composed of a mob who had nothing less j in view that to create a disturbance, to ransack , the city, and push towards a social revolution.? J But from the firm, yet moderate terms at the me- I morial, he is happy to see that such was not their intention, etc., etc. Mr. Beeler here stepped forward and, though j a German by birth, said in good English: Mn. Wood : Von propose to communicate our j memorial only next week to the Common Council, j against which intention we must protest with all i our power. The people outside are Imugry, and ' myself, the only protector of my family with six children,, beiug since six weeks without working. We cannot wait so long in our present mystry.? Why has the report on your message not yet been , published ? The Commen Council appointed, long ago, a committee of five, and gave them or ders to make their report on or before the first of November. Now, mitler Wood, to-day we are on the noon of the 5th, and no report has yet been given. The people cannot wait afty longc^. Their sufferings are cruel,-and we cannot warrant that the people?their patience exhausted?should "help themselves" by employing physical powers, with its unavoidable brutalities. He and bis comrades of the committee had done all they could to keep the peace, but now the people ask for work or death? I Thn Afftvmv somewhat chunked in his counten ance by the ardor of this language, replied to the speaker quickly, yet kindly: In regard to these circumstances, he will promise to comunicate the memorial of the meeting to the Common Council this very eyening urging' them te decide without delay* After some unimportant observations'on tlm part of some other members of the committee, the deputies retired to the steps of the City Hall, where may speeohes continued amidst the hurrahB of the multitude. * Some orators explained the answers of the Mayor?exhorting the people to await patiently the decision of the Common Council, on their regular meeting this evening. Some voices; "We will hunger till Monday ?" Others, "No longer." . Proposed Descent on Wall Street?Another Meeting.?After the first meeting had been adjourned about half an hour, another meeting was called on the steps of the City Hall, and Win, Booles, a blacksmith, made a few remarks. Mr. Booles stated that already many were in want and suffering, and that work they mast and should have. It was impossible for him to say anything more than had already been stated at the other meeting. But he asked if it could be possible, that in a republican country, it should go abroad that the people were letting their poor fellow-creatures starve at their doors ? No, no, it must not bo ; it never shoald be ! Ho urged the working men to get a banner, and parade the streets. He wanted to meet to-morrow morning, at Tompkins square and then proceed in a body through the streets. Let them go to Wall street,' aud sho* those who hare their pockets lined, that they wanted work. Let that be the inscription on the banner?"We Want Work !" A committee of six should also be appointed, to procure this banner, and meet the people to-morrow morning with it. If the meeting would appoint such a committee, he would not fail to work with them, and they would show to the world that they were honestmen, and that all they wanted was work to keep them ffom starving. He continued: Could it be that in so glorious a city like this, so many poor unfortunate creatures would go begging through the streets !~ It could not be?it must not be. There were no doubt many who Would help them, but some one was needed to show the rich that the poor were in want. Well, then, to Wall street they should go and proclaim their situation. The moneyed men must shell out to the poor; and if they would not, the musket would be their resort. There was no time to be wasted, and a committee shoald be immediately appointed to carry out their designs. A committee was then appointed to procure a banner. The meeting then adjourned, and in half an hoar only Btragglers remained in the Park. A Deplorable Picture. The following is an extract (says the National Intelligencer) from a letter of a highly respccta-ble and intelligent citizen of Baltimore to a friend in this city. It gives a most deplorable picture of Baltimore, but deplorablo as it is, the picture is not a new one to our readers: . _ .Baltimore, November o. A wed now with regard to the election. In this city Iliad hoped, from the promises of Mayor Swann to the Governor and citizens, that the Democrats would have been protected in the attempts to exercise the proud privilege of an Araerican citizen?viz: the elective franchise ; but how villainously have we been deceived. Not only have thousands been denied that privilege whose misfortune it was to be born in another clime, (many of whom had resided here for twenty, thirty and forty years,) but others who wore born 011 American soil to the number of several thousand, some of whom had been engaged in the. war of 1812-'14, and defended this very city from the invasion of the British soldiery. This I know of my own personal observation. The plan adopted to deter such from voting was to approach every person with a Know Nothing ticket, and if they refused taking them to issue threats and to drive them from the places of voting. In one instance, in a family of my acquaintance, where there were three sons of lawful age, and a father, who had lived here for ten or twelve years, they were all compelled to fleo the polls without voting rather than be beaten from them. In every instance almost where a foreigner approached the polls he was knocked down and beaten in a most brutal manuer, and half-grown youths disguised and made to vote the Know Nothing ticket. The torch of the incendiary lighted up the dwellings of Democratic voters ere the close of the day's brutality on the part of the rnffians. The papers do not contain ono-sixteenth part of the doings of yesterday, simply because the reporters were deterred by fears of being assaulted hereafter. The intelligence from other portions of the State is cheering to the Democrats ?more especially from the North-western, as yoif will preceive by to-morrow's papers. This city is a (loomed city, and many will be compelled to go from it for peaceful security.and the exercise of a freeman's rights. God knows I desire to leave jt, and I trust in God that something will turn up to my advantage by which I may be enabldd. to do so. * ' - . * * A Tlilef with a "Religious.Turn of Mind." A telogiaphic despatch fropi 'Chicago announces " ? --- r .L. riL; that Jaines O. lirayiuan, an eouor 01 mo v-ujeugu Democrat, was, un the 29th ult., sentenced tofour years' hard labor in the penitentiary for stealing letters from the post office in that city. The.Chicago Democrat, in mentioning the case, says he was naturally of a religious turn ofjjtpifl|ti,i.ftnd passed most of his leisure in reading: reltgjyaua papers., and writing therefor. His bubits were absteiriiuoos and frugal. lie had *tl salary not only ample for his yfants, but more than he used. He has beer. honesWind liauorable in every relation of life, a nil yet lie has broken open lettors nnd taken Ui? money therefrom. The Buffalo Advertiser^ IniiK* his stealing propensities are to be attributed to insanity or mohomaniu. tHe ex | hibited a great deal of method in his madness, ! for he always took the letters that had the most I money in'tbem. O,. The editor of the Auburn American, (J. Stanley Smith,) in speaking of the claim that Brayman, : of Chicago, was a monomaniac, so far ntftegards I the theft of articles of small value, saytt&Sl We ' knew a lady in Albany, who was independent, so i far as her pecuniary resources were concerned, : who was amic.blc.in character, '-connected with a | highly respectable family, and moved in the best 1 j circles in society ; yot she was an inveterate gnd I notorious pilferer of all sorts of articles that'she ' did not ut-cd, and generally could not use She 1 : could not enter a store or shop of any kind, or ' even a meat stall, without stealing some thing before sho left. Merchants knew hgf.well and al- ; : ways watched her narrowly. Soraff'accused her ; opeuly in their stores of theft. She always deI livored up the stolen property promptly, and was j obliged to pay 'hush money.' Some took advnnt! ago of her iu this way?giving ample opportunity i to her to steal, obtain their goods from her, and then bleed her purse. Others, aware of her propensity ^ contented themselves with watching her Lclosely, noting the value of the articles pilfered, j ; and sending her a bill of their Cost. These bills she always paid promptly. 'She was liberal and j benevolent, and gave away hundreds of thenrticles stolen." I if? The Florida Indians.?The following is an extract of a letter from a Volunteer Offic.'r in Florida, dated "Fort Capion, September 27": "I have been with my company in the country | between Lake Okeechobee and the Atlantic ocean. It is, however, all now deluged, and boats, not horsemen,are wanted tojtraversc it. In about twen-y ! ty years more, when the Government shall have oont to these wastes about ten thousand infantry ! and boats of light draught, capable of transporting three or four men each, and so light as be easily carried by the men over every space where the water is not sufficiently deep to float the Doats, and shall have upon the line of frontier all the horsemeu now in service, or more, and shall operate vigorously in a winter campaign, then there maybe some hope of ridding this country of the Indians, but not till then. I "This portion of country possesses the advan tAgfis ofj^rv in oft mild and balmy climate in wintcr-knftf^ nny where upon the oonlipent. Tropical feuibrr.i-e here-growing finely, and tiefiah and oysters of the whiter cannot lid surpassed in iby of-the WitPrKof^Araerica. Itat tins is not all. Cot off from nil the rest of the warfamjf * danueeqa* coast and had bar, with no inland communication except by Indian river and the "flou lover" te Smyrna,, mid thence an the Mosquito "jivcr and across aribther "Haulovcr" to 8tv Ahgcotiije, or from Smyrna across the St. John's, there is'bqt little hope that this portion will ever be werth much." . . > , liaii' ^ J? Kumi Matters. New York, Nov. 9,?The last return from ell the-counties of Kansas, but two, give Parrot t, (F. S.,) for Congress, 7,624 votes, to 3^824 Tor Ransom. (Dem ) Had the retard! frotn Johnson i and McGco counties not been rejected, Ransom J would havb had 2,806 more votes. In the 8enato* I there are 14 Free 8oilers to 4 Democrats, and in J the House, 25 Free Soilersto 9 Democrats. tftnr ' The Constitutional Conventioa proceeded to business on the 27th ultimo. Various pactions of the Constitution had been adopted, including a clause prohibiting the ingress of Free Negroes, There will be n spirited discussion on the report of the committee on slavery, and on the question of submitting the constitution to the.peoiple. Soma of the members ore opposed to submleshm in amy form, while others favor the submissioniritfe, restrictions. The majority, however, favor a fttbmission to the whole people, with the pftwiriofi for electing the State officers and die legislation at the same time, so as to set the State ^gogartuiient in operation at once. { " A letter from Lecompton says: 'rii "There is to' be a convention here on Saturday next 10 vindicate vvaiicer. iu governor 19 not staying in Lecompton now, bat is one and a half miles oat on Stanton's claim. Mr. Parrot* has been here and has received his certificate. " There is a very strong force of 'troops here now. Shiner's command, consisting of three huodrecTaavcl ry, is stationed here. Wo hare also a company of artillery from Lawrence." r ~ if* Western Hoo Trade. -^-The Indianapolis (ftd ) Journal, of Saturday, nays: ^ Dealers in pork are offering .$4.60 for fcbn. aeliverable in season on time, or $4 cash. . Unlets the money market.improves, the cash transactions | in hogs will be very limited bore and many other The dealers in Madison have made aflaugpyptt * for aboat 25,000 head of hoge at., an a^nuu ot $G.30pcr 100 pounds, on which the bH^^HEa' already advanced tho large sum of aqa of this amount not more than $25,000 h*# been borrowed from lho banks?the rest of H-hae been derived from the "cash capital of the solid men of the place." Whatever may be the oonSJitipa ..of the market, the Madison Courier think* tW-deelers will be able to stand It without asking faro re from abroad. . . * . " TheEvansville Journal says: * We have seen letters from New (Means %pd from New York, expressing-the opinion thai no purchases of hogs should be at rates aha$|ufffei9 4 cents. Some dealers think it nqaafe. to jaa$ove 3 cents. ; The Delhi Journal states that a beef, pabkuig establishment in that place has cogunoncedslaagjfc tering, and will probably, pabk. about'8,O0& -KkaJfi this season. ". ? *The St. Louis Republic*^ vt the 25th u^^Bn, says: -V -wS We hear of a sale of 200 hoga at $4, witbia a day or two, and yesterday .250 were offered ?k the same price, but a purchaser could not bf obtained. This is a terrible tnmblelit prtee, and mast disappoint, the expectations, or agrMknpmr persons. If I 1 | A Mormon Hkoira.?The only item of con- * sidcrable importance whieh we find ia our California exchanges is the following : -'...'J. "Col. Wm. Rodgers furnishes the StsUJouruel some additional facts in relation to the movements of the Mormons and the condition of the Inhabit tants of Carson Valley. It is his opinio* that tbjt Mormon's intend, tp remove to tho neighborhood of Vancouver's Island. They bed become wearied .1 J .. _L!.L ,t.._ L^u. . . oj vac UH.ijr nuuo/auera iu iuiou wyn? subjected iu their late quarters. - andresdBy un-> swered to the call from Brigimm Young or thoee in authority, intimating a removal to another of operations. They paid up the last dollar of indebtedness, end left with the good wudMs-efall. Dnring last summer the entire fraternity submitted to a new baptism, ond it is probable that the order for removal was known to the head men at that time. They "rrH ruh h*r> immerir nmounta of poWder and other ammunition, and he-. fore their departure had purchased nearly all the revolvers in the valley. Borne members ef the train had in possession as high as six of these "A manufactory has been in operatfe%jdtfSf Lake for the past seven months, turhin^Q8H*R hundred revolvers per week. They hayh,?06llent workman and abundant material-: TfUfifite they should desire to eater into eoufiict with'thf troops, they ere well furnished with the means, and it is thonght that the Indians will unite fane* j with them." IIow President Buchanan Receives Ih*J5*" dies.?A Washington correspondent of the South says: r .. 4 ' Mr. Buchanan still continues to have- hosts of lady visitors, and icarcely-ji pretty womait eomes to Washington but she most see the bachelor Prtsi? dent. His manners towards his fair that he is no 'lady's manhis graceful commpn^ place seeins to fail him with them; and.1 have ?se'n him evidently sorely taxed to flndve few wohJlfto5 say to the fair dames who will find their way tobit reception room.. He is said to have been compelled to have recourse to stereotyped phrases, whloh he invariably addresses by turn to the ladies, as 'fttfruns the gauntlet of them at reception hours.? They arc these: 'Madam, is this your first Washington?' Answer. A pause, and theft, 'Miriam I would advise you to visit- the SmitlifeOtSiMi Institute."- After which the lady is expected to vamose." , v~ s-. Important "Rumors" vrom Utah.?T8b ^abraska correspondent of the NQwTork Time* "a*nounces the arrival in that Territory of dfypa Mormon deserters, who left Salt Lake Gity earty in October. They bring two weeks' later lntelltgence, which, if true, is of high importance. They, say that Brigham Young, at the head of a large. a force, jvas preparing to leave Salt Lake City, 16 fl givejfllttle to the United Stats troops. TBeyfhri ^ ther allege that the mountain pass, at which the Mormons will attempt to check the progress ofthf. troops, is one th>t^n a military point of view, will give them overwhelming advantage ; that in t their rebelliotftheywinredei.a material aid from 3*he Indians ; and that their ultimate design is to Hhrow off all allegiance to the Union, aiwgMUb* J Hah themselves as an independent government. It i is possible that the story told by -these Mormon deserters may be exaggerated. We shall,' however, soon learn the trnth. * Ss . The Tssxf.sske Leqislattj**.?The Nashville Daily Newt, of the 27th of Octobor, thus classifies the membors of the House: Of ijj# seventy-Are I members of the House of Repreaaatatives.' flftyfonr were born in Tennessee, stfreainForth Oarolioa, threelh'Kentucky, tbredfflfrirginia, two in Georgia^onSin South Csrolina^me in Alabama, two in Pennsylvania, one in HHnois, and one if! Ireland, Twenty-nine of the seventy?five are farmers, twenty-eight are lawyers, two are.-laWr yens and farmers, one i?-a merchant antTgjmieir, ono a farmer and schoolteacher, five merchants, ! four are physicians, two are tailors, one a.-anrgeon dentists one a tanner and harness maker,one ' a bricklayer. Forty-eight are pat down as married, twenty-three as single, three as widowers, j i and one as a bachelor.' M - ?: . ' ^ New YoRJcTiiiSOTBOsa.?-We see it stated that the triumph of- thyHemooatitt party in the elcci tions in Now lortcUy is very signal. Therefore i it ridailed Vs^ graraying incident, worth? of the congratulation df tlic.party throaghonttiBwUnion. ()u the eve of the election, a rae6lat^ftj*3 passed by the party ajjsembiedat Tamn^g5ynw8, approving of the Jjite, conduct ofWfiternor Walker in Kansas, girjto^thc certificates of election to the 1)1 ack Republican party, for Johnsftn oouhty, tiiornhv rrcatine ajuajority for this party in the r Kansas Legislature. bat more ooa^ mny par| ty do to secure the support of slavery feeling of the NortHf'- But is aljticcess obtained by such means a matter for rejoicing to the Sooth. ?Chnrletton jftrcurt/. wi Deatutrom Snuff Dipping.?A beautiful and otherwi^p highly accomplished young lady, of New York,-died recently from tbo effect of the pernicious and digusting practice of snuff dipping. She had become so addicted to the habit that her lungs I were literally stoppqji up with the rile compound, respiration being stopped, death ensued. Let snuff dippers make.a note. \ , ?: ?? ?> ) * In his speech in Faneuil Hall on Saturday evening lost, Mr. Burlingaine alluded to Mr. Keitt and other Southern fire-eaters, when some one in A the audience cried out, "What about Brooks ?" a I "He,"said Mr. B. '"is in.bis green grave. He I had a larger heart thin many at the North and in i thtf' South who sustained the ootrage on Senator I Sumner. (Applause.) He had a heart, and?I