Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, September 02, 1858, Image 2

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Srtaps & jfatts. ?JffoCommercial news has been, orwl be, transmitted through the Atlantic TeU graph till the line is thrown open to the put lie. ?? Of the 48 Senators who took thei ?eats in the eighteenth Congress, in 1829 but two snrvi^,Srii: Martin Van Bares of New Y ork, and John Branch of North Ca! obsa. - " . r?Ad editor in Jowa is said to hare be come so hollow from dep^pding upon th printing business alone for hf?*d, that b proposes to sell himself for stove, pipe at thre ebnts a foot. * '* ifc ^ A 1 'v. l(tj n ? ^/y A ' 1 Ob Monday laa* in Moorefield, Hard aounty, Va , D. R. McNeill sold for cu four slave men, at $1,100 each ; Wm. S Cunningham one at $1,050, David' Vanmete one man and one woman, 81,006 each, -jr*- A Freooh writer has said that 4t dream gloriously, yoo most, act glorious! while you are awake; and to bring angel dpifro to ounven$ with you in your sleep, yo ?** abnr iu the cause of virtue during th A letter from New. Fork.has the fo lowing item: "A Company of Swiss is no1 being made up in this city to form a colon ip. Western Virginia. They have been offei ed 10.000 acres, at 81 25 per aore, and it tend sending commissioner out to make a wt&mioatiouofthaitract." .# . , t. The questioa has' been asked; won! s- pin the first week and doubled every wee fe?,.a year, load the Leviathan ? . AUowin thirty pins to the ounoe it would load tw hundred and thirteen thousand two hundre and thirty-eight vessels carrying 22,000 ton each, which is the-tonnage of the Levis than, p-jtf ??The'Alexandria Gazette, referring t Harper's Magazine for September, bein tUMAi) on Aa IRfK rvf Anornof flifnVfi f xoouyu VU vuv AV?4? V* possible that the October number will b published on the 1st of September, and tha after awhile, we sfiell Hiave the numbers a year in advance. This is^fast age. Everybody must have altered very mue in a short time: only a few yearsnince, Gee Jackson, ,being\ jseated between two ladief said he felfelike-a tborn surrounded by roses V. S. M. says. a few days ago, while ridin; in an omnibus, and being seated betweei two ladies, he felt like a Btave in a hogshea of molasses, surrounded by hoops. <1 Say, Jones, how is. it that you wife dresses so magnificently, and you a] ways appear out at the elbow? Jones (im pressively and significantly}?-'You .see Thompson, my wife dresses according to th Gazette of Fa*kiont and I dress according t my ledger/ Thompponmnells at rat, add im mediately Aries to gifet his tittle aooount settle* ?and don't sucoejgi}*^ ?? Captain Tfnvis; of Louinrftle, has ac quired great reputation?as a good shot, bu his feat performed only a few days agi is perhaps the best shot on record. It iB re late'lthat be put a cork on top of a bottle on the eork a bullet, and then putting Re target thirty-four feet from him, welde< together the bullet he shot and the one hi shot at We learn that Sat Miller, the hero o the Lovengood papers, died suddeaij, in thi neighborhood of Ducktown, a week or twi since. Poor Sufc! After having fnnumerabli encounters and conflicts with man and beas ?been shot several .times, and oonsumet " bust-head" enough to run an over-sHotmil for forty days and nights, died ingnobly a last from a blow inflicted with the fist of i fellow-man.?Athens (TVnjiessee) Banner. The name of Cyrus W. Field promise to become quite as renowned as that of Cyrus King of Persia. He is now certainly float iug on the popular wave. Among the inter minable honors proposed to be heaped upot him, is that of the Governership of Net York. A Northern paper flies his name a its mast head for President in 1860. Thi popular gentlemen's friends seem determinec to take the Field sufficiently early. The Utah correspondent of the N. Y Times writes: There is a rumor abroa< that it is probable another exodus of the Lat ter Day Saints may yet take place. Ai agent has been here from Colonel Kinney proffering the sale of land in Nicaragua t< Brigham Young, for the future location o the Mormon people. It is carefully circulated likewise, that Brigham has declined thi purchase. But careful observers will gen erally conclude, here, when a project is ver; earnestly denied, that there is some truth ii ? , - it The violin which Ole Ball uses in hi concerts is of very considerable value. I was made in 1562 by Gaspard de Salo, b; order of Cardinal Aldobrandi, (afterwan Clement VIII.) and is ornamented witl chasings by Benvenuto Cellini. The Cardi nal gave the instrument to the Treasar of Inspruck, but in 1809 it fell" into th< possession of a Frenoh soldier, who sold it U Dr. Paganini, brother of the celebrated viol inist, and he bequeathed it on his death-bet to Ole Bull. The Chicago papers are filled witl reports of the speeehes of Senator Douglai and his opponent, Mr. Lincoln, at the grea meeting at Ottawa, on the 21st ultimo. Bj an arrangement previously made, these rep resentatives of their respective parties hat agreed to hold seven publiq discussions? this being the first. It is estimated that no less than twelve thousand persons were pre sent; and we arc told that ? Ottawa wae de luged in dust/' whilst national flags, moltoej and devices were visible in every direction The friends of the respective speakers me them on their entrance into the city,' and tw< processions were formed, each of which ii represented as having been nearly a mile ii length. The debabte was opened by Mr Douglas, who spoke an hour, Mr. Liocolt occupied an hour and a half in his reply, anc Mr. D. made a closing speech of half an hour As might be expected, the victory in thii dionnouinn lc? ole i m orl nn mwwuoowu AO) viatuivu Vu uuvu ouvai xu\ Chicago Press has a heading?" A Senatoi in a tight place," while the Times informi us that"Lincoln breaks down," &c. Tht Press states that at the c'ose of the debate Mr. Lincoln "was seized by the multitude and tome off on their shoulders, in the cen tre of a crowd ot five thuusauds shouting Republicans, with a band of musiciu front.' The Times, on the other hand informs us that Lincoln "seemed to have been paralyzed He stood upon the stage looking wildly at th< people as they surrounded the triumphan Douglas, and with mouth wide open, he coult not find a friend to .-a} one word to him in hi; distress." Cjje gurkMIk (ffiupttttr. ~ .. * T , 11 i IDITID BY j. SAM'Xj W. TvnaiiTQjj. '* VORKVtlLE, S. 0. r THURSDAY MORJTLKG, BEFnoUEtt J4, 1MB. | ' . 1 CAMP-MEETING. / *We *pe requested to state that the Camp-Meeting at Concord, near Clay Hill, will commence oa Thursday evening, September 9th. e RORg OF TEMPERANCE. < The Delegate*, who met at Yorkville on Tbursday last, are advised, in tonsequeuce of information received here, to'suspend all action for the - present on the matter they ^returned to their rey spective Divisions to accomplish. It is unnecesj1 sary, it is thought, to say more at this time. ^ ,r H v ' THE MILITARY SCHOOL. ' The exercises of the King's Mountain Military School were resumed, yesterday, under the usual? !y favorable auspioes. ^Quite a number of young y gentlemen arrived on Tuesday, and by the end 8 of the week we have a promise that the ranks wiR u be, as Usual, full to overflowing. ^ * * ** ' % " We congratulate Principals, Professors and Pupils upou a pleasant vacation, and the fair prosI pect of a session profitable to all. ' * ' A RELIC. T A.I J2. e nnrt UUC Ul lac ouuurg vi mc miwuxuv - ?... .v. r" Mountaineer, on ft tonr through the North, writ** '* from Washington, among other things, of an inn teresting relic of King's Mountain. Can some one give us a history of it ?? * d "The uext thiDg of interest," says the correspon|f dent, as a relic of days-agonc, was the Powder Magazine of King's Mountain, a large gourd of 5 sufficient Bize to hold six pounds of powder.? O When we looked npon this magazine, the recolleod tioos of this hard fought bAttle and the glorious 8 victory won .by the King's Mountain boys rose up before my mind as first impressed by the record of our faithful historian Bancroft." KEW MAIL ROUTR. 0 The subjoined letter, sent to us by Mr. Botck, 6 will explain itself. We are pleased to learn that the application has been so far successful; and e doubtless the biddings will be sufficiently spirited w to justify the decision of the Department:? a ' " Post Office Depabtmest, Contract Office, Aug. 11, 1858." 1 , Sir :?I have to acknowledge the receipt of your a letter of 6th inst., transmitting, with favorable I. recommendation, a petition from citizens of York , ville, S. C., asking an extension of mail route ' 10,102, from, its terminus at Lincolnton, to Yorl:' Ti^*- . ? . w g The Department does not deem such extension Q advisable; but in order to test the practicability , of securing a similar grade of service between Linoolntou and Yorkville, has concluded to invite proposals at the next lettings, (the advertisement for which is "now being prepared,) for tri weekly service between those places, by a schedule to >- connect closely with the service on R. 10,102. Very respectfully, yours Wm. H. DUNDAS, 'T v i A<-o. T? TUT ifion'l I 6 Hoq. W. W. Boyce, Monticello, S. C. . . ? PRINTEfrTRIGHTS. j Tie Lnureneville Herald very justly complains that country editors are expected to provide a vehicle for advancing the interests of individuals or ^ societies without any compensation vfhaUver. The K Herald is right, and we nope its suggestion will t be acted on?that the eonutry papers should unite 0 in instituting a new rale, aid require everything that is intended for personal benefit or advancemeat, to be paid for. In no other vocation, in the t whole world of labor, are there so many demands y for gratuities, as from editors and publishers. Let j the matter be taken up in earnest by the Press, and let its conductors go to work and root out the e evil.?Guardian. Nothing is easier. For several years, our paper f Was published for every body's benefit, and the 0 columns usedby every body at our expense. A D month or two ago, however, cur publisher concluB ded to obange the order of things, and to chatgc t at regular rates for all communications "of limij ited or individual interest." The rule has been j rigidly enforced; and we have met with bat one ? man who refused to acknowledge the justice of it. a Our friends pay tbe tax cheerfully, and eo will all liberal minded men wherever the rule is firmly established and etrictly adhered to. Try it on, 3 friend Herald. There it no-need for "united ao? tion," in the premises, . / , T "judge SMITH. ^ y' Oar oolumns are seldom enriched by a contribuT tion more note-worthy than the truthfal and spirj. ited sketch of JudgeWilli am Smith, kindly sent j to us by Judge O'Nball. Such a kuidueas is alj most beyonthprice with us. The Dame of Judge Smith is yet familiar to the people-of York District; and now that the men and measures vith . . . ,?7 - /. wnom ce maae war in Times or nonce excitement 1 have almost passed away, all ore disposed to ac cord to him the almostjjee>les8 rmjk to which his 1 greatness entitles him, end to enshrine his memo, ry, illustrions and venerable, as a^ieritoge of sur3 passing worth. And all will, therefore, unite In f sending thanks to Judge! 0'Nea|(.l for the oppor, tnnity of learning of Juige Smith, so much and 5 so well. I / The letter sccompanyi ig Ule sketch, is publisher ed with a view to elicit additional facts from the 2 few remaining cotemporyies of Judge Smith.? We know that much yet/emains to be written of g him; and if his old friohds are not ready to take ^ up their own pens, ours are at their service and will obey their dictation cheerfully, j After leaving Yorkville, Judge Smith removed direotly to Huntsville, Alabama. He conducted large planting interests in Louisiana, which he owned before leaving South Carolina, and ^ in addition, a large portion of his estate was invested in the culture of eotton, in other sections ) of Alabama. But his home was in Huntsville, where he died, suddenly,- of congestive fever, on the 20th day of June 1840?aged 78 years. When we have collected materials, we shall rel cur to tiiis interesting subject. 3 t MERE-MENTION. 3 The Charleston papers announce that the yellow . fever has become epidemic in that city. During J the week before last, twenty-eight deaths were - reported?several of which were among the better t classes. This is truly a. sad visitation for Charles. ton?a terrible weight upon her progress ; and in . her struggles against the fell eueiny, our Queen s City has the warmest sympathy of her country friends. 'The latest accounts from the West (. say that the Mormons are quiet, but the Indian j tribes more hostile than ever. Vigorous prepnra: 8 tions are in progress for the winter campaign in t Washington Territory, under the command of Gen. Habnet. The Hoard of Commissioners constituted by the English bill have issued a proclaj mation declaring the proposition rejected by 9,512 j majority. The whole vote cast was 13,088. No ! fraudulent votes were received. A few precincts s j were rejected on account of informalities. What" j ever may be the motive of the Kansas people, they . have certainly given to this question a most em3 , phatic decision. Dr. Coolky, of Hartford, ' the inventor of Lucifer Matches, died recently, ' | aged 76 years. He also compounded the first " i patent pilis ever sold iu the United States, and was, besides, the inventor of several other suc> j ceesful parents. If he had done nothing more ; than give to the world the lucifer match, he would 3 be entitled to a good name amongst us, ever. ' Prof. Emmons, iu his report to the Legislature of 3 North Carolina, mentions the discovery in the ' sedimentary rocks of Montgomery county, in that 1 State, of au uge anterior to any previous traces of 3 auimai life. Ibe distinguished geologist contends, j therefore, that so lar as investigations have result* ed in discpvwries, that part of the country was tb scene of the frrat manifestation of that gffcat pric oiple."' May-be, the Gardejo of Eden was:sonic where in the Old North State or "thereabouts. We sometun.es thought, of late, it nuut b close about the vriitrity of Yorkvllle. Prof. E* moss might discover something by pursuing hi investigation bitherwards."* The old heather Joshua R. Oiddinos, of Ohio, the most blacli hearted black Republican of them all, has bee "snubbed" by hia own party. Johj; Hutchin was nominated for Congress, last week, in hi ' mi - - *! ? nt />man r\f n mnfl Steau. xuis is auuiucr si^uiuvbui uiu?u ? ? ?~erate platform in 1860. 1 . . The British flag .was .hoisted on Capitol Hil Washington, on Tuesday, for the first time sine the last war with England. A writer in tli Christian Advocate and Journal says that there ar at the present time between 70 and 80 clergyme in the Church of England alone, who are converte Jews. -The powder used in firing a cannot at Sandwich, MasB., to celebrate the success of th Atlantic Telegraph enterprise, was pui chased i 1812 to light the English with. a Slav of Maj. E. CoktEY, was tried at Lexington, S. C on Tuesday of last week, before R. Harmos, Esq and fire free holders, for striking a white man, an sentenced to receive fifty lashes well laid on,? Professof A. M. SHrrp, of the North Carolina Un versity, has been elected President of the Coins bia Female College.?'?Doctor Charleb Wu so.v has written a volume of a hundred pages 1 explain the pa/15-ology of drunkenness. Diogent defines it in two syllables?riff raff."'' The P< tersbnrg (Va.) Express says: The farmers < Chesterfield County, deplore sadly the lack < rain in that section, where not a shower, of tw minutes duration, has fallen for ninety days.? The last words of the Old Testament are a fgarft threatening: "Lest I come and smite the eart with a enrse." The last words of the New Test* * J' -' ..HI T meni we a Deaeaicuou; **iiregm?c ui um. ^v* Jesus Christ be with yon all. Amen." "Where was I, ma," said a little urchin one da to his mother, as he stood gazing on his drunke and prostrate pa, '"where was I when you marrie pa ? I oonld bare picked ont.a great deal betU man than he is."; The Governor of MLssissip pi has ordered an election to be held on Mondaj Oct. 6, for a member of Congress to fill out th unexpired term of Gen. John A. QnixxaN, We may always joke when we please, if we are ai ways careful to please when we joke. A let te'r from IJew Braunfels, Texas, states that th Government camels are increasing in nnmber, an that tho young camelB are thrifty. A bur dred and twbnty young men have offered them selves to the British Methodist Conference for th ministry. Light which left a sfar of th twelfth magnitude when the Israelites left Egypt has not yet reached the earth. Dahlias wer cut down in all their glory by the frost at Lowell Mass., on Thursday night of last week. They have a curiosity in the shape of a two-legge mouse at Altoona. Two legged rats are uo curiof ities. ' THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH. The first despatches by the Atlantic Submarin Telegraph are published in another column, vtr batim. They reached Colombia in less than 2 hours.after leaving London! ' . ' 1 It is a coincidence worth'yof mention- that thee first despatches should announce to the world ai event, surpassing in its influence upon the world' progress even this wonderful telegraph achieve ment. * For centuries, Cbipab&s been to the work ae a "sealed book," locking up immense resource und treasure and hidimr in darkness th< elements of a magnificent civilization. Now th clasp has been unlocked?broken, if jou will and across UKLWilds-of a hitherto trackless oceai flashes the.startling iatelligenoa that another an< soother wonder has been done?another and an other tribute paid to the energy of human endear or?another and another oigbtj bound had beet achieved towards the goal of universal peace ant prosperity/ - For the South, these great events will work th< most beneficial resnlts. ,Be?id<>s opening a grea mart for her staples, all intermediate speculatioi must be cheokwl, giving to the planter the trui value of bis products, and at the same time en banning that value to an untold extent. But wi most wait FROM WASHINGTON. Washington, August 26.?The Hon. Pierrt Soule reached here this morning from the South "en route for New York, where, it is understood he is to have an interview with Gen. Wm. Walker, touching Central American affairs, fie will re mnin here only a short time, to feel the pulse\rjA The Administration. It is believed by those Whc bare some means of information, that Gen. Walkei has bis eye now upon Yteatan, with a view to u eventual decent upon Cuba. Mr, Soule spent several days at Old Point Comfort, and, I learn, whilst there, was in close communion with the Hon. A. Dudley Mann. He also had an interview with Ex-President Tyler. Mr. Sonle expresses the confident opinion thai the Demooracy can alone succeed in 1860, witb Senator Douglas as their- nominee for the Presidency, and that there is bnt one opinion in hi; S\ate as to the course of the Washington Union, He says while the Democracy of Louisiana condemn the unnatural war upon Judge Douglas, at 1 ai jj*?i-~e iv. a.. tuejr rvguru mr ouiwii?ib ui uic uiuvu ?o icuuiu^ to secure bis election in Illinois, and his nomination at Charleston. The recent movements of Southern politicians, looking to the compaot organization of the Democratic party, have not given us the occasion foi serious concern. Trusting in their tried fidelitj to the South, we have been disposed to give them "ample room and verge enough" to make the most extensivo manoeuvres. But Mr. Soulk is clearly outside of our rtckoning. His range is entirely too extensive. Judge Douolas will nol be nominated at Charleston. The South has swallowed many a bitter pill, but that dose would stop in transitu, most assuredly. If such be Mr. Socle's programme, we trust he will complete his arrangements with the "grey-eyed man of destiny,'' ami turn his attention to Yucatan exclusively. MR. BOYCE'S ULTIMATUM. Mr. Boyce, in his Yorkville speech, said that if an Abolitionist were elected President, it would be madness in us to await the final blow. "Resistance," he said, "would necessarily involve all the South, occuring as it would in the midst of extreme exasperation. The result would be ? new confederacy; or an amendment of the Constitution, disposing of the slavery question forever." Even should there be no general movement, th? Edgefield Advertiser does not think it would be unwise or impractical for three or two States to make the movement. It says: "Suppose these two States to be Mississippi aud Alabama, or Georgia and South Carolina. Imagine either of these combinations formed, its purposes defined, and active steps in progress to consummate its object. Conceive the excitement that must at once spread like a forest fire over the entire country. Go further, and read in anticipa tioii the solemn covenant by which the acting sovereignties shall have bound themselves to each other for weal or for woe. See their appeal, glowing with eloquence aud patriotism, to their coStates of the South. Pursue the vindication of their course before the country and the world? brief, dignified aud powerful. Witness their preparations, as a new power, "to live and not to die." Mark the more than Roman fortitude with which, haviug initiated the step of disunion, they avow their determination to maintaiu it to the last oire issue of battle, it' need be. Could Mississippi ami Alabama?or could Georgia and South Carolina?thus united?thus resolved?thus in aotion, to free themselves from the rule of a tyranuical and hostile government?could they, we ask, by any fair estimate of probabilities, fail to achieve their object?independence or redress?witt safety to their escutcheons ? Who can doubt upon the point, when he considers that any imperilling of the weal and strength of Mississippi and Alabama, or Georgia and South Carolina, would be e felt us a fatal misfortune by the entire South ; or when he estimates the certain and speedy effects of suclt a demonstration iu disarming fhnati!" cisE at the North, and in again lifting to, power " the conservatism and patriotism of that section of 0 the Union. The result would be, as Mr. Boyce '' ays, either "a new confederacy," or fome unmistakable enactment "disposing of the slavery 3 question forever." And there are strong-reasons i, for thinking that the latter alternative yrould oc^ cur, bnd uot disuuiou. "Of course, in what we Lava said we have refern enoe to the election of a Republican to the Presis deucy, under circumstances that would "radicate s a settled purpose to destroy" the prosperity and , institutions of our section. If the Republics could come into power, by any postibility, with fair "programme of principles," it would be mat1, ter of great doubt whether the event Bbonld be e fixed upon as an occasion for Southern action, in( , any wise." e ? e ' CAPTURE OF i. 8UTER. ml - a?1 dnvpB h? un A D -tft? 11 rev Qopturoui ? wttrgv v* ? d merioan cruiser, is chronicled by the Charleston i, papers. The Mercury gives an accouut it:? e A slave brig, called the Echo, arrived at this n port yesterday ofternoon, in charge of Lieut. J. M. Bradford, U. 8. N. Lieut. Bradford is a citie zen of Alabama, and first Lieutenant on board the , United States brig Dolphin, Lieut. Maffit com,f maoding. Lieut: Maffit very kindly writes' us ^ that the Dolphin captured this vessel, which he terms an American slaver, after a long chase, ori the evening of the 21st inst., off the North Coasl i- of Cuba, lot 23? 30', long. 80? 10'. When firstV discovered, the slaver was sailing under English I colors; but perceiving the Dolphin, whom he to ok to be an English vessel-of-war, he hoisted Ameri o can colors. When he discovered hit egregious d and fatal error, be made the most strenuous ef forts to escape; bat a few well-directed shots, from the Dolphin brought him to reason, and he surrendered at discretion. Theelaver, still deem)f ing the Dolphin an Englishman, did not antici0 pate a search or visitation while he displayed Amerlcan colors. Lieut. Maffit writes that their cruise has been il any thing but pleasant, as they find the yellow h fever prevailing wherever duty calls. . From Lieut. Bradford we learn that the Echo had 318 Africans on board when captured?twelve d have since died, and the balance ore suffering somewhat from dysentery. Suspicions were first ? excited by the Echo's suddenly hauling off from "**A - - J r\f Klanlr IIIC UUUMb, UI1U upuu Uiiug va W.I.UU .-p..., n hoisted the American flag. The Dolphin then <1 gave chose, and proving herself the better sailer, ,r brought the Echo to. Lieut. Bradford, with a force of sixteen men, boarded theEpjio, and found her in the hands of a crew of nineteen men, A* U mericans, English and Spaniards, neither of whom e would acknowledge themselves in command. A portion of th!? crew were transhipped to the Dol-i phiu, who took them to Key West, whence they will be sent to this port by steamer. k" What to do with these "emigrants" is now the e question. A correspondent of the Mercury sugd geets that they Bhould not be sent back to heathenism?but should be taken by the "benevolent" l" fed, clothed, christianized and last but not least, e "taught to earn their bread by the sweat of the e brow." Now that the dear creatures are on hand, this would be a capital idea, but verily, e it would give nigger-dom the horrors! The 8a' vannah Republican indicates the law on this point, thus:-? , . c' The act of 1840 provides that the officers and crew of the captured vessel shall be turned over to the U. 8. District Court to be prosecuted under the laws of Congress.. The ship and her properties of every description to be sold, and the proceeds to be divided, half to the United States, and e the other half to the (fflbers and men who seized '- and brought the vessel into port, under the laws 4 regulating prizes. The slaves are to be delivered to the United States Marshal of the District where,, landed, and the President to make such regula8 tions and 'arrangements as he may deem expediu diwtt for. "tbeir safe-keepiog, support, or remoB val," and be is authorized to appoint an officer on the coast of Africa to receive them. ~i ' " Mw1 1 Written for the Yorktille EuqnircT. s -?r- .. . ' Prospect Hill, flreenTille Dist., S. C., 1 August 5tb, 1858. J e To S. W. Melton, Esq., Editor of ike YorkvMt Enquirer: j My L'earSir:?T send you a sketch of Judge Smith, vhich I wish published in your paper. It is,' I know,' imperfect I wish to elicit information which will enable me to perfect it, for if 1 J have life and opportunity, it will constitute a part ?f the "Sketches of the Bench and Bar of South Catoiioft." - 5 I should be glad of any information or oorreo-. tion addressed to me at Newberry, or through yoar papey, . . ^ . I regretted to see last night that ear mutual friend, I. D. Wrr^aasrooN, has been taken from 1 his place here. . I saw last Spring, that his house of earth was in ruins And most soon fall. Still I mourn his death as that of an hopes*, j^ood man, 5 whoee place i$ wtttTTe hard to filL ^-<JFrtfipfriend, ^ ^ JOHN BELTON O'NEALL. /r ' JUDGE WILLIAM SMITH. William Smith was elected a Judge on the 28th . of June 1808, in the place of Judge Trkevant, i who bad died the February preceding. He was ' President of the Senate when elected, and was a [ lawyer in the fall tide of tuooeesfal practice on r the Middle, now oalled the Northern Circuit Re was born in North Carolina, but when or : where. I have been unable to aeoertain. He mi ! grated to South Carolina, and nettled in York Disi trict, when very youDg and poor. Hevtas. eduoated in part, piwbably by the Rev. Mr. Alexander, the able teacher, and minister of > the Presbyterian faith, at Bollock's Creek, and finished his course at the Mount Zion College, Winnsboro'. y While at Mr. Alexander's school,. ' be met with Gen. Jackson as a school-mate, and no doubt, when the two noble Romans met at Washington, as President of the United States and 8enator from 8outh Carolina, they met as friends ' in early life, and friends in all the fierce politioal strifes to which our country bad been and was ' then subjected. ! At thirty years of age, Mr. Smitji began tho ' study of the law, and as three years was then the prescribed term of stndy for the graduate of a 1 College, he must have been thirty-three years of age, when admitted to the Bar. | He represented his early life to an intimate friend?Col. Thomas Williams, formerly of York, now of Montgomery, Alabama?"as wild, reckless, intemperate, rude and boisterous, yet reso, lute and determined." I He had the rare blessing to win the love of one of the purest, mildest and best women, whose [ character has ever been presented to the writer. He married Margaret Durr. "In his worst days, , she never upbraided him by word, look or gesture, but always met him as if he was one of the kindest and beBt of husbands. This conrse on her , part humbled him, and made him weep like a , child." This sentence, it is hoped, will be remem, bered, was the language of Judge Smith to the friend already named, and to thoso who knew the stern, unbending publio character of the Judge, it will tencn a leason 01 now mucu a |uu?ut ?uman's love can accomplish. He was at last reformed by an instance of her patient love and devotion, as he himself told it: "The evening before the Return Day of the Court of Common Pleas for York Distrust, a client called with fifty notes to be put in suit. Mr. Smith was not in his office?he was on what is now fashionably called a spree, then a frolic. Mrs. Smith received the notes, and sat down in the office to the work of issuing the Writs and Processes. She spent the night at work-^-Mr. Smith "in riotous living.'* At daylight, on his way homo from his carousals, ho saw alight in his office, and stepped in, and to his great surprise saw his amiable wife, who had just oompleted what ought to to have been his work, with her head on the table and asleep. His entry awoke her. She told him what she had done, and showed him her night's work?fifty Writs and Processes. This bowed the strong man, "he fell on his knees, implored her pardon, and then and then faithfully promised her neuer to drink another drop while he lived." ^"Tliis promise," says my friend Co!. WiLLiAMS^'he faithfully kept," and-e&id the Judge to him; "from that day, ererything which I touched turned to gold." ( "H& entire success in life," says Col. Wiliuke, "he sat down to his faithful observance of this noble promise." * ?. \c No better eology aruld tie pronounced on Mr*.-;. Smith than has just been given in the words of her distinguished husband. The reformation of such a man as William Smith is a chaplet of glory, which few women have been permitted to wear. To. the people of Sodth Carolina, and especially of ? kYork District, certainly no stringer argument in savor of temperance, total abstinence; need be given. V uugc U*li 121 was MU IVUIU, UUb TUIUQi VJ I ?UM* ( eel Judge. All stood hi awe of bim.. He committed tbe Captain of a volunteer company in Charleston for disturbing the Court,-by persisting to eause his dram to bo beat after he had been ordered (o deei'st. He quashed, Spring of 1814, every venire around tbe Southern Circuity because i new jury lists bad not been made out within three years, and from them the jurors drawn and summoned^ This was a great legal blunder, and worked great delay in the administration of tiee. Still no one doubted the parity of the Judge, although Bonch and Bar condemned the act as high-handed and uncalled for. / "j udge Smith possessed S"lronderfal memory; and I have often heard it said that he reported to the Constitutional Conrt the case of the State us. Pley and Rochelle, without reference to his notes. "He never forgot the faces of men or their peculiar traits of oharaoter." If be knew a man once, he knew him ever after, and neither the lapse of time, nor the place where he might meet him, however little expected, misled or deceived bim. As an illustration, the fallowing incident mfty be noted. He bad been employed, many years before, to defend a man at Pinckney or 8partanborg, for killing a horse in the night time, which by onr Statute is a clergyable felony. His client did not * i-r-1 v. a.j it.. a>.i. TP ...? ... nice* xiib irrai?tir urn vuc rMic. n ?uv vnn? w enrrcd daring the existence of the Court at Pincknej, at least twenty years mast have come and gone; and if at Spartanburg, at least ten years must haye elapsed before( Judge Smith entered .Congress as a Senator from S. Carolina. Walking into the Hall of the House of Representatives soon after he had-taken his seat as Senator, he discovered his client in the person of John alsxandru, commonly called the "Buffalo of the West,'" sitting as a member from Ohio. In Spartanburg the name wad usually called Elohisob, and so the Judge addressed him. The member professed not to-know him. The Judge with one of his bitterest oaths swore be should know him, telling him he had hls uote at hotfe for $100, and that he shotild pay it Ho wrote to ht& wife to send the note, aod by the return .mail it oame, and Mr. Alxxahpsa admitted the acquaintance by paying the not*. The speeches of his political opponent he never forgot, and often to their dismay, the Judge, from the bottom of his old trunk, fished up some speech, or speeches, entirely at. war with their present^ views. ? What a terrible bastinadoing he g4ve to Mr, DxWolf, the Senator from. Rhode Island, when he arrayed before bhn the evidences of his participation io the slave-trade before 1808, will, bftpgfrrllnjtnri Itt hth at this late day ! ^ nhHitv as a Judsre wiTrbeaaeU Uj raftl'flUJL to the case of Reaj> and Eifebt (1 N. & MoC., 874, note.) His opinion In that case settled the vexed question of adverse possession and gave, for the first time in our Court, a plain, sensible, and jnst construction of the Act of Limitation. At the session of the Legislature in December 1816, Judge Smith was elected to. the Senate of the United States, and thus vncatod his place on the Bench. From March 1817 to March 1823, "he served, end most faithfnllwajj^bly discharged his datiesin the United States Senate. Tn December 1822, the talented and accomplished Attorney General of the State, Robert Y. Hayne, was , elected Senator in preference to Jadge Smith.? He was returned to the Hoose of Representatives , of South Carolina in 1821, and in 1825 he led the | | party which reversed Mr. Calhouji's previous ( policy in the State. The doctrine of a strict con- ] atruction of the Constitution was adopted with j singular unanimity. In December 1826, Judge , Smith was elected Senator In Congress, fbr the unexpired term of John Gilliabd. In 1880, his < former friend, Stephih D. Miller, superseded him. i The doctrine of Nullification was then beginning j 4pjgain the ascendancy in the State. In 1881, < diA^e^SMiTH was one of tihose who signed the ap- i peal to t^aJJnion party of S. Carolina.. Through- , ont the struggle to which Nullification gam riset , Judge Smith remained true to the Union ; but tbe j violent divisions and party strife which then per- < vnitod RtatA. <fm*e Juries Smith and manv i ' - - v.\ ? other valuable men from it. "Judge Smith was remarkable for the "indomita- < ble energy of hie character.*' He turned not aside i for obetaeles-vffrhat he thodght right to be done, i he did. His opinion he surrendered to no man, i and of consequence he was led by no one, To this i unbending will,, is to be attributed hie opposition : to Mr. Calhoun. He felt that he was much his j senior?that he belonged to the old radical school, ] when Mr. Calhoun, Mr. McDuma, Generals. i Hat.ve and Hamilton, belonged to the party in < fayor of a liberal construction of the Constitution < ?that ho had a larger experience as a Republican i than any of them, and that his former position as 1 a Judge placed him far above Mr. Calhoun, and j that, therefore, if deference onght to be paid to | any one, it onght to be paid to him. His lore of 1 truth made him defend, in the strongest terms, ] his opinions, political or otherwise. 1 . "As a friend or neighbor," says Col. Williams, { "no one conld excel Jndge Smith.- No kinder hearted man erer lived, and npne could be found ' who sympathized with the distressed more sincere- 1 ly." But his sympathies could only be elicited 1 by and for virtue in distress. "He had no sym- c pnthy," as he said, "with vagabonds." While he 11 loved his friends, he hated his enemies. "He * could cot bless the man that cursed, nor pray for E the man who despitefully used and persecuted " him." ' 1 He was a total stranger to the idea of ooucilia- c ting an enemy?his course towards such au one . I wae defiance. * * Hi? intercourse with his friends was unrestraia- * ed freedom end pleasantness, He abounded in k anecdotes of the Bench and Bar, and of hie varied 4 life; these he poured out for the entertainment of his friends. But to those whom he disliked, or ^ who he Buppoeed disliked him, he was reserved * but courteous. ' - 0 He and hie wife were blessed with an only child 11 ?a daughter. She became the wife of John Tat- b lob, Esq., of Pendleton, and died soon after the birth of her only child, a daughter, who was rais- n ed and educated by her grand parents. " The Western land mania seised the Judgo while ' in his first term in the United States Senate.? C Ile bought largely in Alabama, but without any 0 purpose of removing. It was left, however, to the unfortunate Nullification difficulty to drive 11 him from the State. He left soon after his a last term in the Uuited States Senate, and became a a Louisiana planter. ^ His idolired wife preceded him to the tomb.? 8< He died in Louisiana on the ? day of 184-, full of years, and almost a millionaire in wealth. P He was of the common height, rather square c< built and of great pliysioal powers. His face ra- 8| ther pale, exhibiting unflinching firmness. His voice was peculiar?rather shrill in his intona- 8' tions, and calculated by its sharpness to add mnch to ais withering sarcasm. n On the whole, he was a remarkable man, with the iron will of Jackson, and like him, utterly ignorant of the word rAti. *i For the Yorkirtle Inquirer. . , .4 FATAL BRRORS CORRECTED. Mr. Editor:?My< fundamental* principle heretofore given, as may be'recollected, claims and inserts an eternal difference between right and rroog. This has for its "basis the natural and moral attributes of an inscrutable Jehovah,- inInite in every conceivable perfection. This prinaiple is conftded'in lie b sure foundation?oommearorate in length nnd breadth and heighth and depth with the Divine Mind. God is all we know o? an eternity past. "Thoa, even thou, art Lord alone" ?the "Alpha" and "Hot/One"?the "Sternal Sod." ? My other propositions are believed to be either corollaries or necessary deductions from Ibis fundamental principle, er rest clearly and directly.on scriptural authority. It is '"founded on a roclt." Fat different, however, is the fundamental principle of E. A. CarnsRAW. Tbd natural and moral attributes of God, and the irreconcilable disagreement between virtue and vice, holiness tad sin, form no part of its basis. V^hat is his principle ?the foundation-stone of his religious strneture? Hear it: "For there can be no moral right, nor. tetany, without a ruleand all his declarations and reasonings imply that he means a written rule. "No moral right, nor wrong, without a written rule.*1 There stands bis elemental principle of faith and practice?his "wood, bay, and stubble" foundation. To tell a Christian that this prinoiple rests on the being of the Christian's God?that it can be deduced from the inherent attributes of tbe Holy One?or can ever be made, by Christian doctrine and a living faith, to conneot and harmonise :?U Unlm, tXnA ia aiainU nhanvH UmIKHL Sdffl. mon sense, and conscience intuitively reject the onscriptnral doctrine. A rule implies government ?a superior, and an inferior?a ruler, and a subject. t God was before all worlds?before every created thing? "Thou from the first Was present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dote-like sat'st brooding on the tast abyss." Was He not '-the same" in the beginning, as' now?as glorious in holiness before any subject or creature wis, as after He breathed into man the breath of life ? Let no one be misled by an erroneous construction of Paul's declaration, to wit: "For where no law is, there-is no transgression." By using this language, Paul does not intend to assert, that there ever was or will be a man In any place not under law. He speaks sapposititiously. The Commentators give this as his meaning, and it most manifestly, be the oorreet construction, otherwise the Scriptures would be in? consistent, when they declare the Heathen to be "without excuse." Is it not strange, remarkably. ;n<.nn<ri<faixk??. and- incomnatible with doty in ?. A. Crznsbaw, when be professes so great regard for the precepts and examples of the Bible, that he should found and build a superstructure of faith and practice on an elemental principle not based on Seriptnre truth, bat diametrically in disregard of its teAohings?a principle, in warp and woof manufactured in the laboratory of his own, not-properly-exercised reason, when be holds that reason most have a "rule to exercise it by"?a, principle, which we have no guaranty his conscience approves : for he may in its promulgation have acted.only- "/or good policy in the cause or even tf jt' j luiiMLienco approve the principle, he assures us that "conscience in man, when unenlightened by a moral rale, variously, decides on duty in a given case." Having no Scripture for authority, be instructs us that Am reason and conscience should be none to as. ' As all truth and its legitimate issues are one and concordant; so too error and its streams must ever ran on accumulating pollution in their flow, whilst the fountain endures. From the anscriptural and noxious fountain, we have been analyzing, the principle very naturalty issues, that "duty implies a written rule to constitute it such and gathering error in Its oonrse, we reaoh the pestilently consistent dogma, that the moral lays, demands obedience, not becanse it is right hi itself bat becanse it is commanded. Let as test this doctrinal notion. We bare heretofore given the declaration of Dr. Alexander, that uTbis noble ("Acuity, (reason) was certainly given to mail to be j ? guide in religion," when properly exercised. "* 1 ? 1 A _1? JlDO menu IftW UlUSVy ucjvuvi ou? iuouu?v vi Christian controversy, have existed hi contemplation of-Oodfrom eternity past. The earn of the law is lore; and lore Is the fulfilling of the law; and 3od is lore. Lore to God and man ie the law of Rearep; and most forerer be the law of God in all worlds within his empire, where the relations of the law exist, among raHonal and happy or probations! creatures. Reason establishes this truth; the understanding cannot resist its force; and conscience sanctions its ralidity. When We base our obedience of the moral law on the mere/act of its being commandedf we manifestly exalt and magnify the omnipotence and sovereignty of God at the expense and by deteriorating Of his moral attributes?his holiness, jostles, goodness, and troth. These attribotes of LI is nature are equally commensurable sod illimitable with his infinite power. The latter is no more essential to the nature of "God, than the rormer. Infinite parity and reotitude ean nerer io wrong, or do otherwise than right. Their iommands most erer be right in themselves, and neril oar obedience from the principle of sincere ore, rather than from a servile fear.. We always rear mere power: for power may change its purWV?A ?nd degenerate into tvrannv and oppression. Ne love holiness, justioe, goodness and truth.? Love will ever make a better Christian than fear. 'Then is no fear in love; bat perfect love oasteth nrt feiw." All admit that the moral law is noaf*'perfect f t the command, and the command alone mftfee it ight, it necessarily follows, If God 'were to com? nand a law varying in a single tittle or minatest legree from the law as it now exists, the unended or altered law becomes ipso facto right. i capable of being altered in a single degree, may tot the law be altered to any degree or extent; ,nd, onder the principle of ?. A. Crenshaw, the aw mast still be right, and obligatory on the aoecienee. It then inevitably follows, if it so ilease God to command, that;the moral law might * completely reversed, and yet be still right, and !. A". Crenshaw is bound to think it right, and it conscience most sanction it. We proceed then o reverse on paper a portion of the decalogue for be purpose of testing this principle of ?. A. )rxn8haw>s theological system and earthly praoice, and of witnessing in imagination the workings f the moral government, which he and hie Baal, >ot oar God, might establish, and his conscience last sanction, if established. "Thou shalt not covet any thing that is thy eighbor's," when reversed, might read somewhat a this sort: Thou shalt covet every thing thAt is by neighbor's. Blessed society! And ?. A. Irxsshaw must esteem it right, and bis conscience r good policy approves. "Tbou shalt not bear false witness against thy eighbor," when reversed, might perhaps read ' fter this fashion : Thou shalt peijure yourself nd lie all the time. Sweet morality! 1 And ?. .. Cbenshaw must esteem it right, and -his con:ience or good policy approves. "Tbou shalt not steal," when reversed, might ., eradventure read: Thou shalt steal without i Basing. Ecstatic times! 1! And E. A. Chen- ' j saw must esteem it right, and his consdchpe or ( ood policy approves. "Thou shalt not kill," when reversed, might tad: Thoufibalt kill and slay with all your soul j nd might every body. Squatting and sudds* j mes these 1! 1 And E. A. Cwpuwaw HPT Mlj| tpem ti right, and his conscience or good poIWjr approves. 4.. . ? / . ? jo oorpf Tie, steal, apd kill W then tbelhirly snjjpoaabk moral reaulU of the foiidgnientafprinciples of E. A. Cbshshaw's theological belief, promulgated to the world for adoption in theery, and (or the practical regulation of their eofcjioct in Hfa and-aocietj! And "011 Chrvtiuns" approve the orthodoxy! J "Tell it aotfn Getfi *' tot the Philistines rejoice.'* From whence then comes this principle of right ftpm command, and not from inherent righteousness f It s88<rrc{Rj4)eaB0i'flow from the Bible. Its -epiritnaHsm U of the earth, earthy, and 'la a cake nottuzyad." i. y, . , God's repubttaaiion-of tbe moral jaw, at Sinai, confirmed what was originally written in the heart ?re-established it in aU its fallneee?removedall douht of its divine origin?and tbas added te^Ue authoritative sanctions; hot It is no more .right tor itself now, than when first made known to Adam in the garden of Eden. It is apparent however, that its exceeding breadth and spirituality are not received iota the understanding, rbcogadfcd in the conscience, and exhibited- in the life by every Church-chempioq. A PRESBYTEBtAIf. "V5? . For the Torkvllle Enquirer. gvcsTio? to n tinmto, Mr. Editor:?I know very well then are tetter writers than myeelf, but I hope to mate myself understood. Although a plain mas in my way, I however try to carry out aad extend to their proper qonclueions some things which t rend. Your correspondent, A Prtdytman*hu given us the Preamble of the York District Temperance --i ?- iklM ?> - - ? ? - OOCietJ, BOW ZZUi IU UUSIWVV. f abm ammbvio statu that Intemperance, (giving the substance) is the greatest of SvHs among as, that the aril ought to be put down, that if Is "the duty of all friends of humanity to devise tcayt mud meant to arrest it* progress, to e&ociaU together, endt/om themselves into o Society " fay the purpose of putting down the eriL Uow 2 agree' jrith this Society, t h at all this is true, nothing but the truth. 1 | then hare to ask a question which eemei op rerJ naturally; Are all the members of this oU Society who may be alto, now members of a Temperance Society?the old Sooiety .being dead i ty ao. U is plain that they are consistent In their oondaci. Another questioq, It is no matter what the Constitution of any Temperaooe Bodety may say in so many words; the meaning most necessarily be the same as this one which is giren there, rli. that drunkenness is an evil, oughtte be suppressed, and that it is the-duty^f good men ,to,form n Society for ifc cfh^atiomf tbj? quootion to aek of every man, who hah ever belonged to any Temperance Society; Are you now a member of a Temperance Society T If not, where la consistency ? Will you answer T ^ PL AIN BMtijpH. BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH^,. LATEST FROM EDROPK. Petee Cw?lad?d wltk ditaa, ^ . Yalixtlv, August 26. Despatches received here this morning stale that a treaty of peeoe has been ooucluded with China. England and France aw to be In? fied. Bombay dates to the- 19th Truly hare been received in England, which state that the mutiny in India is rapidly being quelled. The London papers of Tuesday, 24th instant, contain a long and interesting report by Brighton the Atlantic Telegraph Company enterprise. The steamship Asia wfH leave Liverpool on Sat-' urday next. CONTINENTAL NEWS^-CHINBSE TBEATY. London, Aug. 27. 1 The treaty between China and Traiice and Eng* land, stipulates- ?I. That theChiahee Bmpirq shall be open to the trade of all nations. II. That the Christian religion shall be allowed tbroughont the country.. III. TJjat foreign diplomatic ifgents shall be adml Ue A into the Empire. ^ IV. Full indemnity is aoeorded to Pranoe and England, but aotiting Is said of the'United States. 8t. P?mni?Q, lag. 27. The announcement of peace with China? gave great satisfaction at Court here. Dates from Alexandria, Egypt, are to tbeJth instant. The steamer Ifadra arrived at Sots on the 7th Angtut, with Bombay-dates to July 19. There is no Indian news of interest to- add to thw advices sent yesterday. * f From the Charleston Mercery, y j . The llareiwher Crew Cargo, The real same of the captured brig is the Geo. Putnam. These letters are partially eraled and opvered over by (hose of the assumed name Echo, and wonld doubtless have been restored, had success crowned the enterprise in wUoh she was sogaged when taken. She is of Baltimore build, say 280 tons burden, and, it is oeuevea, jnu lormeriy a I packet in the coffee trade between that port and ! Rio. On the 6th March last she cleared from New Orleans with a captain, two mates, eight seamen,, a cook, steward and one passenger. On the 6th July she shipped a cargo of 466 slaves on the weal coast of Africa, at Kabeada, situated in' latitude 6.80 south, longitude 12^20 east. It is in Lower Gaines, in the southern part of the District of Loango, and not farfrom the river Congo or Zaire. These sieves ifere purchased in a circuit of 600 miles, and assembled at a barracoon aearthe point of shipment The brig set sail wfch them,, and in forty-seven days made the trio, reaching the point of destination on the morning of the 21ai inst. In this space of time one hundred and forty*' one negroe had died, leaving bat three hundred and fourteen alive. A bay on ?Cay Verde," one of the keys on the north coast of Cuba, latitude 28.80, longitude -80.20 was the landing place, where the Echo was detect^hgiyihe Dolphin. The officers of the Dolphin Iprt the harbor of Sagna la -Grande the day before, and while cruising westward in search of alpvers, perceived the ?tho at daylight in the distance, bearing the British flag,and running down the coast ahead of the Dolphin in the same directien; No suspicion was excited. Tbe~brig entered the bay. Ilia Dolphin ran oo her course, and in good time came in view, of the bay and the' Echo. Tim captain.of the slaver new bet his presence of mind, supposing!* was suaCted and pawned, and suddenly hauled off from* coast. It #artben observed that a number of launches near ehore had their sails set to come out to the brig. This verified the Suspicion excited by her strange movement, and the Dolphin gave chaBe to the flying vessel, still bearing the British flag. Blank cartridges were fired, end it became evident that the pursuer gained. The slaver spread all her canvas in vain, and finding herself about to fall into the cluches of the cruiser, thought to be British, hauled down that flag and run up the Stars and 3tripes, Vti, TVilnkin ftillavMl nk.dtimU*lHf colors, aniJ brought her to with afew shotted gone fired after her. She was boarded by Lieut. Brad* ford and sixteen men, and surrendered at discretion. No papers were fouhd, but a signal of a black cross on a white ground, which had proba* My just been used to notify the party on shore by previous agreement. The crew, nineteen in namber, professed to be all passengers without captain or officers. Bat Lieut. MaffiU selected the prisoner who appeared to be at the head of the enterprise, and took him aboard the Dolphin, with a sick seaman and comrade to attend-km. The rest were brought by Lieut Bradford. It wens that the oaptain and those two men were not sent to Charleston on board the Catawba from Key Weet, as was expected, but are now on their way to Boston in ths Dolphin. Th* names of eighteen, excepting the captain, are as follows t Dominica de la Piene, George Plaken, Juan Drivers, Antonio Aimera, Jose Francisco, Thomas Under,. E. L Bates, Antonio Somes, John.PsaoQ, Jose deJale Vital de Miranda, Alexandir^gfd. gets, Frank Cleary, Antonio Milanaoish, John E. . Canell, William Henry Seno, Archibald 8oott. Jose n a? a uonzaies oeuu. One is & Greek, one an Italian; some of them are Portuguese, some Spaniards and seme English. Some of them taik about New York, but none now admit that they are Americana, or hare atrbereabouta in this "?0 on try, Those smugglers are a desperate looking set of fellows. Under the lawe of 1819 andJ1820 they will be tried for their Urea n American bottom under Pey were committed to jail Their trials will take , before His Honor Judge lames Conner, U. 8. DUitipg officer. The Court >nday in Norember. The will be found in another