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who, sick of freedom, prefer any form of slavery, and in their desperation do not hesitate to make their pioos patrons in this country the laughing stock of the world. Thas these two nations?France and England, j whose adoption of this abolition crotchet alone i made it respectable and influential?have thoroughly renounced it, practically, and almost in tlwory. The press of England, perhaps the greatest power of the world, sustains these movements; while in France the newspapers are openly dis- I cussing the question of importinglnegro slaves, by name, into Algeria. I think it may be fairly said that in Europe abolition has ran its course.? Brougham, Palmerston, Russell, and all the old 8olitical agitators, arc hanging their harps upon le willows. Even the son of Wilberforce, the fanatic, approves of coolie slavery, which we abhor. But recently the British government openly surrendered its claim to tho right of search?a i claim set up mainly to put down the African slave j trade, and without which nil attempts to do it will | probably be idle. And there is nothing to sur- I prise us in this, if we are correct in our view* of African slavery. If it is sustained by the religion of the Bible; if neither humanity nor sound philosophy oppose it; if, as we are oonvinced, it is a social, political and economical benefit to the world, then it was inevitable that, sooner or later, the abolition crusade must die out?and why not now ? If there is truth in what I Lave stated to you? if the abolition fever has nearly or quite exhausted itself in Europe?if time and facts have proven there that it is an absurdity?it seems to me we should not doubt that its career is about to close here. Such is my opinion, however differently those may think who judge only by appear ances, or take their cues from agitating politicians. I ask any one to tell me upon what measure or upon what man the abolitionists of this country can ever again muster their legions as they did in 1856 ? Kansas is squeezed dry. It stinks in the nosmis or all people. They can (to no more there. Will they try a "cry" against the Supreme Court for the Dred Scott decision ? What is there in that to inflame popular sentiment ? It is always uphill business to agitate against a judiciary, but especially against the Supreme Court of the United States, which the northern people have been taught to revere as the bulwark of their liberties. Will they demand the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia ? They have never been able to do much with that, though they have often tried. That issue is a little too practical and too dangerous. Not many are bold enough to embark in it. They might as well make the question of disunion nakedly. Will they take up the abstract, proposition of "no more slave States"? They have done it. They have already split upon it. The northwest will not take it, and the free States, at bottom, all want Cuba. They love molasses, and hanker after free trade with that rich island.? Where, then, are they to go, I canDot see. They do not appear to see themselves. Will any one state the praotical question, if we offer them none ?and we have none to offer?on which they are next to rally for the conquest of the South ?? The measure or the man ? It does seem to me that this great fire is dying out for want of fuel.? That this crusade, as many crusades have done, has exhausted itself, and that there is no argu roent or leader that can keep it alive. Their Pe-. ter Hermits, their Godfreys, their Baldwins, their lion-hearted Richards, where are they ? It seems that they will scaroely agree even on their Louis IX. who shall lead their last pious campaign and suffer martyrdom. And let me say that if the abolitiocists cannot a n ti .q! ftVArV nftf UU1W lUO ucc u?.avco oo a puivy w.%. w-^ 2 ty in the Presidential election of 1860, and fail again in 1864, we shall never hear more of them as political party; and it is only as a political party that they are worthy of our notice. There always will be abolitionists?for fools, enthusiasts, men of morbid imaginations, bent on mischief, or ambitious of notoriety will always exisit. But the abolition party in the free States is now always wholly political. Do you suppose that the Sewards, Hales, Wades, Wilsons, Chases and their associates, care anything for African slavery, or is really hostile to our system of labor, any more than is the President, Dickinson, Bright, Pugh or Douglas ? I do not. Their object is political pow er. They have placed themselves on this springtide of fanaticism to obtain it. If it fails tbem? if, at the next Presidential eleotion, assuredly, if at the two next?we beat them, all this party machineiywtll fall to the ground,?and theSmiths, Tappans, Garrisons and Parkers, will be left alone to their glory. But if I am all wrong- -if my facts and reasoning are false, and my hopes delusive? if, in 1860, they beat us what then ? These are ^oOTttuns tnar may ne asxed. And the answer is obvious. We must be prepared; and the very efforts we must make to prevent 9uch results will better prepare ns than any course we can pursue that I can 9ee. We must be prepared, I say, to take care of ourselves, whatever may come. It is clear that the slaveholding states of this confederacy, whatever hazards they may chooso to incur by remaining in alliance with a majority of nonslaveholders now so inflamed against them, mnst ever and at all times hold their destinies in their own hands. They can never permit any foroign power to legislate in reference to their peculiar industrial system, whether to abolish or to modify, or impose undue burdens on it. Sncb legislation must be resisted with all onr means, and without regard to any consequences. If it should so happen that the free States of this Union, being now, and always to be, in a majority, do establish a political line between the two sections and the two systems of labor, legislate upon it and maintain if, then they will constitute a power as foreign to us as a nation in the world, and we cannot submit to it. Whatever the weak and defenceless colonies of other countries may have submitted to, before these Southern States will be placed in the condition of St. Domingo or Jamaica, or one at all approximating to it, they will rend this Union into fragments and plunge the world in ruin. It is iu their power to do both, for the world cannot get on without them; and, if ruthless fauaticism and brute force com bine, under wnatever names, ana wun wnatever authoriy, to ride them, they will carry with them the pillars of the temple of civilization, and force a common fate on all mankind. There are mauy who believeHhat some such a catastrophe is inevitable. It cannot be denied that, from appearances, here and elsewhere, it is entirely possible, and it may not be unwise for all of us to suppose it probable. Although I think that the ranks of our enemies are broken and the moral victory won, I am far from proclaiming that the battle is over, and that we have now only to gath er the fruits of our success. Many a battle has boen wod, and lost again, by overweening confidence, by reckless pursuit, or by turning aside for the sake of spoil. Let us fall into none of these errors; for we are still in the very heat and turmoil of this great conflict, and all might yet be lost. What I wish to impress upon you is, that there is hope for effort?triumph for union, energy and perseverance. It has fallen upon the slaveholders of the South to conduct this question of African slavery to its final conclusion. Such is our fate. It is inevitable. Let us cheerfully accept and manfully perform our destined parts; and do it with no distrust of God; with no misgivings of our cause or of ourselves ; with no panic; no foolish attempt to fly from dangers which cannot be avoided, which have not been proven to be insurmountable, aad which, I for one, believe that we can conquer.? After what has been achieved by a divided South, new that it is almost thoroughly united; now that we have a President and his Cabinet; a majority in both Houses of Congress; a Supreme Court of the United States; and still hosts of allies in the free States, all substantially concurring with us in our construction of the constitution, and under its obligations earnestly battling with us for the maintenance of our rights and interests,?we owe it to our oountry, to ourselves, to the world and to posterity, to cast aside all weak fears; all petty or impracticable issues; all mere wrangling and vituperation, personal and sectional, and move lorwara wun me uiguuy ui suhjviuuj mni>(s>u and the calmness of undoubted courage, to the overthrow of every false theory of government, and every sentimental scheme for organizing labor; carrying with us the constitution of our fathers, and, if we can, their Union. But the slave States, constituting, and as I think forever to constitute, a numerical minority, ean, however, accomplish nothing in this Union, without the aid of faithful allies in the free States. It has been of late too much the habit in the South to mistrust all such allies?to disparage, to denounce and drive them from us. Nothing could be more unwise or more unjust. It is distrusting the truth and justice of our own cause, or calumniating human nature, to doubt that there are in the free 8tates thousands of sound thinking, truehearted and gallant men, who concur essentially in our views, and are ready to make cause with us. Nay, it is falsifying history and fact. During the late session, I saw men aoting cordially and vigorously with us against the posive instructions of their excited constituents, at the hazard of political martyrdom; and in two instances that martrydom was consummated before the adjournment. 8h&ll we do honor to such men ? Shall we pay no tribute to such hei oic devotion to truth, to justice and the constitution? Shall we revile them in common with all northern men, because taany revile and some have betrayed us ? To be truly great, we must be not only just, but generous and forbearing to all mankind. Let us place ourselves In the situation of northern public men Is this great contest, consider their dangers sod responsibilities, and making every allowance for human weakness, do homage to the brave and faithful. , And this leads me to say that, having never been a mere party politician, intriguing and wirepulling to advance myself or others, I am not learned in the rubric of the thousand slang, unmeaning, and usually false part}* names to whioh our age gives birth. But I have been given to understand that there are two parties in the South called "National" and "State Rights" Democrats. The word "national" having been carefully excluded from the Constitution by those who framed it, I never supposed it applicable to any principle of our government, and having been surrendered to the almost exclusive use, in this country, of j the Federal consolidationists, I have ever myself i repudiated it. But if a Southern "national demo- J crat" mean3 one who is ready to welcome into our ranks with open arms, and cordially embrace j and promote according to bis merits, every honest i free State man who reads the constitutions as we do, and will co-operate with us in its maintenance, j i then I belong to that party, call it as 70a may, 1 T a tr\ finH r? Qrm thorn TTlfl n who I j l? LI 11 X S11UUIU JjlUfV IV MMV ? does not. | Bat, on the other hand, having been nil my life, | and being still, an ardent "State Rights" man? j j believing "State Rights" to be an essential, nay, ' the essential, element of the constitution, and that no one who thinks otherwise can stand on the j same constitutional platform that I do, it seems to j me that I nm, and all those with whom I act habitually are, if democrats at all, true "State Rights democrats." Nothing in public affairs so perplexes and annoys me as these absurd party names, and I never could be interested in them. I could easily comprehend two great parties, standing on the two great antagonistic principles which are inherent in all things human: the right and the wrong, the good and the evil, according to the peculiar views of each individual; and was never at a loss to find my side, as now, in what are known as the democratic and republican parties of this country. But the minor distinctions have, for the most part, seemed to me to be factitious and factious, gotten up by cunning men for selfish purposes, to which the true patriot and honest man should be slow to lend himself. For myself and for you, whiie 1 represent you, I shall go for the constitution strictly construed and faithfully carried out. I j will make my fight, such as it may be, by the side of any man, whether from the north, south, east or west who will do homage to his virtue, his ability, his courage, and, so far as I can, make just compensation for his toils and hazards and sacrifices. As to the precise mode and manner of conducting this contest, that must necessarily, to a great extent depend upon the exigencies that arise; but of course I oould be compelled by no exigency, by no party ties or arrangements, to give up my principles, or the least of those principles which constitute our great cause. If the South has any desire to remain in the Union, and control it, she, as bor safety requires that she should, in some essential particulars, if she does remain in It, must conciliate her north ern allies. She must be just, kind and true, to all who are true to truth aud to her. But if she determines, and whenever she determines, to throw off her northern friends and dissolve this Union, I need scarcely say that I shall, without hesitation go with her fully gDd faithfully. I do j not for a moment doubt that, in or out of this Union, she can sustain herself among the forc, most nations of the earth. All that she requires j I is the union of her own people, and happily they j never were at any former period so united and harmonious as now. A homogeneous people, with our sooial aud industrial institutions the same everywhere, and all oar great interests identical, we should always have been united in our moral and political opinions and policy. The ambitious dissensions of the host of brilliant men whose names adorn our annals, have heretofore kept us apart. The abolitionists have, at length, forced upon us a knowledge of our true position, and compelled us into union?an union not for aggression, but for defence; purely conservative of the constitution and also of the constitutional rights of every section and of every man. The union of these States, from the Cunadas to tho Bio Grande, and from shore to shore of the two great ooeans of the globe, whatever splendor may encircle it, is but a policy and not a principle. It is subordinate to rights and interests. But the union of the slaveholders of the South is a principle involving all our rights and all our interests. Let that union be perfect and perpetual. It constitutes our strength, our safety and prosperity. Let us frown down every proposition that might seriously divide us, and present to our nssailants from every quarter a solid and impregnahlo phalanx. Let us also give to the winds every thought of fear, every feeling of despondency and fully comprehending, and temperately but resolutely asserting, our great power in this confederacy and throughout the world, let us develop and consolidate our resources, and devote ourselves manfully and hopefully to the accomplishment of the magnificent future that is within our reach. Cfje gkkbtfle ^raprirfr. r.DITKD BY SAM'Ij w. melton. YORK VILLE, S. C. THUBSDAY MOBBING, NOVEMBEB 11, 1858. are very desirous to give particular attention to the local department of our paper; and to this end, we would ask our friends in the various portions of the District, Postmasters and in (riro 11a reliflhle Accounts of whatever v,MV#tl %v O* *w ? ? matters of general interest, that may transpire in their respective localities. Notices of Marriages and Deaths Till be promptly inserted, when accompanied by a responsible name. Announcements of religious and temperance meetings will be inserted with pleasure, and without charge. Our friends, Clergymen, Postmasters and others, can, and we trust will, aid us materially in contributing interesting items, of thip nature to our columns. *** In order to encourage the efforts of all who are favorable to our enterprise, we propose to send a copy of the Enquirer, gratis, to any one making up a club of ten subscribers and sending $15, in advance. To clubs of six, the paper will be sent for $10 50, with an extra copy to the person making the club. S@T Sam'l G Brown, Esq., Maj. Myles Smith, and M. Jones, Esq., are authorized to act as agents for the Enquirer, receive money and give receipts for the office. LETTER ENVELOPES. The Publisher has a large lot of first-rate selfsealing letter Envelopes, intended for gratuitous distribution among subscribers of the Enquirer ; or for sale cheap to other parties. Call in and get a bunch ! LARGE TURNIP. We are under obligation to our friend Captain Samuel Smith, for the largest turnip we have seen this season. It weighs four pounds, and measures seventeen inches in circumference.? Thanks, Captain. YELLOW FEVER. The Board of Health report twelve deaths from Yellow Fever in Charleston for the week, ending on Saturday, Cth instant. We learn from the Mercury that a light white frost was observed in the city on the Thursday morning previous. RELlOIOt'S NOTICE. We hnve been requested by Rev. J. W. Kellt, the Presiding Elder of the Shelby District, to state that the 4th Quarterly meeting of the Methodist Church, for the Yorkville Station, will embrace the Second Sunday in November. The meeting will commence on the Friday morning j previous, at 11 o'clock. On the third Sunday in j November, the Presiding Elder expects to preach at Rock Hill. SENATOR HAMMOND. Since the alledged incorrect reports were made of Ex-Gov. Hammond's speech at Beech Island, political circles in our State have been intensely engaged, in anticipation of an authorised version of the distinguished Senator's position. The expote has been fully and fairly made, in n speech delivered at Barnwell Court House. Wo publish this masterly paper entire, and refer our readers to it with the utmost satisfaction. It will repay a oareful study?a oareful preservation; indeed, we have no hesitation in saying that it will take position with the best papers of Carolina's peerless Statesman. Comment upon this able production would be unworthy. Albeit ina styleelegantand pure, it is clear, practical and to the point; and upon every issue, so calm, thoughtful, conservative, and hopeful, that it cannot fail to challenge the admiration and command the assent of every right-minded citizen in the State. Although not so hopeful of the end of this sectional warfare, we are content to follow Senator Hammond's leadership, and vre shall at least be confident that, even though defeated on one field, we shall triumph on the other, and preserve untouched the lienor and integriiy of the South. Several points made by Senator Hammond deserve special mention. We shall try to find tine for this duty. SHERIFF'S ELECTION?NOV'R 8, 1858. | j _ , 1 il 3 ! -fl S I ? I * I ? f i p? I PRECINCTS. h jj ^ j -? p - > ! -i * >12 j H : 5 >5 ip : ^ w J p : i : ? YORKVILLE j 270! 170! 145j 685 ALLISON'S ! 30{ 18 24 72 BRATTON8VILLE 8 SO! 111 49 BOYDTON 65; 17; fit 88 i CLINTON'S I 44 29, 4, 77 COATE'S TAVERN 1 42 42| 4! 88 CLARK'S STORE ! 19| 28 91 56 EBENKZER 62; 7,1 00| 69 FEEMSTER'S I 15; 76 12j 103 FORT MILLS j 731 67! 00 130 KERR'S ' lOi 25 141 49 KING'S MOUNTAIN i J9! 11! 24l 64 LOVE'S 18 81 4! 103 MOORE'S : 37; 8 9 54 ROCK HILL j 86 54' 6' 145 SHILOAH I 30, 59 15! 104 SMITH'S 31 22 8, 01 WATSON'S STORE ! 63 18 10 91 WYLIE'S STORE .?! 60) 35 55! 140 Total ij 972! 787: 359 2118 787 Majority for Stilwell,... 135 ANALYSIS OF BUTLER. We have on our table a neat pamphlet, octavo size, of 34 pages, published by Mr. Guist, entitled "An Analysis of the First Part of Butlers' Analogy, in the form of Questions and Answers." The name of the author does not appear on (he title-page, but on every page wo can find abun dnnt assurances that he possesses the ability to comprehend and to elucidate the Bishop's gr^at argument. It is a pla n and napretending statement?and, withal, a compact, logical and thoroughly searching analysis?of such portions of the "Analogy" as are usually studied in the schools. We do not believe that any one could, within the same compass, perform this very difficult task more admirably. In our day, we would have valued such an aid to the study of Butler, almost beyond price; ?.nd we are sure that the author has done for the ambitious student a most essential service. It was designed for, and dedicated to the young ladies of tho "Yorkrille Female College;" bat young gentleman, of higher pretensions, might be profited by a very careful perusal. Tt.a aritfinn ia limited, hut we nresume a lew copies may be obtained by application to the Pub* Usher. THE EJECTIONS. Sufficient returns have reached ns to authorize a definite report of the Northern elections, and to aGsure us of the ntter defeat of the Democracy in every anti-slavery Stat;. Massachusetts has reelected Basks Governor, and sent an entire "Ro publican delegation to Congress. In New York, despite the conservative influence of the oities and larger towns, the Republican triumph is equally overwhelming. In New Jersey, probably two out of five members will be Democratic. Delaware is Democratic. Michigan, so far aa heard from, declares for the Democracy by a small figure. Pennsylvania has gone over to the enemy, body and soul. And in Illinois?the result is incapable of classification. After ft furious warfare, well-nigh | unprecedented in our history, Dotal.ass has car- j ried the 8tate, and will be re-elected to the Senate by a majority of ter or tvrelve on joint ballot. It remains to be seen whether this is to be taken as a Democratic victory. For our own part, we trust not. Douglas' defection at the trying hour, creates a breach which cannot be healed by those who value the integrity of the Democratic party; and we hope that he and his minions, unreliable and treacherous as they are, will range themselves with the Opposition, even though the ranks of Ka MmrnVw? initrrriPntPf] hnvnnri trol. We confess that the result of these elections startles us. We had thought that, with no principle other than the idea of deadly hostility to the South, with no Kansas fury with which to arouse the insane fanaticism of the masses, the Republican party must go down before the calm and deliberate common-sense of the people. But the anti-slavery sentiment is now thoroughly dominant; so deeply rooted that even the all-absorbing ideas of self-interest and a well considered fear for the common safety cannot dislodge it. The \ next two years may possibly produce a reaction. The eleotion of State officers does not directly imperil the Union, and it may be that when a direct issue must be made the masses will shrink from such a direful responsibility. Whilst we have but meagre hopes of such influences, let us be prepared for the future, whatever of good or ill it may unfold. MERE'M ENTIOX. The Montgomery papers announce the death, on the 28th ultimo, of Col. Albert J. Picket, the historian of Alabama. It is stated that Hon. John J. McRae, recently elected to Congress from Mississippi, is in favor of re-opening the African slave trade. The Salisbury Watchman says that a Gas Company has been formed in that town, and expects the lights to be in full blaze by the first of January next. "College Poems" is the title of a work just issued from the press, written by W, W. East, a nat ive of Laurens District, and a graduate of Erskiuo College. The rope which surrounded the ring or enclosure in which Morisskv and Hkenan n&d longQt nas oeen oougnt oy a aisunguisieu : gentleman of Buffalo, and will in a short time be cut up, set in gold, silver, or brass, and sold to all gentlemen and ladies who desire a memento of the i battle. Those portions of it that became bloody j during the contest will, of course, realize a higher i price. The Howard Association of New Or- I leans have closed their labors, deeming the Yellow Fever in that city, no longer of an epidemic cLar- j acter. The Cleveland Plaindealer has seen a i letter from an intimate friend of Edwin Forrest, j in which the report that he intends to retire ftora 1 the stage is pronounced a humbug. Although one swallow will not make a summer, still, a pin J maliciously inserted in a chair will make one j spring. The Louisville Journal says that the j corn crop has never been so large in Kentucky as ! the present crop promises to be. It states that J there nro fields in the blue grass region estimated j at 175 bushels to the acre, while fields promising j 75 to 80 bushels are quite common. Obas- ' sics B. Matteson, member of Congress, was j challenged at the polls of the ward he resides, in \ Utica, New York, and his vote refused. The i ground of challenge wis that he had a wager i pending on the result of the election. The challenge was insisted on, at?d he did not vote. His Excellency Governor Bracks, has designated Thursday, the 25th instant, as Thanksgiving day in North Carolina. A Convention of a slaveholders has been in session at Cambridge, i Md. They were from t!ic Eastern Shore, They a recommend the holding of a general State Con- a vention in Baltimore in June next for the purpose j of devising some means of remedying the evils under which they labor, and the passage of laws i to render the free negro population a producing 3 class. A Mr, Hovjs of Obion county, Tunn., t informs tho editor of ths Trenton Standard, that 1 he has a sucking calf t int is now giving milk.? c The calf is now about twelve months old, and < gives over a pint at each milking. The Charleston Courier says that a large whale was seen in the vicinity of that city a few days since. By a telegraphic despatch to the Columbia papers, we learn tbatCrneral Walkxb was to have j left Mobile on the 8th instant, for Nicaragua. The < ' General appeared satisfied that the Government 1 | would not interfere with him. ( THE MILITIA SYSTEM. ( The following pcrnp which we find in the last Lancaster Ledger, we commend to the attention | of ocir readers. Who -rill take the initiative in York District? We are convinced from the demonstrations late ly made here, that this district is largely in favor of the abolition of the present militia system, or an important modification of it. The sentiment is more potent than ire had supposed, and we i learn that large petitions are being prepared for i presentation to the next Legislature, praying that the present useless and expensive militia laws may be repealed. These petitions were in circulation on the day of general review, and we understand that some of the companies, including the officers, were almost nnanimoun in putting their names to them. These petitions originated from the most inteK ligent quarters, and are entitled to all the respect due from a Legislature to the popular will. The people have a right tc speak upon this or any other subject of genen.l interest, and petitioning is the simplest And moMt effectual mode of making their sentiments and wishes known to the Legislature, nnd the latter, in its character of representatives of the people, is bound to respect snch demonstrations. For the Yorkville Enquirer. THE CHARLOTTE RAIL ROAD. Rock Hill, Nov. 9th, 1858. You will doubtless be surprised, Mr. Editor, to receive a letter from your correspondent at this important point on thu Charlotte and South Carolina Rail Road. By 'vay of explanation, if you will allow the cant phrase, "circumstances over which I bad no control," compelled me to remain here during the night. I do not wish to be understood as regretting my sojourn among the good people of Rock Hill, but when I left Yorkville, 1 had hoped that ere th.s time, I would be in Columbia. A number of gentlemen in Yorkville who were satisfied that the affairs of York were irell, and being desirous that they skould remain ttillwell?cherishing the love and christian charity due even to the pagan, concluded to remain and exercise the freeman's privilege, and then come to - . . ., ._t, r? n?t.. Rock Hill and take lasDigm irmu iui vuniiuu.it, We exercised our privilege in the true spirit of freemen, and in like nanner came to Rock Hill, but were most sadly disappointed in securing passage on the train. Bat, Mr. Editor, this was no fault of ours, we were ready bag and baggage o& the platform ; and yoc can better imagine than T cat describe our surprise, disappointment, mortification, or just what you will, when yon are informed that the cars came whizzing by with lightning rapidity, without any sort of regard to us.? We gave the natal signal, and they treated that with as much contempt as they did us. There were eleren passengers patiently awaiting the arrival of the cars. It is a well established point at which passengers take the train, and if it is to be discontinued, it is the duty of the company to advertise the travelling public. We arc not disposed to censure the Company, for we would be very slow in believing that Mr. JonvsTON, Its worthy and efficient President, would sanction eueh conduct. Our object is simply to direct attention to it, and afford the Company nn opportunity to i set themselves right ir. the premises. I may possibly recur to this subject. VIATOR. For the Yorkville Enquirer. FROM RORY OF "CRACKER'S NECK." Miathtr Anquirer:?An ye let Pathrick ge a bit of his mine ; an will ye not allow Rnory O'Roukc the same favor ? For ah mc frind ! but maun is a crather of few days an a peck or moore of throuble, an as liable to be flurried abont as a pnletical am . for no mnftro thnn flip Inqf wftkp. we felt alavated with hopes?thim mintioned by me frind Patbrick?but alack, alack, for the fnckel ness of our plasure! A misgaving?the dace tal: it?throws a spell over the spirit of me drames. An the great fear thats to be a distarbing of me pace, is that the divlish timperance boord wont, in their discration, faal bound to grant thim lisans. An be sure they should, for that word discration in the la, has no reference to giving thim a choice, but simply manes nothing more than a polite way of exprasion of the legislature to tho boord, rather than orthering positively to grant thim.? An by me sowl if that beant it, an we are hard run, we'll just say the word discration in the la, refers to the signers (any poort in a storm) of the certificates, an not to the power to grant lisans. It is the lisans we must have, for it gives us greater liberties, as Pathrick well says, an raises money to pay town and county tax, and whnt bees the diferance if it is at the cost of blood ? An wha t if widders are made to wail, an orphans cry, an society to blade from every poor? Give us j our grcather laberties, an lisans tax ony how ! | Ah me son ! sad, sad indnde, it makes one to ' think what a change this temperance avil ha3 ( wrofc in this frna counthry of Amirica. An it is 1 Roory that no mooro cares to vasit thos scenes of bis plasure, that hns now bekem so crimp an sober-sided as to befet dunly the le'ddys an pracbers. An whin a marthful maun goes to York thos days, i divil a bit of fun is it he saas, an Roory is amoost [ afraid to put hes fut amongst ye; an besure, the , likes o' him will lave ye's as suddenly an quietly 1 as if sent for, or somebody's seek at home. Why bliss the swate remembrance of it! It is , refrashing. We used to see the people rearing ] and petching and toorning summersets out of j1 their coats and breaches, an wading into each ; other like petchforks and mate axes. Oh it was J , as divarting as too see blind puppies petching round in a mate house. But now?and it graves me sowl?tvery body walks along as paceful an soberly as if meditating on the nixt world, an the whole town is in dope mourning for something, j an may bo its for the deth of lisans. Och, an it makes me always feel chelly, an divil a drhap of the joyful can I get to raise me sperits. It is some that would be saying there is as plenty of the issans as before the murtherous defate of lisans, but it is Roory that knows bettker, an he j would be paying perteculur attention to intelli- [ gence of its quarthers, an kape it sacret from the j ofaceous medling of the Town Council. Oh! thi9 temperance anovation. Why mo boy, 1 it has kem to that?an it makes me fnal divlish to ' think of it?it has kem to that, that our musthers . and barbecues an big gatherings, have bekem such < Sunday-go-to-meeting places, the leddys an prach- 1 ers have amost taken possation of thim. The leddys, swate cratures, are well enough at quilt- ] inga an praching, but its an anovation to give up < laker an fun at the big gatherings for thim. An bcant it a slur an shame on this fraa counthry, that it has kem to that by rason of this torn- i perance, that the dacent part of the North Carli- > na whosky makers are so squamish as to be ashamed to bring it to sell amongst U9. Au it has , kem to that, that moost of our candidates are | < ?hamed to be a treating, so that narry a dhrap is j t now Roory can get in consideration of his vote, I in-if he could, lie bees ashamed to get dhrunk ifear the dirlish temperance paple would be a [ jaaping at him or pinting their fangers at him. j Now misthcr Anquircr, I could gi yo aa many I aeons moore for lisans, as there are hairs apon I roar head, but a word to the wise is sufficient, an^ if you can bring it about, Roory an Pathrick will emember you to the howly saint. An but little loubt is there, that many a nathural born Amiriian will bo well to wish you for the same. Youm for alteration. ROORY OF "CRACKER'S NECK." Correspondence of the Mercury. Washington, November 4th, 1838.?The rc ports of the recent elections In New York and other northern States, have proved anything but agreeable to those who had fixed their-expectations npon democratic gains. Democratic losses of a serious character have occurred in ench of ib#> pWtinns. diminishing the Bartv strength in Congress very much. In?act, this defeat is the | most universal and terrible defeat ever experienced by the party at the North. Henry Winter ! Davis and Humphrey Marshall, the leaders of the American party, have strong proclivities towards the abolitionists; they have generally voted | with them, and with them fought the democratic 1 party on nearly every prominent subject of nationat legislation. It would not be predicting too j much, therefore, to say, that there is every probability of their continuing to coalesce with the abolitionists, and that the democratic party in Congress will again find itself in a minority, and reduced to the poor necessity of having a hand-tohand contest over every measure, even to the appropriation bills. The speech of Hon. J. II. Hammond, at Barnwell, was read here with an almost universal expression of admiration of its power and style.? Upon all matters involving political principle merely, the force of the argument is undoubted. He is almost unanswerable. But upon the matters otfact in which he encourages us to hope in the certain decline of the abolition party and the final triumph of the South on the great question of negro slavery, while we would all hope he may prove correct, we are at a loss how we can do so without disregarding the ominous signs that warn ns steadily of the contrary. Upon the map of the future may be unfolded to us in the Union the great destiny he pictures for us. We all hope ami would try to believe it, but we have little ' eyond his own sanguine and unsupported predictions to lead to the conviction its fruition will ever bo in the Union. The Attorney General has recently given an opinion upon the snbject of pensions, which may prove of interest to some of your readers. It has been customary heretofore, when widows, who were in receipt of a pension from the government, married a second time, and applied for a renewal of the pension on the death of the second husband, to grant them the pension throughout the period of second coverture. The Attorney General says that such interpretation was a misconstruction of the law. That the acts of Congress were intended to benefit only those who are "indeed widows."? That in prohibiting a married woman applying for a pension, it must hare been intended also to preclude her receiving one. Consequently, that the period embraced by second coverture is not to be rvoi^ fnr nnrl fho onml.nnnnal allowance can onlv t""" ?? , recommence from the date of the second husband's death. This opinion has been adopted as a rnle by the Commissioner of Pensions, and will result in a considerable saving to the Treasury. The friends of Jndge Donglns claim that he bos secured a majority on joint ballot in the Illinois legislature, and are quite triumphant at what they consider the certainty of his'ro election to the U. States Senate. Should their boasts prove true, we shall perhaps have some additianal and stri kingly Northern views on squatter sovereignty enunciated in the Senate the coming session, a desperate and successful effort to fetch in Kansas, and in the year 1SOO possibly an independent and forlorn candidate for the Presidency of the United States. "Let him rip." Qen. Paez, who for nine years has been an exile from Venezuela, has left Washington on his return to his native home. He was entertained hand sotnely by the President and Oen. Cass, and has gone back to bis country on an American national vessel, filled with feelings of the strongest regard and admiration for our government and people.? The life of General Paez (who is now over 70 years of age) has been full of stirring events and romantic adventure, and would form an agreeablO page in the bands of an able biographer. It is rumored, by those who pretend to know, that the President's message will recommend a modification of the tariff, but that it will not favor nny increase of it, as he believes it will be suffi cient to support the government, as soon as trade shall have assumed a healthy tone. The tariff will be a lending question in the next session, and the Southern people should be thoroughly aroused to its importance, and the danger of their being made more than ever tributary to Northern enterprise got up and pushed on at their expense. Gov. Hamuoud'n Speech. ot.nll nru.nl in i.iip ronHors. iii to morrow's ?.V =u.,.. ... , ... _ issue, the able speech delivered by Gov. Hammond at a dinner to which he was invited by thecftizens of Barnwell. We do not hesitate in pronouncing it one of the ablest political speeches among the many that have appeared during the summer, from prominent Southern statesmen. Uubaised by the fears and apprehensions which possess many of our political advisers, and incapacitate them for discreet counsel, he calmly surveys the mass of politics, and plans out his manner of warfare with the deliberation of a general perfectly confident in the resources and strength of those who have summoned him to political leadership. In his whole speech this confidence is gppearent He docs not lash the South with iack of spirit?he does not say that she is prepared to be solded or plundered as the North mny choose. He does ample justice to the manner in which she has met every onslaught upon her institutions?and conclusively demonstrates and reiterates, that slavery has gained "a moral victory" over the world, by the boldness and ability with whioh the South has defended herself. Nor has he boen afraid to do justice to those men at the North, who have had courage to devote themselves to truth, and suffer ed political martyrdom in its cause. For this, be must prepare himself for the accusation of being too ''national." Had his policy been to shrink timorously into isolation?to barrack in Southern walls?to close bis eyes to passing outside events ?and with imagination fevered with groundless apprehensions, to proclaim every sound that reach ed bis ready ear to be the tramp of a hostile Black Republican phalanx, or thestealthy approach of an insidious and treacherous Northern Democratic foe, then would he have beea called, by some, the bold defender of Southern rights and honor. So true it is, when our fears are aroused, we are more disposed to confide in those who magnify danger than those who simply realize it; so true it is, that fear is the parent of distempered distrust. In reference to the dangers whioh may encompass us, be is emphatic and ready for resistance. We cordially approve his remarks upon a tributary tariff. To this he says our vigilance must be directed, and he declares that the plantation ' States should disoard any Government that makes a protective tariff its policy. He also declares that should the Black Republicans get possession of the Government, the South must take care of herself, and be prepared "with all her means and without regard to any consetjucuces." We ore particularly pleased with his remarks upon the efforts made to get up minor party distinctions, and to spring "petty and impracticable issues."? We cannot refrain from a repetition of bis language that it may be impressed upon our readers, j After expressing his comptehension of two great ] parties standing on two great antagonistic princi- i pies, he adds: "But the minor distinctions have, j for the most part, seemed to be factitious and factious, gotten up by cunning men for selfish pur- j poses, to which the true patriot and honest man ; should be slow to lend himself." Let these words be remembered; they are true?they are now applicable; and when duly impressed upon the public, will nerve it against the efforts at drawing | these distinctions and fomenting these divisions at bome; aud finally defeat their objects and designs, j Carolinian. ' "Pop Cock."?The Gallant Bublinoamb.? The following exquisite piece of irony is from the Boston Ledger : "Where fun abounds, there the people ought not to fail to gather. And generally tbey do not, :ither. Burton drew, while he stayed in town, jetter than Russia 8alve, or the Poor Man's Plaster. It should always be so, or we may seriously question if the tono of the public mind is truly lealthy. Mr. Burlingame'8 embrace of the American col )rs over at Cambridge, the other evening, should nave been seen to be appreciated. It was worthy >f the moistening scene of the elder Napoleon's taking leave of the Old Guard, or even of the most nelo-dramatic performances of Daniel Pratt. A rery horse would have laughed, aud we doubt not hat the feminine ass of old Balaam would have esponded with an intelligent guffaw. "The hero of the grent war speech, himself a loughty warrior and champion bold, "afeered" of lothing from Bully Brooks to a voracious Western ip.tamount, took the tattered, the dear, the de- j lightful old color* that had been borne triuro- ! phautiy by his friends through so-tnany a vaporous fight?extended his arms?folded them to bis man- j ly and unsullied breast?and therein the presence j Of an awe struck assemblage, (including three or J four reserved front seats that were filled with ladies,) bedewed the gallorious stars and stripes with his "Saut, saut tears " The popular heart stopped beating. No one breathed. The common i stood still. The ladies turned pale, gazing fixedly j upon the orator. The little boys stopped crack-! ing their dirty peanuts ; the crowd about the door | whispered? 'look there!'' and were dead with | listening; and the orator, the hero, the candidate, I relaxed his embrace?the colors drooped from his manly breast?the stripes were suffered to tangle ! themselves around his legs?ana tne scene was i over. Our country's flag had received its needed | blessing not from a mere politician, not from a: candidate and nothing else, not from a man who I was asked his fellow citizens to vote for him?hut from the patriot, the hero, the matchless orator, the fwlmiitator of the great and ludicrously unseasonable "pop eoekwajMpeech" of the session i of 1857 8. | ' Then followed such a shout?so swelling, so amounting, so overwhelming and weighty?it was painfully evident that nothing less than this most desirable contrast to so exciting a scene could have brought the needed relief. Either the assemblage must shout or they must die, and shouting was easiest by sotnc ninety or a hundred per cent.? And the orator subsided?the flag was returned to those who clnimed its ownership and protection ?and the crowd and the country once more grew ea m. Now bring on your foreign foe. Comparison or Tax Bills.?Comptroller Gen cral Thewentt, of Georgia, in his late report, thus reports the tax bills of several States: With the slight glance I have beeo able to give the Tax Acts, within my reach, of several Southern States, I find that in South Carolina, upon lands in cities, towns, villages, boroughs, &c., the tax is 12?. cents on the $100, and upon other lands it is CO cents on the $100, and slaves pay 70 cents per head. In Kentucky, real and personal estate is taxed nt 17 cents on the $100. In Texas, 12} cents on the $100. In Mississippi, 16 ccuts on the $100 on land. 20 cents on moiiey, &c., and 40 cents on each slave. In Arkansas, lfij cents on the $100. In Florida, 16j cents on the $100. In Virginia, 40 cents on the $100 on real acd personal estate, and $1.20 on each slave. In Alabama 20 cents on the $100 on real estate and other property, 50 cents on the $100 on money at interest, and an average tax of 60 cents on each slave, (those between 15and 30 years of age being $1.10 eacb,) while in Georgia, the tax on land and slaves, and other property, (except bank and rail road capital.) is now but 7} cents on the $100.| It will, therefore, be seen, that while the per cent, tax in Sooth Carolina and Texas is near double of that of Georgia, the per cent, of the other States named are more than double that of Georgia; and in Alabama, it is nearly three times larger, while in Virginia, npon real and personal estate, it is more than five timea larger than in Georgia. In Ohio, the per cent.?31 cents on the $100? is four times larger, and in Illinois, the per cent, tax?67 cents on the $100?is nearly nine times more than it is in Georgia. Tna United States Army.?The present military force of the United 8tates consists of ninetoan rafrimprifs of the line, comnosed of the fol %vv" W " - ? B I lowing corps: Five regiments of cavalry, four regiments of artillery, ten regiments of infantry, making a grand aggregate of thirteen thousand rank and file of all arms. This little army covers an area of over two millions of square miles, being, nearly two thirds of all Europe. There are eleven hundred commissioned officers, including one hundred medical officers, eight hundred and fifty of whom graduated at the militay academy, and two hundred and fifty civil appointments. The nativity of these officers is as follows:?Born in the United States, 1,060 ; Ireland, 14 ; France, 8; England, 6; Germany, 3; Scotland, 2; Austria, 1; Italy, 1 ; Poland, 1 ; Spain, 1; Cuba, 1; Turkey, 1 ; at sea, 3. The military force of the United States is com pnted At 3,000.000 effective men, of which the State of New York claims to furnish 500,000. Cotton Receipts in Charleston.?We copy from the Charleston Mercury, the following state mcnt of cotton receipts for the week ending November 4: Received the past week by railroads, 17,905 bales; by water and wagons, 802 bales?together, 18,887 bales?(corresponding week last year, G,-i 530 bales.) Exported in same time to foreign "ports, 8,281 bales; coastwise, 4,653 hales?making the total exports of the week 12,934 bales; and leaving on hand a stock of 72.783 bales, inclusive of 19.768 bales on shipboard not cleared, against a stook of 10,647 bales, and 4,507 bales on shipboard same time last year. The total receipts since our last report amount to 118.808 bales, (against 43.070 bales same time last year,) making a grand total from the 1st September to the latest dates of 674,104 bales, against 290,827 bales the same time last year, and 636,305 bales the year previous. Increase since last year, 383,277 bales. Humorous.?The President of the Tennessee Railroad having removed the breakfast-bouse from Greenville to Knoxville, caused some grumbling from the editor of the Greenville Presbyterian.? To raolify the feeling a little, the editor of the Knoxville Whig suggests the adoption by the people in primary meetings, along the line, of the following resolutions; Resolved, That travelers on our railroads be required to eat more than three meals per day, tad that tables be set for them at every town on the road, and they berequired by the conductors to call And eat, and if tbey have no stomach for it, that they be required to go through the motions. Resolved, That liquor be kept at all these stands, and that travelers be required to drink, and that these stands shall never be changed, either to meet the arrangements of the other roads, or to facilitate the mails! Pater Directing Machine.?We have had the pleasure of witnessing the operation of a new invention for addressing and mailing papers, the invention of R. Dick, Esq., of the Gospel Tribui e, Toronto. The invention is a very simple arrangement; the names being first printed on strips of paper, which are pasted together, and rolled on a cylinder, from which, by a very ingenious process, they are gummed, fed and stuck on the newspapers. An immense saving in time and labor is thus gained, and, which is more important, the vexatious blunders of careless writing and omissions is completely guarded against. We learn that Mr. Dick has taken the proper steps to secure a patent both in Canada and the United States, and will shortly exhibit bis machine to the trade cenerall v.?JlufTalo Commercial Advertiser, o ? Gboroia.?The Legislature of Georgia assembled at Milledgeville on Wednesday last. Both Houses were organized and business porceeded with. Got. Brown communicated his annual message to the Legislature. It is a very long document, almost exclusively devoted to State affairs. He recommends stringent legislation against the abuses and excesses of the Banking system, with the prohibition of the circulation of all bank notes under the denomination of ten or twenty dollars, and the adoption of a sub-treasury system for the State of Georgia. We see no reference whatever to Federal politics.?Columbia Guardian. B&? Innocent people have often been surprised at public meetings to see with what enthusiasm and unanimity persons scattered in all quarters of an audience 9hout for particular speakers. They regard such manifestations as unmistakable evidence of the popularity of the person called for.? At a Republican meeting in Indiana, th^pther day, a speaker named Long, responded to a loud call and took the stand; but a big, strapping fellow persisted in crying, out, in stentorian voice, "Long! Long!" This caused a little confusion, but after some difficulty in making himself heard, the President sucoeeded in stating that Mr. Long, j the gentleman honored by the call, was now ad- ' dressing them. "O, he be d?dreplied ine | fellow; he's the little skeezicks that told me to | call for Long!" This brought down the honse. Columbia Market. Novzxbex, 8. Cotton.?The market throughout the week from the fact that but very little was offering, has been quite inactive. The total sales only foot up 379 bales. On Monday the market opened at from 9 to 11c. but prices continued steadily to exhibit a downward tendency and the ruling prices on Sat* urday were from 9 to 10$ extremes. Country Bacon.?None in market, we therefore omit quotations. Western Bacon.?Sides, 11 to 11$; Shoulders 9 to 9$. Family Hams 14 to 15. Corn.?There is a good demand for Corn and prices range from 75 to 80c. Cow Peas.?There is little demand for these. We quote 60 to 70c. per bushel. Country Lard.?There is none ift market. Country Butter.?There is a good demand for this at from 20 to 25c. per lb. Flour.?There is a good demand from $6.60 to $6 per barreL $8 Mchesbaj (Ebtnht|'s Pail. IiATEST NXWS. figSBSSLSiaafiQ " ? Later from Enrape, ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER KAJtOAROO. Nbw Yobk. November 9. The steamer Kangaroo arrived at this port today. bringing advices from Liv. rpool to Wednesday, 27th ultimo. The sales of cotton for the three days amounted to 14,000 bales, at a decline of |d. Market doll. Exporters and speculators took 1,600 bales. Holders hare become anxious sellers, in consequence j of the news from America. Manchester advices are unfavorable?all qualities slightly declined. Colwtnbta Market. November 10. We hAve no change to notice in oar market.? The sales yesterday amounted to 220 bales, at 9 @105 cents. ' * ' Charleston Market. Charle-ton, November 8. The transactions to-day show a declining tendency in prices. The sales reached upwards of 1.500 hales on the subjoined terms, wis: 10} @ life. Charlotte Market. Charlotte, November 9. Produce of all kinds has an advaneing tendency, except Cotton, that is lower and dull, in consequence of a decline in exporting and foreign markets. Old corn is in demand at 67 eta.?orders are on hand for a large quantity. New corn 50 cts. Flour is rather scarce; and good white wheat is scarce and wanted.?Democrat. Mobile barkvt. Moniti, November 9. Sales of cotton to-day 83.000 bales middling 11}. 8ales of the three days 7,000; receipts for same time 13,600 bales. Sterling exchange 7f. New Orleans Market. Niw Orleans, November 9. Sales of cotton to-day 9,500 bales?prices easier bat unchanged. Sales of the three days 86,000 bales ; receipts for aame time 60,000. Exported to foreign porta 28,000 bales. Increased receipts 172,000 bales. Cotton Factory.?Energetic efforts are making in Yalobusha, ToUahatchia and that section of country is Mississippi, to start a cotton and wool factory at Grenada. Tna Yellow Feveb.?The Daily Delta, states that four thousand eight hundred and fifty eight persons hare died of this epidemic in N. Orleans from the week ending 27th of June to the week ending 81st of October. 5tw York Mulut NewYobk, November 8. Transactions in cotton are limited to 2.500 bales, at heavy and declining rates; middling 11 6-16c.; good middling 11 7*16c. Flour is heavy, with sales of 10,500 barrels. 80,000 bushels of wheat have been taken, and rates showing an advancing tepdency. Corn maintains prices, with sales of 42,000 bushels. No change in other articles of note. Cool Weather Appboching?The Charleston Mercury of yesterday, says; "The weather continues cool. Yesterday was a dark cloudy day, with rain at intervals, and the skies augured a further supply. We are informed by a gentleman from Kingstree, that on Saturday morning last there was a frost sufficient to form ice the thickness of a silver dollar in that neighborhood. The State Agriealtural Society. The meeting of the Society, last evening, was largely attended. Col. A. P. Calhoun delivered an addrees over an hourln length, which was listened to with great attention. He took a political survey of the State and her Federal relations, and advocated strongly, what is generally understood hv ptfrpmA TnAA.fiiirAO_1nnlrin?r in rliartnirm unH Southern existence out of the present Union. He appealed to history to demonstrate that nations of a Southern clime were never deficient in energy and those traits which combine to constitute greAteness of nationality. The speech was frequently interrupted by applause. As it will be published by the Society, we shall make no further comments.?South Carolinian, 10th imt. The Pair. The crowd still increases, and Colombia is now to overflowing. Articles are still coming in for exhibition. The various departments are well tilled, and afford muoh interest to those who appreciate the fine, the perfect and the beantifnl. The exhibition of stock, and the department of horticulture and field crops, is we think, the best we have yet had. The fine display of apples from North Carolina attracts much notice?they are from the nursery of Mr. Westbrook, near Greensboro. The machinery was at the time of our visit, not in running order, so that this department oould not be judged. In the picture gallery, we saw some fine specimens of the fine arts?oil paintings and photographs are executed with remarkable artistic skill and annreciation. Among tbe oil paiotiDgs, we observed tbree that attracted particular attention. One, a prairie scene, with cattle in tbe foreground, resting lazily on the grass-covered sward, with graceful mountain acclivities in tbe prospective, by a lady of Columbia. A second, a very beautifully executed copy, by another lady of Columbia; it represented a dilapidated castle, with a water view, and cattle in front. The other is a winter scene, with cracking ice and crusted snow, which you can almost hear breaking beneath the feet. This is by Mr. Dovilliers. This, very probably, will be the most successful Fair we have yet bad. It has certainly drawn to Columbia a much larger attendance than we have yet had. It were invidious to particularize the admirable collection of good things in the Jloutehold Departmerit, which are worthy of the most extended notice; but the committee have yet to act opon them, and we waive our prerogative as to them and other matters. We cannot, however, avoid saying tbat oar ladies have shown that domestic comlorta are the staple support of home enjoyment. Where can there be found such an assortment of the good things of life ? We defy any approach to it elsewhere. We cannot particularize, bat we mast say that in the house keeping department, the Fair is most particularly successful. In the future, v e anticipate that this department will take the lead. While we thus notice the substantial of life, we must say that the handiwork of the needle is also entirely successful. The articles of fine work * are not more numerous than last year, but they are much in advance, and exhibit a most eommendable advancement beyond previous years. In the central saloon are numerous- attractive objects, showing remaikable progress in this department. In fine needle work, crotchet, crewel and other works, the specimens are most interesting. In fancy work, the olflects are most beautiful and attractive.?South Carolinian, MM intt. Money Throws Away.?The last number of the "Spirit of the Age" contains a statement of the amount of money spent annually in this State forintoxicating drinks, and reckons up the enormous sum of two millions one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, or an average of tix thovtand dollan per dap. What untold benefits would accrue from a judicious investment of only a portion