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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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making the club.
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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. |
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PRECINCTS. h jj ^ j -?
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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.
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" ? 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