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Scraps <? Jfatls. A bright chap wants to know when the great Anglo-Saxon race, bo mach talked about, is to come off? The Winnsboro' Register announces the death of Jacob M. Wolf, a merchant of that plaoe. On the 5th inst., Ex-President Van Buren was 77 years of age ; and almost as sprightly as a young man. The Riohmond Dispatch denounces the Baltimore M. E. Conference, as an antislavery organization. A bill has beeen introduced into the lower House of the Texas Legislature, ap propriating 5,000,000 acres of the public lands to the support and maintenance of the public schools. The Holly Spring Herald says there 1* .1-1 *? 1 _ 1. If! is nving in cnac county a maiaen iaay, iuiss Ann Thompson, who was born in Warren oounty, N. C., on the 28th day of August, 1758. She will be 102 years old next August. She enjoys good health. The Augusta Constitutionalist has compiled from its exchanges a list of gin houses and cotton burned and lost on the water in transit at various points, for the months of October and November. The total gives a loss of 949 bales burnt with the gin houses, and a grand total of 2376 bales burnt in the same time. It was stated by a leading dentist of Chicago, in a recent address to his brethren, that the value of gold plate and leaf used in the United States for the replacing and repair of defective teeth, is $2,250,000. This is a faot that tests the existence of a high civilization and a good deal of toothache in this blessed land. During the present year, nearly a dozen churches of different denominations have been destroyed by fire within the limits of the State of Massachusetts. Some of these it is known were set on fire by incendiaries. The loss of so many buildings of the same character in one locality in so short a time, is uaparalleled. To give the planters an idea of the extent to which the negro traffic is carried on by certain groggeries in this town, we u nfnfhaf rtra orn infrtrmo/1 nn rolinitio j WUUIU OUIVC luaw J1XJ BiC luiviiuvu vu ?v<iHv*w authority that one of these vile and damning bouses, recently sold in one day four hundred bushels of corn, all of which was realised by negro trafficking in rum, &c.? Georgetown Times. By a despatch received at Washington, December 10th, we learn that the State of Louisiana will probably instruct her Representatives in Congress to withdraw from that body, in the event of the election of Sherman to the Speakership of the House. The Governor of Louisiana will, for this purpose, call ao early meeting of the Legislature. We learn that the prompt and effi- j cient Governor of N. Carolina, Hon. John W. Ellis, intends taking immediate steps to | re-organize the Militia, thoroughly. The Council will assemble to-day (6th) and we have been informed that, besides the election of a Judge of the Supreme Court, His Exoellency intends to bring the Militia sys-! tern before the Councillors with a view to , its thorough and strict re-organization.?Pe- i tersburg Express. A correspondent of the Philadelphia Press, speaking of the organization of the House, says: "Sickles was not present when his name was called, but entered be-1 fore the roll was gotten through, lie walked placidly round the centre row of seats j anil intn a spat on the third bench. ?rr He looks well, and has grown his beard so as to make a tolerable effective disguise.? j He was the only solitary man in that large assembly. He was not spoken to." Banking is likely to become a less pleasant bnsiness in Georgia than in some other States. The Governor of that State, in his recent message, recommends a revision of the criminal code, to the end that a . suspension of specie payment by any bank in Georgia, shall be deemed conclusive evidence of fraud on the part of the President and Directors, and punish the officers of the Bank for it by imprisonment in the Penitentiary, without permitting them to show that it was not a fraud. The following curious account is given in Appleton's Cyclopedia, of the number of horses in the various parts of the world : The general estimate has been eight or ten horses in Europe for every hundred inhabi tants, which is more than any other Euro- { pean country. Great Britain and Ireland have 2,500,000 horses ; France, 3,000,000;j Austrian Empire, exclusive of Italy, 2,600,-! 000; Russia 3,500,000. The United States j have 5,000,000, which is more than any European country; the horses of the whole J world are estimated at 57,420,000. In the Massachusetts Legislature the other day, Mr. Tuoker of Boston condemned ! severely, Brown's wicked and uncalled for j folly. "What, he asked, is left to the South- j ern men to do, but to make a Southern Confederacy ? They are driveu to it in selfdefence. Read the articles of the fanatical wanderings and ravings of the Boston press. The Southern press is mild, compared with ! them. What eood have all your ravines ! been to your Union ; or what relief has it I been to one slave ? Not any. But has des-1 troyed the peace of the country, and done only injury." The corner stone of the Philomathean Hall, od the campus of Erskine College, j waa laid with appropriate ceremonies on last Tuesday evening. On the occasion, prayer was offered by Dr. Grier. Addresses were made by President Patton, Professor Hemphill and the editor of this paper; and the box, containing likenesses of the members of the faculty, also of ex-President Grier, the constitution of the Society with a roil of its members, ordinary and honorary, a copy of the Recorder and of the Telescope, was i deposited in the corner stone by Professor' Young.?Due Jfcs^ Telescope, 9 th. The one hundredth anniversary of the j introduction of Methodism into the United States, is to be appropriately celebrated by , the denomination. The Christian Advocate ; says: The true centenary of Methodism is j the year 1860. Dr. Roberts of Baltimore, i has fully demonstrated this fact from local J as well as general documents, and other evidence. The late local preachers' convention in Baltimore, appointed a committee to consult the General Conference respecting measures for its due observance. It is a happy coincidence that the General Conference meets in this grand epochal year. It will be not, indeed, the centennial General Conference, but it will be the centenary General Conference. L. _ r IC^forkMIIe^nqiimr EDITED BT SAM'Xi "W. TVrTiXiTOJf. YORKVILLEjS. C. THUBSDAY MOBNIHG, DECEMBEB 15, 1859. Special Notice?All communications, on matterscoanecled with the paper, should be addressed to "The York- i ville Enquirer;" and not the Editors or Proprietor, personallv. Persons desiring prompt attention to their favors, must bear this in mind. ty Capt. D. D. Moore, Maj. Mtles Smith, Sam'l G. Brown, and J. L. Thomson of York; and William D. Cook, of Bennettsville, are authorized agents of the Enquirer. We have received "Avolio, and other Poems," by Paul H. Hathe, for which we return our thanks. After the Holidays?when we shall have read them carefully?we will give our opinion. * COMMISSIONERS OF THE POOR. The Board of Commissioners of the Poor, are specially requested to read the notice in another column. A full meeting is desired, as business of importance is to be attended to. * TO CORRESPONDENTS tlNot the true Watchman."?This article has been received. As the publication will subserve ? ~ i"".r,nno UfA .IsnlinA tn nrivA it a nlftOft in 11W ?\J\J\A yui^uow, WW WVVMMV " O*'" ? - X oar columns. "Capitalhints to Tobacco Ghewers."?Shall have a place when circumstances permit. "An interesting relic of the past."?This article is on file, and shall appear at an early day. * IMPORTANT DECISIONS. The Attorney General of Virginia, Mr. Tucker, and the Postmaster General, Mr. Holt, have both deolared that the circulation of obnoxious and incendiary publications may be prohibited by the States. Mr. Tucker says that the Federal power to transmit, does not carry with it the power to publish and circulate, mail matter. In conformity with this view, Mr. Holt says that such publications may not only be prevented from circulating, but may be destroyed. They have the same right to do this, that a man has "to pluck the burning fuse from a bombshell which is about to explode at his feet." * "THE IMPENDING CRISIS." "The impending crisis of the South" is the title of a work by Hinton Rowan Helper alias Helfer, which proposes and plans for carrying on the work of treason and insurrection commenced by old Brown, and is "endorsed and circulated by the leaders of the Black Republican party, including sixty-eight members of Congress." This Helper, or Helper, says Mr. Bioos, of North Carolina, is a Southerner?a thief?a fugitive from justice?"a dishonest, degraded and disgraoed man." Tet, on the authority of this man, the leaders of the Black Republicans are sending forth a vile, libellous, inflammatory publication against the South ; and backing it with Congressional speeches of the Bame oast and tone ! Can any one, indeed, fail to see that we are rapidly drifting towards breakers on which the Union is to be wrecked ? To be wrecked, did we say ? Are not the fragments of the once glorious Uuion already atrowa on the storm-swept shores? Patriotism may lament?Philanthropy may wail over the ruin and disaster which appal their vision ; bat "The day la done and the darkness Drops from the wings of night." * NORTHERN SYMPATHY FOR BROWN. The sympathy expressed at the North for the "Martyr of Freedom" on the day of his execution, was extensive and violent. In New York, Albany, Syracuse, Philadelphia, Boston and various other places, public and prayer meetings were held, expressive of the outraged sentiments of the "freedom-shriekers." At New York, songs were sung, speeches were made, and prayers offered up for Brown and the cause in which he had sacrificed his life. That day would be baptized "Martyr's Day." Brown was declared to be "the purest and best man of this or any other age." Such of the clergy as refused or neglected to preach abolition sermons were denounced. God was invoked to inspire "continual thought of opposition to all oppressors and tyrants (of course the South only meant); on^ tn nvortKrnw ViimHftlf "this terrible svstem of iniquity." Mr. Lewis Tappan, in a prayer, felt happy that Brown had been permitted to lay down his life in imitation of Christ; and Rev. W. S. Hall thanked God that in our sin-cursed land there was one who would do right, when all did wrong. Rev. C. Z. Brace, in spite of the incendiary tone of his prayer, had one good wish:? "Lord! show us what is right."?to which we say "Amen!" At a meeting held in the evening, a lady said she believed not only in prayer but, also, in the efficacy of bone and muscle; and, woman as she was, would have headed an army to rescue Brown or perish in the attempt. A gentleman said he would now do everything "to emancipate the slave and humiliate the South." At Albany?a hundred guns were fired to commemorate the execution of Brown. A cannon was taken frcm the State Arsenal and fired by the Deputy of the Commissary General. At Syracuse?the City Hall was crowded in the evening; stirring speeches, delivered for three hours; strong resolutions, adopted; and large sums of money, contributed for the relief of Brown's family. The City Hall bell was tolled sixty-three times?that being the ngo of the "martyr." At Philadelphia?a large meeting assembled in the National Hall in the morning. Rev. Furniss read a number of letters from Brown; and addresses were delivered by Lucretia Mott, Mary Green and others. At Boston?the negroes held meetings a day and night in their churches; crowds collected about the newspaper offices, as the evening editions were issued ; but otherwise there were no "manifestations unusual to every day life in the city." In the evening, Tremont temple was crowded with whites and negroes, ladies and gentlemen. Many prominent Abolitionists of New England, and the standard of Virginia, with its coat of arms draped in black, adorned the platform. In front the rostrum was decorated with a large black cross, underneath which was a potbgraph likeness of John Brown, draped in mourniDg."? The usual glorification of Brown and his associates took place ; and Garrison, the venerable hero of thirtv years' standing, thanked God that the " " ~ I sympathies of men of rank were welded to his own "by the acts of to day's martyr," and that he might leave the arena of strife. At Worcester?the church bells were tolled from j ten till twelve. In the evening three thousand assembled in Mechanics' Hall; "and a great many came who could not get in." Prominent clergymen nnd others addressed the meeting; and a, large collection was taken up for Brown's family, j At Providence R. I., Ex-Mayor Barstow presi- < dcd over a large meeting and made a lengthy speech. Several others addressed the meeting? ; all of whom entertained extreme views on the slavery question. The feeling of the larger part of the community was against the meeting. From these and other places mentioned, and, ; doubtless from hundreds of places, not mentioned, j the cry has gone out?"Down with the Tyrant!" I "A fellow feeling" makes them "wondrous kind" I to the memory of old John Brown. They spout I his praises?call him "martyr"?even compare ' him to Christ; while they hiss at Gov. Wise as the modern Pontine Pilate! We do not regret these demonstrations. They are an index to the strength and violence of oar enemies. They, too, are exasperating the Sooth. The rattle-snake is giving oat its shrill, death-like warning. The Press of the Sooth are awake; !Legislatures are laying down State platforms ; more than all, the people are at work. This posturo of the South is the last hope of the Union?if, indeed, there is even the shadow of a hope remaining. At any rate?union or disunion?this spirit to vindicate our rights, and defend our institution, is necessary to save ns from degradation and shame. * INVASIONS. I The thoughtful student of history is apt to refer to the past and ask himself if ever any nation of people have witnessed suoh galling oppression, as the South is now groaning under, from those who set aside law and precedent to trample upon her rights and institutions. Southward the star of aggression and invasion takes its way. In the North have commonly arisen those dark clouds of fanaticism which, spreading their ebon wings over the tropics, have carried ruin and desolation in their wake. The fairest lands of earth?the no UlCBV. pruuuuuuus Ul gcuiuo tuu piuttuoob uivuuments of Art?have thus been swept into an untimely oblivion. The Pillipics of Demosthenes, which sent a thrill of patriotism through all the arteries of Greece, were uttered against a Northern tyranny, which prosecuted its oppressive designs till endurance became a crime. What speak Carthage and the oath of Hannibal ? What fate did Rome meet with in her turn ? Alas I the lofty city, and, alas I Her trebly hundred triumphs !" ? The barbarian hordes of the North of Europe descended upon Italy: slaughtered her citizens; demolished her works of art; overthrew her government; and from her classic soil the shriek of freedom has ever since arisen to heaven for protection and vengeance in vain. Ib not Greece to this day a subdued, divided, broken-spirited people! In modern times we now and then hear of a revolution breaking forth, like the eruptions of their own Etna and Vesuvius, in these countries; but the efforts of freedom there to break her shackle! are like the fretful impatience of the lion in his cage. The North have caught the old Vandalistic spirit; and are slowly but surely marshalling their hosts to lay our homes in ashes ; make our wives widows and our mothers sonless ; overthrow our liberties and reduce us to a state of helpless inferiority. From the press and the pulpit?from caucuses and conventions?fiom private and pubi!* AiMlno kow nrn floilr cnnrlinor fnrth hoin fiar*rr fanaticism to set their whole section ablaze with frenzied excitement. Gerrit Smith is in the Asylum; and Beecher is so insane that, while he regards the slaves of the South a9 better provided for than the free negroes of the North, he is still for abolitionism though it should ruin fifteen million of his own race! Tropic countries, then, are very much exposed to invasion. What is the cause?whether envy, jealosy or an innate tyranny peculiar to Northern dimes is difficult to tell. The luxuriant products?the prairies?the teeming fields?the loaded barns and garners of the South, entice the yearning appetite of the cormorant Icebergers.? Even the happy-go-lucky condition of our slaves may excite the envy of the starving millions whose cry is "bread or blood." Our growing wealth and sectional importance may beget jealousy. It is, moreover, a fact deducible from history, that as we proceed North from the Temperate Zone, the warm emotions of the heart give way to a cold, sordid, calculating selfishness. We would not be understood to say that no great, liberal, conservative spirits, are produced beyond the line of 46? 40/. They are needed? and Providence sends them?to counteract the deplorable tendencies of a vast section, possessing great energy and ingenuity with shallow and unsubstantial human sympathy. Shall this want of sympathy among our Northern brethren be our ruin ? They have annihilated the brotherhood of nations, established by our forefathers; they have as much as called u;i dogs and heathens; they have overridden the constitution and our rights with "the rough-shod foot of the people." Shall the drama of modern Italy and Greece be enacted again on Southern soil ?? We arc here almost in the shadow of King's Mountain; and the voices of our ancestors who fell, sword in hand, in the hero-dsys of the Republic, come ringing in our ear9? "Awake! arise! or be forever fallen!" * ' thirty-sixth congress. The first session of the thirty sixth Congress opened, on Monday the 5th inst., with a throng of visitors, newspaper-reporters and lobby members?and a good deal of debate and wrangling* It is likely to prove an important session, inasmuch as it will call forth the strength and tactics of the various parties ; and manifest the degree of harmony at the South, and the opposition and resistance to Federal enoroachments on Southern rights and liberties. Southern members are boldly meeting the question of all-absorbing interest to their section.? They seem generally to have adopted for their motto: "We are for straight-forward, manly dealing." Mr. Mason, Senator from Virginia, introduced on the first day of the session, a resolution, which we publish in another column, for the appointment of a committee to inquire thoroughly into the facts of the Harper's Ferry emeute and to report "whether any and what legislation" may be necessary to preserve the peace o!.' the country. This resolution, brought forward thus early, and striking, as it does, at the very heart of disturbances, fell like an unexpected thunderclap on the Senate. The Black Republicans began to shift about for a shield to protect them; when, lo ! Mr. Tbcmbcll, of Illinois, brought / ?.1 - i? lurwi UlC 111 l man l aiucuuiucuk tw tuvjuuw, a>cu, into the facts attending a somewhat similar act, committed at Liberty, in the State of Missouri, nearly five years ago ! Facts lead us to the belief that this amendment was intended for no other purpose than to clog and trammel free and impartial inquiry into the extent, nature and procuring causes, of the Harper's Ferry invasion. Hon. James Chesnut, on the 7th inst, made a clear and healthful speech on the resolution, as amended by the Senator from Illinois. After stinging Mr. Trumbull with a few sharp and pointed queries, as to the purpose of introducing this amendment, he goes on to declare that the South do not ask sympathy; they stand upon their rights?they ask for "justice, simple, unmixed, full justice;" and, passing over the book of Helper and his endorsers, explains to the Senator from Wisconsin what has produced all this trouble and what the people of the South mean. "It is the miserable, intermeddling, nefarious spirit of many of the people of our associate States with matters which concerns them not," that has produced the trouble. He shows conclusively that the doctrines, promulgated by Mr. Seward in a speech delivered in the Senate chamber on 3d March, 1858, culminate in just such outbreaks as we have recently seen. Seward then declared that "free labor was organizing itself to assume the government; and to invade us soon?in Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, Missouri and Texas." What more j natural than for the rude unlettered mind of the North to catch up these sentiments, and wage more fiercely than ever, the irrepressible conflict." He said, further, that recent ebullitions mean, that the heart of the Southern people has been stirred?they have seen the impending danger? they have borne as long as it is virtue to bear? and they will not forfeit the character of freemen. "Gall it treason, gentlemen, and make the best of it; but I tell yon that unless these things cease, muoh as we have adored the Union, muoh as we have sacrificed for its maintenance, much as we are williog yet to contribute to uphold it that it may scatter its blessings to unborn millions, it becomes onr honor and our existence to maintain ourselves. We cannot permit the Union to be a mere badge of servitude. Wo cannot permit it eternally to be upon us as an inoubus, crushing ou- our very life and breath." The House have not yet elected a Speaker.? Mr. Shebjlax, of Ohio, Black Republican, and Mr. Bocock, of Virginia, Democrat, are the promnent nominees; but it would require a prophet to tell who will be successful. At an early day of the session, Mr. Clark of Missouri, pending the election of Speaker, introduced the following pre amble ana resolutions :? Whereas, certain members of this House, now in nomination for Speaker, did endorse and recommend a certain book hereinafter mentioned; therefore, Resolved, That the doctrines and sentiments contained in the book, "The Impending Crisis of the Sontb," prepared or written by H. R. Helper, are insurrectionary and hostile to the domestic peace and tranquility of the country. Resolved, That no member of this House who has recommended it, or the Compend of the same, is fit to be Speaker of this Honse. This fell like a bomb-shell at the feet of the Helper Republicans. They reel and stagger under the blow. A few of the boldest of them say they are not yet prepared either to affirm or deny ?thus virtually affirming it. Many declare they never did recommend the book?others, that they j did, but without reading it, or knowing its contents. Poor Sherman's memory escapes him; j but he is for no interference whatever with the relation existing between master and slave. The Republicans evidently feel that th?y have lost gronnd. The speakers of the Sontb, to use Clark's expression, have "made the fur fly."? Indeed, the temper of the House has so far been hot and sectional?on both sides. It is impossible to tell what will be the "conclusion of the whole matter." We await the issue. * GOV. WISE vi. PRESIDENT BUCHANAN. Gov. Wise, on the 25th alt., notified the President of the United States that Virginia was threatened with an invasion from several surrounding States, to rescue the prisoners who have been convicted of treason, murder and servile insnrreotion. He made this announcement "in ordor that the President might take steps to preserve peace between the States." He, in reply, doubts that any such power is vested in him. He is willing to defend the grounds belonging to the United States at Harper's Ferry; and has sent a guard to prevent the arms of the Arsenal from falling into the hands of marauders and insurgents. But he has no authority to prevent "invasion of one State by * * '1- fll.l. ?f the people 01 anomer staie. Got. Wise in a Message to the Virginia Legislature, makes the following spirited comment on this doctrine:? These are alarming doctrines to the invaded StAte9. And however the argument or the error may be between the President and your Executive, this at least is clear, that if I am right in my views of our guarantee of protection in the case before us, imminent as it is, he, the Executive of the United States, does not concur with me, and will not enforce the protection we need ; and on the other hand if he i9 right, and we cannot legally claim that the United States shall keep the peace between States and guarantee one State against invasion from another, the Federal Executive can not interpose to repel or prevent the invasion. In either case, we are clearly thrown on our self-dependence. We must rely on ourselves and fight for peace! I say then?to your tents! Organixe and arm ! The constitutional guarantee of protection is withheld, whilst we are invaded from all around, and this withholding willjnspirit the sympathizers in felony against our property and lives. To defend ourselves and tosnppress sympathy in insurrection which must multiply felons against our peace and safety; and if they did nu^intend invasion before, will make them enact it now ; under this construction of State Eights to disturb and State Rights to defend the public peace, we ?!11 1 ^*1 .... P..?AAn <*/*? tV?n r?rvnfl ir>f T tVtorP will aeeu tin uur iuiuco iu> mv ?? ._ >? fore recommend to yoa more energetic measures than the President compliments me for adopting on the side of peace against invasiou. I repeat: 1st. Organize and arm. 2d. Demand of each State in the Union what position she means to maintain for the future in respect to slavery and the provisions of the Constitution and lows of the United States, and the provisions of State Laws for its protection in onr Federal relations: and be governed according to the manner in which the demand shall be answered. Let us defend our own position, or yield it at once. Let us have action and not resolves? definitive settlement, and no more temporizing the Constitution, and no more compromise. * MERE-MENTION. Attention is directed to the advertisement of Pocket Book lost, in another columD. The 23d of April is the time appointed by the National Democratic Executive Committee, for the assembling of the Charleston Convention. Fernando Wood has been elected Mayor of New York, by a majority of about 10,000 votes. The notorious Daniel E. Sickles, of New York, appeared in Congress on Monday last, and took his seat. From private advices and an examination of the judicial records, it appears that Stevens, the Harper's Ferry insurgent, will not be tried by the United States Court. His trial will take place at the next term of the Jefferson County Court. Capt. J. J. Lucas, of the ''Palmetto Guard," Charleston, has heen elected Major of the second battalion of the 17th Regiment. S. C. M. On the morning of Decern ber 3, an effigy of John Brown was found hanging to a tree, in front of the barracks, at the Military Academy at West Point. On the night of December 3, the students at Princeton burnt the effigies of Seward and Beecher. The Faculty endeavored to stop it, but failed. Tom Moore said to Peel, on looking at thepioture of an Irish orator: "You can see the very quiver of his lips." "Yes" said Peel, "and the 'arrAY coming out of it." On Friday of last week, Gov. Wise was hung in effigy at Nalick and Woburn, Mass. As a set-off to such folly, "Old Brown" received similar treatment at the first named town. Snow fell at Oswego, N. Y., on Saturday of last week, to the depth of eight inches. A vessel has recently arrived in England from Scbastopol with a cargo of 237 tons of human bones. The entire Hepublican State ticket, in Kansas, is elected by a majority of over 3,000 votes. The Democratic State Convention of Georgia, met at Milledgeville on Friday last, and recommended Hon. Howell Cobb as a candidate for the Presidency. Their proceedings were inharmonious, many of - ? :?t-j n tlie delegatus minug wuuumnu uum iU? uuuicution. The reason urged by them for this course was that the call for the meeting of the Convention was unauthorized. Eighty parishes in Louisiana show a decrease of 17,000 hogsheads of sugar compared with last year. The accounts of the Cuba sugar crops are very promising. Ice made its appearance in Charleston, on Thursday last, three quarters of an inch in thickness. There are in the United States, forty-eight Catholic Archbishops and Bishops, two mitred Abbots, and two thousand two hundred and twenty-three secular and regular Priests. The amount due the "census-taker" of York District, for services the past summer, is $409 90. A Vigilance Committee consisting of seventeen persons, was organized in Lancaster on Saturday last. The editor of the Carolinian has received from J. H. Beserafelder, several samples of powder, manufactured near Pickens, in this State, at themillsof JobnBowcn &Co. "TheRifle powder is of a fine quality, well granulated, and presenting a much more dry and glossy appearance than most of the varieties brought into market. The blasting powder is of an excellent qual ity also. The intermediate quality is intended, we suppose, for artillery." By the new appor* tionment in the State Legislature which will be found in the Legislative Proceedings, Charleston gains two members and Pickens one. The parishes of Prince Williams, St. Johns Colleton and St. Peters, each lose a member. The taxable property of the Stato of Ohio is $900, 000,000. German is taught in the Cincinnati public schools, and the St. Louis papers are discussing the adoption of the practice there. The Hon. John S. Preston with his family and Mrs. Gen. Hampton have lately returned from Europe in the Persia. Asa A. Gore, of Preston, Connecticut, died in that town, on the 1st inst., at the age of eighty-one years and five months. He was the last survivor of the Wyoming massacre, having been carried away when a child, in bis mother's arms. His father and all his relations, but his mother, were killed. The Edgefield Advertiser, speaking of the recent sale of the Tonngblood negroes in that Distriot, says: "Thirty-six slaves (ten or twelve of the lot being ohildren nnder eight years of age and two or three over forty) brought very nearly thirty-eight thousand dollars. Make the average at your convenience." SOUTH CAROLINA CONFERENCE. f Greenville, Dec. 8, 1859. Dear Enquirer :?Through an oversight in somebody I have failed to see yonr faoe since my arrival here, and I am now somewhat at a loss to know just where I left off last week. Bat the proceedings of Conference on Taesday and Wednesday will have reached yon before the arrival of this, and I shall at present merely sum up in general terms. The most important business of an Annual Conference is the examination of the character of every member of which it is composed'. This work so far as I know, is not performed by any other ecclesiastical body. Yet, it is the first great daty of a Methodist Conference. It was originally performed with closed doors, and the writer wonld fain witness a return to the old rale. Perhaps no class of men are more endeared to each other than Methodist preachers. What affects one concerns all. Hence there is reluctance to speak of a brother's infirmities in a promiscuous assembly. Sometimes, too, the publio misconstrues the object of a speaker when character is involved. If any feeling is manifested it is too ?' ' ? * ?!-:? man onen TaKeu ior a Dpun ui uj/puonnuu w iuv w?u} when nothing more is meant than to show what every man of God should exhibit, an utter hatred and abhorence of sin. And, however preachers may be attached to eaoh other, they are more in love with the canse they have espoused and with its Divine Founder; so that they will cheerfully cat off, one from the other, rather than suffer detriments to the kingdom of our common Lord.? Character, as a Methodist preacher views it, not only comprehends the principles of right and wrong in the abstract, but moreover, as to propriety, prudence, &c. One brother stood before the bar of our late Conference to answer the complaint of certain lay brethern that he used cant phrases in the pnlpit. One at a former Conference was called to answer the oomplaint of his people, that his anecdotes and. illustrations were not altogether such as became a Minister of the Gospel. , An Annual Conference is not a legislative body. Methodists believe that the law6 by which we are to be governed may be found in the Scripture? the Constitution of Christian government; and th&t the "general rules," published in their Discipline, contain an epitome of the moral duties thereby enjoined. To the discipline we refer for the statement of oar doctrines, as to faith and practice?bat the Bible is the only infallible chart, and to it we refer for the proof of oar doctrines. All legislation oy the church must, therefore, be subordinate to the teachings of inspiration. The general Conference is invested with power to frame such laws or rules of action as shall best secure the object-of the Lawgiver. The Annnal Conference, having had a voice in the General Conference, is a working body whose business it is. harmoniously, to carry out the enterprises set on foot by the General Conference. The government of the Methodist church does not claim to be republican, and yet it is as much so, perhaps, as any ohurcb. Republican is not a word of Bible origin. The objects of a civil and ecclesiastical government are essentially different. The one is for the protection of life, liberty and property ; the other is for the dissemination of the gospel, and meets its legitimate end by going forth "conquering and to conquer."? Hence it will be seen that their organization must of necessity differ, and the mode of action cannot be alike in each case. Civil government is for defence; ecclesiastical or church government is for aggression. The citizens of a well ordered civil government "dwell in safety," while the true citizens of a well regulated Church, like their Divine King, go "about doing good," and, in the last days, "many shall run to and fro," in real circuit preacher fashion, "and knowledge shall be increased in the earth." But if republicanism is equity in equality, then is the Methodist church a republican institution. A lajman here is responsible to his peers?he can only be tried by a committee of layman, and we have no standing committee for his trial. A preacher is responsible to his peers We recognize no higher grade than than that of Elder. A presiding Elder is only an office of the church.? A preacher, though the pastor, may not so much as give the casting vote in case of a tie for or a.gainst a layman. All the preachers, Bishops included, of the whole connection, aro incompetent to exclude one layman. But lam rambling, for which however, you and your readers will doubtless excuse me. The increase in the membership of the S. C. Conference for the past year is as follows: Local Preachers, 23 White members, 1,199 Colored " 1,848 Total increase for the year, 3,065 The number of itinerant preachers in the S. C. Conference is 168 Local Preachers, 230 no no a White members, oo,z?* Colored " 48,583 Total ministry and membership, 87,275 There has been collected for the cause of Missions during the past year, $27,106,38. The widows and orphans and superannuated preachers were paid only two-thirds of their claim. We trust to do better on this score in future. The following will exhibit the number of Methodists in the United States at the close of 1858, the latest date to which reports have been folly made out: M. E. Church, South, Traveling Preachers, 2,577 I Local Preachers, 3,984 Total Preachers, 7,561 White members, 499,694 Colored " 188,694 Indian " 3,894 Total ministry and membership, 699,190 To which add M. E. Church, North, 970,587 Makes a grand total of 1,669,777 To which add Methodist Protestants, 70,934 I Wesleyan Methodists, 20,275 i I African M. E. Church, 29.300 j j African M. E. Zion, 6,358 l And we have a Methodist family in the I U. S. of 1,796,644 As ever, truly yours, I L. WOOD. For the Yoricvilla Enquirer. - < the VIGILANT COMMITTEE. The Vigilant Committee of Yorkvills, having, npon information given, called upon J/Wu McFaeland for examination, end the said Jakes McFarland having confessed himself an abolitionist in principle, and refused to deny that he bad tampered with slaves, the Committee have required him to leave the District, and feel it their duty to make this notice public. The said James McFabland hails from Rutherfordton, N. C. THE COMMITTEE. Legislative Proceedings. December 6. Senate.?Mr. Moses presented an unfavorable t report on' the presentment of the Grand Jnry of E York District. "* The special order for tho day was suspended, and Message No. 3, was announced from His Excellency, transmitting certain resolutions from the Governor of New York, which he had received since his annual message. The resolutions related to the surprise, mortification and dissatisfaction of the Legislature of New York, at the virtual re-opening of the slave trade, and calling on this ?3care 10 join in rne discovery 01 toe agressors. The special order for 1 p. m. was then taken up j ?a bill to amend an Act to afford aid to the Bine j Ridgo Railroad. On motion of Mr. Rbett, made the special order for 1 p. m., on Monday next. I The special order for 2 p. m., resolutions in relation to the penitentiary. Mr. Moses remarked that this subject had engaged the attentionof this Assembly for seventeen years, and that there were now no less than ten presentments of Orand Juries, relative to the subject, before the committees. That experience had taught that those whom State laws affect, consider it as no punishment to be in jail. There they are better olothed and fed than at home. Every species of liquor is introduced, and their friends are allowed to visit them. He had introduced this resolution to test the Senate on the subject. Mr. Mazyck replied, that it would be first necessary to establish a commission for the revision of the criminal law. Mr. Moses answered, that first we should decide the expediency of a penitentiary, before we do any thing of that sort. This is one thing, the * doing of it another. * ' - ' ' Mr. Mazyck offered the following amendment: 8 after the word that, to insert, a commission be | appointed to revise the criminal law. Mr. Palmer remarked that the 8tate was al- * ready at a great expense with, its State House; J that we should first count the cost See what has J been the effect of building without deliberately j considering. It should be a warning to us all. ) Mr. Moses perfectly agreed with him, and sta- 1 ted that he only wished to test the principle. Mr. Rhett showed that the penetentiary was < much cheaper than the jail, and much more de- ' sirable than the present system of foil**. 1 Mr. Mazyck replied, favoring the establishment ( of a commission. 1 Mr. Moses remarked that we already had such 8 a commission, established in 1858, to revise and ' qualify the criminal laws. Mr. Harrison proposed that we first finish some * of our unfinished work, lest posterity should con- ( vert one of them into a penitentiary. It was moved to lay the resolution on the table. Ayes, 27 ; nays, 15. The amendment was also laid on the table. ' \ Houtt.?Mr. Wilson presented the. petition of ' President and members of Cbesteryille Academy 1 Society, for the renewal of charter. < Mr. Mullins submitted a report, on a bill to al- ' ter the law in relation to the qualification of jurors. The bill was read a first time, and provides < "that every free white person not heretofore ex- 1 empted, who may be entitled to vote for members 1 of the Legislature and should have paid any a- < mount of tax falling to bim, shall be liable to < serve as grand or petit jurors." The Speaker asked the attention of the House | to the resolution requiring of the Commissioner 1 of the New State House the entire cost of said J structure. The Commissioner, in reply, states ' that, to a similar question put to him in 1857, he answered that the estimate of the entire cost of said structure is $2,000,000, and that is also the estimate of the Architect, sutyect to a margin of ten per cent, for difficulties unknown. Both Archi- 1 tect and Commissioner say they see no reason to change their opinion from the former estimate.? Received as information, and ordered to lie on the table. ' * Mr. Campbell gave notice of a bill to provide against the agents and emisaries of Abolitionists. Mr. Ilarrell introduced a resolution, that it be referred to the Committee on the Colored Population, to inquire into the necessity of restricting by law, the wearing apparel and other articles usually entrusted to the care of slaves. Mr. Moore gave notice of a bill to reduce to slavery, all free negroes and persons of color, by sale. December 7. ' Senate.?Mr. Moses presented a partly favorable report of the Committee on the Judiciary, on a bill to provide compensation for families of those killed by the fault of others. Mr. Zimmerman offered the following: Resolved That this General Assembly will adjourn sine die, on Tuesday, the 20th, at 5 p. m. Mr. Moses proposed to amend, by placing Mon day, at 12 m., instead of Tuesday, 5 p. m. Accepted. After some discussion, the resolution was agreed to and ordered to the House. House.?Mr. Lucas introduced a bill to improve the present militia system of the State. Read and referred to tbe'Committee on Military. The Speaker announced the following persons as a committee to name suitable persons for Directors of the Bank of the State: Messrs. Elliott, Pinckney, Jr., Lide, Black, J. H. Williams. December 8. Senate.?Mr. Moses, from the Judiciary Committee, reported a bill, more effectually to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors; which received its first reading, and was ordered for a second reading to-morrow. Mr. Harrison, from the Committee on Military and Pensions, reported a bill to afford aid in establishing a Military Sohool and Depot for public arms at Anderson; which received the first reading, and was ordered for a second reading to-morrow. House.?The Senate sent to the nouse the following: Resolved, That both Houses of this assemby adjourn sine die on Monday, the 19th, at 12. On motion of Mr. Buist the resolution wss laid on the table. Mr. Moore presented a bill to reduce by sale to ' slavery, free persona of color. Given first read- c ing and referred to Committee on the Judiciary. December 9. Senate?Message No. 4, was announced from his Excellency the Governor. t Gentlemen of the Senate: In answer to a reso- . lution of the General Assembly, asking me to furnish all knowledge in my power, relative to our ( Federal Relations, &o., I take occasion to state j that I have no information, except what is contained in the newspapers of the day. If at any j time I receive auy communication on the subject, . I will communicate it to the Senate. j A bill to authorize the President and Direotors J of the Bank of the State of South Carolina to es- fi tablish a branch of said ba:.k in a convenient po- s sition in the Western or North-western portion T of this State, received its second reading. c lloust.?Mr. Moore.?Report of Committee on j Colored Population to provide for the gradual re- ^ moval of free persons of color from the State. \ Mr. Boylston, from the Committee on the Judi- c ciary, made reports on a bill to provide more ef- j fectually for the protection of the people of this f State from the agents and emmissaries of Aboli- ? tionsts, and to impose certain restrictions on auc- a tioneers, pedlers and agents. (Favorable, with c amendments.) On a bill to reduce to slavery, by , sale, tree persons of color. (Unfavorable.) fl Mr. Edwards.?Report of Committee of Mili- g tary on bill to ameni the present militia system j, of the State. (Unfavorable.) t Mr. Moore moved to proceed to the considers- e of the general orders and take up 196, which was a agreed to?bill to authorize the formation of a vol- ( unteer company (called the Jasper Light Infant- t ry) within the 34th Regiment. Bill read, and ordered to be sent to tho Senate. Mr. Buist.?Report of Special Joint Committee, h to whom was referred so much of the Message of t his Excellency the Governor, as relates to the cen- t sus returns. The committee repoitthe following: d A Bill to Apportion the Representation op ' this State. t Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rtprc- t senlatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, ii and by the authority of the same, That each and t every of the election districts throughout this o State at the next and all future elections, until a y new apportionment of the representation be made t by a future Legislature, respectively elect the I following number of Representatives, to wit: Ab- s beville, 5; All Saints, 1; Anderson, 4 ; Barnwell, p 4; Chester, 3; Chesterfield, 2 ; Christ Choreh, 1; o Claremont or Sumter, 8; Clarendon, 2; Darlington, i I; Edgefield, 6; Fairfield, 8 Greenville, 4; Kingiton or Horry, 1; Kershaw, 2; Lancaster, 2; uaarens, 4; Lexington, 2; -Liberty or Marion, 5; Marlborough, 2; Newberry, 8; Orange, 2: 'ickens, 4; Prinoe William, 1; Prince George finyaw, 3; ,Richland, 4? Spartanburg, 6; Saint Andrews, V; Saint Bartholomews, 8; Saint Jeorge's Dorchester, 1; Saint Jane's Goose Ireek, 1; Saint James Santee, 1; Saint Johns Berkley, lj Saint Johns Colleton, j; Saint Helcla, 1; Saint Lukes, 1; Saint Matthews, 1> Saint }auls, 1; Saint Peters, 1; Saint Thomas and laint Dennis, 1 ;: XJnio.n, 8; Williamsburg, 2; fork, 4; Charleston, including St. Phillips gnd it. Michaels. 20; Saint Stephens, 1> r Mr. Memminger called for the spepial order? illl to authorize aid to the' Blae Ridge Railroad Company in Soath Carolina. After remarks from Messrs. Memmlnger, Sidods, Spratt, Farrow and others, Mr. Mullim noved an indefinite postponement of the bill. The eas and nays being demanded, remitted as folows : -Tcas.?Messrs. J. P.- Adams, Aldrieh, Bailey, ieatty, Black, Boylston, Brockinton, Byrd, Campbell, Craig, Daris. Bearing, DeSaussure, Doaglass, !dwards, Elliot, Esans, Farrow, Felder, Foster, "razer, Oadberry. Gilmore, Gooding, Hammood, larrell, Heriot, Hope, Howard, Inglia, Jfferies, r., A. Jones, L. J. Jones, Keller, Kiigore, Kirk, ^awton, Lide, McCants, McClelland, McKewn, .tiller, Moore, Mnller, MnTllns, O'Cain, Rice, lutledge, Ryan, Shannon, Simpson, SUtrunk, I mart, Smith, Spratt, "-Stokes,. Sullivan, Tallev, ["ownsend, A. 8. Wallace, Daniel Williams, J. Filliams, J. H. Williams, J. S. Wilson?64. Nats?Bpeaker, W. W. Adams, Anderson, Banding, Brooks, Broyles, Bulst, Cherry, Cochan, Dozier, Doryea, Green, Harper, Hudson, B. r. Johnson, Johnson, Jr., Lanneao, Lucas, Macarlan, Maxwell, McGowan, Memminger, Metta, Jorwood, O'Connor, Periy, Pinckney, Jr., Pope, ?orcher, Pressley, Quatlabaum, Ramsay, Richirdson, F. D. Richardson. Jr., J. P. Read, 8cre- j en, 8eymour, Shanklin, T. Y. Simons, Blmoston, \ tuber, Thomson. Tompkina, Vandiver, Yanght, flm. Wallace, Wardlaw, Ware, E. C. Whaley, J. 1. Whaley, Win. Wbaley, Whiting Wilkes, 0. P. Williams, Yeadou?55. JJXC&MBU 1U. Senate.?The following papers were annonnoed rom the House: Resolutions to allow the Presilent and Directors of the 8tate Bank to make mob alteration&iu the law as please them. Also, 0 advertise that the public debt falling due fa .860, shall be paid, principal and interest. Conmrred in. Also, a bill to authorize the President ind Directors of the bank to establish a branch n the Western or North-western portion of the State. Had its second reading, and referred to Committee on Banks. Bill to alter and amend the id section of the 1st article of the Constitution, flad its third reading. Being a constitutional ]uestion, the yeas and nays were called for.? Jnanimous. Returned to the House. A bill to tmend an Act to alter the law in relation to the jualification (t jurors. Had one reading, and eferred to Special Committee on Banks. Also, 1 bill to authorise the formation of a volunteer Light Infantry Company .(Jasper Light Infantry) within the limits of the 84th Regiment. Had its irst reading, and referred to Committee on Iniorporations. Machinery In Cheater. The people of the South have long been censured for the want of an enterprising spirit and nventive talent. The prying genius of the Tantee has so far superseded them in this respect, that it is thought almost useless and vain to attempt any thing here wbioh has not been fairly tested and established in the North. But while we attribute some of this to the prying disposition and inherent inventive talent of ths Yankee, we also think that much of it is owing to the fact that we have not confidence in ourselves and that 3ur people do not give sufficient gpcooragement ind patronage to oar men of genius to justify them in embarking in a doubtful undertaking. These ideas suggested themselves to us the oth J a# If. T.k. t*r uiiv aa wt* tibuvu uio uisvuimt j vi iu>. ?vuu Bimpson of this place. He is doiiyj a large business, and every thing Is carried on by steam and machinery. The saw-mill, Grist-Mill, Planing Machine and ail his other machinery are driven by one engine and exhibit great skill in thehr arrangement. We lyiow of few snch establishments of machinery, and the labor of such a man as Mr. Simpsoaahontd be appreciated ioonr midst. If this establishment was in the North it wonld be lauded by the Press and the public as 'the great inventions of the Yankee, hat here it is scarcely ever heard of or known beyond the limits of our District. Such ought not to be the case, especially in these perilous times, should we encourage our men of genius and invention, and patronise their establishments. Mr. 8iropson has done ranch for our District in the way of machinery, and we are glad to see that bis establishment Is beginning to attract attention from abroad. May he continue to receive a liberal patronage, and realize a just compensation for his machinery and labor.?Chetter Standard. t/jf The following, says the correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, is the.true last will and testasent of Old John Brown, "revoking all others," i? nnhlished in the nanern. which vonr corresnnn lent copied from the original in the Charlestown ail with Brown's own pen, &c: Last mil and testament of John Brown. I, John BrowD, a prisoner, now in the prison of jharlestown, Jefferson county, Virginia, do here>y make and ordain this as ray lest will and teslament. . . I will and direct that all my property, being >ersonal property, which is scattered about in the State of Virginia and Maryland, should be eare'ully gathered up by my execntor, hereafter splinted, and disposed of to the best advantage, rod the proceeds thereof paid over to my beloved wife, Mary A. Brown. Many of those articles are not of a warlike charicter, and I trust as to such and all other properly that I may be entitled to, that my rights and :he rights of my family will be respected. And lastly, I hereby appoint Sheriff James W. Campbell execntor of thie my true last will, here>y revoking all others. Witness my hand and seal, this 2d day of December, 1859. JOHN BROWN [seal]. Signed, sealed, and declared to be the true last will of John Brown, in our presence, who attested he same by his request, in his presence and in the iresence of each other. JOHN AVIS. ANDREW HUNTER. Codicil.?I wish my friends, Jamee W. Camp Mil, Sheriff, and John Avis, Jailor, aa a return or their kindness, each to have a Sharp's rifle of hose belonging to me, or, if no rifle can be had, ben each a pistol. Witness my hand and seal, this 2d day of De:ember, 1869. .. JOHN BROWN [siai]. Signed, sealed, &c., same as above. Mr. Mason's Resolution. The following is the resolution of Senator Malon, of Virginia, which he introdnced shortly after ,he organization of the Senate and which has saused the excited debate in that body for the >ast few days: Retolved, That a Committee be appointed to nquire into the facts attending the late inrasion ind seizure of the Armory and Arsenal of the U. Itates at Harper's Ferry, in Virginia, by a band if armed men, and report whotber the same was ittended by armed resistance to the authorities ind public force of the United States, and by the narder of any of the citizens of Virginia, or of iny troops sent there to protect the public propery; whether such invasion and seizure was made inder color of any orgaeization intended to sob'ert the Government of any of the States of the Jnion ; what was the character and extent of snch irganization, and whether any citizens of the U. Jtates not present, were implicated therein or accessory thereto, by contributions of money, arms, aunitions or otherwise; what was the character ,nd -xtent of the military equipment in the hands ir under the control of said armed band, and rhere, and bow, and when the same was obtained ,nd transported to the place so invaded. That aid Committee report whether any and what legmaw Jn thair ftninlnn Ko np/^ocoorv nn 31UUUU lUa/f ?" *"v.. vjyiu.wu, wv uvvvwvwi j vm he part of the United States for the future prestation of the peace of the country, or for the afety of the public property; and that said Jommittee have power to send for persons and ispers. Message of Governor Wise.?Governor Wise, in lis Message to the Legislature, gives a history of he Harper's Ferry invasion. He thinks the moive of the North is to see whether we will face a langer now sealed in blood, and says we must ace it, and have a settlement at once?the sooner he better. Replying to Mr. Buchanan's opinion, bat the United States Government have no right o interfere in such cases as the Harper's Ferry ovasion, he says it is an alarming announcement o the slave States, adding that we must rely on urselves and fight for peace. "I say, then, to our tents?orgauizeand arm." He recommends hat Virginia now demand from each State of the Jnion what position it intends to maintain in repectto slavery, and that she permit no more temloriziug with the Constitution; no more comproaises. He recommends the enrolling of all citleus between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five