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A member of the Massachusetts Leg- i
islatare is said to have just been detected
in a forgery for $3,500.
In a Cincinnati paper we observe a
case of amalgamation. Mr. Brown married
Miss White.
The following is good advice to persons
visiting offices and other business
places: Shut the door, and when you are
done talking serve your mouth the same
way. v
We learn from the Houston (Texas)
Telegraphy that from fifty to sixty people
were frozen to death within the State of
Texas during the late cold weather. There
was also many thousand hogs, cattle, and
sheep frozen.
Five hundred and thirty-six negroes,
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UWUUU UJf IUC estate v* iue w w.
were sold at Albany, Ga., on the 4th inst.,
at an average of $1,025. They were sold
in families, and there are thirty to he disposed
of. One boy brought $3,600, and a
woman, field hand, sold for $2,500.
The Wire Grass (Ga.) Reporter
learns that there was an encounter between
some of the citizens of Brooks County and
a portion of Robinson & Lake's Circus Company
at Quitman, in which several persons
were shot, and one of the latter is expected
to die.
Jesse Wheeler, formerly surveyor of
Guilford County, North Carolina, has been
arrested, charged with circulating sixty
copies of Helper's Impending Crisis. Several
persons hav6 been arrested in Randolph
County, North Carolina, on a similar
charge.
A little boy, residing in Union
county, Ky., had his head blown off one
day last week. He bored a hole in a log
and put powder in it, ramming the powder
down with a stick. He then laid a coal
of fire on the hole, and before he could get
away it exploded, the stick striking him
on the head, knockiner the unner Dortion off
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and killing him instantly.
The Presidents of the various Virginia
railroad companies have issued a call,
inviting all the Southern railroad companies
-to meet them in consultation at Richmond,
on the 28th of February, to consider the
means by which they can best secure, either
by direct importation or Southern manufacture,
the equipments and supplies for the
use of Southern railroads.
The depot atSantuc, on the Spartanburg
and Union Eailroad, was burnt about
8 o'clock on Sunday morning last. It is
supposed to have been the work of an inoendiary.
Fortunately but few packages were
in the building, and the loss chiefly confined
to that. A number of bales of cotton were
piled up above the depot, which escaped
injury, as the wind blew in an opposite
direction.?Spartan.
The Supreme Court of Appeals, in
Virginia, has affirmed the judgment of
the Circuit Court of Richmond, which decided
that inspectors of flour, spirits, cotton,
and other articles of freight, have no
right to retain samples as perquisites of office.
The decision was called out by a suit
against a flour inspector who, it appears,
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naa, in tne course or a rew years, acoumu-1
lated from draughts of flour taken from
barrels a quantity vanned at several thousand
dollars, including interest.
A man by the name of Bailey, we
are informed, came to the house of Mr. John
Mobley, last week and asked permission to
remain over the night, which was granted.
Sometime, however, during the night, he
entered Mr Mobley's room, but on being
detected, acted as if he was crazy. Whether
he is indeed deranged or not seems to be a ^
matter of doubt, but our Sheriff is inclined
to think that there is not much the matter
with his mind. He was brought into town
and delivered to Mr.Pagan, our Sheriff, who
sent him to jail, and has him still there in
safe keeping.?Chester Standard.
We learn from a reliable source, that
Wheeler& Wilson, extensive manufacturers
of sewing machines, at Bridgeport, Connecticut,
had lately enlarged their works
so as to double the amount of their business, j
but the 'irrepressible conflict' which broke
out at Harper's Ferry, has so diminished the
demand for their machines from the South,
that they have fonnd it necessary to discharge
one hundred of their hands. In making
this reduction, they were careful to select
the warmest abolitionists they could
find, who proved to be all, or near all, from i
Massachusetts. |:
We arc iudebted to a friend, for an
account of sales of the negroes of the estate
of the late W. W. Belcher, by Mr. F. P. 1
Robertson, the auctioneer, which took place i
during the past week. About 100 negroes
were sold at an average of near SI,000 each
?being a higher price than has ever been |
realized at any former sale in the District. I
One negro Ben, brought $2,005 and others;
sold at prices ranging from $1,200 to $1,-!
600. Of these negroes, 48 brought an ag- i
gregrate sum of S54,980?beingan average)
of 81,145, each. Everything else sold at the i
same high rates.?Abbeville Press.
The Darlington Southerner says:?j
'We notice that advertisments of Southern
Houses located in Northern cities, are al-1
ready beginning to make their appearance. |
We do sincerely hope that the Southern!
people will refuse to countenance any such'
concerns. They are too much like 'Northern;
men with Southern principles.' Let South-1
ern capitalists establish business houses inj
Southern cities; let their capital circulate!
there and aid in building up Southern com-!
merce and trade, and in establishing South-j
ern independence. Let us refuse to go to
Northern cities to trade either with Northern
or Southern houses.'
At Chicago, last week, a rather amu- j
sing scene took place during the baptism of
a young lady by the pastor of the Taberna-J
cle. The Union says: 'The minister re-;
quested her to assume the dress peculiar to|
such an occasion, but she declined to takej
off her hooped skirt. The minister told her
of the inconvenience that muse result from
her obstinacy, but she persisted. When j
she came to descend into the bath, the inflated
skirt touched the water and rose up j
around her like a balloon. Her head was,
lost to the congregation ; she was swallowed
up in the swelling skirt; the minister tried
to force her down into the bath, but she
was kept above the surface by the floating
properties of the crinoline, and was buoyed j
up so successfully that it was not until after j
much difficulty and many forcible attempts j
to submerge the lady that the miuister suc-j
ceeded in baptising the fair one. Finally, j
it was effected, to the relief of the minister j
ana the serious'y inclined audience, who.
? could not keep from laughing in their pock-1
^^^^t^kerohiefs.' 1
For the Yorkvflle Enquim.
WOMAN.
BY WM. J. BLACK.
Oh! thou by heaven ordained to be
Arbitress of man's destiny,
From thy warm heart one tender sigh,
One glanoe from thine approving eye,
Can raise or bend bin at thy will,
To virtue's nobler flights, or worst extremes of ill!
Be angel minded, and despise
Thy sex's little vanities ;
And ne'er let passion's lawless tide
Thy better purpose sweep aside?
For woe awaits tho fatal hour
That lends to man's annoy thy heaven-entrusted
power.
Woman, 'tis thine to cleanse his heart
From every gross, unholy part,
Thine in domestic solitude
To win him to be wise and good,
His pattern, guide and friend to be,
And give him back the heaven he forfeited for
thee!
CjnftorMe (ftuptirer
edited by
SAM'L W. MELTON WM. W. EAST.
contributing editob: "
J. WOOD DAVIDSON Columbia, S. C.
YORKVILLE, S. C.
THURSDAY MORNING, JANUARY 26, 18C0.
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the familiar and valued name of J. Wood Davidson
as one of tLc Editors of the Enquirer. He
is well known to its readers by his 'Leisure
Sketches,' and his chaste and elegant contributions
to the poet's corner; and, the Proprietor
feels assured, will be welcomed by them with
a right hearty response to his.'greeting.'
Mr. Davidson will continue to reside in Columbia
; and under the head of 'Contributorinl,'
will give the local news and literary gossip of our
metropolis of taste, fashion and the fine arts. It
is essential to give the Enquirer this Metropolitan
character, that it may merit and secure a
general circulation in the State; to attain which
the Proprietor is determined to spare neither
expense nor exertions.
The reader is referred to the 'Contributorial'
column, where be will find Mr. Davidson's very
readable and fitting Salutatory. We bespeak
for him the kindliest return of that cordiality
and good will, which he extends to the circle of
our readers.
As announced in 'our programme,' the editorial
duties of the Enquirer will devolve mainly
on the Junior-Editor. Whenever the professional
engagements of the Senior-Editor will permit,
he will devote himself to the paper; and, in order
to distinguish his productions, an asterisk
(*) will be appended to each article.
L. M. GRIST.
SMALL POX.
A stranger arrived in our town on Monday last
on whose body and face were evidences of some
cutaneous disease. A report soon obtained currency
that ho was afflicted with the small pox.
and the matter being brought to the attention of
the Town Council, he was sent five or six miles
into the country and placed under the care of a
proper nurse. On yesterday, the Town Council
dispatched three of our practicing physicians
for the purpose of examining the case and submitting
a reliable report. We herewith submit
otatamonf ftf tVlA nilVfiiftiftnQ
bUd pwtbwuivuh V? ?uv
To the Intendant and Wardens of Yorkville :
Gentlemen : We, the undersigned practicing
Physicians in this place, having examined by'
your request, the case of a Mr. Edwards, who j
came into our town on Monday last; and from
the fact of his being a stranger, complaining of
being unwell and having some eruption on his
face and body, caused suspicion that he might
be the subject of Small Pox, and who was imme
diately removed by your authority to a house in ;
the country for care and attention, do hereby j
unhesitatingly pronounce the case of Mr. En-1
wards to be one of virulent Varicella, or Chicken |
Pox ; and can assure the public, that they need
have no fears of taking Small Pox from his case.
(Signed.) A. I. BARRON,
J. R. BRATTON,
H. G. JACKSON.
KING'S MOUNTAIN MILITARY SCHOOL.!
The sixth year of our Military ScnooL began j
on the 13th of the present month, with a goodly!
number of Cadets from all parts of the State and j
surrounding country. New applications are be- j
ing made every day. The prospects of a full
and interesting session are highly promising.
The system of education, adopted by Military
Schools, is a very excellent one. Their discipline
is entirely wholesome to the insubordinate
and refractory spirit of Southern boys. While
rebellion after rebellion occurs in the purely literary
colleges, we scarcely ever hear of an outbreak
in one of these institutions. This is owing
to the lax system of government in the one, and
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me ngiu oueuieuce exueieu xu me uiuer. ue
warmly recommend our Military School as deserving
a large share of the patronage extended
to such institutions.
NOBILITY OP LABOR.
An Asiatic proverb says: 'He who is worthy
of being called a man, is unshaken in adversity,
humble in prosperity, active and bold in danger;
and if he be not learned, has at least a love for
learning.' The riches of such a man will never
make him an idler; neither will his poverty be
felt by him as a disgrace. In all conditions he
will be the same sereue, contented, and enviable
embodiment of true nobility.
Labor is the duty of all men. Great possessions
do not exclude any one from this 'common
lot.' He who is toiliug houcstly in any colling,
however hutnble, is doing the world a service.?
His strong arm is sowing the seed of a harvest
of greatness and prosperity for his country.
Labor brings happiness also in its train. It
prevents the mind from being occupied with the
thousand little perplexing cares and ills of life, j
It begets health. It sweetens the repose of
night. T: adds new beauty to the songs of birds
and the morning sunlight. One of the seven
wise men being asked, who was the happiest
man, mentioned a poor shepherd of Arcady who
owned a few 'paternal acres,' and had spent his
life tilling them and tending his little flock on
the pastures of his native land.
It should increase every man's self-respect to
be an honest workman. The degradation of
such a man exists only in the diseased fancy of
those who think but little on the nnture of society,
and the causes of human progress. A
free and manly heart, loves to grasp the broad
and brawny hands of the sons of toil. True
freedom demands the recognition of the sentiment?all
labor is honorable.
Yet in this enlightened age and country, where
the press is free, where mind and religion ara1
free, and where the people govern them selves, <
the working classes mast look to be bl&med, if 1
they do not 'love learning' and labor to edacate '
themselves and promote general intelligence and
pablic virtue. Without these, nations as well as i
men must decline. The great Calhoun says : i
'Liberty is the boon of heaven to intelligence
and virtue.' i
Leisure moments, says another great thinker, i
are the gold-dust of life. All men have them.
No man need be so busy that he cannot find an
hour, now and then, to devote to the culture of i
the nobler part of his nature. Never be idle.
Seize upon these spare moments, and turn them
tc good account. Throw the shuttle of thought
through them, and weave them into an intellectual
garment of purple and gold. Think as well
as labor, and while you labor. Do head work
as well as hand work. While the 'great drops'
which toil has wrung from the brow are cooling,
seize the horns of the altar of thought and never
let go, until you have mastered a truth, or sol
ved a difficulty. Such industry of mind and body
will dignify life, sweeten labor, and give yon
'the thews that throw the world.'
EARTHQUAKE.
A slight earthquake shock was felt in our town,
about seven o'clock, on Thursday evening last.
We learn from our exchanges that it was experienced
in Columbia, Charleston, Augusta and
Macon, Ga., and various other places. The
shock lasted fifteen or twenty seconds. The direction
was from 'south by west westerly, to
north by east easterly.' A bee line drawn from
Charleston in this direction would cut the crater
of Mount Congrehoy, in Central America, which
sometimes emits smoke and flames. It is thought
that before long we will hear of a violent eruption
or earthqnake in Central America.
The Charleston papers mention a remarkable
phenomenon, which they suppose may be connected
with this internal commotion of the earth.
The boring of the Artesian well in that city had
reached the depth of 930 feet; but on the 81st
of March last, the tubing was arrested at the
depth of 810 feet?leaving l'JO feet which could
not be penetrated on account of some obstruction.
On Thursday last, during the afternoon,
previous to the earthquake, this obstruction
began to settle, and on removing the weight
which had been placed on the tubing to sink it,
and Bounding xor me top 01 me tuuiug, n, n?o
found to have gone down a distance of thirty
feet.
This is certainly a remarkable and interesting
phenomenon. Whether it was connected with
the earthquake or not, we leave for the scientific
to determine.
LEAP YEAR.
We have often thought of the injustice done
to the fair sex in giving them only one year in four,
or one fourth of the time, to woo in. Our cogitations
on this subject have not been very flattering
to the 'worse half of creation. Man, we would
think, is a tyrant?a bearish, goatish, hoggish,
embodiment of selfishness. He is exacting of
dear woman. The blessed nightengales muet Bit
tongueless, and listen to his insipid flattery ; and
if a sigh or yawn chance to escape their ruby
lips, the pampered 'lord of creation' becomes indignnnt
at the supposed insult. The dear angels
must not give a single sign of disapproval; they
must be pleased anyhow, with every 'gilded toy'
that floats in the sunlight of their presence.?
They cannot choose; their province is to refuse;
and what right have they, until they are asked,
to give any even the faintest indication of their
sentiments.
Well, 'the spear of Ithurial' ia reversed, and
pierces his own side. The ladies?heaven ever
bless them !?having no right to express a dislike
for any fopltng, betake themselves, of course,
to the task of pleading all. And it is a
task; but their intuitive wisdom has taught them,
that vanity is the vulnerable point of the opposite
sex. At this they aim their arrows, dipped
in the poison of flowers. They praise their suitors
in the most delicate and becoming manner;
and these suitors forthwith receive the idea in
their over-impressive imaginations, that the ladies
are in earnest. When they make declarations
and are promptly rejected, they set up the
old yell about woman's coquetry and heartlessness;
while they have nothing to blame but their
own stupid vanity.
Now Leap Year is the regulator. It acts on our
social system like the governor on the steam engine.
It prevents the vanity of one sex and the
flattery of the other, from becoming intensified.
It ur.sexes courtship ; and consequently renders
its laws more jupt and liberal. All honor, we
say, to the good old custom of permitting the
girls to open their mouths once in four years!
There may be a sufficient reasot for giving
the men three years and the ladies only one, in
the fact, that the latter can talk three times as
fast, and thrice as much to the purpose. The
ladies?bless them, we say again !?should not
grumble at this discrimination. It is necessary
to the balance of power between the two sexes.
Worann's finer feelings, her more ardent and impulsive
nature, her quicker perception of right
and wrong, and her readier use of language,
give her astonishing volubility and fluency of utterance.
Man talks like a town-clock striking ;
woman, like a sowing machine going at full
speed. Such is the philosophy of leap year!
CHARLES O'CONOR ON SLAVERY.
A committee which has been appointed to collect
and circulate as widely as possible, both at
the North and South, the proceedings of the N.
York Union Meeting, held on the 19th ult., at
the Academy of Music, has requested Mr.
Charles O'Conor to inform them whether this
step meets with his approval. 'He basr eplied
that it does entirely. He has long believed that
onr disputes, concerning slavery, would end, if
the public mind could be steadily fixed upon the
true issue. There is such a thing as natural
justice; and in a country, like ours, where morality
and mental enlightenment abound?where
the press, mind and speech, are free?human
law cannot long triumph without the Divine
sanction. If slavery, then, is a sin?if it conflicts
with natural justice?the most vehement
upholders of John Brown are right. For, if
slavery is unjust, their general principles follow ;
their logic is im-sistable. If the doctrine 'Slavery
is a sin' cannot be refuted, the Union cannot
and ought not to endure.'
"The negro can be neither exterminated nor
transported to Africa. If they were set free,
they would relapse into barbarism, or a set of
negro States would rise up in our midst, claiming
political and social equality. The divisions
of party would soon make the negro members
powerful m congress?wouia puice some 01 iocm
in the high places of power, and occasionally let
one into the Executive chair. This can never be.
Siavery is fit and proper, it is, in its own nature,
as an institution, beneficial to both races."
This is the question for the North to ponder?is
Slavery right in itself? Mr. O'Conor has pressed
this question on ttieir consciences and intelligence.
Will they pause and think, or rush madly
on to their own destruction ?
WASHINGTON NEWS.
A pledge has been generally taken by Southern
Democrats to resist, by every parliamentary
power, the adoption of the plurality rule.
The ni uil contractors had an interview with
President Buchanan, on the 17th instant. The
President thought that the House might elect a
temporary Speaker; but that the adoption of the
plurality rule would be equivalent to the election
of a Republican Speaker. The contractors
i thought not. They objected to the Postmaster
General B olt's catting down contracts made by
bis predecessor; that each notion on his part was
irithoutpieoedent for the last twenty fonr years.
Mr. Bbowk, of the Senate, on the 18th, offered
resolutions for the protection of slavery in
the Territories, which were laid on the table.
A considerable debate (qaite a debateable
question) sprang up in the Senate, as to whether
Congress is in session! Mr. Hale introduced a
private bill, and asked for its immediate considtion;
but the objection was urged that the Senate
can do no legislative business till the House
is organized, which gave rise to the debate.
Mr. Cloptoh, of the House, made a speech, advocating
secession as a preventive remedy against
injustice.
Mr. Dodolas has offered a resolution that the
Judiciary Committee be instructed to report a
bill for the protection of aU the States and Territories
against invasion by the inhabitants of any
other State or Territory; also, for the suppression
and punishment of conspiracies and combinations
sgainst the government, inhabitants,
property or institutions, of any State or Territory.
This resolution was the special order for
Monday last.
VIRGINIA AND SOUTH CAROLINA.
Mr. C. G. Memmikoeb, the speoial commissioner,
appointed to oonvey the resolutions of
South Carolina to the Virginia Legislature, has
reached lis destination. He was escorted from
the Railroad Depot by a joint oommittee of both
houses of that body; and has received every
mark of respect and attention due to his position
and to the State which he is serving. On Thursday
last, at 12} o'clook, says the Richmond Enquirer,
he 'addressed both houses of the Legislature
in one of the ablest speeches ever delivered
in the House of Delegates.' The orowd was
immense, and listened to him all the while with
rapt attention. The great pervading object of the
speech, and we may say Mr. Mbxhibokb's mission,
is tc obtain- a conference of the Southern
States. Wo olip the following, relative to the
speech, from the special dispatch of the Charleston
Couritr:
Col. Memminger spoke nearly four hours to
the immense throng which filled every available
spot within hearing distance. He traced with a
master hand the steady inroads made by the
North upon the rights of the South, as well as
the rise and progress of Abolition fanaticism.
He drew a gloomy picture of the present atti?
!iL iL* Va^L
tude of oar relations wnu iu? rtmm, piuvmg
conclusively that the gaaraaties of the Constitution
had been utterly unavailing to protect the
South in her rights. He argued that if the Union
rous t be continued, the South roust demand
other and more efficient guaranties, or concession
after concession having been yielded, she would
in the end lose all influence, right and consideration
in the Confederacy. He strongly urged
the propriety of a Convention of the Southern
States, to consider questions growing out of our
relations with the Northern States.
EDITORIAL INKLINGS.
We have reoeived the first number of the
Despatch, published at Sumter, S. C., by Messrs.
Francis & DeLorme, and edited by Mr. T.
Watiks I'ineins. It is a neatly printed paper,
of good size, and makes a very handsome appearance.
Tbo Charleston Mercury sayB that careful
observation and calculation from reliable
statistics, show that more wives of Northerr
men, in proportion to the number, annually rue
away from their husbands, than there are slavet
who flee from their masters. What would the
abolitionists think of a pervading Southern senti
ment to condem them, by the laws of Congress,
forever to a state of 'single blessedness V
Regrets are reaching us, that the Legislature
at its last sitting put a stop to the Geologi
cal Survey of the State, by Oscar M. Lieuer
who was prosecuting the work at so little expense
and with so much success and satisfaction.
This is the more to be regretted, sinoe a complete
surrey would be profitable not only in a
scientific but in a practical point of view. Th<
/looninnoriAnt nf thn rfinniirces of the State re
quires the continuance of this survey.
A lucrative trade has sprung up between
San Francisco and tha Japanese empire. One
of the causes is said to be the influx of Chinese
into California. The growing importance of our
Pacific coast is mentioned as another cause,?
Whatever may be the causes, we look upon it as
promising for the future; as it will liberalize
the sentiments of Japan towards Christian conntries,
extend the boundaries of our commerce,
and open another missionary field for preaching
the Gospel to those 'that sit in darkness.'
Some happy husband speaks in the following
gle wing terms of married life. We warrant
he has a good and loving spouse to repair
the rents in his garments and in bis heart.
The affe ction that links together man and wife,
ib a far holier passion than the enthusiasm of
young lo?e. It may want its gorgeousness?il
may want its imaginative character, but it is far
richer in holy and trusting attributes. Talk not
to us of the absence of love in wedlock. What!
because a Man has ceased to 'sigh like a furnace,'
arc we to believe that the fire is extinct 1
No, it bunts with a steady and deep flame, shedding
a benign influence upon existence, a million
times more precious and delightful than the cold
dreams of philosophy.
In the Virginia House of Delegates, on
Friday lsst, Mr. Skduon offered a resolution,
that, in view of the hostile agitation of many ol
the non-fLaveholding States against the institutions,
honor and peace of the South, Virginia
invites each of the slaveholding States to meet
on a day and month left blank, in convention, at
Atlanta, Georgia, to devise and recommend measures
for the common defence; and that the
Governor of Virginia be authorized to appoint
three commissioners for such conference. The
resolution was ordered to bo laid on the table
and printed.
Central Italy, whioh six. months ago wae
in a defenceless condition, has now an army oi
48,000 men. Bologna is being strongly fortified,
and a foundry at Parma is casting rifled cannor
for manning its fortifications, with great rapidity.
All this is done, too, without any special aid
from the revolutionary party, headed by Garibaidi.
We hope this state of preparation will
teach the Peace Congress, the necessity of adopt
ing liberal mensures in regard to Italy. For w<
love the land of art and song, of cloudless skief
and lovely women ; and wish to see the birth'
place of cur common law, united and free onc<
more.
A terrible catastrophe has recently hap
pened at Lawrence Mass., in which over fiv<
hundred persons were either killed or wounded
The walls of a large manufacturing establish
ment gave way, and the building fell crushing t<
death or badly mangling those beneath it. Or
the heels of this sad event, we hear of an exten
sive slave mart in Memphis Tenness ee?killing
six negro men and wounding several others.?
The building was of brick ; and recent heavy raini
produced its fall. Both of these were purely ac
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cidcntal occurrences ; ?uu iu? cuun (,u wane yv
litical capital out of them must prove a failure
We should be humbled by them, rather, as show
ingthe common griefs which belong to our sor
rowing humanity.
A meeting of the citizens in Chatham
county, N. 0., having requested Gov. Er.us t<
convene aa extra session of the Legislature, ii
view of recent startling events, the Governoi
declines doing so for various reasons. He fally
believes that the ordinary police force can pre
serve the public peace until the legal time foi
the raeetitg of the Legislature. He deems ii
important, too, to avoid all such action as woulc
increase present popular excitement. At th<
regular timo the Legislature will be able calmli
to survey the events of the past year, and thi
dangers that lie ahead of as?which frame of
mind will be the more propitious, to discreet and
considerate legislation. In times of real pablic
peril, aboye all others, Legislation should proceed
with dignity and solemnity, so as to shnn
the suspicion of prejudioe, and to secure the
obedience of the people and the respeot of the
world. Such has been the polioy of North Carolina?considerate
deliberation, decisive resolution,
certain, bold and vigorous execution.
Three gentlemen of Norfolk County, N.
C., have lately paid sums of $250, $800 and $600
to their negroes for the produce which they
raised last year, on the 'patches' allowed to them
by their masters. These men certainly have industrious,
thrifty and, we hope, honest servants.
We have, however, known slaves to abuse such
privileges, by stealing. And they generally
squander the money, made when they ought to
* * ? ?? ?^AAl'alilw TVlt n AMO^AfM i 9 VitMA.
DC SUJICtJpi VCi'jr ivuuouiji xmo vuoiuui^ a piov
ticed at all, should be done so with prudence
and discrimination in farorof thehonestand provident
slave. It may thus be rendered a means of
cultivating his character, stimulating his habitB
of industry, and consequently of increasing his
real valuo.
Gray hairs are becoming as a crown of
honor to old age; but on the head of the young
they take away the idea of that fresh vigor and
bounding aotivity which belong to this period of
life. A recent English writer says that an undue
proportion of lime in the system is the cause
of premature grayness, and advises not to use
hard water which always contains lime. Boil it
and let it cool, for drinking purposes. Bay rum,
olive oil and good brandy, in equal portions,
will, he says, if applied every lmorning, soon
make the hair a beautiful black without injuring
' it in the least
We recommend this view of the subject to the
1 attention of those who are 'wise' out of season;
but request the aged to 'keep gray* that their
1 wisdom and the veneration of the young for
1 them may 'stay in tnne.'
Extremes in opinion and conduct are
meeting all around us everyday. In fact they
are so frequent, and often so startling, that they
, almost make us believe the old adage, 'human
1 nature is the same everywhere,' is not a correct
one. We record a carious illustration. There
was lately in the city of New York, a ball at
which only white women and black men attended.
' The doors were shut and barred against all others.
At 1 o'clock in the night a party of Broadway
gamblers put an end to this delectable frolic
in this way. They entered with soot-bags and
flAn*.hoars throw the flonr on the neirro men and
1 the soot on the white women, and blew oat the
i lights. A scene of indescribable confasion followed,
which was arrested by a posse of policemen,
who pat an end to the amalgamation ball.
This is one of the extremes. The other was a
1 party at Warrenton, Va., at which the ladies appeared
dressed in linsey-woolsey. The Philadelphia
Ledger, in commenting npon this ball says :
This is a good movement, economically, as
well as patriotically. One half the troubles of
the country are the result of extravagance in
ladies' dresses, some of them wearing a small
fortune on their backs. If the dear creatures
are to come down to plain linsey, what a saving
it will be to their husbands' pockets, and how
matrimony will be promoted in Virginia. Linsey
is a good comfortable material to be clothed
in, and the absence of anything rich or gaudy
will give personal beauty a chance over mere
personal adornment. If the Virginia ladies can
set a foot down upon fashion, they will do more
than John Brown proposed to accomplish?they
will relieve thousands of their white sisters in
that State from a thraldom more potent than
African slavery and overcome a tyrant whose
despotism rules the civilized world. Let them,
then, stiffen their patriotism and their petticoats
with linsey. It will render them independent of
fashion, independent in pocket, independent of
imported silks from the North, or of South Carolina
or Alabama cotton. In fact, it will make
Virginia a little republic by herself, like Switzerland
surrounded by the despotism of the
world, maintaining her position proudly, asking
nobody, and nobody asking of her, but prospering
by her inherent industry, her self-denial and
her exclusiveness.
MERE-MENTION.
A correspondent of the Charleston Courier
recommends Chablks O'Conob, a leading New
York lawyer, for the next Presidency. Hon.
Chables S. Olden was inaugurated, on the 17th
inst., as Governor of New Jersey, ne favors
the fugitive slave law, opposes the agitation of
the slavery question and denounces all agitation.
m. kodoet db .lisle, me aumor 01 me
famous Marseillaise Hymn, has just gained, in a
Paris conrt, a suit against a counterfeiter of his
invention for hermetically sealing Seltzer water
bottles. The Sumter Watchman says that a
large number of subscribers, in that vicinity,
are withdrawing their support from Harper's
f Weekly and Monthly, and giving it to the South:
ern 1 Field and Fireside. The 'Boston Trav'
eller' thinks that Southern feeling against Nori
thern wholesale merchants is confined to Richmond
Ya., and a few other places. Time will
test the matter. Sutdam, Paob & Co., of
New York, have applied for relief under the in-.
| solvent act?liabilities amounting to the enormous
sum of S3,000,000. A nut for the Boston
Traveller to crack. The failares in the United
States last year were 3,913, with liabilities
t amounting to $84,000,000. 8o much for the
, credit system. Three hundred and thirtyfive
coolie emmigrants lately arrived at Demarara
from Calcutta. Fifty others died on the passage.
China produces enough cotton to
. supply 350,000,000 of her people with clothing.
, Rev. Dr. James C. Fubman, President of
> Furman University, has recently presented to
i the Editor of the 'Patriot' a fine lemon, which
, was grown at his residence, a few miles from
town. No green-house plant?a real sun-perfected
lemon. Wm. M. McMahon, Posti
'
f master at Lavinda, nine miles from Oreenville,
on the Laurens road, has been arrested for rob11
bing the mail and committed to jail.
A number 01 letters were rrceivea at tne rost
I Office Department in Washington on Tueslay
from mail contractors in different parts of the
I Union, declaring their intention to break off the
lines, if no appropriation is made by the first of
March. The House of Representatives, in so
long delaying its organization, is assuming a
fearful responsibility. Almost every sheet
, of newspaper used by tho press in North Carolina,
South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama, is of
Southern manufacture. Gereit Smith, of
New York, who was recently sent to the insane
asylum at Utica, has entirely recovered.
' On the 1st day of January there were but two
hundred and seven living heroes of the Revolution
on the pension list at Washington.
Ge.nin, the famous New York hatter, has failed
for a considerable amount. The man who
9 attempted to look into the future hod the door
slammed in his face. The school-house of
Mr. A. E. Eldeb, at Blackstocks, Chester District,
was destroyed by fire, on Sunday night of
last week. Tho Charleston Mercury says
that Gen. D. F. Jamieson has moved from Orangeburg
to Midway. Those addressing him on
business connected with the Military Academy,
should mail to the latter post-office.
) Harper's Weekly.?We desire to call attention
to the fact that among the advertisements to be
found in the recent numbers of the above paper,
r is one recommending Helper's tissue of lies,
r "The Impending Crisis." This should of itself
. be sufficient to render this sheet odious in the
eyes of all true Southern men. For some time
r past the leading articles in Harper's Weekly
t have had a gradual tendency to some of the
1 most objectionable features in Black Republicanism.
This is not to be wondered at, when it
is stated that G. W. Curtis, a notorious and
' ranting Abolitionist, is one of the prinoipal EdiJ
tors.?Fernandina East Floridian.
COHTB1BDTORUL.
Greeting.
We hare salutations for you, friends, on this
initiatory ocoasion; but we have no set speech to
make. We have a large horror for set speeches.
The Fourth-of-July style of doing things is not
at all in our way. We have an honest purpose
of meeting our contributorial duties as well as
we may; and we have a heart-full of good wishes
for you, our reading friends, to many of whom
we trust we are not an entire stranger; and we
have a reasonable variety of very excellent intentions
towards allBorts of things. Now, when
we shall have, in our way, expressed to you i
these purposes, wishes, and intentions, our 1
speeoh shall have been made?our salutatory I
given?our bow accomplished. ]
It is a cheering thing, in one's solitude, to
have a chosen circle, with which one may com- ]
mane from time to time?a circle of readers
wherein are already many friends, personal and
literary?a circle wherein beam eyes of intelligence
and beanty; for we are not so yoang as
not to reverence the former, nor so old as not to
find guidance for oar feet (not prosodial alone)
| in the divine light of the latter. It is a cheering
thing, we say, to enjoy a weekly converse with
tueh a circle of readers; and it is to each that
we find onrself speaking.
We have much regard for the broad humanity
of the poet Burns; and whenever we are called 1
upon to contemplate the errors of our brother ]
man, our own erring humanity whispers:? <
I 'Gently scan.' Yet, when our brother man will i
obstinately 'gang a kenning wrang,' we think he i
should be told of it; and that too, sometimes,
flatly. This much for things generally.
As to politics, we haven't aay. It is not in
our line. We are oppoted to politics. We have
an idea that things in the political world are
going considerably wrong; bat we have not the
least idea that our pitching into politics would '
help the matter a bit. Besides, we have something
else to do. We never read political news- ,
papers?political leaders and letters, political
speeohes never,?and have not for several years.
Perhaps in ten years we have not read ten col- ,
umns of political matter in the newspapers.?
We have done this upon principle; and, besides,
we have something, we conceive, better to do.?
That field, then, we shall leave to others mainly. .
As to the rest, we will let our future contribotonal
columns answer all inquiries.
We commend the following motto to our
friends?for we need something of the kind to <
nwitf /\n?qo Koontifnlto /*amnpnh?nna airl at thft
same time comprehensive:?'Look not mourn- (
fully into the past?it cannot return; Wisely im- (
prove the present?it is thine; go forth.to meet ,
the shadowy future without fear, and with a .
maDly heart.' That is to say:? (
'Make the best ye can of life,
Nor render it a curse;
Bnt take it as ye take a wife, ,
For better or for worse.'
And this is onr greeting.
J. W D. i
Columbia, S. C.
For the Yorkville Enquirer.
LEISURE SKETCHES.
BY J. WOOD DAVIDSON.
NUMBER xni.
One evening twilight I was walking along one
of the streets of onr beautiful city; alone, but
persons were passing about here and there. It I
was light enough to distinguish features clearly <
at short distances, but was creeping on towards
dark quite appreciably. A little girl, perhaps
seven years old, meeting me stopped, and bj
doing so arrested my attention. She had a sweet
earnest face, and an expression of thoughtfulness
without gloom. Her inquiring eyes met mine,
and dwelt upon my face for a moment; then inj
a slightly puzzled but entirely confiding tone'
she asked me:
"Are you going anywhere, sir?in particular?
just now?
I had only time for a smile before she quickly
added:?
"Because, if you aint, will you please walk
with me to our corner?back yonder, the way
you came! It isn't very far, but?will you go!"
My encouraging 'Oh, yes' was dropped in here
as we turned together towards her home. She
went on:
"It's not very far, but I stayed later than I
thought to and it was only in her slight emphasis
on the 'later' that conveyed her reason
for asking my protective attendance?for enlisting
my galantry so extemporaneously.
Her hair was but slightly dark, and her eyes
?those that dived so trustingly into mine?were
dark gray. Her voice was low and earnest, and
not wanting in a certain playfulness. She had
a book in her hands, and when I asked her what
she had been reading, she handed me 'The Good
QtrVs Book' with the naive remark a little archly
made,
"Mine; it was given to me; but I don't know
that its name suits me exactly."
I turned to the presentation page and read :
"Mary C. B , a Present from ."
I asked her: 'Who wrote this?you ?'
"Yes; why?"
"Because it is beautifully done, and looks as
if written by some one older than you are."
"Do you think so ? I always write that way.
Brother taught me to write. I go to school to
Madame S. The girls there write fine small
writing; not straight-up like that."
We walked on slowly and chatted on thus,
till we reached a neat cottage on the oorner of
a Btreet; then Mary said, breaking into the middle
of whatever thing she was telling me jnst
then:
"This is our house. I'm so glad you came
with me. Thank you. Good eTening."
She bounded up the circular steps, but stopping
half way said down at me:
"I'll tell brother you liked my writing."
I strolled on. I was happier.
Little Mary, I thank you for that evidence of
your trust. My heart thanks you for your childlike
faith?blesses you for your grateful confidence?and
prays that you may never meet a
soul that yon may not trust with all your earnest,
sweet, feminine little h^art. Remember, Mary,
should you ever read this Leisure Sketch, that
you made one lonely heart happier and therein
better?you did in its proper season, your own
little mission of soul on earth. If I should ever
again, in the future, experience the horror of
soul-solitude, there will be a consolation in the
remembrance that you, Mnry, a child-stranger,
once looked into my face, while other strangers
were passing around us, and found something to
trust.
Columbia, S. C.
The Plan to Rescue John Brown.
The idea of an extensive combination to rescue
John Brown has been greatly ridiculed by
the Black Republican journals, and the prompt
and vigorous precautions of Governor Wise made
the subject of much affected merriment. It now
turns out that, beyond all doubt, a combination
existed of sufficient magnitude to warrant the
steps which were taken by the late Executive,
and it was through the performance of his duty
that the most dangerous andformidable insurrectionist
in the United States did not escape the just
penalty of his mimes. We gave in yesterday's
paper the remarks of Andrew Hunter, Esq., who
prosecuted Brown at Charlestown, before the
joint committee of the Assembly on the Harper's
Ferry affair. None who know Mr. Hunter, will
be likely to question the soundness of his judgment
any more than the integrity of his character.
He says that the report of five hundred
men being organized in the mountains, was first
given by a member of the Pennsylvania House
of Representatives, and afterwards so confirmed
as to leave no doubt of the fact The spies reported
the organization, and Mr. Hunter was
enabled to find it out within forty-eight hours
.fter the intended rescue was giren up. It if
emarkable that it was then, for the first time
hat John Brown agreed to see bis wife ! Whei. I
he first proposed to come hiB language was. >
For God's sake, do not come here !' It will be
-emembered that, at last, John Brown himself
admitted that there had been a plan for his ressue,
and that it had only been given np on acsocnt
of the overwhelming amount of military
'orce which was concentrated at and abuut
Jharlestown.
% ^ _
For the Yorkvflle Enquirer.
NON-INTERCOURSE.
Heart. Editors: In response to your patriotic
suggestion in the EKQCiam of the 6th instant.
[, as a merchant, take this method of speaking s
few words to my brethren in the trade of our
District, on the subject of 'non-intercourse.'
I have never yet bought a bill of goods in the
Northern markets ; and have at the same time
competed successfully with those who did; and
now, since the great masses of the North have
proven themselves to be our enemies in reality,
[ have come to the positive conclusion that I
never will. Even should it be argued that it is
more profitable to bay goods at the North, then
[ reply that I would much rather try to live on
shorter profits and be independent, than to luxuriate
in wealth and be made the instrument to
sontribute to Northern aggrandizement.
The merchants of several Districts of the State
have pledged themselves not to trade at the
North. Let us do the same, and my word for it.
whenever the South shall patronize Charleston,
then Charleston will patronize the European
markets. Yours, Respectfully,
JOHN G. DAVIDSON.
Bullook's Creek, S. C.
CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE.
Chbstzb, January 24,1860.
Last week, I made some remarks on the sub
jeot of 'non-interoourse,' which just now seems
to be a 'popular subject,' and from all the arguments
I have heard and read lately, I am fully of
the opinion that those merchants who seem determined
not to give a helping hand to their own
section towards commercial independence, will
find that they have mistaken the prevailing sentiment
of the whole South. There is a feeling
of patriotism in the public mind, which rises
above a few 'dollars and cents'?which will make
itself felt. I hear that merchants make the remark,
that their 'customers care not where the
goods oome from, so that they can buy them
cheap; and the idea in the country is, that New
Fork is the place to buy goods.' But those who
are trusting to such a false idea just now, are
depending too much upon a want of patriotism
and sectional pride. There is not a citizen from
the country that I have conversed with, who
would not make a sacrifice to help build up
Commercial independence.
If there existed no hostility to onr institutions
the North, it would be wrontr to allow the
South to become so dependent upon that section,
or any other, in commercial and financial matters.
In 1857, the failure of one banking house, put
in motion a crisis which swept over the whole
South, and nearly the whole world.
Some good men are now influenoed in their
feelings as to encouraging a separation of the
Southern States from the North, because it
wonld caase a financial crisis. Our Banks hare
to keep a large part of their capital in New York,
to be able to furnish cash for those who buy
goods, every where North of Charleston. Many
Southern Banks have to keep so much capital
in the city of New York, that when it is not
wanted as exchange, they loan it out there, and
shave paper to a large extent. Southerners'
money loaned to New York merchants and speculators,
when our own business men are perhaps
"hard-op I" But this will always be the case,
while all onr merchants continue to run to that
point to bay their goods and spend tbeir money
at the hotels, theatres, resaturants, &c.
There is where the money is wanted and there
it will centre, so long as the goods nsed in the
country must come from that point Our Legislature
may pass stringent laws to prevent oar
Banks from suspending specie payment, bat so
long as New York continues to be the great com oercial
and financial emporium, much will defend
npon the financial operations at that place.
Vith sufficient Southern Bank oapital centered
in New York to pay for all the goods shipped to
the South, Southern Banks will always be effetted
by Bank failures and suspensions there.
Suppose all the Banks in New York were to suspend
now, and all the Southern money be locked
np vhich has been sent there, what would the
Somheru Banks do ? Suspend, of course.
Tiese are some of the reasons why we should
mak< an effort to become independant in Commercial
and financial matters, even were onr
righb respected. Bat does it not become a high
duty n every citizen to help break off from a
??? ??h ova wkmnlfl/1 uftaft a
DvVMVI TTUCIC UUI nguvo ?iv ?i ?iui|/ivu uyvuj auu
when it is considered a duty to deprive as of oar
properly at e7ery hazard ?
We rotice the assembling of 'Union meetings,'
as theyare called, and we hear Southern merchants
relering to them as signs of a retaining
sense of justice to their rights; bat if we depend
on jasticf retaining to as without fighting for it
in the rijfatway, we are only destiaed to disappointment.
But as Mr. Memminger in his address
to tie Virginia Legislature says, 'can we
be satisfied with even the sentiment of those
'Union meetings!' Do they not set out by saying
that slavery is a sin,' and that no more
slave statej are to be admitted;' and do they
not, all?Ution men, Democrats, Black Republicans
and .Abolitionists?agree upon one point,
that we have to snbmit to Northern rale, no matter
what it nay bo, without daring to withdraw
from them, aid take our rights in oar own keeping
? They ill say they will whip us into the
Union, if we tare to go oat 1 They all act upon
the same primiple exhibited by the fellow, who
had another sleeping in the sane bed with him.
He first began to take more thi.n his share of the
bed and coveriig, and kept on, until the one who
began to give way found he had no room, and
remonstrated, bit without affecting anything.?
He at last said h? would leave, but he was told,
no. He still remonstrated, and determined to
get out and leave, but the asurper had become
bold, and said he should remain where he was,
'to keep his back varm!' This is where we are
now. We are told we shall lie still, for about
the same purpose. Now, where is the man who
will not kick a little before he will agree to act |
n \f? \fnnor.nn*?r for nna whn lias no res.
j ect for our rights?
Let us make one effort to become independent
of oar enemies. Thi time will soon come, when
the South will have ;o look to her own ports for
her own trade; and we may as well begin at
once. There will be a separation, peaceably or
otherwise, and the ssoner, the better for us.?
Then let our Southern merchants begin to givo
their trade to Southern cities, and it will help
to build up our comqercc. If some merchants
are so fond of patronising the North, let the people
see to it, that those who buy goods at Southern
ports are supports ; and in this way, the
trade will soon turn in the right direction. There
is patriotism enough al\ over the country to put
the ball in motion. Letit begin this Spring, and
keep it up.
Chester Market.?Cotton has been coming
in pretty freely for the past week. Some 600
balos have been sold at prices ranging from 6}
to 10.}?very little at thelattcr figure.
Groeeritt.?N. 0. Sugar, 10 to 11; Refined.
11} to 12}; Crushod Loaf, 14. Coffee?Rio, 134
to 14; Java, 18 to 19. Molasses?Now Orleans",
65 to 68; West India, 40. Rice, $4 per bushel.
Salt $1 76 per sack.
Corn, from wagons, $1 far bushel; Flour, $3
per hundred pounds. ' Yours, J.
South Carolina.
It is the chronic custom of a clans of our Black
Republican witlings to sneer at Sooth Carolina
is a gasconading, rhodomontade, fuss and feathers
Commonwealth, as impotent in deeds as she
8 big in words, and as infirm of will as she is
ferocious in temper. Perhaps mon who talk so
taow better, bot if there is any considerable por;ion
of the servile population of the Palmetto
State, as ignorant as its rerilers, their masters
nught to make them a present of their freedom.
With South Carolina's political views, we, as independent
journalists, have nothing to do. They
may be right, or they may be wrong; but we
never witness an effort to bring them inro contempt
as a people, without the most profound
contempt for those who make the effort. The
history of South Carolina, in every war in this
country, exhibits as much patriotism, self-sacrifice
and courage as the annals of any State or
nation in the world. To those who pretend that
she has degenerated, we beg leave to point to the
?nn<tnnt nf ?hn Smith Carolina Rcsiment in Mex
[qo, which was never surpassed in heroism by
tho most desperate exploits of the Zonavea in
Italy. We do not mean generally to demonstrate
rhe courage of Sonth Carolina. Heaven forbid!
We shonld as soon think of proving that the sun
jhines If she is a Bantam in size, as her enemies
report, she has plnck enough to meet all the
3haoghais between here and China. When,
however, the Black Republican journals represent
her as impotent, ignorant and eorrapt, they
are guilty of a perversion of facts which every
man who respects truth or the dignity and honor
of his country, ought to rebuke. If South Carolina
were an impoverished State it wonld be no
detriment to her dignity, but her great staples
make her one of the wealthiest Commonwealths
of the Upion. She deserves universal respect
for having stood firm as a rock against the ridiculous
and demoralizing constitutional reforms, as
they are called, which bid fair in the end to
cpnvert most of the States of the Union into organized
mobs, and lead first to anarchy, and
then to a military despotism. All this may be
an additional reproach to Sooth Carolina in
Black Republican eyes, but we respect her the
more for it. They may call her an Oligarchy.
Suppose she is ? Does her Oligarchy hurt them f
Do her own people complain of Oligarchy ? Is not
an Oligarchy better than a mob? We trusts.
Carolina will never sacrifice her rational and respectable
government for that insane radicalism
which is the rot in the heart of oar American
oak, that will one day bring down its stately
form And branching glories to the dost. But,
after all, the national character of a country
must depend npon the individual character of its
people. How can snch a people as the South
Carolinians are individually, be collectively a
community of imbecilities and traitors? There
is not a more intelligent, refined and highly educated
class of men in America than the Statesmen
and scholars of 8oath Carolina ; and as to
the morals of the people, the single fact that
there never has been a divorce in the State, sinoe
the foundation of the government, is enough.?
Yet it is such a State, that the pure and immaculate
mercinaries of Black Republicanism make
the constant target of their ribald jokes. Why
don't they go to Sooth Carolina and express their
sentiments? As John Brown said of Henry
Ward Beeoher's sermon on* slavery*; Why don't
he come here and talk that way ??Richmond
Dispatch.
Charleston Trade.
The New York correspondent of the Mobile
Register, in a recent letter, says:
I must ask your attention, to a singular coincidence
of what Helper says was done in Charleston,
and what, according to the Mercnry of the
14th, will be done again. The Charleston merchants
sign a card; among other things they
state this:
'AH of us desire, as far as practicable, to become
commercially in lepondent of the North.?
We hare no desire to underrate the energy and
enterprise of the merchants of Northern Okies,
bat we olaim to be able to supply good* on as
favorable terms, both to price and credit, as
the merchants of any city in the Union. We
bare facilities for obtaining good* from Europe
not surpassed by any, and our importations from
abroad arc very large, notwithstanding the reports
to the contrary, circulated by those who
hare no knowledge of what they affirm, or whose
interest prompts them to mislead. American
goods we obtain from the North on as favorable
terms as any jobbing merchants of the northern
cities.'
Of oonrso they can, if bnyers will only think
so. This very Helper says so. Hear him,
though an enemy. Pick up truths, no matter
who drops them, is my motto. Page ten of the
Coropeudium says:
An old gentleman, now residing in Charleston,
told us but a short while since, that he had a distinct
recollection of the time when Charleston
imported foreign fabrics for the Philadelphia
trade, and when, on a certain ooeaeioa, his mother
went into a store on Market street to select a
silk dress for herself, the merchant, unable'to
please her fancy, persuaded her to postpone the
selection for a few days, or nntil the arrival of a
new stock of superb styles and fashions which
he bad recently purchased in the metropolis of
Sonth Carolina. This was all very proper.?
Charleston had a spacious harbor, a central po
sition, and a mild climate and from priority of
settlement and business connections, to say nothing
of other advantages, she enjoyed greater,
facilities for commercial transactions than Philadelphia.
She had a right to get custom whenever
she conld find it, and securing so valuable
a customer as the Quaker City, she exhibited no
small degree of laudable enterprise.
I was never aware of the fact before. 'A distinct
recollection wonld not probably embrace a
period more distant than fifty years! Why
should not Charleston again lead in commerce ?
At least, if she can import for northern merchants,
she can for the vast interior tbat finds
ontlot at Charleston.
A Singular Fact?Roadt Marked!?A gentleman
whose character is entirely beyond donbt,
and who vouches himself for the fact stated, informs
us that in Coffee and the adjoining coonties,
within the past few weeks, all the principal
roads have been marked, all precisely in the
same way, by notching the trees along them;
the marks being always on some road lading to
a steamboat landing or to the Golf, and, in some
instances, continuing for aixty miles. The uniformity
of the marks (three parallel, horixontal
scrapings, equidistant from each other) leads to
the belief that tbey have been made by some instrument
specially adapted for the purpose.?
Tbe singular part of the affair is, that no one
living on any of the roads knows anything of the
marking; no settler has ever seen anyone engaged
in marking the trees; and yet the amount of
labor and time expended in it most have been
very considerable indeed. The inhabitants have
their own surmises, which it is needless here to
give; bnt our informant requests us to call attention
to the fact, to asoertaiu if similar marks
have befen noticed in other localities.?Montgomery
Mail, 19tA.
Columbia Market.
Columbia, January 23.
Cotton.?The sales for the week amount to
1,494 bales, at fbll prices. Extremes 701Ojc.
Flour.?The market has advanced since our
last weekly report. Wc quote $3J@?3 j sack
of 98 lbs. Extra family would command a shade
higher.
Corn.?The market remains steady. We
quote $1.1O0$1.15 per bushel of 56H>s., according
to quality.
Oats.?Scarce, at 75@80o.
Peas.?Scarce, at $1@$1.05.
Bacon.?Country hog round 11 ?@12; 8ides
11?@12; Shoulders 9@9?; Hams I3@15jt.
CONSIGNEES BY KING'S MOUNTAIN B. BO AD
From the 18th to the 34th of January 1860.
Meaoham & Wheeler, James Jefferys, H. W.
A E. H. Fallenwider, Darwin & Jetferys, B. T.
Wheeler, Carroll, Clark & Co., Wm Curtis, S. P.
Leads, Coward & Jenkins, J. M. Anderson, G.
Steele, Crayton, Lemons & Co., Black & Borders,
M. Jenkins, E. M. Law, C. L. Young, A.
Stillwoll, Adams, McCorkle & Co., H. B. Briggs,
Moore, Rainey & Co., D. A. Gordon. Dickson A
Webb and J. Jenkins.
Advertising.?A New York correspondent of
tlin Caii/A Cnsrr\ J i mi sin cava
If the grand re action, now going on, isia good
faith and of sufficient extent, all may yet be
well, bat if the aggressions continue, the Union
cannot and mast not last. Ten yean, and we
will be two people! Home Importations and
home manufactures is now the word; push it orf;
here is where we benefit ourselves, and, at the
same time, touch'the Yankees. Bat I don't see
much improvement in the advertising columns.
Where arc your notices of Southern manufactures
? But I should remember that it is only
the Yankee who knows how to advertise.
"J
Hail Columbia.?Mr. Nelson, an eloquent*
inember.of Cougress from Tennessee, whose first
rpeechilfcthe House of Representatives made
*uch an Impression in that body, lately delivered
uu address iu Baltimore which was received with
great enthusiasm. Mr. Nelson drew a fine fancy
picture of two armies, North and South, approaching
each other, and just as they are abont
to olose a deadly fray, the muslo of 'Hail Columbiacoming
from the bands of both armies, arI