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Scraps & jfarts. Samuel B. Massey has been nomi- : nated for the State Senate from Lancaa- ; ter District, and Messrs. Danl. M. Brown and John R. Welsh for the House, from the same District. Mr. Wm. Rea has been appointed U. S. mail agent on the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad, vice D. L. Rea, resigned. The former gentleman has entered upon the duties of his offioe.?Charlotte Bulletin. The New York Day Book says of Spurgeon, the sensation preacher: He has a huge voice, a great deal of brass, a smattering of learning, a subdued vulgarity, burly figure, a butcherly head, a bigoted soul, a little mind, and he is an Abftllrinnifit ...... The Charleston Convention happens on the birthday of President Buohanan, and the Chicago Convention on the birthday of Gen. Scott. The Committee of the Union National party have called their convention on the 12th day of April, the birthday of Henry Clay. Efforts are making to hold the Convention at Lexington, Kentucky, the home of Clay. A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature, providing that no person convicted of a capital offence shall be executed until the expiration of one year from the time of such conviction, and not then until the Governor shall issue his warrant ordering such execution. In the meantime the convict is to be subject to solitary confinement and hard labor until the day of his execution. A gentleman of this city requests us to invite, and we do hereby invite all persons in Montgomery, who posseses copies of the sermons of the notorious English Abolitionist^ Spurgeon, to send them in to the jail yard, to be burned on next Friday (this day week). A subscription is also on foot to buy of our book-sellers all copies of said sermons now in their stores, to be < burned on the same occasion. Montgomery Mail. The Tallahassee Floridian says that ' - "r "?> 11-- a ?a. J x. toe ivev. James .reeier nas jusi; reiurneu io the city, having sold the patent right of his plough and manure distributor for 12 States for the sum of two hundred and fifty-one thousand dollars in notes and cash. He has donated two hundred thousand dollars for churoh purposes, thirty-six thousand of which are for taking scholarships in colleges . under the care of the Methodist Episcopal , Church South, hoping that some young men , " will be educated for the ministry to bless the Church and his country. , ,-The plans for the construction of a . monster steamship, to exceed in capacity, i speed and security, every other vessel afloat, 1 the Great Eastern not excepted, has been 1 submitted to the citizens of Buffalo, N. Y., by a mechanical genius named Bollins Gur- rained A committee, of which ex-President 1 Fillmore was chairman, has examined the < designs and reported favorable thereon.? ! It is said that if the steamship is built, it ? wil^l cause an entire revolution in steam 1 marine architecture. 1 (} iff Kimball, the United States ! Consul at St. Helena, has obtained one of the original stones from the tomb of Napo- ^ leon I, as a contribution to the National Monument at Washington. It was put on board the U. S. steamer Mystic, which left! St. Heleua Jan. 4th, for the coast of Africa, and would probably be transferred to f the U. S. storeship Relief\ bound home.? Louis Napoleon, the present Emperor of France, gave his consent to the removal of the stone to Washington. Its removal was ' witnessed by several French and American 1 officers, in company with Mr. Kimball. While on a recent visit to the old chapter house of the Cheshire Cathedral, J England, the Hon. R. C. Winthrop, of , Boston, saw two standards, somewhat bat- ( fcered and torn, suspended over the doors. , On enquiry he was told that they were the j standards of the Cheshire regiment and ( that they were used in America, at a cer- , tain battle called Bunker Hill, where, it is ] said, only three of the regiment escaped ( without injury of some sort. The keeper , said it was understood that the Americans , got behind some sort of fence or ledge where , they could shoot others without being hit i themselves. i Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen, na- 1 tive of New Jersey, and now Chancellor of the University of New York, who stood a | good chance fifteen years ago of being President of the United States, took to himself a wife two years ago, at the ripe age of seventy-two, (himself and not the wife,) and last week he had born to him a son and heir. He will probably name the boy after himself, Theodore meaning God-given? it will certainly be appropriate. Such instances of 'better late than never' are not very common, but there have been some very remarkable cases. Sir Stephen Fox, the father of James Fox, was married at the age of eighty, and was afterwards blessed with three sons. Mr. Frelinghuysen is now mr.rried for the second time. He had do children by his first wife. We had the pleasure of meeting an Alabama merchant in our city Saturday, # . :? r ni 1?l? u? ? jnst reiUroiug irum vuuiicoluu. iie uus purcbaned bis CDtire stock of spriDg and summer goods in tbat city, and represents that he found every thing necessary to com- i plete it and without any difficulty. Sever- j al other merchants arrived with himself, and determined to supply themselves there, if the city could equal their demands. He; informed us that the merchants of Charles-; ton were importing heavy stocks of goods J in anticipation of a general patronage from the Southern States, and unless their expectations should be realized, they will necessarily suffer the consequence of serious j losses. After the great hue and cry iu the South about non-intercourse, the Charleston merchants have a right to expect that their efforts to establish Southern independence will be met with due encouragement from Southern merchants. It remains dow for, the latter to show to the world, and particularly to our political enemies, and the endorsers of the renegade Helper's infamous book, whether all their talk and resolutions shall amount to something, or turn out, as usual, to be nothing more substantial than 'sound and fury, signifying nothing.' The i South has stultified itself long enough, and j we hope for once, that it will show its in- , dependence and determine to rely on its own j incomparable and inexhaustible resources. , If it refuses to encourage Charleston after; the care and expense outlaid by her merch- j ants to meet the Southern trade, we may as well be resigned at once and for all time, j to a permanent and irretrievable vassalage, to the North.?Columbus /Sun. 1 For the Yorkviile Enquirer. MESSAGES OF THEE?A SONG. BT JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON. [ strolled *mld the haunts where thy childhood had played, And aronnd me were strangers as musing I strayed. They stared at my loneness nor deemed there could be In scenes such as those aught a stranger would see. [ sought the lone beechen tree down in the dell; [t smiled as if teeming with something to tell ; And the stream that flowed near it sang fondly and free With messages murmuring, Callisto, of thee. The path seemed to greet me ; the sands near the stream Were whiter and brighter as part of my dream; The hills o'er the way and the valleys that day All welcomed me, dear one, though thou wast away. I ne'er was there with thee, low breathing to thee, Yet they knew it?path, valley, and streamlet, and tree. Men deemed not, nay dreamed not; while I lonely could hear But "Callisto, Callisto," from everything near. Columbia, S. C. ffjitftorMe (6prer edited by SAM'L W. MELTON WM. W. EAST. o contributing editor: JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON...-Columbia, S. C. YORKVILLE, S. C. THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23,1860. Special Notice.?All communications, on matters connected with the paper, should be addressed to "The Yorkville Enquirer and not to the Editors or Proprietor, personally. Persons desiring prompt attention to their favors, most bear this in mind. Capt. D. D. Moore, Moj. Mtles Smitii, 8amuel G. Brown, J. L. Thompson, and Samuel J. Kuykendal, of York; John R. Allen, Post Master at Chester, S. C.; Joseph Walker, 120 Meeting-street, Charleston, S. C.; and William D. Cook, of Bennettsville, are authorized agents of the Enquirer. PUBLIC ADDRESSES. We have been requested to state that there will be several addresses at the Female College Chapel this morning, at 10J o'clock. The public are respectfully invited to attend. OUR FIRST PAGE. The chapters of 'Star,' which we present to the reader this week, are full of interest; and show the skill and splendor of Mrs. Denison's genius in depicting the darkest and strongest passions of the heart. It is the beauty of this 9tory that it anticipates nothing, while it grows in interest to the olose. Oor readers will per- j seive that it ends with next week's issue; and tre feel assured, they will join with us in expressing regrets and well-wishes at the present farewell of the accomplished authoress. After the 'Star' sets, we will commence immeliately, the publication of lEvan Dhu, or the Foundling,' by Mrs. M. Ritchik?a stirring tale of the days of Wallace and Bruce. Those wishing this story should subscribe at once, as we will not provide any back-numbers. 'Laughing Lizzie' handles her cheerful theme ?'Never say die'?in a very lively and sparking manner. Her philosophy is very hopeful md gladdening; and penetrates the heart like sunbeams. 'B.ubt'?we imagine all our readers feeling glad 1?again occupies his place in our columns. His articles on 'Gloves' will be found 'precious is rubies.' Don't forget to read them. Temperance by 'W.', is a strong article, full >f thought, like all of that writer's productions, [t is worth reading several times. 'Harry Hawthorn,' a new name to our read:rs, occupies the poet's corner in some delicate ind dainty verses to 'The Fairest Flower.' Indeed, the reader will find the whole of the irst page unusually interesting this week. THE LOVE OF HOME. You mav take a sea-shell, and put it to the ear: ind you will hear a low, tremulous music, echong through all its mazes. It moans for its native sea. On the mountain-top, in the desert, or in die palace or cottage, wherever you find it, the same sad music, breathing its love for the sea, His its rosy chambers. So, you may lay your iead on the bosom of a stranger, and feel its throbbings after Home. You may give him pour confidence, yourfriendship, your love even ; still, he who has been torn from the home of his shildhood and youth, where a thousand sunny memories make every object dear, will sometimes long to go back to the sacred spot, and dream of what has been. He may travel the world over; yet, amid the roar of Niagara or the thunders of Etna, under the lofty dome of St. Peter or standing by the pyramids, a soft and precious thought of Home will blend with the highest emotions which these scenes awaken in his breast. 'There is no place like home.' The play grounds where we sported in youth; the trees in whose cool shades we rested; the brooks where we fished and bathed in the summer-time; and the meadows where we watched the flocks and gathered wild flowers: all these are invested with a beauty which no other grounds, trees, brooks and meadows ever possess. But the old Home itself?the house?is the centre of all that is endearing and lovely in the scenes of the past.? The place where a mother's love, a father's guardian care, a brother's companionship and a sister's tenderness were ours, is 'privileged beyoud the common walks of life, quite on the verge of heaven.' Yes ! the poet sang truthfully and sweetly, though in an humble strain : "Through pleasure* and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home." Why is this ? Why are the scenes and associtions of childhood more attractive than all oth ers ? Simply because children are the best philosophers and poets; because they live best, and are best. Their hearts are free; their spirits are buoyant and hopeful; they are trustful and confiding. They look upon the blue skies and love them. They look upon the rosy clouds of sunset and say 'that is mine.' They look upon the rainbow, and feel that it blooms from the clouds to gladden their little hearts. Tkoy listen to the caroling of the birds and say 'they sing for me ;' to the prattling brooks, and say 'they flow for me;' to the bleating lamb, and say 'it crys for mv sympathy and protection.' In this way the child becomes one with nature, and all outward things have a power to reach its heart. It looks with a natural eye on things around it, and hence sees deepest into their meaning and beauty. Before the artificial customs and conventionalities of society have warped its tastes and chilled its sensibilities, the child sees something to attract and delight it in everything. Before the world has learned it to mistrust, and to calculate coldly, the child's heart is a full fountaiu of confiding love, unsuspecting iunocence and natural sympathy. 'To the pui-c in heart, all things are pure': and hence the eye that sees for the uncorrupted soul of childhood, sees nothing but beauty on the fair and loving face of all creation. Thus it is that the scenes of youth have a power through life to I call the wanderer home. Do you blame the young bride for shedding a tear, even on the altar of conjugal love ? Remember, she is giving up home and kindred, breakiug ties as strong as bands of brass, to go with a comparative stranger to new scenes and a new home. Blame her uot, if in the great hour of her life, she weeps to leave the sceues of better acd brighter days. WLtSf What makes the old man, who has lived for b years in a distant land, long to return to his p birth-place ? He has struggled with untamed nature and wrung & fortune, perhaps, from the o virgin soil of the great West. Has not the hard b toil of long years banished from his mind the t scenes of childhood and youth ? No! When his d head is gray and his form is bowed, the 'love of a home,' which has followed him through all life's d changes, whispers to him to take his staff and C return to 'the graves of the household.' You c see him amidst the relics of the past?himself a 1, relic; he weeps for joy; he smiles in tears; the B shadows and sunlight of a thousand sorrows and i delights chase each other over his countenance. c Memory, though treacherous in all things else, . is faithful here; the heart is full, burdened, 1 overflowing with the scenes, the vivid scenes, 8 of the past. ] No natural affectior more fruitful of good r than this love of hom> It is the essence of -y that unrevealed relig *hich dwells within, ( **""" <n niifl A/1 fltfl aKaItA. _ UCiUlC IUO JIUUUU UC?1 U IB SllUGU nnu wu vu..- L damp of sin and infidelity. For this reason he c did not blaspheme, who said that father and f mother are the child's God; and, we may add, , home is the temple of the little worshiper. This love is strong as death?stronger, and it- { self deathless. Itinapires patriotism, generosity, ( magnanimity. It leads to great thoughts, great r resolves, great execution. It tends largely to j the cultivation of the ideal, and hence to the pro- < motion of happiness. That union and comming- . ling of affection, which is best known in homes, is a wedding of the soul to 'a joy forever.' The old song hasaworldof wisdom in its mellow rhymes: "Hearts and homes, sweet words of pleasure, Music breathing as they fall; < Each to each the other's treasure, Once divided losing all I" I THE SOUTHERN CONVENTION. ' The gallant and patriotic State of Mississippi is the first to respond to the wishes of South Carolina in regard to a Southern Convention.? ' The two bodies of her Legislature 'met in joint convention on the 9th instant, and selected the following gentlemen to represent the State in the Atlanta Convention; Samuel S. Boyd, of Adams; Wyley P. Harris, of Hinds; A. M. Clayton, of Marshall; Samuel J. Gholson, of Monroe ; W. R. Hill, of Yazoo; Henry Dickinson, of Lowndes ; Hiram Cassedy, of Franklin.' In case of the appointment of commissioners by a few of the other Southern States, what action, it is asked, can be taken by this State ?? ' Shall the Governor appoint commissioners, or j transfer the responsibility to the Legislature? i The great end aimed at by the State is a conven- 1 tion of all the Southern States ; and the design J of meeting with a part oDly should, we think, be subject to the action of her Legislative body. What seems to us most wanting at the South, just at this time is union, harmony, concerted action. Without this her strength is broken; her friends dispirited ; her enemies emboldened. The object of the South Carolina resolutions to Virginia, is to accomplish this unity of purpose; and, we think, her Executive would be taking a heavy responsibility upon himself to appoint delegates to a convention of only a few of the Southern States. He may, however, delegate commissioners to meet them all in convention, whenever it may please his Excellency. So we think. But what hope hffve we of any such convention ? Maryland will not be there; Virginia and Texas, in all probability, will not unite with us. Tennessee, Kentucky and Misouri are not likely to come. We are divided among ourselves on j this important movement. We see no dawn, no f sunrise, in the direction of a Southern conven- j tion. , HYPNOTISM. Some seventeen years ago, Dr. James Bbaid, of Manchester, England, published a book on the Rationale of nervous sleep, considered in relation with animal magnetism,' in which he de scribes a method of producing nervous sleep or insensibility, which he calls Hypnotism. The method is, to hold a small bright object from ten to twenty inches from the eyes, and in such a position that the eyes must bo turned inward and slightly upward to look at it. The eyes and the mind of the subject must both be fixed upon the object. By these means, in from one to several minutes, according to the temperament of the person, a state of insensibility may bo produced, during which teeth may be extracted, arms cut off, cancers cut out, and the most violent surgical operations performed without any pain. This subject, which seems to have attracted but little attention for a number of years after the appearance of Dr. Braid's book, has been lately revived with sigual success in France.? The Paris correspondent of the Field and Fireside, mentions many cases in which this method has been effectually applied. At the conclusion of his last letter, having given the facts of a certain case, that writer makes the following sensible remarks: "The report is as thoroughly authenticated in all its derails as nnything can humanly be. I trust that you will not consider this brief summary of its essential facts out of place in your journal. The field and fireside, the family in 1 fine, have deeper interest in this matter than the hospital and the doctors. Animal magnetism, spiritual magnetism, nervous maladies and men- j tnl maladies, superstitions, marvels, exaggera- ' ted facts, invented fictions, foolishly sneering < unbelief and foolishly gobbling credulity, infideli- j ty and insanity, all arc attached in tangled imbroglio to this matter, thanks to the vanity of 1 scientific physiologists, who persistently decline a patient investigation of physical facts, that seem to be contradictory to their physical laws. And thus they leave full play to the unscientific i ignorant, to the superstitious and to the charla- ] tans, to confound the uncoinprehended natural with the supernatural, the extraordinary with the miraculous. If I dwell too long and too 1 earnestly on this theme, let my apology to you i and your readers be that I have this very week seen practical thaumaturgy going on by whole- , sale ; the most extensive sort of miracle-work- j ing going on in the face of believing thousands, , no longer ago than yesterday and day before, in , this city of Paris." j mere-.uk.v'tioji, i The Maryland House of Delegates, with only ' one dissenting voice, has adopted resolutions con- ' demniug the course of IIenhy Winter Davis in J voting for Pennington, the Black Republican | Speaker elect of the House of Representatives. A large uuuuu lavivrjf, uapnuiii ui iuu- | ning 2,500 spindles, has just been put in opera- i tion at Jefferson City, Louisiana, by Mr. L. N. < Lane, of New Orleans. At present the manu- 1 facture will be confined to cotton yarns. , Col. Colt has made an offer of one hundred rifles to the Italians; nud Gariraldi in reply, ( in a very graceful and grateful note of thanks, has accepted them. The citizens of Ander- ( son county, Texas, have held a public meeting i and burnt a number of incendiary publications. , It is stated that Mr. T. J. Green, of Warren County, N. C., will give fifty dollars premium for the best, and twenty-five for the second best kegs of powder, made in that State, at the next State Agricultural Fair. The Paris Univers was suppressed for publishing a letter from the Pope to the Archbishop of Paris, ] giving his reasons for refusing to accept the ad- , vice offered by Louis Napoleon. The loading merchants and influential men at Galveston, Houston, Austin and San Antonio, have entered i heartily into a plan for direct trade between Bel- i gium and Texas. Edward Everett wrote the article on Hallam in the eighth volume of the American Euycloptedia; Prof. Felton that on I Greece, as well as the one on Grote. The Sandy River Division (Chester) of the Sons of ] Temperance, have made arrangements for cele- \ rating, in a becoming manner, the 26th of the resent month. Several addresses are expected. The Chester Standard says: A good deal f sickness prevails in onr town at present, and ome deaths have occurred. Mr. Robt. Melon died at his residence in this place, on Tuesay morning at 9 o'clock in the 29th year of his ge. It is said that eleven out of the twelve elegates to the Charleston Convention, from lonnecticut, are in favor of Douglas. Acording to the report of the Assessor, the popuation of Kansas Territory is sixty-nine thousand line hundred and fifty. The cars on the rirginia and Tennessee Railroad, on the night if the 14th were precipitated into Holston river -the brakemin being killed, and the mail agent laving his arm broken. The accident was oocaioned bv a land slide. A bill to repeal the aw, protecting slavery in New Mexico, has been ejected by th at Legislature, without a dissenting 'oice. The Augusta Ditpatch says: "The )hio, Tennessee, and Kentucky Legislatures are tow bound together by the same indissoluble tie if friendship which united Tam O'Shanter and iouter Johnny. 'They have been drunk for veeks together." The Hon. P. Rush Flotd, a brother of the Secretary of War, died suddenly in Washington, m the night of the 15th, of heart disease. The Maryland Legislature has withdrawn its ?5,000 per annum contribution to the Colonizaion society?for the benefit of free negroes. A Burns' Club is forming in Charleston. THE FREE NEGRO. The condition of the free negro in the Southern States is certainly remarkable. It is not our lesign here to discuss the question what shall be 3one with this class; but simply to call attenion to the Bubject. A law has been passed in Arkansas, making it optional with them to leave the State, or be sold into slavery. Some of the )ther Southern States have been on the eve of mssing a kindred law. Yet, while this is the sase, the free-soil States, aw^ening to a sense )f the danger of flooding their limits with idle,. gnorant and t roublesome gangs of free-negroes, ire shutting their doors upon them. Petitions, ike the following, are said to be in circulation n Western Pennsylvania, for presentation to ;he Legislate! e of that State: 'To the Honorable, the Senate and ffouee of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in General Assembly met: "Your petitioners humbly represent that the apid growth of free negro population by imnigration, wi ;hin a brief period, is not only a jurden to your petitioners, by increasing detianda on our Door fund, but owinsr to their great ndolence and dissipation, they hare filled our irisons, thus increasing our taxes to an enornous extent The recent raid at Harper's Fer y will result in stringent laws by the Southern 3tates for the expulsion of free negroes from ;heir limits; to we must shortly have thousands nore of those unfortunate creatures thrown upon as, many of them in the decline of life, or otherwise incapacitated for labor. The exigency calls lpon your honorable body to adopt some measure :o prevent an increase of our already burdened sondition. If your honorable body has not the lower to prevent their emigration to this State, we would prefer a slave code." The Bentimont is evidently gaining ground in he North Went, that the influx of the 'colored jem'men' is dangerous. Humanity requires :hat~to be done, which will result in the greatest rood. They are upon our hands?what shall be lone with thorn. This is one of the questions hat, at present, needs the careful consideration )f every politician. EDITORIAL. INKLINGS. Rev. H. H. Dobant has been apppointed ay the South Carolina Conference, as agent to let in raising an endowment fund of $200,000 'or the Woffoid College. In a series of warm md eloquent articles to the Christian Advocate ae suggests an a plan to raise this fund, that a ionation of $25,000 connect the name of an inlividual donor, or the family name of a body of lonors with particular professorships, which will 'band them down in enviable association, ill covered over with glory and honor, to the la:est generation. This may be done by individuil donors, by families or by any number of persons combined.' We infer that in all cases the lonors will be allowed to name the professorship. Says the Washington States and Union : 'A Virginia member of the House of Represen atives, who numbers amongst his constituents lorae who have never seen or tasted the delicious jivalves, purchased a can of pickled oyster*? he package holding, perhaps, about a gallon? ind having them carefully enveloped and directid, appended his frank in one corner, and the jackage was conveyed to the Post-Office to start m its voyage to the mountains of Western Virginia." A fine illustration, really, of the frank ng privilege. The postal Bill embracing a clause for ;he abolishment of the franking privilege, some irae ago passed the Senate and went to the [louse. The House passed the bill, after rescindng the franking clause ; whereupon the bill reurned to the Senate. On Wednesday of last veek, the Senate receded from its amen Iraent, ibolishing the franking privilege, and passed the sill by nearly an unanimous vote. The President las since signed the bill, and it is now a law. After the passage of the postage bill, the Sentte took up a bill for the abolition of the frankng privilege, which passed with the opposition jfonly two Seiators. The bill cuts off all frank ng after the first of April, except to those to whom it is granted by name. Wc copy the following paragraph from die seventh annual Report of the State Superntendent of Common Schools of North Carolina, Mr. C. H. Wiley. This system of popular edujation has been adopted seven years, by our leighboring State. Mr. Wiley is almost enthusiastic in its praise: "The Common School system, though a common interest, is of special importance to those in moderate circumstances, and to mechanics ind other honorable laborers who may be con tinually called from place to place ; and no Slate institution is, therefore, so necessary to such as a system of schools which offers to them the means of educating their children wherever their interests may call them. Such an institution we have in our Common School system; and by guarding it wirh jealous care, and using all prop er means to promote its efficiency, the great and good State of North Carolina says to all the rast variety of true men of every rank and class necessary to constitute a prosperous and powerful Commonwealth, "that you are welcome here, and your wants appreciated : behold the schools erected for your children by my provident care, in every part of my wide domain where you may ;hoose to dwell in peace, under the authority of my equal laws !" No question in free governments is more difficult than that of educating the people rightly. It must be done, however, in order to the preservation of liberty; and the experience of one State may well become a part and parcel of the wisdom of another in all such cases. 'H,' the entertaing author of 'Midnight Musings' for the children in the Due West Telescope, takes for his last text the subject, The Dog will bite The Thief at night.' We have often enjoyed his droll, resistless humor in the lecture room ; for he is one of the professors of the college there. The following paragraph on 'the Dogs' shows one of his veins: "Some dogs are valuable for one thing and some for another, and a goodly number are good for nothing but to suck eggs and stick their uose into every pot and dish as soon as the cook turns her back, and to set up a dolorous howl when kicked or sooldcd for their misdemeanors. Some dogs could be very well spared, as the mangy hound, the sheep-killing mastiff, and the dirty, ugly, wooly little pug or lap-dog that the ladies in the upper tendom circles are so fond of nursing and entertaining with baby talk !" - Stephens and Hazlxtt, the last of the T larper's Ferry outlaws, hare been sentenced to r >e hang on Friday, the 16th of March. On donday of last week they were carried into s tonrt at Charlestown, to receive sentence from t: he jadge; and on being asked whether they s lad anything to say why sentence of death t; ihonld not be passed upon them, Stephens in a t irm and distinot voice, replied 'that he had, if a t pleased the court' Most of the testimony in p lis case was trne ; but in regard to that of one 1 >r two witnesses, stating that he wished the town and people, also, to be burned, he positively 5 lad never used any such language. He had no i bolt to find either with the treatment of the an- s :horities or the proceedings of bis trial. 'All s iad been done for him that he could reasonably i jzpect?his counsel had done his utmost, but he i appealed to the Court that as he had -extended e mercy to others he thought he might expect 1 some degree of meroy. But whatever his fate 1 might be, he would meet it as beoame a man, ( unshrinkingly.' >< t Hazlett's manner was agitated. He said that i the testimony against him was false, one witness i in narticular being mistaken. His identity was 1 not folly made oat As a prisoner, be bad bees i treated most kindly; and his counsel, Messrs. i Green and Botts, had done more for him than 1 Nothorn counsel could hare done. Since he had 1 seen Virginia and her people he viewed slavery i in an entirely new and different light. i Judge Kenny then proceeded to pass sentence i on the prisoners, which he did in the most feel- : ing and impressive terms. So the 16th of March will see conolusion of the Btrange, mad tragedy 1 of Harper's Ferry. i CONTRIBCTORIAL. Gen. John A. Alston Died in Winnsboro' on the 14th ingt To our ' wide circle of readers the news of his death is sad. To u?, who knew him closely, though for a brief period, in the daily relations of intimate life, it is more than sad. We know him only in the evening of his life; but over that evening the sunlight of his noble nature shed a radiance that endeared him to us all. His life had not been a smiling vernal day in its morning time, and the shades that hang around its sunset imparted a glory to the closing day that cloudless sunsets never have. His had peace. The year 1858 was the last of his public life. He spent it as President of the Mount Zion Collegiate Institute. We labored with him there ; and learned, among the arduous toils of that Institution, to appreciate his noble spirit as an officer, and to know his generous nature,?to regard him with honor as a teacher, and with affection as a man. To oar young heart he gave hope; and to our many errors, charity. If he ha4 a fault, it was in the way of a virtue?a too great leniency and mildness. It may not add to the grief of those who weep closest to his honored grave to know that the sorrow they feel finds an echo in hundreds of hearts out and yet farther to the boundaries of his acquaintance ; for all his acquaintances were frienda, save only those who would hate honor and virtue themselves. But to those who knew him as did the citizens 01 zora isisinci, we uueu out spent iu his praise. He was buried in the Methodist Church-yard in Winnsboro, on the 15th instant. Boo lea. We have been favored with a copy of Miss Pahdok'b last novel, "A Life-Struggle." Miss Pardoe is English. She published a volume of poems when she was thirteen years old, and since then?a good while?she has written probably a score of books; novels, tales, travels, and trash. She has lived in England, Portugal, and Turkey; and is now at home in Yorkshire, England. 'A Life-Struggle' is an attractive romance for those who wish the intenser and wilder passions stirred. The story is of the better life in England. The heroine loves one man and marries another, who dies and leaves her an interesting widow. The man she loves waits nnwedded till the hnsband of his Laura dies; bnt in the meantime he finds that the husband is his own father, and the barrier of the connection rises to stand forever be* tween himself and Laura. But this only after they have exchanged explanations of their mutual life-long love. To stand thus loving and thus Bevered is the Life-Struggle. She ascending the throne of her divine womanhood conquers and lives on. He, entombing bis heart within a cold exterior, lives on ; one of those isolated beings whom the many care not to call friend, one whose life is in memory only. They both, "They met no more, and she became in those dull after years That strangest thing we meet In life?a woman void of tears I And when they told her of his life, they spoko of him as one Too strongly wedded to a grief his pride revealed to none." The book has much in it that is striking, vivid, and strong?nothing we opine very original.? Family gossip abounds. A good many decidedly delicate issues are forced upon the mind, as one traces this never-did-run-smooth stream of illassorted love. Mr. Glass has the book on sale. " Wild Sporte in the South," by Whitehead, is ? -i ? J >i I a recent booK; bo is "man, morai ana j-nysicat, by the Rev. Dr. Jos. Jones. We don't know anything about either of them. Jere Clemens has a new novel just out, called "The Rivals," a tale of the times of Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. We have just received a copy of Aeschylus' from the Harpers. The Harpers are issuing the texts of the Classics now in uniform series, and 'Aeschylus' is one of the series of Greek. It is intended to be pure, popular and portable; and is very successfully all three. The page is clear and beautiful, carefully printed in Porsonian type. The volume contains only the text and index. We are glad to see so fine an American edition of the classics in so available a form.? Hitherto we have had to depend on Germany for similar works; and those who are too poor to invest half a fortune in a classical library?ourself for example?have had to import from the Leipsic publishing bouses. Our old demi-god friend, Aeschylus, appears to advantage in his cis-atlantic dress. Hoarse old PrometheuB storms as musically?sonorously and gloriously ?as in the olden garbs. Eve. Of course all of our readers of taste who visited Columbia any time this winter called at the Athenreum Rooms and saw the statue of Eve by Powers. If not, it was a mistake. The statue still remains on exhibition. It is there through the kindness of the owner, Col. JonN 8. Preston. To see it is worth a visit of a hundred miles.? For those who have not seen it?if any?we may say, that it is one of the finest works of one of the first sculptors of the present time. Pow ,r A T?..i iL, fTL^ ^ _ F.E3 18 a vermouier. I>Ul 111c suiiue. j.uc artist's ideal of a perfect woman stands there, in puris naturalibus; by which we mean the peculiar style of ladies' dress that preceded the figleaf fashion. It is six feet high. At least eight inches taller than Eves of onr day grow to be.? We have spent many a leisure hour in the presence of this "thing of beauty." Though we rather inclined to prefer the maiden perfections of the Greek Slave, when the two were exhibited together sorao years ago; still, in the absence of the lithe Greek maiden, we can accord a complete devotion to the Eden Mother. Glorious triumph of Art 1 We never weary of its pure divinity. Like the face of one we love, such beauty cannot pall. No vast wonder that Adam "did eat" of the fruit that was offered him by such bands as these! Verily, the hand that unmade us is divine, according to Powers. We have mentioned this in order to advise everybody to see the statue?everybody who can. It is in the Library Room of the Athenaeum.? 'here is 110 charge, we believe. Bow to its gto- p ions womanhood. ? We have a little anecdote to quit with?a very t mall incident, bat it strikes as as worthy a men- t ion. A planter on a small soale?a very small c cale, we believe?from somewhere in the viciniy was in town during the present winter some- 1 ime. He was accompanied by his daughter, j ,nd was in town for the purpose of selling his irodace and laying in supplies. The maiden? I 'sole daughter of his heart and hoase," an doubt j -held the horses, while the father traded aboat. j lome one, perhaps a merchant with whom he i ras trading, induced him to go up to see the tatae of Eve. He was delighted; and as soon i is he recovered from the astonishment of sack a evelation of loveliness, his paternal heart moBt laturally turned to his daughter. "Sally must iaa tfiia hv iincr 1" He sallied forth, and in a 'ew momenta returned with her. In his harry ie bad evidently not prepared her mind on the letails of the attraction to whioh he had thas taddenly summoned her. She found herself, mmediately on entering the apartment, directly n the presence of the marble Mother of Manlind. Her features lighted up in an instant, ind as qoiokly fell. She stood a moment, herself a statae of unsophisticated rusticity, in beautiful confusion. A very delicate flush, barely perceptible, mantled to her not-exaotly-Pariin brow; her glanoe fell to the floor; and she murmured, in a tone something like entreaty, ilmost inaudibly:?" Why, daddy, its naked." Personal. Florence Nightingale is said to be about publishing a book, "Notts on Nursing, What it is, and What it is not." From this we infer that her health is improved. She was born in Florence, Italy, and was named after the plaoe.? She is thirty seven years old. Dickens is 48 years old; Thackeray, 49; Tennyson, 50; Mrs. Norton, 62; Bulwer, 55 ; Mrs. Trollope, 73; Maynt Reid, 42; Lever, 54 ; Carlyle, 65; Walter Savage Landor, 85. Dr. Lieber is receiving the compliment of an appreciating aueuuuu iu vjcrmaujr. ui. mn>termaier is engaged in translating his "Civil Liberty" into Gernian. Dr. Mittermaier is a son of the celebrated professor M. of Heidelberg. Adelaide Oougenheim, celebrated in theatrical life, recently married a Mr. Frisby, in Macon, Georgia. At a recent grand reception given by Gen. Cass In Washington, the belle-ship was said to lie between "Mite Lane, the charming niece of the President, and the beantifnl Mrs. Keitt, of Sonth Carolina." Dr. Gibbet, of this city, is on a health trip to the tropics?is at present in Cnba. The Saturday Evening Post, Phil*. We regard this as one of the stannchest of oar literary weeklies. Oar own brilliant "Star" contributor, Mrs. Denison, is a constant contributor to the Pott. In the present week she has "Roget de Lisle, and the Marseilles Hymn," a story of stirring times. The Post is ably edited, and speaks out manfully on all subjects. LETTER FROM WILLIE LI OUT HE ART. Chableston, S. C., Feb. 20, 1860. Messrs. Editors .-Was there ever Buch a beautiful day as this ! I have thrown up the window sashes; unhinged the little green blinds; and,! from where I am Bitting, I can look out upon the calm bosom of the Ashley, flashing and sparkling in the sunlight as though every ripple were a wreath of diamonds. Here and there are the fishermen's canoes?some eleven in number; and within the range of vision are three barques, one brig and five schooners. In the foreground the shadows of eight sable rafts-men fall upon the glassy surface of the river, as with their lnn<? nnlflq and bended bodies, thev uree forward ~~0 ? - W the lazy mass of timber. Still nearer in the foreground, is the Battery, and the popnlar, White Point Garden with its white shell walks, its green beds, and its long rows of seats. In the background I can just discern the blue smoke curliDg up from the chimneys of the little cabins of the negroes on James' Island. Talking about the Battery and White Point Garden, I know that most people would prefer paying it a visit on a summer afternoon, when hundreds of beautiful ladies and handsome gentlemen promenade its walks and fill its benches; when hundreds of beautiful, and gaily-dressed children sport upon the green; when hundreds of carriages, in long processions, drive slowly and lazily along, and when the strains of the fine 'Palmetto Band' fill the hours of the dying day with the most delicious music. Others may prefer to visit it only upon moonillumided nights, when the whole harbor?away out to where the skies mingle with the waters? is flooded and glorified with moonbeams. But Willis?it's well for him that everybody don't know it!?lores to take a stroll around these 'diggins' almost any night in the year, whether it be moonlight or not, but especially in spring and summer. Now I do declare that it is too unfair and cruel on my part, but I must confess that very often I have no other motive in the world than an idle curiosity to watch the ac tions and listen to the conversation of coarting oonples. There!?its out now; and I don't care who knows it. Coarting! why, gentlemen, yon have not the remotest idea how much of it has been done on the Battery. It's saoh a capital place for one to sit with his sweetheart and talk love. Sometimes I am amused; at other times I have been affected almost to tears at what I have overheard; bat in either case, Willib never has, told, and never will repeat, what were the words which come upon his ears. No sirs 1 never. By the way, let me tell a little incident that oocarred here. An old gentleman, hailing from Kentucky, met yoar correspondent in King street one night last week, and before I was aware of his proximity to my person, selxed my hand with a vise-like grasp and said, in the most earnest tone of voice, 'My dear boy, how do you do ?? how's Emma and the baby ? when did you arrive ?' All this was said in one breath, while the old gentleman continued to press my hand almost to a jelly. As the novel writers would say, my feelings may be better imagined than described; but after a moments reflection I concluded that the stranger was an acquaintance of one of the family?in which there are several Emmas and babies?so I politely returned his greeting, and requested him to inform me more particularly to whom he alluded. Hear it, ye gods !?he said he alluded to my wife and my baby! I confess that the shock was almost too * ' " -* ? T naaw a twio_ much for me ; dui, ioriunaimy x n?o ucai t? bivv box at the time, and, consequently, supported myself against it. Matters were soon explained, however. The gentleman had mistaken me for one Harry Underwood of Kentucky. I managed, somehow or other, to get home ; and that terrible night I dreamed that I was advertising in the Enquires for a situation in some respectable family as a nurse. I declare, sirs, I have been feeling badly ever since. My wife and baby, indeed! No such good luck for WmtiE, my dear sirs. Valentine's Day has come and gone; and, as 1 expected and feared, I received several of those silly missives?eleven, I think?all of which I immediately deposited in the fire without opening. The oatsides of four of them looked very inviting, very beautiful and all that; but its my rule?and into the flames they went! Suppose that I had opened them. What would have been accomplished ? There are no names signed to Valentines; there is no possible way of finding out the sender, whatever may be the contents of the silly things. tW Parodi's Operatic Troupe numbering forty erfortners, will make their first appearance in bis city this evening. The opera to night is to ie Ernani. The Theatre has been engaged for heir performances; the Ravel Family having jo: :oncluded their engagement for the season. th The French Opera Comiqne will be here short- W y. I believe they will perform at Colombia before visiting this city. Robinson's Circus and Menagerie, according to advertisement, will be here next week with a fabulous nnmber of horses, wild beasts and men; ind will erect their 'spacious pavilion' on the 0j Ditadal Square. Sublime moral spectacle! y( Professor Lowe made quite a beautiful ascen- M aion in his balloon, 'Pioneer,' Saturday before ai last. He has made several attempts since, but Cl the weather has been unfavorable. It was his n intention to ascend this afternoon at two o'clock, y but it is now three, and I see nothing of the bal- a loon as yet. The skies have become -somewhat p clouded since noon; and, perhaps the Professor o fears a blow, as the wind is rather high. y A meeting was held last Thursday n'ght at St. | Andrews Hall for the purpose of forming a Burns f Club. It was well attended; and, after the delivery of several speeches, a committee was appointed to concoct a constitution for the association prior to the election of officers. The German Hussars, a new and spirited corps gave a Ball on the evening of Tuesday, 14th inst, t at the Hibernian Hall. I understand that it was ( quite a brilliant affair. The Costume Ball, which 1 alluded to in my {( last letter, came off on Monday night last. From ( candle-light to midnight almost, the street oppo- 1 posite the hall was crowded by lookers on, and * the city quite alive with the continual rush and , rumbling of carriages filled with ladies in the most magnificent costume imaginable. The ball 1 the affair of the season. Page's celebrated painting?'Venus guiding Apneas and the Trojans to the Latin Shore'?has arrived in this city and will be exhibited after to-morrow night > A publio meeting of the citizens of Charleston, < who are in favor of sending Delegates to the Democratic Convention to be held in April next, ] will be held at Hibernian Hall on Thursday evening next. Oar merchants are doing a rushing business this season; and one cannot bat feel gratified in hearing the continual tap of the hammer, even | until late at night, along Meeting and Hayne Btreets. It is encouraging to learn that orders are coming thiok and fast from merchants of the i South and South West, who have hitherto pur- < chased their goods at the North. As a piece of information to your readers, I | would state just here that the Adams Express Company have removed their office from Broad street, to the large and splendid building at the , north-east corner of Meeting and Cumberland streets, generally known as 'Werner's Iron Palace.' I began my letter this morning, but have been unable to continne it until now?4 o'clock, P. M. The waters of the Ashley are no longer calm and sun illumed; dark clouds are slowly drifting over the blue of heaven, and the weather j grows chilly and rainith. Well, so "it is in real i life; but, never mind!?the other mornings, which are to come, will be just as beautiful a? that which has gone. Good bye. WILLIE LIGHTHEART. PRESIDENT'S REPORT. To the Stockholders of the King's Mountain Railroad Company. Gentlemen: I herewith, submit to you a report J # J ? 01 me operations U1 yuur ivctu iur iuc put uovai year, which ended on the 31st December, 1859;and a statement of its financial condition ap to that date. The gross income of the Company for the fiscal year, as exhibited in the report of your Treasurer, is z $18,978 83 And the expenses, ordinary and extraordinary 9,776 48 Leaving a nett income of. $ 9,208 35 On the 1 st of January 1869, the assets in the hands of the Treasurer, consisting of bonds, notes, stocks, accounts and cosh, amounted to $20,401 89; and with a view to the disbursement of dividends, the sum of $15,189 71 was collected from these assets, and added to the net income above mentioned, making the sum of $24,322 34. From this amount, the following dividends have been declared during the past year: In March, 5} per cent, on Certificates of 8iock, 910,163 00 " July 3i " " " " " 7,115 50 " Dec'r, 3 " " " " 6,099 00 Making in the aggregate, $23,379 60 and leaving available assets on hand to the amount of $5,504 48. From the above statement you will observe that the nett earnings of the road for the past year, have amounted to a fraction over 4} per cent. Upon a review of the operations of this road during the past year, the following gratifying results are shown: Increase income from freight and passengers, has been, $1,721 45; savings to the company from consolidating offices and cartailing amonnt of salaries, $2,230; making an aggregate in our favor of $8,951 45. So that while the sources of income has increased, the ordinary expenses have been materially diminished. Hitherto, the dividends on the South Carolina Railroad stock, amounting to not less than $1000 per yeat, has contributed to swell the income of the company. The sale of this stock and distribution of proceeds, has withdrawn that source of income. The re-laying 14 miles of track with timber (rendered absolutely necessary by the decayed condition of the old) has subjected the company to unusually heavy expenditures daring the last year, but every economy has been used, and the work completed with ten hands, "under the supervision of your present very efficient overseer. Under such an outlay as the above work required, a large dividend could not be anticipated. The stock-guards, about thirty in number, have been renewed (with the exception of a few not yet completed) and the whole track is now in an entirely safe condition for travel. New platforms have been built for the Depots at the termini of the road. The motive power of the road, 1 am authorised to say, is in good condition. Daring the year, there has been built one platform car; one box car made nearly new, and others repaired. All are fit for service, excepting two, which are in need of slight repairs. The expenses from accidents on the road, has been quite small. With the exception of a demand of about $250, which has not been called for, the Company is entirely out of debt. With a newly laid track, and your motive power and cars in good condition; with your finances free from all debt and embarrassment, and with the hope that the encouraging prospects of the company may be amply realized, I now retire from the duties of the position with which you have honored me. J. M. LOWRY, President. Yohkvillk, S. C., February 13, 1860. CHESTER MARKETS. Cotton.?Receipts during the week amounted to COO bales, at prices ranging from 6J to 10 65. The bulk of sales, from 10 to 10J. fny-n in in demand, and sells from wagons at $1 per bushel of 60 lbs. Flour?is scarce at $3 to $8 10 per sack of 96 lbs. Groceries.?Sugar, New Orleans, 10 to 11 cents, retail; West India 9 to 10 cents ; Refined A, 12$ cents; B, ?; C, 11$ cents, by the barrel. Coffee, Rio 14 to 15 cents; Java 20 cents. Rice $4 per bushel. Gunny Bagging 15 cents ; Bale Rope, 10 to 12$ cents. New Orleans Molasses, 62$ cents per barrel; Go to 70 cents, retail. West India Molasses 40 ceDts. J. Columbia Market. Columbia, Feb. 20, 1860. Cotton.?Our market has continued' firm throughout the week. The sales amounted to 1,782 bales?extremes 7@ll$c. Flour.?The market is well supplied, and we therefore continue our quotations of last week, viz: $3$@$3$ sack of 98 lbs. Extra family would oommaud a shade higher: Corn.?There is a good supply in the market, and prices remain firm, viz: $1.10@$1.16 per bushel of 56 lbs., in bulk. Oats.?Scarce, at 80@85c. Peas.?The market is protty well supplied, and prices firm, viz: $1.10@$l.lo. Bacon.?Country hog round 11@11$; Sides 111@11$; Shoulders 909$; Hams 12@16$c. For the YorkriHe Enquirer. TO THB~FDBUO. The undersigned respectfully submit the subined correspondence, with the adjustment of e recent difficulty between Messrs. 8 a mum . Mkltos and John L. Miller. M. W. GARY,' H. W. ADAMS. Columbia, S. C., 1 Hunt* Hotel, Feb. 6th, 1860. J Mr. John L. Miller : Dear Sir :?As the friend ' Mr. Samuel W. Melton, I write to request that )u or your friend will come to this city, or to iy other convenient place you may designate, at 9 eariy a day as possioie, ior me purpose wi resiving a communication from Mr. Melton. This squeet is made because I am credibly informed . oat we would run the risk of arrest were we to * ppear personally in Yorkville; and has been ostponed to this date, by an unavoidable delay n the part of Mr. Melton, in procuring my serices. This note will be delivered to yon by Mr. A. \ McConnell, who will, if neoessary, receive and orward your answer. Your most ob't. eerv'nt. M. W. GABY. Columbia, 8. C., \ Hunl't Hotel, Feb. ?, 1860. j Mr. Jno. L. Miller: Dear Sin?From prulential considerations, I addressed yon a note 'rom Columbia, on the 6th instant, by the hand >f Mr. A. F. McConnell, who inform# me he deivered it on the day following. Not having re:eived any reply, I felt constrained to pay you i personal visit. I, therefore,"went to Yorkville, >n Friday the 10th instant Not finding you here, I was informed by Mr. Edw ird Moore, hat you had left Yorkville, with the intention of ihortly visiting Columbia; in consequence of which, I have returned to this place. I now have the honor to deliver herewith, a note from my friend, Mr. Sam'l W. Melton. Your most obd't serVnt M. W. GARY. - Hunte Hotel, \ Columbia, S. C., Feb. ?, 1860. J Mr. John L. Miller: Sir: On the night of ruesday, the 24th ult., you infiioted a blow up)u me, for which I hereby demand satisfaction. " My friend, Col. M. W. Gary, is authorized to receive your repiy and make the necessary ar rangements for the meeting. Respectfully, SAM'L W. MELTON. Columbia, 14th Feb., 1860. Dear Sir: We learn that there is a difficulty pending between Messrs. Miller and Melton, of fork, and that there has probably been some :orrespondenoe between the parties. If oar information be correct, we request that ill proceedings be suspended, at their present stage, and that the matters is dispute be referred to two or three gentlemen, with a View of indeavoring to effeot an adjustment, honorable to the parties involved. N . . The referees to be named by the parties, or their acting friends, or suggested by n?~ The tenor of this note is simultaneously communicated to Mr. Miller. * * ? : Very Respectfully, ' ?, * Tour obedient serr&nts, R. B. BOYLSTON, , . W. F. DbSAUSSUBE. M. W. Gary, Esq. Columbia, l4th Dec., 1860. Dear Sir: We learn that there is a difficulty pending between Mr. Melton,.of York and yourlelf, and that there has probably been some correspondence between you, oof the subject If our information be correct, we request that all proceedings be suspended, at their present stage, and that the matteradn dispate be referred to two or three gentlemen, with A view of effecting on honorable adjustment The referees to be named by yourselves, your friends, or ourselves. This communication is addressed directly to you, as we are not informed who represents you in this matter. We have communicated to Mr. Gary", the Meod of Mr. Melton, simultaneously with this, the tenor of this note. .. Very respectfully, . Yourobd't. serrants,^ ' ? ?R. B. BOYLSTON, ? "J r n. - j W. F. Da 8AU88URE. Jno. L. Miller, Esq. Columbia. 8. C.. 1 HxtnCt Hotel, Fob. 14, I860. / Messrs. W. F. DeSauseure, R. B. Boylston: Gentlemen:?I am in receipt of joor note of this date, requesting a suspension of the challenge sent by Mr. Melton to Mr. Miller, and that the matter In dispute be referred to sereral gentlemen with the view, if possible, to an honorable and satisfactory adjastmeo$?. I cheerfully accede to the request, and bare all confidence in the gentlemen whom yon may select. Very Respectfully, Your obd't. servant, M. W. GARY. Columbia, 15th Feb., 1860. Gentlemen: I am in receipt of your communication of the 14th instant, and accede to your proposal, taking it for granted that Col. M. W. Gary's assent to it, is equivalent to a suspension of the challenge I hare received. Very respectfully, your obd't serr't. JNO. L. MILLER. To Messrs. W. F. DeSaussure, R. B. Boylston. Columbia, 15th Feb., 1860. Dear Sir: We have yours of this date, acceding to our request communicated to yon, yesterday. We have prooured the consent of Messrs- Jca. U. Adams, John Wallaoe and Wm. H. Talley to act as referees in the premises. Very respectfully, your ob't eerv'ts. ' > W. F. DeSAU8SURE, . R. B. BOYLSTON. j. Li. miner, &sq. Columbia, 15th Feb., 1860. Dear Sir : We bare yours of this date, acceding to ourrequestcommunicated to you, yesterday. We have procured the consent of Messrs. Jas. U. Adams, John Wallace and Wm. H. Talley, to act as referees in the premises. Very respectfully, your obd't serv'ts. W. F. DbSAUSSURH, R. B. BOYLSTON, M. W. Gary, Esq. Mb. Millib having failed to secure tiie services of bis friend, who was detained by siekaess in his family, appeared in person before the Referees. Columbia, S. C., 1 RunCt Hotel, Feb. 16, 1860. j To Messrs. James U. Adams, Wm. II. Talley, Dr. John Wallace: Gentlemen .-?Having been requested by you, to give a statement in reference to the difficulty between Mr. Saa'l W. Melton and Mr. Johu L. Miller, I desire, to prevent all misapprehension that might arise from any verbal statement made by me, that the following be taken as my statement of the case, to wit: On the night of the 24th ulti, Mr. John L. Miller made an unprovoked assault upon Mr. Sam'l W. Melton, and struck him a blow, for which Mr. Melton demands satisfaction. M. W. GARY. Columbia, Feb. 16,1860. After reading the correspondence between Jno. L. Miller, Esq., and Sam'l W. Melton, Esq., and receiving the statements of the parties relative to the difficulty pending between them, we are of opinion, that the blow inflicted by the fonaer apon the latter, was without justification, and accordingly think that Mr. Miller should apologize to Mr. Melton for the Insult bo offered. We regard an adjustment in accordance with the above opinion, as honorable to eaoh party. J. U. ADAMS, JNO. WALLACE, WM. H. TALLEY. { * I Columbia, 16th Feb., 1880. Gentlemen: Your communication of this date, setting forth the manner in whioh the diffiefelty MnHinff Knf uroan VTooom CUmU V a p?UUillg WVKITVVM *UW9QIB? WW I TT MWWU ?111 Jno. L. Miller should be adjusted, has been'^eceived On behalf of Mr. Miller, I accept the terms proposed by you. Very Respectfully, your obd't serVnt, H. W. ADAMB. To Messrs. J&s. U. Adams, John Wallace, Wm. H. Talley Columbia, S. C.t \ Hunt's Hotel, Feb. 16, 1880. / Messrs. James U. Adams, John Wallace, Wm. H. Tailoy. Gentlemen : I have just received your award, and in behalf of my friend, Mr. 8. W. Melton, take pleasure in aooepting it. Very Respectfully, your obt serv't M. W. GARY.