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Jicrap tfc Jack The Brooklyn Eagle nominates Hon. D. S. Diokinson for President, and Col. Jeffcrson Davis for Vice-President. There is a Republican paper published at Milwankie called 'The Irrepressible Conflict/ It advocates the nomination of William H. Seward. A correspondent of the Atlanta Confederacy calls upon the South to contribute to the support of the New England shoemakers in tfleir struggle with their masters, ? j -ar? x 1 ?i nn ttuu ouera HI HUUSCflUU vxvv w irogiu nmu. Recently, at the residence of the bride, (Choctaw County, Ala.,) Mr. Charles W. Pate, aged about eighty-four years, was married to Mrs. Elizabeth Conn, aged ninetysix years. ...... Louisville, Ga., last Tuesday, negroes brought higher prioes than ever before known. Old men brought $1000, young men and boys $1500 to 1900, and young women without ohildren $1900 to $2000 and upwards?all field hands. It is stated that Palatka, Florida, near which is located the plantation and residence of Br. Keitt, recently murdered by his negroes, was marked down on John Brown's bloody map with a red cross, indicating that it embraced the elements of insurrection. Gerritt Smith has commenced suits against the New York Democratic Committee individually, $50,000 damages, for connecting his name with John Brown's raid as one of the aiders and abettors. There are about 50 members of the Committee, and Gerritt will net $2,500,000, or ?nothing. .**?. '? The South Carolina Railroad is doing an immense freighting business, over one hundred loaded cars leaving the depots daily for the oountry?indeed, one day, the number was one hundred and seveD. Never before, in the history of the road, have one hundred oars per day been sent out.? Charleston Mercury. The Alabama Legislature adjourned last week. It passed a Military bill placing $200,000 at the disposal of the Governor. The bill to banish free negroes failed. Joint resolutions to call a convention, in the event of election of a republican Presi dent, were passed. The bill to exempt foreign goods, &c., imported direct, from j taxation, became a law. An^amosing occurrence took place in the New Jersey State Senate on Monday , last. A rumor having obtained currency ] that the wife of the Senator from Burling- j ton had recently presented him with triplets, t a resolution was presented, tendering him i the congratulations of his peers, and re- j commending that his example be followed \ by the entire body of grave and reverend Senators. 1 We regret to announoe the death of c Col. L. A. Beckham, who died at his resi- 8 dence in this District, on Monday last, after an illness of some weeks. Mr. Beckham was an influential and highly respected c man, and will be greatly missed in our Dis- e trict. He was well known and popular n with our citizens, formerly representing c them with acceptance, in the State Legis- v lature. He was buried on Tuesday by the 1 Odd Fellows, and he leaves a family and 11 a large number of friends to grieve at his 1 departure Chester Standard. a The Lynn strikers maintain their position, and spend their time in meetings!, processions, and visits to neighboring shoe* I, towns. The female operatives?the stitchers and binders?have likewise joined in ' the strike. They have held several meet- 1 ings. At first, the proposition for a pro- 1 cession was rejected, bat farther discassion c at a subsequent meeting has seemed to con- * vinoe them that such a public concentration ' of female charms will exert a powerful in- 1 fluence on the manufacturers.?Shoe and Leather Reporter. 1 The prices paid for table supplies * are at the present time most unusually high, induced, it is supposed, by parties who are y already speculating for the large increase { required daring the Convention. Beef, and j not very prime at that, is now selling in our ( market at 25@31 cents per pound; rnut- j ton, at 31, and pork at 15@18 cents. Fowls ] also range at high pricess. Turkeys sell at $8i@84 a pair, and wild turkeys at these figures apiece. Vegetables are more reasonable, except cabbages, which sell at 81@37 cents per head.? Charleston Mercury. The results of our search after the probable present population of our States and Territories, although oonducted entirely without reference to eaoh other, from an aggregate differing but slightly from the total footing which we had from the first anticipated. Wc named 32,100,000 as the lowest, and 32,500,000 as the highest number of inhabitants likely to be recorded by the coming census. Our separate conclusions lead to us to an ultimatum of 32,173,AAA Tlio nonnln /"onopf frrim thfl ahnric. VW. jl av yvv^/iv ines) dwelling in this Union are most probably about 32,300,000. ? Philadelphia North American. We have recently seen the watch which Gen. Marion owned and carried with him daring the days and nights of the Revolution. It is made of silver, and manufactured in London, and has every appearance of having seen some service. This precious relic is owned and highly prized by a female descendant of Gen. Marion's brother, who is now living in oar town, and who bears the name of her illustrious grand- j uncle. Notwithstanding its age and the j trying times it has kept, it is still able to! mark the passing hours as correctly as ever;' and for such labor, it is far more valuable than half the watches that are manufactured in Yankeedom.? Greenville Enterprise. The number of merchants who have purchased their stocks of dry goods in ~ '* - Charleston, tnis seasuu, is uu^/aian^icu.? The business throughfares there are crowded with customers. If thiDgsgo on at this rate, we shall not be surprised to hear soon of another tremendous Union meeting in New York. Patriotism in that great city is never so rampant as when there is danger of losing Southern trade. Anti-slavery per *e suits them well enough, but anti-slavery that takes the money out of their pockets is a practical question, and is sure to excite a storm of virtuous indignation. In revolutionary days, before the Union was formed, Charleston was a great importing city, while New York was very far from being the great emporium. Everybody knows that the Union made New York, and some people who have looked pretty closely into the matter, begin to suspect that it unmade Charleston.?EufauJa Spirit. Cjre ?mMk $raptirer EDITED BY SAM'Ii W. MELTON WM. W. EAST. o CONTRIBUTING EDITOB : JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON....Columbia, S. C. YORKVILLE, S. C. THUBSDAY MORNING, MARCH 15, 1860. Special Notice.?All communications, on matters connected with the paper, should be addressed to "The Yorkyille Enquirer and not to the Editors or Proprietor, personally. Persons desiring prompt attention to their favors, must bear this in mind. Capt. D. D. Moore, Maj. Mtlxs Smith, Samuel 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 Bennetts ville, are authorized agents of the Enquirer. TO ADVERTISERS. Our advertising friends will place us under especial obligation by sending in their favors as early as Monday or Tuesday of each week. COURT WEEK. The Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions is in session, this week?Judge Thomas W. Glover, presiding. The old business on the Dockets is very heavy, and will occupy the attention of the Court, throughout the week. Nothing has occurred, which deserves comment. DONATION. We resrret to learn the death, by consumption, of Lawson D. Williams, Esq,, a talented and promising yonng lawyer, of Little Rook, Arkansas. He was a son of Rev. Aabon Williams, formerly of this District, and had many friends here to monrn his death. Mr. Williams bequeathed his entire estate, a handsome property for one of his years, to the Theological Seminary, at Columbia, in this State. "REMARKABLE DREAM." On the outside of to-day's issne, the reader will find L's entertaining and instructive article under the above title. We have not seen anything of the kind more beautiful, for a number of yesrs. It sounds like good old Johs Bcktan in the finish, point and pathos of its allegory. Its simplioL ty and naturalness are truly touching. Let no one pass it by without more than one perusal. Our columns are always open to this able and graphic writer. THE "ROCK-HILL CHRONICLE." This neat and sprightly sheet has appeared, according to announcement in a previous issue. Mr. W. H. Thomasson, in his Salutatory, plants iimself on pure State-Rights and strict-construction doctrine. Mr. Eccles is retained as Cor- 1 esponding Editor from Yorkville and other ! )laces. The paper appears well. Its name, it I rill be seen, is slightly changed. 1 We have bad the pleasure of meeting Mr. ( Chomassok id our sanctum tms ween; ana we , ordially wish him prosperity both editorially md personally. " 1 i "KATE B. T." | This poetess of Augusta, has twined for our ] olumns a wreath?or "yreathes"?of the choice st flowers, blended with the ever-greens of ge- ] iius, which our readers will turn-to and appre- i iate becomingly. It fills the mind and the heart 1 rithlts sad, suggestive beauty. It is not beauiful so much for what it says?though that is j inch?as for the life history that it leaves un- ( old, or merely suggests. The fair and gifted j uthoress is welcome to a place in our columns, s she will, doubtless, receive one in the memory f our readers. WEATHER STATISTICS. Maj. A. A. McKe.nzie has again favored us ^ rith his interesting and valuable observations on he weather, &c., during the month of February. [ Phe coldest days of that month were the 3d and ?th; the warmest, Wednesday, 22d. The wind vas in the North 8 days; South, 7; North-West, ?; South-West, 4 ; West, 3 ; East, 1, and North- ( 2ast, 1. The Maior has added several new features to 1 lis observations, which will increase their useulness. He takes the height of the thermometer , it morning, noon and night. The morning is the i soldest; noon, warmest. He also makes observations to see if there is any connection between ;he moon, in her quarters, and the fall of rain. Full moon occurred on the 6th of the month.? 3n the 5th, it rained 12 hours; on the 6th, 8 hours; on the 7th, 5 hours. The last quarter being on the 13th, it rained on the 14th, 2 hours ; on the 15th, 3 hours ; on the 18th, 12 hours.? New moon on the 21st, it rained on the 22d, 18 hours. First quarter occurred on the 29th, on which day it rained 5 hours. No rain fell on any other days in the month. During the month it rained 65 hours. DR. GASTON'S ADDRESS. We find, in the Charleston Courier of some days ago, an able and decidedly practical, and we would suggest, much needed Address on Reform in Medical Education, by Dr. J. McFadden Gaston, of Columbia. It was delivered before the physicians and medical students, during the session of the South Carolina Medical Association in Charleston. The points discussed are Deficiencies in Preparatory Studies and in Public Institutions, with Remedies for each. The facilities for acquiring Medical diplomas, and other circumstances of honor or profit connected with the profession, have filled the ranks of the medical fraternity with a goodly number of mere pill-pedlers ; and we suppose Dr. Gaston's address is designed to correct this state of things. The instinct of self-preservation should prompt the many able and leading minds which are devoted to the healing art, to throw strong safe-guards around the profession to save it from so much humbug and quackery. The following extract embodies the main features of Dr. Gaston's Address. We commend it to parties interested (and who are not interested?) in these matters. "The points adverted to in this paper, should be considered in reference to the present move' ment for some reform on the part of the Convention of Medical Teachers, aud the appointment, at the last meeting of the American Medical Association, of a committee to confer with a committee of that Convention, as to what measures maybe practical for elevating the standard of medical education ; upon which a report is to be presented at the next annual meeting. I would suggest that those who had gone thro' a preparatory course of study with a private pre- j ceptor, should be examined before admission to a regular course of lectures, by a committee consisting of the Presidents of the various District Societies, and that those who had pursued a course of study in one department of the College, should be examined by the Faculty before nmceedinz to the hieher department; while the I m o w# applicants for graduation should be examined by a committee or board appointed by the State Association ; thus relieving the parties engaged in teaching, of the responsibility of deciding upon their own work, while every portion of the medical organization could have a representation in the matter of education, and serve mutually as checks upon each other." LOGAN'S HISTORY. We are in receipt of the first volume of Dr. John H. Logan's 'History of the Upper Country of South Carolina from the earliest periods to the close of the War of Independence." This is a South Carolina book out and out. The author ia a resident of Greenwood, in Abbeyille District. The Cqubtemays of Charleston, and Mr. Glass of Colombia, are the publishers.? The work is gotten op in good moslin binding ; and the large, clear type, on the smooth, white paper, makes the reader's eyes rejoice. Mr, Looak's style is locid and pleasing ; and the narrative displays a fond of research and information whioh most prove interesting to the reader. He gives us the history not only of the people, both settlers and Indians, bot of the wild animals?the deer, wolf, panther, wild-cat, catamount, &c.?of the Upper Country. Many anecdotes of hunters and hair-breadth escapes of women and children, &c., are interwoven with the narrative. The book may be bad by addressing Glass or Coubtenay. We design giviDg hereafter Bome extracts from it, which will show the character of the work, and, doubtless, prove interesting to our readers. We give one extract now: Sally Whitajceb and the Panther.?The usual cry of the panther when prowling in the woods, was exceeding melancholy, and so nearly resembling the distressed wail of an infant, as to be sometimes mistaken for that of a child lost iu the forest, even by those accustomed to his habits. It is related of a Miss Sally Whitaker, of whose heroism and romantic wanderings on the singular mountain, in York District, that still bears her name, we fonnd some traditions, that on one occasion when strolling alone on the mountain, she caught, as she imagined, the sound of a child's cry in the distance; all her sympathies were instantly aroused, and quickening her pace in the direction whence it came, she found it grew rapidly more and more distinct, till, at last, it seemed to proceed from a covert near at hand; she pressed forward with increased eagerness, and drawing aside the in tervening grass and bashes, discovered?not a child?but face to face with her, a large American lion. It is not related how she extricated herself from the dilemma; bat the assertion may be ventured that the panther scampered off as fast as his legs oonld carry him, while Sally i Whitaker neither fainted on the spot, nor ran off in the opposite direction. SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE. We have received a catalogue of the South Carolina College, through the kindness of Mr. John A. Withebspoon of this place. The number of students in attendance is 170. The following gentlemen are from York: John A. Withebspoon, of the Junior class; Ibbdell Jones and James S. White, of the Sophomore. The College Library contains twenty-four thousand volumes, and the number of books is constantly increasing from the annual donations of the Legislature to the College. There are five scholarships, yielding in the aggregate $1,430 annually, for the education of young men of limited means, but extraordinary merit and attainments. The literary societies, also, generally have each a beneficiary, and sometimes a class supports one of its members through College. The necessary expenses are estimated at $240 50. The following remarks in relation to the adop tion of Mr. Calhoun's works as text-books in Colleges, are worthy of much consideration.? They are taken from the Columbia Guardian : "Mr. Calhoun's Disquisition on Government, and his Discourse on the Constitution and Government of the United States, have been published nine years. They have met with nnqual- ' Lfied approbation. It is time, we think, that their merits were practically acknowledged by their adoption as text-books in the College, as they have been in the Citadel Academy. Mr. Calhoun had thebestelcments of a great teacher, whether of men or boys, in his nature and char- 1 acter. He was fond of the young, and commu- { aicative and genial with all men. Every thing from his pen bears the impress of thought, honor, ' patriotism and frankness of soul and manners. < [f we knew ourselves and the condition of things j well, we would know that we can ill afford to { lose the influence of our great Statesman in the issue which is rapidly making up as to the dis- ' tinctive character of the government' itself? i whether it is to become a great consolidated em- ] pire, or continue a confederacy of independent States. For the good of the country, no less than for their own intellectual culture, let our ' ingenuous youth be thoroughly indoctrinated in the lessons of Calhoun." ] CHESTER IN THE VAN. Wo arc more than pleased to see, by the Ches- ' ter Standard, that the people of that District ' iiave gone to work earnestly for the cause of Home Industry. At a public meeting on last ' lale-day the following resolutions, offered by 1 Mr. McAliley, were unanimously adopted, and ' the subjoined committees appointed to carry them out: Resolved, That a committee of five be appoint- ' ed by the chair, whose duty it shall be to pre- 1 pare articles of subscription to raise stock for , the purpose of establishing a Tannery and Shoe ( Factory, and that said Committee canvass the District for subscribers to said stock, and report at 1 a subsequent meeting, of which public notice i shall be given. I Resolved, That two similar committees be appointed by the chair; one to raise stock for a ' Cotton Factory?the other for a Wollen Factory, ' and that said committees canvass the district for ( stock, and report at a subsequent meeting. On motion, the meeting adjourned. The following are the Committees appointed in obedience to the foregoing resolutions, viz: To raise stock for a 'Tannery and Shoe Factory': Sam'l McAliley, Esq., Maj. John Wilkes, Col. Cadd Rives, J. L. Gaston, Esq., Wm. Caldwell. To raise stock for a Cotton Factory : Dr. T. W. Moore, Col. C. B. Jones, D. R. Stevenson, W. T. Gilmore, N. R. Eaves. To raise stock for a Woolen Factory: Richard Woods, Amos W. Osborne, Esq., Dr. S. W. Douglass, John Simpson. The points made in these resolutions?a Tan ucijr, onuc ruuiui^, v/uuuu r uuu ivuuxcu Factory?are entirely practical; because, in all these branches of manufacture, we can compete successfully with the North. The flocks, herds and cotton fields of Chester and the surrounding country will supply a portion of the raw material needed. The remainder can be imported as cheaply in a raw state, as if manufactured in other places and sent here to find a market.? We have a system of labor, as cheap and economical as'any in the world. The soil, climate, productions, and water power of Upper Carolina all invite to this field of enterprise. The existing feeling between the North and the South will, it is to be hoped, create an unprecedented demand for products manufactured within our own limits ; and the greater this demand the more successful the competition. Tnrleerl nnthinir hnt nrnsneots of remuneration could, or should, induce private individuals to embark in such undertakings. Patriotism does not require a few men to sink their fortunes and ruin their families for the State, when the great body of the people are not enlisted in the same cause. Such waste of property would be a public calamity ; it could not be a public virtue.? The men of Chester, then, are acting, we presume, on the belief that they will receive the support of the people. Whether the people will contribute this support, is a question for time to determine. A few ladies have put on linsey-woolsey; a few college boys have dressed themselves in homemade jeans; a Congressman or two, and a Governor or two, have appeared in Southern homespun. A general cry of direct trade, non-intercourse and home manufactures, has been raised all over the Southern States. If this feeling, violent as it has been this winter, will only ripen into a strong, pervading, permanent desire of independence, the Chester citizens will succeed. The day, then, that records their failure, if it ever comes, will chronicle our disgrace. About the year 1833, owing to a state of sentiment at the South similar to that now existing, several manufactories sprung up in Virginia, North and South Carolina, Georgia and Alabama. But the feeling soon subsided; and we are told that none of these manufactories succeeded, except the one at Graniteville in this State. What was the cause ? Merchants would not buy their articles ; and why? Because the people would not buy them again ; for the ailed ged reason tliat Northern fabrics were cheaper. Here, in a few words, iB the history of onr failares in this branch of business. Southern manufactured goods have the reputation of being dear, bat substantial and serviceable. Northern goods are known to be cheaper in a certain contracted sense?that is, by the yard or pound?but are by no means as durable; and for this reason, are dearer in the end. The short-sighted Southerner purchases the article which commands the least money. We ridioule the Yankee's love for the 'almighty dollar*; while at the Sooth, ever since the fin t invasion of onr rights, the real struggle has been between patriotism and the purse. Northern brogans, for instance, cost, gay, a dollar and a half, and last fonr months; those made at the South cost a dollar and three quarters and last six months. In making pur/-Viqdoq fftp bin neoroes. the Southern nlanter hnvs V~~W?-w O ? ? the former to the damage of himself, his neighbor and his country. The idea of saying a few dollars at the time, rales; and thns Southern manufactories have been made victims to an unwise and con tracted policy. We sincerely hope that the oitizens of Chester will meet with a better fate. Instead of 'wasting their sweetness* in high sounding but empty resolutions, they have gone to work in a businesslike manner, to do their part in the achievement of Southern Independence. There is no piping to the winds in their course ; and we have faith to believe tht.t they will be sustained. We believe that our entire population, from the Governor to the mill-boy, from the heiress to the milkmaid, would be glad to withdraw their support from those who have made a business and a pleasure of trampling our rights in the dust W e believe that better prospects are ahead of the manufacturirg interests of the South, than ever were before. The Rock Island Factory, owing to the extensive demand, if we are not mistaken, filled no orders after June last year. This demand was not owing to slavery agitation and sectional feeling, but to the intrinsic merit and 1? . /-I?rrn., popularity ui me iuunuo* iuc CAUHOUIQUV nuivu has prevailed thiB winter will increase the demand for these and similar goods. If the Chester committer secure subscriptions from a large number of citizens, their own interest will make them not only build up, but afterward also support the proposed manufactories. At any rate Chester, like Gen. Putnam, is just now attacking, in its very den, the wolf which has preyed so long on our flocks. MERE-MKNTION. The old Indian rule was to plant corn when the oak leaves were as large as a squirrel's ear. It is with the deepest regret, says the Anderson Gazette, that we announce the death of Mr. ?. B. Benson, one of the oldest and most respected citizens of Pendleton villago. In the House ol' Representatives, Mr. Boycb has presented the petition of T. Washington and eleven other), oitizens of Warren County, State of Ohio, for the negotiation of a treaty with Great Britain for the rendition of fugitive slaves escaped into Canada. The Columbia papers announce the death of Mr. J. G. Bowman, who has been in feeble health for some time. Mr. Bowman has frequently filled the editorial chair with ability. The Kingstree Star mentions the organization of a new Division of Sons of Temperance in that tillage. The Division starts under very favorable auspices, and with a goodly number of members, among whom are some of the first citizens. The Republicans are preparing to move for investigating committees in the House, with the view of crippling and embarrassing the present Administration. They will, it is understood, be aimed principally at the President. Gov. Harbis of Tennessee, communicated to the Legislature of that State the resolutions of South Carolina and Mississippi on the 28th ult [n his message accompanying them, he says he ioes not see the propriety of calling a Southern Conference. A niece of Dahiei, uuonnell has been arrested for vagrancy in Chicago. 8he was well brought np at her home, Castle Kearney, [reland, where her father, a man of wealth and Influence,resided. The Postmaster General has established a Post Office at Great CypreBS, Barnwell District, and discontinued that at Briantville, Spartanburg District, South Carolina. It i9 stated from Havana that the new Regla warehouses in that city, now approaohing jompletion, will store away 850,000 boxes of sugar. These warehouses are of iron, and probibly the best arranged in the world. The seventeen year locusts will appear this year, between the 10th of May and 1st of June, in parts Df Michigan, Indiana, New York, Connecticnt, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina. None of the Southern tribe (thirteen year locusts) will be seen this year. Mount Vernon is the property of the nation. The ladies took possession of it on the 7th instant. Many members of Congress were present, and participated in the ceremonies. A bill reducing the mileage of members 50 per cent., has passed the House by a large majority. Pink, the N. Y. correspondent of the Charleston Courier, says that Col. Fbexont, the once aspirant to the Presidential ohair, has ' j ' *a fko am all nmnnnf f\ f ueeii hucu iur liuuoo icui. iu wv oiuvu v. $512 ; and if he is the rich man his friends boast he is, one would think he would pay it promptly. Dr. Wm. Phillips and C. P. Sullivan, Esq., are nominated in the Laurensville Herald to fill the vacancy in the State Senate, occasioned by the death of Col. Jas. H. Ihbt. The great English physician, Dr. Stdbnham, says: "Every physician, on looking over his roll of patients, will find confirmation that every impurity of the skin, and even consumption, arises from neglected feet. Congress having granted its permission, Commodore Shubrick has received the sword presented him by Gen. Urquiza, President of the Argentine Confederation. The scabbard is silver and gold, the hilt tipped with diamonds, and is valued at $5000. A dentist, in Atlanta, advertises that if any of his customers want their teeth pulled, he will "do it with pleasure,'* whether to himself or his patient, he don't mention. EDITORIAL INKLINGS. Wo 1 ncft roAftirorl ft fpw UnmKoro ftf fTlft Louisville (Ga.) Gazette, edited by our, the junior's, ever- to-be-beloved-and remembered classmate and friend of other days, Thos. N. Polhili,. The Gazette is a spicy and interesting little sheet, and its weekly visits are hailed with a peculiar pleasure, both for the regard we bear its witty and versatile editor and for its own merits. We take this piece of news from the last number: "We learn that on Thursday last a Mr. Sanders, of Sparta, was struck on the head with a decanter of whiskey, by a Mr. Attaway, and died in forty.eight hours.?Also, on Saturday following, an altercation took place between a drunken man and the gate-keeper of the factory, and just as the latter fired a pistol, a Miss Dickens, who was passing, accidentally received the shot, and died in a few minutes." We know not whether the story we are going to tell be true or not. If we durst disI !.? nntrenonord WP Wftnlfl QfiV if So n alon^Ar puio HIO uviupiipvix M v to H Oi?MV?v. on the fair sex. It is told that two lovers recently made application in Illinois, for license to marry the same girl, both applications being made within five minutes of each other. One was to be married on Tuesday and the other on Thursday. We are not told whother the lady married one, or both, or remained single. May be?we don't say we believe it?but may be, she was engage! to a third or a fourth wight before the Tuesday or Thursday. But the Telegraph does'nt say so ; and, of course, it can't be so. The following paragraph lays bare the state of crime in the commonwealth of Massa chusetts. Intemperance will be seen to enter largely into the list of the causes producing this sad result The large proportion of female criminals is suggestive of a long train of reflections, andoffers a probable solution of the whole affair: "From the returns made to the Secretary of the Commonwealth, by the keepers of jails and houses of correction in that State, it appears that the number of persons committed to those institutions during the year ending Oct. 1, 1859, was 18,466, of whom 10,829 were males and 2,668 females. The number of natives of that State wos 3185, of whom 820 conld not read or write. The whole nnmber who conld not read or write was 4493. Number who have been intemperate, 8081. Number committed as witnesses, 776. The whole amount of money expended by the State on account of these individuals, inclu ding maintenance, officers' salaries, sc., was $216,252. The valne of the labor of prisoners amounted to $49,902." A beautiful white girl, Miss Kiso, was about two years ago sent out from England by the Exeter Hall Abolition Society, as a missionary to the fugitive negroes in Canada West. I She lately brought her philanthropy to a climax, and married a negro preacher to the chagrin of her friends and the disgnst of all deoent Canadians. She is said to be yonng, beautiful, accomplished, and was much respected. Ere the first night after the wedding (?), a hundred whites had collected around their dwelling, offering them every indignity. The Detroit Free Press speaks thus of this rude beginning of amalgamation : "There was but one expression of sentiment, and that was that the blackamoor deserved hanging and that the wealthy, and refined, and philanthropic Miss King ought to be sent back to the Exeter Hall Abolition Society, as a fit subject for the exercise of their reformatory twaddle. The universalfdisgust excited by the occurrence iB undisguised, and the female is branded as ? ?? ? ' ? A_V_ ? ? of V?n?< nOrrr>r\ completely aa muugu wo wuw ui uvi uv6?v paramour had burned the mark of Cain on her forehead." "Pink," the N. Y. correspondent of the Charleston Courier, says : "The Dry Goods auction houses have heretofore been doing almost nothing, but as soon as one commenced selling they all rushed into it? The importers have been holding back, one for the other, none wishing to throw their goods into the market for fear of depreciating prices. On Thursday a very rich and independent house gave their auctioneers an order to announce for sale, on Tuesday, a large lot of French goods. On Friday every auction house of high standing in the city was besieged with applications to sell for this concern, that and the other. The consequence is that on every day next week there will be immense sales of silk and other goods, and on some days two or three sales. One house expects to 'knocK down,- in ine six aays, ai ie?si a million dollars worth, and the others will sell in proportion. The buyers will have good chances." The Marysville, California, Democrat, of the 4th February, contains an account of the butchery of a camp of friendly Indians near that place, by a company of 'Pitt River Rangers,' twenty in number. The Indians at the time were cutting hay on a contract with the United States. Some of the Indians had lived with the very men who murdered them. Sixty squaws and children and ten Indian men were found dead on the field. After the slaughter, the ranches or huts, which had been occupied by the Indians, were set on fire and their bodies burnt. The paper says: 'A bill of nearly seventy thousand dollars is now before the Legislature awaiting payment, to be distributed, in part, among the crimsoned murderers.' Lord John Rubskll, on inquiry, has conveyed to the British Parliament, interesting information in relation to the annexation of Savoy to France. Sardinia has no intention to yield Savoy. In case of the annexation, the British Government is determined to maintain the neutrality of Switzerland. Sardinia, in that case claims that Chablais and Faucigna, two small provinces among the Alps, shall belong to Switzerland. England approves. The Swiss Government desire Savoy to remain part of Sardinia. On the other hand, France claims that, if a central Italian confederation is established, she would deem it necessary to annex some part of Savoy for border defence; bat this will not be done withoat consulting the great powers. If another great European power be built up in Italy, its occupancy of the French slope of the Alno vnnM he damrerons to the latter countrv. The French Government has communicated to Sardinia something to this effect; and, of course, France is so far opposing an Italian Confederation. One of the finest examples of casting bread upon the waters is contained in the following paragraph, relative to a religious revival, from the Newborn (N. C.) Progress. The paragraph was written by the Goldsboro' correspondent of that paper. Of the revival, which is going on the M. ?. Church, he speaks thus : There is something remarkable about this revival. Last year, and the two years previous, the ministers and christians of the different denominations in this place united heart and hand, and bent every energy of body and mind to awaken a proper interest among the unconcerned on this all-important matter, but with very little success. Now, as if to demonstrate the truth of His own declaration, that "it is not by might, nor by power, but my spirit, saith the Lord," a degree of interest upon the subject of religion unprecedented in the history of Goldsboro', has sprung up among all classes ; sinners are stricken down by scores, and the church is enjoying a remarkable "season of refreshing from the presence of the Lord," and all without the employment of any extra amount of ministerial force, labor or talent, or any unusual visible instrumentalities. Overflowing congregations attend nightly, and many profess to have found the "pearl of great price." The second daughter of Queen Victoria, the Princess Alice, is to be married to the Prince of Orange. The marriage is to take place on the 24th of next May, the anniversary of the Queen's birth-day. They will proceed to Brussels on the bridal tour.* King Leopold, the great uncle of the bride, is preparing to receive them in the Belgian capital. Alice Maude Mast was born on the 25th April, 1843 ; the Prince on the 3d September, 1840. The term of manhood begins in Holland at the age of twenty ; so the Prince will be a man in September. As this is leap year, wo wonder if Alice Maude Mary did the courting. At a late meeting of the citizens of Greenville District, among other resolutions the following was adopted: 'Resolved, That a committee of six shall be appointed by the President of this meeting, to be called 'the Executive and Corresponding Committee,' whose duty it shall be to call meetings of the citizens of this District, appoint sub-committees, investigate the industrial capabilities of the District, correspond with like committees in other Districts and other States, for the purpose ofDromotine the independence, commerce and manufactures of the slaveholding States, and report from time to time, as they may think fit, to the people of Greenville District, in public meetings, or through the public press of the District, as they may deem best.' The Cheraw Gazette brings us an account of the Lecture, delivered in that place a few days ago, by our contributorial 'half-brother,' Mr. Jas. Wood Davidson. The notice is genial, and we take great pleasure in copying it: Lecture before our Lyceum.?A lecture was delivered before our Lyceum, on Tuesday evening last, by James Wood Davidson, Esq., of Columbia. A fair audience was in attendance, and the marked attention must have been gratifying to the gifted lecturer. We believe it was Mr. Davidson's first effort of this kind, and yet we have listened to few lecturers that furnished more food for thought and reflection. His subject was an interesting one of itself, but doubly so from Mm crenius and learning brought to bear upon its | elucidation. "How we read one another," has often engaged the attention of the most subtle and comprehensive minds, but how few have ever answered the question entirely to their own satisfaction. The phrenologist has been content to philosophise on the head, the physiognomist upon the face, but Mr. Davidson takes the whole man. Like Agassiz, who, from a single scale, deciphers out the whole fish, its size, its color, its habits, &c., Mr. Davidson argued that from a finger nail the man might be read; holding that the nail was the index to the finger, the finger to the hand, the hand to the arm, the arm to the body, and the body to the soul. We know that this is rather a far-fetched philosophy, but I it is baaed upon a multitude of facts. Who ever saw the clenched fist, the swelled muscles of the uplifted arm, the menacing attitude of the body, the dark frown, the defiant eye, and was at a loss to know what passion had thus transferred the beautiful image of his Maker. That the external appearance of the body is the true index of the soul, is a theory too mystical for the common mind, but that does not change its truth. 1 Mr. Davidson held that beauty and goodness were synonymous terms, and also ugliness and badness. And is this not so ? Why is it that that beautiful creature darts into some secret closet at the approach of him to whom she had but yesterday plighted her maiden vows ? Passion had entered her soul and marred her pearl of greatest price?her beauty?and instinctively she fled, conscious of the fact, without having seen her distorted features. There was one passage in this lecture that was superlatively sublime. It was in illustration of some point that he remarked that the concussion of the atmosphere produced by slapping the hands together continued to vibrate forever?that all the actions of men were cotinually ascending upward?that an outburst of joy, an exclamation of anguish or the simple prayer of a little child, ascended forever to the throne of God. But we must stop. We feel that we should do Mr. Davidson injustice to say more. As a speaker Mr. Davidson is pleasing, easy, commanding and eloquent, and with a little cultivation of his voice, which is rather feeble, he would always command attention.?Cheraw Gazette. Read this, and if you have any spare cattle, shanghais, turkeys, eggs, butter &c., &c.,4let' em went "The people of Charleston expect to make their individual, if not political, fortunes ont of the Democratic National Convention. The minimum hotel charge (for sleeping on the roof or the tables in the kitchen) will be $5 the day; the maximum, anything that can be extorted. Dwellings are hired for the accommodation of cliques, at a price nearly sufficient to have bought them a year ago. The price paid for the hall of the Convention is $250 per diem. It is said that nothing is now left for rent about the suburbs except a mule shed, about fourmiles from town. The Mills House will pack in 1500, the Charleston Hotel 3500, and other public honses in proportion. Many of the delegates from the Atlantic seaboard States will go in chartered steamers and live aboard." By a treaty, in 1854, between the United States and Great Britain the coasting trade of *? ??- avnlnoWolir in ftin TTni uur uuuubi jr nao ^mu^vu v^v.uu.. .MV w?.. ted States. England now claims that trade between New York and California, either by Panama or Cape Horn is no more coasting trade than that between New York and Liverpool; and contends that she has a right to participate in it. General Cass says British ships are prohibited from this trade by the articles of our Constitution. The subject is now before the English Parliament. Palmetto, the Washington correspondent of the Columbia Carolinian says, that the President is said to be in favor of Gen. Joe Lane; that Douolas is gaining strength ; that Sewabu has the inside track for the Chicago nomination ; that the "Southern Matron," Miss Cunningham, is in Washington ; that Mr. Pooh, of Ohio, who is succeeded by Samuel Chase, abolitionist, in the Senate, is descended from a Quaker family, Mmnnul frnm NnwherrV- S. C. to Ohio ! and that the Senate is gradually filling up with Republicans. CONTRIBTJTOEIAL. Photographs. We drop in once in a while to-see the pictures at Wearn & Hix's gallery. They are just now exccutingan order for a likeness of all the Faculty of the South Carolina College. We saw six of the number a few days ago. The set is to be completed soon. The style is plain photograph, the likenesses being separate. They are admirable. Wearn and Hix do things in that style. Those who, as we did, knew these fathers of learning in the past, will feel an interest in see* xT* --- TUa /vaIIoww io AHfin tft fVia lllg lUCSC SUUUUH9. xuo guuoi; AO Vfvu vo .MV public. Disunion Guns. We have not been around to examine those non-intercourse guns at Keafft's, but the Man about Town has been there. The Man about Toicn goes everywhere, it seems to us. He assures us that the newly patented gun meets, in an admirable way, the present want. It is made on magnetic principles, so adjusted to the magneto-electric currents that it will shoot only due north. The intention is?and the Man about Town told us in an undertone, with injunctions of secresy?the intention, of the gun is (the Man ?-> J ?? about Tovcn useu mc woru uim?wg mui iaj w bo used in the event of n dissolution ; used by the South, without a possibility of its being turned against us should it ever fall into the hands of the enemy. Vernal. The promise-buds of Spring are like gentle young hearts ready to swell with the first warm breath of kindness. Hearts thus respond sometimes. The untimely frosts of April nip the opened flower. Hearts too may have April frosts ; when they have responded prematurely to a deceptive sympathy; have laid bear in blooming candor their inner odor-founts of sweet feeling. Then heart frosts of April came. Botany tells us that the nipped bud will never revive. But we love these premonitory flowers?this prelude to the sweet floral anthem that is to greet us in a few weeks. Beneath our balmy skies, these balmy days,? 'The bleak wind* of March Mode her tremble and shiver' is perfeotly unintelligible. While Bulwer'a 'Sweet the jasmine'* bud* of snow, In mornings soft with May' gushes into the memory without an effort. But ?who knows ??oar friends may read this by a winter fire, after all. Russell's. The triennial existence of this Charleston monthly has just terminated. March is it's last issue. Russell's Magazine is dead. We that stood with prophetic benedictions at its cradle, three years ago, feel a melancholy interest in its obsequies. We have no sermon to preach to the I South about it. Let those sermonize who refused to extend all material aid to it while alive ?who wonder why Southern magazines all fail, ? . and never take one?wnoraai auuui. dwuuuu publications, and subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly. This final number of Rutsell's is fair. The leader?a review of Judge O'Neall's Bench and Bar?is essentially the prime feature of the number. The review is discriminating, and is evidently from the pen of an able and ready writer. It does ample justice to the work, commending its spirit, its plan, and its noble theme; and I adds warm and earnest words of personal tribute to several of the great dead enshrined therein.? , The reviewer manifests a wide range of information on legal topics ; and concludes his notice | with a sketch of 'our author' himself?the pres ent Chief Justice. The sketch is Drier our Danasome. The several serials in Russell's?which we never read?are wound up. An earnest article in favor of militia reform marks this number.? The Editor's Table is characteristic. Books. Among the recent contributions to English philology the most important in many respects is ?Lectures on the English Languageby George P. Marsh. The lectures are those delivered last year to the Post-graduate class of tho Columbia College in the city of New York. They are designed to be popular, and yet presuppose some advance of education. The volume is a handsome octavo of near seven hundred pages, well got np, with index; and is from the publishing establishment of Charles Scribner, N. Y. It consists of thirty lectures, on suoh points as these:?Origin of Speech,1 Praotical Uses of Etymology, Vocabulary of the English Language, Interjections, Grammatical Inflections, English as affected by the Art of Printing, Rhyme, Synonyms, Principles of Translation, English Bible, English language in America.? The great scholarship of Mr. Marsh, long since widely known, is brought to the illustration of these and kindred points; and the result is an amount of well-digested information nowhere else brought together. "We find by way of fault, that the author is far more familiar with New J La la nrUl, AtltAM fat* fTMQ f J-JUgiaUU ^UCIO lUttll UC 10 nibU Utuvio v/a mi er genius. E. g., in illustration of Line-rhyme and Assonance, he ignores the very beet examples in the language?in Poe'e Poems?while he draws freely from Longfellow's Miles Standish. But that is natural in a New Englander. Mr. Marsh is a Vermonter. , We are nnder obligation to P. B. Glass, Bookseller of Columbia, for onr copy. He has it on sale ; as well as lots of all sorts of books. Parodl And her Italian Opera Company were with as last week. Their visit was, we believe, quite successful. We heard Norma Wednesday evening. We were delighted. We have no adjective that conveys our appreciation of Parodfs Norma. Miss Brown's Adelgisa was ezqaisite.? Barili's Oreveso was the grand old Ganl himself. Beyond these, we were not muoh impressed.? Flavius, by Nediani (it sonnds like an Italian joke for Edwards) was hardly first rate. Every body knows the plot of Norma? Among the master touches of ParodCs Norma are the interview between Pallione and the mother of his children, in the presence of her who had recently heard his tows of love?Norma's recrimination was divine; Norma and her sleeping children ; Casta Diva; and the closing scene. None can ever forget some thrilling words; as, Sbriglia's 'Norma pieta'; Barili's ' Oh! mio rottor /' ; or, Parodi's 'Ttneri figliMiss Brown's performance of Adelgisa's struggle with herself? the conflict of duty and lore?the Druidess and the woman?was a wonder in itself. As to the rest, the secondary characters were not remarkable. There was the nsnal vast amount of outspreading of arms und premeditated surprises?astonishments ready made?and all that sort of thing. A Poem. The following pleasant coquesttish little poem ?"with a moral"?is from the pen of one of our rising poets ; one from whom we have had many a gem in that way ; one to whom the lovers of the Southern Muse may look in the future?our friend Wm. M. Maktih. It answers to the sweet illliv uauic ui ROSA HIDING. She need not quickly seek to hide, Nor softly whisper 'hush 1 hear her gentle breathing from . Behind the myrtle bush. I see a white robe through the leaves, And still the dasies rest With bowing heads, as when they bent By Rosa's foot-step pressed. And here's the ruby claspod sone Down-dropt in flying haste, Which ever lovingly did cling Around her slender waist. Ah ! well, since uosa'8 nea, in sure She cares not now for me, So I'll not follow, but I'll rest Beneath this willow tree. There's many a maid with brighter eyes, And fairer face, I've seen ; "There's just as good fish in the sea" And better too, I ween. 80 let her go, I've often thought That when a maiden flies, Should I pursue her, I would pay Too dearly for the prize.? .? ; u ^ Ah ! here you come, you blushing Bose, Ton blessed little dove ; Come let me kiss those tears away And whisper words of love. Come let me clasp that yielding waist, But not with silken zone; I only jested when I spoke, *Uah n/tf mina auth 9 JC ' "I Oi l* IUUU uuv IU1UV wuu Ha, ha! when you with maidens play Dear Dave, you'll find it true, That when you will not follow them, Why, they will come to you. Personal. Miss Annie E. Blount of Augusta, Georgia, whose frequent nom dc plume is Jenny Woodbine, is preparing for publication a volume of her poems. Miss Sallib Ada Reedy has a volume of Poems nearly ready to go to press. Miss Reedy is a Mississippian as all our readers know already, one of the most popular poets of the South, and deservedly so. We have read poems by her superior to anything her sister-bards of the South have produced. We speak advisedly. John R. Thompson is associated with John Esten Cooke, two worthy litterateurs"ot Virginia, in getting up a volume of "Poets and Poetry of the South." Derby and Jaokson of New York are to get it out soon. Captain Gibbon, U. S. A., is spending a short time in Columbia. He is the author pt the "Artillerists Manual"?the standard on artillery tactics. He is en route, with his family, for Utah, his future post of army duty. We have had the pleasure of meeting Captain Gibbon. J. W. D. Columbia, S. C. CHESTER CORRESPONDENCE. Chester, March 13tb, 1860. Messrs. Editors:?Never since the town of Chester has been a market for country produce, has there been, in the month of March, such a perfect stagnation in business. Generally we have a good wagon trade during the spring months, caused by the planters bringing in cotton which they had not been able to get in during the winter; held back partly by the bad condition of the roads, and partly by a decline in price which has heretofore taken place m .uecenmer and continued nntil receipts fell off and caused a revival in prices. The expectation of the largest crop ever raised, the looked for decline, and the passable condition of the roads, altogether, induced planters to continue selling, until they have made near about a 'clean sweep,' and the usual spring receipts 'come up missing.' The last prices current show the continued increase in receipts in the ports. The excess is now near 700,000 bales over the last year, whioh was much ahead of any other season. Whether we are to continue to have the present high prices or not, is beyond the wisest calculations. It would look reasonable to expect lower prices, but past experience gives, us no criterion to JUUge 01 luiurv pnuvo IU Viikiuu, The sales in this market for the past week amount to less than 100 bales; at prioes about steady. The fine qualities remain about 10} cts.; while dirty and stormed range from 6 to 7} eta.; middling, from 8 to 10c. Very little corn or flour is coming in by wagons. Perhaps, the ambiguous aot, passed at the last session of the Legislature, placing a tax on merchandise sold by non-residents and itinerant traders, has frightened off our North Carolina trade. No doubt those who passed this act, did not mean to include corn, wheat, flour, apples and many other articles of produce, usually received from N. C. throughout the border Districts. But it seems to me that, when so many able lawyers assemble to consult and concoct laws, they should not turn out one which takes hold of the articles not intended. It is too late for a lawyer to come np and try to excuse himself; by telling his constituents that this law was not intended to apply to market wagons from a neighboring 8tate. If so, why did they not see that the act was properly defined ? Members from the border districts are the most culpable, as the Iaw will hare no effect beyond the range of the North Carolina wagon trade. The fact is, when yon elect members and send them to do the bnsiness in the Legislature, they seem to be so fearful that they will not get home before Christmas, that they think, of nothing bat to fix apon some early day for adjournment.? Some say we did not have time to do all the business, and had to hurry over a great deal that was done. Well whose fanlt is it, that they have not snffieient time to perfect and pnt through all the necessary business of the conntry ? I say, the fanlt lies at their own door.? -i. -i. J A? ?? - ? J J* ?Lrt hnoSnaao xney are eieciea to go suu uv mo ? No one restricts the session to three weeks. The' whole country object to their hasty adjournment. Men spend a whple summer in canvassing the country and urging their claims to seats ia the Legislature; almost ran down horses and men and 'more heaven and earth' to get eleoted; and then, when they get to the capital and show that they are the successful men, they elect a few officers and begin to appoint days to adjourn. This is net right. Men who are honored by the preference of the people to do their business, should do it faithfully, or let others take their places. I do not know that any of the members from your District can be inoluded in the party alluded to ; but I do know that the want of in* tercet in the business of the country is the cause of such hasty legislation. The old 'Chester Divison, No. 14,' Sons of Temperance, has again been revived. The first meeting brought in 19 members; and the prospect is that there will be a considerable increase at every meeting for a while. The new Town Cnnneil errant retail license, and trrofiT-shops are now the order of the day; and 70a know every trade moat be patronized. We have three ehops to retail by the drink, several by the quart; and from the eigne visible every day, the strychnine begins to do its work well. To one not particularly interested in thesnocess of the grogshops, it looks strange to witness the effect I have no interest in the success of the retail business; and I can see no .good to result from it, bat a great deal of harm. Perhaps I do not Look at the business in the seme way that many others do, and, therefore, am one-aided. . But I will venture to say that if every man in South Carolina held the same opinion with me, we would see no grog-shopr; and my own opinion is, that no one wodld be anything the worse for it, and that the country would not snffer thereby. J. ' ' 5 . * . . % f J *> ' [Advertisement.! Messrs. f-.auors: in a previous uumueroi juur paper, I have been nominated as a Candidate for the neit Legislature. Under existing circumstances, I mast decline to accept the nomination. Very Respectfully, JOHN S. BRATTON. :?3?" ? ', v [Advertiawoict.]. Messrs. Editors: The friends of Dr. Johh F. Lixmat,. nominate him as a Candidate to represent them in the next Legislature, and eoraeetly hope he will acoept of the nomination. v- . MANY VOTERS. **** x 5 Jj [Advertisement-') Messrs. Editors: The friends of Wtllia* C. Black, respectfully announce him as a Candidate for re-election to a seat in the next Legislature; and earnestly hope be will acoept the * nomination. WESTERN YORK. <??* 1?-?:?. [Advertisement.] Messrs. Editors: The Friends of Maj. J. MuWiT.r.io* nnmrnnf* lilm na n. fnr the next Legislature. Maj. Wallace is a gentleman in every way qualified ; possessing sound judgment and logical reason, and we hopehe will aocept the nomination. 5 " BETHBSDA. f. [ Advert] uunent. J Messrs. Editors: We respectfully nominate Col. Joel W. Rawlissox as a Candidate to represent as in the next Legislature. An en- . terprising and intelligent planter; of sound judgment and experience; of high and generous traits of character, warmly esteemed, wherever known ; manly, independent and judicious in his opinions, our interest may be safely confided to him as a legislator; and his election would be truly gratifying to MANY VOTERS. " [Advertisement] Messrs. Editors:?We, a portion of the voters of York District, in consideration of the critical state of the affairs of our government at the present day, deem it of the greatest importance that we select from our midst suoh men as will protect our rights, our liberties, and our general welfare; who, regardless or raTor or paoitc opinion, will steer a coarse that Will be jast and beneficial to the people. We |>ropose the name of Wm. C. Buck, as a candidate for re-election to a seat in the next Legislature ; and we sincerely hope that oar proposition will meet with his approbation. NORTH EASTERN YORK. * [Advertisement] Messrs. Editors:?Many names having been already pat in nomination for the Legislature through your columns, it would seem that to add one more would be too otany. Bat when we ' look at the interest of oar District, and the qualifications of a nominee to suit it, we may be ex- _ , cused for presenting one more name. Theinteri est of oar portion of the State is almost entirely ; a planting one, and our Legislators should, therefore, be planters. To meet the above requisites, no name occurs to us more suitable than that of Mr. J.vo. Thomas Lowbt, a man deeply engaged in agricultural pursuits, and largely possessed of intellectual attainments. His bearing is that of an up-country planter; modest, gentlemanly, independent. We hope he will accept CINCINNATUS. Colombia. Market. Columbia, March 12, 1860. Cotton.?The market has been barely supplied daring the past week, with sales of only 800 bales. Extremes 5@10Jc. Flour.?The supply continues to be heavy, and the transactions for the week have been limited. We continue our quotations of last week, viz: sack of 98 lbs. Extra fiunily would command a shade higher. Corn.?There is a good supply in the market. and we therefore continue our figuree from last week, viz: $1.08@$1.12J per bushel of 56 lbs. Peat.?The market is pretty well supplied, and we quote $l(a}$1.10. Oalt.?The market is bare of oats. We quote 7 ^acon.?Country hog round nj@ll$; Sides 11@11$; Shoulders 9@9J; Hams I2@16$c. Lard.?12@12$c. About 80,000 varieties, or one-sixth of all the plants of the earth, belong to the grass family. Six-tenths of all the cultivated land in New York are devoted to the growth of grass, and the value of the entire orop of the 8tate is $60,000,000. In Massachusetts, its value is. $18,000,000; in Connecticut, $10,000,000; in New England, $68,000,000; and in the United States its value exceeds $300,000,000. g^> The Democratic State Convention, of N. Carolina, has decided against disturbing the sectional compromises of their State Constitution; opposed squatter sovereignty; re nominated Gov. Ellis by acclamation; chose delegates to the i Charleston Convention, and electors at large. Jim