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Sfraji # Jfatis. The Great Eastern sailed on the 16th io8t. TheU. S. Grand Jury in New Yorl h?7e indicted late Postmaster Fowler foi defranding the Government. Ripe peaches, grown near Aiken, S. C., have been received at the offiee oi the Charleston Conner. Mr. J. R. Bouknight, of Edgefield, has shown us large and healthy cotton blooms and bolls?specimens gathered up* on his plantations.?Newberry Sun. The mere cost of land on whioh British railways are constructed, has averaged $43,000 per mile?as much as the average cost of makiner a railway in the United States. In most of the counties of North and Central Mississippi, we learn, from our exchanges, that seasonable rains have fallen. The crops in consequence are much improv,d 4. The Singapore Free Press mentions the astounding fact that sinoe 1859, 1500 Chinese have been carried off by tigers in Johore, the end of the Mal&cia Peninsula. This is much worse than in Singapore. The tigers show more than their usual cunning, and regularly feed on human flesh. An old man in an English almshouse, who confessed that be had spent sixpence a day for beer during a period of sixty years, was surprised when told that the aggregate at compound interest would have amounted to ?3.225, 19s. 6d. He at once said that if he could live his life over again, he would not drink a drop. The following is taken from the report of the proceedings of the Connecticut Legislature: Bill to tax geese and bachelors taken up. Mr. Harrison was opposed to the provision taxing bachelors. There was a tax already laid upon a goose, and any man who had lived twenty-five years without beiDg married, could be taxed under that section. The bill was postponed. '""Some idle genius has classified the United States Senate as follows. A Senator of metal?Bell. A shining Senator? Bright. A verdant Senator?Green. A greasy Senator?Chandler. A debilious Senator?Wigfall. A lazy Senator?Doolittle. A healthy Senator?Hale. A grave Senator?Toombs. A royal Senator?King. A muddy Senator?Clay. ...... The Insurance Companies of Massachusetts state that the mortuary experience of fourteen companies, which had reported to the State for the past year, representing about fifty thousand years of life, proved that life in this country, at ages between thirty-ODe and forty-five, was not subject to as high a rate of mortality as similar returns proved it to be in Great Britain and Germany. Archbishop Hughes declines to comply with the New York law of 1858, which requires every clergyman to report to the City Inspector the names of persons married by bim. He simply gave as a reason that Catholic priests are often called upon to | remedy privately the evils caused by the corraptioo of morals; that these are cases of ^ conscience, and that he would suffer on . the scaffold or rot in prison rather than be- , tray the confidence reposed in him. ( The indomitable Parson Brownlow, t of the Knoxville TTAw, is down rather I hard upon the Black Republican candidate c for the Vice-Presidency. Hamlin, it is: i said, attributes the dark complexion of his ; Bkin to the fact of his being of Portuguese r descent. The Parson says this is all a mis-! c take, and that not only in the color of IF his hide, bnt in his carriage, walk, man- ? nets, conversation, and instincts, he exhibits unmistakeable evidence of a "free negro!" :4 Jf! this be so, "Ham" is a very suitable14 candidate of the party which nominated,r him. ir ir The Chutfield (Minnesota) Demo-15 crat of the 2d inst., says that two white women arc living at the Agencies with Io-; ^ dian husbands. One of them, Mrs Ren-1 ville, came from Illinois about eighteen ,F months ago, and after a vigorous courtship, won the consent of her dusky mate, j ^ and married him, that she might elevate; the race She is now teaching the Indian ti girls to bake and do household labor gene- e -vally, and her husband is said to be quite ^ nrnnii nf hpr. Thp nthpr. Mrs Othprdnv i . became enamored of one of the braves at ?! t_ 1 I f 1 Washington, where he had gone with others j n of his tribe to complete a treaty, and she a followed him to his home on the prairie. tl [ S The census-takers occasionally find p some strange events and items. The Frank-;1! ]in Review says one of the Deputy Mar-1 ? shals for Williamson county made the ac- j n quaintance of a lady 75 years old, who d built 300 yards of rock fence within the 11 last year with her own hands and what is' more, she gathered and carried in her arms p all the materials of which the fence is built. j? This looks like a hard yarn, but its truth | is attested by numerous witnesses who saw: the old lady at her work and who have seen; it since completed. We doubt if a parallel' case will be found in any other State or,'T county iu the Union ?Georgia paper. | Lincoln is known throughout Illi- b nois by the soubriquet of "Spot Lincoln," tl on account of a long and foolish set of reso- si lutions which he introduced into Congress! p when he first took his seat, calling upon the N "President for certain information relative g to the "spot" of land on which the first j st blood was shed in the Mexican war. They p were so ridiculous that they never came to ci a vote at all, even where his own party was n in the majority. Since then he has been'it "spotted" by the people of Illinois when-jp ever he has asked for office, which has been ! r< nearly every year, and he will be "spotted" J ti now by the whole country.?Detroit /reel" Press. I r Anew movement is mentioned in d the Democratic ranks. It is stated that | many merchants and others, of New York, a who have become disgusted with the Moz-1 ? art and Tammany Hall discussioos, have! lately organized themselves into an associa-< tion for the purpose of doing what thej j t] term volunteer duty in the coming Presi L dential campaign. These men, it is further ^ stated, do not claim to be politicians inI k the sense in which the word is used. They, are not identified with Tammany or Mozart j, Hall, and profess to ask no favors and seek g no offices. They look for a national man tj from Baltimore, and it is said will guaranty n to raise a fund of S500,000 to support such <j< a nomination. The rooms of 751 Broad- se way have been leased by them for a termjr? of years, and their treasury is now full.? jt* Tbey are known as the "National Demo- 0f cratic Volunteers." w \ \ Written for the Yorkrllle Enquirer. WHHT IH SOKE OAT AND CHEERFUL SONG BX FIN I.BY JOHNSON. ' When in some gay and cheerful song, I'm asked to bear a part, : The world knows not the bitter pangs r Whioh prey upon my heart; And there's not one who listens to The sweetly flowing strain, p Shall ever dream my soul is sad, Or that my smile is xain. There's naught within sweet music's xoioe, i No matter what's the theme, Can make this heart of mine rejoice, Or of sweet pleasure dream, And though my lips may play their part In some gay cheerful song ; Yet painful memories ever shall Back on my sad heart throng. Then think not that my heart is gay When joyfully I sing; For there ooncealed beneath my Bmiles Is sorrow a bitter sung; But, 0, believe when in the song I'm asked to bear a part, . That griefs of which you cannot know Are pressing on my heart. Baltimore, Md. 1860. Clie fjorfeliillt wjnirer edited by SAM'li W. MELTON ....WM. W. EAST. contributing xditob .* JAS. WOOD DAVIDSON....Columbia, S. C. YORKVILLE* S. C. THUB8DAY MORNING, JUNE 28,1860. Special Notice.?AH communications, on matters connected with the paper, should be addressed to "The Yorkvillk 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, Mqj. Myles Smith, Samuel G. Brown, and J. L. Thompson, of York; John R. Allen, Post Master at Chester, S. C.; Joseph Walker, Charleston, S. C.; and Wm. D. Cook, of Bennettsville, are authorized agents of the Enquirer. THE NEWS. At Home.?Two points in relation to teachers and pupils have come to our notice in the past week, whioh cannot fail to interest many of the readers of the Enquirer. We would be glad to have, briefly and to the point, the opinion of any intelligent and Experienced teacher or pupil on either or both of these subjeots. The vocation of the teacher is inestimably important; the wants of the scholar are equally so; and any light thrown upon their relative duties will be a genuine kindness to the publio and posterity. $o. 1.?The first case relates to the recent decision of a New Orleans judge. The parents of a child prosecuted its teacher for inflicting corporeal punishment npon the child. The rod was used with no uncommon severity; it was just such a case as happens in our old-field schools every day. But the judge decided that whipping the child, whether much or little, was an as sumption of parental authority on the part of the teacher; and, therefore, an illegal procedure on bis part. He could, said the judge, expel the refractory pupil, but not punish it bodily, rhis decision brings the old 'birchen rod,' which Boat of us remember very distinctly, into some iisgrace. The judge argued that it was a bar >arous practice kept up by those who do not iaTe the ability to govern children in school otherwise. We are well aware that the excessive ise, or abuse, of the rod by either teachers or )arcnts, will develop fear, deceit, lying, stubborn less, hate; but in the other extreme, when the :hild comes to learn that it is in no dauger of junishment, one barrier is. broken down for the mtrance of vice into the rebellious heart. No. !.?The second case is a recommendation from he superintendent of schools in New York city o the Board of Education, forbidding the assignDent of out of school lessons to children in the rimary schools, to a single hour's study. This ' ecommendation is founded on the doctrine of ' ipurzheim, that "health should be the basis, nd instruction the ornament of early education." 1 'he idea is to take nothing from the young, ilinnt and juicy body, that will thwart its full nd happy development. The World, a new aud ' ariedly interesting paper just started in the Teat Gotham, commenting upon it, says : "The life of a child is almost purely vegeta- j1 ive at first, the whole of the vital forces being | > xpended in the growth of the bodily organs. < 'he dawn of intellect is gradual, aud its de- : elopment slow: nature consenting to spare o it but a small portion of the energy which she i1 < concentrating in mere growth and animal 11 unctions. If, during the earlier periods, thej?] lind be stimulated into premature activity, it is ^ t the expense of the coustitutiou. Throughout j ' he whole season of growth, education should bej* o managed as to allow the vital forces the fullest: t lay in perfecting the machine by which energy j afterwards to be generated to sustain thought nd volition. When relieved of the double tax ' equired for growth and the repair of waste, t othing is required for the body but to repair its ( aily waste, the vital power can drive the men tl machinery with more vigor and oontiuuity." ( The Homestead Bill, which has become a law, 1 laces alt the public lands down at the merely 1 ominal value of twenty-five coats per acre.? 1 Ife spoke a week or two ago, iu our news article, 1 f the tide of immigration setting in to this ( nuntiy. especially from Ireland ; and this Bill 1 ill supply them with homes in the North West 5 Imost "without money and without price."? 1 hus the laboring class of that section is in c reased ; in a short while these raw Connaugbts jr ecome naturalized; they vote; the power of! le North swells into gigantic proportions. Ever ( nee our country has been an "asylum for the |f ersecuted and oppressed of all nations," the j j orth has reoeived the greater nuraht.* of imtnirants. This has had a tendency to lower the ( andard of intelligence and virtue among her ( eople. Herein we have a reason for their radi- r il and "higher law" prooliviiies. Those very , len who have thus paid a premium upon the } ltroduction of labor at the North, have appro-' \ riated largely the money of the Government to j eiurn uie capturen Airicaus, instead or appren t icing them to Southern planters ; and thus have, ] l inteution at least if not in reality, put a bar- < ier to the manifold progress of Southern in- t ustry. ; x The Army Appropriation Bill, the navy Bill j \ ud other measures necessary to carrying ou the j t lighty machinery of our vast Republic, have { een passed by Congress. The questiou of a I ( evenue is to he left unsettled until the next I j ession?that is, a revision of the Tariff. It it j ^ hought that the Tariff of 1840 will be re-enac | sd then. This will give specific duties to Peon - j ( ylvania on iron, coal, &c.; and of course the 11 ey-stone in the arch will then be "solid set." t Hon. Howell Cobb, Secretary of the Treasury, J as made a report to Congress setting forth the I nancial condition of the country. He says that e le resources of the fiscal year ending June 30, s 361, will be iu round numbers sixty five million C jllars. The ordinary expenses will amount to ii iventy five million; the extraordinary to ten, I" aching eighty five million. Add to this the 1 renty millions in Treasury notes, the re-issue v f which Mr. Cobb says is indispensable, and lj e have the expenses of the government swell- c ing ap to one hundred and fire million dollars? f. forty million beyond the resources. With this fact staring us in the face,, what shall we call . the reckless waste of the publio domain made in the Homestead Bill? Shall we call it Republicanism, or folly and madness ? Mexico.?The cabinet of Juarez has been broken up; and "confusion worse confounded" is the order of things in this unhappy country. South America.?In New Greneda, the latest news says, war was about to be declared by some of the States against the Federal gorernment. General Mosquera, the leader of the rerolution, has been nominated for the Presidency, in the hope that, if elected, he might pursue a peaceful and reconciliatory line of policy. The Revue dee deux mondes, a French periodical, speaking of the revolutionary movements in South America and Mexioo for many years past, ascribes them i. it. T_J! 2 L.lf 19 iLie J.UU1&U, negru auu xiau-uiccu oiomouwj v? the population. Tho same writer Bays that Juarez is a pure blooded Indian. The population of Mexico, which is about fire millions, consists, indeed, of only about one and a half million Spaniards, we believe, and the remainder Indians, negroes and half-breeds of the different races. The same is true, in the main, of the South American populations. Abroad.?The foreign news is encouraging to the friends of liberty and Christianity. , Sicily.?The recent revolution in Sicily, and the enfranchisement of this beautiful and fertile island, from the tyrannous rule of Francis II; the revolt of the smaller provinces of the North ? from the bigoted despotism of the Pope and their union with the constitutional government uf Sardinia ; and the cry for Garibaldi and Sicily, which has been raised in the very streets of Naples, all indicate alike the growth of the Italian intellect and heart, and the hope which is dawning of an United Italy. Garibaldi, with a few hundred followers, landed on the coast of Sicily, and in little more than three weeks, conquered a series of brilliant fields, entered Palermo, and placed himself at the head of the provisional government, as the Director of two million freemen. The cessation of hostilities mentioned last week wah, we understand, only a truce for the burial of the dead ; and Garibaldi, as soon as everything is secure on the island, will likely march onward, wherever the revolution in advance of him leads the way. Etna thunders to Vesuvius, and Vesuvius thunders back to Etna. Thus the struggle spreads from common sufferings, common hopes and a common sympathy in the cause of Italy. The clergy in Sicily have commenoed publioly preaching a crusade against the Neapolitan government. Four thousand insurgents, having several pieces of cannon, attacked Catania, on the 1st of June; and though repulsed, showed by their 'Tesprit du corps" that the car of liberty is climbing to the throne of the young Bourbon. Thousands of dollars have been collected in this country to aid Garibaldi?such is the interest felt in his cause. We believe that he has the genius to manage these elements of power, and the patriotism to direct them to the "consummation devoutly to be wished" of Italian freedom and unity. He has displayed, last year and this, consummate ability. May be meat with success, until he finally removes all those enormities under which his distracted country has groaned for years in the past. Russia.?The emperor of Russia has been disposed for some while to adopt a liberal coarse ' towards the serfs of his dominions. Heretofore the aristocracy hare generally been opposed to him in this matter. Now, however, the Gazette du Nord says that the principal measures have been adopted by the majority of the deputy of ' oobles, and the general enfranchisement will ' take place next Autumn. The Emperor, it is ' said, will convene a representative assembly for 1 Finland during 18G2; which will be the first as- ' sembly of the kind ever brought together in 1 Russia. This concession will be followed by ' similar grants to some otner provinces, oo, a faint dawn of civil liberty is betokened in that ] cruel country which only a few years ago shared in the partition of Poland. Turkey.?The French and Russian Ambassadors at Constantinople, are Baid to have informed the Porte that their governments approved of its design to inquire into the condition of Christians in Turkey, of its own free will. France 1 aud Russia, then, will not interfere. The Christians and Druses, however, are hostile to eachother at Beyrout. These difficulties may be ex- j plained in this way. The population of Turkey ] is made up of Moslems, or followers of Moham- j med, Christians of the Greek Church, and Maro- s nites and other Papal sects. Heretofore, during fl the palmier days of Mohammedanism, Christians t could not prosecute a cause in court except on y Moslem testimony; and by other acts a partiali- a ty was shown to Moslemism over the Christian t religion. But recently the Porte has placed all n religions on an equal footing;, the evidence of Christian and Turk being alike taken as proof n ujcourt. Some of the more bigoted and devo- j. :ed Mohammedans at Beyrout and elsewhere j, ire resisting this enactment of the government. rkey regard the Christians, both Greeks and Marouites, as "dogs and will not treat them is equals, nor suffer them to be so regarded in he eyes of the law. This state of thing occa- o ;ioued the proposed interference of Frnnce and fi ttussia, the enquiry instituted by the Porte, d md the prospects of a revolution which seems fi iow to be ripening in Turkey. Yet it is a curi- u >us fact, that some of the oldest and most de- t< rout Mussulmen contemplate the gradual disin- it egration and decay of their civil aud religious o nstitutions with complete nonchalcnce and in- it lifference. They say that these are the latter si lays, in which, according to the Prophet, the p ;rue faith is to be forgotten in the earth ; and N io they resign themselves to their fate. Mean- a while. Christians regard it as a circumstance ti ippunuue lu iuc luiruuuuuuu ui mc uivmaiug | eligion into the Ottoman Empire. * a THE CONVENTIONS. u Ah both Conventions met at Baltimore, we will ' listinguish them by the names of Douglas and ? Southern Conventions. p The Committee on credentials of the Douglas ^ Convention were unable to report until last Fri- a lay; when fifteen presented a majority, and ten 1< i minority, report. Tho majority as a rule farored the admission of those delegates from the y teceding States, which were favorable to Doug- a as. The minority recommended the organiza- 0 ion of the Convention on the original basis of " he Charleston Convention. After much wrang- r ing, during which the New York delegation r shifted from one side to the other two or three .l imes, the majority report was adopted. There- tj lpou various Southern delegates withdrew from e he Convention; this action showing to them b he determination of Douglas' friends "to rule >r ruin." The rump of this Convention then lominated Mr. Douglas for the Presidency and it dr. Fitzpatrick, of Alabama, for the Vice-Presi- 81 lency. o The seeeders from the Douglas Convention, 3] Gen. Caleb Cushing among them) together with J he delegations from Florida and South Carolina j{ net in the Maryland Institute?constituting the gi iouthern Convention. Gen. Cushing was made ef 'resident. The following States were represent- tc d: Vermont, Massachusetts, New York, Pennylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North cl larolina, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louis- ^ ana, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Georgia, 0| Kentucky, Missouri, Iowa, California and Oregon. b< 'he Majority Platform of the Charleston Con- Je eution, word for word, was adopted unanimousf. A committee of five, with Mr. Cushing bj hairman, were appointed to prepare an address w. to the people of the country. John C. Breckenridge, of Kentuoky vu nominated on the firet ballot for the Presidency. Gen. Joe. Lane, of i Oregon, was nominated on the first ballot for the Vice-Presidency. Great enthusiasm and harmony prevailed. Though late at night, Hon. W. L. Ynnoy, of Alabama, being called for, arose and vindicated himself against the charge of being a disunionist. Convention adjourned tine die about 11 o'clock on Saturday night, 23d instant; and a mass-meeting was held at midnight to respond to its nominations. There are now four distinct candidates for the Presidency and Vice-Presidency before the country, namely: of the Republicans, Lincoln, of III., Hamlin, of Me.; of the Whigs, Bell of Tennessee and Everett of Mass.; of the Douglasites, Douglas of III., and Fitzpatrick of Ala.; of the Southern, or National, Democrats, Breckenridge of Kv., and Gen. Lane of Oregon. Mr. Breckenridge was born in 1821; was in] the warwith Mexioo; was for two terms a member of the House of our Congress; and was nominated and elected Vice President on the ticket with Mr. Buchanan. He is regarded constitutional, gifted, genial. Gen. Lane was born in 1801; and was in the Mexican war, as Brigadier General. He iB now " ? A TT' _ _ A , I a senator irorn uregon. nis integrity ana nonesty have placed him, it is said, above the soramble for office and position. Breckenridge and Lane are the men for the South. MKRE-HElfTION. , ^ . T. M. McJcxkih, Esq., has become associate editor of the Southern (Greenville) Enterprite. .........CoL W. J. T. Giknh, we learn, has been elected Brigadier General to command the 9th Brigade S. C. M. vice Gen. S. B. Gist, resign ed. An association of young men has been organized in Baltimore, oalled the "YouogMen's Constitutional Southern Rights Association."? They have issued an address to the young men of the country. The London Tract Society has branohes in Paris, Tolouse, Belgium, Hoi land, Sweden, Germany, Spain, Portugal, India, China, Australia, and Africa; and great progress has been made during the past year in these places. A most magnificent cave has been discovered in EI Dorado county, California. Several large looms were found in it, several hundred feet in length by nearly as many broad* and a lake, the extent of which is as yet unknown. The floor as well as stalactites are all of a beautiful white crystalized marble. The Banks of Charleston have advanced the rate of Sigh) Exchange on the North, to $ per cent. premium. Col. W. B. Wilsoji, of Yorkville, will to-day, deliver the Anniversary Address of the "Moultrie Guards," in Charleston. Agriculturists through the country are becoming alarmed at. the rapid increase of obnoxious weeds, which until recently were unknown in America. The weeds are brought over in the straw used in packing crockery crates, and in the soil around fruit trees, shrubs and plants. Mrs. Hon. R. G. McCaw, of Yorkville, has accepted the appointment of Manager of the Ladies Mount Vernon Association in this District So says the Camden Journal. The city of Jeddo, the Capital of Japan, is said to be, with-' out exception, the largest city id the world, it l contains 1,600,000 dwellings, and the unpar ailelled number of 5,000,000 inhabitants. [t is satisfactory to the Second Advent people to know that J. V. Rimes, the leader of the American dock, - has made arrangement with Dr. CcxMiNd, whereby the end of all things insluding the world, is to tAke place in 1807. So long as these two lights were at variance con:erning the time of the catastrophe, of coarse aotbing could be done. The laws of Missouri require that the names of voters shall be I ittached to ballots, so that they will appear 1 ifter the election is over, to guard against fraud. j The Republican ticket is exceedingly ap- , propriate?true to its design. Devoted to the i nterests of Ham's descendants, it begins and :nds with its index finger pointing to the eolored ace, thus: Abraham and iTamlin. In New fork city there are 244 places of worship, in , which the Episcopalians have 61, Presbyterians 13, Methodists 33, Roman Catholics 82, Dutch i Reformed 22, Jewish Synagogues 16, &c. arkansas true democrat. 1 We have received the last number of this lead- 1 ng political paper of Arkansas; published at < jittle Rock. It contains the salutatory of t rosipii H. Black, Esqr., our old College con frere, | md formerly associate editor of the Enquibzr, j is principal editor. This places Mr. Black at f he head of the political editors of that 8tate. ( Ve rejoice at the success of our valued friend ; , ,nd wish him larger honors and greater prosper!- { y with every rising sun. He avows his deter- ' aination to stand by the State Rights doctrines * f Mr. Calhoun until be forgets the land of his ( ativity. With this faith in his heart to inspire t is pen, he may expect a rich harvest of rewards fl a the future. He is one of the most finished [ nd trenchant writers that we know, of his age. ? eloitorial. inklings. 1! There seems to be an innate tendency in 0 ur "fallen tinman nature" to eat "forbidden , ruit." This disposition is aggravated when we t isrespect the law-making power, or when a p ilse sense of "liberty" makes ns violate the law lerely to thow our freedom. We very often, 8 >o, set a huge estimate on what is difficult or a nposible to attain; as the equivocating fox did u n the "sour grapes." Morever, a novelty, or inovation, is ofteu hooted at by the rabble, till r ime man of weight honors it; then they will * ay their respects, too, or break their necks.? v low, all these four propositions are "illustrated nd enforced" by the annexed potato-gram, rela- ? ve to theintroductionof thatarticle into Franoe: w "This vegetable was viewed by the people S 'ith extreme disfavor when first introduced, and e iany expedients were adopted to induoethem to if se it, but without succoss. In vain did Louis ti LVT. wear its flowers in his buttonhole, and in d am were the samples of the tubercle distribu- n ed among the farmers; they gave them to their r igs but would not use it themselves. At last it 'armenter, the chemist who well knew the nu- w itivc properties of the potato, aud was most si nxious to see it in general use, hit upon the fol- tl iwing ingenious plan: He planted a good p readth of potatoes at Sablons, close to Paris, I] nd paid great attention to their cultivation.? f< ifhen the roots were nearly ripe, he put notices a round the field that all persons who stole any t< f the potatoes would be prosecuted with the at- t< lost rigor of the laws, and gendarms were em- y loyed to watch the field day and night, and ar- tl est all trespassers. No sooner wore the new tl oots thus forbidden, as it were, by authority, b ban all persons seemed eager to eat them, and S i a fortnight, notwithstanding the gendarms. c< be whole crop was stolen, and without doubt tl ateu. The new vegetable having been found to si e excellent food, was soon afterwards cnltiva- e ?d in every part of the kingdom." lj 44 Lovo is stronger than death," it is said; ; seems from the appended item that it is a tronger than civilization. Lady Ellenborough, e nee a reigning beauty of the English court, is 11 soken of, by a correspondent of the Boston D 'raveler writing from Damascus. She was di- d arced by her British husband ; married a Rusan nobleman; then a Greek prince ; then she itablished herself at Damascus. Says the wri- a| :r: si "Here she prevailed upon a noted Bedouin 8| lief to put nway his wives and live with her. he two spent their winters in town aud their e' immers in the desert, where she visited the ' d wives of the Sheikh, taking with her many " iautiful presents to appease their wrath and nf alousy. She had frequently been seen in the P( jsert, habited in the one loose robe of the lildren of the sandy waste, barefooted and ^ ireheaded. In Damascus she wears a long hite sheet, whioh covers her figure, but lives ^ in good English style, still retaining the luxuries of civilized life, and a French maid. Her constant attendance upon Protestant worship, when in town, gives travellers frequent opportunities of seeing her; and, being a majestic woman in appearance, and still retaining traces of a wondrous beauty, she always excites attention and inquiry. I hear that she has lately had her marriage with.the Sheikh legalized by the Cadi of Damascus, and recorded in the British Consulate. Her lord and master?for in this country a husband is most emphatically a 'lord of creation'?possesses nothing either in face or figure to attraot a woman of cnltivated taste. Small in stature, darker than a mulatto, with small, piercing, black eyes, and walking with the swaggering gate of the Bedouin, he disappoints every one who sees him; for one would naturally expect to see something in the appearance of the man which would account for this singular freak of an English lady of rank and fortune in choosing for herself a husband from among the rude sons of the desert. But such expectations are far from being met at sight of this most inferior specimen of the Bedouin race. This interesting couple are now en route for Europe, where the wife hopes to educate and civilize her tawny spouse. To our mind there is one or two importtant suggestions, embraced, inferentially or otherwise, in the following sad "romance of real life:" it A fa- ?:_! I.& L.. A *wn j vol o t? JUUU^ 1C1I iiv& uuiuv and went to Rochester, there becoming the inmate of a school. When less than fifteen years old, she felt a Bohool-girl's fancy for a boy two or three years older than herself, who was fiercely in lore with her, and the two were seoretly married, the wife returning to her school, the husband to his, for he also was in the early stages of an eduoation. When, in the course of time, the marriage was made public, there was a great outcry. The parties were sent from their schools, and the indignation of the principals was hot.? The boy took his wife to a house where a rich stepfather and the haughty mother divided the rule. At first they were reconciled to the loving pair, for they supposed the girl was an heiress, and the money appeased the stepfather, while the idea of the "gentility" which money brings, soothed the mother. But when it was found that the son had brought home a penniless bride, their iudignant virtue burst its prudent bonds. The young wife was cast adrift, and the husband was sent to kind Indiana to get a divorce. She returned to Rochester, the inhospitable parents living in another county, and there found employment in a shop. He could not obtain his divorce?perhaps did not wish it. At any rate he came alBo back to Rochester, and held clandestine intercourse with his wife. Undoubtedly reprehensible as it was, no one can wonder that he took to drink, being weak-minded and disappointed. His intemperate habits destroyed the little manliness originally in him, and he became a burden to himself and source of shame to his friends. The wife, disheartened by the treat-' ment she had received for contracting a legal marriage and trying to support herself, and being unused to labor and being in danger of breaking down under it, forsook a virtuous life and sold herself. It was not long, however, before the disgrace attaching to her position made life insupportable, and she determined to end it.? Accordingly she attempted suicide twice, but was each time kept from dying, by the timely arrival of assistance. All of which has happened before she has arrived at the summer of her twentieth year." The annexed paragraph contains some interesting and rather remarkable facts on the curious subject of Somnambulism, or walking in sleep: "Henry Liuaiora, a lerryman, 01 rroy, ?ew York, hearing a man call "over," arose from hip bed, passed down stairs, out of doors, and down the long stairway to his skiff, got in, crossed the river, brought the passenger over who was calling, took the passenger over in the Mohawk basin boat, and recrossed back again to his station on the Island, passed up stairs in the toll-honse, where the ferrymen sleep, took the lighted lamp in bis band, passed to his bed and then back again to the hatchway, where he stepped off and fell to the floor below, making a great racket and waking apall the rest of the hands, who hastened to see what was the matter, and on inquiry found that Ludford had been sound asleep all this time. Curiously enough he received but a few Blight bruises by his fall. He rememberol nothing of what had occured. and was bewildered when found lying on the door, and anxious to know bow he came there, and ready to swear that be had not been over with a passenger sinoe an early hour in the evening. The change made by him was taken from a table on which the quarter lay. The midnight passenger called attention to the queer conduct of the ferryman, and said he never saw so dumb a chap before. Our readers who are hearing so much just now about Sicily and the revolution there, may be interested in this outline of the history jf the island taken from the New York Courier: "Sicily is the largest island In the Mediterranean, about one hundred and sixty miles long, ind one hundred and thirty wide, separated from the southwest extremity of Italy by the narrow strait of Messina, with the volcano of Etna rising from the midst of its fertile fields and rineyards, which are celebrated now as in the jlassic days of old, for their wheat and corn, :heir oil and wine. Sicily was supposed by the indents to be the same as the Homerick Island Tfiricinin, said to be derived from the triangnar form of the island. When the Siculi, driven from Italy, crossed the strait and took possession ?f the island, the name was changed into Siollia. Conquered at first successively by Carthagenians, Etomans and Goths, in the ninth century the Saracens became its masters, which rule made vay for that of the Normans, which in 1194 was mpereeded by the Swabian Dynasty, which in urn made way for the rule of the French under Charles I., Duke of Anjou, whose tyranny was erminated by the massacre known as the Sicilian Vespers. Princes of Aragon now became its assessors; then the sovereigns of Spain until nsurrection gave it to Austria, who in her turn, ras driven out by Spain. In 1736, the Infant )on Carlos came into possession, and united the Bland with the Kingdom of Naples, under the >ame of the Kingdom of the two Sicilies. Spain ext ceded the island to the Pope in 1789, and in 813 Napoleon made it a French station. After he battle of Waterloo, it reverted to the Neaolitan sway, under which government it remaind until the outbreak of 1848, rhen, after a ittle breathing spell, it came under the cruel way of the treacherous and infamous Bomba, rhose history is too well known to need recapitlation." The editor of the Cheruw Gazette, in a unning but graphic account of a recent trip to 'lorida, speaks as follows of the celebrated Siler Spring: "Silver Spring is one of the greatest natural uriOBities in the State. But who can describe : ? Many we know have tried and failed, and re fear we cannot do more. This famous pring is situated in Marion County, six miles ri/tolo TVia rtftunfftr fnr milna nrnnnH ! a pine flat, bearing the finest growth of that imber we saw in the State. Within one hunred yards of the Spring, the hammock comlences, ana as yon approach, no indications of ater arc visible, until in a moment the Spring 1 all its grandeur, breaks upon the vision. And hat a sight! A bason of the purest water, ame two hundred feet in diameter, in which all ie beauties of oolor are produced and multilied by every zephyr that ripples its surface.? 'pon its brink, you look down into the pellucid luntain, to the depth of some fifty or sixty feet, nd observe the minutest objects on its bot )tn. Enter the boat and float out, and look in:nly down for a single minute, and you find ourself nnconsiouBly grasping the gunnels of le boat, imagining that you are floating in le etherial regions. The sensatiou is sublime eyond description. We dropped a pin into the pring, and were surprised to find that our vision ould follow its meanderings to the bottom, and iat too, without any apparent dimunition of its ;ze. Persons familiar with the Spring, informd os that the letters on a half dime could be easi7 read, at the depth of sixty feet. We saw innuterable fish, of the perch and trout species, listissly floating in these transparent waters. The hove remarks apply to a succession of Springs, xtendiog in length a distance of some three dies, where they empty intoOchlawaha, a tribu try to the St. Johns. Steamboats regularly avigate the Oclnwaha and Silver Spring, and ischarge and take in freight on its banks. These Springs are bowl shaped, and have their c des shingled with a striped leaved acquatic t. lant, with a white stem. These are continually jitated by the rushing waters, and render the ght too much for even the pencil of the most tillful artist. These waters are pure as the t sure of the heavens, light and transparent as t ;her and sweet as the nectar of the gods. Soon ie Railroad from Waldo to Tampa Bay, will ach this beloved spot, and then thousands will n isten to enjoy their beauties and bathe in their a, illucid and health giving waters." 0 Rev. Dr. Palmer, of New Orleans, de- s lines the Professorship at Prince ton to which ti e late General Assembly elected him. CONTBIBUTORIAL. " Personal. Dr. George W. Bagby is the new Editor of ; the Southern Literary Mestengtr, Richmond, Virginia. Garibaldi?the Irish newspapers say?is an Irishman; or, at least, of Irish descent. His ! grandfather's name was Garret Baldwin; since corrupted to Garibaldi. 0 Popoi! Labree is the name of the last saint, very recently added by Pio Nono to the Papal calen; dar. Labree was an old French beggar, and 1 died in 1783. "The papers" say that hiB life , was not entirely exemplary; but what does that signify ? It is rather a proof that he was a good man. Lilliputian*. These pigmies are being exhibited at Kinsler's Hall. They are a brother and two sisters, all ' about forty years old ; and Ihey look forty, at leait. They are Virginians, they say, and are in the main jnst what the hand-bills claim for tbem. They are ngly enough to be a hundred , years old. Being on their way up the country, they will probably visit Yorkville. The name of the family is Walters. Tine Southern Muse. Two Yolames 'of poetry hare recently been published in Augusta, Georgia?"Poems," by Miss Annie R. Blount; and "Poems," by Mis? Carrie Bell Sinclair. We hare not read these poems yet. This young ladies are not unknown to us as contributors to periodical literature.? Miss Blount, especially, has a wide circle of admirers in newspaperdom ; and many of her poems in the Field and Fireside, the past year, hare been of high order. We presume both volumes are characterized, as debut-books often are, by some appreciable degree of immaturity. We make our citique-al salutations to these ladies and congratulate them (and our Southern readers) upon the appearance of the two new contributions to Southern literature. The National Quarterly Review. The initiatory number of this periodical made its appearance on the first of June. It is edited by Edward J. Sears, and published in New York. In his purpose to make the review what its name inplies?national?the editor promises as to exclude from its pages everything that is sectional in the political line?slavery and that style of subjects. The contents of this number 'is as follows: Dante; Godwin's History of France; The Modern French Drama; Worke of Charles Dickens; The Nineteenth Century; A glance at the Fine Arts; The poems of Mrs. Drowning ; Italy, Past and Present; and, lastly,Critical Notices. In all, 274 pages?43 pages of Critical Notices. The tone of the Review is youthful, fresh, and not staid and stately as quarterlies too often are. In the article on Mrs. Browning, all discussion of her views on slavery (either English or American) is fairly and properly staved off. That article, vre may mention in passing, is in all respects a fine one, giving our favorite her true and high position among living poets. Among the Notice* and Criticisnit ?to our mind the great feature of the National ?there are some fine excoriations. Appleton's New American Cyclopaedia is reviewed without the fear of publishers before his eyes. Mitchell's Popular Astronomy is handled without gloves. Humboldt's Correspondence is treated in similar fitting style. Praise is dealt out with equal freedom, and very fair discrimination. The classics especially, but education in general, is a leading feature of the National. The mature scholarship of Mr. Sears determines this matter very fortunately. Scholarship is what we want in such works. Wo have had pedantry enough. This enterprise promises well, and we expect and hope well of it. Pudney and Russell, publishers, 79 John street. New York. Three dollars a year. Summer-Touring. In Pickens District, near Caesar's Head, is Table Rock. The Table Monntain House is at the baae of the mountain. Mr. Sutherland is the proprietor. Everybody calls him "Old Sutherland." The houseis kept in a style somewhat primitive. Economy struck us as being the most notable feature of the establishment. That was admirable. Everything is plain, and unambi ! tious. Bnt the Rock makes up for all mine host's primitiveness. The elevation above the sea is 4,300 feet?above the Saluda, about 2,400 feet. The perpendicular height of the Table, on the river side, is 750 feet. It is dizzying to look at. Nearly thirty years ago, Mr. Simms wrote a story of which this Rock is the scene. Simms' "Legend of Table Mountain," is a stirring tale { of the Indian times. Don't fail to descend to Silver-Leaf Pool, at the foot of the Rock. It is like a smiling blue' ^ eye under that granite brow !?an eye that looks gazing up forever at the stupendous pile above it! t Look Out Point, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a capital mountain retreat. The Point is five ( miles from the city. The elevation, we believe, ' is about 2000 feet above the Chattanooga. There ^ are commodious and pleasant quarters on the ' summit. A new hotel presents an admirable 1 arrangement of airy and neat apartments, supe- 1 rior in fitness to anything of the kind we have ] seen. It is a lovely spot?a throne to dream on. * From the Point proper, mountains, huge and pic- 1 turesque, stretch east, north, and west, itf regular Alps-on-Alps style. And at the base, away ! below, sweeps?nay, dances along?the girlish * Tennessee river. Its glad blue waters glide and * leap through landscapes, equal to Turner's best. 1 The beauty of river and the majesty of moun- * tains?the feminine and the masculine?blend ' and stand in contrast so aptly, so perfectly, and * so naturally, that the artist's ideal can gain little 1 by comparison. We have seen nothing, either north or south, 1 that equals this scenery. We have seen it at all 1 hours?night as well as day?in nil lights?in a sunshine and in storm?alone and not alone. It a is altogether lovely. Go and see it. a Tbe Colombia Invisibles. The Invisibles are to appear as usual on the Fourth of July. It has become an annual feature of our city. It partakes of the nature of e the carnival in European cities; and, in tbe ^ :ourse of time, may gradually assume all the ? features of that Papal gala. ^ We rather favor the institution. There is a ^ sertain amount of nonsense constitutional in ^ the many, that has to have vent somehow ; and his manner seems to us as inoffensive as any, ind is fanny enough certainly. Vive la bagatelle! !jj The Hudson Monument. p This enterprise yet wants two hundred dollars E ;o complete it properly. Is there a single pupii ei >f Mr. Hudson among oar readers who will not u if he has not already done so) send one dollar ei o Col. Jat. II. Kion, Winniboro', S. C? lutl?d(?, a The late novel that was attributed to Miss al 3 vans, is now quite a.favorite with our novel- al eading people. Rumor now points to an ac- li omplished young lady of Columbia as the an- fc hor. tl I. C. College. The June examination of the under graduates n erminated on Tuesday of last week. Full re- ai urns of its results have not been made yet; so m hat we are not able to tell how many were dis- se lissed, or as the phrase goes, how many were H hipped. A goodly number probably. The health tb f the body collegiate requires that treatment ro metimes. Those Doetort understand medic*- le ion. J. W. D. se Columbia, S. C. se ziooazi apfazrb. The "Enquirer." In order to allow the hands In the office to attend the Celebration at Clay Hill, the next iasne of the Enquibkb will be printed on Tuesday 8d of July. Advertisers will please hand in their favors not later than Monday evening. The Virginia Lilliputian!. By a letter from the agent, we are informed that the "Walters Family, or the Virginia Lilliputians," will visit Yorkville, on Monday next A paragraph from the contributing editor, gives farther particulars. Regimental Reviews. It will be observed by advertisement, that Gen. Dcsovast, has ordered the 46:h Regiment to parade atEbenezer, on Saturday the 11th of August; and the 34 th Regiment at Yorkville, on Tuesday, 14th of August. Jasper Light Infantry Celebration. . We have been instructed by the Committee of Arrangements to state that the address of Lieut E. McIvbb Law, will be delivered at 10} o'clock, a. m., at the Independent Presbyterian Chprch, instead of the College grounds, as heretofore announced. . ? ? RaQiotd DJridMidi ^ J : . another part of to-day'# paper will be found the notice of Mr. J. H. Fatssocx, Treasurer of the King's Mountain'Bait Road Company, announcing a Semi-annual dividend of three dollars on the share, payable on and after the 20th of July. " ' Bat tall ton Moat era. By reference to advertisement, it will be seen that Col. Fitchet has ordered the South Battellion of the 34th Regiment to parade at Carroll's Old Field, on the 28th of July; and the North Battallion at Galloway's Old Field on the 4tb of August. The Torkvllle Lyceum. At the regular meeting of our Lyeeam, Monday evening last, Capt. A. Coward was elected President; Johh B. Erwtr, Vice president; W. W. East,- Secretary ; Maj. E. B. Clihtoh, Treasurer. Capt. Coward was elected Anniversary Orator. Destructive Hall-storm. The Charlotte Bulletin contains accounts of a Hail-Storm on Tuesday of last week, which ravaged parts of Mecklenburg, Lincoln and adjacent counties; being from one to four miles wide, and extending Northeast and Southwest about 150 miles. A gentleman informed the Bulletin that he gathered pieces some two hours after they fell, eight inches ih circumference.? We heard that the largest pieces on falling measured nine inches in diameter. The crops embraced in the scope of country, traversed by the storm, are said to be ruined completely. Mrs. Ewart's Story. "Ellen Campbell" increases in interest. With this issue, the clond not bigger than a man'# hand has become a sublime thunderstorm surging up the dark sky. Every reader will admit iLni La nn*\M/\a/?Vi fa ika Kn tlla ifoal^ So m snun/1 kiiab uui cij/piuaoii vv i>uo i/catti^y iw?ii) 10 ? giauu thing. All the terror, desolation, riot and fiery patriotism of the time are depicted with "the pen of a ready writer." We think and hope that none can read this story without feeling their bate of wrong and oppression, and their love of liberty, enkindled anew. It is doe to Mrs. Ewart that this much be said of her story. It is a proud and patriotic effort; and we only wish it may be appreciated and influential according to its merit. Cfeaaeellor Ingils. This distinguished and courteous gentleman presided at the term of oar Eqaity Court, which has just closed. We take pie. mre in subjoining the testimony of the Yorkrille Bar to his "ability, dignity and affable beaming:" At a meeting of the Yorkrille Bar, held in the Cnnri TTnnsn nn the 22nd inat.. on motion of Edward Moore, Esq., tbe following resolutions were passed unanimously^ Resolved, 1st. That the ability, dignity -and affable bearing with which his Honor John A. Inglis, baa presided tbe present term, command* oar warmest admiration. And we the members of the Yorkville Bar, feel that it is dae to him. as well as it is a grateful pleasure .to ourselves, thus to give public expression to our high appreciation of Chancellor Inglis as an able Chancellor and courteous gentleman. Resolved, 2nd. That a committee of two be ap pointed to furnish bis Honor with a copy of these resolutions. Resolved, 3d. That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Yorkville Enquirer. 0. W. WILLIAMS, Chairman. I. D. Withbrspoon, Secretary. : mw ? For the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTERS FROM A FATHER?WO. 10. Messrs. Editors: Rejoice with me, and bid me great joy! One streak of really good fortune bas happened to me and my family. It makes ue feel glad; and like singing the lines of Thornis Campbell, 'When the night Is the mlrkest, The dawning U neareet" Catharine and her printer-lover have married. They consummated their heart's wishes in a very inlet way. John?his name?invited a few of lis city friends?mostly members of the craft, iko himself?and spoke to good old Mr. Grnlam, one of the most beloved and venerable ninisters of the city, to marry him. They came, ind it was soon done. Last Thursday night, irhen your valuable paper was on its way to us, Tohn and Catharine, for better or for worse, were nade man and wife. What pleases me most iu this wedding, is the ndustriou8 habits and sensible notions in which Tobn has been educated; and his evident inflamce over Catharine, iu causing her to imbibo the ipirit of these habits and notions. He has manifestly possessed this influence, almost if not quite rom the beginning?it results from her love for tim. I saw it in the domestio and business tnrn rhich she manifested more than ever after his irst visits; and I inwardly hoped that they would narry and become prosperous and happy. John s just the man to make her a noble husband; ,nd with a good husband she is bound to make , good wife, an ornament to her house, a blesing to her children, and an honor to her aex nd race. She has all aloDg been my, hope, rhile Jane and Eliza were patting prodlgafity tself to shame, by their reckless and ruthless xtravagance. Whereas they were idle, she seemd willing to work and economize. My keeping er at home to educate her was a wise step, too, rhich tended to curtail and nip in the bud Cathrine's bad qualities, and foster her good ones. 1 'has, with a better disposition, perhaps, in the 1 eginniog, and a far better education, her future | s comparatively bright, while that of my other i rown daughters is hopelessly dark and gloomy. I 'rue, Eliza is married to a young man of some roperty ; .but he is capable only of spending it. [e has been a spendthrift from beginning to nd; and such he is likely to remain, at least ntil he will have learnt frugality by wretchd experience. Jane bids fair to be an old maid. Hth a heart-aching in its foil capacity to love nd be loved, she is likely to $ down single and lone to the grave. I pity the woman thus situ ted, though she may have brought it on herself, ke Jane; for who can estimate how bitter it is ir a warm woman's heart to go thus unsympalixed with through life?' Benjamin?poor boy I is beyond the hope of formation, I fear; and to remove the'blasting id desolating influence which his bad example ight have on his younger brothers, I have coninted for him to go to the navy with Captain ardy, who is now on a visit to his mother in lis city. The change may do him good. The iugh and tough duties of seafaring life ma/ ad him to think more for himself, to greater lf-reliance,- and to a personal and experienced nso of the great fact, that we mutt labor in or der to attain to anything worthy in this lift.? The severe discipline neccessary on board, will also tend to imbne him with business habits, I F and to make a man of him. I am thus, as yon see, rid of all my children (except Jane) who were raised np under the pernicious notions?the cod-fish aristocracy notions ?With which my dear wife and I started out in life. With the good advice which you have given me from time to time privately; with my own sad but wholesome experienoe, and with the relief occasioned by the dfafanition of my family, I may get along?so, I shall olose these letters in this number of the Enquirm, and go to work now with a better will and dugher spirits than I have done in years past. Messrs. Editors and dear readers, these may seem hard and heartless words about my obilrea, with -wbioh to close these letters. I mean only to speak the plain truth for the good of them and other yonng people. Solomon says, a wise .bob makes a glad father, but a foolish sou is the heaviness of his mother; and this is the truth. If parents, too, train up their ohildren to be "foolish" sons and danghters, they are sowing the wind of folly to reap the whtrldwind of unhappiness and family disgrace, if not rain. I and my wife were silly in the beginning; and ' sad were the oonseqnenoes to at least three of .my fonr eldest ohildren. If now I rejoice that this thorn, by their marriage or otherwise, is ~ e?:t-?- -J- j ? VU.VIVX IIVW >uj imLUHJ a S1U0, UC0UI 11 DOT hard-beartedness but a wise consideration of the interests of my younger ohHdrta. My wife and I bare talked it over soberly together ; and we bare come to the oonelaeion to teaoh the balance of onr offspring net to be ashamed of any honeet work, as a prime part of their education. We have bid the oodftsh aristocrats a hearty good bye. We are tired of the sponges of society. Among them two-thirds of the gossip and distention and bickering of oom - munities originates. They nerer stand on merit, because they never have merit equal to their ' vulgar aspirations. Th ey stand mostly en money ami show; and they lore to see men gape at their bnge display. It takes a'sight of moaey to do a family of this sort. People of ordinary mesne are silly to begin snch a life. Tt araasps them, so they never can sncceed. It will do hat poorly, for those Who are immensely rich and honored; for even then too much of it mates a man like iEsop's ass in the lion's skin. I and my with, I say, have given np'aTI this effort to show off; and intend now to follow the more sensible, if less aspiring, class of people, who go in more for merit, character, virtae and utility. I advise all my parental readers?and I have the right, for my experience has been worth some thing?to follow onr exanpie. Men and women of the right stamp, of really the highest worth, ore not going to be so ridiculously vain and ostentatious. They repose upon a qnietising consciousness of their claims to respect; and do not go about bidding for praise here and there, ^ with a transparent mask of condescending patronage about them. Oo this principle, every item of genuine .experience?of what ie the name, every step made in the search of true knowledge?makes us humbler,, and therefore wiser and better. Vanity is a desire to be thought thus and so, whether ws are or not; and display, which is the child of vaniy, is therefore, to aay the very least, an equiyodkl thing. Teaeh year children to be fond of it, and. as they grow up fhey will be to your pocket, like the horae-leeeh crying more and more. Well for yon then will it be,.if yon are rich; for if not, look for troubling 'perplexities in yonr business, then Iosms and debts, then sheriff sales, and finally an old age of squalid poverty and wretchedness. On the other hand, teach yonr children not to be ashamed of any hongst calling; teaeh them how to work, and actually to work; teaoh them to be industrious and to economise; and they will not only be a source of comfort, enjoyment and prosperity to yoa, bat a credit to themselves and a blessing to their day and generation. It is an old quotation in every body's mouth, that whosoever makes a blade of grass grow where none did before, is a benefactor to his race. If this is so, how vastly more trae is it of him who instead of spoiling bis children and making them mere weeds, sapping the fertility of the soil of society, raises them up so that their sons are Hke trees planted by the rivers of water, and their daughters like stones polished aftar the similitude of a palace! There are some great things whioh mast be done ?and they can be done ooly by men and wo men?or. else, we woold go back to barbarism. | me neiaa must oe lenaea; in* victuals, cooked the clothes, made; the joaog folks, edacated; the gospel, preached; the government, carried on; <he arte and sciences, supported; and the press, made to teem with the literature of the past and the present Now it may look a little strange to place the greasy cooks, the sturdy farmers, the gouty politicians, the sage philosophers, &c., along side each other?it is a little so; but it shows that we ought not to be ashamed of eachother, and each other's condition in life, when they are all necessary to the civilization and advancement of the race. The biggest npatart you can find, is dependent on the poor laborer for the very bread he eata ; and this should learn him a lesson of hnmility. Besides, the God of heaven made the sunshine, and the Bleep of night, for all; and this shonld learn as a lesson of equality. Again if we consider the fluctuations of family fortune, we will be tanght the same thing which I have all along been trying to enforce into these letters. Three generations are sufficient, it is said, to make, to enjoy and to spend a fortune. Who, consequently, has not poor and vile ones of his own blood ? One brother is poor, another rioh. One is honored, another dishonored. One is good, another bad. So of the sisters. Now if you scorn a poor man, or even one that is dishonored or bad, the man yon scorn may poiat his fiDger at yonr brother or sister, to whom affixes a darker stain. Be firm in opposition to sin of every kind; but generosity and mercy were never yet unbecoming in him, who depends on them for all things. Messrs. Editors, I thank yon for your uniform kindness in admitting my letters into yonr valuable paper. Now, in conclusion, as I wish to leave my readers in a reflecting and telf examining state of mind, allow me to propound the following question from the good old fashioned nAAt Trvol Rtrlnnr Monn m<t?* ? 2a 2- 1 pvro., ?w >" ; oojr n ia impertinent ; but I warrant, all these, every one of them, will have to answer "yet" on investigation. Let each one ask the question of himself. "What tho' the generous cow give me to quaff The milk nutrition*?am I, then, x cxuri" I remain until death. Tonrs, very truly, OLD FOGY. For tho YorkviUe Enquirer. THE FOURTH OP JULY. Bat a short space now intervenea before ano:her return of that memorable day, which the sons and daughters of Columbia claim so proudly, as the birth-day of theft independence. To the patriot-philanthropist and lover of his coantry, the days of seventy six, are of thrilling inerest. He reads over the long list of departed leroes, who bequeathed to as the liberties we mjoy. Ho there finds "the representatives of he Colonies, in General Congress assembled? (ray haired men, yontbfal men, men of mature niddle sge, with the gibbet and the halter, and he rebel's doom staring them in the face: yet letermlned to be free themselves, and their chillren, without any faltering or one wi9tfnl glance >ackwards, setting their hands tq that instrament rhlch declared the oolonies thenceforth and for