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???????????i??? William wRIlAST.}Proprictors- Inbepenbent Jfamilj Hetuspaper: Jfor tjjc promotion of tjje political, jsocial, Agricultural anb Commercial Interests of % jsoutlr. |82 pee yeae, in advance. VOLUME 7. YORKVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 28,1861. NUMBER 13. Jtlwftil Wmtxv. w o rr> | From the Lancaster Ledger. "OH : SING IT AGAIN." Oh ! sing ii again, and sing me none other; Tis the hymn that I loved in the morning of life; it brings back my chiidhoood, it calls up my mother, From the grave Where's site's sleeping it raises my wife. Oh! sing it again, the trembling emotion. That tindeth expression in cheeks bathed in tears For me hath a pleasure that earth air or ocean. Can never bring to me, in life's coining years. Love, youth, hope and beauty return never more; In their plaee, my attendants, are sorrow and paiu ; But the soul of past jot s flit around me and o'er. Whenever I hear that old music again. Tis the song 'hat she sang to our children when young. As hojic scattered pleasures 'long life's weary road, Tis the sweetest of ail the sweet songs that she sung, Twik the song tiiat the sung when she worshipped her God. Then sing it again and sing me none other, Tis the hymn that I loved in the morning of life ; It brings back childhood, it calls up my mother. From the grave where'suite's sleeping, it raises niv wife. TANK'S OWN BARD. LaneastcrviUe, S. C. jp&te. From tile South Carolinian. * Constitution of the Southern Confederacy?Its Distinctive Features. The Constitution, in its general aspect, is American. It preserves all the essential attributes of American liberty, and makes decided improvements by providing against abuses which grew out of the Federal Con. . . r i"?ow mi_ _ StltUtlOO 01 l/o/. xne progress vi eivuization is onward. Each revolution advances its great march, aud makes new developments. The revolution of 1776, the result of the great principles of civil liberty derived from English history and experience, developed the Constitution of '87.? The subsequent experience of the Southern people under C e latter Constitution, enables them to uevelop the Constitution of 1861, which advances nearer to perfection, by throwing off many of the old imperfections. What changes the progress of the next century may require, our descendants must judge. Human wisdom is only competent for the exigencies of the moment. Foremost among the changes which have taken place, are those in reference to the Presidential election and the distribution of the "spoils." The cvil3 arising trom these elections are, some of them, incurable, and can only be tolerated by weighing the greater security to civil liberty which we feel when conscious that the term of office of our Chief Magistrate is not perpetual, and that time, not bloody revolution, may be safely trusted to remove him when incompetent. One great evil, under the constitution of 1787, was the re-eligibility of the President. lie was no sooner in office than he began to administer for the succession. His office-holders, removable if he was not re elected, became his partizans. While other aspirants, by promises to the horde of office-seekers, soon arrayed themselves against the Government, to defeat and disgrace it by thwarting it even iu measures of public good it might undertake. This scramble, on the one side to retain and on thn nfhnr In rmsssess the SDoils. Was One of vw,*w' r i- - / the most demoralizing evils of the old regime. This is, in a great degree, removed, by electing the President for six years, thus reducing the frequency of the Presidential contest; by making him ineligible, thus removing from him the temptation of the succession ; by giving him the power to remove civil officers of the Executive Department, when their services are unnecessary, or for "dishonesty, incapacity, inefficiency, misconduct or neglect of duty," and requiring the reasons for such removals to be reported to the Senate, thus checking, in a great degree, the struggle for the spoils among the partisans of the respective aspirants. These changes connected with the Presidency, will, if they attain the results aimed at, prove the greatest improvements upon the order of things under the old government. The provision that Congress may, by law. grant to the principal officers in the Executive Departments a seat upon the floor of: either the Senate or House, with the privi-1 lege of discussing measures appertaining to! their respective departments, is borrowed from the English Parliamentary custom,' and will, we think, work well. Another important provision is that in j reference to the qualification of foreigners, j Under the Federal Constitution foreigners are qualified by State laws to vote before they are admitted to citizenship under the Federal Government. This gives rise to dissatisfaction, and is the cause of much corruption in our large cities. To avoid this, the Confederate Constitution provides that "no person of foreign birth, not a citizen of the Confederate &'fates, shall be allowed to vote for an officer, civil or politi cat, State or federal.' A fruitful source of trouble uuder the old Government, was the power of the Government to embark in a system of internal improvements. This is explained by limiting the facilities Congress may afford commerce, to furnishing lights and buoys, and making improvements in harbors, and removing obstructions in river navigation ; and, iD these cases, requiring that duties on the navigation facilitated thereby, be made to pay the cost. When any river divides or flows through two or more States, they may enter into compacts with each other to improve the navigation thereof. The Constitutionality of protection to any 1 ^ * J * /.k n/iinctmnnt Crancn or inausiry, iuiuu^u mc aujuc^vu. of the tarifif, was also another subject of party division. This, too, is settled, by the provision that no bounties shall be granted, nor any duties laid to foster any branch of industry. Again, in requiring that the Post Office Department shall be self-sustaining, the new Constitution provides against another abuse, lly producing a deficiency in this department, the advocates of protection in the I'nited States Government created an excuse for raising the tariff. The new Constitution provides that, after the 1st of March 1863, the expenses of the Post Office Department shall be paid out of its own revenue. The same inducement for protection produced great extravagance in every department of the Government, because the greater the expenditures the greater the protection. Against all of this the ninth and tenth clauses of the uiuth section of the first Article makes stringent provisions. The second section of Article fourth se I cures to the citizen of each State the right h iof transit and sojourn in any State of the c j Confederacy with their slaves and other s property, and that the right of property in ;ii said slaves shall not be thereby impaired. jtl i The third clause of the same section pro- j h Ividesfor the rendition of fugitive sluves.? !p There is in this a direct and palpable desig- jd : nation of slaves as property, which the old ; > Constitution very prudishly avoided. It!ii also provides that in all territory of the Go- I vernment, "the institution of negro slavery, !ii as it now exists in the Confederate States, j shall be recognized and protected by Cou jf* gress and the Territorial Government." jil The admission of other States is provided jll for; butbyavote of two-thirds of the whole. ia House, and two-thirds of the Senate?the a Senate voting by States. But no new ^ States shall be formed within thejurisdic- 11 tion of any other State; nor any State be P formed by the junction of two or more 11 States, or parts of States, without the con- ^ sent ot ttie .Legislatures or tne states cou-1 cerned, as well as of the Congress. IP Article fifth, section first, provides that! ^ upon the demand of three States, through J their conventions, Congress shall summon a :U it convention of all the States. I, In the above we have given our readers |Q the distinctive features of the Constitution L of the Confederate States. The observation j j of every attentive reader of the history ofj|( the United States will detect the reasons^ which prompted the above changes, and;t( will recognize them as improvements. The jjj old constitution threw every obstacle in the | a way of improvement, and left a minority L( without redress. It left to revolution to i a make corrections which wisdom and justice i ^ should have accorded spontaneously. What j p the experience or the exigencies of the Sou-11| them States will require in the future, we a of this generation cannot see. But, be they t] I what thev may, this revolution and this J ? Constitution sets an example which, if fol- J j, lowed by the whole world, will give to eve- |S( ry nationality redress of grievances without u recourse to bloodshed. n ***** ' I u From the N. \. Tribune. ? n The Dominant Race. j. It is no novelty to 2nd a douiiuaot race y in the midst of a nation. China, Russia, w Spain, Austria and England, have their ^ dominant races, who have controlled and e shaped the Government, and kiudly accep t] ted its places of honor and profit. Up to 1 the fourth day of this present month of j j, March the United States have had a domi-L nant race, every way disposed to relieve the | c rest of the people of the cares of Govern- a ment, and to rule and govern as it pleased. ja Oligarchies obtain the control of Govern- ia ment not so much by the force of intellect ^ as by following the business of government jc as a pursuit or trade, and our Southern oli-jf, garchs have succeeded only because their J j perseverance has been indomitable, and their victims unresisting. Banding togeth-1 , er as oue man, training themselves for po-1 . jlitical work of every kind, establishing j satrapies in the North about as sure and J j steadfast as the superior power at home, i?' jthey came finally to think themselves invincible, and issued their edicts?with a sublime audacity which a Chinese Emperor could hardly excel. Their power at b the North, although broken, is not yet 0 wholly spent. As among their own slave i population the old religious idolatry of At* u j rica is said to linger, so among their ser-:'! : vants at the North the political heresies which they have taught still live, and are 1 n j ready, upou a fitting opportunity, to break j " forth with noxious virulence. Thousands!1" of the disciples of the dominant race living ' here in the free North are not ashamed to;s' avow Southern sentiments, and profess!0 Southern allegiance, thus proving how sad- 0 ly men may be debased and beguiled by!t' impure contact. Such mortifying facts n naturally lead us to look into the causes of this malign influence, and learn the secret ia of its success i11 It will probably be conceded that thej" men of the North are intellectually a match for the men of the South. Nature has en- j P 1 ri dowed them with at least equal mental faculties, and education has undoubtedly cul- . tivated their power.s beyond the Southern average. Yet it is undeniable that the P T ... tc Northern man has proved inferior in some material points to the Suuthern man, and, ^ as the weakest must go to the wall, has yielded to Southern superiority. Again : w who can deny that the Northern woman is in all resnents a matoh for her Southern a' sister?that she is equal in beauty, grace, P refinement, education, taste ? Yet is it not most true that the Southern woman every- j ? where usurps the first social position, and i j looks down upon the woman of the North ? It is not pleasant to admit facts like these, CI but that they are facts every one's experience will testify. It is so at Washington, and it is so even at our Northern watering- j places and hotels. The Southern male g and the Southern female not only expect, but readily receive, the larger share of de- j ference and attention. And it is just because their arrogant olaims are met only by tame submission that they hare so success- . fully domineered, politically and socially, over the people of the North. They have ^ made good their right to rule by successfully imposing their yoke upon an abject peo-! pie. Their process has been a simple one, ' but it has been carried out with skill and jel vigor. They have stood by each other as I ^ a foreign nobility stands by its order.? '' They have made much of each other every- " where. No Southern woman has been found so plain or ill bred as not to receive their preference over the most beautiful ^ jand accomplished Northern woman. Inalc I mixed society, if a Southern man spoke, j ^ they listened with respect and attention, 111 no matter how foolish his speech; but when : a a Northern man opened his mouth, howev-!ai er wise his words, it was a signal to go on j *? with the laughiDg and talking. They were!" Southerners, forsooth, and, the rest of us j only Americans or Yankees, and this dis- 'al junction was insisted on even in foreign ja :lauds. As a part of their plan of opera-;0 tions they have set social traps to ensnare!n Northern politicians, and the Winthrops, ic' 11'iVeretts, Fillmores, Hunts, (irangers, Iw Weeds, and many others of that sort?have J8' proved conveniently conservative and meri j dioual, in obedience to social quite as much j'i as political influences. In public life they1 h ave been overbearing and dictatorial, and uen fit only to rule in bar-rooms have borne upreme sway by the mere force of bluster n either House of Cougress. Whether here really existed a peculiar charm in the l ome circle of the Scuthcrn gentleman is a i roblem we cannot decide, but there is no i oubt that it seemed charmed to many a Northern man and woman, who under its i nfluencc were transformed as if by magic i.nd so it has been thut both in public and i n private life the South has beeu supreme, i Shall we not admit the true reason of this I Southern success? Shall we not own that l was due to force of character, to will, de- ? crminatiou, and skill, on the one hand, nd to an utter want of tone, self-respect, nd proper sectional zeal, on the other?? I luch is the truth. The spirit of doinina- i ion engendered and nourished on the 1 lautntion, amid real slaves, was boldly ransplanted to the social circle, and exer- i }d against the Northern men who served lie State. Within these few years, certain i radical Southern arguments, of' the true i lantation stamp, have somewhat stiffened he Northern backboue, and wc are not so tterly subservient as we have been. Still i here is a long interval, iu point of toue, ash, pluck, character, between the people I f the two sections. We at the North have et to realize the full extent of our past egradation, and we have yet much to unjam before we acknowledge, as men and s citizens, that "Southerner" is not a name } conjure with. We do not even now be- i eve how completely the Southern soul is bsorbed in the love of domination. Even o lately as last December, Mr. Seward, in i ddressiug the New England Society, found i ope for the Uuion in Senatorial salaries i aid by the United States, without taxing be South to raise the uiouey ! Politician s he is of long standing, he did not know bat, to the Southern miud, bonds like this rcrc as ropes of sand when opposed to the .ist of power. As the things which are een are temporal, while those which are : nseen are eternal, so material things stand , 0 chance as against that absoibing sen'i- , jent of the Southern soul which knows no j aiddle ground between rule and ruin, and , 1 willing to endure all things rather than , ield up dominion. But since that speech , ms made, even Benjamin and Yulee have iven up their comfortable chairs, their , minent. positions, and, save the mark ! . heir handsome salaries, in obedience to , he demands of a passion swollen by long | adulgence, and irritated by defeat. Let s not, then, undervalue '.he Southern haractcr. It pursues its great aim through 11 difficulties, and literally at all hazards, j nd nothing but a sense of our own dignity, sedulous cultivation of self-respect, if we ave it not, can ever prevent the yielding, onciliating, trading, deferential North "om again falling prey to the bold, defiant, ictatorial, domineering South. 4>#l> From the NYw York Hvciiiiitr Post, What Shall be Done for a Revenue ? There are some difficulties attending the ollection of the revenue in the seceding fates, whieh it will be well to look at at jntively. That either the revenue from duties must e collected in the ports of the rebel States, r the ports must be closed to importations rom abroad, is generally admitted. If nei- 1 her of these thiogs be done, our revenue iws are substantially repealed; the sources ' rhich supply our treasury will be dried up; re shall have no money to carry on the overnmcnt; the nation will become bauk- i upt before the next crop of corn is ripe ? 'here will be nothing to furnish means of ubsistence to the army; nothing to keep ; ur navy afloat; nothing to pay the salaries f the public officers; the present order of hings must come to a dead stop. Allow j ailroad iron to be entered at Savannah i rith the low duty of ten percent., which is i 11 that the Southern Confederacy think of lying on imported foods, and not an ounce lore would be imported at .New York; the i lilways would be supplied from Southern i orts. Let cotton goods, let woolen fabics. let the various manufactures of iron 1, d steel be entered freely at Galveston, at ; te great port at the mouth of the Mississipi, at Mobile, at Savannah and at Charlesjn, and they would be immediately sentj j p the rivers and carried oo the railways to | le remotest parts of the Union. Nay, they , ould be sent directly from these ports by , ?a to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York ( ad Boston. Shop-keepers would be sup- ; lied with their silks and laces from the ] ime quarter. The shoe-shops would be , lrnished with their assortments from the ? rench stalls, and the hatters' shops would , e tilled with th2 work of French artisans , hich have never paid a penny to the Gov- , rnment. When these and other kinds of | lerchandise were once in the country there , ould be uo way to prevent their free circu- } ition and sale in every part of the United , tatcs. The mighty Mississippi and its j reat tributaries, the long railways reaching ; om one extremity of the Union to the , ther, the active fleet of merchant vessels j tnployed m our coasting trade, would rap- ( lly convey the untaxed merchandise to the ( tost distant neighborhoods of our great do , lain. ' , To protect the interests of the Federal | rcsury something must be done. The gen- t ral expectation seems to be that duties will t e collected ou board of armed vessels at I ic different ports of entry in the seceding ' tatcs. Arc our readers aware what a fleet 1 lis would require ? There are seven col- ] :ction districts in the little State of Flori- i a alone; there are four in Alabama. At * very port there must be a collector, with 1 is army of appraisers, clerks, examiners, I ispectors, weighers, gaugers, measurers, t nd so forth ; there must be a Naval Officer 1 od his staff of entry clerks. The Morrill s iriff law, which we have just enacted, will i lake a larger number of all these necessa- i f than would have been required a month 1 go. Where twenty men then would have 1 nswered the purpose, thirty will now be < ceded. If we collect the revenue in this < lanuer, with a fleet at every port and a { orps of custom house officers on board, it j ill cost us a great ucal more than ail we | liall get. i l>ut can the rovenue be thus collected ? i 'he importers arriving at the Southern < arbors will know how to address the cus-'. torn house officers. "We have a cargo," they will naturally say, "on which we do not care to pay duties just at present; we must deposit it in the warehouses for the term during which we are permitted to do so by law." What will the officers of the customs do in that ease ? The Government has no lunger any warehouses in the seceding ports. The hold of an armed vessel would neither be a proper n r a sufficiently spacious repository for the goods. The duties in that case cannot be collected ; and; the collector will be puzzled to know whe-| ther to let the ship proceed to port or toj detain her. We happen to know that there are importing houses at this moment preparing to take advantage of this opening for an unencumbered trade. They are getting ready to convey their cargos to Charleston or SaD-innnh imnrlm trill ho t.flPVA. > ?~ ?- -II and then brought coastwise to New iTork, where, being importations from aportwithiu the UnioD, they will be subject to no duty. The new tariff, with its strange formalities and ingeniously devised delays, forms an additional inducement with them to take this course. What, then, is left for our government? Shall wc let the seceding States repeal the revenue laws far the whole Union in this manuer? Or will the government choose to consider all foreign commerce destined for those ports where we have no custom houses and no collectors, as contraband, and stop it, when offering to enter the collection districts from which our authorities have been expelled ? Or will the President call a special session of Congress to do what the last unwisely failed to do?to abolish ill ports of entry in the seceding States? (VirnsiKiiulrnco of the Charleston Mercury. From New York. The two chief topics of interest here just now are Fort Sumter and the Morrill Tariff. Nothing can exceed the rage of the fanatics at the humiliation of their party and of the President of their choice, by the dire compulsion which forces them to surrender Suuiter, after all their empty gasconade ind violent blood thirsty threats. Nothing can equal the consternation of the merchants at the prospects before them arising from the operation of the new tariff. They ire hurt alike in their pride and their purse ?the latter being the most sensitive point about a Yankee. Poor old Abe is "willing to wound but afraid to strike." The Black Republican journals feel that the moral effect of the abandonment of Ft. Sum'er will be so great, that they are laboring hard to prepare the way for the news of the order from Washington to evacuate it. They shift the responsibility to the shoulders of Floyd and Buchanan ; and even Major Anderson is now absurdly accused of complicity in the "treason" to the United States. But the true causes of the policy of surrender are to be found in the pluck of South Carolina?uow the heeled aud pitted game cock of the South?and in the "dunghill" imbecility of the malignant Kail-Splitter and his Cabinet. If they mean to coerce the cotton States by armies or invasion, the reinforcement of Ft Sumter, and the defeat of the forces at Charleston, would be worth to them more than the reinforcement and permanent occupation of all the forts they hold in Southern waters, and the moral value of the conquest would be such that it would be cheaply purchased with the loss of fifty thousand men. They say twenty thousand would be sufficient. Could not New England and Lsew lorK, wnose uovemors maae euca iavish offers of men and money to Mr. Buchanan, furnish twice twenty thousand of their militia to Lincoln to "execute the laws of the Union," to say nothing of the oontingeuts of the belligerent Northwest, which sometime ago indulged in terrible menaces against Southern "rebels?" Where are now the "eighteen millions of freemen" with whom Hickman, of Pennsylvania, in the House of Representatives, threatened to march upon the South? The valor of South Carolina, however tardy the preparation, has not only saved the Southern States from invasion, but the North from insurrection, at least for a time ; for if I am not greatly mistaken in the feeling of the people of this city and of other localities in the Northern States, any troops raised to invade the South would have to march over the dead bodies of at least their jwn number before they ever set foot od Southern soil, and Greely and Beecherand Field, and the other truculent Abolition lealers. would be seen some fine morning: winging by the neck from the lamp posts jf Broadway. But I fear that even your ietermination to stand by your rights, hough it has cowed the poltroons whose :ongue9 and types were so brave, will not iltimately prevent insurrections at the tforth. The whole city of New York, you nay rely upon it, is on the verge of bankruptcy. Not live dry goods houses will be ible to stand. There is no business being lone. The number of hands discharged is , mmense. The Morrill tariff wil! bring the , jommercial crisis here, made from political jauses, to an explosion next month. The ( greater part of tho foreign trade will be diverted southward, and in a short time pauperism and general distress will be so great , hat risings and riots will take place, and ;he white slaves of commerce and capital, aoth in New Vork and New England, will , ldminister to the lips of their taskmasters ( :he poisoned chalice which they have pre- , pared for the planters of the South. An ( gnorant proletarian mass, whose condition it best is infinitely inferior to your negroes, i UA nnwn <-* AH An" f hoTf Will UC .1UIO LU "UC ttci LI 1C lUOll UOWUU vuvj lave received from their oracles. LoDg , aught that "property is robbery," they will j put the doctriue into practice at last upon a , icale of fearful dimensions. At this mo- , nent there are fifty thousand human beings , n New York aud Brooklyn who do not ] enow where they will be able to get their , breakfast to-morrow morning, and every ( lay the number of the destitute will in- ( . rease. The New York papers conceal or , ;loss over thin terrible reality. , If the South want recruits to fight its 1 aattles against invading hosts of Abolitionists, aud to spare the lives of its own citi- \ tens, let the Confederacy exploy a few rgents in New York and other cities of the North, and it will soon have as many troops i as it requires. There is not an unemployed Irishman who would not gladly enlist in the cause, and there are thousands of native Democrats eager for the same service. And, should the Lincoln administration proceed to make war upon your commerce, you can find at the North any number of ships and men ready for letters of marque from the Southern Confederacy. It is whispered here that Major Anderson intends to blow up Fort Sumter before he evacuates. If he does, I hope you will hang him higher than Haman ; and I trust the news is true, received here this afternoon from Washington, that Gen. Beauregard will not permit Anderson or his band to depart except as prisoners of war. That is just the proper course, unless all the Southern forts, including Pickens, are surrendered nt the Knme time. The Tribunr ad mits that the surrender is Dot made as a political concession, but as a military necessity; and that is equally "mournful and humiliating." It is the part of Gen. Beauregard to make the most of the victory. There is to be very soon a geoeral migration of dry goods houses to the South, in consequence of the Morrill tariff and the revolution I hope the Southern States will inquire into the political antecedents of those-whom they permit to settle among them just now. New York merchants are responsible for the success of the Republican party in this State. Cavalier. WILLIAM MAXWELL MARTIN. VVc mourn thee a hard, n patriot gone, A fair child of Renins, a loved spirit flown, The young heart so buoyant with life and with glee, The withered hopes bltried forever with thee. The harp, which on eartii was attuned to thy songs, Is exchanged for the harp which to seraphs belongs, And the scenes of this world, so dark and as drear. Have been left for a brighter, a glorious sphere, Though great is our loss, yet greater thy gain? Tlion'lt suffer no more in sorrow or pain? The ancients, prophetic, were right when they sung, That "whom tlif cods love, arc iloouioil to die young." Yet, sadly we grieve, nod nfl'eolion's tears flow? For nature Is weak and o'crburdnned with woe? Kut ties which on earth are so painfully riven, Will be re-unitcd more firmly in henven. While sorrowing hearts were surrounding thy bier. And thy requiem mournfully fell on the ear, Hope murmured, "Sleep on ! sleep on in tho rest Prepared for the saints in the home of the blest. The Great Gaines' Suit. Id view of the great interest excited by the celebrated suit of Mrs. Gaines, lately decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, a brief resume of its principal facts will not be out of place : Daniel Clark, who was one of the early settlers in the coloDy of Louisiana, was a very remarkable person. His sagacity, prudence and business tact, soon plaoed him at the head of its monetary world, while his beauty of person, popular character and agreeable manners, afforded him a similar position in the social circle. In 1802 he became acquainted in Philadelphia with a lady of extraordinary personal beauty, named Zulime Carriero. She was born in the old French colony of Biloxi, and her parents were emigrants from the land of poetry and romance?Provence?the favorite home of the Troubadours. When Clark first met her, she had been living iu wedlock with a swindler named Jerome De Graige, who, having dazzled her with aglittoring ooronet, married her, and then disclosed the astoundiug facts that he was a confectioner and a bigamist. Zulirr.e appealed for protection to Clark, who being warm-hearted and chivalrous, at once espoused her cause, and after becoming convinced that De Grange had another wife living, espoused her himself, The marriage was kept secret, and in 1806 Myra, now Mrs. Gaines, was born. Being naturally desirous of having her connection with Clark a publicly acknowledged one, Zulime went to New Orleans to obtain legal proofs of her first husband's rascality r? While she was gone, Clark, who had grown into an influential politician, became ennm. | ored of Miss Caton, a grand daughter of Charles Carroll, with whom he contracted an engagement, though when reports were brought to Miss Caton alleging her lover's marriage to .Zulime, she at once insisted upon a release from (he engagement, and she subsequently became the Marchioness of Wellesley. In the meuntime, Zulime had returned to Philadelphia, and sought to obtain proofs of her marriage with Clark, who had, with singular treachery, destroyed all that he could discover. Finding herself helpless, in a strange country, and with a child dependent upon her, she was wholly at a loss what to do, and, in her destitution, driven almost to despair, she accepted the hand of Dr. Gardette, who, with kindness and generosity united his fortupp vyith herq. Clark, in the meantime, had become penitent, but on hastening to tjnd his former love, ascertained that she was the wife of another. lie took the child Myra, placed her in care of a friend, and had her most liberally educated. Zulime lived for a long time after that, attained the age of 78 years, and died at New Orleans but a few years since.? Clark, whose business talent was proverbial, amassed an immense fortune in Louisiana, Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland, which he bequeathed by will, to his mother, Mary Clark, naming Beverly Chew and Richard llelf, bankers of New Orleans, as Executors. Charges have been preferred against the executors of bad faith and mismanagement, but however that may be, Myra?then Mrs. Whitney?having discovered at maturity that her mother had been the wife of the deceased millionaire, determined to assert her right, as the legitimate child and consequent heiress to the entire property. That she met with opposition md obstacles of all sorts may be well imagined, but she battled for her mother's honnr. jind fivinoed the most commendable spir it and perseverance, in spite of most fearful odds. Her husband died, but she remarried, and in so doing enlisted a powerful ! auxiliary in the person of Gen. Gaines, who 1 believed in her legitimacy, and aided her with all his might. It would be wearisome merely to index the various legal struggles, ' the attempted social ostracism, the treacheries, the sorrows, the hopes and fears expe- ' rienced by Mrs. Gaines in this work of her lifetime. Shesued in numerous courts, and i with varied success, until her fortune was ' gone, her friends convinced of the uselessuess of further trial, and all but her own indomitable spirit fled. She still struggled on, and, as a last resort, brought the case in its amplitude and its labyrinths of legal I technicalities to the supreme Court. There, I after a long and patient hearing, she has i obtained Ik r victory. The Court has unan- 1 iraously decided that Myra Clark Gaines is < the only legitimate child of Daniel Clark, i and that, as such, she is entitled to all the property left by him. Nor are the years and energies of the woman too far spent to j prevent her enjoyment of her vast wealth. ' Mrs. Gaines, though now in -her fifty-fifth year, is represented as being an agreeable 1 specimen of what old people delight in call- ' ing "ladies of the old school." She is in ! good health, and possesses an abundant flow : of animal spirits, which have buoyed her up 1 for over thirty years, under circumstances 1 of an unusually trying nature. How a Spire Fell. Sucli a mishap has recently occurred to ; the English town of Chichester. The i cathedral there, though by no means among the finest in England, was old and interesting. It was begun some eight bun- i dred years ago. The tower was built about tht, year 1200, and the spire, placed in the centre of the building, rising to a height of two hundred and seventy-four feet, and j surpassed in altitude by only two other spires in the kingdom, was added about the year 1400. Now, a spire erected nearly a century be-1 fore Columbus set foot on American soil isj entitled to some veneration, and therefore! its fall is worth chronicling; for fall it did, and that on the 21st of February last. It appears that the tower had for some time shown symptoms of danger, and during recent reparations made in the interior arrangements of the cathedral, it was discov J ercd that this danger was much uiorese-i i rious than at first supposed. On the 14th | ultimo, cracks and crevices appeared in the piers. Immediately after the Sunday services on the 17th, bodies of workmen took j possession of the church, and by day and I night worked to strengthen the tower.? Hut the immense weight of the spire wasj too great. A terrific storm occurred on j the night of Wednesday the 20th, which j shook the tower, but the efforts of sixty 1 [workmen appeared still to oiler some possi* ibilitj of ultimate suocess, when, at halfpast three in the morning, they left the building. At daylight they returned to the task, but now the spire tottered. At a quarter past one p. m., the workmep were all ordered out of the cathedral, and a quarter of an hour later the tower and spire fell to the floor, but with little noise, forming a mass of near six thousand tons of ruin in the centre of the church, and oarrying with lit about twenty feet in leogth of the nave, and as much of the transept and choir.? "The spire as it fell," says an eye-witness, "at first inclined slightly to the southwest, and then sank gently into the centre of the building. The appearance of the fall was that of a large ship quietly but rapidly foun- j dering at sea." Fortunately no one was injured by this catastrophe, but the people of Chichester are inconsolable over their architectural loss, A Noted Personage. A correspondent of the New York Titars writes from Charleston: I couverse freely with the blacks, and find among them but one sentiment, that of loyalty, earnest and strongly expressed There is a famous old darkey here, or, to speak more respectably, a veuerable colnnnflnmon nf o mirt7 rlnlmnfrn hrnron UJCU ^CUlltUlUIJ) Ui I* * ^ I J VlVltVUfU l/IUITU | complexion, whose card lies before me.? Win. W. Seymour, writes a hand that a Bank clerk might read. He is only sixtyfive, yet he is as active as an early cricket Seymour keeps a Hotel, and has been worth in his day, a cool 350,000, and has held, and still holds, slaves. JEJe thinks this condition is decidedly the best for the mass of the niggers; and certainly he ought to know. In the war of 1812 he commanded, so I have heard, a Regiment of his own color, and says he is ready now to march at the head of an equal number, "if the d?nj Yankees come down here to interfere with j our institutions." It is amusing to sec the j fire in the old man's eye when he talks on 1 this subject. Seymour is tho crack cook of Charleston, and is in great demand for 1 private suppers, &o. His place in State- 1 street is well known to all lovers of good 1 living and good drinking. He is the very 1 personification of the fine old gentleman, ' courtly and suave, and would makeasplen did study ror an artist jute your jviiiiot. i > frequently see the first uien iu town shak- < int; hands with the old man. In fact, he j enjoys the respect of all, and bids fair to j last at least twenty years more. ^ tt**r A Queer People. ( Chambers' Journal, discussing: a recent 1 book of missionary travels in Africa, thus 1 alludes to one of the tribes which are found 1 in that terra incognita : 3 But the strangest of all the stories told ' are of the Dokos, who live among the moist, r warm bamboo woods to the couth of Caffa r and Susa. Only four feet high, of a dark 8 olive color, savage and naked, they have ^ neither houses nor temples, neither fire nor 1 human food. They live only on rats, mice, 1 " i ' e ? l r and serpents, diversinea Dy a rew rouis uuu fruits j they let their nails grow long, like c talons, the better to dig for ants, and the c more easily to tear in pieces their favorite a snakes. ? They do not marry, but live indiscrimniative lives of animals, multiplying very rap idly, and with very little maternal instinct. The mother nurses her child for only a short time, accustoming it to eat ants and c serpents as soon as possible; and wheu it can help itself, it wanders away where it will, and the mother thinks no more about c it. The Dokos are invaluable as slaves, c and are taken in large numbers. The [ slave hunters hold up bright colored clothes r as soon as they come to the moist, warm ] bamboo woods where these humau monkeys t live, and the poor Dokos cannot resist the } attraction offered by such superior people, j They crowd round th?m, ana are taken in r thousands. p In slavery they are docile, attached, obe- f dient, with few wants and excellent health, t They have only one fanlt-?--a love of ants, I mioe, and serpents, and a habit of speaking a to Yer, with their hoads on the ground, t and their feet in the air. Yer is their idea c of a superior power, to whom they talk in c this comical manner' when they are dispirited or angry, or tired of ants and snakes, ind longing for unknown food. The Do ios seem to come nearest of all people yet discovered, to that terrible cousin of hull anity?the ape. How the Japanese Restore Faded Flowers.?A Nagasaki correspondent of the N. Y. Brrald writes: After a bouquet is drooping beyond all remedies of fresh water, the Japanese can bring it back to all its first glory by a very simple and seemingly most destructive operation. I had received some days ago a delightful bunch of flowers from a Japanese acquaintance. They continued to live in all their beauty for nearly two weeks, when at last they faded. Just as I was about to have them thrown away, the same gentleman (Japanese gentleman) came to see me. I showed him the faded flowers. and told that, though lasting a long time, they had now become useless. "Oh, no," said he; only put the ends of the stems into the fire, and they will be as good as before." I was incredulous; so he took them himself and held the stems' ends in the fire until they were oompletely charred.? This was in the morning; at evening they were ugain looking fresh and vigorous, and have continued so for another week.? What may be the true agent in this reviving process, I am unable to determine fully; whether it be the heat driviug once more the last juices into every leaflet and vein, or whether it be the bountiful supply of carbon furnished by the charring.? I am inclined, however, to the latter cause, as the full effect was not produced until some eight hours afterward, and as it seems that, if the heat was the principal agent, it must have been sooner followed by visible changes. The Formal Secession op Texas.? A enrresnnndent nf the New Orleans Ores cent writes thus frotn Austin, the capital of Texas, on the 4th iost. ' The italics are those of the writer: "Texas went out of the Federal Union this morning hright and early. By a count of the votes cast at the election for the purpose of ratifying or rejecting the ordinance of secession, the result so far is a majority of 23,459. The majority will be increased as the additional returns oome in, for the counting and registering of which provision is made. "On the counting of the votes and the making known the result, the President of the Convention, 0. M. Roberts, arose and said : 'I pronounoe the State of Texas a free, sovereign and independent nation, so declared by the voice, and will so be up held by the arms of the people.' The thundering of cannon and general rejoicing of the people attest the suprcraest gratification of the citizens of Texas at our deliverance from free negro bondage and our emergence to the condition of freemen again. Geu. Houston at one time declared his perfect willingness to aoiae tne result 01 suoumtiug the question to the people 5 but now he is uioody, silent, disoontented and disposed to bring on difficulties. He may he deposed hy the Convention, and a patriot placed in the Executive Chair of State.? It is probable that he will be." Another Baron Munchausen.?A good German member of the "Edgefield Riflemen," speaking of their late removal from Sullivan's Inland, says 1 "We arrived at Morris' Island about sundown, where we were landed and had to stay all night next to the shore. I spread my blanket about twenty yards from the water (perfectly contented as I was) to take a night's rest. The night was very cold, and the wind scattered the sand in all directions. I soon found out that I wasn't comfortable enough to go to sleep, where upon I got up and stole two more double blaukets from some of our poor fellow-soldiers, aud went to sleep immedia:ely. I did not wake up until 8 o'clock next morning, and it was very fortunate that I didn't, for the tide h$d ebbed and flowed while I slept j consequently I must havo been about two feet under water; and when i attempted to rise I found it difficult wuhout assistance, as I had been buried in the sand, I don't know how deep, my head down and my feet up, and nothing but my feet were risible." That will do, for this time. When you :atch one of Anderson's balls on the point )f your bayonet, let us hear from you again, Baron.?Edgefield Advertiser. Confessions of the Tribune.?Be- | 'ore last November threats of disunion were jornmon enough, but no one supposed they ' vere anything more than electioneering ( ricks. Indeed, so frequently had these hreats been made before, that no one had iny reason to regard them as of any praoical importance. They were accordingly ' eceived either with indifference, or with nirthful remarks; and the general opinion eemed to be that the South could not be breed out of the Union. It was argued by hose .who cared to argue at- all about it, hat the very existence of slavery depended ipon the Union ; that no slave State would lare to have Canada carried down to its borlers; that slave insurrections would occur 7 t is soon as the heavy hand of the Federal J government was withdrawn from the insti-T ution ; and that the dread of John Brown i aids would alon$ prove sufficient to keep! he slave States in the Union. It would ' eem now that great ignorance prevailed at he North as to the situation of the slave 1 States. .... . ' South Carolina Reminiscences.?A < orrespoDQont, writing from Charleston, a- 1 uong other things, says: "I was yesterday < otroduced to one of the Lieutenants of the i egular army of South Carolina, who is a ioeal descendant of William Washington, he cousin of the 'Father uf his Country.' ( IcPhersoq Washington, owns that celebra- j ed 'crimson flag of Eutaw,' which was car- c ied at that famous fight, as well as at Cow- j >ens. There is a story connected with that c amous piece of cloth that deserves narra- t ion. Just before the battle of Eutaw, j iVilliam Washington called upon a lady t nd asked her for something red, to inspire he boys in the comiDg fight. She withIrew, and returned with the desired color, ] arefully wrapped up. Our Revolutionary \ mothers wore red petticoats in those days, aod, not being able to obtain anything else, she sacrificed her crimson jupe on the altar of her country. The jupe was carried into many a hotly-contested field, and whenever it was seen, the boys thought of their sweethearts acd wives at home, and strnck for freedom with terrific force. That little flag is still borne by the Palmetto soldiers, being in the present custody of the Washington Light Infantry."?Spirit of the Times. The Mississippi River and the Morrill Tariff.?-One of the effects of the Morrill tariff, will be to settle the question of the navigation of the Mississippi river? the only one which looked threatening to the South. The Southern tariff being lower than the Northern, all goods destined for Memphis, St. Louis, Cincinnati and other ports of entry in the West, will be landed at New Orleans, bulk broken, and then for warded to their several destination?. The Western people will thereby have more advantageous and greater use of the river than they had before. Instead of consuming products coming westward from the Atlantic border, they will receive them Southward from New Orleans, giving employment to the boats and railroads on and near the Mississippi river and reviving the old business as it flourished before the East opened its artificial connections with the West.?Nno York Herald. Remedy for Peacii Borers.?Take about half a pint of common salt, and sew it up iu a small bag of strong cotton cloth, such as common osnaburg, will answer all puposes; tie this in the fork of the tree, where let it remain until the salt is dissolved by the rains that fall, whioh will be in the course of two years, and the work is done. The brine that runs down the trunk of the trees will kill both worms and eggs as they are deposited ; besides, it proves a benefit to the tree. Should there have accumulated a hardening of gum at the surface of the ground, as is sometimes the case, it should be removed, so that the solution may reach the worms. It is equally as applicable for the apple-tree borer and aphis at the roots.?(Jorrapondince uaraener's Monthly. Look Out for Counterfeits.?A gentleman of Monroe, North Carolina, has forwarded to the Commercial Bank of Colutnumbia a counterfeit ten dollar bill on that institution. It was received by him from a man who wanted bills of a large denomination, as he said, to remit by mail. He made several efforts to make an exchange of this kind with others in that place, and it is therefore to be presumed he is well supplied with bogus bills. . This counterfeit is a new bill, letter A, No. 355, dated February 19, 1849, and signed B. D. Boyd, Cashier, J. A. Crawford, President. The paper is too light in color. The vignette is Liberty with cap on pole, a spiooing-wheel on the left, and anchor on the right side of the bill, iostead of the coat of arms of the State, as in the genuine bills. The letters TEN are printed on the face of the bill in red ink, whereas the genuine bills have no red letters.? ine Din is aicogctner unuae any issue 01 the Commercial Bunk.?Guardian. The editor of the Baltimore Christian Advocate while traveling in the North was in the neighborhood of the home of John Brown. He says: "Opposite Burlington, in the Adirondack Mountains, was the home of John Brown. It is a wild, rude region, well adapted to the production of such meD as he. "Since his death, large sums of money have been raised for the use of his family. To them the amount procured is large wealth but it should represent to them the blood of father and husband, and be appropriated with the decency that would screen from other eyes all appearance of satisfaction.? As it is, the Browns are quarreling over the money, and have invoked the law to decide the proportionate rights of widow ? ? ? i nr? l i vr i i ana CQliarea. *Ji huch are uiu iueaaiaua uy whom the Abolitionists promise to redeem Southern society from its lower civilization !" A Dilemma.?Old Abe's administration is just now in a most woful fix. If coeroion is attempted towards the seceded States, the Border Slave States will go out of the Union, and the country will be lost. If a pacific policy is adopted, the Chicago platform will go to pieces, and the Black Republican party will be broken into fragments.?> The President's position may now be likened to an intoxicated individual, who waa one very cold night holding on to a spile on the edge of the dock, and thus moralized: !<If I hold on here," said he, "I shall cer:ainly freeze to death, and if I let go I shall fall in the water apd be drowned." The London Telegraph thinks that ;he English people have heretofore given m little attention to the politics and policy )f the great American nation, and in view of the universal ignorance of its readers, it jomtnences an explanatory essay, with the emark that the trouble now pending in America is occasioned by the desire of Vir??nin tn extend slavery in the States of 5,M"" "" ~ V ? 3hio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan. The Future Capitol.?A correspond lent of the Tuscaloosa Monitor, writing from Mobile, says: "In a conversation >vith a gentleman, a member of the Missisiippi Convention, we found that the far-, famed "City of Oaks," our own lovely Tus* jaloosa, has been settled upon by that Contention as the permanent location of the Capitol of the "Confederate States of Anerica." Increased Demand in France for Jotton.?We learn from the Emperor Najoleon's message, that since the reduction >f the French tariff the amount of cotton im)orted to France has increased thirty per sent, j the importation of wool has increased wenty per cent., and that of indigc fifty >er cent. A new impetus has been given o manufactures of all kinds. It was a saying of the great painter .laffaelle, that the face of a jealous woman vas the most hideous thing in nature,