Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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- % the chances -of a quarrel in which we have at pre.'\$eut uo direcV^Larc. [ If, indeed, it should*apv??, ""pear that the peace of the world may be serious' j . iytlistuibed, or the balance of power overihfown, * uppn the momentous questions which such a ' i.v, &tate of things jnighfraisc,- the voice of England V- would not iv mail j. uo heard.. But let our supi~ port be,given \\htr<^we can give our trust, and, k vir?/S- ...V . -i-? ? ^ tue v^uecu &govcrnineui Ha- cream sitiiau- j ?J in which direction the trcick of public duty. ;.;V - lies in obedience to. the positive obligations and !y-y' . direct, interests of this country, we are persuaded ^ ;-f ? that.it will steadily avoid the snare of premature ! iilterferen'ce in these transactiohsr' T-he-LonjJon Sun" of thc^same date says: is" earnestly to be hoped, indeed, that the fy, next'information received in this country from -??' *he Sublime Porte will be diafTietrieally the reverso of "what has been recently predicted, for reasgns it* were heedless to conjecture. Upon v'', " the deeisiorf arrived at by the Divan will depend the future, we repeat, not only of Turkey, but in directly, also, of Christendom, bhttulu matum be accepted, it will band over the Euro- { t peau dominions of the S^ultan at once, \ i.tually j and unconditionally, to the Autocrat. Should j . ' it, on the other hand, be rejected, as we trust! and believe that it will be rejected, Abdul Medi% jid will command* forthwith' the -aid of instant co-opeiation from:the four, great European sovereignties. -The Emperor of Russia would inevi, > tablv, in that event, find himself, opposed, not only by the ni oh are Its of Austria and Prussia, but also?and m a most earnest manner?by ^ Queen Victoria-find- the Emperor Napoleon.? Turkey wou'S discover her safety, not so much . in diplomacy,1?!* in Oie sense of justice common yto all the eliief States jdfTlhristehdpth." The details by the Pacific may eiriigbteu us " turner, ana render intelligible t he scraps el neyvs forwards bj telegraph', and the arrival of the &? "' next stfeamer will be looked for withrinterest, es*%} pecially-,by those engaged in commercial pur."siffts; for a European war would assuredly and 'injuriously affect their interests. If-the danger 4. /itof a getter^I war be so imminent as the iiitelli^v^gence would lead us to believe,it is strange that 'it affected so slightly the motu-y market iii EngL. ' land, and that cotton remained steady, with even \? an :hptwmd tendency. - V' - ? Mf*'''1-'.* From the Charleston Mtrcurt). Treasury Operations. . . There has jhecn-much said within the last few weeks, with reference to changes in the mode of transmittingfuudsof the United-States from one ffoint to another. Some wiseacres C EaVe made themselves merry over the transportafioiT of specie from New York to St. Loti. is, &c.," and contrasted it with the convenient J. .j,-method (practiced it appears by the last Ad " ministration,) ofghing the money to Brokers without security, and depending upon their .good taith_and ability to have it at the-right n- point when it was wantfcd. Jthas been said of i^V. old tUfit the wav to destruction was broadband - > .U"_i 11 .. .1 l x* - - . truey ui aim. uuifc. yiaiiy.yveiii, tuereuy iur X ^^nvepietice. \Ye are glad to - observe that (*en. Pierce Jias chospn the more rugged path of duty and law. In the'end ,pls<>, it \i;ill be found to be the patlrbf^ safety and of profit.? Experience has.provcd.that the SubslVeasury. la^.was one of. the wisest, enactments ever made. It-has saved tire Treasury from losses, and above all. ft has kept it "free from specola.ItorS, ancf mndi it a wholesome check on the tendency to paper expansion and excessive trading. Commerce may elmfa.a little under its U restraints, but after nil.Commerce owes it to the Sob-treasury law that we have not had a repetition of the revulsion of 1837.- - ? the broad road,.is 'not necessarily even j - ilie.most convenient, and some things have occurred lately to illustrate this. The following feyer from the correspondent of the Baltimore 3bii Is iti point: / **" *a Washington, June-10, 1853. ' - Th'e strict construction of fiie" Sub treasury , ' , act,-which the presontSecretaryof the Treasti^-has adopted, may be viucmivefiient, in prac- ( ."and it is generally deemed'unnecessary, ttwdAbsurd.to tftinspoib specie from' one-point j r*.- to another, at much expense and risk, when , -tbe'transfcrs-could be m^de'hyresponsible bYo- ( -. Kens. J?ui me aousos-or me iransier system^ and: the deposit System had prevailed to' such a?-e*tect tbat the_v demanded'reform. I, ( . ~ " Tfiye Wisfbr'fun'e dT tbte laje administration- m was that they did notr employ regular and responsible bankers to- make traoffers, or to pur- ] r. / -chase stocks. - "They went out of^'their \vny tQ < employ persons of a different character, on ac- | count of their political or personal relations.? ; To-avoid 6uch errors,- the present administra- t -tidnp'go-at once to-"a rigid and correct enforce ment of the law. 0 Sonate time ago, it was known that the late Secretary of tiic Treasury had trusted a por- 1 tion;of the-puUic funds to an insurance com- s patiy in Columbus, Ohio, and that "the institu- 5 ^4i'oh bad failed; without paying the nVonev. But ! V*. it was reported that Mr. Cor win would himself make good the amount to the Treasury, and ' subsequently it was stated that the institution 1 secured the-sum to thoTreasury. A person who has recently read th<3 whole ' correspondence on this subject tells the story I in a different way. He says that the papers * show tiic following state of facts, viz : The J President of a Bank in Columbus Ohio, gave \ to a Mr. Minor a letter of introduction inform ' 1 _ ct A IL_J %? J lug me occremry inai t?r. junior was a man " of character add standing, and could 1>o safely trusted with the transaction of any financial bu biness. Mr. Corwin, therefore, gave Mr. Minor a draft upon the AssistantTreaitfferbf New York for the sum of a hundred thousand dollars, with directions to transfer the same, within a certain time to New Orleans. The money went as far as Columbus and there eame to a halt. Some bow or other it got into the hands of the bankrupt Columbus Insurance Company. Only five thousand do!lars4ias ever been recovered by the United States from these depositories and agents. But Mr. Corwin had a suit brought against Minor and the bank president who recommended him for the job, which suit has ne ver come to trial. The government, it seems has no security whatever for this money. Absurd, therefore, as it may seem to cart about the public money, in boxes marked " U. S. muskets," it is less exposed to plunder in that way than it would be under the old system , 01 eomnmung it iu irreguiar^irresponsiDlCjancL speculating agents. # The official correspondence in relation to the above transaction ought to be given to the public. The person who has lately stated the facts above mentioned is a Whig, and not now in office, but was till about ten days ago. Tt is stated thai advices have been received of f | usteiing movements at New York which j romi-.e ri' h'.developments. ! From tJie Edytfieid Advertiser. ' Reuben Roberts. Tfi^T riglit of 'the States in this Uiiion, to fix the Staus and, legislate .within their own Terrir tury, on the subject of the African race,"whether bond or fr'?a,"Ti'as never bei-ji denied. All of the Northern States have, each for itself, first established slavery?.v hile ail of the "Southern States acting iu a" ii^c capacity of Sovereigns, have established aud still maintain it. More than half of .the State? exclude free negroes from coming into their territory, while the other fifteen States allow them the privilege of iugres3 and egress. New York pejniits the African t<? vote and exercise all'the other rights of citizenship, while all the Southern and most of the Northern States, scorn giving bin) such a ulatus. The African generally in the United Slates has an inferior status to the Indian and both are-tolerated by the whites, only for the sake of humanity. Most of the.N'orthern States, have each for itself, dc cided that.none but a fugitive slave, or one that owes labor at the South, shall be restored to his master?that the children, or increase of a fugitive slave shall not be given up, according to the Southern maxim,'"partus seguilur ventrem'? that when a Southerner voluntarily carries his slave into a free Slate, such slave shall immediately be set at liberty. Georgia will not allow the slave trader* to cross her boundaries, while South Carolina 'still goes lbr free trade, iir negroes; horses and every other kind of property. All of this and" much more has been .done, by the local Legislatures of each State, to determine the condition of the Afiicau. % But how long will th<J States continue to exercise this absolute control over the African race if the Federal Government be nllbwcd to coutinue -its usurpations? ' Already has Congress again and ngaiu enforced its usurped authority, to exclude slavery fivrn all aoquired territory. Already has "Congress abolished the slave trade and thereby declared its right to abolish slavery in the District of Columbia. Already lias Congress entertained a proposition to abolish slavery in the Federal Forts, Dock Yards,-<fcc., situated in the slave States?an asserted right, whose- constitutionality is quite as well founded, as thatof its right to abolish the slave tradi in the District of Columbia. . Already too lias Congress debated the right to abolish the slave trade between the States and slavery in the States, and there is a powerful party who declare even'now, that the Federal Constitution can be so amended as to authorize such abolishment, whenever the numerous free States at present so rapidly forming shall give the required majority, which will not be long. In short, the progress of abolition encroachment'in this country .is really frightful.? The Bench, the Bar, the Hustings, the Legislature, the Lyceum, the Pulpit, the School Room, the Fire Side and Nthe Press are all devoted to Al?olition at the North. Massachusetts, the leading State of New Rnghjnd, New York, the first State in .the Union fi>r population, wealth, manufactures, commerce and navigation, together with Ohio, the largest State in the West, all have Free-Soil, yea, Abolition Senators at Washington, and are" almost ready for any attack on slavery. ? The. policy of the North has always controlled the Federal Government on the subject of slavery. The South is now. completely circumscribed in Her- territorial urea, and land is as much the foundation ot a nation's wealth. population, and 1 national strength as morality is the foundation j of'her Constitutions', Laws fthd social condition. Alt of the jmblic lands, including those given by Virgiuia-for the common good of all.Xhe States, are now appropriated to suit the whims of the North, whether for Canal, Railway, Navigation,: Charitable or Educational purpose^,and' perhaps the day is at hand, when the "vote yourself a farm" Bill will pass to drain the dregs and scum of the old world, so as to pollute the ocean as it crosses and poison our rich soil with vice and criiue. Most of the Southern States get about 2 per cent, of the proceeds of their public lands, while Illinois, Michigan and other free soil States can build their*Railways, cut their Canals, and educate.their, children "free, grfftis and for nothing" out of the public lands. The Northern States have also controlled the Commercial policy of the cuuiitry in opposition to' slave institutions, ever since 1810. They have framed all of cur Tariffs'to suit'.tliemselves and have made all lisbursemeuts of tile Revenue, in the most odic&ly "ufijost" ana unequal manner. They discensc the offices, lionors, salaries and emoluments jf the Federal "Government according to their Supreme will, end the .Vice ]'residency, with hree half abolition members of the Cabinet and iomc small legations, afe now about-all that the >lnve section can claim of her masters. At every step of the crusade against slavery lie presence of British gold and British diplomacy has been apparent, :uul wc fearlessly asinine that ever since England lost these colonics, ihe lias sought to divide them and -overthrow heir institutions. In pursuing this oouise, she ias perhaps not .been- actuated so much by re 'cnge, as by the faint hope of re-establishing her lomiuion over a part, if not over, all of her lost erritory. We will not say that she has dreaded .he spread of Republicanism within her own fair 1 island, but we do say, that she has trembled and i till trembles for the contagion of our example to Canada, Jamaica, Guiana, India, Australia and ler other large colonies. She "must have lieon nfluenced by some such motive as this, since the French philosophers, and Wilberforce, made but few converts even ih England, till ajtcr our lie;olution, although Black Slavery had existed fur i century or two in America and elsewhere, and aad been most vehemently denounced. The idvpcate^fox the-universal freedom afid equality >f all the races have failed even till now to make iny impression on the colonial slave policy of Holland and Spain. Then why is it that PJnjland should be the most zealous champion of die Black Race?'and why, that England, France ?nd the United States, should be the only Governments which have declared the slave trade piracy ? The French Revolution, as it engaged the attention and whole resources of the Home n i I.? i?,.? a r uruverumuiit, uju y/vy/tcc/ctd ruritaius ui 5t. Domingo ample opportunity to throw off the poke of their white masters. This was the sole ;ausc of the Jir*t French emancipation in the West Indies. The keen, sagacity of British Statesmen saw fiom the drama of St. Domingo, the danger of slave institutions, and that slavery was the most vulnerable point of attacking her lost colon :es. Therefore as soon "as she was dis3ngaged from European ware in 1815, she immediately set" her gold and diplomacy to work for the propagandism of the spurious philanthro py and false philosophy of Wilberforcc and his followers. She was encouraged in this course by the fearful excitement which attended the admission of Missouri into the Union in 1821, and we dare to say that British influence had something to do with that excitement as well as with the Ordinanco of 1787. Moreover, after Scott wA Jackson 1 >d fagged hei so hao Dome lv in the late war, she musLbave be^in io-des pair' of ever Yefconquering the CoUnies, anc irfencc her \vhqf3 efi0rts have since been directed Ta-prombtc; emancipation and amalgamation, a; 'fn^Mextco ..and the South American tStates.? These countries when they threw ofT'Spanish rule, not only freed the Blacks, but also gav< " them equal political rights \vith the Vhites, anc this lias universally been acknowledged to be the prime cause ol all their wars and anarchy. Ii cannot be the Catholic Religion, or tie union 0 Church and State, since both of tliesc institu tions-we believe exist in Brazil?a sl?ve country which is highly prosperous and isidestined tc become to South America what the United State: arc to North America. (Indeed shef-is already that.) The end and aim of Englind then if emancipation and amalgamation in the SoutWr States. She has every facility for reaching oui public opinion, because we speak the same lan guage, have the same laws ami littJature anc hold the most intimate commercial and socia intercourse with her. She finds a pjant tool ir the Northern States, which want thfc exclusive control of the Federal Government. Besides al .the foreign emigrants to this country settle al the North. They are full of anarclieial theorie? of Red Republicanism and universal equality o' men, whether aristocrats or plebiaus,. whites 01 blacks. They remember their own slavery at home and thiuk that ours at the Soi^th is quite as bad. They /eel as white men and. imagine that the stupid African has the same cxpandina intellect and the. same accute sensibilities as themselves. All of the despotic Governrae&te in Europe studiously cultivate this feeling jn their subjects at home and consequently ju .their emigrants to America, because' those despots, like England, desire to promote amalgamation hero as in the Spanish American States, and thereby overthrow Republicanism?blight our prosperity and neutralize the acknowledged influence, which our example and institutions are exercising over European States. The Monarcl ical and despotic world are thus leagued against us and England fruides their hostilitv. She find* wwl o v 6v?. ..mwum to work upon at the .North and she h*.is worked it well, at any and every sacrifice and with an) and every weapon. The number of slaves which her West India Colonies had was quite small, .when compared to the Blacks in the Southern States. The qnantity of territory which she had in that quarter was also small, and hence slit could well afford to emancipate those slave? in 1833 and to convert those happy Islands intn deserts, where gardens of Paradise once' flourished. The palaces of former slave owners are now decayed ruins, inhabited by laboring whites, 01 degraded blacks. The machinery of the sugai mill is nodotiger heard, and luxuriant jungb thrives, where Coffee and Tobacco once yielded abundant harvests. Commerce is gone, the wharves are rotting and grass is growing in the streets of deserted cities. The freed negr ies arc fast relapsing into barbarism?losing the intelligence which they received from slavery during two or three generations under the white man They lazily wander about the country, eating the spontaneous fruits of the earth and sleeping under the canopy of heaven. This is not what England intended, she has been too eager for her victim and has worked too fast. She now dreads a revulsion in tlic United States. The nicture of Wosf- Indin emancipation, is too much for British pride to behold with complacency. She grows restive and her ancient stubbornness woild rather brave the shock of a crushing world, tliau acknowledge air eiror or retrace its sttos. Site would rather cense to exist as a natam^thiin record oj>her Statute Books that infallible "ErtgIa:id could do wrong. Hence the Spasmodic efforts of Exeter Hall Philanthropist*, the unbounded popularity of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the cordial welcome to its infamous authoress?the crabbed School Mistress and disappointed old maid, who lately joined in a Banquet at Glasgow, in sight of the dishonored (big of her country?robbed of its stripes, because forsooth, she is pleased to think with Tom Campbell, that the stars represent iheNorthern States, and the stripes the Southern. She is entertained all over England *by the nobility ?has a free ticket to travel when, where and in what style she pleases, and is while we 'write, the great lipness of the British public?receiving more attention than any other American ever did, or than any European mnv does. But while England is doing this at home and putting forward Reuben Roberts to agitate the slavery question in this country, she is also making desperate cflbrts to repair her blunder in the West Indies. She has imported Coolies, or white laborers from India and apprenticed them for a series of years to her fanners at fifty .dollars per annum. These either died like rotten sheep on shipboard, or proved yery inefficient laborers in a hot climate?under cruel masters and in a different agriculture, to which they had been raised. After this magnificent failure she imported Chinese laborers, with like success, and now?yc Gods, pho would believe ii??while the warships of England are watching the African coast to suppress the slave trade, her merchant vessels are shipping African laborers to Jamaica to beannrun V- ? f " i' ticcd. She is even deluding the poor blacks of Liberia to go out us Agricultural apprentices to the West Indies, ami President Roberts, it seems, suspected foul plnv on a recent occasion, as he issued a proclamation the other day requiringcall Biitish vessels trading in such black apprentices hereafter to appear at Monrovia, 'the Capitol t,f his Republic, and there submit to an examination, to prevent any duress being practiced .upon his people* England, the North, or Federal Covertunent, and South Carolina then are the parties to the suit now before the Supreme Court. England will pay the expenses of her plaintiff", Reuben ?South Carolina will stand by her Sheriff Yates, and both appear at the Bar of a Tribunal which properly has no jurisdiction over the matter. We have dwelt in extensoon the condition and relation of these parties, and propose in our next paper to make the application of our present remarks. What wo have said of England wc would apply to Reuben Roberts since he is hut an excuse for agitation in the hands of his Government. Abolition and Consolidation will both be much advanced or retarded according to the action which our next Legislature shall take in regard to this same suit. We hopo therefore, that our. readers will forgive us for this long editorial as well as any others which we may write upen this important subject. Cold Watkr for Hotels.?Bmwnlow ol the Knoxville Whig, says that Reynolds A; Licuty, of London, Tennessee, do up every thing right, and to their great credit, have dismissed from their fine Hotel, their Bar of Liquors, and in lieu thereof, they are putting a Force Pump into the Spring at the River's brink, o e ipply the Hotel with fresh water. ? f tl)f (? fluikii Urrhli) Jonrnnl. \ _ Tuesday, June 21, 18^3.' THO> J. WARREN, Editor. 1 : * The Communication of "Civis," lias been re' ! ceived, and if the author will forward his name, it shall * appear. . -* ... > h f Death of Major McClelland." It becomes our melancholy duty to- announce the j death of an old and valued citizen, Maj. John McClel. land, who died on Sunday evening last. . It doe9 not come within too sphere of our duties to . write his obituary, but as a chronicler of events, it is I proper that we should pay a tribute of respect to the I memory of one so generally and so well esteemed for . his many virtues and excellent traits of character. No [ one has ever lived or died in this community who enI ioved in a more eminent dc-rce. its confidence and i regard than Major McClelland". He was in every re: gard, a true gentleman?nature's nobleman. His [ death cannot but be universally felt. His health for L years had been feeble, and having reached an age not > ordinarily allowed to man, it was but reasonable to f suppose that the time was at hand, in the order of * Providence, when he should be called on to pay the common debt of nature. Major McClellano> was over eighty years of age, 1 and had served his country as an officer under General ' Jackson, lie and Gen. Scott, we believe, were Captains at the same time. For a number of years, bo has been a leading member of the Episcopal Church of Camden, and died in the faith and communion of that Church. New Books, etc. We have received several New Books, Periodicals, ' &c., which we will take pleasure in noticing next week Southern Publications. I We are not so chimerical in our notions as to sup1 pose that the mere fact of a publication being at the,. ' South will ensure it any particular success, unless 1 its claims unquestionably entitle it to pre-eminence; i and in that case it is with 'us a matter ol'serious doubt 1 whether Southern people would give it preference over ' a Northern issue equal in point of character and abili! ty. Southern this, or that, has very little weight or importance with the mass of people South. If they get an article to answer their purpose, a little cheaper from the North, tliey are almost certain to do it; and their own enterprises are left alone and unaided to struggle on, whilst their Nortliern neighbors reap the benefits of their labors. Thisisemphatically true, and it j cannot be denied. Is it right? All things being equal, ought not a Southern paper to have precedence in every case over those published at the North ? We think they should. We have now at the South as good publications as can be found ftny where else? the difficulty is in getting the people of our own country to think so, for a prophet is not without honor, save in his own country; and the same thing applies - to newspapers and such enterprises. The-rage for novelty has been so long kept up, that unless Southern i papers can lo just as they manage at the North, they | are scarcely sought after at all. Why, we would ask, i is not the Southern Quarterly Review, published in , Charleston, by Messrs. Walker & Burke, in every i way worthy of a larger and better patronage? Where ' is there to bo found a better Magazine of this charac' ter ? Elevated in its touo, ably edited, true to Southorn interests, we see no reason why the Review Should not be found in the library anrl office of every Southern gentleman. Can better Commercial papers bo found^than those published in Charleston and the other Southern cities of the South? Is a good Family Pa per wanted?giving a little of every thing and a good deal at that?take the Illustrated Family Friend. The price has been greatly reduced, and it can now be obtained as cheaply as any paper of its size and merits in the Union. To clubs of twenty and upwards, the price ia,a single dollar to each subscriber for a whole year. Let any Northern publisher beat this, and we will put Godman against him again. . In the Agricultural department, wo have in our State Tho Farmer and Flanter, by Messrs. Seaborn k Gilman. at Pendleton, and the Southern Agriculturalist, by the indefatigable and enterprising proprietor of the Laurensville Ilcruld, Mr. R. M. Stokes. Each of these arc only one dollar per annum. Money thus invested is well spent- For Religious aud local papers there is no lack. If you want a Temperance paper, try tho South-Carolina Temperance Advocate.? There is now no excuse for a man hot taking the papers. There is now in almost every town and village in our State one or two papers, and it will bo the people's fault if they do not read them. There is with a largo number of newspaper publish i ers. a sort of craving desire always to givo something ' which borders on the marvellous and wonderful: and I it happens but alas, too often, that the miseries and misfortunes of humanity are made capital of to increase ' the iutcrcst aud importance of newspapers of the present day. This i3 a venality of the press which overv : honorable man ought to reprobate severely. It is unj worthy the age in which we live. Small Bills. The law prohibiting the circulation of Bills of a less ! denomination than fivo dollars, issued by the Banks uf I other States, goes into effect on the first of July.? Wo give bolow the sixth clause of the Act extending the charter of the Bank of the State, which bears upj on the subject: I " That from and after the first day of July next, any | person or persons, corporation or body politic, who shall within the State, directly or indirectly, pay out, pass or put in circulation, or cause to be paid on^, passed or put in circulation, any bank note, bill, certificate or acknowledgment of indebtedness, whatsoever, purporting to bo a bank note, or of the nature, character or appearai.-ce of a bank note, of a less amount or denomination than five dollars, issued, cr purporting to be issued, by any bank or person or association of por, sons, in any other State, shall bo subject to the payment of twenty dollars, to bo recover* d by action of debt at tho suit of the State, and appropri ited one half to the informer, and tho other half to the maintenance and repair of the public buildings in tho District where the action is brought. "Reuben Roberts." We learn, savs the Charleston Mercury, that the case of Reuben Roberts against Sheriff Yates, "or rather, of , Great Britain against South Carolina, which started off so grandiosely, has con;o to a very "laino aud impotent conclusion." Ordors have boon received through tho British Minister, that further proceedings in the caso bo discontinued, and that their Counsel be paid off and discharged. It is presumed that tho British j Government becamo convicted that, whatever might I bo tho decision of tho case beforo the Supremo Court, I thjy could only gain a loss by il; Hnd tbo greater loss I ,| in tliooveut of their winning the suit?inasmuch as it j ' would most certainly havo been followed, not by the ! abrogation of the law of .South Carolina, but by that of i the reciprocity treaty, on which their complaint was founded. Southern" Patriot.?C. J. Elford, Esq., has retired i from his connexion with this paper, and has been succeeded by his brother, G. E. EHord. Esa. ? * ' V V Southern" Standard.' B. C. Pbessley, Esq,, has retired jiom the Editc connection of the Standard, whichis now-filled by L Spratt, Esq. Mr. ParfssLEY' is a good' writer, so lawyer arid an agreeable gentleman. , We "wiSli entire success in all he undertakes.. * -. , Mr. Spratt is represented as one well qualified for new -vocation?to all we wish success arid hap'pin Mr. Puessley continues the Proprietorship, df Standard. The Louisville Courier states that in twentycounties in Kentucky, there is a net gain of S?, young hogs at this time as compared with the mini at the same period last year. ? i "Wilmington and Manchester Railroad.? learn, says the Darlington Flag, that obstructions h nnirnvnl ! mnc Knati A ? am rCt'r\ / n tlirv /\f - DC VWlUi UII1WO VbCU U1CW? VIVU Ull Uiv LICIVJIVUI LI HQ I % . .. . in this District, evidently-laid there by some nialici person or persons for the purpose of throwing off train. "We hope the villain may be found out, and ceive the punishment lie so richly deserves. A rew of five hundred dollars, we understand, has been of ed for the detection of the guilty person. ' The Indiana Black Laws have caused the remc of large numbers of colored persons from that State the penalties incurred by residence there are quite vere. The Cincinnati Commercial says that it'is scai ly possible to pass along the river front of that < without observing one or mote colored families fi the Hoosier State. They appear to be persons of sc property, having with them fine stocks of horses, mi and milch cows. Broke Jail.?Tho Edgefield Advertiser menti that on Monday night last two prisoners, "Williams i New, effected their escape from their new Jail. crime of the former wa3 Burglary?of the latter, ne stealing. A-writer in that paper says it was from "very culpable neglect of the jailor." Dividend.?The Board of Directors of tho Ban! Georgetown have declared a semi-annual dividend two dollars on each share of the, capital stock from profits of the last six months?being sixteen per o ?payable at the Bank, and Bank of Charleston, and after the 1st of Julv next. Preparations for War.?A Hussion ar 100,000 strong is concentrated on the Turk frontier. The Russian ports of the Black i are crowded with the munitions of war, and heights above Odessa are covered with the te of a large army.- On ihe banks of the Pri the pontoons are already- made, and the v body of troops are ready at a moment's nol to enter the principalities. The Ministers England, France, .P/ussia and Austria, m;id joint attempt to settle the existing difficult and bring about a reconciliation 'between parties, but Prince Menschikotf, the Russian A bassador?who luul bceu for some flays Buynkdere, a village at the mouth of-the E phorus, with a steamer,ready to bear him av to his command the in-tunt nn'unfavorable* swer was given?and the Divan, were equ' inflexible; and, consequently; the Prince left the 2l2d of May, and arrived at Odessa- on following day. Abbas (Mehemet Ali?) Pac the Turkish Minister of War, immediately Prince Menschikoff's departure, sent couriers every Province, with orders that, the warlike sources of the Ottoman. Empire should itmm ntely be put in requisition to repel the-Russ forces, should they venture to cross the fronti There is no account of the whereabouts of French squadron, and the orders given to i niirnl Dundas respecting the British fleet un his command are kept a pro'ouud secret, fairs are regarded as critical, but every thi may possibly be even yet amicably arrant without either party resorting to hostilities. Trkspasses in Ckmktkriks. ?The suhj of pulling the flowers in the public cemetei seems now to be a matter of public intere ami despite the strict police regulation*, sicrilegious ti espassersstitl continue their wo And not only so, but much more ontrngei trespasses have been committed at the No B.md cemetery. " \ paity of several hundred ca e frotn C cinnatr in three steamboats, a pioneer b? having preceded tbem the day before in omnibus, and ibis pioneer band .pitched th tent in the Grave. Yard on Sunday for the s; of liquor, without leave or license, froth a one. Yesterday that grave yard was select as the spot upon which the company danc all day, and the voices of the 4 Professors,' calling the figures, could be distinctly heard the house, a quarter of a mile off in the vail below. That moral recreation of card playii so refining and elevating in its influences, v indulged in by many of the company upon t humble graves of the pioneers of this setl men't, and drunkenness and revelry reigned preme. The tombstones in our family < closures have been defaced, and the names those who sleep beneath them been par erased, so as to make them read different and even the names of the individuals co inittiiig these acts written upon the stones I !I ... il .lJ J * r pencil, an iiimiii 10 itie ueflti ana a wanton o rag6 upon the feelings ofuhe living. The < predationseoinmitted upon the beautiful rnou where the iemail's of Gen. Harrison rcpn I are disgraceful in the extreme. Every lit shrub and flower planted by the hand of afi tioii are rudely destroyed by these sacrilegic Vandals in their bacchanalian revelries." In consequence of thc<e outrages, a relat of Gen. Harrisou has published a notice in I Cincinnati Times, that all persons assembli in the grave yard enclosure at North Bend, the purpose of revelry, will he prosecuted trespassers.?Southern Standard. 'Ciie Miuider of IIaffnku.?We publish from the Carolina Spartan an account of i apprehension of a negro, Charles, who I been once tried and acquitted of this murd The Lanrensville Herald says: '*Oo Friday last, Charles was tried for hi; way robbery, and confessing the crimes of m der and highway robbery, combined, he v sentenced io be liung on the second Friday July next, at the cross roads near Cross A chor. In his last confession, we understai he exculpated Dr. Boho's negro from any p; ticipation ; but as circumstances appear whi I somewhat implicates the latter, he will tried to.day; the result of the trial wo v give next $eek." - v../' ? * ?~ A Boston astrologer predicted th.it an ext ordinary literary work would he produced New England about this time. The pred tion has been fulfilled to the letter, for a B ton publishing house has " got up" a Qua! hymn honk, having heard that no \y.>rk of<l kind was in existence. It seemed to behpr ty good opening, but one unlucky circumstai attending the speculation is that tho Quak yrer shy. ' 1 * '-VV.vsHfXG'fON, jiysKlS.? \V,asb??gtpn trial' cmning^dulrc The office-seekers fiitv# &(>an,"\V, doned itywith^heexception, perhaps,jjf those und who came here to take a'chvhce in the genii ifii oral distribution ofcmrksfrips. ft tuijns -out "that die Columbus .transfer his "gent of the 'late administration lma not paid ess-. into the treasury even the five-percent. ttn tb'e tl10 sum that he.was ^ transfer to New Orleans. > -If five thousand dollarsW~fl8 "r&cdvered from him, as is said, by .Messrs.-E wing and R. CorGv.e win, it only, answeredrlhe ^pu^ppse .Qf paving 625 their fees. It did not-pome into the treasury, her In due time we shall see the. correspondence on "this curious subject, at id, 'ui e a11* \y b-tle, 1VI r. Guthrie's strong boxes may be carted about without ? , ^*e exciting.much surprise orridichle as heretofore, ave Mr. Burke's; assault uppit.-the President's oad policy of neglecting theJ'oUl democratic guard'' ous appears to have bpeti unexpected, and basprothe? duced an oppression herejiS tfell" as. elsewhere. 1. lifU... U Aj'j . / ru- xuu new iiiviii^auiie uemoeraqy wouia^noi, 01 ard' eoujv'e, countenance tljttf assault; except' so far j*er. as to elect the asSailant ns President of tha Convention. But. we shirH, in- clue tiolc, see more of like demonstfaUon^^Cor. Bait Sun >, as New Society ofTrTe^ds.Philadelphia so- N,ews states that the religious cOn^ntion held , rce- at the Old Kennett Mcetirig-IIousc, pursuant to :ity the call published,''has resulted-in" the organizaom tion of a new Yearly. Meeting of " Progressive j nne Friends." The meeting -is said to have been \ ilea large and. highly interesting. x Sermons and ad- ] dresses were delivered by L.ucretia Mott, Thomas ^ McClintock of Waterloo*, Oliver Johnson, ? 0HS C. M. Burleigh, B. Rush PlumBey, and others.; ind anddetters of sympathy read from Cassius M. fhe Clay and others. -* A- 'declaration of sentiments \ gro was also adopted, ' - * the " * . -*v ... - 1 Enveloped Letters shvuld be addressed inside { as we[l as outside.?When TeUefS*are enclosed ?f in an envelope (he address should be inscribed 0 as well on the letter itself as on the envelope; 0 otherwise the loss of the envelope may cause Snt grave mistakes 'and -se>ious confusion?or may on leave the letter for an annoying claimant.? ] We heard a.deceased Chancellor say that he knew ah important law case which came very * I near being lost to the party, ultimately success; ful, by. the loss of an envelope, delving it un3.eH certain to whom the missive "had: foepji address|e ed. Recently, too,' we learniroA)-r.n exchange D. paper that a stolenj.n?ni!;hnd 'been recovered, 11'' with all the envelopes torn ;ofFthe.' letters, and ns the Postmaster knew not wh'eretlo; send many L,c? of them; . ?> ,e a Tiik California tH.cryfe^.?~THe advices !?s' from California to the 9th Way state the (armers there were then busjrdh-cutting and curing 'in~ their grass, the crop of whidtTs.very abuiidant. ' -at The grain, harvest would commence! in. about j ,os" a fortnight-, and "cnrtfTritre* -for-' nearly three j months. Wheat, .barley- ahd/bats promise an ' *!!'" abundant crop. Potatoes -hii/J advanced ty 15 1 X cents per lb. by the quantity; ^Onions selling ?n at 45 a 50 tents periih-^ by which- farmers ^ would get three hundred dollars cash' for fiv? l1"' 'ordinary sizeiVgUHiy fwcs of "ouifins. $25 per on 100 lbs. hud beeivoffered for 1,000 Beeves, to ' be delivered in lots hyv January; Jst, but the bolder asked and expected $80. 1. A Restless Tongdr.?A Boston lady Bar, t|jp at this Lime, a somewhat novel disease?? ecu- * fj ti'nunl motion of the tongue?which no devicer 1 ^pr -effort of the will, or medication cont^pht \We 1 a f. do not mean that she is a nuisance as a talker 4 nfr or a rct;nll*r?of stieet gossip. On the "contrared ry, a worthier woman does i?itieV?st She has : expended five hundred doliars airio'rttr the dentists for artificial .teeth, which her mirul/ mem ,,ct ber has knocked*out- so repeatedly that 'they are now wholly .-djandoned.'. Her tougue is st . moving nimbly and irivoluritatdy within t&e mouth against the walls of the' cheeks. In conversation the organ takes oil a normal ac?,s lion, hut runs instantly into 'its usual rapidity rl|j of motion at the conclusion of a sentence. Boston Medical and'Surgical Journal. In- . ud Stngulaiv Phenomenon.?The Attica (Gen v v-\ a.e. i.y mtiisv =uj'3j -~-<ti. remarKaei.r ble phenomenon in the heavens visible at ale tliis^plfice last Wednesday night", between 11 ^ 11 y and 12 o'clock. A'bright belt, about the \vidth * ed i f a rainbow, extended from below the north :ed we-tern horizon, up through tjie zenith, and in "down"tp within a fi-\v degrees of the south at eajtern hills. There Vvas consid&rabie auroral ley light in the north, but'no thing so hqght as ,tlifs ig, belt/ From the time we' discovered! it, there ,-as was no change of position or appearance.' till lie* it gradually, withdrew in the north west *>nd lie- faded away,_ Its appearance was that of a tail su to a comet, though brighter and'more extend- ^ so- ed than any such appendage on record." Of ? rtly Mon.vts i-n Bkitish (joinea.^? A lale Dely? niarara paper tells the following tales "of crime ln" ?in that locality: 111 '"The records.of criminal sessions show an amount'of crime unheard %f in Ihe-liistory of . the- colony; for, save the butcheries under martial law, it has never been known in that couns.e' try that five persons forfeited their lives in ex, piation of violations,of the law, of .a chai^cter ec' so heinous as to preclude the hope ..of mercy. )US. In two of the cases which have been tried ih the recent sessions, the accompanying eireumBtanc'^c ces have been invested with a diabolical malig. e nity which have rarely been equalled. In the one, a woman, a native of the colony, deliberately dashed out the brains of her own-child, -< as because from natural infirmity it was backward in the development of mind and. body. In the , seconil, a coolie, in a fit of jealousy,*ci?rt" his 'j" wife in pieces with a cutlas, and maintains fire y Tight to do so, avowing His intention to act in 4 ,a. the same manner by the man who had aroused er" his suspicions." - ' , r. . 1* ' dt- ** ^r. Railroad pexaltiks in* ;Co>.ln*EeTiciiT.? ms The Committee on Railroads have reported to the legislature a bill which provides that all Lll. trains shall come to a~~full stop at "all drawjj bridges, and wherever the track crosses that**?* lir] other roads..v The engineers -are * to;,be fined cj, and imprisoned, and the president and direcbe tors? being parties thereto shall be fined $1,000. HI It also requires -men to.be-stationed at" all the switches under similar penalties, and where speed-is over thirty miles per hour, a brakes* ra- man is required for every car under a penalty in of $L,0C0. Engineers neglecting to stop"iTje* lie* train when persons are seen upon the track os- are to be deemed guilty ol manslaughter, if <er such persons are killed. The presidents of all the roads within the State must reside within its et- boundaries, and the officers of roads outfof the ice State are not to be allowed to hold any offices ers I upon roads in the State ,tinder) a. penalty of $1,000 per dav. - , t % k