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% in % 1- W^~ (ju>t~ &<^**- fr'A^y-ctAs ^" |jj ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ _^. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ "^** ^j VOLUME XV. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY NUMBER 6. . PUULISI1ED WEEKLY BY ? THOMAS J. WARREN. J l TERMS. Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and s Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and s Throe Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year, v ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the fol- ri lowins rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) j, aoventy-fivo cents lor the first, and thirty-seven and a ( . half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single inL sortions. one dollar per square: semi-monthly, month- ' ly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as t r for a single insertion. Jl ~ " 1 (:n.?t;nna rtosirnd must be noted ? ue numuci ui oa the margin of all advertisements, or they will be ? published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. ? , d _ _ " ? I Blisrdlotirous. v t . t Tlie Earthquake in Lisbon. It was early in lhe morning, Nov. I, 1755, ; ninety-eight years hiu! three months ago. Five .j years previous a severe earthquake-shock had given admonition of its presence and pent-up power in earth's deep caverns. In the four j preceding years the drought was excessive, j The water springs dried up. The ground moaned for moisture. The prevailing and gen- j tie winds breathed from the North. Frequent subterranean terrors told that earth was in trouble, and shuddered in her pangs. She was gathering up her strength to break her pri 1 son doors. The early months of that eventful 1 year were Very wet. The summer was very I j1 cool. For forty days before the catastrophe j ! ^ the weather was very clear. Kariy in the ( morning of the fatal day, a thick fog arose and 1 enveloped the city. But it was soon dissipated c by the heat of the advancing >un, and Hie whole 1 atmosphere had become clear, serene and " cloudless. Nature seemed hushed in profound ' ratastronhe. At thirty a ?**! *? ? cor f five minutes past nine o'clock A. M. a low rum- J' bling sound was heard resembling that of dis , tant thunder. Gradually it increased till it be 1 came loud as the roar of heavy parks of artillery. At that moment earth's subterranean p ison doors burst open, and the ground reeled and staggered like & drunken man, under the tre ? tnendnus c??neu*sioii. It ?as the first awful earthquake shock. The tall edifices ami buildings of the city rocked from side to side like a ^ ship iu a heavy rolling sea. Such was the \ i ' olence of the oscilations that the upper stories ^ of the buildings immediately gave way, toppling and falling, crushing their occupants to ,l death, and those who were walking in the nar- , row streets below. Terror and alarm filled every mind. Earth reeled on her deep foundations. Tiie , . . . i V motion was so great that it was impossible to stand. The terrors of that sudden and dread- * ful catastrophe were fearfully increased by the j ] deep daiktiess which succeeded and shut out! j t the light of the day. Many leaped from the j ' ^ windows to escape being buried beneath the j ^ ruins of their falling habitations. Multitudes groped their way ami the darkness over the .j fallen ruins to the open squares, or to the riv- ^ er side, to find safety from the stones and timbers that threatened to fall from the tottering houses in the narrow.streets. The fir^t day of November was the great ( feast day of All Saints. The churches of Lis- s bon were crowded with devotees. Great nutn- s J ' !. ,|... | {I be is were crushed and pei i>n?u ueiieaiu mc massive walls. Most of the churches in the 1 city vi ere destroyed. Bishops ami priests were ' in their sacerdotal robes and vestments eele bra ting mass. A few escaped ; many were x crushed. A mingled multitude, in deep terror, ' rushed along the streets to the quays by the 1 river side, aud falling on their.knees, raised to ' heaven the l??ud and earnest cry of supplica- 1 tiou, exclaiming in agony of spirit, "Mercy, }l mercy, 0 Lord, have mercy, miserecordia uieu 1 Dios!" < In the midst of this feaiful desolation a see- * ond shock occurred. It was nearly as violent as the first, and greatly increased the work of: ] destruction. Shrieks of agony lesouudcd on I 1 every siJe. The splendid Gothic Church of ' St. Catherine's already much shattered by the ' concussion of the first shock, fell to-the groun i ' with a tremendous crash, killing vast numbers, ' i who had fled tor safety to the height upon ' w hich the building stood. ^Ve walk, d.among ( the desolate ruins and fallen fragments which still remain upon this desolate spot. It is on ! elevated ground, some two hundred feet from 1 the waters of the Tagus. But this second shock I produced stiil more theadlul consequences.? i Vast multitudes had congregated along the J ^shores and quays of the Tagus as a place of 1 safety. Suddenly the sea retired, leaving the ! ground at the mouth of the Tagus bare. A< 1 suddenly th* waters returned, and came rolling ' along in one mountain wave titiy feet high or * more, overwhclinning in it> course the streets J and wharves and quays along the banks. In ? vain the crowds altempted t>> ll* or escape.? 1 Tbesoiling and impending waters rushed too ' suddenly upon its \ ictims. All were swept a- ( way and buried beneath the relentless waves. 1 i At the same moment the earth opened, and the new and immense marble quay, the Teirei- 1 ro Pac??, built at vast expense, wei t down and , sunk out of sight, with nil the congregated multitudes upbn it, into one awlul undiinmeas ! urable grave. We spent hours in examining this memorable and impressive spot. The opening tntd sinking of the yawning earth w as | so sudden an.l large that many boats and small 1 r> vessels, anchored neat the quay, and filled with ( people who had escaped on board, went down at the same time, into the awlul gulf, so deep; that no vestiges of the vessels or bodies of the drowned were *er known so have risen to ' the surface. Other and larger vessels further | from the shore were tossed and whirled around : torn from their anchors, dashed against each ' other, and driven to the opposite shore by the heaving of the waters and the violence of the waves. | The cantain of a shio anchored further off, : < who survived the dreadful perils, and who wit- i nessed the phenomena of the scene, stated that < the city appeared to hi in as if waving to and fro, like the waves of the 6ea, when agitated I by a driving wind. Such was the subterranean commotion under water, that the anchor of his ship became visible at the surface. Suddenly the waters of tb?Tagus rose again | ^ three fathoms high, and as suddenly fell. Then i ame the third terrific shook. it was a little ess violent than the two preceding ones. lint b caused tne wat?-r to ri-e and fall wit It the ame rapidity and impetuosit y as it did before, o that vessels anchored in seven fathoms nf vater were suddenly stranded. This alterlate rise and fall of the wateis continued at intervals for a considerable time, and at each occurrence causing fresh damage and loss of ifc, The terrified inhabitants believed that heir final day of doom had come?that their lornes, iheir houses and their city were i?t'iii?* wept away from the face of the earth. At lengih these terrific shocks of the shud lering earth ceased. But another calamity, ?ut a little less dreadful and destructive, folowed in the footsteps of the first. Fires brrrs't firth in many (daces with Pttt^/biy that soon he devoted city of Lisbon presented the ap iearance of one vast conflagration. It was teiieved that most of the fires were kimlle.l in he churches. It was the All Saints least day. These vifct edifices were gorgeously drupcried. nd the old marble, or carved wooden satins I'ere richly clothed in unwonted splendor, in onor of their names. Innumerable- wax can* les were lighted, and' burning in a magnifi* ent illumination. In the falling churches, the rapery took fire from the waxen candles, and ooii enva leped the city in a sheet of flame It ras said that the c-iiininal-s and convicts, loosed nun their dungeons or their chains, increased lie fires, for the sake of impunity in theii ilunder. Tne amount of prope-'y consumed y the fire was not considered h-s< than thai lostroyed by the earthquakes. Six days and ight nights the city win the prey of the un* hecked fire and devouring fl ones, oils fall I. The Spanish Ambassador, with iue persons belonging to his family, was bnied beneath the ruins of his residence. The uly Englishman of note who is recorded to ave l<M his life in this catastrophe, was the lev. J. Manly, President of he English Col L?ge. On the morning of November 1st, the ity of Lisbon contained over 20,000 dwellings. It the end of six short days of diie dost rueion and calamity, less than 3,000 dwellings emained that could lie inhabited with safely. )vvr 17,000 hou-es were destroyed and inolved in the common and wide spread ruin. These 17.000 dwellings had become the fear* il graves mid mem irabie burning m iusole* ins of 25,000 of their occupants in six short * 1 Huie rilliUio,] ml/a Wil li *Y5. l'l Illi&IIJ II Uir.ll UMVIMI |/MV funeral, and what a funeral pyre for one reek? for one city, and the imperial capital o| he land ! Nor is this a I?it was only a part.. )n the morning of Nov. l?t, Lisbon was an pnlent and beautiful city for that age. It ias densely populated with inhabitants. In ix brief days, it was a phe of fabeii, ci umbled nd fragmentary ruins ? a va>t smouldering nd binning funeral pile of 2.V'00 bodies ol Is people. Lisbon had lost in lh t iiriet snae*% Atr GO,00!) of its pop lition, in crushed m urned, or buried victims, in earth's deep, nn. ithomable grave, beneath the waters of the 'agus. But. our allotted space is more than illed,?Ed. Curr. N. Y. Evangelist. Juvenile Smokkks. ? Who can see a crowd >f hoys, tight, ten or twelve years old, in our lreels, smoking segars, without anticipating uch a depreciation of our posterity iti lieaitli md cbaraeter as can scaieely be eonteinpla ed, even at this distance, witlmut pain and inrror??Da. Rusll.? Bovs !?We Irive a word to say tt> you. and ve say it not in anger, but in love. Will yon isten ? We tell you. then, that you should lot smoke, In cause smoking is injurious to leullh. Such is the testimony of medical uen, and among lliem is many of the wisest md the be>t. Dr. Rush, a good, kind and be levolent, as we I as a great man. -ays, ' tobac o, even when used in inodeiation, may cause lyspepsia, headache, tremors and vertigo." Flint tobacco, in any form, i> a slow pnison, .voikiug its tleleterous ettects upon me sy *10111, s proved by all experience. 13111 you sav you eel quite well, and it has done you no harm. 50 says the rum drinker. llesa\she drinks jeeause it does him good; and in both cases he poison is so insidious, that its vielim is ripe br the grave ere lie is aware thai the work of lent It is cunmeneed. But you have seen.aged nen who have been all their lives addicted t? <s use. It is true that some may have e-eaped ts ravages; but yon have seen sueli persons a lolluted mass of annual matter, lethargic, .vherzing, coughing and (Tensive; and because mine have escaped with their lives, through all ts hud tendencies, will you run the dreadful isk merely berau-e you love it? Remember t is a viiiated andartilici.il ta-te, of which nan alone is capable. The instinct of brutes fver prompts thcin to reject the vile, and nau>eous weed. Reason, was given to man as a h _ 1 * * 1 * * t\~ jni(Je. Hint even no\s ougin 10 use n. u\> tun emember with what difficulty y r?u filmed the labit?how sick it made you at fir-t; and bemuse you can now smoke witlmnt turning pale A'itli nausea and vertigo, do you imagine it ais los' its tendency to do you harm ? By no neans. But the worst of the ease has not been told. There is in each of you' hoys an immortal ;paik, kindl. d hy the breath of the Almighty. And this undying spark?this gem of matchless worth, suffers in common with his physi ;al being. The sedative influence re (tresses Intellectual energy?it renders its votary inJispo>ed to mental exertion. Boys!?Eschew the filthy weed. Preserve your purity. Save your money. Husband your time. It is shocking tv see a knot of Sunday scholars standing or strutting about, puffing cigars. Let the pitiful, ugly, shameful spectacle never be witnessed among thuse who ?!i .......... lv f.. Iroun oloui* nl it Ill VO Wll CllOUgli ?.?' nvvj. vi.... vi ii. Ilow Dons Shk Thot. A creditor whom le was anxious to avoid, met Sheridan coining jut of Pall Mall. The'* w as no |H*<sil?ility o| ivoiding hi:n, hut he did not lose his presence jf mind: "That's a beautiful mare you're on," said Sheridan. "Do you think so?" "Yes indeed. How does she trot?" The creditor, highly flattered, put her into a full trot. Sheridan bolted round the corner, ind was out of sight in a mornont. % When we are 1. There will be some honest sorrow. A | few will lie really sad, as we are dressed for I tiie grave. Fewer, probably, than we now suppose. We are vain enough to think our departure will produce considerable sensation. But we over estimate it. Out of a very small circle how soon slnfll we. be forgotten. A single leaf in a boundless forest lias fallen! That is all. The gay will laugh, When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on. and soon one as before will share-Af c " Ifis favorite phantom. 2. The world will go <on"\v?FW?&it us. We limy , have th^oright a very important wheel in Tfie grlSl mac hi nery will be ungeared when we are gone. But the world goes clattering on as if nothing had happened. If w filled important stati-ms in society, if we have wondered what would, or could be done, if we were ssmoved; yet. how soon others would fill our stations! The world can be a bustling, active world, without us. It was so before we entered it. It will be when we are gone. 3. When we are dead, affection may erect a monument But the hand that sets it up will soon be as powerless as ours, and from the same cau-e. How soon they that wept, over us will follow us! The monument itself will crtimble, and its dust will fall on the du>t that covers us. If the marble and granite long en dines, yet the eyes of affection will not long endure to read the graven letters. Men will give a hn-ty glance at the name of one they never knew, and pass on, with not a single thought of the -lumberer below. On my mossy gravo ThO men 01 enure nines win vmuieso uwi , And read my name upon the nnseulptured stone: J Nor will the soui.d, familiar to their ears Recall my vanished memory. 4. When we are dead, our influence wiil not he dead also. We b-ave epitaphs upon indestructible materials. Our manner of life has been writing I hem. We have stirred up thought, and awakened emotion. The wonder tul machinery of the mind has felt our presence. We have pressed the stamp of our character into the warm wax of moral sensibilities around us. Footsteps to'wurds immortality have been well guided, or misdirected by u<. Our places of business, or social resort, may know us no more; but living accountable beings feel the influence that survives our personal departure. 5. When we are. dead the Kingdom of G"d ?ill not die. It did n >t depend on u- for-ex isteiice. And onward will it go when we have eased to live. Happy, indeed, if it h id been I lie honor and joy of our labors to have promo ted it Blessed is it to be reuiciiil>-red as having loved Zio i, as taking pleasure in her stones, and favoring the dust thereof. Sacred, consoling thought! The Kingdom of (,'hiist lutives mi, when we drop all of our ea-ilily u-laii ms to it. Oilier servants.of God will rise to fill our places. A brighter star may rise for one that is fallen. Stronger hafuls than "uis may come into the ranks. 0. When we are dead some will think nfjUs. Perhaps not ft large circle. And what will i I hey think ? Our present course of life is fur j nishiug tliein with themes of thought. Cold- | uesN and indifference to the Kingdom of God ?of that wi I our survivors think, if it marked our characters. And in sadness will those that truly loved u* ponder it. And thoughts, how many, and how comforting, will rise, and the pangs of real sorrow over our departure, if we had shone forth the. praises of Ilim who called us to glory and virtue. Into which of these channels are we likely to turn the thoughts of men ??Puritan Recorder. A Woki) to Boyc.? Who i- respected ? It is the boy wlio conducts himself well; who is holiest, diligent and obedient in all things, ft is the boy who is making an cllort continual!)' to respect bis father, ami to obey him in whatever bo may direct to bo done. It is the boy who is kind to other little boys, who respects ago, and who never gets into diflieu'ties ami quarrels with his companion*, it is the boy who leaves no effort untried to improve himself in knowledge and wisdom every day ; who is busy and active in endeavoring to do good * O O j acts towards others, Show me a boy who . obeys bis parents, who is diiigcvt, who lias respect for age, who always has a fiiendly dispo sitinn, and who applies himself diligently to get wisdom, and to do good towards cithers, and if lie is not respected and beloved by^ve rv one, then there is no such thing as cruth "Trr the world. Remember this, hub boys, and you will be respected by others, and you will grow up and become useful men. Tub Chaiois of Litk.?There ore a thousand things in this world t?> afflict and sadden ? hut oil! Iiovv many that are. beautiful and good ! The world teems with beauty?with objects that gladden the eye and warm the heart. We might be happy if we would. There are ills which we cannot escape?the approach of disease and death, of misfortunes, sundering of earthly ties, and the canker woun ; of grief; hut a vast majority of the evils that | beset us might he avoided. The cause of in- ; temperance, interwoven as it is with the ligaments of society, is one which never strikes but to destroy, There is not one blight page upoo record of its progress?nothing to shield it from the heartiest execrations of the human race. It should not exist?-it must not. Do away with all this; let wars Coine to an end, and let friendship, cliaiity, love, purity, ami kindness, mark the inter nurse between man and man. We are too selfish, as if the world was made for us alone. IIow inui.li happier should we be were we to labor more earnestly to promote each other's good, Hod has blessed us .villi a honie'whieh is not all daqfc. There is sini'liiiie evciy where ? in the sky, upon the i earth ?there would he in most hears if we would lnok around us. The storms die away, and the bright sun shines out. Summer drops her tinted curtain upon the earth, which is very beautiful, even when autumn breathes her changing breath upon it. God reigns In ho.iven. Murmur not at a creation so heafitiful, and who can live happier than we? Wrongs may try a good man, but cannot imprint on him a false starpp. fVom the Charleston Standard. Decidedly Rich. The annexed article, which we copy fro the editorial department of the New YrirtiTT, bune, is decidedly the richest article wo ha seen for some time in any of our exchanges. As straws are said to denote the course the wind, so too may Gively be regarded a pretty fair barpjnekruf Northern feeling a sentiment. We are somew hat inclined to believe tl: JHarrice is laboring under mental infirmity, ot erwise we must express our astonishment 1 finding such balderdash in the columns of I Tribune. Uur only object in copying the article, that there may lie. a fair understanding oft relative positions uf the North and South on t Compmmixe question. Tub Rascals at Washington.?Iflhetr; tor'ous scamps at Washington who, in a spi no worthier than that which animated Jud Iscarint, are plotting the surrender to slave of the free territory west of the Mississippi, t lieved that a majority of the North would f to sustain the movement, they would instant cease their clamor, and skulk hack, and \ should hear no more about it. Cut t hey hav adopted the belief that the pi sage of the compromise measures of 1850, a the triumphant election of Frank Pierce ha taken all the spirit out of the North and th the mass of the voters are now ready to wit any party iniquity, and sustain any pary me sure, whatever its enormity. We are not sure it is worth while to attem to remote this impression. These delibern violators of solemn compacts, thuse vagubo repudiators of obligations the most sacred, c serve to lie roasted by the fires of the lintu public indignation. They ought to have the li benefit of the verdict of an aroused and indi mint constituency, and be hung upon the gi l"\vs of public opprobrium. Yet in mvrcy the culprits, who are thus provoking the i censed judgment of an outraged coimnunil we will Ini.-fly state what opposition may ..4 .1.. 11,.> t'AJICi ll*U 111 IIIC I ll'C KJ llUCO b*' l/IIV IIMUIII'/U |M posal to repeal the .Missouri Compromise, a thus expose the mtten foundations of tin hopes. There lias been no time during the la>t sev years when the whig and free soil parties ha not been in a el ear majority in nearly all t Northern States. The only ground upon vvlii any doulit can bo thrown on this presumpti is the result of the. last Piesidential election. .?ut the vote of the Free Soil party in tl contest was only partial, being but the incflt tual remonstrance (and so felt to be) of I morn earnest of the Free soilers against t settlement of the compromise measures. A the vote of the whigs at the North was no riously the vote only of a party divided agaii itself. It was a contest utterly balked l>y en purposes. The Presidential elections 18 and the elections of 1850, furnish the uti giouods ol any ju-t judgment as to the r< strength of the anti-slavery sciitiineiit in t country; and these elections justify the sta incut that in every Free State, that sentimt whenever it could be fairly reached, hassho* itself to be predominant. Assuming this to be so, the only question, be answered is, whether that sentiment can aroused and consolidated, and brought to bt in solid phalanx against the utimcious propu tion 111 question. 1 lie tools in Wasiimgton i lieve it can. And we believe further that t is by no nivalis the strength of the Nuith tl will be brought into the lield against this in nious project. We shall huve the whole ci servative force of the Free Stales ot all the n who do not believe in violating contracts noi repudiating solemn engagements, on thesiJo the earnest opposition. The moral stamina the Free plates will set against the measure, Fair dea.iug and honest purposes will eve where frown upon such faithfulness and Ira tSober minded men who have leaned to the s of the South in the late contests, on the grou that the Abolitionists were the aggressors, v turn and resist this movement as a gross <j rage and aggression on the part of the Soml Our faith in the intelligence and sense of j tiee among the people is such that on the u mentous question of a Repeal of the Misso Compromise, we believe the Free States v rise as one m u and crush thu repudiated a traitorous dough faces who uare to counsel We do not believe it to be a question of niajc ties among the people. We believe the pro ii < j^nnBHB|^^nBt ^BBBB||^B|B[ HflflR^B^n^HI^^^HH^H a il* [/Vow Wk Ijondon 7Ymw.] ^ 10 The Allied Fleels?How they are "' to Act. * , y ^ 1,^ The strength of the combined English and I . French fleets, now in the liosphorus, amounts 1 |(j t?? 41 sail, including line-of battle ships, big I ;ir atcs and steamers. Of these, the French and t English have each three three-deckers; we 5 ell have seven two-deckers (including the Again- < ve einnon) to five French two deckers, the FYetieh ' he 90 gnu screw-ship Napole?ui, having unfintu- ^-i?i i ' ? Xnnlmi fiu euaain I fll ch nateiy, neen sen iw? ><> *wu .... Each dag has, or ?ili soon have, il paddle- ' wheel steamers. The Sanspareil (English) u,t and the Charlemagne, (French) twodecxeiv ' ,c. have auxiliary steam power. In addition to 1 Iie this powerful fleet, there art; in the Bosphorus < |,j at least seven Turkish and Egyptian line-of ' nd ha tile ships, besides frigates and steamers, so ' t?. that the combined force may be taken at about > ,st GO sail. { )SS From the large amount of steam power, the 1 48 weight of guns, the size of these ships ill prody portion to their rating, and the perfection to ' Ml| which naval gunnery has now been carried, ' he both in the English and French navies, this is, 1 te. beyond doubt, the finest naval armament ever ' nit sent to sea, though it might, if necessary, be ,vn be powerrully augmented by the fffst class steamships and fiigates which form Admiral to Corey's squadron, now at Lisbon. Those ves I be sels are, however, probably reserved as the nu- ' ar elens of the North Sea fleet in the spring. The I isi- best understanding prevails between the. Eng. | )t>. lish and French officers, and the signal books I his ?f the two squadrons have been exchanged, I nit with an arrangement that, in sailing order the | ' fa French squadron will form the weather, and i in. the English the port line. Ifct) Such is the state ol the naval preparations J in of the two powers at the moment wh?n the in- < ?l structions to enter the Black Sea, which were 1 of despatched at la-i on the 19th fuJt., arrived ( at Constantinople; and we entertain no doubt ry. that these in>triie!iorts will be executed wilh jiit the utmost alacrity j*nd efficiency that circum ,j0 stances permit. Lint, whatever may be the [ nd policy of the Cabinets of London and Paris, ' i j,| and the des^dors ,() K'Ve e'" | ut. feet to th|)av)il auiluiritii*77o**!}>^^l,>,k rest , u with the.s can be taken nl this season w?W*^H , us_ measnine fleets uudsr their command. n>. ^>ave to encounter, not the Russians urj 'ly, but a climate of extreme rigor in the nil' on'/rst season of the year?a sea darkened by mil w%s? swept by sudden and violent storms, and jt f'ltile known to our sailors?a coast notorious 'It all ages as the noccrca navium, the mo-t into 'lospital of shores. It would evidently he the Iieight of folly and impolicy to expose the fleets 0 great risk from weather, unless the Admirals iave a definite object and plan of operations 1 view, which they conceive to he within their ower. The public in this country knows as et very little of the difficulties which it i-. heir duty to consider end to overcome. It is lot improbable that the northern shores and prts of the Euxine are blocked up with ice. p severe seasons the Guif of Odessa has been lozeu over for two months at a time, and the pvigntion of that port is interrupted on an krerage of .39 days in the year, especially in Le month of January I The northwest angle of the Black Ssn, hoIveen the mouths of the Dnieper and Duies- , lr, is the coldest and most exposed part of it, ( lid Chorson, NicolaiefT, Odessa and Oezkow, , l*e probably unapproachable by water. Se- , Lst<i|K>l is scarcely more accessible to winter Iterations, and the be.-t naval authorities ex less doubis of the possibility of maintaining ( y close blockade of thecoustof the Crimea i lid Chorson at I his tinte ofvear. We stite ; iiesu facts, tint from any doubt ??r misgiving as < i tin* service which the fleets are ready to perrm, but to giiaid against the danger of uncrating the natural obstacles they may have i encounter. The climate of Russia is, by sea as well as y land, <>ne of the chief defences of that Emre dining a considerable portion of the year, id we cannot defeat the order of nature.? ay, if ain thing could give the Russian navy chance of resisting the two greatest marline powers in the world, it would he that they miild have wasted their forces ill buffeting the inter ana me elements, wniie. their real an- ( igonists lies under shelter of liis forts, refitng his vessels for next spring. The states of ie weather at Co'.stuiitiiiopto mu-t decide the t ioment at which the fleets can begin to act. < The Black Sea has of late been so temptuons that we observe by the last accounts a Rus. sian cruiser has literally been driven into the Bosphorus for shelter, and until we learn that the season has- become somewhat' more pro pitinus to maritime^ operations, we shall hesitate to believe that they have actually begun. Missouri Comi'ko'mise.?The following ex;ract from Calhoun's speech on the Oregon >id, delivered in the Senate June 27th, 1848, nay he read with interest, as bearing upon a iubjeci nowjmuch mooted?the Missouri Comiromiso. r uAfter an arduous struggle of more than a ear, on the question whether Missouri should :onie into the Union with or without reslricions prohibiting slavery, a compromise line *as adopted between the North hihJ the South; tut it was done under circumstances which nude it nowise obligatory on the latter. It is tue it was moved by one of iter distinguished itizcus, Mr. Clay; hut it is equally so that it vns carried Ity the almost united vote of the *lorlh'against the almost united vote of the south, and thus imposed oil the latter by su>erior numbers in opposition to her strenuous illiuts. The South lias never given he: saneion to it, or assented to the power it asserted. >hu was voted down, and simply acquiesced in n arrangement which she has not been able o reverse, and winch she could not attempt to . ?.L - J!_. .1 : .1 IL .1 vuinoui uisiuruiug uie peace ?uu nariuony f the CJniiiti ? to which she lias ever been verse. Acting on this principle, she permits.J the Territory of Iowa to he formed, and lie State to he admitted into the Union under lie Compromise, without objection; and this i now quoted by tile Senator troin New York ) prove her surrender of the power he claims >r Congress." ^ "~^Jree negro, named Charles Lenox Remond f Salem, Ma^b. lately delivered a lecture in ^ew-York, on the* cbimr.-Hf.Jiis race, which oust have puzzled the abolitioni.-Ts7>^w) were lis li-tmers. He characterized the negroes at he North as "disfranchised Americans." He itated that, according to he opinion of writers >n Catholic emancipation in Ireland, it was . ? jcld that disfranchised citizens were slaves.? \pplying this principle, he said that there are ive instead of three millions of slaves in the Jttited States. He repudiated the doctrine of the abolitionsts, w hich favored emancipation at the South, ind kept the emancipated in social and politinil bondage at the North. He insisted on the ightofthe colored race at thfc North to social auk and political privileges?to hold office ind to he received in Norlhern households, as jucsts and as suitors of the daughters of those tvho have proclaimed the equitlity of th^ races. It w ould have been amusing to have remarked the effect on the abolitionists who listened ;.? Remond, at the skill with which lie exposed ;heir inconsistency, and the ingenuity with Luhicli lia nnrriofi nut tln?ir nu n r.i inr.lnl.-a The Venerable Bishop Socle.?Bishop - j 3oulc, (says the N. O. Christian Advocate, of ' :he 14th,) left this poit lor t alifornia, Sat unlay Homing last, on the steamship Pampero. The Bishop takes the Nicaragua route. The proprietors of this excellent travelling line presen- . ted him with a free passage through. The day V;i Irefore sailing he ordained, in the parsonage of Darondelet Street Church, Re.vs. J. A. lvey ind H. A. Moore, travelling Elders. The Bishop is in good health. Rev. F. K. iS^|| Pitts accompanies him. After holding the Pacific Conference he expects to be back and attend the whole or part of the session of tho gf "; Lleneral Conference, at Columbus Cia. Spirit Rapping.?If you are a sk *ptic and n Materialist as regards the immmtality of man ijii night after night?day alter day unto the rappers, until \ ou heconio convinced of your fatal error and rendered happy hy its explosion is Robert Owen and others have been; but if yon have the faith and confidence of a Chrisdan glow ing on the Altar of \our heart, and "ViI P*Si?Lto know more of the mysteries of . V ,lt! .go to \oimloset and read - """Ai, ?"*H John carefully and prayerfu ly. and you >u7r?J^Tre . , frwn thai sou tee than by watching!}?!^, ta. bles a life time and .listening to ?t. ~7. ? 4 # <j % ir IIIIICH respouses of rapping impositions for the t.*iMnre of a century.?Spirit itj the Age. f * First Usk of Gas.?In the year 1792, Mr. Muidoch made use of ga->'in lighting his house and office at Kediuth, in Cornwall, Eng.- ^ land, where he then resided. The mines at which ho worked being distant some miles from his house, he was in the constant prac- ' lice of fil ing a bladder with coal gas, in the neck of which he fixed a inetalic tube, with a small orifice, through which the gas issued ; . this being ignited, served as a lantern to light his way for the considerable distance he had nightly tp travel. This mode of illuminalion being g? neraliy unknown, it was thought by the common people that magical art alone L'ould produce such an effect, and the discover. r actual I y run some ii>k ol* |>ert>< >dm1 ineonveliciice from tlie prejudice of his narrow-mind* id neighbors. ? Frauds in Woolen Clotii.? A corresponhnt'f the Genesee Farmer says that an im- * I nense quantity of the cast off rag* of paupers ire annually impotled into our country, to ho ivoiked up into woolen cloth to sell to Aiuoriitin people. These rags were formeily u>ed n.ly for manure. Now they are imported at t cost of seven cents per pound for "all wool,' md four cents per pound for''half wool and tall' cotton." All the low pi iced "woolens" ire made of imported rags of this description, inu imported wool that costs little inor* than lie rags. This cloth may he easily detected iv iilMvimr one's hand 011 it?it fppls ?? ? ?....1. Vl o - ' - " VU^U < is a hor-e carJ. The frauds which the manu'aetiirers thus commit upon the unsuspecting aboiing men, throw the sheep speculation 1 uite into the shade. Be not proud if that chance to come athwart ,hy seeing 6id<*, which meets with the blind side jf another. ' ' v i . . <;> v - , r- , . -XJcM : , . *