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Jfiistfllflncnns %m. From ika Charhtton Standard. Outrage upon Student* in Boftton. We find in the Mercnry of yesterday, and which we publish, below another Recount of the difficulty in fe<?tnn between some Southern aftuhmfa ftnd the nolire. which hnd npnrlv r?. suited t</tbe lasting injury of h nephew of one of the editors of this journal. The facts geneerally correspond with those published by us, and which were furnished by a parfy entirely disconnected with the transaction. The?e can be no question but^that the disturbance, was entirely accidental. Three of the party were already in the omnibus to return w hen the act occurred, i here can be no question but that the original net of disturbance itself was of no importance, for the party who brought it on was only fined five dollars. The act coin' mitted "|by our nephew and his friends was committed merely in assisting a fellow student from a difficulty, an act prompted by an esprit du corps, which willexi*t in every college, and whose promptings no student could think of disregarding. 1 An attempt like this, w hich was not even successful, and which occasioned no injury whatever to any officer of the law. we thought was too severely punished by consigning youths of unquestionable respectability and moral .1 n n a __ ?aI A cnaracier 10 me wans 01 a aungeon, wur.oui f ?od or the means of deeping for the night, by plunging them hand cuff in a public cart with . thieves and rascals, to the place of trial the next morning and by sentencing one to four and another to six months' imprisonment with hard labor in a common workhouse; and in speaking of it, therefore, we spoke with unnecessary severity of the place where such unwonted punishment could he inflicted. This was unjust. The whole proceeding was conducted in the police court, where officers hardened by the necessities of their 6evere experience alone were heard, and was unsustaiued and uncalled for by the better feeling of Boston. An appeal has been taken in all the cases, and we are pleased to learn, from a private despatch received on yesterday, that theyoong gentlemen may return and stand their trials before a higher court, to which appeal was taken, without the fear of such degrading punishment as that originally intended. Our remarks, however, upon the improprie ty of sending bovs to the North to be edncH. ted were generally correct. They must either yield to public sentiment, or they must set it at defiance. By one coarse the youth incurs the risk of becoming in heart an abolitionist, by ' the other he is in danger of becoming a rowdy and a blackguard; and it is difficult to determine which of these characters is the most ob jectionable to his relat ions as a citizen of the South. Extract from ''Southron." We deeply feel the importance of action Upon this subject, at this particular time. We must admit that our senses have been quicken, ed, not from the mighty arguments of internal policy favoring this, so much as from the abuses which Southern students receive at the bands of Northern men. A recent occurrem e we will cite, as we consider it an outrage upon humanity. On last week three or four Cambridge students went to Boston on business.? One of them upon going into Allen's saloon, was insulted by a Yankee, which he only returned with words, whereupon the proprietor called out for policemen. A ruffian soon appeared and seized him (the student) violently shoving him from the room upon the stone pavement. Upon rising with bruised face and hair matted with blood, his companions who were in an omnibus near by, rushed to his reli :f. As they approached, rattles weie spru g on all sides, and they were knocked down with clubs. All were overpowered except a South Carolinian about 17 years of age, w ho exhibited the courage indigenous to his State, by re ( turning a blow he had received in a manner so - e - < !? - . rri _ ^ *i_ , aruui as 10 ieu uis antagonist, inis was ine only damage done by them. All were carried to the wacth house togeth* er, and thrust into a filthy cell, w here they re- ( mained an hour or two, when they were handcuffed and sent to prison. On reaehing the jail, they were dragged out, loaded with their fetters, and saluted by the captain of the police, 1 ordering his men, (to use his own words) to "bring the animals along." They were placed ( rn the narrowest cells, and when exhausted from excessive fatigue, they attempted to sleep on the damp floor, they were aroused by kicks from brutal officers. Without water, food, or any one to dress their wounds, they remained until next morning, when, with their fetters, they were thrown into the prison cart, and hauled along the streets to the police court. After a short trial, tw o were sentenced to the house of correction, one for four months, and the South Carolina youth for six months, to hard labor. The one with whom the row commenced, was dismissed w iih five dollars flne. The fourth would not risk a trial, but by tne aid of a friendlv lawyer annealed to the city court. All were final!}' bailtd'out, by appealing to the city court, with bonds of five and six hundred dollars each, which tbey will, of course, forfeit, rather than risk a trial before another prejudiced free soil judge. To show the spirit that actuated Bostonians to this outrage, we quote the following from the daily Transcript. Speaking of the arrest, it says: ' It is said, that all the accused but one (the one released by paying $5 fine) are from the Southern States, which may account for their apparent disposition to punish Not them officers of the law, in a manner similar to that exercised by their Kentucky peers towards "yankeo schoolmasters." You can rely upon, these facts as strictly true The Futnre?TheSoutli Forewarned. If the South is lint prepared for fntuie trouble, it will not ctTtainly he because her opponents conceal heir purposes. We refer not to the wiid threats of fanatics anil abolitionists, ho called; but announcements, the most ctistinct and unequivocal, coming fiom Northern men tbrinerly loud in professions of conversation. Will our readers give their attention to the foJ owiiy extract, taken from the New York Courier ami Enquirer, hitherto no leo as ueiug Oil tflv' ?pie>uoo. "lie "I the soundest of Noix1"* *h? ? "Suppose thai our (? ''veniiueul shou (I reject all overtures, and stn p>a*e?M"i. ol Cuba?\v!iat ile-ii? W ilt the reO-'lit Nebraska <o ape. .' V r '*r< " 1 ' bp ig annexed ? D s t e a i ? n'' 1 ve w ? believes that if Chum ,wt- t. n * nw:i??', with the full >aii< lit a v-t du<. Fra ce. that this jieu^le whul-i t-oaseut r<* f pive and annex be- f And if tin, how > 1 ter ly absurd is the e?ndact of those who talk of going to war fur Cuba? There was a time when the North would have consented to an nez Cuba; hut the Nebraska wrong lias fofever rendered annexation impossible. For good cause and in vindication of our national honor the North would consent to wrest Cuba from Spain; but it would only be for the purpose of establishing in the Island a separato Republic under our protection. The Nebraska outrage has settled forever the annexation of slave ler ritorv to this Union; and as of far dei per import, it has effectually prevented the admission at any time hereafter of another slave State in the Union. When Missouri was admitted, there was a condition annexed, that slavery should not exist north of SO,' 30, but this condition has been repudiated by the South. When Texas was admitted, there was a Condiihrui niinovcwl llmt. I harp fcbmi111 bp tbrpp iiHipr slave Stales formed out of her territory. The North will, in imitation of the South, repudiate this condition; and we now tell our Southern brethren to be prepared for the consequences." Such threats, made by the abolitionists, might be passed by as unworthy of notice.? Coming, however, from a leading conservative journal of the great metropolis of the North, the reply of the South, unless we mistake the temper of her sons, will be one of cool and deliberate defiance. And should the suggested contingency arise of an honorable and peace ful tender of Cuba to the Union, and the Norlh controlling a majority in Congress should repel her advances because of the exist enee of slavery in that island, then I he South will bid farewell to the North, and for weal or woe unite her fate with that or Cuba. Nor will the South go alone. The great Northwest?Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa having a ctfmmon interest with the South in the great Mississippi river?will share her desti"y But we rejoice, and all good men should join in our rejoicings, that the fate of our country is not in the hands of New York and the New England States. It is not likely that Pennsylvania will prove false to her high name. And bo long as Pennsylvania and that portion of the Northwest which we have mentioned, shall re main true, they, with the South can maintain both the Union of the States and the rights of the States?despite all that New York and New England can do for the destruction of both.?Savannah Georgian. Thr Excitement is Boston.?Corresoon dents from Boston of the New York papers represent that the excitement growing out of the Burns case is dying away. One of th.- letters, however rema ks: "Without saying, as some do, that society here has become aboiitionized, I think it is but saying the truth to remark that there is a stronger anti.slavery sentiment prevalent in Boston at this time than there has been at any previous period. As an evidence that I am not wrong, take the fact that the petition that has been got up praying for the repeal of the fugitive slave law has been signed by our most con servatively inclined citizens?the very men who but a short time since were foremost in supporting the compromises ofB1850. Six months ago these gentlemen would as soon have signed a petition for the dissolution of the Union as one of the kind to which they arc now so ready in placing their names. The Nebras ka hill, thus far, has not put an end to agitation, it must be udmittcd. Among the signers of the petition is Mr. Pearson, uie of whose vessels was used in transporting Thomas Sims to the Soutlf in April, 1851." Washington City.?At the Municipal election on Monday last, Mr. T. Towers was elected Mayor by a majoiity of 430 over the late incumbent Mr. John Maury. Respecting the result, the Washington Star says That the distant public may understand precisely the issues involved in the municipal election held hern \estordav. we have to sav. that ?- " ^ - ?/ ' ? - * V ' the main elements entering into the contest were hostility to the llonum Catholic church, and the enjoyment of all the rights of Ameiican citizenship by foreigners. Mr. John W. Maury, the defeated candidate, however, was sustained by a large number of the most ardent American anti catholics of the city, while Mr. Towers probably received tlie votes of nearly every English horn and Protestant Irish bom citizen among us. He also received quite a large anti-C Catholic German vote. Thus, while the Nativo American question had powerful in* fluenee in this election upon the Americans voting the foreign horn for the most part turned -L i! ; . 1 | ;_4.. tU._ upon me religious question inirouucuu wau uie contest. Frost in Jcne.? From the following paragraphs it will be seen that old winter has been making a brief predatory excursion among our country friends: The Spartan Express says: "We regret to learn that on Friday morning last a heavy frost was visible on the low lands in the neighborhood of the Tyger and Pacolelrivers. Our informant one of our best planters states that corn and other grains have sustained serious injury by this frcst in his neighborhood." The Anderson Gazette chronicles the same mishap: "On last Friday morning there was a full of frost heavy enough to kill a good many vegetables. Wo were shown a bed of English Peas winch were completely destroyed." Cholera in Cincinnati.?The Cincinnati Times of the 2d iust. says: W?. Imuo lioorri nfseveral cases nf cholera in the city, nearly all of which proved fatal. In the neighborhood of St. Paul's church, in the Ninth Ward, four persons have died of it in one house; and deaths have occurred in other purls of the eity. All the rases, so far us we have heard, have been among foreigners, who xv-re very careless as to tlnir habit? of living; and they are not by any means any cause for alarm. ?>< Undeii Ground It vi(.noad.?This line up pears to Ijr doing a fr<e business sine?- the pas _f.i vt I \ i. |.;|| M?1 _ f _ sage cn hie i>euiH?kh mil. i nree iiignives hilived ?t. thu depot in i hi* city on Tuesday, and were pas-ed on to Queen Victoria's dominions. Ten arrived last week. The records show that one hundred have escaped over this branch of the r-?ad, from th:s land of "e<pi 1 right*''and Democracy. since the fi?st of Jaiuinrv l ist. Syracuse Journal. Sv.tu. IJ x. ! ' ioi e itnr f rti?- Tampa i i > r , d "'e i "i? J <i m? mil , Fl i h; t the .-in.i i . ti\ i- I arf'l.t ?? ' il?? iliereis theie. not^itli t .i.ili. ji (he ?(f.? ts of t!ie cit/.i ns .>nd I authijiidvi \<> an fit jt.s jjiojjress. CI)e Cantkn illfekiii Journal. . i Tuesday, June 13, 1854. < = i THO. J. WARREN, Editor. j Factorage and Commission. We invite attention to the Card of Messrs. Clarkson 1 & Moy, Factors and Commission Merchants, Central 1 Wharf. Cliarleston, S. C. We can safely recommend 1 | this House to the pfctronage of our friends, and take pleasure in doing so. Mr. Mey is emphatically a ' working man, and is destined, we hope, to large sue* cess for his energy and strict attention to-business Moultrie House Open. 1 This delightful retreat from the noise and confusion of the City is open for the reception of the public, where every comfort andcnnveiri^nce can be obtained, and the delights of sea-airing and bathing enjoyed. It is under the proprietorship of the accomplished host of the Mills House, Mr. Thomas S. Nickf.rson. Newspapers Now. "With all tho improvements which modern ingenuity has invented, and enterprise forwarded, it is a question of serions doubt, whether or not the vocation of the Printer has been much improved. The adverse we are afraid, is too true. In point of dignity and respectability, the press, although freer from resfnint, and with, we may say. a perfect carte blanche of privileges, is not more elevated in its character to-day, than it was when Franklin, its great pioneer first gave tone and position to the American press. "We do not inti- c mate that the press in many respects, has not iirpro- ^ tliA onntrarv it ia A mnftAr rtf ainr>ArA irrntifl- ^ cation, as well as of surprise, that human ingenuity has J been able to accomplish so much in comparatively so r short a time. When we speak now, of tho condition r of the press, we mean its moral condition. When we assume that the pres3 has not improved, we presume the exceptions which all general propositions contain, . will be found, 1 Our object, however, is not to moralize hero, on the 1 duties, usefulness, and sphere of the Press. We have C a few practical thoughts which we desire to submit, t and which we intend as a sort of review of the Press at ^ home. Our observations will be made from a pecuniary point of the question, and will be confined strictly P to our own State, as it is no: polite that we should know s any thing about the affairs of our neighbors. Tho I time was, when the Press of South Carolina might be t regarded as a profitable investment, and a person a few years ago, had some inducement to go into the business, with the belief that with a proper energy and' ^ application to business, ho would be able to reap tho reward of his labots. What is the inducement now? ' Within the last half a dozon years, the number of ' newspapers within our State has increased nearly one ? hundred percent. We are in the fifth,year of our s connection with tho Press, and can call to mind near- | ly, 11 not quuo, on? aozen una a nan 01 newspapers which have come into existence during that time, and ,] about half of that number have, during the same pe- I riod, ceased to exist. Some few came and went, em- < phatically " the wonder of an hour." It is now diffi- n celt to keep pace with the many changes which are j constantly taking place among Editors and Proprietors, and the different papers which have been merged within a few years, shows too plainly, what the | business is in South?Carolina. It is even hard J to r. collect now, the names and place3 of all the pa pers, who are the Editors, &c, for we scarcely wel- | come one into the editorial chair belore ho gets tired, g and we arc called upon to chronicle his sudden exit These things are serious disadvantages to the business and soon our State will be known as the restless, 1 AttnitmnM lihln Q'ntrt A#1 nft ll'Dno r\nr/l Am T f ia OtiroW > I* I J U U ?, i I i llbliC hJMlbW U1 O^upwiUVkll! AW IS uutvy no compliment to tlio State, to say the least of it The legitimate inference is, thut the newspaper bu- c siness is entirely overdone, and the conclusion seems j very reasonable to us, that the present number of papers in the State cannot bo sustained. It is hardly to s be supposed that, depending as our country papers do, c upon local patronage, which is now so much divided, i they can be susiained with any degree of profit or sat- t isfaction to those who have their conduct in hand.? , We will now ask a few questions?What is the object |, of establishing newspapers in the country ? Is it only that the people may be accommodated, and that they may have light and bo made wiser and better? These 1 are certainly very commendable and worthy traits iu n the character of these enterprises, j et we opine there , are few conductors of the press whoso benevolence is j so largely developed, that they are led into this call- y ing from no other motive. Men generally have but little benevolence to spare, and we assume that the in ducemeut is either to make money or acquire reputa tion, perhaps both, which aro perfectly odmissable, unless unworthily employed. Ilere we have a picture: A. imagines that a noapaper is important and essential to the growing prosperity of a certain locality?perhaps | there is one or two already?but being an age for pro- ( liflc conclusions, the idea is conceived, and soon we have a prospectus?the new fledged bantling appears, ( and all seems bright and promising. But a change comes over the spirit of its dreams, and the sober re- j ality breaks in upon the mind, that all is not gold that j glitters. Materials and labor are cash articles, and at . this time are particulaily high, day after day, and 1 week after week, the practical details of a printer's ( lile are being learned?the multitudinous and vexa- { tiouscaies, at every point, and at every step, shows j the proprietor-editor, that his vocation is by no moans i a sinecure. In vain are patrons appealed to and friends urged up to the mark. Promises to pay, coinplimen- i tary notices, congratulatory epistles, and all tho other I courtesies of the craft, will not put a single dollar in i the pocket, or pay the printer's wages. A few months or this sort of experience satisfies fiiend A. that he is driving an up-hill business, lie therefore concludes that the best way to do, will be to get out as easily as possible, and he is not long in finding some one else * who is as eager as ho was, to get his name in a paper. I Ho sells out to B. and the same results are experien- < ced. B. sells to C., and thus it goes on, not descend- | ing from sire to son, but in the course of two or three < years as many changes bavo taken place, and finally |, the enterprise dies out lor want 01 uream?puuuuugu ?in other words, money. This is no fancy sketch, as. unfortunately, the history of too many papers in our State shows. We might a tale unfold of even a more melancholy character, but this is sufficient for our present purpose. We are led to conclude naturally, that there must he reasons for all this, and it seems proper that we should just here try to find one. The Press is to b'ame for this state of things, and we musi, without ' intending to bo invidious, charge a great deal to the J multiplication ofhall-priced papers, which have lessened i 1,1-..in a?<4 crt o.rpnfI\' tl,A lArmq of Rnhijrri.itinn ! . so Buuut'iu; *?"V4 .?v, D. w... .j | ... ? and adverti-ing. tli?t with tlie present high rate of ma* J terials and lnbor, with the amount of losses "vhichare j necessarily i cidental to printing estnb'ishmenta. it is1 next to impossible lor new papers to stand without a [ g od deal of bols'ering up We do not object to riur friends who furnish the r papers at one dollar, tor there i* but little made at beat upon the subscription list, bat we join issue at once, win re tltejr adrertise at merely nominal rates. This i> the cause of the failure ,of the country press to rerannera*e thoso who undertake to conduct papers, and look tb the proceed a the same for remuneratiou. And such will continue to be the case with every paper which undertakes to advertise for little or nothing, merely to get the run, as they vainly ima- gine, but which will finally prove that sort ofhope deferred, which maketh not only the beort sick, but the pocket very light. If the Press of the State is only intended to give amusement and notorioty to those who are engaged in its management, or to give the people more knowledge and power, let us plant this "fulcrum and lever" at all the cross roads in the country, upon every hill and | and mountain top, in the vallies below, and every-' where, that the people may have an abundance of light and be sure 10 let them know that they are indebted to the progress of thepresent times forall these blessings, without money and without price. In our judgment, it is time the press of South Caroiua should learn some practical lessons, which we fear lothing but bitter experience will ever teach. We hope the proposed meeting at Newberry, for :on8ulting upon this subject was held, and that good nay result from it. For one, we have long since deermined, and have followed up tlio rule as well as we lould, that un ess, in our advertising contracts, we nake some approximation to our terms, we decline be honor merely for the name of the thing. Upon the ribject of advertising, we design, before very long, * ?* -*?ii ? i?tv. 0 make some ooservauons, wuen we hiiuh give [? ent Medicines 1 and Nortliern advertisers generally, a ( tassing notice. Charleston and Savannah Rail Road. The requisite number of shares to secure the charter if the Charleston and Savannah Railroad Company, laving been subscribed, an election for President and welve Directors of the said Company, to serve for one ear, will be held at the Hall of the Charleston Insu- 1 ance and Trust Company, on Monday, the 10th July lext. George D? Prentice. A short time ago we saw a paragraph which 3 going the rounds of the newspapers, giving his gentleman, who is the gifted and accomtlished editor of the Louisville Journal, any hing but a fluttering, passing notice. We leeply regret that such is the case, and that lecessity or the cause of truth, should require ucli a severe castigation as the Uevciana nam )ealer lias deemed proper to give Mr. Prenice. His political npostacies, although to he refretted, ought not to be set down against him .9 unpaidonahle sins, for if we apply the same est to all political characters, how few would >e aide to pass through the ordeal unscathed, dr. Prentice may be an "unprincipled and urn crupulous politician," if he is, we are sorry to tear it, and worse than all, to see it so boldly tnnounced that his "personal honor" is under iar, and he himself the subject of "popular in lignation by nil parties, and the people generilly of Louisville arid throughout Kentucky." \To man who is able, and who has, written 'Uch poetry as George D. Prentice, ought ever o be "under the ban of popular indignation," nstly. Ilis Poein, "Linos written at my moth sr's Grave," is one of the most deeply touching iroductiuns which we liave ever read, and it eems to no man who could brealhe such seniments, would ever lose sight of his obligations o presorve at all hnzzards, at least, his 'perotial honor and respect." We ha-e great admiration for genius wheriver it is found, and when our feelings have >een favorably enlisted, we -*n)U>t experience mine disappointment at least, it the object of tur regard proves unworthy. Mr. Prentice nay be an injured man, we hope that >neh is lie case, for there is some truth, and unfortuiateiy, too much in the old axiom that, one* lalf of the world takes pleasure in detracting, md (he other in believing all that detraction liters. We do not however, by this, mean to idoptin full this severe comment upon human mtiire. We have not yet, reasons for bclievii" that mail is the unchristian being which we O o lave hea?d some try to make him; there are J ixcepiions to all general rules, and in this, the . xecption is manifest. Young Carolina at West Point. In a notice of the cavalry exercises at West 1 Point, at the late semi-annual examination, a 1 ;orrespondent of the New York Herald says: (i D./i nr.iinati( Am..*,.. I l.a t.ocl ... ( ki.< i 1 icxminnit 4iiu"iig tuo ucob iiuci.1 ill Linn j ?lnss is Cadet Lee, oi' South Carolina. He j ode a spirited animal, and was ever foremost n the charge. Cadet Villepigue, of S. Caro-! ins, is also a fine rid^r, and led the last charge i lhat'was made. Cadets Lee and Rogers, of Virginia, Randall, of Texas, Davant, of South Carolina, Render, of North Carolina, Wright, )f N. York, and Mullins, of Mississippi, were unong the fine riders that we noticed conspic- j ions in the drill. The squadron was in constant motion before the board for a full hour and II httlf fitlfl WPDmurl ti\ ovnprionAu Knt lit I I i* ? ....... ...... jv. ^ v?rv..?-..ww ./uw atigue at the close of the exercises from the iriuleiit ill ill which they had uudeigone." " ?>? Correspondence of the Camden Journal. Brother Warren?In company with brother Srisham, who, sick or well, is always at his lost, I journeyed from Columbia, from midday )f the 1st to 6 a. in. this morning, when we eached this city of palaces. The members of Congress are enjoying the carpet vacation.? ' i'he Capitol is undergoing that house-wife on ration of lifting the winter coverings and layng down the lighter, summer ones. During he operation most of the members <>f Congress ire like young colts, kicking up their heels. j 1 found Brooks and Boyce, of S. C., alone, here, ali the rest are away. I have been much j leased to see how well these two young genlemf-n look, and to hear how favorably they ire here spoken of. Both of them seem to me o be diligent in their business, and to have acjnired much of that business tact, which is so jssenlinl to a legislator. They too, seem to have adopted the very jage advice given to me, when a young man tnd a member of the legislature of So. Ca.. by i Chancellor Thomson, "to speak seldom and to <e u rll prepared when I did speak." '! h re is no change in Washington since my j ast eommunicHiion to you. We witnessed | ,liis evening the gala promenade,in the grounds 1 * . . 1 1 "saB?smmamsmm south of the President's House. The Marine band filled the air with music ?the rich grass formed a beautiful carpet, on which one might sit, lie, or walk, while the trees gave a shade surpassingly delightful. The people, in their best bibs and tuckers, were there. Many pretty ladies were there?and many of them aeem ed to know that they were pretty. Of the Cubinet, I saw none but Gov. McCleland, the Secretary of the Interior. He is a modest, working gentleman. The 3d Auditor of the Treasury, Mr. Burt, and the Clerks. Thurston and P<tpe, were with Col. Brooks,Grishamand myself. I unexpectedly met with McMillan King, from S. C. A considerable South Car oliiui party was thus accidentally gathered, and we enjoyed a few moments' conversation with great delight, in the midst of the multitude and in that beautiful grove, and under a delightful June evening's canopy spread out over our heads, by our mighty Master! I fear much that Col. Grisham, myself, and one brother from Mar) land, will be all our del egates south of Mason and Dixon's line in the National Division. Is not this a shame] Unless the National Division comes south or west, ami much nearer than either St. John's or Chief go, I think 1 may say to the brethren, that neither Gnshum nor myself will eter be seen in another meeting. We have both labored long and faithfully "without. vnflney and without priceWe ure both beyond three scores, anil if younger men will avoid the labor, we must say, so he it, and leave the helm! We move on Monday to Baltimore, Tuesday to Philadelphia, Thursday to New York, Saturday to Boston, Monday to Portland, and Tuesday to St. Johns. This closes my office of M. W. P., and after Monday the 19th, which is the anniversary, I shall feel that a heavy burden is removed ! I have nothing else worth writing, and after very little sleep for the last two nights, I will lay down my pen, and bid you and yours good night. Yours in L. P. nnd F. JOHN BEL ION O'NEILL. Washington, June 3, 1854. ? George B. Shiver.?It affords us a melancholy satisfaction, to transfer to our columns from the Sumter Watchman, a judicious i.nd touching obituary of this excellent man, whose sudden decease in the prime of life, has in Acted a pang on many a heart, where probably the living man scarcely deemed his modest woith had created an interest in his welfare. For several years lie has been employed on one urJlie other Railroads frequented by our citi zens, and no man ever had occasion to ask a favor of him without, gratefully remembering the cheerful benevolence with which the service sought was rendered. He was one of those men in whom the humbleness of situation did not obscure the native born gentleman; ami if lie was addressed familially as George, it was with a tone of tenderness which implied respect and affection, not superiority That he was a christian explains the more than nalii ral g Midiiess of his character, and is a conso liny intelligence to those who lament his lo-s. The public could have better spared with ma nifest advantage, lif'ty of the >u?ly and reluctant (trudges, whom chance, not consideration h>r public accommodation, usually assigns to Railnmd man igeiiieut and se vice. D i rliu j Ion Flaj. Cassias i\f.,Clay makes his appearance be fore the public again, in a letter on the duty of the free States in regard to the repeal of the Missouri compinmise. It is characterized, like most of his productions, by zeal rather than discretion, Mr. Clay thinks t hale very man. who voted for t lie Nobra-ka bill, deserves death; but as tbat penalty cannot legally be inflicted lie is compelled to seek some other punishment, inure or le-& appropriate. His conclusion is less sanguinary, and more sensible, than his piom*>es would indicate. Ho is for breaking them on the wheel of public opi don. All our el. ctioiis hereafter, in his opinion, should be made to turn exclusively upon this issue. All parties should unite on the man most certain to lie elected, who is at the same time reliable in regard to the question of slavery. Mr. Clay thinks it very desirable that the Anti Slavery party should elect a President, for then, if the Slaveholding States secede, as he thinks tlicy are preparing to do. the Nation al Government can cither put them down or do without them, as may seem most expedient. N. Y. Times. Cholera.? We understand that the report is current in the country that the above fearful disease has made its appearance i.i our healthy iiurl nnipf fmvii SpvpihI c.ivoru ,-as < f ,-hnl eramiorbus, which we regret lo say terminated fatally in a short lime, occurred more than a week since. The disease is not cholera, hut the same which has been prevailing throughout the whole country. It lias abated, and n? more danger need lie anticipated from a visit toSumtervifle than by^taying at home. Sumter Watchman. The new city government of Providence, R. I., was organized on the 5th inst-, and about the first act of Conucilmen afier. taking the oath of otfiee was to adopt a resolution suspending the usual celebration of the fourth of July. In . I J .1 a ut'u or n re wows, parades, una oint-r uruimi- i stratioti< of joy, they resolved tlwt I lie bells should " be tolled one hour tit sunrise, noon and sundown on that, day, oil account of the repeal of the Missouri compromise and the re cent event in Boston." ? For the Tektii.?Dissolve two ounces of. borax in three pints of boiling water and before it is cold add one teaspoon full of the spirits of camphor, and bottle for use. A spoonfid of this mixture mixer! with an equal quantity of tepid water, and applied daily w ith a soft brush, preserves and beautifies the teeth, it extirpates all taiturous adhesi'-n, arrests decay, j induces ft healthy nrtion of the ?u?ns, ana | m ikes them look pearly white. The best |>eri.?d to wash the teeth is at night befoie retiring to sleep. . Time is Money.? I)r. Franklin phvs "time a nianey. This may account for the fact that; liersons, when most in need of money, ask fori ime. . I '^^oStejcnrmjJGEKCE, , Arrival of tile Niagara. The steamer Niagara arrived at HallifaX en Tuesday. with Li ver|>o<il dates to the 81st ult. The circular of Milligan reports the sales of Coltou for the week at 41,000 bales, of wlucli exporters took 5,000, und speculators 2,000 bales. Fair Orleans is quoted at 6 l-2d. Middling 5 1 8d. Fair Uplands 6 l-4d. Middling 5d., decline 1 8d. Dr. Hunter, the Liverpool agent of the Associated Press, says Quotations for cotton are nominal and irregular at a decline of an eight to nearly a quarter of a penny, principally on the middling and lower grades. Holders are pressing on the market, thereOy causing speculative purchase*. Trade at Manchester has largely declined, the commercial advicbs from India being re* garded unfavorable for manufactures. Dcniiistouu's circular reports Breadstuff's as in fair demand, nut the sales at lower prices.? Corn lui* advanced (id. the demand lair and holders firm, with moderate sales to ibe trade. Gardiner reports Pork as unchanged, and prices firm Lard had declined 3s. Money tighter. At Havre on thje 24tb, the Cottbn market whs unchanged. The sales of the weefc had amounted to 0,000 bales; Orleans was quoted at 60 to lOOf. There is nothing decisive in political affairs. Negotiations have been resumed at Vienna.? Austria and Pruteia are apparently acting against Russia. SilUtria is hard pressed. Arrival of-the Arctic. S ' ' ' J 4 " ' * The steamship Arctic has arrived from Liverpool, which port she left at 10 a. m. on the 271 h. The sales of Cotton on Saturday were 7000 bales, at steady prices. Mcllenry's Circular quotes Flour a? having declined 3s. - . Cotton extremely dull; with most irregular quotations, the decline on Middling and lower grades barely 1-8. Other circulars quote the deelitie in'Breadstuffs about one-half the above figures. ; There was complete accord, belweeir the Four Powers. A protocol had been signal at Vienna bv the representatives "of France, Great Britain, Austria and Prussia, guradteeinjj the integrity of the Turkish Empire. Aostriwtfnd Prussia will now demand of Rassiathe evacuation of the principalities, and a note to-that ufT.'ct liu<J ti^MJi rtruivn nn / 1 "!' ^ Austria and Prussia have iuvit<3 A meeting of the German Diet, to join in a treaty which they had already subsetitied. From the Ea>t we learn that the English troops are about embarking lor Varna, andthe French f r the Balkan. The Russians Aire iha noeuvring to cut off the communication between Sili?tria and Va.ua. - ' ' ; A division of French troops had left Malta on the22<l to occcupy Athena. Lord Claiendon had stated in Parliament' that the Tieaty with Austria and Prussia would he laid before Parliament as soon as the Pro*, tocol was received. And also that papers would alio he presented to show the necessity of coerciue measures against Greece. Advices from Spain state that the Black Warrior difficulty was still unsettled. Admiral Sir Hyde Parker is dead. Washington, June 9. The negotiations for a treaty between thw Government and Great Biiuin have at length been completed between Minister Crampton and Secretary Marcy. This treaty settles the fi-hery dispute by giving us the freedom of the fisheiiesand the tree navigation of the St. Law. rence, and establishes free trade reciprocity with the Briti-h iirovincea in natural nrodiir.t*. Before being fully estnhli-lied these provisions rou-t pass the Senate, Congress, the British Parliament and the Colonial Legislature. The Union <?f today states "that the Black Warrior difficulty U n??t folly aetiled, and that the administration has not changed Jrmn-itf' original position concerning the poliuy to be carried out. The Senate met 'his morning, hut adjocrncd till Monday without transacting any business. In the House, Mr. Giddingx, the Ohio abolitionist, offered a resolution to exclude the Printer to that body, Mr. Armstrong, editor of the Union newspaper, from the privileges of the floor, because he had indited and published several ?evere anti-abolition editorials. It is almo-t needles- to remark that this ridiculous resolution was defeated. Baltimore, June 7. The Philadelphia elect ion has resulted in; the entire success of the Whigs and Know Nothing-. who elected their whole ticket by eight to twelve thousand majority. Conrad, for Mayor has nine thousand?City Council, School Director, &e. nearly unanimously Whrig. ^ >, Singular Dkath of a Child.?A little boy, son of Christopher Abersold, came to his death yesterday afternoon in a singular manner.? Mr. A., who is an officer in the Grenadiers, waa with the military, and his wife left hometosee the procession, leaving the child in charge of an.aged parent. Theoldgentleman had occasion . to no out a short time, and while absent the little boy upset n table, the extended leaf of which fell across his neck, choking hiin to death. When found, the child lay upon h'a back, the edge of the tnhle resting across his n ck. The parents who had left home to enjoy a gala day, returned to make their, bouse one | of mourning?Rochester Union, June 6. Judgk Butler.? We are delighted to see our Senator, who is on a necessary visit to bis home, in fine health and spirits. His labors during the current session have been manifold and arduous hut he has met them with all the vigor of his prime, regulated by the maturer experience of years. In no previous session of l.otigrcss has he clone more lor the honor ot his State and the good of his whole country,? Upon every is*ueof importance that has beet* raised, his voice has been lifted ap with power end vttevl.?Edgefield Advertiser. Onit KRADROT NEIOT1BOR.?The nearest fi*erf star has been discovered very recently to be Alpha in the con-tellation of the Centaur.? The mm is ninety five millions of miles fromthe earth, and this.-tar which we feel a certain: degiee of friendship for, because it is oar nearest neighbor, is two hondred and six thousand times the distam-e of the sun from the earth.? Liuht which travels one hundred and ninetytwo thousand miles a second, would require rriore than three years to reaeh os from that tar.