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THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL. VOLUxME XV. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1854. NUMBER 32. PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WAEREN. TERMS. Two Dollars if paid in advauce; Two Dollars and Filly Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if uot paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less,) soventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions, one dollar per square; semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. " ITS" The number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin 01 all advertisements, or they will be i published until ordered discontinued and charged ac- | cordingly. ( Hlisrellirarats. ' f From the South Carolinian. , Temperance. Messrs. Editors : Will you permit one who ( lias some experience in the affairs of temper- I ance to say, in successive numbers, a few words i to the people of Carolina through your columns? ( He regrets that candidates for the Legisla- i tu re should have been asked " Are you in favor of prohibition ?" He hoped if any ques i ^ tion was asked, it should have been " Are you i in favor of letting the people speak for themselves in favor of or against a prohibitory law?" His purpose will be to explain the principles and working of such a law. For the present,. however, and in this number, he proposes to , run his eye over some of the answers giver, to the questions propounded to the candidates.? He confesses that he has heen much amazed at what seems to him, with due deference, be it said, their strange inconsistency. ? All are in favor of temperance?all are opposed to prohibitory laws. They have not answered, say they, the ends intended. All are f??r moral suasion, arid one really good man, i who once was a thorough-going temperance man, and whose name is now on the Central Committee, goes a step beyond all others : he does not like prohibition because it conies from Maine, and smacks too much of the higher law. It is a mistake to say that prohibitory laws have failed to accomplish the ends intended. The workings of the Maine law have been ef factual. In Portland, living, credible witnesses affirm that the law has put down the traffic, and made that great fishing, lumber, and shipbuilding city sober. A gentleman from Indiana, Dr. Brown, who tarried two days in Portland, a stranger to the people, affirms that he explored the city, and put his jolly looking fuce into every nook and corner where lie thought a dram could be got, and he could not get a i a drop for love or money. NTeal Dow in a pub - , lie speech at St. J<?hn, New Brunswick, stated | that not a pipe of intoxicating drink could be bought in the entire Slate of Maine. Is it pos- | sihle that such a man as he is, remarkable for | straightforward truth and honesty, should utter | such a deliberate falsehood ? Mr. Steiness, of < Providence, Rhode Hand, at the satne place, ( stated that the law was now working well in | Rhode Mand. Connecticut, right alongside of | Massachusetts, where the law has been in force | tor some time, has. with singular unanimity, i within the last month adopted the law. Michi* i gan, the great lake State, the home of the old- , est teetotaller in the (Juion, Gen. Cass, last year, by twenty thousand majority, adopted i the Maine law. Will fiends still venture to ] affirm that the law, as a prohibitory law, has j failed to answer the ends intended? It is perfectly ridiculous to tulk of moral { suasion as a means any longer to be relied on | in affecting temperance. The writer has tried | 1 a.! I I I Til moral suasion utiui 110 anuws it win never < stop the sale or the drinking of intoxicating < drinks. He has seen intelligent, well informed | gentlemen, as well as drinking men, sign the temperance pledge, arid he has been mortified, . nay even ashamed to know, that they afterwards < yielded to temptation, and were again believers ( tk in the pistol that never snaps." < What can moral suasion do without hands? Do liquor sellers ever come to hear? Do our . gentlemanly, fashiunable drinking people listen | to moral suasion ? Do they not generally de | nounce the followers of temperance, and especially those who speak, as fanatics, crusa ] ders, zealots, die. < Did you, gentle reader, ever see the keepers i of the exchanges, our houses die., at a temper- | anee lecture? Sometimes friend Truesdell, of | Oyster House, and Julius, the departed host of j the Tupper House, might have been seen listening to an old friend, or some extraordinary 1 fai*eti<>us man. But such instances are rare? j rare as angels' visits. The questions asked ( point to very important answers. If, friends, | in your hearts, you are obliged to-say that they i point to tacts aboufVhieh there can be no dis- < pnte, the writer begs that you will not be led j astray by cant. He would say to the people ; of South Carolina, as he will have occasion I probably hereafter to consider at more length, that prohibition is no new thing in this State. Open your statute book. Why does it contain laws to prevent the odious and loathsome sin of drunkenness? To prevent the inordinate haunting of ale houses and tippling houses ?? To prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks in quantities less than three gallons ? To prevent the selling, giving, delivering or exchanging intoxicating drinks to or with slaves? Why do you object to prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks in South Carolina ? Do you not prohibit crime ? Is not the sale of intoxicating drink the worst of crime? To sensible men the writer would say, examine the calendars of crime. Let mayors, intendants, and other nn<4 tllAM VfAll IX' ill lrnmu uuicers B?>eait, niiu tncn jvu nuw?? | where crimes originate. The writer knows | from examination that nine-tenths of all the crimes of Sogth Carolina are to be ascribed to \ the retailing of intoxicating drink. Can it be, j fellow-citizens, that your law-makers, past, , present, or to come, can be justified in not lift | ing a finger to remove the cause of crime ? I You are slaveowners. What is it more than anything else, which ruins your slaves ? ? Is it not intoxicating drink ? Where do they ( get it? If yoa answer or know that they get it at your r tail shops, why not shut them up ? j But the principle of prohibition comes from ? Maine. If this were true, the writer would | say what of that f Do yous refuse to eat her < ring, mackerel, cod or salmon, because they ?me from Maine ? But in fact the principle 5f prohibition does not come from Maine, it is sf the growth of South Carolina; for here prohibition is found on our statute book before Maine existed, and as applied to temper mce, it was contended for here in '40 and '41, long before the Maine law. The writer, however, acknowledges that he -lotiicfQ ftiof nllroicm ti-hinh ic ArrftvilJfV OUT country in sectional hatred. He has always thought that a Yankee was just as good a man is he was; however he utterly condemns the madness which is there goading the people o:i to their'own ruin, and possibly that of the countiy; but still this will not make him reject that which he knows to be good, because it comes from the land of the down East! There is great inconsistency in thus sneering at a prohibitory law, because it comes, as is supposed, from Maine! The writer asks those who thus object, is it wrong to educate cbiL dren in the land, of steady habits ? Is it wrong for a Southern man to own 6tock in a North ern railroad?does that smack of a higher law ? Certainly not! It is a good investment, tat dividends follow, and the fortunate holder will not say, 44 ay ! this, however, smacks too much of the Yankee?of the higher law?and in a spirit of high-toned, chivalrie patriotism, I will not have them." If he did, we should think lie would bo verv much like that foolish man. who, because he was fishing for cat fish, would not have a trout which he had caught " I am gone a cattingsaid lie, " and 1 wont have a trout," and suiting the action to the word, he flung the fine fish hack in the river. The writer has no disguise; he acknowledges frankly he is for the Maine law, with suitable modifications to make it enforcihle under our constitution. Still he wouldn't claim just now an enactment beyond the prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drink at the places U'lltTr? sold ! The great object before him is to close the grog-shops now and forever. Then be would ask the people to take another and a greater step, that is the total prohibition of the sale of intoxicating drink, except for mechani cal and medicinal purposes. So much for the beginning; the wiiter will, when he has leisure, more fully explain the principles and working of a prohibitory law. A TETOTALLER. m m From Goldsmith's Citizen of the World. LKTTKR LXXXI1I. I You are now arrived at an age, my son, whetl pleasure dissuades from application ; but roll not, by present gratification, all the succeeding! period of life of its happiness. Sacrifice a lit! tie pleasure at first to the expectance of great* sr. The study of a few years will make thfl rest of life completely easy. H But instead of continuing the subject myselB take the following instructions, borrowed froifl i modern philosopher of China. " He wlifl lias begun his fortune by study, will certninll lonfirtn it. by perseverance. The love of boolfl larnns the mission for pleasure ; and when thfl mission is once extinguished, life is then chea| Iv supported : thus a man, lieing possessed < more than he wants, can never be subject t [jreat disappointments, and avoids ail tho> meannesses which indigence sometimes urn voidably produces. "There is unspeakable pleasure attendin the life of a voluntary student. The first tim I read an excellent book, it is to me just as I had gained a new friend. When I read ov< a hook I have perused before, it resembles tli meeting with an old friend. We ought to la bold of every incident in life for improvemen the trifling as well as the important. It is not line diamond alone which gives lustre to another ; a common coarse stone is also employed for that purpose. Thus I ought to draw advantage from the insults and contempt I meet with from a worthless feilow. Ilis brutality aught to induce me to self-examination, and correct every blemish that may give rise to his calumnv. " v-I ... so. -11 .1?1~?. t,;?n " let Willi Illl IIIC |in:n^ui I-O illiu |lluiuo nmvii ire generally produced by learning, parents often find it difficult to induce their children to study. They often seem dragged to what wears the appearance of application. Thus, being dilatory in the beginning, all future hopes of eminence are entirely cut off. If they find themselves obliged to write two lines more polite than ordinary, their pencil then seems as heavy as a millstone, and they spend ten days in turning two or three periods with propriety. " These persons are most at a loss wheu a banquet is almost over; the plate and the dice jo round, that the numberof little verses, which each is obliged to repeat, may be determined by chance. The booby, when it comes to his turn, appears quite stupid and insensible. The company divert themselves with his confusion ; and sneer6, winks, and whispers, are circulated it his expense. As for him, he opens a pair of large, heavy eyes, stares at all about him and ?veu offers to join in the laugh, without ever considering himself as the burden of all their ?ocd humour. " But it is of no importance to read much, ?xcept you be regular in your reading. If it be interrupted for any considerable time, it can never he attended with proper improvement. There are 6otne who study for one day with intense application, and repose themselves for ten days after. But wisdom is a coquette, and must be courted with unabating assiduity. " It was a saying of the ancients, that a man never opens a book without reaping some ud vantage by it. I say with them, that eveiy book can serve to make us more expert, except romances, and these are no better than instruments of debauchery. They are dangerous fictions, where love is the ruling passion. " The motet indecent strokes there pass for tarns of wit; intrigue and criminal liberties for gallantry and politeness. Assignations, and 3ven villainy, are put in such strong lights, as mayenpire even grown men with the strongest passion; how much more therefore, ought the youth of either sex to dread them, whose rea son is so weak, and whose hearts are so susceptible of passion. "To slip in by a back door, or leap a wall, ?re accomplishments that, when han.isomeiy set off", enchant a young heart. It is true, the jlot is commonly wound up by a marriage con. duded with the consent of parents, and adjust. ed by every ceremony prescribed by law. But as in the body of the work there are many passages that offend good morals, overthrow laudable customs, violate the laws, and destroy the duties most essential to society, virtue is thereby exposed to the most dangerous attacks. " But, suy some, the author of these romances have nothing in view, but to represent vice punished, and virtue rewarded. Granted. But will the greater number of readers take notice of these punishments and rewards ?? Are not their minds carried to something else ? Can it be imagined that the art with which the author inspires the love of virtue can overcome that crowd of thoughts which sway them to licentiousness ? To be uble to inculcate virtue by so leaky a vehicle, the author must be a philosopher of the first rank. But in our age, we can find but few first rate philosophers. " Avoid such performances where vice as sumes the face of virtue; seek wisdom and knowledge, without ever thinking you have found them. A man is wise, while he continues in the pursuit of wisdom ; but when he once fancies that he has found the ohjeet of his inquiry, he then becomes a fool. Learn to pursue virtue from the man that is blind, who never makes a step without first examining the ground with his staff. " The world is like a vast sea; mankind like a vessel sailing on its tempestuous bosom. Our prudence is its sails, the sciences serve us for oars, good or bad fortune are the favorable or ..linftc on/t inrlnrmorif is tlio rilHHpr! willi ?u j w muoj uuu juu^iiil/ii u iu uiu iuww^ without this last, the vessel is tossed by every billow, and will find shipwreck in every breeze. In a word, obscurity and indigence are the parents of vigilance and economy; vigilance and economy, of riches and honor; riches and honor, of pride and luxury ; pride and luxury of impurity and idleness; and impurity and idle oline Fry, we copy the following: ' Have we never sailed upon the waters, and looking behind us, Eeen the waves bright and glittering in the saushiue; and before us, and - , . . !l J lu ? wn tr 7 Sfl'M llieill veiieil III Ulc uocp ^ i <1 t ciciiiii^i Did we think the sunshine terminated exactly w here we stood ? It seem so; hut when we had gone further, it seemed so still; and the same as we proceeded onward. "Such is our position in the course of divine revelation. As it passes it becomes clear and simple to the plainest understanding?that which is to come is only ohsecnred because our vi>ion receives nut the light that is upon it.? And the manner of its past fulfillment we may best judge of the manner of fulfillment to be expected from what remains." Arab Oddities.?An Arab,entering a house, i removes hisshoes but not his hat. He mounts | his horse upon the right side, while his wife I niitl/e llioip A<inis nnnn ttiu lnfr. oido Wfitin/T j .....no ,.r D 1 a letter, lie puts nearly all the compliments on ! the outside. With him the point of apm is its ! head, whilst its head is made its heel. His I head must be wrapped up warm, even in sumi mer, while his feet may well enough go naked 1 in whiter. Every article of merchandise which , is liijuid he weighs, but measures wheat barley, j and a few other articles. He reads and writes : from right to left, but figures are read from i left to right. He eats almost nothing for breakfast, about as much for dinner, but after the work of the day is done, sits down to a hot ineal swimming with oil, or, better yet, boiled I butter. His sons eat with him, but the females j of the house wait till his lordship is done. He j rides his donkey while traveling, his wife ' walking behind. He laughs at the idea of walking in the street with his wife or ever vacating his seat for a woman. He know; no use for chsirs tables knives, forks, nor even spoons, unless they are wooden ones. Bedsteads, bu> - ?- i . ???? reaus, una nre places may no pui 111 me qan>c category. If he be an artizan, he does his work sitting, perhaps using his toes to hold what his hands are engaged upon. Drinks cold water like a sponge, but never baths in it, unless his hoin^ be on the sea shore. Is rarely seen drunk?too seldom speaks tne trurn?is deficient in affection for his kindred?has little curiosity and no imitation?no wixn to improve his mind?no desire to surround himself'with the comforts of life. It is estimated that upwards oflOO vessels have been embedded in the ice in the Atlantic and that many of thetp have heen crushed and lost; and an opinion gains ground that the missing steamer City of Glasgow was of the latter number. i From (fie Lancaster Ledger. The Lancaster Agricultural Society met at the Court House, on Saturday the 22d mst.? J. A. Cunningham, President in the Chair, and J. Williams, Secretary pro tem, when the following business was transacted : That the Society do celebrate its Anniversary the first Saturday in August, by an address, to be delivered4by one of its members, and a -Pic Nic. That the public in general, and the ladies in particular, be, and are hereby invited I l - -14. I I .L-. . L . O l J - k wu auunu, auu uiai iiie oucreiary uu unuoc puir lioitv to he given to the same. That the Waxhaw Band be, and are hereby invited to attend and enliven the occasion with strains of music. That a Committee ot arrangements to superintend the exercises of tho day, and make the necessary preparation for a Pic Nic be, and are hereby appointed, to consist of the following gentlemen: J. H. Wilherspoon, esq., Col. H. R. Price, S. B. Massey, esq., A. C. Dunlap, J. Robinson, Col. D. Barnes, W. Stevens, D. \V. Brown, E. D. Crockett, J. D. Mc? Ilwain, T. Wade, Ii. D. M. Dunlap, J. M. Ingram, R. S. Bailey, J. Stroud, P. T. Hammond, W. Reed, J. Foster, Sr., Dr. I. Z. Williamson, S. T. Small, to whom was added the President, J. A. Cunningham. That an exhioition of stock is hereby invited to take place on the afternoon of the Anniversary, immediately after the festivities of the day are over, and for the best speci oen of any kind, that may be exhibited, a premium will be awarded. That the following Committees be, and are hereby appointed, to consist of the following gentlemen, (the Chairman of each to fill up any vacancies in the Committee) to inspect such stock, and other articles, as may be present for exhibition, report thereon, and award premiums therefor. Committee on Horses?G. McWjtherepoon, I,, S. B. Massey, esq., R. H. Crockett, T. de, S. T. Small. Committee on Mules?J. H. Witherspoon, ,, A. C. Dunlap, D. W. Brown, J. E. Cure, Col. H. R. Price. Jommittee on Jacks?J. Robinson, W. Stes, J. M. Ingram, Dr. It. L. Crawford, J. M. ckett. I Committee on Cattle?Col. D. Barnes, S. ulkner, W. Reed, R. D. M. Dunlap, E. D. n-kett. Committee on Hog6?M. P. Crawford, P. T. mrnond, J. Stroud, J. Crockett, J. T. Small. Committee on Agricultural products and scellanies?J. A. Cunningham, J. D. Haile, i A. Moore, esq., M. Clinton,- esq., J. Wilns, esq. That the proceedings he published in the ncaster Ledger; and that the society do adrn to meet again on Wednesday before Anersary day, on prelim nary matters in relan thereto. I'lie Society then adjourned. . I'J. A. CUNNINGHAM, Pres. . Williams, Sec. pro tem. From the San Francisco Herald, July 1. Great Pedestrian Feat. esterday afternoon the doors of the "Mouneer," on Commercial Etreet, were crowded i persons anxious to see how Hughes lookas the hour approached at which the extranary pedestrian feat of walking for eighty .ecutive hours without stopping, which he undertaken, should he accomplished.? 'lies looked somewhat pale and jaded, and that he would never live to accomplish it were freely made, notwithstanding that he had offered to stake a hundred dollars that he would walk ten miles more. The feat was performed 1 on o nlunlr fiftoon loot lnnrr urt/1 tKroa fflot. and up and down this during the whole time, he has continued to pace, never stopping either to eat or do anything else. The frequent turning weared him considerably, but he bore up manfully, and evidently was determined to accomplish what he had engaged to do, or die. As ten o'clock approached, it was evident that the pedestrian found it almost impossible to keep awake. All sorts of noises were mirde ?clapping of hands, and knocking of canes on the walls, etc. for the purpose of rousing him? and at last it became necessary to whip him pretty smartly During the last half hour it was necessary to have two men walking along side of liiin in order to keep liiin on the plank. H ughes was d ressed in t ights, with strong shoes, and kept a bullet in his mouth all the time in order that his mouth might be kept moist with the saliva and the necessity of drinking obvia ted. JUeateand drank very little during the whole eighty hours. He was very much swollen yesterday; and described the sensations which he felt in his feet, as if five hundred pins and needles were sticking in them. When the time expired, Re was taken off, placed in a wine bath, and covered up in blankets. He was then allowed to sleep for ten minutes?kept awake for the sainc length of time?allowed to sleep for twenty minutes?and so on increasing the time. If this precaution was not adopter) nnrt if after the nerfnrmanee of the feat. he had been allowed to sleep for any length of time, it i9 more than probable that"he would never awake again. This was one of the most extraordinary pedestrian feats ever performed. Some time ago a noted pedestrian set out to perform a similar feat, but after the expiration of sixty-eight hours he fell asleep, out of which the discbarge of a park of artillery would not be suliicient to arouse him. Hughes made a good deal of money by the operation. We understand that upwards of five hundred dollars were taken in at the door, yesterday; and this added to the original bet of one thousand dol lars, would make the very handsome sum of one thousand five hundred dollars. During the preceding days a largo amount of money was also taken in, and mdny outside bets were taken up by Hughes himself. From the same. Contrary to all expectation. Hughes, who accomplished the extraordinary leiu 01 wanting for eighty consecutive hours without stopping, was out yesterday, and'paid a visit in the morning To a barber's shop. He looked very much jaded and worn out He is not allowed to sleep but at short intervals. His legs are greatly swollen, and his feet present the appearance of huge lumps of raw beef. He walked at a pretty good pace all the time, making ou aver age three miles an hour. It is calculated thai he walked at least 240 miles, from Thursday 2 I p. m. to Sunday 10 p. m., without once stop ping or sleeping. It was certainly one of the greatest examples of haman endurance which has ever transpired. Mexicans on the~Blo Grand?. The Washington Sentinel publishes the following extract from a letter received by a gentleman in that city: Brownsville, July 11, 1854. "Hoar Friend?Our nliw>* ia crowded with Mexicans from Matamoras and other places, who have voluntarily exiled themselves. A mong them are some, persons of note^rom Tarnpico and other places in Timaulipas. All that prevents an outbreak at this moment on the whole of the opposite side of the lioe is the simple fact, that the different leaders cannot agree among themselves as to what plan of operations is to be pursued after Santa Anna's minion Woll is driven out of the country. Two weeks have already been spent in consultation, and as I write, the only point on which they are all agreed is to declare war to the knife [ against his serene highness and all the scofs who hold office under him. Saltillo. it is affirmed, is in oDen rebellion. and Ampudia, who commands iu Nueva Leon has abandoned Monterey and retired with his forces into the citadel of that place. This can Civ? you an idea of what is transpiring in that section of the country. As to how matters are in Matamoras, you can well imagine, when I mention the simple fact, that on the 8th inst. the imported Mexican Woll, who commands in thai place, issued an order, which is being rigidly enforced, that not only has the men to get a passport in order to cross over to this side, hut also the women and children who of course undergo a regular examination at that olfice before a pass is given them. The consequence is, that the women have beomo the most violent opponents of Santa Anna's government. The Indians have continued their depredations between this place and the Nueces, and our citizens complain most bitterly against the general government; and our own State government comes in for a share of their deep curses. If Governor Pease wishes to preserve his Riogrande popularity, whatever that he, be sir! 11 hnira #A\ noil Allf TurnQ R QnOOrQ Till lia*? ?V WHIi WU? A VAUO ?? Subterraneous Rivers in Florida. A writer in the Floridian and Journal says the upper stratum of Florida rests- upon one vast network of irregular archesj of stupendo us magnitude, through which innumerable rivers, creeks, and mineral waters, in silent darkness perpetually flow. Wakulla, Ocilla, Warcissa, Crystal, Ilomoiassn; Chesiouitka, Wickawatcha, and Silver Spring are the principal rivers. The creeks of this denomination are too numerous tojmentionj most of them afford fine mill sites. They are too, partly or wholly navigable for the smaller class of steam and sail vesseis throughout their entire subterroneous courses. Those that are not, can be made so, with comparatively small trouble and little expense. In view of the eloomv nrosnect of havinir ^0 - J , i __ - 0 railroads or plank roads to any great extent in Florida during this generation the writer thinks it wise to clear out these subterranean passages, connecting them by canal-cuttings with the open or navigable parts of the rivers. They are numerous, and can be made efficient for oce hundredth part the expense and trouble that would be required to build rail and plank roads to effect the same amount of service. The same writer says the number of mineral and thermal springs is more than two thousand. Their principal solid ingredients are sulphates of lime, magnesia and soda, oxide of iron and some iodinet. Their volatile ingredients consist of sulpuretted hydrogen, carbonic acid and nitrogen gases. These gases soon evaporate if the water he exposed in an open vessel to the atmosphere; its taste then becomes insipid, in some instances either magnesian or acrid. The;mineral springs invaria* bly emerge from the bottoms and margins of bays, rivers, and water courses. At high water mark, on the noble old bay of Tampa, many chalyeate springs bubble up through the white sand. Many hundreds of sulphur springs gush up through the bottom and on the margin of the Suwannee river. The thermal springs which have acquired the greatest celebrity for curative qualities are those at Newport, Suwannee, and Orange Creek. Of the all thermal springs in Florida, none surpasses in their sanatory virtues that at Fort Brook, on the Ocklawaha river. This valuable medicinal caldron, this Bethesdan boiling pool, like every other earthly good, is attended with its concomitant evil. It spouts up in, and is surrounded by a wet, spongy swamp. The ebullitions of the waters of this thermal spring are so violent as to eject very small brilliant pebbles. If Florid* be so thickly imbedded with min eral ores, will it not clash with the theory of Professor Agassiz, who says Florida was built by the coral worm and other marine animalcule? And that it took them upwards of one hundred thousand years to accomplish it? It will require a good deal of subtle metaphysical reasoning to make a faithful bibliast acquiesce in this doctrine, or convince other philosophers that nitre, sulphur, arsenic, carbon, iron, and multitudinous vulcanic substances are congenial to the tastes and labors of these minute marine Architects.?Savannah Journal. A Child Killed by a Panther.?We learn from the Abington Virginian that a little daughter of Mr. Barker, living in the lower part of Washington county, Va., was killed a few days ago by a panther. Mrs. Barker had sent the little girl to a spring for water. The child staying longer than was necessary, the mother went in search of her. Near the spring she found traces of blood, and a short distance be yond, a portion of her child's body. A fewsteps from the place where the remains of the child were found, a large panther was discovered in a tree. The unerring rifle of one of the company, who were promptly out in search ol him, so 60011 as the monster was observed, brought him to the ground. Buffalo, N. Y. July 28. The Cholera at Niagara Suspension , Bridge?-Horrible Disclosures.?We learn from the most reliable source that the ravages of the cholera at the Suspension Bridge on the Canada aide, have been worse than heretofore represented. Our informant visited the scene yesterday, and found that almost every, soul capable of moving had deseited the vicinity, leaving the dead without burial. He discir' vered in one shanty a woman so far gone as to be*, unable to move, and a dead body?her child, seven years old?lying in bed by her side in an advanced stage of decomposition. In another house, he found two mei\ one ? dead and the other dying, without succor. The latter died shortly afto? All three of these bodies he interred with the aid of a lad employed at the Telegraph office. In yet another shanty, he found three unburied bodies, so ' much decayed that he could not venture to remove them. This morning he set fire to.the shanty and consumed the bodies. We learn as a reliable fact, that several bodies, only partially consumed, were to day be-' ? ing rooted up and devoured-by a purcel of hogs which had found their way to the spot. We can firmly rely on these horrible statements, v whatever may be said to the contrary. The Public Expexditukes.?As the country is doubtless anxious to learn as early as p issible how much the Government of thd United States is to cost during the currcpt fiscal year?that is, how much it is to bo author- ^ ized to spend by Congress, at the present session?we have to say that, in the opinion of those of both Houses, who, from their position, should know best in the present confused state of the general appropriation bill, the total appropriations will be about $50,000,OGO, ? exclusive of tbe money voted not long since to pay Mexico under the Gadsdeu treaty. There are some six or seven millions of dollars of unexpended balances of appropriations still at the command of the Executive branch of the Government, and about nine millions are put annually at the disposal of the same authorities under the operation of the laws long since , passed providing in their enactment for taking money under them from the treasury annually without new annual appropriations?for the expenses of the collection of the revenue,"the payment of certain pensions, &c., <Ssc. Thus, the national administration will find themselves clothed with power to expend about $05,000,000 in all, (exclusive of the payment to Mexico,) in the course of the fiscal year.? About fifteen millions of this aggregate have been or are yet to be voted, over the opposition of a majority of the Democrats of the House, and probably of the Senate, who in their disposition to cut down the public expenditures to the lowest possible figure, are understood to be acting for the most pert in strict sympathy with the national administration. Washington Star. The abolitionists recently held a grand convention a Worcester, Massachusetts. An in J -L!. ciuttii occurreu uu mis occasion wuica seems to us to illustrate the moral character of these bodies. While Rev. J. Pierpont was address' ing the meeting in all manner of high falutin terms, Dr. Abner Phelps, of Boston, who was upon the platform, discovered that his wallet, containing notes and^some thirty dollars in money, had been abstracted from his pocket. He turned and seized the person standing near* est to him, who happened to be Mr. Vice President Clark, and proceeded to search hi? pockets for the lost wallet This (says the Boston Post) excited a good deal of merriment, and Mr. Clark laughed heartily at the operation to which he was subjected. The doctor did oot recover his property. What a Picture !?We clip the following from the local column of the Wheeling (Va.) Times, of Friday: " fwo persons came out of one tavern on Wednesday evening with the mania a potu, ' raving mad ; three irishmen lay dead at the same time in one house, while twenty drunken men and women were dancing around their bodies; at the same time, too, the clerk of the circuit court was issuing fourteen writs of mandamus on the clerk of the city, by order of the judge of court, to inquire why the said clerk did not issue license to fourteeu persons to sell " liquor." * k Mormonism is said to be making very great progress in Denmark; there are now Mormons in the smallest hamlets. Iir the Isle of Amack, which is situated quite close to Copenhagen, almost all the women have adopted the worship of the Mormons. Five hundred Jutland ers, recently converted to Mormonism^ are ' about to emigrate to the Mormon colony in the I'nifpd Stflfps. The irrnnt peelpRiuutieal commission at Copenhagen has received orders from the Government to make researches ns to the propagation of Morraonism iu, Denmark. -? Southern Manufactures.?The Albany (Ga.) Patriot recommends the establishment of factories in in that section of the Union for the fabrication of coarse cotton goods. The editor remarks: " There is not probably, in the United States, a section where the manufatureoffeoarae cotton would pay better than iirthis. We have abundant and cheap water power all rcond inviting us to its use." Let the people ofthe Sooth, in Georgia and elswhere, where the same facilities as those mentioned above are abundantengage in manufactures, and they will build up a powerful breakwater against abolition aggres, Hon. The !^?uth roast iook to its own internal development if it wishes to "conquer a peace" with its enemies. Cabragk Worms.?John Farrar, one of the most practical farmers in the State, says, these destructive insects may be destroyed in the following easy and simple wav: << n?i, ,.<r 1?c e .u_ 1 lhc<m i'll u laip icai iiuiii uie uunuiu vi the cabbage, and place it on the top upper side down. Do this in the evening and in the morning you will find near or quite all the worms on each cabbage, having taken up their quarters on this leaf. Take off the leaf and kill them or feed them to the chickens and plabe the leaf back if therfe beany more to catch.' ; 1