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__? -W-, VOLUME XVI.^ * CAMDEX, SOUTH-CAROLINA, 3.. ) 1'UBLISUKD WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WARREN. .. TERMS. 1 - , 1 *?*' " ^ " . - ' Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if-payment be delayed ffffeo months, an Tir-eeDollars if not paid till the expiration of the year.. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted. at. the fob *' lowing rates: For ?no Square, (fourteen lines or less,) seventy-five cents for the first, and thirty-seven and a iialf cents for each subsequent insertion. Single in"Sfertious, one dollar per square; semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. . f*sT The number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will be published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. > . ? ????sa^a?n?i??i Sferdkroaus. I Morfey Ittatlers. The money matters of this section of our j country have, we think, a somewhat brighten- i ed aspect. The Hank dividends distributed since the first of January, to the extent of near j 8000,000, hav.e passed rapidly, from hand to band, and have extinguished a large amount of indebtedness. In anticipation of payments to be made on the first of January, large sums of j money were held by private individuals. These 1 sums, upon the occurrence of that period, have j been turned loose, and are also doing their: work in the process of disengagement". The j cotton market has been fairly opened, and j holders consenting to loss, which it is tolcra bly certain must be realized with<?ut a postpone- : ment of sale to a very extended period, hare ' sold that product liberally. The proceeds of crops sold at an earlier period of the season, and which were taken to the country, are he- i ing returned through the hands of country j merchants, and all these causes combining to j the same result, .have occasioned, \v? think,' quite an assured and upward tendency to every interest in our city. Our Banks, also, are acquiring greater con- I fidence and independence. A short time ago there was quite a panic in some sections of, the West in reference to the condition of one j or two of our country Banks, and hills were j in the way of being returned with considera- , ble rapidity ; hut some of our best established ! banking institutions perceiving the movement | and knowing the profit that might be made in ; ' the redemption of bills which were perfectly t good, at any depieciation which might have , occurred,issued orders to tlieir agents to buy j their bills as'fast as they were presented, and J the panic ceased almost immediately; and | , - there is, perhaps, an unusual demand for the j bills of the Banks of South-Carolina through- ! out all the Western and Southwestern States. J1 Relieved, therefore, by the more rapid cireu- j lation of money, and still further relieved by j the greater ability of the Batiks t<> extend ac- |1 commodation, our community is in a much ( 1 better cohdition 'to weather the storm than (1 could reasonably have been anticipated. I W e are much inclined to the opinion, that j 1 the embarrassments of this Slate, and of the South, generally, arc pn.portipnnblv less than 1 tbiev are at the North, and among the mercan- J tile interests of Europe Upon England was first poured the golden ticasun-s of Australia, ? upon New York were poun d the treasures of California; from these centres radiated the enhancement of values and the excitement such < disturbing causes are always calculated to oe easion ; and this excitement was rolling upon the South with great rapidity, when the war in Europe broke out, and arresting commercial speculation in England and the Northern States, arrested, to a great extent, its further development at the South. While it is true, therefore, that much property had acquired a speculative value here, it is very ceitain that this increase was not so great as it., would have been, if the excitement had continued longer, and not by far so great as for several years it continued to be, prior to the great commercial crisis of 1S37. This being the case, we inu>t r.i o.enra I'nr cnitid f i I)I(' It ill) CA?SCt>b IV ICCJ VitX. ^iccnuiv v VWIIIV - r | er. A year of two at present low prires of i of cotton, (and we see no reason for improvement, for a time at least,) will be necessary to emancipation from embarrassments incurred, but thereby ill be ultimate redemption, and v$ny few men will altogether fail. Tire Iwbiliti. s of i few-are beyond the means which a year or two of retrenchment and economy will enable them to control; and considering, therefore, -the tendency of afiairs^and the effects resulting from the commencement of hostilities in Europe, while w.e deplore the consequences of | that misguided measure to the cause of hu- j mahjty, we are not prepared to say that it has not relieved the Southern States from a period of excessive pecuniary distress and suffering. We are also inciinfed to regard the oc< ur rence of the yellow fever in Charleston as less ] disastrous to our commercial interests than -is ! usualty supposed. The reaction in the commercial world, commencing at the North and in Europe, had scarcely reached us before the period of its breaking out. There was a gen eral conviction that the business of this cilv, 1J l... u.,,,,. ?,",i | puruuuianjf wuuiu ur uuuauuiij ju?^v- , ( iron) the existence "Of cholera, in mo^t of the Northern cities, we have little doubt but it would have been large beyond all precedent; and if so, and the merchant.* of our city had become to a greater degree extended between ihe claims of merchauts elsewhere and the ob ligatidhs of purchasers from the- country, it might have been extremely difficult to sustain tbo atnnrlirifT of the citv. In anticipation of -exter ive business, orders early'iri the summer wsre-^xtensive, but they were much curtailed Wore the season closed. In consequence of tliejte tir Hayne street, which occurring in March.Occasioned not only the purchase by the insurance companies of all those stocks of goods in the' hands of the sufferers, hut th\salc of a large "portion of the stocks held bfrother jobbing hotfses in theejty, our stocks of goods are oot large; our indebtedness abroad is less tHan is usual at this season of the year, while the money owing fronV the country, though large, and^ excessively difficult of collection, is less'than, under other more favorable circurn6lances might have be^n expected. As a set off to this, however, it remembered that without,.the fever i^Cbarlestnn Savannah, (he cotton of our I have been brought to market earlier,and would I have been sold for better ' prices; but while this J would have been of advantage to planting interests, it would have thrown additional burthens-upon the commercial community, and have fallen'with a still more crushing weight upon its capital. All things considered, therefore, although we have been afflicted, we have been spared affliction?though our commercial interests have been tasked, they have been relieved by fortuitous circumstances from further difficulty? and thomrli we have no verv easy nath before 7- O . ' ? us, and our prospects are not so bright as they were not very long ago, we have, by a firm reliance upon energy and effort, the comfortable assurance of-continued prosperity to our agricultural interests, and stability and independence among our merchants, Charleston Standard. An Act to Raise Supplies. For the Year commencing in October, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. Sec. 1. Be. it enacted by the Senate and. House of. Representatives, noio met and sitting in General Assembly and by the authority of the same, That a tax for the sunn, and in the manner hereinafter mentioned, shall be raised and paid into the public treasury of the State, for the use and service theieof, that is to say : fifty cents ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value of all the lauds granted in this State, according to the existing classification as heretofore established; one half cent per acre on all lands lying within the Catawba Indian boundary, to be paid by each grantee or lessee of said Indian lands, until otherwise directed bv law: sixiv wins m?r j ' j r " j head on :i!I slaves; two dollars on each free negro, mulatto or mestizo, between tin* ages of fifteen and fifty years, except Mich as shul! he cleaily proved, to the .satisfaction of the collectors, to be incapable, from maims or otherwise, of procuring a livelihood: twenty cents j ad valorem on every hundred dollars of the value of all lots, lands and buildings within any , city, town, village or borough in the State : j sixty cents per hundred dollars on factorage i employments, faculties and professions, im lu i ding the profession of dentistry, (whether in j the profession of the law the profits i<? he de j rived from the costs of suit, fees or other sources of professional income,) excepting ! clergy men, schoolmasters, school mis! i esses, and mechanics, and on the amount of com micci/tii*: fitfiuit'oii !?* ? ... . ?... IWVMVM '? % VliUtJl? Ulrt'-lCl J* illlU eiMHmission merchants: thirty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock paid ill on the first 61 October, one .thousand eight hundred and lil'iy-ti.nr, of" all banks which, for their present charters, have not pa.d a bonus to the State: twenty cents per hundred dollars on the capital stock of all incorporated gas-light compa j nies ; one per cent on all premiums taken in this State by incorporated Insurance Companies, and by the agencies of Insurance Companies and undeiwriters without the limits of this State; ten cents upon every hundred dollars of the amount of sales of goods, wares and ineiehatidize, embracing all the articles of trade for sale, barter or exchange, (the products of this State and the luiuiamilaelured products of any of the United States or Ten it*n ies theieof excepted,) which any person shall have mailt' 11<>:si Hie lust day ol January of tin* prosent year, to the lirst day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and liliy-live, cither on his, her or their capital, or lion owed capital, or on account, of any person or persons as agent, attorney or con-! sigr.ee; twenty cents upon every hundred dol- j lars of the amount ol sales of goods, ware* and merchandize whatever, which any transient person, not resident in this Stale, shall make in any house, stall or public place; ion dollars per day for representing publicly, for gain and reward, any play, comedy, tragedy, interlude or farce, or other employment of the stage, or any part therein; or for exiiibiMng wax figures or other shows of any kind whatsoever, to be paid into the hands of the Clerks of the Court respectively, who shall be hound to pay the same into the public treasury, except in eases where the same is now required by law by to be paid to corporations'or otheris ise. Sec. 2. That ail taxes levied 011 nrooertv. as prescribed in the lirst section of ihis act. shall he paid to the tax collector for the district or parish'in which Raid property is located. Sec. 3. In making assessments for taxes on thite value of taxable property used in manufacturing or for railroad purposes within this State, the value of the machinery used therein shall not he included, hut only the value of the lots and buildings as property merely. Sec. 4. That the tax collectors in the several districts and parishes in this State, in their returns hereafter to be made, he and they are hereby required and enjoined to state the precise amount of taxes collected by thetn, lor the purpose of supporting the police of the said several districts and parishes aforesaid, stating the rates per centum on the amounts of the State tax colloctedvfor said district and parish-p<>|ice purposes; and the Comptroller Dutiiii'Ml cli'ill n*till it flip <rwtw? ill liic rnnnid Skc. 5. That free negroes, mulattoes, mustfzoes, be aud they are he re by required to makfe their returns, and |)ay their taxes during- thti1 month of March. S|l In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-lbur, and in the seventy-ninth year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United Stales of America. R. F. W. Allston, President of the Senate. Jamrs Simons, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ?. < + iroops for rlor&a.? A detachment of three hundred and thirty one men for the Companies of the 1st and 2d Artillery,"serving in Florida, embarked from Ncw^Vorlt for that station on Christmas afternoon, at 4 o'clock, accompanied by the following officers, viz: CaptaiteJ. podges, 1st Artillery; Captain YV, Harry,'Sd Artillery; Lieutenant .T. M Robertson, 2d Artillery ; Lieut. J. D. Bingham, 2(] -Artillery; Assistant Surgeon C. D. Smith Medical Department, under command of Col Brown, 2d Artillery. * Av-' m**; ' Speak kindly. From a pretty little article Unit came under I our notice not lon?&ftice, termed " A Travel Trifle/'we gleaned this sentiment: " He that lias dried a single tear lias not lived in vain." With the gleaning came thoughts of our own j?rememhiane.es of hearts rich in sympathy, who in days gone by had given us kind words i and loving smiles, soothing us in our desolaj tion ; and though words came not in return, for there, are times when griefis too deep even for grateful utterance, we felt the pulsations of our heart heating less wildly, as we werereomforted with the thought that there were still left lis stran/rer friend* In oeie for lis tliOUfli j our own loved ones were lying lo v in the J grave. We know well 1 lie value of kind ! words. We have tested their power upon a weary heart, in sady.and troubled hours. There is a magic 6pell in soft and gentle words! We who have felt their influence should never forget the chord it awakened in j | onr own hearts?should never forget to awn ! ken in other hearts the same rich music. I Now and then there are plants that spring 1 ! into greater vigor if the heavy pressure of a . j footstep crushes tlieni ; hut oh ! there arc olh- j ; ers that even the dew-drops bend to the earth. J I Thus it is with the human heart. Sometimes,! ! though rarely, we meet with spirits strong to i ' endure, with purpose unshaken and high, fol-1 i lowing ever the true and (lie rigid, whom no. J | thing can daunt. If crushed, let. us speak i i kindly. This world of ours is full of sorrowing j i ones who have need of sympathy. A smile, a j ! word may cheer tlieni on their way. Speak kindly to the young. Oh, cast not a [ . cloud ??cr childhood s hours. huougii ol sor- I ! rows will come by and by to sadden (hp spirit, | ! and we do wrong if we cherish not the fresh 1 young heart in its joyonsness and purity. Speak kindly to the old. Soothing words cost us nothing, and if they fall like blessings to the dust, they will rise again, and dinging j far from them the hitler remembrance of the \ past, go nn their way unmurmuring, with strop,- j ger faith and more perfect trust. Hut oftcner j we meet with gentle spirits, who, like the frail flowers of the early spring time, ran scarcely j bear lite pearls of the light, (lew. Then breathe \ gently upon the ears of the aged. Never, oh, j never, pass them by with a careless, a slight. { cold tone. Never forget that the sunshine of j their life is oast, that (here'are few flowers left i for them to gather, tliat -they arc worn and j weary. Speak kindly to the orphaned ones. They have need of .(sympathy, for around their path way dnik clmids have gathered. The chain that hound their household bond is severed. The hearth stone around which they were wont to (duster is desolate. Ere their loved ones passed away,.there were harp strings vibrating lor them alone. Now, they have only the ec'io ot rich music, past. Then speak gently, speak soothingly to the orphan. Speak kindly to the invalid. Ye may not know how slowly the weary hours pass by, ...i. .. t _ 141. y _4_.._ _?t. \* . *' \> in n liuaiin ;iuu sueiigui are gone, ie may ; l)')t know lt??\v, one l>v onr>. life's joys <1 y, ' ami 'its hopes go out 'mill its lengthened ! strife." Then give kind words to the invalid ' ones. Tlu-y will he to them bright sunbeams j in their shaded path, soft rays of moonlight in i their night of life, and tints their faith in the I good and beautiful will he strengthened, and j their hours of pain less wearisome. Sneak kindly to the stranger?and let it I I matter not whether he he rich or poor?speak ; kindly; even though he. seems haughty and cold, liverv heart hath its nnrden of care;'! every heart hath its bitterness, and we may not ! know the depth of feeling struggling within the j soul. CTenrie "Worths?rnnr tmn-ti vi.? Laui-t I they cost its nothing. Let us speak kindly ner? not to the loved1 one only, but to all who may chance to come | within our pathway. Let us cherish well the j j* * n. I A Ti ...III I magic power 01 a son, low roue, it win uring i around us loving hearts. Let sympathy fur I earth's saddened ones gusli from the soul all j pure and free, and thus the good we might do : here will not he marred by harsh words. Per- | chance we may cheer one sorrowing spirit? j hind tip one breaking.heart?dry otic tear, and then " we shall not have lived in vain." Qcarblino.?If anything in the world will make a man feel badly except pinching his fingers in the crack of a door it is unquestionably a quarrel. No man ever fails to think less of himsef, after, than lie did define. It. degrades him in the eyes of others, and what is worse, blunts his sensibilities on one hand, and increases the power and passionate irritability i on the otlu r. The truth is, the more peaceably and quietly we get on, the hotter for our neighbors. In nine cases out of ten, the better course ' is, if a man cheats you, quit dealing with him; if I he lie abusive, quit his company ; and if lie I slanders you, lake care to live so. that nobody | ; will believe him. No matter who he is, or ; how liu misuses yon, the wisest way is to let j J him alone, for there is nothing better than this t cool, calm, an<J quiet way of dealing with the j 1 wrongs we meet with. , -* * j Woman's Laugh.? A woman has no natnj ijil grace more bewitching Ihnftjjta sweet laugh. ^It is like the sounds of flutes o?i the water, it. I leaps fnum her heart,in a clear, sparkling rill, ! ami the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in : the cool, exhilarating spring. Have you ever ! pursued an unseen fugitive through trees, led ! on by her merry laugh. no\y there, now lost, j now found? We have. And we are pursuing that wandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care, or sorrow, or irksome business; and then wo torn away and listen, and hear it ringing through the room like a silver bell, with power to scare . awav the ill spirits.of the mind. How iruHi 5 we owe to that-swept laugh! It turns the j prose of our life into poetry-; it. flings showers i of sunshine*.over the darksome wood in which we are traveling ; it touches with light even ! nur sleep, wtftch is no more the image of death, l?ut is consumed with dreams that uro shadows of immortality. * ^ " T I _ * 7 , One of Marion's troop, named.Philip Rob. erts, aged ninety years, is said to have died recently in Harrison county, to hip. tiouci al Taylor's Residence In Ilar-per for November, we notice nivill ' terestcresling article 'on "General Taylor'; J resilience at Baton Rouge,' illustrated wit) | a truthful picture of the same. The sad reality and truth of the writer's words when lie says,' ! A few's'years more, and General Taylor's resi ideuco will have disajipearcd,' must strike : the visitor as he ascends the beautiful avenue | leading out of town to the barracks. | 1 lie modest little picket fence, with its nnl assuming gate, have gone to decay; and the | shrubs and flowers, so carefully protected in the days of the old man's glory, have become rank and wild mi their struggle with briers and brambles for existance. The vine, growing over the balcony, so careiully looked alter by "the genlle hand of the old hero's danghter.no longer blooms to fill the air with fragrance. The flowers have dropped, the leaves withered, and nothing but the ghostly frame of I 'what was' now lingers. The house itself is a spectre. The last and only occupant since (ji-n. Taylor left it forever, was Cold Webster and f.imilv, who are also numbered with the dead ;and " the old rustic cottage," as it is lias been turned over to the rats, and it reels 4- 4 1.1 4 ? - 1 ... 1-- 4l. . -- ' now m iiimuic in asnes uiiuer me gnawing loot!) of oblivion. What a lesson! It was a very brief day ago, when the old gentleman returned from the wars, "with ajl iiis honors f;e-h upon him." A former residence in Baton Rouge had endeared him to our people, and they claimed him a citizen. The news of his approach was heraldtd, and the town wont to the water's edge to welcome him. A torch-light procession, with music and banners followed him, and amid the cheers and acclamations of the people he was escorted to the home of his choice, the cottage now drooping its head, and only rescued from oblivion bv a Wood cuts What an episode in the history of tin? world's glory. With v\ hat reluctance the old man left that fairy spot, his own words betray, but there was a destiny ruling mm, ami lie was forced awav, to occupy a position altogether unsuited to his temperament. That destiny has been sadly wo: ked out. The hero of Jiucna Vista is dead, his amiable window has followed him, ami his accomplished son-ill law, W. \V. IJliss, j lias fought his last battle. The remains of Gen. Taylor should have been deposited on (bis spot?a place (as be often expressed himself) more dear to liim than any other on earth. From the German. Stcc|) ami Death. The Angels of Sleep and Death, locked arm in arm, wandered over the earth. It was evening. They laid themselves down upon a lot* tv hill that overlooked the habitation of man. A mournful stillness reigned around, broken only by the evening bells, w hose sound came faintly from the distant hamlet. Silent and speechless as is their wont, these beuelioient guardian angels of mankind, lay in close cm brace, till the Angels of JSicep rose from his ?r?s?y couch, nail scattered with noiseless hand the invisible seeds of sluniber. The evening wind carried them to the silent dwellings of the weary husbandman. Soon sweet sleep enfolded in its gentle embrace the inmates of the rural cottages?from lite gray haired sire, whose tottering steps a stall' supports, to the infant in its cradle. The sick lorgot his pains, the mourner his sorrow, the poor his cares. All eves were closed. His task being finished, this benevolent angel lay down by h's sterner brother's side. " When morning breaks," cried he, with happy innocence, " all the world will bless me as their friend and benefactor. Oh ! what joy, thus to do good in secret and unseen. How nappy are th , ? tl-V nf thn good spirit! How beautiful is our quiet oflice !" Thus spake the Angel of SI umber.? The Angel of Death gazed upon in silent sad nnec tt'ltilii fiinrc cimli n c ImniMnfolc irnnn cturwl iii his large dark eyes. " Ah!"' said he, "would (hat I, like you, couid rejoice in cheerful thanks; but the world calls me its foe and joy destroyer." " Oh ! my brother," answered the Angel of Slumber, "will not every good man, upon awakening, recognize in thee his friend, and gratefully bless thee? Are we not brothers, and children of one fatherV' So he spake. The tearful eyes of the Angel of Death shone with a gleam of pleasure, while he pressed his gentler brother more tenderly to his heart. A Texas Candidate for Chief Justice. A flat footed candidate for Justice of the Peace, at Palestine, Texas, comes out. in the journals with the following address to the sovereigns: " 'With the issuance of this sheet' is unfurled to the breeze, either in tempest or in calm, my name as a candidate for the ofliee of Chief Justice of Anderson county, at the ensuing August elections. 1 do it fiom choice, not so licitation. I do if, for the ofliee is honorable and profitable, i feel myself competent ,to discharge the duties of' the office. I claim no superior merit or qualification over any one who may choose to run against me. 1 would | like lo run the race solitary and alone, but if j any are desirous, let them pitch in?it isn't ! rfwp. i "1 stand flat-footed, square toed, hump-shoul; dered upon tSic platform of equal rights and true republicanism. If you elect me your ; Chief Justice, I will make the welkin ring with i loud hurias for the sovereigns of Anderson ' county! If defeated. I will rclir^vith dignity ; and good humor, rcmemlnoing,a*wu)sff Ijeauti; I'ul little song, which 1 sing remarkably well, j called 'I'm afloat.' " A countryman popped his head into a lottery I office, ami seeing only one man sitting at the P desli, a sit cd him what ho lmd fVr sale. To which the wouhl-be wit replied,"logger-heads.' I' "Then, sir" says the countryman, "yout trade is almost at an end. for J see ypu havt 1 but one lefty j So thet Go.?It is estimated in YVashingtur city, in official circles, tlint there lias been nior< perjury perpetrated under the lawtgradantin; the priee of the public lands so very recentl; enacted, than under nil the other laws connect cd with the public land cy.ajLcm since the foun dationof the Government! ?; : *- . ' ?, . I v: HKj ' ,v ' Jfiisrdliuttoiis P,tm. i What one Jlan can do 011 Florida Soil. We liave often heard tit remarked that Flori da is the " best poor man's country in the world,' and tacts would seem to support the proposition. i Every man who settles a place4 ?i:h ordinary industry, can, with his own labor,, earn a handsome living, and with proper economy, " lay hv enough for a rainy day." One instance among, we venture to say, hundreds of others, in our State, has come to I,.,^..,1^.1? J :? ?* .? \j ill niiW VI ICU^C ? 111 (J II UL'SCI vcs llUillTU| UIIU wy puhlish for the information of those whoTnay wish to seek a new home, within our more genial clime and more yielding soil. Mr. Burtolo Masters, Jr., of this county, re siding near Moccasin Branch, 15 miles from i this city, has given us a statement of his crop, j made the past season, without assistance,- and 1 solely by his own labor. We put it down with the value, as follows:? r, 450 gallons syrup, at 50c. per gal.. .3235 4 barrels sugar, 800 lbs., at Oc 48 3000 canes, at 2c . 00 r $333 This is the produce of one acre of catie. In 1 addition to this, he raised 150 bushels of corn, , and 200 bushels of sweet potatoes, the value of which we put down at $250 more; making in round numbers the sum of $800 as the result of bis season's labor, to say nothiug of the numberless comforts arising out of poultry, ; pigs and milk, &c., which are unconsidered ! trifles. The land upon which this crop was ra'sed, ; is high pine land, " cow-penned," and the mill with which the cane was ground, is a common j wooden one of rude manufacture. With such itivta uuiuiu uiuui, jvi iiu uue comjJKiiu ui tut; : hardness of times. A little industry, energy, ' , and perseverance, will make every man rich if he chooses to be. ! We would remark that it would seem our , ' pine lauds cowpetmed, are better suited to the < | culture and growth of sugar cane than any ( : other quantity of soil. We judge so from the | fact that the yield per acre is greater in pro- , portion, than that of the best hammock lands. ( St. Augustine, Fla., Ancient City. , I Nkw York Money Market.?The Ilcrald of Monday says, the past week has, on the whole, been one of improvement. The closing quotations for stocks yesterday show an adI vnncc on those of the week previous, and the amount of business transacted was much Inraer ! than we have noticed for a long time. Holders ! of Stocks had good opportunities for realising, j and we should judge that large lots had chauged ! hands. The bank statement for the past week i looks more fiVvorable, and it will undoubtedly I create a better feeling among speculators. The news by the Atlantic is not ofu very satisfactory" character, and may possibly anrul the good effects of the bank report. The decline in eonsols and cotton with tl>e advance in breadstuffs cannot be considered very encouraging. The I political accounts are not calculated to give s hope of a speedy termination of hostilities. | From the effect of the Austrian movement on 1 the London Stock Exchange, we should judge | that it was looked upon in an unfavorable light, i In London the rate of interest ruled at five per | cent. The bank of England returns show in < increase in the bullion department compared I with the report for the week previous. There < had been a decrease of notes in circulation of i ?211,205; an increase in public deposits of i | ?IG50,515; and in the stock of bullion in both < j dopiu-lnnittta-4j'Xl'&4,'451. Tills IS ~ 11)6 Oflty i ! ........m., ?u? r ?:..i -a..: ? lutuiuuiu u.uuic in uic iiiuniLiai uuticco iruill | j England. j The amount of specie exported from this j port last week was $9,938. Total for the year : $37,162,288There has been trouble for some time past ' between the priest of the Roman Catholic church in Jersey city, and some of its mem- , i hers, and on Sunday last it came to an issue. I The priest had written a note to Capt. Farrell, I commandant of the Montgomery Guard, sta- j | ting that he could no longer occupy his pew , ' in that church. Holding a receipt for it, Capt. j I 1\ last Sabbath took his seat, and the priest , stated that he would not proceed until he left ( the church. Some excitement ensued,, and ; j Capt. F. was prevailed upon to go out, but j j others persuaded him to return, when the priest: ] again refused to proceed. Finally Capt. F. I retired, and mass was said. It is generally ' understood that the difference is based on an ; objection to Young Irelanders. v'.r The natrrauzatidn Laws.?We publish to day the decision of Judge Dean on the Naturalization laws of our country, which we I commend to the earnest attention of our readers. The judge has not only had tHe intelligence, hut the honesty and manlinesB.to lay down the true doctrine upon this important subject, in spite of the hordes of fraudulently voting foreigners in this country, who have no more right to affect our government than the j W.l.i i.'.j:-..,. ?r it,. iit- ..... i " nu liiuiiiiin hi luc ??est. tv c uu hoi mean i , to ho presuuiptious, but we could wish' that' ' the Judge in Mating his opinion had mentioned j n fact which of itself excludes an> contrary I opinions. The Constitution of the United States provides in express terms, that the 1 Congress shall have power to pass uniform | laws upon the subject of bankruptcy and natu-^v ralization ; and it also provides that laws and treaties passed'under the Constitution shall be j the Supreme laws of this Government. So, it follows that Congtcss ha* exercised one of its 1 legitimate powers, any contrary legislation in the States is in utter violation of its principles as the supreme law of the land. Knownolh-! ingism is working well. Let it go on'and things . will be brought right ogain.?Petersbiirg In-1 teUigtncer. . t ~ > ? ? Mr. Macaulay, the historian, is said to; ' have made an important discoverjtof a mass f of Stuart papers, relating to a period imme- j '* diately anterior to the death of Queen A.nne.? This will delay the appearance of his new vol ume. j-. ' '.v # r^ ' - ' " *'7V Probable Effects ok the culture.'?A-correspondent of the Enquirer writing from Liverpool, 0,1 says: tbe spirit of the English is onif.e4^^S^ vor of [lie war, and that men and:mo ney MtUl* he voted for its continuance, by Puiiiatne^^^^ " Yet when drained of her men, wlion 'g^ many thousands now engaged ia peaceful pjic.---'; suits arc take"' away,* arid ilie iahojf]of mfffl country thus manifestly lessened, who, I prffigS are to furnish meat , and brej^ for these yailjO armies, and-the population that yet-remains. at ^ homo ? There hfnot a ujfopth less to feed; Juii^ many less left to Droduc^jhe necessary foucT^ for all, at home or^ibroad- Russia send. -3 nothing from the Baltic, luid the great growing comrtry oh the Danube,"and that wbicjr>i is watered by the many rivers_Mte?ngl-t^sl Black Sea, is ravaged by desolali^ wijr: and;\ all that the people of that vast and rich try has for years sent ubpadv dna?fo^Eng.law especially, will find fork's 'diinim^ej^rSd^Sa tion consumers at home. AlreflSv ara considerations pressing oil the and flour market, and keep up tfraprjccfcpSratffl after a good crop, which has beea^ijeSrred. -in *f most admirable condition Whea^sclj^ now ^ at rather higher prices than itdidibpe^ and" our own country can now but instf^ffleyt^Kj^ supply either Kngland or Franee, j people make less tobaccoo and }eps oottomtKe^i next year after, and I tell you, jmur milltph## of wealth will be drawn hen C* :to j am these now staple articles, articles ^of wbtia^.s ;orn, and provisions be substituted. CJeanai^i-'; our lands, and put the otraost breadtlrof tBeni v ti everything necessary for the food^ raui^v; wd every particle that "is produced will idmirable market the next year. - True, oaryj wheat crop is already in the grpuodt Sbd'J^^ juantity cannot now be increased. ^JBufc ouc 1 jorn crop may?and that is.art article which %! will pay much better next year than eitbjpr ^^ bacco or cotton. y.-l' Slavery and Commerce.?The wjiole com- -' nerce of the world turns upon tbe ~jn8|$uct of';.' Slave Lahor. Whi>t would r\imrnar/wWii? Dut Cotton, Sugar,-Tobacco, Coffee, Rite, a##*'"; Naval Stores? All these are the'pn^netfwfc slave labor. It is a sealed fact that ftipQla^^t cannot produce them in safficient^ueplHy tpV supply the demands of mankind,, lit baa beotej.^ said that one free laborer is equaltoftve sla^ofc Vjp If this be so, why has not free lab&r been ployed in the production of the above staples.fv* It bas been attempted,"tind in every case hiwlitch it has been introduced, has failed, Tbd world follows its interests, and if free liibor ^ was more valuable than slave,* it.would be^ttk^ ployed at this moment, in the United Stales, !-. Cuba, and Brazil, which are all open tor'frea ; labor. And herein note the greater libera^jMg* and self reliant strengtk,of the slave oyer- ttie.--1 free States^. The former freely>-perrait the-r< Northern capitalist to cotne in labor, and compete with slave labor. ThelatV' < ter pass laws prohibiting the Southend eabfi^JS talist from coming in with his slaves-to pete with Northern labor. Their prohibkorw ' laws are passed djccause t|iey are afraid-qfe, slave competition; whereas, the South;viffV' the face of the pretence which has banded down from WilberfoAe to thpse tin^sj v ' that one white laborer is equal in.value slaves, throws her doors wide npetj and invitea*^: free labor to walk in and try its hand, src&'ifc^ la re not come. What would become of Engc 53 land, the arch-ngitator of abolitionism, " ^ jotton, by the manufacture of which;: she bit*.' waxed fat and srrong, while she (parses the eye-', ;em by which it is produced. ?By the we^i v ? will someone inform us why the English coiy i science has never suffered as mubh^Km??lavety ^ n Brazil as slavery in the/United States? tiichtyon&Pfi^tcfi. > Heavy Failures.?The house of Wadp-/^. worth dc Sheldon, bankers, of NewTork^f^^i suspended. They .were the agents of the Sratn "j of Illinois, and* consequently "no payments were' ^ made on Tuesday of interest on the bonds oti that State. A telecraDhic^desnatcb saatar* Messrs. Wadsworth & Sheldon's / amount to 42,000,"000, but they show rtsoiiTCfea r*;, largely above their liabilities? and tliferefljM son to hope that their suspension wiil be , |y temporar}'. Arrangements are itr progress which will probably result in inakinjjproviaiOti *| for the payment of the interest on the Ifliubi*:'. bonds in a'few days. The suspension/tfep?;^ been caused by a failure to receive remittances. The telegraph also announces thoTailnre ot'M Messrs. Belcher & Co.> sugar refiners, of StfcT-^ Louis. Their liabilities , are said to ?2,000,000, involving a prbminejttsteck brokefry in iNevf I oi k to the extent ot IK25.TO.(^aQ<Mp^ hanking honse of the same city to the extendi of $300,000. Sundry Boston houtfes also sufferv' to the amount of $1,000,000. The failure o1>ihe banking house of Gen. - ^ Larimer, of Pittororg, Pa.^ is reported, : London and its IxiiAnrrAitirs ~ Londoji with its two million and a quarterinhabit-* ^ ants, is one of tl;e s?ven wonders oHhe world, j The extremes of. wealth, and poverty there ^ abound, and the most frightful pictures are , ? there to be met with. Nobles wndvtncmfcers the landedj^ntry, whos^?}me? ^ several .'' thousand (foliars per day^rjae of ^frhorning, \;' not knowing how to find avet^es in which squander easily their fortmiee an.d tfteir health/ while fifty thousand poor nwaj# each day not Anowini? where they shall HrF-th^r headset night. Ttoase extremes.are etjuall^perpicioBli to the morals ol'sOctety^'.^jP^e extretnely wealiby man.-unless he hii8'ft;rfcjjpe discretion, *' himself snrronnded by ^mjjlers, jpckeWv; French actresses, and olh^r characters, \vbo; thrive In vice by means of his superfluous wealth, while the extremely poor, though not J haying the wherewithal to buy a crust, or to '1 keep his bod)' in cleanliness and health, is, at each hour of his life, spreading distrust and dis- ? ease among the community. This is but one s? of the many phases of London's parti-colored j? life. Counterfeit ten dollar notes on the Merchant*^ Bank of Newburyportare in circulation in $04, i ton, T ><