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Iff;- M ^ J ) ^ %k-*? VOLUME xl CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 26,1859. -j^S7UMBER 30. Jje Cmiiilcn Bccklq 3ntirnnl is published every tuesday by THOMAS J. "WARRE2ST, AT TWO DOLLARS A-YEAR IX ADVANCE, ! Or Two Dollars and Fifty Cents at the I expirition of Three Months, or THREE D OLLAl. SAT THE FED OF THE YEAR. j ?:o: Terms for Advertising. For one Square?fourteen lines or less?ONE DOL- ; LAR for the first, and FIFTY- CENTS for each sub- : sequent insertion. Obituary Notices, exceeding one Square, charged for at advertising rates. Transient Advertisements and Job Wont MUST BE i ; PAID FOR IN ADVANCE. No deduction made, except to our regular advertising patrons. In ADVERTISING TERMS PER ANNUM. B One Square. 3 months, - $5 HE! u u Q a 0 h . " " 12 " 12 9g Two Squares, 3 months, 8 ; mr 6 13 ! n " ? 12 a is | 90 Three Squares 3 mos., 12 I VJ " ? 0 ? IS ; Kg ? ' . 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But, f it has cetxscd to guard it, and, in its aberrations ' L, ^nd dissensions, must inevitably (as it is doing) f decay. And whilst we acknowledge a sounder ( tone in the southern wing, yet we must re- 1 [ member that it is but n minority. Where is 1 the voice of our constitution?the ample plcni- ( tudc of power, or the restraining exercise of its r *v- majesty? Gone! And an observation or two * \ JUDon the case will draw the picture of dissolu- 1 * *x>n more clearly. * ' ' The only instrument capable of governing c the South, because no other could better em- 1 body her rights; if it is dead, and might be- ? comes the criterion of sway, Southern courage i will resist Northern aggression, and dissolution j . must be the result. The questions then, what was the idea in framing ihn PAM-titri-Vm and what it is?the suftport itmust hare fui in ??u tcnance, and lastly, when it has ceased to have : influence and support, the absurdity of appeal- 1 Jog to it, are of great, interest. The idea of our constitution was to embody f*" definitely the power of the government?rules ; * for direction, and the rights and immunities to ! f i i.-ij i v.,. ;? f r.n];..;.>c i ' IK npilt'iu iHJU . 'Ui'jiviitu wj II ? iiiiv i'viiviv | arc lawful; t^preserve the;country from factions, ^r"" oligarchies' or mobocracies, and to establish ^ -s?P?n a fir"1 basis, the principles of a confcde> "^ted republic. Such ideas could alone have , emanated from pure hearts and sterling intellects. It acknowledges slavery ; is free trade in principle; is state rights and anti-consolidated, * with a healthy equilibrium in the chief department of power; it has no semblance to tyranny, but straightforward, and admitting of but one -interpretation; is too pure lor such men as Douglas and party. | The disregard paid to its agency in govern- j ing, and the disavowalof it by the North, prove j conclnsrveh that the ideas of its formation and the glory of its principles are futile in obtain- j ing any weight. The whole spirit of the con- j stitntion i9 southern?it is all we could desire.! Though the eloquence of Henry, or the active j honesty of Rawlins Lowndes opposed its adop- i tion, yet, take it in its wisdom, scope of idea, [freedom from complication, together with its true views of self-government, and the consti- j tution stands a glorious heritage. The support necessary to sustain it is a firm i President, the Democratic party, true states- j men, the press, and a reliance 011 its efficacy bv , a common country. But the history of the ' dnv shows that these ideas arc too sublimated. I It "is trampled under foot, and none of these j supports cau be brought to bear. It lack? the I first great preservative of a constitution?a common social system among the people it was intended to govern. Is it supported! Let the ! din of huckstering demagogues, or the bed- ( lamite clamor of office aspirants answer; let Black Republican impudence, disobeying and contemning and squatter sovereignty, seeking fo f defile its purity and over-ride its sacred pre-' cepts, answer; let Buchanan and his protective j tariff, or a pandering northern press, answer. If then its principles arc disregarded, and j; there is no support, how absurd to cnll upon it, I or expect aught of it. It has lost its vitality, and is but paper?the nobility of its-spirit being , dead, and the energy of its existence crushed. Senator Hammond recognized the fact in 18.r>0.: He says, in his oration upon .Mr. Calhoun;?j 'For more than twenfy years the Federal constitution has been a dead letter?it has for that length of time had no material influence' in maintaining the union of these States," and, in speaking of that statesman'* attempt to preserve its purity, during the last years of his fife, he says :?"Consecrated in vain : for, al-: ready the disease has passed a fatal crisis, and i there is no longer a remedy that can ueavc."? I Let, how paradox is ms course now : with such entiments ;a wonderful power must have retored his vision. "Cromwell, I charge tlice, >oware cf ambition! We cannot depend upon this constitution ; Jolpn survived to see his a dead letter; l.veurrus was banished for the iron code; no French nstmment ever lasted over five years; we lave lived to sec ours a nullity. There is a atality attendant upon simple papcrdocuments; here must be the proper substratum. A constitutional Fnion is impossible ; (hp m t South will have 110 other ; dissolution must come, and a Southern republic can then frame a constitution founded upon its organism, whose precepts will be naturally obeyed. ' OBSERVER. Long Town, July'22d, 1850. Dear Editor .?I notice that the Carolinian is again out, in several columns against the slave trade. It seems to be a sort of dog-days j fit with the Carolinian ; about this time last j year, if I mistake not, (I keep no files) it was j out in a tremendous article against that "fire j brand." In the article last year, I thought it | had utterly demolished the whole slave trade j argument, for it mathematically demonstrated J thut it n net mnrn tn enrmnvt fwn nnirvnnc tlinri ! ~ . " wg.w,.- ....... one. Tliis was a new view of the question to { me, and I could not help thinking of many of j our large planters, who own some 500 or GOO negroes, what an awful expense they most be at.; and then Iliad always thought that it was the negroes that supported the white folks ; but when he so clearly proved that the masters supported the negroes, I was quite confounded 1 ?the tiling made a deep impression upon my mind. This year he has gone into the constitutionality of the question. I am no lawyer 1 and therefore will venture no opinion upon his i arguments, and will only say if he is right, Mr. i1 Yancey and a very large majority of the best lawyers in the South, must feci very small, and ' the Juries of the country are greatly at fault. ^ Mut let all this be as it may, if this question grows and spreads between this and the next dog-dap, as rapidly as it has since the last, somebody will have to work very hard that the j new negroes may have a support ; and the J 1 Editor, who in his article last year, said he was !( >:ice in favor of this projecthimseltj will regret | ' that die changed his mind so soon upon the 1 subject. ( Cotton is doing pretty well, l>ut would be the 'h better of rain; corn lias promised an abundant 11 vielJ, but if rain docs not come, in copious ' diowers in a very few days, it will be almost 1 uincd. ' The weather is excessively hot, the * hcrniomctcr ranging in tlie shade at 92 to 95. \ In politics we are very dull. The Union- iavcrs have not a word to say, and States 1 Rights, or rather Southern Confederacy men, 11 ire quietly looking or, awaiting events, feeling x confident as ever that the South can have no ( :>lacc in the Union, except it be one of inferior- ' ty and degradation. The "sound democracy >f the North"' have all declared that the Gene- | al Government shall wipe its hands of the in- 1 titution of Slavery, and shall henceforth afford ? t no protection, it matters not it what manner ^ t may be assailed, in the common territories * if tli/? Qtotnc f lirntcc tto /itir Awh ^ '( sources, which in my opinion, are entirely 1 idequate for the occasion. Your? trulv, 1 A'COTTON i LANTER. * , , , J AfTSfcCKL.L.A37 EQUCi ^ rite Balloon Voyage from tlic j [, sissippi to the Lake Gi:lnrio. t Mr. Ilyde, the reportci of the St. Louis /?- I mUicc/', who was one of the voyagers in the h >alloon Alias written for that journal a 2 larrativc of the voyage. We select the l'ol- ' owing extracts : (' Every vestige of St. Louis had now vanished 2 rom our sight, and wc were drifting :it a won- j t lerful rate of speed tow ards our far off destina- j t ion. I ('o not think I ever before experienced j * uch exhilaration of spirit?such real joy.? v ,)ur motion was perfectly steady. There was 1 io rockincr of the boat or car, no rustling of i lie silk ; nothing, indeed, but the receding ! t orests and fields beneath, to tell us we were ' wised between earth and sky in a dead calm. ' 17. have been apprehensive of danger would ' iave been next to impossible?to have felt ' ear would have been, not cowardice, but pusil- 1 animity. >Jy feeling was that ballooning, be- 1 .ides being the most pleasant and swift, was % be safest mode of travel known. S;< runing s lown a rapid current in a boat on a lovely evening, with sublime bluffs, romantic caverns md green foliage on eitlierside, glistening waves : { >clow and a mild sky above, is grand and do- t iglitful. Sailing on an unruflled lake, parting ( lie placid waters, and skimming like a gull l with gentle fleetness, is ineffably glorious. J>ut t ;hesc enjoyable mctbods of travel, I felt, yield- r ng in point of dainty pleasurablencss to the r L>ird-like grace and impressive surroundings of ( ti!ivi(mtion. With us mo breath of breeze , ivas stirring. The buoyant down of' a thistle,) released from the willow car, would have fallen ! to the boat by its own specific gravity. In all [Jiis cahnnessour monster bubble floated through the clouds. Twilight was on the earth, and gave to the color of the soil the appearance of frozen lakes. liy this time the sun had set to the inhabitants of the earth, though to us it was four or five degrees alcove the horizon. While this was going on, the noble Atlantic had found the current that thea-ronants had declared was al'.vnys blowing in the upper regions from the Occident to the orient, and was now travelling towards the very star which thev had picked out in the firmament as the beacon of the course they wished to take, The discovery was one well calculated to perfect the restoration of senses in I'rofessor Wise, so happily begun by Mr. finger. There broke from his lips a little cough, and saving, "J Joys. let's sing." he struck up the stirring national anthem "Hail Columbia," in which we all join- ( cd and carried through with a great deal of , vigor and very little tunc, as the. frigidity of the atmosphere put quite a damper on patriotism and melody. We kept along in the westeast current only a little while, however, as from experiments made it is important to sav here, at the sacrifice of hotli gas and sand, it seemed that the lower currents were Mowing nearly east (it turned out that their course was a good deal north of cast), and it was determined that the increase of onr comfort would more than compensate for the loss of time in making the coast by lowering the vessel a considerable distance. It was sometime before it was ascertained what amount of the ascending power it would be necessary to discharge in order todepress the balloon to the proper point, and not until quite a large quantity of ballast had bepn expended: it being no longer light enough to make any instrumental observations. At halt' past ten o'clock we had Lake Erie and Lake Ontario both in sight?a spectacle that could not be viewed without mingled sentiments of admiration and wonder. The balloon had now attained an altitude of nearly a mile. A terrible storm was surging beneath us, the trees waving and the mad waves dashing against the shore ol Eric in an awfully tempestuous manner. But above the careening whirlpools and the thundering breakers swam the proud Atlantic, not a cord displaced, nor a breadth of silk disturbed, soaring aloft with her expectant crew, and gaily heading for the salt crests which bound our vast republic. Now, lil.-n fi lynrrrln r?rii*ipc flip ciiKrlnnr) rnar fit" tl IP ...?v .. vv...v? K.V. .??,. ~. plashing and headlong cataract of Niagara.? At 11 o'clock, having skimmed over the lake shore, still bound eastward ly, the balloon brought us in sight of Buffalo and Niagara Falls, as also of the celebrated Welland Canal. We had reached a height of more than a mile, the barometer marking 23 0 inches. At 12 o'clock we were nearly between the Falls and Buffalo, inclining rather to the left of the latter. Here we had a view of the great cataract O-ni-au-ge-raTi, "the thunder of water," as the Indians call it, Gen.Brock's monument, Queenslown, Grand Island, St. Catherine's, Gravel Bay, Lewiston, Black Bock, Fort Brie and other celebrities of that locality. The famous falls were quite insignificant seen from our altitude, rhcrc was to us a descent of about two feet, l'nd the water seemed to be perfectly motionless. The spray gave the whole an appearance ts of ice, and there was nothing grand or sub iine about it. Passing the western torniirtnr >f the Erie Canal the balloon was borne directly towards Lake Ontario. Our ballast was low nearly exhausted, and to have determined >n crossing the second lake would have been iheer recklessness and hardihood. At this taint it was resolved to descend to the earth, ' and Mr. Gager and myself, and in our stead ake in a sufficient quantity of new ballast, and igain steer for the Atlantic Ocean. Could this lave been done there is scarcely a doubt^of Messrs. Wise and La Mountain's reaching their lestination. The air ship was lowered, but vas immediately caught in the hurricane which vas then raging, and carried very near the tops >f trees, which were bending and swaying to ind fro by the force of the wind. Mr. La Mountain had said he desired to ake care of the boat, and advised me to get tiln tlm aor oKni-n n-i'tli \fr?cevc WIca on/1 f 'o_ ? iv ih\. vin ??uv? vj n iiii 4uvc.7i.-t i i juw aiiu u?i" jer, which I hastened to do. No sooner had planted myself firmly in the wicker basket ban down, down, down with fearful speed vent the balloon towards the lake, 1 closed ny eyes involuntarily, but was quickly aroused >y a crash and a lunge of the ear forward.? Phrec tiinqs were there a terrible clatter and plash. One moment more of life, thought j. .ockitig around I beheld a hat'floating off, and he same instant the balloon darted out of the o'say, fofl thought Jiim gone ; but' a cheerul "all right, boys,"stopped me and lightened ae of one grief. Now came a test of La Mounain's bravery, and nobly did lie stand it.? faking a hatchet, which was handed down to lim from the car, where it was swung; lie be11 loosening the planks making the lining of lie boat, which he sent overboard at every indention of another descent. ^ lieu he had folic ns fiir lis possible tins wax' lie tin sere we a lie nuts which had been placed in the side of lie boat by which to fasten the machinery.? Jatlicring all articles, of 1:0 matter how little voight, together, he sent them with the rest, fhe oars went over next, and at last there was lothing in the boat. lie had taken off his coat o it. and worked till the pt ispiration ran from lis brow like rain?all the time speaking 1 lopefully and endeavoring to gnict our appro-! lensions. When there was nothing more to >e done below, Mr. La Mountain drew himself ! ip by the rope into the car. JSvervth ng had ' low gone but an overcoat and two blankets, vhich wore saved to be nscd as the final rcort. ExiiCt TED.?The Xewberrv Courcrmtixt in-1 orms usthat Fanny, the woman that adminstcr-1 ?] the poison to Mr. Stewart's family was executed j >n Friday last. The woman made a confession tefore si a- went to execution. Her object was J o kill no one else but Mrs. Stewart for the easoii that she intended to \isit her summer csidcnro taking Fanny with her. The first lose of arsenic furnished her was accidentally lest roved l\v falling into the fire. The second vns furnished to poison her mistress the next i iiorning, by putting it in her chocolate, she icing the only one of the family who drank his beverage. Having mixed the poison with he single dipperof water with winch she intend:d making the chocolate, f-he was called out of .he kitchen. Mrs. Wilkes, the housekeeper,enered in her absence and, as she supposed, put .he dipper into the bucket without throwing out lie water in it, and took a drink, thus accountng for the greater virulence of her ease than he others. Fanny, upon her return to the iitchen, saw the dipper in the bucket, and snpjosed the poison had bpen thrown away, and j proceeded in her preparations for breakfast, inking all the water she used from this backet nil. which had been impregnated from the dip [MT.? Guardin n. Sr.vDAV Scnooi. Anmtnss.?Wo lia?l the pleasure of hearing, last Sunday evening, our esteemed friend, Col. 'I'. J. War run, of the Camden Journal, deliver a 1 address heforo the Sunday Schools of ihis oil ', 1 lioir ollioers, and alarge congregation. II is address wasprincipally addressed to the scholars, and he choose for his theme and illustnttion of the character of "A Cood Jjoy" (Jeorgc Washington. The suhj< ct was well handled, and the address could not hut have a good ell'ect upon all who hoard it, old and young. Rev. I )r. Taylor also addressed the congregation in hehalf of the Sundav Schools, Columbia (1 uardian. ,i. ? _ R em ark aiu.k.?A sturgeon weighing over 200 pounds, was found in one of the wheelhouses of the Hudson river steamer, Isaac Newton, last Sunday morning, thrown up and caught f?Kt ])v the revolution of the steamer's wheel. What a Scene. The Georgia Temperance Crusader published at Atlanta, giVcs a graphic account of the execution of Jo.hn Cobb, Jr.. for the brutal murder of an old man by the name of Landruni, sometime since.* v" The editor in closing nfl, this sad story gives a capital arid well timed'rebuke to that miserable depraved curiosity which leads thousands to witness these.revolting tragedies upon the gallows. Wte entirely approve the sentiments j of the Crusader^ and adopt the article, as 6irij bodying ourjjwii views: { The nu^nbS^rfpeople who witnessed this awful trage dy, isdrari&Bsjy estimated from five to twcnty-jiec. l/ivi&atid, We dart lay such a crotfd has never befope bee? seen in this city. People had been ^jTiyin^ for.two. days in advance. Country p&pkvfvcm points .seventy-five and a miMirea raws, pi&i^nt, naa dcoi on tue roaa a week or ton daw&campingat night, determined to be here in t$|?>; (Jonntlcfes numbers of carts" and wagons, wi&i women and children, ' blocked np our^rtjete, and-thronged the lngtt| ways leading bnaoer?-JJAllgwinetodehangin." I The day before tfie or ccution, hundreds of these I campers had pitphed their touts near the gill-' i lows to be read^ifor the scene. Should sn.ch a diseased appctitc^-BueU; idle and inhuman curiosity be tolerfltfcck b* fc , christian people ? Thousands of po6q>copIe With their familieswidows with thcrrrhildren, $11 of whom hate to labor lor subsistence, ana whose t?low couih tenanccs tell that fhcy live scantily, have to harness tip thek&&ules and oxen, drop work and journey milctfcnd miles over rough roads simply to see fyzfih hung! w Many of them get drunk, fight an^??*cnd wliat little cash they may have, and ^tfffii to their destitute homes penniless ahd .iJUbsolut^ need. Oh, what a liumiliatiqg eoBfc?t>upon the morality and boasted civilizflcBrof the nineteenth century ?, Another OeorgMiIi?^isatnre should. and we earnestly hope "fft.jjevcr adjourn before putting a stop tdSmEWle gatherings. stop men andrunningpmad to see a "hangin."',jt- * And with the3Wr comes a miserable, filthy circus and lmistsJ^ canvass in the city just at that time, becait^lThey knew there would be hundreds of piomEkete. And just as they well knew, the-degrade cariosity which characterises till such crowds., led them, crowding into the ring, to see nAftfw^rown men and boys tura stunmcrseufcjd wallow in tlie dirt, and to. hear the miseramowhires of a clown in his attempts at wit. The same old tricks, and the same "funny" remarks with which the first Circus Company" that ever "travelled through' the country amused its gaping throngs, yon will now sec in every such exhibition that comes along; and yet, itbcw is nothing in the worlcL that can attract such crowds as an infamoiyl circus-drum and c^n/ass. . Men and wourxm iiiio a iSrens ' .Vi wretched antics or a few 'degraded men and lewd females. How long is humanity, decency, Christianity and civilization to be outraged by suclr exhibitions of barbarism among an enlightened people! / Y The Trial by Jury.?Judge Withers and .11r. 51 uine. Judge Withers, of Charleston, lately imposed a line of five hundred dollars on a Mr. Hume, i for holding a conversation with one ofthejurors 1 empanelled to try a cntmnai case in tnat city, and also a line ot'onc liuiidred dollars upon the Deputy Sheriff, who permitted Mr. Hume thus to have access to the Jury. It is stated, in the newspaper report of the proceedings, that "the Judcre. in common with the whole community. v? ? ... *' ' acquitted Mr. Hume ofany intentional violation of law or usage," his remark to the juror having l?cen only "an offer of friendly service to him in consequence of long confinement." The infliction of such a penalty will doubtless strike many persons among us as an instance of undue severity, but this will be so, Jess on account of the injustice of the sentence, than because we have become habituated to a lax administration of the lavs, both in form and substance. The old English mode of treating Juries, which our fathers transplanted to this country, was, perhaps unnecessarily rigid, if not cruel; in permitting it to be almost abrogated by common custom, wc have run into an opposite extreme, which is more dangerous and not less irrational. The rule which was formerly adhered to was concisely laid down by Lord Coke, who said "the jury ought to be kept together, in some convenient place, without meat or drink, lire or candle, and without speech of any, unless it he the bailiff, and with him only if they be *' TKu Mtimna I/m> .tfpinmmt ni'ii. , i IVIIOVlia .VI .-..v.. |..v visions arc obvious enough. Where men arc required to determine questions affecting the dearest rights and interests of their fellows, they should bring to the discharge of their solemn duty calm judgments am; unbiased feelings, and should carefully guard themselves against the I intrusion ofany influence from witliont, though i these might come in the shape of the lightest whisper. The law formerly assisted them to accomplish this by subjecting them, as Coke I quaintly tells us, that what "some Ixtoks call I an imprisonment." If we would only realize I the wisdom, harsh though it was, of the old rule, | it is only necessary to glance at the present system. The feasting ami fiddling which distracted the minds, the anonymous notes am! secret conversations that may have warped the consciences, and the comments of a jury in a late notorious ease, all prove how easily and how surclv a jury may he made to reflect the passions : of the excited multitude, or to respond to the . wishes of an influential culprit. When we coul sidcr the fearful demoralization which ensues | whenever the issues in our Courts are affected, j or iu anywise determined in obedience to the | clamor from without, we can hut hail any change tending to a restoration of somewhat of the strictness of other times. Next tosumiuouing for Jury service onlv such i men of character and firmness as corruption ! and intimidation alike will fail to move, the host method of securing fairness to a prisoner, is to shut out from his Judges everything hut the legal evidence and the law. In unbrolron | silence and solitude they should .'be left to (lis 1j cuss, together jtlie facts'submitted to their busi ; ness and their pleasures should be bauislrettfoi ,! the time from the jury box. Itjrests m greai j measure "with the Court to overlook the con *.j duct of its jurors, and to .superintend-the- man j ner of their deliberations, and unless it does at ii with, watchful eye, it neglects its own plair duty. Thc\igilance and,promptness of Judgt Withers, in this -particular, has furuislicd an example which may be followed in other States j than Soutli Carolina, ?b$rcby strengthening their waning respect for CotJris and Judges. . Nortfcave the duties of Grtind Juries b^n i less misu rtderstood, nor the pr^c^^pcrforffifftM of them lass loose than those jenee."it seems to have been fdrgpt^c%^^^^^Lie Iftfjedge, are"to be J rv, are all offences withi n.j^BEMMBj^BBfehcnd ! J nries is [ peace ;oF c0U^hP , light for ofcamiuaffilM ??P^r>^ violence, 'outragjjfi^B ^B|r? thing that mayoccaS&b pfc0/ dismay to men stationgd^H ionduct of tlioit^Be/^^B^'^.d^temrcrwIicrc And by MBfipBeii violated, or onrO^^pRRH^ jfeTps ifSronged." The prcifliM^^HBBKp 'J^rjr of oqr Criminal QmmSBgffi ndjpurnecl a few days ago; shoiv%dpB^.t^rt feHfcort of fulfilling'the purposes q? taorgant^tioti it'was* go^jj^o'to' the good whieli migh^havS been 'effected had* they been instructed in ^regard tactile' Ieg&5 obligations imposed tfpcftl "theiii; by ii Court as, decided and ^ upright as tlrtitdiLCharlcstoh'.^ V J&'tlimoi'e ^fUxcharir/c."' '- " *; . * * ^Dtae Blue Itidfigp Ball Road. Jn prcsentingfckis subject tor the public; I know it w>uld 5>e vanity in the extreme, in inc, to attempt to bring forth more argument in its favor than has already been advanced ; to say' a word about the utility, or practicability, of j building Rail Roads at this time, jvould be equally vain. -My only object, in this communication, is ip uiscBM-gc a auty j lew to De incumbent kou.evcfycitizen of South Carolina; that is to gite wnw expression of his sentiments, on a< subject "Of sib touch interest to the State?an<f endeavor, t&bring the an Wept before the people m Soma way. to draw fortlia general expression of sentiment. \ r | * The Legislature nt 3854r.by an Act, agreed to subscribe $1,000,0$*^' the capital stock of the Blue Ridge Rait Road^ to aid in the construction of this Rojyl. That amount has been i spent, besides $1,126,000 {the arnoun* of the aitnual report for 1858} of the Company's mon^y. The Company applied to the last Legislature for $1,000,000 more, to carry on the work. The Legislature refused to grant the aid. What is the inevitable jcsult .unless the KSS woufn ask if it would not be wisdom and economy for the next Legislature to grant the nc/Fossarv aid. that the Road mav be comnlcted as soon as possible. It will take but little more to finish the work, than lias already been spent, which will l>o a total loss to the State and Company if the Road fail. I would then say it trill Its economy on the part of the State to complete the Road, which will .he the "great highway of commerce, bond of political union," and a monument to the intelligence, and loyalty of the people of South Carolina. Rut let the Legislature refuse the necessaiy aid, and the Road fail, then the -Si,000,000 granted by the State and the amount spent by the company, are a clear loss?and we will have a monument already erected that will be a reproach upon South Carolina until time shall be no more. The State must now build the Road in self-defence, and avoid the loss of so much money. We cannot possibly lose as much now, bv completing the Road, as we will to let it fail. But some argue to carry on the work, in connection with the State House, will make the puldic debt too onerous to be borne. Vet, I think, Mr. Trenholm, in his speech before the Committee of Ways and Means, in support of the memorial of the Blue Ridge Rail Road Company, proves the contrary very clearly. Jf | his statements be correct (I suppose they arc) the Road can be completed, without a direct I tax upon the people, but if we have to be taxed ! he has satisfactorily shown that the people (except Charleston) will have to pay only 3 1-4 | cts. on every Sluu.00. Can there hen reasonable ! man in the State, that would rather lot the Road fail than pay his 3 1-4 cts. on every *100,00 ! 1 think not. But if the Legislature, in its wisdom; 'should think it would -extend the public debt beyond the means ofthc State to carry on both enterprises at the same time, I believe it would be expedient to suspend operations on the State 1 House; and I hazard nothing, when I say nine!tenths ofthc citizens of the State will agree | with me on that point. The Blue Ridge Road, ] if built, would he, not only the pride of the I State but it would help to supply the means to ] build the State House. "Why not then, carry I on to completion an enterprise that will he an i honor and profit to the State, in preference to ! one that will he a mere show. I f respectfully suggest that public meetings : be held throughout ibis District, and State, that ; the subject may be fully discussed, and the j sentiments of the citi/.iMis obtained; and if a : majority are in favor of the Road heinji comi pleted (which I have no douht they will he) i tlicy instruct their Representatives to vote for ! the necessary aid to he granted l>v the next Legislature. This Road is not a sectional Road; j hut it is one in whieh the whole State is iu| tcrestcd. FARMER. Cor. IjdyrjkUl Advertiser, I"niveitsity of the South.?The citizens of ! Tennessee have subscribed three hundred thou| sand dollars toward the proposed new University j of the South. ! 'Why does father call mother honey V asked j a boy of his elder brother. 'Can't tell 'cept it's be*.vise -ho has a comb in her heai'' , -?~. r~ ij*" * t'linrlv^oi) Itcnit. i We clip the fdttotving itcriny toiji' , jfce Mri* . r c?ry, of Wednesday j 20th instant 1 Cot'P DE SOLIEU?^f, . Jsi^aC. J/svfo wjjo' % " was agisting at the lire op pyemia^*Ifipapt' tremens, .strolled jqto the grocery at the corner ot?l^l>fl^a!i<l4Da|Louii-strects) and psked for # * \vne/ft?fosed him, aud the keeper < of the shop had him removed by two negroes ^ I to sbre^htaifc<5-0t>in the shop, where he subffrq; open street, near the . t>rt?*TU*r nf ftA/W Onnrt Tnfnftnotirm .. been'jju'en ti%jS,;Uppcr Police Station House, * , the Coroner wfcy'scrit for, but not. being in the "city; placed in die -hands of a* , , Magistr^te^^61ield" an inquest on the body. *.? ^ The ver$<ief tbejnrr was?death fror/: infcm- ? \-+ ;? -S perairce'aMHjB^lhe sun. , -/^^^'0K,~^?^Il^13'1Cr'a ,ar;n ?hoUt.22 y$?0Y?age, a native of Scotland, who-slupged uijhin a day,or two as mate of the bnjfiwlo,\* ^ .now flfche stream, bound to the West Indies, ^ "fecjfimra stroke-ofthe sun while on board his i'brig yesterday' afte?oon, at. 3' olclock., He * , wife immediately Cajpied below and^placod in ^ his wh^re Jj^sooii. died... Magistrate * .|ag ICjLt^k jt.oodv Tic I <1 an "fftque$?, on the body- \rjien bhMujfttto the whaiv the' Jury" returning 'a, ~ '"V ver^fwfcFapoplexy. Fisher was married, and 9 " leara'^wue arid children in this city. m Fins.?jTbe carpenter shop of ?apt E. M.' Whiting, located in the rear of his residence," % ' * ' on Calhon street, opposite East Bay, was destroyed by fire yesterday: morning;" The exertions of our Fire Department prevented the spread to a serious.conflagration. Capt. Whit-; ing was burnt pot on this same spot in 1840. Capt W hiting'se loss is abont $2500. Insurance $300 on the building in the Fireman's Corapauv, and $10qp on tools and machinery in the'South Carolina Company. Capt. Whiting has no idea how the fire , * originated. It was Either incendiarism or spontaneous-combustion, and ha the location would induce.a belief in the latter, and as Capt. Whitincr is one of the most noDular mechanics iiftown, being a member of-the Legislature, a Captaiu of a military company and a President of a fire company, spontaneous combustion is the most charitable construction. . . # The shop will be immediately rebuilt, and in the meantime, as we learn by advertisement in A writer in tne New York Century, says of the lady who won Washington's young heart, 1 and whose father rejected the tall j-oung soldier because he had not a carriage for his daugh ter to ride about in : . "I shall go back in her life a number of yearn, and speak of the event which made her name one of curious interest. Before she became Mrs. Edward Ambler, she was called Mary Gary. Iler father was Wilson Gary, Esq., of "Celcy.%" iu the county of Elizabeth City, de scended from the noble family of Hundson, in England. His relative, Col. Archibald Cary, of "Ampthill," in Chesterfield,was at his death the heir apparent to the Earldom. The wor- ~ thy old gentleman seems, from all we know of him, to hare l>ccn as proud as the Conrcys or the Somersets, and to have thought his family the noblest in the land. He-lived in great state, with chariot and horses, plate and velvet and embroidery?a worthy-of the old- school, fully satisfied with the" order of things, "and enjoying serenely the good gifts />f Providence. His beautiful daughter was a great heiress, and had many suitors?the accident which befel one of them has made hot remembered in many bookr. lie was a young man of very high character, a relative of (Jcorge William Fairfax, Esq., who live J at 44 Bel voir" on the Potomac; and ho met Miss Cary, who came to visit Mrs. Fairfax, her cider sister. The young man at once proceeded to fall in love, which he did with an ardor characteristic of his nature. 'When Miss Cary went back home to Co leys, on James River, he followed Iter like a courageous gallant, and lafd open siege to the fair fortress. In the good old times, however, something more was necessary than the consent of the voting lady, and so tho ouih duly , asked a private interview with the J % * awful old lord of the manor, who listened to him silently throughout. * When tl)e lovor had finished, Mr. Can' rose, * made him a low bow, and said that if this wan young Mr. Washington's errand to 'Celeys,' his visit had bettei terminate; hlsdaugliter "had been accustomed to ride in her own chariot." And with this allusion to the poor condition of tho younger son, the interview terminated. Young Washington bowed and went away, and in due time married Martha Da t id ridge Oust is, who resembled Miss Gary," says my authority, "as much as one twin sister ever did another." I?ut the old tradition docs not end here. Many vears fled away?Mary Cnry was Mrs. Ambler? and her discarded suitor was the man who had just received the sword of Cornwnllis at Yorktown; whom the whole civilized world hailed as * i -??f hf|,n fAi?AmAct tnnrt rjreaioi amuug Uiu un. luivu.wv not only of America, hut of "nil this world."? He passed through the old metropolis, Willnmsburg, nt the head of hit victorious troops, and cho people were orazv with joy and adoration almost. The vast multitudes nearly prevented his horse from proceeding?the calm statue on horseback, passed on serenely. All at once he perceived at a window, or in the crowed, his old love, Mary Cary. He raised his sword and saluted her profoundly. Sho fainted. Gen. Twiggs.?We are gratified to see it announced in our exchanges that letters have been received from San Antonio, which state that Gen. Twiggs has entirely recovered from his recent severe illres*.