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J-J . - D'om the Charleston Mercury. Letter from Hon. P. 8. Brooks. lioi'SK ok Kki-ukskntativkb, Fotruaiy 7, 1856. My Dror Sir:?Lnst winter Ocn Stringfellow addressed a letter to in; mul others, givinj; si description of ???il of Kansas, nud the average prod of agricultural laltor. That letter published in tlio ncwspapeis of our Si and every additional testimony coufi the truth of tlie statements therein 1 tained. Gen. Whitfield is now nt my side, in reply to the relative to demands and reward* <rt' mechanical la l?i?ls me say that the minimum of w? for lahor ??? Kansas is fully double price in Charleston. liut lircfher considerations tlmn p niary profit nro now presented to voung men of our State; and they just the considerations which soo reach, and most excite the heart of yr> Carolina. Thcv lire the consider'.! i?"ni patriotism ami honor. Civil war lias tunlly begun in Kansas. The lives such friends of the institutions of South and of the Constitution, as | gone to Kansas to disseminate our pr pics, strengthen our institutions and tect your rglits, inv lights, and the rij of every slave owner, are in peril, the fiat of " Abolition Aid Soeiet money and men are pouring into Kai The spirit of popular sovereignly is In crushed, ami the principle of non-inter' tion circumvented by lawless fai cism. With the. permission of Con. Whitfi I make the following extracts from a ter dated 44 Lecompton, January 23," written by a gentleinan in high posil and ot intelligence and integrity, wli name (for reasons which you would ( cur with inc ill regarding satisfactory] withheld : 44 About six days ago, six men v sent to Iowa to conduct <300 fijhtinsr u who arc to be here bv the last of Kol arv. They will be here without do Yesterday, wagons were sent to mee Iran with two cannon and five ihiir.cl Sharpe's rifles from Illinois, which are ing sent to Lawrence. "These things go to show that traitors are industrious an 1 are work Ily the 1st of March they will have 1 or 1200 men more than they have n and In* belltr provid id with arms and i nitions. "On the 4th of March next, they their Government in:o operation, and if are not strong enough to put down tl and their military organization, we will driven from the Territory. "For myself, 1 think that no man, ii out oi uie territory, is willing to risk tr of everything lli.it. is dear or valuable, cording to his circumstances, than I wil the cause is appreciated by the South, they show their appreciation by sent men and money to help. 1 >nt it* the si owners of the South content theinse with temporary luxury ami ease, and in no effort to save tfu'ir institutions, t may take care of themselves-in their way, arid I will of myself in mine, there is a man who is enlisted more de? in the cau.se of the South than mvsel don't know where he is to he found, am fortified in mv position hy prine and fueling. I h'tte the adverse cause, and my property, which are now iu d peril. "The South must act with enerjjy promptness. Tliev must do the entire tli or give it up?acknowledge theinse whipped. "Our friends must he here on the 2 of February, or the few pro-slavery i in this part of the Territory will hurned out and driven oft' as refugee If ii.u * i i...... men by the 28th of February next, double that number l>y fall, ami in t for the election?, they need not sen man." Such is the State of affairs in Kar *s represented by one who is on ground. The admission of Kansas into Union as a slave State, is now a point honor with the South. Evorv assist* which legislation can render, was given the last Gongr?*ss, when the Missouri ] hibilion was repealed. What inore Southern chivalry ask of Congress ? o|>en Held and a fair tight was all that ancestors ever n*ked of an enemy, the spirit of the sires departed from bosom* of their sons? Shall the page South Carolina history, which records lofty sentiments ami glorious deeds Gadsden,-of Ilavne, and of Moultrie, g pale when reading of us? And shal be written that their blood was transi ted without their virtues? and of t spirit, thai the 44 grace of the fashion c perished!." The last Congress nrj?ve to the nnnol r? " -- l 1; tbo South a fair Held, ami the Aholii ist* have thrown down the glove upon Who in all the South will take it up. It is my deliberate conviction that fate of the South is to be decided with Kansas issue. If Kansas becomes a I; ling State, slave property will decline have its present value in Missouri as f aa the fact is determined. Then A1 tionisin will become the prevailing se ment. So with Arkansas?so with uj Texas. While we ;ire thus decreasing political power, the North will inereas War with England is now desired Seward, who is the most dangerous i in America. And why ? To exh the South of men and money, and our blood nnd our treasiiro to rc<] Canada as free soil territory; and, with freesoil power thus augmented, t< duce the South to provincial depends And thi* war would be popular. West i? always ready for war. They ten upon it and are out of danger, enhanced the value of nil their produc grain, bacon, horses, bvef. Their wo and children are so far in the interio \ Co be at nil times sccur?*d. and their yc men are warlike by nature. Nor w ill a/lff^puipa 11A ft>w in lYtA S Atlantic States, wliudi woi?IJ be dev ted by t!ie enemy. Popular orators ir be heard at everv Court House in State ?WaU^r^t-n^r?ntwl., ? BRTiiU. If our Shad imposed a tax of dollar per bead on each negro in State, and .applied the amount to transportation of aimed emigrants to I Ma, the people wottfcfi Rave sustained Delegates, and tlie fends would' 1 wrought mere good towards strength ihg our institution*, if thus applied, t if tbe bitrbqf of Charleatou was prow with steaminiips, and every village in State bad its armory witb n cupola on top. Tho election of Mr Bauks lis Speaker of our House will precipitate the Kansas issue. ) The AholitiotiUts afu emboldened hero and f everywhere, 1C^.,J t venture thin prediction?that in thir- ? pelf days there will be a Proclamation by j|IU the l>resident relative to Kansas; and nets l',n' fc*x?y days afterwards there will was a's<> a Proclamation pertaining to the late S!,,no matter, by the Governor of South irniK Carolina. 1 con- ' ^ you that the l>attlo of the Cotistittt- i tinii njja'ust Fanaticism is tube fotlghton the | and Kansas. tjie Let our young men Wake t'rom their |,ori lethargy. Let tlicin organise in Compares niea in every Ui^tritt. A Vegiment of a ( the thousand men, under the commaind of . MaXcy (Ircgg, if how in Kansas, won hi eon* hear triumphant the flag of State equality the :i,,,' of constitutional liberty. are " our institutions obtain in Kansas. < nest i ,*,u slavery question is settled and the rights lin,r of the South are safe. If fanaticism prevail, J s of wu Inay l,ut our house in order to die by vir- inches. ( 5 0f Let our people but understand the Kan- j the R!,s ' ssn,-? they will meet it with alacrity. r ?1V0 Let them but see that every dollar expend* inei- <M' ^iin!asi :,,K' every blow there struck, f pro- 's defence of their homes and firesides, i ,r|lls and they will come up to the mark like Uy men. They lmv? been confused l?y ilie i,.s>" thrusts at tluj Kansas Nebraska hill, indis,s;u?. erectly made in our own State, and tlio t taunts of sinialter sovereignty. The l>ill is j i*en- l,ot ;,s ' would liavo had it in every respect, lati 's a good bill for the South ; for un- ? dor it wo can go with our property, where * before we could not go. Let the theorizcrs let- f?Wt their theories and practice what is and practicable. Every dollar expended in this cause by our people, is as " bread cast 1 lose ?p<?n the waters." Those of you who so H see the points of the ease should at once | js put the ball in motion. If you cannot act with much concert at first, go to word in- r kpre dividually. Present a subscription list to ' jen, *?v*-*ry man you meet who owns a single ( ,i? slave. Let others do likewise. A long ubt. sleP w'" t'",s biken towards performing l n our part in Kansas. I red C'ol. J. I>. Wilson of our .State, arrived 4 [,e. this morning, and tells me that the people in his p'lrion are hecoiiiiinr alive, to ih? " |])0 issue. lie lias pledged himself to arm and t j?,r transport live ill termiued young fellows to j lo"(j Kansas at liis invn expense. The example ^ mv is worthy of imita'ioii, and the sentiment inn- wliieh produced it patriotic. The route to Kansas is via Nashville, from s put which point it is hut six days journey to the ,-i we premised laiul. s I am, with warmest personal regard, and j ^,e lively sympathy, with you in " lJorder Ruffianism." 1 , or Truly vours, t |ore _ P. S. UltOOKS. s a(.'~ Letter from Hon. W. W. Boyce. ' ' \ House ok Hei'uksentatives, ) [in'iy February 7, 185G. j" r I*t ve Dear Sir: I received your letter in i l'v( s which you ask my opinion in reference to {l .(|.e Southern immigration to Kansas. The ii 'V l,rwsuns bu>inww dues not permit me at ^ ihis time, to go into the subject very extenlf sivelv. It is impossible to exaggerate the 1 importance of Kansas to the South. If we ' j 'j lose Kansas, w? lose Missouri, bring free s ' | soil to the borders of Arkansas and Tonnes- J | sec, and will have to struggle for the Indian j 'nd (-'"un,ry Arkansas. Kansas is emaih, W-V/^iVi 1^^.fc'ViiV/" i . 0,'1 .iVWI 1 maud Kansas. * \ and Erom the 'heat information I can get | infr "l'?" swl'jcct, I am satisfied the current ( Ives ls setl'n? wg'iinst us in Kansas, and that it will certainly he lost to us, unless the South ' '8th 'mts a" ',("r energies. To acquire 1 ' Kansas, it will not do to rely on a mere } be Southern sentiment, inducing ardent men . logo therethrough devotion to their seclied ,'",L You must comhine the idea with and ^ 1,nol',cr? ike bettering of their condition? ' line ,n ot',ur wor,'s? making money. The North, t j understand iliis great idea perfectly, hence t their Emigrant aid societies, which combine ( is-is l;?i?<'?ticisin and money-making. It is well t/u; to 'unrl> ^rom our enemies. If we intend ( to struggle for Kansas, we must likewise 8 the oom','lie tlie.se ideas, we must form joint t , stock companies, for the purpose of colon- 'J ince izi,,S Kansas from tlie South. The money i , |)V thus raised will be expended in aiding colon- . o- ists to get to Kansas at the cheapest rates, ' and buying land lliere. The shares should s Yn be put at a small price, so that the entire < our South may go into the matter. Thus all t ii .. mav Soutliernize Kansas and m:ik<> innn?? 'the a* l',e p;iinu l'ine? 'or '',e h??ds which cim of he booght nt ?1.25 per acre, will in a very 1 the k'w years se" from S'5 to $20 per acre. ' Qf I have nut time to <Jo more ihan to indicate tlie course which should he pursued by , ;?7t the South. t jt_ I ardently hope Uiat the entire South lu*ir mi'-v ',0 l''orour>hly aroused upon this great ' f it Mm'st'on 1 I shall he very willing to contribute to c oj- the extent of my abilities in proinotiiig this o movement. r I atil very glad indeed to see that the ! public mind in our State, seems to be ( the ""using itself to the importance of the (, the ' 's"ue* 0,10 ^ar ,nore important to my mind, ] nre- I l'ian w'10 1,1 !,y *'e l',e ,,ext President. 1 Yours sincerely, t oon W. W. BOYCE. t Mr. W. W. IIeiidekt. 1 K'inms Emigration.?A company has c been formed in the city of New York.com- 'J ' posed of fifty-five families, and,numbering r *. in all nl>oiit two hundred persons, who will v ^ emigrate to Kansas the coming spring, ] "list 'iave a subscribed capital of $29,500. 5 ' . . A ?ite luis already been Relucted?a place t Wl. 1 on the hanks of the Neoslia river, near the j rVT** Southern boundary of Kansas, where the , 1L]" climate is warm, like that of Virginia. ] * r~~ Their plan of settlement is briefly as fol!'rV?* 'OWB*?F?>'r square miles are occupied.? - 16 In the centre, a plot of land is laid out in " the form of an octagon, which takes in two ar or three hundred acres. I toads radiate from the centre in sneh a manner that the * tnen whole piece is conveniently cut up into six- I r 88 U en farms, adjoining and terminating at 1 )UrJ^j one end of the octagon. The sixteen farm , . houses are placed around this nlot. each oul" one uwon a 'separate farm, and yet near to- ( ccotlior. i Hght ? " *** . _J 1 our A Slave Trade .i'nLpHM 'last steamer, < sKyiCt I en it Very few coasting vessels ever leavo t Shnngliae or Niagcpo witl>out an assorted c one lot of boys ?mJ girls thrown in to make up I tlie the cargo. The traffic fur girh is still more e the general in consequence of the ' prevalence 2 [an* of infanticide, which countenances the rmir- 4 the der of female infante* soon as they are born. I mvo We hour of one* kwndred girls ready foft ,jE len- shipment at one plnee, for the sejrar factory i ban at Manilla,-and-a? order for two thousand d cleol 'girls for Cutta Ua? lately been1 received.? II tho tfoys can' be-sold at a profit for $3 to $3\16>, U the and girla as low a ? shilling to-tweuly-five t< oonts a head, . tl * * ABBEVILLE BANNER. , WILLIAM O. DAVIS, EDITOR. of rHURSDAY MORNING, fll, 1856. RoturnCny. s'n' TIio number of vases relumed this Court, unl >v i 11 afford but h meagre harvest to this law- ^ta pert. The number on docket is 270; and ^ ?ve suppose, including acceptances, the re.urn. would not exceed 350. Stoves. a v Do you wish to have your cooking done red deanly, with great economy of time and twt fuel ? then, call and get one of Ruancii <k bei Westkield's superior Cooking Stoves.? I.)is riiey have on hand a general assortment of for ivery conceivable kind and quality. to 1 if Robbery. t,,e I We learn tliat the Railroad Depot at An- rofl lerson, was entered on Thursday night last CH<'' >y a thief, who stole about ?G00 in money. out 1'lie keys of the Depot and Safe were taken * roin the room of the Agent after ho had w*'' etired. tvr' Prof. T. B. Williams j)V Announces by advertisement in another j solutnn, his willingness to give instructions n Music and Dancing. The ladies and gentlemen have now an opportunity of ivailing themselves of his instructions. ' of A Serious Difficulty. lie Last night, says the Carolinian of the 18th iust., a difficulty occurred between .1 Qf indent and one of the Town Marshalls, in t|1(. vhich the former was struck down and car- ^]IC ied to the (iuard House, lie was rescued |^er, >y the students in a body, who entered the f$oi iuard House and bore him off. 0tl, con Cincinnati Convention. . inal We publish elsewhere a call ?signed y ' Many Citizens." and copied from the In- 1 Icprndtnt Press?for a public meeting of 0 he citizens on Sale-day next, to discuss the ' iropriety of sending delegates to the Cin- '1 innati Convention. Notwithstanding our arc (bjectiotis to the plan of voting and the ba- j ven is of organizing National Conventions, we I in . ire more than willing that this question the hould be discussed before the people. We reij lonn llwist> :? ?o .....11 'i? >v ?, ??o nun >U IIIUM: Oill* n favor of it, will attend the meeting. Let St a lie meeting l?e general?let both sides be the ubmilteil to an intelligent public, which is slia o pass in judgment upon this question. Sta kYe would be glad to see tliesc nopnlar nal Heelings more frequently held to deliberate ipon political questions in which the rights ind interests of tlie people are involved. r Election of Banks. ^ c The final triumph of this Iligher-LawSxtra-Constitutioual and inveterate Free- 'u}( .oiler, is making quite a stir in some of the 4 f Northern cities. In Boston, a salute of one *j'" lundred and three guns, corresponding with , he vote which elected him, were fired. ? j ? eve .vas heralded by a flying courier. This , foiling commotion of popular feeling, ()f otnes not from mere personal regard for froi Mr. Banks, but proceeds from and is her- inc. titled as the triumphal march ot Abolition ^a'f iontiment. But for the division of the South in this sen nemorablo contest, the result would have inn >i?en different. If the few Ft'LLEti-ites of Goi .lie North, who have been lauded as naional men by their brother Know-Nothings t >f the South, had not preferred the success aWi )f a sectional Freesoil Speaker, to one con- the lervativo and national, the South might to- c^' lay be rejoicing over Aiken's election. lo 4' I'lieir nationality could not stretch beyond Mason <fc Dixon's line. They voted for ma m:i.leu, knowing that by so doing, Banks owi vould be elected. They preferred the sue- '^3 :ess of Freesoilism, or any other ism, to 1,1 ' hat of Democracy?they indirectly voted w;t or Abolitionism. Time will exhibit, in its ind rue colors, the inordinate partisan folly cen vhicli has placed him in the Chair. K'1." w it The following arc the appointments of j . '.ommittces, announced Feb. 12th. It will raj, je seen that some of the leading spirits of ties \bolitionisin are on the most important ?'?ho :ommittecs: st>.Xl wit! "Washington, Feb. 12. s.et " The Speaker to-day announced the R| ( '.ommittccs. The committee of Ways and y Vleans consists of Messrs. Campbell, of ^ )hio, Chairman; Howard, of Michigan, Jobb, of Georgia, Davis, ol M?iiyiand, Sage, ^ 'helps, Campbell, of Pennsylvania, and t|K. _)ewitt, of Massachusetts, leaving one va- 0f'( lancy. A majority are in favor of a pro- J|g ( cctive tariff. The committee on Foreign (l delations consists of Messrs. Pennington, ^ Chairman; Baily, Clinginan, Aiken, Fuller, gUr) ?f Pennsylvania, Matteson, Sherman and Thurston. The committee on the Territo- ^ ius consists of Messrs. Gow, of Pennsyl- ^ ania, Giddings, Purvianco, Richardson, tj Iouston, Granger, Zollicoffer, Merrill and tj01] ^rry. The committee on Elections con- jj lists oC Messrs. Washburne, of Maine, Stetliens, v<tson, Spinner, Oliver, of Mis.ouri, Colfax, Smith, of Alabama, and I' t Bingham." [ 1' T_ rent Peace in All accounts from the scat war, seem wj{| x> favor the idea of a speedy te>nination friei jf (he European war. Upon the arK.,,j Qf becj the steamer Canada at Halifax, Feb. *t boy the following telegraphic despatch was sent southward: bog u 'j'jjg peaoe jv-*ocoI memorandum was iou iitrued OP first inst. by tho ministers of win !I?. powers, and a short armistice will war l>?vbably be agreed upon. Despatches re- littl served in Vienna from Russia, confirm the gal. elegrapbic announcement of the uncondi- " ional acceptance by the Ctnr of the prop- veri miliums ui me ainca.- The Congress was to suff< tave met in Paris about Uie 17th inst^ ami to s verything will probably be settled by the whc 5th iost. The preliminary proceedings, and only await the arrival of the Turkish thai Meuipotentiary, Derbish Pacha. Baron to < hunow and Count Orloflf represent Russia, beer iord Clarendon England, lie Aieglio Sar- Stat iniaf Bool Austria, >nd Walewski France. I ho L is assertedf tlmt Prussia refuses to accede mon * the conditions exacted by the allies prior cMic admiesion to- Ike Peace CoAfcroiMe-,. and ! tat conscqucntfy sTw will be cxcludtedv" ? " 1 < Hum Wo publish in another column tlie lettef Mr. Bkookh, in reference to tho affairs Kansas, which will bo read with great ' . rest. Mr. Huookh, like every intelligent ] /cholder of the South, feels deeply tho | lortancc of securing Kansas as a slave to. ' We notice from our exchanges, that this 1 ject is commanding the attention due to t importance?that public meetings have n called in several of tho Districts, with ] iew of raising men and money. At a I , n ? e i i * ' cm. mvuiiiig in rairiieio, a company 01 iiity men was organized under Maj. IIerit, and a resolution was passed that tho . trict should raise, by subscription, $'200 i each member?which will be sufficient ] :raus|>ort them to Kansas, and support ' in for twelve months. This will only ( uire a subscription of ?4,000, which h district in the State could raise with- r feeling the burden. short letter from Hon. W. \V. Boycb, ( ich we take from tho Winnsboro Rcyis- | will also be found in this issue It was ( tten in reply to a letter addressed him , Mr. W. W. IIe an rut, of Fairfield, ask- ( " his opinion in reference to Southern ^ Migration to Kansas." How tihall wo Explain it? f klr. Cri.u'M, who has been elected Clerk < the House, is an anti-Nebraska mail, yet 1 was elected by the Southern National ow-Nothings, aided by the Freesoil vote the North. Cci.lum and Banks hold same political doctrines in reference to Nebraska Rill of iniquities, as it is j ned in I'reesoil parlance; and why should ithern men vole for one and not for the er? Upon what principle can this insistency be explained ? We confess our Uility to comprehend the reasons of this e. Let the Knights of the Order eniten the public. To the People of Abbeville District. L'lie people of Abbeville District, who in favor of being represented in the Contion at Cincinnati, on the first Monday ^ Iune next, to nominate Candidates for ^ Presidency and Vice Presidency, are ( nested to meet in the Court House on e-day in March, to appoint delegates to a te Convention to assemble in Columbia first Monday in May, which Convention II appoint delegates to represent the tc of South Carolina in the said Cincini Convention. MANY CITIZENS. served Him Might. Hie following is a letter from lion. Joux i Qckks, member to Congress from South rolina, in reply to an abolition document Ircssed to him by Lkwis Taitax, from w York, signed by four other kindred rits, accompanied by a memorial to tigress, expressing a doubt whether siu-li liing as legal or constitutional slavery r existed in the United States: " ashington, fct>, o, 'Sir: I have for years been in the habit throwing all printed matter sent me in the North, by vile Abolitionists and endiaries, in the fire, as I consider their icliood as only surpassed by the impuice of those who send them ; but as you tli some other fanatics) have seen fit to d me, ov< r your own signature, a c<minic.itinn accompanying a petition to tigress, expressing a doubt 'whether there or has ever been any legal slavery in United States,' <fcc., 1 will simply say vou that I sun w?rf.?cilu c.itwfi...! , J JU I. ilic ur? yourself that your every assertion on subject of slavery is as false and misevous sis your conduct in sending tliem me is impudent and insulting. 1 If you have luitnanity, as you profess, ( ieli you cannot make me l?elieve, you y find aruond you, and perhaps in your ti employment, much more needy objects jrour l>enevoleiiee than my or oilier slaves 1 lie South. k(?o to a sewing establishment, perhaps | hill one block of you, and relieve the ( igent mother who makes a shirt for six Ls, whilst her little ones at home are ' Miring for want of fuel to warm their i hering frames, and are fast dropping < ? untimely graves for want of foot! and ( nent to relieve their squalid wretcheds. (Jo into the cellars and under ground 1 des of hundreds in your city, of all 1 L*s and color, who associate together < liout even rags to hide their nakedness, | >ped in every species of crime, whilst j ving for every comfort of life, and show ir benevolence to them; and I would ucially recommend to you to bestow |( ir benevolence on those described in a f _>nt address to the New York public by j Kev. L. M. Pease, the benevolent head , the Five Poiuts Mission establishment, ollows: 'Five winters?dark nnd dreary win- 1 ?have we spent upon the Five Points, t 'ounded by want and suffering, by beg- | y, shame, nnd crime. The fact of liv- . here is not in itself so hard as the laek nouns to supply the wants of the wor- , poor, nnd lo afford shelter and protec- ' i to the homeless. We have been com- I ed, by our relation to this people, to t tess little bare feet treading the icy eincnts until the nails have been frozen 11 their toes, to see their skeleton finger* c hed out to ub, and hear their cry for 1 id, when we have no bread to give, have been compelled to leave the widow f i her new-born babo upon her bosom, ldlesa and sheltfirl??n ?nnn ?J.? _ . www ?|rwll VMV DM W4^ . ause we liad no shelter for her; to see b ripen intocriiuinal manhood, and girls t ' wanton womanhood. We have oeen c ipdled to hear hundred* of unfortunates r f-n vain, even in the name of our Savr? *'?r an opportunity to reform, and ?n deu'^d gjv6 Up ;,] despair, and.after- * d9 die n^lees and all for want of a t e of that on which thousands are prodi- n This is hard.' When you.and your associates hav^ fied your professions, and relieved your 1 uring neighbors, it will be time enough * end me anything relating to my slaves, k >, old and young, awe well fed, clothed, ^ taken care of?better, I am satisfied, R I thousands of time who are beginning foubt 'wliether there be, or has ever * t, any legale slavery in the United ** es,' Cntil vou have done these things, |< pe rotf wilf refrain" firow? sendfng' me p s of yoof firke #mf ifmdhhrg cotrnmmiwjohn McQueen, tarns T'aim'An,- New York/'' lo \ A Gunpowder Parson. jr At a Wednesday evening meeting at fa Henry Ward Beecher's church, Brooklyn, Qj last week, the subject of Kansas got ahead )f all others. Mr. Beecher addressed ?] lii-s hearers in the following Christian-like r< manner: el " He believed that the Sharp rifle was truly a moral agency, and I hat there was ^ more moral power 111 one of these instruments, so fur as the slaveholders of Kansas B were concerned, than in a hundred Bibles, ei Vou might just as well, said he, read the ci liiblo to buffaloes as to those fellows who follow Atchison and Stringfellow; but they ^ Have a supreme respect for the logic that is .'tnhodied in Sharp's rifles. Thy Bible is Ir addressed to the conscience; but when you h iddress it to them it has no effect?there is no conscience there. Though ho was a a peace man, he had the greatest regard for Sharp's rilles, and for that pluck that in- ' hired those New England men to use Ir hem." ti This is a rare specimen of pulpit orator)*, p I'll is Reverend Abolition emissary certainly b lid not derive this logic from the teachings b, )f the Bible. It is much to be regretted tl jv every true Christian, that a minister 81 should so far lose sight of that spirit by " which he professes to be guided?so distort ? he plain teachings of the Bible, as to make P hem pander to the prejudice and weakness T| >f human nature?so far debase Christian w ientimeut, that it could, without remorse of :onscience, stoop to " steal the livery of o Heaven to serve the devil in." si . a The State Capitol. l| " We are pleased," says the Columbia Carolina Times of Feb. 10, "to learn that n preparations are making to carry on the sj juilding of the new Slate Capitol with re- j. icwed energy. A large force will soon be a jngaged, of both mechanics and laborers; r. lew quarries will be opened, and we have 10 doubt, under the guidance and direction j* if the very capable and energetic Super in ^ Lendent, we will see the building rise rapidly towards completion." t| WRITTEN* FOR TIIE AMJEVII.I.K BANNER. The Medici and the Strogonoffs. ' These two historical and distinguished t! families present an instructive philosophical e parallel. These celebrated families of the " middle ages had both their origin from a wealthy merchants. The first accumulated Ins wealth :it Florence, iti Tuscany ; the other also was an enriched merchant, hut uf Nijni-Nuvgorod* on the Volga, where the largest fair in the world is held every year [luring the summer months. a While the Mcdician family was employ- 1' ing their immense wealth and influence in the conquest of Greek MS., letters and sci- . cnces, and helped with all their liberalities |, to produce that revival of learning, and o conquered for Italy, that new kingdom of fc letters, that ultimately enlightened and civ- ;i ilized the rest of Europe, hy which glorious (j deed they ennobled their family, and which v was saluted as illustrious all over the civil- a ized world, and when at last their name was enrolled among the benefactors of their 1 but in lvistern Iiussia, for their wealth and s their ninhition of distinction, equipped an '' army at their own expense and made the j conquest of a new kingdom, Siueuia, for ^ their master, the Czar Ivan IV., called, by H the Russians themselves, the Tekiuble; but n to whom the title of the Cruel, would be ^ more suitable. For instance, behold how 1 he patronised artists. Laveau, a famous architect, built for him a beautiful church t< in the Kremlin, at Moscow, which was ti much admired. Tliis batbarian Czar had Sl Laveau's eyes pulle<l out, so that, said this monster, he should not erect so beautiful a structure anywhere else. si Oh ! Strogonoffs! what cruel monster did h }*ou serve 1 Ivan IV. ennobled you for this 11 new present, this new kingdom. You had your heart's content; you obtained the in- j, tent of your desiro, that of swaying over ii the miserable serf*, and ranking among ii Russian nobility. Great God! what human J1 sacrifices, what horrors has not this Siberia :aused and witnessed ? Noble Strogonoffs! h to what an infamous celebrity have you not C associated your honorable title of simple ? merchants ? It is in vain that you have j ;ven erected a church at Nijni that con- ;il '^iins vour mortal ronuiii?? nnd wl.w.l. ^ ...tvc ?mvu ia- II :racts, by its singular .structure nnd exterior, It .he eye of the traveller; alas! the groans 81 )f the exiles of Siberia are loud enough to w ihake its walls, and the tears of the niiserajles it has made, to wash off their founda- ti ion. With your ill-begotten wealth you aised an army of terra firma Buccaneers, ^ .o conquer a desert of ice iuhabited by bears, j,, hat Ivan, Peter, Alexander and Nicho- hi .ah should people it with human victims of 1' heir vilest despotism. Your bones rest ^ vitbin those consecrated walls, on the nuddy banks of the Volga, only remera>ered to be execrated; while the remains t0 >f the Medici repose on the flowery banks to >f the poetical Arno, and their memory is a' iherislied by every lovor of the arts and iterntare. pj No wonder " Russia i# a forest without iM rees, interrupted by towns without life."? ai< VII is obedient to the Czar, all is silent an: leath. The Czar Nioimi.AR w?? nn .... ?v^. Rl han liis ancestor Peter I., who had the of irueltjr of introducing alive wild bears inr a cc nasquerade ball, that he gave on the nnp- "I ials of hia buffoon. The fater of Che rretched Prince and Princo&s TitocBKTzafor, ells a tale even more barbavoor tfcan the nost cruel acta of Pktkr 1. Peter the Great boaate& that u It takes 1 ^ hree Jew* to cheat a Kuasmn " ?and this t-f-U . - ut ras iuo mgnwt praise tie coul^l bestow on |j^ lis subjects. Russia* for four centuries, Las so eeu oscillating between Asia and Europe, sZ. nd she Ijas not a? yet succeeded to assumed distinct position in the field of human in- j? sllect, and her national characteristics are nn ?t under her borrowed or imitated Euro- Sa ean decoration*. Properly speaking, there f my Church in Russia; ufor the develop- RC( Nijhi-NoTgorod, irt tKo Slavic or Russian w? inguage, mean* Lower Ncw-Towii. an lent of tiio riobleat faculty of fi people, the iculty of believing, depend*oft the dignity F the man charged with COfftrftunicating r preaching to his fellow rtfeft the divine jvelation ;w and there is rftf independent !ergy in ltussia. "The Greeco-Ilussian clergy have never een and never will be anytliing more than militia dressed in a uniform rather dift'erit from that of the secular troops of the mpirc." " It is not the man who is adored in the mporor Nicholas?it is the ambitious taster of a nation more ambitious thrfn imself." " A word of truth dropped in Russia, is spark that mav fall 011 a barrel of mm * o ? owder." Hence tho Czar uses all the lost powerful engines of deception to cxnguish it. I read frequently in our newsapers, the purely American idea of there uing in Russia, a " Russian party, sustained y the priests and people," which "will shape le Russian councils," ?fcc. llow little ich writers know Russia and its governlent. Resides what I have already quoted 11 this subject, bearing on this particular oint, I shall quote again from 1)e Cusinb's: "There is," he says, "one mystery hieh I more especially regret my inability ) penetrate : I allude to the little inlluencc f religion. Notwithstanding the political ;rvitudc of the Greek Church, might it not t least preserve some moral authority over ic people? R does not possess any." "People must and ought to employ all tanner of precautious under a master who lows mercy to no enemy, who despises no ind of resistance, and who considers vengeucc as a duty. This man, (the C/.Ait,) or ither this government personified, would iew pardon as apostaey, clemency as self ?r..i i - - mjjviiunivns, iiiiiu:iiiiiy as a want ot respect iwards its own majesty, or, I should rather iy, its divinity." And tliis is the Sovereign int is to be swayed by his impotent Greek !hureh, and bis stupidly obedient serfs.? ady Wkktlev Montague's maxim about !se Turkish courtiers of her times, applies ven more particularly now to Russian: Caress the favored, shun the unfortunate, nd trust nobody." Yours* J. TOG NO. Monte vino, S. C. Prosperity of Nebraska Territory.?The icssago of Governor Izard, o?" Nebraska, ives a very gratifying account of public nd private prosperity in the territory.? Ivery branch of industry has received and ontiuuea to receive a liberal reward, and lie inhabitants are prosperous and bappv i a degree heretofore unexampled in the istory of the settlement and organization f former territories. Business of every ind is in a healthy condition *, prosperous nd populous towns and cities are springing p as by magic, all along the eastern bor.... .....i ..? V I I - ';? * - iniw ?il i.KiiiiiiMi: {loiuin 10 11115 westward ; ami I lie beautiful and fertile prairies re last being converted into productive ields, giving good promise of a rich reward i> the toiling husbandman. Tnifirrxfina from St. DnmSn/tn.? A snbcriber writes us from St. Domingo by the ?st arrival, as follows : " They are fighting fiercely all around ere. More than three thousand men have dlen in five days. The English and French re against those people and helping the egroes. Sanl:>na has declared for the louroe doctrine, and will gain the day.? ill is confusion here. Judges of the courts, nd clerks under government, aro under mis. All prisoners arc shot. No qnarirs are given. This little republic is going 3 show the world how she can sustain herL'lf against Kugland, France and llayti. Melancholy Accident.?Yesterday eve ing, Mr. John Scigler, a young man reiding some fifteen miles above ibis place, ad started out home, and when about half lile from town, his horse took fright, and in with bim, mid in order to escape he ;ajH:d from his buggv, and, though lightig ujjon bis feet, fell backwards and was istantly killed, the force of the fall burstig in the back part of bis bead.?Edye till Informer, 14 th iiist. JZZT The renowned Harnum is said to ave gone into bankruptcy, and Frederick Iroswell, Esq., has been appointed trustee f his estate. The New Ilaven (Conn.) legister says that at a recent meeting of is creditors, $130,000 was the nominal mount present; hut those who have the leans of knowing, think that there were at iast $390,000 really in the room. The relit of the incetiug was, that the carcass as abandoned to the eagles and vultures. The Oyster Trade of Norfolk.?It is esmated by the Norfolk Argus that $3,000,90 are invested in tho oyster trade of Virinio o?*il *7AH lfAoci.lo ?' *1 v# vw ?VJJOVilO IIIU 111 U1C ansportation department. The principals 1 the trade pay from 35 to 40 cents per iishcl for them at the rocks, and pay 2 1-2 cents per gallon for shelling them, pon being packed and sent to the "West icy bring $2 per gallon. JtST" Several young doctors in Washingn city on Saturday night last proceeded > the Almshouse grave yard, with a horse id wagon, to take off" the body of a lately jceased woman. Her husband was near 7 watching them, and firing upon thein, it them to flight, leaving behind the >rsc and wagony ef which lie took posocson. $3T Five men were frozen to death >out four weeks ago in the Southern part ' Minnesota. They were in an open sleigh Ct ft-- . ?u>u uv. i Mm. 4 no uorses went > to a tavern- oi> tlie prnirie and stopped. 10 landlord weni out and found the five en frozen stiff. Their names are not town. ?3T In Jonesville, Leo county, last week, e keepe* t4 a grogery broached a barrel whisky, to servo out to customers, bnt ion attempting to draw out some of the mid,, it wa? found frozen into a barrel of lid ice. .JC3T A public mtuling was held at Auistar oi? Saturday night last. Tho objtct , to con?Trlt together as t<y tire policy of bacribiug for $500,000 of stock in the vannah Valley Railroad Company. trSF The legislature of Georgia has pasl'a bill declaring that so much of any U or deed as di*?cts tho manumission of y slave be void. Commercial. Ahim^iLLK, C II , Fob. li<?, 1856. Cottun.?Tliis article if grout d?iiiibid, at priccs ranging ff0m & to 9'i els. Columwa, Feb. 18, 1856. Cotton.?Tlia sntno pioil feeling that characterized our market lust week otill prevails.? 100 bales were Bold at 8J @ cents. Cmaih.kston, Feb. 18, 1^50. Cotton.?I'rici s have udvaitecd J ? c'ont. Sales ft,50(i linli o. C3T hollow ay's mki>i?sinbs.? w? are not in tin, habit generally of i 'rtficing tlio thousand and' one medicines of the diiy ; but when a real meritorious one is b?f6N!'thc public, wo think it due to the afflicted flUt tho fa?t should be made known. Wo havo use<l Hollo* way's Pills au?l Ointment in CuseSf of liumuft; bruises, and scalds, with beneficial ellccts, and there are eases within our knowledge of extra* ordinary cures performed in diseases' ?>f lt>ng" standing. 1'rofcsxor llolloway's Ointment and* INIIs nr.. ' ? - - ine jew j?r?-jniiuinjus wii.cn per-" form all tin- cures for which they are rocomt|ien> ded. We nre satisfied that for piiiifving tho blood, regulating iho stomach, and curing livei' ???id bilious complaints, 110 better remedy can bo' found.?Bmiijor Democrat An on nre of fact is worth a pound of the-" ory ; and the swarm of conclusive facts that cluster aroiuid that incomparable preparation, Uoolbind's German Hitlers, prepared by Dr. CM. Jackson, I'hiludelphia, establishing its value as a tonic uml restorative, are such as would prevent incredulity itself from <|ilestiouiuir its efficacy. In all cases of discuses of ihe stomach, whet Ik-r acute or chronic, it may be recommended for its soothing, c<>r?linl and renovating influence. I)v |>f]ifia, heart-burn, loss <?f appetite? nausea, nervous trcinots, relaxation and debility, Ac., are relieved by the Bitters ih a very short space of time; and a perseverance in their use? never fail* to work a thorough cure. Sec advertisement. [Feb. (ED' For Krnnehitis, Throat Diseases, Hacking Cough, ami the elFccts of imprudent use of Mercury, no im-Uici lie has over In en discovetod which has effected such cities as Carter's Spanish Mixture. Throat diseases produced by salivation. Hacking Cough, Bronchial AtFcetioiis. Liver Disease, Neuralgia and Rheumatism, have all been relieved and cured in a wonderful manner, by tho great purifier of the blood, Carter's Spanish Mixture. The case of T. II. Ramsey alone should satisfy any who doubt. Call on the Agent and procure a pamphlet containing cures, which will ustouud you. See advertisement. [Feb For Sale. Valuable Family of Neg-roes. ON Sali* il.ij in March nest, ! will sell, at the risk of former |iiuchaser, a Va!uuli(e Family of Negroes, cou^i.-tiii^ o'? a Woman ami her five I 'hiMitn. TKKMS?A credit to 13th Felirnai^i 18.V7, with interest from day of sale, Costs mvid in CWt. WM. II. PA UK F Feb. 2(>, Land T MOX Sale-,lay for Kali*, al |> 11 , my TKAivr t containing Three more or los, Ihiiii Win. Teiiuant, a* On the |irem' Mouse, new I). Ac. Terms m Fol>. on i e ,? STOI. tin* IKOK, Ul.lt iw made pnyitb iwclv A. 1" alum unit 01 paid ai rrtrard j uue*ti'?i. All per. Kiiid Note*. ccpl to me. GooiIiuiui'h R"'? Febi. For S t THERE will be kjiu _ day ?f Court, at Abbovillo Couit I tonne, a Thorough Bred Stud Colt, four years oM 'be HUh day upwards of eixteen hands liiyh, a bright sorrel with h Mar in hiit forehead. He was niivil l?y Governor Uutlcr. The Cwtt'n Dam was bred Irwin Generul Wade Hampton's Senior Galliton, and Director (Jallili'ii wan considered to be one of the fastest horned that ever run in CharleHton, fiom one mile (o four?one mile, time 1 minute and 42 seconds. I Govornnr "Rn*-!? .... A/UblCi' * wns sire<l by the celebrated Race llorse Areyle, whose pedigree ami performances i." loo well known to require a repetition here. Ilia |)amt Mary Frances, was l.y Director by Sir Archcr, Dam, Matrix l>> Magog. II this Colt is not sold, lie will eland in Abbeville part of liw time, the balance in Anderson. Season commence the l.rilh <luy of March. W1LLISS BENSON. Feb. 20, 1856. 44 21 Music and Dancing. PROF. T.TttlllLUIS, HAVINO BKES RECENTLY ENGAGED IN TEACHING II II A A * " ~ ~ inuaiu AND DANCING, itt ttas. m well oa mnny of (lie other District* oC the State, would inform the citzensof asssmiLg msk&B?, , that he jiro|>o?e? to give instructions in theso I graceful acuoinpliahmenls, to any who desire to* ; receive tlw?** He proj>ose8 to commowce a course of LE&SONS at tho MAIR-MAM HD-0S1S, bo soon bs a CLASS can be formed- Tuesday and Wednesday Evenings will be devotsdto tW Class of Geutlemen; Thursday and Krhlfew f Ladies and Gentlemen WILL 1SE TAUGHT SEPARATELY. He proposes to teach nil the new Figuresin Cotillons, with all tho Fancy Dunces?the Kedowa, Mazurka, Waltz, Hup Mazurka, Scliotlitiohe with* Br 5 variatious, Cecellunuo Waltz, and other fauty h??,e tcnch Irfnsfc upon the VIOLIN, and will davote Mondays und Saturdays to tlii? brvarti of his profession, if the required number of pupils can be obtained. tjf Fo further iuformntion, apply to Frof. ? WILLIAMS, at the - Abbeville Hotel" Abbeville C. II., Feb. 18, 1856. 44-Sb 22nd February. ' THE Abbeville Light Infantry and Soutftef* Rights Dragoons 'will oelebruta tli*F/.t,rnor?t wun a l'nrude. Immediately thereafter, nn Address will lie delivered in tl" Court Houso by Licnt'. IIaddkn, of the Df*" goons. The Public generally, and Ladies particol*"^ * ara respectfully invited to attend. Feb. 12,. lySti- 43 2* . ,