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* JHisttflpraM ifciofchig." I .t. 3l M? ? Xnluritum of Talent. fW 5 A eotenupormjry ?** ?bat greaf%en usually inherit Their talents from the mother. This is a populor belief, but not (he less errone v The mistake has arisen from ?ttflwU w*to those ease* in which the mother hud a superior mind, to the neglect of theequally numerous example* where the father possessed remaikuble abilities. Everybody quote* the fact that Nipoleon derived his genius from his mother. Nol>ody mentions that Burns owed his vast abilities to ! bis father. A traveler would commit a similar bfurider a hp ..hould describe all Americans ! aalight-haired or say that every Philadelphian was s Quaker. the rule, for rule there is, lios deeper, i o . e u _ I \jrrcvit nuiiiu^f m n ww??, nunc ?ivui buwii n fortunate nnion of I lie mental characteristic* of the parents as render* the progeny a genius, thongh neither father nor mother, perhaps, were such. Tho catalogue of emi ncnt men, if carefully made up and honestly scratinised with a view to elucidating the trntb, would establish this, we liavo no doubt, beyond controversy. For it is already known that the child takes its mental nature in about equal portions from its parents, and this fact at once leads to our conclusion, as "well as explains why brilliant parents often have dances among their offspring. Let us illustrate this. A man has tho purely intellectual characteristics in greU force, but is wanting in will; he. is consequently a dreamy philosopher, or a visionary speculator, lie marries a woman, who, with but ordinary intellect, has immense en crgy. One child of this pair nitty coinbine tlie weakness of both parents; and will be -in that event an irreclaimable fool. But another may inherit the mother's wil', with the lather's intellect; and ibis child, unless ruined by a bad education, is certain to bo distinguished. Or take another example. A woman of no remarkable abilities, but with a fine moral nature, is married to n mail w4lh out,principle, but .possessing shining abilities. One chihl of this pair may hnve the good qualities of both parents, and grow up, unless carefully guarded, to boc Mne a brilliant vidian. Or take a third instance. One parent may have much imagination, but little else, and the other nothing rcmaikahio, hut great perceptive faculties. The union of these two characteristics in a child will produce a poet. Tho transmission of either, to excess, unless balanced ' by stiong reasoning powers, may make only ! a human monkey or a romantic fool. The law explains also why so few eminent ' men belong to ouc family. .They have raroly been two distinguished poets, painters, generals or even statesmen, who wore father 1 and son, or even brothers. The older and younger-Pitt, though both prime ministers. 1 and both famous speakers,were strikingly dissimilar in their mental constitutions, so that this example, which scents at first lo oppose our theory, in reality sustains it. In fact, when wo consider that the mind has so many ttnd so, dissimilar ingredients, ideality, casunlity, benevolence, reverence,destruetiveness, , const ructivfiiess, and that theso are com bin*ed in millions <>f ranches in as many million persons, the wonder is not that two individuals, even <>f the same family, resemble , each other so little, but that they resemble each other so much. Given tho scoro and odd of separate bumps into which phrenology divides tho brain, and take the child of any two persons whatever?arid who shall 'thousand possible ones, tlieso qualities ought 'to unite ? There i* too ranch falsity taught for truth on this and similar subjects, not only in newspapers, but even in elaborate books. The reason is that few persons soundly, or < daro to deny preconceived or popular ideAS. We would have every man, however, reflect for himself. "Prove all things; hold fast to. the good."?Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Nature. No peiformer has so few appreciating FpectaUr'.s as Nature. It is probably because her em e; tain men ts aro so cheap. Stingy, grasping and mean as men often are, they still think nothing good unless it has a price annexed. No man or woman would sleep through a thunder shower if they were ob- j liged to pay twenty-five cents for a scat to witness it. They would willingly pay .for it, 4 and make a rush to get preferred seats. ' 'They would carry opera glasses to peer at the I lightning as it glanced across the sky. The | dsnger of being bit, that now more or less , nftWt# us all, would depart if we had to pay for being in the danger. A person is now Mifer in his own house, even if the thunder I wail and the lightning glare around it du- \ ring all the hours of.the day and night, than , lie is on the cars betweon Cliarlcstown and A'oncon) in the serencst day. Yet heshud- ' ders at every bolt of tho lightning, but is 1 pei feet ly calm behind the slaughtering en- t gine. We wish some philosopher would I | show n.4 tlio reason or mi* distrust ana dis ( regard of Nature an<l her works. ? Bunker jiui Aurora. S.vd arkucnon.?4 yoiuig ladf, at present a V>'->ptl in one of our liierary institution*, lma received the distressing intelli- . genee that among those who perished in [ the teriible calamity at Last Island were her 1 father, brother, uncle, nunt and two cousins. < Having previously been deprived of her ' mother, by death, her lonely situation must <now excite the deepest sympathy. Those who experience the smallest afflictions can ' easily appreciate tho crushing weight of < such a dispensation ; for there are few on this i earth who have not been oveiwhelmed with g grief at tlio loss of one dear friend. How . much more lamentable is the condition of onjr, ri-t in ji.er y.otdh, who has lost all a-i ri.tuu) wbojn twined the heart's warmest nf* fccl'.un 1 Where can she find a sympathis- . ing bosom, in which to pour her grief, and ' . who own laud up?n her brow a wreath that ( , yill endure nftliciion's heaviest shower ? | Rich Whiff. " <?jjt >! ** ?muE*srsnowuB, a.?. THURSDAY, SEPT. 4, 18g?. S3TREMOVAL.? The Enterprise Office may be found near the Old CourtHouse, tame Street at formerly. The Storm. k J 1 t__ !A . 3 il ! a iikayt ituhn in wiiiu nnu ram Ylllini mis section on lost Saturday night, continuing nil the day and night of Sunday. The crops hare been greatly dnmnged in many portions of our District. As far as we can learn the stornt was a general one, and that the crops in the surrounding Districts arc all more or loss injured. Jinny of tho shade trees in our town wore torn up by the wind. The Rail Road. Owixo to tho serious damage done to tho Itoad l?y the lnte freshet, wc hnvo received no mails irom Columbia since Saturday lost. Wo understand that the greatest injury sustained by the road is at Crim's Creek, the whole or nearly all of the trestle work at that, place hoving boon swept away. It will bo recollected thattbc July freshet damaged the road very much at tho above pluce. It is thought that tho trains will run regularly again in a very fe\ydnys. Rnrglarlcs. The store* of several of our Merchants havo been btoken into, within tho past few days, and goods and money stolen. In one instance the thieves have been detected, and found to l?c ue groes. Should it prove that the other burgla- ! rice were committed by negroes, tho sooner nti [ example is made of one or more of them, tin- ! better it will bo. for others. Store keepers should at all times, in going out, close their doors Bccurcly. ? ? Out* Exclinngcs. Tub Wavbrly Maoabikb: Thero are but few Northern papers w.hioh we ! ;an consistently recommend to our readers. The J jrentcr portion of them are vile abolition sheets. I In the above paper we have an honorable ex j seption, and whilst it is unexceptionable as re-, peels the South, so fur as we are enabled to judge, it is unquestionably the best literary journal i published anywhere at the North?in f.\ct worth ' h11 its ootemporarica in Boa ton. Edited by Mo sra A. Dow, Boston, Mass., and furnished to sub scribora nt $2 per nsnum in advance. Tine Now CoiKicil. A meeting was hold on Tuesday evening last, | at Temperance 11 nil, comprising sovoral of the j .Mechanics and laboring men of our town. A j committee was appointed to nominate a suitable I ticket for futendant ami four Wardens. The' following gentlemen wero reported, and their i nomination unanimously received. It- was or- : dered that it ho published in the town papers: j for intend \nt. II. LEK Til HUSTON, I>q. for wardens. T. M. COX, Esq. G. B. DYER. j) ROBERT McKAV. V+Q. I Da. Ik D. I.ONG. , For Town Conncll. The following ticket has been handed in, sign id by " Mant Voters." for intend ant. It LEE Til HUSTON, Esq. tor warden's. Dr. M. B. EARLE, J. W. STOKES, Esq.* D. HOKE Esq. JORDAN P. POOL. I Mr. Storks, requests na to state tlmt ho will lot consent to be run. The Rascal. A celebrated humbug by (ho name of | Perham. living in New York, has the impulence to send us an advertisement of his Grift Enterprise making near a column and a half in our paper, with the modest request Lhat it be inserted four times for ten dollars, 'to be paid in Gift Tickets at $1 each." We would warn our readers of this man and of Iris cheating schomos, and lest we may be troubled with more of his circulars, we enclose in the present issue of our paper the r>no we have, and request him not to send us Hny more. And whilst Porham has due notice, we would also inform many others like hiin in the Northern cities, who flood rrr tabic with similar advcr.isemeuts, thai we are neither u? be imposed upon or sutler uur readers to be through our columns. Southern Education.?Dixhop Polk, of Louixiana, linn addressed n letter to tlio Edit?*r of tlio Net* Orleans JJtlta, co\*ering ? drculnr addressed by liim to tbe Dish opt of I'ennessoe, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, fexae, Mississippi, Florida, and the Caroli )a9, on tbe nocox&ity of organizing a system >f Southern education, and building up ionthern religious institutions, ns pnrt of n general system ofdefence of which the South a dail^r growing in more need, A* Indian for Kim.mokic.?The At/e i* ho title of a new penny paper just Mat ted in New 1'oik. It advocates the election of Mr. Fillmore. 0q?? of it9 editors i? Gooige 1'opwAT. j be celebrated Indinu i'hief. Tht Ll???r TrtUle. ^ roir.jOw, * Editor if Soutksrn Enterprise.: Dear Sir?The following letter site oal the miseries reeulting from retailing, in Mpcl burning and eloquent language, that its pub Mention may do good. 1 therefore bespeal for it a place in yoor paper. ? Your friend, JOHN B. 0*NEALL. PiCKKSbviLLK, S. C., July 30, 1850. Honornl Sir :?Having seen your dige* or Exposition of the License Law, I reques of you the kindness to send mo a copy Of i if you have any of thein left. 1 am in th midst ofaset of lawless,depraved citizens, *vh are every day violating, not only the law of the iund, but the laws of aii Ahnight; Power. We have here in this little placo i soul destroying shop, where drinking, fight ing, profanity, vulgarity, and gambling * ?.? rt/1 /v?? ?1? A dninn /Inn nnll <11 *3 Vltl I ICU V?ll I# will IIIV Ufinil v? U?J uim the midnight hour. I have been constrain ed to take iny children from school, the; having to pass by this den of corruption where bachnnalians are ever ready to roak use of the most shocking onths and vilo epi thcts of vulgarity to my children. I bar dared to net the man?have sont to jail on of the vile and lost creatures as n vagranl and for threatening to enforce the laws c my country. I have called down upon m the wrath of tho-c wretched mon, and the; have in the darkness of night, set fire to ; dwelling I had on a small farm, and burn cd it iuto ashes. They have sworn in thei wrath they will take my life, and \voul< make the attempt if they had the courng (as well as nature) of the boasts of prey tha roam through the deserts. The grog sho| was started hero last winter under a pornii from (he elck of (ho Hoard of Commission ers of Roads and Bridges. In March tw< men obtained license from the Board t koep tavern, but kept their spirits in a she; some thirty yard* distant from the taverr In May those two men sold out to two olh er?, they removed 4ho liquor into nnothe building, and have l>een retailing by th< drink and half pint ever since under th tavern license granted to the other two.? The}' have every kind of vice'going on, ii the heart of depravity to invent, card play ? . .1 t . ? . nig, ngiuing, together wit it the most norm oatli\ ever uttered. Thi* state of tiling? must not continue. Arc rimy not violating the law, every day ? D. os not civili^nlijn morality, philanthropy, and Christianity eal for a stop lo be put to it ? Will I bo 'sat in enforcing the law against such violators Will I not do my duty in doing so? J ask you for advice, knowingyoiir ahilii to give, and knowing your table efforts t produce a change in !lie moral feelings c air citizens and awaken iin.ni to the giea necessity of putting a slop to the tie of i trafio in that poj.oit which lias for age been sweeping irvay millions of the htiinat fnii'.'y - sending down to the drunkard** grave and to eternal perdition the mosl ighly gifted of our race, and bunging tx poverty,shame, degradation and squalid mis orv, thousands of poor unfortunate womet and children. Would that I had the mental ability o such men a* yourself and Gen. Cary, hov willingly would I devote the remainder o my humble life in the noble cause that iiov calls your entire attention. Would tliat w? had tliousanda and tens of thousands sucl men as Gen. Carey atul yourself now fight itnr against our most dendlv enpinv If VI'I Iih<I| I sliou! 1 hope to live to seo the whoh length and breadlh of our country a perfec garden of Lxlen?our citizens all conu-ntet and happy christians, w hero we now huv< demons in human shape; churches of Clirisl wliere wc now have holes of infamy ; goot schools in place of the still-houso (or wlia my venjrablo and evcr-to-be-loved moihe calls "the I>evil's Kitchen.") Whenever i stop is put to the manufacturing and sale o this poison, which blasts all the finer feeling of the human heart, destroys man's constitu tion, steals from him the talent God gav< hiin, empties his purse, beggars his wife an( children, and finally .sends his immortal soul all scorched, scathed and blackened will blood and crime, before his God, to be bj him banished from his presence, and sen down to eternal perdition. Then, and n6 ill iKcii, wo may e^pxot io ?co our wiioh country prosperous and happy. GikI speet, ?i._. -i...: i.... i ?* ? ?? ? uiih giwi lurm U.IJ , IB my muab HUIllUiU Jlfl' devout prayer. In conclusion, my much esteemed air pardon this long and uninteresting (to you letter, which I only intended, at first, as i request for the license law, and pern-.it tin to hope and pray that your useful life nmj bo lengthened to tho long?st ?pnn?tha Qod will blew, most signally. your noble ef forts in the cause of phihiuth -opy mid chria tianity, and that you may yot see the darl cloud and storm of intemperance swept fnm the face of the globe, and that peace, proa periiy, chiistinnity, and happinets, tlmt tnus and will follow. I nrn moat humbly and respectfully, K(fKi;8 W. FORCER.To rio*. J. n. ff.Vc.uu , as Il|i| II mmmmmrnmmmmmmmm : ' The following is the substitute for Judge 13utier's bill ipaased by ike Senate : I Mr. Hunter, from the committee on Fi} nance, to which etas referred the bill to regulutothe compensation of members of Cou-1 gross, reportej it back with ah amendment t striking out all the enacting clause and substituting a uew bill. A lanirtfitmirnfl [This Amendment provides that the com pensation of each member and delegate shall be $'2,500, to commence from and after the adjournment of the present session, and monthly during the session until its close. 1 The pay at each future Crongre*. shall com't mence tlie 4th March of each year, whether t, members be elected before or after that time, e and they shall receive the pro rata Amount, together with the nrileager, which mny be 0 due at the commencement of the session, 8 and the residue in monthly payments until y the closo of the session. If a member die n during the recess the said pro rata pay 'may _ goto his heirs until the commencement of p the next session, after which it may be paid '' on proper requisition, and if during the ses " sion, then the pay to cense on the day of the i- choice of his suocessor, who shall receive his y mileage and residue of pAy to which hie predecessor would have been entitled. Each member and delegate shall also be allowed 8 at each annual Bession of Congress eight '* dollars for every twenty miles of the estie mated distance by tho most usual route from e his place of residence to the seat of governt ment, at tho commencement and end- of j. every such session, when the estimated distance does not exceed 1,350 miles, and where 0 it exceeds that distance the allowance is six y dollars for every twenty miles. a Tho President of the Senate, when there is no Vice President, or when the Vice President shall receive tho offlco of thoPresr ident of the United States, and the Sneaker of the llouae of Representatives shall be enc titled to receive such addition to the annual t compensation and milongo allowed by tho lirst section of this act as will in tho aggregate equal the pay of the Vice President; 1 and in case of the temporary absence of the * Vice President, tho President of tho Senate o pro fan. shall be entitled to receivo ten dol0 lars per dieui in addition to the annual compensation. If any books shall be hereafter distributed to members of Congress, by resolution ' of either or both Houses of Congress, the r price giveu for the snmo shall bo deducted 9 from the compensation herein provided by law; provided that this shall not extend to books ordered to be printed during the Congre.-s for which said members shall have 1 been elected.] ? 1 ' Speak[xo, says tlie Hartford Timet, of ;(tlic Republican paitv. Wend nil Phillip*, r, say*: ? * No man, Mr. Chairman, ha* n l ight to ho * j-turpiised at tho present state of'thing*. It I is just what tar have attempted to briny a c 1 b ml. The forces at la-1 are ranyrd face to i \faee. Our fii -nd* have not turned to the : tuight side of tho matter to dny ; hut there J it iwrit in the Republican party. It is this, v ' It is the first teelional party ever organized ! in tlie country. It does not know its oxen f \face, and it calls itself national but it is not j national, it is srctional. It is the Xorth II arrayed against the South. H'tiry u !' 11 * in said to ine: We must yet every Xorth * cm State in order to elect Fremont. Even i | in imagination ho did not count upon a ,i single Southern State. Ic was a distinct t I iccogni'.ion of tho fact that tho Ib-publican 1 party is a party of the North plednm against * i the South. Theodore Parker wanted to - j know once where disunion would begin. I i ' will tell him : just where tho party divides. That is the. northern party against the southern. I do not call it an anti-slavery party, f it has not risen to thnt yet. It is a northv ?-rn partv against the southern. They made f j the tirst little breach. The Jirst crack in f the iceberg is visible; you will hear it go, with a crack through the centre. Its lirsl distinct lecognition was IVtnk's election.? 1 Ho was elected by northern incn, not n man - irom I lie south voting for !: rm That in the s value of that parly. I hail it <u a sign? 3 as a great sign. I did not hope to see it for ten tears; it has come unexpectedly eur1 lv. i ' 9 Tkrkiui.k AmtR. A correspondent of ^ the l'etersburg I/Uelligrncer-n\% : "A most . shocking occurrence t??ok place in Fincastle a few nights since. A gentleman, with sove1 ral inortherlesMchildren, arrived at that plAce, r and in the course of llio night the inmates i of the Hotel woi c aroused by terrilHo sereins, j- and on tracing up the sound, found that it emanated from the room in which the gen ' tletnan and his children lodged. Breaking * the d?>or open, the horrified spectators saw 9 that he was laboring under a horrible dream, j or night-mare, and was in act of pulling out the tongue of his youngest child, whom he ' had taken to sleep with hiin. He was iin1 mediately aroused to see the hotly of his litt tie child dreadfully bruised ami lacerated, t and told those who had wakend hi in, that f he had dreamed that somo one was inurder8 Ing the child, and ho was tiyiiig io rescue it. His agony was said to be indescribable. At the time the passengers left Ffncastle fur 1 this place, the poor child was alive, but in an extremely perilous condition. *./n tiik i^oouoiiT.? i no papers or XMevv ) York city are exorcised concenung the inys ? teriou* disappearance of Stephen if. Hrnncli, 9 famous for hit persevering inquiries after , Geo. VV. Mattxell. and other explorations. As Mr. llmnch is quite a palhfin ;er in his 1 way, it is possible he is on a pilgi image in * search of tho birth-place ami religious belief * of John (J. Fremont. If bo, ho need not be ( expected soon. 1 Jknmnoh Estate.?An heir to the gient * Jennings estate in England, has turned up t in Fulton, New York, in order to mire funds to prosecute tiro claim be has sohl stock in it. One dollar in cash boys one Urouaand in stnip. About #10,000 havo been thus raised among the cities of Oswe* go aud Follou. 8 Ireland. The Li nterii-k Observer, refer: ing to a statement of a correspondent say*: lie was standing near the salmon wc:r, on the platform before the mills ofCofbadly. a; bout Imlf past len o'clock, when 1us inrctition wan attracted by what appeared to la) fire rising on the top of Keeper mountain, ' due Er.st of bis position* lie remarked tho object to a gentleman with hitn, hut as the 8re rose and cleared tho top of tho moun tain, his friend suggested that it must be a lantern suspended to a kite. It bad the ap i?t?jir:incn nf n irloh* of Are na larire as a (rood r-* ?? < - ry -y w * ? n o sized orange, with a broad tail of light [ extending about eighteen incite* from the' body. The two gentlemen Watched it for an hour, nod the watchman on the weir observed it also. On Thursday night they saw it again. It arose a few moments later, presenting the same appearances, and was high in ttie heavens at half past eleven o'clock, when tbey went home. At thai hour one of the gentlemen pointed it out to his sister. Last night, from the sumo place, the same person again saw it rise twenty minutes before eleven o'clock, and then it occurred to ono of them (our informant) tbat it might be a comet. He ceased to WAtoh it about midnight but as the watchman observed it up to half past one o'clock this morning. It did not seem so large, on the previous nights, but still far exceeded the most brilliant fotrn in which the plenet Jupiter has ever been behold. Tus Quizzing GtAsa.-The Rev. Mr. M.? a Scotch minister of surae note, v?na one day walking through the street* of Edinburg, dressed in live rough country clothes, when a young lady, the loader of the troup of fashionable belies, surveyed him through her quizzing glass rather more curiously than ho thought consistent with female delicacy.? Scenting suddenly to recognize her, walked up to lier briskly, and seizing her by the hand with the familiarity cf an old acquaintance, accosted her with : "My dear Marie, how do you do? liow left you your worthy fartlior and venerable mother, and when did you come to town ? All this was expressed with the rapidity and energy of an old and familiar friend, nrt.l tttSlK rt?? ,-wf t' A I|||!a AAuA**'nnP nuvi nuu ?n hi' v? n ii.?iv fin ?? .?.r of superiority. Tlio astonished fair ono had not time to withdraw her hand, and said with some alarm : "You are mistaken, sir I" "What! 1" he replied, "is it possible, my dear that you do not know me ?" "Indeed, I do not sir." "Neither do I," said the person. 'Good morning tnadame." And making a ceremonious bow, he walked away. She was perfectly cured of quizzing strangers in tiie streets.? Sn/rm Itv/ixter. Rktirkmknt op Hon. Wm Airkn.?The annexed notice appears in lite Charier ton papers of yesterday: To mv Constituents op the Second CoNonKssioN ai. Distiiict op Sonrii C\nolina.? I avail myself of this occasion to lender you my grateful acknowledgments I of the ninliipled evidences of confidence with which have honored nte ; af.ti, the same time, to inform you of my purpose not to b? a candidate for re-election to !ho next Congress of the United States. The papers ray that a few porsons calling themselves "Republicans," hold a meeting at Wheeling, Vs., on Friday night. A large number of persons attended through curiosity, and much excitement prevailed. A man named Smith made a speech. At its conclusion he attempted to leave, and was followed by a large crowd, when a general skittnish ensued, during which two men tisined Harding and Ward wore wounded. | tho latter seriou-ly. This had the effect to increase lite excitement, and to prevent the , indignant" populace from lynching Smith on : the spot, the Wheeling Argua says, ho had to l?e conveyed to jail. Nortiikkn Mktuodiht.?The first number of tho "Northern Independent," the publication of which originate* with the Methodist* of Central New York, who wore offended because Mr. Ihrniner was removed front tho editorship of the Northorn Advocate by the General Conference has been h*ued. The new editor of the Advocate my* : "Thi? now paper movemont is a revolutionary movement. It is the clearest instance, of open, well-defined resistance to law and order that has ever arisen in Methodist Church Ui-tlory. Its triumph is the downfall of constitutional Methodism." Amkricax Constitution.?That is a beautiful figuro of Winthrop's in reference to the Constitution, when lie says?"Like one of those wondrous rooking stone* raised hy the Druids, which tho finger of a ohild might vibrate to its centre, yet the might of an. array could not move fto.n St* place, our Constitution is so nicely poised, that it seems to sway with every breath of pri-wion, yet so nrruly baft*! in the heart* and affection* of i-lie people, that the wildcat storm* of treaaon and fanaticism break over it in vain." It i* advisable, however, not to M vibrato " too mucli. Hlmoks or Law.? Sterne insinuate* that Attorney* are to lawyer* what apothecaries are to physicians?only that they do not dcnl in scruple'! One day, at the table of the Into Dr. Pease, (Dean of Ely,) just as the cloth was being removed, the snhjeot of discourse happened to ho that of an extraordinary mortality among the lawyers. "W# have lost," raid a gentleman, "not lose than si* eminent barristers in a* mnnv months." The ffean, who was nuite deaf, rose as his friend finished Iris remark*, ami gar*the company gmce: uFov this and evbry other nioroy, the land's name he praised J* Tb^lfect w?a hwriMihfe. ^ 1 in avfllnge, not ft; thousand ?$)? from this city,'there llvfeg a qiifet, nnobtrubive young'lawyer. A modest fellow is M.f (mentis always inodest.) but he knows his rights, "and knowing, dnres maintain them." LfVw a great many others, he "ii "following the practice," and anticipates "a glorious time" when he overtakes it* While sifts* having been retained in some small cases, | ho made his appenranco before that anguet dignitary,nn Alabama Justice of tho Peace* "IJis Honor," evidently lost faith in M 1 at first tight ; for uno aflor another his cases "collapsed" under the "stunning" charges iinn emi uy mo tiOliri. The law and the testimony' tverf alike unavailing; M V cases sere bohnd to go. At last human nature could bear no more. Id rf?ing from hi* seat, delivered himself in hi* umia! slow and measured manner: 'The Court can fine hie fltfe dollars.*' "For what, Mr. M?? f* said the Justice, somewhat surprised. "For contempt of Court," coolv rejoined M . "I am not aware, Mr. M - said the Court, "of your having been guilty of anything that might bo considered cont empt. "1 know ?' your Honor is not awaro of it," said M f "but I entertain a secret contempt for tliia Court." Our exchanges give some further details of the New York elopement case, of which Major Kearney, who lost his right arm ic the Mexican war, is the hero. He is a married man, and the father of a large family, but is separated from his wife. She lives in Washington. Major Kearney is a man of large property, rated at from $800,000 to $400,000, and on. account of his large means and rank in tbo army continued to oe/eceivodin the best society. Some three years ago he met Miss Maxwell, then only sixtsen years of age, a daughter of Hugh Maxwell, Colleotor of lite port of New York, and known as an eminent lawyer and ono of the most estcoined citizens of Now York. He there commenced his attentions, and after her return to that city persisted in thorn, notwithstanding his obligations ns a married man. His great wealth allowed liim to be pertinacious, and has finally so currupted this fsir young girl?after three years of pursuit? that a few days since they sailed for Europe, She is about nineteen?very pretty, and sings like a syren. He is forty-five, and is said to be as "ugly as sin,"? Washington Star] Land "VVaktiants.?The Innd warrant m? ket continue* depressed and unsettled, nnd prices have a downward tendency, The demand for immediate location of warrants being qulto limited, and there being but little or no disposilon on The part of dealers to invest their Ainds in the article by way of speculation, we may safely conclude that the prospect for an earlyfadvance in prices are rather gloomy at present. The following quotations are furnished ns by William T. Smithson,banker and (ami warrant dealer of this city : . For 100> and 80's 01 cents per acre. For 120's 80 ? ? For 40'a 107 * " [ Wank Qrynn, ^eto BdbeMi&eliKofe, The Siftto of SontH CaroUn^ OR EKN VILLE I >I3TRICT. % IN 'HIE COURT OF ORDINARY. William Tinkler, applicant, against James Ray, Jacob ltsy, ttnney lUy, Joseph Iter, Si.rali Jane Ray, Mary Tinsley, and William her husband, Martha Land and Lewis her husband, heirs of John Roy, deceased. Klixahcth Ann Kelly, And John Iter husband. Defendants.-^ Petition for tale or dioioion of Real Rotate. IT appearing to my satisfaction that Jaenb Rar, one of the defe'ndonts, resides without Una State. It is, therefore, ordered, that he d? ?tv. twar aud object to th? division or sale of tfia Ileal Estate of Jano Hay, on or before the ft rat day of December next, or bis consent to the sainc will be entered of Record. KOBEKT McKAY, O. 0. I>. Ordinary'* Oflico, ) September 1, 1856. J 17-3m A REWARD. ON the night of the 1st of September my store was broken open, and among other Utilise*. A PALMETTO MEDAL, presented by / the State to Joux R IIoookx, was token. Thfa modal has not been returned to no, but waa thrown away by the person* who took It, for fear of detection. A lllieral reward will bo paid to the tinder by leaving it at my store. L. CAKR, Aokxt, h Septembers 17 tf # THE LADIES' WOUKINOSOCIETY, connected with the Baptist congregation, propose holding a FAIIl, at McBee's Hall, on Wednesday evening, 10th September next. Contributions for the occasion, either front Town or Country, will be thankfully reoeived. August 11 18 td. Please Notice. ALL TllftSONS having demands against tho Town Council of OreeitTilU. are ran nested, to hand them in on or before Saturday, 6th teoiber. W. P. PRICE, Totm CUrk I ?.?.. ? | ,, 'iMfP wfi A CARD. I PERCEIVE a stricture upon my political platform from the aeuior editor of the Pntrioi end Mountanoer of thie date. I regret that gent1* I J men of eirenineoribed eomprehenaion in reg*rd*pi to the epirit nnd letter of the Federal Cooetitn* tin!, should attempt e definition tf ray political tenrta. For I hold that while the Union (tends n tliat elavery iasafe. My. rota upon the reeoln- > Uan in lite meeting shore mentioned, wee entirely upon the modf of roeieUnee avowed by the ' * eenior editor et the time. / *lae*t of my own 1 hen Barer fevered V abolition, nor hare I arer r?cej?*d a single paper from the Nortkon the aeb)oei I know nothing of * their creed, new do I deeire to know. J. POWRLttta*' <f Omtjuille, Anjj ?i. 16 tf