-? .- An Act
For the Better Establishment of a General I
System of Registration of fiirths, Marriages
and Deaths, in the State of South
Carolina.
Sue. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives, note met and sitting
in Generul Assembly, and by the au
thority of the same, That from, and after tho ,
passing: of this Art. it shall be the duly of!
the Tax Collectors of tho different districts
and parishes of this State, to require of the
inhabitants of said districts and parishes, at
tbo time of making the general tax returns,
a separate return stating tho number of
flutes, male and female, who have been
bo^n, married, or who have died during the
year in their respective households, ana the
number of blacks who Imve been born, or
who have died during the same period, and
return the same to the Comptroller Cene
fal; and in each case in which the Tax Collector
neglects his duty, he ah all he fined
five dollars, and the citizen rcfu?inor, chars
od live per cent, on his general lax.
Skc. til. That one Registrar shall l>e appointed
bjf the Governor, whoso duty it
shall be to receive from the respective offi
ees of the Comptroller General, in Charleston
and Columbia, the returns of the Tax
Collectors, and make and publish a full report
of the same annually, filing a copy of
jiis report in the Comptroller General's office,
both in Charleston and Columbia.
Sec. Jt. That in order to ascertain as ne
curatelv as possible the number of births,
marriages and death* of non-tax paying
whites, it shall he the duty of the Tax Collector
to ascertain from the magistrates, physicians
and ministers of the Gospel, of the
different districts and parishes, the number
of births, marriages ntul deaths that have
taken place among the persons within their
jurisdiction, or belonging to their congrega
lions respectively ; and it shall be the duty
of the Registrar to diaw out a proper form
of registration for the Tax Collectors of the
different districts and parishes, and for the
use of the magistrates and ministers of the
Gospel, of the said districts and parishes.
Skc. 4. That the said Registrar shall receive,
annually, the sum of four hundred 1
dollars for his services.
Skc. 5. That the Tax Collectors shall be
entitled to retain out of the taxes collected
by them, three cents for the entry of each
birth, death or marriage required by this
Act. %
In the Senate llouse, the twentieth day of
December, in the year of our Lord one 1
thousand eight hundred and fifty-six, and
in the eighty-first ycat of the sovereignty '
and independence ot the United Slates of '
Atnciiea. JAM MS CI IKS NUT. Jr., 1
President of ilie Smmia
.1A M KS SIM ON S," '
Speaker of the House of Representatives. J
XkW OCliAN* M All, Si'CAMKIl PltO.TKCIS. j'
"We regret to have to say that the House j
3'ost OlHco Affairs Conuuittee have not do-1
termiiicd to recommend that no new ocean (
mail steamer contracts shall he made on he-1
half ?>f this(iovei nment except with the lowest
ladders and under all the regulations applicable
to the inland mail service of the
United States, as erroneously a! lodged in
more or less distant newspapers of late, j
"While some such idea has been talked over 1
in their Committee, iL has not assumed the ,
shape of a direct proposition. Our opinion
is that it will not triumph there, because a
majority of the Committee arc known to fa- i
vor the enactment of a Lid or bills to an j
thorize special contracts with favored indi- "
viduals on terms specified in the acts for the I
conveyance of the mails of the United States !
by steamers on the ocean. This is the old 1
and (admitted to be) very vicious system. I
Perhaps two, or r.t most three of the dozen
such propositions now being urged ? one lor i
a line from New Voik touching at Savan-I
nah, to l'aia, (cast coast of South America;) |
another from Panama down the west coast
of South America; and another from New!
' Yoik to the North of Kurope, havesiiflicicnt i '
influence hero to obtain the endorsement of |
the Committee referred to above. Whether
uiey can possibly command the sanction of;
a majority of the House as matters now i
stand, is a very different problem, fortunately.
Wo think that in the course of theh
necessary discussion on such hills it will la-'1
made so glaiiiigly apparent that the system ; 1
of special ocean mail steamer contracts has;
been so very vicious in all its results up to'
this time, as that, if any new lines are an- i
thori/.ed, the contracts will he required to Inmade
precisely as all other United States I
mail contracts are entered into.
| Washington Slur.
CI It k at l)l8COVBI?y at XI ao ar.v KaI.I.S.
A fine harbor of some two hundred and fit* I
ty acres has been discovered immediately
above tho rapids and below the old Sclilosser
bar. As much more can be dredged
out at a small expense, g'ving a depth of,
ten to fourteen feet water Heretofore vo*
sels could only come down on t e American
side to the old store-house, some two miles
above the Falls. A pit-r is to bo ruu out)
above the Goat Island bar for about a half j
a mile into the river, and the upper bar so!
cut that vessel* of twelve feet dial'*. can go'
through ami down t<> the mouth of the
great canal. Tim discovery has opened a
geological wonder to tho people in Western
New \oik, and it will provo a g.eAt commercial
blessing to thai cointntinitv. It is j
expected that navigation will he opened l>v i
the first of July fur all class vessel-.
?
riotfotttN'j One's Otkhts.?We clip the
following from tho Now York Mirror :
" At a large and rather promiscuous party i
up town the other night, (mi r thousand inxitatiofts
having been issued,) the host exhibited
the latest novelty of the season. Two
policemen in ur.ifortrt tvwo stationed at the
entrance of the supper room. Wbother
this di/plny wan neccsearv to keep '-Voting
New-Y ork' in order, r# to prevent the mystcrirui*
dtfpppcarr.rec of ail er. i* not known.
KvMy f ? is ??sirjd'Ci'nl tr t?fhc
V y^'WOp' 1 'Sj*. ^Hi ; y'?
How Hew York"Bakers Make Bread.
The editor of the Journal of Commerce
has been diving among the city bakers and
conies up with this tale :
" Our bakeries are mostly under ground
and out of sight, and few who eat their
bread ever witness the process of baking,
and perhans it is well that it is so. It has
been said that he who would relish his dinner,
.Unnl.l W/.- ..1 -* 'I u.
onvuiu viv?r ui me Kiicnon. i lie
rooms where the dough is mixed, are generally
small and under ground ; the men sleep
often, perhaps generally, in the same room
h part of the night. They often amoke or
chew tobacco or both, and wo are credibly
informed, that the feet instead of the hands
are often employed in the process of preparing
the dough."
And the New Yoik Express follows with
this strong corroboration :
r "There is a bakery not two hundred feet
from Nassau street, we mav add, whore the
laborers are daily seen coming into the
street, with their naked feet and logs all covered
with dough, and the dough oozing between
their ten pedal extremities ! Ugh !?
Ugh !"
The Journal of Commerce further says :
" The expedients resorted to by many of
our bakers to compel the consumer to pay
the highest juice for bread, aro various.
They charge the consumer, when the loaf
is purchased at their counters, 6^ and 124
cents for their loaves. Now a b..rrel of flour
will tuako 22-4 of tho former, and 112 of
the latter, equal to $14 for a barrel of flour
baked into bread ; and when the consumer
buys of the grocer, instead of the baker, in
many, if not in most instances ; making a
loaf of less weight for the grocer, to whom
ho sells the same for a propoitionatcly less
price. The consumer therefore pays a double
profit?one to the grocer, and one to
the baker, when he buys of the former."
The Vegetable Kingdom Quizzically
Considered.
Rend what Cnjtfain Job Prest, in his
" Wondeiful Adventures," says of tho vegetable
kingdom : I
The term vegetable?sometimes pronounc- ?
od vegetable?is probably derived from the
peculiar long and pointed form of this description
of esculents, hence oiiginally called j
wedge eatable thence wogetable, and now I'
reduced into the jiresent term. i
Annual floweiing jdants resemble uhales I I
IC tll/tl* ? * ? 1 I
?.i %u\:j vuniu uj' IU UIUW, (
Flowers are very warlike in their disposiion,
and are ever aimed with pistils.
They are migratory in their' habit*, An <
wherever they may winter, thev arc mire to
cave in the spiing ; most of them very poite
and full of houghs. ^
lake dandies, the coating of many trees .
s their most valuable portion. Cuik trees j.
in I hoot trees, for instance. .
Grain and seeds ate not considered dan- j j
porous, except when about to shoot.
Several trees, like watch dogs, arc valued .
uostly for their bark. J
A little bark will make a rope, but it <
takes a largo pile of woo<l A>r a cord. ,
'I bough there are no vegetable beaux, ,
there are a number of spruce trees.
It is considered only right and proper to
axe-trees before you fell tliein. 1
I'init trees have military eharactfristies. , I
When young they arc trained ; they have!]
many kernels and their shoots are straight. ,
Grain must he treated like insects ; when ' '
the head heads it mu-t he cradled ; and j
threshing is resorted to t<> lit it for use.
Taies are inostli found ivith smaller grains t
?which require Moving. 1.1
(ileal indulgence in fruit is dangerous? v
uul t*?o free a use of melons produces a!t
nebm-colic effect. I.
Ohl maids are fond of pears?hut cannot
end tiro any reference to dates. j'
r->an?<i J> arc* auncneu to nays, oystermen to I
beeches; lovo sick maidens to pine. j]
Xoxr Kxkmpt.? In her life of George j
Washington, Mrs. Kirkland gives us one |
close view of that stately lady, Mrs. Martha j
Washington : 1
' If we were to give our piivato opinion," 11
savs Mrs. Kirklaml, "wo should say that j
Mis. Martha Curtis Washington, with her i,
large fortune, her strong dome-tie tastes am!
['flections, and her dutiful common sense j
diameter, exercised her full share of intln- 1
mice over the Commander in-Chief of the |
Armies of the United States of America.1.
She had a very decided way of speaking, j
and as she never meddled in public affairs, !
we can easily imagine the Central letting
her have her own way in pretty much eve- ,
rything else. I
" A guest at Mount Vernon happened to
vloo)> ill U l-ot.m " * l.#?4 | * j I
the President and liis lady. Late in the]
evening, when people had retired to their j
various chamhcrs, he heard the lady doliv-1
n c/.rtr nrn I/-* !?/> I
^.."o
and master upon something which lie had I
done, that she thought ought to he done '
differently. To all this he listened in the ;
|>rof?>tiii lest silence, and when she, too, was j
sih nt, ho o] toned his lips and spoke, "now,
good sleep to you, my dear." This ancc
dot a of the great man in his night eap is
quire characteristic of him. hut it is equally
so of most lords and masters, who, we in?-I
ngine, all receive curtain lectures, as Mr.
Caudle nn?l Washington did, In piofound si i
lenoo. Kxpeiienco probably, leaches them
thai it is the better way."
A Kansas Jcstick.?A man was ricentlv
arrested in Kansas for stealing a cow and
a bee gum. The jury, to facilitate matters,
put both charges in one indictment, and
convWtcd him of stealing the cow. lie
I took an appeal. The justice, in making up
I his docket, made out the following report of
j the case : The defendant in tho case found
guilty : he beats us on tho bee gum, but
we cotcb liiiu on thj cow !
[Daifi/ Mamcriger.
Woon.?'I his indcsnensahle winter article
is selling in Washington al $6.50 per
cord ! This is 1 igh wood" and also a lngh
i jr^C.
80UTHERNF/NT(5RPRiSE7
*= W. P. PRICE, Editor.
OUR MOTTO?'* EQUAL RIGHTS TO AIX."
GREENVILLE7S. C.
Thursday, January 33, 1657.
Something Sweet.
On behalf of our silent partner, we return
thanks to the proprietor of the Ladies'
Store, for a bottle of Harrison's delightful
perfume ?Extract of Clematis.
Odd Fellows' SchoolMr.
Pif.kck, for several years tho Principal
of tho Odd Fellows' School of Columbia, has
linnn ?w t^anltar fnr iKo im>a?v\*a/1
? ? ?">
school In this place. The exercises of the
school will commence in February.
A Visit
Wo were glad to greet our friend, Mr.
W. F. Noams, of the Newberry Mirror, on
yesterday. The paper which he prints i>
always acccptabie, and to the ladies we
would especially commend it. They will be
pleased with the Mirror?and its propiietors.
Death of Mrs. Ann Ioor.
Wc regret to nnnouncc the death of this!
estimable lady. It occurred at hcrresidence
in this place on Saturday night last. She
has resided in our Town and District for a
number of years, and was highly esteemed,
by all who knew her, for her many christian
virtues. She leaves several children and
grand-chi dren to mourn her departure.
Mail Failures.
Wc arc compelled to unite with our hrc- |
ihren of (ho press everywhere along the J
lines of Railroad, in their disapprobation
af '.ho present arrangement of the mails, j
Detentions may bo unavoidable, but it be- j
fomcs almost insufferable to have the carsl
arrive, bringing no mails. No Charleston
mail reached here 011 Tuesday night, which !
lias compelled us to place more miscellanejus
reading on the inside of our paper than
isual.
Another Editor Gone !
The following notice speaks for itself: I
" Maiuukii, in Anderson l>islrict, on j
Wednesday evening, the 14th inst.. l?v the
lev. .1. Scott Murray, .1. V. M< >' >UK, K*?p, j
Editor of the True Carolinian,) to Miss ':
iv I']. IN >151 XS( >N, daughter of I >r. Win. I
llobinsou, all of Anderson Ihstriet."
Editors will get married, if they can, and i
udging from the above, and similar notices, 1
ve incline to believe that, although ill fa- j
vored in some tilings, yet in other respects I
hey do sometimes succeed.
Our friend of the True Carolinian has!
our best wishes for his future success. May j
lis amiable and highly esteemed bride he !
?le?t with ail the joys of this life?and j
do(o)re too !
Cold Weather
The intensity of the weather on Monday j
ind Tuesday last has not been exceeded i
vithin our recollection. '1 lie thcrinoineter,
>n Monday morning at sunrise, stood at
jelow zoto. This may he taken as about,
lie average fall, although some havo stated j
to us that it was known to have been as ,
low as G?. One of our " oldest inhabit J
ants" says that during the cold winter of
1the thermometer was not lower than I
7?, which shows that the severity ?f that i
much-talked of cold weather was not, much
more intense than the present. '1 lie ponds
in the neighborhood of this place are the
icenes of much pleasuro. Skating is now
11 the go. The snow which fell on SaturJny
night to the depth of several inches
was reinforced l>y a considerable fill of the
same article during the day on Sunday, and
also on Tuesday night. It still remains up
uti the ground, to the gratification of the
young folks, who go a-sleighing, (and get
slewed,) hut to the no little annoyance of
those whose business calls theni away from
warm tircsnte*. w o uopo u# oe pardoned, i
if wo err, in expressing our joy at tho prospect
of its speedy disappearance. The snow
may he pleasant to those who have warm
tires to go to, but there are many w ho have
no such luxuries. For the takes of the children
of the poor - and the poor themselves?
we shall be glad when it leaves us.
Spartakduro Kxtrers.?T. Vono Farrow,
Esq., has retired from the edr.orial control
of this journal, and has been iicceedcd
by our young friends, A. S. 1)ocola*b, Esq.,
and T. II. Evins. The Express hi^ been
an interesting and readable paper heretofore,
and will no doubt continue so undet the
control of its present editors. They liyvc
our sincere*! wishes tor mo future aueoct*
| of their Express.
I Tub Mails.?It is hardly to bo expccld
that we should get mails in this weather,
when they were so " few and far between"
beforo the snow. The Wilmington nrd
Weldon road and the Manchester road hate
possession of all our mails, and keep them
on hand longer than the law allows; bu
we live in hopes that they w ill turn upsomt
proe or oilier.? Sou(h CdroHnian.
Receiving Canes
Wc consider the following anecdote quite
np propos. It is taken from ibo Newberry
Sun :
" 'flic darkies employed by Mr. ?? presented
bim on New Vear's day with a on no.
Hum, a speaking nigger, tnado the following
oiation:
4 MsssA^My respects to you de Boss of
ie niggers, and hopiu' bat you will bo our
Boss nil do time, and askin' of you to please
'cept dis cane, and wisbin' dat you may
uever die, and I may live all de time, and ho
pin' dat in de mornin' of de general 'sembly
when Gabriel comes down and places one
foot on de mighty sen and de oder on do
dry land, and swar by him dat livolh dat
time shall bo no longer, dat yon may git up
when de good old angel blowa his trumpet,
and shakin' off do grave dust, may live wid
de blood washed millions nnd go away up
through great tribulation.'"
CORUES PO ND E N C E.
(Jiiahi.kston, Jan. IS, 1S57.
Dear Enterprise : There is nothing of
inteiest on tapis at present, or at least no
feature of sufticient prominence in the daily
routine of life to prove of moment to your
' renders, or to attract the attention of the
! Knights of the Quill.
j Although there is a calm in the deeds of
| mighty men around us, yet there is a gale
in the elements above us. While writing,
[ this late at night, the wind is howling feari
fully through the casement, as if it were
some demon of the storm seeking entrance
into my dim little ten-by-lwelve apartment;
and though the season is so propitious for
goblins, burglars and witches, yet I feel free
from their intrusion, so long as a very formidable
looking Medical is snoozing in the
corner at the rate of ten knots an hour.
It has been snowing throughout most of
the day, but ceased in the afternoon. The
earth was so thoroughly saturated with rain,
before the snow began to fall, that I am
afraid the beautiful scene will bo dissipated
ere another twenty-four hours roll 'round.
The Gleet produced by it is beautiful in the
extreme. As the eye looks either way, for
almost two miles?save hero and there,
? 11.. I
..?VIV ?winv tvn IMUIKII^ ll'niB lis !
symbolic crest?an unbroken waste of white*
capped houses meets the view of the delighted
gazer. If beholding this little nien .so
entrances one, how incomparably superior
the etFeet, on seeing the wide-reaching plains
of the West covered with a crystal sheet far
as the eye can reach.
The ministers have taken the duello in
hand, and are exerting their benign influence
to obliterate it from the pages of our every
day life book, but whether they will succeed
or not is another thing.
In returning from church tonight, it iequired
considerable skill for one to maintain
his equilibrium in walking over the crystaliz<
d pavements; but I noticed the ladies
swayed along with a graceful case, while
the men wero cutting sundry antics. This
seemed a little vtrange, but can beattiibuted
to the awful preponderance of crinoline and
whalebone, which act as balance weights.
There is nothing startling in the theatrical
woild. Ncafte, who rants like a mad
lion, and almost excels Forrest, has just completed
an engagement of a week, moderately
success fill. Miss Ince commences an engagement
next week. Yours, 8.
Manning, S. C., Jan. 15, 1857.
1 >kah Piiick : I have long promised to
wino io yon, and give you a description of
in alters and things generally ill this my
present home. You will remember that I
cainc to Clarendon District in March last.
On the fifteenth of May following the village
lots of Manning, the selected county-!
seat of Clarendon District, were sold, and
brought very large prices, to-wit: from $00
to $405. I say the prices were large, though
when associated with tho idea of a village
'of, they would, to some, Roem very low, but
t is to ho remembered that the tract of land
'jKdCCl^I r... *!.? ?.-** ? " ' *??"
ci??soly covered with a growth ot largo, and, I
night almost say, antcdeluvian pines, not a
tree having heon cut off of the larger portion
of it since it originally came from the
l ands of its maker. Immediately after the
sale, tho purchasers went to work cutting
down trees and digging up 9tumps, and soon
overturned and destroyed all that patient
nature had required hundreds of years in
forming, and tho noise of tho axe and hammer
was heard, where before, save the joyful
tune of tho singing bird, or the doleful
coo of tho dove, silence reigned supremo.
Tho greater part of the trees have been felled,
and dwellings and stores now occupy
their places. Several persons of wealth and
lmvo purchased land near tho village,
and our prospects of a pretty and
thriving little town are at present very good.
Land around tho village sells very readily
for $60 per acre.
Our District officers were elected in Octobet
last, nnd, in point of intelligence and
i sobriety, will compare very favorably with
, any of our neighboring Districts,
i Wo aro now innkir.g preparations to ore
ganizc a school and form a tempernnco ho
lictf. We will soon have a church, allfo.
m
*
Our village Abounds in mechanics, and
the professions will itkewise be fully represented.
Wo will soon have six resident
lawyers, besides (hose who nrc partners and
rcsido elsewhere; and, consider?ng that we
are so near Suinter and Kingstree, I think
that that number is about as many as we
can support. Of resider1 physicians we
have none, though there are sevcml inise
diately around us.
There is iu contemplation a railroad, to
connect the Wilmington and Manchester
with the IN orth-Eastern itoac, anil it u is
ever completed it will pass through Manning,
and thus afford us easy access to Columbia
or Charleston, or the Worth, but we
are too much indoctrinated with the princi-1
pies of Southern Rights, to wish to go there.
Our court house and jail, according to
contract, will bo completed in November
next. They will be of brick, aiuj' will cost
$18,000. Our first court will be held 011
the 13lh of April, and tho session will consume
about three days. The bum. pro.
docket will be the only one called on the
civil list, and as yet I know of no criminal
case of any importance.
Pardon and look over all errors, for 1
write in haste. Yours truly,
T. S. C.
Tiiirtt Years Oct of tux. Srkatr.?
The New York Herald learns that Gen. Dufl"
Green is preparing a book under the title of
" Recollections of a Washington Politician
who was Thirty Years out of the Senate."
The intention is to make head against Col.
Betnon's work of Thirty Years in the Senate.
The Ilerald says:
As the title partially implies, this " thirty
years " of Gen. Dufl Green's political experience
will be a historical refutation of the
"thirty years" of Cel. Thomas II. Benton
?including the gentlemen, the small men,
the great political events, questions and parties,
and caucuses, and interviews, and plots,
land counterplots, and what not of Benton's
I two ponderous volumes of self-conceit and
personal bitterness against Calhoun. Gen.
Green's " thirty years " of personal observation
at Washington will thus come into collision
at every assailable point with Benton's
" thirty years."
Simon Cameron.?The election of Simon
Cameron as Senator from Pennsylvania, is
Vl'flLllinr lin iiwIImioliAn Ho
* "i- ??"
credit of being n very corrupt mid unprincipled
man, and one who does not scruple
j to reach political station as Philip conquer
ed cities?by gold. The Pennsylvania!!
says:
"That Cameron lias purchased his election,
is the universal sentiment of all par
lies. IIow far the disgrace of admitting
him to the Senate may be averted, as \ei
we do not know. If the plain fact, which
all men instinctively know in regard to tin
means and agencies by w hich he secured his
election, can be legally established, the United
States Senate will owe it to its own dig
nity to spurn him from that body.
Counterfeits.?New counterfeits, of the
j denomination of six dollars, on the Farmers
Hank of Klizabcth City, (North Carolina.)
have made their appearance. The Charlotte
Whig, which gives us the information, does!
not give a description of the genuine or the J
spurious note. The Richmond Dispatch has I
been show n a counterfeit ten dollar note on j
the Central Hank of Vitginia, w hich is so j
well executed that most any person unac- j
I customed to the detection of countcifcit tno ,
| nev, would take it. notwithstanding the fact
| that the plate is different from the genuine
one.
Johnson Female Univkhmty. ? The
Due West Telescope says :
" The Hoard of Trustees announce that
the endowment of this Institution is so fat
completed as to justify them in opening on
this plan at the beginning of the next session.
This is llin Hi-it nvnoMinoni ....
dowrnent of a Femnle School by ihc sale of
scholarships that wo have heard of, and wo
are glad to hear that it has proved successful.
? %
Grants of Land in South Carolina.?
This is perhaps the la?t year in which grants
of vacant lands will he made to tho State of
South Carolina. A hill to this effect pass
ed both branches of the Legislature at the
recent session of Assembly, but for the want
I Kel/>7MsdH"ft.W?figfl^W..*Al; lKtll? 'hmht'fM.
i having grants for their land or wishing to
; take up vacant lands, would do well to attend
to the matter.?Kingttrer Star.
Secret Society.?The Odd Fellows in
the United Stat?* number 3,307 lodges
with 193,14 members. They expended, in
the year ending with Juno, nearly half a
million of dollars for relief of members and
their families and tho education of orphans ;
their total receipts being $1,180,320. Tho
encampment, a branch of tho order, nunibering
23,749 members, received $102,808,
and expended for relief $30,093,
Kik^dciii T*oi iTtrn ??Tim nf i!?a
election* fur olliccrs of the Missouri State
Legislature, seems to have been adverse to
the. Ibototi ar.<l American parlies. whirl*
united, and were beaten at nil points by the
union of the pro slavery Whigs w;th the
Atchison party. This indicate* the ability
of tho auti-lieutoniies to elect two United
State* Senators.
i i Lutiikkan
CoLiroB. ? The NetvWry
Mirror, of the 10th instant, says t?At the
meeting yesterday of the Hoard of Trustees
of tho Lutheran College. Kov. Dr. Harhman
was elected President of the Hoard ; Col. S.
Fair, Vice President; Mr. Henry Summer,
Secretary; Hon. J. P. Kin.ird, Treasurer.
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From Nicaragua.
Nkw Orlbaxs, Jan. 16, 1657.
Nicuraguans, returned by ibe Texa?, give
contradictory but rntlier dismal Recounts of
tb<* capture, en ibe Shjj Jcbt? River, !?v an
American named Spencer, with one of tlio
company's l?o(tt bund* and three hundred
Costa Kicnns. They took all the river boats,
Forts Castillo and San Carlos, and Walker's
large lake steamers and a few haroes.
Several ofilcers, passenge.a on the Texas.
Some of them say that Walker is a 'gone
case," while other* are hopeful,
At n meeting of Walker's friends wlio
came out in the steamer, it %vas decided to
go back in a few days.
It is reported that the man Spencer, men- I
tioned above, is in the pay of Mr. Vandcrbilt.
The British assisted him with gun*
boats. Col. Ixjckridge, with two hundred
1 men at Punta Arenas, would attempt to recapture
the boats lying tlierc, but the Brit*
isli commander gave notice that he would
not allow it.
Cahkyino Home Bundles.?Many people
have a contemptible fear of being seen to carry
any bundle, however small, having the
absurd idea thai there is a social degradation
in the net. The most trifling as well as
llio most weighty packages must be sent
home to them, no matter how much to the
inconvenience of others. This arises from
n low soil of pride. There is n pride that is
higher, that urisc from a consciousness of
there being something in the individual not
to l>e atlcclcd by such accidents?worth and
weight of character. This latter pride was exhibited
by the son of Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte.
While he was in college ho was one
day carrying to his room a broom he had just
purchased, when he met a frcind who, noticing
the broom, with surprise, exclaimed "
Why did you not have it sent home!"' I
"I nin not ashamed to carry home anything
which belongs tg. me," was the sensible reply
of young Bonaparte.?Lord Stanley.
Human Nature.?A good story is told
of two brothers, who lived a sort of cat and
dog life, to their neighbor's discomfort, for n
good many years, but who had been at a
camp meeting, were slightly converted, ami
both of them concluded to reform.
" Brother Tom," says one ; when they
had arrived at their home, " let us sit down
now, and I'll toll what we'll do. You tell
me all my fuults, and I'll tell you of your'n,
and so we will know how to go about mending
of 'cm."
" flood," snys brother Tom.
" Well, you begin."
" No, you begin, brother Jt?e."
" NN ell, in tho first place, yon know,
brother Tom, you trill lir/"
Crack goes borther Tom's paw, between
brother Joe's" blinkers," and considerable
<?f a scrimmage ensues, until, in the course
of about ten minutes, neither l*-i?ig nblo to
time, reformation is postponed nine die.
H vuk Broar.?T he lake in fiont of tho
city, on New Years' day, presented a spectacle
such as wo never khw before, and will
probably never fee again. T he still cold
weather of the previous week had frozen tho
lake with a smooth stttfuce for miles. At
4 o'clock, at least 1,000 hoys ami inen were
skimming the glassy surface, ninny quite as
far out as they could bo seen from shore.
The most ven lit roue tell of feeling tho restless
heaving of the waters beneath their gliding
foot, and that when they were quite nenr
the outer edge of the ice they dared not rest a
moment in their course, lo*l they should go
through. Hut the great danger only gave
the sport a keener relish to tiieir taste, and
on tliov flew, looking out sharply for cracks,
and jumping not a few of them. The chief
i danger to the skaters, was one of which they
i probably never thought. Should a change
| of wind come suddenly, as it often does
hero at all seasons, and break up the ice to'
wards the shore, inside of the most renin|
rous, they could not ltuve been rescued.
[Chicago Press.
| Don't Lkavjc tiik State.?A young man
l from Texas, in ? letter to lite Chester Stand*
nrtl, says that Toxas is a fino place, and if
men must move, they had better go there,
but upon the subject of moving at all, he
makes the following sonsible remarks:?
" Instead, therefore, of persuading the young
men of South Carolina to leavo their native
State, I would say to them, 44 Turn your attention
to every new branch of business that
is honorablo and remunerative. Build up
manufactories of evory kind. Introduce the
j culture of everything that yields a largo re;
turn froin a small extent of land. Use your
j boundless supplies of water to irrigate your ,*
tcnn i J av muni as- uicy are ndW xiAmjf,
Plant groves around your dwellings tct
shield you from the miasma that rises fror^
the creeks and rivers. In shor*, do every ?
thing that is necessary to incr?.~e and raid*
tiply the resources and independence and
power of South Carolina."
A wild bear wm killed in Elbert couuty,
Georgia, on the 16th inst? by Mr. Cam:-,
thers, which weighed three hundred and
twenty-five pounds This Old Bruin had,
been prowling about in the neighborhood
I where he met his death for some years, but
I i.;- i.o/iii. -ii -? ? *? ?
ilia ikiui^o ncio nil U'MIIU U9 IH#?lVOU| lip
to tlie day of his death. We understand
that there was raro sport enjoyed by the
hunters ou the occasion.
a nkw conow faotonr.?messrs. wca*
ver and McMalcin have, as we have learned,
purchased the site of what is now fcnowp ?s
Ma berry's Mills, some five miles from iho
village, mid have made preparations with a
view to the ereotlon of a cotton factory. Mr,
Weaver is an experienced nrannfncfurer, and
wo havo no doubt they will make it a profit-,
ublo investment.?Sjtaranburp JSxpreta.
brnnfiK I). Prknticic contradict* the i
rumor that ho was about to remove to St.
Lotifl, and says be wlfrflOt t&Ve tne'T.onk*
r!!e Jotirna? MtR his breath leaves bW?