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A,, ^4W^merioan Flaf. The Boston Herald compiler some interesting facts as regards the history of the stars and stripes. A resolution was intro- , duoed in the American Congress, Juno < L 13ih, 1777, "That the flag of the thirteen i United States be thirteen stripes, alternately I red and white; that the Union be thirteen stars, white, in a blue field, representing a | new constellation." There "Is a striking co- < incidence between the design of our flag and ' ...the arms of Gen. Washington, which con- < sisted of three stars in the 'upper portion, and three bars running across the escutcheon, I * It is thought by some that the Hag was derived from the heraldic design. History in- 1 forms us that several Hags were used by the Yankees before the present national one was adopted. In March, 1775, a minor flag, with a red Held, was hoisted in New York, bearing the inscription on one side of ' 44 George Hex and the liberties of America," ami upon the reverse, 4' No Popery." Gen. Isiael Putnam raised, on ProspectHill, July 18th, 1775, a Hag bearing on one side the motto of our Common wealth,41 Qui tranatu- 1 (it (umnci; oil me oilier, " Ail Appeal to ' Heaven "?an appeal well taken and amply sustained. In October, 1775, tlie floating 1 batteries of Boston bore a flag with the latter motto, and a pine tree upon a white 1 field, bearing the Massachusetts emblem. 1 Some of the colonies used in 1775 a flag j with a rattlesnake roiled as if about to strike. 1 and the motto, " Don't tread on me." On 1 January 12th, 1776, the grand Union flag ' of the stars and stripes was raised on the heights near Boston, and it is said that some of the regulars made the grand mistake of supposing it was a token of submission to S the King, whose speech had just been sent i to the Americans. The British Register of s 177^ says: I' "They (the rebels) burnt the King's speech, and changed their colors from a f plain red ground to a flag with thirteen n stripes, as a symbol of the number and un- ? ion of the colonies." A letter from Boston. ?' published in the Pennsylv^pian Gazette, in h 1770, says: "The uuion flag was raised on o the 2d, in compliment to the United Colo- M nies." These various flags, the Pine Tree, ? liHttlesnake and the stripes, were used, ac-11' cording to the tastes of the patriots, until h July, 1777, when the stars and stripes were established by law. At first a stripe was d added for each new State, hut the flag be- s< coming too large, and Congress reduced A the strines to ?! * -- 1 w..d.u(u vimit'viif aim now vi the stars are made to correspond in number 111 with tho States. There is no one, who lives "I under the protection of the Stars and Stripes. e< but will agree with the Herald, that "the vv American ling is one of tho most beautiful 0 that floats upon any land or sea." Its pro ?'< portions are perfect when it is properly lv made?one half as broad as it is long. The first stripe at tho top is red, the next white. 01 and three colors alternate, making the last stripe red. The blue field for the stars i- in the width and square of the first seven stripes, viz: four red and three white. The colors of the American flag are in beautiful C relief, and it is altogether a beautiful nation- at al emblem. Long may it wave untarnish- ee ed. lie who would erase one stripe, or dim w one star upon it, " acts a traitor's part, and it' deserves a traitor's doom 1" m Loi.a Montez at Niagara.?Sun Insists J j, on Smoking in tiik Car.?The renowned e| Lola Montez is now spending a few days at t] Niagara Falls. She has appeared at the |j: Buffalo Theatre ns a sort^of interlude to liei ,f season of pleasure. On Friday morning se Lola took the train for Buffalo, and without w advice from any source she seated herself in ,,, the bagago car. to quietly puff her cigarcltc. "{t. While thus cosily throwing oft* from her lips ^ the curling smoke, she was discovered by NV the conductor and informed that passengers 1 were not permitted to ride in the baggage Cl Ol.- 1 - " ?uu (mm no iiiieniion (o tlio in!iinn j j(, tion, l?nt continued to smoke as if no one jj had addressed her. Acting Supf. Cot la ! mar was at tlio station, and was informed what Lola was doing. IJo said that she ' must do as other passengers did, anil that | 7* she could not he permitted to ride in (lie j e| baggage car. The conductor called upon J (ll her, and politely told her that she must take j a seat in one of the cars designed for passett gcrs. Lola drew herself up into an attitude of defiance, and told the conductor that she X had travelled all over the world, and had al tp ways rode where she had a tuind to, and jn purposed to do so in this case. 1 .1, The conductor further expostulated with j p hor, and assured her that he was hut exccut-j sc iog the orders of the superintendent and thr-i rules of the company. Lola replied that tl she ha?l " horse-whipped bigger men than i t| lie.*' This settled the matter. The conduc- j| tor withdrew and Lola was not again dis- j turbed. She rode to^Uuffalo in the baggage ] ^ car, and bad no occasion to use the whip.? I ,, The railroad men diH nnt ?1 V" ..ii mvr | disturb the tigress.?Rochester Union. I (.( Southrun Wombs.?A letter in (lie BosIon Chronotype contains the following mor ! ited compliment to the fair daughters of tin* | ^ sunny South. Wo seldom see the truth so , promptly expressed relative to anything np j pertaining to the South, by persons in that quarter; hence wo copy it in compliment to | nil concerned : "The first thing that struck mo in regard j' to the women of the South, was their beauty j ** of form, their sjmmetrical and harmonious figures. In this and in tho ease and grace , of their motions they excel the Northern C women. Many of them dress with exquisite tnsto?often very richly, but seldom "gaud ily, or with any display of tinsel. The -n proverbial affability and urbanity of the el] Southern character finds the fullest develop- w inont in tho women. The Southern lady is (>j naturally and necessarily easy, tinetnbnrrass- q< ed and |>?lito. You may go into the cnun- 88 try where you please ; you may go as far as you please froin town, village and post office ; you tnav call at tho poorest house 0 you can find, and whether you accost maid tr rtr matron, you will be answered with th* h name politeness and troalej with tho same ji ajMiiitaneous courtesy." bi A Not for tiir Abomtiokists.?On runday morning last, an interesting and lovely child, a little ovec a year old, of Mr. Paulus Tbyaou, grocer, on 7th street, in this city, died after a few days' illness. The aursc,jfl|.iiegro slave, who was devotedly attached to her little charge, was present when its angel spirit took its flight to happier realms, and was so completely stricken Jown with grief and anguish that she had to he borne awav from the chamber of ;leath, almost in a state of insensibility.? Every care and nttention was immediately lavished upon this faithful slave that a good master and mistress could bestow. A physician was called in, and all the relief his art could rp'iilop ?% ? ntinr) i? ?? ? uu.iwm in iiiu lenuerw solicitude of her master's family. It was in vain, however, for, btfoto the infant's corpse was removed from the house, the spirit of the faithful nurse had taken its flight from this earth. The remains of this devotee) slave were yesterday followed to the grave by tho members of tho family she had so faithfully served, with every suitable demonstration of respect and sorrow. The deceased was not over 30 years of age. This is not a rare or even an unusual example of the relations existing between 111 asters and slaves at the South, though it is not often we have to record such instances at ender devotedtiess on the pait of the hitter. Such eases, however, are worthy of beng recorded, for they speak a lesson of ruth and reality, where there is so much of iction to mislead and deceive. [ Was/iinyfoil Union. Tiik Fivk Points.?The following paragraph from the New York Express gives an ilea of the fearful accretion of vice and nualor in the Held of labor occupied by the ^ 'ive Points Mission : " In attending to his duties recently, Mr. 1 'ease found a dying woman in a foul apart- * lent in Cow Pay, occupied also by eight tlier women and cue man, all drunken and J chased, and infamous in the last extreme, j 1 the upper end of the same pestilent court , r close were found, in fifteen rooms, twen ,'-three families, making an aggregate of I ^ lie hundred and seventy-nine persons, or 1 ivelve to a room I In five of these rooms! itoxicating liquors were kept for sale ! In- | escribable filth, privation, disease and ir. ! ecency leigned throughout them nil. Vet i i ;vciiteen children from those rooms attend j 10 schools of tho Ilouso of Industry. In 1 even other rooms were eighteen families, p ml in nearly half of these rooms ardent ii lirits were sold. In one of the garrets livI two negroes w'th eleven abandoned white j ( omen. In twelve other rooms were found , vcnty-four families, consisting of one hund-N sd an<l twenty-four persons. Here were i ' vo blind women, two just past the peiil of ' i lild-birth, and seventv-one wero children, '] ily ciglit of whom nttended any school." Here is a lino illustration of one of the cvilublu consequences of free society. A Sentence Wki.l Debervkd.?The" rimiual Court of New N oi k Iris set an ox- j |i nplo in respect to the punishment of in-1 v udiaiics, which, if universally followed,1 ill tend to check a crime so nefaiious in i character, and yet believed to be so com x on, when motives of cupidity tempt to its; ' jrpelration. A inan named Deniny, who ml an insurance upon his store to a great- a amount, tloin I1 ?1 ... ...W lb bVJIIiaUM'd Wlll'll I 10 lire occurred, deliberately prepare*I to re it by scattering cnmphetie ami oilier unbnstibles about (lie building, ami tlien * lliiig them on tire. Fortunately the lire! c as discovered before it made much pro*!} ess, but the evidences of iho ciiininal in*! ntion were plainly manifost. What made' ' ie act tnoio enormous for its wickedness,1 11 as the fact that several families were sleeping a i iho apartments above, whose Iivas, of) I utrse, were thus deliberately endangered j ? y tiio reckless villainy of this criminal, j , e was indicted, tried and convicted, and I e court sentenced him to ten years' im- c isoninetil in Sing Sing. A strict investiition into the causes of every fire, a prompt ial, and punishment in proportion to the lonnity of the crime, would lend strongly ? wards checking a species of villainy which 0 is become loo common. | _ [ v The Yice-Puksidknt.?".Iicntctts," oftbe '1 cw York Observer, who is travelling at ? ie South, was lately a guest at a wedding ^ i Lexington, Ky., \vhere he met the Hon. ihn C. II reck in ridge, Vice President of the ? nited States. lie thus de-c:ibes his per- ' m, manners and domestic state : 1 " John C. lireckinridge, Vice-President of t ie United States, was one of the guests at ie wedding. The rough portraits of him int stared every body in the face last fall, * ive but a poor likeness of this extraordina ' ' man, who, at a youthful period of life 1 riexampled, has been called to preside | rer the most august body of men in this xmtry. His form is tall, erect, and coin* aiming ; bis countenance thoughtful ; his aimers smooth and graceful, and his conwution indicates a sober, intelligent arid 1 linking man. With a lovely and accom ' ished wife and sweet children, he resides 1 a modest cottage, but one story liigh, j inded ileenle iviili ^t.l - i:..i y.j ...... Uiu urc, n IIUH! WRV ^ it of town. I could not but ndmire the inphcily of our republican institutions, lieu I -aw iliat thin great peoplu have come i tins embowered cot to find a man to pre-; * lo over its Stale, nud perhaps to 'II it* t iair of State. t ST. Joiin'S, N. F., August 1. * Marine Disaster?Great Lo*? of Life, etc. r ie barque Monasco, fioin the city of (Joth ; iburg, Sweden, and bound for New York,; as wrecked near Burin, N. F., on the 21st J ] Inly. Fifty Swedish passengers wore lost. | lie crew and six passengers only weie ^ i\od. A lifb iiatixo young man in Copely. . 'bio, named NlcConk< y. resolved last week . > commit suicide; he took arsenw, found e did not die; cut bis throat?still lived ; imped into a welt?was taken out alive, ut died soon after. I ?>mt%rn (Bntfjtym* W. P- PRICB, Editor? OUR MOTTO?" EQUAL RIOHTt TO ALL" jfe'lSEN'VI'LLK ,?B G." Xlinrnday Idornl'if, AnjL^lMT. Hod J. L. OrrThe Anderson Gazette, of ihe 20th ult., snj-e : 44 Our Representative, ITon. James L. Our, arrived at home from his Western tour on isaturuay last, lie appears to be in good health." ^ ^ > Rain?Again. Wo report the fall of a considerable amount of this liquid article since our last. Should it continue for the next two weeks, as it has for the two just passed, we fear that a freshet, and the destruction of property over and near water courses, will bo the consequence. Extra Court. This Court adjourned on yesterday. Ilis Honor Judge O'Nkall dispatched the business of the term with great facility. Amongst the visiting lawyers, we were pleased to see Col. Fair, of Newberry, Mr. Sullivan, of Laurens, and Messrs. Wilkes, i Biioylks and Sloan, of Anderson. Admitted. The following gentlemen were admitted his week before Jtidgo Magrath, to practice n the Federal Circuit and District Courts >f thjs State: Maj. 13. F. Perry, C. P. Sullivan, Esq., C. 1. El ford, E?q., Col. (J. F. Townes, C?>l. E. \ .Jones, Col. W. II. Campbell, Gen. S. M. A*iIkes, J. W. Stokes, K?q., Maj. A. T. iroyles, Maj W. K. Easley, S. D. Goodletl, Jllld .1 It Slnnii Was. The Federal Court. Tlic inauguration of the Federal Court lias >ocn the tnain incident of the week at Green j ,ille, and has drawn together a goodly con I toursc of jurors, witnesses, and other parties I titerestcd in its proceedings. The presiding Judge, Hon. A. G. M.\-.katii. lias won golden opinions froin nil vho have been in Htlendance upon the Court, or the ability, dignity, and courtesy with vliic'li be has conducted its proceedings.? j The charge to the Grand Jury was a ino-t I haste, lucid, and eloquent explanation ?f; he jurisdiction of the Court, and tlie ndvan-1 ages likely to result from the more genet al j doplion of its remedial powers liy the peo-i ile of the State. Wo hope that the charge i ill he published in full, as wo are satisfied j l will he a treat to those who lead it, as it I ras to those who were so fortunate as to j tear it. The other dices of the Court are also) ,bly tilled. The dignity and prompt man- I gemenl of Marshal Condv, the affable and | uisiiKvs like demeanor of the Cleik, Mr. lit ay, and the talents and legal attainments J the l.fiatiict Attorney, Mr. Connok, un-{ to to secure for ifio Court a high degree of j lopular favor and confab nee. Under such an j idininistralion, the Court cannot but become : i popumr one in our section, and the pecu-j iar advantages and convenience which it I i (lords to those seeking legal redress will j loubticsa he generally sought by those who oino within its province. Death of Henry Muckenfuss. Ilenrv Muckenfuss, (says the Carolinian,) idio when ten years old witnessed the Battle if Fort Moultrie, was probably the last surivor of those who saw that gallant action. The Charleston papers annnotincc his death, it the extreme age of 01 years. IIo was a| worthy citizen, having served in many de-j rartmcnts of public duty, and in bis milita- j v capacity was an example to younger men.! tie had pride in his devotion to it, and | hough long exempt by age and service, > it ill lie took pleasure in appealing with bis I ulillery, IIo was the last survivor of the; \ncienl Battalion. Long a consistent inem>er of the Methodist (church, he has enjoyed lie iexpect and esteem of his fellow-citizens. The Scorpion. This is the name of a new paper?daily, ,ri-weekly and weekly?proposed to be pubished bv a company of printers in Colum>ia, S. C. The Carolinian says : " If the >rinter* succeed in starling (lii* pnpcr, it will no doubt l,o a slinging affair." Accident.? We understand that llie pasicnger train on tlie Greenville Railroad ran j ?ff, near I'omaria, on yesterday. It upset, j md tlio conductor, W. M. Med lock, and Uapt. Sliedd, were severely !,raised, though 10 bones were broken.? Carolinian. Tiikrk aie eight surviving ex-governors of S'?w York, viz: Van Buren, Tliroop, Seward, tiouck, Hunt, Fi*h, Seymour ami ('lark.? ffassnchusett* has but six, viz : Rverett, Mor on, I biggs, lb,lit well, Clifford and Wash,urn. Pennsylvania lias but four: Kitner, Sorter, Johnston anu Bigler. Cotton was quoted at from 11 to 14 cents >er pound in Columbia, on the 4th. Charleston Correspondence. Cnarlkston, August 3J, 1857. . Mysterious disappearances are becoming ( so much the custom in New York and oth- j er cities, that we inannge to get up one once in a while, for the sako of being in the fashion, and from the desire of not being too fa*- i distanced by our faster brethten of those j places. One incident of this character oc- | curred a week or so ago. Two men were | out sailing during the day, and returned safely to the city at nightfall. The companion of the mau who is missing camo up in- * to town alone, and says he left him at the wharf, which was the last ever seen or heard < of liiin. The police have taken it in hand and are attempting to find some clue that will lead to his discovery. i A notlinr nuua r\C *r%\P <-1 as! ?..?? ....vwuvi xi.w vi oviruc^iiiKuuiif iinjipcii* 1 ing nt the Roper Hospital a few days ago, will, it is to be hoped, eventually awaken those having charge of the wretched and ' downcast portion of mankind who fill the rooms of that place, to the importance of t keeping destructive weapons out of reach, In this instance, the keepers were net so cul- j pablo, as tho poor woalher-beaten object had fully determined to die, and had the razor, with which ho committed the deed, t concealed in his bedding. This is tlio 6ec- ? oud suicide here within three weeks. Rather a novel case was brought before 5 the Mayor the other day. It appears that two of the mounted police, about daylight, S were proceeding to tho wharf to await the arrival of the steamer Everglade. In rid- 0 ing down the wharf, a halo of cotton, torn open, frightened their horses, and, in their c attempts to forco them by it, tho occupants of another sieamer r.longsido were awakened, who, on seeing tho cotton scattered ^ around, and these formidable dignitaries un- r> dcr brass buttons performing the Quixotic r feat of charging tho bale, concluded tlicy o bad dono the mischfof, and accordingly ro ported it. On the appearance of all parties in tho court tho day after, the true version of it was obtained, when tho stigma on their ^ official character was erased, and tho cur rout-of ridicule stayed. The Mnvor is importuned almost daily, with petitions from shipping merchants, to f Ihj allowed to land their cargoes of coffee, s, fruit, &c.x before the expiration of the proper time. Even nt the termination of this time, they are compelled to land them on 1 the Ashley liver side of tho city, near the 1 rice mills, which is a great causo of com- ? plaint from them, on account of their inse- 11 curity from the tides and exposure in va !l lions ways. It is now a question whethei the city is responsible for losses incurred by them in this way. Even under these disadvantages handsome sums are sometimes re. ll alized by their sale. A cargo of Ilio coffee was sold the oilier day, at piices ranging from 11 to 12 cents. Upwards of eighty delegates have been appointed by die Governor, to represent this city at tiic Southern Commercial Conven- w lion, to be held at Knoxville, on the 10th of j; this month." As will he seen by the published schedule, there will he but 30 hours of travel, though 45 w ill be consumed by ^ the trip, between this city and that place. 1' They start on and will again be the !' .1.- i:i 1 T gucoM \JI IIIU liuciai ItMlllUSSO^HNJl. ? As proof of tlie growth of commerce in our city, it has been found necessary to continue the paving of Meeting atreet further ^ towards the depot. It is now planked, but as it is one of the great thoroughfares for the drays between the depots .and the shipping, it has been found requisite that it should be paved. c A telegraphic dispatch hns been received, stating that another shipwreck of emigrants had occurred, on tho coast of New Found * land, in which fifty lives were lost. The body of a white man was washed 6 ashore, during the storm on Sunday afternoon. It was fecognized as belonging to ^ the steamer Southern, and it is supposed that he accidently fell overboard some tinio ^ Saturday night. A negro was also drowned, while fishing between the city and tiie Island, a day or two before. c W. King, the celebrated shot, who, a ( year or so ago, was beaten in a match for 0 several thousand dollars, by a sportsman c from Kentucky, has coino off victor in a c pigeon match, for throe thousand dollars, in New York. lie was to kill seventy five birds in as many successive shots. In the a I first round, he killed forty-two out of fifty ; e in the second, being double shots, lie killed a thirty five in twenty-two shots, leaving three t spare shots, and coining off winner. c Ho w*s formerly a merchant in this t place, hut has turned his attention to the Ijrofession of the double twist, as being a more iterative employment. lie shot a pigeon t! match here two winters ago, but lost it by a few birds. We are still vi^ted by an unceasing rnin, I which is flooding the streets. The weather ' is consequently cool. In fact, we hftve been e fortunate, thu* far. in having but ft very si sparse sprinkling of hot weather. o The health of the city continues unusual- d ly good, with every indication of its remain- & ing so. 8. o w NEWS ITEMS. Rains.?From all parts of the State, the ntelligence is, that much rain has fallen re:enlly. In some places an over-abundance las been had. ?o? It is said a new comet has been discovered recently, by a Berlin astronomer in the constellation Perseus, and that it is now approaching the earth and will soon be visible lo the naked eye. Wonder if it'll hit! ?o? Small Pox is prevailing extensively at ]unrantine at New York. ?o? Thehf. is no yellow fever in Charleston. >o the papers there say. ?O? A Few.?In Chicago, during the past two nonths and a half, two thousand four hunlied and fifty persons have been arrested 1 ?Q? There nro 60,000 more widowers than widows in New York City. ?o? Lwkral.?Hon. Wm. Aiken, of Charleson, has given $100 to tho Ladies' Mount Vernon Association. President Buchanan his also given $50 to tho Batne Association. ?o? Tom TnuMU has a rival named Major Litlefinger in Boston. He is represented as ix years old, and weighs only 12 pounds. ?o? The Pastor of a Presbyterian Church in Jan Francisco, Cal., receives tho handsome um of $12,000 n year, as a salnry. Lola Moxtezjs about to deliver a course f lectures in Buffalo. Two of her subjects re " Beautiful Women " and " The Deinoracies of Euiope." ?o? The new telegraph line from tho city of lemphis, Tenn., to Tuscumbia, Ala, on the oute of the Memphis and Charleston Rail oad, was completed and went into operation >n the 21st ulL So says tho Bulletin. One dollar rills on the Bank of Wadesorough, N. C., are in circulation. These ills are, of course, counterfeit, as Wades- , orougli Bank issues no bill of a less deno- < lination than $3. Scores Death.?The father of Secretary 1 hompson.of the Interior Department, died jddenly in Mississippi a few days ago. ??? . Dbad.?Sinco our last issue, says the ( dgefield Advertiser, we learn that Lucius | 'ond, who was shot hy Win. Spires of IIatn- i urg, has died of his wounds. From addi- ' onal facts, not known to us last week, it ppears that the act of Mr. Spires was clear- i i one of self-defence. I ? O?? | A cokhkspondknt in the Charleston Con- i er says that since riots have ceased to he I le programme for Sunday i? New York, itch casualties as drowning have taken their lace. From one to four persons aredrown1 there every Sabbath. ?o? It is said that a little l>oy was drowned, hile bathing in tho river near Asheville* I. C., a few days since. ?o? The Sumter Watchman Ravs that Cnpt. V'm. Harris, an intelligent and prominent lanler of that District, confidently contentlutes gathering six hundred bushels of com tf of only six acres of land this year. -?o? ciiaiu.rston papers announce tho death f Mrs. Elizabeth B. Ixtwiides, wife of the Ion. Wm. Lowndes and daughter of Gov. lionias Pinckney, in the 70th year of her ge. it ? ? t* usn, nousion an<l 11. 1C. Kunnels are nnditates for the Governorship of Texas. Tiik New Orleans l'icayuno has been preanted with an apple grown in that city? the first New Orleans apple," it says, '* we ver saw." It grew on a tree four feet high. Suicide of a Minister.?Itev. Samuel j Viley, of Jonesborough, Tenn., committed uicide, or. Monday, the 20th inst., by outing his throat wiili a razor. lie had been uttering from insanity several weeks. The Nashville (Tenn.,) Banner says that >n henringofthedeath of Mrs. Zollicofier, Mr. ^uarels addressed a noto to Gen. Zollicoffer, > >ffering to consider the canvass for Congress losed. The generous proposition was acepted. ?o? It is estimated tint if all the brick, stone, ind masonry of Great Britain were gathered together, they would not furnish material enough to build the wait of China; and hat all the buildings of London, puttogeth r, would not furnish material sufficient for lie lowera and turret* that adorn it. Kaksas Nkw8.?A letter froin Kansas to lie RoMon Traveler contains the following: The Marshals appointed by Gov. Rohinson o take a census of the inhabitants of the 'erritory have not yet made full returns ; jet nough is known to verity the oft-repeated latement that the tree Slate majority is verwhelminff. Even in the counties bor ering upon Missouri, the proportion of free itrite lo pro slavery men is at least Jive to ne. j Mob in Kentookt.?K Minister Dragged Out or tn? Pulpit While Preaching.?A letter in the Cincinnati Giuetle,Hated Cummin*, Rockcastle County, Ky., July 22d, says : Last Sunday as Rev. John G. Fee wm preaching nt tin* place, an armed mob forced their way into the church, seir.e<l him and two other ministers who were with him, Rev. J. Richardson, and Rev. J. M. McLean, and after abusing and insulting them, finally deciJed that they should be taken out of the county. M r. Fee was s truck on the head, and considerably injured* On the way out? a distance of about ten miles?every opportunity was improved by the mob to insult 4 and abuse their victims, and they heralded through the neighborhood they passed, that tliev had tlirpn hor?ft lliinvau anil ninmnr . thieves tlmt they were going to lynch. The mob was composed of .the lowest class of Kentuckians, and all of them drunk ; yet such is the state of public opinion that it would he useless to prosecute. This has long been an anti slavery place,"but the ijpmediatc cause of the outrage was the attempt to establish a school there. Schools are regarded as m wt dangerous nn^l incendiary instituions in this part of Kentucky. Blur Ridqr Railroad.?Judge O'Ncnll, writing to the Newberry Rising Sun from Anderson, says : Yesterday morning nt the instance of Col. Gwinn, the skillful and experienced Engineer of tho Blue Ridge Railroad, myself, the Bar, and severnl other gentlemen, rode two miles on tho road. It is a good, well executed road. The cut through the town is a great inconvenience, and, I think, nuisance. It will be found that a deep cut from 30 to 40 feet in the heart of the town, will 4 he the parent of disease ; and I fear this snd result is beginning to he realized. The cost of this road is immense from here to Pendleton (14 finiles)?it will cost $30,000 per mile, equal to $420k000. This is more than l-4lh of the whole original cost of the G. <fe C. Railroad, 104 miles. But notwithstanding the great cost, this road, (the Blue Ridgo Railroad,) when built the whole way to Knoxville, will be indeed worth all the money which may he ex|>eiHled on it, even if it should be from 1*2 to 20 millions. Tiik Widow of Urnrt Clay.? \ correspondent of the Saint Louis Republican, who was present at tho laying of the corner-stone of the Clav monument, nt Lexington, on the 4lli of July, thus refers in his letter to that journal to the venerable widowof the great Kentucky Statesman : " Before leaving Ashland I passed over to Uic residence of Mr. John Clay, to pay uiv respect* to the widow of Ilenry Clay. At J llie hour of the visit, she whs out taking an evening title. I met her, however, timid tho scenery endeared to Iter hy a thousand associations?on a beautiful diivo through [lie shades of the woodland pastuies of Ashland. " Mrs. Clay is seventy-six years of ng?>. Until within a year she has been in heartv l?ond health, ller feehleness is now, howuver, growing manifest, and the lime is not remote, when, in the tonih to be erected f<>r her husband, and by bis side, she. too. will be consigned to her final earthly repose. May het closing data bo tranquil, hopeful hiuI happy." A New Soutiikiin Statu.?S. Fulsome, a Choctaw, and one of the most prominent of his nation, paid us a visit yesterday. .Mr. Fulsome is in fivor of having the Indian Territory west of Arkansas, het ween the Ked and the Aikamas rivers, and extending westward to tho one hundredth degiee of west longitude, organized into n Slate, and admitted into the Union. NVe think mi h a stop absolutely necessary for the protection of the South. The Choctaw* and Cherokee* arc slaveholders, and would nod another slave-holding State to tho Confederacy. The treachery of Buchanan ha* given Kansas to tho North ; let the South, before it is too late, create a barrier -against this vandal encroachment, which is fast wimwili. * ing us in. These Indian tribes are letter i-itizens. :nore Advanced in the principles of our Government and laws, than the jxrople nf N?w Mexico, or the mongrel adventurers from foreign nations, and our own, who are to make a free State of Kansas. [Mcmphit Enquirer, July 10. Tkrriblr Explosion or a Locomotive. On tlie 23d ultimo the locomotive of a railroad near Binglinmpton, New York, exploded with terrilde effect. I). Comstock, the fireman, was blown upon the embankment and instantly killed, as was also R. Skinner, the brakeinsn. The right arm of Geo. M. Meyers, the engineer, was broken in three places, his left badly (raided, the fleshy part all blown off, and his face and breast terribly burned. liis clothes were all blown ofT from him, except the waistband of his psntnloons. lie inay recover. The storm house on the engine was blown into a thousand fragments, and the smoke pipe thrown upon the embankment. The locomotive was detached from tho tender, and ran about the length of the train after the explosion. No causo has yet been criven for llie incident. E*-Gov. Adam* ha* been nominated in the Spartan for the U. 8. Senate. Funeral Invitation. THE Friend* and Acquaintances of M* and Mr*. F. E. Dusoax, are invited to attend the Funeral of their joungeet daughter, MARY MELICENT, at 11 o'clock THIS MORNING, at the Methodiet Episoopal Church. Hiureday, August 6th. ANNIVERSARY. ENOREE DIVISION, No. 4*. SONS OF TEMPERANCE, will celebrate their Anniversary, at their Division Room, on Tueeday, the 11th iiiet, at 10 o'clock, A. M. The meeting will be public, and the citizens generally are invited to attend. N. AUSTIN, R. A Ang 6 IS 1