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only way any thing can ho hoped, from planters seldom or never combining in their efforts,) that , question doea not arise. When he has expended his labor in producing that which he is ohliged to have, he has made a good investment, risking nothing, even if such a proceeding reached no farther, produced no ulterior oflvct in enhancing the value of the great staple. Numerous have Wen the statements, and voluminous the calculations, showing the largo amount ?:J f? mnIac. hori.es. |J.I|U Ifjf 11111 lllamni |<?1 onvwu, ....... . , &oM and when if is recollected ihat cotton was made with toil, and reaped with care, to produce the means wherewith to purchase those imjKirted articles, which toil and care properly employed, might have produced the articles themselves, and that cotton was so much dead weight thrown upon a return, already sinking in amount, the proceeding seems monstrous iu Jbe eitreme; allowing the west to he more congenial to the growth and developetnent of these necessary wants of the planter, still the thing can he done here, and it is worth a calculation at least, to see, if, taking every thing into consideration, it cannot be done cheaper than by purchase. v ' All men are liable (from a natural attachment to associations of the past,) to follow blindly the. footsteps of their fathers or-more strongly still, the necessities of a past position. The time.has l?eon, when, with cotton at 30 cents it would have been folly to have lost the precious moments by stopping in a career promising so - -ftch a reward to the active, to cultivate any r contingency: every tb'ing else was cheap while cotton wove a web. of golden tissue, for the planter at least; he was then justified by the circumstances of the case, hut the tide has turbedv'and was it not the part of the wise man to trim his sails in accordance with the backward and when five cents catne, to act accordt.1 ingly, but il was not so?habit was all-powerful, and I doubt if among the regular planters through all that gloomy period, one acre of cot Ion less was planted, or mule bought; he who i bought corn Iwfbrn continued to buy, and his j argument continued to he, it I get less for my cotton I mu<t make the more of it. Small fir mers, the makers of three or four bags, may have gone to something else, but no man who owned a gin house, made one revolution of its wheel less. As regards the quantity of land under cultivation for a given result, putting it in (he form ot jt question, may not that quantity be lessened greatly, and still the yield be the same? Many itrbiags enter into the calculation; the ability to obtariu^maiiiiren, and the exact manner of apply, iing that which is made, to the greatest advanstage, whether an hundred wagon loads should .gu upon five, or twenty-five acres, or where exactly the doctrine of quantity, vs. quality meet on middle ground, and can be made materially to assist in subservingthe ends of the planter; they are antagonising principles in nature, and yet by the solution ot this question, could be made to draw together, lightening labor, and iiuweasiiig production. It is a question that every man has his opinion about, and the<e -/opinions will run over a most extended scale of I. ' discrepancy, even amonj the mo*t experienceo; yet it can be answered to n fraction; not as a theory but as a fixed fact, according to the immutable laws, of elemental combination ; the oil, the seed, and manures being taken into consideration. Jt isgenerally conceded, that too much land is * feept under cultivation, in proportion to the lab >r expended upon them, to produce the happiest results. It should not he a matter ot opinion; :that which is resolvable into pure and absolute ??cf; it is all very well to argue points, that can never be settled, for all parties can, let what ; will turn up, remain *ati?fied with thpir own .opinions. Travel by balloon, animal magnetism, any subject upon which much can be said, and little or nothing proven?argument forever; for it is ail that can be done in the premises, but when the result is sure, and unvarying, as (he combination of an acid, and an alkali, then reason indicates that the question should be set tied. ' May not the samo question also arise with reference to the formation of manures, whether an enormous ma?? in hulk is not generated, with great labor, which is for the most part in<ert.? Thi* is a question of great importance, for the difference between manuring a cotton rtlatftation and a farm where tfce cereal and grass crops alone are planted, lies in the difficulty ofi getting material for the absorption even of animal manures in many locations, and where roost convenient, of finding time, in the all-ah orbing pursuit of cotton making, for hauling In, and hauling out, so that any thing that would tend to remove this difficulty would o( course add greatly to the improvement ol lands. This anbjeet, the concentrating the active principles of manures, has excit-d great attention wherever scientific agriculture is at all practised; and from its importance, has attracted the powers of the first living chemists,in eve' ry part of Iho world. The Chinese, a pains taking people in the extreme, ^ave, in this re pect, gone ahead of the more stirring nations of the west; having a country groaning beneath a population variously estimated at from three to **: - five hundred millions, they have been obliged i<o quicken the soil in every way conceivable. Their great philosopher, Cotsfcscius, laid it down as a fundamental maxim, (h it nothing should be done by machinery that the hand of man could accomplish; hence their marve'lous ... ..manual dexterity; hence the ability of a steri'e country, to support tho living swarms upon it; Iheystidom or never emigrate, they aro too cowardly ever to be killed to any great extent fit war; their climate is genial, and they increase accordingly; yet they are all fed, and fed from their native soil, hut it is by the closest mod most careful husbandry, they carry manuring and cultivation; if not to the utmost extent of scientific skill, to the extremes! verge of pereeaal attention. Their manures are concentrated, liquid and solid, and sold in the market place?made into cakes and bottled op, they become as article of commerce, and from their large citi-s arc hauled about the country. The Peruvians, from the days of their Incas to the present time, hare used Guano, without which, their lands would be an unproductive desert, nature giving in compensation f??r the sterility of their soil, this highly concentrated offal of the sea bird; so highly concentrated that it has become an article of commerce, shipped thousands of miles from the shores of Africa And South America, to England itself, and there sold at tour and fire dollars the hundred weight, yet an artificial Guano, it is said, can be made ? -.L .L. . 1 1 equally acuve Wits mo uniurni prouucuun, anil far cheaper. It may be said that all these thing* are very well for the atmosphere of England, a farming country, where the subdivisions of hind, and Ihe peculiar crops planted, enable them to be done. What is applicable to an aere is equally so to an hundred or a thousand; if one acre can be made to produce as much as five, cannot the rule be carried out, with partial success at least? There js an instance before us new, of old upland yiel- i ding, (ha I wo acres 4,550 pounds of beed cotton. by dint of manuring. The planter of fresh lands in the Mississippi alluvial*, may treat with scorn the idea of systemsitic manuring; but will that do for our Carolina fields? inme of which have been at hard j work almost unsupported for these hundred years; and yet like veterans scarred by a thousand figh s bear up bravely, still yielding a due return to the hand that cherishes them. No man should remain one moment longer than he can help, in a position where he sees he is losing ground, or where he is not getting a dun return for his labor. Common justice to himself and family, forbid it; and much as hn may regret to leave the lands of his father-, the land where he drew his first lireath, arid they breathed their last sigh, jet must he, urged by every feeling that becomes a man, forget all this, and like the last of the red men, talce one long, lingering look, and hid adieu to them all forever, unless ?c:ence and industry, can revivify these shadows of the past, these thin worn phantoms of a by-gone time. Ant! we are pleased to hope that this can readily>he done; they are not dead but sleeping. The Vjtponrnents made so successfully in a small way, prove this fully?and it remains hut for those, who have the means and appliances, both moral and physical, to show how it may best be done on a more extended scale. Though we have not the Guano banks ol Peru, no Nile with its fructifying slime, nor yet marl beds, lime kilns and sea weed of more favored locations, yet may not science rightly sought, point out a pathwav through the tangled wood? Progress is a necessity of our nature; there is no such thing as remaining stationary; the man who does not more on with the whirl of men and circumstances is going backward, for as every thing is comparative, tho value of a man's exertions, the products of his labors, must only be estimated in relation to the value of cflbrts for rhe same end on the part of others?and though you may he equal at the onset, if your neighbor can, by adopting improvements, double the result of his labors, you not only do not add to to your stock the amount of his increase, but the work you absolutely do, is lessened in value in a certain proportion with the facilities he has pointed out for increasing production. This impatience of the status quo, is the propulsive force of our being, and as absolute confer.! ,nav nroar-lipfl and lauded as good doc ??? trine,?it means, I take it. merely thorough good for-nothingueRs. The picture of hiin, who is willing to lie with closed eyes, and call it his philosophy M,o duff the world aside and hid it pass," and it is only in its excess, that degree of dissatisfaction, that prevents the enjoyment of the real good of life, with which all men are more or less surrounded that it becomes hlameahle; and it is a wide field fur those whose views are stretching onward, perfection being reserved for one hand only?it matters not how deep you dive, how high you climb, away it stretches into the boundless future?new lights break in, and each invention but begets a hy* drabeaded progeny. The dwarf will climb upon the shoulders o| the giant, and ''hear a voice he cannot hear, and see a hand he cannot sue, that beckons him away. Then, as all things change we must change with them, and it is surely better to dash on in the swift moving car, than stumble on an ill made road; to take advantage of every means that may be in our within our reach, to remove all obstacles from our way. We have striven to sh ?w th: t the best, or one of the best means of commencing the work, is by encouraging in our midst, such associations as this; all striving to forward the great end in view; one bringing his fund of ignorance to be administered to? and another his wisdom wherewith to fill this vacauin, getting rid probably, meanwhile of a redundant growth of lhat article, that might be in his way. concentrating by such associations a mutual interest, getting up a concert of action among a set of men notorious lor pulling diffe - ?" luttirv In the nlnn rem , r ters as a body, who are now known to be utterly in the hands of the Philistines, whereby they may defend themselves and take advantage o every thing that offers. Through such means it will be fully appreciated how mankind in general, and planters in particular, are dependant upon one another, in carrying out their views; nnd how the want 4?f co operation in a single individual, will frustrate the best arranged plans for improvement. Upon this subject, a distinguished agricultural writer says: "So true is if in regard to every exercise of human skill, and in every walk of life, that we are all mutually dependent, every one upon every other, and that the kindly co operation of all, can alone secure that ample return of good, which the culture of the dead earth, or the living intellect, appears wi ling; and we may hope is destined ultimately, to confer upon our entire race." Lieut. Deas.?Every body will remember Lieut. Deas, who, at 'he commencement of the Mexican war, swain the Rio Grande, Leander like, to meet a Mexican maid, and was taken prisoner. Since that time, Lieut. Deas has been actively engaged in the service, and for his gallant conduct at Montery was promoted to the captaincy of the 4th artillery. Hut it appears from some cause or other, that he has got into more with that strict disciplinarian General Wool, and has bepn court martialed a-id sentenced to ho dismissed the service, which sentence was approved by General Wool, at Monterey. He is now on his way home, to await the issue of an application to the Execulive in his behalf by many influential personal frienJs in the army and elsewhere. Philadelphia Ledger. Indian Difficulties on tiie Frontier. ?The Van uren Intelligencer savs that it is stated by Col. Upshaw, the Chickasaw agent, that difficulties have recently taken place between some of the prairie Indian tribes and the citizens of Texas, near Fort Washita. A party of Wacoes had killed three Texan surveyors,and also four rangers, who came upon the party whilst drying the scalps of toe murdered surveyors. A detachment of Captain Johnson's rangers had been fired upon about the same time while holding a talk w<th the Indians. A brisk fire ensued, in which some twelve Indians were killed. Colonel Upshaw states that a short time since a war partv of 120 Kickapoos crossed Red River about eight miles above Fort Washita. Their destination was unknown. There were no dragoons, and scarcely any means of mounting a dozen in^ * Knirt 7 Icorr/mni* qrn laniry ! * IIUCIUCfH MIVIII. ai V/ much needed at our frontier post?. New Cathedral.?The Catholic Clergy, i now assembled in Retreat at Albany, havo personally subscribed the sum of $3,100 for the I Cathedral in that chy, beside* pledging them- I selves to raise liberally from their congrega- i tions. extract From Col. Gadsden's Report to the Stockholders of the South Carolina Rail Road. THE CAMDEN BRANCH. The Camden Branch, a* an unfinished toad, in the progress of completion, and constnicted with all the lights which experience hat shed on the most approved mode ofconstruction, your President had hoped would have escaped re proof. The Commillee, however condemn me dispensing with the longitudinal and nub sill ''hitherto considered indispensable." We have adverted to the difference of opinions prevailing among engineers on the superstructure of Rail Roads. The longitudinal timbers were hitherto adopted to give the. strength which a light iron rail could not impart. The modern improvements go to substitute the strength of iron for wood, in a heavy rail secured by spikes to a cross tic. The longitudinal sub-sill, so fir from being the usual plan, and the Camden Road the first to abandon it, was first experimented on in the Stonington, and subsequently in the Columbia Road. Here it was proved defective, and not answering the object intended, being a very expensive mode of construction, it was not adopted on the Camden Road. The sub-sill is not indispensable, nor has it been found to give tbe'suppoit the Committee suppose. It is sunk below the bed ol the Road in aftrench, and the cross ties laid on it, touching only ?n their ends, and deriving most of their snpppoir in the centre from the graduations of the Road. This sub-sill in the cuts hes been found to affect the uV/7i.o?/n7\_The water on the Road lied settles in the ireueTT?s nicA: to receive it, and the action of the engine imparts, in wet weather a churning motion to the sill, converting into mush all beneath it. The fi>undalion then fails, and, instead ofthe the sill sup porting the cross ties, it shrinks from it, and as the tin is supported by the centre ofthe road bed it cannot follow the sill in its sinkings, but remains suspended at its ends. In several of the cuts on the Columbia Road the only remedy for the disappearance of the sill wns the substitution of a second between the first and the cross lie, and in some instances at great labor and cost. To ascertain when 11 - 1 I 1 !.... r..II,?rl In fllA ctm. and wnere me sins nau mus iai? u port intended, became a work of Bearch, and the compact settlings of the whole Road bed had to he disturbed to ascertain the depth to which the sill had sunk, and to remedy the inequalities in the Road bed occasioned thereby. Aware that this, with many other modes of construction were still matters of speculation involving much disagreement of opinion among Engineers?after consultation with the scientific and efficient Engineer in charge of the Camden Branch, it was recommended to ami ap. proved by the direction th'it several of the ne.'ja Roads should be tested in sections on the Camden Branch, that we migh' be aide to decide which was most perfect, and offered the best cuarrantees for a good working track. The first section is built after one of the plans of the New York and Erie Road, and has the heavy mud sill, acting likewise as a longi'udinalsil so highly commended by the "Committee." The second section is of Trestle work over the Wateree, and the R til is attached to a Ion giludinal sill. The third section now in progress, and which has been objected to by the Committe?conforms to the old most favored plan of Cross Tie Road, where the Iron Rail isnfsufficient weight as in this instance, to dispense with the longitudinal sill. The plan is cheap and simple of construction and easily repaired. It has been greatly improved in this rase by adopting the sawed Cross Tie of uniform length, breadth and thickness?sawed to the same gauge, the level of the road lied is preserved on the Rail without dubbing, and any one piece may be removed and replaced without disturbing its neighbor or the Iron Rail. The cross ties on the Camden Branch are wider than usual, and are placed at regu'ar distances not involving intervals exceeding 22 inches. The road is literally floored, and the bearing (which is consul crerl the perfection of a Rail Road) is unequaled liy any Rail Way in the United Stales. This mode of strurture is further recommended Jo-' there being no concealed timber. The whole structure is exposed to daily inspection and dcfects may be detected an as soon removed. The fourth, and last plan of construction is the Herron Traek of Lattice Road Bed. It has been highly spoken of by tho managers of the Reading Road, on which there is a small section in operation and those in charge ot the New York and Erie Road have adopted this plan on a portion of their track. These are the views in confirmation of what has been said in relation to want of uniformity in another part of this Report, which has influenced your President in experimenting on and sanctioning various plans with a view to conclusions, from experience, more ?ettled than at present exist as to the most perfect superstructure. Where a Company have the ability to select the. most important element of perfection, a heavy rail capable in itself of snstaining the weight to be applied on it, the simple wide cross tic road, adjusted on a firm bed?as on the Camdein Branch?will bo found best to stand the test of service. But where old structures have to be improved, and expedients resorted to, to counteract the acknowledged defects of a light on the spot, and vigilant in detecting errors and in applying remedies. We feel assured, therefore, that could the Committee have the oporlunity of re-exaniination, and ot reviewing of opinions, they would reverse some of the conclusions to which they came; and would, most rail, such as on the Hamburg road, the wooden structure must vary with the experience of those of all, do justice to a construction which challenges a comparison with any other structure, with similar weight of rail, in tne United States. Whilo on this subject the President, with much gratification, reports that the Camden Road is now approximating to completion. All the arrangements for timber and materials have been made; and that tho actual cost will fall short of the estimaie about 8170.000. This circum stance at this crisis, while it is creditable to the engineer in charge of the work, cannot hut be a subject of c ngratulation to the stockholders, as relieving the Company from n large anticipated obligation to be provided for this enterprise; while in the reduced rapital invested, it offers the surest guarantees of its proving a most profitable feeder to tho South Carolina Road, of which it now becomes the Eastern Branch. Any changes of construction as now suggested by the Committee, would not disturb existing contracts, but require an entire suspension, and at very great and necessary additional cost to the Company. "Old Ironridks."?The favorite U. S. frigate Constittilion, which has been in the Dry Dock, Charlestown, since February last, was taken out of the Dock on Saturday, having been thoroughly repaired from stem to stern. She is (o be fitted for sea with all despatch. Transcript. THE BALTIMORE CONVENTION. On the fifth and laiit day of the session of thin body, the ('Ommillco on Resolutions reported that they had adopted thoso of tlio Convention of 1844, with some additions, [The additional ones approve tho adminis- | tration of President Polk ] We have no room for the whole ot their "platform" this week, and can g ve only tho seventh resolution, which is good, as fur as it goes? 7. That Congress has no power under the constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the States, and that Rtich Stales are the sole and proper judges of every, thinff nnuertaininjj to their own affairs,not prohi. n i r hited by the constitution; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others made to induce Congress to interfere with q uestions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences; and that all such efforts hare an inevitable, tendency to diminish the happiness ol the people, and endanger the stability and per* inancney of tbe FJnion, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions. Mr. Yaxckv, of Alabamn, submitted the following report from a minority of the Committee, which was | laid on the table? The undersigned, a minority of the committee upon resolutions, ask leave respectively to submit a minority report to this Convention. Believing that the success of the democratic party will depend solely upon the truth or untruth of the principles avowed by this Convention. and by the nominee thereof, the undersigned cannot give their cons.. the majority. The nominee of this Conven- ! tion is understood to entertain the opinion that Congress has no right to interfere with the question of slavery in the States or Territories, but that the people inhabiting a territory have the exclusive right to exclude it therefrom. The majority of your committee have only adopted this principle as far as applicable to the Slates, and have thus relused, in the avowal of the cardinal principles of the democracy, to express any opinion upon what is really the most exciting and important political topic now before the country, leaving the people to find an expo' A r% m i\r* ro fir* nfir. ' stllon 01 me views in mo ..., ty of the Union, and of the probable? course of its representatives in Congress, in the avowed opi. nion of their nominee for the office of Presi. dent. This course we conceive to be fundamentally wrong. It has ever been the pride of the democracy that it has dealt frankly and honestly with the people. It has scorned to conceal its political opinions. It has made it a point of opposition to the whig party that it frequently goes before the people with a mask upon its brow; and has appealed to the masses to rebuke that party lor a course so offensive to truth and so unfair to them. Our country's institutions must find their surest support in an intelligent republic opinion. That public opinion cannot be intelligently formed as to our views upon those institutions, if we refuse to avow them, and dare not advocate them. It is useless to deny that this question does not press home upon us for our decision. Ten of the sovereign non-slavc-holding Slates have already expressed decided opinions upon it. This has been met bv counteracting opinions in the South, first distinctly avowed by the J-'late of Virginia, and since followed up by every State in that section of the Union. it is idle to call the question an abstract one. If abstract in any sense?it is only so to the *cction in which has originated the avowals of aggression upon the rights of a large portion ol the Union?to wit: the non-slaveholding States, j They own not a dollar of property to be afiec. ' ted by the ascendency of the principle at issue. They have not a single political right to be curtailed by it. With them, opposition to the South on this point, is purely a question of moral and political ethics. Far different is it with the South. They own the property which the suesess of this principle will prevent them from carrying with them to the territories. They have a common right in the territories, from which they are to be excluded, unless they -1? ? - - 'l-o-n tuSlnmil lliiu nrnnnrlL'. Vhi-v t'lllHOC ur II1CIU v. J have hereiufore been considered as political equals in the Union?with the same power of expansion and of progress, which have heretolore distinguished all classes in the Union, and which has given to us all the distinctive appel{ hition, of the "party of progress." They own, in common with their brethren of the North, these territories, which are to be held by the Federal (Jovernmeht, as a trustee, for common purposes. If, therefore, you refuse to meet the issue made upon the slaveholding, by a part of the non-sluveholiliiig States, and permit the hereto, fore expressed opinions of your nominee to stand, implied as the opinions of this convention, you pronounce, in substance, against the political equality of the people?against tho community of interest in lite territories, which it is contended, exists in the people?against the right ol'one-half of the people of the Union to extend these institutions, which the fathers of the constitution recognised as fundamental in the framing of the articles of union and upon which rests the great and leading principles upon which taxation and political power is based. In order to obviate such a construction?in ojder to give assurance to the public mind of our entiere country that the democracy of the Union will preserve the compromises of the constitution, not only in the States, but in the territories?that it recognizes entire political equality, to exist among the people, and their right to the people, unmolested in their rights of property, the vast territories which the Union holds but as n trust until sufficiently populated to lie erected into States,?the undersigned have agreed to present to this body, for its adoption the follovring resolution: VV. L. YANCY, of Alabama, JOHN C. M OEM EE, of Florida, J. M. COMMANDER, of South Carolina. Resolved\ That the doctrine of non-interfercncc with thn rights of property of any portion of the. people of this Confederation, be it in the Slates or in the Territories, by any other than the party interested in them, is the true republican doctrine recognised by this body. Mr. Yancy addresied the convention at length, in support of his amendment, and contended that though the resolution reported by the majority of the committee was true democratic doctrine in 1844, circumstances, connected with the Mexican war, had so changed the position of things as to render a further and clearer assertion of the doctrine of non-interfe ' ? ? -J *h In. .n.jil11( titn iimil .iiK I rcnce, as cmoruccu ma gu?rnittcd, necessary lo ihe success of the noniinecs of this convention. On no consideration would Alabama stultify herself in regard to this matter, or, in other words, "cat her own principles." Mr. Henly, of Indiana, rose to a question of order, which he stated to be that it was not in order for a member to adopt a course of argument to prove that the nominees of the convention ennnot be elected. The President said that was not a question for the Chair lo decide. tlu Mr. Yancy replied that be was not so argu. ng, but he would show how the nominees ol the ^ convention would he elected. Mr. Yancy at the conclusion of his remaiks, moved the resolution of the minorfy of the coinmillec as an addition to the resolutions reported mf by the majority of the comrneo. 101 Mr. Kaufman moved the previous question. Mr. Hill, of Tennessee, inquired whether by wl the resolution ot the gentleman from Alabama, an he intended to deny the right of I ho territorial cjc legislatures to regulate slavery within their lr, limits? jp Mr. Yancy answered certainly. ' Mr. Moore, of Alabama, expressed the opi- ^ nion that Lewis Cass was the strongest man who could be presesented to that Stale, and that 1 his principles on this subject were approved by cr ' - 1-..;? ?dp I tie people oi /Manama. 1 ne resummon repm- ? ted by the majority of tlic committee he helic- lit ved nil sufficient for the South. th The question was taken on Mr. Yancy's re- m solution, .and it was, by States rejected?33 to ar o, THE CAMDEN JOURNAL 2 Wednesday .Horning, June 7, (818. ti t, WILLIAM B. JOHNSTON. EDITOR. lc Oar market. We have no change to note in the cotton market, pTFrfiaps i'i" f uiade helfe - .Tjuoe-^nL. ton would probably command 6jc. Corn sells at rc 53 from the wagons. Good fresh Beef will com- ... o W mand aimost any price. * (|( We are indebted to the Hon. J. C. Calhoun for ai his speech upon the proposed occupation of Yucatan. The Chaileston Courier. Our thanks are due to the obliging editors of this paper for Northern papers, and slips from their ,'1 own offiee, in advanco of the regular mail. ^ 01 U" The New Orleans Delta will please accept a! our thanks for forwarding slips to us, with the la- a test news from Mexico. ol c< The Temperance Convention. We arc requested by the President of the Washing ton Ternpcraiico Society of this place, to state that by authority received from the Executive committee of I bj the State Society,, the following gentlemen are appoint- I BC ed as delrg-ites to the Convention to assemble in this j g place on Wednesday next, viz: \V. E. Johnson, James Doni,ap, J B. Kershaw, T.J .Workman, T. J. Wa*. ren, F. L. Villepiguc, and D H. Siiular. A Burst-Up. ^ A few days since, whilst the hands were engaged P' in charging iho Soda Fountain belonging to Dr. Zrmp, D it burst with a tremendous explosion, tearing off the h; wealhcrboarding of the room, demolishing sundry rows ni of hollies containing doctor's slnff and other fixings. w Fortunately, no person was injured, though the hands flj engaged at the pump narrowly escaped, making a ra j, pid exit through the sides of the house. . ^ The Cumdeu Branch Road. We publish with pleasure that portion of Col. s' Garden's Report which treats of : lie Camden r' Branch Rail Road, ami are truly gratified to learn 'r from it the true condition of our road. Our fi rrner remarks relative to this subject, were not made in any spirit of unkindness, we had only the s" data given to us by the committee in their report, and certainly, we or any person else, seeing it sta- " ted and nut contradicted, that the road was defec- C? tive and the mode of construction highly objection- e} able, would have said at least as much as we did. er We therefore admit that we have put a wrong con- Pr etruction, on a statement which lately appeared in ^ the Columbia Telegraph, showing that the cost cf J the road was less than the first estimate, for our ^ /~i remarks were based upon the commit'ee's report, ? but if the road is, as we have niw no doubt it is. one of the best roads in the country, then we have bl only to retract our former comments, and give the credit of s judicious economy, to those to whom it is due, the officers and superintendents of lltP w work. Wc do this with pleasure and express our T confidence, in the energy, prudence and experience of the President, and officers of the company ? n There is however, still a peg left to hang a com- ^1 plaint on, and that is, the delay in its construction 'l( We believe with a large number of our citizens and others, that the work ought to have been completed before this time. We trust that we shall. ^ never have to say aught against the future management of the constrnction, and wc believe that the PC work will be pushed forward as rapidly as possible. U' The report of the majority committee which con- *"u demncd the road, was laid on the table at the late meeting of the stockholders. an The Baltimore Convention and its Nominees, sa At I lie time of our writing, we have seen no pa- of per in this State, but the Hamburg Republican, that its raises the flag of Cass anJ Buti.er. As \vc ap- re prehended the Convention dodged the slavery ea question and the Wilinot Proviso, and nolwith- al standing the stirring and eloquent appeal of the mi- pi nority of the Commif.ee, through their chairman, ne the Hon. W. L. Yancy, they refused further ac- te tion on the subject, than the unmeaning resolution, so which embodies General Cass's viws. We are ih thankful that South Carolina, held aloof from the Convention, and that though, General Commander, tri did cast her voles for the nominee, the people have br manifested their wisdom, with the greatest unanimity, by entirely keeping out of this gathering of President makers, for it would be preposterous to say that an individual delegated by 54 people of cn a single township or district represented the State ^'c of South Carolina, in that body. We cannot see how the people of the South,can ,'11 possibly ratify the proceedings of this convention. Will it be for the sake of party success! Every principle of party sinks into insignificance when t0 compared with the avowed purpose of our North- ^0I ern brethren, to degrade the South from their po- l-v litical equality, to trample on their constitutional ll> rights, and to dictate to them, a line of deinarkation which they must not dare to go beyond, as tei slave holders. We profess to be democratic in our principles, but can never lend our influence, or aP give our support to any man who does not freely and fully repudiate every scheme of the enemies of t0 our institutions, in whatever shape it is presented. | There is ample time for General Cass to do this ! ?r before the election, and should he do so?define his position as a friend to the South, and a lover of t), the Constitution, lie will get the support of South- ro ern Democracy, and will in all probability be elected, if not, the consequences of a party defeat cannot be chargeable to the Southern wing of the 01 party. We forbear further remarks, for the^re w sent, and will watch future developcments. tli i .11 We have been favored by a friend with a copy Of : minutes of the Medical Convention of South rolina held in Charleston in February last. Some its proceedings were important, such as the able jorta on ihc following subjects:?The establish* ?nt of a Slate Medical Association?The best ransof discouraging Druggists from vendingpaTt medicine* and nostru i b. On the standard requirements to be exacted from young men 10 apply to be received as student# of medicine^ d on the establishment of a registration nf births, ? f nt>e on/1 mifpinfroa TliU lattpr xnbisct is nblv ?ated by the committer/ and the attention of our gislafure should be given to such an important easnre. The olgects propped to be accomplishI by this general registration are an follows:? a ascertain whether population increases or decades. Tlie cause of causes or its increase or (crease, and to furnish an undoubted table of stadies of the country. It would still forlher furnish e best proof to lie rights of inheritance, which ight be in dispute, and would save mnch labor id litigation. We think a system might be adilcd which would succeed in the accomplishment ' these objects, and we coincide with the Comitiee.that it is a measure eminently worthy of Irritative consideration, and that it will be pnwlucve of important results. We are glad to see, that 10 National iMedical Association, has also reporid upon the utility of such a registration. The Methodist Church Property. JY^ee^^^tated^h^L^jdan of arbitration has nee for the settlement of the propertyqfikMHrfj ith the Church South. It provides for the in of four Comn.istihncrs, two from each chl^^^B id a fifth to be jointly chosen. These fivedera^^ itcs arc not to he inethodists, and their decision is i be final. A Dividend Coming. At the adjourned meeting of the stockholders of ie Rail Road, it was decided that the division of ie dividends, to the constriction of oar Branch, ititlcd the stockholders, to that stock, and they so authorized the Board of Directors, to declare I - 4 C .1.. 4. .a *1 umueuu iiv.m iiiuih.ii tur uic p*si year, aime me " five per cent payable in script drawing six per ;nf, redeemable in twelve months. Foreign News. The weekly batch of European news is received f the Ililiernia. The news froin France posses- , :s some interest. An order had been received in oulognc to place the whole line of coast in a ate of defence. The triumph of the liberal pacj. ' is complete. It is said that the Pope has back* 1 out of the war with Austria, and in conseqaenco ic people have deposed him as temporal ruler, nml it bim in prison. This lacks confirmation. The anes have blockaded the German ports. This is had a depressing effect on the market for ma. ufactured goods. Cotton had also slightly given ay?one-eighth of a penny. Several bloody concts had taken place between the Russians and oles. There is nothing important from Ireland, ic manufacture of Pikes, and seditions languaae, ems undiminished, the former in blacksmith's tops, the latter, in the columns of the Untied Jikinetn. The queen it is said, will positively visit eland in July. Since writing the above, we have telegraphic ispatchcs, announcing the arrival of two (more eanmrs, the United States and Niagara. The tspatchos are meajre, with respect to news. Tito, st named steamer brought an advance of | on >tton, but the last brings a decline to the same dent. The news from France is any thing but icouraging. Several arrests have been made, of >rsons engaged in insurrectionary movements.? abrier, Rispail, Cabbel, Lou's Blanc, Albert, Hu;rt, Barbes ar.dGen. Courtais were apprehended, en, Courtais, who bad command of the National uards, was stripped cf his cpau'etts. A motion is been made and carried in the National Assem y, for the immediate trial of Louis Blanc and Altrt. The cause of these arrests was an attempt overawe the National Assembly?the pretext as a monster demonstration in favor of the Poles, he whole attempt failed. We regret to see that c influence of M. Lamartine in the Assembly is pidly decreasing, and that it is not at all prohae that he will be chosen President of the RepubThe Western Contiuent. We are grieved to learn that the publication of is excellent Southern family paper has been susinded, It will, in all probability, be continued ider different management, so that the present bscribers will be supplied to the end of their rin. The failure of this paper, as a Southern iblication, is a sad commentary upon the wisdo n id prudence of the southern people, and at the me time, is a reflection upon those leading men this State and others, whose aid and influence in i behalf, the late enterprising proprietor had every ason to look for. While the people of the north n spend thousands in the support of the Nation' Era, an abolition paper at Washington, the peoc of the South cannot support a single paper, ulral in politics, that was devoted to southern inrests, and the defence of southern rights. The mhorn neoule mav vet lament their anathv in r - x J -f - - I J cse matters. We part with regret,J with Mr. Thompson, but ist that his star may yet arise and shine more' illiantly than ever. Whig .Heeling in Charleston. A meeting of the Whigs of Charleston was held Friday evening last to appoint a delegate to the >r<vcntion which meets in Philadelphia to-day, r the purpose of nominating their candidates for e Presidency and Vice Presidency of the United ates. A resolution that the meeting appoint a delegate the Whig Convention, with instructions to vote Gen. Taylor as a candidcate of the Whig parof the United States was lost by a large major. George S. Rtan, Esq., was appointed, the legate and the following rejolutions were adopi? Resolved, That, the Whigs jf Charleston District point a delegate to represent them at the coming mvention at Philadelphia, who is hereby desired consult freely and frankly with the Whigs of the nion as to the claims and qualifications of the eat leaders, under any of whom the Whigs of liarleston would gladly win victory or proudly eet defeat?and who is hereby authorised to cast e vote of this portion of the Whiffs of South Calina for that candidate who is iu his opinion best ted to fill the chair of State. Resulted, At the same time, that if our prefer, ice in the choice of candidates can be indulged insistently v.'ith the great interests of the country, o declare Henry Clay to be our first choice for ic Presidency of the United States.