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h UMTER BANNER R TUESDAY XZOtL NAG OY W. J. FRtANCIS TWO DOLLAR8 lit advance, Two Dollar" and Fifty Cents at tie expiratimon of ix Mnt11i1, or Wht.eo Mllarm at the end of the year. No. paper discontinued until all arrenrngeP ar t), unles at the option of the l'roprietor. -W Advertisements insertedt at S EV ENiTY I fnts peer minuare, (12 lines or less,), for 9e 0 and half that sum for enitf aubsei(ttratmi tie intmbirof insertion to 1 manrked vrti"eu norit or they %yill be p1ub1lished : d to- be discontinued, anal dargel NE DOI!' lki.46 Alirit Nit Angld is '. Quartery tield M.ontily Aleitlsu ill ch id the Kafine aa single in an n o thie santie Is new Uo:es bsf~pondenceof3N UIsChrleston Courier. 8WAs1lNGTON, MA Y 1, 1852. '0ite! shoieks .of sian earthquake, felt att-.ifferent points- in this eity and ghboihood. on Thursday last, evi y proceeded from the South to North. Thle tremlfg lit thle w" as probably the effect of somie ne that oeenired as fir . s the equator. The shocks ' liled it the (Observatory at im neniiutes befole one. Two occur u4d at the interval of a second. and a kW nfintes aiterwards others oceu ied 4Tea, te shas passed the bill prp. midifig for. the *ascertainment, as son amPossible, by.a board of otlicers, of fle ainount of eldims for iilitary set .yvges pnd supp~ies in Culi' in, and Uie piersonis to whotIm the a i it is due. .0i b'oard is to report the thets, and imn ar ri;6 ation will be. made to pay the A'ms. -Mr. Gwinn stated the amiouit of -the clainm to be about seven hun ired thogsand dollars. T'he bill introduced into the Senate I Mr. Mallory for the lencouaragemstent flinile of U. S. mail steaitmers be ween ports in California aid Shniglhai M china, and a branch of the sate be twen California and the Sandwich Is lads, prdvides. for a contract for the bNw object with James B. Moore, of antb h id'his associates. The terms of' the contract secure to Mr. Moore the inttre smdi to b)- received fotr postiges from-tthe line ikr thirty years, at rates nlot less that Atlantic rates for ten ,years, and subsequently iot to be re duced below a certain rate. No ad vances are required, and no other com pensation.thatn the postal monopoly. fit-be are to be within live years teil eamships of the Isrgest chtss onl the line;. The line Will utidotbtedly, as it --ill have but little competition fbr wnoe years, do -a. profitable business #4-tfe. conveyance oi frieght and, pas Aile m,,olmiittee on Printing have . Kot their trouble. They have been 1 to carry intgjeffecttheir s ieme - y are t -- fher report next Tuesday. 'l[to ~earce of Maryland has yoncluded - 'able .vindication of the adniistrt ,I.ron the char'ge of extravatgatnt tdilegal xpenditutres itn California. ~ledebate otn thte provision for the "~firs' linte of' steamters will be renew The general debite on the homestead bIill - has closed, and the final vote ont the same may be takena early next week. -The bill hats been loi~nuder diseusesion, and lias been miade the stalking horse for political disquisitions bearing on thle P residetttitl I question. -Mr. Mangunm has autthotrity to call *s m~eeting of the W hiig members for ;he purpose of reply to the ad~dress of' 1he- eleven Sout hernt memitbers who. zwtde fromi the caucusti of the 20th. 'But it is understood that Ite will not *do It,' but thtat lie will himself, as I're sident.of thte caucus, make a repmly. The friends of' General Foote as a catndidatet for thte 1'residlettcy state 'that heo ill soon issute a letteor explainm ping.hIis position ott thle comtproitise mieasuires in at mnner that will be sa 'tisfactory to the Souttherii W higs. Correspondence of time Sothmen: Standard. VAsurisovoN, May 4, 1852. -.The Ion. Charles Atndriews, alep resentative fr'om Maine, beinig in iin firmn health atnd cotnsciotus that his earthly career 'was talimost closedl, left thtis city about. two weeks ago fhr the Jiurpose of reaching his homie, receiv ing the last fiiendly oflices, and takiwrg a final adieu of' Ihniily andi frtienids. H~e hiad arrived athomiehbut afew were realized, and~ lie (lied. To-daliy his death was anniotunce.d ini apprtopr'i ate remarks b'y his colleagues, Mi~r. ianmlin, of the Senate, anud in thle lotuse by Ilont. Moses MeiJonaldi. The usual resoluttionis of condmolencie andI *adjpturned uintilI to-miorrow. 'TIte 11(on. 1 lenry Claiy is giradually siking in the emiibrace of' thaiti monmster from which there is no escape. F'or thepast day or' two his imilpoved (n dhitioni gave hope'tthat his life amight lbe prolonmged--thati possi ble he moight su r -vivo the summter'; but, to-day that, hope aentirely dissiphated. Hlis phtysicianis express the oplinion thast lie ptrobaibly cannot survive more thani two or three days longer. By a rule of thte House, m~~lembes are allowed to file [petitions uierel v by handing them to the Clerk; they mie then placed upon r'ecord, andit disp'osed - of in thme stame 'manner its if ptresenited *publicly. Memblms as-itmiopting at simiilar plsan its relsaitin to their spelh e's; some of thems hasve asited thle li louse fo''Ir lealve to pritnt their argtumentts oni the hiomsesteatd bill ini thle (Conigression-. al Globe. TIhiis plsaes t hemi on the ofileial record; t hey are pinted sand enft out to their eduisiftituents as beisig delivered in the I louse of lIep resen (a *tivesu.; Ti lan save*s thei f tiim of t i .House, l41d willI pi'obably save memi bers from the inflictioni'I If toisitn to. tedious uninteres tig dlebales fro miie dionis uniniteresitinig speamkers, fir note' chse will be very likely to at~nil thiems selves of this piat1i f defining their po It appears at Fillmore and Web sterarui OIettined not to bQ over sloughi en. Scott, and thati rnove ',iteats id..oh fibot to unite the friends of th .1 President and his Secretary against those of'the Major General. Th14e Coniuitiider..in-chIiet, anmd ie god-like Daniel, have each strong fi-iends, and if' united against Seult, may. prove fital to his prospects. ll the eveit of either ofr these sIentle men litiling to receive the noinillation, it is said they -will ~endeavor to con Centrate their foiCs ol Se-iator' . lones, of Teinressee, or Jolint J. Crittetiden, of' Kentuehy. * It is Ilso sai. tliat 114)11. John M. Ilotts, of' Virgini:a, who is at preselt oni a visit to this, city for the purpose of attending his dying frieud, Mr. Clay, has declared that in no event will the Cidy Whigs ever coll: se.:1 to voteiibr Gen. Scott. Thie new aspectof lafisut hjipears to reider it exce'e'thifgly doibtie whether Scott cat niow. reccive tie nioination or iot. CoxonjssioN.U.-li the U. S. Sen ate to-dIiy, the hills graitilig lands to tie Mobi le & Gerard aid Florida Rail loads. were iigrossed. Ceiieral Cass was speaking when our dispatch Mle, inl ihvor' of .i aippr'opiriation f1r tile Collina's stenlin slips. li the louse of epresentatives portiolls of, tle puiblie printinlg were giveni too the publishers of' the Union. and RelubliC niewspapers. The pri vate Calendar Was thieln takeni up. CoNoiEssIoNA L S-OYsOrs.-l the U. S. Senate (onl Anday, ieimorials were preseited inl lavor of'eleap occan postage, a iationall prinitiig tillice, and igainst tile extenision of WYoud worth's patent. The bill granting Imid to Wisconsin in aid fitt two iail roads inl that State was takei up and ordered to be en groissel. The Senate re.sumed tihe conlsidera tionl of, thle deficiency bill, :and ArI.. l1usk addressed the S ate ill -support of' the aell' ihlelit giving 1ad litioial aid to the Collins line. Ater Ia Eixceutive sessioi, the Selate adjoriied. On asseinbling, th ' I-luse of Rep resentatives proceeded to the consider ation of business on thie Speaker's table, and refir'red, or otherwise d isposed of. iinLIny excC'utive aid executive-depiart ment crnunmratios, Seate. bills and joint resditions. fu tle coiire (if tnese proceedings, tie foblp,\Viing hills were'IPi'sed, viz : bills for tih relicflor Chas. G.I Iuniiter and Jane Irwin, fbor the plurllse ot . fne thousand copies of' tlhinimitlh v'Qlutine of the Uaited Sits Statef; a( Large, and the bill fou the Peiiding the iuestioi an rieferriv tLI SenatAt' Fr.i-eh spl..at io 'n bill to th.<Ionnn~ittec of the VhoIe on the iState othoaoion, the Hlouse adjouli n. ed.-C Iafreton Courier.. Wino NArIoNAL CoiSv.x-roN.At the zneetinig of the WVhig Menibers of' Coingi'ess, held On Tuie'sday the 2Oth uilt., tile fllowinig reso~luitiont was atdopbtedL and41 ord(erI inadue: Or'dered, Tnazt the Cha311i'rman2 of thlis ineeting" caulse the re.soluion~ this even inag adopted, r'econoniiiendinig the timte and4. plnce for holdiing thie W hig Na tional C oinvenition, to be! inserite'd in the Wh~ ig nlew1spapeLrs of t his IDistr'iet, signed b~y hiniaselt' a1rni countersigned by the Secretaies. 1Resolived, T1hat, it lbe recommeniI~~lded t Iat the Wh ig Nationial Convieint gin, fhr tihe noIiinionli~ ot .' candidates ih I 'residenit, awiu \ 'e I 'residenits of tile l inited States he bhl ini lie' eit v of hfitiimoire, 02n We'.~i3dnesch', thet I-6th day~ of' .111me next. W~V i~~ lE l. M~A NG U M[, Cht'i. yAtuEii lj)4.iCimy, -ertns Time Coamspronuaise. The Sout hei'r1n31 infesto is abouti I to iniake its apjpeanme~te ait W 'asington. over' thle signiaturies of thant portionP1 of lie Wh ig me411 ibers41 of Congress wViI, seceded f'romi, ori would14 not attend the' mlemiorablle caucu'is inI thle Senat e ebamii beri, 13ast Tueisda week '1P'4'. The4. r'een t act ion of t lie WV lig con)Ivent iuon ini Nort h Caroliina, andi the speerk'l made411 by Air. Stephlenis ini thle II ouse vest'e'laiy, will be likely to miake it inl'tone boIuh, con-i fideuit, and dectisivIei. Th'e Whigs of' North ('o-iolinia lha-e resolved that. Ailland Fillbnore14 is thir lirst, choice for* thle 'retsideiiev, and WV illiaiii A. (irahiaii foir \~iee I Presi niomlinee2s of the inat.iuaa lonvenit tin it t hey are'4 unie~piiivoctally ill tlvor of' suistaminig the( comD~lproise mea~hsurIes whlich' they insist shlih bi iile ad4 hiered to aind ca'3rrIied inito fhitlid exeution, as1 15 a1 final set Ltemen'it ini prin2ciple andP sii. $tance.'4, (It'thle danige'usi and4. excit ing' subljec.ts t ('eyli embie and" 12 ther' de-( iire. it as5 thle oin iioni of' thle c'onive. tion1 that. no0 e'miIldtIt for' the Pri' - the vo te of the Whi lg partyl 'ofP N orthi Carolina unile.ss 12e is beyond 214 doubI ti favoir of' minitaliing the' ('ntire. series" of'(411 componuse 153I lmnsures. ANIir. Stephen4'ls, oft Geor giai, veste4.rda v defIined his positi onl upon hei quie'est ionl of' the Pr'lesid1ency', ml Ien a''l S:t once.1 to sonie ext ent, to. spea22k ((hr his~ con2sti tuen'1ts, also , lie IpithI of his speech'ma yi10 be4 summed)i'( up lhus: 'Neither'i I nor they inten'id to vote for' anly niim, 01' set ot mien, fihr ( lingress, 4r fihr' Presi deaIt,wh'Io ii( not Umpwil/itly pilnty. ~iI/lft in juror o rf the fug/i/ire s/af Th~e lement14.is oif party, it wvilh be 'Ceeni, ale apprl~ioachinlg theuiri crisis. As ye hav rp iepe'atedly said, the oinly grea t sie is a1 lmn andl ii onst)2,4ituitionlI oli. Ihe whi! par-ty nosiit, re-solve' ini unit el. Thatit willsdt so we doubt, and the finial result will be it low national party founded o ile ruins of both of' the old partis.--AN.M T Eveninig Mir. ror. GaNI.. BANK'Wo-LAw OF WISCON sis.-We have reCeived l, copy othe 11n'i-al bamking law -of Wisconsm811, ats it pllS-sed the Legislature, and whieh,is to be sulmlittedl t tlhe pe4ple at the general ~jecti itt hi Novembob'e nlet. It I Irovidek Air I he intcorporation ofally nonber of persins tr carrying on fh'e busintess of ibankiig, tihe capital in eachx (*. e being" not less thlan $2V3,000, orl ire than *-50,000. The securities to be deposited for cireulatii ,. ijhtes are 1 lited States stocks and State stol4kj, ol i;ieIlv fiin inttrust Is unnuaii1ally plaid, to be made ein'4l to sli p r ceit. above the aver ag price at which they have been sold in the New York Market for six months previous to the tiie of thelir deposit. In lieu of, the alove, inay le takin to the ainottlit )t' fity per cent of the circulatiitiTg in4es, first mnortgage rail road bon1ds, issued by companies it copor0l'ated by tle State. Said honds imist. ie tile first. lieit ol 'a portion of conltitillus-Iine of rail road (it' Inot less thaln forty miles, Ir (f the Whole of a rail roId.l vf not less thanl filly jimitds to thle yard. 811h bolid* ire not to be r'eceived at a rate higher than twenty Imliles in le gt bi," wlich is sutbstntilially constructed, and laid with T., ]I., or other approved rail, of not less lian fitly polids to the yaird. Such'it bonds are not to be received itt t rate higher thll eighty cents 41n1 a dollar, or e'X ceeding'' one( hal t'f the cost of the road up11 which they are a lien, n4r at rate exceedilg eight thiusalil dollars per inile of the road four which they are issued. Inl additionl to the oIler securities, the bank is required to give a'pproved bonds to tile anunt1 o t' tle fo4urth of tile cireulating iiotes to be delived to it. The Ilik Csotlqptroller, inl oijiuhe tiotn With the Governor, is aithoprised to reject such securities as lie siil deeni objectio-nable, atal tot require ad ditional deiosites where the securities in his hin1d shall have becomne deprecia tel ot iiaired ill valle. 1atikiig associations orgatised tim de. the act are to be taxed at the ratle of uilt' per cent. onl their callital, an11d areto ble exett pte I tront (Ither taxatiotn, except 11uon their rIal estate. In Case ot' thlie Iefutsal to redeeinfli the no0tes ill sin-eie, Summnary powers areI givent to put the deft'::lltiilr ballk in li 4ptidtitonit, and too sell its seenrities at tle A crhnnt's Exchange inl New Yurk, Itiml with the proceeds to redeein its virettlation. bu1 .0thlx ult., has the tillowing noutiee of the stipitsioi of' the Batik, aid sptecu. lations ats to itts probable ability to Iieet alil its entgaigemlenits: Thec Jkmk. of St. Mfar's.-A eluip of thllmtder fromx a clar sky coul4 not hatve 1roduce aisl2 greaxter e'lmjsternaitttion thanu the ann1ouniltcemient, onf Friiday 12ast, that the St. Maryv's Bani k Ihad suspenid ed paymItents. Th'Ie pub1 licst car h~al b combe allIJus to) rultnorts utIhvorable to thet instituttiona, antd thte enttire coui-t contitidence' ini the litnancial abiility of the I 'residlet of1 thle htstitittion. Thle causes5C which led to the suispen sin have been laidI hteir te the putblitc in a circulair f'roi thle h:ui of' Col. eIoltn (i. Wi tter. We see 11i) reasoni tol doubtlt itt anty partticular1I tile aceunieyo' of htis stal teetts, atnt Icfel bo undi~ to, gie t iwm itliill een ece, imtii llome ftet,, ar e develop'~ ed wt.hichx will dhisered-. it thein. As yet, we~4 have~4 heard of I y ther' eigrhty tihouIs?i I utt 411 inety liqutidaxtedi. and14 we4 are intfore 'ttti hazt, they willi ct"littue tol be re'deceed We arte fuirthet' itfrmted that.( 'l. ty thiouiool ''liars worth tat private' !lroperty, att prices' tixed4 upon't i. he'tore tihe su~spen'tsion', m1114 ? llers to takte St. i'la~ry's ills ini paymenI't. Thle Iiiabilities of' tihe Ihmtk- ate butt little over three4. hunttdredt thoutsantd pledhgedi it all itt liqutidation of the lui bilities of tihe Iitmk. Thlese fthets clearly inadicat e ltha there is really to dantger of' utltimazte it thr' intte'grity. Antd we' e'nn see no yearts thle cionIununI~ity have r'eliedl up. (It it andt' suttl'lred 2no 111ss,. the (1111 pini to tihe butsiness5 men't (it Itle city as151 t n th ltiatet sohveneoy of' thi' institiut in. There' is some ~t divr preilt ig on tis~ ethaterydola wtill be'tt ul itoe1ly lt redeemed. y 114 I'a the ('tee).t ofI these5 hets th bills421 thastve ciued14 41 stead lisy to cie On1',~l Satriday tit they willade nnty cetsl ill the dollar;ii tine londay~ therU4 'felytll(ugt to seenytiecnts on 'l'uesda't 50 gcer'nt. ti U'14't~S 'IuIt redrto ~ aorm thir wne'' roemlu sion. Th?l~ y wold doi well4', to1 holdy o vtii thi smallt ill' anOf her artie TiH SUTER BNNEMIR Siinits lle, So. Ca, JOHN T. GREEN, EDITOR. TVESDW;f , l,18t O6tr PIaniciples. c '%ere as one Icoant on wchich there eqn ibe no lireruitty of opeianon in the Sodh among those rh'o are true .t her, or rho hat mnado up their ninds nlot I be deares ; that is if we sherstld.br 'urcd to chooer bet ween rqiestance and! enmissiun re shoud1, take resistance at all hazards." DA iduouY. "To dip that, raneert of arefif! ifust ie neceoa ?y., not to eacelf 1p; g744 . for ,f wcould then ibe AMI? lte, but to $aere ouerselves. Thut in my riew, 'rr- t i#4 onething needful.."--CA a1.ouY. " What is the remrde? I ansawer *eeesion, taited meressim of the iarholding States, or a arge number ol ermc. Nothinse eie w-il be rie.. rothing else wU bce practiable."-Cnusvrs. cf"' Messrs. A. V1iiTF & Co., tire Agents for the Bianner in Sinterville. 7"Cominnmications intended for he Bonner must be handed in on or Ijetibre Saturday inornhig, tid those Pavorinhg Its with advertizeients will )lealse let us have thern at least by O'clock on Monday. . . 7" W . lear fro Te lt Riflv/s Re'fablican that the Governor A> this State has appointed the lion. 1. P. 1initannso, to the U. S. Senate rot-011 this Staite, Vice It. DARnSwVLI. lRin.:rr resigned, I,' VF have (t our talile the Mlay No. of The Aimericani Wiq Rc. vIiel'. Amiong the coitents we find(] a Portrait and liography of Ilon Wi. uIu: 1. S.mnRKf. 1t, MisZiisissipi. NWE are indebted to the 11oni. Josi.:'ii A. WOOW.R Air a copyit of i speech delivered in 'omlegress by the I Ion. A. W. YNAvin.x, of' North Caro lilla onl the subject ot tihe public print mg. TI.ac Secesirona Victory. Usiler the above head we find nu editorial article in tle failg State Rghts Ro-plepuan, ehtining' a victory - tI'r co-operat ill in the late CoIveitioni. We didl litipe that the press inl the saie spirit which actuated the iajority of' the Coniventtion in agreeiig to the Rie port of the Connnittee of' Twenty-one, would stop all further diiTerences and diseussion in the State. Beyond all'dispute the Secession par .v-ean elIni r riumph fher theuir princi fL P0n 't fi o ntof tlis (,vet. n their polcy w&':.t4bp Separate Secer iulon of' the State; the State has Rot seceded, for tWe very strong reason that the p'eople lindi dec~idedt aginst it. Thie Co-operati ii ists c'an claimi no vie totry, ihr the'y 'desire Secession with the Co-operation of thet Soiuthiern States, whieb we filed 'to obtain, and henic, 'onisjtenRt ly witti our policy' we could not seced1e. Thei truth '. the w~hole satilledJ with the prsntSate ofae thrs s flhi'uwna chlin 1g. Nonei j but thorough be on meni cani he. Thlen let. nonlie rejoice oveir tht submission wichiil sterni ne~e Sity hasL' fhrced up~on our belove'td She :e. I et us ifI we ('Jil, fthrget the. p.ast, inul endeavor to lpre pare to mieet ti h l'uture. * CoN. eiauuuanianger-. W x proiniset ini ouriJast to lay lie. tihre our1 readerii.thle r'easonI~s gi.. lv (.'uolonel i~~~M .t an;u-:n fihr c'oncturrie in th liepo~jcrt 4)' th -.tei Connittee of TIwc. tyon ;(in r irst paige the'y will h. hIbutial, Ic ele rl it hws by refereneit. to the recordt, tI it this StateI has never' prophos.ed any~ otier acioniei than thbroughi I Uion( o ti he ii South anid withI t he joinit co'iiusl a: 'I co-o~ pe.at iln of' t he S~t'at 'es ragievuer . T[his was the~ po si. tiioi itt' thler C'o-oper'ationi par'ty dir iing thie excit ig dis'uissionas hast sununeiar. It is beclieve'td by miany3 that thle Stalte [had pledgedu. herse'lfI to act alonie if >t heri St aites decliined to co-operate. wit ber', andt thlerefbtre by thlenaction of' the' onvii en tioni (or its fahiure to niet,) t his I iledge~ had noi t been redleeed. hint myi~ tone whlo 'ril take the troubhle. to read thle st ateiinein tt lie whle ina~ t ter' as set fth b iIy Mir. i\ iM 1usm.:n, unmlst cii conviiced thaut this queiist ion had niev. r properily eamie up fIr dteisioni, tot1ii lie co iiur of' thte ither States f'oredi is to conuisider what we should do, now brown upon1 uri own resonrees ats a epa i;rate sovereiignity Th''is questioni -am pirperly btelbre the Conven~rition,. midt thle Iltieport o the ('uiiitte i'ce lhe answer givenR, " it is not expediint Tu' Co'trros P'.ANv.--The iard (ot radte of' lkatimiore hlas adoptedl resolui lons co mmenidinug this new piublica on issued at Waishiingtonii, to Ithe siup Oiliiiiiiity, aIs a journail wvell i'alculi. e'd to benclefit theit southern'ii trade, andu~ cvele thtle innfaturinig, aigricuiltur I and1( otheiir r'esouirtces of' the South, ini || ioit whc liIlaltlimore is deeply inater sted. So siays the Ilaltimiore Sun. Th'le W lig State Con vecnt ion oif MI is -oi asseimbled at.sSt. Louis on the 9th tilt. Mrli. Filhniore was nomina 'dI fori P'rceit, ?.ubhjdet to the deci. lonI of the N itinatl ('onenLtiioin YSTEIIY AND ExciTMF.bICNT.-"A (in einnati paper has the f dIlowiig in re furence to a great excitement which at present exists ihl Morrow county, Ohio It seets that, some time since, an Indiari: duetori, no -Aknown to have lhrge inis ofanoney,ery suddenlly disappeared; soon aller the man with whom lie boarded, whose farin was shingled with nurigages,.and was nev or-kiiowi ti) be inl iulhdet started ti4 glirilnia,. leaving in. the possession of lis wifie lairge rolls of* t1ioniey. Some spiritual niediums residing there being coisIlted, intlimited that the Doctor was murdered by this iain, and teld the citizeis where to dig tor tle body. Two or three hundred nien gatlhered and began the search; but blilowiig their sNu spicious rathier t han the sig gestions of' tle mediuins, no discovery has beena .1iad0, owing. to the revelh tions of a clihrvoyait.' Tlis clairvoy ant sitid thiis mian had killed a pedlar. some years betre, aidl thit his bones would be thund in the bank of a mill rac. The- excited polulae went to the spot, and floid a hnnan skeletoni. The elairvoyait theu told themi where the bones of the Inlian doctor might be found, aild another great seiel is being mnade. The search at last ie counts was not couiplete. Great world this. WIE(K OF FIFTY SAiIM.N VssE:.s is 'ri: IeE- (Grcuf A1os of Jtfe.-The steamer Osprey, (roan St..John, N. F., April 23d. has arrived at lJalihlix, with aceoiunts of the wreck of hetween lifly aid sixty vessels in the ie il thlie gale (d April '201h. The Newlbundland paperS state that the loss of lit;e has been, con'siderable, how great is nit known. A list ot'eighteen vessels lost, wihi fiil I ecar'goes of skils, is given, one ol which had live ot her crew drowneid, atid another two. In imnv c0ses, as the vessels drifted towards the ice, the crews deserted theta ai'l escaped to thie shore. Ilk soiai' en-1ses the alan doied vessels have been taken into port. Ii mtiidreods of the crews of' the Wreek. ed vessels are said to be oi Rieliard Island, 34onavista Bay, in a state of destitution and starvation. The As. setIbly 4 Newfoundland las reuest edI tle Goverimnrto iapprolriate X300 for their relief, aid fiour or five vessels would sail to them as soon as the wind would erniuit. A vessel had arrived at St. .1 lith, wYhich ojireported that. up ward of* one thoui.isand shipwrecked sealers had reached (Greeniford, but the nmtiihuher is po'lably exaggerat. The disaster is said to b iearly equal to that at Prince Edward's Island last -year. The sealing fleet this year were prin eipually litted out friom St. John's New huitdland,- and hter outports. Very S VA ScitialthilSpring, ow ilmto the large qIuantitics of ice. S.%xron MA% oUs N'sinccr.-"Tomi bighee." the Washiingto correspon. dt'i of' the Montgoniery 'Gazette, re ferring to Seniator MAlinguin's .mceeent Scot t speeh, says: .. " Uipon t he whole question ouf deli iiing his po~sitiont, never once did Mr. Al. allude to thle iiulhilientioni tines oh '32 anid '33:, w heni he was as fir' on the other exrin s he is placing hianself lie comnside'red on this subjet, fromia I83:h to the election uif 1830, that Monlth C'arolina, com)iplimnentarv to his l'irmniess, gav hhniiii her Presidential vote; buit nlow lie is goinag over to the h'hiilistines,who haive despoiledl, to their uttanost, the heritage of the South,. and they aire seeking a' 'higherhlaw' conitrol than (lie (Conhstituaioni gives t heiti over lhe iinstitutionas of thie South." At ain eleet iona hiebi at Chieraw, oni thet :rI inst.. the E bllowing gent leimen were eliecd D irectors of' the Aeir ebants' Hak of ( 'hteraw. ihri (lie einsu ing year :-.I . LC. (oit, A. I'. I ~a( oste, .Aialloy, .1. A. David, C. C'oker. At a subhseqjuent naeetintg of' the llitird, John (C. Colt wais re-elected I.A. A Vrtaar.-Weo learnt from the~ I .ancas.ter Ardger, that on Sautur da:. '.ast, a iatal atli-ay occurred att the. anil of l'r. J1olin Ilecaves, ini that. Dis ticht.' It appeairs (liat two yonung iineo by the inme of liowers, weiit (lite ii l while thieie a dilcult y took pr ewen I leaves and '.f'hiomaas aurwhile Arcthibauld flowvers, a '' alien liesenit, dlismonited fr'oim his 'horse aa I'brtewv a st'ie. ori piece of' iwedl tim -r at Iheaves--wen lcaves i.it in possg~1ioni of thie sanie, and betat A. lIhwer. thadit lie died in about six hours. IJttw. es has siince siirrenderedl lii iself' to the Ipropeir athiorities, aned ittnow ini er, coiifieiiient. TIhiere beinig noi aimoii tsiy exiting between I~ceaves and the deceased previons to this alluai r, it is prnesimiied to be the work of nugovernable passion. Coii.. F'i.ov n.-Col. Floyd, al/as Dri. I t. TI. I lines, who has beeii conlined in (Tharloston under a writ fromi Mr. W\'anl, hats beeni released, uinder thte pisonm bounds Acts, we learii by the *huarleston Courier of the 27th nilt. 'The 'oirer undmcerstands that a caste oft his hihee has been taken by that skil ('il arutist Vannnehii, and thtat the lDoe toir's secondl self is now on exhibit ion aotthrnt~ables in teinimica b.le collection to lbe seen at hatch's I Lall. Si'.u~sr h,imroni ON Sustnar.-A bill has passed thle Pennsylvarnima Legisla ture. anud beeni sigiied by3 the Governor, a hieha makes it an indictable olfenee to wil tany quaniitity whatever of' spiritu-. mit.', 'inous or madt. Ii quor in Lancaster oumnty ont the Sabbath, tinder a penal. :y of' i20 for eauch oioence-l0 to go to bie intermner, who istrmade a competent, sItitn.s in the case. T1he law wtill take aflea t 'a the first oh' Jtivy next. "h.blin.I y tiil first of Jafitui.r roilitO..fralto'ad /ournal. lossutil reef:js hlis choie jpteei'Cc ftrhetorioetr gatlzerings oflegislai, le treats fhe.444i assean0.ir hi . Lressen.JiVhomely phrase that he a:is to real 'Uiz their Cccption f 'rent orator. lie does not 4Uj hese addresses abov the s.andard respectable speaker ut a town icet g. 1e is; thus greatly unequal ie ns oratorical eilrt; kil certain oeCq ions rising to the lull ajet -t of, is h'erni -on otlir obtamismefitii#i17 >elow, Whvlen hie hpasappi 1" or -prel aration' he works up, 6y' th :la.borationk of rhetorical itat scnQy% hinag that, strikes byg& kiad of ra nagifiience of phrase "and cjt less Of historieal illubtiution. Ti ls iontrast is seen inl l -Ct of his fpubliq disethsl, 4tij he sap ears like two diflerelt persoiugeS. But, eve,1 .in isof jeltat' iS hat subhinaated hig~ht of p: vhicl he oecasiona tlj ruches, thedIt". s blended issociations othat (aket'Jiiiu he itoral gnatideur of* IisQpostin, Ievated disecourse is tarnished by muudij s - ulgar imtters as the tralle of U.ll inna b ids 1br so imaniy ~words a i'Js lagyar chief an deliver witiin a give I ace of tiame, the terams of ddmahlsidaO if some place s being the price ciU f these bonds. lie thdis coins 4i-1 vords ofpatriotisi in to nioiney evig Vi& enm. .le makes that which is iintend Ai ds an appeal to popular' ymiathy1 A.) depend oi ignolble priiple;.u. lostoi this theatrical itnode of filling1 lie 11all in which le so ie w.As nuL IOpted, blt there was 'Oujiled with he record of his oratorical mi.wi:ndot i Staitenent of* the suM in -dollari"und :et:ts for which the bonds offertd far mile there brouighit. The -association) nade the cause ofI I uigary. look vut'it r.1*, and gave the eloqulieinceC by l t was pleaded and ePorced a mercena -v taint. It seems be% yind denial that a-pottiojb > the Northern wishg of the. Whig, Iarty wish to keep the slavery excites neutt as a nest egg, friom which tt latch projects ol future agitation .an sectionmal hostility to sla ury. Ail i? :ioisni is i isnigredient too 1 .anifid Ofolitical resuls for the par %0 f :ouild use it as au blaniniailig elemnt,t .4 lisiense with its cisploianenit or-,, m(IaIince coannexion with it. Now.wo igree in ojiiiioi with such of our icoi' empii oraries as advocate tie pmolici-y4t1 inality,, 111d tiat now i the tilluetq Put in end to the unholy. coinbiatioix ay which aspirants for the Iresiy :oinnliect themliselves withi..F e md Abo alitionists. The preis-enltis fhu -hosenTeriod to cruik 'ttis- jitt1iA :itltion-toIextirpate from rj 4m of elctikfts this destructiygir nlenlt, thle an ti-shk -Ae " Ify .o urIn L1 dti m. .4t lie tw~u g ar~taes - Wi, it will, at. t e 4n a iona of 18.7, inejitall'Pe4p psiverniinent. It can only zaceg: uju itic~al streith lby' chdi hiose. who'obtuiin th icitf re lified to eminence by lis a J,4jhu r secret, such a distributionci e'dete I litong imiuust follow as wilblaygei y aicreaseo thes powecr smad iaiflueneo;o5 lie anati-slavcry element., It ,wilp-Jg oo late the-n to cheeuk .itsa ho dco~maion c4 ter gi no hen Anitslave~ ry partyg w ga~ uu o4teciay for' ev ilth'. la outherni States 11o alieeidt'e3 .qr, istaince. Now tho iW thc' mine toasceer this perilode 161 i4f anulio~in. It 'would -be' ses r m rge finality after the Execeutive uihht a filled bsy as man. who:'shokk& n rotiess devotion to Southoeri intada aid inastitutions,. Who is exaltedJb e librts of Abolmiinits. '1 ii lithe party would~ be insidndusi -# > till anmny of the sunrdiittsintin.: .trative paosts with itsceatu areW tE r~ntrol of the PostiOfliceoil rst objec~t souaglat, as b~y .that k4 ubhl ic opinioit conla' be shape di ~Att rads oft suabversion)~ anda 4ihh661sIti have States. It is'imnpossiblistoahow ll thec ramailicationsof sthe evil-shkouht ae adma inistrativre departrnejts pf gbe eiderl Government be filed:bho abile politicias who refuse tvWz iemisel ves ini advance against agutatn efore thecy aire trusted and pro: Jic. 'hey whoE shun such pledge az orthay of paublic fith. Uflicint. onaige muhlst niot fall .intoM en~d ste eous hands.-CUhar. Eenig Aperson writig from 6 > to the Newport News, gave th >wimg mecldent: "T'wo ce:.i non-looking rss wred the hoctel this inommii~ a~1 te 'nines-a man11 and his wife Ic iale individual' looked, fobil -1 ~ -'rld, like a day-laborer, an'd the ib nale bore a close resembhaneen tly -ish scullion. She wore. coarse, 1v ar brogans, and to her girdle ga4 . inclied a gold watch and chain vaht least at two hunared dollars1f gTo asband.left the hotel for hialf an P Id returned with -a receiptIo one mndred and fifteen thousand dltr e value of the dust whIch he had ji mnsignedc 'for transportatibultom ' ork. This sum has beene gainmedV gging; the huasband d ugwhik h~e ilfe washed, assisted .hy her little sn, ;dottnyears." ISe is mentioned : A lunnti . resser died at Peckham. Aghnw f - 3ritonitis, produced..by big I au~ vallowed the handle of a alylo spo~ 'n a poat inontemaan i~W 4t~r r'o handles of'.table s* oi~ a i~r zen ofnliils, twe or three ton buion, weie I'oiuid iniW ~ a L' the decased.' "Nothing but a Printer, aiy how."' * We do not know who is responsible. for tie following. We find it.floating I about among our exeliangds, and give it for what it is worth Such was the snecrig remark of a, peyson nipt a thonsatid miles-froin thdd U~bi of out sanctum, in refe'ring to thlb protfessiont We follow ini pride. " No body bit a Printer." It makes the blood rui ratripati inl onr veins to . :hea';such expiressions from the Hips of tho'se nursed on republican soil. - No body but a Printer, any how "- WI o was Benjamin. Franklin " Nobody but a Printer!" Wixo was William Catxton, one of thle fathers of literature? " Nobody but a Printer !" -W ho was Earl Stanihope ? " Nobody but a Print er !" Who was Salinnel' Wood wortht the Poet ? " Nobod v but a Pi h.ter !" Who was Goveritoir Aristrong, of' aissatuitsetts 1 " Nobody but at Print er !" Gcorge 1'. Morris, Jamries I iarp ei, I Horace G' redey, Robert Sears, and Senators T~ameron, Dix,- -Niles, anud .Jaines utehalammia, the distinguished Seiator of Pennsylvania, who is now the choice of' a great portion of the )eOIe of the Unioni as their maididate ih'r tile text Presidenev. Who are they ? " Nobody but 'Printers, any how." One thinlg is evidetnt ; every lierson who chooses catnnot be a Print cr. iratins are necessary. F.tnt. CAsr.u iiry.-A most affeet ing and paiifull ineidetit, has just been reliated to us, which occurred in our Distriet a fiew weeks ago. A geitlemamia was busily engaged inl plantin tg out tLe cutiitn'n yellow Ja ltilne Niie, in is yard, a1id alfer trill imilig atway a fecw of the roots threw themit aside, w here they were picked tup by two of his lit tle children, aged as we are infiormed, a tt three and live years. The children were playi Il with them for some tite, tld n1o doil,t ehtewed and swallowed portions of the root. A ler a short time the 'imigest returned to its mother, aiid lying dow n near where she wits siting teli into a shunb111er, Its sie supposed. Aftier at whiie site called to awake her chilu, but inictlili. She stooped dowi to raise it up but it wits dead. The. elder child wats thei takcit ill aid i tle couriise of, a few hIutirs Was also inl the land of spirits. Thus in a few brief", Ioirs, death blore oil two lovely vie tims, fi-oi a homne where all was glad - ness, and left atll'etioiate0 pareiits to iournt over at dispentsationl Its suddenI its ialilietiig. We chronicle this fitct fror tile in t'zIraittioi of* others. It is tnot perlhapjis grenerally, knlown, that thle connnllon elwasiline Vine which is Ibuid in stcht profiisioii throtgh our District, amd State, is an active and deadly We have frequent -known serious resiutv*)ci' r W)ii to carclessily by children, t : caution parents.:against alloing i grow where their children wtill be a e to pluck its tempting flowerso, wiefsli a are equaltly as po0 isontous as' anyt ot her' part of' the plat t.-JJ(ack Ricetr h1Wate/-t man, Bdai,,bst. A x INTERtEsTeo) CsE OF' -LURoEI1Y. --At the Charity I losopital, yesterda, we witnessed a case to which our ttmdi cal reatdiing has not p~rescrited a paral 1I1. A laid, 'oinig up the rivet' Ont a vessel, got ent atngied ini t he coils o~fthe~ anebhor-chaiun, whilch lie wats latyinig out, amnd had his aurm and tore-armii severely Injured. Not to~ speak of the flesit wounids and the br'uisinigero the mus eles, the arm was I'ractured aibove the elbiowt, and the t'hre-arm itt half' dozen platcs betweent the elbow antd the wriist. rTe aiccident oecturrinig at the~ Blalize, intflammtanttioni of too violent. at chaturacter' had suiper'vened begin e ,the C lad reached the eitj, for' ainputationi, inidicatted in t he Iirt plhice to be per' hformetd. As it subhsiuded, the atttenditna U "a sutrge'on conivied a hope of' savting the limb atltogether. T1he bonte of' the atrm --thle humnerats--was healintg ine ly, bitt the bonies of' the forec-atrm--the ra dius antd uhmt--fractured .in so many' placs, aud acttly exposed in .others, I were 'xlibiatintg, anid thle sutrgeon m der'tooak to disartticulate bioth bonies att I the elow andio wrist. .lThis he necent plishied wit hotut wouundinig an imtpor' a taint artcry', -nd the boy's at-mt, as we saw it yesterday, p'resent every ap- t pe'atrance of' gettinig wtell. E~veni ntow lie cani wor'k his finigers, aind wthen en tirely heatled, and artificial lever' ort fuler'umt cain bie aidatptedl to the atrm, in, sutch a manniter as to supply, a degiree, the aibsenee oft the ntatuiral sutpportts, the raidiuts anid ubhia. Thius, certainly' t is an inter'esting calse in surgery.--. -ExTaxonDotany PERFonMloANcE; OF A 1LocotoTitvE.-Th'le Batltiiuore andr Ohio liailroad~ Company are no0w work inig a locomtotive up a grade of' 520 teet to thte mile. This grade occurs at the grecat tuntnel, wh'Iere at temnporarty track haes beeni laid over the miountatin, 'oi' the pur'pose of' transpor''tig maiteri- ~ al f'or the road beyond, int adv'ance of' opeintg that work. The locomotive g used weighs twenty-f'our toins, and the ta ordinary load attached to it, in addi- a tioni to its own weight, is twelve tons. h T'his grade htas thus lhr been worked a with reguiharity and safety. The wvhole power obtained is ini the ordinary ad. tI besion of' the driving wheels.e rTis feait is so far in audvaune of the somtmonly received opintion in refer- d an1ce to the capacity of' locomotive en ines, that it wotul d hardly be credited a without practical proof of' the felet, It shiows conclusively that the maxi- 111 mnumt grades on the road, after it shall er be completed, wvill oppose no serious di >bstacele to a profitable tratilic. p< The tunnel is nearly completed, and s' ivill be in readiness for use in a few C wteeks. Some twelve or fifteen miles t' fthe track are laid west of it. Every d partof' the lne is beitug urged forward a with thn greerst encrgy, nd no,1oubt.o