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j'J -" UMItER BANNER :VERY TUENDAY MORN ING - YW. J. FRtANCIS. TEEtMS, W DOiA RS In advance, Two Dollars W fifty t'ents at the expiration of six months, - .Threee Deltar" at the end of the year. Spae discontinued until all arrearages its Pae. tunless at the option of the Proprietur. ldvertlsements inserted at 8EVENTY 1 Coats per square, (12 line,, or less,) for use rist, and half that sum for each subsequent Te number of insertions to be marked oe Advertisenmenta or they will be published atnt ordered to be discontiauud, and charged Beordingly. gg GNIE DOI.LAR per rqimre for a single inertion. Quarterly and aontbly Advertioe 1sets ,will be charged the same a'+ a single in seipe,. and) semi-monthly the smeo as new uos Correspondence of the Charleston Cuurier. WasuIforozr, July 25, 1852. The Senate's dlebate on the Fisheries tuisilin, :wiill open the eyes of the .untry to oh. fatct.that Great Britain e a :oomnitted a gnoas and aggravated .. ralge oa the-United States, by re rt to arms, for the enlforcemiient' of "in ewithout having given any uitice w.hatever to ..the. gvernuwitt, of the order itself. if they had given notiec, -.there would have ben anli ieterial for reionstrance ind ' for negotiation. erase would have been time-, too, for prparation for protection of our inter este against violence ;, and the A meri e hy fleet would have been aware of thAer hazard, and either abandoned - their business, or prepared to defend thremselves. The eteithhiness with whiehths Britis:h government, umamngtd 'th6 Initter is surprising." N~t the elghteet Intimation ol' the order, or of the means taken'to enforce it was giv en to this government here, or through Mr. Lawrence, our Minister at London. Mr. Webster derived the infornationi frpm the U. S. Consul of John's New B$rnswick, who had got it hiinself by * o ddent, and not by official oum auuni. eation. Mr. Webster's publication of notice to parties, the parties interested, of the order, . was - .instantly followed by an 'aocount of the arrival on the. :se of action f -Adniral-Se'inour's feet ofsteniffil of Y sseis of-war. While the Senate wdr. 'mncd at the intelligence and looking 'inxiously to - see what the President was to do, and speculating upon the probability of vio lence on the part of the British force, and consoling each pther with the idea that there was no danger of war and so cause of excitement, the British Ad * uniel wax'doing his work. Yesterday after the- adjournment of.the House, eat &xdteuient was produced by the d- patcbto Spaker Boyd, stating that ha captures ad oommenced. .There'ispo negotiation on foot for te, arrest of the British orders. Mr. - - Crampton has no powers to negotiate on the subjeet. The (British Govern ment has eliberately assumed a false construqtion of the treaty nd deter. -"t toexpel Aer' rom the t rouids. Th re is no room tir a n'negotiation. It is admitted that, es $ ator Mason declared in the Sen ate, It would be degradation for us to offer to negotiate in the face of the ene my's cannon. Mr. Crampton,~.1 have reason to believe, wqunt to see:Mr. -Webster upon business other than this .jtestIon, s td which he has neither advice nor authority. We shall hear fromn the President, IS ansWeS to the Senate rusolution, on oneda . There is no doubt that the AdMn..lstration concurs with Mr. Web star in he opinion that the British con * struction is wrong. But even that is no longer the quetstionm. I- subjoin'from the State papers the opinion of Mr. .J. Q. Adams, when *Secetary of State, upon -the 'terms of she Convention of 1818. That was of eewse ihe opinion of Mr. Monroo's 4dministration. The instruction to Mr. Gallatin, one of the Commisionersm, was to claim for the United States all the rights recognised In the treaty of 1783 iand it will be seen that Mr 'Adams consider. * ed that our representatives had secured the whole coat fishery in every part of the British dominions, except with In three marine miles of their shore : "The convention restricts the liber ties in some small degree ; but it e --large. themi probably in za degree not lees useful. It has secured the whole .nas fielhery in .every plart (of the Br-i tish dominions, except, within three marine rnile, of the shores, with the liberty of using all the hiarboirs ih.r shelter, for repairing damaige-s, anid for obtaiming wood and water. It has se eured the full participation in the La. brador fisheries, .the mosit important p art of the whole, and that of which - -- It -was at Qhent p.eculiarhy the initen tion of the British Government at all event, to deprive us. This fishery can atbe prosecuted without the use of the nsgeriishores for drying and euqinpg th . fib. ft is chiefly carried on izn the boats close to the shores, and the lees of it even if the rest had been loft unafected by the same principle, verdi hae-. heen a loss of more than half of the whole interest. The con venition ha. also secured to us the right of drying and curing fish on a part of the island of Newfoundland, which *had not been enjoyed under the treaty of 1'183. It has narrowed down the preteations of exclusive territorial ju risdiction, with reference to those fisho ries, to three marine iniles from the shores. Upon the whole, I consider *- this intereet as secured by the onmven tion of 1818 in a manner as adIvanta geous s it had been by the oonvention of 178$. We have gained by it, even of fsahing liberties, as 'much as we * hare ost, but if riot, we have gained practicall7 the benefit of the principle that omrhlberties in the fisheries recog nised by the treaty of 1783 were not abtogatedby th.warof 1812." 70s Lkquor-Law of Rhode Island, en the Mea. eai, went Into opera eaoie the 109.h ult, Correspondenne of the Courier. WASlINToN, July 26, The President will probably, to-day, send to the Senate in answer to their call, all the information he may have on the subject of the British orders rela tive to the Fisheries, and also infirm the Senate what measures ho has adopted, if any, for the protection of the citizens of the United States, em ployed in those fisheries. The Pre i dent will have a list of captures to communicate, but not much other in formation, except the British orders of May 26th, which Mr. Webster had ob tained from a source in the colonies, and not from the British Government. The President cannot, probably, say that he has taken any measures on the subject; and it is well known that there are no vessels of war at his dis posal which could be usefully sent to the fishing grounds in-competition with the British naval force. It was rumor o : that the Albany had been sent to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but she is at Norfolk. Commodore Perry is in this city. He says that the Japan expedition is not delayed for want of men-he has seamen and marines enough. But it is delayed, and is likely to be so for an indefinite length of time, by the ina bility of the persons emiployed to re pair and refit some of the vessels to perform that service. It will be seen tiom this fact that there is no danger of the occurrence of a collision between our navy and the force under the con manid of Admiral Seynour. It is still a question, too, whether the President, with the assent of Congress, will un dertake, by force to repel the assaults of the British force upon the Aimerican fishing fleet. If he were to do that it would be war. To whatever extent prosecuted it would still be war. The rumor that the difficulty was to be the subject of negotiati.n between Mr. Webster and Mr. ampton, is, probabl - erroneous. Mr. Crampton is with ifr. Webster in Beston; but it is now doubted whether he visited him in reference to this subject, or whether he had htimnself certain intermation or i-nstructions iii regard to it. I he British Government appears to he in earnest, and they will carry out their designs and exclude the Aimeri cans entirely from the fisheries; that is. fiom- the most valuable part of them. After this has been effectually done, this Government can itake representa tions in opposition to the violation of the Convention of 1818. I find, from the State papere, that in 1816, while Mr. Monroe was still See. retary of State, and Mr. Adams was in London, the difficulty respecting the fisheries became very menacing. This Govermnent had, in the ncuotiation which led to the treaty of Gheit, main tained that the rights of the United States to the fisheries were unimpaired by war, and refused to enter into any stipulations other than t!.oou of the t sety - 1783. Ikin' o.British Gov errnent considering that treaty as ab rogated by war, issued orders to expel the Americans by -force from the fish. ing grounds. Thlis Governmnent pro posed then to treat on this subject. Mr. Rlaguet was the Britishn Minister here. Mr. Monro~e, in a letter to Mr. Adams. says "Mr. Riaguet inute rmued me of an order which had ben issued by Admir-al Giifith to the Biritish cruizers, to remove our fishin~g vessels from the coasts of those provinmces, which he would endeavor to havet re voked pending nego tiation. i s at temtpt succeeded." Trhe atlair is ve-ry dit1K-ently managed now; and the British Government have closed the door to negotiation. Mr. J. P. K~ennedy, the new Secre taryv of the Navy, is at his post. The Cabinet have been in conelar e dailv. Mr. Cainrad, the Secretary of War, has beeni talked of for the vacant seat on the hench of the Supreme Court. But it is said he will notn accept it. Gen, Jackoess and Gen. scott. A reminiscence of Gen. Jackson and Gen. Soott is revived by. the Wtashing ton correspondent of thu Newv York Jour-nal of Commerce : "In March, 1829, Gen. Jackson sue eeded to the Presidency. Between Gen. Scott and Gen. Jackson there had been personal ditiieulties dating as far hack as the 3-ear 1815. "tan early stage of the new ad mrinistrationt, Ge.n. Scott called at the office of the Secretary of War--Genm. John II. Eaton-and tendlered to him his resignation as Major General in the Army. "Gen. Eaton, a very col, consider. ate mani, and frienidly to Gen. Scott, begged t- rernonstrat -. against t his "Gen.i Scott was, however, hent up. (in his putrpose; and he added to his explana! ion, that, his iamrily were~ ini Europe, and that ho was about to go out, and join them, and should he ab sent some mouths, perhaps a year. "Geh. Eaton then requiestedl Gen. Scott to remain in the city, and call on him the next (lay. "Gen. Eoton went to President Jackson and in formed him of the into view, and~ that Geni. Scott had tenider ed bis resignation. Gen. Jac.ksoni re* plied "I suppose Gen. Scott, thinks that on account of 01(d difliculties he tween us, I am unfriendly to himt which is not the case-and therefore he wishes to resignt. Now, Mr. Secretary, do what you please in the mattter, but treat Gcn Scott in precisely the samie manner and with the amne considera tion as if nothing had never passed be tween him and me." "The next cday Gen. Scott called at the War Oflice, and1 Gen. Eaton in formed himi that, as he wished to go to Europe, he (the Secretary) would give him a furlough for twelve monihs. Gen. Scott accepted it, but, still left his resignation In the hands of the Sto-e tary, to be acepted or not. "Gen. Scott wont to Europe. A fter about ion months' absence, he ret,,-,d I to Newt ork. From that city he ad dressed litter to Gen. Eaton, Scere tary of War, thanking him *for his courtesy, and .expressing a desire td withdraw his resignation. Gen. Eaton replied, sending him his letter of re signation, and say ing that he was much gratified that an oficer who had con ferred so much honor upon the service had determined to remain in it. "It was of course, in the power of Gen. Eaton, at any time, while the re signation was in his hands, to endorse his name on it; and that would have put an end to Gen. Scott's military career. GaS. SCOTT.-A correspondent of the Cleveland Plain Dealer writes from Ravenna, Ohio, on the 10th July, that the night befhre 'Hon. D. R. Til den, a freesoiler, addressed the Scott Club, and read a letter just received from B. F. Wade, Whig United States Senator at Washington, in which said Wade writes: 41 have this day had a conversation with General Scott, in which he de elared he would sooner cut. off his right hafl than lend it to the support of slavery,' &c. RECEPTION OF a. \ EDSTER AT hi'ARLFInLI-IMIMORTANT SPEECH. -Uos. ton, July 25.-The reception of Mr. Webster at Marshfield yeterdav, was a grand affair. le arrived at Icings. ton in the ears at 4 o'clock, accon. pauind by Charles Lamnian, his private Secretary, and was greeted by an immense concourse of citizens. IIe was received at the depot by a Com. mittee deputed to accompany hint te Marsfield. Business was suspended along the route, and the roads were crowded with men, women and chil. dren. Arriving at Marsfield, the procession entered Webster's grounds, and halted in front of a rostruin erect. ed on a hill, around which an immense number of Webster's friends and neighbors had congregated. The lon. Seth Sprague delivered an address of welcome, to which Mr. Webster responded in feeling terms. Ile said he had not looked for such a testimonial of regard and such a welcome' home. His heart was deeply touched, not by the brilliant display around hint, but by the fact that the community among whom he had so long dwelt, who knew him so well, should have manifested suel unbounded esteem. After proceeding further in this strain, he alluded to our political position. Mr. Sprague, ho said, had been pleased to refer to recent occurrences, upon which he did not- deem it fit for hint to say any thing as the time had nut yet ce(:1. Whatever lie had good or valuable in him, he would hold in his own keeping, and not trust it to the waywardness of others. lie then alluded to the fishery ques tioni, and said it wod.*d not beemnc iy mnch on that point, until lie ospuke oflieially, but -he wouli assure them the administration would n1,)t. neglect the. inatter under any circumnstanies. - The fishermran h'< cotinued, hhall be pro tected in theim rights at. all hazards. - Whyv should they not? Most potenmt cneune were involved. The fisheries wer<~ the nurseries of a navy, fz omn whieh the most. glorious triumphs had sprung. Their sudlden interrupt in by England cannot be justified byv auy prinipfle or cons iderti on what. ever. It was wholly unjustifiable. The treaty oft 188 was mzade with the crown oif England, and if' a ves sel is capitured and adjudicated ulponl th -crown is answerable. We kniow whom to deal with. The United Slates will never permit their rights te he adjudicated by petty provinces, noi allow our vessels to be seized by petty oflieers and condemned byv the municipal courts of Quebee and Newfoundland-No! no! ! no! ! ! I~e then branched off upon other top. ice, when the ceremonies closed and the meeting adjiourned. IFrom the New York Times.] 'Look on this Picture, then on that.' Deerber the 5th, 1851.-'This was a dhay of prodigious agitation int New York; there was no room in any bodyh 's brain for more than one topic, or wordi, or dream or thought. It was all and always Kossuth.' Seven months pass. We quote agamn: [From the )w York Time. July the 14th, 1852.-'lIle has left us on this focurteenthi daty of July, the fact of his departure uniknowu, and wsithbout even a handtul of friends toi bid him God speedl.' Tite ScASoSs w leEi.NI.-Frloim the tith or l8th~,' ofJne, till the end of tihe nionthi, there is In) iighit. The siun disappears ir a short timi e behintd the hill s, hut tw i ilit and dawnt are bilended5 tpogether, aid t he last rays ut evening havi e not faded fiomt lie sky befibre the imorning light bre.,ks forth with rentewed briilliancy. I was in lee' land from the 15th of Mlay till lie 2thI oif J uly, anid all i thogh I never wentI to bedh bulbro eleven o'clockeh I did not onuce require the light of a cacndlle. lin May, as well as toward. the end ot July, the twilight lasted about two hours, but it was never dark. Eveii at the thume of' myv depart ur il could see to read till half-past elevein. At first it semied very stralinge to go to bed at broad daylight ; but I soon ge t used to it ,;ind no .'unshine was bright enough to keep met aiwake aftler ch- en o'clock. It. ofteni strick Iine as very rid iculIons, however, ti go * ut ihr an evening stroll about tenl, ai hjind moy. self in thme fil flIght, of day, inistead of the soft glimrnering of' the moont and stars. DoUUTFUL.-A wotnait dowin-east is staid lately to) have gone three days withoutspeaking a word to anybody. Thu San 'fsrnardino Settle 'ment. It is generally known to our readers that a large and flourishing colony of Mormons have established themselves in one of the finest portions of South ern Califbrnia, and . during the past winter have been actively engaged in agricultural and mechanical operations and in laying the Ifundation of an ex tensive and important settlement. We have recently conversed with an intel ligent gentleman, for many years a resident of the Southern country, who paid a visit to the San Bernardino set' tlement not long since, and during his sojourn among the singular and mis .guided people wsho compose the colo ny, acquired much interesting informa tion regarding. their social relations, plans and prospects. - The -San Bernardino rancho is rep resented as one of the'iost fascinating spots in California. It comprises a large tract of highly arable land, with easy, access to a finely timbered re gion , and is crossed by thirty never failing streams of delicious water. The Santa Anna river courses through the valley, along the entire exte of the San Bernardino tract, which is from twenty to twenty-five miles in leng~h, by sinoles in breudth. The rancho is-well stocked with horses and cattle, and possesses all the varieties of soil and diversities of surface, added to the matchless climate of the South, to make it the garden spot of that dis trict of California. The Mormons purchased this rancho last Fail for about seventy thousand dollars. Anasa Lyman, one of the twelve, and elder C. C. Rich, both riien of great shrewdness, anh unbounded in fluence among the Saints, acting as the agents of their people, in effecting the purchase.- The amount paid for the land was the joint investment of about live hundred emigrants from Salt Lake, who entered the Southern country by the Cajon pass, under the lead of elders Lyman aid Rich, appointed on the mission by President Young. After the bargain was. concluded, and the fiumi.ies had removed to the lands of the ranch, about two thousand acres were set ofi; in allotments for each of the colonists; in one immense field. This tract has been ditched and fenced and sown with wheat, each of the holders of the 'land constructing that antaouit of ditching required to enclose hi liId on one side, the whole five hundred allotments having been fenced in maid sown as one enormous wheat tiet41., At one corner of the - big field ".: as it is called, the Mor mouns erected a large hort, during the days of a greatened Indian invasion of the lower yountry, into which they re moved ull their families and effects, living in urninon, in true Fourier Style, and 'preserving their religious organization with untbroken faiitli, un der the direction of their presiding When our informant was among the San Bernardino settlers, there had been fir several weeks a cessation of labor, on aecounmt sf the unsetled state of' alairs about them, anmd w ithitn themi selves. TIheir spiritual adviser and chief' directr ws, of course, Elder Lyman, who wats assisted by Elder liush. Conside'rable dissatisfaction ex isted among sonlie ofI the Mormons at the muannerin whiich a quatitity of' land beloznging to thme Rancebo had been ap port ion'ed by their rulers. it was plain that Lyrmu atnd llich had appropriated thc most. valuable lots in- the divisiovn to themiselves, and wecre preparing to set (JUL vinecyards on their own account. A meeting was held ,to discuss the mnatter' on'e Sunday moring. TIhe saints were collectedl by thbe blast of' a born, which uns~ blowtn by a black Qabriel in a inost am tistic mianner, and when they had assemibled in the great hall, Amasa l.ynmn arose and puit the comnpanuy to the blush fihr having raisedl a qpuestion and a doubtlt against thle or dained of' God, lie enided by purcha sing a quantity of' grape cuttings of one of the breihren, and enlisting the ('tee labor of fifteen or twenty of'the Saints to se't t hems out, in the fields all. tted to Elder Lish amnd himself, promising to repay their services with vines at the end of' three years ! Suchi is the itfluience ubicsh the :rulers have over the p'eople ini the Church of Latter Day Saints.. It is quite probable that Lyman and Rich in whose names the Sa'n liermani (dinos Ranch was purchased will take excellent care to muanalge the atihir's of the new set tietnent most wiselY to their own initerest miud proflit. 'They'are both menh of shrewdnzess and cunning, with Iponer in their hands to regulate the soc.ial, dome1ic'tie and pecuiary colt eerns of the clyaswell as its spirit unaI aiirs. They ar'e the appointed amnd empow~ered Io'f Brtighami Yoiung and wield amn immtense influenuce among thirl clhuirebi briethren. Thle 5:m1 Bernardino settlement at preiet numbnhers about one thousand souls, we are informed and accessions to1 this ninb er take place by trahis f'riom Salt Lake mnzthly. Tlhe afihirs Thea. settler. are busied ini the ce'etion ofsaw anda' grist. mi lls, and~ have recnt ly dis. iver ed somue very extensive and vaslusaldle timbler' landi co'nvenmient, to thii a'p la'ce. It is e'xpe'tcd t hat a large emi gration fi om England will settLi ott the Berna rdiino lands dur iing lie cominu g Falt Ion which proispeCctiv'e increase of pop'1ulat i'on the iMormoitns puredicUt thle hope1 of' founmding ai city secon'd to nonte in Cal ilernia.-&n Francisco Alt/a Cauliforna. Smzit tiers is a geniis of' Graifin Jone's' stmp. 11ie driniks yeast ev ery inight to. rise early in the morn inig. atid recommtnends thle ('at ing of iindigou to his friends troubled with the "blues," upjon) the Ilomoephatie principle. ",Simila similibuw cutran THE SIMTER BANNEI. Sumterville, So. Ca. JOHN T. GREEN, EDITOR. TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1852. Our Principles. " There is one ,oint on which there can be ne diversity of opinwn in the South among those who are true to her, or who have made up their minds not to be slaves; that is if we uhould be forced to choose between resistance and submission e should take resistance at all hazards." CAnLHOuN. " To do that, rencert of action must be necessa ry, not to save the Union, for it would then be too late, but to save ourselves. Thus in my 'iew, conrert is the one thing needful.."-CALuoue. " What is the remedy ? I answer secession, united secession of the slaveholding States, or 4 large number of them. Nothing else will be wise -nothing else will he practirable."-CIuEvzs. Em" Mes.srs. A. WITE & Co., are Agents for the Banner in Sumterville. r' Communications intended for the Banner must be handed in on or before Saturday morning, and those favoring us with ailvertizements will please let nu have ther at least by 8 o'clock o'n i v. C?- c T Hy rnorning last. the lion. J. A. WOCnWARD, passed through Colnnbia on his way home-he was apparently in fine health. --------.-"-. - - C * WVE wvoutld call attention to the curd Mr. .oions F. IILi.Anu in re ference to the' E'ktit'n of Tax-Co ller tor. It een: a :ep ort is ini ci cilation that he had declined being a candidate for the ofliee of Collector-the object in putting forth the card is to correct this report. oua. J. A. Wooiwartl. WE are indebted to the lion. JOSEPH A. WOODWARD for the speech of the Ion. M. P. GENTRY, of Tennessee, upon the bill making appropriation for the expenses of the-fsidian department but availed himself of the conimon law which permits, when in Committee of the \'hole, the diseission of.any oues tion regarded as importvit -to the Re public. His remarks are made upon the Presidential Elo'tion. Wilakers Magaziase. Wz have received the first No. of Whitaker's Southern MAfgazine, printed by JonsToN & CAVIs, of Columbia. The table of conterts is full and quite interesting. We .are glad to hear the work has met with favor throughout the State, and Mr. WrIIITAKEE informs us that he has more subscribers in Sumter than any other District except Charleston for which he feels grateful. We desire earne}'y to recommend this enterprise to the favorable conside ratiin of our readers. The Disabter of thse Henary Clay BAL.TIMORE, July g9. Up to 11 o'clock, this, Thursday morning, some 40 bodies, mostly of females. had beeni recovered from the wreck of the steamer Ifeury Clay. which was burned on \Vednesday morning near the Palisades on th~e Iludsuon River. Another telegraphie despatch. however, which has been re eeived in this city, st ates that '71 bodies which hadl been recovered up to the hour above umentionied. It is general ly supp.osed tha~t sonme thirty or forty are .still umiisinig. amion g themi those oif Mr. and Mrs Owen Fe-rnell, of WXif muington, N. C., the wife and two children of Professor Bailey. of~ WVe-t Point, Mr. Stepihen Allen, ex-Alaivor of New York, aund his wife, &c. Aliss 'Tuicker, of1 Ailledgeville, Georgia, was serioumisly U ued, and W Vill is 1I. Pres. cott, of Louisiana. There is also, somei baggaige saved t hat hai I~th claiCled.em Itio.k dM .E ton, N. (C. sive heat u. bva .b. nr the puirpo-e oif rar;: n% ab. Ihiin:: curred at 4 delock .i zh eonn nearly all the pa-.Lenga, w.ere in Ihi bert hs, and thle sceao o ew terr ible.-C(o urier. RssT.oAN OF'':e.-..... arn f'roiin theXX Winni.hb . . ('. Daily R&egister, that ont z:.urJi.A lasit, ionet Isaiac Naiice, sho t a . e-be by t he namre oif Maitthiw Pe '''rew, near Monticello, in &tield. ft appears t hiat N\.a l'C een charged withi gamning. .and. a w1arrant was issuied against him anui Ilodged with Pettigrewi, wiho w~as. attemipting to arrest. hiini wheLn Nanco shot him in the anles. Nance has been coimmit ted to jail to await his trialf for biotha fTnees. It. is not known whether Pettigrewv's wounds are considered dange rouls or not. Both Nance and Pettigrew are citi zens of Fairfield District, and the lat. ter is said ail ways to have been quite a harmless, peaceable, in itTensivye moan. 'lENN EsBEE FOR SCOTT-The Tri h'une, in calculation oif Gen. Scott's chane -s, claims for him the vote of Tenniessee. To which the Knozville Plebian re plies thus: " Weo are surprised at the (deliberate impudence of G reelyv, in putting down Tennessee for Scott-he ought. to know that the woolyheads of this State would even nowv gladly make a compromise oif the matter, by giving the State to Pierce by 10,000 majority, and 'say nio more about it. But we can't let them off so easy. Surely, Horaoe 'doesn't read the pa. rem. Cholera--TheOefgo ' The New York Expros,In ut arti ele upon the subject, gives the follow. ing account of a new theory : "The writer sets out with affirming his belief in what he calls the Geologi. cal Theory ; that is to say, in brief terms, that this disease has its origin in the earth, and not, as many others be lieve, in the air. Not a single person ever died of cholera who believed in this theory, we are told, or who prac ticed on that belief, but there is a sin gular absence of facts in this connec tion, which is not likely to inspire im plicit faith in what is said. As the origin of the cholera is in the earth, so, too, the best specific for its cure is to be found there too. " Rain-water," then, we are informed, is just the thing. "No one ever died of cholera that drank copiously of rain water." Fu rthermnore " It never becomes epidemic in a dis trict where rain water is exclusively used-we hear of no deaths in fitmilies in our vicinity where that water is used exclusively; nor in Charleston, Natchez, or Vevay, in Indiana, or cer tain Islands in the West Indies, where they have no other than rain-water. It will be found on examination, that the difirent outbreaks of cholera which we hear of lately, all occur where cal careous water is used; had the labo rers on the rail way near Covington, and the victims of cholern in Mays. ville, been furnished with rain, or boiled tauter, they could not have fallen under the deadly grasp of that disease. The cholera fell with dreadful maligni ty on the convicts in the penitentiary at Alton, Ill., in 1847, more than one fiurth of the whole number died ; since which they have had cisterns to catch the rain water and are permitted to drink no other, the medical attend ant, Dr. Hart, says that the general health of the prisoners is much im proved, and no cholera cases occur ; but several of the Irish laborers on the Alton rail way have di.-d of chole ra this season, who used the spring Nfa ter ; limestone abounds in that vicini ty. " In 1832, the cholera destroyed a great many of the Iris. laborers who were employed at the head of Syca more street, where they used water of the same spring that carried ofl' so ma ny victims in 1849. At the former period those laborers worked near where Mrs. B. lived, and now lives, her family used rain water, and made use of all sorts of fruits and vegetables of the season and yet they all escaped cholera." A Curious Description. A gentleman ium Paris writes the following : I saw through one of the windows of the Mayors oflice in the twelfth arrondisemneut, what seemed to be the body of a negro hanging by the neck. At the first glance and event at the se coG ?l took, i fr a humaii'tming Who disappointed love or periaps an expe. ditious judge, had disposed of' so sud denly ; but I soon ascertainued that the~ ebony gentleman in question was ai large doll, as large as life. What to think of this I did not know, so I ask ed the door keeper the meaning of it. "T1his is the' Contraband Muem, was the answer ; and oinamy .-howing a Curiosity to examine it, lie was kind enough to act as miy ciceron.ie. In a huge dirty room are scattered over the floor, on the walls, and along the ceiling, all the invenations of' rogue ry which had been confiscated tio'm time to time by those guardians of' the law, the rev enue oilicers. It is a complete arsenal of the weap onrs of smaugglinag, all, uufortunaately, in cornple'te confusioni. Look beibreo you, there is a hogshead dressed uap as a nurse, with a child that holds two quarts and a half. On the other side ar'e logs hollow as the Troj-m: horse, aand filled with aarmaies of s'gairs. Oin the door lies a huge boa-constrie.t or, giirged w ith Chiaa .silks ; and just be (land at, a pile of' coal eurioeusly perfo nee at lwith i al-a( is ' co tton. Theu. c'o:ore.d genth-m'zan, wl ho( exc(ited1 m;y ey miathy at first, meot w i ir his tt undle r the follo w ing ci rcum tstiances'.' HeI w a Ilt of' tina, painated black and stoo d b ke a hepduck oa' Et hopa.'n cha. u urt 'n the foot hoard of a ca.ige fa T::e ; by his f'eet aand haandk. 1e ...iteqet iy passed t hrouagh the gate at.d wa, well knoawn b~y sight, to ha .'olldiers who~ anticed that he0 was ail ways .lhowing his teeth--which thr y tsupposed to be tihe custom of' his coun. ry. One day thet carriage he belonged to was stoppedI by a criowd at thaegate. Teewas as usual a grand chorus of yells and 'aths, the voical part becing pe'rforaued by the dIriversand cartmen, and the instrumental by their whips. The negro however niever spoke a single word. Hlis good behav'ior do lighted the soldiers, who held him upf as ani exaamle~ to the crowd. "Loo~k at the black fellow," they eriedl, "see howv well he behaves! Bravo ! migger bravo!I" lIe showed a perfect indifference tc their applause. " My frienad," said a clerk at a bar rier, jumping up the foot board, andi slapping our sable friend on the shioid er, " we are really very much obliged to you." Oh, surprise ! the shoulder rattled The ofl'icer was bewilder'ed, he souand ed the footman all over and foaund ho was made of metal, and as full as hi skin would hold of the very best con traband liquor drawn out, of his foot The juicy mor'tal was seized at one< and carried off in triumplh. The first night the revenue peoph drank up one of' his shloulders, and h< was soon bled to death. It is now sia ayears since he lost all the mroisure o of hi yse and was a educed to drpkltr *r * iuA d 7, with tha grea htrias gf eYli vr ig' Newman.. the iaenio of is well known in the literatire lozi gy. h e was the Nleadinitnted po the Puseyt m chieleti t r0a UW"t Since that day hie isas gone itlvha - and baggage to the eneiny ;and itB now the pride of the Egiksd Church. While Newman isi anit tate from Dr. Achilli 'is a rent the Protestant array. lie is an Its '4 priest who has renounced th'e Pope,<and for sometime past las mad& tgre noise in London by lecturing ild-wii - ting against the church he ibrmerly b& longed to-aiaking revelations -of ts conealed enormities, and- manufii t- ='4: ' ring cock-and-bull stories about uh vents, &e. In short, he appears bu bea7 ''. ' a larger sort of Leahy. But some bad* reports goti abroad about Achilli; 'nd r. Newman-got hold of them. Ile came out sometime ago. with a piece''of reverend billiags' gate which %e have seldom-sem' sur passed, in which he charged directly; that Achilli had been ignomniniqusl) expelled from the church on account ot various scandalous transactions which he detailed. Achilli, backed by the Protestant clergy, brought his action for libel. Newman ph aded justification, and pro duced in court a variety of interesting witnesses from Malta, Venice, Corfu, and other places in which Aebilliliad lived before he turned Protestant leo turer. There were womnci whom h' had seduced, mistresses whom he had kept, husbands whom he bad corneted, all of whom gave the full details of their transactions with Achilli. ' Then came police officers who had saved hint from the beatings and delivered.him from the knives of divers love-s, broth ers and fathers. Also the heads of colleges from which he had been-ex pelled, authorities' of the Churchih had thundered on him its ceinsures, wite the records of the ecleslisicui courts before which he had been tried and cendemaned at various times for bringing scandal on his religiuui. The counsel for Dr. Achilli had no evidence contrary to that which Dr. Newman l roduced exeept) the denials of Achilli himself, and the testimony of one Poggi,. arnither renegade Italian priest, who swore to the good character of his birthor in apostacy. Yet the jury decided that theo was no justitiation; in other words,. that not one charge in Newman's libel had been proven, and that none of tb Catholic witnesses,-gra.t or small, w'ere entitled to crediuility. 'Those who read t. e trial,, find it impossible to attribute such a iesbultt any other cause than religious spite and prejudice. Never :did we see a verdict so directly in:2 the teoth of evidence. The trial is2" -rwbritin on the EFngiush Con e .Oenduct of it was disg'ra reul._ Campbell, who as t judge, frequently interrlipt . ceedings by inflammatoryladd'resses to the jury about the':nt f c And when the audienuce cheered. himt, instead of ordering his office~rs to preserve order, he would reli~at the remark he last made over again that he might be cheered. .The verdict of the jury was received' with defening shouts, and there was not th& slight. est attempt by the court -to check themi. Indeed, since the da'ys 'of Gates, Bedloes, and th6 feet who were able to bring the best 'brood of England to the scaffold by apipeals to this s-amae English bigotry, there has' noat been such another scene itn the~ courts of our race. .The Ql~d spirit of No- Pop -ry blazes up agaip,' umdimi med by the progress of the ae and2 the advance of civilizatioai. e did taut suppose such an aflair. was pos. sible ini our times. R~EMARKABLE ErrECTs ow Lon-r- - saso.-During a thunder ashower on 4 the 8th ult., the hous of Joseph Har ris. in Wi lliamasburg, Me., was struck hlightning, the glass broken out, and the house very much injdired.: There wvere twelve persons in -the hous amoirng them Mrs.;'Dunning, Mrs. liriggs and Miss Charlotte Holden. Miss Hlden states that her sight, iearaing and j ower of motionleft her, aind s.he fell upon the floor, retaining, itowever, her coansciousness. shie tried to scream and to mv but in vain. In a short time her sight was c estored, and rhe was taken out ito the rain, and water poure'd upon her. 11cr heai-ing was partially r stored, and after a tim6a the numbness left one side, but remnained' for several hours in the other side, rendering it impossible for her to walk. Ier elothes were torn and burnt, one of the sleeves of her sack retit into atoms, her wvatch broken and her shoe rent to pieces. Mr s. Hlarris was sitting near Miss Holden when the lightning passed down the side of' the chimney, passed' entirely round Mrs. Harris's waist and arms as she wvis holding an infant, burninag as it passed, leavihg the child untotuched. Mr's. laurris was prostra ted, and also several others in the house. butt no one was killed, and none, ont the whole, received any permanent" injury. A bonnet in the room was teurn in many pieces, and not a-vestige of the wire could be found. COMPLIMENT~AY.T he following sentimett comnplimewntary of our dis tinaguishied fe'llow-e-itizenr We -find' amonig' the toas'ts given at the clebra tieen of'.. the Foiiitl at Bennettsville,. Miarlborough District: : , 'lly S. J; Tjown'asend, Ora'or of the d ay.-Col. James: Chesnut, Jr.-A genatlemlan," whaosd privalte chniacter, . political haonesif, aned stiperior talcnt,' w ould confer honaor upo-n"C Iarolina. h~ LIanv station- she mightain hime.c