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J. S. RICH AltliSON Ja JOHN R. LOGAN, E rns. WEDNESDAY, F'EBY,8 . 1854. $ " Persons wishio. to sgee us.,aljum business can find us, at Any hour dut-ing the da, except from four to live in thei aler nount at our office, just back of Hoz.oauoss' New Store. All business conntied with the paper must he transacted with the Edi tor, or with WILLIAaM LF.wis; and all let ters addressed to the ljauner, must be pre paid to insure attention. OOTTON Mnl 1RKET. C(;At n.Es-roN, Feb. 6. The market on Saturday was inanimate, but with a moderato demand only-prices ranging about the samne as for some days previous. The sales amounted to 1200 bales, at the following particulars: 2419 bales at 8 1.4 to 8 1-2 ; 100 hales at J ; 405 at 0 1-2 ; 210 at 0 1-2 ; 130 at 9 '-4 to 10: and 04 at 10 1.2c. 1.0 We have the pleasure of an. nouncing to our readers, 'that an ar rangenent has been made, by which Mr. JOHN R. LoG.AN, the forier edi tor of the Banner, will assist, to some extent, in conducting our paper. ll our absence he will take the sole charge of the paper. The attention of the villagers, and espe altdly of parents, is called to the Ordinance of onr town, which prohibits the practice of shooting within its corporate limits. The town Council think it best that parents be requested to put a stop to their children violating this wholesome regahtnion, and hope that they will save the Council the necessity of enforcinte the law. Rlail Ageunts. WiIAM II. Dvsos, of this District, J. Rt. N. TENHET, of linrion, and \VWILLIaM W. PaeR, of Vilmnington, N. C., have been appointed Mail Agents on the \Vil - tmington and Manchester Railroad. s-? We publish in this issue, according to promise, Mr. TABER's celebrated speech, It has taken up inore room than we thought for, and too much to allow our publishing at the same time (as we intend ,d) Mr. PEIRY's criticism upon, it. \Ve hope, those gentlemen who have written and spoken to us upon this subject, and whom we promised to publish Loth articles together, will accept this as a sufficient reason for the non-appearance of one of these articles in this number. We will have it forth coming in our next, together with Mr. TA'ER'S recent letter to Maj. PERRY, which comprises the whole cui troversy. I r.as it has gone. Vo have adopted the plait of publiashing this contro versy between Mr. TAnER~ and Maj. PERIRY, in order that the people may have the chance of judging for themselves. and ini order that they may do so entirely unbiased - we forbear making any comments. Small P~ox. The report was going the rounds, a few days ago, that this dreadful disease had made its appearance in our quiet ando healthy little town. T1hie repoert originated in the fact that a y.oung moan, who had just returned from Charleston, had been taken~sick with what. has since~ beeni as. certained to be mensels--a disease which we are informed somewhat resembles the Small Pox ini its first stage. T1hze youing mnan has been treated for mteusels and is recovering as fast as possible. The Easterna WIar, The latest accounts show a brilliant victory fur the Turks. The lighting continued1 for five days and the Riussians were at last routed with- the loss of 4000 killed an~d two Genierals wounded. On the last day the Turks attacked the Rus. sian reserve and drove it hn cotnfusion on Krajovat with loss of' its artillerv. rTe slaughter (on bJoth sidles iznmnense. The Tur-ks ufterwards destroyed the Russian fortificaitiotns and retuszned to Kalafiat. The Russians have ih.erensed the fortifications of Sebastopol and along the Crimea, and'' put out, all the light-houses. T1hte Sultan has essentially modified the note of the Four Powers anid for~ warded it to St.- Petersburgh. No anuswer hias yet beeni received frotm the Czar, but it, is believed lie will recall his Ministetr frotm Paris and Lou. don, and formally declare war. Eng land is strengtheninmg her coast do. fences. Ini the F~rench navy yards thte greatest activity prevails; every ves the workmen have no iterinissioti even on Sunday. ~ .~j: This all begins to look in earnest liea general war. lGener'osity of time Ilarapers. Thte Mlesser,,. HlARiiRs, whtose estab lishmnent was recently destroyed by fire have kindly offeired to pay thte board of tihe * girls, who were so suddenly thrown out of employment, until their busintes~ is sutli cieritly advanced for thema to resume their <employment. |O7 Light thousand bales of Cottont wvo-e -destroyed'on thte Mlississippi River by fire 'da the 29th uit. This with whlat his beit deutruyed, at othier times, within thte last few wekenswells the amount Jost to * nsmarhing o..r ....e.ve .usn bale - V~cciuo Mllatter. At this time, bwing to the appear an1ce of a few. caues of, small pox in Charleston, and some scattered ones, in the country, nearly over' jlittiter or head of fiimily, throughout the Si ate, are busy in their inquiries for, and use of vaeeine matter, as a preventative of' this loathed and dreaded disease; yet how few know to whom they areindebt= ed for tht: discoveryofthe greatest boon ever given to sufibring hmnanity, and certainly the mnost signal triumph of intellectual labor and the power of imid. Previous to the discovery of the present system of vacination, innoeu lation with the virus of the small-pox Was pi'aetised in Turkey, and from thence introduced into England. The disease thus produeed artificially, was found to be of a milder form, than easual disorder and less fatal, but not to such an extent as to lead to the general practice of innoculatioin in this form, tew persons being found willing voluntarily to encounter the disease, even in this mitigated type, and thus matters stood, until the year 1798, when Enwvann .1h:s nN, a physician of a country town in England, and to whom the world is indebted for the discovery of the eflicacy of vaccine matter inade known the results of his experiments and successful introduc tion of cow-pox into the human sys tem, anid its power inl rendering the small-pox innocuous. The disease to which cows are subject and known as the cow-pox appears first upon the udder of the animal from which the inifction it frequently taken by mlilk ers, who during the ravages of the small-pox were found to bo entirely free from its attatcks and to the casual renmark of dairy women, that she was not afraid of this disease, us she had taken the cow-pox, was Dr. .1li:xsx in debt ed for ha ving his attention drawn in that direction. E~nw.mu .h:Nrr was moure than twenty-live years inl bringing his experiments to a satisfactory c'nlelni sion1 amnd the present, systemii of usilng the vaccine matter was unheard of not il Ie h imself' applied , so late is i'-96 upon the arim of'a boy the matter taken from a postule on the hand of a younlg j wonan who had received the infectiou from at cow. The disease thus pro duced was one of' the mildest form, aid upon innoeulating the same boy six weeks after with the virus of the small pyj& w as foundr Tis was the~ first of' his tr'iumphs and~ led to what, is now ani almost univeii,'r salh practice. Thet feelings of Dr )i'.: E NEI whileI pu rsuiiig his explerimiients, arec thus related by himisel f anld do as mnneh honor to his heart. and ais justi y entitle imi io the love and r'espiet of' oif inun. kind, as the boon itsel ', which his .skill and iobior madelt kinown to the wvorbi. lie say s: " Wi'hilst, the 'ae' eine discov'ery was progresshiu tihe joy I felt, at the discovery be'tore mie, of being the instrument (lest ined to take away f'roim the world one of its greatest c'alamiities, blended with the fond hope of enjoying inidependencee, aind domeistic peace and hiappiness, was often so excessive, that ini pui'suing imy fav'orite subject aimong the mneadowis, I have somnetimes~ found myself in a reverie. It is pleasant to ime to recol Ieet that1 these i'eflect ions aliways ended in devout acknowledgments to that 13eing from whom t his, and all other mercies flow." Popnulation of Caforiaja. romi the Altia C'edi/trniazn of D1cr., 3(0th we' gleatn imany3 interestiug pa rticubIars of the popuil'ation of Californ in. (On the first of Ja inuary 18-'i3, the munb~er of iinhiabi tants of the State was ('stimalfted at 31(1,. Ot00. Tliemuiiber arrived by sea sinrce tha't timue 2inounit to 3.185, dlepartutres ~30,310(, leavng dl,'90 as~ he exesof arrivals ov'er dlepartuires. Tis doles niot include(1 thle arrivals toer lhmd iawl the to tl inctreaIse is estimaiuted at 18,0(30 mialing the0 population iat this tuls amlount 3o 329; 000. Of' thecse it is estimated t hat 215, 0001 are Ameiricans, 25,1000 Gerinains, 25,. Itt00 Frech, 17,000) Ch'iriamen, 20,0001 (If Span islahibodd, 5,0010 imissel laneous foreigners, 20,00 Indians, and 2,5001 Ne grues. T1hec numitber of women~i are sup pnaedl to amltount. to 65,000), and children plerha~ps 30,001). TIhis ('sti mate show's that nearly two-thirds of the popultionl are Amiericans and nearly ne-thiird of toreign birt h, onae-toirtcenith French, one.thirteenlth Germians, one-thirteonth Chinieso, nearly onio-elerventh chiildrena anud one-sixteenth Indians. AxornEn K(oz,:a Ad'air,--T'he Viennia correspondent of the Ncew York Ti/silune brings to public notice the case of an unof'. fending man, triaveling under the proltectio~n of a Uniited States pas5sport, who is no3w incarrerated in an Autirian prison. II is nameil is SilaoN "'AUssic, rind lie has a wvife ml New Jersey, wihere hie has been suel as a Alhoemnaker, and where he had taken the nleecssairy stepus to buecomnean a Amer ican~ citizen. Hie returned to Austria oni business th:e present year, and was on the point of' leaving tihe country to return hith er, when h~was arrested by the Austriani p~olice, his pasaports taken fromi him, and he sent to prison. Thle A merican Minis rdr has interfered in his case, hut the Auis triain authorities rnfnemd lii. Um...a...t Progress is the watchword of'the day; its onward marcb is stayed neither by old associations or venefatcd relics, and the big house of former days iust fall anl give place to the moro-substantial and utlitari din buildidg of mnodern times ; down, it must go With piles of rubbish anad lust, warning the wayfarer, if he has any regard for clean linen, to stand aloft and make his cot ments at a respectahle distance. A subject foiS the hammer of the age has the old " Sumter Ilouse " heen deemned, and its hare and mouldy fraine hears leeti mony to the spirit and industry of those who had determined on its downfall. Ear forty years and morn has it stood in bold relief upon the corner of Main fand Broad Street, a land mark for the traveller, and an object o(Veneration to the young, who have heard their grandanes speak with brightened eyes of.cotallon parties and tea-fights which happened-vithin its walls, when they were young. Many are the sage matrons of the District, now surrounded by a smiling bevy of the rising generation, who can date to somie1assetbly in the old house the first pang inflicted by Vulcan's boy. Many are the rosey-cheeked old fogies, who with mysterious winks talk of gaines at "old sledge " and " blue " in those same premi ses, when such were the fashionable past times; but that was long, long'ago, this is a more aoral age. (1) Some too, they are of the cross-grained order who gruanblingly tell of fearful combats on a ling smmnner night, with voracious cla s, oh terri ble ! But these must be noabered amona the things that were and old oracles muast find some other object on which to found their tales of what once was done, for the " Sumter House," the pride and boast of the earlier settlers of Sumnterville, las been doomed to give place to the demands of the day and in its place, ere many months pass by, thefaraer will find a mart at which he may exchange the fruits of his indtastrv 'ur the fabrics of the world. Witla this vena erable pile too is closed the only bar-room bf the town, and we leave to the curious, tho solution of the foliowing quaery, pro. pounded by an i'qauisitive individiual.. WVhae is the tat with the specks to get his sweetened Lne ? Editor' Table. .n~tax AN) PLANra.-Ve find upon Oura table the Jaanary numtber of this useful and highly interesting pub ieation. 'Ihe Farmer aad Planter is publiahed aaonthly at I'endletont C. II., andt14 from the iattmalr and select i. ure ofits contents, we hesitate not to recommend it to every. tarmacr in the country. We shall take the opportu nity, at some future day,' to make some useful extracts for our readers. 'Tam1 SoUTHEaN eAGRIeULLTURIST. We ame ng~ iJgwpifhe utury dhraleg ot'f tlhisJurmal. Like thae above it is devoted to a subhject of growinag interest to c-ir peoople, anud its table ofcoatteaats offers manaay temaapting inaducemienuts to thec 3uucate naea TheL Soth ouaght to encouta~rae all wvorks oft this kintd. Thte termts of both oif t hese p ulicationas a ae onec dollar int adlvtace i er. siangle .:opyV lior thea year. To' Claubs reawunmabl deductions ate mnade-. We aetutrn our thataks to sornte tiinda iar a copy aof Gean. Cads speacha itn the Clbaytona, Bulwer Tre-aty. Atad also for a copy i of aaentam Ysanox)'s Ad dlress before thle Call iapeaan :aad P~oly. technic Societies oaf thec Citadej Aade amy of Chaalestoa, S. C. Th'iis addraess is a ouns I atad p a t cal :argum nt int favor of duta su bordJintiona in oaur academies and colleges, anal we hope will hnave a whlae'soraae effe~ct, upoat thte yotung genatlemaena ior whloma- it was pe patred. B.lackwoo~d and time NorthI Brtitish Review, are both on aur table, but. thmef require amoe tnotice thtan outr titate and space will allowv this week. We~ will atteand to theira claiams in ouar ntext issue. Grenat. Counfl;arationu unld Loss oft Life ini New~I OrIensmas. A lire brokje out on thec Levee ian New Orleanas on last. Satturday morn-. inag, whlichI proved awfumlly destructive (af life anad ir-operty. It orniginaated itt thea steamer Charles Belebyr, anad spraad toi the steaaners Natchecz, Ileaht TFana, Mobignna, Sauxona G rand Turk, and othaer-.. All the above namaaed steaumers, tao gethier witha a barge, were btunt to the wae' edge. Ata immnaaiso samotunt of prodace lyiag ont thte whlartes wvas destroyed, taogetheur 'witha all t~he freight on boatd te boats btartt.. . Thue amitire loss oif property .is es Lina ted at one mtillIiota of dol larmk.. Th'le steamner Sultana, with Mad. Soatmag ont board, took fire, but it wasu fortuately extinguishmedgivith - but, lit. t~le damange. The loss of life is th6' miost lamet. able portion of thais sad entlatanity. Fave white persons, and thirt.y-two tnegroes, haave cithIer been devoured In the flamecs or beent drownted. Umac, of the fare engines, in thec great eon fusion o0ccasionetd, was putshed in thec river~. 'The flattnes are tot exhtin togmashed. This following so suaddently tlahe ea tiastropah of the Georgia, ontly adds to thte atilitiona thIat event acchsionted. A new pmostolliee hans been'estalish cd in Dha'rhinagtatn District, at thme resi dlence oifCapt. J. Tiawao, to be0 called f Tas Bay.. K'Ustu WVosaget.of Carolisw WO. clip; frontho 'Cbarleston Standar the fot ing trri ppal to the woma of Carohapa. Our t 1 has neglocted, ay refuscdntp mds i ib noble object, ar by lenriggardl mdny has brotg upon .us the shame ant derision of all iar of our country. The Statesman, whom nation alind'i hare bee'n, and perhaps w on bo proud to hon itit ithat she thinks right that, the land and home of his bir1 and boyhood-thej4ple for whom he e. pecially' lived and died, should have if distinguished prisilee of paying the fir homage to his t ornry-this man, Sonu Carolina has trbtid with worse than silei neglect; and we re glad and proud to at that the daughters of Carolina are abol to wipe off' th= i.tin her sons have it upon her name., aVo wi: i them succo; and hopo that t1)? (dies, of Smter will a their portion: "There has - . ntly been formed a association, to W Cih we would call yot attention, and bepgak for it your earn " sympathy and hr ty .-upport. A body t ladies have sga zed thnselves into a si ciety, for the p e of aiding'. The Ca ,toun Montan tion" in colloc Ing a surm su iett to build up a lastin testimonial to the mnenory of our own Cia boun. ' Each daughter of tie State, by subscr bing her name and oe dollar, is enitit to thme priv-lege of enlisting herself anion this patriotic sisterlhbod. Now we earnestlycall upon the dalughil ers of Carolinn, zealously to einbrace ti apportunity afForded them of proving the patriotism ; andlthus wipe oll'the imil atai )f ingratitude, with which as a State w ire. dishonored ,and reproached. But has been, and may again be said, we 1)m no ronument to Sir utter and Marion why then build one tat Callhoun i i systeimi of logic do two wr,iongs itmake rigt. Shall the thief say', I .to!e yea! e lay, therefore it is right for ine to st:; to day 1 Shall we onit deeds of charity this yea because we were blitd to our duty th last ? Oh no ! let the 'mod deeds of Ih resenit cancel, inmtne measure, the own: sions of the past. In tie name of patriotism, in the nanm of .lstitc and gratitude, we call upon th women of Carolina to ca,:1w forward an enerously aid mii this praise-worthy ca us( Never let it be sad of thet that, cold an; angrateful. their hearts re insed to at know ledge the claimi, aid the:r hands t biestow a litt!l: tniteupoin this just and wo lhv undertaking. For our own sakes, let us not sulli Calhoun to shop any longer betcatlh th Iowly tmiib that nlow covers him, a toim tar fron being .commuiensurate with o. ratitutde of hits worth. Let is not refuse to honor him, whom f, o many long years honored us ; who fig h mig manfully our battles, perished int I't i.dst of the weary conflict, with his ai miour on. . : Let not our glourions " Southern cross fade out of the sky, and we raise no mem ral to tell of the departed glory, that rt splendei. in, beauty, tracked our tirna ment with lustratis light. Let the wo:nen: of Carolina rally in thi cause, and cerd'. 'sUccess, we shall se gleamng in b - tmdir-oriast'one of .in marble ma lesty, it will yeu A W~ eloq ucntly of apc ple's love ; andl .ra Vt'thiers of Carohnm gathierinrg at its b;e,. aid promud ly point in heir sons to the hioneredi rarme oh'Cathrout shall bid. thoem learn a lesson of Tlruti Justice anid Yirtue. - . U. Under this caption the Carolinian cor t:ins tire followving caution to those i ba,,re aof th ItW~inminigtoni and Manchcs ier Rail Road : " A few weeks since we had occasio to i'otice a complamnt or sonio paissenger who travelled over the Witercetresti womrk by the Wihningrtn :.rd Mat easter railroad,. relative to thes rate speed ait widch .the trains cartie over thr; iangerous superstntture. Again tar comph rits nmade to us. andta we tool it on ditty again to utfor a wairning to thiae : chaiirge of that rtid, anda to proiteat agaih these tr::inns beig driven at a reckle. spteed liver a treglet knowni to bedne Otis. ltie A aootiiity willI not hold athiase cor cerned gal I:less shouldh any miisforrtun happihen. Thley have beeni ~wartned nw thn rsecond tirme, anal we dlo rtrust th-at thtan ini anthoriry will sere tha i these warntin' are tnot miadet in. dain. Better loose a i; than a dlozent or two lives." Wae know nut wheother tis rebuke merited or, whether the repoirt th have gone abroad are exaggratedh accoutn of the rate of ar uvehoni this rotad. The (Vi mtington antd Mlanchester road is a now on just abouoat being compnhle: ed andia snich r poarts woutld tend to injuro it. The Cot patny have a bright piritspect ahieadl tthenm anda it would be a pity to nip it in t] state fair iinforimation, thnat this road is nc dhoirng an excellent business. A great de oif travel is adonie over it; on several oc sions of late, there- have been mnoro lie so nato comea thatn could lie accnrmmodat< anda they have had to be left. We soi poise thtat the demand for moreir accominr dationt, lhas been, or wvill very soon lie pr vialed for, tandl then, ahey mtay expect rmin travel thantt any road Sotthi. Stxcua aa DI)scLosunta.-A hoav namet Edlwardl Reaese, thtirteoen yeatrs obil, was d tectedl pick ing d pocket at Phi lidelphtia I Al oniday. lie states thait saime teat air doazen boys, ranigingdiromi twelve to twei years or agae, tars banded lnger her foir tI tiurpose aofa picking paickets an ii r erit whueror ant jfpiotunity occuirs. T1' buad is regularly organized, having a hii called "Strairney" as a header, arrd anot he knuown as "Biig Chuckles," who acts deprity in tho absence oif the captaini. T1' field of opierations extend friomt wasim tort to New, 'York, anal the platn of actit is vatrie~d to suit' circurmstanices. The oli ntr binys, arid loadors or tihe gantg, are oste; sibly engaged in sellitng periodicals am cheapih puiblicliatis, anal they geneorally a ais the receiverh of thte plmnder obhtait by the smaller'boys. Thme yorugstersa h long pirintciperly to New York anid Dall miore.- Cha' Leston Erenmimir .Neu-s. A dividend of six por~ canit. out< theo profits of the hast hialtyear hi been declaired by theo comn tnercial Bian ofWilm ngtohu, N.'C., besides apprti printmng two per cent, to the conitnrge; hand. Our readers will find interestinrg the d, subjoined account of the late destruction ,n of the ball cartridge factory on Longis. e, land, which we copy from the New York d Herahl. It Totril DetrncIin of Frenelatg Is Hall Cartridge Factory. About two o'clock yesterday afternoon Id the building occupied as a factory for the ;t makingr of inall cartridges at Lower Rav. enswood, Long Island, blew up arith an - explosion that shook the houses in thr - neighborhood for two miles around, and e breaking the windows of all those build. t ings which were within ,ix iurgired or h eight hundred feet of the place. It was rented by Mr. French, who, together with it is son, are generally engaged im the e building. but being at the toment other wise occupied, happily oscapel serious in. jury, though Mr. French, snt. Is suffer tog severely from contusions. ;s The number of persois employed is lo generally about thirty, being fer the most part girls of the ages of ten to eighteen; but some men and youths also find work in " the factory. The exact nmber of lives Ir lost is now not known, for, bein:. the af t ternoon of Saturday, a greater or less unmiher than usual might. have been there, accordimg to circumstances. Our reporter was on the spot half an t- hour after it occurred, and the sight of r such ai d ckenmitr scene he hopes to be spired again. ''hie site of the bulding and the surrounding lots were covered with the debris of the building, -humat limbs, and fragments ot machinery. We saw a g rman draw from the mass the head of a lit. tle girl which he knew was that of his daughter by a bit of ribbon fastened to e her hair; but any other portion of the r boly lie wouhi never lind, or if ie found it he would never be able to .ay it was the e body of his child. It The precise cause of the explosion no one remains to explain. It is known. how. ever. that the stove used for warming the I a building was red hot, the day being very col; and from the highly c omibusti ble ia eriaIs which were used i close proximity to it it may readily be acco miged fir by supposing soiie particle igu:ited on the Iloor, aid communticatinig with the articles in varivus Ftages of preparatin. causel the oxypllosion. Within a few feet of tihe buildin:: is a fireproof cell, in which is stored large quan tiICs of powder; and this bieing w etlun the scope of the simoke and 11 tihme (it the burn ing ruins, no one was w.ihng to hazard an aipproach to attempt to rescue the siuder ers from the ruins for soene time alter the explosiont took phace. T he shinek oi casioned by the explosion - was t re:nendous. and was seisibiv felt at a distance of six or eight miles; and du. r ring yesterdaiy afternoi a report was e current in Wit:i.unmsbturg and IBn .okivia that b an earthquake had taken place somewhere upiian thin isianid. The scene at lavenswood beggars de. 'r script .:t. The bimifing octcupied by Mr. French for the manutacture of F'rench's rifle cartridges was a one story wood buil d fing, twenty by twenty-five feet square, which was brown into fragtents. and not a single stick could be found that a child could not lift. It is ,smpposed that there was about twenty persons in the building, ani but three were known to have been taken s out alive. e It is said.that' the firesoiginated in the a northeast cornorof'thibudidin i .the -tie lidr ko o hiilvie bo tae istove, hnt from what cause is unknown. aThere wvere over 50t,000 ball cartridges m.natde up iti the builtdiig, besides a conis:d. erable qutantity of pow~der. Thme' cartritdges n;searly all exploded, andmi time .balls wvere thrown in every direction; but providen. tially mmo person tiut of the buitdmrg was seriously imjturetd. Oiie of the balls pas. sod throughm a patio of glass into the libra ry roomi of Mr. IBodine, a dmnstanceof one.it e igthl of a timme, andt shattered the ch-ind chmer. The idwellinmg houses within a circuit of n1 a mile were imore or lessu inijuredl, li inie theUi glass entirely brokent ott and in sev C eral instanmces the~ wills were dlsmmaged~. M-ir. F'renchel's hiouse, whlich is abitut thiir tty rod~s fromm lime facterywsveymc t d:imged; thvidveadapr i f he e untr a ingeeni ety, anmd ma rsieconid story frmomit roomii was thme only one Swhich the tfamilyh couiltd Occupy last imight. At time t imei of time accienmt Mr. F'reich wasen adat work in a smnall build. escaped with his life. A furnamce near wher~e lie was staniding was broken' ~to pieces, a nit his liat. carriedt away anod coul d not 'be foiundi; be also received several slight Cbru isos about lie famce anid botdy from mis Ssiles, which wvere biurid in all mdirectioiis. i W~e were iniorimeed bey Mr. Frenchi that onlii of his boys, a few days sinice, in empty.F s itng out somei kegs omf poewder, discovecred tw L atizc.es, wimch had beent packed tip wihit. Th'le peiople of thec v~illage ceminure Mr. -French severely for tnot.mcmmploy iog a great. er tdegrea of caution ini is danogerous tmn t-ifactory, and especially for not appointing .a jutdicious ande uexperienmedl suporintend-i oe t 'ver ins j mvetnile wvorkimien , Imanyi ofI whmn were tel tender years, stome of them me hieing undoier t welve, anmd onily two mor ill three adilmits among theme if we'are riightly tv inforiied. Several of the Irish resaleits of the pilace ! eramii, shmortly after the occur renc e, q ute rimtous onm thle subject, andii a- on was hiearmd to thmrealt) to "stmir iinny r- Mr. F. Peihaps, in comsequence of these dm thireaits, that genltlemant, withI his fi. Iy, hatve Iteft time place telbporamrily.. nSume ideca ot time tremendouits forcte of the explosion tiiy lie conceived when we o- smy that every tdweiling house in time on. -e amed inte ineighbiorhood was shaken abomniostI toi their fotmdat inns. Rev. Mr. Waijte. aim Epiiscopaml c lergymmm, hiavinig a pastoral di charge m time placte. ad residing near time C- tmantiactory, was borced to remtove with .st his fanimily 1 t aneiglhbor's house, some1 a dlimttance oIl', to oibtaimi shelIter from time in. vclemenmt wieathier, every wimdow in his toe own inwelling beinig btowtn cotmpletely gout. All the tdwelliings in the vieinmy wer'e I in time satme state. Curiously enough, a my stage hiappenedio bm le pamssing at the time r, oft lie explosion, ando the concussi was is so great that the glasses ini the winidtws onm ie one side were shattered ito a thious. e. sand pieces. "t WVe are toltd hadl time moaazine, which *. wa Bituiated a short idistanice froti the ma int buldin~g, becanie ignited, the conse idqtience wouild hamve beent still miore mdisas 'l trous. T1he magazine countained between I two and three tone of powder. SaD AccIDF.T.--We regret to lean the ti p Freight Traini of time Greenville and Cohiinihia railroad was thrown from the k track on Tuesday, time 81st tit., anid Mr. Allen, the Engineer, in attempting to 'jump from the locotmotive, was immtedmute it1. crushed1,~ to ,1.,.,, vii Ao.aic Frum the Now York ferald. Voecisaatiosu-Is it at i'revenmta. tLive of Sassall Pox ? - We publish for the benefit of our lReaders, the subjoined article, by Dr. E. II. )ixoN. .It is upon a subject of peculiar interest to our eolnmuiiity just at this tine, and we hope our reaers will profit by the advice it cot tains. '1o ia EnToR OF 'rus IIF.RALD.-In iiswer to the repeated reqnests if' a public exposition of lily topinious with regard to the Preventative power uf, Vaccination, and how I aecouit ter the preseLt extensive prevalence of tho sinall pox, I reply, 1st. Thiat vaccination is unqestion ably a very powerful preventative is shown unuswerably fIrnithe fact that history proves that the mortality, hav img firnerly bee o frightful as to sweep oil' in-re tla halt of all per sons exposed, has been sy far reduced by vaccination, when even imperfectly Or very carelessly perlorined, as'not to exceed five per cent., mid that this small proportion is still further re duced, even in those who are seeming ly not susceptible to full and satisfiut ory vaceinationi. 2d. Are there any persons to whom the vaccine vesicle cannot be conununiii - icated? and it' so, are those persons lia bl)e to simall pox? It has been subposed that those persons who are inoeulated, i. c. with the virus or. lympth of the sinall pox, taken in the natural way, (a process since the discovery of cow pox, furbiddein by law) as well as those who have once had the disease, were not liable to it second attack. This is certainly incorrect. I have, withini a fortnight past, snecfded in produeing two very perfect vaccie vesiles in two persons much pitted froni a iatu ral and severe attack several years since. They wre both servants in the fiutnilies of two of my patients; aiid what is singular. they were the only two fuil and complete vesicles, having all the proper characteristics as in the v:cci nat it of the infimt, iionigst ser enteen persons, the united ntutber of the two taniilies. Several of these vesieles however, presented such mark. ed eharacteristics as to assure moe the parties were liable to greater or lesser degrees ofsmall pox or to varioloid, as we call it; nnd several were entirely unlisuscelptiblde. the vesieles not showing itself; in these it was supposed the formier or infamtine vaccination had protected them. This hnwever, can only be-tully proved by again vaccin ating them, as it is imapossible to say hut some hidden cause, not asccrttiuit. ble1in any other way, inight have pre vented tile virus troin showing the dis tinctive characteristics. 3d. How do I account for its un risual prevalence this year? I answer, there is undoubtedly an atmospheric, predisposition- existing at this: A t1 i I . o otr ety; ake them one with another, are-as well protected this year as the last. -Small plox existed I -st year, and does more or less every' year, to an extent suf ficient to spread nil oiver the city. The fhet is it will in a year spread as ex tensively from six eauses as from sixtv-; and will matnage to catch an im:nens majority (of those who, are not pro. tected. .Now this season, small po~x is vastly more prev'al -it than it has bLen within forty yealrs; indeed, it is so mnech more so, that we have no rationual cause left than atmoa spheric pred isposi tin for its great incerease. The only safe maethod in this disease ito vaccinate the sanme person several tiines, or1 as loing as thle soie is produ. eed, with the distinctive charneter of thme vaccine vesiele or cowv pjx. The [proot of the genuainess of the vesiehe is this, viz: On tile eighth day fronm thle inisertion0 of the maiutter, (whichl process slihould never draw a drop of blood for miore would wash it awvay,) thme sore shul d priesen~t tI.e flAlowving appearance: An oval centre of ia browmish coltor, a hight ci rule- of pearly' vesiclee, conitaininig the lympha, or specific matter, andh a rose colored bl ushi ext end ing front lie outer circle oif this pearly border all artound it, ifand inn imaperceptihly into the sur rouinding skin. Uinless it presents mole or less of this appearance, it is only a conltnon sore, anid in nowise fprotective.. el ost in proptition as it appIroachles the above appearance it is perfect. I consider two ocr three trials with good reliable lyimph on the quill, taken tromt the sixth to lie ninth day, anid inserted wi tho ut drawing a fu'll drop' of blood, suflicient.--If. it do not take I consider that person sufliciently proltcted by thle former vaccinattioni. I wouild cert ainly, hiowever, revaccinate every few years. in the eleventh num-. ber tof the Scapel there is it popular artiele on this subject, to which we re fer all readers desirous of investigating the few known facts in the history o~f the disease. R~espectfuilly, your obedient ser'vant. .LD WA RD H. D)IXON, Editor of the Seapel, 42 1"ifth avenu-e. To TAX COLLEC'1R.TheP Act of the Legislature relating io the Retgistry of Ilirthas. Deaths and Marriages. retquires the Tax Collectors to receive returns when ihe taxes are paid. We aire reqiuested to give notice that the books and schetdules will hec forwarded to thme Tax Collectors when ilhe Acts are distributed, as the op. pomntiment of itegisitirs hias just been made, anti it is their dummy to have suclh books pre. pared. 'lns will enatble th~e Registry to he conunenced on 1st Marc~h. Etditors interested in the Rtesistry will please copy tis nottice--Caroiniianm DUtoWNEDu. -Oan Fridaye eveninig last, Stephen Rtamwatuers and ml M r. WValliamis started rum this plae with it Raft of' Lum-. ber- for Gzeorgdtown. Somaetimie during that night the rai ft was store antI Rainw ters drowned, WVilliamos escapting ashore en a log.--Chieraw. liazette. COMMUNICATIONS. For tb manner. - To Dr. J. Hr Wiiwterspbon. REsPECTED Sin: :-llaving had the hap piness of being long and intimately cogni sant of your great mnoral wortl, and unob trusive and gentlemanly demean'r as a private citizen, your friends in Claremont Cenoty re'pe, tfully request your consent to allow thema to anniorie you as a candi date for Senator, to represent therm during the ensuing term. Your weil established reputation ren.lers it superfluous to say aught of your entire fitness for the station it is our desir# yoe should adorn. A FaIENDTO Mrutr. * Wa.lchman please . copy 1n. ETrun : You will oblige many citzsns by announcing Col. J. 1). BLANi" IsG as a candidate for Representative fpr', Clarmnont County, at the -next sessioi of - our Legislature. Feb. 6, 18-4 ,- 15 -tf a" Watchman please copy. MA. EDITOR : Please announce Col. J. M. NELSON as a candidate for Senator for Cluremont County, at the ensuing election,. and oblige MANY VOTERS. February 8th, 1854 15 tf; (X Vatchmain please .copy. For the Banner. Well Dose ! Old Sunuter I Our citizens hive been for years the victims of the vile practices of a set of un principled Hucksters and Nogro Traffick era, in the shape of Shop and Store- keepers, who in defiance of all lawand tmoral re sponsibility. have been dealing rut poison. one intoxicating liquors to our inofiensive and well-behaved slave population. - Not content with destroying the physi. cal constitution of the pour negro, they subvert his moral susceptibilities and de grade him to a level with themselves ;. goading him on to plunder the kind and in. dulgent owner of every species of propertyr and become the ready receivers of them: ill-gotten goods. Writhing nnder these undeserved and intolerable abusej, our village and country friends have arisen en masse, Hammer and longs in hand, determined to make tl.ese gentry " define their position" or, by rasping the scales from their oblique mor al vission, and hammering their meal to' such a degree of fineness as to make the in capable of receiving that beautiful polish, imparted by the burnisher of fair dealing and egitrimate industry., Whme, such mno: as the W ILDERS, IIAM METS, WITH.RSI'oONS, DISG LES, SPAINs, IIAVNs\VoRTItS, R IcnARDSoNS, and-a host of other h igh-mini ded citizens undergo the. fatigues of seven days and nights arduous and incessant vigilance, our friends at .A distance will readily perce.ve that we iiver ut telo v i~~1 W~~ in tuntoti, rotl on, ttere i3s a good time comsing. Peorseveranmce wvill most certainuly accomplish your honorablte intouft'ons. - V ULC~AN. Silave. Plot in Kenmtuck j. We fintd the folloing in one of our exchanges: . We learti from the Lotuisville Coura ier, that IHenry County, lKy., has re cently been the scene of considgrable excitemetnt arising from the discov'. ery of a plot of some slaves to miur decr a tiamihy becatise they thouht one of their number had beetn sold, and make their escnpe to Canada. T1he fiamily whlich it wits proposed to miura der wasq naimed Hlermdomn. One of the servants, suspecting that his mans to had taken - anot her off to sell him, told his views to several othters. and it was agreed to throw a stone in at the window and kill a little boys -The lady of the botnse, it was ex pcted, would be ailarmned and run omut, anid then she was to be murder-, ed. This done, the necgroes were to divide, one piartty to flee at once to Chiada, and the others to remain until' the retturn of' their aater, wvho was to be killed, and the montey wich he wvas supposed to have receivedl for. the servanit he had takent with him, to be appropriated to thmeir use. This scheme was carried out so far as* to throwv tlxe stone through the win dtow, butt the a boy at whom it was directed escaped, and the beaits of the conspirators failed. The neigh bors comitng in and~ eutiring abuout tho stonte, whlich hatd been thrown, the negroes talked so as .to fraw susptcion upon themselves, and be ing stoppedl confessed the plot, isn plicating a large .numbg;, of' negroes and one wvhite man. Several of the slaves concerned have been sold. THU NEUTHALITY OF $iwED.EN AND) DENMARK. -Some doubts having .been expressed as to theo condnct the :north ern courts of Sweden and D~enmark may think proper to adopt in the event of an extensioni of the hostilities which, have commenced on the pagube and the Blacek Sea, these powers have recently determined to establish a strict unionri(o their policy, and a formal declaratIont or' their intentions has just been addressed by their ministers, in identical terms, to all the cabinets of E~urno. WVhatever may he the result of the dmtTrences which have occurred between lRussia and TFur key, and wvlaih threatens to extendl to thme maisritime powers, Sweden and Demtnark are desirons of malntainming their frierully relatiotis wvith all the State- now ait amity with them, and,-acordmgiy, they propose to observo in the contest wvhich tmay now be imnpending over the world a strict neu. tralit., by abstanomg tromn every dru't or indiarect measuro calculated tom tavo' or as sist either of the. comnJ:ng partie.-Ca olinian. I sAR ao FLOoK 'OF PzG Eo~s.-The : largcr~t flo)ck of wida ligee wve 've r saw 'pass, dt uover this place on l'n~epd y mnmruang list. Wec shoumhld snmp-ose thuerea wver' freom 4 to 5tuJO in the ikoik. goitng min aSouakenter y ir tat i..- L.a .,a s:....