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TIM, SUl'fii BluNl. _- I&NELK J.S. REICIATOS. JOHN R. LOGAN, E)T)ons. W.DNB.SDAY, FEB'Y,8 . 1854. Fa" Persons wishintr to see uss-upon business can find us, at any hour du-ing the day, except from four to live in the aner nount at our office, just back of Bot.oatoxs' New Storo. All business connected with the paper musi he transacted with the Edi. tor, or with WIL.IAM LEwIS ; and all let ters addressed to the Banner, must be pre paid to insure attention. COTTON 'MAR K ET. CnAn:LEsroN, Feb. 0. The market on Saturday was inanimate, but with a moderato demand only-priers ranging about the same as for some days previous. The salos amounted to 120(} bales, at the following particulars: 250 bales at8 1.4 to S 1-2; 100 bales at 9 ; 455 at 0 1.2 ; 210- at 0 1-2 ; 130 at 0 3.4 to 10: and 04 at 10 1.2e. 7 We have the pleasure of an nouncing to our readers, -thut an ar rangement has been made, by which Mr. JOHN I. LooAN, the torier edi ter of the Banner, will assist, to sotie extent, in conducting our paper. Ini our absence he will take the sole charge of the paper. Atteation . The attention of the vi.h: ;ers, and espe eitdly 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 regulation, and hope that they will save the Council the necessity of enforcinr the law. Mail Ageaiats. War.utan II. Dvsos, of this District, J. Rt. N. TENHET, of MArion, and WILLAru W. PIrE, of Wilnington, N. C., have been appointed Mail Agents on the Wil. inington and Manchester Railroad. Vr- We publish in this. issue, according to promise, Mr. TAu-:R's celebrated speech. It has taken up more room than we thought for, and too much to allow our publishing at the same time (as we intend ed) Mr. PEnnY's criticism mn n it. We hope, those gentlemen who have written and spoken to us upon this subject, and whom we promised to publish both articles together, will accept this as a suflkicat 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. TABER'S recent letter to Maj. PERRY, which comprises the whole con. troversy.gspaa it has gone. Wo, have adopted the plant of publishuing this contro versy between Mr. TABERt and Maj. PnR R , in order that the people tnay have the chance of judging for themselves, and mn order that they may do so entirely unhiased, -we forbear mnaking any conmnents. Sumsall Pox. Thme report wa going the roundms, a few days ago, that this drea:dful disease ha~d made its appearance in our qniet and healthy little town. T1hue report originaited in the fact that a young moan, who had just returned from Charleston, had been taken~sick w"ith what has since~ been as. certained to be mesels--a disease which we are informed somewhat resembles the Small Pox in its first stage. The young man has been treated for measels and is recovering as fast as possible. The E'asterna War. The latest accounts show a brilliant victory for the Turks. The ighting continued for five days and the Russians were at last routed with the loss of' 4000 killed and two Generals wounded. On the last day the Ttirks attacked the Rus. sian reserve and drove it in confusion on Krajovat with loss of its artillerv. Tfhe shmiughter onm both sides aiimns. T~he Turiks afterwards destroy ed t h. Russian fortifications and retuaned to Kataijit. T1he Russians have is erensed thn fortifieations of Sebastopol anid alon~ thme Criuca, and''put out all the ]ight-houses. Thie Sultan has essentially modifie( the note of' the Four Powers and foar waided it to St.- P'etersburgh. N< answer hias yet been received froti the Czar, but it is believed he wit recall his Minister from Paris and Lon don, and formally declare war. Enia land is strengteninmg her coast dlu fences. lin the F~renchm navy yards tla greatest activity prevails; every ves sel is o'rdered to be fitted out, inn *the workmen have no intermissioni -even on Sundauy. This allibegins to look in earrnes like a general war. Generosity of thme Ilarpers. The Messers. IIantr.:as, whose estab lishmnent wvas recently destroyed by fire * have kindly offered to pay the board of tin girls, who were so suddenly thrown ont of employmaent, until their businmeaj is stulli ciently'advanced for them to resume thmei, 'smploymaent. 17Eight thousanid bales of Cotti wert -delstroyed'on the Mississippi River by fire dni the 29th uit. This with wvhat lhas beeu destroyed, sat other times, within the las - few weekw, swells the amount foat ti something Avet te..e ..--an aes YIcieUC Mlaitter. At this time, bwing to the appear ance of a few, cases of. small pox in Charleston, and some scattered ones. in the country, nearly over' lihftiter or head of fituily, throughout the Siate, arc busy in their inquiries for, and use of vaccine matter, as a pre 'etative of this loathed and dreaded disease; yet how f'bw know to whom they arcindebt ed for th discoverylofthe greatest boon ever given to sufl'ring humanity, and certainly the muost signal triumph of intellectunl labor and the power of mind. Previous to the discovery of the present system of vaciination, innecu. lation with the virus of the small-pox was prctised lii Turkey, and from thence introduced into England. The disease thus prod ueed artificially, was fund to be of' a milder form, than easual disorder andaless fiital, but not to such an extent as to lead to the general practice of innoculation in this form, f'ew persons being found willing voluntarily to etcounter the disease, even in this mitigated type, and thus matters stood, until the year 1708, when EnwAnD 3ENExx, a physician of a country town in England, and to whom the world is indebted for the discovery of the eflicacy of vaccine matter iumade known the results of' his experiments and successful introduc. tion of coW.pox into the human sys tem, amid its power inl rendering the small-pox inncuous. The disease to which cows are subject and known as the cow-pox appears first upon the udder of the animal from which the infection it frequently taken by milk ers, who dnriig the ravages of the small-pox were fiund to bo entirely free fiom its attacks and to the casual renark of dairy women, that she was not afraid of this disease, as she had taken the cow-pox, was Dr..1 :xxi:it in ilebt ed fr having lhis attention drawn in that direction. ' 'LE)wAnui 3 Nxxiin Was more than twenty-five years in bringing his experiments to a sati factory ci neiln. sion and the pr-esent. systei ii f' usiing the vaccine inmtter was unheard of until he himself applied , so late as 17(06 upon the aria ot'a boy the matter taken from a pustule on the hand of a young woman who had received the imifection fi'oit a cow. The diseiase thus pro diuced was one of the iildest forat, and upon innoculating the sane boy six weeks after with the virus of the small pP$jt was foundry This was tihe first of is triumphs and led to what is now ani ahniost ulnniver sil practice. Thei fe-elinigs of' I)r Jr:I ara thie pursuing his experimients, ar hsrelated by himsel5(1f and do ats imucihi honr to his heal-t. :md1( as julsti y eniti tle him io~i the love aund re1sp ect of of'ia mmkind . as thle bi on i tsel f, which his skill anid lobor mfadle kniowni to the wvorl.l lie says: " \V inst the vae cine discovei-y was pro'ugressium~ the joy I f'elt at thii diiscovery befo~re tme, of beiing the instruimenit dlestine~d to take away fromt the worl'id one of'its greatest calam ities, blended with the fo~nd hope (i' enijoyiing indepenldellece, and donmestic peace and hapipiiness, was often so excessive, that in pursuinig my fivorite subject among the mecadows, I have somtetimecs fiiund myself' ill a reerie. It is pieasanit to mie to recol leet that these r'eflections always ended in dev'out acknbowledginentts to that Being from whom this, and all other mcis flow." Populationu of Onlifoia. From the Alta Ca!ifrnnian of Dec., 30kh we glean m nyt interestiing pairticuilars of the populhationi of Califurntia. On the first of Jatnar y 18~>3, the ntotnher of inthiabi tants of the State was estimated at 3110, 0(00. Tlhe numiiber a rrivedf by sea since that timie aml~ounit lio 3518, departures 30,:i1(, leaiving 4,%(9 as the excess of arriv-ais over dlepartutres. This doues ntai includ~e thle arrivals ov-er land and11 the tu LalI inc reaise is estimatttedi at 18S,0n0 ma kimer the popula htin at t his time amI~ount to 329,. 000. Of these it is estimiatedl that 215, Of00 are Anmericants, 25,00t0 Gernians, 25, 000 Fren-ich, 17,00() Chinamient, 20,000 of Spaniishi bh'od, 5,000 missel laneous foreigners, 20,(000 Itndians, and 2,500) Nc grocs. TIhe numaber of' wotmen tare sup poised to) amouttnt, to O5,(000, andi childret perhapjs 30,000.- Th'i's estiimate shows thlat neairly twothirds of the popub0 ittion are Amrericans and uiearly one-third of Ioreign birt h, one-toirteentth French, one-thirteenth Germa ns, one-th irteoth Chinese, ntearly on-elevenith children atnd one-sixteenth Indians. Aso-rreni Koz:au Affair,--Tlhe Vienna corresponidenit or the New York T1ribiune britgs to public not ice the case of an utiof-. fendiing mlan, travelingu under thin protction of a Untiteid States passport, whoii is now incarcerated in an Austrian prison. llis namue is SaloN TAUSSic, and h~e has a wife mi New Jersey, where Ithets been settleid as a shioemaker, and where lhe hand taken the neicessary step~s to becomnoan a Amer ican citizen, Hie retuirned to Austri~l on business the presentt year, and was on the point of heavmlg thte country to return hith er, wvhent bewas arrested by theo Austrian p~olice, his. passports taken fromt him, aind lie sont to prison. The A merican Minis ter has interfered in his case, hut theo Aums. trian autitorit ins efu,.ed Iti librao...4.. luitproiiveniienlis. Progress is the watchword of the day its onward march is stdiyed neither by old associations or venefated relics, and the big house of former days inust fall and give place to the nioro-substantial and utilitari ain buildidg of modern tines ; down, it must f0 With piles of rubbish and dust, warning the Wayfarer, if he has any regard for Clean linen, to stand aloft and nake his com ments at a respecttble distance. A subject fo0 the hammer of the age has the old "Surnter IIouse " been deemed, and its bare and mouldy frame bears testi mony to the spirit and industry of those who had determined on its downfall. Eor forty years and morn has it stood in bold relict upon the corner of Main hnd Broad Street, it land mark for the traveller, and an object o( Veneration to the young, who have heard their graytdaines speak with brightened eyes of cotillos parties and !ea-fights which happened wvithin its walls, when they were young. Many are the sage naitrons of the District, now surrounded by a smiling bevy of the rising generation, who can diate to sounreassenbly in the old house the first pang inflicted by Vulcan's boy. Manyure tho rosey-cheeked old fogies, who with mysterious winks talk of games at "old sledge " and " bluf " in those same premi ses, when such were the fashionable past times; but that was long, long'ago, this is a more moral age. (?) Somne too, they are of the cross-grained order who grumblingly tell of fearful combats on a long summer night, with voracious ch s, oh terri ble ! But these must be numbered among the things that were and old oracles nust find some other object on which to found their tales of what once was done, for the " Sunter House," the pride and boast of the earlier settlers of Sumuterville, has beens doomed to give place to tho demands of the day and in its place, ere nany months pass by, thefarmer will find a mart at which he may exchange the fruits of his industry w'r the fabrics of the world. With this vo. erab!e pile too is closed the only bar-room bf the town, and we leave to the curious, the solhtion of the followiti fuery, prno zotundid by an irrlnisitive individual.-.. " WVhe0 is the ind with the specks to get his sweetcneid ones V' EIitorN TaI)Ie. Fint:art AND PL.ANTER.-We find uput ciu' table tile January uninber of this useful and highly interesting ptib lication. The Fariner amid Platter is publ ihed mioithly at Pendleton C. 1I., and f'rua the numuaber and select r.a. uru of its contents, we hesitate not to recommend it to every. fairmier in the country. WVe slhall take the oppottu. laity, at some future day,' to autke some useful extracts for our readers. ''uu SOUTHERN .A GIeCLTUICIsT. We are also in r A -pt !.ihadJanutiry "fuliriber of' t~bll'Journdl. Like the~ above it is devoted to a subieet of growig inateirest to our poplei , and its table of conltenits o'li'rs maniy tiiipting' iiiducemnats to thle Southern tfamer Th'le Suth ought to encourage tall works of this kind. -t he teriis of both of' thlese~ ft pblicationis za e oric dcoihari in adv.ane i. sinagle copy fori thea yeaar. To Clubs iea.ourable deductions5 are We return oura lthaiks to sutine liriend for a copy of Gena. CaXs's' spenchi iin thae Cliyton, hlulwer T.lreaty. Arid also for' a copy' of lhimtl Yi.:AOno's Ad d ress before thle Call iiopelan :iad Poly. technic Societies of thre Citadel Acacde miy of' Chairlestoni, S. . 'This acdress is a' a oun I aluni p a t ecal arguiina nt in favor of due su boid intation in our acuadermies andl colleges, iird we hope will have a whaole'somae effect, upon the yong genitlemuen for~ whom it wzas prne pared. 1latckwo'cod and the Noith IirUitishi Review, ar'e both on our' table, but thef~ require mio.-e notice than out timerc anid space will allow this week. We will .ttenda to thieira cla ims in onr next issaue. of Life in New Or'Ieneus. A iire biroke out on the Levee ini New Ojrleans ona last Statuicday morn ing, wichI proved awfully destrucitive of' life arid pr'operty.'-' It oi'iginiated ina thle stemaaner Charailes lLflieh', anid sp read to thle steaumers Natche, Leaha Tunmia, Mohigian, Saxon1 G r'and Turk, and ot her.. All the abo~ve liarned steamers5, to. getheri waitha a barge, were burnt to the water's edge. An iiniuenise 'amount of' produce lying on the whaar'es was destroyed, togethri''rwitla ualh the f''eigbh, on board the bcoats burnat. The untire loss of propert'y .is es. tinat ed at oniez milIlion of' dollhark. Tlhae steamer Sultana, with Mad. Soritag on board, took fir'e, but it v~ an f'ortunmaily extiniguishedprnith -but lit. tle damange. The loss of' lifc is thie most lamtent. iable portion of' this sad calamritv. Vave white persons, and thirty.twc negroes, lave eithaer been devoured in thae flames or been drowned. One of' the fire engines, in the graeat conf'usionr occasionedl, was pushied in the river. T1h~e flameis are iiot extin. tiunuishted. This f'ollowainig so suddenly the ea tastrophea of' the Georgia, only acdds tc the~ afilictiori that event occlhsioned. A newa postoafl ice hats been 'establish. edlin D~a'r'linigtcn District, at tire resi. dlence of'Capt. J. Tirwaxc, to he called Tftns Bay.. To tilp Wo oie of Ctaroliau. We clip; fronal the arjeston Standard, the fol t"ring sitfrir peaI to the woman of Carohina. Our g ha neglected, aye, rifused ;t move i 8 noble object, and by lea ig ardln mdlrnrjaiy -has brought upon .t the shame anal derision of all parts of our country. The Statesman, whon a, nation shoultd hare been, and tperhaps % on d be proud to honors tit that she thinks, it right that, the lani aid home of his birth and boyhood--the' edple for whom he es. pecially' lived acid died, should have the distinguished prvidle of paying the first homage to hais tflge3nory-this man, South Carolina has trAdt d (vith worse than silent neglect ; and wre glad and proud to see that the daughters of Carolina are about to wipe off' thq in her sons have left upon her namne. "Ve wish them success and hope that tb Edieof Sunter will do their portion: "There has aontly been formed an association, to W h we would call your attention, and ie k for it your earn -at synapathy and Ipuary upport. A hody of ladies have osgatized themseelves into a so ciety, for the p Of aiding 'The Cal. houn MAonuim talion" i4 collect ing a som su etent to build up It lasting testiaonial to the tettory of our own Cal hounr. - Each daughter of the State, by subscri bing her name and oue dollar, is entitled to rhe priv-lege of enlisting herself amone this patriotic sisterhood. Now we carnostlycall upon the daught era of Carolina, zealously to embrace the opportunity afforded them of proving their patriotism ; and-thus wipe nll'the oull stat of ingratitude, with whicb as a State we are e dishonored , and reproached. But it has been, and may again be said, we buit no maonument to Sumter and Marion - why then bild one tf Calhonn Ia no syvste'm of logic do two wrongs iake a right. Shall the thief say, I atole yester day, therefore it is right fir te to steal to day i Shall we otiit decds of charity this year, because we were blind to our duty the last ? Ot no ! let the god deeds of the prescit cancel, in ame nieasure, the ouaizs sioats of the past. In t Io nale of patrotismt, in the name of justice and gratitude, we call upon the women of Carolina- to caoe forwards a id geierously aid in this praise-worthy cause. Never let it be sad of thetm that, cold and tngrateful. Iheir hearts reinsed to ac kitowledge the claim, and their bainls to bestow a lttle tito upon this just and war thy untdertakio. For our own sakes, let us not sutler Calhoun to fat op any longer beneath the lowly totmb that znw covers him, a tomb ar flrom being .ommtensurate with our gratitude tt his worth. Let us not rpf 'se to honor him, who for So mtany long yeas honured us ; who fight mng manfully our battles, perished ini the m.dst of the weary 'conflict, with his al mour on. -. at Let not our glourioris "1 Southern cross" fade out of the sky, and we raise no memo rial to tell of the departed glory, that re splendent in beauty, tracked our tirma ment with luatrmui light. Let the woaness e: Carolina rally in this cause, and rmi-tj. success, we shall see gleam g mibn - tnoriabstone of a . **.nh . h in marTh~ ma Jesty, it will ye R-a eloquently oh a peo ple's hve ; atnd 'ae ytothters of Carolmea gathering at its h;.e. andi ptroudly poitm ii t heir suits to the htanaered anamte or Caihour, shallI bid. themr learn a lessona of Thrtht, Justice and Virtue. - . C. Under this captioan the Carolinian con taians the following~ caution to those int char.!c of th Wt ~ ilmnington anid Manuichtes ter Rait Road : "A fewv weeks since we htad occasiona to totice a comiplamat ot sainte piassenigers what travelled over the Witercetrestle wokay the iimintgaon anid Mant thst rerirad, relative toi the rate oft stpead at widcht the trcuais c:tnne over thait adagarous superstuture. Again~t atre copait mad us, andi we teel at oair duyaanto tiler a warninag to thoise it chairge of that radd, anal to protest agaitnst thtese trnainst bejnig drivent at a reek less spteedl aver a treele knouwn to be danger outs. A conununataity wilt ntot ho.ld tose con cerned gibiless shlda tany matis fortuneit htsppean. Th'ley have heena warned noiw the riecondl ticane, and we d.o truist th-it thtose ini authority will- see tthai these wantnings are noit miade kina. Better loose a miail thtan a dozent or' two lives." We kntow not whtethier this rebuke is meraited or, whether the reports that have gone abroad are exaggerated accounts of' the' rate of ar avelont this road]. rThe (Vil mtinagtoni andli Manchtester road is ai new onte, just abiout being comnpletedl atal such't re ports would tentd to inijure it. Thea Comi puany have a brigt proispect ahead o: thenm andh it would be a pit)' to ntip it~i uthlc state for inftormnation, that this road is non~ doig at excellenat busintess. A great den of travel is adone over it; on several occa. sions of late, there- htave been more per. son s to comto than could be acceanmmaodatei andl thecy have hail to he left. We sup poseO that the demand for amore accommaao. dationa, htas boon, or will very sonita he pro vidled for, aind ten, they may exptect maore travel thtaui any road Sotuth. 8:No maii a Dtsc.osenc.-A biov named Edawardl Reese, thtirteena years old, was do, tealted picking d poacket at Piilidelphia la~s Mlondany. lie states that somie teat air dhazent hays, rantgingdromt twelve to tweata ytears of age, ara banded toagethlen for th<c puirpose af pickinig poc-kets and piterina wheoreger an pjportunity occuirs. Th'l bantd is regulaily organaized, htavinag a haay called "Straine ' as a leader, anda anthtler, known as "aig Chuckles," whot aicts to depauty int the absence of thte captaina. Tlit field of operationa extenad from washtitng. tn to New Yqrk, andl the plain of actita is varied to sut circumastances-. Trhe ol. er boys, antd leaders of te gantg, are ostent sibly entgaged in selling pertodicals ania chteap publications, anda they genaerall~y act as the receiverA of then plunmder obitainetd by thte smaaller'hoys. The yoaugsters be. long principally to New York antd Bazlti. matre.--Chaelestona Erenaing Ners. A di~idend of six po-ericant. ot, 01 the profits of the last hialtyear han been declared by the commttercial Bankh of Wilmrington, N. C., besides nppajro printingvto per ccent. to the conttinget fubid. Our readers will find interesting, the subjoined account of the late desiruction of the ball cartridge factory on LongIOJZs land, which we copy from the New York Herald. Totaal Destruuction of Frecla% Hali Cartridge Factory. About two o'clock yesterday afternoon the building occupied as a factory for the making of ball cartridges at Lower Rav enswood, Long Island, blew up avith an explosion that sjhook the houses in the neighborhood for two miles around, and breaking the windows of all those build. ings which were within rix huiired or eight hundred feet of the place. It was rented by Mr. French, who, together with his son, are generally engaged In the building. but being at the moment other. wise occupied, happily escaped serious In. jury, though Mr. French, sent. is suffler. ing severely from contusions. The number of persons employed is generally about thirty, being fir the most part girls of the ages of ten to eighteen; lit some men and youths also find work in the factory. The enact number of lives lost is now not known, for, bcing the af. fernoon of Saturday, a greater or less number than usual might. have been there, accordimg to circumstances. Our reprrter was on the spot half an hour after it occurred, and the sight of such a sickening scene he hopes to be spired again. The situ of the building and the surrounding lots were covered with the debris of the building, Iium:m limubs, and fragments of machinery. We saw a man draw from the mass te head of a lit tle girl which he knew was that of his I;aighter by a bit of ribbon fastened to her hair; but any other portion of the boily lie would never find, or if he found it lie would never be able to say it was the body of his child. The precise cause of the explosion no one remains to explain. it is known, how. ever, that the stave used for warming the building was red lint, the day being very cold; and froim the highly coibustibile ma. terials which were used im close proximsiity to it it may readily be accounted for by supposing soic particle ignited on the iloor, and coinnunicatig with th articles in aroiuus tages of preparation. caused the exldosion. WVithii a low feet of the huilding is a fireprouf cell, in whici is stared large quan lities of po.wder; and this being w.thn the scope of the simoke and lin of the burn ing ruins, no oine was wdhug to hazard an approach to attempt to rescuo the siladr crs from the ruins for some time after the explosion took place. The shock o casionnel by the explosion was Iramndous. and was sensiblv felt at a distance of six or eight miles; and du ring yesterday afterinon a report. was current in WVil:i mmistburg und rr.okivu that an eartlinake had taken place somewhere upon the isiand. ThIe scene at liavenswood beggars de. seripteon. The bmrdoug occupiel by alr. Prench for the in.mnnlacture of French's rifle cartridges was a one story wood bol drmg, twenty by twenty-five feet square, which was blown into Irugmnents, and not a single stick could be found that a child could not lift. It is pupposed that there was about twenty persons in the building, ani but three were known to have been taken out alive. It is daid -that the fire:ogiginated in the .northeast cornor of' the budtdinu. in .the stove, buit from what cause is unknown, There wer.e over 50),000 ball cartridges made up in the building, besides a cons:d erable qJuantity of puowder. Thse' cart rid..es nearly all exploded, andii the balls were thrown in every direction; but providen-. tially nio person ouit of the builing was seriously injured. One of the ballIs ps sod through a pane of glass into the libra ry rn of Air. liodine, a distanice of oine eigth I of a inuhe, and shattered the ch-ind cher. TIhe dlwelling houses within a circuit of a umile were miire or less injured, ha~vinin the glass eiitirely broken out., and in sevy. eral inistanmces ithe walls~ were drinaged. Mr. F'reinchI's houise, whIiichI is about thmir ty rods Iron the faicto ry, was very mutch Idamnaged; the w inidowvs and a port ion of) lie Ifn uniiure having bueen destired, anid ia secondii story frn rerom was the only one which the family could occupy last night. At lie t imne of the accident Mr. French was engamged at work in a smarll buiild ing sume titteen rodi dis.tanit, aid inarrowvly e->caped wvith his life. A furnace near wher~e lie was standiing was broken' to pieces, anid Ihis hat. carriedl away and could( not be foiunid; lie also received several slight. bro ises about ie faice and bodly troum is siles, which were buriedI in all directionis. We were iniformied by Mr. French that one of Ihis boys, a few days sinice, in empiltv ing out somesi kegs of piuwduer, discovered two nimteci.es, inmch had beeui parcked tip with it. Their peoplie of the village censure Mr. French severely fur not.emiploy tmg a great er degree o) cauttion in hik dangerous man ufarctory, and (especial ly for not appoiinting a judicious atnd ex.'perieiced supe)riniteid. eut over is juvenile workmiien, imiany of whomr were ol tender years, sone of thsem tbeing i uder t welve, and only two orn three adults amilong them, if we'are rightlhy liinmd. SeveralI of the I rishi resideiits of the place !eerimt, shortly alter the occur Ireiite, (lpuite rtitrius oni thle su bject, aind one was heard to threat en to "strm ig tip"' Mr. F. P'erhuaps, in contsequtenice of these threrats, that gent lemnini, with hiIis fanii ly, have left the place terhporarily., Some idea of the tremtenus force of tihe explosiointay be cinceivedi when we say thiat every dweiling house in the no meid inte neighborhood was shaken abnoiilst to their founrdat ions. Rev. Mrlr. WVaite. re Epiiscoparl clergyman, having a pastoral chatrge in the phire. and resithnig near the mianuniactory, was forced to remove with his mniily to a neigihbor's house, some dhistanuce oil, to obtain shrelter from the in. elemetnt weather, every wmndow in his own dwelling being blown completely out. All the dwellings in the viciiiy wer'e in the saiie state. Cur.ously enough, a stage happened to lie paissintg at. the time of the explosion, and thre cncussionr w~as 5o greait that the gurisses in the wiindows on one side wr htedio a tos Isand piees. atrd los WVe irre tolId hiad the mnaivazinie, wvhich wais Bit uted a short distance fromi the main btuldiing, became ignited, the 'onse-. quienmce woumld hiave been still imore disas trotus. T1hie magazine contained between two and three tonis of powdelr. SAD AcciEnTa.--We regret. to lean the - tp F'reight Train of thme Greenville arnd Cohmunhia railroad was thirowni frori the track on Tnesday', thme Blut tit., amid Mr. Allen, the Engineer, in attempting to jrmnp froim thme locomotive, was imnedurte ly crushed to death. (ircen te m oe inn cr.. From the New York Herald. Vuccisation--is it al Preve:ata tive of Smaall Pox ? - We publish for the benefit of our Readers, the subjoined article, by Dr. E. 11. I)ixos. .It is upon a subject 6f peculiar interest to our community just at this tine, and we hope our readers will profit by the advice it con. taims. To TiE EDITOR( oF TEE IIERALD.-II answer to the repeated requests of a public exposition of my opinions with regard to the preventative power of vaccination, and how I ancoutut thr the present extensive prevuleice of tla small pox, I reply, 1st. That vaccination is unquestion ably a very powerful preventative is shown unanswerably fromjttthe fhet that history proves that, the morta lity, hav ing formerly bee :9 frightful as to sweep off im-oire ti halfl of all per sons exposed, has been sg fhr reduced by vaccination, when even imuperfectly or very carelessly performed, as not to exceed ive per cent., mid that this small proportion is still further re duced, even in those who are seeming ly not suscepLtible to full and satisfiet ory vaccination. 2d. Are there any persons to whom the vaccine vesicle cannot be conuiun. icated? and if so, are those persons lia ble to small pox? It has been subposed that those pacrsons who are inoculated, i. e. with the virus or, lympth of the small pox, taken in the natural way, (a process since the discovery of cow pox, forbidden by law) as well as those who have once had the disease, were not liable to a second attack. This is certainly incorrect. I have, within a fortnight past, suceeeded in producing two very perfect vaccine vesicles in two persons iuch pitted fi-orm a Natu ral and severe attack several years si:ee. TIy were both servants in the flunilies of two of my patients; and what is singular. they were the only two fill and complete vesicles, having alI the proper characteristics as in the vaccination of the influit, atinon'tgst sev etiteei persons, the united number of the two liunihies. Several of these vesieles however, presented such mark ed characteristics as to assure ie the parties were liable to greater or lesser degrees ofsmall pox or to varioloid, as we call it; and sevei al were entirely usnsiept i lle. the vesicles not showing itself; in these it was supposed the omtoer or infttine vaccinatiun had protected them. This however, ealn oinly be-ftlly proved by again vaccin ating them, as it is impossible to say but some hidden cause, not ascertaintia. blesin any other way., iiight have pre. vented tiie virus iron showing the dis tinctive cbaracteristics. 3d. How d., I account for its un. usual prevalence this year? I answer, there is undoubtedly an atmospheric predisposition- existing at them one witil' another, are-as wrell protected this yeur as the last. -Smtall pox existed I -st year, and does nmore or- less every year, to an extent suf. hicientt to spread all over the city. The thet is it will in a year spread as ex tensively from six cases as from sixty; and will manage to catchk an imn:nens majority of those whoii are not pr teeted. .Now this season, small pox is vastly more pr-eval- itt than it has lie,, within forty year-s; indeed, it is so much mnore so, that we have no rational cause5 left than atmuospheric predispoisition, fori its grecat, inci-ease. The only safe method iln this disease is to vacinate the sanme persotn several titmes, or- as long as the sote is pirodu. eedl, with the distinctive chat-actor of the vaccine vesiele oi- cow ptox. The proot of the genuiness oif the resiele is this, viz: otn thme eightht day fr-omt the inasertie n of the miatter, (which p'rocess should never drawv n drop ofi blood for nor-e woumld wash it awvay,) the sore sho..uld pt-eseht tl.e tollowving aippeitannee: An oval centre of a browivimsh color-, a fight ci rcle'of pearly vesielen, contaiing the lymph, or speedihematter-, and a rose colot-ed bilushieten ding fronm the outer circle of this pearly bor-der- all ar-ound it, and fad ing imntperceptibly intto thet sur irounding' skin. Unless it presents more or~ less of this appearance, it is ouly a coininnon sLIre, antd in niowise pirotective. Julst in pr-opotion as it app~fiomches t he above aipp~eaiance it is perfLet. I consider- two or thret-e trials with good reliable lymtpht oni thte qutill, takent h-om the sixth to the ninmh day, and inisertedl witho ut drawving a full dropi of bloiod, suticien t.---l f it do not take I consider thatt person sufficiently pr-otected- by thle formiter vaccination. I would cert ainly, however, revtcciinate every few years. In the eleventh ntun ber af thte 8ecapel there is a popular article ott this subject, to which we re let- all readers desirous ofinvestiga ting the few known facts in the historyo the disease. ~o Respectfully, your obedient ser'vant. EDWAR D H. D)IXON, Editor of the Seapel, 42 [Ftfth avenue. Tfo TAX CoLLFcToRs.-Tle Act of thei l egmslatutre rotating to the Registry of IBirthis. Deoaths and Marriages. requires the PTx Col lectors to receive returns when the taixes are paid. \Ve are requested to give notice that the books anid scheduloe will be forwarded to the Trax Collectors when~m the Acts areo distributedl, ats the ap pimittento ot.Registars has just been made, andl it is their dutly to have such bhooks pre pared. This will enaible tf~e Registry to be conuneonced on 1st March. Editors interested ini the Rcsistry wiill please copy this not11ice.- Carolinian, DRowNED.--OnI Fridaye evening last, Stephen Rtamwaters and a Mr. WVilianms started fronm this place wvith, a Raft of Lumu baer- for Geoorgdtown. Somtim~ine diurinig that night te ra ft tvas stove and Rainwa teadowid Wi hi.i cscapiing aahiore COMMUNICATIONS. Fbr the arner. - To Dr. J. Bs WVigtEersppo. RESJ'ECTED Sir: :--laving hald the hap piness of being Jong and intimnately cngni sant of your great mnoral worth, and unob trusive and gentlemanly demeanoir as a private citizen, your friends in Claremont Coutty repe, trully regntest your consent to allow them to annoncre you as a candi-. date for Senator, to represent them during the ensuing term. Your well established repntation renters it superfluous to ay aught of your entire fitness for the station it 'it our desirV you should adorn. A FRIEND TO MeRIT. if" Walchrmau please copy Mn. EiTia: You will oblige many ciZiz-ns by announcing Col. J. 1). BLAND. ING as a candidate for Representative for' r' Clarmnont County, at the next seisiodb if our Legislature. Feb. 6, 1854 , - 15 tf E-"r' Watchman please copy. Mn. EDIToI : Please announce Co M. NELSON as a candidate for Senator for Claremont County, at the ensuing election,, and oblige MANY VOTER. February 8th, 1854 15 tf - u- Watchman please .copy. For the Banner. Well Done 1 Old Sumter t Our citizens hive been for years the victims of the vile practices of a set of un principled Hucksters and Nogfo Trailick ers, in the shape of Shop and Store- keepers, who in deliance of :.ll law,'and rmoral re sponsibility. have been dealing out poison otis intoxicating liquors to our inoffensive 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 witn themselves ; goading him on to plunder the kind and in dulgent owner of every species of properryr and become the ready receivers of thet: ill-gotten gooJs. \Vrithing 'under these un.Ieserved and intolerable abuse, our village and country friends have arisen en masse, Hammer and longs in hand, determined to make ti.ese gentry " define their position" or, by rasping the scales from their oblique moor al vission, and hammering their mnetal t o such a degree offineness as to make the in calpable or receiving that beautiful polish, imparted by the barnisher of fair dealing and legTiiimae inducstry.. Wlen such tnen as the W1 rLDEnS, IIA. METs, WITHERPOONs, DiG LE S,. I'AN5, IIAyNswoRTits, IR tCIAaDsoNs, and- a hout of other ieigh-ninded citizens undergo the. fatigues of seven days and nights arduous and incessant vigilance, our friends at ;; distance will readily perceive that we hav But fellowv citizens in motion, roll on, there ia a -odd i comning,. Panrsnveranice will moust certainly accomplish your honorahile inteuft ions. VUL(AN. Slave Plolaa Kenmtuck$'. We find the followinig ini neo *or our exchanges: . We le'arni from the Louisville Cours icr, that Ihenry County, K~y., has re. eently been the scene of co:nsidgratble excitemenet arising from the disco~v, ery ttf a plot of' somne slaves to mutr der a family beenti.e they thought one of' their niutmber had beeni sold, and make their esenpe to Cnadta. The fatmuily whi ch it. was proposed to mura der was named Ilorndcon. One of. the ser'vants, suspectinig that his mias te had taken -another off to sell him, told his views to several others, anid it was agreed to throw a stone in at the window and kill a little boya . The lady of the htotuse, it was ex pected, woculd be a'larmied and run (t, and then she wtas to lbe murder-, ca. This dahe, the negroes were to divide, one party to flee at once to~ Oiada, and the others to remain until' the return of' their mna'ter, who was to he killed, and the money wahich lie was supposed to have receivedl for the servant he had takeni with him, to he appiropriated to their use. This scheme was carriecd out so far as* to throw tite stonie through the win. dow, but the boy at whom it w~as dii'eeted escaped, and the heas ts of the conspitatuors fa iled. The neigh bors coming in and~ emnquiring about the stone, which hatd been thrown, the negroes talked so as .to ,r'aw suspicion upon themrselves, and be- , ing stopped confessed the plot, iun-' plicating a large numnbe, of' neg oes and oneo whlite main. Several of the slaves concerned have been sold. * Tnrs NEUTnALITY OF SwEDEFN AftD DENaARK-Some tdoubts having been expressed as to the conduct the .north ern courts of Sweden aitd D~enmark mbay think proper to adotpt in the event of aii extensioni of the hiostilitsee which, have commenced on the Jpagube and .the lacek Sea, thiese powers have recently determined to establish a strict -union of . their policy, and a formal declaraition of their itntentions ha~s just been adldressed by their ministers, in identical termns, to all tho cabinets of Eurupo. WVhatever rmay be the result of the diferences which have occurred betwteen lRussia and Tur key', and wvljieh thrt'atens to extenid to the miaritrimo powers, Swedlen and Denmairk are desirous of maiita'iing their frienidly relationis wvith all the Stattei now at amity with them, antd,.accotrdmig!y, they propose ti) oblservo in the conitest wvhichtui mayw be imicinting over the wori a stroct neu. trali:.-, by abstammiti from every d.re'ct or indiree't measuire calculatetd to favor or as sist either of thet ctntend~ng part'.--a-. olinian. I ,Anos Ft~oolt'Or lt; nos.--Theo hrgce't fltick oif wvid Pigetits wve nve r sawv pains' di oiver this place on l'ueted y' mnramntg l'st. We0 shiouiil supeose theure were f'rom 4 to - 5000 in the flock. going i n iso'tlienstcr y ir u~ie n--- Ltw J udd