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From the Columbia, Telescope.
The Secretary of State baa politely furnished
Us with returns pf the Census, as far as they
Have been received, as foliaws:
The CENSUS of the free while inhabitants
of South CaroIinatfor 1839.
. Abbeville District 14,006
Anderson ** 12,839
Barnwell 10,978
Beaufort " No return
Chester ?
Cheeterfiold 5,413
Darlington " 6,029
Edgefield ** 15,069
Fairfield " 9,152
Greenville ** 12,586
Ketshaw M 3,947
Lancaster 5,509
Laurens ** 12,382
Lexington ** 5,846
Marlborough 4,119
Newberry H 8,286
$SL Matthew. P. 2.116? 7 ggo
Orangofiurga j Orange Parish 5,276 J 7,393
Pickens District 11,491
Richland 5,773
lcS,Cosnt7i:ml 8'916
Sparlanburgb District 17,847
Unioa 10,873
York ? 11.173
St. Philips sod SjU Michaels 15,661
St Johns, Colleton ^79
St Andrews No return
St. James, Goose Creek 1,202
St^bomuanil St.Dennu I '
St Johns, Berkley 612
St Step eoe 390
St. James, Santee 2t<3
Colleton Pislriot St Pauls P. 777 ) s ;
Si George, Dorch ster 1,603 > 5,845
St Bartholomews 3.465 )
Georgetown District 2,014
Horry Disirict 3,145 1 3 930
All saints District 785 ? '
Marion Distridt 6,291
Williarnsburgh District 2,687
Writa have been issued, by the Governor
appointing an election to be held in this District^
on the second Monday in October, for a
Representative in Congress, in place of the
Hon. F.H. Elmore, resigned. The candidates
are CoL Jamison of Orangeburg, Col. ftatler
of Barnwell, Col Caughraan of Lexington, and
Major O'Hankra of Richland.
Columbia Telescope.
We perceive that the 5th, and last vol. of
Audubon's Ornitholigy has been completed
and has reached New York. It is we suppose
the most splendid book ever published. A copy
of it, cost 8800, was subscribed for by the
Legislature of this State, to be plaoed in the
College Library.?Ibid.
From the South Carolinian.
"jfURKKL HXN IN ANSON."
Oar readers may receded the article in Our
last paper, with the above caption?describing
a man by the name of Young, who had
been passing through Anson County, N. C.,
and another individual, in a csrryalt, whom it
was believed, had persuaded oft'a negro man
belonging to Mr. W in. Ratcliig in the neighborhood
of Sneedsborough, N. C. We take
the following notice of tnem from the Knox**
ville (Tenn.) Register, of the 14th inat.
"We have the satisfaction of informing the
public, that the above described Young and
bis associate, together with Ratd&Ts negro
Sam. have been arrested at this olaee. ami the
two former tried before Mr. Justice Park, and
committed to the jail of thia country. They
were brought before Hie Honor Judge Scott,
by writ of Habeas corpus, but were recouimitted
and. for want of bail are still in confine*
^ ?' - - >w> '* * . .
The N. Y. Courier and Enquirer contains
4Q account of a very singular accident?the
snagging of a ship in the midst of the ocean.
The Cornelia, on a voyage .from Havana [to
Amsterdam, when about 400 miles N. N. W.
of Nantucket, struck upon the mast of a sunkon
vessel, which stove in ber bottom a hole
18 inches square. Their efforts to prevent
the ship from sinking proving unavailing, the
crew took to the boats and made for land.?
After encourtering great peril from a storm
and want of provision*, they fortunately met a
vessel by whacb they were reocuedL
. J**al mtstiie.
The Pest of ye&fday afternoon, states that
Mrs. Morrison, of Hiflen street, on Tuesday
evening hurt, before retiring mixed some UudaBum
with brandy, which at was intended toad,
minister in drops to a restless infant, to the night,
however, an elder ohiM of about two years'
awoke and deittred water, when the Father afoee
end in the d m Kght of the roem not perceiving
the previous contents of the cup, poured water
into it and gave the whole dose to the child In
a short time severe spasms ensued which grad.
uaily becamo worse, and the little sufferer was
released by death before morning.
Baltimore Chronicle.
FROM UOL4RXH
The Steamship Liverpool arrived at New
York on meoday morning* at 9 oclock.
There doe* not seem to bo any material alteration
in tne state of the London money market,
though the Bank of England is evidently very ill
at eese. It is alleged that the plan of selling off
the dead weight has not succeeded, the bank hot
having been able to continue to obtain the price
it demanded. That institution had entered into
a negotiation with the iiahk of France for a
supply of two millions of dollars, Wuich was not
however, yet concluded. y
The state of the weather, as the harvest time
-approached, was a subject of intense anxiety*
nhiA toitnnni*iMMntrixiictorv. bat. wears sor*
1y 1ots*yT the last are decidedly bad. This is also
the case in France, where the price of bread had
risen.
The Cotton market has 'improved.
An edeaaoe in the rate of interest on the part
of the bank continued to be a matter of discussion,
bat ne advance had taken plaoe, though
we judge from the various accounts that money
was searoe as ever.
The weather, in England had been wet and
windy so as to create some alarm for the grow.
ing crops, and cause some ad van e in the price
orwheat.
In English politics nothing of great interest,
but important intelligence has been receivod from
Constantinople. Sultan Mahomed is dead, and
hit army tetally rooted by th? Egyptians under
Ibrahim, rhe Captain Pasha had treacherously
delivered up the whole Turkish fleet to Mehemet
Ali.
The son of the Saltan had ascended the throne
of his father. He had appointed his Ministers,
and negotiations wore going on for an adjustment
of the difficulties with Egypt, under the
auspices of (he great European Powers.
[N. Y. Cour. A EiKjuirer.
The following resolutions were adopted by
the recent Abolition Convention at Albany;
L Resolved, That we will neither vote for
nor support the election of any man for Preei.
dent or Vice President of the United States,
or for Governor or Lieutenant Governor, or
for any legislative office, who is not in favor oi
the immediate abolition of slavery.
2. Resolved, That every abolitionist who
has a right to vote be earnestly entreated to
lose no opportunity to carry his abolition principles
to the polls, and thereby cause our petitions
to be heard through the medium of the
ballot box.
Extract from a Circular of the Executive Com.
mittee df tho South Carolina State Temper,
anca Society.
The follawing are the questions, to which we
earnestly request that answers may be sent, from
every district and neighborhood and village in
the tbrm of letters or communications, addressed
td the Editor of the South Carolina Temperance
Advocatet or to the Chairman of this
Committee.
1. What number of Distilleries, Taverns,
Grog-shops and Stores, where ardent spirits havo
been sold, are there now, or have there been,
within ten years, in your immediate vicinity, or
within vour personal knowledge ?
2. What have been the effects upon the character,
habits and health, of those peruons generally,
who have beon employed in the several
branches of business and traffic, specified in the
first question, and upon the condition and circutnslances
of thoir families ?
3. What, in your opinion, is the proportion; in
your neighborhood, between the imbiber of those
who have died victims to strong drink, within
ten years, and the number of moderate drinkers
who havo become confirmed drunkards, during
the same period ?
4. What has been the result of your observation,
in reference to t' e habits generally of the
. sora of drunkards, of moderate drinkers, and of
dealers in intoxicating liquors ?
5 How many talented and promising young
raon, of your personal acquaintance, have been
utterly ruined in fortune, prospects, character
and health, and have gone down to tho drunkard's
grave, within ten years ?
6. How many families, in the circle of your
aequintanee, have been wrecked, desolated and
roduced to poverty, within ten years, by intern- >
peiance? ^
1 How many beautiful and excellent young ,
ladiee have you known, whe have had all their
bright prospects shrouded in despair A have been
subjected to want, neglect and barbarous, abuse 1
by marrying temperate drinkers, who fepeedily
became abandoned drunkards ?
8. What is a probable estimate of the number
of broken hearted wives and mothers, p.nd of
agonized sisters and daughters, within jour
knowledge whose crushing calamities have
been caused bj drunken degradation ol husbands i
orsons, of brothers or fathers?
9. How many distressed widows and desti- ;
tute orphans, has drunkenness made, in jour |
vicinitj, within the last ten years ? (
10. How many grofession&l men. Clergymen, j
Lawyers or Physicians, bavo you known, as the ,
victims of strong drink ; having lest character, ;
standing, business, health or life, by the habit
of inebriation ?
11. How many drunken School.maatera have 1
you known within ten years ? ;
12. IIow many intemperate Ladies have you '
known, and in now great a proportion of in. <
stances was their degradation caused by the ex. ]
ample and conduct of thair husbands ?
1-3. What length of time is nsualiy requisite <
according to your opinion and observation, to i
conduct a moderate drinker into the territory of |
confirmed drunkenness, and an habitual drunk. ;
ard to bis grave ? j
14. We would respectfully inquire of Ministers
and Church Officers, in what proportion the '
casesof apostacy and excommunication, in their
several churches, may justly be traced to this
destructive viee. 4
15. We also respectfully solicit from Judges, i
Sheriffs and prosecuting Attorneys, written *
statement- in i^dy to the inquiry?what is tho
proportion in which deeds of violence and blood
in this State, result from the madness of intoxi. 1
cation. . <
16. What ejects hare been produced upon the t
blacks, in your vicinity, by the use of ardent ]
spirits, and by their access to grog-shops, in de- .
stroying value, health and life ? ,
17. How mauy ruinod estates, desolate and r
abandoned habitations, families reduced to beg* i
gary and scattered through tho western Wilds ; .
and how many sconce of domestic sorrow and
mgaish, of remorse ai.d despair, Which no j
as the fruits of intemperance, within your per. \
sons! knowledge ? 1
18. Finally, we earnestly request Physicians <
and Clergymen, to furnish their candid testimo. t
ny in answer to the concluding question viz: J
In what proportion have the fatal diseases, of all 1
the young and middle aged men, whose deaths i
beds and funerals you have officially attended, ,
been produced, directly or remotely oy intern- .
pernio habits ? !
Such are the inquiries which the Executive ]
Committee beg !oave to aubmit to the friends of
Tiinptaaoty g?n?mllj rfirmt^h mt the tta(e, and
particularly to the Officers and Members of Ternperance
Sooieties. And if we ore successful in j
calling attention to the subject, and eliciting even
half the testimony which might be brought for- j
ward ; the result Will be such an accumulation of 1
astonishing facts, such s harrowing detail of I
crushed hopes and blasted joys> and such a fright I
ful picture of misery and degredation, as no one 1
can contemplate without terror. The record soli- I
citod will be like the Prophet's roll, inscribed ;
11 within and without with mourning, lamentation
and Wo.n
MYSTERIOUS.
We learn that tbe6toreof C. & R. Ains
worth, in East Williamstown, Vt. was burned
to the ground on Wednesday afternoon of last
week. The cause of the fire is wrapt in mystery*
and furnishes an interesting subject for
the investigation of chemists. While one
of the proprietors and the clerks were engaged
in writing, a cask about half filled with New
Edgland rum, to their great consternation,
5Urst with a loud noise* and the liquor, on fire
wias spread over the floor! Tho whole store
was enveloped in flames in a few minutes, and
Hot oven the account books or other documents
were saved. The Post Office was kept in
the same building,and all its contents destroyed.
No fife had bdett in the building fof days, to the
knowledge of the occupants, and no clue is
yet obtained to the manner in which it was
communicated to the hogshead of rum. The
loss of property is supposed to exceed $5000-*
of which $3000 is insured.
[Boston Mercantile Journal.
FIRE FROM THE RATS OF THE SUN.
Last 8abbath afternoon, about five o'clock,
the hodae, number 5 Village-street, occupied by
Mrs. Broome, as a boarding house, was discovend
to be on Are in the upper story j several
articles of clothing hanging upon a partition
wall, being consumed, a Chair almost destroyed
and tae flames having caught the partition, blazed
up to the roof. Being thus timely discover*
ed, however, H was extinguished without further
damage. The origin of the fire was somewhat
singular. The partition where it capghti is
built out from tne centre of a fanlight at the
west end of the room, thus dividing the window
between two apartments. One of the panes of
the fanlight, it eeems, forms a convex lebs, and
the son shining quite warm, and directly upon
tho window, it had operated like a "sun glass,"
and set the dresses on fire, from whence it had
common c ted to the wall. That this was the
manner in which it caught any one might have
' been convinced, by holding he hand a few moments
in the focus of the glass. Had it remained
undiscovered a few minutes longer, it would
have made work for the firemen.
Hartford Courier.
LOCO FOCO MATCHES.
Too much care cannot be taken of theso
dangerous matches. We saw a box of them on
firei on Sunday last which was ignited simply by
falling from a counter not three feet high. It
was accidentally knocked down, but a mouse
might do the some thing at the dead of night and
i who could calculate the possible loss.
Baltimore Chronicle.
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LOCO FOCO MATCHES.
We mentioned a day or two since an instance
of the danger tb be apprehended from careless
exposure and handling loco foco matches.?
Another came to our knowledge yesterday. A
gentleman, who usod thorn for lighting cigars,
Dut a box oftliein into his coat pocket, and in a
short time seat d himself on a chair. The attention
of a bystander was almost immediately
called to volumes of smoke rising above his head
from the chair, and on examination it wa9 discovered
that tho pocket and its contents were in
a blaie, caused by the ignition ot the matches.
lb. \
EXTRAORDINARY COURAGE IN A LAD. .
A lad in Hallem, Pa, named George Peters,
son of D. F. Peters,JEsq.. wus furiously attacked
the other day by his father's bull, and would id.
evitablv have been killed but for his surprising
presence of mind. Seeing no chance of escape,
he dodged the aisndll of tlio furious anim.tl and
leapod upon his back !?The bull thereupon ran
off in a canter, kicking apd rearing fearfully?
but the little fellow, no way disconsertod, c ung
to the animals back until a favorable opportune
ty offering ho jumped off ahd immediately leaped
a fence hard by. "this latter feat was witnessed
by his mother, who was attracted to the spot by
his cries. He is only 12 years old. ,
Tork Democrat.
FINING A GOVERNOR.
A good joke is told of Governor Boggs. By
the ordinances of the city df Jefferson, discharging
a pistol within the city limits is punishable
by fine. The Governor broke this law and
was hauled lip before the Mayor, and fined i
fivo dollars. The Governor protested?cob
tending that he bad the power to remit the fine/ The
Mayer denied thtft doctrine, and was
about preparing a mittimus to ioo^e me governor
in jail, when some Of his friends forked
over, and released the dignitary from "durance
vile/1 As there is no precedent in tin* books, '
we commend this case to the attention of jurists.
[St. Louis Republican.
AWFUL INSANITY.
\Ve learn from Briggs,' Bulletin, of tlds
morning, that Mrs. Barnard, wife of Mr. HBarnard,
of Andover, (a farmer, much esteemed
and respected,) who has for some years
been subject to fits of insanity, was attacked, j
on Tuesday, with & violent madness which 6ho
had never before exhibited. During its paroxysm
she seized one ot her children, a boy ten
years old, and with a knife Severed the muscles
of the neck until the head f-ll upon tho
child's breast His cries were heard by a wo.
man, not far off, who ran to his rescue, and
found that the wretched mother hadpartiallay
cut the throat of atiother child about thheo
years old.
The woman tore the child from the moth. ,
er's grasp, and fled with it to the road. The
mother pursued her, with the knife red with
the blood of her offspring, and met a Mrs.
Shattuck, who bad come out, Jattacted her with
insane ferosity, inflicting several wounds.?
Happily, some men passing by seized the maniac,
and succeeded in securing her.
Mrs. B. is a member of a religious society in
Andover, and when of sound mind, is mild and
imiable, and has always been highly esteemed
ind respected. Boston Transcript.
The Northern Journals give an accooot of a
tmarkable escape of a child from a panther,
it Luwville, Lewis County, on the 2frrh
iltimo. On the morning of that day a Mr.
fcanney and his wife left their residence ,
?a farm-bouse in a retired in part of the town
??in charge of a girl fourteen years old. Near (
ioon the girl heard, a little child, who had been 1
#>ft with her. acred fourteen months a,nd who j.
tad been laid while asfoepon a hfidI,
oinmg room, utter ?i?** efsin, ofT'ittucn ,
4?r iMwnMieiy ttn to its relief, and on open- ,
ng the door, saw a panther with tfie babe in ,
ta month leaping from an open window imme- ,
liately over the bed! Like a true heroine she j
iprang upon that and then out of the window, ,
?nd on being joined by oth?r ohildren, pursued (
;he panther. They followed it about forty
rods to a pair of bars which separated the '
clearing from the forest, at which place the
girl approached to within 15 or 20 feet of the
^anther, when it relinquished its hold of the
:hild, leaped the bars and made its way ,
trio th" woods. The JntMt p|pfcp"V ,
ip quite exhausted from its rapid move* ,
nent through the grass and sand, which had ,
illed its mouth and eyes, but soon recovered ,
ind Is now well, save a few scratches about <
ta body which have the appearance of having ,
teen made by the panther's teeth. The girl d
states that the panther dropped the child once ,
before arriving at the fence, and it is supposed
the giving way of the clothes was the cause,
as they were much torn.
PILLARS POR THE NEW YORK EXCHANGE.
These immense columns, says a Boston paher.
eighteen in number, are now nearly com*
pleted at tbe quarries in Quincy. 'I hey are
the largest that have ever been obtained;
each weighing about thirty three tons. They
are flutea and finished in the most perfect
manner. Nothing can surpass the beauty of
the carved capitals. The work is equaf to
chiselled marble. The first of the columns
was to be moved yesterday from he quarries,
to Long wharf, at Quincy Point?a di-tance
of three or four miles The carrige which
has been bull for tbe purpose is truly a solid
affair. It weighs between eight and nine tons,
and C06t fifteen hundred dollars. Seventy oxen
were to be employed in drawing the
load. Cost of the pillars foub thousand dollars
each?estimated expense of the Exchange;'
one million and a half.
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HORRIBLE MURDERS.
The following particulars, which we extract
from the Batesville News, were written by ?
gentleman of Washington county, to a friend
in Batesville.
"The most horrible murder ever perpetrated
in a Christian country, was committed last
Saturday night atCante Hill, on Mr. William
Wright and four of his children. Mre. V\ right
states that soon after retiring to bed, she heard
the sound of horsemen approaching the house.
Her timidity suggested the apprehension that
they might be hostile Indians. She awoke
her husband, and communicated her fears,
and bbih rose. Mrs. Wright, through a crack
in the door, discovered three men walk up to
the door. One asked if they could stay all
night. Mr. Wright replied yes, and open-d
the door. The robbers at that instant seized
and stabbed him to death. A daughter (perhaps
the eldest) rushed out by the assassins
while yet butchering her father. Mr. Wright
being despatched, the fiends commenced
slaughtering hi* defenceless children. They
struck out the brains of a little infant on the
floor, and ran their boWie knives thro' the
tender bodies of three other children as they
reposed in the embraces of sweet sleep. The
fourth a little boy of some ten or twelve years,
with a long heavy blade, the demons at a blow
separated the crown from the mass of his head
?striking him into insensibility, but not into
death as they supposed. Fortunately two other
children sleeping in another apartment were
not discovered ; also little Morris escaped their
observation. This little child, of the tender
agi of six or seven years only, had been placed
at Ke back side of a trunnel bed; thus hiding
I 4
him from the eyes of his murderers. Little
Morria was awake, and with tho wisdom . of
more mature years, lay in breathless stillness,
eyeing from beneath the folds of the bed
furniture, the strange deeds of murder, and
robbery, and arson.
From this intelligent child, we learned that
after every eye beneath this ill-fated roof, as
they supposed, had been closed in death, and
every tongue silenced forever, the robbers proceeded
to plunder the house of all the money,
set it on fire and galloped off. Little Morris,
after satisfying himself that the murderers
were gone, moved from his hiding place, and
commenced with astonishing intelligence to
reseue all from the ruins of the rapidly advancing
flames, lie ran and awoke his little sistera?and
hurried them out of the burning
dwelling?returned and found his wounded
brother restored to cbnsciousness, his feeble
strength being unequal to his weight. Morris
throWed his arms around the shoulders of his
almost murdered brother, and tenderly drew
him beyond the influence of the increasing fire
?returned caught np the infant^ bilt finding it
lifeless, gently laid it down a few paces from
the door on the breart of the father. He then
eskaved to return for the lifeless bodies of the
6th in; but the fire now having wrapped the
door in flames, forbid bis entrance. Seeing
liie angel like purpose thwarted; he with his
Kttle sisters and brother sought fiuch a resting
place as a houseless farm aod clear sky afford^
ed.. The daughter that escaped at the outset
tobk refuge in a rye field. Mrs. Wright made
her way Some mde and a half or two miles,
barefooted aod in hbr night draw, to her
So strong did the citizens apprehed an Indiari
attack, that they tobk the precaution of
placing their females at a point of safety, and
Collected a tolerable force before they ventured
to the scene of danger: .... J
Mr. Wright was an honest andgood citizen,
without an enemy in the world, and murdered
for his money. The murderers are white men
and not Indians?yet undetected: The whole
country is aroused. May Prbvidetibe point
but the perpetrators of this horrible murder." |
Three of the murderers have since been arrested,
and after being tried by a self-constituted
jury of 80 persons, were hung on the
spot. The reason assigned for this summary
proceeding is that there was no jail in the
country strong enough to confine the murderers,
and a fear that they might escape If not
immediately executed.
The Canada papers contain a report that
Sir John Colborne, is to be superseded in the
civil government of the provinces by the Earl
of Clarendon, late Minister to Spain. Sir John,
it is Said had the option of remaining as commander
of the forces, but will not, and intends
embarking for Europe immediately after the
arrival of his successor.
Baltimore.?'This city has again been
threatened With mob violence. The following
is from the account of it furnished by the Baltimore
Patriot.
There was considerable excitement in portions
of the city, and a largo Ciowd of people
congregated in the neighborhood of the Nunnery
in Aiequith-street, (Old Town,) yesterday
afternoon, in consequence of the escape of one
of the nuns, (sister Isabella, formerly Miss
Neale, of SU Mary's county,) and of the various
rumors of a more or less exciting characteriftoch
got into circulation in connexion
with S^ciiumstabce. / Report states that
iwtdimuii 11 lift tfco mummtpy about twe.ve
o'clock and applied at one of the dwellings of
the. vicinity for admission or protection. These
facts becoming known, a gr at crowd of people
was soon attracted to the spot. And certain
rumors put afloat as to a purpose said to
Bxist of compelling her return to the nunnery,
&c. soon produced such a state of excited feel'
?? ?-nrf.nna e\t ?kn SOAmklatM la f fi
tug Oti.Ullg |IUI IIUIW VI ?UW IKWVUKI.^V ww
give oaose for the apprehension that it might
result'in a riotous outbreak of some sort. In
this state of the case, the Mayor was sent 1 or;
and that officer, accompanied by his police as.
"st?^.repaired to the scene. By his order
O# restoring qUlOt,
the nun was conveyed in a carriage to Washington
College, where she remains, as we learn,
under medical treatment. According to the
Surt, "the only cause she would assign for her
conduct wavtfat she wanted to get out,
though she acknowledged she was well treated
in the institution " The same paper states
that she hats in times past, exhibited occasiontl
symntoms of mental alienation and that
these symptoms have grown stronger of late
yeattr!f
Thb crowd, however, did not separate as
was reasonably to have been expected, but
continued in more or less force throughout the
afternoon. In the evening, as a measure of
precaution* the Mayor ordered out the City
Guards io aid of the civil authority in maintaining
quiet and order, and compelling obe.
dience to the laws. The brigade of Guards
turned out in great force, and about the time
of their appearance the crowd began to disperse.
: The Guards remained on the ground
until slate hour in the evening, or until the
Bigne bf commotion had become dissipated.
tetterh were received here on Tuesday,
from 'Augusta, announcing that live or six
deaths had taken place in that city, within the
previous twenty-tour hours, from a disease
som^wjiat similar in its character, to the Vel>
low Fever, and.whicb had eaused much excite,
men among tee inhabitants. Yesterday, let
trr->.c<?Ue to hand, stating it as the general I
belief (tilt the cause of the sickness had been
d&overed)- it being s quantity of bacon stowed
away in a back Store, that hadhecome putrid,
and spine damaged <cotton seed plaoed in an
open lot, in the rear, from Broad-street. Both
were immediately removed, and it was hdped
that the disease would make no further progress.
Charleston Cour.
WTLLMINGTON AND RALEIGH RAIL ROAD.
We saw a remark a day or two since, that
in no other country than this; could 1100 miles
be travelled over at the rate of 10 miles per
hour. The remark is strictly true, and yet,
notwithstanding the rapidity and comfort with
whirh the way farer is now carried along in
the United States, these advantages* as great
as they are, are being constantly increased.?
We ere led to these remarks from having just
learned, from one of its officers, that two sections?making
together 21 miles.?have been
opened upon the Wilmington & Raleigh Rail
Road withih a fortnight. 1 his leaves but
thirty..seven m lea to l>e finished?of which 10
will be thrown open for travel by the 20th of
September^-rAfter which, 10 rrn re per rtiomli
wili be opened until the whole is completed.
Wilmington Chronicle.
.. Judge Hopkinson of Philadelphia has two
dogs, both of them possessing uncommon intelligence.
. Oscar carries letters and newspapers
frotn his masters hoiise to a friend who
lives several squares distant. He barks when
he reaches the house, is admitted, allows the
parcel to be untied from his neck, waits patiently
for an aoswer, returns home, gives no
bmh?ta?a?m?s?wp?a???
tice of his arrival by barking, and it ready to
go again on similar errands. Spring, the other 1
dog, is a sbort legge-; half-terrier; he possesses I
memory and the reflective powers in a great 1
I degree. A lady about half a mile distant from
bis master's house, being very food of aniinajs, j
always uaid great attention to Spring, when (
hn was on a visit with his master or mistress.
Finding this very agreeable, he took it into his ^
head to pay his visits alone. Without any j
tuition, he raised himself on his hind leg* afla ]
attempted to ring the bell, but all efforts cbtfld ,
only produce a jarring of the wires. Being an \
unusual sound, the servant within sight of the 1
bell below, went to the street door to ascertain !
the cause, and Spring rushed iii. After that, i
as his visits were generally at the same hour, <
the rattling of the bell wire was the signal for '
the dog's admittance. He pdid these visits 1
for several years, and was always received (
with great kindness. - About two years Ago, y
on entering the bouse, he found the family ,
carresihg a beautiful little Italian greyhound; t
and although they paid Spring the same attcri- t
tion as formerly* he showed his displeasure at t
the intrusiorl of the new favorite, by growling (
and keeping at a distance. He would neither ^
take the cake ri?r sugar that was offered him,
but went away sulkily, and never returned by j
himself. <j * N. Y. Minor. i
health of auousta. i
A passoHger by tho rail road, from Augusta, i
arrive I yesterday, informs us that sickness has j
again broken out in tliat'plaoe, and prevails to a <
fearful extent. Our informant state* that about I
f$y cases had occurred there sinco Wednesday i
and that two bad died during the twenty.four I
hours bofore ho loft. The physicians give it tlr i
character c a Biliodb Congestive Fever .she i
patients are' taken with chills and pains in the i
head and back, but if medicine is immediately i
administered the disease readily yields, and in i
some cases tho individual is convalescant in a r
a day or two, but instances occnr where the t
patients sink from the moment they arejattacked.
.Many of the inhabitants are leaving the place, i
with their families, and retiring to the country. i
Char. Com. i
$ V n M A B Y I
Marriage.?Zsbulon H. Benton, Esq., of f
Qxhow, was marriod on the 31 at ult., at the
esidenc^of Mons. D. Laudy, Watertown, N. Y. (
by the Rev. Mr. Rogers, to Caroline Charlotte,
daiighlei of Jos. Buonaparte, Count do Survil,
icrs. ]
Dr. Stepheif Olin is elected President of the
Wesleyan University, in Vfiddletown, (Connect!
- - * * -f ? *- t,r:ii p;.l l.
cut,) ID IU6 piaco ot ur, n uuui rua, ituuijr uc
ceased.
Another distressing can of hydrophobia has
jnst occurred in New York ; that of boy aged ,
16. Who I ad his thumb bitten through by a small
dog ho was playing with last April.
Counterfeit fifty dollar notes of the United
States Bank are in circulation. They hay? been
mentioned befdro, but it may 6e well to sdy again
that the general execution of the plate id very
good, but the heads at each end are very bad,
and the whole appearanco is paler than the genu,
ine. . |
In what other country in the world, says the
New York American, can a traveller perform a
journey of 1100 miles at a continued rate of ten '
miles an bonr. This was done last week by a
gentleman lately arrivod in town from Columbus,
Georgia.
Mackshel.?The St Andrews Standard ssvs .* '
?44 Our Bay and Coves have been literally '
swarming with mackertl ddring the past woek. '
Large quantities have beeri caugh* in the weirs
ut llocaboo and along the shbraa,H . The fiaher- ]
men on our coast complain that the mackerel are '
'all going away* It appease from lt? above that
(hey are On a Visit to the British Provinces.
The damage done to tho crops by the late se. 1
vera sturm in the village of Genesee, Livingston '
Co. New York, and vicinity, is estimated by those
who have the best means of judging at about '
$50,000.
Mr feebodde Kendall, father of the Postmaster '
General, died at his residence in Dunstable, Mass.
lately, aged 81 vearc. *
Major John W. Wimbish, of Edgefield, has I
been eloctcd Brigadier General of the 2d tlrigade 1
S.C.M.
Another Boundary War.?The Miseourians I
and Iowaians are juat now engaged in a most san. 1
gutnary war upon paper, about the boundary line I
between thoeo two powerful empires. <
Some of the lots in the now city of Austin in
TBtas, sold at ^fo late salo as hign as two thou. *
band Seven hundrad dollars each. The average
of the whole aalos is not less than fifteen hundred I
dollars a lot.
D. B. A. G. T.T.?-The sheriffs of Mississippi
now put on a few additional letters to the 1?.
K1 writs they art obliged tdretunL Where a fel.
iv has Vuh a Way, eloped, they noW Write the
following significant letters upon the back of the i
Writs?D. B. A. G. T.T., whiqh being interpre.
ted, means 44 Done Busted and Gone to Texas !"
?Picayune.
Mr. Clay was in No^r York last week. The
N. York correspondent of the National Intelli
jfoncer says?" The'Mayor of the city last even,
ing called on Mr- Clay, and wish great civility,
tendered him the uae of the Governor'* room in <
the City Hall for the reception of hia friends,
whioh offer was accepted; and to?day the City
Hall from 11 to 2 o'clock Was thronged with
visiter*.
CHEBAW P It ICE CIlRltGKT,
t Friday, Auocst 30.
'? . articles.
PSR J 8 C. | $ C.
Beef in market, lb 0 S a 0 7
Bacon from wagons, lb 11 a 12
!>y retail. Lb 14. a .15
Butter lb 15 & 25
Beeswak lb 22 a 24
Bagging yard 18 a 25 *
Bale Rope lb '10 a 121 '
Coffee ,lt lb 1^ a 15
Cotton, lb 10 a 13 '
Corn biish 871 a 1
PI n ? ' L.I C L/l . t I
r lour, vouijirjr, uu ?i w a
Feathers fin Wagons lb 40 a 50
Fodder, . lOOlbs 1 a 1 25
Glass, window 8*10, 50ft 3 25 a 3 374
, " 10x13, 50ft 3 50 a 3 75
Hides, green " , lb 5 a
dry lb 10 a
Iron lOOlbs 5 50 a 6 50
Indigo lb 75 a 2 50
Lime cask 4 a 4 50
Lard ' lb 12^ a 15
Leather, sole lb ' 33 . a 25
Lead, bar ib 10 a
Logwood lb 10 a 15
Molasses gal 45. a 50
N.O. gal 50 a 62$
Nails, cut, assorted lb 7| a 9
??, wrought lb 16 a 18
Oats ; bush 50 a
Oil, curritire gal 75 a 1
?* 'amp gal 1 ?5 a * ^
?s linseed gal I 10 a | 25
Paints, white lead keg 3 23 a 4 52
, Si?an. brown lb 8 a ,rt
Pork 1001b* 8 a 10
ttice lOOlbs 5 : a 5 50 |
Shot, bag 2 50 a 1
Jb. 12$ a f 13
Sugar lb 10 a 12$
Salt ?ack 2 75 a 3
- bash 1 a
Steel, American lb 10 a
-, English lb 14 a ,
.German li 12 * ^
Tallow lb 10 a 12
Tea ,impnrial lb I a 1 ;?
?, hyson lb a
Tobacco* manufactured lb 10 a 50
*
They had a severe gale at Baltimore on the
16th; Which prevailed pa fit South aa Beaufort)
Vt?0, In
Charleston, on Sunday the 25th instant, the
iight Rov. Bishop Bowe.v, of the Episcopal
Church. * " ' i .
Departed this life on Tuesday the 6th inst., at
ier residence in Marlborough District, S. Q.,
Mrs. Marqaret McRae, consort of Mr. $oderiek
McRae, after a long and painful |nne*st which
ihe bore with Christian meekness and resigns.
Jon. She embraced religion in earl/ fifc,' arid
vas for many years an acceptable member of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. In both herjife
md death she evinced the meekness and power
>f Religion; giVing to her husband and fri n%
mdor tlieir bereavement, the greatest of qoneb.
ations, an assurance that she has passed from
leath into, life eternal, and that "he knew in
vhom she had trusted, that He was able to keep
hat which she had committed duto him, onti
flis second coming; and that she Kae entered
hat rest which remuineth for the people .pf God
ri the climes of eternal bltss and happiness in
He Vegvons of the Heavenly Canaan. From the
commencement of her illness, she was favoured
with a presentiment that it would prove fata:. '
This excellent woman was amiable and exemplary
irt all the duties and relations of life. She
vas the duiiful and loving wife, a prudent and
iffectionate mother, a kind and indulgent wis.
ress,, a warm and steady friond, a benevolent
> ?/! xerrMiiUo neighbor. a fervent, devout and
>ioUs, yet humble, Christian, depending wholly
>n the merits of a crucified Saviour for accep:anco
with God her make#. All her word* an jL
tetions manifested that she kept the fear of God
jefore her eyes, and she acted til ways aa if in hie
iuimediate presence.. In her church* in her
elast* at her bible* in her closed or about her dp- .
nestic concerns in her family, she the eonlistent
and pious Christian. The society tif trhjfeh
the was i member, aud the circle in which she
noved, will ioog mourn their loss and cherish
he memory of this excellent lady. .
Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord
'rom henceforth ; yea, saitfi the Spirit, that they
nay rest from their labors* and their works do
oliow them. . [Communicated.]
Oops rt ao r ship. '
rHE subscribers have formed n connection
under the name and firm of McCollum 8c
Jo. JOHN McCOLLUM,
ARCII'D. H. DOUGLAS,
JOHN C. STEWART
BennetUvflle, S. C. Sept. 2d, 1839.
New Orleans & Trinidad
MOLASSES.
f fk IIHDS. New Orleans & .Trmldad
J. V V olasseg of very so pcrior quality iu
itore and for sale by D. MALLOY;
Aug. 29, 1839. 42-tf .
- DIRECT FROM
Charleston to Cheraw by
the nettr steamboats
Swan & Anson
THE new Steamor Swan, which draws bat
a.little over two feet and a half water has
x*en put upon the Pee' Dee River ;. and the
Viorchants A Planters Steam Boat Company
ire ndw enabled to offer to the public one coninuousliiie
of Steam Boat communication be.
tween this piaco and Charleston.
The Swan is. to ply between this place and
Georgetown, and (the splendid steamer Ansoty
between Georgetown end Charleston.
Tin '^kmpfey; are provided with nbmerboa
tow boats and lighters, ana now reel sanguine
thai when any craft can more on the river, good*
jj their line will be delivered with despatch. '
The Ughtert ire 86 don<thictdd as to bring op
height with only two feet wa$er, and with three
net water, the Bwan will be able to come tb the
anding at this place, with two boat* in tow.
Goods shipped from Charleston by the Ansoni
o be continued on our line 1I6 the river to thdir
jropcr deriination, will be atibject td no charge?
it Georgetown.
' All Cotton shipped by this line, will be raehip-~
ted in Georgetown by the Company's Agent
here, for Charleston or New York, and ship,
ters charged with the Usual expense of 12 1-2
?nt8 per bale.
both Steamers have excellent accommodaions
for pasaengerr. ' ,
All demands for freight by this line, most be
>aid prdmptly when the goods are delivered,
j*EU oREGics, PieMr?
Cheraw, August 3?th, 1839. 42 fit .
For Sale, v
15.000 Moras Multicaufis Treti, ?
260,000 u " . , Cutting#.
Alto, 500,000 SILK WORM EGGS,
The above Trees and Cuttings are very fine^
nd warranted to be the gennino Moxrs Multiiadlis
; some of the trees are aeVen feet high;
he cutting* are from trees of 6pe< two and three
'ears old, well riper, ed wood, ope hod to each
lotting. The eggs are of tip kind which pro.
luce white and yellow eoCooils^-mostly white?
nd a part of tlldm raised from Ike secdod orop
his year.
Order* for any of the above, addressed to rps,
vill be punctually attended to, ana filled in the ?
rder in wh<ch they are reeeived ; that is, fir'rt ,
ome, firtt served. It is desirable that applicaion
be made before the first of November next,
is about that time I wilt commence preparing
ny ground and planting the next year's
Sales, made at tfia current prices at the time of ?
lehvery. , - ; j, 't , .;?.? - *
Any communication made.to the on the sub.
ect or the Silk Culture, will he promptly an.
Iwered. HUGH CRAIG.
Chesterfield C. H. Aug 30.1832,. 4# Jf
Mortis Multic&tllis,;.
THE subscriber will tie prepared to aell next
wintet several thousand very Sfariar Mo.
us Multicaulis trees, with from one to two aifik
ions of.mature buds., The trees axe planted
nth arop'e apace tor the branches to attain targo
lite and the wood to ripen. A largo proportion
? the i reea are from roots one and two ysars Old,
fhich furnish larger, more nntiii?,andofdkmtr|ie
'tetter cut'inga than trees of Jest spring1* pUifttpg.
Some of them are now more than ten T?#t high
the wood all of this seasons fcrbkth.?
Many of the leaves measure from IT to 12 inches
across, and a few 13 or over. f\itlinjgs will
be aold with or without roots* Persons within
reach, who wish to purchase, are invited to call
and see them. Ample printed directions for
planting abd cultivating if ill be furnished with,
out charge to purchasers* The price #21 besetted
in a future advertisement. Lettsri os the
subject, jpnlagt paid, will be promptly attended
M. MACLEAN.
Chefaw, S. C. 30th August.
To the Public.
NOTICE is hereby gwen that an application
will be made to the neat Legislature Co
Pharter an engino company for the Town of
Cheraw.
August 22d. 1839. . 42?if
Notice.
THE co? udttee appointed to obtain Agricultural
Statistics for Marlboraqgb
will meet at the Court House the $np mfidsy.io
September neat. *'
ttKlAOG'HT LJOfeSE.
ljtOR SALE, a good Work Hsrvs. Ekqaha
JT at this office. - Aug. 23 41 tf