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[F?.OM THESrEPCHC? OP KOS?UTH.]
P<> I i ia< a i A p o
There is, without justice, no wisdom on earth.
Liberty is the bliss of heaven a:4<i the freedom I
of earth, and it wiii y. t be the d .'Siiny of man.
The protection of God. cannot, without sr.cn- J
!.-^e, be invoked but in behalf vf justice and j
right.
V -ivi iiiitir v. i.'i ii .in iK.nest man would do. i-. I
< f eou:s.\ not to U-considered as a merit, but |
rimj.ly as a duty.
Tin-lived mi of the Pre-, to >> a jwaet'cnl one,
must be a common beaelit to ali?else it i< no
freedom, but a ].rivilew.
However the world may think of it. I should
t ot think th - m.-itiPound at heart, r^nin-t whom
liio world lias not something to say.
1 consider that it is on instruction and education
that the future security and direction of the
d'-sflny >-f every nation, chielly and fundamental- |
Iv rest.
Gentlemen. I would rather starve than Hy,
for mys-df and family, on foreign aid: but, fori
my country's freedom, I would not be ashamed
to lieir from d'?or to door.
The en use of freedom is identified \\ itli the i
drtSiini?s of humanity, ami in whatever |nut of
the world it gains ground hv and by will be* a
cmur.e.n gain to nil those wh.o desire it.
It w !v.|ui-ito to be-long to a people to understand
its whol-? lite a* a nation, and its gcographi '
cal, political and social condition and relations. I
in order t > say what should bo done for it.
I love my native land. inexpressibly, boundless- ,
ly. fervently, i 1-vc- it more than life, more than
hap; itior-s ; I love i: more in its gloomy suffer '
ings than I w.?ttld in its pr >udest, happiest days.
It was lie himself, your groat Washington, i
who rot only aceej ted, but a-ked. again and a- j
gain, foreign aid?foreign help, for the support
of that common law of mankind, in respect to
your- own indop- nd nee.
Practical aid in accomplishing those wishes
which I had the honor yesterday to express, will
be. hospitality given to the principle of freedom 1
?hospitality to my down-trodden but not br<>- j
ken native land?hospitality given to Europe's ,
oppressed nations.
If that sovereign right of nations wort- no com-1
iron ] ublic law of mankind, then your own in-1
depend nt existence would be > o matter of j
v .:.r I-..,/ .Mil,- untfr.i- ,.r fief which mi-rlif he :
subject to whatever chances of power ami of vio i
k-uce. ?
I b ">g you to take to heart one maxim, which '
for myself I have ever observed, and ever shall;
it is. never to say more than is necessary. The
unspoken word never does harm, but what is
once uttered cannot V- recalled, and no man can
f ire-see- its consequ usees.
That is a necessary thirty for Europe to Kim
from Anrrics, that great standing armies must
ceas": but they can only cease when the nations
are free, because the great stand ng armies are
not national institutions. They are the instruments
of d-sj;oti?m and the ambition of tyrants.
The man who has done anything to achieve
a better fate for humanity, or who has had the
honor to attempt and sutler in behalf of freedom,
ought to thank (Jod, in whose providence he has
be*'n found worthy of working for the princ iples
of fr- edom and the solidity of nations.
I am a curious specimen of the whims of Fate.
My inclinations have always drawn rr.e towards I
tranquility and a r-tir-d, unknown, unr inarked
private life. But duty has pushed me on, and I
i tl...t It io /l.V ?h:,t is tli?> innst. sa
V-"-" "" |
cred duty of every rr.an, not to look to h:s own |
inclinations at:d afi'ections, when th" great cans.- j
of humanity and the great cause of fatherland
will to action.
The development of the life of nations toward
a definite end is strictly a practical question. I
have never in my life said that this or this is the
la?t term and aim of development; but I have
said to myself, and to others, that the duty of the
statesman is to observe men arid circumstances
as thry are, and not to lay upon them any idea!
or theoretical standard, but to do with them
what is possible.
I know that in your hands, gentlemen, the Independent
Republican I'ress is a weapon, but a
weapon to defend truth and justice; and not to
offend; it is no screen to hide, no SDuffers to extinguish
the light, but a torch lit at the fire of j
immortality, a spark of which i:-> glistening in ;
every man's soul, to prove its divine origin; a j
torch which you wield loftily and high to spread i
light with it to the most !on< ly regions of liu-1
inanity.
\ Policy is not the science of principled, but of |
exigencies ; and that principles are, of course, hy |
a free and powerful nation, never to be sacrificed |
to oxig'. ncies. The c xigencics are passing awav,!
like the bubbles of a rain ; but the nation is iin-.
mortal; it must consider the future,also, and not |
onlv tl:o grotistical coinfort of the passing hour.
It n;u-t be aware that, to an immortal nation, j
nothing can be of h'gher importance than in:- j
mortal principle-..
Happy art thou, free nation of Am erica, that 1
t h-vi ha-t 1 ?tuidod thy hon?<? njion tonly so- |
lid b t-isof a nation's lih'Ttv! Liberty! A priii-j
j ! : adv lik- the world, eternal like the truth,
ar.d universal for every climate, for very time, j
! !: JToviih iice. 'j hou hast no tryants among
th e to throw th a; [ ! of Kw into thy I'n:<>n. :
Tliou hast no tryants among thee to rai-e tin* i
i . .1 iv :i_. \ ,. i i i
usrv ot liatr 'I r.i my national .anniy?iiamu 01 j
nations, that curse?.f humanily, that venomous !
instrument of '1 spotisin.
i"! - v. ;; i C yan I is mcolisistent with t!,? word
(Ui.y. 'I I. y {' < 1 that t!: world was ir ; .{.< d to j
h - tli tool of their ambition, and tin r'-foiv, tliey ;
f <i no duty beyond the satisfying of their d*-_si-.
r< . Tit- bayonets of tyrants li>wn not to jus-1
ii, i. ,r to ra-on, n r to th- prayers of suffering 1
man. So of course, yon inu-t oppose bayonets j
t? f ivoti-ts, and that is my doctrine, a doctrine]
who h ' will ii"t < rdy teach, but feel as a duty in |
mv inin<?>t Ii art to advocate, and share in the |
when the condition of my country re-j
(jliil" it.
<' 'iitletnet!, do you know what is the finest
speech that J ev<r in inv life lizard or read: It
i- tli - address oHiaribnldi to his Kotiiau soldiers, j
vheri he told them: "Soldiers, what I have to I
olj' r you is fatigue, d inner, stru^jfle and d--ath;1
the chill of the cold iiiieJit in tii" free air, and '
heat and r the burning -un: rio lodpnff, no iiiunitioiis.
no provisions, hut forced marches, dan- j
p-rous wateitp<>-ts, and tic continual struggle
with the hayoiiets against batteries; th/se wlio I
j A*e fie. (loin ami tie ir country, tnav follow inc." i
*zcae*jz KLtJ'mrwaaa
That is the most glorious speech I ever heard in
my life.
Finx Cotton.
M. Clausen, of whom so much has leen said,!
has opened a manufactory at Stepney-Grcen, I
Eng., tor the purpose of carrying out his discoveries
in flax cotton.
Chevalier Clausen, by his method, takes the
flax-straw as it comes from the field : but he pro-!
poses that the fanner should mechanically sepa-,
rate the straw front the fibre by the use of a j
. .... _?.? ?? Li *nn/.l,J?.A ... n?? l.ViVll't! i
*.?-IV Mfllj'it; J Uitt_lW 11^ U mi ll |?uuuu^ V/? imo
the straw and offct* the separation ; tin* reduces
the substance to one-halt'its bulk, and the straw
may be returned to the sail, <>r mixed with cake,
crushed seed, etc., lw used as cattle food. Now,
the stein of that flax plant consists of three
j arts?the shove or wood, the pure resin orgluttinous
matter which causes tliese iibres to adhere
together. The first has be< n got off by the farmer
by the prccss described, and it remains to
remove the thiol constituent, namely, the glutinous
sub dances, Chevalier Clausen contends
that the present system of steeping* water, hot
or cold, will not <.ffct this, as a large portion of .
them are insoluble in water, but he has recourse
chemical agents. The fibre is cither boiled in
a .reek caustic sodcr for four hour*, or steeped in
a Cold solution for twenty four hours. It is
then soured in a bath consisting of oOO parts of
water to one of sulplituic acid, washed' dried,
and further cleaned, sculle d and so on : flax obtained
in thi- way, being free from all coloring '
matters, maybe bleach'd afterward* with grea- '
tcr e:;s \ and as t!;e plant need not be cut. t il j
ripe, the growing ha* the advantage of fully
ripened Mid. and a greater w- ight per acre of
j ure fibre. If is calculated that i'rotn four tuns
of flax straw, one of fibre may be obtained.
The fibre is then cut into short hngths by a '
circular khived cutting machine. The applian- j
cos for the metainorpltosis of flax into cotton are ]
very simple, consisting of four wooden vats, con- i
taining solutions which will presently be named, ,
and an opened wood<n box, or cage rather, made
of-trips of wood, which by means of a rope and (
block, is suspended from a small carriage running
along a t ran-verse b. am overhead, and thus
can be lowered and rai-ed, successively into and
fr.iin the four vats. The cage being partly filled
with the out flax or \va*te w tow, " is lowered
into the first vat, cuntainihg a solution of cold
water and 10 per cent, of common carbonate of I
soda. It remains in this about an hour by which
time the liquid has penetated by capillary attract'r.n
evt-rv ]:art of die small tubes. The cage is |
then hoist d ur> and lowered into the rr\\t vat. i
containing one j ai t of sulphuric acid to 200 '
parts of water. Theae'd, by its superior affinity
for s(.f!a, forms a sulphate of soda with it and
liberates the carbodic acid, which, in its escape,
acts mechanically hy its la-tic f ree, and scpar- i
ates the fine flax filaments from each other.
The flax fibre soaked in the solution of subcarbonate
of sod i is no sooner immersed in the 1
vessel containing the acidulated water, than its '
character at once changes from that of a damp 1
rigid aggregation of flax to a light expansive c
mass of cottony tex'ure, increasing in size like '
leavening dough or an expanding sponge. It is
then immersed in a second bath of carbonate of 1
soda solution, and if only required to be used in <
an unbleached state, may be. washed and dried. '
If,, however, it is to bo bleached, it is immersed c
.. f ...-4 <1 r.C 1||*1 A_ !
in il ihJU11u > n, liu iiii'ii^ r? ^(/iut u-1 \ji uvj/v- i i
chlorite of magnesia,:?n<l in about fifteen minutes ?
attain-: the (-"lor, as in a previous similar time it. j
had acquired the texture of cotton. In fact, it goes
in brown flax, and in loss than one hour f
comes out white cotton. It is then washed, drain- .
cd in baskets, dritd in eak.-s, hanging across iron i ,
horses in stove rooms heated to 98 degrees Fahrenheit,
and tin n ready to be toast d like cotton.
(
Curiosities of Steam.
There is a question connected with steam '
which is more strange than any, and yet we sel- '
dom hear it mentioned. It is this :?water at 1
212 d"g. gives otf steam; this steam is totally
ditf rent in its nature and action from water, and |
yet it is only 212 dog. also. Why does not the I
water at 212 deg. all flash in a moment, like gun '
powder, into steam?that is, into 1700 times its
original bulk i We cannot toll; we only know 1
it does not do it. It has been proven, by Faraday,
however, that water, perfectly purged of all
atmospheric air, (which all water contains a portion
of,) when heated to 300 deg. explodes instantly?that
is, flash's at once into steam.
There is another property belonging to water
- - n.. i... ..... ;
ISO L SO lilll VI-I-ilJ i > ftiimiti IV -< i .-> ,,
should be?namely, all the water in a boiler will
become .' team in a uiven time, when subjected to
a constant heat and threat pressure. If a certain
amount of water, ?t. the heat of melted ice, be
put into a vessel, and a lamp applied to the same '
it will be found that, if thetitne occupied to bring ;
the water from melted ice, to 212 dog, (the point
where the steam commences to be given oil") be
noted, and the lamp kept at the vessel for si 1-4
tine s ! i!ijf<w, all the water will l.e ehnng"d into ;,
steam; it follows, then that if:? certain amount of j
beat be applied to water, for 5 1-4 times the pe- I
riod it took to raise the temperature from that of
melted ice to the steam point, all the water will
l... ,i. n f,. tt'iwt, <itl ,,f j .rui/. int#. 1 "7 CI r I tirnfw I
its original hulk.
A cut tic. foot of water converted into steam oc- j
c.ijiit s 1700 time* tin- space formerly occupied, I,
if not compre-scd; and two cubic feet of water,
converted into steam occupy a space of .'MOO feet.
Tli" pressure exerted by such an expansive force 1.
is tremendous. If frozen water has burst can- (
lions, is it to be wondered at that heat and water
burst boilers? Every engineer should be thoroughly
ac<|uaintcd with all the known chemical
properties of water and steam, The observations
of eminent practical engineers are very valuable
they are situate d '.o observe, the phenomena of
steam, and there may be many not yet. generally
known.?tic.icntijic American.
Vfno was .Icnm;s??Lord Mahon, in the last
volume of his IItutory of Ene/land, has much to
s.'iv about, the authorship of the celebrated "Lett-is
of Junius"?and conies to the following
conclusion : "From the proofs adduced by others,
and on a clear conviction of my own, I af
firm that th" author was no other than Sir J'hiliji
Francis."
Tlie London Literary (juzcttc also says, "AV"'
are as much con vino. <1 that Sir I 'liiiij Francis
was Junius, as that Goorgo III. was King of
Great Britain."
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THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL.
TUESDAY'EVCNIXa, FEBRUARY 24, 1A52.
THC. J. WARREN, Editor.
Our Market.
The* Cotton Market has been somewhat inactive since
our last, and prices somewhat lower. The sales up to
*fr.+r> fx* r-sxm n '? A T 'r.l Tim ofTpr?t"
una inuiniui; nijcui uuui c; .?-1 n?/ i #--x. ^uv
of Cambria's news on our market had not transpired at
the hour of our going to press.
Charleston quotations, C T-S to S .1-3.
Return Days.
For Darlington. Saturday, 23 Feb.
" Fairfield, " * C March.
" Kershaw, " 13 "
" Sumter, " 20 "
" Lancaster, " 27
Rev- J. W. Kelley
"We learn from the Charleston Courier of yesterday,
that this gentleman, Missionary to California, from the
S. C'. Annual Conference. M. K. Church, South, with his
jadV, three children and servant, left on Sunday morning
in the steamship fvabel for Havana, en route for
San Francisco, California. .
Waiting Up.
Tn all parts of our State and country, the people arc
waking up to their interests. In the upper part of this
State particularly, arrangements are being made for the
construction of Plank Roads in abundance.
Notice is given through the Newberry Sentinel, that
a Company will be formed for the construction of a
Plank Road, from the town of Newberry, to a point in
Union District. Wc also observe in the (irecnviiie
Mountaineer, t'.iat a meeting was held in Orcein ille ou
the lGth inst.. to consider the prospect of constructing
,1 l'iank Road from that place to the North Carolina
line. The Editors remark that "It is gratifying to see
our citizens fully awake to the importance of this Road,
and taking measures for its completion."
Columbia also is wide awake, and that the citizens
of this place will build a Plank Road to Union thcro is
little doubt. From tho known zeal and enterprising
spirit of tho people, wo are confident that no half-way
measures will be adopted.
Where is Camden in tho race? Just where we expected
it would be. and where it always will be, as long
as men who are able, are not willing to contribute to
its prosperity and advancement.
Advertising.
At tho mention of this word, many will imagino that
wc recommend the custom of Advertising from interested
pecuniary motives. Certainly we do?and why
lot ? It is useless to deny that this principle actuates
mankind in every phase in which it is possible to view
uiman character. It is proper that, to a certain extent
t should bo so?not carried to an inordinate degree.
- 1 :?<U nmvlnff
the point is settled mat seu-uucicat m u?v
principle of the world. The mighty fulcrum and lever
unploycd by the "force of circumstances" in the busi*
less of life. The only perpetual motion ever yet dis"
severed is self-interest. The Alpha and Omega, and
tvill bo so as long as time shall last.
The age in which wo live is an advertising one, and
ive are obliged from the "force of circumstances." to
;aiploy this inoar.s, or else fare badly. In 0:10 of our
ixehaiiges (the Maeon Georgia Telegraph, a most ex. client
paper,) wo find the following ideas on advertis- :
:ig: "If there is any one matter moro than another,
;ays the N. 0. Picayune, that should convince a man lie
s not fit for business, it is the possibility of his carelessless
in neglecting to advertise. When a man can furjet
advertising, let him shut up shop. Men of all trades
ind professions should take advantage of advertisements
;o make their merits and wares, known to the world,
[low much benefit might accrue to themselves aud
publishers generally? Lawyers, authors and artists
ire in this particular too modest. Our worthy disciples
>f Galen make no bones of telling the world tiio virtue
>f their medicine. Day .t Martin might have lived and
lied in penury, unknown, had tli?y not themselves sung
iSo praises of their uneijualled blacking."
Mississippi Senators.
The Letrislature of Mississippi have elected Stephen
Adams (Union Democrat) nnd Walter Brooke (Whig)
United States Senators. The former to 211 the unexpired
term of Col. Jeff. Davis, sad the latter that of
Gen. Footc.
Forgery and Swindling.
These g ames arc being carried on with considerable
success in Charleston. The City papers inform us that
several attempts have succeeded recently, mid one of
their citizens has been lided to the tunc of $220, a
forged cheek on the Bank of Charleston, signed apparently
by Mr. W. IJ. I'ringlc, and drawn for the accommodation
of a lady, purporting to reside in King-st.
A gentleman from the country was made the dupe
of some of these villains on Friday evening last. Wo
arc informed by the Courier that, wishing to ''ascertain
:it what wharf the steamboat Georgetown was moored,
ho made the inquiry of a stranger, who politely proffer*
frd to show him the way. While walking together, a
poor Im-ij accidentally a pocket-book, stuffed with
bank notes, and not desiring to appropriate to himself
what belonged to another, and still feeding that ho was
entitled to it reward fa' his honesty in not pocketing silently
the ricli prize, requested the gentleman to take
charge of it and give him a trifle for his necessitiesThe
polite individual had no change with which to reward
tlio honest youth, and borrowed the pocket book
nfliim whom lie was obligingly conducting, in order, as
he said, to get some change in a neighboring boarding
bousu, from which lie must have quickly made his exit,
as from that period up to the time of writing, the owner
of the poekot book has not seen his polite friend, or
the poor boy who found the pocket book."
Laurensville Herald.
Tit is excellent and popular Journal is to be edited
by J. Wis par Simpson, l-isq., a gentleman represented
as fully competent in point of talents and other prerequisites,
to discharge tiio duties of the post. We wish
all parties success.
The Difference.
Under this head tho Greenville Mountaineer states a
matter in a way to suit us. Facts aro very stubborn
things, and men forget sometimes tliat farts liko figures
cannot lie:
" Kossuth has stated in one of Lis speeches that ho
had purchased 40,000 muskets at two dollars a piece.
The fact is not attempted to be disguised that thoso
muskets aro to boused against Austria, a government
with which our own is at peace, and yet we see no
movement on the part of our Free-soil President, to
discountenance these warlike preparations in our midst
against a friendly power. "When some silly adventurers
attempted to invade Cuba, our impartial President
was all on fire to preserve the fridndlv relations of this
! Government and Spain. Not a dozen muskets or a
! keg of powder could be secreted by the j>oor Cuban invaders,
that the President, through his Marshals, was
not on the vigilant look out for them. But the Hungarian
exile openly brags arid boasts the possession of
40,000 muskets and our virtuous, impartial and patriotic
President either ignores the fact, or winks at it.
i Why is this difference ? The answer is obvious. In
' the Cuban affair the movement was supposed to be
' Southern in its conception and aims. In the matter
| of the Kossuth muskets, the Yankee kindred and
friends of President Fillmore, warmly sympathise."
riienians IT. Johnson, convicted of the murder of
Mary Ann Ilyatt, underwent the extreme penalty of
the law on the 13th inst., at Union C. IT., in this State.
| lie had. prior to the day of execution, confessed his
crime, and acknowledged the justice of his sentence.
Daguerreotypes.
Mr. SgriKR will remain a.short time longer, and those
who arc desirous of obtaining a good picture, are requested
to give him an immediate call.
The Lady's Book
! For March is on our table. Its Embellishments and
Table of Contents indicate no falling oil', in interest or
j beauty. The work Is an admirable one of the kind
| and proves a pleasant companion for the ladies in their
j leisure hours.
A SMALL LOT OF BREVITIES.
i Tiiu Auocsta Bridge.?We learn front a reliable
source, that the collection of tolls on the South-Carolina
side of the Augusta Bridge has been discontinued,
and that the rates cn the Augusta side have been reduced
to what they were prior to the difficult}-, an amicable
arrangement having been made to that effect.
! The Board of Aldermen of Louisville, have for the
fourth time, rejected the resolution inviting Kossuth to
visit that city. The vote for rejection was unanimous.
! The amount of property destroyed at Louisville, by
| the breaking upof the ice, is estimated at $250,000.
|
Si'Ef-n. \rrr?v iv ITvitkd States Rvxk Stock.?All
the United States Bank Stock has been purchased in
Philadelphia at $2.93 a $3, on Amsterdam account.
The money articles of the New York Tribune denoun
ct'3 the speculation as of the most desperate character,
i Hon. It. J. Walker.?Letters by the last packet represent
that Robert J. Walker is seriously ill at Brighton,
and that ho has not succeeded in negotiating the
Illinois Railroad bonds.
Gov*. Alle:.*, of Rhode Island, has signed the bill for
the abolishment of capital punishment.
Extensive injury is expected to result from the movement
of the ice on tiie Susquehanna river.
|
I Did you ever seo Niagara Falls ? said a lady passenger
to her friend. No. I never met them, but I've
I heard them highly spoken of!
The narrowest escape that we Lave beard of was that
J of the chap who crept through a knot hole, when
his wife was chasing him with a broomstick.
When Brutus asked Cscsar, one morning, how many
nnii-i?iVrxi )i.? h:nl mtpii for lireuklhsL he is said to have
answered El tu Brute.
Poverty is, except whero there is an actual want ol
food or raiment, a thing much more imaginary than re1
al. The shame of poverty?the shame of being thought
I poor; it is a great and fatal weakness, though arising
' in this country from the foolish iiishions of the times
themselves.
Increase or Ocean Steamers.?A writer in the
Washington Union states that the Atlantic postage in
1951 exceeded that of 1950, by more than $200,000.
The steam ship C'ily of Man-Jitter, Captain Leitch,
| left Philadelphia on Saturday P. M., for Liverpool Siio
J takes out twenty-one passengers, $40,000 in specie, and
a large freight.
Sing Sing prison, New York, was on fire on the 12th
inst., one of the wood shops having been burned. Loss
! to the State from $2'000 to $3,000.
Post O^nce Change.?The name of the Post Office
in Anderson Disirict in this State heretofore called
Mineral Springs, has been changed to that of Williamston.
Dr. Valentine Mott has boon recalled to the Pro
' fcssorship of Surgery in the medical Department of the
New York University.
A bill is before the Pennsylvania Legislature to require
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company to reduee
their tolls.
Speaking of the goods of life, Sir William Temple
says: "The greatest pleasure of life is love; the great
est treasure is contentment; the greatest possession is
health; the greatest ease is sleep, and the greatest
medicine is a true friend."
The real object of education is to give children resources
that will endure as long as life endures; habits
i that will ameliorate, not destroy; that will rendcrsickncss
tolerable, solitude pleasant, age venerable, life
more diguilicd and useful, and death less terrible,
j Seven shares of the stock of the Merchant's Bank of
cinipiui' worn .mild at auction, for cash, on Friday the
Gth instant, at $125.75.100.
The tolls on the Fayettevillo ami Western I'lankroad
for the month of January nmountcd to $8f?0.
The IJriil^c on the Italei^h and Wilmington Railroad,
about 8 miles from Wilmington, was destroyed by tiro
on Thursday the 5th instant.
Famine is Gkouoia.?The Chattanooga Gazette
states that corn and bacon are so scarce in
some parts ofCcorgia, as to excite apprehension
of much sullering. A private letter from a gentleman
in Carroll county, gives a most gloomy
account of the condition of things there. Hundreds
of families arft represented as being neariv
destitute of provisions, and without sufficient
' means to purchase an adequate supply, or to em;
igrate to other sections. From other countries
than Carroll, come similar complainings. Two
successive seasons of short crops have exhausted
the granaries of many, even of the mo^t wealthy
planters, so that those who have heretofore been
, sellers, have now become buyers, and the cry is,
as of old, "send us com."
Countekkkit Dimes.?The Charleston Daily
News of yesterday says:?We had shown to us
this morning a counterfeit dime, bearing date of
1845. The coin can easily be dctfW< <' ">y a peI
culiarly slippery feeling, and apparently been
' produced by a cast and not a stamp, (of a certain
roundness of the edges of the figures, which
is evident upon a close inspection. The imitation
of letters and figures is exceedingly exact
but the metal of which it ii composed has s
J much greater lustre than that of the silver coin
h!
By the accompanying letter, recently address- * V
ed to Kossuth, it will be seen that the dames of fl
Ohio are showing their sympathy lor his cause, fl
| by tendering to him the choicest of their pro- 9
1 flllflts
J "Honored Sir: Permit me, a humble lady, to ffl
i say to you that, in view of the redemption of 9
j Hungary, through your democratic exertions, W'
and having neithcr\silvcr nor gold to present M
1 you with, jis an aid to the divine achievement, I V
deem it a duty, connected with a privilege, to ^ I
j present you my son, who is dearer to my anxious " m
| heart, sir, than silvr or gold, and on the day in 9
>| which liberty shall be proclaimed to Hungary, 9
to have my grandson, Harmon Kossuth, now 5
i near eleven months old, so trained as to raise his J
little hat in lienor to God and liberty,"
MRS. REV. J. T. DO>TAHUE.J
Life in* New York.?The full owing para- 9
graphs from Monday's Tribune present some of 9
j the phases of life in New York: 9
"John Wilson was arrestdd yesterday for steal- ?
| ing some mutton from Fulton Market, AVhen M
| taken into custody, he said he committed the
i theft for the purpose of being arrested and sent 9
i for prison, as lie had been for a long time out of 9
! aiviif oiwl l.o/l rv/\f notnn tiritr
I l-llljuv/t .uvui, u.?.t ..??? ?.v* ?.v
i nearly two days.
I Bridget Boulin, a recently arrived Irish emigrant,
committed suicide yesterday by drowning
herself at pier No. 11 Xorth River. The
! unfortunate woman had been living in a state of
j great destitution for some days, and it is supposed
that this was the cause of her self-destruction.
Colonel Benton and Intervention.?The
St. Louis Republican says the Kossuth fever has
abated there and remarks :
' It is now well known that Col. Benton lias
distinctly avowed himself opposed to Kossuth's
proposition oft ho intervention of our Government M
| in the affairs of Europe. He has denounced it
openly and publicly; and hence the fluttering and >
j "shaking in the shoes' of the faithful here. We
i do not protend to nnow how far the panic has *
spread; but it is evident, to a mere observer, that
there is a great 'caving in, among the boisterous
r> C ' O
and 'undaunted."
Negro Ti::ef Arrested,?A fellow named I
Dempsey II. Blake, stoic a valuable negro from
his owner residing in Augusta Ga, some time in
October last; under the following circumstances. ,
Arrangement was made between the two that
the negro was to be carried off and sold, and
that they were to divide the proceeds, and with
the monev were to travel together to California. , J
The negro was accordingly taken from his homo
and carried to Greenville, in this State, where he
was sold for nine huncrcd dollars but Dcmpsy,
instead of sharing the money with his partner,
in guilt, left the place immediately. The negro
remainedVith his new master a short time, when
he was again offered for sale, but not liking a
change of owners, he related the manner in
which he wsis taken from Augusta by Dempsey,
when the gentleman concluded that he would
return him to his owner, and for this purpose
they left Greenville, together. They met the
owner of the negro at Branch ville, and the gentleman
received the reward of one hundred uollars
that had been offered for his recovery, and returned
to his home. Dempsey was arrested in
Wilmington on Thursday evening last, and passed
through this City, on Friday, in company of ,
an officer, 011 his way to Augusta, to answer for
his crime.?Charleston Courier.
Room Cai'OUT.?We have to record the ar!
rest last evening, by the Chief of Police, of an inj
dividual, (one Charles J. Grainger,) which is of
considerable importance, inasmuch as our whole
I community can now be satisfied as to the identi]
ty of a certain " rogue in a smrdl way," who has
I for sometime been dexterously filchingfrom their
j honest earnings in various ways: at one time
patronizing tlie Banks, at another cheating our
Grocers with counterfeit orders, always selecting 1
from their stocks the choicest viands, sometimes
under the assumed name of John Smith, and
much to the injury of that gentleman's good
name, hut more recently assuming the female
garb, and through the unintentional agency of a
gentleman of respectability, "doing" one of our
keenest Bank oflieers to the tune of ?220, with
a forged check.
The rogue was caught in the following manner?it
appears that the gentleman to whom the
j last mentioned check for ?220 had been sent,
recollected a forgery of Mr. James Marsh's name
which had been perpetrated sometime back, upon
! the Union Bank, by the man Grainger (since
i convicted but pardoned by Gov. Seabrook) and *
went to that Bank, procured the originally fori
ged check, compared the hand writing with that )
1 of the one he had been requested to present at
! Charleston Bank, and the resemblance was so
i strong, that he communicated the fact to the
| Chief of Police (officer Levy) who immediately
concluded that "a rogue onro would be a rogue
twice," niid adopted an ingenious plan to arrest
' Grainger, in whose possession a note and other
writing wore found bearing a very close resemblance
to that of the check and orders which
had l>oen forged. A note was also produced
written by Grainger to a gentleman whose scr|
vant he hired, and in which the word oblige was
I spelt O'Blige, the same remarkable word being
| apparent in every order received by the grocers,
i and the writing, the texture of the paper and
spelling all identically the same. He has also
been identified by two or three negro boys whom
he had picked up in the street, as was his custom.
and sent to the stores in King-street, for
! goods, while his own boy would stand at the cori
nor of King and Boaufain streets to receive them,
he being of course out of the way.
I The examination took place this morning before
his Honour and the ease was turned over to
; Magistrate Gyles, who has not yet completed his
investigation.?Char. lire. News, of Friday.
THE JSt'RVEY TO THE It A DUN liAP. J DC BOHt/lI
ern High I* Advocate says: Col. W. Spencer
Brown, the disguished chief engineer of the Greenville
and Columbia Railroad Company, passed
through Anderson on Saturday last, u|>on a r.
connoissancc of the route. lie will return in a
i few days, and from his great experience and prac
tieal eye in such matters, will be able to make a
, satisfactory report. But of the practicably of the
i routo, and of its paramonnt importance above all
. I others, there can he no soi l of doubt.