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RIYSCELLA 1 EOUS. FROM MEXICO AND-TEXAS. Under the New Orlearns head, in this rnortintg's paper; will-be found some in teresting itielligence 1f'omrn both. Mexico and Texas. copied froth thd New Orleans Bee; and i-hiave also Texan pabjers and documents as late at the 26th J.une - Our limits. will not permit of volumi nous- extracts, bit; the selections made comprise every thing of particular itunpor tance in reference -to the affairs of those two countries. We find .it- nentioled in the New Or Ieans Tropie, that-Gen. Bustamente was received . rather coldly- bit his arrival at Vera Cruz.' A letter f-om that place states that there was a-dispositon evinced tn his arrival, to proclaim him President at once, but it was su.pressed by the mili ta-y. It is stated that he refused the mail itary honors tendered him, ou reaching Vera Cruz, and left the same evening for Mexico. The French sloop of war La Perouse arrived at Vera Cruz on the 24th ult. fo: Galveston, with initelligence of the assent of the -Texan Congress to the an nexation resolutions. The Ex-actin President, General Caualiso. atd Ex-Minister of War, Gen eral Basadre; not accepting the. propo-: sitions nade them by. Government, to be 'expatriated for !0 years, ttave been ir prisoned for the same term. the former in the castle of Perute, and the latter an that of San Juan de Ulloa The pedple generally here quiet- at Vera Gtuz and not at all alarmted.- not withstanding the war cries made by the Federalists and the parsatuus of Stinta Ana, who are loud in deuouncing the Government for want of. energy. The sate:ol the finances n as preuited to be pretty low, as'ihe otters in the-em ploy of ti Goverunent found great dif liculty in, oetaining one-fourth of their salaries. Busines.- was very dull. A letter' from' Vera Cruz dated June 24tgives the folloWigi items: "There - ill be a declaration of -war in atfew days by this Government against the United States. Orders stave just been received to have all the pubite arctiives removed to Jalapa-, whieh is sixty ni.les in the interior, for safe keeping. This -looks laite uskitg preparatitl 'TThe .lexicans have lately received an addnuou. to their small marine: three - large gun boals, mtounting each one 24 pounder, built in New York. well finished, and creditable to American ship builders. They cost. -with the arms, etc., attached, about $10,U0 each. " The nett Congress is now in session. What they are doing, or a ill do, is not known. The general imrpression is that they will mat rially alter the present i ar if; the duties on some articles are so high as to almost amount to prohitition. The Tariff Piestcrufl. and 'tre Irequen' Revolutions, -have- reduced th'se people to abject poverty.-Charleston Courier ]From the N. Y. nn.] TIIE ENGLISH IN SoU lt AMER ' CA. PATAGOMdA SEIZED. Sohn Bull has takeu passission of Pat agonia, ad appears by the hollowing : S-Capt. 1eaing, of tt -ship Mexico. arrived yesterday in 92 days from Vatpa riso, repotts that Capt. Rialers from Lou don arrived there 1st Aprril and indoraied - hIm that, he landed Capt. Gardnter of H. M4. 'N:,vy and Mr. Huunt to Cape G;re~gory Bay, Straits of Mlagellan, Ott the 20th of .February. They have gone to this dessr late region for the punrpose of etvilizim the Patagonian intdans. Cap'. Rorgers~ also stated that lhe remtained itn Ca;.e * Gregory Bay five days. and tbuitt thetm a comafortahle home foir the wmtter." ?atagonsia is a line country, though oc cepted by fierce and savage tribtes oh In dians. It as twice -as large as Canada; tire chtmate is somewhat similar to that of England; it fronts ont the ~atan arid Pacilic oceans~andl commriand, tihe entrrarnce to both at the straits of 3lage-llan. It is supposed taat Great Brrta~u has thus put h~er foot down upontrKriserican Tetrrituiry - -as'a cotgqueror, and how far she intends to goait is unpossible to say. STEAMERS 01F WAR. Much i-, said by the a'armsts. of the d'auger, i~n t he event rh inar wit h Europe, fronir the War Steanmers or Great B3ritair,. But ir this is a newv danger io our coast and)( cities, it brintgs withI it corresponrdma advantages of defence, n lutch do no1 wemt to be sufficiontly un elt upon. The aa:rre power-that of steamn-n hikh the British have to wing at great expe-nse across the ocean, some three thousand mniles, is here, ready pr-eparedto oaur hands, andI allord ing the most admirable means for our pro tection. Her war-buats for inrvasiont, thust be sea boats also. jBur tti-s~ need not be the case with ours. T1he ordinary * river boats of the Mir'sissippi, and, indeed, of all our initnd waters, are quite equal to the purp'oses of harbor arnd river de fence;' and, arn-ed with I aixhan Shot, will answerjust as well as the thic-kest ribbed vessel in- :be British Navy. For one of theso vessels that Great Biitain could send against New Orleans, one-h-an dred Amercatt Steamers couli be collect ed at a monijients warnaing,-of e~lual andO - superior size prepared to defernd it and . t'o aunnihilate the invader. Arnd so, pro portionally, of every accessabrle river, lake or ' ater cour-.e-in the United Star.-a The Government has truthirg to do but to provide, at convenient places, the mere ,nilliary armamentt-ihe shiot and potider, andI cannon-and, for the emnerr~ency, tire 'river craft everywhere, worked bry steami, woul-t answer quite as- well ase ir built fir the purpose. Tihe progress of science, which confers thist increase of pot@r' upon Great Britain. has-nor withheld it front us; and, with Steam bat':eries, mnrored at the entrance or our harbors, wveshould lie iable to- mock- forty times the strength, in steam, which Great Britain could send - aeross the ocean: Her vessels tnrust hring with them, their fuel, and mnusrt be admi rable seaboats, We need nio such acu umulatious- of fuel for defence, arid our boats as they..are only reqrired for the protection of harbors. tmay be the slender .....l. wbicb wa build for river Daviga tion.' Suppose, in the place of the Schoo ner Caroliua,-the admirable cfficiency of wbich,-planted in the Mississippi, in check ing and annoying the British -Army in 1815, in their approaches to New Orleans, tmust be well remembered--suppose. in her place; the long extended line of mam moth steam vessels which ph fron- that -city to the-shores and places of' weahh and strength. which mdke the great val ley or the West to flourish likea' garden. Suppose these, well manned by Ameri can -sailors, well equipped .with caunons aud mortars, and vomiting their storm of shell and grape. upon the advancing le gions. of Puckenham.-and, do you sup pose. they would ever, a -.man of them, have come in sight of the cotton bags of Jackson ? Not a man af them! If the now universal use of steatm, leaves us in danger of a. passing shell thrown into our cities along the coast, it at least confers a corresponding power of resistance and defence, which, in the hands of vigilance and valor, may be. made complete -pnd conclusive against all assailants. :Let the United States Government but do what it should,-put our harbors in pro per trim for war, and a few good..iron steamers in cothmission;-mtan our atn parts. w.ith .cannon; aitd furnish them with. an adequate aupply: of those iron pellets which -bear the tratme of Paixhan, and each city will give its.own good account of the steam invaders.-Patriot. From the Chattanooga 'Gaette. RAIL ROAD TO CHATTANOOGA. That wte may keep our readers advaied of the tnovements abroad upon the sub ject of connecting !his place with~ Nash. valle..hy- Rail Road communication, we makethe .following extract from an arti ee tdttler the above head, in a late n.rn -her of the Nashville Uniotn The Uhion's correspondent at .Cltarleston is not cor rectly hiirtncd as to di-tances, &c., but his argument in faivor of building the Road will stand..- The Union thus prefaces the " .ttr-t: -The following extract of a letter froi' stn intelligent citizen of Tennessee, now in Charleston, S. C , will* he read w ith interest. We may remark that his sue getion as to a subscriptio.n for stock bt the Mtote does not tmieet our approbation, or is there any necessity td look to the Mtate for such aid. Facts and figures will satisfy capitalists that the road wilt yield a good profit, and that will insure the taking of tll the stock by individuals. the follotin'g is the extract - CUI.tL..s'ros June 5.1S45. I sa* the President of the-S. C. Rail road .;r' Gadsden) who is very anxious about the Railroad from Chattanooga to Nashvilh-. He says it will cost, itddepen dent of iron; 'ix t'iousand dollars per ttle. The Railroad from Charleston to Newt Echtotu, vta Atugusta, a'distane-e of t --tit 250 tiles, i. in. operatior; .-This hltiogs the town of Chattanooga within .100 tiles if the presetit terminus of the Rail road and thb whole mate is.graded to Chaltanoga. The- distance to Nasth villefrom Chattanooga, via k-Iillhorough. Ma-ichester and .lurfreesboro, is about 120 miles, 't hicb might ie easily convert ed into a- R.ilroad for about.$l.000,000 leow could this amount be raised ? Let its sugge-t as follows: By subscription at Chat l-ston, $200.000 . Agust. 100,000 ' Nashville and Chattanooga, 200 00(1 By the State of Tennessee, 500'000 Total, $1 .000).00 If this shouild be accomplishied. Nash vlle a ill h~e " ithin otie day's (2'1 hiturs) truvel I' the Atlantic, at Chatlesaon anid ttte w hole itivel 'of the Sduth nalud he directed to Natshville. You would then see men of wealth, from South Carolina and1 Geoirgia. htay ing summitier re-idetnces aroond Nushvill.-, instin of Greenville, S. C. andl But ciombie, N. C ., as imainy are now doitig and yiou~-o wold ;to have a direct cotm ttu ntcatiot ttith Suvunucaih Geo , n rout thiis suipply two planiting 8tmes(? w ith orn, hacoan, heef. floor andi ir-o--all of whlich ate produce-d ini Tennesee. F. W. il. EX GOVERNOR llAMMOND.* We note with saatdaction, that rut ma nty of t he celebrations on the FeourIt, .J H. H1ltaoso received various cotmpli tmentary ;oasts. Wou are rejoicedl to s e it ; a' e ever have believed Gover~nor H aiti mond to lhe a greatt iottn; duritng his late admitistraiioin of the atffairs of the State, w e stupportedh his tmeasures antd defended as far .is we wsere abile, the ntoleh antd tmanly course he tmarked out foir the State to puirsue. We have not beeun mrisiakent tn the maun; his late ltters on Slavery prove himt to be a worthy son of' Soti. Carolina, an able defender of her itnstiin iotns. Couple this with his niessage to the lust Li-gi-lattire of lihe Staite, anid it w ill he seen. that the-re are ntone to wihomn the interests and rights of Canolinianis, codld tbe more worihily c-otfided. Such a man cannot be well spared, front the setvice of the State, and at no very dis tant day lie will, if we are tiot maistakt a, he called to re enter that stervice, for lie is one (if ihose wtho can tie trtisted in the hour of riee.d oir datnger. The So~uth, the whole Southern coumtry owe himt a debt of gratitude, for his. late ablc arid distins guisited defence of their inalitutions. Since writing the above, we have re ceived the .July numbter tif Simns' Mug' azine, an extr'ict fma the Editorial Bu rent, the conc'ludling , paragraph o[ a brief notike of Guy. llammnond's. letters on slavery. We take occasion to say tlbnr we heartily endorse every word of it, and we feel assured that the State ere long, will -,igmify to thte distinguished author that hisa taleitis -and a bilities tas a states man, his devotion to her interests as man 'fested hy this-nobile and successful vindi cation ot the institution of slavery..:m pose upon hiith-'a responsibility which we trust he will not he disposed to avoid that of devoting his energies antd his tal eits, while in their prime, to her advane ment, prosper'it3 aud safety. M~r. Simmst says. . "o But our purpose, neither eulogy nor analysts, iq rather to speak of the author of these Letters than -of the Letters themselves, which are destined t force themuclv.. nnnn eattention of the nub lic at home andabroad. Wvhar we have to say of him, may 1ii comprised in a sentence. It is this :-Suutb Carolina must not -permit to retire from her coun cilse.n man stit in hs:youth, who is capa' ble"of doing credit ta her. talent; and of mintaifning' her rights --she must look around her for-the suitable station in whicb to employ- ahilities :whictis if they were ever at any tine- wanted to her strength and securities, are wa' ed now. Let her think of this!" -POST MASTERS. By the new postage law, thecompensa tion of the Postmasters at ti e stnaller offi ces was much reduced.; and they were re signing in such. numbers as -to-create an apprehension that thfe public service would. be materially injured, unless sonie further coniPetisatiu could hegiven thgt. It was certain;'says the "Union" that,g some of the .itportant .offices, the P'ositmasters would noti ly receive no compensation. 'hut ivould he actually in debt some hun dredst of dollars at .the end ofeceh uarter. if their pay-were inited to the entum on the postages. The Postimaste General very properly. submitted -the question to the Attorney General,'who has given an able opinion on the subjeet ;.and the Post tmaster General has acted upontliat opin ion, which he was satisfied wq - the true construction of the law; and ordered that the deputy postmasters he paid. the ensu ing year, the same compensation which they- had received during the last year. The following is a copy of the order - Post Ojice Department, July 9, 1845: Ordeied. That from and after the ,first dat% of July. 1815. every deputy postnes ter whose cumtis-ion on the postages of letters at 30 per cent, and of newspapers m.-50 per ceur, under the act af3d:MAr'lh, 1825. shall .all short of the sum o $6 25 liar any one q..atter. or of~thetpfopnrtional h/art of tnt -um fto any fraction ofa quar ter. be uuthaoriz'-d to credit hinself, in a separate item in h's accouut urrent;for extra curamissions on.ihe pong of let tersatt 20 per ceut., udder th of 3rd Sar 1845. h,_ o 4id if tte ypustmaster be entitleditoahe al lowance of20 per cent. for nicht service, hie will not credit the extra-enminiss.ion Caere nentioned, as 50 per cent is the ut moist which can he allowed in any case tnder the law. - Ordered, That every deputy po ~nster a hose commissions on t he post1 if I t - ters and ue' spapers, and oth ,a .ra shall exceed the sum of 86 25 c y ne quarter;'or.the due proportion ;1he said sum intany part of a'quarter. t tborized in the event that such cont nits and 'alowances fall short of th ount to u hieh such deputy postmast as anti tied for the' corresponding q e of tI. fiscal year endtg30th June,l8 ,tocredit hi..,self, in a separate itet in hie accof ni current, for such amount of ext tifis sinus to be subject to the pr6%isain con. taned in the 41st section of the'nct of 3rd iarch, 1825. and to tnerc ulaiions of the department issued it puirsuagcc itiereof. C. JOHNSON. A diversity of .piuiou exists and nuc Ih doubt is expressed as to the true relation in which Texas now stands towards the United States. Is she not an integral portion of the American Union;.. ri any further action necessary ' er a .' ember? are questions.,8t ew.ia . - -ult to solve. The Joint resolution as it passed the House of Representatives of thei United States provide-s, as a contditiona for aadmaissi .n, that a constit ut ion shall first Je adlopted by the pe'ople of Textas, anad be satct auted by the Contgress of the United States befrt-e the Aunexatioan is perfec-teat. Tihere was huweve' anE amntdmtent intro dutced :n1 the Seniate, w~hich mn iutany res pe'cts altered the feattures of the joint re-s a1lution. :JThe amendmtaent see.: .s to atn lihorize the aidmiissi'on of Tiexas n ithau anyv form, other tian the acceptance of the termis and propositius made by thte A mecrican Caongress. It " as in this foirm thatt the joini resolustuiu wias finially passed. Now that the-re tns beeni an ncceptance ona the part oif Texas, no doubt cana be Cn tertanred. Thle consent of all the parties to the comtpact has beent given in leg-al f ormi. Whait other step cain be necessary to comrpleie the aagreeent, wie are at a lobs to conrj-eture. It such be uoa the propler conis'rution, what right has our onvernmuten t. osend troops across theC a iine ando occupy imilitairy pos5tsitt Texas? It would be an invasitan of a foreign rer rntary, unl~ess'thaw province wecro alreaidy iacorpor'ated into oui- Unaiou. S ucla are the views suggested to us upon a curso ry glanace at tate joaint resoltiun, e~ubmiittedi foraccepatuoce to the T'exianaGonigress. Somea amtbig'aities maya exist. owing to lie icorporatiton of the amaeinment in the Ame-rican Senate. Hleuce doubts are expressed1 and will contnue to be lelt un til the prope-r organ in our governmencat declares by proclamaition -whart are our true relaatns to TIexaas. We observe that in tue Gustuom lonse the .amae regu lations are observed ais before annexation. Until orders are recoived fromi head quar ters, the commerce of Texas will be put oin a footinig nith that oh a foretign couni try. This state of thtings. honever, can last, we inmk, but a lew days lonager, as advice-s musi soon areach us lfrutia aushinig toti declarinag the vie-se ol guvernmtlent ton the subject of annexaion -N. U. Bulle tin. AWFUL MIURDER AND SUICIDE. Ana awful murder and suicide ttok place near Palestitne, somie fiteeni nules east of thtis place a few dasys sinice. A German by the name of Nep, occasional ly in the habii of drinkitig to excess, hiad been driniking in ctmantjaty with another indivitdual. and both left the groggery In Palest ine for the Germaian's home, Wiacen there some difficulty arose, and the intdi vidual had his ribs broken by the Germtan. Ater getning staber, he threatenled the Gerimani with a suit, telling him he would take awvay his propierty and lairm, the lat ter havinig cost him $1700 in cash- TIhis caused the German tt imimediaiiely trans fr his property tui his child. This upera ted upon his wife, arid she alterwards twited her husband with being a beggar. Hie afie. wards procured a barrel of whia key, which he brought home. While lie ae aseepa the wife le the rcnnteants of the barrel run out ; and when he awoke and found whatshe bad done, he immediately attacked her, beat and killed her, and af terwards severed her head from her body with an axe. He then deliberately stood up- before a looking glass and cut his own throat--Indianapolis sentinet, June 25th. Mesmerism and Surgery.-The Kenne. bee Journal says that on the 3rd instant, Mrs. Patty Crommeit, well know n as a bi-h respectable Milliner of Augusta,-w is put into a mesmeric sleep by Dr. Josiah Dean. of Bangor, when a tumor, weighing 2 pounds and 6 ounces, was taken out by Dr. H. H. Hill.. During the operation, which lasted about- six minutes, she was wholly insensible, and being awoke, stated that she knew nothing of what had been passing. On being asked if she had any consciousness whatever during the pro. gress of ihe operation, she said she had not. There were in attendance Dr. Isachar Spell, Dr. Cyrus Briggs, Dr. Lott Myrick. and. Mr. Nicholas, a student in medicine. ofA-;gusta, Dr. John Hubbard of Hollo well. There were also present as assis taints .and spectators, Rev. Mr. Burgess, Jantes L. Child, Esq., and Mrs. Hannah Smith, of Augusta. England and tihe Slave Trade.-In a debate in the British House of Commons, Mr. Warburton presented a statement, showing that the people of England were paying annually.for the support of'a squad run of men of war (28 in nuitber) on the coast of Africa. 600,000 pounds sterling, about $3,000.000. The U. S. Attoiney General Ias giver the Postwaster General an opinion, that the appropriation nude by Congress for the suppert of the Post Otlice Departmntct authorizes the money thus appropriated to be applied to the payment of postmasters and their cleras, so -ts is give them the a me compensation which they had rec i ved during tin l::st year.-Aug. Sentinel. Murder.-We understand that a war raut was issued early in the week against one - Sweat, for the supposed murder of Mr. Moses .utlctkin, who had resided near utnn, and who tsteriously disappeared eaily in the last month. It i. reported that a part of the body of Millikin was hoand floating in a creek near his resi denee on'Santer-and that there had long 'teen a diflerence and angry blood tith hint and Sweat. Since writing the above the constable who was despatched for Sweat has re turned to town, saying that he having heard that he was suspected, has fled the district This seems corroborative of hit guilt, and it is to be hoped that such rep resentation ill be forthn ith made to Gov ernor Aikin, as will bring from hitm the State reward-JWingah Observer. On Sunday nigit last in Columbia Co., a negre fell'tw belonging to Mr. Snowden Griffin, inflicted wounds, thought to be mortal, upon Mr. He:ry Gibson, and upon Mir. Perrin, ?,tn of Mr. Joseph C. Perrin, all of that county, by stabbing there wit' a large knife. The former was stabbed in the side, the latter in the neck, cutting into the Carotid Artery. They were pat rolling, and undertook to arrestbo negro, SIto was away from his nase planta ion nithout a pass.-Aug Coni. The Phiiitdeph azctde ol' ho 1I11 intit has the following paragraph Resignation of Mr. Biuchanan.-Gen letmeni fromti Washinigion ,tate w.it h ron fidece thact the H-on. James B~uchanait ha~s resigned the Secretarysi.ip ot Statre, aind that the Presidemo has selected At, drew Steventson of Virgini a, to fill the place. Dillertences of opintittonea to t Oregton negttciationi have itnduned this step on the part tof air Bttchanan. Armfj Movements.-T he N. 0 Pica yune of the IIish inist. says :--Ten cott parties of the 3d U. S. luifantr3 500t tm-i ini all, arri'.ed yesterdny from Red River on board the steambioats De Soto antd Cote Juoveuse. They are nuder the comi inandl of Cotl. H.-itchcock, and the barrek,~ hettg already full of troops weo under stand quarters have becen taket-ufor thett ast the Lower Cotton Press. In a short time they will all be ont their way to Tecx as. Genc. Taylor has not yet arrived here, hut will probabily he down in thte course of a week. SWE AR RING. hatever mtay he ma~de by perjuiry, I believe there 'never was a tanc thact made a fortune by swearingt. It tient happens that mien paty ftor swearint;, hitt ir'seldomit happtens that they are putid ftor it. [t is not easy to perceive that honor or credit is connttected with it. Does ani man re cive p -omoetion~ I-eause he i- a notable blusterer! Or is any man advacretl in ditnity because hce is exp--rt in profane swearittg? Low must be the character which such impeiitience n ill exalt; high must be the character which sneh itmper tineuce will not degrade. flexcusable, therefore. tmust be the ptractice~ which- has neithir reason or passion to support it. The drntkard has cups, the lecher his mist ress ; the. satirist fis revenge ; the ambtitious tmati lisa preferctient ; the mi.er his gold ; hut the comot itn swearer -has nothina ; Ite sells his soul fur nought and drudlges in the service of the devil gratis. Sniearing is voidl of all ptlea ; it is nut the off'sptinig of the soul, not interwoven with the texture of the body, nor uany how al lied to our facne. For, as Tillotatan ex presses it, "though comet men pour ot oaths as if they w'ere natural, yet no man was ever borna of a swearing Ccnstitution.' Calculation in P'rinting.--The R alei gh Register jutly says: Every colum- of a tnewspaper coutains several hiutdreti dis tinct pieces ol metal, the misphacinig of atny dine tf which woulsi cause a blunider ot typographtical error. With 'his curious fact bef'ore our reader, he tnust not wontdec at the general accuracy of newspapers, attd be tmore disposed to excuse than magnify errors of the Press. Cannot Read and Write.--Virginiua and Teninessee contain over fifty night thou sand persons over twenty one years of ago' who cnnnnt ,.o-.d and wr..:. EDGEFIELD C. H. WEDNESDAY, JULY 23, 1845. "We will cling to the Pillars of "the Temple of Our Liberties and if it must fall, we will per. ish amidst the Ruins." THE EOGEFIELD MECHANtIC'S WASHi ingtonian Society, will meet on Monday evening r.ext. The public generally' are invited toat tend. WARM WATnzeR.-During the past week the weather continued intensely warm. Many portions of the connuy are still suffering from the drought, and the streams are very low. The CoURT OF CoMMon PLEAS is still in ses sion, Judge Frost presiding. Tile Military Encampment. whichwis held at Shinburg, closed on Saturday last. We will give some acconne ,fit in our next CoTTo.-A few days since. w'e saw some cotton bolls filly open. - They grew on the plantation of Majoi T J. Hibbler of this Dis trict. We were presented on Monday last n'ith a fue sample of new cotton, which grew on the plantation of Stanmnore Watson, Esq. Chunrellor Harper.-This distinguish'ed jnt rist left Columbia a few weeks since, intending ing to take'a voyage to England for the benefit of his health. _ Dr. Benjamin F Rawls has been.appointed Post laster in Columbia, vice Col. A. L1. Glad den, whose oiuission hid expired. The Hon. Daniel Waldo of Worcester Mass , was found dead in his bed last Wednes day mornig. He was 84 years of age. Therewere deposited in the various Savings Banks in the city of New York, on the 30th of last month, about one hundred thousand dol lars. Too 51UCIOF A GOOD TUI5.-The observant reader will perceive in our last number, three accounts of the election of United States Seri ators from Florida. One account would have stificed--the devil as usual, is to blame for this. Our Relations with Orcat Britain in 1842. We publish this week. an extract from an arti ele on the subject of* Oni- relations with Great Britain." which appeared in the Magnolia for July IA-12. This article contains vainble in formation concerning Oregon, nand will w think, be lound interesting to a portion of our reaiders. The article- referred to. gives'n brief but sufliciontiy cleat aecount of the ne ia tinpiis which have beepi .cart-4-sa jn. " years. between Great Britain and the ited States. with relation to the territory in dispute. We will coniclude the extract in -our-ne-t. EDITING A N uwsP AFun.-WVe copied a short time since. from an exchange piaper.a mn. siing article on the subject iof"Editing a News: paper." 8oime of our readers, especially iour yoaniger ones, read itand no doutbi thought thait it was a mo'st denhghitful thing to coniduct a newspaper. if one is of a lively, checerfu temcperamnent, hce necessarily sees in his ex ecaccges, miaiiy good jokes and humo'rousstories to, excite in him constant pleasant emnotioncs, and .ot uinfreqnuently, sometimig to protvoke hcimc to the musti obstrepcorous -merrimcent. Rteally it wuld seem, .that such an editor is-iin great dani ger of dying of laiughter,.like the pahite r Xeiuxis, celebrated in clacssic story. who died fromn laugh inig to" imnuodeaely, at a conmical paicue which he had ciada -of an old wotaan is an editor scenimental, or tremiblicgly alve to the tenider pasioni 1 T1hce thcrillitng love stories with n~ bich his exchanges abotund, wdll keepa his heart inc a coniimnal flutter. Sue ich nione is niway~s at fever heat. Thelc beauitilul ancd tintnu beings of whcom hce daily reatds, nciuel ,nake his pulses bound with joy, and trancsport his soul to the sevencth heav-en of - the blessed. "But otc this theme. our emotions are unuttera ble,'' as a great .ucercic oratoc said on mcotucet occasion, acid we will be silent, Is an editor of a gloocmy tecmperamaetnt and foncd of the ter, rible ? lie wilt fincd in his exchancges, numier. ouis accounts of s'aieldes, murders, battles, ship. Iwrecks anid catastrophes of every dlescription lie canc find somcethinig to -make his sul sick~ en, andi "Each particular hair to stand onc end, Lille qmalis upon the fretful porcupmie" Not to be pcrohix, we wdll say inc shocrt, Ucat ai cocnductor of' a niewspapor cain discnver some thing in the journals which lie reads ever tc keep up in his breast a continued excitemcent, But we have. paii'ted rather the bright side of the picture. Has it cnot also, a dark ant gloomcy one, upon which the eye ca~int resl with pleasure ! No matter winat may be the charactfir of the papcer-which aun editor cort ducts, whcether it 'oe religions, political or liter ary, wviher at be issued daily, weekly ui monthly, hce will ever finid his eneergies taxer, Laboriously and ofllen painefully. lie lust al ways work, A heavy respocnsibility is upo" him. He must clever alutiber at his pccst, he nmist never grow faint or weary, or "ive- himc -self map to luxurious ease like other men. - He is scarcely permitted to be rick For hinm. there is no vacaion, but he must furnish sotnetini or his readers, -'in season and out of season' We might enlarge upacn thinsisbjet. Got we for bean. if any one thinik now. thcat the'vocatcoc of an editor is all pleasure, let him try it. We would reminid such, of an ancecdote whlich we have hei ard of a pions pieachcer, whcofaeltered irt the midil sof his scoeurse, and becamn sn ihn. roighly confused that he could, iot proceed. The audience laughed its him. "My friends," said he, '"if any man in the crowd thinks that he can preach, or get out of the difficulty in which I 'am now placed, any better than I can, let him come up in the tilpit." So say _we to those who laugh at our nuumerous blunders. If any one-believes that he will purpetrate a less auuber,'we will yield him our place. ' FOR -%Z 'DvER'rlsER. To-the Editor of the AdverLser : Sir:-The most exteisive and -alarnin drought has prevailed since themnonib of May and as still prevailing in large portions of the Districts o1 Newhirry,. Laurens, -Spartansburg. and Union, that has been - known fur the last ball century. and the provision crops:for both wan aind hemrt - will be'less than have ever been experienced since the first settlement of the country. Its si'verity has been in some ddgree mitigate'd by daily, andi'. some canes, coTpous shov.-rs. which have fallen in various quarters for the last five or'six dayi. but -isothing like a general adil thorougi.ly wetting-rain besyerta. ken I-.ice, which is now indispensabe to save the uhabitnts froni suleraug. We lately saw in the Charleston Courier, a representation of of a.-citizen of Fairfield, of the state of the' drought and of.the cundiuion-of the crops in his neeighbornoud, and we thought it extravagant and over-wrought, but- it is only'ntecesarylo travel to this place to realise the 'truth of .the picture. 1 have never. seen any thing-comparz able ti> the blighteined c ops of- both corn.; nd cotton, that are visible from the 'rbad-oni that portion of Lanreus, 'that lies troun .Duncan's Creek to 'Enoree Itiver.' The- corn is'from knee to waist high, and in tawsel, aalcannot under the tst .favorable circunstances,,yield five bushels on an average to .the. acre. Jp tact I siould think, three busheli i liberal esti. mate, dud many acres aiad even fields cannot ieturn the see- that was planted.. The greater part',l the cunu can be covered with ,a quart cup. It has at stunted anet dwarfish -appear. uaane, and usuclly with a palte sickly..bloon- oo the top. I was iud'eawed by-a air. Bird, that - the ihabitants had been seriously alarmed, and had gine in crowds t" the inounitainas to purchase corn as umeins of supper. tifr thego suing )ear. The first appli-ants were foritu nute an purchasing at reasonable pricdbefoo the condition of the cnutry was understood, bu so s.on as that was ascertained, the.mon. epolisia stopped selling at any price. I learned this evening that corn bud ris-nie the Wotin tuins tron. $1 25 to $4 p.-i barrel. Me'st of tne plnit--re as I passed, acre eigaged iiplaet-: ing tieirstubbie la in corn and also betweei - te tow. of staidang corn There is no crass est., iii the fi ids orti the n oids for the'up. Ino of stuck, and in the gardens, you se arcely see a vegetable of any deaecripjtion except ihe -abbage. dud they are not la~er than large sized plants. The people of Ldgefield have bcei peculiarly blessed with -favoialseasons, ant they will reap. abuniant crops in reward cur their labor. I di not know ofay way ti.ey can iu.'niiest their gratitude more acceptable to a o-nifieent Providenice, -than by car flly iu-baneding the bountiful crops with which he ias b oscd them and as a means of supplying t..s-e . ho t ill be destitute. I aui vouis, truy. - Gicn Sprnu1s. 6ilh July, 1845. iaEETING OF THE STATE AGRJCULTULAL SOCIETY AT NEwBERRY- ON iiTH J OLr. 1845. . The follow iug arrangements-have been. .siopted, for the meeting of the State Ag recultiral nud Nent e r) Visermct' Agricul iural Socieies, oi V eduaday the 20th of. July, nliaut ; leaih Societies will convene Its the Bauist Chreli in New herry, at 10 .'cli ci, A. M. The Staie Sociey ,will first orgamze, t.nd transact its business un til 12 uimeridaau. at which ti.o.e a recess of in take place and Mlaj Henry Summer ill deliver an address. -Teaewf erry Agricultural 1 - Iliun convene'auja 'dst ' * r five deallara for the best- aricli of don es tic Homnespun, of Cotton, (:.utten and Woiel, oar Gotton andI Flux. The repotis oif tbe Cuommittees wili then be c'allkd fur tied h.-ord :atmil-the other busine.4 tra a acted. Ule Theerselaay-he Soefeties wrill contvene adl 10 c'clock A. M , and w ill p~ro ceetd fiirtthwit to awa Lrd pieittn. 't Scate muttecy accerdiangso the list already pubbished by the Secretary. iTie District Society will award, the followe iug and otlier preml~ims, -VIZ Fur the beat I year old MUule a cop of' ih- '.alue of - $5.00 Fur the be'si 2 year old colt a . cup of' the vial-e < .5.00 teoer tiue best I year oldcolt a cup of pie value-of . 50 'lThe greatest product ofl Wheat lfrome 2 acres oi recia.naeet land, not I lees ilhan 20 ecushelejier acre 500 Persons tmemaba-rs of tucis Siociety wrill, be entied to cometee for the prizes of the dtate Se'cieiy by paying one deillar to the Secrerary. Dr. Davis. Persons can becomie mneembe'rs of' the tDis'rict dociety hc) pay mig $1.00 to Geni. Kioardl,. the Trt'fsurer. Lots will be pevided at the Female Academy) Leat, near Nathan-A. Ihunter's ad also tat ihe~ IBaptist Gliurch, for -tuck. Perso'ns tuembuaitg to t-Kitbit antOck, *g con tetnd ir perewucos at-. rtquest'ed to gie tneir naime. toe the Secretaries, Di-. D)ii, and Mulj. Hair, on neduesday,.with. a descaiptioti oil the stuck or other. -things intendod to b- shown.* At 12 M. Judge Butler will ad dress the Stale Agricultural.Society. Ati P. at. the retsia of the Citimuttees awardling pieitous will tio heard aand tbegpr~aiiums be :leivered wth an addl'ess.' frohtth Preeidenit. * D.elegaites from District Societies a'nd imemiters of the Stiite Society,' %til, 0~n reportoig thems~elves in eitlte t of.the'dub scribmers, be prFQided with lodging aotpri~ vate house.., free ofC charge. . SIatEON FAiR, JOHN J. BOYGCE JOHINP NEL JOIIN GLENN& The- Editor of ithe Temperance Advo cate. the Greenville Motuntaineer, Abbe ville Bantner, anad Edgefield Addriihou5 are requested to ciopy the aboave. . FAIR, Ch'man of Comn of Arrangemente. Dread/ut lmnpi tq.-Te~ Philadelphia Amiericheaas: Ona the trial~ uf.A'ndrew i' Anderson, t'he wretch it'ho fired .th- Chair lotte- sareet Church, Ketsingi~on, in'. ihe Criminal Court on Tu'esday, iu was shmown . that be-kindled dhe fire w ith-thu. ptlpn-'bi ble. .Such a case of sacri~1 is-.perbaps antl on recurd. .". - Calculaternbeblouwnkyi ighifyo 6 gr thety pesin aprintingofficeerrouchanythin ontheeditoresanctum.