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TUESDAY, JUI. u, lis, 1885. \,
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diversity of sogi,,i6,, III fse o4t among those
!1vho arg true or have 7,atis 10 fteir
minds moi % be Sidtss t,dt Us if tpd should Cd
forced 10 betireea es and
i.e should fake rtsistanee at al lazards.:'''--
calhoun. siS,.,. g 5,s.,ss 4 2sssl5 4.
To do that, concert ot action naust bs neoessa.
~, not 70 sare the Union, for s,t ,eoHld then be
TOO late but 10 sare oarsefres hns IN mn steio,
concert as gsc one ting need fll. ALnoUa. IS
5sssss hat is ssde retifdy I d,tsDer secession,
r,ited secession of Tie sidreto .States, or a
large number then.i else letil Je i6:sc
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DEATH 4 OF LAwRE,scE PRIsoR. ESQ

IS DEATHL OF LAWRENCE PRINCE, ESQ,
1T is our painful duty, says the Che
raw Gazettet Of the 9th inst, to an
nouncel the death on the 4th inst, at
hisrsidence in this town, of. one of
our Oldest and most esteemed citizens,
Lawrence Prince, Esq, Mr.. Prince
had ( been laboring under disease for
some months, but wesw were quite i'm
prepared for the sad event, He leaves
a large circle Of relations and friends
to mourn their irreparable bereave-
ment.
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MUkDERous ASA On Friday
;eYeningSlast, Mr. Thomas Sanders ar
rested one = Ihomas Messer for his dis
orderly conduct In the streets of this
village, and while on his way to the;
jail Messer released himself from Mr..
ssaintders 4 s6da seffoft and dFlsW-
ing sa pistol, fired at him. Eortunatay
he missed his aim, but from the close
proximity OF the parties, the ball must
have passed very near MIR. Sanders
|bady.
Sanders then advanced npon him,
and finally oyerpowcred him, but not
until Messer had inflicted several
wounds upon his face with the barrel
of the empty pistol. Messer have
failed to give security, is now in Jail.
URi6ftpiiil 9ouraat. 9th inst.
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Progress of our Statc.

A general activity and energy are
evidenced i'll every portion of our
State. In the interior of East Florida
an extensive emigration from the ad-
joining States has added to.thc capital
and productive industry of the country.
These new comers belong principally
to the class of planters owning small
gangs OF negroes accustomed to the
management of their own plantations
and devoting their personal supervis-
ion to their crops. The best crops
arc universally made by this class of
respectable and experienced agricultur-
lists. They bring with them the dis
position to improve the country. and to
aid in the development of its.rcsouyces.
They arc earnest advocates Of i'm
provcment; erect. churches and cstab-
lish schools looking with great fore
sight to the education moral and reli-
gious Of their children. They build
better houses, put up cotton gins and
saw mills, and are useful thriving and
intelligent people.-We are principal
ly indebted to South Carolina for this
class of emigrants and we shall vel
come all who will como and cast their
lot with US. Their principles are all
firm and nnyielding whether it be in
religion, morals, or politics.
Upon the river ST. Johns and its
tributaries a large number of persons
are engaged in numbering and that no
bic river is whitened with the sails of
commerce. Towns and country seem
thriving; new enterprises arc entered
into, and new channels are being open
cd. Our climate, health and agricuI-
tural advantages are daily attracting
and will continue to attract numbers to
our State.
Every thing is encouraging for the
future and we see nothing to prevent
our State assuming position in point
of enterprise and character more
agreeable and crcditable than her past
reputation. The facilities of passage
are becoming daily improved and a
nearer acquaintance is gradually cor
rectlng the erroneous and absurd no
tions with regard to tho country engen
dered and dissemated by the lcngthly
struggle of raw, recruits and inexperi-
enced troops against wild'snd active
Indian foe. The old battle grounds
are now ploughed fields and the tassel
Of the green Maize is now seen in
pfaee of the plumes Of the WARRIORS
a few years and dense population
will cover the Indian hunting grounds
and the Indian war will be n legend Of
the distant PartsT-1acient City.
.-aesy-. -~>>c->-~~-
On the 29tR $tlltimo, one hundred
guns were fired in n, 0, O.,inshoner of the
rat tur,,s,f T,l,, & TEr, Il. ,Ts Ia ,s k.,
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DEArH or GovERvoR CALno uN.-- in
A letter from r. ii. Wrightman to
the Washington Union, states TINT
Governor James S. Calhoun1of New
Mexico, died on the prairies a few
miles. from the Missouri. line, at noon
on the 3Oth Of June, While on his way
from Santu tFe to Washington. 4
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= e sSfs OPS IN 10 9estlp.
g men no recently visited the va
:fioas eoutlsl,s ofI mt teiior OF East
Florida, the Juck sosiyille News has
e received the most ilatteFing accounts
I The ppearatics of the crops The
g con, y cane, and cotton crops al look
well and g are now beyond the reach
of injury from droig ght The emigra.
tisontpt is the copn next fall and winter
VIII beyefY great but ffoln all account fss
there will be plenty provisions TO meet
all demands arising from this source. z
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a
"a aica,ae h - SSs,naes days since
q white man sold two negroes III S St.
Louis, divided the mon Wi TN the me-
sgroes and then they ali a eeaH NE
One of the groes was itrrcsted soon
alter, with his share the fl,tecsisi
in his possession II vas ,rougl lit bes
fore the Recorder. when his
appeared and claimed him as! !lal
property bought and paid for
the, other hand, if the ne gro
ed his free don, an action gopld iies
against. him for ebtaining IaoncSS
;de false pretenees, his ,Setttlo
becoming pros eutor did
,lti,lsiss 4 y he ter3l
having nothing to do
of @nership, he was taken
I lof by the gentle tleinan who had Staifiy
purchased hin
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The great 81 1sail Road meeting at
\ {SAnde on tourt IA Iomse on the
ended in the utmost harm ony fiie
States of South Carol linn, North Caro-
lima, Tennessee md gia ss ere ls.
presented. Judge llNeail presided. J.
"a "a Conmi ttee OF tWent ysone vas s
pointed, who made o report ssif
ilutions, which We're u,lall nonsl
ed Onesof these provide for
!lnittee to nernorializ the l.egisl surs-
for q charter incorp rating the Blue
Ridge Rail Road from q derson g65enrt
House and by the Rabun ~
sertor COMMITTEES to prepare an. add -
TO the States interested
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7, I, 4 /, 2 !, 3, d

"a. ~
ssyf q RAILROAD LIs sHII.irrIs ssr
l1KCIsIo ohm STRAIT ton VS. tie
Haee,i iRailread Com pany. I The T,l laili
tiff purchased q sstlifo ti,ek st et
defendants from * erlss ci to III
treal. iIhe plaintiff Ietained
sion of his ,bassga d carpet bag I'M.
til he arrived ut II orshiisld, n efnloilt,
where the trains were. changed, and
the baggage given to the
5mastef, after shich il he
defence was that the dc fendant had
carried the sbaggag ge safal over tiieirs
;ossn line. and were, conseq qnertl
responsible for it further; bnf tse
Court! decided that the defend ants
the saleof a through tieket had and dr.
taken TO convey the pass and liia
baggage safely To- III Montfeal, !, and 8 1
Judgment for the, plaintiff:
II 4 - as-ss
KEW ssTsEA AsrE II ni aIl
TON AND NEw on he gotsfiifs..8
saysE:s1 he screw teaInshiip sitY
Norfoll k, which was reeenti built for
theline between ~ eyg ,sk and sRsi
Inond, after receiving SONS Ga taEati onss
and improvements. went down tiiieS
lower baysof ew s. eSk on e say,
on "a trial aud pleasure excursion,
and gave. entire satis fact ion hsr
performance, lllnning the dist asce
of twenty niles, a against wind md ;tsl
in one hour and thifty-tive mini
The chief improve veinent which has
effected in her arrang ements eolis sists its
anew propeller that has be e,r sns
tuted in the place of the former
of increased dimensions and hett
adaptedness to the power Of if llsss
The diameter of the present heel
is nine feet four inches, with
panding switch of tWent aud
length of @blad two feet
steam pressure Of twenty ilsc pom dss
to the square incl, tho heel Ann
sixty repofnti ions per si,illslit stss
vessel will hereafter be en- ed ii I
| the transportation Of pasSeng eig ssisll 1
freight. between; iS es K aud tsli
l5city, and lis NOW losdilag lbs pos
lat pier cast liSer, alie iii 81 t6 @
l,ilsorrow ut FIVE q ciioi,ss.
gEafsti ia. he sisSsi
ssertiols Seil he Held ~ tilled
$50 sEllsllt on .lie fesidess
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ssY Messrs. A WHITE & Co, ,,i are
Agents forthe Banner in Samteryille.

Communications Intended for
the Baaasr must be handed in on or
before Saturday ino rninag, and those
tayoring us with ad yertizements will
please let us have them Mt least BY
8 O'Clock on MonlaY. i : 80 Y
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NEw ORLEANs, July 81. he Plea
3yune has an account Of an; ;explo losion
on Lake Ponchartrain this morning on
board the steamer st. James, as she
was returning from a pleasnfe excur.
sion to Biloxi crowded with passetlgers.
After the explosion the boat took fire,
and was turned to the waters edge.
1t is believed that not less than fifty
passengers were lost, among tlleIn
Were Judge Preston of the Supreme
Conrt, and j. M. Wolfe, a distinguish
led lawyer..-I The sutlerinSs of the
wounded were horrible The steamer
California conveyed the survivors 70
the city. /, 2. IS, i's9 ...5 is5
a: fire took place at hrcveport, La,
on the 9th, consuming thirty Thousand
dollars with of property.
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nd one Of Mrs. lyLAsnrNaT,osS :

'he. A,neriean IVhig Revie,p
for July is ofiourstable. Its always
a welcome visitor notwithstanding it
gives some heavy thrIsts siat the De
mocratic party, they arc often well,de-
served. It contains q richarticle upon
- the Democratic Convention," showing
up tho.wliole.proceedings The Ghost
Story" also reads very well, A Search
,aiter Democratic Principles isreally
worth reading. lt3givcs also a por-
trait Of the Hon. THoMas Con&Is,
Seeretary of the. U. S. TreasnrY. - s.
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s National Portrait Gallery of
Distinguished America,,s. WeIhavere-
ceived the first No. of a work withthe
above title, processing to furnish Por-
traits with Biographical sketches the
most eminent persons who have occu-
.pieda plaee.ih the history Of tlie4Uni;
ted Stat his is senlbelIished
with three portraits OF YasliIGdToE,
and one Of Mrs. AYAsHrNGToS. IS. Z! s3.
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% - learn from the Darlington
Flag that thirteen miles of:the Will
mington g. Manchester Road isicon-
pleted from yilmington, and the work
is rapidly progressing,
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5etkoaist Cgsussl, IS repI
enquiries as to what the late Ssnef
Conference North finally deterlniin
lin relation to the Church ssiIiif, tlIesI
Nashville q Louisville Adyocate IS
ta The Conferences III pcinted thee
llnissio oners sto act in com jun action @itfiF
the Book q gents at n eSy ork aad
i,lj like number mt Cincinnati; who are
clothed, as we understand il, with lilaib
power to act in the premises:
suppose said Boards are authorized
either to settle with the South a
ing to the decree of the Court, or
appeal to carry the sui TO tie SSiuipre
Court of the United States. hat
course they will adopt we have cts;
had no direct information he SUI
linO Ohio is set fort the :ss:ssd of this month.
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DIFFERENCE BETwEEN REpuHLIcAa-
ism; AND 4R RoYAL'rY.-I The editor of,ythes
New York Courier des Etats UniisE
says of the, National Mourning" for
Mr.. Clay 1
SIN our youth we! attended the fu-
neral solemnities of King of France.
The mourning preparations were un-
denably more costly; everything was
conducted with that pomp, expensive
ness, and Magnifieence, whichimonar-
chiesialone can giye2to q public cere-
mony; but tie spectacle which We have
now before our eyes surpasses far the
occasion which our memory recalls
There, the people gathered from curl
osity; it is true grief that ASSEMBLIES
them. There, itwas only an official
mourning; hereit is q national sorrow.', !,
.-----=s e-t-es.s- r---- q <. 4
GREENYILLE.,- q perceive that, a
Union and Anti Bank Ticket, & COM
posed of gehtlcmen iii favor Of the
Union, and opposed to the re-charter
of the Bank of the State. has been
nominated in Greenville District. Ii
consist Of Col. r. p. Bnckman, for
the Senate, and Maj. B. i. Perry,
z. r. Duncan, Nathaniel Morgan,
and G. j q ,Elford, for the House.
1t is:Saalso announced that Con.
Waddy Thompson declines .being u
candidate, rs was expected, Rand that
the ormer highly esteemed Senator,
Col. Ware, will not be a candidate for
reelection. 4
--77..--zs'i- .<z7s. Is
U. S. TREAsuRy.-The amount of
money in the Treasury of the United
States, July !, subject to draft, Was
sl5,576,502 SIS, Of which 81 ,0s6, OBS
was at the Sub-Treasury inH Boston,
s., ,334, ,991 at New Y York, "a, ,13S, 42l,
at Philadelphia, $5,63l ,TS0 4 at the
Philadelphia mint and the remainder
5ai the other nliflts and places III dasy
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ilis ~ d e iSis
This sol & ssi ct:
He'd Bisilo} Sssf
5iscopii sllus CHI tils
Ing Ills q paIleed
sof his Unable lad lispiIte ed te
saii Official yisit Il, tic sl
fornis. he foil lols IS !;
sentence of ttie iliS
Christian teran In rined the
board of his Sc; S
Sonie ot sn y :ttifiietld IS shs
sobleetloiiss e. prep osed lil
|; ;sidefatio 'g OF nj ad ysiieetl lis
talace between tiie ast tiiJiEip
and eilic coast, the oasualit tics 81 lisfi
danseS trequs sIittll ling ssa
sea see 70 yage and tie liabiiif To-
and burial aas sea, from home nj
friends. haVe W glled lsese al,
tioils. hey are gKts In tho ba lail
4 hase been perils bo tilis OH lls. ia.
and on the land, hut God has begii:
Sshleld and effeeted d eliyeras, ID
circumstances which enied ttt he
yond the efforts Of siies
That great and good ma of lsUJ iss.
\ Coke, sleeps as sateI in tiies bosoiss stsE
the deep as his psnela Bic col
Aa 1Aasllbury, in q sepnic chrs of earth
both rest i'm slow and csrtain no
ian 4 quail glorious resnrrec tion, 81 ion
THE earth. and the sea shal ne up tSie
dead that are in them. Aid ,vias III
I shall sleep in the elenefltaI Ilabiii
iflients Of the one or the other, is a Iii
!cnlnstance Of no imp ortaiice IIaaY
but sleep in Christ, no mat Ger hon,
no matter where y
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On the 29tli ultimo, one hundred
guns were fired in n, O. in honor of the
returllof John S. Ihrashert 10 thatGity.
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sE- 7He DAILY isssfate Rights Re
publican, of Columbia, has changed its
title to the Palmetto h,Stdte Banner,
still under its former proprietor and
editor
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.S:ay We learn from the last Pal
aetto Sentinel that the Hon. w. +.
CoLcoon will not be a candidate for
Governor. Il
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The Washington correspondent of
the Commercial Advertiser writes
(June 24 J 81 learn that the Cove n
ment has determined to send out a
party to make certain explorations in
Africa. ltis to be under the command
of Lieut. Lynch, who gave us so ointer-
esting an account Of his exploration of
the Dead Sea,
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sssssg WE nave leeeiYed from an ufl-
known friend a.eopy i'm pamphlet form,
of the sJ oumalf Of the State ConYcn5
ton of South Carolina ]; together with
the Resolution and Ordinance, . which
has just been issued from the press of
JOHNSTON & CAvIs, of Columbia,
who were printers to the Convention
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-03

Just to have sprung from the woods His dress,
which was made of leather, stood dreadfuy in
need ofrepair apparently not having felt the touch
of either laudresS or needle woman for many long
month. worn out blanket. that might have
served for bed, was buckled to his shoulders
large knife hung on his side, balanced by rusty
tin box on the other, and his beard, uncropped,
tangled and coarse, fell down upon his bosom, as
if to counterpoise the weight of black hair locks
that supported themselves upon his back and
shoulders. This strange being, to the spectators,
seemingly half civilized and half savage, had a
quick, glancing eye, elastic, firm movement,
and seemed able to cut his way through the cane
brakes, both of society and of the wilderness.
He pushed his steps into the sitting room, un-
strapped his his little burden quietly looked round
for the landlord, and then modestly asked for
breakfast. The host at first drew back with evil
dent repugnance at the apparltion which thus pro-
posed to intrude its uncouth form among the gen
teel visitors, but word whispered in his spec
Oily satisfied his doubts. The stranger took his
place among the company, some starring, some
Struggling, and some even laughing outright
ct it turned out that there was more in that sin
gle than there in all the rest of the throng
he called himself an American woodsman he
was a truesgenuine son of Nature, yet one who
had been entertained with distinction at the ta-
bles of princes learned societies, to which the
lhe vi CuVleS belonged, had Deen prouu 10 WEI
come his entrance. In Short he was one whose
fame had been growing brighter, while the fash
ionabes who laughed at him, and many much
greater than they, have utterly pershed. From
every hilltop, and every deep, shady grove, the
birds, those diving blossoms of the air. will sing
his name. The little wren will pipe it with her
matin hymn about our houses the oriole carol it
from the slender grasses of the meadows the tur-
tie roll it through the secret forests the many
voiced mocking bird pour it along the evening air,
and the imperial-the bird of Westinghouse he
sits in his crazy home, far up on the blue noun
tans, will scream it to the tempests and the stars
He was John James Audubon, the Ornitholigist.
" Y. EUening Post.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-03

McLanahau of Pennsylvania heads the Judiciary
Committee.
In the Senate Mr.. Butler still heads the Judici-
ary Committee
Mr. Boyd, though neither so fluent, nor so fast
as his predecessor in the chair, still makes very
fair presiding officer, and his good temper is i'm
perturbable. Mr.. King. in the Senate, is a vete-
ran, and performs his functions with equal ease
and dignity, but, of course, his task is much
lighter one than that of curbng into comparative
Little will probably be done in the way of bust
ness from this time until after the holydays ma
ny of the members are already preparing o take
wing to spend them at home. The Presidential
wire pulling knows no cessation, but is kept up
only the more vigorously during the lull of other
excltements. The plans for forestalling public
opinion, and securing nominations are now matu-
ring by the friends of the respective aspirants.
If some Asmodeus were but to unroof the tops
of many of the private consultation rooms in the
chief hotels, as curious combinations of charac-
ters and persons would be presented as ever fell
under the eye of the Spanish student in his mid
night rambles with that odd guide. All as yet is
in the forming stages, and the fortunes of differ
ent candidates rise and fall with each successive
day. This is a great country for sudden popular
; and the calculation of the chances of
any prominent aspirant for office is dependent on
so many casual circumstances that what elsewhere
may be reduced to the exactitude of a mathemat-
ical certainty, here presents the semblance of
problem Who is to be the next President? is a
question earnestly considered here but little
thought of by you, and fortunate it is for your peo
pie that it 10 so.
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-03

that this experiment of General Foote rs tfanspar-
ent. 1t is desperate expedient to break up the
old democratic party, and substitute the Union
party in its place, with such men as General Foote,
and Messrs. Tombs and Stephens, at the head of
it. Very modest, but very absurd. 1t will not
do. The Union party has finished its work II
has saved the Union. The next thing is to save
the spoils-the fifty millions year of the treasu-
ry, all of ffty-with all the pickings and steangs
think of that. The two parties are reorganizing,
A great power is at work, greater than steam pow
er. 1t is the cohesive power of public plunder -
1t sticks and draws like 'the poor mans plaster
The ancient Greeks and Romans had no such po-
litical cataplasm. Gen. Foote is whig or dem
oerat or nothing. Messrs. Toombs and Stephens,
before six months are over, will probably find out
that they are wings, and will cooperate with Sew
ard and Thurlow Weed in support of Gen. Scott
And if Gen. Foote expects to get back to the Sen
ate Union party man, he will find himself in
the short rows. He will be let out. He is work
ing hard to accomplish his own defeat. He will
do it, unless some confidential friend will kindly
undertake to hold him. Patriotism always COM
mands premium but there is danger of "run-
ming the thing into the ground Think of that
Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-03
The UniOniStS.

The Richmond IVA Examiner, an able DEM
ocratic Southern Rights paper, gives the following
merited whackng to Mr.. Foote and his Union az
itation party at Washington;
1.-The late attempt to make party capital out of
the Compromise Resolution in the Congressional
Caucus and the House of Representatives, has ut
terly failed 1t was too barefaced, too shameless.
too plainly the clap-rap of the skulking Union"
party and of the traitorous Democrats-Foote,
Cobb and their colleagues, who are going over to
Federalism under that miserable disguise, to de-