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uLIRA,Sn FAVOR.

OuR sprghtly correspondent will please receive our
most graceful acknowledgements for the ready spirit
of accommodation she has manifested in response 10
suggestion of our own. Will not others Of our iair
litera,eurs inde an occasional article of the sort.
With very little encouragement, we should proceed to
establish regular Ladies' Department" IN our
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For the Advertiser,

On our last Sabbath in course at GIgal, twas our
happy privilege to have with us OUR esteemed broth
er, L. l.. WnATLEY, Of the Edgcfcld Church. The
day was exceedingly lovely, the audience unusually
large, and all things conspired 10 fill the soul with
love and alteration toward Him who smileth on us
though all earth should frown and surely we felt
that it was good to be there. Among other sccntil-
ations of rhetoric with which the discourse abound
ed, there was one which made the tear suffuse the
eye and the warm blood thrill the heart. In the
effort to portray the mournu realities of the Judge
ment of the last day, reference was made to the
farewell Of friends who part with the expectation Of
meeting at some future time, when the sad g'Ud-
bye is spoken, the parting kiss given and the convul-
sve embrace imparts its mesmeric influence from
soul to soul. Then the time when on the bed Of deah
that same goodbye, 50 heart-rcnding so unspeaka-
bly mournlul and solemn, is locked and felt and
breathed When the father and his manhoods joy
the one who in coming years should be his prop, his
soace and his comfort droops and dies rs the blight
ed flower in its bright and dewy beauty, which OF
late in all the visions of dawning intelligence and
usefulness bespoke blessing even such as the child
oil promise proved to the tried and faithful patriarch
When the stricken mother clung in her utter an
guish and despair to the lovely form Of her hearts
treasure and bade her goodbye till death should
unite them when husband and wife should be torn
assunder their very heart strings quverng in their
extreme agony. And then the context-to part to
meet no MORE To part when God himself, the
merciiul enduring Saviour should sever the ties of
kindred and blood forever through an everlasting
never ending eternity. We understand that there
is a probability Of Mr.. WnATLEY's assistance at
protracted meeting at our usual time in August at
our church. If Heaven permits our hopes to be re-
al.zed may the triunc God the just, and mercifu
and good, make his labors to rebound to the glory
of Him before whom we are as dust and ashes
EVA
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LAST NEWS FROM VIRGINIA.

WE learn by gentleman from Hamburg that the
news from the Virginia Elections is highly favorable
TO the sound Democracy. If the wires are right,
WISE is ahead scme some ten thousand uotes. Bets
Were taken in Augusta yesterday, giving the FLOUR
NoY arty 5000 in the race. They were based, Of
course, upon the intelligence received up to that date
In anticipation Of handsome triumph over Know
Nothing -Whiggery, we raise NINE CHEERS TO
on II SN0PTI
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CRops, WEATHER, &c.-Abbeve is now re-
ioicing in the general good health of her people,
genial rains, and in prospect of an abundant
harvest. AS regards health, she has become
one of the heallhiest Districts in the State. and
no longer deserves the stigma of being grave
yard" Our friends Of the mountain Districts
those who are not fully up with the times-are
still inclined to hold wet handkerchiefs to their
noses as they pass through, while it is notorious
they have left more Typhoid disease and mlas,
mata Mt home than all Abbcville has witnessed
in the last FIVE years together. The truth is fast
leaking out however.
Since writing the above items in relation to
the weather and crops, we learn from cores
pondent that the cloud which passed last Friday
over the Sauda plantations, was charged with
both rain and hail, that made sad havoc OF the
wheat and cotton. In few places, these crops
are deemed totally ruined.-Abbeville Banner.
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Correspondence of the Advertiser.

NEW YORK, May 10, 1853.
DEAR COLONEL EL:-Whle the weather is gloomy
and the rain falling free enough to compel pcdrstrl-
ans to keep inside, thought it might not be amlss
to give the readers Of the Advertiser brief sketch
Of the City of Golham' for the week that is now
going out with such scrawl. Anniversary week
being over, aud the numerous Delegates from the
interior safely home, ruminatng over the countless
isms, the advocacy of which made them so coll
spicuous in this great Metropolis, the fever eonse-
qucnt on their untenable dogma, had almost subsi
dcd, when the arrival of the Clipper Grapeshot,
with the fugitive Baker, the murderer Of Poole,
on board-a prsoncr-tlirew all Yorkdom into
convulsve excitement. Every one seemed to have
something to say about him and the fatal Poole
tragedy Some pray for his conviction, others for
his safety. lie is however safely lodged in the
Tombs until the "powers that be" dispose OF him
in some shapc-The next prevailing topic is the
arrival Of the Baltic, with the old song in her mouth,
Sebastopo not yet takcn-the allies in a critical
situation--the French General affirming that the
proractcd firing had rendered their guns unservi-
ceabIe AMI they were not in condition to make all
assault &c. Wonder if the French and English
wont remember Sebastopol.
But the all absorbing subject in New York at
present is that of the Maine Liquor Law recently
passed by Tie Legislature, which is pending over the
State ready to crminate all those who dare buy,
sell or give away any intoxicating liquors after the
4,h of July. This besom of destruction it is said
will sweep forty millions of dollars into the dust;
but there is formidable party risen up against the
law, called the Liquor Dealers Society" This So.
ciety is very numerous in the Cities Of the State
In New York City alone they are FIVE thousand
strong with capital of fifty thousand dollars, to try
the Cunsutonaty Of The Law as well as to de-
f.nd and protect the dealer. 1t is said that one
hundred and fifty thousand persons, who arc direct
ly or indirectly engaged in the manufacture and
sale of spriluous liquors in Gotham, will be thrown
out of employ and the means Of subsistence. Some
of the ablcst Lawyers of the City have given their
opinion that the Law is imperative and unccnstitu-
tional. BE that as it may, one thing we know: that
the City is now enjoying the singular spectacle Of
unrestricted trade in spirituous and malt liquors. So
much for the Maine Law
may write again soon. QUlSS.
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80
n1riTEI OF AN EDITOR.

WE are panied 10 learn, (says the Anderson Gasete)
the death of F. W. SYMNEs JR., Assistant Editor Of
the Keouuce Courier. lie expired Monday evening, at
the residence of his father DR.. F. W. SYMEEs in PEN
deton We have only space to make the sad an
nouncement and deplore the untimely death of so
promising young man. To his family and friends
we tender our coincidence in this their bitter aicon
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DISASTERS.

THE season is bringing its tempests in vengeful
mood By our exchanges, we hear of devasta'ions by
the Storm King in many localities. One Of The most
fatal of these occurred in Fairfield District. Houses,
here and there, We're struck by lightning. In one IN
stance a Mr. JAMES BRAzzLE and his step.d daughter
were instantaneously killed. The smallest streams
were swollen TO the dimensions of little rivers. Two
negro children of a Mr.. OSBORN YoNGuE were drown
ed in attempting to cross rarIne, down which
rain torrent dashng. Hail, the size OF goose eggs
added fury 10 The tempest's wrath.
In our own vicinity we had violent storm Of wind
and rain on last Sunday afternoon. Fences were torn
TO pieces and trees blown down in every direction.
We hear of several gn.houses that were Frustrated.
Forward corn and such garden vegetables as Green
peas, &C., presented dolsful appearance the next
morning, bent they were TO the very earth. In
Some places loo, our lands were seriously washed.
Still, we are thankful that things were no worse.
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DOES FREEZING K1LL?-In the basin under
the dome of the Crystal Palace we noticed last
fall number of goldfish flashing their bright
sides in the clear water. Yesterday we saw
them again, as lively us ever, and remarked 10
Sam. Rrevoort, the superintendent: $50 your
fish lived through the winter, but they are not
so bright colored us last fall"
"No wonder-thc color froze off; the won.
der is the life did not, for that basin was solid
cake of ice, and those fish were as solid az any
part of it. But they thawed out as good as
new, except the color, ard that is coming on
with warm weather. ! think that settles the
question, that freezing don't kill."-Tribunc.
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To DESTROY BED.BuGs.-The following
receipt will be found eficacious In destroying ~,
these pests who delight to prey vampire Ike
upon the human species:
Mix half pint of rectited spirits WINE or
alcohol with half an ounce of camphor, adding
one point of spirits turpentine, shake and dis,
solve, and it is fit for use-ruo every JOINT and
crack by taking the bed to pieces, and you may
calculate on good nights rest, if you attend
to it thoroughly. Try it, now is the time.
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THE DIRECT LINE TO DoRN,s.

WE are gratifed to learn from Chief Engineer ARMS
that an air line, entirely practicable, has been run from
Dorn's Mine to Elgefeld C. II. or its vicinity. The
disince is 90 miles. The distance from Aiken to
Dorns by this is Al miles, being but per cent
above an air line And the whole distance from
Aiken to Anderson c. H. is 9S miles. We imagine it
will be found difficult obtain another line between
these two last named points, equally practicable,
whose length will fall below hundred miles. 1t
would seem from this result that the last line survey
ed by the Engineers of The Valley Read is the true
line for this company. Whether they will adopt it
remains 10 be seem
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SEVERE SroRM.-Wc have been Informed
that the storm on Friday last did great deal
of damage to many plantations in the sou:h-
eastern and Southwestern portions OF our dis
trict. We have not received sufficient informa-
ton to give all the names of the owners of the
plantations injured, but have heard that COL j.
D. Williams plantation, near Spring Grove, and
Mr.. John Smith near Mt. Gallagher, were most
wofully injured by the rain and hail. Other
persons also received as much damage, who
unfortunately, are less able to sustain the loss
than the above gentlemen. The destruction of
property is always to be deplored, whether be-
longing to the rich or poor, but it is much more
deplorable when, in Il time of scarcity, as with
us now, it sweeps away so large quantity Of
the prospective food Of our land. Reports have
reached US that lives were lost, and houses
blown down, but they are not sufficiently rea-
Bile for us to publish them.-LaurensviIc Her
aid
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HRhNSnhIEnN

THE Due West Telescope announces the marriage
of Mr.. WALKuP 10 Miss RANSOM Many bachelors,
we wot of, who would like to ,Oak up and be
=" ransomed' according to the same matrimonial mo-
dus opcrnndi
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MAKING MoNEY.-Four or five of our heari-
est sugar merchants have made about 100000
each on the recen, "rise in sugar" One house
has on hand six thousand hogsheads, the in
crease on the value of each Of which, during the
last two months, while it has been reposing in
the warehouse has been 800, making clean
profit of Sl2),OO0-Cincinnati Com.
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| may write again soon.

THE TROUBLES IN kANsAs-The election in
Kansas to fill the vacancies in the Legislature
was to have taken place Yesterday, aud many
persons entertain serious apprehensions that
conflict and bloodshed ensued The Northern
settlers were determined to resist the Missouri
invasion at all hazards. Mr. Park, the editor
of the Parkville Luminary, has engaged Senator
Douglass as his counsel in his troubles.
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THE Detroit Democrat states that the sight
of the wheat fields in the northern part of Michl-
gan is perfectly glorious. The breadth sown is
unusually great, and the staple is deep green,
almost to bIackness, rank, strong, thick and
high. With all allowance for casualties, il may
be most confidently predicted that The wheat
crop will be most unusually abundant and en-
cpllant
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The UspEReRousD RaILRoAD.-The Boston

The UNDERG ROUND RaILRoAD.-Ihe Boston
Journal Of Friday says:
We learn that fugitive from slavery was
brought to this city day or two since from the
South, and almost simultaneously telegraphic'
despatch was received from his late master, of
fering reward of $500 for his arrest. Some
over.zealous individual tried to interest the Uni
ted States Marshal in the case, but il not COM
ing before him in due course Of his duty, he
would have nothing to do with it. In the mean-
time, the fugitive started for Canada BY the
underground railroad.
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THE KNOW NOTHING ASSOCIATION.

We invite the especial attention OF our readers to
the admirable letter OF Mr. STEPHENS, of Georgia, on
the merits of this party. 1t is generally conced-
ed to be one of the very ablest arguments yet made
upon the subject OF which it treats. 1t is barely posi-
BILE that any impartial reader can arise from its peru
sal without thorough conviction of the dangerous
tendencies Of this singular organization.
We have received pamphlet from Charleston, dis.
cussing this question with considerable ability which
we will endeayor 10 lay before our readers in the
course Of the n ,xt two or three weeks.
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TIE LAND OF FLOWERS.

IT would seem that another Florida fever is sezing
upon our good people Of Edgefeld. We hear Of half
dozen or more who are in the hnmor of finding
home in that beautiful country. Some of Them have
been out, and return with reports almost as glowing as
those of Ponce de Leon in the old, old times. A
charming region must il indeed be in the Spring sea-
son, with its fragrant Orange groves, and dense ham
mocs and pellucd lakes, and placid rivers, and tow
ering Magnoas and all that sort of thing, young
friend, recently removed to the St. Johns, writes 10
us thus:
"Why don't you pay us visit and see this land
Of. aowers7" ?" The moon shines more brightly here.
The birds sing more sweety. The air is more salu-
brious. And the gentle tones Of the Spanish guitar,
waited on by the swee; South,' sound more enchan
lngly than in any other cme.-We would su like TO
have you with u.s. ifJut for night-then and here
to join US in serenadng of our fair senoTas." :"
All! the profusion Of boques-the sparkling cham
pagne, &c. &C. ] know ii would be 10 You ga green
spo, in memory's waste" and ga joy forever Do
come"
That's warm, friend NAT, and very cordial You
are bewtched by all that's romantic. And yet we
have heard many others speak in terms equally rapu
rous OF this same spot of earth. How we should de-
light 10 be for with our many Florida friends
Nothing preventing, we'll not let another winter pass
with this desire ungratfed.
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CRops IN MARYLAND.-We learn from our
exchanges in Washington, Prince Georges, and
Dorchester counties, that those sections have
been visited lately by copious rains, and that the
crops and all kinds Of vegetation have been
greatly improved thereby.
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shall never come into this Union as slave
State. Never"
There it is, and the gathering of the hosts TO
rally under this banner is more imposing than
it ever has been before The lower house OF
Congress is already abolitionized, and the ad-
mission of Kansas as q slave State we can
never expect without terrible conflict. That
marty. which at the North has embraced nearly
all the anti-savery leaders, and the rank and file
of The allied anti-Southern organizations, has
proved powerful enough in the free States to
control the elections, and in every instance it
has selected anti-slavery representatives and
officers. That party the South has to dread
not that its members in our section could nfi-
late with their Northern brethren--but because
it brings with it strife, i'll feeling, intolerance
and prescription, arraying one portion OF our
citizens against the other, at the most critical
period, we believe, in the history Of the South
With US there is no necessity for such an organ
ization. It's origin, its procvitics where 1t Is
most powerful, its actual results in the same
section, all forbid that it should be embraced by
the Southern people. But, beyond this, let US
not encourage an organization that must scatter
broadcast the seeds of discord and dlsunion
among ourselves-South CaroIinlan.
ROMANCE OF INDIAN L1fE-A private soldier
writing from Fort Laramie, March II, mentions
The following incidents of the massacre of Lieut.
Grattan:
will give you two facts connected with the
massacre, which | have never seen in the news
papers. A musician, one Of the party, married
or owned Il squaw, and on that unfortunate day,
when she saw danger threatening the troops,
she rallied her father and brother to preserve
her lover. When he fell wounded, she rushed
to him to protect him from the arrows or perish
with him. Her father shot several arrows at
the other Indians, and was wounded himself in
the Jealous defence of the soldier. Then NE
sat down and wept, rs he could do no more
The hostile Indians then rushed on to the woun-
ded soldier tore him from the embrace of his
faithful squaw, and sea ped him before her eyes
After this she could not be prevailed upon to
eat or drink, and starved to death, dying in nine
days, and glad TO 60 to regain The presence Of
the spirit of one she loved so dearly. The only
soldier that reached here alive was found by an
Indian, who, instead of scalping him, mnstered
to his wants. carried water TO his hiding place,
and endeavored to bring him into the fort du-
ring the night but being unable or afraid to
accomplish his purpose, he turned back to MIR.
Bordeau's house, bearing the soldier, and four
Indians overlook him and wished to kill the
wounded man, or as they said, that dog" lhe
reply of the noble friendly savage was, This
white man must live, or must die" and he bore
him off in safety. Such generous deeds should
be remembered
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G'" EuGENE's" sketch Of the fishing party Is
unavoidably crowded out. 1t will appear in our
next issue.
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Seven Days Later From Europe.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER AMERICA

The Steamer America arrived at Halifax on
Thursday with one weeks later advices from
Europe
LIVERPOOL CorToN MGRKET.-The market
had advanced one quarter penny. The sales Of
the week reach over one hundred thousand bales
Breadstaffs were unchanged. Corn had slightly
advanced. Provisions steady. Consols 90.
FROM THE SEAT OF WAE.-The news from
the seat of war is very meagre. Affairs at Sc
vastopoI are unchanged. Some trivial successes
are reported in favor of the Allies. The gener~
al belief is that the war will be oflong dura-
lion, aud without the hope of assistance from
Austria.
Several extensive failures are reported at Se-
vastopol.
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ACCIDENTAL HonrclDE.-A little boy named
Arnold, while hunting recently near his home
in this District, in company with an older broth
er and William Baker, was accidentally shot
dead by the latter. We have not heard the
particulars.-Abbeville Banner.
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A SIGHT IN THE HARBoR OF CHIcAGo.-The
following sketch of the present and future glo-
ries of Chicago is taken from the Times of that
city:
"On Sunday morning the 9th inst, between.
seven and eight o'clock we passed down Michi-
gan avenue from Lake-street. Outside the
PEERS, and scattered over the broad surface Of
The lake, we counted nearly sixty vessels leav-
ing or approaching the city. The sight was
grand one. The morning Was calm and pleas
ant; the sun shone brightly, and the broad waves
glistened with its glorious rays. Down the lake,
up the lake, across the lake, in every direction
that the eye was turned appeared the snowy
canvass of the commercial navy of Chicago-a
navy more powerful in all that enriches apeo-
pie, in extending the power and glory and lnsti-
tutions of uur c,,an.ry than I'LL The armed fleets
that have b~l:hca fr-r. fire aud destruction in
war and sl.f,, .!.- was but a small portion
of that G. a,Fe ,-'a, p.aceful and most powerful
navy. WI. ., ile American commerce goes,
there 90 wea.:. lid knowledge of blessings
and happiness of free, sefgoverned people.
The sight of this fleet before our city was a.
cheering ono. 1t not ony spoke of great and
extensive trade, but spoke in unmistakable lam
guage that Chicago was that famed spot OF
earll. in which canals, railroads, steamboats,, and
sails, formed n grand and central depot, each
bringing to and bearing away line products of
region blessed by Providence, with fruitful
soil, cultivated by free and happy people"
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DEATH OF DR.. KlSG-We learn with regret,
by intelligence received at the Courier Office,
the death of DR.. Courtenay S. King, second
son of the late Col William S. King. DIR.
King had been attached to the Medical Staff of
the Russian Army in the Crimea, and early in
April fell victim to malignant typhus fever,
contracted in the hospitals Of Smpheropol.