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We will cling to the Pillars of the Tenple of our Liberties, and it it must fall, we will Perish amidst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD: S. JULY 27, 1853.

VOL. xVn---- 2 THE EDGMFIELD ADVERTISER IS PUBLISHSD EVERY WEDNESDAY BY W. F. I Proprietor. ARTHUR SIMKINS, Editor.

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merlv known the S'ANN loTEL," having beet purchasei.d id opveted im last hv the U'lersigned, lie would iw.t resp ctttlly Iie.t his friet Is mid the pubILe to hnlm a all, vs ie fels confident Itt ie van as well for thet as could be expectel in a thi. lI lliu-e is on M-n Street, one block South of tlte Square, anld io t. vetiint to those the Plank ltoad. A 1so. ftrom umbia, A iken and rantervile.

Ilis St-ules are conventient to the 11. anid a.lways welhl -upplied. The I louse is suiiet-y rezired from. the btusiness part of the Town to render it ahways quiet and comfotabthle, so tat the weary traveler many always be sure of a good nights rest. F.

31. NICHOL A S. 3Mav 11 tf 17 New Store and New Goods rp I Subscriber has just opetted ant ENTIRE INew Stock of Goeds, at the Old Stand (the izicte S-roRE) consistig of every variety of Groceries, Hardware, Crockery, Shoes, hats, Thankful for past favors, lie ho pes by strict at-I tet(in to businie-s atnd a desire to pilease to shatre a conttintuance of thte samte. 11is friends and the ptublie are requested to call and exaine for U.2 A liberal dise'ounxt for Cash. B.

0. BRYAN. Edgeield, Matrch 9 New Spring Goods, TI IL Subscribier takes this mtethold oif returning ihis 2irateful thaniks toI his punctual customters for their long continued pattronage, and feels contfidvint from nine years experiece in tihe busmness, that lie enn otYer iinductments to. his eustorners that must secure a continuancee of their past fasvors. 11e is now rceeiing and offering one of the Nost Desirable Stocks of Dry Goods: For the Summner Trade, thtat lie has ev.

yet offered to the public. Abso otn fine Stock of Cutlery, atrd and Crockery Ware, Aud a hirge and excellentt variety of HATS, BOOTS AND SHOES, or htis owutnimanufacture, as5 well ats a supply of Yaikee work. A Good Stock of Groceries, consistinC of SUGAR, COFFEE, MOLIASSES, SALT, Bacon and Lard, Which Ihe will sell low for Cash. A lso, a supply Drugs and( Medicines, Such as sweet. Castor.

Trtin aind Linseed Oil, White Lead, Window Glass and Ptitty, ML W. CLAlUY. any 19 5t 18 Beautiful Daguerreotypes. R. I tre.pietfully anntotunce to Ji the.

Laxdtes atnd Gien t'emen of Edgetield and vicintity. th tt is now' ready to serve all that miay be desiro.us of obtining one or more gof htis Unrivalled Daguuerreotypesi. 'Mr. is prepanred to take nny of thte different styles of Pictures the is canpable Ladlies wt'l find that bhitck dark dressing will add tmuch to the beauty of the Picture. Mlav II tf 17 Lime 'fl BARRELS RlOCK LIMlE, in fine order, OUjust received, and sah- by E.

liODJGES, AGE.r Trarobmrgr, Jnie 11, Uf 20 E92 CARSON, THE DRUNKARD, --O RA STORY OF GENIUS IN RUINS. EY CHI RLES G. HANvILLE. Purchasing some wine one day in a tavern not Car from London, my attention was directed by the landlord to a man who lay or slept on one of the benches in front of' the bar. His sleep-if indeed that deserved the name which appeared rather a lethargie torture of the faculties-was iearly over; he pta his feet to the ground, and arose painrully and dazzily into a sitting posture.

le rested his elbows on his knees and his head drooped forward on two white slender hands, now trembling and impotent, and stained with blood and mire. He was indeed a singular object, aid one to arrest our deepest sympathies. His hair -a fine dark brown, profuse and silkywas matted with the filth and straw of the kennel out of which he had been lifted by the landlord at daybreak. His clothes, thoughi soiled and torn, were still of exel. lent texture and one glance, the most hasty, at the man, declared his position, and revealed his misery.

He was a gentleman, if birth, education, social rank and high ability confer the title. He was a drunkard, arnd heir to all the misery and degradation implied and entailed hv the fittal passion. God help him said the landlord, who was a humane man, as landlords go. God help poor Mr. Carson He's been on a spree many a time before but this is his longest and his worst, and I fear it '11 prove his last." Hush!" said 1.

He may overhear Not he," said the landlord-" At least lie can't understand nothing now 'till he's had his bitters; Lord bless you! le's got no thought now but one, and that's for di ink there's only one word in the world he could speak, and that's gin," poor fel. low!" I looked at the unfortunate man; he sat pressing his thin palms against his throb. bing temples, and striving to moisten his parched tongue sufficiently to call for drink. The words rattled ini hi I learned on enquiry froni the landlord, that was a Barrister, occupying rooms close to my own in Lincoln's Inn that lie had the reputation of great talent; and was now, or had been lately, the master spirit of one of our best and most witty pe. rindicals.

In general he was perfectly sober, know. ing his own weakness, and abstaining alto. gether from strong drink; but twice before, Lu ing the past Year, lie had broken through his resolution; and twice before, though never quite so totally, he had been reduced to the position in which he now groaned and gasped before me. Oh there are many Carsons in the world and many landlords, who, while they pity him, never think that the trade by which they profit, is the poison by which hle dies. A rising sloiwhy fromt his seat aud totteritig to the bar, he now rested his elbows on the brass rod and niuttered through his set teeth-'" Di ink in Thie hatr-maid, a pretty girl, and one who would have shrutnk fronm the commission of an open homiicide handed him'a tumrbler nearly full.

lHe gulped it down, though an innate loathiing convulsed his face, and it was evident that the stomach sought to reject the uniwehcomne drug with which it was ulready satu rated and corroded. lHe paused fur a moiment, and a grim smile crept over his besotted features, as he felt the inivigoratiing said he hoarsely, handing back his tumbler to be filled; md the girl who prayed eaich Sunday in a Christiani Church, and heard the cotmmand 'lhou shalt not kill," gave him what he asked. Why enter into the minutim of a picture, the far more dreadful reality of which is to seen every day and hour in every tavern throughout the world Sultice it, that a ewmore gass of gin and brandy restored the victim to his senses. He was in high spirits atnd joked with me otn the wretched. ness of his owtn condition.

He told me that he had heard every wvord of moy conversation with the landlord hut was at that time unable to think or speak, not having had his and he smiled aa he drained another I asked him home to my chambers, antd as we walked down Chancery Laiie I saw that men, the first and most respected in our professioni, bowved and stmiled sadly at him as they passedl. Conming into my rooms ho called for brandy. "Why will you take more of this, when you have just told me that you kntow it is killing you Psha wv! dhon't preach now, there's a good fellow," he replied, let me have just another glass; and theni i'll dress myself, and come out and tilk to you like a judge, wiser than three-fourtks of thetm into the bargain, for I have not only the letter of the law but the spirit in me." I showed him into the bed room, and as le washed himself he told me that lie had neither washed nor combed his hair for the pst week, tier would I now," said he, "only that you happened to stumble on me in therp. Some friends pressed me to join theim in chamipagne about ten day-s ago; I pleaded that Iinever drank, but they were old college chums, and itnsisted they laughed at me, so I dranik; and here I am now, sober by excess of brandy, restored to my reasoni by that which would make three other mn insane." There was a bitter sarcasm, a vain rc gret, a dreadful mockery of his own weali ness and misery in his tone, though a smil curled his handsome features. Yes! hand some, despite their fever and their pallo despite the blood-shot eye, and the bloatei cheek.

Now that he had removed the blood an dirt which disfigured lim, I thought that had never seen a finer race, or one so intel lectual. The forehead was broad and mas sive. the eyes large, dark, deep set and wit long rich lashes placed wide apart under th brow. His nose, though somewhat thiCi was purely Grecian, and regularly shaped the lips, contrary to the received doctrine physiognomists, were finely rehed an fiexible; and a square dimpled chin con pletee a face which had much of the ol A pollo in it, much of the morining star hurl ed down from its height, but still consetou of its lustre. Why don't you shave said ther are my razors; then we'll go out for a wall and the cool air will revive yor." Ha! ha lie laghed is this a han to shave with it is steady enough-is brain steady? would you desire a coroner inquest in your room, or a suicide commit ted before your face No, no; come acros the square to my chambers-I've not beel there for a week-and then I'll finish rm toilette, and go down to the office with you.

We went, and found his table a pile of letters; an aged clerk, whl sat at a small table in the outer oltice. fairl, wept for joy when "Master Frederic" re turned. He had been in Carson's servici for some years, as I afterwards learned an indeed, had spent the better portion of hi: life in the service of the uncle by whon Frederick had been reared. Turning to the pile of papers which la, on the desk, Car-on glanced hastily over it either flinging aside the letters, or hanidini them to the clerk to attend to. At lasi about half way down the henp, he came ti a small note, deeply bordered with black and directed, in an old fashioned, feina! hand.

My God he exclaimed, from ml mother; but I could not bear to read it now. Time was," said he, sinking back into a chair, that I watched for the and you can respect my grief." I could only answer him by pressing hi hand. There was an imige before me-i forelioding-the wreck of intellect and do maestie peace-a shadow thrown upon ni own path, by the darkness which alread) encircled his. I spoko some hasty consolation, thougi with choked and imperlect itierane; anc with an earnestness, vouched by my tears, besought him to refrain from drinking anij more. "0, come, come!" said he, "my pooi boy, you tike this trifle too much to heart Come, let's dress, and take a walk; I'll rdat it in the fields, and perhaps it may do some.

thing for me, though I fear it comes tot late." He returned from the bed room in a few minutes elegantly dressed, and with ever' trace of agitation gone; but I had beart the gurgle of the decatiter, and could jndgi the source of his mirth. Leavinig sona money with the clerk, and telling him that lie would return and resume business regu. larly in the morning, he accompanied me into Fleet street. We called on several friends in the Tem. pie, and.everywhere I could see how huighly he was esteemied-how little they knew his real state-how a prospect his folly his desperate madness had effaced.

Passing up the Strand to Charing Cross we calledt a cab, and drove to the itegent's Park lie threw himself down in thme long grass, att the foot of Primrose 111ill, and read the letter aloud. It was one of those which can only come from a fond, proud mother's pen she spoke of his sister, and their hope to come up tb town and see hinm in a few wveeks, or that he would go down to them. It spoke of the pride shte took in hearing of his fair fame, and unticiputing the happiness and advantages of his future career. It was onie o1 those letters which they are happy who re. ceive, and blest who mierit-a letter to touch the rock of aiid draw orth whatever purity and kindness the heart coutains -such a letter as a thousand mothers writ, -such a letter as scarcely any son can read without self crimnination, repentance and tears.

For my own part I gave wvay to my feel. ings, and wept like a child but Carson shed no tear his voice was husky', slow, and( dreadfully deliberate, as if he wished to draini the dregs of the bitter eupt, atnd feel the torment of each separate drop. Ho folded uj the letter and arose: his limibs tremibled se that lie had to leati on nie; antd as we walk. ed back to the cab, lie whisperedI drove dowvn to my friend Dr. B--'s arid to him Carson stacted his case.

It wat a common one, anid this-that he had now been under the nmaddening iinfluence drinl for more than ten days, and that he hat feared delirum anid death wvould Seize himi he abstained. Dr. B-felt his pulse, and immediately asked if he had any friends ott whom could rely. He answered, none, utless would interest myself so far in a ruinet nmai, who might inever five to make rec urr of the obligation. He felt, lie said, asi death had already marked hiti, but still de sired, even nmore strongly than life, that frientds of his should be acquaitnted with thi nature or degree of his illness.

I protmised silemice, attd it was finall) ae that ae should be removed to a "mits sioi dle sante," or" ive hospital some mile. from town. I. Why horrow yoyr feelings by a descrip tion of his sufferings? why attempt to de pict the unutterahfe torture of body ana soul which followehis abstinence from the bowl I why, or how, reveal the horrori I which made a dmon-land of his couch and frenzied into desperation and violence an imagination already vivid, eager, warm, and comprehensivel Behold him on the bed: young, brilliint, educated, refined and senbitive, but yesterday, or a fortnight since with friends who esteemed him, a mother who loved him, a future full of hope, and a equal to his highe'st aspirations. To-day draw aside the curtains, and contemplate I the reck-a shattered maniac, raving in the horrors of an anticfpated hell-shuddering at the terrors of his own disordered fanicyshriekinig with the agony of brain and heart -convulsed in every limb and quivering in every sinew, as the shadow gather round and round him nord gloomily, more strangeI ly, hideously and lowly, and mnre blackly The mother and the sister did come to towi; but not as thely expected, to share his joy, and witness his genius had achieved.

They cime to stand beside a a narrow pit, into whiih an uninscribed coffin is slowly lowbred. It was his last request in the lucid iiterval which preceded i death, that his namne should perish with his shame; and that'neiher mouument nor record should- presee his memory. 'The name I have assighejim is fictitious; there. fore his request is uniolated by a brief narI rative, as true as it i sad. Heis mother has si died; she withered i under the second bl for her husband had also been a victim t-the red plague of in.

toxication. Hope dJd within her heart, and she died about a twel.e-mnonth after her son's hnt not in' ngland. In Palmero, where I had gone to pend the summer, under thn bright skies of Sicily, and in the home of any wife, fher daughter, another secondary victimn-ae of those fifty inno -cents who suffer individual drunk. ard's criminality-th6 spirit of the mother I and the wife, outraged, desolated in each Cspacity by the one foul Tyrant, flew up to suicide--to protect the veaK from the temp. tations which beset them.

'Tis not alone the ignorant, the poor, the miserable, who perish in the Dead Sea of drink. Let the annals of literature, let the records of each family, let your experience an. daily observation tell you who and what are the men who nost readily, most fally yield to this mnost damnable vice But I exceed mny commission; my business was to complete a sketch: I find myself lecturing on the rudiments of light and shade. How TO BE PRosPeROUs IN BuSiNESs.In the first plaice make up your mind to acconplish whatever you undertake decide upon some particular employment, and per. severe in it.

All difficulties are overcome by diligence and ass'uity. Be no', af'raid to woark with your bands, Iand diligenatly too. A cat in gloves catch no micke." He who remains in the mill griands, not he who cometh and goeth. Atteand to your business; never trust to another. A pot that belongs to many is ill-stir re'd aid worse boiled." Ba frugal.

That w'hich not make a po ill make a pot Save the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves." aBe abs temious. Who daities love shall beggaurs Rise et.rly. "'The sleeping fox catch no poultry." Plow deep while sluggards sleep, Andi yuu'll have corna to sell anid keep." Treat every one with respect and civility. "Everything is gained, and nothing lost by courtesy." Good amanners insure success. Never anticipate wealth from any other source thani labor especially never place dependence upon becoaning the possessor of an inheritence.

He who wiaits foar dead mens shoes, amay have to go a long time barefoot. He who runs after a shadow has a wvearisomne race" Above all thinags never despair. God is where he was." Hie helps those wiho truly trust ini him. SKE'rCH OF A decorum, and neatness distinguish the gentlenaa hem is all tiames affauble, diffident and studious to please. Intelligent and polite, his behavinr is pleasant and graceful.

When lie entera the dwvelling of an inferior, he en. deavors to hide if possible the difference between their rank in lifam, ever wiilling to assist those around him, he is neither unkind hanghty nor overbearing. In the mansion oft the great, the correctness of his mind induces him to bend to etiquette, but not stoop to adulation correct principle cautions him to avoid he gambling table, inebriety, or any other foible thaut could occasion self areproach. Pleased with pleasures of reflection he rejoices to see the gaieties of society and is fastidious upon no point of little implor'tance. Appear only to be a Igentleman, and its shadowv bring upon you contempt; lhe a genteman, and its hon.

ors will renmain even after you are dead.Memphis Eagle. Wiut are six ring tailed monkeys, suspending themselves from a puam tree, pick. ing cocoanmuts, more truthaful than James, the novelist? they depend for support, not upon works of' fiction but upon tales of real life. fellows say, when Adam got tired of' naminag his numerous decen. dant besaid" ht to ret namd THE LATE SOUTHERN CONVENTION-DOMESTIC POLICY OF THE SOUTH.

The acts of the great Commercial Conven. tion which met at Memphis in June last, are before the world, and it is now a pertinent and important question-what will the South do I From what do these grand councils of her statesmen spring? Are they the offspring of a few distempered brains, who war against fancied wrongs? Or are they the silent workings of caln determined deliberations We are not of those who see dangers in shadows, nor do we belong to those of the other extreme, who sleep in feigned security, hugging the delusive phantom of hope while ominous and portentous workings are go. itg on around us. The acts on the part of the South mean something or nothing, and it is a matter of national importance to know and understand them. The Southern States wish to render themselves, commere'ially, financially, and socially independent.

This is their language, and how voluminous with meaning are the words "socially independent." Have we as a nation so soon arrived at that point, when it is found necessary for one portion of the Union to render itself so. cially independent of the other? It is already debated, how shall the bond of brotherhood most effectually be severed Facts are obstinate. It is not difficult to comprehend the causes which have led to this desired social (the first step towards the political) severence of our Union. As uncontrovertable as the plainest truth in nature, is the fact that the Southern movement can be traced directly to Northern freesoilism and albolitionism. "Tis true, that during the entire session of the convention, not a harsh word was uttered against these northernisms.

but this fact does not at all lessen the truth of the above statement, but, on hthe contrary, renders it more clear. Those who met at Memphis, went there not to parade their grievances before the world in idle words and empty wrath, but. their every act was stamped with cool, calm determination; and every decision of the convention; was the result of surprising unanimity. As an instance of this determined spirit, we state the fact that the Maryland delegation to the convention, -as far as Louisville, Kentucky, 410 hauL who remembers that the South is a portion of the American Republic, and that the blood of our forefathers flowed as freely at Eutaw Springs as at Saratoga, say that our South. ern brethren act without causes? They are only working for their own protection and in self defence.

They have been slandered, villified, and abused by Northern fanatics. Their very house have been invaded, and their private property rendered insecure by the foul doctrines preachefl by the antislavery party of the Nnrth; and the signs of the tines are not indicative that these dangerous doctrines can be crushed, except by their own strong arms raised in their own behalf. Our Southern brethren ask us if free soilism is dead In reply we point to W. H. Steward, John P.

Male, and a host of others in high positions, whlose whole energies are devoted to a war upon Southern interests. T1hey ask us if our general voice is to putt down and condemn every thing that tends to ruin the social institutions In answer, they are told that we imnmotalize Harriet Beecher Stowe and Unele Tomn. T'hey ask us if we will-enforce the compromise measures; and if they may consider these measures as the final of slavery agitation? Iin reply we say wve delegate the duty of carrying out those measures to men who are known to be wholly hostile to their enforcement. They ask us if they may visit, us as citizens of the same great common wealth. free from annoyance as to their so.

-eial relation to their servants We tell them if they dare to tread on Northern soil they do so at the risk of personal insult and loss of property. It is these indications on the part of the North then, wvhich have aroused, justly aroused, the Southern States to the development (of' their owvn powers, that they may render themselves socia.ly independent. It requires Ino prophetic powers to foresee the ultimate results of their deliberations. Our Southern friends are too wvise and too powerful to lie thwarted in their designs. If they fail to accomplish their end by one method they will try another.

Their aim is to crush the by. dra-headed monster, known as freesoilism, and send it to oblivinn. They desire union, but the iron linking indissolubly together the repuliic they say must be forged over the graves ol the Northerni vandals. The first mode adopted by the South to effect this object, is to develope the powvers of her people and her soil; by her railroads to extend the facitities of intereommunication, and let observation give thte lie and the death-blow to these Northern propagandists. She knows that abolitionists and freesoilers must sink into the grave of political infamy when facts confront their fiction.

T1he South will stretch every nerve to build the great Pacific Railroad, she will arouse her sons to industry and the pursuit of wealth, and then she will appeal directly to the North to assists her in crushing her enemy fed upon its soil. It is wvell under stood that af.er not more than one or twvo years the Southern Convention will adjnurn to assemble in the heart of the Northern States, for the very purpose of testing public opinion to see wvhether z' moral alliance can be effected between the North and South which shall for ever crush this op. position to Southern Slavery. Andif such an end cannot be consmnuma-ted, thetn dark are the predictions for the future. We cannot look upon this Southern Convention but as a proof that the Union and Northernt to Southern institutions cannot live and thrive together.

The fiat has gone forth that one of the two must be sacrificed. Which shall it be? This is a delicate and mighty question, but it must be We may argue the improbability of such an issue ever being made; we may battle it off by sophistry and verciage; we may wish it distant but we hope against hope-we can no more shut our eyes to the fact that the hour of this issue is hastening on. These Northern vultures are preying upon the very vitals of the government. Their short sighted and bigoted philanthro. py would undermine the Union to snatch the negro from imaginary suffering; and they would raise him upon the wreck and ruins of the white race and the buried hopes or the Revolution.

The interests and perpetuity of our country demand their political annihilation. This work has already been commenced in the South. Every patriot will wish our Southern citizens success in their just and laudable undertaking. Let the ball roll on-let the South develope her powers and resourceslet her railroads thunder through heir forests and cover her immense uncultivated territo. ries with the bloom of cotton and the products of her clime-let her entrepots and continental depots be established at every ridlroad crossing, and in every city within sound of the Atlantic because we should not forget that she is a portion of our own tepublic, and her prosperity is the prosperity of all-let her build her own schools, estab.

lish her own press, rival us in all the pursuits of trade, and herself commercially and financially independent-but let us all work together, and hand-in hand all march one way," to annihilate eve-y lirinciple which may have a tendency to array any one portion of our Union against another in a rivalry for social or sectional independdnce. -New York Herald. OF PLANK ROADS.j A correspondent of the Charleston Cou. rier thus speaks of the effect of Plank Roads recently constructed near that city upon the value of property The efrect of building substantial Plank Roads, may be readily seen in the enhanced value of real eitate in the immediate neigh. borhood of our city.

Lands have doubled, amd in many instances trebled their original the Plank 1toadto tne ioras, was bumu iur $1,800. The same tract brought last year $5,000, another not far from it, doubled its price in the same space of time, costing originally $1000, and rpalizing for its owner the sum of $2,500, a third, which was held for a lonag period at $5,000 without a purchaser, is now in possession of another ow. ner, from whom it could not be bought for $12,000, a tract in St. James' Goosecreek, purchased the same time for 8900, recently brought $3,600, four times the amount of purchase. Iranumerable similar examples might be cited where the parties -are well known, but it is unnecessary at present.

A SCENE OF POVERTY DRUNKENNEss, STARVATro AND we were invited by a kind-hearted philanthropist, to visit T1hatcher Conrt. We found there a small old wooden building, one story under ground and one story and an attic above ground. The basement story is divided into three apartments, the first story in four, and the attic into the same number. In each of the rooms above ground, we found a family, all in miserable condition. We visited a family who occupied one of the upper rooms.

Here we found a man, his wife, and two children, lodged. TIhis little room, which is just about twice the size of a common bedstead, wve found in the most filthy state. T1he man and woman were both drunk, and have been so most of the time for the last three weeks. The bed which accommodated the four was a bundle of rags in a most shocking condition. No furniture, excepting the bed, of any kind was to be seen, but we learned that the family had a right to cook in one of the basements-when they had anything to cook-wvhere they had a chair and a part of a table.

An empty bottle, wvhichi had contained spirits, was standing near the father of this miserable family. The children had no food during the day, and they said they were starving. A little girl four years old and a little boy of two years were the unfortunate children of this couple. Our cornpanion kindly remonstrated with the burly, hearty looking drunkard and his miserable looking wimfe, but it did no good. They appeared lost to shame, and the willing victims to their appetite.

The oldest of the children was then taken to a shop near by, and some food purchased for her and her little brother. She took the food home, and as soon as she entered the house her father robbed his starving children of the food thus given to them anid ate it himself-Boston Herald. A novel funeral 'procession might have been witnessed in Petersburg, Virginia, a few days since. A negro drayman, having been accidentally drowned, was escorted to his last resting place by all the draymen of the Cockade city. The horses he had driven during his sojourn on earth, were led by the groom immediattely behind the hearse, and followed up by the priiheipal mournerns mounted on a dray.

These, in their turn were succeeded by something like one hundred drays, and dlrawvn by two horses, makinig ini all a cavalcade nearly a mile long. TIrE editor of the Woonsocket Patriot makes merry over the mistake of an old Shanghai heni of his, that has been setting" for five weeks upon two rounds stones and a piece of er anxiety is no greater thani ours to know what she will hatch. lf it proves a brick yard-that hen is not for COL. OF TH CENTRAL ROUTE TO THE have received intelligence of the arrival of Col. Fremont at Washington, from England, where he has been incarcerated on account of the debts contracted by him, in orderto equip the men with whom he made the conquest of California.

Our-informant assured us that Col. Fremrnul has prepared himself with the finest instruments for the purpose of prosecuting the' survey of the Central Route, for a railroad to the Pacific. He proposes to start in November, and thus to test the practicability of the route during the season of snows. This intelligence will be hailed with pleasure by the people of Missouri, and the undertaking by Col. Fremont, of this survey during the fall and winter snows, shows the confidence he feels in the practicability of the Central Route, and this confidence showed by one so well acquaint.

ed with the whole country as Col. Fremont, cannot fail to inspire a similar confidence in the friends of the Central Route. We onderstand that Col. Fremont undertakes this survey without aid from the Government, and if so, it gives him an additional claim to the gratitude of the whole Lonis Democrat. 400 PLOT TO SEIZE THE EMPEROR OF FRANCE.

-The rumored plot against Louis Napoleon is confirmed. The Paris correspondent of the London Times gives the following account of it: The existence of a plot of an extensive kind is now placed beyond a doubt. I do not well know what to believe about the Orleanists and Legitimists, who were said to be implicated in it, but the great majority of the persons arrested, and who, it is said, amount to over 300, belong to the Socialist party. Some believe that there was more than one plot, and that each party had its own ulterior objects in view, but that its immediate one was to seize on the person of the Emperor, either at the Hippodrome, where he was known to have gone on Tuesday, or during one of the excursions which lie so often makes in the streets of Paris or its environs, without escort or guard of any kind. The next thing the conspirators were to have executed, after having disenoimbered themselves of the Emperor, was to proceed at once to the erection of barricades, to thp Inesin, in almost all quarters of Paris-even in the quarters of the Italians-but principally in the rues Feaubourg, St.

Martin, and Trans. nonain. In the last mentioned a secret so. ciety was in the habit of meeting. The parties said to have been charged with the attack on the Emperor at the Hippodrome were about 60 in number.

They were, however, closely watched by the police, and were unable to execute their design. DoMESTIC '1ROUBLES IN THE IMPERIAL FA good deal of gossip, says a Paris letter has been going on in Paris during the last few days, respecting a supposed attempt of the fair Eugenie to pay a clandestine visit to her dear native land across the Pyrenees. It seems that the Imperial lady has for a considerable time been unwvell, and feels but little relish for the gene of a court life, ini consequence of which she petitioned her royal husband for leave of absence, a request that was at once refused in no very courteous terms. 'rhe Spanish wifte, however, was not, it vappears, to be thus baulked; and so, what she could not gain by the good will of the Emperor, she sought to obtain by secret contrivance, in connection with one of the ladies about her person. The scheme, however, by soino means or other, oozed out; and the result has been that effectual means are taken to prevent the imprisoned bird from tasting the sweets of liberty and inhaling tihe fragrant breezes of her native Spain.

Poor Louis Napoleon-this is the worst blow of allquite a home thrust-and if domestic bles be added to his already great political annoyances, it will be difiicult to say wvhat will be the result either to himself or the country lhe governs. Faith, he may echo the words of Shakspeare's Henry Oh heavy lies the head that wyears a crown AN AMUsING Journal of Commerce tells the following story: One incident in the procession, taifling in itself, occasioned a good deal of amusement. When Gen. Pierce had got as far up as the head of Wall street, his horse became restive, and came in collision with the animal rodle by General Sandfoird. As the President wus riding with his hat in hand, the hat received the brunt of the shock, and suffered severely, being badly stove in and indented.

The General was too much engaged to notice the catastrophe, and soon put on hat in its unfortunate condition, anid retained it in its place for about a block, exciting roars of laughter among the boys. THE STEAMBOAT our telegraphic news yesterday there was mentioned an accident to the steamer Empii-e, on the Hudson river. On Saturday morning, wvhen going down the river, about five miles below Poughkeepsie, she wvas run into by a sloop, with such force as to knock one of her boilers and some parts of her machinery overboard. Thlis caused the steamer almost immediately to take fire, which spread the utmost consternation among the passengers, who were roused from their slumbers by the fore of the sloop running into the steamer. They were, however, all rescued safely except some ten or twelve who were badly scalded, tbree or four who were killed, and taken to Poughke'epsie by the schooner.

It is feared that some of the passengers leaped overboad durng the consternation, and waro drownnd..