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TRACES OP THE GIANTS.
It is quite a mistake to suppose tbat
the giants of antiquity were abnormal
phenomena, like “the Norfolk Giant,"
and other celebrities ol our own time;
they were veritable races of men of a
stature far exceeding even the Pata
gonians of South America. We learn
ed from the Scriptures that giants
lived before the flood; these are prob
ably the Titans of traditiou, whose
daring impiety provoked tho Deluge.
Alter the flood we find gigantic races
the Emiui, Anakim, or iiephaim—
inhabiting Palestine; and therefore
■we may infer either that one of the
wives ol Noah’s sons was of gigantic
Ktalore, or that, coming of this race,
some of the children subsequently re
verted to it, in conformity with a
well-known law of nature. What
ever doubt may exist upon tbe sub
ject ol tho antediluvian giants, none
whatever c.m possibly exist regarding
these Anakim, orsons of Onk, for we
are expressly told that the Israelites
“felt as grasshoppers beforo them,”
and the height of one of their kings
is incidentally noticed.
The giants lived along the mountain
chains of Canaan, ruling an inferior
race knewn as Amorit-s. They had
military outposts in the valleys, and
dominated t«w the rich pastoral
plains teyond Jordan, especially Ba
shao, in one part of which—Argob
—“sixty great cities fenced with high
walls, gales, and bars, besides unwall
ed towns a great many,” were iakm
ly Jair, and are still to bo seen in ru
ins. !'iOin Huso and other facts it
will readily bo scon that their intel
lectual t opacities wero fully equal to
thoir physical developement; and a
still lurthi r proof of this is, that one
of their capitals was called Kirjatl-
Sephcr or of archives.” Joshua
captured and burnt these in bis third
campaign ~ It, w ill he seen h*Jw emi
nently appropriate to this great pas
toral race was the epithet “Shepherd
Kings,” and there seems no doubt
that these are tho “Ilyksos” who con
quered Egypt, and are commemorated
upon tho walls of tho old temple of
Kurnak.
Tho three celebrated capitals of the
giants were Ashtaroth-Karuaim, Kir
jath Sephcr, and Kiijalh-Aiba ; Jehus
(Jerusalem) was also a colony of the
Kephaira, and thence came Melcbise
<lck, probably a sort of C'anaanitieh
Z'jroastvr or Confucius. The giants
appear to have become very rapidly
extinct. As they w ur e tuknted in
war andftcong ijt person, this appears
extraordinary; but porsibly tho same
causes which induced the extirpation
of the mammoth and other large
mammals may have sflected thegmnt
races of antiquity. Sir S. Baker is of
opinion that tbe elephant, rhinoceros,
and larger mamma)* can scarcely sur
vive the present century, at the pres
ent rate of destruction. Years after,
•Og, the last survivor of the giants, is
found ruling over the old stronghold
Basham The remnant took reluge
amoogst the Philistines, whence issued
in the time of Saul and David, the
giant champions—Goliath, Lahmi,
and Sippia.
An interesting question present* itself:
Were the gian's confined to Palestine
alone? YVe have earlier (authentic) records
ol the history of Palestine than of any
other country, ar.d finding giant* there at
a very remote period, m»y we not reason
ably promise that, if we bad similar infor
mal ion regarding other countries, we should
find gigantic races in them alto? But we
Are not left altogether to conjecture, for
oral tradition (especially of Celtic nations)
and archaeology both favor the theory that
giant* were widely distributed at least over
the countries which border the Mediterra
nean. It may be objected, why are their
bones not discovered if they were so wide
ly distributed ? To this it msy be replied,
that until they are found in Palestine,
where we know the giants once existed
we cannot logically dispute the existence
of gigantic races in other countries, on the
ground tbat no remains are found.
Respecting the archaeological proofs to
which I Lava adverted, tbe philosophic
Schlegel remarks in his “Philosophy of
History” (p. 106:) ‘ There exist also mon
uments, or rather fragments of edifices, of
the mwt primitive antiquity, which, ns
they are connected with the subject, are
here deserving of a slight notice.' I allude
to those cyclopean walls which are to be
found in aeveral parts of Italy, and which
'those who have once seen will not easily
forget, nor tbe singular stamp of antiquity
they bear. In this very peculiar architec
ture we see, instead of the stones of tbe
usual cubical or oblong lortn, huge fiag
mamsof rock rudely cut into the shape of
an irregular polygon, and skilfully enough
joined together. Even the great and ofien
admired subterraneous aqueduct or cloaca
ol ancient Rome is considered as be'ong
:ng to the cyclopean architecture, remains
of which exist also near Argos and in sev
eral other parts of Greece. There edifices
were certainly not built by tbe celebrated
nations that at a later period occupied
these countries; for even they regarded
them as the work and production of a
primitive and departed race of giants; and
hence the name the monuments received.
When we consider how very imperfect
must have been the instruments of those
remote ages, and that they can oot be sup
posed to have possessed the knowledge in
mechanics «hich the Egyptians, for in
stanee, displayed in the erection of their
obelisks, we can easily conceive how men
were led to imagine that more vigorous
arms, and other powers than those belong
ing to the present rase of men, were
necessary to the construction of those
edifice* of rock."
The cyclopean remains in Italy and
Greece are apparently progressive, and yet
perfectly distinct from the Etruscßn and
Latin styles of architecture. The walls of
Tiryos, near Nauplia, alluded to by Homer,
and those of Lerma, in Italy, are examples
of the ruder style; those of Mycen* and
Epirus ol the more advanced; in these
the blocks are carefully fitted together.
And not only are these ruins found over
Greece aod Italy, for Asia Minor, Phoeni
cia, Persia, Malabar, Brittany, Great Brit
ain, and even North and SoutU Atneries,
afford examples of cyclopean architecture.
Now, in most of these cases, popular tra
dition refers the origin of these relics to
giants. In Italy and Greece they are at
tributed to the Cyclops, a primitive race of
gisnls, ski'led in architecture, whose hi
der aas said by Homer to be one-eyed
and hence this peculiarity wag extended,
by subsequent writers, to the whole race.
In Malta is a remarkable cyclopean slruo
lure, supported on huge piJl«rs, and
ularly called ‘ The Giant’s Grave.” ‘ISSST
of the blocks of stone are thirty feet long,
Stonehenge itself was said by Welsh tra
dition to have been built by “giants who
came from Africa.” This is significant,
since tbe Carthaginians, the greatest em
ployers of mercenaries, colouized a portion
of England and Ireland.
Tbe very names of some of the British
cyclopean antiquities show the evidence of
tradition as to their origin, as for instance,
**l lie (riant s Bed,’ ‘Tbe Giant’s Grave,”
“Tire Giant’s Load,” “The Old Wife’s
Lift,” “The Ginni’s Quoit,” “The Hag’s
B«d,’ &c. In Brittany it is very curious
that the grandest relic of antiquity, a
whole valley full of huge stones, is called
“Carnac,” —a name evidently identical
with tbat temple in Egypt upon which the
exploits of the Uepimirn are recorded.
A curious light has been lately thrown
upon the antiquities of Western Europe
by the discovery in the old region of the
giants, now inhabited by the Druses, of
the homes and cities of the Anakim. The
Rev. Mr. Porter and Mr. Cyril Graham
have found the whole of ancient Basban
covered with ruins hitherto unknown to
Europeans. In the cities of Kerioth and,
Kaiiathaim are houses strong enough to
resist the violence of man or of nature ;
the roofs are formed of beams of stone in
juxtaposition, twenty five feet long, sup
ported by square stone pillars, and huge
doors, formed of a single alone, “These
ancient cities of Bashan, contain probably
the very oldest specimens of domestic
architecture now existing in the world,”
says Mr. Porter. In conclusion, there is
no doubt that the cromlecht of Celtic coun
tries irresistibly suggest the idea of habita
tions ; indeed no other use can be assigned
for them. Their height is too great for
use as altars. It is just possible that tbe
vast physical and mental powers which
characterized the giants may have caused
their deification when extinct by inferior
races, and thus their temples and residences
might even come to be regarded with su
perstitious respect, or copied and repro
duced as objects of worship. At any rate,
this cannot be denied, giant* once existed
as reces, not as individual exceptions.
That they were confined exclusively to
Palestine, I have shown to be, to say the
least of it, improbable.
Hon. E. A. Rollins, Commissioner of
Internal Revenue, yesterday placed in tbe
hands of the Secretary of the Treasury
his resignation; to take effect upon the
confirmation of his successor by the Sen
ate.
Mr. Stanberry, with his family, left
Washington Friday morning for hi* home
opposite Cinciuuati, Ohio.
WASHINGTON, WILKES koWTY, GA., FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1868.
WHY CHRIST CAME AS A BABE
“There is one thing,” said Wynnie, af
ter a pause, “that I have often thought
about—why it was necessary for Jesus to
come as a babe; he could not do anything
for so long.”
•‘First, I would answer, Wynnie, that
if you would tell me why it is necessary
for all of us to come as babes, it would be
less necessary for me to tell you why lie
came so ; whatever was human must be
his. But I must say next. Are you sure
that he could not do anything for so long?
Does a baby do nothing ? Ask mamma
there. Is it for nothing that the mother
lifts up such heartluls of thanks to God
for the baby on her knee? Is it for noth
ing that the baby opens such foun
tains of love in almost ail the heart'*
around it? Ah I you do not think liow“
much every baby lias to do with the salt
ing of the world—the saving of it from
selfishness, and folly and greed.
“And for Jesus, was ho oot going to
establish the reign of love in the earth ?
How could he do better than begin from
baby-hood? lie had to lay hold of the
world. How could he do better than be
gin with his mother’s— the bestoue in it?
Through his mothers love first, be grew
into the world. It, was first by the door
of all holy relations of the family that he
entered the human world, laying hold of
mother, father, brothers, sisters, all his
frends; then by the door of labor, for
the door of his share of Lis father’s worjk
then, when he was thirty years of agpf
by the door of teaching; by kind deeds
and sufferings, and throughout all all by
obedience unto the death. You must
not think little of the grand thirty years
wherein he got ready for the chief work
to follow. You must not think that while
he was thus preparing for his public min
istrations, be was not all the while saving
the world even by that in which he Was j
in the midst of it, ever laying hold of it
more and more. These were things not
•o easy t<? tell. And you must remember
that our record* are very scanty. It is a
small biography we have of a man who
became to say nothing more—tbe man of:
the world—the,Jon of Man. No doubt
,it .tei 1 5, n “ r ©od would-have toll) Hi
inore , l,ut surely we are not to suppose
that there whs nothing significant, Dothipg
of saving power in that which we are not
told. Charlie wouldn’t you have liked to
see the little baby Jesus?”
“Yes, tbat I would. I would have gi
ven him my white rabbit with pink eyes.”
“Tbat is what the great painter Titian
must have thought Charlie; for he has
painted Him playing with a rabbit—no
such a pretty one as yours.”
“1 would have carried him about all
day,” said Dora, “As little Ileury Parsons
does bis baby brother.”
“Did he have any brother or sister to
carrv him about, papa ?” asked Harry.
“No, my boy ; for lie was tbe eldest,
but you may be prelty sure bo carried
about bis brothers and sisters that came
after him.”
“Wouldn’t he take care of them just I”
said Charlie.
“I wish I had been one of them,” said
Constance.
“You are one of them, my Connie.
Now he is so great and strong that he can
carry father and mother and all of us in his
bosom.”
’ Then we sung a childs hymn in praise
of the God of little children, and then his
ittle ones went to bed.— The Seaboard
Parish iu the Sunday Magazine.
[The idea here presented by Mr. Medon
ald is not as new as jit is true. Irenaeus
—who studied at the ieet of polycarp,
the pupil of the Apostle John—says of
Christ: “He came to redeem all by him
self; all who through him are
unto God; infants, little children, boys,
young men and old. Hence be passed
through every age, and to the infants he
became an infant, sanctifying the infants;
among the little children, he became a
little child sanctifying those who belong
to this age, and at tbe same lime becoming
on example of filial goodness and obedi
ence to them : among the young men be
became a youth, and sanctifying them un
to tba Lord.”]
A litti.b Bor’s Faith.— Last winter
a little boy of aix or eight years of age
begged a lady to allow him to clean away
the snow from her steps. He had no
father or mother, but worked his way by
auch jobs.
“Do you get much work to do my lit
tle boy?” said the lady.
“Sometimes I do,” said the little boy
but often I get very little.”
“And are you never afraid that you will
not get enoogh to live on ?”
The child looked up with a per
plexed and inquiring eye, as if certain of
<ber meaning, and troubled with anew
Ifcubt.
»l CttD>»
:er. Ae, “don’t you think
God wilvrai a boy if be puts bis
trust in h/t bat sues the best be can f
P■ ng st' * v
ANEC ) ? PROFANENESS.
W R voT—
Aflems, “I r i ' ge, John Btinyan,
"v"' 1 / li ve£ l in' neglect
evenofwrrj sos religion, fell in
eagerly^ B',, 8 '~ ■ 'V/eligion of tbo Es
tablii-br ’ y, but ho did not throw
off theyjJ) of profane swearing.
Fur, sol. {/i'"' after, he met with a
humi lia from a woman
who w ntnr.ierself of gnod-'charac
tor, buif ho protested that his sinful
profaneess made her tremble, and
that hoses übjc to spoil'all the youth
te wn who came into his com-'
c'V \At this reproof,” says Bun
ya.. liras silenced and put to secret
shame tod that too, as I thought, bo
forw t.h >, God of heaven ; wherefore
while I Vood thoro hanging down my
head, /suited that I might be a li'tle
child agaii that my father might teach
me how in leak without that wicked wag
of sweatin ; for, thought I, I am so
accuatojpe', to it, it is vain for mo to
think W neoforrnaiion, for I thought
that qdfcldnever be. But how it was
I irndwAtfc, 1 did from this time for
ward ei leive my swearing, that it
was a jflhtt wonder to myself to ob-
BerttfS: hd whereas beforo I know
notwn to speak unless I put an oath
beforo iid another behind to make
my wpiAs lave authority, now I could
withoulit speak bettor, and with
more pli. nntness than*verl could
before.”
“This cordial wish, so touchingly
exprossi I,” says one of his biogra
phers, “ cents to have been tho first
genuii # emotion of penitence in his
heart—, o.b as the terrific alarms of
an awni e>H conscience had failed to
product" I *,
Hcnr f Y’oung Stilling, was the son
of a po/ man, half tailor, half school
tnasttn fii! a small village in Westpha
lia; ary this poor, weak, unfriended,
pious h* ~ led by strange jumps and
o«ri<dW toss ways ol Providence, roso
lli'uiuTmIli'uiuTm b'tiijjjuity to Knottier, till at
lust hd bni-nmo AuHo Counsellor to tho
Grand poke of Baden, operator of
calumet to all tho blind in Germany,
and u prominent religions writer
among the Moravians. His life was
long —from 1740 to 1817 hut he lost
not one ’pleasant line of that primitive
simplit hy of character, the great vir
tue of that rat e from which ho sprung,
Dur ngiil.e first twenty yours of his
life he Hgw, and heard little but the
unassuming and pervading piety of
tbe Moravian community. Ho wa«
startled b) 'lie first profane expres
sion he he. rd '
He was about eight years old lie
satori a ob'.ir, reading a bo k and
looking very serious, as was bis sash
ion. Stabler look/ and bint in the face,
and said, “Henry, what are you doing
there so seriously ?” “I am reading.”
“Have learned to read so young?"
The child oxpressod surprise, and read
aloud, with great fluency, giving, st
the same time, the proper emphasis
and expression to every word. Stab
ler was astonished. “May the devil
take rno!” said ho, “if ever I saw the
like of tbat.” When Henry' hoard
diis oath, ho sprang suddenly up,
trembled, and looked fearfully round.
When, however, lie saw that tho devil
did oot make his appearance, he said,
“0 God! how gracious art thou." —
Turning round to Stabler he said,
“Man, hast thou seen Satan ?” “No,”
said bo. “Then never call on him
again,” said Henry, and went into an
other rtonr:.
Happy that parent who has so ed
ucated bio children, that the first oath
they hear Urns shocks them, and
makes “bem forsake tho swearor’s
prose nos —and happy ho who by r as
siduous) teaching and example, suc
ceeds in/making his children fear au
oath to Coe close of thoir days.
Thb TJonov-Ants of Mexico. —A
most curious species of ants is found in
Soul her! Mexico, known as the “honey
ant.”* Ahong these curious insects a pdr
tiou of lh«<conimunity secrete honey in
the abdominal cavity, until they swell up
to the shape of small grapes. These in
dividuaUf farm tbe storehouses of the com
munity, >nd during the winter they are
dispatched in succession, to furnish food for
the othe*- members of the co'ony. They
also bear much relation to the workers
among the honey bees, and like them, do
not possess the power of fecundity. It is
a puzzling question among the inquirers
into the “origin of species,” from a scien
tific stand point, bo comprehend how the
aterility of the working ant* and bees w*
ever introduced through tbe medium of
modified descent—the Darwinian theory
—or how it is kept up from generation to
generation by those individuals who have
no posterity to inherit their peculiarity of
structure. How by tnndifie I descent, i*
the honey-making capacity of the “honey
ant” transmitted’, wlien those who possess
es it are year after year syatema'ically des
troyed ? These facts seem to point, wnh
almost irresistible logio, to the theory of
‘‘special creation.”
MOZARTS OXEN WALTZ.
The sensitive nature of Mozart, that
sweetest of all musicia! composers, is well
known. The slightest discord produced in
him severe irritation, and when engaged
in musical composition, his feelings grew
so intense that he almost lost conscious
ness of all going on around him. A story
is told in Whitney’s Musical Guest which
strikingly illustrates this. Mozart was
engaged in arranging one of the moat
j beautiful airs in an opera he was compo
j sing, when the butcher ealled for his pay,
wiiich had long been due. In vain his
wife endeavored to attract tho attention of
the wrapt artist, who scribbled away ut
terly unconscious of her presence.
‘She raD down stairs, with tears in her,
eyes, telling the butcher that her husband
could not be spoken to, and that he must
come attoiher time. But the man of
blood was not easily to be daunted—lie
must have his bill settled, and speak with
Mozart himself—and be would not send
him another ounce of moat. Heascemled
the stairs. Mozart, distantly consoious
that something had passed in his presence,
had continued pouring the effusions of his
fantasia on paper when the heavy footsteps
resounded in the hall. His stick was at
hand. Without turning his eyes from the
sheet, he held his stick against the door
to keep out, the intruders.
“But tbe steps were approaching. Mo
zart, more anxious, hurried as fast as he
could, when a rap at the door demanded
permission to enter. The effusion was in
danger of being lost. The affrighted
composer cast a fugitive glance at his
stick—it was too short. With anxietv
boiGcifili* nil Jreli/.v bo footled around the
room, and a pole standing behind the cur
tain caught his eye; this lie seized, hold
ing it, with all his might against the door,
writing like fury all the white. The knob
was turned, but tho pole w thstood the
first effort. A pause succeeded. Words
were heard on the staircase, and the in
truders renewed their efforts the second
time. But the st/ength of the composer
seemed to increase with hit anxiety.—
Large drops of perspiration stood on his
forehead. Stemming tbe pole against bis
le,f breast with the force of despair, he
still kept out the visitors. lie succeeded
hut for a moment, yet it was a precious mo
ment—the delightful air was poured upon
the paper—it was saved !
“‘Mr Mozart,’said butcher—
“‘Halt! halt I’ said the composer, seiz
ing the manuscript, and hurrying toward
the pianoforte. Down he sat, and the
most delightful air that was ever heard
responded from the instrument. The
eyes of his wife, and even of the butcher,
began to moisten. Mozart finished the
tune, rose again, and, running to the wri
ting desk, he filled out what was wanting.
“‘Well, Mr. Mozart, said the butcher,
when the arlist had finished, ‘you know
that I an) to marry.’
“ ‘No, I do not,’ said Mozarl, who had
somewhat recovered from his musical
trance.
“‘Well, then, you know it now, and
you also know that you owe me money fo r
meat.’
“ ‘I do,’ said Mozart, with a sigh.
“ ‘Never mind,’ said the man, under
whose blood-stained coat beat a feeling
heart;’ you make me a fine waltz for my
marriage ball, ar.d I will cancel the debt,
and let you have meat for a year to come.’
“ ‘lt Is a bargain 1 cried the lively and
gifted Mozart ; and down he sat, and a
waltz was elicited from the instrument
such a waltz as the buteber had never be
fore beard.
“ ‘Meat for a year, did I say?’ exclaimed
the enraptured butcher. ‘No! one hun
dred ducats you shah have sot-this waltz,
but I want it with trumpets and horns and
fiddles—you know best—and soon, too I’
“‘You shall have it so,’ said Mozart
who could scarcely trust his ears, ‘and in
one hour you may send for it.’
“The liberal-minded butcher retired.
In an hour the waltz was set in foil orches
Ira music. The butcher leturned, was de
lighted with the music, and paid Mozart
liia one hundred ducats—a sum more
splendid than he bad ever received from
the Emperor for the greatest of his operas.
It is to this incident that the lovers of
harmony are indebted for one of the most
charmiog trifles, the celebrated oxen waltz
—a piece of music still unrivaled.”
VOL. Ill—NO. 10.
UNDERSOLD HIMSELF.
Old Jacob J was a shrewd Qua
ker merchant in Burlington, N. J ,
and, like all shrewd men, was often a
littlo too smart for himself.
An old Quaker lady of Bristol, just
over the river, bought some goods at
jaeob’s store, when he was absent,
aid in crossing the river or. her way
home, she met him on board the boat,
and, as was usual with him upon such
occasions, ho immediately pitched in
to her bundle of goods, and untied it
to see what she had been buying.
“Oh I now,” said he, “how much a
yard did you give for that?” taking
uptheseveial pieces of good«. She
told him the price, without, however,
saying where she had got them.
‘•Oh ! now,” said he, again, “I could
havo sold you those goods for so much
a yard,” mentioning a prico a great
deal lower than she had paid. “Yon
know,” said ho, “I can undersell ovo
rybody in the place.” And so he
went on criticising and undervaluing
tho goods, till the boat reached Bris
tol, when lie was invited to go to the
old lady’s store, and wuon there the
goods were spread out on the counter,
and Jacob was asked to examine the
gnodß again, and say in tho presence
of witnesses the price ho would have
sold them for per yard, the old lady,
meanwhile, taking a memorandum.
She then went to the desk and made
out a bill of the difforeoco between
what she had paid and the price ho
told her; then, coming up to him, she
uid :
“Now, Jacob, thee is sure thee could
have sold those goods at the price
thee mentioned ?”
“Oh ! now, yes,” said he.
“Well, then, thy young man must
havo made a mistake ; for I bought
the goods at thy store, and, of course
under tho circumstances, thee can
have no objection to refund me tbo
difference.”
Jacob being thus cornered, could,
of course, ur.der tho circumstances,
have no objection to refund the differ
’ once. It to Go prmumod that there
after Jacob’s first inquiry must have
been : “Oh ! now, where did you got
such and such goads?” instead of
“Oh! now, how much did you pay ?”
Democratic Gains in South Carolina.
The falls returns of the recent Conmy elec
lion* come in with grett. irregulnrify, ami ninny
of the returus received do dot show the result
with Biitficient clearness to enable us to iiihlcu a
com[mi iH.»n of the vote .with the vote at previ
ous elections. Every District, however, appears
lo have increase*! its Democratic or Cont-etva
tive vote, the change in some districts being
startling.
Comparing the vote at the County elections
with the vote upon the ratification of the new
constitution, we obtain the Mlownu; figu?/>f<:
Darlington, inujoniy for the oooriiuMon 2019,
Radical majority County election?, 1321, Demo
cratic gam G9S.
Laurens, w jurity for the constitution 704
D mocratio majority County elections 554,
Democratic gain 1318.
Chester, majority for the constitution 709,
Dem ciatic inajori y County elections 3UO,
Democratic gain 10t>9.
Orangeburg, majority for the constitution
1790, Radical majority County elections 1547
Democratic gam 243.
Union, majority for constitution 719, Demo
cratic majoiny County elections 1200, Demo*
cratic gain 1919,
Spartanburg, majority against constitution
608, Democratic majority County elections
1300, Democratic gain 792.
Lancaster, majority for constitution 88, De?no
cratic majority Couuty elections 200, Democratic
gam 118.
Kershaw, majority for constitution 1077,
Democratic majority County elections 649,
Democratic gain 1726
Oconee, majority against constitution 140,
Democratic majority County elections 850,
Democratic gain 110.
This is gurely encouraging, for it proves
that the white men ol the State are beginning
to exert their whole strength, as well as that
the uegroes are gradually forsaking the Loyal
Leagues to vote witlv the Conservative party.
Destructive Tornado.—On Sunday
night a terrific storm, accompanied with
Jiail and min passed along the western bor
ders of this District, following the course
ol Broad liiver. The damage done is
rops and fencing is reported to have been
heavy. A friend writes to ue, that hot
farm will not produce the seed planted
upon it. In some places the fences were
lified up and the rails strewn several huu
dred yards away, leaving scarcely a ves
tige to show where a fence once stood.
The wheat crep, under the track of the
storm is reported as utterly ruined.
The handsome brick residence of Mrs.
Ann E. Wright, on Broad River, was
struck by the storm, wiiich peeled off tbe
roof, and carried it over upon an opposite
hill. Several smaller dwellings are repor
ted as damaged, or blown over, and many
barns, stables, and other out bouses.
The storm extended on both sides of
Broad River, and seemed to follow its
course Southward. Its breadth, and tbe
lull extent of the damage done in this and
adjoining DLtric*s, we have not been able
to learn definitely.— Yorkville Enquirer .
President Buchanan leaves an es
tate of $300,000. Win. B. Reed, of Phil
adelphia, receives a bequest of SIOOO as a
compensation for preparing a biography of
\,be deceased.