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* - 0& t III $ 138 ' &at3 (owmmfLW VOLUMEVII. CHERAW, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,184.'. NUMBER 44. By M. MACLEAN. j Tbrms:?Published weekly at three dollars a year; with an addition, when not paid within three months, of twenty per cent per annum. Two new subscribers may take the paper at fire dollars in advance; and ten at twenty. Four subscribers, not receiving their papers in town#may pay a year's subscription with the dollars, In advance. A year's subscription always due in advance. Papers not discontinued to solvent subscribers SIOCK. I **? IVOUII ?.w ... f always is. He was in a hurry; was obJig. ed to do all things for the present, and not with reference to the future; must ac. complish so much in a given time; keep so much stock on n given quantity of fod. der; therefore, in the fall his straw was not properly secured, his corn stalks remained in the field, his roots not properly saved from the frost, and before spring, he is running about town trying to pur. chase, a little straw, to keep his cattle out of the mud, and a little hay to keep them from starving. It is clear that Mr. G. has not learned that he cannot make n water proof cistern with the axe and jack ^ knife. There is my friend S., who has just begun in the world, but at the outset he im. bibed the idea that cultivating the soil wa< a drug, and that the mercantile business wasjust the thing for him. He sold hit farm, went in paitnership with a friend at inexperienced as himself, and the conse ii. hi* draw was made witl (JUCIICC una w*. the axe and jack knile, and his money al clipped through. And here is his neigljbor D-, whoisii trouble up to his knees. Spring ha. coineon. He let out his teams during the winter to be worked for their keeping ?i r.t i\.,. L, and thev ore now wnwj u.uu iu. ? ? in arrears. Advertisement* not exceeding 16 lines inserted f>r one dollar the first time, and fifty cent6 each mbseqiioat time. For insertions at intervals of two weeks 75 cents after the first, and a dollar if tho intervals are longer. Payment due in advance for advertisements. When tho number of insertions is not marked on the copy, the advertisement will be inserted, and charged till ordered out. 0*The postage must be paid on letters to the editor on the business of the office. making joints with the axe and J ackknife. 44 Quid Nunc, what are you trying to I construct with your axe and jack knife V* J said I to my diligent and economical neighbor, who was so busy with his work that he could scarcely glance his eye to ee who had called on him. *41 was trying to construct a reservoir, to catch some rain water," was his reply. The joints of mv cistern were not made tight, and the earth has washed in and filled it." O economy, thought I, what a jewel thou art! Here wchave it, Messrs. Editors, exactly the modus operandi of three-fourths of our farmers ; and among thein too, some who are constantly harping on calculation and economy. How striking the contrast between such farmers, and the man >ho spends his time,an 1 exhausts his patience, in constructing a vat to hold water with a jack knife and axe. The honest farmer, who is the spine, the bone and the muscle of the land, lives beneath bis rights and his dignity. He suffers himself to be led about by the oppressive hand of the speculator, or the cash of the selfish nabob, as the patient ox is led to and from the stall, forgetting 1 his superior potency, and unmindful that he has horns that may hook, or 4* heels that may kick" his first agressor. The truth of the business is, too many of our farmers 44 blunder along" through the world, with little or no order, had management, had c.tlculut o is. Too many * 1 f A PAiitino of k ?l ci spend meir nine hi uic um iwuhm*. v. uuoi. ness, without regard to mprovement or system ; are a!w?iys doing and never done ; and never know into which vessel to pour a fluid, for the joints of all are made with the nxe and jack knife. There is mv industrious neighbor A., than whom a more systematic and economical man never lived, (as he thinks.) and one who has always attached the ?-?importance to economy, in door and out. His father gave hnn a noble farm, which puffed liiui up with selt-uro I ? portance; he married the belle of the city, lor she could drum neatly on the piano, j or chant melodiously in unison with the : guitar : but the organs of hearing were sadly pained at the vibratory tones of the j frying pan, or the harsh notes of the dish kettle?it was too condescending to watt on the dinner table?she must narade in the parlor or lounge on the sofa?or ride i in the chaise with her consort, and wi h the velocity of Jehu da-h about town to ! make her fashionable. The upshot of the matter has been, A's farm has been taken away by the merchant, ten acres at a time?his costly furniture, his china, and ' ilvor plate, were sold at sheriffs sale? his costly cottage was taken from him. and he learned, as many others do, when too late, that tight joints cannot be made with the axe and jack knife. Here comes Mr. G. What has he on board? Ah! he is going to the tannery w ith hides. He is a practitioner of the skinning system. He laughs at book farming ; scowls at agricultural journals ; and wonders how farmers can content themselves with fifty or a hundred acres of land, and he obliged to keep so little .oonli i?n? in his case, as it an I must be lifted up whenever they lie: j down. He, like too many others, loved to he independent in regard to threshing his grain. So he purchased a two horse machine, with which he could thrash when he chose, and with his own hands. The issue was, he could not thrash as j ! HlltJ tutiini i Mm ?(iv t .? . . _ J o o o : each. Only two of the fourteen hens i showed the least disposition to set during I the year. The food they consumed during one year, consisted, first of twelve bushels of damaged which I purchased at : twenty-five cents per bushel, and afterj wards twelve bushels of oats, also at 1 twenty-five cents per bushel, amounting 1 to six dollars. This, with a supply of ! fresh water every day, kept them in good ! condition, and caused them to produce i large eggs ; for all fowls lay larger and J heavier eggs when well fed, than when they are poor. My fowls have also laid the whole of this last winter. I have nev. er succeeded so well with any other breed. Buffbn says, a common hen, well fed ottondpd. will Droduce upwards of (IIIU u % v -1850 eggs in a year, besides two broods of chickens. But the common hens 1 for merly kept, always fell much short of this , I number. Were I to describe as the result of ray 5 experience, what 1 think the best food for ,! fowls, I should say a plenty of grain, not 3 ! much matter what kind, either boiled or 3 soaked in water, and in winter mixed with . ! boiled potatoes, fed warm, twice a day. ) | It is also of great importance that they ] have a warm sunny place to stay in d iruintAr. for if left without care to find ) lllg n ] their roost here and there in an open s barn or shed, they will produce no eggs, r If they could, in winter, he roosted in p t j tight room ten feet square, where by theii ? contiguity they could mutually imparl much with his machine, as the hand required to tend it, could with flails ; and further, it was always out of order, and a complete kill-horse. One word as to threshing machines?don't trust these " pepper mills." Five and six horse machines are the only ones that should go into a barn. Threshing with these little half-built, dangerous machines, is like making a water tight vessel with the axe and jack knife. Mr. F. is a pretending, but in his own estimation, an able jurist. His daily walk is to the store, where he keeps gentlemen's company. He rants exceedingly ; pronounces freely on the expediency of such and such topics of legislation ; talks of Shakspeare ; peruses Gibbon's Rome ; makes now and then a journey to the county seat, and struts along the path with all the pomposity and ostentation of a blue hen with a speckled chicken. Meanwhile his fields are overrun with weeds ; his fences scattered to the four winds of heaven ; his cattle are the rulers of his domain ; sheep, swine, and geese, feed from the same trough, and occupy the same cote; and those that get the most are best fellows. Here is rigid economy practiced on an extensive scale ; for the trough being made wi.h the axe and knife, what falls through, the hogs and geese will pick up. In the next yard, horses, cows, and calves, feed from the same rack ; the weak ones are driven about by the strong ; the fat grow fatter, and the poor poorer ; and before spring, he like Mr. G., has a lot of hides for the tanner. When shall ice all learn that light joints cannot he made irith the axe and jack knife. One word in closing. Let us then ex ert our mnuence ; use our uimusi caci tions, to hasten the day when the farmer shall take the station which the great Jehovah designed for his occupancy : when < penury and want shall be driven from the land, and vessels and implements be | introduced, mode by the real artizan% for I those that owe their origin to the axe and i jack knife. Economist. MANAGEMENT OF POULTRY. ( Messrs. Gaylord & Tucker?I have heen requested to give you and your readers, some account of my success in the management of domestic fowls. My experiments, having been continued for many years, have wrought in me the full conviction, that there is as great a difference and ns much ground of preference among the breeds or varieties, ns there is among cattle. Having tried a great number of different kinds, I have adopted as my favorite, the Poland breed, or the black topknots, as they are familiarly called. These, when pure or thorough, hied, are of a glossy coal black, with n large tuft of long white feathers on the ? top of the head, and are the most beautiful domestic fowl probably, that can be found in this country. Their excellence consists mainly in their disclination to set till they are three or four years old, and when well fed, continuing to lay eggs the whole year, except during moulting time. This generally commences in the month of October or November, and occupies about six weeks, during which they never lav eggs. Last year I kept of the black top-knots, two cocks and fourteen hens. Early in December, 1840, they began to lay and continued laying, with occasion:)! intervals of from three to six days, all winter and summer, till about the middle of OcI tuber, 1841, The whole number of eggs : produced, 1 did not ascertain ; but of the i eggs of three hens, that laid by them! selves the year round, I kept an account, I 1 ikai th*?v nvernjred 260 eggs warmth, their improvement would be I manifest to the most incredulous. The only disease of consequence that i I have observed among' my fowls, has) been the pip, which is a kind of horny scale growing on the tip of the tongue, and by which they are liable to be attacked late in autumn and early in the winter. Wben attacked with this, they appear stupid, stand by themselves with no inclination to move about, refuse ill food, and if not attended to in two or three days they die. On discovering these symp to shut up my fowls during most ot trie i summer, where they could neither get insects nor any kind of animal food, and yet they continued to lay as much as any 1 have ever known that run at largo. The banishment of cocks too, which he recommends, I have tried, and abandoned it as unnatural and worse than useless; for with a good attendance ot the male, say one to six in summer and one to four or five in winter, I have always found the hens to be the most profitable. H. A. P. Buffalo, March, 1842. butter?pound cake. Messrs. Gaylord& Tucker?Butter is soextensively made in the state of New. York, that it may be considered one of its staples. It is a surprising fact that this most important article of northern production is made poor from negligence in attend* ing to the common and obvious qualities of the milk. The pure milk itself pos. sesses all the qualities requisite for making good butter, and if properly manu* factured, there would be no variation in the quality of the butter, except that aris. ing from the different qualities of cows or their pasturage. Mark the above expression?made poor. This is the ereat difficulty. The milk D * I in all its stages of progress to butter is subject to the influence of foreign matter, and thence becomes tainted at its commencement, verifying the old adage,14 as the twig is bent," &c , thus it is easy to see that impure milk must inevitably make impure butter. A cellar of about ten feet is most fitting for a milk room ; be careful to have no sink or hen roost near the room, nor any plants of strong odor, such as eatnip, onions, tomatoes, growing near the windows, to taint the air of the room, which ought to be kept at a temperature of from > 50 to 66 degrees, and to accomplish this desirable object a thermometer is recommended. Flat stone or clay make the most suitaI hie bottom for a milk cellar. \ i Let there be a total abstinence from , water in the making of butter, as it washes t away much of its volatile sweetness, r which gives it the rich peculiar flavor; t this is fairly illustrated bv the fact, thai tome, tney snouia Deimmeuiaieiy caugut, and with a knife or the thumb nail, this scale may bo caught on the lower side of the tongue and peeled off, when they will immediately recover. Keeping Eggs.?Having tried many ways of preserving eggs, I have found the following to be the easiest, cheapest, surest and best. Take your crock, keg or barrel, according to the quantity you have, cover the bottom with half an inch of fine salt, and set your eggs in it close together on the small end; be very particular to put the small end down, for if put in any other position they will not keep as well and the yolk will adhere to the shell; sprinkle them over with salt so as to fill the interstices, and then put in another layer of eggs and cover with salt, and so on till your vessel is filled. Cover it over tight and put it where it will not freeze, and the eggs will keep perfectly fresh and good any desirable length of lime. My family have kept them in this manner three years, and found them all as good as when laid down. I believe we I. have never had a bad egg since we com. i menced preserving them in this manner, i The trouble is comparatively nothing, for when we have a dozen or so more than i we wish to use, we put them in the cask and sprinkle them over with salt; and when at any future time we wish to take them out, they are accessible and the < salt is uninjured. But mark ! the eggs should be put down before they become stale, say within a week or ten days after iliot; nrp. Inid. i IIIVJ ? Every man by this process may have eggs as plenty in winter as in summer; and farmers who make a business of sell* ing their eggs, may easily calculate the profits of preserving them in summer and selling them in winter. Eggs where I live, sell frequently in summer at eight cents, and in winter a9 high as thirty.sev- ' en and a half cents per dozen. I view of these various considerations, it must he evident that no investment that a fanner can make, will yield so great a profit as a few dollars in domestic fowls. They will coat, probably in no case, more than fifty cents each per year for their food ; the trouble of taking care of them is fully counterbalanced by the pleasure they give; and they will,or may be made to, produce each on an average from 200 to 250 eggs, besides an occasional brood of clrckens. The theory of your correspondent B , in your March No., respecting animal food being necessary to the production of eggs, does not correspond with iny observation of facts. I have for years been obliged icd placed on a plate of good butter renders it flat and tasteless. Cream will rise sufficient in thirty-six hours; it must be sweet when taken off and sweet when churned. The butter in coming from the churn must be well worked with a wooden ladle; after a short time strew on the salt and continue working until the buttermilk disappears ; Ik. 4 |L. L ..I i . I _1 * -_ men pm ino ouuer in a cooi piace ior twenty hours ; at the end of this time the salt being dissolved, the ladle may be again used to advance. If the same care and patience were bestowed in working the milk from the butter, that is usually bestowed in mixing pound cake, there would be but few complaints of poor but. ter. The ingredients of the pound cake in general, must be admirably proportion* ed, but how deplorable do we often find the proportion of salt and butter! An ounce and a half of the former is gener. ally applied to a pound of the latter, and from the manner in which butter is usual* ly worked, the article would be intolera* bly rancid with a less quantity of salt; but if thoroughly worked, three quarters of an ounce of washed Jand well pulveriz* ed rock or Turk's island salt is sufficient to preserve a pound of butter two years. Butter firkins should be of heart ash or white oak, to be soaked twenty hours be* fore using. In putting down the butter, use no salt between the layers. In pack* ing, great care is required to exclude the external air, exposure to which is highly injurious; firkins, therefore, are prefera* ble to open tubs or pots, as they can be 1.. La.J.J T.il,u u>ifh ticrhf slin secureij iicautu. i uu<i ...... ?r on covers, to hold 12 to 15 lbs. of butter, are much in use, and are neat and con. venient for a small quantity of butter for immediate. Butter cloths are sometimes necessary, and these cloths should be used for butter only. Butter is frequently conveyed to mark* et and to exhibition for premium, in very improper vessels and unsightly cloths, which prevent a quick sale and good price, and frequently the loss of a premium when otherwise entitled to reward. Magnolia. New Machine ? The Genesee Farmer has a cut of a machine for sowing all kinds of grain by horse power, A horse is harnessed in a plain vehicle with two common wheels, on the axlo of which a chair is fixed, in which sits a man with whip in hand ; and the movement appears to be a fast walk, or a slow trot. One or two bushels of grain are placed in a i?. box on me snaus, mmwav un WCUII IIIC I man and the horse ; and machinery, by the motion of the wheels, scatters the seed, as from the hopper of a corn mill. The machine costs 840, and 25 acres per day, may be sowed with it. Discoveries in Agriculture.?A Paris paper, called the Phalange, states that no manure is found to be so beneficial to a plant, as its oven decaying leaves and branches. Thus the straw of wheat, scattered over a field, in which the wheat is to he sown, makes the best manure | that can be procured. Vine dressers in | France, who have mingled the leaves and twigs of the vine with the earth about the 1 roots, have thus produced the most hardy and prolific grape vines known. Mr. Krebs, of Secheim, thus writes, in j a German periodical: I 44 My vineyard has been manured in this way for eight years, without receiving any other kind of manure ; and yet more beautiful and richly laden vines could scarcely he pointed out. 1 formerly fol'owod the method usually practised in this district, and was obliged, in consequence, to purchase manure to a large amount. This is now entirely saved, and my land is in excellent condition. *' When I see the fatiguing labor used in manuring vineyards, I feel inclined to say to all, come to my v ineyard, and see how a bountiful Creator has provided that vines should manure themselves, like trees in a forest; and even better than they !" The foliage falls from trees in a forest, only when it is withered ; and it lies for years before it decays; but the branches are pruned from the vine, whilst still fresh and moist. If they are then cut into small pieces, and mixed with the earth, they undergo putrefaction so completely that, as I have lenrned by experience, at the end of four weeks not the smallest trace of them can be found." Wilhelm Ruf, of Schriesheim, writes : 14 For the last ten years I have been unable to place dung on my vineyard, because I am poor, and can buy none. But I was very unwilling to allow my vines to decay, as they are my only source ol support in my old age; and I often walked very anxiously amongst them, without knowing what I should do. At Inst my necessities became greater, which made me more attentive ; so that I remarkec that the grass was longer in some spots, where the branches of the vine tell, thar on those where there were none; so J thought upon the matter, and then said t< myself? ' If these branches can make thi grass strong and green, they must als< beabletomake my plants grow better and become strong and green." I dug therefore, my vineyard as deep as if would put dung into it, and cut thi branches into pieces, placing them in th< i holes, and covering them with earth. It , a year I had the very great satisfactior ; to see my barren vineyard become quiti t beautiful. This plan I continued ever year; nnd now my vines grow splendidly, and remain the whole summer green, even in the greatest heat. " All my neighbors Monger very much how my vineyard is so rich, and that I obtain so many grapes from it; and yet they all know that I have put no dung upon it for ten years." ADDRESS To the People of South Caroli na. i Fci.i/iw f!tTT7FV9 r?Thft Stat a TpmnAranA-A Society, assembled in Convention at Greenville, would most respectfully, and, at the same time, affectionately, address themselves to your under- 1 standing and your hearts, in hope of removing prejudices against, and enlisting your naturally generous impulses in favor of, the great Temperance Reform. i The proceedings of this meeting will inform | you that our sole object is to persuade people to | be sober. We have no political views whatever: power and place arc wholly foreign from our object : toe labor " without money and without price" for the good of our fellow men. This end we hope to attain without any other aids than such as we can claim from knowledge and love. We seek first to inform the people of the true principles of Temperance, and then to claim their co-operation on the principle of love to their kind, which in ev. try uncorrupted, sober man, prompts him to do all the good he can. To carry out this expectation, we are anxious that people should 44 search the different Temperance publications daily," *hat they should attend our meetings, and hear the different addresses. To our bitterest enemies, wc would, in the language of the great Athenian, say, 44 ntrilro hut hpar " If. nftor SAarehinor our Dublic. ationa and hearing our addresses, there be any thing wrong found in*them, then we are willing to abide the just condemnation: but if, on such examination, there be nothing found which is wrong, then fellow-citizens, suffer us to stand before you in the character of Philanthropists seeking to do you all the good we can! The Temperance Associations in South Carolina now number in males and females, nearly I 12,000 members ; this great body of the followers | of Temperance is taken from all classes of society; i the rich and the poor, the wise and the simple, i the high and the low, the preacher, the lawyer, i the doctor, the farmer, the merchant and mechanic ( are here all united together, as one family, among j whom there arc no distinctions. What beautiful, practical simplicity is thus presented ? Here too there is no sectarianism! In the temple of Temperance, all the worshippers take each other by the hand as brothers.?Is it not beautifully illustrative of that time when 44 the lion shall lie down with the lamb, and the leopard with the kid ?" But we present you a still greater claim to confidence when we say, among us you will find hun dreds of reformed drunkards, who were once like the man who came out of the tombs 44 exceeding. 1 ly fierce, so that no man could tame him," but 1 they are now like him, after the Saviour had cast 1 out of him44 the legion," 44 clothed and in their ( right minds." ' How have these results been accomplished ?? By persuaeion merely! We have not been 1 helped by either law or force.?Such a thing as compelling men, bylaw, to be sober never entered 1 into the head of any Temperance man. True, ->a nilliona on/1 IllOJijr U1 UUI II1CIUUC1S, US WUtuia IUIU have thought, and still will think, that the whole license system should be destroyed, and that pub. lie tippling should be ended. But, as a body, the State Temperance Society now disclaims all de. pendance upon legislation in any shape, form, or manner.?The laws as they are, or as the good of the people of the State may will them to be, are \ sufficient for us. J We have no reformer among us, who, if he had the power, would, like Mahomet, convince people by the sword. We have all been reared in that noble schoool of liberty, our free country, where freedom of opinion, political and religious, is as unrestrained as the air we breathe. Thus reared, it would be strange indeed, that we should attempt to force men to think as we do!?If, however, we would, we cannot do so. For no enactment of that kind, in Carolina, would be worth the piper on which it would be written. The Constitution would at once abrogate it. So, fellow-citizens, your liberty can be in no danger from Temperance. Instead of it, she is both the parent and nurse of freedom. Where people arc sober there will be found liberty : where they are drunken, there will be seen the demon slavery, stealing upon his revelling victims, until like the armed Cyrus, bursting into the chamber of Belteshazzer, he says and compels them to serve or die. When your noble forefathers prepared for * - ?/ At that deadly contest, wnica was 10 win iur umu i constitution and liberty, or to consign them to bloody graves, and their country to desolation, they did it so by Fasting and Prayer ! An arm. ed nation, the Scots at Bannockburn, were seen prostrated before the Lord of Hosts: and like them arose to victory, because God helped them. This was the fruit of sobriety : and their whole contest of privation, suffering, daring and victory, I was marked by the same calm spirit. They never dreamed that they were fighting the battles of liberty to make you the slaves of drunkenness: they ' fought for the noble privilege of governing themselves. Can that be preserved in any other way 1 but in the temperance of the People ? The ques. ' tion is asked, and we think the answer so plain, ' that every man woman and child can answer it ! for themselves! * These brief observations will we think * remove your prejudices; we ask you now ... o ?n to " come and go witn us. iu|ici ouauu 9 you to do so, we would say, do you wish to serve your country ? If you say yes, I we ask you again, is sobriety or imlul9 gencc in intoxicating drinks that which B will best qualify you for her service ?? j We know that you have too often scorned i the drunken public officer, to believe that 3 you will dare to clothe yourself with in. f toxication when you seek her service. Do you wish to be the useful citizen, " providing for your own household," and doing good towards your fellow men ? Be sober?drink not at all of the intoxicating cup, and you will be blessed ! Do you wish to l>e healthy ? Swallow not poison, for alcohol, the intoxicating quality of all spiritous and malt liquors and wine, is poison?the most deadly poison known to medicine. Do you wish for length of days? The intemperate man is cut short before he has half run his course! The sober man, the man tcho drink* no intoti eating drink, doubles his chances for long life. Do you wish for wealth? Is it to be found in the profusion and waste of the man who drinks intempcrately ? No! is the answer on every lip. Let the tem. perate drinker, however, calmly examine his own account. Let him ascertain the annual cost of the wine, beer, ale, cider and spiritous liquors which he drinks or gives to his friends ; the amount even to the most economical will be startling? to this let him add the time lost in drinking, the annual bills for medicino and medical attendance, which he incurs by diseases caused directly or indirectly by temperate drinking, and he will find it a sum worth saving. In the language of Dr. Franklin, 11 a penny saved will be 11 penny earned," if he becomes one of us ? who touch not, taste not!" Do you desire to Ire happy ? It is well known that intoxicating drink is, in no shape, an ingredient in the cup of human happiness?it belongs to wretchedness, to poverty and to crime. Hut water, clear, pure, cold water is God's own beverage bestowed upon man, for his benefit and blessing, and is typical of that <* water of which if any man drink he shall never thirst again !" It is to this element wo invite you to return, to drink and be hap. py ; not only men, but women and chil. dren. In this way it is, we expect that the sigh of the heart-broken wife, and the waitings of the worse than orphan chil* dren of the drunkard, will cease in the land. Do you wish crime to cease? Every man answers enthusiastically, yes! We reply, destroy the parent! Give up in. toxicaiing drinks, and crime will cease. Men will cease to quarrel, to fight, and to slay, when the spirit of discord?in. toxicating drink is withdrawn from among them ! Do you wish drunkenness to ccasc in the land ? Yes, oh yes, is the answer of mothers clasping their ragged children to their bosom : of children, who are crouching down around their heart-stricken mother to avoid the demoniac glance of their drunken parent; of men who love God and eschew evil! To them, to you, to all men every where, we say, in total abstinence from all wliich can intoxicate, is found that charm which saves the drunkard in his worst condition. To prove this, in the language of our fathers we say, 44 let facts 6peak!" Enter into the homes of the thousands of the Reformed Drunkards in these United States, and they will tell you, that in cold water, they have sunk and overcome their deadliest foe. Their wives and children are no longer in rags and poverty: they are no longer in wretchedness and woe: they arc now clothed and surrounded with abundance; their faces are radiant with joy and gladness. Who will, who can retard this good work ? Who can be so unfeeling as not to unite in this excellent attempt to save noble and erring men? Fathers, husbands, brothers, sons, can you resist the drunkard's appeal when to you he stretches out his arms as he sinks in the flood of intoxicating drink and cries, 44 save me or I perish ?"?Mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, can you look on with indifference at the effort which is making to save all who are dear to you, and with their safety to secure your own ? We cannot, wc will not believe it! We look forward with confidence to the co-operation of men, women and children, in this great and glorious work, which will make South Carolina one and undivided from the seaboard to the mountains; which will make her banner of freedom the banner of Temperance, and under its ample folds place all her people in innocence and security. John Helton O'Neall, Fretfdt. of the State Tem. Society in Convention assembled. A Hair Brbadth Escape.?The steamship Britannia, on her last trip to " *1 vf n I an<?Al,ntorMl BOSIOII, 9 flit? kJilwy unwumviv?? a dense fog off the Banks of Newfound' land, and a close watch was kept as usual at the bow. While the passengers were at the lunch, a loud shrill cry was heard from the watch of M helm hard down !" They rushed on deck, and directly ahead a small fishing schooner, the skipper and crew of which were standing with their arms elevated, the very picture of fright and despair. The helm was placed hard down, and the ship obeyed it in a twinkling ; but so close was she to the schooner that in describing the curve to avoid it, the stern of tho ship came within three feet of the little craft. Had the man at . . J u: r_ tne IOOKOUI lurnuu Ills cjcnu 11191am IIUIU the watch, or had the noble steam/ship been less ready to obey her helm, the schooner must have been struck amidships, and gone down without a soul to tell her fate. The tears streamed from the eye* of the skipper, and a loud exclamation of "God btessyou !" escaped from his lips, as the steamship floated on, and he found himselfsafe. There were not many dry eyes on hoard the Britannia, the humano captain of which, it may well be imagined, made no concenlment of his joy at the deliverance of the fishermen,