. A!J RIO OT cu) VOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS DEMOCRACY, NEWS' LITERATU AGRICUI y korietor. o -at teSatfie Rsit. SUMTERVILLE, S. O., AUGUST 23, 1853. NoCo UMTER BANNER IS PUBLISilED MONUESDAY OING W. 3. FRANCIS. EDRMS91 .AS in adIvance, Two Dollars rcenw at the expiration of six months, dt the end of the year. " oisn hued until all arrenrages u i-atthe option of the l'roprictor. 4dyd ~ents inserted at SIViENTrY r are, (12 lines or less,) for al t sum for eatch subseiluemt iemnumir of insertions to be marked i I r i niqents or they will be plablishted to' bodiscontinued, and charged 7f . E OLAR per squtare for a singlo Quarterly, and Monthly Adivertise no chre the 8ame as a Singllm , nl tnonly the same as new onse LL A E0NE OUS, h -tre~adie? a Practical Treatise on Bu. - incan,. ix BMr I'sR tRles for Satc Slajed-the further pro. 3110-as book some three weeks, ta Ie opiion of on1o who is - 11 ldover the world as the "Istetician, and one of the most btcceissf business men of the an happy to say it waiting for. Iad I re. earlier I would have .ped to aflix it to the en phich I passed upon Mc __ as the most valuable opin re-record." It is certainly hin itself. I am sure my 'ditors, will, after a Ibe 1b antig a slice of it for ee their-readera, and they at 'dome to it; but, gen ! oi ,I pray you, forget to source from which you 6, P;;q,.o tell your readers that 46.ttN aru xWreb of-the same g dre. In the fel 0y e ta Mr. Barnum has giv .1 fifeadne thofity to make alterations, ' ,1 3r:& 1 - h - h a v e n o t m a d e , b e c a u se i Oned of any, nid for fear of Spo'lw it It is possible that his re marka ofi tdvertising should be s1fidh tualified, to be good ad vieb,-to all meh--for a man should firs 6e certain that his articles are reall o n them:elves, and would he'-populhr ifgenerally known; and, ~secondIybe should be bcrtain of his ffa'-stehgth that is, he should be MaBirnum" before he attempts to '-rivalafleat-num. EPo6tr, June 28, 1852. dW T. 'redly Esq. : St,-d Upon receiving your Ikle raphje despatch on Saturday, " y9. -are'aiting at an expense for my letter I telegraphed you that you bould ieceive it on Wednesday, bdtt o reflection I determined to uy:dno longer waiting, so sa right down and wrote the 306'A. I fear that it is not what * ~&ynt-but such as it is, I send it. '.ory likely the gramimar may need .corroeting, and I also give you ~h~fu~hbpty to curtail and leave out ~p.you please, and make any ~U ats and additions that you ~plasd~provded you do not alter the ~~~rafenin g and spirit of the ar a hpe you will be successful in publication, adI shall be toprchase a copy of the . z vrkwn it is completed. ~''~>~'~: <.I'ruly yours, P. T. BARNUM. c.apsgarcely expect to ofl'er arny 4 ne v-on the subject proposed, ~ lil n~me a few rules that I from experience and * must be. observed in * .. o49r~.nsuire success in business. Sheleite the, kind of business h/ t asitydur nlatumral inclinations Saleidisn.Sm mecn are '~'tti ay mehanics; others have tongversionj to anything like ~ ~~a~ irerygand so .en; one man has 1Vrpttral taste for one occnpation r}~iffandl another' for another. "I adw do rnot .all. think and elrI tike-" said 4Dick Homespun, if~e*did, ovet-ybotdy wouldl 7VI tk ni-y ~n~Sukey Snipes,' the e on~tt cr'ogttro in all creation, and 2 hej wold ibe'h tryinr to court C V~h r cu succed as a mer e wqtid it uns uccesful ~Wrl tm~. Itree\i- could be ytoi imin 3 6sido while others arc just the reverse, and therefore ill should be careful to select those occupations that suit them best. 2d. Let your pledged word ev er be sacred.-Never promise to do a thing without performing it with the most rigid promptness. Noth ing is more valuable to a man in bu siness than the name of always doing as he agrees, and that to the moment. A strict adherence to this rule gives a man the command of half the spare funds within the range of his acquaintance, and always encircles him with a host of friends, who may be depended upon in almost any conceivable etner geney. 3d. Whatever you Jo do, with Cl your might.-Work at it, if neces sary, early and late, in season out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never defleri-g for a single hour that which can just as well be done vow. The old proverb is full of truth and meaning, "What is worth doing at all, is worth doing well." Many a man actiires a fortune by doing his business thorouyhly, while his neighbor remains poor for life, be cause he only half does his business. Ambition, energy, industry, and per severance, are indispensably requis ite for success in business. 4th. iSbriety. Use no descrip tion of intoxicating (rink.-As no man can succeed in business unless, he has a brain to enable him to lay his plans, and reason to guide him in their execution, so, no matter how bountifully a man may be bles sed'with intelligence, if his brain is muddled, and his judgment warped by intoxicating drinks, it is impos sible for him to carry. on business successfully. How. many good op. portunities have passed, never to re. turn, while a man was-sipping a "so ial sd 'isiJend!, un er te iitlu ra imeir temporarily Aiakes its victim ric/r! How many important chances have been put off until to-morrow, ant thence forever, becauso the wine cup has thrown the system into a state of lassitude, neuti-aliting the energies so essential to success in bu siness. The use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage is as much an infatuation as is the smoking of opium by thu Chinese, and tile for-. mer is as quite as destructive to the success of the business man as the latter. 5t Let lhoje )redolminate but be n1ot too visio nary.- Many persons are always kept poor because they are too cisiunary. Every project looks to them like certain success, and therefore they keep changing form one business to anolther, alVays in hot water, and alvays "under the harrow." The plan of "counting the chickens before they are hatch ed," is an error of ancielnt date, but it does not seen to improve by age. 6th. A) not scatter youtr pw ers.-Engage in one kind of business only, and stick to it faithfull y until you succeed, or until you conclude to abandon it.- A constant ham mering onl one nail will gener-al hy drive it home at last, so that it can't be clinchcd.-When a man's undlividcd attention is center-ed on one object his mind will continually be suggesting impr-ove ments of v-aI ne, which would escape him if his brain were occupied by a doz en different subjects at on1ce. Manyv a fortune hlas slipped thriough~ men's tinlger-s by en gaginlg in too mfanly occupations at once. T th. E'ngage p rn eanployer Is. -Nver- employ a man of bad hab its, wheni one whose habits are good can be found to lill his situation. I have gener-ally beenl extremely fo tunate in having fatithful and coim petent persons to fill the responsible situations in business, and a man canl scarcely be too grateful for such a blessing. Whlen you find a man unfit to fill his station, eithler froem capacity or pleculiar-ity of chlaracter or* disposition, dispense withl his ser viCes, andl do not dr-ag out a mis er-able existence in the vain attempt to chlange his nature. "Youi can not make a silkc pur1s," &c. lie has been created for somne sphere; let hlim find and fill it. 8th. Advertise your business. .Do not hide your light -under a bushel. -- Whatever your occupation or cal ling may be-, if it needs support frorn the pu~blicy adcriisd it thoroughly and cilici lyi~ omc'shape gr oth or, that will arrest public attention. I freely confess that what success I have had in life may fairly be at tributed to the public than to nearly all other causes combined. There may possibly be occupations that do not require advertising, but I can not well conceive what they 'are. Men in business will sometimes tell you that they have tried advertising, and that it did not pay. This is on ly when advertising is done sparingly and grudgingly. Homopathic dos. es of advertising will not pay, per haps-it is like half a portion of physic-making the patient sick, but effecting nothing. Administer liber ally, and the cure will be sure and permanent. Some say "they can not afford to advertise. In this country, where everybody reads the newspapers, the man must have a thick skull who does not see that these 4ae the cheapest and best me dium through which he can speak to the public, where he is to find his customers. Put on the appearance of business, and generally the reality will follow. The farmer plants his seed, and while he is sleeping his corn and potatoes are growing. So with advertising. While you are sleepiug or eating, or conversing with one set of customs, your advertise ment is being read by hundreds and thousands of persons who never saw you, or heard of your business, and never would, had it not been for your advertisement in the news. papers. The business men of this country do not, as a general thing, begn to appreciate the advantages of advertis3ing thoroughly. Occasional ly the public are aroused at wities sing the success of a Swaim, a Bran dreth, a -Towniend, n Glenin, or a Root, and express astonishment at the rapidity with which - these gen tlemen acquire fortunes, not reflect in hgsatt e 'pR th is open to nerveh anl . S/-2te rir en-. able you to launch out thousands on the uncertain waters of the future; the latter to teach you that after, ma ny days, it shall return. bringing an hundred or thousand fold to him who appreciates the advantages of prin ters' ink properly applied. 9th. Avoid extravayance; and al ways live within your ineome, -if you can do so without alsolute star valion.'--It needs no prophet to tell us that those who live fully up to their means, without any thought of reverse in life, can never attain a pe. cuniary independence, A brief refer ence to my history may, perhaps, serve to illustrate this part of the subject. By the death of my fath er in 1826, I was thrown upon the world at the age of sixteen de pendant solely upon my OWn1 IT sources for support. I never fcund any difliculty in making money, but the thought did not occur to me (during the fifteen years of trying to save. At one time, when lotteries were lawful in my native State [Connecticut] I w~as extensively engaged in the sale of tickets anld my priofits were enormous, sometimes as high as five hundred dollars per day-but I thought very little about tr-ying to lay up mnoney'; I could always very easily manage to expiend my income, let it be ev er so gret. In 1841l, I purchased the Am er-ic-aln Museum in New York, with out a dollar, for I was not worth a dollar- in the world. But I was nev erv dishcar-tened I always felt that I could make mnoney fast enough, if I only set my mind to it. I r-emember mneetinig a friend ini 11road way a few wveeks hefor-e I camne in nossession of thle Miuseum. 'W\ell, says I, 'Mr. A., I am goinig to buiy teA ric-an Museum.' 'Buy it!' says lhe for lhe knew I had no0 property. What do y~ou intend huyinug it wi th9' 'Bi-ass for silver and geld I have nione.' It was ever- so. Any body who had any connection with theatr-ic-al, circus or exhibitions business from Edmund Simpson, manager of tlie Old Parmk Theatr-e, or W\m. Niblo, down to theo most humble puppet woman of the day, knew me per fectly wvell. Mr. Frances Ohnsted, thle owner of the Museum building 'now deceased,' noble, wholesouledl maln as one often meets with, hav ing consulted my refferences, wh-Io all concurred in telling him that I was a good showman, and would do as I agreed,' accoptod my proposition to pivo sedurity for me in the pur chase of t'o Museun collection, lie a)pointing a money-taker at the door, and crediting m6 towards the purchase all tho money received af ter paying expenses allowing me fifty dollars per month on which to support my family, consisting of a wife and three children. This was my own proposition as I was deter mined so to live, that, six hundred dollars per annum should defray all the expenses of my familyluntil I had paid for the Museum; and my treasure of a wife [and such a wifo is a 'treasure,'] gladly assented to the arrangement, and expressed'her wil lingness to cut the expenses down to $200 per annum if necessary. One, day, some six months after I had purchased the Muscun my friend Mr. Olinsted happened in- at my ticket office, at about 12 o'clock and found me alone eating my dinner, which consisted of a few slices of corned beef and bread that I had brought from home in tho morning. 'Is thi3 the way you cat your dinrincr?' he inquired. I have not eaten a warm din ncr since I bought the Museum, ex cept on the sabbath,' I replied; and I never intend to eat another on, a week day until I get out:.f debt.' 'All! you are safe, and "will pay for the Museum before thib vear is out,' he replied, slappijpg me fa niliarly on the shoulder; -ind lie was right for in less than year from that period I was in full possession of the Museum as my o.n proper ty, every cent paid out 6f the prof its of the establishimentXfad I been less economical, and les .etermined, my expenses woulddhave kept pace with my 'incom '-I- should have lost miuch valuabl tii - in going home every day ' I1iu uer; an1 niy prosani wo A Palhav ' 1~en w"'. Miei~ndn accutoe M gratify ey.ygyhiim and caprice, will find it hord'ai first to cut down their various unn'ecessary expenses, and ivill feel it a great self denial to live in a smaller house than they huve been accustomed to, with les3 expensive furnittire, less company, les- ' ostty clothing, a les number of ball5, parties, theatre-goings, car riage-iilings, pleasure excursions, cigar-smokings, liquor-drinkings, &c., but, after all, if they will try the plan of laying by a "nest-egg," or, in other words, a small sum of mo ncy. after paying all expenses, they will be surprised at the pleasure to be derived froim constantly adding to their little 'phe,' as well as from all the economical habits which ful low in the pursuit of this peculiar pleasure. The old suit of clothes, and the old bonnet and dress, will answer fur another season; the Croton or spring water will taste bepcr than champagne; a brisk walk will prove more exhilarating than a ride in the finest coach; a social faiily chat, an evening's reading ini the family eircle, or an hour's play of "Lhunt the slippeir,'" and '-blind man's buff,'' will be far more pleasant than a fifty or a five huind red dlollar par1ty, when the reflection on the di/Terene in4 the cost is ind~ulged ini, bjy those who beginr to know the pleau~res