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. 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 <f saring. 'Thousands of men arc kept poor, and tenis of thousands al-e mae o ftr they have acqiredC~ qulito,51 sfiicieint to suppor-t them well through life. in consequence of laying their plans of living on too expensive a plartforml. Somie fanm ilies in this Country expend $:'0,000 per- anmnn, arid sonic much more, and would sear-cely know how to live on a smnaller sumy. Prosperity is a more severe ordeal than adversity, especially sudden~ pr-osperity.-' 'Easy Colme, easy go,'" is an old arnd trure prov-erb. P~ride:, when per imitted full sway, is the gr-eat uni dying canker-worm which kniaws the ver-y vitals of a mali's woldly posses sions, let themn be small or great, hlundred3 or millions. Many persons, as they begin to prosper, ianniediate ly commfenice expending for luxur-ics, until iln a short timie their expen ses swallow up~ their income, and thecy bccomie ruilned ill their ridicu lous attcempts to keep up appear ances, and make a "sensation.'' I know a gentleman of fortune, who says that, when lie first began to prosper-, liisi lfp would luzwe a new and elegant a 'That sofa,' lie says, "cost meO thr toumand dol lars!" The riddle is thus explained: When the 'ofa reached the house, it was found necessary to got chairs "to match," then sideboards, carpets, and table, "to correspond" with thom, and so on through the entire stock of furniture, when at last it was found that the house itself was quite too small apd old-fashioned for the furniture, and a new one was built "to correspond" with the sofas and ct ceteras; "thus," added my friend, "running up an outlay of $30,000 caused by that single sofa, and saddling on me, in the shape of servants, equipage, and the neces sary expenses attendant on keep ing up a fine "establishment," a yearly outlay of eleven thousand dol lars, and a tight pinch at' that; whereas ten years ago, we lived with much more real comfort, because With much less care, on as many hundreds. The truth is," he con tinued, "that sofa would have brought me to inevitable bankruptcy, had not a most unexampled tide of prosperity kept me above it." 10th. Do not depend upon others. --Your success must depend upon your own individual exertions. Trust not to the assistanco of friends, but learn that every man must be the architect of his own fortune; and with proper attention to the foregoing rules, and such observations as a man of sense will pick up in his own experience, the road to competence will not, I think, usually be found a difficult one. P. T. BARNUM. Bridgeport, Conn., June 28,1852. CIIPRN.--The part that chil dren play in the economy of families is animportant one. But important functions often devolve upon crea Vot I OMSIV That e n .,M To but the .hild . a thing -of hope and anticipation; we know not what it may become. The arch laugh inig glance of.those eyes, which flash upon us when the bushy nut brown hair is thrown back by a toss of the head--what a lovely crea ture that ray become, to make some honest man's heart ache. That boy. with flaxen hair, slightly tinged wiih the golden, whilo his clear, reso lute eye looks fearlessly at every thing it encounters--what may be not. accoupplish in after life! To us there is nore of terror in the passions of children, than of grown nen. They are so disproportioned to their causes, that they rudely draw back the veil from our own hearts, reminding us "what shadows we are, and what shadons we pur-Sue," of all expressloris of pain, we can least endure the wail of an infant. The poor little innocent cannot explain its sntierings; and if it could, so lit tie lies in our power to, alleviate theixm. There is nothing fox- it but to hxave one's heart rent by its coim plainzings andpr-ay in one's helpless ness that its dark hour pass away. Several year-s a-go, in North Car olina, where it is not customar-y fox tavern-keepers to charge ministers anything for- lodging and xrefresh menit, a preachex- presumingly stop ped at a tavern one evening, made himself couifortablc dur-ing the night and in the morning entered the stago without ol'ering any pay for his aec coniuodations. The landlord soon caxme i-unning up) to the stage, and saidh 'therec was some onie who had not settled his bill.' The passen gets all said they had but the preach er-, wvho said that lie uniderstood that he never- charged Ministoi-s any thing. 'What! you a minister of the Gospel-a man of God? cried the innkeeper-, you caime to my house last night; you sat down to the table without a blessing; I lit you uip to youx room, and you went to bed without praying to your M~aker- (for I stood ther-o until you retir-ed) you arose and washed with out saying grace--and as you came to my house like a sinner, you have got to pay like a sinner!' "Colo(nel W.Vi a fine looking man, isn't he?"~ said ai ienid of ours, the oth er day. "Yes," recplied another; 'I was tauken for him ~once." "You ! why y ou're as ugly as. sii !" "I d'on't ca e for that; I wgr- Tken for hji 1u. ox dois~ed ilsb ntnd W4 ''A~t:fi Froin thoAMcrican Farmor. Fall Turnips. As from present appearances from various part$of the country, there is' every reason'-to fear that there will be short crops of the ordinary cat. tie feed a raised, we think it our duty to recommend to our readers the propriety of putting in a great er breadth of acres of land in fall tur nips, to make up for the shortcomibgs of hay, fodder, blades and tops the approaching winter. Turnips, though not considered very nutritive in tem selves make, when mixed with log pro vender of any- kind, a valuable ad dition to the food of cattle, and, in the event of a scarcity of the articles named above, would serve an -ad mirable purpose, as an adjunct in carrying them through the feed ing season. Turnips, from their, nature as well as from the short time they take to mature, require to be liberally fed, both with nutritive and organic manures.. It is, perhaps, unimpor tant of what the nutritive manure may consist, so that it be strongly con centrated, and rich in those elements which yield ammonia and nitrogen. Of the inorganic manures, there is no difficulty of determining of what they should consist, as the following analysis of the ashes of the roots and leaves of the turnip will clearly show: ANALYSIS OF THE TURNIP. Root8. Leaves. Potash, 23,86 32,3 Soda 10,48 22,2 Lime, 7,52 62,0 Magnesia, 2,54 05,9 Alumina, (clay) 0,35 00,3 Oxide of Iron, 0,32 01,7 Silica, (san.d), 3,88 12,8 Sulphuric Acid, 8,01 25,2 Phosphoric Acid, 3,67 8,8 ,:.Ohloring, . 2,39 8,7 itlierlookin g.the --ait substances on fe T 2 all of which, togethor wi hall e others, may be fdrnished byfull drkey sin.gs of ashes; but as ashes cannot always be had in sufficient quantities, in many locations, we would recom mend the following compost. The quauties named are intended for an acre of land, and to be applied as a top-dressing, and harrowed in, viz: 10 bushels of Ashes', 10 bushels of Lime, 2 bushels of Salt, and 1 bushels of Plaster. The whole to be well mixnd to gether befuro being applied., Of the preparation ofthe Land As the turnip has a long tap-root, it follows as a matter of course that the land should bo ploughedidoep in order that, in its descent in search of food, it may meet with no obstruc tions, and would be better of being ploughed twice; therefore, we would never plough the first time, less than 8 or 10 inches, and the second time,-4 inches-We believe that great benefit would result from sub soiling the ground also-and, as but a few number of acres of turnips are put ini by a single individual in our country, the operations of ploughing~ and subsoiling would not be onerous ly felt by any one; and as we feel very certain that the increase in the crop which would be produced thereby would more than pay for the expense, we most urgently re commend that experiments should be made to test the utility of the two modes of preparation. The ground after being ploughed, or ploughed anid subsoiled, should be harrowed and cross-harrowed, until the finest possible tilth shall have been obtained. After having been harrowed, it should be rolled be fore the seed be sown.'so as to pro duce an oven surface on which to cast the seed. Turnip Soil.-The soils best ad apted to turnip culture are deep rich sands, or light sandy or gravel ly leamns. .iainures-.-ind qmantitie.--No. 1. 20 d ilble horse cart loads of well ro ted barn-yard anid stable 'matore, either-, wiil janure an ace of tur so far as the nutritive mnanur concerned, one half of whiel eo ploughed in to the full d furn -, the otherhalf to1 tedl on the ground a mhd 4 . inches deep), as under the head ofa the lnd," 33'thn rnur~ dy blob tured and forced y shallow, while th'at.' would'sustain thetn in tbei of.their groivth, an'. enoiK turing.vigoroiisly No. .. As -.wostaiiol July humbbr, iour dust, dissolved in sulj'h4I ed with 2000 pounds of - els of salt, and 4- bushel well mi*ed togeth'er-bn er the Janid,-apa lario grow ah here bfturbildr No. 3. Ten besliels bushcls of salt 4nhd 1b-"hei f p if well mirned tbgethe'r, b d or the land and hirroed suflicient tb s'b e tei acre of turnipa. No. 4. Five d6Ob 0".. loads of stable manne cow dung, both to be Ve6lro'r do. of marsh or river rhud;2 els of salt, 5 bii'shels of ishef oughly mixed to''ether, nddd ted to remain in bulk a feda" grow an acre of turnips -to ed in. We Wish to imipr'ess th fact upon our readers:-rim what kind of niutritiie ni 4 used; the land should recei a ti. sing of ashes, lim'e, salt and pl the quantities before iidic'ate in preceding remarks, ha tha growth and pr4duct of t e depend upon being supplici .l4 inorganic food that will by furnished s Preparation of tSee seed 12 or 24 hours in fish oil i.kh drain off the oil, and dry- the". a mixture of 7 parts ashes, in flour of sulphiur; the ashes u sulphur to be thotou'ghl gether .befbr'e being miditfr seed. after being oile Method 'f eeding. ing been prepared as webe&re.' mended, the tarnip T-d. mixed with three or.foi buli of Ashes or dz' dsaq, -i soWn tind venyghth1 r .This' beifi, danb '6r thi,.groun$ a b *t her i eld ti6 are b6st for table U Quantity of Se sown with a- steady h''aii a judging bye, oib pomnd; 'fsey fu: nish plants enough for ani it is always safe'st to'p n contigencies, Wethik sowv 1 1-2 pounAd's for e'r.. f'ce e.i.;" nome up, sprinkle Mish oi OV early in the morniri leaves are wet eithidwyr decoction of gtassia, soot abof sulphur, and sprinklothat o A smart active boy with g piggin in one hand, ad n n other eoidld go over and an hou'r .tWo. provide ihe his iaste were U-poih( operatlion Must be -mpeat 46 each noring, the sioner tf light the better, until the A to the rough leaf, whn be beyo-6d the po'wer o the fly ind flea... PnRoohESS 0O? 'i'S j~ LANDS.- On the 18t f i corner-stone of the "i~' Marine Hospital" wa'i~l~ olu, -on Rincon Point~ J~' . the building is on iiC066nxilK 6 inence, facing the harbbriiQ a fino view of the city. It a brick ecdifree, 182 feet ~ 86 feet 'wide, in the Orecta architecture and 'with allth 4 improvements. The ositM' erection was at a cost of t:9 and- Congress appropriai 000 for the purpose. I a library association, two engine companie lacdcr company,a and an artillery organized, Tb First Hawaiia foreigners, fine y and