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I DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOI S KliWS. • MVfeS I. KOIW0OD, EDITOR.] VOL. Z To thine oicnsclf be true; And it must follotr as the nif’ht the day; Thou const not then bt false to any man.—Hami.kt. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., THURSDAY MORNING JANUARY 8. 1852. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, IS rCRLINHED ETE1T THURSDAY 10RRIR6, AT DARLINGTON, C. H., 8. C., BY IVOHWOOD * DE EORME. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION : fn advance, (per annum,) • • • $2 00 At the expiration of six months • 2 50 At the end of the year ..... 3 00 ADVERTISING: Advertisements, inserted at 75 cents a sqnare (fourteen linesor less,) for the first, and 37| cts. for each subse<{uent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ter. linen, nserted at %5, a year. 3. Would you remove from your children the strongest temptations to steal f Plant an orchard. If children cannot obtain fruit at home, they are very apt to steal it; and when they have learned to steal fruit, they are in a fair way to learn to steal horses. 4. Would you cultivate a constant feeling of thankfulness toward the great Giver of tdl good! Plant an orchard! ~ son, which attracted much attention. He received the kindest attention from Colonel Taylor, who was then, and re mained to be many years after, the venerable father of Columbia. While in College, he had already formed ma- mode of argument was peculiar to Wf.rstrr’s Earlr Evas,>nd when himself. He was not much addicted thry first saw the Constitution. to a regular inductive process of rea- —The Unionsiied orbs of the great soiling; hut he illustrated his cases Dauicl had a reputation, it seetty, when with vivid pictures, striking contrasts he was a yonlh; and the time when and resemblances, bold descriptions they fiist fell on the gos|iel of which he and touching appeals, which, while lie was to lie the prophet, is, with the other [NORWOOD Jr DE LDRHE, PUBLISHERS NO. 45. Origin of .Newspapers.—.Mankind are indebted to Queen Fliznheth and Lord Burleigh for tliC first printed news paper, which was entitled the I'nglish Mercuiie. The earliest number is still in the British .Museum Library, and ny valuable acquaintances and friend ships in different parts of the State.— convinced, delighted (he imagination In December, 1812, Mr. P. graduated, and excited the feelings. No one inl and returning to Virginia, entered the derstood human nature Iretter, and no By having constantly lie- office of Wm. Wirt, at Richmond, as one could better use that knowledge, fore you one of the greatest hlessings a student, but was not very devoted to Nothing could pass, which he could the most of his time ns a schoolmaster, given to man, you must lie hardened the study of the law. In 1816, pence turn to his advantage, which he did not was Fryeburg, in (he State of Maine, indeed if you are not iiiflueneed by a being restored to Europe, and the (Jon- use. Not a stioug idea, or figure, or He had been invited thither by a friend spirit of humility and thankfulness. boars the date of July 28.1588. Dur- tact, til us dose i i lied in a pamphlet of itig the civil war-, periodical papers, the “ personal Memories of V\ eb-ter," just published by Gideon and Co; “The place where Mr. Webster spent tinent being ojien to everybody, lie re- AGHICUITURg. HARDER IHARl’RB APPLIED IN FALL AM WINTER. Frequent complaints arc made by those who are limited in their garden* : ing operations, that whatever manures 6. Would you have your children solved to visit Europe. He sailed from love their home, res|K*ct their parents New V ork, and near Cork, the ship he- while living, and venerate their mem orv when dead—in all their wanderings look back upon the home of their youth as a sacred spot—an oasis in the great wilderness of the world ? Then plant an orchard. 6. in short, if you wish to avail iug delayed for some cause, he took a fishing hoat and landed at the Cove; and from Cork he traversed Ireland to Dublin, where lie fell in with Governor any thing that could apply to the case, either by way of illustration, or by ex citing sympathy for his cause, could not fall from his client or any one else, which he would not instantly treasure up and use with splendid tact, and to its fullest benefit He never lost his Cole, then on some mission from Mr. self-possession for a moment; and as Madison, and through him made the acquaintance of Lady Morgan, Ham ilton Kowand, and other distinguished an instance, we remember to have seen him in a case of great interest, where he himself much excited, struck off his own wig, by some unlucky gesture, but catching it before it reached the floor, placed it on his head without the they apply to their gardens, bum up yourself of the blessings of a hounti _ their crops when the heat of summer fuj Providence which are within your l persons of Ireland, comes on. We have felt this incon. ^Hch, you must plant an orchard.— Crossing the channel, at Liverpool, venience too, and in looking around to And, when you do it, see tiiat you he met and formed an intimacy with find a remedy, have come to the con- plant good fruit. Don’t plant crah-ap* Washington Irving, then on his first slightest interruption of his vivid flow elusion that whenever a garden re- pie trees, nor wild plums, nor Indian visit to Europe—which connexion be ' of expression; nor did it raise a smile quires stimulating manures, they should peaches. The liest are the cheapest. has been heard to say, had an influence in the room, such was the intense fecl- be applied in the fall or winter. In A correspondent, in writing to us on upon him that has remained through ing lie bud excited in the audience. He this way rank stable manure may be this subject, savs that there is a defi- lifo. From England he went to Paris, never wanted words, and the very apt- applied, and spaded or ploughed under ciency of apricots, plums, and pears where he joined Hugh S. Legare, who est and happiest for the occasion seem- * immediately. It will have become by j,, t| ic markets of Washington, and had been at College with him, hut in ed always to volunteer themselves to spring the proper food of plants, and that a hundred varieties of the pluin i a lower class. He left Mr. Legare at Ins service. His mind did not seem to eyes as all manures leech upwards, the sur- am | n hundred varieties of the pear, Baris, and in company with another I face soil will be in fine condition for ripening in June, and in succession un- College friend, the late Honorable An- I the growth of vegetables; whereas, if, til pears ripen again, may be had of drew R. Govan, he travelled over .1 the manure is applied in |>ianting time, ( m r nurservinen—and that some of Switzerland and Italy and afterwards especially the crude manures generally these fruits'sell in New York at $6 a returned to Paris, and there rejoined applied here, just as vegetables are bushel, and others in Boston as 82 a Mr. Legare; and from thence went dozen. If, he continues, the residents together to Edinburgh, to attend the of each ward of our city were to plant lectures, at that time so distinguished the varieties of the highest excellence, at that University. There lie attended the buds and grafts might be distribu- j Mr. Hope’s lecture’s on Chemistry, ted among the people, whq are unable I Playfair’s on Natural Philosophy, declaiiner, and ao reasoner. We to purchase them, and thus these fruits Brown’s on Metaphysics, and Irving’s less from some experience, we would would soon come into the market. Is most required, they are fired by action of the sun on the immure, and the gar dener has the mortification to find his labor and money thrown away.— Whatever manures are applied in the spring should be well rotted or of a cooling nature. 'Iliere are many fain of his father, who was acquainted witli the circumstances of his family. His school was quite large, and his salary three hundred and fifty dollars to which he added a considerable sum by devo ting his evenings to copying deeds in the office of the county recorder, at twenty-five cents per deed. He also found time dining this period to go through with his first reading of Ulack- stouc’s Commentaries, and other sub stantial works, which have l»oen so good a foundation to his after fame. The writer once questioned Mr. Webster as to bis personal appearance when otliciatiug as pedagogue, and his reply was; Long, slender pale, ami all eyes indeed, I went by the name of all kykn the country round.” • • • • • The first time that Mr. Webster's fell upon the Constitution of the have to seek them, it was too full— Tinted States, of which he is now uni- they came to him. He could unravel versally acknowledged to he the chief the intricate circumstances of a diffi- Expounded and Defender, it was pain- cult cause in chancerv, compare, adjust, ted upon n cotton pocket regulate and weigh the facts with an ability which few or none could ex cel. No one who had ever argued a cause with or against hint, could ever say with candor, what we have heard a Hedged of him, that he was a mere con- champions of the two parties, were ex tensively circulated, and were edited by such writers as Needham, Birken head, and L’Kstrange, all nu n of con siderable ability. In the reign of \n»o there was but one daily paper, the Dai ly (’onrnot. The first provincial jour- mil in England was the Orange Post man, started in 1706, at the price of a penny, but a lialf-ponny, was not refus ed. 'The earliest Scottish uewsj aper appeared, under the auspices of Crom well, in 1652. 11 affix Ess.—Wherever lies the path of duty, wherever you may ho useful, there the almighty w ill make you most happy. Happiness is not the offspring and grow th of indolent repose in this world; self-denying exertion is neces sary to its production. The imagina tion of a state where every thing will Hies that annually waste a Irarrel or jt n ot worthy of your consideration < two of leeched asnes, when, had it ; —Telegraph. ■ LL i ! f- '!* MUSCSU^HgaUS. [From die Illustrated Family Frieud.] WILLIAM C. PRESTOY. on Civil Law. Mr. Legare devoted himself particularly to civil law. In July, 1819, Mr. Preston returned to the United States. He had received every advantage which a liberal allow ance from bis father could afibrd him. In October following, he was married in Missouri, to Miss Maria Coalter, a lady much distinguished in South Car- Tbis gentleman was born on the oliun for her beauty, and to whom he 27th of December, 1794, at Philadcl- had long been attached—and whose plna, while his father was attending family had then lately removed to that j Congress, at that place, as a member country. In 1821, he was admitted from Virginia. His father, the Hon. to the Bar of Virginia, and commenced Francis Preston, had bis residence at the practice at Abingdon ; but was in- that time in Wasliingtou county, in the duccd by the persuasion of bis friends southwestern part of Virginia. By D. J. McCord, and Henry J. Nutt, of law, Mr. P. is therefore is a native of Columbia, and his partiality for Caro- Virginia. His mother was Sally Camp- liua, to remove and take up bis resi- bcll, the only child of General Camp- deuce there, which he did in Noveni- tant, then, that we should understand be|| f distinguished as the commander ber, 1822. He there entered into the the proper food of plants. He would battle of King’s Mountain. She practice of the Law with his friend, certainly be a mad physician who | IH d been, when young, very liundaome, Mr. McCord, who, though his junior would give his fevered patients stimn- a||t j (.yen \vhen old was a lady of most in age, was then already in |>os*ossii>n hints to raise the fever higher and high- striking appearance. She was also a of considerable practice. The first er, until vitality was consumed. Our ummaiL of superior mind ami ebarsc- cause in which Mr Preston appeared, been applied to the garden (Mitch, they would have had “ early yorks” as well us their neighbors. The soap suds from the wash is a manure that may be applied with safe ty and with profit in the spring; and yet how few ever use them except to enrich the earth around their kitchens, and make loathsome mud holes, when flowers, luscious fruits, and mammoth vegetables might have been made by them. We do not yet properly appre ciate the importance of a garden. The hearing it has upon the happi ness and bealthwif a family is plainly perceptible whenever we find a well conducted garden ; bow highly impor handkerchief according to a fashinu of the time, which he chanced to stumble upon in a country store, and for which he paid, out of iiis own pocket, all the money he bad—twenty-five cents; ami the eve ning of the day on whieh he thus oh- - tallied a copy was wholly devoted, to i!s close and Mtenfive perusid, while seated before a blazing fire and bv the side of his father and mother. W hat dreamer on that night in the wildest flights his imagination could have seen the result of that incident or marked out the future career of that New Hampshire boy t”—lloi.ic Journal. Conversation of a true Lady.— In discourse, her words are rather fit than fine, very choice and yet not cho sen. Though her language be not guady, yet the plainness thereof plea- seth; and it is so proper and handsome ly put on. Home, having a set of fine phrases, will hazard an impertineucy to use them all, as thinking they give full satisfaction for dragging in the mat ter by heart and shoulders, il they dress it in quaint expressions. Others, Often repeat the same things; the Pla tonic year of their discourses being not in 1841, on several important matters, a bove three days long, in which term all the same matter returns over again threadbare talk ill suiting with the varie ty of their lothcs—Thomas Fuller. Questions for Dkiiating Socie ties.—The New York Mirror suggest the following as tin* next subject for debate before our many literary asso ciations: “ Are the majority of the individuals who me busying themselves in relation to hossulh most anxious to show res- I., or to get before the pen- ./■> have preferred him as an assistant in a difficult case, to any other man in the State, and there w as no other that we would not have preferred as an op- 1 ponoiit. In 1828, Mr Preston lost his wife, and on the 21st October, 1830, lie mar ried his present wife, Miss Davis, of Columbia, the daughter of James Da vis, then the most distinguished physi cian of that place. This l.idy is well known to all who have the pleasure of Mr. Preston’s acquaintance in South Carolina and at Washington; and is highly esteemed for her amiahlo virtues, and devotion to her buiband. In De cember, 1835, Mr. Preston, then hut thirty-four, was elected Senator of the United States, from South Carolina, and his distinguished course there, is too well known for comment now.-— Finding that he differed from his Slate garden soils can scarcely be too rich, u , r She taught him very early to lie hat it most lie richness retentive of 1>rum | „f |,i* father. His maternal moisture, and not a* would be the case grandmother was sister to Patrick Hen- if the stable manure was afiplied in T y j.' cw families in tbs United States the spring, be a richness which burned cau fimnJ, more numerous, respee- excited considerable interest in Colum bia, and among the crowd that throng ed the court room, stood an Irishman, with his back to a pillar, paying great attention to Mr. Preston, who was al- he resigned, after ten years service, and recommenced the practice of the law with his former applause, popularity nud profit. In December 1815, he was induced to accept the Presidency of the .South Carolina College—a mark of flattering kindness on the part of his State—lor there is not a more inl and improved. For some time past Mr. Preston’s health has been rapidly failing him; and having been seized with paralysis I The True “ Laiiy.”—The facetious Dow, Jr., occasionally throws off some happy hits at the Affectations of hi<rh i life. The following remarks, although they may have but littfc poetry in them, contain some wholesome truths, w hirh would be particularly seasonable to young men in search of .companions, i He remarks: (Hi, you foolish idolators at the shrine of beauty! Know that hundreds are • made miserable by handsome wives, and flint thousands are happy in the every thing it came in contact with.— table and influential. The connection ready giving most decided evidence of | pnrtant situation in her bestowal. Hi* He, then, for your wagons ami w heel. j 9 a ver » large one, and extends thro’ that eloquence for which he has ever , presence and infliu-nre immediately harrows, load them up, and cover your several Htates—Virginia, Kentucky, since been so distinguished. Quit" en- continued . to render this Institution gardens quickly; plough them up, and Qj sgoljr i i Louisiana, {South Carolina tranced, Pat forgot where he was, and more distinguished and popular, not cover your gardens quickly; (dough mid Florida. His father was a man of shaking loud enough to lie beard by oyly nt home, but in other Southern them up, turn the manure under, and Im-gf fortune, aud for ntauy yeapt lived the whole Bar, said, “Wall, wutl, 8'tales; for the numbers rapidly in- when the early seed time comes yon j,, great comfort, and in the style of Msister McCord's young man w ill do.” creased, while the character mid man- need not fear but a harvest will follow. 0 |(( Virginia, at Abingdon. The salt He did, in fact, do very well, for he ll3r * u * die young men were elevated We copy the above from tlie Co- fliere are still ow-iied by one of soon became distinguished at the bar, luinbua Enquirer, and we highly ap- the family. General Francis Preston, and popular throughout the Ktnte; for prove of the advice given. Many ma- though a man of excellent sense, was his old College acquaintances wen* nores hare too intense an action when n U t a speaker in Congress. very much attached to him. Never first applied, to be used with safety; („ the fall of 1809, on his way to did a young man have more friends, or of one side, in July last, he has lately an ' ( j'"'J^ pr8 a | mog , „„ (onn aB |,| u ,.i u .,| among these may be enumerated, Pe- Florida for Ids health—having in early more influential ones. In 1824 he was tendered his resignation, which has a trans i Pllt ra i n | M1w a flectinu mc- ruvian guano, sulphate of soda, salt- ijf e , evera | attacks of hemorrage of elected to the House of Re^iresenU-| been accejited with regret by the Trns tP o r —' a deccitlul will of the suf- petre, and many others. Any or all the lungs— these may be applied safely in the fall then only or winter, and by being slightly eov- | through •red, they will be carried into the Abingdon, mev m ur. v>rcen» ui« ui me mnmmi n-w.inijt i.icm- tvoaru nave oncuuiy teamen, w im w .|, 0 can reconSle pealing pot: ■oil at a season when the temperature tavern, opposite to the Stale House, tiers; and during the years 1830, ’31 ^ pm„f 0 l emotions, that the health of the practical or fashionable piety— » ,< 'ident is an accident, and every ac ts not sufficient to corporate the more .\ r tlmr O’Harra, from Charleston, who and 32, distinguished himself as the l‘, V M.fent is such, that he can no Ion- who can waltz with a dash, churn and I » calamity. Even when they volatile portions, and hence they he- had just than entered the South Caro- advocate of State Rights and Fr»*e 1 gpr f„l(jl the high duties of his station ; ,!„« with a tea kettk who understands have their own way, they like it no come divided before spring, ao that the fina College, with whom, forming an Trade. During the whole affair ol they therefore Arcent his rcsifruntinu. i „.„i >u„ *£jhftU*r than your wav possession of homely ones ? homely without, beautiful within. Alas! what is beauty! It is it flower that wilts pect to him pie themscl' Rl \Ttf7v*ihTfllKS. Kate f’onynghnm in the last Ameri can Courier, makes the following sen sible remarks about runaway matches: “ But runaway matches seem to be marked with Divine displeasure. 1 never heard of a happy one. Not far from us resides a widow lady, who eloped from an excellent mother when she was young, w ith a worthh ■ -young man. She is now the mother of three grown danghleis, every one of which have eloped and left her, the youngest only last June, at fifteen years of age, and she was left desolate and broken- heaited! Thus L the example of the mother followed by her children ; and who can she blame hut herself? But the worst remains to he told The , eldest has already been deserted by her husband, who has gone to Califor nia, and last week she had to seek a shelter in the home of her childhood; the second daughter is suing for a di vorce, though she had not been thirteen months mnnied. Ah, girls! never in an evil hoar place your hand in that of I a voting man who would counsel yon to leave your parental home! It is cruel to deprive those who have nour ished you, and with sweet hope have i looked forward to the day of your : marriage beneath their own roof; it is cruel to roii them of this happiness.— It is their blessed privilege to Lies* your union and witness your and your husband's joy. How can you then rob i them of tbeir participation in that joy ous bridal, towards which they have 1 been so many years looking forward? Daughters w ho cU>|ie, wrest from their parents that crowning joy of a father's and mother's life—the gratification of seeing their daughter married at their own fireside. A bridal elsewhere is unnatural, and God’s blessing w ill not follow it.” Never Satisfied.—Some people 0 _ 7 , „ ^ therefore accept his resignation. young spongiotes at first sUrting, do acquaintance, he was induced to halt the Nullification by South Carolina of Retolved, That they tender to him not come in contact with any material aiH | become a student of the college; the Tariff Act of that period, lie was | t , |e tli | juU . ^**1, both as an quantity—Working Farmer. , an( l Q n Christmas day, oddly enough. Cluurman of the Committee of Fedu- , oBicer am | a man> a „d Uieir regret that PLANTING FRUIT TREES. “ Jock, when ye hae nothing else to do, ye may be aye sticking in a tree; it will be growing Jack, when ye’re sleeping,”—J/eart if Mid-botkian. Sur rraaons roR rLAim** an Or he was admitted as a Sophomore Class. Mr. Preston was very precocious member ef the ral Relations, which was raised for the hig A | ina Mater has lieen providential" express (wrpose of couductmg the d.s- , v (k . |)liv( .d 0 f his great talents, ac- P!**? between South Carolina and the u i r ements and zealous devotion. in mind and body; for in both respects United States and !^* ^onc,, Resolved, That the privilege of using ''lake her if you can get her, when you he seemed a man m College. From menu of the latter. In the House he b ks from the |ib ra r V , and free ac- can find her,let ber he up to her elbows sk.* i>«a LnsstariB him whs in lui't the iPAdler: no man m tlio • .1 . <• u *..k . broomologv. and the true science «f| man your way, and indeed con- mopping—who can knit stockings with- I f ' he * f 'i»«ist voluntary acts as mat- out knitting ber brows, and knit up ^ of compulsion. We saw a stn- ber ber husband’s ravelled sleeve of | k,l T' dlu»tral.oiE tho ptlnja day .dll* care—who prefers sewing tears with mth mity we cpllhh of, in the cownet the needle to sewing tears with the tongue. Such is decidedly a betterAiaXl. that period, the writer liss known him, was in fact the leader; no man in the nt3« * n<1 fro,n tke wy beginning, he seems State bad more influence over the pro- <'hard HV F Kahn-.™—r Wonld I to have had the thoughts and views of ceedings of the Legislature, where his ( dren! Plant an orchard. No other ! College hm sopenor ah.lfte. wore uent He was of the small party in Plant lent of the long run pay 2. Would v<> i,,—.f —, m uik., wiii i» j irtfsl'zj* cess to the same at all times, be ten dered to him. And thus, for the good of bis roun- try, has too early ended the public iile of this distinguished gentleman. No in the suds of a wash tub, or picking geese in a cow stable. Dan Marble says he once, partook of a rooster so old tiiat he was bald- of a child about three yeagi obi. Ho | was crying because his mother had I shut the parlor door. Poor thing,” ! said a neighbor, compassionately, “you j have shut the child out.” “ It’s all tho I same to him,” said tho mother; “he I would cry if I called him in and then shut the door. It's a peculiarity of that boy, that if he is left rather sud denly on either side of a door, he con- take the first honor, which was award- ed to tho Hon. Henry L. Pinckney, of Charleston. At tin* early period he was distinguished as the best speaker, and had a great propensity for political kindness antf,good"will thatf a treal of subject*. '? e rcuK-mlx-r -au acbircss good fruit, often repeated. 1 he delivered oa the character of Jdfer- «*U. 12. Would you make your pleasant—the aliede of social virtues I Plant an orchadL Nfllhittg better pro- among neighbors a feeling of Bute to Republican or principles, from which it had greatly strayed since the days of Mr. Jefferson. As a lawyer, there was no one then more able or more successful. He was found equally powerful heforf the Chancellor as Wore a Jury. His bended. To get the feathers out, the, s j t | t , ri> |,jjpae|f shut out «nd rebels ae- “ house gal,” had to use a claw-ham- e«rdingly.” There are oldsr children person ever had a more happy talent of attracting persons to him, and none ^ ^ T JK_., will be more regretted in every sphertf nter, and the old creature was so tenn wbw take the same view of things, of life, that he ha# left, than Mr. Pres- cions of life that, after being baked two ton. Long may he continue to live, hours, he still continued to crow.— At the latest dates the American *1 in- with comfort to himself, and pfeasoro With a few leather pfekfes, sflsb pt»d- Ht Puris-bad not recognized the to his friends. try must be iuvUiug. new government he to our t iste is pure folly. \\ e must he content to take our share in the ills |{ oflil'e and looli for our chief happiness in thi duty. WOI Id from seeking to do our