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DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NWS. J1W H. WftffMB. EDITOR.] VOL. 1. THE I)ARLINGTON FLAG, IK PPRUKHRD etirt TnrtsDiT fwoinr., AT WABLITCTOX, C. H., ». C., «Y NORWOOD Sc D’R I.ORRE. TERMS or stjbscriptios : fn advance, (per annum,) - - - $2 00 At the expiration of six months - 2 60 At tlie end of the year - . -. 3 00 ADVERTISING : Advertisemerts. inserted at 75 cent? a square (fourteen lines or less,) tor the first, and 37$ cts. lor each subsequent insertion. BusihessCaPM, notexceeding ten lines, nserted at %b, a year. To thine oinuelf be. true ; Aiul it must follmr as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man.—Hamlkt. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY A 1852. [soman a de mm, n busmh NO. 19 AGRICULTURE. TO PROMOTE TIE HEUTH OP nTTIR. sJtead of the provincial journals of any inightv good Monongahaly, and tho’t tlie money when you sent for it awhile if von find an error, trace it out Should Mix, occasionally, one part of salt otlM,r P« rt of ll ‘ e w ®*W-—Family I’d give the hoys a dram, as it might ayo.” a stroke of misfortune come upon v..n with five or six parts of nmod a«he«, do’em good. When I got thar, the How the faees of the tailor and his in trade, retrench—vvoik harder, Tint ‘ ‘ - i ~— whole thing was plain as daylight.— needlewoman hiightened instantly, as never fly the track. Confront difficul- 'Hiar sot two jugs, as like as two pees, if a gleam of sunshine had penetrated ties with unflinching perseverance, and one kinder stuck hack in the wagon, the room. they will disappear at last; thou»h yr wliar I had put it, and the other settin “ Here’s just the money I owe you,” ’ in front with the cork out. Yon see said the former, in a cheerful voice, the boys know’d I had good licker in and he handed the woman the three gathered my Wagon, which I was a better judge dollars he had received. A moment not only look for their lend at the iisii- around him during court week, in the of the article than any of’em, so as after and he was alone, hut with the al time, hut the stomach indicates the town of L , Ala., for l nele Hilly Friend. and give the mixture to different kinds .... of stock, summer and winter. It pro- """‘Vli Hu. motes their apoetite, and tends to keep “I haint never fold none on you them in s healthy condition. It is said shout the time when the hoys made to he good against trots in horses, mur- sieh a terrible mistake in the jugs, has rain in cattle, and rot in sheep. I, boys!” asked old Uncle Billy Lan- Feed all animals regularly. They ders, to a crowd who had shonl.l even fall in the struggle,you w ill he honored—hut shrink, and you will be despised. want at the usual period. Therefore was a great story teller, and always feed morning, noon, and evening, as 'had a crowd* wherThe was in town, near the same times as possible. “No. let’s hear it. Uncle Billy,” DESCRIPTION HR A SI N-SC.T. soon as I was asleep they goes to the glad face of the poor woman whose The sun was now renting Ids lucv wagon to sample it; hut the two jugs need he had lwen able to supply, dis- di-k upon thd edge of the level ocean, was so much alike they got hold of j tinct before him. 1 mid gilded the accumulation of d one what had in it—what do yer reck- Of the three dollars received hv (he PROFITS DF FARMING. The New York State Agricultural Guard against the wide and injurious *aid a doTcn voices. on!—not Monongahaly, hut c astoh needlewoman, two went to the grocer, tremes of satiating with excess and “Well, just hand that corn spei its ttE! Joe Dobbs was the first one on account of her debt due to him, extremes of satiating starving with want Food should he i over here a minit, first. Tins here of suitable quality, and proportioned to weather’s so domed hot that a white balance should hi the growth and fattertiiig of animals, man of good raisin can’t talk thout him. and thar they to their production in, young and milk, imbibing occasionally.” ^m, nigh oa to a sampled it, and he was determined the half a dollar was paid to an old and balance should be fooled as well as needy colored woman who had earned tltey had drunk, amongst it by scrubbing, mid w ho was waiting Society are in the habit of awarding, a „j to t ^j r exercise." ArTimais Tliat Hereof he old man took a drink of And didn’t I laugh when 1 fonnd it to get her due, and thus he able to pro- uttheir annual meetings, premiums for | )lhor nop( j f. tr mm . p food and that the‘spei its’that would have rendered out? I think you might a heerd me a vide an evening and morning's meal for which is more nutricious than those almost any other man tight, hut which mile. Them hoys was mighty sick all herself and children. ’Hie other half that are idle. only made him talkative. Then set- that day, but it larnt ’em a lesson. I dollar was paid to the baker when he Guard all descriptions of stock ting down the jug he drew an old grea-i hope, not to he medliu with other poo- called towards evening to leave the ac- i i|Jv «y silk handkerchief from his pocket, pie’s jugs. Jest pass them spei its over custnmed loaf. Tims the poor needh the most successful! management of farms. In 1850, the second of these premiums, a silver cup, valued at $30, was taken by Daniel D. ’1’. Moore, esq., of Watervleit, Albany county.— The written statement of his opera tion's, made under oath, is very full and j ?round in in thc ( r,ringand ! interesting; and we wish we had room - •• to present it to our readers without , n a drv (hat 8n ;. nn U have ab.idgement. His success is enough a g(Jpply of pur( , M . ater when the fountains are low, they drink the drainings of <bnntain«. streams and passages of water, which are unwhole some. mils through which he had trav. Il. d th.- livt long day ; and which now n->vm- hled an all shies, like niisfortuift'S and 'iiastcrs niouiid a sinking einiiic red dliiig monarch. Still, however, I is dying sj li inlor gave a soinlire inagiiKi- eriiee to the massive eqiigregatiou of vapors; forming out of their unsuli- tantial gloom, the show of pyramids and towers; some touched with gold, ■‘ome with |iur|U‘, some with a hue of deep and dmk ted. ITie di-tant sea, •t'x'telied beneath tl is vniiec! nnd iror- against cold and exposure, eapceiallv f y - -« . ■ . . ^ ■ . ■ -- r against cold storms of rain, sloet, and wined the perspiration from his face, this way, will you?—talkin makes a . woman had been able to disenarge 'eons canopy, lay almost portentmi damp snow, and Iving out on the cold grou fall. to make the old-fashioned farmers fair ly open their eyes with astonishment, and shows what skill, and energy, and persevereiice may accomplish. He is growing rich on the same land where others have become /poor. His farm consists of one hundred and eighty-five acres, situated upon the light sandy soil near Albany.’ For fif ty years before it came into his pos session, it had been under lease, and for a portion of that time in the mar ket. The tenants held it only from year to year, and consequently had no incentives to make imfirovementa.— Eacli one worked it u|m>ii the principle of reali.-.ing the greatest profit at tire least expense. Under this system of exhaust!m, It became so reduced that the last tenant considered it no longer wo:th- the rent of a hundred dollars, for the w'hole yearly sales of and commenced: “ " ell, you see, boys, I never likes to tell this here story, cause I ain’t dis posed to be hard on the poor fellows, but its raly too good to keep. Last spring a lot of us, Job Dowdy, Ike St'irdivent, Joe Dobbs, and some other j man mighty dry.” And the old fellow took drink. another SMALL DEBTS-OR WHIT FIVE DOL LARS PAID. Mr. Herriot was sitting in his office, four small debts, ami, at the same time to reestablish her credit with the gro cer nnd baker, from whom came the largest portion of the food consumed in her little family. Ami now let us follow Mrs. Lee.— On her arrival home, empty handed, from her visit to the shoemaker, who in v reflecting hack -if the dnr.iling and till: level beams o! the descending lumina- v, and splendid eoloi iug of tlu> clouds inndst which he was fettieg. Neater to the beach, the tide iipplcd onwaid spatkling silver, that im- of hoys in my deestrict, concluded we’d take a load of truck dowu to Wetuni|>- one day, w ien a lad ent. red, and hand- owed hei two dollars for work, she If hams and stables are very tight kv and se.li*, and buy such little things ed him a sm dl slip o paper. It was found a young girl, in whose pale face and warm, ventilate in mild weather, «« the wimmen folks wanted. We had a hill lor five dollars, due to ins shoe were many marks of suffering and even in winter. a mighty pert time of it goiu down, maker, a poor man who lived in the In feeding animals on apples or as it was a mighty lively crowd of us. mots, begin with a small quantity, and Nothin curious or interestiu, though. >!y, yet raj idly, gained upon I gradually increase it. It would be bet ter to have all changes in food made gradually, when there is a material dif- i ference in the nature of the food; as from hay to grass, and the reverse; from much fodder to much grass, and the reverse.—Ameriran Veterinarian. MISGSUikHSOlTS. didn’t hap|K'n, ami we all nrriv do” n to Wetumpky ‘right side up,’ as they say on the boxes of glass. “ Wetumpky is the derndest biggest place ever 1 hcitrn of, nnd I do believe they has eve vtliing thar, and a little more. Book-stores, printiu offices, dreg stores, and licker-shops, where they have more different kind of sperits than we ever hear of, way here in the Tell Mr. Grant I w ill settle this soon. It isn’t just convenient to-day.” care, awaiting her return. !’s countenance brightened m waves lie "reef i!> the rand. With a mind cniploytd tion of the romantic scene, on some more agit.itiug topic. Vis* Wardonr advanced in silence by her father’s side; whose icccntlv offended in admira- rl. TUG PRESS AYD THE PEOPLE. backwood—old Kogniack, bout a thou- shoemaker was a poor man, and need who lived The np ns she came in; but, there was no dignity did not ‘loop to open any cup. answering brightness in the conn ten- versation. Follow ing Hie w indings of Now’, Mr. Herriot haij a five dollar ance of Mrs. Lee, who immudiattly the beach, they passed one projecting bill in his picket; hut he felt as if he said— j point or headland after another, and couldn't part with if. He didn't like “I’m very sorry, Harriet, hut Mr. to be entirely out of money. So, act- Grant put me off until to-morrow, iug from this impulse, he had sent the He said he hudn’ta dollnriti the house.” hoy away. Very still sat Mr. Heriot The gill's disappointment was very for the next five minutes; yet his great, for the smile she forced into life thoughts were busy. He was not al- | instantly faded, and was succeeded together satisfiod with himself. The by a look of deep distress. a huge i eipieis i o;is! is im J/ (MO. ^ | M I “ Ho yon w’nntt he money very had- 1 sand year old. rot-gut, Tennessee, Mo- J ed his money as soon as earned—he ly ?” asked Mrs. Lee, in a low, half- One of tiie most gratifying—be- nongahaly, and every other kind in the ! was not unadvised of this fact. choked voice, for the sudden change 1 produce w*ere only about four times cause most certain—indications of the world, and more too. But 1 tell you, i “ I almost w ish I had sent him the in the girl’s manner had affected her. that amount. The buildings and fences great! v increased interest fell’by our | boys, if you aint nsen’d to it, bo keer- five dollars,” said Mr. Heriot, at length, j “O, yes, ma’am very badly; I Ic't were in a ruinous condition; the fruit |H.>oplc in everything apitertnining to ful how you tech that truck what they half audibly. “ He wants it worse than Mary wrapped up in my thick shawl, trees were old and diseased; and a mental improvement nnd advancement, call shampane, for its the derndest Ido.” and a blanket wound all around her good part of the premises were allow- is the very perceptible difference maui- stuff to fly inter a feller’s head you He mused still farther. feet to keep them warm; but she was ed to run hi waste. tested, during the last few years, in the ever hearn of. One of them thar j “The fact is," he at length exclaim- ' coughing dreadfully, from the cold air Mr. Moore purchased in opposition st^le, tone nnd character of the coun- store fellers what had bought my cot- ed, starting up, “It’s Grant’s money, in the room.” to the advice of his friends, and in No- try press of the South. The rural pop- ton, tuck me down to the bar-room | and not mine: and whr.t is more, he “ Havn’t you a tire!” asked Mrs. vemlier, 1815, he took (MMsesston.— uiation, the dwellers midst the fields, (that’s what they rail the licker shops) shall have it.” Lee, in a quick, suppressed tone. He was unprepared to pay down the are the real conservators, the true gov- an’called for some shampane, and ax-, So saving, Heriot took up his hat “ We have no coal. It was to buy point now found themselves under oid continued < xtent of the | by wliich that iron houm! in most | laces defended. I ectiug reefs of rocks, extending under water, and only c\ hieing tic ir existence hv here nnd there a peak entirely baie, or by tb 1 breakers w’ idi tbiim-d nw r Miose tli it Were pa'ti -llv covered, ion- lered Knoekwinuock bxy dreadid hv ilots and s1iip-iiin>ters. 'I be crags •vliich rose L two en the bench and the naiiil ind, to the height o'" two or three hundred feet, afforded in tlu ii cre\ ici s belter for unumuherrd sen-fowl in ituntiens di’/.v hoi’ whole of the purchase money, so that ho has beei) obliged tp pay as interest iiiimv' than the former occupant had paid as rent. 'ITie dwelling-house he sold for fifty Hollars, hut tlic barn was worth so little that he toie it down. Ho then «reeled comfortable and substantial buildings, and com ernors of this country. They have the numerical majority, the actual capital ami the effective strength—without w ltidi, nothing can lie accompli-lied. A city news|»a|»er is not a certain in- dicator of the mental calibre or moral tone, of those who dwell in the place from whence it is published. If it has ed me to drink with him; and as that’s and left his office. coal that I wanted the money.” somethin’ yer old Uncle Billy never “ Did you get the money, Charles,” Mrs. Lee struck her hands together, has no objections to, I jest takened a said Grant, as the hoy entered the shop, and an exclamation of pain was about nounces disquietude and fear, few drinks, and the way it set the old There was a good deal of earnestness p ‘ seemingly secured by tin :r Ft from ibp repaeitv of n rn. Many of these wild tlilies, with the in- tinct which send* them to si i k tl e land before a storm mi.-es, were now winging toward their nests with tie shrill and dj oou-int el-oor which uti- rnenced enclosing the tract with a po-t it* circulation exclusively within the nod hoard fence, fn five years time he haq succeeded in rendering the soil ns fertile and productive as the very best in his vicinity, and, as we have seen above, has taken a premium from the State Society for ids good imtntlgemeut, The total receipts in 1850 to over four thousand t ight hun- drrA dollars; and the profits, after de ducting the farm and family expenses, exceedUrtnty-s'u hundred dollars! Such an instance of success should be known'^ver the whole country.— Fanning is too often looked u|M)ii as a favor mi si n-ss, not adapted to persons of intelligence nnd enterprise. Young men flock to the city in crow’ds, in the hope of bettering their condition; while those who remain under the pa terual roof never take an interest in their occupation, and are content witii A mere subsistence. 'ITiose who fail fn fanning would probably fail in oth er and “more resfieylablc" pursuits; hut many that make capital farmers would prove poor merchants. Com merce is A gigantic lottery* where at least ninety-five out of a hundred draw (blanks; the prues are magnificent, but they are few in number. ’Hie soil is a ifaithful servant, which will restore the Uve talents, with other five which they have -gamed. Its mVards are slow, hut suns? it gMft ft living to *11, nnd to •kill, foretheight, Had iron-hearted in dustry, and NnHincliing persevereiice, It offers a competence—moderate, yet snfleient Let th* fanner jmssess the secret of fiuc« ess—qfoodl management —and be need never complain of ill- luck, or grumble at Ae capiioss of for- A Western editor, who Is an old ba chetor, says, “ We never cared a far. tiling about getting married until we Attended ah bid bachelor** funeral.— God grant that our lattur end may not be It* Ip." i-ity—ii is still merely the organ or me dium of a moiety of the whole—of a single class or party; fomiihg no cri- tci ion for any others than its own sup- |hm ters. But it is often the case* that those city journals which have the most extensive circulations, are scarcely to be met with in the places where their offices are located—their tmhscribers being scattered over the length and breadth of the land, therefore, they show nothing Imt the prevalence of a certain species of taste, in varions iso lated individuals. ttflTTTVtth the nejvs- pnpers published in the Districts and Counties oY the Southern States, the case is vyry different. Nearly every District and County now having its own, these publications must necessa rily depend apnu the subscriptions of the citueos of their own sections, in a great measure, for their sustenance.— To secure this—for w ithout it they cannot hold up—the pa|>ers must be suited to the prevalent public o|Hiiiou and moral tone of those whose counte nance they seek. Consequently, we tiiiak we are correct in regarding a District or County journal, *s a just index, a thermometer, aa it were, by whiclbto surely judge of tlie chnractei ofWhe people amidst whom it is pub lished. Judged of by this standard, gauged by their papers, a high position are our people entitled to in point of genet id intelligence, pure morals, and refined and also great praise do they man's head a sptimin whs eui ions. “ Well, arter we’d sold out our truck, anti laid in what we wanted, we tuck np our march for home, wliich there was several of us, and a good long string of waggons. When we got to the camp the first night, I felt power- ul tired, which I had walked a good deal and had takened a good deal of s|M-rits with them Wetumky fellers, the j derndest chaps for treatin’ ever tliL child started up, nnd I went to bed yearly, lenvin the boys round the fire, talkin bout matters an things. Next morniii I got up, and found in the shoemaker’s tones. “ No, sir,” replied the lad. “ Didn’t get the money!” “ No sir.” “ Wasn’t Mr. Heriot in?” “ Yes, sir; but he said it wasn’t con- •enieut to-day.” passing her Ii|i8 when the door of her room opened, and the shoemaker’s hoy came in. “Here are two dollars. Mr. Grant sent them.” “God ble^s Mr. Grant!” The ex clamation from Mrs. Lee was iuvnluu- “ Oh, dear! I’m sorry!” came from the shoemaker, in a depressed voice. The disk of the sun became almost totally obscured ere he had altogether sunk Mow tlie horizon; and an early mid lurid shade of darkness blotted the serene tw flight of evening. The w i**d hegnn next to arise; buLJts wild and moaning sound was heard for some time; and its effects became visible on tary. On the part of Harriet, to whom one the bosom of the sea, before th.* gale dollar was due, a gii'li of silent tears was felt on shore. The mass of wa- A woman was sitting in Grants marked the effect this timely supply of ters, now dark and threatening, begun shop when the boy came in; she had money produced. She received her to lift itself in larger ridges, and sink now risen, and was leaning on the portion, and, without trusting her in deeper furrows; lorming waves that counter; a look of disappointment voice with words, harried away to rose high in foam u[m>ii the breakers, was in her face. I supply the pressing wants at home. or hurst upon the bench with a sound “ It can’t be hcl|>ed, Mrs. Lee,” said A few doors from the residence of 1 resembling distant thunder, most all ot ’em was gone off from the Grant. “1 was sure ol getting the Mrs. Lee lived a man who, some few Appalled by this sudden change of camp, nnd them that y as thar looked money from him. He never disap- months before, had become involved weather, Miss M’ardour drew close to mighty pale and sickly like. Thinks pointed me before. Call in to-morrow, , j n trouble with an evil disposed per. father, and held arm fast. “ I wish,” (, what kin be the matter with these I and I will try and have it for you.” son, and iieen forced to defend himself at length she said, but almost in a here Intys? You see 1 didn’t suspicion The woman looked troubled as well hy means of the law. He had em- whisper, as if ashamed to express her nothing of them as wasn’t thar, cause as disappointed. Slowly she turned ployed Mr. Heriot to do what was re- 1 thought they was walkin about look- i away and left the shop. A few min- ] (piisite in the case, for which service in at the country. Presently they ' utes after her departure, Heriot came the eharge was five dollars. 'Hie bill commenced stiagglhi in in, but nil of in, nnd after some words of apology, i had lieen rendered a few days before, ’em looked pale and sick, like them at paid the bill. and the man, who was poor, felt very the fire. Thinks 1 somethin’* wrong, “ Run nnd get this hill changed in- anxious to pay it. He had the mo- we’ll see what it is ’fore long. Ike to silver for me,” said the shoemaker ney all made up to within a dollar.— riturdivent’s old nigger, Tom, was the to his hoy, the moment his customer Thai dollar Mrs. Lee owed him. and I cook for t!»e crowd, and party soon had departed. she had promised to give it to him du- Few parents renli -e how much their tlie hoe-cake and ham was ready for “ Now,” said he, as the silver was ring the day. For hours he had wait- children may be taught at borne by de- us; but none of ’em did’n have no np- placed in his hands, “take two dollars , e d, expecting her to come in; hut now voting a few minutes to their instruc- petite. Thinks 1, them there boys has to Mrs. Lee, and three to Mr. Weaver, | m d nearly given up. There was ano- tion -every day. Let a parent make a been a spreein of it List night while 1 ; across the street. I ell Mr. Weaver ifier little bill of three dollars which I companion of a child, converse with him was asleep, and they feels bad this that I am obliged to him for having had been sent in to niqi, and he had familiarly, put to him questions, answer riiornin. Every now and thfii one of | loaned it to me this morning, and sor- j Ub t col]C l u d i >d to go nnd pay that, I inquiries, communicate facts, the result ’em would shout oft’ like a rocket, and ry 1 hadn’t as much in the house when when Mrs. Lee called with the balance of his reading or observation, awaken increasing apprehension, “ I w ish we had kept the road we intended, or w aited at Monkshnrns for the carriage.” —Sir Walter Scott, « The purest altar of love is the heart of a mother. _ ♦ come hack arter a little look in worse he sent for it an hour ago, than ever. Never mind, ses 1, some- “ l w-ish I had it, Mrs. Elden. But, thin’s wrong. ! I assure you that 1 have not,” said Mr. “ Arter breakfast 1 commenced Weaver, the tailor, aitchiu up to start, but moat of the lust dollar just More you came in.— hoys looked like they was too sick to But call in to morrow, and you shall ct off, and'a s 1 didn’t want to leave ! have the money to a certainty." heads, some settin up against trees try- where I deal, that he won’t trust me j to your own. Don’t buy what you I dren, and makes them so lovely, as ha in to look like they didn’t feel l*ad. ; for anything more.” don’t want Use every hour to advan- hitual respect and duti'ul deportment taste ; ana aiso great praise ao mey fi -, , , , deserve for tiw enlightened liberality >ni I unhitched agin and tuck a seat “ But what am 1 to do to-day? I whicheaMMtba^lq^fn||hmeana for ' to fratch. Some of ’em was lyin on 1 havn’t a cent to Mess myself with; establishing so many usebl and val- i tin; grass with ther arms under ther and I owe so much at the grocer s liable monitors and dishureers of infor- * — 1 ' •“ —*’» •*•'“* m ‘* [nation. For, taking them as a whole, we are certain that as regards the edi torial ability displayed in their manage ment, tlie style of their mechauiani ex- •ention, and the salutary influence ex ercised by their contents, the eoontr ess of the Southern States U far of tlie money, one dollar, which she 1 M* curiosity, explain difficulties, the had received from shoemaker Grant. meaning of things, the reason of thhigs ’"Half an nour later, and that pocket —and s!l this in an easy playful man- I paid out tlie hook of Mr. Heriot was no longer uer, with ont seeming to impose a task, ‘ empty. His client had calb-d and awl he himself will be astonished at the paid his hill. The five dollars,had progress which will he made. The ex- come back to him. nc(iment is so simple that none need « • • • ^ hesitate about its performance. Advice to Yodno Mkx.—Let me ! business of every one alone, and attend Nothing sits so gracefully upon chil- The tnilor looked troubled, awl flu- woman lingered. J«st st this mo- while some were settin with their el Itows on their knees, and their heads j down, lookin for all the world like 1 inert the shoemaker's boy entered, they had lost nil their relations. Arter ! ** Here are three dollars Mf. Grant r I bad looked at ’em long enough, I got up tp the wa^on, where I bod ajuj; of borrowed of vou this morning,’’ said the lad. “ tlo says he’s sorry bo badu’l tage, and study to make even leisure 1 towards their parents and superiors. hours useful. Think twice before you spend a shilling—remember you will' Pleasure is sometimes only n chinge have another to make for il Buy low, of pain. A man who has had the jout, sell fair and take care of the profits, thinks he feels first rate when he jets Look over your books ^^ulurly, sod 1 doryj to 1 - I 1 1 >4 j