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ED - EDDVE SR "We wiH eling to 'he- Pillars of tie Temple of k LiWoi abd if'it'must fall', wb wil Nribamidst the 33in. W.C.MORAGNE, Editor. EDGEFIELD, S. C. JANUARY 9 1851. - W. F. DUR ISOE, Proprietor. TO THE SOUTH. 0! gallant South! advance, advance, Proclaim aloud thy rights; 0! sharpen well the spear and lance, And quick arouse thy knights. Let not Fanatics of the North, Transgress our father's laws; But boldly*now advancing forth, ' Defend thy coantry's cause. Our patriot fathers fought and bled, Oppression to subdue; Let uslike them upon it tread, Although we are but few. The 190-h too long their laws have spurned A nd trifled wih the South ; Now let us from her having turned, Cease her 3pprobrious mouth. Let us no longer linger here, No longer here entreat; But rather break her mad career, And from her fold retreat. Unfurl your banners to the brecze, For freedom strike-for peace; To arms! To arms! your muskets sieze, The stately South release. Ah! to the North let's bid adieu, Adieu, Fanatic North; Toolong to tLee have we been true, Alas! we know thy worth. Itomantic Incident. A young lady correspondent, who takes the nom dc plume of " Rose Rover," re lates the following romantic incideut, as having occurred in a village somewhere in Tennessee. Truth is often stranger than fiction: "I have been playing the part of brides maid nearly ever since I wrote last, and have, therefore, but little time left in which to indite this epistle, One of the mar riages, at which I officiated in the capacity mentioned, was quite a romantic affair; and as no harm will be done, I will give you the particulars-suppressing names, however. After the union of the couple to whose marriage we were bidden, they had scarcely sat down before another stood up and desired to be joined by the he'y bnd. The minister was much sur prised, as he had expected to officnite but once; but, feeling that it was not his bu si~tes s iagre intthe vhys and where. fore that he was not.prqjpdvised,,beesked for the necess itif irty ; and it then, fotlfe firsfiime, occurred to the bride groom, that a license was indispensable to the consummation of his happiness. Ile exclaimed, " This shall not interfere !" And immediately left the house, saying he would return in a few minutes. "While he was absent, we learned that a few minutes before the union of the first couple, the young gentleman, in a lively conversation with several sprightly and mischief loving girls, had told them that he was about to make a propostion to test their courage, (of which, it seems, they had been rather boastfully speaking,) and this was nothing more nor less than that he wouldchallenge either of them to marry him as soon as the expected ceremony was performed! Several of themn shrunk from the ordeal; but one of them, more courageous than the rest, accepted the challenge-thinking he would ' back out' before the ceremony was finished! " Some of the company told the young lady during the gentleman's absence, that he would never yield, and that she had bet ter do so, unless she was seriously in elined to have him for a life's partner.. She replied that she was determined as him self, and was not to be 'outdone:' and - seemed to think that it could be nothing reore than a joke ! All arguments were in vain ; so, wh'len the young gentleman returned, and presented the license, (he having procured it at the clerk's office-it being the county seat where we were as semubled,) she gaily laughed, and again placed herself beside him in front of the' minister. The old gentleman admonished them; but they told him to proceed ; and the ceremony commenced! The bride groom responded affirmatively in a gay tone, and as he did so, cast a triumphant glance npon her. When it became her turn to answer, she hesitated a moment, but presently said laughingly, " You shall not triumph sir !" "And immediately uttered the little -word that cannot be retracted, and which made them onC dluring the remainder of their lives! The benediction being over she said, in a half serious tone, " Why, I feel as I had been married in earnest !", " You certainly are," solemnly said the, nmster. "She doubted it at first, but was at length convinced, that she was really and - dc facto Mrs.--? For a time, she wept violently; but her new relative, who, by this time, began to see his folly, seeing al so that the consequence of their hardihood wvas irremediable, determined to make the best of it and therefore used all his power to console her, in which he, at length, succeeded. "'rThey had never met before that eve -.ning; and they little dreamed that at their first meeting they were to utter vows that were irrevocable, and wvhich were to unite them to each other for life. Both of them belong to families of the highest respecta b'ility, and are both wealthy. They seerp well suitnd tonah other; nnd who sall. say that their union, so strangely brought about, may not be replete with happiness for each ? They now appear to-be recon ciled to their destiny, and I, for one, be lieve, that it will be a bright one. We sincerely hope, with our fair corres pondent, that this strange union may in deed be' replete with happiness. Buf, we would by no means advise others to try so dangerous an experiment. Marriage is too sacred a thing to be trifled with in this way. We trust that few ministers in the land can be found who would officiate un der similar circuimistances.-Arthur's H. Gazette. Life on the Turning of a Card. A friend narrated to us a day or two since, an anecdote of early times in West Tennessee, which we will attempt to re peat even at the risk of losing the grapehic simplicity of his conversational narrative. Sone eighteen or twenty years since, a well known reskient of 'Pirtion county was put on his trial, 6iiiigcd witi tle niirder of his wife. As usual in such cases, pop ular feeling was largely against him. and all the eloqueuce and ingenuit of his coun set were required to make any impression in his favor upon a jury, which, however impartial it might desire to be in the con seiousness of sworn duty, could not but see the waves of popular prejudice surg ing ia upon it, The case was ably argued. The cmn ae! for the detnce made most vigorous and impassioned appeals. The case was submitted to the jury, and they retired, to make up their verdict. Time passed, and as the setting sun warned all of the ap proaching night, the large throng in at tendance, the judge, counsel, etc., retired, all anxious, the aceured not the least so, to lea- tie verdict of the jury, and some w 6ered that the jury lesiated for one m 'int to bring in a verdict of guilty. In the i'antime the jury had conic to a point beyond which they could progress no fur ther. The appeals of the counsel of the defence had not been without their influ ence, and the jury stood unchangeably six for conviction and six for acquittaf. Some thing had to b . In thI twelve gooaieilows could not be got to ge'ner for a night, and sleep. Cards ap peared nysterliisly from the de ti of sun dry large p)o c% "d 'e lp and pooker w AW. About midnight one of their numbef Col. P., proposed that they should play a game of seven up, the result to decide the verdict. The proposition was heartily and unaniously agreed to, in all seriousness, and the whole crowd collected around Col. P. and his opponent, who proceeded to phiy the game o which was staked a human ife. Col. P. played to save the accused. His opponent played, and quite as zealously, to secure the conviction. Their backer.4, five and five, stood behind them. encouraging the champions, and watching the game, dimly seen by the light of two tallow candles, with the most intense interest. The game proceeded with very eqnal fortune, till both parties stood at six and six. It was Col. P's. deal; lie dealt and TL'RNEDi JACK. The prisoner was acquit ted, and every man of the jury joined in a shout which started the whole village, even tile revellers in "the grocery." Next morn ing the jury went into court, and gave, to the astoiiinieint of many, tihe verdiet of "not guilty." The juryman w~ho played an unsuccessful game for human life~, still li-es, a much respectedl citizen of this dis tr-ict. One of the couinsel is a very dlistin gnishied me(mber- of the Memphis bar, and the accused has, as we believe, gone to a higher court; but nithler of them,~ nor any of the assemblage, nor the court, who mar velled at the ver-diet, eighteen ycears ago, have evei- kirown that a human life wvas saved by tuning Jack! 'There are some curious episodos ill tile history of out- early settlemenlts; but wlso would think of veni turing life upon01 turning Jack !-alemphis Emnployedthe Wrong'M1an-. There may be still living a few among the "oldest inhabitants" of a country vil lage in the southern part of this Staite, who will remember the following rather humor ous story :--Sone twenty years ago, among the residents of the village alluded to, were two men who resembled each other somewvhat in their general appear ance-eachi weighing about two hundr-ed, and both of them as capable of enjoying a good joke as such portly old gentlemen generally are; but while it w-as tihe busi neCss of one to preach againlst the sin of in dulging a plropensity for " tripping the light faintastic toe," the other was celebra ted for- his skill in) furniishing the necessary music on such occasions, when that par ticular sin-so considered by some-was to be enacted. While the Doninie was one day leisure ly walkinig along tihe streets, a couple of dar-kies approached him ; one of them re marked to tihe other," That's him now; I know him, for I've seen him often." "Well, speak to him, theni," says the other." "No, Pete, you speak( to Imo." Noticing that they wished to hold some. intercour-se with himt, the Dominic turned round and said: " Did you wish to speak with me ? "Yes sare; we wanted to knowv if you "No, I beAieve not," replied Mr. N., (the idea of a wedding fee immediately pre serted itself) and which was not to be slighted on account of the eolor of the par. ties. What is it you want?" " We wanted you, if you were 'custom ed to othciate for colored pcrsons, who are willing to pay, to come next Monday eve ning to the red house next de toll gate." " Oh, yes, it's not my practice to refuse any one on such occasions, At what hour do yoo wish me to come "Early candle light, Massa, if you please -we've not had any thing of that kind in a good while." " Very well, I'll be there," replied the Dominie, as he turned on his heel, think ing tie remark that they had had nothing of that kind in a good while, meant that no wedding ha<l transpired among them in a long time. 'True to his appointment, Dominic N. was at lie house deisgnated, in good sea son.[Tedoor opened into t..:e principal room of the house, aroind-Wieh a-fsi twenty or thirty of Africa's sable children, dressed in their very best. According to the instructions they had received from one of their number, they all rose on his entrance. He took a proffered seat, which was behind a little desk at one end of the room, for a moment, and then remarked, if the parties wcre ready they had better im mediately take their places. In a monent all was bustle and confu. sion. While some removed the chairs from the rooin, eight couples formed as if for a qnadrille, The Dominie stared around in utter amazement, wheni he who had been spokesmian in engaging him at the village, a few days before, coming up to him, his mouth grinning from ear to ear," Massa Fuse, habbentyou brought your fiddle with jou. We habbent got one here." " Fuse ! fiddle! what do you inean?" exclaimed the Dominie-the whole affair beginning to dawn on his always quick mind :-" is this not to be a wedding ?" "Oh, no, Massa Fuse, we should hab the Dominie here first, if we had a wed. ding !" The Dom ' anco that he nd the s ,adwith sim * iing the fellow his n.- and occupation, win had.out the same effect among the dar asif a bombshel had dropped among them, he rused from-tbhe-h-eee. ..ut tliejoe 'as too good a one to re main a secret, and the Dominic had to tell it to some of his fun loving congregation who will laugh to this day about their min ister's going to fiddle at a darky ball. Exchange paper. JAXACA.-This spot once a perfect garden, with a climate surpassed by no country in the world, for equality of few perature, finned by the ever shifting breezes of the trophies, and warmed by a sun whose fructifying heat gives a perpe. tual summer, and its soil so prolific that the lbor of ten weeks will secure ample provisions for the year,-this spot of earth which should have been the g.ranary of America, has now, under the blightiig curse of emancipation, fallen into utter decay. In 1831, when slavery ceased to'exist, there were U53- sugar plaLtations in sue cesslul operation. Of these 150 have, since emancipation, been abandoned and two hundred thousand acres of land have been thrown out of cultivation. The best land on the island can now be obtained at almost any price. No compensation for labor is offered-anid dhe free blacks, no longer uinder the guidance and control of the white race,.have bec-oise, as thcy always will,-beggars, rogues a-nd outcasts. The sleek, wveil-fed and happy- slaves are changed- to half-starved, discontented free men ; atii the whites are either leavig the Island to- its rapidly approaching de solation, or those who are comnpelled to remain arc losing the pride of caste and approximating to the ignor-ance, the lazi ness and the moral degradation of the negro. Such is the fate that our Northern fel lowv-citizens would wish toontail uponi us, som~e by force or fraud, as the-ultra abo litionist, but all: by their wish for general emancipation and the total extinction of slavery. God preserve us and our now contented negroes fronm the curse of Nor thern wishes.-Char-leston Sunt. CALIrORNIA DoCTos.-It is not a very conmfortable thing to be sick any where, but it seems more especially to be necessary that poor men should eschew the luxury of illness in California. From a fee bill of the San Francisco Medical Society, extracts of which are published in thte Baltimore Sun, we find thtat the California Doctors knowv howv to dose their patients wvith charges, as wvell as wvith pills and powders. A single visit is $32, and visits in the course of a regular at tendance half that sum. A visit at night is from $30 to $50, antd a written opinion fromi $50 to $100. Mileage is $10, and a consulting visit $32. A man's leg will be cut off for $300, and a finger- will he dedigitated. for a cool hundred. But the largest of the charges is for the ope ration of cataract, which is simply a thou sand dtollars. Either the cataracts in Cal ifornia, as Mr's. Partiington would say, are all Falls of Niagara, or the California Doctors did, not carry out their conscis ences in the-samne vessel. that. took their medical inoe~a...lesntonn Sun. Tho Distinguish4 Poad of 2850. BY URIAU U. J i, OF N. Y. Such is mortal's eting breath; Such is life, and ieh is death. They have fallen Iay, not fallen in the estimation of thr countrymen-for their memories will cer flourish in grate ful remembrance-bt their names have been stricken from throll of living great. ness, and the tomb, t'tallotted tenement of mortality, has cltled its own. Death, lad in his loomy robes, has wandered in the mi t lof eloquence, of valor, of erudition, a4 of worth, spread. ing dismay around. Wherever he has roamed he has cau Jhavoc. On the brow of talent lie ltamped his signet, and powerless becab t.the lips of clo. qucne; he grasped t - and of the war rior, and closed his a to the sound of the drn:n and O'ie tru: et of battle, 1lis sword was in s'hand Still warm with ent fufht; Ready that inome a, conmand, ...... 'I rn rock a tel to smite. They have fallen !-4irk had enrolled their nans high, very high in her Temple, so gradtand so towering -the names of Taylo alhoun, Elmore, Prentiss, King, Mas , Osgood, Fuller and Jones. Twelve ,hart month ago, and Zacha ry Taylor stood befde the world as the illustrious chief of a r~ity nation bless ed with the love and reevence of millions of freemen, and in thiranquil enjoyment of every earthly bliss 'a few more weeks glide away and becoe lost in the revo lution of time, and - Oat is left of the President and the H his dust, -moves on to the last restingalaco of rnortality, in regal magnificenc ay I in more than kingly splendor, for h mound is honored by the poor and the tumble, and moi stened by the tear of fretion. 0! after all the toils 4 war, How blest the brav man lays him down! His bier is a triumph ear His grave is glory id renown ! le has fallen ! -So i Carolina'weeps o'er the tomb of her nj'st able champion, for the eloquent tong' ot Calhoun will no longer lisp the ace its of beauty and ,-.sublimitv; to day lie reposeth placidly trcnincts of the earth, and no voice but a k id n rouse Death ! thou "l ivest a shining mark,' for Elmore, the talented and distinguished hath fdlen at thy mandate. Seargent S. Prentiss has fidlen ! A brilliant light has been quenched, and the Pleader has carried his cause up to thal Tribunal from which there can be no ap peal. And could'st not thou spare for a litth longer, one whose age is as nothing befort the great Jlehovakh? Why blunt the poini or her eloquent pen, and why hush the kindly throbbings of her noble heart? Ir thy roainings, couldst thou not find somi ninbler victim of thy wrath, than Mar garet Fuller? Ah ! thou must fulfil th nission, ordained by providence, until th< stars shall grow dim with age, and yor glorious luimiary of day sets in eterna' darkness T Go then and pluck the bloom from th< rose in its sweetness and its beauty, ani scatter to the-air its richest perfume; strikt down manhood as lie launches his frai bark on the eventful waters atf life; and when the great warrior returns from th< grounid of his exploits, covered with glo ry, conquer him, oh spoiler, and hold bin th-y prisoner ! "Then~ hero, thme statesman, iis jonirney is done All his cares are now over, his last battle won Now sweetly lie rests from his sorrows and teamrs, And leaves a proud nation in sadness and tears." Trhey have fallen ! Great intellect ot renown, or elevated station could not savc them fr'om the worm, for it w~as written' "dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thau return." Man, no matter how brilliant his career, or how datzzlinigliy splendidlhis talents, must, in process of time, be en cireled within the limits of a little spot o1 eairth : "The a of heraldry, the ponip of pr~yer. Adalthat beauty, all that wealth- e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour, rTe paths of glory lhad but to the grave."' Sleep, on noble dead of 1850 ! Sleep on in your fast rest', and miingie your dust wvith the free soil of Columbia, in the hallowed graves where Americans have laid you. Sleep on while in the inmost recesses of our hearts your names are cherished ! To sEEi Ialf a dozen uncles, two or three brothers, and a maiden aunt of se veinty, holding consuktation to devise ways and means to prevent a young girl marry. inig the young mant she loves, is just about as ridiculous as to see an intoxicated man attempting to shoulder his own sha dow. A BEAUTIFUL ExPREssED THoUoHT. -It is diffiult to conceive anything more truly beautiful, than the reply given by one in afihiction, when he was asked how lie bore it so well. "It lightens the stroke," said lie, patiently, " to draw near Him who handles the rod." PEACHI Stains Can be easily' removed; by soakibg the stained article far a shiort tiine ini common. whiskey or al'coholic li quor. From the Charleston Mercury. Wages of Labor. Tie picture which I drew in the former article is-only that of every overstocked la bor market. It is the inevitable result of excess in the laboring population ef any country where all the soil is owned by a class who feel no obligation, legally, pe. cuniarily, or morally to provide for the support of such laborers. The conduct of that Landlord, Green, may be character ized by some as cruel and oppressive. Is it his fault, or the fault of the-system -the condition of society in which lie lives? He -says, and no doubt h'e says truly, that lie went openly into the labor market and bid for a laborer, the customary price of one half penny per week, and tlie offer brought Walsh to his service. It is true he fed him on the starvation principle, but is lie to blame- for that. He fed him ac cording to the custom of the country upon a little corn meal gruel-just enough to sustain life; he could not afford to fatten him, for he only wanted his services for a and then- he would turn him out to starve o I with no more feeling than you or I woul . worthless cur. If he died, who would care -the country was full of just such; no one would feel the loss-perhaps some would feel glad to get rid of him before they were taxed for his support. This farmer aeted towards his laborer just like all in that country who hired starved laborers, who were willing to work for just enough- to keen life in their bodies a little longer, and therefore should not be called cruel. And what is it different from the same system all over the world. That the result is not the same in the United States, is because the labor market is not yet overstocked. Turn loose upon the world three million of laborers without a foot of land to call their own, or but to shelter themselves subject them to the necessity of laboring for just such sum as might be offered, or starve, and what would be their condition within less than a quarter of a century of time ? Would it be any better than that of Ireland now? ''l it be said that I advocate a system of labor which gives no wages at all to the laborer, for this I have often been told. I deny the assertion. Let us examine & case. Irr the first place, the noor-of nll ~u~crlt -7 s11nied by pru'dential6i tives, and in some by law, from entering into that blessed condition of enjoyment of life, the conjugal. state. for fear of inability to provid'e' comfortable support for their offsprig. The Sout1'ern negro has no such fears to operate upon his mind. His children 4i sickness or health are taken care of by his employer. le is also morally certain that he will be fed with a sufficiency of good nutritious food, not only to prevent starvation, but to keep him in a healthy condition of sleek fatness. And what opportunity has he for the procurement of the little luxuries of life, such asgratily the palate or amuse the eye* Why, here in this part of South Carolina nearly all the plantation labor is performed by task work, and inste ad of being obliged, like poor Walsh, to work from daylight to dark for half a penny, they are generally out of the field by three o'clock in the af ternoon-the task completed. They may then devote the remainder of the day to labor or idleness as they choose. They are always welcome to cultivate just as much land as they please.- Some avail themselves of this advantage, and raise cansiuerabie crops, wvhich they may either eat or sell. Certainly they are not necessitated to eat it, for their master al Iways provides their food ; and to prove it is sutiicient, allowv me to state, that the lowest ration given is a heaped-half bushel measure of sweet potatoes per week,. which, by repeated experiments, I find to weigh from 4?, to 48 lbs.-six to seven p)ounids a day. Throughout the greatest porionof heSouth the regular ratio nto al aoesis thiree and a half pounds of clear baeon, and a. peck and a half of sweet corn meal per week to-every man and wo man. Besides this they have large quan tities of vegetables, or in base of laboring in situations where these cannot b'e ob fainedy an increase- of meat and bread. For instance, the shingle-makers in North Carolina are given six pounds of pork- a week.- As for clothing, did any person ever see better clothed laborers, bond or free, tban the great mass of slaves through out the wvhole country, and in the vicinity of Charlestou particularly. Then they are well housed and attended by a good physician when sick. In addition to the crops which they have an opportunity to raise and sell, nearly every family have pigs, poultry, eggs, brooms, baskets, or something every year to sell for money, which they spenu freely for present grati fications, as they have no occasion to lay it up for future wants. Besides this, many negroes receive more money every year in Christmas presents than the total amount of wages of the poor laborer mentioned. It was my fortune twvo days ago to make the passage fromJohn's Island in an eight-oared boat loaded to her full capa city wvith all manner of thiiigs that go to mnake up a Christmas marketing of the slaves upon one of those plantations., It . was 14 o'clock at night when we left, not only with the full consent of the master,. but wvith the assistance of his counsel and' negmant, to eablei hi eoann1'o et their:. stuff to market and' sell it to the best ad vantage. Before startirg, one of the ne Troes was called into his room by the saster,and.the following conversation en sued: "i Well Toney, db you want the money I owe you for thetwo hqgs I bought of you to take -to town ?!' "Why, yes, bfassa, if you got him; I like little of him." " Very well, the porker weighed282 1-2 lbs., and at five cents comes to 814 12. 1-2 cents." "You got him too littlb, Massa, he weigh 287 1.2, and make 14 37 1-2, dat him, sir." " Very wel. here is the money. Will you go-by the midnight tide, or waitWI to. morrow?" " Why, sir, we got so much work to do, if you please, sir, we will go to-night, and dat save time." " Very well, just as you like. See who will go with you and let me know, and I will give you the pass." And so after witnessing this specimen of slavery, I took my seat in the boat, and as we sped over the midnight moonlit wa ters o harbor, Iistened to the unrestrained conversation o oppressed slaves," while I contrasted their situation with that of the truly wretched behigs mentioned in the little extract from the London paper in the first article, and I said to mysell although there is no legal obligation resting upon the master to pay these- people- for their work, how unmea. suraby greater is thei wages of labor than that of him who sued his employer for the recovery of eighteen pence for eighteen days work in harvest time. Upon this let us pause and reflect. I remain, most respectfully, yours, &c. SOLON ROBINSON. Charleston, Dec. 25, 1850. ov'rne* Quitman. - A Washington letter writerto theNew York Journal of Commerce says: "The Government has information c6ol cerning Gov. Quitman's participaion-. in the late Cuban invasion, which will be suffici6nt to convict him, or a do*en men, ten times over, of the' charge broug'ht against him.. "'- Pederal Exetutive is determiiiec it is saa, wat hw shal be Quitman will r sist the process while he remains Governor. Should Judge Ghol. son' decide that Quitman is answerable to the process, the Marshal of Mississippi will arrest him, and take him to Louisiana. If not, the United States Maisha-of Lou. isiana will be instructed to serve the pro cess upon him, and he will be supported by the whole power of the United States." We don't believe a word of this story about the pretended information against Gov. Quitman. In the Missi'ssippian of the 20th ult., we fIid a correspondence between the U. S. District Attorney and the Covernor, hi which the atter calls tho accusations brought against him "baseless charges," and signities his rea diness to confront his accusers as soon as his official term expires, but iot sooner. After this correspondence, and we pre sume of course under the direction of the Fillmore administration, an application was made to the Judge f the United States District Court for the arrest of Gov. Quitnman, and his removal to Newv Orleans. The motion was argued in open court, not only by the U. S. District At. torney' for the prosecution, but also by special counsel employed- by the Got'ern mient of the United States. At our ltost dates the motion w'as still nder advise mnent before Judge Gholson. The whole porter of the'Fed'eral Go. vernment is brought to bear upon this issue, and even if Judge Gholson decides ifmt the- Governor is not liable to arrest whilst Governor, the Matshali of Louisi ana, with tho- military of the United States, is to' arrest him any how. We be lieve such power called into exercise would be an uitwarrantable encr'oachmnent on the rights of a sovereign Stato-, and would be resisted by th'e people of Mississippi H-ad it been th'e Governor of Vermont, or the executive of any Free Soil State, this sater woud haive beerr dropped Ifong sic-;but it is Quinnan the' diswnienzist, and not Quitman as a Cuban symnpathizer, they want to get hold of. No, the whole design and intent of this prosecution wvould appear to be solely to tarnish the fair fame of one of the South's most true hearted. champions at this juncture. We want to see the Louisiana Marshal and the federal troops undertake the arrest of the gallant Quitman. It would be the signal for anl uprising throughout the South that wvould astonish Fillmore and Webster. The gallant Governor knows wiell the mnettle of the- Palmettoes. They might like to be at the fraf.-South Car. olinian. RE-V.- TmrwoooRE PARKER-.--The Port land' (Me.) Evening' News says, that the Rev. Theodore Parker, of Boston, after uniting in marriage the fugitive slaves, Williami Crafts, and tho colored womarr wvith whom he liv'ed as his wvife, drewv forth a dagger and presented it to Crafts, ad' monishing him to "stain it with the blood of thousands," rather than suffer himself or wife to be captored. Punctuality begets confidence, and is the sure nath to honor and respect. OUlTING-HOVSE CAiMNA3E. 0 - -EU Y . --91 12 20 2 FEBRUARY ... I I17J8 19 20 k. 23 4 - 6 8 0 11 1 14 16 1I 4 25 72 29 31 . APRIL. ..... ...; .-r 6 W4 5 .161%718'f 12 234' 2 o MAY. ........... ..l.o. o 2-4 31 4151 1 19 0 90 62 2728 9 3 UN.. . 14 1 1 16 1 8 1 0 JULY.... . 234 789 0 1 0 - . 21-I 2 5 AUGUS . . . _ 1111 131 1511 25 i 2293 8 9 11 3i~i 15 20 21 '17 18 29 2022 2r4252 - -82' 28 DECEMBER, .... 650 1 8 01 12 1$|14 15 11 1*81 20 2k SOMtrERN SCHooL Boots-The inpo' tance of encouraging the circulation of school books,written, edited,and publishedatliorae, is attracting the earnest attention of our teachre and friends of Southern educatiiM. We have been permftted to examine thbwnian uscript copy of a rew work, entitled "'The Carolina Reader," compiled by Mr. . H. Folker, of this city, consisting of short ex tracts in prose and verse, chiefly fromthe'wri tings of Southern authors and others, whose sentiments are s6und 6h the' subjedt of our domestic institutions. It appears froni the examination which we have given it, to be peculiarly adapted as a reading book for' our Academies, as welf as a convenient e'outen dium for reference, for the use of the general render. Afr. Follier is engaged in the instmue-. tion of youth, in this city ; an oectnphtion in which he liossesses a good~ m'easste of expe rience-a Carolinian by birth and education, and possessing, as the liberal expenditure of labbr and applichtion, in the present ddrtak ing, alsundantly shows, no emal share of in dustry and perseverance. We tale pfea'so in calling attention to the enterprise as the pioneer of a seriies of simiilar efforts, on the part of' our teachers, to'supply their- own text books-and woufd earnestly ufrgo the zenfots co-operation of publishers in~the'matter, with out which the- object conld not be eff'eted. It is the eompiler's intention, we are inform ed, to put it to press, ca soh as tihis indisjeun sab'e-aidecan be seciuted. It has'6een exan imed already by several of'our teneioet, and is spoken of by them, in the highest; termns. Charleston Courier. MDinSsEn Ar RussrA.-Ifon. NEI. SaoWiy, iistetyat 1Russi has written liome that ho shall ask to be recalled next summer. He says there are much less Aenet'iean trade witti Russia than formerly, and whiat there is, is mostly through Gret! Britain. The who14 ceremony between Emperor and himself, at his presentation, was-s mere conlversafien oif ten minutes. TEE YERMONr NurXFCAeois Law.-The Brattleboro (Vt.) Eagle repeats thie intima tion that the recent 1aw of the'Legislature of that State, in effect nulliffmng the fugitive slave law, was passed without the scrutiny, or oven the falil knowledge of the legislators. The bill is said to hav'e been ubrought out on the lat day of the session, when alarge num ber of the Representatives had 'left or th~ homes." i. Gen. Rusr, one of theoU. Suaeators from Texas, is said to be lyitidangrbuiyili at Whcnga .