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4:S a Demotratic Vottrual, ztott to Soutr n ifajto, 7Tiu, Soitoi, )ua utt!(gu, 7Itfratutre, Sovaitt?, Etate, %griettttt $ "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Ldoties, and if'it dftet f6ll, we will Perish amidst the Kins . F. DURISOE, Proprietr. EDGEFIELD, S. CG JANUARY 30,1851. V X PRESS ON. Press on! there's no such word as fail! Prep swiftly on! the goal is near; Ascend the mountain! breast the gale I Look upward, onward-never fear! Why should'st thou faint? heaven smiles above Though storm and vapor intervene; That sun shines on whose name i Love, Serenely o'er life's shadowed scene. IPress on! surmount the rocky steeps; Climb baldly o'er the torrent's arch; 'Ile falls alone who feebly creeps, He wine who dares the hero's march. Be thou a hero! let thy might - Tramp on eternal snows its way, And through the ebon walls of night Hew down a passage unto day. Press on! if once and twice thy feet Slip back and stumble, harder try ; From him who never-dreads to meet Danger and death, they're sure to fly. To coward ranks the bullet speeds, While on their breasts, who never quail, Gleams, guardian of chivalric deeds, Bright courage, liko a coat of mail. Press on! if Fortune play thus false, To-day, to-morrow she'll be true 'Whom now she sinks she now exalts, Taking old gifts and granting new. The wisdom of the present hour, Makes up for follies past and gone To wdakness strength succeeds, and power !From frailty springs-press on! press on I Therefore, press on! and reach the goal, And gain the prize, and wear the crown; Faint not! for to the steadfast soul Come wealth, and honor, and renown. To thinco wnself be true, and keep Thy mindfrom sloth, thy heart from soil; Press on! and thou shall surely reap A heavenly harvest for thy toil I . Gm. Putnan. It so happened, that while the Captains csitation: but Captn-., knew Stew art's meie gu e his fitness and fidelity. Stewhis post, and du ring the nightj. he General had occasion to pass outsidei;df the lines, for what pur pose.it is notfstated, but we suspect, for the purpose -of trying the young sentinel; for in returning he encountered him: "Who goes there ?" enquired the sen tinel. "General Putnam," was the reply. "We know no General Putnam here," Stewart answered. "But I am General Putnam," returned that persod, "Give me the countersign, then. "I have forgotten it," was the reply. "That's a pretty story from the lips of General Putnam! I warrant, you are a British officer, sent over here as a spy !" returned Stewart, who was weil aware lie was addressing Putnam, for the moon was shining brightly; but he had the staff in his own hand, and he meant to use it. "I warrant you 1 am not," said the -General, and attempted to pass on. "Pass that line, sir, and you arc a dead man!I" exclaimed Stewvart, at the same time cocking his gun. " Stop where you are, or PIl make you stop !" continued the sentinel as the General disregarded his first notice. Hastily raising his gun to his shoulder, and taking a somnewhat de liberate aim. " Hold! Hold !" exclaimed Putnam. "I do hold" was the reply " but I warn you once more not to cross these lines." "But I am your general," continued Putnumi. " I deny it, unless you give the coun torsign." Here the General was at fault. "Boy," said he do you not know me ? I am General Putmian." "A British officer more like. If you are Putnum, as you say, why don't y-ou give me the countersign ? So sure as I'm my mother's son, if you attempt to pass these lines, I'll make cold meat of you. I'm a sentinel. I know my dutty ; though there are some people in thme world who are marvellously inclined to doubt it." At this Putnam finding that further parle would be useless, desisted, and the boy deliberately shouldering his musket, began with a great deal of assumed haugh tiness to pace the ground as before. The General regained his tent by anoth er route; hut subsequently sent for Stew ert, commended his fidelity, rewarded him pecuniarily, and promoted him to the rank of ensign. *SAPEs zN Czmc:.<.-One of our sub szlqsinforms us, that a drop of spirits of pt into the mouth of a e thepoint of a feather or otherwirvilcure the gapes in chickens. Another atbat mixing salt with their food wvill prevent them taking gapes. Ohio Farmer,. Row-'rO i HAPPY.-Pay the Printer, lovqthe gl, and always.w'alk in thn sun ahine..' latter wiflkle'p~ you in spirits and the former a good appetited The Traitor Lover. BY WAsHINGTON IRVING. During the seige of Damascus, Derar was appointed to patrol round the city and the camp with two thousand horses. As a party of these was one night goizng the rounds near the walls, they heard the distant neighing of a horse, and, looking narrowly around, descried a horseman com.ing stealthily from the gate Keisan. Halting ina shadowy place, they waited until lie came close to them, when, rush ing forth, they made him prisoner. le was a youtiful Syrian, richly and gal lantly arrayed, and apparently a person of distinction. Scarcely had they seized him, when they beheld another horseman issuing from the gate, who, in a soft voice, called upon their captive, by the name of Jonas. They commanded the latter to invite his companion to advance. le seemed to reply, and called out some thing in Greek; upon hearing which, the other turned bridle and galloped back into the city. The Arabs, ignorant of Greek, and suspecting the words to be a warning. would have slain the prisoner on the spot, but, upon second thoughts, conductod him to Khaled. The youth avowed himself a nobleman of Damascus, and betrothed to a beauti ful maiden named Eudocca; but her par ents, from some capricious reason, had withdrawn their consent to his nuptials; whereupon the lovers had secretly agreed to lv from Damascus, A sum of gold had bribed the sentinels wio kept that night at the gate. The damsel, disguised in male attire, and accompanied by two domestics, following her lover at a dis. tance, as he sallied in advance, His re ply in Greek, when she called upon him was, " that the bird is caught," a warn. ing, at the hearing of which she fled to the city. Khaled was n* -- ,..LIU US lOr the capture of the city, . 'all was to crown his hopes. When Demascvis yielded to its foes, ze sought the dwelling of Eudocea, and earnt a new proof of her affection. Supposing on his capture by the Arabs, Lat ie had falulen a martyr to his faith, ihe had renzounced time world, and shut erself up in a convent. With a throb. ing heart line hastened to the convent, but hen the loftv minded maiden beheld him renegade, she turned from him with scorn, retired to her cell, and refused to ee him more. She was among the noble ladies who followed Thomas and flebris into exile. Her lover, fraitic at the thoughts of losing her, reminded Khaled >f hi promii.; to restore her to him, and mtreated that she might be detained ; but Khaled pleased the covenant of Aba Obe lihah, according to which :ll had free leave to depart. When Jonas afterwards discovered that Khaled meditated a pursuit of the exiles, but was discouraged by the lapse of time, lie offered to conduct lizn by short and secret passages through the mountains which would insure his overtaking them. His offer was accepted. On the fourth (ay after the departure of the exiles, Kia led set out in pursuit, wvithz four thousand chosen hzorsemnen, who, by the advice of* Jonas, were di sguzisedl as christian Arabs. For some time tizey traced tihe exiles along the plains, by the nunmerous foot prints of mules and camels, and by the articles throwvn awvay to enale thzemr to travel more expeditiously. At length thme foot priznts turned towards the mountains of Lebanon, azid were lost in their arid and rocky de files. T1he Moslezns began to faulter. "Courage !" cried Jlonas, "they will be entangled amonig the mountains ; they cannot now escape~ In the midst of~ time earniage and confuz sion, Jonas hiastenedl izn search of his be trothmed. She had treated hzizm with (dis dain as a renegade, size n ow regarded bim with hzorror, as the traitor who had brought this destruction upon hzis unhiap py countrymen. All his entreaties for her to torgive and be reconiciled to him were of no avail. She solemnly vow~ed to re pair to Constantizzople and end her days in a convent. iniding supplication fruit less, he seized her, and after a violent stirggle, threw her on the ground and made her prisoner. Size made no further resistance, but submittizng to captivity, seated herself quietly on the grass. Theiz lover flattered iimself that she hind relen ted, but, watchzing her opportunity, size suddenly drcew forth a poignamrd, pluznged it ini her breast, and fell dead at his feet. PO-rArO BAuLLs.-A lady of our ac quaintaznce recommends the following pre paration: Mix imashzed potatoes withz thme yolk of an egg-roll them into balls-flour them -or egg and bread crum them-and fry them in clear drippings of lard-or brown them in a Dutch ovezn. Mas. SwIssmtL compares the figure of a lady ini a fashion plate to that of a imowiniz funnel set in a jug. A Tale of a Horse. A good story is told in the Memphis Enquirer of a planter, who having made a pretty good crop of cotton, purchased a fine horse which he had long coveted. As he was riding along home on his new charger, he met a couple of gentlemen, one of whom said to the other: " I'll be shot, Jim, if that isn't a fine horse." "He be hanged," said the other; "he won't do to show 'side of mine. My Thunder can lick him into lint ;" casting a contemptuous and indifferent look at the planter's horse. " Thunder equal to that horse !" retort ed the first; "about as nigh as a year old is to ''hunder. Look at his head and neck; look at his shoulder; see how lie couples behind ; look what a fore leg he has. He'd move like a bird, while you know Thunder goes like a bear. Sir," addressing the owner, " will you allow mie to just put him a turn or two round the fire, here, just to show my friend here a horse as is a horso ?" The planter assented; his weak point had been reached; and the first speaker vaulted into the saddle. Every step the horse took in the little circuit around the fire was accompanied by the praises of his new rider of his admirable points and qualities while Jim, nevei theless, seemed still incredulous of his super iority, or even of his being the equal of his Thunder. You can't tell what a horse is," lie said, by trotting him around in the shade of a tree. Let hin out down the road there. Il but he'll stumble and fall down." The backer of the planter's horse put him into an easy gallop up the road, then turned and caine down the road, passing the camp as if just to take a little turn to complete the conviction of his friend in his superior iudamnit.: while Jim's counte ..a iuveries, however tmamwjt, iusL flee before awakening con sciousness. The Planter aweke fromi his, o turn about and find himself alone. Fim somehow had disappeared among the rees, and the admirer of his horse, and -he horse itself, were alike invisible. He ooked up the road, and down the road, md across the road; but neither up, nor ]own, nor across nor in any direction was either horse or rider to be seen. The truth flashed upon him, after awhile, that le had been duped and diddled in broad layliight, and right belore his eyes. lie hurried to towi. but could find no trace of the rascals , and . then has beard nothing of his fine horse. He said bie did not care so much about the value r4f the aniial, but then the fellows must !ave thought him so confoundedly green. FRrD1:urcK.-Frederick of Prussia had I n mania for enlisting gigantic soldiers into I the " Royal Guards," and paid an cuor mious bounty to his recruiting officers for getting them. One day a recruiting ser geant chanced to spy an Ilibernian who was at least seven feet high; lie accosted him in English, and proposed that Ihe shold enlist. The ideai of military life and a large b~ounty so delighmted Patrick, that lie at once consented. "Butt," says the sergeant, " unless you can speak German, the king wiill not give yuso much." "0, be jabbers," shouted the Irishinian, "shuire it is I that don't know a word of Germain." "But" said the sergean t, " threeo wo'rds will he suflicient for vou to learn. Tlhe king knows every man in the Guards, and as quick as lie sees you lie will ride up andesyo three qjuestins; first his ria jesy'ill arsk how old you are. You will say twenty-seven-next how long you have been in service; you must repl~y three weeks-finally, if you are provided wvith clothes and rations; you will an swer both." Patrick soon learned to proitounce his answers, hut never dreamed of learning the questions. In about three weeks lie appeared before the king in review. His majesty rode up to him; Paddy stepped forwarrd with presented arms." "how old are you !" said the king. "lThree weeks !" said the Irishman. " Inow long have you been in service," asked his majesty.yer. " Am I or you a fool!I" roared the king. "Both," replied Paddy, who was in stantly taken to the guard-house. A Naw PLATFoR3.-Some of the Sub missionists in Georgia defended the late acts of Congress, the Federal Govern menti and the Union generally, by assert ing that the price of cotton was high, and the people had plenty to eat. We suppose these gentlemen will be out soon with a newv platform. They w~ill be silent about territorial rights, abolition of slavery in the District, of bihe Slave trade between the States and slavery in the States, or albout aniy of the political riht in the Union, but nledrm themselves to rcsist at all hazards, and to the last ex. tremity, when cotton falls to five cents a pound, when bacon :and hominy become scarce, and when their coats are out at the elbow. They wiill resist no breaches of the Constitutionnor breaches of faith, nor breaches of any kind -but breaches into their breeches pockets.-Augusta Ro public. From the Columbus Times. The Marif. "Old Bullion" Benton shrewdly re ma:ked, during the ompromise" throes in the Senate last w4 ," that a " Protee tive Tariff" was on f the passengers in that lumbering on, s; that although it did not hold an inside seat, it was stowed away under the driver's box; and " what's more" said Benton, "Father Ritchieknows it is there." Mr, Rkchie indignantly de nied such knowled at the time. But Benton was right, ether he knew it or not. And now, the ibus having pass ed a considerable pi.of its journey, the Tariff, sure enough, okes out its head to the infinite pleasure -f those who were in the fraud, and the VIl affected amaze ment of those who pAtended not to know it. Recently in the Sinate, Mr. Clay, the great enemy of Fre'Trade, presented a memorial from a Mril'imberlake, of Vir ginia, a nanufacturer~jraying an increase )f the present rate ,ogduties. Mr. Clay set forth its charactets follows: '- Mr. Timberlake- represents that lie ias engaged near Monticello, (the former esidence of the lateiMr. Jefferson) in an xtensive manufactm of cotton, having nvested some sixty venty thousand lollars in that busi *.j hat he has be towed upon it eve on, practised very economy, an to.all menas ires which present Veis m fo ender his busin -*onably Pithe tariff nemorial is ext, ictitioner is a sensible and practical man, Aid one of high character and standing, ,s I happen to know personally." Now, suppose that every -word that Mr. ,lay says, be true, and every statement aade by his client is incontrovertible. It ollows that Mr. Timberlake has made a iad investment of his money; and that iis 60 or 70,000 dollars in his cotton nill do not pay him welh What then ? )oes it follow that Congress should come o his relief? Is thec Treasury of the 1overnment instituted and filled to make ,ood private losses an had private specu attions)? Common sense would say, nay. 3ut worse than this, is Mr. Timberla.ke a nodest man, or an impudent cornoranit of the Protective seiool, when he comes o ask Congress to give him relief, not by aying hini money diready in the Treasu. y, but by taxing al: the other industrial mployments of the country, in order to aise money to onbl his industry to =eueed ? If Mr. Timberlake cannot nahe money in Vi-ginia by cotton mill zig, why let him qutt the business, or else some here to Georgia where we know lie :an make it. But we protest against his lemnand to tax us,and " all the rest of n:nmkind" in the U. States, on every yard f cotton cloth, anl every bundlle of cot on twist that is ndo, in order to raise hie price of the poductions of his spin .lies and looms, aid thereby enable him to make imney. ?ut another case-sup pose Mr. Hoimespm of Georgia, wcre to go to-day into a h-avy planting speculaz. tion ; anid should jurchase a cotton estate worth $100,000 zt present high prices. Suppose next yea, a large crop Lof cotton is made, and the staple falls to 5 cents the pound. Mr.- Homespun has made a bad investment. His business not only will not pay a rofitable return an his capital, but unles lie started with a strong capital, his back is broken and he fails. Mr.- Homespun hLs arrived then, exactly at the point whie: Mr. Timberlake occu p~ies, And now let .s take Mr. Homespen's memorial to Cogress, and get Mr. Clay to present it to te Senate-state his case in his most wining style and pray an in direct tax on i manufacturers of collon for Mr. Hlomesun's relief. Mr. Home spun, remembe, represents a class im imensely greate in iiumbers, eqnally as resp~ectable in earacter, and to the full, as useful to thecountry in the nature of its pursuits as hat represented by Mr. Timberlake. 'et what wvould lie our un fortunate Plantr's reception at the bar of Congress? H would be laughed at as a fool, and rejeed as a knave, trying to throw the burdis of his misfortunes on his countrymen Not so, Mr. Timberlake. lHe finds the g.at Mr. Clay to plead his cause. He fils President Fillmore to back up in hisemnand for plunder in his Executive msage. He finds ready countenance rd support in the represen tatives from 1Nthern manufacturing dis tricts, and he rill find Southern Traitors to help him wsh their votes to pick the nnckets of the own nstituents, in coi. sideration that the North will temporarilj keep quiet on the slavery question, until they can set their new party up on its legs and complete a political organization thal will be powerful enough to keep the South down like a " toad under a harrow' for at least one, and perhaps many, Presi dential elections. We have always been opposed to tax iug the Southern people to enrich a small nest of yankee manufacturers. But since the North has robbed the South of all her blood-bought land, stamped her institu tions, with its reprobation, and proven herself to be an enemy to her interests, her safety and her good name, we are doubly and trebly hostile to the renewal of this system of abominable plunder. Our motto is "millions for defence, and not a cent for tribute." And with due deference to our moderate neighbor of the Enquirer, we think that any southerner, who, under these circumstances will vote to gorge Northern avarice with Southern tribute is a double dved traitor, for whom hemp is due, if political villainy ever merits such punishment. Tim PowER OF THE PULrIT AND 'HE Parss.-An eminent tpeaker recently said that nowhere under the Heavens is the pulpit so free as in this country. The pulpit is a sacred, free, exalted enshrine ment of all God's messages to our fallen race. All institutions are beneath it. It should guide public opinion, not follow it. A time-serving pulpit is one of the great est evils God ever permits to fall upon a people. In our day the pulpit is too apt to pay a regard to what the merchants and the newspaper press may say. Popu. larity is the element which the pulpit is in danger of, instead of a bold, elevated, fearless faithfulness to God and his Word, and the souls of men, The Press, its power, its energy, its irresuonsibility, was then forcibly discuss. S . . .. ., wuitiude they have given it an irresponsible power. For you might as well expect a combina tion and agreement among all the raii drops that feed a torrent to stop descend ing, when they see their brook running to the ocean, as may the subscribers of a journal which has become wealthy and feared and of great influence by a circu lation of 20,000 or 30,000, to cripple its energies when they see it going wrong. Hence in cities its means of proscription are so vast; it may single out a merchant aind proscribe his goods by proscribing his principles, or it may single out a minister and deal its shafts at him-but no news paper, not a combination of all the news papers in the world, can touch the minis ter of Christ who is faithful to his God. GAMBLINm IN PHILADELPHIA.-The N. Y. Tribune states that there are at least a dozen splendid gambling-houses in New York, which are never visited by the police; while the hundreds of a fewer grade are kept under the constant sur veillance of the authorities. We under stand that the same condition of affairs exists in this city. This exemptioni can not be too strongly censured. Gambliing is equally gambling, whether the players wyear fine coats or coarse ones, whether the room is magnificently adorned or shabbily furnished. In a republic, wealth should have no exemption from prinish nment, if it violates the laws. T1he fashm ionable dandy, who loses his nmoney at a laro table, is not a whit better than the unshav-en operative who gambles with a p~a(k of dirty cards. Both infringe the lawvs, and both should be p~unishedl. It is said that, in New York, the officers of justice, and officials high in authority, are frequently seen engaged in play at the ntore costly gambling saloons. We trust that no such scandalons example is set in Philadelphia. 'There is already sittlicient laxity of morals on this subject, without thus giving thme sanction of law, as it were, to gambling. It would be a good thing for our city if a dlescent should be made on these establishments, the nests of vice brokeni up, and the principal of fenders consigned to merited p~unishment. W~hy is this not done ?-Evening Bulle tin. ANOTuIta DEATH ON TnlE RATLJIOAD.-A foung man, by the namue of Page, a fireaman n the Railroad, came to his death yesterdayv norning, under the following distressing cir :umstances: He was on a freight train, which [ad stopped at Louisville, (a station on the Dolnumbia branch of the South-Carolina Rail road,) and was bareking on to the side tracek ror the purpose of' allowing the passenger rain to pass. Whilst so doing, Mr. Page :linmbed to the top) of one of the box care, to see if the passenger train in sight, and slip uing, fell between two cars on the Road, and he train passed over his breast, killing him nstantaneously. His body wams brought to he city yesterday in the Columbia train for ntement._C'harlcstnn Sn. Allance for the Protection of Cuba. For some months there have been ru. mors of a projected alliance between France, England, and the. United States, to quarantee the integrity of the Spanish territories in America. The New York Courier publishes a translation of an ar tiele in the Cronica, a Spanish paper published in New York. From that arti cle, it appears that a portion of the Span iards reject this dangerous protection. The artielo is an amusing illustration of pride and poverty. The idea of the abili ty of Spain to protect Cuba from the U. States, whenever we want it, is really rich. The only mode by which Spain can do us any injury, wrould be by licen sing privateers. Such is the feeling of the age, that this species of private rob bery will not be tolerated, and the United States will, in any future war, denounce and treat as pirates all mariners who may be found with arms in their hands, unless they are citizens of the belligerent. " We have so often spoken of the suffi. ciency of the forces of Spain to resist and destroy, not only the offenders who may take arms in any foreign land, in time of legal peace with the country in which this armament is carried on, but also the hostile forces of any nation that might embrace as its own the cause of those criminals, that we think it superflous to repeat the reasons which led us to our conclusion. We must shut our eyes to the evidence, to avoid the discovery that Spain might now do infinitely more injury to England or the United States in a maritime war, than either of them could do to her. This relative position, produced by the losses and disasters of Spain, which ob liged her to concentrate her attention and her ' inextinguishable recuperative power,' (to quote the happy expression of one of the most able writers of the day,) confirms the consciousness which Spain ought to have of her own iziportancc in this pro ueray a fe Just new Cuba is like a back concession to our plantations-we do not absolutely need it, and we will wait until it is abso lutely necessary. But then sooner or la ter, we shall send over a few thousand of the men Who fought at Buena Vista and Chernbuseo, and the afiair will be overin half a campaign.-N. 0. Crescent. ALFS' C.STOn OIL FACTORY.-The cultivation of the Castor Oil Plant is at tracting the attention of our Agriculturists several of whom have been investigating the probability of its becoinig an ir.por- I tant staple product in this State. The en- I terprise of one of our citizens has opened a new field of labor in the mnanufacturing of the seed into Oil of very superior quality, and in aftrding facilities to grow- I ers for obtaining their supplies in abun dance, and on the most accommodating terms. Mr. C. Alfs, of this city, has the honor of having founded the first Castor I Oil Factory in Charleston, and thus di- f recting enquiry into the question of its profitable culture. An interesting visit to this new and promising establishment, enables us to lav before our readers a brief sketch of its design aiid( progress. The imaciniery is set in motion by a steam enginte, of' Southern construction, the work of Messrs. Poo~le & eriguson, of Baltimore. The seed is deposited in thme carriage or receptable of a large Ily dIraulie Pr-ess, of 8(30 tonis pressure, from nuimerons operation in which the fluid ex uides into a ciircular basin, whence it is carried by3 pipes into large clarifiers and receivemrs, and after palssing through diflh rent refiining processes, is p~repaLredl for put-4 tingif in barrels, Two gallons of OilI are extracted fr-om a bushel of good seed, (which must average 45 lbs. to the b~u shel.) Good seed is worth about $2 per bushel. Mr. Alfs hns on hand for the ac connmnodation of pilamnters, a good supply i of the best seed, whlich, in order to in- I crease the production, in the neighbor- I hood of the city, he offers to furnish, in< advance, not to be paid for until the crop hans been made. Thle Oil manufactured by Mr. Alfs, is beautifully clear, cold pressed, and im measurably superior to aniy imp~ortedl iinto one market. His factory is situated on King-street, a few doors above John- 1 street, immediately in the rear of William< Hlummnell's Drug Store, and is wvell worth a visit from the curious in such matters, Chars. Courier. G oon.-A Washington correspondent. of the N. Y. Express says :-A number of applications hav-e been madle by our foreign ministers, to b)e irecalled ; but the President is inflexible in refusing them1 this privilege. I could name five missions I that would be vacant this moment, had the Pr-esident assented to their wishes ; but he is resolved so far as consistent wvith duty-, that if men will accept of outfits,< they shall pay their own expenses home,f or serve out the period of their appoint- < ment. LETTER Fnox TH. . cou* in our offic-a- faithfolsemployee, ho has been at his "eise,"unefe oar e or teen years-havinggone.Sith for thoisto ration of his' heilthwriteusa au-follows His observations iae.bregardaiehotsedO? an intelligent g enem as,weU aspractieal workman.-N.Y ,Commerisi, -C M; S. C.,De. 2%, I85 * * . Ileft Chareston:o Thursday morning, after seefng how 1he col. ored people enjoy, thcmslieson day in the South. in the -morning,the herd and saw were pistols a 1.d a I travelled through from the ages of o up to old men, firing their pistols,just as the boys do at ho of July. A happier set of peo raw. inmy life; they seemed to p n their minds, and to care onr ould take the most pleasure d remainder of the week-for they eontlteir holiday through the w'ole of it. we passed-on we saw at almost everydp large groups of negroes collected, who seemed-ti been. joying themselves in the izi.- way as.at Charleston. Where I aui stayingithe gentleman has"iut twent e ind since Wednesday he has.hard or more of them to'split.., g.,to keep the fires agoing. Tlieyl a tzken up so much with-thL ho ioay they will commence..W . A the slaves here have da them, and I am informed through with them by two oll & Some chop..wood, and other t eit things uiound th h been, to-dti the -n course of, to Newrk,i aiderablsIhacwF * ?a or sown a 2nd year )lowed under in 3rd year-W - rer sown. .... . 4th year-Clover-( recei 4 he stable and barn-yardmaure) ~ ,rowth mown, when fit, and secon ilowed under in August and"Septme or 5th year-Wheat on elover fallow. 6th year-Pasture, from- spring Until he wheat fields are cleared -to. admit the razing stock.-Albany Cutivator. NEoRo WIT.-There is n tradition that me of the old Esquires, inkaldeu, Mas ;achusetts, had a slave, who had been in is family until he was about deventy ears of age. Perceiving thatthere was ot mIch more work left in the old man. he Esquire took him one day, and mado in a somewhat pompous address, to the ullowing effect: " You have been a faithful servant to ne, and my father before me. I have ong been thinking what I should do to - -eward for your services. I give you rour freedom! You are your ow~n mas er-you are your own man." Upon this, the old negro shook his trisly-head, and with a sly gbinee, show ng that he saw through his master's in ention, quietly replied: " No, no, nmassa; you eat de ment, and uow you must pick de bone." Tc PAsnA's WIFE.-We soine time ince published an account of a Greek ady, married to an English gentleman'at Jonstantinople, who had passed into the iaremn of one Pasha, and then became the vile of another, (Mehemet then riding us ambassador in London) tipen whom he had palmed two surreptidious chidren, md murdered the slave whoi had detected ho fraud. The end of the story, as wo earn from the foreign papers, is, that Me emett, on his return to Constantinople, tivorced the delinquent dame. We have Iready stated that she has Ijeen condemn- -2 d to five year's imprisonment for tho iurder of the slave. ECCENTnICTY.-A rich Eld miser, liv ag in A uburn, New York, is going to be uried in Owasco Lake, a beautiful sheet f water near the town. He has a stone oflin made, which takes twvelve yoke of xen to draw it. He gives a man a nice atrm for burying him. He is to take him o the middle of the lake, and sink him. ' L. curious idea.-Saturday Post. WVOxrA's love is a good deal like cam nomile-the more it's trod on, the faster grows. Tro give a girl "airs," we now of nothing wvorse than too ardent .ttachment.-A little water makes some res burn the faster. A L.AZY fellow once deolared in public 'y ompany, that'-he could ust -find bread or his family. "Nor I," feylied an in ustrious mechanic, -d! bigdt rork for it"*1olgdt