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Southern Editors and Book sellers. ABOLITION LITERATURE. The prevalence in the Southern States of an uncommon social organization has at once constituted a distinction between them and other States, and produced an identity of interest which, underlying all local and party differences, pervades the whole comminity. An attack upon Southern institutions, par ticularly if it be of a political or religious character, will set all the newspapers in com motion, and through these disturb the equanimity of the quiet public. But there is, in reference to abolition literature, a strange negligence. Why is this? Is it only the politienl hack that can influence public opinion, or have an effect upon the destinies of the common wealth? Are we forgetfnl that the ballad maker of a people has influence as well as the law maker? Or are we to be compelled to the belief that party drill and political promotion are more active motives and more powerful agents than patriotism and truth? While we but do our duty in opposing political abolitionists are we highly criminal or grossly negligent when we welcome to our firesides and homes the productions of our literary abolitionists. Our newspapers have made us all familiar with the names and opinions and conduct of that old political hack, the notorious Joshua Giddings; but his name is a name of con tempt. Are there not some just as decided in their sentiments and just as deadly in their hatred to every interest of the South, whose names are names of honor? And by whose fault? We answer, by the fault of Southern editors and Southern booksellers. The puffs of the first and the advertisemints of the last give reputation and introduce lte writinss of abolitionists to our people. Thus Longfellow's poems on slavery have beei introduced; inculcating false views and sick. ly sentimentality, instead of a true poetic feeling. The most influental newspaper in the Northern States, out of question, is the New York Tribune, and the most deadly enemy of Southern institutions is its Editor, Horace Greely. A free soiler, in national p6lities, an agrarian and vote-yourself-a-fiarui man, a Fouricite. an anti-slavery man in eve ry respect, is Mr. Greely. He has lately published a book about his sayings and do ings in Europe, and at once the Southern press and the Southern book merchants ad vertise and sell Mr. Greely's lucubrations. putting money in his pocket to enable him to light us more successfully. Mr. Dana, of Charleston, has published a better book of travels, and Southern editors do not putf and Southern merchants do not advertise it. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, sister of Mr. Henry Ward Beecher, has lately published an abolition Novel, called Uncle Toni's Cab in. A very convenient substitute for talent and genius is a miserable conformity to a bad popular passion. And mediocre writers can get up a tolerable share of notoriety and pocket some money by pandering to the public taste. Be it so. If the Northern peo ple are satistied to receive Anti-slavery diatribes as a substitute for genius. we have no objection; but we do object to Southern critics taking abolition works on the credit of Northern puffi. We hope our brethren of the Dress will examine Mrs. Stowe's book before they puff it, and we trust Longrflel low's poeims and Greely's book may Iming continue to adorn t-he shelves of the South ern booksellers who iinive them on sale. [Temp. Baniner. cities: Whenever a fugitive slave is canght in Newv York and restored to his master, some of the merchnants anid others of that city make a great stir, and, by the most piteous appeals, raise money enoughi to purchase the negro and set him at liberty. Sometnes they do not succeed, but they generally make the attempt. "Now, it strikes us that the moral effect o-f this sort of business is decidedly bad ; and we are certain that it springs from a nmotive which, down here, is not considered sound or estinmable. In the first place, it induces unobserving men to believe that there is great friendship for Southern insti tutions ini New York; amnd thus they faill asleep in the notion that we have only got to let our Northern brethren manage this atiair, andl all will be well.I " Secondly: thme custom prevails nowhere else in the Free States; and it is suspected that it obtaiins in New York simply for a mercantile purpose. If trade can be kept in 'bld channels by a few men occasionally getting together and c->ntributing each ier dollamrs or so, why it is an iivestiment which is decidedly profitaible. "But we contend that it is, calculated to increamse in the North the odiousness of the Fugitive Slave Law, and thus : Their pur chatsing of fugitives (some three or four per annum) proceeds upon the presumption that both slavery and the law are evils; but the latter, being a law, may not be evaded, ex cept indirectly, i. e. by paying to the master of the fugitive the price of its invasion and nullification. If the property of a poor main be seized in Ncw York for debt, no sub. scriptions of this sort are set on foot; aiid because around him every one recognize thme justice of the law by whlich he is subjected to the penalty. If the popular opinion in New York were in a condition to do in this case what is done in the case of fugitiv-e slaves, that opinion would soon be sufficient ly strong to work a change in the laws, and the poor man's property would then be ex empt from attachments. The precise effect will occur in the other case. These mnonied interfereiices with the law indicate that it is unpopular, and only waits a convV ent time to be set aside. Trhe whole business proceeds in deepseated ob jections to slavery and the law, which, in the caso of the latter, are made subservient to policy. Alaw whose stability rests on this slender foundation can have no durability. "If slavery cannot be defended on the grounds of its abstract justice, it can have no defence at all worthy of note; and no good man can'give- it defence. We, there fore, detest these expedients, which can only last until power enough shall have been ae- 1 quired to get along without them." 1 WEATHER AND Caors IN TEXAs.-TleJ Huntsville Item, of the 8th, says: " The sea son thus far is beautiful in Texas for crops. From all quarters our exchanges teem with accounts of the abundance in prospect of I corn-the staff of life. In our own neigh borhood, in many places, it is in tassel, andt some of our fairmers have enjoyed the luxury of roasting ears. It is everywhere so far ad.vanced that even a drought would not now affet its maturity. Of cotton we are not yet prepared to speak, as it- generally is the 'v last of the summer before an opinion can be t formed. One thing we know, that is, eorn t ha~s been much more extensirely planted than e cotton, as indeed it should be, it being no- ti cessary for the life of both man and. beast. Y ' Less money but muore food' appears to have ti EDGEFIELD Ms Os . THURSDAY; MAY 20, 1852. OUR APOLOCY, WE desired to make a feW editorial remarks in o-days paper, but the unusual length of the :ommunications prevents us from carrying our wishes into efftcri. We are heartily glad to re reive, and would freely publish, communications )f the proper length and breathing the proper pirit, and we sincerely trust that our correspon ents will reform in both of the above failings. It would be arrogance on our part, to say that perspicacity and brevity are indispensible re quisites to perfection in style-that one line of poetry bore the palm from hundreds, and that Sallust and Tacitus, (both remarkable for their brevity) are still allowed to be models for imita tation. " Brevity in addition to its other excel lencies" says a learned writer, " has this'virtue a short piece will always be read." Mo TIlE " NoRTII AtiERICAN MISCELLANY AND DOLLAR IAGAZNE," for May, teaches us this morning. It is published by lessrs. ANGELL, ENFEL & HEWITT, New York. We have not had (since its arrival) leisure time for reading, and therefore forbear any comments upon its contents. One thing, however, we can say in its favor, viz: that the subscription price is very cheap, being only one dollar per annum, by no means an unimportant circumstance. REW WHEAT. ON yesterday we were shown a beautiful sam ple of early wheat from the plantation of our worthy and * much esteemed fellow citizen, Mr. AitoN LINDSAY. It is apparently perfectly ripe and exceedingly fine tasted. We hope Mr. L. will soon turn his crop into flotr, and let us have a barrel or two, for the stock on hand at present, is anything but palatable, tosay nothing of pay ing $9 for it, per barrel. THE FILL10RE MEETING. TuE great mass meeting held by the friends of MILLARD FILLMOaE, in the city of New York, on the 10th inst., is said to have been "large and spirited," an occasion full of interest and satis faction to all the conservative portion of the Whig party. The iHon. J. McPnEtsox BER RIEN (Senator from Georgia) was one among the invited guests. Mr. B. declined either attending or addressing the meeting, but in a letter ad dressed to the Committee of Imitation, expressed himself openly and avowedly in favor of 31r. FInL.utoRE fur the Presidency. The latter por. tion of his .letter reads as follows-" if the ex pression of an earnest desire, felt and cherished not merely as a Southern inam, but also as an American citizen, looking to the welfare of this great Republic, in all its varied interests of an anxious wish that lie may be nominated and elected to that high office; if these sentiments may be in any degree acceptable to the meeting, I offer them to you as frankly as I entertain them sincerely. Senator B. also intimates that 31r. FILLMORE, as the nominee of the National Convention for the Presidency, would command a respectable portion of the Democratic party in Georgia. CONGRESSIONAL. Tus news from Washington is exceedingly dull and uninteresting. Inideed the members or~ both hottses are apparently fatigued, if not a little Sds sted with the btsinmess beford hem-for we s'f-r-wan-1ethdscus sions upon thme hackneyed subject'of the Pubilic Printing, postponed thtat qnestion until Wedttes day next, and adjournen over until Montday, making Saturday a rest (lay equtally with Sunday. The Senate als, having exhatusted its whole strength upon the " IDeficiency Bill," renewed its flagging spirits, bty fullnowing the example oIf the Ihouse, leavinig, says the Nationaml Ite llige'n cer, the bill and the everlastintg quecstion still on the table. We must, htowever, compliment the Ihouse tup on the earnest zeal and ardour with which it entered upon its butsiness in thte beginning of last week. 3More then forty Senate Bills atnd an equal number of Ezecustive communications were disposed of in quickorder, atnd to the great credit of the Ihouse. If the intermintable and unintel ligible printing question could be buried, busi ness would go otn r:inpidly, and Congress, as well as newspapers, would present a nmore interestintg appearance. Thte speeches of Mr. Irraa, Senator from Virginia, upon the Deficienicy Bill, amnd particu larly upon thte proposition to granit an increase of compentsation to thme Collin's Line ofsteamers, are spoken of as high and able efforts. Hie guards thte public treasury with thte watchifulness of an Argus, and as formidably as the Drogon in thte Garden of the fespterides, bttt 3Mercury's and Jason's are more tnmerous now-a-days, and his sleclpless efyorts amnd incorruptible vigilance are likely to prove tunavaihitng. The P'residcntial question is still very mutch agitated, and as yet all is unceertainty. We presume things will wear an enttirely ditrerenit aspect after the meeting of the Baltimore Democratic Con vention. Then indeed the fightt will begin in good earnest. The main issue in thme election will be the Compromise measures, or who shall have the distribution of fifty one millions of dollars a year, and about forty thousand offices more probably thte latter will be thte turning poit in said clection, fur we deem the enforcing of the Compromise measures cte -motlies~t jargon that ever proceeded from a politicians mouth, the rnenst gibberish, ithe most empty unmeaning mound, as the ancient sage said of his wife's rbusive scolding, it is " roz etprac lerea ihil." f it should turn otut to be a contest for the loaves nd fishes, thtere will be an unheartd of scramble. Democrats, Whmigs, Abolitionists, Freesoilers, Barnburners, the old Fogies and the new De nocracy will all have a finger in the pie, forcibly eninding us of thte marier'sm cry in the tempest, *Hell is empty and all the Devil's arc here." It is a source of much gratification, and re lects great and additional honor upon our State hat shte stands aloof from this contest for federal onors and tiederal spoils. Be thme President who s may, her sons expect little or nothing at his ands. Brave aind noble and generous, though hey may be, able arnd eloquent anddistinguishmed, hey are nevertheless a piroscribed party, and a oreigner might more reasonably expect an office1 tider the administration than a Soumth 'Caroli *san, If ou: State cannot elect a P'resident akin to r at least in sentiment and feeling, let her stand part- from the national scramble, thereby gaining e admiration of her sister States, and ascending step higliec' in thie scale of perfection. A DUEL ON A- STE1ioAr.-The Louis ille Courier ays thatt two passengers on e steamer Charles fHnitunond, during herr -ip from New Orleants to Lotuisville, ex. anged three shots on the-hturrientne deck of e buat. One of the party, a Texas paitnter,I s shot in the arm. We couild not aseer in the cause of thte misuinderstanding thatt 1 1 to the :tflhir. a 0OMMUNICATIONS, a FOX THE ADVERTISER. p MESSRS. EDITORS:-Our attention has been 0 arrested by a portion of a long article, which S appeared in your last issue, from your corres- 8 pondent " SWEET I-OME," which we consider an unwarrantable taunt, amounting almost to an insult, to those who have had the misfortune to it be born in a foreign land, and who have taken 2 up their residence amongst you. le states that Y when a Northern man tells him that he would t fight for the South, he tells him that he is a traitor. He appears to have no confidence in the man who would, under any circumstance, r fight against his native land, (forgetting that a man's patriotism is due to the country to which he has sworn allegiance.) lIe thinks it the duty of a citizen, born elsewhere, to return home in S time of war, rather than join the South, which lie has always been taught to hate ; and should he not do so, lie holds ltim guilty of either trea- . son or falsehood* This, Messrs. Editors, is a painful and unmerited insult to those strangers among you who have identified themselves with your country by marriage, by interest, and by every thing that renders the domestic circle I sacred and dear. We had the misfortunt to be born in a distant I land, and one of the first impressions placed on our young and tender mind, was to look upon African slavery as the blackest, and most out rageous of all crins. .Under that impression we were nurtured and raised. From infancy our young and nistakert-sympathies were extited hy the unfounded tales of sorrow and of woe, to which we were told the African race was sub ject. Those principles were instilled into our mind by affectionate, but erring parents. Need we then be surprised that those prej udices should become so strong as almost to form a part of our very nature, and, in some instances. prompt us to declare eternal hostility to the South and her institutions. Those sentiments followed us to i manhood, when we found to our sorrow, that African slavery was not the only species of slavery which had an existence. We found our self in the very midst of a slavery which ren dered life itself intolerable, a slavery which did not respect, but trampled under foot, the most sacred rights of our common humanity. We were surrounded on every hand by crime and vice, poverty, suffering and starvation. Human ity, in all its degraded and loathsome forms, was ever hofore us, to render us disgusted with the land of our birth, and the institutions by which we were surround:d. This was white slavery of a most appalling nature. While we were taught to look upon America as the land of slavery, it was likewise associated with our ideas of freedom, justice and equality, and when our mind was oppressed by a sense of degration, we looked upon this as being the only country, in which we could earn a competent livelihood, where our rights would be respected, and where every honest man could have a chance of earning for himseIlf an honorable dis tinetion. We had heard much of the philanthropy of the Northern States. We lookedutponthmem as the land in which the oppressed'of every nation, en .rTnder this :mpression,i balle a painful radieu to all thre associations of childhood, to the friends and the country of odr birth. We felt as if a new aind brighter era was about to dawn upon our miserable existence-as though old things were about to pass away and all thin~gs become new. After a long winter voyage we arrived in Boston, Mrassachusetts, that boasted land of freedom., We were sorrowful and dejected to find their philanrthiropy false, rotten and eruel. We found that all their symipathnies had been exp~ended in behalf of thne Suouthern States ;they had none left for the unifortunrate and oppressed of their own race. We were despised, rejected, insulted and almost spit upon, because we had i thre misfortune to be born ini a distant country. They' take a telescopic view of the miseries of human life-they can see and feel for tire imnagi nary evils under whiieh the Southern slaves are doomied to live, while thne poverty, sull'ering anid i crime by which they are msurrournded, pa~ss en-i no:ieedi and unrelieved. Our soul turned wvith disgust from such a state of things, anid after 4 seeking ini vain for freedom. justice arnd equality< of which theny boast so much, we determiined tot turn our course to thne land of negro slavery, and to try our luck in thre Panretto State. t We took our depiarture from Boston toc Charleston aind exp~ecd, on our arrival, to wit ness scenes of cruelty that would shoek tirei most obdurate heart. It hard been representedi to us that thre slaves wecre even yoked in wag gonis in thre placee of horses, and wvere subjected to the perpietual lash of the driver's whip. Ont approaebing thre wvharf, we listened attenitively, acruailly expecting to hearr thre shrieks arid cries 1 of the poor unfortunate slaves ; but we listened a in vain. We entered the city arid found the r streets full of negroes following their various s occupations, well elaid and apparently cheerful p anid contented. Being a perfect stranger, we t1 had great curiosity to see thne slases and witness tl thre great abominations of slavery. A fter search- e ing~ for three days, we ventured to enquire where q the slaves were kept, and were told that they p were in the streets. This brief revelation struck e us with astonishmnenit, and from that moment we hi began to learn that the South was slandered and ra her institutions misrepresented. - il Tire Southern people hand ever been chrarae terized in our hearing as cruel, treacherous and blood-thirsty. We ventured gradually to niake r ourselves acquainted wihr them, and to our sur prise found them the most brave, generous arid a open hearted of all p~eople. They treated ua as a man, not as an enemy and a foreigner. After t< leaving home, we never found a practical friend ha tiIl we arrived in South Carolina. After several ci rears of observation arid investigation, our early tI prejudices against thre South and her institutions rave been removed entirely. Arid in justice to he land of our adoption, we must say that since re ve crossed Mason arnd D)ixorn's line wve have qm een a stranger to those scenes of poverty, crime ii ad distress, which were continually before us W. n thme hireling States.t In no portion of the world is thiere so much s cal happiness, wcalth, virtue and contentment, th s in the slave-holding States. The slaves are vc rell fed, are strangers to want and. real hard ibor, and laying aside the name of freedom, we - o not hesitate to pronounce them the happiest y'e nidk nanat cntntedfolrkirnr populationn r ath, ie inee our residence amongst, you we have en eavored, throug the medium -of a forcign ress, to disabuse the public mind on the subject r Southern slavery. We have identified our -lf with you by marriage, have connected our a1f with you as a slave-holder, and when your outhern Rights Association was formed we ere not the last to join you, and pledge our a I I defence of your' 80' and her institutions. Lfter doing all thi, gentlemen, is it right for our correspondent:to impugn our motives or accuse us either of treason or falsehood? Vere we to leave our wife and children, (native iarolinians) and ggback to our native land and efuse to defend our domestic hearth, as your orrespondent advises, we should indeed be a -aitor and a coward of the deepest die. Anl ;hile we look back with sad feelings, to the cenery and associations of our childhood, yet, t the risk of being called a traitor, we do not ,esitati to assert that.we hate the institutions of lie land that gave us birth. We feel ourself nder ten thousand obligations to defend our wn dear fife-side and the land of our adoption. Ve have absolved ourself from all allegiance to 11 other powers. . Why, sir, accord ug to the easonings of your correspondent, there were nany of our revolutionary heroes (born in Eng und) who fought, and died in the cause of your ountry's liberty, but who, to use "SwEET -oa:E's" own langpage, were "traiturs, who mght to have died, 1 Unwept, unhonored, and unnung.'" As we have already. trespassed too much on -oui- columns and your patience, we will con lIude, with a wish that your correspondent will et us live in peace inh-the land of our adoption. AN ENCI.isSTAN nY BiRTIh, AN AMERICAN BY CnoICE, A SdUTnIERNER IN PRINCIPLE. FOR THE ADVERTISER. MEsss. EDIEos:--In your last paper ap ieared an article de omnibus rebus, but profes. iing to be upon the subject of " Our M1ale Academy."-Hmyreach an enormous enter ainment, of -such almost interminable vari ty of viands could$'e gotten up from so short a ill of fare. is reallysurprising. The quantity is imaing; the quality speaks for itself. If we may be pardoned thimpiety, it irresistibly re minds one of the mibaculous feeding of the mnul titude upon a few loaves and fishes and of the large amount of fragments left. We do not propose to gather up the fragments left from this literary surcharge, how amusing soever it might be. We forego thij gratification from the per suasion that the plaj would not be worth the Laudle. It is merely to correct a single state ment made by the rriter that we claim a small space in your columns. The writcr states that ' The Trustees cannot get a Southern and will not employ a Northern Teacher." It is not to correct any impression that such a statement can make in this comlmunity that we trouble you with this Communiiation; but it may be read abroad by persons who have no means of being more correctly informned and thus prevent the Trustees from receivig applications from Teach ers who might be ablgehier acceptable to them. For, we venture t~ 4y, and we speak advisedly, that th~e assertion 4Lte alluded to is wholly gratuijous and alt er unwarranted by any the face of evciything to, the colitrary, itis a little strange that' any one could suppose the Trustees influenced by such narrow-contracted, sickly, pseudo-patiiotic sentimnts as this writer ins volunteered to attribute to thenm. The only riualification they require in an applicant is, merit. .The comnpetest, faithful teneher, native yr not, Northern orSouthern. is eligible. We educate our sons for the world and invite teach ers from any and every quarter, whlo may pos ;ess the requisite qualification., to occupy our racant Academy. We cannot, like. your contributor, feel 'com x'nsated for the ignaorance anad stupaidity of our ons lay the patriotic refik etion that they have >een taught by Teachiers whose only qunlifica ion was, that they hailed from the Sunny South. Sor can we wonder that any who gives such mnmistakeable evidence of being home raised lhouldl entertain such a patriotic horror of exot es. .All things else being equal, wve prefer the southaern Teacher. But such Techers are few id far between ; and shall we close the doaors >f our A cademies against able Teachers, Tench tr, too, by profession, because they happiened o be born North of a certain geographical line ? Chalhl our children grow up in ignorance while heir patriotic fathers are waiting for such a hange in Southern sentimeint as shall eall the amie talent to the Sool Room as is now found ri the profession of Medicine, in thne Forum and i the Pulpit ? Is it for pursuing such a course s this that our Trustees are "econgratulated" nd graciously promised the approving smiles of le citizens of the District ? A way with such atriotism ! .Let us -not he deceived by the iiserable slang and the stale cant of ambitious spirants for some political notoriety ; but let us ather be solicitious aboaut furnishing for our unsn and our daughters all the facilities in our ower for acquiring a finished education. Let icelBig-endians and the Little-endians spend icir lives in profitless controversy about non isentials, while we-with our inces set like flints. aietly pursue the even tenor of our way, in the rosecution of what we regard our truest inter it. Thus, Meiasrs. ED:TORS, shall we, in our umble opinion, be doing good to the rising gene ition while visionaries content themselves with Ic specnlations and impracticable theories. TIUTII. SINGULAR PYsiOoooCA1. FACr.-A letter om Sharp's store, Dowvndes Ce., Ga., to the [illedgeville Recorder, tells the following ngular circumstance: " In the year 1845, a little boy, the son of ?r. Ashley Lawson, got stranglied in trying swallow a chinquepin, and from that time has been troubled withI a cough similar to oup every winter.' This spring his parents ought lie wvould die, (being worse off than mual) but he coughied up the ehinquepin. nm examination it, hid a bonty covering about me sixteenth of an inch thickron it. On moving the osseous substance, the chin. nepin wvas found to be perfectly sound, the arnks were on it where he had scra[ped it I ith his knife before trying to swallow it. He is now in good health and is free from e cough, with wvhich he has been troubled long. Ini conclusion I would say, thnzt ere are many respectable persona who will uch for the truth'of thme above statement.r Signed. . .. JAS. R. Fosson." TIIE Duke of-Wellington is eighty-three ' mrs old, enjoying excellent health, lairge ,o, and p,1ltaty~a of moaney. P FOR THE ADVERTISER. Education in Edgefield. MESSRS. EDITORS:-The physical, moral and social condition of the South is much superior to that of the North, which has the advantage over the former, in no element of national greatness, except as regards intelligence or education. ' 'I had designed to argue this proposition close ly and in all its details, but for the present, it must suffice, simply to warn the farmers of Edgefield against some of the most powerful causes, which are at work, in the South and in South Carolina, to prevent the spread of educa tion. The people of this State are the largest slave holders in the Southern country. By the Cen sus Returns of 1850, we have over 100,000 more slaves than whites in the State at large and 6,117 more blacks than whites in the Dis trict of Edgefield alone. In iississippi and Louisiana also, the slaves have a small majority, but in all the other Southern States the whites are much the more numerous. As the South Carolinian has more slaves than any other farmer, so he must have a larger farm for them to work. This is the cause or our very sparse white population, which has a tendency to become thiner every year, from various influ enees in regions where slave labor is most profi table. Abbeville, Laurens, Newberry, Fairfield, Union, Chester, York and other Districts have lost largely in white population, since the Census of 1840 and gained immensely in slaves. In the District of Edgeflield during the period of tell years, between 1840 and '50, the gain inl white population, was only 1,219, while the in crease in blacks, was 5,107. A similar dispro portion in the increase of the two races, occur red in most of the middle and upper Districts, while the lower part of the State, which has heretofore been tile seat or wealth in South Carolina, lost in blacks, but gained in white population. Tile thin settlement of the country, aflirds but so many scholars, who live near enough, to attend a given school. This alone makes it diffi cult to find even a utited neighborhood, with sufficient patronage to sustain a respectable Aca demy. The remedy for this evil is that our farmers should begin to reclaim their hills. and gullies and cease to enlarge their landed property, which is becoming a sort of mania with them. The maxim that even poor land is a good neigh bor, has done fearful work, against education and other interests, in South Carolina. The insatiate propensity of this condensed bad sense, is gradu ally driving our small land owners from the country, and the undue encouragement, which is given to the half gentlemen, or negro me claiies, is also expelling tile nton-slavelldililing artisan whom it is the trut policy of South Car olina to conciliate. "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills the prey. Where wealth accumulates, and maen decay." Luxury, ignorance and degeneracy, all flour ish in such a country, as ill their native hot-bed. But thin population is not the worst fue of education in the South. It is lordly pride and hlaughlty disdain, which fosters ignorance amlong~ theC masters of a slave community, and not any inhterent defect in the system itself. Slavery at existed. A Southern famer withl his I.lack vassals, always reminds meC of an old Englishl Baron, suchl as amet King .John at llunningmnede, with sword ill lmnnd and exacted Magna Carla. lie learns to regard hlis slaves, as retainers or subjects, whoml he treats as a gouod King would htis p~eople. Ile looks out from his castle upon a plantation, or snmll kingdom, within the circum ference of whieb., he is mtonarchl of all he sur veys. This solitary reign nuakes hlimi desire to govern still, when'h~e crosses his neighlbor's boundary, or mingles in thle world. IH e is jeal ous of hlis righlts, an~d has too mluchl conifidence ill his own judgmtent, however erroneous it nmay be, to sulTer eithler dictation, or diff'erencee of opinmion. lHe is opposed to aill comphromises, be cause thley imoply a mutual concession, or surren der or somleting, that each party claimis. A nd as8 tiis is neccessairy to establish or sup port schlouls, hlence the abtsenlce of them~n in the proudl District of Edgefield, whiech is filled withl thle dleseendanlts of Virginlia gentleman and English Cavaliers. Our pteople are noted for thteir pride so much so, that a stranger passingr thlrough Edgehield and A bbevi!le, can tell whmen lie crosses the line of thle latter, h y thle thees thlat he meets. The social stmile, an)~ cordial saluta tin of A bbeville, give Plnce ahnoost immtediately, to thte seowling brow and stern individuality of Edgefiel. Buht this is making a local application of a general principal. Thme exessive pride of tile Southlern people, prevents them from having associatire aetion, ill any measure of public, or private imaportanmce. It is next to impossible, for us to hlave a long pull, a strong piull and at pull altogethler, in co-operation of any kind. E~ach one stands upon his own digtnity, and ir lie cannot get things exactly to an iota as he wvants them, he will not hlave them at all. InI respect to schools, he will not comp~romise and no-operate, in good faith as to where the school house shlould be located, whlat sort of a building erected, what teacher employed, whlat discipline adopted, or what Text books used. Each one must be leader tand sole dietator, in all these difficult and delicate questions, or el'se lhe wvill growl and shoew Is teeth, like a snarling Cur ad thmen secede to having no schlool, employing a private Tutor or senditng his chlild to a distance, t quadruple the expense. This last is too often 10one, in obedience to this same morbid pride, iccause it sounds bigger as is supposed, to say lhnt young U~opeful was cducated by strangers. Buat wvhat is worse still, nowv atnd then, wvhen neighborhood could agree anld establish a good ehool, it is cursed and pirevented by thle pre ence of some over-proud, self-willed Bell Cows, w-ho arc forever taking new directions, and tooking those wI will not follow right, or vrong. Sueh a imbition is worse than the 3og in the blanger. It is not even so creditable s C.s~'s wish to be first in a Village, rather han second at Rome. Indeed, I can compare tto nothling, but the intolerance of a hluge Bull luflolo, who aspires to have his herd follow him linmdly, wvithout looking to the front, or rear, the ight or left. Such a would-be-leader is inva iably deserted by his followers, but unfortunate Sfor our schools, the patrons disperse in tile Lbellion. I therefore beseech the fathlers of Edgefield to iC aboen such ontenmnlibh sinenPetinsnd- eto 1 practise forbearance, conciliation and concession, towards each other, not only in the establish ment but also in the maintenance of schools. I do hope that they will no longer be proud of their ignorance as it were, but that they will go to work, to make their Distriet, the paradise that Abbeville is, where "health, peace and competence" has intelligence added to it. Let each one co-operate cordially with his neighbor hood and my word for It, that our District will soon be dotted with far-famed Academies. Every father is an important and responsible part of every community, and if he would be happy, or intelligent, within himself and within his family, he must worship his individuality less and his household Gods the more-localize his best affections within his own neighborhood, and adorn his own vine and fig tree. It is of such men that the best State is formed. Sectarianism is another stumbling block in the way of our Schools. It is not unfrequently the entering wedge, that splits a community and doubles the expense of bad edlucation, or pre vents any education at all. It is true, that the general principals of religion and morality, eon tained in the Bible and Butler's Analogy, or Leiber's Ethics and Paley's Moral Philosophy, should be taught in every Academy, as far as practicable, but the moment that Sectarian doc trines and tenets are introdueed, that instant is an apple of discord presented, which divides and cripples, where all should be harmony, unanimi ty nnd co-operation. Sectaiianism fosters ignorance, increases the expense of education, and feeds the children upon blind bigotted prejudice, which they should be taught to hate. Were it not sensitive ground, it would be my delight to mnke a vigorous at tack upon this staunch foe of education at the South, but sufficient has been said, to warn our farmers against allowing it to intermeddle with school aflhirs, where it has no business. De nominational schools may flourish in cities and villages, but they never can thrive as a general system in the country, where nearly all of our people live thinly settled. An- Academy here, needs the support of each and every man in its vicinity to sustain it. Therefore neither pride, nor Sectarianism should any longer divide us, but let us all exclaim in the language of the venerables CHEvEs, " be united, be united." Divide and conquer was the maxim of old Rome, and together we stand, divided we fall, may be saii by the friends of every school in the coun try. The abominable practice of employing incom petent teachers, at lean salaries and degrading all school masters below the estimation in which they should be held, is another strong working influence against education at the South. As a general rule, the value of every thing is in pro portion to its cost and a competent teacher, one worth having, who has acquired knowledge, has the faculties of communieation and government will, must and ought, to be well paid and es teemed, or lie will quit the business. If the patrons refuse their confidence and respcet t( the teacher, the pupils will also, and the trusteem should side with him, in nine eases out of ten against the scholars, to quell their mutinoui pride ana inmpatienee of wholesome restraint It has been said with some justice,. that th< e hitdren inb th. -de and ouer- - -lerts u '*ier-eato,, ertt-ar parenits,, 'got school where they please, and do as they please or in other words, that there is little or ne family governmnent. Our educated young men should quit crowd. ing the already overstocked professions, and adopt the equally honorable callin~g of' teaching the youmg idea how to shoot. I hope, that, I shall not ask in vain, for an abler pen than mine, to address them a letter on the suhijeet appealini alike to their interest, good semnse anid patriotism, to miake the name of an Edgefield school-mas ter respectaible. Thme Advertiser is taking the lead of thme up-country pnpers, and why should not thme D.istrict at large boast an intelligence worthmy of its Village sheet. A bbeville, an adjoining District, has overconme all the dlifieulties of thin population, agricultural pride, illibernl Sectarianism,, inconmpetent teach ers, and every other impediment. Besides the honor of the thing, and the blessings to herself, many of her citizens are becoming rich, by the stream of capital that is flowing in fruom other Districts, for tuition, board, clothing, ke. And where did this move in thme cause of educationi first begin ini that noble District ? It conmmeneed with hmer farmers, nmd with thema it must conm menee here, mr it will never begin at all. Edge field District has about 40,000 inhmabitants in it, and of these about 4,000 live in the- great cities of Edgelield, llanmburg, Graniteville and Vau cluse, of which the two latter are exclusively manufacturing towns. Now, I ask the 36,1100 country inhabitants of Edgefield District, how amuch longer will they rely on Edgefield and Hamburg for education, whlen they are so s iit up with political, professional, conmmercial and social jealousies, that they cannot half educate themselves. The Ridge, Mount Enon, Plumb Brimneh, Ihorn's Creek, and other neighborhoods ini Edge field District, might soon become the rivals of Greenwood and Cokesberry, if our sturdy old farmers would address thetmselves to the task. Let eachl Beamt Commpa.my, or neighborhood that is identified in some other wvay, assemble in a spirit of liberality and try whlat can be done. ]But above all things they shmorld be most careful in selecting a proper and permanent locality for the school and then erectinig a suitable build ing. When these two things are well done an Academy will take care of itself. There is they a genius about the place, a guardian angel which hovers over it amnd makes it " The dear school-boy spot We ne'er forget, though there we are forgot." SWEET 1103E. DEP'ARTUJRE OF EltssIoNARES.-Mr. Addi son Mloflatt, Miss .Mary Denna, Miss Sarah Blaikely and Miss Maria Hicks, under ap pointmnent as tenehmers from tile American Missionary Assoriation, sailed from New Y'ork for Jamaiea on the 10th inst. Anamisslon TO THE BAR.--We nlotice in he Columbia papers that the Court o~f Ap eacas, during its present session has admitted he following gentlemen to practice in the nw courts of this State: James E. Calhoun, Wmn. C. Davis, William C. Harris, Paul H. layne, Hewlet S. Moore, Archibald J. Shaw, 7'. F. Warley, James F. Walker. And thme following were admitted to prae ice as Solicitors in Equity: David Bailey, ranmes Farrow, Thomas Frost, William A. W[oore, Edwvard 3. Porter, C. A. Price, Archi ).,ld J.Rnu S l' C.S West Later. from Europe. ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER ATLA BALTIMORE. May 17, 1852. The Ameriean Mail Steamship Atlanti arrived at New York this morning, bringin intelligence from Liverpool to the 5Lh, an from Havre to the 4th inst. The Briti'A Mail steamship Afriea arriv at Liverpool on the morning of the 24 inst. The Circular of Messrs. Gandy & Co Na since the sailing of the British steamsfi Canada, Cotton has been steady in the Liver pool market, nr.d rather animnted. notwith standing the henry imports. Holders mee the demand readily. but evince ito dispositi to receive lower rates. The market remain in an unaltered state, except that purchase are allowed to make greater choice. Sale during the four days, including the 5th up t the time of the sailing of the A., reache forty-five thousand bales. The prices o Tuesdny. 4th inst. were: Orleans Fair 5 3.4d Mobile 5 3.8d., Uplands 5 1-4d.: Orlen Middling 5 1-8d., Mobile 5d., and Tplands 15-16d. At Mnnehester, there was a decided i provement in all branches of trade, and be ter prices oblined. . Wheat had deLlined Id., and'Flour Corn was firm and unchanged. Conso closed at 99 1-2. American stocks we quiet and unchanged. The English ('ompany that barganined fo the Gold Mines belonging to Col. Fremon has backed out. In France there are a great number of re fusals to take the oath of allegiance to the Prince President. A REVIVAL IN CONGnEs.-Tt has been sugtres-ed that a d:y be specially set apart upon which Christians of every name throughoul the Union. will meet in their re spective places of worship and pray for God's blessing upon the two Houses of Con gress now in e.-sion, that there may be an outpouring of his grace upon the hearts of those who are l-gislating for the welfare of their fellow countrymtuen and mankind. Christians, vou should lrny for a revival in Conzre,.-Baptist Recorder. If the editc.r of the Recorder had been as much about Washington as we have, whten Congress was in session, lie would 's soon think of sending a Missionary to Hell. to convert. the Devil's Household ! With but few exceptions, "Old Mastea" has given over the Members of Congress to hardness of heart-he has left thei it their idols, the eight dollars per day.-Brownlow. COTTON is KING.-Charles Dickens, in a late number of his " Household Words." after enumerating striking facts of the cotton trade, says: "Let any great social or physical convul %ion visit the United States, and, England would feel the shock from L.nd's End to John. O'Groat's. The lives of nearly two millions of our countrymen are dependent upon the cotton crops of America; their destiny may be suid, without any sort of hyperbole, to hang upon a thread. Should any dire eainily befall the land of cotton,.a thousand of our merchant ships would rot idly in dock; ten thousand mills must stop .their busy looms; two thousand mouths would starve for lack of food to feed them." FATAL AccIDENT.-Mr. Jas. V. Elmore, aged 25 Years, came to his death on Sunday ntight last, by walking out of' the third story winidow of' hi.s residence, No. 12 East Bay, where he with his mot he:r was residing at the rtime._..r. E1Riijr camne home on the..nigl o tlie niidsiii~id ititig a iilr6T tea, re tired to bed. The first intimation of ther sad occurrence was ihe discovery or his body on the pavement below by his mother, as she came ont thme next mnornming. A jury was .,nmmo~ned by~ Cor'oner Di-Vennix, :nd'a ver dict given in :ieordanice with the above cir eunstances.--Southern Standard, 18th inst. THlE L.AW OF NEWPAEns.-1. All sub scribers who, do not give express notice to thte contrary, are con.,idered as wishing to continue iheir .sulbscript ins. 2. It' snb-eribers order the discontinnane of the'ir p:gers, the publishers may coi.tinue to send them until arrenrages are paid. 3. ltf subscribers neglec't or refuse taking their pap'hers from the li'es to which they are' st-ut, u ley are held respon.,ible till their'bill.s are settle.d, anud the.ir papeprs ordered to be disconttiuted. 4. Tlhe Courts have decided that refusing to take a tnewspatper or periodienl from the uoflic'e, or remuovhng and leaving it unenlled for, is prima facie evideLnce of intentional t'rnud. A5OTRER CI'nAN ExrEDITo.-There i* snid to be no douht of' the orgiaizamion of anoter Cuban expedition at the South, TI':e "Lone Sitr Association," at New Or Ieauns, is alleged to be busily at work in ar ranging atlhiirs, with a view of makinig the expe'dition in every way successful. A letter to the New Yo'rk Express says: "Before mnany months pass aiway you must not be at surprnisedl to hear tha:t the star-spanmgled ban ner waves viet oriously over the walls of the Mloro V" LoNGEvITY.-The New Bedford Mercury sa'ys that therec iS a strip of land bordering oni the sea in South Darusmouth, kntown as~ "Smith's Neck," which is about one mile in width by one and a hallf miles in' lenugth, Thte inhabitants otr this 'strip of' land:'are mostly Quakers, who number 145, the ages ot' twenty of' whom average 86 years, and make an aggregate of 1729 years. Twelve of this tnumtber have attainted to from 80 to 95 years, making an aggregate of 1135 years, anud eight others (the comparatively middle aged) aire now from 70 to 78 yeaurs of age. This is an amuount of' longevity not often paralleled. THrE passage of the American clipper ship Wit ch of' the WVave from China to the Downs in 90 days, nstonuishes the English people. She sailed round the world in ten numnts and a half, including loading and discharging at the above ports. T'he greatest distance she ran in 24 hours, on the romjage to London, wcas 330 mdtes. SOUTH CARor:INA RAIL ROAD.-We uni derstanid, for the first time since it was built, the tip ated down trains yesterday passed over the new road, around the inclined plane. It is'descrijbed to us as a beautifnul atnd sub stantial piece or work.-Constitutionalist. COUNTERFEI' GOLD DOLLAR.-We were shown recently, says the N. 0. Pieuyune, a speciment of a counterfeit gold dollar, which might easily deceive many persons whose attettion wazs not drawn to the subject. The counterf'eit is sensibly lighter than the genuuine gold dollar ; it is also thicker, and the figures and letters on both sides are by no means so sharply or so finely cut. L.vrmn Fnos UIm'r.-Advices from Port an Prince tate that thme Empesror, a day or two befo're his coronn on, dtistributed Cimsses or Honor to the foretgn Consuls, which were accepted by' the French and Eagtish Con