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"We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our tles, and it It must fall, we will Perish anadst the Ruins." W. F. DURISOE, Proprietor. EDGEFIELD, S. 0 NOVEMBER 10, 1852. - A SONG OF THE HA"VsT. Tutrne's a whisper in the meadow There's a rustle in the field With a song in labor measure, Labor-chorus in the field. 'Tis the whisper of tile harvest 'Tis the rustle of the grain 1Tis the chorus of the reapers Busy reapers of the grain. hark! the soft and dreamy whisper: Hark ! the rustle swift and low: Hark ! the chorus, qiuick and cheery, To the rapid si~ekle's blow; Like the breathing of a maiden Like tle sound ,f April rain Are the echoes in tile menow, With the reapers' load refrain Graceful fields, ye must be wasted Burnished grain, thou wilt be shorn For the rushing of the sickle Fiercely sounds upon the morn Still the whisper, soft and dreamy, A nd the rustle, soft and low Hark ! the chorus. quick and cheery, To the rapid siekle's blow. Golden heads will .trcw the stubble Drooping, yt ll.w, ripe and sere: Steis of iunmer, in their verdure, Ere the autumn, wither there; And the breeze that gave them music, And the sun that Ut their smiles, Will be sighs amid their ruins, And a fire onl their piles! Thus, the pale. unsparing Reaper Ghastly Reaper of the Dioon, Layeth age and youth together In the Harvest of the Tomb; And the voice that gave them pleasure, And the love that lit their life, O'er fle death is tnned to mnurning O'er the grave is clanged to strife! But thero is a little singer5 In the stubble by the grave, Ever trilling inerry music, In the stubble, by the grave: And it's song is like the whiper Like tle ru~tle inthie grain Like the echocq in the rneadow, With the reapers' load refrain. Like the blithsote .ong of pleasure Lke-the words of-.hnpc and nrirth Like tho gentle sounds that tinLle On the joy-enkindled hearth! A nd it tells. in sfprightly leasuro In a wild and gladbomue strain Tliat the grain will rustle lowly, And the dead will live again ,gThev er:eket. LSITLE SUE. Dan litt~le Sue, with her eyes so blue, And her tresses (if golden hair, tier cheeks that rivalled the peach's hue, .And her lips so red and so fair, How her silver tongue so joyously rung, When watching, she hailed with delight, My evening's return, while on my neck she hung, Lisping her prayer and good night. Por little Sue, no more shall I view Fromn the easenent, her beautiful face, Nor welcome at eve, for she has hade us adica, And vacanlt, aned silenit, hier p'ace Untder the ground, where yon green mound, Covers a grave, sttall anid new, In a sleep so sweet, so quiet and soutnd, Rest my gentle, my angel Sue. CO MNUN IC ATION S. FOR THtE ADvERTRSF.tt. "TEMPERANCE BUT LICENSE." Such is the incongruous and unnatural con nlection in which these words are placed as a signature over some articles in the " Adrertiser." We shatll venture to suppose that the writer means lhe is, First, In favor of Temperance. Secotnd, In favor of License to sell ardent spir its. And we are left to infer that said writer thinks, whether others do or not, " Temperance" and " License" are two friendly neighlbors wvith nothing more between them than a small word ("btt") atnd dwelling on amicable tertms with but three steps frotm tho door of one to that of the other. Or more appropriately-we must infer that the writer thinks Consistency may dwell in a house with " Temperance" over one door, ad" License" over the other. Who, that entering the house of Consistency at the door "Temperance" and after passing the small "but" partition, should find a bar-room supplied with all essentials tunder "License,"-who, wo ask, would not be surprised, and leave under the belief that the landlord should, and that with .propriety, bo called Inconsistency, And if he abotuld indite an article on the subject with a * quill from the samo goose that gavo tho one which writes--" PIan. WmnTE"-hle might write Hypocrite. We may note of " Temperance" the first half of this anomalons name, that any fair defmnition of it excludes excess. Where excess begins Temperance ends. It is excess when necessity ceases. A man in health with an un vitiated appetite does not want, and much less npeds the poisonous stimulus of ardent spirits. T1hen it follows it is excess in a well man to use It at all, and if excess, it is not Temperance but Juatemperanice With this apprehension of Temperance how are we to link "license" consistently with it license to do anything not agreeable to tem. perance. A "temperance" that grants license to be or do any thing contrary to, or incon* sistent with temperatnce, cannot from the na ture of the principle, be Iempe'rance, but some. thing else. The most lenient construction wc can put on " temperance" in the alliance be. tween. her andl her reorse half-the uncireum* cised' Philistine, "license," is a ." temperance' at the mercy (?) of " icense." Miercy!i T ern Tirance ;t the miercy of a grog-shop !! Who trat i's Walling for meroy would run to a dram shop-m for ib "temperance but License"-li #4 cense to make temperate drinkers-to make drunkards-who will turn round and curse their patron " Temperance." " License" hal not transcended his liberty if he roll out forty drunk ards a day. He has paid for the right to make drunkards. He makes them according to law. The licensing council with one hand grants pow er to make drunkards and with the other passes a law to punish the man for deeds which he will do only when lie is patent-right drunk. Knowing the diabolieal deeds, such as blas phemy, gambling, fighting, adultery and murder, wlich some men commit while intoxicated and then alone, we ask how can the licensing power grant license to make drunkards, without grant. ing by implication the license to do the wicked ness peculiar to drunkenness! Are we not cautioned against being "partakers of other men's sins '" And what would be the nature of that copartnership in sin which could give more stock in the sins of others than the one existing between the licensers of the one part, including their lawful agent the grog-seller, and the drunkard whose garments are drenched with spew and Rum and the blood of him who an hour before was a friend-perhaps a wife-of the other. So much for a name-a name bel ligerently and uncompromisingly heterogeneous in its compound. As "TEMPEtiRANCE BUT LiCENSE" seems to have the gift of continuance, we shall offer a few suggest ive interrogatives that we may ob tain, if posaible, a better knowledge of the right or wrong in this license afflair. It would seem that all is going on well, after a Republi can and " Southern" style when a " wet" coun cil are ruling in the village and grog-shops open, drunkards reeling, blasphemies echoing, sober people interrupted, good men and women bowed down. This is not " Mainism" but true South ernism. Shall we call it one of the "institu tions" of the South ! But when a " dry" coun cil are put in office, they are no sooner seated than the pillars of the temple of liberty begin to tremble and the very earth gives signs of woe. Al:ckaday! Are the majority to rule when in favor of license, but not so when opposed to it? Does every one obtain his right under the administration of a " wet" council 1 Are the rights of any taken away by a dry council? Shall Edgcefield Village.govern herself? "TEmm rEnANCE DUT LCEssE" tells us-First, What he is not-" Censor General of Edgefield, not the champion of drunkards or drunkenness" aid Siii,'~Wiilis iith iiunalieriible advoc-ate of temperance and sobriety." Let us see how well his negative name suits him. le says of those whom lie terms "entliusiasts for total abstinence"-" I suspect them of being slaves to Gambling, Tobacco, Tea, Coffee or Opium." Again, "Republican America;" it is folly to expect that "she will bow her neck to the many headed monster of a bare majority of reforned sinners turned prosecuting stints." This smacks a little of a chagried "cersor." As to his " not, being a champion of drunkards or drunkenness" we are willing to leave the deci sion of that to those who vote a "wet" ticket. I addition to the analysis to which we sub jected one-half of his signature, we may add that his claim to be an "unalterable advocate of temperance and sobriety," is equally stagger ing to common sense when we read of the "cigar" and "drink" (Whiskey, Rum &c.,) " they are enjoyments unless abused, and neces sary' evils even then." The italicising is ours. We have nothing to do with cigars at present, but according to the above quotation the "abuse" of drink, i. e. drunkenness, is "necessary." An "unalterable advocate of temperance and so briety," who holds the belief that existing drunkenness is necessary ! If we hav-e mistaken "TEMPER.ANCE BUT LICENSE," it is an honest' mistake, attributable mainly to thec fauct that hto utterly failed to specify the necessitating cause or causes. If he should Lake refuge under the " decree eternal"-quite a convenience in desti tution of argument-wre can only reply that the same cause existed for the electioni of a dry council, and " TcEMPnANCE EUT LicE~sE" may reply, it exists also for his writing against the procedure, and I may add also for this reply. Anid unless decreed otherwise, "TEMPEaRANCE BUT LICENsE" shtall have further notice. TEMPERANCE NO LICENSE. 'rHE CoMPANY OF .WoMEN.-He cannot be an unhappy mant who has the love and smiles of a woman to accompany him in ev-ery department of life. The world may look sad anid cheerless, enemies may gather ins his path, but wheni lhe returns to the fire sidle and sees the tender love of woman, he forgets his cares anid troubles, and is a conm paratively happy man. He is not preparedl for the journey of lire who is without a compantion who will forsake hinm in no energeney-who will divide his sorrows increase his joys-lift the veil from his heart and throwv sunshine anmid the darkest scenes. No man can be miserable who has such a companion, be lie ever so poor, despised, and trodden upon by the world. ADvICE TO YoUNG LsADIns.-Never mar ry a man because he is handsome, ho will thinik too much of his own beauty to take pride in yours. Never marry a man be cause he has wealth, for "riches take to themselves wings and fly away." Never marry a mani for his parentage, " for a good cow will often have a bad calf." Marry a man for hsis good sense, his amiable temper, his sound morals, lisa habits of industry and economy, and you will then have a good husband, and your chil dreni a good father. WaY would you suppose fish did a great doeal of weighingi Because they always carry scales. " CoME out here and I'll lick the whole or you," as thme boy said, lhen who seed a bottle full of sugar sticks in a shop window. SAVAGE.- Why is a scolding wife like -an alligator ? Blecause she is all jaw. FOR THE ADVERTIBER. LICEMSE IN EDGEFIELD VILAGE. Mr.sSRs. EDITORS:-I had proposod to my self, First, To prove that men will use stinuli in any event, and Second, That they will use them in grog.shops, or some such places, in de fiance of all opposition. But the resignation of two members of our Town Council, growing out of a difference of opinion with regard to granting License, causes me to leave a chasm in the argument and persuades me to discuss the impropriety of refusing Tavern or Retail Li. cense in our Village. As there will be another election on Thursday, 11th inst., to supply the places of these two ultra ex-members. I hope the good citizens of Edgefield will reconsider their former vote, as is often done in parliamen tary or elective bodies, and that they will reflect well upon the following facts before again cast ing their votes for no License. There is not a stimulus in general use which is not retaild in some such manner as Liquor is in grog shops. Tea is retailed in China in preesely the same way that Liquor is here, and the Tea-Kettle or Tea-Pot, or both, are carried and replenished by tile traveller on the way-side, just as our flasks are refilled with Liquor at the grog shops. The Emperor FIrzoNG, who ascended the throne in 724, subjected Tea and Tea shops to a small tax, which was loudly complained of by the people as a grevious and insufferable oppression, b.manse it rll upon -' a necessary f lite," as they called Tea twelve centuries ago,and tile law had to be repealed. Public Smoking Houses, where smuggled Opium is retailed and smoked in defiance of all authority are also in common use in China, and are not unprepared Tea and Coffee daily retailed in nearly every store in the United States. Cqfee Houses are not only used in America and England, but they are the sole substitutes for Grog Shops in Turkey. The Turks are forbidden the u-ic of Wine by their Religion, and yet it is said that they consume great quan tities of it clandestinely. But Coffee is the ?reat Turkish drink. Some Arabian Dorvises first employed Colfee to keep themselves awake, as students sometimes use Tea now for the same purpose. A Mufti of Aden next carried Coffee into Persia, whence it found its wvay into Constantinople where it was first sold in Public Coffee Ilonsesin 1554. It soon came into great request amongteejeIof thatanienatwi onaccounts iits exhil'bratng qtiaitifi'nTon 4equence of which numerous Coffie Houses (such as we have in every town or city of the United States) were eiablis-hed and much fre quented, so as to cause great neglect of the osques or Mahoned.l Churchts. This pro iluced a solemn complaint from the Miiisters of the Mahotmedan Religion, and Coffee Houses were not only ordered to be suppressed, but the drinking of Coff'ee itself, even privately, was prohibited by the Mufi. .Yet all to no purpose, id So.y~us, the Great, seeing this, allowed its use freely to his subjects upon their paying a moderate tax. This was the last Legislation igainst Coffee or Coffee Houses in Turkey, and they are now both universally employed in all parts of the Empire. Again I put the question as above, are not unprepared Coffee and Tea retailed in every store in this Village or District. Tobacco Houses or Stores, where Cigars &c. mre constantly and daily retailed, are not only to be found in Edgefield Village, or Edgefield Dis trict, but they may be seen anywhlere in the wide world that Tobacco is known, for wherever it is known it is used, and wherever it is used it is sold in Tobacco Retail, or Tobacco Grog Shops, or Stores, or whiatever else you may please to caill them. Opium Houses I have already said are com mon in China, where the juice is retailed, either for smoking or chewing purposes. And it may be had here in all Apothecary's Shops, of' which there is at least one in every village. You may call it an Apothecary's Shop, or Doctor's Shop, or what you like, but I shall style it an Opium Grog Shop. Gambling Houses, or Shops, or places where Gambling excitement is retailed, or may be had at any time, are common in every country from the North to thme South P'ole or from the East to the WVest, and it in in vain that they aure opposed. What mean y'our Race Tracks, your Cock Pits, your Bowling Alleys, Billiard Tables, &c., &.c., but so many Grog Shops for retailing Gamnbling. Are there not Gambling Ifouses in every city, or village, or country on the face of the earth, and at the same time are there not lawvs nearly every where prohibiting it. Gambling cannot be prevented, and that Legislation is folly which attempts it. Moral suasion ought only to be used anud this can no more prevent some Gam bling than can Religion stop all sin or Irreligion. Dut more of this anon. At present I will only add that some of' the German States knowing this, have put Gambling Houses upon thc same footing with Grog Shops. For instance ini theo Duchy of' Baden, if' I am not at fault, Gambling establishnments pay a heavy license and are kept openly and publicly like Grog Shops. In short, I insist that stimulus is as necessary to man as food, and that places or retail shops where he can always get the former, are as indispensible to his welfare as Hotels for furnibshing or retail ing the latter. Grog Shops proper, or retail establishments for Liquor, next clamim our attention, and my history is again at fault, if these are not allowved in all civilized countries, except in Maine and some other Northern States where they have recently been abolished but where thtey will soon be restored again if the past is any crite rian by which to predict the future. IuBvaaD, the liquor law candidate for Governor in Maine, has just beeni beaten by Caosnr, Wlhig, not withstanding Maine is usually Democra' y several thousa nd majority. 'rThe judiciary of' Maine have also decided that the Liquor law is' unconstitutional, in so far, as it prohibits a man from importing liquor within the limits of the State anid thence to transport it to his own hous there to keandn nue it at hik own gnood will and pleasure, J t as ne would Arsenic, or any other poison.' Jr in other words, the high est tribunal of the ate have declared that the worst view which th Legislature could t-ike of Liquor would be to. gard and treat it as Arsen. ic, which a man, is llowed to transport, keep and use as he pleas -and that if one get drunk lie can no more bi prosecuted for it than he can for taking Arsei . The Liquor law M* also practically nullified in Boston, even at this early day, and all of the indications promisellhat the statute will be re pealed in every State that has adopted it sooner than was the menoible English law of 1736. It was said by the paers and by visitors to that city, that more Liquw r was sold in Boston on the day and just bef'e the Maine law went into operation than had ver been known before. The people desiig of getting their refresh ments by the small frqin the retail dealers bought large supplies and cdicealed them. These sup. plies are now in andiabout exhausted, and thou sands are waging waito the knife, and the knife to the hilt, physicalg, socially, politically, pr. fessionally and commercially -against all friends of the execrable law License to Retail was once refused in Abbe ville village, and what was the effect of it? Why a North Carolina waggon happening to pass through the village on the Sale Day next after the embargo went into operation, a party clubed together, s'ers and saints, including Church Elders, Dens ns &c., men who had never drunk to excess beffe in thelrhlives, and bought a barrel of Brandylhich was unheaded on the public square, wherevery body got drunk. I was told very receny by an eye witness. that Abbeville has neve before or since witnessed such a scene of in c ation as was beheld that day. The outbi a indignation was so fierce and overwelming tii the Town Council imme diately regranted Li use, which has continued over since undistur8 , and is likely to remain so, as long as that oble District retains her proud intelligence -generous liberality. A similar experine t Was tried in Anderson, under the auspiciel Judge WIIITNER, when the same result fullioed as in Abbeville. Yet I learn by the pape hat the "No License Par ty" in that lovely age, as well as in Green ville, have carried e late municipal elections and are going to nact the same farce that they performed bef and thatite ar It i pi man, no aa neigkrzW borhood, nor a natin, will take the advice or experience of others, but must needs buy some of their own, by sometimes paying very dear for it. It must come of vanity and self-esteem, prompting a man or.rconuuity to suppose that lie or they are betterAthian other people, or more capable of conducting. such an experiment. The belief which leads every man to imagine that lie is an exceptiOn to death, disease, or any other misfortune, wlpch has not yet befallen him, must originate in, the same cause. Such people, and I believe -there is no other kind of people, forget the common place truism, which I have so often repeated, that man is the sane everywhere and at all times--that lie has the same constitutional and natural love of stimulus wherever you find him, or if he does not love the stimulus he loves the freedom and right to enjoy it and'will nevet yield that right. There is much of all human nature akin to the anec dote that is told of ArraTnvs, who would not marry because lie wanted the privilege of taking orders and would not, take orders because he wanted thme privilege of marrying. Tell a man lio shall not do a thing and you at once offend him. You arouse hiis-combativness and inflamme all of his worst passions, so that he will do it then in spite of you and his better judgment. Once more, Messrs. -EDITOons, I adamonish the sovereigns of Edgefield to beware what they do on Thursday next. To remember that we play with a Rattle-Snake, or rather with a powder magazine, whoa we, sport wvithm the passions of men, that it is easy to kindle a flame but hard is the task to quench it. Whether this advice shall be heeded or disregarded as gratuitous, remains to be seen. ~I know that there is no thing of wvhichm a man is so liberal as his advice, simply because it costs him nothing to give it and lisa vanity is flattered at being thought able to counsel others as well as himself. Bie this as it may, wvithiout any wish to insult and only to inform, I will proceed to give my closing coun sel to the people of this excited community. WVhich is, that they hiad better make a rirtue of necessity and seemingly acquiesce in that which they cannot prevent. Men will use stim uli and they will use them in Retail or Grog Shops. You may suspend, paliate, or oppose it as you wvill but license must come at last. England after all sorts of opposition and taxa tion of stimuli lhas reduced her policy with re gard to them to three maxims-First, That as she cannot destroy the appetite for stimuli she must encourage their use and not their abuse, and that the'best wvay to do this is, Second, To allow every body who- pays a tax to import or produce stimuli, and Third, To allow everybody who pays a license to retail the prepared arti cles of that stimuli. In fine, she has arrived at the same conclusion, that we will soon reachl if our people go on in their mad career, that the only way to treat stimuli is to allow their free use, but at the same time to temper that use by advocating and pactising TEMPERANCE BUT LICENSE. Da. WALL once, at a dinner table, very unwvisely persisted in 'playing wvith a cork, in such a manner as displayed a hand long divorced from .sopp and water. One guest expressed his surprise to another, and, in too loud a wvhiisper, exclaimed, "ieavenms, what a dirty hand!" The Doctor overheard, and turning sharply round said, "Sir, I'll- bet you a guinea there'a dirtier onme in company." " Done," replmd the first, sure of winning. The guincas iwere stadked, and tho Doctor showed his ote hand. lHe was judged to h,... oon thi a issening voice From the South Carol:nian, 21 inst. TE LEGISLATURE. The Legislature convened yesterday, at 12 m. The roll of the Senate was called by the Clerk, and, on motion of Mr. De Treville, Hon. F. J. Moses, Senator from Claremont, was called to the Chair. The Senators elect were then qualified, and the Senate then proceeded to the elec tion of President, when the Hon. IL F. V. Allston was unanimously elected. A com mittee was appointed to conduct the Presi dent to the Chair, and on taking his seat, he addressed the Senate as follows: I accept, with lively sensibility, the honor which you have conferred anew, by ap pointing me to the Chair of this honorable body. I will construe this evidence of your favorable regard into an earnest or future support in the discharge of the duties de volving upon me. It shall be my constant aim and endeavor to perform those duties faithfully, impartial ly, and firmly, to the best of my ability. If in doing so I fall short of your expecta tions, let the failure be ascribed not to my will, but rather to infirmity inseparable from my nature. You will adopt a system of rules for the government of the Senate. Those rules it will be my study to understand, in order to apply them: as it will doubtless be the plea. surn of every member to become fIamiliar with, and to abide by them. Let us not dispense with forms as useless. The observance of them is as necessary to the prompt, accurate and agreeable des patch of business as it is to the grateful in tercourse and gentle courtesies of society. Gentlemen, I trust we meet with minds willing to unite in counsel, and harmonize in action for the common weal; intent to de velop more fully the resources of the State; to promote the education and training of her youth ; to secure the industry and wealth of her people; to cultivate all the elements of moral power and prosperous happiness. Let there be cherished amongst us no latent spark of bitterness, which may blaze up at some unpropitious moment, and mar the promise of our peaceful progress. Two years ago the walls of this chamber were clad in mourning for the death of our lamented Calhoun. Recently both of his. distinguished compeers have passed away, who constituted, with him, so remarkable a AAa iu--the Federal council-individually great in influence, in intellectual achieve. ment,.iuinu?~amm sssajg~mhu .?LI' Fnejud tiluty *~~ From their school of politics, dil'ering widely, as we do, yet the personal feelings which that dif'erence may have engendered we can lay down on the graves where they sleep, and do reverence to their genius rendering the horage of our respect for those eminent characteristic abilities which they possessed, and which have so often called forth, in conflict, the highest powers of our own cherished statesmen. We are about proceeding to the business of the sessions. May that Almighty power from whom all good counsels do proceed, watch over and guide our deliberations, control and mould our action, for the honor and welfare of the State. W. E. Martin, esq., was elecled Clerk, and J. T. Goodwyn Reading Clerk. The other officers were re-elected. On motion of Mr. Adams, Messrs, John ston & Cavis were elected printers to the Senate for the extra session. On motion of Mr. Carun, a committee was appointed to wait on his Excellency the Governor, and inform him that the Senate was organized, and w~ere ready to receive any communication wvhich lie might think proper to make to that body. Shortly after, the following message was read by Beaufort 'T. Watts, Esq., the Sec retary : ExF.CL-TZva DanTMIxT. CowxuriA, Nov. 1, 1852. GJenlecmen of the Senate and Ilouse of Representatires: I have dleenmed it my (huty' to call you together on this occasion, to enable the State to cast its vote for Electors of Presi dent and Vico President of the United States. Some doubts have been entertained and expressed as to the conistitutionmal power of the Governor to call the Legislature togeth er for the purpose alluded to. Thme Consti tution authorizes the Governor to conveneo tbe Legislature on extraordinary occasions. It has been seriously mooted, wvhether this is an extraordinary occasion, as the Legis lature were aware of the contingency that would happen, and ought to have provided for it. This ay be the case, but it is evi dent that no provision wvas made, and that the State would lose its vote in case I wore to neglect or refuse to call you together. I think that any doubt which may have arisen eon the subject has no real foundation in truth. It seems to me that the clear meaning of the Constitution is that the Governor should have power to convene the Legislature to transact any bnsiness for the good of the Commonwealth, wvhichi could not be transacted at its regular session. Actmg under the belief of the correctness of this constrnction, I have called you together. I am sustained in the propriety of this course by the precedent set by that able jurist, Ex Governor Johnson. T1hme Act of Congress requiring the votes for Electors to be cast on the same day throughout the United States, was passed January 2, 1846, and Governor Johnson convened the Legislature on the first Mon day of November, 1848. So you will per ceive that two regular ressions had inter vened between the date of the Act of Con gress and the convening of the Legislature, which certainly made that occasion no more extraordinary than this. I think I am also sustained in the course I have pursued by the sense of the Legisla ture itself,-for had any doubts been enter tained by it as to the powver of the Gvernor to convene it for a purpose like this, the failure to make other provisions for casting lect of duty too flagrant even to supasod them capable of. I herewith transmit to you a report from the Secretary of the Interior, which shows that by the Seventh Census our State will lose a member to Congresr. This will in. volve the necessity of re-districting the State. Whether you will perform this duty now, or at your regular session, is a matter for your own consideration and discretion. On subjects of General interest to our State, I will address you at your regular session. J. II. MEANS. On motion of Mr. Witherspoon, a con. mittee of eight was appointed to meet a joint committee of the House to nominate Electors of President and Vice President of the United States. The House not yet being fully organized, the Senate took a recess until 6 o'clock, p. m. In the House, lion. James Simon was elected Speaker without opposition, and T. W. Glover, Esq., Clerk. Several ballots for other officers were had up to three o'clock, but without any other eliction. On taking the Chair, Mr. Speaker Si. mons addressed the IouFe as follows: Gentlemen of the House of Representatires: For the renewed evidence of your con sideration and kindness in again elevating me to the distinguished position of presiding over the deliberations of this House, receive the assurance of my grateful ackndwledg-. nents. Around this seat are clustered many proud recollections of patriotism, genius, and virtue; nor has it been more distinguish. ad by these than by the courtesy, impartial ty and firmness with which its grave and responsible duties have been discharged. I'hese latter qualities I shall hope to emu ate, nor do I believe otherwise than that hey will be responded to, on your part, by he order, dignity, and decorum, which have ilways eminently characterised this body. [t is by the observance of these reciprocal )bligations that the burdens of legislation ire lightened, and the best interests of our ;everal constituencies, and the State at large ire cared for and subserved. I cannot allow this opportunity to pass ithout congratulating you on the restora ion of concord. and fraternal sentiments broughout the limits of the State, and rnestly to hope that unanimity and kind eeling will characterize yur. deliberations, md be i",' essed upon - ny .legistion Imploring t 0. blssmg on: your abors, I now commend you to the -prose ution of the business of this body. COLUMIIA, TUE Dy Nov. 2. Both Houses of the Legislature met to lay at 11 o'clock. In the Senate, the Senator elect from St. [aul's Parish. lon. Robert Fishburne, was uly qualified. InI the House that body elected the fol owing officers: Reading Clerk.-JoinN S. RiciiARDsoN. Messenger.-F. W. DINKINs. Doorkeepr.-A. PALMER. At 12 M. both Ilouses proceeded to vote 'r electors for President and Vice Presi. lent of the United States, when the follow. ng gentlemen were duly elected: For the State at large.-C. G. M ExMIN MFER. ist Cong. Dist.-Hon. Gabriel Cannon. 2d " " " T. P. Brockman. 3d " " " J. 11. Adams. 4th " " " I. F. W. Allston. 5th " " " J. Foster Marshall. 6th " " " W. D. Porter. 7th " " " M. E. Carn. It will be understood that the electors named above are Pierce and King electors -indt e~h there was no opposition. Them following message from his excellen ey the Governor was read in both Houses Iby Beaufort T1. Watts, esq., the Secretary : EYECUTIIvE DEPARTXENT, COtUMBIAr, Nov. 2, 1852. Gentlemen of the Senate and House of Re'presentatires : I feel it my duty officially to announce to you the deaths of two of our most illus rious statesmen, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster, which have occurred since your last meeting. Thus, in the space of three short years, have passed away from the stage of action, three of the greatest names that have ever adorned the history of our country. Cal houn, Clay, and Webster, wvere unames which were upon every lip, for praise or claim, according to the peculiar political tenets of those whlo pronounced them. They were the shimning stars of our Republic. One by one they have been extinguished, as though they were not permitted to shine but ini conjunction. While wve mourned the loss of our own Calhoun, we should not withhold our homage to the intellectual power and wvorth of his great compeers-or refuse to mingle our tears with Kentucky or Massachusetts, o'er the tombs of their fa forite sons. Differing, it is true, upon the agitating subjects of the day, now that the grave hais closed over them, we should for get whatever of frailty was incident to their mortality, and only remember them as the great intellectual lights which shed a halo of glory around the history of our common country. 3. H . M E ANs. In the House, in response to the message, Hon. 3. 1. Middleton offered the following resolutions, which were unanimously adopt ed: Be it resolved, That the General Assem bly of South Carolina deplores the bereave ments wvhich have fallen upon the confede racy at large in the decease of those illus trious citizens anid eminent orators and statesmen, Henry Clay and Daniel Webster; and that whilst we have recalled~ to us the memory of sorrows nearer home, it but adds to the poignancy of our grief to know that. others mnourni as we have mourned. Resol-ed. That we offejr, with fraternal feelings, our condolence to our co-States of the Union oni this sorrowful occasion, and mojarn ~ticul.ar.1 do we tender. it to the Commonwealths of Kentucky and Ma4s chusvtts. Resolred, That his Excellency the Gov, ernor be requested to communicate a-co-pI of his message to the General Assembly, together with the foregoing resolutions, to the Executives of Kentucky and Masa. chusetts. A similar action was had In the Senate. -here the resolutions, seconded by Hon. F. J. Moses, were adopted. After some formal unimportant businesu both houses adjourned sine die for the pre. sent session, at 25 minutes to 3 o'clook. AGRICULTURAL A CWATION. In accordance with the call previously made by the Executive Committee of the Southern Central Agricultural Association, a number of Southern planters convenedin the city of M ieon, Ga., on the 21st of Oc. tober, 1852, for the purpose of forming an Association of the Agriculturists of Aa slaveholding States. Besides a large num her of the State Society present, a number ef delegates from Virginia, Alabama, M.is sissippi, Tennessee, Louisiana, South Caro lina and Florida appeared and took their seats. The following were from South Car& lina-Col. Wi. DuBose, J. W. Harrise1l Thos. Smith, Col. A. G. Summer. The Convention was organized by calling Dr. D. A. Reese, of Ga., to the Chair, and the appointment of Win. H. Chambersof Ala., as Secretary. 'he objects of the convention were ex plained by Dr. IV. C. Daniell, of DeKalb, who also introduced the following resole lions: Resslved, That the members of the. Agri cultural Association of the slaveh6lding States, to be organized as hereinafter re commended, be composed of such citilen f the same, as taking an interest in igri 3ulture, desire to become members thereof; and of delegates from State and lo4 Agricultural Societies; and from Sta'tes o'r arts of States. Resolred, 'That such persons as ab lesignated are recommended to convenaot Wontgomery, Alabama, on the first Monday n May- next, and to organize an Aaricul ural Association of- Slaveholjling States, under such provisions as to them may ap. ear best calculated to fulfill the purposesof heir organization, which shall :hold.its ieetings,in-succession, in all the slaV4beh-l' m-State&.ht pondence, to consist of'sevenld#pi to c-ir.ry intd-offettlie foretoing resdlipo A emo Om Ludicrous blunders sometimes occuiti ,ases where ignorantipersons attempt to use aguage about the meaning of which they now nothing. Not long since, while travelling froni Pittsburg to Cincinnati, two rather verdant pecimens of the female sex came on board he boat at one of the landings, whom foi lie sake of distinction we will call Mary nd Jane. Now, Mary had out her eye ceth, or in other words, was acquainted xith the rules and regulations which govern ;enteel society. Jane, the younger, had ever mixed in genteel society to any great xtent, and was therefore in blissfull igno. -mnce as to any of the rules which govern -efined people. Her language, too, was nly sueh as she had heard among ler rus ei associates Mary was aware of the Fact, and had therefore cautioned her to biserve howv she-Mary-acted, and. to ;overn herself accordingly. Jane prdiniset mplicit obedience. Shortly after, w~hila jeated at the dinner table, the wvaiter aked Mary what part of the fowl she would have; She informed him, in a very polite man ner, that it was " perfectly immaterial." le accordingly gave her a piece, and thed inquired of Jane what part she wvodd choose. The simple minded girl--relied ~vith all the self-assurance imaginable " I believe ll take a piece of the imma trial too." The scene that followed this declaritica. is beyond the power of pen to descrihr. "he assembled guests were compelled to give vent to their surcharged feelings -in peals of boisterous laughter; whilst the >oor girl, .her face suffused with crimsoh blushes, left the table, declaring as she fled to the cabin-" They wvent ketch me aboaril of one of these pesky steamboats soon agin." ________ A CAUSTrC Hr.-Piron, the French author, having been taken up by the watch man of the night, in the streets -of Paris, was carried on the following morning, bi. fore a lieutenant of police, who haughtily interrogated him concerning his business or >irofession. " I am a poet, sir," said Piron. " Oh! a poet, are you I" said the migis trate, "1I have a brother who is a poet." " Then we are even," said Piron, '" for haye a brother who is a fool." AN Iursn LJADY's PosTscrrT.--An Irishi lady wrote to her lover, begging himnto sen her some money. She. added b.y way oli Postscript, " I am so ashamed of the ru- - quest I have made in this letter, that I aenN after the postman to get it back, but the. servant could not overtake him." - THE man who committed suicide b turning himself inside out and .orawlin. through his boots, is not expected to live; - AN Irishman wvasponce brought before M' magistrate charged with marrying sixariveao. The magistrate asked hiikhow he could he so hardened a villian. " Pleaue yudur ( ship," says Paddy " I was trying tp good 'un." To RENT.-A man turned -hig sog i~~ doors lately, because he wouldn'tpa house-rent. -A striking jioo affection. _ _ \VANTED TO K~ow..-f attachment, woehear'senuic the hangman's rege I --