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west, instead of across, and witli a population of one niillion two hundred thousand to one million five hundred thousand, instead of her .present population of one million two thousand seven hundred and seventeen. The mere statement of the case in this llght, is sufficient to show that cmigrants would go on a wild goose chase if they went to Cuba expecting to get lands for nothing. Our people would stand a better chance to get such lands in Tennessee. The lands in Cuba must necessrrily, to a very great extent, be in the hands of private holders, and our people moving to Cuba would have to buy lands at the prices of an old community. Cuba. therefore, could not fulfill the requisite of a wilderness to which southern men might go to get lands at nominal rates. Would Cuba be a stable political community, or, in other words, competent to self-government? I doubt it. Self-government involves two considerations the race, and the training. There is only one race of people in modern times who have shown the capability of self-government, that is the Anglo-Saxon raee,the race to which we belong; 11nd with us it is still, in some degree, an experi ment. But whatever question there may be as to other races, there can be but one opinion as to the incompetency of the Spanish race. At no time, and under no eirethnstances, have they been able to preserve republican institutions. The Spanish-American Republics, whose popu lations are of the same race and grade as the whites of Cuba, have become the by-word of his tory; every step in their insane career bas ben the melancholy blot and blur of free institutions. The Spanish Creole race of Cuba are the worst kind of materials with whieb to build up repub lican institutions. What has their political train ing been ?-the worst imaginable. They have always lived under the sternest despotism. For the lust thirty years in particular they have lived under martial law. They have had no politieal privileges, and are utterly ignorant of the ma chinery of free institutions. The touching pic ture which Tacitus draws of the Roman State under the tyranny of Tiberius, is the condition of Cuba. - Men," he says, "were afraid of knowing each other; society was at a panse ; re lations, friends, and strangers stood at gaze; no public meetings, no private confidence; things inanimate had ears, and roofs and walls were -deemed informers." What could we expect from suddenly investing such a people with self government, but a disastrous failure ? But it may be said that our own people would go in upon annexation, and control the Cubans. But I do not think the American emigration would be large: at the South it would not, because agricultural emigrants never go in large numbers to an old country ; from the North the emigra tion would be mostly commercial men for tem porary sojourns. Whilst the emigration from the United States would not be large, its influ ence would be greatly weakened by the preju dice of the Creoles to our people, the prejudice of race and religion, which is intense in Cuba. If Cuba were annexed, and a slave Slate, but proved incompetent to self-government, she would not only be no benefit to the South, but a great calamity. If we are m t at the thres hold with this difficulty, we might, perhaps, forbear to Lo furthei, considering this as conclu sive. But I shall pass on. The next question is, would Cuba be a reliable slave community-that is, would slavery be be likely to continue tbere ? In order to determine this question, we must corsider the nature of the population and institu tion of Cuba.$ - I shall put down the population at the lowest estimate, one million two hundred thousand. Of thev~se, two hundred thousand are free ne groes. I pause involuntarily a'. this startling fact; it is worthy to be pondered ou by southern men. This army of free negroes are not such free negroes as ours are. Our free negroes are American free negroe., dwarfed by being in con trast with the greatest white race on the globe, the Anglo-Saxon race. There is a vast interval with us between the two races. The free ne groes of Cuba are Spanish free negroes, eleva ted relativelv by being in contrast with an imfe rior white race,' There is no abrupt separation between thme two races; they approximate and issimilate. Of course there are, among the white race in Cuba, man~y individual exceptions, whieb stand out in bold relief~ from the free ne gro race; but the remark I make is, nevertheless, true in refereree to the Creole masses. To illust rate my meaning more fully, I take it, that the Creole masses are about equal to the Mexican manses; between the Mexipan masses :and their free. negroes, is no abrupt line of de narkationi-the same state of things exists in Ctuba. The free negro race stand, in a great degree, upon an equality with the Creole masses -neither have any political privileges. This eri;uality, which I have been dwelling upon, be. tween the races, is fostered lby thme Spanish Goy ernment, as am greatt political idea, to check any t endencies on the part o.f 'the Creoles to revolu tion. In pursuanice of this policy, in some in .<ances, the free negroes had special and exc!u kive :adv:nagtages of schools; marriages between *the t wo classes' have been encouraged ; and, what is more striking fact'still, free negroes have been enrolled in the army, taught thme use of - arms, amnd instructed in military tactics, while 'the Creoles have been regularly excluded from he an.From these various considerations, AJ can:it but consider the free negro element in 'bss most d:.nigerouu, and not auguring well for the institution of slavery there. T1wo hun. dted thou,-and Spanishi free negroes! They strike me more like two hundred thousand half. hit torches, which a single flashm mamy light up, and set the whole island in a flame at any moment. WXhien I remember that it was this same free negro race, tunder the workings of Spanish and French ideas, which upturned the entire social fabric in Sr. Domingo, and wvreaked such infinite slaughter on the white race, my apprehensions from this source are nt, by any means, diminish ed. Twenty thoausand Spanish troops preserve the peace of Cuba now; but under different circumstances, and in the :absence of a stamiding army, would the whites of Cuba be safe ? They would, I think, be sleeping over a volcano. Tme next clement ini the population of Cuba is the slaves: there arc four hundred thousand of them. These bhaves are not christianized, htmmanized, or civilized, to the same extent as our shaves. A large portion of them have been imported from A frica, and are still half savage. They cannot be relied tupon for lidelity and loy ;dlty'to anything like the same extent as our -s~aves. Such are the slaves of Cuba. I would now refer briefly to some of the slave regulations of Cuba. By the laws of Cuba every slave has time right, err complaint of ill usage, once every year, to hunt a purchaser, and his master is bound to permit him to be absent for a sufficient time for that purpose. When the slave finds a purchaser his master is obliped to sell him, not at his own price, but in case of disagreement between theitmaster and purchaser, at a price to be faxed by a certain public function ary. The slave who can change has master wvnen he pleases is hardly a slave ; lie is almost free. lin populous portions of Europe the free lai borer has ito other privilege of freedom than the right to change his employer. Not only has he slnve a right to change his master, but lie has the right to buy himself; and not only the whole of himself, but any part of himself, the otne fourth, or one third, or one half of himaelf; if he buys one fourth of himself, theni for three months every year lie is free to work for him self and do as ho pleases. Every mother, be fore a child is born, has the right, on paying twenty-five dollars, to have the child declared free. These facts are full of meaning, and they show how the Spanish Government keeps the African idea Impending over Cuba, like a porten tons cloud, which she' flashes up at intervals to retain dominion by the terror of its lurid glares. There is another consideration on this branch of the case to which I would allude: the slaves brought inato Cuba since 1820. Spain, by trea ty of September 23, 1817, in consideration of ?400,000 paid by England, engaged that the slave trade should be abolished throughout the Spanish doniir.ions from the 30th May, 1820. By the ordinance of the King of Spain, of De eemaber, 1817, it is directed, that every African imported into any of the colonies of ~Spain, in vioation of the treaty with England, shall be declared free. By the treaty between Great Britain, and Spain, of June 28, 1835, for the pur pose, ofr" rendering the means for abolishing the trafile in slaves more effectual, the slave trade is again declared to be tota.hy abolished." Yet, in spt of .Lh t,.atje ae ordinnce of the King of Spain, Africans, in vast numbers, have been imported into Cuba. One writer whom4 have consulted, puts down the number of these Afri cans, who are, called Bozal negroes, now in the island, at. two' thirds of the entire number of slaves. He says they abound in the rural dis tricts, and may be easily recognized by their language and the marks of the tattoo. An in telligent Cuban has latey informed me that nearly all the slaves in Cuba are AfAcans impor ted since 1820, and their descendants; that, un til recently,~it was estimated the entire slave population died out every ten years. Now, I wish to ask what would be the condition of this class, if Cuba were annexed, and they b:ought, I without any modification of their condition by any supreme authority intermediate between the Spanish Power and our own, under the influence of the law of our Federal Government ? This very question has already been decided upon by our courts. The Supreme Court of the United States, in the celebrated case of the Amistad, 15 Peters, 593 sustaining the decision of the circuit court, hold that " these negroes were unlawfully transported to Cuba, in violation of the laws and treaties of Spain, and the most solemn edicts and declarations of that Government. By those laws, and treaties, and edicts, the African slave trade is utterly abolished; the dealing in that is deemed a heinous crime, and the negroes thereby introduced into the dominions of Spaii are declared to be free." If Cuba were directly annexed from Spain, without an intermediate state of separate independence in which a new fundamental law could be passed, great difficul ties might arise on this point from the efforts of the Abolitionists. The next item in the pnpulation is the white race. This is estimated at six hundred thousand, of which a small portion are European Span iards, the residue :re Creoles-about equal, as a clrss, to the people of Mexico. Now, can these people be relied upon to preserve slavery ? The country being an old settled country, there would be, as I have already said, no great tide of emi gration from the South; the comparatively few southern men who would go there, would be counterbalanced by an equal and adverse emi gration from the North. The continuance of slavery would, therefore, depend on the Creoles of Cuba. I would con.,ider this bad security. Slavery is never secure, where the masters are an intferior white race. There is, too, a marked tendency in the Spanish Creole race to emanei pation. This is owing to several causes. ist. The quality of the two races. They as similate without difficulty; there i. no guif be tween them. The philosophy of African slave ry consists in the superioi iy of the white race ; where this superiority is wanting, there is no basis for the instilution to rest upon, and it crum bles like a house without a foundation. 2d. The tendency of the Spaiiihi democratic idea is to ultraism ; they carry liberty to the ex treme of anarchy. 3d. Their inability to govern themselves pro. duces bloody struggles, the leaders in which seek the aid o' il e 1hves. H ence it has resulted. that the Spanish American colonies, who have set up for themselves, though under Spain they were slave communities, have all gone into emancipa. tion. Have we any right to expect anyditg more from the Creoles of Cuba, than the Creohes of Central America? I think not. From the rapid summary thus taken of the population and institutions of Cuba, I doubt whether Cuba would be reliable upon the slave ry issue. Looking at the question of annexa tion in all its bearings, I doubt exceedingly whether it would be to the interest of the South to annex Cuba n1w, if it could be done without money or blood. But no one has any idea that Cuba can be thus easily actquired at the preent time. There are only three modes by which Cuba could be acquired,, viz; 1. By purchase. 2. By war. 3. By treaty with Cuba as an independent Power. The first method is impracticable, because Spain will not sell. The recent debate in the Spanish Cortez sets that polint at rest. I go further ; not only Spain will not sell, but no $panish administrationi woluld dare to sell. The announcement, otf such a treaty would revolu tionize Spain, arid the Ministry who would have the temerity to sign a treaty sohhumilia'ing to the pride of the nation, would be torn 1la pieces by the infuriatted mob Atnd hetnce I have always looked upon the mission of Mr. Soule for thlis purpose, as a sterile idea, fruitless in it self, and utfortunate, from his European bitth;, in the agent selected. But, supposing this difliculty overcome, the price would be so enormous $150,000,000 or $200,000,000-thait I would not be willing to give it. I look upon the aid vantag, s to the South as ton precariouts to give so umucht mottey, erpecially whlen I see thatt the necessary effect of such an expenditure, would be to fasten a high tarifT upon us indefin.tely. There is no practical measure w iitin the scopee of GJovernment power, front which the South would derive so vast a benefit, as from the redite tint of the tariff to the lowest revenue sitdard. should be very unwilling to abandon this great practical measure of deliverance to the Soutlt, for the u~certain hazards of antiex:i;ion. As to the second muode, wvar, I sauy n~othing of the shocking ianjustice of wrestitng fromt a feewb'o Power, without provocatio n, her most valuabile ponession. I have ino doubt we could succeed inI this way, bitt at great cost of~ motney, and menca. The Spanish troops would make sc'me resistance, the elitmate more. I cannot forget, too, that a large portion of the treaisure expended would be wrung from the hard earnings of the southern people, and much of the blood shed would be the best blood of the S:.utb; for our system of taxation is unequal ; and this being looked upon1 as a sonthern tmeasure', theu gamllant youang mnen of the South would voluinteer with alacrity. But of alU modes whieb could be devised for the acquisition of Cuba, for the benefit of thue South war is the most fatal. For no one who has imvy knowledge of the Spaunishi ebaracter, its pride, obstinacyjamd revenge, caun for a mnnment itmagine that Spain would stop at atty steps to blast thte aquisition in our hanuds. The policy -of Spain is obvious: she would cling to Cuba with theI tenacity of a dying convulsion, and w hent shel could hold on no longer, shte would decree uni versal emancipation. But, it may be said we would reverse this state of things in our tvrrito ry of Cuba. But, just at this juncture, the pen ple of the North, who have the cotntrol of the Federal Governtment, would, by a unanimous voice, bid us stay our hands; that non-intierven tiotn was their doctritne; that, by the Spanishi law, there were no sl.sves in Cuba. The result would be, that the South, after all her sacrifices, would have acquiredl a free negro colony, the greatest curse imaginable. This result would be very amusing to the Abolitionists, but not to me. I have, therefore, no idea of blindly travel. ing a road which leads nowhere but over a pro. Anter motive which makes mec still more determined not to go to war with Spain for Cut. ba, is, that we of the South are upotn the eve of a great struggle with a hostile mtajority of the North, and we will need all our resources, not to make foreign conquests, but to defend the very "round upon which we staad. I am, there Ifore, unwilli'ng to weaken our resources, or copliate our position by an attack on Cubau; others, who hear only the songs of peace in the future, may take a different course. As to the third mode, treaty with Cuba. This implies that Cuba has thrown off thme Spantish oke, and established independence. If it were desirable to acquire Cuba, this seemts to mec to be the only mode it could be done beneficially to the South. By this mode we would escape the agitation of the slavery question in the ter Iritorial condition of Cubai. The question would be in a nut-shell. annexation or no annexation ? The Wilmot proviso tmight precede and prevent annexation, it could not succeed annexation antd mar it. Cuba would have organized her inisti tutions. We would be enabled to judge, wvithi some degree of confidence, as to her capability for self-government, and her reliability upon the slavery issue. We would kniow what we were getting, and run less risk of getting what we did not want. We would have gotten rid of the embarrassing questions arising out of the treaties, ordinances, and decrees of Spain. Atnd then, nationally speaking, shte would cost us nothing,.neither men nor money. It may be supposed, front these considerations, that I favor fillibustering. Not so. An impassa ble gulf intervenes bet ween me tand this policy -duty. I cannot interfe.re with the domestic in stituins of t her pnople, for I wish other peo ple not to Interfere with the domestic institu tions of our people. On the other hand, I can. not shut my eyes to the ineviLable future. I see the world is in a transition sta'e, and I feel that the independence of Cuba is only a question of time. The final decision of this great question of annexation belongs appropriately-to the fu ture. I say. take no step now in that direction; wait and watch the course of events, and profit by them. I do not wish to shackle the ultimate action (if the country. When the future rolls round, and Cuba emerges independent from its bosom. when the fruit is ripe, then let this great question be decided under the light of all the surrounaing ciruumstances. I might stop here, but several hypothetical eases must be disposed of to manifest myself truly. It may be said, suppose England or France seize Cuba, what then ? There are some things so improbable they need hardly be considered, and this is one. After England and France are done with Russia, they will not be in a mood to disturb anybody, much less will they want to jar on the United States. But neither England nor France want Cuba; in their hands it would be necessarily a free negro colony, and, there fore. worthless, but if either of them should want it, thei mutual jealousy would prevent either from taking it. But if, in violation of all possibility, they should make the attempt, I say at once I would draw the sword and drive them into the sea. Again, it may be said, suppose Spain refuses to satisfy our claims against her, what then? My answer is direct. I would not mingle up these claims with the question of Cuba. I would net towards Spain with extreme forbearance, for she is weak and we are strong. The truest great ness consists in great ideas. I would exhibit the country in this light towards Spain. I would act towards her with generosity and magnanimi ty. I would urge our claims in the most ib spectful manner. If, after a reasonable time, they were still disregarded, I would propose ar bitration. If this failed, then, after assuring myself that our claims were well founded, and after sufficient and final notice, I would send out a fleet of steamers, seize some Spanish ships, pay the claims, and give a receipt in full. But, it may be said, suppose Spain should attempt to Africanize Cuba, what then? For my part, I am clear that our Government should uie every possible means to prevent this. I would stop at nothing, not even war. There is. however. an old saying, and a true one, that. an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. I would act upon this maxim. I would remove the causes leading Spain to this course. They are two-the fear of our designs upon Cub:, and the pressure of England. Let us talce such a line of conduet as will remove the first cause; the Russians nre removing tIhe second Cause, in which operatiion our Government could co-oper ate effeiently, by encouraging Spain. That, in my opinion, is the true line of our diplomtcy. It is the interest of Spain to preserve slavery in Cuba-her interest and our policy concur. We would be bunglers, indeed, if, under such cir eumstances, wV could not produee the desired result. The policy of the South is not so much to have more slaves, as to have more people in terested in sivery. Spain is so interested; we should let her continue thus. I am glad to be able to fortify my opinions upon tljis subject by the au:hority of .lr. C'l houn. As late as May, 1848, lie said, in his speech upon the " propo.sed occupation of Yuca tan :" So long as Cuba remaias in the hands of Spain, a friendly Power-a Power of which we have no drend-it should continue to lie, as it Is been, the policy of all Administrations ever since I lave beei connected with the Govern ment, to let Cuba remain there." I assume what he says as an axiom. I de. duce from it a corollary, that we are not to buy Cutn, or go to war for it ; because, if our policy is for Cuba to remain with Spain, it is against our policy to change' t liat possession, with or without the cinsent of Spain. This diposes or every mode of nequisition, evertVt by treaty with Cuba as an indeendetit Power. This is, from its very nature, a ques tion for the future. Whteni the contingency arises, then, and not till - theni, we should render ai definite judgment. Mr. Chairnman. the negqisition of Crba w ill omen a e-'w volume in our history. Former acquisitions were the~ nece:Ik'y of location, or of cireumastance. Th'lis is not. By this step we' are fairly launcbed in the career oif conquest, from which there is no outlet but to stormt the future. sword in hand. From this entreer we have nothing to hope, annd eve'rything to fear; for our greatest success would be our greatest disaster. Thme history of nations has been the h'istory of thieir imtaginationts. The po~mnp of poer he thirst for dominion, the glare of glory, haive ben the empty baubles for which they have exhausted their energies, and slaughtered eacth other. These have been the dim lightts by which poor humanity has hitherto :advanced. Who, can estimate the infinite mieres, the mnuilhitu dinous slaughters, these barre'n vaunities have entailed upon the hnuan ratce. Th'le honk of time is bloody (on every p'ige wit h thie horrid recital. Shall we learn not hin fronm it? Shall the past turn its sorrowin~g tfentures utpon us in vain ? Shall we be itisensible to thme tears and gonies of history ? or shith we furnish anoither instancLe of stupendous folly by embarkingin the samne inane enireer? I trust tnot. I trust we shall turn with nversion from the deceitful se duations of failse glory. and lie intstructed by the disasters of urniversn!h hunmanity. We maiy extend our dominion over thme whole continent, our navies may ride triumuphant ont every sea, our namne maiy be the terror of Kings. our 'decrees the destinies of nationts. but be :is sured it will be at the price of our free institu tions. I know not how it. tnay be with others but for my own part, I would not paiy this price for all thme powe'Cr and all the glory that ever eins tered around all thle banners and all the eagles emblazoned in the pantheon of history. Let us turn from the line of vulgar conquer ors to the fathers of the Republic ; let us learn from them, thaut the truest pamtriotism is the pre ser' ation of our institutions, the truest wisdom is moderation. In short, let our history be not the history oif otr ingination, but the history oft our common sense. By this course we may not vatunt so mainy statues, so tmny triumphalI rcthcs, so mainy trophies of victory, amnd bountd less dominion, but we~ shalul have what is more glorious thatn these, we shall htave our institu tions pre~erved ; we shall have the conquests of peace ; thte mighty march of civilization ; chris tinity working out, unimapeded, her Divine mis sion ; the.se will be our statues ; these our tri umphal arches; these the trophies of our vic tories ; and they will be such as no nation before us have ever had. Punuc MEETING.-At a meeting of the citi zens of Augusta, held at the City Halt, on rTues dsy eventing~, the 23d inst., for the purpose of tking into consideration the propriety of mnak ing a subscri ptioni to the Savannah River Valley Rail road, On tmotion, his Honor, the Mayor, was called to the Chair, and Milo Hatch appinuited Secre tary. A memorial of the stockholders of the Valley Rodwas read, and the meieting addressed by the following named gentlhemneni, respectively, to. wit: Atndrew Hlammoind, Johnu A. Culiouin. I. I'. Garvin, \V. T. Gould, James Gardner, A. J. Mit er, and J. M. Britt. .Dr. Garvin offercd the following preamble and resolution, which were adopted: Whereaus, the construction ot the Savainnah River Valley Railroad will conduce greatly to tie growth anid prosperity of Augusta; and whereas said Railroad cnnnot be constructed without the co-operatiotn of this city, therefore, Resolred, That the City Council of Augusta are hereby requested to subscribe for five thou sand shares of the capital stock of the Savannah River Valley Railroad Comapany, paiyible in their bonds, bearing an interest oif seven per cent. per annum, upon the conditions set forth in the proposition mado tu December last, and upon such futrthter conditions as the City Council many deemi necessary to secure the interests of Atu gustaL, provided that such subsi ription shall not be binding until it hais been authorized by thme Legislature of Georgitn. TIhe meetintg then adjourned. A. P. ROBEtRTSON, Chaiirmnan. Mtrn I-4er2r Secretairy. ARTHUR SIMIlNS, EDITOR. EDGEPIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1855. A Rule without Exceptions ! A .L Persons who flail to settle their indebtedness to the " Advertiser Office," in a very short time, will be compelled to settle with one legally nu thorised. As a Co-partlership hais been entered into it is requisite that all out-standing debts should be collected forthwith. Acknowledgment. WE are indebted to the flon. JAMEs L. Oaa for the speech of Mr. BARRY on KnoW.Nothing-ism. Free iing. WINTERt still prevails. On "afonday night last, it was cold enough for any purpose. A chap in these parts, who happened to look out upon the twinkling stars about midnight, war refd to observe--" Well, they tell me this world turn ai-ound, and I renkon we must be about ' Novy Skosh y' now." Convia:ted Faot a private source w learn that the trial of H. KEENER, for the murder aaf.JANEs REESE, (which came off in Augusta, Ga., durngthe latterpavtof last week) was one of very considerable interest. It ter minated in ilte conviction of the prisoner Lbout 11 o'clock on Saturday night. Among the prosecuting counsel was Judge CoNE, of Greensboro,Ga. For the defence, several able lawyers appeared, among them the lon. A. If. STEVENs. Another trial for murder is paid to be pending before the same Court, which it is thought cannot result otherwise than did K:ENEa'S. Our neighbors of Richmond seem determined to use the jury power energetically and effectively. Torkville Preparatory School. TitE " Yorkville Enquirer" discourses of the school recently established at that place, by Messrs. CowaRD & JENICINS, ill exalted terms. We* doubt not its ex. cellence. No better guarantee of the fact would we ask than a candid recommendation from our frienads of the " Enquirer." We should be glad to publish tle very satisfactcry article, on the subject of this school, which our cotemporaries put forth in their last number. At present, however, other matter of more general in. terest occupies our space. We take much pleasure in again calling the attention of all, who may desire to have their sons graduate at our milit ary colleges, to the fact that this school of Messrs. COWARD & JEN EINs, at Yorkville, is established principally to prepare boys for a suecessful course in those institutions. From all accounts, it is destined to prove a Nufber one Academy. Mr. Boyce on Cuba. Tits talented young statesman has recently deliver ed a speech in Congress, wisinla we are honest in pro nouncing well worthy the past fame o' South Carolina. The position we have ever occupied in regard to the acquisition cf Cuba is one utterly adverse to any foul play, towards Spain, on the part of our government. So, likewise, have we ever looked upon fillibustering with an avcrsinn amounti'ng almost to abhorrence Still, our notion has been thatthe peaceable and right. faul acquisition of this fair island was an object to be desired by the South. The dangers attendant upon its possession and the difficulties that mu.t necessarily accompany the process of making itan American State were at the same time too obvious notto be apprelctnd ed with a degree of anxiety. Yet we had s:pposed that these were dangers and difficulties which the tact, the energy, the genius of lie. Anglo-Saxon race (im proved by American experience and trials) would conquer in a very few years; And even now we are of opinion that Mr. BOYCE iasorer-drawn his picture. We would think that lie had looked upon the question .throuagh glasses too gloohiily shaded, did we not know the hopeful buoyancy of the man. I(nowing this,we have pondered well his several positlins, andl must itn candorsay that we find them sustainod by fair and strong, if not conclusive,gments. As o' hais general views agaInst ftrthaer extenasion of territory', we concur nsith him haratihy. It is sickly cant to say alaa' our political system should 'ge extenad ed,. simp1ly because tere is good grou'nd faor faigla ira its expansioility. Our counatry is sufliciently large already fair good, far toao large for evil. Our eagle';: wings haave been aoutstretchaed, .perhaaps long enougha. Let him be perchaed, with closed piniions hut watchaful eye, for the ifuture, as nariiark that hais bounadaries are set anad thaat hae aneans now to preserve tema inviolate. Of couarse we alluade to ouar genecral policy. Occasiotns might arise, when so defend whlat we already have wouald be inseparable fromn gaininag maore. T.io the argument of Mr. BovcE, upon the imnproahbadi ty of Cuba's provinag (in the Uniion)any gresat bulwark to te domestic inistituations of the South, we ask gen eral coansideratiun. There arc some grouands taken uapon thais point by ouar representative, which exhaibit, on his part, a most careful stuady of this momnentous question. They will doutbtless impress many, as they have us, n itha a dlisposition at least to pauase anal reflect bSAre joiuning further in this Cuban hoe and cry'. Butt we forbear further comment. We have maaide room for the whole of thtis speech in our present nun:c ber; anad we are sure every sensible reader will thanak tas for having doane so. It is waorthay of being puiblish ed, itn full, tharoughaott the cotuntry. Its meataid atnd manner are admirabale. Its originality is striking. Neither is it devoid of reah eloquence. These as anay rate were otur vie ws of this efihirt after a first readmrg; ard we have scannedl every line a second time, and wth care, withtout a desire to modify in the least ouar first imopressions.' Won the Book. Srv.ata very well-preparead solutions of or enig mas have been setnt in by yoang frienads from Curaryton anad elsewhiere. Buat Miss KrratE G., of Cambridge, has wona the book from them all. Here is aer note, followed up by her respotases iaa verse ; DExA Sta,--I send yout the answe'rs to youarenigmas In the Edg'efield paper. 1Ishupe you will correct whtat is wrong ta alhem, if you present them in the Adver tiser. KiTrtt E . (There was not moch so correct, Miss Ktry:E--all very nice fior a little girl of twelve.-ED. Anv.) ENIGMA FIRST. Of all thte animals cauaghat by the cat, Th'le most pestiferous is the raf; Anda ste wittiest fellow in Edgefiel, by far, Is that jocutlars genius, Lewis Covar. Th~e Latin for men is tiri, 1 ween, Atnd the riddle itself is Englatnd's queen. ENIGMA SECOND. Dirty water (witha turnip-tops). Is whaat a pig would know as slops ; Anad thte great little word, without a just, Muast be that good superlative, best. rThe tired hiound delights to cool. His panting sides in a limpiad pool But would it not he a sad mis-haap. If the trees shaould die for want of sap ? Ala! never msay it be nay lot To have for a husband a drunaken sot ! Sooner, young nian, thy vitals stab Titan visit too oftens the side-board slab. And now, hy the bright beams of old Sol, The field of blood is Sebastopol. ENIGMA THIRD. A highly-ailled, richly-kept parcel of groundsa Is known as a garden the whole world arounda ; And the fearless man, who hats beena all thte world over, Most juassly deserves thte bold namse of a Rover. While Mason's our minister to La belle France, A rondo is surely the gay Spanisha dance. The speetd of the loud-snorting, iroan-rib'dl horse Wont pompare with the lighatning as guidhed by Morse. Verona, thte lovely Italian city ! When you go thtere, dear Col., do take along Kittie. AndI now I will wager my hopes of a laiver, Thiat ta garden and rondo, in Mason and Rover And Morse and Verona, kind sirs and asweet madlamsa, You'll fid all the letters to spell Governor Adams. VTe ansawer to numbner four, of our Enigmas, not being given in full as are the foregaaing, we mosr reject as insuflic ient. But you are fully entitled to the book, Miss Krr-rtE; and let us tell you, your competitors were very clever. So much the more credit for you. gg TitERE was received at thte port of Galveston in the year 1850, 26,255 bales of cotton, anad in the year 1851 71,175 bales. This shouws a rapid increase Will Kansas be a Blaveholdlng mtato? lon. P. S. BRoOKs, in conjunction with several other members of Congress, has recently elicited a strong affirmative reply to this question, from one General STRINGFELLOW who appears to have been for many years a citizen of Missouri. In all such cases, the credibility of the witness is the first con sideration. Who is General STRrNGFELLOW I? The note of Messrs. Baooxs, CLINGMtAN and others,intfo' ducing his communication to the public, speaks of him as a gentleman of high reputation tn his own State, who has displayed signal ability at various times in the discussion of the slavery question. He is moreover said- to reside on the border adjoining Kansas and to be intimately and personally acquainted witih the pres ent condition of that territory. Such is the ground (good, we think) upon which the anienticity of his information rests. Now for the sum and substance of that information. The late vote for a delegate to Congress is given by him in full, and is as follows: OFFICIAL RETURNS Of an Election for a Delegate to the House of Repre sentatives of the United *States, held in the ''erritory of Kansas, on the 29th of November, 1854. Dis. Whitfield. Wakefield. Flenneken. I............46 188 51 2...........235 20 6 3............40 7 4...........140 21 5............63 4 15 6...........105 7...........597 7 8............16 9.............9 31 10.........2 6 29 ...........237 3 31 9 . 691 14........130 23 15........267 30 16........222 80 17............49 13 2258 248 305 It is stated that, in this contest, the question at issue was slavery or no slavery. WHITFIELD was the pro slavery candidate, WAKEFIELD and FLENNEKEN on the other side. It will be seen that WHITFIELD beat them both 1705 votes, receiving over four-fifths of all the votes polled. The rumor, as to this majority having been obtained by Missouri assistance, is stoutly de. tied. Of the seventeen districts into which the territory is divided, only one (the 1st) appears to ie much tainted wit i abolitionism. STR INGFFLLOW accounts for this by showing that the abnlitionists, sent out by the Emi grant Aid Societies of the North, nearly all concen trated in and about Lawrence, a town in that district. But where, it will be asked, are those long trains of glad-singing travellers, who were but yesterday so hurriedly and happily wending their way, over hiil and dale, to this bright land of promise, there to crush by triumphant majorities every efrort to establish African slavery in their midst? Where, GR EELEY ! Where GaRit suN? "Oh, where, tell me where !" Look at that vote for Congress, and account for your three thou sand vaunted emigrants. STINGFELLOW says the most of them (trifling scoundrels!) sloped as soon as the stipend was placed in their hands. Some went to Nebraska, some " back to hung" and some scattered generally. " Some flew East and some flew West, And some flew over the Cuckoo's nest." Of those that remain it is said, that " a large pro portion of them, so soon as they see slavery as it really exists, are freed from their prejudices, and from sheer necessity become slaveholders ; for no other labor can he had." The cause of this general abandunment of Kansas, by these Nen Englanders, STaNGFEi.LoW thinks is found in the fact, that a prairie country like Kansas either requires that a settler should have a sufficiency of capital to hire laborers, or that he should (as slave holders do) carry laborers along with him. This po sition is elaborated with considerable ingenuity. A portion of General STRINGFEI.LOW'S remarks upon this point we here append : "To the farmer who has no ' help,' but is dependant on his own unaided labor, Kansas is, of all, the least desirable country ; it cannot be settled by such. " It the timber, the poor man can with his axe, erect his cabin, make his rails on the line of his fence, with his own hands enclose his land, helt his trees, attd with his one-horse plough break his ground and put it in cutivation, liut in Kansas there is no such tand fur coltivation ! Every fo'ot of tinmber is needed for fuel and fetncing. Th'le limber is confined to the banks of the streams, on the bsottoms -and the breaks of hills; hence timbered land isiless fsttedl for ctultivation, whsile, on account of its sca rcity, it is far too valuale for that purpose. Farms must be made int thse prairie. The farmoer tmust htave a i,-am to htant hts rails, and in motst cases they must he hauled so famr as to retnder fencing too costly for little fields. Large fields alonte, hy re ducing the proportion of fencing, cans render its cost reasonsalble. Dwellitngs toust he- framed, antd butilt eiter of brick or of stone. Bunt, perhaps, the greatest of all the difiku;ttle: inr the~ way of the psour mans, is thte first cost of bireakitng prairie. To dlo thisrequirer.!taind; andi at least six yoke of oxen,. If hired, it will cost at eist thtree dollars per acre ; hstt it cantnot he hired int Kansas for years ; there, every tman will have Isis own land to break ; eaech settler mustst, hetnce, have his own team, his own plotughtmen. Itn tn instance has pratirie land been first settled by psoor mett. After a country is settled, and every facility is ai flred, it is jitst possi ble fur one here and~ thtere to make a fartm its the pratrie. In Missottri, sucht instantces event yet are tare. In nortern Illinois, with ttll its facilities, its rich prairies Ity virttially a watste utntil railroads were made t hrough them." Butt the argumetnt wvhicht so our viewv sectms strong est, itt mtakinag out thte probability of Kansas becoming a slave State, is the cttntiguity of 3llissosuri atnd thsede termintation of her people to protect t htetmselves against thte itiroads of tnholiiion propagatidists. We are glad to see the writer itn qutestion express hitmself so em patically "n this poittt. He is evidently convinced that Missoutri ia wide awake to thse interests of herself and the South genera lly, and that no effort wvill lhe Ileft untried ott her part, to secure the speedy establish-. mettt of A frican servitude throughout thte territotry of Kntsas. " To protect their httmes, they wc ill, if need he, tmake their homes in Katnsas." Th'ley know full well thtat Absolitionists desire Kansas thsat they may use it as a lever whterewith to otverthrosw slavery in Missouri end Arkansas, anad thtey are r,:solved to meet te datnger promptly and effectively. Upont the whole we are mttcht ptleased with thsis letter of Gen. Sen iNGFEt.Low, and skottld like to have given it itn full to our readers. Our immediate representa tive and hsis co-adjutors have douse a wise attd useful thtng ins calling it forth and thsen placing it before the cointry. For one, we htave not htitherio been very hopefutl as to slavery ins Kanisas. But if the state mets of thts letter are to be relied ont (and we catnnos see whty they abouald ttot be) thte thing is almost re dtcedl to a certainty already. 1'Te Abolition .shteetsol te North imdicaite pretty clearly thtat sucs too is thteir oiion abotut the matter; attd thte Tribune is beginntng to belcht forth new threats of vengeansce antd enmity, prepirattry to a grand outtbreak nlien I ansas shall come knocking at thte door for admission into the Union as a slave State. Hastett thte day, kind Fates ! Let thse :ssue be fairly antI squarely met by te North and by ite Souths. And may thte fight be a decisive one-decisive of the futture of our institutions,decisivec Iof the fttutre of the American Union! The Public Records I-r strikes us as being must tmistaken policy to leave or Public Records ttnprotected by fire-proof bsuild igs. We mean now the Records and papers belong ing to our District oflices throutghtout the State. The interests thserein itmplicated'are not generally appireci ated as thtey shtouild be. They are immense. They affect, one way or another, the rights of almost every man, woman and child within the scope of their ac tion. The jtudgments, receipts, credit.s, &c. of the SeriffsOfli ce-the deeds, mortgages, &c. of thte Clerks-thedecisions5, returns, wills, settlemetss&c. of thte Ordinar's-the pleadings, decretal orders, re ports, bontds &c. of the Commissiotner's office-how varietd, howv ramilled, how important is their bearing o the pubhlic welfare ! Suppose thte Court House, at Egefield for itnstance, should be consutmed by fire with its etire contents. Could any man, or any htudred men in the District, rectify the disaster by the unceasing labor of twenty-five years ? Could thtey ap proximate tt with any certainty, by a hsundred thou sand dollars 1 Give them a htalf million as margin, and thsey mightt or mighst not sttcceed. It wo'uld be all uncertatnty, till darkness, all bhundering surnsises built Iupon a few kutown facts. Imagine yourself apprised sote gloomy tmortting " thtat the Coiurt flouse at tlte Ivillagte was burned down last night and nothing saved. H[ow would every good citizen feel " Nothing saeed!" Howv terrible would be those words ! The rights of pintff' the off-sets and vouchers of defendants, the claims of mortgagees, the interests of landed proprie tors, the shtowings of administrators antd gttardians, the dues of minors, the precise condition of a thousand other importatnt matters, and (last hut not least) the re ...p.nmlih..e of the ofiers thsemelves-"nuothintg S'-sated!" Would not the intelligence be indeed start ling, yes, terrible to every thinking man I And yet, here we are, in perhaps every District of South Caro lina, continually exposed to this great risk-in some Districts more so-in others, less-in Edgefield em phatically, decidedly and dangerously so. Will not our Grand Jury, at the approachingTerm of the Court, look into this matter and carefully weigh the propriety of recommending a fire-proof building, on an isolated porition, for the safes keeping of our commin records i The example would doubtless be fullowed by every enlightened Grand Jury in the State. It might lead to a thorough renewal of our Public (Judicial) Edi fices, throughout the State-a renewal that would afford ten-fold, aye, a hundred fold seenrity for the preservation of the ten thousand public papers which knit and bind together the tell thousand individual rights of our people. We conscientiously hold that or~e milliu'of the people's money could thus be most righteously uied throughout the State. Air Lines. WE have before us a map of the English Railways, which demonstrates very palpably the truth of a posi tion not long since taken by one of our correspondents, viz: that air lines, so far from being the general rule in England, are very rare exceptions. The great North Western road, leading from London to Liver pool, keeps a tolerably direct hearing throughout; yet even this deflects more or less every five or ten miles. A large majority of the others are as zigzag in their courses as thu Hudson River railroad, the Greenville and Columbia railroad, or any, the most circuitous, of our routes. But there is this to be said on the subject. In England, railroads came after the establishment of large and populous cities and towns in every part of the kingdom; and of course there was a pre-existing necessity for diverging frequently from direct lines be tween any two distant points. 'Otherwise their roads would nut have properly subserved the purposes of in tercommunication and the demands of trade. Whereas with us, railroads are in most instances preceding the business of building important towns throughout the interior; and are of course not subject to that warping influence. Still, deflections are prudent frequently from anoth er reason. To tap a fertile and highly cultivated strip of country, is enough of itself to justify it, espe cially when the direct line presents a worse succession of grades than the circuitous one. If, in addition to this, the longer line is cheaper in construction and likely to prove less expensive for all time, the question is at once settled in its favor. We take the proposed Ridge route, for the contemplated Railroad between Augusta and Columbia, to be an exact case in point; and if that road be determined upon, we should regard it near akin to absolute folly foi the Company to give what is called the " Lower Route" the preference. Condensed Items, ggr FzaE-The alarm of fire was given yesterday about half-past II o'clock, A. M., when it was dia covered that the Chapel of the South Carolina Col lege in the Campus was on fire in the cupola. The wind was blowing almost a gale, and the flames, al thongh burning slowly, soon destroyed the buildtng, together with the east wing, Rutledge College. Every efi-rt was made to save this portion of the block, but all proved unavailing, from the want of water. The cause of the fire is universally attributed to a spark from one of tie chimneys, lodging tn the cupola of the chapel.-South Carolinian, 271h inst. ' A small party from Penfield, went down in the lower part of the State a few days since, on a deer lunt, and in six (lays killed forty. Some shoot i ing that. gt!" Os Thursday last, says the Lexington Tem pcrancc Standard, a negro man, belonging to SIr. I. VANSANT, the present Sheriff of this District, shot a negro woman-his wife, we are informed,-also be longing to Mr. V., which caused her immediate death. We understand he had been drinking a few days, and was most likely drunk at the time. So much for the rum plague. gg Is the Supreme Court of the United States, at Washington, on 3londay, W .Iram BLANDtNG, Esq., of this State, was admitted an Attorney and Counsel lor of that Court. g;27"'Frax Ninswgan.-Informalion has reach ed us, sa the Columbia Times, from a reliable source, that the store of Mess:s. BE.Actt & BaSossoN, of New berry, North of the Court House square, was discov ered so be on fire Wedntesday morning, about 3 o'clock. The flames were speedily subdued before they had made touch progress ; but we'regret to learn that the books of accounts and notes of the enterpristng firm were consumed. gg Tu . Colutmnbia Carolinian, of Thnrsday says: " A firmman named STTEtGEas, on the Charleston road, ott Trueday's tnight Irain, accidentally fell fr'om the tender, and hadl his feet crtushe~d by the troin passing over them. The intjuries were so serious that it be came necessary to amputate portions of both feet, which was done, under the influence of chlorofortn, by Dr. Rt. WV. GtaaEs, Jr. We uttderstand he is doitng well. Qi VEar recently a gentleman was convicted of manslaughter, anl sentenced so the Penitentiary in New Orle-ans, for killing an antagonist in aduel. We believe this is the first conviction of the kind ever had in Lotuisiana. gr Tuts City Cotuncil of 3onttgomery have raised the price for retailing liquors in that city to flye hun dred dollars. It also nppointed a committee to pro cure an amendlment from the next L.egislature to the city charter empowering the corporation with authori ty to raise the license to three thousand dollar. Foa T-:: Av~taTlsE. AT a regttlar meeting o~f the " DGeFrt.D Iltz zA," att igelield C. Hl., on the 27th inst., the ful lowit" Preambinle and Resoutio~ns were unatnimiously adoptd. WtEnr..as, it hath pleased divitne Providence to remove from amongst us, onr friend, compamniont and fllo -soldier, Jonts La. RicntAaosos, our hearts io ehine us, to a kind arnd proper expression of our tighi regard for the many excellent quatlities of the deceased, and our deep grief for his early depariture. Thereore, Resolved, That in the death of Jbots L. Ricut aansoN, this Troop hath lost a true, ellicienit and no bl hearted soldier, whose many excellencies endear ed hinm to every mtenmber of his Compatty. Resoleed, TIhat this community have snil'ere I in the death of an amtiablie, warm-hearted and useful citi?.en. Resoleed, Thatt we deeply symth;tlize~ with the affleti d mother and sisters of our deceased commrade, and that we weasr the usual badge of mnourtting fur thirty days. Resolced, Thtat these Resolutions be publislaed in the .Edgefleld Advertiser and Valley Pioneer, and~ that a copy of thenm be setnt to the afflheted rela tives. J1. B. GRIIFIN, Capt. JesiEs Cuaav, 1st Serg's. and See'ry-. THmE LaATE Srommf.-During Ihe late storm at Petersburg, Vat., trees were up-reoted, fences blown downt, and windowv blittds driven in with gret fusry. ALt Ric1:umond it is dise-ribed as hay iig been terrific, withs hail, wind, thutttder, aind lihtningr as vivid as itn umid-stummner. Trees, fncs. signs, and the roofs of houses suffered imuh. A dlispatch from Cape Island, dated Tuesday, sas: A violent gale occurred here, between 2 and 5 o'clock on sunday morning. Roofs and hen ces were much damaged. A portion of the Motut -Vernioni lotel roof was torn off. No wreks have vetleen heard of. A lremen'ous storm occured on Sunday night in Phiadelphias, whticht did great damtage to build ings in the city, and vessels in thte hatrbor. The Shiler Hose House wats entirely destroyed. A umuber of roofs wtere blown away, witndows smtashed, fences and trees tortn up and scatter ed, &c. Several oyster boats in the river were sunk, but no lives havec been host as far as ascertained. The tew Court House at Camden, N. J., patrtly unroofed, atnd several dlwellings in the neighbor hood demtolished, and trees and fences levelled int al directions. A despatch fromt Boston dated Mlotnday says: " A vitolent Northwest gale, accomp~anied by heavy rain, commenced here at an early hour this tmorning and still colitinues. As yet we hear of no serious damuage. The tide has rtsen to a great height." YOUNG ATroRNEY.--=A useless nietmber of society, wvho often goes whsere he has n~o busi EcooMY ix Wivzs.-A young married woman, who has not had the opportunity of profiting by the advice and example of a good mother, will find -some difficulty at first in spending her money to the best advantage; for there is really an art in spending money, (though it is getting rid of it.) Some women will keep house respectably and plentifully on one-third less money than will be requir ed by others, and without meanness or i1. liberal dealing. But to do this, judgment, forethought and experience are .necessary. One woman will be able to tell how much her house keeping costs to a shifing, while another cannot guess within ten. The former has method, rule, regularity, and a certaltr sum assigned to her; with the latter it is all hap hazard-it comes and it goes, she neither knows how, nor cares. -And this is almost sure to be the case if the money is doled oot by her husband in a few shillings at a time.--Fartner and Planter, H T X IC N At., MARRIED, on Thursday the 25t1h.ist., Sy Rev. .. 11. Zimmerman, at the residence of Mr. Abner" Bushnell, Mr. WILIAM JORDAN and Miss E. Rya~ daughter of Mrs. S. Ryan, of this District. MARRIED, at her father's residenee, on the 2nd inst., by the Rev. T. Birmingham, Mr. JAmes A. GRAY, of Augusta, Ga., aud bliss - AaAiLZLA F., only daughter of F. O'Connor, Esq., of Mount Vin tage, lldgefield District, S.:C. OBITUARY, DIED, near Lngnires, on the night of the 25th December 1854, in the thirty-fourth year of her age. Mrs. CAROLIs ELlzisPru, consort of Capt. WILEY IIaARRIOS, and only daughter of her survi ving mother, Mary R. and the late Ansel Talbert, Sr., dee'd., of this District Were it necesary to write a lenethy notice of the deceased, the many virtues which adorned her char acter in early youth, and which shone out- more brilliantly in ;naturer years, would a'ford ample ma terial. It is sufficient to say, that even when she was quite young. piety was one.of the leading traita of her character, and in the fourteenth year of-her age. she became a member of the Baptist Church, and for the remainder of her life she adorueO the profession she had made, with an " upright *walk'r and a Godly conmersation. Under the affliction which it was her lot to suffer during the latter. part of her life, she manifested a meekness and resigna tion worthy (f the deepest admiration. She had an abiling trust in God and his promises, and when unlable to read would olten select portions of His h..ly Scriptutes to be read to her, and at times, point out hymns to be sung, which exercises seemed alwa,s to have asustaining. elevating influeneropoa her mind. Thou-h she often spoke of her children with the deepest solicitude, yet she was willing to resign them to the care of " him who doeth all things well." Thus she died as sie had lived, a practicl and hopeful professor of the religion of the blessed Redeemer. She was truly the Christian, the wife, the mother, the daughter, the afi.etionate sister, as well as the light of the home over which she presided. 0 0 I X E R CI A L. Correspondence of the Advertiser. HAMBURG, January 27. Co-rro.-We have no quotable change in prices from our ist ieck's report. The market for the past two days hias been quite dull, caused by a simi lar depression in the Ports. Unless we are favored by better advices from Europe, prices will decline the cnsuing week. Sales range from 6 to 8-ets. D. TO ALL WHO ARE IN ARREARS TO THE. Edgefield & Cheatham Plank RaadI r 1lE Road is finished, and debts due by the Company for Lun.ber, hire or hands, &c., must be paid. Those indebted therefore, must come for ward, without any further delay, and pay up their Stock. The. creditors of the Company cannot ba plut ofi any longer. "A S. F. GOODE, Pres't. Jan 31 tf 3 W a n ted, ' A. GOOD BLACKSMIThl, by the month or year, for whom liberal wages will be given. A pply to the Subscriber, atE Edgehield C. II. S..F. GOODE. Jan 31 tf 3 Store House for Sale! IL esold on Mon~day next, tha STOR E 11UEformerly owned by Dr. E. J. Mtim~s, anld occupied by air. G. L. Penn. TrERxs.-Onl a credit until the 1st Mionday in Jun~e next. J. I1UI ET, Chair. C. P. ii. .Janl 31 It 3 Notice to Farmers! I WTI.L~ lIlRE my Blacksmith IIA RRY the re 'inninder of the year, at $1 per day. .Ilarry is anY excellenit ltlalckSmith, and well calculated to do all Smith work requisite onl a pilntation). His work is warrente~d to be done with neatness, promlptness and durability. A ny onle desirous of having thleir BIeksmithing done at their residenlce, would do well to secure llarry's services. A. B. ADDISON. Ju.n31 t f 3 Notice to Guardians, ( LL Gua rdians, Committees and Trustees,. i 1 whose duty it is to make annual returns of their transaction's as such into tile Comnmissioner's Oflice at Edgefield C. I1., are hereby notified to, muake their returns for thle present year by the 10th of A pril. Otherwise, they will be ruled without exception. The law mullst be enforced. A. SIMKINS, c. R. E. a. Comn'rs. Office, .Jan 29, 1855. l1t: a State of' South Carolina, EDGEFIELD) DISTRICT, IN EQUITY. Elizabeth Berry, 1 's. Iletlen Berry, IBill for Partition. llannamh lerry.nand Jotn G. Berry, et al.J) B Y Virtue of an Order from the Court of Equity in this case, 1 will proceed to sell at Edgefield C. It1, on the first hMonday in March next, all the land formerly belonging to the late .Joaeph Berry, in which the late ilannah Berry hleld a life estate. The said Lanlds consists of about THREE HUNDR ED ACR ES, more or less, situate on Big Saluda River, in the District and Slate afore-~ said, and bounded by lands of William Bosknight, S. G. Coppick, Bennet Perry and others. TrFRs-said Lanes will be sold oR a credit of ono and two years, with interest from date, mn twe9. ejual instalments, except for so mueht as may be necessary to pay costs of suit, whtich must be paid in cashl. Purchasers will be required to give boind with two good sureties. A SlalKINS, c. a. a. a. Jan 31 - 5St3 Estray Uorse. TPOLLED before me by S. Broadwater, living Iabout three miles West -of Collier's P. 0.. a BR IGHT SORREL IIORSE, about fifteen and a half hands high, a white star in the forehead-col lar, maddle and gear marks. A ppraised at fiftee.g Jars. (G. W. N IXON, M. E. D. .lan30 1m4 Fair lice. I TIIINKit bad policy, both for the Debtor and ICreditor, to let their aceounts stand gettlecd onger than one year. I wotuld therefore say to all idebted to me by Note or Agcount for 1853, to come up andI settle the same by the 10th day of February n xt, or they will be pompelled to settle with mly A ttorney. JOHN~ LEIGH. Jan 23, 34 o Admninistrat.or~s Notice. A LL Persons having demands against the Estate of WVm. II. A'dams, dec'd., are hereby notified to present the ramte. properly attested, for payment, ad those who are indebted to the Estate, are re quested to make payment to E. PENN. Adm'or. Jan2tf ' 2 Notice ! A.LL Persons indebted to the'Estate of N. L4. Griffn, dee'dl., are requested to settle by the 7the Febripiry next. Longer indulgenee cannot be iven. M. L. BONIIAM, Adm'or.