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4. Weai wil cling to the Pillars of the Temple of iberties and if it mst fal, ewl ers , the ,{ paniu" SIMKINS, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. E:DGxEFIEL D, S DECEMBER 3,' GOVERNOW&cMESSAGEt EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, Colnmbia, S. C., Nov. 24, 1856. Gentlemen of the Senate an$ House of Representatives: The object for which you were recently con vened in e::tra session has been determined. The popular voice has declared in favor of the party of our preferenqe. The past admonishes us to reserve the full asure of our rejoicing to the day when the avowed policy or the party shall have been honestly carried out; when justice shall be re-established, and tranquility be restored to the country. Then, indeed, will the victory be one worthy of the strongest de monstration which patriotism can indulge. So far as the result may be regarded. as a rebuke to that Northern party, whose principle of cho hesion is hatred to the South, we share in the general satisfaction. Considered in reference to the vital issue between the North and the South, I fear that it will be a barren triumph that it will prove to be, at best, but a brief re spite of feverish,. exhausting excitement, des tined to end in embittered feeling and distrac ted counsel among ourselves. Slavery and Freesoilism can never be reconciled. Our ene mies have been defeated-not vanquished. A majority of the free States have declared against the South, upon a purely sectional Issue, and in the remainder of them, formidable minorities fiercely contended for victory under the same banner. The triumph of this geographical par ty must dissolve the confederacy, unless we are prepared to sink down into a state of acknowl. edged inferiority. We will act as wisely to em' ploy the interval of repose afforded by the late election, in earnest preparation for the'inevitable conflict. The Southern States have never de nanded more than equality and security. They can not submit to less, and remain in the Union, without dishonor and ultimate ruin. The internal state of the commonwealth, over whose aftirs you are called to deliberate, exhibits a gratitving condition of general pros perity and cotterntment. The State has been mercifully sptred the scourge of the " pesti.enee which wasteth," and our people have sown and reaped in peace. Impressed with a sense of our mutual obligations, and with hearts full of grati tude to God, we enter on the work of duty be fore us. In the performance of the part assigned to me, I proceed to lay before you such informa tion of the condition of the State, and to re commend to your consideration such measures as I "jndge necessary or expedient." The proits of the bank of the State for the last year, aniount to S280,469.40, exceeding those of the previous year by $7,418.48. - During the fiscal year the public debt charged on the bank has been reduced $64,340.78. The President of the bank informed ine that he ex pected to make a further reduction of about $35,000, the arrangements for which could not -the-lose -of lite ti.isl year. I refer you to the report of the Comptroller General for a detailed statement of the finan cial condition 6f the State. Since the first of October, 1855. the public debt has been inereas as follows: By issue of bonds to construct New State louse, 3250.000; by subscription to Blue Ridge Railroad, $200,000. The following table exhibits the debt, liabili ty, and assets of the State: - ACTUAL DEBT. 3 and 5 per cent. ta5te stc...... -123,407 69 Fire loan bonds.................1,669.868 91 Bonds new State House.......... 500,000 00 Bonds Blue Ridge Railroad....... 100,000 00 U. S. treasury surplus fund ...... 1,051,422 09 3,744,698 69 LIABILITY. Guarantor South Carolina Railroad ....... ..........2,000.000 00 Debt-and liability..............5,744:698 69 ASSETs. Capital of :ank.......... . ..2,70253 Sinking fund................1.49038655i Shares in railroads, per value..1,72.300 00 Cash on 1st October............139,625 66 56,143.114 74 The amount of $10,000 appropriated at the laist session to defray the cent inguent expenses of the executive department, I haive ha~d no oc casion to draw from the Treasury. With the unexpended balance of last year, and a balance of $2,594 91, transferred to my credit by my predecessor, I have been able to meet the ordi nary draft.< on the depitnment. As my term of oflice is about to expire. I feel no delicacy ino making certain recommendations in relation to the depart ment. The salary of the Governor is wholly inaidequate to the maintainnce of the - proper respectability and dignity of the station. I have avoided all unnecessary expense; I have' indulged in no display whatever; and from my experience, I haye no hesitation in saying, that no man canf dispense the ordinary hospitality expected of him, nor maintain that style whichI our people very properly associate with the station, t ithout drawing largely on his private income. The first otlice in the gift of the peo ple shoutd not be one which the wealthy only can afford to accept. It is no answer to say, there is no want of aspirants for the position. Willing putblic servants are not generally the most efieient. The republican statndard of compensa tion for all public service, is that which will comnmnd the talent that is able to serve the comninoinwealth. It too often happens that he wvho has given ihis life to the public, entails t upon his tamily the incidents of a wasted for- I tune. I recomimend tlhat the salary of the Gov *ernor be increased to five thousand dolh:.rs; and I that he be required to res.ide at the capital. On t this latter point, I invite your attention to the 1 following extract from the nessage if the late I Goy. Johtson: "Thme otliee is itnerant. atndi follows the person of. the Executive whe rever I his necessities or conventience may compel htimt to reside. T1hik is utmetly inconsistent. with~ thei necessary order and uniformity in the condutct 4 of the business of thc office. He cannot carry with him all~the hooks, documents, and vouchers. nor his Secretary. HeI must either disp.ense with him, or subject him to an expense whieb I would swallow up his small alary. The citi- I zens, too, are interested to know where the Executive mnay be found, and if he has no fixedi residence, are obliged to go in pursuit through highways and by.p~aths. They may cebance to, pass him onm the wayv, without knowing htim (a -ease of actual occurrence.) The, true remedy is to provide lim a residence at rte seat of gov err~nent, aznd re qjuire him to reside there per manent lv." The r'eptort of Getneral James Jones, Com missioner of New Slate Hlouse, wi'l give you full information of the progress of te work, and his plan of future operations. I constituted him agent to sell the bonds authorized to be isstued by the ist Legislature. There has beetn little or no demand for G per cent. bonds, and but few of th im have b'een disposed of. The Act forbids she i-ale of thes-e bonds below par. I-ad niot the Ranmk advanced the requisite funds, the Ct-mminsioner would have teen et mpelled to suspend all operationsa on the building. I herewith transmit a communication from the Hon. W. F. Coleock, enclosing a copy of a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury to the Light-House Board, and also a copy of the opinion of the Attorney General of the United States, in relation to the provisions of an act of the Legislature' of South Carolina granting sites for LightHouses. Oa reference to these communications, It will be seen that the Gen eral Gevernment declines to proceed, on the around " that the consent given by South Caro lina to the purchase is coupled with the condi tion that South Carolina retains the jurisdiction." Further legislation is asked. I think when the Southern States surrendered to the General Government the power to regulate commerce, they committed a great blunder. but that is no longer a debateable question. If the necessities of commerce require the erection of the pro. posed Light-House, I can see no good reason ror declining to make the cession upon the same terms as other States have done. Whenever the people of South Carolina determine to dissolve their connection with the General Government, the possession of a few Light-Houses will in terpose but feeble barriers td' the execution of such a purpose. Accompanying this message will be found a report of Mr. Osear M. Leiber, appointed, under a joint resolution of the last Legislature, " Geo logieal-Mineralogicul, and Agricultural Surveyor of the state." rhe Joint Committees of Agri eulture and Internal Improvements of the last General Assembly unanimoustly selected Mr. Leiber for the situation, and I did not hesitate to confirm the appointment. I have not had time to examine his report, and therefore can express no opinion of its merits. I lay before you a letter addressed to me by Dr. Parker, Superintendent of the Lunatic Asy lum, in relation to the condition and wants of the institution. llis opportunities entitle his opinions to great weight. He is decidedly op posed to the policy of removing the institution from its present location. Additional accommo dation is indispensible to enable the Institaiion to fulfil the humane end of its establishment. [ am sure that no appeal is neeessary, to secure for it the full measure of your bounty. I also lay before you a report of the Military Coommission, raised in compliance with a resolu Lion of the last Legislature. The resolution required me to appoint ten commissioners to :onsider the militia and patrol law of the State, and to recommend such alteration of the sme is they might deem advisable. Nine of the ;ounnissioners appointed discharged 'the duty assignied them-the tenth was unavoidably ab sent. They have unanimously agreed on a re port, urging the importance of preserving the system as it now stand.; and I beg leave re spectfully to add my concurrence in the views whieh brought them in tleirconclusion. The last Legislature authorized the Bo:ar.1 of Commissioners for the Dea, Dumb, and Diind, of which I am chairman ex-toflicio, to purchase ro rthea.9teh establishment of Mr. N. P. Waker, at Cedar 8prigs, anTtoiuie du r %angemeas therein for the tnfortunate inmates. [ am happy to inform you that the parchase has been completed on terms which are satisfactory m the whole Board, and that such further ar -angements as are required by this change will )e duly subuitted for your conideration in a -eport from the Board, more ira detail. The Trustees of the Siutlh Carolina College, it their annual meeting in December last, elect. :d Profesor C. F. MuCay. President of the in stitution. His abilily and attainments are con idered by those who know him to be of ifc dighest order; and when the prejudices which ie eneo-.ntered at the very threshold of his ad. ninistr.:4trn have been dispelled (if they hav, ot, already been) there will be but one opinioti Ls to his ti neSs for I he position to which ie va:, called by a very decided i:.eority of the loard, and -t-Oat. :uo, without the slightest so iitation onl hi art. Mr. Rivers, of Charles on, whose iife tas bet n sceeesfully devoted tv :las-ieal pursuits, bas been elected irofessor -t reek Literature, in place of Dr. lienry, dedieas d ; and Dr. LeConte, of Georgia, a gentlem:m f well established scientific attaianmenis, h:i een elected Professor of Natural and Mech~n:i al Philosophy. Both theae appointmen's, i icieve, are admitted on all hands to have b~ecn udicious ard thost fortunate for the institution. in the death of Dr. Henry, the College nourns the departure of an old, table, and faithi 'ut professor. Hie was a ripe schaohar-a man -utt of learning-who, without ostentation. de ighted in throwing open thet :abunadant store iou-e of his knowledge, and inviting the stu lent to partake freely of its riches. It will be ong before it will .have the good fortune to ejoice in hais equal. The conduct of the students is reported to oc to be quiet and orderly. The Faculty are siduous in their several departments, and the uture of the institution is as encouraging as t any previous period of its existence. Thaough was not educated tat the Collego, 1. have seen nd realized its benefits to the State. sci:.aty. uoirally and politiecatly. it is rare, inadeed, that ts graduates have failed in after life*, by exam 'he and conduct, to vindicate the policy wthich lourishes and sustains it. In mny judgment, it ias done more for the State than all her other nstitutions put together. It is greatly to be egretted that there is a disposition to cripple ts usefulness, if not to destroy it. Thme chaarge bat it is the rich ma~n's college, is the cry of the lemagogue. Its catahugue shiows that :a majori y of its graduates are the sons of fathers who vere not able to educaic themselves, and tno 'ounag mani las ever haid its deoors einedl uponi aim because of his poverty. It is urged, through entire mtis-onception, hat it is time to make it a self-sustain ing inasti ution, amad the extamplle of various college4 is ald up for our imitation. Taike taway from them heir various enido~wments, andc there is not. tritly speaking, a self-sastining college in thet Jino. While it is the duty of the Smate, as r as lies itn her power, to instruct the destitute. is no loss imperatively lher da'y to provide for hose who are able to pay for it. the very high. at standard of edueation. As a tax-paayer, I rotes' against the withholding irom the South aroliina College whatever proportion of my nnual taxes goes to its support, if I amn at the nme time to b~e taxed for the suapport of free coocls. Ignorance among the massee is incom aatit~e with the true idea of repuablican govern nent, bum without superior intelligence to con rl and direct it, the education whieb contents tslf with the mere ab~ility to re~ad and write. ill l.rove a curse rather thian a blessing. TPhe Military Aendlemoies centinue unabtro dvey, but not the less sati.,fatority, to pmisne heir even tenior of uisefultness :and success. No equal amount of the publie expenditire yields a bieer return. The direipline here is severe, thce taental training trying ini the extreme, hut thei adet who survives the test. finds hi-lfarmewd for the labor of life~ before hini. I emcine~tly eommend the College and these A cdemaies to your festering care. Bosth are developing the' ntelleet and adding to thme streny th of the Strite, mc both merit your countennance anrd support. Ona the subjiect of Free Schools, I have but little to, add to whIcatI I had thce honor to submtit to your pireda cessors. I then expressed thme Dpiioi that -it was unfortunate that the end, which was evidently contemplated by the act of 16a1 a beehan abandn, and that what was in tended to introduce gradually a general system of common schools, has been perverted to the exclusive education of paupers; that, in my judgment, we should return to the policy of 1811, and seek to inaugurate a system, which, in its ultimate development, should bring the means of education within the reach of every family in the State." Since the last session, of the Coinmmis.,ioners of Free Schools in the city of Charleston, with similar views as to the best mode of improving education, have opened a common school in that city, and, without abridging the opportunities of the poor, they offer to the tax-payers a participation in the ben elit from which heretofore they have been ex cluded. About seven hundred children are now receivingjeducation at this -school school, and even this large number, I am informed, would be increased, if the school accommodations would permit. The complete success which would attend this well-timed and judicious ef fort, is checked only by the difficulty of obtain ing proper teachers. This difliculty is also ful ly brought to the notice of your predecessors, and I would respectfully renew my recommen dation that you would earnestly seek to provide an appropriate remedy. In connection with the general subject of ed ucation, it has occurred to me that some en courarement should be held out, to induce the citizen sto supply his family with the means of instructive reading, family books, or libraries. I suggest that such encouragement might arise from exempting family books and libraries, in actual u.e by the owner, from legal process un der contracts to be hereafter entered into; and that they should also be exempt from sale by excentors and administrators, and that instead they should be delivered over to those to whom they are belneathed, and in the absence of tes tantentary dispsition, that they be alfotted among the family, or next of kin, as in cases of intestacy. I begltleave to ask of you a favorable consid eration of a recoinmudation of the late Gov. Seabrook, on the subject of drainage. His rc ominendation was the a ppoiiitouieni-t of coiniis. sioners to digest and report a system or schine on that sutiject. N, possible objeeriion e:n exi. t, the appointimet of sue a coiniini,:40I, and much good tmiy result. When the repoirt is made. it will still be in 'your power to adopt. jlodilv, or rie'ject it altoget ier. Large bodies of' tlie very best land in the State lie wholly un productive, for the want of a law establishing the right and delining the manner of draining them. No man, through. obstinacy, or a worse feelini, should be aliowed to use his own to the injury of. hii-i neighbor. Tie public good deintitds a get'neral law w Uhich shal secure to every landbolder the tinobtructed use of the nat ura drathing of his luid. I submit to you the necessity of some special legi-lation in relation to 'unds in the Court of Equity. It not unfrequently happens that,from sale f'or partition. some of' the parties living out of the State, and o.thers being minors without :tid Ino sitible investinent ofiering at the time $'I from a fund being in court as a stake, the sui: proceedin, betwee'n ,nctediog pariies. in order to deserni e which, of them is'the righfulo ow ner, the tumlA lies dead and unproductive to those eveitually eIlitild to it. I :nil inlfotrmed that in Englhmd,in such cases, the iti nd is paid into the 13i:k of Englad. to the credit of the Actount nali General. who cleeks it out tu tle partie< as tih-ir riIts accrue; and in the ne;;ime tle bank is elimrgeable with tour percent. iitkrest. If that rate ot' inerest can be sa'.ly paid b-y the hanik there. I do itnot perceive why the 13a.k oft he S:a:e conid not par the sam rate on .iiilar depo.ieZ lire. The wwiows and orph:n iiter. ested ar, entitled to lirotecti-1n, antd 1]a l tnt be allowed tl stltEr m.s, while. thwir funds are in esmirt. Siotihi y.-u coneur with Ime as i t i that vin ei-lto hniai-4. Iemlbrace funmd, II cnte,1.io in the conit5 4f hIw :nit I cia mo11V raiul hv Sherit. Why s'hodl t he re. 0it ;i. and the real ow:er h4! d.- ii.l of a 9:11 It e'xpises them: to a tuin:ii to peneu~lai.wh lich I fear is itt :!w::ys re'.i,.:vd. The h-iiae tees ot t:i eix cainu'i ai' ilu''tehv Ulcoutit fort thet larg' .utis l i tre ic iiliied. T~ie outtwartd tre.'.ure ~ta~-;t. the inti~tution rf slaivery. shitid promp!' :~ tt da all wei e into' 'ort ify it withlin. IDidI'usi',n is s reigth--con :eitrationD, weak ne-s. Our true ptlicy is to dif. ue the slave htppution as mtuchi as possible. amd thus secure in the whole community the mootives of self' interest for its btupport. 1 have ii' doubt ofi thle inoheren t ability of the instit-I ion t,> mintaini islft tu-iahnst all asaults. ItI , the baisis of oiur politieal organism, and it vonldl not be diflicutlt to) show that, the ptoorestI whlit e mzan :among us is directly concertned in its pec.ervation : but thle ar.znmenit of sel f-inerest s e:st' of comntprehensin atird sure of actior.. ! recomndiuu: ithe p:lsige if a law exemptltiin~! timi soite (untder contr:aets to) bve hecreaftr i'u tred inuti a t least one stave. Suchi an itmma-t aiiir wch;.it stinht e every tite to exert himtn5l r to 'po~-s-s his tfmn~h- at h'at tot a property ini somut d..teabove 'the cisttualities oft de'bt. As vi- ot nnipig the tinttabs5 who :ie.lnire the protp rty. so witl'he vaidein t'.:wd decepeni the dlete'rini Tlii'e ot:st'ipiin of t'itoil has ste:tdily in- 1 -rea'!'!.mi~ will in a few years exeed the *tup. i pi-o t'friomi waint, on ouir part. itt iland on ) w~jiei: to groiw it, tbut from; watit. otf opeLiattrs to cniva~c;te it. The dlemain l for the article being rter thant te .tupply. the p hrice miutt got upi, o hi ab' dsenc'e of' att dist urbitng ceann's. As ong as thi.' cotiities to be the eant, we ituist pr,.per : iut tue cirt;.in eh~e't't of Ilighl rce's w~ill It- to stimnulati thet pioth of' it ini fore'ign coun tr:h s.:antI in t ime to destroy the monpy wuihih e havec -o long enjoyed.Th le p iot-sin ni btt' ttrin~ ittre'st oin us for' a su~piy otf lthis article wih conttintui to pirove toi be otte if our st'tgest safe'.Lgnats. PTe amtountt iof cot ton ow t.rolwn ini theI'ast Indies shouuld openi our 'ye's'i, our trite pilicy. The' idea: tthat Atricanui entire mijsisk". Undet~r Br t~ iit, oiniatin. fr'e" 5'.:,v'ii'.ar notw prnin',licg in the East, mot're tha n thl te entir' c ofii theUited tteis ini I1820.I Fri'm a report of the IHin. W. L. hiar ec, Neertary of1 Statte, in answe'r to a resolhutioni 't Coingres', it a~pcars that during the year I855. lhe shipmniits of' cotton to Great Brtitain,. were, tromo the Utilted States, ini round num hr . 67 mitliotis of 1onids, and from the East itie's. Egy'Iptaid Brazil. 202 mihlionsofpounds. W\heneiver En igland aid thie Cotntinent een pro ere their suppl~ty ot' the raw tmaterial ulsewhtere it trutm us, ma t the Ciot ton States are limited toa the homte tmatrket, thlen wtill our doom bei seali d. IDestroy thle valu o iCcf slave labor, andti: cut ieipation Ifollows itnevitably. This, Eng-| tlantd. outr commeittrcial Irival, cleairly sees, and: hencte hter systematic elijirts to stimulate the pro dictiin oh' ctot in tthe East. The suecess wiebt ha~s thuts faur attended thoso efforts, w~ill ieile het' tot redotle them. The East indies abonid ini 'er'tihe hland andt ehheap labor. France. too, is n~co urauging andtc sti'hn hit ing its growthi it AlIgeria, withI like ad vanttages of soil and hii i.r. To mainttain our presenit position, we must have cheap labor also. This cain be obtained in but one way-by re-opening the A frican slave trade. Until rovideneb.inter osesand changes his organism, the Africadust continue to be a "hewer of wood and a awer of water." It is a diseased sentimentaliYwhich starts back at the idea of legalizing thelave trade, and at the same time contemplatesWithout emotion the cruel servitude which e4pital exacts of labor, all world the over. There wadJtime when canting philanthropists had inst/1d into us a belief that slavery was wrong. 1nYistigation has entirely bhanged the once common sentiment on this point. The South now elieves that a myste rious Providence has bU glit the two races to gether on this continenNH' wise purposes, and that the existing relit" has been mutually beneficial. Southern al4-ery has elevated the African to a degree ot pvilization which the black race has never attiued in any other age or country. " We see itigpw in its true light,and regard it as the most safej'and stable basis for free institutions in the iif.ld." Had the slave trade never been close the equilibrium be tween the North and the Sonth would not have been destroyed. The hrtb has had the Old World from which to Mr her supply of labor, and hence the rapia isaisment' of the North west. Since 1808, the uth has supplied her own labor, and has nep sarily made slower progress in setting upllm South-west. If the trade were open now, I'-m persuaded that the South would <not eozti 0--t to clo It; and this is, perhaps, the best ans . to the argument de rived from the mere ,emnt that is arrayed against the proposition.. f.tis apprehended that the opening of this trad 4will lessen the value of slaves, and ultimatel , estroy the Institution. It is a sufficient answer ,-*point to the fact that unrestricted immigration 'as not diminished the value of labor in the "'lith-western section of the Confederacy. The j there is, want of la bor, not withstanding en Itl has the panperism rof the Old World to p4s into its grinding ser vice. If we cannot aply the demand for slave labor, then we m4expect to be supplied with a species of labortw6 do not want, and which is, from the very tature of things, antng onistiC to our institutios. It is muach better Lhat our drays should b riven by slaves-that mur factories should be orked by slaves-that Laur hotels should be see d by slaves-that our locomotive should be mnned by slaves, than that we ,hould be exp to the introduction, rot any quarter, of a j ulation alien to us by birth, traininag and educ4jon, and which, in' the roccss of time, must ihd to thataconflict be. tween capital and libo :which make it so dif. tienit to maintain free inkttulions in all wealthy ed highly civilized natiijis where such institu tions as ours du not cxig" in all slaveholding States, true policy didcAtes that the superior raee should direct, andAIjs inferior prforns all meniail service. Com Mon between the white id black man for thisb e, may not disturb Northern sensibility, b'h does not exactly suit iur latitude. IrrespecfiJ however, of ioterest, the t of Congress d iring the slave trade uiracv, is a brand upon which I think it im. y;tail-iffiv- "Ubd ief~~h iave u1tst lie plunder; and no ingenuity can void the logiel necessity of such conclusion. ly hopes and fortunes are indissolubly associa ed with this form of society. I feel that I vouhl be wanting in duty, if I did not urge yon a withdraw your assent to an act, which is tself a direct condemnation of your institutions. RBt we have interests to enforce a course of lf-respect. I believe, as Ihave already stated, at more slavgs are necessary to a continuaice i' our monopoly in planta:ion products. I be leve that they are necessary to the ull develop. neutt of our whole round of agricultural ad nehanical resources; that they are necessary to e restoration of the South, to an equality of ,ower in the General Government, perhaps it) be very integrity of slave society, disturbed as tha3s b'en bv Ca1uses which !.ve iiddeed aa iztdue propurtion of the ruling race. To ts iave been coniltted the lortnes of this pecu air form ofl socielv re:inlial fr-om the uioen of iequal races. It has vildicated its ciim to be approbation of' an enliitene1'd hinianity. It 1S civilized ni chris:niijzed the Ariiea. It m exadiedl the white race ite~f to higheacr hoepes :,el purposes, ad it is ie'rhcalui ef the mosiat *aerecd oblliy..t ion, t hat we; swuild give it the te.mi oft e.zsionl. and tha"t we.<bonhi~l peress t frward to ai prpiniity olf proegre5s. I h::ve re~ceivedh~ 'c.o intiinl of the Legris.la-. nrec, of New I I ;unpelhire in1 rel'at ion to the lat e es. of(i violceI& anda blooue'd~)t pe'rpa rmed, by beC slav~e poetr, ~in the Te'rr'itoriy aof Ilase, acat itthec National Capital." In the. exercisec t a ,ii-rzetioni which i uhink right full ivnper ::Ii5s to the Extere y deapart ment, I deciline to av these resolutions before your honornb iey eiei. I enre not what may be the theory oft tate interomimuicationi, I will not submnit toe e made the medium of transmait ing frotn'hny narer, an insult to my own 'taete. The con tint ion imposes no suich dnty op the Ezen ie. The usagae of the btetter da.s of the R.' haliei, co~mm~ands my r'espe(ct, lhnt it cannot ree eill- me to nets of courtesy to thoese who" ..a ld gloat in seeing the trebc applied te ur weings anid the knifte toe our thtrnats. I cannot close this my last regular commnuni.. ':tionl, without a public aceknowledgment of' ratitude for the opportunity whichliea haee'n tforded me of' serving the Statoe in mny present :;apacty. On reiiring I fe b-t, one regret hat my ability to serve her, h- not beeni equael o the love I beaer her. Whatever may tbe any eat in the future, I shall ntever cease to taeke a leepe interest in whatever concerns her welfara ad her honor. I invoke now, aend for all time ocome, Heaven's choicest blessing on her aund ir peopile. J. H. AnAnis. A Hn--FJELD.-Th:at is a good story, which an~y hazve' been hierd iin more than one Yankee my-lithl. this summer. WVe heard it one dzay cien on a visit in the conuntry. We weni, tnut. c shiowe some men how to " pitch." We hazd liled, andl wilted down -un'der a haycock, and a' lucuhed, aind tinning the glow and sweat of in fetureas in a ceomfortable pOsition, when 't'eel' thie jeully hay makers related the anecdote f the old mani who wvas always bragging how alks used to work in his yoeunger days, and :adlenedl his twoa sons together to pitch on a onu of hzay as fast as lhe could load it. ~L'hec eballenge was necepted, anid the hay .Vagoni driven round, anud the trial commenced. osome time the man held his own very credi ably, calling out, tauntingly : " More hay ! more Thicker andi faster it camle, whole3 haycoeks it a time. cloud after cloiud, overwhelming. L'he old man was neacrly covered up; still he zpt cryIng, "More hay ! more hay!" until, trugging to keep on top of the disordered and I-arranged heap, it began first to roll, them to lide, and at hast off it went frome the wagon, ed the old muan with it. "What are you down here forT' cried the " I came downt after hay!I" answered the old nan, stoutly. Which was a literal fact ; he had enie down ufter a~lf a .agoni load, which had to be pitched >i ugain rather more deliberately. GE" WHEN Esculapieis applanded Philip, king of Mlacedon, as a jovial man who would drink freely, Demostherese replhied, " that it was a good qu.lnt, in an=cg bnt. not irn a hing." For the .\dvertiser. SHADOWS OF "LONG AGO." When the shades of evening lower O'er this earth of light and love, Stealing with their solemn power Thro' our hearts where 'er we rove, Shadows of the past eonc creeping As the gloom shuts out the glow; And our souls are sadly weeping At the grawt of Long Ago. Long Ago, bright flowers %ere springing, In my path of golden light; Now their faded bloom is bringing Men'ries of lost love's delight, Then was there a voice to greet me, Full of melody and low A father's arms once oped to meet me Fondly, but 'twas Long Ago! Now that voice is dumb forever In the grave for aye 'tis hushed Death palsied those dear arms, and ever From his true heart, life's love chrushed. What wonder then the shadow lingers Ever round life's pathway now, When mem'ry with its mystic fingers Still traces forms of Long Ago? Then, life seemed a fairy day-dream, Sunbright morns, with dewy eves Now along my troubled life-stream Lonely "litle the withered leaves; And we're dreaming, thro' the twilight, Of the past, its joy and woe; And the calm and peace!ul star-light Finds us still with Lung Ago! Fron the Savannah Daily IMorning News. RUNNDW A SAW; or, HoW tiNC1T.E JOST DOLES BARKED UP THE Wn.ONG sAFLING. Old uncle Josiah Boles was an inveterate joker, so foad of indulging his mi.hievous hu mor that lie often run imminent risks of unplea sant and even serions consequences,rather than forego the enjoyiment of a joke or a quiz. Ile was no respedg of persons, times or place, and if templted by opportunity, would be as tipt to perpetrate his fun in a prayer-mbeting as at a orin-stiu eking, upon a stranger as readily as diairf s(Tifiaili aintmer--On -oneauecaslone he cane near paying dearly fur the indulgence of his mischievous propensity. Ile had been on a journey to Mississippi to leok after somei bnsiness matters, and was re turning home through Alabama. One evening he stopped at the tavern of a country village. After supper lie entered the bar.room. and took a seat by the fire, aid, like a good old-fashioned ountry gentleman, as lie iva<, smoked his pipe. His attenion was soon attracted by a singular ly looking, half-witted, dwarfish young man. who was loumnging about the door. The fellow was not maire thain four feet high, with an im ulenise head. covered with long, shaggy hair, which tood ont in every direction--the sepirate locks seeming to have no attinity to each other. A very short neck connected this head with irge. square shoulders, from which the body sloped down, wedge-shaped, to his feet, whien vNre large, bare and unwashed. Uncle Josh, as he was familiarly elled, was not long in makinmg the acquaintance of the chap vilh the big he.Id, Vhonm he fouind to be ve-ry implit, talkative and iimisit ive. Un[l J! b : ed to take a: wonderilu liking to his ntW ew acquainInICe. who gae his nameiim ai oenianmin Ponnlh. Uten was ii mch tlatt ered by nct e loh's estimaute oft his pa;mris, e-jpecial ly by his I;avilih praises of hii hiead anid shoutldterse, andt he likinug sotmn beca~me mutual. The result was liat a bargain was strtuck, in pmursu:mete oft wvhiebm tIL wams t go with Unele Josh to Georgia iin mei mornminig. hor t twen ty dol lars a nmnth anid fund." Ben wais delight ed, atn immediamtely set abotut to umake lrep.tratitonms fori the jou rney. Going ome~ he' itid his pecople t hit lie wast olt to leorgia. whlere he was ton have tenty dollare a nirat I and a easy situnation. The im I ter wa stoon noiised over the vilhage tt len Jbineb was in~tug tot Georia with a r enemano wovn hadl hiired him fotr twenity dal iars monith, andt ini am .-htrL timte a nummber oh hik eqaitnce" ht atitered ini the bar-ro'm to se~rtaini what ithiey ctohl iin regartd t, the imat icr. lien hdh oinily beeni :able to te-ll thmem~ what : mni'triollia nice ni," M1r. BltN- was, thme ages- he was to recivet..:wenty ,ltthhrs a oith amnd fond-andi that his itiiation wais lto e an ea-sy oni. One or'two hadl vetutred to tp.-n at conversa tut with the old gentlemnan frome Georgia, were nxious to know to whamt u~e lie was going to, put Ben Bunch, wvho, they' said, was too lazy tio ep the flies off of hiimself in wairim weather, and hamdm't sense enough to get under the shel ter out of the raiin. "So mtuch the hetter fo)r thaut," said Uncle Josh, in his slow, distinct manner of speaking, He's jest. the man~u for tme. I've gut a situation that wi!I sutit hint txactly." Thet questiioners began to de-pair of petting any further satisfatction, whe-n Ben camne mn with is' best suit on, and a bundle in hisi hand reaidy o start early in thle miorninig for Georgia. SBen," enqutired one (of his acqunaintancees, what. in ereationi is you gwine to do down in Gcoriat " "Oh, you never mind," replied Ben, " Pin gwine in the inorningi with that ere gentlemn. e can tel you what i'nm gwine for" Then Ben saw some one outside to whom lie wanted to comtmunmicate his good fortune, and e was soon surrounded by a crowd about thei door, some of whom cautioned him, tellinig hinm that he did'nt knowv but what the man lie was goiig with was a kidnapper, or perhaps he would ork htigi to death in a two-hand saw-nill. Ben began to feel a little curious, and the party agreed with hiiim that lie should know what was to be his employnent before ho wvent any further in the business. rTe crowd went into the bar-ronm, wvherte Uncle JIosh was enjoy I ng his secoind pe by the fire, determined to be satisfied about tie matter. After keeping them in suspentse some time, Uncle Josh rose up, nocked the ashes frotm his pipe, and said "Well, gentlemen, the fact is my old wvoman is getting rather poorly, and I want him to set ni tie fire corner for tier to break bark over his Bewohad been sitting on a bench~srn to his feet as if he had been shot. A ou laugh burst from the party, but above all could bo heard Ben's ctirses, as lie .eprang into the I middle of the floor, threw down his bundle,and begani rearing and prancing like an enraffed eata. GOEEUNIUATIONS. For the Advertiser. . - IR. REMT's POPOSITION. I see that Mr. Rum is out in a long politio etter, and from the two extracts which I haie een, I do not think his views will meet with a-hear y response dither in South Carolina or in the other southern States. I have less confidence in Mr. 1Hum's judgment than in his patriotism. Ilia letter has caused regre( among our friends .orth and South. It is looked upon as a 1ove of loath Carolina instead of the views of a single'"nd-% ridual. 1 do not think it a true exponent of the" riews even of South Carolina, much less of the other outhern States. With the result of the content of 851 still staring us in the face, we should be oppo ed at this time to all agitation of the question of-. isunion. In that contest South. Carolina decided, he would wait the co-operation of her Sister,Sonth-. rn States. Now, if it be desirable to bring about o-operation and combined action or the part of he Southern States, we in South Carolina must so hape our course as not to bring our prudence in iuestion, and thereby throw away our influence. We must acquaint ourselves with the views and eelings of the people of the other Southern States. Ve must see ourselves as they see us. And to do his we must go beyond the limits of South Carolina; ud minpgle and converse not with the leaders only,. ut with the masses. We shall find that we are ar in advance. I fear they begin to regard us as ome-what ultra. In some places I have heard the uestion whether, in the event of FauoTr's elee on, Southern men should accept office under him, Id the answer was: The best men in the country hould go into office. To the credit of the country re have been saved the disgraee of Fazxowr's levation.: Our friends at the North stood by us nd the tide of wild fanaticism has been hurled back nd the South and the Constitution have tiumphed. he election of Mr. BUCHANAN has restored confi ence to the country. Will the South, aft'-r e. e ing him, refuse to stand by him ? Wiil ,he, n 6e face of victory, suffer her counsels to be -iii racted by the question of disun on ? I trust not. he relies upon his wisdom; his #ntegrity will need ur entire support. Let us give him our whole in. uence. Let us have nothing to divide us. Whena nited, we have nothing to fear. We w- it to our riends North, to the Constitution and to ournelv-a ) remain united. It is sound policy whether ior be perpetuation of the present Union or thu f rnw ion of a new one, or whatever may be our ulterior iews. Let uscenise for the present all agitation in South arolina. Let us unite cor~dily with -our Sister For the Advertiser. THAT QUEE PBOPOBITION. Mr. EDIoR : I see in your issue of tia 9th inst., ie following paragraph; W. W. Cnezvza proposes to exchange rich lands i Southwestern Georgia for " worn out' fie'ds in a igherlatitudo. What does that mean, we wonder? an Col. S. C., throw any light upon this queer roposition ? Now, sir, the light I would attemptfto throa upon ie subject is this: QCl. W. W. CuBzvsa owns iany thousands of acres of rich and very productive mad. in South Western Georgia, improved and un uproved and now that various railroads are ading their way through that section, he (I suppose) rishes to avail himself of the opportunity of cbang ing his investment and making his capital more etive. He proposes to take old and worn out mds, as you say, in Alabama or Georgia, and will o doubt take them in good localities. For these he rill allow, in the exchange a reasonable valuation eceiving the restgihis pay in cash. This difference ou will see, gives him the advantage of operating, rithi cash, in Railroad stocks or any other enter rize that presents itself. I hope this cxplana'ion ill do you. And now, Mr. En:ros, if you: will sell youar poor ut very pretty pine land pac, with all your hand ame improvemens (for which you could perhaps. et $20 an acre) Col. CuEavma would sell you a $ lnntation for $8 or $10 per acre, one nero of thieb would produce more than any three that you lant, in corn, cotton, or anything else even should be Sugar-cnne. S. C A WITHERING REBUKE.-To the charge. of me Clevoinnd IHer:,Id. that Mr Bucihann owes i- electine in parl LO -- droeve of nhljsct slaives , tuw pre-tIy .1le* , i.,t o .me Re~nuan ~a:holic Church. the Clevelanmd Pindealer re lies: -Where hase been the 'priestly dictation' du ig the campaign ? What priests have been penly in the field of polities ? Was it non' uring the Congressional session of '54, when ti rJle hundred Protestant Clergymen of New Cng nd demanded 'in the name of Almighty ~,' thme defeat of the Nebraska bill? W ho else atve pounded their pulpits to pieces preaching ulities but Protestant clergyman? Where is leecher? Where is Bittinger ? Where are all ie Ba~ptist, Methodist and Presbyterian clergy. ten who have been compassing sea and land to take proselytes, and, when succeasful,,made 1em tenfold more the children of hell than be. >r? Not a Catholic priest in the land has ited a finger, or opened his mouth, to babble ithis Babel of polities. It has all been ieftto dese rifle religionists, notoriously carried on y them, and now the Herald has the impudence a talk about 'abjedt slaves to priestly 4icta on.' fW THERE is firm in New York, the name f which is Lay, Hatch & Cluck. The clerks re presumed to be all Shanghais. UW A mahdern writer thus defines honor: Standing fire well,and shooting a friend whmom ou love, in order to gain the praise of a few there whom von despise. S"PoxPET, why is a journey round the world like a eat's tail I" " Well, T doesn't ad. activ see any semblanee 'twixt the two ca'n." - 'Well, den I' spos~e I'll have to tell you--e-' ause it utm fur to the end ob it!" Gi Tur arms of a pretty girl wound -tielht round the neck. has been; discovered to he'an. afallible remedy in ease of sore throat. It be;ts epper tea all hollow. gW THEY are particular in Seheneotadv. A ioy was arrested on Monday for spitting into, he canal. - W ALL a man has to do in these days to - ass for a genius, is to button his coat behind * - and wear his hat wrong side out. W A distingruished writer says: " There is but one paassge Itn thme Bible whero the girls. are commanded to kiez thme mehnt and thaet, is rolled up-and jut for the interference of thu crowd, he would have had Uncle Josh by the "goozle" in a twinkling. - " Dad fetch yer everlaslin' picter to dingna tion !" exclaimed Ben, striking his brawny fists, and making the palms of his feet crack together as he sprung at least two feet from the floor " your wife break bark over my head ! you old drated cuss! I'd like to see you or ary other woman in Georgia do it. Jest lest me at him, boys, and I'll shuck him out o' his skin quicker'n lightnin', you see if I don't." Uncle Josh was taken by surprise, when he saw so much life in the dwarf, and began to feel apprehensive for his safety when he found it took three of the best men in the room to hold him. It was several minutes, and not urntil the proprietor of the houyte had interferred, that Ben's rage was at all appeased. After he had become a little calm, Uncle Josh made a rather awkward explanation of what he meant only for a little fun, and by treating the whole party to peach and honey, and asking Ben's pardon, the matter was amicably settled. But it was more than any Ben Bunch's friends ever dared to do to ask him about that easy situation down in Georgia, at "twenty dollars a month and found." THE SURE ROAD TO FAKE AND FORTUNE. We take it to be i demonstrable fact that no I discovery or invention worth advertising at all can be advertised too extensively. The man whose mental vision is darkened by miserly in. stinets, whose soul lies in his breeches pocket, cannot understand this; and If such an one In his mole.like gropings, should chance upon some new and useful truth, he would be afraid to take i the sure road to celebrity, which lies through c the columns of the press, lest he should be ru- t ined by the tolls. What a contrast does the brilliant and beneficial career of Prof. Holloway present to the blind stupidity of such a man. Having perfected, after many years of laborious research and experiment, two remedies which lie knew, with positive certainty, were absolute i specifies for nearly every internal and external malady incident to iumanity, he determined at once to give them a wider publicity than any other medicine had ever attained. His motive was noble and benevolent. He felt that he pos. sessed the power of mitiga-ing suffering and waging successful war with diseases heretofore t unconquerable, and like a good champion he fearlessly entered the lists. Had lie been moved by avarice instead of philanthropy he could not have taken a surer or shorter path to wealth. Thi plan of advertising preparations, which ae. tually accomplished all that empiricism had ever prmniisefor medical orthodoxy attempted, of t course proved self remunerative. He flooded t every nation with his advertisements, he perva- t ded the whole world with his medicines, and the world repaid him with a shower of gold. We verily believe that there is no possible means of disseminating information among men that lie ha- nbt adopted in giving notoriety to .i The Hon. Mahlon Dickenson, of New .Trsey, onee satirically likened the poles to. big flag. stuff.i, and we have little doubt that if they were flagstaffs Iholloway would contrive to have a bit of bunting nailed to each with his name and t address inscribed upon it. In fact, such is the enterprise and irrepressible energy of the man, diat we should scarcely be surprised to hear of the virtues of his medicines being inscribed on he desert sands of mid Africa or traced in the eternal snow that, caps the peaks of the Andes. His central office for this hemisphere (lie maps ut his advertising ground by hemispheres) 80 Maiden Lane, has only been established about r two years, and yet probably there are not five I hundred adults out of our popnlation of thirty i illions who have not heard of Holloway's Pills md Ointment. Be this as it may, it is a statis tical fact, verified by the books of the establish nent, that more than half a million of persons a have within that time purchased therpreparations nt the New York Ofiice and its Country Agen- , ies. Could the amount of good they have -Ml'eted in that period, in the United States dIone, be computed and placed on record, It ould of~ itself form one of the proudest monu nents of success to which zealous philanthropy 3 mn the one hand and popnlar appreciation on he other, have ever contributed.--N. Y. Day r 3ook.. SALE OF A FORGER's HoRs~s AND CARRIAGES. -Tie hinrses and carriages of Huntington, the b orger, were sold at auction in New York a few a lays since, A great crowd was present. A air of hong-tailed bay mares which cost $1000, nare coinsidered the finest in New York, were beught by Mr. French, of French's Hotel, for ~ 31-100. Another pair brought $550. The car- F ages and othier articles sold for prices consid- il ~rbly above their value. . Rten.--An l~nghebm journal referinig tio the osted weahh I of Cape Cod farmners and the . roille quaitie~s of their crops tonmehes up ih. ud (Jish) aristocracy a fier the following fashion: "In the vicinity of Cape Cod, two apple tree, nd a goioseberry hush, are called an orebard, apr~i. Ilorenis owns five plum trees, and is lookedr pon~i ais an ari.,tocrat. One year they don't e bear, and the next year they can't-the school a mys us.ing the fruit. or bullets to kill owls a tvithi. Great entuntry. that Cape Cod."j In Cork, a short tine ago, the crier endthv- l ~red to disperse the crowd by exclaiming, " all ec blackguards that isn't lawyers, quit the 1 ~ourt." TitUE PiTIt.-The~ force of language is apt L o be much injured by the multitude of words. A respectable farmer in Berkshire Coun ty has Lhe singular happy talent of tot saying a word Loo much. A young-man wishing to obtain his. ~onsent to marry his daughter, called upon him e day when he happened to be in the field lowing with his oxen. it was, past all doubt, fearful matter for a diflident man to broach, t nd the hesitating lover, after running a parallel ~ with the fu~row several times round the field, nd essaytng wtth all hts courage to utter the mportant question, at last stammered out-" I C --I've been thinking, Mr.-, that-that v -as .ow I-I-I should be gI-gI-glad to o-m-m-marry-marry your daughter." , F9armr--" Take her and use her well-whoa atm, Buck." Music not only improves a man's tastes but his morals. It gives him a taste for home that mproves his. habits wonderfully. The man :1 vh'lo spends his evening with a piano is seldom ' seen in dram shops, and never with nIght braw. Ic e. We believe in music, and candidly think that one flute wilt do as much tow-trds driving rowdyism out of a neighborhood as four police men and a bull-dog. j~r " WHAT possessed you to marry that. dowdy ?" said a mother to her son. " Because you always told me to pick a wife like my other," was the dutiful reply. 9gr LET a woman once think you uncon-, querable, and, unless she is unlike all other women, she will still want to conquer you, W" Jr is decidedly provoking to have a fly light on your no.' just as the daguerreotypistu pulls out bis watch and says "Now."