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4j44 maratdic 30urna, orvote to tlye out) anh Boudiern aig1jts, %Catest flus, Cifryture, Sodr)if, Eiperade, -griuture, &c. "We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and if it must fall, we 'iii Perish amidst the Ruins." SIMYKI S, DURISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C., DECENfBER 17, 1856. V-- ni--- e CORN SONG. BY J. G. WHITTIER. Heap high the fanner's wintry board! Heap high the golden corn! No richer gift has Autumn poured From out her lavish horn ! Let other lands, exalting, glean The apple from the pine, The orange from its glossy green, 4 The cluster from the vine. We better love the hardy gift Our rugged vales bestow, To cheer us when the storm shall drift Our harvest fields with snow. Through vales of grass, and mcads of flowers Our ploughs their furrows made, While on the hills the sun and "howers Of changeful April played. We dropped the seed o'er hill and plain, Beneath the sun'of May, And frightened from our sprouting grain The robber crows away. All through the long, bright days of June, Its leaves grew bright and fair, And waved in hot midsummer's noon, Jts soft and yellow hair. And now with Autumn's moonlit eyes, Its harvest time has come, We pluck away its frosted leaves, And bear the treasure honie. There, richer than the fabled gifts, Apollo showered of old, Fair hands the broken grain shall sift, And knead its meal of'gold. Let vapid idlers loll in silk, Around their costly board; Give us the bowl of samp and milk, By homespun beauty poured. Where'er the wild old kitchen hearth Senis up its smoky curls, Vho will not thank the kindly earth, And bless the farmer girls 1 Then shame on all the proud and vain, Whose folly laughs to scorn The blessings of our har Our wealth of golden Let earth withhold her g. -Let mildew bright the Give to the worm the ore! Mhe rhat-fflci to thq I But let the good old crop The hills our fathers troi Still let us, for the golden Send up our thanks to C o! WOULD TEAT I'D BEL . N . Oh! would that I'd been born a boy, How happy I would be; I'd be the envy of the men, The girls would worship me. I'd wear a very graceful hat, . Kot a stove-pipe affair; And from beneath its brim should flow Rich waves of dark brown hair. I wouldn't be a fop you know, For fops I do despise; But dress with style and taste enough To please the ladies' eyes. Whene'er I felt in " melting mood," To Laura Keene's I'd go; For oh ! blest thought of Liberty, I shouldn't need a beau. I'd have a night key-that I would, And I'd go out and in Without a dozen folks to ask "Why, Belle, where have you been ?" I wouldn't drink or chew, or swear; I wouldn't-yes I would, i'd smoke cigars, provided I - Could always get thenm good. I'd have a dozen pretty gir]a For ".cousins"---nothaing more; And then I'd have a dear brunette, ,A darling, I'd adore. A darling little black, eyed-love, A tensing hugging elf, With yielding charms and round white arms A dear, just like myself. i'd never slander woman, no! " I'd never kiss and tell," And there's sonme fellows in this town, Oh!I wouldn 't I thrash'em well1 BELLE TuoRN. !A LU.ABLEPO1IESTIC RECIPES. Ma. Entron :-I have culled from my " Tir ginia IHousewife," and likewise from my "scrap book," the followving valuale recipes, whic. you may present, if you think proper, to th readers of your excellent journal. The most c * them I have tried and find thenm to be usefu for what they are represented. FAssy. To M1AKE FINE PANcHAKEs, wrrT1oUT BUTTE] QR in.-Tahe i pint of ceam 'and SIX nei laid 'eggs; ;beat them well together ; put in quater pxiund of idger'lid one nutmeg or a lit tie beaten mace-which you please, and s much as will thicken-almost as much as ordi nary pancake jflour batter ; your pan must b heated reasonably hot, and wiyed with a clea cloth ; this done, spread your batter thin ove it, and fry. To KEEP 1WoRtIS FROMi DRIF~p FAcr.-Plac your fruit in a steamer, over a pot of boilin water coveret~ tightly. When thoroughly liean ed, tie them up immediately ini a clean cot to or linen bag, and hang them up. This metho is preferable to heating in an oven, as that: apt to render them hard, even if you are so foi tunate as not to burn them. .To Damss A COLD Fow.-Peel off the skii and pull off ihe flesh from the bones in as larI .pieces as possible; then dredgeit with a litt flour, and fry to a nice brown in butter, ser1 it up with rich gravy, well seasoned, and thicl en it withb a piece of butter rolled in flour. Ju before you serve it up equeeze in half the jui< To MAKE FRUIT PIEs.-N0 under crust should be made to apple or any fruit pie. It is always heavy and not fit to eat. Place a narrow rim of paste around the edge of the plate, and fill it with the fruit, either raw or stewed, and cover it. "'h6 juices will be retained much bet ter, and it will save a sight of flour and butter, which is no trifling consideration in these days, and what is of molre consequence save dyspep sia, which costs more. /After cutting they are taken out with a spoon. To PRESEvE'IRoN AND STEEL KNivis FROM RUsT.-Procure some melted virgin wax-the purer the better-and rub it thoroughly over the blades of the knives. After it has dried, warm the knives, and having carefully removed the wax from the surface, rub them briskly with h dry cloth until the original polish is fully re stored. This will fill all the pores with the unction and minute particles of the wax, which will adhere firmly, and prevent the intrusion of water or moisture, which is the cause of rust. BoILD PoTATOr:S.-Should never be covered with a dish after coming from the pot in which they are cooked, as they will assuredly become "soggy." Better allow them to remain in the pot after pouring off the water, placed as near to the fire as will keep them moderately hot. Potatoes are spoiled by a tight covering over them after boiling. SUBSTITUTE FoR CREA31 iN TEA OR COFFEE. -Beat the white of an egg to a froth, put to it a very small lump of butter, and mix well. Then turn the coffee to it gradually, so that it may not curdle. If perfectly done, it, will be an excellent substitute for cream. For tea, omit the butter, using only the egg. AN EXCF.LLrNr TooTH WAS.-The straw berry, if applied with a brush to the teeth, will remove the tartar more effectually than any dentrifice ever invented. To CLEAN KiD GLovEs OF ANY coi.on.-Take white soap and make a very thick lather, with' a soft brush, such as gentlemen use in shaving, and put the glove upon the hand ; cover it with the lather and rub it off quickly with a clean flannel till it is dry. Repeat the process, until the glove is clean, being careful that, it is done so quickly as not to saturate the kid. WAsHiNG SILvEnwARE.-It seems that house keepers who wash their silver with soal and water, as the common practice is, do not know what they are about. The proprietor of one of the hargest and oldest establisluents in the city of .Philadelphia says that "house-keepers ruin their silver ly washing it in soap suds ; it makes it look like pewter. Never put a parti e n , .m .,i...' ,m carmo. t h'a it will re~rain e.d- i. blv of the no~w but ..e einmg ui mauinery a1nu tie elieking of. type!" Well, w hat if that, fair lady ? True, the oil we nay use is rot so highly perfumed as that with which y'u snmoothen your ringlets; but for all tlait it has the ,aie basis-anl is applied to a far nobler 7pose. Thec " eianking" of our machinery may nut be pleasait to your over reti-eed taste; but to the true Poet it has a sound swetter even than " tinkliing of evmbils." The - Clicking" of type way be evei disagree aile to vou; but - had rather hasr it aid u i th:n be po.sSessed of the gift. of a JENNY LIND, were we to have our choice of the two. Ours is a glorious riss.ion, fellow craftsmen. Princes and potentates own our sway, and there is no earthly power mightier than ours. As we stand up to the " case," wvorn and we:ary though we may be, we have at least the comfort of the thought that though wve cannot find an acere of God's earth that we may call our o en-though we are poorly paid and heavily tasked-though there m.my not be one to whom we may say "Go," or to another " Come"-though we mayt~ well know that we shall leave no " mighty name'" behind us, with our fame blazoned on history's page and sculptured in marble-yet we are assured that our works " shall noL perish." Long after we shall have been laid beneath the sod, the "still, small voices" with which we havs spokcin will go on with their mighty work, accomplihing~i the good which we have sought while living.~ With our "mallets" we are dri ving home "wedges" that shall in time overturn "principalities and powers." WVith " shooting irons" of motcre effect than " Sharpe's Rifles" or "Colt's Revolver's," we march to the battle against Wrong, far more. sure of victory thtan they who wield the sword. Oftentimes as we have stood at our " case," merrily "sticking" the magical strips of metatl which seemed as thitngs of. life under our fingers, have we "laughed ini our sleeve" ams we thought how manay would be anxiously wattehing for the result of our labors -how manyii hopes and fears hung on the mere ipse dii gf the types-how much the " leading men" and " first writers" of cur day are indebted to the hunmible but none the less'valuable 'hibors of the Typo. Anti again our heart would graw sad as we thiought of those to whom- we should be the bearers of evil tidings. How maniy of those who read the dolorous hteaditngs--" Dreatdful Disaster!" " Fear. ftl Ratilroad Accidents and Great Loss of Life.!' &c., are untouched by the sad news I To To many and matny a home do we thus convey the sad itntelligence, and ats we do so, there swells up in omir be-art a prayer for the " lovcd ones left behind," and a hymn of thaaliksgiving that we were not of those who were so suddenly and so fearfully launebed into eternity. IBitt we have higher and at nobler mission than that of mere mnesengers. Printers are e*mphati cnlly the Reformers of-the age in whlich they live. In these dirty rooms where feiv but meebaznical sounds atre heard, a busy "work of Mind is going on. Those rough looking men standing by their cases are tren now, perhaps, giving to thme world their own great and noble thoughts-speaking with mnetalie tongues words that will cheer some fellow Worker, or spur up some Dreaimmer, to works lie never thought him self capable of--sowing seed by the wayside that in time will spring up ad bear -" good'fruit, even an hundred fold"-platnting a vine that shall at some future day shelter the weary Pil grim on Li fe's journey-striking a rock from whence shall gush a fountain of pure wtater, re frshing to many a faint and disheartened deni Izen of~ tiils cold world of ours. No "naew measure" is proposed-no new priniciple in Science. Art, Politics or Mechanics, is promnul gated-but these busy Printers-these ready Thiinkers-seize upoin it and proceed to " en ~lighten the public" upon its bearings atnd its ap. eplications-for a wonderfuly practical set are ethey. Educated, as they generally are, in the Csternest of all systems, that of hard won expe rience, they look at life ats a Reality, divested of tfalse adortnings and outward shows. By the time that they arrive at manhood's years, for * thir Printer life must nda commenee early~ they have won the right to stand among men many years their seniors, and call them equals. "The poor boy's college" has fitted them for such a life struggle as few " outsiders" know of. With a brave heart but a slim purse oftei with naught but his " rule" in his pocket -many a typo leaves the scene of his earlier experience, to go forth to seek his fortune in sone distant section. If everything else fails him, you may rest assured his stock of brass never will. With this and an'indomitable per severance, and without a particle of " greenness" you may trust the " Jour. Printer" to make his way wherever lie may place himself.-Freeport (111.) Journal. ABSTRACTS OF DEPARTMENT REPORTS. REPORT OF POSTMASTER GENERAL. The Postmaster General's report shows the number of Post offices in June 30th, 1856, to have been 25,565, being an increase of 4,664 in four years. On the 30th of June there were in ope-ation nearly 8,000 mail routes, the length of which is estimated at 239,642 miles, costing $6.356,474, divided as follows: 20.323 miles of railroad, 14:951 steamboat, and 50.453 coach lines, and nearly 154:000 miles of inferior grades. The increase during the last fiscal year was nearly 20,000 miles of railroad, and 332 miles of steamboat, 1,250 miles of coach lines, and 8.200 miles of iiferior grades. In Nebraska and Kan sas 2,238 miles were added to the length of routes. Between the first of July, 1852, and 'July 1st, 1856, the railroad service was increas ed 10,177 miles, exhibiting the fact that within that time this description of service was more than doubled. On the 1st of December, 1856, the length of railroad routes had increased to 21,310 inilesand the total cost for this service at that date amounted to $2,403,747. The whole cost of the inland service on the 1st of July, was $6,526,028. The Secretary alludes to the Panama Railroad Company seizing on the occasion of the with drawal of the steamera via Nicara:gua to force the Department to pay what lie considers nn ex orbitant price across the Isthmus; and lie re commends the making of a regular contract not exceeding $50,000 per annum nith that Con pany, and a contract not exceeding 82:000,000 per annum via Nicaragua, or Tehuantepec, so as to give " weekly mail between the Atlantic ports and California." The expenditures for the year 1856, were $10,405,286, and the gross revenue, including annual appropriations for free mail niatter, $7,620,821, bhowing a deficiency of $2,787.000. lie recommends the abolition of the franking privilege and the compulsory pre-payment of all transient printed niatter. Also the repeal of the and Great Britain to 12 cents a single letter or nore. seCRETAIIY OF THE NAVYS REPonT. The Secretary of the Navy gives a detailed view of t.e operations of the ravy during the last year and its pisent strength. Among his reconmeindations are: for another squadroii in the Pavitie, rendered necessary by our exten. diivg commerce ; for the adoption of the lnglishi and lreych systen of gunnery on praefice ships; and for the despatch of a small steamer to sur vey the Guaino Islands on which Conmnodore ulervine made an uisatisfactory report. The Secretary regards the coinstruetion of the six war steamers as inaugurating a new era in the nava1l service. and repeats his formwer-recomimen-t dation for building ste:LU slo0ps of war of small i draft. The sendinag out of .,eamuen to relieve distan;t crews, is spoken of as an experiment,i and will be continued if it shall wvork well. The Seeretary' iikewise recomnmends the appointment of as.istant pursers with moderate comapensa. tion. REI'ORT of THlE sECRETARY OF WVAE. The Secretary of War renews his recomamen dations of last year, not heretofore acted on by Congress, especially for a retired list, and an increase or the pay of offieers. He proaoses an abandontment of the present system of small frontier posts, and the substitution of' large gar risons, at convenient points, from wyhich sum mer masches may be made into the Indian coun try, to ebastise depredating tribes and protect eigrant. tramns. sECRtETARIY OF THlE INTERIOR's REPORT. 1 The Seretary of the Interior's Report states the quantity of land surveyed since last, report and up to the 3rd of September last, at 16,873, 699 acres, exclusive of school sections. T.heo execution of the graduation act has raised many grave questions which call fur the interposition of Congress. lHe says it is important that, the matter he promptly disposed of either by sane tioning and atlirmning the action of thme Land flice, or directing the patents to be issued with. out further requiremetnts. The quantity of lands sold for cash during the fiscal year wvas over 9,250,000 acres, anid the receipts thierefor $8,821,414. The tot al amount of- land disposed of is over 39,000,000 acres. lie suggests a necessity for further power being ranted to the Commaissionier of Pensions to sus pend and diminish and discontinue pensions where the reasons for granting them has wholly or partiahhy ceased. TIhe number of patents issued within the year Will probably reach 2500. TIhe report says that during the present administration 52 Indian tWeaties have been ne gotinted, 20 of which remain to be actedupnb the Senate. pny By these treaties Indian titles have been ex tinguished to nearly 175,000 acres of land. TIhe aggregate money consideration therefor is $11,184. The Indians withIn our borders--ire sippbmied to number about 300,000. The pro cess of civilization among the Indians has' al ready been aittended tvitlh thie happiest result, and'gives promise of steady progress in the amiel oation of their physipal and moral pond ition. gg THE LAWVER' SA4sT.-$vona, a law yer of Brittany, went to Rome to entreat the Pope to give the lawyers a patron saint. Thei Pope replied that he knew of no saintt not al ready disposed of to some profession. His| Holiness, however, proposed that he should go; round the church of Giovanni di Laterano, blind folded, and, aftter saying a number of Ave Marias, theo first lie should lay hold of should be his patron. This the good old lawyer undertook ; and at the end of his Ave Marinas, stopped at the altar of St. Michael. where he-laid hold af, not thie saint, but, unfortunately the devil under the saint's feet, crying out, " This is our aainit, let him be our patr-on." rg" THmE editor of the Hoosier Patriot talks to his readers in this wise: "Our boys got too smart for us this week, and set up the paper be fore wve began to think of writing editoril. However, we are not sorry, arid do not suppose oursunhrersr regret it very much." Remarks of Senaor Butler, IN THE U.--S S NATE, Called fourth by-a debatff;:s'prung upon that portion of the President's sage wl ich dig. cusses the great question uween te North and the South: MR. BUTLER. Mr. Presidat, I came to the Senate of the United Statest. is session with as firm a resolve as I supposed -Icould make for myself-and if left to -mys -shound not de part from it-to say nota. ile word during the session except on busirv' matters coming from my committee,.#nd su other buiness mat ters as were likely to be t ,subject of legisla Lion by Congress; but, sir. ,andor, justice, and a sense of self-respect forbifme to be silent u on;Jhis aecasion, and thesestare consideratiobi which will influence the. re rks I shall ake. F assure the gentleman fro Ohio that, as far as I can control my lanil Ve, not a wNord of retaliation shall escape 1 'lips, but he will hear, perhaps, before I.hav, concluded, what I believe is of importance - tis conntry-in. deed, what is of importan. in the history of any Government. Sir, the' isa logic in events far beyond the opinion of a man; and if the urrents put in motion by einorthern mind shall result in what has beei .openly avowed that the northern people ha e.'acquired such an tscendency over this Gove'ent. by their no merical stiength as to maka0t.a Government of liscretion, to be administera:n der the Union nd the forms of this Unioai- (hout regard to he Constitution-if It asbWeome to this, that he northern people will undertake to say that slaveholder shall not biPresident of the Jnited States-if they shall practically assume n any form (I am not partidular-as to the form) he attitude that, when +iey have strength nough, they will elect invariably the President nd Vice President from their- section, with an tvowed purpose of excluding southern citizens 'rom eligibility to those high offices, the end is anifest. What would this Union be worth Owen the Constitution is violated 1 . Will you issuine to govern every pait ol:the Confederacy y your dictation, by mitelected exclusively y yourselves? When -tht.. proposition shall )e maintained practically ilWly form, in a presi lenlial election or otherwise-and it was as imed at the last eletioun-that both the caedi lates shall come from the North, and none from he South.;-when you shill insist on dictating .o my section of the country, so far as regards lie distribution of the patronage of the Con. 'ederacy, I shall feel myself to be a degraded itizen of this Republi- itI submit to it. I vill not place my child, or-those Who look up oue, in a condition of disfranchisement and d the control of this Cogfederacy, they iever entered into combination to disfran :his. the North, when they could have done it. 'hey had no such idea. When we entered into his Confederacy, it' was formed by practical non. who understoo'd that they were to observe hie Constitution in good faith; and that when he Constitution was disregarded, numerical trength could not give u, a Government. Ac rding to the Senator's argument, the noment -on deprive us of an operative Constitution, ciich can be controlled within its legitinate phere, you mnake this the Government of a nere majority, a Governmtent of discretion, and isereion is the law of the tyrant. I would not :y to any section that it ought to be under the emptation to exercise such a Government. fet iere is the fact before you, a most palpa. ile and momentous fact, that-for the first time n the history of the Government I believe oh candidates have been 1 nmiated by a pairty, ud suistaineid by a party, fronm one section. 1 lo not inteild to make tlhi. the occasion of a tump) speech upon the Presidency. I have a igher purpose t han that Mr. HIALE. The Senator wvIII allow me to k hitm a single gnestion is lie groes along, be. ause I know lie does not intend to mnisstate istory. Howv was it when Andrew Jatckson nd .lohn C. Calhoun were elected ? Mr. BUTLER. lir.Caloun was elected Vice ~resident w heni John Quisiey Adams was elect d President, atid neither the North nor the south thought it proper to turn him out whent senral Jackson was elected. He was aecepta ie to both. lHe was not elected on a sectional round. With that qualileation, the Senator is igt. Mr. Calhoun went into office under an rigialnomination for V.ce President with Mr. ohn Quincy Adams, and w~as continued in- ofiee, believe, without oppositioni North or South, Ba or WVest. There was no sectional question hen. The issue then :vas not of a sectional iharacter. Mr. WADE. It is not so, on oar part, now. Mr. BUTLER. It is not sectional on his part, vhen the gentleman says lie would have both landidafes fromt his section ! Mr. WADE., I have smid nothing about the oality of the President and Vice President iot a word that I am aware of. Mr. BUTLER. Perhaps you are not fully waro of what you did say. I do not know hat you said it, but you acted it. Mr. WADE. I know:. did not say it. I am aware of what I say. Mr. BUTLER. The Setator thinks that acts o not count as muchfaswords. Mr. WADE. I did no; say a syllable about it. , Mr. BUTLER. Weill, where wore your can lidates from? sir. WADE. The Unted States, sir. Mr. BUTLER. 'I will not be 'tumpted to go ;nt6 that'. The United States? Otne of them, is I said on another oucasion, resid'ed in one place, lived in antlir, aid was born ini aobth~er; bug will ndt goio qwstione of thqt kin.. This is the first tim' in the history of the ~ountry when suphi an is'ne has been made. Tt a the first time that theimnn of thiesejltates has been put'in jeopard: bay stntth an jise. 'p'he President of the United States, standing as hp biee as trqstpe for all pqtfof this Confederacy, has in his message att npted to rebuke this eographleal ariay of setlons ; and he has used the language of warni, as he was bound to do. He is not only a t-ustee for all, but he is a sentinel to maintain he Constitution of the country. If he though tilat the Constitutioni, or the~ frp jnstitqtjpp~ of Amnerea.-yes, sir, the beacon lights that were lighted up by eur fathers, wvere to be extiigulshed in ti mad ar ray of sectional power, he would have been a traitor to his trust if ho had not told the people of the United States tiat their institutions were in danger. if he thoutht they were in danger it was his duty to say so. He did think they were in danger from tlese sourdes. I think so. The President has sAd that abolition associa ions have been formei for the purpose of mak ing war upon the insttutions oft the Sooth. I am tl that that is deled; and the anasdon has been asked, " How-was it that Washington Jefferson Madison, and-all the Presidents before us, did h notice such subjects as these ?" Why sir, when Washington went into power our fore fathers were patriots, living together, having fought together, and they were maintaining the common infitutions of the country under the the highest obligations of good faith, without any regard to sectional issues. The South never has made a sectional issue; it has asked foi none; and when it was in power-itself it enter ed into no combinations to exclude a northern ,nan or make nominations exclusively from whal is enlledlhe southern section. Now, the Senator says that freedom and slave. ry cannot exist together. Sir, he has pronoune. ed-I do not intend it in an offensive sense per sonally-what wonld amount almost to a libel on the character of his ancestors who put in'to operation/this Confederacy. Where did we ae. quire the great principles of civil liberty which have pervaded the American mind? They found a higher sanction and higher guarrantees under the influence of those who made the Constitu tion than they find now. The- Senator must remember that, when this Confederacy went into operation, and while it continued in health ful operation, it was a confederation of slave holders. Slyery and liberty lived together then. Mr. WADE. The Senator will permit me to say that Iwas speaking of the expansion of slavery into Territories ; and I believe I used prely much the same language as Governor Adams employed in his late message., Mr. BUTLEs: Well, sir, I maintain that a Territory settled by slaveholdera, and also by persons who are even averse to holding slaves, can be as prosperous a commonwealth as one composed exclusively of those who own no slaves., [ say further, that every State in this Union which ha-s held slaves has produced ,as high h- development of civilization and of human c faracter as any free State. I shall not say to which I give the preferenee. I have declared that I would use no language of retaliation; but when you undertake to say the institution of slavery paralyzes the energies of society, and extinguishes, as the gentlemen intimated, the lights of civilization Mr. WADE. I did not say one word about that. I argued it in its political bearings, and none other. Mr. BUTLER. I do not see, then, why you should object to it, if it has no deleteriousiffect. If it has no very mischievous effect, why should you be so alarmed about it? I do not want the extension of slavery; I have never contended for it. If I had the right to vote to extend it. If I had the right to vote to extend it by act of Congress, I would not undertake to do so: I *ol Uuuy ,uu-n ViLi staves, and the gentle man, with all his theoretical notions, could not set them free. ie would own them himself, I have no doubt, if it was his interest. [Laughter] I dare say he might govern them very well. have not the least doubt of that. I do not think he would be a worse man for i. According to notion, if we were involved in a war with Spain, and North Carolina, Virginia, South Carolina, afid the States on the Gulf were to send their young men to Cuba, and the soil was wet with their blood shed in acquiring that torritory, the northern portion would have a right to go in and drive out the survivors and take it. That is about his proposition, because he says, if it is acquired the North will not let us own it, its that would be an expansion of slavery. I have never contended for the expansion of slavery by Congress as an element of power. But this tact, gentlemen, must stare you in the faice that we are in a minority, destined to be a mi nority continually. and you never made war upon us until you acquired the majority. Mr. WADE. WVe never made war upon you at all. Mr. BUTLER. Now, sir, thme gentieman says he does not wish to interfere withi the institu tion of slavery in the Status. 1(10 not know that lie does ; but I have heard .of a man who said lhe would not burn another's barn, but he would set lire all around thme woods. [L-mughter.] ltf you are in a prairie, and there is a house in the midst of it, you are not willing to hurn the house, but you will set fire to the grass ! These associations have put out pamphlets which have been circulated as far as they could be cireula. ted; and that is an attack on slavery. When was this done? I appeal to you, when was it none? Not until you ocquired power. Hav ing acquired it, you have attempted to exercise it to some extent. I am glad to know that there is a different opinion in the North. Now, gentlemen, let me ask some of you a question. You have had associations fatal, in my opinion, to the union of' (hesa States. I agree with the S~pnar from Ohio, that when the Unidn shalli have survived the Constitution, and be made the instrument of sectional aseen dency to either one or the other, I would despise it as I despise a tyrant. Constitutional liberty I will stand by. As long as I am in this Union, under the present Constitution, you will hear me maintain nothing which in my opinion is inconsistent with the continuance of the Union on fair terms; but the .moment you acquire such an ascendency as to elect the two chief execuijve officers from the northern section to the exclusion of the South, I can tell you what will be the result. There will be no language of acerbity. You will find the people settling down very quietly. 1 4o not thInk there will be any great noise. I am opposed to at taining an end throughi annichiy. 1: do not wish to approach anything thi-ough anarchy and vio lence; atid belienie there is too muoh sense in this'coqntry to farge istg go to war when we prinnot agree. kot and A brahmi~ were brothers; butt Men they could not, exactly agree, one said to the other, ' Y'ou take the left hand, amnd I will take the right," and perhaps they were bet ter friends afterwards than they had been be fore. H-erc, however, there is 'ho necessity for any sagh attiudo, if you will but observe the Cinstitution. The Senator from Ohio his indicated anothen prtoposition to which I shall advert. It Is sub stantially, " We have a right to agitate as mc as we please in our section, anid if the agitatIon reaphes youurs it is not our look.out." That wvas not ihrmerly the understanding. There was no such agitation at the beginning of this Confederacy. Now, wIll some of the Senators on the other aide, who are in affiliation with the Abolitionists and Free-Soilers, tell me who wrote an article on this subiect in the last Octo ber number of the Edinburgh Review ? I wish. some of them to answer me. Mr. WAPE ang 'r. WIusoN. I do not linow. Mr. BUTLER. Yu lmade t omilW agitated by your owh speeches and action, bu't I assert be fore the American people that you have brought into your service, either directly or indirectly, the nnbli nesnn of Gratn ritin-your rival, and your enemy at one time. Such an article as that which has appeared in the Edinburgh Review was not written in England. It has the earmarks of having been written in this country. You have brought into your service,, a foreign and rival press to make war on yourli bredhren, as you sometimes call us. Was that! the case at any other time? When, in the his tory of this Government, has any portion-I. care not what-appealed for foreign aid to put down one section at the expense of the other? Read that article, -gentlemen. It has the ear marks of having been written here, and I can prove it more successfully than it has been prov ed that Sir Philip Francis was the author of Junius's letters. Come to issue on the point, and I can prove it-I can almost demonstrate it. Read the article-the most deliberate, the most artful, in my opinion, and the most ably writtei article that has appeared. in the Edin -burgh Review. Mr. BENJAMIN. It was written by a gentle man in New York. I know the authel. Mr. BUTLER. There it is. It speaks of " our country," and the writer represents- himself as writing in Great Britain. You have here-a fact which I intend to carry to the public, that I in the bosom of this Confederacy you have I found a man willing to write for a British re view to make war on southern institutions. But you say that is not war on the South, because t you employ reviews to assail them. It says the North is immeasurably superior to the South. We have never done these things. When the t President, standing here as the sentinel on-the watch-tower, standing as a trustee sacredly bound to maintain all the parts of this Coated eracy, alarms the American mind for the dangers that are likely to result from such issues as i these, he is denounced in the Senate of the , United States. It never occurred before that I such an issue was made. I do not know, Mr. President, what will be the result of things; but if events carry us to 8 a separation, let it not be effected in bloodshed t and anarchy; and if events do not carry us t there, for God's sake lot us live on such tiris f as will save our feelings. Continually, when ever war is made it is invariably made on South Carolina. South Carolina is always John Doe c or Richard Roe in this affair. Massachusetts I sometimes takes the other'side. The Senator has spoken of certain resolu tions offered in the Legislature of South Caro lina. There are counter resolutions, and both will/e laid on the table, and that will be ihe whole result. 41r. WADE. I do not know that. Mr. BUTLER. Wh:t right, then, have you to intimate that certain things will be done when I ..om ner.i Mr. WADE. Then she has not made up her a wind lately. d Mr. BUTLER. But she will have no mind d different from others. I have endeavored to be o quiet; I believe I have made one small speech of fifteen minutes since I was here before. I did my share of speaking last summer in the 8 hot weather, and I thought I should be spared ' it on this occasion. .V - The Senator has alluded to the message of h Governor Adams. Of course he has a right to a make what suggestions he pleases. If the slave 0 trade had not been suppressed originally, what 1 would have been the condition of sections now? I It is easy to see that the slave section would 3 -have the aseendency. We all know that an ar- ' ticle was proposed to be inserted in the Consti. tution-it was one of the articles which, at one a time, passed the Convention to some extent- b that the regulation of commerce should be de- ti cided by two thirds of the States. Mr. George d Mason had introduced it. Some northern gen tlemen came in and said, " We are interested in trade; we are interested in the navigating inter- hi est; and it you will strike out that clause re- tI quiring two thirds to regulate commerce, and .n reduce it to a majority, we, in good faith, will ic pass no laws to suppress the slave trade until C 1808." There stands the compromise, and my 0 State and Georgia gave way. I do not say that ir they were an Esau, cheated out of their rights i hy Jacob; but it was very poor policy to gihe e1 up Lhe regulation of commerce for the privilege el ot the slave trade until 1808. WVhat was the effect while the slave trave was open ? Who got the profits of it ? Gentlemen, if you will give back all the money you receivede from it, with interest, you can buy a very large ic number of the slaves; but what would you do a with them? I do not know, I think you would t< not know what to d(a nith lIhem. They got the ir slave trado, ag~4 theni made the 'profits out of it. Northgg; gixality did not interfere so much then with the earrying trade. They carried tI A fricans as well as any body else. I can remem- ri ber the poor creatures, and some of the tales n they told me of their capture. r The institution of slavery in South Carolina, ti Virginia, and the other slavehold.g States now, g, is no moure the institution, it was when our fore- It fathers condemned it, than the condition of the .e native African is equal to the elevated position - of this people. Our slaves, of whom you speak ti so much, are intelligent workmen. Many of them receive two and a half pounds and three pounds of food a week, with~ pleniv of clothing. h It is the interest of th master thint they shall be clothe4 r;nd fed. They make their littlo ti erops, an are gerfe~cly happy.. Some of them j run avgay, and they go~t to. eoming back. That is the worst of it with those fellows. [Iaugh.. ter.] They cannot stay Away. They have I" actuailly gut to etin~g back. The best fugitive ai slaye law is the fact that they cannot get any work o~r anything to eat when they go to the '* North, apd they come back,.s I have made these desultory remarks in no a spirit of resentment. I have asserted what is the Inet, that whilst we had power we did not k use it to your prejudice ; but when you have it you use it, as far as you can, to our prejudice. If this shall lead to the result of electing, ex. elusively and continuously, candidatea from one section,I1 will not undertake, to say what the consequence will bej 1 think It inievitable. Thlere is a login in events which we cannot con trol. It Is not Wvorth while to talk about it; ci but I believe now that if our relations were dif- Ii ferent from what they are, and we were a mere Il friendly confederation of confederacies, we o should be better off so far as regards discussion b here. Then we should not sit here abusing ead i section. Commerce would control yo and isp -for I do not elevate mysg4 above tIhe' infig. .ences of such a iogy; but as long as you en- 0 y nsuch'discuissions here ip any way you e 1IEs, l'e it so. I, belie+, "the Senator fronm I fronf)bi'o has b'efore said that he opposs4 slave. ' rf on the ground of its being an element' of an element of power' as to put in jeopardy ( northern institutions. You kinow very well e that therm An ha na uneh' enloin of slave.y i as to equal the expansion of the settlement of northern latitudes. Bonaparte was a states. man; and if he could have had the southek, States under his imperial will, and control the - North, as he did attempt to control England through his continental system, cotton would have been under out-command; and I do not think the gentleman would-be able to.: get a ihirt. Flax is gone, and -wool is nearly gone; perhaps lie might turn Roman, and wear a tqa, [laughter;] but he must get the 'cotton:fiom is. I have said nothing io malice, .and-I..sit Iown with these explanations. "ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF THE PRESS. low would that large and untractable race of esty, restless, frumpish, surely old gentlemen, who have nothing to do, be able to get through-.. he day without the aid of the newspaperI.. It a their only occupation-it is the solitary thing hat keeps them quiet-it is the one talisman hat preVents them from grumbling perpetually, norning, noon, and night. Or IT is said of Melanethon, that whenhe nade an appointment, he expected not only the tour but the minute to be fixed, that no tine. night be wasted in the idleness of suspense-- - ind also of Washington, that when his Secre. ary, being repeatedly late in his attendance, id the blame to his watch, he said, "You must ither get another watch, or I another Se ary." ig A skunk one challenged a lion to single ombat. The lion declined accepting it. " How aid the skunk, " are you afraid?" " Yes," re. ilied the lion, "you would only gain fame by maving had the honor to fight a lion, while eve. y one who met me .for.a month to come, would :now that I had been in company with a skunk. 0Q A BEAUTIFUL THoUGHT-Some one has aid of those who die young, that they are like lie lambs which the Alpine shepherds bear in heir arms to higher, greener pastures, that the oaks may follow. .07" A caricature appeared in the streeti of Tew York, the other day, representing a pine offin, made at the public expense, with the fol )wing inscription, viz: The last remains of ames Gordon Bennett, who came to an untime - y end by the late explosion in.Penusylvana: 'Peaceful be my silent slumber, Horace Greeley close my eyes; We were beat for want of numbers, Wake me up when Fremont dies. W HINT To ENGAGED YOUNG LADIES.--- t - i probably not generally known, that-whendver .r~pm-i.un !-: ac1e gn.N2 offe of ri, al M:"- et-o e e~ virtually on'to the members or wan Uri,. S .. te, and to the point of seniority. Mr. Critten. Dn, of Kentucky, is now the " Father" of that istinguished body, having entered it on the 4th f March, 1817. W LAMARTINE's GRAPE CRoP.-There is ood news for the friends of M. Lamartine. 'he grape crop of the illustrious-poet is this mar magnificent. Around his vineyards the ail had injured the vines; his alone was pre. arved. It is estimated that-his crop will reach vo thousand five hundred hogsheads of wine. 'he journal which furnishes this piece of intel. gence adds that U. Lamartine is retained at' [aeon by a return of the painful rheumatism i whjch he is so often subjecL U SUPPLY FOR A READING PEOPLE.-The rgregate of the catalogues of the fall sales of oks m New York and Philadelphia, reaches ie sum of one million two hundred thousand allars. W As rr sKOULD BE.-Heretofore lights ive been displayed on vessels at sea to tell meir whereabouts; but Captain West, of the ~w steamer Adriatic, has reversed the old-fash ned method by the introduction of a powerful alcium light, which is to be placed in the top' the forward wheel-house, so that he can-see every direction at a distance of ten miles. stead of depending upon others to see him, to oid a collision at sea he -intends to keep a arp look out himself.-New York Mirror. W DANIEL DANCER, when he had ?3,000, a - aur, used to beg a pinch of snuff from all his iends, and when his box was full, bartered its intents for a tallow candle. But his parsimon. us ingenuity appears contemptible in companri in with that of the Russian miser, who learned bark that he might avoid the expense of keep. g a dog. W* PERSONAL REFLECTIONs.--Sterne bolds, at there is no such thing as an impartial rep 'sentation. A looking glass, he says, ono ight be apt to imagine, is an exception to this lIe; and ygt we never see our faces justly in e.- It gives us nothing, after all, but the anslations of them. A mirrior, in point of et, reverses our features, and presents-our ft hand for outiright. This was adduced by our ithor as a fit emblem of all personal reflections. here is much true philosophy in the illustra. 0' THE actions of a man tell of what kind is, as do the fruit of a tree. W BUCHANAN's majority in Kentucky, all . ec counties being heard from, is given in the ouisville Courier at 7,195. W A PALPABLE HIT.-The following item ( taken from the Memphis Christian Advocate, id is emphatically a good hit: An invalid onco sent for a physician, and ter detaining him for some time with a de riptiop of his pains, aches, &c., he thus sum. ed up: " Now, doctor, you have humbugged me too ng with your good-for-nothing pills and worth. us syrupa; they don't touch the rea.l difficulty. wish you to strike the cause of my ailments, it is in your power to reachp it." "It shall be done," said the doctor, at tb'6 me time lifting his cane .and demolishing a canter of gin that stood on the sido-boar'd. gW A Western cotemporary says, " If our ibacribers and others want us to keep up a h'ely editoral, department, they must pay- us.- ' is a sorry sight to see a -printer in a sitoatin fthe at mted dog that ieaneJ agriast de.M. te ,;,W These Ia sound philosophy, aa.w dlas I# and good humor, i the suggestion.. . A distinguished writer sys.- "There is but ie. pitssage i the Bibhi -where tbe igirls are mmandeA to Uis the -menynd thetis the clden rule, " Whatsoever yeT wopld that men oultLde unto you, do ye so unto them."Q~ AsTLUM FOR INEBRIATEs-A eement i eing setta to secure by-apetition toe the nexV heneral Sourt, an appropr*ationt whish sal? as ure the sucessful ant fih. fna sas..'M