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A jemorafic 3ournal, 130i to *i5 tj 9 l janb Sout yrn ?Iii 4tS, attei euvs, Cihfraure, iR'rALil, 4enmptrace, tLgricdture "WVe will cling to the Pillars of the Templefe Will erish amidst the Ruins." SIMKINS, DIJRISOE & CO., Proprietors. EDGEFIELD, S. C. SEPTEMBER 29, 1858. VOL. - LETTERS FROM DISTINGUISIJED GENTEMEN TO THE BONHAM DIlNER. p MARSHALL, Txs, August 25, 1858. Gentlemen: Your invitation to attend the dinner to be given to my old friend and school mate, MILLEDGE L. BONHAM, has just been re ceived and I hasten to reply to night so as not to lose the morning's mail. I can not be with you in person, and yet I would not be altogether absent. I gladly embrace the oppetunity, which your invitation offers, of expressing my appre ciation of the moral courage, unselfish devotion to principle, and pure patriotism exhibited by your immediate Representative in his vote upon the Conference Committee Bill. The question presented was one, in the decision of which, the most unerring judgment might have been at fault. It is only on such an occasion thataligh moral courage can be shown. Under such cir cumstances unflinching nerve and unselfish de votion to country act upon the dictates of rea son without reference to the opinions of others. The Kansas question had become one of dif ficult solution. If she were rejected it was clearly because of the slavery clause in her Constitution. A wrong would thus be done to the South. That we might bear, or not, as we saw fit. But a principle was involved; and a wrong was done to the Constitution by her re jection. Congress can not reject a State apply ing for admission because she has institutions similar to those of States in the Union. The people of a State can not be converted, by an act of Congress, into inhabitants of a Territory. But, on the other hand, if Kansas were admit ted two Black Republican Senators would at once take their seats in the councils of the country. How long would Slavery be protec ted in the State? Modern Statesmadship has discovered that a constitution not ratified by popular vote, is no Constitution. Ergo none of the " old thirteen" had Constitutions-South Carolina has none now. It has also discovered that the doctrine, that organie Law has binding effect, even for a day, against the will of a ma jority, is a doctrine odious and obsolete. In other words, that Sovereignty does not reside in the people.:'in the whole people, but in a part-that is in a majority. Sovereign power, it says, can.only be exercised at the ballot-box. Yet it admits that laws passed by a Legislature can only be repealed by the Legislature, and in the, mode prescribed-and that, till so re pealed, they are binding. But organic law the law, by the authority of which the Legisla ture acts, may be repealed - at any time and in any manner the majority decides. The Declara tion of Independence was made by the Conti nental Congress. The members of that body were not elected by the people, their act was never ratified by the people at the ballot-box. Therefore, we are still subjects of the British crown. "A Daniel has come to judgment" in the person of .Rbert J. Walker. In the bet ter dtk . the Be ubli1 it. sup pse even calling in the military and naval power of the Federal Government against domestic insur rection. Now, Governments are supposed to exist by permission of the majority, whenever, and however, ascertained.' But had Kansas been admitted, would the State Government have attempted to sustain itself against a Tope ka movement? Entertaining the views Mr. Buchanan does on this subject, would he have responded to the call if made? Was it not a foregone conclusion then that slavery, and slave holders would have been expelled the country, had Kansas been admitted? Was it our busi ness then to ugge the admission ? Cui bon o ? Non-intervention was the Kansas doctrine. Was it observed? Did not Walker intervene ? He was removed it is trze, but not till he had done the mischief. After we were badly bitten the dog was called off. But for the difficulty of converting a State into a Territory, I have no hesitation in saying the South could, with pro priety, have objected to the admission. The laws have never been enforced there. Men guilty of murder and treason have been par doned before conviction-prosecuting officers have been ordered not to prosecute-out-laws have been allowed to live at large. Men who were allowed by law to carry property into the Territory, had a right to expect that they, and their property, would be protected by law. Until the laws are enforced, and all kinds of property protected, no fair experiment can be made in the settlement of the Territory. .But " there is a divinity that shapes our ends rough-hue them as we may." Kansas has been refused admission. We did not do it. One of -the conaitionis is that it shall remain a Territo ry till it has a population of nincty-three thou sand. That is in tlhe bond. The past we can not control. We have only to do with the fu ture and the present. " Let the dead bury their dead." Leaving the past to take care of itself we should say that slavery now exists by law in the Territory, and demand that it be protec -ted by law. Treason should not be pardoned but punished. Those carrying property of any kind into the Territory should be secured by the Federal Government in its peaceable and quiet enjoyment. If this is done and it is found after a fair experiment that the Territory is not adapted to shave labor we should be content but not till themi, When the requisite popula tion is in the Tiirritory, it should be permitted to adopt a State Constitution, and be admitted into~the Union with or without slavery-but not till then. Let the United South make this reasonable demand, and no Administration dare be derelict in the performance of its duty. We are not yet so low. I am answered the battle las been lost and won-the verdict is already rendered-Kansas will be admitted by the next Congress with a free soil Constitutiog without reference to popu lation. I say, Congress will do no such thing if we are true to ourselves. Let South Carolina, - Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi say with per fect good temper-coolly and deliberately *that out of this blessed Union they will go * upon the happening of such an event-and such an event will never happen. I say to the Union savers that the Union is in no danger but from them; and that, but for them, it would never have been aught but a blessing. Their timidity has, heretofore, invited aggression. Hereafter it may induce the North to commit some act of rash folly that will precipitate dissolution. Never will the North knowingly and deliber ately force such an issue. Let Kansqas bleed if she has a fancy fur it. Northern Manufactu rers will never leave their looms to rot, and their spindles to rust to staunch the bleeding. If we can but to ourselves be true, neither wve, -nor the Union are, or will be in any danger. "lMen at some time, are masters of their fates; The fault, dear Brustns, is not In our stars Dut in ourselves, that we are underlings." That "time" is now, - We are yet masters of our fates, and the fault will be ours if we are longer underlings. Nothing practically was lost ini the last contest. Our haonorp it is true, was slighatly damaged. We will look to repairing that in the next. Kda is necessary to pre -serve slavery. in Western Missouri ;-Missouri is nlecess'ary to protejst it in Northern Texas, and a and inlfnitum. The twaddle of National Conservatives to the contrary notwithstanding, K#anat is as well adapted to slave labor, as Kentucky, or Virginia Let the Government do its duty and it will g< there. But that the Government will never do while we are content that it shall neglect it. It all depends upon ourselves. Let us then make an effort. I have great faith in an effort, and have thought Mrs Domby's sister no bad philos opher after all. My watch tell, me I should conclude. I write under a press of business, our Court beginning next Monday. I feel that I am writing to old friends, and have written currente calamo,-my pen has guided me-not I it. Offer for me the following sentiment: Milledge L. Bonham-A worthy successor of McDuffie, Pickens, Burt and Brooks. His bold and independent course in Congress should en shrine him in the hearts of his constituents. His brother's blood has endeared him to Texas. Very Respectfully, LOUIS T. WIGFALL. Messrs S. S. Tompkins and others, Committee. BARN WELL, S. C., 31st Aug. 1858. Gentlemen: I have had the honor to receive at your hands, an invitation to be present on the 2d proximo, at your District Court House, at a dinner to be given by the citizens of Edge field, to their immediate Representative, the Hon. MILLEDGE L. BONHAM. It would afford me very great pleasure to participate with you, and them, in the libation to your distinguished Representative, my for mer classmate and friend, and by my presence, to have contributed to the numbers, that will doubtless appear in honor of the event. I had expected up to the present moment, to comply with your very kind invitation to be present, but now surrounded as I am with unexpected ssociations, I must decline going to your charming village, and hastily write this note, simply to acknowledge the reception of yours. Edgefield has always enjoyed the position, of contributing largely to the talent and genius of the State, whilst her soldiery have ever been esteemed equal to any of the best the State ever rallied to the defence of her principles, or the maintenance of her glory. Your present distingiilshed son, has served her in her "councils and in her fields," and she may well be proud of him, as her champion on either, I have known him long, and loved hirm well. You cannot place more responsibility in him, than he will be equal to. I congratulate you on his return among you in good health, and hope to see him long wil ling to serve you, for under no circumstances could the general suffrage select one of more popular and amiable manners, and at the same time, possessing more ability or dignity of de meanor. I hope to hear that your festival, has passed off handsomely, and that no dissatisfaction may occur to the humblest individual composing an integral part of your auditory, in the free ex ercise of that great privilege, under our Fed eral Constitution, " at all times peaceably to assenb2.-.. -- .: Thanking you for the invitation as a testi monial of your regard, I remain with senti ments of respectful consideration, Your fellow citizen, J. D. ALLE1. To Messrs S. S. Tompkins, Emmet Seibels, J. B. Griffin, London Butler and J. W. Hill, Committee. IHnATIMooR, Dougherty Co. Ga. Gentlemen: Yours of the 10th inst., inviting my presence at a dinner to be given by the " Citizens of .Edgefield'' to their immediate Representative, the lon. M. L. BoxIIAM, was duly received. I thank you for giving me the opportunity to mingle with you on that inter esting occasion, but I shall lave to deny myself that pleasume. As a Southern rights man, I feel a deep inter est in your festivity, and the occasion which produces it, and as a native South Carolinian, I have a feeling of devotion and attachment beyond my power to express. I am not a poli tici in. and in no way connected with places of plitical promotion, and it is not expected that [ should, in accepting your invitation, enter into a discussion of political matters. You will permit rme however to say a few words touch ing the present condition of the South. I regard the so-called Conference Bill as vio lative of the Kansas Nebraska act, as yet an other surrender of Southern rights, as full of :deception, sustained by legislative trickery, and us a blemish upon the reputation of every South ern man who voted for it. After that vote was taken, I regarded the Southern rights party in the Democratic element as reduced to two men out of our entire delegation in Congress. One of these was the noble and gallant Quitmian who has iince gone to receive his reward "of well done good arid, faithful servant"-for after so mzuch fidelity-in the midst of so much deser tion-Heaven cannot close itw gates on his im mortal spirit. The other was your true and noble BosnHA, wrho now stands alone, among Southern Representatives, but is surrounded andI sustained by nearly all the South; and her gallant people feel that he is dear to their hearts and to their homes! You cannot, within the purview ofaour Republican simplicity, and in dependence, honor him too highly. While I am so elated with your immediate Representative, you must not consider me did respectful, if out of the abundance of my South ern heart, I say Senator HIAxxosil has disap pointed the just expectations of his warm Southern friends. That he should have voted for the Conference Bill is a small matter com pared with the motives which influenced him, as exemplified in the report of his late speech at Beech Island, That speech is erminently Union, and transcendentally pacific. Coming from the man who was to wear " Calhoun's mantle," it advises me that South Carolina must look elsewhere, for the man to keep alive and active the principle of that great States man. It is the more mortifying that the Senator is not alone, in his lowering of the Southern standard, and which is not to revive again un till a Black Repuplican shall be elected Presi dent, and " there is a repetition of the offence." We see Senator Hunter, through the " Rich imond South," and Jefferson Davis, in his own proper person, joining in this cry of Union that "masked battery from behind which the rights of the South are to be assailed." And even the distinguished author of this latter sentiment, seems to have his ponderous brain opiated with the same delightful recreation, while old Buck pats him on the " back and callb him my friend Tombs." I do not include in this category, Gov. W~iso, for " from him, the good Lord deliver us." This sudden change of political phrase is tc be ascribed to the game of President makingi and it is pretty well settled that the next can didate of the Dlemocracy will come from the South. As one of the renunciated, I will ven ture the assertion that it is unnecessary for these gentlemen to look in that direction, for the dis tinguished head ot the Treasury Department, backed by the Cabinet and eighty millions ol patronage, has the "inside track," and will likely keep it. We would all be grateful to have a President from the Cotton States, but unless ho can reacd that exalted position without detriment to his State Rights principles, there is more safety in one of those " Northern men who is supposed to have " Southern principles. In conclusion permit me to give you this sentiment: The ambition of our public men promises the ruin of the South, and we are suffering for more BONHAMS. Respectfully your friend, U. M. ROBERT. To Messrs S. S. Tompkins, Emmet Seibels, J. B. Griffin, Loudon Butler and J. W. Hill, Committee. AUGUSTA, August 21st, 1858. Gendemen: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of an invitation to attend a dinner to be given on the 2nd Sept., by the citizens of Edgefield District to the lon. M. L. BoN1A31. Private business of importance to me will take me in another direction about that 'tme, and will necessarily prevent my being with you on that occasion. This I regret extremely; for there is no gentleman now in public life that I would greet with more pleasure than I would your distinguished Representative. With no constituency could I mingle more cordially than with his, to extend the hand of welcome and bestow the word of praise for faithful public service. In doing this, I would express my ad miration for the character and deportment of a gallant, high-toned Southern gentleman and leader, in whose care the honor of his constit uents will ever be safe, and I would at the same time gratify feelings cherished from boyhood, of warm personal friendship and esteem. In the companionship of our youthful days, when the ingenuous heart knows neither guile nor reserve, I learned something of the sterling qualities and genial nature of MILI..EDGE BON IIA3, that have since ripened and borne good fruit. In the field, in the forum, and in Leg islative Halls he has made his mark, and real. ized the best hopes of his best friends on both sides of the Savannah. In his serene fearless nes..-in his firnness of purpose in the discharge of duty, regardless of consequences merely per sonal, we have a fine exanipl' of political chivalry-a worthy successor of the ever to be lamented Preston Brooks. I remain, Gentlemen, with much respect, Your obedient servant. JAMES GARDNER. To Messrs. S. S. Tompkins, E. Scibels, J. B. Griffin, L. Butler, J. W. Hill, Committee. COLUMBIA, August, 30th, 1858. Gentlemen: I have the honor t6 acknowledge your invitation to be present on the occasion of a public dinner, to le given your immediate Representative, the Hon. M. L. BoxNHA, on Thursday the 2nd if September next. I regret I shall not be able to be with you on that day, but try to assure you nevertheless, that no one can more fully appreciate the high worth of. your gallant Representative, than my humble self. To the confidence and intimacy engen with him, I have now to add my admi-ation, for that sagacity which could frustrate the dis guisers of the "English Conference Bill," and for that manliness which could know no com promise of justice or of right. I congratulate you then upon the possession of a public ser vant, worthy of all confidence, and of the high est honor. le has not forgotten tho ancient prestige of his State for scrupulous devotion to principle ;-he has not forgotten the teachings of the wisest and purest.statesnan;-he has not forgotten the regiments of his own gallant con stituency,-and the escutcheon of South Caroli na has suffered no tarnish at his hands. It would, I am aware, be a great presumption on my part, to question either the wisdom or motives of the rest of our Delegation in Con gress, who thought lit to differ with Gen. BoN AMt on this bill, (and with regard to one at least, I cannot entertain the slightest doubt as to his faithful adherence to the cherished doc triue of the State)-yet, without committing his presumption, I may be permitted to say, hat, to one brought up under the glorious States Rights" principles of our beloved Comn onwealth, it sounds stranger indeed to hear of o much compromise for the sake of party, even hough it be the all triumphant Democratic. And even at this point, I fear the evil does not est, for, South Carolina-that South Carolina, hich so delighted to honor the great Calhoun -is not only claimed as Democratic, but as "Ntionally" Democratic, since we are gravely old by those who "sit in the high places," that here is no difference between the "State Rights" and "National" wings of that organi ation. Is this so indeed? Ihas our State so oon forgotten by what party, was stricken every low against her most cherished doctrine of Free Trado," "States Sovereignty," and "States Rights ?" Hias she forgotten, alas ! that wealth f memories, which clusters around the names f her Calhoun, her McDutie, her Hamilton, and her Hlayne ? In the fourth Congressional District, you at least can answer no! for a BoNx mi is your standard bearer ! I I may be indulged here too perhaps if I ven ure to tresspass further upon your patience, by ouching a subject, which despite of its having een denominated "impracticable," " visionary," ad " foolish," does nevertheless occupy at this time, much of the attention of the South. There are many amongst us who recollect the ot distant past, when our Institution of Slave ry, was held by no stronger tenure than the bated breath" of concilliation ; when, indeed, it was considered the mere scaffolding, necessary perhaps, for the erection of the building, but still, to be stricken away when the edifice was .opleted.- Yet how does it stand now ? Driven to combat with the fierce fanaticism of 'the North, reason and research have alike leagI us to an impregnable rock of defense. No longer apologists for this condition of things in our midst, but finding it sanctioned by Iholy Writ, and sustained by the precedent of wisest an tiquity, we boldly proclaim ourselves ready, if necessary, to defend it with the bayonet, and determined to transmit it to our latest posteri ty. I say such is our present position on the subject of slavery, and he who gainsays it, is a fitter associate for Giddings and Greeley than for the people of the South. Is It unwise, visionary, or foolish then, with this determina tion on our part, and with the wrorld arrayed against us, to devise means by which this Insti. tution is to be upheld and strengthened ? Mr. Giddings tells us, Indeed, that his party watch wordl of "no more slave States" is no longer to be the rallying cry for abolition hordes-; but mark youL why ; the whilom silenced, but never abandoned WVilmnot Proviso, is to be a condition annexed to our territorial governments. Admi rable concession l Glorious "moral victory" of the South ! No State without the chrysalis territorial condition-nio territory without the Wilmot Proviso ! What matters it that we now stand as fifteen Southern States, including Delaware, to eighteen Northern ! What matter if Kansas is to swell that numbet at the next session of Congress to nineteen against us, des pite the Conference hunmbug and its requisition of ninety-three thousand inhabitants? What matters it that the territories west and north west of us are rapidly advancing to that condi tion when they, too, shall demand admission as re..ou States'? Has not Mr. (Giddinge told us his party abandons,..the position that "no more slave States are tobe admitted 7" And even if the3f do insist ipon that Wilmot Proviso (Wilmot, by-the-by was a "National Demo crat!)-what of that? Clearly the Abolition party has backed diwn from its audacious posi tion-and has not the South gained a "great moral victory?" What matters it that the great high pret Of Abolitionism, Freesoilism, and of elack Republicanism (if there be any distinction among the three), Mr. Seward, tells us the battle has been fought, indeed, but that they have gained the victory! What matters it, according to the' same authority, that the Supreme Federal Court is to be re-organized ; and that a great States' Convention to alter and amend the Constitntion is to be called ? Have we not gained a vib-.ory too-and are we not most unreasonable men. not to be satisfied with its "moral worth ? Seward Giddings, Wilson, Sumner, Hale, Hamlin, Wade, Chandler, ed it omne genus, owe their seats in Congress to their implicable, unrestiy hatred to slavery; and yet toe-we who belive this Institution to be morally, religiously, and politically right-we, who declare ourselves ready to sustain it at the hazard of our livesi are callcd upon, forsooth, to signally rebmke any man amongst us whose greatest fault may. be his extreme decoiion to this very interest. I am, fellowicitizens, Your obedient servant, ALLEN J. GREEN. To Messrs. S. S. l'ompkins E Seibels, J. B. Griffin, L. Butler, and J. W. Hill, Committee. GREENVILLE, August 18th, 1858. Geatlemen: You kind invitation to a pub lic Ainner, to be2 given your distinguished Representative in (Congress, the Hon. M. L. BONHAM, on the 2nd .of September next, has been receved, and I sincerely regret that it will not be in my -power to accept the same. Nothing could giveaeme more pleasure than to be present and officiate in, honoring one tj whom all honor is due for his many high and noble qualities. I have $ad the pleasure of knowing General BoNHAM fromU his youth; and can truly say that no c6nstituency ever had a Represen tative more devoted to their interosts or the interests of his Stato. If he ever err,, it will be, as Senator Hammond says, on " the right side." Old Edgefield may well be proud of her Representatives ii Congress from the organiza tion of the Federal Govermpent to the present time. Harper, Butler, Calhoun, Simkins, Mc Duffie, Pickens, Bart, Brooks, and Bonham are a bright galaxy, of; whom any State would be proud. To have bden represented by such men, and onlv such meuqis an hon6r which few Con gressional Districts in the Republic can claim. I am, with much respect and esteem, very truly, Yours, &c., B. F. PERRY To Messrs. S. S. Tompkins, E. Seibels,' J. B. Griffin, L Butler and J. W. Jlill, Cummittee. 19nza .0., August 31dt, 1858. e "cnIedge ments for the gratifying compliment of your invitation to me to be present on the occasion of the Dinner proposed to be given by the citi zens of Edgefield District to their immediate Representative, the lon. M. L. BONHAM. I regret that existing engagements will not allow me the pleasure of enjoying your generous hos pitality, and 'of te'tifying my hearty concur rence in the commendation so well earned by your Representative. All who have a'hy perso nal acquaintance with Gen. BOsnAMz must be pleased to see him honored. The separation, which the most momentous issue of the late Session of Congress, occasioned between him self, and all his colleagues, gives a peculiar value and significancy to the proposed expression of your approbation. It is fitting he should know that such isolation has, at east, not im paired the confidence of his constituents and of the State in hum. If it were admitted that he erred in judgment, the moral heroism of his position, in daring to be singular, and, therefore, to incur the risk of being misunderstood on a point, about which his section is so sensitive, would win for him admiration. But it must be confessed, that, although the contrary action of our other able,, watchful and patriotic rep~resen tatives in both branches of' Congress may well make one doubt his ownt judgment, while thie proposed mode of adjusting the Kansas difficul ty was pending, it seemed to some of us, that an acquiescence in it dn the part of the South, would look very much like an eagerness to es cape from, rather than directly maintain an is sue which we ourselves had made. Kansas, it is true, scarcely afforded a fair occasion for such an issue. Whenever a territory left to the ope ration of the ordinary causes that control im migration and settlement, without.abeing sube jected to any forcing process, upon application for admis.sion, is flialy rejected with the con currence of all branches of the Government that can have a voice, merely and distinctly be cause of the existence therein of negro slavery, it is difficult to see how the Southern States, can any longer continue in' thme Confederation without di.,honor. For then it will be mani fest tha~t hostility to an institution, the contin-. ued existence of which is essential to the pros perity of the. South, and indeed a constituent element in the highest type of civilization that. has yet appeared, has gained the control in the administration of the General Government. Doubtless, this issue will not be met directly, so long as the same 'object can be accomplished indirectly ; and, therefore, it must be expected that ingenuity will be exerted, as such occasion arises, to contrive some bye-path whereby to reach the desired point of excluding the apply ing territory. It is difficult to see how any one, at all informed, can doubt that a bitter' hostility to negro slavery and a consequent de termined opposition to its extension beyond its present territorial limits is almost universal in what are called the Free States. The progress that this sentiment has made'in extension and in intensity and effectiveness within ten years is wonderful. That it will be satisfied with nothing short of the entire abolition of slavery, and that it is moving steadily toward that result, there seems abundant occasion to fear. No Southern man would consent to such a consum mation. It may be regretted that, in a case of' such doubtful propriety as that of Kansas, an effort was made to force the issue upon theI country, Yet wheii the issue was, in fact, pro sented, we may not wonder at, nor condemn' Gen. Bo6xuM, because he rofused to seem to evade it, by consenting to be diverted to a col lateral issue, under cover of which escape from apparently Impending defeat might be effected. Such could not have been the true attitudec of affairs, as the course of our other representa- I tives in the Senate 'and House assures us, but itI might well have been mistaken for it. Permit me, in concluding, to offer the follow ing sentiment. African Slaeery-aa it exists in the Southern Statesa important constituent in the best form o? social organization yet known to the world. The highest interest of civilization and humanity plead for its perpetuation. I am, with great respect, Yours, &c., JOHN A.INGLTS. To Messrs. S. S. Tompkins, E. Seibels, J. B. Griffn, L. Butler, and J. W. Hill, Committee. THE USE OF FLOWERS. Y MART noWITT. God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for gre it and small, The oak tree and the cedar tree Without a flower at all. He might have made enough, enough, For every want of ours; For luxury, medicine and toil, And yet have mido no flowers. The ore within the mountain mine Requireth none to grow, Nor doth It need the lotus flower To make the river flow. The clouds might give abundant rain All dyed with rainbow light, All fashioned with supremest grace, Up-springing day and night. Springing in valleys green and low, And on the mountain high, And in the silent wilderness, Where no man passeth by. Our outward life requires them not, Then, wherefore had tlpoy birth? To minibter delght in man, To beautify the enth. To comfort man-to whis'er hope, Whene'er his faith is dim, For who so careth for the flowers Will care much more for him. ROE IS WHERE TEE'S ONE TO LOVE US. lonie's not mecrely four square walls, Though with pictures hung and guilded; Ilome is where affection calls, Filled with shrines the hearth hath huilded; Home I go watch the faithful dove Sailin*'neath the heaven ab.,ve us Home is where there's one to love. us! Home is where there's one to love! Home's not merely roof and room, I-needeth something to enlar it; Home is where the heart cmi bloom, Where there's sume kind lip to cheer it! What Is home with none to meet1 None to welcorme, none to greet us ? Home Is sweet, and only sweet: Whore there's one we love, to meet us! WIISHINGTON'S LEAVE-TAKING. The following little incident from Ramsey's History, we have already honored our columns by once publishing, but everything of its kind relating to our great and glorious Washington will bear reputation time and again and will Iways be read eagerly by every American. " The ho ur now opproached in which it be ame necessary for the American chief to take ave of his officers, who had been endeared to im by a long series of common sufferings and angers. This was done in a solemn maniner. 'he officers having previously assembled for he purpose, General Washington joined them, nd calling for a glass of wine,' thus addressed em: " With a heart full of love and gratitude now take leave of yon. I most devoutly wish hat your latter days muay be as prosperous and appy as your former ones have been glorious and honolrable." Having drank, ie added, "I annot come to each of you to take my Ieave, ut shrill be obliged to you if each of you will amo and take ine by the hand." General Lnox, being next, turnoed to him. Incapable of tterance, Washington grasped Ihis hand, arid nbraced him. Thre officers caine up success vely, and he took- an affectionate leave of each hem. Not a wor~d was articulated on eiher de. A manjestic silence prevailed. Tire tear f sensibility glistenedl in every eye. The ten erness of the scene exceeded all description. When the last of thne officers had taken his ave, Washington left the roomi, and passed arough the corps of light infantry to the place f enmbarkation. Thre officers followed, in a lemnn, mute procession, with dejected counte ances. On his entering the barge to cross the orth River, he turned towards the companions [ his glory, and, by wvinrg his hrat, bid thern silent adieu. Sint of them answered this nit signal of~ respect and affection with tears; md all of themn gazed upon the biarge which myneyed Urn from their sight till they could 10 longer distinguish in it the person of their eloved commrander-in-chief." A SNAxI CrrAstura.-A correspondent of thme ichmond Dispatch thus writes of a snake char 'ner wvho, at piresernt, is armusing~ the visitors at 2e Montgomery (Va.) White Sulphur Springs: "Mr. G. F. #dirsen, as I am informed, a wede, a snake charmer, has been amusing thre isitors at tire Springs. H~e hails from Califor iis, and is on the best terms of peace and friend rip with all sorts of snakes. His countenance icords well with his vocation, Hie adorns him rolf with rattlesnakes, aird diversifies the drape y by intertwinning with it an adder, a black, r a few copperheads ! There are some men so ~orribly like them that they (the copperheads) re the more detestable for the resemblance. ur snake charmier, however, seems to have no Fvorites, but bestows the fondest caresses upon bem all l "lHe kisses alike the copperhead, the rattle nake, and the adder, and hides them in his osom ars affectionately as he does those that re not venomous.- It was deemed that ho had xtracted the fanga of thne death dealing ser ents; but, to prove that this was not so, he ook charge of two that the barber had in a age, that had been recently caught in the roods. Hie soon reduced them to submission nd took themi to his bosom, placing then uni ier his vestments as precious things. A kitten ras produced, arid onie of his pet rattlesnakes ras made to bite it for thne gratification of the pectators. P'oor Kitty soon sickened and died, rhereupon the charmer was voted no humbug, hough he was regarded as a sort of mroinster. shall hereafter put mere faith in what I read bout the snake charmers of India." NEW CARPE-r S-ronr.-WVe are gratified to earn that our friend J. G. Bailie, proprietor of he New Carpet Store," in Charleston, is prepar irg to open a store ini this city, 1st October, and as leased thre store fo~rmnerlyr occupied by Messrs Sherman, Jessup & Co., Broad street, next to atk of Augusta. From an acquainrtance of ome years with Mr. Baiilie, and with his store in Charleston, we predict that he will give our itizens a fine stock from which to make selec ions. H~e is an enterprising gentleman, and will be an acquisition to the business circle of ur city.-Augusta Dispatch. INDIANS AS 4ATTER OF FACT.-A man who had been West, and had been chased by an In dian, writes: " Much has been said by poets and romantic young ladies about the picturesque aspect and noble form of an untamed, untamable warrior of the prairie, and far be it from me to gainsay them. An Indian is a noble spectacle-in a picture, or at a safe distance-but when this 'noble spectable,' in company with a dozen other 'noble spectacles,' is moving his moccasins in your direction, and you have to do some tall walking in order to keep the capillary substance on the summit of your cranium, all his 'nobili ty' vanishes, and you see in him only a painted, greasy miscreant, who will, if you give him a chance, lift your hair with the same christian spirit, composed and most serene, with which he would ask another 'spectacle' for a 'little more 9f that baked dog.' 1 used to think like the poet;-niow the sight of an Indian gives me a cramp in the stomach." TIE DRTNrs.-IIow ominous that sentence falls. How we pause in conversation and ejacu late, 'It's a pity !' How his mother hopes he will not when lie grows older; how his sisters persuade themselves that it is only a few wild oats he is sowing! And yet the old men shake their heads and feel gloomily when they think about it. Young man just commencing ,life, bouyant with hope, don't drink. You are freighted with a precious cargo. The hopes of your old parents, of your sisters; of your wife, of your children-all are laid down upon you. In you the aged live over again their young days; through you only can that weary one you love obtain a pos.ition in society; and from the level in yvhich you place them must your children go into the great struggle of life. AN AiEaICAN DEsERT-TEii.UE SUFFERING FRom TmRs.-A long letter appears in the Dallas (Texas) Herald, concerning the passage af McCullough's emigrant train across the staked p lain to California, from which we take the fol. lowing extracts: From Fort Chadborne we travelled South to the Choncho river (old Camp Johnson,) then followed up the Choncho to the edge of the great American Desert. The grgkt American Desert is a barren waste. Soil, light and alka. line nature, producing mostly salt grass and a few mezquite bushes and cactus. 1his kiud of country extends from the Colorado to the Rio Grande, is-250 miles in width and extends through our continent, being narrower in some points. There are but few watering places on the route from the Peace to the Rio Grande. The herd had no water for seventy six hours, and traveled one hundred and thirty miles. The herdsmen were without water or nourishment thirty hours. Their exercise was very hard, riding and hol. lowing at the cattle, and was calculated to bring on thirst soon. The men suffered extremely for want of water and -sleep; many shot down the famishing bullocks on the road, stuck, pulled off their boots or shoes, canght the thick, hot blood and -drank-iteely, nd'b so-doing saved tlieir lives. The cattle were all very much excited, and any of them would fight, and the men were compelled to shoot many. , We went into the Sand Hills with 1000 head of cattle, or struck the sand with that number, and left with about 1058, many of the missing having died for the want of water. On arriving, the men were all excited and hardly knew their comrades. Dan. Murriy, Wheatly, Celton, and Collier would neier have got to water had not wome of the herdsmen been sent on after water and returned to them. They had stopped by the side of the road. Stm Acem)RXr-A WARnING .-We regret to announce that a little child, a daughter of Mrs. Sarah Allen, of our town, was drowned by fall ig into a well onl her premises on Tuesday last. The child being missed, probably some time af ter the accident, search was instituted, when the listressing discovery was made. She wias found loating upon the surface of the water. Medical ssistance w~as immediately summoned, hut the pirit of the little innocent had taken its flight ~o fairer and happier climes. We leartn that it ras an interesting and attractive child, and the -oungest of the faimily. The curb of the well, we understand, was bro :en or deficient at or near the groun-d,- which nust have beenrso, as the child was very sm.dl robably b~etween one and two years old. This nelar~choly occurrence should serve as a solemn varning, and prove an effectual lesson to all >ersons who have wells.-Sumter Watchman. Hioxiems.--An affray occurred on Saturday ight last, about ten miles below this place, be-. ~weenm John Fowl&' and Felix Rogers, in which] he latter was struck by the former with a gun, md mortally wounded. Mr. Rogers died on unday, about noon. Mr. Fowler is confined in ail to awvait his trial. We are not informed of he particulars, hut understand that whiskey was robably the exciting caus.-Greenville Moun Lineer. Cators mN -rus Urre'a Dis-racs.-A corres-1 >ondent of the Winnsboro' Register writes to hat paper as follows: "I have just passed over the Charlotte & southi Carolinia Railroad, and from my observa ~ions and frorg inqniries made of th, cotton r~op of Fairfieldl, Chester and York D)istricts, mnd of the cotton region of North Carolina, 1 am satisfied that the crop of 1838 will not equal hat of '57. 1 would therefore advise farmers not to press their cotton upon the market,,and he more especially as thie yellow fever is in (harleston, and there are but few buyers in that lace. The corn crop will be sufficient for the upply of the country," hi(IATARY SL.AVERY.- Whipping Soldiers in England.-A iore mnonstrous infliction of' pun. shment than is noticed by the Brighton Guar ian, has never been recorded in the history of nodern civilization ; anidit is not surprising that he police of England should receive notice of wo hundred and fifty desertions from the army n one day. Here is the story: A private of the 35th Royal Sussex Regiment hving been found guilty by a district court mar ial of stealing a 5s. piece belonging to private Dougherty, of the same corps, wps sentenced to receive fitty lashes, and to he imprisoned eighty. four days, with hard labor. The punishment of logging was inflicted on Saturday, at Ghatham, and was very severe, the cat having nine'thongs o it, thereby giving four hundred anid fifty stripes on the man's back. Some of the young soldiers, who had never seen such punishment before, dropped from the ranks and fainted. PREYENTIvE OF YEU.ow FEVER.-A corres pondenit of the Charleston Courier sug'ests that smoke might be the means of banuising ellow fever from that city, and proposes the following plain: Let Council pass an ordinance requiring a ire to be kept burning in every chimney in the city, from ann-rise to' sun-se5t, on such dlays as may be determnined upon, for four or five days at least. The fires to be made of the most smoe kyimaterials, such as soft coal or lightwood. Fires might'also he kindled in the public squares and streets, so as not to endanger the dwellinga, WVe might thus succeed in purifying the atmos. GiTHERINS. L A LITERAL WITNEss.-"Did lbe de fendant knock the plaiitiff down with malice prepenase" "No sir-he knocked him down with a, flat 'iron." "You misunderstand me, my friend; I -want to know whether he attacked him with an evil intent ?" " Oh, no, sir-it was outside of the tent?' "No, no, 1 wish you to tell me whether the attack was at all a preconcerted affair?" - "No, sir, it was not a free concert affair-it was a circus." ZE THAT P1r.-As many seem to have doubted that there was a Pig in the District with two heads, two bodies, eight legs and two tails, Mr. J. G. Jones, of Bamberg brought it up on sale day last and exhibited it to the crowd. It is now at this office, where it may. be seen by all who are diAposed to doubt. The mother, of this wonderful curiosity, is the property of Mr. Joshua Rentz, and the pig was the last of a litter of 13. We defy the world to procure any thing to beat it.-Barnwe Serdinel. ZL A PARDoN.-It is announced...in the English papers that Queen Victoria has granted a free pardon to a young man named William Craft, who was sentenced to six years'. impris onment -at hard labor, for an assault in kissing a young lady against her will. 'The Lee Gleaner says that the girls in the High School have caught the contagion of Frenchifying their aanes by the substitution of ie fur y, and asks Whatie is in a namie?" Z4 A roguedown soutlfstolea lot of news paper accounts, and upon being discovered was sentenced to eat all which could not be collected as desperate debts. Guess he would have a full stomach for once. Z:"" We were sot ry to learn, on our recent trip to Elberton Court IHouse, that a young man, hailing from the Abbeville or Edgelield side of our State, was arreted for stealing a horse and a watch. He, however, made hi* escal1e froi - those who had him in charge, and' is still at large. le gave his name to be Pinckney Davis. He is :epresented- as being fine looking, about 18 or 20 years of age, and has light'sandy hair. -Pndletos Messenger. ' VFRY CALTious.-A young lady, on putting on her veil to go to narket, remarked, "I must veil my beauty." To which waggish Frank jocosely replied "You had better, or you may be taken up for manslaughter." EtW SuooTriu nxa SEDUcER.-At Boston, Dn Wednesday evening last, a young woman named Mary A. Douley, shot one Patrick Can-' ney, a grocer, whom she alleged had seducet her under a promise'of marriage.. The weapon used was a pistol loaded with two balls, each of which produced a wound, nither of them how aver are likely to prove fatal. Z3"' A Western Baptist paper has received vn article advocating the duty of washingfeet, is an ordinance of the church. The writersaya -"If they ueed washing, they certainly ought. to be washed." SI jE"SHOCItNG MURDER.-Last Wednesday veniug, Mr. Wade, on returning to his home at Iait's Creek, Madison canty, Ky., found Wm. B. Margrave, whom he d reason to suspect of too much intimacy with his wife, closeted with that lady. He ordered Margiave to quit, which the latter refused to do, when a tussel ensued, md Margrave, aided by Mrs. Wade, beat the iusband with barrel staves to death. The guil Ly couple then fled, and had not been arrested it last accounts. E_ The Indians are now doing a smashing >usiness in manufacturing hoops for ladies' lresses our of basket-stuff. The red ladies have Llsoadopted the fashion in its gi-eatest.amplilide. ZW Tm RIGHT UsE OF THE ErEs.T-An talian bishop, who had endured much persecu-. ion with a calm,'unrufled temper, was asked ow he attained such a mastery over himself. Bfy making a right use of mny eyes," said he.' I first look to heaven, as the place where I am ~oing to live forever. I next look down upon, lie earth, and consider how small a space of it vill soon be all that 1 can occupy or want. I hen look around me, and think how many are' ar more wretched than 1 am."' LT A celebrated divine, wishing a large o'llection at the conclusion of a charity sermon, hiscoursed in the following style upon the beaue - y and efficacy of that chartdhich works si ently and unmheralded to the world: " I have often remarked, as the contribution Sbeing taken up, that the silver pieces tumble ato the box with a great noise, while the paper noaney drops in silently as the fallig of a snow lake." ET A man, traveling with his wire, saved aimseif in a railroad collision, but she was Lilled. When lie reached home, he udssed his - nnbrella, and applied to the directors for it; ,ut it was not comeatable-none of them had een it. And now, in speaking of the accident, ae always says, " Yes, on that day I lost a bran new umbrel a and my wife." 3T Let not thy will roar, when thy power lan but whisper. Er When day breaks, what becomes of the r'agments'? EF "1f you wish to make a shoe of durable naterials," said the facetious Lanesburg, "you hbould tuake the upper part of the mouth of a ard drinke4, for that never lets in Water." $7 A Yankee who lately removed to Wis onsi, writes to his brother in Massachusetts hat the section where lie resides is in a highly >rosperous condition. Ho says but one failure. ver occured ina his county, and in that case the nan paid one hundred and twenty-five cent. on ~he dollar! gr Always prepare your table neatly, whether you have company or not. 37 A faraner sowing his ground, one or two dlandlies canme riding aldng that way, when me of them called to him with an insolent air >f -triumph, " Well, honest fellow, it is your business to mow, but we reap the fruits of your labor." To which the eountryman replied, " It is very likely you maay, for I am sowing. hemp l" Exit dandies each with hand upon neck. " A hempen cravat!" as Baillie Jarvie would say. Z3T One of our exchanges gets slightly excited, and piles on the "highfalutin" in this wise: " A grain of carmine will tinge a gallon .of water, so that in every drop the color wilt be perceptible: and a grain of musk .will scent a room twenty years. Just so if~a man cheat the printer-the stain will be forever visible on the minute atoms of his minute soul, and will leave a scent of rascality about an individual strong enough to make anhonest man turn up his nose in disgust,and kickhlm outof hispreec, if hecan't get ridof him any otherway."