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"&WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OP OUR LIBERTIES, AND IP IT MUSTPLW ILPRSHAIS H UN. SIMKINS, DURISOE N o, Proprietors EDCTDFJED , . . APRIL 6,15.VLM XV..o 3 CANDIDA.TES. For Sherif WM. QUATTLEBUM, LEWIS JONES, LEWIS COVAR, IH. BOULWARE, For Clerk. S. HARRISON, ROBERT D. BRYAN, WM. L. STEVENS, JACKSON COVAR, LEWIS COLEMAN, F. M. NICHOLAS, JAMES SPANN, EDMUND PENN. For Tax Collector. JOHN C. LOVELESS, T. J. WHITAKER, STARLING TURNER, THEOPHILUS DEAN, m. W. LYLES, CHARLES CARTER, C. A. HORN, CHAS. . MAY,: For Ordinary. J. P. ABNEY, W. F. DURISOE, D. L. TURNER. DAVID BODIE, PROFESSIONAL CARD. T HE undersigned having formed a Partnership -in the PRACTICE OF LAW and EQUITY, for Edgefield District, will give prompt and dilli gent attention to all business entrusted to their care. The residence of Mr. Owzas is at Barnwell C. H., that of Mr. SEIBEsI8%t Edgefield, S. C. EMMET SEIBELS, W. A. OWENS. Feb. 1, tf 4 PARTNERSHIP NOTICE. T'IE undersigned have this day formed a Part nership for the PRACTICE OF LAW AND E4UITY, under the namo and style of LAxonux A MoonE. Mr. MoonE will regularly attend the Courts at Abbeville, and will promptly transact all business left in our hands for that District. G. W. LANDRUM, ' J. P. MOORE. Edgefield C. H., Jan. 13. tf 2 W1V- J. :E.A.D'Y25., Mttornty at Kaku, WILL give close attention to all business en trusted to his care. ,PD OFICE, IN TuE REAR OF THE COURT Hors. Eigefield C. H., Jan. 12, 6m. 1 LOUDON BUTLER, AWVWENST A bAW AND Solioitor in Equity. OFFICE, in the one formerly occupied by W. W. AvAns, Esq. Edgefield C. H., S. C., Dec. 22, 1858. NEW SPRING GOODS ! T IE Subscribers are now receiving their new SPRING STOCK fIr 1*59, which they are ouering at VERY LOW FIGURES FOR CASH! Knowing the CASH SYSTEM to he far the best we intend to confine ourselves as near as possible to the Cash basis. We cordially invite all Cash customers to call and examine our Stock before purchasing elsewhere. Our GOODS has been bought principally for Cash, and selected with the GREATEST CARE from first Class Houses in New York, Baltimore and Charleston. So give us a call whether you purchase or not. Our Stock comprises every article usually kept In a Village Store, consisting in part of Ladies' DRESS GOODS of every style and quality; American and English PRINTS; Scotch Plaid, American and French GING. HAMS; BAREGES and TISSUES of every style; Bonnet RIBBONS of every hue and quality; DRESS TRIMMINGS in great variety; Ladies' Extension HOOP SKIRTS; Misses' " . " " To the HOSIERY, GLOVES and TRIMMINGS generally we invite especial attention, as they were purchased directly from Importers, and at very low prices. TO THLE GENTLEMEN, We say walk in and examine our Stock of on. tiemnen and Boys GlOODS. which were p~urchase.d expressly for those who wish to buy low for Cash. TO HOT.TSE1EEPERS. We wish to call yuur attentiun to our large and well selected stocks of CROCKERY, GL ASS and Queen's WARE. THLE FA MR We call the atteution of the Farmers to our Stoek of AXES,IIOES, CHIISELS, A UG UR, SCYT HE BLADES and STOCKS, TRA CE CHAINS, Ac. TO SPORLT8MEN. We have on hand Colt's Patent REPEATERS, with other styles of PISTOLS, POWDER, SHOT and CAPS. TO ONE AND .ALL., We wish to call your special attention to our large and well selectecd stock of SHOES, embracing ev ery variety of style and quality, which we war raut to give satisfaction. Groceries. We have a full and complete Stock of GROCE RIES, consisting in part of Now Crop West Inoia MOLASSES; New Orleans SY RUP ; SUG)ARS andi COFFEE of every quality ; RICE, PEPPER. ALLSPICE, GlINGER; SODA, STAR CHI, SOAPS of every quality ; SEGARS and TUBACCO of various brands. piCome in and price if you do nut wish to buy, so that you can tbe well p~osted as regardis price and quality. HUDSON & COGBIURN. N. B.-We have a few hundred pounds of fine Tennessee S110 LDERS we will sel1 at 1t0 etr. to make room for a largo lot of Bacon we are ex pecting to receive from TIeunessee shortly. H1. A C. Mar9 tf 9 CANDEE & McE WEN, WATCH MAKERS 4 JEWVELERS. H.VING this day formed a -Co. artnership will occupy noe Rooms text udjoiniog the Pos~it me., n will give the STRICrE'4T AT TENTION to all bucisiess entrusted to their care. JE WELR) and S0CIETY BADGES made to order andi warr'anted. gg Particular attention will be paidl to Watch repairing. F. H. CA-5 DEE. Di. F. MEWEN. Edgeftl, Nov. 1, 1858 if 4J WOOLLEY TOWN HATS! TO'EEN WOOLLEr, N E AR R A N ITE VAL L E, S. C. R ESPECTFUL LY annlounleos to theo citizens e9 South Carolina and the South at large, tout he is now prepared to furnish OF EVERY STYLE ABD QUALITY, As well made, of as good maeterial, andi on as rea sonable terms as can be found any where ini the United Suates. g" Pereous desiring further information will please address me at Graeniteville, 8. C. - JOHN WOOLLEY. Jan. 19, 1S:,0tf 2 BOOTS & SHOES. T IE Stubscriber hats just opeede in this Town a BOOT AND SHOE ESTABLISHMENT, to which he invites the attention of the Ladies and gentlemen of the commaunily. ~His Stock is NEWV and COMPLETE, and his TERMS VERY LOW FOR CASH. pit'He hopes to nmerit a liberal share of public patronage. D. W. CHRISTIAN, Ag't. Mar 9 tf 9 NJOTICE.-All persons having any demands LIagainst the estate of Levi Newby, deceased, ans requested to haud them in, properly attested, by OF before Thursday the 18th. day of May, as.I Intend making a Ainal settlement of said estate in .the Ordinary's Office, at Edgefield C. H., on that. d.sy. All those indebted to said estate are expect ed to pay the same forthwith. . JOIN 7. EDMONDS, Adm'or. *1a..1 .4 Si d d Sm tl . . Smile to-day and Smile Tomorrow. *Smile to-day and smile to morrow, What's the use of being sad? Banish every cloud of sorrow, Take the good and leave the bad. Did'st thou know that sorrow treasured, In the heart made furrows deep, Iced its fount and fully measured, Brought on death's dark dreamless sleep. Has the friend you loved so fondly Been untrue and caused thee woe? Grieve not-grieve not! think 'tis only Human nature acting so. in this world so wide and spreading, See what beauties round thee lie; Onward then thy pathway treading, Other friends are ever nigh. Did'st thou know the frozen mountain Thaw'd heneath sun's golden ray;. pashing ocean stilled its fountain, Whilst its beamlets on it lay? Yonder cloud so dark and dreary, Dost thou see its arch so bright? Smiling sunshine never weary, Formed that bending bow of light. Cease, then cease, oh, cease repining, There's a good for every ill; Every heart must have refining, Let no doubt af'ection chill. Smile to-daiy and smile to-morrow, 'Till the sunshine of the soul. Banishing each gloom of horror, Makes life's current brightly roll. I 0 0 The Engagement. 0! dearest, say ytu love me, 0! say you will be mine, I cannot live without thee, My heart is wed to thine. Thy cheeks are like the roses, Thy bosom like the snow; Love in thy heart reposes, Thy lips with bli's o'erfiow. Kind sir, I must refuse thee, It grieves me to deny; But if you will excuse me, 1'll give the reason why. You have not cash enough, sir, To hang one hope upon: Besi.les, I can't consent. ir. To t,:d a dend, john. Excuse you ! Yes, dear naadam. I told a monstrous fill Were I an Evcless Man. I'd scorn so false a riP. That liss has stained your lips, ma'am, Your manners are too rough, Besides, I can't consent, ma'am, To wed a bo. of .Snef. "A Plea for Woman." Once before, we briefly noticed an address delivered by Rev. Tmos. A. Horr, on the subject of female education, and bearing the above title. We now take it up again, to make liberal extracts from its pages; and we ask the earnest attention of all who have daughters to educate, and of those daughters also, to the enlightened suggestions of the reverend orator. The first part of the address is historical, showing the estimation in which woman las been L.eld in different ages, and her advance ment to. her true position in society since the full blaze of the Clhr istian Dispensation brought about by the Reformation. Next, he discusses the question, "idhat is an adegnate education for tooman?"'-and havag made good by high authorities the position that she is scarcely a grade below man in mental endowments, he proceeds to say that she deserves as liberai an education as man, exclusive of merely professional ac quirements. He congratulotes woman upon the absence of the necessity, in her position, of these warping attainments. Says he: " It is the singular felicity of woman, that at no period of her education is she subjected to t hese one-sided influences. The one noble object before her is to train, to develop, and to inform her mind. The end in view is not this or that special avocation, but her own perfection as a woman ; consequently, what. ever studies are best adapted to cultivate fully and harmoniously her whole nature, should con.'titute the training of these fair handmaids oaf Minerva." The speaker th~en asks the question, What will do this? And from his remarks deter min ing this enquiry, we copy several passages of interest : " Time wva, when the highest aim of wo man was to be a good housewife,. and too many of our ladies at present are satisfied with the attainment. Now this branch of knowledge Is not to be despilsedl, and there is a counter danger of its being netglected, against whicht I would warn miy female he'ar crc, llousehold thrift is a neceasary and valuable attribute of woman. Domestic health and comfort, the physical well-being of children--with which their higher well being is closely cannected-athe happi ness of husbantd, father and brother, anad the pleasures of hLne, all ini great mieas.ure de pend on it. iUut it is noct the chief end of. our wives and daughters to cook bread and darn stockintgs. "Next c~ame the idea, that what are called accoutpliskusents, are the highest good of woman-kind. Females were excluded from severe studies, unider the notion that they were not fit for these studies, or that these studie.s were not tit for thenm. That we are still, to sonie extent, under the influenco of this delusion, is apparent fronm the faict that the grade of education iln their institutions is inferior- to that of our nmale Colleges. "Now I wish to advocate Liter-ature, as against mere house-keeping, and against meure ornament. I claim a liberal educationa as the rightful hoon of woman. 'It is nt nWeess4ar-y that I should stop, ta) detfine accurately wvhat is meanit lay a liberal educatio~n. 'Tne general sense of the~ term is well understood. It is such ant education as is afforded by the better class of Colleges in this country, and Gretat Britain, and more complete in the Germian Uniiveraities."~ " I commend, as the chief parts of that liberal education which I have claimed for woman, .Jktaphysics and the Anwcnt Clas sics. The eloquent gentleman's argument for the study of Mektaphysics is conclusive, and we wish we had room for it here. But if our young ladies would only go with him to the extent of the Classics, we would be sat isfied for the nonce. Upon his point Mr. HOrr thus discourses: . I u newn Shn C?/auaw .bmaa.~ .tandin next to Metaphysics as a mental gymnastic, they possess advantages peculiar to them selves. Some degree of acquaintance with them, or at least with the Latin, (which in its turn requires a knowledge of the Greek,) is indispensable to a thoroigh knowledge of our own language. " Their influence in chastening the imagina tion, refining the taste, and purifying the dic tion, cannot be rivalled by any other studies. " By crossing the threshold of this august temple, we are introduced to the largest brotherhood of scholars in the world, and are brought into sympathy with the educated classes of all ages, and of every land. " There is another advantage had by the Classics, which should be stated only in the lucid language of him who suggested it: " Expel,". says Dr. Arnold, " Greek and La tin from your Schools, and yon confine the views of the existing generation to them selves, and their immediate predecessors; you will cut off so many centuries of the world's experience, and place us in the same state as if the human race had first come into existence in the year 1500. For it is nothing to say that a few learned individuals might still study classical literature; the effect produced on the public mind would be no greater than that which has resulted from the labors of our oriental scholars; it would not spread beyond themselves, and men in general, after a few generations, would know as little of Greece and Rume, as they do ac tually of China and Hiudostan. But such an ignorance would be incalculably more to be regretted. With the Asiatic mind, we have no nearer cunnexion or sympathy than that which is derived from our common hu inanity. But the min4 of the Greek and of the Roman is, in all the essential points of its constitution, our own; and i.ot only so, but it is our own mind developed to an ex traordinary degree of perfection. "Wide as is the difference between us, with respect to those physical instruments which minister to our uses, or our pleasures; al though the Greeks and Rouans had no steam-engines, no printing-presses, no mari ner's. compass, no telescope, no microscope, no gunpowder; yet in our moral and politi cal views, in those matters which most deter mine human character, there is a perfect re semblance in these respects. Aristotle, and Plato, and Thucydides, and Cicero, and Ta citus, are most untruly called ancient writers; they are v'.rtually our own countrymen and contemporaries, but have the advantage which is etjoyed by intelligent travelers, that their ubservation has been exercised out of the reach of common men ; and that having thus seen in a imanner with our eyes what we can ot he for ournelves, their conclu.sions are such as hear upon ur own circumstances, while their infortmaition has ail the charm of noieltv, and all the value of a mass of new and pertinient liaets, illu.trative of the great science of the nature of civilized man. " That the female ind is capable of pursu ing these studies, is evident from the emi nence to which many of the sex have at attained. I need only mention the names of Madame DeStael. Mrs. Somerville, Harriet Martineau, and Hinn'ah More. Her cpacity is further ,huwn by the proficiency of many of the pupils in our higher institutions. If <he lve the tapacity, why should it be re pressed ? If nature ham endowed her with the ability to tread the higher walks of lit erature, and to einjoy the noblest thoughts of men, and the ma'nifold works of God, why should she tie kept forever drumming on the Piano, or making awkward black inaiks on pasteboard ? Should she whose soul swells with the majesticrhythin of Mil ton, or tiows atlong the chaste and even levels of Addison, ie condemned all her days to circumacribe her thoughts within the limits of a button-hole T' On the subject of " the accompliishmnts,' we do not entirely endorse our orator, al though his observations savor of decided good sense: " I do not utterly condemn accomplish mnts. Within proper boimds, they arc use ful sad elegant. Where there exists a ape cial talent for any of them, it should' be highly cultivated. "But I pretest against requiring the whole generation of females to run one giddy and undeviating round of light and fantastic edu cation. Most of them have no taste for these things. The majority of the people, bo0th men and women, that we meet with in this everyday-world, are made for more solid and homely purIIposes. Few can hope to shine in these aerial walks. " Think of the immense outlay of time, la bor, and money, expended in learming music -and with what result ? You meet a board ing-school Miss, with the ink not dry on her Diploma, as.k her to give you some music; she is very diffident-can't play without her notes ; the notes are produced]; with strain ing mind and cramped lingers, she heats a a hum-drum on tile tortured instrument. Yet ten years-a thousand dollars, and in finite toil have been spent in learning this single art. Wheat storesn of knowledge would the same time and lab~or have acquired ! Whbat a noble library would this money have bought . cannot perceive the peculiar fe licity of having a costly Piano that the young lady can't play on, and nmo books except a half-dozen vellow-backed novels ! Half the money, and half the labor, would have fur nished her with plenty of books to read, and plenty of sense to understand them. t leis an insult to the charming genins of mice, that so many of her votaries perpetu ally bring lame, bliod, and halt offerings to her altars, "As already remarked, where oneC exhibitA special espacitj for tidc, It should be cul tivated to the highest pitch of excellenaec. it is a rare and illustrious glit, and demland.4 ur homage." Again, in another part of theaddress, slin sion is thu~s made to the " accomplishments" in their agency with the mother: "Of what service are her "accomplish rents" in the training of her boy ? Itf she should make use of them, and imbue him vith a passion for the Pian, and the Easel, t will, in most cases, prove to his ruin ; for there is not one in a thousand fit to be a ood musician, or a good painter: she will ave nmde that controlling which should only be su.siia~ry, and substituted a light amse ent for the serious business of life." In all this, there is some truth; and yet the spmeaker' overleaps himself a little. Primuo, e is wrong in impressing the idea that only the peculiarly gifted with talent for any of the fine arts should receive the facilities of instruction therein. If this notion prevailed, there would scarcely be a half-dozen pupils, in music for instance, in a school of a hun dred. How then would a music-teacher of any ability be paid ? The price of tuition in this department would have to be raised so high as to place it entirely out of the reach of poor though talented pupils.-But there is a better reason than this: A goodly number of girls are not specially gifted with' musical genius, who yet are quite capable of' learning pleasant pieces and simple songs' well enough. They may not hope to become at all remarkable as musicians; yet they may attain enoughto add to the parlor at home -he...rnm..and innaeanat anirth anrine the long winter evenings, thereby perhaps de taining within the domestic circle some wild young brother who might othcrwise, for lack of such gay pastime, run off among vicious boys and find out the road to ruin. So too with the mother: Her simplest song, if la den with a pure moral, may sink into the heart of her son, never to be forgotten ;-not because it was either executed with skill or rendered with elegance, but because "It was the song his mother sung When he was but a child." No,-we cannot go with.the speaker to the extent of his hints on this subject. But when he comes to talk of another one of woman's qualifications for society, we join him heart and soul: " The Occidental nations all require the presence of woman in society; amongst us, she constitutes its brightest ornament; her influence preserves it from rudeness and and excess. It is of great consequence, there fure, that her education should fit her to shine in society. " Now, the charm of social life is conversa tion-conversation as distinguished on. the one hand from a prosy monologue, and3 on the other from flippant gossip-a genial'dis course, in which two or more persons, 4av ing niany points of sympathy, freely inter change their thoughts for mutuail profit 'and pleasure. Far inferior to this are allithe gaudy, but deceitful trappings of the cWd table, and the dance. If she would di'uise the greatest pleasure most widely, letfier talk irell. But in order to talk well, she mjust talk intelligently, and she cannot talk intrli gently unless she be intelligent. " In order that the superiority of An ed ca ted person, in conversation, may appear, is not necessary that the particular topics sh a be introduced on which he is specially.in formed; but it will be seen, whatever iay be the suject. " Education gives fecundity of thought, copiousness of illustration, quick ness, vigor, fancy, words, images: it decorates everything, and gives the power of-trifling without being undignified or absurd." " Now, can the whole round of the orna mental branches give these? Can a smatter ing of Grammar, a snatch of History, and a total ignorance of the Belles Lettres aflord them? There must L.e thorough culiufr.; young ladies must study; must etudy ' rd and long; their days and nights mustbe given to the whole field of polite literattfre. They cannot talk of that which they have learned by rote; it is not enough that they retain half an idea here, and the fourth or one there; their knowledge will break down too soon; they will never be quite certlin about any tbiing, and hence will he afraid to venture a remnlark. That they may he'eas' in society, they nmst be on the general lejel of the intelligence of those around them. Nothing can be more delightful than the conversation of an educated and refined laoy. Her bird-like voice charms the sense; her flowing thoughts charm the soul; her bea'' ing eyes, and kindl.ingcheek, thrill and trit Bx the heart. Words take on fresh forms Ja they fall from her lips; and common ideas are transmuted into poetic fancies and pies aspirations as they pass through the alenbic of her mind. No wonder that men gather around her, and with chivalrou; devotion, lay down at her feet their free-will offerings of homage, respect, and lovo. Sue reigns a Queen in the hearts of the other sex--she is the glory of her own." Truly thought and beautifully said; but there is still no coidlict, we maintain, between the cultivation of this acquirement and proper attention to the "accomplishn~ents."1 The first we would hare them do, and not leave the others undone. The necessity (to the child's proper devel opment) of thoroughecducation in the mother is touched upon thus: " Woman has almost entire charge of the future generation of men, during the moost imnportant period of their lives. In the course of these eight to ten years, indelible impr-es sions are made, and the bent of their ruinds determined : this must be done by the plastic hand of a mother. "What measure of fitness should be required in her? Can she be too highly prepared for this task ? Will mere house-wifery suffice her ? Is it enough that she brush her child's hair, and wash his facei It is very impor tant that she udo this. Of the two, I wo.uld prefer a :mother who gives good victuals, clean clothes, and kind words to her boy, to one who, neglectful of domestic comfo:t, is mainly bent on cramming him with thme un ripe fruit of the Tree of Knowledge; aiid who, when her son asks bread, tosses him a flower of rhetoric or a Latin root. I t is in dispensable that she feed and clothe, and wash her childlren ; but th~is is not the whole duty of a mo'ther. She Imumst care foir the minid as welIl as for thle body of her child, and miust see that lie grows, not only in stat ure, hut al-u in kinowledge. If she lie unieducatedl, what now renmains but, in her intercourse with her son, to sink down into frivolous arnd empty gossip ? She is unable to lead him along the verdant meads and babbling brooks of Poetry, or up the hill of Science, or upon the high table-lands of History. " Alt these deprrtments of knowledge are unexplored regions to her. -Amnd then, when her~ boy comies back fromt scIuoel, where he has heerned all these, and many ot her tnings he is pahned to~ discover ta grea gulf tixed bt ween his mnother and hImnelf--a chasm, ver which It is too late for her to pas to him, and which he cannot recruss to her8' We conclude our extracts from this excel lent address with some impressive observa, tions on the worth of education, and its spe cial value to woman as a resource in her snore ~.dvanced years: " A miind, fired with ardor in the pursuit of knowledge, trained to acquire it, anid able to enjoy it ; this is the most precious of the goodly pearls, and second in value only to the "one of great price." And though all sublunary things teach us " what shadoWs we are, and what shadows we pursue," yet, there is no earthly blessing that will so outlive the vicirsiudles of for tune, and the lapse of years, as a cultivated indu and literary tastes. Wealth may take to itself wings anid fly away; friends may fall on. our right hand, and on our left ; old age may creep on with stealthy step ; but amid lire's wreck and wvoes, there i~s reserved this solid ground to stand upon this sweet trysting place of the soul anid truth. "It is a plea-sure to stand upon the shore, an4 dsee ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castlb, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof be low ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the aim is always clear aid serene,) and to see the errors and wanderingi, the mists and tempests in the vale below ; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swlling or pride." " More needful still are these pleasures of literature to women as they advance in life. Accomplishments adorn the period that least needs ornament-.the period of youth and beauty. But what will be her claims to-re spect inold age ? Beauty is gone, her face is wrnkled, andher head is gray ; herastff-. .nid lisnha can nne lanfere 41w4n th a et of the dance; her trembling fingers fail to wake the slumbering harmonies of the Piano -what, now, but an active and well-informed mind, can hinder her sinking into frivolous garrulity? What but books and placid mu sing can cheer her solitude? What friend will stick as close as Hannah More ? What gentleman as agreeable as Washington Ir ving ?" From the Augusta Constitutionalist. A Confidential Letter to the Ladies, About the Fashions. Who can contradict the power or dictates of fashion ? Not one, I dare venture to asy. No matter how many caustic lectures the ladies may be compelled to endure on the " extravagence of the present day," I for one acknowledge my foibleness for fashion, and love to admire whatever is newand rechtrche; and, I believe, Sallie is not unlike other la dies. In fact, gentlemen, with all their feign ed ridicule of hoops, &c., generally admire those ladies of the most extensive display. And I assert, without fear of a challenge, there is not a gentleman-the most amiable of them-that you could induce, persuade, or compel, to walk down Broad street with a lady in "primitive" dress. But, reverse the case, ask him to gallant a living representa tive of the latest fashions, a magnificent com pound of silk, gauze, lace, steel springs, and the tiniest pair of French high-lieel boots, and it would surprise you to know what an amount of essence and hair oil he will con- i sune, and how much trouble he will take to i render himself interesting; how he will in- i commode himself rather than disturb or pre- i vent the natural expansion of his fair com- j panion's crinoline. But I wander; it was of 1 fashions I intended to write. , I Xillk and Bare;e Ro.bes., f'.-Truly. it mny I be said that the materials for dre..s were never prettier than at the present season. I This is the time for single ladies to make the i most of their chances, and endeavor to carry I up the stock in the matrimonial market,. if 1 they do not, it will be the-ir fault. I The beautiful grenadines, with their waving I double skirts; the pretty muslins, the elegant i costly silks, in all rare shades of color-each < and all are perfectly charming. Silk double < skirts robes are much in vogue. Double skirts in all mateiials are all-prevailing. . Some prefer both skirts figured alike; but it j is generally conceded that the lower skirt plain is far more stylish than both skirts to I correspond. I Lace cloaks will be much worn this season. I A very charming ilen is to line them with t some pretty colored silk; this is entirely now. i It probably will not be introduced here be- i fore September. as the light lining will be i sufficwient protection for the cinliness of that n-nth. There has been un attempt to bring the circular barege shawl into noatice, but with little eflbet. Boinnea are of all the favorite material, and are rapidly approaclhing pertecti in ;i fact, they lend a charm to the imost ordinary i face. But to see them in- all their beaity, I I would advice my friends to visit the resorts t of fashion I see anuonnced in the Consiihn- < tioniht. The gentlemen think thu ladies I are never satisfied. I would advi:e. ias the inost favorable opportunity,.tn take "Father" When he'is in an, unit -uadly go ,d ;umor-then broach the subject of dre .,es a-id Ibonnets, and I pledge you my word ho cannot with stand the appeal. IItwvver, I wod recomi mend a still better way, and that is to take t an accidental walk up ruNad street, and de lude him into th! handsome eitiablishment ofr Win. Snear, (ftr exanmiple.) see if lie can withstand the teumptation to purchase w::e of those magnificent silk robes-although it is very difficult to nakei a selection from so i m-mny dilferent color.1 Mr. Thomas Pnibbs has a large aniortment I of sunnr novcltie.;.-.me oil whicb are rich I and elegant ; offers the greaest mhamenaent i to purchaisers in point of~ style, eleganme, :ud finish, and a scale of prices out ot the rantge of competition. Messrs. Deming & Day still sustain the high reputation acquired by their establish ment during the proprietorship of LalleratedltI & liemuing. Their style are remarked forj their uniform beauty. Hickraan, IbI & Co., have superb novelties, in first class goods. Some of these goods are, alnmost too rchewrche for the dull summer I wear of Augusta. Messrs. Alexander & Wright have received a large assortment of elegant summer goods. Tuis estab'.ishmient contains every kind andi description of dr. as goods, anal the most tempting induemnents are held oult to par- i chat-ers. I shall visit them during the wee~k, and all endeaver to give a moure accurate ac-1 curate account of their novehties ini my next. Messrs. Gray & Taurley have beeni creating quite a sen-ation, nott only bay thair display of eambroideries, but hby sellug them so miuch. lower than they could be baoght elsewhere. Mesars. Uroomu & N.,rrell haave also been exhibiting a variety of~ elegant nm~terials for ladies' dresses. M.-ssrs. Gdlaher have mnyn new and be :n tiful suinmner goods ; ani.l from the buried ex ammattion I made oh them, I would express thre opinion that. their prices are quite rea sontable. Mr. Kauffer h-r. not reiuarned from the North, where he has gone to selec~t his goods, the last time I dropped in; but I presmnne his assortmment and prices will compare favor ably with those of the other merchants. Mr. James Honey, it is said, has filled his establishment with all that is pretty or superb. rTne ladios nmlat examae thea brevity of this conhidemntmal lettt-r, Tlhey will Iit ('from tmu agamn at an carly dry, l.dA Marshal Dnrtrand anmd the Militia. 'The Itat D~emocratic Age is responsiible for! this anecdlote: It will be recollecd bay nll our sedate,1 diniied, and imialale ageda readers, thatji shortly afte~r the taill ot Napoh-an, when the grand " scat teration" of princes, and niaaa a andl marshals, andl kings took place, the Uni ted States rece'ivedl its full sthare. Marshal Bertrand was publicly received in New York on his arrival, and somewhat fatigued and1 considerably astonished with the attentions tfat were bestowed upon hinm by our then,1 and now illustrious and highly educatedi Common Council. Wishing to ru, asway1 from the fuss, and noise,,awl feathers of theaei displays, be went down on Long Island tronti fishing. H~is fame had preceded him ; and as he was coming houme to dinner one damy, with a basket pretty well laden with trout,I Ito suddenly came ipmf a company of Lonig Island nmitia that had beeni ordered .it by special orders froin head-qniarmers, as an escort I or guard of honor to the late distinguished Marshal of time. French Empire. Bertrandi could not escape without reviewing the troops. According to all accounts there were I twenty-seven men and boys drawn up in a I row, each with a musket, with or without a< bayonet, as the case might be. The uniform i of the company Bertrand could not readily make out, for it was necessary to inspect I every article of dress and firearms upon each1 indomitable hero of that well-fought field. I But the militia captain strutted up in barn- I fowl, rooster style, and sticking his sword as 1 near into the belly of Bertrand as his heroism 1 allowed, he requested that great man to re view his army. Consequently Bertrand mearch ed up and down the file by the aide of - the I commander, and after going through all the various ceremonies that are known on the < 5ru&t anta nr ieltne werar Umons by the ten thousand are reviewed, be suddenly stop ped, and lifting bichand high, with all the earnestness of a soldier, and the dignity of a great personage, said, " Monsieur Captain, I have seen the army of the Grand Turke, I have seen the army of the King of Prusse, I have seen the army of the Emperor of Russe, I have seen the army of the Emperor d'Au triche, and, Monsieur, I have seen the grand army of Napoleon," and then folding his arms upon his storm-beaten, sword-cut, bat. tle-ax mince-meat breast, " but, Monsieur, I never saw such a company as thie, umer I NEVER ! ! NEVER! !!1" We suppose they all adjourned to drink after this review. It is said, however, that the captain of this unconquered and uncon querable troop "still lives," and that he re counts this anecdote as among the memorable achievements of his military life. 4-0-4 AN ARGUMENT AGAINST THE POLICY OF RE OPENING TilE AFRICAN SLAVE TRADE. BY R. 0. HARPER, ESQ. The Political Power of the South not Restored..-Extract No. 4. There is another ground upon which this policy is advocated, more purely of a politi al nature. It is said that it will increase 3ur political power, under the three-fifths rule )f representation. It is worthy of remark, that if this were an object worthy of consid :-ration, in connexion with ,thik question, it must appear to be one consistent with the Lrue interests of slavery, regarded as proper tWe would not destroy the institution, L a valuable domestic relation, for the vain purpose of gaining political strength. For hlen the very motive and endi of the equili )rium of power sought to be attained, will iave been defiated by that suicidal course. But is there any hope of gaining strength mtingh from such a source, to cape with the nigration to the free States, and the ratio of Aheir natural increase, when we consider that bey have about double the population that ve have, including our slaves, without trans erring to the South, Africa itself? The usober of negroes it would take to put uF mi an equality with the representative power if the free States in Congress, and in the ilectoral colleges, upon the three-fifths rule, md to keep up that equality against the ,rowing accesAion of free States, and the in rease of their population, would be incalru able. Of all the plans to create and main ain an equilibrium, this seems to me the east feasible. Indeed, I have no hope of eeing an equilibrium restored by tiis or aiy ither means. la the Senate, where we kave iiiirincil our strength as a ection until 'euetly, we can only gain by the a1mission if Slave States; and tbat sems to be it fur ortn hotpe. [t-is extremely doihtful whetber ve can succeed in piaoting slavery ii any aw territory et to bevciome a State. And, vitether it is to go there or not, cannot ie [Jude to depend upon the que.ntion of re-open ng the African Slave Trade. Other causes, >esides the number of our slaves, will con rol that result. It was not the scarcity of our negroes which deprived is of California nd Kansas. Tnere are causes in operation gainst us which, I fear, no increase of ne ;rues could counteract. If we had had euough if white men -In K'nsase'fnm tim tilmrtr,vie night have gained that territory. But no timber of negroes could have saved it to us. o it will he in the set I lement and adnmision if the other territortes. If we are wanting u voting population, all the negroes we could mport could not aid us in gaining another state to the Sonith. Negroes do not strengthen mor representation in territorial legislatures. or in Conventiotis to frame State CGn-tito ouns; nor do, they help us in popular votes of *jeuction tic r.tfi.tation. The contest be weeu tihe N.'rtu and the Souith, on tim slave -y qestion, ia practilly transfr-rred to the heatre of the new territorv itsel;. The ex :itiemnt growing out of it., aid connected rith it, iinds vent tand exhib~ition in Cotngress mud in the open field of tue general elections; aut the real coutest is in the territories. It ras upon that th-atre that we hiave recently seen defeated--andI upon .the principle of >upular sove'reignuty, engraftted of late years .ipon our territorial puolicy, the real contest ivill always be in the territory. If there yere ten tmillions of negroes, instead of three iud a half or fo.ur, they would he no more upt thian at present to be taken into a terrn -ory in whien a contest was raing like that vbicb ha-s been kept up in Kansas; and if ;hey weio taken there, and the Northern apulilationi overpowered the Southern in the .ertitory, ini the tformation of its domnestic in ititionms, it won'd be a di.st rous result. to ;hose who haud taken them. The migration >f the Northern population into thme new ter -itories cannot be prevented nor checked. It .3 not done by the agency of the government -consegnently we canno'; make war on the governmtient to " resist"~ it. Emnigration Aid :Societies, anid all the means etnployed of late rears, to piomotte and stimulate the migration if Northern ihabtitanuts ito the new terri ories, ate fore-ver outsidle of the pale of gov ~ramenud e- umt.rol. 'Thmy cannt. lbe reached uy any monv.e on the floor1s of Conugreas, or nyimove lby thle States of the S.u h. They ire indlependlent otf thze faivorn or encurange 'nent of th~e govertmneint, and eqgially so of *a opositio to their plans. Theiuy beat us apo our own ground-they take us upon sm~-interventioin and popular sovereignty ,tself, and beat us by the overpowering in duence of emiigr'ation. Its sources are ineLX Saustble, and the causes which stlimulaste it MyondI the. reach of human preveullon, The i~uut1y ofC tutr pni!ioo-.the ntuIcqu1egl. i!lgh value of th r 4 'i-..u clieapnousqm md rlcich'e~ of the wild hteds of the Wet their peculiair adnytation to the prodnuctin of :ereld.s, ,ind the fatneus of their pastur.age for :attie andl stouck-indleed, their bountihinnss >l aul lie richt eleimnts of supp~ly and main itnnce l:,r a linnigty oltzion-iu:I i hede lupel tuniwardl ite tile of tree soil empirev. fte inuctreve iof ne-gres is a poor'i expteiltin o stuy tiiat tidle. It is a remnedy whtioh vonlal never reach the fiu-uhI sources of their ;rowing power. There is a very apposite vIew of thi4 point :o be considered.,I is a view which p resents :o the mind a danger that, in.,tead of adding o our political strength, this policy would v'enken it. Weaken it at home, in the.-trength :o defend this institution and our firesides, vhen the w ar of abolition acgression shall ec brought within our biotrders, if it ever bhouldl be. It is a well known fact that, in 2ieorgia, those counties which embrace the iest landh-s for slave laboir, andI where slaves iato accnmnihated in the greatest numbers, ,ave diminished in white lH~gihtatnion in pro ,ortion as they' have become pipilited wvith slaves. This has occurrodlby a process which s easily understood. A slaveholder is comi >elled, as he grows richer, to extend his pos essions. ie must, therefore, buy out the 1mall farmers around hium, and they must, lmigrate. In this way, the wealthier por ions of Georgia have greatly diminished in ~otiug population, and in that element of trength, upon which alone we could rely forn he capability of coping with the North'in nigration to the territories-or for defence it home. There may be some portions of his State in the South and South West, rhere emigration is tending on account of he cheapness of lands and the undeveloped itate of the country-se that as yet this re ult has not manifested itself so clearly. But ook at the black belt, as it has been called, >f Middle Georgia. In the counties of G*reene1 [hneock. Jasnr., Jones. Morgan. or, Putnam, Baldwin and some others, it wil be seen by the census that the negro popula tion is much greater than that of the whites. In some of these it is more than double. In the richer portions of Alabama the same re sult is found to exits. In the counties of Ma. con, Monteomery, Lowndes, Dallas, Greene, Marengo, Midiion, Perry, Sumter, Wilcox and others, the negro population is vastly in the ascendant as to numbers. In gve or six of these it is double, and in several it is within a fraction of being three, times as great. In South Carolina, it is likewise the case In such Districts as Abbeville, Beaufort, Char. leston, Colleton, Edgefleld, Fairlield, Orange burg, Richland, Sumter and others. Indeed, in all the older portions of the Slave States, where these causes have had their due effect, and in the richer regions adapted to slave la bor, this same result has been manifested. Now, is it riot to be inferred that in all the richer regions of country adapted to slave labor, in the entire South, when time ahall have developed the full operation of these same causes, the same results will follow ? And in this way, is it not easy to perceive that the increase of negro laborers in the great cotton region, where slavery must ever be chiefly confined, will diminish the number of the white inhabitants of that region, and in that way, instead of adding strength, great ly weaken it? Neither would this result be calculated to widen the basis of slavery by introducing it into the possebion or the poorer class. The effect of such expansion of slave ry as I have described, is to drive out that class. So that, in this view as well as in every other that I am able to take of this measuri,seein to defeat and -render more hope less the very objects they profess to have in view. There is another effect which this mode of increasing our political power inny have upon the institution of shvery. A-4 slavcs are in cIcased, there will he a growing necessity aid tendency to force slave labor out of its legitimate fields, and bring it into competition wtih the labor of the non-slaveholding por tion of thefouth. The province.of slave la bor lies appropriately in the culture of cot ton and sugar, hemp, rice and tobacco. I have opoken principally of cotton in this es say-because it is the most important * Now I should regard that contr..ct with other a bor, which would be the effect of an enlarge ment of the sphere of its employment, as anything but calculated to enlist the non slaveholding population in its interest, or to add to tile strength of their devotion to it. It was urged as a motive for re-opening this trafiic, by the authors of the Report already alluded to, that it would lei d to a develop ment of tue arts-hy this very mrani, that slave labor would flow into other ciamenli of in:ii-try. I think it was contended that the m-eru would make the fine.t "inanipulatist in t .e worl.l," becaue.he was naturally the greatest 110.>, or, to use the language of the wri:er, "be -auseof his common asence from reflectinn." Of that kind of talent the coun try is n t entirely dtstitute. Now, if the state of fechng in this large class of non.slavehalbhiig iaborers is such as this Report represents it-which I do niot by any mcans admit or t'v-ifd n t tme impolicy-of..ainees s ubili 4eed~ ever so remotely t a that resujlt. The leport says-" there are large classes of persons who tiave to make their own bread with their own andsi, and these are distinctly conscious that there -is a ditfEreince between white and slave labor. They sond that consciouacess into Legislatures of their several States, and in South Carolina ilone, perhaps oif all the. Southern States, where there is an excess of one hundred thousand slaves, it is safe to hold that. there is and ought to bo no differeice, and that it is not politic and is not pruper to re. strict the slavo to such a range of occupations as will keelp hinm out of competition with th white man." Now, if the ha'f of this is halt true, it shows the great necessit~y of keep.ing slave labor within its appropriate channiels. For auy policy calculated to rouse the dormant elemient of opposition to the institution in the very bosom of the South-which the writer here very dlistincetly enough defines and de elares does exist-would surely not be a meas ure of advantage to the cause. Without en dorsing a syllable of wvhat is said in reference to that class by the author, I oppose this poli cy, because it will force upon that class tuat contract and competition with the labor of the slave which is in itself, as the experience of other States shows, welcalculated to en erate atid develope th~st very state of feeling whlich is here attributed to thema. In other ,vtirds, the tetndency wo Id be t.J make eue miiei insteadi of friends to the institution even in the heart o~f the South. It can never be possible fur all the people of the South to be. come slaveholders. All cannot be capitalists. even with the sparsity of our population, much less so at a future day when population shall lie greater. The disproportion of these classes is now amazingly great in every Southern State, and I desire to see no measure set on toot, and no policy inaugurated, that will in- : volve the perilous risk of~ a confichit of-interest or opinion betweeni them. As it is now, with slavery chie~fly continted to these agricultural staphles, and highly p)rofitab~le in itself, it does, nut cmie ini competition with the labor of the white manx-but rather has a tendency to en hance the general price of labor in the coun try. I desire no change-no innovation upon this state oft things. I want no new applica tions of slave labor, no diversions from its natural channels. Upon this train of thought much might be said-hut there are some points uin which it is perhaps wiser tu reflect than to writ.. 4i is well knowar th at ibis vary ques tion ci' co.upetitki o ei abor hiat hiithmerto been tie seern: sprinig by wihh aibolition mtove. mentts have benx igiinated and p'ropelled, and addressing itself, as it dloes, to the natu rni prejudice hn-tweent classes of societyanid radecs ot condiionl, is at on'ce the mn~fst casily orunght inito actioni and the must ditlicult to allav. It is this .wnisit ive chtord that hats been tom'-h.ed by imzpions an deigninmir hands, in such Slav. St ates aus I)elawarea and Maryland, Kentucky and Missouri, and the result has been, to three upon society there that unholy strife which shouldi have been kept forever be tween the distant sections. Indeed, the very agitation of this policy by its movers and advocates, particularly if it becomes an instrument in the hands of par ties-of which I (do not deny that there is nmuch danger--may have a tendency to) devel ope this jealonsy, and after~ a contest is one openly made and all the passions of~ opposi tion to the movement are developed and drawn ont, as they will be whenever the issue of an election is made to turn upon it, it will be an easy tranisition, for that whonle pr.-.judlice to he turnedi against slavery it~elf. The experience ot party strife in this country has pr.>ven that there is no spring of passioni or je-alousy-:mo vulgar prejudice in classes of society or con dition of life-no latent element of discord in the mass of the voting population, which designing partisans will not touch and move upon when the issues of victory and defeat can bo affected thereby. *Nor.-The proportion of our slaves employ d in the culture of Cotton is nearly 73 por cent. The balance being distributed among the other staples above mentioned. A young woman of the tribe of the Old town Indians the other day in the ears, was aked by a rowdy if she would not like 'to marry a white man. "No," was her - reply, " because good white men dos not want to marry meand poor scamps like you I won't imato ha-e~ ine n -ha mxr tianm From the Darington Flag. Slaves Hiring their Own Time. The Columbia Bulletin, referring to the practise of allowing slaves to hire their own time and to the many evils which result therefrom, uses the following language: "Despite the laws of the land forbiding, under a penalty, the hiring of their time by slaves, it is much to be reretted that the pernicious practice still exists. Not a few who profess to be law-abiding citizens, and are loud in their denunciation of transgreiaors, are knowingly, constantly violating a law in. tended to promote the interests of the com munity,. protect the rights of masters, and guard our slaves against evil. It Is difficuls to find a reason for such indifference to the requirements of wholesome legislation; it would seem +.hat every consideration of policy would demand its rigid observance, and that instead of being regarded as a ueless restraint upon the master in the use of his property, it would receive that respect which its wise provisions entitle it." The law forbidding the hiring of his own time by a slave, is certainly founded in vis. dom, for whose good in part, the- raw was enacted, should exhibit such an utter disre gard for its provisions. It is more to be re gretted, however, that these constant- and open violations of a well known law, should ' be allowed to go "unwhipped of justice.", Offences of a minor character are zealouly hunted out, and the offenders are dragged to the court room to answer for their conduct, while other violations of the law, the one to which we are now alluding, standing among the chief, are openly committed, and, being winked at, the bola offenders stand justified in the sight of the conmunity. Negroes are not, itturally, fond of work, and if allowed to wander from place to place in search of occupation, being only required' to make weekly or monthly returns to t.heir owners, we need not be surprissd if in order to meet these requirements, they resort to dishonest means. In our own community we have illustrations of the truth of this asser tion. Here we see, daily, negroes who ae known to have to pay large wages to their masters who are seldom or never seen work ing at their several trades; on the contrary, able bodied carpenters are seen, continually, hawking fruits and fish about our streets. This state of things is ruinous to the negro ., as well as injurious to the community ; they are too often the agents of dishonest white men, who, being afraid to carry on their ne farious traffic in their own persons, find ready and willing agents in these idle and unre trained negroes; and thus may we account in a measure, for the ready access which our slaves have tio the whisky bottle; for these emissaries of the grogeries can move amony them without suspicion and continue to sell to them, for a length of time, without detec tion. Are we not right in this matter? We put it to our readers to say if their minus have not already fixed upon one or more of these privileged negroes, whose income does not depend upon honest labor, but, ra& is. derived from such sources as we have n icated. The violation of this law works not only a moral injury to the negro and to the Plav portioa6f te 0dinmity, but is.tlso *ork - a: vA Y~na- -A inai4s A too much respect fot the law, aid revru. a the well being of the community to allow them to hire their time, or, in other words, w sell them their freedom. For the negroei owho, outside of and beyond their trade, have .o many other sources of income, can of ne. :esity, when inclined to work, sell their labor cheaper than the master can afford to ell that of his negro, who is kept under his irection and control. it i.s unjust and in Irious to the white mechanic who cannot -ompete wit h those whoie expenses are de rayed by dishonest means, and who are al rays ready to underbid them for any piece f work to be performed. Another effect of the continued violation of his law is apparent in the impudence and in lependence of the negro mechanics. They onstitute a colored aristocracy, and while they lord it over other negroes they seem to think themnselves just about as rtespectable s the whites around them. We need not dwell upon this point, it is enough that we state it. in order to convince our readers of its truth. WVac then shall we do to check this evil and put a stop to this open violation of a known law?7 We suggeat to the police of our town and the patrol~ throughout the dis trict, to pay no regard to monthly passes au thorizing negroes to pass and repass without stating distinctly the points to and from which they are permitted to go and return, but to treat negroes travelling with such tickets as though they had none at all. We would suggest further, the strict enforcement of the town ordinance, now of force, in our town; let all negroes found hiring their own time, be arrested and properly punished;I but. above all, let us see to it that the owners are indicted for the violation of the law. In this way, and in this way alone, can we check the evil, and rid our community of a set of colored rascals, whose villainy is only equalled by that of the white men who have seduced tem from a course of honesty and sobriety. If this cannot be done let the law be repealed ad let us either quietly submit to the wrongs which we now suffer, or take the necessary steps for our individual protection. Mla'mcu A A FUUrAi.-Abou~t the end of last month thme following singular misiske waq made mat Dole, France: " Two persons hmad died at the hospital of that towm, atml were to b~e buried at the *a~it utime. The~ de cse were a-younig girl and a s.ldler of thne gmarrlson. Jiatt cofiun beinzg pliu-cd alomngide of each other, they were so confounded that the girl was accompanied to her lost home hy a platoon of dragoons, witl. militarly honors,'while theyoumng soldier, cover with a whmite pall oit ilowers, pious emblems e. purity anel innoenue, was borne on four fems nies hioublelrs, and followed by a procession i. yong girls reciting prayeis." SPOR TING INTELLIOENC.-We learn II'ot the N. 0. Picayune, that a match has hee.m losed, fur $20,000 (10,000 a aide,) distanc" four miles, and repeat weIghts for age, hala forfeit bet ween Nicholas the I., owned by M. Hunter, of New York3 and Tar River, the recent champion of the Washington Cous'. Charleston, S. C., owned by Mr. Rare, oft Vrginia. The race to come off in the course of this spring or the ensuing summer, over the Fashion Course. Ex-PaassiNr Pizace.--It having been charged thmat this gentleman, now absent he. Europe, was anxious to secure the democratic nomination for the presidency,hbe has written a letter to a friend in Boston, In which he declares that under no possible circumstance will he again prit the use of his name ham connection wit any public office. CunA.-An intelligent gentleman of thI city, says the Richmond Dispatch .recently from Havana, where he has bee spendin, some months, informs us that, except among ai few persons engaged in the Amenican trade, the opposition to fillibustersis and annexation is universal. :They-have no more desire to bei annexed to the.United States iss oe sans has to be annexed to Spain. Ofag o t-:- .ountry, fhe'South is'the very aag.