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"WE WILL CLING TO THE PILLARS OF THE TEMPLE OF OUR L RTIES, AND IF IT UST FALL, WE WILL PERISH AMIDST THE UINS." SIMKINS, DURIS@E & CO., Proprieters. EDGEFIELD, C., APRIL 18, 1869. VOLUME IXIV.--No. 14 For the Advertiser. LETTER FROM OAKLEY FARM. -0 How I MANAoED TO GET TO CUARLESTON, AND O.'s on Two Tui:as I sAw Tnitm. Oakley Farm, March, 1859. Sit down, mont chee aiti, and suffer us to talk awhile ; and if you do not listen to us, we will tell some one else, "And there's an end on 't." The sun never shone brighter without, and never flowed our thoughts more pleasantly along than this afternoon. *Good humour, and old fashioned Saxon cheer, seem to smile from everything around, making the time, and the place, most propitious, and deliciously inviting to a fete-a-tete. Would you believe that it was our fortune, either good or ill, to take our first jaunt to old Charles. ton a few .veeks ago! And it was somewhat im pressive, I assure you. Remember, moN cher an a, that we were born and reared a country girl, jind that we love every thing in and about the country, too, most emphatically; and that, though we ha've been now and then into the merry circle of your little village, and have there found much fun and frolie, in the way of Concerts, and in looking on whilst the handsome Court House boys showed off in Theatricals and the Lancers ;-though we have, perhaps, in our whole life, taken half a dozen turns in Columbia, to see the College fellows receive their diplomas-and to see and hear the big men of State, who go down to make laws and eat parched pinders for those of us who have to stay at home; and though we have even been as far out of the State as Augusta, to attend the Fairs of the enter prising Georgian,-yet, it was never intended, in some way, that we should see so large a place as Charleston until February 1859. And would you not like to look at the City, for the first time, with the eyes of a young girl fresh from the Country-of one who has all her life been under the free sway of the good old quiet ways of primitive days and people, and who bath but little acquaintanca with anything, save with the great green forests of oak, the old fields, and the little thickets of piue, the old-time monthly roses, yellow marigolds, and prim maroon-colored -Bohelor-buttons which bloom before cuntry doorways,-with the MAnys, Lucs, and JAN FS of the immediate viciuity,-the handsome well. built farmer lads whom we encounter at the Church parch on Sunday and at all the pie-nies and bar. becues that are given in Summer time? Well then, "hoar me for my cause, and be silent, that ye may Ever since we wore "sweet sixteen" we have been thinking of going to Town, but when we were fixed up, and could go, some ill luck would be sure to fall upon our masculine helps; and when they were ready, we were out of order. Thus we have managed to keep always pretty near our own fireside, until we have grown-acmt I, dre I tell it ?-to be a etaid, sober rnd doirarijht .,l ble umideaa of twventy-jire year* and three aonthe or more!! But one morning, not many weeks sineo, as we sat in oar own little chamber at OA . LCY, contentedly hemming some ruflies for little JENNIE, thinking how tidy they would look in tfie neck of her new blue merino, around her white, white throat-" thinking of this and nothing more" -in popped the veritable little Jzxxzu, all of a sudden, with a note, from one of our early school friends containing the following startling news: "Well, my dear CoEr. ysu will scarcely be lieve me when I tell you that wo are po.)sitively oif for Charleston, to-morrow morning before the dawn of day. And I write to beg you to go with us. Papa is going down on some law business. and will take with him sister Mzssie and me, and as you arc desirous of going, nothing would utfordl us more pleasure than to have you accompany us. Yes, Coaxsy, you muost go by all mneans,-wes will stay one week only-you can get ready. I know, to meet us at the ears in timne-P'apla wilt get out at 69U station to saset you-and we will have such a nie timno. Only think of our seeing JeC.CA DeAx ---of going to the Opera-and then toos, mnay be, we will meet some certain Charlestoninus again, whom wve met at the Springs last Summer. Wtonat it be glorioua I I.t was so fortun-ite that this should be your winter for getting a new bonnet, and that yosu should get such a nice one of velvet, with such lovely flowers in it. B~ut I verily believe every thing happens for the best. Poor me, I shall have to wear the same old white chip, with the lavender colored ribbon and feathers on it. It's shocking, but than I cant hellp it. And then that new cloak or yours, with tho~o heavy tassels dlrooping so gracefully behind, and that exqluisite green silk robe which you got in. Tie fall will lbe qluite the thing and perfectly ". una, as the French iaoad say. Yes, they are plo.amy good for Charleston or any where else, so dont goa to any unnessary ex pense about the matter. I'm sure we will all- look well enough. Cazuir Mauis, tmy interesting young fgiond, has been persuaded to accompany us-?he is a romantic young girl who somatunies writes for the newspapers, you know-so you se we will have one person of note in our party. 0, it will all he glorious, mny dear C'onser, so do get ready in time. We will take no excuse from you. Yours devotedly and in wedding haste. Now this is a grand chance, thought I,-to go with Col. Foo-re, and Min~txnA and Mzsy, and CAnnY Minrix, why its the very time. I'll go straight and ask Papa. But Papa being out or the way, just then, ana.l no timue to lose, for morn ing would soon come-I went to my ward-robe andl after much rummaging amidst a maiden's vs. rious Sunday paraphernalIn, and by dint of griandl larceny frow other meutburs of the haurehold, and after borrowing a ribbon frome hg'xt, and a hond-dress from FAnmx,--a rulie here and a hand kerchIef there, I eucceeded at length In gettIng up the necessary equipage, anad in the course of one or two hours rolled nmy trunk to the door all duly packed, and labelled fur Charlesto'n. And now I'll to my ratber, and make himu yield a s reet consent. There is a worthy old dime of our vicinity who, whenever any one of the " goo~d Metho~dist breth ering" comns reound to her Church begging for help to build school-houses, et -ce-a, always gets up immediately after he finishes his sermon, anmy lng, " It's a mighty noble undertakin' brethering ; you ought to subscribe, and renug I would give a leetle something myself, if I only aw the awee wia. And, now, sulppose Iea pa's nmoney-drawer should be empty ju;, at this timoo, and)1 he sh',ul say most emuphatically-even alter I've pneked nmy trunk to go,-" No, Const,-no, yoau ennot go. I havnt thze a.Ieredth to send youa.' Would it not be too bad ? Let mec see, thought I, solilo qraiizing and nmaking a rew pecuniary calculati'one. Tranzsportation there .-.ud back will cost S2S at least-board &c., will amount to about the same. Then, I want some new mud'-, books, and a a.ew shawl for the spring; somie prett;, head gear for the evening and a now silk robe, and same pres ents for MInaYanA, and Mmssie, and for all the children at homne. No ! I cannot do all this with less than two' hundred dollars. even with a country girl's ideal of economoy-anid I will go at once and ask for my Papa's consent, and the two hundred as a pecunary help. . Forth I ran towards the sitting room, feeling as if I had courage to take even Cuba by main force, -bat some how, the nearer I approached the door, my heart began to rise in my threat, as It were, giving me a most uncomfortable ehokingisensation. So [ went back to amy room agaIn, paced up and des. and leeked at,y labelled trunk, bathed my iasesfornIfes If I bad been ner a galaanIe battery and had too much electricity in my sys tem,-smootbed back my hair, refastened my broach and cuff pins again and again without the slightest necessity of such a thing-and out I sallied once more towards the sitting room door. Stopping in the piaza to clear my throat, I espied a hole in one of the sittlag room window curtains, and peeped through in order to have an idea of what was go ing on inside, and to see what sort of countenance my Papa wore just at this moment. There he lay before the brightest and most crackling hickory fire in all the world, stretched full length upon the old sofa, conning leisurely and in gentleman ly ease and comfort, the columns of the last Ad rertiser. Could you, dear Papa, thought I-could you know how much your daughter wanted of you-and did you dream of the heavy draught she contemplates making on your purs Aor pocket money, you would not look so very gracious even on the editorials of the worthy Colonel. I'p rose my heart again to my throat, and I began to pity my poor. dear Papa, and to feel sorry that lie should have a daughter with such .tvagant no tions: but just then the thought O at last going to Toacu-with all its alluring accomp:aiments in the way of gratified senses of sight, hearing, and feeling, so infatuated me, that I resolved boldly to approach the door, and to ask his consent, and to sue for th!e necessary peuiniiary help. Oh! my poor little sister maidens! have you never wi.-hed that money grew on trees. and bloomed all along your path instead of roses ? But, softly I went to the door, pushed it suffi. ciently ajar to catch a glimpse of a corner of the newspaper anl one of his hands; straight way, at the sight of which. my courage was gone. "s. though it had never been." Ask for two hundred dollars ! Toro loared dullnar!! I can't do that: and I wonder if one hundred and fifty would not do? Thcn I counted it all over again, tht- expen ses going and coming-the robe, shawl, presents and all. Yes, one hundred and fifty rll d,-he will grant i that much, I know. Once more I stole to the door-opened it a little Vider, and caught sight of him in a full length portrait. At once came o'ut before me, with all the terror of Hamlet's Ghost, the money-the troublesome ,eherercith,-and I began to wonder if one hundred would not serv' my purposes. On again-I pressed the seige with somewhat of deg peration. Wide open flew the door this time, and I managed to say " Papa," reryfiintly. "Who is that ?" asked he, raising up a little to look around at the door. " Well, Conirct, did you call te ?" - Yes, Papa ;" and my voice trcmbled as if I' was about to utt.er oose little ror l in i lever's ear and I fell back btehind thu doo'r and sail not an. othersyllalble for full firo iniuaate-. The dioreringel uon its hinges negain an.d I managed to say-a little ltouder. - Papa, I want" - Wunt what ?" said lie a little louder than . Why dount you speak out and be done with it ? Want to go down to Edgetield, over these bad roads, to attend that Concert to-morrow night, I'll be bound !" " No, sir, I dont !'' said we, looking him full in the face and steppin;; out before him in laio relief, a IA Domisu: SAlie'soN. " I want to go to Charleston to-morrow morning"--(and the money stared me in the face again, and down came my figures to the freezing necessity of merenty.rce instead of two hundred)-" and I want, if you pleure, seven. ty-five or eighty dollars to defray the expenses." "The-r-r mischeif you do"' exclaimed tny very christian Papa, looking for all the world as if be was-omecelwt cc-priwc'l Niow. I asstre you, it took me a lIong. long while to explain to this very dear Papla low very anx i.lus his altgetionate aml devlOted little daughter w.as too go to the City-that she had never h-cen, anl that all the rest of the neighbours' daughters had; that she could go so caiveniently with COl. Founer:, and M1:i tN aand M1Iis:.aaand (Linan u MAIumI ; that it wasc a rare iope.eortuneity, an-'l was Sthe very last time'," that we woeuldl ever acsk him for so much ; and it really seemcedl thaet he would never take in eitheer the necessity or the pcleasuare f " the foolish jaunt." A t length, however, a sweet consent," far sweeter thean was ever brcathed in a lover's ear, wad granrted., inde just before re tiring for the night, I was suunnonced to a privante rawer, andI, then and theere, received the ncessa ry ,rhceruit/c for a week hta the City-even the long sought for senylr gfullare. A nd, in accord ance ith thinuppeormost cdesire of my heart, we wend cc our way, at early da~wn next anorninag, towiardls Sttion ?9, on the lIail Rad, ina order toa meet thec -ars ian timea. A numbiler ot' the lades oef twI were at their usual stand~s on -the pelatfoerm oef the lDepeet, whoseeiag me with trunk ad hat-box enme ter wardl to ciger their iadieus, .enying : " where anow. Niis CounsKY ?-to Chapll's, or to Newbserry, 1 su~p "Noe, I go a litle farther duwnt to-day. I'am off' for Chearlestoen," said I, "/e':d!" cried ther, ad thecy one itnd all fell ack aghcst, and peerfectly dumbaatudedelc. Leacviaag them to fix up thecir eunjecturesas beat they might, we soeon seated oeurselves in the cars-along side ca the worthy Col. Focere, his daughters, and Caen ntr ManvasN. Aan aecession was meade, to the Toiwn party, somaewhat uinexpectedly te mte, in the leerson of Mintaos Lass-rrm, the peculiarly smart. shere wd, ut rather utrrvel midl cef the roanaatie yo'ung lady, C~nunr .\1.Uwri. Lisette was nut one of that most common type of paluinp and good humoured lass of servants-but, as I hare already insinua ted, peculiarly sharp, ad rather bIting int teaanper, which showedc It self inm her long, thein loeokinag via. age andI tallt, galnut, long structure. Livette was nt inuch travlledt, 8:10 Ilke teufalf, !md ntimf bento Towne befosre It was half' prt eleveni at slight bnfere We featvh ed our destination-and tho rain thec pouring in torrents whena we started ofT iaa the Oimnaibus. "Jiet look at thema lighats all down the e treets," cried Lciette. "~They surely cant beuraa andic it a rai:a as fast. as it can. nad jist loock at them white lenc, grate greewn up men with brics tixens oan ema, staaadian' out lhers st'.ck still in all the crners of the streets; they're thec stupidaest thligs I ever seed-a standin' in the rain and starne' act peole as if they neve-r seed anay body afoere. MAnd jist loeok at the houses too, Missis. If they aittturnaed nd fore.amust.-the chiamnaey s'ide toc thec streets-' "Mushc ! hush ! Lisette" cried Carry Martin. the r.,matie yaitoy. peulling and tagg-ing at leer sleeve vehemaentty, "-thoese lucin are Plecice Ollcers anal will lent y-ou in the gu:ad lac'ese if vain talk in thct war." -Whlare naow." said MaBAsNiA tee leer Father, " to the Charlestea litel, icr toe the 21 ills' Il-cuse ?" "'-e ac eitheer e nacr the o.ther." replied'c thme UCelc nel, "-I have nao idea ot' takiing such a hery ofci gret, groawn-up counltry girls tce cth iaiaenzse places as theose', withoeut ye-ur Muterc icr vyour school Marnas to overlook ycou. We will stip at a more perivate houuc,-the WV--hoea at the bend of K- street, wherm you will havo ccs much fun as you can possibly digest." Ina rain we protusted, but no-stout and tail gen teen will leave their way the world over. The W-hlousee on the bend, indeed prored very plesant, ad of one of its personages of note, we preserve thu most interesting and grateful remaim brnce. Just ask our stout Colconel if he does not do the same, if you want to have a fight on your hande. Just ask him if he dent retain a very fe lii tons remembrance of one Capt. Poatomr-a pe enialy round, plump and jolly personage who graced the bead of oar table-ad of whose ample ....,.. or conerse on gnetr7 and ergs: muttar politic and the beef of the up country ; the Drama and Washington and Bonaparte,-of all which, I have no doubt, the worthy Col. -' could a tale un fuld." The contest three times a-day, between the love of talk in the Capt. and the equally Insatiate appetito for hot beer stake, buckwheat cakes, and cod-fish in our worthy Colonel, whilst a source of infinite amusement and mirth to the junior mem bors of our party, proved a matter of such desper ation to our senior member, that long before we left the City he bad fallen from his seat of honor on the right hand of mine host to the remotest distance possible. But even MIRANDA, and Mix si, and CARRY, and our own portly self, who had in the mean time fallen between them, proved exceedingly shadowy fortifications, such marvel lous affinity did the Captain discover in our stout gentleman. But we will leave our senior member to make a report of these things, and take ourself to another department of view. From a host of very pleasant private entertain m-nLt, it was our privilege to go one evening to the Theatre. The house was pretty full of very handsome looking people, and the play wits " Ad rianne or the Actress/' in which we saw Julia Dean for the first time. Some cynical persons told us that she was no longer what she once was, and that we would find her cadaverous; others said she was e.xquisitely apitel-but we found her all that we had imagined her-ft per:fectly lorely wonan,. Her voice was too low perhaps and may not have been what it once was-but then her soul spoke in her-face, her every move ment; and in aetion she was so graceful, so true, so winning. And, to support such a woman, there was the most miserable set of stock actors. The great booby of a Count do Saxe was stupid enough throughout the whole play, but in the dying scene he was perfectly insupportable. There he stood like a poor mummy, .not an e n in his face, either of pleasure or of displearT at her death, looking for all the world as if he was merely at tempting to keep her from-falling against his per. son lest she should spoil his ruffles and furbelows. It is lamentable that Julia Dean, or any one else, who has the slightest idea of what soul and action are, should have to appear on such a stage. Julia Dean excepted, by far the best scene and the best action of the evening happened from none othdr than our Lisette, the maid of our romantic young lady. On starting to the Theatre, to the consternation of all, the opera glasses of Carry Martin were no where to be found. We had not been long in the Then re, however, and were scarcely interested in the Play when, on looking round, whom should we see, perched up near us, but tihe veritable Lisetto-:he thin, brawny,. and shadowy Lisette, voluminously dcairated with crimson, and yellow, and blue--her criumped hair all turned back in huge puffs--tinsel pendaints dangling around her shoulders, and with all the airs of your City folks, looking intently, with head up-raised, at Julia Dean and the Play through her .Vfiutress's eye yanses. It was sometime before we could recover from the shock, but poor Lisette was not long in seeing us, and soon left for other quarters. Oa reaching our rooms there sat poor Lisette, looking so distressed-thinking she had dune soee great evil when she " only meant," she said, " to fllow us to the theatre in ord'er to give her y.,ung Mistress her glassees which she found after we had left." " Oh ! well, Lisette, dry tip your tears," said Carry Martin, " and tell us what you thought of the Play to night." " Why its the foolishet thing for sensitile white peoleig to look at ever I Poee," said Lisette soime wh.it relieved. " Twasn't nathin like-nir, half en intiaresting nather, w' the daays( of i#G, which the circus nen actedl upo at hnie. That M1iss Julia Dean was a perfec' vishun of loveliness to aehold; but take her out. and I wvouldln't give a copper far tie balance f 'um. They sail that nir ig m. - .exe somiielbody. was haerlaover-mut lie was a miighty st'pidl andl aleeply looakiing old baicheloir to mc. I cever wauld a tell in loive with hinm, sartiin." And .l.iwette wasj quite right. lunt byv far the most dlelightful feature in our tiy was that l'aItsant visit one clear, genial mnoring to the Carolinma Art (Iallery. Tbe llall is a large handlsum room, opposite the C'ircutlar Caurceb, ad furnished already with matny ver beatiful paintings-anal some esquisite specimens f statnairy. We saiw there for the first time Len ty's greait national picture, thne " Recstoramtion of thc Flag" lay Sergeatnt Jaspaer. It is the painting f the Assaeiintiaon, andl the Her., of Sullivan's blandl 1:tamah out baeforc yaou in accoardlance with Vaoir hai;;hest anal mosat implroavedl conteplt iaon. I canl :till seea biefore me ditincth the oldI flag-statl which waves triumplintly nhloave him-the strong inal rneuare graspi of thoase oald Palmoetta logs, lay that magnificently paintead banal anid the liring, uaaite upn his face occasiaoned lay a graitifiedl Cense of brave anad noble dlariung for his country and liaertv. The deced lives in the paicture, and the Artist has alone well. Among many very fine pieces of statuary, I sin gle out at this momnent, as the moast enaj'.yala'e, a iiinutive statue of a little child in its/fir-'S n'oaaw over the doath' of its own little pet bird. It is eminently impressive of ailenae and yet is full of exuisite grace, and a touching and sorrowful ex pression. It is only pleasures such as thee that ever cause us to desire a home in the City ; and we feel some times afasn'je willing to exchange our Ilamwrs, and our birds, our leafy waaods andl murmuring streams andit pure caoutry air for them, Surely, turely, patromage will niot be wanting, eud all Ihra'e, who biats in (biri aottis a love fr the l14autiful, will foster with Iovins care1 thisl Art Iluie .in our utidst, Dnar olal Charleston !--I still see it before me and very happy anad bright seems my first visit. Thu Antique City in the arnis of the sea, and the grat lire-oaks all dlraoped with abundread festoonas f long gray moss--theecrowded thoroughfares and the clumps every where of strange faces---the Art Gallry and the old, old Chaurchee-thme " City of the silent" and its little flower plos-that pleasant' sail one clear sparkling morinig to Sullivan's Is laia, and the quaint little Ie-its ugly Soldiers anda tall Palmnetto trees--the pleasant stroll up and dwn the smooth sandy beach, anal the kind, kind wods thena anda there ut turead,-tle noble an d love able peopale, anal the sweet woards every where spao ken to, /,-r l'etite L'trunzaiere-y,alI, all is with me still, and ,.a much pleiaar do I fid ini recalling them. that I an 1ed to exclaim :.gmini and sagmin, ti Itemesambranace forms the imat beautiful part, a'f astr-lives. In memory of plait events, such as we dwell uponi with pleasure, wea sepiarnite the gold from tihe dross and subliamate ail spiritualize tbeum as it were. Thus beautitied, indl set apart for pleasant remembrance, is Charlastun and its kindlly peopl, by Your little frienl, CORN~EI LLE. ter A pretty woamiin is like a great truth, or a great happiness; and hits no nore right to bundlle herself unader a green veil, aorammy sitmilar aboami natiaon, thinu the sun has a right to put green spec tales on. 5.y A school-buy, on b~eing'askeda by the teath er how ho should flog him1 replied: "If you please, Sir, I should like to hive It done upon the It1an system-the heavy stitkes upwards, and he sbunnesna tiehi " For the Advertiser. My Cottage Hosme. There is a spot where lore doth dwel, Unknown but to the few, A place where hearts responsive sweld. With throbs as strong as true. 'Tis there, affeetion warms the cheek, There joy's bright halo shinos; 'Tis there where hearts in action speal And love its garland twines. In a sequestered, distant glen, Where Fairies love to roam, : Apart from the abodes of men, There lies my coUage home. The Ivy climbs the front wall high And arches o'er the door, The Jessamines, like. rivals, vie To shade the poreh's floor. The 'gudo wife,' therr, in peace presid Iler lord in smiles to greet; With sweet maternal care she guides The baby's falt'ring feet. She meets the good man at the stile, Her arms are round him east, And joyous children shout the while, - "Dear Father's come at last." As twilight's deep'ning shadows fall, And stars light up the sky, They circle in the rural hrall, To pray to One on high. - Methinks a well-plensed God looked dla From Heaven's starry dome, And blessed, and kept it as hisown Aly own dear cottage home. J . C. For the Advertiser. REVIVAL OF THE SLAVE TRAD-N. " The gcar mutst be carried into Afrie TuE year 1815 found the world at peacefter a bloody and exhausting war of 25 yearg d-ition, in which all Europe had participated. also found cotton selling in the Southern markuat 21 cents a pound, from which figure it farther ad. vanced to 34 cents, and never fell below 2 ents per pound until 1820. The same year (161- like. wise found the slave trade closed. Well tton culture, during the five years between 1815 a 20, paid much better than any other business ' the United States. A heavy demand conseq ently existed in all that time for negro labor. Theprice of negroes accordingly rose to a very high point. Within 10 years after the Slave trade hiAd been closed common fid hands sold at public out cry for $1.000 and $12100 eaah, for the truth of which I appeal to the reurds of the timis, sa to the mcmiory of the ul. ar now living. -As no rore negroes could he gottcn f'rom'Afries they had to be brought fromu thu North, where slavery then existed, deeplite the crude notions of universal liberty and equality, which had been en dered by our own and the French Revolution. j. Northern slave holders, after making thoialcn lation, discovered that they could hire a IFiat ha borer for touch lees than the it,:rcvt on Ihe Pur. chase money which they could get for a.' slave in the Southern market.- Negree. were;4hea&&P shipped Southward, and white emigrants from Europe were employed In their stead. The wars of Europe being over, emigrants sought an asylum here in large numbars. But they came very pour, as the paralizing strife of 25 ytars had bankrupted not only most of the Government but also most of th6 individuals in every State of Europe. They therefore had to work for ,rayv, ami many of themr being skilled artizan,, trainecd in thu factories and workshops o' Earolp, naturally preferred to work at the trade which they under.tooil. They could get little or no employnment at the South, as Euro. pean artizans hnad previouly done, hecause the attention of Southern cxpitalists was then diverted from manufactuires to cotton culture. To lhave a complete Idea of the immense profit oF cotton culture at that time, it is necessary to remember that monley was then worth much momre than it is now. Since then the treasures of the U'ral, of California oF Austra~iii, andI of other places have been disemboweled, andl 1200 or 1500 Blanks of Issue; have tahed the circulation of the specie basis in this country, aid the piresent incased facilities of commu mnientiona have chespenedl money by credit alone to pruhnbly elonde tihe amneunt of both the specie rnnd batnk bill basis. Consequent. ly, mnakinig all paroper allowiine for the incereaese of populatioan, andl thu new celIs fur the prtecious metials, it is nao cxngem atiun to say that one dllh.r in 181',-20) most haive been worth two dorllars now, in exchangeable vaue. So) that cottonm wicih thein sol for 28 cents a pind would now bring 56; ents, if all oilher things were equal; and lhesides thre direct profit oef cottu enlfuro in those hraleyon days, the neatura~l increase o'f shaves and the appre cation of land umust also be taken into the aecount. Moreover, ras the people of Europe then wanted clothing innell 4,~y untiil they' ciuld revive their lax, woul and silk cutrure, which had bees sadly neglected duirinag the Naepuloonic wars, they be. came competitors with each other, for the sails of alt sorts of manufuctured articles in exehasge for our cotton, which depressed the prQfits of mianu facturinig at the South while it exarlted those of cotton culture. Keeping these facts in mind, it is easy to apprehend what an overpowering tempta tion was then held out to capItal For deserting manufactures and every other kind oft bnuiness to dig the wealth of tihe cotton fii. hibt ir tha slave trade bad thenr breen opn, the~ Wants of Eries Fur cottenl ceuld trays bemn rupiled, and Southern wrnnufactunres wt'uld hiare also beenu hlrederred and enlarged, Men are stow to .qtit one business and angage in another, requiring an entire change of habits, and wholly differet qualitications. European artizans then could no loinger get em pyment at the South, because capitalists here would no longer unite their money with the skill of thre artixan in manufacturing, which gave so much smaller return to capital than cotton culture. It consumed all surplus capital at the South to get more cotton laborers froam the North. No money was left here for engaging in new manufactures or fr preserving the old. As the North then had a monopoly of the slave trade, they dictated their own prices. Although a negro at $300 or $500D might him profitab'le, ina New York or Pennsyhvania, yet, it would riot pay to keepa himn there whmen his owner could sell him in the South for twice or thrice that sume, anid then hire a white emigrant fromi Europe for less theru the interest on the plur hase maoney. Such emigranrts as were not arti. zans, but merely commeon lborers, could then no inore get eimployment at the Souath thnan the artin' themselves, hecaeuse the planters of thre South did not want white cotton laborers,.. and such laborers did not care to work in the cotton field as-the com petitor of the negro for wages. The result of all which was tha't a mighty wave of negro population swept Southward, -1md Euro. penn emigration Alled the void therebay creatod in the labor market of thne North. Trained artisans came to the South no more, and those already domiiled here fled fronm Southern cities as though they were infectedl with the plaigue. Thus it was that rmanufactures, shaippaing and commerce quiit the South, their natural home, anid took up their abode in bleak, rocky, sandly New England. " The grass is now growing in those cities of the South which originally monopolised our colonial commerce and maintained their asendency in thes arlier yeara af tha Vnlean? "Cities have been expande-I anal multiplied ir the Paime favored regiou, Railroads and Canai have been constructed tnd education has delighte there to build her Colleges and Seninarier." Manufactures, Ship-luilding and the Arts havs nearly tll gone to the North in preference to loca ting at the South, all hbecenue the closing (if th< slave trade in 1808 kept the Yankee populationi al .home-diverted European emigration from th< South to the North-drained us of all our cottor money to pny for Northern slaves, and thereby prevented any addition to either our white oi negro blabor, except by natural iricrease. That the native white population of the North ern States tended Southward before the closing ol the slave traile, in compliance with the natural law of migration, is well known, since anthentic history tell us that many of the Districts in Soull Carolin. and many of the Counties in (ieorgin, North Caroplina, etc., were o'riginailly settled ly emigrants from Pennsylvania, New .ersey. New York and New England. That European emigra tion also come South for the purpopsa of' engnging even in agriculture. before the slave traie was closed, is evidenced ly the fact (aImonltg many others) that. numerous neighborhoods, of the older Southern States, were first settled by large colo nies of Irish, Scotch, French and tiermain fatuilies, whose descendants now hold the very land which was originally granted to their fiathers. That the South Wisak the lead of the North, in bIth com merce ail mtamufactures. previous to the closing of the slave trade, and even lrevious to the grent rise ine cotton in 1815. which caused the fient anaiMOlou.4 movement ini the blaek as well 'as in the white population of this country, is likewise an undisputed fact.' So late us 1,811; thie exports of the Southern States amounted to abiout $:tti0, ful0, which was $5.001,0110 more than the Nortb era. At the same time Sith Carolina ind New York were the greatest exporting States of the Union, South Carolina exporting more than $10.001.0011 and New York over $1.,t100,000 (what a difference between then du -sore.) "In manufactures the South also excelled the North in proportion to their respective 1;opulations up to 1810, in which year, necoriding to the re turns of the Marshals of the United States, the fabrics of wool, cotton anl linen manufactured in the Northern States aiounted to 40,31 1,274 yards, valued at $21,001,525, whilst the South fabricated 31,7S0197 yards estimated at $10,771, 724, yet the population of the South was then much less than that of the North, in conseiuence of the Southerin States haviug been settled so much later. . Jt is in proof then. thliat white populajin iI coeic Stouthwaril previous to the clsinig (if tle slave traile. It is also in irooif that ti Soiutl. ex celled the Norih inl bAh Comim :rcu an.l .M.tjuae tures previou ts ti the clsing of the shire tr.ile. Why wats Lis ntatiral state tif Iacts reversed seo suddenly ? Wity has that reverse oiperation coi tinued till now, if suine nitnatur.d disturbing cause has not produced it? Most Southern nuen trace the South's decline; in pIopulatiou, iiuf.ectures and commerce, as comp.rd with tle North, to the Tariff. But they do unot go far enough back. The Sectional Protective Tariff itself is the legiti -mate offspring of the uegresse&*~s trade, ly Triff i'Vecondaiy 'of odf ileelitre aird-thin North's aseendency, but the suppression of the shave trade Is the cause of the arelietl Tariff and the prine cause of our unnmeittlired woes. Previous to ISI6, the Reveue of our Federa Govertment was a mtised one as to the source whence it was derived. It was raised upon e. portl a well as upon imports, antd ly iirect taxii tion as well as from ptlblie hn1d. This ini14ide of taxaiioni Wits in aialogyll tic the mlllehlds now nul Iirierly v use ftr raisii; reveinue inl Engltn, France. iand1 in every rivilize s.eite if ntiolern titiesi. except oi:rs. But inl 1816 (mne year after the trtemenu.-e rise ini cottot) iiur emiadelo tat ion~ et was chatngedi so as tic deri Ce the hulk oif the hlere unee fream Imiports alonte, auili the poelicy of the North ever since has been to ittilose the whole burden tf ttaxatiion uponi li Imports. TIhey lhave utniformliy endenevired ticgive ewaey thie piuedie liindis either to the States or toc Atlers, toe uttract ~Ero peanl white laborers aend voters to get politlenl power feir controlling the hoenord ande emoliumteails of the gocvernmtett its well as toc imtpoisi ia high Tariff' fior the protectioni oif Nocrt hern M .icnificetures. It hts bceeni their sleepless poli~y, tnot only to pro reet Niartheni macnufactiures l'y ais high a 'Tarif' :us Icesible. bitt toa hasve as much f'veniuc as l.os-ibile. with which to, erect Northern J.ighit lloes. ihn provle Noirtherun lIarb,,rs. l,akies andit tiver-, tntd ti give aeway the publhIie lands (ig u ivaicent to monley from the ' Tresury) to bueihld .Nor:hern Iadiradis aind cut Niorthern C'anals, ti piromonete facilities fear Niart hern meanufactures neite cincteree. At thce timte, the Tariff oft tislI was adop~ltedl, the South slid tnt regardl it as a a#etioa ien.,ure. M\r. Calhoun even suppJ~ortedl it with all his usually convincig logic. The great arguments adlvancedl in its favor, were to sustaint the Factiories which hasd been erected in thcis country during the wtar with Eneglandi, atni to meet the indebitednoess in curedl ie the proisoeueiatn ef that wnr, by taxintg foreigien manufactiures, partly in retaldtin fur (lie high duties which the jeaeleusy tmnd ho~stility eo European States to our Democratic Institutieons imposed upon our products, including raw eotton, andl partly to foster all Ameriean manufactures, of which the. South thent hail more than the North, In propeortioni to populatioin. The Legislature '4 Seouth Carelina, In paerticuilar, were so mitre that the mnanuf~aus of uthe Ptehntetto States weumld cotailtiinie tic hltetridh, exprilly uenaer the Sfimneilet oif tis Trcri'teof I1tlii thlat ini 11 sil hey eetscmeeer learing'sti lRivers uted cittlitig C.'nnah! ect a mag niiceithllplan t' fuerniahe tranispuortationt tnd Weatsr power for all kindselof inaenfietuirea. Stht Care lin'never eencedl makinig appelroriationsi for suchl purposes to the amtoeunt of $i25i0.0t0 te year, nuttil ablotit $l,700,til0 had' beeni spenit uphotn CanazlS ande Rivers which captalists wouiled neat use because cttoin culture then letad sic tmuch beetter than mun ufacturitng. Tihus, while the Legislature was doing every thing for maanufactures, etepitalists would do nothing by reason of high prniced cotton laborers consuming all the money in the counutry on account of the slave tradoe ljelng cinseed. The, Southern members of Congress thought the Teiriif or 181l0 would benefit their sectione even mtore than thu North. .lut haow idi theat Taritf opeaite with the slave, trade cloiseil, andi cat teon selliing tl 25 andu :0 ('enis a poicde, and the lrice uof inegres in paropertioni ? The average price elf cotton in Chatrleshccn duerinig 4I entire yeaers etf the 5 years, between 18l5--20), was 28 cents itipeond. let tll that time. the drain uponel the Niarthi fur slaves contintued unlinterrup-. tily, but if the shave tratde hradl then hbeent oplen, Africa weould leave suplpljiled our cttn laborers as she had doijo Lifure wheni cotton tick a sudden and great rise-the slaves, of .the North would have been kept at home-the white population of the North ivould have held on comning Southward, anti Eureipean emigration would htive done the soae, seesking eur mild climnate, fertile soil, cheap landl, cheap slaeve laboer, the great profit acening fronm cotton culture, anid the goodl wages which could have bein pail European artizans. The capital we then paid the Yankees aend non. cetton growing States for their negroes, would have not only purcha~sed the needeed cot ton laborera in Africa, hut it would have also seutleed to com-. mene. new manufactures, as well a to preserre thoso thern in existence among usn, and the cou on .....i wsuld ae been alutted no soner than it eras glutted. Indeed, it would not have been glutted so ioon, heeause capital would not have been so much tempted to lesert other pursuits to engage in it. We siniply drafted negroes from the North intead of from Africa, until the glut came, just is we no(1w draft them froin the border slave States, or fromt the mountainous and comparative ly unproductive sections of the cotton States, or from other pursuits in the cotton States, until we pull down the price of a day's labor in the cotton fiebi, to an equality with the profit of a dny's labor in other business. It deserves to lie repented again and again that the money which we had to pay for cot:on laborers alone between 1815 and 20, would have bought us the laborers in Africa-still preserved our manufneinrem, and that the cotton market would have been glutted no sooner than it was glutted if the siave trade had then been open. It also deserves everlasting remembrance that the Nortl, by having control of the slave market bea tween 1:15 aiel 20 not only roblied us of our com. merce, and manufactures, and shipping, and Europe:in nrtizans. but also despoiled us of the very cit-iol wherewith to do it. None of these things could have oceureil, even till now, if the slave Irale lail never been closed, according to the teachings of all history. which awarls empire to the South before it does to the North in the civilizatiion of any continent; and the civilization of this contiieut is aow only dawn ing in a historical .wnse. If the slave trade h1l never been vtippeil, many Lowells :0: ti aranite rilles would now exist in South Cariliia. and Char leston wiuld he, what she once was, but that New York now is. The Carolina .Juries seem to have an instinct to guidle them to this conclusion. Let the decayed but still prioud and hosieitalble old Metropolis see to it. that Conium does not suffrer aidst the ruins caused by the Slolores-ion of the slave trale. ' Let Columbia survey the allent canal under her blutif, before she endangers the life of a ;Jnve trade Rtevivalist. SCIPIO. A Chapterof Wit, Anecdote, and Humor. To laugh well is the true philosophy of life, provided always that we do not laugh at or aigainst our Iriends. A laugh catnot be a true laugh that has even the slightest dash of I miialice in it. To be thoroughly enjoyable it mius.t spring fromo genil and' heart feeling. Te atugh of a had man rings out coldly and has no correpolndlnce w Witt his eye; it is a nuscular conutortion assuined to hide some- i thinig worst, and generally bursts out when lie '0god-liearted world sigh or sympathiie. This chapter is not ad-lresoed to tho~e who have I hligh with a sneer on) it, but to the .1vo and truehearted, who can enjoy ajoke and lAgh with us in hearty good-humor. Too LAzY ro LiVE.-A short time since a society was furmed for the laudable purpose of di countecnancing those unnecessa. ry exertions of body and mind which those who wish to be considered cleverer than their ineighbors are accustomned to undergo. It wa., named the "Lazy and Idle Society," .andiihuiigdlta. regultioni-jt.aras .provided that if any member rose before seven o'clock in the mninriitg he should be excluded. After a while it was more than insinuated that one of thie. mtost Conu.picuius of its nembers had been repeatedly seen in an arm chair in front of his house as early as five o'clock in the morning. Tlie.'e runmors cauiseil no little stir 1amlion1g tie fraterlhity, who innediately call el a special meetinig, at whicin the acused wa< summiiiionie-l to lie dealt with according to his deserts. The evidene wa< clear, and no doubt remained that lie hail been guilty of IL flgrant breach if lie rules of the society. When c-adled fr his di-fence, however, he re pe lled iniatim e aspersin against heid che, indgavione himself a true cilm vert to the pi i.iciples he prof'essedl. "'Tis t:n, adhe, "I have been found in the conition .,tatedl, but the reawn is this: I aum aceniatomied to tatke that poisitionl after supper, aind whent be d1-timie comes I feel too) laz/y to ,tir, anid so remain there through the night." 37 To . precegt most constantly im pr~e.wed.( upon the mem;iory of a child should he "nevercr to speak in omtpanmy." Thle most atwkwarid ,ituatio'ns have becn broughit about by the 10.; great inigenuousness of some for watid child. In the following casc, "imamma"~ miust have beeni consideraibly tiled: TOo T tai-r I i a. itY li..-Th le qiuestionm att ai tea:-party unringi. uponm theo impropriiety of' imakinig cakes andmi takinog sinalf at t he saime timei, feainfg somie might be scattered in thle dongh, at lad r'emar~ked thaLt he had seen his mother mix cakes with a pinch of snuff in her fiingers and. not scatter a bit. " Why, I Ily13," rej.liedl the olkndeed lady, "how you Ido lb !" "~ Well, mother, I don't know but I dlo," innocenttly replied the urchin; " I don't. know but you did scatter a very little.'' E Tu v lawyer's profession is as hardly dealt with by witty writers as the ladies' dresses. Thme " witticismi" below is certainly libellous. Who'll prosecute the ease ? Roo~it FOR AN INFREa~tcE.-Lat'yer (. (enter-ing oflice, speaking in a hoarse whisper:) Frted, i've got such a cold this morning, I can't speak tho ' truth. Dr. NM. Well, I'm glad it's nothiing that will interfere with your bnisinmesw. (4'. tinda enough of his voice I. li ttter s.eet tlt:humed~t remark1s abo.N t dco off~ to meet 411 enggemout1) djy- MACAIt.AV tells a god story of a gentl-man wvho was proived tie be an Egih tman lby speanking Frentch, and found otut to be an Iritiiunan by spiaking Eniglish. The cas~e us enrione-: A certain Tipperary gentletaan, whbose namte is too fahmliar for mue to print, once called upon a countryman in Paris, and after ring itng stoutly at the bell, the door was opened by a very stmartly dressed " maid," whose grisette cap and apron immediately seemed to prbtootnee her to be Frentch. I' Est CJaptain--est Monsier O'Shtea Ici ?" asked lie, in considlerablo heeitation. " Ah I sir ! you're English," exclaimed the nmaidl, in a very Londotn accenmt. -Yes, my little darhin' ! I was asking for Captain O'Shuea !" " Alt! sir ! you're Irish !" said site, with a very significant fall of the vi'ce. "So," as hte afterward< said, " my Frenmch showed that [ was }imglish, and miy English that I was irish." gr WisE men do not know everything, but often betray the mtost lamentable igntor atnce upotn simple - matters. The following quiet rebuke tmust have struck home. When the cotumittee of thte French Academy were employed in preparing a well known acade my dictionary, Cuvier, the celebrated natur alist, cemne into the room where they were holding a session: "' Glad to see you, Monsieur Culvier," said one of the forty ; " we have just finished a definition, which we think quite satisfactory, but upont whtich we would like to have your opinion. We have been defining the word crab, and have explained it thus: " Crab, a small red fish, which walksi backward." " Perfect, gentlemen," said Cuvier ; "only I will make one small observation in natural hisory du cas anot a h...it&s ot red -and it does not walk backward! With these exceptions, your.definition is excellent.' &!" Tnouan we have no sympathy with the troubles of the miser, we cannot but laugh at the low cunning lie often exhibits to compass his ends. The fullowing is at least ingenious: A gentleman called on a rich, miserly old man and found him at table, endeavoring to catch a fly. Presently he succeeded in en trapping one, which he immediately put into the sugar bowl, and shut down the cover. The gentleman asked for an explanation or the singular sport. "I'll tell you," replied the miser, a triumphant gin overspreading his countenance as he spoke-'- I want to as certain if the servants steal the sugar.' *"' Rvi ENEss is freqnently assumed by lirofesional men in the belief that it adds importance to their manners. It sometimes succeeds, but it meets with a rebuke now and then, as in the following instance: A lawyer driving throngh a town, stopped at a cottage to inquire his way. The lady or the house told him lie must keep straight on for some time, then turn to the right; but said that she herself was going to pass the road he must take, and that if he would wailt a few moments, ske would show him the way. "Well," le said, "had company is better than none. Make haste." After jogging oi five or six miles, the gentleman asked if he had not come to the road he must take. "Oh, yes!" said she, " we have paised it two or three miles back; but I thought that had company was better than none, so I kept - you alung with me." g TIER arc imore ways than one of get tig a di ink without paying for it, but we think the cool impudence of Blinks is posi tively delicious: Blinks was thirsty, he had no money, and could not drink cold water for fear of a sun stroke. But he had to drink, and so boldly entoring the neareAt bar-roum, he called f% a glass of ale, drank it, and asked the bar keeper whose ale it was, "-.----'s ale,"says the man. " [s it really," said Blinks; " a 11riend of mine, a particular friend of mine. I'll take another glas. By Jove, friend - makes capital beer; I'll try a mug of it this time, and mind there is-not too much froth." Having deliberately finished his " mug," lie coolly said as he walked out, "i I shall see - in a day or two, and as you said it is his beer I'll pay him." t-r FRAG.mET FROM . Love LETTER, t Docuicl C0i.%VLi;.IN.---1tow I wish, my I deur Adelaide, mty engagements would.per it ie to leave town aid go' to eC you. It C would be like visiting some old ridss hallow- I .1 by time, and fraught, with a~thousanl I pleaaiug recollections." Aj I gave her a ruse and gave her a ring, a and I asked her to narry me then; but she a sent thei al back, insensible thing, and said she'd no notion of men. I told her I'd oceans c uf money and goods, tried to frighten her with I a growl,'but she answered she wasn't brought i up in the woods, to be seared by the screech i f ait owL .1 called her a, ..baggaga,. and : everything bad ; I slighted her features and 4 iurm ; till at .ength I succeeded in getting her I mid. and she raged like the sea in a storm. i And .then in a moment I turuned and smiled, and called her my angel and all; she fell in mV arm like a wearisome child, and exclaimed, "We will marry this fall.' si- Boarder-" What large chickens these are!" - Landlady-" Yes, chitkens are larger now -days ihana they ue.d to be. Ten years ago we could'at pretend to get chickens as large as these." B.:'rder (Inite innoentl. )-" No, I .ny p.se inut ; they must have grown sonie in that tin.. Th'le landlindy looked as though she had been misnidersoud. gg llow Tntg Rhuxt'.\iisi AFFueTED PAT. -Well, P'atri ck, asked the doctor, how do yoi feel ty'day? Ucii, doctor, dear, I enjoyv very poor health enitire:ly. The rumaties as very distre~ssina' indade ; when I go to sla pe I lay awake all night, and nmy toes is .swiled -as bi-v as a goose heni's egg, so whina i stand up I faft dlown immediately. A Voice riuoM Fama; Rivsa.-The Belfast Ag. says that a young mtan, inamed F~oye; ul Palernmo, whio has seen all the beauties of the raser rivetr, arrived hiomea by way of Califor nia lately, Hie gives a hard deseription of the fare of the Fraser miners, while ho wvas in th t- region. Many ol them died ofstarvation. Himself and anotoer vouii" wan sneceeded ii purchasing a few pounas of hurse flesh frmn the carcass of a horse, poorer than any seen ini thmese parts, at $3 per pouind, and thus were kept from starving~. He says gold is plenty, h~nt dilienilt to get, owiing to the state of the rivers and the inability, to procure sub sistence. He describes the Inidians there as but l~ttle dilferent t'ro:n wild beasts. They go eitirely naked, aiid live ini caves and in the ground. gip No-r flC a Blussiso Hvnon.-As thei polite omnibua agent of the Lexington and Lonisille Riailroad wasq going throngli the Ia. dius' ear, checking baggage, hae aske a very pretty young lady if she had any baggage she< wishied iaken to a hotmil. Thes ryihied "No, sr." The iaint they asked lier if sht would tehi a 'busj. 'ibe, U~mset;l gavm.liN'm a ver, net slmiin, and1 replie~d, No, air I am JiL isIi i bumsing hutmoir this eveninig." Th'le agentI dropevd his memorandum book and rettirlmitig to the bangage earl said he felt nw~ibI lAst:uin or CA'rs SLsEPImd IiTII CitL aiiK.-A snmil girl, seven or eight year. , olon tIre night of the 27th nlt., caei pretty ncar losinmg her lifec by a cat. 11er mther hcard a stranige noire which awakene~d her ;I she hastened to the bed! where the child was lyig, and found the cat with her mouth close< to the child's mouth. At first they took the child to he dhead, but they sooii pereived It eeed to catch for breath occasionally. After two or three hours she wa restored toi conciusness, bitt las been very stupid and unwell since. Parents shonld beware how they trust their cats to sleep with their ohil drnm.-Galeshnrg (Ill.) Democurat. Mr. Grattan, ini his work on America, s'ates the following as a comnversation that occurred betwen .John C. Calhaoii ad himself: " Now. let mue ask youa." said I, " what were the feelinigs of the laist shave you liberated ?" " I liberaite a slave I" he exelaimed: " God forbid that [ should be guilty of such a crime. A, you know little my of character if you be lieve me capable of doing so much wrong to a fellow creature l'" A GooD InEA.-The English druggists are about adopting a hexanugular bottle wit.h deep Outings, to put poisons in which are sold ,by retail. This is to -prevent persons making mistakes by getting hold of the wrong bottle. As an additional security, the neck of the bottle is so contracted that but a drop at a time can be poured out. The very deliberate -and cautious action thus produced, will, it is be lieved, deter any one from taking oger-doses o medicine, wh'ile it is digienlt to imagine a caseit which a person could pour out and take the whole contents of ones of thes bottles t. -iatake for somethuingr ,ls Both Sides. A man in his carriage was riding along, A gily-drossed wife by his side; lo satin and laces she looked like the queen, Aud he like a king in his pride. The wood.sawyer stood on the street as they passed; The carriage and couple be eyed; And said, as he worked with his saw on a log, A I wish I was rich and could ride." The man in the carriage remarked to his wife " One thing I would give if I could I'd give my wealth for the strength and the health Of the man who sawed the wood." A pretty young maid, with a handle of work Whose face, as tihe morning, was fair, Went tripping along with a smile of delight, While humming a love-breathing air. She looked on the carriage; the lady she saw, Arrayed in apparel so fine, And said, in a whisper, " I wish from my heart Those satins and laces were mine." The lady looked out on the maid with her work, 4o fair in her calico dress, And said, " I'd relinquish position and wealth, Her beauty and youth to possess." Thus it is in tihe world, whatever our lot, . Our minds and our time we employ In longing and sighing for what we have not, Ungrateful fur what we enjoy. We'welcome the pleasure for which we have sighed, The heart has a .vold In it still, Growing deeper and wider the longer we lire, That nothing but heaven can Ill. From the Constitutionalist. Not Contidential to the Ladies. Ma. EnTroa: I was truly pleased to see and ead Miss Sallie's confidential letter to the Ia lies. She gave a good report about the splen id stocks of goods nowt offered at our very :tensive dry aid tancy goods houses ; and I an bear willing testimony to the truthfulness f her statements. My last " hopping day " was spent among h establishmeuts for supplying the substan sla among housekeepers, such as sugar and d cuf'ee, rice, tea hams, &e., as well as tchen appurtenmees; but as there are so any places where articles in time grocery ie cane be obtained, I will not stop to par. icularise the namnes at present, but may do so -reafter. I was delighted at the extensive assortment housekjeepiimg articles I found at W. H.8alis. try & Co.'s, and at S. S. Jones & Co.'s. 5ery thing' that is necessary or convenient bout housekeeping I found at those storesi nd I call say, with sincerity, that their prices re'lower than I have ever paid f;r similar A tiles. I am gratified to notice that the merchants Augusta freely advertise their goods. They are, it appears to me, just found out that here are hundreds ofiouse-keepers in our city, pd in different portions of the country, anid I ay say in this State as well as in South arolina, who'seldom or never go-shoppmig on roftd steet. They now employ the Conafi. tionadi4 to convey to us, at our homes, tile Ileasing fact that theyhavereceived their spring Lad summer styles of goods ; their supplies of Prueries 1 their houseguruish'ng commodities; ld, in fact, infurm us of all matters connected ith onr every-dnty %ants. 'The lxilicy of ad ertig, ill your papver, is a sensible view of he merchant. intercst, as well as a Lindness those who desire to buy. But, I have mot time to write more at present. 10 amnd notice Wim. 11. Salisbury & Co's stock 'r ,pool. amnd also 8. S. Jones & Co's, and you .iI, without doul.t, be as much pleased as I as.TusE OLD IaDY. Krsa's MouYTAIY MIITnarY ScuOO.-The it quarter (of~ 1859) of' this institution is w drawinag to a close, and we are gratified ibeing able to r.cordl its continmued success zd proisperity. indeed, at nmo former period fits existenc'e has it e.dhibited more unmis akable signs of inereahing vigor and useful ms. From reliable authority we learn, that utof near one hundred cadets who have en. ered, but fimr have left the institution during he past three months, and that tbeir places re being speedily filled by new* applicants. om~ining the advantages of an excellent ituationl with adumirable educational facilities, itis not wonderfuml that the Kiing's Mountain Military Schmool has attained a high position nong tile literary . institutions of thme State. Lut its popularity seems not to be confined to et limits of South Carolina, many other >utern States having their representatives vithin its wails. Relying upon the pat as an ugury of the future, we confidentl predict 'r the school a long, ueuad ooal tareer.-Yorkville Enier.adhoo l BIUITSu Surent.t-.in the great coal mess res of E-ngland the seams are so thin in some ollris that several of them have only two et headway to all the working. They are orked altogether by boys from eight to twelve Fears of age, on all foure, with a dog belt d chain. Fire-damp wildfire, sulphur and vater, at all times menance instant death to he laborers in these mine?. In calico pii. ug it is by no means uncomuln, in all the srity, for children five aor six years old to c kept at work from fourteen to slsteeR :ost' epnmsecutively. Ti4 esrly atd terr'ie -eytrralp oq the niscular rysi~lai prtitces imch ?il!'LtR Ott ind mand bodty thai by the see of thity; if' e live .su love, one-thlid of liie1ke hie laves lIodoefoime.s or-idintici Atica TO LAss.-W~e have been ad. onihed by thme royalu p~hilosopher of the Jews, imat theO SUt should not, go dlown upon our wrath ; but had Solonmn penetranted half thnm nysteries of the female breast, he would have idditionally interdicted a sunset upon our oohess! Anger is of brief endurance, andi on raves itself to rest ; but coolness as es ug lived ais other cold-blooded animals:ilt is isthe toad whech exists for a thousand years nthe heart of' a rock I Were I, like Dr. 3regory and other moral tacticians, to de eath a leiracyv of counsel to my daughters, I would say: 'ever alee p upon a lmunfder' tanding withm those you love ; if you feel less indly toward's them than usual, the chances 'n that you are in the wrong"-Empson. Tta ExaRv Is FrILLD WIflu Vlot.ENCE. e rarely opena all exchange, which does -not hock uis with some bloody horror. These eeds of violence seem not to be conhned to may particular section of country or sp|here in ie. Witness the late awful tragedies in Waslt ngton city, Kentucky, South Carolina, and lsewhere. What these fearfully incesn natbreas of evil psion porten-I, is ol known to Him toviw a~ vengeance beloet and who alone is able to restrain the wrat man. We confess the rapid inorease of licen ouness, lawlessness and violence in the land iswell calculated to awaken veygloomy ap prehensions in regard to the saety and per petuity of our soema- system. We commend this subject to the devout consideration .% patriots everywhere.-Macon (Geo.) Joursnal ; Messenger. . ... A bill to prohibit thmitb de whI* a ithlack. persons has paes the iscondi