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-$2 PER ANNUM. flinln'd lo no Parly'* nrb itrary *way, "J XT A T)Y A IVPF ^ ^ ? Wo cleave to ItHtli witdr'cro ih? loado (be way. % L ' - % ? ?-...?.... ..... ... ...... - ? ....?..... .. * NEUTRAL IN POLITICS?DEVOTED TO LITERACY, COMMERCIAL, AGRICULTURAL, SCIENTIFIC, GENERAL AND LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. VOLUME IV. LANCASTER. C. II., SOUTH CAROLINA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. MARCH U, 185-3 NUMBER 5 OPT flOW RUT PO I 1I? showed his military coat, trimmed I lIia autumnal ?t... a _t.?1_ i ... - .. .. OMjEjUI IttLCiO. *HE RIGHT AUMI Fifty yeais ago a terrible storm shoo I the city of London. At thtj dead of night when tbo storm was at its highest, ai aged minister, living near the darkest suburbs of the city, was aroused by mi earusst cry for help. Looking from hii window, be beheld a rude man. clad ir the coarse attire of the swct-per of thi public streets. In a few moment* while the rain came down in torrents, and the storm growled above, thai preacher leaning on the arm of the scavenger treaded his way to the dark suburb. That very day >? strange old mati had fallen speech lest in front of tho scavenger's rude home. The good hearted streetsweeper had taken him iu?laid him on his bed?he had not spoken once?and now he was dying. This was the story of the rough man. And now through dark alleys, among miserable tenements, that seems to topple down upon their heads, into the loneliest Mild dreariest suberb* of the city tbcy pass; That while haired minister and his guide. At l?*l in n narrow court i.nd up stairs lltftl cracked beneath their trend, nnd then into the death room. It was in truth, n miserable place. A. glimmering light stood ou u broke., chair. There werotlio rough walla, thcr. the solitary garret window with the rain beating through the rags and straw, which stuffed the brokeu the paues?and there amid u heap of cold ashes the small valise which it seems the stranger had with liiia. In one corner, on the coarse straw of the ragged bed, lay the dying man. lie was but half dressed ; his legs were concealed in military boots. The aged preacbcr drew near, and iookuu upon nun. ami lio looked ? llirob?tliroli?itiruli?you might hear the death-watch licking in the shattered wall. It was the form ofa strong man grown old with care more than age. There was a face that you might look upon once, and yet wear it in yuur memory forever. Let Hs bend over the hed and look ou that face. A bold forehead scanted by one deep wrinkle between the brows?long locks of dark hair, sprinkled with grey?lips rtrmly set, yet quivering us though they hud a life separate from the life of the man?and then two large eyes vivid, burning, unnatural in their steady glare Ah, there was something so terrible in that (ace?something so full of unutterable louuiinoss, unspeakable despair? tlmt the aged minister started back in horror. Bat look tboeo strong arms are clutching at the vacant air?-the death sweat starts in drops unon the cold brow?tl.< ? " ~ " man U dying. Throb?throb?throb?beat the death watHi in the shattered wail. "Would you die iii the faith of Christian!" faltered the preuchcr, aa he knelt Chare on the dark floor. White lips of the death atrk-keu man trembled but made no sound. Thau with the ^pny of death upon him, ha roae into a sitting pasture. For <he first time, he apoke: ^Christian!" he echoed in that deep tone, which thrilled the preacher to the Inert, M??N that faith give me back my tiwwrt Come with ma?Come * it j mo far over the water. Jlah ! we ore there? Tbie is my native town. Yonder i? the "church in which I knelt in childhood ? yonder tk* groan on wliieb I sported wtun boy. Bntanatbar flag thap thai waved wlian I dm a child. And li?tow, old tn?n; w?ro 1 lo fMi along tbia aireet aa I paaaad wbon im child, tho very bnbra In their cradles would raiaa their liny bends and rurse me. The grave* in yonder ebmvli yard would abriuk from my footstep** and yondar ting would ttnin I n hapttaw of Mood upon my heart T I That was am awful deMllfUd. TU? minuter kaa wauhvJ the "last night,'1 with a hundred convicU ia their oella and I fvi never beheld a arena *o totriblo ar lb?*? I MMf the dying man wroee. lit ^ luitmd *k?njt Ibn door. With thma white fofcn *rh?a* nail* are blue with b* tb?ow open litn ? ?!* . with silver, an old parchment, a piece of ( cloth thnt looked like the wreck of a battle flag. "Look yc, priest, this faded coat is spot. ted with my blood!" he cried, as old memt ories seemed stirring at his heart. "This ( is the coat I wore when 1 p anted the t banner of the stars on Ticonderoga. That ( Bullot hole was pierced in the fight at , Quebec; now?1 am a?lit me whisper ( in your ear! "Now help mo priest," ho said, in a voice growing suddenly tremulous; "help ' mo put on this coat uf blue and silver.? , For you see," and a ghastly smile came j over his face, "there is i.one to wipe the J I I I wiu urojw irotn my l?row; no wile, no cl.ild?I must meet denth alone; but I will meet him as 1 met him in battle, without fear." While ho ptood arraying himself in that worm-eaten coat of blue and silver, the good preacher spoke to him of faidi in Jesus. Yes, ol that great faith which pierced the clouds of human guilt, 1 and rolls them back from the face of God. "Faith!" echoed the strange man who stood there, erect, with the denthlight in his eye. "Faith, can it give me hack my ' honor! Look yo, priest, there over the waves, sits George Washington, telling to his comrades tlio pleasant story of tineight years' war?ihcfc in his royal halls sits George of Kngland, bewailing in his 1 idiotic voice ti e loss of his Colonies. And hero am I?I ? who was first t?? raise the Hag of freodoir., the fir.-1 to strike a blow against that King?here I am dying like a dog!" The awe stricken preacher started back from the look of the dying man while throb?throb?throb?beat tlio death watch in the shattered wall. "Hush! silence along the lino there!" lie muttered iu that wild absent tone, as though speaking to the dead; "silence along the line*! Not a word on peril of your lives, ilark you, Montgomery, we will meet ill the centre of ilic town? *iVe will meet there in victory or death? Hist! silence, my inen, not a whisper as you move up those steep rooks! Now on my boys, now on! Men of the wilderness, we will gain the town. Now up with the banner of the star.-; up with the flag of freedom, though the night is dink and the snow falls! Now?now?" shrieked the death stricken man, towering there ' in the blue uniform, with his clenched ' hands waving in the air?"now, now! One blow more and Ouebt'C is ours.' And look! His eyes' grdw glassy.? ' With that word on his lips, he stands 1 there?all, what a hideous picture of des- 1 pair, erect, livid, ghastly ! There for a 1 moment and then lie falls! He is dead! 1 Ah, look at that proud form, thrown 1 ?Jo!d and stiff upon the damp tlooi. In ' that glassy eve thero lingers even yet, I horrible energy, a sublimity of despair. > Who is this strange man, dying here i 1 alone in this rudo garret; this man, who, in all his crimes .-till treasured up tliut 1 ....it. -?.i rf --. veiiv uriiusviM aiiu inumi u?ig r | Who is litis being of liorrihlo remorse? j l itis man whose memories link something of Heaven and more of hell! Let us look at that parchment and that flag. The old minister u.irolU thai faded hag, il wae a blue banner, gleaming with thirteen stars. lie unrolls that parchment. It is a Colonel's com mission in the Continental Army, addressed to, Ukskoict Aknold. And there, in tbil rude hut, while the death-watch throbbed like a heart in the shattered wall?-unknown, unwept, in all the bitterness of desolation, lay the corpse of the patriot and Traitor. 0, that our own true Washington had been there, to sever that good right arm froiu the corpse, and while the dishonored i body rotted into the dust, to bring home I that good right arm, and embalm it a tnoog the holiest memoirs of tiio l'aat. j1 >'ur thai right arm has struck many a , | gallant blow for freedom, yonder at Ti- , t condrroga, at Quebec, Chuinplain and ', Saratoga?that arm yotufor, beneath (he j i i mow-whit* mountain, in the dtp idence j | 1 of the d*etd,fir?t raised into tight the Ian- , > ner of the Starr, K , i it was during (be renowned expedition | ; through the wilderness to Quebec, that t , Arnold encamped for two or three days * i beside the Hirer bf the Dead, near a sn?>wi wbito mountain, which rose tit lovely t . grandeur over all other mountains, into' j or. A mugiu buiuicr 1 ceiided liio mountain with the h<>[>o beholding from -its summit the rocks hi spires of Quebec. When ho came dow Arnold took from lite brtni&t, Where I four days in privation and danger he hi carried it, a blue banner gleaming \vi thirteen stars, lie raised it into the ligl and for the first linio the Continent Banner floated over the solitudes of tl Doad Uiver. This is a fu:t attested 1 history and corroborated by tradition. from the Louisville Democrat. THE KNOW NOTHINGS The rapid rise of the new party calh Know Nothings has been a matter of su pr'se. llow could such an order rise ar multiply so fast ? Well, it is not half wonderful after all; since it is but an o party in a new dress, and one ilmt fi bettor than the uM one. It is but tl former opposition to the democratic part an m posed of tlie same men, lioliling tl same views, tlio sanio sympathies ar antipathies. In fixing tip to start fresh a new element or two is added tlie crcetl, to stimulate the zeal of tl faithful, and accommodate a few of tl gleanings from other parties. Ilostili to foreigners and 'Jalholies is liot at i unnatural to the old whig party. The proclivity to the former has been muuitV ted before. It is a sentiment the faithf always cherished rocretiy. To be sin just previous to ail election their orgni ilways denied it, and their catul dates ft a morbid affection for the brogue and tl accent, but nature would out in mnr ways. The proscription of Catholics a new feature, nnd wo presume it will n lust long. It is designed more to exo favorable terms of amity than as a setth item of the creed. However this may I the new- order is but the old opposition the democratic parly. Everywhere its great | oiut has been defeat democratic candidates for office,! difference what the eon*e<piencos niig be. In the North, the abolitionists ha' used the Know Nothings-, nnd tlio Kuo Nothings have used the abolitionists defeat the democratic parly. Every mi who dared rapport the Nebraska bill, showed a disjn sicion to legi*?de for il whole country, and not for the free Stat entirely, has been hunted down, where was possible, by this new Older, combine with abolitionists. In all the free Stat where the fusion i>ts have been successft they have returned abolitionists to tl Si'iiato of the United States. In one o ly di<l some of the new order make an < fort to defrat an abolitionist, and in tli effort they signally failed. Their call snd obligations were not sufficient to bit the faithful ngaiiist a whig or an ul.o tionist. If it had been a democrat tli I.... I ... ?.- i-e i .1 >..in iv uv ucivmeu, mey could have sto< linn, f<>r (bat is their mission; l>ut a wh snd an abolitionist was too much for tl isithful. Hero in Kentucky, a whig conventh was to be held on the 22nd inst., but ?ndod in a Know Nothing convention Louisville, and the whig Assemblage, ihere arc enough of the party left to for )ue, will only have to peiform the inour rul duty of attending the funeral of tin >ld organization, and han ling over i issets to the new party. Farewell to the name whig; it hi >een sadly abused; and perhaps mad i happy es ape 10 its plac in tl locabulary of our language. Wo ni low to have some other word desecrate ;o a party purpose. \\ see in the Courier a long letter i ulvice ami council from Washington, n< Ireaaed to tho brethron. They havodoi >adly in other 8utes, (ha writer admit [f they can't do better, bettor not do at a riioy set out to reform, and have mat wiifta urilli n >>n ? ... .... .. R.?? culls. The demagogues and old polil uil backs, have taken possession of ll brethren, and used them to their ou mi r poses. They are the natural lioirs i tucli a calamity, ami can't escape the lcsUny. That class of politicians lly ibe new party that are dissaiifffovt *vii he old ones; and they are nrillt the ones because the old ones afe di tntiftfied with them, generally for got reason*. We are not at all surprised that tl whig* have gone into know nothiagiei What should a good sturdy old wh think of the times t He has to do lab n a good oxuet- He baa offered good a of * >*& as . ?tii -ers^i- A? 0.* i9- i vice, no lias preached and written an of exhorted, and perhaps in pressing eine nd , gencies, cheated and iied a little for tl ii, j good of the country; and how has an ui or grateful country responded to all his It iid bors? It has condemned and repudiate th all his good offers. it, , No wonder if he tninks the world h: .al degenerated; that the people arc corrup lie and the old parties unreliable. Sonv ;>y | thing's the matter; and something mu i bo done to save the Republic. Open o 1 gaiiizalion have been tried and failed, let | try secrecy and emft. Somebody's 1 j blame; no doubt about tbut; and who s j likeiy to be llie culprits as these foreignei : tho whigs never lilted, except just befoi lr" an election, ami llie Catholics, whom the ought not to like if tliey did. We nun so sav that this letter is a very unkind ct 1 1 * ' in this Commonweatli. Hosts of Catlu lies have been always the sturdiest kin o( whigs. They have been old soldiers i ^' whig battalions. Are they not most ui >e gratefully treated 1 K' Rut there is a great public necessity ,l" the country must be saved. It is in aba lo way, for it has repudiated whiggery an ,c must be vciy corrupt and stupid of cours* IC So a whig might very naturally reasoi 'y We don't wonder at it at all. Most me don't relish the idea of other people's ill " fallibility, but are very partial to tliei H" own; that tliey have been wrong all tbei lives is the last idea that will be allowe ' > to enter their heads. "s The now order are fond of boasting c It recruits from the democratic ranks, an lc to keep up appearances they will give crum or two in the way of uflice to a dem ocrat now and then; but tliey have n "l place on their platform for democrats irer I t r ?1 " ? ' erally. These latte r have no reason to b dissatisfied willi thu country. It is Join " pretty well. It bus been under decide l" dcmocialic rule, ami has therefore bee about light. It is charged that foreigner have generally voted one way. Th meaning is, that they have voted demt 'll cratic; That only shows thtiir seilse, an u' their eonipotency to vote right. It i: AV moreover,charged ilia: the Catholics hav 10 voted democratic, which, by the way, i ,n not true in this state; and it is a fact thu 01 a large proportion of foreigners and Call " oliis have voted whigs, and worked liar for the whig party. In this they hav 11 not shown much discrimination, wegtan and we have tin dou'it most of them ar 0,1 sorry for this sin by this tAno. Upon t!i ' whole deiiioo.ills have reisoii to believ lw that the counliy has been doing very wel " take it all round, and have no reason t fly to this new order for salvation; nor wi Hl they do it. Those w ho think the old den ocralic paity dead in Kentucky will fin themselves mistaken; and our opponent needn't suppose that by putting on a lie' nt dress they will not be recognised as th same old coon. There nothing but an ol ,r> party race coining oil in this State, tlii " Summer. Disguises had as well t thrown aside. They deceive nobody. it Tho Biter Bitten. In If At seven o'clock the dinner was serve in up, and a better ono never was given i n- Calcutta; hot as every pleasure mill >ir come to an end, so this excellent dinnc ts was at laat finished. The desert was aL served np, and the hookahs began to em is their guttural notes. Many worts th le subjects broached nnd got rid of; man le me toasts wiuim enlivened lltolashionabi re feast. td At length, by the ino*t s'tilful manrri: tering atid with infinite tact, Mucaula of brought tho beauty of the new tables o 1- the tapis. Every one admired them, an 10 felt grateful to tlieiil for having so lat( s. ly supported the rich dinner of thci II. bust. le "They are of the finest mahogany 1 et of er s?w," said Major Hriscoe. ? 'They are perfect," said another. " le never saw any so well proportioned i n my life. I must have roiuo made lik to them.* >ir "They are too high," chimed in Chai to ley Macnulay, with affected indifferent lli ?"just a little too high, tkm'lyou thin >d so, Gordon ?" a- *Oo the contrary," replied the hoe >d "if any thing, I consider them a shade to low." to "You are mistaken, tuy dear fo n. | low ; t have an excellent eye, and I ai iff I sure I am riuht. No table shoeld M I isro feat d??<U?M *1 lewtoue mc ul I "You are in error; tliey are not iuor< r- than two feet and a half.'* 10 "Don't bet, James, don't bet, for 1,'n 11- sure of the fact. I tell you 1 cannot b< a deceived ; my cyo is always correct." d "Not bet ? If the tables were not mj own, and consequently I should bet ot is : certainty, I'd lay you a lac of rupees thai t; they are not more tlian thirty inches ir e- height." st "O, if you are willing, I will make the r- bet; but rcmembet", gentlemen, I led yon 's beforehand, that I am certain of the fact o I say theso tables are at least thirty-oiic io i Inches from the ground." rs "Done, for a lac of rupees !" cried Gor o ; don. y j "Done!" re-echoed Charley. s,t The wager was duly registered. A it servant was ordered to bring in a yard ). measure, when Charley Macaulay turned d around with an air of triumph, and a said? i- "You may save yourselves the trouble of measuring?ha ! ha!" and be chuckled with delight?"I w arned you fairly that I ,1 hi t on certainty, and so the bet must Le ,| | binding, James." . ?. ''I stand to my bet," said Gordon. "Well, then pay mo the money. I n nvasttred the tables this morning while i. you were shaving, and here is the memoir random of height?thirtv one inches exr Hot?y." j The colonel burst into a roar of laughter, as ho prixhiced the pocket book with ,f the memorandum in it. j "I know you did," said James ; 'T saw* a you do so in the looking glass." The colonel sturted. u "Yes, I saw you do it; an J as soon as you had gone away, knowing well your 0 object* I bad an inch sawed oft' of every .. leg. So for once, my knovVlng friend, the j tables are turned !" .. The roar that shook the table would s have drowned Niagara. Charley Macauw lay left Calcutta the next day ten llioturand pounds sterling p wrer than l?o was the day he arrived ; and what was still , worse, the very youngest ensigns in the e army quizzed him ever afterwards, l'er18 haps he was richer in the end, however, lt J for it was his last het," j "It Can't be Helped." e I ''Cant't Ik* helped" is one of the thou' j sand convenient phrases with which men 1 , cheat and deceive themselves. It is one in which the helpless and the idle take rec fuge as their last and only comfort?it ... ' can't be helped '. Youi energetic man is ' t i.-i-: 1 " I mr uui|mig everything. it tie sees an evil j ami clearly discerns its cause, he is for J tukiug steps forthwith to remove it. lie busies himself with ways and means, deb vises practical plan# mid methods, and iV will not let the world rest until lie hasdono c something in a remedial way. , j The indolent man spare# himself all ; this trouble. He will not budge. He c sits with his arms folded, and is ready w ith J his unvarying observation, ''It can't be helped," a# much n# to say?"If it is, it ' ought to ht'j and t*e need not bestir ourj j selves to alter It." n Wash your face, you dirty little social it b?y > you are vile, and repulsive, and vi,r cious, by reason of your neglect of cleanli0 ness. "It can't he helped." Clear away your refuse, sweep your streets, cleanse 0 your drains and gutters, purify your uty mosphere, you indolent corpoations, for e tho cholera is coming. "It can't behelpod." Educate your childrcd, train them up in virtuous habits, teach them to be y indue:itons, obedien', frugal and thoughtn ful, you thoughtless communities, for they j are now growing up vicious, ignorant and I careless, h source of future peril to the najr tion. "It car/t be helped.'1 But it can be helped. Every evil can be Abated, every tiuiaance got rid of, every abomination swept away ; though this 1 will never bo done by the "can't-be-holpn ed" people. Man is not helpless, but can ,e both help himself and help others. Ho can act individually and unitedly against r- wrong and erih He bat the power to :e abate and eventually uproot them. But k alas! the greatest obstaclo of all in the way of such beueficial action, is the feelit, ing and disposition out of which arises ?o the miserable, puling and idle ejftctthitioti of "It can't be helped." AS* trials etf Ufa 'V* --? m "'r*" *??? i?*i' ^ which Ascertain how much gyUJ there ii >h 'n "* . ? _ One to-day is worth two to-morrow*. jN " * ijL * ~ M 4 proveuients carried out on the place ; ?-r. I withal a very fair crop of cotton made and sent to market in good time and fine order; if followed, perhaps, by ono vvl.o has established for himself a reputation with many employers, by making an enormous crop of cotton ! "1 made, last year for Mr. , upon his worn place, with so and so hauds, so and so bales of cotton." Ah! he is a manager!?teu? twelve bales to the hand! Not a word of the active, healthy, not over-Worked ? hands; the full corn cribs; abundance of fodder, peas, potatoes, &c.. the hogs killed and meat cured; the fine teams, good fences, poor spots manured, wet places ditched; roads well worked; gin house, scaffolds, tfce., in tiue order, with which he commenced the year?all the work of his predecessor. Nor of the condition of tilings then upon the place?the exact rovers of all this. Ilis big crop proving to be a serious loss to the employer, in the end. To those managing estate? as Execu tors, Guardians, etc.; these books aro invaluable. A prominent New Orleans ;| AGRICULTURAL. . a j From the Southern Cultivator. System on the Plantation?Letter from ! ' j Mr. Affleck. L | To , Esq : > Dkak Sin?The remark in yours of thej ; 18th inst., surprises me no little?that i s ! "for myself I have no hope o! ever getting i i j an overseer whb tvill or can keep such a . j book" as my ''Plantation Record and Ae! count ltook." And that you arc now | "trying to leach one?perhaps my best? j who has 100 workers tinder Itiin, to write ' and to read my writing." An overseer unable to write, and yet j entrusted with the management of a propj erty worth, I presume, from ?150,000 to 1 ?180,000; and the happiness, to a very great degree, of some 150 souls ! In w hat I other business would such a risk be run ? i And vet it is by no means an uncommon ; state of things. Still, in your case, I was well aware that if men really competent for such an employment and position could be had, you would have them. And l ' hence, infer that your overseers, as a class, aru thus ignorant. Here, it is not so. There are many j overseees here who are men well educa| ted and fully competent to the responsible J charge of large plantations?in not a few j instances, able to keep and do keep their j Plantation Rooks in a satisfactory man| nor. ! When I first commenced cotton planing, having been trained in Scotland to I the strictest business habits, I was astonI isbed beyond measure to find that it was j alu.ost impossible to find an overseer who I wi uld ever listen to an idea of the kind? I as to keeping a plantation book. They ! would note the daily picking of cotton j and the w eights of the bales as sent oil'? but nothing else. That would not suffice i j for mo. I looked around amongst my ( neighbors and found some few who haii ! . ? 1 kept regular plantation books for many j years. I examined these, and gained ' ! many valuabled hints. Rut the great I I . , , I liiniculty was, the entire waul ol uniform- j j ilv, or of anything like a general system 'of management recognized by all. During my first year's planting, I prepared two books with the pen, almost identical I I with nliat now published for llio cotton , ,.l...mlsn ? ...... i. - , miivi J^u* v Uiiy IW vrttu Vil HIV | : next year's overseers. making it a part of! my contract with them, that these Looks w ere to he correctly kcj>t and returned to me nttho end of the year. And, with a little assistance and encouragement, it was done. Ar.d w hat a satisfaction it was to ine ! Soon after that, at the suggestion : of a New Orleans Publisher, 1 prepared ( him a transcript of the plan for publication, and the books we-e published. For years, they went off slowly, but surely.? Now, as I mentioned, the edition of '2,000 for the present year will all be J sold. Already a vast improvement in the overseers themselves is observable, and certainly in the system of plantation management and discipline. Think of the advantage to both planters and overseers of even 1,000 books of written from dayto-day experience, scattered over the country. At first,overseers were strongly opposed to any such evidence of a strict responsibility to tlil'ih elnployers ; and to the trou Me of n daily entry of wliat occurred up- j on tlio place; a quarterly inventory of j stock, tools, <fcc., <fcc., Hut. they had no alternative?it was made n part of their contract, and must bo done and done well. The effort was made, and ;he task found I to he not so very serious a one after-all. It even helped to while away an hour of an evening; and the retrospect passed many a wet day off pleasantly. The htfnd writing improved. Kusiness habits were induced, and everything moved along more smothly. Ovorseers found that their assurance that they had "been in the habit of keeping one of Affleck's Plantation Hooks" was no small recommenda1 lion to desirable situations. They found, 1 loo, that, in fact, their responsibility was * lessened rather than increased. "Ilere 1 are iny wrtteu orders?there it the proof 1 that they wore carried out ?for the result lam not alone responsible." Then, again an able and Intelligent manager, w ho . leaves his com cribs fall; stock innreaaed in number and in fine order; the negroes comfort tidy housed, fed and ?*i*d fbf; Implements made W borne; sand*/ lis* ; j "JVT - *1%A .. 'if i*i factor gratified mo not a little recently by remarking that he has little hesitation in advancing to or accepting for a Planter who kept his Plantation Record and Account Rook correctly, requiring the same of his overseer?"such planters knew what they were about, and, in fact, rarely asked for advances." Instances have already occurred in the Courts, in which the overseer's daily cutry in his Plantation Book was received as or idence, in the same manner as the entry of a Merchant's clerk in his Day Book. But I have spun out my letter far beyond what I intended when 1 sat do*n to rfeply to yours. M any thanks for the blank leaf from your own Plantation Book. ItjsuggerUsd a vast improvement to mine, which 1 shall iiiuku in iny ue.M editions. J'ray favor mo v illi a copy of your Plantation Rules. Soiiiii one in Richmond, Virginia, I believe, lias publislnj an almost literal reprint of my books; but with the part o'f llamlet omitted ! Most shabbily gotteu up, and some of the most important re- jfr*. cords left out. We think it, here, indispensable that the cotton picked by each band each day should be recorded. It for no other purpose than to compel a uniform and invariable system on the part of the overseer. There should be no omissions. 1 have not tini" to point out all the advantages ; but lliey arc many; 1 have been compelled to binit many things I should like to have included, to avoid complication. The planter himself should keep records of encb^Qeld, <fce.? My plan is, a skeleton map of the plantation, cut out of Bristol board, leaving a net work of tho board, for the boundaries of the fields, ?fcc., of about n quarter of an inch wide, upon which the Nos. of tho fields are noted, their contents, when clear/>r1 Tl.-.o i..: 1 1 ? - v., iiih m iniu uver h OJHliK silC'.t, and sketched around with a pen, tawing a copy of the skeleton. In the spate marked out for each field, notes of the crops are made, ?fcc., <tc. But I must close. Yours very respectfully, Thomas Affleck. Washington, Miss., Jan., 1855. What fTid of. We overheard once the following dialogue between an Alderman and an Irish v shop lifter: ? w . i 44 W hat's gone of yotir husband, woman ?" "What's gone of him, yor honor ?-? Faith, and he's gone Jend." "U 4,Ah I pray what did he die oft" 4,T>ie of, ycr honov t lie died of a Friday." " "I don't mean what day *of the week, but what complaint!" ? M '(">, whnt-com plaint, yerhomr? Faith; 3s and it's himself that did not get lime t<> complain." ? 4<J, he died suddenly f 'jSi .jj ' kathiip il<?t w"' ?? ' ??" afct --V, r "Did he foil in a fit !w No newer. ^ "He fell In a fit, perhape ?" "A fit, yer honor) Why, no,, ,wpt ex-' 1 Actljr that. He fill) <>??t of a, window, or through a celler door? I don't know \?h?t | "No, not quite tbjit, yer woielip.*' J "There wee a bit of a elring or oord, or like that, and it throltj^^pf^ ^ ?