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# * VOLl'ME XV. LANCASTER C. IT., S. C., FEB., 21, 18(50. MMBER 2. frSSTUla TO NATURE, lnY MOTHER. i O nature, po-verful, sriiiliug, cal w, To ?y unquiet heart, Thr pi'ncc, distilling as a balm, Thy mighty life impart. 0 nature, mother ftill the game, 80 lovely milil with me, To live in pi-ace, unsung by fame? Unchanged I conic to thee ; 1 come to live a* faints have lived. I ti? where tlicy have fled. By men unholy nevce grieved, In piayer luy team to shed. Alone with thee, f om cities far. Dissolved each earthly lie; By some divine magnetic a'-ar, Attracted Mill on high. Oh I that my heart, inhaling loro And life with ecstaey, From this low world to worlds above, Could lire excitingly! ilkimmms. Letter from Bill Arp. In lite following letter to tho Now V ?rI; Metropolitan IUco.il, 1)111 Arp describes - - nm reium to h<s tioiue in Konif, fioiu which ho had retreated on tho approach of the Yankee army J Editur ATetterpolitun Rekord: Mr. Editur, ijur?I hav not up to this lime ma le any re-narks in public about the trial* and tribulation*, the lo**i? and croanee, the buzzirda and de-?d host** seen on our j urney home la the eternal cilty. I shall not allood to It now, only to remark that our coming back wore not to hatty a* our leavin. It wm in the dead of w*nler, through aleot, overcretks without bridge* ar d bridges without floora, through h deserted and desolate land where no rooster waa left to krow, no pig to aqueal, no dog to bark : where the | ..t i i i * L uiui VI unj>|ij UUIIira ?uui?iru inn W"J"| and ghostly chimnejrs stood up like 8lier | man's sentinels a guardin the ruins lm bud made. A little on* !h>hs consent i "-..._it?ad the height of my world'y pen j 'Miiioin, consistin of my numerous and , lovely wife end children, and a xliuck has- < ket ful of some second clars vittuais. i Counting our offspring, there was about , tea of us iu about and around that wagin, 1 thus illustrating what the poet has sed, j j ' One glorious hour of crowded life is I , worth an ?ge without a name," though \ the glory was hard to purs-eve on sicli i okasbuns. Mrs. Arp are of the opinyoun , that her posterty were never as hungry before in their lile as on that distressing I ; journey, and she once remarked that there want nary rod of the road that dident hear some of em a hollerin for vu;e'.*. ' , hi? wife's hlishatid is Irruit.leil l.abunal tb?) mint broke vf ii yir, mil it do teem lbst ibe poorer I gel the moio devourin they bekum, all of which wil' eend in etinubin or oiber if auiuihin don'i bap. pea. We finally Arrived wjthio tbe preaii.kta of our lovely Lon e. Tbe door* creaked welcome on their h'ngea, the hop"p:n'l?u;? eberruped on tbe hu-trlb, eud the wbietliu wind *u aingin tbe aarne old tune around the bedroom corner. We were About aa happy aa we h?d been inferable, and when 1 remarked that General Vandiv-r, who okkupied our bona*, muat be a genllurnau for not buroiu it, Mrs. Arp replied? '*1 wonder what be done with my aoing maabeeo." "He dideut cut down our alade trees," aed 1. \fu V,-~.l 1 ?mw ?rw?v*? ?'?U auu VI '/V. Ml Y are all gone," **<1 ?he. "It may b? po.tibul," eed I, "that the Ceoiul " "And toy barrel of ?o*p," ted alia. "It may be poasibul," tad I, "(bat (ha Gearul moved ofT our thing* to take keer of am for ur, ! rackon we'll get em all back alter while." *Alter white" aaid lira. Arp like an ekbo, and aver tinea than, when I a Hood to our Noiibera braibren tha only repliee, *'titter while." By and by tba tkaltered wanderora be gun to drop in under the welcnm abadaa of our aoirowful city. It war a delightful enjoyment to greet em home, and liaten to the hitlcry of thoir anller* inge aud tniaioriuuea. KJitery lom ooni # pany, and alder lite misery in past there's a power of comfort in talkin it over ami .ixiu up as bio a tale as nnv body. I war itandin one day upon the banks of ?lie injun river, wondetin in my nond who would come next to gladden our hoa?t?, w hen I ?aw the shadder of an Ot jek a darknin the sun lit bank. It wer not a load of hay nor an e'efant, but shore enuf 't wer my frend liirj John, a inoviu slow Iv, but surelv, to the dug o il landing on the opposite able. Hit big round fare nsmuiiie i more inmooti wuen lie saw in?-; j and without wniliu for remarks lie mine; j out in a voice some two slaves deeper limn the Southern Harmony? "TliTe came to th beech n poor exile of Etin." | "Make liim /<>!," s:t*d T, "and vou'l j fill the bill." Prouder to s^e him than a monkey show, I padd'ed the dug out over in doubh- quick and bid liitn wrlcnui in the name < f the e.ernal city ami it> I humble inhabitants. I soon rot him K a afloat in the little canou, atul b.-fov 1 was aware of it the water w % clothing over the gunnels at every wabble. "Lay j down, my frond," se.l I, ami be lid. which was h!I that saved us from a watrv grave, and the naln oriu farms from iu ondation. Winn rafelr landed 1 found Will wedged in so tight Pint he coiildeiit i iae, ro 1 to ieve 1 him by a ]?: i'mr ii li the eeild of the paddle. As his lb >t touched the sakred evil he gently scperated bis countenance and sting wi.h fee in mcloily. "Home nc?<n?home air Ju?f om a fmrin shore. The Yank* may cum and the devil loo, but I'll hot run any more." ItecollecLin ?.uue tkrura of l/nt.k veise myself, I stnl wit It much akaeut. "J'eil me thou swilt of fool?thou modern Aval el?Oh tell lne where i? thy charot and aleer f Wbtn didst thou go when I did see the driving like Jehu m we did flee for life." "I'll tell you all"?se-1 bo "i want my Iriende to know it. I'm now h inan of war, llill, and I'm glad of it. I've done the s:ate some svrvis and sl.e knows it. I've handled guns?yes, gnns, weeptns of Jeth. I've s'r|>t on inv arm* sinin I seed you?night after night liav I slept on my arms, with hundred* of deadly weepies ? I mound ine. Ah Hill, Patriotism is a b'g thing. >Mi?n you oncetreuke the ice, gre it e!?iicen of glory a* hig ?a your arm will j?-?i spring up like mushrooms in your buzaum, ami make you feel I ke throwin yourself clean away for four country. Let me ret down and III tall you all I know, Hill, toil as the le U-r raid in the theatre, "when you in your letters^ere unlucky deed* relate apeak of me as I am?nothing expatiate nor set down hot in malice." "Jest so" sed I, "exa*ktly?cxa^k'y so. "Proseed, my hero." "Well you ace n?ght af ?r you parsed - a a If 1 _ J mo, iny sierr gin ??*v, "" aeuvin be ist I I hunted smartly for him the neit morning, but I hunted mora forerds than backwards. Lcavin my ivk| in with * wiiler woman, I took it afoot across lli# country by a se tlcmert road they called the "cul off," Devil of a cut off it was to ma. I broke down in sight of a little log cabin, anil never moved ? foot further that day. The old man bad a chunk of a nag that worked in w slide. I par* waded him to haul mo to the eetul of tbs 'cut off,' and I know be done it for fear I'd eat up lus smoke house. Every now and then he'd look at the old oman, and she'd look at the amoka house and then look at rne. Hut that ahdin bi?ne?a wi re tha most orfullest travedin that I aver hav bad, Every time the pony'd look bark haM stop, and when he'd start again he gib such a j- rk that toy contents were in danger. My holt br >ke on one OKKAitiun, a gom down a lull full of gullit*. I rolled some twenty f-?t into the edge of the wood*, and CJtch up agin nn old pine atump that an full of yaller jackets. Threu of the dingd things stung me before I could rise, but I got through the 'cut off,' and fell in with some empty wagina that wae atanipedin my way. 'Giltin on lo Atlanty, a fool Irishman toped me right in the edge of the town And deinaLde.l my papors. I d dent hue no papers. No body bad ever axed me for papers, but he wonldent hear An ar gumeot. Aa Q isiiea would eay, he woudeot jine itthui, but marched me to an ollU, ni.d I dident slay there ten minutes. I wer sent off to Dekatur with some fifty couskripts who wer all in rnouruin, ex<opin their ciothes. I never seed sich a pitiful net iu my life. I talked with em all, and thar was nary one but what had the dvspepsy or the swinny or the rummies or the blind ata^tfeia or the heavers or the hump* ornumthin. Well, there wvnt none of us discharged, for I liters whs bran new order* cailm fur I everybody fur thirty days lo go to the ditches. A* I cou'.deni walk that fur, I. was ordered <o A ndersom ills lo guard li e prisoner*. At Makon I met an old okwaintni.ce, wlio was a powerful big I ollior, and be ha I me transited lu bin 1 | department an put mo in charge of bin ordnance. There's where 1 handle 1 guns, 1 >:ll, and slep on uiy arms. Whole bote* of muske's was around me, and I dideut iio more mind takiu a snooze on a gnu box than if it had been a couch of 1 I'ethery down. lis all in giliin used to it, I. II ? ali in the use." ' Jest m>," Ked 1, ''that* tbo way I see it ?exakely ?<>, my friend. 1 'rorrid, 'its bUorM incky, Iiit 1, that I didn't go to Anderson vide, 'lhey would have i.ad toe along* do of Wirtz, either as a prboncpal or witness or suinliiin, ami j sumo lvin \ ardc won .! litv I....I . .....or >r two at rue about aliooiin Imn on tbe ilttii line. Ueiotu 11 *. h 111 \ cat La** won d have !?? ? n eat up by worm* or cut up by l.btktnig, and inv pikter *p>ed all over a whole aide of Ilaiptr's Weekly u> u inoftttler of deth. "Well, I kep bandlin guns and hyneta aud d tngeroue weepma, on<ill one day I got a furio to go to Koine. Sherman waa piavin ba?e around about Atlanta, and *o I had to circumference around by the ?uy of Selui", and the very dav I got there, everlaatiu blnat em, the Wdaon rauier* got there too. 1 waaeot no more looktu for litem Y ankeea in Helma then t were for old llce'sehub, and both ofeua< waa all the aame to lue. Blaotd if they waaent ahootm at me before I knowd they waa in lite State. V Jw in the dickena they roi*aed me 1 don't know, for the r tu nny balla aungyanka dood'e ail around tne and over rue and under ine and be Iwixt me. "I lei I you, Hil>, I run lik* a mud tur ke', lookin ahead of id* Ml every step to. I find an a ?sy place to fall when I was | plugged. A^id old woman overlook roe, and 1 axed It*r to take my wat<:L and my money. Site look ern in a hurry and put ' em in her boosum. Weil, I found n gully at last, and rolld ill keraptosh, for it was about two feet tie* p iu mud and water. The infernals founJ me therejest at night, and got me out at the pint of the bay net. i'l.oy m arc lid inn to the wolf pen, and there I atayd till the fui>a was oVer. "K'ghl here. Hill, I wanl to make an . l..~. : 'IU l_!l j i>irri*iiui;ii. i i.trc i*?l R Ift.pr WILD I11P k1i?ii I whs cotchid, and I seed hint make a sorter of a a gn to the captain, and they turned hint loose ir. two ruinets, and | lie j-st went about any where as nateral | as it king, while I had a crossey'd dutch. man statidio oter rue with a bay net grin; iu frmn morn i it till night. There was some Kreo M^aorirv about that, Hill, and ; if an .liter one of there fool ware cornea a> ' long, I'll jine em, if they'l let ine. | "Hut I'm at home now for good. I'm game to slay >>et* like a sine die. I'm agin all wars and fightins. I'm oppaed to all rows an 1 rumpussea and I > clout keer nigh as much alout dog fights as I used to. Now if one could always see the end of a thing in advance, and the tend teas alt right, I woulJent iniud a big fuss, but then you know a ntan'a I foresights aint as good ?? his hind eights. It they was, this war wouldent liar broke out, and 1 wouldeut have l<>st my etear, nor my watch. I nevar aeed that woman b.-.fore nor ainco, and I wouhUnt know her from any other woman (hat walk* i ilia yeartb?blaind if I'm certain whether he were white or black. Bill, bow ia ' jour offspring I" "Hungry as usual, thank you my Trend," aed I. "How'a Mr?. Arp t" "Hebellioua, John, eery ; hut I think ahe'l be harmonised?altertchih?aten tcAi/t/' Kir. Editor, I will not relate further ol these trying adventures at tbie time. ^ U;g Johu are now entirely harmonious, and I supp< so Ills future career will be ail | screen. Yours as ever, Bill Arp. P. S.?Mi*. Arp wants you to pet bark the letters I writ her whet, she were sweet B'Xteen. Them ofllsers have pot etn and I suppose have laughed ail the funny part away by this time. They contained some fool things that boys will write when they fsil tn love, and my wife sometimes uses em upon me as rei Pithders or broken promises. ??... .... .. :? .1 -.-'i - ? " - ..nr. cir., ii mr> i n?nu em, sue i irv and furtive em? a tier while. I Dont trouble yourself much., Mr. EJilur, ami it will be all tbe same to in?. B. A. Interview Between the PreFident and a Negro Delegation. A body of r.eoroes, healed by Fred Douglass, on Wednesday visited the' White llouso and were ushered into a reception. Kre<b l>out;ln?s advanced nnd address, ed the President, saying : "Mil. Piiksidknr ? We are not here to enlighten you, sir, as to your duties as 1 llie t.'hicf Magistrate of this republic, but to show our rtspect and present, in brief, tiie claims of our race to four favorable considerat'on. In the order of l>i?ine j Providence you are p'a-el in'a p rsilion | where ion have the power to save or do slrov us ? to bless or blast us. 1 mean | our whole race. Your noble and humane predecessor placed in our hands the sword to assist iu sarins the nation, and we do hope that ve i, his able successor, will fai Vnmh'v r?rv*? r.J lliu rv 1 ?/%'...? ? * *" 1 1 . ew^w.%. iko yavm? ?ii uur ui?nus tl ? ballot which to sar? oursetres. W# shall submit no argument on that poin'. 1 lie fact that we are the subjects of Guvi eminent, and subject to taialion, subject to *' ? awLjoet to be drafted, subject to bear the burdens of the State, make it not improper that we should ark to ahare in the pmilege of this cotdition. I hare no speech to submit on thir occasion. 1 aimply submit tlie*e ols?rvations as a limited expression of the r;ews and feelings of the delegation with which I here come." The 1'resilient, after stating generally that ha was a Iricnd to all men, both black an<l while, said : 4 If I k now mrrelf and the feelings of my own heart, they hare been for the colored man. I hare owned stares and bought slave*, but I never sold one I might ist, boA*?er, that practically, *o fur as mv connect on with slave* ha* gone, 1 hays been their slave instead of their being mine. &ome have even fol lowed me here, while other* are orupyi ing and ei joying my property with mv eonsent. For the colored race my mean* my lime, my all have been perilled ; and now, at this late day, sfter giving evi dence tbat is tangible, that * practical, I am t'ree to ?ay to you that I do not like to l>? arraigned by some who c.-*? get up handsomely rounded periods and deal in rhetorical talk about abstract id*** of liberty, who never perile! life, liberty or property. Th>* kind of theoretical, hollow, unpractical friendship amounts to bit very l<ttle. NVLile I say that I am a friend to the colored man, I do not want to adopt a pol:oy that I believe will end in a content between the races, which, if perg'ated in, will result in the e*terinination of one or the other. God forbid that I should be engaged in such a work. Now, it is best to talk practically and in a common ?eu?e war. Yes, I have said, and I repeat here, that if the colon eJ men in the United States could find no other Moses or ?ny Moses that would ba mure able and efliciant than myself, I would be hit Mosea to lead him from bondage to freedom; that I would pass him from a laud where he had lived in tlavery, to a land?if it were in our reach?of freedom I Yes, I would be willing to pass with him through the Red sea and uia land or promise to the land of liberty. But I am not willing, under either circumsUocea, to adopt a policy which I l>el;e*e will only result in th? sacrifice of his hfe and the shedding o ' his blood. I think I know what I say j I feel what I say, and I feel well assured I that if the policy urged by some be per1 bisted in, it will result iit great injury to j the white 14k well as to the oulore 1 matt. , There it a great deal of talk about the ] sword in one linnci accomplishing an end | anil the ballot accomplishing another at I the ballot box. These things all do very I well, and sometimes have forcible apjdi. I cation. We talk about justice. We ta.k | ?1 _ i.. it' ' ituiiui rigor. >>6 say Unit the white man liah been in the wrung in keeping > the black man in slavery as loon as In has. That is all true. Again, we talk about tbe Declaration of Independence ami equality before tbe law. Vou tin' ders'.unl all that and ktiow how to a;? preciate it. Hut now let us look each other in lite face ; let us go to the great mass of colored people throughout the slave States ; let its tske the condition in which thev are at the present lime, ami it is bad enough wo all know, and sup pose yon could say to every one you shall vote to-morrow, bow would it ameliorate their condition at this time ? Now, let J us get closer tip to true subject and talk I about it. \\ hat relations have the color. e<l man and the white tnau occupied in I the Fouth heretofore ? 1 oppose slavery j upon two grounds: First, it was a great J monopoly, enabling 11 ?c.se who ti nlrollvd j and owned it to constitute an aristocracy ; enabling the few to drire great j-to. fits and rule the many with an iron rod a* it were. And that is one great ol-jec' lion to ti in ii government, its belt.*: h monopoly. I was opposed to it secondly upon the abstract principle of slavery*.? Hence, in gelling clear of a monopoly, we I were getting clear of slavery at the same lime. So you see there were lw^? right ends accomplished in the accomplishment of the oue. Mk. Doi'ulabs.?Mr. PresiJent,do yon wish Thk I'kkridkst.?I am not quite through vet. Slavery has been abolish wv. , ? national guaranty oi* ( en given?one that cannot be revoked. I wa.? getting at the relation that subsisted between the white man and the colored man. A very sm til portion of white men, compared with the whole number of such, owned the colored people ot the cl . I f 1 - csoutn. i nngni instance tin) iState <.l Tennessee in illustration. lucre were l?entj?s?ven non-slaveholders lo ofie slaveholder, ami yet the slave power con trolled that Slate. Lei us talk about litis matter ?? it is. Although the colored inan was in slavery there, and owned as I property in the sense and in the language ! of that locality and of that community, yet, in comparing his condition and his i position there with the rioti slaveholders, he usually estimated his importance j'JH ; in proportion to the number of slave* that hla master owned, with the uom slaveholder. Have you ever lived upon | a plantation ? Mr. Douglass.? 1 have, your Kx Ceil en cy. + , Tlie President.? When you would 'ook over and see a man who had a Urge family struggling hard upon a poorer ; piece of land, vou thought a ivreat deal | le>a of him than yon did of your mas I ler ! Mr. Douglass.? Not I. The President.? Well, I know such was the case with a Urge ztiaj >iity of you in those sections. Where such is the case, we know there is an enmity, we know there is a hale. The poor while man, on the other hand, was opposed to the slave and liin master, for the colored man and , his master combined kept hiiu in slavery | by depriving him of a fair participation iu the labor ar.d productions of tl.e rich 1 land of the country. Don't you know that when a colored man is going to hunt a master, as they call it, for the next year they will prefer living with a man win owned slaves rather than with one win did not. I know the (act at a!i events. Mr. Douglass.?because they treated | him better. The President.?They did not considei I it quite as respectable there to a man win > did nut own negroes *s to hire tu ono v*hc cl it| . Mr. Douglas*.?llecaute he would no be treated an well. 11 Tbe President.?Then lb at is a nothe f| argument in faeor of what I am going I . J say. It shows that the colored man an I . predated the slave-holder more liighl I than bo did the man who did not ow alave*: hence the enmity between the colored man anal the nor slave-holder*. I'lie w liite man was permitted to vote before iho Governmenl w as derived from him. Ho is a part arij parrel of tlie political machinery. Now, by rebellion or revolution, and when you come back to the ohvcta to this war. vnu find ihaf. the abolition of slavery was not one of the objects. Congress und the President himself declared that it was waged on our p.irt in oider to suppress '.he rebellion. The abolition of sdavtry has come a* au incident to the suppression of a great re? hellion. As an incident, and as an no cordanf, we shou'd give it the proper direction. The colored man went into this rebellion a slave ; bv the operation of the rebellion 1 e carne out a freedmnn, equal to a .Veil man in any other portion of the country. There, then, is a great deal done lor him on thin point. The nnn*tdave*hoh!er, who was forced into the rebellion, and w as as loyal as those who i.rid h?vond the limit or the State, was c.uriiel into it, and his property, and, in a number of instances, the lives of such were sacrificed, and ho who lias survived lias Coine out of it with nothing gained, but a gre ?t deal lost. Now upon a prim c'ple of j istice, should they be placed in a condition different from what they were hsfore i On the one hand, one I.aa lost a ijreat deal, aid in a political point id vieiv, scarcely stands where be did l*r fore. Now we arc talking about what j we ?re go ng to argue. 'A ? have got at lie liatra I I y f aruU I 1 I unr. ?v ?lm rar?-s. The query comes np whether litr?f,o lw>> r:?ce-, situated aa lliev were before, without { reparation, without time for passion at.d excitement to be appeased, and without time for the slightest improvement, whether the one should he turned loose upon the other, and be thrown together at the ballot-box with this enmity ai;d hate existing between them I The query comes up, will we IVnnli r^nflrmtVttVrtnll fTiTflg?f Evpfcfaiij is this the ca?* when you force it upon .a people without their consent. ValutiLle Receipts. Hominkt Hufad.?lToil n pint of ! small boniiny?when cold add aearly a J pint of meal, rather more than a pint of ! milk, one tahlespoonful of lard, one egg, 1 and a little salt, pour into a pan and I bake it. Coitage Pudding.?One egg. one cup of milk, two nud one half table-poonfule of melted butter, one cup of white sugar, I r. t-u nint r\f tlnnr Iffd f rtAAnOitnfnk nf cream of tartar, ore teaspoouful of soda. To be eaten with sauce. Ilow ro Sktti.k Coffek.? A commin method of dealing coffee is by the addilion of an egg. The white is the only valuable part for the purpose, and only a small portion ol one is needed for an ordinary family. It should be mixed with the ground coffee before the water is addcJ. Ciean egg shells ^ill do very well. Mn.it rot'.kidoe.?Take half a pint of j boiling water ; mix a large spoonful of flour in a little cold water while it is boilj ing, and !?t it boil fifteen minutes ; then I add a tea cup full of milk, a little salt, ' I . :. t? rl I #4nil ii uu? uuiii Indian Mbai. Grcru?Boil ft pint of r I wyter hi n saucepan ; mix two spoonsful# of Indian meal in a little cold water, and : stir it into the boiling water ; season it J with #alt, and boil fifteen in nutes ; stir it i frequently. Sometime# add h cup of I milk or a gi*** of white wine, a little ' sugar, and a little nutmeg. Oat meal gruel m made the same way, except it must be boiled twenty minutes. Botatok Tie.?^Iftke ft thin pie cruit in the usual way, and lino with it a ba? ' sin or deep p te dish. Kill to the top with finely shred potatoes, among which mix 1 an onion or two sliced eery thin, pepper and salt, and a little butler, dripping, or 1 <rd. l'our over a!! as much good milk A.AU... .... it a .1.1. I ?HI L-IJ IV. -a ii.v ui?u VI unain will UUIU* Either cover with emit or not, accord..ig to option, and Lake in a slow oreu. I Funr, (Jauoxn and Okciiakd.?Ex( amine your orchard*, and cut off all dead . limbs cU a? to the trunk* or branchea ; r scrape oil the moss, and destroy all the 0 chrysalides of cocoons or inioc'.s you can , lind. General pruning should be left un* y til summer. Hoot grafting maybe perr) ' formed this month as well aa the next. I.