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VOL. 2. YOEKVILLE, S. O., THURSDAY, APRIL lO, 1856. . NO. 15.
Original |Mnj.
For the Vorkvillc Enquirer.
NIGHT THOUGHTS ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD.
BY MOXOS, JUNIOR.
Xaaeentes movimui /inis que ab origine prndct.
MANILICS.
How transitory are the things of Life!
That alternation twixt a storm anil calm,?
A storm when, by the laws of stern Necessity,
We bear our breasts against the beating winds;
A calm when, yielding to the ruthless blast,
We sink and then are numbered with the dead.
Come when this calm may?at the eve of life,
Or when the dawn's first blush our cheeks has
tinged,
And it is terrible; from the mournful thoughts
Of endless separation, which it prints
With burning fingers on our trembling hearts,
And from the dim uncertainty, and awful doubt,
WkZ/tk n wnil Anokwmiil fKo /lrc.n/1
But for myself, the thought has twofold awe
When from the ranks of youth the victim comes
Wreathed with sweet smiles and many a rosy blush,
Such as the flower whose fragrance we have lost
Just as it oped its petals to the sun,
Which stricken by the ruthless hand of Death
In its young beauty hastens to decay!
Yes! yes! the child wnose brilliant eyes had shed
Their radiant light upon Earth's gloomy path,
No more shall bring her light and life to hearts
Where grief now sits in darkness deep and drear.
But grieve not for the loved one " gone before,"
But let her be-a beacon light on high
Unwavering midst the storm and mists of earth
To guide our truant hearts safe home to God.
For well we know, when we are pledged by Him
To bliss immortal or to endless woe,
Her tiny form shall walk the vault of Heaven
And sing eternal praises to the Lamb!
Interesting Sfeetcjf.
INTERVIEW WITH SANTAANNA.
Calamar, New Granada, Jan. 11,1856.
We were disappointed, as is usual in all
Spanish countries, in getting our horses to
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1CUVC V/IUlUtt^CUU UU lUC CIUUU^ U1 tUE VU1)
but they arrived during the night, and before
sunrise on the following morning we
were in the saddle. Our baggage was also
placed on the backs of horses aud asses; and
as several friends accompanied us a few
leagues, a cavalcade that looked more like
Chaucer's Canterbury translated into Spanish,
rode forth from the ancient looking city
of Carthagena. We are bound for Bogota,
the capital of New Granada, and our company
consists of General Mosquera?of whom
I have already spoken?two deputies to Congress
from the province, a physician, a young
gentleman returning home from a tour in
Europe, your humble servant, and several
other people's servants, with the usual attendance
of couriers and drivers for the burden
beasts. Including friends and attendants,
there were not less than fifty horsemen
in the party; and as we rode through
the city, gathering those who were on the
point of departure, the fair acquaintances of
each waved their handkerchiefs and sped us
on our way with many an adios from the
overhanging balconies. Among the animals
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was one little jacKass, wnose Duraeu 10 me
unused eye was strange enough. Two strongly
nailed boxes which he bore carried four
thousand dollars in silver, being a remittance
to some one at Bogota.
A pleasant, ride of two hours brought us
to Turbaco, where our friends who were to
return had ordered a sumptuous farewell
breakfast. This village, four leagues from
Carthagena, is the present residence of General
Santa Anna, ex-Dictator of Mexico. After
we had duly honored the preparations
which our friends had made for us, and for
which our ride had given us keen appetities,
about a dozen of us lighted our segars, and
proceeded to call upon the man who had
played so conspicuous a part in Mexican affairs.
His house, which is a large one-story
building, iu the old Spanish style, with
colonade, carriage entrance and gardens, has
a very agreeable aspect in the midst of the
poor thatched houses of the people among
whom he lives.
"We were ushered into the great parlor,
which occupies nearly the front of the house,
and the General was informed of our arrival.
The walls were papered to the height of about
five feet from the floor, with an elegant
French paper, gold iigure on a blue ground,
with crimson border, and the white space
above was relieved by several colored French
prints in plain frames. A rosewood piano
was standing open, with some loose sheets of
music on it; two or three sofas and a dozen
of mahogany cane seat chairs were ranged
around, and across the centre of the room,
between the two great doors, opening one
upon the street and the other upon a green
sward court yard, stood, facing each other,
two.rows of arm and rocking chairs, with a
marble top centre table between them, upon
which stood a vase of flowers. The whole
arrangement had an air of quiet simplicity
and tropical comfort that was very pleasing.
The ex-Dicator appeared almost immediately.
I had known him ten years since, in
Havana, and had expected to find him much
changed, but if there was any alteration it
was for the better. He has all the appearance
of a well preserved man of fifty, about
five feet ten or eleven inches in height, with
a large robust person, erect and somewhat
rotund; his eyes are dark, and the projecting
brow gives them a sunken appearance,
making their color changeable with the varying
light; complexion a fine olive, no whiskers
or moustache, and, with the exception of
a few crow's f?et about the corners of the
eyes, no wrinkles are to be seen about his
face or brow; his hair is of a light iron gray
color, but I am told he uses a dye for it.?
He entered the room slowly, walking with
some apparent labor and quite lamely, using
a cane. His dress was that of a plain Southern
gentleman; pantaloons of a small check
on a brown ground; light vest, thin brown
coat, loose neck cloth and well made boots.
The only ornament was a pin of large brilliants
in his bosom. From his reference to
dates during the conversation, I deduced his
age to fifty-nine, and in reply to the question
he told me that his birthday was the 21st of
February.
He received us with all the stately courtesy
of a Spanish Hidalgo of the old school,
saluting and shaking hands with each person,
and then invited us to be seated. Ilis
conversation was addressed principally to
Gen. Mosquera, who listened with polite attention,
though with frequent frank dissent,
stating that he was a thorough Democrat in
principle and in practice; and he seemed to
express his sentiments with great frankness.
As I had addressed him in Spanish, and
mentioned the fact of my having met him
in Havana, he probably mistook me for a
Cuban, and I was afterwards informed that
he expressed a regret on learning that I was
an American, that he had spoken so freely
of the United States. As he only expressed
political sentiments which his whole public
career has exhibited to the world, I had no
ground for ill feeling, and believe that I am
| not infringing upon the rules of gentlemanly
courtesy in giving your readers a short
sketch of his remarks.
His first inquiry, after the outer bark of
conversation had worn off, was in reference
to the news from Europe, and he expressed
the opinion that the present hopes of peace
were fallacious. He spoke of the contending
parties with what seemed to me good
judgment, and remarked that Russia did not
feel the weight of the war to the same extent
as do the allies in thesr resources, although
the sacrifice of life and treasure had
been immense on both sides. He asked if
the people of the United States continued to
entertain a greater sympathy for Russia than
for the allies, and remarked that it was
strange to see democracy and autocracy thus
sympathizing. The conversation soon turned
to Mexico, and he spoke of his own career
at some length. He entered the Spanish
army as a cadet in 1810, at the age of fourteen,
and served for ten years, during which
time the republican forces under Guadalupe
Victoria and Guerrerawere entirely crushed.
He had risen in rank and attained some distinction,
when in 1821 he joined the organization
that proclaimed the Plain de Ljarla,
the avowed object of which was to overthrow
the Spanish colonial government and place
some European prince upon the independent
throne of Mexico.
The plan was sworn to on Christmas eve
of 1821, and Iturbide went to the West to
pronounce, and he to the South to give the
echo. The movement was completely suo-*,
cessful, and in nine months the Spanish forces,
numbering eighty thousand men, were
annihilated. He stated that he was led to
join this movemeut by his love for his country
and the persuasion of his friends, who
urged him to it, saying that he would become
the Washington of Mexico, and establish
the happiness of his native land. When
Iturbide crowned himself, to the surprise of
many, if not all of those who had supported
him, he was disappointed and chagrined.?
His friends again came to him, said that he
was the hope of Mexico, and again insisted
that he was to be her Washington. The
plan of a federal Union was formed, and he
determined to lead the forces of the nation
in its support. "I was young then," said
he, "and the mistake I made was the error
of my youth, and not of my heart." He
triumphed, and an attempt was made to form
a confederation of States after the manner
of the United States. "But," said he,
"Mexico has been striving to imitate the federal
system without knowing what federation
is, and the attempt has always been a vain
one. The old Spanish system, which was a
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the Vice Royalty of New Spain, was abandoned,
and each State endeavored to become
an independent sovereignty. Everything
was turned into little congresses (congrcsitos,)
and all wanted place and pay, and mileage
and money."
He went on to say that this had been one
of the great causes of the difficulties and dissensions
of Mexico. They wanted to imitate
the United States, without reflecting what
the United States had done. There thirteen
separate colonies had joined in a federal Union
to form a unity, while the unity of Mexico
was destroyed in order to make many
petty nations. The American colonies tended
toward a common centre, and created
strength, for union is strength, while the
several iudependencies of Mexico diverged
from the common centre, and this brought
division and weakness. The result was that
when a foreign enemy invaded Mexico, and
when he had expected that even the old women
and little children would rush to repel
the foe, he fouud that the national feeling
was dead. The people of some of the States
said they would wait till the Yankees came
to their own doors, and then they would repel
him; others would send to the federal
government only a part of their contingent
of men and money, while many Mexicans
were found fighting in the American ranks.
"Thus," said he, "Mexico, a country possessing
eight millions of people, and rich in
wealth and material resources, was conquered,
to her reproach and shame. Thus has
the negro, Alvarez, come into notoriety."
He stated that when the country was determined
to have peace at any price, and refused
to contribute to sustain the war, he
determined to leave it, for he would sign to
no peace, nor would he remain to witness
the degradation of Mexico. He was animated
with the same spirit as the Carthagenians
of old, who swore their children upon
the altars of their gods to an eternal enemity
to Rome. "The United States is the Rome
of ancient and the Russia of modern days.
They are the enemies of our country, religion
and our race, and will swallow up and
eat out our citizens, as they have in California
and New Mexico. These provinces were
obtained by a so-called peaceful cession;
but it was a peaceful cession with the rifle
at our bosoms, like the stalwart man by the
road side,who, pointing a blunderbuss at the
unwary and unarmed traveller, asks alms for
the love of God.
"I not only hate, but I abhor them as a
nalion," said he, "and all my life has borne
testimony to this sentiment. I do not speak
of individual Americans, for I do not know
that I have a single personal enemy who is
an American; on the contrary, I entertain n
high regard for many Americans whom I
know, and when I was in the United States
I received many?very many?personal attentions.
I was well received everywhere;
General Jackson gave me a banquet at the
White House; many citizens of note invited
me to their homes and their hearths; public
bodies everywhere rendered me honors, and
a government ship conveyed me from Norfolk
to Mexico. But the spirit that animates
and the policy that guides, the American
people are antagonistic to my own country,
and I can never yield to its enemy any other
feeling than that which springs from a love
for my native land. This I evinced on my
return to Mexico, after the peace. I found
American money circulating everywhere.?
Some two and half millions of dollars, which
had been left by the army, were scattered
among our people, corrupting our youth,
and familiarizing them to the sight of the
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American eagle. My first decree was to
banish it from the country, and I drove it
out. I will have none of them, nor their
principles, nor even their money."
lie went on at some length, commenting
upon the results of the peace. "What has
it brought?" said he. "Another attempt
at confederation, which has resulted in greater
disunion and confusion. Congresses and
Congresitos again?all wish to command, and
none to obey. All seek to be petty sovereigns,
instead of one great nation, and the
resources of the country are scattered in providing
pay and mileage for countless deputies.
These Congresses have cost Mexico
more treasure than would suffice to lade all
the oxcarts in the republic."
The conversation soon took a general turn,
during which he remarked that he had now
done with public affairs and closccd his career
as a public man. We soon after took
our leave.
At Turbaco T was told he is doinc much
good stimulating the industry of the people,
and loaning them small sums of money to
buy stock to undertake new plantations and
to improve their present ones. He is endeavoring
to have a turnpike constructed
from the village to the city of Carthagena, |
and is said to have offered to contribute
840,000?two-thirds of its estimated cost?
towards the work. I have omitted to men"HTTti
(]li|| faring the interview he stated that
he had bccnoffflh*Ji^dwhy he did not go
to the I'uited States to reSTflffea^I^t," said
he, "not only will I not reside amoftgajhem,
but not even where they are; and if
couie here, I will go further on."
For my part, I fear the "universal Yankee"
will be a hard man to fly from in the present
age. lie is here already, for a number
of your New York capitalists have "lready
begun the work of re-opcuing the canal of
Carthagena, close upon his heels, and are
running their steamers on the Magdalena
river, in advance of him, under the most
favorable auspices and with abundant returns
for their enterprise. The business is too
great and too remunerative to fail.
On leaving Santa Anna, we mounted, and
a ride of a few leagues brought us to Arjona,
where we slept.?New York Ilcrahl.
Sfkt JlcaMng.
FOR THE LADIES.
,dMrs. Denison, who has recently become
the Editress of "The Ladies' Enterprise,"
at Boston, (noticed in our last,) is seldom
mealy mouthed, when she treats of foibles in
society, particularly those pertaining to her
own sex. The following, being the leader
in her paper of the 1st instant, is a sample
of the way she handles one subject, which
wc fear is quite too common, for the good of
society, and the happiness of families.?Ex.
An Innocent Flirtation.?"Why not
as well say an iunocent theft, or a harmless
murder ? It is not everybody who understands
what the words mean. Some very
silly young girls, just out of boarding school,
consider it a sort of compliment to be called
flirts. They blush and simper, and pretend
to have just as many beaux as they can find
fresh fools to angle for them, little aware what
desperate habits are forming their charmed
circles around them, beyond which in a few
years it will be out of their power to move.
One can bear to be cheated by a cloth merchant
or a grocer, although the transaction
merits uulimited contempt; but to be deceived
by the lips and the eyes, the smiles and
the speech of young hearts that God designed
should be free from intentional guilt, if
any of His creation, makes wounds that even
time cannot heal. Heaven knows how many
heart-hardened men walk the earth, soured
and unhappy, finding falsehood everywhere
?looking crookedly upon all creations of
harmony, and seeing distortion in everything,
because their natures have been warped by
some cruel deception. Like the melted iron,
glowing and rich, they might have been
shaped to forms of enduring beauty?but the
heavy hammer of deceit came down, flattened
and twisted, and left them cold, black,
shapeless masses.
The victim of a flirt, in proportion to his
singleness of nature, his wholesome and implicit
faith in his kind, his generous, unwarpcd
sense of justice, and the breadth and
depth of his love, oftentimes becomes the
more morose, unyielding, woman-hating man.
And many such do marry from prudential
motives, after the fatal change, and lead their
partners most unhappy lives.
But young school girls?finished, accomplished
women, are not the only flirts.' Shame
that wc must say it, and to their absolute
and eternal disgrace be it spoken, some married
women are flirts. Not even tbesacredness
of the vows which their husbands confide
in them, nor the opinion of the world,
will deter them from this most satanic love
of vanity and misrule. Not even the babes
whose dove's eyes rebuke them at every
glance, and whose innocence is a continual
prayer for their unworthy mothers, can wake
them to a realization of the exceedingly steep
precipice upon whose brink they stand swaying
to their fall.
And what shall we say of such ? That
they arc murderers, striking virtue, bleediug
to the earth. That they are suicides,
strangling the spiritual within them. That
they are thieves stealing trust and confidence
from the hearts that shelter them with honest
love. They arc counterfeits, passing for genuine
the smiles they lavish upon their husbands.
That they arc liars bartering their
truth and their honesty for a villian's favor
?that they combine in short a variety of
every sin and every rank defilement under
heaven.
Such women sometimes excuse themselves
by saying that their husbands are not true to
them in thought, word and deed, and therefore
their own derelictions. "What! shall
tue ea?*ie, u mated witn tne vulture, stoop
to prey on garbage ?
DEDICATED TO CERTAIN BENEDICTS.
A NEW PABODY ON A PASSAGE IN HAMLET.
To wcil, or not to wc<l?that is the question,
Whether 'tis better lor man to suffer
The desp'ratc loneliness of single life,
Or dance arouml some rich and pretty woman,
And, by attention, win her??towed?to change?
No more : and by the change to say wo end
The thousand sneers and taunts which shock the
nerves
Of unoffending bachelors?'tis a consummation
Worth struggling for. To wed?to change?
To change!? it may be for the worse; ?aye, there's
the rub:
For in tliat change what dreams may come,
When we have link'd our destinies with woman's
Should well be pondered. This is the thought
That makes us hesitate so long to marry ;
For who would e'er endure the whips and scorns,
Th' unfeeling jests, the rude comparisons,
The cold and marked neglects, the keen retorts,
The slights and spurns, enough to drive hint mad,
To which the bachelor is so exposed,
When he himself might all those rubs escape
By taking to himself awife ? Oh, who would care
To breathe through such a hang-dog life as this,
But that the dreaded something after marriage?
That boasted union, from whose rig'rous ties
The grave alone releases?haggles the will,
And makes us rather bear the ills we have
Than fly to others we know not of ?
Thus caution keeps us daily as wc are,
And thus our matrimonial inclinations
Are counteracted by n thousand fears :
And resolutions which might make us husbands
Are by these fears deprived of all their pith
And lose the hon'r of their action.
LONG SERMONS.
"The length of the modern sermon is a
great disadvantage and a growing evil; but
it is not the main cause of listlessness in the
hearer: for it is not the last portion which
tires us; we are tired before we get that relief;
and there arc long sermons which never
"^m^ar long. The fault is both in the matter
aufrthe style. The topics are too generally
stale, and extremely limited in their
range; the public iniuJ wants variety and
freshness. The mass of the truths uttered
from the pulpit need no proof ; it is an idle
waste of patience and skill to offer it. If
all repetitions of thought were excluded,
and the best of the remainder were alone retained,
sermons would not be so unreasonably
long. And generally the style is too
verbose; it is not close, compact, nervous. 1
The rule mi</ht be, to see how much space :
the gold can be made to cover; the practice
is, not to bo perspicuous, convincing, brief.
The word-painter fails to exhibit his own
thought, probably because it is not clearly 1
conceived by himself; for he who thinks
clearly and vigorously will express himself '
with sufficient perspicuity; thought shapes
the style. The one radical error, not universal,
but general, is excessive verbiage?' the
seven grains are hid under a bushel of chaff.' 1
We are of opinion that it is the sin of the 1
age; and indiscreet persons freely bestow J
their praises upon young ministers?especially
if they have plenty of bold < figures'?in (
proportion to their Icing unable to remera- (
bcr anything that is said. The 1 cloud land' '
style is, in our judgment, the most offensive; 1
an accumulation of what are no better than
cant terms, compound epithets, and words
without definite significations; and these 1
are often accumulated into au incongruous '
mass of unintelligible jargon; yet, with
many, this constitutes fine writing aud speak- 1
ing!" " <
1
NONE STAND ALONE. ?
It is in the providence of God that none 1
stand alone; we touch each other; man acts <
on man, heart on heart; we are bound up I
with each other; hand is joined in hand; ]
wheel sets wheel in motion; we are spirit- I
ually linked together, arm within arm; we 1
cannot live alone, nor die alone; we cannot 1
say, I will only run risks with my own soul; <
I am prepared to disobey the Lord for such (
a pleasure or such a gain, but I do not want 1
to implicate others; I only want to be an- <
swerable for myself. This cannot be. Each ]
living soul has its influence on others in some 1
way or to some extent, consciously or uncon- <
sciously; each has some power, more or less, ]
direct or indirect; one mind colors another; i
a child acts on children; servants on their :
. mnofprs: nn tVmsp t.lipv pm- t
iciiuw dci yuuio j uuh^ww w..v>.v ?
ploy; parents on their children ; friends on i
friends. Even when we do not design to in- ]
fluenco others, when we are not thinking in j
the least degree of the effect of what we do, '
when we are unconscious that we have any .
influence at all, when we do not wish our
conduct or way of life to affect any but ourselves,
our manner of life, our conversation,
our deeds, are all the while having weight
somewhere or somehow; our feet leave their
impression, though we may not look behind
us to sec the mark. (
A Great Country.?To give the English
some idea of the extent of our domain,
which they have recently talked so much
about annihilating at a single blow, we would
state (says a New York paper) that the distance
between New York and New Orleans
is more than equal to that separating London
from Constantinople, or Paris from St.
Petersburg. By the land route between New
York and Astoria, the distance is equal to
that between New York and Bremen. By
the water route the distance is as great as
that between Canton and London.
When is a wine merchant like a ship?
When he's laying in port.
THE RESULT OF THE WAR.
If the anticipated peace between Russia
and the allied Powers is concluded, the results
of the tremendous struggle which has
convulsed Europe will not be uulikc the results
of the battle between the Nithsdale
boys, described by the Ettrick Shepherd as
follows:?
The history of every war is very like a
scene I once saw in Nithsdale, Scotland.?
Two boys from different schools met one fine
day upon the ice. They eyed each other awhile
in silence, with rather indignant
looks, and with defiance on each b:ow.
'What are yeglowrin' at, Billy?'
'What's that to you, Donald ? I'll look
wliar I've a mind, and hinder me if you
daur.'
<To this a hearty blow was the return; and
then began such a battle! It being Satur
clay, all the boys of both schools were on
the ice, and the fight instantly became general.
At first they fought at a distance with
missile weapons, such as stones and snowballs
; but at length coming to hand they
coped in a rage, and many bloody raps were
liberally given and received.
'I went up to try if I could pacify them;
for by this time a number of little girls had
joined the affray, and I was afraid they
would be killed. So, addressing one party,
I asked:
"What are you fighting those boys for ??
What have they done to you?'
<0, nacthing at a', man; that's a.'
'My remonstrance was vain; at it they
went afresh; and after fighting till they were
quite exhausted, one of the principal heroes
stepped forth between the combatants,
himself covered with blood, and his clothes
all torn to tatters, and addressing the opposing
party thus:?
'Weel, I'll tell you what we'll do wi' ye;
if ye II let us alauc, ice'I/ let you alanc.'?
There was no more of it; the war was at an
end, and the boys scampered away to their
play.
'The scene was a lesson of wisdom to me.
I thought at the time, and have often thought
since, that this is the best epitome of war in
general, that I have ever seen. Kings and
ministers of state are just a set of grown
children, exactly like children I speak of,
with only the material difference, that instead
of fighting out for themselves the
needless quarrels they have raised, they sit
in safety and look on, hound on their innocent
but servile subjects to battle, aud then,
after an immense waste of blood and treasure,
are glad to make the boys' condition?
'if yc'll let us alanc, we'll let you alane.'
SEVENTEEN CHILDREN.
Pickens is a great district in some respects.
We remember to have heard our friend,
Major Whitfield, state, one day, in the Legislature,
encircled by a gallery of beautiful
women, that it was not uncommon to see a
constituent of his the mother of twenty children
! This expression produced, we thought,
something of alarm, and a sort of fluttering '
in the gallery. An old gentleman, sitting
at our elbow, whose son has just married and
moved to Pendleton, whispered to us that he
should write to his son to quit the district.
Whilst attending Pickens Court, the other
day, we met our friend Captain Steele, who
had been a gallant midshipman in the war of
1812 with Great Britain, and who served
heroically in one of the hardest fought naval
engagements during the war. He i3 now a
resident of Pickens district. Some year ago
he informed us that he had twelve children.
We enquired of him 'how the wife and children
did ?' His reply was, that he had added
five more to the number, and that now he j
had seventeen, all the sons and daughters of
ene mother! The youngest is still nursing!. 1
Ihe oldest is just setting out for Kansas.?
We thought of Major Whitfield's speech in
the Legislature, aud what a fine constituency
he had. The reulv of Napoleon, to Madame
DeStael, when she enquired, rather pertly,
who was the greatest woman living, in his .
estimation, is well known to have been, 'She
who has borne the greatest number of chil
lren.' Fifteen years ago we remember to 1
have heard our old friend, Daniel Durham, 1
)f Pickens district, defend himself in Court, I
aefore Judge Gantt, in propria persona.? ,
[n the course of his argument, he stated to !
die Court that he had nineteen children at ;
home, all dependent, in some measure, on 1
turn for support! His Honor the Judge, !
jharged the Jury to acquit him and let him 1
;o home to his children, and stated that it 1
was the best speech he had heard at the Bar
luring that Circuit. "We could mention a j
half dozen instances known to us in Pickens, ]
where a mother has fifteen and twenty chil- 1
3rcn. But Greenville, in the person of John ]
Bates, Sr., can beat all this. He has com- 1
menced, as our friend P. E. Duncan once '
said in a stump speech, his third dozen of 1
jhildren. One mother bore him twenty four, (
md all living, she then died, and the old ]
man took himself a second wife, who had,
some years ago, given birth to three more.?
How many since, we know not.? Grtcnville
Patriot.
The Steam-Engine.?There is something
awfully grand in the contemplation of a vast
steam-engine. Stand amid its ponderous
beams and bars, wheels and cylinders, and
watch their unceasing play?how regular and
Iiow powerful! The workmanship of a lady's
G eneva watch is not more nicely adjusted?
the rush of the avalanche is not more awful
in its strength. And it ought to be a lesson
to those who ridicule every new idea, and put
no faith in inventions, to consider that the :
complex fabric, this triumph of art and !
science, was once the laughing stock of jeering
thousands, and once only the waking fan
tasy of a boy's mirnl, as he sat, and seemingly
in idleness, watching a little column of
vapor rise from the spout of a tea-kettle !
Perhaps it is not generally known, as
it should be, that salt put in the mouth will
instantly relieve the convulsive moments in
fits, either of children or animals.
MGf A good tale badly teld, is a bad on?.
An Old Man.?Among the deaths lately
announced at Louisville, Kentucky, is that
of Old Ben Duke, a colored man, who had
reached the great age of 110 years, seven
months and three days. He was a native of
Maryland, and at the ago of thirty entered
the service of Washington, of whom he retained
a lively recollection to the period of
his death. He went to Louisville when the
surrounding country was an unbroken wilderness,
and lived through two generations,
to see it become a large bristling and thriving
city. Deceased is represented as having
been an upright and worthy man, a member
of the Baptist Church, and of a constitution
so healthy that he never had occasion for the
service of a physician, and died without pain
- 1
or prcYiuuBsiciiueafl.
Tite Earth Crowing Colder.?It is
stated by Cernian astrouomers that the sun
is increasing his distance from the earth
annually; and, in the course of six thousand
years from the present time, it is supposed,
that the distance will be so great that only
an eighth part of the warmth we now enjoy
from the sun will be communicated to the
earth, and it will then be covered with eternal
ice, in the same manner as we now see
the plains of the North, where the elephant
formerly lived, and have neither spring nor
autumn.
ipitkaL
KANSAS INFORMATION.
We direct attention to the interesting let
ter of the Hon. J. W. Whitfield, delegate
from the Territory of Kansqg to Congress,
written to Hon. James Chesnut,President of
the Kershaw Kansas Association, furnishing
important and reliable information in regard
to that new and desirable country; we say
desirable, for lands that will produce from
sixty to eighty bushels per acre, are certainly
desirable, and this, we presume, is an
average estimate, for the writer seems to
speak with that confidence which assures us
that his statements are neither overdrawn
nor exaggerated.
We are glad to learn that there are applications
from our District, and that it is more
than probable that we will be able to furnish
our quota of men and means in furtherance
of the great Southern cause in Kansas.
Those who desire to go under the auspices
of the Kershaw Kansas Association, are invited
to call at the office of W. M. Shannon,
Esq., and register their names at once, in
order that the necessary arrangements may
be perfected by the first of May, at which
time the company are expected to leave.?
Camden Journal.
Correspondence of the Camden Journal
Col. T. J. Warren : Dear Sir.?I have
received a "very interesting -letter from the
Hon. J. W. Whitfield, the delegate from
the Territory of Kansas, to the Congress of
the United States. I take the liberty of enclosing
it to you for publication, with a view
of furnishing information to those who may
feel an interest in the enterprise now undertaken
by the Kershaw Kansas Association.
By the present condition of our subscription
list we are warranted in opening an office
to receive application from those who
may wish to emigrate under the auspices of
the Association.
All rmronna vuh n mo v* hi* fhiia
If MW M4UJ M V l?MM0 iUVliUVU^
will call at the office of Mr. Wm. M. Shannon;
and register their names, which; it is
desirable, should be done as soon as practicable,
that the movement may not falter.?
The company will leave here, at latest, by
the 1st of May next.
Very respectfully,
Your friend and ob't. sv't.'
JAMES CHESNUT, Jr., President.
Washington, March 18, 1856.
Dear Sir :?At the request of Hon. W.
W. Boyce,' I take great pleasure in giviDg
you such information in regard to Kansas
fis will be useful to persons emigrating to that
country. In regard to soil, Kansas is unsurpassed,
producing from sixty to eighty
bushels of corn per acre; twenty five to forty
bushels of wheat per acre. The finest oats
I have ever seen grow, we raise in Kansas,
in fact, I have seen nothing planted in Kansas
(except cotton) that does not produce
more to the acre than the best lands of Tennessee.
Besides being a fine grain and grass country,
it is a part of the United States. Hemp
is decidedly the most profitable crop now
raised, and the statistics will show that the
planters of Western Missouri are making
more money per hand than is made in any
other State in the Union. It is nothing uncommon
for farmers to pay three hundred
i -ii v: c nrvii.
uujiure wire iin uugiu imiu per year. u line
men cannot be hired for less than 525 dollars
per month. In addition to our advantages
as an agricultural people we have a
trade with New Mexico, Utah, Oregon and
California, amounting to several millions of
dollars per annum, besides, our India trade
amounts to more than one million per annum.
In addition the government for mili
tary supplies expend a very large sum. Military
stores are sent out to all the posts of
New Mexico and the Indian country, and
to give you some idea of the amount of transportation
required for that department?one
firm last year employed over seventeen hundred
men, and twelve hundred wagons, each
drawn by twelve oxen. Kansas is the starting
noint for all emigrants cninc West of
O t - - 0 O
us. I was raised in Tennessee, and have
been in nearly every State in the Uuion, and
I say to you in all candor, that I have never
seen any country that possesses as many
advantages to new or old settlers as Kansas.
Our friends in Western Missouri?with similar
soil to Kansas, make from six to eight
hundred dollars a hand per annum. This
will, I have no doubt, seem large to you,
but I assure you it is strictly true.
The climate of Kansas I regard as being
far better than in Tennessee; from 1st Sep
tember until 1st March we have but little
rain?mostly clear, dry weather. The past
winter has been, though, colder than ever
known before. Our country I regard as
very healthy; in some localities ohilis and
fever prevail to some extent?we have no
pulmonary diseases in Kansas. In regard
to supplies you can procure anything you
may want in Missouri?if 3 ou get to Kansas
by May or June you can raise plenty of
corn. Our lands are ready cleared?you
can make your location one day and commence
farming next.
In conclusion permit me to thank you,
and to thank the people of South Carolina
for the noble effort they are now making to
assist us in preventing the best country, in
my opinion, in the United States from falling
into the hands of the Abolitionists.
Respectfully your ob't servant.
J. W. WHITFIED.
Hon. Jas. Chesnut, jr.
WAR IN THE UNITED STATES.
It is a common remark that the United
States are at peace. Clergymen are in the
habit of felicitating the country on the exemption
we enjoy from the devastating effects
of war. A distinction must be drawn here.
If by war we understand such a life and
death struggle as has lately been waged in
the Crimea?if to constitute a war, a nation
must be drained of her resources, driven to
suspend the usual political guarantees in order
to concentrate her strength, and forced
to fight, tooth and nail, for her hearths and
her homes, her fame and her national existence?then,
certainly, the United States
are happily preserved from the curse of war.
But if wholesale butchery of human beings,
if campaigns in the field, if sieges, rapid
marches, countermarches, pitched battles and
treacherous ambuscades; if these cannot exist
id the absence of a state of war, then the
United States are at war, not on one side,
but on four at !east.
Our last accounts from Florida announce
that the Indian war has broken out there
again. There beiDg no Sominole organs to
give us the Indian version of the story, we
are reduced to rely on the newspapers published
by the white men; and they concur
in imputing the outbreak of hostilities to the
commission of new atrocities by the Seminoles.
At all events, we hear of houses being
burned, and individuals scalped; and
before long we shall certainly hear of the
troops taking the field, and battles being
fought.
Then, on the borders of Texas, war is the
normal condition of the country. There are
flashes of peace, traces of a few weeks or
months at a time; and then the war breaks
out again, and there is warm work. In Nebraska
Colonel Harney is hard at work killing
off the Indians; in Washington Territory
there is also a terrible Indian war, which
has already cost a million of dollars; and the
. Dregonians, on their side, have managed to
getup^"tei^?etty war, in which somehow
an impression " a^roa(^ that thav are
in the wroDg. All these wars awTrXfJ*?
rious affairs. The plans of operations are
iL. Al L! A TS.M? 3 ...
(.lie same as wese wnicu reiiissier ana uort*
schakoff pursue; and in proportion to the
umbers engaged, the number of persons
killed is probably greater.
These are quite independent of the civil
war in Kansas, and the proposed war with
England. So the less we say about our hap*
py condition of peace, the better.
New York Herald.
ADMISSION OF NEW STATES.
How much tolerance does the South, the
parent of the new States, exhibit, in permitting
them to enter the Union with constitutions
prohibiting slavery! They ask to participate
in all the principles the old thirteen,
saying, at the same time, " We are
holier than you;" ? The blot of slavery is
not on our escutcheon." To the present
slave States, they, in effect, say, ? You, it is
true, have given to the Union, or have been
chiefly instrumental in acquiring for the
Union, all her territories; but you are &
wicked, degraded race, and must not contaminate
us with your vile institution of slavery."
If the new States were within the Frigid
Zone, where the negro would be at all times
useless, it would only add wantonness to the
insult, tor tbe prohibition would be unnecessary.
The prohibition of slavery is always
either a wanton insult, or a gross wrong to*
the South. The Federal Government, aa
the agent of the States, may or may not admit
new States into the Union, as it pleases.
In admitting them, it is bound to do equal
justice to the North and to the South. It
does perpetrate gross and palpable injustice
to the South, when it permits a forward child
to be remitted to the rights of manhood,
when its very petition is accompanied with
insult and wrong to one of its parents.
If we of the South admit that slavery is
immoral or inexpedient in new States, we
cannot maintain that it is right anywhere.
We thereby yield the great principle for
which abolition contends, and furnish it a
lever and fulcrum with which to upset our
domestic institutions. Hereafter, in admitting
any Northern State prohibiting slavery,
it should be with an understanding on the
part of the South, that ?it submits to admission,
not as a matter of right, but for
the sake of peace, and because it will not
quarrel about a useless abstraction." Without
some such procedure on the part of the
South, the admission of any State excluding
slavery, is the assertion that slavery is morally
wrong and inexpedient.
vrri tnVflfl fViA diofmnt
YY 11CUCYC1 tug ?
ground, that her institutions are righteous,
honorable and expedient, as those of the
North, she will find her defenoe easy. Until
she does this, until she asserts her equality
in morality, as well as in right, she invites,
nay, she justifies, the attacks of abolition.
Richmond Enquirer.
19* It is better to be alone than in bad
company.
19 He who has a wolf for his companion
must carry a dog under hie cloak.