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VOLUME XVI. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINZTUESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 30, 1855. NUMBER5. ^
PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY
THOMAS J. WARREN. j
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DON'T RUN IN DEBT.
BY FRANCIS D. GAGE.
Dou't run in debt!?never inintl, never mind,
If the oIU clonics arc lauuu uuu mm.
Fit thera up, make them do, it is better l>y far,
Than to have the heart weary and worn.
Who'll love you more for the set of the hat,
Or your ruff, or the tie of your shoe,
The shape of your vest, or your boots or cravat,
If they know you're in debt for the new.
Don't run in debt.?If canary's the go,
Wear blue if you have not the cash,
Or?no matter what?so you let the world know
You won't ruu in debt for a dash.
There's no comfort, I tell you in walking the street
In fine clothes if you know you're in debt,
And feel that perchance you some tradesman may
meet,
Who will sneer?" They're not paid for yet."
Good friends, let me beg you don't run in debt,
If the chairs and the sofas arc old?
They will fit your back better than any new set
TH1Ann noi/1 ?r? rrnlil
U IUi;9S lilVJ uiv I'UIU *v? 5V.?,
If tho liouso is small draw it closer together,
Keep it warm with a hearty good will;
A big one unpaid for, in all kinds of weather,
Will send to your warm heart a chill.
Don't run in debt?now dear girls take a hint;
(If the flush ions have changed since lastseason.)
Old nature is out in the very same tint,
And Old nature we think, has some reason.
Jud say to your friends you cannot afford
To spend time to keep up with the fashion ;
That your purse is too light and t-our houor too
bright,
To be tarnished with such silly passion.
Gents, don't run in debt?let your friends if they can
Have fine houses, feathers and flowers,
But unless they are paid Tor, be more of a man,
Than onvy their sunshiny hours,
If 3*ou have money to spare I have nothing to say?
Spend your dimes and your dollars as you please1
But mind you the man that has his note to pay
Is the man that is never at ease
Kind husbands, don't run in debt any more;
'Twill fill your wife's eup full of sorrow.
To know that a neighbor may call at your door.
With a bill you can't settle to-morrow.
Oh! take my advice?it is good it is true,
(But least some of you may doubt it.)
I'll whisper a secret now seeing 'tis you?
I have tried it and know all about it.
The chain of a debtor is hctvy and cold,
Its links all corrosion and rust,
Gild it o'er asyou will?it is never of gold,
Then spurn it aside with disgust,
The man who's in debt is too o ten a slave.
Though his heart may '-v wit true;
Cau he hold up his head and look sauc v and brave
When a note he can't pay becomes due?
??PWC?P?CTWMLIW t mi m CgBP?
5nrirnltnrnl
Field Operations Ac.
As you have now begun a new year, a few
remarks with regard i<? your field operations,
Vour farm economy, and t he genera! management
of your affairs, may not lie amiss.
Should the field \??uii't<n l for c<>rn next
spring he tenacious clay latul, and opportunity
should offer through the winter, have it
plowed, so as that its texture may he mellora
ted hy the f:?ot ; if such land he sound, that i-,
not wet, plow it at least tS inches deep, lay
.your furrows at an angle of about lo degrees,
iii order that tliev may lnj>, and thus expose the
greatest possible surface to the action of the
weather. In the spring, as soui as the ground
is sufficiently diy to permit your team to go
on it without danger of poaching by the horses,
have it rolled, then apply your manure, and
cross-plow it in about 4 inches in depth, then
roll it, and harrow until you have a line tilth.
Recollect, however, that clay soils should never
be plowed while in a wet state, or when
very dry, but when in a moist condition.
As corn requires to lie grown either in a very
fertile soil, or if the soil be not naturally
fertile, that it be heavily manured?as it requires
much food, it is almost vain to expect a
good crop unless there be in the soil the means
cnctonui\nn A ml nc Cilfll I< tin* r**tCi> it i<
VI OUCbVUUIIVVt <?"?u U.3 OMVII ' ?? ? V"WV IV ?W .
well not to permit the ambition of having
large fields of corn to induce you to put in a
greater extent of acres than y<>u can manure
well, unless your land he really rich. To cultivate
corn in an impoverished soil, unless it be
generously manured, so far as the prospect of
product is concerned, is illusory. In laying
out your work for the year, see to it that you
do not over-crop yourself. Let the crops which
you may put in be within the ability of your
force to cultivate thoroughly and well. Make
your calculations to get in both your oats and |
corn crop timely, as nine times out of ten
these crops, when early pitched, succeed best.
When we speak of the early planting of corn !
and sowing of oats, we do not mean tliat either
should be put in before the earth is sufficiently
warm to encourage the prompt germination
of the seed ; but we do mean, that as
soon as the earth is sufficiently warmed to
caused the seed to sprout ana veguate, mat
both crops should be put in. \ou should exert
your utmost eflbrls to manure every acre
* that you may cultivate in a spring crop. It':
the supplies of your barn and stable yards are !
not equal to this, add to them a sufficient quantity
of woods mould, pine shatters, or marsh, |
river or creek mud to give you 20 two horse |
loads per acre; form the whole into compost,:
and let it remain 111 iinllc throe ivunLc tohini 1
decomposition will have sufficiently taken place !
to render the mass available to your crops. If
barn yard and stable supplies are not contpe- :
tent to enable you to add the requisite number
of loads to give you twenty two horse loads
per acre, add 100 or 150 pounds of Peruvian 1
Guano, and 1 bushel ot plaster, to every iwen- '
ty loads that you put into the compost; and
we risk nothing in saying that should the seasou^
prove auspicious, you will have a largo crop of
both corn and oats, provided the former be col
1 tivatcd judiciously and well, and the cullivn!
tor and hoes he used instead of the plow in its
| cultivation. The volatile part of manure?th it
part which feeds the plant, gives it vitality and
[ growth, is often wasted and given to the air
by being exposed by the plow in the course of
the culture of a corn crop, instead of being
left buried in the soil to feed the roots of the
plants. Every plowing after a corn crop is
pitched serves only to rub the plants of its
food ; for the moment the ammouiacal compounds
become exposed to the immediate action
of the atmosphere?to heatand moisture?
decomposition takes place, and the ammonia
rt: . IV 1 I |..?? I I... fji '
lllt'S ?j|l (liJU IJLT'MIIU.I tuai IU niv VIV/J> 1\J ?? invii
it had lieoii applied.
Before spring \ou should study out the system
you mean to pursue throughout the year, 1
he careful in forming that system, let it he
formed in aceordatice wilh your resources, and J
having, after mature reflection, adopted it, he .
careful to carry it. out wilh energy and par 1
tieularily. The work of each week should lie 1
laid down a week beforehand, and except when {
prevented by the weather, should he adhered
to.?American Furnur.
Plowing.
The subject of plowing s one in which every '
tanner should he engaged, for it is a business
tiiat every farmer has to do, and yet we see 1
hut a small amount of good plowing in propnr- '
tion to that which is bad and indifferent. This j
is owing more to farmers using plows of bad
construction and make, than to ali other can- j
? c:?i u i'.. ?..t 1
si;n cm u iji iil*u. ni'iicc i.uiiiuirt win cn-iuii; i
bad plowing, when they would "veto" at once j J
bad mowing, poor cradling, and careless line- j
ing in their fields. Then again, good or i in pro i .
ved plows will co>t double and sometimes .
treble at first cost, over the ordinary plow, j
This fact stan Is in the way of many farmers, 1
? ' i
and when they aie told, as they are by some .
"teachers/' that on an nidi nary farm of a 1
hundred acres they must have from lour to six I'
different sized plows, they become disgusted '
or disheartened at once. Now we have found 1
that as good a sward plow as could be brought
into the field was also a I plow for stubble *
and mellow ground, and this too after ten I
years' faithful triai; at the same time we usi d 1
other plows, as the ease required.
Of course there can be no objection to farmers
having as many different plows a< they '
h tve means to buy; nut with many farmers,
o h* improved plow is as much as (hey can at- "
lord, and have other farming ln?>ls to match? j *'
a fact by the way, which very few farmers j x
have arrived at. !s
As to the different modes of plowing, there 1
are many different- ideas among farmers some
prefer the lap furrow, and the llat or land fur | n
row others prefer. i>olh are good enough it u
the work is well done?that is, if tl.c furrows h
an: turned dnvu to coverall the grass weeds v
and foul stulf. We have found the flat or le- li
vel land furrow, after trial, where each furrow h
i> shut in sift"" ,l*- ??> ? 1" '-l f'1"11 I'1'1'" '
vent grass and weed- growing at the e Iges of h
>t the furrows that we have seen adopted.? <:
Ami so we have practiced the llat or level t'
land liiilows on ailswanl lands. n
The maimer of la. iug out Ian Is for plowing
is woitiiv "f eoiisideration; as is often the ease, v
wiien a field has been plowed one way for (
years, large ridges will I e found at tin s Jc?of [
on.-es withe low swa.es will lie left tlir?illlfll I
"" " " Z3 *
field* I'V "dead furrows." In this case, the i
plowing sh"iild lie reversed, so that the soil f(
may he brought back to its original place. Wei
have found, when tin- fid I was tolerably level, |
whether large or small, that it was best to go q
around the whole lield at omr. making hat one ()
land, and ot course having Imt one ' dead fur v
in*.' In this ea>o the belter way would he j|
to have some twenty feet in width at the 'head j
lands" and .-ides of the field to he plowed hist.
These lands can lie I lowed hv going round the (|
field of course, turning to the rigid, a "gee
about" until the field is finished. A still better
plan we think would he to commence i'i
the middle of the field; this could easily be
found by pacing and .staking. Here plow a 11
furrow, say two rods in length, then turn hack 1
another furrow the same length. After you j1
have plowed six or eight furrows in this way,
you could commence plowing across the end !!
of the bind. I'lowimr in this wav. \ ou would !
of course turn your team to the right, and "gee . *'
ahoul," and so on untiS tiie field was finished. !
'1 he particular advantage of plowing in this
way is, that your team is all the time treading *'
on the sward or unplowcd laud, while, plowing ; (
the other way or "haw about," you are con- j
statitly driving \our teams out at the ends on '
to the plowed laud. If you have a "double;}
team," as is often the ease in plowing a heavy '
sward, then the plowed ground at the etids of
the laud becomes treaded very hard, and tiie i "
soil i> made almost as unlit for cultivation as !11
though it had not been plowed at all.
Another advantage of tho "gee about*' sys- ; 1
tern is, you can plow your whole lield without !
leaving any middle or dead furrows, which is 1
unite an object of consideration, especially in ; r
i - _.i i i i.. ..i : ' '
flowing award lauu. in mvuuvu >
lauds the dead furrows are not of so much eon- 11!
.sequence, as tliey can easily be drawn down ;
by the harrow in cross harrowing. The same i 1
system of plowing without leaving dead fur- i f
rows, can be done by using the bill side plow, \ '
by commencing al the side of the field and !
plowing forwards and backwards until the field 1
is finished, leaving the head lands to be plowed
last. 1
As to the depth of plowing, of course all I
farmers must judge foi themselves; but the 1
depth should be increased at each plowing or I
go down eight or ten inches at once as you
see fit. tSubsoiling should of course be atten- I
ded to, as all farmers of the right stamp know t
at jnese.it. We notice that new patterns of t
plows are being brought out every ye.u. What '
the particular advantages of all these "new pat- <
turns-' are we cannot say now. Wo think in t
many cases that tuo much gearing' is attach- f
ed to them for practical use. A plow with a t
cL-vis or draft rod and wheels is enouge for *
practical use.
Another Dibcovkky.?The scientific world (
of Paris is specially interested at this moment I
Jin a suhjeet which lias an immediate irnpor- c
tance for the industrial world the fabrication t
ofsogar and alcohol from wood,
ft&rrllnnrnns.
Bkmiicss Eudurniicc.
Men of genius without endurance cannot
mcceed. Men who start in one kind of business
may find it impossible to continue therein
ill their clays. Ill health may demand a change.
Sew and wider fields of enterprise and sucess
nay be open to them; new elements ofcharnc
:?ir may he developeb . Men may have n poslive
distaste for some pursuits, and success
?l..iimnil .a ftlinmre. None of those eases
all within the general rule. Men may have
are talents, but if they "are everything by
urni, and nothing long , 'they must not expect
o prosper. No form of business is free from
vexations; each man knows the spot on
which his own harness chafes; Imt he cannot
uiow how much his own neighbor suffers. It
s said that a Yankee can splice a rope in many
Jillerent ways: an English sailor knows hut
.me method, but in that method he does his
work well. Life is not long enough to allow
inv one to he really master of but one pursuit.
The history of eminent men in all professions
and callings prove this. The great
statesman, Daniel Webster, was a great lawyer.
His boyhood was marked only by uncommon
industry; as a speaker lie did not cx:el
in early life. Willi great deliberation lie
(elected tha law as his profession, nor could he
1?,v? Iul< /thounn ntircnif Whilf* fl
UUlVl l t'U llA'ili mo VIIV3VU J'W. .. ....w .?
unr student, not the tempting prize of fi it eon
iimdred dollars a year, as Clerk of the. Courts,
lien a large sum, gained with great difficulty
or him l?y the zeal and influence of his father,
ior could all the persuasion of the father, turn
lim from the mark he had set before him;
md his great eulogist, the Attorney General
if .Massachusetts is another marked illustra
ion of resolute endurance and indomitable
udustry?life-long- centering in one profession,
naking him one of the chief ornaments of that
profession, if not its head, in the United States.
Our late distinguished Ambassador at the
'o'irt of !>t James, lion. Abbot Lawrence
vh 'se wealth is poured out for all benevolent
mrposes in donations large as the sea, can
eeall the time when he had I is profession to
elect and the first dollar of his splendid fortune
o earn. He chose deliberately a calling then
inrsued that occupation with integiity and
'iidurance through dark days and trying seasons ;
iiid the re: ult is before the world. This casei
iffords an apt illustration of the proverb of the !
vise man that a man "diligent in business!
hall stand befne king , and not before mean I
lien/' I
The l.ilo .Inlin Jacob Astor SIS lie lelt his i
tative (iermanv, paused beneath a linden tree '
tot far from the line that separated his native
and from another and made three resolutions
rhieh he intended should guide liiin through
fe : " 1. lie would he honest. 2. He would
>U iudl|>t'i0IIS. Iloivoul.t i.-vur irtw'
le was on foot; his wealth was in the small
uudle that swung from the stiek on his shoulcr.
The world was before him. He was aide
a carry them out.. His success is the best comiii-tit
on his endurance.
Stephen (lirarJ, at ill ago. of ?10 years,
vas in rpiito moderate circumstances being ;
he captain of a small coasting vessel on the
.Viaware and | art owner of the same. Xo j
rait on his character was more marked than i
his endurance and tins element gave him a
irtunc.
All men who have succeeded well in life
lave been men of high resolve ami endurance
jio famed William l'ilt was in early lilt* fond
f gamming; the pissioii increased with his
ears : lie knew that he must at mice ma>ter
lie passion or the passion would master him.
le made a firm resolve that lie would never
?ain j.lay at a game of hazard. Me
lade such a resolution : he could keep it. His
uhsi-queiil eminence was the fruit of that
lower.
William Wilherforee in his erlier days, like
uost young men of his rank and age, loved
ho excitement of places of hazard.?I le was
me night persuaded to keep the faro hank.
I'c saw the ruin of the viee of gaming as lie.
ever saw it before: lie was appalled with what
ic helield. iSitli ig amid gaming, ruin and
:espair he took the resolution that he would
? ? - l II . -l.......?.l :
lever again emer a gulling utilise, ue ciiiin^vu
lis c<y with the cliiiDije of his conduct,
nd subsequently became one of the most
listinguishcd Englishmen of his age.
Dr. Samuel Johnson was once, requested
o drink wine with a friend. The Doctor
imposed tea. "But drink a little wine," said
lis host, '' I cannot," was the -reply. " I know I
bstinence?1 know excess ; but 1 know no |
iiediuui. Long smee, 1 resolved, as I could I
iot drn.lt a little wine, I would drink not at
.11." \ man who could thus support his
esolutiou by action, was a man of endurance
ml that element is as well displayed in this
ncident, as in the combination ol his great work, j
When Richard Brinsley Sheridan made his i
irst speech in Parliament, it was regarded on j
ill hands as most mortifying failure. His
riends urged him to quit a Parliamentary caver,
and enter upon some field butter suited
o bis ability. " No," said Sheridan; no it is
u me, and it shall come.'" And it did and
le became utie 01 me most spienuiu aeoaiora
n England.
Lnyla the founder of (lie order of Jesuits
lie courtier, the man of galantrv and dissipaion
obtained such mastery over himself by
abor and endurance that to illustrate the fact
]q stood several hours apparently unmoved, in
i pond of ice and muddy water, up to his chin,
'erliaps no other native in Europe, at that
ime, could have won the battle of Waterloo,
xcept the JJiitUh, because 110 other could
lave brought to that conflict that amount of
ndurance needed to win. For many hours
1 . . I 1 ... I . i* .1.,
mil army siouu maiuuy oeiuru wit* iiimucivtia
ire of the French ; column alter column fell,
.vhile not a gun was discharged on their part.
3ne sullen word of command ran along the
ine as thousands fell?w File up ! file up!
' Not yet!" was the Iron Duke's reply to
arnest reque.-ts made to charge and fight the
be. At length the time of action came. The
:harge was g ven and victory perched upon
he standard of England.
Hunt's Merchants Magazine.
fej , '"v.''- :
Social Dependence.
Unman beings, though separate units, each
havihg a distinct existence of his own; are tievcrless
most intimately hound together by the
great law of social dependence. In this respect
none lives to himself, and no one dies to himself.
No one can isolate himself, and exist
indenondiMit <if :ill nthpr? Tndpnf>tidi.nr>o nt* mir
fellow-men is nothing but a foolish dream, having
no corresponding reality in life.
If we look into the family; the primitive
society of man, we see all the parts cohering
each being essential to the other. The same
principal extends throughout the centre mechanism
of human society. All classes lean
upon each other, receiving and imparting
some in one form and some in another. The
rich are as independant as the poor; the employer
as truly so as the man lie employs.
Sometimes we speak of the higher and lower ;
classes, as if the former were independent, yet j
this is a mistake, for in this sense there are I
no h'gher classes. The rich may have ahun-1
dance of money; but for a great variety of
purposes they want the services of others
(juite as much as the latter may need their
money. No man is able to supply bis own
wants. To meet the constantly recurring necessities
of existence he has occasion for more
things than he can produce; and for these he
must look to the agency of others. If wo
need our neighbor's services, then he as much
needs ours; if we have money to lend then we !
need a borrower; if we have goods to sell, then j
we need a purchaser: it we wish to ijuiki a j
house, thou we need builders; or if one lias skill'
to use then lie must find some one to whom it \
will be sufficient value to return a reward; always
remember that if no one wants bis skill, |
| it is worth nothing to him. Thus we are wo- J
| ven together iu a great web of social life, eve- I
ry thread of the complicated structure bearing
the .stamp of our social dependence. There
are none so strong so great, so rich or so wise
as not to be subject to this law. It is as real
| Iv true of a king as it is of a slave. He who ;
I so hohnors this law of social exchanges as to
scatter blessings on bis path and make bis existence
a real service toothers, doing all the good
he can and as little harm as possible, will not (
have lived in vain. Such a man ever dies in
| debt to the world, lie is no loss to his race
while he lives, ami always leaves a vacancy
when he is gone. Ho, on the other hand,.
whose principle is to care for nobody but liiin- \
I self,makes war upon one of the'lirst conditions |
and duties of Ins existence. He ignores the ;
law of social dependence, viewing men as mere
machines, and using tliein on the same princi- j
pie that governs him in eating an apple. Such j
a man is not fit to live, and as for dying, he
certainly is nut fit for that.
Lifk am) Dkath.?If we die to day, the j
sun will shine as brightly, and the birds sing as \
SWPetll* It* ! ? - II *...? In* sim !
pended fur a moment, and the great mass will
not bestow a thought to our memories. " Is !
lie dead f will lie the solemn inquiry of a few I
as they pass to their work. Hut no one will .
miss us except our immediate connections ; 1
and in a short lime they will forget us, and j
laugh as merrily as when we sat be.-ide them, j
Thus shall we all, now active in life, pass away.
Our children crowd close behind us, and they j
soon will be gone. In a few years, not a liu- J
man being can say, " I remember liiin !" We
lived in another age, and did business with '
ilm^e who slumber in the tomb. Thus is life. ;
How rapidly it j asms ! Oil ! blessed are I hey j
who are held in everlasting remcmurance.
A Motiii:r. ? Who can look coldly upon a
mother J Who, alter the unspeakable tender- '
ness ami care with which .'h? has fostered him 1
through infancy, guided him through childhood 1
and dclil er.ited with him through the perplexities
of opening manhood, can speak irrever- j
ently of a mother? Her claims to the aflVc- I
lit his of hei offspring are founded in nature,
ami cold inii-t lie the heart that can deny
i '? -i ----- -i" i -! . -1 -l* .. i .c
UK-Ill. V/ver inu grave ni a irienu, cm a uhmii
i-r <ir a sister I would plant the pi i in rose, for it!
is eiiilili-uiatieal of voutli, lint over that of a '
mother I would let the grsen grass shoot up '
unmolested, for there is something in the sin),
pie enroling which nature spreads upon the!
grave, that well becomes the abiding place of
decaying age.
Newspapers.?Judge Longstrcct, whose j
views on all subjects arc sensible, practical,
and worth treasuring up, sets forth the value
of a newspaper thus :
"Small is the sum that is required to patron
ize a newspaper, and mo>t amply remunerated
is the patron. I care not how humble and unpretending
the gazette which he talces, it is
next to impossible to fill a sheet fifty two times
a year without putting into it something that is
worth the subscription price. Every parent
who<c son is oil'from him at school should sup.
ply him with a newspaper. 1 well remember
what a difference there was between those who
had and those who had not access to newspapers.
Other things being equal, the first were
always decidely superior to the last in composition
and debate at least. The reason is plain;
they had command of more facts. Youth will
peruse a newspaper with delight when they
will read nothing else."
The Lancaster Gun.?A letter from the
Crimea says:
"The Lancaster guns aic a failure. Their
power is enormous when the ball strikes the
point at which it is aimed; but the gun rarely
sends.two balls to the same point; and as yet
no means have been found to prevent their deviation.
In an ordinarv cun this defect would
not be so important, but the enormous expense
of every hall tired from the Lancaster pun renders
it impossible to indulge in a system by
which only one ball in six reaches the object
at which it i? discharged."
A Good Cow.?Mr. Seymour, of Hartford,
Conn., it is said, has a cow which gave 20
quarts of milk a day, from November till'May,
which made 5 1-4 pounds per day of butter.
The butter sold at 31 cents a pound, and the
skim milk for 2 cents a quait, making about
8 dollars a week,
memorial of flic Working iTIcu of
New York.
A committee appointed at a mass meeting
oftlie working men of New York, presented
a memorial to the Mayor and City Council
of that City, on Friday evening, asking for
some elficient centralized action, whereby the
laboring classes may realize present and permanent
relief. After calling for immediate
action in The premises, the memorialists direct
attention to the following alleged facts, wliieli,
they say, are within their cognizance:
1. That there are now in this city GO 000
able bodied men out of employment.
2. That 50,000 women accustomed to earn
ineir own jivcunoou, ana in many instances to
support families by their unaided efforts, are
out of employment.
3. That 10,000 children, accustomed to earn
their own livelihood, and in many instances to
aid materially, if not altogether support, dependent
relatives, are out of employment.
4. That 75,000 persons, men, women and
children, aged and infirm relatives, mostly of
respectable standing, are now chiefly, if not
altogether dependant upon 1*20,000 unemployed
residents of tins city, thus forming an aggregate
of 195,000 members of our common
Humanity, an 01 wnom are uius ior mo mosi
part deprived of their daily bread.
5. That these 195,000 persons have now, in
the purchase of food, chiefly, if not entirely at
a ruinious sacrifice, disposed of what available
means they had acccniulated in more prosperous
times, and we regret to say that the saving
hanks robbers have not passed by the
"poor man's lamb."
G. That to supply these 195,000 persons
with essential food, at present prices, at least 10
cents pei day to each individual is required?
the aggregate of this is 19,150,00 dollars per
day?130,500 dollars per week.
7. The public duty and private benevolence
have up to this time been totally inadequate to
supply the vital wants of the suffering work
iug classes in this city, and now deep inurmurings
are hoard around the hearthstones of
proud, stern hearted men, who would prefer
death to the crouching supplications of repulse
1 beggary; and your memorialists most respectfully
and most earnestly represent to your
h uiorable body, in view of the passage of
so ne measure of'extended relief, have been
met in many quarters by deep, despairing curses,
and we regret to be compelled to add,
that confidence in the integrity of your honor
able hotly in the assumed intention of supply
ing elHcient measures of immediate relie f is now
largely impaired; and in view of this state of
feeling, we, as the central committee of the
wording men of New York, will he directly
compelled, unless prompt relief is afforded, to
throw off all responsibility as to the results now
looming, like tiie dense precursor of the hurricane
of dentil over this unhappy city. We do,
ihnrnfore, most earnestly and cnt.eailugly urge
the immediate passage of an appropriation for
the improvement of the pnldic domain, or some
equally available measure of relief for our despairing
and starving fellow citizens.
The memorial was referred to the committee
on finance. Its spirit is any thing but ,
creditable, while its statements are said to be
considerably exaggerated.? Char. Mcrcv.ry.
James L. Pkttiukv.?A correspondent of |
the Darlington Flag liuving complimented iMr. |
IVttigru very much for his bold prosecution |
of the case ofSiualle, the Yankee wood chop. ,
per, against Partner and others, the editor thus (
freely and truthfully expresses his (>piiiioM of |
tiie distinguished lawyer:
' While we read with respect whatever ema .
nates Iron) our friend, we are not willing to be .
considered as adopting all that we may pub- .
lish. We concur to a great extent, in his elo- j
quent panegyric on Mr. I'eltigru, but there is <
one fatal blemish in his history, which stands (
out iu painful relief. His life has been spent ,
in contending against the policy and interests .
of his native State. Hi call the occasions ol ,
those great intellectual strifes in which his ,
learning and eloquence and humor, and uncalculating
courage, have achieved victory in
the forum, and invested his reputation with
lustrous renown. In all of them, lie has been ,
identified with the enemies of his native State
or the adversaries of his fellow citizens. It requires
a harmonious combination of nianyqual- |
ities to make a Hero, to whom all men will be
w illing to pay homage. Mr. Pettigru is a profound
lawyer, an accomplished scholar, and a ^
brilliant humorist; but Daniel Webster was his (
... . i it 11 Ime I Ko /)Aiii?nrru n(
Ml |JUI KM 111 <ill lliu^* iic uuo vii^ wuiiIqV w i
a martyr, and regards neither man nor State in
the pursuit of his purpose; the same may be
equally said of Giddings and Seward in Congress
and much more of Tappnn and Garrison,
when they commenced under universal odium 1
the anti-slavery agitation. We think the enormous
verdict of 2,500 dollars rendered against
the Beaufort planters in behalf of this Yankee
wood cutter or abolition emissary, adds nothing
to the merit of Mr. I'ettigru. Our correspondent
complains that the State has never
honored him. Why should she! When did he
ever serve her ?
Ahoumknt.?Never waste arguments on
people who don't know logic from logwood,
which is the case with half the folks who love
disputation. The best reply to a stolid dogmatist
is to say, 1 certainly?no doubt of it ?
it's as clear as mud.' There's no poser like
Spriglllijr acquiescence iu juui cicikiui wiungler.
Let him have his own way, and you confound
him at once. Leave him to himself,
and you make him so uncomfortable that he
will leave you?4 a consummation devoutly to
be wished.' Con vicfion. seldom comes of ^personal
disputation, in which the battle is waged
much ofteuer for victory than truth, except a
conviction that the other party is very dull, or
very dishonest. Besides, few persons take
their opinions through argument, in the first
place, and Dean Swift said, with the utmost
truth, that 4it is useless to attempt to reason a
man out of a thing which he was never reasoned
into.' These are our sentiments, and we
cordially tender them to captious, quarreuooie
bigots, who cnn 6ee no truth or beauty in the
laws of nature or of God.
The best capital for a young man is a capij
tal young wife.
^ ' i
Annexation Policy.
The telegraph reports that President '
lias changed his views in regard to the ncqui- . jj
b'ilion of new territory, and will now oppoMgg ^
the annexation even of Cuba and the SandjM j;
Ao In lUn Inftnii ttlll rl/.lltif if <V|A VMITQ ftf
iio IU i lie lilllCl) ug mvuuw IV vhv raw ww '
the Administration have at all changed.
give then) too much credit for common ?ense. ryJ
to believe that the}' ever seriously desired that
acquisition. A little knot of islands, threo -Iffa
thousand miles from the nearest point of
United States, not having a surface in the ag
gregnte of m >re than six thousand square mi!e?j&j|H
and much of this utterly uninhabitable, is pr6>
posed as a State of the American Union!
an acquisition, it is contemptible in any possif ^]9
ble view; while the project was liable to al*C/,i3S
most every sort of objection. All maritime
countries have treaties with the Government
these Islands; and a direct interest against-^3
their appropriation by any one. They are
such a distance that their appropriation and de- vrJaE
fence by the United States would involve an *
enormous expense. They are not extensive
enough to justify such expense. They are^aS
in nowise necessary to any great interest of
our country. Finally, they are inhabited by *
race that can never be assimilated to the ^ ^
pie of the United States.
These are overwhelming reasons whv wo
should not take the fortunes of the Sandwich
Islands on our shoulders. Hut, as we have
said, there is no good reason to suppose that> /%]
the Administration has ever favored this scheme />?
of annexation, and that, consequently there has .io.
not been any change of policy in this respect.
The whole thing seems to have been an intrigue ; ^
of a set of adventurers, who saw their owa ;>r
interests in promoting a Union of these Islands ** ,
with the United States.
In regard to Cuba, a change of policy was / forced
upon the Administration, by the unanimous
declaration of the Spanish Cortes against ^
the sale of that colony. It is well known that
President Pierce had set his heart upon the
acquistion of that beautiful and fruitful island..';:-^
Hut it is also known that he recognized, in the
fullest degree, the right of Spain to peaceful
p< s essi< n of #her colony, It has proved ira. ?
practible to purchase Cuba, and the Adminis- s~M
tration has shown no infirniition or change of
purpose in declining to take, by violence or >
conspiracy, what it was unable to gain by fair .Vjg
purchase. So, although this news from Wash- '
ington is gratify ing, it does not, in our opinion, * ]$
indicate any blind change of policy on the part
of the Administration, but rather a statesman-..
like adaption ot their measures to the re- &??
quirement of the times. ^^3
Charleston Mercury. ^
Excf.liknt Auvice.?In concluding an opinion
in certain tax cases, Judge Gholson of the ji
Superior Court of Ciucimiati- Ohio, .lntnly > t
tered the following pertinent remarks :
"It is a true saying that eternal vigilance is
the price of liberty, and so it is with good government
and freedem from oppression. A A
single individual, however vigilant, may some* ^
times sufTer unjustly at the hands of a community;
but communities rarely, if ever, suffer
my injury from the hands of those vested with
authority, which cannot be traced to their own
want of vigilance. Those who will not take
that part in governing themselves to which t
they are entitled under the constitution and
laws, will not exert, in this respect, that weight ~>.l
*nd influence which they may justly cluim,
must not be surprised if others take the#trouble
to govern them, and do not at all times do so
*C
n a satisfactory manner. But the remedy for
~ ?- w\r\ f rtnil cli/vnlrl rant Ko tri
WIJ &UUI1 up?JI CSau'il n nut uiiu cuvruui mvi< v? vv .
:isk n departure on the part of a judge, from
i strict line of duty, but rather a resort to
that vigilance which has been neglected, A
community thus suffering under oppression
:annot apply to any Hercules for help; for it is *
with the people alone under our system of go* r .
vcrnment, that any such Herculean power re- sides.
It is with them to mako or unmake constitutions,
laws and officers."
n -I
A IIard Case.?The Texas debt question
still drags in the committee of the Uaited
States House of Representatives, t.ot being }el .
even reported on. This delay is the occasion
ef great inconvenience and loss, and even of
bankruptcy to some of the crccitors of Texas. Here
is a case in point:
A creditor of this fund claims $40,000. and >
the State of Texas admits the claims for $95,000.
The money?his money is locked in the
vaults of the Treasury, while his house is sold
from over the head of his family for debt. Recently
he received a letter from his wife, stating
that a few days before the sheriff had
Beized some little negro children belonging to
the family and likewise sold them for debt.
\ll this too while thegoverment acknowledges
its indebtedness to him in the sum of $95,000
and with the money.lying idle in the 'Iresury. ">
Rei.igiou8 Toleration.?A correspondent of
the New York Times, writing from Leghorn,
in Tuscan v. remarks the almost entire absence
iii that eit) of the vaunted glories of ancient
church architecture. He notes the important
fact, however, that all religions are permitted
to have their places of worship, and beautifully
expresses the thought which the fact suggests:
The monument of true religious liberty is
one that rises to Heaven; it pierces the clouds;
it enters within the arch consecrated to the ^
stars; it lights the soal to God. '1 he loftiest
church which claims to hold salvation within
its pale, and does not acknowledge worship
b y< n 1 it, confines religion of the heart to its
own precincts. The piety of St. Peter's may *
rise 50P fcet for such is the elevation of its .>.
cress, the religion of universal toleration reach* *
es as high as that temple not made with bands
H AO IT AI1Q _
tJICI IIC?I III IUU A.A V U
m
Title of D. D.?The New York Post says
the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church
has a lopted a rule in the Synod that the title?
of D. D. shall not hereafter be attached to the **
names of any of their ministers.
OnioiN of Caxp Mektinos.?Camp meetings
originated with the Presbyterians of Ke*?
tucky. The first meeting was held near Goose*
l berry river, in July, 1800,