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BY DAVIS & ROLLINGS WORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 1, 185G. VOL. XIII ;...NO. 2.
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REMARKS OF MR. BROOKS.
Mr. Oliver, of New York, from tlie Coininittoc
on Invalid Pensions, reported a I?i 11 j
for the relief of Mary 10. Tillman, wliicli I
was read a first and second time l>y its li- !
tic.
M.. T1 T.o \f.. <C.1 l??r ill., mi. !
ma* i'iuvi\o, ?uii i 'I'vmivif - ? ? |
diligence of the House to make a few re- j
marks explanatory of the merits of this bill. '
The bill itself is the unanimous report of;
'the committee to which was referral the !
petition of Mrs. Mary K. Tillman, a resi- j
dent of my District, who, when the reipti-j
sllion was made on the State of South j
Carolina for troops for the Mexican war, !
jpjavc to the service of her country every ,
Snember of her family at the time capable .
Of bearing arms. They wen* three high- j
toned, spirited sons, and the hu-band of her j i
bosom. i i
All went, but not one returned to dry a I
another's tears, with the story of tie- gal- I
lantry of her soldier boys. j i
The bones of one now lie at Saltiilo, an- |
-rxiiw... ..it i!.,. ?...o l.,i ' ,
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besitle tli? castle walls i>l- IV rule, ami tin- ; j
last leached the goal, at oiu-e ol' his carilily j i
career ami of his youthful ambition, at the I i
capital of Mexico.
With a strange an<l crushing fatality,
about the very time that this harvest of i i
sorrow was ripening for tliis woman in a ' |
fitriiirrti 1*mrl linr nnlr rmiinitiinnr cmm iti flm i
O v . ,w ' j
discharge of duties whieh lit; was too yonnir i I
. i
to perform, and whieh were devolved iij?on ! (
I)iin in consequence of tlie absence of his j <
older brothers, liy a fall from liis horse, be- I
camc the victim of c.ontirnx-i] piral vsi>.? t
This lady is tlius left in the deeline of life, >
with a helpless child and an infant, dan^h- j '
tcr, dependent upon her personal exertions j 1
for their and her own support. ! ,
This is the narrative of her petition, and |
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try will remember her sacrifices, and reunite 1
flier servicer.. liy the laws of nature, ami '
of regulated society, tlie services of a mi- '
lior are due to its parent ; and we. who are
lite Representatives of tin; country which 1
has been benefited bv the exertions of the '
children, ought not and will not forget, the I
obligation we owe the mother.
In support of the facts ?et forth in the
petition, it is my mi^i'orHuie to be wiite-ss 1
ill chief. Those w!ii.in !In* petitioner gave. ! '
to tlie service of her cntitiy. were my im- )
mediate neigbbois and fi vt.ds. < )ne of her , <
sons volunteered in the Alabama regiment, 1
in the company comm.'iiideil by his uncle, <
-0;ipt. Gallmam. The father ami two other
sons enrolled in my company and were i
mustered into the service of the United
States at Charleston, and under my com- 1
maud.
Considerations of personal attachment
might, possibly did, influence thcin in joining
the army. But, sir, the love of our
friends is, after all, but another name for
the love of our counlrv : for he who is in
^ , -capable
of the first, will he surely found recreant
in the hour of his country's nee<l.
The interest f lake in lite passage of this i
bill for the relief of their widowed mother,
is but a poor reflection of the friendship
borne to myself hy her noble sons; but. it
constrains me to do that for her which she
will not do for herself. She appeals not to
your charity, but to your magnanimity. I I
appeal to both. I come before you beg- i
ging for bread for the widow and the fa- I
thcrless. She comes in confidence and dig- I
nity, as the Molhvr nf thin modern Gracchi, <
and demands that her name shall be in- I
scribed in honor upon the statutes of her
country.
The pittance of eight dollars per month,
which is all that is granted by the bill, is
l?v* ! ?/!* flu*
. ; j ....... v.... whii Mil
juid recorded acknowledgment <>f her service
to the State ; and yel, sir, because a
few dollars are involved?a sum less than a
single hundred for an entire year?apprehension
is expressed lest the precedent may
prove dangerous in the future.
Never since this Government was established,
has ? claim identical with the pecu
|iar circumstances of this, been presented
(o tlie consideration of Congress. In all
human probability another like it will never
be presented, and if it should be, then those
of us who admire the example of this mother?those
of us who, in our country's extremity,
would hold up her heroism as a
precedent for every American mother to
follow, will but obey an honorable instinct,
and subserve the best interests* of our respective
.constituents, when we follow the
precedent, which I trust is this day to be
established.
Mr. Speaker, there is n golden mean even
in virtue itself. Prudence may be pushed
eo far as to partako of the infirmities of
fear, and constitutional construction in regard
to the disbursement of public moneys
jnay become so rigid n? to prejudice public
virtue by its imitation of tho meanness of
Avarice.
" It would be difficult to point out the line,
or the section, or the article of the Constitution
which authorizes the purchase of the
paintings which embellish this Capitol;
but, sir, public contempt would wither the
wretch who by his vote, would convert into
filthy lucre that portrait of the saviour of
|iis country, [pointing to the portrait of
Washington,] or that of him, his chosen
' "-~to the portrait of La
i I
I
Money, sir, is neither the wealth or
strength of a State. Virtue, genius, knowledge,
courage, patriotism! these are its
treasures, compared with which, in their
influence upon popular sentiment, gohl? '
gold is even worse than dross.
" III lares tli<- laud, 1<> linstcniiii; ills n prey. j
\\ wealth uociiiuululcs and men drcuy."'
Three centuries ago, when holder feuds j
were common, a maiden horn on the shores '
of Luke Constance had gone to seek her
fortune in Switzerland, and learning liy ac- !
cidctit, in the family in which she was domesticated,
that an assault was intended
upon her native village, under the cover of
night she took a horse and swain the current
of the Khine. and by her timely warn- ,
ing saved her birth-place and people from
?aek and slaughter. An equestrian inoiiu- {
iiient was erected to her honor, but her heI
roism is to this day commemorated by a
memorial more touching. Each night as !
tin? watchman goes his round, when the.
tioiir of midnight arrives, he calls aloud the '
ii inie of her who, three hundred years be- j
lore, awoke the sleeping inhabitants and
rescued them from danger. The historian
iippropriately says, that the fame an 1 mem
>ry of thai girl has given a tone ami spirit j
l<> tin: voulli of that little town, which is ;
worth in its defence a hattalion of alined ^
ill" n. I hilt repeat the story ; it is for the
Lfeiitleiileii of the House to make the application.
It. is proper lliat T should state that the.
|v-titioner lias already received the bounty
>f I he < overiimi'til ; I >111. these allowances :
tease on the lili of March next, when, tin- !
this liill passes, she will he thrown upon :
lie cold charities of the world. I have
stated Iter ease willi as much brevity as a
till understanding i>f her claim would per- j
nit, and I m?w appeal to every gentleman j
vln> hears me, to yield to the generous im \
>u!ses which now swell their bosoms to [
mite with me in parsing this 'niii with a
inanimity which will lie as honorable to j
.hem as it will be gratifying to the peti- :
.ioncr.
The claim is so just, so peculiar, that I
regard the passage of the bill but as a mat- [
tcr of form, and I therefore ask for its third j
n-adiug, with a view to its immediate pass- j
i
:ige.
Mr. Mace, of Indiana, moved to amend |
the bill bv striking out eight and inserting ,
!wentv dollars. I
Mr. <"hidings, <if Ohio, took occasion to j
:omh-mu tin; Mexican war generally, al- j
thotn?li his feelings woiiM not allow him to
>|?]iosc the hill.
The ijiu-slioii was taken, and the amendment
was amved to. I
I
Tin* hill, as amended, was then read a
third time and passed.
Bo fifing tin- Game.?Two gentlemen of
high hirth, one a Spaniard ami the other a
(Serinan, having rendered Maximilian II.
man}* great services, they each for recompense,
demanded his natural daughter, Helena,
in marriage. The prince, who enter
i;nm:.| eipl.il respect lor them both, could
not give the preference; and, after much
ilt-!.-*v, he told them, that Irom the claim
they both had t<> his attention and regard,
lie could not give his assent for eithei to
marry his daughter, and thev might decide
it l?y their own power and address; hut, as
lie did not wish to risk the loss of either,
i>r both, hv suffering them to figlit with offensive
weapons, he had ordered a hag to
be brought, and he who was successful
iMiough to put his rival in it, should obtain
lii* daughter. This strange combat between
two gentlemen, was in the presence of the
whole court, and lasted nearly an hour.?
At length the. Spaniard yielded, and the
German, Baron of Talbert, when he had
him in the bag took him on his hack, and
placed him at the Emperor's feet. The
following day he married the beautiful
Helena.
Power of the Moon at Night.?Mr.
Crane, in his " Letters from the East," has
observed: '*The effect of the moonlight
on i.io eyes in this country, (Egypt,) is singularly
injurious. The natives tell you, as
I afterwards found they did in Arabia, to
always cover your eyes when you sleep in
the open air. It is rather strange that the
passage in the Psalms?'The sun shall not
smite thee by day, nor the moon by night,'
should not have been thus illustrated, as
the allusion seems direct. The moon here
really strikes and affects the sight, when you
sleep exposed to it, much more than the
sun; a fact of which I had a very unpleasant
proof one night, and took care to guard
against afterwards. Indeed, the sight of a
lll'lsnn UltlA OilOlllil ulnorv utitli liio '?' ?
posed at night would soon he impaired or
utterly destroyed."?Crayon.
jtST An exchange paper, the editor of
which, no doubt, lately "set up" with a
widow, goes off thus :
"For the other half of a courting match,
there is nothing like an interesting widow.
There is as much difference between courting
a damsel and an attractive widow, as
lliorn ia ho(wi>i>n oinhnrinor in sddilinn on/1
1>
double rule of three. Courting a girl ia
like eating fruit, all very nice as far as it
extends, but doing the amiable to a blue*
eyed bereaved one in black crape, comes
under the head of preserves?rich, pungent,
sirupy. For delicious courting, we
repeat, give us ? live ' widder.1"
From Arthur'it llomc J/ayuzine.
" SO THEY SAY." r
"So they say," exclaimed a voicc under
my window. I did not see the speaker ; I
did not even look, for the street was so
thronged that I would have been unable J
to define him. And yet I was as certain
that the remark was the world wide guarantee
to some piceo of scandal as I was !
that the voice was coarse, ill-tempered and i
masculine.
Some writer has represented " old Mr. j
Theysay'' as an arrant paradox, who exists
and docs not exist, who is everywhere ami
nowhere, who is responsible and irresponsible.
Without all?>mptin<; to continue
this figure, or to trace up the genealogy of!
the character, we could not help thinking j
it.n....... ....... i- i .< i
Iinvt iiiliill nillljin; WOl'llS, " tiO
they say" have been productive of incalculable
mischief in the world.
They are words that have blasted reputa
lions, severed tiie most sacred lies, darkened
many a hearthstone, poisoned throbbing
hearts, and dishonored female virtue. They j
are the covert of the slanderer : his musty i
refuge from the searching eye of in- ;
qniry.
If there is any cur-e upon society, any ;
excrescence that should he loitned ott" of it. !
it is tl 10 slanderer, the scandal-monger, the i
Jew-vender of blighting imicndocs and >
vital stigmas, tlie pawnbroker in " hinted
doubts, " hesitated dislikes" ami " shoulder- \
shrugged discrepancies."
These "soft hu/./.ing slanderers, tlie silk \
mollis that eat an honest name," are often
found among the opposite sex ; women who i
have warmed themselves into a sort of paltry '
independence, through legacies left tlicin I
as the w aires of toad-eatimr.
The dark insinuation, the- half suppressed
sentence, tin; low whisper, the undefined intimation?these
are the weapons used by
those who should have the brand of infamy
I.unit >!c. j. ii. their foreheads, tind be hung B
higher than ilaaman in the scorn of the j
world.
J'jivv is generally the prompter to Slan- |
tier. No passion of perverted human na- j ^
lure can sink one lower in the scale of
i <
moral ipiali;ies than envv. No species of j ^
envy is admissible, save thai which hurts (
neither ourselves nor others. Imt sihik ?= I
' ' it
to greater cllorts?making lis essay to lie i ^
rtpial t<> ?>r above tin; subject exciting such (
eiix v. What an ainount of this passion j
often lie-. hid beneath, ' the cold words
that hide the envious I ho light," as Willis |
? -X presses it.
Emulation may he nohle ; ambition mav
he glorious; competition may he praise-I
worthy, hut envy is the very blackness of
the soul?the turbiilness that rises from
\
the fountain's depth below. " It is not an
ardor kindled by the noble example of
others," it is not an eager, commendable
desire after preferment and superiority;
but on the contrary, is a iealousv awakened .
by whatever may exalt others?or gives ^
them pleasures ami advantages which we (
desire for ourselves?bearing the impress ^
of malevolence ami malignity.
" Of all the passions," says a writer, j
"envy is that which exacts the hardest service
and pays the bitterest wages. Its ser- j
vice is, 10 watch the success of our enemy;
its wages, to be sure of it 1" j
Slander is more particularly directed
against defenceless woman. She is more the j
creature of impulse than the less excitable, ^
colder and more calculating man. She is I
. ' <
more instinctive and less reasoning ; " she |
is truer to nature and nearer to God ; last i
I c
made in the order of creation, in moral ^
eminence she stands first!" Character is'
all that (he. female has to depend on in
ihe wide, wide world. Oh, then, why
should any, even in jest, whisper words
which, whether true or not, may throw a j
blight upon a spotless reputation ? A ^
thought may be stifled at birth; but a
word spoken can never be re-called. The
story you whispered will return to you in ,
tones of thunder?astounding even youri
self, who were tho first guiltv wretch to rec
peat so malignant a falsehood.
Envy and censure can never extenuate j
I calumny. The following sweet, yet simple
i lines, by Mrs. Osgood, speak volumes on
the subject: j
A whisper woko tlie air?
A soTt light tone and low, *
Yet bnrb'd with eliame and woe?
Now, might it only perish t'lore! j
Nor fuither go. g
All, me! a quick and eager e*r 1
Caught up tho meaning sound ! j
Another voice hns breathed it clear, ^
And no it wanders round, j
From ear to lip?from lip to ear,
Until it reached a gentle heart, c
And thai?it broke. | 1
S3T 44 Mr. Filkins, you say you know the
defendant?what is his character I" ,,
" For what, sir?spreeing or integrity V
" For integrity, sir."
" Well, all that I can say about Jones is,
that if he's honest lie's got a queer way of .
showing it, that's all."
" What do you mean by that
"Just this?that the night before ha
dines on turkey, somebody's poultry ooop j
is always broken open."
" That will do, Mr. Filkios." ^
$ar A lazy fellow once declared, in a <
public company, that he could not find i
bread for the family. 14 Nor I," replied an (
industrious mechanic, 441 am obliged to t
work for it" <
GONE ASTRAY.
How coldly fulls upon the heart.
The words " he's gone astray !"
From tlio.se who shared with him the joys
Of fortune's brighter day.
'Tis human for the soul to err,
lieguilcil l>y visions fair;
Then crush it. not with words of scorn,
Nor drive it to despair.
When Komo frail son of earth shall jiass
Di'iieat.h misfortune's cloud,
lie thou a light to i^ilil the gloom
Of error's sable shroud.
Perchance if you desert hint now,
ii<: s |?um: nmr*iy,
No other friend mn^- lliiii? a smile
Of sunshine o'er his way.
There's 111:11 .1 heart tlint strays afar
Front virtue's beaten track,
Which, like the dove unto tho ark,
Will ere Ioiijj wander hack.
One irentle word of kind reliuke,
May call the roainer home;
No more in paths of vice and shame,
Ilis wayward feel may roam.
Hut, oh, one harsh, ill-spoken word,
May chill the erring soal,
And drive the victim far beyond
The limits of control.
To sco tin* friends of happier days
In col (I n oss turn nwiiy, I
Oft. proves tin* bane that madly drives
The sin-siek s-oul astray.
When you upl-raid the faults of youth,
Let not your wonls he cold;
For chilling tours, like molted lead,
Soon harden in the niouhl.
Hut speak in accents soft ami kiml,
The wayward to reelaini;
Ami thus you'll dry the tnrhid stream
Fioni whence his errors eunie.
Wipe 01T the peiiit.elilini tear
Tliut glistens on his eheek ;
And hid him turn to virtue's paths,
/vnu more lorgivcnrss seek.
Upon liis eonseicueo, sick with sin,
Tin; hiilm <>f comfort jioiir;
And, like iIk- Saviour of liuitikiiel,
Kill him "ir<>. and . -in no more!" I
)IFFERENT DESTINIES OF TWO BROTHERS? j
J. C. AND FRANK FREMONT.
It seems to l?e settled, now, that Col. .T.
J. Fremont is to be the Presidential candilato
of the ljlaclc Pepuhlicans?tlie most
letcstable set of politicians, not excepting
lie party of llobespierre ami l.hintou, in
lie French Revolution, that the ivorld ever
mew. For the atrocities of the era refered
to, there was some very slight palliation
11 the oppressions of previous systems and
vnngs inflicted l?y th? classes which were
iO horribly revenged hy the Parisian cut- j
inoats. In the case of the American sans- j
ulottes, the attempted revolution is soften:d
hy no pretense of injury to its actois, ,
md is against nil the instincts of our race?
vliile it is demonstrated, l?v recent events
it the North, that their ferocity is as intense
md as brutal as the annals of revolutioniry
Paris can exhibit.
It is this p-'ity that Col. Fremont now
eads; and Col. Fremont is a Soutliern>orn
man. Nay, he is a Southern-horn
nan, whose present wealth and distinguishid
position are fairly attributable to the
ocial inlliiences of the section noon which
1 ]
ic is lien-after to make war. ll.ul he been
i native or" New England, in all probability ]
ic would at this day have been steeped in j
>overtv and unknown to fame. If Col. !
Yeinont was not born in Charleston, ho
vas carried there at a very early ago by
jis mother, and he certainly received there
he education which fitted hiin for subsequent
success and distinction. lie was the
>rotege of tlie Ladies' Benevolent Society
)f Charleston, some members of which
ouiul the family in great need and aided
hem. Voting .T. C. Fremont was discovsred
to have talent, and by the interest of
he<e same ladies, became the beneficiary
>f a charity scholarship in Charleston Coiege.
lie was graduated there, with disinclion,
having shown (as we always heard.)
lecided mathematical talent. Subsequently,
lirough tlie influence already mentioned,
dr. Poinsett was induced to get liim an
ippointment as a teacher of mathematics,
>n board a national vessel; thence lie was
/ 1 ? *1. . ?
raiisicrreu 10 mo corps or topographical
engineers?not very long afterwards maried
a daughter of Hon. Thomas H. Benton,
ind began his brilliant and rapid rise.?
2very ono knows his- subsequent liisory.
Col. Fremont had a brother, Frank, a
rear or two younger, who went on the
Inge very early. Ho was a blutf looking,
learty fellow, seeming very much more
ike a man destined to military leadership
hin his brother. For some little time,
?*rank made ft sensation and got to be
ialled the " Charleston Itoscius"?but gradlally
came to bo considered merely a toierible
stock actor. After he had beer> on
he stage some years, he mnrried?in New
fork, us well as we recollect. Somewhere
ibout 1838-9, while playing an cugagenent
in Buffalo, (Now York,) he got into
in Abolition riot of some kiud, and, whilo
ighting gallantly for Southern principles,
1 O llAQtrvf KlrttW *>** Ik in
VVW.*VM - "VM.J VWV v.. ?..o UCrtU Wllicn
infected bis brain. From this lie never re
uavered?the injnry finally settled upon
lis lungs and he died of consumption.?
fTa />Anl A rvlow w* 1.^11*^- ?? J- -
wioii^uvk ?? i""/i "" vuiiort), up 10 a
ew day# before his death, which we think
>ccurred in Columbus, Gan in* 1839. At
iny rale, the writer of this found hifla there
[with some little trouble, as he was playing
iinder an assumed name,) having been
:har?cd with a mcssRge to him by his
mother, who, it may bo remarked, was a j
<juict, melancholy woman, greatly devoted |
to her sons.
It is a littlo striking, that those two !
brothers, born and reared 011 slave soil, I
should, by the merest accidents, both have
been so nearly afleeted by abolitionism, ;
personally. The one is knocked on the !
head and M done for" l>y fanaticism, while J
the other makes a name infamous which ,
had else been truly famous, by giving his j
influence to the miscreants who wage an j
unholy war upon the institutions of his j
own section, ami of a people who rais&l ;
hun from his lowliness ami placed him on !
the high road to fame and boundless j
wealth. If he ever thinks of his origin,
he must see the depth of an ingratitude almost
sublime.?.)foiif'/omcr>/ Mail.
117/// Common Sense is Rare.?It is of
ion saiu mat no kiikI ot souse is so rare as
common sense; and lliis is true, simply
because common sense is attained by all far
more, and as a natural gift far less, than
most other traits of character. Common
sense is the application of thought to common
things, and it is rare because most
persons will not exorcise thought about
common things. If some important affair j
occurs, people try then to think, but to
very little purpose; because, not having
llw.if oiu.ifl 'I''*"-*
j- "..o.n.l.. Ull-lf
| powers lack I la- development necessary for
great ones. Hence thoughtless people,
when forced to act in an affair of importance,
blunder through it with no more
chance of doing as they should, than one j
would have of hitting a small or distant
mark at a shooting match, if previous practice
had not given him the power of hitting
objects that are large and near.?Elvmen fa
of Clturacier.
? ?
An J'J/itf'i/ih.?The editor of the I>ur!:ngton
Recorder bears witness that he recently i
discovered in a flourishing city on the line
of the New Jersey Railroad, a graveyard in
which was inscribed l>y weening friends the
following touching ami simple, yet exquisitely
poetic, epitaph :
" 11 k was a noon
The Recorder at once proceeded to gild
gold by composing the following addition :
"Tread lightly o'er this nest. we liejj.
Or else, prrlitips. you'll smash the egg."
An Artist.?At the Broadway Theatre,
the other evening, one gentleman pointed
out a dandified individual to his friend as a
: sculptor.
j " What," said his friend, "such a looking
j chap as that a sculptor? Surely you must
; he mistaken."
" ITo may not he the kind ??f a 011c you
J moan," sai?l the informant, " hut I know j
| that he chiseled a tailor out of a suit of
clothes last week."
jtif Are you the jtorter ? I am in the
place of the regular porter, Mike Sherry,
who is ailing, sir. lie's suffering a deal of
pain?and it's not shampain, either, sir,
and he may soon come to the bier. He |
had a good wife, sir?but there was liol a j
! very curd in! feeling between tliein, sir, and j
lie would lick Jicr. Poor woman, she died .
a week ago ; and I'm afraid he'll soon he
laid he side'er, and join her in the spirit
land.
Jt&~ An unfortunate youth who occasionally
pays his addresses to a lady up
town, cries out in this manner:
When weary I nre
1 Rinoke my cijjnr.
And when the binokc rises
Up into my oyoses,
I tliink of my true love,
And O, how 1 sijrliups !
" Doctor kin yon toll me what's
the matter with niv child's nose? he keeps
a pickin' of it."
" Yes marm ; it's probably an irritation
of the gastric mucus membrane conununicaling
a sympathetic titillatiou to the
epithelium schnoerian !"
"Thar, now, that'<< jest what I tole
Becky ; she 'lowed it was worrums !"
Tho Peoria (III.) Republican of
Saturday evening states that at tho lowest
i ?
V(?i\>u?uiuiit UIIC 111111.1, tiUU IIHIliy III I UK unu
half of the trees in that section of the
country have been killed by the 6evere cold
of the past winter.
Jf5T "Tlio fire is going out, Miss Filkins."
" I know it, Mr. Green, and if you
would act wisely you would follow its example."
It is unnecessary to sny that Green
never asked to sit up with that girl again.
BtST " Well, Alick, how's your brother
Lhive getting along ?" " Oh, firstrate ; he's
got a good start m the world?married a
widow who had seventeen children and
narry nigger."
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J3T It is refreshing to come across such
n crein as the follow inn :
The first bird of spring attempted to aiitg,
But ere he had sounded a note,
(ie fell frort the tree?ah I a dead bird was ho?
The marie had friz in his throat I
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g3T The cheapest excursion you can
I tnako is into the realms of fancy. No return
ticket is required.
Th? N&ust of the Week.?An old bachelor
says that matrimony is the noose of
the weefc.
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From l/ir Eibjrfifhl Ailcrrlwr.
TRAFFICKING WITH SLAVES.
This is :i subject in which cvitv farmer
is <l?_*??ply interested. Although the law h:is
placed a penalty upon Iho perpetrators of
this nefarious crime, it Is obvious that the
penalty is not sufficient to secure farmers
from many great injuries. Trafficking with
our slaves is a greater crime than stealing a
slave. By the latter crime, one farmer only, '
is injured to the amount of the slave's value. ;
15y the former crime, evi-ry farmer within |
the reach of a rascally while man, is seriously
damaged in many ways. Ilis property
in the shape of hogs and cattle, corn '
and bacon, and poultry, is stolen from him
l>y his own, and the negroes of his neighbors.
His negroes are corrupted and give
him more trouble in the management of
them ; while the negroes themselves are '
injured thereby and made often to stiller the '
lash innocently, by lying thieves who to
shield themselves, manage to implicate and \
condemn the innocent. While the law I
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uiiiiics u in in utj mi n;)tni/ ui<: penalty tor ;
negro stealing, we honestly believe, that a i
more teirific penalty should be made for .
the ciime of traHicking with slaves. While J
the poor corrupted and deluded slave caught ,
in the act of trailing his stolen goods with ;
a mean, trilling, white rascal, is made to :
sillier the lash, we think that common jus- j
lice wotdd also make the white man, who
lowers himself to the level of his fellow ;
thieving negroes, sutler the same penalty.
This is the more necessary, when we remember
that these white men who traflick
with our slaves are most gem-rally just such
characters as the penally of the law cannot j
reach. Fine one of them, and he swears :
out as unable to pay the lino. Imprison
him and he lives belter than lie does at
homo, and the only inconvenience il puts J
him tn, is that lie has to suspend operation .
for a mouth or two, ami then comes out ? !*
jail, to renew his diabolical schemes
with greater cunning and skill. In short,
we believe that fine and imprisonment,
as a penally for this tU'ence is a mere
farce.
< >ur attention to tltin subject has been
directed, l?y being inviteil to attend a muss
meeting ot* llic neighboring fanners in the
upper part of this District, which met week
before hist at molasses 15raneh. As many
meat-houses bad been broken open anil
robbed of large quantities of meat, and it
bad I won ascertained, ibat certain white men }
were leagued with the negroes in this rascality,
the farmers generally met and unanimously
resolved to prosecute these persons
for tai flicking with slaves. Farmers nut
owning slaves are deeply interested in this
matter, as they cannot allbrd to work hard
to make a support, and then l>e robbed by
negroes, who arc corrupted by mean wiiito
UK'ii and persuaded or induce"! to steal meat
and sell it to litem tor one dollar per hundred
pounds. We should watch and trap
every suspicious looking peddler of jugs,
chickens, tobacco, whisky, &c., and should
enforce the law rigorously. There is too
much of this kind of business canied on
and farmers would do well to look closely
to their interest in this matter. And surely
our Legislators could not better serve their
constituents, than by adding something
more terrific to the penalty, for trafficking
with slaves.
Milk Paint.?A paint has been used on
the continent of Europe, with success,
made from milk and lime, that dries quick- j
ci liiiiii jiaiiii, ami lias no smell. It is thus
made. Take frcdi curds, ami bruise tlx:
lumps on a grinding stone, or in an earthen
pan or mortar, to make it just thick
enough to be kneaded. Stir this mixture
without adding more water, and a white
colored fluid will soon be obtained, which
will serve as paint. It may he laid on with
a brush with as much case as varnish, and
it dries very speedily. It must, however,
be used the samo day it is made, for if kept
till next day it will bo too thick; consequently
no more must be made at one time
than can be laid on in a day. Any color,
red or yellow ochre, may be mixed with it
in any proportion. Prussian blue is
changed by tho lime. Two coats of this
paint is sufficient, and when-dry, it may be
polished with a picce of woolen cloth, or
similar substance, and it will become bright
as varnish. It is onlv fnv invito wm-L- l-n?
it will liibt very long if varnished over with
tho white of an egg after it has been polished.
Advantages of liathiny.?It is a fact
oflicially recorded, that during tho terrible
visitations of cholera in France, oat of nearly
10,228 subscribers to the public baths of
Paris, Bordeaux, and Marseilles, only two
uuluiih iiiiiuiig mein wero ascriocci to cholera.
Wo doubt whether thcro exists a
more effectual preventive of disease of every
kind, and a greater promottrof good health
at all times, than the practice of daily
bathing.
Reducing Hone* for Manure. ? The
American Farmer gives the following
method of reducing crushed bones without
sulphuric acidj Mix two bushel* of a?be4
and one of salt, with each bushel of crashed
bones; moisten the bones, and leavelht>
whole in a pie four or five weeks before
using the mixture, shovelling it over two or
three times during that period.
I loin to Determine the Height a Colt
will Attain when full Grown.?Mr. -J. Rj
Martin, of Lexington, Kv., gives out the
following upon this point
I can toll you how any man may know
within half an inch, the height a colt will
attain to when full grown. The rule may
not hold good in every instance, hut in nino
cases out of ten, it will. When the colt
gets to ho three weeks old, or as soon as it
is perfectly straightened in its limbs, measure
from the edge of the hair on the hoofs
to the middle of ihe first joint, and for
very inch, it will grow to the height of ft
hand of fuur inches, when its growth is
matured. Thus, if this distance he found
sixteen inches, it will make a horse sixteen
hands high. l>y this means a man may
know something of what sort of a horse,
with proper care, he is to expect from his
colt. Tliice years r.gu I bought two very
shabby looking culls fur twenty dollars
each, and sold tlioin recently for one hundred.
So much for knowing bow to guess
properly at a colt.
Mutton.?We mean to report at least rt
thousand timer, or till what we say has
soliie C'llWl on our rviiiii?r?-??i.??? ?!...? ..
pound of lean, tender, juicy mutton can bo
raised for half the cost of the same (piunti-1
ty of fat pork ; that it is infinitely healthier
food, especially in the summer season, i*
iii'ire agreeable to the palate, when oii?
gets accu->tomed to it; and that those who
eat it become more muscular, and can do
more work with greater ease to themselvesi
than those who cat fat pork. We know
nothing more delicate than smoked million
hams of south-down breed of sheep?venison
itself is not superior. Sheep ran bo
kept in fine growing order where other do
mcstic animals will scarcely exist, and thousands
of acres in the State, under an enlightened
system of sheep husbandry, may
be made to pay a good interest where now
they are nearly dead property in the hand*
of their present owners.?American Agriculturist.
The Jjcst Cow Fail.?The vegetable I
wish lo recommend as the best, all things
considered, for milch cows in winter, is
white, llat turnips ; some persons will object
10 the turnips because it will nftwiilm
of tlui milk ami butter. So it does if fed
raw ; this can be avoided by boiling. For
each cow, boil half a bushel of turnips soft;,
while hot add live or six quarts of short*,
which will swell, and you will get the worth
of it. A mess like this to a cow once a day
will produce more milk of a good quality
than any other feed at the same cost. Turnips
fed in this way do not taint either milk
or butter.
One thing in favor of turnips as fo d fur
cows is, that tlicv can be sown in Au./itu
O
or as late as September. 1 sowed some as
late as September last, wliicb were very line.
Turnips arc also very profitable fuotl fur
pigs, boiled in the same way as for cowsj?'
Plow, Loom and Anvil.
To Make a Bulky Horse. Draw.?Tlio
London Times gives a remedy which proved'
successful. Afier' all sorts of means had
been tried and failed, it was suggested that
a simple remedy used iu India should be
tried?that is, to get a small rope and attach
it to one of the fore feet of the stul born
animal, the person holding the end of
the rope to advance a few paces, teikiunt
c?*
willi liiin the horse's foot, when, as a mat?ter
of course,-the horse must follow. Tlio
suggestion was at first ridiculed, but at last
a rope was brought and applied as described,
when the horse immediately advanced',,
and in a fe# minutes was out of sight, m-uch
to the amazement of the crowd. The e*pcriinent
is simple and worth a trial.
Recipe for Spavin in Horses;?Two fa4-'
blespoonsfull of common salt dissolved iiV
one pint of water, to whieh add two tablespoons
of cayenne pepper powdered fine,and
half pint of lard ; all to be put in a pot
and simmered slowly, until all tlie water
has been evaporated ; tlien add one ounceof
hartshorn and one ounco laudanum, alt
well mixed and put into n bottle nrtdf wtilcorked.
Hub the affected knee three time*
a day with the mixture, and Job', wift find!
ono bottlo wiH ggeneftilly effect a cine.?
This will also euro tllo swinney.?Bttil of
the South.
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Uses of Hot iWuter.?Tiro' efficacy of
hot water, on many occasions in life, cannot
be too generally known. It ig.an excellent
gargle for a had sore throat, or
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ijtuiiky. iu uruiees, not water, by imniersion
and fomentation* will remove ^'ron, and
prevent discoloration and Btiffueaa. lV lias*
ttie Prtme effect afte^ a l?|Ow;. It sliould bo
applied as quickly a* passible, and as hob
as it can be borne.- Insertion in hoi water
wilt also cure that tvoublesome and very
painful ailment, the whitlow,
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Peach Worm.?-BoHiag water, says itie'
Horticulturist, is * most excellent ftpplkstion
in the spring of the yen#, for diMjMted
and feeble peach treetfj and hj^^Wtain
remedy for the peach worm; j|kdfV$&pbn
aertt very eifcctually exeH$6d Ujf.op?ncb
worm, l>y digging ft tftsit* ftfOWid lie foot
of the trunk, fonfiing ? entity a foot in.
width and four incbea de6p/^W?^-'th?8?potJ?*
ing into this b'airitf'fery fliiclc' whitewash*
made of fredb lirtfc,- Atid suffered to itkndi
one day before applying.
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