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DOLLARS PER ANNUM.I 7?-- . .... _ __ '-'- -^-^^"---=====^^ -^== =====- [PAYABLE IN ADVANCE* I DAVIS & HOLLINGSWORTH. ABBEVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 6, 1856. ==== ?.? J!13?IS!LIL&I2II??SI3. THE DECOtAIl'S CAPTIVE. ^ While the Spanish colonists ravaged the southern portion of North America in ' quest of gold, and the English planted the germs of self-government on tho eastern i coast, the French were hut tho agents of j home merchants, who enjoyed a monopoly j of tho various traffics, and were sustained j in tho enjoyment of it by the strong arm j of military power. To tlio trading associa- | lion in particular wo owo the discovery of i the Mississippi, by the sons of tho members i ?tho intrepid La Salle. In this day, lead [ was first discovered within the present liin- ! its of the State of Iowa, hut the noted Ju- j lien DuBuque was the first who taught tlie i Indians to collect the ore, and make an ar- ; tide of trade of it. lie was not only a ' bravo but crafty man, and after his death, | the savages, in compliance with his dying ' wish, deposited his remains on the summit i of a high clilV overlooking the <l Father of > "Waters," securing the mouth of the mau- : i solemn with a massive leaden door of a ton . weight. Tln-y then burned his dwellings i and erased every trace of civilized life around his settlement, except the orchards j planted by his own hands. Vandal whites afterwards cut up the door to sell, but the > name of DuBuquc will ever be remembered j in Iowa. Years passed away. The white fl.ig of Franco no longer waved over the Mis.?is- : silllti Wllli'V. rttl.l tlu' linlil fVniiliurw.mnii ;i<1. 1 vancing on tlie foremost wave of civilian- 1 lion, crossed the river in quest of lead ore. game, and fertile soil. One of the first settlements thus established, was formed by a parly from Kentucky, led by the grand sire of tho younger generation?old Joe Bates, a noble specimen of a front'ers-nian. Seventy winters had whitened bis long lockSj but he was still hale and hearty, able to wield an axe with any of his sons, or to draw bead on a rifle with that fatal accuracy of aim which had enabled him to iciidcr good service at tho battle of New Orleans. Selecting a good locality on the very shore of the Mississippi, old Joe and t his sons built a log c.ibin, surrounded by a stockade to keep oil' the Deeotahs. They surrounded a11 clearing" with a worm fcncc, deadened the standing trees by the fatal ! ?...i I ?|AV WtlblCj tlllU |MUI11UU ^Ulll, If Iliril LI IV/ com was well above ground and freed lrom weeds, ihoy began to " prospect" for lead ore. 1 Thus far tlicy had seen no Indians, and began to flatter themselves that the " red ski?is" had left the country to their peacet ful possession ; but the wily savages had kept a constant wateh upon their movements. Perhaps, had they coufincd themselves to agricultutal labois, the intruders might have gone on unmolested, especially ^ as the Decotahs wished to conciliate the w United States Government into a profitable treaty, but when pickaxes were wielded in search of lead ore, the destruction of the pale faces was resolved upon in council. The first object of savage vengeance was the oldest sou, l'Vank Hates who had built l.li.i o ..1 1 1?j 1- c MIUI ? vtvuiu tii'vui 11% U IIUIIUIUU Jili ua 1I U1II " head quarters," despite the warnings of old Joe. Prank, however, had no fear of Indians, and lived with hi* wife and babe in great happiness, until one Hummer's night when he was awakened by the loud bal king of his dogs. Spring from his bed, lie looked through an opening in the logs, and - saw to his horror at least fifty Decotahs, in full war costume, evidently seeking the easiest way to force an entrance into the cabin. Arousing his wife, he raised a cellar trap door, and was about to send her down, >vhen the child she had left in llift l?ml lio- I gan to cry. HI cannot leave my babe," she said. i4 Nay," lie exclaimed, " 1 will take care of the boy," and almost forcing her down into the small cellar, lie closed the unhinged door, over which lie drew a large chest.? Then, seizing his ritlc and hatchet, he took the infant and ascended to the loft of the cabin, pulling the ladder up after him. A moment more, tlie door was forced from its lunges, and the Decotahs entered eager for their prej*. But Dates did not remain {o watch their movements, for lashing his Voy to his shoulders, he cautiously opened a shutter in the gable of the loft, and seeing that uo Indians weip beneath, jumped |o the ground, rifle in hand. Ere ho bad traversed his little garden, {.ho a!r resounded with the blood-chilling toues of the war-whoop, mid a volley of ai* rows rained around the fugitive. Happily only one struck him, and ?hnt in the fleshy part ot tlio arm, so that l|*t kupt on straiuing orcry nerve to rcapli the stockado ardfrod Ins failicr'a cabin. But fcro bo had j gone many paces, a gigantic Indian overtook him. Turning like a utag at bay, ho 1 faced his antagonist, knocked him down with the but of his riffo ,?pd then sped oi\ hi* >yayk But nop, to his horror, lie saw H large tody of DecotaLi* Jiis fmli erV dwelling AS lie approaclwd, firing over of# W: lliA r.W-ll.i >i"i IT wm.i?PW? IroiiBedlit in to * sens? of iiis own danger hi* stops ?o wards the liver, wbcre lifi fouud [ paddling across the river to A settlement p where there were a large number of s; whites. Day had scarcely dawned on the succeed- s ing morning, before twenty miners, good men s and true, were ready to accompany him across e the river. They cared no more for the r; Dccotabs than for prairie dogs, and acted si upon the spur of the moment, regardless of h consequences. Crossing abovo his rcsi- n dence, young Bates led than towards his S( clearing, but on arriving there, nothing re mained hut a mouldering pile of ashes. His k beloved wife liad evidently perished in the flames, for among llie ashes and charred beams in the collar they found some blackenciJ bones. Just then they were joined by old Joe Hales and two of his younger sons, armed to the teeth. They were delighted to find Frank alive, for tlioy had feared that lite column of smoke that had arisen from his cabin was his monument; but now tliey did their best to condole him in t their way. lie said but little, but secretly t vowed to avenge bis wife's death, and well did lie keep his word. To have seen him, ? no one would have supposed that the mildluuking, slender built Frank Bates was an t incarnate demon in a fight with the l>ccotahs; yet within a year after his cabin was burnt, lie had twenty scalps hanging around t bis giidle. " Vengeance" seemed bis only J inuuglil?Ills Jllo'S ileal 10. " For sometime after lliis outrage, the Docotahs k?*pt away from the miners, but at Sl last a parly of them came prowling about, " and the miners determined to have a brush with them. Who was so competent to head -w the parly as that sworn enemy of the red- st skins, Frank Dates ? The party engaged 111 two Wiiinebagocs asguid<?, and then struck s' into the forest, following a recent trail. The third night of their journey, the warv lesuW fa ? - ?r J insisted on Htanding as sentry, and about T midnight the crack of his rifle awakened every sleeper. In an instant every man was ^ 011 his foot, rifle in hand, ready to repel any ^ lurking foe; but a low whisper from Frank ai announced that there wsis 110 danger. Mor- d niug came, and as the party crowded around " the sentinel to learn the cause of the alarm, " lie merely pointed to what appeared to be a 0 huge bear ; a nearer approach to the object n discovered to their astonishment the grim a visage of a dead Decotah, enveloped in the skin of a gigantic bruin, who, thus disguised, had attempted to reconnoitre the position of the frontiers-men. ^ Frank now felt assured that they were oj near the enemy, and followed their trail in v\ silence on the alert for their foe. On roaching tlic summit of ;i knoll, tliey saw their ^ village before theiu?a collection of high, conical tcnls, made of dressed butt'alo skins, j sewed togetber and ornamented with rude representations of the battle or the chase. ^ On the outskirts were the squaws busily en* ^ gaged in tiie laborious occupations which ^ fell to their lot. Their infants, tightly bound ^ to straight strips of bark, were tied to small , bent-over birches, which gently danced them ^ to sleep, and the boys of the village, with . bow and nrrnw w?m ? * 1? ? ^ ... . ^ | '.viv (It iliu C|ll COUII- J. tatiun of a Kansas hunter. In tho centre of ^ the village, before tlie towering tewt of the chief, sat the braves, smoking their toma' > O w hawk j?ipes with stoical gravity. ^ The white men looked at the priming of their rifles, put their sharp hunting knives ^ between their teeth, and with a deafening . yell rushed down through tho frightened squaws, ere the Decotahs could comprehend j what calmed the alarm. Dashing into the , fi Stnilk-il (rrniin nf wurrmw - ? - V. ifttiiivia Hllll IICILU warO I whoops, they dealt destruction around them. The chief was the first slain, bravely dofending himself and cncournging his warri- . h ors, who nobly struggled to avenge his death, but all in vain. 8i Frank Dates fought like a demon, but at 11 one time was nearly a victim to a stalwart warrior. Dut glancing at his opponent, ^ Frank recognized in a gay red handkerchief ^ around his head, his marriage gift to his lost ^ wife. This added new strength to his body and increased activity to his fury, as lie seized his assailant with his left arm, lifted him from the ground, and at the same time with ^ nervous force thrust his knife to his heart. J Ins decided tlie battle, for Mic surviving ^ Dccotahs, panic struck at the sudden attack, rushed to the spot where their horses were , tethered and escaped into the forest. Upwards of fifty dead warriors remained on the field, and others grievously wounded, t but not a single white man was seriously 3 injured. c The women and children fled to thu J, woods, and the whites found an abundance j qf plunder, comprising blankets, rich furs, \ | horses, dried meats and tents. But Frank t Bales felt sad at licart, for the sight of this t memento of his wife made him fear she had c been tortured beforo perishing in the flames( j Night came on, and feeling positive that ho j could not sleep, lie volunteered to keep watch. It was n bright moonlight night, f and as he was pacing his solitary round, e planning new schemes of vengeance, lie c heard a light step approach from the 1 thicket. ] Frank at first railed, his rifle to shoot ? it tl.<> Mfe* bw ? 1 W him KHJftlUoq*, ^WUo.oomeaF ^ .? r was tbe ref>Jy, ^ iir tones lb?t prodawsi an rade^oribable ef- < risoncr over the Mississippi," and as sho poke she advanced. Tho rifle fell to the ground, and Frank lood as if under the influence of a magic pell. His hands wero convulsively clinch- 1 d, his hair stood erect on his h-ra-I, a shiver 1 an through his frame and he tuttered back svcral paces. But not so tho female, who ; ad recognised her husband as she drew 1 ear, and now exclaimed sis she threw her- 1 L'lf into his arms : "Frank! my own Frank! Do you not now your wife ?" 1 Yes, it was his long-mourned bride, her ' MltlircR Kliininnil witli i. mi oui ivuj uuv anil IU" lining lier early beauty. Mutual explana- 1 ons followed, and when the delighted wife !arned the safety of her boy, all hardships ' iiisished. ll now appeared that when the * ndians had entered Hates' house, they saw keg of whisky which they drank freely, ' nd then plundered everything, removing ( le chest in their researches. Soon two of ! iein began to quarrel about the handker- ' liief ltates had seen the day previous, and ! rawing their scalp knives, one speedily iceived a mortal stab, ami fell directly upon j 1 ic trapdoor, through which his blood ran 1 pun the hidden wife. She, believing that 1 , catne from her husband, shrieked aloud, mis betraying her place of concealincnt. ] ragging her forth, her captors bound her, ' leu rilling the cabin, applied the torch.? 1 lie. body of the slain Decotah was con- ' imed, and over his bones Bates had ' lourncd as for those of his wife. ' That day they packed the plunder upon ' hat horses the ]>ecotahs had left, and i arted for their homes, which they regained I i safety. The proceeds of Frank Hates' : are of the spoils enabled him to rebuild < is house, but this time close to that of his I ther, and enclosed with a high stockade. ! he Deeotahs, however, never returned, and i course of time were driven to the far ' iTcst. Frank l$ates is a member of the tate Senate, Judge of the County Court, nd Major Geucral of Militia. Time has ealt leniently with him and his wife, hut either forgets her captivity. Their sou ever passes the scene of his father's flight 1 11 that memorable night, without feeling a ! mewed sense of his filial obligations, and deeper love for his boyhood's home. A HUMAN BEING WITS NOTHING TO DO. Most miserable, worthy of most profound ity, is such a being. The most magniliiiit object in nature becomes a source of ivy ; tlio birds warble on every spray in istasy of joy; the tiny flower, hidden 0111 all eyes, sends forth its fragrance of ill happiness ; the mountain stream diishcs long with a sparkle and murmur of pure flight. The object of their creation is ac3inplished, and their iife gushes forth in annonic work. Oh, plant! oh, stream ! orthy of admiration, of worship, to the retched idler ! Here are powers yo uever reamed of?faculties divine, eternal; a ead to think, tut nothing to concentrate 10 thoughts ; a heart to love, but no ob:ct to bathe with the living tide of aficc on ; a hand to do, but no work to be one ; talents unexercised, capacities undejloped; a human life thrown away? 'asted as water poured forth in the desert, lirds and flowers, ye are gods lo sik-Ii a jockory of life! Who can describe tins1 mrful vn'ul rS ctu?Ii on nvulAnnA #1*^ ?./??>- ? ? ? ? ?" ?"> )g for an object, the self-reproach for wast- ( J powers, the weariness of daily life, tho >athing of pleasure, of frivolity, and the jarful consciousness of deadeuing life?of spiritual paralysis, which hinders all rehouse to human interests?when euthusi* sin ccases to arouse, and noble deeds no >nger call forth tho tear of joy, when the rorld becomes a blank, humanity a far-oft mind, and no life is left but the heavy, bcumbiug weight of personal hopelessness nd desolation. Happier far is tho toiling rudge who coins body and soul into tho iw poor shillings that can only keep his iuiily from starvation; he has a hope un oasingly to light him, a duty to perform, a park of love within that cannot die; and irrclchcd, weary, unhuman, ns his life may o, it is of roynl worth?it is separated by ho immeasurable distance of lifu and death torn the poor, perhaps pampered wretch, rho is cursed for having no work to do,? Williamsburg Times. The Prcsidenliul Election-Preparations o Ascertain the Result.?We understand, ay? the Boston Traveller, that the Assorted Press of the United States are ma;ing the most extensive and thorough pre* >arations to collect from all parts of the Juion this side of the Ilocky Mountains, ho result of the l'rMiilomlul ?i,? - - ? vawilVU Ull he fourlh day of next month. In the State >f Pennsylvania, for instance, there is a very urge extent of territory, with, in many daces, bad roads. In that State alone, eyeral thou8i\od dollars will be expended, ind if there is no failure of agents, a deciivo indication of the result tlicre>jll,atao sarly hour the next morning, be obtained. Phesaroe n^ajbe taid, of li%e grea\ State of tew York. At soon, therefore, as the polls <lose onUiefoorth day of November nest, n all prfrta of iltf Union thewotk ji' v ,.+ < "" ' * ,v :'' ^ * -"** ? - * ? - *"* * i .at* /, rijtti' '. >?*'*'Jt\?'T^' . INCREASE OF JEWS. An intelligent writer in the North American Review supposes that no class of immigrants has increased moro rapidly in this country than the Hebrew. In 1850 a man might conn! upon his !he svnas in lho iiiini ; now tlmrn :n-u at least ii quarter .t million of Jews, from eighty Lo ninety synagogues, and a multitude of smaller communities where a nucleus exists which will soon grow into a synagogue.? i'lie city of New York alono has twnntv .--J synagogues and thirty thousand Jews? ibout one-twentieth part of the pitpulalion being such. There are synagogues in all the chief cities of the seaboard : two in Ijoston, five in Baltimore, three in New Orleans, two in Charleston, and four in Cincinnati, &e. It may not be inappropriate to add to the above statement respecting the progress A the " ancient people" iu our country, the tnnexed historical and statistical particulars from an a: tide in Blackwood's Magazine : Vast as is the period and singular as aro the changes of European history since tlie Jhrislian era, Judca still continues to be the most interesting portion of the world. tYmonir other mirnnspa. it nmv l>? - t -1 1 ? J *v" v,,v< purpose of iixing the general eye upon this extraordinary laiul that it has been periodically visited by a more striking succession jf great public calamities than perhaps any jther region. With less to attract an innuler than any other conspicuous land of the Ivist, it has been constantly exposed to invasion. Its ruin by the Romans in the first century did not prevent its being asi i ? ' liiiivu iiniKJSL every i>:iri>ariau, who, in turn, assumed the preoarlous sovereignty of Lite neighboring Asia. After ages of obscure misery, a new terror i-ntno in the Saracen invasion, which, under Ainrou, on iho conquest of Damascus, rolled on to Palestine. A siego of four months, which we may well conceive io have abounded in horrors, gave Jerusalem into the hands of the lvnliph Omar. On the death of Omar, who died !>} the usual f;klo ot'Eastern princes, the dagger, the country was left to the still heavier misgovcrumcnt uf the Moslem viceroys?a race of men essentially barbarian, and commuting for their crimes by their zeal in prosclytism. The people, of course, were doubly tormented. A new scourge foil upon theiu in the invasion of the Crusaders, at tho beginning Of the twelfth CeiitUrV. followed 1>V 21 innnr . i j *" ""'a succession of bitter hostilities and public weakness. After almost a century of this wretchedness, another invasion from the Desert put Jerusalem into the hands of its Ltld oppressor, the Saracen; and in US'? the famous Saladin, expelling the last of [he Christian sovereigns, took possession of Palestine. After another century of tumult and severe suffering, occasioned by the disputes of the Saracen princes, it was visited l>y a still more formidable evil in the slu;pe jf the Turks, then wholly uncivilized?a nation in all the rudeness and violence of mountaineer life, and spreading blood and fire through Western Asia, from this date (1317) it remained under the dominion of Lhe Ottoman until its conquest, a few years ngo, bv that most extraordinary of nil Mussulmans, tiic Pacha of Egypt?a dreary ?? * t'-.i.wu ?.<. _) u;iio, miner LiiO most desolating Government of the world. It is equally impossible to read tho Scriptural references to the future condition of Palestine without discovering a crowd of the plainest and most powerful indications that it shall yet exhibit a totally different aspect from that of its present state. Enthusiasm, or even the natural interest which we feel in this memorable nation, may color the future to us too brightly ; but unless language of the most solemn kind, uttered on the most solemn occasions, auu by men divinely commissioned for its utterance, is wholly unmeaning, we must yet look to some powerful, unquestionable, and splendid disnlav i ?/ of Providence in favor of tlio people of Israel. The remarkable determination of European politics toward Asia Minor, Syria, and Egypt within theso few years; ihe not less unexpected change of manners and customs, which seemed to defy all change; and the new life infused into the stagnant Governments, of Asia, oven by their being flung into the whirl of European interests, look not unlike signs of the times. It may be no dream to imagine in these phenomana itiA r^AAfo A^ bamia - - v.... ?iv V| whiv f?i?npiau^ C'UUUge in the interior of things?some preparatives for that great Providential restoration ol which Jerusalem will jet he the scene, if not the centre, and the Israelite himself the especial agent of those high transactions which shall inako Christianity the religion of all lands, restore the dismantled beauty of all earth, a?d make man what he was created -to be, only u a little lower than the angels.* . The statisUca of the Jewish population are among the raort singular circumstances of tin* most singular of all people tTadei *5- |hd? earumltiea and diftpertiow, tbey seem U> J?aWremaia*d at the t*?iU Amount as is lhar<t*tai at ^ within the last half century; the proportion of America being still more rapid, and the world crowding in a constantly increasing ratio. Yet tho Jews seem to stand still in this vn?t and general movement. The population of Judca in its most palmy days probably did not excccd, if it reached, four millions. Tho numbers who entered Palestine from the wilderness, we?e evidently not much more than three; and their census? according to tho German statistics, who were generally considered to be exact, is now nearly tho snme as that of the people under Moses?about three millions. They aro thus distributed : In Europe, one million nine hundred and sixteen thousand, of which about six bun tired and fifty eight thousand arc in Poland and Russia, and four hundred and fifty-three thousand aro in Auc' ia. In Asia, seven hundred and thirty-eight thousand, of which three hundred thousand are in Asiatic Turkey. In Africa, five hundred and four thousand, of which three hundred thousand arc in Morocco. In America, North and South, fifty-seven thousand. If wo add to these about fifteen thousand Samaritans, the calculation in round 11 umbers will bo about three million 0110 hundred and eighty thousand. This was tho report in 1825 ; the numbers probably remain the same. This ex traordinary fixedness in the midst of almost universal increase is doubtless not without a reason, if we are even to look for it among the mysterious operations which have pre. served Israel a separate race through eigh teen hundred yearn. May we not naturally conceive that a people thus preserved without advance or retrocession ; dispersed, yel combined; broken, yet firm; without s country, yet dwellers in all; every where insulted, yet cv<?ry where influential; without a nation, yet united as no nation ever ' was before or since, has not been appointed to offer this extraordinary contradiction to tho common laws of society, and even the common progress of nature, without a cause, and that cause one of final benevolence: universal good, and divine grandeur? In noticing the preceding statistics, the lute Major Noah rcmarkod : " We apprehend there is some error in the above statistics, ami that the number ol Jews throughout the world may be estimated at nearer ?ix millions than three. Thort are more than a million iu Poland and Russia; in all Asia there avo foil two millions ; half a million in Austria ; in the Barbary States and Africa a million ; in al! Europe two millions and a half. We do nol think, during the most splendid period oi Jewish history, that thov ever exccoded toi^r millions, but then their colonics and countries, held tributary in Europe and Asia, amounted to many millions more." GAIT AN INDICATION OF CHARACTER. Observing persons move slow?theii heads movo alternately from side to side, while they occasionally stop and turn round. , Careful persons lift their feet hich. and place them clown flat and firm. Sometimes tliey stoop clown, pick up some little obstruction, and place it quietly by tbo side of tbe way. Calculating persons generally walk with their bands in tbeir pockets, and tbeir heads slightly inclined. Modest persous generally step softly for fear of being observed. Timicl persons often step oft from the side-walk on meeting another, and always go round a stone, instead of stepping over it. Wide awake persons M toe out," and have a long swing to their arms, while their hands shake about tnis, cellaneously. Careless persons are forever stubbing their toes. Lazy persons scrape about loosely with their heels, and are first on one side of the walk and then on tbe other. Ygt strong-minded persons have their toes directly in front of them, and . have a kind of slnmn inovAiriAnt.. TTn?s?? bio persons walk fast and alow by turns. Venturous persons try all roads, frequently climb the fences instead of going through the gate, and never lot down a bar. Onoidea persons and very Belfish ones "toe-in." Cross persons are apt to hit their knees together. Oo6d-natured persons snap their thumb and finger every fow steps. Funloving persons have a kiud of a jig movement. Absent minded persons ofton take the wrong road, and sometimes find themselves up to their knees in a mud-puddle, although tho side-walks are excellent.? Dignified men move slow and erect. Fast persons cot across the corner, kick every dog they meet, kuock down the little cbil1 dren, run against tho ladies, and hit every 1 twelfth man's ribs with their elbows. Very neat men occasionally stop to vipe the dust from their hoots?their hands hang by their 1 sides. Very polite persons are sometimes ' seen bowing in their course to blaok servant girls and block stumps, < . i;A Beautiful Alabama? rest." A stofV; is told of a tribfl of. TnHlnr.o ? who fled from a relcnllcas foo in: the track THE ORIGIN OF AN " INSTITUTION." In the first volume of Bancroft's History of the United States, an account of the early traffic of Europeans in slaves is given. In the middle ages, the Venitians purchased white tfteb and Christians, and others, and sold them to the Saracens in Sicily and Spain. In England the Anglo-Saxon nobility sold their servants as slaves to foreigners. The Portuguese first imported negro slaves from Western Africa into Europe in 1442. Spain soon engaged in the IrAftlP- Jinfl norvrrv olntfao ?y ??- Mv^j.v an**vo auuuuucu 111 SUIUU places of that kingdom. After America was discovered, tbe Indians of Hispauiola were imported into Spain and made slaves. The Spaniards visited tbe coast of North America, and kidnapped thousands of the Indian?, whom they l)ii:i?^orted into slavery in Europe and tho West Indies. Columbus himself enslaved five hundred native Americans, and sent them into Spain, that they might be publicly sold at Seville.? The practice of selling North American Indians into foreign bondage, continued for nearly two centuries. Negro slavery was first introduced into America by Spanish slaveholders, who emigrated with their negroes. A royal edict of Spam authorized ncjjrv slavery in America, lOUiJ, ivtng Ferdinand himself sent from Sevillo fifty slaves to labor in tlic mines. In 1511, the direct traffic in slaves between Africa and Hispaniola was enjoined by a royal ordinance. Las Casas, who saw the Indians vanish away like dew before the cruelties L of the Spaniards, suggested that the nc' groes, who alone could endure severe toils, might bo further employed. This was in 1518. The mistaken benevolence of Las Casas extended the slave trado which had been accomplished. Sir John Hawkins was uie nrst J^nghsinnrui tUat engaged in tbe slave trade. In 1052 lie transported a 1 largo cargo of Africans to Ili?paniola, Iu 1G57 another expedition was preparodl and ^ Queen Elizabeth shared in the traffic.? Hawkins, in ono of his expeditions, set fire to an African city, and, out of three thousand inhabitants, succeeded in seizing two 1 hundred and sixty, James Smith, of 13osr ' ton, and Thomas Keyser, first brought upon the colonies the guilt of participating in the slave trade. In 1045 they imported a (sargo of uegro.ps. I'hrotyghput Massacbup setts the cry ol justice was raised against them as malefactors and murderers: the guilty men wero committed for the offense, | and representatives of the people ordered the negroes to be restored Itt ifecir native s country nt the public expense. At the )atI tcr period there were both Indian an<I flfc, gro slaves in Massachusetts. Jn 1620 a P Dutch ship entered James river, and landed I twenty negroes for sale. This was the I epoch of the introduction of slavery into Virginia. For many years, the Dutch were ' nrinninoilxr /?Anonrnml in il?n alovA i ? r 1 j ??"? ? ? ?? >u tho market of Virginia. THE WHOLE BUSINESS OF LIFE. The amiable awl gifted Jane Taylor, 1 the last time slie took up her pep?U was on the day preceding her death?wroto as follows; " O, my dear friend, it' you know what thoughts I have now, you would see as I do, that the whole business of life is preparing for death." "How much time is spent in preparing to live ! How llttlo in preparing to die 1" Ouo who had lived moro than fifty yearsi said, as the bond of death was upon him, " I have all my days been getting ready to live and must die." Would men but spend as much time in preparing to die as they spend preparing to live, the physical agonies of de;)th would not so frequently be heightened by the agonies of despair. u Tho whole business of life is to prepare for doatli." Thousands of death bods?death beds of rejoicing, and death beds of dospaij ?have borne witness to this truth. The reader will bear witness to it?perhaps at ftti early day. Iu view of this truth, this very clay .ould he spent in preparing to die. Our chief attention should this day be given to things which shall prepare us for the closing day of life. In the same way should all our coining days be spent* Such a course would not render life a dreary waste. Far from it. The man best enjoys life who is best prepared to leave it, It i? a mournful thought that !n Ml pro bability some reader of these lines will meet death without being prepared for its dreqd realities, A Gallant Dyer.?A lady being in Want of a dyer, wag referred to an excellent workman and something of a wag in his line. The lady oal(ed and asked 3 .** Are you the dyeing man!" ' "No, ma'am, I'm a living man, Wfc J will dye for you,* promptly Mp)ied^$iar of many dolors, putting the empWuvYhere ft waa negdefl. Wh.d.ttTdifor^ceMww . c.Ml.' ?Vb. ^y? Profit this Scientific American. growing the chhte8b sugab cawr Messrs. Editors.?Ah tho Chinese Sugar Cano is attracting the attention of the community, and as it is likely to be of great value to the farmers of tho United Stated and as you have given us an articlo on this subject in No. I, Vol. XI, of tho Scientific American, I thought I would writo down and send you the result of my own oxperU enoe in the growth of this plant* Somo timo during the last winter I ob? lained about three hundred seeds of the I " Sorgho Sucre" fYom tho Patent Office, I which I nlanled on lli? 1st. ?f \fn? !?.>? m % j vr? I land that had heen cleared three years ago. I I laid the field oft* in checks three feet apart for corn. In some of these hills I planted the seeds of this sugar cane, dropping eight seeds in a hill, making thirty-seven hills in all. I worked the cane precisely as I did the corn, giving it tliree plowing.-, and three hoeings. In four months from the time the seed was planted, the cano was fully matured. It then measured ten feet 6ix inches high, and one inch and three-eighths in diameter aX the butt end. The joints average twelve in number to the cane, measuring from six to eleven inches long, the shortest at the bottom and the longest at the top, As soon as the se&d v?a? ripe, another head of seeil put up out of thia second joint from tho top. aud in a short time grew as high as thft original head, though not quite so large. By tho tima tho seed on this head began to turn dark, ^ third head sprung up from tho third joint, which was about the size of the last head, and now a fourth head rs making its ap-. pcaranco from tho fourth joint. Where this shooting forth of new heads would end, if no frost Should come to kill it, I cannot tell. The roots, where J cut off some of tho canes, some time ago, are sending up new sprouts, some of which are four inches high. ? am of tho opinion the Sorgho Sucre w a perennial plant, aud would grow all tho time if them wem nn kill it. It appears to surpass anything wo can plant in producing fodder for cattle.? There are commonly twelve leaves pp i\ cane, and llicse measure, on an average, three fuel long, and three inches and a half broad. "We commonly plant two stalks of corn in a, hiU- I had eight canes in the samo space, each cane producing full aa much fodder as one stalk of corn. At thi^ rate, which is to mo matter of fact, ono aero of cane will produce as much fodder aa four acres of corn. But I am pursuaded that I might have planled the cane ip (frill$ of three feet apart, dropping eight seeds in every space of eighteen inches, and by this means have eight (inn as tnnch fodder ^sj corn would praduea, One head of seed that I picked up at random measured three gills, and one gill contained eight huudrcd seeds. I then selected a largo head, and measured it, and found it to contain four and a half gills of seed. Tho thirt3T-seven hills that I olanted. produced three pecks of seed, tills, aftyf drying it two days in tho sun, weighed tliirty-two pounds. I had no mill to squeeze tho cane, in order to make experiments in syrup and sugar. I made a little roller, which I thought might press out some of the Bap, but it was a failure, for want of sufficient power. Jt fattened the cane, but did not press out the sap, of which the cane appeared to be full. I twisted a joint in my hands after being flattened with the roller, and obtained about half a gill of sap, which was as sweet as any of the sap of the sugar cane of the South. I intend, Providence permitting, to plant at least half an acre next spring, procure a proper mill and boilers, and wake a thorough experiment. JOS. McKEE. Juno, Lumpkin Co., Ga.t Srpt., 1856.. # ? ? ? . Time to Set Apple Trees.?-October is one of the best months to transplant apple trees. After the frost has so nipped the leaves as to stop the circulation of the Mp, the trees may l>e takon up and trantplanted. * It is a question wliotber tbis work is-b^st done in the fall or the spring. has its advantages. We bafavriioro jtyq? in autumn, and aawe can so easily bank^p the tree with earthy to su^ctrft; lUjd^Q J keep away the mi<}e, set our best trees as soon as they coaao tjo M grow. . '. " - "I If any one would n& At&to buforo ^ frost has nipped jhg ' ^Jq