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P", BOtrrafittN FffBLICATIONS.
; The R3v. C. K. Marshall, of Mississippi,
, ' ( in a letter to the New Orleans Picayune,
revffeWs the resources of the South and concludes
that if the South would act upon
her arithmetic, she would not stay in the
present Union threo months. Wo extract
from his letter some suggestions regarding
tho establishment of publishing houses at
tho South :
The great question to bo solved is, how
can wo induce "tho establishment of largo
publishing houses amongst us?"
J>ly plan may 1101 i>e me uest, out 1 snail
contimio to suggest it now ami then, till
something better is offered. It is for our
Legislatures to place at the disposal of their
Governors from ?5,000 to ?10,000, to ho
used in the encouragement of tho production
of homo school and text hooks. Let
it bo provided that any number of .States
shall co-operato together by railing committees
to act as umpires, to bo nominated
by the Governors of such States. Suppose
ten States to adopt tho plan. Each Stato
has a committee of say seven ; out of that
number they elect two (o act 011 a joint
committee formed of two of each State
committco of the ten States. Then we
liave twenty scholarly educated, enlightened
gentlemen composing a committee who
sluill offer premiums for such works as they
want. For instance, they otler $10,000 for
the best work on moral philosophy, adapted
to our schools, h would not bo many
months till such works perhaps from a
dozen pens, would bo found competing t'u
me prize.
The <lay of adjuduv.-.tou auives. All tho
Stalo committees have examined tiio several
works ami given their votes ami the elioiee
is known. Tho announcement is made
public. From that Jay oil. not an order
would bo sunt, >'?r tho abolition text books,
now used, to the Northern publishers.?
Any printer in New Orleans?tho smallest
job ollico, the owner ot' which owns nothing
else, and " poveity hourly staling," <-.mi
easily atFord to pay the successful author,
(on time, and not very long time,) *10,000
for his manuscript.
So tho author has made ?'20.000 to start
with. And the struggling jobber might
nafely esteem himself in a safe condition, if
prudent and persevering. For orders for
the book would come faster than lie could
possibly supply them, though he might set
a number of Hoe'* steam presses at "work.
Q..J. ~ 1 1- ...! A L ? 1 . --- l ft -
IJUV-ll it UUUK llll<r|lL I1UL Lie as gouu, iiuer
all, as tlio committee desired, but it being
free from lies, perversions, anti-scriptural
dogmas, sophistries, and withal, highly reepectablu,
it niigiit bo esteemed not only
safe, but an advancement. And they
wuulu see that, the ball once in motion,
and ai cliors ottered remuneration, and the
South bent on having her own books, their
crvices as arbiters would not long be required.
The thing would work its own
way.
Suppose now, the same truo of primers,
spelling booki, readers, geographies, histories,
arithmetics, works on mathematics,
languages, &c., &c., and the joint committee
pronounces in favor of each, as they
are deemed worthy. Why, sir, within a
year or two your city would concentrate an
interest or ownership in some four, fivo or
6ix such premium woiks, and you would
see one or two publishing houses of the
largest magnitude, and noblest enterprise,
engaged in such publications, to be found
in America.
The fact is we must do something to give
a popular gaurantce of tlie patronage and
RuIa nf niir hnnl'C WO rton nob- ? ??_
thors and publishers to hazard tho labors
of a life timo from mere patriotic or pious
philanthropy in their production.
Does not the French Academy of Sciences
pursue a similar plan 1 Were not the Bridgewater
Treatises, and many other most valuable
works produced by some such arrangement
?
Butj some one will ask, why not let authors
pubiiah their books and lay them before
the people, and leave it to their good
sense to judge of their merits and adopt
them without prizes and the intervention of
committees ? For obvious reasons ; to not
many of which can wo now refer. But, in
tho first place, several authors have tried it
and failed. I have numerous letters from
Ruch writers pnd know their difficulties.?
Teachers generally want the books for their
schools, out of which they themselves
learned, and sneer at all others?not unfro*
quently. Then tho Bookseller has ruuliing
account at a Northern or Eastern publisher's,
and buy.^ on perhaps twelve
months'' timo, and between tho two, the
now dook is Kept entirely out of any town
or neighborhood where it miglit, under
other auspices, find a ready sale and valuable
use.
Ucsides, an author ennnot now-a adays,
afford to wait the old, tedious, tortoise-paced
process of letting a hook creep into notice
and usu for tho benefit of his grand children,
lie must be paid for his labor. Northern
authors grow independent?rich, indeed, by
getting their books at onco into thousands
of schools.
Now, can a Southern book, printed and
published ut home, hope, unaided by some
efficient method of popularizing it, to get
into so general a use as to indemnify the
author and publisher in a reasonable length
of time for their toil ? I think not. The
stone to balance tho grist is not only found
on the back of the mill-boy's pony, but in
tho pulpit, the marts of trade, and the
school-bouse. The despotism of habit
drives tho teacher to prefer the books ot
his boyhood to all oilier?, for boyhood with
boolu. I would heap such books, with
some abatement, in a general pile, and pray
for (Iritnr tvifli 1?5? 1 '*
...... ...a tvribii, iimi ii lie came
not at the call, I would fire the mass myand
force Uie teacher to become a
learner an well as the pupil; and both
should use the books prescribed by the
?g?.
' Another difficulty is found in the fact
thatv.wifliout some such popular gauranlee,
^ suggested, no publisher ceuld afford to
A&ifeblype such books as might be offered,
'Hfiff'lf So, -he could only publish them at
tw exw^ioiof the authbrT who has no ing've
tha assurance of
suc??, fttti so he feeds the mice with bis
I ?6 all the time for not merely getting
up, writing and making books nt home, but
&r Crtf?u?gan? publishing them at home,
?aout from P?? by
The Legisjrflure of Mississippi will act 01
this matte* I believe, at its approaching
session. If wolild have done s<? lust win
ter, I but for tho sudden and pro
tractod illness of the lion. Win. L. Sharkey
who took a warm interest in the matter
and was preparing a bill to introduce whei
tak'Mi sick.
' What)'*say the people of Louisiana
Texas, and Alabama, and other sister States
It will l>e remembered that the great Com
mcrciul Convention of Charleston, S. C., ii
18.*) I, recommended the Southern States t
adopt &ucli a plan. The same resolution
wero re-aliinncu at llio convention held n
your city in January, 1SJ5, ami seven gen
tlemen?among wlmm were the lamciile*
'Senator I >?\vsi?n, of Georgia; 1>. K. Ken
tier, of New < >ileans; M. T. Johnston
of Texa-; II??n. J. S. Preston, South Care
lina ; IT. \V. llilliard, Alabama, ?fcc.?wor
appoinud a committee to bring the snbjec
to the attention of tho several legislature
referred to. As chairman of that coinmitto
I have done something; but I have bcei
desirous of seeing my own State take th
lead, after which I may take courage fo
further action.
One word moro, and I close for tho pre?
cut, though too much hurried with othe
duties to do justice to ibis subject at prcs
cut.
We shall never have a widely circulate*
! influential Southern literature until w
: adopt moasuies for the encouragement c
roimtueiaive authorship. Lot us awak
an.I iiso, as surely we musl, or "be fore\c
j fallen."
Allow me to ndd, that while no earthl;
consideration oouU! iudiuv mo to dahhlo ii
: p '!!::?:#, my life ari ;n\ all shall ho givei
t.i liie lulvir, . i:.. is! and upbuilding of uu
, educatioi i?v every fair and laud
ahle means in which 1 can co-oppra'e will
' the numerous ami ahle t rio ads of tiic eausc
i liespcctfullv,
"0. K. MAUSIIALL.
The fact we are about to relate lias tli<
very rare merit of truth combined will
the pleasant excitement of the wonderful
Sutne time ago, a friend of ours pur
chased a number of picture frames, taste
fully made of acorns and handsomely stain
cd and varnished, which he placed in hi
library at his country house. The ensuiiu
season he and his family departed ou i
ratncr distant tour, and lor some month:
the country house remained closed and im
tenanted. The season was an unusnalh
damp one during their absence, and upoi
their return it w:is deemed advisable to hav
their rur;d homestead well aired and diied b;
constant tires in all the rooms before iuhab
iting it again. Orders to this effect wer
therefore dispatched, and the opening be
gnu undtr the direction of the old house
keeper. Window and door were fluiij
wide open one after another, letting in tin
sunshine to mildewed walls and hangings
until the " household corps" arrived at th
library, when, as the first pair of shutter
swung back, the broezc 11 uttered in am
played on the walls with a sound as c
rustling foliage, causing a universal am
startled movement of eyes in the directio
of the sound. That the astonishment o
the gazers was by no means lessoned whe
they beheld the cause of the rustling, ou
readers will easily credit when we inforn
1 #i..? '
lii.il several acorns oil eacli piutur
frame had sprouted, and a grove of minii
ture oaks were gently waving their tin
boughs and fluttering their dark green lea
less around the majestic brows of Wasl
ington, and Franklin, and Adams, and
half dozen others of our venerable falhci
of the Republic. Nature herself had bit
ken through her accustomed laws to crow
these patriot heroes with her own wreatli
of honor, and offer, even in hor dyin
struggles, this beautiful tribute to the
memory.
Now is not this fact worth all the fabh
of Seherzerade or Swift, a hundred tiint
over ??Philadelphia Evening Journal.
The Duuubian Principalities.?Th
Damibian Principalities, Moldavia and Wa
lat'hi-i, previous to the Russo-Turkish wa
wen; under the suzerainty of Turkey, will
out, however, being absolutely dependence
j of il. it power. They have paid iribute to ill
j LVnle, tut have always claimcd separat
govrrnin'jiit.s, made their own laws, an
I ami have been ruled by their Jlospodars.,
The C/. iv r! liming the protectorate ove
1 the (i i ? ?*!c subjects of tlie Ottoman empiri
anil l::w Sultan refusing to recognize ill
claim, a Russian army was Rent again:
('onrtaiitinoplc, through the Prineipalilie
They were opposed with determined braver
by a Turkish army under Omar I'ashi
and after the celebrated siege of Silistri;
withdrew across the Danube. Their witl
drawal, however, was caused by ihe lani
ing of the Allied forces at Varna, and tli
fear that their retreat would bo thus ci
c>(T. The Russians accordingly retired int
Ressarabio, and soon after tha war wf
transferred to the Crimea. During th
| siege of Sebastopol, Russia offered to giv
j up her claims in regard to the protectorat
| of the Principalities, and as a sort of glial
I um.ee oi nor good faith in tlio matter, sh
testified lier willingness that Austria shoul
enter upon a military occupation. Tli
Austriaus entered tho Principalities, an
have now signified their intention to rcniai
there til! the houudary question of Hcssnr;
l>ia dv-linitely settled. A commission aj
pointed by the Peaco Congress was directe
to meet at Bucharest, for the purpose <
re-organizing the government of the Princ
p.-ilities, in accordance with the treaty <
Paris, Btid the action of this commission is 1
he submitted to the second Congress, wbic
is to meet at Paris, for final determim
lion.
>? ?
A Kansas-Skrieker Attaching Negroes.1
Wn ?. ??? ?1? * ' *--* ?
niu luiiowmg num Uic 1'iovidenc
Post:
" A manufacturing firm in tliis city, tli
members of which nro loudly proclnimin
their love of freedom, and nro battlin
warmly for the republicans on account *
their hatred of slavery, men who go aboi
charging Democrats with being pro-slaver
men, during tho present season have s<
' cured a debt in the South by attaching n<
i groes and selling them at auction under a
execution ; and now have in their treasur
, the proceeds of a sale of negroes."
- Bound for Kansat.?Extract from a 1c
tor to the Editor, dated " In camp on th
bank of the. Des Moines River, Iowa, Oc
" Wo bare tfcea, in- the Ave (fays fror
Burlington, no lew than six oreiulit Imt
area men, Ail armed, boumjfor KansnS/
taw Jim Lane in Burlington on? day laa
Wdok,' He W?t ort bur'way. East, after ri
ortrife. Yesterday wa pawed two eapnom
carried.uuderUie naroo of rtaj#r?,n*- Wad
inriLon Star. ... ...
?ririv? at fl?? rate of throe thoi
?md Ave hundred weekly. 2Mi?
; ABBEVILLE BANNER.
WILLIAM O. ?>AVI8 EDITOR.
' THURSDAY HORNING, NOV. 13, 1856.
J POTATOES.
It will bo sucn thai Mr. John A. Cai.i,
iioun nilvLiti uts win? hundred bushels ol
Potatoes for sale, llo has presented lis
J" a basket of them ns a specimen. We can
0 truly say, that they arc the finest we have
s seen this season ; wo suppose they would
ii average three pounds in weight.
j I RESULT OF THE ELECTION.
- I We trive the following as the result ol
i, tlio election. The tabic is partially based
upon telegraphic dispatches, but wo nppre?
hond it will prove to bo correct:
FOR lll'CIIANAN. I KOU FREMONT.
Pennsylvania, 27 | Maine, F
n Noi'ili Curolinn, 10 Vermoutt I
II | South Carolina, 8 New Hampahire, i
y i iScorgin, 10 Rhode IhIuikI, .]
r Alabama, ? Connecticut, (1
Mississippi, 7 New York, JJS
Virginia, 15 Ohio, '2.1
> Florida, 3 Michigan, <i
r Arkansas, ! Wisconsin, f
j. Trxn*, -1 Iowa, 4
Missouri, 'J Massachusetts, 13
. I liuliutiit, i:t
' J Tcniu'sso**, 12 114
o | K out uuky, 1~
if Louisiana, ? FII.I.MOIttS.
0 |)<>lttwnr<?, !l Mary lami, >
XoW Ji'ISi'V, li ??
r Illinois, 11 tlorilTKl'l..
California, 4
y 10'J
" THE PRESIDENCY.
' The stupendous game for tho Presidency
. whii-li lias been playing for the last twelve
1 months, may now he numbered among the
' things that are past. It is now ascertained
beyond a doubt, that tho Democracy hold?
tho highest trump, and will sweep tin
stakes. Whether the triumph of tho Dcini
t. _c .1... it.
vuiativ jiaiij is n 11 mill Jill Ul Uie V II101) ?
whether sectionalism is to he crushed down
- and the Union perpetuated, is yet one ol
- the great problems to bo solved by the ads
ministration of Mr. Hccuanan".
* We regard the late contest as a battle
i 1 between tho constitutional right" "f *V
j. rmd tins v- .-^iiliiiieiit ol
? tli'j Auilh ; and it may be said with truth
1 that the anti-slaveites. abolitionism and ne
y ?ro philanthropy, have sustained a Water.
loo defeat; yet wo know from their blind
Li iGnlltllSV nnd invnfArnf.? tw>U.wl C*
- J J y <Mtvi.vai?i.u iiiiilVll VI 111C omiui
' and her institutions, that they will not "give
'' lip the ghost"?that though defeated, thrj
* are still our enemies, and will again rally tini,
der their black banner to do battle against
o Southern rights.
* Tho leaders of this party are a class o1
j. inen who maintain their power by slavery
\ agitation?" to whom a state of ordei
n would become a sentence of obscurity.?
'f They arc nourished into a dangerous mngni
11 tudo by the heat of intestino disturbances
|f , . , ,
n and it ia no wonder that by a sort of suns
0 ter piety, they cherish in their turn the dis
i- orders which are the parents of all theii
>' consequence."
f- W 1.1 -1- >' i .i.
m? ituum yi.iuiy nope mat some l)ok
1 measure inav be instituted ero the aclmiriis
,3 tration of Mr. Buciiaxax closes, designee
). to operate as an everlasting estopel of tin
n slavery agitation, But \vy drnt not antici
18 pafe such a result wlwie i*i; ;!! i. i i: hi..
jf jorilv holds supremacy in Jii> .Ji
Congress. No President iv admini.strri
;s tion, will "ver be abV i>? tu-coiupiinli till
!s result. Il i1!'.' S,111*1 Ltii, l>con true t<
her own ii^! i-\ y? ars since, an eter
e mil quietus would have been placed upon thi
|- disturbing element. Tho bowlings of fa
i". naticism would hnv? lu>.*n on.i
'* otherwise liappy land, rejoicing in peat*
anil harmony. But through patriotic
0 though mistaken policy, sho has mndt
d concessions, which, instead of allaying strife
- have invited to further aggression.
r The Missouri Compromise of 1820, wa
"J a dangerous precedent, and all the compro
it mises since that day, have worked manifes
s. injustice to the South. Wo say it was i
y dangerous precedent; because it ad millet
J' the principle, that the Constitution, whicl
should be sacred, and only to be altered ii
I- tho manner prescribed bv its provisions
?r A
e could be affected Ly act of Congressiona
lt Legislation. It has been the innuguratioi
? of that policy, which is grasping to subver
e the plainest provisions of that instruincn
e by i he Icgiolativo enactments of a ruthles
e majority.
r- \Ve do not deny, that a majority shouh
0 rule, under tho proper cheeks and restraint
of the Constitution. l>ut we repudiate tin
,1 proposition, that the will of an unrestraine*
n and licentious majority, should becomo tin
i- law of tho land to which wo must bow ii
j humble submission.
Tyranny is the same, though it come fron
j. a single tyrant, or from the million.?
if Como whence it may, it is the duty of an]
? people, who cherish the blessings of libert;
to repel its encroachmcnts.
THE BOUND DUES.
_ This question is st)ll attracting some at
0 tonlion in Europe. Tho reader will recol
lect that the governments of Denmark, fron
lC timo almost immemorial, bad levied ai
?= onerous tax upon all shipping passing lie
jf straits. Our government was the first U
it deny this right, and refuse to submit to it
y Tho principle is being extended, and Secro
a" tary Makcy has instructed our Minister a
n Berlin, to collect information as to the ori
? crin and crrowth of ? ?imiln* ???* "nw ?
acted by Hanover and Hoi stein, and repor
^ to our government It seems to be th<
e policy of the Secretary to refuse the de
t, matfds of these small St.ites, further thai
may be necessary to the support of light
fr bouse#, Ac. :'k<
|- j *? ?? ;
I A SAD ACCIDENT.
it We leftrn form the Spartanburg Exprttt
KEVSPAPER CHANGES.
Tho senior propiietur ??t" the Edgefield
Advertiser, proposes to .?< !! his half interest.
: \\ o tliitik this a good chance for investment.
Tho paper has two thousand paying
subscribers and a largo advertising patrour
ngeThe
Kingstrco Slur is the titlo of a new
' paper just started at Williamsburg, S. C.
1 It is a spirited sheet, edited by J. E. Mu1
Nioiit. Terms fc'2.00 peranum in advance.
Tho Georgian and Democrat has just
been received. It is published by J. 11.
Gossett and J. A. Toli.kson, at Marietta,
(?n nf. OH Afi*. (?i??ni."pr ic Civ/M-nlilu
? ~
1 known to many citizens of this State, hav
ing been for some time Kditor of the (jrccnvillo
Mountaineer.
SEMINQLES.
Weextract the following from tlio Washington
correspondence of the Charleston
Standard :
"In my last letter I riliciscd tlio action
of the War I >epartinen! hi sending to Florida
heavy artillery to tight Indians with in
the everglades. 1 have since I men informed
at the Department, that these Artillery
Companies are only such in rank and name.
They have always performed, and will continue
to perform. Infantry service. This
i ; explanation 1 deem duo alike to all parties
j 4 !uii. Harney is now here, ami liurryinj; with
; ; groat despatch his preparations for tho
campaign. He expects to lie at tho "seat
of war" by tho 15th iust., when every effort
will bo ma<le to exterminate the remnant of
, those miserable ami bloinlthirstv savages
! i who, iimler the iulluence of Hilly Bowlegs,
, j have determined to die in the swamps of
I ! Florida sooner than live peaceably West of
j the Mississippi.
, Front the S'tut/i Carolinian.
A CARD.
Pit. i mi KB?1 ?i-:ak Siu : In vitulic:?"
I tion of my character from ungenerous iin,
: putations, I ro?piest you to publish the fo!f
. lowing testimonial furnished me iu Colum|
bia by the honorable gentlemen who
irinnposui.l the 15oar<! ??*" Investi;?ation, and
\vlu>sc names arc ?5?.?. r - '!*1 iv
A - i< M Ii1 ?t "
; ?. > v. ir. i ? > i:.; 1 f f !..
, generally will copy this car<I. V> ni; ;s:jjl? ,
regard, I am, sir, votir obedient,
WAKUKN I>. WILKKS.
Anderson, ifovehiticr S, 1 ti.jU,
I IIcst's 11otkr., COU miiia, )
November 4, \
We have examined fully the accounts of
' Maj. Warren 1). Wilkes, as presented by
' him, and are satisfied that be has disbursed
, the sums entrusted to his care with proper
t, j discretion and judgment; that his clinracI
ter is vindicated in his exhibition from all I
. i injurious imputations; and we accord him
high credit for his industry, energy and
' patriotism.
r LEWIS M. AVKK,
T. J. 1'ICKENS,
it. n. hoylston,
JOHN T. SLOAN,
; A. V. A LI MUCH,
M. C. M. II AM MONO,
O. I). MELTON,
r W. K. Ml LEV,
O. W. A. CIIAYDON,
j SAMI.'EL McGOWAN.
A Hunk Colic/tseil.?The Manufacturer's
1 and Mechanic's Hank of Columbus, Oeor,
gia, has ullcrly hurslcd. It failed to open
its dof-r- i- ??m Monday morning last,
~ ' which vj.;ui|i.\oil -.lii-- 1 tremendous
-cdlfim-!!! . .iti'Mf.;- ifi ih-Mers of ils notes.
I in; >*lil M.?ys :
We have heard of several individuals
s i who hold its bills for over %2,000. What
its condition is, no one; seems at all informed.
5 Wo saw its hills changing hands as low as
* 25 cents on tlio dollar. We are disposed
3 to think the case not so bad as to justify so
. great a sacrilico. It is reasonable to suppose
its stockholders good fur at least half
its liabilities. Everybody accords to l)r.
3 Taylor, its President, the greatest integrity,
? and think the diiliculty into which the
3 Hank has golton, is from deception practiced
upon him by parties at a distance, m
' which he had placed undeserved confidence.
We advise all who can do so, to holt] on to
3 its bills. Wo have taken steps to obtain
- the names of its stockholders, and when obt
tained, shall jjive them to the public, when
tll?*V will lia Iwdh.r <bI.Ia
^ J -- ... WW vwhvl ItVIV IV juugc Ul UIU
j value of its issues.
, Number nf tins Stars.?Of the fitarr,
) thousands are visible {;> tlio naked eye ami
millions are discover"'I by (lie telescope.?
? Sir Sohn Herschcll calculates that about
1 fivo and a half millions of stars are visible
i enough to be distinct I}- counted in a twenty
t feet reflector in both hemispheres, and
t thinks that the actual number is much
greater. Ilia illustrious father estimated
3 on ouo occasion that one hundred and
twenty five thousand stare parsed through
1 the field of his forty foot reflector hi a
s quarter- of an hour. This would give
c twelve millions for the entire circuit of the
j heavens in a single telescopic zone; and
this estimate was made under the assumpc
lion that the nebulae were masses of lumiui
ous matter, not yet condensed sun?. Hut
wiiu tho increase of instrumental power,
^ especially under the iniglity grasp of Lord
Uosse's gigantic reflector and tlio great re*
tlectois at l'ulkovu and Cambridge, the
V most irresolvable of these nebulas have
v given w?y; and the better opinion now is
that every one of them is a galaxy, like
our own milky way, composed of millions
of suns.
? m ?
Spread of Mormontsm.?This singular
religious delusion is spreading with won1
dert'nl rapidity. The " l/iIkr-Uny-Saint-V
1 as they style thfinsi'lve*, evince groat aclivr
ity in unking converts lo their lailh. In ;
) Great Britain and Germany thousands,
mainly from among tho agricultural classes,
have joined them. In Hamburg they havo
issued a German translation of tho Hook of
t Mormon, in Saxony they have succeeded
. 111 turming a society or adherents in tlto
city of Dresden, carefully avoiding nny
. collision with tho police, who are ever on
the alert for new religious sects, suspecting
a every new. doctrfotf to be a mere cloak for
some political plot. Tbc apo*Ues*?cm to
i liave plenty of funds at their command,
. apparently derived from England, with
which tliey asawt the needy among their
proselytes. All through Germany they ate
making preparations to leave for the' New
XercMalem on tliaGreai Salt,Lake. v
' A Gr&t Invention.?A very remarkable
; invention hns ' recently limh tmf.
From the New Orleans Delta.
THE ABSOLUTE AND CONCURRENT MAJORITIES.
There lifts been no greater political fallacy
current in modern times than tho doctrine
that the absolute majority should govern.
It is wrong in principle and can only
be dangerous in practice. Tho essence of
despotism is in it. Under a plausible dis
guise it conceals a deadly poison which, applied
to our Federal Government, must prove
fatal to justice, union ami liberty.
From tho beginning of the present Union,
tho tendency has been unceasing to install
tho principle ot' the absolute majority as the
supreme power in the land. Shallow political
philosophers have deified it under the
lil:istiln>moiis motto of" irn r nintu/i ntr 1 h-i "
clothed it with iiifitllil*ility, regarded denial
of its uniform justice no less titan heresy
ami little less than insanity, and resistance
to its authority as flagrant treason. It was
tlie fatal mistake of many old republics to
confound liberty with the right of the majority
to govern?to suppose that to expel a
siuglo despot was to secure justice as well
ns equality, and that though one man, or a
few men, would necessarily abuse power,
many men could not by any possibility do
so. ltut experience soon proved the contra- i
ry, and wo find that in the. best of the republics
that existed for a considerable length
of time, the Constitution interposed checks
against the dominance of the many on one
hand and of tins few on the other.
There is not a whit more safety in being
ruled by one man than bv a million or
twelve millions, acting as the latter may in
a unit. It is no consolation to the victim of
unjust laws, to be told that he is oppressed by
a million or more, law-makers, or the sovereign
people of fifteen or sixteen States,
who, united by interest or fanaticism, have
resolved to crush him. It will not make the
yoke lie wears any llio less galling, or convert
his shackles into gohhvi br Sts, to he
told that the majority should ^..vern ami
that t!i?":e are the badges ot' its subjects.
Nor, ii lie bo rendered destitute after being
made a slave, will it till his purse with cash
or restore the bread to his children, to know
that the million-handed majority has om|?tird
the one and filched the other. It is the
principle which makes the wrong, whether
intlicl<'d by one or a million; and it is the
tel'itioii that makes the slave, not the nuin!?-i
>f bis masters.
.. I;: 5 us n politicnl <ruistn that
iiiti* !.ricti'd power cannot safely bo conliih-d
to ono individual, yet it seems to be
forgotten that an aggregate of individuals
can be 110 better and 110 worse than its component
parts, and must prove equally dangerous
if it have the power and the motive
10 oppress an inferior number. " Against
this abuse of power," said John C. Calhoun
in his masterly letter to (lovernor Hamilton,
** hn fmtiA.lt' * 1 ? #
..V IWOV-IJ Villi UU DHL lllill OI llie
I concurring majority." Nearly the whole
j history of our Federal Government has been
j a conflict between the numerical and concurrent
majorities. The one has been recki
less and despotic in its tendency, the other
conservative and beneficent. The one has
! aimed to aggrandize the controlling interests
of one section at the expense of another,
j and ihe other to protect the rights of the
people of all the sections and secure equality
for all the interests of the country. The
i one was nurtured in the N??rth, the other in
J the South. lleiiC' , the North has always
been aggressive and the South defensive in
; its attitude; the North has sought to break
down all the coiis'itulional barriers between
its numerical majority and absolutism in
j the Government, and the South has sought
to conserve all the reserved rights of the
j States and people ; and could only do so by
I assorting me primiple of the concurrent
majority?that is, appealing to Slate interposition
against the usurpations hy tlie Federal
(?overiim<*nt of powers not delegated
in the Constitution. This appeal was made
in 1798-99 in the adoption of thu wellknown
Virginia and Kentucky resolutions,
and it was effectual. It was made again in
1832 hy South Carolina alone, and though
I the Republican or anti-Federal party of that
j day had well nigh forgotten the platform of
! its founders, Jefferson ami Madison, it forced
| a seltidi majority, having the law-making
I power in its hands, to recede from itsextreine
demands and parley for a compromise.
Both these appeals were made ngainsl the
encroachments of a numerical majority acting
through the law-making branch of the
Ciovcrnineiit; but in 18f><i we see a similar
protest against the same majority neliug
in tho primary capacity of voters in a Presidential
election. It was the only means by
which the sectional candi late of the North
could bo defeated ; tin* Si?t? lfJcrlna ??'?
T *vk"'1
tancc party ami press of the South resorted
to it, and if Fremont be not elected, as he
almost certainly will not be, it will prove
the wisdom of their policy and be another
triumph of the principle.
It is idle to think that the North wonld
not elect a President as well ns Congress to
rnle over us and subjcct us completely to
their interests, whim or prejudice, if it could
bo done without rousing into action this
principle of the concurrent majority?the
eternal principle which makes it the right
and the duty of every sovereign and equal
State to resist the exercise of powers unjust
in themselves, and to which its consent was
never given. Once surren-ler this principle,
and there is no hope for the equality or independence
of the South. The Nortli has
about twice the white population which wo
have. All its laborers, and all its non-roting
classes, enter into the representative basis,
while only three-fifihs of our laboring and
non-voting population aro allowed n repre
nonunion. Further, their laboring population
is rapidly increased by emigration, thus
every day swelling their representative power;
but our laboring population being negro
slaves, is not permitted to increase by
the samo means in consequence of tho law
again.st th? introduction of African laborers
into tho country. Consider this increasing
numerical preponderance of the North; consider
licit the South already relieves it of
nearly nil the expenses of the common government;
that Southern money is actually
put into the pockets of Notliern manufacturers
through tho operation of the revenue
laws, and that its material interests could
still further be subserved by the complete
political subjection of the South. Tako these
and inany other things in consideration,
and it is evident that nothing can savo us
hereafter, with our present resources, at least,
but the offsetting of tho numerical with the
concurrent mnjority. Or, in the word* of
Mr. C^lhounr,' wo must M maintain the nscendancy
of tbe Constitution-making authority
over the law-making?the concurring
over the absolute majority."
We bare teen bow bencflainlly an appeal
to tkia principle by tlfe,resistance men of
lbe fiogin !h;$a>ciedjn tbopJ^nt cnovftw.
Lot the exnmpfo P<J$ be* forgotten in tbo fuYf^t^proposed
aml g?ve?^ ' IH^ka
'.*k <o? * ^ >V N
I*'iii""iitiMmiifSnikittii t.........
Kp'ulcmic Among Fish.?A curious phenomenon
lias just exhibited itself among
1110 finny tril?o in some of tlio rivers of
Michigan. It is announced that during
the past week, the shores of Grand river
have been strewed with dead and dying
fish of unusual size. The same epidemic
prevails in the Shinaase. This is the second
time during the present season that the
waters of these streams have been so
scourrrcd. A few months n?ro. everv form
of creeping tiling known to tliat country
\v?s cast dead upon the banks in great nnin- j
hers. Lizards of enormous size, and often- |
sive appearance, were applied in heaps j
whero tbey were thrown by tlio eddying j
current. Uat?, snakes, and almost every |
specks of scaly and slimy monster shared i
a like fate. Now, however, the disease, or
whatever it may bo callcd, is confined to
the fish, and is necessarily attracting much
attention among men of scioncu and others
as to the causes of such extraordinary mortality.
Divinity, (Iconic fry, and Lunrjiiaijc.?At
the scientific meeting at Albany, l'rof. Gibson
remarked upon a curious connection of
geometry and language. Three letters occur
in almost all primitive languages.?
They are a line, an angle and a circle?
thus : I, A, O. In almost all languages
these letters arc used in the word expressing
Divinity. In Hebrew, IOA is a name
of Divinity. Greek, AlU tho root of
uionios, 44 the eternal." In Hindoo, Japanese,
and other Asiatic tongues, the same
letters arc used similarly. In Indian these
letters occur in Jlfunilo, tho word for Spirit.
These letters, in the old Greek or Phcnnician
alphabet, are the first, last and middle
ii-iivrK, aigmiymg iiic beginning, middle and
cikI, Alpha, lota and < mega.
Live for a Purpose.?The secret of all
success in life, of all greatness, nay, of all
happiness, is to live for a purpose. There
are many persons always busy, who have
I yet no great object in view. They fritter
i away their energies on a hundred things,
: and never accomplish anything, because
never giving their attention to only one
thing. They are like butterflies, Hitting
from spot to spot, never gaining wealth ;
while the ant, who keeps to a certain eir
j ciut around lier hole, lays up stores for
j winter comfort. Such persons arc (loomed
: to be dissatisfied in the etui, if tliey are not
! sooner, for tliev find in the race of life tliey
I have been passed hy all who had a purpose.
| It is not only the positive drones, therefore,
lmt the husy idlers that make a blunder of
life fur the want of purpose.
Youkrr. Enterprise.?A Boston mechanic
named McGowan, has contracted with the
Russian government for the removal of the
ships of war which were sunk in the harbor
of Sebiistopol, for Hie defence of the town.
The vessels were made air tight and were
supplied with orifices to attach hose to
pump them out. On attempting to raise
them iu this manner, thy seams were found
to have started to such a degree as to render
it impossible. They will now be raised
by chains and largo scows made for tlio
purpose, applied to the ships by men in
! submarine armor. There arc 121 vessels
: in all and the price to be paid is said to be
i 111 mo vicinity oJ ?'200,000.
Hogs and Pork.?The Ciucinna'i Price
Current <?f ilio 29t.li lilt., reports contracts
] tor fifty thousand hogs liavo been closed in
that quarter, chielly at six ami six ami a
{darter cents net, for early delivery. The
packing season there will soon commence.
The same paper reports sales of mess pork
at ? 17 per barrel, while at the same period
last year pork sold at twenty dollars.
41 Teething" Again.?There is an old
slave colored woman, familiarly known as
Aunt 1'etsy, in this city, who is now one
hundred ami one years of age, and has a
new set of teeth just beginning to peep out
from her gums. She resides oil Mark's
alley, which runs from Old street back to
the South Side Railroad, a few steps above
Grace Church.?Petersburg Krpress.
Culled of the Lord.?Honorable D. S.
Dickson said in a recent speed , (hat the
political parsons who were preaching politics
said "they were called of the Lord." lie
said lie knew the Lord in ancient times did,
oil one occasion, use a jackass to deliver a
message, but lie was not aware that such
w s the caso at the j rodent day.
Small Notes in Tennessee.?In accordance
with a law of the last Legislature, on
and lifter the 1st of September, 1850, the
issuance or circulation of small notes of a
less denomination than $5, by any bank,
except the bank of Tennessee, is made an
indictable offence, punishable by a fine of
not less than $500 nor more than $10,000.
The Kansas Free State Convention.?
New York, Nov. 4.?A special correspondent
of the Times, states that the Free
Stnlo Convention met at liig Spring on the
28th ult. It nominated liecder as delegate
to Congress. A resolution censuring Gov.
deary was postponed.
^ ^
To Make " Genuine" Claret.?To a gallon
of spoiled cider add three cents worth
lnr*ufnn<I in ?#itr<a i# " nn/ilrnr "
iv^*>w>| I.W v IV j'uv/uvi x/v/ttiu nuu
sell nt n dollar a bottle, and not a tnnn |
in the town will suspect that ho is not
drinking llio very best claret that comes
into the country. So says an exchange.
Wheat nt Milwankie.?There aro said to
be now in Milwankie warehouses and ia"!
road platforms about 500,000 bushels of
wheat which have accumulated within the
past 00 days abovo the current shipments in
that period.
fjMiucncal.
MARiUKD, on the 1th innt.. by (he Rev. Mr.
ITou?top, Mr*. Makuarkt Dalk to Dr. C. C.
Porter, of Alftlmmn.
Commercial.
Abbf.vii.lk C. II., Nov. 12, 1850.
Cotton.?A eoiui Jfi al>le quantity on the inurket.
Market blink. 11 @ llg cxlroinea
Coi.umdia, November 10. 1856.
Cotton.?Our market bus heeu dull to day,
there being very liiUo offered lot sale. 40 bate*
sold frotu II to lljc.
Ciiauueston, November P, 1850,
The transactions to-day were limited lo about
1.000 bales. The market presented a langaid
and drooping appearanoe, bat no quolalilo dep'ipe
WM established in prices?11 ? @ 12$
gonjt#.
Sons of Temperance.
fTMIE special attendance ;of all the merabttr* of
' JL .Abfcyilh) Qjvjsioi) Son* of Tcmperaioe, is
2*"
wii a.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
JlBil
EXECUTIVE DHl'AUTMENT, )
Cdlvudia, Nov. fi, 185C. \
WIIEUKAS, it is llie duty of ovcry peoplo to
uckuuwlcdgo their dcpcmlciico on Almighty
Cod?to express their gratitude for IIis Mkixies,
unvi ??voiuiy implore Hid blessing for tho future:
I Now, therefore, I. JAMES II. ADAMS, GovI
ernor of the State of South Carolina, do, ill coilI
fortuity with the established images of this Slate,
I anoint the TWENTIETH DAY OF NOVEMlilllt.
instant, to be observed us a tlay of
THANKSGIVING, HUMILIATION AND
Pit AY lilt, ami invite nn<l exhort otir citizenn of
all denominations to assemble ut their respective
places of woiship, to oiler up their devotions to
Almighty God, tho Giver of all good.
Given under my hnitd and seal of tlio State,
in Columbia, this 5th day of November,
in the year of our I.ord one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-nix, and the eighty-first
year of American Indopendenco*
J AS. II. ADAMS
James pattf.neox, Secretary of State.
Nov. 12, IdSC. 30 It
Another fatter from Trxas.?Travis, Co.,
Texas, Aug. IS, 1851.?Messrs. Fleming Brothers?Dear
Sir*: There were several eases of
Chills ami Fevers in my inother'H f.tmily at tlio
time we rec ived the M'Lane's Liver Pills, ordered
in my letter of June I2th, nnd a few doses
administered in each case produced tho desired
effect, thus demonstrating the efficiency of these
celebrated Pills in that disease.
Mother has not been troubled with the sick
headacho since she 1ms commenced tuking
these Pill', and as wo have hu! f.-v? <!' ihom
you will please send us another doliat'a worth.
Dircct, as before, to Austin, Texas.
lU-speetfully yours,
MEREDITH W. IIENERY.
I ?.:m 1 ' ? ' ~
I - " '/wviiifHii iu n?R ior i/r.
| J/V .mirx Celebrated Vmnifnne, manufactured
I liy Fleming Urns, of Pittsburgh, l'a. All othsr
V eruiil'tigcs hi c?>ii>|>:triK<>ii am worthless. l)r.
M'l.nne's genuine Vermifuge, also his celebrated
Liver Pill*, can now \>c bad at nil respectable
ling stores. Jt'one genuine without the xiijin-tun
of FLEMING I HI OS.
Sold Ity Wamu.aw ?.V Lvon, Abbeville IV II.,
S. ('., ami by one Agent iu every towu iu the
South. It
Scrofula mid Salt Rheum of four year* stand- ?
iiig, Cured by Carter's Spanish .1 fixture.?"NVooater,
Wayne Co., Ohio, December 1, 1853.?
Messrs. Bennett <k Dcera.?Gentlemen : Having
for four years past lieen suffering with Scrofuln
iu its wort form, without finding relief from our
best physicians, 1 wuu solicited 03' a friend to try
Carter's Spanish Mixture, It give* me pleasure
to state that before finishing the first bottle, the
dissease relaxed. I then ordered iwo more bottles;
and, with heartfelt gratitude, I state lo
you the fact tlmt two bottles of your excellent
I t.r?rv.Ima ...fir,.!.- ~ 1 ..."
I -I - "V
'i'lic third bcttle f give to n friend who nod
been suffering with Salt itheuin for a length of
time, mid he, like myself, owe* his restoration to
health to tho virtues of " Carter's Sponish Mixturo."
Yon nro at liberty to uso this letter in
any way you may think proper, if it will benefit
tho afflicted. Your obedient servant,
JUSEI'II ROBINSON".
November.
Medical Society of Abbeville District.
r|"MIE regular meeting of thin Society will take
1- place at Abl>eville C. (I., on tho third
Thursday, (20th inst.)
II. T. LYON, M. D., Sec'y.
Nov. 10. 18.H1. 30 It
Potatoes for Sale.
AT MY Home Pluce, ONE HUNDRED
nixiirivi-.f ?'i. " *r * ?
? -"'I./."' im.F.y J II HI*, lur HHie,
at 7 "> eta. per bushel?C'utfi. Jfust lie applitd
for immetliateli/.
JOHN A. CALHOUN.
Nov. H. 30 2t
T E A CHER WANTED!
At Lowndcsvillc, S. C.
rPJIE prospect is good for n FLOURISHING
X SCHOOL. Applications will bo received
until fmt Monday in December.
Address
R. if. DAVIS, Ch'n D. of T.
Nov. 12, 1B'ifi. 30 tfd.
Sale of Rail Road Stock.
r|"MIE Subscribers will sell by pnblic anction
1.. nt Abbeville C. H , oil Sule-dny in December
next, Sixty-Seven Shares of Stock in the U.
& C. It. It, un which the assessment ho* been
pniil.
'I'his Stock i? the property of the Estate of
.Tohii Dominlil, dee'd. The scrip for the assess*
uient will be included in the s;ite.
A credit of Three months will. be given, tha
purchaser giving bond and approved security.
SAM'L DONNALD, )
J. F. DONNA LI), f
Nnf O ifltC H
jar? esw copy.
LAND FOR SALE.
WIU, be sold nt Abbeville Court House, on
Snle-Joy in December next, Traot of
Land, ouutuining
04O A.oro?,
bounded on North-East by Snm'l Speed, on the
South by J. E. Calhoun, and on the West by
Henry Mosely.
Any person wishing to purchase, would do
well to vidil (lie premises before the day of sals,
Said land eiui be sold privately at any timo be*
fore that day.
MARGARET COWAN.
_ No v. J 2, lP'.O. 30 at
POOR HOUSE ELECTION!
rI"MIK Commissioners of the Poor fur Abbe* ?
L villc, will elect a Superintendent, :iml Physician
to the 1'our Houso, for the y?ur it>67, on
r.l.... //.
The Superintendent will have cliatge of ths
inmates of tlic Poor Houso, and net ns Overteftr
of tlte farm, lie will be supplied with provit?
ions for himself and family (if he bus one) by
tlie Commissioners.
Tlic Physician must supply his own medicluea,
and a i toad to the inmates when called on.
Proposal* will be received l>y the Seoretary
and Treasurer, ui> to that duy. The applicant
for .the place of Superintendent, will state tho
iiuuiher of his family, and give some idea of 1I19
services th-v can perforin, Ac., <fcc.
,H)tlN A. WIE3, Sec'y and Trea/r.
Nov. 10, luSe,. 30 3t ..
_jar Prew copy. .
TIIE STATE OF SOUT1I CAUOUNA,
Abbeville District.?Citation,
By WILLIAM HILL, Esq., Ordinary of AW*5'*
villa District.
^^"IIEREAff, Andrew Oillespio has applied
V V to me for jLeltora of Administration ojj
li oiid singular (lis goods and chattels, figljt*
and credit* of Jolm H. Kerr, late of lb? District
aforesaid, deceased. '
These are, therefore, to eii? and admonish all
and singular, the kindred and orsditois of tit*
aid decHtsed, to be and appear bsfar* me tt AW
next Ordinary's Court of th* said District, to Uo
lioldon at Abbeville Coart I Ida** An th* tw.tuvsevontli
day of Nu*v?W livrt., to ahour oaoM? if
any. why the ssid adnji nidation shoal# no} fo
granted'. :
Givea anckr my. hand and/sea), tUt?y>Watk
and in the 81st your of Amenoaa tti&fyi|?&>
e"^" Wfi<AM intis b ;X. fc>.
No*