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> v_ y * _ ?_ '|f|^gfm:| -?"~ OWN E?vv?cj ^?B&-wm; hditor. * ^pn |rl ALLEY, Proprietor ??i Sub-Mitov p SUBSCRIPTION ? $3.00 .PER ANNUM. ' fFrom the Be JUmore Episcopal Methodist. i Mj Littld CMld^ . Little feet that patter, %" li'' Making mosio everywhere, 4 " 4.t 8 Little curie that flatter F With every breath of air; "' ' '.< ' |P? Little hands that elasp me, Loving lips that pray? *. " Heavenly Father, give as BrfU, day after day.** Eye* of *ofleet blue, V m That look op into mine; Silvery word* that bring Comfort almoal divine; Lovely head, and loving heart 1 gather In my arm*. Would I eonld ever shelter thee From all of earthly harm*. < 01 Ood of life and love, Hear how my earneet cry, "? Ascending through the heavenly gate* 4 Up to thy throne on highStoop down from heaven, thy dwelliog place, Make smooths the rongh ways, a lid, f Shelter her with Thine own *trong arm, Qod guard my little child I [From the South Carolinian.] 7 V ?? #?v Ancient ? Modern Wisdom. "Setae, seize the helm, the reeling vessel .guide, . * .<: * , With aiding patriots, alem the ragiDg tide." When the public disorders at Athens growing out of the oppression of the poor by the rich, had become so great as to threaten sedition, the oracle of Apollo was delivered to Solon in the language which heads this article. We ara told that " so greatly were the poor indebted to the 'rich that they were obliged to pay them a sixth part of the produce of the land, or else to engage their persons to their creditors, who might seise them on failure of payment. Accordingly some made slaves of them and others sold them to foreigners ? Nay, some parents were forced to sell their own children.* We are also told that some oitiaens who were seizable by their creditors aftd had fled their country, wandered so long in other lands, that 44 they had forgot the 4 Attic dialect,* " their mother tongue. It was at that lime that, in accordance with an Athenian custom, billets of wood were fixed up at nearly every man's door, to shew that bis home and lands were mortgaged. As a remedy for these evils, itnd to save the State from anarchy and bloodshed, Solon, in obedi" ence to the oracle of Apollo, placed himself at the bead of affairs, and introduced reforms in the laws and in the administration of tbe Government, wbich gave him the name of law-giver, and entitled him, in the opinion of his con temporaries, to rank among 44 tbe seven wise men " of Greece. Tbe first of his public acts was, that all debts should be .. . forgiven. He is the author of the ex<pression 44 discbarge," wbich is now a technical word in the law. The cancelling of debts was called by bim a discharge, as a debtor is now said to get a diaefutrge under our insolvept or bankrupt laws. He caused tbe billets wbich had been set up as a mark of mortgage tanas 10 ue removed ; he liberated those who were held in bondage at home on account of their debts, ana recalled those who were wanderers in foreign countries from the same cause. By these acts he gave great offence to creditors at first, but afterwards the people became sensible of the utility and necessity of his decrees, as a cure/or the disorders of the Stale ; offered a public sacrifice to the gods, which they called " the sacrifice of the discharged,'1 and wjlb one accord constituted him u lawgiver and- superintendent of the com-monwealth," making " all magistracies, assemblies, courts of judicature and the Senate,* subordinate to his authority and power. Fortunate Athenians 1 that the court of Areopagut did not like our Court of s Errors has don# with our laws, interfere to prevent the laws of Solon fjrom being carried into effect. Thrice bappv. be ? cause, if the latter had then existed . with its present wisdom in full vigor, it would have thwarted the great law-giver, If Constitutions bad not been in the way -prohibiting the enact moot of . Isws " impairing the obligations of eon trifclsthat court would have disintor' red the precedents of a allII more re urnte age, or discovered lo ancient writera cn ethic* a sufficient reason to aet aside , hie laws. The. * morality " and " sanctity" of contracts, the duty of every person to pay his debts, whether he is able or \>ot. would bare been vindi cated. It*may be, a* some faaare supposed, that Solon derived "hie idea of "n discbarge," of absolving dehtorafiorn the, payment of their debts, from the Jewish polity. ' " The trumpet of the J obi ice," when it sounded every fiftieth year, proclaimed "liberty throughout' all the hind." It announced that on that year " every man should return uo. AAWOPHM at? bo^^^wK h TS^IH^HHHnpPioed i that hismanafNK / ittfcCijj^VfM&en from t his limbs; and the poor debtor, that * his possessions, which remorseless ered-' itors bad wrested from him, were re- t stored to him, and that he and bis fam- t ily could again worship theft God around their ancient altars, and firesides. ( This law of Moses exhibits him in strik- 1 ing contrast with the ideas of Jewish ? character which we bave derived from I the Shylock of Shales pea re; but all bis- 1 tory, as well to our own experience, proves that alt Jews are not Shylocks, and that many Christians are. Both have forgotten the statutes of tbe great leader of Israel,departed from tbe with, and no longer been tbe sound of " the trumpet of tbe jubilee." This wonder^ ful institution was adapted to the eircurastances and situation of the people for whom it. was appointed. It was intended to prevent tbe rich and powerful from opposing tbe poor ; to relieve them from tne perpetual slavery of debt; to attach tbe people to their lands and inheritances ; and to cultivate in their hearts a love of home and country.? Was this institution of Moses, or the laws of Solon which followed it, or'were derived from it. unwise, immoral, or dishonest f What aay our morality loving, constitutional abiding legisia* tors! What saith the Court of Errors ? Perhaps I am impertinent ,in my inquiries as to their opinions in relation to laws in which they are not versed, laws which were promulgated in the thunders of Sinai. - - - < Moses and Solon adapted their laws to the necessities of their people, to the exigency of the times. Wbo is worthy the name of law giver that does not re gard the condition and wants of those tor whom his laws are made f In this consists the utility of all laws, and here* in lies the wisdom of law-givers and statesmen. Take things as they are, and upon this foundation build your system of government and laws, is the language of true statesmanship. Who does less is a fool, more, a charlatan.? Have we no Moses now to save the peo pie from the " fiery serpents " sent to destroy them, and to lead them out of il,? ?.;i,i??f a~i? r IMW niiUQIUCOO ( XI U kJUIUII, IU "Seize ttje helm, the reeling vessel guide ?" j There ia a power thai could havr i saved them from the dangers which a now yawn before them as a bottomless fc gulf, if it had been wielded in a proper f manner, and at a proper time, and, per fi haps, it is not yet too late. It is that t power which lies behind Legislatures j and Courts, the power, the majority of the people, whose 44 invincible locks," when spoken, make Kings and po 1 tentates tremble. ' n they had spoken with the authority which rightfully belongs to them, they would c have been obeyed?none would have c dared to violate their expressed will.? t Measures would have been adopted, a which no court would have dared to 1 touch with'their destroying hand. No t one advocated the cancelling ef debts, c repudiation, as it is called in modern i parlance. No one proposed to go as c far as the great Jewish and Athenian f law-givers. The people did not ask for i legislation in oj?en violation of the Con- r stitution. From habit, if from no other e principle, they entertained some respect ii for what remains of ibat " lorn and tat* il tered " document, a little dread, perhaps, Ii of that ghost which has frightened oth* era otlt of their propriety. They asked v for laws which they believed to be Con- * i _:_u. i TI? - siiiuiiuiini, rigut ituu piu|mr, i uuy u wanted tiuce to stir among the embers e of their fallen fortunes, and prepare to' r meet their liabilities ; that was all ; and v even this poor boon, this crumb of com s fort, has been denied them. Unfortu- tl nately for all measures of relief, the Leg- b latur.e of which has held power in the r State since October, 18C5, was elected v before any question had been raised on ii this subject, before the Stay Law bad r been pronounced unconstitutional by e the court of Errors, and before the peo- e pie had any ground to suspect that such would be thedecision. This law bad been o so long on the Statute Book, and had o received such high sanctions, that they I trusted to it as their shield of defence, c and resting under it, let power pass into p the hands of Legislators who have since a not only succumbed to the judiciary, s but have turned a deaf ear to all their h appeals for relief. ilad the questions tl then have been made, which have since a l" J' a ?- I ff . t r:** L .t .11 / oeen mane in me Legislature, tnai uooy u would have had a different complexion. ii Many who have acted tbejr part during this time would have been awept before t! the people like cbaff before tbe wind. The e Legislature and the judiciary acting to- a gather, if not in concert, have defeated a all measures of substantial relief. Tbe ji proposition to make tbe Courts annual s was defeated, first in tbe 8enate in Sep c tember I est, and aft*w wards, in Decern-' tl bet, in the House, when it bad passed f tbe Senate. .This measure, .with an atneifdmehi* similar to the Ordinance of the ConvenlioQ of North Carolina, A which was prepared .by, the Judges of c the Supreme Court of that State, eod * ^ which ghres to dohtOrs five years fadnl- f * SMHHeS?!? enoe nnoiHpoir paying a certain per mfuns erapenr debts annually would >ave afforded the relief so much desired. )?i this measure .was voted down by he opposition, and another, measure, rbiob was denounced as oneonstitutjonI, was forced upon the Legislature, and he Court of Errors has sines decided it o be unconstitutional. These faets bow that both the Legislature end the ?ourt are against the debtor class, and bat there is no hope for them from ttber, as at present constituted. The eople will* no doubt, take care of their lepreeentatiVes at the next fall elecions; but bv that time it is to be (eared bat all the harm will have been done, ind that no measure of relief can be levtsed to meet the exigency. It may hen be too late for the people to M seiw he helm " for any practical good.? 3ut they w7/ " seise the helm, sod In be desperation of despair, though it nay be, tbey will teacb those who have leglccted their interest and abused tbe rust confided to them, a lesson which hey will long remember. Instead ol ising the pruning knife, tbey may take ip the axe and lay it to the root. Exreme measures may be resorted to; neasures which may bring in;o greater ronflict than ever tbe legislative and udicial departments of the Oovernment. This is an issue to be deprecated except u a case of great public necessity, when x>wer has been usurped, and the safety )f the State put in jeopardy. But it is with States as with individuals?selfrresei vation is tbe first law of nature. !n times of extreme peril and suffering he Roman maxim may be npplied, Salui populi sujrrema est lex. And it vill be well, ptebaps, in view of this naxim, that in this " our winter of disontent," when a night of gloom ha* titled upon our country with earce a ray of hope to Hlumine the fu~ ure, that all the departments of the rovemment should look in the future nore can-fully than some of tbem have lone, in the past, to tbe interest and veil being of tbe people. Vox populi nay not be, .in the sense often claimed or it, vox Dei, but our system of gov. irnment rests upon this postulate so far is its powers are concerned. And when ince bared for the conflict the avenging irm of the people is powerful for good >r evil. They have the power, and it s their solemn duty to correct abuses n the administration of the govern nent, to bold their servants to a strict iccountof their stewardships, and to re Hike those who have ignorantly or wilully betrayed their interests and sacrficed their happiness, and it remains to i? seen wneiner tney will exercise Ibis K>wer end peiform this dutv. ONE OF TUE PEOPLE. fendees not Liable on Notes Given for Purchase of 81&vesJudge Gates, of Louisiana, bas decided that in contracts of sale there are nutual obligations?that of the seller 0 deliver and warrant the things sold ind its poaceable possession ; that cf the iuyer to accept the delivery and pay he price?and that the logical sequence if the action of the State in emancipate ng slavea must be, that when the right f property in that which had heretoore been treated as such by the laws 1 destroyed, the laws to regulate the ight of parlies to that property, and to uforce payment of obligations given for L, must follow the fate of the property iself, and all contracts based upon those sws be annulled. Judge Gates holds that the tenure by rhich this species of property was held ras different from that by which all ther property is held. It was not baad, he says, on natural law ; and the igbl of liberty was a pre-existing right ubich belonged to the person held as a lave, however much public policy and be supposed interest of the country may sve prevented the enforcement of (hat ight by the person claiming it. But rhfirt lliA tncnroinm rinwar e\t tKu Atervened to recognize and enforce that ight, it cannot be said that the proprly was destroyed by any fortuitous vent. Government cannot say that a tract f land, which is properly by the laws f nature, shall no longer be property, t can appropriate it for public use by ompensating the owner, but it still ossenes the quality of property. But slave once emancipated, can, by no ubeequenl act of the Govermpent, be gaily held as a slave, lie lo>es all lie essential Characteristic* of property, nd becomes free by virtue of the en?rcomeut of his natural and pre exist" Ag right of liberty. The French Government recognized his principle, when in 1789 it abolishd the feudal rights without indemnity, nd enaoted a law to the effect that all uils instituted and not decided by final udgment, relative, to feudal right#, hould be extinguished, (clients) and onsequently that all arrearages due by be rasaals eould not be collected by rocees of law.?Montgomery Mail. Tn? gaming fever is almost univeral in Paris ; and even Baron de Kolhshild, who never gambled before, was eized frith it recently and won 30,000 ranee ia half an hour. i '" C ArOLIN A. FflBUUA RV 29. The Future. The Newnan (Gn.) Herald, speaking in reference to the emigration of the negro to the rioher cotton-growing region* of the lower ralley, and .the /act that the old Southern State* mart begin to direNtfy their industrial energiea, saja with mncb good sense: But if we partially abandon thecultiration of cotton, we wiH, of necessity, be forced to adopt other mean* of money making. Nothing truer and nothing easier. We are favored with a climate and soil adapted to the growth of the apple and peach. The former are now selling in our market for two dollars and a half or three dollars per bushel, while dried peaches are worth, in the New York market, from thirty to thirtyH?a iStii he* ".1 rt* ' ?I". . dollars per bushel. These facts shorifll i convince every one, having the smallest knowledge of arithmetic, that a large i orchard will pay belter than a " cotton i patch,n Again, we have water power eufflcient r to turn wheels enough to manufacture i goods for world's consumption. Why is it that the citizens of Middle Georgia ; cannot buy the cotton delivered at their ' doors and convert it into shirting and 1 calicoes, and sell them as cheap as the , Northerner, who pays the freight on the , raw material over a thousand miles of i railway, and then the freight on the manufactured goods over the same lines ? i We know not. The Southern man has everything in his favor. Will we , avail ourselves of the advantages which the God of nature baB given us ? If we do, a bright future awaits us?if we do not, its darkness no man can foretell. IIkavt Siiocs for Ladies.?Win ter is coming, and we desire to say a few words to our lady readers about clothing the feet. " When the celebrated physician, Ahernathy, died, report said that, beside a will of some interest to his heirs in a pecuniary point of view, there was found among his other effects a sealed envelope, said to contain the secret of bis great success in the healing art, and also a rule of living, the following of which would insure longevity. A large price was paid for the sealed envelope. It was found to contain only, these words: " To insure continued health and ripe old age, keep the head cool, the system open, and the feet warm." Dry feet are warm feei, generally, if the system is healthy. To keep the system healthy the circulation must be good. The circulation is not good with out exercise, and exercise can only be really valuable when walking. Hiding in a carriage is no exercise at all r it is merely inbailing the air. This is very well as far as it goes, but the lungs are never in full play without the individual is walking. Horseback exercise is very good, and is an improvement on carriage riding, but it is not the kind of health creating play of (be muscles nature demands. It is action?action of the entire body?and walking will only procure it. Now, the ladies of Europe, particularly those of England, understand this thing. They walk miles per day, and if any of our pale beauties desire to know how the English ladies keep up their fine color, clear complexion, superb busts, we tell them it is by out door exercise, walking in the open air, filling the lungs with pure oxygen by rapid movement on a sharoOctober day, when the sun shines brightly and the clear, blue sky above. This is the secret of the rich blood of the English women, and their almost universally fine looks and matronly beauty, at fifty, when at that age American women are pale, sal low and wrinkled. To enjoy a walk, thick soles are need ed. Stout, well-fitted calfnkins, high caller* neatlv ?*!tl < > "* ' J " ") *? Dcl off" a pretty foot, and improve a homely one. To guard lhat sensitive portion of the human frame, (for the sole of the foot is keenly sensitive to the changes from beat to cold, or dryness to dampness,) the boot sole should be thick, and as well made as human ingenuity can do it. Then even in moist weather, or in a rain storm, the foot can be protected ; lhat insured, all is well with the body. A New Pkemium Okape.?The Ohio Farmer thus alludes to the " Walter w grape, exhibited by Ferris <k Cay wood, ' nurserymen. PouchkeeDsie. N. Y_ who Mated that it was a seedling of the Delaware, fertilized (artificially) with the pollen of the Diana; it has now fruited tour seasons, the vine is very hardy, vig oroua and healthy, less subject to mil- i dew, and leaf-blight, than any other ex cept Concord, and as little as that variety ; the fruit, in color and size, and < form of berry and bunch, is a medium i between the Delaware and Diana; flavor sweet and rich, with fine aroma, but the berry has a tough skin and consid arable pulp?the only drawback from ita excellence. It ripens as early as the Delaware, bears carriage much better, and dries into raisins instead of nothing. The committee, by avote of three against two, awarded this grape the first pierai am,' quality to rule," the minority voting for the Iona. 1; | vvtv ? * North Carolina.?The Sentinel says the measures of popular ! relief passed by the North Carolina Legislature base proved Ineffectual, or inadequate, and that the members met in conference on Friday last, to devise some additional expedient. The Sentinel adds: "From all parts of the State, we learn that, under the stay law of the convention, creditors are putting their claims in suit. In some Counties, there are from 000 to 1,000 writs returnable to the next terms. Wherever there is the remotest prospect of mnk lag good a debt, creditors are suing? The consequence is, general uneasiness and alarm prevails among the debtor class." " * The Wilmington Despatch says : A few nights ago, our informant goes on to state, the Sheriff of Pitt County was riding near the town of Greenville, having in his possession a number of papers returnable to the spring term of the court, when he was seized by a mob of persons in disguise, and in strong force, and stripped of all documents of the nature described. The party then repaired to the clerk's office, in Greenville, and destroy ed all similar papers found there, after which they quietly dispersed. They were so disguised as to preclude any possibility of detection, and, as yet, no clue has been found to implicate any of the offenders. We regret to chronicle such lawless ness, but think this is but the natural result of the ruin which has been wrought by the war, and are apprehensive that puch disgraceful proceedings will spread in other quarters. DISFRANCHISEMENT IX TENN E88EK. ? The New York Times, of the I9?h, takes from a cotemporary the following fact, which it says illustrates the opera* tion of the dl-franchising principle in Tennessee. It would not bo difficult, we believe, to find hundred* of similar anomalies under the woiking of tbo system in force in that State : " A firm in Nashville, one of the largest and most respectable mercantile bouses in the West, paying annually many thousand dollars of taxes, has, including clerks, six pers-nns employed in the coucern besides tha porter, who is a negro. The latter is now the only one of the whole concern w ho is allowed a vote under the present Broanlow Constitution. The point of the j<>ke is, that the negro was the bitterest rebel of all, and was an officer's servant in the late rebel army, and when fighting by his master's side, he was the third man over the ramparts of Fort Pillow, where he fell like an avenging thunderbolt upon the negroes?who so gallantly surrendered that stronghold." Two organizations have been formed in New York for the relief of the destitute in the South. The Times i?supporting the movement with its whole influence, and if it sticks at it long enough, it will doubtless effect much. In one of its editorials on the subject is found the following language : The Southern papers reproduced the vengeful utterances of malignant and stony hearted men and newspapers of the extreme Anti Southern party, and these were accepted as evidences of the spirit that dominated the hearts of the Northern people. It must not be put to the discredit of the South that human feeling still exists there, and that the character of the once proud race, now defeated and wrecked, has yet in it a touch of the old pride. Naked and hungry, they have battled for years with the giant power of the North, and has stillered and bled until titer fell with exhaustion. To continue to suffer and perish seemed at last to bo tbeir doom, And as in war they had borne it uncomplainingly, so in peace they endured it with hardly a murmur. FkomTkxas.?The "Lone Star*'Stale mu?t be a healthy place in which to do lamily marketing. Head the fjllowing : The McKinney Inquirer gives the following prices current : Corn is worth at this place, 75 cents per bushel; wheat $1; flour 4 cents; old bacon 10 to 12^ cents ; lard 12^ cents; pork, oorn fed, 0 cents; mast, 4 to 44 cents ; butter 15 cents ; eggs 10 cents. All in specie. Gold 140. Speaking of eatables in San Antotio, the fame paper says t We saw scores of fine fat chickens selling in our city lately at three dollars a dozen, and turkeys at nine dollars a doaen. Venison hams rate at six dollars a dozen ; sweot potatoes at seventy five cents to one dollar per bushel; pork four and five dollars a hundred, and beaf, of splendid quality, at five cents a pound. The Houston Journal tells the truth when it says: The counties which raise the most corn ths coming season will be the counties which will attract the most immigrants, and, in the sod. will be thubeat counties in Texas. This it will be well enough for our people to remember. How*.?W*T?8$ sav? the New Or* fefctie Picayune, the following Galveston News, of thl Sd lwlNM fervently do we hope that the remains of the good man gone, now thai they have reached the spot where be earnestly wished to lie and be quiet, may be permitted, after so many rude buffet* ings, to sleep in peace butil called to enter the realm* where all the honest, the virtuous, the righteous, and the Eure* minded find a rest from their laors, and ara at peace. Here is the no* tics from the News: " A letter from Austin, dated Janti* ary 31st, informs us that the reuiaina of Geneial A. Sidney Johnston were expected there that night, and that no military order has yet been issued.? The letter incloses a funeral notice as follows : 4 Austin, Jan. 29, 180T. u 4 The friends and acquaintances of General Albert Sidney Johnston, are respectfully invited to attend the inter* tnent of his remains, at 12 o'clock on Saturday next, from the Capitol.'" We may now rest satisfied that the last wishes of our chieftain have been executed by those with whom he had long lived so honored and beloved, and whom their execution devolved, as by authority of Lloly Writ and the best impulses of men's hearts. What Woman Can Do.?If she will serve her country by a sacrifice of expensive clothing; if she will show her loveliness in homespun ; make fanhion her slave instead of being a slave to fashion ; give employment to our own people as was done during the war ; keep theepir.oing wheel buzzing and cotton cards at work in humble homes; buy home manufactures in preference to those from abroad ; content berself in being neat and not gaudy; drop all such gitucracks as artificial waterfalls, tlie tassel led thingamies which go around the whole end of stockings, and what Wood Davidson calls 4' the veritable-overshot -high-pressure- perpendicular-vibrating -duplex?and -cat?elintiex w t. - - - 1 knee plus ultra tiliareens ; if she will make up her mind to go only half way back to the war standard ; induce her husband to plant corn and till his meat house?in short, if she will by every and all means contribute to stoj) the supplies that now fill Northern coders with the best part of their stock in trade, the South can produce a financial convulsion, out of which, peace will come. Since the surrender of Lee's army, probably, two hundred millions of dollars, have been sent to the North by the South, and three-fourths of that amount has gone into the hands of our enemies. We have whetted the knife that is at our throats, and the time has come when we should atop severely. [6'ou/A Carolinian. An Ai?t Illustiiation.?The lion. A. II. Waid, of Ky., in a speech before Congress narrated the following as an illustration of what condition th eSoulb?..i.? ?? .1? ? ??i urn omico wuuiu w wiiur tuej snail have passed through the "course of sprouts' prepared for them by the Radcal party : There was a man once came to ray neighborhood and praached what ha called the doctrine of restoration in reference to a higher and a belter world, lie said that nil sinners would finally be restored to walk the streets of the New Jerusalem ; but he said they would first have to go to the place of perdi-% tion, the pit that burns with fire and brimstone, and stay there until they had expiated all their sins. An old man who was present and heard him, one who was noted more for his straightforward and blunt language than fur his piety, got up and said t "'Why brother, after I have been in that suU phur and fire burning long enough to have my sins burned out of me, don't you think I would be a d?d pretty singe cat to go to heaven? [Great laughter.1 And that is what tha c?n. tleman is pleased to call a perfection of the Republic. Mm.kino.?Let our farmers remember, that to have their cows milked indiscriminately by any members of the family is a loss. Keep a regular milker for each cow, or one for a 1, if not too many. Do not change. Milk as fast as possible. Experience proves this to be the best way. Talk as little as possible while milking. Let the cow be perfectly quiet and contented. Milk at regular hours ; let those be nearly or quite equi distant?say twelve hours between each milking. Then there will be no straining of Ibe bag by over distention. These are points which good dairymen always observe. Most of all, do not walk your cows a great distance, nor drive them fast.? liural World. ? 1 " A wats kfai.i. has been discovered in California two thousand feel high. We have plenty of wateifalls in our town, over five feet in height, of enormous volume, but all put together could not beat that California wonder. A woman, in Indiana, named Can* ter, has mated with Mr. Gallop, tints changing her canter to a gallop.