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uta verduretonund ux Sspread, - blwivad y over head Kia b almy air I o.4are until to-morrow, best beloved col nisn grie Nogether - T have pawiedthrougth wintry Weather u ter loveis agon I nbolfous susmer dy - re on the arth, -6Ilk' erdaure made o blewd e igir, with their happiness -, i in~fg forth. U1 renthow full of lire ne 'ar~Rthings I ering ok--the herds hrging of the birds-. -The l-ing riad insect-wings - tunyt water running on, ksiiueig lights and shadows 1 re4* that spring up rich and sweet J.:d'11eattiful, bene'ath our feet, rhid these grany meadows Oh ise etut bal dtole Castoni d iwthn eyes and see How all these thiigs af gire 4ji~ne~ re ood-ar sen To trako &-trustful sentiment In wekk: ones suoh as we ! God loethall his creatures, Doth-blesw thiem hour by hour; -Add aill hesnot of man take beed. Whorso mriuah'bety hath derced Ut the gwaysde owsr' Oh, best beloved -one! ome forthe thin summer day ; io our spirits good to go Mong passant people poor and low, And be as -blithe a they. DCoe forth this summer day ! We willnot think of care, Wth such a verdure round us spread, With such a bright heaven overhead, With such a balmy air MAY-DAY. Tuesday next is the first day of May, tht fatal beay big with the fate, not' of Coao orof Rome, but of many broken - lups, glasses, and chairs-many aching Whea, aching backs, and aching hearts. A4i! that our honest Dutch ancestors should have entailed such trouble and - iliction upon ius, to select the day of 'illothers devoted to Flora and the jocund dance around the may-pole, to aoor fr iture, tumbling bes,esmash dg Crockery , and eveything but com -foftijay, and. hilarity.' We have no Sing 'in this country, as they have among our Ansto-Saxon ancestors We jum from winter into su mmer and therefctone upo uesto seeth the aysofn Dion's dance, areoundcqthed witholo te festvitie fnay-day tuuchn aes ismas been enjokyd nd Eglndytbig but cof fotm jyind."lrt. ehaen Theni tisto ouettrng asupe ae dressng them withglaonds ancdstan e rund from, wnte pintsmer, and ,theraefn a stBtn boure thfy werean Dion're, are ChristiaintTe whth eenejted in rnfgload "tie goudesf The cuwesto Th'etwordu May-polesa drsgthemi With garlandseleration-o maingn themounas r d tamdivg deu~ theen Bcons befoe wityeren convre. tom Christnty. Tverse wvero efet year aoo of Fgi-au the gdess bron of; Ter May-daoo wich bleiiars cmain rnwiti allestanlyo the presen unptica usgte:lbaino Ther noa isamoAsta' nnwn;ath rom Pheos t augries ofyda Pti'inEga; iorqbenhadaof garansivityg ad poids marngotfeerondry der ruthathine. No' mrthonMa-pnes vednt heighte and, To vaer's Some petbtyo verss adanee - tNo andr pblishand taor' hured aond fiky hea agod onrgiving thp potive dcnle baIn the Monaydy, hover, hicMay boes coresonithal stanz asgof te onfrst uneeia Mag-e. I a o ther bank moe Auta's Dealosehy ido pursquhe full ridgte ofa oistrie;ce ac Nrothe May-poleom teaint igttlen ciy Tof Chqrsesr Mi faiineyou adrne;i Not mevryeathsoffe, and persspihl opd the greenbaenlod cwrol a the ridancng Inte ountay, evr heMy poe "P- tllsanig WGrov gon n).e shal 7,)e foretfn the delht geo irstseigaMypl. tws Theth bank ofote Deise h a Nrssth rive from the uait tl drink to Chestr Myrfany arnd it Buttk Brea t, of t floes, an- ep tho gree se band wi allthedanin re olgyor~Jy.o"oestatcondi. The festivitlesant Groveday eaw (1ed~ th we rtfn thei foow a "Then Maois Maio, og il t rnt t hi- ar lancds; arond i ust - -iv benWhoruizd byolwporse have fesiusites of May-dayitures tw2 ohamborlain's books during the J4' -08 .00 0 8 To i ~ 1~ or,o. ).,R0, Tori'ade..Maririf m,6the ensi- g 8 0 eari ort e a nadirandum in. the .29~ oIirzyf o~. th1 0 . Oo y y tlo .e 0 8ollow ing effect "Mein.- Lefte in the kepeing, of the wardens noi beinge, a fryer', cote, of russet and e kyrtlo of 'worsted weltyd with red cloth, Mowians -(Moor's) buckram, and 4 iorres daunsar's cotes wof hite fustian ispangolyd, and two gyrno satin' cotes. and a dy sordd's (fool's) cote of cotton, and 6 payre of gartoi' with bells.1 Our phonographists can take a lesson in spelling from these' quaint reoords. In "Stow's Survey.of London,"(1603) we find the follonmg: "In the moneth of may-namely, on May-dai in the morning-every man except impediment would walk into the sweet meadcws and green woods, there to rbjoyce their spirites with the beaut and savour of sweete flowers and -with the harmony of birds, pr.sing God in their kind, and for examp hereof Ed. war(tHall hath noted th K. Henry the Eight, as in the 8 of his eigne, or May-day in the morningvith Queene Katheren his wife, accompanyed with many lordes and ladies, rode a Maying from Greenwitch to the high ground of Shooter's Hill.?' Our ascetic Puritan ancestors made dreadful war on those pastimes, by preaching and invectives. Poor Maid Marian, the May queen, they termed "the Red Lady of Babylon,' Friar Tuck was "a remnant popery," and they were all put to rout as the bitter est enemies of religion. In a tract cal led "The Lord's Loud Call to England, published in 1660, the country and town is represented as abounding with vanities: "Now the reins of liberty and licen tiousness are let loose. MaggVoles and playes and juglers, and all things else, now pass current. Sin appears with a brazen face " Charles the First, in 1663, was not quite as fastidious, though really a pi ous man. In a warrant dated October 18th of that year, he directs that "for his good people's recreation, after the end of divine service his good people shall not be disturbed, letter, or discour aged from any lawful recreation: noi from having of May games, Whitsor ales, other sports therewith used, _c that the same be had in due time with out impediment or neglect of divine ser vice." In 1644, however, an ordin ance had been passed against May poles in the following words: "And because the profanation of thc Lord's day hath been heretofore great. ly occasioned by May-poles, (a heath. enish vanity genererally abused tc superstition and wickedness,) the Lords and Commons do further order and or dain that all and singular May-poles that are or shall be erected, shall be taken down and removed by the consta bles, busholders, tything men, petty constables, and churchwardens of the parish-the said officers to bo fined five shilling weekly till the said May-poles be taken down." How contemtible all kinds of religion fanaticism appear to the enlightened mind! We have however, no May. poles to dance round on Tuesday next, Instead of floral wr-eaths for the Queen of May, our queens will be crowned witlh mob caps and bandanna hankerchiefs, filled With dust and cob wvebs, instead of lillies and honeysuckles--a bltoom in stead of a sceptre, and the rattling ol crockery instead of the bells of the morris dancers, the wassail cups, or summer bowors.--Tnes and Mie8ser, ger, April 29th. TO MA RY A NN. Your face Your tongue Your wit 8o fair So sweet So sharp First bent Then drew Then hit Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart To like To learn To love Your faco Your tongue Your wit Doth load Doth teach Doth move Your race Your tongue Your wit With beams With som d With art Doeth blind Dethi charm Doth rule Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart With life With hope With skill Your face Your tongue Your wvit Doth reel Doth feast Doth fill 0 face 0 tongue 0 wit With frown With check With smart Wrong net Vex not Wound not Mine eye Mine ear Mine heart This eye This car This heart Shall joy Shall bend Shall swear Your face Your tongue Your wi t To serve To trust To fear (O- Upwars of seventy-four v'essels arriv ed at New York on WVednesday last, besido oloven more reported below. Nearly all of these were from fremign port. y~diird40fdhtti4n*gei A~ ~ ..,... hafin 4rt1n h to bvu da' paanthe afe ft linithe binlis of le.Knldgo i ~iie-ei Vat and sudden acquisitions by thie memory, never made a maii wise. Be patient, hopeful perserving. Be satis hled-with very little at first. Be nol discouraged,even though,forlong yearn you raay n ot be sensible of great pro gressmin your pursuit. Be faithful to yourself, and your reward is certain. Five pages a day read carefully, and thought' over, will do more toward strengthening the upper faculties of A' than three hundred pages a day, read as three hundred pages must be read, though ono were to do nothing else. At the end of five years, he who haE read five octavo pages a day, regularly, every day, and -neither more nor less, under any temptation, has read 9126 pages-equal to thirty volumes octavc of 800 pages each. Now, thirty volumes octavo, of well. chosen, well-understood, and well-diges ted science, would be worth more thas a collegiate education, to ninety-nine persons out of a hundred. Is there any man-or any boy-sc busy, that he cannot find time to read five octavo pages a day?-one volume of 800 pages in two months? or six vol. unies in a year? Many are they, among women and girls, and men, more foolish that either, who average a volume a day year after year of what is called miscellaneous reading novels, newspa pers and magazines. And what is theii reward? At the end of a long life what are they good for? What do the3 know? What are they able to commu nicate to others?-to their companioni for life?-to their children?-to theil fellow-men? What do they leave be hind them to be remembered by? Suppose they had been satisfied witI reading five pages a day-and onl3 five pages a day-suppose the averag reading life to be fifty years-and, tha all began to read with advantage a five. Instead of thousands or tens o thousands of books hurried through and forgotten; leaving no more impres sion upon the understaning, than th< drifting clouds leave upon the summoi sea- no way exercising, cloarin; up, or strengthening the judgement they would have read, or studied thought over and remembered, but s< as to be always ready their knowledg< to the every day concerns of humar li''e, only two hundred and seven-threc vohimes, octavo. But if the se two hundrcd and seven ty-three volumes were properly chosen and well adapted in every case to th< phrenological character of the individ ual-he would be master of more facts lhe would be familiar with morn science he would be richer in the knowledg that is gained by books, than perhapi any other living man of equal capacity In other words, lie would know more And yet, lie would meet with personi every day, who had managed to reat in the course of their fifty years, ten oi twelvo thousand volumes-of nobody knows what. Suppose a young man about learning a trade, lie is ah eady acquainted wit) reading, .writing and arithmetic. He has had a common-school education, and nothing more. Ho has been brought up to believe that learning is a sort oi luxury-only to be had in colleges; that t.he learned professors, as they are cal led, are the anointed rulers of the mu) titudo. A t any rate, lie sees that suet is the fact, understand it as lhe may. It never enters his head, poor fellow! that lie can educate himself without the help or mortal man-without his living hie' that is. He wants to take a high p.- among the sons of God-but feeh discouraged and ashamed. He is pooi -and his bread must be earned by t life of hardship, drudgery and self-doni al; and-it never for a moment passeE through his mind that Books are TEAcHIE~s-that he wrants no othei help than ho may find in any one of a thousand libraries, open to all the world. Still less, that if' ho can save time (( read five pages a day, lie may make himself any thing lie pleases, in time. Is ho a printer, a ship-builder, a blacksmith, or an apothecary? Is hc a merchant or a manufacturer ? a tan ner and a currier, a mason, a shoema kor; or any one of a hundred classes it life, he'may make himself thoroughly master not only of all thlat concerns hiE own particular business--immediately or remotely--its histoiy, progress, and changes-but of almost every collator. al branch of human science, before he gets throeugh1 with a regular apprenitice shup. In seven years hie would havec nzastered-not merely read but waa tered-abouat filly volumes octav'o, ol 300 pages a piece. And lie woeuld be worth aL fortune,-habits for life habits of quiet, determined persorv. ane. eil de ove shine-before IT e enhj~ if he willfad~ e noeifn4 asines, thie noe in4 putro m for all thiese ifed as tey ogtt~e road, with interruptions and noderte5 ywill be a help t9 hlima tirhr f, bykeeping him well acqiited gith te doings of his fellow-men.C Beware of undai-taking too much., Begin with five pages aday; as a r ular daily task, and iever go to -itl you are absolutely se f 'hoingMe to read six everyj ay; andI so on f no year to year, till you average what you are capable'ofundlerstanding, dijestinig and renlombering-and tha stop. No thing is more comnson'-nothing nior fatal, than trying by over studyto mnake up for past omissions. - .FOR SHEZRIFF UT Thne flriens of A. . iand ham, Esq., announce him as a candidaie for the ofice of Sheriff at the next election. March 29th, 1849, 24td O&rWe are authorized - to announce MALLY BROGDON, Eaq. a Candidate for the Office or Sheriff of Sum ter District, at the next Election. IC9-We are antlaorized to annonnee Col. JOHN C. RHAME, a canli date for the office of Sheriff, at the ensuirig Election. sept 27, 1848. 48 tf OtrThne Friends of Richa B. BROWN, announce him as a Candidate for the Officet of Sheriff of Sumter District at the ensning Election. - Sept. 20, 1848. 47 tf oI-r'We are authorized to announce Major YOHN BALLARD, as a candidate for Sheriff at the ensuing election. - April 26th, 1848. 20 tf OGrThen-ienads of Willian A. COLCLOUGH, Esq., announce him as a candidate for Sheriff at the next Election. April 10, 1848- 25 FOR CLERK. (o We are authorized to announce Mr. JOHN 0. DURANT as a candidate for the office of Clerk of the Court at the ensuing election. Nov.8 3 . tf Mr. Editor :-Please announce JOHN DARGAN JONES, as a candidate for re election to the'office o Clerk of the Court for Sumter District, and oblige the SFMTERIAs. April 26th, 1848. 26 tf (i7JP'W e are authorized to an nounce DANIEL H. RICHBOURG, a can didate for the office of Clerk at the ensuing election. Jan. 26, 1846. 13 tf FOR TAX COLLECTOR. (jT' We are authorized to an nounce ALEXANDER WATTS, Esq., as a Candidate for Tax Colleotor,of Claremont county at the ensuing Election, MANY FRTENDS. A.Drugs and Medicines, AT CHARLESTON PRICES. 2. V. DeHAY, StIcCEssOR TO 3. A. CLEVELAND, DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY, NEA RLY OPPOsITE MAsoNIC HALL, cAMDEN, 1.0C. Takes this method of informing the citi zens of Sumter, Darlington, and the adjacent' country, that he keep always on hand, a fresh and well selected stoock of Dr hmias Paints, Oils and Dye, tufis; Window Glass and Putty, Patent Medicines and Perfumery Soaps, Brushes, Combs and Fanc Aricles. THOMPSONIAN MEDICINES, Embracing every article now used in the Practice; &c. &c. All of which will be sold as lowas articliesof the same quality can be bought in Charles. ton, FOR CASu OR CnEDIT OTPhysicians, Planters, and Country Mer chants will do well to give me a call before purchasing elsewhere. Z. J. D. Camden, Feb. 21, 1849. 17 tf A CARD~ The subscriber, having taken, the corner Store, (known as McLeans)- woudd most respectfully, acquaint his old Friend., and rho Public at large, that he will at all tirnecs take p'lansure to accommodate them, In- Cut.. ting aind MaIking up Garments, in the most leashionale and substantia~l mariner. He wile keep constantly on hand afreeh aind ,roasonable assortment, of outiittig, bf the latest rand most approved Fashions, and hopes, by punctuality and his desire to please all, lhe merit a continuance of their Patron age and confidence. D. J. 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