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THE SUIITEI DINNRR. ,1. S. ICIIAIDSON, Jit. EDITOuS. ,OIIN II. LOGAN, WEDNESDAY. JULY 26, 1854. g=-j' Persons wishingv to see us upon business connected with the Pa per or Law, can find us at any hour during the day. except from four to five in the aflernoon, at our office, just back of Sot.oaioss' New Store. All business connected with the paper must be transacted with WILLAni Lnwis, Jon N S. RtcirAnnsoy, jr., or R. C. Loca. Mr. It. C. LOGAN, the Foreman of Banner Office, is our only auhorised Agent to receive money and give receipts for the same, and may always be found at the Banner Office. All letters aldrese'l to the Banner must be pre-p:id to imsure nttenu ion. COTTON .IAstE&CT. CHARLESTON JUt.Y 2. COTTON.-There was a .ond den:w:l for this article to-day, the tran.<actions tiav ing rr ached upwards of 9(11 ha:es, the hulk of the operations. nowevter, wre con fined to the common qualitites. Former prices were fully sustained. The extren. es ranged from 7 to 01c. " Sanco." Many inquiries have been inade as to what is the meaning of -' 1Vhalchonc's Roach," the concludmng words in "Sin co's'' pieco of poetry, in the last Banner Not being abio to satisfy curio ity our. selves we call upon "Sanco " for an ex planation. The Sherifi's Sales. We do not wish our Sherifr'hard times,', but it is a source of gratification to us to see that he has made only one levy for this mcnth, and that a buggy. Such a case has not occurred in Sumter for many years and we hail it as a happy evidence of prosperity. The Black River Watchman. The Watchman comes to us this week much enlarged and a very nice looking sheet. We are glad to see this evidence ,of its prosperity, and hope the day will .come when'we shall meet encouragement enough to enlarge our old friend. For the present we will have to content our. selves with renewed efiorts to make it mere acceptable and interesting to its pa trons. To Mechanics Generally. We have heard some complaints from our Mechanics in relation to the difficulty of procuring choice pieces of lumber in and about Sumterville. Does not the facilities offered by Mr. LAREY in his advertisement (to which we refer them) obviate all diffi. culty'? We have be~n reqjues.ted to call at. tentitz to the advertisement of " Choien ~idrandy and WVines for medicinal pter poses," by BOATwatoHT & BARULOD, wvhich appetars int this issue. When it be. .comes necessary to use any of the liquors for medical purposes it is of tl-e first impor tance to use a good and unadulterated ar .jicle. We believe that, if there is such -an artic'e, it is to be found wvith BoAT wn:GHT & BARKULoo. Dr. B.-is a prac tising. physician and informs us that lie has imported his liquors with great care in refer. ence to their use as an article of the amate ria mnedica. Weo have heard thema highly ,syoken of.-See advertisement in another column.. The lion. W. W. Boyce's .Speeeh. The able speech of our immediate Rep. resetative in Congress uponi tha "Bil making aplpropriation to carry m014 effect the Mexicaio Treaty,'' will be amn111 upon our lirst and fourth patge . WVe shouldt feel that an apology was due our rea.ders for the want of variety ii tis issue andl afor this departu arom mar usua custom (for we very selom inisert such lonmug arti ecles) did we not feel sattistivnl th ii this d~e sideratum is nmore than comopetnsated 'or in the able effort of Mr. BoycE, whose views will doubtless prove of interest to mtost of his constituernts. 1'o those dis posed to grumble, however, we would say that It is but a matter of right and just ic. to.Mr. B6vcs that the actions and condnet of our Re~presentatative should be known sto his constituents. Columbia News. Our Correspondent at Columbia has sent us a copy of the "Report of the Cott mittee of 21" appointed to .ascertain the views of the tax-paying citizens on thte propriety of the towns subscribing 6300, 4100l to the Columbia a'nd Hamburg Rail Road. The Conmmittee' recommend that the amount specified be subscribed, provi dod that *400,000 be subscribed elsewhere and that the Town Council have the loca Lion of the Dlepois. A public meeting to r-atify this report whiu ho held at the Town kiall on Monday next. Th j'ere was a fine shower of raid in Co lumbia and the adjacent country on Friday and a still heavier one on saturday even. itng. The crops were doabtloss greatly benefitted by these rains. .From Texas we agaitn hear th~e lamnen taf ions of the suffering people against infa mfous ,dspredations of tho Indians which * hoi6ena going on for several months. .Ay of indians are said te be marching hatbe interior of the State from Mexico, * )r there is not a suljcient numher of effi cicut troops toalbeck them. -Petitions were in cisulation. for the removal of Gen. Smuith as comnannder.hn-chief, and the ap, Pout"n.bl o~en- Uarney in~ hi. stead. Correspondeneo of the Banner. WAsaINsovo, July, 22. Homestead Bill--S. C. Delegation Deatk of Afr. Wash ingrton-Afisccl. laneous Items c&c. Messrs. Editors: Notwithstanding the vigorous and untiring efforts of the opponents of the Hlomestead Bill to postpone that measure until De. cembur next, the Senate this morning agreed to an immediate consideration of said bill. One of its most active opponents, John M. Clayton, of Dele. wmae, proved, -.e t' ink, most success fully that the paisage of such a mens ure would prove detrimental to the interests oft he lIopublic. It is thought that, President Pierce mai veto the bill: but. no oune is certain of such a result. We earnestly hope it may he defeated in both branches of Congress, and not be allowed an opportunity of being p'resente'd to ic President for his ens lorseL~icnt or rejection. Hasty Legishlotiui is becuining a serious evil; anald Very 1I!Ly now think they are disch'g;ing heir duties to themselves Ind their cnisutuents by paying but little attention to the various measures brought Iheire them; voting for many bills they have never examined seri ouily: and thus devolving the respuon sibility of adopting or rejecting a measure, upon the President. This should not be the case. The South Carolina Delegation are fortunately free from any such titults, and deserve credit for the care and attention be. stowed upon all business brought before the IHouse or Senate. Hlon. George C. Washington, an immediate descendant of" the father of his Country " died in this city on the 18th inst. lie had filled many offices under the Government, and at the time of his death held the office of Deputy Marshall at lWockvilie, Mary. land. In 1852, Mr. Washington, was nominated by the Native American Party, for Vice President on the ticket with Daniel Webster, but both of them declined the nomination. You will recollect that many bitter words have recently been spoken and many harsh things said by members of Congress, about the citizens of Washirngton City, because at the last Municipal Election the "Know No. things" defeated by a handsome majority, the regular .Democratic Nominee for Mayor. The effect. of all such speeches has been to aid the " Know Nothings " and the popular feeling is so strongly on their aide. that some t tue voluinteer filitary Comrpanies Lie en-i ' ereai" '.. admit into their ranmks no foreigners or Cathiolies ! ! Members of Congress are rapidly joining the new and mysti cal order of " Knocw Nothings " and that organization will after a while become one of the most powerful ever formed. It, appears that all rogiies are not dead yet. The Grand Jury of the U. S. District court foar Maine has found "true bills" against Messsrs C. M. Marston and Nathaniel Foster foar swindling the govermnent. Defaulters are becomsing qjuite numerous anid stealing-to usc a strong expression grows moreax and more poputar. The Cholera has not visi ted oiur cit y to any extent yet ; but, no one knows when it will appear. Souithierners who flocked Northwarel in the early parn of' the Stiinmer are! n' .w w'trinig rapid ly to moure enn::enml elimeus. Sav to your .ricenl- i by to visit, New 'York City at Icr.--n. is to meet almosct certadI~ .ei. hless and, ten chanmces to1 oneii, tol die. The number of deaths in that city frmcoeawlavrg 200 a em -r il vrg We notice in a western paper a no tiee of Washington City fr-om the pen of'"long" John Wentworthi. Johni is not very compljlimientary- Ile says, "Washinigto n, with all its beauty, is a heartless, wicked place. it is one great gainbiling den, where the stakes are offices, and the players leg islators ; every body says that every body are rascals and knaves, and evey body acts as ii he believed wvhat every body says was true." h he "Colt," ease is in) "Statu Quo." The Committee wvill probably make a voluinous report-and there the matter will end. Mrs. Thomas Peter, the only survi vor of Mrs. George Washington's fatmily died on. the 13th at her resi dence in Georgetown. it is a strange coincidence that two members of' the Washingtons should have died within a short distancee and within a short time of each ot her. Youa RsPOR'rER. .The news respecting the Rtusso-Turk sh question is said to be inore warlike than ever. The Czar hasd not replied to the demand or Austria, but it was believed that he would positively refuse to comoply with the formal requesct therein made, lie has gained his ob'ject by drawing hi. fees to his lair, and will now endeavor to hold them at hay until they are worn out and exhausted, when he will again venture forth on his prcdatory excursion. against Tuarkey. For the Banner. MEsSRs. EDtrons : I perceive in the Vatchnan of the 7th inst., that the opin. ions advanced by F. J. Moses as to the proposed change in electing Electors of President and Vice President. has been answered in a manner the most sstisfacto. ry by " Claremont," and that notion, as to the unconstitutionality of the present mode, clearly and most conclusively con futed. Located as I am in a remote corner of the District, I have not had, in. toy limited intercourse an opportunity of knowi'sg to whom we are so much indebted for arrest ing the progress of this fatal heresy. But sirs, it is indeed gratifying to find so well finished and substantial a spoke in the wheel of State. " Claremont" has proven himself to be on this great and important quest ison, a most able defender of our rights and privileges, and is possessed of intel. lectual endowments, unquestionably of a very high order. You will allow me through this medium to congratulate him with assurances, that the county I ome of his forefathers shall long feel their indebtedness, while af. ter ages w II cherish wi'h pride, the recol lection of having reared in her bosom so able an advocate and expositor of those principles whiwh have long been the shield and rampart of our liberties. The soundness of his conclusions and the patriotic pathos with which he has met this sophistry, at the very threshold, and at a time when the people were fantastical. ly beguiled, and fain would follow an igniis fatuous glean into wiles and darkness, of anarchy-demands the gratitude of a peo. ple thus admonished and awakened to a sense of their true position. We are told that the Legislature usurps a right that properly and exclusively belongs to the people at the ballot-box. We are told to cast oil' this obnoxious usurpation (being a method of appointment established by the framers of the Constitution,) in virtue of the elective franchise. We are itvited to a higher and more felicitous degree of freedom by thus abandoning the ancient customs of our fathers. What a catastro phe, what n delusive :allacious scheme. Is there one I would ask within the limits of this District, who would now after re Ilection advocate so foul a measure. What. in this enlightened day to adopt a principle which lies at the foundation of a system of measures calculated exclusively to con summate the designs of the demagogue, but is most fatally destructive to the dear est interests and influence of the State. Would you pervert a government under which you have so long and so happily ex isted, to gratify those hungry desires of as pirants to office. In short will you destroy one of the most ancient customs transmit. ted to you by your fathers, namely: of Electors of President and Vice Presiderat bem;; r.ppointed . :h Lpgislature t.. .ie State tosgratifyi1 l -a ~ ' c.:w aspuirantlm B~t you are tokska.u er~t tuod'e is unconstitutional &zmd doesat comport wvitht the interest of the free atnd enlightetned citizent of the District to sub tmit to such ani inovation on their rights.-. How far you mtay rely upon this hypothesis we will endeavor to illustrate by a single extract "Claremont" has sdsduced from the Constitutiont: Art. I. Sec. 3. "The Senate of the United States shall be comu. posed of two Sonatoirs from each State chosen by the Jl'gislatuare there.of for six years ; anid each Senator shall hiav'e one vote." What can be more definite, what higher authority can we desire for the piresent mode of exercising this right, than the Constitution itself ? WVhereass, on the other hm ed thce new fangledl scheme is preseneted to youe with out formn or system. You are invited 1(o enter Is maizze withosut chart or coimpass. you are left to adopt any systemi at the bal. mot b''x, r. ther tha;n submtit to the present mode of* aplpointmieent. In short you are casl'ed ufein sto abandon t he method trisom. neottrel toc yei by thle framers of the Coo~ sinsit ion, mnot for a " mess of pnttage " event, neo, b.ut thlai you may revelI in utopian schiemes of demagouggues, who for a name w'ou dI enilanger the libeerty purchased by the blood and tsuil aind suff'erings of Ine rev. olutioin. Why is it that a change is now advised ? Is liberty now a different thing from wheat it w-is whueni t inflated the heart, and nerved the arm. that struck the blow that esablishied it ? no sirs; then there is no view w'e can lake of this matter C hat does not leadt to umnstrous absurdities, and it is a moaxitm in politics as well as commi~on senseS -Ihat wvhenever any doctrine leads to such a conclusion, it has no just foundation and must be false. Trho right of the people to alter or abotish old and constitute new governmenis is nt dentied, it is adinittedt. Blut that such an alternative shonld only be resorted to in case of great oppression, or palpab'e and dangerous usurpation is equally plaine. MONTCLARE. For the ilanncer. Mesars Eclitors .--Ilaving c.asuatlly glanced over the Proceeding's of' the Fourth, which was celebrated near Mr-. June's store in Clarendon, 1 su~e thit I have been grossly, and I fear' malici ously lmisrepreseted, in ha ing may name associated with a sentiment, purported to have been given oni that. occasion, eulogizing the lion. Mr. Cass to the skties. Permit mec in reply, to state, that I do most emphatically deny the authcrship of' any such sentit mont, anid moreover of having handed in one of any description, by which tis hallucination couad have occurred. And allow mec through your columns to express my unfigned sense of grat titude to the gentlemana, who has ta ken this liberty with me, for the prof fered honor which he has so kindly tendered, atnd my extreme unworthi. Dless to bear the rich Lamrel which ho bas so graciously and benevolently n attempted to place upon my brow. b Yours Very Respectfully. i, I. L. B ENBOW. For the Banner. Northern Impressions on y a Southern Mechanic. e Messrs. Editors : A few weeks since we visited Baltimore, Philadelphia. Wash ington, and New-York on a business agen cy. It was the first time we ever had the a pleasure of traveling through any of tie Northern States, and the agreeable im pressions made upon our hitherto highly prejudiced minds cannot, by us at least, he easily described. Prejudices we regret to any inculcated by our wealthy and im becle Planters, and barked forth am-mg the people, by their satelites, and under strapers, a heartless set of demagogues, who~ untder pretence of forwardmant the in terest of the " lear People" make it their only studyjto ferment discord and strife be tween the North and Sonth. When we left our quiet little town, our feelings were heavy and unpleasant, we thought we would soon be in cities where that class of the community of whom it'is our highest ambition to be called an humble member (we mean the Mechan ics) were a hard-worked, ill requited and much abused people. We were prepared to have our state pride ofraded, and ourselves insulted by abuse of Southern institutions, to be thown among a set of sharpers and wooden nut. meg manmlacturers, whose only study was how they could transfer the money front the pockets of their brethern into their own. Judge then Messrs. Editors of our agreeable surprise when the very reverse of these erroneous umpressions proved to be the real truth. It has never been my happiness since the earliest recollection, of our native and much loved city of Charleston in her palniest days, (when such men as the Bennets, Gordons, and lorlbecks, Lucases' Stroheckers, Rohs', Lass, Goldsmiths, Nevelles, Muggridges, and a host of others gave life and animation to her trades and commercial prosperity,) to come in social contact with a inure honorable upright and intelligent set of men than the Mechanics and business men of the above mentioned cities. Oh! how my heart bled for our young Souihern men, as their hapless condition -ed itself on our shame stricken ay . x)irtified feelings, as the humiliating as between themselves and their 0:n fortunate brethren of the North, pne ytted itself clearly to our hitherto de r : % n. What a m.J and molancholy truth it is my dear sirs that we too often see many of our young n.en, as it elligent, sensible and hgnorable ys any in the world, iunolating 1ibmsei.: 1o all inents and ur w on them to ecec the already over 'charged ranks of Medicine and Law, prepared only to entingle and harrass those who ma.- be so unforturate as to be the~ clients of the one p)arty, thit thevy su.bmit with Patient resignation to the prescriptions of the oth er member of the learned Prqfessions, who soon annuls their lease upon life and consigns thema to our mothier-earth. Nor does the sacreal desk or Pulpit escape the dire inftluen'oes of such an ever vaihng system of state policy, foar numbers of our young nonee for wantt of encourageimnt in motre appro~priate usefulness has adopted part of an admirable my stein of Postage and rush into) the chmur. h Pre -called at least, if no~t Pre'-Paidl. Now Messrs. Eh ,,ar: I -t us if puss blehb mishi dbem-. g'eg~iue n ,r.'.n ou r legislatire 1 ells and taae the reeas of Go.verrmnt out of the hands of a ;rrse-rend, feeble and aristo ciratic potrticn eof thme ,-aonuinumty, and en t ret them to the yeo:ary t tie bone andi ainew~ of the countr , , the F'arimers Mer chants, acid Mech;.nws, anid compla thiem1 to open up the sources of weal h and honor-. able induestry toa the yung. men of the Socutm whose tastes and iniclintations would lead them to pursue the many useful arts which fromn the inecxha~ustible resources of South C.,rolinea coumldl, render her people the miost prosp;eroums, acid herself the firsti among the .& ates of tlis great confederacy. 1 Jo vaein meay our. people homld commnercial conveiitionsa anid pass resolutions to mnake Chtar!eston anid other Southern Ports, pla-. ces ofedirect implortatio~n. All these gassy resolutions wvill avail nothiing, we want custoumers, acid when we I have thiem, commerce will as naturally ac coimodate herself to our requirciemnts as a ship when at anechoar will change position witht the ebb anid flow of tide. And to hiave customers we must have free Manufac. turers and Mechanics. Weo must confine our valuable slave population to their legiti.i mate spahere of operations, the cultivation of the soil. Oitori hive we been mortified to hear nur ii-pa id hard- worked fellow-.Mechan. ics accused of laztiess, because they coulda not compete with the slave of the wveathy a planter, (who was senut forth to earn per. 1 haps the interest on his price, antd whio had ji no childrent to clothe and feed and edlucate, a no public duties to pay the State ;) whose e onily alternative wvas to seek emnployment a alsewhere or descend to the level of the a free negro in pointt o1 respectability and b aomfort. Better stop the policy of Expatriation d wvhichl has been going oit in our beloved tI Sitate for theo last twenty years, by render-w ng unto Caesar what is CUmsar. and grant. nag to our honorable and intelligent Me. Iii :hanics anid busint-se men a free and irq- oj lartial share of the benefits of sound Lee' V islation- re 'L'b Correct adiministration of instijce wi alf over be effected as long as we are ruled y popularity seekers whose only ambition to aggrandise themselves at the-exponce f their country. Happy indeed were the reflections of our humble servant, when after a careful xamination into the Industrial, Moral, 'olitical and Religious sentiments of that ortion of the bone and sinew of the coun. ry, the Mechanics, Manufacturers, Farm rs and Merchants with whore it was his end fortune to come in contact, that he ad over been steadfast in abiding by the recepta of a kind and intelligeni Father vwho carefully inculcated the most ardent ave and admiration for this the beat guy. rnment, when rightly administered on arth-that we had Never been among hose who at home, are preaching a disso ution of the Union, and who spend their reasures among those whom they vilify, >ecause they find it good capital among heir indulgent and unwary follow citi en< at home. To my follow Mechanics I would say, ho not underrate your abilities, you have tothing to dread in a trial of skill side by ride with our intelligent and high-souled Mechanics of the North; notwithstanding ur little great not, think or pretend to hink we are inferior in ability. Witness he falacy of their opinions and the consis. ency of their patriotism. When your votes re kneeded our Northern brethren are de .laimed against, when your treasures are to be iavishly expended in buidig paltry Jails 'ar mnagnificenot Capitals, then you are to be made "hewers of wood and drawers of water," while some ignorant Jackleg is employed to superintend the structure which often conies tumbling down like the great humbug in Columbi.i, attempted to be built up by those who possess no know l edge of our climate, soil, or texture of building materials. Whilst there is not a village in the State that does not'possess men fully competent to erect any work the State requires. Auad yet strange to say a few of our credulous and well mean ing brethren were so good natured as to be imposed upon by a Political Capita I Ma-au. facturer, who rose to defeata bill, wa ich if pa.ed, would htavo made this class of gentry, who come into our State taking coutracts at less than the native legiti. timate mechanic can do, and pay his taxes to the State, because they, the transient johers pay no taxes. 'This squib, however, exploded something lik' the one got up against the talented Tiber-only scorch ing the fingers of the incendiaries- who lighted them-Oh 'consistency,' thou-art a jewel, but Political apital a hrirhtr gemi .T. 1. C. For the B;ainner. Messats- EmTons: Vth your ptrmsa'.; sion I would' lake to make a few remarks upon several matters which I think to be of some imporare .o us of the South. I wouldnltiope, iLe among the last to spea: ry ou-riiin and dealings it our Northern rteighbors. But it is no longer to be concealed that the ceople of the North generally,- hhve no feelings in comumoun with us, except in-o far as we nasy be of service to them'in the way of filling their purses. I feel assured that there are many hionorable exceptions to this rule, but they form only a ineagre'aninerity. 1 behieve the fact has recently been admitted by the ilon. Johnmlicen O'Neall, Who will scarcely be suspected by any one of being awvayed in this ,natter by undue prejudices agaimmst the Northern people. The fact as somie of us were afraid th:.t his Hionor look-c ad with too partial an eye in that direction. wouald not however be utnderstood as even nainuating that the Judge has not al w-ys aiena a faist fraend to the South and her ini atitutions, I can easily see whay heo has aitherto felt himnself juistied in oppoiing tome views entertained in tha' South goal. brally and in douth Carolina particnularly n regard to the North. His ve'ry position vould renader him slow to admait the fact hat thas Uauion is in imuinent danger of )emng rent asunder. All history sustains no in the position that public functiona -ies holding office for lif e or during goodi >ehaviour, are always among the last to liscerna in justice in the administration of mublic affairs. Inadrlitmon to this the Judge, nm his visits to the North, has alwvays had mot one object in view, viz :the advaince nment of thae cause of templerance. He has >n these occasions, for the most part, been brown among those wvho, like himnself mn such occasions were disposed cordlhny~ o ' fraternize " in advancing theq cause, aeforo them, leaving all i~fher matiers aside. But so all. pervading has the abo ition sentimpent cow become that he could aot bit see hostility to tns and our institu ions wherever lao moved ; and now the rudge, with characteristie candor, states it o be his full convietion that this disorgan rzing spirit i almost universal; but I ant Dosing sight of my original purpose in vriting this article. It is reduced to a certainty that we of he South are to .ecome a world to our. elves. The sooner, then, we become .ccustotned to this idea and act npon it, the etter. Let us endeavor to act upon the astice of our cause without excitenment nd without denunciation. Meat deeply in arnest and fully persuaded in their own minds of the intogrity of their purpose how the earnestness of determination, ut not the excitement of passion. Somne.things which I nmay dpem it pay uty to retaark upon, maty seern trivial at e first glance, but dqe etlusideratiqa ill shaow their importanpe, I hope to see nur people spending ze tle money North as pqssible mn tho way recreation or in the pursuit of health. te cornpromase our dignity and self spect in rushing by thousands, summer ter sume tn thn naati.. c...& fashionable watering places. We pour I too a - tide of wealth into the coffers of < those who are more thoroughly alienated I from ue, than any foreign nation in the I world. We have, too, in our own sunny Southe richer scenery, as fine mineral waters and cheaper and hotter fare than can be found anywhere North. Our own "Old Dominion" with its glorious mountain scenery, with its various mineral wa ters, with its beef, its mutton. its veni and its golden fruit, and, most of all, with its generous and princely inhab itants, oflers inducements to the trav eller in the pursuit of pleasure or health, nowhere presented, I venture to say, in any portion of the northern States, or per haps in the whole world. There is no comparison between the bracing mountain air of Virginia with her numerous mineral springs, and the stove-like suffocating air pont up in the valley of Saratoga. But I beg to mention still another mat ter which I wish to treat with great delica cy, and, at the same time with that candor and firmness which the nature of the case demands. I think the time has passed when our seminaries of learning are to he filled with Northern teachers. I know that a sort of necessity once existed for this evil-for evil it has always been. Not that I would cast the slightest reflection upon the high. minded gentlemen, and ladies too, who have filled and are still filling, many of these positions with great credit to them selves and benefit to their pupils. The misfortune hitherto has been, that those of our own section qualified for these posts of usefulness, have thought fit to turn their attention to other and more attractive pur suits. It is not to be concealed either, that our own people have been too much in the habit of supposing that our best teach ers come from the North. As an instance illustrative of this fact, I remember that somewhere about the yeai 1833, a vonng gentleman, a native of our own State,and a graduate with high distinction from our own college applied for the Principalship of one 01 our Academies, and he was actual. ly defeated by a Northern gentleman with no other recommendation that I could ever discover,- than that he hailed from that. region; for aa to scholahip lie could 'not teacheven the rudiments of the Lstin-and Greek- lauguages I remember still further that one young friend having at last been elected principal in this same Academy had the mortification o h:ving placed "ver' him as a sdrt of ofpar o: the mannor in which' he instric te..! o! rn:tnagert th:- school, a Northern . ininwhio was t! Principal of a Fe :i Ai-adcitry in the same village and under the same board of trustees. This northern gentleman made his appearance pretty regularly. onne 1 week, for a time intene .eadomy to crfrrect errbrs in a m')::nnt with our young'friend. It woulId have ca used your heart to~ leap' for joy Messrs. Editors, had yotd witnessed what I (hid on a certain odcasion between this gentieman -arid my young friend. On one of his visitationche stepp~ed up with a sort of pedigogical importance to 'th~e class which our yonng friend was hearing-recite fronm some latin authmor and immdiately corrected thme translation rendddd h'y' a member of the class. Oir youin4 friend promptly insisted and fairly and clearly proved thazt his pupil was right, aind so completely used up the superintendlant thit the pressing duties of the Female Academy, ever after, prevenitedl hiim from visiting the Manle Academy. I by rio- means undervamlue 'the attain ments of onr No'rthecr'' neighbors in litera. ture and science, but I hollI, tha' we have at least as good scholars South, as can be fonn I any where North. I have long since come to the conicluionm too, that ihe~re is a wider reach in the Southerni mind than in the Northern. The very inst itution wvhichi is now rearitg up a high head between the North and South, has contributed, and other circumstanices wh.ich might be men tioned, to produce this -ntellectual superi ty of the latter over the former. I bey noi means then allow that our Northern neighbors are exclusively the scholars of our country. I have but little conitidence in me~n q! their notions in teach ing, for thiey have their notions in this mtor too, as well as ini others. I am yet to be convinced that their elementary works which flow down upon ts like sfmoals of herring, are of any real value to uts, whatever may be the pecuniary profit to' themselves. To make a book is one o the easiest things in the wvorlds---but to makhe a good one--hic labor, hoc opus. T 'is trade of book-making seems to have been an evil even in the time of Solomon, for he says complamninigly, " of making many books there is no end." If any one would fully acquaiint himself with the manner in which these men bookmakers, get up their legion of volumes, I refer theum to a gen. ttemnan of this craft of whom a pretty full account is given in the "life and adven ttures of Seira Gil Jlmma de Santulaine". It is a wvell known fact that in no other country in the world, are grammars and easy lessonsfor beginers. soi numerous, as in this of our's. In IgngIand, fgr instan~ce, the same granmmara,(4 nienn~ grammar4 of th~e Latin and Grel lang~uage--hlave beemq used for.nat leas a~ cttury, antd I gresupnq I (laat \ve an rnot pratand (4 lgst i gay go, t periority nyer the IMng la in Scholarslhip. TIhe funt is, bqgijt-glakiig ihas h'ag pedend i te a tf-ade at the Noarth, and we gf ;Ihe South are the persoqnij o whom the~ bqqkg are prinicipalhy sold, Qonatant ghanges ( are thqs brought abquit in theo $iqentad, wvorks used in our schoole, At gnoat exena md4 with no advyanente )vlh...... s, atin and G reek languages are fixed, all >f their phenomena have been pointed out ong since. He who attempts to manufac. .ure a " royal road to learning " is a mere 3mpiric in literature. God has ordained. hat man should make his bread in the' sweat of his brow. and this applies to learn ng as well as to manuel labor. Speaking of book-making having been reduced to a trade at the North, with the South as the pr. ncipal market, leads me to, speak of another picture in this trade. Hundreds of agents are sent. through the country annually, get ting' subscribers' to some forthcoming work or other , which is: to eclipse anything of the kinl ever heard shall of before. And here Messrs. Editors I speak feelingly, having been recently most egregiously imposed upon myself, without. deriving any particular consolation, .from the known fact that hundreds of others are in the saume category with myself. Gentle men. I beseech you not to think me over heated in speaking of this matter. The facts are simply these : some months ago, a gentleman with Northern foot and -face (have you never noticed these peculiari ties!) me' me, and, in a most insinuating delerontial manner, which makes a person feel importait and opens hime to cornviction, asked me to subscribe for a fo thcoming wor.k of rare nerat, entitled the " History of the World." Vell, you will allow that the subject was a very large one. And this I thought myself. But lie was so po. lite, so Jefemintially urgent, that my vanity was Batte'red and down went my name. But 0 gentlenetn, when the book came, the gilt shone brightly on tie outside, but it was all lead and dross internally. Bad paper, bad type, bad matter, bad every thing. W' at do you think ? The precious author devotes more pages to the defalca tions and running-away of the redoubtable Gen. Swartout, than he does to kingdoms and Empires ! ! ! Thousands of things of pri.me importance in history are unnoticed by and perhaps unknown to the author, while the merest trifles of yesterday are dwelt upon ad nauseam. Gen'.lemen, le: us all enter into- a solemn c.ompact never to-subscribe again for a book without we have the author within the reach of our wslking sticks. If a book is a good one, i.s osvn merits will tell it. I'do not know that I would have mein tioned the fact of my having been this im podad uron, foi T was and am :t II very much ashimned'of myself for haviing been tlins gulled-if a young friend had not dis covered' the glittering nonsense. with a place close by the side of my Laird Ba''on (wh't an indignity'to his'lordslhip !) in my li:-rary, and laughed heattily af my ver dancy. From'that moijent I determined to speak out. Why Weens is a ptfrfect Heroditus to this author.. BUSBY. male ftriend .nd li . II -r' by itdamr~7g the following notice to JbtI\1 FIREMlAN. DFAart Sia: I h-ive seen your advertise ment in the Banner in which you make such a candid and fair offer of matrimony . You will not' think it a miss I am sure if I reply with equil candor. I am'a young Ia dy, my age 19-coniplexion fatir, blue eyes anti black hair.-Hieighmt-abont 5' feet, well ormned person, pretty face, foot and ankhe and in point of fortune am worth one - in mnyself. Being well pleased with the des cription of Mr. John Fireman. I would ,mnty object' to hear from him. I abhor secreecy and prefer candor above every tihing and I therefore take'this mnethmod of addressing you.' Y' mi will a hlige, if it meets your ap proval, bf adldresing through the same mediuin,' MISS M. R. Sumter-ville, S.C. @ b i tuaiv g. DEPARTED This life 'o Sumuterville, on thme afternoon of mhe 16'of July 185il. after a brief and painfnul illness Francis Marion, infant .son of Francis B. and Mary E. 0. Grier, og.% one year and 2'dys.: Sleep, sweet Fancis; on thy breast Thie summer flowers will bloom, While thou, the bightest and the best, Dust wither in the tomb. The sun will beam at morning fair, ". But, oh! thy light no more; The song of birds will load the air Thy sweeter song is o'er. Thy lute-toned laugh, thy gushing glee, Which thrilled us all the day, Is husbed, like music on the se-, By Naiad's lured away. Tme living tints of purest blue, Are faded from thy eye; Thy spirit, like the fragrant dewv, Hiath floated to thme sky. Sleep swe'etly, Francis! thy pure soul, Through fairer scenes will rove, In reakuis hey, nd this world's control, Where all is lights amnd love. WVer'p not fond paren~ts o'er is tomb, Nor where thine anigel trod;' Thy beauteous flower r'ow dothn bloom'.. Before the throne of God. So, Carolina--Sumter Dist. B3y IV". L E WJIS, Es I., Ordinary for said Diutrict. Whereas, Dempsey Griffn hath applied o mue for iillers of A laiistration,on nil tad qin utlar the guqyi and chattles, rigfata moi cre itors of the kgte W. W. Sy2elry ogg hze sqid Qistpecr, dgpansed ' Those are, th [eforp, to 't andm .'dijor. ors of the sa i dec'qaxem d 'ailasec ef6{A tge at jiur~ hi~t Oemr's ~ Iim sjaid flimjjet, ti( bq olden ht t -ons Hlqueg pn Fridiaydie gi y of ni. 4im4 adtisijatioi; h ahil not be~ grapte4 9.'t1 dlay, of' .fy ini .tig egr. ul t.. . r0g 0 one usail ig it hanp An iy er and in ire79jilr *rb'J Atueiiarq indepsndenes; JulyE id, o F. . -