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It is therefore offered to the mercantile and business community generally as the best advertising medium in the up-country of South Carolina. IIATK8 OK ADVERTISING. 1 square 3 months $ -1 00 1 square 0 months - -- -- -- GOO 1 square 12 months ------ li) o0 2 squares 3 months 0 00 2 squares G months - 10 00 1 2 squares 12 months 15 0t?! 3 squares 3 mouths ------ 8 (10 j "3 squares G months - - - - - - 12 00: 3 squares 12 months 20 On I 4 squares 3 months - - - - - - 10 00i '4 squares 0 months - - - - - - 15 00 j 4 squares 12 months ------ ?5 0?> j 5 squares 3 months ------ 15 00 j 5 squares G months 20 On: G suuares 12 months 30 on I Advertisements inserted for a shorter period than three nionths will he charged 7o cents per square (12 lines or le*<) for iir.-t inser-1 tion and 1)7 J per square for each continuance. IW Any one advertising by annual or semi- j annual contract can change his advertisement monthly, if he ilesircj". C3T {Subscribers to the paper who d> n<>! j pay their subscriptions within the year will be chargvd *1 50. [April '20, 18."i5 i? imiaii umiiMrTMammnrnTii iil n i MISCELLANY. Governor Johnson's Reply. Jis. r.c uti vi: c11 a m nnit, Mili.udgevim.k, Ceorgia, Oct. 17. Okxtlemkx : I have this dav received j your invitation "to attend and address a; mass meeting of the National Democratic i party of the Oily and County of New York, to he held at the Metropolitan Theatre, on I Monday evening, the 'J'Jd instant, at 7 l-*Jj o'clock, for tiie purpose of ratifying the; proceedings of our (your) late State and | county Conventions, and the tickets tiomi- | nated by them." I regret that ofiicial engagements deny me the honor of accepting your invitation ; for there are circumstances connected with the political condition of our country, which would render it exceedingly agreeable to mingle in the interesting scenes of the occasion. As it is, I must be permitted to substitute, in the form of a hasty communication, n few ot the many reflections that arc suggested l>y tlic signs of ttye times. As the result of the war with Mexico we acquired extensive territorial possessions on the Pacific coast. The Southern States contributed their full proportion of blood and treasure, and consequently thought they were justly entitled to a fair participation in the fruits of the contest, lint tliey were denied it. A Brigadier General of the United States Army, without authority of law, assumed civil power in California, and constituting himself Territorial Executive, proclaimed an election for a Convention, and ?rf>se.riln?<! I.lin tim<> iihir.o mid mnriMor of holding the elections. lie ordered the Convention to form a State, and conferred the elective franchise upon every type and shade of people who had squatted upon the public domain, to plunder its golden treasures. There were.but few inhabitants from the Southern States. They had been deterred from emigration thither by the Frcesoil counsels which prevailed in Congress. The Convention met, organized a State, with a constitution prohibiting slavery, and against the protest of the slaveholding States, California was admitted into the Union?the usurpation of the Diigadier General was ratified?and the South deprived of all participation in a scope of territory sufficient for ten States as large as Georgia. Was that just? This was one of the aggressive features of the "Compromise Measures" of 1850. There was another. It was necessary to organize Territorial Governments for Utah and New Mexico. The latter lies adjacent to Texas, a slaveholding State. Lynx-eyed Freesoilism discovered that fog and dust could be thrown over the question of boundary between Texas and New Mexico. Its fiendish myrmidons insisted that a large portion of the former properly belonged to the Lattor: and, therefore, forty thousand square miles were carved out of Texas, given to New Mexico, and converted into free soil. And, as if to add iusult.to injury, the pub' 3io treasury was taxed to the tune of $10,000,000, as a bonus to Texas to bribe her into the arrangement. Was that just? t And what were tho compensatory fea. lures of the Compromise of 1850 ? Tho South obtained the enactment of the "Fu; mtivfl Slave Law." but she has. to a irrpnt. I O - - ? / ^ " f ? *" " o" """ extent, failed to realize its peaceful and bona fide execution. This is one. The other consists in the recognition of tlio principle, that hereafter the people of tho Territories should deterxnine,tho question of slavery for themselves, independently of Congressional intervention. \ . Welli in 1&50 the Southern States were! , put to tile test ofacquiescincei vel non in those "Compromise: measures," as a final wttiemerit of the slavery agitation. Gettrgia pctedjn,Sovereign Convention, and f<*( the sake of her devotion to the Union ^-in consideration^pf-the memories pf tha paaL the fruifi^ns < of;the jireeenlj dad-the hopes of die ^tur^slie soleronix r?olvedi to ac^'qyi^O.-Caa.the non^lnyehbldin^\Stit?: " ' ' ^ ' - , - > , , ' - */.' , ' ; *> ' ' v ' K ' ' 1 ' ' 1'V'. . -?-r 'jiiiii-. ask her to make further surrender ? Can it be possible that they will so far forgot the claims of justice, ami disregard the sacred guarantees of the Constitution, as to require her and her Southern sisters either to submit to degradation, or to resort to the most appalling alternatives * Yes : Georgia acquiesced, but she did it upon terms. She put the world upon notice that she had yielded the last inch to the encroachments of Abolition fanaticism. The South was then, as now, threatened with the abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia, with the inhibition of the inter-Stale Slave trade, with the extension ot' the YVihnot Proviso over the Territories, with the repeal of the "Fugitive Slave law," and with the refusal to admit any other slaveholding State into theUnion. Still, with these threats staring her in the face, she acquiesced, but proudly defied the execution of a single one of them. She solemnly announced, '"That the State of Georgia, in the judgment of this Conven. .. .. Ml ... 1 1 . - ' ' nun, win ;ui>t ougiu loresisi, even ^as a last resort) toa di.^fuption of every lie which binds her to the Union, any action of Congress upon the subject of slavery in the Di-tiict of Columbia, or in places s,nbject to the jurisdiction of Congress, incompatible with the safety, domestic tranquility, the lights and honor of the slaveholding States; or any refusal to admit as a Slate any Territory hereafter applying, because of the existence of slavery therein; or any act prohibiting the introduction of slaves into the Territories of Utah or New Mexico; or any act repealing or materially modifying the laws in force for the reepvery of fugitive slaves." Such was the positon she took in 1850, with all the dignity that appertains to her inviolable sovereignty and her unsullied honor. It. is her position to-day, reanuounced and re-alHrmed, by the action of both political parties, in their respective platforms; and true to her fame, her interests i i :? -i.- ?I?ii I - ..1 - .i .1111.1 iivjr II NIU r?iJiill uu ]?Ul IU UIC test, painful though it be, she will maintain it "at all hazards and to the last extremity." The last Congress organized Territorial Governments fur Kansas and Nebraska. That act repealed the Missouri restriction, of which the South has complained for more than thirty years, and applied practical!}' the principle of the Compromise of 1850, that the people of the Territories should determine the question of slavery for themselves. A large majority in Kansas seem to be in favor of tolerating slavery, and it is probable that at no distant period, they will apply fur admission into the Union as a slaveholding State. This brings up the paramount question of the day, compared with which all other* si'nk into insignificance. On the one. hand, the Abolitionists and Free Soilers threaten the re11^*1 i<\ti ICfincivi ?ic o clo?Alml.lirt? C ^ - 011 llie oilier, Georgia, in the lead of her Southern confederates, who have generally endorsed her position, stands pledged, if rejected ou that account, "to resist, even (as a last resort,) to a disruption of every tic that hinds her to the Union." The question is how to secure her admission if she so apply, and at the same time preserve the integrity of the Union \ The answer is simple. The thing can be accomplished if patriotism shall rise superior to faction, and passion be silenced by the voice of truth. The late elections in the Southern States demonstrate that the great majority of their people are willing to co-operate with and stand by the sound constitutional men- of the North and West, if they, eschewing all afllliatiou with Abolitionists and Free Soilers, will reciprocate with firmness and fidelity. The Union can be preserved in no' other way. Events are precipitating the crisis. It is well that the North and South should linilorstnnd Mi>1i nnrl ln/A- llm issue full in the face. I think I can speak for Georgia. She docs not intend to submit to tho rejection of Kansas "on account of slavery therein." She loves tho Union, she loves her rights, and she earnestly desires to preserve both. But 6he is immovably resolved to maintain her rights in the Union if she can, out of tho Union if she must. She will uot act rashly or hastily. She feels and knows that the true men of the Norlli can save the Confederacy by maintaining the constitutional rights of the South, if they will come to tho rescue. To them she appeals?not to their fears by threats, nor to their sympathies by laehrymoso supplication, but to their sense of justice and patriotism, by the timely announcement of her standing ultimatum of 1850. There is hope that the appeal will not bo in vain. Georgia remembers with gratitude the forty-four Northern Demo' crata who voted for the Kansas-Nebraska bill. She i6 greatly encouraged by the recent demonstrations of popular sentiment, as exhibited by the late elections in Pennsylvania and other non-slaveholding. States; while the. resolutions adopted by the late Convention of -the National Democratic party of New York, are veil calculated to strengthen - h,9r confidence. In s word, the .beacon light of hope begini to throw*,its beams again over the political soa, whose wa^i^aeeuied to threaten wreck in a popnl.1T g?vrfnn..nt, political parties must need exist ; it is inevitable. In our?, such parties, to be efficient,; must not only be national, but to be sale ; and useful they must be sound?sound in , j their principles and sound in their conipo- j nent elements. The Whig party, as a! national organization, lias passeil away ; it j i is succeeded by the Know Nothing brother-' hood, which possesses neither nationality j nor soundness. Ilence it is impotent for i good, and, tested by its fruits, is prolific; of: evil. The Democratic party remains. Itj : is national; it is sound in political creed; | but in its composition are to be found tin- ! sound elements. There are Abolitionsits and Freosoilers. They must be exscinded. North j and South let the motto of every true Dein- j ocratic and conservative man bo, utter and: eternal non-fellowship with each and all. who will not recognize and maintain the' rights of the States?restrain the Federal i j Government within its legitimate sphere.! ! i .. 11. ? i. .i. 'i (iu*.i auiiuii; iu me v^onsiuimoii according to :i true, fair and honest interpretation. Tims purged, tin: National Democracy will ! preserve tlie Confederacy in its integiitv, for [the simple reason that it will not permit j | infringement upon the rights of I lie States j ! which compose it. It will move on with j | harmony, "like the music of tho spheres," [ | and work out the glorious mission assigned it j by Providence. .J list such a purification of i i the National party is expected and required < I hy the Democracy of Georgia?aye, hy a j large majority of the people of (leorgia. | As evidence of this, 1 extract the following , resolutions from the platform upon which wo. entered in the late State canvass: "Jlcso/rcil, by the General Assembly of the Stale >>/' Cftoryia, That opposition to j the principles of the Nebraska bill, in relation to the subject of slavery, is regarded ! !.v tin; l>fol>li' of Co rifin ! * linillUt*- u. i I i ? 1/~ " ? "o? "" j ;tli<: people of the South, and thai all per- j , sons who parlaku in such opposition are [ unlit to ho recognized as component parts uf any party or organization not hostile to the South. "That in accordance with the above resolution, while we are willing to act in party association with .'ill sound and reliable men in every section of the Union, we are not willing to affiliate with any party that shall not recognize, approve and carry out the j principles and provisions of tho Nobraslcaj Kansas act; and that the Democratic party of Georgia will cutoff all parly connection ] with every man and party at the North or I elsewhere, that does not come up fully and ! fairly to this line of action." ! The first of these resolutions was unanimously passed by both branches of our last; Legislature, and both have been affirmed by the people at the ballot box. The South, in self-preservation, must make the principle on which they ate based, a test of party affiliation. It will be welcomed by all the sound nun of the nou slave-holding States, ! ami drive tho Abolitionists ami Freesoilers { | to their dons. f.et tho Democracy of every J section endorse it, and they will attract to | their ranks ail true friends of the Constituj tion and the Union. The South will watch j with deep solicitude the reception which it ' shall meet at the hands of the Democrats of : tho North. Nor is it enough that tho principle of party affiliation, laid down by Georgia,' j should be recognized in a few conventions] ! and county meetings. It must find its way j into the approaching National Democratic! ; Convention, and, being sanctioned there, j constitute the inviolable bond of the entire: , organization, it this shall be done, the | nationality of the party will be preserved, j and the Union saved ; if not, tho former will I certainly be destroyed, and the latter more than jeopardized. If the National Democracy intend to conform in good faith to the resolution of the Baltimore platform, touching the subject, they will not hesitate, at their next Conven: lion in Cincinnati, "to come up fully and fairly to the line of action proposed." In that resolution they declare that "they will abide by and adhere to a faithful execution ! of the ucls known as the compromise mens-1 ures." One of the principles established by i those measures, as I have previously remarked, is that the people of the Territories, like those of the States, shall settle for themselves the question of slavery, and be admitted into the Union, with or without it, as they may determine. In the Kansas-Nebraska act this doctrine has received a practical application. The repeal of the Missouri prohibition opens all territory of the Union to the ingress of the slaveholders, with his property, untrammelled by Congressional intervention, and under its operation Kansas may or may uot become a slaveholding State. Hence, the National Democratic Convention of 1852 having, endorsed the prinoiple, it will be an easy and reasonable duty for the Convention of 1856 to make that endQrsement effectual by exscinding from party affiliation "every man or party at iho North or elsewhere, who. w ill "not recognize, approve and carry it out." The Democracy of Now York will not hesitate, if they are true to the third resolution of their state Convention, as amended by Mr. J. B. Hasken. True . National Democrats of every section will cheerfully and cordially co-operate upon this line of p9llicy. lt is <dq?s to the.Soutb.; It ii due to the Union.' *'I beg pai;don, g^ptUmeo, for so large a draft upch your patience;' Myv-z$?al fairtr'be' Irftyed ;itito:^r?oitw,prdwcHy. t clcie . if.' ' .. i. " :\\. % V r : - -V . }V ... i / , 4 ' ' 4 by expressing the fervent hope that tlie perils which threaten our Union may bring to the rescue the conservative patriotism ot all who love it, and save it from dissolution l?v upholding and maintaining the rights ot' the States that compose it. I have the honor to be, respectfully, your obedient servant, Ukkschei. V. Johnson. Messrs. Alexander C. Morton, L. P. Clover, 15. \Y. Clover, Wui. Sinclair, John King. Democratic Triumph in Pennsylvania. The trilimnh fif llir* 1 Vmririvitif nnrfv ill Pennsylvania, is one that should cause every lover of his country, and of" her institutions, to rejoice, even exuU. Not simply as a triumph of the party, but the principles, which they nailed to their banner, of "nonintervention with the institutions of the South ; " the endorsement of the KansasNebraska IJill; leaving the people of the Tfiiitoiies, as well as States, free to form their domestic institutions. It is the triumph of the Constitution. Most gloriously has old Pennsylvania, the "Key Stone of the l-Y-dcral Arch"' rescued it from the desecrations and insults to which the fusionists subjected it last fall. Let us hear no more of the impotence of those soiiud men at the North. <>ne of tliiJ good results of this triumph will be the return, of Senator Broadhead to tlie U. S. Senate. Another Democratic Tkiumfji.?We are pleased to announce that the Democratic party of Indiana have carried the Slate by 10 or 15,000 majority. In that State also they laid down a platform, involving the non-intervention doctrine, as embodied in the Nebraska-Kansas Bill. The Abolitionists of the North and the Know Nothings of the South may abuse tlie Constitutional parly as long as they please; but of this they may rest assured, that it has planted itself boldly upon the Constitution, and evev one North or South, who do not come up to the mark without "pretermission," will be ruled from its ranks. This rigid definition of position, we are crl.'iil fn in *lw? nr\r.?iu Va..1. !? ? viug from tin* ranks of (lie party the unsound meml of llio 'oofi" party, and hucIi Free Soil papers as the Albany Alias, whom it must be* confessed our l'residc-nt has cherished too long. An open face to face fight with Abolitionism and Freesoilism is what every Southern man should desire. Such we hope to have in the next Presidential election?could Southern men be indued I* to forget for the time, at least, their hostilities to Catholics and foreigners. Sorxo 11e.som:tjox.?The following is one of a set of Resolutions unanimously adopted at the National Democratic Conv/mtirm ?? >.! i v??" t? ? ? 11 refers, as will be seen, to tlio Missouri line, nnd is as sound, forcible and clear as any Southerner coiild wish : "Resolred, That as Congress never possessed the constitutional right to separate tlie States by a sectional line, granting to the people on one side the privilege of enacting their own laws in reference to their domestic affairs, and prohibiting the exercise of the same right to the citizens of the other section, the act of our late Congress in erasing that line and restoring to the people the powirr which justly belonged to thein, to regulate their domestic institutions in accordance with the will of the majority, was an act of justice, nnd in strict accordance with the Democratic principles upon which our Government was founded."?Fairfield Herald. Hints Intended to Promote Peace and Harmony in a Family. 1. We may be quite sure that our will is likely to be crosscd in the day, so prepare for it. 2. Everybody in thb house has an evil nature as well as ourselves, and therefore we are not to expect too much. 3. To learn the different temper of each individual.- < 4. To look upon each member of the family as one for whom Christ died. 5. When any good happens to any one to rojoicc at it. C. Wlion inclined to give an angry answer to 4itl up the heart in prayer. 7. TC from sickness, pain, or infirmity, we feel irritable, to keep a very strict watch over ourselves. 8. To observe when others arc so suffering, and drop a word of kindness and sympathy suited to them. 9. To watch for mtti.e opportunities of pleasing, afld to put little annoyances out of tho way. . 10. To take Ovcheerful view of everything ?of the weather, <fcc., and encourage hope. 11. To speak kindly to the servants, and praise them for li^je things when you can. 12. In all littloipleasures which may occur, to put 8EtF lAat -" 13. To trg^y "{/tc soft answer that turn14. \V^?KgJrhavo been pained by/jar^ unkind wonrw deed, to ask ourselveS; "HaVe I not often done the same, and been forgivert." , . < 15. In conversation not to exalfoOTRl^S^ ie, Tp borer/ gentfo witb-the romppBR tribute a good Triotire whert we cAri. , \ Mt ... \ . An ArkanBan Legislator. A member elect of the lower chamber of the Legislature uf Arkansas was persuaded by some wag of his neighborhood that if he I did not reach the State House at ten o'clock i on the day of assembling lie could not he sworn, and would lose his seat. lie immediately mounted with hunting-frock, rillc and bowie-knife, and spurred lill he got to ! the door of the capitol, where in the chamber of the lower house, on the ground floor, j walking about with their hats oil, and smo| king cigars. Those lie passed, rati upstairs j into the Senate Chamber, set his rifle against ; the wall, and balled out.? t <1- .1 I vviiiirs me mall mm swat's me , ill ?" al the saino time taking out his crej dentials. "Walk this way," said the Clerk, who , was at the moment igniting a real principc, j and lie was sworn without inquiry. ; When the toller came to count noses lie1 found that there was one Senator loo many present. The mistake was soon discovered, and the huntsman was informed that lie did not belong there. "Fool who! with your corn bread!" be roard, "you can't flunk this child, no how you can Hx it?I'm elected to this here Legislature, and. I'll go again all banks and eternal improvements, and if there's any of your oratory gentlemen wants to got skinned, ! ju.-*t say tin; word, and I'll light upon you j like a nigger on a woodcliuck. My con! slituetiLs sent mo here, and if you want to i floor this two legged animal, hop on, just ; as soon as you like, for though I'm from \ the back country, I'm a little smarter than i any other quadruped you can turn out of .1 niift uruvc. j After this admirable harangue, he put ! his bowie-knife between his teeth, and took 1 up his lifle with "Come here, old Suke, 'stand by me!" at the same time pointing ! it at the chairman, who, however, had seen j such people before. After some expo?lula-1 ! lion, the man was persuaded that he belongi ed to the lower chamber, upon which he1 1 sheathed his knife, flung his gun on his shoulder and with a profound congee, j remarked, "Gentlemen, I beg your pardon. ! But if 1 didn't think that lower room was j a gtoggery, may I be shot." j Rov. Mr. McCormick Suspended. At the late session of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of this State, the Rev. ' S. I>. McCormick, one of the ministers of that Church, was tried and suspended from ! ministerial duty, on account of the following j charyt; and specifications: i Ciiahoi:.?Unchristian conduct, j Fn:sr Specification.?For associating j himself with an association known as the i Underground Railroad, whose avowed business is to assist slaves from slave Slates to ! escape to free territory. Second Specification*.?For actually | engaging in the business of assisting slaves ; in making their escape from slave to free ; territory, which is contrary to the laws of J the State of Indiana. Several of the win esses slated that Mr. 1 McCormick had boasted to them of the nunii her of slaves he had aided to escape, giving ! the names and places in Kentucky from I which they had escaped, and one of them ! testified that lie had heard him say that he | had never denied belonging to the Underi ground Railroad, and that he had said, in i \ i _? !- i - ' wxjmu isusl, in speaKingor me relative num-| ; bor taken to Liberia by colonization, and to panada by Underground Kailrords. One of their papers states that he visited one of his ministerial brethren in Kentucky, parlook of liis hospitalities, prayed with his family, and in the meantime, arranged mntters with his servants to mnlce their escape. Vinccnnes" (Ind.) Gazette. ]>oroLAs a>ci) Tkcmbuli., the two Senators of Illinois, recently met at Salem, jn that State. The former requested tho latter to stale the issue between them, and discuss it before tho people. Trumbull made a rambling speech, shunning the issue allo! getiier. lie got a merciless skinning, of j course.?The crowd testified their gratification by the loudest applause. In reply to the gasconade of the Fusionists, Douglas proposed to Trumbull that they should both resign and leavotho Legislature, to be-elected this fall, to choose two Senators who should properly represent them. Trumbull declined that pft>position. A bird in tho : hand is worth two in the bush, he thinks, and he is not mistaken that a resignation would be the end #f his Senatorial life.' 1 The Louisville:^Democrat notions a mm nion report, which is jjIao common in this quarter, that Know Jiq^iiuga aro getting scared, many having forgotten that they belong to the order. Ldt'lnb Presidents of the lodges gather 'their clans and swear them all over again. It's very unsafe to trust the brethren out these times. Let them be sworn hard and oatefully watched. . Mirror says, that "many. citiof Newberry Disinct reposing ^cnftre fpftfidencein the integrity and intelligence i 6f Mnj. John P. Kinard, and of his dpvo; tedness to the greaS intents of the agricultural cbmmtioit^fiMW^Rfl JUirn a candidate for the Benato to w'p^^the ^vaeanoy ccca7 / - . *.r.- V. r i"' -' > ' . *. .'* /> < ; * , - i**i t *. 1-i ,,'cv. '7';. ' -S>r' >.vv r;. - Conversation.?Among all the "occomplisnnleuts" which our young ladies are expected to acquire, it is to be regretted that the art of conversation is not inoluded* No grace of person or manners can com* v< pensate for the lack of thi9. In youth, tho conversation of our women is loo apt to be trilling and insipid, and in middlo age is too often confined to complaints of health and the scandal of the day. Lively conversation upon instructing and elevating topics is but little practised, but whenever it is found it gives a charm to the society of females which nothing else can.' It triumphs over deformity and old age, and makes ugliness itself agreeable. Curran, speaking of Madame de Stael, who was by 110 means handsome, but a splendid conversationalist, said that she had "the power of talking .herself into a beauty." Ladies should think of this. Beauty lies in other (11i !iv !...?? ?? * moil Him 1t.Mi.urc3 or cosmeucs. nous i?f the Louisville Mahket.?The Louisville (Ky.) Journal states that tho following comprises the hog stock iu the " market at present: 2,855 bbls. mess pork, 28 l?bla. mess ordinary, 34,900 pieces hams, 10,700 picces shoulders, and , 100 casks sides. We hear of no movement in hogs for packing, but remark that holders are ' ** very firm in their prices, while buyers and packers are holding back, unwilling to enter the market at the prevailing figures. The "crop" bids fair to be a very superior one in quality, and it is calculated to exceed tho last iu numbers. Seven* years ago Myron II. Clark kept a one-horse hardware store. In 1849 Myron II. Clark was a deputy sheriff. In 1850 1 Myron II. Clark was one of the marshals : for taking the census of a one-horse village. In 1853 Myron II. Clark was elected Senator. Myron II. Clark is now Governor of * New York. Think of Myron Hv Clark, and never say die. The man who will bo President in 1S70 is now peddling India rubber rat-traps. Again, we repeat, never despair.?Albany Tribune. The Paris correspondent of the New York Commercial says the Independence Beige has a paragraph intended for tho United States. It says in good set terms that tho Danish Sound question is a European question?as such it will be settled, and settled beyond appeal by the States' of Europe. If the United States should seek to disregard such a settlement and should endeavor to force a distinct arrangement for itself, not only France would defend Denmark again9t such an assumption, but tho whole of Eu I rope en masse / j We like mischievous children, and for this reason: they are apt to make good men. Good boys generally die in their fifth year : not bcenuse they are good, but bccause their quiet luibits make them strangers to mud puddles and oxygen, dirt pies and out door exercise. When a friend tolls us be has a little baby who never "wants to leave his books," the knob of his front door immediately becomes an object of intense interest to us; we know, as if we were blest with fore-knowledge, that in less than a year 51 fitI'in nf oronft V.a ? x- viu^v tun uv ?iiiuniii^ (i shade across his path, that time will never eradicate. , _ _ Some Potatoes.?Capt;'Jolm Brown, of ourDistrict, has left at our office one or two singular specimens of the Sweet Potato, one of which measures three and-a-hatf feet in length and is attached >-to another meas- ' uring nearly threo feet. v r^lao^fcnblber, resembling the shape of'a serperitf^hioh,-if straightened out, would measuMMiearly threcr , and-a-half feet. Three potatoes 'making: nine feot.? Camden Journal. m , m A Mammoth Mole,?The steamer A. L. Shot well, from Louisville, brought down the largest mule ever raised in Kentucky. The . animal is seventeen and a half hands high, * and i&aged but tyo years.At the .State Agriculture Fair, -"held at Louisville last weolc, tho premium cup was awarded id the mule, it being.tl)<T largest eve* raised in Kentucky.?-Louisiana Courier. ? ^ lf ?. Fatal Affray.?A reucontre *t>ok . place, on the 16th inst., near Walterbort), Col)cton District, S. C.T in which Job Benton was instantly killed by Pinckney White, tho weapon used bein^' a gun, loaded with buck shot, > The act, it is said, 'was intentional. White has been committed to jail to wait his trial? Sufntct Watchman. ?? , Sj/ The Nfiw York Commercial Advertiser states tbrtTthe Bey. Dr. Palmer, of Columbia, has beon called to filfcthe vacancy, "occasioned bjyhe resignation of tho Rev. Dr.' Sc<5tt, of the Ftot Presbyteriah Church of ' New Orleans, at a salary of^fftf ,QQOffMir * WnEN you forth ppoti bjia^Ti^*, :./ * aider witb, yourw^ wbfli ,.ypu. h^e to,^;v. ; ^ and :;'?iWrp,. eSafrioe v*b?fcy?iirT hnvc done. 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