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A WIFE'S FIRST GRIEF. BV JO»Kl>H II. «UA.\DLKH. Who that ha* sat down in measnrp- I' ss content, and enjoyed the nlcaaure* u (llch full gratification supplied, has not at times felt rising in the mind the painful injuiry, ‘How long will this last! What will occur to disturb the happiness which is now vouchsafed! 1 never had an animal to which I was particularly attached—and I never had one, from a cat to a horse, to which I was not strongly attached—tliat I did not occasionally jiause in my use or caresses of it, and ask, ‘WVat will oc cur to deprive me of it—accident, es cape, or death V In the midst of social enjoyment, when the duty of sustaining the amuse ment or the conversation has developed upon another, how often will the inju ry arise, ‘How long will this last?’ No sign of rupture is presented, no to ken of dissolution is observable, but there must be a rupture, there will be a dissolution. How will it come, and when I I confess that such anticipations are not always the evidence of a well bal anced mind: too often they come from :> morbid state of feeling, tliat frequent ly produces the very evils they suggest The anticipation of evil is not so much the result of unhappy experience, as tin* conseqnence of a want of self-sus taining power. Years ago, it was my chance to be near a young women at the moment on which she was taking leave of a lover. She stood a moment and watch ed his departure, until by turning a cor ner he was canceled from her sight. ‘ Can it last ?' said she to herself, ‘And why not! if lie leaves me now, when my station, lyid consequently my manners are less desirable than his, surely he must love me more when I have had the advantage of his associa tion, and have consequently improved by that intercoms*.’ .She passed on wards. 1 heard no other words, but her steps indicated a heart at ease, or if disturbed, it was the commotion of in expressible pleasure. ‘('an it last? and if not, when will it tail ? How will this diminution mani- lest itself?’ These were queries which often arose in my mind, as l thought of the approaching nuptials. And once, a few days alter the marriage, 1 saw ier leaning against the trunk of a tree which was then in full blossom. She was evidently connecting her own new ••state with the lovely hopefulness of t ie branches above her, and as she rais ed her eyes again, it was evident that he was thinking of the future, which have foretold—I think I only deaire to know how the loss of property was to affect the wife. Her husband was the first to tell her of the misfortune. ‘ 1 am sorry, my dear,’ said the quiet wife, ‘sorry indeed. It will compel you to do much of the work which you have hitherto hired others to perform. Do not let the loss of your property mortify you, nor suffer yourself to dwell on the error, if it was an error, of the act bv which the loss occur red.’ ‘ But you—you, my dear wife ’ ‘ It will not,’ said she, ‘essentially af fect me; it will not add to my labors or my anxiety. I must look after (ju.* household affairs, whether we have one farm or two. The wife shed no tears. She was sorry that her husband shonld loose the social distinction consequent upon some property more than others posses sed; but it was a pardonable feeling in her, tliat the loss of property placed her more upon his level, and removed something of the appearance of difler- ence between them. This, then, was not much of a grief. ‘ If lasts yet’ The sudden death of the first-bom child, a beautiful boy, was the next dioturbiiig cause. I was not in the house during the short sickness of the child, but i attended the funeral, fol lowed the body from the antique house of mourning to the church yard.— When the clods fell npon the coffin, I thought the heart of the mother would have hurst. She learned over to look down into the resting-place of her child and the arm of a friend seemed neces sary to prevent her from ‘going unto him.’ And I said, ‘It lasts no longer.’ The friend and neighbor led her hack to her husband. The gentle look of affectionate sympathy w hich he gave her as he placet! her arm within his, aud drew her towards him, that she might learn ou his manly strength, shewed me my mistake. The mother had suffered, but the af fection, nay, the happiness of the wife was complete. Could a mother be happy returning from the yet unsoddetf grave of her only child ? Death had softened her heart, and fit- tod it for the ministrations of new af fection. 'Hie father had suffered in tlie death of the hoy as well and as mneh as she, and yet, at the moment ot,deepest anguish, he hud hushed his own grief that lie might sustain her in her sorrow. The mother mourned,, hut the wife rejoiced. How beautiful and cares changed the gloom settling on his brow into smiles of satisfaction. There was, jK-rhaps, more jdeasure in j the efforts w hich she •■-'was making, to produce tlie evidence of gratification in her husband, than there was in the mere exchange of smiles of welcome PROSPECTUS OF THK DABUNGTON FLAG. ITBLISUKD AT DAK LI NOTON C. II., S. C. The Darlihgton Flag will be published at Darlington Court House, by JOHN F. and thanks. The wife grew proud of 1 DeLORMK. her intiuence to bring him back toen- The Bditorial department will be eon- joy ment, she felt a new consequence ducted by James H. Norwood. Fhe ne- when she found that she could not only j ^ ^ ,. .. , , J lieen spoken of by the citizens ot Darling- reciprocate smiles hut dispel frowns, ton Di&rct, but no on* hitherto has taken not only share in the pleasure of home, anv f or the advancement of an object hut dismiss the pains. How holy is ^ desirable. While the surrounding l)is- the offio* of a good wife, and how pure ' triets, w ith a laudable zeal for the diffusion must bo her sentiments, to derive the , of knowledge and general intelligence, highest gratification by producing the have established their own newspapers, happiness of another. ' I P arU ^ ton !° T"’ V * , . • « has been content to be tributary to them It was late in a summer afternoon m ^ , We propow . t0 u J nder take and by appointment the huaband ought t ^ e an( ] would earnestly solicit in to havo returned two or three hours 0 f this enterprise, not only the good before. Tlie noises of revelry had for wishes but the exertions of those citizens a long time disturbed the outer edge of who admit the importance of having a the village in which the dwelling was vveeklj- paper established in the District. situated—some vulgar frolic, hitherto kept in a distant part of the country, had been adjourned to that neighbor hood—hut the way of the husband on his return, did not He in that course. The wife had gone out frequently to watch for his approach, and to meet him with a smile of welcome—that smile which makes home delightful, which attracts and retains. She looked anxiously to the left, and stretched her eyes along the road in hope that some token of his approach would be presen ted; there was none. Even that the dogs had followed her out failed to give notice of his coming. She leaned over the railing with distrustless hope— he wonld come soon, and would repay her for all her anxiety by extraordinary evidences of affection. 8he summoned up for her consolation the thousand kindnesses of her husband, his constant, changeless love, his resistance of those errors that married the domestic hap piness of many families; and like a true wife, she suffered the lustre of her own purity, excellence and affection, to gild the character and conduct of her hus band. She was startled from her revelry of delight and charity, hy an unusual out break of noisy debauchery from tlie wretched drinking house below. She learned forward and stood fixed in horror at the sight. Her husband was in the midst of the riotious host, in sickening, disgusting familiarity with an abandoned one of her own sex. The Flag is intended to be a consistent and independent journal, devoted as far as practicable to the interests of Agriculture, Commerce, Science, Literature and reli gion. In jiolitics, it is unnecessary to say, tiiat our paper will be devoted to the advo cacy of tlie rights of the South, and any thing having a tendency to advance her interest, or defend her honor, wjll receive our prompt attention. In short we will endeavor to make the Flag, such a paper as the wants of the jieople of the District call for, and would also solicit tlie favor and patronage of our friends in Uie surround ing Districts. Terms, die.—The Flag will be sent to subscribers at $2,00 a year payable in ad vance, or 2,50 at the expiration of six months. JAMES H. NORWOOD, Editor. JOHN F. DeLORME, Publisher. CALL IN! CALL IN!! AND you can purchase the following articles low for cash, viz: Sugar, Coffee, Rice, Flour, Pickled Pork. Codfish, Mac kerel, Scotch Herrings, Onions, Cheese, Ix)l»sters, Sardines, Sauces, Guava Jelly, Sugar r Butter, Soda and l<emon Crackers. R. & R. M. ROLLINS. March 5 1 tf Fan* Redact'd to $0 Dollars FROM CHARLESTO\ TO NEW YORK! Thegreat Mail route from CharlesUm 8. C. LEAVING the wharf at the foot of I .au reus street, daily at 3 P. M. after the ar rival of the Southern Cars, xda WIL MINGTON and WELDON, N. C„ PE TERSBURG, RICHMOND, to WASH INGTON, BALTIMORE, PHILADEL- She stepped hack until an angle of PHIA, and NEVV-YORK. her own house concealed her from the \ is radiant with hope. For one mo- beautiffying for the moment had sorrow nent a cloud seemed to pass over her become. It seemed to me as if affec tion had never before possessed such charms; it needed ntHiction to make it ice; it was rather doubt than pain. She looked again at the tree and its muuifieeuc* of bloom; the cloud pass ed from her lace, and she came away in evident delight That was a spring o* disappointment as I remember; a lio,t destroyed the early -vegetation, ,01.1 entirely ruined the blossoms on the tree at which she had been looking. No fruit was borne. It was, I apprehend, my own infirmi ty tliat led me to tkink more of chan- apparent. as the sunlight pouring through crevices into a darkened cham ber becomes visible only by the float ing particles that reflect the ingushing rays. The affairs of the couple were not so prosperous as the virtues, the industry, the economy, and the womanly excel lence of the wife seemed to deserve, yet she never repined. I think one or ges which might come across the path j ( W0 instances of excess on the part of of the newly married person, than any the husband drew largely upon the for- thing in her condition; for though I bearauce of the wife, but as even tlie subsequently *aw where the danger 0X( . e ss was accompained with expres- lurke<C yet then it was with me only [ g p ung 0 f affection—they, though maud- pninful scone. A thousand previous matters that had scarcely excited a thought became then of importance in the explanation which was given in what she had seen. She raised her apron to her eyes, hut there were no tears; her hand dropped on the fence above her; a feeling came over her heart, such as she had not before expe rienced. She had felt as a woman regret for the loss of property—the mother had mourned the death of her child—and anxiety had liHh felt for some slight er rors in herhusband; but property could be regained by labor, or relinquished without effort. Every dream of the lin, seemed to compensate. The feel- the foreshadowing of a somewhat mor bid sensibility, contrived to anticipate enough to make tlie present gloomy with apprehensions of the future. So I watched. Blessed be the race of croak ers, whose stomachs are constantly coiijuriug up a cloud to darken their decay of means, did not disturb the hap minds, and who are too unselfish to p UK .g 8 of the wife, a happiness which The public is respcctitully informed that the steamers of this line, from Char- eston to Wilmington, are in first rate con dition, and are navigated by well known and experienced commanders, and the Railroads are in fine order, thereby secur ing both safety and despatch: A THROUGH TICKET having alrea dy been in operation will be continued on and after fhe first of October 1849, as a prriiKtiieiit aimugrnient fr-om Charleston toNew-York. Passengers availing them selves thereof, will have the option to continue without delay through the route or otherwise, to stop at any of the inter mediate points, renewing their seats on the line to suit their convenience. By this route travellers may reach New-York on the third day during buisineas hours. Baggage will be ticketed on board the Steamer to Fr*«pec(in . OF THE Palmetto-State Banner. THIS Journal, the first number of which appeared on tlie 3d November, 1846, has since its commencement,steadily advoca ted the principles then announced by it, as those wnicb should actuate its conductors, and the Proprietor refers to its columns as the best criterion of the correctness of hw assertion.' For the extensive patronage already accorded him, the Proprietor feels deeply grateful and to those new subscri bers who may be induced to favor him with their support, he can only say, that no diligence, no effort, no expense consis tent with his means, and the purpose of his Journal, will be; spared in procuring for it such (natter as will be useful and entertaining. The Palmetto-State Banner aims to be the exponent of true Democratic prin ciples—Democratic according to the strictest construction of the State-Rights school; and for these reasons it is in Fede ral polities for the Constitution of the Un ited States, and against Free-soilism, So cialism, Baniburnmg and Abolitionism; lyid as decidedly, in State Politics, against the disorganizing notions that would up root our gooiLold Institutions; and especi ally does it deprecate the destruction of our Banking system, whether of the State, or the private Institutions, as mischievous —nay, as ruinous to the industrial classis, inasmuch as the destruction of the Bank of the State would tend to put the people in the hands of the other Banks and the money-power, and on the other hand the destructjQp of private Banks would dis turb the equilibrium of that good old and long-tried system of currency that has made South Carolina the envy of the States; it advocates consequently the pre servation of all. In the Editorial Department, the sub scriber has associrted with him Mr. Alex ander Carroll, and pledges himself that no exertion shall be wanting to render this Journal interesting in every department. As an evidence of his spirit of enterprise the Proprietor intends presenting his rea ders with a greatly enlarged sheet, afford ing them fully one additional page of inter esting reading matter, thus rendering it the largest weekly paper in this State, and with but few exceptions, in the United States. Tlie Palmetto-State Banner is published at the office in Columbia, eve ry Tuesday, in time for the morning mails. Terms.—Two Dollars per annum.— One Dollar payable half year in advance. py* Post Masters obtaining three Subscribers, for a year, paying two dollars each, or six, paying one dollar each, for six montlui will be entitled to an extra copy free of chirge they acting as Agents for the paper. This offer is made with a view to enable the Publisher to furnish each Post Master with one copy of the Banner. All Letters and Communications on business connected with this Establish ment, must be addressed to the Publisher, post-paid to secure attention. I. C. MORGAN. Columbia, S. C., 1851. Headquarters. mother gave hack to her heart her be- ! ‘° a \ lik, ' w ‘ 8e , 0,1 i j ii a r \ a ai • change of care, at the intermediate points loved child, and refreshed with a spir- f rom q lena . t0 New-York. itual intercourse; and every waking Through Tickets can alone be had from thought that turned toward the dead E. WINSLOW, Agent of the Wilmington one was lustrous with the sense of and Raleigh Railroad Cftmpany, at the heavenly intercourse and consoling in office of the Company, foot of Laurens ing then was rather'slight apprehension the promise of a future union. The er- whom I’' t, aw' a jml\^ For othe r for the future than grief for tl^ present | rors of a husband, that do not imply ".formation inquire of L t DUNCAN. —sorrow and deep mortification might have been felt. But these* few instan- joinod with some unaccountable ces let any one pass without the benefit of their overshadowing forebodings. I wateded this case, for the first excla mation which I have recorded of this young woman had touched a chord of melancholy in my own disposition, and so I was anxious to see ‘how long it would last; how long the peace, joy and domestic felicity would continue. It did not seem to me tliat the distur bance could originate with her. Tlie husband was found of amuse ments ; ami lie kept and used a good guu and some well trained dogs. But though these drew fyim occasionally from his home, vet the fine desposition of the wife founa in the dumb but saga cious companions of her husband, ob jects of regard. She learned to like them, and as became their gentle nature, they loved her, joyed in her caresses, ami seemed to have a sober resolve to watch her safety, and to secure it even at the cost of their lives. I confess tliat 1 was disappointed at this, haviug anticipated that the litter of dogs would have disturbed the equanimity of the wife, and thus have provoked reprisals from the husband. It was not long before some event—I think U was not the ordinary result of Security,’ the miserable pride of trying to make one’s self considerable in jeo- pardmug the peace and comfort of a family by going ‘security for a man, in whom others could not have had con fidence, or they would not have asked se curity’—that swept from the husband a considerable portion of the* property which lutd made his condition better than the wife’s lie fore marriage. v ‘ And here,’ said I, ‘it will cease to List.’ I hope that my feelings ware of the right kind; I think now that they were only those of curiosity. 8 peojje seem to desire an evil that they seemed to me a perpetual joy. Was the woman apathetic! dishonour, nor exhibit themselves as evidences of waning affection, may be mended or endured; but when the heart is suddenly overwhelmed with the evidence of shame, insult, dishonour; March 5 At the American Hotel. tf A LIST OF POST OFFICES I.\ DARLIMTO.Y Had DISTRICT. when all tlie purity of woman’s thoughts {^vens^vonh ” ’ W ° Un< El<>n ’ is outraged with the proofs of guilt, 1 Ji ar tp V j|i P , •he no sensitiveness ! Was she made *™<1 all the years of her charity and en- during love are dishonoured hy the un erring tokens of ingratitude and infa my, and the confiding, the consoling, the truthful wife, becomes the witness of the destruc tion of her domestic peace; despair sweeps over the heart, like the blastings of the simoon, and then, all the unmentioned sufferings of the wo man, all the cherished sorrows of the daughter, all the poignant anguish of the mother are lost, in the overwhelm ing torrent of—“ The Wife's First Grief.” to go thro’ life with a gentle laugh, and drop into the grave with a smile? Her anguish at the death of her sou proved the contrary. The loss of property, to one who had been poor liefore, seemed to pro duce no grief; and let the reader re member, or, if he does not kuow the fact, let him now learn it, tliat the loss of property is more bitterly felt by those who have from poverty risen to pos session ; than it is by those who from infancy to the disaster, had always been rich. The loss of property produced no grief The death of her child led to a new affection for, and an enlarged joy in, her husband. His unfrequent but still obvious de parture from sobriety, long unattended with rudeness or neglect, did not offend the |>ride of the wife. ‘ It will Hi always last,” said I. ‘ 1 must moan as a mother,’ thought she, I must abate a portion of my social state, and 1 may, once in a long time, be mortified by some low indulgence in my hnsband. but fixed, deep perma nent grief as a wife, it is probable I am to be spared, as a comparison of my own constitution with that of my hus band shows, that in the course of na ture, I shall be snared the misery of mourning for hit death, and be saved the solitary woes of widowhood. Tlie loss of property rendered neces sary more labour on the part of the hus band, and that labour kept him more from his home than formerly; but the gentle welcome of the wife cheered the toil-worn husband, and her delicate Pleasant View, Cartersville, Merchants Bluff, Swift Creek, Effingham, Society Hill, Gum Branch. Columbia, 12th February, 1851. Clinton Brown, of Barnwell, Samuel Sparks, jr., of Darlington, W. M. Brat ton, of (’airfield, Bernard G. Rice, of Union, William Gaston Allen, of Beau fort, W. Blackburn Wilson, of York, Mi chael Whaley, of Charleston, Artemus T. Goodwyn, of Orangeburg, Samuel Als ton, of Fairfield, Carver Randall, of Chester, Sebastian Sumter, of Sumter, William Williams, of Abbeville, having been appointed Aid-de-Camps to his Ex cellency, the Governor, with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, will be obeyed and re spected accordingly. By order oftheCom- mander-in-Cliief. J. W. CANTEY. Adjutant and Inspector General March 5 1 tf Regnlatftwus Ofthe Board of Free Schools for Darlington District. For the infei.natkm of any w ho may be interested in MKowing, the regulations ofthe Board of Free Schools for Darling ton; you will please publish the following By-Laws, of the Board. “This Board shall meet quarterly on the 4tli Monday in January, April, July and October.” “The District shall be divided into as many Divisions as there are Comtniss'on- ers, and one Division 1 assigned to each Commissioner, who shall exercise a special supervision Over the Free School system in said Division, both in regar 1 to Teach ers aud Scholars.” “ All Teachers who have under their charge Free School Scholars, must make a quarterly return of the same, to the Commissioner of the Division, where he teaches, or to the Board at its quarterly meetings. The return should embrace the name of the scholar and that of the parent, the number of days such scholar lias actually been taught, and what studies he is pursuing. Aud likewise teach ers are requested to state how many scho lars not of this class, are under their charge, so that the number of scholars in the District may be known by the Board.” “Each Commissioner is authorized if he has any doubt, as to the qualification of any Teacher, who has under his charge Free School Scholars in his Division, to require such Teacher to be examined by some one competent to the task, before he agrees to pay the tuition of such.” “ Any person proposing to teach Free School Scholars, can present himself to the Board for examination at any of its meetings and if such examination is sus tained, a certificate may be given by the chairman to such applicant, which will authorize him to teach in any Division of the District.” “ All accounts must be made out by Tea chers for the actual number of days, each Free School Scholar has attended his school, and he sworn to before some Ma- gestrate or one of the Commissioners ol Free Schoold before it will be paid by the Board.” “All accounts must be presented through some Commissioner, and ordered paid by the Board, before the Treasurer is autho rized to pay the same.” “ Sixty school days shall be deemed a S uarter, and Three Dollars per quarter le price allowed for scholars, taught spell ing, reading, writing and arethmetic. For the higher branches of English, and when the rates of tuition are as high as Four Dollars per quarter, the Commissioner, if he thinks the circumstances require it, may permit scholars to be entered at that price; but in no instance to exceed tliat amount” The District is divided into Fire school Divisions, No. 1 embraces Horse Branch and Mechanicsviile Beat Companies. No. 2.—All those portions oi Black Creek and Mount Elon Beats, which lie on tlie North side of the Darlington Road leading to Skinners Bridge on Lynches Creek. No. 3.—All that portion of Black Creek and Mount Elon Beats that lie on the South side of the Darlinton Road leading to Skin ners Bridge, together w»th,Capt. H. S. Ro gers’ Company Beat,known as Beat No. 4, Lower Battalion. Division No. 4.—The Darlington Village ; Beat. Division No. 5.—Embraces the Savan nah, and Capt. Wards Beat, known as Beats No. 2 and 3, Lower Battalion. The following persons compose the Board. Division No. 1.—B. F. Williamson, “ “ 2.—T. C. Law, “ “ 3.—Nelson Stuckey, “ “ 4.—Wm. Law, “ “ 6.—Jas. McCown. B. F. WILUAMSON, Ch'man. T. C. I.AW, Clerk dr ’Jjj^easurer. A List Of Ciril Officers in Darlington District. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, E. B. Brunson. Ordinary, D. S. Law. Commissioner in Equity, T. C. Evans Sheriff, J. H. Huggins. magistrates. Upper Bat., Beat No. 1—Charles B. Fort, “ “ “ ** 3 ____ “ - • “ 3—Asa Garland. “ u u u ^—Thos. Atkinson. Lower Bat, Beat No. 1 V* to “ “ 3—J. D. Sansbury, “ “ 4—David targe. For Darlington Court House, 8. Wilds DuBoee, James H. Norwood. Commissioners to approve public Se curities, Jas. 8. McCall, Dr. John P. Zim merman, John W. lide, Wm. James, Dr. T. J. K. Dargan. Commissioner of I .orations, E. D. taw Coroner, David C. Milling. FRUIT. Apples, Oranges, Lemons, Bananas, Pine Apples, Figs, Citrons, Raisins (by the pound or half box,) and Prunes for sale by R. & R. M. ROLLINS. Southern Rights Association. At a meeting of the Southern Rights Association of Darlington District, held on the first Monday in February, the follow ing Resolution was adopted: Resolved, That as a means of diffusing, political infor mation more generally, among the people of |he District, that the Vigilant Commit tees of the respective Beat Companies of the District, be requested to exert their influence, to obtain subscribers to “The Southern Press,” and “ The Darlington Flag.” Tlie names of those composing the Vigilant Committees, are herewith subjoined. Beat No. 1.—Upper Battalion, Dr. Thos. Smith, James P. Wilson, R. G. Edwards, Darius Gandy, and J. E. Kirvin. Beat No. 2—T. C. taw, Joseph Nor wood, Blaney McNeese,Christopher Flinn, H. W. McIntosh and Asa Garland. Beat No. 3.—Roht. Rogers. P. 8. Bacot, B. F. Williamson, J. B. Nettles and Moses S. McCall Beat No. 4.—Thos. Atkinson, W. IL Thomas,C. H. Nettles, Beni. Clements and O. D. Lee. Beat No. 1—Lower Battalion, T. B. Haynsworth, James Green, G. J. W. Mc Call, J. W. P. McKagen and W. J. Floyd Beat No. JL—J. A. Pettigrew, E. 8. Burch, W. E.TJargan, James HcCown and J. M. Tmnnons. Beat No. 3.—II. M. Courtney, J. Salis bury, Jesse Keith, J. E. Byrd and. W. H. tangston. Beat No. 4.—Dewitt Fields, Nelson Stu ckey, Lewia Rollings, Jas. J. Carter and Ralph targe. THOS. C. MW, Sec’ry. NEW IMPORTATIONS. THE Attention of Planters and Country Merchants, is particularly requested to the arrangements now made at BAN CROFTS Silk House, 253 and 255, King street. Charleston, 8. for insuring a re gular and constant supply of all the varie ties of the dress season, both from the English and French markets, and which joined to a detemiinatio.. to submit every thing at the very lowest possible prices, will offer greater inducements to pur chasers than this market has before affor ded. Particular attention has been paid to our Stock of Domestic and Heavy Goods for servants wear. Hosiery of every size and variety—we confidently invite the attention of our friends, and the “public generally to an inspection, being determined to offer tlie greatest novelties, and the largest variety at the lowest pri- ces; our stock consists in part of | Rich Chene Silks, Striped, Figured and Plait tdo., Plain and Figured Black Silks, French and English tawns and Cambrics, Plain and Figured Colored and Wliite Organdies, Bareges, Silk Tissues, French Embroideries, Lace Collars, Muslin and Cambric Edgeings and Insert- ings. English T weeds. Summer Cassimeres die, Irish Linen—pure flax—an article we confidently recommend. Birds Eye and Towelling Diapers. 6-4,7-4,8-4,9-4, and 10-4 Tabling Damask, Long Cloths from 6-1-4 to 25 cts. or. vard Blue Demins—Blue Stripes, Chambrays Striped and Plain, Osnaburgs—Bro. Homespuns and Sheet ings of Southern manufacture, which, as we ff 8 °fseveral Factories, we are enabled to offer by the bale or yards, at Faetory prices—a full assortment of Glo ves, Hosiery, Haberdashers die., die. W. G. BANCROFT, I TE2r~ WhoWal <‘ 253 and 266 King st.. Charleston, S. C. M»rch 6 i Sm Wholesale Umbrella, Parasol and Walking Cane Mann* factory, 133 Meeting street, UP STAIRS.—The subscribers would inform dealers and jobbers that theyjcan be supplied with any quantity of the above goods at as low prices as they can be bought tor in any other city in the Union. We also import direct fine WATCHES, English, French, and German Fancy Goods, which we are dertennined shall be sold at as low prices as they can be bought from any other importer in New York or elsewhere. All if the above Goods will be sold on accommodating terms. ROBERT LECKIE di Co. Charleston, S. C M March 6, 1 3m * Baltimore Piano PactoryT PATENT Elastic Touch—J. J. Wise di Brother, Manufactures of Grand, Bou doir and Square Pianos, would respect fully invite the attention of Lady Pianists, who would abridge tlie toil of practice, to a simple neat, and convenient method of adjusting the same instrument to any shade of touch the Pianist may require. Touch being the great means of reaching the qualities of the insrument, it is very plain it should be according to the skill and power of the operator. Tha com mon piano be it delicate or indelicate, soft or hard touch, the same is not a like suita ble to the grave moments of the feeble pupil, and the rapid prestos of the finish ed artist. Call and see the improvement. March 6 6 3m DAGUERREAN GALLERY. THE subscriber respectfully announces to the citizens ofDarlington District, that he- has opened a Daguerrean Gallenr in the- offiee formerly occupied by Dr. J. E. Muse, where he is prepared to accommodate all persons who may desire accurate likeness es of themselves and friends. He has had nine years experience in the business and warrants perfect satisfaction. He has been especially successful, in taking the pictures of small children. He will re main in Darlington only for a short time. A. D. GALE, Artist. March 6 1 tf ANDERSON W. SEXTON, GIVES notice to his friends and the public generally, that he keepe constantly on hand, Domestic Goods of all kinds Groceries and Hardware, which he wilt sell upon accommodating terms.