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r sipposk soith CMOinA determine! TO (ill (III »F THE ( SION, WHAT < WALL MR. PILMORE DO! Tiiife begins to ^r®\v im;)or- tant 'jn, the ^probabilitie» ioeroase that she will deciile upon that as the alter native between disgrace and resistance. It is our duty ns freemen to look this is sue boldly and fearlessly in the face. If the strength of this Union is to be tested, and the federal power brought to coerce a State into the quiet submission to wrong, we say the quicker the issue is made the better. The present is as auspicious an hour as any for the .South, if the time is delayed, the North con tinually And rapidly strengthening in population, will soon possess the nu merical power to restrain by form of law every elfort to resist oppression. If the issue is to be forced, it is in eve ry respect better to face it now than hereafter. In view of the issue being forced, let us ask what President Fil- more will do, Will he attempt to exer cise the military power of the govern- inant to coerce South Carolina, re There are those who have little res- IHM'.t for our consitution , and less res- j>ect for the principles of republicanism and genuine civil liberty, declare that the President would, and that it is his duty to coerce a sovereign State by military force. Wo are 01 those who ladicve the President has no such pow er, nor does the constitution anywhere give to Congress the right to clothe him with any such [mwer. Were it other wise, the President might be empower ed by a law less Congressional majority to enforce any law, no matter how op pression by military coercoin. Against a State, we care not under what pretext, the constitution furnishes no authority for. any department of this government to exercise coercive power. Insurrec tions or against a State—resistance in a State against a constitutional law may be coerced by military power. Hut a State aft >r it has in its sovereign capacity de nied the constitutionality of the exersise, ol a political power by Congress can- early settlers did, the spirit of heroism which seems to be inherent in the French characb.>rra love of personal indppendtoiee, for which no nation was over more distinguished than the Hu guenots; a spirit of libei ty and of aris tocracy, (that aristocracy which is nat ural to heroic and splendid nations)— these qualities were infused into the body of the people; and long before the American revolution, many noble examples of lofty character were ex hibited in the history of the State. It was, however, at the period of the American revolution, that the atten tion of the world was fastened particu larly upon the part she played. South Carolina was the field oiAonc of the fiercest and best fought struggles of that bloody era. We need scarcely al lude to what took place there, for the Edward NoBtR, the editor of the Abbe- 1 in the Revolution who opposed a separa- ville Banner, has soH hi- intent in the lion from the mother country; there are paper to his partner, Mr. Kerr, and re- those iiovv who are disposed to bug the MIKING THE Fl T R FLY. tired from the concern, alleging as his lea- son that the duties of an editor are in-* compatible with an enthusiastic pursuit of the legal profession of which ht^is a member. We regret so soon to plrt com pany with Mr. Noble; may peace, pros perity and happiness, however, attend him in his retirement from the editorial corps. He is to be succeeded in the edi torial department of the Banner by Mr. John V. Moore. ^ “PICTURES." We are requested by Mr. Gale to state that he wall leave Darlington in a few days; those who have not had them- a hurry. in Darlington, and given, we believe, gen eral satisfaction. , selves “ put in a frame,” had better be in events are engraven bo deeply on the Mr. G. has had great success pillars of the republic that they can 3 never be blotted out. They are fresh in the recollections of the pres- j ent generation, for they have served to } embellish the brightest pages of our history. Sumter, Marion, Moultrie,' and a host of others, are names which will never die. It is singular to see what a list of names that have become illustrious in the various departments of life, can be arrayed in the history of Soutli Caro lina. But to come to our own imme diate times; we recall with vividness, the moment our eye turns in that di- tion. Hayne, McDuffie, Calhoun, Hammond, and others, illustrious in eloquence, in legislation, and states manship. We remember Thonuisijirim- ke, Hugh S. Lagare, and others of the like stamp. And particularly in litera ry aspects, have we much cause for ad miration ; for the contrihrtions that have been made by the South Caroli- linians to the literature of this country MORE ABOUT VEGETABLES. The Rev. L. Dupre has presented us with the head of a lettuce which mea sures thirty-four inches in circumference* and thirteen in diameter. P. 8.—Will the hypercritical editor of the Southern Literary Gazette favor us with a few more Shaksperian quotations on this occasion? SOUTHERN RIGHTS CONVENTION. The fact cannot be disguised, that the meeting of the delegates of the Southern Rights Associations throughout the State, which is shortly to convene in Charles- is a subject full of interest to the people at large. The various Associations in the State have taken the necessary steps to be fully represented in the said Conven- chaius which the North is winding around their necks, but we believe that the South ern RighUi party of Darlington District a q i i ’ tion, and though the proceedings of that have exceeded that of any other, and, w jH no t possess the sanction of law, yet we are persuaded they will go far to wards determining the future course of the gitate. The object of the Convention, we had almost caid all the Southern States. The speeches of Mr. Calhoun will live as long as the English lan guage exists. They are models of power uy v.ong,ess can- fervid c l. l89 i ca l eloquence, which not, hi our opinion, be coerced either ^ ind „ ’ of the bcst ^ ! of thp submit 1 - 1 -- — •ove- int<> an ucquiesence in it, or to to the enforcement of it, by the general government within its borders. It may legitimately, and it ought to resist any 1 attempt by the general government to i enforce such law within the limits of the State. Hut it is urged that a State may not go out of the Union, and that should any make the experiment, the federal arm would be raised to slap them back. There is a singular opinion abroad n- j mong the culm thinking class on this subject Let the first federal gun be discharged at the citizens of South Car olina, if she accedes, and this Union will melt down rapidly as a pcice of but ter would hate done in the furnace in to which those holy men of old were cast. If this were not to lie so, we should he prepared to believe that the institufion of slavery instead of being permanently, enduringly fixed as pecu liarly adapted section, by climate soil and production, was merely an acci dental element to be displaced by those who happened to possess the physical power of doing it. We contend that if the federal government were permitted by the Slave States to cocree South Corolina, they would write seal and de liver a mortgage to the N negro property of the within fifty years, would! The safety of the Sou listing at every and all li ercise of military power hi; government against the legal a! reign authority of any State. It is said that Mr. Filuiore w ercise the military power of the gov ernment against S. Carolina, if slie dare secede. We do not believe it In politics we know him to be a cold sa gacious man, but he has demonstrated to the world that he is morally feeble. He siirank from before the lofty crest of abolitionism in Massachusetts, and lie trembled at the cold and slow prog ress of Robespierre in New York, W. H. Steward. Mr. Filmore will disgrace himself by seeking pretext and excus es for delay, should he be summoned to faco the storm now gathering. Mr. Filmore will bluster and fume a little but he’U do nothing. If a bold politi cal combination were to be formed, such an one us that which despoiled, Texas of HO odd thousand square miles of teritory and robbed the Federal Tfeaniry of §10,000, 000, Mr. Filmare Wthe man for auch a manoeuvre. If the abolition vote is necessary to him or his projects, he knows how to work out just such a combination. But Mr. Fil- more is not the man to face or guide a revolution ; and should it be his mis fortune to be at the head of public af fairs when the crisis comes ke will dwarf into very unall—exquisitely small pro- (A/waJ Standard. THE LITER lTURE*orI1ST1 WISHED / ME# OF 8. CAROLINA. juA .Carolina has been distm- , throughout the whole period of jts history, by some of the mwt characteristics Found- »f France, from the at followed the revoca- lict of Nantes, she has af- Urilliant examples of sue- forensic ngeu of Greece.—N. Y. old. Her- Davluyjiou flag. ——<s DARLINGTON, S. C. ^irif.^ORWOOI>, l WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL li. 18il. Unite, and you shall form one of the MOST SPLENDID EMPIRES ON WHICH THE SUN EVER SHONE, OF THE MOST HOMOGENEOUS POPULATION, ALL OF THE SAME BLOOD AND LINEAGE, A SOIL THE MOST FRUITFUL, AND A CLIMATE THE MOST LOVELV. HuT SUB MIT,—submit! The very sound curdles THE BLOOD IN MY VEINS. BUT, O! GREAT God, unite us, and a tale of submission SHALL NEVER BE TOLDl—Cheies. AGENTS FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG. S. D. Hallford, - Camden, S. C. Charles DeLokmk, Sumterville, S. C. t=r- Mr. R. W. Burgess is the travel ling agent of the Darlington 1'Uig. UOTTON. The sales of cotton in Charleston up to the 19th inst., are quoted at from 10 to 11 cents. striBng and tha fever snt d to a nation. eWM*v*of who escaped We are happy to give ‘ Xulon" a place in the picture to-day, and we hope that this is but the beginning of his con tributions; for one who wields so able and graceful a pen as he docs, ought not to deny the agricultural public the benefit of his experience and scientific knowledge. LANGDON CHEYES’ SPEECH. We send to a number of our subscri bers, copies of Hon. Langdon Cheves’ speech, delivered before the Southern Convention at Nashville, in November last We hope they will read it; we re gard it as one of the most able produc tions of the kiad we have ever read; we would be gtadyf we had copies enough of this speeeb to eupply all of our sub scribers. p ^KT We have ascertained from some of the early risers that there was considerable frost this morning (MdMnst.) in this vi cinity. THE NEwlKrkNmrTS. The contracts for carrying the mails in this section of country have just been closed. Our Southern mail from Camden is to come by Darlington C. H., daily, in two horse hacks, at the rate of four and and a half miles per hour. By this change of route and speed, our mails South will be delayed about five hours. We are also to have a daily mail from Warsaw, on the Wilmington and Raleigh railroad, in addition to our preMlt daily d from Raleigh. We clip tha above from the Cite raw Gazette, and hail it as the haiibinger of still better time* for old Darlington. We are at length to have a daily mail through our village, and we trust and confidently believe that this new evidence of our on ward progretu will aoon be succeeded by (he snortingtiBf the iron horse and the rumbling of the rail road cars. EBimlALUlAXGB. ' We team .from other sources, though we have not received the copy of tho^w- so for as we have been able to learn, is to harmonize public opinion in anticipation of the future action of the State. Wheth- er South Carolina will immediately cut herself loose from the General Govern- mrnt—give her lone star to the breeze— proclaim her divorce a tinrulo matrimonii, and rely, if need, on her own resources, the justice of her cause and the God of battles to support that determination, or whether, in deferrencc to the opinions of her sister States, she will postpone for a season the exercise of the right of Seces sion—are questions which will undoubt edly come up for consideration. That a vast majority of the people of the State are dissatisfied with the late Compromise measures, miscalled the “ happy adjust- ment,”—that they do not expect to re main permanently in the Union under existing circumstances, but that they look earnestly and hopefully to the formation of a Southern Confederacy, are facts too obvious to be controverted. But there are those who oppose imme diate State action, who think that the Southern Rights cause would lie impeded by any precipitate action of the State at present. It will be a fit time for them to speak out, and we hope they will do to or ever afterwards hold their peace. Our people are united, we believe, on the ne cessity of a Southern Confederacy; they all believe in the right of secession, and the only question on w hich they are di vided, is as to the time of its exercise. We sincerely deprecate anything like par ty issues, and we hope that nothing will ba done to alienate from our cause those who are bound together by common in terests and common feelings, and smart ing under common injuries. But if there is a respectable minority in the State who are opposed to immediate action, we ought to know it, for it would be unfortu nate for us in the event of a conflict, to find too late that our people were divided among themselves. A VOICE FROM*SaETY HILL. Society Hill, April 1,1851. Meters. Perry 4 Elford: Gentlemen, I herewith enclose you five dollars for a weekly for . I am in hopes to fie able to send you some other names for your reryraluable paper. I wish it had been sterted 12 months ago—it might have ope§e4 the eyes of our people sufficiently to have prevented the disgrace our mad politi cians have involved us in; our madness is almost ft an end, I hope, but the good and true men of our country must not relax in their efforts to place our State in the enviable position she once occupied in our glorious Union. A reaction has taken place here as well as in the rest of the State, and I hope to see it go on until not a vestige of our folly remaina. God speed you in your good work. A rtartum has taken place here. If here refers to Darlington District, we deny it, and challenge the correspondent of the Southern Patriot to produce tfte proof It is a very easy matter to deal in asser tions, and no doubt in the above instance the hope is lather to the assertion. There are men in our District opposed No sepa rate State action, but that ther^are any beyond the ficinity of Society Hill who regard resistance to Federal aggression as a disgrace, and charge those wiio are battling in the cause of State Rights with foUy>ig, we are happy to say, not the fact. In m movement of the people can entire is steadily adding to its number friends who can be relied on when the hour of trial comes. We therefore pronounce the communication from Society Hill an April huhibug. THE SOIL OF THE SOUTH. We have received the first and second numbers of this new Agricultural paper, published in Columbus, Ga. We hail it with pleasure, as an addition the the ag ricultural enterprises of the Soutii. The Editors say: “We hope to give you a medium through which you may talk, al though separated by the mild Savannah, the rushing Chattahoochee, the flowery Alabama, or the turbid Mississippi. We hope to unite the South in the great des tiny that awaits her. We hope that men of all parties and of all minds will unite with us, in bringing to light the hidden riches of our favored land.” It is pub lished at the low price of one dollar per annum, in advance. GEORGE M’DIFFIE. One of the best tributes, says the Co lumbia Telegraph, which our distinguish ed fellow-citizen has received is from the Simthtm Press—a heart offering of a Ca rolinian on the tomb of one who has done so much to illustrate Carolina. We have had it on file some-time, but find that it has been accidentally overlooked. We will therefore republish it now, as it must be read with melancholy sati.-taction: “ The Carolina papers announce the death of George m'Duffie, a name illus trious in the annals of his country and his State. Though the heavy hand of disease lias paralyzed his powers of mind and body tor years past, and ins existence haw only been a prolongation of severe suffering to himself and his friends, yet many still cherished the hope of his restoration to health and to usefulness once more. But ueh was not the ordination of Providence; he has been summoned away on the very " M " ■ eve of a struggle in which he could no 1 have participated, even had he been* spared, so shattered had his system been by the lingering disease under which lie- had wasted away. Those who once lis tened to those bursts of impassioned elo quence, which swayed listening Senates, and swayed the tides of popular passion to and fro at the bidding ot this mighty master of the spell of speech, well know how just was the reputation which shed its rays to gild even his decline. But those who never enjoyed that privilege, should collect and examine those publish ed speeches into which the soul ot a pat riot, the intellect of a sage, and the pre science of a prophet seem to have been poured. Looking back now upon the warnings then disregarded, tiie prophecies then derided, and the suggestions and the arguments then strange and startling, but now so familiar to the public mind, we, and posterity can better appreciate the soaring genius of George M'Duffie, than his nearer and more immediate cotempo- raries. But to one other of his day and genera tion, the great compeer and colleague who preceded him on the passage to eternity but one short year, was the same power given of lifliiig the veil of the future, and seeing the difficulties and dangers w hich awaited the Soutli, and the institution of slavery. Stricken down in the culmina ting point of his career, the victim of a private feud, he has not been able to guide his people on the path or through the pe rils he so clearly foresaw and pointed out, but events have already justified his sa gacity, and covered with contusion those insolent assailants of the dying lion, be fore whose roar they had so often cower ed and trembled, while in the full flush of his flowers. Almost his last public effort in the Senate of the United States, the fi nal flickering forth of th»- bright light of ins glorious and glowing intellect, was de voted to tiie advocacy of a Southern Con- fedaracy, and the picture which he drew was so striking and so vivid, that the sen sation produced by that effort was equal if not superior to any occasioned by his earlier bursts of impassioned eloquence. He lias gone—but the memory of such men cannot pass away with their mortal frames. Dust to dust must return, but the immortal part, the informing spirit, the genius, must live on forevermore. South Carolina holds his ashes—the universe alone can be the sepulchre, and ‘eternity the home of such a soul. The storm of calumny poured upon the living head for the devotion to the home and mother, howled itself to rest long since. The wail of sorrowing brethren, who ap preciated rightly ills zervices in the great cause of State rights and Southern safety, will be his requiem ; and so long as the South shall scorn submission to ffie law less edicts of an insolent majority, so long shall the name of George M'Duffie occu py a high place in her Pantheon, among Of all tiie champions of tlje Soutli. rank the Richmond, (Va.) Examiner, as the spiciest, if not the fbloat. It can throw the h infest brick bat a* the enemies of (lie Soutli, and say more in a few words, than any p»p r have the pleasure of reading. Vide the following.- Since the adjournment of Congress, the sectional question has merged into the consideration of South Carolina's move ments. This State has made ^p her miti4 to secede from tiie Union With all tiie proper forms. That sne has tiie same right to do it which she had to come into tiie Union, is a pioposition which does not admit of discussion. Tiie argument which the satellites ofthe administration can advance to the contrary, is the threat of brute force. This they are urging with loud voices and many oaths. Mr. Daniel Webster, known through life as a most notorious poltroon—the same Web ster who was forced to write himself down as a liar and coward by Randolph of Roanoake, and who has again and again exhibited in public'that wantol man liness which has made his worst enemies hang their heads, sets the key-note of the warlike talk in a letter to a Yankee ‘Union’ meeting. All the spaniels of the admin istration are in full cry in consequence. •‘Secession is war”—if South Carolina altemps to exercise her disputable right, we w ill send United States troops there to ravage her fields, burn her capitol, rape her wmmen and hang her men.”— Such is the present discourse of the “ brave” of Marshfield, the hero of the House, the pensioner ofGreat Britan, and of the equally heroic flunkeys in the Fed eral party. Their distant truculence is matter of small import to those who recollect the , behaviour of this same party in every war we have ever had with any people on the globe; who remember their peti tions for peace: and who have not for gotten Uie blue lights which they kindled literally not only on Uie shores of Rhode Island during our last w r ar with Britain; but which they burnt, in effect, on eve ry spot of the land and in every contest whether with England or Mexico or France. But w hile they are nothing in themselves, they are deeply to be regret ted by those who desire the Union's per petuity. Their exasperating effect upon the justly angered State cannot be calcu lated. If Soutli Carolina leave* the Union, that deplorable event must be attributed to the bullying of the administration even more than to the infamous outrage on the South, known as the “late happy adjustment” of the slavery disputes. Should the day ever arrive in which the Federal government in the hands of fools, tyrants and cowards, attemps to coerce a sovereign State as it now threat ens to do, no doubt w ill remain whether the Union longer exists. The day on which blood is shed in such a quarrel will range every siaveholding State on the side ot the oppossed, and bring beneath her banner every man in their lands who is aught but the tool and sycophant of despotic power. PASS IT tHUXB. The following- retort of the Southern Press is not find. SPARTANBURG AND HEB DELEGATES. The Southern Patriot ol last week puts itself to the trouble of informing its readers, on the authority of “a gentle man who knows well and intimately the feelings of the Spartanburg Delegation, that five out of six would vote against the guardians of her rights and liberties. We trust that steps may be taken spee dily to collect, and give in connected form to the public, the scattered gems of thought, and reason, and eloquence, with which he so profusely strewed his path while in the councils of his country. His commentaries on the Constitution, and expositions on the policy and purpo ses of the North, as well as the duty of the Soutli, might well acccoinpany those of John C. Calhoun—an immortal twain—if not “kindred in fate," at least “kindred in renown." agi Pi had said the five out of six would vote for secession, it would have been much neater the truth. Indeed, if there is any one eubmiesioniet among them, we have yet to know who it is; certainly, none such were elected, if we are to take that paper as an exponent ofSoutlg rn rights, and of the propor means of defending them. But lor the effect such unwarrant ed assertions may produce abroad, com ing as they do from a respectable source, we should not have noticed them. Tiie senior editor of this paper, occupying the position lie does, need not vindicate him self against an imputation of evasion and fickleness on the great question of sub mission or secession; and he feels warrant ed in say ing that the five gentlemen with whom he may be hereafter associated, in dicharging the sacred trust of devising measures for tire defence of tiie State against the insidious invasion of her peace and happiness, are at least as faithful de positories of the honor and interest of Car olina as those wiio to say the least, think it no reproach to stand forth as the apolo gists of her oppressors. The people of South Carolina, through her Federal and State Representatives, have at sundry times, ana in the most solemn forms made known and affirmed the many irv suits and injuries site lias endured from the Federal Government and the people of the North, and that all hope for the fu ture being lost, the State was determined to resist. The Greenville Patriot and its letter-writers with much assumed bold ness, contradicts the positive declarations of tlio people and the Legislature of South Carolina, as it can see no cause for so much feeling and preparation,- it being nothing more than the ranting of up start editors, cracked-brained demagogues aiiu ‘■•Miatics, and even denouncing those of her . tizens who would withdraw from this troublesome and unprofitable con nection, as traitors. We have no time to enlarge, but w ould say, we are for so- cession; and that her delegates, with an overwhelming majority of the people of Spartanburg, without redress for the past and security for the future, will go with South Carelina, when she deems it prop- er to cast off the shackles of her present bondage—she will then assert her sover eignty—she will call her sons to her side —she will demand thdfir services—then will it be known who are southern traitors, and who are Southern patriots.—Spar (on. “ The Southern Press of this city with its characteristic modesty and its accustomed want of conceited arrogun- donouuoa Uie State of V irginia for the an swerithas recently given to the invita tion some time Ace extended to her to takesdte lead in a Southern Congress. We rather think that tiie old dominion can afford to look with becoming silence engendered by becoming contempt, on any denunciations coming from such a quarter. We are sure, at least, that when her character or honor is at stake, and she entertains any doubt as to her course, she will not even in the last ex tremity look for advice and guidance to a vapid disunion print, impotently conducted by an ex-abolitionist, who now believes that it is wrong to pre vent marriages between white women and black men, and a South Carolina whig, who believes—God knows what; we certainly cannot pretend to say w hat a federal whig worshipper of Mr, Calhoun may or may not believe or dis believe.— Washington Union.” We rather think that no State, which repudiates her obligations and pledges to her sister States, can afford to look with contempt on any body, much less us. As for being her adviser, we don’t uqw aspire to that dignity—it belongs appropriately to one who backs out from his contracts, and asks extra al lowances of the majority with which he anutlgamatcd, to plunder and dis honor his native State. We suppose a whig, who admires Mr. Calhoun, is at the present, at least as consistent as the democrat who puffs Clay ^Webster, Filmore & Co*—Southern Press. AN EDITOR TURNED SHOEMAKER. The “ Yankee Blade” thus notices the cannection of one of the most en- terpr&inf citizens of Charleston with an tBufinve manufacturing establish ment in that city, and is as merry as the prospect of successful competition can rt-nder Yankee cupidity. There is, however, some philosophy displayed in the humorous method of handling the subject, which will no doubt provoke a smile from all who read, as well as him whose industry and enterprise are so favorably commented upon: “ Hon. John E. Carew, editor of the Charleston, (S. C.) Mercury, has de termined to mend the understandings oi the people ofiiis native State, and confer a lasting benefit upon them by establishing an extensive shoe manufac turing establishment in the *ity of Charleston. That looks a little like declaring independence, and is one of the most sensible movements that could be made. It is best for every State to foster the Mechanic arts, and, as far as it can lie dope w ith profit, manufacture all articles w-hich InSy are obliged to consume. Espotfally if a State is de termined to retire from the Confedera tion, it is important that its citizens should stand in their own shoes. 0^7** We have the unpleasant dntv to notice, and in no unmeasured terms do we complain of the gross and wan ton perversion of office, if our informant be correct, of the Post Master at Lynch’s Lake. We do this with the most exccr- sive reluctance, for we are personally acquainted, and heretofore have held the official here, in the highest esteem; but in this, as in all instances, when it affects public a« well as private inter ests, it is the incuml^ut duty of the press, and one which we never shrink from, to take cognisance of it. By reference to our subsciption list, we find that from sixteen subscibeiss.t tliis office, the number has dwindled down to thkee, simply because the duties of the office, have not only not been attended to, but absolutely* per verted. We are informed that with many, their letters, however important, as well as papers, are in many instau- ces purjiosely detained—and such our subscribers alledge to bffthe case with theirw We hope that the account we haWPB in a very great measure exag gerated, but if in the least, true, of which from the source we have receive*! it does not admit of doubt, that it will meet with the most peremptory cor rection. Such conduct in any Post Master is extremely reprehensible, and should not bo tolerated by any com munity. True Republican. Ihdians in North Carolina.—Hie re cent census shows that there arc 110 In dians, 357 males and 353 female*, resid ing in Haywood county, North CaaQlina, who own 420 farms, on which there are 1,440 acres improved, 12 to each farm, leaving 133 acres to each farm, or in all 15,960 acres, unimproved. Tbe--farms are valued at §72 each, making a total of §8,640. The live stock is valu obtaining tea valedictory* thgt Mr.! ttn amiuhv bo expected fthew A Juno* or Dress.—Dr. Johnson knew when a woman waa well dressed. Speaking of a lady who waseelebtatdl for dressing well, he remarked:,, The best evidence I can give you in this re spect is that one can never remember what she had on.” 153, about §50 to each farm. year 15,570 bushel*. Death or Nathaniel Heyward— We are pained to state that information reached our city on Saturday that this aged and highly respected eituen had expired suddenly st Us plantation on Combahee. Mr. Heyward was, we bcleive, the most extensive Planter in the State, and his decease will lie deep ly regretted by the whole community. —Charleston Courier. duced last year past there| est aged 1 month, (female) 140 years. uedatfd, Theypro- ls. Inrthe ItheycH oldest, Q,i 22 death, the young- ,uaca, Taxing Baciiklors.—In the Pen- sylvania House Mr. Walter has pre- iwnted a petition asking that unmarried mra may be taxet^Me dollar per head for school purpoflft, to be devoted to the education of illegitimate children. The petition was read and referred to a committee of bachelors over thirty year* of nge, w ith Mr. Fritz as sUdrma'n.