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THE m MBl’GGED HUSBAND.
Hhe’f not what Fancy painted her-**
I’m sadly taken in—
If some one else had won her, I
Should not have cared a pin;
I thought that site was mild and good.
As maiden ere could be;
1 wonder how she eijjpr could
Have so much humbugged me
They cluster round and shake my hand,
Tney tell me l am bleat—
My case the* do Q9t understand,
I think I know Hlfc best;
They call her fhhreet of the frir,
They drive me mad and madder;
What do they mean! I do declare
1 only wish they had lier.
T is true, she has lovely locks,
That on her shoulders fall—
What would they say to see the box
In which she keeps them all!
Her taper fingers, it is true.
Are difficult to match—
What would they say if they but knew,
How terribly they scratch 1
MISCBUAM80US.
(From the State-Rights Republican)
LETTEB FROM AN OID LAWYER TO A
YOUNG ONE.
BY «••••.
My Dea* John: I have received
your letter infonning me that you have
passed your examination with credit,
and requesting my advice as to the best
course for you to pursue. I feel very
much flattered by your request, and
I will endeavor to answer your ques
tions satisfactorily, for I must be par-
cloned for my egotism in saying that
few of our profession have met with
greater (and I hope with more deserved)
success than myself. I am well aware
that there are many in the community
who think me an old rogue, and some
have not scrupled to call me so to my
face, but they took good care not to
make any specific charge upon which 1
could fasten, or I would have smote
them, hipand thigh, in an action for slan
der. It is (rqfp HaM old Jone (whom the
devil confound) did
that they actually believed it themselves!
If they do not believe it, they wish it
to be thought true, of course, and
that will serve your purpose just as
well. Never, never, never forget the
soap!
Another thing to be considered in the
management of a jury is your deport
ment If you have a jury composed
of men of the straight-laced order.—
I mean those who much desire to be
accounted saints in the estimation of
the public—look as demure as a blind
jackass on a cold day—as if butter
could’t be induced to melt in your
mouth—lay your hand upon your heart
and roll up the whites of your eyes
like a duck in a snow-storm—talk low,
and in your most mournful tones.—
Your argument will go down like gos
pel truth. But if a majority of the jury
arc of fat-don’-care-cuss" class then
pile on the agony ! It will make them
at least think yo«\are sincere and law
and evidence if both against yon will be
immedictely consigned to the infernal
regions. Never let the opposing coun
sel out-roar you. Spit—cough—drink
water—sling your arms like a maniac
in a hurricane—grit your teeth—make
faces—stamp-thump Hie floor—knock
the table in pieces—rave-roar—scream
shriek—yell! But remember to pile
in the bopt-soaf !!
My time and limits will not permit
me to indulge my inclination to advise
you father at presnt Accept my best
wishes for your success and believe
me.
Yours truly’ dtc.
OBEDIAH SKINNUM.
tell me that 1 sold
him in the case of that note upon which
he was sued, but I had to let that pass,
for he could sustain the charge ! But
generally speaking I have kept pretty
clear of laying myself open. I have,
however, never hesitated to follow the
principle upon which my eye long reat-
ed in the course of my reading, and
which doubtless you will recollect.
Play the gkau game always when
you know if to be a safe one !
There is another maxim, too, with
which you muqt be familiar, and which
contains the soundest advice to all who
wish to rise—" Lie low and keep
dark.”—[II. Swindleum 210.
If you always keep these green in
your memory, you cannot fail of suc
cess. It is onr business to take ad
vantage of the follies of others—if peo
ple are fools enough, like silly fish, to
measures only form part oi a
allow us to got our hooks inTO iWv4. •
jaws, it is our duty to hold them fast
With regard to location, I should
say the most ignoran^Meommunity is
the best It is true, your purse will
not be filled quite ns quickly, but if
you diplay any sort of talent, it will be
the means of creating for you a repu-
iation that will be of great value should
you wish to remove. You will princi
pally liaye to deal with assaults and
batteries, murders, petty thefts, die. d<c.
The best case I ever had on the crimi
nal side of the court, was that of a fel
low who was charged with having
stolen two dollars and a half. He was
no great shakes himself, but his rela
tives were wealthy, and they stood up
nobly on the score of blood. I man
aged to get upon the jury two chaps
had been tried and acquitted of a simi
lar offense. You may know it was a
case with a vengeance, then. I put it
to the jury all sorts of ways—asked
each to place himself in a like position,
aad say by his verdict how he would
like to be treated as my persecuted cli
cut had been. They were out on that
ease a little mfR than five minutes!
There is one thing, beloved brother,
tliat you must never forget Write it
in letters of gold upon the surface oi
your mind, that it may ever be upper
most, for it has gained more cases than
all the law from the days of Moses
down to the present—Soft-soaf the
JueyH Every man that sits before
you in the box—though yon may know
one of them tacked your pocket
nfa half dime the day before—is a gen
tleman, in the most coi '
nenae of the term. He is a paragon of
perfection—an epitome of aH the vir
tues of the human race. To Urn is
committed the life and liberty of an
American citiaen—he is the very one
who is te save Us country from utter
rain. Let vour opponent spout all
all sorts of law till he is black in the
face—CivP, Common, Cannon—let him
pile Pelion upon Ossa, and cram Coke,
CUtty, Blaekstone, and all the Reports
ii&» the juryman's ear—hot do you
hoM fast to that which is good, stick
*1 though you may
tee something lighter
little
i at
The London Times thus describes
what is to be the result of the Union to
tho South, if it goes on as it has been
doing. Whether true or false we leave
our readers to judge:
4 Slavery is but a question of time.—
It is scarcely possible to conceive that a
hundred years hence there will be one
slave in the United States, not to say
in the whole continent of America.—
The slave owners see the ramparts ris
ing, the trenches opened, the communi
cations established, and the blockade
closing round them, that is one day
to reduce them to unconditional surren
der. We doubt not for an instant that
onr cUldren’s children, will see the
chains drop in one hour from tlie limbs
of three million slaves. The fugitive
Slave bill is only a last legislative effort
against that which is more powerful
than legislatures—the progress of hu
man affairs. Every acre added to the
territory of the Union, every free
child added to its population, and! every
emigrant that lands on its shores, is an
other weight to the scale of abolition.—
Then why, except because they are
demented and doomed, do the slave
owners take no steps whatever to pre
pare for the great day of reckoning!
Why do they assume the perpetual sta
bility of an institution at variance with
the whole tenor and course of modern
r-nsww.-j—* We do not hesitate to ad-
civiI«ali3!tr M *" t ‘ s ^- : ’
vise them to set thw^ttMlWf'lim.an £
f it is harder to do so now than it was
seventy years back, instead of being
easier, as the great statesmen of that
day hoped and expected—if time has
litherto aggrevated rather than remov-
ed the enormous difficulties of the ques
tion, what will oe the case thirty years
tence, when perhaps there mnst and
will be abolition witnout either the slave
or his master being prepared for the
change! The choice lies between
gradual and sudden abolition, and it is
or the slave States themselves to choose
which of those two they will have—for
one they must!’
nothing but pure love exists in every
heart.
Heaven is « place of peace—sweet
peace and uninterrupted harmony : all
disturbing elements will be left behind.
In the cymbolical heaven of Revela
tions we read of wars but in the heaven
where saints and angels dwell and wor
ship, war can have no place. The at
mosphere is exempt from malaria: it is
parity itself all sin and iniqnuity are
denied admission into that holy place,
Heaven is a place of song high af
fections are expressed in celestial music.
O !how elevating how delightful the
melodies. Heaven is unchanging or
all change is advancement in knowl
edge in dignity in happiness.
negrTbanTing.
Talking of banks, reminds me of the
negro bank I once heard of in Virginia.
Cato an old negro noted for his cun
ning, had succeeded in making his fel
low servants in the neighborhood be
lieve that banking was a very profitable
business. So they concluded that they
would throw all their change together
and start a bank, old Cato takirij^care
to have himself constituted the bank to
whom the sixpences of all the darkies
in the neighborhood was duly paid over.
And now, said Cato, whenebah nigga
borrow sixpence out ob dis bank for
backah, he got to come back in free
weeks and pay in two sixpence, and in
dis way you see^ebery sixpence bring
nuddar sixpence, till after a while all
dese niggars be as rich as old inassa
G——y. And upon this principle
the bank went into operation, old Cato
always taking care that every darkey
should fork over according to the bank
rules. But in the course of time some
of the stockholders “smelt a rat,” and
called on Cato to withdraw their capi
tal from the bank when the following
conversation took place between Cato
and Jack;
Jack—Well, Cato, we wantto draw
our money from the bank, and quit dis
bankin business.
Cato—Did you heah de news f
Jack—No, what datCato?
Cato—Why de bank broke last night
Jack—Who care whatde bank do, I tell
you I want my shah ob de money.
Cato—Well, but I tell you dat de bank
broke.
Jack—I not talk about dat I
whah de money!
Cato—Why you cussed fool don’t you
know dat when do bank break de mon
ey all gone sartin.
Jack—Well, but whah de debbil de
money gone to!
Cato—Dat’s more than dis niggah
know. All he know bout it is dat when
white folks, bank break, de money al
ways lost, an niggah bank no better dan
white folks' bank.
Jack—Wall whenevah dis niggah gage
in bankin’ agin, he hope de debbil git
him fuss.
Cato—Berry sorry de bank, break Jack
berry sorry.
Here our informant left.
rrc s<J«Wm“ ’E* ~~
say
TAKING THB CENSUS.
A census taker going round last fall,
<«top;>ed at an elegant brick dwelling
house on Western Row—the exact lo
cation of which is no business of ours.
He was received at the door by a stiff,
well-dressed elderly lady, who could
l>e easily recognized as a widow of
some years standing. On learning the
mission of her visitor, the lady invited
him to a seat in the hall. Having ar
ranged himself into a working position,
he inquired for the number of persons
in tlie family of the lady.
“ Eight, sir,” replied the lady, “in
cluding myself.”
“Very well—your age, madam?”
“ My age, sir,” she replied, with a
piercing, dignified look; “ I conceive
it’s none of your business, what my
age might be—you are inquisitive, sir.”
“The law compels, me, madam, to
take the age of every person in the
ward—it is my duty to make the in
quiry.”
“ Well, if the law compels you to
ask, I presume it will compel me to an
swer. I am between thirty and forty.”
“ I presume that means thirty-five ?”
“ No sir, it means no such thing—I
am only thirty-three years of age."
“ Very well, madam,” putting down
the figures, “just as you say. Now
for the ages of the children, commen
cing with the youngest, if you please.”
“Josephine, my youngest, is ten
years of age.”
“ Josephine—pretty name—ten.”
“ Minerva was twelve last week.”
“ Minerva—captivating—twelve.”
“ Cleopatra Elvira has just turned
fifteen.”
“ Cleopatra Elvira—charming—fif
teen.”
“ Angelina is eighteen, sir—just eigh
teen.”
“ Angelina—favorite name—eigh
teen.”
“ My eldest and only married daugh
ter, sir, Anna Sophia, is a little over
twenty-five.”
“ Twenty-five did you day, madam ?”
“ Yes, sir. Is there anything re
markable in her being of that age.”
“ Well, no, I cant say that there is—
but is it not remarkable that you should
be her mother trhen you vere only eight
years of age ?”
About that time the census taker
was observed Baling out of the house,
closely pursued by a broomstick. It
was the last time he pressed a lady to
give her eyit age.
TYPGORAPHICAL ERRORS.
One meets at times with tho most
laughable typographical errors, which,
notwithstanding die great carefulness
on the part of the proof-reader, fail of
being corrected. ^There is a small Bi
ble, published at Concord, New Hamp
shire, in which the “ sluggard” is di
rected to go to his “ aunt,” a pattern
of industry. We recollect to have
seen some time since an error made
by some careless and truthful composi
tor, who by omitting the letter x, in the
advertisement of some
1EAVIN.
by bev de albxandeb.
Heaven is reality not Been by the
eyes of flesh but made know by revela
tion and received by faith. Heaven is
e rest from toil trouble, temptation and
atn. Snob a rest is very desirable, ifit
were only a sweet sleep but heaven is
more
It is a state of delightful activity.—
Every faculty and every affection will
find appropiate exercise ; and probably
latent power, not here will there be a-
wakened in activity—powers sailed to
the new condition in which the soul ex-
urseyouri
you to undertake i
l a case—my woriHbr i
to the Ssaf, and the victory is c
It is satonishing how easily R
down. They *k with their
slightly thrown hack, and their I
yndu nnMHlMHH
Heaven is full of light; all darkness
and doubt are abeent Knowledge will
there be dear and will posaess a trans
forming efficacy still knowledge in
heaven will be progressive; the plea
sure will partly consist in ever learning
something unknown before.
Heaven is s region of perfect love; all
the heart and mind and strength will be
exerted in love; and If the power of
loving should the progress of the im
mortal soul be increased a thousand fold,
aH this increased ability wiU be kept
constantly in full stretch by loviinese
and glory of fat object of affection
Christ is the centra of attraction ia hea
ven. From him radiate the rays of di
vine glory, which enlighten attract and
beautify aH the innumerable host ol’
worshippers. He who loves cannot be
satisfied without a return at affection,
more exalted and excellent the
of the beloved, the sweeter
9 of k» favor. Heaven’s joy
hi Laving with all the heartand
loved. As heaven is s society
the meaAers are happy not only in
but in mutual love.—
A Notion.—A Rhode Islond girl is
out in the Newport Daily News, with
a suggestion that a number of speci
mens of American female beauty be
sent to the World’s Fair. She says:
“I propose that the proper authori
ties issue a mandate to the effect that
there be collected from each State one
who is considered the fairest daughter
of that State, thereby collecting a l>evy
of fair dames, which will, in my opinion
he the most interesting and wonderful
of the American specimens, and those
which will reflect most honor upon her
people and institutions Farther that
they be suitably equipped at the ex
pense of the respective State which
they represent, and be handsomely and
appropriately maintained during their
term of absence, by said State. That
as the various crowned heads of Europe
together with the President of France
have chosen and engaged the most
commodious and elegant establishment
available for their resiliences during
their stay in London, the United States
shouid immediately dispatch a special
Envoy, to secure the most luxurious
establishment for the reception and ac
commodation of these American flow
ers.”
What an i-dear
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AWKWARD.
A fellow the other eveniag of
bashful tempo, ament, “ screw u bis
courage to the sticking point,” as Shaks
speare says, and actually dared to pop
the quqption to a young lady, who in ac
cordance to custom of course, immedi
ately fainted. Tfrliis harry and agita
tion he seized a bottle of ink mistaking
it for a bottle of cologne and dashed
it in her face and over her snow white
dress. Of course she immediately came
to” and the awkward fellow had the
felicity of being kicked out of the house
by her brother. “There’s many a slip
tw ixR the cup and lip,” said he as he
went out
Can’t Shuck Corn.—At the con
clusion of the last concert of Jenny
Lind, in St. Louis, a w orthy farmer of
Jackson county, Missouri, thus express
ed himself to an acquaintance :
“ Well, she’s an almighty screamer,
and a darned pretty gal at that She’s
the very image of Sally Jones, Parson
Jones’s daughter, who is counted the
best ginger in all Jackson. But Sully
can beat her shucking corn, I warrant
you. Did you ever see Sally shuck!”
“ No, I never did.”
“ Well, vou orter
Estray.—Came into our enclosure,
somebody’s small child, nil stuck up
with molasses candy. The owner is
requested to prove property, pay
charges and take it away.—Mihraukie
Sentinel.
An Irishman who had just arrived
from the Emerald Isle, hearing a gun
at the close of day asked what the
noise meant Being told it was tlie
‘ sun-down gun,’ he exclaimed:
4 Does the sun make such a divil of a
noise going down in this counthry ?’
A lady was asked the other day to
join a Division of the Daughters of
Temperance. She replied that it was
unnecessary, as she intended to join
one of the Sons soon.
Theodore Parker compares some
men who grow suddenly rich to cab
bages growing in violet bed ; they
smother the violets, but are, after all
nothing but cabbage heads.
A Considerate Husband.—We
once heard of a man who was reduced
to such extreme poverty, that in a fit of
desperation, he advertised in some Lon
don paper that he would hang himself
on a certain day, at some well known
place, for the benefit of bis wife and
children Admittance, one shilling.
Let the young man remember there
is nothing derogatory in any employ
ment that ministers to the well-being of
the race. It is the spirit that is carried
into an employment that elevates or de
grades it.
A lawyer not over young and hand
some, in questioning a young lady in
court, complimemted her personal beau-
in i Mu, tv. “Were I not under oath to tell
quack medicile, made it read Unis: "lo b^tT^lruthTThe -rtpiied, “L
loving their King hot
Thera will no envy nor jealousy nor
apathy every soul will be tranauamt
to every other, and all will rat that
Hit him Again.—Mr. Morse M. C.
from Louisiana, thinks newspapers have
deterioated for the last ten years and if
ligh postage will stop their circulation
t wiU be better for the public. Mr. M.
ives away down on the Bayon Teche,
where the newspapers are printed on the
skins of dead alligators, where whiskey
s two cents a quart the gospel don’t
shine but once in seven years and where
man that can read or write is sent
to Congress to the Legislature or to the
Penitentiary. We do not doubt that he
fully represents his constiuents.
03r To see half a dozen uncles two
or three brothers and a maiden aunt of
seventy—holding a consultation to de
vise ways and means to prevent
young girl marrying the young man she
loves is just about as ridiculous as to
see an intoxicated man attempting to
shoulder his own shadow.
Never be influenced by exlBmal ap
pearance* in forming your jadgement
of a person’s wealth; for many a noble
spirit is covered by the habthaents of
poverty while art unfrequantly a showy
exterior conceal* % villain.
de efficacious it must be applied inter
nally and eternally” An English pa
per says that a Russian General was
found dead with a long word sticking
in his mouth. In the description of a
battle-field between the Poles and Rus
sians, the same paper states “ that the
conflict was dreadful and repulsed with
great laughter. A gentleman is said
to have been 44 accused of having eaten
a stage driver for demanding more than
his fare.” And again, at a certain cel
ebration, “none of the poultry were
eatable except the owls.” If the fol
lowing circumstance be true, which is
gravely described in a Western paper,
navigation upon the waters must he far
more dangerous than we have imagin
ed: 44 A rat (raft) descending the river
came in contact with a steamboat, and
so serious was the injury to the boat,
that great exertions were necessary to
save it” We are not at all surprised,
nor disposed to be querulous, when we
meet with occasional blunders of this
sort; our wonder is that they are not
of far greater frequency. It is owing
only to the proof reader, so essentia] a
lersonage in a printing establishment,
whose labors, however, are so little ap
preciated, because so little known.—
Literary American.
S. D. HALLFOED,
GENERAL AGENT,
CAMDEN, W C.
March 19 3 tf
NEW IMPORTATIONS.
THE attention of Planters and Country
Merchants, is particulaljy requested to
the arrangements nowvmade at BAN
CROFTS Silk House, 953 and 955, King
street. Charleston, 8. C., for insuring a re
gular and constant supply of ah the varie
ties of the drees season, both from the
English and French markets, and which
joined to a determination 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 confidentlv
invite the attention of our friends, and the
S ublic generally to an hwjWflen, being
etermined to offer the greatest novelties,
and the largest variety at the lowest pri
ces; our stock consists in part of
Rich Cliene Silks,
Striped, Figured and Plaindo.,
Plain and Figured Black Silks,
French and English Lawns and Cambrics,
Plain and Figured Colored and White
Organdies,
Bareges, Silk Tissues,
French Embroideries, like* Collars,
Muslin and Cambric Edgeings and Inscrt-
ings.
English Tweeds, Summer Cassimeres&c.,
Irish Linen—pure flax—an article we
confidently recommend.
Birds Eye and Towelling Diapers.
fi-4,7-4,8-4,9-4, and 10-4 Tabling Damask,
IjongCioths from 6-1-4 to 25 cts. pr. yard,
Bluevemins—Blue Stripes,
Chambrays Striped and Plain,
Osnaburgs—Bro. Homespuns and Sheet
ings of Southern manufacture, which, as
we are agents of several Factories, we are
enabled to offer by the bale or yards, at
Factory prices—a full assortment of Glo
ves, Hosiery, Haberdashers die., die.
W. G. BANCROFT,
Importer Wholesale and Retail
253 and 256 King st, Charleston, 8. C.
March 5 1 3m
would return the compliment”
A letter closed with the white of an
egg cannot be opened by the steam of
lioiling water like a common wafer, as
the heat only adds to its firmness.
We hate some persons because we
do not know them—and we will not
know them because we hate them.—
Those friendships that secured to such
aversions are usually firm, for those
qualities must be sterling that could not
only gain our hearts, but conquer our |
prejudices.
Dobbs says that to start the milk
business requires less capital than most
>eople imagine. He was in it for a
rear, he says, and all the money he
spent was laid out iu the purchase of a
larrcl of chalk and a new pump han-
dle ^ ^
AH full inside! quired a looker in at
the door of a London omnibus. Can’t
say for the rest,” responded Charles
Lamb from one of the seats! but that
last pcice of oyster pie did the business
for me.
Fare Retnced o) 80 Dollar*
FROM CHARLESTON TO NEW
YORK!
The great Mail route from Charleston S. C.
LEAVING the wharf at the foot of Lau
rens street, daily at 3 P. M. after the ar
rival of the Southern Cars, via WIL
MINGTON and WEIJX)N, N. C., PE
TERSBURG. RICHMOND, to WASH
INGTON, BALTIMORE, PHILADEL
PHIA, and NEW-YORK.
The public is respectilully 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 fina ordec, thereby secur
ing both safety and despateht
A THROUGH TIGJgET having alrea
dy been in operation wfllbe continued on
and afier the first of October 1849, as a
permanent arrangement from Charleston
to New-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 cQnvtq^ice. By
this route travellers ms^ieaelfWew-York
on the third day during”huisineas hours,
ge will be ticketed on board the
mer to Wejdon, as likewise on the
change of care, at the intermediate points
ock
Through Ticket* can alone be bad from
E. WINSLOW, Agent of thelMkdngton
and RaleiK Railroad Company; at the
office of the Company, foot of laurerfB
street, to whom please apply. For other
information inquire of L. C. DUNCAN.
At the American Hotel
March 5 1 * tf
“ Mr. Snow, 1 want to ask you one
question.”
44 Propel it, den.”
44 Why am a grog shop like a coun
terfeit dollar l”
44 Well, Ginger, I gibs dat right up.”
“Doe* you gib it up, Mr. Siiowt
Kase you can’t pass it I”
44 Yah, yah, nigger! you talk so much
’bout your counterfeit dollars, just sue
ceed to deform me why a counterfeit
dollar am like an apple pie V’
Oh! drops de subject and doesn’t
know nothin’ ’bout it.”
44 Kasa H isn’t current”
“Oh, de Lord, what a nigger? Why
am yer bead like a bag of counterfeit
dollars?” ,
44 Go way from me—why am It?”
“ Kase dere’s no sense (cents) in it”
“ Well, you always was de braekest
aigger I nebber seed—you always will
hae de last word”
A aon of Erin while hunting for
rabbits came across a jackass in the
woods and shot him. ‘By my sowl and
St Patrick he exclaimed 4 T’ve kiR the
father of all the rabbit*!”
X western editor speaking of a co-
tempotary’s attack upon him says:—
“It reminds us of n little boy w'c once
saw squirting dirty water from a mud
hole at the sun.
A mong the articles announced for
sale in one of the week’s auctions we
garceive an article entitled a Mahogony
child's chair. The father of this won
derful infaat must have been of the
Wood family.
Baltimore Piano Factory.
PATENT Elastic Touch—J. J. Wise
& Brother, Manufacturers of Grand, Bou
doir and Square Pianos, would respect
fully invite the attention of Lady Pianists,
who would abridge the toil of practice, to
a simple neat, and convenient method of
adjusting the same instrument to any
shade of touch the Pianist may require.
PrtHspectn*
or THE
DARLINGTON FLAG.
PUBLISHED AT DARLINGTON C. II., S. C.
The Daelihgtok Flag will be published
at Darlington Court House, by JOHN F.
DzIORME.
Tlie Editorial department will be con
ducted by James H. Norwood. Tlie ne
cessity of such an enterprise has long
been spoken of by the citizens of Darling
ton Distirct, but no one hitherto has taken
any step for the advancement of an object
so desirable. While the surrounding Dis
tricts, with a laudable zeal for the diffusion
of knowledge and general intelligence,
have established their own newspapers,
Darlington with resources inferior to none,
has been content to be tributary to them
in this respect. We propose to under take
the work, and would earnestly solicit in
aid of this enterprise, not only the good
wishes but the exertions of those citizens
who admit the importance of haying a
weekly paper established in the District.
The Flag is intended to be a consistent and
independent journal, devoted as tar as
practicable to the interests of Agriculture,
Commerce, Science, Literature and reli
gion. In politics, it is unnecessary to say,
that our paper will be devoted to the advo
cacy of tno rights of the South, and any
thing having a tendency to advance her
interest, or defend her honor, w ill receive
our prompt attention. In short we will
endeavor to make the Flag, such s paper
as the wants of the people cf the District
call for, and would also solicit the favor and
patronage of our friends in tlie surround
ing Districts.
Terms, &c.—The Flag will be sent to
subscribers at $8,00 a year payable in ad
vance, or 9,50 at the expiration of six
months.
JAMES II. NORWOOD, Editor.
JOHN F. DzLORME, Publishes.
Bounty Land.
THE subscriber will attend to forward-
9 { to the proper Dejiartineiit the claims
_ __ persons, entitled to land under the late
the qualities of the insrument, it is vere | Act of Congress, granting Bounty £and
plain it should bo according to the skill
and power of the operator. The com
mon piano bo it delicate or indelicate, soft
or hard touch, the same is not a like suita-
bfe to tho grave moments of the feeble
pupil and the rapid prestos of the finish
ed artist. Call and sc* the improvement.
March 5 5 3m
to certain officeraand soldiers, who havo
been engaged in the military service of the
United States; all persons who served hi
the wsr of I8!9, or in any of the India*
ware since 1790. are entitled to Bounty
l<nnd.
J. 11. NORWOOD.
March 5 i tf