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p \ L DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALIUf, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. JIHS H. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] To thine ormself be true; And it must follow as the night the. day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlet. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. % S. C., WEDNESDAY MORNING JUNE 25, 1851. [JOHN F. HE LORNE, PROPRIETOR. NO. 17. THE DARLIlfGTOIWLAG, 18 PUBLISHED EJfERY WEDNESDAY MORNING, AT DABLINGTON, C. H. , 8. C., SY 30UT% F. DK LORIVIE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: In adi'Bnce, (per annum,) - • • $2 00 At the expiration of six months - 2 60 At the end of the year ----- 3 00 ADVERTISING : Advf-rtisements, inserted at 75 cents a square (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, and 37J fflB. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, inserted at $5, a year. J5F” Alibi i si ness connected with the Flag, will be transacted with the Proprie tor at his Office, one door above the Dar lington Hotel, or with the Editor at his law Office In Greenville we have a press op- side to the question ?” “ Of course posed to secession, either by this State not” “ Perhaps so—but suppose we or all the Southern States; yet its a- launch out against tho evil you com- droit managers succeed in bringing to plain of and we prove to lie in error?” its support many who profess a South- “ Then I’ll see you through the busi- ern Confederacy to be the dearest po- ness.” “ V ery well—we are permit ted, then, to make use of your name, as our authority ?” “ Oh, no, no. I POLITICAL. THERM DIVISIONS AMONG 18 province ARE It is our pi litical object they seek or desire. Hut the Patriot is a Union paper, a cham pion of federalism, and those disunion co-operationists will have to lie chary of its insidious teachings to keep their garments unspotted. In Charles ton the Southem Standard is announ ced, as seeking to obtain the union of the Southern States, for the avowed purpose of establishing a Southern Confederacy. But the Standard, how ever laudable the original purpose of its establishment, may imperceptibly glide into the same current of unionism and consolhlationism on which the Patsiot swims now solitary and alone. The Evening News is in the same position. Now, the danger in these movements is that parties, party strife and bicker ings, will be introduced among us, and don’t wish to get in the papers. You can examine the matter yourself.”— “We would if we had time, but we have not—but if you will get all the facts in an authentic form, we will ex amine them, ami if the matter calls for comment, we will give it” This, of j f course, the complainant has no time to do, and so he leaves, muttering some thing about tho timidity of the press, its indifference to public grievances, or its general corruption. “ Now we beg it to lie understood, that we do not aspire to be general re formers. We have not the time or power, if we had the inclination, to expose and denounce a tithe of the evils that exist in the world. We like would sell his cotton at less th&n fifteen cents per pound. Hobbs soon afterwards sold his for twelve, thirteen and thirteen-and-a-half cents, according to quality. The next waak it had declined to nine and ten ceWs. Hobbs and cely a d onbt he has that he should have been a ruin lad, ere his minority expied. This was the turning point. A SKETCH IN REAL LIFE. Some twenty odd years ago there dwelt in Cincinnati two little boys whose fathers’ houses adjoined each other. These two hoys were consider ed bright likely children, and so much did their dispositions harmonize, that they were almost insuperable compan- to watch closely tearful contest between those who to undertake no more than we can per 1 1 • . ■ ’ _ 1 I 1 A .1 ______ 1 * 11 V. I It/'t . . I . . --V m ». ., vts-k Mr. «« . ft K .-v AMrw A.. — originally sought the same end, will produce an estrangement and aliena tion of feeling fatal to present action, and not less fatal to future action, even when co-operation is no longer doubtful. The nucleus of a Union party once form. People or papers who are eter nally abusing everybody and every thing, become, after awhile, like the boy in the fable, who, when the wolf really came, cried in vain for help.— After all, there is more good than evil in this world, and we prefer the plea sure of exhibiting the former to nausea ting on the latter. This, however, does not relieve us of the duty of ex posing and denouncing, from good mo tives, notorious acts of malfeasance, the workings of tbe public sentiment, the influences that direct it, and to dis tinguish the genuine from the spurious. Beyond question there are strenuous efforts now, benv made in various sec tions of ’tSme to palm off on the sujifcHBcial observer, both here and abroad a counterfeit currency in this fonned within our borders, will be respect We are convinced, however, fraught with the utmost danger to the that the public sentiment of South Car- pause of the South. Around that nu- olina cannot be thwarted from its le- cleus will gather those who arc not on- gitimate results by such efforts. lj opposed to State secession, but to In newspapers North of us we read any Southern action whatever. Its wrong-doing, or corruption. We say congratulatoiw«otices of a wide-spread members will be baited and tempted from good motives; by this we mean reaction of plflijjfo sentiment pervading with Federal gold and Federal lion- without personal feelings—without vi- tlie whole State^-ftbat Time has brought f >rs, and at last it may gather strength tuperation and malice, healing on its wings, and that the gc- 1 enough to control even our State poll- j “ There is another duty, however, of nial working of reflection has pro- cy. There is iiotliing either presump- a public journal, which is nptsutficient- duced a wonderful change on the tuous or timid hi tho entertaining such ly appreciated by many persons—it is minds of the people, in relation to tho suspicions. The history of public af- of impartiality—-o! a thorough ex issue now before them. In some of lairs in other States testifies to the animation ol e\ery subject to be com- thera we read that all the resolutions, ' correctness of the position, that the mented on. Editors must look into all the public declarations, and ail the j vision of public men can he obscured, all subjects, especially those relating to expositions of sentiment heretofore and that gold and promises can revive individuals, with the temper of judges, made' have been merely the empty de- a love of the L nkm where It had be- swaying to neither side, but hearing - come nearly extinct Let South Car- and giving a fair and full show- olinians beware, lest they aid the ene- ' ' n g to both parties. We are frequent- mies of our institutions to divide a peo- , ty pestered by people who wish us to pie who, w ithout such division, must rns ^ '"to a contnwcrsy on their state- triumph at last. | ment of a case, but when a responsi- The men who advocate State action '’■% incurred they consider it quite desire to avoid the difficulties alluded proper to keep in the back ground.” A few days afterwards Jones met again. “Well frieud Jones, I see cotton has declined a little since I last saw you hut as 1 have sold, it matters not with me,” said Hobbs with a cheerful couute- : ions—they played together, they read nance. “Have you sold ^ yet ? together (for they were both fond of “No sir, I have not,’ said Jones reading) and it w as the opinion of the with a slight shade of uneasiness on his neighbors, they would make great men, countenance, ‘ there is no cause lor this such were their steadiness and atten- decline but a slight derangement in the tion to their books, and their uniform monetary affairs of our cotton buyers, good behavior. But as these two boys which will soon be righted, the last news began to grow up, the neighbors saw from Liverpool does not warrant such the difference that is manifested in a decline, ami I am still holding at/our- children’s nature simply by the example teen or fifteen cents, and precepts to bo derived from their ^ And here our neighbors parted.— parents. One of these hoys was the Cotton continued to go downward till it son of Quaker parents, who went to got to five and si*j cents, and seemed great pains to instill into their child the hkely to remain there and the last that great advantages to he derived from a was seen ofpoor Jones, he was in tow n with a collar not starched and stan ding as when he first met Hobbs, but meekly turned over his kerchief, w ith samples of under his arm, offering to sell at nine cents round. steady attention to study, and to heal thy advice. The other’s parents were indifferent people with hut little educa tion, and consequently had but little conception of its vast benefits. The one boy grew to manhood with the ad- And here let me say, neighbor Jones 1 vantages of education; the other with clauiation of a gasconading people, and that the result will demonstrate the oft-repeated predictions of the Nor thern journals—Thai} South Carolina will recede from tht position she was at least understood to occupy, on the prominent questions before the country. Is this change real or fictitious ? Is it true that the people of South Caro lina are more inclined to acquiesce in the unjust legislation of Congress now, than they were last year? Is it true that tho people, who for years past presented the most striking exam- |4e of Union against Federal wrongs ever witnessed in the country, have have come to the conclusion now, when every thing they hold sacred and dear demands that union and influence to be exercised to save them, to allow internal divisions to prostrate their en ergies, and to fender either present or future efforts in defence of their right*,, utterly futile? We cannot believe it. There is nothing in the past bistory of our people to justify the apprelieusion, and there are but few indications at the piasent time to cause any serious J alarm as to the 4 future. That there may be a difference as to the time and mode of seeking safety for the iustitu- j lions with which we are connected, no one pretends to doubt; but the desire to remain in tbe present Confederany irf so seldom and so feebly expressed, ' in a few quarters of the State, that its utterance causes not a ripule on the calm surface of a settled determina tion to diseobto the Union. All the coadjutors ofw Southem Patriot in the 1 country can bring no proof to the con trary, AiMberu, then, divisiu-is among us? We assert now that there are none of such magnitude as to endanger the great cause in which we are engaged. But tot ns beware of the future. We appeal to Carolinians who love their State, who desire that she should not falter h> the discharge of the trust comiAiB to her, to crush, and to crushjwncn they have the power, the demon of discord among them. And we must be understood on this point It is not any acts of prostription, nor attempts to ostracise those who differ from us—not tho use of offensive epi thets, nor the infliction of injuries to gpy man’s businaas or reputation on accountof tbe opinions be holds on the isaua of saoarate secession, that we enjoin. RigBur opinion this is theory way to create the divisions we 4fead and deprecate. But we do «ppeal to all who think we are wron desire to see a disseHetion o that promises nothing but a continu- auoe of these wrongs to the end, not to let pride of opinion so operate on their feelings as to drive them into a position they honestly abhor. to. Their aim is to secure the Dnioii of our people, ami for this purpose they have spared no efforts to enlight en them. The arguments for and against the course they believe right have be^igiven with no sparing hand, and the course of the journals that represent their views has almost pre- eluded the necessity of the establish ment of special organs by those who differ from them. The}’ deprecate and repudiate all vituperation, and ought not to be held responsible for the heat ed expressions of individuals, exerci sing more zeal than wisdom. Such, we todievc, is the polity of what some mnj^all the separate State action par ty, and we submit that it is (We which patriotism dictates, and which Caro linians cannot err in sustaining. ’Hie AamcuLTURi. How blest the farmer’s simple life. How pure the joy it yields! Far from the world’s tempestuous strife, Free 'mid the scented fields.—Ecerelt. HINTS TO FARMERS. “Good morning neighbor Joues, ex- j claimed Hobbs, about the commence ment of the present cotton season as he met the aforesaid on personage his way from town. “Any good news to-day ? What is cotton worth ?” lh fine news for us planters!’ au- Jones, rubbing his bands with glee, “The last advices from Europe are very flattering showing a Kr feuds of ’30 and ’32 are well rc- considerable advance in Liverpool and represents a large class, not only of the cotton growers, but of the community generally. Cotton corn, wheat or po tatoes may bears a price which will fully justify him him in selling because he is making a fair profit, and yet if there is the least prosjicct of an advance he will hold on with the hope of gain ing a little more and ofteuer than other wise loses by it. Talk to him about sjveculating in any one of these articles and he fairly hoots at the idea. Oh no cotton is too high to justify him in Inly ing though he may have an opportuni ty of getting an article as good for a cent more in the pound less than he asks for his. And yet be will risk all he makes on the prespect of an advance be it ever so litle. And what is this bnt the wildest kind of speculation ? This is in my opinion, a pernicious practice and one in which the far mer has no right to indulge. 1 do not mean to say that he should sell indiscrinatel v.at whatever price he may be offered, hut I do say that whenever the product of his farm (whether cot ton corn or potatoes) is at a high piaec u price by which he knows he can realize a fair profit he is unw arrantable in this speculative scheme of holding for a higher. It has injured as many more and I trust that the fanning com munity will look to their interests and abandon this to them tice. injurious prac YOUR SONS SHOULD LEARN A TRADE. BY CHARLES HOLDEX. but very little. The one knew and pro fited by good society. Tho other—the other being allowed to follow the im mature impulses of youth, got to wan dering about at night, and of course fell into the company of young men of the w’orst habits and character. Time passed on, and these young men had passed their legal age by half a dozen years. The son of the Quaker parents is one of tbe first editors of the 1 country. He is considered the ablest writer in the State in which lie lives-"' he has received a high literary degree Irorn one of the first Universities in this country, and is now engaged—-at the reqoest of the first Botanist of the age —to write for his new work u|K>n this science, the Botany of the West. This man is the editor of the Davenport (Iowa) Gazette. The other young man was hung last Friday, for murder. What a lesson is taught us in the history of these. The one who suffer ed the most ignominious of deaths, pos sessed as fine an intellect as the other but the great contrast in their fates solely in the manner in which they were brought up. We knew Howard Slaughter well. A brighter or more amiable boy never lived, but bad rais ing startl’d him on an evil way, and ul- cohal finished it His last w’ords on the gallows were these: “ Beware of I liquor, for it has brought me to this !” Boys, read this, and remember.—Mem phis Express, ex-' Pggs ouuon \ Jljh t *#‘l iiinnite i ftppen! nged, who jf amnion membered, and the lessons then taught should prevent a reorganization of jiar- ties, that must be even more disastrous than that of those days. Butler, Cheves, Chestnut, Preston, Hampton, and oth er prominent names, are cited to us as uposed to separate State action; but wc have yet to learn that they will be found giving distracting counsels to the State. Let those who think w itli them abstain from seeking distinction by running ahead of such leaders.— South Carolinian. ~ THE PRESS. The New Orleans Delta lias the fob lowing remarks relative to the duty of newspapers and their conductors: “ Every day, often in our editorial office, and more frequeetly when we trust ourselves on the streets, we are assaulted by some well-meaning per son with the inquiries, “ Why dont you come out against that thing, or that person ?—why don’t you look into that horrible act of malfeasance of a pub lic officer! why do you allow that judgment (in which the interrogator is no doubt a party) to pass by without a comment or censure? in fine, why dont you give your particular and special attention to my little grievance in pre ference to MRThonsand others that may be dinned in year ears ?” “These inquiries are addressed to us with all the assumption and impor tance of a regular subscriber, who pays us the very handsomp sum of ten dollars a year; or, perhaps of an ad- vertiser, in that case and the interroga- tion it even more rigorous. 44 Well, we reply, “ that seems to be a pretty hard case. But is there not another cotton is now worth in our city from eleven to thirteen-nnd-a-half cents per pound, and with an upward tendency, and 1 have not the least doubt but that it w ill get as high as fifteen or twenty cents, By the by, what do you intend doing with yours ? I see you are sen ding it in, but surely you do not intend selling with the prospect of so consider able a rise ?” “I expect to sell just ns fast as I can get it to market Twelve or thirteen cents pay very well for the making of one pound of cotton, and I am content to take that for mine. And now what do you propose to do with yours ?” “'nothing less than fifteen cents ner pound can take my cotton /” and here Jones pulled his shirt collar a leetle higher up; “I will hold till next fall first- 1 have one hundred aud fifty bales, and am willing to stake that on my judgement. Besides my Commis sion merchant tells me there is no dan ger of a destine soon. But why are you in such haste to sell ?” “Why, you see this is my view of the matter. When cotton gets to its pre- price I think there are fifty chances for a fall against one for a rise. Besides I think I can lay out money more advan tageously than by speeulating jh cotton at the present prices; for, I contend, it is nothing more than a speculation holding cotton when it is as nigh as it is now. “Well you can think and do J rou pleas ; but speculatian, 1 ike to see any man get mine than ffteen cents per pound f and Jones’'pet spurt to his horse and rode off at a long getter Ml if ashamed to be caught in compgty with a man w^o There is an important feature in the regulations of a master Mechanic which is frighful to some kind parents hearts. And that is the five to seven years ap prenticeship the hoy that learns a trade must submit to. But it is an excellent discipline. It takes the lad at a critical period of life, when perhaps he has a dis position averse to steady employment —when he is inclined lo roam at large amid the contaminating influences a- bout him— and puts him t<> a steady round of duties severe at first—but soon becoming, from habit agreeable; and when his minority expires his steady habits and industry are established and he comes forts a man the master of a trade of fixed principles and good habits—a blessing to himself and to the community. If parents would but look at it right they would declare tliat had they many sons they should have trades. Con trast the youth just alluded to with turn who having a horror of an appretice- ship is alluwed to run at large. At the most critical period of his life for for ming habits, he is forming those that are the '‘reverse of industry. He is not fitting himself to be a man, but wearing awa; idleness. The practi yet has not fortitude to avert it At twenty one years of age when the first named lad conies out a good Mechanic —it is wonderful if the other has not fas tened habits upon Mm self that will be his ruin if he not indeed mined already, more thau one excellent man, in our communily can say with thankfulness, that it turned out so tliat to Us haff snz- ed know HMs iudebtee for (he hiroit of industry and sobriety he has obtained. That when he was put to a taade he was on a pivot as it were. Had it not been for the firmness of his parents he would not have become an ap prentice. If he had not done so sear- MRS. PARTINGTON ON AN IMPORTANT POINT, AH our readers will be anxious to learn the exact opinions of the sage Mrs Partington on the subject of the “ Bloomer costume,”—the new style of dress some of the ladies at the North have recently adopted—and here they are: “ A new custom for ladies,” said Mrs. Partington, when a friend spoke to her about the proposed innovation in dress. The sound of “ costume ” came to her ear indistinctly, and she slightly misap prehended the word;“ a new custom for ladies! I should think they had I lietter reform many of their old customs before they try to get new ones. We are none of us better than they ought to be, and ”—“ Costume, ma’am. 1 said,” cried her informant, interruptipg “ they are thinking of changing mv part I her: " they are their dress.” “ Well, for my part don’t see what they want to make a public thing of it for; changing the dress used to be a private matter, but folks do alter! They are alwap a-changiug dresses now, like the caterpillar in the morning that turns into a butterfly at night, or the butterfly at night that turns to a catterpillar in the morning, I don’t way his boyhood in i know which.” “ But,” again interrup- cal parent sees this/ 1 ted her informant; “ I mean they are going to have a new dress.” “Oh, they are, they” replied the oM lady; “well, I’m sure I’m glad of it, if they can afford it; but they don’t always think enough of this; a good many eae’t afford it; they can’t! But did you hear of tho new apperil for wimmin that somebody is talking abouki” “ Why, my Mrs. A\” said he, smiling, “ that is just what I was trying to get your opinion about” “ 'Often,” returned she, “ why didn’t you sav eo in the first place f Well, I don’t know why a wo man can’t be as virtuous in a short dress as in lUong one; and it will save Mme trouble in wet weather to people who have to lift their dresses and show their ankles. It may do for young critters, as sportive ns lambs in a pasture, but only think how 1 should look in short coats and trowsers, shouldn’t l ? And oM Mrs. Jones, who weighs three hun dred pounds, wouldn’t look well in ’em neither. But, 1 say, let ’em do just what they please as long as they don’t touch my dress; I like the old way best, and that’s the long and short of it” She here cast a glance at the profile upon the wall, as if for its approval of her resolution; and an idea for a mo ment seemed to cross her mind that he, the ancient Corporal, would not know herf were he to visit sublunar scenes and find her arrayed in the new dress, and her compressed lips showed the determination of her heart to abide by the old costume, and she solemnly and slowly took an energetic pinch of snuff, as if to confirm it. M ALISTER THE MAGICIAN AND THE MARKET WOMAN. McAlister the famous magician, was passing through one of our markets the other morning, acccompanied by a friend when they suddenh paused be fore an old woman who had a few doz en eggs to sell. “Are these eggs ?” enquired Mac. “Yaw, dey ish vera fresh,” was the reply. “1 may try a few of them I suppose, to prove them if I pay for all I breftk' “Yaw said the vender of eggs and McAlister immediately proceeded to break one. “Good gracious ! f ’ he exclaimed with feigned astonishment, “What is this?” and he picked out of it a $20 gold peice. The woman started in surprise. .Me AHister broke another egg—the woman eyeing him closely—when to her increasing surprise, out dropped a $10 gold piece. The magician took up another egg, which he broke, when owt fell a $5 gold piece upon the stand. “I rather like these eggs,’ he quietly re marked breaking another, and picking up a quarter eagle peice from the ruins. By this time Dutch woman began to get excited, and taking her basket claimed; “i doeshenot like to see mine all proke up on te ground. “Oh, nonsense, my good woman what is that to you so you get your pay returned Mac. “At all events, let me have one more egg,” and so saying ho took another egg, which he broke and extracted an other gold piece. The woman now refused to sell an other egg at any price Whereujwn the magician and his companion, pay ing for the damage they had done con tinued on their walk through the mar ket. After some little time they re turned to the seen of egg exploit when to their astonishment, behold ! the Dutch woman had a crowd aronnd her, and was smashing her eggs as fast as she could but looking in vain for the gold pieces. “Why what is the matter good wo man ?” said McAllister. “Vere ish de eggs mit goit ?” shreek- ed the woman. “Why you dont know howto sort them —now let me see—I’ll take this one.— “No you shant,” exclaimed the ven der snatching the egg and breaking it herself, hut with same the mortifying re sult “I guess the good ones are all gone,” said the magician but as you havn’t many 1T1 take the lot at your regular price. With a sign the woman consented, and handed over the basket M«nlis- McAllistej at occe began to examine the eggs closely, and presently began to break them—one—two—three— four—each time producing a gold piece. The Dutch woman could stand it no longer, but seizing one side of the bas ket dashed her fist in among them to the utter demolition of the entire stock. But alas! not a single gold piece could she find. McAllister threw her one to compensate her for the disappointment and then slipped away—but not before the crowd began to get an inkling of who he was and whisper audibly the namh McAllister the Great Magician ! —St. Louis Rep. Poultry.—No poultry should be kept longer than throe years. The Po land topnot are considered the best for laying and the most hardy. They should be kept in the winter where it is warm have plenty of food and water a box of gravel and lime to wallow in, and to peck from ’ some fresh meat when they cannot get insects; the scraps tromyke tallow factories are good and you will have no lack ef fresh •gg*.