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lion expenses for the hut eleven years,
without touching cotton crop. Give us
five crops in succession of two million
of halos, we will all be out of debt—we
will contract the cotton crop—we will
have merchants and manufacturers at
our doors. I am aware that there are
Vn advance, (per annum,) • - - $2 00 thousands in our country who would
* ^ “ " give 91,000to for neg ro fellows,
W5U0 for a riding horse, and so on, but
live years would break them, and the
commission merchants, who could not
eat a ham without boiling it in a chain-
paigne wine. What! Yes, sir, this
thing has been done in New Orleans,
by a thing yclept a man, and probably
ten or fifteen years before he had not a
whole shirt on his hack. I do not know
who these were, I believe from good
authority it was done: and speak thus
from seeing how men do, who get mo
ney without labor. We must change
our policy. The Yankee nation univer
sal, are rather more cute than other peo
ple, because they have to keep their
eyes open. And thus the Yankees of
die East, North and North-west, are
much cuter than we of the .South,, they
are ever setting traps, and we, poor
gudgeons, are ever biting. Let us pro
vide at home—let us stay at home, and
let us resolve, each one, never to move
out of our own land, and thus we be
coming a part of the soil, wc will take
care of it
Yours with respect, &c.;
M. W. Phillips.
WINTER IS COMING.
Winter is coming say the papers: the
time for social fireside chat, big fires, and
roasted potatoes. Yes, many a precious
opportunity does winter afford for happy
converse and social enjoyment. Kut
these are blessings that only a part of the
merits. It matters not how little enti
tled a party may be to a monopoly in
the use of the name, or to what ba «*
uses in their hands it may lie applie* ;
it loses none of its charms it is still tl e
magic trident, by which the Neptunes
of the |>olitical ocean sway at will
turbulent waters. Our opponents have
emonies; ) nothing of such a life, of the heart works at its destined labors,
such a character, of such a man, was Here too we have the overshadowings
calculated to inspire Marta Louisa with of dark hours, and many a cold blast
love. Her heart and her imagination | chills the heart to its core. But what
expatiated in Prance, and remained lie- matters it 1 Man is born a hern, it is
yond the Khine! The splendors of only by darkness and storm that hero-
the Empire might have Consoled anoth- ism gains its greatest and best develop,
er; but Marin Louisa was better formed | ment and illustrated then it kindles the
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AORIGUllTURS.
[From the Farmer and Planter.]
SALE OF TtE NEXT CROP OF COTTON.
Messrs. Editors:—I presume I might
as well write off this for publication,
for you editors and publishers will print
just what suits you.
Yours of the 7th inst was received
on the 23d, I now reply—not that I
have anything worthy the attention of
vour readers, nor that I am in the spirit
of writing, but that it is a duty. This,
like all other matters with which I have
had any experience, is the only true
way—all men who do their duty and
the spirit of the thing will soon be act
ing; 1 make no doubt, that ere I write a
page, 1 will find it more difficult to stop
at two pages than to begin.
1 am certainly greatly pleased to sec
what you say about the planting inter
est, in that my native land. I ho(te aud
trust that the planting interest, as well
as all other interests of South Carolina,
may grow and flourish like the tree
planted by the waters, which knowetli
no drought. You say well, that we
all agree that manuring, good plowing,
and hill-side ditching, “form the basis
of good fanning,” and if planters will
look well to their interests, they will
practice these in a manner that will not
only prove to the world that they
tho^ to^wboasThe vrinter is ,! * l11 J 0 T*"’ ** f « r attachment of private black cloud into a bla/.e of glory and
, key to the hearts of men. I hey life, ami the simple (ileasures of n Ger- the storm lienrs it more rapidly to its
CAUSE AND CURE OF SMUT IN WHEAT.
A correspondent of the Genesee Far
mer writes as follows, respecting the
cause and cure of smut in wheat;—
I am an old farmer have been in the
business of cultivating wheat lor more
than thirty years and I have heretofore
raised a large quantity of smut. 1
have tried all the preventives I have
seen recommended in the Farmer with
out an entire cure hut for the last ten
years have raised no smnt. I will now
state my former practice when 1 did
raise smut aud my present practice,
do it as intelligent men should—under- j and hojie other farmers will try the ex-
standiugly—bnt that they know their periment and 1 think they will give up
own interests, and dare to pursue the the practice of steeping their seed wheat
course necessary to advance them.
How planters can “place themselves
out of the power of English buyers and
American speculators,” is a question
not easily to l>e disposed of. I have
heard a lawyer in this State, who was
getting some 38,000 per year, for act
ing as a trustee to a hank, make the
in any solution whatever; neither will
they need a sieve to separate the large
seed from the small : if it is ripe aud
sound it will not bring smut
I will now say that I formerly bar-
harvested my mheat very green or in
other words before it was fully ripe,
and made use of the same seed, and
dread. Search through the Country and
you will find many a cabin whose rough
walls and clapboard roof admit the
howling night winds that chill the fra
mes of unhappy inmates, The stonn
storm from which the wealthy are se
cure, to them brings terror, acliings
and death.
There is too another class to whom
winter brings no joy, It is the lonely,
solitary being, who, disregarding the
voice of nature, reason and religion,
has settled down in the determination
to sleep alone. Ah! you may pile on
the blankets and quilts but it won’t do.
There is not warmth enough in nl! your
icy bed. Mend your ways and get
married ; ami enjoy the winter like a
rational being.
To ail, we would say take a news
paper. You, who have not tried it eon-
not imagine how it helps out the enjoy
ment of a winter’s fireside, and the con
sciousness of having paid for it will
add to the pleasantness of your dreams
when you retire.— IVarrmton News.
I’fllRTSHIP BY ADVETISEMENT.
Some time ago a shoemaker in Har
ris, being in want a of wife, advertised
for one, and at the time and place was
appointed was met by a female. Both
were in earnest. The shoemaker,
however, unlucky seemed to be of the
same opinion that King Pedro was with
regard to his wife, Mary of Arragon,
that she was not so handsome as she
might be good, so their meeting ended
in mutual disappointment The man
advertised a second time appointed a
different place for meeting and varying
the words of the advertisement. He
met the same lady, they recognized
each other, could not choose but smile
at the recognition, anil, perhaps neither
of them could chose but sigh. The
jiersevering bachelor tried his lot a
third time, and at the third place of
have held it up to the world us a divin
ity, deserving that reverence which a
Hindoo pays to the image of his God ;
and thousands have bowed aud wor
shipped it, as though the sun was set
ting for the last time on its glorious per
fections.
It has been our first, last and only desire,
in this contest to defend Southern
honor and Southern institutions against
t he machinations of those who, we be
lieve before God, are seeking their des
truction and overthrow. We have wit
nessed the unprecedented growth of the
abolition party at the North for the last
few years—we have seen with the most
poignant regret the feelings of hostili- 1
ty to slavery nurtved in our midst by
a set of plotting und ambitous jioliti-
cians whose patriotism is hounded by
the horizon of Ihch’ selfish aspirations;
and we have exhorted the people of
Georgia to awake from their slumbers
ere the cursed chains of vassalage
bound them forever—no danger—the |
man home. destiny. Despair not then. Never
» m ,,r « ive . l T ol,t ‘ P° wer is yours
LUll.tlL lilt i bill LI.. use it. ])isup|»ointincut will ht* reali-
Men of wealth, men of learning, pour zed. Mortifying failure may attend this
instreutions upon the heads of the peo- effort and that one; hut only be honest
pie—you owe them that baptism. Look and struggle on and it will work well,
at the boy in the gutter! hatless, shoe
less, and |>art of our sovereignty.—
Should he not receive a sovereign ed
ucation t Should he not l>o prepared
for the throne our institutions have
given him f There is a gem in every
human form; let the diamond be pol
ished, and it will shine in truth aud
beauty. There is still in the most de
based “a beam still divine.” And our
motto should be—Teach ami habituate
the people to make a right use of the
faculties which God hath given them,
and then trust them fearlessly to them
selves. Give democracies education,
and freedom of action, and then “let
them alone.”
“Uneducated mind is decided vice,”
lor God made man to know. He is the
Union is perpetual though slavery be
annihilated.’—We have conscientiously
done our duty ns a sentinel on the
watch-tower of Liberty ; let those into
whose hands the destines of the State
have been confided use or abuse their
trust; tlie eye of vigilance will not be
removed.—Miucdgetille (Ga.) I nion.
A NEGLECTED WIFE.
Maria Louisa never loved Napoleon.
How could she love him! He had
grown old in camps, and amidst the
toils of ambition; she was only nineteen.
His soldier’s heart was cold and inflex
ible as the spirit of calculation w hich
accomplished his greatness. That of
the fair German princess was gentle,
matter as plain as the middle of a mill from that seed l always raised plenty
stone, every body could see through it. of smut At length my “bump ofcaus-
But unfortunately, it would not work by ality” whispered to me, “You cut
itself- Now, sirs, as to tlie very first your seed wheat too green;” and from
idea you threw out, getting information that time I have selected the part of my
as to tlie state of the crop, and acting wheat field that ripens the evenest and
thereon. Last year, 1 had statements,
of her native land. She had fallen from
the steps of an ancient throne; he had
mounted upon his by the force of arms,
, . „ 1 and by trampling hereditary rights un-
appointment met the equally perseyer- | ^ ^ ^ ^ prejud W # b WMl e d-
mg spinster. Atth.s meetn.g, neither | ^ taught h«r to consider Na
poleon ns the scourge of God, the Ati-
creatnre of instruction ; for in a right
1 education there is a divine nlcliymy
which turns all the baser parts of
man’s nature into gold. We arc told
by the ancients that as soon as tlie first
rays of the morning sun tell upon the
statues of Memuoii, it sent up music.
It is after thf first i;n> of knowledge fell
upon mag that his nature discourses
harmony—*1| before is the darkness of
barbai ism.
All can see that w ickeduess leads to
misery, yet very few find out that which
is equally certain, that ignorance leads
to miseiy, and misery to w ickedness.—
Ur. Johnson was once asked: “Who is
the most miserable man ?” and the re
ply of tlie sage \viis: “that man who
timid, and'pensive as the poetic dreams j cannot read on a rainy day.” 'J lie wri
ter was once passing through a park,
and saw nailed to one of die trees this
warning;—“All dogs found in this park
will he shot.” A friend who was with
us remarked“unless dogs can read they
could help laughing. They began to
converse in uood humor; and the eon- ^ I™ j l- j
. , b ’ la ot modern kingdoms, the oppressor
venation become so agreeable on both 1 0 -
sides, and the circumstance so remar
kable that this third interview led
marriage.—Inverness Courier.
to a
from every State, except Tennessee,
and from gentlemen in whom I could
rely. I suppose my correspondence
with planters is more extended than any
other private man South. And I be-
lieva I have as many honorable men to
correspond with, as are to be found of
the same number on the continent It
has cost me in 1850 over $1,000. I
believed we oeght not to sell, until it
was known what our crop would be.
I advised others, and acting thereon, I
hare thus lost nearly one year’s work
I blame no man. ThU ' 8 die
all such transactionD^Vas In eo and will
ever be. It is true there arc exceptions.
I have a friend in this country, Dr. W.
8. Jones, but he is wealthy—poor men
never get into such streaks of luck—
he held his crop of 1848 and 1849, and
sure enough, he has made almost 55
per cent interest.
Co-operation will do among negroes.
It wiH never do in a business where men
intend to act honestly and wisely too.
Understand me, I do not intencPsny
converse proposition shook! be drawn,
and I hope my lawyer friends will bear
with my loose impenetrable expressions.
Honest men, and righteous men do co
operate, and do it too with the most de
cided advantages. 1 am not wise, nor
do l*know as much as a great many of
my associates- Yet 1 hazard all in say
ing no iii*iMl»ii yet devised a better
scheme than the oM way, apon it I will
hasavd all; and upon it I will place my
hopes of the Independence of American
caajottoo grower. It is, take good care
of ■■Mbs, horses, cattle, hoga, sheep,
himppMIM us. land, and plant not too
much* ‘ foe certain to make an abun
dance to provide for all the above, and
sell cotton when ready* To thia latter
I would suggest an improvement, send
all theerop forward, unleaaa sale way to
keep it can he ensured, but order the
commission merchant to sell only one-
fourth per month. The plan will give
us abouttwo millions of bales we will
then realiaeat least $40 per bale, clear
olaft expense—agAbe above plan will
pay all expeisc*. / Am* prut flanfsi
let it stand in the field until it
ripe, and until the heads are
is dead
weather
beaten and I have raised no smut since
I followed the above rule.
Some seasons 1113- wheat does not
ripen even and if 1 find a green head
when I am cutting my seed wheat 1
throw it out for I am fully of the
opinion that a small unripe grain of
wheat if it vegetates at all will bring
smut Such a grain contains but a
very small particle of vitality; and solu
tions of salt, vitnol, or lime, will some
times destroy that vitality so that the
result of grain does not vegetate and here is
where farmers are misUken—they sup
pose they destroy the smut when in fact
it is the unripe sickly grain which pro
duces smut that they destroy.—
Isay again to my brother farmers, try
it and my word for it you will not be
sorry.
DECIDEDLY A GOOD ANECDOTE.
An old lady, resident of a neighlior-
ing place, kept a large family of turkeys
perhaps sixty. She like a great many
other people thought a great deal of
her turkeys, consequently valued them
very highly. Opposite her door was a
West India good’s store ; the man who
kept it one day emptied his casks of
cherries intending to replace them with
new. This old lady lieing economical
thought it a great pity to have all these
cherries wasted, and in order to have
of Germany, the murderer of princes,
the ravnger of nations, the incendiary of
capitals; in a word, the enemy against
whom her prayers had been raised to
heaven from her cradle, in tlie |Mdace of
her ancestors. She regarded herself
as a hostage conceded through fear to
the conqueror, after tlie nngratetul aud
tolerated repudiation of a w ile wdio had
been the very instrument of her for
tune. 8he felt that she had heeu sold,
not given. 8he looked u|mmi herself as
the cruel ransom of her father und her
country. She had resigned to her fate
as an immolation. The splendors of
an im|>erial throne were to her us the
flowers decking a victim to sacrifice.—
Cast alone and without a friend, into a
NEWSPAPERS.
Newspapers are things that can he
dispensed w ith—as costing money that
might lie saved. So is tlio schooling
of our children—so indeed, are nine
tenths of w hat it costs us to live. Al-
most any man might iay up money
every year if he would live on bread
ami water and clothe himself in the
chen|>est manner he could ;—bat w hat
of that! Who would live like a brute
anddielikea beggar, for the mere
pleasure of saving money, which ho
cannot carry hence with him—though
like a dead weight it may hang upon
his soul at the last moment of his mor
tal existence ! There are few such ;
five or ten in a million; and what
wretched creatures are they ? Most
men, sensible that they must die are
disposed to enjoy u litlle of tlie fruit of
their toils; and nothing is perhaps more
necessary to the enjoyment of society
or sell satisfaction in retirement, than a
w ell-informed mind. It gives a zest to
all tilings in prosperity and is the best
resource in adversity. Newspapers,
though not always condueted w itb tal
ents and respeetabillity are the best
possible channels for an acquaintance
with the afl’aira of tlie w orld, and to
implant desires in the hearts of youth
for more solid reading, as he goes on
to maturity. In truth they are the great
engine that moves the moral and politi
cal world, and are infinitely powerful
to establish the character of a people,
as w ell as to preserve their liberties
ami cannot lie so easily dispensed with
as some persons lielieve—unless indeed
we think the Double ofself government
is too great mid agree to transfer tho
power of the state to tho few that are
i ready to use it for their ow n advan
tage. But this cannot be the wlil of
tlie people of the United States yet oh-
serving however the too general rcpu<r.
nance to reading, (though it prevails
less w idi us than in any other country,)
it is the duty of those who feel tlie plea
sure aud profit of it, to smooth the way
, to it and afford every facility that liglit
and knowledge may he diffused. “An
armed people and and unarmed
magistracy,” said Dickerson, “is the
best guarantee of freedom.” And
| while the body of the people read, and
threw out more gems, sparkling and reflect—while (he press is free and libc-
hrillmnt as they came, than any otl.er ra ,| bU)l| , orU . ( l f the sword of tlie mag-
n ... ot Ins age. ills profound apothe- [itrACy j 8 |>ti i nt l e88> exc( .. >t ni it ,fj.
g.u was that ‘'Education is the cheap recU . t| to execute t |, e w jj, o( th{1 lp
dejtnce of nations. And if I might Hovv i m|H , rt , mt< tlu . 11( i8 it t ' hnt
are pretty had off here.” Now God
has not only written his laws upon the
trees, hut in the stars and to the flow
ers; his law s are above us and licucatli
ns, on onr right and on our left, and if
man is not aide to read, he is |>retty
hail off heve-r-rworse ofi' than the doR,
hut tlie dog has a muster to read for
him ; but man has no master between
him aud his God.
A maxim, of more trutli and force than
any 1 remember ever to have seen, w as
thrown off by a British statesman by a
man who was in learning varied and
philoso|>hical, and who in conversation
Mutton.—We mean to repeat at
least a thousands times, or tHI what we
say has some effect on our country
men that a pound of lean tender mut
ton can bo raised for half the cost of
tlie same quantity of fat jiork;
that it is infinitely healthier food, es
pecially in the summer season is more
agreeable to the palate when one gets
accustomed to it and that those who
eat it become more muscular, and can
do more work with greater ease to
themselves than those who eat fat
pork. We know nothing more delicate
than smoked mutton hams of the South
down breed of slieep—venison itself
is not superior. Sheep can be kept in
fine growing order where other do
mestic animals will scarcely exist, and
thousands of acres in the State under
an enlightened system of sheep hus
bandry may be made to pay a good
interest where now they are nearly dead
property in 4$ hands oftheir present
owner*.—American AgrieuUurtlist
The Grand Jury in the CireuitCourt
of Philadelphia have returned thirty
•even true biHs against the Christiana
prisoners. Each Indictment poutains
sflsrvif Counts.
them saved she would just drive over her court composed of parvenu soldiers,
turkeys and let them eat them. In the revolutionary courtiers, and bantering
course of the day the old lady thought women, whose names, manners, and
she would look after them and see they (onguage were unknown to her, her
were is no mischief. She approached y 0 uth was consumed in silent etiquette,
the yard and lo! in one corner laid her g wil ), er huslnuid’s first addresses were
turkeys in one large pile dead! Y es no j ca | e( il*ted to inspire confidence.—
they were “stone dead.” VY hat was to was something disrespectful ami
tie done; Surely the old matron could v j 0 | en j j n ),j g affection, he wounded
not lose all the feathers. She must even when he sought to pieasa. His
pick them. She called her daughters verv | ove W as rough and imperious;
and picked them intending to have terror interposed between him and the
them buried in the morning. .Morning | lt .art of his young wife, and even the
came and liehold there were her tur- ijjrfi, 0 f an ardently desired son
keys stalking, about the yard (fatherless cou |<l not unite such op)iosite natures,
enough, as may be supposed crying out Maria Louisa felt that to Napoleon she
“quit,quit;” feeling no doubt mortified
that their drunken fit had been tlie
means of losing their coats. Poor
things if thee had said “quit,” before they
had begun they would not have been
in this bad fix. We wonld advise
all young men, who are in the habit of
drinking to leave off before they get
picked ; and to those who do not let
every young lady say “quit”
THE MAGIC mU OF A NAME.
The immortal bard of Avon asks,
“what's in a name.” There is more
perhaps than was ever dreamed of in
the philosojihy, of the poet. He did not
live in times of high political excite
ment when ineM losa their reason in
search of ignesfatui—vain shadows of
the mind’s own creation, that forever
entice and still elude the grasp of the
pursuer. It has been sufficiently de
monstrated by the result of the late elec
tion that there is a potency in the name
of Union that disarms every opposing
was only a medium of posterity—not
a w ife and a mother, but merely the
root of an hereditary dynasty. The
master of the world could not boast
even the inherent virtue of love, Isitli
and constancy to the one woman; his
attachments were transient and numer
ous. He respected not tlie jealousies
natural to the bosom of a wife; and
though he did not openly proclaim his |
amours like Louis XIV., neither did be
possess that monarch’s courtesy and
refinement The most noted beauties
of his own and of foreign courts were
not to him objects of passionate love,
but of irresistible transient desire ; thus
even mingling bis contempt with his
love. Napoleon’s long and frequent ab
sences, bis severe and mUiate orders so
strictly observed by a household of
spies instead of friends, chosen rather
to control than to execute the wiH of
tlie Empress; his pettishuess of temper
put a truism by the side of this, I w ould
say, it ischeajier to educate the infant
mind than to support the aged criminal.
Yes, bestow the pence on common
schools, and save the pounds on prisons.
Man was not made to be sent to pri
son, but to lie educated ; and “tlie very
worst use you can put a man to is to
hang him.” Neither is a man a Hu
man Four Box into whose mouth we
are to drop a few cents daily. “The
ignorant child left to grow up darken
ing into deeper ignorance of manhood,
w ith all his jealousies, und its narrow
mindedness and its superstitions, aud its
enjoyments: poor amid tlie intellectual
and moral riches of the universe; blind
in this splendid temple which God has
lighted up, and famishing amid the pro
fusions of omnipotence.”
“O, woe for those who trample on the
mind.
That fearful thing! They know not w hat
they do
For what they deal with
w ill should
mind i
result from an enlightened
LAW ANECDOTE.
The follow ing is a literal extract of
a deposition in the Irish Court of Com
mon Pleas:
And this deponent furtliur saith that
011 arriving at the house of said defen
dant, situated in tho county of Galway
aforesaid for the purpose of personally
serving him with said writ, he the said
deponent knocked three several times
at the ooter commonly called the hall
door, hut could not obtain admit
tance; whereupon this deponent was
proceeding to knock the fourth time
when a man to this deponent unknown,
holding in his hand a musket or blun
derbuss loaded with balls or slugs, as
this deponent has since heard and veri'-
ly believes, ap|>cared at one of the up
per w indows of said house and preset)-
i ting raid musket or blunderbuss at this
To fey rude hands upon God’s myste- ( | e |K»nent, said “that if said deponent
ries there. did nut instantly retire he would send
' his tlfrt deponent's soul to hell,” which
the deponent verily believes he would
have done had not this deponent pre-
D1RK UIIERS.
There are hours, dark hours, that
mark the history of the hright-year. For
not a whole month in any of the mil
lions of the past, perhaps, the sun
shown brilliantly all the time. And
there have been cold and stormy days
in every year and yet the mists and
siiadows of thdtiarkest hours were dis
sipated, and flitted heedlessly away.—
The crudest of the ice fetters have
beeu broken amt dissolved and the
cipitately escaped.
If a man would not be dry, let him
drink, drink, drink. If man would be
wise he must think, think, think. If a
man w’ould be rich, he mast work, w ork,
work. And if be would be fat ho must
eat pork, pork, pork.
But ifamnn with ease would study,
he must eat, eat, cat Httle at his dinner
on his frequent abrupt returns, morose moat lurious storm loses its power to ot bin meat, meat, meat. A youth to
biiik and melanchotv after experiencing re- harm. be distinguished in his art, art, art,
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