! * 7 l \ I DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. JAKES H. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] To thine ownself be true ; And it must follow as the night the day; Thou const not then be false to any man.—Hamlrt. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., THURSDAY MORNING NOVEMBER 13. 1S51. [NORWOOD t DE LOR.KE, PI BLlSUERS NO. 37. THE DABUNGTOV FLAG, IS rUBLItUCD EVERT TICRSBAT flORMNG, AT DAUINUTOH, C. H., 8. C., BY NORWOOD * DE L.ORME. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: 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 At the expiration of six months • At the end of tlie year 3 00 ADVERTISING t Advertisements, inserted at 75 cents a square (fourteen lines or less,) tor the first, aud 3^b cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, nserted at $5, a year. 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 rcputi 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 |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, influence, of wh.*,,, jnevoee, »d, ve™» (her onij teenwUhMns j VhdwUU HMtJl. 4* U>w»vtY pfaWfeortLv in its intniiTie ‘ tontaUoua, tireemoe, and fnvobms cor- Ifniintffo—orwifrirrirh' world whpro rukrfc