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r DEVOpP TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. JA1BS I. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] To thine otmself he true; And it miutfolloic as the night the dap; Thou canst not then be false to any man.—-Hamlet. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., THURSDAY MORNING DECEMBER 4, 1851. [NORWOOD i DE LORNE, PUBLISHERS NO. 40. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, I* PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IT DARLINGTON, C. II., «. C., BY NORWOOD * DE LOR.NE. TEAMS OF SUBSCRIPTION tn advance, (per annum,) • • - #3 00 At the expiration of six months - 2 60 At the end of the year ..... 3 00 ADVERTISING : Advertisements, inserted at75 cents a sqnare (fourteen lines or less,) for the first, aud 37$ cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, notexcAding ten lines, nserted at $5, a year. were to be sought through constitution* al means, and, if concluded, would form a part of the Constitution itself; ! if denied, would furnish proof of the uncompromising spirit of the North, as well as the ulterior ends it aimed to accomplish by agitation. This agita tion, in the form of ledislative resolu tions and enactments for the pur|M>se of evading obligations to the South, in the usurpation of the federal territories, presumed that every provident fanner has already got his turnips and ruta bagas in; if not, lose no time in plant ing turnips—they will make fine greens in the spring, and jHissibly may bottom. Remember that it is not only your white family that crave something green in the winter, hut the blacks, the horses, the mules, the cattle, the hogs, the sheep—in short, all the bipeds and quadrupeds about the plantation—and he is the best farmer and the irest man Unit gives them ail a supply. P. makes a« excellent pudding with butter sugar and wine for e. POMTICAIt. (Prom the Mobile Herald and Tribune.) SOUTH CAROLINA ELECTION, &C. The election in South Carolina set tles the question of the separate se cession of that State. The result is not a matter of surprise. Some of Uie prominent leaders of the State occu pied positions adverse to the measure, and, in a tacit disapprobation of it, were aided by the larger portion of the Southern Rights party in the Southern States. This opposition and disappro bation could not have failed to impress upon South Carolina the duty of pro crastination. We have no doubt that the decision of its people is proper, and will redound to the advantage of themselves as well as the oilier slave States. The question now is, what is the policy of this section upon Uie ques tion ? It has been decided that a ma- jority of its people is opposed to any resistance to Northern aggression by , secession, or a disselitUon of the Un- ion. Thousands and tens of thousands of our citizens, however, think that { I in the continued defamation of our , character and institutions in Congress and elsewhere, in the denial of our claims to the national protection, is the crime of the North, and constitutes a great, unnecessary and intolerable nui- ! sauce Burke, ‘ in considering the ounre8 of ^ and gtir in ' g r&dua || v “mischief of a nuisance, says that u o ° hi l., „ *. A nick Tka Rusk—good hot or cold —Beat seven eggs and mix with a half pint of new milk, a quarter jiound mel ted butter, a quarter pint ofyeast, three nuisance, say tiie sufiering community “ is bound not to judge litigiously; but it is in its competence to judge. Wliat^u civil society is a ground of action, in politic society is a ground of war. But the exercise of that competent jurisdiction is a matter of moral prudence. At suits in civil society, so war in the po litical, must ever be a matter of great deliberation. It is not this or that par- ficular proceeding, picked out here and there, ns a subject of quarrel, that will do. There must lie an aggregate of mischiefs; there must be traces of de sign ; there must be indications of ma lice; there must be tokens of ambition; there must be force in the body where they exist; there must lie energy in the mind. When all these circumstances combine, or the important parts of them, the duty of the vicinage call for the exercise of its competence, and rules of prudence do not restrain, but demand it.” We believe that a majority of the Southern people have found in the an ti-slavery action of the free States, evi dences of deliberation, design, malice as much flour ns will make a very light paste ; set before the fire to raise half an hour, and then add flour, and flat loves or cakes; bake moderately, cool, cut in slices, and brown them in a hot oven, and eat them hot or cold. Some use caraway to flavor with. To make Whitewash that will not bub off.—Mix up half a pail full of lime and water, ready to put on the To Clban Marble Mantles.—Dip a w oolrn clc ih in a weak solution of CRi bonat j of soda. MISCE iLANROUS. Win I ECITORS SHOULD BE. The press has now so great and ex tensive ifn influence on (Hihlic opinion —it is so mixed up with all the relations of life, that it is most essential that its conductors should he gentlemen in the true sense of the word. They should be equally above corruption and intimidation : incapable of being war ped by personal considerations from the broad ground of truth and honor, and superior to all attemps at misrep resenting, or mystifying public events,. Advocating the cause they espouse from conviction fearlessly and inde|»endeiitly they should do it witli courtesy and fnrberance where these qualities can tie extended ; ns they generally may lie to their opponents : and no consid eration should ever induce them to vio- wall ; then taken quarter ol a pint, of ^ | ;l t e (i, e gjmeity of private life or step . .. . a .. . A .. —. ... a Z L. A ..a. a. a. .. tJ. . — X —a . . — ... . . flour, mix it up with water, a sufficient quantity to thicken it then pour it while hut into the whitewash, stir it aud it is ready for use. Washing Lack.—f have lately used the following method of washing lace collars, or crochet collars and find that it not only makes them look well, but saves much of the wear and tear of other washing : Cover a glass bottle licyond the hounds of public discus sion into the recesses of the domestic hearth. All personalities should be avoided—measures should he opposed not men—principles should lie denoun ced, not advocates. We like to see two-editors battling for their favor ite measures, by the use of strong ar guments and cogent reasoning—each striving for the truth and speaking as the enormity of the existing grievan- 1 and ambition, and that the majority - .. . r , conscience dictates fearlessly, and hav- with calico or linen and then tack the ; done thU throu{ , h their journals, to lace or collar smoothly upon it. rub it 1 with soap, and cover it with calico.— comes of going into the country, out of the way of vanity nnd temptation, and fancying farm-houses to be nire, old fashioned places of old established ; contentment. GEWmITT BEAUTY. In Europe, by a Georgian female is usually understood a tall, slender crea ture, of voluptuous figure, wrapped in rich apparal; with thick black hair, long enough to entwine its glossy fet ters round all hearts of men ; with an open, noble forehead, and a pair of eyes within whose dark, mysterious magic circle the secrets of all delight of sense and aoui lie spell-bound. Her gait is luxury. Joy goes before, and admiration follows her. The flowers on winch she trends look up, trembling with delight as they die, and exhale their fragrance as an offering to the beauty. With such ideas do strangers usually come to Georgia, and—find themselves singularly undeceived.— Travellers who with expectations rais ed so high, set foot on a land suround- ed by history and tradition with a nim bus of wonder, either obstinately abide by their previously formed opinion, or hastily pass to the other extreme, nnd find, to their amazement, everything filthy, ugly, loathsome. The truth lies in the minds. The people of Georgia, taken as a whole, are undeniably one of the most beautiful races of people on the earth—hut, altough I am a great lover of women, I must in this case give, with unconditional preference, the palm to the male sex. Herein all these cultivated inhabitants of Georgia who have eye, taste, aud impartial judgment, agree with me. Nay, I must add to this, that of that higher itself to death. If genius be desirable at all, it is only of that great and mag nanimous kind, which, like the condor o'i South America, pitches from the summit of Chimborazo, above the clouds, and sustains itself, at pleasure, in that empyreal region, with an ener gy rather invigorated than weakened hy the effort. It is tins capacity for high aud long continued exertion—this vigorous pow er and profound searching investiga tion—this careering snd wide-spread ing comprehension ol' mind—and those long reaches of thought, Unit “ Pluck bright honor from the pale- faced moon. Or drive in the bottom of the deep Where fathom line could never touch the ground, And drug up drowned honor by the locks.’ '1 his is the prowess, and these the har dy achievements, which are to enrol your hames among the great men of the earth. meet ami warmly grasp each other by n -i . . . . . the hand and enjoy the social inter- j beauty winch exists where spirit, heart, Boil U for twenty mmutee m seft wa- COttn#e aiK | kjadij findings of friends.— * ‘ ' te ; let all dry together and the lace will be found to be ready fer use. A long piece of lace must be wound round ces renders such a step necessary and | ee | s that it has made extreme conces- the bottle, the edge of eacli round a little above the last, and a few stiches j to keep it firm at the begiuing and end willlte foun sufficient, but a collar will require more tacking to keep it in its justifiable. A very large class, too,! s j on9 and displayed unexampled for- which, with those we have named, bearance and patience in withholding would probably constitute a majority i anv action for past grievances. of the whole South, has concluded that , the patience, moderation, and forbear ance of these States have lieen taxed to the utmost—that the Southern pen- pie have paid a sufficient tribute of hu miliation—that, on any calculation, they have purchased all the blessings > of a union with the Northern States at their highest value—that they it is evident that the hostile condi tion which now exists between the sec tions, can only lie terminated by a set tlement which shall be fundamental nnd (dace. How much better this than Uie fre- j quent personal allusions, insults and taunts which are so often seen in many of our public Journals. Not written i because of any ill -feeling, but to indite ; a smart and witty article which may Ih? sought after, nnd pander to the low est taste. 'Phis is very represensible, nnd should be frowned down by an Sponge Cake.—Take Uie volk of i " U ‘ lli > ren 1 l com ' m,n . il J r: sometimes it permanent—that the security of the ‘en eggs, one pound of sugar, roll them ■ ■ ‘ ' 1 well together: add the whites, after are ounces of flour. It ought not to be put in until just before it is set into the oven. confederacy demands that the compact ef union should he explicitly and defi nitely understood—that there should _ . . ( be a renewal constitutional ob- cnUtled to these blessings without fur- ligations and guarantees in such a form diminution or litigation—that the war- !l9 w j|| remove, forever, the present fare carried on against our institutions st at e of discontent and controversy. in State Legislatures, organized sock*- The Southern Rights party which as- . . , . .. ties, by churches anti jmliticnl parties, surned this ground in the late elections ol difficulty of rendering this will not henceforward be tolerated—| | 9 now placed in full possession of the ! J^'b’ P^^dy transparent ; but by field of its duty. It should be thor oughly organized for co-operation and action within and without Uie State, and prepared to make one effort to se cure Uie South from fask er humiliation nnd injury. 1 may be that a man is so mixed up with the question or the principle that it may having beat them to a froth, with ten 1 impossible to avoid noticing his pub- lie acts and exposing his dishonesty and inconsistency ; but such a course should lie taken rather in sorrow than pleasure, nnd it should tie the exception Calf’s Feet Jelly.—We hear ex- not ,,,e nile in news|>a|K>r discussions, perienced houskeepers frequently com- Boston Transcript. that such a warfare will be recognized ing with the other ingredients, mix- while TIIE There PARMER'S DAUGHTER. a world of buxom beauty is as a conspiracy against the peace of Uie South, anil that they shall insist upon a literal compliance with all the obligations the North lias assumed. It is apparent that this determination of the Southern .States has been de manded by long-continuet], dangerous ; and daring aUacks upon their rights. It is quite apflrent, also, that if the South maintain it, it will be the pre cursor of renewed agitation and con vulsion. 'Flie Northern States have shown no evidence of a disposition to cease agitation. As long as it was a question whether agitation would af fect the stability of the Union, some little degree of circumspection was exhibited by them; now that this ap prehension is quieted, it is plain that Uiose who have fomented the trouble and profited by it, will return to their old practices. Parties at the North all tend to shape Uiemselves exclusively by the slavery issues. The old par ties are wholly deranged aud disor ganized. It is with reference to the future that the Southern Rights party acquire a new and additional importance. The discussion of the policy of secession at the present Ume, and by the immediate separate action of the State, has ob scured for a moment the magtitude nnd importance of the peril whicli threatens our institutions from the religious aud political fanaticism of the North. This discussion having been removed by the recent popular judgments, our people will havtfStn opportunity of now exam ining the other danger, in all its bear- ings. The decisions made in the different States in no degree affect our position in Alabama. The Southern Rights par ty of this section of it, has been uni formly opposed to the separate seces sion of any State, though it recognizes the right of the people of a State to secede, as the highest and most sacred thR^elongs to them. Itis opposed to a Southern Confederacy, or to disun ion in any form, except as a last resort. The duty which it ergod upon the peo ple was to demand renewed guaranties for our security. These ‘guaranties' quite cold, the whites, and the crushed flourishing in the shade's of the coon AGRICULTURE. WINTER CROPS. Mr. Editob : It has become a part of the philanthropist’s creed, that he who makes two blades of grass grow where but one gzew before, is a l»ene- factor to bis race. But what will he deserve that makes a whole luxuriant s/tr//.v of a sufficient number of eggs, and allowing the head or seum which gathers on the jelly to remain undistur bed after it once forms, they will scarcely fail to obtain it clear. To take Ink out of Linen.— Take a piece of tallow, melt, and dip the spotted part of the linen into the melted tallow; the linen may be wash ed and the spots will disap|>ear, with out injuring the linen. 1 try. Farm-houses are dangtrous pla ces. As you are thinking only of sheep or of curds, you may lx* shot through by a pair of bright eyes, and melted away in a bewitching smile that you never dreamed of till the mischief was done. In towns and theatres,* ami thronged assemblies of the titleiifair, you are on your guard; you know what you are exposed to, and put on your breast-plate,and passthrough the and mind are reflected in the eye, there are in the whole Caucasus few traces to be found, among women ns well as men. I have had a fair chance of see ing all that Georgia contains of wo manly lieauty, hut have never beheld a face that has fully satisfied me; al though the graceful costume of the 1 fair inhabitants of tiie land contributes very much to the heightening of their charms. The face is altogether want- , ing of that nobler spiritual expression which lend to our fair Europeans an enchantment all their own. These can still awaken love and gain hearts, even when the time of their bloom is long since passed; in a fair Cjeorgian, on the other hand, with Uie freshness of youth fades everything away. Tiie eye, which always, notwithstanding its seeming fire, has hn-athed nothing but repose nnd inactive voluptuousness, ac quire a faint expression; the nose', al ready in itself overstepping the bounds of beauty, appears, in consequence of the early sinking cheeks, of so unnatu ral a size, that many imagine its dimen sions actually grow with years; and tiie bosom, which in this land plays cer tainly no hidden part, acquires too soon a flaccid character—mere appear ances, which, among F.uropcnns, oc cur more seldom, more imperceptibly, ami in far more limited pro|>ortion.— ; If we put to this account Uie custom WOMAN. Ledyard, the great American travel er, in his celebrated eulogy on woman, which we are tempted to quote, by the incident alluded to, says, in his own peculiar and beautiful language: “I have observed among all nations that the women ornament themselves more than tin* men,—that whenever found they are the same kind, civil, obliging, humane, tender beings; that they are ever inclined to lx? gay and cheeful, timorous and modest. They do not hesitate, like man, to |H'rform a gener ous or hospitable action; not haughty or arrogant, nor supercilious, but lull of courtesy aud fond of society; industri ous, economical, ingenuous; more li able in general to err than man, hut in general, also more virtuous, and |H'r- forming more good aetions than he. I never addressed myself, in the lan guage of decency and friendship to a woman, whether civilized or savage, without receiving a decent or friendly answer. With man it has often been otherwise. In wandering over the in- hopitable plains of Denmark, through honest Sweeden, frozen Lapland, rude and churlish Finland, unprincipal Rus sia, aud the wide spread regions of tho wandering Tartar, if hungry, dry, cold, wet or sick, woman hasever l>eeri frond- ly to me, and unifonnerly so; and to add tins virtue, so worthy of the appe llation of benevolence, these actions have been performed in so free and so kind a manner, that if 1 was dry, I drank the sweet draughts, and ii hun gry, ate the coarse morsel with double relish. This has been no doubt, the experi- | ence of every traveler, and is the expo- ! rieiice of every man in his journey through life. Woman is ever kind, ever generous. \Vhere\er found, they are the same kind, obliging, tender be ings. These are tire characteristics of | their sex, which make them so lovely and so much loved. In piety and reli gion too, they excel man as much ns i they do in the other virtues of life.— Southern Patriot. most terrible onslought of beauty safe prevalent in Georgia among young Receipt for Sausaoks.—To 30 lbs. of meat add 10 oz. of line salt 3 oz. crop grow where nothing grow before? of . sn «f* of .^ od P*PI* r , b , , , e B .. . if and mix them well together. 1 tie sage IThs may be done here. For if we ^ ^ ^ & hands, or through a seive, hefor using. After the ingredients are thoroughly incorporated, apply them to all parts of the meat, before chopping. If you have not a good sausage cutter, go and get one. Then you may depend upon having good sausages. have “ Sorrow in our song, we have no winter in our year.” And now that we find scarcity prevail ing all around us, it behooves us to look to every crop that will nourish either man or beast. We cannot too strongly recommend pastures of rye for milk and stock cattle, and hogs; patches of barley to cut from and feed our horses, and other stock; wheat l>ntches around our houses for our poultry to run upon. Barley requires Uie richest soil, either of the other crops will grow in any good corn land, and all will pay well for the culUvation. These crops will make great amends for the loss of summer crops, and they are indispensable even with a full sum mer crop. Stock of all kinds are ex- travagantly fond of this winter green food, and milk cows will show no di minution, eiUier in quantity or quality of milk, when suffered to run on pas tures of rye or are fed on cut barley. We are satisfied tiiat nine-tenths of our farmers keep too npny cattle; hall of Uie number, well lrt|»t, will pay better nnd be leas trouble than the whole flock. We would recommend every fanner Uiai can procure a few bushels of barley,, to pnt it in the ground forth-I flpor : separate the whites from with; and to every hoMe-keeper thet^ytilks, whip them very light, then has a few chickens, we say, plant IP then small patch in wheat—then, with the addition of a little animal food, you nRp hare freak egga all wiutor, life Savcb for Boiled Mutton.—Two spoonsful of liquor the mutton was boiled in, two spoonsful! of vinegar, three eschalots, and a little flour, a pice of butter the size of a walnut; stir up and give it a boil. Lard Candles.—To 12 parts or pounds of lard add one part allum and one part saltpetre, (salts nitre,) dissolve the alum and nitre in water; put the aud sound. But in those sylvan re treats, dreaming of nighteugales nnd hearing only the lowing of oxen, you are taken by surprise. Out steps a fair creature—crosses a glade—leaps a stile. You start—you stand lost in j wonder and admiration ! You take out your tablets to write a sonnet on the return of the Nymphs aud Dryads to earth, when up comes John Tomp kins and says: “ It’s only the farmer’s daughter.” “What! have farmers such ters now-s-days?” 'Chose farm-houses are dangerous places. Let no man with a poetical imagination, which is only another name for a very tender heart, flatter himself with Uie fancies of the culm delights of the country, wiUi the se rene idea of sitting with the farmer in his old fashioned chimney corner, and hearing him talk of com and mutton; of joining him in the pensive pleasure daugh- and old, of laying on white and red paint, it is easily seen that such nnd similar arts of the toilet, too striking as ttiey are to the eye, can only tend to lessen the good opinion of the behold er.—Bodensted's Morning ImiuI. NO EXCELLENCE WITHOUT LABOR. . j The education, moral and intellectu al, of every individual, must be chiefly his own work. How else could it hap pen that young men who have bad pre- F'ashionahle Manners.—There is a set of people whom I cannot hear— the pinks of fashionable propriety— whose every word is precise, nnd whose every movement is unexceptionable; hut who, versed in all the polite cate gories of |x>lite behavior, have not a particle of soul or of cordiality about them. We allow that their manners may be abundantly correct. There may be elegance in every gesture, nnd gracefulness in every position, not a -. . a .-iii sazile out of (dace, aud not a step that cisely tti" same opportunisms, should ! . J • . J rl - . - . woiihl not hear the measurement of whole in some convenient vessel over 11 l^P* * n ^ * j H ff °* brown October; a slow fire until the water is evapora ted, stirring ttte mixture so as to pre vent the alum and nitre from setting to the bottom. Then mould your candles and yon will never want to use a lamp about your house again. Savory Cakr.—Take twelve fresh eggs: put thcinjn the scale, and bal ance them with MgRr; take out one half and balance the other half with the mix them, and sift in, first sugar, then flour until both are exhausted; add some gra ted lemon peal, bake them in paper ea- soa, ur little tin moulds- This also of listening to the gossip of the com fortable farmer’s wife; of the parson and his family; of his sermons and his (tig; over a fragrant cup of young hyson, or wrapped in the delicious lux uries of custards and whipped creams. In walks a fairy vision of wondrous witchery, and with a courtesy and a smile of winning and mysterious magic, takes her seat just opposite. It is the fanner’s daughter—a living creature of eighteen ; fair as the lily, sweet as a posy of violets and clove gillhrers, mo dest as early morn, and amiable as your own imagination ot Desdemonia or lie continually presenting us with such different results, aud rushing to sucli opposite destinies ? Diflerenee of ta lent will not solve it, because that dif ference is very often in favor of the disn|>pointed candidate. You shall see issuing from the walls of the same college—nay, sometimes from the bosom of tiie same family, two young men of whom the one shall bo admitted to be a genius of idgh order, the other scarcely above ^ ^ ^ the point of mediocrity; vet you shall see Uie genius sinking and perishing in 8trai|lt poverty, obscurity and wretchedness; i while, on the other hand, you shall oh- j serve Uie mediocre plodding his slow ; but sure way up the hill of life, gaining } steadfast fooUng at every step, ami mounting, at length, to eminence and distinction, an ornament to his family, | a blessing to his country. Now, whose work is Uiil? festlv their own. (fen would not the severest scrutiny. This is very fine; hut what I want is the heart and gaiety of social intercourse—the frank ness Uiat spreads animation around it —Uie eye that H|teaks affability to all, that chases timidity from every )>osom, and tells every man in Uie company to be confident and happy. This is what 1 conceive to be the virtue of the text, “ Be ceurteous,” and not the sickening fominliry of those who walk by rule, and would reduce the whole of human a system of misery and con- —Dr. Chalmers. A droll story is related of an honed old farmer, who, attempting to drive home a bull, got suddenly hoisted over the fence. Recovering himself, he saw the animal on the other side of the rails sawing the air with bis head and neek, MUni-1 a,,d P*" in ff the f TO * nd - T* 10 g 00< l the archi- i ^ man * ooko, j * t <’* < lily “t him a u-cts of their respective fortunes. I, I ment, and then Agkmg h.s fist at him, is the fiat of fate from which no power fwcWined, ‘D«n your npolog.es-you of genius can absolve you. Genius, I ^ >; ou ,ama1 .. Cr ' ,U>r Gertrude of Wyoming. You’re unexerted, is like the poor moth that j ‘ , ' mi " " scr.ipm 1 a lost. It’s all over with you. <Vi*d Uutt flutters around a camllo, till ii.scorchoe (Httposfc. am your our y pm *