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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 *