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I DEVOTED TO SOUTHERN RIGHTS, MORALITY, AGRICULTURE, LITERATURE, AND MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. HUES I. NORWOOD, EDITOR.] To thine otrnsclf be true; And it must follow a* the night the. day; Thou eanst not then he false to any man.—Hamlet. VOL. 1. DARLINGTON C. H., S. C., THURSDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 26, 1852. THE DARLINGTON FLAG, IS PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY HORNING, AT DABLINBTON, C. H., *. a, BY NORWOOD A DR LORHE. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION In advance, (jier annum,) - - - 82 00 At the expiration of six months - 2 50 At the end of the year 3 00 ADVERTISING : Advertisements, inserted an5 cents a square (fourteen lines or lees,) for the first, and 37i cts. for each subsequent insertion. Business Cards, not exceeding ten lines, nserted at $5, a year. AGRICULTURE. the soil deep; then you will he able to brave the droughts of June and July. —Soil of the South. "ill'JUJ-BS ., ass MISCELLANEOUS. SHORT PATENT SERRON—BY DOW. Text : If ye are honest, honorable men, go ye and—pay the printer. maker. He said he thought he had and almost the first word my wife said mal visit from the young man, and a squared up. 1 asked if he had forgot to me, was— formal offer for the hand ot Kate. Of ten all his enemies? He replied ves. “What do you think? Kate’s re- course I had no objection to urge.— I then asked him if he had made' his ceived a Valentine.” The matter was, in my mind, fully peace with the Printer? He hesitated “ Indeed!” settled. for a moment, and then said that he he- “ It’s true. It came by the Despatch After that, the bracelet nforemon- lieved he owed him something like four Post. 1 received it at the door, and tioned was always to be seen on the dollars, which he desired to have paid sent it up to her room.” before he hid good bye to the world. ; “ Have you seen her since?” His desire was immediately gratified, “No.” and from that moment he became con- “ Of course, she’s particularly in- He is now living in the en- dignant.” " I don’t know anything about that. CULTURE OP THE IRISH POTATOE. Were we to take an agricultural pa per published in Iceland, and find full and ample directions how to make Ice land Moss to iierfectiiHi, should we not he considered green if we attempted to follow the directions in this hot climate of the South? So with the Irish Po tato; although originally a Southern plant, yet it has been hrougkt to its present edible perfection, in the moist, cold latitudes of the North, amt to succeed well with it here, we must make it approximate, as nearly as pos sible, to those colder latitudes. If we plant the potatne in the earth after the manner of the North, they make good early potatoes, but by the time they have matured, and should he at the height of their farinaceous perfection, from the excessive heat of the soil, they have become watery, and when cooked more resemble balls of putty than human food. To have good Irish potatoes in this warm climate, plant them under straw, any time, from Christmas until March. Break up the ground intended for the potato bed deeply ; manure it well with an/ cool ing manure—decoinjiosing vegetable substances are best. Open furrows six inches deep, and eighteen inches apart, fill the furrow nearly full of any well rotted manure. The potatne should have been cut once in two, at least two weeks before planting ; plant the potatne, cut side down, on the ma nure in the furrow, twelve inches apart; now cover the whole with the earth on the ridge, and then cover the whole bed with either wheat or pine straw—tlie deeper the straw the,better, and the more of the potatoes' there will be. The rains heat down the straw, moisture is engendered next the earth, and an even temperature is pre served, keeping the potatne cool, and giving it that peculiar mealy quality, without which, an Irish |M>tntnc is the meatiest of all human food. No fears need he entertained but what the tops will find their way through the straw; they will find the light, and the potatne will make as high up in the straw as the moisture comes. There is no after culture after planting—the yield is greater, and the quality equal to the best imjiorted. Who will eat putty halls when they can as well have mealy potatoes ?—Soil of the South. Gabuev W’ork for February.— It is now promised that the garden ground is well enriched, and spaded or plowed deep. If this is all done, tlie following aecds may lie put in. I’lant asparagus seed, and transplant the root; ' plant beets, early cabbage, spring turnip, lettuce, spinach, salsify, My Hearers :—There are many seeming trifles in this world which you yah*scent are too apt to overlook, on account of: .i n . vmp,,t °f health and prosperity, pays their apparent unimportance, the neg- ; f or his paper in advance, at peace with It was a handsome one, I inter, from lect of which has plunged thousands his own conscience, his God and the the she and envelop, and had in it into the deepest mire of misery, and 1 whole world. Let this be an example something hard, which l took for jew- sunk their characters into inextricable you, my friends. Patronize the eliy—a breastpin or a bracelet.” degradation. Among these ostensible Printer; take the papers and pay for “ W here do you think it came from, trifles, that of neglecting to pay one’s them in advance, and your days will be said I. T . ,, honest debts, is the most common, and long on the earth, and overflowing with “ I’ve guessed young Lor.ng, attended with the worst consequences. •I ,e honey of mess. swered my wife. It takes off all the silken furz from the My hearers! Pay all your debts, and fine threads of feeling, creates a sort of keep an honest reckoning with thy misanthropic coldness about the heart, fellow men : but, above all. keep pay- skimsoff all the cream that may chance jng bv daily instalments, that everlast- to rise upon the milk of generosity— ' n £ g rn,|tl, de which you owe and makes man look as savagely upon from whom yon obtain capital his brother man as does a dog upon one sufficient to begin the first transaction of his own species while engaged in °f Hfr> so that when yon come to bal- the gratifying enjoyment of eating bis ance aecncnts on the day of general master’s dinner. One debt begets an- settlement, all things may appear lair other. I have always observed that he . !in ^ above board! So mote it be ! who owes a man a dollar, owes him also a grudge; and he is always more ready to pay compound interest on the an- “ If he has sent it he has committed a great mistake,” I replied. “ You know Kate’s antipathy to Valentines.” “ Young ladies often talk a great deal without really knowing w hat they say; and Kate is not altogether free from the fault,” said my wile. “ I readily enough consented to this. When the bell rung for dinner, Kate came down from her room. Her face was rather more sober than usual, and and she did not join in the conversa tion with her accustomed animation. KITE’S VALENTINE. Kate, my sprightly neice, like most voung ladies of her age, has her ou'n opinion on matters and things current ly transpiring. She thinks indepen- deeply in debt that you cant sleep of 1 dentlv, and generally speaks what she nights, without being haunted hv the thinks. Of course her knowledge ot . the ghost of some insatiate erpditor, is human nature is not very deep; nor is w ord touching their reception, or the enough to give a man the hydrophobia she ns wise in nil her conclusions ns feeling produced thereby, was hreathetl she is led to imagine. I do not say ”.V hflte. It was plain, however, to arm of Kate. One evening, it was about a month before her wedding-day, as I sat talking with Kate, for whom my affection had always been as ten der as that of a father for a child, 1 took her hand, and said, as I examined the bracelet— “That is very beautiful.” “Yes, I have always admired it very much,” she replied, the color growing warmer in her cheeks. “ A love token, I presume?” As I said this, I looked at her arch ly. The hue of her cheeks became still deeper. “A Valentine?” I added. The blood mounted to her temples. “But it was not an ordinary Valen tine. It did not come from a tiiller, and was not received as an insult. I thought you were not the girl, Kate, to reject a sincere offer.” Kate blushed still more deeply. “This little love-token, dear Kate, is for thee: Accept it, and keep it, and wear it for me.” As I repeated this couplet, the young She w as first to retire from tiie table.” girl started with surprise, and looked latter than on the former. Oh, my friends, to be over bead and ears in love is as bad a predicament as a per son ought ever to he in, hut to he so “ I don’t think she is mortally of- ! fended,” said I to my wife. “No, not if I am skilled in mental indications,” was replied. During the afternoon, two or three more love missives came; but not a —make him bite a wheelbarrow, cause it to run mad, and create general con sternation among the lamp posts. My friends—The debt that sets hea viest on the conscience of a mortal, , provided he lias one—is the debt due the Printer. It presses harder upon one’s bosom than the nightmare—galls the soul—frets and chafes every enno bling sentiment—squeezes all the juice of fraternal sympathy from the heart, and leaves it dryer than the surface of | a roasted potatoe. The man wdio wrongs a printer out of a single cent never expects to enjoy comfort in this j world, and may well have doubts of finding happiness in any other. He will be sure to go down to the grave ere time shall have bedecked his brow with the silver blossom of age; and the green leaves of hope will fall before the first hud of enjoyment has expand ed. It is true the mushroons of peace may spring up during a short night of forgetfulness, but they will all wither beneath the scorching rays of remorse. How can yon, my friends, ever have the w ickedness and cruelty to cheat the this disparagingly, for Kate has quite as good sense as nine in ten who have only numbered her years, which are about twenty-one. On this subject, Kate had, for a year or two, been particularly decided in her expressions. The Valentine epi demic, which has raged so violently, she considered a social disease emphat ically. It was no healthy manifesta tion of right feelings, in her estimation. At laM St. Valentine’s day appioach- ed, and the store windows and coun ters began to be filled with emblematic love missiles of all kinds, from the most costly, delicste and refined, down to the cheapest, coarsest, and most vulgar,and Kate exhibited more strong ly her antipathy to the custom about one with even half an eye, that she was pleased with the mark of atten tion, or, it might he, token of love.— Evening, instead of being passed as usual with the family, was spent by Kate in her room. On the next morning, at the break fast table, I mentioned the fact that a certain number of Valentines hail pass ed through the post office on the day before. This was in order to introduce the subject, and call out some remark from Kate; but she remained silent on with inquiring earnestness in my face. “But I’m afraid, Kate,” said I with a meaning smile, and a voice half-re gretful in its tone, “ that you wore it less for the real than for an imaginary giver.” She did not reply, but looked at me more earnestly, while a sudden light appeared to break upon her mind. “ Dear uncle,” said she, at length, bending towards me, “ hail you seen this bracelet before y ou saw it on my arm ?” “ Yes, love,” was my tenderly spo ken reply, and I pressed her pure fore head with my lips as I spoke. “ And you sent it f” She seemed half breathless as she awaited my reply*. “ Yes, dear.” Sho covered her face suddenly with her hands and sat motionless for some moments. In a little while, I saw a tear come stealing through her fingers. k DE LORME, PUBLISHERS NO. 52. THE MAN WHO KNEW EVERY THING. A mighty knowing man was Caleb Page, who kept the grocery at the fork of the road, near Woodchuck Creek, Scrag Hollow, in the village of Horn- ville. No oeeurrnnce had evet taken place, of all the particulars of which Caleb did not possess a thorough know ledge in the minutest detail. All mat ters in the perspective were anticipated, discussed, arranged, and satisfactorily disposed of by Caleb long before they took place. If a neighbor rushed into a store to communicate w hat he believ ed to be a very recent piece of news, lie would ha\o the conceit taken out of him by being told by (!aleb that he “ had heard it a week ago.” Events of the past, present, and future, were all the ennie to him: his ubiquitous knowledge grasped and covered them all—to him they were all “ stale news.” A small bet was made one evening, between !Si Stevens and Joe Stubbins. Si hot that Joe couldn’t nonplus Caleb with any piece of intelligence, real nr imaginary. Jpo “ took all such bets as that.” The following evening, Si and Joe, accompanied by two or three more of the “hoys” of the village, who were to “help the tiling along,” and “ fill in,” proceed to (’aleh’s store. Af ter being comfortably seated here and there, on barrels, etc., Si opened the evening’s amusement by asking, in a manner that indicated he was continu ing a conversation commenced before they entered the store: “So you say, Joe, him last night?” “ Yes, sir, about seventeen minutes past eight. “ Well, Joe, how far up the creek was it ?” “ On a careful consideration, I should ! say it was a bout three miles, three mi les and a quarter, or perhaps a half, up j the said creek.” Caleb, who had lost not a word of the conversation, dropped his sugar scoop with astonishment, and opened ; his ears, for the boys were talking ! about a matter in which he was not ! “ posted up.” The conversation cou- i tinned: “Well,” says Si, “that couldn’t a been far from Deacon Hunt’s?” j “Jest so,” answered Joe, “it was about eighty rods from Deacon Hunt’s that they caught « rj the subject, though not w ithout indh a- ting, by her heightened color and and „ „ - i D „ restless eye, that her thoughts were My feelings were touched, for 1 feared hog-pen, in a slaunchwise direction.” husv enough. I had done violence to hers by | “ Did you hear, Joe,” asked Si, with “ I rather think our young lady has this lit*!** confession of the truth. But, j a face as solid as a gravestone, “ how* I had looked for composure of much ile they got?” changed her opinions,” said I, smiling, eru must appeal to that. At no Printer, when you consider how much he has done and is every day doing for answ er (> you. He has poured into the treasury ! other point w ill T jie accessible, of your mind some of the most valua- * " e shall see. ble gifts that anything short of God can bestow; ave, riches with which to he honored. after Kate had left the table. “If any* one were to send mea Yal- “ Circumstances alter cases, you entine,” said she, “I should take it as know, replied my wife, smiling in a direct insult to mv common sense.” turn. “ Oh, as for that,” I replied sportive-1 <>n ll'o n^ evening, young Lormg Iv, “lovers arc not so silly as to ad- called in. Kate was longer than usual dress the common sense of those w hose hi making her appearance, and when fa'vbr they desire to win.” 1 she came down into the parlor, was “Whoever wins me.” was her prompt dressed with more than ordinary care. mind, she withdrew her hands from her face, on w hich an affectionate smile shone like a rainbow amid the parting drops of a summer shower, and said, as she arose— “Henceforth I will wear it for the real giver.” Bending to kiss me, she left a tear And we will see.” I’ll wager a new on my cheek, and then glided from the For the first time, I noticed on her room. wrist a new and beautiful bracelet— On her wedding night, Kate wore She blushed, slightly, as she met Lo- i her Valentine bracelet, and 1 am weak seemed a little embarrassed, but enough to lielieve—il the sentiment hat against a nng w ith him in an would not part for the possession | spring bonnet.” said I, “that you re ynn of the whole world, and a mortgage on a small comer of heaven. itli the key of magic, as it were, he has opened the iron cased doors of the hu man understanding—dispelled the dark ness of ignorance, and lit up the lamps of knowledge and wisdom. That mighty engine—the press—is surroun- | ded by the glory, and its effulgence parsnip, carrot, celery, onions, buttons, spreads over the broad empire of the sets, scallions, and black seed, early ' *>:—*!»» *b« rl-rUosi avemicR English peas, parsley, radish, cress, kale, mustard. Tlieso may all be planted in the open ground. Melons. ceivc a Valentine this year, from a cer tain voting man named . Never mind, don’t blush so, I won’t name.” “ I would discard any one who in sulted me with a Valentine,” replied Kate, indignantly. “ Don’t say that, for fear you will have cause to repent your indiscretion.” “ Yes, I do say it. No man of good sense would stoop to such trifling. ’ “I don’t know, Kate, ‘a little tri fling now and then, is relished by the best of men.’ ” “That’s rhyme, which does not nl- creuse m sue, just in proportion what the root finds to eat in its jour, neyings. Gardeners before you plant a seed, make the garden rich, and dig mind, illuminating the darkest avenues of the heart And yet the Printer, the man who toils at the level of soul en lightening instrument, is often robbed , >» of his hard-earned bread by those ways go hand and hand with reason, whom he has delivered from mental “ You’ll grow wiser, Kate, as you bondage and placed in a Paradise to ; grow older.” lay off and grow* fat upon the fruits of was soon conversing animated style. “ Did you see that new bracelet?” asked my wife, when we were next alone. “ F did.” “ Where did it come from?” “ Didn’t you say that in one of the Valentines she received there w as some thing hard, like a piece of juwelrV <” “ Yes.” “ That bracelet, probably.” “No doubt of it.” “And moreover,” said I, “it is may be called a weakness—that she prized it even more highly than if Lo- ring himself had been the giver.” YOUR BABIeTVot"MY BABIES. About thirty-five years ago, there re sided in the town of Hebron, in this county, a certain Dr. T., who became very much enamored of a beautiful ! young lady, w ho resided in the same town. In due course of time they • were engaged to bo married. The doctor was a strong and decided Pres byterian, and his lady love was a strong and decided Baptist. They were tit- “Yes, I did,” re_ " ' Joe, with ano ther face as solemn as two gravestones; [ I hearn tell that they got nigh upon ] sixty bar’ls of ile.” i The wags observed that Caleb was getting exceedingly uneasy, and “piled i it on.” “ Well, Silas, the insect was about eighty-two feet long, and twenty-eight i feet, odd inches, broad, and thick in ! proportion.” “ 1 thought, that there was two on ’em.” “That’s a fact: there was a pair of i ’em, but they only caught the he one.” At this point in the dialogue, Caleb ! became so desperately excited that he : could contain himself no longer, and snappishly demanded to know what'n thunder they were talking about?” “ Why,” said Joe, with well feigned astonishment, “don’t you know about their catching that are—.” I “ That are what!” peevishly snarled “ That are Caleb. “Why that are whale!" answered Joe stubbins. “ A whale!” exclaimed the Wwilder- seriously plain than she believes that Valentine t - t 0 g,,|| )Cr one evening talking of . ‘ , ,r . rt ( f, ex< , ,l,n came from Lormg; for, at her first .v,o 1 e< 'U a leb, have they his labors. Oh, you ungrateful sinners! If you have hearts moistened with the dews of mercy, instead of gizzards filled with f ravel, take heed what I say to you. f there be any among you in this con- cucumbers, squashes, egg plants, and such other tender plants, may be start ed in a hot bed. Those who cannot afford a hot lied on a large scale, may start early melons, cucumbers, Ac., in the following simple, cheap and easy way. Take as many large turnips as you wish hills of cucumbers and cut £he top and root off, and dig the inside put, leaving a shell about half an inch {hick; fill this with rich earth, and plant die seeds; keep them in a warm room in cold weather, and give them tta sun in pleasant weather. When the weather has become settled and warm, plant turnip and all where the hill is to be; the sides and bottom of the turnip soon decay, and the roots f o through the open earth without any indranoa, thus converting the hot bed Itself into nourishment for the roots. Beds for tap-rooted plants, such as beeta, carrots and parsnip, should be very mellow, as the fibres ma down a long ways. Onion roots will penetrate from eighteen inches to two feet, In »**■*, y»urv, — ^ - . «i, £ i came from Loring; for, at her nrsi ^j,. approaching nuptials, when meeting with him she wears it tor tho (ioctor Marked—' first time.' . • “ I am thinking, my dear, of two “Thus, remarked my wife, l, | 0 * 1 ' i events which I shall number amongst «If that’s the kind of wisdom age fying him that sho received the token ^ happiest of my life.” brings, I’m sure I don’t want it.” kindly. “ And pray what may that be, doc- I answered with a laugh, for to he I laughed aloud, for I could not help tor? ., the Udy. grave on such a theme was not in me. '*• “ One is the hour when I shall call As the fourteenth approached, Kate “ " by do you laugh < aske< my ^, ou w if e f or Q )e first time.” frequently repeated her expressions of wife. “ And the other?” disgust at the silly custom of sending “ She was going to discard anyone' „ j t j s w j, en W e shall present our She was going to discard any one ! ? * , first horn for baptism.” heard (( what, sprinkled!” visiting acquaintances ( and Loring came again. As we knew the young man well, and liked him the better the more intimately we knew him, we saw no impropriety in leaving head in society — - - , pected by the wise and good, from the accordingly. mmiffication^of^rejji^itcd duns^an'd et^ °f ' she hTd Wndcr tWlngathan^sr any other male ( theyoung couple alone in the parlor, the law)era. n Jtw are , f r i Pn g ■ hilt either in conseouence of a From that time, there was a marked o,*™, will go forthwith «nd 1. - -< T Ske w„. I™. .... Hu .YOU. mi ftta*. «.»• !• »»• » MS » .to. Kuf. «oti-1 \ good .igkt. *.** sprm “Yes, my dear, sprinkled.” “Never shall a child of mine be sprinkled!” “ Every child of mine shall be sprin- kled.” “'niey shall be, ha!” “Yes, my love.” “ Well sir, I can tell you tlien, that your babies won’t be my babies. So, ., i en v-iuriY, unvu un-j caught a w halo 11 up the creek?” “ They havn’t caught any thing else,” said the inperturbable Joe. “And how much ile did they get?” inquired Caleb, as he recoved his w its. “Ninety-two bar’ls,” replied Joe, fogetting the amount he had previously mentioned. “Well,” said Caleb, with slow deli beration, and a satisfied look, “ I am glad they caught the whale, for I heard they were after him.” Joe paid the l>et.—Carpet Hag. , f ^ doo', ho it, ,.., hjw.y - ! s'L w** sign of a heart disease. ' ffllth6r in f* 00 ,| fro,,, hram- though he sought it on every proper her color—sure sign oi will ha e 10 f ... d . ( occasion. I had him in my mind when Meanwhile, Lormg wa —'• -^ v ^ve.t!l» tv. r %v l suggested the reception of a Valeo- jtor; and whenever he B s of health. I once called tine from a certam young n *k person whom the doctor Kate undenW me perfectly, i E» gore cm. I «kcd WA V wlcwliW. c«w Ja mod. Deere with his At dinner tune, I came home i Next her appetite failed her, | ° ^ | e , t rooni> and the doc tor left the house. The sequel to this true story , . w as that the doctor never as a constant vis- • marr j e d aiu j t [, e | a d v is an oM maid, came, the brace- { — — extol our sick had given _ r kirn if he had made his peace with his Tertnin^voung manDuid i I* was displayed, evidently in token | Quilp calls orators who ‘ - e fjy that she knew from whence it came, national characteristic^ on Indepen- came round, and wished its acceptance to be fully > deuce day. beyond what Uuth will jus- as usual, understood. At last I received a for- (tify, ‘ Fourth of Julian.' The Tic.htest Knot in the world. 1 —The matrimonial knot, once tied ne- 1 ver can la* untied; and the worst is that like the Gordian knot you cannot even cut it. Fits Abstraction and Absence.— The Yankee Notion says: “ There is a man in Philadelphia so subject to fits of abstraction, that if you were to meet him in a crowd, he would probably abstract your watch from your pocket, and make off with it. He would then lie seized with such a fit of absence, that you might look after him for a month, ami he would never give you a chance of finding him.”