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& A CURIOUS ARRRHT. Tliat notoriouM individual, Darid T. Hint**, who on inor^ Unn one occaaion has in tiinegonebv figured in our Courts as a criminal, becarne wterday an in mate of our jail, under the fo lowing cir- cum-tances: Snnu* tw t lve yf«r* sinct' having been convicted in I/mi-nna of frrrrery-, he was f'■irencid to fj.irti*e:i years ini|>ri«onriie»it the r ■Jarv at Baton Rniure, where tanCe of 80 milt'e. arriving at Portsmouth in full time for the steamboat. Deduct thirty minutes for stoppages, it makes the above run at the rate of thirty-eight miles per hour. Thi* is not equalled on any other route in this country in the regular trips. lie remained until very recently when the execulivu ot that State, in consequence ofliin good behaviour whiUt in prison, re mitted the unexpired term of hie sentence j which wa« nboui two years. Upon being discharged, New Orleans had tlie honor of his distinguished company, where his fertile invention and great adroitness soon placed him in jiosseseion of funds suffi cient to make a display. How many,and whom he may have swindled to acquire these means, we know not, as doubtless in many cases the victims rather than ac knowledge their verdancy, were content to put up with their loss. Notso howev er, in the instannce of Mr. Word, a Tex an gentlemen, who at the time of Hines’ career was sojourning at the Verandah Hotel in that city, and upon whom Hines called, representing himself to be Col. J. P. Floyd, a brother of Governor Floyd, of Virginia, and haring formed an Requeue laiuut with him, succeeded at different timro in obtaining some eight hundred dollars from him by means of deeds. 1 bonds die., which have since been aseer- . tained to be adroit forgeries. Mr. Word having discovered what he had done,and | that Hines was nun eat determined at any i co-t to bring the swindler to justice, and i started in pursuit. After tracing him to j various places in the West he got fairly on his trail at New York, in which city ftcirlxnijton flag. DARLINGTON, S. C. J. »V. NORWOOD, Editor. THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL IS. 19$1. “Tire DABGERS WHICH THRBATES OCR COCSTRT CALL CTOS US TO BURT THE PAR- TV FEEL1SGS WHICH HAVE SO UNFORTU NATELY DIVIDED AND DWTRACTED US, ASD TO UNITE ALL OUR ENEROfES AGAINST THE COMMON ENEMY OF OUR INSTITUTIONS.” [John H. Mean*. AGENTS FOR THE DARLINGTON FLAG. Dr. F.L. Zemp, - Camden, S. C. Charles 1)eI»rme, Sumterville, S. C. Maj. C. H. Nettles, - Mt. Elon. KOSSUTH IN CHARLESTON. The Magyar chief, we learn from the Charleston papers passed through that city on friday last, with his wife and suite. The reception with which he has met in the South and Southwest, is in strong con trast with his triumphal progress through the North. His visit produces little or no excitement among us, and we doubt not that many at the North who shouted ho- ci-Anant Col. J. P. Floyd had become quite a lion with the Upper-Ten, dining with. „ . .. and in turn entertaining John Van Bureri *»""»* “> the great Hungarian on his ar- Henry Wi ston and others. But by some rival would now cry away with him. 9k enry strange fatality Mr. Word missed his man, and again had to keen on the move, lie however, struck upon the right trail, and pursued Hines through Richmond, where full prool of his nn-caliiy were de veloped, to this city, at which he arrived yesterday week unconscious of being per- sued. He took lodgings at first at one of the most fashionable Hotels, but subsequently removed to private boarding house in Queeen street. He seems, from the mo ment of his arrival, to have .been busily engaged in his profession of obtaining money under false pretences, and we learn tliat on one occasion he called on a gentle man, representing himself to be a Lousis- iana Planter, and stating that having lost his pocket-book he required a loan of two thousand dollars, for which he offered a eollateralsecurilv in bonds and mortgages t:i property in Virginia. , The gentleman applied to politely de clined having anything to do with the matter, and Hines had to depart and cogi tate w hbtn else he might endeavor to de vour, but unfortunately his cogitations were rather abruptly interrupted yester day morning by Ins meeting at last with his indefatigable pursuer, Mr. Word in King Street. He tried to escape, but af ter running some considerable distance he was overtaken, and although he made a most determined resistance, was captur ed b - . Lieut. Symes and taken to the.upper Guard House. So much having been ac complished a bail-writ was lodged with the SliciifTof this Distrct ot the suit of Word, who in company with George Dus- enberry, who had lieen cnoted a special Deputy for this occasion, proceeded to the Upper Guard House, took him into custody on the civil suit, and conveyed him to jail, where we was recognized by the Jailor as the saame individual who had called on him a few days previously, and represented himsell as inspector ol Jails, stating he had received that ap pointment from the President of the Uni ted States. Dueenberry, at the request of Hines, then proceeded to his boarding house m Queen street with an order from him, signed, for the delivery of his bag gage, and the money to pay for six days board. Mr. Word now naturrally concluded that this victimizer was hor*<k combat, and that it was now ont of his power to make furthur mischief-—for the present, at all events, but he was mistaken, as strange to say. he himself was again made the victim of this arrant deceiver’s machi nation, Hines having with the most un paralleled audacity had a warrant issued for Mr. Woid’s arrest upon his affidavit charging that gentleman uiih having commuted an assault with intent to kill, and Mr. Word being a stranger here, knew not, at the instant, where to pro cure bail, and consequently the pursuer and pursued occupy ihr same prisAti.— The initiatory steps however, we believe were taken last night to effect his release and we understand that in all probability he w ill be discharged on bail in the course of the morning.—Courier, 3d inst. Liability of Railroad Companies.— Patrick Cass yesterday recovered a ver dict off 100 and cOsL“ against the New- York and New-Haven Railroad Company being the value of a trunk and contents placed in possession of the baggage-keep» er, in June last, but not delivered. The ticket, check received for it, had been lost andMie agent refused to deliver it when it was demanded, and it was subsequent ly loet. The Court held that in common, law the Railroad Company is liable for the loss of baggage entrusted to their care and the giving a check to a passenger, designating the the number of the bag gage was intended to furnish the passen ger with additoannl security, and the loss of the check does not relieve the Compa ny from liability, unless some other person presents the check, and in good faith and without notice the baggage is delivered to the party so offering the check. Nothing of the kind was shown here, and the fi , nintiff was entitled to judgment.—.V. Y. irrur, 4th. Great Speed in Railroad Travel.—- A few evenings since, the careat IVeldon were detained beyond the usual hour for starting, waiting tor the Wilmington-train. They had to connect with the Baltimore liiie, Mud by the application of a little steam .ijpl trip was performed in two houra and ton mtnuu*fs>»cJud»ug *toppiu§* a die- 1 1 n Mx-ssssaeaeaea ions expresed, generally, are, in harmony with ours; though we are unable to en- doiae his conchisioiie. We are still of the opinion that the Convention should 'Jileases, at the pul - ^ a * W • # • * 1 _! _ !_ X* ^ -- —^ Iwawi nr ■ i AO V B 1 Tat Pksae.—The Richmond Examin er, speaking of the comiribn notion that everybody hae a right to publish what he ublishere Transit gloria Mvndi. We trust that the visit of Kossuth to this country will im press upon him and all foreigners, that long established doctrine of our govern ment that we desire friendship with all nations but entangling alliances with none. BITTER* WORDS. Under the above caption we observe go ing the rounds oT the papers, the follow ing extract from a letter of Judge O’Neal to the Tempi ranee Adcocate, in reference ! to Mr. VVhite, the Temperance Lecturer: “ Envy, malice, falsehood, have all com bined with the grogshop inHvenee to put him down. The ruin which was inten ded for him has recoiled on the heads of his maligners. “For standing by him, I have come in for my share of abuse. I knew well, with out the editor of the Edgefield Advertiser. that 1 was not the * star of his idolitry. In deed, ! should be sorry to be the subject of Idolitrous worship by ary one, and es pecially should I tremble if the enemies of temperance were to praise me! Such trash a* the Winnsboro Register, ami his correspondents Index and Tike, move my pity more than my anger. I trust I may appeal to a life of labor, and honest inten tions to do good, to shield me from all such scribblers and thunderers. “I glory in being called a “ Fanati^in Temperance,’and a subinissjnnist in poli tics.’ The former tells the world that I have worked more than a scribbling clergyman, and the latter places upon me the title of a friend to the Union, of glo rious and imperishable liberty. “But Mr. White is a stranger, and it is shameful that Coroiinianc should write, ami temperance men publi-4, such slan ders against him. Seven hundred con verts in Fairfield, Chester, Union, New berry, and Lexington, are, however, the living witnesses of his worth. “Non est disputandum do gustibus,” is a maxim which may well apply to the above choice extract. As we neither published the letter of Mr. Jones charging Mr. White, with entertaining anti-slavery sentiments, nor that exonerating him from the charge, we suppose we might seek shelter under this circumstance from the harsh epithets so profusely lavished upon the press of South Carolina by Judge O’Neal, for presuming to publish a seri ous charge, made by a citizen of the State against Sir. White. But we cannot refrain from holding up to public indignation a spirit so foreign to that which we think should actuate those who profess to be engaged in works of love, mercy, and philanthrophy. We are not disposed to enter the lists with the Judge for any of that glory which arises from Fanaticism or Submission. We would not pluck one laurel from his brow. And as much as we honor those who are earnestly strug gling to free our land front the blighting curse of intemperance, we have no pati ence with that selfrighteous class who backbite and slander all who do uot choose to be measured by their standard of thought or action. EFFINGHAl DIVISION, S. T. NO. 8i. The following gentlemen have been elected officers of this Division, to serve during the present term: J. M. Timmons, W. P. J. W. Ward, W. A. H. Smith, R. 8. J. W. Cutac., A. R. S. S. B. Bukket, F. S. J. J. Steele. T. C. C. Lawrence, C. Jesse Langston, Jr., A. C. U m H Barer, 1. a K, Kerby, O. 8. Declination.—Mr. A W. Dozier, dele xate elected to the State Convention from IPilliamt-burg, declines to attend, and ad dresses his constituents in a well written letter. The Georgetown Republican, in publishing the letter,says: “It is needless to say lo tliose who have been our constant readers, that the on meet and if in the opinion of the Conven tion the people have declared tubmkskn, in all conscience let ue eo have ii under stood, In the most emphatic aufl nnmieta- keable terms—not by absenting from the Convention, but if need be in the solemn firm of an Ordinance—that hencefor:h we are to submit to a*y and every ag gression from.the / J*sndia of Federal op pression; and tfie right to secede—the re served right of each State, and upon which rests her sovereignty—is a right to assert only, but never to be exercised” Sound Sf.ktimf.nts.—We make the fol lowing extracts from a speech by Mr. C. J. IntrersoU of Connecticut, delivered in the House of Representatives on last Wednesday: “Mr. Chairman, the secession of a sovereign State from this Union is a very easy act to perform where there is a will (and God grant it may never arise) to do it. Whether it is a constitutional or a revolutionary right which must be exer cised, is a question which I have no time to discuss here. I prefer to look at the practical bearing of the result, should the issue of seccession ever be made. Sup- poee a State determines upon secession, what power (I speak not ot “right”) ofthe federal government, under the Constitu tion, will force it to remain in the confed eracy ? Has it any power? In theory, even, it is questionable to some minds, while in a practical point of view it is powerless. What a government formed upon a compact and a compromise, and- founded upon the will and affection ofthe people governed, and deriving all its strength from the popular voice, compel ling the people of a sovereign State, at the point of the bayonet, into submission ?— The idea is at war w ith every principle of our republican government. But if it is carried out, what then ? Tell me the worth of that State to this Union which is kept to us only by powder and ball ?— Let a State determine upon secession, and whilj the the strong arm of federal au- thority cannot force it to its place in the galaxy of stars which compose the Union, it will he no easy undertaking to persuade it back to the point it before occupied by the side of its sister States in the confed eracy. “Mr. Chairman, the people of the North have not, until oflate, aroused themselves to a knowledge of* the ruin which lias threatened the Union ; immersed in busi near, and bent on the pursuits of honest gain, they have been unmindful of the danger which* has surrounded them; while designing men and politicians, w ith selfish ends, have been sporting with the institutions of the country, like a child n ith a bauble. The political question ot of slavery in the States or in the territo ries, the Federal Government has nothing in my opinion, to do with. If I, finding the culture of tobacco unprofitable, choose to plant my field with corn, I have no right to destroy my neighbor’s field, or abuse him, tiecause he routinues to plant a weed, which in my opinion forced on me by my own experience, is destroying his land, and which, in its effects, has an in jurious influence upon the health of the community around us. No more right lias the State of Connecticut to say to South Carolina, your slave Tabor i.s un profitable; tee have found it so therefore you must abolish it. If I and my friend from Virginia are owners ofa tract ofland which he and I contributed to purchase, I have no exclusive right to tell him how that land shall be cultivated or managed, nor has he that right over me ; and so it is with the territories belonging to this government—it is not in the power of iba Federal Government to say that Con- necticut mav go into them with ker facto ry mills, ami that Virginia cahnot enter them with her property.” Railroad Trial at Anderson.— Thursday was appropriated to the trial of arailroad case, in which I Was concern ed, and which, through the courtesy of counsel, was taken up out of its order on the docket, for my accommodation. The case was commenced half-after nine, and concluded at five in thf evening. James Thomson, through whose land the rail road ran, refused to relinquish the right of w ay, and the Commissioners had asses sed his damages at nine nine hundred dollars. The Railroad Company appeal ed from the assessment on the ground that the Commissioners had greatly over estimated the damages. A great variety of testimony was introduced. It wks in proof tliat Thomson had offered his lands for $2000, before the railroad was located and afierwards sold them for $3000.— The railroad had advanced the value of his lands $1000, and he still claimed $900 damages. I thought this was a strange way of injuring a man’s land, to make it sell for one-third more than it otherwise would have done. Some of the witnesaesentertained very E culiar notions in regtfrd to railroads.— r. Brazile said he would not accept of a farm as a present over which a railroad ran, Mr. Allen, lately from Spartanburg, swore that he regarded railroads as great nuisances to a country, and had rather not have tlien). Mr Townsend, ofGreen- villa, did not look upon railroads as a nui sance but had great appreliensiona of the cars killing children and little negroes well as horses and cows. He desired to be at least two miles from a railroad. Hie apprehensions induced the counsel to ask him if he were not afraid lo plough in a field where old trees were standing ? He said there was some danger in windy weather. In the argument of the case, Mr. Reed opened for the company, and spoke of the great advantages resulting from the construction of this railway, and haw un generous it was on the part of Mr. Thom- eon, to demand damaKes. Mr. Harrison replied, in a speech ot considerable length length and ability. Mr. Perry closed the argument. His Honor Judge Wardlaw charged the jury that they were not to re- gard the enhanced value of the land in assessing damages. This w ill be a mat- ter of appeal The jury, howevtu,returo- ed a verdict for $37 AO, instead of $900, as was demanded by Mr. Tbormom— Itevthern Patriot, expense and hot his own, says, very forcibly :- Tha press is only free to its editors, and to those whom its editors believe to hare good ground fir addressing the public, and something to say which the public has an interest in hearing. We would recommend those who labor under this mistake to consider the following fact— that newspapers are made for the large class who read, and not for the small class who want to write. The idea that when a man subscribes to a newspaper,he lays its proprietors under some undefinable obligation, or that he has a right to pub lish his composition therein, with the sin gle proviso tnat they shall be, inoffensive, is a popular fancy and most ridiculous mistake, which ought to be corrected.— Not only has he no such right, but the editor who permits him to put uninter esting matter in his columns infringes up on the rights of four or five thousand eth er people to gratify one individual. Very few edit liters act so absurdly. The Author or the Fedebalist.— The following memorandum respecting the authorship of the several papers of The Federalist, has been handed to the Editor of the N. Y. Times, by a gentleman whose position, the Times says, gives him the facilities for being well informed on the subject. “The lafo distinguished jurist, Chancsl- lor Kent, in a letter to the former Editor of the Evening Post, the 12th May, 1817, stated, from a communication he h->d re ceived from General Hamilton, that the numbers of the Federalist were written by the seventh authors, as follows: Numbers 2, 3, 4, 6 and 64—by Mr. Jay. Numbers 10, 14, 37 to 48 inclusive—by Mr. Madison. Numbers 18, 19, 20—by -Madison and Hamilton jointly. All the residue of the volume by .Mr. Hamilton. “ l he above corresponds with the mem orandum in the hand writing of General Hamilton, and by him placed in a volume of the Federalist belonging to the New York Society Library, which volume bas been purloined from the Library either as a valuable relic, or for some other less honorable purpose. “ In Mr. Madison’s enumeration publish ed lonjreiftpr the death of Generel Hamil ton, sej^ai of tne papers claimed by Ham ilton are appropriated to himself.” Gold Sfecimens.— IVe have a few specimens of gold as found in Mr. Dorn’s mine, w hich any one curious about such matters, can see by applying at this office. Mr. D.’s mine continues to yield prodi giously. His profits would make the luckiest Californian of them all start in astonishment From a gentleman just from the mine, we learn that it has yielded, without the shadow of doubt, at the rate of one thou sand dollars per day. /Mr. D.’s expenses, in the opinion of this gentleman, cannot exceed $39 a week. He has five hands digging, and two or three others different ly employed. He has examined the rich vein he is now upon, 158 yards in ad vance of liis present work, and finds it quite as good as at the beginning. It is now almost certain that a fortune will be realized by him in a iffiort time, and we congratulate friend D. upon his singular good luck. We stated some time ago that this mine was m Edgefield. The Abberville Ban ner has since claimed it for that district, and as we learn, very correctly. Mr. D.’s first operations were almost upon the line between the two districts; he is now sev eral hundred yards on the Abberville side. But while Abberville has the mine wo have the miner.—Edgefield Advertiser 1 A Female Ship Captain.—Amongst the fleet lately wind-bound is I-amla-h' not the least, but perhaps the greatest wonder, was the good old brig Cleotus, of Saltcoats, which for more than twenty years has been commanded by an heroic and exceedingly clever young lady, Afiss Betsey Miller, daughter of the late Mr. W Miller, ship owner and wood merchant of that town. He was concerned with several vessels, both in the American and coasting trade. Miss Betsey, before she went to sea, acted as “ship’s husband” to her father, and seeing how the captain in many cases behaved her romantic and ad venturous spirit impelled her to go to sea herself. Her father gratified her caprice, and gave her the command of the Cleo tus, which she holds to the pryent day, and she has weathered the storms ofthe deep when many commanders of the oth er sex have been driven to pieces on the rocks. The Cleotus is well known in the ports of Bolfasi, Dublin, Cork, lie.—Glas gow Post. ^ s ^ Recovery of a Lost Work of Franklin. A Loudon periodical, entitled “ Notes and Queries,” announces the recovery of a work of Benjamin Franklin. It is entitled “ Dlsertitlon on Liberty and Necessity, Pleasure and Pain, in a Letter to a Friend." This w as Franklin’s first work, as he tells us in his autobiography, printed in Lon don i*< 1725, when Ik was only eighteen years old. It was designed in part as an answer to Wollaston’s “Religions of Na ture.” But a few copies were printed, and most of them were afterw ards des troyed by Franklin himseli; under the ap- prehensfon that the pamphlet might have an 'evil tendency. A Mr. Crossley, of London, has recently discovered a copy, of it in a volume of boaud tracts. It ie an 8 vo. of 16 closely-printed, pages. Question eon Doctors.—How is it, that while all other fevers run to the head, the Kossuth fever rune to the hat?—Lan tern. Answer IT the Burlington, Vt, Sentinel.—The Kossuth fever that takas to the hat, is spurious. Tis really no revealing Of fever in 8axon or Gelt It isn’t a matter of feeling, But merely a matter of felt. The French Government have reduced the rate of intereat of tha 6 per ecu* tee t»4| per cent. [Frum the Richmond Examine.!.] “Henry 8. Foote haa written a recant ing letter to the “Union,” in which he describes himself as a Jeffersonian Jack- son democrat of the ‘ old line.’ ** We do not know what may be tha vague ideas ol Jeffersonian democracy which exist in the mind of Foote. He has changed and shifted so frequently of late—associated with so many parties— been allied to so many clique*—that it is not impossible that his ideas of whiggerv and democracy are somewhat confused. But the leaders of the democratic party believe that the principles which have been conceived since the days of Jefferson to promote the prosperity of the Union were able to perpetuate its blessings with out the intervention of the miserable set of ragamuffiins who got up the Union par ty ; and at a moment when the democrat ic party was weak and torn by dissensions it is sufficient to know that Henry 8. Foote skulked off and consorted with Webster end Clay, ane aided the whigs in making capital out of the Compromise. Now, however, the winter of our discon tent has been made summer; the clouds which hung over our horizon have been scattered; the sun of prosperity again bursts upon us; a democratic victory in 1852 is by l>oih parties considered inevita ble; and Henry S. Foote tries to creep back into the ranks ofthe party which he basely deserted at a moment of peril.— Discarded by the whigs, and neither bird ofthe air nor beast ot the field, he flutters at the threshold of the democratic party. He comes, not as a suppliant, prostituted as he is; he swaggers back, and with the effrontery of hardened vice, declares that he has always been a Jeffersonian demo crat. Having qualified hirnselffor a Mag dalen asylum, he now seeks admission into our party as a canonized virgin. He who should, in sackcloth and ashes, with scourged back and downcast looks, im plore pardon, struts back with the air of effrontery, and challenges denial of his democracy. We want him not; we cheerfully surrender him to the whigs, to the abolitionists, to the Mormons, or to any party or faction that will take him. For such worthless trash we have no need —damaged articles like Foote, are not in our line. A Passing Thought.—Rothschild is forced to content liimself with the same sky as the poor newspaper writer, and the great hanker cannot order a private sunset, or add one ray to the magnificence of night The same air swells all lungs. The same Mood swells all veins. Each one possesses really only his own thoughts and his own senses. Soul and body—these are the proiiertj which a man owns. AU that is valuable is to he hail for nothing in this world. Genius, beau ty, and love are not bought and sold. You may buy a rich bracelet, but not a well-turned arm to wear it—pearl necklace, but not a pretty throat with which it shall vie. Thd richest banker on earth would vainly offer a fortune to lie able to write a verse like Byron. One comes into the world naked ami goes ont naked; the fineness of a hit of linen for a shroud is not much. Man is a handful of clay, which turns quick ly hack again into dust. How to get am Enemy.—Lend a man a small sum of money for a day. Call upon liim in a week for it. Wait two month?. In three months insist upon his paying you. He will get an gry—denounce and speak of you in abusive terms. We have seen this experiment tried repeatedly, and never knew it to fail. Forrest performed on Friday night the fortieth night of his present engage ment in New York, the largest contin uous star engagement ever known in this country. The house is crowded to excess every night he plays. General Conference of the M. E. Church.—The next General Con ference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, North, is to commence in Bos ton, on the 3d of May, and " ill contin ue aeveral weeks—probably from three to five weeks. 'Hie old Spaniards were wont to en grave on their blades, “ Never draw me without reason: never sheathe me without honor.” Lord Mahon well says, that this might with truth and apt ness have adorned the sword of Wash ington. A Wit being told that an old ac quaintance was married, exclaimed, “ I alh glad to hear it” But reflecting a moment he added, in a tone of com passion and forgiveness, ” And yet I don’t know why I should be, he never done mo any harm.” The following ia now being debated before the Tilietudlem Lyceum : ‘‘ Which causee a girl the most pleas ure—to hear herself praised or another gal run down.” We ahall issue the de cision in an efctra. Home.—Home is a genuine Saxon word—a word kindred to Sj|xon speech, but with an import common to the race of man. Perhafis there is no other word in language that clusters within it ao many and so stirring menninga. [■MBAIi. t ' n8t -’ the Rev J. J. Mr Hejiby c Weather . I ford, to Miss . Elizabeth, daughter of John Coker, On the 7th i..*t., by t*^ 8m|nue , Fur . man, R. W. Spans, Eeq, to Miss A. B, Jennings, all of Bumter Dia%:rt. On the 3rd inst., by C. B. But, Esq^ Professor Thomas Lunn aged 70 yeviEj * Miss Margaret Petty aged 22 years/ On yesterday morning the 12th by Rev. 8. H. Hay, Mr. George W. Shan to Miss Mart E., daughter of Wm. Mel Kain, Esq., all of Camden, 8. C. Married.—At Edgefield C. H., Tuea- day evening, March 30, by the Rev. Ar thur Wigfall, Mr. John Bacon, (one of the Editors of the Edgefield Advertiser,) and Miss Pawnee Butler, daughter of the late Col. P. M. Eutler, Lost, Between this village and Elias R. Wil son’s the lower portion of the staff of a buggy Umbrella. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at this office. April 15 Post Office Notice. The Post Office will be open on Sabbaths from 9 to 10, A. M, for the ac commodation of those who wish their let ters and papers on that day. None m ed apply atanv other hour than above named ' M. A. HUGGINS. P. M. April 15 1852. 7 tf Dissolution of Copartnership. The firm of Stuckey and Wright is this day dissolved hv mutual consent. DARIUS L STUCKEY, JONATHAN WRIGHT. April 15 7 tf Caution. All persons are hereby cautioned against trading for a note of hand bearing date the Silt day of April, 1852, given by mo to A. W. Sexton. The property for w hich said note was given is unsound, and I do not intend to pay it unless compelled by law. J. II. NORWOOD. April 15 7 If 600 lbs. For sale, five hundred pounds of choice Bacon Hams—a choice article for family use. C. H. NETTLES. Mt.Elon, April 15 7 4t BLACKSMITHING. Planters Look to your Inter* est. Every practical farnn-r has no dotiM experienced the great advantages, result ing from keeping his plantation utensils in good order, and more especially the plough and axe. The subscriber proposes through this medium to offer the services of his Smith to the planters residing in the vicinity of Merchants Bluff, and the public generally and pledges himself to give ample satis faction to all tliat may tie di-posed to fa vor him with their patronage. BLACK- SMITHING in all its various branches promptly and faithfully executed to wit: j all description of Ploughs, made ami re- ' paired, Iron work on Carriages and Wag ons, made and repaired, Gun work neat- 1 ly executed. Horse Shoe Nails and Shoes, always on hand, and Shoeing done with dispatch and in the best of style at $1,50 all round, 76 cents for Shoeing before. ROBERT R. CANNON. April 15 7 tf Better than Beauty.—The host thing about a girl la ehtf rfuFneae. We don’t care how rfddy her cheeks may be, or how velvety her lips, if she wears • scowl even her fnemfs wifi consider her ill looking, while the young lady who illuminate* her rountenonce with smiles wilt he regarded ae handsnaie, though her complexion may be coaree enough to grate nutmegs on. Au per fume ie to Um reer, so to good uuturu to the lowly. NEW GOODS. \Y r e are now receiving our Spring and Summer Stock, making a very laree and well selected STOCK of DRY GOODS, Groceries, Hardware, Hat.*, Boots and Shoes. We also have and will be opened this week any quantity of Readymade Clothing—you will do your selves and us justice by examining our Stock, we have put every thing down at the very lowest possible prices,' hoping by so doing to merit our share of patro nage. ROLLINS &. WINGATE. April 15 7 tf SHEBITFS SALES. BY virtue of sundry Writs, of Fieri- Facias to me directed, will be sold before the Court House door, of Darlington Dis trict, on the first Monday in May next, and the Tuesday following at the usual time, the following nroperty viz: The defendants tract of Land on w hich his family resides, and on Tuesday at the family residence the defendants Cattle, Hogs, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Corn, Fodder and Bacon, at the suit of C, Coker and Brother vs. John M. Coker. One Sulkey and Harness at the suit of the State vs. W. A. Gowdy. The tract of Land on which the defen dants reside about fifty acres, one Mare and Colt, one Ox, one Curt, one pair hames, and two plough Bridles *t the suit oftho State vs. James Gaudy, and Lydia Gandy. On Tuesday at the defendants resi dence one Ox Cart, two Steens and one Horse, a loif of Sheep, at the suit of W. C. Bruce rs. Joseph Halliburton. J. H. HUGGINS, 8- D. D. April 16 1 ^ PTAWO TUWIHQ. JOSEPH FREY, from CharMonfo* forms the Ladies and Gentlemen of Dar lington and viemitj, that he ia prepared to Tune and Repair llanos, Organs Me- l °tekra Wt with Mr. Lino, at Meser*. CRANLEt to Mi Lines storet wd» * promptly attended to. P. 8.—Mr. Frey will be in DerUnftoit twice a year, in Apr® ® , *d October, perj sons wishing their Instrument tuned and repaired, would do well to wait on h» ar rival. No charge will be made if satMp'’ tion is not given. April 15 a"-' 7 'V'