THE SUIITEI DINNRR.
,1. S. ICIIAIDSON, Jit. EDITOuS.
,OIIN II. LOGAN,
WEDNESDAY. JULY 26, 1854.
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COTTON .IAstE&CT.
CHARLESTON JUt.Y 2.
COTTON.-There was a .ond den:w:l
for this article to-day, the tran.<actions tiav
ing rr ached upwards of 9(11 ha:es, the
hulk of the operations. nowevter, wre con
fined to the common qualitites. Former
prices were fully sustained. The extren.
es ranged from 7 to 01c.
" Sanco."
Many inquiries have been inade as to
what is the meaning of -' 1Vhalchonc's
Roach," the concludmng words in "Sin
co's'' pieco of poetry, in the last Banner
Not being abio to satisfy curio ity our.
selves we call upon "Sanco " for an ex
planation.
The Sherifi's Sales.
We do not wish our Sherifr'hard times,',
but it is a source of gratification to us to
see that he has made only one levy for
this mcnth, and that a buggy. Such a
case has not occurred in Sumter for many
years and we hail it as a happy evidence
of prosperity.
The Black River Watchman.
The Watchman comes to us this week
much enlarged and a very nice looking
sheet. We are glad to see this evidence
,of its prosperity, and hope the day will
.come when'we shall meet encouragement
enough to enlarge our old friend. For
the present we will have to content our.
selves with renewed efiorts to make it
mere acceptable and interesting to its pa
trons.
To Mechanics Generally.
We have heard some complaints from
our Mechanics in relation to the difficulty
of procuring choice pieces of lumber in and
about Sumterville. Does not the facilities
offered by Mr. LAREY in his advertisement
(to which we refer them) obviate all diffi.
culty'?
We have be~n reqjues.ted to call at.
tentitz to the advertisement of " Choien
~idrandy and WVines for medicinal pter
poses," by BOATwatoHT & BARULOD,
wvhich appetars int this issue. When it be.
.comes necessary to use any of the liquors
for medical purposes it is of tl-e first impor
tance to use a good and unadulterated ar
.jicle. We believe that, if there is such
-an artic'e, it is to be found wvith BoAT
wn:GHT & BARKULoo. Dr. B.-is a prac
tising. physician and informs us that lie has
imported his liquors with great care in refer.
ence to their use as an article of the amate
ria mnedica. Weo have heard thema highly
,syoken of.-See advertisement in another
column..
The lion. W. W. Boyce's
.Speeeh.
The able speech of our immediate Rep.
resetative in Congress uponi tha "Bil
making aplpropriation to carry m014 effect
the Mexicaio Treaty,'' will be amn111 upon
our lirst and fourth patge . WVe shouldt
feel that an apology was due our rea.ders
for the want of variety ii tis issue andl
afor this departu arom mar usua custom
(for we very selom inisert such lonmug arti
ecles) did we not feel sattistivnl th ii this d~e
sideratum is nmore than comopetnsated 'or
in the able effort of Mr. BoycE, whose
views will doubtless prove of interest to
mtost of his constituernts. 1'o those dis
posed to grumble, however, we would say
that It is but a matter of right and just ic.
to.Mr. B6vcs that the actions and condnet
of our Re~presentatative should be known
sto his constituents.
Columbia News.
Our Correspondent at Columbia has
sent us a copy of the "Report of the Cott
mittee of 21" appointed to .ascertain the
views of the tax-paying citizens on thte
propriety of the towns subscribing 6300,
4100l to the Columbia a'nd Hamburg Rail
Road. The Conmmittee' recommend that
the amount specified be subscribed, provi
dod that *400,000 be subscribed elsewhere
and that the Town Council have the loca
Lion of the Dlepois. A public meeting to
r-atify this report whiu ho held at the Town
kiall on Monday next.
Th j'ere was a fine shower of raid in Co
lumbia and the adjacent country on Friday
and a still heavier one on saturday even.
itng. The crops were doabtloss greatly
benefitted by these rains.
.From Texas we agaitn hear th~e lamnen
taf ions of the suffering people against infa
mfous ,dspredations of tho Indians which
* hoi6ena going on for several months.
.Ay of indians are said te be marching
hatbe interior of the State from Mexico,
* )r there is not a suljcient numher of effi
cicut troops toalbeck them. -Petitions were
in cisulation. for the removal of Gen.
Smuith as comnannder.hn-chief, and the ap,
Pout"n.bl o~en- Uarney in~ hi. stead.
Correspondeneo of the Banner.
WAsaINsovo, July, 22.
Homestead Bill--S. C. Delegation
Deatk of Afr. Wash ingrton-Afisccl.
laneous Items c&c.
Messrs. Editors: Notwithstanding
the vigorous and untiring efforts of
the opponents of the Hlomestead Bill
to postpone that measure until De.
cembur next, the Senate this morning
agreed to an immediate consideration
of said bill. One of its most active
opponents, John M. Clayton, of Dele.
wmae, proved, -.e t' ink, most success
fully that the paisage of such a mens
ure would prove detrimental to the
interests oft he lIopublic. It is thought
that, President Pierce mai veto the
bill: but. no oune is certain of such a
result. We earnestly hope it may he
defeated in both branches of Congress,
and not be allowed an opportunity of
being p'resente'd to ic President for
his ens lorseL~icnt or rejection. Hasty
Legishlotiui is becuining a serious evil;
anald Very 1I!Ly now think they are
disch'g;ing heir duties to themselves
Ind their cnisutuents by paying but
little attention to the various measures
brought Iheire them; voting for many
bills they have never examined seri
ouily: and thus devolving the respuon
sibility of adopting or rejecting a
measure, upon the President. This
should not be the case. The South
Carolina Delegation are fortunately
free from any such titults, and deserve
credit for the care and attention be.
stowed upon all business brought
before the IHouse or Senate.
Hlon. George C. Washington, an
immediate descendant of" the father
of his Country " died in this city on
the 18th inst. lie had filled many
offices under the Government, and at
the time of his death held the office of
Deputy Marshall at lWockvilie, Mary.
land. In 1852, Mr. Washington, was
nominated by the Native American
Party, for Vice President on the ticket
with Daniel Webster, but both of
them declined the nomination.
You will recollect that many bitter
words have recently been spoken and
many harsh things said by members
of Congress, about the citizens of
Washirngton City, because at the last
Municipal Election the "Know No.
things" defeated by a handsome
majority, the regular .Democratic
Nominee for Mayor. The effect. of all
such speeches has been to aid the
" Know Nothings " and the popular
feeling is so strongly on their aide.
that some t tue voluinteer filitary
Comrpanies Lie en-i ' ereai" '.. admit
into their ranmks no foreigners or
Cathiolies ! ! Members of Congress
are rapidly joining the new and mysti
cal order of " Knocw Nothings " and
that organization will after a while
become one of the most powerful ever
formed.
It, appears that all rogiies are not
dead yet. The Grand Jury of the U. S.
District court foar Maine has found
"true bills" against Messsrs C. M.
Marston and Nathaniel Foster foar
swindling the govermnent. Defaulters
are becomsing qjuite numerous anid
stealing-to usc a strong expression
grows moreax and more poputar.
The Cholera has not visi ted oiur cit
y to any extent yet ; but, no one knows
when it will appear. Souithierners who
flocked Northwarel in the early parn of'
the Stiinmer are! n' .w w'trinig rapid
ly to moure enn::enml elimeus. Sav to
your .ricenl- i by to visit, New 'York
City at Icr.--n. is to meet almosct
certadI~ .ei. hless and, ten chanmces to1
oneii, tol die. The number of deaths in
that city frmcoeawlavrg
200 a em -r il vrg
We notice in a western paper a no
tiee of Washington City fr-om the pen
of'"long" John Wentworthi. Johni is
not very compljlimientary- Ile says,
"Washinigto n, with all its beauty, is a
heartless, wicked place. it is one
great gainbiling den, where the stakes
are offices, and the players leg islators ;
every body says that every body are
rascals and knaves, and evey body acts
as ii he believed wvhat every body says
was true."
h he "Colt," ease is in) "Statu Quo."
The Committee wvill probably make a
voluinous report-and there the
matter will end.
Mrs. Thomas Peter, the only survi
vor of Mrs. George Washington's
fatmily died on. the 13th at her resi
dence in Georgetown. it is a strange
coincidence that two members of' the
Washingtons should have died within
a short distancee and within a short
time of each ot her.
Youa RsPOR'rER.
.The news respecting the Rtusso-Turk
sh question is said to be inore warlike
than ever. The Czar hasd not replied to
the demand or Austria, but it was believed
that he would positively refuse to comoply
with the formal requesct therein made,
lie has gained his ob'ject by drawing hi.
fees to his lair, and will now endeavor to
hold them at hay until they are worn out
and exhausted, when he will again venture
forth on his prcdatory excursion. against
Tuarkey.
For the Banner.
MEsSRs. EDtrons : I perceive in the
Vatchnan of the 7th inst., that the opin.
ions advanced by F. J. Moses as to the
proposed change in electing Electors of
President and Vice President. has been
answered in a manner the most sstisfacto.
ry by " Claremont," and that notion, as
to the unconstitutionality of the present
mode, clearly and most conclusively con
futed.
Located as I am in a remote corner of
the District, I have not had, in. toy limited
intercourse an opportunity of knowi'sg to
whom we are so much indebted for arrest
ing the progress of this fatal heresy. But
sirs, it is indeed gratifying to find so well
finished and substantial a spoke in the
wheel of State. " Claremont" has proven
himself to be on this great and important
quest ison, a most able defender of our rights
and privileges, and is possessed of intel.
lectual endowments, unquestionably of a
very high order.
You will allow me through this medium
to congratulate him with assurances,
that the county I ome of his forefathers
shall long feel their indebtedness, while af.
ter ages w II cherish wi'h pride, the recol
lection of having reared in her bosom so
able an advocate and expositor of those
principles whiwh have long been the shield
and rampart of our liberties.
The soundness of his conclusions and
the patriotic pathos with which he has met
this sophistry, at the very threshold, and
at a time when the people were fantastical.
ly beguiled, and fain would follow an igniis
fatuous glean into wiles and darkness, of
anarchy-demands the gratitude of a peo.
ple thus admonished and awakened to a
sense of their true position. We are told
that the Legislature usurps a right that
properly and exclusively belongs to the
people at the ballot-box. We are told to
cast oil' this obnoxious usurpation (being
a method of appointment established by
the framers of the Constitution,) in virtue
of the elective franchise. We are itvited
to a higher and more felicitous degree of
freedom by thus abandoning the ancient
customs of our fathers. What a catastro
phe, what n delusive :allacious scheme.
Is there one I would ask within the limits
of this District, who would now after re
Ilection advocate so foul a measure. What.
in this enlightened day to adopt a principle
which lies at the foundation of a system of
measures calculated exclusively to con
summate the designs of the demagogue,
but is most fatally destructive to the dear
est interests and influence of the State.
Would you pervert a government under
which you have so long and so happily ex
isted, to gratify those hungry desires of as
pirants to office. In short will you destroy
one of the most ancient customs transmit.
ted to you by your fathers, namely: of
Electors of President and Vice Presiderat
bem;; r.ppointed . :h Lpgislature t.. .ie
State tosgratifyi1 l -a ~ '
c.:w aspuirantlm B~t you are tokska.u
er~t tuod'e is unconstitutional &zmd doesat
comport wvitht the interest of the free atnd
enlightetned citizent of the District to sub
tmit to such ani inovation on their rights.-.
How far you mtay rely upon this hypothesis
we will endeavor to illustrate by a single
extract "Claremont" has sdsduced from
the Constitutiont: Art. I. Sec. 3. "The
Senate of the United States shall be comu.
posed of two Sonatoirs from each State
chosen by the Jl'gislatuare there.of for six
years ; anid each Senator shall hiav'e one
vote." What can be more definite, what
higher authority can we desire for the
piresent mode of exercising this right, than
the Constitution itself ?
WVhereass, on the other hm ed thce new
fangledl scheme is preseneted to youe with
out formn or system. You are invited 1(o
enter Is maizze withosut chart or coimpass.
you are left to adopt any systemi at the bal.
mot b''x, r. ther tha;n submtit to the present
mode of* aplpointmieent. In short you are
casl'ed ufein sto abandon t he method trisom.
neottrel toc yei by thle framers of the Coo~
sinsit ion, mnot for a " mess of pnttage " event,
neo, b.ut thlai you may revelI in utopian
schiemes of demagouggues, who for a name
w'ou dI enilanger the libeerty purchased by
the blood and tsuil aind suff'erings of Ine rev.
olutioin. Why is it that a change is
now advised ? Is liberty now a different
thing from wheat it w-is whueni t inflated the
heart, and nerved the arm. that struck the
blow that esablishied it ? no sirs; then there
is no view w'e can lake of this matter C hat
does not leadt to umnstrous absurdities, and
it is a moaxitm in politics as well as commi~on
senseS -Ihat wvhenever any doctrine leads to
such a conclusion, it has no just foundation
and must be false.
Trho right of the people to alter or abotish
old and constitute new governmenis is nt
dentied, it is adinittedt. Blut that such an
alternative shonld only be resorted to in
case of great oppression, or palpab'e and
dangerous usurpation is equally plaine.
MONTCLARE.
For the ilanncer.
Mesars Eclitors .--Ilaving c.asuatlly
glanced over the Proceeding's of' the
Fourth, which was celebrated near Mr-.
June's store in Clarendon, 1 su~e thit
I have been grossly, and I fear' malici
ously lmisrepreseted, in ha ing may
name associated with a sentiment,
purported to have been given oni that.
occasion, eulogizing the lion. Mr. Cass
to the skties. Permit mec in reply,
to state, that I do most emphatically
deny the authcrship of' any such sentit
mont, anid moreover of having handed
in one of any description, by which
tis hallucination couad have occurred.
And allow mec through your columns
to express my unfigned sense of grat
titude to the gentlemana, who has ta
ken this liberty with me, for the prof
fered honor which he has so kindly
tendered, atnd my extreme unworthi.
Dless to bear the rich Lamrel which ho
bas so graciously and benevolently n
attempted to place upon my brow. b
Yours Very Respectfully. i,
I. L. B ENBOW.
For the Banner.
Northern Impressions on y
a Southern Mechanic. e
Messrs. Editors : A few weeks since
we visited Baltimore, Philadelphia. Wash
ington, and New-York on a business agen
cy. It was the first time we ever had the a
pleasure of traveling through any of tie
Northern States, and the agreeable im
pressions made upon our hitherto highly
prejudiced minds cannot, by us at least,
he easily described. Prejudices we regret
to any inculcated by our wealthy and im
becle Planters, and barked forth am-mg
the people, by their satelites, and under
strapers, a heartless set of demagogues,
who~ untder pretence of forwardmant the in
terest of the " lear People" make it their
only studyjto ferment discord and strife be
tween the North and Sonth.
When we left our quiet little town,
our feelings were heavy and unpleasant,
we thought we would soon be in cities
where that class of the community of
whom it'is our highest ambition to be called
an humble member (we mean the Mechan
ics) were a hard-worked, ill requited and
much abused people.
We were prepared to have our state
pride ofraded, and ourselves insulted by
abuse of Southern institutions, to be thown
among a set of sharpers and wooden nut.
meg manmlacturers, whose only study was
how they could transfer the money front
the pockets of their brethern into their
own.
Judge then Messrs. Editors of our
agreeable surprise when the very reverse
of these erroneous umpressions proved to
be the real truth.
It has never been my happiness since
the earliest recollection, of our native and
much loved city of Charleston in her
palniest days, (when such men as the
Bennets, Gordons, and lorlbecks, Lucases'
Stroheckers, Rohs', Lass, Goldsmiths,
Nevelles, Muggridges, and a host of others
gave life and animation to her trades and
commercial prosperity,) to come in social
contact with a inure honorable upright and
intelligent set of men than the Mechanics
and business men of the above mentioned
cities. Oh! how my heart bled for our
young Souihern men, as their hapless
condition -ed itself on our shame
stricken ay . x)irtified feelings, as the
humiliating as between themselves
and their 0:n fortunate brethren of the
North, pne ytted itself clearly to our
hitherto de r : % n.
What a m.J and molancholy truth it is
my dear sirs that we too often see many of
our young n.en, as it elligent, sensible and
hgnorable ys any in the world, iunolating
1ibmsei.: 1o all inents and ur w on
them to ecec the already over 'charged
ranks of Medicine and Law, prepared only
to entingle and harrass those who ma.- be
so unforturate as to be the~ clients of the
one p)arty, thit thevy su.bmit with Patient
resignation to the prescriptions of the oth
er member of the learned Prqfessions,
who soon annuls their lease upon life and
consigns thema to our mothier-earth. Nor
does the sacreal desk or Pulpit escape the
dire inftluen'oes of such an ever vaihng
system of state policy, foar numbers of
our young nonee for wantt of encourageimnt
in motre appro~priate usefulness has adopted
part of an admirable my stein of Postage
and rush into) the chmur. h Pre -called at
least, if no~t Pre'-Paidl. Now Messrs.
Eh ,,ar: I -t us if puss blehb mishi dbem-.
g'eg~iue n ,r.'.n ou r legislatire 1 ells and
taae the reeas of Go.verrmnt out of the
hands of a ;rrse-rend, feeble and aristo
ciratic potrticn eof thme ,-aonuinumty, and en
t ret them to the yeo:ary t tie bone andi
ainew~ of the countr , , the F'arimers Mer
chants, acid Mech;.nws, anid compla thiem1
to open up the sources of weal h and honor-.
able induestry toa the yung. men of the
Socutm whose tastes and iniclintations would
lead them to pursue the many useful arts
which fromn the inecxha~ustible resources of
South C.,rolinea coumldl, render her people
the miost prosp;eroums, acid herself the firsti
among the .& ates of tlis great confederacy. 1
Jo vaein meay our. people homld commnercial
conveiitionsa anid pass resolutions to mnake
Chtar!eston anid other Southern Ports, pla-.
ces ofedirect implortatio~n.
All these gassy resolutions wvill avail
nothiing, we want custoumers, acid when we I
have thiem, commerce will as naturally ac
coimodate herself to our requirciemnts as a
ship when at anechoar will change position
witht the ebb anid flow of tide. And to hiave
customers we must have free Manufac.
turers and Mechanics. Weo must confine
our valuable slave population to their legiti.i
mate spahere of operations, the cultivation
of the soil.
Oitori hive we been mortified to hear
nur ii-pa id hard- worked fellow-.Mechan.
ics accused of laztiess, because they coulda
not compete with the slave of the wveathy a
planter, (who was senut forth to earn per. 1
haps the interest on his price, antd whio had ji
no childrent to clothe and feed and edlucate, a
no public duties to pay the State ;) whose e
onily alternative wvas to seek emnployment a
alsewhere or descend to the level of the a
free negro in pointt o1 respectability and b
aomfort.
Better stop the policy of Expatriation d
wvhichl has been going oit in our beloved tI
Sitate for theo last twenty years, by render-w
ng unto Caesar what is CUmsar. and grant.
nag to our honorable and intelligent Me. Iii
:hanics anid busint-se men a free and irq- oj
lartial share of the benefits of sound Lee' V
islation- re
'L'b Correct adiministration of instijce wi alf
over be effected as long as we are ruled
y popularity seekers whose only ambition
to aggrandise themselves at the-exponce
f their country.
Happy indeed were the reflections of
our humble servant, when after a careful
xamination into the Industrial, Moral,
'olitical and Religious sentiments of that
ortion of the bone and sinew of the coun.
ry, the Mechanics, Manufacturers, Farm
rs and Merchants with whore it was his
end fortune to come in contact, that he
ad over been steadfast in abiding by the
recepta of a kind and intelligeni Father
vwho carefully inculcated the most ardent
ave and admiration for this the beat guy.
rnment, when rightly administered on
arth-that we had Never been among
hose who at home, are preaching a disso
ution of the Union, and who spend their
reasures among those whom they vilify,
>ecause they find it good capital among
heir indulgent and unwary follow citi
en< at home.
To my follow Mechanics I would say,
ho not underrate your abilities, you have
tothing to dread in a trial of skill side by
ride with our intelligent and high-souled
Mechanics of the North; notwithstanding
ur little great not, think or pretend to
hink we are inferior in ability. Witness
he falacy of their opinions and the consis.
ency of their patriotism. When your votes
re kneeded our Northern brethren are de
.laimed against, when your treasures are to
be iavishly expended in buidig paltry Jails
'ar mnagnificenot Capitals, then you are to
be made "hewers of wood and drawers of
water," while some ignorant Jackleg is
employed to superintend the structure
which often conies tumbling down like the
great humbug in Columbi.i, attempted to
be built up by those who possess no know l
edge of our climate, soil, or texture of
building materials. Whilst there is not a
village in the State that does not'possess
men fully competent to erect any work
the State requires. Auad yet strange to
say a few of our credulous and well mean
ing brethren were so good natured as to be
imposed upon by a Political Capita I Ma-au.
facturer, who rose to defeata bill, wa ich if
pa.ed, would htavo made this class of
gentry, who come into our State taking
coutracts at less than the native legiti.
timate mechanic can do, and pay his taxes
to the State, because they, the transient
johers pay no taxes. 'This squib, however,
exploded something lik' the one got up
against the talented Tiber-only scorch
ing the fingers of the incendiaries- who
lighted them-Oh 'consistency,' thou-art
a jewel, but Political apital a hrirhtr
gemi .T. 1. C.
For the B;ainner.
Messats- EmTons: Vth your ptrmsa'.;
sion I would' lake to make a few remarks
upon several matters which I think to be
of some imporare .o us of the South. I
wouldnltiope, iLe among the last to spea:
ry ou-riiin and dealings it
our Northern rteighbors. But it is no
longer to be concealed that the ceople of
the North generally,- hhve no feelings in
comumoun with us, except in-o far as we
nasy be of service to them'in the way of
filling their purses. I feel assured that there
are many hionorable exceptions to this rule,
but they form only a ineagre'aninerity. 1
behieve the fact has recently been admitted
by the ilon. Johnmlicen O'Neall, Who will
scarcely be suspected by any one of being
awvayed in this ,natter by undue prejudices
agaimmst the Northern people. The fact as
somie of us were afraid th:.t his Hionor look-c
ad with too partial an eye in that direction.
wouald not however be utnderstood as even
nainuating that the Judge has not al w-ys
aiena a faist fraend to the South and her ini
atitutions, I can easily see whay heo has
aitherto felt himnself juistied in oppoiing
tome views entertained in tha' South goal.
brally and in douth Carolina particnularly
n regard to the North. His ve'ry position
vould renader him slow to admait the fact
hat thas Uauion is in imuinent danger of
)emng rent asunder. All history sustains
no in the position that public functiona
-ies holding office for lif e or during goodi
>ehaviour, are always among the last to
liscerna in justice in the administration of
mublic affairs. Inadrlitmon to this the Judge,
nm his visits to the North, has alwvays had
mot one object in view, viz :the advaince
nment of thae cause of templerance. He has
>n these occasions, for the most part, been
brown among those wvho, like himnself
mn such occasions were disposed cordlhny~
o ' fraternize " in advancing theq cause,
aeforo them, leaving all i~fher matiers
aside. But so all. pervading has the abo
ition sentimpent cow become that he could
aot bit see hostility to tns and our institu
ions wherever lao moved ; and now the
rudge, with characteristie candor, states it
o be his full convietion that this disorgan
rzing spirit i almost universal; but I ant
Dosing sight of my original purpose in
vriting this article.
It is reduced to a certainty that we of
he South are to .ecome a world to our.
elves. The sooner, then, we become
.ccustotned to this idea and act npon it, the
etter. Let us endeavor to act upon the
astice of our cause without excitenment
nd without denunciation. Meat deeply in
arnest and fully persuaded in their own
minds of the intogrity of their purpose
how the earnestness of determination,
ut not the excitement of passion.
Somne.things which I nmay dpem it pay
uty to retaark upon, maty seern trivial at
e first glance, but dqe etlusideratiqa
ill shaow their importanpe,
I hope to see nur people spending ze
tle money North as pqssible mn tho way
recreation or in the pursuit of health.
te cornpromase our dignity and self
spect in rushing by thousands, summer
ter sume tn thn naati.. c...&
fashionable watering places. We pour I
too a - tide of wealth into the coffers of <
those who are more thoroughly alienated I
from ue, than any foreign nation in the I
world.
We have, too, in our own sunny Southe
richer scenery, as fine mineral waters
and cheaper and hotter fare than can be
found anywhere North. Our own "Old
Dominion" with its glorious mountain
scenery, with its various mineral wa
ters, with its beef, its mutton. its veni
and its golden fruit, and, most of
all, with its generous and princely inhab
itants, oflers inducements to the trav
eller in the pursuit of pleasure or health,
nowhere presented, I venture to say, in
any portion of the northern States, or per
haps in the whole world. There is no
comparison between the bracing mountain
air of Virginia with her numerous mineral
springs, and the stove-like suffocating air
pont up in the valley of Saratoga.
But I beg to mention still another mat
ter which I wish to treat with great delica
cy, and, at the same time with that candor
and firmness which the nature of the case
demands.
I think the time has passed when our
seminaries of learning are to he filled with
Northern teachers. I know that a sort of
necessity once existed for this evil-for
evil it has always been. Not that I would
cast the slightest reflection upon the high.
minded gentlemen, and ladies too, who
have filled and are still filling, many of
these positions with great credit to them
selves and benefit to their pupils. The
misfortune hitherto has been, that those
of our own section qualified for these posts
of usefulness, have thought fit to turn their
attention to other and more attractive pur
suits. It is not to be concealed either,
that our own people have been too much in
the habit of supposing that our best teach
ers come from the North. As an instance
illustrative of this fact, I remember that
somewhere about the yeai 1833, a vonng
gentleman, a native of our own State,and
a graduate with high distinction from our
own college applied for the Principalship of
one 01 our Academies, and he was actual.
ly defeated by a Northern gentleman with
no other recommendation that I could ever
discover,- than that he hailed from that.
region; for aa to scholahip lie could 'not
teacheven the rudiments of the Lstin-and
Greek- lauguages
I remember still further that one young
friend having at last been elected principal
in this same Academy had the mortification
o h:ving placed "ver' him as a sdrt of
ofpar o: the mannor in which' he instric
te..! o! rn:tnagert th:- school, a Northern
. ininwhio was t! Principal of a Fe
:i Ai-adcitry in the same village and
under the same board of trustees. This
northern gentleman made his appearance
pretty regularly. onne 1 week, for a time
intene .eadomy to crfrrect errbrs in
a m')::nnt with our young'friend. It woulId
have ca used your heart to~ leap' for joy
Messrs. Editors, had yotd witnessed what I
(hid on a certain odcasion between this
gentieman -arid my young friend. On one
of his visitationche stepp~ed up with a sort
of pedigogical importance to 'th~e class
which our yonng friend was hearing-recite
fronm some latin authmor and immdiately
corrected thme translation rendddd h'y' a
member of the class. Oir youin4 friend
promptly insisted and fairly and clearly
proved thazt his pupil was right, aind so
completely used up the superintendlant thit
the pressing duties of the Female Academy,
ever after, prevenitedl hiim from visiting the
Manle Academy.
I by rio- means undervamlue 'the attain
ments of onr No'rthecr'' neighbors in litera.
ture and science, but I hollI, tha' we have
at least as good scholars South, as can be
fonn I any where North. I have long since
come to the conicluionm too, that ihe~re is a
wider reach in the Southerni mind than in
the Northern. The very inst itution wvhichi
is now rearitg up a high head between the
North and South, has contributed, and
other circumstanices wh.ich might be men
tioned, to produce this -ntellectual superi
ty of the latter over the former.
I bey noi means then allow that our
Northern neighbors are exclusively the
scholars of our country. I have but little
conitidence in me~n q! their notions in teach
ing, for thiey have their notions in this
mtor too, as well as ini others. I am yet
to be convinced that their elementary
works which flow down upon ts like sfmoals
of herring, are of any real value to uts,
whatever may be the pecuniary profit to'
themselves. To make a book is one o
the easiest things in the wvorlds---but to
makhe a good one--hic labor, hoc opus. T 'is
trade of book-making seems to have been
an evil even in the time of Solomon, for he
says complamninigly, " of making many
books there is no end." If any one would
fully acquaiint himself with the manner in
which these men bookmakers, get up their
legion of volumes, I refer theum to a gen.
ttemnan of this craft of whom a pretty full
account is given in the "life and adven
ttures of Seira Gil Jlmma de Santulaine". It
is a wvell known fact that in no other
country in the world, are grammars and
easy lessonsfor beginers. soi numerous, as in
this of our's. In IgngIand, fgr instan~ce, the
same granmmara,(4 nienn~ grammar4 of th~e
Latin and Grel lang~uage--hlave beemq
used for.nat leas a~ cttury, antd I gresupnq I
(laat \ve an rnot pratand (4 lgst i gay go, t
periority nyer the IMng la in Scholarslhip.
TIhe funt is, bqgijt-glakiig ihas h'ag pedend i
te a tf-ade at the Noarth, and we gf ;Ihe
South are the persoqnij o whom the~ bqqkg
are prinicipalhy sold, Qonatant ghanges (
are thqs brought abquit in theo $iqentad,
wvorks used in our schoole, At gnoat exena
md4 with no advyanente )vlh...... s,
atin and G reek languages are fixed, all
>f their phenomena have been pointed out
ong since. He who attempts to manufac.
.ure a " royal road to learning " is a mere
3mpiric in literature. God has ordained.
hat man should make his bread in the'
sweat of his brow. and this applies to learn
ng as well as to manuel labor.
Speaking of book-making having been
reduced to a trade at the North, with the
South as the pr. ncipal market, leads me to,
speak of another picture in this trade.
Hundreds of agents are sent. through the
country annually, get ting' subscribers' to
some forthcoming work or other , which is:
to eclipse anything of the kinl ever heard
shall of before. And here Messrs. Editors I
speak feelingly, having been recently most
egregiously imposed upon myself, without.
deriving any particular consolation, .from
the known fact that hundreds of others are
in the saume category with myself. Gentle
men. I beseech you not to think me over
heated in speaking of this matter. The
facts are simply these : some months ago,
a gentleman with Northern foot and -face
(have you never noticed these peculiari
ties!) me' me, and, in a most insinuating
delerontial manner, which makes a person
feel importait and opens hime to cornviction,
asked me to subscribe for a fo thcoming
wor.k of rare nerat, entitled the " History
of the World." Vell, you will allow that
the subject was a very large one. And
this I thought myself. But lie was so po.
lite, so Jefemintially urgent, that my vanity
was Batte'red and down went my name.
But 0 gentlenetn, when the book came, the
gilt shone brightly on tie outside, but it
was all lead and dross internally. Bad
paper, bad type, bad matter, bad every
thing. W' at do you think ? The precious
author devotes more pages to the defalca
tions and running-away of the redoubtable
Gen. Swartout, than he does to kingdoms
and Empires ! ! ! Thousands of things of
pri.me importance in history are unnoticed
by and perhaps unknown to the author,
while the merest trifles of yesterday are
dwelt upon ad nauseam. Gen'.lemen, le:
us all enter into- a solemn c.ompact never
to-subscribe again for a book without we
have the author within the reach of our
wslking sticks. If a book is a good one,
i.s osvn merits will tell it.
I'do not know that I would have mein
tioned the fact of my having been this im
podad uron, foi T was and am :t II very
much ashimned'of myself for haviing been
tlins gulled-if a young friend had not dis
covered' the glittering nonsense. with a
place close by the side of my Laird Ba''on
(wh't an indignity'to his'lordslhip !) in my
li:-rary, and laughed heattily af my ver
dancy. From'that moijent I determined
to speak out. Why Weens is a ptfrfect
Heroditus to this author..
BUSBY.
male ftriend .nd li . II -r' by itdamr~7g
the following notice to
JbtI\1 FIREMlAN.
DFAart Sia: I h-ive seen your advertise
ment in the Banner in which you make
such a candid and fair offer of matrimony .
You will not' think it a miss I am sure if I
reply with equil candor. I am'a young Ia
dy, my age 19-coniplexion fatir, blue eyes
anti black hair.-Hieighmt-abont 5' feet, well
ormned person, pretty face, foot and ankhe
and in point of fortune am worth one - in
mnyself. Being well pleased with the des
cription of Mr. John Fireman. I would ,mnty
object' to hear from him. I abhor secreecy
and prefer candor above every tihing and I
therefore take'this mnethmod of addressing
you.' Y' mi will a hlige, if it meets your ap
proval, bf adldresing through the same
mediuin,' MISS M. R.
Sumter-ville, S.C.
@ b i tuaiv g.
DEPARTED This life 'o Sumuterville,
on thme afternoon of mhe 16'of July 185il.
after a brief and painfnul illness Francis
Marion, infant .son of Francis B. and Mary
E. 0. Grier, og.% one year and 2'dys.:
Sleep, sweet Fancis; on thy breast
Thie summer flowers will bloom,
While thou, the bightest and the best,
Dust wither in the tomb.
The sun will beam at morning fair, ".
But, oh! thy light no more;
The song of birds will load the air
Thy sweeter song is o'er.
Thy lute-toned laugh, thy gushing glee,
Which thrilled us all the day,
Is husbed, like music on the se-,
By Naiad's lured away.
Tme living tints of purest blue,
Are faded from thy eye;
Thy spirit, like the fragrant dewv,
Hiath floated to thme sky.
Sleep swe'etly, Francis! thy pure soul,
Through fairer scenes will rove,
In reakuis hey, nd this world's control,
Where all is lights amnd love.
WVer'p not fond paren~ts o'er is tomb,
Nor where thine anigel trod;'
Thy beauteous flower r'ow dothn bloom'..
Before the throne of God.
So, Carolina--Sumter Dist.
B3y IV". L E WJIS, Es I., Ordinary for said
Diutrict.
Whereas, Dempsey Griffn hath applied
o mue for iillers of A laiistration,on nil
tad qin utlar the guqyi and chattles, rigfata
moi cre itors of the kgte W. W. Sy2elry ogg
hze sqid Qistpecr, dgpansed '
Those are, th [eforp, to 't andm .'dijor.
ors of the sa i dec'qaxem d 'ailasec
ef6{A tge at jiur~ hi~t Oemr's ~
Iim sjaid flimjjet, ti( bq olden ht t
-ons Hlqueg pn Fridiaydie gi y of ni.
4im4 adtisijatioi; h ahil not be~ grapte4
9.'t1 dlay, of' .fy ini .tig egr. ul
t.. . r0g 0 one usail ig it hanp
An iy er and in ire79jilr
*rb'J Atueiiarq indepsndenes;
JulyE id, o F. . -