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STA1'EING TURNER, THEOPHILUS DSAN,
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JOHN C. LOVELESS, I T. J. WHITAK ER,
gg The Friends of Capt. JOHN BLAND
nominai'n him a Candidate for SIIERIF at the
next election.
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gg The Friends or WILLIAM SPIRES re
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FF of Edgefield District'at the ensuing election.
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,gt The Friendls of Mr. F. V. COOPER noumi
nate liinr a Candidate for SHlERIFF at the next
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lhe miany Friends of Mr. JA MES EIDSON
hini a Candidate for re-election to the
FA LTY of Edgetield District, at the next
he Friends of Rev. DAVID UOUIE
him a Candidate for Ol;D)INAflY of
istrict at the ensuing electio'n.
2
J. L. MIMS
udant at Livery Stables
AR EuF U.'S. HIOTEL,
A UGUSTA, GA.
ught the Stab'les formerly occupiedl
R CHER & CO., would lee plensed
Augusta to call and have their
TTENDEJ) to.
commodious MULE LOTS.
n hand HORSES, CARRIAGES
to hire as good as in the City.
, yours.
WILLIAM E. SIKES.
tf 48
For the Advertiser.
Words, Words !
Dy i. R. GODAa.
Words, written.words.! the offspring of thought
How they have governed the world for years,
With strange foieboding oft-times fraught;
Or gay with joy, or sad with tears.
See the reader-man, woman or child,
The subjelbsinpile, t words most wild;
See .them laugh, or cry, by turns
Words ! they are torches and each one burne!
Words friends have spoken, how cherished'by all,
In'silence their accents still ring clear and sweet;
And last until Death hath spread o'er us the palf,
A cause for.our actions-aguide for our feet.
Think of the power for good, or for ill,
Father, whilst children attend at your knee, -
Gently and lovingly, precepts instill;
. And their lives' future acts will reflect well on
thee.
What a wondrous, strange thing is a word
Causing joy or deepest despair!
Liko a balm-or perchance like a sword,
Falls the word, and dissolves in thin air;
Yet the train of effects hurry on,
^--Atid'lifetd the heareiis renderd,
Or peaceful, or sad, as it passeth along,
-- (ythe tlioughts 'wlh the word hath engen.
dered.
What pity th'at scholars, but most, politicians,
- From tho.raisuse of words should oftsfail,
And become puny pigmies, who might have been
Titians .
Wafted on by prospority's gale.
Words! aye, 'twas but a simple one
That caused a war in years long fled,
And wond'rous deeds of arms were done;
And thousands elumbered with the dead..
For the Advert'er.
Absence.
-The grave of the heart, with its long withered roses,
Its memories vain, its regrets, and its void,
So unlike the true grave where all dreamless reposes,
The-still, painless form that chill Death has de
stroyed!
A! this tomb of the heart, all around it entwining
The sunbeams that glittered in~lope's Long Ago,
Till the shaduws of grief mingling with their
bright shining,
Spread a pall o'er the past and its joylight below!
Life is too short with its passionate dreaming,
Itshopes and its fears, and its wild restless love
For hearts thatadore beyond all of earth'siteemine,
To throb enlmly on, when loved forms afar rove.
Absence, this gloom of the grave not its quiet,
DAISY.
A Revolutionary Relic.
The following eloquent Revolutionary Ser
mon, preached on the 10th of September,
1777, on the ere of the battle of Brandywine,
by the Rev. Jacob Prout, to a large portion
of the American soldiers, in the presence of
General Washington, General Wayne. and
others of the Continental army, was recently
discovered among the old papers of Major
John Jacob Schcefinyer, an oleer of the
Revolution. It should be perused by every
lover of patriotism.
REVOLUTIONARY SERMON.
" They scho take the Swoord, eall perisk biy the
Soldier8 and' Felow-country:
We have met this evening, perhaps for the
last time. We have shared the toil of the
march, the dismay of the retreat-alike we
endprei .:old and hunger, the contumely of
the internal foe, and the outrage of the foreign
~oppresser. We have sat hight after night
eide the same camp-fire, shared the samne
ogh soldier's fare ; we have together heard
the roll of the reveille, which called us to duty,
or the idat oftthe tatoo, which gave the signal
for the h rdy sleep of the soldier, with the
earth for 'his bed, and the knapsack for his
pillow.
And .now, soldiers and brethren, we have
met in the peaceful valley on the eve of bat
tle, while the sunlight is dying aw:ay beyond
yonder heighrts; the sunlight, that to-morrow
morn will glimmer ou scenes of blood. We
have met amid the whitening tents of'our en
ampment ; in times of terror and gloom have
we gathered together-God grant it may not
be for the last time.
It is a solemn moment. Brethren, does
not the solemn voice of nature seem to echo
the sympathies of the hour ? The flag of our
country droops heavily from yonder staff; the
breeze has died along the gre-en plain of
Chadds Ford-the plain that spreads before
us, glistening in sunlight ; the heights of the
lrrndywine arise gloiomy 'and grand beyond
de raters of yonder stream, aind all nture
holds a pause of solemu silence on thefeve of
the uproar of the bloodshed and strife of to.
mrow.
'h I,'i a tae the Swo'rdi, #hi'll perish lby thei
* .~,rord."
And have they not takent the sword ?
Let the desolate plain-thle bloo~d-soddenedl
valley-the burned farmn house, blackening in
the sun-the sa1cked villaige, and ravaged
town, answer-let the whitening bones of the
buthered farmer, strewn along the fields of
his homestead, ain-wer-let the starving moth
er with the k,abe clinging to her withered
brest, that can afford no nourishment, let
her answer, with the death-rattle mingling
with the mnumuring tonies, that miark the
last strug'gle for .life-let the dying mother
and her babe arnswer !
It was het a day psast and our land slept in
the light-of pence. W ar was not here-wrong
was not lhere. Fraud, and woe, and misery,
and want, dwelt not, among us. Fr,nm the
eternal solitude of the green woods, arose the
blJ in umkeonf the settler's cabin. anid golden
fields of corn looked forth from amidtae waste 8]
of the wilderness, and the glad music of ha- a:
mAn voices awoke the silence of the forest. b
Now I God of mercy behold the change 1 1
Under the sanctity of the name of God, in- tl
voking the Redeemer to their aid, do these 'I
foreign hirelings slay our people ! : They p
throng our towns, they darken our plains,'and
now they encompass our posts on the beauti
ful plain of Chadd's Ford..
"They who take the Swrord, hall periah by. the
' Sword."
Brethren think me not unworthy of- belief,
when I tell you the doom of the British is
near. 'Think me not vain- when I- tell -.you
that beyond the cloud whichInow'enshrouds b
us, I sed'gathering thick and fast, the darker h
cloud and. the blacker storm of a Divine re- 1t
tribution. 0
They may conquer 'us to-morrow. Might
and wrong may prevail, and we may be driven 1
from the field-but the hour of God's own
vengeance will comel t
Ay, ifdin the vast solitudes of eternal space e
-if in the heart of the boundless universe, 8
there throbs the being of an awful God, quick I
to avenge and sure to punish, then will the
man George of Brunswick, called King,.feel a
in his.brain and in his heart, the -vengeance
of the eternal Jehovah! A blight wilf be
upon his life-a withered brain, an-accursed
intellect; a blight.wilf be upon his children, d
and upon his people. 'Great God!I how great it
the punishment! - -
. A crowded populace, peopling the dense t
towns, where the man of money thrives, while
the laborer starves: want striding among the l
people in all theforms of terrors ; an-ignorant t
and God-defying priesthood cluckling over 0
the miseries of millions; r - --d merci
less nobility adding wr
heaping insult upon r
royalty corrupt to the vy
rotten to the very core;.
ed hand-in-hand and te
of woe.and death; th.
doom and retribution
English throne and t.
- Soldiers ! I look ar'
faces with a strang
morning we will all a . .
need I tell you your unworthy Minsw.
march with you, invoking God's aid in the 4
fight ? We will all march forth to battle I
Need I exhort you to fight the good fight, to
fight ior your homesteads, and for your wives
and children ?.
espatchcd their victims, the cries for mercy,
the pleading of innocence for pity. I migut
paint this all again in the terrible colors of'
the vivid reality, if I thought your courage s
needed such wild excitement.
But I know you are strong in the might of a
the Lord. You will go forth to battle on the
orr. with light hearts and determined
spirits, though the solemn duty-the duty of e
C"
avenging the dad-.may rest heavy on your
souls.
And in the hour oaf battle, when all around a
is darkness, lit by t'ne lurid cannon's- glare ~
and the piercing musket's flash, when the a
wounded strew the ground, and the dead litter 0
your path, then remember, soldiers, that God g
C
is with you.
The eternal God fights for you-He rides e
on the battle cloud-He sweeps onward with
te march of the hurricane charge-God, the g
Awful and the Infinite, fights for you, and t
you will triumph.
" They who take the Swoord, shall perish by the
Sword." t
Yen have taken the sword, but not in the *a
spirit of wrong and ravage. You have taken t
the sword for your homes, for your wives, for C
your little ones. You have taken the sword "
for truth, for justice and right, and to you the Y
promise is, " Be of good cheer," for your foes I
have take-i the sword in defiance of all that ii
man homs dear, in blasphemy of God-they I
shall perish by the s*,ord.
And now, brethren and soldiers, I bid you q
all farewell. Many of us may fall in the fight '
of to morrow-God rest the souls of the fallen! I
Many of us may live to tell the story of the ~
ight of to-morrow ; and in the memory of all f
will ever rest and linger, the quiet scene of tl
this autumnal night.
Solemn twilight advances over the valley ~
-the woods on the opposite heights fling V
their long shadows over the green of the C
meadow-around us are the tents of the Con- '
tinetanl host, the suppressed bustle of the
camp, the hurried tramp of the soldiers to and ~
fro among the tents, the stillness and silence ,
that marks the eve of battle.t
When we meet again, the loug shadows of
twi-light will be flung over a peaceful land.
God in Heaven grant it'!
r1
Let us pray.
PRfAYER OF THES nEVol.UTIoN.
Great Father, we bow before thee. We in- I
oke thy bilessing, we deprecate thy wrath ;
we return thee thanuks for the past, we ask
they.id for the future. For we are in time of a
tr uhh, oh, Lord I and sore beset b'y foes,
meriless andl un pitying ; the sword gleams ~
over our landl, and the dust of the soil is t
lampened with the blod of our neighbors e
ad friends. Oh! God of .\!ercy, we pray thy
blessing on the American arms. Make the ~
man of onr hearts strong in thy wisdom;
bless. we beseech, with renewed life and
strength, our hope, and Thy instrumnent, even
George Washington. Shower Thy counsels
on the honorable, the Contiuental' Congress ;
visit the tents of our hosts ; comfort the sol
dier for his wounds and afflictions ; nerve him
fr the fight ; prepare him for the hour of
death. And in the hourof defeat, oh ! God
of hosts, do Thou be our stay, and in the hour
of triumph he Thou our guide. 4
Teach us to be merciful. Though the memn
ory of galling wrongs be at our hearts, knock-t
ing for admittance, that they may fill us with
dsire. ofnrvene,. et, Iet us, Oh ! Lord, 1
pare the vanquished,
pared us, in their -h.
loodshed. And in th
'hou guide us into the
le.blest; so shall we
'hee, through Christ c
rosper our cause. Am(
Rules for -
How To SUCCEED IN..
iles were:
1. Cut short your losse
2. Let your profits mi
In order to do, this, o-.
we-and to aioiaith
egin small. Feel yol
ad a quick and powe:
am from him, observir:
ar knowledge, -instead
Then in Egypt, he and j
ere riding out in a dark
each, where it was. ver.
ie tide came in rapidly, a
rery m6ment ~ deeper -
ood ;: they could not st
aud, they bee-ne alarne
ad destruction threatened
iemed never to fail for a
rdered all to form a circle,
atwards. They did so. I
pride ahead ; if any found
seper, they were to turn a.
growing shallower, they'
ad all the rest to follos
iem to dry land. It is i
roceed cautiously in diffen
lure results, wheel ab u
mids, go ahead. This is ti
at Ricardo's rules, "Cut sh
t your profits run on."
AKOTHER REQUISITE FOR
m'-unflinching prin
--rut b
murse is at once arm
D goes on till some gross comumissio-,
nds him to prison, or imr
try, it he had known one who had pnraui
siness strictly of the character of the p
tor for thirty years that came out rich.
id he did not know any. " All our
en have accumulated their wealth by gra
id constant' accessions." We have ku
any men who were pointed out as
ensely rich" through speculation, but
rery case that we can recollect, they a
ards failed.
A Ries Es-raTs.-The best legacy wl
man can leave to his children, is the alb
-take care of themselves. Fit them
~tive, responsiBle business, and they ha~
ace an income ; but this income in as n:
reater in value to them than the same
>me left in money, as activity and ut
ployment are better than idleness
iunging and dissipation. Give a young
od moral habits and a good praec
iorough school ellucation, (which by the
eed not necessarily be acquired at scho
ad he can secure a salary of perhaps tW
ree hundred dollars at first, and in su<
ve years up to a thousand dollars. I
en worth a thousand dollars, his real.2
~unted- in money. But a poor young
ho can make a thousand dollars a yei
rorth far more than a young spendthrift
as sixteen thousand dollars, because h
tore useful in many other ways, and is ma
iaself happy instead of miserable.
"WAT BUsINmss SHALL I FoI.Low?"
uestion is often asked, and the proper an
ay be, any useful and legitimate busi
hat is usually the best business for a
hich he can perform best. He must be
tted for whatever he undertakes. 4
lat, success depends upon the man, and
n the business. We have known some
f defiient energy and capacity who fa
'ith the most favorable commencement~;
thers who, under great difficulties, persev
thout faltering until eminently prospe:
But it is all-essential to stick to youri
ess. Several years are often require<
ttain a proper knowledge of all thel'ai
ons of a trade. A man who' was elef
e thousand dollars a year, remarked,
e first five years ] made almost nothia:
y that time ho had accumulated great e
ience. Another, a person of high caps
hanged his oe.gupatipa~ eighlimei~ foui
enr-he began rich andia now goon
Go Ahead i
Y.oung Men I If you ever expect to
ody-if you ever hope to rise in the w
:st go ahead. The great difference w
xists in regard to wealth, fame and disi
on, are not half so much' attributabl
xtra talent as t o extra effort. He who i
0.st vigilant, activc and persevering, i
no who is bound to outstrip all others ii
.ttainment of his objects, whatever that ma
Go ahead I Work away with a zeal w<
.f the cause in which you have enlisted.
atter how many competitors you ha
rill only inspire you to the greater dilige
you only remember that extraordinary e
,ways triumph over ordinary ones.
Go ahead-l If you aim for public h<
hey shall be sours-depend upon it you
ttain them, for such results are produce
auses as well da a 0- a s
he arecion of a bullet when discharged
argt. The best aim will mako the hes
Go ahead! If you arc hcad and es
ova with some fair one. who has a half
feld, ot- wheni youotre too busy to cai t man.
ure;'it is also a good addition to the farm
manure for a greedy root crop."
3Prom the Charleston Courier.
Save Him.
Oh-! save bim-4hat poor young man! You
may save him-he can never save himself, for t
'he is sold, aye sold ; all his clear intellect
and,lofty endeavor; all his proud birthright
of inanly independence, noble, unflinching Z
purpose and, fearless self reliance, sold to
"-themwornrof-the still."
"Nothing to you- only 'a stranger-liw
pertinent interference ?"' Nothing to you?
What for then did Providence place him in
e
your path ? Father of that bright eyed boy,
mother of that fair haired girl- he had a fath.
er, a.mother, once; save .him as 'you would y
save that boy from a drunkards grave, that
girl from the untold miseries of a drunkard's b
wife. -
Man of God, pass not by on the other side. I
Man of Science, is he nothing toyou ? Think b
how you wrestle with the destroying angeit
for his victim; .how you battle, inch by inchs
with the very foot in the grave, for his prey. t
-Can you do nothing here ? Is there no anti
dote for the fang of that viper, that "stingeth
like a serpent and biteth like an adder.?" e
Must it be alone forever, to creep and- coil
into the soul "without let or hindrance. -
Christian man, Christian woman, is he
nothing to you? Save him-he. is worth
saving--God made him in His image; Christ .
died to.redeem him, and shall you abandon a:
bim? - You d
"Heir of the seir-same hertige,
Child of the self-same God;
He bath but stumbled on the path ti
Thou hath in weakness trod."
Fearfully sullied and dim, are the shattered s
debris of that image of the Almighty, but
there is hope 9f him still. He has struggled
.-manfully once-he will struggle agaia and t
again, feebly and more fitfully, for the coil of
the serpent is around, the spell of the sorcerer S
is upon him, and the strength of his iron will w
hut yours unbroken. Go to the re P
:-A than the strength.
-nA
listen." L..
ransomed go free, if man as
naught t him;fbut gold, show himiv
It is his qod; iefore it le bows everj!
pulse of ing-1-human sol iiaus
ULie balab 1 0c
Man of means, buy him off but for oneI
month, one year-it may save him. Rese
him at all hazards, at any cost-save hi -
time, save him for eternity..
Loursr L. M.
Lazy Boys.
A lazy boy makes a lazy man just a:
crooked twig makes a crooked tree. Who 5
ever saw a boy grow up in idleness that did fa
not make a vagabond when he became a man,.
unless he had a fortune to keep up appear.
ances. The great mass of thieves, paupers T
and criminals that fill our penitentiaries and D
almshouses, have come to what they are by ti
being brought up in idleness. Those who
constitute the business part of the community,.
those who make our great and useful men,
were trained up in their boyhood to be indus
trious.
When a boy is old enough to play in the
street, he is then old enough to be taught how ~
to work. Of course, we would not deprives
children of healthful, playful exercise, or the C
time they should spend in study, but teach a
them to work little by little, as a child is i
taught at school. In this way he will acqiuire f
habits of industry, which will not forsake him e
when he grows up to be a man. Many per. e
sons who are poor, let their el~dren grow 1J
up to fourteen or sixteen years of age, before t
they put them to labor. Such children, hay- 5
ing no idea what work is, and having ac- t
quired habits of idleness, go to impose upon r
the employers with laziness. There is a re. C
pulsiveness in cgll work set before them, and i.
to get it done, no :natter how, is their only t
aim. They are amnbitious at play, but dull at C
work. The-consequence is, they don't stick j'
to one thing but a short time ; and they rove f
about the world, get into mischief, and finally C
find their uay into the State prisoni or alms- C
house. I
Mary Fuller, a young girl. imprisoned in
the Ohio Penigntiary fog.counterfelting, made
her escape on the 1st instant, from the fifh
story of the prison, by passing out of her win
dow and passing along the side of thbe bilding,
upon thece.;-igeopgexatei tajhle,.aboaiteighteen
insies broa. ?tssing along the front of the
building aAt the immense height of fifty or
sixty feet from the ground, with nothing to
hold to, and upon the projection scarcely
visible from the ground, she reached, at a die
tance of about forty feet from her room win
dow, a place where it was necessary for her
to jump about twelve feet to the roof of the
west wing. The leap was taken, proved a safe
one, and the dauntless woman next fastened
to the corner of the roof a rope whic.h she had
made of her bedding, grasped it in her hands,
amd swinging from the roof passed down on
the outside of the wall over windows where
other convicts were sleeping, and down to
terrafirma, where, at a distance of forty-five
feet below the roof, she alighted in the arms
of a confederate.
A " FONT'" OL T YPE.--As a sec'ap of infor
mation we give the proportions in which thes
different letters are cast to a font of type, and
in which they occur in print: Letter e, 1500;
t, 900; a, 850 ; ni, o, *, i, 800 ; h, 040; r, I
620 ;d, 440 ;n, 340 ;, m, 300 ;f, 250 ; w, y,
200 ; g, p, 170; b, 160; y, 120 ; k, 80; q,r
50 ; j, x, 40; z, 20. Besides these are the
com' ined letters, fi, 50 ; if, 40 ; l, 20 ; f11,t
15; fll, 10 ; an, 10 ; an, 5. The proportion of
the differernt letters of capitals differs very 1
materially from that of the small letterse, the
letter 1 being unod most frequently, then T,
then A and E &c.
itoisomeorwn na've War -ore . ea
at yace than, yotuelC-h sure
ae go. mateeven though you
oted for your. want of. the personnel-re
ier that;'good looks is never .more than
inutes .abead of its first rate manage.
ahead, then, under all circunmstances.
on -are..as r ,as Job's turkey-go
I If you are as homely as a hedge
-go ahead ! If you are ont at.pocket
head I If you rae out of creditr-'gp
If you are out or riends-odihead I
t, se-all times and under all circum
be sure to go ahead, always keeping
the go ahead men are the first men.
-n up" for a Wife; or Good-as
. Wheat.
'State of Tennessee there is a certain
oasting of a tavera, three stores, and
groceries, wherei from morning till
I from night till da'wn, a -person en
e town may fiud in the tavern, stores,
aforesaid, onc or more groups of
?laying cards. Gambling there is
o a science, tle history of the four
.boroughly. studied, and from the
'to the gray-haired veteran, from
a her teens to the mother of a large
y are initiated into the'my.teries
w, judk, game, right and lefthbow
anors and the odd trick., One of
layers.'in -the village was. Major
tavern keeper; or, as he expressed
eietor of the hotel; a widower,
JAphta Judge in Israel,
ad ardlaughter passing fair."
te daughter, was one of the pret
STennessee, and therefore one of
in the. world; for. h Were di
-r to lay down as ipsA dir4t, that
.omen, in point of beauty, are
&teless. The sweetheart of Fanny was a
.;ee, residing in the neighborhood,
' bv the bame of
art Ln,
he was td-thatthe young farmer
b mke at least one btiddred bush
Major appeared to study forj'mo
:t:.iptfy'proposed ;aame*of old
sevenp i;" the stakes to be his
Amywainst the crop of wheat.
course, the. young man indignant
. because he could not bear the idea
nd of her he loved should be made
e suqb ect of a bet, or, that ho should win a
Cu- wife by gihmbliug fbr her-; and, perhaps, be-.
cause he knew the old man was "hard to
rich beat," and there was a strong probability of
ual his lusifg both wheat and wife.
It was not until the Major, with his usual
im obstinacy, had sworn that unless he won her
I i he should never have her, that the young
ter- man was forced reluctantly to consent to play.
The table was placed, the candles lit, the
bic cards produced, and the players took their
seat with Miss Fanny between them, to
fwatch the progress of the game. The cards
t were regularly shuffled and cut, and it fell to
h the Major's lot to deal. The first hand was
iplayed, and Robert made gift to his opponent's
elhigh low game. Robert then dealt, the Ma
d jor begged; it was given,' and the Major
nagain raade three to his opponent's one.
.c "Six to two," says Miss Fanny with a
wsigh.
and Majo as he dealt the cards, winked
ce "Pai good for the wheat, Master Bob."
is The old man turned up a trump-it was a
-Fanny glanced at her father's hand
in her heart sank; he held the three, eight
r,'i spat, 'and the king ! She then looked at Rub
o ert's hand land lot he had the ace, queen,
s dueand jack or knave. She whispered to
kiRobert to beg-.he did so.
" Take it," said the Major..
rhi Robert led his deuce, which the M:.
wr took with his three spot, and followe.: by
e.playing the king. Robert put his queen upon
n it. The Major supposing it was the young
wlman's last trump, leaned over the tablc, and
er tapping his last trick with his finger, said :
~n "That's good as wheat."
en "i:. it ?" asked Robert, as he displayed to
d the astonished Major the ace and Jack, yet
d in his hands.
rd "High, low, jack, gift and game," shouted
os. Robert.
~j Out !?' ejatculated 1'anny..
S" Good as'wheat," ad goe as. hQ
f.flung his arms around her neck and lkissed het.
In due time they were garrid an eger
r #ifter that hen anything occurred of apla;
ip'~~g nature t~o th9. hiagy coqple, they w ould
e- express their empba~tia apprbsoi of it hy
ythe phrase, " Good as wheat."
m-sMasnging a~ Farn hy Stock Feeding.
'Mr. Mechi says, in the Mark Lane Express,
that "making meat was the cheapest way of
y. gh'aining manure," and quotes some authori
ord, iM-.onthe subjelet. In concluding his letter,
hich he remarks :
Lie- " Nothing pays me better than giving my
eto 'sihep one pound of rapecake ; as they get fat,
he they will eat nearly one and a half pounds
te per day. Rapecake costs ?6 per ton ; as
te manure, it is worth ?3 3s. per ton, and we be.
e lieve that seven pounds of rapecake will make
rty one pound of mutton. Fattening hogs entails
o a loss of about ten per cent. as an average,
eit but still it is much cheaper than guano; fifty.
~ne, six pounds of barley meal is generally suffi
ots cientto produce eight pounds of pork: Fat.
tening bullocks, on the principle laid down
nrs by Mr. Horsf'all, is also a cheap way of obtain.
shal ing manure. When you have wade your
dby manure, take care not to waste an ounce of
.Ia i:. This has been my custom for the last
at fifteen years, and as o consequence, my farm
hit, teems with fertility. 'The slops and all the
ai exereta-from the house should all 'go onth
...r fr..... Gano pays very well on a distant
From the Ubarluston Courier.
iouthern Patronage. to..Southern Im
ports aud Domestic-Indlustry.
No. V;.
The failure of the Augusta Cotton Mill
tas done more to put back the progress o
manufacturing at the South, than any failuri
hat has taken place, and. the success o
rraniteville has been .a beacon light- whiel
as kept confidence .somewhat alive in thal
most needed and simplest of all branches o:
manufacturisig. With the.Angusta Company
Dme twenty-five or thirty cotton manufao
uring establishments in the South wrent
own, and others have dragged out-a sickly
xistence from the same cause-want of home
atronage.
From the same cause the various.attempt
3 make buckets and tulis, in different part.
f the South failed. They were far bettet
tickets than those made at the~North, but
ur merchants would not purchase them,
'wenty-five cents, in the prico of a dozen
tickets would tempt the country merchant
buy a Yankee-article insteal of the hoine
inde, which would give wice the satisfaction
the consumer, but wopld. not I.my so go
profit to .the vender;. and here jies . the
rand secret why home patronage is not lib
rally extended to the -ncouragenment aUd
rotection of Southern enterprise and home
idustry, of which we will treat tuore fully
i we progmress wiir the subject. There was
uite a spirit abroad some years ago foor
sing broom corn sad nanufact uring bronms.
id that busines hiii failed and bee-n alan
ed from the san e canoe. Chair imaking
another branch of manuacturing that ought
have succeeded at the' South; but that
iared the fate of other etiterprises from the
.me causes,
Paper making is another and a very Impor
at branch of hainess to the South, and
at has suffered seriously from the want of
uthern patronage. Even our newspapers
ere not until receutly printed on Southern
per, ami
ge. One
New Or.
eorgia ana.
eture. Three-fourths ot an -
ew Orleans is made at the North. In .iewa.
assee it is divided between North and South.
he Southern Methodist Book Concern gets
ost of their's from North of Mason and
ixon's Line. Most of the newspapers of
t State are manufactured South. The
icayune is sound upon the Southern ques
on, ecept when her feelings, her early pre
dice, or her interests draw her Nortkward.
" Consiatency, thou art a jewel."
SOUTH.
The Bath Paper Mill in South Carolina
tits first capital mainly for the want of a
:eady home demand for its products. That
ompany labored long and hard to introduce
iir excellent paper into use; that estab.
hment is now doing well and making money
>r its proprietors. It is now becoming gen
rally known to publishers that good and
aeap paper is made at the South ; it is like
that that branch of industry will be able
take care of itself, particularly as the con.
miner-purchases directly fromn the manufac'
irer, which is not the case with manufactu
ers in other branches, who can reach the
mnsumer only through the merchant, who.
'he be like other men, will have his atten
ion directed to making money; and they
in all succeed best in carrying out that oh
ict by selling goods that are made far away
-om home, for everybody knows the wvortLa
f a leading article of home manufactured
omestics, and therefog the trader may not
e able to realize as large a profit as may
itisry ia thirst for paint
We have in our mind another branch 01
distry which, though small, enters into the
eneral'list of neglected employment-.thi
2anufacture of silver ware. In old times
rhen from the scarcity of money buit littli
iler ware was used, almost every town ir
he Soth bad its silversmikh to make spoons
ups, &c. How stands the matter now'
here is not a village in the whole Soutl
rhere you may not find Yankee silver spoon
>r sale, and we think it would be difficult t<
ind a silver smith at work anywhere in thn
|tate, out of Charleston. Even that eit)
aoes not support, at it ought to do, one silver
mnith. There is one establishment in tha
ity which has been struggling for life fo
hirty years past, scarcely able to live an
Imest entirely unknown to the people of th
itate, so far as trade goes. That establish
aent has been working always against a ho
lorthern competition, besides wind and tida
gainust it in that proverbial indifference abou
outern patronige to home industry. Th
roprietor of that one establishment is pro
'erbial for his honesty and industry, and ha
truggled through life and raised a family o
tseful descendants, but has ne'. amassed thi
realth that has been the better fortune o
hose who dealt in Yankee silver ware.
We inspected a beautiful silver tea se
ande by the proprietor of that establishment
rhch was exhibited at the Institute Fai:
wo years ago, which, to the manufacturer'
;reat mortification, did not get the highae
aremium, which was awarded to articles o
fnk~etmanuactre. We use the wor<
Yankee" in speaking of all the people Nortl
f ran and Dixn's line. We do not pre
lenfl w Rany m.t -we o=. pwuiaqr .. ine
South, and that. U. s . ir.-za
whose bhetsd'wau - -
domestic en'terpioa'e -
Yotr will scarey -
rejoice W, seu. aiy
growing up anong
Idea that we can't'
tionas good an a 6
made at the-No--'. T
commend the spirit, t.
talist to invest his won, nchof
manufacturing, but when t goods manfac
tured1 have to tl. d cuatomners,in ordler to sus
tain the manufactory, there is anunnaccounta
ble indifference and apathy, and jthat'give
the merchant power.to dictate to the purcha
a r, and if he be governed ly selflihznotives,
he. will offler the article on which he con make
the inost, and will be likely 'to put forth arn
article irhich has been manufactured far away
from home. Ever) body knows the price of
home-made goods, and not WLC'l chance for
p -,fit on them.
III purcaiyiD suppliOs ther L i r ,ac
countable indifference perva-ling everywig.3
t..the South about' pmroni zng ed
try. - That fact is strongly exemplilled in the
abifost univeril use of Yanliee'si. ei, 'when
everybody knows bita, they will not wear
half as ong as a Seuthern iaale article, and
tbt they are deareiin the end to the con
sutuer; then again there is the articte of car
riage and wagon harness, one good set
huu~e.mn:de is worth two of buch aa yo e
able to buy ready mide, and atill wegnd
people unwilling to pay a reasonable advance
in price fur a 'sAiantial hone-atde article.
Those who are not conversant with such mnat.
ters may think we exaggerate, but all man.
ufacturers at the South will confirm what we
say about the want of Sou.thern patronagepto
enable them to dispose of their manufacted
articles.
.Politically we are the most. suspicting,
wide-awake people on the face of theerobc.
01 1a.
ments, not from capua
but by the issue of bonds
generations to come the
debts.
With our immense expc
known in any of the civil
globe, where are we able
accumulation of wealth?7
be found except in the ent
lands and negroes. Our 6
gros have risen in value, I
of money, from a thousar
millions in value, and our 1,
in value from the same
any better off now than.
when Cotton brought as.
Except from the natumali
gro population, we have in.
wealth. A negro laboreri
of producing a larger inco
produced. Our soil has n<-.
and where, let me ask, i~s
signs of our accumulated wev
It may be truly said ti
greatest power of any peopi
come, but it may with asi mi
that we are the greatest spem
most dependent people, and
other people to supply us wi
ost nzecessities of life, than at
works sneomnpassed by the hi
We rev,. the Yankees for 1
enemfies, w.. 'M we are spent
on them In the iurchaso of
articles of domestic:-use,.r
fly-trap, broom and axe-han
steam engItte shd rail road Ia
Is it not time that iwee
to our interest, and exhorting
of the Sonth to patronize hot
to give a preference in all inst
the product of Southern
DOMESTIC I
HONxv'coO.--The word
is traceable to a Teutonic orig
Teutoncs was a favourite drink
lin. It was made of mead
much like the wead of Eurol
The same boverage was also in
Saxons, but flavoured with mul
honeyed drinks were used mor'
mairiage festivals and which
amrong the nobility'one lunar m.
tire board being well supplied
lin. " Honah Moon" signified
me,:'nth of the marriage festiva.
iGoth, celebrated by Southey's p
his wedding-night, from a too fre
in the honeyed drink.
' TNroRMATIo.Those of our :
winch to patronise an Abolition e
do so by subscribing to Harper's
W. Curtis, one ..V the editors, beir.
tionist. One of the Harpers has has also
been contributing money for the use of escaped
slaves in Canada.
IAs a farther inducementI-. !
mention, it endomises ande
book...WanesboojN