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Speech of Hon. J. H. Hammond, (o.NlM.r l?KO.) double tribute, though nearly .ill the trad of the l.'nUcd States with Knghtud is but ed on southern products. Thus has the South, l>v ber energy an> ability, disposed of the capital grievance against which she protested, with nliuohalf her public men n<?iiwt her, in 182? !)ui'in<r 4111*1 f.inin 1 - ,-N wui VjijiUUUllin im>U IUIU wrested the government from us, and in llieted other injuries, but they were sooi stripped of their power and their acts re pealod. Only four times since the organic ation of this government has the North ha< possession of it, and in each ease only fo One term. The North has never unitet loop on any policy. The injuries infliete< on the South have been mainly inflicted bi her own ambitious, factious, and dividec public men, and our history proves that ik man and no measure has yet been strong *-:i. I m M.-UIU ilgllinSI IHC r>OUtll WllCt ii!!itt d. I believe none ever will. lint it is thought that the abolitionists? : t?upp xition kti 11 credited by sotno of thi: %vuntry?will inevitably got the power of tbii government permanently into their hand.' and, backed !>y tlic opinion of the world, o.*< it for our destruction. Let us consider wha are the facts. I'rom (lie time that the wis and good La* Casus first introduced into Am erica the institution of African slavery?I faj institution, hecanea it is the oldest that ex istr?, and will, 1 helievo, survito all other that now llourish?it hat had it* enemies.V..? _ I ... - -l -i - i hi si iwnjr wmiu mey wore ctuetly men n poculiarnnd eccontrie religious notions. Thei first practical ami political success arose fror tlio convulsions of the French resolution which lost to that empire its best colony.? Next came the prohibition of the slave trad ?the cxciiemcnt of the Missouri Com pre misc in this country, and then the deliborat emancipation of the slaves in their colonic hy the British governmental 18.13?1. Ahon ino tunc or tho passage of that act. the aboli tion agitation wan revised ftgnin in this conn try. uii'l abolition nocioties vrere formed, remember the time well, and uoma of you d also. And wlr.it then was the slate of opin ion in the South? Washington had emanei pated his slaves. Jellbraon had bitterly dc nounccd the system, ami had done nil h could to destroy it. Our Clays, Marfihnlb <'rnwfords, and many other prominent south VIII IIICJI Ililll It'll (HI III tilC OOlOOiXfttiON lliovc ineot. The inevitable effect in the Suit] was. that she belicvn<l slavery to be an ovil? weakness, disgraceful?nay, a sin. Sli shrunk from tlio discussion of it. ?he cow cred under every thrc.it. She attempted t apologize, to excuse herself, Htultjr the ploavrliich was true?that Kngland had forced i on lier; and in foar and trembling shonwHi tod a doom that she deemed innvitabbv tin n fo>r bold spirit.* tooktho quoution up; the; compelled t! 10 South to investigate it anev ami thoroughly, and what ii? the result? Why, it would bo difficult to find now i Bouthorn man who fools tho system to be tin slightest burthen on his cousoiouce; who doo not, in fact, regard it as an equal ndvantag to tlie master and slave, elevating both ; * wealth, strength and power; and si* ouo o tho main pillars and controlling influenceso modern civilization ; and wbn is sot now pre |tared to maintain it at every haiard. Slid miiu uut-ii ior us use nappy results ol tin abolition discussion. S > fa:*, our gain lia boon immense from this contest, savage :i:n malignant as it lias been. Nay, wo have >1 vod already (he question of emancipation l>; this reexamination and explosion of" tho falsi theories of religion, philanthropy and politi oal economy which embarrassed our father in their day. With our convictions and ou itstrongth, emancipation here is simply an im possibility to man, whether by persuasion purchase or coercion. The rock of Gibraltc loesuot stand so linn on its basis as our *lnv< ? j :wi... * ?yi i? i[uiviiui ui a. it n<i borne the hruatofn hurricane as fierce am pitilosi as over ragod. At the North ami ii Europe they cried "havoc," and let loose up on us all the "dogs of war." And how stands it nowAVhy, in thi very quarter of a century our slaves luivi doubled in numbers, and each slave has mor than doubled in value. The very negro, wlu ns a prime laborer, would have brought fou hundred dollars, in 1828, would now, witi thirty more years upon him. sell for eigli hundred dollars, hat does all this mean AVhy, that for ourselves, we have settled thi ouestinn c?f nmniii>iiM?ii/-?? <i?,i ! ?,<? ?n ?i> world, in theory and practice, and thevrorl must accept our solution. The onlv inquir is. how long this new-found superstition vri Hurvivo, and how far it may carry itavotaric edsewhere ? What changes? in production, i commerce, in society or government it ma effect ? For production, commerce, eoci.;t and government, must yield and change wliei ever they come in contact with thcgreatfui damental principle of tiio subordination i tlie inferior to the superior man?as madeh (iod: and especially of the colored to th i .te raccH. It is, I say, only through th evils tliat this superstition may bring uuo other peoples, and especially on those of th North :lliil of Kill-olio with wl.iim u-ii a I'd C riitselv connected, that tlio South can heuin terialiv damaged Ijy it, standing as kIio no\ docs, tirin, assured, united, llow, then, ie i with others? Permit mo to any that, in my opinion, th tide of abolition fanaticism lias begun tocb everywhere, and will never 1 isse again. Wlie the fcngiiah freed the negroes in thnir eol< nic*. it was not wholly a bcntimental mov< nient, dictated hy political radicals and tli haillts of Kxctoi' Hall. llnr Mtiitcsiiifii i their ignorance, thought that what in calle froo labor?that id, "wages slavery"?wool Miccced in tropical culturo, an well or bctU than slave labor. In their arrogance the believed fvloO that all the world must folic tlieir 'xnmple in this silly scheme of abol tion ; and that from her greut wealth an world-encircling colonies, the monopoly < cotton and sugar culturo would fall into tli hands of Kngland. Naturo. and the indoni tabic spirit and intellect of the South, hav disappointed their calculation*. The Sout Plill tf(ilirinhe.<i. find ftftttan n.nd mirrnr iiml nn fee and rice and tobacco, are still the heritag of tho slaveholders. (Jailed l>y their utter dependence upon u for cotton, without the freo use of which tho would both tumble into ruin in a day, Eu; land and France, who, in her frequent frei zies, at length destroyed all her colon lofl b emancipation, have ransacked the untvers to find dimes and eoila adapted to the chen growth of this great staple. They have fai ed everywhere. It is not that tho soils an climates do not exist; but that thia and th other great agricultural staples?sugar, rict t..1. jiijiiuu?unit n?'.or i>i? in-iKim-oa ns ai ticya&y' wido extended commorcc, excont l> tdaWPWlwr. This thoy at length found oui But ^tiAdaVorthtw hn<l v^udinlCil evorj Not in Franc Mill hoi ; pnln\y artatocn ^ only "for outsid 1. k l):ii'lini'ini>M they ordained freedom and equality: but failing in all their xchciiics, ami iindo iii^ that with all their costly expenditures and high sounding manifestoes, they had < simply ruined their own colonic.4, ami made j themselves the vassals of the slaveholders, what have thov done? NVhv. renewed the 8 slave trade. Not in name. Oli.no! Exclor t llitll and the Parliament Houses still tliun>. der eseerations against that; while thocolo c nists, under governmental protection, and t. with English money, wrung hv taxation from u hor "wages sluve?," are importing hy linn- I dreds of thousands, Chinese and Hindoo eon- I lies, under conditions compared with which ! * Algorine slavery of tho last century was iner1 eiful. Thoy do not lipid them as we do our r fdaves, for better for vn-so, in sickness and ] health, in childhood and old age. So: in 1 their prime of life they seduce thom from , their homes, transport them to distant nnd . tin wholesome climes : for the merest pittaneo j of wages, oonsuino their host year > the se ' voiTMt labors, and then turn their* ) die i r ?tho direst slavery that brutal man i over > instituted. France, less sensitive?-having , no Exetor T1 ;il)?embracing the samescheme , , resorts to Africa, and oponlr inakc:? pnrchn, sos, for no they may be called, from slave s catchers; liny, she buys from tlie President of Liberia, tiie far-famed sett omcnt of 001 f own Colonization Society ; buys?ho colonists, t nurown emancipated slave?, who, ai k *.f frrt*p dorn, prefer nny form of slavery, and in their . desperation do not hoaitate to mnke their c pious patrons in this country the laughing | . stock of tho wholo world. ? Thus theso two nations Franco and Kn-.r- | - Inn I. whose adoption of tliis abolition f crotchet alone made it respectable anH inr tluential have thoroughly renounced vt, 11 practically, and almost in thednr. The " press of Kngland, perhaps the greatest po\r 0 er of cho w rid, .sustains these movements; i- while in France the newspapers are openly ? .1; ?. -?{s- - - ' | uwn.^ui^ buu ?|.i.Miun n? importing negro i " i slaves, by name, into Algeria. I think it t '* ! may bo fairly said that in Kurope abolition has run it? course. Brougham, PuhncrHi ton, llus.'cll, .-mkI all the old political agita? tow are hanging their harps upon the vril lows. Kveu the son of Wilbcrforce, the i- fanatic, approves of ooolie slavery, which we nbhor. Hut recently the British gov0 eminent openly surrendered its claim to ' th3 right of search?a claim set. up mainly to put down the African slave trade, ami h witnour wiucn sill attempts to do it will i - probably bo idle. And there in nothing to e .surprise us in all this, if we are correct in our views of African slavery. If it is aus3 taiucd by the religion of the Hible; if nei( | tlior humanity nor sound philosophy op. i pose it; if, as we are oonviuccd, it is a sot cinl, political aiid economicnl bnuefit to the f world.. then it was inevitable that sooner or i ^ Inter, the abolition crusade must die out? ! and why not now ? | ii mere is truth in what I have stated to j . you?if tha abolition lever has nearly *?r { p i (juite exhausted itself mi I'kuopg?if time i s and faot?> have proved there that il ia an f absurdity?it seems to i.ie wo should not ' doubt that its oaroor 14 about to olose hero, j" Such i.i my opinion, however differently ' thojo may thin!: who jud^eonly by appearances. or take their news tVmn ;ioW;iiimr ' ------ o r^' i l iticianst. 1 ask any one to toll mo upon j - what measure or up?n what man the abo- i y litionht.s of this country can ever again c muster their legions as they dirl in 18i")0 ' Kansas is squeezed dry. !t.siiuks in the, * nostrils of all people. '1 hoy can do no more j there. Will they try a "cry" against t!?o 1 Supremo Court tor the Died Scott dceis- , r iou ? What is there in that to iullame i & popular sentiment? It it always uphill | * busine. J to agitato against a j.uliciary, but i ' especially against the Supreme Court of the | United States, which tbo uorthevn people j have been taught to revere a.- the bulwark ( s of their liberties. Will they demand the' e abolition of slavery in the District of en's lumbia? Thov have never boon nblo tuli I ' much with that, though they have ol'len ^ tried. That issue i.s a little too practical t and too dangerous, I^ot many are bold i ? enough to embark in it. They mi; lit a.n J s well make the question of disunion nakedly e Will they take up the abstract, and. proba'I | bly, never again to be other than abstract, >' l nr<?pnsi'i'?ns of "oo inore/davo States T'? They have done it. They have already split upon it. The novth-wcat will not take il, ,, and tin? frnft Khifnu >!! 1 } ----- > "? "? ] y Cuba. They love molasao.;, nud hanker i- after free trade with that rich Island.? l" Where then, are they to go, 1. cannot see. _ T!iey do not appear to see tlieineelvep.? Will auy one state the practical question, 0 if we offer them none?and "we have none i, to offer, on which they are next to rally for ] e the conquest of the iSoutli ? The measure j o or the uian ? Jt doctsseeai to me that this l" great fire is dying out for want of fuel.? That this crusade, as many crusades have " I done, has exhausted itself, and that then is c I no argument or leader thatcan keep it alive, b Their I'etcr llcu'niits, their Godfreys, their n Baldwin!;,theii lion-hearted Richards, where i- are they? Jtpcctns that they will scarcc3 ly agree even 011 their Lou in IX. who shall e lead their last pious campaign and suffer (l martyrdom. ,1 And let me ?ay that if the abolitionists >r cannot unite the free States as a purely an y 11-si a very party 111 the J'residential election of 18(50, and fail again in J8G4, wo shall l: never hear more of them as apolitical party; and it. is only as a political party that they ie are worthy of our notice. There always j. will b?j abolitionists?for fools, enthusiasts, e men of morbid imaginations, bent 011 mis-1 h chief, or ambitious of notoriety, always will exist. Hut the abolition party in the free States is now almost wholly political. Do you suppose that the Sewn rds, Hales,Wados, y Wilsons, Chases and their associates, care r. anything for African slaver?, ov nrn rnnllv 1- hostile to our system of lab'?r, any more y than is the President. Dick in .-011. Hri?.ht c Pugli, or Douglas ? J du nut. Their obP jeet is political power. Tlicy hnve placcd (j themselves on this spring-tide of fanaticism 0 to obtiiin it. If it tails (hem?if, at tho next Presidential election, assuredly if at - the two next?wo beat thorn, all this party i y machinery will fall to the ground, anu Clio ; Smiths, Tnppans, Garrisons and Parkers, ^ will be left alone to tlioir glory. Put if J ,1 am all wrong?if my facts and reasoning i- are false, and my hopes delusive?if, in c 18<30; they bout us ?what then ? These arc questions that may woll ho asked.? | And the answer is obvious. Wo must be j prepared; and the very efforts wu must make to prevent such results will better prepare us than any course wo can pursue j that 1 can see. We must be prepared, I say, to take care of ourselves, whatever may j omo It. i? clear that tho slavcholding j States of this confederacy, whatever bass- i iirds they may choose to incur by remaining | in alliancc with a majority of non-slavchold- j crs luiw .so inflamed against thorn, must j ever and at all times b< M their destinies in j their own hands. They can never permit j any foreign power to legislate in reference to their peculiar induc>rial system ; wheth- ; er to abolish or modi'v, or impose undnc i burdens on it. Snob legislation must be resisted with all our means, and without j regard to any consequcnces. If it should j <0 happen that the free States of this Union, | being now, and always to be, in a majority, tlo establish a political line between the two sections and the two systems of labor, legislate upon it and maintain it, then they v.;n ,. < -?;? * - VU..OIIHHV ?? }?rivvii| 113 IVjrCIJfll IU UB I any nation in the world, and we cannnt .subiiiit to it. Whatever the weak and defoncelefB colonic* of other countries may lu've submitted to, before lhc?e Southern States tti!! be placed in the condition of St. I Domingo or Jamaica, or one at all approx- j mining in u, xncj win renr tm* t'montn-j tri fragment* and plunge the world in rnin. j It in in their power to do both, for the ! world cannot get on without them ; and, if | rnthlc.** fanaticism and brute force combine, I undi-r whatever name*, and with whatever t authority, to ride them dow n, they will car- j l y with them the pillarx of the temple, of I oiviiization, aud force a common fate oft all mankind. >i?i ? > * " ? i are many \tiio peneve tn.it some such a <Mt:ihtrog>he is inevitable. It cannot ( bo denied that, from appearances, here ami elsewhere, it i? entirely posnible, and if may not be unwise for all of us to suppose it prolmblo. Although f think ;hut the ranks of our enemies sire broken rind the moral victory won, f am far from proclaiming that the battle is over, a .id that wo have i.ow only to gather the fruits of our success.? >i..' i? i i x-futij ?? :;anic vki'ii won, and loarapjun, | by overweening oonlidence, by reckless pursuit, or by turning aside for the sake of spoil. Let un fiill into none of thesa error*; for we are still ia the very heat and turmoil of i?li is great ooutiiet, and all might yet be lo.-t. What 1 wish to impress upon you i*, that there is hope for effort?tiiumph for union, energy and perseverance. i It iiUi fallen upon the slaveholders of the i Sov.th to conduct tl.it; question of African j slavery to its final conclusion. Such ieourl fute. it io inevitable. Let us chaurfully accopt nud uiaufuily poit'ovm our declined parts aud *?<> it with uo distrust of God; with uo mir^i vi;i^;a of our cau.'.c or of oursi'Ivos; witli uo panic ; no fooluU attempt to fly from daugors v/hioh cauuot be uvoiJod, which have uot beou proven to Le insurmountable, and which I. for one. believe that wo ran coikju; v. After what has beeu achieved by a divided south, now that it i.> aliuoat thoroughly united : now that wo have a President and his Cabinet; a niajori'v i.t both lion :os of Congress; a Supreme Court of the. Vnitod States; and .still hos-ts i)i' alKea in the free States, all substantially concurring with us ia our construction of the ca:u-titutiou, and under its obligat I - ills: Oil r;il> 'flv ltiltl 1! nrr ?- ! I I. ('<%? ll... .. .... ... k v. . vimi^ null u.o IUI I IIVs ill il ill tenance',f our lights ami interests?we owe il to our ?ountry, to ourselves, to the world a:i'1 to posterity, to east a*ide all weak feaits; r?l! petty or impracticable issues; all mere wangling and vituperation, personal ami sectional, and move forward with the dignity of conscious strength aud the culmne.-.; of undoubted courage, to the overthrow of every false theory of governMumi, and every sentimental scheme for organizing labor; carrying with ns the constitution of our father*, and, if we can, their Union, i lint the slave States constituting, and an j L think forever to constitute, a numerical minority, can, However, accomplish nothing j 111 11 i * - ' MIUH, Wkiiiuiit I'iO iiiu of rtiiioK in the lYce States. It has been of late too liiuelt 11. * habit in tlic South to mistrust all such allies?to disparage, to denounce and drive th?">in from us. Nothing could be more unwise or more unjust, it in distrusting the truth and justice of our own cause, or caiu:.limiting human nature, to doubt that there are in the. free States thousands of sound thinking, true hearted and gallant men, who concur essentially in our views, and are ready to make common cause with us. Nay, it is falsifying history and fact. During the late session I saw men acting cordially and vigorously with us against the positive instruc tions of their cxcitcd constituents, at the hazard of political martyrdom; and in two instances that martyrdom was consummated before the adjournment. Shall we do ... i . > *? ..... ijw nuiiur uj fiucu jnen : , Cilia]I we pay 110 tribute to kiijIi hcroic devotion to truth, to justice, and the constitution? Shall we revile them in common with oil northern men, because many revile and some have betrayed us? To be truly great, we must he not only just, but generous and forbearing with all mankind. Let us place ourselves in the situation <>f northern public men in this i .'eat contest, consider their dangers and responsibilities, and making every allowance for human weakness, do homage to the brave faithful. Ami this leads me to say thr.t, having never been a mere party politician, intriguing and wire-pulling to advance myself or others, I am not learned in the rubric of< flic thousand slang, unmeaning, and usually falue party names to which our ego gives Kirfli H,.f 1 !???? ? 1 j nuiu uwii ukuu id iiiiuorstand that there arc to be Iwu parties in tho South, called "National" and "State Rights Democrats." Tho word "national" having been carofully excluded from tho constitution by those who framed it, I never supposed it applicable to any prinoiplo of our government, and having bcon surrendered tn the iilnwiat. nan ' ? *1.:.. ? ? vrtv-iwp.1V MOV>, XII Dim country, of tho federal conaoiidationistfl, 1 havo ever myself repudiated it. But if n. Southern "national democrat" means one who in ready to wolootnc into our ranks with open arms una cordial embrace, and promote according to his merits, every honest free State mail who reads the constitution as wo do, and will co-operutc with us in its maintenance, then I belong to that party, call it as you may, and I should grieve to find a Southern man who did not. Hut, on the oilier hand, having been all my life, and being still, an ardent "State Rights" man?believing "State Rights" to be an essential, nay, tho essential element of the constitution, aiul that no one wllfl tliilllfM nfliprivi?n rvin ut-iml rvn flic same constitutional platform that I do, it seems to mc that f am, and all those Tf (til whom I act habitually arc, if democrats at all, true "Htate Riirhtadcmoorsita." N'ntli ing in public affairs n perplexes arid annoys me as these absurd party names, and I nover could be interested in them. 1 could easily comprehend two great parties, standing on the two great antagonistic principles which arc inherent in all things human : the right and the wrong, the good ?nd the evil, according to the peculiar views of ci?ch individual; and was never at a loss to find my side, ?..i now, in what arc known as the Democratic and Republican parties of this conutry. But the minor distinctions have, for the most part, seemed to ine to be factitious and factious, gotten up r>y cunning men ior aoiusti purposes, to which tho trno patriot and honest man uhonld b>> slow to lend himself, and for you, while I represent yon, I shall go for the constitution strictly construed and faithfully carried out. i "*ill make my fight, such nB it may be, by li.v side of any man, whether from the north, south, cast and west, who will do the ??mo; and I will do homage to his virtne, his ability, hin eour age, and, j?o far ;??* 1 can, make ju.it compensation for hit* toil? and hazards and saciifices. A* to the precise mode and manner of conducting thin content, thai munt necessarily to a great extent depend upon the exigencies that arise ; hut of course I could bo compulicil by no exigency, by no party t'.cs or arrangements, to give up my principle*, or the leant of those principles which constitute our great ca\iao. If the Mouth ha?.?.njr desire to remain in the Union, ?nd control it, she, i:s her Hafety requires that she should, iu some essential particulars, if she doe?i remain in i:, must conoiliute her northern allies; she must be just, kind suid true to those who are true to truth itnd to her. but if she determines, iuid when ever she determines, to throw off her northern friends nnd disunite this (Jnion, I need scarctuy miv that i shall, without hesitation, go with her fully and faithfully. I flu not for a moment doubt that, in or out of this Union, fhc can sustain herself amonj the foremost nations of the earth. All that she requires is thA- union of Lcr own people, and happily they novcr were, at any former peiiod, so united and harmoi>.iou!i an now. A. homogonaoum people, v.'ith our social and industrial inbtitutioai the same everywhere, ami all our f;rcal interests identical, we .should always mvebcon united in our moral and political opm ions and policy. The ambiiioua dimensions of the host ot brilliant mon whose names adoni our annals, have lif>ret?vfiir? L t?\f. ?? apart. The abolitionists have, at length, luivo'l upon us a know lot1:50 of our true munition, ami compelled us into unit n?an uuion not lor aggressiou, hut for dcPortee?purely conuurvative of the constitution and the constitutional rights of every section and of every 1'.ntn. 'l'h* Uuion oftheso Stales, from the Cuiuulas to the llio Grande, and from Miore to .hove of the two great oc3u\ts of the giohe, whatever splendor may uicircle it, is hut u policy ami not a principle. It is subordinate to rights and interests, lint tho union of the slaveholders of the South is a principle involving nil our rights and all our interests. Let ihui union ho perfect and uernetual. It constitutes our strength, our safety ami prosperity. ljot us frown down every proposition that might seriously divide us, and present to our assailants t'roiu every quarter a solid and impregnable plmlans. Lot us also give to the winds every thought of (car, ovory feeling of despondency, and fully comprehending, aiul temperately tut resolutely asserting, our great power in this confederacy and throughout the world, let us duvulopo and consolidate our resources, and devote ourHelves manfully and hopefully to the aecom piislinimit of the magnificent future that is wiCijin ifM. . ? .*? !>. vmmrr. N ew Yokk, Oct.27?A most rovolting tragedy was diecovored to ltuvo been enacted in the house of a retired merchant, in this city, uumcd Uouldy, whose son Frank had l?eon for tJhme time leading a dissolute life. It appears that the young reprobate returned home about 10 o'clock hist night, askod his father fnl* limiiPTv nii?l inalnail nf nrn(?ln? ! r " ~wj? " h'y ??????buked for his profligate habits. hnragcd at the refusal, he went up Htaira to Ins room, stripped oft' his cout mid boots, and seizin;; a hatchet which he kept in his room, came down, und tseizing his father in the ball }>?itting out the gas, felled him by a Mow of the hnttihotou the head, which fractured the skull and penetrated to the brain. Having thus, as he thought, murdered his father, lie wcut to his 11.other's room, and finding In r up, struck her three blows on the head with the same weapon, iutlicting deadly injuries, and leaving her insensible. Passing thence, the loathsome lviri'ieirtu ftnlnrml I\ MUM" "'I'""* his two little brothers wore sleeping, whoiu he struck in the same manner. Two servant girls liouring tho noise, ciwno out into the passage, whero he met them, and by the sumo murtlerous weapon they too wore prostrated; uiul his two little sistors only escapod a similur lute by locking theinselvos up in their bed room. Having thus murdered tho whole family, with thn ftbovo exceptions, he retired iwnin wvru ruiMii, mill COllipiOlOU IMS lontllHOlUB tragedy by blown % !uh own t>raidh out with a rovofvor. Of his \ .ctinis two aro ropoHed to luivo died. mid nono of tho othorti tun rocovcr. This terrible occurrcnco liaa caused j;reat excitement in tho neighborhood, and a MAflt amount of sympathy for tho unfortunate Tnroily. Mr. Qouldy was a Jjghly respootable gentleman, about 50 yoifflWIj^nj/o, and an honored member of the Methodist Church. Si.andkr.?Lot no ono suppose that by acting u g>iod part through lifo ho can oscapc slander. Thorn are those who hate thorn lor the very qiuilitiox tlmt ought to pmcuro esteem. Tlievo aro somn folkH in the world who aro not willing thut others should be hotter than thoutsolvoH. The moro a mini accomplishes tho moro ho may. An active tool novor grows rusty.? Yon always find thono inert tbo most forward | to?lo good, or to improve the t'uiies ami mantier*, Mwftjw busy. IIauits.?Like flakes of snow tlint fall I unporccivvd upon llio earth, tho soomingly ' unimportant events of life succeed ononno- ; ther. As tho snow gathers together, so nro our habits formed. No single flako j that is added to the pile produces a sensible ohnngo; no single action creates, however it may exhibit, a man's character; but as the tempest hurls the avalanche ' down the mountain, and overwhelms the | inhabitant and his habitation, so passion, > acting upon the elements of mischief, which ' 11 a liovn K.? I (wt ivivtm i in p.'i in tin t MI \J ill/ 1/11UI I'^y imperceptible accumulation, inny overflow the edifice of truth and virtue. Wur .r!?A story is told about a man out West, who had a hair Hp, upon which he i performed an operation himself, by inserting J into tho opening a niece of chicken flesh. It I adhered and tilled up the space admirably. This wa< well enough, until, in compliance \rith tho prevailing fashion, lie attempted to raise moustaches, when one side grow liair i and the other feathers. Thv; young widow who lately recovered very heavy damages from n rich gentleman, I I I 1 .11 ? "Ill' iui^gu<i uur mJiiiv>vn?r, riiuoiy, MllOtllU take cure of hop money, fur ?he " nuulo it by a tight H((iieo/.o." PAPEH COM M IPS ION WA R EIIOUSB AND IMUNTKH'S DEPOT, For tho Niilo (if J 1YKITINO. PRINTINO. KNVRI.OPK AHD COLOR KI) l'ATLRH, CARDS,' AND Of :ill kind*. A,1011 f for L. JOHNSON & CO, Tvpo Founders, < K. ! 10 K A CO.. Anil other Printing Press makers. PRINTINt! INKS, of lie*! quality, at Manufacture '>? Pricca. TO M J A SITf. The ouhscrihor hoga to call attention to tho Ijnrge Stuck of Writing and Wrappin.se Paper of all kinds, which ho will sell verj low lor caaii, or shurt civilit 011 Inr^o films. J0SKPI1 WALKER, 1120 Mooting st. Cliai'leatun, 3C Ont 12, 1858 18 tf W. M. HADDEN, ATTOK ni EV AT ILAVT, AND Jloliriior (n EqnK/, T'TOKKN'S C'OUltT IlOl/SK, 3. C. Jan 14, 18.1H 26 tf JOS. J. NOIiTOSr, /a * t ir t?? :? a- * tt" l> ft IT , Axn ftolirilor in I^niirPICKENS C0U1JT 110USB, P. C. Jan. 1, I8.r>8 2o tf NOTICE IS hereby gire.i, that nt the next He^ion of 'he Lcgi.'lr.tme, (tpplic.viion will be mn?*?efor an IK-1 to ineorporale the " Cheohe* Mining Company," and also the " Hltte Hidge Mining Company." [Auk 2S, Final Nofcico. rpiIK lioirs of Absolum Gibson, deceased, I 1. are notified to appear before the Onli! n:VI'V l?r Pil'lrAlltJ rliv!*vir?f on J?K in November next, as wo intend to make ? final aottleiuent of paid estate. All person* indebted to the est a to will do well to ??ttlc nit before that time. II. A. II. GIBSON, ) . . , '/.GIBSON. J Adm r*. Q"t. 20, ISfttt H M I\ OTEU10. V FINAL Kcttleinent of the Estateof the late John Conch, deceased, will be made iu the Ordinary'h Ofiico, at I'ickeiiK C II, on the 4lh Monday in January noxt. Pcmmn indebted to the L^tute are required to make payment, and those having demands against said Kstaie inuat present them legally ntte?ted uu or before that time. MAIIY A. COUCH,) Adm'x HOH'T COUC1I, ) Adin'r Oct 22, IHSS 14 3m Final ITotico. ^VTOTICE is horeby given that a final nettlement of the Estate of William Simpson, deceased, will be made before the Onlinury, at l'ickens Court llouso,on the 3d Mon I imj 111 uuiiuiwj mi-.m. xursona inueuieq ri tiiu CjSIUIU IIIU>1 tttuku mini, umi having demauds against said Estate must render them to me, duly attostcd, on or before that time. J. E. P.IIOWX, Ex'or. Oct 1"., lxr?.s ia_ 8m XOLIiKO BI/FOUK ino by Joliu limit a Imt mare Mule, S or 10 years old, heavy bin It, and kdiiic white spots on the nook caused by the eollar. Appraised at ono linndred dollars. The owner is required to come forwvrd, prove property, pay costsund tako it away, or tho law will be enforced a? in such eases made and provided. Said nnilo can ho found at Mr. Hunt's, near the Trap. A. J. ANDHKSON, n.?M>. Out 10, IH5K li> in4tn Estato Notico. VJOTK'K is h'U'oby ^iven tlint a final Seidell incut of tlx* 'state of William 1'. Benson, dccenscd, will b inada before the Ordinary, at l'iekins 0 H. on the sccond Mondav in Jniiim ry noxt. Those indebted to ?aid Kstute must nuiko payment, and tlione having demand* will render them to me, legally attorned, by that day. NANCY 0. BKNSON, Adm'x. Oct rt. I808 12 8m ivoricfiT AF IN A L settlement of tho F.atato of Clayton Jenkins, doeonsed, will 1)0 made in the Ordinary'*! uflirn. n.t. Pintrmin II <>n itm first Monday in January noxt. Thoso indobtod to mud Estate must inuko pnynient, and tlioso having demands inuat rondo* thoni to mo, ftttostod aooonlinn to law, by that day. G. W. VANZAN1\ Adin'r Oct 2, 1858 3m_ NO TICK. ~ fPIIK Kstnto of Juupor M. Hell, doooaaod, wilt 1 bo finally nettled in tho Ordinary'* Office, nt Piokcnd 0. 1C., on tho first Monday in Fobi mi - ? ? - ? mary nexi. iuo noies mvi Accounts, auo the Estate. lmvo been placcd in the hands of J. E. IIaooou, K#q., for settlement; and thoy must bo paid itt oucd. Persons having demauds against hii'hI Estate must present tliem to him or the undersigned, legally attested, by that day. KMII.V llKI.fi, Adm'x. 1 Nov 3, 1R.')8 Itt am KOTH'Ji.' Vi i-kii .i i iu.> win DC miiuio ?o iiio Legt?mturoof .South Carolina, at itn next Houston, for n? act to incorporate tho town of PickensviH\ with Mm usual rower nn?l privilege-*. July 8, 1838 00 8di gtntc oi'Momli Cnroiiiin, I'lOKKNH?IN OIUIINAllY. Ex I'art? ^ Petition to apply funds to IMnulden, Fur'r j tlio payment of dcl?tn. T appearing that Joseph J) I.ooper, Henry .J Duncan (or llcntcr) uml wife Polly, I'eter Phillip* ulid wife Caroline, John Pritonet and wife liachel, reside without tlio limits of thin Stuto: h is ordered, therefore, thnt they do appear in the Ordinary's office, at Pickens 0 II, I'll <iiu nrui :wouuay in January next, and nhcw onuHC, if any they can. why (he pruyor of tho *aid petition idiinikl not he granted. W. J. l'AHBONi?, o.r.o. Ordinary'* ofHce, Hopt. "24, 1 H">rt Jim Slalc of Son I li Carolina, 1MC1CKN8?IN KQUITY. Ararilla Griffin ] v? > Hill for Partition, Ac. Tli08. OrifTin, ct. al?. ) t 'i' <i.- / ' 1 - 1. ,.|.|-v.M< > ? HIV v/wnn. ui>??n mil moil. IIIIIL J. li. Mnn.icll ami wil'o Viinlitii Ilarlon Grii* tin, IScnjniniii Griffin, Sargent Griffin, K. H. Griffin, II. A. Ilillingnly and wifo Mlnevvu; lite licirH-iit-lnw of Hallcy OVillin. defeased, to wit ; A varilhi Griffin, Hargent .1. Griffin'. Joseph Griflin ; undtho hcii'.i-nt-livw of William Griffin, deranged, namely: Avurill.i A. Griflin, Nancy Y, Griffin, I'.liliu If. Griffin, Ilnsiinniili M. Griffin, (!. H. Griffin, Mary 1,. M Griffin. Huiley II. Griffin. Thomas V. Griffin, Margaret T. Griflin, Martha f'\ I). Griflin and Jane M rt. Griflin. ro?iifr? without tho limits of this Stutc: on motion of Knrrixon, complainant'!* solicitor. it i.-> ordcvctl, therefore, that the : >i?l absent defendants do nppcar in this liono"iblo court ntul plead, nusiror or tlctnur to Coniphiiunlit's said bill of complaint, within throe montliH from the publication hereof, or the same will ho litkun pro tonfruxo as to thoin. HOIJ'T. A. THOMPSON, c.n.r.o. Cnm'r* office. Aug'2-1, 18AR 8m Estate Notice. VI.fj persons indebted to the Kstate of Ilobert Stewart, Esq., deceased, nre requested to Make immediate pnjinenl ; niul tln>.*c having ilomaui!.* again*! said F.stale mii-t pre.wonl ihcm ilnlr 11 Honied on or before Monday thel-'ith day i>f Dceemhcr next, or they will lie bnrred. A finftl settlement ?f this Estate will lie made before the Ordinary, nt PickeitH C- II., on that ilnr. ' THOS. It- MUCK, Adin'r. Sept. 8 !lm JEWELRY, GOLD & SILVER. J HAN Btb. FJSC1IKSSBK, Waltmlln, ft. CM HAH jtmt now relnincd from New York W+th n largo nnf' beautiful assortment of WATCHEH, .iTKTf EI>RT, / ri~iv. r/ir r? 1 un vl<b \ ?? ;-?? \ in'?i uimjk mm oini i. mens, .?ni*ie nnx m, Comba, llrtialiuH, F;incjr Articles. Pcrfnmery, Roup*. Gold PenH. etc.; nil of which bus been bought for CASH, nnd which he ofTfi-s for m?lc on I he most uccominoduting terTOH. pfir Ho hIho RKPAIKS WAT<-MF8 nnd ?ther Artfolcn in hi? linu, nnd solicit* the p.itroNnxn of the public. His i?tnnd is u??r the piibrio muur* ..f W.n.olU H r 'f>rV71 ft, iBfifl"""' 34 if j. tt. korbih, jb. j. n. hahrioo^. ti. e. t>r>.mam. NOKRJSTHARRTsON A, rULLIAM, A!iorn?yn nt Ln vr, Vy ILL attend promptly to nil buHtnef* whr*rTT te<l to their e?re. Mr, Pvr.LtA.if o?? i?lifn*m hft in M?? D0i/*m oFFirr at ricRRNs ?. n., ?. e. Hept. fi, 185rt ft " tt W. K. KASr.KY. TffAAC WrClfMFFE. " EASLEY & WICKLITFE, Atiornrj-s ni I.nir, Ar \7U.1, Attend punctually to nil hmdnce* en? T trusted to tli?ir euro in the Diutriets comprimnj? the Western Circuit. orricr. >*r pick ems c. h., n. e. Pen?. 25, ISno 13 ' * LUMBER! LUMBER! TIIK undernipncd ?ro now prcprn-cd to All or<lar? for f.UMKRlt ??f nil kinds, at their Mill on Oconee Crook, nrven milct< nnrth-ciiM of Tf allium. l.ui:il)t>r will >>e deljTcrcd if it i* dcwlred by th? puvc1iuh*v. Our terms wiil he made i?ecommoiUtinx, and we respectfully solicit the patronage of the public. .IAMRS GKORCIJ?, M. F. MITCHRJJ., K?h. 1*. 1H47 .11 .1. N. I.AWltKNCr. 1 PPLICATION will ho mmle to the next hma\ cinn of the South Carolina. Legislature for n public road, to lea to tho f'lujtori rood nenr (liirubrell BrazcaleV to pass near Wn/rner's haw mill, thence to Stilid;; fortl on Obnttugn riffr. Aug. 14, 1858 ft 8m PREMIUM COOKING STOVES, OF nil pizes, with and without Hollo-,f-wnre. For sule hv J. H. VOIOT, ( hmnuita Vlunt-Ar'. *lr.?*l ? n ?. Milium, ? . AU^UM O, iot>7 t tf ITOTICK I"S hereby given that application will ho niHilc to tins Legislature of South Curolina, at its next cession, for ail act to incorporate tlie Baptist Church, at Hecouu. August z. 1*5H 3 3iu k I'PLICATION will 1)0 iuiule to the LfglnU* A tare of South Carolina, at its ucxt pessiou, for iv 11 net to incorporutu tlie Kctrcut- Church iui<1 land- Appertaining thereto. t.... I I t Q.-.u r. n ? i\uj-, *-?, |(?UO u oni ______ " APPLICATION will bo nuule to the J.cginlaturn of Houth ('nvolina, at itn uoxt 8?B?ion> for a ohnrtor for '*Tlio Cliaugti Llinc nntl Mnnufiint nrintr (!om?ftiiv." July 13?, lHSft M 3tn State of* South Carolina, PICKKNH HINT?IS TIIE COtJBT Of COMMON I'l.KAft* Died rich Niemann \ Foreign Attachment. \h > Sorris, II. h Pulliain, llendrlck k Lodford. j Plff's Al#,v?. \\' IIBKKA8, tlic plaintiff did, 6u thn ITlhday TT of May, 1858, tilo his declaration nguin.t? tho defendant*, who(n?lt In ea{(l)ftreabsent from nutl without the limits of this State, and liav<v neither wifotwr aUornoyknown within tlie came, upon whom a oupy of the said declaration might ho nerved; It is ordered, therefore, that th? .ur?. .!?>.<<. A* ?W..A?.. ..L.i , i .i a? ii. - t.it mini uv't'liii.'ium viv li|i|>uitl (lil'l jiii-im IV IIIVKIIIK declaration on or bot'oro tho IHtli Any of May* 1.459; otlicrwine, ftmil iiml xbnoluto judgnicna will tbou be given and Awarded njrniiist th-Mn. J. K. MAQOOD, 9.0.9. ClerV'a Oftioo, M?y 17, 1M58 STATE OF SOUTH CAKOMfV A. PICKRN8 l?IHT?IN TllK COUUT Of CVMMOX VLKA?* Nool Saudford ^ Foreign Attachment. vu } . J. Norlon, Jolin Phillip*. j. -df/'y. y yilllHHAa, tUeJ^ni<^S|Ul. on <1.0 12th V T day of Fohrutekj^M^Eki bin d.-olnralion nguliiHt tlio def<4ffl^3MHBra9 It Im pidd) is abtwut from and 4Wlj|HjBHg*i>>dlH of thiw Htnto, and liaa ucitlii'aawqflMMm'"' r v"'" i within tho same uponllj9R|BVHfr> or tbe ?ni<l docluvntion might be NciMHHH?dcrc<), liierij. fore, thai tlio ?ni?l aiiVI plond (<> llie H.iid 1?Uh fUy of Krbrnfiry, ??<! ftlmnltiftt t till (fin 0111 Vf i mmKf 1,1,, 1 fum-dcd figainut tliotn. ^