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VOL. 2. %)ft <S®SrJBSSr* The Veteran’s Last Words. BY PARK BENJAMIN. “ Let the drums beat! my knapsack is slung!”— Last words of Gen. Hugh Brady , who died recently at Detroit , Michigan. Let the drums beat! let the drums beat! I am ready ! I am ready ! Ready for the march with tireless feet And a courage strong and steady. I cannot do the acts of men Whose arms and hearts are young, Rut I’m ready for the strife again And my knapsack is slung. Let the drums beat as in olden days When, with Mad Anthony Wayne, I dashed into the thickest frays Os that glorious campaign— Whose deeds shall deck our country’s page Till time shall be no more— Oh it stirs the blood of feeble age To fight such battles o’er ! Let the drums beat with incessant roll Like a fall of summer rain, To fire each dull and sluggish soul, As they did at Lundy’s Lane. I am ready—to the onset! Let the charge be sounded free— Bravely were British foenien met By the sons of liberty. Let the drums beat! I am ready, Ready with my latest breath, And courage strong and steady For the solemn strife of death. I have never been found craven When the call of battle rung— llo! for the march to Heaven ! For my knapsack is slung. For the Georgia Citizen. Is Dancing a Sin. There is no doubt, that many persons commit a sin in the act of and incing. It is an act, considered by some, as not having God's sanction. It is found sometimes writ ten in the catalogue of vices 5 and those of easy con science, who are obliged to cross the line, that sepa rates vice from virtue, to engage in it, commit what they believe to lie, an ungodly act. Now dancing, I apprehend, is placed in the wrong list, it belongs to virtue, instead of vice. If so, and were it universally considered a virtue, its immoral in fluence, if any such, is attached to it with its power to retard the progress of religion, would cease ; it would shine bright as a virtue, and blush no longer in the garb of vice. There arc two modes of worship usually practiced among mankind. One is an obedience to what is con ceived to be God’s written or revealed law. The oth er is an obedience to his fixed laws of nature. The two codes from the same source, must of necessity harmo nize with each other ; therefore an act found to be congenial with the laws of nature is, virtuous, and of divine sanction. After asking one question, I might stop. In music and dancing, where are the laws of nature violated ? Does not the pleasure of the act arise from our natural organization ? Man is endowed with five senses, every one of which is susceptible of impressions, and so hap pily constituted, that pleasure is the result of impres sions adapted to their nature : cons tquently, a man may indulge the sense of taste in that which produces the most agreeable sensations, the olfactory nerves with pleasant odors, and the ear with sweet sounds, and act at the same time, in obedience to God's laws. In opposition to music and dancing, it is urged, that whatever we do, should be done to the glory and honor of God. Now, who, how pious, soever he may be, hesitates to indulge the taste in all the sweets the coun try can afford ? To gorge the stomach with rich com pounds, almost beyond the power ot the organs to di gest! And for what ? For the glory and honor of God ? Simple food is all the system requires. I men tion this in order to show, that we are often mistaken in regard to the nature of an act. We oftentimes, ignor antly, cherish a vice that public sentiment lias clothed in the costume of virtue; and proscribe a virtue, be cause at some unlucky hour, it has been caught in the company of vices. The ear is forbidden to hear music, that is not sanc tified by sacred verse. Yet the tongue seems to be let loose to lick all the sweets of a land flowing with Milk and Iloney. Is the tongue superior to the ear, that, that which is ordered with impunity to one, is denied to the other? Are music and dancing to be proscribed, be caus ’ they form a part of the amusement of the wicked ? The same may be said of all the senses of man ! They are all indulged by the wicked. In dancing. I ask a gain, wherein is God’s will opposed ? He who creat ed the ear, created the susceptibility to be ‘moved by the concord of sweet sounds,’ Dancing is the vsible expression, of that emotion of the soul, and no more sinful, I apprehend, than laughing, singing, or any oth er outward demonstration of internal emotion, produc ed only by some other cause; and were it erased from the catalogue of vices, and placed among the virtues, where it belongs, countenanced and practiced by the good; it might cease to have its unhappy influence, and all the virtues of piety and morality—might be come its associates. God has given to man everything conducive to his happiness upon earth. He is invisi ble, and I ask, how can he be honored, but by a proper appreciation of the visible gifts he has bestowed up on us? These gifts ore cognizable only through the medium of the five senses, and so happily adapted to man, that pleasure is their result. Is the manifestation or expression of the pleasure experienced from these divine gifts, vanity ? Is it a vice or a virtue ? Is it to the honor or dishonor of God ? W ho, in beholding a pleasant scene, does not sometimes forget God, and everything around him, save that which he is gazing at? Has the eye in this committed a sin ? No, it is the result of our nature, and an obedience to God’s natural laws. It may be asked here, how are we to distinguish good from evil ? Are all acts growing out of the nature of man to be tolerated? 1 answer: An obedience to the laws of nature is virtue. Those laws are learned by the pain, misery and evil consequences entailed upon their violation. Therefore, any act attended and fol lowed by pleasure and happiness, is an obedience to God’s fixed laws of nature. It is in itself Godly ador fltion, the end and aim of the divine lawgiver. And ”‘lto, with stoie scorn, shuts his senses to the things around him, or disdains to manifest the pleasure he feels from the divine gifts by disobeying the impulses r f his heart, violates a law of nature, mocks Deity, and * s guilty (though ignorantly I suppose) of blasphemy. Ihe notion, that to indulge in pleasure is a vice, and endure pain, is a virtue; is Aceticlsm ; and as opposi tion to music and dancing, is a specimen of the stale ( h*ctrine, it is well perhaps to mention its origin. About ’hree hundred years before the Christian Era Xeno. * Grecian Philospher, originated his etheria! doctrine, he taught that there exists no relation, between exter nal objects, and tfie mind, as it regards happiness. That true happiqes connot be affected by them. That pain is not evil. That pleasure is not good, &e. From the proximity of the Jews, and Greeks, Judea became tinctured with the Grecian Philosophy, and thct;c arose among the Jews, in the first century of the Chris tian era, the sect of Essenes and Therapctse, ethical sen timents were borrowed from the Stoics or disciples of Jeno. * Some Christians of Syria and Egypt, now imbibed the sentiments, and begat Asceticism, whose adherents practiced the most rigid austerities, voluntarily suffered tortures, debarred themselves from pleasure. In a word, the doctrinal precept, was, ‘Punish the body, for the good of the soul.’ After this Asceticism, became a feature of Manaehism ; and developed itself in all the rigid and absurd austerities of Popish monkery. It originated in Paganism, and ended in Popery. Ended did I say? Oh! no, Protestant as well as Catholic Chris tianity is strongly tinctured with it. It is yet a stale feature of the‘Spirit of the age.’ There are yet some Christians (not all) who forget that God has enjoined ttpon man n code of laws, called the laws of nature, to whose obedience result, all the blessings this world affords. I now ask, does the vanity, proscribed and forbid den in the new Testament writers, include an obedi ence to the divine laws of nature, the pleasure experi enced by that obedience, or the manifestation of that pleasure ! Or lias it reference to the vices, viz. Slan der, lying, taking God’s name in vain, exaggeration, malice, envy, &c? In conclusion I must say were Christianity divested of its rigid traditionary rites, its unnatural requisitions upon man : it would no longer stem the current with Pagan Idolatry, but entwine itself around the heart of society, and the world would kneel in adoration of the Creator. L. K. B. Americas , June 30, 1851. From the Lafayette Republican. Home vs. Foreign Patronage. Among the many causes which have tendency to retard social and individual prosperity, there is none, perhaps, more susceptible of demon stration, and at the same time which exhibits more plainly the weakness and folly of human ity—than the one we are about to consider. Ihe preference usually given to all that is foreign or not immediately within our reach, is too apparent not to be noticed by the most cas ual observer—whether in articles of utilitv, fashion, or patronage yielded to trades and professions. In an enlarged point of view this subject be longs to the science of political economy, and becomes a question of great national interest and importance. But as we do not choose to enter into the discussion of the great principle and utility of affording protection and encour agement to our national industry—we will con tent ourselves with merely making a few re marks on a subject more immediately within the limits of our observation : Lafayette is a flourishing city, pleasantly sit uated on the left bank of the Mississippi river, in immediate proximity to New Orleans. It possesses many and important advantages—the citizens are enterprising, industrious and intel ligent—anxious for the prosperity and growth ol‘ their much favored city—extremely willing to make all available exertions to forward its interests, and to ward off embarrassments, both public and private. Still, with all these advan tages, with all these elements of prosperity and progress, all this talent, industry and persever ance —we have many complaints against that broad-backed individual, called the “times.” The question naturally arises, what is the reas on of all these complaint? What are the causes which have led to so much embarrass ment and depression of trade ? We will en deavor to point out one, which, though it may not seem to be of much importance, neverthe less, has a great deal to do with the evil com plained of. The grocers say they keep as good articles, sell them as cheap as their down-town neighbors ; yet, those who have money to spend go down town to get what they want—thereby inflicting an injury upon the trade of their city and keeping back, in a measure, its prosperity. If a lady wants a yard of ribbon, a skein of thread, or any other little article, appertaining to her dear little person, down town is the place. To think of buying a bonnet, a dress-pattern, or anything of that kind in Lafayette—such an idea would be ridiculous, quite unfashionable. On this account we have but few well stocked and elegant dry good stores in Lafayette. Artizans, of all kinds, are numerous, and if properly encouraged would be prosperous and happy, and add much to the general welfare of the city. The products of their labor and in dustry are as good as can be had at the large and fashionable houses in New Orleans—vet they are left to struggle on with their families, depending altogether upon the casual custom of strangers. The crowd, forgetful of ail except their own whims and vanity,go and spend their money with those who have already made for tunes, and who need not their contributions. This is a draw back on the prosperity of Lafay ette. It appear to be a strange infatuation on the part of mankind to always wish to patronize those who have already amassed wealth, even when it is opposed to their own interests. For instance : a man sets out to buy a pair of shoes, a hat, or anything else, it matters not what, he passes by the humble and unadorned shop of the honest and industrious mechanic, where his wants would be equally, if not better, supplied, and with the additional advantage of perhaps putting bread into the mouths of a mother and her children, to spend his money where heavy capital make a greater display of paint, orna ment, and luxury. Who are they that do the work for these large houses? Who manufac ture the articles there for sale ? Are they not the mechanics employed? Well, if one of these mechanics has the independence, industry and capital, to set up for himself, will not his work be equally as good, if not better, than when he labored as a journeyman ? This ap plies to all kinds of business. Let every man have a chance to live. Keep down monopolies— §loo,ooo will do one hundred times more good when divided amongst one hundred individ uals, than when only one has possession ot it all. If you want, then, your community to be prosperous and happy, let not your support and patronage go altogether to those who have al ready, but give it to your neighbors —those liv ing in our midst. Shakespeare’s Mirror for Women. —As in the tall glass called Psyche, a lady gains a full length of herself, so that no point of person or dress may be disregarded, so in Shakes peare’s mirror a woman may obtain a Psycolog ical reflex of her nature which may aid her to its spotless array, and to the utmost perfection in adorment of which it is susceptible. She may learn how to preserye its intrinsic graces pf pu rity and innocence, at the same time that she is instructed how to deck it with becoming orna “!Meputbnt in all tilings —Jiratral in natjjrag.” MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 12, 1851. ment of accomplishment and refining culture. She may be taught to perceive how native charms may be heightened by suavity of de meanor; how a tine understanding and a capa cious mind are set off’ by modest bearing; how external beauty is enhanced by sweet manners and cheerful ease; how intellect and good sense consort with placability, forbearauce and affec tionate submission ; how gayety of heart and the gift of wit are tempered with gentleness, how highest dignity shows itself most truly in courtesy, generosity, charity, kindness. From the lady of the highest rank to the humblest among women—from her who is “crowned the most imperial monarch’’ to her who “does the meanest cares, 0 we all read in his respective de lineations our feminine resemblance. From the virtuous majesty of a Ilermione or a Katharine of Arragon, down the coarseness of an Andrey or a Mopsa, each essentially bears the generic stamp of woman. His sceptered queens, his princesses, his duchesses, his gentlewomen, his yeomen’s wives, his young maidens, his serving damsels, his country wenches, his hostesses; his most delicate ladj, his most blushing girl, his most reserved vestal, his arrantest coquette, his wildest-spirited sparkler, his sedatest thinker, his most loving and loveable female inpersona tion, or his vilest and mo t odious one, however infinitely they may vary, have all one feature in common—they are pre-eminently womanly in all they do and say. The wit of Rosalind and Beatrice, the ambition of Lady Macbeth, the conjugal faith of Imogen,the wickedness of Gon eril and Regan, the constancy of Helena, the reticence of Cordelia, the intellect of Portia, the wiles of Cleopatra, the innocence of Miranda, the charms of Viola, the gentleness of Desde mona, the sanctity and moral purity of Isabella, the anguish of Constance, the maternity of Vo lutnnia, the shrewishness of Katharine, the af fection of Celia, the flippancy of Lucetta, the passionate love of Juliet, the sprightliness ofNe rissa.the insanity of Ophelia, are all as marked ly contrasted as day and night; but they are all in themselves and in their action and cir cumstances true to the spirit of womankind. — Alary Cowden Clarke. American Drink at Paris. —We go to Par is for fashions of dress, but American drinks are becoming the rage in that gay city. Sherry eoblers, mint juleps, and brandy smashers have astonished and delighted multitudes of the gay Frenchmen. The Tribune describes the advent of these seductive beverages in the city of follies in the following rather racy manner. “Sherry eoblers have arrived at Paris—direct from New York. In fact they have been here long enough to be quite domesticated, and to have turned many an honest penny for the Case where they are exhibited. Their successful transplantation was for some time doubtful. The French were shy and dubious. But the Americans, true to the traditions of their early years, and remembering that mint is a good tilling in its way, and that ice, lemon-peel, and sjlierry, make a fragrant drink, rushed inanmlly to the rescue, till the French apostates to the national derni tasse, and converts to the true belief, took to the imported beverage with a true Mussulman fervor. But they hardly un derstood it at first. The predominance of ice over liquid and the exact part to be played by the straw in the mixture, were puzzling circum stances. The other evening a Parisian, under the guidance of a fellow-citizen of the sherry cobler, seated himself at a green table, prepar atory to making his first essay, seduced by the placard of “American drinks : Cocktails, gin slings, smashers, &c., forming altogether a va riety of over a hundred beverages.’’ The French man placed his lips upon his straw, in imitation of his companion, and remained for a moment in unbroken silence. Suddenly he spoke. “Good God ! Look at iny glass ! The sherry cobler’s sinking out of sight. Wait a minute ! tho’: yes, so it is! The liquid, in retreating from the tumbler, glides gently down my throat. But that is no more than just, since I am to pay for it. Oh ! you Americans are a people blessed by nature. The sherry cobler straw grows wild in your wood'. I cannot doubt; the ice is a product of nature, assisted by the thermometer; lemon-peel is to be found on the outside of every lemon ; and the sherry—oh, the sherry you got from Spain. Heavens, what a country! Mho discovered sherry eoblers, by the wav ? He and the man that first inven ted sleep, should have a column erected to their momory. Here’s to their Manes ! Mint, lemon peel and slumber!” (drunk standing.) The Frenchman did not furnish Iris eulogy, till he had discovered that Jupiter was a Yankee, and that,nectar and ambrosia were the heathen names for smasher and cocktail. The invoca tion has taken, and the mint-juleps at Paris may be set down as a fait accompli. Motives for self improvement. —Lei any man who mav happen to read what I am now writing say within himself, upon a strong and determined impulse, “I will be a speaker; not that 1 may spout in public, and spilt the ears of the groundlings, but that I may get a better and more ennobling gift,—that I may acquire a flow of language, a quickness of ideas, a poin tedness of purpose, and a sustained tone in con versation, together with the energy of thought, word, and deed necessarily resulting from these qualities.” Let him hut so say, and so do, and, though he begin from ever so low a degree, there is no power on earih that can prevent his progress. The lower his starting-point the better. He should set out again from the very elements. In arts and sciences, as in religion, we should receive our principles as little chil dren, or vve shall receive them to small purpose. Whereas the cry of most dullards, the apology, for their idleness is this:—“l am too low in the scale; I have no resources; I can never hope to rise, it is useless to attempt it.” And yet the same people, if by any chance they should be thrown into a gutter, would hardly acquiesce and be content to lie there. The very consciousness of their prostration would be the spur that would stimulate them to raise them selves by ail possible efforts. And why not also in the case of mental prostration? Would a pris oner cling to his captivity, and hug his fetters, because his dungeon was a low, and dark, and noisome one? No; he would pant for “upper air” all the more aspiringly. Besides, in such cases, the greater the contrast between onr past and present condition, the more our satis faction at the change. “The fewer morns, the greater share of glory.” Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so, Such a thought is tho love of the universal and eternal beauty. Our globe, soon by God, is a transparent law, not a mass of facts. A Noble Example. —About the year 1776 a circumstance occurred which ought to be writ ten on adamant. In the wars of New England with the aborigines, the Mohegan tribes of In diana early became friends of the English.— Their favorite ground were on the banks of the river (now the Thames) between New London and Norwich. A small remnant of the Mohe gans still exist, and they are scarcely protected in the possession and enjoyment of their favor ite domain on th# banks of the Thames. The government of this tribe had become heredita ry in tho family of the celebrated chief Uncas. During the time of my father’s mercantile prosperity he had employed severals luaians of this tribe in hunting animals whose skins were valuable for their furs. Among those hunters there was one na.ried Zachary, of the royal race, an excellent Ffjhter but as drunken and worthless an IndiarMYever lived. When he had somewhat passed the age of fifty, several members of the royal family who stood between Zachary and the throne of his tribe, died, and he found himself with only one life between himself and the Empire. In this moment his better genius resumed its sway, and he reflected seriously. “How can such a drunken wretch as I am aspire to be the chief of this honorable race ? What will my people say ? —and how will the shades of my noble ancestors look down upon such a base successor ? Can I suc ceed to the great Uncas? I will drink no more!’’ He solemnly resolved never again to taste any drink but water,and he kept his resolution. I had heard this story, and did not entirely be lieve it; for young as I was, I already partook of the prevailing contempt for Indians. In the beginning of May, the annual election of the principal officers of the (then) colony was held at Hartford, the capital. My father attended officially, and it was customary for the chief of the Mohegans also to attend. Zachary had succeed to the rule of his tribe My fatherV house was situated about mid way on the roadr between Mohegan and Hartford, and the del chief was in the habit of coming a few days be fore the election, and dining with his brother Governor. One day the mischievous thought struck me to try the old man’s temperance. The family were seated at, dinner, and there was ex cellent home-brewed beer on the table. I ad dressed the old chief.’ “Zachary, this beer is excellent—will you taste it.” The old man dropped his \nife and fork leaned forward with a stern intensity of expres sion—his black eye, sparkling with indignation, was fixed upon me. “John,’’ said he, “you do not know what you are doing. You are serving the devil, boy ! Do you not know that lam an Indian ? I tell you that I am, and that, if I should but taste your beer, I could not stop till I got to rum, and again become the drunken, contemptible wretch your father remembers me to have been. John, while you live, never again tempt a man to break a good resolution.” Socrates? never utteved Ynlualde pre cept. Demosthenes couh’A- stave given it in more solemn tones of elo*JL->. I was thun derstruck. My parents affected ; they looked at each other, at m<?,’ and at the venerable Indian, with deep feelings of awe and respect. They afterwards frequently reminded me of the scene, and charged me never to forget it. Zachary lived to pass the age of eighty, and sacredly kept his resolution. He lies bu ried in the royal burial place of his tribe, near the beautiful falls of the Yantic, the Western branch of the Thames, in Norwich, on land now owned by my friend Calvin Goddard, Esq. I visited the grave of iny old chief lately, and re peated to myself his inestimable lesson. — Col. Trumbull's Autobiography, WH—HWI—K—a Singular Bible Prophecy, Bearing up on Mormonism. —The seventeenth chapter of Jeremiah, fifth and sixth verses, reads as fol lows : “Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm and whose heart departeth from the Lord. “For he shall be like the beast in the desert and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched place in ihe wilderness , in a SALT LAKE, and not inhabited .” The above verses have a remarkable bearing, to say the lcastof them, upon the great settle ment of Mormonism at the ‘Salt Lake.’ That country has always been a ‘wilderness, in a salt- land, and not inhabited,’ until the folow ers of -Joe Smith who ‘trusted in a man, and made flesh their arm of support,’ settled there &pm a new.start. Hence we concluded, with their wanderings. The country for a great distance around the present abode of these peo ple, is encrusted with pure salt, of sufficient thickness to bear the weight of man ; and the lake whereby they abide is world-renowned for its saline qualities. The declaration of the Old Testament prophet is literally verified in the lo cality towards which Mormonism, both of the Old and New World, is now rapidly converg ing.— Camden Democrat. How To Make a Fortune. —Take earn estly hold oflife, as capacitated for,and destined to a high and noble purpose. Study closely the mind’s bent for a labor or profession. Adopt it es*ly, and pursue it steadily, never looking back to the turned furrow, but forward to the new ground, that ever remains to be broken. Means and ways are abundant to every man’s success, if will and action arc rightly adapted 10 them. Our rich men and our great men, have carved their paths 10 fortune and fame by this eternal principle-r-a principle that cannot fail to reward its votary, if it be resolutely pursued. To sigh or repine over lack of inheritance, is unmanly. Every man should strive to be a creator, instead of inher itor. He should bequeath instead of borrowing. The human race, in this respect, want dignity and discipline. It prefers to wield the sword of valorous forefathers, to forging its own weapons. This is a mean and ignoble spirit. Let every man be conscious of the God in him, and the providence over him, and fight iiis own good lance. Let him feel that it is better to earn a crust, than to inherit coffers of gold. This spirit of self nobility, once learn ed, and every man will discover within himself, under God the elements and capacity of wealth. He will be rich, in self-re source, and can lift bis face proudly to meet the noblest among men. —N. Y. Sun. The revelation of the Iliad or the Transfig uration, is as signs of power—billows or rip ples are they on the great stream of tendency —tokens of the everlasting efforts to produce which, even in its worst estato the soul exhib its.— Yankee Blade. A Practical and Prosperous Man. —One of the most eminent instances of energy, hon esty, prosperity, and usefulness is presented in the person of Zadoc Pratt, of Prattsburg, New \ork, who a few years since was as distin guished for his practical talents in the halls of Congress as he was before and is since in the pursuits of private life. He is a tanner and far mer; and as a specimen of his energy in those occupations, we will let him speak for himself, as he did a short time since in an address before the Agricultural Fair of Green countv, N. Y.: “And now I will show the advantage those dreary hemlocks have been to the farmers of our mountain towns. Since I first engaged in farming, it has been my lot to employ over fifteen thousand years of other men’s labor— an army of thirty thousand men have I em ployed, and I have paid those mc-u for their la bor alone, over two million five hundred thou sand acres of land, used over two hundred thou sand cords of hemlock hark; and paid over half a million of dollars for it. Used & worn out five hun dred horses and one thousand yoke oxen. Used two hundred thousand bushels of oats, one hun dred and thousand tons of hay, thirty thousand barrels of beef and pork, and nearly one hun dred barrels of flour, and potatoes without num ber or measure. I have tanned one million two hundred and fifty sides of leather; my usual disbursement is over five thousand dollars per day, and I have used in my business here, over ten millions. Every laborer received his money, yea, every man his penny, in peace; and to the credit of this community be it said, that I never had a side of leather stolen, and was never made de fendant in law on account of business transac tions, during my residence among you. Tho great object of my living is to be useful. Live with your neghbor, not on him. Mrs. Partington on the New Dress for Ladies. —“ Anew custom for ladies,’’ said Mrs. Partington, when a friend spoke to her about the proposed innovation in dress. The sound of “ costume’’ came to her oar distinctly, and she slightly misapprehended the word ; “anew custom for ladies! I should think they had better reform many of their old customs before they try to get new ones. We’re none of us better than we ought to be, and’’ “Cos tume, ma’am, I said,’’ cried her informant, in terrupting her; they are thinking of changing their dress.’’ “ Well, for my part I don’t see what they want to make a public thing of it for; changing the dress used to be a private matter, but folks do so alter! They are always a changing dresses now, like the caterpillar in the morning that turns into a butterfly at night, or the butterfly at night that turns to a caterpil lar in the morning, 1 don’t know which.” “But,” again interrupted her informant; “I mean they are going to have anew dress.’’ “Oh, they are, are they?” replied the old lady; “ Well, I’m sure I’m glad of it, if they can afford it; but they don’t always think enough of this; a good many xan't afford it; they can’t! But did you hear of the new imperial for wimmen thatsome body is talking about ? ’ Why, my dear Mrs. P.’’said she, smiling, “that is just what I was trying to get your opinion about.” “Then,’’ re turned she, “why didn’t you say so in the first place ?” Well, I don’t know why a woman can’t be as virtuous in a short dress ss well as ina long one ; and it will save some trouble in wet weather to people who have to lift their dresses and show their ankles. It may do for young critters, as sportive as lambs in pasture, but only think how I should look in short coats and trowsers, shouldn’t I ? and old Mrs. Jones, who weighs three hundred pounds, wouldn’t look well in ’em neither. But, Isay, let’em do what they please as long as they don’t touch my dress ; I like the old way best, and that’s the long and short of it. She here cast a glance at the profile upon the wall, as if for its ap proval of her resolution ; and an idea for a mo ment seemed to cross her mind that he, the an cient Corporal, would not know her, were he to visit sublunar scenes and find her arrayed in the new dress, and her compressed lips showed the determination of her heart to abide by the old costume, and she solemnly and slowly took an energetic pinch of snuff, as if to confirm it. “'■■■ -v The Growth of the United States.—The census returns already received from seventeen states of the Union, show on increase of popu lation since 1840, of 3,130,898, which, added to the aggregate population ten years ago of 17,- 093,353, would alone make now 20,214,2a1. Estimating the increase in other State by the ratio, the aggregate population of the nation in June last, may bo put down at not less than 24,000,000, or an increase of nearly seven mil lions in the last ten years. In some of the States the increase lias been very rapid, in others quite inconsiderable. In Maine they have 612,000, being an increase, in ten years, of 110,207, or over twenty per cent. Massachusetts has 1,000,000, being an increase of 200,172, also upwards of twenty per cent. Connecticut has 386,000, or an advance of 65- 985, also upwards of twenty per cent. Penn sylvania has 2,300,000, showing an increase of 575.967,0 r over thirty three percent. Ohio has 2,200.000, showing an increase of 670,732, or over forty percent. Wisconsin has 350,000; she had but 30,000, ten years ago. The District of Columbia on the other hand, has gained but 7,000. She has now 50.000, or less than twelve per cent, increase; North Carolina has 800,000, being an increase of 46,- 581, or only about six per cent. South Caro lina has only 639,099, being an increase of only 44,701 —less than 8 per cent. We have re turns from only one other Southern State, that is Georgia, the population of which is now 1,000,000, showing an increase of 308,608, or about forty five per cent. The ratio of increase in the whole Union, es timated from tho returns received of seventeen States, is about thirty per cent. That of Geor gia is fifteen per cent, ahead of the average; that of South Carolina is twenty two,and North Carolina twenty four per cent, below the aver age. In the Northern States heard from, the rate of increase is uniformly over twenty per cent. — N. O. Bulletin. Open your heart to sympathy, but close it to despondency. If you do not “ mind the consequences,” they will he very apt to re-mind you. Every fool can find faults that a great many wise men can’t remedy. Ho that finds a thing, steals it if he endeav ors not to restore it. Mr. Conscience is the only one whose good opinion is worth striving for. He that blows in the dust, fills his own eye. Every body’s business is nobody’s business. From the Southern Standard. Ship Building at the South. One ot the greatest drawbacks to the pros perity of the South, has been its entire commer cial dependence on the North. Politicians may argute that this has been brought about bv the actiou of the general government, and may. in some measure, have had its influence; but the root of the evil has been, in the supineness and inactivity of our own people, who have been, “good easy souls,” content to raise their crops’ of Rice and Cotton, for the benefit of our northern merchants, Ship Owners and Manufac turers. Our forests abound in the most unlimit ed quantity of the finest ship timber in the world, most of which is allowed to rot in its na tive wilds, and what little is cut, is done bv northern energy, carried to northern ports, to build ships to carry our produce. What has the action of the general government to do with this most important business of ship build ing ? What law is there to prevent our using the abundant products of our own forests, aud building ships tocarry our own produce. Large fortunes are annually made by North ern shipowners, in carrying the produce of the South, and it may be estimated, that one-tenth ot the Cotton crop of the South, is paid in treight. The South furnishes Hemp for cor dage ; cotton, for cotton duck canvass (now most used.) Yet our Hemp is carried to the North in Northern ships, manufactured by Northern labor, into cordage and our cotton into canvass. Is there any law of the land, which forbids our manufacturing our own raw material ? Is there any bounty allowed to Northern manufacturers ? But, says your polit ical philosopher, the tariff protects the North ern manufacturer, by laying heavy duties on these articles made in foreign countries. Gran ted. But would not the same protection be .afforded to a manufacturer at the South, as at the North ? Our natural advantages for ship building are greater than theirs. We have the timber aud iron, the hemp for cordage, the cot ton for canvass, at all our doors; but we lack the energy and enterprise to improve the ad vantages which nature baa so bountifully be stowed on us, Why should Maine, a cold, barren, sterile country, half the year buried in frosts and snow, monopolize a large portion of the ship building of the United States? She has none of the el ements of ship building within her limits but timber, and that much inferior to what we have. Every thing else she has got from the other States. The secret lies in the enterprise and activity of her people. Why is it that the city of New York, with scarcely a stick of ship timber within one hundred miles, sends forth the most splendid ships and steamers that navigate the ocean, whilst Charleston and Savannah, with ship timber enough at their very doors to furn ish navies for the world, are confined to build ing a few wood sloops and coasting schooners ? If we wish to shake off our dependence of the North, we must first make ourselves independ ent at home by making a proper use of the nat ural advantages we possess. We must do away with that false pride, which makes it less hon orable to handle the broad axe and the plane, than to superintend the raising of cotton and l ice. If we want to prosper, we must strip oft’ our coats and go to work. Ihere are many considerations connected with this subject worthy the attention of our people, which we propose to put forth, from time to time, and it’, by pointing out our own deficiencies and the remedy for them, we should awake the slumbering energies of even a fi w of the sons of the South, we shall consider ourselves amply repaid for our effort. pH:iM South C arolina—Her Position & Destiny. It is now sufficiently apparent, that if South Caroli na secedes from the Union, she will be ‘solitary and alone’ in her position. At one time, certainly, hopes were cherished by the South Carolina Disunionists tliai Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi, would unquestiona- j bly concur in her disorganizing and treasonable ichemea ; but that hope is forever dispelled by the un piistakeable indications of popular sentiment in the States above named. No sensible man really doubts but that next fall Mississippi will gloriously respond to j tho Union sentiment of noble old Georgia. Jlio im portant question suggests itself to the mind, h-w will South Carolina act under such circumstances ? Will i site persevere in her favorite theory of ‘peaceable se- : cession,’ alone, and without the countenance of a single sister State, or will she have the discretion to wheel quietly into her accustomed |x>sition as a sover eign State of tho great American Union? Is it possi ble that our gallant sister will be guilty of the madness and simplicity of attempting to convert her State Ter ritory into a sovereign and independent Nation ! We confess ourself unable to make any confident prediction as to the final course South Carolina may pursue. The disunion feeling predominates in h. r bor ders. Her people by artful demagoguism, have been ; taught to hate tho Union framed by their fathers, and to view tho sacred constitution of our country as a ter- j rible engine of oppression, instead of the mild andbeni- j ficent chart of human liberty! as ail patriots know it to j be. The people of South Carolina tire proud, stubborn, excitable and brave. They may, therefore, under the 1 goading of corrupt leaders, be induced to plunge j headlong and recklessly into the yawning gulf of dis union, upon the awful verge of which they have a'rea dy been seduced by corrupt statesmen and evil coun- ; scllors. Our own individual opinion is that South Car olina will, at the eleventh hour, sullenly recede from her Quixotio position, and with much grumbling, final ly agree to wear the silken chains of Union, and enjov the society and protection of her more considerate and wise sisters of the confederacy. There is not, how ever. any certainly ns to this. Should South Carolina secede, what will be the outy of the general government in such sn emergency ? What course will the Government pursue ? Will the President employ against our rebelious sister of the South, the military power under his command, to vindi cate the supremacy of the federal constitution and in tegrity of the Union ? Or, will the general government pursue a ‘masterly inactivity’ in reference to South Carolina ? These are grave questions, assuredly, and j require deep thought and calm deliberation. It occurs to us, that if South Carolina will consum mate her suicidal policy of secession, that the general government should quietly permit her to go out of the Lnion and enjoy, toher heart’s content, all the sweets and glories of i peeceable secession.’ Let her drain, undisturbed, that poisoned cup of treason ooneocted by her deluded statesmen. Let her, as a sovereign nation, ‘chew the aud’ of reflection, and invoke her ‘sober se cond thoughts.’ It would be the duty of the general government, of course, in tho event of secession on the part of South Carolina, to withdraw from her limits the federal officers—remove the property of the Unit ed States—discontinue the mail operations, so far as that State is ooncerned—and, perhaps, station revenue cutters off her coast, to receive there the duties to he piui on foreign goods. It would be proper to cultivate good neighborship with the nation of South Carolina We might very well send a Minister of the United States to the national capita! at Charleston, and courte ously receive at Washington the representative of the new-born nation of Carolina 1 Would not this policy be bettir thanblood-shed ? Would it not consii ate the most salutary rebuke that could be administered ? Now, it is time, (judging Ly the past,} that the na tion of South Carolina might very soon declare war against the United States. In that event, w might, in the first instance, throw grass at her, as a warning, ‘'nsdid ‘theold man,’ spoken of in Webster’s spelling book, somewhere about the beginning of the ‘pictures,’ who found the‘rude boy* stealing hie apples,) and then, if the belligerent nation of South Carolina would not ‘come down’ from her improper elevation, we might try what virtue there was in a small army of fifty thou sand men, wi;h spar’#*/ ‘tig guns’—pursuing the sto ry of the.spelling bock, we might til row ‘stones’ at rbe intruder. Seriously, we believe .that one year would not elapse, after secession, before South Gindina, hotted down in humility, and clad in sack-cloth and ashes, would knock at the door, and with tears of deeppe.iir ttnce.beg the inestimable boon of being once more a hap py member of our glorious Union. Our erring sister, like the ‘prodigal son,’ spoken of in sacred parable, would very r-oou waste her substance in the attempt to conduct her national affairs—she would become so poor and exhausted, by riotous living, that she would very toon conclude to ‘arise and go to her father’s house’ And how should we receive the poor wanderer ? Why, as the father received his prodigal son. The sisters of the Union should run and meet the penitent—throw their arms around her neck, pre pare a seast —place clean garments upon the treason • polluted exile, and receive her with joy and kindness Vicksburg Whig. From the Gre.e.ntille (S. C.) Patriot The County Seceding from ibe State. Messrs Editors-. —Will you please give room in the columns of your paper, to a few words from tbo District of Horry ? Has a State the right to secede from the Union, is the qu'-stion of the day. And not only a majority of the so called /i ee presses has decided that she lias that right, but ibe body politic, recently assembled ia Charleston, called and known by the name of a Con vention, has, after due, deliberate, and careful consider ation, come to the conclusion that the State, to ail m tents and purposes, does possess that right. An argument used to sustain this position, is that the States create the Federal Government, and as a natur al consequence, the creator must be gr,ater than the created ; therefore, the State Government being greater than the Federal Government, a State lias the right to secede and the General Government has not the right to interfere or molest in any way whatever. We take it for granted that these positions are ad mitted for truths. And if they are admitted as facts, the consequences naturally follow that as it is necessary for States to constitute the Federal Government, so in deed it is equally necessary that districts and counties are very necessary ingredients in the creating of States. Therefore, having admitted the fact that Slates may i withdraw from the Confederacy at their option, without harm or molestation, we assume the position that dis tricts have equally a perfect and guarantied a right to withdraw, or in more fashionable terms, secede from a State, as that State has to secede from the Union. You now see the position we occupy. We claim the privilege of secession, and onr interest demands that we withdraw from the State of South Carolina. Not with the vain and presumptuous expectation of becom ing a mighty republic, feeding the starving nations of the world on the surplus revenue collected by a duty of 10 per cent, levied on the imports of ail goods brought into the Republic of Horry. No, we arc not so ambi tious as to seek to make, the world quail before us, but we will be content to be admitted as a county in the State of North Carolina. Yes, we will be in favor of immediate annexation. Indeed, we assume the right that the State now seems determined t* adopt for her future course, vis: to choose protectors for ourselves. And who shall this protector be ? The State seems to prefer the protection of England, but our father, Peter Horry, fought, and that rr.anfullv , too, to deliver us from that tyrannical power, and with pride we record the fact that we are not anduliful sons * and still wish to preserve our inheritance unsullied ; for this reason we prefer seeking the prelection of North Carolina. YVe were once all under the same coloni al government, an-1 will again be proud to be adopted as her son. Besides vve believe our persons and pro perty will be more secure under her protection than the protection of Great Britain. There are other rea sons which cause us to look to North Carolina for pro tection : We are closely allied in a natural sense. lUr coast borders on nearly one-half of ours, and if we are annex and to her, the Great and Little Pee Dee rivers will most effectually divide us from the Republic of South Carolina: our products are nearly or quite similar; our forest growth the same; and already her industrious sons are coming in among us with their property, ex tracting the tarpeßtine from our trees, and causing us to become apt in this art, thereby revealing to us the hidden wealth of our land, and causing us to become more rich daily. We are more prosperous than we have ever been. Why should the State seek to drag us in to utter ruin with our sister districts ? \\ r e most so lemnly and earnestly protest against such proceedings, and say we have no part in them. \Y 7 e do not think the State will doubt our courage, and say we are fainted hearted aud fear the eon test that may come. No, we think the noble spirit Unit animat ed the sons of Horry in the time of the Florida war, is yet with them, and North Carolina, we feel happy to say, if cause should be given, would fed proud to own us as her sons. YY'e are fully alive to ihe fact, that in certain places we are looked upon as being degraded to such an ex tent that it would seem a disgrace for a man to lower the thinking powers of his mind to such a degree as to comprehend our degraded position, and why is this* Because we did not send delegates to a thing re cently held in Charleston, eallea a Convention. Because we are content to stay at home and attend to our own business, and let other people's alone. Because we don’t get up Southern Rights Associa tions, and excite the people to blind madness. Because we have elected delegates ot to attend the Convention provided for at the last session of the Legis lature. Because we do not believe that certain republican editors are capable of governing our affairs, and, coun selling the nation, when they are not capable of taking care of their own fortunes. For these reasons, gentlemen, and various others, we are denounced as blind, stupid, and incapable of seeing “Y>ur owu interest. YVe have set forth our position, to sustain us in which we appeal to the intelligence of the world at large. SONS OF HORRY. The Best we can Get.— The following humorous paragraph, from the Aberdeen (ML) Independent, oc curs in an editorial reviewing Judge Gholston’s speerh at a late secessionists’ protracted meeting ; The Judge sneered at the ‘best-we-can-gef policy. Well, we think it is just the thing. The Conatitution is the beat we can get; our God is the best ws can get, our Bible j§ the best we can get j onr children are tit NO. 15.