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Prolifc.-We: are. Uniformed d;,hats the :;
wife OF. Mr.. Kindred Story, who resides in
The lower par. Of this District, presented
him with three, children at one birth on the :
,26th ult.-one son and;two daugb,ers--all.i
doing well. The son is nameds JAMEs.z Z
KNOX. and the daughters ELlzABETHPoLK.s
and REBEcch, DALLAS As a matter. ofg
course, the parents are in INDECENT cireum:t
stances, and .willrequire The assistance of
their friends and neighbors to render them.
comfortable. Our informant slates:shat
they had FIVE small children before, and
this unexpected addition makea their num-!
ber eight, Greenville is. truly a remark
able section of the cnuntry-especiall for
children.-GreenvAe Moantainser.. - -
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Contents of the March number of The

Contents Of the March number of The
Southern Agricultrist, published by "A.
E. Miller, Broad street,: Charleston: !,
Address by R. w. Roper. Esq, deliver
ed in Columbia s. G. before the State
Agricultural Society, on the Anniversary,
November 2Sth, l644-ConcIuded; Old
Pickle for Pork; Insects injurious 10 the
Farmer und Gardner, by Willis Gaylord
Continued; Guano, pronounced BY the
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FOUND.

As we were walking home'from our Of :
flee last evening about ten .o'clock, wea
stumbled over something on the side walk
which we felt confident did. not belong
there for we have walked The streets sos
often that wa know every, even The small. :,
est, inequality in The pavement, and we:
therefore turned around 10 see what it was. I;
we lifted il up--we looked atit-squeez.
ed i,-kicked it-but, for our life we could 3
no, tell what it Was--witEy difficulty we
srasped it, determined TO bring il home -
with US, try to describe it, and see if any
of our friends can enlishten US as 10 what
il is. <s=.- ~
/. 1t is shaped Tor rather, was) gooddeaE
like a crescent half ,mooni a,little like an
India rubber life-preserver, and something
like a pig yoke-felt little soft like, aud !,
was covered with bed ticking. I've had,
nearly broke our neck over it, and as we I.
never had any luck in our lives, we, e,thonght7 J.
may be we have found a.treasure at last-,
We didn't know but what,it was O. new /
way the banks had adopted lin making:
their, renitances, 80 as to prevent robbery,,,
for the ugly thing had string g, each cad
so that, 10 emergency, slogt man -atls-a
tie i, around him, and carry it,orherefore,
tauce. With a neryousIore inio il. 1t.
we seized our kgi6 that as ,sooa. ash the:
was stuffeau II, it ripped abouts six inches!ss.:
bla4ne first thing that proiuded itself from 4
the .ori6ce was an old stocking. very muchas
worn, six more followed it--ne2t jsFas an !;
old roundabout, and then, in rapid dsucceso5ss
sion, three short; shirts and two lopg ones.-
aa old fur cap, pair Of breeches-old and
ragged, The skirt Of al old calico dress, a j
pair Of old calico drawers, pair Of old
flannel. drawers, four old night caps, two;
cradle blankets, one old Leeborn bonnet,
an old Morocco booi, Two table cloths, an
old piano cover, three quilted peltteoagIs: !.
aud six napkins! What on earth a.. could % q
The thing have beer' Do tell Lou: IRIS. /.
-,
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The article in the new constitution Of
Louisiana declaring that none but native
of The United States shall be qualified to
be Governor, was rejected 10 the Conyen-
,ion on the 18th ult,, BY q vote Of II to n.
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Mr.. Calhoun.-We understands (saysa
the New York Herald that largeinuin2sa
Der of persons in this city: have united:ins
an7invitation 10 ihe5Hon: Johns e. Calss
houn to visit New York aud partakc ueas
public diuneg.
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EDGEFBELD ADVERTISER.
BY
w. F. DURIsoE, PROPRIETOR.
NEW TERMS.

Two DOLLARS and FIFTY CENTS, per annum,
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"a if not paid before the expiration OF the
wear. All subscriptions will be continued,
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ton of the year; but no paper will be dlscon-
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Any person procuring FIVE responsible Sub
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ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuonsly inserted at IS
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Those published monthly, or quarterly, will
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and charged accordingly.
ALI communications, postpaid, will be prompt
ly and strictly attendedto.
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State. of South Carolina.
EDGEFlELD DISTRICT:

VHyOLLED before me by A. T. Hodges.
IA living near Runnel's Ford, on Turkey
Creek, a brown. bay Mare MULE, supposed
to be twenty years old, blind of the left eye
The skin on the right side, just behind the
shoulder, has the appearance of having been
burnt recently; short switch tail, having the
appearance of having been tied in knots with
a irvine; quite grey in the face. Appraised at
five dollars.
WIN. BRUNSON, Magistrate.
March 5 Im4t 6
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N Office.

WN7ILI. be Let 10 the loves, bidder. at Lib
Wv erty Hill, on the 18th March next the
Posting of the Roads, with Rock or Cast Posts.
Also, the Pointing Of the Roads of the Upper
Battalion, Ninth Regiment, South Carolina
Blilitia.
The terms made known on the day oflettins.
BY order Of the Board:
THOS. ]. HIBLER, Secretary
Of Board Of Commissioners.
Feb ii ~
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THE NEW SENATE;

WHres. Terms EXPIRE:
Ge6rge Evans, Maine, l547
William Upham. Vermont, lS49
Samuel S. Phelps, do. ~ 1857
Isaac G. B Baies, NJ assachusetls,S l647 e.
Daniel Webster, do. 1851 =
James F.: Simmons, r, Island !, 1s47 81
Albert C. Greene, do. 1851 q
J.W. Huntington, Connecticut, 1857
Jacob w. Miller, New Jersey, 1S479a
,WiiliamJL. DAYTON, 10 do - 185I&S
s..sT,hoo,as Clayton, Delaware, ). .1S47sAis
John NJ. Clayton, q do: 71'.-,1s5l,
JamesA Pearce, Maryland, '184gs@
Reverdy Johnson, do.a:.c- ~lS5I -
William S. Archer, Virginia, -Ie47 u
W.P. Mangum. N. Carolina; ls4T
John M. Berrien, Georgia; = l847 !
Alexander Barrow, Louisiana, II 647@=zf
Henry Johnson, do.5 1S49; >
Spencer Jarnagan, Tennessee,' 1S47 =
J. r.. Morehead, Kentucky, ls47s
j. J. Crittenden, do. ;, .1l649 ~
Thomas Corwiu, Ohio. 1851,
w. Woodbridge, Michigan, 1872 3
"a Wigs. sa
DEMOCRATS. PERMs EXPIRE:
J. Fairfield, Maine, 1851
Levi Woodbury., N. Hampshire, ls47 {.
Chas. G. Alherton, do. :.1849
John NJ. Niles, Connecticut; '1S49s
John A. Dix, New York, lS47 -
D. S. Dickinson. do. - 1851 "
Jas. Buchanan, Pennsylvania, ls49
Daniel Sturgeon. do. '5 1851 ~.
w. H. Haywood, N. Carolina. 1849 ;.
DanielB Huger, S. Carolina, 7ls47tz@
George McDuffie, do. ? 1S49 @a.
Walter 4. Colquitt, Georgia, 1s49 8
Dixon H. Lewis, Alabama; ls47
ArthurP Bagby, do. 1s49=
RI: Walker. Mississippi, .le47.n
Jesse Speigh,, do. - 1857
William Allen, Ohio. 1e49TJ
E. A. Haniegau. Indiana; IS49.,
James Semple, Illinois, 1847.
Sidney Breese, do. lS49aas
David R. Atcheson, Missouri; l849 ~
Thomas II. Benton, do. 1851
Chester Ashley, Arkansas: l54Za2S,
Ambrose a. Sevter,. do. va 1849s7i$s
Lewis Cass, Michisanf 1851 s5S:
IS Democrats. s.-.ss- .1i5s ;, 55.i-f'S@
rTLo,a go ,broa S,,napc;ao oouonS kx,
The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1845-02-27
AN EYE.WIrsEss.
For the Voice Of Freedom.

Mr.. EDITOR. 1t will be expected nc
douot that ! should answer the article in
your last weeks paper over the name oil
II. Hall, not to multiply words, but 10
make clear what Mr.. Halls confidential
adviser has, Iawyer-Iike, succeeded so we'll
in rendering obscure. have before said
that report, industriously circulated by
| some the selectmen, and their confdants.
that the former board OF SeIectmen had
made a great b'under in their Representa-
ton of the condition of the Treasury in
March 1874, was one Of their own mak>
ing.
When this attempt TO deceive the pco>
pie OF Brandon, with view TO conceal
their own fecklessness in the expenditure
of public money, came to my knowledge
l deemed it my duty to expose the fraud,
charging the b'under home upon the Sc
lectmen and the help they employed.
Mr., Hall does not even aIlude to the
much talked oil bunder. and admits by his
silence the truth of my version of the mat.
ter, nor does he deny any position taken
by me, aud fails to meet the case fairly in
any particular, words aud figures are
thrown together, 10 confound rather than
enIIg hten the reader.
Il Mr.. Hall had taken the advice ofone
OF his brother SeIec,men and IN his own Ian.
guage defend himself, If in the right, 9th
erwise acknowledge his fault he would
have appeared much better in my opinion
then now; as it is his adviser HIS led him
to make another bunder, which he would
not have made without help.
1t is true as aIledged, that signed re-
port with others in 1913, but it is not true
that said report makes allowance for $3.50,
Attachments, and that Fl. Hall in his illegal
abatement of $l25,O0 only come up to
half of what | supposed would be neces>
'ary to abate. | deny that by any reading
If the l843 report an inference can be
lraw that any sumwhateverwas allowed for
subsequent abatement on taxes, on the
contrary the report distinctly states that
orders had been drawn for the whole sums
embraced therein, with the exception per-
Iaps OF the Dow Execution.
Il was not convenient for Mr.. Hall 10 G
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For the Voice of Freedom.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE.

1t was dark, rainy night, near tn,
Green Mountains in Vermont, that SINAI
clan Of nocturnal wanderers fortunatel,
found themselves sheltered by numerou:
shelving rocks, which were laid apparent
Iy by some ingenious architect, whose
giant hand had placed them like brick
work, Ia the form of hollow square,
Being in state of extreme poverty and
on the point of starvation, they were obIig,
| ed 10 procure PROVISIONS in a way which
the lawyers would call "iUegal." One
of the party having slrayed a short dis
lance from the rest in search of food, be-
came terribly frightened at the sight of a
monsrous large creature IN the shape oil
human being standing erect, with a huge
clustering cutlass grasped tight in his enor-
nous hands. and drawn in position ready
to sever at one blow, the heads from the
bodies OF his fated victims.
AS This poor creature attempted TO lea o
out of sight, the monster aimed a blow at
his neck and missed him. This so fright
ened the lille family, that they fled for
safety TO a cavern near the banks of a
large river. But they were closely pur-
sued by number of these "modern Co
liahs,' who were armed with the most
frighllul looking weapons of death. For
tunateIy for all save one, they left their
comfortable retreat, and seeing these
blood-tblrsty monsters close al their heels,
plunged into the ripling waters and land
ed safely on the opposite shore, where
they could hear their savage monsters
bowling in doleful sounds at the loss of
their expected prey. The shrleks and
yeIls of The unfortunate one, were over
whelming TO the sto utest hear. His neck
was placed in machine shaped like the
thumb and fore foger of a prodigious gi-
ant, and his body suspended over ire
mendous blaze of fire Here he was
turned from side 10 side, until at last to end
The awful tragedy, they severed both ears
from his head, and setting him firmly up,
on his feet, babe him 60 and tell his CONF
RAIDS OF the cruel fate from which they so
narrowly escaped, or perish on his way.
Cruel indeed! Who can read The tale,
without exhibiting great deal of pity for
his poor singed rat"
AN EYE. WITNESS.
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REToRT DIRECT. Que John McCu.
en-, of Pawtucket, having posted his better
half, she replies in the Gazette as follows:
"My husband has posted me as having
left his bed and board. | wish simply to
say that he never had any. All the beds
10 which he lays claim were given me by
my father. RosANNA MCCUEN."
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About Cashmere Shawls.

We find in the Boston Transcript Il
very lady-Iike article from the edltress
upon this important and interesting topic.
She saws that "lhese magnificent ana
graceful articles of oriental manufacture,
in the exquisite perfection or their costly
fabric, are not much worn in our country,
owing to their heavy price, though we
occasionally see the figure OF wealthy
woman enveloped in soft and delicate
shawl that may possibly have been
whole year in loom in Cashmere, and
bought with price that might pay the to-
tai annual expense Of small family.
The work of Mr. Ell phlnstone; upon
Cabu and Cashmere, Miss Walter goes
on to say, "gives curious account OF the
manufacture of the Indian shawIs, in
4 which he states that shop may be occu>
pied with one shawl, provided 1t be re-
markably fine, one for above year; while
other shops make six or eigh! during mat
period.
"Ofthe best ard most worked kinds,n
so much as quarter OF an inch is com
pleted in one day by three people, which
is the number employed in most OF the
shops. Shawls containing much work
are made in separate pieces, IN different
shops, and it may be observed that the
peceswhen comp e!ed, rare y correspond in
size. Main shawls are woven with
heavy wooden shuttle, the figured ones are
worked with wooden needles there being a
separate needle for the thread ofeach color,
and no shuttle is required. The wages
of the head workmen are from about nine
pence 10 shilling per day; that of the
common workmen from twopence to Six
pence. The number of shawls made an
nually in Cashmere is estimated at so, 600.
The trade. however, was tormery much
more extensive.
1.-THE exquisite wool from which these
shawls are woven is procured from a
sheep or goat which abounds in the inte
rior of the Hlmmaeyan mountains, and
which another writer on India, Mr. Turn.
er, mentions as having seen in II very
cold region in Thibet, where he skated,
and where the ice formed on his whiskers, |
Notwithstanding large fires were kept up
in the tent all night. "They were feed
ing The says) in large focks on the dry
heritage that covers these naked looking
hills This is the most beautiful species
among the whole lrbe of goats more SO
than the Angola kinds. Their colors are
black, white, or a faint blush tinge, and
OF a shade something lighter than fawn.-
They have straight horns, and are of
lower stature than the lowest sheep in
England"
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VOICE OF FREEDOM.
SPECIAL NOTICE.

uLet it be distinctly understood by
the Liberty friends throughout the State,
that there are at present NO AGENTS in
the field commissioned by US to lecture &
take up pledges in behalf of the general
cause. When any are thus employed,
due notice will be given of the fact.
STATE COMMITTEE.
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POSTAGE REFORM. The bill which
passed the Senate aud went to the House
Is Ike TO meet with trouble in the House.
The House insist upon the passage of
their bill, which it semitic the Senate some
time sihce, The bill from The House
asks for 10 cents for all distances over 100
miles. We fear that the reform so much
needed by the people, and for which thew
have so long petitioned, will he crowded
off the board, BY the present Congress -
But the time is not far distant, when the
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Did any person who knew that man
his sagacious mind, his acumen, his adj
mirable skill as lactician- doubt for a
moment that he foresaw that there was a
gathering cloud, that four years hence he
would not be able 10 encounter And so
far as party was concerned he was right ;
for men that came here at the LIST OF the ses-
sion ready to 60 for the admission of Tex.
as, now blenched from that question. Now
he put it to southerners, as this sectional
question had been raised, was it sectional
in them TO endeavor 10 preserve those re-
latlons which could alone give them con-
nection with this Union2 Was it section
al in them to defend those rights aud in
tereSs which had been assaiIed by the
ruthless hand Of aboltionism? Was it
sectional ia them, with particular species
OF population, that was increasing, TO pro-
test against the establishment of bounds
beyond which they shall not pass2 Their
black population now amounted 10 about
three millions; and what would be the
condition of the whites when they should
expand over the whole country, cooped up
within their present limits, and without the
capablIity Of emigration2
Did gentlemen consider this state of
things2 Did they look at the interest of
the North, and particularly to tha, ship
ping interest which made her the general
carrier of the Union, when they opposed
this measure? Who dare tell US, said he,
that we are unpa.riotc when We resist a
construction OF the constitution lately a.
vowed on that floor, that that instrument,
while it guaranteed slavery as it was ad
opted, impaired no po.entialily 10 its ex-
tension in proportion to the increase Of our
population and the wants of the country ?
Gentlemen had talked of dividing this
country into two parts, in one of which !
slavery was to be excluded. A southern.
er who would agree to this-a soulherner
who would manacIe and Getter The ener
ges OF his children, must be either IA
knave OF a fool. Admit Texas, and give
but two slave States; and what (said Mr.
II J will be our condltion With an ex-
hausted soil, and dense population, which
without field for industry and enterprise,
must grow idle, let gentlemen figure TO
themselves the consequences. But let
southern men look to it. The North is
% have territory reaching 10 the Rocky
and overlapping their icy bar.
Tiers, is 10 add State after Stale; while The
South will have an increasing and danger
Jus population, which it cannot have an
,utet for"
Let those who think abolitonis,s have
lone nothing to shake the foundations of
lavery, ponder the foregoing, aud the
thousand facts respecting church and MN
s!eraI action had on the subject; and |
hInk when they see'that The great work
# waking the Nation and getting its Ut,
eation to the subject has been accomplish
d, they will no longer sreeringIy ask,
What have abolitionis:s done!
jill.
North Ferrisburgh Feb. "a, 1874.
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servant will not be greater than his mas
ter, and when the people will rot be turn.
ed out of their own house, by their serv-
ants whom they have clothed in q 'litle
brief authority and sent TO Wash
lnglon 10 transact the business of the Ma
ton. T.
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help our Imagination, but il cannot aid our
perceptions. Many men have CROPPED all
their lives in the dark places Of philoso.
ply, s!raining their eyes in the dubious
void, who might have lived and labored
to good purpose in the sunshine. - Am.
ReDubkican.
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For the Voice of Freedom .
LINES.


written upon the death ofa young child and
1scFlbed to the bereaved mother.
MY SISTER:
Oh !sce the little sufferer,
Deaths dew is on its brow;
Not cen mothers tenderness
Can gave her darling now.
Oh 1t is bitterness to see
The weak, upllied eye.
To watch the short & quckened breath
And know that it must die.
But alb sweet child, it's better far,
That thou shouldSt die so soon,
Than live to stain thy spoilers soul,
Or fall unfit at noon.
Its eyes are closed, its hands are clenched.
It's lips move as in prayer,
It's going TO Fathers house
To sing his praises there.
It's gone; the last brief pang is rast,
It's numbered 'mong the dead:
Jesus, the Saviour, puts the crown
OF glory on its head.
II seemed like some bright star that's
To glad s cheer us here: rO;van1
And since by death it's passed awav.
IT makes the dark more drear.
But gone alas forever gone,
To purer soil and air,
Where wintry winds shall never chill,
And skies are ever fair.
And now, perchahce, this angel. dove
Is lowering DER the EARTH
10 guard from danger, and to sbIeb
The one that gave it birth.
Oh then, sweet sister mulmur no,
Under the Christening rod;
In love thy child is torn from thee,
It's happy row with God,
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A STAKEHOLDER IDEA OF SLAVERY.
The following remarks on Slavery are
extracted from an article in the Frank
fort Commonwe alth, one Of the most in
.fuential journals in Kentucky:-West
ern Citizen.
GAS to the blessings of slavery, Mr.
Calhoun is very silly to argue that ques.
ton at home, still more abroad. The
universal sentiment at the North, and we
believe majority Of the people even in
the slavehoding States, regard slavery
here as plague spot and curse. In
Kentucky, while we believe all her citi.
zens are loyal to the constitution, and
would resist any interference with the
question, nearly all regard the institu
tion as every way injurious to us, and
would joyfully adopt any just and practi-
cable scheme ofrelieying themselves Of
the evil.
The number of shareholders in Ken
lucky is about one fourth the number Of
voters. This is an important fact which
the considerate should constantly keep
n mind. Mr. CaIhouns principles car
ried out would make the laborng free
men of this country slaves to slavery
His estimate of national happiness and
prosperity, as is clearly shown in his let
ter to Mr. King, on which we are now
remarkng, is an estimate of the comforts
and enjoyment not of the great body of
free American laborers, but Of that small
class who live on the sweat of negro la
Dor. God forbid we should excite the
smallest prejudice against either
negro labor or those who enjoy it. We
would make no discrimination between
them and others; for we hold ourselves
conscienciously bound, under the com
promises Of the constitution, to regard
all and protect all alike.
sBut we call ON those who employ
slave labor, for Gods sake, not to pro (
woke the masses against themselves - set
yourselves, as too many do, IN offensive
arrogance above them. A large major
ity ofthe freeman ofthe nation are poor
laborers: men, nevertheless, OF proud
spirits, of true hearts, and be it remem,
bored, of stout arms They are to be
conciiated. not despised, they are to be
regarded and protected, not tramped on
and made subservient to interests antag-
onistic to their prosperity and dignity
MIR Calhoun had better not make stats-
tic al tables. Others will turn the tables
on him, for the security Of which we have
the guarantees Of the constitution. Seek
ing other supports, we shall lose those
we already have
TWILIGHT Philosophy. Nature
seems TO teach us not to work by twlIig bit.
AT any rate, this has been esteemed for a.
pes wise maxim. There are hours 0.
nough Of daylight. A similar maxim
should guide US in our investigations of
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