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straight row as any of you. And am
u;ll;no IN on ,ut in anv of YOUR fields now

straight a row as any of you. And l am
willing to go out in any of your fields now
and plow a row with my competitor for Con-
gress, and if I don't plow straighter row
than he does, will go home and give up the
race, and let him go to Congress. Fellow
citizens 1 have always been the poor mans
friend, and the poor woman's friend. 1 have
been attending to the business of great
many poor widows for ten or fifteen years,
and never charged them cent for it. l
got their pensions for them, and their land
warrants, and I will get them for any Of you,
and not charge you cent for it. Congress
has given all of the old soldiers hundred
and sixty acres, and if I had been in Con-
gress would have voted for it too. 1t was
right for the old soldiers who had been fight
ing the battles of their country, to be we'll
paid for it. One of my neighbors said to
me-'Eel-y, (ElD says he to me, Eel-y, (for
all my neighbors call me Eel-y) if you had
been in Congress wouldn't you have gone
800? Well says I, Strengthening my head
little, I believe I would"
The next day Eel-y spoke at the county
site, and friend gave him the hint that the
people were a little more enlightened up
there, and he would do better to leave out
the Pigeon Creek harangue.
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TENTILATIoN.-Don let the reader be
astounded out of his propriety and declare
US insane, because we tell him it is more i'm
portant to sleep with window up in mid
winter, than in summertime. How few peo-
pie have the gift of thinking! how many
have the gift of CAB, in the inverse ratio!-
The less man thinks, the more he can talk; !;
that is the very reason why our household
divinities can discourse indefinitely, ad fin
ituns, and the other side of it. Whoever
heard of man taking cold who slept all
ont of doorss Well, if sleeping in all out
doors does not give man cold, how can
sleeping in part Of all out doors give him
cold? Is not that conclusive? Surely
none Of the unthinking multitude could ask
for more convincing argument than this
But as only the thinking few take journal
like like this, we will give mere hint of an
argument, with the carrying out of which
they may amuse themselves in leisure
hour. Pure carbonic acid is deadly, it kills
in five minutes. Insleepiug we breathe ont
this gas, and close room confines it; heat
makes it Use to the ceiling, cold condenses
and keeps it near the floor Verb. sat.
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A PROCLAMATION,
W. W. BoYcE.
By the President Of tie United tStates Of
A,neric1

By the President Of the United States Of
America.
Whereas indications exist that public tran
guilty and the supremacy of law in the Ter
rtory of Kansas are endangered by the rep
rehensible acts or purposes of persons, both
within and without the same, who propose
to direct and controlits political organization
by force. 1t appearing that combinations
have been formed therein to resist the exc
cution of the territorial laws, and thus, in
effect, subvert by violence all present consti-
tutional and legal authority: 1t also ap-
pearing that persons residing without the
Territory, but near its borders, contemplate
armed Intervention in the affairs thereof: 1t
also appearing that other persons, inhabitants
of remote States, are collecting money, en-
gaging men, and providing arms for the same
purpose: And it further appearing that
combinations within the Territory are endeav-
oring, by the agency Of emissaries and 9TH
erwise, to induce individual States of the
Union to intervene in the affairs thereof in
violation of the Constitution of the United
States.
And whereas all such plans for the deter
mination of the future institutions of the
Territory, if carried into action from within
the same, will constitute the fact of insur-
rection, and, if from without, that of inva-
sive aggression, and will, in either case, JUS
tify and require the forcible interposition Of
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sS- An itinerant preacher of the Metho,
dist church was travelling in the back settle,
ment of Missouri, and stopped at cabin,
where an old lady received him very kindly.
On setting provisions before him, she began
to question him: stranger, where mout you
be from ? Madam, I reside in Shelby coun,
ty, Kentucky wall, stranger, hope nc
offence, but what mought you be doin' way
up here? Madam, I am searching for the
lost sheep of the tribe of Israel John
john shouted the old lady, 'come right
here this minute; here's stranger all the
way from Shelby county, Kentucky, a hunt
ing stock, and I'll just oct my life that tan
gle-haired old black ram, that's bin in our
lot all last weeks one of his'n.'
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SLAVERY AT THE NORTH.

SLAVERY AL TdE NOhIH.
The seven several enumerations of the in.
habitants of the United States, reveal some
facts relative to slavery north of Mason &
Dixon's line, which at this day appear curl
Gus:
Maine-This State has had no slaves.
New Hamshire-In 1850, 15S slaves; in
1900, II; after that date none.
Vermont-In 1870, II slaves; afterward
none.
Observation-Disclosures by any census.
Rhode Island-In 1870, 952 slaves in
1900, 3s1; in 1910, 1Os; in 1920, 4S; in
1880, II; in 1910, 4; in 1850, none.
New York-In 1870, 21,324 slaves; in
1900, 20, 1853 in 1910, 1907 !; in 1920,
1O,OS0; in 1880, rs; in 1910, 4; in 1850,
none.
New Jersey-In 1890, II, ,423 slaves; in
1900, l2,422; in 1910, 1851 ; in 1920,
1867; in 1880, 1854 in 1910, 674 in
1850, 1926.
Pennsylvania-In 179O, 3,7a7 slaves in
1900, 7O6; in 1910, 7O5; in 1920, I'll ;
in 1880, 403; in 1910, 64 in 1850, none
In the new States north of the Ohio, sla,
very had but slight foothold.
The census in 1910 mentions 3 in Ohio
no other census returns any.
Michigan is represented to have had "a
slaves in 1910 and 80 in 1880.
Indiana had 135 by the census of 1900;
237 in 1910; 100 in 1S20;. and in 1910
Illinois had 16S slaves in 1910; III in
1920; TAT in 1880; 331 in 1910; and
none in 1850
Wisconsin had II in 1910, and Iowa had
16 in the same year.
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the whole power of the general government,
as we'll to maintain the laws of the Territory
as those of the Union:
Now, therefore, I, Franklin Pierce Presi-
dent Of the United States, do issue this my
proclamation to command all persons enga-
ged in the unlawful combinations against the
constituted authority of the Territory of Kan
sas or of the United States to disperse and
retire peaceably to their respective abodes,
and to warn all such persons that any at
tempted insurrection in said Territory or ag-
gressive intrusion into the same will be resis-
ted not only by the employment of the local
militia, but also by that of ary available for
ces of the United States; to the end of as
suring immunity from violence and full pro-
lection to the persons, property, and civil
rights of all peaceful and law-abiding inhabi-
tants of the Territory.
If, in any part of the Union, the fury Of
faction or fanaticism, inhamed Tito disregard
of the great principles of popular sovereign
ty which, under the constitution are funda.
mental in the whole structure of our institu.
tions, is to bring on the country the dire ca.
lamity of an arbitrament of arms in that
Territory, itshallbe between lawless violence
on the one side and conservative force on the
other, welded by legal authority Of the gen.
eral government. .',.
I call on the citizens, both of adjoining
and distant States, to abstain from unauthori
zed intermeddling in the local concerns Of
the Territory, admonishing them that its or
ganic law is to be executed with impartial
justice; that all individual acts of illegal in
reference will incur condign punishment
and that any endeavor to intervene by or
ganized force will be firmly withstood.
invoke all good citizens to promote order
by rendering obedience to the law; to seeI
remedy for temporary evilsby peaceful means
to discountenance and repulse the counsel!
and the instigations of agitators and of dis
organizers and to testify their attachmen
to their country, their pride in its greatness
theirappreciation of the blessings they enjoy
and their determination that republican in
stitutions shall not fail in their hands, by CO.
operating to uphold the majesty Of the law
and to v;ndicate the sanetity of the Consti
tuition.
In testimony whereof, have hereunto Sc
my hand, and caused the seal of the United
States to be affixed to these presents.
Done at the city of Washington, the elev
enth day Of February, in the year o
[sEAL. our Lord one thousand eight hundred
andffty-six, and of theindependenc'
of the United States the eightieth
FRANKLIN PIERCE.
By the President
W. L. MARCY, Secretary Of State.
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one to know how much it can be made to
produce under system of thorough, scien-
tifc culture. 1t ordinarily takes farmers
familya whole year to gather and consume
what is produced upon the half acre gardens,
which are too often neglected, and more sell
dom appreciated by these rampant universal
seed-scatterers.
In view of these facts, let US examine
some of the advantages of planting fewer
acres and bestowing upon them more
thorough cultivation. Nosa few of our far
mers plant ten acres in corn, ten in cotton
and ten in small grain, to the hand. This is
folly. With such a crop he has no time to
repair his fences, attend properly to his cat
tie and hogs, make manure, cut bitches, or
do many other things necessary on plant.t-
ton, which in the end would be worth as
much to him as his whole crop. And how
is such crop cultivated? Scratched lit
tie in dry weather, plastered in wet weather
mangled and torn, and probably throughout
the whole year the growing crop does not
receive one good working at the proper sea-
son. When gathering time comes, it is a
scanty yield barely sufficient for the support
of the hands and stock employed. Mules
to buy, bacon to buy, negro clothes to buy,
shoes to buy and away go the proceeds of
the cotton crop, and the farmer is left with
his hands in his pockets, without 'conti-
mental red
Now suppose he had only planted eight
acres in corn, four in cotton and ten in
small grain. How easy to prepare for such
a crop in the first place, by thoroughly
breaking the subsoil and pulverizing nicely
the top by cross plowing. How easily
cultivated would such crop be, by giving
it just the work it needed, exactly at the
proper season. He would then have time to
harvest his small grain, to raise his mules
and hogs, to repair fences, to build sheds
for his cattle (Which is equal to half feed) and
to make more manure than he could haul
out. We now venture the assertion that the
latter method would realize as great yield
per hand as the former. We would have no
bacon to buy and need not buy mules. Our
farms would be increased in value. Our
stock would be in finer condition. Our ne
groes would be more valuable in consequence
of not being worked so hard.
We need pursue the subject no father our
farmers have each and all set their pegs fol-
themselves, and all Russia and the Allies
combined can't pull them up.-Edgefeld
| Advertiser.
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Columbia and Chester Mail.
Leaves daily Sundays excepted) at A. NJ.
Arrives " &c" at 81 P. NJ.
spartanburg Mail.
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Yorkville, Jan. II, 1856.
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A TALL BUNCoMBE SPEECH

During the Congressional canvass last
year in the fourth District, Eli Shorter, the
successful candidate, made the following ap-
peal -
"Fellop Citizens Il am the peoples
candidate for uongrcss,-yea the working
mans candidate; am not the candidate of
the politicians. They had nothing to do with
bringing me out. he politicians are against
me- 1t was the people, the working men,
who cune to me, AMI said must run for
Congress. Fellow-citizc"s love the farm
ers-the working .uen o the country. |
am working man .Ayscli | have been all
this spring working in ~ urn, cleaning it
up, and putting 1t in 'Ft"r, 1 have been
blowing fellow citizens, and can ploW as
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WOULD HAVE THE REAsoN.-On Tues
day last, Mr.. John Roe prosecuted his shop
mate, Robert Lond, for assault and battery.
While the complainant was under examina-
tion, the following colloquy took place be-
tween him and the defendent's counsel:
Did you not call my client here, and de-
fendant, tool"
Il did,
sWhy did you, sir p
II decline to answer that question:
sWhy do you decline to answer it? I'll
appeal to the court to punish you for your
contumacy. YOU ought to be fined for con-
tempt. I'll let you know that you can't
call my client fool, without giving your rea-
sons for it.
i don't know that my reasons have any
thing to do with the case"
sI'll let you know they have. Now, an
swer the question:
well, ifI must, Unjust. Isaid I thought
he was fool, because be didn't know bet
ter than to hire such chucklehead as you
to defend him.
The counsel dropped the witness and lei
the question of contempt pass.
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farmers 9epartm&11t.
FEWER ACRES AND BETTER CUL.
TIVATED.

That the farmer can realize more from
fewer acres more thoroughly cultivated, is a
truth to which every sensible man will rea-
dily consent, and yet, strange to say, not one
in thousand Southern farmers, will reduce
the theory to practice.
In urging this fact upon the attention of
our farmers you will seldom, if ever, meet
with one who will not assent to every asser-
tion of its superior advantages; but you will
also hear the old fogy reply, that unless you
plant largely in the spring, you will have but
little to gather in the fall. 1t seen to US
that we are so afraid of starvation, that we
can not trust so much to the result of labor
as to the yield of extensive fields not half
cultivated. 1t is hard to make one who is
accustomed to planting more than he can
tend, believe that one acre with double the
manure and double the cultivation will yield
more than t1co acres with half the manure
and tillage. He may give his assent to the
theory; but his belief is dead faith, which
will never be shown by his works.
1t has been said by an eminent writer up
on this subject, fhat although millions of
Hebrews inhabited the narrow and rocky
land of Judca, and though restricted by the
Agrarian law of Moses, under which, as the
population increased, the inalienable patri-
mony of each family became smaller and
smaller, yet they made more and more.'-
Why was this? Because the cultivation was
of course better and better. But let us
come nearer home. In the populous North,
we are told that fifty acres constitute very
extensive farm, and that few can boast of so
wide domain. We are also told that land
is not valued there as in the South. Here,
the older the land, the less valuable it is ra-
Ted. There it is the reverse; the longer
field Cor we should say an acre) has been
cultivated, the more it produces; and conse-
quently, the more valuable it becomes.
But let us come still nearer home. Look
at your vegetable garden. eve here presume
that every good farmer has good vegetable
garden. We wonder if we are correct in
our supposition p How much does an one
acre garden yield when properly cultiva-
ted and manurcd? 1t would surprise any
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