The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1856-01-03
The Kansas Emigrants.

L wish TO raise 800 Industrious, sober.
Discreet reliable men, capable of bearing
arms; not prone to uso them wickedly or
unnecessarily, but willing, to protect their
section in every real emergency. desire
to start with them for Kansas by the goth
OF February next. To such will guaranty
the donation of q homestead of forty acres
of first-rate land, free passage to Kansas,
and the means of support for the first year.
10 Ministers Of the Gospel, mechanics, and
those with good military or agricultural
outfits, l will offer greater inducements
Besides devoting $4,000 of my own means
TO this enterprise, expect all those who
know and have confidence in me, and who
feel an interest in the cause, to contribute as
much as they are able. will give to each
contributor my obligation that for every
nifty dollars so contributed, will, within
six months thereafter, place in Kansas one
BONA tide settler, able and willing to vote
and fight. if need be, for our section. or in
default Of doing so, that will, on demand.
refund the donation, with interest from the
day OF ITS receipt will keep an account
o. the Obligations so issued, and each sue
cess've one shall specify one emigrant more
than its Immediate predecessor-lhus, No.
shall pledge me to take one emigrant;
NO. 2, two, No. 3, three, &c, &c. and if the
State makes contribution it shall be divid.
ed INTO sums of fifty dollars each, and num-
ocred accordingly. Here is your cheapest
ana surest chance to do something for Kan
sas-something toward holding against
Frees"'l hordes this great Thermopy;e of
Southern institutions. In this their dav of
darkness-nay, of extreme peril-,Iere
ought to be, there needs must be, great in.
d'vidual sacrifice, or they cannot be main
tanned. If we cannot find many who are
willing to incur great and unequal individ-
ual loss in the common cause-if we can
not md some crazy enough to peril even
life in the deadly breach, then it is not be-
cause individuals have grown more prudent
and wise, but because public virtue has de-
cayed, and thereby we have already become
unequal to the successful defence of our
rights,
Nov. 90, 1855. J. BUFORD
@- Occupation! what glorious thing
1t IS for the human heart. Those who
work hard seldom yield themselves entirely
mp to tancied or real sorrow. When grief
sits down, folds its hands, and mournfullv
reeds upon Its own tears, weaving the dim
shadows, that little exertion might sweep
away, into funeral pail, the strong spirit
is shorn of its might, and sorrow becomes
our master. When troubles flow upon you,
dark and heavy, toll not with the waves
wrestle not with the torrent rather seek,
by occupation, to divert the dark waters
that threaten to ovcrwhelm YOU, into n
thousand channels which the duties of life
always present. Before you dream of it.
those waters will fcrtilize the present, and
give birth to fresh flowers that may bright
en- the tuture-1owers that will become
pure and holy III the sunshine which pene-
tr;tos to the path of duty, in spite Of every
obstacle. Grief, after all, is but a selfsi,
feeling; and most selfish is the man who
yields himself to the indulgence of any
passion which brings no joy to his fellow
man.-Nrs. Stevens.
Il buoy Elcl'hont.-'l'he editor of the
New York Sunday Times has seen the
baby elephant that was born recently in
that city, and gives very pretty account
OF the little creature:
"These baby elephants are very interest
ing objects. They are perfectly formed
throughout, and differ from their parents
only in size; but that difference is so amaz-
ing that it becomes ludicrous; and when
you see the baby walking to and fro under
Its mother. you cannot resist the impulse to
laugh at the oddly of the comparison.-
And then the bulky mothers care of her
baby is so human like and affectionate.-
Give the baby an apple, for instance. Tie
mother first takes it III her trunk, examines
it closely. and then returns it t. her infant
to eat, having satisfied herself, apparently,
OF its innocuousness. And so with every
thing else"