The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1857-10-22

OH the other and both ut The same time, it
is very difficult for us to decide which is
the trucst aud most popular representative
Of Great Elitain.- Il'ashinytom States.
MARRIED n NEGR0--TIRED OF THE BAR
GAIN.
\ correspondent, understood t. he G. W
Williams, Esp, of Charleston, w,ilin. To
the Southern Christian Advocate, respect
imY Canada, says:
Eve SAW here (at Ioront") what nyv-
or expected to witness on the American
Con;inent-; white laiy G. married to II
fiat nose, unaiuiiclatrl, black negro. The
woman was about % years old and rather
good looking. The man 10, and as u"lya
darkey as you ever saw. An Anglo .N!ri-
can, six months old, WAS the result Of the
happy union. asked her why she mr..
Rcd Il negro. The reply WAS that she WIS
not the til>t white woman in Canada who
had married. colcrcd man-that it WI IL
common occurrence. Upon further inIui
ry, learned that intcrm;rriagc between the
whites and blacks seldom occurred The
Guardians are getting llrartily sick Of the
hor'irs Of "(uytivc slaves" the abolition
isis from the United States have run over
there, and the government is taking active
measures 10 get lid Of their nrgro p"pua-
ton. 1I"w to dispose Of them is :, grave
question. The free States have shut their
doors against them. The truth is, the
African, is like cotton, rice and sugar, will
not flourish North Of Mason and Ilxons
line. The negroes look like poor castoil,
fur$at.'" r"oa: nn.l H." ,..;"to-"
sending many Of them to IN underground
road, where they will remain t II tie last
day. When | saw SO many wrctchcl ne
grocs without homes, and excluded from
their churches, railroads, onnhuscs, etc, !
thought Of our Methodist Churches III
Charleston, with their six thousand happy
colorcd members, and of our noble Mission
aries who leopard their lives in travelling
through the rice swamps, exposing them
selves TO the deadly miasma, to preach
Christ and him crucificd to the slavc.-
How different from the ALolitiorists, who
do all their power to scducc the slaves from
their comfortable homes, and then abandon
them to want and misery. This is aboli-
ton consistency! "Blccding Kansas" has
been rich theme for these underground
thieves, and scores Of honest hearted men
and women have been "blcd" to feather
the pockets Of these sSindiing impostors.'
Mr.. E'iitor l notice that for the past
seven or eight months, you have been col
lccIing "CaLinct of Kisses" take the
liberty therefore Of sending you my caLi,
net, for |, too, am a collector Of sucl, curl
os'tIes. The first od,lity that comes in my
way is a remark v some one, that kisses
arc like creation, because they arc made Of
nothing and arc very good"-a very scnsi-
blc remark, by the way-and the next is
the definition o! n "buss." Thus-buss, to
kiss f; rcbuss, to kiss again; pluribuss, to
kiss without regard to sex; silIybus, to kiss
the hand instead Of the lip; blunderbuss,
to kiss the wrong person; omnibus, to kiss
all the persons in the room Erebus, to
kiss i'll the graveyard or in the dark. Evi-
dently the country girl who came to "town"
last fall had these definitions in her head
A young gentleman was to escort her
mile or two down.town'wanls and not
wishing to walk, remarked, "IIold on,
Alary-lct's us take bus" But Mary,
bl"sl'ing to the eyebrows, drew back, and
with wounded modesty replied" Oh |!
George! not riyht here IN the streek."-Er-
chong'.
Pleasure of healing.-Of all the amusc
ments that can possibly be imagined for
working man, after daily toll, or in the in
tcrv"ls, thee is nothing like reading n news
PAPER or book. 1t calls for no bodily ex-
ertion, Of which already lie has had enough,
perhaps too much. It relieves his home of
dullness and samencss. Nay, it accompa.
mics him to his next days work, and gives
him something to think of besides the
mechanical dr,,tle,erv of L;o