\ y /h BY A. S. JOHNSTON. NEC DEESSE, NEC SUPERESSE REIPUBLlCiE. PUBLISHED WEEKLY. TOL. 33-SO. 13. COLUMBIA* S. C. APRIL 1, 183?. S3 PER ANNUM THE 00i73?BL?. T3L3SCCP3 IS PUBLISHED BY A. S. JOHNSTON, H very Saturday Morning-, IB 0 EVERT WEDNESDAY \SD SATURDAY MOR.VI.fG | DT&1XG THE SESSZO* OF THE iEGISLATCRE. TERMS : Three dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or Four dollars at the end of the year. Advertisements conspicuously inserted at 75 i cet_5 per square for the first insertion, and 371 cents for every subsequent insertion. All advertisements ordered in the inside every publication ? or inserted otherwise than regularly, to be charged as new for , every insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertions marked on them will be contin ued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. All accounts for advertising, above $25 and under $50, ; ?per cent, deduction ? above $50, 40 per cent, de duction. "BUST 9P grain. JPotatoe oats. received a few bushels of* this valuable v grain, from Thorburn of .Vew York, weighing 50 R? per bushel. Also three bushels of the eight that Mr rots of Chester raised from one quart of the Potato Oats, weighing 45 lbs to the busheL At the Garden ? Appie Trees, Pear Trees, Green Gage Plumb Trees, Damson ditto. Peach do. Some very rare Fig Trees; Ornamental Trees and Shrub bery ; 1000 Giant Asparagus Roots ; Chinese Olian thua or free of Heaven, with leaves 4 feet long ; Willow leaved Catalbe, beautiful flowers ; Stercula PhladbSa or varnish tree, leaves 'ike a lady's para sol ; Moss Roses ; Lady Banks ea Roses ; Velvet do. X.B. The subscriber can always be found at the Seed Store or at the Garden. R. E. RUSSELL, jan 13 2 Seedsman and Florist. Flower Roots. JUST received irom Sinclair of Baltimore,| and Thorburn of New- York, 100 splendid Dalia Roots, all colors, Paeony Roots, ail colors, among them are, PScta Fofnadaama, orange and red. Widnais Grants, dark clarret. lfing of Dalias, pure white edged with pink. Lord John Russell's Scarlet. Bbck Hawk, most black. Fair Ellen, pink. King of the Yellows. Zota Perfecta, orange. Doobte Tulips in fufl bloom. .IfyiMintha, a& colors. Camelia Juponicas, in blossom, splendid. Pofianthus, in pots, now in flower. Pinks, all sorts and colors. ? A few ounces of the true Chinese Mulberry seed left, warranted to produce the true sort for making silk. Samples of the silk may be seen at my Seed Store. Clover seed and Pots toe Oats. R. RUSSELL. Narch 25, 1837. 12tf Columbia, February 11, 1837. Saluda Manufacturing Co - Resolved, by the Board of Directors of Saluda Manufacturing1 Company, That the Books shall be opened on the 1st day of March next, at the counting house of D. & J. Ewart & Co.* for an additional subscription of one i iwiiifcl ilnHa I ? firth* capital Stock of the Company. New subscribers will be admitted into the Company on the same terms and on the same conditions of original sub scribers. Ten dollars a share on each share of one hundred dollars, will be required at time of subscribing, and ten dollars a share at the end of each and every sixty days thereafter, until the whole will be paid. A failure to com ply with these terms, will inure in a forfeiture ; of the stock for the benefit of the Company. The Company having one fourth of the mill i filled with machinery, and now i.i operation, i and another fourth in progress of setting up, i are able to calculate to a reasonable degree of j certainty, the value of their undertaking. To j make the establishment available to the full 1 extent cf which it is capable, they have come | to the determination, provided they can sell j the st?ds> to fill the mill from the basement to ! the attic Sto."v The citizens of our State, and i ioartictilarlv the prebC1*^ stockholders, are called i mpoa to aid in an undertaking which will be a acredit to our State, and will most unQ!1fistion* I ably exceed in profitable or pecuniary results *ny joint stock companv within the State. DAVID EWART, President. \ FITZ JJLMES. WILL make his present m eason at Mr. J. C- j Singleton's plantation, 14 miles below Co- i lumbia, and will be let to mares at $8 each single leap, $15 tie season, which may be discharged by the payment of $ 12, if paid by the first of July, $25 to insure a mare with foal, and 25 cents to the groom. The insurance to be paid as soon as the e beholder. Several petrified trees have also been discovered on the banks of the river near this ridge, as also bones of mam moths, and oth^r animals whose races are now extinct. But the most remarkable discovery that has ever been made in this part of the country ? if not the greatest natural curiosity in the world, was brought to light on Sunday, 24th Jan. by two scientific gentlemen with whom we are acquainted and who are not now in town. They have been for several weeks exploring the caves above alluded to, and gathering such curiosities as they wished to carry awiy with them. The wonderful discovery which will now shortly be presented to the publicr is three petrified bodies entire, one of a dog and two human bodies, one of them holding a spear. It is believed by these gentlemen that all three of the bodies may be removed from their position in a perfect slate ; though the dog being in a laying posture upon a flat rock, it will undoubtedly be a difficult task to remove it uninjured. The human bodies appear to be those of men ? probably hunters. Their cloth ing can hardly be distinguished ? but still it is evident that too was in a measure turned to stone. They are described thus ? one sit ting', with the head leaned asit were on a pro jecting rock, and the other standing, with a spear balanced in his hand, as though he was surprised, and had just started on a quick walk. The dog lies as if couched in terror, or about to make a spring ? but the features or body are not distinct enough to determine which position. This wonderful formation cannot be accoun ted for in any other way than that these per sons were buried by some convulsion of nature. The cave in which they were found is full 125 feet into the mountain, and is situated about a mile and a half beyond what is called Mam moth Grotto, in a direct line. The entrance to the place is difficult, and it is thought that it was never before attempted at all. At the foot of the entrance of the cave is a conside rable brook of water, which appears to gather from all parts of it. There is also a valley thence to the river. The gentlemen who have made this interesting discovery are making active prepara ions to bring away the bodies, which they intend to have forwarded to New York. A FORTUNE MADE BY ACCIDENT. ? I OI1CC I knew a man who died immens- lv rich, who I traced all his good fortune to a rusty naiAwhich he preserved with a sort of pious ren ration. | The Jinks between what he was and what he had been he concatenated thus: *'He had been a smal] carpenter, and bein? employed upon a small job at a gentleman's houee^ when he had completed it, he received his money, and .vent about his businrp, But he had not proceeded far on his way hom \ere he recollected that he had forgotten to draw a large crookcd nail which protruded very awk wardly, and he returned to remove it. Juet as he was approaching the door he heard a loud scream. Looking up, he saw the infant and only child of the gentleman falling from one of the attic windows, where the nursery maid hnd been playing with it* when, by a sud den spring, it escaped from her grasp. With equal presence of mind and dexterity he re ceived the child in his arms, broke the shock of its decent, and saved it from being rloshed to pieces. The grateful farther requited the invaluable service (for he doated on the babe, because it was the sole memorial of the dead I mo'her who bore it) by a munificent sum of! money, which enabled him to embark largely in his business, and thus lay the found ition of the great wealth which he afterwards accum ulated. But he always maintained .hat jt was the rusty nail in reality that made his for tune." Ojte Story is good till Another is told ? A gentleman of Cons'ant nople, with magnifying powers, was relating in company how a military friend of his having his loft cheek sliced off bv a sabre cut at the battle of Waterloo, had cooliy picked it up, replaced, and bandaged with his handkerchief the stray regiment, which, after a few days was recon ciled toits parent face, t hat is to say, the cheek was cured by inoculation, as it is termed. ? After tilis 'good thing' had passed current, with the addition, of course, of a fo.v obvious com ments from the wag of the company, as the right cheek having been off a moment, the left one, &c, an old gentleman quietly took the lead, and observed that a far more remarkable occurence had happened to a friend of his, a cavalry officer, at the same battle, and who, failed to parry a cut aimed at his face, had his nose clean shaved off. "Thereupon," contin ued the elderly narrator, "my friend stopped and repossessed himself of the deficient feature, which he clapped on his face, bound it with his handkerchief, and then went pugnaciously on, as if nothing had happened. In I he sequel, he found the nose firmly united to his face, with this irregularity, however, that it was reversed, or turned upside down, owing to the haste with which he put it on a^pain. 'This circumstance did not much disturb him, f>r being a great snuff taker, he was thus enabled to apply the powder to his hostrils without the usual waste; but one consequence of the change he would sometimes complain of, as rather inconvenient, namely, whenever he wanted to blow nis nose, he was obliged to stand on his head !" THE SPEAR-HEAD. fThe folllowing singular rhapsody ? half essay, half poem ? is given in the last Fraser s Magizine' as a translation ofanjold Latin manuscript iin the library of St. Benet's College, Cambridge, England. The reader will perceive that it assumes to be about 800 years old. The translator fears that he may not have preserved the rude simplicity of the original.] The morning sun is shining fresh and bright, in our old forest of Thomey, Beowulf, and we must go to the forge. More than half an hour since, Earl Leofric and his train aroused me in my hut. His lady Editha accompanied him, with her tire maidens and pages, and hisspears> men and archers fo lowed. It was a fine sight to see them gleaming in the early light among the green trees. She is fair to behold; and he, you know, is strong, and manly, and brave. Handsome are the faces of the girls, and the men are of the flower of the land. So it was good to look upon them, while the echoes of the wood rang with the clank of their armor, the tramp of their 6teeds, and the merry laugh ing of the- lady, cheerily conversing with her women. The Earl came to bid me forge him two hundred and fifty spearheads before to morrow noon, as they could wait no longer, and here are we to do it. The fire is glowing, the iron as hand, and the bellows ready, and in the loneliness of the forest of Thomey, we begin our appointed work. Batter we the head of the spear. To whom is this spear-head intended to convey the message of death ? Perhaps to many. The piece of iron over which we toil, may run through body after body, and looie soul after soul from the confining clay, as its point, crimsoned with gore, passes, with vehe^ ment stroke, through nesh and bone. Are we then, ministering to slaughter 1 No more than the delving miner, who digged the metal from the bowels of earth. No more than be who framed the sledges we are wciluing, or he who set the acorn in the ground which grew into the oak, whose branches are supplying us with fuel for the fire. We are, in an un forbidden calling, doing the behests of the Earl Leofric. That must suffice for us. And whose behests is the Earl doing 1 If you asked him he would answer, his own ; ? and he would five as answer the thing that is not true. ? 'or, as we are, in this matter of spear-making, but instruments of his will, so is he, in the impulse which made him give the order, but an instrument of a power which lies not in him to control. Yea! the hammer in my hand, is not more completely subservient to the mottion of my wrist, than are he and all my men, subservient to the motions of their minds, which, when passion rides over reason, renders them tools as powerless. He who laid the ribs of iron in the mine or brought the tower* in g oak, in its strength and its beauty, Irom the acorn? He it was who implanted those passions in the mind of man. If, then, of such arise tumult* and contest, and war, well knows He that they were the consequences appointed for reasons right ; and, seeing motive as well as act, will judge not as men judge. But whatje this to you, Beowulf, and me. Batter we the head of the spear. And into whose hand will the epear be first set ? Perhaps into that of a trained veteran, who will look upon it with critical eye, but with utter indifference beyond its aptitude as an instrument of his trade. It may however, recall to his mind former days, when, with similar instruments in his hand, he did brave deeds, and won what is called glory. Sc. nes of slaughter and joviality, of (amino and festi val, of peril and victory,, may flash across his eyes. There may arise before him the woody mountain, or the green plain on which he urged on the conquering attack, or fl d in the desperate retreat. He sees the river which he forded, the wall which he scaled* the town which he burnt. What sees he beside ? He sees, with corporeal eye* the young soldier standing by hun, who for the first time Ins handled a weapon ofwar. The youth is glad some and elated : new thoughts, new aspira tions are swelling in his bosom. All be ore him is brighi and golden. The deeds which he is to do with t hat spear are to open the career of honor, fame, and happiness. The foe lies prostrate before him, the thronging hosts resound his name* his countrymen call him to head them in fight. If his mind reverts to the father and mother whom he has left, it is to suggest, how he, now unknown, is to return famous, making them glad of their son. See, a gentler emotion arises. Has he woo2d and won ? Then will not she be proud of her own brave lover, coming to claun her, before all the world, as his own. I Uve his eyes I gazed, in silent adoration, upon one whom he dare not address ? Then does not his bosom swell when lie thinks that his giliant bearing a id his proud renown, will enable htm to offer himself as a fitting suitor for the hand of her for whom he would set hisli?e asasacrifice. Hope is swelling in full tide through bis heart : and the imaginary stream glitters in fresher splen dor as it flows a^o ig. And leaning upon his lance, the lon join Harold is Bar! Leofric pro ceeding; and it is for the approaching battle we are forging these spear-heads. VThe Earl has too often looked upon death irtv various shapes to p' rmit any unworthy fear of tba% our invitable end, to trouble his courageoos soul. He well knows that, whether he fol lows the standard of Harold in the thickest part of the combat, "or slays quietly at home tilling the lands of his father in ease aid peace, he is equally destined to die. Plate and mail may keep off sword and arrow ;but no armor has yet been forged to resist fever and pals? < But has he nothing else to fear t Ja Harold defeated, and VVi!l:am the Bastard seated on the throne of the Confessor? Th2 sway of the Saxons isover, neverto return; a?d Loofric* if he survives the fight, survives it to be hunted down, wandering as a landlets man despoiled of honors, of titles, and of fame ; a beggar where his sues were lords and dependant Upon the chnritv of those upon whom now he would scarcely deign to look. Perhaps bis lot may be a dungeon or a scaffold, leaving his wife a prey to poverty or dishonor ? his chUdren,tbfaUs ? and Ins house blotted out forever. If I were to say this to him now, I know that he