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Advertisenients no: having the number of insertions marked WA -on themnwill be -continued until ordered out and charged.accordinglj. All communications, post. paid, will be prompt. ly-and strictly attended to. SIBLEY & CRAPkN, Wholesale & RetailGrocers. CORNER CENTRE IND MARKET STREETS, Marmwe sa Ova AVE just received, and will continue to receive fresh supplies of the following Articles, which they offer to their friends and the trade, at the lowest market prices: SUGARS. 00 bhds. choice St. Cioix Sugam .30 do. Porto Rico do. 10 do. Muscovado do. 3 do. Clairfield do. 30 bbis. Crushed do. 5 do. . Pulverized do. 5 boxes double refined Leaf Sugar. COFF EE. 60 bags Old Government Java Coffee. 10 do. Angustura do. 300 choice Rio do. Bales Mocho do. . CHEESE. 20 casks prime Cheese. BAGGING. 200 pieces Heavy D'undee, 44 to 45 inch. 100 do. Tow, 45 inch . 150 do Gergia & Corolina, 44 to 45 in. 50 do. Kentucky, (heavy) 44 to 45 in. 24 bales Gunny,2j per yard, 45 to 47 in SHOES. 3000 pair thick Brogans, choice 1000 do. Kip do. do 1000 do. Women and Bofs Shoes. 3000 lbs Sole Lea'her. ROPE 150 coils Manilla Rope 50 do. Kentucky Rope 50 do. Jute do. MOLASSLS 10 bhds. Trinidad 25 bbs. New Orleans. IRON 1000,00 lbs. Iron of various a sizes. viz: J and j by J, 221 and 24 by j to 1 2j to 4 by A to J, 41 to8 by & to I 5000 lbs- Baud from [ly 1j IS 22j 3 el 1000 lbs Hoop Iron, fronm I to 11 inch 10 bundles Nail Rods 5 do German Stell, assorted sizes, CH AIRS. 5 dozen Rocking Chairs, and wood seats DL.AINKETS. 2 bales 9-4 Blankets 2, do. 10 4 do. weighing 7 lbs the -pair 2 do. Grey do. 10-4, " " A good assortment of Bed Blanketa from . 10 to 12-4. NEGRO CLOTHS. 2000 yds. Vashington Jeans heavy, 2000 do. Coventry Plains. SALT. 1200 Sacks Salt. (Charleston Sacks) 5 do Table Salt Boxes Trable Salt. 125 Kegs Nails, assorted Sizes 25 do Finishing Nails 20 do Brads. SHOT. 200 Bags, assorted Sizes B.ACON. 10,000 Prime Country Sides. POWDER. 30 Kegs Dupont's FFF G 20 do Bl'asting 12 do Eagle. SEGA RS. 10 M. Large Spanish (W-. 4. H1. -4 M. Spanish (L Valedos) 10 M, do (R. P. M.) 6 M. Light Spanish (L. Valedos) 5 M.I'nperial ealias (Venus.) 50 Boxes Teas. Consisting of gunpow der, Hyson and Imperial 6 Cases Catteess, Gunpowde., Imperial & 2 chests Black Tea. Ginger, Pepper, Spice, Cin-. namon, Nutmegs, Saltpetre, Blue Stone,Indigo,Copperas;BShoeThread, Cotton and Wool Cards, Brass Bound Buckets, Painted Buckets, Tubs, Churms,. Keelers, Willow Wagons and Cradles. Washboards, Cocoa Dippers, Clothes Pins, Brooms, Wooden Bowls, Wash Stands, Bel lows, Rakes, i doz'. Scythe, Handles, Cof fee Mills,SoapWagon Boxes, Saddle irons, Winglow Glass, Starch. Pistols, Canal Flour, Country Flour, Tobacco, Wool Caps, Grindstones, Osnaburgs, White - Lead,.'Madder, Sperm Candles, Tallow Candles, Twine, Cast ings, Fifth Chains, &c., &c. WANTED-10.000 lbs. BEES WAX, for which the highest cash price will be pad Edefield Advertiser will copy.-Hwnbrg 8?-The friends of Saursoni B. MATS, announce him as a candidate for the. Office of Taxt Collector at the next election. Tax CoUector's NotIce. I will attend at the following places, as is hereafter specified, to collect Taxes for the year 1844, viz : At Allen's, . - orrn Monday the g1st March, Mt.-Willing, " Tuesday the 1st April, Moore's, " Wednesay, 2d Perry's, " Thursday. -3d ".Coleman's; " Friday, 4th. Richardson's, " Saturday, 5th " Court House, ." Monday, 7th " H. Culbreath's, Tuesday, 8th W. N. Moore's, Wednesday, 9th " Rodgers', - Thursday, 10th " Liberty. Hill, " Friday, 11th Shephard's, " Saturday, 12th " Griffin's,(Dun's.)-Monday, 14th " Freeland's,. 1,Tuesday, 15th " " Park's, " Wednesday,16th " Maj Middleton's,Thursday, 17th " Vance's, " Friday, 18th Red Hill, " Saturday, 19th Boulware's, " Monday, 21st Ridge. "'Tuealay, 22d Randall's, " Wednesday, 23d Powell's, ' Thursday, 24th -B. Island' Friday, 25th Hamburg, " Saturday, 26th C. Ponds, . " Monday, 28th Wightman's S. H., Tuesday, 29th Pine House, " Wednesday, 30th " Smyley's' " Thursday, the 1st May. Dorn's Store," Friday, the 2nd "Edgefield C. Hl Monday and " Tuesday, .5 & 6 4 Aller which time my Books will close for the ?resent year. J. QUATTLEBUM, T. C. E. D. March 12 -St 7 Just Receivid BBLSO WHITE POTATOES, :50 bis. choice Canal Flour 0 boxes S. Sperm Candies, 0 do. Extra and No. I Soap, Z half and qr. bbls. No.1 Mackerel, (choice, 10 kitts g " .0 q-iarter bbls. No. 2 " 5 cases choice Codfish. . 2 cases fresh Mustard, (extra,) 3 boxes Chocolate. No. 1. For sale low by SIBLEY & CRAPON. Dec. 11 tr 46 Strayed .r Stolen, F ROM the Subscriber on the night of Tuesday the 18th insi., from ihe, house if Mr. Spend, living near Rocky River, a this District, a BLACK HORSE, 7 >r 8 years old ; about fifteen and a half minds bigl ; has no particular marks ex ept that or the hirness.'- When standing 9 disposed to rest one foot before the other, which, perhaps, was caused by being foun lered. Any information about the above Elorse given to Air. John McClaren, will )e thankfully received, and'a reasonable eward paid ifrequired. JOHN W. ABRAHAM, of Buckingham C. H., Va. Abbeville C. H., March 23, 1845. [Abbeville Banner.] April 2 3t 10 BLANK BO OKS, Jfnd Wrapping Paper. HE Subscriber havii been appointed lQAgent for the GrccnvUe Paper MiU and Bindcry. have now on hand. and will sell BLANK BOOKS. or all descriptions, WRI. rING and WRAPPING PAPER, at Charles. on or New York prices. Please give wm a ll and satisfy yourselves. J. COiN. Cheap Cash Store. Edgefield, Dec.25. 48 3m 11ain and Ornamental T HE subscribers rcspectf.ily itiforms the citizens of Edgefield District, that they ave entered into co-partnership, and tender heir services to the public in the RRICKLAY [NG BUSINESS. in all its various branches. rhey are prepared to do PLAIN AND OR MAMENTAL PLASTERINGs, aller the most pproved patterns,--ROUG H CASTING and 3RANITEIZlNG, ir. the latest style. Brick Nvork of every description done in a workman ike manner. All their work is warranted. WV.B. CHAR LES, JOHN COUM BE. Edgefield C. H., Feb. 26 3t 5 Positively the L ast Notice. jLL Persons having'demands against the Estate of Johmn Checathiam, Sen., deceas n, arc requested to present them properly at ested withsin the time prescribed by lawv, and hose who do not avail themselves writh this op. ortunity will not be paid. GUTHERIDGE CHEATHIAM, March 4 1y 5 Execxtor Take Notice! ILL Persons are forwarned from taking timber from any tracts of lauds belonging o the subscriber. T1he law will be enforced iginst all trespassers. SARAH LABORDE. March 12 31 7 State of South Carolina. EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. IN THE COMMON PLEAS. kIse~y Mobley, Lewis Mobley,) Declaration Simeon Jay. Auachment. T'BE Plaintiffs who by leave of the ..Court, were allowed to plead their demand against the Defendant, have this day filed their Declaration against the said Simeon Jay, and lie havinp no wife or Attorney known to re ide in ihis State upon whom a rule to plead, with a copy of said Declaration could be served. Ordered, that the said Simeon do plead to this Declaration within a year and a day, orfinaljuidgmentwill be awarded against liim. THOMAS*G. BACON, c. c. P. Clerk's Office, 22d Nov. 1844. Nov. 27 44 ly (7TWe are authorized to announce M. GRAHAM, Esq., as a candidate for Ordi nary of Edgefield District, at the next election. Feh7 if ' 2 Agricultur. From-iA. Soutarn Cultisatot, AGRICULTUIRAL EDUCATION. Much as book farming has been rid iculed and despised in times past, are much as it is held in contempt in parts o the South -eveu now, still the day is fas approaching when those who have thu acted will -rue their folly. Even, thoug we may incur the risk of being laughed a yet we take the liberty of saying that,.da: by day, the value of mere bones and mus cle, as. a mechanical agebt, is becoming less and less, and ere long mere bones. an. muscles will -become worthless as to an3 profitable use that shall be-guided by the light of this very book-learning so muc despised. One reason why the South isse far behind the other sectiohs of the Union-is because we have not long ago understood and appreciated this important truth abou the decreasing value of mere bone and muscle. In Ne w-York, For example,.al this was comprehended long ago, aud at a consequence, their Agricultural Institute is a regular college for teaching a .syster of Agriculture, suited to that soil ant cli mate. There, *the student learns all the faits'in Chemistry; Geology,.and Botany so far as they are immediately useful it Agriculture. He is taught how to prepare and drain soils, how to collect, storo away and preserve provender grain, fruit, &c., how to feed, and take careof, and improve stock; how to take care of orchards, vine yard., gardens, &c., how to prepare and apply manures to the beit advantage, and indeed- every thing that is necessary tc make a man accomplished in. both the practice and the science of Agriculture. Even in the adjoining State of Tennes see, they are ahead of us in this matter of Agricultural Education. On the first of January last, an Agriculturai College was opened in that State, with between forty and fifty students, and our latest informa tion about it is, that the number will be as large as can be accommodated. We have now before us a catalogue of thestudents, including young men from the States of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Missou ri- and Kentuckyt not onefrom Georgia. In this connection we copy from the Globe newspaper, an article showing what the National Agricultural Society is doing and proposes to do, for Agricultural Educa. tion. Let the reader con it over carefully and very seriously and then ask-himsell if it be not his duty to bestir hi-iself and do something for Agricultural Educati6it in the South-io'Georgia especially-so that the light of science may be brought to the aid and direction of the bone and muscle of this section of the country, ere the advances made elsewhere shall make his efforts vain and profitless. How is this to be done? you ask. Very easily indeed The tillers of the ground are a part of the State so numerous and important that, without them, the State could not exist. They have only there fure, to have a proper notion of their im. portance, and to assert their rights as men ought, to demand that in our system of education, so far as it is supported by the State, due regard shall be paid to the in terests oft heir profession, and that the funds of the State shall not be epplied almost ex clusively as heretofore, to the preparation of young men for the study of the learned professions, so called-two of which al least, if not already, will soon be, at the present rate of increase, filled up by a star vation point. The planters pay by far the larger part or the public taxes, and they ought to see that these taxes are expended in like proportion for their benefit. In a wurd, they should demand that the system of education in the State University shall include a Professorship of Agricultural Chemistry and Geology-atnd demanding this-as their right, they should see that theit agents in the Legislature provide the mean! of sustaining such professorship. AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION. The National Agricultural Society has lately adopted a plan that promises valu able results in promoting improvemen among the farming community in aliquar ers of the Union, That plan is briefly sei forth in the annexed proceedings, and ha! te merit of involving little expense whilh largely stimulating attention to the greai purposes for which the National Societ) was founded. The procedings, as com municated to a late Agricultural Conven tion in the State of New York, and pub lished in the Albany Argus were as fol lows: Globe. "Southern Agricultural Sociey.-At a meeting of the members of the National Agricultural Society, at the City of Wash ngton, on the 10th of January. 1845, Mr Ellsworth. Commissioner of the Pateni Office, in the chair, and Mr. Callan, Sec retary,-enquiry turned upon-the mean! whereby the efl'orts of the friends of agri cultural improvement may be made more unitedI and etficient througbout the Unitec States. The matter which most particu lady arrested attention was the report ori the operations for -extending agricultura knowledge, through the instrumentality o; the common school organization of the State of New York.' The report on thiu subject is in pamphlet form, and emana ted from a committee of which the Hon John Greig, late member of Congress, i~ chairman,- and of which James S. Wads worth, of Western New York, late Presi dent of the State A aricultural Society, anc the Hon Daniel S. Dickinson, noW Sena tor from that State are among the mem bers. The report includes letters Irorr as from iky parts of that State, appro ving war the plan pursued by the committee. r promoting the introduction of agricultural hooks 'in the schools and libraries in4hat State. The value of this movement thay be estimated from the fact that there iare about twelve thousand school and :library districts, with superin tendents ofr hools in every town and country of iat great S tate. "Allusiotnwas made to the cheapness as .well as eficincy of this plan of action; in asmuch as it accomplishes its object by bringing the whole common school organ ization to sid the cause of agriculture and liorticulturev;nat the same time that the general interst of the school must be large ly benefittedby the -increased practical value iWparted to education through this connection jwith what is appropriately termed the staple business of sociely-the cdlture of the earth.' " After malure consideration, it was de termined thqt. the National Agricultural Sodiety approve and adopt the plan set forth by 1he New York State Agricultural Society, as asplan that is applicable where ever sthooli or colleges exist and which can.be prosecuted cheaply and efficiently, -especially in States where school organi gations are juaiiciously arranged. " With* thish'iew of promodaig the exten sion of -this$lan throughout the United States, addilional corresponding secreta ries were appointed as follows: T, S. Pleasants,- of Virginia; Henry O'Reily, of New York; Thomas Affleck of Mississippi; Oliver Comstock, of Michigan, A. G. Summer, of- Columbia S. C. and Henry Barnard of Connecticut. "It is recommended to the newly ap pointed seeilaries to correspond freely with each o er and particularly with the officers of .1e society at Washington, as well as .With* the friends of agricuitural education generally In all sections of the Union, so as to produce the greatest effi ciency by co-operation in the cause. "A resolution was adopted directing these proceedings to be published in the agricultural and other journals, and anoth er resolution :required that copies thereof be forwarded.to the several State Agricul ral Societies in the Union. J S. SKtNNER, Cor. Sec. "Post CLicd Department Jan, 18, 184.' [From'-1 Southern Ricorder.] We give b4low the plan of our corres pondent from Mississippi. on the subject of the reduction of the cotton crop. We likewise piraeii the-plan -with his own letter explanatory and- exhortatory, ad dressed to -outselves. The gentleman urges his plan with an earnestness and force that can gain nothing by any re marks we might be disposed to throw out upon the subject. We will merely ob serve en passant that if the plan could be made to work, that is, if 'he whole planting people of the South will act, and act sim ultaneously in accordance with it, the evil under which we now groan would of course be arrested, But prior to this ac tion, we-are inclined to think the'people mnst be induced to turn a part of their la bor at least to other profitable pursuits; this will itself diminish the amount of the overdone product, and perhaps this alone will do it. VALARUsIHA COUXTY, MISs., March 2d, 1845. Nessrs. Editors :-Enclosed I send you a plan for reducing the calton crop, and one which it seems to me is perfectly prac ticable. It only needs the mighty stimp lus of the whole Southern press to arouse the people to a sense of the importance of snch a measure, and I have no doubt if the press will take it in hand, the people can be brought to move in one solid pha lanx, for they are nowv crying, "What shall we do to be saved ?" It is a favora ble time tfor such an effort. The millions of surplus Bags of cotton staring us in the face. and the ruinously bad prices, are causes which must make the people move. I have selected your paper as the nucleus for the Ball-first, because you have ta ken a lively interest In the business for some mouths back; secondly, because you will soon have a State Convention of Farmers at Milledgeville, to confer on the all important subject. And if they chall think my plan practicable they can then take it up and act upon iraccoi-dingly. If your Convention would have, say one thousand coptes, printed for distribution, or any other plan that they might deem most effectual for warning the people of the several States, would it not be well ? I have had tbis matter under considera tion for some two or three mouths, but knowing it was too late to do any thing by it forthe crop of ?845, have withheld it till now, which afl'ords ample time for 1846-7. In the meantimne, I have shown it to, and conferred with many of our planters, and they all concur with me that it is eniirely practcable, end have urged me te go on wvith it, declaring that they would be the first to sign the pledge. Among some scores whom I have con sulted, and among thenm many very intel. ligent practical farmers, I have not found -a man who is not anxious that the effort should he made. Should you agree with us in opinion as to the practicability of the plan,, i know you will-use every means in your power to further the cause. 1t is the cause of the whole South. If Mississippi Cotton planters, who can grow from 6 to 10 bags cotton to the hand, are thus anxious for such measures, how much more important to the planters of the old States of Geor gia, Sooth Carolina, North Carolina, &c. If you think it hest you can withhold els, then every man becomes sacredly bound iink before his God and his country to'standby mgle his pledge-and every man will do it; 9s: two It is his highest interest ti do- it-and if ame there should-be any agricultural traitor on I be the list, he will easily be detectediis his east name is alphabetically spread on the re ent. cord of his Society. Any person having it if cotton farms and residing at a -distanc - uth rrom them, can he addressed by the Presi last dents of the Societies in the counties con and taining such farms, and their agents or. overseers can be instructed to subscribe for I themb .ast This is the simple plan for remedying 3 to the evils or too much cotton,'and too litle for monefs It is practicable. . Three county I, I meetings is all that is required on our ible part, The press of the south has already on- been engaged in our behalf- for months - rho past; faithfully warning us of the suicidal bey policy we have been pursuing. ' One man inst- has said, I would Vlant. less, if. I could be assured that others would. Indeed, this has for years been the' voice of every, one. We now have the remedy.in our own - hands, let sw apply it. If wepursne.our - old way of raising- more cotton because na, the price is low, we are but, to use a wes na torn phrase, " piling on the agony," -We en- are exhausting our lands, our negroes, our stock, ourselop , while England is laugh W- ing in her sleeve; and mocking at our ca de- lamities. She knows, as well - as she are knows that two and two make'four,-that for we are pursuing a policy which -re, long ess. must muke our slave property unprofita ind ble-the surest way of bringing about -her nd darling scheme.of emancipation ; for it is'. iss, a universal law of nature and nations,-that in- where property becomes not only unpro to ductive, but an actual expense-to the own the er, it will in time be abandoned. If we. ing will be wise to-day, grow less cottoi, get es- better prices and thereby make our slave k labor proitable, we can -then dery the - ert worlds is? h Is needless to say to practicil arii ro- ers, that by growing less.cotton, we carn. t. raise more grain and more stock; repair its our houses and fences and manure, and in en- a thousand other ways employ our. time. ely much more pleasantly and proftably.-' ow By planting half the usual quaniity of DO, land in cotton, it may be supposed tb to best would be selected,-which -in the a - ,at gregate would produce about two-thirds 'ill the usual crop. This for two years,, will. :o- bring about a healthy balance-of produc to don and consumption-prices will go"up to 10 to 12 cents, and after that, with the the prospect of an increased ebonsumpiion- t China, I doubt whether. we should have re. soon to-return to the same remedy. - Will the whole Southern Press take - te, this matter in hand? - Dn, -COTTON PLANTER. lay and Catching the Devil.-Mr. Kellogg, the at Buckeye Orator, tells a story of a drunk ice ard in Ashtabula, Ohio, who, in-a ft'of - ble delirium tremens, rushed into the street meeting the Mayor, demanded of his me Honor a warrant to arrest the Devil. The Mayor refused the Maniac's request, but. by wildly seizing him by the throat be de !Is- manded a warrant or he would tear the ton heart from his body. The Mayor seeing how It was, to appease him, granted the fi- following warrant wicb is a correct copy ti of the original now in possession of Mr. of Kellogg: "er 6'Borough of Ashtabula. To any con ib. stable of said Borough Greeting. You are ur- hereby commanded to take the Devil. and 7 bring hits before me to answer unto'. in Samuel Gifford in a plea of "Delirutm re Tremens" To his damage of one barrel of ro- Whiskey-amount-$50. ed Joais J. Posy. ga- The poor man seized the warrant and hurried away, feeling as if his troubles n would soon be over. Descending into the nill black regions of despair with an old; Bible -of under -his arm, he commenced his Hercu nes lean task of arresting the old Evil One led himself and all-his imps who had so sore ion ly aifficted him. Some resistance was Brst miade by the inhabitants of the nether 45, world, but joon they became frightened ice ran away,.- and left the brimstonc coast in entirely clear. -The maniac ascended at- the dark regions or the dark abodes, feeling aill as if he had gained a great victory, and as okt, he was walking along the streets of the and Borough in triumph, he met a Presbyterian aor minister who accosted him very politely be and inquired after his health.. - pt. "Say nothing .to me, sir," said the mia-. ted niac-"You've bben preaching here several id years, and have never been able to drive. rk the Devil out of the place, but I, sir, and ion (he spoke very pompously) in a half ana id. hour, have licked all- bell with only one aid poor old Bible." taking the sacred volume -from nnder his arm and showing it to the. m- minister apparently. in much triumph. of -Boston Mail. - - - nd ke A netlO lOay go dissolve a Partnership.-, dThe co-partnership heretofore existing be tween 3. 0. Shook and L. P. Hall was raviolently dissolved on the eveniog of the he7th inst. by the parties taking a-shot- at . beeach other's pate.-Brandon Dissen. 1ll. There is a shingte machine in operation di- at Richmond, drawn by a one horse powver. in- The machine makes one -hundred- and of twenty revolulions in a minute, and ex ree aetly' fashioned shingle; much perfecifully ing fashioned, indeed, than can be eff'ecied in - us, the old way, for - the operation ~is mathier I-s- nmatically regular and precise. Another en- operation joints these shingles with the mogF - minute and unvarying accuracy. the publication till your Convention mf and lay it before them, Do as you I best. One thing is certain, that no sii State can apply the temedy; nor any or three by mere Conventions. So generul plan must be adopted, and al assured that all are bound. or at I three-fourths, which would be suffici As for myself, I am fully satisfied, thi the whole newspaper power of the Si and West, can be. brought into full b on the subject, the people will act, act wisely. A word as to myself as a planter. have made three crops in this State. I year made 150 bags of 400 lbs.-say 7 bags to the hand ; and were it not the income arising from other source should be doing a dull if not.unprofiti business. How, then, can planters c tinue to grow cotton at present prices, only make 3 to 4 bags to the hand ? T are on the broad road to ruin. They m and will bankrupt themselves. Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, .A. D. 8 To Ike Cotton Planters of North Caroli South Carolina, Geoigia, Alaba3 Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas, T nessee and Florida-. A crisis has arrived in the Cotton gre ng business; prices have continued. to .line for a series of years, until we .ompelled to seek soma other channel in investment of our capital, or plant If rhe latter I consider the remedy ; g ith the conviction that rests on the mi >f every man engaged in the busine 7erfecity practicable. Taking it for gri ed that there is no argumeut needed -onvince any man that the cause of I uinous low prices that we are now getti or our cotton, is over production, the qu ion that has-been ten thousand times a .d is-how are we to arrive at a conc >f agreement and obligation to plant le! .4othing more simple. But berore I p .eed to lay down my plan, I beg to sta bat if it meet your approbation as to racticability, all other plans must be < irely abandoned, and the door entir :losed to discussion ; for no matter h iumble the individual who addresses ret the only possible way of success is ake it ds it is , and I gatter myself tl I ben you read it over carefully, you i igree that nothing is wanting but the i peration of the whole Southerm Press teer us safely through our present di :ulties-and I bavh not a doubt that ress will come to our relief. dn easy simple and effectual planfor a duction of the Cotton Crop. Let every newspaper, in every Sti rerritory and county that grows cott ;ive notice that on Monday, the 2nd i af June-, 1845, the citizens of each s -very county, as aforesaid, will meet their respective court houses. Let not 1lo be given by every other possi neans. Every county must meet on the sa lay. The haieeting shal then be organized he election of a President, Vice Pr( lent and Secretary, and called the Cot Plaoiters Society of --- county. The President shall nominate a su :ient number of men residing in differ parts of the county, to take the namei very colton planter in the county, un .he following obligations, viz . We, whose names are hereunto si cribed, do solemnly agree and bind o elves, that for the year 1846 and 18 we will plant only one half the land lotton, (hands proportioned) we have he tofore been in the habit of planing ; p rided three-fourths of the capital enga, an growiug cotton enter into ltke oblii tions. At this mleetitng on said 2nd June aumber of the citizens of each county's ubscribe for and pay to the President he Society - dollar, with the nat if their post office, for ---, publisl --. The object of this subscript will be seen presently. On Monday 21st day of July, 18 another meeting of the society takes pl1 -and those who have been engaged procaring names will be punctual in tendance. Each and every name al then be entered alphabetically in a bo kept by the secretary. The President Secretary, or either, with thin assistance ither the tax receiver or the Clerk of Court in whose oifice the tax List is ke thall compare the list of names subscril 0 the obligation, with the tax Jist,a heu, either the tax receiver, or Cli aforesaid, shall certify to what proport >f the capital of, his county is thus pledg and his shall immediately forward thems eertificate to the Governor of his State. rh be overnor of each State can then co pare each certificate with the capital ls State, engaged in growing cotton,a when he oxakes up his aggregate comp son and result, he will immediately mt the same known by proclamation in s It is desirable that all the Govern ahould make their proclamation by1 ,iddle or last ofOctober 1845. On Monday, 8th December, 1845, ather meetingof each Society will be ci ad in order to make known to every in pidual the result-and it being ascerta ad by comparison of the proclamationm each Governor, that an aggregate of th fourths of the capital engaged in grow cotton in the said States of North Caroli South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, It issippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and T nessee and Florida, in solemnly niedrei