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to make a few remarks as to the * that Is a!iUi>cd It). Lw thw uiuin'j of I lie ni at s'ta-5 in I 8 10. * _ . _ . - % tlicic ^ ub 1 1* j>< h ! c i| then to he t r i i.ie U-ut td S'.ates 3 j j .J* i l..uiijs% .uni l ? 2 ,r 7 V ? pi n ciits [lUi cotton and v*ool] Tni'.t ut lilts Mete \eiy imp. itcct unO espt'Vly as lo the ioi iiit-i* ; 1j; although an t i>iabiix<'iw 'it tor ilic manufacture oi* cotton and wool rou.d not tasi y be omitted; the Tetu: ; , aS to the looms, was, doubtless, defective, and it is quit e lea ?o nab , c to assume their then ex isting number at 4UO.OOO. And as il is pcitecily just lo suppose that there was an increase of Ibonin goingj on with the in crease ot spmdie* in operation in subse quent years, a calculation m.iy as v. ell b^ made on the ./nets grow ing out ot ti e re turns ot I 6 i J. us on any thin.; else thai Ijms sin>.e tame to our knowlc^ue. 1" lie spindles, then, being 122,000 and ti'e looms 400,^00 ? and I 600 spindies giv inu; cutp.oy went to frO- bfttmv we^ hare, Uuough Die spinning establishments, busi ness tor oniy vix thuiiMnd one fmmlrrd of our 400,000 looms 1 What an atom of the iuiiouni ? it is about as oie is to a:xfy? J've. Therefoi^* it follows, that if a. V our manufacturing establishments had i-jiuiiy ceased to wotk*-if they were ail ('.cV.royid. 44 sometimes by tire," as a Brit ? sh writer has told us, they ltadj)een attacked by the ?* ever watchful" policy of his coun rymtn ? they would stand only as one to zijcty five parts of the. nuans used by th^ peo ple of the United States to make cloths tor jLiiemselvcs. Not withstanding I have paid coi> ultra ble attention to this subject > and :uu evcrv week, visited by gentlemen trtTU fly from t lie country, wholly clothed in domestic ? Januly manufactures, I was so much a*ty nished at this result, that 1 went ovqj/it several times to satisfy myself of its tta sonable ceitainty, and i ain satisfied that it is reasonably so. I his, however, must be observed, that the looms scattered through the country, are not laboured at *ith the same regularity of employment that belongs to spiiuhes in their proper es tablishment ? but, still, the fids are suf ficient for our general purpose of shewing t lie extent of our family manufacturers ? - tfie sheet anchor of that state of things mat l wist) to exist in my country. These family manufacturers will jro on and increase* though liritish goods may be sold f r the cost of the raW material and Ihe mere payment of the wa^es tarn - J ed in working it up. It has become, j amonK,the./lrrtf habifa of every prudent and well managing farmer to attend to them. The wool and flax, as it were, cost him nothing ? that is, they nt ver enter in to his calculations of value $ he will have a few sheep and a 41 patch" for flax ; and th<? prod net of these+t made intu clolh, by the Icinure of his lumily. e.ppt-ars tike so much clearly gained. And, the time employed in the fabrication bv no means re trenches upon his more important pursuits, nor hariassts his family by an txtra or ex cessive quantity of labour ? it is impossi ble to suppose that the practice can be a bandoned. It must go on, and will go on from Itps to more as the necessity of (Econ omy becomes more and mori* apparent* A small portion V liritish manufactured goods may still be u*ed? j^owns for the women and waistcoats for the men ; but thett- own more substantial fabrics will evt-r be used for common life. I c < uid, in a iii tle while, cite many c?ises to shew the force of these remarks ? but one may suffice. 1 know of a r ch? intelligent and respectable farmer , living but a few miles IVoin Halt more, whose connections are in the city, of whom he and his family arc frequent visi tors. lie has a number of children, some of them nearly grown up, and his family, in ?ll consists of about twenty persons ; li tid the foreign man lectured goods, bought i?>r. the Clothing, of the whole. hardly avera ges 4 he amount of g&O a year : which, probably, he conld pay sev-rul times o ver by the family manufactured goods which be sells. Now this gentleman is a mere farmer ? but while the males attend to the fiel^l, the females are equally busy in the ho^se, and the long winter even ings are not wasted by hischilden and ser vants in doing mischief or wasting fire wood, because they have nothing else to do. He merebf employs the time that would otlW|lmB| lost withou* pleasure, amuse ment or ufc. This is the case in thou sands of families ; and herein is the cause of the change that is taking place*. /To judge of the state of our country, at large, by what appeals in our rt/itt, would be ^absurd as iftbe author of ar " book of travels ?? were to say that the city of New York Wns infested by rattlesnakes ; be cause one supposed to have been brought there in a hollow log of wood, was lately killed in the Street ; but Irom what we should, not he surprised to hear the fact asserted by a liritish tourist. To do this, wr must dive intothe count rv and see how t the cut tun yuiri that hr buy*. ? Thin yarn in notv o* r > tru for/t/ fo^ittd o?i the memorandum* nf country t or* ktef,er& a* fi fty other article iv/iamoevrry and in ctitircly a thing of a few years date. | our fa*, rners liv- ? ^'i:h wlic:^ is~tae body u! i: p p i ! .1 vO: i , and I. e asViUin ol vu tuc a -<J p*l? ;</ Wiu Thc>* Wiln lac differ ent ii.cchai.ir> i hat itaicic amongst them, ami ^ iiooc n.unn*?s and habi's aresimi I ait ?r. ir~mence majority of the peo p'e. and thiir weigh', every way. piupr tionaliy ?ieat a; d imposing. B'it it-t * t those interested in mannf?c turin^ csublolvnu n * be cast nown. They - \% .I! and mustwoik their way before Ion**. '1 he pn. ft i may be i educ..d 4Wm what they have been ; but, while a spindle in America, w.iere lite toUon grows, wiK <k> as much woTk as a spindle in Ent?lan<17~ where the coiiou does not jjrow ? if they can live by driving them theie, ' money must be made by dmi.i^ them here. An artificial stale of tl inpjs, may affect ihe force of this position for a moment, but it - will settle down into a truih as manifest in pract.ee- as it is plausible in theory. CAMDEN, 7 HURSDjIY, Ducf.mbr* 5, *8 1^. tn an address lo ihe Legislature, com municatetl in our last, the following errata wtre overlooked, viz : Saingrado for Sangrado, col. 1, line 40. to deny for a?sert, rol. 2, line 6 ? Medicin al for Medical college, do. line 40 ? re dounds for redound, do. line 43 ? fuilher for farther, do. line 5 I . Tn our nt xt it i-? presumed we shall have something of a mure interesting na lire to lay before our readers. The attention of the legislature. as yet, st ems to hav bet n engrossed by petitions, elections and form ing committees. lousiness of a moie in terestinn nature will probabiy engage their living Pie present week. I It I* stated in the Rithmond Erquirer, that the [ unfortunate stance tVnvt-e, \v'io di'd in thin place iu April laat, was not Mm Adelaide Brvnt, hut | an impstor who had assumed the respectable name of Mis# Brcr*t for pecuniary purpo?ei?; her real name being Folly I7agam. Mi?s Brent re i aides in WincI enter, Vir. and hafi published a pam i phlet exonerating her ch;-.ra<?ter from the imputa-, i vtions of that wretched woman who personated ftff. ? !\ By recent accounts from New-Orleans, ' it appears that the commotion at Matagor | da, as stated in our last, was very much exaggerated. Com. Aury was still alive, and the mutiny quelled, with the deser tifm and punishment of a few disorderly troops, who had spread lalse rumours to alarm and scduce the more numerous part of the division. Meukhra, minister from the Mexican Republic, had arrived at Mat agorda, with an ample supply of arms, am munition. Str. and had or^afiized the gov ernment of the Tex is, appointed the prin cipal officers of slate, kc. The toy a) flap; was not to be seen and all was quiet by the latest accounts. for rrrx camdun gazeM0?.* / "Mr. Editor, '" 1 r~ In yoUr last paper yo\t have very properly called on the constituted authority of our town, to adopt such measures, a? will secure the inhabitants from the depre* dations of the midnight robber. Recent outrages and attempts to perpetrate more, ought certainly to prompt us to due vigil ance. It appears to be taken for grantedfJ that these robberies are committed ftply by 1 our black people. This may be true, but we are certainly not free from danger from men amon^ us of another description. 1 mean the lazy, idle, drunken, gambling tribe, who wander through our streets by day and by night, and exhibit no visible means of honest livelihood, unless their fre* quenting of the tipling shops, the billiard table, and their profanity and noise in the tavern arc to be classed amor^t the prop* er exertions of an honest life. This spe cies of pentry dri^k eat, and p;o cloathed \ and while many of ihe poor industrious pail of the community experience the ne cessity oftluir utmost exertions, and still ire obliged, oft'-n, to be without money J these fellows have money in abundance. ? It would be no difficult trisk to idtn'.dy these gchlltintn, wl>o ha\e Tumiiies to s u i>k>or t . and yet spend the whole of their time in idleness. While robberies jre so fiequtni it bccomcs us lo enquire by what means these vagrants are supported whether honest/y or dis-toricsi/y ? Whether by iou* ful mean#, or at the ex/ience 0/ their neigh' dour ? Will you be so ^ood as to [ay this subject before the public. The interest oi SocJtty requires something to be ikme, aud >t we have any re>pect to the chaiactcr ol our town, la^y, idic. drunkt n vagrants ou^ht to be arrested and ex;>o*ed. A CITIZEN. Extract of a letter from a rwrvW 'of >h* Venule 10 iht bditnr ? det<d Occ. 4. I am takormed, mat a b;,l b.-uught in ujK>n the subject of Hawkei s a nu I'edlais, has created some feeing id Counten. It the principles of the bill aic u derslood. lain satisfied it will be regard a i . ? n> manner injnnous to thr ir? r. inu?; ; and shaH-g*ve you a detail, in order tl? k vou may let the same be generally undyrstu od. I The Bill authorises the hawking of mart u/acturccl good* oj thr U. Sia'cs, by t, king out a Lice nee for the same, for which, u.e person procuring it will have to pay fifvy dollars to the htate, and one d?>l. to the ofli cer issuing it. The licence to hist foi one year from the day of procuring it, and one licence 10 authorise the pet son holding it, to trade only with one waggon. If h has more than one, he must procure- a lceiue for each waggon. A provision is m ide, to authorise any person to sell bar iron, rod iron or iron^astings to Merchant* or Shofi keefrcrs without licence. Another cJaute tmposes a p erratry of dollars on a haw-~ ker, Who ? c fuses to bhew h s licence K> any magistrate, constable, &c. who shall demand a sight of the fame ; the penalty lor the use ol the poor. It does seem tome, that there can be nothing ofu nsive in this act. 'l he price ot ti e licence is so high, and being confined <o home manufactured goods, that cart ? aum cannot possibly injure t4?g- regular titerchant, who He supplies are usually or imporied goodsL and_ whilst articles, the production ol our own count: y, may ob tain a circulation. A u,;i io suppress r.in^ in all its~va^ uous branches, has this moment passed its Second reading m this house, after much debate. The Hill to pay Petit Jurors and Consta bles this duy passed its first nadu??. The sense of the other house was taken, and expressed in faVour ol the subject, with out three dissenting votes. The House oF Representatives carries the paincipfe lar therthan is contemplated by ill'is hill I hat house makes no discrimination of situations and includes Grand Jurors. A bill will, to-morrow, be discussed, the effcxt of which wi.l be to cut a canal from Georgetown to Charlestown, which will completely supplant the Santee canal Great improvements in our Judicial y sys tem atu on hand* Judge Smi i n is elected Senator to the Uni ed Macs, and Mr. "CT.e ves Will supply his place on the bench." - Fxtrrrtt qf a let'.e.r from Washington City . " John Qu i ncy Adams is to be our next Secretary ot State. A messenger has been sc-ni to him already ? (for there can be no doubt of Mr. Monroe's election, and he wiil have the rninisu rs of his cabinet i eady to proceed at once to their icspective func tions. y ? Eri(juiri r* Lynchburg Fir. JVov. 15. Tht-t mrjtnr W e hsrve seen, latelv, a thermometer, which was inV. n'ed and made by an artist in Copenhagen, of very extraordinary workmanship, aud upon a principle which, although well known, has never before been employed for this purpose. rhis thermometer is, inform, similar to a watch, ar d is entirely com posed of different metals, without any fluid. I hese metals are so combined, as, by every contraction and expanti< n, to move an indt x in like manner a* the hour or minute hand of a time piece ? which in dex points to a division ol a circle corres ponding to Reaumuir's scale. Th|s index, we were informed, showed the alteration of heat and cold more sensibly than even the best quicksilver thermometers* Aaw-O- lean*, Oct. 14. We learn hy the armed schooner Cons titution, lately from Marguerita, that Ge neral Marganot, an Knglishmau by birth, and Gen. Salihiette, commanding two di visions of the Republicans, under Gen. Bolivar* had obtained considerable succcsses over the Royalists, and bad formed a junc tion with Gem Bermudas. Of all the patriots, who havt hertoforc made head against the Royaliatt in that quarter, he is the only one who commands a respectable force. Gen. llolivar himself was on his return to the Isle vf Mii'tnienta, ^l.iiher lie V?ad scot Orders u> (n j i Muut *.ii\ ivi id ( . t n Pt? t r ? O HHfH rt UTttt^.t'O \> . tl irrtl. Mrtctvti, \Vhiicr lit n> as Uv.vaiiLli j^to fessunu llic Cjmni^id. ^'!ie Legislature of Virginia, nict on lltli ult. t)-ic of their first i-cis was to sutpiiui ilit <?? era' ion f ihe law comjv ! I a-j; ui-:r h^r.K> lo n..<c \> I e , p.i\ im ot < ?f Specie oil 1 1 it i5th i list, for 01 t. nio- th, ir\ order ~t> Ho e to the* i-r^Tstn^Tm. ~T O toosKirrt tue |>rot?Tt \ Or lis elilhe repeal, or furtlicr n.odifk ution. x"- ." 1 ? 11 -?? - ,"i Tj-rae Wholesale IVTcrs UuirtiTtT Drrtcs'ic Articles, U l.arlestor Camden. Cotton, Sea Island Lb 00 O n Upland, 0 24 Rice, prime new civ: o 00 Fluuii >uptiOnc M, '5 0 4tf| 0 3 5 O 2 1.023 3 00| 00 . 0 00| bus// 0 (0. 1 00 /SO U 1 me cour.t' y* Corn, Wheat, Tobacco, leaf ., manulactuied W liisk t) , Butter, Bacon, I /arc!, I allow, Bees W ax, Herhp, H nievpun, cotton v</0 23 ,, N. C'uio'iha tow Shoe thread, /<'> I inlipfo, p? i me# l)eai Skins in hair, /' o r ( (gn Article it . CotVtc, prime* /.'? 0 19 M om! Su^ar, Muscovado Salt , ~ . bush Iron, 100 lb. Mol asses, gu 0 2 2jO 12 0 Cojo 00 0 3' ?}0 00 0 28|0 30 .0 3T .0 30 62 ,osr 18 0 75 . 0 80 0 75 0 2: 0 30 .0 32 0 12.0 1 5,0 18 .0 20 0 55. 0 ?5 1 CO .0 00 5 CO . 6 On 7 00 .8 00 0*r~. t> 4b 0 07 .0 00 At Auction. BY permission of the Ordinary's Court of Kershaw l)isti;c\at the plantation of Mr. JOHN ADAMSON, decased, will be sold at Public Auction, on the first* se cond and t hi i <1 * la>s of J inu'ury next, sun drv articles of perishable propetty, belong ing to Uhj estate deceased) viz.^? A QU A\ l ! i Y oF CORN, FDD D LIU, KYK* OATS", See. HOUSES, MI LKS, HOGS, CATTLF, &c. ? ? aiso. I'lantatiort utensih including WAGGONS, BLACKSMITHS POOLS and one CANAL I JO V' &? TACKLE. Conditi ns, the tNovisions ai id Ho, a on three mow hs coed it ; purchasers of other articles to the amount of tw.n.y dollar* and upwatds.on a credit of twelve months; for all sums utuLr twen'v dollars, cash ? tlv-se who purchase on a credit, to give Notes, or Bonds, heaving Interest bom ttre~day of sale, v i ? b pood security. LEWIS ClI'LES ? J. NO. liOYKIN, J Executors. her 5 ? H 1 S, r ? IT ^ ? KS. KHODLS having re-commenced the BAKING LiCSiNEStf, at the house wheieshe ?es:deson Yoik-street, $o ltcits a share of tin pan onu^e of her friends and the public. She thanks them fur their foi mer custom, and i * foi ins them that she will have WAllM BREAD every day at i o'clock. It is unnecessary to say that her Bread will he made ol the best of flou? and ai large as can be procured at any o ther placc in Camden. r December .5, 18 >6. 36 DISSOLUTION. Co-partnership of Sylvettrr & /?</. ? ward M. 11 r on not i, is this day dissolv ed by mutual consent. All those who are indebted to either < f the said firm, are re quested to call and make immediate pay nient, asThey are desirous of closing their accounts of the present year EI>W \Rl) VI BUONSON, SYLVESTI U BKONSON. f~omden* October 1,1816. 36// REMOVAL. M. BHOMSON has removed to the building lately occupied by M.tj. J Cantey wheie he has a large and good as sort me nt of TIM WARE, which hfc offer*-- for Sale ns low as can be purchased in any part of the state, and will be happy to receive, and promises faithful* ly to execute all otders with which his fiiends and the publ.c may think proper to favor him with. Camden. Dec. 5, I81f> 36lf I Notice. MIE Subscriber Yequeats all persons ha ving demands against the estate of WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM, deceased, to render them in, properly attested, by the 26th of January next. All tho*e indebted to the said estate are also requested to make payment by the above date. Interest o<i the bonds, notes, fee. of the said estate will be exacted, and if not paid means will b* taken enforce the paySSfentftf the same. WM. NETTLES* December 5, 1816, 3d