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>?J mmw II - I ?i Thcv uriitc, perhaps, to a greater degree i haii any other breed, the supposed incompatible properties of yielding a great deal c f milk and beef. It is,* however, us lUr. KanIda well observes, on the inferior soil and the moist climate of Ayrshire and the West of Scotland, that their superiority as milkers is most remarkable. On their natural food ?>f poor quality they give milk abundantly and long, and often until within a few days <>f calving; hut when tbey ore moved to ri-'drn* pasture, their constitniion changes, cud they convert their food more into beef. In their ?.:wa counts*/ a cow of a fleshy make, r.:id which seldom proves a good milker, may br cas'ly raised to -10 or f>u stones, and bullocks of three years old are brought to ve.igh from o0 to (30 stones. There is a lurking tendency about them to fatten, which good pasture will briag to Jig!it. Tlicv arc J.ot ftvorkes with the butchers as the fifthquarter does not weigh well in them. Their fat is mingled with the fl \sh rather than separated in the form of tallow; yet this would give a more beautiful appearance to the meat, an 1 shoul.l enhance its price to the consumer." The preceding we copy from tbc Firrmcr b Garde a. ~r, of Baltimore, where it is ae. couftpanicd with a beautiful cut. If this breed of cattle possesses the properties here ascribed to it, which we sec no good reason to doubt, it is unquestionably much better adapted to the treat incut received by cattle in the Carolinas, than any we now have; and indeed we know of none which with any treamcnt would be so valuable, or any 't !?" if Inc newer* cs\ f-ir 9C uai tu JVUI IUW *?? ??' j we know of, bc?n introduc e into the United j ' ;t- v-:. Sjmo<*fourentcrprizingand wealthy | ...alters have already deserved the thanks of j the pubiic for the service which they have | r.ai red kv introducing valuable stocks of i ? eatTi'e of foreign origin; and wc know of! jh) way in wVch they could, at this time, more essentially serve the farming interest in Carolina, than by importing the Ayrshire stock : if upon proper inquiry it should be I'm:id what it is represented to b~. Could i 1 ^ i not an Association be formed fjr this pur- ! pose among the honest and industrious emigrants from t!ie Highlands of Scotland, or ; thi 'r descendants, who are generally fend of cattl ,\ and we are sure would take pccu-1 liar pri.le in a superior stock imported from 1 the land of their fathers. Internal Improvements. So rapkl has been the multiplication of-: works of internal improvement in the United ; States within a very few years, that proba- ( bly very few of our readers have any thing j like correct knowledge ef their extent.? . Tiio followiug extracts from a report of the Committeo-oa Iuternal Improvement to one 1 branch of the Legislature cf Tennessee ' tko-V in session, will give soma idea of them. ( " The receipts of the Erie canal, which extends from Buffalo to Albany, a distance 1 cf throe hundred and sixty three miles. 1 v.ere for the year 1933, one million seven hundred and sovcnty-two thousand, three J i hundred and sixty, four doUan?. Since 1933 j1 the ratcs of toll hare been reduced twenty- < live per cent; yet the increase in the re- j c dpts Ins exceeded the proportion of for- i merycarj. Tne committee remark, that i from the reports of the tolls of the present year, there is no doubt ihat tho receipts will considerably exceed two millions of dollars. To? cost of the work was nine millions, tw :i:ty.? wen thousand, four hundred and tiny-six dollars. It is a remarkable fact i eounucl^J with the trade on this artificial j chmnel, that the tonnage employed on it, is j c TU'il?. the whole tonnage, both domestic | an : ibrcign. which annually crowds the ' harbor of M v York. Results of this character, when predictions at first were and foreboding, hail the friends of Internal improvemement with cheering gratulation. In addition to the Erie canal, the other improvements cf this kind in New York are, the Ciiampl iin, the Oswego, L'elnwuro and Hudson, Haerlem, Chittenango, las, Cayuga and Scncca, Chemung, Crook-h ike and Ciienango canals,? inest of which constitute a part of the sys ten; of imprcvomriit adopted by the enlighten. 1 policy of this nourishing State. nut's, he u* vcr, have in New York, as every where else, given place to rail roads.. All the new works of improvement are of this lost description. The cost, the rapidity A conimunic it ion, their capability of being used during the whole year, give to rail roads an indisputable superiority. The rail roads finished in New York are the Mohawk and Hudson, the Saratoga and Schenectady, the Ithaca and Oswego, the New York and Haerlcm, tho Renssalear and Saratoga, llse Cutskiil and Canajoharie, the Uiiea and Schenectady, the Buffalo and Black Rock, aud tiie road from Rochester to the head of navigation in Genesee river. Works in progress in the State of New d ork arc more numerous and extensive than those completed. Among these are the New York and Eric Rail Road, nearly four hundred miles in length, the New York and Albany Rail Road, the Hudson and I Delaware, the Brooklyn. Jamaica and Long Island, to cx:e.) 1 from New York two hundred and twenty-five miles. The whole distance of these four roads, now in prog, ress, is between eight 'and nine baud red miles. In addition to these, in the State -of New York alone, are more than thirty rail roads under charter, the ro'Jtcs surveyed, and [.reparations in progress for their construction. So superior is rail road commticlegation, that from Albany to.New York, even alongside the broad and beautiful bosom of the Hudson, where steamboats ply every day, and with remarkable rapidity, a rail way is in progress, connecting points between which ntlturc has spread one of the noblest j xivc*?. Yfh ti * skiing common! on the I spirit'of the age and the wonderful advance., |inert of human enterprise! Five years I ago, men of intelligence spoke of these 1t-lings as chimeras, the dreams of the visionary. lint the vivid reality now startles the imagination even of the most sanguine of those who gavo a willing car to the earlicst inquiry. In ellocting her public improvements, N. \ ork has borrowed nearly thirty millions of i dollars. Such of the bonds as have he. i come due, have been n?-t and liquidated by j the receipts from the works constructed. Those which will be due, at future periods* will be more easily paid than the first; the 1 receipts on the works, the bonds for the construction of which have been cancelled, will be a sinking fund to aid the tolls received from other improvements in settling bonds . j payable at a luture time. The State of Pennsylvania stands by N. York ia public enterprise- Iler faith is pledged for more than twenty millions, and on tiie progress of her system and the policy of its adoption, the fixed opinion of the State, founded an reason and oxpeiicnce, is unanimous. Her canals, embracing the main division, the western, the Susquelfannah, the north branch, the west branch divisions. together with others, extend a distance of six hundred miles. The most important of her rail roads which arc complete* 1, extend front Philadelphia to Columbia, upwards of eighty miles ; and the Alleghany and Portage Rail Road, which passes the Alleghany mountain at a point of grca'cr ascent than any that woul 1 be overcame by the roads which arc spoken of. In the bill presented by the commitfco to the House. Resides tiros'*, there are twenty other rail roads constructed or in progress, constitu ting n chain of communication winch briig* c\c:y citizen of the Stat J within reach of the benefits int tndod to be conferrod by a system both comprehensive and efficient. Among the most important of these last, works is the Central Kail Road, wliich commences near Pottsvillo. and extoj?ds to Sunbury, opposite the Susquchannah river, and to Danville, making the whole distance fiftyone mhos. The Philadelphia and Reading rail road is of importance also, covering a distance of fifty-eight miles, and intended to connect an extensive anthracite coal .mine with the city of Philadelphia. fii New Kngland the same spirit has nc- . tuated public and private exertion. In New I Iampshtro and Vermont a number of canals have been constructed; and in the lattor State two rail roads arc in progress, the principal of which is that from Whitehall to Rutland. In Massachusetts there arc scvoral canals iiutsc-; the most extensive are the Middlesex, the Blackstone, and the Hampshire and Hampden, in l.'iigth one hundred and fifty miles. The raii roads are nuiner- <i i?us and rabidly increasing. Tliosc from Boston to Worcester, from Boston to Prov- < idence and from Taunton to Lowell, and 1 several others are completed. Many more ; are projected and in progress, including a line which is to he carried through the States of New-Hampshire and Vermont, passing vA?. Vai>1t frt 0(T_ I lltTclT X JUllSUUl^j UfiUU^U iivu A v/iJV kv v-'^densburg on the St. Lawrence. Maine, Rliode Inland and Connecticut, 5 have also been alive to their interests. The , former exhibits considerable progress in a. work from Portland to Boston, and arrange, nents arc in advance to connect Portland, by rail road, with Quebec. Rhode Island md Connecticut, though small in territory md population, have constructed several improvements; the most important arc the Purmington Canal and the Stonington and Providence rail road. Many other works arc in progress in these States. New Jersey, a country not remarkable for the fertility of its soil or the extent of its resources, has completed several canals and n <ei!l riwiter number of rail roals. Of O -tlic former, the Morris and the Delaware and the Iiaritan canals,embracing a distance of one hundred and forty four miles, arc the most extensive. Of rail roads, that from Camden to Amboy, a distance of sixty-one miles, and the Jersey and West-Jersey rail roads, the one extending from Brunswick to Jersey city, opposite New York, the other reaching from Gloucester on the Delaware to Salem, are, perhaps, the most important ; though many others of great public utility are in progress or projected. Delaware, too, has a canal from the Chesapeake to the Delaware, and three rail roads completed, from Newcastle to Frcnchtown, from Wilmington to Downington, and from Wilmington to the Sus^uchnnnah. Even this little State has had the spirit of improvement march onward. If we cast our eye to Maryland, we discover a hundred and ten miles of the Chesapeake and Ohio canal completed, and some smaller canak have been a long time in use. Rail roads, however, have in this State dc. monstrated, as they have elsewhere, their superior utility, and her enterprise is now directed chiefly to this species of improvement. Of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road, upwards of eighty miles have been completed, and the route is continued, by another company, to Winchester, tfhdor a charter from the Stato of Virginia. The Baltimore and Susquchannah rail road is actively progressing, to reach York, in Pennsylvania, a distance of seventy-six miles/ The Baltimore and Washington road is completed, and other works arc being projected with every prospect of success. The Dismal Swamp Canal, in Virginia, and the James and Jackson river canals arc important works, and the latter, by the intelligcnt policy of the last Legislature, which subscribed for three millions of stock, wili new become a great and useful improvement, oSbrding a communication from the Ohio to the Atlantic. The Roanoke and Petersburg rail road, extending sixty miles; the Portsmouth and Roanoke; the Winchester and Potomac; the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac; the Richmond ; and Petersburg, and the Manchester rail roads, are finished or rapidly competing. The entire length of these roads is two i hundred atid seventy >s1x miles. The}- pre- J sent the irfiicaticn of a system in Virginia j which will undoubtedly be made co-extensive with the interests of the whole State, of North Carolina, too, has entered the field, th and on her bosom exhibits an illustration of be the temper of the age. An important work tu: is actively advancing from Wilmington to vi< the Yadkin, thence to the Catawba, a dis- wl tance of two hundred and fifty miles. An- re other rail road is also started, from New- th b?rn, on the Ncuse, to Clinton, embracing an interesting communication deeply important to the countries it is proposed to conncet. When North Carolina, a State remark able for caution and prudence in do- q( paring from ancient usage or in the adop. q ticn of any thing new, has embarked in the construction of rail roads, it is argument conclusivs that they arc necessary and in- ^ dispensable to the public interest. If this . ^,1 nml mrcnnnr.rtnd. it would * UlUl J.vUmoumivu unu v.... speak volumes on this subject. The state of improvement in South Curolina presents facts interesting and useful. ^ij With characteristic spirit, she lias been Hi* mong the foremost m adopting and exccuting extensive improvements. Iler road ^ from Charleston to Hamburg has vindicated by its success the wisdom of its adoption; jy A'tberc is no doubt that its whole cost,with in- ' tercst,will be reimbursed in afew years. The Columbia and Branchville rail road, covering a distance of sixty miles, is commenced, , and also the road from Hamburg to Edge- . r' fid.!. In Georgia and Alabama, Missisrippi and 0 Louisiana, are various works projected or in progress. In Georgia, the Athens and rc* Augusta rail road, one hundred and fourteen P? ? - - - rvi miles in length, is nor.* under eon'raet. in r~ the Florida, Alabama and Georgia rail road, ^ from Pcnsacoia to Columbus, two-thirds of SCI the route is located 1/1 Alabama. The Tu?- p cumbia, Courtland and Decatur road is fin- ^ ished; the one from Dalctown to Greensbo- ?, ro' is advancing, and also that from Wood- e. viile, in Mississippi, to St. Francisville. Kentucky presents -the Louisville and lsi' Portland Canal, and .the Lexington and Ohio 0 ?TO rail road, which is completed from Lexsng- ? ton Xo Frankfort. : ^ Ohio has borrowed eigh'cen millions, and vo after achieving the most extensive improvements, is surpassing what she has already done. The Miami and the Ohio and Eric ex^ nnmn!otml ot fhp AVnmCP ( 'O, VylUiUi?> 11a> i; vuiiif/iviwu <*? u?v rf the State, including a distance of four Fc in hundred miles. Their effect upon the value of property has been almost incredible.? 0X1 The value of real estate has, in a large extent of country, been quadrupled, and the F,n results are still progressive? In addition to .c canals, more than a thousand miles of rail X road have been surveyed, and extensive works of this sort ere advancing. But forty years ago, the valleys of the Ohio, the J5 Miami, and the shores of Erie, were a wildenicss, Untouched?in .all the majesty of a wide, a boundless forest. Now the bustle of population and commerce and manufac- sui tories, the varied and vast products of a million of people, transported with an case, facility and rapidity unknown in the oldest and richest regions of the earth, occupy j"C" that space where only a few years since, the ,a wild tenants of the woods?the Indian, the K wolf, the bear and the buffalo?held their I? solitary and undisputed -supremacy. J Abstract ( the Proceedings of the ?rnnrress. First Set. M. WVUI|->?..._ B sion. Ci( ~ fro SENATE, DEC. -Stf. , Jft( Among the memorials was one presented we by Mr. Wright from 125 citizens of New the York, in relation to the late fire in that city, set praying .clief, and specifying various ways in which it might be extended by Congress, an After some remarks by Mr. Wright, the Mr. Webster said he hoped the memorial die would be printed with all possible despatch, pa that the members of the Senate might have sw an opportunity to read it. It appeared to sia be a long and reasoned paper, stating the ab grounds, both of right and expediency, on which relief, in the specified modes, was Cr asked. ^ The memorial was referred to the Com- tai mittee on Finance. T1 Mr. Callioua gave notice lhat he should co to-morrow ask leave to introduce a bill to of regulate the deposites of the public money of sU the United States; a bill to change the Con- on stitution of the United States; and a bill in ru' relation to the mail, and for other purposes, re dec. 20. ci Mr. Clay asked and obtained leave to in- *f troducc a bill for the distribution of the pro- bii ceeds of the public lands, which was twice 111 read and referred to the committee on Pub- A lie Lands. up From Mr. Clay's speech on the subject, to reported in the National Intelligencer, wc make the following extract. th< The nett amount of the sales of the pub- an lie lands in the year 1633 was the sum of w< 83,9G7,GS2 55, in the year 1S34 "Was 84,. dii 657,GOO GO, and in the year 1S35, according foi to actual receipts in the three first quarters wl and an estimate of the fourth, is $12,222,. co 121 15; making an aggregate for the three years of 821,047,404 39. This aggregate cr is what the bill proposes to distribute and hn pay to the twenty-four States on tfie first day fie of May, 1636, upon the principles which I fo; have stated. The difference between the pr estimate made by the Secretary of the Trea. sury and that which I have offered of the hr product of the last quarter of this year, ari- an ses from my having taken, as the probable of sum, one third of the total amount of the in three first quarters, and he some other con. wi jeetural sum. Deducting from the $21,047,. in' 404 39 the fifteen per cent, to which the seven new States, according to the. biH, will th be first entitled, amountingto $2,612.35018, to there will remain for distribution among the cj twenty-four States of the Union the sum of th $18,435,054 21. Of this sum the proper- pc tion of Kentucky will bo $960,947 41, ofjhr Virginia the sum of $1,581,069 39, of} Si North Carolina $988,632 42, and of Pcnn-1 si sylvania $2,083,233 32. The proportion of j dc I Indiana, including the fifteen per cent, will be: ar | $855,589 23, of Ohio 81,077,110 84, and j | of Mississippi $958,945 42. I Mr. Calhoun offered the following rendu-! fion: i took up the line of march, yesterday morning, to scoOr out the Wacaliouta and ad- c jacent hamsnocks; not wishing to be en. v, cumbered with baggage, I despatched bag. o gage wagons, to take the direct route for a< Wetumpka, via Mecanopy ; on arriving at si the Kanopaha prairie, I immediately took c; Capt. M'Lemore's and Cap:. Lancaster's h; companies, and pursued on th6-trail; and on arriving at Benjamin W arrcn's, found aj his house in flames; passing on> we found ^ that a body of Indians, fifty or sixty in num. a her, had attacked and captured our baggage ^ as it passed over the Prairie, and set the ^ wagon on fire. Tiic ofliccr in command j of the baggage train, with several of the cs- j Re&lved, That the report of the Secretary the Treasury,, of the loth inst., relative to e duties thai may be reduced or repealed, i referred to the committee on Manufacres, with instructions to report a bill proding for the reduction or rej?eal of all duties inch, in their opinion, may be reduced or pealed consistently whh a due regard to e manufacturing inters. nottSE OF REPRESENTATIVE?# The House resumed the consideration of; e motion to refer to committees the mes go of the President transmitting the Suite ! jnslitution and other documents from the invention of Michigan, held for the pur- j ?se of forming a State Government. Dec. 2S?ITio message together withj at relating to the boundary of Ohio and | ichigan, were referred to the Judiciary immittce. Dec. 29?Mr. Mason, of Ya. from the 1 nnmittee on Foreign Affairs, reported a i il to carry into effect the Convention bo-1 pen the United States and Spainj read : ice, and committed to the Committee of j e hole House. esolutions passed at Vic late session of the j Legislature respecting Gambling in (he j Town oj L'olumtod. Whereas all sound education should em. acc the formation, as well of the moral as :el!cctual character, and it is indispensable this end, that young men, at that tender c when their principles are unfixed, and solutions weak, should be preserved if ssiblc, from the contamination of dissiting and corrupting pleasures. Be it therefore Rcsolvcdbythc Senate and nise of Representatives in General As. nbfij met, That the Trustees of the South rolina College, together with the Solicitor the Southern Uircuit, are hcreuy request- s and enjoined to put into immediate and plant exercise, all means provided by exing laws, to exterminate from the Town Columbia and its vicinity, bawdy houses, mbling houses, and other similar nuisan?, calculated to vitiate the morals, pervert 5 minds, and destroy the health of the ung men committed to their charge; and Duld existing rem edits be found, on full pcriment, inefficacious, then that they nsider of and report the Legislature at its xt session, such changes or amendments the law as to them may seem expedient d and necessary to accomplish the object. Be it aim Resolved, That the Inteodant d Waisens, and the citizens generally ofiluinbia, arc earnestly entreated, as they lue the great interests of morality and rcion, the decencies of life, the health and neral welfare of their community, and the aracter especially of the important Instiion established in their bosom, to co-opcrs by their example and by such local leg. ition as they inay deem practicable, to pprcss -these most disgraceful and corifirxr nuisances. Be it furtder Rcsolccdt That the Clerk this House be directed to publish these ;olutions in the Columbia papers and to" nsmit copies thereof to the President of 5 Board of Trustees of the South Caroli-. College, and the I Ian. Intendantof the iW.i of Columbia. Indian War. By the arsival yesterday of the schooner Jorge & Mary, Capt. Wille}', in 24 hours m St. John's (E. F.) wc received the ikson Courier of the 24th inst., from which ; have made copious extracts respecting 5 hostile operations of tho Indians in that :tion of the country. We have conversed with Uapt. wuiey, d learn from him, that a large portion of i territory has been desolated by the Inins, the}' having made a descent irom that rt of the territory occupied by them, and epi every thing in their route, from Valul to Black Creek, on the main road?>and ;o from the same point to Lake George, d down the St. John's River to Black eok, burning all the dweiiings in their urse, and murdering such of the inhabits as had not previously made their escape, ic extent of the loss of life, could not of, urse be correctlp ascertained, on account the confusion that existed, but Capt. W. ites that information reached Jacksonville i fhn mnrrvrirrnf the 25th. that Mr. Wood IT, and one negro, who were on Mr. For. ster's plantation, had been killed, and that lpt. Lancaster, of the militia, was seriously, not mortally wounded. The .store and adery establishment of Dr. Brush, at Polka, were burnt down on Wednesday last, boat from the George & Mary, was fired ion, while on her way down Black Creek St. John's Riv?r. Wc Icam that tho Indians had removed :ir women and children to a place of safety, d that it had been ascertained that roads itq sometime previously cut in different rations, to reach the plantations, evidently r the purpose of facilitating their purposes, ion the scene of destruction should have mmenced. The effect of these disturbances on the ops will be most disastrous, the planters .ving been compelled to abandon their Ids; and the mills and buildings necessary r the manufactory of Sugars, arc most obably all destroyed. We learn that a passenger in the G. & M. is brought on a letter requesting that arms | id amunition may be forwarded, as many j ' the troops and volunteers are without any 1 cans of -defence, although every kind of sapon that could be found had been pressed ' to the service. In this case of emergency, it is to be hoped at the most prompt measures may be taken afford assistance to those who are thus :posed to the incursions of the Indians,'and at if it be found that the arms at the dis. >sal of the General Gnvernment in this irbor, arc insufficient, that the arms of the ate should be placed at the disposal ofoUr ifFering fellow citizens to enable them to :fcnd themselves from their savage ts'sai!jl?.m?Charleston Courier. Lei't: from CoL Warren to Gun. Clinch. Head Quarters, ) Fort Chum, Dec. 10,1835. $ Sir?The trcmps under my commnni cort, had retired to Miccanopy, and i nave not been able ascertain correctly what loss * has been sustained : two Sergeants and four < men have returned into camp unhurt, and | one Sergeant and one Private, belonging to * Capt.M'Lemore's company,mortally wound. ( ed, are still lingering at this fort. I am not ? able to make a correct return, as I am unad. .1 vised of the number who have escaped to 1 Miccanopy, but will make a more full return 1 as soon as possible. By this unfortunate s affair, all our papers, such as orders, reports, * &c., and ail our ammunition, surgical instrn- i1 ments. &c. arc lost. * Gen. Call, with bis reinforcement, is ex. t pected here to-day, and as I am assured that v the whole bod)- of Indians are in theWaca- t houta and adjacent hammocks; the sign is J great, and from the force seen in different 1 parties, wc are assured that they are all here, I think it advisable that you should send ali v the regular force, to co-opera', with us im- t mcdiatelv. The fighting is to be done here. ' 0 . t We are in want of ammunition and camp j ' equipage, having, as I before stated, lost all j in our wagons. (s Yours respectfully, |( JOHN WARREN, Col. Com. Mil. in scrricc. Gen. D. L. Clinch. t P. S. Killed?Serg't Hu it, privates TTin t and II. Roberts, and five others not known; d wounded six, one mortally, (Weeks;) esca- I ped, sixteen; five horses killed, six wounded, e Gen. Call has just arrived in Camp with I 230 men and assumed tho entire command. A report has also arrived, tliat the Indians were penned in a Hammock in the Prairie, and that on Monday last, firing was heard 1 and a general engagement had taken place. J A public meeting was to bs held in Charleston t on Thursday last, to tako into consideration the * means of affording assistanco to the pcoplo of ? Florida. , ( CHERAW GAZETTE. i ^ ] TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1830. 1 . ~~ i Wo havo complaints uom amerent i|ua?n;ia i by persons who put their names to subscription j papers for the Choraw Gazette, that thepaper has j not been sent to them. The reason is that the j subscription papers hare not been returned to us. t We hope persons still holding any with names to ' them, will bo good enough to return them without delay. For the accommodation of subscribers who j preserve files of the Gazetie, wo shall at the i close of each volume furnish en index to the 1 principal articles. With that "view we this week * commence numbering the pages, counting f/om the beginning of the volume. { _ I \Yc can assure our country friends that there Is [ anabundmce of goods now in town which arc; sold as low as before the firo; and that cotton I ( and other product) will be bought just as readily ( and at as high prices as if tho firo had not occur- f red. t Mr. and Mrs. Davis, engaged to take charge of , tho Male and Female Academies in this town, : have arrived, and will forthwith enter upon tho ( d ;ties of their offices. Mrs. Watson, of Socie. j tv Ilill, is expected up in a day or two, to take ( charge of the Boarding IIouso for females. < ,'i Dividend.?Tho Merchants' Bank of Chcraw | has declared a dividend of five dollars for the last ? six months on tho original capital stock; pari blc 7th irrst. j We understand thero rcmaijis a large surplus to the credit of tho Stockholders. ] No better evidence need be asked of the ability with which tho Bank has been managod, than that tho stock rose to 42 per cent, above cost in a 1 liltlo more than a year after it went into opera- < tlon. 1 i | lathe new year's address of the " Southern |i I Times and Stato Gazette," of Columbii, to its i ! Patrons and friends, wo find the following: " To our patrons we return our hearty thanks ] for their liberality, and to our new subscribers, 1 especially, of whom we have an unusually large 1: t list, for the flattering tfrrns in Which they have been plaascd to express themselves respecting cur 1 ! paper." We congratulato the Editor and Publisher of that respectable paper upon this evidence of publie favor. To those who wish, from the 6eat of government, a paper conductod with much ability and good judgement, which shall give them a full account of the proceedings of tjfio Legislature when in session, with an unusual variety of mis ccllancous matter; in which they will hna notning intemperate or hostilo to Christianity; and i which, when occasion requires, always takes a decided stand on the sido of sound morals, we recommend tho Times and Gazetto. I Distressing Shipicrcck.?Tho ship Tiber, recently arrived in New York from IIam burg-, fell in/on her passage home, with tho wreck ef tho brig E-agar of England, with four of her crew (tho Only survivors out ot 17) lashed to a piece of tine maintop for five days. Of tho other 13 nine Wore drowned, and the other four perished (torn exposure and hunger or thirst. Tho survi." , vors were very ill, and their recotery doubtful. Tho Legislature of Illinois met on the 7th ult* , j The message qf Gov. Duncan, says tho Xat. In. tcliigencer, "is mora than usually brief." The Governor thereby shows his good sensv. - The CumdSn Journal has been suspended for | the present. ?y?? We invito the attention of mothers to tho clrular in relation to tho Mother's Magazine, which 'ill be found among our advertisements. Some . pinion may bo formed by our reader* of its char. J iter from the quotations which they havo occaonally soen from it in our columns. No parent in rend it without profit. But being conducted 7 a Pedo-Baptist, it occasionally contains allu. ons to infant baptism, which might not meet thn ^probation of mothers of the Baptist denominaou. Wo eco, however, that they now havo similar publication of their own, in regard to rhich wo copy tho following notice from tho Re* l5'?ou8 Herald of Richmond, Vs. m?Ther?3 monthly journal. Thia is a new v,-ork from (he press of iretnrcn Rcnnett ftnrj Bright, the publishers t? St Y?rk Baptist Register, edited jy Mrs. MaryKinggwood. The price is H 00 per onn\m1# Tiiis work is formed >n the same plan, ^d will occupy similar ground, with the klother's Magazine, a Ouraai *cu nnu.. ? cu many of QUr fcmaIe caders. In reference \0 that work, tlic . jublishers remark, after bestowiug on it de- , " icrved commendation, as follows: ?It is, lowever, but the part of candor to confess, hat the ground upon which maternal duties ire urged in the Mother's Magazine, (viz. he baptismal covenant,) and the motirc9 vhich ore deduced from it, render an exensive and permanent circulation of that vork, in the Baptist denomination, very mprobable." The editor, or editress, (we soe no reason vhy the latter term should not be used,) has >een promised the aid of several eminent iterary gentlemen, Elders \V. T. Brantly, N. R. Cushman, W. R. Williams, of N. ' ? fork, Hague, of Boston; with the profes;ors of Ilamiiton Institution, tmd the Rev. jr. W. Bethunc. The Murel Gang.?It Is stated in the Vickf>urg Register of Doc. 3, that thrco men known n Kn nf fViio trintT linn* rr*f?r?r?tlv Kr>r>n nnt trt V l/w V* MMU www WW-W.^ www, |r,. ? loath at Littlo Rock, and iu Wilkinson county, Mississippi. Ono was shot by a gambler. Anothr was shot, and the third hung; it is not stated >y whom. Times of sitting of the Courts. Under the law passed at the late session of the Legislature of this State, the Courts of Law will >o held in the different Districts compcsiug tho Northern Circuit at tho following times: in Chescrfield, on tho first Monday in October and tho second Monday in March; in Kershaw, on the second Monday in October and tho third Monday n March; in Sumter, on the third Monday in October and the fourth Monday in March; in Darlington, on the fourth Monday in Ootober md the first Monday after the fourth Monday in March, in Marion, which is now addod to the R.tstwn Circuit, on the third Monday after tho fourth Monday in March and October/ The Courts of Equity will be held twice annually. They will be held at Darlington C. H. for the Cheraw District, on the third Monday after the fourth Monday in January, and on the fourth Monday in June. At Marion C. II., for Marion District on the Thursday next after the second Monday after the fourth Monday in January; and j he Thursday next after the third Monday in . ' Func. " Tho S. C. IlcralJ speaks of tho Rev. Mr. Eiliitt, recently elected Professor in tho S. C. Colege as follows: " Mr. Elliot for some time after lis father's death conducted the Southern Reriew,?is said to be a good 6chokr and quite a itci-ary man. Besides, those tvho know hiuj, lave every confidence in him as a man of piety. We must do tho Trustees tho justice to say that n their lato el actions, they have endeavored to ulfil the pkdga given by those who made the 4 Appeal.'* The Pledge Redeemed.?In " the appcaF of a portion of the Trustees of the South Carolina College, there was a pledge given hat the remaining vacancies in that Jnstifuicn, wotild be filled by men who were fully intitled to the confidence of the Christian community. This pledge, we arc happy n assuring our readers, has been amply rciecmed. To the Presidency lias been clec,ed the Hon. Robt. Barnwell,Jate member of Congress from this State;& to the Professorship of Sacred Literature,the Rev. Stephen Elliott, both of the Episcopal Church, and .1 .--i ._ i _r ? JOin rt'puiuu 10 uu men UI uvan^uiuit picij f 3 ind well fitted for the high pests of honor md responsibility to which they havo been nvitcd.?Clear. Obs. _ Religions Instruction of Stares in tl*j? State. The Rev. Silas McKecn, of Maino, some time since, addressed a letter to tho Rev. R. W. Baily, of this town, making several inquiries at to the advantages of religious instruction enjoyed by the slavos in South Carolina. Mr. Bii'y replied through the Christian Mirror, of Portland, in a series of letters which were republished hi tho New York Observer and several other religious papers at the North; and which wo understand tir.ve done much good by correcting erroneous impressions mado by the misrepresentations ef Tim following extract from IUU auuiiuwuiob^i o t one of Mr. Bailees letter? ire take from theNew York Observer. Stick fad5, we think, can. not bat exert thoir due influence upon the minds of all really Christian men in the non-elavehold. ing States. _ ] : In addition to some statistics already furnished, in a previous letter, on the religious improvement of the slaves, 1 am now able, from authentic information, to say, that of the five hundred and eighty thousand, which* compose the entire population of this State) about sixty-seven thousand are members in the Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, and < Episcopalian churches. Of these coiotbu. i. j .1,VM nicantS more man juny uwiauiuj. aro mm.. The whole slave population is 315,000* It is easily seen, therefore, that of the white population about one ninth, and of the slave population about one seventh arc church members. It is proper these facts should come into the estimate of the reli. gious condition and prospects of our slaves. In New England there are twenty thousand, and in the free states a hundred and twenty thousand free blacks. I should be glad to see . a comparison oitlicir religious condition with that of our slaves in this one item. Do you believe that one twentieth of thorn arc , j communicants ? And db you believe that IJ inJNew England as bene, there is a larger proportion, of black than white communis cants ? And what is doing there to improve 1 J ' i