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CHER A'Wt GAZETTE . AND 'y*w -\ ' ~r- ' . PEE DEE FARMER. _ [ | , , ?? M. MacLcan, EditoTand PropTietor. CH?RAW S. C{WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1839. Vol. IV. No. * MBiBBIBBP?BHa??i?Mnn?MtawrriWTIHI II 1 ix- i. TSRMS. tfP aid within three months, . - 300. If paid within three months after the close of the year, 3. 50 1 If paid withiu twelve months after the close of the year, 4 00 If oot paid within that time, .... 5 00 A company often persons taking the paper at the same Post Office, shall be entitled to it at ?25 provided the names bo forwarded together, and acompanied by the money. No paper to bo discontinued but at he option of the Editor till arrearages aro paid. Advertisements not exceeding sixteen lines, inser ed for one dollar the first time, and < fifty cents, each subsequent insertion Persons sending in advertisements are request- ji co specify the number of times they are to be f i':sevted; otlierwiso they will be continued till i ordered out, and charged accordingly. IJ 0"Tho Postage must be paid on allqommu I nications ** "" j tkm iMour Rnolanrl Farmer. ! 1 IVIU IpUV tivn LUCERNE GRASS. Mr. Ft**tnden:?I recur once more, ia I spite of the ill success of my efforts, to the < subject of this invaluable grass. I feel a full j l conviction that it will be, sooner or later, I I ' the favorite grass of the New England j < sta'es, for whose soil and climate, it is po- j culiarly adaped. It will finally take the t place of the Dutch clover throughout New j < England. It is better adapted to our soil, j; It bears our severe drouth much better j than any grass we have hitherto cultivated. | t I begin by 9taiing my own ox peri mce. J t It is of fifteen years dura ion. That is no j triffling trial. I go on regularly in the ex. i tension of its culture, and upon dry, san Jy, and gravelly lands, it will for ever be lor i me, the favorite grass. It may be asked. What are tho peculiar advantages which i you have experienced from this grass ? I ; i answer, first, double crops iri weight at least j i from the same ex:ent of ground. Tiie t Lucerne will give in this s'ate two good, t crops, the first season in which itJis sown. Is j I there any other grass, which will do this ? J 1 It will endure in good heart for fire years ? j i Will clover do this ? It will endure tho j severest drouths when all other grasses find, j < ?What grass will do this ? It is the fav. ) orite grass of the horse and the cow. It L will fatten them faster than other grass.? i It will do as much for a horse as an ample 1 c supply of grass, and four quarts of grain a i c day in keeping him in flosh and strength, t ?.. mam* arsons have failed in attemp's t uu> ??..J r to raise it And win! th-*n ? Does it I r follow that it is not worthy of cuhure ? I g By no mea s. If one man uniformly sue.. 1 s ceeds for fifteen years, there must be some j c good reasons why others do not succeed. j t! Let us try to s'ek out the causes of their ill i success. It is not climate because it I t stands our severest winters unhurt, when ! ii clover fails. It s'ands our severe drouths. j when clover dies. j ? It has been intimated, that my success is j $ owing to peculiar care, and culture This ' t is not so. It is treated exac:ly like the red v clover, and I give to it, purposely, mv worst ti lands. Not that it does no! do honor to the ? best. It will reward the cultivator in the n best soils. j e What then have been tiie causes of its , e failure with many cultivators ? I will en- i e deavor to state mv opinion on that subject, a *he Lucerne will nut grow in most mra ? dow lands at alL It cannot bear low lands, c It will die, if water rests upon it in winter. 4 v On uplands it hes failed from an insulfi. v - - i . i . i ciency of seed. It requires 20 pounds to i the acre, and the price of the seed has been v so high that our farmers would not buy it f or they buy it in too small quantities, s but it can be afforded from Kurope s at 14 cts. per pound, though our 11< seedsmen cannot afford to sell it at d that price on account of the iuni ed de- s mand. It is like every thing else, if the de- n mand is small, the supply will bq small and p high. My object is, to recommend itscul- g ture, and when it becomes general, the seed ; h will be abundant and cheap, but no man must : fi expect a crop without 20 pounds to the I h acre of seed, but ns it endures five years at : b least, and pays for its cost the first season, o it is a miserable and wretched economy, i d which, withholding the seed, decries the plant \ I as unproductive. I v It is with me the richest treasure. My farm is small, it is true, but it is a grazing 1 farm, and my produce is 20 tons of hay. s Surely the experience of such a farirerf r ! { 15 years, is worth something. J s J oh v Lowell, j i Aug. 6,1835. j f I have already cut two crops from Lu- t cerne, sown in April last; and two crops j \ from Lucerne two years old. and two crops ; of hay from Lucerne throe years old, at i the rate of three tons per acre. I expect1 t,*r, rmn? more from each.?These are i 1*? W v? W|/w facts, notorious to them, who pass by my !: grounds. i What have tee like it ? Lucerne must J i be, andiri/Zbe the grass of the south shore j i of this state, and other light lands of New J i England. ] Let farmers, who pass this way visit my i < lands, let them see the grass, and the hay | produced from it, and inquire of those who ; feed my stock, and they will be satisfied, < that the Lucerne is yet to be a blessing to their farms. The Lucerne has been tried in snrne i parts of this state. Can any of our readers inform us witk what success ?-Ep. Gaz. j From the Orleans Bee floating plant. i Doctor Samuel A. Carthwri?h\ ofi Natchez, read a lecture before the Mississip. J pi Lyceum, cn the 7th ins!, on the heul.h j preserving properties of the Grandijfara, i aBMBMBC?MHW????tt Jaijiena, or floatiug plant. Part of tho lcc- \ r ture is published in the Natchez FreeTru- [ t< der of the 7th inst. and is to be concluded j s in a^subsequent number. The doctor as- j t< taibes to that plant virtues of the most salu- i ti jcrv kind, and if he establish them to theex. j s tent in which he says they exist, the floating j plant will become a very important mater- i c ml for promoting and restoring health. It j n is found-on the stagnant waters of Lower ; it Louisiana a great quantities, floating on the b if annears. the water of ; s< UliavCf UIIU n??f > ? | I , Jlie bayou or pool on which it floats, is more o ^^h'ss clear in proportion to the greater or c< jailer quantity of the plant. Aecording yi togDoctor Carthwright, the pores of this bi plrot.consti ute the alembic through which d< [he impurities ol the water pass off. The ir plant is entirely aquatic, bears'a flower grows .1 three or four feet above the surface of the a Rater; the root is several feet in length, his d< horizontally on the water about two inches oi below the surface. The roots and leaves, ol lays the doctor, form such dense coveringto or the vvatar as to constitute a bridge sufficient, to ly strong to enable snakes and the smaller pt miinals to pass over the pools in which if ar |nws. Tli-? mass is in some places so 01 hick as .o off r considerable resistance to a anoc, and they form the stratum of the th jrairie tremblanle or shaking prairie. I th The doctor supposes that the growth of je his plant is conducive to the health of the th :he region in which it appears ; and, to sup. pa >ort his theory, he adduces the following all acts; fo 1. That it purifies all stagnant water in j re ivbich it grows. j Ire 2. That though he visited the region in j Pf vhich the plant is indigenous, in the hottest j an leason of the \ear, he found the stagnant j lifi vaters of the lakes and bayous, inhabited by j of his plant, as pure to the sight, smell and i be aste, as if it had just fallen from the clouds, j wl le gives as an example the w?:ers of the j Jo 3ayou Black, which have a darkish appear- ! ch mce, owing to a chemical affinity between an lomefurruginious matter in the soil and the fin >ak trees and leaves which fall into it wf ret the water was free from all disagreea. pn >le taste and smell. It contained no green ! an icum, and was as good and palatable as j to :istern water, except near the Gulf of Mex- I un 0, wlier-* it was impregnated with salt, and ! ce; he inhabitants drink no other kind of wa- pe er.?The doctor alleges, that s-outh of the j of egioti wh re ihe Jassiena Grand.flara ; an , a *1 I ;rows, in the s one kind of alluvial soil, t ignant water of pools and bayous be- ; ?pi onies very impure. He infers, therefore, i sal lat this aquatic plant consumes or feeds j in< ipon those substances which, in other sit-; vie mtions, corrupt and vitiate stagnant waters | mt i warm climates. , the 3. The doctor asserts a fact, which, if1 in 1.#.11 bofnK1icl>oo tmc iltcnrv L(-V. I of ?UII ^OiUUiisJ-^o IIU? J J . -i d all controversy ; the region in which J tor his plant abounds, contains more stagnant j is i water and swamps, than any inhabited dis. j to rict of the same extent in the United j an States and yet the inhabitants enjoy a re- j the uurkabJe degree of health and longevity, are , of xemp' from malarious & miasmattic dis- , wi ases. Tli > grovvtli of this plant is bound. : mc d by the 30.h degree of north lattitude, | fro nd the soil and face of the country on both j yo ides o' if are similar, being alluvial, and i lis! outlining lakes, swamps and stagnant | no water, and c< vered with nearly the same ' to egetable productions. The country on ' gr? he north side is unhealthy, its stagnant j gei waters impure, i:s inhabitants sickly, and ge luman hie of short duration. On the wil ou;h side, on the contrary, there is a whole, kn ome atmosphere, pure water, healthy and inl ang lived inhabitants. The doctor ad., iol luces the country on bayou Lafourche to Yc ustain his theory respecting the hoalthu yo ess produced by this growth of the floating on lant and he says that in the year 1831 a mi teat number of the original settlers were ret ving, who migrated from Nova Scotia be- re? 3re the revolution. The negro population, to e says was very numerous and remarka- tro 11 ? ? ?i ?i .i? Ri ly neauny ana longnveu anu me wumuci i~f persons among the negroes over a hun- ' re; red years old, was greater than in all New j m< iugland, including its whole population i fac rhite and black. j yo The inhabitants attribute their peculiar j pa lealthfulnrss to the salubrious influence of ye ,ca.breezos* But the same effect is not ' an iroduced by sea-breezes on soils of the J let jame kind beyond the region ofthoJassie- 1 wi 1a Grandiflora. Therefore he says, it ?s a j tin air inference that this plant, by consuming = up he impurities af tne stagnant waters, pre. i ta] rents the generation of miasmata, and thus ! his ictsas a prophylactic against bilious fevers j ev snd o'her miasmatic diseases. ' ev Doctor Carthwriaht is a man of science A il* ind learning, of high character as a physician and of amiable disposition. We are j to not sufficient acquainted with the phenom- lir sna of natural history to decide upon the y< meri sof this theory. If it be correct, and yc the facts, which ho advances, seem to leave j m no doubt on the subject, he has made a cJis- j 1c covery of the utmost importance to science oi II pvtrnmrlv useful ? ttliu UIK7 niliv.ll unt v/w v. to the inhabitants of the southern parishes : ai ofLouisiana. w : ic . tfr LETTER FROM MR. ADAMS. ? From the Baltimore Chronicle. . ti We have been kindly permitted to take i ti a copy of a letter addressed by Mr. Adams ! a to the officers of a Literary Society inBai-1 tl timore. It will be read with great interest,J o and is certainly a very admirable paper of ^ its kind. t< Washington, June 22, 1838. n Gentlemen : I have no words to ex- p press my gratitude for the kind feelings and c norc than friendly estimate of my charac- j 2r contained in your letter of tho 9ih in- J tant, nad am not less at a loss for language , d utter the humiliation of a deep (jonvic- j on how little your panegyric has been d?. | erved. t Where it even so far deserved that I j ould feel myself qualfied to give you the dvice which you desire, it would afford j te the most heart felt pleasure to give it,; uf, situated in life as you represent your* * * - ^ ir.f i jJveslo be, 1 could scarcely name any "?? , f books, or of authors, which I could re- , ommend as equully worthy of attention to ;1 ou all. The first, and almost the only j x>k, deserving such universal recommen- 1 ation, is the bible?and, in recommeDdrjj ig that, I fear that some of you wifr tJjink >' am performing a superfluous, and others 1 very unnecessary, office?yet such is my * liberate opinion. The Bible istho book, |1 "all others, to be read at all ages, and in 4 1 conditions of human life ; not to be read j ' ice or twice or thrice, through, and then j j be laid aside, but to be read in small irtions of one or two chapters, every day, ' id never to be intermitted, unless by some ( errulling necessity. ^ This attentive and repeated reading of * e Bible, in small portions every day, leads j" e mind to habitual meditation upon sub- I cts of the highest interest to the welfare of | e individual in this world, as well as toprt-1 ire him for that hereafter to which we are | I destined. Jt furnishes rules of conduct r our conduct towards others in our .social. lation9. In the commandments delivered )m Sinai, in .the inimitablesublimity of the salms and ofthe Prophets, in the profound d concentrated observations upon human a and mannersembodied in the Proverbs, Solomon, in the philosophical allegory so \ autifully set forth in the narrative of facts, ; iether real or imaginary, of the Book of I b. an active mfnd cannot peruse a single j apter and lay the book asido to think, I ' d take it up again to-morrow, without j ding in it advice for our own conduct, \ iich we may turn to useful account in the ? ogress of our daily pilgrimage upon earth; .1 V./in Mm r.icc iVip OIH 'P/?afnment U WUCII UU fm*j II VIM M?v w?w * the New, we meet at once a system of j iversal morality fonnded upon one pre- j ? pt of universal application, pointing us to j 0 ace and good will towards the whole race ' ^ man for this life, and to peace with God, el nnever-blessed existence hereafter. * My friends, if all or any of you have 0 iri ual pastors to guide you in the paths of | ^ vation, do not imagine that lam encroach. | e j upon the field of their appropriate ser- f tes. f speak as a man of the world, to; fii of the world, a.id I say to you search f i Scriptures ! If ever you tire of them n seeking for h rule of fa'tli and a standard j morals, search them as records of his- j ^ y ! General and compendious history >l' one of the fountains of human knowledge P which you should all resort with steady j 8 d preserving pursuit. The Bible contain! ' ^ ) onlv authentic introductiort to the histoi v w * i the world; and in storing vour minds ; n . 'I th the facts of the history, you will im- j L idialeiy perceive the need of assistance S m geography and chronology. These j u may find in many of the Bibles pub-1 J led with commentaries, and you can have | ^ difficulty in procuring them. Acquaint j ^ urselvcs with the chronology and geo-; ? lpny of the Bible ; that will lead you to a j c aeral knowledge of chronology and of i v ography, ancient and modern, and these II open to you a.: inexhaustible fountain of j v owledge respecting the globe which you . b lcrbit, and respecting the race of man (its j iabiiant,)to which you yourselves belong, j a >u may pursue these inquires just so far at! C ur time and inclination will permit. Give " e hour of mental application, (for you : J I L ,?;n ( ist not reaa wnnoui luiuMug, ui iuu *t.i. | id to little purpose,) give an hour of joint j t iding and thought to ike chronology, one j f the geography of the Bible, and, if it in. a ducesyou to too hard a study, s:op there, t en for those two hours you will ever after < id the Bible, and any other history, with ! ' >re fruit?more intelligence?more satis- ! ' :tion. But, it those two hours excite j < ur cnriosity, and tempt you to devote ' 1 rt of an ho jr every day for a year or I ars, to study thoroughly the chronology 1 d geography of the Bible, it will not only j I id you far deeper than you will other- j J se ever penetrate into the knowledge of! 1 e book, but it will spread floods of light j I >on every step you shall ever afterwards 1?' ke in acquiring the knowledge of profane story, and upon the local habitation of j( ery tribe of man, and upon the name of i j ery nation into which the children of i I d ?m have been divided. JI There are many other subsidiary studies j i which you may devote more or less ofn ne, for the express purpose of making!' >ur bible reading more intelligible to j >ursclves. It is a book which neither th ost ignorant and weakest nor the mo j arneci and intelligent mind can read wi;li- ^ -it improvement. There are other books of great worth ' ad of easy acquisition, which I suppose j ill be accessible to you all. The Librar- , ss of Useful and of Entertaing Knowledge,; ie Family Library, the Aionthly and . tuarterly Magazines, which are in a connual succession of publication inthiscoun-; y as well as in England, will furnish you j constant supply of profitable reading ; ior le selection ot which, time inclination, and j pportunity will be your wisest counsellors. Ls citizens.of u free country, takihg an in- j srest in its public cencerns, I am suro I leed not remind you how strong your im-1 tulse should be to seek an intimate know!. J dge of the history of America. Ir^m fho ; voyage of Columbia, and even of his sup- j posed predecessors, Prince Madloc of C Wales, and the Northmen, down to the v Olympiads of Andrew Jackson and Martin M Van Buren. The American Hemisphere 7 ?the Continent of North America?the 0 United States of America, before and since ti the acquisition of Louisiana, and every aep. b arate State of this Union, is a series of his. V torical problems of which you should sys- " tematically seek the solution. Head the tl O TTnii?/I Ciotac Pnrti. Lr ^sUUff UIUUUIJ Ui INC V_' IJI CU Uiaiwo ttaw wvxa- O mentaryofthe Federalist?the ConstitJtion '> and History of your own State?Biogra- ^ phios, beginning with Langhome's Plut- tl; irch, and thence proceeding to the History w of John Smith; to the American biograp. *'< flies of Belknap and Sparks; to Washing. 7 .on Irving's Life of Columbus ; and to the vi Articles of Penn, and Calvert, and Locke, fu Oglethorpe, whicli will lead you on to oth- re ?rs in the Encyclopedia Americana or Con. n< relations Lexicon. Then the fashionablt T Novels and Poetry of the present times: ar Scott, Byron, Moore, Rogers, Coleridge, 7i Southey, Wordsworth, two Montgomerys, te Cooper, Paulding, Willis, Mrs. Hemansar.d 7 Lady Blessington, Mrs. Sigournev and Miss C< jrould, and, worth them all, Miss Kdgeworth er ?and lastly, the Reports of your Coun- Ti rymen travellers in foreign lands?Di. thi Dwight, Dr. Sprague, Mr. Bigelow, Lieu- he enant Sidell, and Dr. Fisk, with many oth- is trs whose names do not at this moment oc. an rur to me. But I have given yau more so hnn enough, and, after all, hardly krow na vhether the catalogue will meet your iu- ful juiries, or satisfy your expectations. Af;er ric ill, I mnst conclude with tho advice of the 7t ^ ? ?? . i erving man to the young Student ol in< ??, in Shakspeare?" Study wiint you ch nost niloct." ar And I remain your friend and fellow- w< luden! for liie. ac J.Q.ADAMS, se Jessrs. Lewis Audoun, H. D. McCulloch, is and C. L. L. Leary, a committee ot the [ tin EraBklin Association of Baltimore. ne an The Number 7. 7 i In six days creation was perfected, and 7, ho 7th was consecrated to rest. On the ye 'til of the 7th month a holy observance was sc< rdained to the Children of Israel, who he easted 7 davs, and remained 7 days in hu ents ; the 7th year was directed to be a be sabbath of rest for all things; and at the end bo if 7 times 7 yearscomrner.ced was-thc grand 7 I ubilee : every 7ih year the land lay fallow: pii very 7th year there was a general release ca rom all debts, and all bondsmen were set de rce. From this law may have originated j ter lie custom of binding young men to 7 years j ^ i pprcnticeship, unci of punishing incorrgi. | Co le offenders by transportation for 7, twico ', or dirqp times 7 years: every 7th year ae law was directed to be read to the peole ; Jacob served 7 years for the possesion of Rachel, and also another 7 years: g;1 foah had 7 days warning of the flood, and /as commanded 10 take the fowls or tin t ir into the ark by sevens, and the clean .jK ?east? by sevens. The aik touclicd the pj round on the 7th month ; and in 7 days a tj0 love was sent; and again in 7 days after. 1 ox Hie 7 years of plenty, and the 7 years of wj amine, were foretold in Pharaoh's dreams, >y the 7 fat and the 7 lean beasts ; and the ' ears of full corn, and the 7 cars of blasted orn. The voung animals were to remain to ^ " f ith the dam 7 days, and at the close of the It th to be taken away. By the old law, man in ;as commanded to forgive his offending on O o irother 7 times; but the meekness of the an ast revealed religion extended his humility bo nd forbearance to 70 times 7 times. "If is Uain shall be revenged 7 fold, truly La- sts nech 70 times 7." In the destruction of on ericho 7 priests bore 7 trumpets 7 days. l\ );i the 7th they surrounded the walls 7 ag imes, and after the 7th time the wall fell, go Jalaam prepared 7 bullocks and 7 rams lor j tr< i sacrifice. 7 of Saul's sons were hanged 1 co 0 stay a famine. Laban [)ursucd Jacob 7 j ha lays journey. Job's friends sat with him j rn; 1 days and 7 nights,and offered? bullocks j efl md 7 rams as an atonement for their wick- St 'dncss. David in bringing up the ark, ofered 7 bullocks and 7 rnnis. Elijah sent nr us servant 7 times to look for the cloud.? fu rlezekiah in cleansing the temple offered 7 a. jullocks and 7 rams and 7 he-goats for a pi an-offering. The thildren of Israel, when pi EJczekiah took away the strange altars kept ar iie feast of unleavened bread 7 days, and cr tgain other 7 days. King Ahasuerus had in 1 chamberlains, a 7 days feast, sent for the re Queen on the seventh day; and in -iho dc sfivecth year of his reign she was taken to ?im. Queen Esther had 7 maids to attend | ne her; Solomon was 7 years building the le temple, at the dedication of which he /oast- !i\ ad 7 days. In the tabernacle was 7 lamps; lo 7 days were appointed for an atonement to upon the altar, and the Priest's son was or- to dained to wear his father's garment 7 days, at The children of Israel ate unleavened bread in 7 days. Abraham gave 7 ewe lambs to ol Abimelech as a memorial for a well; Jo. pi s^ph mourned 7 days for Jacob. The Rabbins say, God employed the power of w answering this number to perfect the great- pi ness ofSamuel, fiis name answering the p( value of the letters in the Hebrew word tf which signify 7?whence Hannah, his moth- si er, in her thanks says, ''that the barren had a brought forth 7." In scripture are enu- n meratcd 7 resurrections, the widows son by ; m Elias, the Shunamite's sou by Elisha, the I f< soldier who touched the bones of the proph- j s ct, the daughter of the ruler of the syua- ( p gogue, the widow's son of Main. Lazarus,' tl and our blessed Lord. Out of Mary Mag. I \>. dalene was cast 7 devils. The Apostles \t chose 7 deacons. Enoch, who was trans, i t J*. ated, was the 7t!i after Adara nnd J^sus; 'hr st the 77ih in a direct line. Our Sa- j iour spoke 7 times from the cross, on 'hich he remained 7 hours ; lie appeared times ; after 7 times 7 days sent the Holy r'host. In the Lord's Prayer are 7 pewons, expressed in 7 times 7 words, omitng those of mere grammatical connexion. V'ithin this numher are contained ail the tysteries of the Apocalypse, revealed to ie 7 churches of Asia ; there appeared 7 j old n candlesticks, 7 stars in the hand of j im that was in the midst : 7 lamps being ie 7 spirits of God. The book with 7 seals, ie lamb with 7 horns and 7 eyes, 7 angels ith 7 seals;7 king.4, 7 thunders, 7 thoutnd men slain. The Dragon with 7 heads ; antrels bearing 7 vials of wrath. The sion of Daniel wns 70 weeks. The ficr? irnace was made 7 times holler for Siiadick, Meshack and Abednego ; Nebuchad?zzar ate the grass of ihe field 7 years.? he eiders of Israel were seventy. There e also numbered 7 heavens, 7 planets, stars, 7 wise men, 7 champions of Chris, i tidom, 7 notes in music, 7 primary colors, deadly sins, 7 sacraments in the Roman i itholic C lurch : the 7th son was consid- 1 ed as endowed with pre-eminent wisdom, he seven: h son of a seventh son is still! ought by some to possess the power of j aling disease spontaneously. Perfection1 likened to gold 7 times purified in the fire ; id we yet say, "you frighten me out of my "en senses." Anciently a child was ?not mod before 7 days, not being accounted [Jy to have life b fore that |Cxjical day. The teeth spring out in the > i ? i i . .1 n monin ana are sneu auu n-ucwcu m j 2 7tli year, when infancy is change.! info iidhood. At thrice 7 years the faculties 0 developed, manhood commences, and | j bccomo legally competent to nil civil: fs : at four times 7 man is in the full pos- j ssioti of his strength : at five times 7 he lit for the business of the world : at six j ncs 7 he becomes gnvc and wise or vcr : at seven times 7 he is in his apogee, d from thai time decays. At eight times he is in his first climacteric : at nine times , or G3, he is in his grand clamnctcrr, or nr of danger: and ten times 7, or three i ore years and ten, has by the Royal Propht been pronounced the natural period of j man life. There were 7 chiefs before The-; s. The blood was to be sprinkled 7 times j fore the nltar : Naaman was to be dipped times in Jordan : Apulcias speaks of dip. , ig the head 7 times in the sea for purfi. tion. In all solemn rites of purgation, dioalion. and consecration, the oil or \ya* was 7 times sprinkled. The house of 1 sdom in Proverbs, had 7 pillars. [Old ! dory Memorial. A REPUBLICAN INDEEB. I, Edward B. Dudley took the oath ofji ice, in presence of the Legislature, on i t turdaylasf, upon re-entering the office of ! nf of NORTH Chrolina. ' < which he has been lately re-elected by ! i ; People ; on which occasion lie deliver-: i a brief address. We invito the at.en- < n of ottr readers to the manly sentiments ; i press:J in the following paragraphs, ; lich formed spart of that address. Nat. Intel. 11 i w But, gentlemen, I a:n tar irom looking | my election as a mere personal triumph. ! stands on nnicli higher ground ; for i: is, | my estimation, the triumph of law and ! lor over doctrines of the most pemiciouo d disorganizing tendency. A spirit sf Id disorder, of daring and licentious riot, i abroad in our country, and threatens the tbility of onr institutions. Irs watchwords g * the People against the Banks'?4 the j jojde against the Aristocracy,?4 the Poor must the Kich,' t&c. i his wrcicneo jar. i n is of European origin, and has been in-! dueed by foreigners into our happier untry. Here the base and the designing ve appropriated them to the accomplish. , jRt of their unhallowed purposes, and an j fort has been made to introduce into our ! ate these loathsome heresies. *' But, t'lanks to the public soundness id intelligence, never was mischievous lly more signally rebuked. Our people j o not yet steeped so deeply in moral or >litical profligacy us to enact laws and grant . irileges but to abrogate them. We; e yet to learn that it is right or just to ( >ncode, at one moment, charters, invest- * g rights and property, and, at the next, to | J n.lnalang J,,- r\nn nnriftt inn. 0 C tO i KOfil' ilr'lll XllUWI^og uj uvuv>u.._ , - siroy thetw by violence. " As to our aristocracy, gentlemen, I i ?ed not tell yon that our institutions neith. jjalizo uor renognise its existence that it ,os but in the diseased fancy of the worthss and envious leveller, who, despairing elevate himself, seeks to pull down others j ? his own poor standard. We have no } istocracy but that which superior industry, j itelligence, and moral worth confers, and I fthat what Government would not be justly roud! *' But, gentlemen, there is d3nger in tiiis anon madness ; an<J it is our uury, u? atriots, a faithful representatives of the oopie, to warn and to admonish them of ie brooding mischief. Error and vice liouid not be made the synonymcs of truth nd virtue. The moral sense of the com. iunity cannot be trifled with with impunif; it may become blunted and corrupted. )rcons:ant attrition will affect the soundest ubstance . Theu, let us teach the mere artisan and the unprincipled demagogue hat the end cannot justify the means ; that* >y destroying die landmarks between right rnd wrong, ho is sapping tho ?ery foundaion cf our Government, and can receive yo countenance from us, who have sworn this da)', faithfully to execute the law. The man who could direct public odium and public violence, by whatever indirection, agdinst one of the legalized institutions of the land, betrays that destitution of principle which fits him for crime and outrage of every character; and he who could heil a firebrand against a chartered company, would, be assured, to accomplish an end, dese crate the very chamber iu which you sit." FREEDOM OF SUFFRAGE. The following is it copy of ibe bill infro auc.eu into trie Donate by JVlr. Crittenden, of Kentucky, and now depending in tbat body: A Bill to prevent the interference of certain Federal officers in elections. To the end that the great powers given to the officers of the Federal Government, and other persons employed in its service, may not be used for the influencing of elections, which ought to be freo and in. corrupt: Be it enacted, &e. That from and after the first day of April, in the year one thou, sand eight hundred and thirtynine, no mar* shal, or deputy marshal, no postmaster or deputy postmaster, rio receiver or register of a land oflice, or any of their deputies or * .. i /% . i* clerks, do surveyor general or llie puuno lands, or an of his deputies or assistants, no collector, surveyor, naval officer, weigher, gauger, appraiser, or other officer or persoa whatsoever concerned or employed in the churgins, collecting levying, or managing tho customs, or any branch or part thereof, no engineer, officer, or agent employed or. concerned in the execution or superintendence of any of the public works, shall, by word, message, or writing, or in any other way whatsoever, endeavor to penundo any elector to give, or dissua e any elector from giving, h s vote for the choice of any per on to be elected to their offio? of President and Vice President of these United States, or for tha choice of any person to he a Senator or Representative in the Congress of the said United States, or for the choice of any person to be Governor or Lieutenant Governor of any State, or of any person to be a representative or member in the legislative department of any State of this Union, or for the choice of any person to serve in any. public office established by the law of any of said States; nor .shufl any such officer or person inicrmmedle in any of the elections above mentioned, or use any means with intent to influence or control the same, otherwise than by giving his own vote ; and every person oflendiog therein shall forfeit the sum of five hundred dollars, one moiety thereof to the informer, and the other moiety thereofta the United Spates aforesaid, to be recovered, with cos's of su:t, by uny per. son that shall sue for the same, by ae.ion of Jebt, bill or complaint in any of thedbtrict as circuit courts of the United States j and every person convicted, on any such suit, of the said offence shall thereby become disabled and incapable of ever bearing or executing any office or frhTtr nftr.iffi wtoHc^i ^ for under the said United States. *** - - ' v ? - * - * * < if From the Buffalo Commercial Advertise* A PRISON SCENE. . /BENJAMIN RATHBtW. As one of our citizens was recently journ, sying homeward from the commercial joe. tropolis, he stopped for an hour or two, at Auburn. Impelled by motives of curiosity; lie repaired to the State Prison, and went the usual rounds, with the view of contemplating^ in his "low estate," one whom ho had known and moved with in palmy dayt of proud and golden prosperity, but *bo was now wi hin tnose gloomy walls a convict felon , condemned to years of silent toil, side by side with vidians of every hue of crime. In a secluded putt of ilvp immense building he found the object of his fte&Kht a tired iii the coarse particolored convict dress, soiled and dirty, hi# hair cropped closely to his head, und his small, yet dignified form bent painfully over his task.-rII is countenance was deadly pa hi, save where, upon each cheek, u smiiii, deep hectic spot toid the1 troubled workings of bui unquiet mind, while his unshaven chin, with a beard of a week's growth, contrasted strangely uith his liigh marble.likeforehead, and altered features, imparling a wildnes# to hi appearance ..which befitted die gloomy scene around. ,It was Berrjumin Rathbun, the Forger. He was occupied in shaping the beechen blocks of which joiners'planes are made, tnd steadily wrouglit at bis new employment his delicate hands, unused t# manual labor, plying busily and dexterously the tools of his workbench. As the vis. iter gazed upon the sad spectacle, through the narrow openings of the durk passage from which the convicts arc watched by the guards of the prison, unseen by the prisoners, anodior visitor stood by, siuvlarity occupied, who had been employed by the man they were contemplating as one of tho superintendents of his two thousand laborers *'rion f?n<ra'fed iii rarrvinsr on his gigantic t o O " J ? *7 W operations. The latter stood sil fitly intent on the scene, until he bur^into tears, and turned away. Tl?e irrepressible sympathies which arise in tho human bosom, of en iu defiance of the stern decisions of justice, and of on lav sited upon unworthy objects, whom seme redeeming traits have endeared I ! to us, overpowered his feelings, and be left j i tho prisoner to the "pooplcJ sol.tude"ofthat I | populous dungeon, I