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Miscelaneous. From the Cidirator. WHEAT CULTURE. of all the crop- cultivated in the north eru or middle parts of the United State-, the crop. par excellence, is unquestionabi% wheat, Its intrinsic value as ain article of food, its importance us on item of expori, it, infliuence ou trade, and its vast sway im regulating the exchanges and commerce of the world. reiders it every where a crop of the greatest consequence, and particu larly so in this country, To raise goidt wheat many things must he kept in view; the nature and texture of tie soil-its qiual ity. so far as richness or poverty is con cerned-the kind of wheat most suitable far cultivation undter time circumstances of the case-ilie clean liness and preparation of the seed-thu titme and inethod of sow ing-and in short all the tiings that go to ameliorate mhe soil and secure a crop, must be attended to, rendering the grow ing of wheat one of the most arduous as well as profitable occupations of the far mer. A good wheat soil always contains con siderable clay, but it is Fo balanced nod corrected by other ingredients as never to be cold and sour; if such is time character of any soil, good wheat need not he ex pceted. Freedom from superfaious mnois lture ir stagnant water, is anm inldislpensible condition of a cood wheat soil; and when such exemption does not naturally exist, it must be produced by draining. A moist cool clitnate is found not to be unfavorable to wheat, if the roots are preserved from stagnant water, and are allowed to range in a previous soil; but in any climate wheat will fail where tihe soil is saturated with water that does not circulate. To give the requisite dryness and depth where they do not exit, draining and deep plowing may be relied upon and w here these go together, with proper manurimg a soil can scarcely fail to improve, or to beo produc live. Deep plowing, on most lands as they natmally are, amid ott all lands as they should be made, is essential to good wheat crops. Time roots of this plant penetrate in a permeuble soil to a great depth, and spread to a considerable distance. The' single fact of its being provided with two sets of roots. one of which spreads near the surlface, and the other strikes deeply, is a suflicient pronofr the necessitv which ex ists for deep plowing its clmue. In a few instances sulbsoils mnay he found which will nor admit ofdeep plowiig, heingcom posed of materials injttrionts to time wheat crop ; but great cropi of wheat are not to be expected on sich soils. The application of manures is a very essetial point in growing time wheat crop. Land can be too rich, as well as too potr for wheat, or rather tie manure in the soil may lie in that condition which render it unsuitable for wheat. Th'ere are some crops on which fresh or unfermented ma nure exercises a good effect, and to which it can scarcely be applied in too large quantities, corn for inance; while oi the others they produice results of the most ot favorable kin'l. Nearly all the cerealuse arel, injur(d by fredh mantires. the stalk growiui too vigorous. while tho herry is usually imperfect. Comupost mannire, or such as are made by layers of turf. stable manure, vegetable mould, lime, &c. in which the decomposition is already effected cant scarcely be applied too abundantly to land otherwise well coustimuted. The great crops obtained around iold barns, or other decayed oor removed buildinmgs. is a proof that largev quaimit ies of decomiosei manture maty safely be used. wvhile a miuchm less quantimy mtf tfreshm or unidecompotsed wvould be fl1tul. Onie of the gretest e vils of direct maniurinig fhr ilhr: wheat cr'op ari ses from the liabilimy of gramin sot mantured to lodge. The rapid growth of' time seim rendmers it unable' to supjport its own we'i:t it is sitft amid flexible. cc ataiti much less silex thani thotse gtrown in a poorer soil; ithe wheat does not usually pem'fect its herry', and at all titmes fromt time thinniess anid wveaktne.ss of its skoin or cuticle, is motre lia blec to miidew or rust. These thinigs ren der it certainly unadi.mble, unless tihe laud is very poor andI reduced, to apply unftermeeted~ manntirc to wheat. Tue to utioni if "rapt, has Itorniebed the menians of aply.ing, i'h emittmanure adlvanta-. geoumsly to cro1 4. amid at time samte imne re taimdng its principal value for' whent. 'The cutltivatinnt ol r'orn or root- m abernationm with grain eropt. clover, &c., gives the farmer the meanis of greatly inceaezsing his crops, and at time samte time contJ:aum lv imo provinmg his sail Ft may lie considered ais a setmIl-] maxim itt agricultu mre, thant l.i id improtve< little orm none while tnothinig is growsing upon it. It is the general ac kntowl'edgtment of' this trothI. that has sub-t stitutedi hoed or green croips for ntaked fail lowvs, in time preuparationi of lands for wheat. Peas and clover aire amont time hb's! crieen cr'ops to psreceude wsheat, and time latiter imayv be c-nsidcred insep~arubtle fr'om the smic cessfutl culmur'e oft his gr'aini. Corn would be one ol'm le ver'y best crops to pr'ecedle whleat, could it in all cases he removed fromt thte lanid in seasont to gem in time wheat proper'ly. Thelm thorough mnamuring and tilling requiired for cormt, ptuts the grountd mi good condihtion for wheat; an~d shiouldi ex perience prove that very late sown wheat is mnorc safe from dancer in winiter, and~ more productive than that sown a litmle earlier, a resulh said to lie establishted itt some oif thme best wheat counttries ini Eu rope, limi crop of cornt w ould cease to be objectionable, and conisidered as nearly a clear gain. There is a practice wihich has prevailed to a consiiderahle extenit itt our wheat pro ducing districts: of. growing wheat after' w~heat several times in succession. Such a system of farmting deserves thme severest reprehtension, and will never' lie adopted, except by those who are itt haste to lie rich.n ma tter at wham price, and in defi ance of acknowledged conisequences. Far tmers miay hove succee'ded ill raisitig goo~d cropst mn this way, where time soil was of the finc quality and excellent audaption to wheat ol'nmuch of our westernm land, but ntint "hort onf the most immperiouit necee sily cani justify this procedure, or molerame such a departure f'romn time corr'ect princi pIes of croppin!. Land, which has once produced good crops of atny kirnd of graini, mia) againi he made to produce them; and un der skilful trantmpnt landls w'anl neve cease to yield good crops, where their first cultivation proved the adaption of the soil to that particular one. The worn out and exhauxted soils ofNew-England can he mude to produce as good aid as plentiful crops of wheat as they formerly did, but the labor and cost of restoring would be itlinit!ly more than would have been re quired to have kept thei continudlly ler tile and productive. Crops have a speci fic food. which may be more or less pletit ful in a soil, and without which they cannot be btought to perfection. Take for in stance a worn out eastern farn,. A litber al supply of fresh mtanuires will give all tite growth necessary for a great cropi of wheat, btt will it fill the berry ? will it Make stick flour as the wheat of western New-York! We know it will not. The prinripal essential to the perfction of grainl cant only ie restored by time and skilfil cultivation to such soils; it would Ie wise then, where it exists, to prevetit its decrease or its exhaustion. It is unhappily too true, that on a larg portion o our best cultivated wheat lauds, the soil has become so infested with a va riety of foul and noxious plants, that a course of naked suminier fallow, thorough ly perfrormed, has become necessury to counteract them, and prevent their itcreas and spread. On clean soils this wou ll not he required, hut somne valuable ciopt mithi take its place. and thus add essentially to the profits, while it lessons the labtr of the of the husbandttan. so far asjthe- operation of sttmner plowing was concerned. The onily alternative of such fitllows is hoed crops, and these must ofnecessity for the reasons before given. be too litnited, to seriously ef.ect the propriety of fallows on weedy land. Spring crops, such as bare lv, oats, spring wheai, or even peas, do not allow ofsullieient culivation to check tle bpread of weeds. The sowing of such crops ott land where the canada listle for instance aboutnds, is precisely he treal ment to Make it spread and flourish. The thi-tle. stein krout, rharlock. &c., will sae cumb ntly to plowints anti hoeings so oft repeated that the tmttilated plant has no titne to recover frotn one blow before an other is given. The preparntion of scet, and the quali ty of that sown, are obtjects of she greatest consequence. It the most favord stec tions of ottr country there are but few fields of wheat in which stiut cannot ie detected, and in a cotmutry so favorable to the perfection and purity of this grain, as the best wheat districts in the U. States are, none at all shnuld be suffered. In Europe, continual care is requisite to keep lteir wheat free, and in the iest wheat countries the crop is altnost wholly exempt from smut. here but a trifling attention is requisite, & the consequence is, it is fotind aitnost every where, ant in some places to the cerious injtry of the crop. Now it is well understood, that soaking or wash ittg wheat in brine, anl drying it wit h caus tic slacked lime, will elfecrally prevent smut, as well as benefit the crop it othtr respeets; t sow wheat therefore. without suci preparation is voltitarily to incur the risk ofsmutted wheat, and the ittevir able consequent loss. There are some other stbstances that used as a wash for wheat appear to possess the power of de stroying stnut, such as copperas, vitriol. ar senic, &r-., hut as nottc are more certain it their operation, or enn be used with les trouble or danger than lime, the applica ion of that substance is undoubtedly to I preferred tonny other. The kind of seed used, and its quality, are thing of tot) ttutch cousequen-ce in the ulture of wheat to le left to chane. There are ttany varieties of wheat cult vatet, soe very prodtctive, ad soeto ripenittg latter attd othletrs earlier, atnd thest kindts in stowing shttutt be chosen withI re ference to thte sttil andl locatioti. V'atr ties whtich ripett at the samte period, tmi) sotmetimtes he atdvantgeottsly ntixedl, ftor fotr sowing in thle satme 1kid; bttt thtose tht ripen unequ ta Ily shottld be carefttlly kept separate. Some vartieties tof wheat tnay stantd itt the fieltd longer thtan others btefttre ctting, withoutt dlatngr of the seetd sh'llistg or wasting. Thtus of the t wo kinds of flint wheat, the white antI the Catnatdiant, (thne latter a comparatively new variety) if thtt last should be allowed to statnd aller artri vinig at maturity as long as the first cani lie pertmitted with itmpattity t) tdo, thte lttss by shelling would anmouttt to tno smtall por titon of the ct-op The first tmaiy stand al most to attit thte cotivenience oif the huis bandtman, wh ile the last tmtst be ctut ae sootn as its maturitv will admit, or certiit losses will bte ittcurred, and aneatrly thet same remarks will apply to sone other kinds. Thetre .are somni fartters who seem to thittk that any thing that is itt thne shape of wheat, howevetr itmperfect or de ficetive the berry, if it niill ontlygt ow, may be used as seetd. Thtis is very mistakett policy, it is itmpossible thtat the young plant should lbe as sigorotts atid as perfect, wh-len sptritngirtg from defective and shrunk en seed, as when growitig from thtat in which the peculiar prtincipiles of the plant are fully developetd, atnd the get-intation comnmetnces without check otr htidt-atnce. The seed tat ripens first itn the ear, anti is seperatetd with thne gtreattest ease, is the most prnoper for seetd, as thtese circutstan es show it is the most ttature. A far mner in one oif the northtern stares, a few years sitnce was itt the htabit oif sellitng large riuatntities of seed wheat annutally antI at high prices, as his whteat was of sttperior quality, very heavy, andi productive, and stpposed to lbe a nesw varity. It ap pearedl, hoawever, that he had brought his wheat to that degree of perfection, bty se lecting sotme of the finest ears fromt a field in the fit-st place, atid then instead of thresh ingthe whole crop growtt atit using the sted promiscuotusly, he gently beat thte sheaves over a barrel, by which only the best anti most perfect grains were cepera ted, and by repeatetd sowiOn hand rentderetd the qtualities so desirable permanent. Thte quiatity of seed sown differs tmuch in dif fetent parts of this country and in Europe, Perhaps the English ttse a greater amoutt of seed titan atny other people, andI their crops are certainly not ofteti exeelled. F'romt two atnd a htalf to fotur bushels pet acre are there used; while htet-e the quanti ty varies from tone to two atid a htalfhusht els per acre. The getneral itnatity is a out a bushel anti a half. Where wheat is stown late, more seed is requnitred, as thne wheat dotes not tiller or spreatd as much ;ts wheti stiwn early; and when thte hterry is unnusnlly plump amd fulimorn is eqn'i,. ed than when the kernel is lighter. As on soils too, that are not rich, a single plant will not throw out as many stalks as where the land is very rich and fertile, it would seem that on such lands more seed would lie necessary to seed it properly, i it is elear that where bIut one or two staIk.s ,Aoot from a root, these must lie were nn merous than when a rout proluees half a lozen. Opinions among fatrmers have been somewhat variant on the sujPect ofehalig tog seed; but we think unless more paili is take'n to originate and preserve good oi a fItrn, than now Isually is, there is es sential hen-fit derived from such chances. Wheat is certain to succeed better on lands not naturally alapted to its prodietion, when the seed is brought from a good wheat soil or district. For many years the farmers of large sections of tho we tern districts of New York, where the' wheat crop at that lime was ilit to fail or imn t, hu11 n proli inl sending somne twen iv tr forty miles it procire seed 'from the best grain districts, and the crop from such wheat rarely failed in producing graitn of good quality. There is also a deeided lid vantage secured in brinigig seed from lower lands and a milder clim ie, to cI vated latids, or a cold moist elimate. Such a change of seed renders the mountain crp eat lier and hetter than it would he it seed from the same neighborhood wa, usee. Professor Brown has otn this sub ject the following remarks. which are un doubtedly correct. as they aire foinded ont the experience of) ibha 'll 1tdm en in the high and lww land-i ot Scotland: "We are convined that the cultivator of a nontitnoos district, if he alwav used seed from his own crops, would reap later and later htarvests, so that at last they would with, dillicnlty be brought two maturity; a circumstnce easily explained by the coiparative shortness of sumner in mountain distriets. If, ot the other hand. the cultivator of a flat country, the climate of which i-, mil. and tit'e soil dry and light, cointiually made use of hi, own seen, it would head every year soot. er, the stalks would liecome shorter, and the heads aid grain smaller. aind in titmwe there would result but a poor produce, in this last ease, the cuhlivator brings his seed with adlvantage from a country or districi more cold. the soil of which is good and submtantial." The instances in which hentit has beeti derived. (onl whar are called beerbi und wm ple laids. iy tsing seed from oak lands. are so numerons that almost every one must hie familiar with them. The al vantages to this ease, however we mway choose toexplain diem. cannot with pro priety lie di1iptmed. As to the time of sowing wheat, it may be remarked, that very early sown %% heat gets more firmly rooted, than lier sown. and it conseqinence is less liable to injury from freezing outt. Vheat nia he sown so laite as tiot to erminaite tintilhe severi ty of the wmtter is past, or the geatest dlan ger from frost is gone by but such late sown wheat is far more liable to the at lacks of bliht or rust than tla' which ri pens early, or which is so f;r advanced I before Ite close, hlo, showe-y weather, i that marks the advent of lisi commen ces, as to lie safe fron inJry. On ther other hand, late sown wheiiis verv cer- i rain to escape the lessian ly, which it has to encounter. It woIt seem then < t-it ii here whcti is li:ale to winterkill or blight, early sowing is Ito be pieferred; ail i that wliere the fly is prevaint, sowing should llw delayed as lonag anossible. Ii mawiy be addelld, that some !xperimeit woul11 Seem tot prive, tla' itt ltricts wheret C thme tnheat worm has beetiso fatal ti spinwg w'.hear, very Ilate sowitt, lby delay. mne tlhe earning of the wheat utril the pe rnod of lie witrmt fly w'as pused, wouii preserve the ('roll. Thewre ie titwre wheat lost o thte huts bantidmani fromt thIe siwtgle cais of ni intewr killitig, or f.eezintg out ofthe emntd in thw' w"intter' or spirini, t hant there is i this cwoun t iry fromt t ltercawses puit wgeher. T1heo ~wrst perirod is itn thle mmbts wif Febl't tuary wir Matrebt, when thle gtroId is han a wilstiow, anil thawin g mniild day are sttr' eededl by sharp freezinig nipts. Thi freezinig ex panuds thw' strfacee atwer, lifts hte rwots frwom thIwei r plare a li ti at eachlt tie, and hby successivew freezini~and ta w t ing, leav es the plantt withtout at hiwhl tip. on the soil, antI ctinsequtrently tiperish. Iheavy soils are mtore mtpt tovinterkill wi grain,. thani gravelly, or hiuht t u s lhesw ai canti retann little ~wter. It wi se'emt tw a he a nteessariy inflerence, thlen, tm;t ir-k owugh draining swucht soils as are an to wint w terkill wheat, wwould prove a retidy, an itrl theory and fact itn this case are (ndl toa- el gtree. We have lately htad the pasture of wi seeintg beau tif'ul fields wif grawitrw ing al on lands, ft'tti wvhich a few yeardure thw th prowd uctiou of wheat would Itave -eii im- ly possible. Thrwigh draining a retno- it vewd the water that formerly satutedl the swil, atnd biy freezing ite swrfaceprueven- C ted the liftinig oiut pirocess that ahys ac- tr compatiies the freezing of'wet eunids.- o It is useually the case thtat stch nt'etrounds mi contain a kerge: suupply of vegeithmiatter., It and dr'aininig render's t hem so piueriv'e, im thatt the pirofit wif a single crop untfaar'ntly pl repays all the expense incutrred ini e im-~ fu prwvetment, leaving the lanct, whiritn its st formier staite was tnearly wvorthiless-clear 01 gaini to thle husbiainman. If'rt on onno~ n farmts the nmeans oif trench or ti-ough w drainiing are nowt at handl, suirfacelrains tmade in sucht a mianiner as to carry!' the water that falls on the land, shonhl cona structed immediately a fter sowinigeoim- ist pletedi. By preventing such wir re- ta mraiming itt, andr conisolidaitinwg thlanid, oc grain is less liatble to tie thrown ot anid w| thowigh far less bieneficial, or permntt in wi its clects, thant thor'wngh wdrainting.rfacre ar drains shtul not he omwiitted w'her here hr is the least danger fromt excess of ater. nei 74 The most imnport ant getion fwir auing foi lady to ask, ~wen al mant "pops theu-wes- si tiot;" i-,''Do ywou take a niewspapiandl ri' paytjfor it." Alwatys have a dish hot4 le. waler htandwy, in case lie says nto ;lii he de says yes, pin himt-he's your mtan all at mecans. -Boston Rep'ublican And we would advise tmwen to wht theo tai abhove quiestiont is pttt bwy a lady, to uwer I.' it bty asking hter' if she pays down'i ' all of the articles shte gets fromi ithe sto; lie 61 ready uc riyt il'she ays n, if shiays; 3~ yes, you "pin" her-she's the sal forou. B' Kn- Star. | 1he From the Carolina Planter. TIlE STATE AGRICULTURE. Now that the all absorbing interest of our elections is over. and the excitement dimidnishin. nill our friends think a little of tour A-,riciiltural Society. Last nt inter we imade a favorable com it enreimeti-t lie large delegli n i ol plan - rers and farners to the Conivention seene'd it) promnisiti l better thines for Agrieuitare. rie renewed iiimiiipi to eatitlisth a gen eral Society to enlisi the iiiiceice of gen ieitien throuiighout our whole State. is woori ty of outr tiost !trenituous exertnions to advance. Our peliple are so much in fh: habi of->nnmencing every initii mn .. ier onl a grand scale, nr.d th,-n e divig way that it beronies u, to look well ito tiis mat ier, and impress u pon our meimbers the nteCessitv of a continance of their etloris In the flictuating condiitiot of the value Of outr staple ptodnes of' several years in the general adversity which prevailS thriouiOm outr whole country-with our coiimtterre eibarr'nLIsed-tur finance tie ranged-our crops short. nid a necessiiy fbr rigi dmestiic economy, oiri policy i. tit give greater atlention to our prodnie whicb is consminable aniongsi us. With the extreiiely low price of out staiples. we still have to furnish the snime atoint of mentI, cloiihiig, medical airent ion &e. to our netires-our chbilren's edicatilt has to he inhi for. and the ordinary ex lien-es of It viiig have to lie inel-our iaxes to lie Sinie are not re.lceel, nd the calls of charity are increased. and what mio're % alu ia.le rm-nits are silopteil to ail ts in .iiir brto0ken fonutaes. ihanii with unaii-ity and earnesiness to ita oiurt shioilers to lie wltt'el oftnomestic :iaricult tire. and improve our conictiin at home. If we eaniot proluce, n, tiih saleable material as we desire to briig its itlivioney. we can save a gre'at poiti l4'otin r ex pens'se v at tending ;I little iiiore to oit iii ine'diate nece,-siiip<. A lthiough inty of our platters who have '111)11 lndiis, lhrgeu forces nl' nerioe<, and are free tromt debt, can alford to miake cotton it lie low prices 'which have la telyv exi% led. stil there is a itimereus clis whil enlnllit c'ompete iith them, or wi:h the pluners of' the fertile West. It is tle in Ierest of all the class to look iore now to formin! than to plattina-to iinproving their lands, dividing iheir sinples and giv ing their eii-rgies to the culture of the tie resities of life. This class or planter.. whose laids are worti. have eit her to dis Ioe of their lands nod negroes, or ren-,v 1ii oth.'r anl more produrtive soils, or to le altilled to)i use stu'lch means are within their power to renew lie enpacity of their lands it is iieroming every year a inesiontit )tf improiance whether our lands can coim prte with ihe West in prolciti cotton - ind when 1lie imimense extent or countr ' clonsile'redl which is yet to lie broughi to etlnivation; and the iecessity for l orers to work thlt soil. it is doubifiI whether we c"in produce cotton at ilth prices which the seadily increasing pro .luir will ttece'ssurly illice. The numifiber of* negroes inl the Southern States is limited-the lands extensive: in he Sotmli-western States it is a well tuownt faict 1hat the increase is coiipara ively trifling-not at all to be compared with that in Soulhiern and Middle Sintes. I'ie tendency of the derianid fer silaves ii tiwards the new innds ofthe South-west, Ma comt t linuLnie in the depressed price ltiutr staplees. will necesLinrly lead our >lanters to sel thetm whe;c the product s such as will ea ble profits ito be marde f that st:Ible is alone to bo depended iron. When the presnt cbaenrraersnieit of the :ititry .4h;1ll bte relieved, arid ilte duici ies of t he Sou th weste.rni llanlters re nedc, there rio; beinhg ettngh nretroes int lie cou ntry to ncultivatte one hailf or the uestrn lanrds, tieit' value will lie enhanett it. The loss front the climm~ie ail a mallI interese oithdat class or laboerers in lie West anda South-west. will ranitie ai oniitanit dlemntii foir them w hichi will Itake' temr fromti outr planters who ate still plant ii norn out pilmntionis in our state. Ii saidit t hat in Vir:.inia at this timei there re tbit fecw to bie hail, Landl even niithi the' resent prices tradieers arec takent them of)' SNew-(Orleants. Tlhe lime is tnot nlisttit wuhen many of nri planitter's oft pOor Lindu exhautsted soilsI ill not lie alei to keep negroes at a pirice tat wr-:dtern lands will fix upon themt. Iilihermes us all theI.re'fore to lookl toI rir miniif ebancrte-the imp trovcement ofotir' rit'iltuire-toi eive mtore of our atirentionit md thoughts to Icir soils, to be able lto 'ep whit wet hiave., and make our own -leans proefnable. If mnih will considler r lecniino h giutr f the old tunrieis, anid looek at the imtmettse pro. Li acts of ihicir staple comp~aredl wiith' ours.' id see the constant atnd persevet'ing ef- I is ofl their' agriinilturists, it must certain- 1' iii'ess themt withb a beclief that we can somrethtieg ifI we try.i T1he efforts n'akintg hit the East Indiia E omn iiy toet horovue the curlture of Ciii- i n ini the East I ldies is wonrty ofr ii'h itice, atbhotugh the Iprobability is thi; ircouiniry can pcroiduce it atlways at as wV ai price as any otther-still t'ammnels ii uty exist iu the formi o~f impijosts t hat imay s 'event or coipelitilin wi-ithtemi at ~- a Itire time. IIloweve'r, timiler alt Iecicum- r~ ttnes it is Our dutv to exe'rt ont'e'lves iniu ir own cause. We nieed aiin iproved rictultuire, and, with a proper elfort, we ill have it. 0 ---- h I NTE RESTING STATISTTCS. e'r contlainis some interesting statistical a bdes iin relation to thn tnumbier. sex, ae., coptionce and nativ'icy nit ihe foreignpers c in arrivetd int this cotuntry in lS39-thie e' >ole compthiledn w'ith miuch labour f'romn the " tnual rephort of the Sec~retaury of' State.- ft appihears fro'm thtese taibles that the wholen oiler air pausenger< nr ivedl in 1834J, is. e ,066, oif whoiim 70.5(09 were ntiiv is of re -eign coimtries, tand 4.157 of the Unuired ates. Of the whole naimber,. 47.G88 an 'e at New York, 10,336 at New Or- n i men, 6,081 at Baltimore, 3.949 ait Phuita lphtia, :3,0413 Lit Boston, arnd the residue in othier pltaces. i As in hiirih-34I,213 were of Great Bri- il ni, 19 474 if G -rmieanv.7.I99 of' Frnee, 4' 313 ofl Prussia, antI 2.108 oh' nithter p)aris ni Europe, mtaking the wi'hole from Euro'ipe ii .'227. Texas furnis-hed 24'40. Alexicoi I : 3, Cuba~ 831, antd rhe West Inadies and t iiith Cocleonies the residue, chiefly, of'the it As to occnpation-37,666 are represen led as having none, but in this number are included 20,081 females, and a portions of the 15.166 males under 15 years of age, which will account for the larger part ol the number haviug no occuiation. of tihe ascertained occupations. 12,401 ap. pear to he farmers, 8,930 imechaniets, 7,S7U laborers, and 5,6:33 merchants, (or the last probably a ctonsideraIle n mber are A meri cans.) There wer,- al-o 571 mariner<. 14elergymn. 54 physicinats, t96 se;nm. streses, and 208 clerks. [hi remainder .qf tite iv: ole num er ik d:vided inmong various bratches of business. The far ger portion appear to be in he enriier and middle period, of life, a, only about one tenth, or 7,195, are above .10 years oIt age, while 51,073 are between tihe ages of 15 and 40. Fron the I'estern Carolinian. *'W HIG,'' ITS GLORY lAt DE.PARTED. Every American kuons th:t the nate "Whig." was adoipted in the Revolimn. ry War as the distinctive title of the pat riots who took part for their country in tat great struggle, in oppositiotn to ihat of Torff." the odious and reproachful epi itet of those sided with the British arms. For this it was endenred to the hearts of the A merican people;-its sound brought back to our recollection the glorints events of that tite when our father, raiked in their Might anil east ofllthe bonds of a foreign detspaotism; it is not crrance, then. thnt their ch-idr-in shouid huld it in dear ani altost sacred rememnrance. The Fed eial party. wil itheir charaCteristie cit I Irap irienity. have taken advantat-e oil this verieration f r n:me, to turn it . a count int their contest for power, It ntever was used as a erm to leAianate any set of principIts;-iiM er w;as the appellatiioi ofany politica party in this country. Af ter the Revolution, two parties sprung tup, the advociates of dillerent politiees and dif 'ret characters of governtet. These poarties were then disinguished as Federal ad Republican. h'lle Federal p-trty, al way.. opposed to the principles of a dfemo erntie government, have been repeatedly dlelated in their sirmgles for power, and now, at last despairing of surcess under their old baniner. and old party name. they have discared it, and apppointed the title of -IIhig,"-First, beeause it is a name dear to the Americtn People from old as sociations. and therefore caculated to mil-, lead them. Ani seconlyv, been USe ii mieans nothing in itsel 'politicall.j, bit may as well cover one set ofpoli:iral principles a another, and so afford., a very approved -loak Ior ancient Federatism,-hence, we ind it elaitmed by this party exclusively. ntot alreays claiming in irtmer tinvs) without the shadow ofra richi. uit yet a, insdienaly as if they alone were ettitled to distinction eqially borne by every true Americtn in the war. The name was once dear and cherished, hut however much it may be allowed in the recollection :t the past, its charm is lowt. No irie Re. publieau cares to claim it now. It has been prostiiutied-haisely prostituted to the foul purposes of party subservience and has outlived its ancient honers. Such as it now is-he self-aipplied appellation of hunagry oflice seekers and hard cider gz slers. we claim it not. 'Tlan people see that Whigismu is hit the a/ias of Federal. isn. The Repnheican party have need of naies other than that whieb has alwaiv listitgiiished thei. It was left fir Feder ism Ito cloak its own features, deity ir dentity. put on a mask, and wear an as rmmed name when it dfare not stand ex. 'esed. Great E.rptlosion, at .Spiheadlagainst the' rruck of the Rlo'jal Gerge~ -ly far 'lhe no04tmagnmificenit exhibuit ion wihichi has re' ibeen ni itnessed of the enormious lerce tfguntpowvder whieni explotdedl under wa'er, otok phi~ce ott Wednaesdaty hist, at Spi , wntd. Tlhe charge, whtieh conisiee of1 wtenty-five barrels, or 2-0 lbs. was pla id ait the depthI of eleven faithoms an td a inif, or ,abotaI seventty feet un der the siur ace, neair!y over lie original position (of he forehn'tehtwnty of lie old ship. n heni ;'1. Pasley's pre pnrntive triampet soundied, il eyes were turned to ti:e latunch where intennnt Symonds Sttood with the ends f the connueering wires taftlie voltnia hatte-. y itn htis htands. Scarcely had the niordl eeni given to "ire" and the trtuaer ounded, when the whole aren was shaikeun s if lay an enrthquake, thae surfiice becnme ulled like the top of a glacier, and ini ther ext inst ant, li'eraill5 in less than rtwo se untds, rho water bulged upj and rose to te height ofabout t wenty feet. after whtich sotl of second burst or htulge ocetarred., Ihicht projier ted the -ent ini hnge nmsses, ig h ittto the air. Such w as t le vioilenace 1 f this elibrt. rhtnt thei sp'ray wvas thrown )tmp~letely o~ver alhl the adjnecent ve-ssels :a dreningtii shower, atccomanie~d bh e y eniss of wintd radiating fromt the centre. . 'arious estimtaies were formned ats to thec eight of the -olumiins of water. Somte I -en:t as far as I ; feei. andm some ats Ion: 50. The :ommottitiona in the ater, amid te oceatn tf moud, dead fish. atnd other fi pntproms of violenee wvhielt sprend lfar tid tnear, gave every promise tht the ope- a nit n wilt Iantswer the purpjose which Cole :-1 Paisley has itt view. it lIst in Canauda tnow conaists ofneaarlyotne unidred thoauasandl sonls. llThey have irung tup itn it few years front iery smiall Leinnaitngs, andh tuder many disadvantIa :s. It is taut tmany yeatrs say the Qutebee rI ;azette, since the onily Methodist pareach- t -in LowerCannela, wats intcarreraied -ev-, -al months in the Quebec .Jail, for libel; ;& ail in Upper Caniadia, there were only a w wvandering Missionaaries. They have a aw taumteronts su~bstnttial churches; it, allege of their own; and many able arid s spectable preaches. i h Nacval A4rchitecture.-lti is wort hy of re- h mrk, that the prnportions of tho Britishw nteena steamt~ ship, the lasti great ellibrt tf it iaritne archtiteiture that has initere-tedl the r orl. tare exactly those of Noauh's Ark,.0 e first thait was set afloat. proving thm t J100 years of praact ionti cience has (dione el ,thing to imprtove t he dimxensiotns of fluat- rr g hiont4. first givetn bv the great Btibiler h, ' lie Universe; anid if the critical ebiarne- Ii r of i'iese' lrpr ione dumly coansidered, pl tay affibrd eavidience of alhe Scriptnre thi irrative. The breadlth of thc Ar .., a.... .. one-sixth of the 'ngth; the depth thereoj' ono enth of the lengt. The British Queen is 40 feet 6 inlhes wide; stem to sttrnt post 253 fire; aloft, whole detik ~9 making the siuare depth 24 feet 6 Inches. The Ark n as twice as long as the Queen.-London paper, EDGEFIELD C. II. InURSDAY. OCToBEst 29, 1840 After being a whole week curtailed of its fair proportions, our paper is restorded to its usual dimensions. We shall enden vor: keep tt so. We hateLillipuiian pa. pers, Lillipttrian men, Lillipuiian politi. cians, and every thing appertaining to LilliPiti. Though we do not admire periodicals of the gigantic'order, we can niot endure your little thumb paper con. verns. We love the golden mean in these ats well as in other tbias. Itrshall not he our fault, if the Advertiser does not retain a very respectable size hereafter. Storts broken open.-The Store-houses of severn I of our Merchanr, have been en tered r-cently by thieves. Some of these liglt.fiogered gentry entered the Grocery of .\lr.Boyre, and stole therefrom, tmoney, and a keg of ehfoice Jamrnica Runs !I Though advocates of temperance, we wish hat these thirsty souls had drunk of the liquotr to imloxiention, and bad tbus beetn tllable to get away. We have heard of other outrages per petrated hv rogues. within the limits of the ton n. It becomes the citizens generally, to be on ihe watch. Companies of Patrole stioubl be active and vigilat in the dis chat ge of lic-ir duties, in order to detect these evil-doers. The WI'eather.-For a considerable part of the' present mouth, bright sunny days shone upon us, and ile weather was op p e'sively hot for the ieasou. October has now exhibited its true disposition, and warm cloth-ng and fres have become idipensable for coimfort. Faor a short time. the month was bright nrld wvarm, and beautiful as a sweet young girl of'seventeen summers. But no7, it is cold and frosty. and sullen as an old maid of forty. Mr. Il'ebster's opinions.--It will puzzle any one, who reads the subjoined extract, to know %% hat are the real opinions of Mr. Webster about a National Bank, the Ta riff, and other questions of great impor tance. It appears that in different places tond in different hoitudes, Mr. Webster ex presses disc.rdant opinions. on tite same ;ubjects. it seems, that le "fullows in the ootsteps of General Harrison," -whose ltactice is. tj' ndapt his opinions :o the >lace and community in which, ho may tnppetn to be. But who would have ipposed, thaot Daniel Webster, the great kpos'tle ol' Federalism, would ever profess tmy belief' itn the duct rine of State Rights; 'an ii be believed, that stehl a man would amll himself a discipele of JefTersona ? "Mr. W~ebsrer's last great effoirt wsas made it thte enpitatl of Virginia. Some account ~f the chiarnaeter of thce celebration, we rnave alrendy pumblished from te Rich ntond lln'juirer, I was very natural thnt birannaneas in condescending for the ftst imte to ennet the ele'eant fooletries of Punch tod liarleqluin, shuld have lacked mucht ef the ease atnd comapletentess that are toe e gaitte.l oenly bmy custom. No mn can irny extenopore to v'ery great ellect, and aceorditngly they seem to have bungled a riod dteat. Butt of thte whole proceedings, 61. Webester\ Speech wvas undorubedly hie most e'xtrntordinary' part. Our readers ire aware that at Butnkers 1Hill a mock leielantiont ofindlependience, from the pen Cf Mr. Webster, was put forth, which left to room to doubt that the restorition of he Batnk with all its consequences, was be grea t object of the party as there repre entedl. In his spe'cht at Saratoga, and till tmor'e br'oadly in that since delivered 'efiere the merchants of New York, the uty of' the Government to anationalize the turrene?/." was the beginitntg, middle and nl oft Mr. WVebsrer'<e argument. The lahninisttration waes maintly denounced be noise it resisteud such natirmlizing of the ainking systemo. and because it was united -itth ther Soath against the Tariff policy of ;ew L'ljed. We we're ml by a signi ennit thrent that "the resobi of thiscontest ro'ild showv whio wtere toe be the grindess od whto the gron':d." Such was Mr. Webster, the Northern Vhig. Bute the South hnd been assured y Me-srs. Preston ande others. that like en. lIarrisont, Mr Webster was ....2i of Sotern principles and feelings," ad e ointg tio Richmond, i: becamie necessary redeem the ptedige given for him. Ac >rdingly Mr. WVebster in Virginia put on le mtask of Stnte Rights Democracy, and coke ihreo hours in support ol:e princi is oft lie JTelersonian: school. The Edi r ot.'the Petershutg Statesman says, there as in t his speech no word of(Bank, Tariff' id t he rest ofC ti.e favorite W1hig tneasures, ted that on A blehit ion, he talked like a 'tuthern State Hights nmatn. To whew ie teeimy of this faree, that Editor refers ick to .ir. Cal hoiun's Resolution. em elyitng thoI)e perinciples of State Rights hie'b secture t he Soit h, constirtetioneally, rai as: iterferetnce on~ the subject ofslave. . Mtr. WVebster-, in a mtinrity of eight nine, voteid aenimst e'very one of these e'suthiiins. Siteh is the new disciple Jell'rson !! Thes Virgintians are doig re credit to thte chtaraecter of their State, 'siintg 1)nsutch a bald and pitifulgame. .lt'. Webster is poor spirited enough to nyv it. they ttimit least save him andh emuselves lhe disgrace of layitng the scene ithin thte bottndarics of Virginia."