Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, April 22, 1841, Image 4

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Jgrittgutgral -AN -ESSAY ON GRASSES.--LU CERNE. Medicsgo sotiva, is a -decptrooting per -ennial plant, sending up -numerous small .and tall clover like shoots, with blue or vio let spikes of flowers. It is a native of he -south of Europe, is extensively cultivated .in Spain, Italy, France, Persia, and Lima in the two 'atter being cut all the yeai round, and is partially cultivated in grea Britain and the Uuited States. With us i is found to be as hardy as red clover. I was extensively cultivated by the Ronani and commended by Calumella, as th -choicest of all the fodder. Three quarter! of an acre of it he thinks as abundantly sufficient to feed three horses during th4 -whole year. The soil for Lucerne must be dry, fria ble, inclining to sand, and with a subsoi not inferior to the surface. Unless the sub soil be good deep and dry, it is in vain -t attempt to cultivate Lucerne. A friable deep, sandy loam is excellent for it. N( soil is too rich for it. The preparation of the soil consists ir -deep ploughing and minute pulverization London recommends trenching for it, bul a good preparation is a potatoe crop, heavil3 .dressed with long mauure, the grount ploughed very deep, and manure buried al the bottom of the furrow, and the crop kepi perfectly free from weeds. The season most proper for sowing it the northern and eastern States, is fron about the first to the fifteeth of May wher the ground has become sufficiently war -med to promote quick germination.* The quantity of seed, when the broad, cast method is adopted, is from fifteen tc twenty pounds in the.United States, sixteer pounds is the usual quantity, and whet drilled, eight to twelve pounds sutfice. The ground should be perfectly pulverized; thc seed put in with a fine harrow, and the -operation of sowing finished wit h the roller. The after culture ofLucern, so'vn broad cast, consists in harrowing in the spring tc destroy grass and weeds ; rolling after har rowing to smooth the ground for the scythe, and such occasional top dressing of gyp sum, ashes, or rotted manure as the plants may require, or the conveniences of the -farm best afford. The hartowing may .commence the second year, and .the weeds -collected should always be carefully remo ved. In succeeding years, two harrowings may be applied, one in spring, and the oth er io the latter part of the summer. If -in drills, the crop must be kept clean with the hoe, drill, harrow, &c. Liquid manure from the cattle yard is an excellent manure for this crop. *Itn the Carolinas, September is the best -season. Early spring may answer. The mannerof sowing Lucerne, is either broadcast or in drill. Broadcast and a ve ry thin ercg of winter rye, is most general ly preferred to the United States ; though -drills, by enabling the cultivator to keep out the grasses and weeds, promise the greatest permanency to the crop. A gen tleman who has sown in drills three feet apart, and cultivated alternate rows of mangel wurtzel with the lucerne, speaks in high commendation of the practice. Arthur Young recommends drilling at nine inches. Diseases of Horses.-E very thing calcu lated to throw 'light upon this suhject is worthy of insertion in agricultural publica tions-and we always wvith much pleasure devote a portion of our space thereto. The following is copied, for the consideration of those interested, from tbe Southern Plant er, published in Richmond. Grubs in Horses.-A Dr. Harding, of Kentucky, I think, wrote once a very inge nious essay, to prove that there was no such disease as the grubs; but, that the worm was a natural inhabitant of a horse's stomach, and never commenced its ravages upon it until after death. Certain it is, that happening to he pre sent at the death of a horse last summer, which was occasioned by an accident in our streets, 1 was curious enough to make a post mortem examination, with the as sistance of a medical friend. We examin ed the horse's stomach itn an hour after his death, and found it riddled with worms. It was exactly such a case as would have been held to be confirmation strong of the grubs theory, if the cause of death had not been known. To be sure, this only goes to show, that the fact of the stomnach's be ing perforated, is not evidence of death from grubs. But if it so happens that this fact, the only one ever advanced to prove the existence of the iiscase, turns out to be no evidence of its trmth, what becomes of the theory ! Nowv sir, this q::estions is not an idle one, or unimiportant :n its conse quences. If grubs never at ack the horse, what is the cause of the vi tent paitn to which he is sometimes subjecttd ? Having been much interested in the subject, from the fact that I owned some very valuable blooded stock, this point attracted my par ticular attention, and from all I can see and hear, I have become satisfied, with Dr. Harding, that there is no such original dis case as grubs ; but, that which is frequent ly mistaken for it, is neither more or less than violent cholic. Acting upon this sup position, I have treated the disease as such, and with great success. I have never fail ed to relieve a horse by giving him an in jection composed of a half oz. of assafceti da well rubbed up, and tmixed with a pint and a half of wartm gruel, which if it (lid not operate, might be succeeded by a se cond injection of a pint of linseed oil mixed in a pint of warm wvater. 'rhe assafcetida must be well rubbed up, and, gradually mixed in a pint of water, wvhich will be come thick and milky in aphpearance. Let the inijection be well stirred when it is ad ministered. By the bye, every man, who keeps stock, should have a large clyster pipe, as he will frequently find it much the most etlicient and convenient mode of ad ministering medicine. But if he has no such instrument, cholic may be relieved by drenching the animal with two table bpoodfuls of laudanum, mixed in a pint of linseed oil. If you choose to make my practice pub lie, my name as authority is at the service ofryour readers. M. Fromz another Correspondence.-" An onnce of prevention is better than a pound of cure." A great many remedies for cho lie, grubs, &c- have nt various times been suggested of more-or less value, I once ap plied to a very-celebrated stock man for the best remedy forgrubs; his answer was "keep a plenty of salt always within reach of your horse's mouth." Upon this hint I acted, and have now for five years been using troughs divided into three parts, the middle for grain or mixed food, one -end boxed up-to the floor for long food, with a box for salt at ihe other end: if that box is ever found without salt my feeder gets an overhauling. This as well for my cattle as my horses. fur they are all stalled. Now sir, I know of no other respect in which my mode of feedingdiffers from my neighbors, and yet since I have adopted this plan, with an average of thirty head of stock, I have not known a single case of disease amongst them. If by it I have saved the life of only my meanest ox, I have made three hundred per cent. on the cost, which is as good an outlay as ought to be expect ed at farming. Soundness of Seedls.-Cobbett, whose writings and investigations on the subject of gardening, have generally been consi dered orthodox, gives the following rules for the choice of seed: He says, I know of no seed, which, if sound and'really good will nout sink in wa ter. The unsoundness of seeds arises from several causes; unripeness, blight, mouldi ness and age, are the most frequent of these causes. The way to try seeds is this. -Put a small quantity df it in lukewarm water, and -let the water be four or five in ches deep. A mug, or basin will do. but a large tumbler, glass, is best; for then you can see the bottom as well as the ;top. Some seeds, such as those of cabbage, ra dish and lurnip, will, if good, go to the hot inm at once. Cucumber, melon, lettuce and endive, and many others, require a few minutes. Parsnip and carrot, and all the winged seeds, require to be worked by your fingers, in a lineo water, and well wetted before you puit them into the glass: and the carrot shouid be rubbed to get ol' part of the hairs, which would otherwise act as feathers do to a duck. The seed of beet and mangel wurtzel, are in a case or shell. The rough things we sow arc not the seeds, but the cases in which the seeds are contained, each case containing from one to five seeds. rherefore the trial by water, as to these two seeds, is not con clusive; though if the seed be very good, if there be four or five in a case, shell and all will sink in the water, after being in the glass an hour. And it is a matter of such great imporlance, that every seed should grow, in a case where the plants stands so far apart; as gaps in rows of beet and man gel wurtzel are so, very injurious, the best way is to reject all seed that will not sink, -case and all, after being put into warm water, and remaining there at hour. There is another way of ascertaining this important fact, the soundness of seeds, and that is, by sowing them either in a hot bed or under a hand glass. But there is this to he said-that with a strong heat un der,*ud with such complete protection above, seeds may come up in the open ground. There may be enough of the germinating principle to cause vegetation in a hot-bed, and not enough to produce it in the open air and cold ground. There fore, I incline to the opinion, that we should try seeds, as our ancestors tried witches, not by fire, but by water; and, that following up '~heir' practice, we should reprobate aud destroy all that do not readi ly sink. I alwvays sow new seed in preference to old1; and as to the notion, that seeds can be the better for being oldl, even miore thatn a year old, I -hrld it to be monstrously ab snrd, atnd this opintion i Igive as the result of long exp~erience, most atlientlive observa-. lion, and numeri'touts experimenits, tmade for the express purp'lose of ascertaining the fact. .. Seed W heta.-Smau.-T he followin g commnunicationt from one of the most dis tinguishetd l'armters of Vir'gitiin, is worthy of consideration.-It is extracted froni an old number of the Virginia Hecrald: Sir--As the time of harvest is approach ing, I address through your paper, my bro ther farmers, on the importance of allowng. wheat intentded for sowing, to be entirely r'ipe before reapilig. Accidet last year, and eyesight this year, have convitnced tme of the propriety of this course. In the year 18:3', having selected my handsome ears of Mexican wheat, and sowecd it in the fail ofthe samte yeatr, it was forgottoni last year, unitil tmy little son re. mninided tme i hat it ou ght to be got hered .It was then fronm seven to ten daiys after my oilher wheat of the same kindl had been cut. This whbeat was then gathered anid depos. ited in a bag. Last October, this wheat was seeded on the same daiy, in the samte manner, atnd adjoining to oilier Mexican wheat. No selectin of' land was made for it, as no experimett wa intended. It has survived the fly, and the last severe winiter with little inijury, but not more t han onte-tird of the adjtoinitng w'heat hats been. left alive. From its presenit apphearance, it will produce, I believe, two-thirds more than its adjacent neighbor. Can the keeping in'the hag be the cause of this superiority ? I believe nor, because< in several previous years, seed has been kept by me in bags, and tn similar result has taken place ; my inference thence, is that this difference must be owitng to the ripeniess of the seed. Should any reader of this Communication have doubts on this subject, it would give me great pleasure to show himt the growing wheat, whie'n wvill convince, I should think the most skeptical. From my 24 years experience as a far mer, I am also satisfied, that the smuit is mainly attributable to unripe seed wheat. My seed wheat has been alw ays riper than that of my neighbors, and during that pe riod, I have never seen but six smutted heads in my nwni crops. In a conversa tion wvith the late Mr. Isaac Williams, lhe confirmed my opinion, by stating to me the same practice of one of his nearest neighbors, attended by the most entire sue cess. In making this communication, the in terest of whept growers is my sole object, and if', their crops should be iticreased, it will contribute to the happiness of your obedient servant, JOHN TAYLOR. LibeTy Hill, Caroline. Procrastination.-The sarcasm contain ed in the follnwing nnaInnlhit, frm the Farmer's 'Gazette, is applicable 4f thcrs besides farmers; but nevertheles" there are plenty of these latter who can proft largely by it-if they will: "Going To -. Yes, there arwesome men, and farmers to, that are always go ing to-but never do it. In the circle of my acquaintance, I know of one farner that has not a single edged tool on his pre mises,-except axes and scythes, and-yet he has been going to get aset of-caroienter's tools for more than ten years. :Auother, and a'large farmor-too; that-does iown a roller, but for five..years past has bofrw ed one of his neighbors four orfive-days in each -year-probably to satisfy himself as regards its utilily as a farming impement. Another has not, but is always going to get a cart rope, and a set of pulleyblocks. Another is going to get him a set of dry measures, though he sells moreAlhan a hundred bushels of fruit and grainsannual ly. A nother, and this man has aliais been going to burn dry wood afler this year but he has never done it. And singular as it may appear, one man has been.gowng to build him a better hog-pen than he-one in which he now keeps his swine, and'he has been going to forfiflen years. And there are many farmers that have been orng to have Ubetter fences, -better -gates,- :better crops, atid better stock, until I thiink they are now either really going to do. it, or that they are sadly deficient of thai energy and decision that should characternie eve ry American Farmer. And finally;j know of one man, who is almost deficient of ev ery article and farming implement, above named; and if I was going to tell you the reason, I should say, this man has been going to stop drinking ardent spirits for a long time. But judging from theilooks of his farm, and from his own most wretched personal appearance, I should say that this tian, with rapid strides, was fast going to Religous Newspapers-Profit and Loss. -From astatenent in the Southern Chrs tian Advocate, a Methodist-paper - printed in Charleston, it appears that with .-8,840 Subscibers, including Agents,-their61mannt al expenses amount to upwards-of $7,000, and the income of the office has never ex ceeded $6,800," leaving an annual dofi ciency. the most favorable year, of more than $200. The cause of this -deficiency is imputed to delinquent subscribers. No :omment is necessary to give point40 this statement of facts. - . Recipe ror making the most sweet,wbite, ight, andl] best bread without the--use of east.-Take a tea spoonful of pounded -aleratus, dissolve it in half a tei up full )f warm water, rub it well throligh three 3ounds of flour, and then mix it up with ittermilc till it is quite soft. Prace it in aaus and let it hake rather slowly, Asut an lour and a half.-A small slice of.butter niugled with theldough, will be found an mprovement. This mode ofr .making >read is particularly worthy of the atten ion of the farmers' "gude wives." Dont -ail to try it. Lost or Stolen. PROM the subscriber on the 20tlrof Janua ry last, a POCKET BOOK, 'alzain 'en Dollars in money, anct. - dre2 lollars in notes. Among the Totes 'thire was ne on Brunum & Mnnday, for $300; one on bhenezer Chamberlin, for $200; one on Charles ~ix, for $1.15; and one on Abram .Kilecase, or $55t0. All of themt given one day after date. UI personts are wvarned not to trade for the hove notes. I will liberally reward any 'per Otn finding the book and paper.. 11. M. NiCKS. March -1. - 5 tf The Subscriber WIS HIING to change the order of his buui ness,is desirouts of disposingeof his pre ett Stock, and will sell it entirc, at a suitable edttction from cost, anid ont accommnodating ems ofecredit, or at Retail rcry loro for Cask. C. A. DOWD. March 1A. tf 7 FRESH RICE. T H E subhscriber is now cleaning at his Mill, a large quantity of RICE, resh and sweet. Orders for any quntity, o be dlelisered at the Court-House, will he ttnded to if left at the Post-Offce. R. T. MIMIS. Dec. 24, 1840. tf 17 Public Notice. ALL persons itndebted to the estate of L.Blumer W hile, deceased, are requir d to make itmmediate payment; atnd all ersons having demands against the estate, re recquested to render them in, properly tested. A BNER PERRIN, Admt'r. Jan. 1,18S4I, tf 49 State of South Carolina. EDGEFIELD DISTRICT. IN EQUITY. Johni Rninsford, vs. amnes Rainsford and wife',anid others. IT appeatring to my satisfaction, that John IRainsford, of Englatnd, soni of Joseph, and 2ois C. Cantelow and Matry his wife, D~efen ants in this case, reside without the limits of his State; on motion, by Wardlaw & Carroll, ottsel for Plaintiff, ordered, that the Defen lants above natmed, do appear in this honorable jourt, and plead, answer or demur, to the Bill C Plaintiff, within three monthts from the pub~li atioa of this order, or that a decree pro confes o be taken against them, J. TERRY, c. E. E. D. 'ommissioners Ofiec, March 16, 1841. March IR m7 State of South Carolina. EDGE FIELD DISTRICT. John W. Yarbor'ough, ) 'rstee of H-enry Schultz. | In Equsity!. Henry Schultz and the| State Bank. Bill for - er.Relief and [he Bank of the State of Account. Georgia, G. B. Lamar, and the City Council of Augusta. J T apeain to my satisfaction that the Defendants in the above stated case ire without the limits of this State-Otn notion of Griffin & Burt: Ordered, that aid Defendants do plead, answer, or de nur, to the complainants Bill of complaint; ithitn three months from the pubiication ereof, or said Bill will be taken pro-con esso against thetm. 3. TERRY, c. E. E. D 'ommsioners Ofic, Edgefield, Feb. 25, 1840 March 4. ec5 Fresh Garden Seed. JUST RECEIVED and for sale by Jp C. A. DOWD. Feb.10. tf 2 PROSPECTUS OF THE New Genesee Farmer, AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL, Edited'by J. 1.'TUoRIAS. and M. B. BanrHAx. Assisted by DxviD THot*s and Others. -Bkr1uAM & -CROSMA'K, 'Proprietors, Roches-. ter, N. Y. Volume 2d, for 1841, 16 pages llotithly,-With Cuts. The Cheapest Agricultural Paper in the Union. TERS-Only 50 cents a year, (in advnuce.) Seven copics, for $3; twelves copies for $5; twenty-6ve copies for $10; to Post Mas ters and other Agents, who scnd money free of postage. "The New Genesee Farmer," has passed through the first year of its publication with very flattering success, notwithstanding the op posing influences which it has had to encoun ter; and while the publishers express their gratitude for the assistanee and support they have thus far received, they would now with renewed confidence, appeal to the friends of Agriculture for aid in behalf of the Second Volume. The successful re-establisbment of the GENESEE FARMER in its own Native Soil, and at its cconomical price, is a source of much gratification to -the'friends of improve ment in Western New York; and the pub lishers flatter themselves that their efforts are not unappreciated, and will not long be unre warded. It is now fairly proved that the " New Gene see Farmer" can be sustained, at a price which places it within the reach of all; and the repu. tation which it has already obtained for talent and usefidness, will not sufTer by a comparison with any paperof the kind in the Union. Every successive Number that has been issued, has shown an increase of talent and additional cor respondents. Besidas containingr the most useful and spirited articles selected from other Agricultural publications, the New Genesee Farner has received diring the past year ori ainal contributions from more than SEVENTY WRITERS, most of whom are well known PRACTICAL FARMERS. This-correspon dence will continue to increase, and, with our able editorial assistance, we can confidently assure the readers of the paper, that it will con tinue to increase in interest and nsefulness, in proportion as it. becomes better known and more generally-circulated. The proprietors are determined to spare no reasonable pains -or expense in making the New Genesee Farmer worthy of a liberal snp. port. Several important improvements will be made in the next Volume; among which are the fllowing -Each number will contain items of English and other news, particularly relating to the crops ana tire -markets; such as may be ofservice to farmers in marketing their produce. The paper will be -of fine quality. and with a hanudsome engraved lreading, (which is in a state of preparation,) the appear ance of the sheet will be much improved. The Farmer will be issued regularly on the first of each m nth, and mailed with great despatch. A competent and careful clerk is employed to enter the names of subscribers, and keep, the accounts, so that we hope to avoid all inaccu racies or cause of complaints. The aim and object of the New Genesee Farmer, is to please and benefit all or its rea ders, and advance the interests of Agriculture and Horticulture-1he best interests of commu nity. Many of its present readers have ex pressed the high degree of satisfaction they have derived from its pages; and we hope all ofthem are so well pleased with it that they -vill not only renew their own subscriptions promptly, but induce their neighbors to srb scribe ALSO. There are thousands of farmers to be found, who have itever seen the New Genesee Farmer; and if it was shown them, and its character explained, they would readily subscribe. W~e conceive this to be a DuTY wvhic. the readers of the paper owe to their neig i ors, and to their country, as well as to tis. Let this ditty be done promptly, and our means of usefulness will be greatly extended. and the salutary iniflutence ot the paper will soon be manifest thirotnghout the Agricultural otmuty. T he friends of Agricultural Societies shotuld especially encourage this paper; for, mitless farmers READ on dire subject, and get their minds interested in their professittn, they will not act fficienitly for its advancement.. The Societies formed last year in Westerni New York, and their fine exhibutionis, have already given a niew impulse to the cmtse in this section of country: and it is confidently expected that much more wvill be donte the coinig season. It will readily lie seen that the paper cannot be siustaiuned at this low price, without a very large subscription list ; and as it will not affor'd the explense of employing travellitig Agents, we must rely oni the voluntary efforts of the friends of thme cause, to obtini stibscribers. TO POST MASTERS especially, we are already greatly indebted, and we respctfully solicit a continuance of their piatriotic assistance. Post Masters have a right to remit money romn subscribers to publishei s of papers free of Postage. So that subscribers have only to hand them their names. wvithi the mioney, and reqnest them to forward the same. Agents and Post Masters are particularly re ruested to inform its, as early as possible, what nuber of papers are likely to be wanted at their omlces. so that we maiy calculate how large an additiont will be required. NoTE.-AII puipers ordhered, are Charged to the pcrsons ordering thi'tu ; and the nioney re eived is pmLced to their credit. All subscrip tions are discontinued at the end of the year, tun less paid for a longer time, in advanmc. No sbscriptionts received for less than one year. Complete sets of back numibers cani still be funishted. BATEHAM & CROSMAN, Feb. 3, 1841. Rochester, N. Y. F1IR&E R ' R EG1ST R. C ONDITIONS of the Farmers' Register, for the Ninth V'olvume, to be commen ced Januiary, 1841. Article. 1. The Farmet's Register is pub lished in monthly numbers, of 64~ large octavo pages each, at $15 a year, payable in advance. [See also -'Premiiumns," below.] It us nw also issued (and consisting of nearly the same matter,) weekly, in a single sheet of 16 pages octavo. Price and conditions the same for both forms of publicationi. II.-All mail payments must be p aid in bank notes, orchecks, of par value in Virginia-or otherwise of a city batik of the State in which the subscriber resides;* and all letters to the publisher. (except such as contain articles for publication,)- must be p ost paid; and the pubisher assumes the risk of loss by mail-ear riage of all letters and remittances conforming to thme foregoing coniditionis, and which have been properlyl committed to the mail, or to the Ill.-If a stibscription is not directed to be discontinued before the first nuimher of the next volume hits been published, it will be taken as a conitintuance for another year. Subscrip tions must commence wvith thie beginning of some one volume, and will not be takea for less than a year's publication. 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In like manner, and at the same rate of deduction, any one person may obtain any number of copies to supply others. 2d, To every -subscriber, not "thus paying'in advance of the publication, but who shall do so, and in all other respectscomply -with the above conditions before June 30th. an extrit copy of either vol. 7 or vol. 8 shall he sent; and the same to every new subscriber, paying as above required (in Art. I. and II.) at the tine of his subscription being ordered. 3d. Every subscriber who has received all the back volumes of the Farmers'Register. and who may be entitled by his payment to either of the two foregoing premiums, instead of them may, at his choice, and by his direction, be credited for vol. 10, to be issued in 1842. Remarks.-Any extra copy, sent as above stated, will be directed only to the name of the individual entitled to it as a preminm; but sent to any post-office that may be desired. The .sending of every such extra copy will cease with the volume, but the like arrangcmedts may be renewed, and similar advantages ob -tained by any subscribers 'herefter, upon the renewed performance of like conditions. 1T No Agento, or general collectors. are etn ployed for tie Farmers' Register. But any subscriber, postmaster, or other person, may obtain for his own profit the large allowances offered in the foregoing premiums, by procur ing the benefits to the publication for which the premiums are offered. The Weekly Farmers' Register is published every Saturday Morning. On the Cash Sys tem, the payment of five dollars (free of postage discotint, or other deduction, made in advance or at the time of subscription,) will entitle any subscriber to two copies, or to two different volumes of the Farmers' Register, either in that or the monthly form of publication. See for particulars the statement of " premiums," in connexion with the general conditions of publi cation for 1S41. * It will be again required (as formerly,) that mail payments shall be made in the notes or cheeks of specie-paging banks, should any such banks be in operation in the states which sub scribers sevetally reside. Until then, the pub lisher, like all other creditors, and laborers at fixed prices, must submit, as now, to be de frauded by the operation of the non-specie-pay ing banking system, of the difference in value between the bcst of such bank paper and specie. t "A postmaster may enclose money in a letter to the publisher of a newspaper, to pay the subscription of a third person, and frank the letter, it written by himself. (Signed) Amos Kendall, Postmaster General." EDMUND RUFFIN. Petersburg. Va., Oct. 31, 1840. Feb. 18, 1841. 3 T IIIS celebrated Race Horse and Stal lion will stand the ensuing Season, from 15th February t'o 15th June, at Mr. Wm. B. MAS', in Edgefield District, S C., 3 miles from the Court-Ilouse, on the Augusta Road. He will he let to mares at 820 the single visit, $30 the Season, and $50 to insure; and one dollar to the groom in every instance. - The money, or an approved note payable the 15th Decem ber next, must be sent with each mare, or .he will not be served. Good pasturage will be provided, and mares fed on grain at a reasonable pr'ice, and servants board td gratis. Every care will be taken of mares and oals, but no liabilities will be incurred for scapes or accidetnts. A RGY LE is a darkhbrowtn horse, with yut white, except a star, fieen hands atnd three quiarters high ; possessed of utncomn mon bone and muscle, anrd a form comn binintg wvith perfect symumetry, every es tential of a Race Horse. H.-e is niow ten years old, having been foaled in Mlaryland :a the Spring of 1830.- He was sired by the famous Motns. Tonson, his dam This tIe, was by Ogle's Oscar, his grandamn hy Dr. Thornton's imuportedh Horse Clifdhen; uis g. g. dam by M1r. Hfall's Spot ; and his ;. g.g. dam by Dr. Mlorshall's [lyder Ally, who was by Lindsay's Arabian. The Performances of ARGYLE tipon thme Turf, have placed him in the very first rank of American h orses as a Racer, while those of his get entitle him to an equal standing as a Stallion. Hec started first at Drangeburg. S. C. in January 1S34, and ran at Barnwell, Augusta, Macon, Column bia, and Charleston, two, three, amnd four miles heats, winning successively 8 races, fve of theta of four mile heats, beating Patsy Wallace, R attlesnake, (3 times) Lu ay Ashion, Rushlight, B ertratid junior~, (twice) Vertumnus, &c. &-'. ie niever lost a hear, and wvas rarely if ever put tip to his sp)eed, until his extraorditnary defeat by John B3ascombe in April, 1886, the circumnstances of whbich are familiar to every one. Subsequetntly lie wvas trained and run wvith great success im Virginia; and in May last on the Central Course at Baltimore, after running for the first heat of three miles, anud losing it by a head in 5 minutes 47-seconds, he wvon the second heat in 5 minutes, 40 seconds, beitig the best second heat of three iniles recorded in the histo~ry of the American Turf, and the most brilliant performance of a year sur passing all others in the richness of its an nals. During the same week, and on the same course, one of his daughters, Kate Seaton, wvon the great sweepstakes of 81009, beating a fine field with great ease; such a coincidence being hitherto unknown upon the Turf. A RGYLE stood but one season and to a limited number of mares, niot many of which wore thorough bred, yet his colts have won nine out of the eleven races fo wvhch they have beetn started, beating at one, two, and three tmiles, the get of many of our best Stallions, besides several im ported colts, some of them in first-rate ttme. Two of his get, Governor Butler and Kate Seaton, are now unrivalled upon the Turf by any thing of their age. The owners of A RGYLE, in britnging him back to the Stato in wvhich (tho' not foaled) he was first trained and gained his earliest laurels, present him wvith confi dence to the Public, as being in every way, on account of his blood, sire and form, his performances on the turf, so remarkable for endurance, as wvell as speedh, and the extraordinary success of his get, worthy of their entire ap~probation. WV. B. MAYS. Dnc 15, 18.10. .6 .f MOFFAT'S Vegetable L;fe -Medicines. T HESE Medicines are indebted for their name to their manifest and sensible ac tion in purifying the springs and channels of hfe, and enduig them with renewed tone and vigor. In many hundred certified cases which have been made public, and in almost every species of disease to which the human frame is liable, the happy effects of Mlofat's LifePills and Phenix Bitters, have been gratefully and: publicly acknowledged by the persons benefit. ted, and who were previously unacquainted with the beautifully philosophical principles upon which-they are compounded, and upon which they consequently act. . The Life Medicines recommend themselves in diseases of every form and description. Their first operation is to loosen from the coats of the stomach and bowels, the various impuri ties and crndities constantly settling around them; and to remove the hardened faces which collect-in the convolutions of the smallest intes tines. Other medicines only partially cleanse these, and leave such collected masses behnd.> as to produce habitual costiveness, with all its train of evils, or sudden diarihwa, with its im minent dangers. This fact is well knownato all regular anatomists. who examine the hir man bowels after death; and hence the prejir. dice of those well informed men against quack - medicines-or medicines prepaied and herald ed to the public by ignorant persons. The se cond effect of the Life Medicines is to cleanse the kidneys and the bladder, and by this means the livei and the lungs. the heathful. action of which entirely depends upon the regularity of the urinary organs. The blood, which takes its color from tie agency of the liver and the lungs before it passes into the heart, being thus purified by them, and nourished by food com ing from aclean stomach,courses freely through. the veins, renews every part of the system, and triumphantly mounts the banner of health in" - the bloomiug cheek. Mofat's Life Mecicines have been thorotghly tested, altd pronounced a sovereign remedy for Dyspepsia, Flatulency, Palpitation of the Heart, Loss of Appetite, Heart-burn and Head. ache, Restleasness, Ill-temper, Anxiety, Lan gnor and Mlelancholy, Costiveness, Diarrhoaa Cholera, Fevers of all kinds, Rheumatism Gout, Dropsies of all kinrs, Gravel, Worman: Asthmaand Consumption, Scurvy, Ulcers, In veterate Sores, Scorbutic Eruptions and Bad Complexions, Eruptive complaints, Sallow,. Cloudy, and !other Aisagreeable Complexions, Salt Rheum., Erysipelas, Cominot Colds and Inflienza, and varions-cther complaints which afflict the human frame. In FrvER and Au4 particularly, the Life Medicines have .been most eminently successful, so much so that in the Fever and Agne distYicts, Physicians -al most universally prescrihe them. All that Mr. Moffat requires of his patients is to he particular in taking the Life Medicines strictly according to the directions. It is not by a newspaper notice, or by any thing that he himself may say in their favor, that he hopes to gain credit. It is alone by the results of a fair trial. These valuable Medicines are for sale by C. A. DOWD. February 25, 1841. tf 4 Citizens of Charleston AND THE NEIGHBORING STATE Y OU are respectfully informed that 70 MEETI0o STREET 70-is my Office for the exclusive sale of BRANDRETH'S VEGE TABLE UNIVERSAL PILLS. Price twers ty five cents per box, with directions in English, French, Spanish Portuguese and German. The high and universal reputation of the DBantdeth Pills, renders it unnecessary tocom ment largely on their particular virtues. As en mnti-bilious and purgative medicine, they are anequalled by any. Their purifyin efct-o he blood is universally alowed ever used have arpiyM hem.. In many cases where the dreadful ravages of alceration had laid bare ligament a-d bone, and uvhere to nll appearance, no human means could save life, have patients by the use ofthee Pills, beens restored to good health; the devour iug disease having beencompletely eradicated. 'In conseqluenace of the pleasantness of their aperation, they arc universally used in every mection of this wide extended country where they are made known, and are fast surpersedinag every othier Preparation of professed similar import. Upwards of Fourteen 'houtsand eases hanve beena certified as cured, solely from thei i~se since the introduction of that into the U. States, thus establishing the fact beyond all :ionbt, that the Brandreth Pills cure the (appar rently) :nsst opposite diseases, by the one simnpleact of coniunally evacuating the bow als with them, until the disease gives way;. thert efore, whatever may be said of the THEORY, the UrterrT of the Px~c~icE is now BEYONtD all DouBT. As Brandreth's Pills cure Scurvy, Costive ness, and its consequences, seasfaring men, and ill travellers to foreign regions, should not be without, in order to resoit to them on every accasion of illness. No medicine chest is re wuired where tilRty are. N. B,-Timne or climate affects them not, provided they are kept dry. Sonthern gentle nen will finid this medicine one that willunsure aealth to the people on their estates, lBe careful and never purchase Pills of a Druggist, PitOFEsIING to be Brandreth'd Pills. Under NO cIRCUMsTANcEs 15 any one of this :laus3 made an Agent. My own established Agents have I vaAstBY all ENGRAvED Certifi rate, signed B. Brandreth, M. D, in my own band writing. This is renewed yearly-and whsen over twelve months old, it no longer gutarantees the genuaineness of the medicime, it would be well, therefore, for purchasers to. carenly examine the Certificate. The seal is not wax. butt embossed on thec paper with a steel seal. if the genuinie medicine is obtained,there is nlo doubt of its giving perfect satisfaction, and if all who want it are careful to go by the above directions, there is little doubt but they wvill obtain it. Remember'70 Meeting street, is the only place in Charleston where the genuine meda einle can he (obtained, and at WV.W. Sales,Ham burg and C. A. Down, Edgefield G.H. the only nuihsorised Agents for Edgefield. AGENTS FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. Stephen Owen, Aiken; David Turner, Beaufort; John McLaren, Abbeville; William Cnnninghiam Columbia; Elijah Alexander, Pickens; Jo~im Hastie, Pendleton; Samuel Wilmot Georgetowvn, McLure, Brawvley &Co, Chester; Charles Wilcox, Coosawhatchie; Ma ker & Ryan, Barnwvelh K. H.; D. & H. B. Rice, Graham'~s P. 0., Barnwell District.. Gaines & Bolling, Greenville District ; Reuben Gross, Lexington; Hlastie'& Nichol, Greenville C. HI'.; John G. Tongue, Youngnaesville, Fair field Dist.; Sylvester Beach, Orangeburg, Run'Y& Johnson, Newberry; Rice & Cater, Anderson : James E. Gee, Leesvilhe, Lexing ton District; Blarksdale & Saxon, Gaurensville, Vernon & Mitchell. Spartanburg, P. J.Foster, Foster's, TUion. District; JohnMcLure,Union ville, George Steel, Yorkvilhe; A. H. Chain. bers, Winsboro';C harles Miller, Edisto Bland, John Rosser, Camden; Samuel Wilmot, Georgetowvn; Maker & Ryan, Barnwell; E, Gartigue, Blackville, Barnwvel; E. D. Felder, Midway, Barnwell; Gangley & Drummond; Lowver Three Rins, Barnwvell: Philip Cliar trand,Branchiville. Orangeburg; A. Stevenson, Pickneyville, Union, and B. .Jaudon, Robert-, ville, Beaufort. Feb 13, 180 .- f S BOOE & JOB PRINTING OF Every description executed with ncaiinessand despatch, at the Office ni' tla hn F rELD A DVERTISERt.