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A** 7- -c-? OfWe will cling to the Pillar@ of -the Temple or mLiei.,oueihauie the Rain.." --.. - 9--' :-VOLUJYI - NO.2 Ma~g6 'JEBDGE]PJELD ADVERTISER W. F.DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. TERMS. Three Dollars per .annum, if paid in fdrvance--Three Dollars and Fifty Cents if not paid berre the expiration of Six Months from the date of Subscription and Four Dollars if not paid within twelve Months. Subscribers out of the State are required to pay in-advance. No,subscription, received for less than one year, and no paper discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except at the op tion of the Publisher. All subscriptioasi will be continued un less otherwise ordered- before the expira tion of the year. Any person procuring five Subscribers and becoming responsible for-the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratia. Adwertisements conspicuously inserted at 62J. cents per square, (12 lines, or less,) for- the first insertion; and 431 ets. for each continuance. Those published monthly, or quarterly will be charged $1 .per square for, each, insertion. Advertisements not having. ihe aqmbrYof insertions marked on them, will be continued until ordered out ,aj charged acecrdipgly. AU ommunications addressed to the Editor; postaidwill-be promptly and strictly attended to. The following lines are from the per of the present Mrs. Judson, daughter of Mr .-Ralph all, and now Missionary to Burmah, and were addressed to her former husband, the Rev. Mr. Beardman-, previous to their leaving Salem, her-native village, to enter their self-de ealted we o hIe lamp of gjaims arint a The deep blue ocean I shalfsee, And know its waves that loudly roar Hide all I love on earth, but thee: Perhaps a thought of childhood's days, Will cause a tear to dim mine eye; Perhaps a thought of long post joys, Will cause my breast to heave a sigh. Say, wilt thou then forgive that tear? Forgive the throbbing of this heart? And point to those blest regions, where Friends meet and never, never part ? And when affliction's bour shall come, When deepest, unexpected grief, ShaH pale ny cheek, and wastie my form, Then wilt thu pointto sweet relief? And wilt thou thin with sootbiig voice, Of Jesu's paifnleconflicts tellC And bid my aching heart rejoie In these kind accents-"Alis5cell." When blooming health, and strength shall fly, And I the prey of sickness prove, Then wilt thou watch with wakeful Aye, - The dying pillow of thy love ? And when the chilling hand of death .Shall lead me te my heavenly home; And when the cold repulsive earth Shall clasp thy Sarah's mould'ring form: 0. need I ask thee, wilt thou then *- Upon each bright and pleasanit save, Seek out the solitary glen. To rove around my lonely grave? And while remembrance fond shall dwell On scenes and days forever fled, Oh ! let the veil of love conceal -The frailties-of the sleeping dead. --And thou may'st weep, and thou may'st joy, F'or "pleasinotis the joy of grief" -And when thou look'st with tearful eye *.To heaven, thy God will give relief.. - Wilt thou- not kneel beside the soul -Of~her who kneels with thee no more, And give thy heart anew to God, To him who griefs unnumbered bore?7 -:Aad while ,thy feet on earth shall rove, To soen'es of bliss, oft rise thine-eye, Where, all absorbed in holy love,. I wait to liail thee to the sky. Juvenile Deposkloryj * Y HOME IS-THE WORLD. * -. BY THOMAS H. BAT',Y. Speed, speed, my fleet vessel, the shore.i in sight,'. The breezes are fair, we shall anchor'to-siughti -To-morrow at sunrise, once more shall-I sltand nt.e.s.a..catcn shore of my owvn nativ'e lanil. Bat why does despondency weigh down my heart? Such thoughts are for friends who reluctantly part; Icome from an exile of twenty long years, Yet I gaze on my country through fast falling tears. I see the hills purple with belles of the heath, And my own happy valley that nestles beneath, And the flagrant white blossims spread over the thorn That grows near the cottage in which Iwas born. It cannot be changed-no, the climatis climbs O'er the gay little porch, as it did in old times; And the seat where my father reclined is still there But where is my father? Oh, answer me where? My mother's own casement, the chamber she loved, Is still there o'erlookitig the lawn where I roved; How thoughtful she sat with her hand on her brow, As she watched her young darling-h! where is she now I And there is my poor sister's garden;. how wild Were theinnocentsports ofthat beautiful child! Her voice had a spell in its musical tone, And her cheeks were like roses-ah! where is she gone ? No father reclines on the climatis seat No mother looks down from her shaded re treat No sister is there stealing slyly away; Till the half suppressed laughter -betrayed where she lay. But see this green path-r-I remember it well, 'Tisethe way to the church; Hark! the-sound of the bell! - How oft in my :ofh'oot-the truant*Jve strayed o yonder dark yesw-tree Snp. na Btat surely the pathwayrisnarroger' No smooth ce is left aththed yew ,.tieboug~ To thinkof fond meetings,the welcome,the kiss, The friendly hands pressure.? Ah! was it for this? When those who have been so long absent re turn To the scenes of their childhood, it is but to mourn, Wounds open afresh, which time nearly had healed, And the ills of a life at one glance are revealed. Speed! speed! my fleet vessl-the tempest may rave Ther's a calm in my breast for the dash of the wave; Speed! Speed ! my fleet vessel- the sails are unfurled Oh! ask me not whither-tuy OMEIs r TE' WORLD! From the Southern Agriculturalist. N THE CULTURE OF RICEG-RASS. -LEERSIA ORIZOIDES, PEN4DLETON, Oct. 21.1J840. Mr. Editor:-In the hope of inducing some of our farmers to turn their attention from the exclusive cultivation of cotton, to he improvemenlt of stock, I send~ you the result of eightyears'experience in the cul ttre of hay, on a piece of meadow land, one mile distant from the village of Pen dleton. The branchee, whose united streams are suflicietnt to turn a small grist mill are kept continually running over the meadowv, except during harvest. A day before cutting we remove a small obstruc ion placed in the natural channel of the branch when the water leaves the land sficiently dry for the mowers to-work, and a narrow wvheeled two horse wagon to take off about 800O lbs. at a load. Im mediately after harvest,'the bar is replaced across the channel in a few minutes, by drawing mud against a rail laid over it and the land again put under water. Having made abundant crops of hay several years, at so lit tle expense, I last year laid off one mcre, had tbe wagon carefully loaded by a white man, directing him to make every load as near as possible of the same size, and on weighing one load, found the aver age product of the acre to be more than three tons, of two thousand pounds each, at the first cutting. The same directions were followed this year and the product wvas more than four tons at the first cut tmg. This great product may be attribu ted to a late harvest, and a summer of morerain. The soil on which these crops were made is the ordinary quality of low land, near 'the creeks overflowed only by high freshes.: It had been cleared and cultiva ted several years,- producing good crops in dry seasons. 1 first.-saw it in 1831, when the crn on. it wast nearly destroyed. by a than grass, they'werg all moved-in 133 1 was astonished '' the product of bay, which has been good ever'since.' Thi bay is made from rice-grass, the '"Leersia Orizoides" of the botanist, called Nimble. Will, in the upper country, it has 'a'f6i thin stalk, covering from four to livetfbet in length, but not being erect, it does not stand more than three to four feet on tie ground; no part of the stalk is one-eighth. of an inch in diameter, they have been measured more than six feet long. It grows well on the low grounds of branches, and may he found in every part of.the state: it is killed bpfrost, and doestnot grow in the interior, before May. I have made varibus experiments with red clover, herd's grass, orchard grass, and timothy, the two: 'former on wet aridjlry soils; after tro or three years thef have been overpowered by the native weeds; grasses, briers and shrubs, which spring up spontaneously when the soil. is unbroken. The single enemy of the rice grass is the rush, large and small, which appeari-tibe the only noxious growth of land covered by running water, and this is so entirely ourt grown by the rice-grass, that notwithzstan' ing its formidable appearance in the spring;. I have taken no measures to eiiadicate it, Bythe end of June the rush is so. com pletely covered by the grass,that itis scarce- 2 ly thoughtof until the ensuingspring. One great advantage of this grass is, that yo 6 can choose the timc for cutting, as it does I not blossom early. Towards the end of J July it seems to settle Or lodge in spots, bitt I am not aware of any injury that results. We commende mowing with abner scythe * the first fair weather after oat-harvest-the F task is a quarter of an acre-for ihe mower; one woman can toss.and turn half an acre,' which should be done as soon as it is cut and pntip'into cocks by evening. When C the dew leaves them next morning they are S opened at the top, and after an hour's sun on the-hay cut before: twelve o'clock of a the preceding day, may be carted bome f and. put away. Eight or twelve -hours' suii is-sufficient to cure the hay if properly toiset: and turned immediaieyffr. cut- -2 ing,-whici-is easily done vith k oden - fork. - An iron fork ifled'orj 9baai the y n LLC uuitiious qualities of this f, say, but havebeen informed that it. sells ( in the Columbia market as readily as north- I era hay. One of our most. experienced farmers told me that he preferred it to corn blades when wagoning to Hamburg. Yours, respectfully, C. C. PiNcKNEy. a From the Cultivator. Proper timefor Cutting Bushes.-When ti I first settled in Yates county, I bought a k farm which was much neglected, and the g bushes and briars were grown up around p those fields which had been cleared,almost a to the Lops of the fences. I took a strong i scythe and cut them close as I could to the ground about the second quarter of the c moon in June, when the leaves were near- s ly the full size, and the sap flowed the a most freely of any time in the year; and c they seemed to bleed to death, (that is the b sap flows from the root and dies;) not one out of fifty ever sprouted again. The ex- - perience of twenty-five years has,, in all ti cases, proved successful-also in cutting b all underbrush and saplings of almost any size ; not one in ten ever sprouted. I have il practiced it on oak land and on low lands f and on almost all kinds of timber. I have s often ploughed out the stumps with a sin- il gle team, where it had not been cut over d four to six years, that wvere a foot thzrough; i and from my experience I would pay tres r ble wvages at that time of theyearifI wan- la ted to clear land, rather than .bave them c cut at any oilher time of the year for noth ing. But do not cut any other timber t which you want to preserve, without you split it or take the bark off, for it will soon 1 decay and be full of worms. I am .well convinced that if you wvant timber to last, it should be cut after the leaves begin to fall, say in October or November. - I think it will last in the ground or out, nearlyr twice as long as it will if cut at any other I time of the year. Try it and see for your-1 self. --. Save your Ashe.-Take leached ashes and drop a handfull on the corn when planting; dry ashes is better, but' after the soap is made, the contents of the ley-bop per should be saved. for' corn plantings- I Dry ashes should be sowed, two or three bushels on an acre of wheat, two or. three, timesin the spring, either in heavy dews or misting rain. The manure of ashesor lime useil as a top dresser, is not near all the benefiE there are several kinds of insects materi ally interrupted in their ravages, son the green growing grain.. Ifyvon have not a roof and afloor for keeping ashes-please to make them, and preserve all: dry that does not get used for ley. Sandy ground will show agr'eater dif'er ence in produce from their use, than st'er ile clay, so faras-1 have tried. -Manure should all be taken to the field fromn the barn yard, then -plough uip one, -two or'ten acres~ thatecannot be mailured, accordid jto circumstancees-sow somie with con broad ca'standgsome with ots. Whena th corn tase anidihbe-oats heads, a: p1ongh; this course Vilrally too- bii when hoc n round,,rwould say~- e bli odorated there- eagrow[ to tura in for+ i- ^ 'oi gofdiist-or an 0siell fi fo' dkT, cuws- , 17" ~ -Sotch snuff, sprin. kled P lints infetei with'i ie, *it further agesI. de tron If ur den is like en up y them, an is the ease buy , a bottlegof Scotch snuf ar'You willseethem disap pear Mly.7. W~uall . harlestonMercury We attention to the replyof' r.a artielesigned'"Touch tone ~ iithe-adisonian idt0.. atud .an artiale which is saj n-uh, i " of Senitor Preston, as to le gepj -e bMted to him, - and which ,hetter rnot, he sufers to be pi ishd 'ery nose at Washingon. Mr. was.the only victim.wihin he ree heyroscriber of proscriA 0io .only. an -in the Dis f Sea tonpA bom that g lena & bis-.spit ud prove ow otealsiosar&'worth, and e -aa Yrs'iprioscibedi Even if-it ad'be Biid-withoiut his instigation, fr.' ' itdepirous of "proscribing roscrip "Oiold 'have prevented i4c ut Mr. "'has not allowed it to be on4"a 'othll and unintenliallyb".it as tssii ije'doing "accordingtbhis iediocri (dhe "overruliug circumn J anesid' ded'by "Toucitone" in juv. ficatio i6 Mr. Rawls' favor, it I ppea a,heolTened this Joseph of. iiedmoz at ndso-high.in favor withi ieI edI irae, by protectig.the.Post Ni-fr ing cheated unde i frani. ndedie& b - iTod chatona". de 1i~ Ma; ~r n had any ai eremi aofr.E-awls. Fo' en care: to' lie informed uir .ind w' n n umbia, and tieanly letters t nroclur..dto that effect were two, one oin SAiiiit Weir, of the Columbia, t 'riticlfaNa- the otherfrom WM. C. resto- asbile fratrum. retn"- no - - From the Chlarleston Mercury. MzssasNEDros.-I have -been shewn commubic.aiion-in the Courier of the 29th st. c'opied from the Madisonian, sIgned J ouchstone, in which I found assertions at.would hire astoished me, if I had not L noa too iuch of the character of Whig- I ery to -be'iuFprized at any thing done by s liticiadsof that party unless it should be I ccidentqlly and unintentionally telling the i lain truth. It seemii that the adder like course of a 1 rtain SpArvhern Whig in stinging the bo >m whiehnourished him and gave him trength, was n.ot enough to satisfy his raving forrevenge, and another blow must I a strucktadtbe same spot; After siece passed and execution done this Rhidaiiiauthian Judge condescends C infoirm :te victimr and the world of what I e waschrged-and condemned. The asserton made by Touchstone, that is well lindwn at the South that letters -am disting~uished individuals of the oppo it party mailed at Columbia for persons SWashington, have never reached their estiatiod: -:sAo use his own eloquent ords, false/slanderous and fabricated. I ever heard'of it before and it can hardly e supposable' hat the Postmaster General ould hais9uch complaint made to-him ithout wriitng to me and endeavouring a ascertainwhether it was true or false, ad to ferriet oat the guiltj one if true. I eve ne reefired notice from the Post gaster General of such complaint. Will Mr.Granger say whether he ever et me s.itZEpeof such a kind?. To conclude :such charge was never nade against nie, or if it were, no great ains were taken to let me know it, .hut rhere the achier, judge and executioner ire one perion there is no necessity for earing evideac'e on more -than one side. o says his Igonor .Tudge Rhadamanthus. -B. R AWLS. It was tile p ice in the days of Demj racy togf6rii Postmasters of all coin laints mad' aga os'. them. esiC rteti Mercurg l'HE CASKOF PRESTON AND RAWLS. We- are authorized by Mr. Rawls to nake the faloliOn&; statement in farther xplanat' is! communication and our ditorial oyetray. it is impli oticharged by "Touchstone,"' or Mr -Preston thift Mr. Riawls..had reacede~ponsLthe Honorable Senator's ranking pre!OOtv-that he had taken tif evelopes dfced to Mr. Preston and' ead the di b~~aof letters. enclosed to hird persons. This Mr.R. declares to be also. The od1 complaint ever made to uim aboutiin bfeing with the Senators' >rivileges,-waide by the latter'in per on,.undoe fOlWtng ciscumstances. -DJuriiEt ~ sson of 1837, a-letter was ut intQ te lifiba officea'ddiessed to Hop,4Wm.'G Preston, 17aulangton." I'hugh the'envielopd which was thin and .ransparent, was plainly seen the address of a letter enclosed to a third perion, "New York." . The clerk in making up this mail, pointed this out to the Posi Master, stating that similar letters were mailed- almost daily-and that it was an illegal practice and ought to be arrested jgwhzereupon the Post Master did not stop the letter-(he never stopped one)-but ordered the clerk to mark in red ink on the envelope "25 cents postagegn the within letter to New York:" and it was for.warded in the Wash ington mail. Thisendorsiment wassmade siply to apprise the Senator of -his duty to the laws of the land as specified. in.the following provision in Section 28 of an Act to reduce into one all the Acts regula ting the Post Office, passed 3d of March, 1825. "And if any person having the right to receive his letters free of postage, shall re ceive enclosed to him any letter or packet addres ed to persons not having ihat right, it sh "jbe his-duty to return the same to the V09"i'Office, marking thereon the place from whence it came, that it may be char jed with postage". Mr. Preston on his - ietrnto,4olumbia denoupced Mr. Rawl fdr'odaring such an ihterference with iis privilege as thisgentle hipt and ivawreferred to the.la*, but in isti neveriheless thagjhis frank could ov.any thing but leather, wood, or iron, etcr~&, and shewed himself highly in ensed.. Mr. Rawls did but his duty as a aithfil and honstpublic servant in doing phat he.did'to ilrtect the PB&t Office from uch violations of'its laws sind it was Mr. ?reston's duty to have aided him instead if quarrelling about it, when he was ap rized of the law, of which he may hge een previously ignorant. It was to this we alluded when we said that 1gr. P's. ranks, amounted to no more. than his in rference to-protect th'e PosOffice from eing cheated under them.' .-Other: mem e-s of Congress besidb Mr--Preston had, to doubt, unaware of the: raw, allowed uch ltters to be enclosed to them and eglected the dity of. having theggsitage harge4 according to law. .We- were-not Lware of the law until it wis pointei &Out 6ayesterday; and Mr. Rawls deseriis redit-nd wguld:have been eniitledib-the.. kvor-of a"t'doverinf he7T e rost omce at Columbia, to Mr. eres; on and his Richland clique, wasa follows: Mr.;P. in his peripatetic labours -inat adince on the rolling cider barrel, had nade one of his "electrifyini;' speechis, Lbut the "little magician," and Clay's obility, and Webster's Southern spirit, c. &c. at a "Tippecanoe and Tyler too" eeting, at Macon, Geo. The Macon elegraph, ridiculed him with pointed and nt severity, for the Jim Crow and Zip oon bufoonery, in which he indulged on he occasion, called him the "strolling poli cian" &c. and other things, uneasy to the omach of the sensitve Senator and his egemen. This article was reprinted in andbills in Columbia and the copies many f which weredistributed from the office efore the P. M. knew of their existence, ere directed and put ii the office at night, d of course delivered. The P. M. had a right to burn or suppress them, though erhaps had he done so'in violation of his uty it would have commended him to Vhig favor and secured him frongroscrip ion, The enraged clique demanded to now where the handbill was printed-and printer in Columbia avowed the printing nd that he was paid for it. He was ked if the Postmaster was coneerned in aving it printed, and answered "he woas o." They then demanded who paid for , and the printer replied that he was an orized to give the name if their purpose as either to sue or to fight the person who rocuredl the printing, Whereupon they et the matter drop. It was then the performance of his duty tboth instances which is made the pre cit for his vindictive proscription: and there a littleness in the entire proceeding a ainst him as little honorabe to the Post f asterGeneral who subserved the purpose if revenge as to the "Prosreiber of Pro cription" whom its consumation has grat led. Mr. R. was hound to distribute any ~aers directed to persons in Columbia and ~ut into his office, and he was bound to aprise the Senator of the violation of law ader his frank. Had he been a Whig nd illegally interfered to suppress in the irmser, and neglec'ted his duty in the hat r case. he would have been Post Master ow.- Mr. P. wanted a humble servant in ne office, and has probably secured one. t iecomes the Republicans of thbe State to edres thme wrong whenever an opporturni y occurs to do so by their votes, by with ~olding them from a Whig 6andidate, when Republican who has been proscribed of. ars for the same station and is competent to fulfi it. The Nashville Banner states that John . Mootb, a merchant doing business at aeadyville, T1enn. who was under arrest ror having commited th'e late frauds on he Bank of Tennessee, commited suicide n the 7th inst. in a public house in Mur reesborouigh, by hanging himself to a bed pot._ _ _ The St. Louis Argus, in cautioning the eople of that city- to provide against bur garies1 robberies, &c. among other things dvises them to -adopi the unineralprac Lice of printera-neser to carry much money aout their persons." "The elevation o f Mr. W very headof Gen. Hauaisozi'sdr iration, mae pposition a d paned every' thing else."-P; f a Spirit of the Timei. The above is a capital sentiment foi Democracy to liegin on their o to the present federal rules. no *ke feeling a consciensious sense of in whatever we engage. And does the cau' warrant the conclusion in the declaration quotid? To answer. this we must.n; quire-who is Mr. bster? It s th Daniel Webster, 'ho- at 'the timer9,md ever since, decied thisjustice en the a o America in the late war with g d Aye, the same,-the very same. de nied," says the Times, "its justice, though the Englishhad captured thirteen hundred ofour merchant vessels, nearly all piritoii ly! He.denied its justice,. though' apre than siX THoUSAaD of our seamen had been impressed, not a single one:of whioi they had a right to touch, and a portioit of whom they afterwards shot down at:Dart moor, like wild beasts! *He denied itsah - tice, thoughour very coastsandharborsb been again and again violated by theirbiop dy aggressions;-our peoille murder'ed - their cannon shot offN York,--butldod them'returned wound'ed and dyin t Nor folk when the..Cbesapaeke was attaced within our limits! . Yes, Demociats of the Union,-op, tiom.to the present Administration wi llbe - ro oppose a man wIgsientirel - been almost exclusikiyl an'iimeirca&, a-d, without exception, anti- Democae. Is it not a duty to oppose a maf hhoa July 1,813, voted aga:nsthe bill t r* money-tcarry on the war. is it noi a duty to opps s'kn-im wh Jannarf7, 1814, voted.against a b re cruit the army ofhis ditirjM Is it not a do to oppose a ma n-woinh January'M 1074, votei agRP Rbd puish.raitors an& spies. - Is itnot a dItytppost mano ed Jaay 22 181- oedin a ninority 7 against the bilk roopsgor the wr1 oh Marchl28 1 14 bthemilitig' shouldiiof be call j "', JnI e I as the States for.mitio d i tiers ? *. : on December 19, 1818 voted again gli bill to pay. he exentes of thewsr,i it rebuild. thie pitol hich thfie Britisdi atryed'? - Is it not dutt oppose a manivho, on January 7, 1814, voted against an appro priation of one million for defiaIyi I t e expenses of the Navy? Is it not-a duty to oppose a man whd ex. ulted at the defeat of our arms, and the murderous inroads of the savages, in the rollowiug straino "This is not the entertainmeot.to which we were invited. We are told. that theso - disappointments are owing to the opeosi tion which the war encounters, This aeno new strain. It is the constant tuaeof every weak or tvicked Adminit ration." Irpersevering endeavors to oppose and thwart the Government of his country. in the hour of danger and difficulty, consti tutes a Democrat, then Mr. Webster is one of iragnitude; and if a 'ystematie an compromising hostility to the last, war is evidence of diplomatic talents, as well 'as of genuine patriotism, Mr. Webster will make an excellent Secretary of State. In 1336, when war with France was and ticipated, it was proposed to confide the ~ means of our defence to President Jackson conditioaly; Mr. Webster declared iaithebo Senate, that "he would not vote for -the .'.,. bill, if the enemy were battering down die walls of the copitol." . His federal friend,. John Quincy Adams, could not hear Mr. Webster encourage the enemy to deknolih4 our capitol and remain silent. Be. toosk occasion to-declare in the House of Repro.' sentatives, that "Mr. Webster had only to take another step, adid go over to the' en emy." Fellow Citizens! such is an outline of. the plitical character of the man. whom the President has called into his cabinet as chief Premier. Do you stillilove ylour own country? Are you still anxious to dip your duty in reference to the welfare Of' your country? If so, areurse to a-senhe oV~ your danger. .Are the demands of Englond, mnad'e a this time, founded u less injustice tben - "~ those which Mr. ebster justifi4d? We - ~ '"' think not. What, then, may we not fear as to the result of the final adjustment of present difficulties with that country.-' Freemen, arise!-doin in heart and action - ' in the sentiment:- ~ "Opposilion to the present Aduminibtra d ton is a DUTY." - There being nothing to hope, and al t . fear. - Ezperiment.-Tie a piece of sewagulijhk to a large silver spQos, and, espe~Am from the ear. Then stribo the epon an~d ~ -~ the reverberation .will sound as pad & . __ tremendous as that of the gr aelf -__ church. . The largest merchant ve e French servoce was launched ao~~N She issamned the Louis XWIV -m!M ed t'o trade between'Mar -seille~s,- - S8tates. 'She is builisQ as to car ar go of 2,600 bales of cotton. ~