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gr6wth of every crop. In the diferent sa
sons which has been adopted for it.
Here there is a field, in which the:far
sper may spend a long life acquiring un
portant practical truths every day. In
future numbers of this journal we shall ex
.pet to present the subject of Agricultural
chemistry, pretty mnch in the order above
-eggested. We are particularly anxious
to se oar readers studying the nature of
the different earths, the power of light,
beat %d electricity on vegetation, the sub.
stance of the dirberent plants, and the pow.
or of mautares upon vegetable life. If we
still be asked what profit there is in Agri
cultural chanistry, we answer, it will al
ways enablethe farmer to raise greater
crops with less labor, and with infinitely
more satisfaction to himself. Larisier,
itshould be remembered, to afford himisell
a little scientific satisfaction. and to lay a
#pod example before his countrymen. cul
tivated a farm on chemical pri neiples, and
within nine years doubled the crop.-Ag
viculturist.
From the Savannah Georgian.
Ezcutke, Legilatire and Judicial Er
pemnes of the several States of the Union.
Governor..-The salary of this oflicer
varies materially in the several States,
some retaining the old colonial rate of
pounds sterling, which, converted into dol
ars, give the fractions found below. The
highest salary for Governor is given in
Louisiana, $7,500; next is Maryland,
$4,200; then New York, Pennsylvania and
Georgia,84,000; Massachictts, $3.66M.67;
South Carolina, 83.500; Virginia. $3.333;
Mississippi, $3,000; Kentucky $2,500;
New Jersey, North Carolina, Arkansas,.
Tennessee, Michigan, Missouri, $2.000;
Maine, Ohio, Indiana isnd Illinois, $1500;
Delaware, $1,3331; New liampihire,
$1,200; Connecticut $1,100; Vermant.
750; Rhode Island, 400; showing a differ
once betweea the salaries of the highest
and lowest of 7,100, anl a dilli-rence -ho
tween adjoining States, Ar kan:sas and Lou
isiana, 5,500,
Secretary of State.-In New-York and
Louiina, they receive a sanlary of 2,500.
In Massachusetts; Maryland, Georgia and
Mississippi 2,000. In Pennsylvania 1.604.
Illinois 1,100. Alabama 1,000 and fees.
Kentucky, Mtissouri. Ohio and Michigan.
1,000. Maine; 900. NorthCarolina, 800 td
fees. New Hampshire, 600. Ithode Island.
750 and fees. Arkansas, 700. lndiana,tiU0.
Delaware, 400. Vermont, 300. Connec
ticut, 84 and fees. New-Jersey 50 and fees,
and South Carolina only fees.
TreaseTr.-Maryland has two Treasu
rers, one forthe Eastern and one for the
Western Shore,at a salary of 2.000 each.
..Massachusetts, Virginia, Georgia and
Mississippl give 2,000. l'enunsylvania,
1,600. New-York, North Carolina, Ten
oessee, and Kentucky. 1,500. Missouri,
- 1.250. Ohio, 1,200. Connecticut, New
Jersey, Alabama and Arkansas,. 1.000.
Michigan and Illinois, 800, Ne w-1ianmp.
ahire, 600. Rhode Island, 450. Ver.
.mmt400, Louisiana, four per cent on all
moneys received.
Surveyor - General.-Georgta gives to
this oficer asalary of Z000. the ighest
given by any of the States. Missour gives
1500, Pennsplvanial,400, Bew-York and
M ar d 800. ~ --
.-t la-n..dwYo
Teoones'e 20, in-Connecticut, North
Caolin and Alabama, 1,000.
AIwyGenernt,-Louisianah pays the
*higheaSLary,3,000; Masn~chuset I ,20)0,
South Carolina 1-,100, aud fees, aam.
and Mississippi 1,00)0, Tennesse 1,000 and
fees, Missouri 650, Mlichigan 500, Ala
bama 425 and fees, Kentucky 400 aud
fees, -Delaware and lllinmois 3.-1) and fees,
Pennsylvania,300) and fees. Gecortia 250
and fees. New-Jersey 80 and fees.
The peculiar judiciary system n hicht
eulstsiu Georgia, prevents onr making any
very definite comnpariaonl with other
States. The highest judicial salary in
Georgia, is 2,100. In louisiama, thme Judige
- of the Supreme Court, atnd thejudge of the
1st District Court. (New -Orleans.) receive
5,000. The Chancellor in alaryland;
-3,600; the Chief Jutlice of the Supreme
Court in Massachusetts, 3.500; also, Ne w.
York, Pennsylvania. Virginaia, North
-Carolina, South Carolinau, Alabaima, Siis
sissippi and Kentucky, paiy higher individ
* nal salaries thnta Georgia. Th'le lowest
amount given is to' the Chief Justice of the
Supreme Court of Rhode 1-slandl 650.
The aggregate of the salaries of all the
Judges exceeds Georgia. in Lnuiianam,
~ennsylvania, Kentucky. South Caroilina,
Alabama, Tennesae, Maissary:,s N ew
York, Ohio, and North Carolina. In all
the other States it is 1r5. The highest
epeoditure for Judges is in Loiui-ianma,
where the united Salaries of the 14I judge-s
of the Supretme andl Circuit Court, is
64,000. The lowest in Rhode ilhand be
i'b oply of75 thenebers of the Legismla
tire, in Vermont, Rhode Island. Coninec
* xticht,. is 1 50 per day; in Mlaine. New Ilumop
shire, Massachusetts and lindiana, the pa'y
is 2 per day, in New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Delaware, N orth Carolia.
Ohio and Missotnri, it is : per day. In,
Ifaryland, Virginia, Suoth Catrolinat, Ala
bama, T'ennessee, Illinois and Georgia. thu
members receive 4 per day, and in Louis
iana it isI6 per day.
The E xecutive expentses r-f Georgia have
been estitmpjted at 15,0)00 for the year, bot
two states in the JUnion e xceed this, viz:
Louisiana 16,000. and Virginia 15.258.
'Nineteen of the States are withitn 10.000.
The Legislative expenses of Georgia
are estimated at 91,500, oeer twenty-siz
g&ouand more thtan any other State in the
Unsion. Massachusetts being the next in
aunoont, vrz.65,280. New York expends
is the department but 29, 880. Pernnsy I
-.,ania 33,600, and Virginia 41,280. T'he
entire exPenses of the Judiciary in Geor
* ,gia are 23,225. there being thirteen States
in which they are more. Louisiana rank
Jng the highest, in the atggregate of the
* three, Georgia stands next to Mfassachu
setts, which has an atnnual total expendi.
mre of~131,365, the largest of any State in
- the Union; the amount in Georgia being
-129,725. In but four States, viz. Hlas
saclingetts, Gcorgia, Louisianna and Vir
-- in, does the expenditure exceed 100.000.
is thirteen of them it is but A0,000 or un
9ler, Thus-the Stateexpen ss of Georgia
-.orernwreby-nearly 35,000 than those of
No-n York, with rideetisnes the numnberof
:..abitts 4&;000 more than Pennsylva
nsm with more than twice the number of
people; and exceeds the expense, of Ohio
with a population double ours, by over
72,000. 1
SAVAXNAM, Nov. 12.
Frm E. Florida.-By the steamer
Forester, Capt. Clark, we yesterday re
ceived tihe St. Augustine Herald of Friday
last.
The physicians of St. Augustine con
tradict the report that has appeared in some
papers or the prevalence of a malignant
epideaic in that city.
In their publiention they say-"That a
few cases-of violent congestive fever made
their appearance in a certain limited por
tion of our citv, produced by obrious local
causes. is not denied. But when we as
sert on our own positive knowledge, that
but cight deaths, fron fever ofany descrip
tion, oricinating in the city, have occured
in the.last twelve months, it is plain that
no epidemic fever could have prevailed,
Our population, by the late ceusus, amnounts
to 2.00, and we doubt whether there is a
aown oflhalfour population in the whole
South in which mortality from fever hasi
b.:en so small during the same period.
"The first death took place in August.
Two more occurred in September, and five
in the month of October-eight in all. Of
these eight, four at least, took place from
neglect on the part of the patients to avail
themselves tof timely medical advice, anti
one was a person ofuotoriously intemperate
litails. At present there is not a case of
fever within our corporate limits."
ST. Auousrts, Nov. 5.
There has been a heavy storm on the
Southern coast of the Peninsula, and seems
to have been felt as far North as Tampa.
At Key West the water came up into the
streets, the iabaitants going about in ca
nocs.
rhe storm at Punta Rosa was tremen
dous. It commenced on the 19th of last
month and prevailed fron 10 o'clock at
night ntil 3. The whole county was inuu
ldated. Four comtathnies of soldiers were
-tationed there, and with other persons
numbered about two hundred and fifty.
They retreated to the highest spot. the
hospital, which came at last to be knocked
up by the waves. Trunks, money, and
papers, all have bees lost.
Capta;nIt-MLaughlin and Burk have
recently passed through tho Everglades.
They entered apart at Key Biscayne anti
Indian Key, and came out to the North of
Cape Roatmatn. In their course they visi
ted Che-ki-ka's Island, discovered a lake
with several islands in it, destroyed a field
of corn of atout forty acres and saw five or
six Indians.-Georgian.
[From the Savannah Republican, Nov. 12.]
From Florida.-By the arrival, of the
U. S. steymer Charleston, Capt. Barden,
we are itt possession of the St. Augustine
Herald of the 5th. the News of the6th inst.
awl the subjoined letter.
Dr. Weightman, Assistant Surgeon of
the U. S. Armiy, died at St. Augustine on
on the 3thh ult,-of dropsy.
[Correspondent of the Sav. Republican.]
"Ne ais" Office, ST. AU oUSTINE,
Nev -7, 1341.
FOURTEEN LIVES LOST.
The steaspv William~aeso, ;CapP
V r "ierealn~ia INvc'~r y er we
learn that oTumiday, the25th of Octo
ber wahil.,t the Gaiston was stiatig ol'thtat
bar, the Pilot attmptedl to gt. out to tier.
tnd was eapsizedh, owing to the surf run
ning very high, as there had been a gale
blowitng for several days) and Mr. U. Ash
lock, a boy, nd 2 me-u belotnging to the
bout, and 7 U. S. soldiers were drowtned.
Itttt idiately after t he boat capsized. the
captaita of the Gatstotn had oue of htis yawl
boats mantned by fotur mien, and despatch
e.l to their asistatnce. but, utnfortunately,
their hoatt tmet the satte fate. and 3 out of
the 4 tmen were also drowned.
Frott Fort Dallas, we learn th at a scout
had been out fromi that p'st ?2 days, and
had not returned at thte last advice.. It i.
suppatol thaat they had gone in to sotte
other post.
A scout left Furt Pierce on the 3d inst.
for an exiaminatiotn of the ctountry.
The poist at New Saiyrnta has been di,
bandotned, and the troops have all remo
motved to Ftort Pierce.
T'he prospect of the war being brought
to a close ths winter by the energetic cota
atandler of the forces, Col. Wortht, is very
tiatteritng. notwithtstatnding the sly abuses
hea ped upon hitm bty a certain individual in
this qutarter. Co.l. Worth htas done much
fur l-h~rida, by his untiritng ceerios, and
tmuach will yet be accotmplished by him.
* P. S.-The steamser Souterner, Capt.
Watttersic, arrived here this evening frotm
New York, via Charleston, ona her way to
Texas, Captain Pentnoyer is a passenger.
INDIAN MURDERS.
Mt s n.u. Siatsos. (Fln.) Oct. 21, 1841.
To the Edutors of the 'Newas:'
Sir-I here hasten to give you an ac
count of recent marders committed by your
savage lhes, ot the famtily of one of our
tmo-t respectale citizens. Otn Sunda)
night (1yth inst.)hbetween the hours ol' 7
autd 8 o'clock, the house of Mr. George
Overstreet, distaut IU mniles from this place,
atnd etn the West batik of the Suwannaee
river, ini Hamilton County, was Sred on
by a party of Indians, supposed to number
aount fifteenm. TwoofMr. G. Overstreet's
children were killed, and his wife and
two children wounded. Two of Mr. Silas
Overstreet's children were in the house at
the time, but escaped unhurt. Dr. Ragli",
whos was also in the house at the same
time, is mortally wounded, having receiv
ed three balls in his body. He immediate
ly fled from the house, but from the loss of
blood, was unable to proceed more than
three hundred yards. where he secreted
himself until morning. Mr. Overtreem,
his ladly, and two wounded children fled,
and nr.ade good their escape. Mrs. 0.-and
her twocehilren who are woutnded, were
shot witharroies. Th~is ia most conclusive
proof that the ammunition of the Indians
maust. be nearly exhausted. The Indians
plundered, the house and theta applied the
torch,. ba5rLing it to the ground, with the
lifeless bodiesof Mr. 0's, two children in it.
Mr, 0. who was well situated in life, and
who laud evaery thingp cotmfortabl aroutnd
him, is uew witlah in wounded wife atnd
two children, thrown upon the world whith
s.arely a change of clnthes.
V.x4
Sa v. 18.
From Florida.-B et
Gen. Clinch, Capt. In of
the Georgian have receiv jacorres
pondent the followinig:
(Correspondeuceof the -an.)
EAS- FrL.aA, 1.
Dear Sir.-E very thi t along
the border, and nout a 'M is been
committed duringthe a last full
mOon. Indians Inam ' a are still
coming in, and surrendering, the I1th
inst. Halleck Harjo aid Indian
brought to Pilatkalen I m Spring
Garden, on the St. Johns: ock says,
alfter searching rour orfi d tiese were
the only indians he could the river,
and he believes there are h" Ibo -it, ex
cept high up, probablyso Mellon.
The diffeWret detachnip iid for
tde'Everglades' ep P moving
fron Tampa Bay to Wie atd posi
Lions aroun4- the big cy You may
soon ezpectato hear ta rosnthat
quarter, and I hope the ia - surren
der of Sam Jones and the
Nitr-O 11,
Late and infs*Stingfrou -The
Texas schooner of warSani, nio, Lieu
tenant Seeger commandi ived here
yesterday moring, in .se. days from
Sisal Yucatan. We ar6 ndbrobligations
10 Lieut, Seeger for full 6j161 Yucatan
papers up to the day oiflu sdeparture,
Tuesday, the 2d instant, and l6ikewise for
verbal intelligence later thanathat brought
by the papers.
An act declaringiYucataiindependent
of hlexico, had been 1ii6odt* into the
Yucatan Houseof Repren " and alier
a long and very interes jiebato had
been passed by almost an an insous vote.
It was immediately taken upin the Sea
aIe and a stormy discussion esued. No
Ioubt existed, however, of itsispeedy pas
tage through that body, and in full enact
nent into a law. -
The report that Santa Abta-had been
appointed Dictator in Mexical had been
iomi-officially conmnunicated to the gov
:rnment ol Yucatan.
When the Santa Antonio left Sisal there
were ini all seven vessels in port-the brig
Lucinda and a barque, both of-New York,
mn-l a schooner bound for Now Orleans,
ready to sail in a day or two, and four
Spanish brigs.
The government of Yucatan had pur
:hased a brig, which is to be armed with
eighteen guns. The naval fore at pre
sent cnssts-of ten guns and.two armed
schooners.
According to all accountseYucatan is
rapidly improving under the new order of
Lhings, being even now fifty ars an ad
rauce of the Mexican provinces general
ly,--Picaywnc.
MoanisNov. 12.
From Meico,--The Reualon ended,
Santa Antact the Head of the (sovernment.
-The sehr, Water Witch, Capt. Arnous,
trrived at No .egday, from
Vera C weeks
ner -his
are
)lete,
%nn
neat
onventi
Santn An
y dlecided t 9 S
hat Bustame i 1~~
he country. A le the
ity, says the new gore ea esagani
.ed on the Sunday previous, when the
llowing persona were named (or the
ninistry:-Gen. Fornell, minister of wart
omnez Pedraz~a, minister of foreign af
nirs: C. Cartillion, minister of industry;
Francie Garcia, minister of finance. Ont
lie 27th husiness was said to be entirely
its atnd in Vera Cruz, except the (or
warding of goodIs to the interior. Santa
in,,a w~as mauking great reforms. The
ontutry generally had become quieted.
ainnaAnna is a treacherous, ambitiotis and
evesageful man-and the N.O0. Bulletin
hinks that Texas and Yucatan may rea
onbly expect to receive some of his at.
eantion. so soon as lhe shall have arranged
ill the troubled affairs of the capital and
he vicitaity. lHe will show himself absa
ate again.
The Bece remarks:-"Much is said of
he importatnt reformation to be establish
~d lby t he ne w government. It is by
>rnhmises that Sanata Anna has obtained
eminence, but that he will sacredly fulfil
hem is more than doubtful. He has no
eputation for scruples of conscience, and
ares little (or consiency. Power is what
e seeks and power he has got.
Itis itouht by some that this revolu
ion augurs badly for Texas. We do not
igree with them, The advest of Santa
unna to office is not likely to fill~the cof
rers of the treasury, and it is the want of
money .and not of any disposition to hos
ilities which has hitherto pitvented the
avasion of Texas, we look for so prolonged
:nion among the different chiefs and par
ies in Mexico. Coalitions of euch diverse
ngredients rarely survive anoitheir object
das been accomplished.
Going to Law.-One of our~subscribers
ook it into his heed the other lay, that he
would not pay for his paper., No, not he!
We might get our pay if we ,ould- Al
bough we are very unwilling to resort to
law, yet we did in this ease, pe confess,
employ a lawer to attend t oe buisiness.
Deur opponent was very cenrin nothing
.ould be obtained of him. It Bant tocoturt.
lhe debt was small-four or Eve doliars.
When it came out of court-(we beat him
of course, for we had justice sp our side)
-the original debt was saddles with costs,
sufficient to ran the whole amiountt uP to
aout rtwenty defluTa. We. have got 0ur
aand presume the lawyeu have re
eeoved iheire. So much for geing .to law
rtrer an attempt to delaud the prater of
is just dues.-Easten Argus.
A crime is the violation of saine right.
Eery bank that violates the bw is crimi
3a1, and there cannot be a vegted. right to
Jo wrong, and Iiifring, the rights of others,
We create a patent nobility of~ shiaplaster
rones, and complain of beisens enimed.
So long asjbankers can goveriegislatutres,
0 long will nobility last and 'So longer.
St. Clajoville Gazette,
"Abfradesu'sts."-There are twosort
otAbstractionists in our country, which
ay be called Virginia .bstractionists and
Kentucky Abstractionists.
The Virginia Abstructionist is one who
recognizes the obligations of oaths, the du
ty of obeying the Constitution, and the ob
servance of moral principle in the man
agement of public affairs.
The Kentucky Abstractionist is one
who -looks chiefly to abstractiug money
from the people's pockets for the purpose
of building up a Nobility, (at present with
out the name,) in Bankers, Manufacturing
Capitalists, and other privileged or favor
classes. How the money is taken he re
ally does not care; but all of his class pre
fer a Tariff because irslips dollars-and tens
of dollars out or the Farmers' pocket with
outhis knowing it. To tax men and at
the same time make them believe they are
not taxed, is the ne plus ultra of a "Keu
tucky AbstractionisL" Talk of constitu
tions and- oaths to him!-Ho will smile
upon you as a poor, benighted "Virginia
Ahbstractionist," an age behind the times
in all that is practical and clever,
Many Whigs Papers, which have grown
wise from experience, openly speak or the
absurdity of expecting to elect Mr. Clay
President. Of this description is the Gran
ada (Miss) Reporter, edited by James 31.
Neviyon, esq. a Whig candidate for the
Legislature :
"Henry Clay will cot be the next Presi
dent. He might very well please the
Nothern tariflitin, and the bankers and
stockjobbers of Wall and Chestnut streets;
and he might even tie not unacceptable to
the mercantile interests of the South ; but
his high tariffuotions will no mom coalesce
*ith the free trade and State rights opin
ions of the cotton planters of the States,
than oil and water will mingle their na
tures. It can't be done. Politicians may
tell of the honor and glory that would re
sult from such election, and they may ex
patiate in glowingt terms upon the immense
achievement! of3Mr. Clay-but it all won't
do-he is the proscribed of the people and
their bans is on him."
From the Alevandria Index.
Will Virginia take the Bribe.-We hail
with satisfaction, the contemplated refusal
of South.Curolina, to take the bribe that
is offered to her by that shameful law, the
Distribution bill. We know that Virginia
wtll respond nobly to the voice from the
Palmetto groves, and spurn the price of
virtue. Can a Democratic anember of
this Confederacy touch the accursed thing?
We cannot believe there will be found an
Achan in the cutup, who would sell his
life and the liberty of hia country, for a
wedge of gold. Better far that it should
be ground into powder, and be turued into
vermin, than that a nation should be bribed
with it, to its everlasting ruin.
Away thou with the spoil of the plunder.
er. Give it buck with a voice of indigna
that shall ring from the Ohio to the Ches
apeake. The people of Virginia have no
desire to be bribed; and were they ever so
venal, they would be 'simpletons to be
bought with their own money, and then be
ed 25 per cent. more to pay for it. Men
he Old Dominion, spurn the treasure
ould the gold of the pirate or
'Diribution Bill.-The Ohio Cos
lte of the 9th inst. says;
sty of the Ohio Legistature.-One of
first duties of the next Legislature, in
our opinion, should be to pabs a joint reso
lution instructing our senators and recom
mending our Representatives in Congress,
to vote for the repeal of the infamous Dis
tribution or Bribery Bill forced through
the extra session, by Henry Clay, and his
"white Charlies," They should also re
solve, that in case the bill is not repealed.
that Ohio will bestow her portion (8J00,
000) upon the general Governmetnt, to
p lace itt a commnon fund, for the National
Defence! In this course, she would only
be following the glorious example of her
step-mother, Virginia, who gave up her
territory to the General Government. for
the same patriotic purpose. But if neither
of the above su::gest ions are practicable,
then we s:,y, Ohio should appropriate her
portion, to the defence of hier own frontier.
Singular Suicide.-A young man nam
ed Luther Harris, aged about 21, comtmit
suicide at Marlborough, N. HI. week be
fore last having first wcritten a notice of/his
death, which he forwarded to the Keene
Sentinel. It is as rfollo ws:
"Melancho ly.-Died in Marlborough,
Oct 1. Luther Harris. He took his own
life, lie wvas teacher of the select school
in Marlboro' when he died, and gave no
reason which no one else has thouht of.
His hodly was carried to his friends in
Windham. His. soul is niow in another,
another atnother world. Mtay it be a war
ning to others not to take aheir own lives.
His connexions were respectable. His
father is a minister of thae gospel. His
school by this act is broken up and wnill not
soon be started again)."
Wonten Fattened at Tunis for Marriage.
A girl, after she is betrothed, is cooped up
ina smell room ; shackles of gold and silver
are placed upon her ankles andl wrists, as
a piece ol dress. If shte is to be married
to a man who has discharged. dispatched,
or lost a former wife, the shackles which
the former wife wore are put on the new
bride's limbs, andl she is fed till to a prop
er thickness. The food used for this cus
tom, worthy or the barbarians, is called
drough, which is of an extraordinary fat
tening quality. With thais seed, and their
national dish, cuscasco, the bride is liter
ally crammed and many actually die un
der the spoon.
Melanacholy Rrsult of Cupidity.-T he
Louisville Journal states that two or three
weceks ago three hundred foreign emigtats
arrived at the Balize below New Orleans.
The city authorities hearing oftheir arrival,
and anxious that they should not fall vic
tims to the yellow fevers, sent a deput ation,
warning them not to enter the city, and of
fering to furnish them with the means of
subsistence until the pestilence should sub
side. The emigrants thought that it was
all a Yankee trick. "We are told," said
they to the deputation." that we can make
three dollars a day in New Orleans: if athe
authorities will pay us that, we will stay
where we are-.--if not, not." The poor
felaw astaed tothecity; and, aho lasI
dateu.it is said that not one of them wm
living--N. Y. Suin.
T.. labor of saind.-It is no unusua
thing to hear the farmer and meebani4
assert that their representatives at the cap
ital, from the President to the member o
Congress, "have an easy time of it an,
are well paid." In this they are mista
ken. A reposing attitude does not al way
constitute repose, nor idle hands idlenes
,with public men, The farmer goes to th
field in the morning, and at night enjoy
refreshing slumber while nature crowns hi
labors with success. It is not so with th
statesman. After mingling with friend
and foes, and transacting the multifarios
duties of his office during the day, he throw
himself down at eve, but not to rest-ther
is no rest-:here is no rest for him! Con
scions of his responsibility-a responsibili
ty which probably involves the welfare c
millions-it is his constant study how ti
promote and preserve his fame by avoid
ing the numberless evils that beset him
and how to secure to the country all th,
benefits of his experience and wisdom.
He has no rest. While recumbent a
midnight on his couch, (though his couci
may be of down.) could the merry lnbore
but see his pallid cheek, his fiery sleeples
eye, and his clammy brow, he would ex
claim "there is no rest there!" And is
such hours-when no sound is heard bu
the lone cricket's chirp, and no light sect
but the pale rays of the moon streaminj
through the casement-the genius of 1h4
stateman frequectly decides for weal oi
woo the fate of an empire! It may re
quire years to accomplish the object resol
ved upon, and the exertions of a million o
inen to ell'ct it; but the result will be pro
cisely what was anticipated by the appa
rently effeminate being in his miduighi
studies.
The faithful public servant is truly a
slare to his country. lie labors not. witi
his hands, but the labor of his mind during
a single hour may give employment to ser
thousand hands for years! If the repre
senatives of the people represent then
truly, it can neither be said of them thai
they are fed at the "public crib" to reple
tion, nor that their couches are "beds ol
roses."-Madisonian.
EDGEFIELD C. H.
TuuasDAY. Nuvtmsta 25. 1841.
U7 The Legialature of this State coamenc
ed it regular session, at Columbia, on Monda:
The. Court of Appeals convened, at Colum
bia, on Monday last.
07 The lon. D. L Wardlaw. lion. Jol
Johnston, Judge O'Neale, and the Rev. Basi
Manly, have been spoken of as suitable person
to fill the place vacated by Mr. Barnwell, a
President of South Carolina. College.
OX The following gentlemeu.were appoint
ed Delegates to the Stats Agricultural Society
Wh a~t olumbia. on Moada last, !z tba
field Brooks, Esq., N. L. Griffin, Esq., and Dr
I. C. Griffin.
E. Bellinger, Jr., Esq., of Barnwell, at tht
joint request of the two Societies, in the Souti
C.arolina College, will deliver an Address in the
College Chapel, during the present sessiot
of the Legislature, at Columbia.
Grand Military Dispay.-It will he seen b~
reference to the last orders from his Excellenac,
the Commnander-in-.Chief (which we publish ir
to.day's paper.) that there as something snew, is
the Mlilitary line, to come off in Columtbia, ot
the 6th of December next.
On that day the 3rd Brigade of Cavalry. ans
the 23rd Regiment of infantry. are ordered ou
for drill and review, and several comipanica
from the other Brigades have volunteered to be
resenm on thme occasion, so that there will be a
least three Regiments of Infantry and two o
Cavalry to be reviewed. They wilt be com
manded by Gent. McDufle, and reviewed b3
his Excellency Governor Richardson and htia
Staf'; wvhich on that day will consist of his Aid
de-Camps, and the Major and Brigadier Gene
rats, and their respective Staffs, in all aboui
ne hundred and fily, all uniformed according
to the late regulations. So many Generals,
and Colonels, and Majors, and Captains. we
suppose, have not met together in the United]
States since the last war, and we hope that they
will convince our Legislators that a restoratior
of the Brigade ,Encampment system is loudly
called for, not only by the officers, hut the citi'
r~en generally.
Splendid Military Parade,-lt will he
seen by reference to the Military Order o1
His Excellency, Goy. Rtcuaansosw, thai
a splendid military parade is to occur it
this place, on Wednesday, the 8th of De
eeber next-we presume the most exten
sive display of the kind ever witnessed it
this State. Gov. RacusamsoN deserve.
great credit for the ho'ld and manly am
and enthusiasm he has manifested in aros
in the dormant military spirit of the State.
and if the Legislature does but second his
eff'orts as they merit, our people wilt have
great cause, in the public peace and- seen
ray that will follow, to remember his pub'
licspirited and efficient ad ministratior
with grateful pride and admiration.
South C'arolinian.
Soth Wecstern Rail Road Bank.-At an eke
tion heldl on the 18th inst., at the Bank Hall, is
Charlestont, the following gentlemen were elect
ed Directors for the ensuing year:
James Rose. M1. C. Mtordecai, John Diune
vnt, William Patton, James Legare, Johnt Wi
hams, C. A. Mawood, D. F. Flemmaing, E
P. Starr, J. R. HiayesJ. F. Green, I. E. Hiolme.
D. C. Levy
At the same time, the following gentlemie
were elected Directors of the Lou. Cin. an
Ch...eston R. R. Co. for the ensuing year:
James Gadsden, T. Tupper, F. 11. Elinoree
G. A.Trenholm, Andrew Wallce,Jon Bryce,
John Dunovaut, S. Glover, Joel Adams, C.
Birckmyer, W. C. Dukes. Ker Boyce. A. Ma
zyck, Wlampton, John Y. Stock.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Bank,
held on the lth inst., James Rose. Euq., was
unanintously elected President of that Institt
tion-and at a tueeting of the Direcuors e'ibe
i Louisville, Cincinnati and Charlson R. R.
r Company, also bld on the 19th inst., Col. Jas.
3 Odsden was unanimously elected Presideof
I that Company. -Courier.
" 'De Pl9g Bey.-This periodical. published
; at the office of this paper, has thus far progress
S ed, (having received a patronage frr aomve our
expectations;) and is becominguserul toall coo.
cerned, in any way, with Agricukure, as the
price of subscription will en"blose a m
desirous of obtaining usefulknowledgeto p.,
cure it through the medium of the column, or
the Plough Boy, at the low rate of $1 50 per
annum. To those who are subscribers to ahe
Advertiser, the price is but $1 per annum,.a.
part of the selections appear in both paper.
that is, so much of the Agriculinraj maner as ig
selected for the Advertiser, as ay beosider
ed worth preservation, will appear in the co
lumns of the Ploug h Boy.
The Masonic Journal.-We acknowledge
the receipt of the two first numbersofthis-new
periodical, published at Augusta, Geo.,:by
3essrs. Davis&Thompson; printed by Meas..
Browne & McCafferty. We judge &om the
contents of those numbers before us, that the
work is intended more especially for members
of the 3Masonic Fraternity ofour country, and
to such we would recommend it, as an useful
periodical. The mechanical part is well eg.
cuted. and adds another to the list of well print.
ed periodicals in the Southern section of abt
country.
The Journal is published monthly, in octava,
each number containing 32 pages, at the mod -
rate ptice of $3 per annum, payable on the de.
livery ofte first number.
' Subscriptions received at this offie.
By the frllowing, it appears that the worthy
publishers of the Brothcr Jonathaa proposes ac.
commodating the public-with a quaro publica.
tion of that paper, which, no doubt, will be found
to answer the purpose of binding, better than
their present large unwieldy sheet, to those
who wish to preserve it.
"On the first of January next, we shall pri.
sent the readers who prefers that style of publi
cation, with a Quarto Jonathan. In form and
arrangement it will he original and unique, di(
fering from any now before .the pobhic, and,
unle.s our labor in study and projecton has bepa
lost, an improvement upon any. Bound up at
the close ofthe year. the Quarto Jonatisaa wil
form a volum'e, or a couple of volumes ofread.
ing matter, uncceeded for variety and excel.
lence by any collection in the world. Paitien-.
Iars will be shortly inuuet; and in the mean
thne, strangers who may be in the city'and wish
to subscribe can do s. The price will be like
that of the folio: $300 per annum ill advance."
The late editorof the Madisonias,'Mr. Allen,
has retired from the editorial chair, and Mr. .
B. Jones hai succeeded him, whopromises, t
President Tyler's first Cabinet, at a suitable
season.
The following remarks 'clipt from t~ eo
bumns of'the Forsyth Bantling, snits the phn
time eaetdy; as we have more canting, hypo.
critical renegades, wandering through our
country now, then has been heard of for years
back, whao make their living by robbery;'of a
kind, that the laws of our country takes no cog.
nizance of, that is, pasainig theniselves off as
Iministers of the gospel, of some persuasion',
Imissionaries, or those who are sent to precure
Ialms for religious institatu'ns; or they will as
sumne some other religious garb that will an
swer to del-eive the unwary,
"The commutnity is much tmore. ready to re
ceive persons oafa sanctimonious appearance,
than those who are more openi, less hypocriti
cal, but who do not seek the aid of rehigion to
bolster themselves up. For our own pnwe
rcannot conceive how villany-in the form of'
piety can be so successful. We ever distrust
the low tune, the canal about religion, the very
obs,:quious bow, and set down the .individusal
using them as a villain uat hteart. Religion, the
religmon of heaven, hai need of no fictitious aid-.
It will bear the test of the severest scrutiny and
the mnostsearchaing philosophy."
Pork.-The Pittsburg Daily American oesthe
8th inst. says: " We are told upon good au
thority, that Pork can now be contracted for in
the interior of Indiana, for $1 50 per l00lbs."
The Charleston Mercrary of Saturday lsst eon
taans the following;
"We have received the following account of
the loss of one. than whose death that of no pub.
lie man out ofour own State could have affected
us with a deeper grief. To Alabama it is the
loss of a son and lender, than whom, sha.had.
-none nobler. South Carolina will. mourn hism
as a faithftul and zealous friend-sand his coun
try and the great cause of truth bive lost inlhita
a vigilant, edlicient, datuntless champion, while
all who knew him personally will remmnp
him as the faithful friend, the sarong mined
cheerful, frank and genierous man."
The Mfacon Tehegiaphi of the 16th inst. says:
We learn with the deepest regree., that the lion.
Dixon II. Lewis, of Alabama. died recendly in
the vicinity of 3lobile,of Congestive fever. in
the demuise of this emtinenst Statesman, and p..
triot, the Republic las sustained a loss not east
ly repairable, and the democracy, of oar noble
sister, one of their abilest chiefs. and brighest or
naments -We tender to our brethren of Alaba
ma, the expression of our deepest sympathies
in their bereavement.
B. R. Carroll, Esq., on MIonday last,
delighted. umused ant inustrtucted an audi
ence at tho e lthodist Chu~rch in this town,
with a lecture, and recital of the mnanners.
and cnstoms of the early settlers of .this
State. Mr. Caurroll is perhape 'be best rend
historian of the dany otn the subject of whicell
he treats-ndu.ihat for sears been -gsber'
ing facts, fromt .'old mnanuscripts, whipb%
will manke a woark from his pen valuabd6 fr
supaplying what was omitte~d byv our lament
edt Ratmsay. Much is to lbe 'guined i.
way of contforamingt to what were the. use
gesof our fuaaefathers in the way of econo
and industry, an'd' home work, . ButZ that
I we have imnproved the general wifare of
: society within the-last eennur gastbad
mitted-IWinU~h O6#gcfr -