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Charleston, 12th April, 1845.
ORDEn No. 3
T HE following Regiments will parade for
Review and Drill, at the times and places
us follows, viz:
The 44th Regiment of Infantry at Sumter
ville, on Wednesday the2lat of May next.
The 20th Regiment .at the Swimming Pens,
ou Friday the 23d of May.
The 29th Regiment at Darlington c. house,
on Monday the 26th of lay.
The 30th Regimnentat Bennettsville, on Wed
nesday the 28th of May.
The 28th Regiment at Chesterfield c. houe,
on Friday the 29th of May.
The 21st Regiment at Lancasterville, on
Tuesday the 3d of June.
The 22d Regiment at Catnden, on Friday
th'e 6th of June.
The 25th Regiinent at Winnsboro', on Thurs
day the 12th of June.
'The 24th Regiment near Winns' bridge, on
Saturday the 14th of June.
The 6th Regiment of Cavalry at Yonngs
v"ille, on Tuesday the 17th ofJnue.
The 26th Regiment of Infantry at Chester
ville, on Thursday the 19th of June.
The 27th Regiment at Rich Hill, on Satur
day the 21st of Junce.
The 46th Regiment at Ebenezer, on Tues
day the 24th of June
The 34th Regiment at Yorkville, on Tuesday
the 26th of Juune.
The 37th Regiment at or near Wilkins's old
field, on Saturday the 28th of June.
The 35th Regumnent at Union Co'urt ,louse,
on Tuesday the 1st day of July.
The 9th Regiment of Cavalry, near the
Gleen's Sp'rgs, on Thrsday the 3d of July.
The 10th Regiment of Im.fintry. at Richard
son's on 'iusday the bth of July.
The 7th Rheament at the Old Wehs, on
Thursday the 10th of I tuy.
The 9th Rteiment at Low's, on Saturday
the 12th of July -
The Comissioned Oflicers of the 2d Bri
gade of Inlientry and the 2d Iegiment of Cav
alry, will ussemble at Longinmre's, on Monday
the 141h of July, and Encamp five days.
The 2d Regiment of Cavalry. wili parade
for Review and Drill, on Saturday the 19th of
.July.
'ie 8th Regiment of Infantry, at Morrow's
old field, on 'Tyesday the 22d of July.
The 6th Regiment at Lomax's, on Thursday
the 24th of July.
The 4th Regiment at Verremnes, on Sattrrday
the 26th of July.
'rhe 42J1 Regiment at Minton's, on Tuesday
the 29th of July.
The 2d Regimnt at Hlall's, on Thursday the
31st of July.
'The 5th Regiment at linnter's, on Saturday
the 2d of August.
The Comnumssioned Officers of the 1st B'i
. gade of Infantcry. and the 1st Regiment of Cav
alry, wvil assewmle at Pickensville, 'mn aonday
the 4th of August, and Enucamp five days.
1st Reginment of Cavalry.. will parade for
Review and Drill, on Saturday thme 9th of
August.
The 1st Regiment at Bruton's, on Thursday
the 14th of August.
'Tie 36th Regimentat Timmn's, on Tuesday
the 19th of August.
'Phe Commisioned and Non-Commissione'd
officers will assemble onm the day p.reviouns, ex
cept those of the 19th Regiment. and they will
assemble on the Saturday previous for drill and
instruction. ..
Trhe 5th Regimaentof Cavahy will parade by
Companies or Squadrons, (except that part in
Richland 'District) with the Infatntry Regiments
tuost convenient.
Trhe Major Generala and Brigadier Generals.
ywill, with their staff, attend the Rev-iews anid
Encamnptmnts within . their respective cuim
mands.
The B'rigadierGenerals are charged with the
extension of this order, to their respective Bri
gades5.
By order of the Commuander-in-Chief.
3. WV. CANTEY, Adjutant and Insp'r. Gen.
April23 ~ 14 ,- f4I
AND
J E WE LRY.
GOLD and SILVER WATCI11ES, Man
tle Clocks,
-Gold Bracelets, Rings, Breast Pins, Chains,
&c., of'the latest fashion and finest quality.
Fine Castor. Candlesticks, &c.
Old Silver Plate repaired and made asnew.
Silver Spoons made to brder.
Watches and Clocks ropaired and warran
ted.
Jewvelry made and-.repaired. At
G C. GORDON'S
fiv-e doors below the United States' Ihotel.
Fe7 3!3m 2
EDGEFIELD C. H..
WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1845.
" We will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of
Our Liberties. and if it must fall, we will per
isA amidst the Ruins."
In consequence of the great length of the
Address of the Rev. Dr.- Johnson, which we
published in our last, much selected and some
original matter was omitted. We have how
ever, inserted it in our columns of to-day.
Thc -Jews in England.-In the House of
Lords, on the 17th April, the Lord Chancellor
obtained leave to introduce a bill to repeal the
civil dissabities of the Jews, so fat as muni
cipal and capital offences are concerned. It
was read a first time, and has since passed.
T/e East Indies.-The Supreme Govern
tnent of the Anglo Indian Territories, accord
ing to lite foreign papers, has andertuien a
legal reform of great intfportance--which is to
declare the law of England the general law
throughout the whole country, and for all per
sons except Hindoos and Mahomtnedans.
Education in Ireland.-The Fieeman's Jour.
nal, a Catholic paper. states that in -Ireland
there are three millions and a half of people
who can neither read nor write. The piopula
tion of Ireland is something more than eight
-millions.
Harvard College.-The Hon. John Picker
ing, L. L. D., of Boston. has succeeded Mr.
Harvard as President of Harvard College.
Friction J.atches.-Editois of newspapers
often urge upon their renders caution in the
stowage of friction matches. It is befleted that
many of the fires which are said to be cansed
by incendiaries, or to result from unknown
causes, are occasioned fr'in jilaciigtbiies
dangerous articles where they are jostled hy
rats, or where something' falls upon he boxes
whieh contain then.
Tola.%s RITcHIE, Esq.-We noticed some
time since, the retirement of Mr. Thmnas
Ritchie from the editorship of the Richmond
Enquirer. lie is now at the head of the Vaslr
ington Globe, which will hereafter be c,.Iled
the Washington Union. This paper doubt
less will be the princip'al organ of the Admin
istration. The opinion of so distinguished a
politician and writer as Mr. Ritehie, on the
subject of a Revenue Tarify.is of considerale
importance. Before he abandoned the Ricli
mond Enquiter, he was appointed Chairman
of the Democratic Central Committee of Vir
ginia, and wrote the Address of the said Coin
mittee, to the People, prepar-itory to the.Spring
elections.. We quote the concluding part of the
address.
We have finished the examination of
the course of the Whig party. All the
facts are now befoire the people. It is for
them to decide upon the conduct of their
public functiona'ries. Itmportant issues
are still before th,- country. I'Te victory
of I844 bas not destroyed the Whig patrty.
It must ho followed up and sustained, be.
fore it effects arry-lung w hich Whig energy
may tnot destroy. The annexatiorr of
Texas is not yet completed. The~ Taritf
is not yet reduced to a revenue standard ;
dd the next Virginia Leuish.ntre may de
fat the t wo leadling measures of~ then De
mocratic party, by3 placing~ thme United
States Senate io the-hanmds of ottr av
ries. We have the people mthdi m
if misrepresentaltion cati lhe avoided,all will
he well, and the fruitsq of the late arduous
contest will be realized to the nation.
The cmotest was decided in favor of
the Demiocra~tie pri: ciphes. Tih-- voice of
the people, mn elevatintg Mir. Pltk to the
Chief~ Magistracy of the Unoited. Stites,
codemnited a Protective Tumrsif, :j National
Bank, the Distribumtion of ie Procerds of
the sales of the Ptu;lic Lands atnong the
St ates, and t hat latitudinous const ructiotn
of the Constit titiotn on wt hich thiose mtee
sures depend. Wea have received the
joint resolutioti for the atnnexation of TVex
as. as the fruit of that vie~ory ; and the
Tarif remain~s as the all-.absorbing ques
tion now to be decided. Trhat question
having been cotmpromised, and the coin
promise having beetr violated, must cumn
tinue to agitate the co'untrv until one of
the great parties shall be utterly vanqluish
ed. One "-Treaty of Peace" having beetn
destroyed, without scruples or hesitation,
we can see no guarantee that aoy other
will he observed longer than policy might
require. Firmly resolad, therefore. to
make hostility to protection a test of po
liical faith, the Dernocratic Presidetnt,
ssained lby a majoty ntot only on the
flor of Congress, hut throughout the coun
try, for arnple redress of our long sus
tained grievances.
The people of the agricultural and ex
porting States have suffered suflicie-utly
long under a system, which forces them
to bear an nnttc share of the burthens of
Government, whilst they see their sister
States enriched, because the Government
is burthensotne. That duties on importa
tions operate as a tax on consutption,
was never, to our knowledge, dented, un
til a necessity existed to uake a line of
policy palatable to our people, which had
been forced upon them against their earn
est remonstrances. That being conceded,
it follows, as a,tnecessary- consequence,
that the labor invested in any unprotected
employment must pay whatever duties
way be levied, and collected on the arti
cles which it consumes, whilst the doimes
tic producer of those articles noi only
'avoids the payment of the impost, but is
enabled by those duties, to sell a portion
of his products at higher rates than if no
revenue was needed by the Government.
The exigencies of the nation are thus made
a source -"f profit to the manufacturer; for
protection-not only shilts the burthen of
Government from his shoulders, but makes
his trade more profitable than it would be,
it there was no'burthen to be sustained by
the people. This we hold to be so un'ust
and.oppressive-so contrary to the le iti
mate functions of a good government
that nothing but an express recognition in
the fundamental law could give such
power to Congress. Ttfs recogmition can
not be found in the Constitutio..
We admit the power "to lay and col
lect taxes, duties, imports and excises, to
pay the debts and provide for the corn:
mon defence and general welfare of toe
'United States;" but den. it for any other
purpose whatever. To provide a fund to
be thus expended being the only obiject
recognized by the Constitution, or consis
tent with justice, we hold it to be evident
that a tarifishould not be levied for any but
revenue purposes which should be made
to apply tn levying every item of duty.
Although revenue and protection are inci
dental to each other, within certain lim
its, yet they are hostile in their natures.
Revenue depends upon the amount of in
poriations which comes into the country
while protection can only be uflorded by
ex.cluding'a part or the whole product of
foreign industry. If a desire to diseriti
nate, with a desigo ti'afford protection. be
allowed to fix and determine any item of
duty, it gives, to that extent, a protective
character to any scale of duties which con
tains such a discrimination. If the de
gree of the protection thus affurded should
not amount to prohibition, the merefact.
that revenue is incidentally produced.
does not prevent its being a fraud on the
onustitution, as well as an aet- of oppres
sIontrhe'people. A principle is thereby
smuggled into the Government, and allow.
ed to control the course of legislation,
though hostile in its nature to the power
from which it is applied, and destructive
in its operation, to the pretext by which it
is admitied. Should-this point be yielded
the whole question is surrendered. Under
the power to discriminate for purposes of
protection,. the revenue may be destroyed
by prohibitory duties. Anti tithe interests
of the country require that .the power
should be exercised in one instance, and to
a certain degree, we can see no reason
that it should not be exercised in every in
stance, audio any degree, whier would
not force the government to resort to di
rect taxation, as the only means of de
fraying its expenses. -
Experience proves, that low duties, by
increasing importations, affect the greatest
amount of revenue, and, although pro
tection to most articles of domestic tanu
facture be the necessary and unavoidable
incident to any system of duties, yet we
deny that this consequence is one of the
Constitutional purposes for t he accomplish.
mcni of which a Tarifishoule be framed.
1i therefore tbecomecs the duty* f Congress
to fifil the ex pectatin of the peop:c, by
eniacting a revenue bill, and, in framriing
the torif oh idutie's, to mnake its purpose
nutcjtiv)call by aidopting the limit oef the
Comtpromtise as lie miaximtum duty. Th'le
Demoicratic party having beeni onace be
trayed shouldt no-t consent to further con
cessioni or longer delay, but task all its en
ergics to carry out the deectrine of rree
trade, sentcti-oned as it is by justice, atid de
iuttdedi by thec peoplle in the election of
out Ceiif Magistrato. The Coinvention
which made hiim the candidlate of the party
in the late conte-st, by the same authority
pronounued for the party againast a pro
iectiv~e sysiem. Havitng recently poincted
th~e tition to his past history to tmake
clear his pre-sent positioni and en-able us to
forsee his future course, we feel nissure-d
that the President wil obtain to the end
that zealonis supp~ort w~e have heretofore
given hiimMby sustainitig those views which
madce hitm the candidate of his par:y. and
the Chief Magistrate eof the Untion.
With this vital questiotn before tihe coon
1ry-with the Jeoint keselution for the an
nexationt of Tex as, niot finally det,-rminied
-we call upotn our fiiends every where to
exert themselves in favor of the Demiocrat
ic principles-pinciples which have beetn
sanectionted not only by the State, lbut hy
the Union. Every- whore to the Nort-h,
we see the ,Whig and Ahnhttion parties
contending that ii is lawful and dlesirable
yet to defeat the antiexetion of Texas to
the U. S.-and this unheard of doctrine is
sanctioned by many members of the WVhig
party of the South. Under these circum
staces, wve earnedly recommitend to our
friends throughout the cotnutry,. to dis
eharge their whole dutj' to themselvesand
to their cause. The next Congress of the
Uniited States may be fraughit with the
most miotmentuus conisequenaces. The next
Legisla ture orfVirgintia is very imtport ant.
Indepindetily of ot her questinis, recollect
that a 'nator of the United States, and
drl, the coming session. Organize,
the Organize immediately, and save the
Stat Extend your Committees of Vigi.
lajci to every- precinct. Frown down
ever jattempt to distract and divide your
force and make ambition give place to
those rinciples upon which the happiness
and prosperity of our people depend. As
for d rselves, with right and justice in our
favor we look with confidence to that
p ir support, which will make trium
p the cause which deserves to triumph.
THOS. RIT('HIE.
C inan of the Democratic Central Com'iltec.
ichatond, March 22, 1845. -
UOREIGN NEWS.
from the New-Orleans Bee, April 29.
ER. FOM MEXICO.
e arrival yesterday, of the schtoon
er atana, from Vera Crux, we have
rec, full fies of papers of the 21st,
fro at city, and to the 17th-brm the
city 'Mexico.
G Almonte had arrived at Vera
Cr t ,had not gone on tomtbe Capitol
who Yucatann left.
'' were at Vera Cruz four Amerj
can.;. o Spanish ; one English and one
Frenfti m n of war. -
T joint Co inittee of -the Mexican
Coi es to which had been referred the
subj Ijqf Texas, reported at length on the
7th i The repuit is' a document mark
ed w' the usual characteristics of Mexi
can Vrbosity, prolixity and bombast. It t
ab-us the United States in 'choie Castil t
tan, tu calls us many hard names, com
part the Government at- Washington to
ancie t Rome, which in the name of
Libei ;nNo Republicanism, suhjagated c
the drJd. Alter many brave words
aboutitraged rights, honor,' Mexican
coura acd the like, the reports concludes
bytre anientfiug two projects.
Th fint is preceded by a preamble
decl that, whereas, the United States
hae olued to annex. the territory of
'Texs and, whereas, such a mode of
appro ting foreign territory to which
othel- ions lay claiqi, is a monstrous in.
nova pon the p.ace of the world and
the igumy of other powers; and
where this act had long been in prepar
ion, en while the United States were
profes peace and friendship for Mexido,
and ' e- the latter reuspected and ob
serve ty}pulously the terms of existiu P
trroiG
whedlas, the said annexation is a violation
of eiry conservative principle of society,
an asault upon the.rights of Mexico, an
insulito her dignity as a sovereign nation, s
and setiaces her independence and politi
cal sistence. therefore, the Congress of
the ilexican Republic solemnly declare,
that he law of the United Staies for tire
annetation of Texas to the American
Uniue, in no respect impairs the rights
whtil \lexico possess and will maintain
to thuaepartment;
Furuermore, that the United States
having disregarded the principles upon
whichire based treaties of amity, coin
merceond navigation, and mord especially
of huwdary. Congress considers them vi
olatedhy the United States.
And finally, that the unjust usurpation
of wheh it is sought to make Mexico the
victim makes it her duty to take up arms
in herdefence, to oppose such usurpation,
arrd i6i the full and rightful determnina- I
tion t, use all her resources and power to
preveit the annexation cecreed by the i..
State.
ThI second consist of four articles,
which are as follows
Firt -The ilexican nat ion calls upon
her gals to defend their national inilepen
dence threatened by the usurpation of the
tertitay of Texas, which is sought to be
ctnsuntmated by a .decree passedl by Con-i
gress andm sarictioned by the President of
the Uiited States.
Seemd-TIhereforeC the Governmrent willI
contiUer itself at liberty (pondra poner) to .
catll forth its entire permanent anid active
mnilitury force, agreeably to the authorityi
givet. to it by existing laws.1
rtird-For the preservation of public
ordei, and the maintenance of her inisticu
tionis, and( if necessary, as a reserve fort
the a-mxy, the Gnvertlnment itn virtue of the
powir granted to it ott the Sith Decembher,<
1844 maty levy the tro,. ps to n hieh said i
decrte refers under the tnamie of defenders
of juxlepenidenice and the la'ns.1
Fourth-.. i'h a view to the ehnciett
ma~irtenanOce of the. rights of thle replublic,
the Governetnt is atuthorised to procure1
all extraordnary resources which may bei
deenied tnecessary. making known to Con
gress the neCeSsary stepsd to be taken,.
confjrmably to the constitution.
' knother Earthquake.-Our readers
doubtless remember the details we pub-:
lished a few days since of a frightful de
structive earthlquake which was experi
enced at Mexico on the 7th inst. We
have now to adld a repetition of this awful
dlisaster in the Catpi'ol on the 10th inst.
Our exaiinatin of the papere has failed
to enable us to discover many details of
the amount of ruin and desolation ocea
sioned . by this convulsion, -but f ram tie
fact tbat the journals unite in describing
its eff-ects as terrific, we presume the de-.
struction nmust have been great. The
Diairio of the 1] th. states that the earth.
quake occnrred aboui 10 o'clock. A. M.,
and lasted forty seconds; that it overthrew
many new buildings and many others tha:
had'escaped the former visitation; thai
most of th'e inhabitants stricken with ter
ror_ left their bottses and took refuge in the
and causing-that ehangetid becomrre'one-oO
prbfii :by mtaking available in good .silbt
slantiSt cash, articles of home proiuti6?i
which the planter is-noio abiue selling. -
"The plater is too -proud r'sell'buter
and chickens," or' even a surplus calf.
No he' can't do .th'at. It is bereathtbe
dignity orthe planter to do anythingWhich
his foYefuther did' not do. He raisescot
ton. Yes he raises coltoit, and t9 be'digid -
fled, he- gives it aray !!!. His yons dItitb
about on blood" horses when they shoiad'
be " driving etarts ont 'the haimand his.
daughters-God -bless tihent-hey tbrtid '
piano which if'bappily paid for regiiet
the full nett proceeds of' the labor ofeven."
tv slates fof one thtole year to fdrhilf
them this extravagant article of' taste and
luxurious -refinement. ' Again' the cottoir
planter frequently buys his corn when -he
coned raise it for one third the dmoent' he
is forced tojpay for it. Whoever heardoif
fat -mules, respectable looking carriage
horses. a good stock of cattle and hogs arr
a plantation idhere the:pf/Wietor bought
even one 'half the corn he consumer
ie: should raise his own- hogs-but' he'
turns in the hour of need to Kentucky f6r'
his pork-and alas!-he- never. provide:
atganst' a teccrrence of distress ftodr tlit
annual a nt of bacon. H'e1t sioke..'
Yes '"he smokes and cimbvs,"' andfi'r 'th
last delicate amusernent he must -ic'ke'hie"
tongue, with "Leftwick's nathiral sweet""
or sorte famous " James River Honey
Dew"-both sweetened -Oith" Muldtes
whic'he could do at ailow'rate at hoirie
What are tife consequences? What difi1
culties-arise from being the'producer ot~
one staple. which causes him to' ucttate
with the market price of that article.
Our soil and climate is adapted to the'fa
vorable productions of alttost every arti
ele of domestic consomptin--why do we
not avail ourselves of these natural advan-'
tages 1 The cry is'we must raise cotton,
and keep u the dignity of the nping'
interesi !! WhV y not, at once set abot
determining the difference between farm
ing snd planting. the former of which'
supports.-and rewards -indosiry,-whilst the
lrer isoufy food for the suckers of pride,
which~ often "1 gets a fall.":
The next change is to find out what ia
come may reasonably be eipected from
every acre of fAnd which-'ray be cultiva
red, and after counting the cost of cultiva
ion, see how much labor these acres will
require to make them produce one third'
more by the appligation of a judicious
system of tillage' and -mangring, 'This -
inJ'e all h oiherbange d e. t'
will lead to the adoption of imyroveiiis.
struments of husbandry, the introduction*
of profitable arid prod.uctive races of do
mestic animals of all sorts: and the dis
semination of good seeds. This system
would soon wake our waste places and
old desolated and depopulated homesteads
resound with the merry whistle of the
ploughman, and plenty would crown his
labors. Most of our planters are ignorant
of the first principles of agricultural econ
om', and know nothing at all of 'the
fornation and perfect use of the best
manures.; a subject which has been thoi
oughly investigated both- in Europe and
the sterile regions of the North. Ib some.
places we have seen where industry has.
first eradicated stones where in the first
cultivation of the soil the plough could not
enter, and that same industry with untiring
zeal has waxed on, until those sterile beds.
of New .Eirgland granite have become.
rich in agricultural products--so rich as to.
repay the cultivator for all the labor he.
ever has bestowed them-and now allords:
a handsome remuneration as a reward for
his enterprise and perseverance. When,
such difficulties can be surmou.nted and:
crowned w ih remnuerating--which by'
thre bye, is the most flattering success to .
the agriculturist, why cannot our agricul
turists, at one glance perceive that.t
render ani acre of hatnd washed ir'
lies amd ditches rich and pro:,ncive by
manurmig, is .an ehsier ta'at than to. pre
pare for cultivation Sr. acre of heavily
timbered wood land, '-.hich will after three
or four years cuhtv ation requires the same
aids to keep up its productiveness which
the improved. s'uil requires to make its cul-.
t avatton . ,oatable. Unquestionably can
this. be 'Jone and thatt too, 'with even less
labor. Turn so agricultural statislics and
w, fiad that the.greatest yieldls of all kinds
',)f crops have been made on. improved
soils and that the virgin soil of the richest
prcduetions of the Union can never com
pete in the quantity of' production with
those soils which have been highly im
proved by-judiicious manuring. The fact
has repeatedly been proven that any soil
can he made to double the product of 'igs
original state. when- subjected to a judi
clous system of improvement. Let uts
then hear no more of the EI-Dorados of
the. West. Let us like the genius of
Roanake, cling with reverential aff'ection
to the hannts of our boyhood and return
to our patrimonial oaks with a feeling*
which woutld lead us to bestow every care.
upon their preservation ; whirch feeling,
an enlightened undlert atding .on all sub-.
jects connected withI the improvement of
our' native land would soon generate and
foster into vigorous, and sustaining exist-.
A man never rises by drinking. If he.
begins to drink in the low grogshop ha.
does niot ascend to the. fashionable saloon,
with its pavement of marble, its wvals of'
mirrors, its brilliant chandellers. its silver
goblets and delicious wines. But he who,
begins in that saloon descends to..te stew
and keunel. Let moderate drinkers beane
this int mind.
open fields and public square, passing the
uighti vithoui shelter and -in the utmost
consternation. The " Veracruzano" of
the 14th inst., states that private letters
furuish a gloomy picture of the desolation
that has fallen upon Mexico. The "Hes
peria' of'the 12th, states that the earth
quake of the 10th completed the destruc
tion of the -cupola of Santa Teresa; and
increased the damage done to the church
es of Santa Domingo and San Francisco.
But for. the shortness of its duration, the
entire city'would have been laid in ruins.
Mexico' did not sufter alone. The shoae
was felt in a number of towns and villages
within a radius of several hundrej'ies.
At Puebla the earthquake.was experien
ced on the 7th, about 4 o'clock, P. M., but
its effects were comparatively- slight.
Several churchos were injured, and many
private edifices were greatly damaged
though none were absolutely destroyed.
At Acuartillo and Toluca the eflects of
the shock:;were more considerable. At
Gaudalajara, Morelia and Vera Cruz. the
earthquake was experienced both on the
7th and .10th, but on neither occasion was
the injury very serious.
What with the earthquake and Texas,
the people and the press appear to have
forgotteu the very existence of Santa
Anna. - We do not see his name in any of
the journals before us.
Correspondence of the Picayuse.
HOUSTON -April 24, iS45.
71o the Editors of the Picayune:
Gentlemeni-The few opponents of An
texation hve given it up; they say it's
iseless to "1 kick against the pricks.'' It
s- every day. -becoming more and more
apparent that Texas will "go it" by an
verwhelmitrg majority. Front the ac
ounts of the state of feeling prevailing in
11 parts of the country daily cuoting in,
t is imrpossible to resist the conclusions
hat-the people are for Annexation, in pre
erence to Independence upon any terma
hat can he offered. Congress is to meet
mo the 1Gth of June, us youwifl see by.{he
'residents proclamation. In the mean
ime we may expect to hear something or
tthing from England, France an I Mexi
. Dr. Smith has gone somewhere, but
there is, not known herae.ertaitily, and
r care.' Some say he has gone to Eig
and, and this is the genera 'opinion ;
thers say he has gone to see een. Jack
o,n. In the meantime you may rest.as
tired that the .' ball. will go on," No
eople were ever more 'unanimous upon.
,.. tw wro ,.tynae a rega-1s
poathi ,f Anexatitn. There wi be
majority in favor of it in every county
a the Republic, and in same not a dis
enting vote.
Mr. K's parti left iere drf or two
fter their arrival; well equipped and in
ne spirits. His health was itrproving.
Agricultural.
From the South Carolinian.
'A CHANGE OF OUR HABlTS!"
SOME THINGS CAN BE .DONE
AS. WELL AS OTHERS. BY
THE APPLICATION- OF GOOD
SENSE.
Yes, that is the proper term; "dcha'nge
f our habits." Those words touch the
magic sprrog by which the agrictltural
nterests of the country, now so prostrated
nd depress"d. are to be made terem with
ife and activity. Energy to bring about
his change. will lead to energy in all ido
nestic pursuits, and a healthful vigor will
esult therefroit. Our caption implies to
lII who are acquainted with' the true poli
v of the country that we should first rid
utrselves of onerous impositins inflictedt
mf our~ people by submnissioni to a system
if itnjustics, which, to speak itt plain
erms, causes us toppay a triple tax fo~r
irticles of domestic apparel, which we.
houkl mnanufatcture at thome, by means
within our owi .resouirces.: Even this
mall " change of our habits" would tell
'avorabuly in manty ways upon our fallen
'rtunes. Laudable pride-the C aroliti
ans hoast, as to all ordinary matters,
vouldl here come in a sensible aid, and he
souild sootn ascertaitn that this chanige was
sustained by wisdom, because it would
aenefit himself and his neighbor, and it
vtould fix annually a large amtouint of
:apital at home, which would ho devoted
:0 the imptovemuent of our Srate--not only
>y .oreetintg mnanufaciories to supply t,'
xants of our htome consumptiotp.-b a int
ill- those things whichm tend to elev0are the
tgricultural standing of e'very coutntry
w-hich claims a respectable ',-ank for its
arotiuctionts atnd the profita'jle remnunera
ion which it bestows or4 industry atnd
atbor. All this capiital which under such
astate of auffa~ira wvo'td flow back to, us,
aow goes out of the State, never to return,
and when it has 'oce slipped through our
ingers we ty whistle at, and imp~lore
>ur politicia;,s atnd the ntorthern manufac
turers, bu.1 the goldlen fleece never can he'
gathcr'-d intto our wool. baskets. All this
wvorlid be kept itt home, aod a centraliza
ri~An~ of money, would spring frotm this
simple change in the material of wecaring
apparel, which could easily be effected if
wve.wvould determuine that our slaves should
wear thatr kitnd of clothing which we can
manufacture at home, at a smaller cost~
than it can he furnished to us by the norith
ern matnufacturer-and to carry out these
resolves we tmust go determinately to work
in order to consummate the prosperitng
deed. The next " change of our habits"
is to come to our work "true to the beviL"
wvhich by a little translation, signifies t urn
in from eavnannce in matnv thiuns.