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Advertisements not having the nuitber of insertions narked on them, will be continued uutiloidered out and charged accordingly. Coinmunications. post paid, will be prompt ty and strictly attended to. For lire Advertiser. To the Voters of Edgefield District. On the 18th of Ao pil last, I addressed you, in repy to a call over the signature of "VoTER," in relation to the Bank of the State. A very unfair and 'Ilbberal criticism upon my article shortly after. wards appeared in the Hamburg Journal, which has had the tendency to misrepre sent my true position. To correct the misapprehension as to my views, I ad dress you again. I cannot, without mak ing my article too long, write as fully as I could desire. In the speeches which I may make during the canvass. I will enlarge upon the subject. But I propose now briefly, clearly and explicitly to lay 7 down my principles and views, so that every reader may at once distinctly un derstand my position. In 1812 the State chartered a Banik of the State, for a term of 23 years. About two years before its charter expired, the State re-chartered the B.ik till 1856. So that for about 35 years you have had a Bank. The Batik commenced its operations in the laiter part of -1813. Tbe State-did not give any fixed amount - -liap;2afrbtv tnie aaiees and funds for the ,rpose of providing one for the Bnk. - The actual amount of capital then varied, each year as these funds were converted into-cash, tit, 1819, at which time the whole amount paricl in on account of capital was $1,372,250 60 [See Comptroller General's R. port-R--por's and Resolutions, 1847, pages 246 7 and 8.] In 1819 the Bauk paid of Revolution. ry d bt $176,029 95; mn 1828 $39 902 11c:s; in 1844 $32.960 75; making in all paid on the Rn.volutionary debt, out of Capital, $248,892 97. By the char ter this debt tas charged upon the capi tat, and theflanguage of the Cotnptrol ler Genera1i "Tls is the wh.,le a rount of public debt paid fromn the capi tal. according to the provisions of the act of incorporation. [See Comt;,ro! ler General Report-Report and Reso lutions, 1847, page 248.] D -duct then this amount funnr $1,372.250 60, leaves $1,123,357 63 as thne capitl p.p r. So stated and reported to thy- L-gshi, ture, and monthly since 1844. "The whole amount of stock issued by the State, and placer in the' Bank at various times is $2,232 3.36 80." [See Comp troller Genrerat's Report-Repor t and Resolutions 1847, page 249 ] Thbis by reference, as above, will show that it - includes the fire-loan to renbuildl Charle~s ton, int 1838; a portion of the surplus revenue, arnd ai portioni of thse 5 pert cent stock, issued to the Southlwesterni Rail Road Bank, wvhich 'he Bank of the State cancelled in 1844. T he other portion of the surphis revenue, r eceived in 1837, and dividens received from thet Southwestern Rail Road Banik, $.37, 340 is also to be accounted for, and is ini the annual Auts anid Reports of thre Le gishature. Thre two millions firts-load constituted a part of thre Slate debt. Now the question arisas, how has die Bank, the agent of the State, managed these frinds? This it is thre right of the peopile to know, and it is their dutty to know. First. It is charged by a writer, wvho uses the signature of "Anti-Deb',"~ that the Bank htas mismanaged thre fund-i:,s wasted the capital, and been art unp nifi. table concern to the State. If the state went of this wvriter be true, there is no doubt but that the people shotuld refuse to re-charter the Bank and direct it to be wonnd up. This is one side of the picture: Secondly. On thre other hand, the published reports of the Comptroller General of the~ State show that the Bank has paid into the Statre Treasury, pre vious to 1822 $592,001 28. [See C. G. Report-Report and Resolutions, 1847, page 248.] - Since 1822 the profits of the BanIa h'ave beenr diverted, by the Legislatture. topay the prirncipanl anrd interest of youl tracted by the Legislature in 1820, '22, '24 and '26, for internal improvements; and in 1838 to rebuild Charleston, and in 1839 its an advance for State subscrip . tion to the Rail Road. The State owed, when she chartered the Bank, as before stated, a revolutionary debt. Most of these debts was a piece of great folly and imprudence-perhaps upon the part of the Legislature. Bus ifso, it is charge able on times past. It is now on us, and what we have not paid, we have vet to pay. Now this public d-b: amounted to four millions six hundred and thirty nine thous-end seventy-six dollars and 56 cis. of principal. STATEMEsT OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. 6 per cent. anid 3 per cent. revo intionary debts, $215.932 12 State subscriptions to Rail Road, 210.000 00 6 per cent. of 18*20, 800.000 )00 5 per cent. of ]22, 200),001) 111) 15 per cent. of 1824, 250.000 (0 5 per cent. of ]826, 300.000 00 di per cent due Id42-R. R. Sua 200,900 (11) 6 percent. due 1450, 210,000 00 6 per cent a ue 1852, 2t00.000 00 5 per cent. sterling bonds fire loan, 554,350 00 6 per cent. stock. 482 222 22 5 per cent. sterling bonds, 55.4350 (0 6 per cent. stock, 432.222 22 $1.639,076 56 [See Acts, Reports and Riohmtaoins 1846, pages 3S and 39 of Repor's.] We find in the riublic documenis of the State that the Bank has paid for the people of the Stato the above public debt, down in the table to "6 per cents, due 1848," inclusive which last item was paid last January; which by addition will be found to amount to $2.165,932 12. Fro:n the same source-(puilic documents)-we ascertain the Bank has taken up of the public debt, besides the amounts stared above, about $189,746 6.3 cis-makin paid by the Bank of the principal of the ublic debt two millians three hun dred and fifty five thousand six hun Bred and seventy eight dollars and se ventty five cents. The annual interest, upon this -public debt paid has been heavy .-for it bore interest -from the-r time 'cattracted, paid into the Treasury being added) to mo're than $2,723,500 or interest, mak. ing in the aggregate paid by the Bank for the people the enormous sum of about five millions of dollars. It may b.- a little more or less. I speak in round numbers. Not one dollar of this ki mniise sum has been raised by taxes out of the propel ty of 1ot people-but paid by the people's Bank. Sonic small a lmounts, compatatively speaking, have also been paid by the Comptroller, but which are not taken into this cabcuala Lion It is father said, that if an account were now taken, and the Bank held to ac count, as Trustee and Agent of the State, it could show fiat it has already refund ed to the State the whole amot nt of its capital, the entire amaount if surplus re venue deposited in the Baik, all the dividends received from iihm Rail Rad Bank. with legal interest on all, inc!:jd ine the fire-loan, and h:s made' a clear pr.-:fi of more than one million fte hun dred thousand dollars! 't'hat the U .mmk rain show against the fire-loan and all other capital, eight hundred thousand dollars of fire-loan b -nds, amnd other bonads, notes, stacks and assets, to the full amoutlo, after hmavinag demunnstrated thla she has paid on the puabljic dlebt, te iittmnse sum uf five millions of dollars or more. If these things be true, every tax pay. r in tate State should rejouice. We n ill all be hapIpy tol find bnwn trute. These statements are dratwn farom the pu'olic documents, containing the Bink report and those of the Comnptroller General. This is the other side of the picture. Now both sides cantnot be cot rect. Onae maust be true and the other false. This is a clear proposition. WVhicht is correct? That is the question. That the public debt has beena largely reduced and paid to the present t itnw, throngh the Batnk, is undentied and undeniable. But houw slhe has paid it, whaether shte has acted legitimat'ly, and whether thme bonads, notes and othetr assets of' the Batik are good or bad, are the points upon wvhich the peoph- desire to be tho roughly informed. Inf'ormiation is thae only ostensible object of "Voter" and other querists. It is certainly whmat the peoplIe want. [How is it to be had ? Thtere is but one answer and nmode. Trhat is by a rigid and thorough inivesti gat ion. Well, howv did I answer "Voter" in my former article ? I said there should be "a thorough investigation of t he con dition of the Bank. and its condition lbe fully presented to the people of the IState." Thais covers the whole gtround, and appears to me to be a broad,,full Iand explicit pledge to publish the whole *condition of' the Bank to theL pe.ople. But "Vtotei" is niot content with even this broad pledge oni prmtcifple, but unt Idertukes to mark: nnt n pnrticular track the Legislature must pursue, to tvit: 1 publish a report of the liabilities of til offi:ers and d!rectors of the Bank, an the nenbers of the Lugislature. "T this I declined to answer one way c the other." It was not a refnsal t pledge myself to a thorough examini tion and publication," but simply to given and pu'scribed mode of exanina tion." In Ii.- first place that mode i merely superfirial, and would in no w, answer the p)urpose or object of an it amin tio," The publbcation of Ii name of a man living in another Distric a and a distant pa: t of the State wool give you no information as to the con dition of the debt, whether good or bau or whit ther the debtor had property o not-or if he had proper iy, wlwther i was clear from incunbrance and joulg melnts and executions or not ! If thel informaiion as to the real condition a the debts be die object of this proposi lion, it is manifest it can not do it. I will furnish you with a shadow onl: without including the substance. Bi granting, for the sake of argumnrt, tli it will furnish substantial information a to the goodness of the debt, how fa dues the prop.;sitinn e:xtend ? Why 01nl1 t.) a very limited number of the bor rowers from the Bank? It does not co ver one twentimth Part of the indebted ness of the Bank and its various opera lions. It stops far short of the whol, case, and will no- furnish to the p.eopli -he full and entire and real infornima i which they want. It is a half wai house--and not even that--for the purposl of giving information as to the conditioi of the Bank. It is only then to thi half-way mode of doing business tha I deciine to pledge rmvs.tf. I wall a mode that will be ef!Tctual, and whicl will cover the whle around. I declin ed to pledge -' -at nartkula node likewise, go to your Ley foot, as tc the of carrying always thot' pre~n I ees track g' and r' learnefr s prui:ptr, lney-permat nm to go there to think and study, and b enlightened by full and able discnnio as to the best means of carrying out thei wishes and promoting their interests I think this is all the intelligent and high minded people of Edgefield requiro. Again, as to my position. I am ii favor of an examination of tlt! Bank and a publication - of its condition, fo the infornation of the public. As :aid before, "1 shall go to i that mode ; -xamiiniation which to re, if elected shall seem best, when the subject shag come up. after full and mature denusi ion." For veara thme i tre beeu ap. phinted Coill Oitte' s to inve stiate tl, Bank. They have been fot mieu of itmm hers of tIe Ltgislatuae. The law req-uires such committee: with Ili C ompt.oller Gener .1, to ex amine mioutely into the ahfihirs and si nation of the principal Bank and branch es, for which they are repectiv.lv ap painted, anid to report to the L.-gisla ture at their next session, thle r thereof, and 1: priicularly aill mi:4mandge ment in the aflris of the said Bunk, n its branches, if amny such have occurr edl. A ed conmmilters have the right o "'i'vestig aeing fully the bo'ks, account and other deocumn.-nts of ahe Bamnk . Nowv foar years, somec of the ablsa, most hoes and puro msen in the State haave- acteg on those commuittees of invesuication They have beeni able to reporat fully an saa isincto, ily upuon the principles 01 wvh'ch the Bank has operated, or thi mainagemernt of the affairs of th Batnk." Those reports have gener ally borne testimony to the prope management of the Beink. But therei one point upon which they have noi given, because they weore not able to giv satisfactory informaation. That is upol the goodness or badness of the indebt edness to the Bank. [n other wvods thea solvency or insolveney nf thle deb tors to the Bink. The reason. wh commnittees appointed in that manne have not been able to give satisfactor: mnfoimnatiou, can be easily nmade main ifest by one mnoments investigation TIhue usual imode huas bden to appoit three miembers of thie Ihouse and two c the Scnatc. They probable comue fron about three Districts. Of course no morn thtan five, WVehl, they. examin1 and look at each note and bond duet the Bank. But it is impossible fu them to say what is the condition of th great mass of de btors from -theo othe itwenty-foui Joudicial Districts, whet there are Court Houses ; and they hat never yet taken tihe trouble to test b the record avidence thie solyenmcy of th di.. rs frea their own Districts. Thei is a.,ublication of the ntamestof all th :o debtors to their eyes, by an acual ii ie spection of the paper ; but it furnish' d and canfuinish no iuf.>rmation as I o what prb perty those debtors possess, < r what is their condition in their respectii o Clerk's nd SherifPs ofiices. ilent: the to ssibility of their given an a opiton4wortih having. The reason the why Lvgislative committees here-befor s have failed to give fall and satislactor y iuformajibn upon his point, is a forci ble and onaunswerable ardoment agaitm - the propnsiiion of "Voter" to publis t names officers, directors and men d bers who are indebted. It will give n . information as to the condition of thi ; debtors.' But it will be recollect': r that "Voter" only propose to publ:sl one class, of debtors, which does no costitute e twentieth or fiftieth par ~ of shee rs to the Bank. It can b f easily t ; hat the proposition of "Yoj , ter" ut ry ftails and falls fir short u t giving to' the people the full real infor v mation wihich they tv.int. But I ma t he asked'how the' people can arrive a i full anrf correct infirmat ion ? s I waid in my former article that I would if elected. adopt the best nide whiel could be sugaesied in the Legislature, ti reach the object. I will now suggest plan, which occurs to me, and one I wonl proposa as eminently practical and thor nugh. It is this. Let the L.egilart appointt4 a Commitee of exnminatium one intelligent, bnsiuess man, from eacl district in the State, who.shall not be member of the Legislature or indebted ti the batl( How will such a Cdnimnittec give accurate information ? I w-il illus irate. A soon as the Go:nmittee is tip pointed, aech man will be clothed will author o ask in p,-rson. or wtite for I the amu's of every citizen in his respee: t rive Distr'ict, with ibe names of their en t dorseisaiid securities. For instance th< person a}poited in Edgefield will get the r tames ofd btors and endorsers in Edge. S-'G AnL -A-anns he looks it the cumitiurace upon -torewmsti properrty lie can then step into rho Sheriff' offirt and see ifthere are any'executinhs upot r such dotoie and endorsers.- Irthis way the Cunttiimtee man from Edgefield Di+ trict can tell, to the value of a dollar the actual condition of every debt due it Edgefield )istrict mo't Ie Bank. Whctlhei it be good.:doubtful or bad. It is reduce to a neighborhood knowledge-tested b; r the records of the country. S. every tm' I on the C'mmi'tee does Air his ovn Dis. trict. Then, when the Committee mce at the appointed time, the, Contnitee mear from each District furnishes un accurate ascertatinmeut of the debts from each Dis. irirt. Simple aidition will shotw exactly how much is good, how much doubtful, att how much bad. Let this report he - published to the people, and then tboy wit have full tmd exact inmformmation as to the condition of the assets of the IBa :k. They will know then whether it is solcent ir in solvent. They will have the substanct and not the mere shadow. They can like wise lonk into the management of the Batik ; ill its varied operations-howt -i muchi debt it has patid of l* rincipal ate ( interest-report antd publish. TIheit ei the LI-gishttre pass a law dirceting~ the Bank forthwith to proceed tom collect al ttar shall appear doubtful and htad-giv Iiing, however, the discretin whaih every individual creditor tuses, to ssy, if such debtor will give new andi additional secu rity sn as to nmke the debt pierfectly good ihe shall be allowed say five years to pay I it. That is to say the ititerest, and otne flth uif the prinicipaml every year. Thter' is not one debtor out of an hunodred whi wouldno it obtain such security rather that be sold out in a few months. By suchr wise and judicious course you witnh tmake good 90 if not 99 out tof every $10( reported to be had, and rtus save to thet rpeopie whar'by a rash course would be s lost to them. tAs to the appoitniment of the Commit a tee, it is ohjected to by sotme tht th< Sapeimker will apploint themt. WVell to obvi . are this, let it be referred to the delegatiot fromn each District to recommitenid thtei 'Commrtittee men. Th~lus it appears to mie, that ati honest, able and insparta Commit tes can lie raised. T1htis appears to mie Itherought plan, atnd one which covers tie entire ground, and which will give to tib' people1 informtation. such as they desire, ast the wohole condition ofthe Bank. tint as I hav'e said, I will go for the "best mode' fwhich can hesuggested in the Legislamte I will consider all the p'lans, atnd if amn) 2 ter shall, appear to tie better' thai tthe one I have suggested I w;ll yield to C own and arcopt such other. This shmuu 0 :hat I aim thnrough, and will go as lar a ir the farthest, for givinug -to the people ful e and substan'lial information as to the ctu r dition of theirBauk. What inore cant b easked ? I a prehend the atnswer of ever: amin who isrimpartial anud desires in/orme e tion, -will beorothing more. . I have argued the proposition as if thm eobject of~ "'Voter"- was really antd hionestl e Ito furtiish-the people with information.I e such be umote the object.- he has at lens I. whether witningly or not, created that im "s pression on the minds of the people a fat large. But an analysis of this queslioni shows it does riot extend in a developmten of Ile condition of the Batik, bit only te e publish a few names of oice'rs. director: and members of the Legislature who may y have horrowrd monie:y fron the Balm o instead of doing it fronm other Boo ki or e private cnpitalists. It is designoedI to h y the ground work of an appeal. at it election two years hence, to the prejtdie of the people ngainst the Bank, because Irsooh inlembers may borrow money and e iidehtd to the Lank. I can not be lieve " Voter" and ' Anti Debt' wlhencc 7 the idea is derived, real/y suppose t!at th. Legislature couhi be swerved Irmii correct iand honest l-gislation. becan-e individulial members mi;;ht owe a little imoney to the Batik. 1 cannot suppose Ihey arrive at such a deg raded opiniou of intelligent tti in the State by any selfstsndard of exam ination. I inust regard it then as the cun iting mori artful device of the demag ogue, I predicated upon a presuetrd low mor:l sense and want of int;ellignnce among the people. to dslroy the 1) itk. right or wrong, reckless of the distress and Jisas t'r produced iu the State, of hci.tto Iho people and the eminent hz:arl ,f entnib. in:: up on them increasled an.I heaivv t-tx:i tion. Bui lhink sich reckless politiei;las s ill find that they h.vo underrated the intelligenee of th people. lihe people will have inelligence to perceive and un deistand the one 4iled, unfair, and reek less endency of such a proposition. and demand some other course which wi!I fur nish them informiation and cvi hence b-fore they pronounce a hasty jud'ilgent upuu a maner of such viiil interest to them. As to Directors' accounts there is a great mis atpprehentinc. In many cases, as factors fur illustration, the loan stands char,:cd to the Director whose name is upm the notes as endorsor or acceplor. is in reality for his -lanter custoters. being for advant. ces on their crops. A liactor's account lir liabilities" is most ahvays b;sei (!ni cot ton or produce on hand or to be received. mill is most generally an acceptaner of drafts drawn by the ulariters to anticipatte - - .m.n s.~i~71 ubistanitin. .i'or inmao, while you unnecessarily cauose the accounts to be misunderstood, and the credit of such Director: to be brought inio question, while at the s:ne time the dlehts mny be perfectly secured. It is admitted by all tiinneiul and banking men of the world that ill, Director who brines to a Bank the best and largest account and be.t and safest custnmer, is the most ise. fill and profitable to the B;mk. It is said to be a fact well ascert ined that some Dircect:ors in the other Hlanks (private) in the City of Ciharleston have ;ccommoda ti)ns to imore than double the mnuit of .chat any Director in ile Bank of the State hts, without creating amc.tng tle Stickholders the sligliteit n otelnsin ess. lit cause it is business paper well seculed and making a profit to the Hlanks. The t ihar ter of your Uaik Iurtbids the exposre of the o nies and necoutis of the ell') lners. except 1o voomr (Coruimmittees of Iimestiga. Lion and Com:nptrolk-tr General. :thrb-ide it. because no man in goid ciedit will a!low his naue, either as princieil or en dorser, to go iinto a Bank which puiblishes Ihis transaictions with li. Subtjecting them to thec idle gossi p antd miiisimnn-. trutctionus iof thie worild, who,. are nit nequlaint-de with lie value of the securitmy fjrmiished. The pirotpsitiy of " Voter"' woujlJ iiniracie a piractice repit lintel in all Bankhs in the worn I. anid inevitbl yten-h to drive off fromi your Hlank all goid cu .tnmers andi goiod Dirtecr'i, retuiniit; tinly suchi as could noi get ereldii in other B iinks. It wouin faitally affect the busiiessi acid eredh of the ihmksl. It woul I msn's cert-iiny prevent your liank fromn ma~king any prolims fir you anid ptrove a losing onue'rn ! Th'lis is thm object of lie proposn in ofh "Vter an oi ' Antii Dhbt,"'si rippied of i ts gsamer disgui~se, anid presented in yon in in tiakel deorirliy. Th~e desecting knife lhas laid bare the marrow, and p~roived ilie real lob ject tlo he to cuit the jugelar vienz of the Bauk. Yet ic ir said they wanit informia tion ." with a ivieW'' to t he q 1t ion of re chartier. The propiositioni is delusive aiid abisurb. 1 have proposed ai mad~e nc hieh will cover the whotlc grounds, and "ive useful, thorough antd sutstial iniaratit lion to you, that yot mnay iie enaeblede to kntow the exact co~ndition oIf your hank. atnd bce enabled to dlecide htereailiert uon the quest ion of re chasri tr whtenit iicomies up wisely. judlicittusly anid with Iia~cts and ti eviden~tce h-':fore yo as ti what may be your biest iterests. Th'le inportatice of this catiion and pruidence will be aptiarmm lhv looking nt your pubilic debi yet ai- tl. Ta':ke th I fore-goinlg table fromt "3 por cents dime 1850" iniclusive down. nd yon will find. S youri public debt S2,473,144 44. part as I hereinbefotre stated has bleens purchtase'd -before due, leaving, htowevet. abonctt lico million Lwo hundred Lliousanmd dollazrs iil (1debt. VTe interest of this ise about $132,000 pcer year. When the last insocl mnent is piayable and paid, you will have e ha~d to pay, to get rid (If this debt, betweeu y lom and five million of dollars. (By getting the information alluded to, t. as to the nast operatinnis of the Bank and - us present condition you will be able to decide, as a qiestion or expediency and interest upon the re-ehartcr of the Bank. If the 'acts show corruption and insolvency wind it up and get rid of a losing concern as jdliciously as possible, and meet, as you would have to meet, your public debt by heavy taxes. If, lowever, the facts demonatrate the Bank is solvent and Ii:s breni a blessing to you in tines pas. thn d'eite. as a ques lion of expedien.y ; ,% het :er you will con tinie it to pay ol your Iar e public debt by U3an;k profit?. or winid it up any how anid after a ppropri :n th- capital, whicir will ie mostly constn'd by t he interest, I -dept the balance by direct taxes. Iluving exien+?rd this article so long, I will not hro undertake to discuss the im practicability. ig tier and e ll y of the pro position to take the money and lend it out, s rt ere loan and acctm- nrdal tion. ''ho central latink of Gi-'orgia in a speaking les son to us on ihat -,ubject. The present-de plorable condition of Albiarna is solely traceable to the fact ihr.t the Legislature diverted the Bank fruin its legiitnale Hank iig business, which tad relieved the stare far years frot all taxation, and ordered it to become a tere laan and aceommodation office, in fact, to the extent of three million of dolars and upwards. The money was to be loaned to the Dis triers or Couties in proportion to the popu lation wi t'cout reference to the wants ofsuch couties, and the comnercial interest of the country. The .lMembers of the Legis lature were virtually made Directors of the Bank, the Members from each County to certify and recommend the paper from each County. This at once introduced the elem nis of corruption. and was a forcing pump to direct the busiuess of the 1iInk from a legiti-nate and profitable system of Banking to an irrespon5iblo plan of a loan ocie. I knw Ami-Debt does not eo nonline purpose to lend out the money through a B.iok. But twist and 'irn as he plaans; call it by what t: a'me dtc,irei 'd :1 proposition tould be to the s'rne in pirii-e. a" de. strnetive in ii- teo n!e.:y, :tn itd feda it ) its results as the i--i..-. r~rriuirevene antliret loan. pod. our Bank has received, safely. kept, and paid faithfully out fir the Stie 'without cbarge or the loss of a cent, all tiidiutids of both the Treasuries of the upper and lower I).visions of the State, as the De pustory of Public Funds and State Taxes ; these receipts - and payments rc'achinig together, the vast amount of ($21.525.261 13) tote than twentybour million of dltlars up to 1813 only. See introducrion to laik Comptlutton. ordered by the Legisltture in lie published by I.solucion of both HlousCs, passed 18th December. 1840. Now to clue, I %w ill not go with the Radiwal party, who are determined on the destctiaon of the Batik, right or wrong ard reckless of the conseqclences to people of the people of the Siate. Nor w;il I go with any Bonk party d!e icrotitred Ill srtataiu the Battk, whether corrupt anl solvent or not. For political ly I have been always "pposed to too oattec.0con of iaitk ai State. lBut in this important junterae to tho people if mn Stattu. I annouince tDvsUif to ce of the prutlet, cautious and rel'mee tng party. you miay catll it conse'rvative, who desire to see be.focre we le'ap, to heaur evi dotice and have facts belbre they pro notutice jodgmtent. to have a trial beforo e'xecu~itin. I have bieen c~ lently becautse I desire to placee both sidea acid 'he truth bfori~e thIe people. .\y position is~ now cleatr ande .lis:inct. and I leave myi electiotn in ti htand5 of thie initelliteii, prudenit and conlservative voters of th* -Ditrict. IIENJ. C. YANCI~X. .utne 14th, 1818. Iort'iulture.-There is probablyv astronger tetdency to purify the heat t, improcve th It aste, or Strenlgthlen thte physicali cons: 0nition, than a love of hotr ticullure.--lf a mt:tin would triuly enjoy his garde'n, take d1e1iliht in tais Ilowe'rs, alnd appreciate his iriuss, the motlst bie t:is own gardener, pct une is ownvi ti ces, grat Ivil his own wvalks, and cutivat,- his stit. It is retL!d by C:ice:ro, that iwhecn Lv sandlier vishted Cyris of Pe rsia. a ;ntincee eq ually dIistingucishecd four his glomicous emphi and htliIts ~ tnjts, Cyr',s shoetO d bbn~a a piece cal grotned well enelose, :*d co pl.': ely di;med. Aftier th.': vishurce h tad aidiad~ the taii and straict ;nees, anad tie towsvi reguarij faameid, an ad the groundlc c'learii *il weeds'O d ell enh tivasted, attd the swesetitcss act i he ,.der's which exhale~d from theu fli.wors, hce could ntie - hlp I expreissing h tis atdmit a ion1, nto t I)~ of' the dihlgonce', but tht iskal of thim by whom all this was mt;sutredj antd tma. ked cot; u pon which Cyrtus atnswsertd, 'i the rows ol trees atre of myt) disposing; itim plan is nuinte; aind miany of the trees were ptated witth tmy ownt hiand" A triuly kinigly 'recre'ation, and i nobto examnlte-Rostonn ornal