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i ^ ^ ' VOLUME XIX. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, '1858. NUJIBEK 18. # ^ - ? ?? ?? ? ' "" --' THE CAMDEN WEEKLY JOURNAL IS PUBLISHED $V^Y TUESDAY BY THOMAS J-. E3JT, 4 AT TWO DOLLIES A-YEAR IN ADVANCE, or, Two Dollars and Fifty Cenls at the expiration of Three Months, or, THREE DOLLARS AT THE END OF THE TEAR. .. \ew Tern* for Adv^rlisin'ff. . For one Square?Fourteen lines or less, ONE DOL*LAR feV the firrt, and titfc CENTS for each * apfcaequent msariioa. , OimuRT NOTiOts, exceeding ONE SQUARE, rkarged for at adver tiling rates Transient Atlvertinements and Job Work MUST * MX PAtp FOR IN AD VANCE. . .Ne deduction aaadey except to our regular advertising r~>jr '"^ '.reni. ADVERTISING TERMS PER-ANNUM. Cue. 8q*are, 3 months $5 ? 8 r -*?...: 12 Tiro Sqaarea, S monthi 8 v 13 " it " 18 Three Squar's 3 months 12 * f ? 18 ; 14 12 n \ 25 ~ F?r 8qnsrts 3 men the. 20 H months .V... -2,? M 11 34 Eight dollar* per annua for overt additional square 1 ma six and PsorssstojfAL Carps Ei^rrr Dollars pear. All advertisements for less than three^pqnths 0u\ Iflho number of insertions is not JpeciEed in * ... . .. ,Y-Vr < wrtiMf mmertuemenu vnu o< eemmuem itn eraereu vn\md charged accordingly. *A?ao?nciDj Candidates, three months, five Dollars Cttr ih*t time, the usual rates will be charggd. , f ? !ft a4t?tti??Bent, howerer small, will be considered le* Jk?*a square; and transient rates charged on all tor a less tins than thrse months. COURAGE. [av cilmore simms.] . - ' I Stukb 1 as said the anvil to the hammer, i Strike! and never lei your iron coo!; Ufr bead, uj boy!-speak bravely?do not stammer. Last all the world should write you down a fool. We have no time allowed for shilly shallr, ? Bat ssveaty years allotted to the best. A Down with the rock, tear up the fertile val Work out your purpose?leave to Fate the rest* ! H. .. } Tfou h*T? a purpose?ah->uld have?ther. begin 141 > A** MTBMt working purpose is a power, wyjto if you straightway seize upon the rnin1' iri I Vfll make its pivgfees surer every hour, ? | Build up jour fortunes by it?layjfttBwj^yP a t. i 'IIaWa wam? ?%nn/il'ifinn? ttirti tknn riu.vV' f* ^ "i "** """T"* ' ' Haise Bp your walla?a fortress?nevtayvheap! 'jjgf - Good purposes demand a largo outlay. . iii. Strength, (kith, devotion, toil and resolution, These make your capital?these freely spend : One# sura of your design, the execution Needs all that yon can give it, to the end. 'Oh! boy?man!?what a world is in the keeping, f_ Of him who nobly aims and bravely toil*! Speed to the work! we'll all have time for sleep, in* * When we have shuffled off these mortal coils. H ! Hr is oxlt a Pki\tkr!?Such was the sneering remaik of th* leader in a circle o'fi 'aristuracv?the codfish attain v. Wiio Wa< the I ? \ Lr'~* .Earl of Stanhope ? he was only a printer, What is Prince Kederick William (just 'married 'to tbe Princeaa Royal of England;) he too was a printer. Who was William C&fttoTV,'tine of the fathers of Literature? he ohiV A rrintek What were George P. M'tirrin, >L P. Willis, James Gales, Charles Richardj'tin; j;\mes Har. per, tlorice Gr#*ly, ItaVird TaVlor, Charles Dickens, M. Tbeln^ Dttiig! as .mold, George j D. Prentice, arid Senators Dix, Cameron and Nilest They tti'ti A'tere tinly printers! Ami last though hoi I edit; Miat was James Buchun an, whti .''cthp!ts the most enviable position on earth t Only a printer! Every one cannot be a prfntet?brains are necessary. Excniinrje. Lotb Rhymes.? It is singular how much nnnirv in written Imfurn litarrlaire. and i j ? - ? D-- | how litVe alter. One may have hut little of j ninoimod faculty divine;" bui chl falling j <in lore, be finds that he is not without the "nc j toinplisbment of verse." This lets us into the secret why there are sd fh'aliy llnsybcessful wooers. "Sir," said a lady to a gentleman, who had addressed to her a copy of verses, arid who afterwards solicited the Honor of her hand ? *'3ir, I admire your persoii and esteem your character; jodr rri.anners are pleasing, and jout 4ispd#llidii engaging?hut?but your jtoetry it itzetroble. 1 could never love a writer of such Veries." Mkadk's Ethan Allkn.?Every American Is familiar with the story of the capture, bv surprise, of Fort TiconderogR, by the bold mountaineer of Vermont, Col. Ethan Allen, the astonished British officer demanded to whom life deliver deliver up that commanding stronghold. ''To the great Jehovah and the Continental Congress!" was the ststft* ting reply. The State of Vermoni has appropfited $2000 for a monument to Ethan Allen, to be erected over his retr/ains, lying in Green Mountain Cemetary, Burlington, Vermont, the I corner stone of which it is proposed to lay on the I Oth May next, being the 8.71 anniversary of the surprise and capture of Trfctfhderoga.? Yhe monument is to be surmodu'ied hj^ a sta i? ~f it,* kom nf TlonnH^ritrsi ^hi^h' fr. fs IlUC Ul MW MV.VT V. -0 -? ?- supposed will be executed by another son o'f that Statu?Meade, the gifted sculptor of ffi'e "Recording Angel." A gentleman having failed hi business, was askfcd wlwt he intended to do. rind replied : "I . shall star at home a while and get acquainted with u>rfariiilv ! ^ \ ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS, The Xfricaii Slave Trade. NO. V. We need an increased production. Our country is a hive into whiqh comes yearly a awarin of adventurers without means, who hetake themselves to {.he different employments ? who flock into cities and become an additional multitude?dependent upon agriculture for bread. They throw their weight in the scale of manufactures or manual labor of some kind - not to agriculture. Whilst the fprtner increases the latter is stationary.. Political ecotio my requires some proportion between inanu- . facturos and agricullme. The basis of all enterorise. tl?? true-source oPwealth?ngricoltu*' ral products?whether imported or taised.. are essential to prosperity ; whether raw or wot Iced up, products are necessary f??r business?trade being but the exchange of one product for another, and money is the agent for this traps, fer. Now, when there is not sufficient raw, there cannot be enough manufactured materials. A dearth is the consequence in necessary at ti cles. There should be some equality betwixt the two. We are filling up so rapidly?our"; tendencies are becoming so mercantile, that , we rii'ust heep up a show it) tho way of agriculture. A great demand is made fur materials, for provisions; we mu-'t increase our supplies, i How can we do so'; will science'perform it, or ! experience produce tItem I xvo, out lorce? additional labor. Can we import provisions or materials?buy them from foreign markets? Are wo not ourselves the mainstay of tbe woild in these respects ? How can ?e Import from others when we export their stlpplies ?? tVe are a peculiar nation?the most peculiar on record?a thoroughly agricultural, a thoroughly manufacturing one. To -thrive then, we must'keep them in proportion. To do this we must have inore/orce, which tve can oiifv have by re opening tho slave trade: lor we have not the I'oicc within ourselves. *fo the North slave labor woul3 be beneficial, for various reasons: 1st. Because of tiiu command over it; 2d. A manufacturer's negroc# being his own, he can work without menus al most as well as with \ and several others.? This, however, is impossible. But, to the South an uddilion is indispensable, because agriculture being our forte, and the world dependent upon us, we must stir ourselves?must awake trom that Van Wiukleism w liich seems to have bound us with tbe cords of lethargy, or be- , numbed the acuteness of our faculties. A ! brighter day is dawning ; the South feels her | wants, ami like some slumbering lion moused, | is shaking from her tl.e deiv drops of sloth.? , From an increase of productions nud a gieater ] , ouiic xjnir jjio.. follow, for, being a manufacturer, it needs our , materials) we would argue an importance in ' our government. These are policies to the in- r, lere>t of the South. Disregarded l?y our gov- j ( eriiinenr, nothing will enforce them hut interest'. I Hut, Union is a phrase of hye-gonc da)s, an ' idea of the past; dissolution is noic the theory. . | The practical issue will come ere loiqj"; no sa j gacilT is requisite to j?ro|#!?et*y it", ever) sign, , political, or social, portends if. We should l?c ! prepaied with every possible advantage, so as to begin our career untrammelled. Wo must i introduce more 'force', l'ut, whe'llicr in liie Union or out of it, an iuciease of our produc j Live agencies is Ml increase of our power. AGRtGULTURAJL. Mini in tveryiumg. Tlie science of agriculture is made lip of a I whole group of sciences, whose theory and ap- i plications the f.-iruier must understand and prac- 1 lice, if He would he master of his profession. He ?nn?t know something of Chemistry, to : understand tiif tieatment of life soil, and the , composing and use ol manures, lie must 1111 - ; derstand Botany, to manage al! the vegetables, i grains and fruits which he gu.ws. lie necJs I Physiology tilid Medicine, to treat his animals ; well in Ileal lit and sickiieS3. If lie . Initlds a. I iidllse or ham; a knowledge of Agriculture will'! , stand h"in in good stead. If he has a thresh* ing machine, or mower, he needs some nerpiuio i tance with the principles of motive power. In the fcol)?tiucti"ii of dmin?; lie must apply the principles of Hydroslnlies; and to some extent | of Hydraulic* t"o. >Ve give these facts as illustrations of" oiir : meaning' net hy anv means as exhausting what might properly he said on tlii* matter! The ! truth is, tile farmer needs to lie a bit of a ge- i nius in almost everything if he would stand at the head of his profession. Ti was lint niir tiiirnose. however. wlipn we - *; i - - - - ? - ( penned the heading of tlds article: to siijf inuVli , oH thesb grdve thelites, it tvas an humbler lo- j I ji!c that tempted our pen. We wish to exhoi t our readers to bee-one ' well skilled in all the minor opera turns which the management of tlio farm and garden in ' volves. What we mean, two examples w'll ! 1 show : ' i Mr. A. is a farmer, dr.d Hoiking else. If a , strap breaks in a harness, he .semis two miles; so havelt mended. If a horse's leg is bruised, j lie will not treat it himself, bu't sends f>r a farrier. His boo hives need repairihg, a> d lie ^ hires a carpenter to do what.a very little tkill : would enable hint to do lor himself, lie can. not even tnend an old sled, or repair a bro. '! ken-backed rake, without foreign aid. Ho is a good furl!ieH He keeps bis iinplimenls in j good condition'; too, but it is at great expenses. Mr. 15. is another sort of a man. He is an ! good a farmer as Mr. A. IJut lie is limber i and clastic too. A'lf the iittlc jobs about the ' house lie does himself, or teaches his boys to d"o. He ca:i roof a house r be can hoop a bar t rel, or he Call dig and wrall a well, lie call) build a sled, put a spoke into a wagon-wheel, graft or blid a fruit tree, or make a new liar| tlees oift- of ait o!?l one, with an awl, a waxed | end, and a' bit of I outlier, [flie attend* a fair, he sees the p'j'iit in the impro'Mmiit.i that a", j oil exhibition, and lie can apply many of them j to Ins own work without any further aid. . He will go but little further. Our readers sec what we are at. We hope they will themselves be, and bring up ?iheir sons to be, men who will have sopie skill.in everything. Here are some reasons for tips recommenda tion which we will give at the risk of making this article a little longer. 1. Almost evpiy farmer will need this kind of skill. Not one in a thousand will ,|ive so near a village where there are skilled mechanics, as to be ;tble to use their aid at all times. Few er still w ill farm on so large a scale as to em- i brace all these trades in the force employed on their own grounds. He will need some skill himself. . a. ar.-ich*'#ifntTwn?t-x? i dent. The sense of such independence it a ureal coin fori. Its exercise is sometimes a o great advantage. ? 3. It saves a great amount of time and money. . We knew a man who lost a whole dsjy's time and several dollarsin money in the follow*ing way : A 'part of the harness was tnken away. He had not enough tact and skill to repair it with a piece of rein or halter. 4. It will deyelpp talent in many persons, where it now slumbers useless and'powerless.Theexercises in mechanical skill furnished by the farm has awakened the mind of many a youth. who tins ripened into a nolile and skillful mechanic and aitist. But we have said enough. G:vo the boys ami girls a good chance to cultivate their pow ers in a practical way. You can never predict what treasures 'you will find. Ohio Farmer. < , , ? f "Tl'iio Plants trees ? Not the care worn statesman, not the schetn.. ' ing politician, not the votary of fashion, not the plodding merclnyit^nnl. J lie busy ipechanic, not tile griping miser, nor the plumed soldier. Wlio then plants all the beautiful trees that adorn this miked earth of ours ? Trees have n language, not the less eloquent because silent ami could they hut talk intelligibly, could tell of mutilated roots and sore bodies, and com. plain, that although thev live, their life is but a living. 'There are a few that will plant a tree for u natural love of the beautiful, and love to see its daily, monthly s nd yearly developments. This class will plant well. They may not have had horticultural teachings and advantages.? 15ul the life and LMowth of the tree is some 0times more to them than the immediate pros* peel of fruit or shade. It has a Irving breathis.g -beauty : a connecting link of the future, with the present and the past. And wherei there is a will, this wilt all he (U'Ve'nped. There jig olii-ris wlm 111,II.t trees, ini-relv -liurmlu-|livh I Lneir present grounds. 'I'llis the)' d<?'t>y hire- " ling hands, and know nothing practically of the Hue pleasuie that arln-'r ciifturc gives. And Lin-re ate u noMe few', that plant trees for pos-' Leriiv. All honor lit their names. For without that little leaven left in their hearts, the earth ivou'ld have been denuded o! Iter fairest habili' incuts. The past cannot be recalled. I'lunl trees lor the present, and above all plant, trees lor the future. Sutiie otic vvilI come after you, il.-r ..-'ill 1.1.m.. V-o.'ir iVii.nwii-e ;i? I h> \ i-!iin\, J , J1 ?- --- J - J ? I I lie shat'c or 'fruit.?J'lmitcr and Soil. Savk Vorit Coal Asiii:s'.?1'he Inquiry has ' been fiaqneutly made, are coal-u->lies worth saving ( 'IJie almost mil versa! answer is coala-lies arc worthies*. Almost every one casts ilieir ashes into tT.cstieet, and ihenee it is taken to fill up sonic low place that needs filling. I/ist spring I thought 1 would try their value. I have a small me.-iuow near the city, and 1 lliiow upon it e<>al ashes, and spread it over'a stiip of ahout twenty feet wide across the rfiea- ! cj'iw. A common load covfcrcd a strip of about 20x10 feet. The meadow h:u| been seeded two years, and was in good order. On each side of the ashes 1 put on a top-dressing of bam yard manure, about as thick as the-ash. e*. The result surprised me. The grass was thicker, and much higher where ihs ashes were <nri?:nl_ I shall continue t!?t? experiment, and if I am equally successful with coal-ashes a- j gain, 1 sliali believe that there is an additional | elchient of value', which we llt'tre hitherto thrown away. i'lcbir.?S'r U i'.li am 'IVtSijilc has observed i that tlio hive (it' gardens is the or/1y passion which augments with age, and adds that all men eat who can get it; so that the choice i; only whether one will eat good or had; and ill things produced in a garden, whether of sal ids or fruits, a poor man will eat better who has a garden of Ins own than a rich tiiau who lias none.?Southern Cultivator. ^ , MISCELLANEOUS: An Appeal fur Clonal Vernon. The following admirable appeal of the Ladies' Mount Vernon Association of the Union should go to the heart of every patriot in the laud and arouse now interest > and zeal in ?| glorious cause. It is proper to state that the j '.Southern Matron," in signing Iter baptismal iiaiiii* i?i uiis iiuuuiiiunt, iiu* vifn:tMi u? tucuiaiNations of Mr. Kverett anil oilier friends : MOUNT VT.KNON, TUB I'ltOI'KltTV OK TIIK NATION. It is with feelings of the highest gralilic ilion we announce to the public, that the persevering [ Horts ol the Ladies'.Mount Vernon Association of the Union, have been crowned with success commensurate with their sacred aims j mid lofty patriotism, and that they have at I last secured to the American people the privi. I lege id making the Home and (>rave of Wash- j inglon the /tro/Hiti/ of (he Nutinn. / On the failure of the Mount Vernon hill in j the (ieneral Assembly of Virginia, we renewed1' our overtures to .Mr. \Vashington to sell the I property to tlin Association. Those overtures ; in> t with a favorable response, a'nt'l on the O'th'j of April, a cotitiacl was signed by Mr. Washington, which obligated lii'm to transfer Mount i Vernon to tlio Assoc. hit fen, on ifs compliance with the following terms, viz : The payment of two hundred thousand dollars, lor two hundred a'-tc.s id'land, including the muHHUin, garden?, landace, and, above all, tlieUoinb. Eighteen thousand dollars to he paid on closing of contract, ?vnd the. rein Hinder of the sum, in four bonds, pavalile in yeari j, i tis l^a 1 n^e n ts with the permission, after payment of the first bond, to pay to Mr. Washington _any amount of the balance due, in sums cf noteless than five thousand dollars, which sums will _ be creilii.e^t'i Ihe Association; in this manner lessening the interest. ,, f(, The jijfcju, the estate and poases&ion fq. .be given nn'pnymeiit of the principal and .interest; 9ji'd fl>? privilege also granted of obtaining possessionem fhi.rty days' hotiee, at any tirne the AssoaaJion may be,ready to furnish the *triP? P i. . .d ,ki: ~ I , ii,? T ucrii uiMWii iu vuc |/UMifv?;nusi iuc juuvi^ ui uic Mo u nt'-Vefgdn.Associ^ti"Q, jo offering to be* . come to acqvire it upoj}^pth5r terms ttynn those given as the hltinwtra to Cdhgress and to Virginia. ,Yetw>erf is a; concession made to the Associalion^w Mr.. Waslytjgton, as to theerftension of time; pnd a very important proriiib) to save interest, irhjch CAp .best, l>e "plained by the following letter addressed to the legal gttatlemon wb<J negotiated the purchase on behalf of the Association: Riciiwosd, April?, 1858. To Wm. U. Mucfadund, Esq. and Gen. A. A C/aipman: GsNrtaitEN?In the negojj^tions you have recently concluded with me, on behalf of the Latlies'Association fur the purchase of Mount Vernon, the payment of interest on the defflff ed instalments front the date of the contract, while 1 .remitted possession. ?>f the property, was the only seiioiis difficulty between Having satisfied you tTiat, I could hot yield this point, you finally conceded it. As the contract is now closed, and I believe In a satisfactory way to both parties, it affords m * I /\ AAA* t/l ttAII tllllt If tllA 1 OOAIlIrt II J U piCU'UIC vu 34* J tu JVM*# lUAb II IUU .lOOUtlU , lion meets its engagementj with me on the first of January, 1859, and thinks proper to pay, and does pay the other deferred instalments on ur befoie the 22d day of February, 1859, as you inform me they will probably be both will*-, inland.able to do, it is my intention, in that case, to: remit to the Association all the interest on ail the deferred. payments. This j shall be willing to d% partly as an ind u cement to the Ass (join lion to nhta'ip possession of fdbant Vernon at an early day, i>u^moro* particularly as an evid^ce#vfiny Appreciation; of the 'motives that liavj^. actuated the Ladies Association in the caifre rt has undertaken. 1 to be, gentlemen, y* Your obedipnt i-ervant, John A. Washington. More than half a century has now elapsed since Washiij'gtyn \yalked among us?a half cenlur v of neglect and ingratitude t<> |iis memo ry. Between the broken pledges of Congress, and the apathy of his niytlierState, the remain; of the fatlier of his country have lain unhonored try the mausoleum voted in the hour of'n nation's giicf, and his rtomo and tfravejeft to the fate of private property, anil iiccessitih^to i the public, only 'through tiio forbearance and courtesy of its various private owners. 7 . Ever and anon, a voice was fieard t<> protest against republican ingratitude, for, ever and anon, the heart of this great nation seemed lo throb with a remembrance of his virtues nnd his services, and the priceless legacy he bequeathed. Bui, during the stern struggles ofa young Republic, this \oicc was unheeded, and : since America became a power on the earth, it w as cither silenced by the din of party, and sectional strife', or stilled by the murmurs of Mammon, until the generations, which knew him not, were in danger of forgetting and wholly departing from those principles, which are the 1 bulwaik of our greatness, and those warning counsels which can alone maintain our Union in safety. But that Providence which has so often interposed for our rescue iii the darkest days of the Republic, when the fclop of State; with no master hand at the helm', rocket} to ami fro on the angr+ waves of sectional strife and bitterness, which threatened to engulf it; has stirred the heart of woman to revive, through ilie rescue of the sacred ashes of the Father of his Country, tli.it love for llis tremory, slumberin;,', but not ileail, which could be made all 'jxiiccrful, in regenerating and healing influ cnces! A call was made to the women of the South, to gather around his grave and become the Vestals to keep alive the fires of patriotism. The motives were pure?the intentions gener ous--but the)' failed ! Ye, who watch the signs of the times, know re not whorefore ? \\ushing\on belonged hoi alone to th/ South. Again tiie call .was triadej anc!J tliis time to the i"otneh "/'the JVation.?Again it tailed !? and wherefore? The title, and all (he power were to te Jiven i In a State; and Washington blunged not to one Statealyiie. k ( . j llcvottni woman would ( be neither baffled I: nor conquered j but s!ia only triumphs when the common Homestead can be procured as a I common heritage, for the estranged children of a common father, the apell of whose memory will yethavo the power to reunite them around his l.a'lowed sepnlchro. Unexpected success has crowned her efforts. ?Our country can be saved, one and indissoluble forever?for woman lias become hor cuar? i dian spirit. In the sacred groves of Mount Ver- ' nun, she will learn those lessons, which will ^ never leave, us without a Murj, to train a Wash- , ington for her country's hour ofneca. Orators?Statesmen?the hohle Drotncrliood ( of Masons?Odd Fellows ? partriots,' one and ( nil, have come promptly to the aid o! woman ! j , .Viiif ye, women of the North and of ih'e South, ' , of the East and of the West, will not ra'fy ' ( to the work '{ WiTl jz not vie one with another," j which will give most n'tni da inost, that , may, on the twenty second of Felrrujtry, I80O, 1 , claim and' tal 0 possession cf the >tome and (Jruve of him, who loved us a'J,'and (hue make hix birth-day, the birth day also of Republican " latitude, justice and fraternal ,lo*c ? , . 1 ANN PAWlELA CCNNlNtJIlAM, . Regent Mount Vernon Ladies'Association. | \pril lft", 180S.?Richmond Enquiicr. I The Mississippi Slave Trad*:. . WeifiqtJ^lve. following ip the New York Tri bune, dated the Stfo ,fnft.,..Hjt Yjck^urg, Mississippi. Our readers will attach what importance they please to the statements. Of course it i* unnecessary {o wy ,?liAt.tl)p JTribnne is quite unscrupulous in the manufacture of . Southern horrors. The story, however, is only confirmatory of other reports from the same locality: , It is thq.jmprgraion of a great many that the article in the Delta, in relation to the landing of a cargo of Africans in the Mississippi, on Pearl:River, is a hoax, but such is not the fact On/1 itto r.onrp/vk Aa eonnrlarl K t/ f (ia TVilto u* a r/i aiiu ?v^i v'f cv--? veil wj vue i/^uo, w^a^, syre. enough/landed, and can be now. seen ,V.W the credulous on the plantations of Messrs. H. i@* Good^uui, W. S. Hey land, Co1. Jpmes Glas^ k. Knowiaqd. Mnj. jL, Price, J. Wesley Fortner, an J a'fewiutbers, wboss .Dames I have no.t ypt learned?undergoing :^a regular training, preparatory to the culture of cotton and other products ipatbe Skate. .-,i W V About 140 of the number landed wPre.ro*r.cj)" edjfr^ip Peprl River to ibis county, VWarrqii.) and can now be seen on tlifc planlalidro, of ifce gentlemen above turned. The balance were sold in the interior of the State at a handsome profit. . The gentlemen above mentioned, as f leant from undoubted npthprity, have formed a join^ stock company, and hare already paid in carrying on the trade the sum of $190,000, and ty the 1st of next. August tliey expect another, cargo of about 1200. 1 understand that they intend to increase the 4 *fi"l * . _l a. 4PAO aaA ^1 . capiat wqck. vv> ^wu.uuu, ana ipn^mjtny^mers in this, city and coUnty arc anxious to in vest in it. , * >*'<* "* t<?- * 't.^v " - i Thfy have employed an experienced man from .Boston, Mass , at a salary of 910,000, to Command the .vessel, besides giving him an equal share oI the profits. A young and likely African man will readily j sell here for $1000, whereas one from Virginia or Maryland will sell for $400 more. J. Wesley Fortner is President of the. Com pany; 'H. H. Gopdruni, Treasurer, and Thos. K. Knowland Secretary. The President, J. Wesley Fortner, is the father of the scheme, and has been heard to boaxt that be would clear 'a cool one hundred thousand dollars at it before two years." , , , ' The above are facts,, Mr. "Editor, vrhjclh yon may rely .on as being so. . HILL CITY. \VnATr a. Ba*i?V Costs a.\je Ait.-?When it is necessary t6 feed infants artificially, and cows' milk is us^d, i^ shonld be tirtt boiled,thetj^ki^med., tjlien pweeji^e(l.\yit!i a Ijttle sugap, gridflf^t a litt\e sjijt adc^ed, not enough to give it a ?a(tish rent the Imngesuon and, consequent, a^iajtv, flatulence, colic, diarrhoe^, dec., from which sucking children suffer so muchi btif wili uctu ally cure them; so says Hull's Journal of Health. A hearty infant will swallow, during the first year of its lif<^ fourteen hundred poui.ds of milk, in which are twenty onfl pountja of cheese, thirty pounds of butter, and a hundred and twelve pounds of sugar. At six cents a quart, with the necessary sweetening, each "dear" littje creature costs, for food alone, fifly dollars for tfie first year. A Family ^upporteo by. Eagles.? Lu?ik* ombo in his "Tour Through Ireland in HTO," ?a?s: ("In must of the-<e mountains^ tlfe Mac Cjillycuddy'* fteeks of Kerry) are numbeis of eagles and other rapacious birds. 1 have been assured that some years,ago a certain nnor man in that part of the country, (liscovereu one of their nests, and that by clipping the wing* of the eagles,and fixing collars of leather about their throats, which prevented them from swallowing, lie daily found a store of good provision* in the nest,^uch as various kinds of excellent fislV^ wild fowl, rabbit* and hares, which the old ones constantly brought to thjeiryoutig. And thus the man and his children were well supported during the hard summer by. only giving the garbage to the eagles to keep them nlive" -??, Tiik Lakes of Minnesota.?A correvpon dent of the Miiinesotian supplies that paper with a table giving tin dimensions of ninetythree lakes in Minnesota, comprising the lur. < ger number of those most known. Thousands of others of smaller extent arc distributed over the surface of the country, and a great many of a mile or two in length have been omitted for want of a name. The largest lakes in the State, according to this table, are Red Lake, in Pembina county, thirty miles long by twen ty wide ; Big StGiie Lake, ,t^iirty njiles long by thme wide ; Mille Lac, twenty miles long and fifteen \yide ; Lac, 'I'raver^ej twenty five miles lona by throe win* ; and Leech L ike, twenty miles long ^>y eleven wi le. Most of the l\*t, however, are from one and a half to six miles long, and from one to three miles wide. The water in all these lakes is perfecth^pure and sweet, and they are all of great beauty of shore and surroundings. The lakes of Minna sota form a distinguishing feature of the country, and lend an air of romance to the coun ? ? * ? Who was it!?We find tiie following in an exchange, credited to the Home Journal. Who was the American statesman referred to! Professor Felton, of Cambridge, delivered, lately a most eloquent lecture at Washington ; Dn "Modern Greece," and in the course of it (says the 4(jiiion,")' he mentioned this fact ' Wlien the Greek struggle for independence was drawing to'a close," th^ (frocks made ofier Lo a statesman ?n this country, now ju retirement,' tp send an American over to Greece, as a dictator, the Greeks having more sympathy with anil more confidence in American insti Lutious than in the interested policy of Europe. Had wo been as avaricious of territory then,as f I ? ' ,4 wo are now, Greece might have been knocking it the door of the fnion " 13mstkd lloi'es.?Marrying a woman with the expectation of getting her with $.'50,000, hhI when the union is consummated, to be picsented with a hlil for her last year's board. Maphf<?)d. ' ' ''$V"2S "The farm" ?f jfursh hof^is. .w-jrtfjy.to be the resting place of its illustrious ^vt^r, ?]U . ? is shielded by a range of beauti&f. mtj^frnpts *> thf violiMico of our northeasterly-* stafiOa;";it lias a distant view :n the oeeji 1, be^on^.'^ -lowland* winch every high tide overflows.;-tjyp t one siiiu a wooded promotory just iplo., the other rfses a sloping highland, on tli^i J* ^ of whjcb,. in the deep repose of nature, ?igkindred r^st in their long sleep, with u^wjund*. above or around them, but tlie urqnimrs of th* jiiBfc \riq.d through the foliage of the.drooping or the songrof,Juird', or the solemn yoicg. of Jthe sea speaking eternally frynijts vast dynths^-. * the undulating purjjnce sweejV up (re^ the I house AtawK then geutlj^-falU- inPva *i?ou$h S.and spreading lawtu' |ih deeper Moj>e,^t a?.. cends to the west^w rkrfge.qf, {lills, Wlbi$D/Qfi " that aide, shut in the picture and bound n scene ?o? ,har;xnoiiii>us, v.et rtchijr varied anS sweetly contrasted beauty. As you lo.ik down Iroin L^ese hills, your heart heats with the unspeakable emotion that such objects fuxpire^^ the charm is heightened by the reflection thai .the capabilities of nature , have been unfolded J?y the skill and state of one. whose fame fill* the.world ; thfltan illustrious existence g Slefi^edtits activity with the processes^j^^Se '%?kgenial earth, and breathe* its power inlq the .breath of heaven, and draw Jta ii>spi?|tt?i?from the air, the sea and the sky, and around ,*nd above. Here, ftjr.(NV^I^tei;,w^s pec^tqo^. d to drive the transient guest" over his.estate"; vising Ej fields,^ig.opeau shore, hu fl[ock?, and hia fljhjs; pointing out tho prospect, and speaking wit^tender emotion of tile sad and k&ppy iriPRoH*a tiie variedjuews recalled ; conversing wit!i the rustic neighbors whom be icbanced to^aeet, in kind and. genial tones, and on suh$ects4jtyich he mid they understood alike; Uttering from time to time glorious thought* Mj|ggested by the scene, in Htnguage of massive Hjauty and grdflileuc which iruift the^rooreit & memorable in tbediiftener's lite. T ? -r ' . . ^ * CoVEroesxass.?Ooretoasncciji prelcqdr^w heap much together for feat onfrant; and after all bis, paii>f. n,n? purchase, he suffers Wat really which at first He-feared f Jt'pd ,not using what begets, be makes that suffering to be actual, present and necessary, which, ill his lowest condition, w;u but .'iff ure, .ftlW P<M?bl*. It ?"'? "P.*!* 4e '"h away the pfeiwireof b'pingsatisfied. It inCfpasev the appetite, and will not cofffi&t it. Ijt swell* tliff principal to ue purpose, andlessensthe u? < 9!?'), PW'^ i <JtyorLing the order of oatar? rfind the ,des/gtH of.pod^ ^toalriu^ money not to be the instrument of exchange or cKatfty, noj ff tTrc?i fresh the sadness of the afflicted, nor his oil to make his own countenance cheerful; bat all these to look upon, and to tell over, and to take accounts by, and make himselfconsiderable and wondered at by fools, that while lie Itoes He may be called rich, when he dies may be ac- r counted miserable, and, like the dish makers of {shut#, may leave a greater heap of dirt for hit nephews', wbilo he himself hatha new lot fallep ' to him in the portion of Dives. But tb^ the ass carried wood and sweet herbs to the bath?', but was never washed or perfumed himself; he heaped up sweets for others while himself was, filthy with smoke and aalies "1 " Jeremy Taylor. Hon to Weigh a Pound of Butter. A pedlar, in the Highlands of Scotland having run short of huller, applied to a farmers wife for ft supply. / _ _ tuIIow niuch do you want?"' said tiie wo. |(l ' "One pqn' will Jo," said the pedlar., , . v t "I cannot^nijike you a pun," replied the woninn, "1 hftyp pia a pun' weight." "Well, .yijmt Iiayj you said the pedlar. "Twa pun'," said the \veiuan., ''And which is the weight!'' saiij the man. "0! it's jist the tangs," (tlnS long*.) . . i "Well,"said lie, "put ane l? g in the scale aud tither oot, arid that'll n a .. The woman did as requested, but jwhsn itwas weighed, she looked doubtfully at the better, and said? "It looks a pun'." , . .. . "O ! it's all rigid, woman," said the pedlar, "how much is it?' , . . "A sixpence," was the reply, which the pedlar paid and departed rather hastily, l^sttha woman should discover that 'ane leg in anjJ ane lei? oot' was riot the exact wajr of weijfhi?? a pound of butter. ri5i , . , t j, ( Small Talk, , fi . 4rt j*iit of aJ the expedients to make the .heart leaUj the brain gauzy, and to lliip (ife down ta the consistency of a cambric handkerchief, .thq most successful is the little talk and tattle which in sume circles, is courteously styled conver**., tion. Mow huiuaii beings can live on suclj Ipyr fare ?how continue existence mi such a famine of topics and onstich a slioit allowance of sense ? is a great question, if philosophy could pqly search it out. All, we know is, that such men arid women there are, who will go on tw?V W teen to fourscore, and never hint on their tomb* stones, thai they died at last ?>f consumption; of tlio head and marasmus of the li^irt ^ The whole universe of Clod, spreading out i{3 splendors and terrors, pleading (yr their mention, and they "wonder "Wljera.Mrs. Somebody; gpu that divine ribbon t,o.iier bonnet ?" Thp whole world ofliteralnre,through its ftinnsand trumps of lame, adjuring them to regard its gjjraered stores of emoiiou and t|iuught, and they think: "It's high time, if John intends to marry Sarah, for him to pop the question !!'?When, to bo sure, tlii- frippery is spiced with.a Ijtllo envy and malice, and prepr r*?s its small djshe^.cf scandal and nice bits of detraction^ it^ (weonies endowed with a venomous vitality, which docs pretty well in the absence pf byul, to carry on the machinery of living, if not the reality of life.?K. 1\ Whipple. ? <i 9T CoUKEi'TLV Namki^? 1 lie Washington pj, ion very properly styles Crittenden.*! nm?J. nient to the Kansas bill, "A bilj^l'or keeping ap the Kansas agitation, and making confuttagt worse confounded,"