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quire little attention, subsisting on the coarsest herbage, almost free from disease, and live to a great age in the full posses, sioii of vigor and strength, many being found capable of their accustomed labor at and 40 years old, and some authentically stated to have attained ages apparently almost incredible. Wny then, under these manifest and acknowledged advantages, are they not generally " used ? The whole objections, after deducting a little for family viciousness, may be summed up in one word?pride. Unfortunately for us, those we have been accustomed to see, have had more than a due proportion of thick muzzle, chunk head, long ears, ewe neck, narrow chest, diminutive legs, small body, cat hams, and most u pre possess ing tails, the refS breeding an indifferent jack to wv,,fc " o refuse ra a res of the country. But in a question of utility we must school our ideas somewhat, and if we cannot quite bring up the mule to the symmetrical elegance and fiery spirit of the horse, we can hring them down to think him not ^ojrly rot so unsightly an cv'>ject, but a very valuable andvuseful beast. He has to be sure, in days of yore, and among nations we deem less tasteful and refined a than ourselves, been esteemed not o: y , us beast of burthen, out considered wim regard among the luxurious, the opulent 4 anc the prou I : and kings princes, and nobles from Absalom, (the most courtly dandy, and thorough-going demagogue on record, that has as far distanced his , competitors- in the race of folly, as his . brother Solomon has all modern philosophers in wisdom,) to the haughty sovereigns, Ferdinand and Isabella, that stand tineclipsed in later times in the ncqiisition of territory, wealth and glory they made for their country, the mule has received all that brute has regard and 'fondness we bestow upon the horse. Nor fthould their taste lie too summarily questioned. We have seen specimens of this hybrid, with proportions so happily blended as to challenge not simply our approval, but our high admiration,'standing 19 "bands, symmetrical, (for a mule,)--finn jointed, clean .firnhed, compact, round kirrof, arched neck, and a costume varying. through every shade, from a light *nd which reflected IX-IA.1I U JV% like a mirror, the light from their polish. J sides constituting altogether a lofty bearing*, that would effectually silence the pretensions of half the legitimate bloods of the land. Such animals could liot he purchased for #500 per pair, a price not fixed from fancy, hut from actual experience, believed to be within their absolute value. L'st the experiment at once be tried, by using some of the best Kentucky Jackson our large blood mares, and a salutary change will 60011 be etfected in our northern teams. But f<>r moderate farms generally, we think the ox, beyond comparison, the most profitable animal to depend upon for field labor. He is the natural and al. roost spontaneous production from an indispensable portion of every man's stock. He comes almost unbidden to our bands, and reared with little trouble or attention on the coarser products of the farm; is liable to few diseases, which arc generally understood and easily reme. died; is domestic, kindly disposed, trnc. tabl^, patient and ever r. ady to do his utmost: and when he has worked through | his best years, and attained a full matur!ty, he is turned into the field to gather l up and condense the scattered herbage, j *nd then is prepared to fill up the mo as- | ire of his usefulness, by uncomplaining- j }y yielding up bis life to the stern and never satisfied demands of his master.? j If at any time in the course of his work- j in? days he becomes disabled, he is turn, i rd ?mt and fattened, or if kept in good : condition, is always ready for the shamHo*. Some years since, I had an ox, j ti*at through the carelesness of his dri- | ver, had a part of his hoof crushed, by having a log rolled on it, and finding it; impossilJtc to staunch the wound, 1 had loin butcher* d,and disposed of his carcass ' for 602, when the well matched pair were not worth more than MOO, for working oxen. Not so with the horse; I if'itie slightest fracture or disease is di*. .* i^L ilimn r omes his value from 20 to ;>i r rent, or if much disabled or seriously disoased, he becomes absolutely worthless, or even worse, as the expense ?>}' keep and farrier's bill, is the only legaev ?s queathed by the dead brute after months of attention. Hut to the objections to an ox team.? *'Ttiev cannot endure like the horse in not w aliier." Grant it. Tiiere is part of4 m mtbs in our climate, when they canHot do as much itt the heat of the day, i?ul there are parts of every day when they can do a great deal 5 and probably nil that might f>e required of them; and ii the sluggards who drive tbein> would take a lesson from the feathered inmates of every copse, tree and shrub that surriMtmls them, ami bestir themselves before the fading glimmer of the last star in the ' > 1 r,.r morning, unci uMyotic mm pi?>? ,VI 4I weary companion in toil through the sul tnness of the clay, and again when the * xccsMV.e fervor of the sun had a hated, ihev wouid renew their Inhor til! dewov ? ve admonished them it was time to rest, i nov would lind proiMihly th?y could acoo.opiish without excessive fatigue to their Jwaius, all that was necessary to per form*. Ttio great objection to thorn, however, 'dullness anil inactivity/' 1* the ttijH Jropof! rip hip-vl in tnt|(f ? \W believe, y, if. -J' :t;4H ,v i'j 0;*r ov',-) sxvu/n" : the latter. If the poor dumb brute could be i portray his wrongs, they would frequently : be found to shame his more intelligent I master; and if even handed justice could J done, compel him to change places with | the abused servant. The ox is generally .trained be'ore he has acquired half his strength, and his power at once tasked to the utmost. If however, he is allowed a respite, his burdens are for a brief time only delayed, and long before his strength is fully matured, he is habitually overload, ed, and that too under every pr vat ion of nutritious and stimulating food; and the consequence is, as every one, not art-ox or ass, would have predicted, he loses his spirit and ambition, and becomes the stupid thing we are so accustomed to see, and the whole race are cond< m led for faults that actu illy belong to am th %r. Let II gill yokes or harness be adopted, suita! b!?; four wheeled wagons, instead of the j neck bruising c iris, tiiat are too often a : fu'l load for a team when empty ; let the j ox he well fed and curried and kept in * ? -^nai.iohmp.nnd never msyOKC OI.I V a | overtasked, and he will in his improved character, soon retort upon his calutnn?a. j tors. But the real difficulty is, the breed J of working cattle need improving | throughout the State. In how large a portion of it arc they far l?elow the stand{ ard of working cattle in New England? j Is this owing to the mode of rearing, or j the breed/ We think the latter. All | know the difference in the capacity for performance between horses of the same bulk ; that one will regiilarly perform la. bor throughout the year, that would | knock up another of the same weight in j a week, and kill him'in a month. May i there not exist the same difference in the I j breeds of cattle/ W.thout hesitation we j j would answer yer, though net perhaps to j the same extent. We are not left to conjecture upon this point, however, though j our unassisted reason might clearly indi: cate the truth ; for we have the recorded I experience -of intelligent and observing ! I man, on both sides of the Atlantic, who j j have tried this matter fully and fairly, j and whose united testimony is, that not ! only are certain individuals better adapted to various purposes of labor, but whose breeds are so constituted in form and character, as to give ti.em the utmost ; possible adaptation to this object, consis' 1 41 - * * ^ ! tent wan tnc oiner important one 01 meir j j nature, in furnishing subsequently a car- j i cass every way suited to the nutrition of j j man. These breeds are pre-eminently i ; the*Devons and Hereford*:, and to their j | unrivalled qualities for draft, Loudon, i | Youatt, and other distinguished writers ! j testify ; and their opinions are corrobora- j j ted by thousands of experienced individ- j | uals in our own country. We know the j Devons to be intelligent, docile, spirited j | [ and capable, quick in their movements i and enduring in their performance, and | fin many instances, when of pure blood,!' well trained, and properly managed, ren- j' dering it no easy matter for good horses j1 to out-do* them. Youatt yields to the ' Herefords nearly the same ineed of praise and allows them greater strength, through we think them less active. Classifying j th? m by the sportsman'* scab*.- we should nay j , the evens were tho thorough bred, and Hie 1 Hereford llio .etoiu hunter, and liun.wh not pos- i soRsinj the speed. yet with sufficient tbr lii.s nb. j j-ct. hcis enabled to carry greater tveijjhi th in j hi* more active rival. Ho?h have good firms j and constilwut, a largo si.are of limine iitvii - I g 'iK'n n -quick eye and oarly ear. (loinm hoiitn. J ( strong j i'iMltt, a large prn,?oilimi of well <1 sposed j in iscle, great strength and a rap <1 stride tliit | make it no easy matter for their drives to keep* pice with thein; in addition in which, th'-y jue ' kind feed'rs. and whei turned out to grass, will i take on fl :sh nci ily, ami when Hi'toned are i preferred and \vi 1 (in Knjf'and :.t any rite, tvliiTf ?l,o Wif!-rent iiraeLi's have la-en ??ua?r:d hv " r* n t . nil the epicuieiu palates that hive taken eg- j 11 iz men of fl '*h 'lor the; lar t two or throe con I nr. i ic#,) bring a higher juice than my except tlie S~ofh c ittle. Di I \V'i possess ;hcs? valuable e i- i tip, nn?l th"ir descend tits crossed with our best j n dives. oxtrnviveiv <1 ssoniinaterf through our , Stw,i shotild he ir very little anoutthc great ; iuf-ri<?fit.v of cattle. It may perhaps foe a*V??d if the far fain? c! Short , Horn* are rot ad <pt<'d to labor? tiieir ud j vocal 's have failed to demonstrate it, wtf-'i son e few < xccjiti-Mif; nor do wc deem it CDifratihle j with their characters they should ev-r bt so dis. , liugtibh'd. Tiier-' is an an icumic. I and physi- ; cal impossibility in tin thing Tli y must coin- ! bin? opposite and irreconcilable properties in ae- j complis'liiig this. Their great and jiaramuuit | xcell-Mice is, to load on fle<ii in tlic right point-* j at an catly age, combined with great capacity ; in the co v* tor secreting milk, in w iieh they | :irn exee'l-d hy no ?.iher breed erc-pt tIt? Li.ng J ( I "formal Ditdiurn or Vorksnir** fn conclusion, ' for this article l??s already Im^mj drawn out to an unwa:rantjldo length, all that neees* ry in j compassing the gre.it desideratum, the mi rove- I in^nt of enr country cattle, is to select tli | , -inniiun :tuii>ir)i? wo have a I read v. that - , . are best adapts! totliin purpose. and cross them ; *uii i) VOU8. and poriiaps lien-fords, selected; in England especially for tiiis object, and ue s!i !i suoubave a ric- nut surpassed lor securing ) ( ?o tho agiicultn i<t what lie most demands, viz ! tho ae.eo npH?hinent of the grcuL;^t amount of farm labor at lie least tip. use. Tru'y yours, I*. I... Allen. Ibitfiio, Feb. 1811. I I EXPERIMENTS ON MANTRING S CORN?AND GROWING I'OTA. . | TOES AND CORN" TOUETHKR.! cii vui.kstot, i'oh. 2(1, 1834. : ! To the Editor of the Southern Agri- ' ! cullurud. Mr. Editor.? Vs the season f*.r planting approaches,! will communicate (he 1 I result of my experiments the last year ; 1 upon Indian corn, nude on Ilia Agficubu- 1 i ral Society's Farm called tin; ^ Cut fie i : Farm." The soil, (a light sandy one. and ' I without ma nu:e (did not hot pruoduee ! when iirst planted bv me lour years ago ! ; more than nine or ten bushels to the acre. ; ; Since which time, bv lite application of j 'manure, it ha-t gra lualiv increas.nl in ! ; quantity to about twe.itv bushels. The I - last season the following trims wet.; made: j {'cow-pen compost, horse litter and fresh J peoUor; werv apphe 1 o .i?. 't.i ib? I 41 I P??W???W???iljM?* following manner: on the first of April 1 the land was ploughed flush, and then t furrowed off four and a half feet apart, t with a hulitongue plough; on a portion of i t the ground was strewed one peck of the j ^ first kind of m :nure to the task ro\v (105 ; | feel,) spread in the trench ; a furrow was : < then run on each side with a common ) ( bar-share corn plough, covering the man. I t lire al>out three inches deep; the corn J t holes were made with a dibble stick or j pes'ile, two and a half foet from centre, / to centre, and I wo stalks were left to grow in each hill. The same quantity of the t other kinds of manure were used and in | the same manner onthe two other portions ( of land. To three other portions, three ( pecks were applied and to the others four r pecks. The result was to the first, 18 ( bushels to the acre; to the second, 19 bushels; the third 21 bushels. The next ( trial: 191.2, 22 and 25 bushels. The j third was 21, 24 and 27 bushels. The {j fourth, was 23, 25 and 35 bushels. I Two other portions of land the grain ( was planted without manure, and when t about six inches high, the same qtianti. j ty of manure: of each of the aforenamed ' ' " ??? -.nli/xl Uia 'liflTarnnl nur KIHUS Were ill iiiq uiuuf^hi ^/i/a I | lions around the hills ; the yield of. these j i were less in every instance. Again, | when the corn was two feet high, simi- ( lar proportions were used to other por- i tions. The result was much the same as i the last experiment; and again, when the corn had advanced to half its growth, the same trials were made to still other porf |, tions, when scarce any percipitable advan- . tagc was gained by the application. But ( to a part to which the same quantities of ( manure were used in the following manner the result was nearly the same as the first class of experiments stated, to wit? when the corn was nearly a foot high, a furrow was run with a plough on each side of the bed, cutting away the foot, so as to expose the roots; the manure was then ; 1 thrown in and immediately covered, by j running a plough on the back of the fur- j, row; in this experiment the bushel of cot- ! j ton seed produced at the rate of forty 81 bushels per acre. The seed in all enses | wore fresh, and from being covered from ; < four to five inches with earth did not veg- | elate. ( I am inclined to think, from repeated ex- i < perime.ua, that manure ought always to he . | applied to corn where the number of the j onds of the roots .will enter it; therefore, j 1 should say, that it were best to incorporate it generaly in the soil, as the roots y pasture widely, even from four to five feet j r if the soil is* well pulverised, and well j. drained. I found it necessary to chop j. away a stock here and there, which put a on appearance of burning or drying up ; c except in those portions manured with cotton seed which kept green,. y I will add to this communication a j method of growing corn and potatoes ill j the same field, which will he found high- J r ly advantageous, viz:-?furrow off the j r ground in nine feet rows, plant the corn j j fifteen inches apart, on the row in single r stalks, or thirty inches leaving two stalks; r as soon as vines can be procured, propa.o 5 the intermediate spares betweenthe corn j rows and plant them. The corn blades j removed, the potatoe vines will run across ^ to the corn rows and take root there, and produce potatoes which answer well for j feeding stock, while the corn yields fine- r ly from its open stand. j f Yours. &c. t J. F. O'IIbar. j f B.?Corn planted 30th April. j \ COL"."PRESTON AND Ills OPPON. t KNTS. j PUKLTC MBETINO IX ABTIKVfLLT?. j t At a meetiug of citizens of Abbeville, ! 1 District, hold at Abbeville C. H., on Won- j 1 day, the 3d May, Benj. Y. Martin, Esq. j t was called to the Chair, and J. F. Mar- i c shall appointed Secretary. j I Dr. H. H. T 'owncs stated the object of j [ the meeting, and submitted the following j < Resolutions, which was adopted, with hut !{ few dissecting voices: { 1 Rfsohvd, That we deprecate the np. jj preach JLxtra Session of Congress, as the < probable source of a series of measures per- 1; nicious to the States, and subversive 1 if* tlif. oroat conservative principles of j i our Federal system. j? Resolved, That we consider the extra- I! ordinary convocation of Congress, n great j i public expense, and at a period when the j t necessary expenditures of the Govern- | i merit are rapidly decreasing, as a hare j f famed abandonment of the professed prin- j i nipj^s of economy and reform, on which ! c the present administration came into j i power. * : < Resolved, That we should regard the j 1 establishment of a National Hank, in the j i face of the frightful exhibition recently j i made of tire management of the Bank of jt the II. State:> as indicating a reckless i disregard of tin- admonitions of experience ' and as creating an engine of political ' power and corruption, calculated to do- ! stroj the purity of the government., and \ l finally the liberties of * Be counlrv. j I * - . . i: Resolved, 1 uat we iOoiv upon r.:n pro- , j< #*ted men sure of distributing the pro- i coeds of the public lands among the I States, as one of the most eomprehen- I j sivc schemes of bribery and corruption, . ever devised, and as tending" at the same j ( time to produce trie two-tbVI calamity of! degrading the sovereign Siatcs of the j Union, into servile pensioner.-*, depend- j ent ou their bounty of the Federal Gov ernmerit, and of creating the necessity ; f<?r a permanent increase of the duties on ' imports?thus laying the fouudntien of a 1 new Turiii", burdensome to the; whole; Union,and unjust and oppressive to the j planting and exporting States. ; Rr.fuhwd, That Win. Preston was I elected to represent this State, in the I Congress of the United States, as an op.; ponent i-po i Constitioiml grounds of a ' National Bank, a Protective Tariilj and ; he scheme of distributing the proceeds >f the put lie lands among the States, and hat, in becoming an electioneering advocate of a political party whose princi>nI object, known to him, (although not Miblicly avowed,) was and is the adoption >f all these measures, he compromitted the lignity of his office, disregarded and contained tl e known opinions and wishes ilmost unanimously entertained by the leople he p?ofessed to represent, and has otallyforfeited their confidence. Resolved, That if, under these circumdances, he should vote for a Bank of the United States, he would sacrifice the prinuples, upon the faith of which he was dented, and betray the high trust comnitted to his hands by the State of South Carolina. Resolved, That if, after having render?d this degrading service to the Adminisration, he should accept office under hem, it could bo considered in no other ight, by an impartial world, than as the endcring, on their part, and the accepa nee, on his, of a reward for his apostacy md treachery ! Resolved, That these Resolutions he >ublished, to the end, that, should he rise n the Senate to support a Bank of the United States, he may. do it with a stigma >nhis front, placed there by the people >vhom. in assuming to represent, he would n fact betray ! On motion, it was Resolved, That the proceedings of this Ticeting be published in the Charleston Mercury, and South-Carolinian, and that he Chairman of this meeting forward a ropy of the Resolutions to Col. Preston. The meeting then adjourned. BENJ. Y. MARTIN, Chairman. J. F. Marshall, Sec'y. Col. Preston's Reply. Columbia, May 11, 1941. 7o Rcnj. Y. Martin, Esq. Sir,?I have had the honor to receive your note enclosing to me certain rcsolu:ions passed in a meeting of a portion of the citizens of Abbeville. The temper and language of those concerning myself, savour so much more of personal bitterness, than of political discussion that I should hold myself discharged from any obligation to notice them, hut that I feel it due to the public lot to permit some assertions contained u to pass without contradiction. In tht. fifth resolution, being the first in vhich my iV^me is mentioned, I am deinunced for with a Party whose inncipal objects a.' ?wn to me, tho' not lubliely avowed, were a National Bank, l Protective Tariff, and trie distribution if the proceeds of the public lauds. Ii is not the fact that the Whig narfv ind any object known to mc and not pub i icly avowed. It could not be the fact, or the Whig party consisting of a vast majority of the United States must, of iccessity act upon publicly avowed principles, and consisting too of a great najority of the Southern States, it could lot be implicated in a conspiracy against Southern interests. It is not the fact that the distribution of he proceeds of the public lands, has ever lean considered a Whig partv measure. It: is not the fact that in any just meanng of the phrase it comes in as the high Tariff party?either secretly understood >r publicly avowed?for it is notorious to he whole country that as far as pledges oiiid be made by a political parly the A'higs were pledged to the Compromise Vet of 1933. Their candidates for Presilenl and Vice President were deeply, reicafedlv and publicly pledged to it, and he most leading men of all the party I >ound to its maintenance by every possi. ile obligation?while on the other hand, he candidates of the other party, for Presflent and Vice President and their most eadirtg and able partizan (Mr. Wright of View York) were at all tirms the advo[rates and supj orters of the it ost cxtrava. ;ant system of Protection. The vote of the anti.Tariff States of Georgia and North Carolina?and the present attitude jf Virginia., vindicate the Whig party gainst this charge. It is not the fact, that I was elected Senator as an opponent on constitutional ; jrounds of a National Dank or a distribu. ion of the proceeds of the public lands? jeither of those questions were agitated or bought of in the State at the period ot election. If my sentiments in regard to J i Dank of the IJ. States, were an element n that election?it was known that I wns >f the Republican State Rights School of Madison and Crawford?and had never j lenounccd them or the whole body of the Republican party who followed their lead n the financial emergencies of 1816. * ' ' ? ITinlr of thn I i n I. VI V Siroil" IVCI.MI.HI ny n umm O ted States, existed then and exists now? neither decreased or diminished, by the recent failure of a State Corporation of Pennsylvania, an aversion which could yield only to a paramount necessity,such is overruled the objections of wise and patriotic inen in 1815?whose character ind fume must be aspersed, before a de. annotation can reach me for following their example. So far from this question entering I into the consideration of my constituents at either<>' my elections, the notorious circumstances then, existing, prove it to I have been impossible. I was elected shortly after Mr. Cal-1 ho.iu, who had been the principal agent n establishing the Hank of the United Stains, anr, who in the session sunsequem In mv election, dnclureJ this fact in the Senate of the United States, accompanied bv astsong panegyric upon the Hank, lie did not forfeit the confidence of the Slate thereby. The immediate representative of your own district. Mr. M'Duftin, always the zealous parti/an of the Hank?and at the moment of my elcclion signalized his advocacy of it upon every ground of constitutionality and expediency?hod euJogiz ed ita conduct and. its conductors?and ; proposed its re-chnrtcr in an elaborate and J powerful document. He neither forfeited the confidence of Abbeville District or of the State to the highest office, in which he was subsequently elevated.?Although I did not and do not concur in all the views and conclusions of that celebrated report, I do not believe that I was elected to the Senate on account of my dissent from them. And I cannot refrain from remarking that in the proceedings of the meeting at Abbeville, there is a striking forbearance of expression of any opinion as to the Constitutionality of a (Jnited States Bank? the objections to it being selected from the frightful exhibitions made in tire* Pennsylvania Bank, and other topics of policy, entitled unquestionably to the very highest consideration. The meeting seeks to bind me while it cautiously keeps itself unfettered holds me to an opinion which itself does not entertain. During the period, that 1 had the honor ' to serve the State in her Legislature, I do remember that the Bank question was 1 agitated. Engaged as we were in the I the prosecution of a great enterprize, in 1 which energy and concert were necessary 1 to success?when it was known that 1 many conspicuous men deeply devoted to themaintenance ofthepr nciplesupon that 1 which State was acting, entertained var. ious sentiments upon this subject, it would 1 not have been prudent to have agitated it; and this is perhaps, one reason why it was not agitated at that time. My course | upon the high questions then settled, un. doubtedlv procnred me the honor of an election to the Senate, and second to these, and scarcely second, my opposition to the men and measures of the Jackson Van Buren administration. To prosecute this opposition, mainly, I was sent, and if at any time I have enjoyed the ap. probation of my constituents, it was when I have been fearlessly and vehemently assisting in beating down that dinasty. The only doubt that was thrown upon my re-election, was that I might relax in these efforts to prostrate the Proclamation, the Force Bill, and the Tariff party, although that party was then distinguished by a hardy opposition to a Bank. If I had faltered in my opposition to that party ; I never could have been elected or re-elec- I ted. If I had faltered in that opposition I should have been false to my country and my conscience ; and having prosecuted it to a glorious success, I find no matter for regret, but that in the moment of that \ictory, I am separated from a portion of my constituents, whose countenance and encouragement had sustained and rewarded me through so many viscissitudcs of the eventful struggle. ?- - .??<* ?< ? I That flic meeting at ADDenuic nas thought proper to censure me for thus persuing to (he consummation of what I set out to effect, is matter of regret to me ?that it ha.* impugned my motives by the insinuation in the 7th resolution, can ex. cite, even at the utmost, but a momentary irritation. The tenor of my life has put me beyond the reach of such shafts.?If I had been ambitious, the party in power at the moment of it ascendancy, was accessible when T might have chosen it rather than the doubtful and almost despairing cause of the country. If the allure, mentsof popularity, of that dearest popularity which is found at home, could have seduced me from the rough and thorny way of duty, the primrose path was straight before me. If I was servile, I might have surrendered my conscience to the keeping of others and been safe. If I had been venal I might have joined the spoils parly. I have preferred to discharge according to the dictates of my conscience, the high and responsible obligntions of a patriot Senator, for the pro. motion of the interests and honor of our common country, and I esteem it a piece fr,rfiirwv thnf in norforrnine' this VI C'/A/VJ IVI ... o * r ~ o duty, I have crossed no material opinion i once entertained?have denounced no I principle once avowed?and avowed none [ once denounced?that I have des rted j from or to no party, but have maintained ! light forward and direct coarse, from the beginning of iny career to the present moment. Even on that policy which has been the occnsiou of the great difference between me and my constituents I am en. i titled at their hands, at least, to the credit of consistency, Before my re-election, my judgment was fixed in regard to it. I Experience and the verdict of the country, have proved howjti^t my estimate was. It has fatten, and ainidst its hideous ruin has dragged down the party which supported^. Amongst tho evils which I deprecated in the establishment of that system, was the danger of malting it an alternative with the bank, and of forcing the country to escape from overwhelming dilficultics, and intolerable sufferings, under the protection of an institution, to i which i entertained the most decided ohjections. In the future prospects of our country, j I confess I nrn unable to detect any thing j incident to the late political revolution j which can make me doubt the propriety of ! the course 1 have pursued. If there he ' some things in the principles of the nia. i jority of the present dominant party which | 1 do not approve, I ain not the less sensible of the advantage of having escaped i from the practices of that which has been j expelled. I reposed with hop.? and trust 1 no Ant n l\l icrlli ft !iv j lipOII tflO oruoroi limits uo bswiiiuiibu 'ij I I the will of the people in the election of j i (?en. Harrison, and I equally well believe | j that the dispensation of providence which i has placed Mr. Tyler at the head of the i j Republic has neither endangered the j ; prosperity of our common country or of our 1 I particular section. j | As I know of no more fit mode of bring-1 ! ing this letter before the gentlemen who | composed the Abbeville meeting th in by j j sendihg it through the press, I hope w * you will excuse me for doing so?-and ^ assured. I am, with great respect, Your obedient servant, W. C. PRESTON* Benj. Y. Martin, Eso., Chairman 4/t* 4*- __ American Temperance Union.?The anniversary of the Temperance Unionwas held this forenoon in the Murray street Chorch. The report'cf the Treasurer stated that there was a balance of $314,40 regaining in the Treasury. Abstracts were then read from the report of the Executive Coromitttee, which st&*~ ted that in several particulars ll?e Temperance cause had received quite an impulse^ Mention was made of the movement arnaig the Irish, by which fire millions iir Ireland had adopted the pledge of abs i nno o Ian 1 a rera mimKaro nP tliam ufhfv HCl.VV,?.?V ?,gv VI >U?IH lived ?o the cities or were employed on the public Wv^rks of this country. In Sweedcn, Finland, Pruss'a and Rcss'a c>nsiderable enthusiasm was enkindled, and tho monarchs of ttW* countries and their public ministers had eToreaaed a decided approbation of the enterp\nse, and were enlisted in it. The movement among the reformed inebriates in Baltimore, 'in this city, jn Zfuffalo, in Brsto 1, in Augusta, Maine, and in other parts of the cofforrtry, had resulted in reclaiming 15,000 drunkards, besides having awakened the whole community. The ordinary labors of the Union had been quite successful during the past year. The expenses of the office toy the various publications that had been issued, was $20,347. From the States of Maine, Massachusetts, Now York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois and Missouri, exceed, ingly cheering accounts had been receiv. eJ. Among ail persons employed, wheth. eras agents, publishers, or officers, tho most perfect harmony and unanimity prevailed on evrrv point. The disposition for a popular vote on he license question in several of the States, has greatly increased. Last year about 36 million gallons of ardent spirits wero manufactured, while three years s go, the quantity was upwards of 72 million gallons. The records of the police and criminal courts for the past were then referred 'to, as showing very many effects of ths cause. Addre ses wore mad. by Dr. Jowett, of Mass., Professor Goodrich, of Yalo Theological Seminary, Rev. Mr. Scott, of Stockhlom, in Sweeden, Robert Baird, Esq., who has visited several of the Courls of Europe, and received the favorable expressions of their monarchs on this subject, Rev. Mr. Bingham, of .the Sandwich Islands, and John Hawkins, Esq., of Baltimore/ Ono of tho Speakers stated, that irr Russia there were thirty or forty !o?af governments, each of which paid to the General Government a certain sum for the privilege of manufacturing and selling ardent spirits. Th6' amount received by the General Government 25 million rubl- s. The local government* farm *d out this privilege to individuals. ami received an equal sum. This is the Russia system of licenses.?iV. Y. JourCom. A SECRKT \V<)RTH KVOWLVO. >v Truth is strung??stranger than jtction.n-r~ Undor thin bending Ihe Long Inland Star puSIinhcH a interesting tain, for tlie extendi details' of which we c-.nnot fi? d room, but mu*t content ourselves with giving the leading facts in a con- dense*! foun for the b >n? fit of our readers. ^ A young grocer of g ??^j ch in-cter and correct habit", comiiu need Iuimimwin a good and improved iioighhorl o >d. His stock was small, as wi-tc his means, and Ins stock of customers weru still s nailer. His sales hardly met "is expenses,, and he w.is evidently going, 'tfown hill," and an old gmcer on the opposite corner prt-dic ed that ho would soon !>e nt the bottom. That the young gr< cer had reason to regret this opinion of 'he old grocer will appear. The latter had a daughter who had won the heart of the former. He offered himself to her and was rejected. It was done, however; with the assurance that he was the man of her choice, but that she acted in obedience teller father's commands. Assured of the affections of the woman of his choice he set himself about removing the onlv obstacle in the way of their unipn?the father's objection to his pecuniary prospects. * * * * * * A year had elapsed, and lo, what a change! The young grocr was now going up kill with the power of a steam locomotive; customers flocked to his store from all quarters, and even many had left theoid estab ished stand on the opposite corner, for the younger favorite. There was a mystery about it which puzzled the ol<! grocer sorely, but which he could not unravel. He at length became nearly sick wiih losses and aggravations, and vain attempts to discover :he secret efhis neighbor'! success. At this juncture,?Angelica?for that was the daughter's name?contrived to bring about an apparently accidental interview between the parties After the old man had. become, through the intervention of the daughter, tolerably good humored, he inquired wish great earnestness of the young man, how he had contrived t?? effect so much in? a single year, to tlitis extend Ins business and draw off the customers from the older stands. The voting man evaded an answer?bat inquired if he had any further objections to his union with Angelica. "None," replied be, "pr v-Jded you reveal the secret of your sue. cess. Tins the young man promised, when Ins happiness was made complete. The old man commended his prudence on this poin'. The alf > ir waa a!! settled and the marriage soon took place. - - - - .11 The friends of the young' coup;e wire assembled, and among them many of the customers of the two sto es. Angel if a and Thutn 18 looked as happy as they well could he, and the old gentleman w;,?? if possible, happier thin they. The bridal cake was about to bo cut, when the old man called out j for 'THE SECRET." j Aye# trie secret," she secret," exclaimed I fifty others. 1 ??It is a very simple matter, says Thomas, I*-1 ADVERTISE"!!! The old gentleman was very'rtry old fob* ! ioued. and while he shook Thomas heartily Bj | the hand, and-kissed Angelica fifty, limes j over, he merely muttered * Why the diukens d'd'nt I think >rf thai!"