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both useful and important in time of
peace. Two stations Have recently been
. erected?the one Here upon the top of
m the north wing of the Capitol, and the
other at Bladensburg, five mites distant.
A correspondence between the two is des patched
with marvellous rapidity and cor.
rectness, and a message of four hundred
. .words, if the station were extended, could
ha transmitted from Washington to New
in fifteen or twonty minutes. The
two stations have been erected here and
at Bladensburg, to illustrate to members of
Oongress and officers of the genera) Gov*
eminent, who may wish to see the plan in
operation, the success of a telegraph sys.
tem which is not different hut superior to
all other plana in operatio.i here or abroad.
Any one who may have the curiosity to
become better acquainted with the system
may do an by visiting either of the stations
on any day during this week.?Nat. Int.
ii ll.
mvD AW fi A frTTP
VAIAUDA vw WAflMim m. MJtm
- ' WEDNESDAY, August 4 1941.
We return our thanks to the Hon. John
>. "Campbell and the Hon. Tho. D Sumter
Tcfor copied of the report on the Home
Squadron.
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a* . The article on the sulwequcnt columns !
"''.onthe beds of limestone and calcarious
' -earth on the Pee Dee is from the pen of
one ofthe most intelligent and respectable
planters in the Pee Dee country. We
hope others to whom we addressed enquiries
on the same subject will favor us, or
rather the public through us, with answers.
The valuable information fur.
nished by our correspondent will, we
rioubt not, stir up many near the Pee Dec,
and perhaps near other parrallel streams,
to inquire into the value of lime as a fer,i.
tilizer, and the expense at which they can
1* transport it.
On the fourth page will be found some
instructive statistics, exhibiting as plainly
as figures can doit, the danger to which
men expose their lives in subjecting them*
selves to the operations of steam quacks
~ and quack medicines. We shall at some
- future time copy similar statistics col*
~ lected in Charleston. Although quack
medicines seem to be used to some extent
,in this neighborhood, we have hesrd very
little of steam doctors since the days of
the small pox in Marlborough, five years
.ago.
The statement copied by us last week
that the Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr.
Reese Is imprisoned by the Pope has been
.^contradicted by a correspondent of the i
Catholic Herald of Philadelphia.
If will be seen by reference to our Con*
. - gressional summary that the bank bill
. has. passed the Seuate, with a modified
form of the plan recommended by Mr.
.Kwina. The indications are, that with.
IT
out material alteration it will pass the
House. If so the bank will probably go
into successful operation without much
delay. For, if we may judge from the
result of the Presidential election, very
few of the states in which it is desirable
* to locate branches will object Still the
precedent of submitting the question to
them we fear may prove pregnant with
unforeseen evil. Our federative system
is most wisely constituted. While it
t# gives to distinct governments concurrent
jurisdiction over the same territory, the
?ame people, and in many instance*, over
. . the saine subjects, it at the same time as. |
aigns to these governments distinct
spheres, in which though rney may operate
with atl desirable efficiency, their i
movements must still he independent and ,
harmonious. But let either government j
; infringe upon the sphere of the other, or i
even surrender its independence of action '
at any point in its own sphere to the will,
of the other, and an essential principle of
the system is thereby given up.?a revolution
is commenced which may ultimately
end no one can tell where. Like
v a planetary system in which the orbits
cross each other there is a continual liability
to the most fatal shock.
The McLeod Cask.
According to the New York papers the
counsel of McLeod, at his request, have
declined carrying the case to the court
for the correction of errors in that state.
He is confident that he can prove to the
satisfaction of a jury that he had no
agency in the acts with which he is
charged; and he wishes his case to be
submitted to a jury at onse, that he may |
foe released from confinement with as tittle 1
/delay is possible. The trial has been re.
1 pWffid (ioni Niagara county, where it is
alleged that the offence charged, was com*
mitted, to Ontario, where it is supposed a
leas prejudiced jury can be obtained.?
The prejudice against him, however, is
very strong in all parts of the State, and
by all classes of men. Some even of the
- members of Congress from that State,
and in both houses, have used language
in regard to his case which is far from
honorable to cither themselves or the
% country.
"
A negro man at Bedford, Massachusetts,
lately paid his fare from that place
* to Boston, at the railroad office, and then
took bit seat among the whits passengers.
The agent informed him that there was a
car provided for persons of color to which
must go. He refuted to do so; where
i j M??^i n 11 itiMaaiMto?
upon he was carried by force. For this |
act he had those engaged in it indicted, j
uuder charge of assault and battery.?
The decision, however, was that inasj
much as no more violence was used towards
him than was necessary to remove
him, no assault and battery had been committed.
The right of tho railroad company
to make and enforce a law to separate
negroes from white passengers was
recognized.
Fugitive Slaves.?The Montreal1
Courier estimates the number of negroes
in. Canada who ranaway ns slaves from
the United States at 20,000.
Another bank eobkkry.?The directors
of the branch bank of Illinois, at
Jacksonville, offer a reward of $5,000 for
the recovery of $90,000 stolen from the
hank on Sunday night the 4th. July.?
Eleven or twelve thousand of the amount
in specie and the remainder in hank notes.
The bank was entered by means of false
keys.
Gen. Baron dr mareschal, Minister
from Austria to this country, has been
appointed by his Sovereign, Minister to
Portugal, and Mr. Gkorqr Hulzman,
late Secretary of Legation to this govern
| -J ? C3 - CJ
ment has been appointed Charge d'Affairs.
_ j
In many parts of Florida, and in Sumter
county, Ala ., a fatal congestive fever
prevails extensively.
A proper movement.?The merchants '
in the principal towns of Georgia have i
attached their names to resolutions and ,
published them, pledging themselves not
to receive or pay cut no bills of Ruspen.
ded banks but at their current market value;
that is at the discount at which they
can be sold for specie.
i
Politician's Logic.?The Hon. Tho. (
mas Morris, formerly a U. S. Senator ,
from Ohio, in a letter recently addressed ]
j to the Governor of that Stcte, through an ]
; abolition paper, undertakes to prove that ,
the clause of the constitution which re- (
quires one state to deliver fugitive slaves (
from another state when claimed, is void j
as between Ohio and Kentucky; or at (
least that it does not bind Ohio to deliver <
fugitive slaves coming from Kentucky. |
His reasoning is as follows: The ordi. |
nance of Congress ib 1787 establishing a ^
government for the North West Territo- (
ry, of which Ohio formed a part, con. j
tained no provision in regard to slavery. \
except that persons escaping into the (
territory from whom labor or service was j
due in any of the original states might be |
lawfully reclaimed; -as Kentucky was not |
one of the u original" states, it was not ]
included in this provision of the ordinance, ,
and must therefore be considered as excluded;
and that notwithstanding it was j
at the time a part of Virginia, which was ,
one of the original states. This is the ^
first step in the ex-Senator's logical pro- ,
cess. The second is that the Convention j
which framed the constitution had no
power to alter the provisions of the ordi- '
nance of 1787, and that therefore the
ordinance is paramount to the constitution,
and must prevai 1 where the two come
in conflict. Mr. Morris is not the only
politician in the country who seems to i
look to the Federal Convention as the 1
source whence is derived the authority of '
the constitution over the states and the 1
country; nor is he the only politician f
who seems to consider the condition of j
the states under the constitution the same i
that it was auterior to the adoption of that i
instrument. Absurd as is his reasoning it I
is not more so than that on which is some- (
times based extensive party distinctions in
this country. ^
Another instance.?The following t
letter from the Hon. J. C. Alford, of 1
Georgia, on the subject of a U. S. Bank <
has been published in the Columbus (Ga.) <
Enquirer. 1
Wathjngton, July 5. 1841. i
Gextlemen:?I mo the Columbus Argus has (
misapprehended the meaning of my remarks
about the bank. 1 was speaking of what the '
Northern men were willing to do, viz: let us '
ha?e o little respite on abolition if we would go I
on and vole for a bunk, a Tariff, Ac., not what |
I would do, but what they were desirous for us .
to do. I shall vote for a fair bank charter but '
not for a foul one. I am anxious there should i
be a good bank, and if it is not loaled with pro. (
visions against State Rights, I shall vote for it
with pleasure; for I teel and behove that the rot- '
ten condition of the St.ite banks, tho derangement 1
of the currency and the necessit es of the people |
all together produee an overruling necessity,
that ought to quiet the doubts of every patriot, '
and cause every State-Rights man to acknow- I
ledge as a truth, that the question has been so j
often adjudicatod and acted upon, and beneficially,
too, that it should now be treated as settled.
The only question should be so to frame '
the charier ax In avoid infringing upon the sov- |
ereignly of the States. In a word, I am in favcr i
ot Mr. Tyler's plan.
Vciy respectfully, your obedient servant
JULIUS C. ALFORD.
By "Mr. Tyler's plan" Mr. A. here
means the plan which makes the branching
feature (admitted to be essential to a
a fiscal hank,) dependent upon the con- ,
sent of the individual states. He is of
opinion that the experience of the coun* ,
try has proved the "overruling necessity"
of a bank to carry into effect powers ex- ,
" 1
presslv granted in the cohstitiition?-or in
other words, chat the Constitution gives
congress the power to establish a bank
with branches. And Mr. AI ford, after
this admission, will vote only for a bank
hill which leaves it discretionary with the
individual states whether ofr not it shall
be carried into effect if passed. If the
slates have, unanimously, each voting
separately, as they did in adopting the
constitution, given to Congress the pow.
er to establish a bank, where is the clause
of that instrument in which any state has
reserved to itself the right to veto the legitimate
exercise of this power either in
whole or in part? It is an anomaly
in government to make the exercise
of its admitted powers dependent.
upon the consent of any other body.?
Such anomally is sure not to be found in
the Federal Constitution. A man who
cannot find in that instrument the power,
plainly implied, to set in operation a
bank, is hound to oppose it whether attempted
with or without the consent of
the states. How can the me-e acquiescence
of individual states legalize or jus.
tify the usurpation of power by Congress?
And if it is necessary or proper to ask of j
the states the privilege of exercising one
granted power, why is'it not equally so
t? ask the privilege of exercising any or
all other powers? Where and why should
a distinction be made ?
' I
A Mr. Brent, who was once a mem-1
ber of Congress from Louisiana, is now
settled in Washington, and if we mistake
not, was lately engaged in raising water*
melons for the Washington market, is
publicly-whimpering in Washington be.
cause Mr. Clay has not resented " in*
suiting language" which he says be ad*
dressed to him. Mr. Brent was an active
Whig partizan before the late Presiclen*
tinl election* and Gen. Harrison promised
him the office of District Attorney, in the
District of Columbia. But the appointment
was not made before the General's
death, and has since been confered on another
person, through the influence of
Mr. Clay, as Mr. Brent alleges. Mr.
Brent considered Mr. Clay under obligations
to himself; and under the smart of
disappointment and mortification, he ad*
dressed what he considered a very insult*
ng letter to Mr. Clay, and he now sadly
complains, through the Globe that Mr.
Clay did not get into a passion, think
tiim " worthy of his hostility" and chal*
tenge him. He would then have the
gratification of a chance to shoot the dis.
linguished Senater. Mr. Brent is not
he first man in the world who overrated
lis own importance, and then childishly
exposed his mistake. As he could get no
>etter revenge he published a brief extract
Vom a private coitfulential letter of Gen.
Harrison, making some complaint against
If r PUv fnr nnorAn#rou9 treatment" to.
/ ? ?o- - yards
himself.
Gen. Harrison most probably thought
t "ungenerous treatment" in Mr. Clay
not to manifest greater deference to his
greater age and public services, when
they were both prominent candidates for
the Presidency.
>N TUB BEDS OF LIMESTONE AND CALCARIOUS
EASTU IN TUG PEE DEE
COUNTRY.
, To the EJitor.
Society Hill, July 27 1841.
Dear Sir : Yours of the 15th was duly
eceived. In proceeding to answer you,
[ must premise that I cannot give any
nformatinn worth publishing in the Farners*
Gazette. It is known to many that
extensive banks of shells are found on the
iouth west side of the Pee Doe from Ports
Ferry to Burchs rerry. Ihese banks
wherever the river washes the Bluff are
*ound from 10 to 12 feet below tne surface
and from 6 to 10 feet thick, and
extend back in phces several hundred
pards, At Burch's Ferry the bank approaches
the pure limestone of a grey
:olor; at Witherspoon's old place the limeitone
or shell bank is harder and purer
:han it is at the Bluffs above; at Savages,
jile's, Ervin'a.G. Witherspodk's and Alison's
pld places the shell bank is a light yellow.
It seems composed of decayed shells, sand
md earthy matter. The most common
pf the shells not decomposed arc flat
pieces from 8 to 4 or 5 inches long and
is broad, and 1-4 of an inch thick. Not
being a choncologist I cannot give you
ihe name of this shell. It is evidently
but the remnant of some large shell fish,
and as 1 have understood considered as
?xtinct. The next most prevailing shell
is the fluted clam of various sizes periwinkles,
&c. Atc. I do not know that
any of the banks above mentioned have
ever been analyzed. A bank of the same
appearance as the yellow bank of the
Pee Dee has been found on the plantation
of the late John Gibson near Dar
lington Court House, and I understood
from htm that he had sent a lump of the
shell Bank to Dr. Cooper to analyze, and
upon analysis he found it to contain I
think about 70 per cent of pure lime.?
Large beds of Limestone are found at
Legget's and at Myers's on or near the
road to Georgetown. Samples of this stone
or rock were pronounced by the late Col.
Blandingto be the Burrstone. I under,
stand Dr. Harllee of Marion District has
leased or purchased Myers's bed of stone
and has commenced burning Lime apd
4offers
it fof sale at 91 per barrel. Large 1
l?jds of this Limestone fare found also on c
i Willow Creek in Marion District, 5 or 0 n
miles from Myers's. From this quarry old f
Capt. William Wilson in old Indigo t
times, burnt lime for Indigo making, tan- i
ning, and Brick work, &c. He had a I
kiln to burn the rock in, hut how con* f
structedl cannot say. Mr. B. Gordon y
who now oa ns a part of this quarry or bed
of limestone, told me he had tried the old
country plan of burning oyster shells
and found it would not burn the rock
sufficient to decompose it. |
In the Carolina process of making Indigo
lime-water was considered necessnry
to settle the coloring matter. My
father at times I know used the yellow
limestone rock, arid burned it into lime.
My father's process was to have wood cut
4 feet long anJl when partly dried, to
place two peiccs of this wood at 4 feet
apart, and a piece in|the middle, then he
placed a piece across each end and side,*
making an open pen of 4 or 5 inches
deep, this was then filled with the rock
broken into fragments from 4 to 6 inches
diameter, another layer of wood as above,
then rock again, till he got the pile 5 or
#Vfpf?t hiph: fire was then niaced under.
~ ? ;n > i
nekth the pile und when the wood was
consumed the rock was found sufficiently
burned to decompose. In the, improved
process of Indigo making in the East
Indies and South America, I understand
they do not use lime. I hope the East .
Indians may not supplant us as effectually
in raising cotton as they did id Indigo.
Some 20 years ago when I had more
youth and energy than I now have, I had
a boat built with a view to bring up lime
from the bnnks below. It so happened |j
that my crop the year I got my boat ready
was a light one. The first down load was
taken, and on the boats return I ordered d<
my people touring up a load of Limestone, at
Before they returned as high as the
Limestone hanks the river was up and my
people found it difficult to get at the rock, K
and got only the surface or upper part of Y1
the rock, which was inferior to that which .
is found deeper. This load I had hauled
to my plantation burned in my father's
plan as above described, and found the
rock sufficiently burned to decompose.?
The Lime I ordered sprinkled in the M
drill where I intended to plant cotton, a|
and drilled thick enough to see it some
distance, but how much to the acre I can- 21
not say. I thought I could perceive the st
good effects for the first and second years;
but the spot where tlie rock was burned
was very visible for many years. Wbeth. *
er this effect was produced by the incrcas. ?
ed quantity of the fragments of the rock Ei
and Lime and the ashes from the wood {/
used in burning the rock, or from the w
combined causes I cannot say. Before
the next season my boat met with some
accident and thus ended my visions ef ?f
enriching my plantation from Lime. It ^
is not necessary for me to say to the edi. t H
tor of the Farmers' Gazette, that Lime fr
from the earliest agricultural records has
been found a fertilizer or promoter of w
vegetation. The modus operandi of Lime
Gypsum and ashes is still I believe a de- at
ba tea bie question. I have used all these w
in the same way and quantity by rubbing
my cotton seed and seed corn before ^
planting, with about equal success. In p
dry years the effect with me was visible et
in the color and increased or hastened lo
growth of the plant. In wet years I could re
not perceive the effects. The result of
mv limited reading and experience is that ai
Lime. Gypsum, ashes and salt act as T
solvents of the atmosphere. I prefer
wood ashes to either Lime, Gypsum or
Salt. Whether a more general, safer,
and cheaper use of steam will ever ena. c<
hie boat owners to bring up Lime and ^
deliver it cheap enough for the Pee Dee
farmers to use extensively, is a question *
for another generation or generations to
decide. All I can say is that inexhausta.
ble beds of Limestone exist on the hanks
of the Pee Dee, Black River, Santee and
Savannah.
A PEE DEE PLANTER pl
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ni
l-'or the Farmers' Gazette. in
"ASY OTHER TIME WILL DO AS WELL." th
Nature never savs this,. She jogs on
without delay, and always does her work
in season. * Call on such a man to settle Bi
his accounts?"0, I can't attend to it til
now," savs the mvh "any other time will th
do as well." Call again?**0, I'm busy,
it will do as well to-morrow, or any other ac
time." Cull a third and a fourth time, N
but he is never ready. The account to
stands unsettled, it increases from year to C<
year, at length death, that sturdy tyrant, ac
trips up his heels, and lays him flat on his a
back?his accounts unsettled?his ad. hi
ministrator has work enough on his hands; ar
frvr n man whn will mnlcA his Mttlpmpnta C<
any other time, will generally make his gt
charges in the same way?he does not set so
down every article at the time it is pur.
chased, but charges it to memory?he th
can remember the article and price, and th
charge it any other time; be forgets, ni
makes mistakes, his books are irregularly ar
kept, they are disputed, his administrator E
has no proof but the books, and other peo. ^
pie are alive to swear to their accounts *e
or produce other evidence. Then begin
lawsuits, and when law opens the door of
litigation, poverty follows up close and f11
enters with it; Jurors or arbitrators in
decide these suits upon vague and uncer. n(
tain evidence, and somebody suffers the u
loss. So much for this "any other time."
mHmammmmmmmmmmmammKmmrntmmmmm
The farmer's fence is down, arid his fiel<
txposed to his neighbor* hogs; but he ha;
i little job to do first; he ran repair hi:
fences at any other time; before his an;
ime comes, fifteen or twenty* cattle ge
nto his field and trample down his corn
or want of half an hours work he lose*
Ifty or a hundred bushels of corn. Opei
our eyes friend. C. P.
For the Farmers' Osteite.
"CABBY THIS BUNCH TO MARY."
"Carry this bunch to itfary" said t
oung lad to his companion as he handed
lim a rich cluster of purple grapes.
Ajo, bear the rich fruits to my charmer,
swsy.
They're bursting with generous ivine,
And let each as it yields to the press of hei
lips,
' Tell the tale of its contact with mine.
I charge them convey the soft impulse of
love,
And whisper in affections quick enr,
Thai the draught uf my pleasure but U*teJeM
will prove.
If it bo not purtakon with her.
The tint* of their royal attire alull tell r
That I crown her the queen of my hear*;
And their tide* of delight faintly iui tgo the
joys
Which her smiles to my boeom impart.
Then bear, to my charmer, the cluster in
harts
. Bid her study the irmssagn they carry.
And bclievo if dulightful they preve lu her
taste
Far more precious to mo is mr Mury,
M. M.
RRIVAL OF TH E GREAT WESTERN.
BLBV1X DAYS LATKR FROM EUROPE.
N. York July 29.
By the steamer Greot Western, Cnpt.
oaken, we have London papers to July
Ith, inclusive.
The papers are chiefly occupied with
itails of the elections, which have gone
rongly in favor of the Tories.
There is nothing later from China.
The grain crops throughout the United
ingdom gave a fair promise of an average
ield.
The Liverpool Cotton market has lost
i activity, and with that a slight advance,
hich had been roalizcd on the 5th of
jly.
Teas had advanced considerably. Flour
as up Is. fid. bid. American in bond,
dd at 24a25s. Bread stuffs were generly
dearer.
The Queen of Hanover died on the
)tb of June ; she expired from a decay of
rength.
TUB ELECTION'S.
The returns received up to twelve o'clock
st night, July 13th, wrre?
Reformers. Tories,
nglish Boroughs, 176 166
ngiish Counties, 22 129
eland, 33 30
;oUand, 2$ 20
Total, 239 343
The Reformers have (rained 36 seats, one
which is in a Welsh County, and two in
:oteh counties; and the Tories have gained
\ seats, of which 22 are in the English connss,
three in Scotch counties, and one in an
ish county ?Chronicle.
London, July 10.?That Sir Robert Peel
iU have in the New Parliament a majority
:ceeding 90, and proba bly not lees than 70,
ipears to us to be by this time a matter of
wolute certainty. But wo have no doubt
hatever that oven if the majority were Jess,
ren if it wore no greater than forty or thirty,
ie Conservative leader would still be able
i govern the country, and to carry through
arliament those measures which he might
teem necessary for the public welfare, so
ng as he conducted his Government upon
ally Consevative pr nciples. Upon any otn.
' principles we have no wish to see him gov.
n, and it would be idle for him to make the
tempt, even if he were disposed to do so.?
lines.
Savaanah, July 28.
From Florida.?Vie learn froxn an offi.
sr of the Army that an Indian called SuU
nico, who had been sent out by Col.
forth, came in at Tama, about six or
iven days since with a party of about
fteen Indians from the Brig Cypres
wump. Sulamico stated that about six*
others would be in soon, supposed to
i the same that promised to come in to
ol. Davenport at Saratoga, but were
evented by the influence of others.
From the last advices a lew of Wild Cat
Coaccochee's people had come in at
anipa, and others were expected, in
. < . i /v..
jmoer com eigmv hi a uunuicu. vui
formant expresses it a* his opinion that
ey will be tn.?Georgian.
By the iteamer Gen. Clinch) Capt. j
arden, we have received the St. Angusno
News of Friday last. We extract
e following;
Lieut. Judd, of the 3d Artillery, who
icompanied Coacoocoe and his band to
ew.Orleans, returned about ten days ago
Tampa with his charge, by order of
ol. Worth. The Colonel expects to
:complish more by keeping Coacoohee
prisoner at Tampa, than by sending
m West at the present. Lieut. Judd
rived here a few days ago with one of
Dacooche's warriors, who promises to
tide him to the camo of Short.Grass,\
me where, in the neighborhood of Tom.
La. Lieut. J. with Lieut. Gilham, and
e Indian'guide, lef there last Monday in
e steamer Cincinnatti for New Smyri,
where, by order of Col. Worth, they
e to get 40 men for the expedition
very thing may be expected, that can
! accomplished, from the spirit and en*
rprizeof these young officers.
We like the disposition manifested by
ol. Worth to stimulate the ambition and
iter prise of ourytwnger officers, by gi*.
g them responsible Commands, It is
> disparagement to the elder officers to
y that they cannot be as efficient in this
ind of warfare w their younger bretb-,
1 ren, the Cof, therefore very judiciously
$ leaves them to take care of the poets*and
a sends our young warriors into the fiefd.
; This system will put ft different face on
t the war. We heartily wish Lieut. Judd
. success?we know he will deserve it.
9 There is a'eood deal of sickness at the
, ( post at Sow Smyrna. The direase however
' not of a fatal character. Lieut. Judd was
on Ijr able To obtain */0 men, and proceeded
immediately up tho HfWuboro.*
Private Jacob Seiglo, Company 0. 2d fn*
fit it try; watt killed by The accidental discharge
t of a musket, on The 29th ult in the vicinity of
1 Witiiucooche. Private Beaaic, same company,
severely wounded by the discharge.
Intended
Senile Insurrection in Louisiana
dizcovrej ami yromylht crushed'?The New
Orleans papers of the 23d'instanL contain ar.
| count? of a servile conspiracy in the plantation#on
the river, in both Louisiana and AfisaisMpa
which was discovered in season, as all eudvmad
and ijjn<irant plottings of iniscnief ever
: will bt in this country, and which will of course'
I hp sltrnallv Diinisheu in the person of the ring
!i VB"r vil * . ?
leader* aun others.
The ovrrseer of the plantation of Robt,
J. Barrow, of West Feliciana, having ocI
casion to a rise from his bed late in ona of
; the recent hot nights, heard what ho be*
, lieved to be negroes conversing in one of
j the quarters. On silently approaching
| the vicinity and listening, ho overheard
j two of the slaves discussing the subject of
n rising against the whites. This led to
| the examination the next morning of (he '
I two fellows, when they confessed the
| fact, and gave information that led to the >
. arrest of several others. The alarm was
immediately spread abroad, arrests were
made in various plantations, and it was
found by the confessions that they all
agreed in the main facts, that there was to
be a general rise, and that the first of August
was the day agreed upon.
A white man, a carpenter, who had lately
done njob of work for Mr. Barrow, was
also Arrested on suspicion, and examined,
tie said he had nothing to do with the
plot-?that he had never said any thing
to the negroes on the subject, but acknowledged
that they frequently spoke
to him, and informed hitn all about it.
This white,mnir, with about 40 negroes
all of whom had confessed their know!,
edge of the intended rising, were in the
jail at St. Francisville, guarded by a company
of volunteers.
Precocious Genius.?At a lale meet,
ing of the Society for the Encouragement
of Fine Arts in London, the first price for
oil painting was gained by Gustave, Girardaur,
a child only nine years of age.
A small lad in Philadelphia caused the
death of an infant left in his charge on
Monday, hv giving it an overdone of
laudanum to keep it quiet.
Just before putting the paper to press we saw
I & letter from Charleston to a gentleman in lb*
town dated July SI which. statet that Ja<lf*
Duller hns decided in kvor of the banke. in the
proceeding* instituted against them under the
act of last sesaion of the Legielaturefa deprive
ihetn of their charter* for suspending epecie
payments.
I'iik Prices Current are the name m
last week.
The RrvsRi* in good Itoating order.
HEAD QUARTERS.
Clabbndon, July 10th, 1841.
[General Order* No ?.1
Matthew r. singleton, &q..
having been appointed A id-de-Camp to
the Comtnander-tn Chief, with the rank of
Lieut. Colonel, will be respected, and obeyed
accordingly.
By order of the Commander-in-Chief;
JOHN L. WANNING,
Aid-de-Camp.
July 22 38 0t
EXECUTIVE DKPARTim
Clauknoon, July 10,1841.
AS the Governor of the State will be ah*
*?nr fwim l"II#rpnHnn until Ortnhnr. on a '
tour of Review of the Afilitia through the Up*
per Districts, all communicators of importance,
should be addressed to him accordingly, with
reference to the General Orders of the Adju.
taut ana Inspector General.
B. T. WATTS.
Executive Secretary. /
July 36 38 - lit
JohnC. Filer be vs. ) Bill for Ap.
The and Legatees > Partition
of William Eilerfte. ) dtc.
THE complainant John C. KMerbn having
this d ,y iilud his Bill in my office and it
appearing to my satisfaction that Wol H. Cole
and wifo, Somuel Spencer and wife, and Michael
C. EMerbe, Defendants in the shove slated case
are ahsont from an I reside beyond the limits of
the state, it is hereby on motion of Robbins St
Mclver ordered that they do plead answer or
demur to the complainants Bill of Complaint
within three months from this date and in default
thereof that Ue same be ordered pro confesea
against them. -*
It is furtlior order -d that this order be pub.
Imhsd twice a mouth tor the space of throe
months in tho Farmers' Gazette and Cheraw
Advertiser.
E. A. LAW, C. E. C. D.
July 27, 1841. 38 eo*3?n
John N. Williams and others i
vs. \
The Heirs of E izaboth Ford, j
The Heirs of Samuel Ervin, i Bill for acct.
The Heirs of James R. Ervin, > partition &o.
The Heirs of Robert Ervin, )
Mary Wilds. John D. With. )
orspoon and others. \
rMlHE complainants having this day filed their
| JL Bid in my office, and it appearing to mj
I satisfaction that the Heirs of Samuel Ervin
aud the Heirs ofElitabeth Ford defendant*!*
the above **jted ease are aheont from and ptide
without tfw limit* ofthi* state. It isob motion
of Rbbbhft& Mclver ordered that thajf do plead
anxwer or demur to complainant* IfiU of ceinpiaint
within three month* from thia date, and ie
default thereof the tame be ordered pre coufeMO
against thornIt
ia further ordered that this order ha publish*
ed twice a m ?nth for the ?pace of three moo the
to the furrnor*' tud Cbwtw Advutitor,
r ^ . 1 . tv f. E'C.
C- A. ^ cewStft
. Jaly 27, leil