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THE HISTORY OF MY OWN GEN ERATION. BY A QUINQUAGENARIAN. '' CHAPTER I. A man of fifty may write the history of ' his own generation! Impressive fact! 1 We may retain the cognizance of our youth, unconscious to ourselves that we nave faded into a retired group, jiow almost extinct: slow to admit that we are not still capable of all we have done in the vigor of early life ; lingering sometimes in the circles'and participating in the amusements, which we are taught are unsuited to our age only by the neglect we experience from the gay hrong around ns. Yet so it is. At fifty, I s?and almost alone. Once courted, I seem now 1 to be looked upon with distant suspicion whenever I enter the halls of youthful ' amusement or mirth. I look around ;? ' iny companions are not there. I con, template their history; it is written on u-11K ng _ lbs tombstone, or is asswmicu . <riarchal records. I am deeply moved ; J am awake to the truth that I am not young. Its proofs now thicken upon me: ?rthey stare me in the face ;?I am convinced. I still see some of my contemporaries in age affecting to be young?apparently seeking the delusion, and living in it. With me, the dream has vanished. The deliberate conviction has followed that a gentleman or a lady of fifty years old is not young. Some of the evidences I will state?and then proceed to write the his. torv of my own generation. In early life I exercised freely a native talent, which I believe is common, and perhaps universal, to draw a splendid picture of my future life, its youth, its middle nge, and its decline. I proposed to make I my fortune, prove the innocent pleasures of life, gather some of its laurels to deck my brow, taste its honor, and retire to spend the decline of life in quietness and ease. How then could I be old until the intervening periods were filled up? 1 well remember that after this arrangement was made in my own mind, I fixed the time of my retirement from the world ? i at the then present age of my respected father, and by calculation I now find he was then precisely fifty! i But before this argument came home to me, I felt another "still small voice of admonition." My children grew up around me, began to measure their height by my side ; soon they stretched their little heads archly up to my shoulders, and then they looked me directly in the eye on a horizontal line. My daughters began to receive attentions from the sons of my former playmates, and my sons, in return, talked of settling in life: they marry?I am a grandfather ! I look upon the few companions of my boyhood, who survive. One of them, who entered the ministry is called father Righton, and is the oldest minister in his piesbyterv. Another is a Bishop; and a third in the Methodist church is recorded,. I see, as a superannuated preacher, and re. ceives an annuity. , It seems but a day-dream since I was in college, and all my young companions appear in my mind's eye as I parted with them on commencement day. I lately met one of them. 'In a public assembly, I saw in a pew before me a head, the craniology of which seemed familiar. Its motions were natural. A side view con- J vinced me that it belonged to a friend. The posterior surface was bald, and the side locks gray. What old man is that ? As we came out of the church, I saw his face, and there was an expression familiar to me. A smile played there, which I was sure I had seen before. It resembled my old college friend Anderson. It must be his father?no, it was himself. I saw him married the same day he was graduated to one of the mast beauti ful young ladies in the country. There she now stood before me in all the freshness and flush of youth, precisely as we saw her when we all pronounced Ander son the happiest of men. How is this I said I,?your wife with her youthful beauty embalmed 1?" No,?she is dead?this is her daughter" I looked into the mirror, that faithful reflector of truth. Gray hairs are too numerous to be concealed. An angular lock is extending itself on the centre of the forehead, or rather the bald surfaces at the sides are receding. Several years ago I wrote my will?I must now read it with spectacles ;?my eyes fail me. My grinders are already gone?they are buried ;?it is time to look at my account with heaven. I lately marie a visit to my native parish. The old family names survive ;?all else is changed. Thirty years, the period of one generation, have passed over* the land, and a new tide of population had buried mv contemporaries. The old church edifice had been pulled down and another of more modern architecture built in its place. New officers filled the seats formerly occupied by the gray-headed deacons under the pulpit. A new voice delivered from a new pulpit God's messages of love to man. All was changed hut the blessed Gospel. That W9? unadulterated. God, the same, vesterday, to-day and forever, was set forth in Jesus Christ, reconciling the world to JJimself, not willing that 'try should perish, but that all should come to repents n pp. I visited the old grave-yard with indescribable emotions,?the cemetrv of the generation I knew there thirty years before. My father, my mother, my brothers, many of my .companions, a multitude of my acquaintances.?I read their names with melancholy emotion. There is their j-ecord. It is short-?often false?always inadequate. I spent an interesting week in inquiringout their respective histories, .and these were so salutary in the lessons ,tbey furnished to m} olf that I resolved ,to gather from them materials to write the ;htsfepryfof my own generation. This I ? n r shall do at my leisure, hoping that the detail may also afford to others, some of those warnings, reproofs and instructions, which have served to correct many er. rors and form many good resolutions in my own mind. In me, these lessons have awakened a sense of approaching age, and a coming judgment. Let me assure you, my reader, if you are fifty years old, you are not young. It may be, however, that you are not ready to admit you are fifty. There may have been some mistake in the parish record. Or if not, yet some grow old faster than others. Or perhaps, like myself, you are not quite fifty--only forty-nine, or forty-eight, or forty-five. Let me tell you, if you are but forty you are not young, and will soon be old. Hide not the truth. Hear the witoesses, be convinced, and be wise. From the Congregational Observer. ON PROTECTION FROM LIGHTNING. BY PROF. OLMSTEAD, OF VALE COLLEGE. No sooner had Franklin established the identity between electricity and lightning, than his practical geniusand benevolent disposition, led him to devise in the lightning rod, an effectual means of protection from the dangers attending thunder-storms. But notwithstanding the acknowledged efficacy of this simple apparatus. to afford security against an element accompanied by such terrific phenomena, and endowed with such fiital encgy, yet the destruction of human life by lightning. everv summer, is still very great?greater | j in a given time, as has been found by ac- , tual comparison, than the loss of life by steam-boat explosions, the present season has proved, thus far, unusually productive of these calamities: and almost every news paper brings us accounts of individuals, even of whole families, in different parts of the United States, cut down in the midst of life, and doomed to a sudden and awful death. The fears of the timid are proportionally awakened ; and every violent thunder-storm renews, in no inconsiderable portion of the community, painful suf. ferings of anxiety and alarm. Believing, as I fully do, that science by its researches into the laws of electricity, has achieved a perfect control over this fearful element and is now able to furnish rules, simple in their nature and easy in practice, which are adequate to afford complete protection from the dangers of lightning I am induced to suppose that a few remarks on this subject, may be seasonable at the present time, and be acceptable to the public. In order to an inte4ligent understanding of the several methods of protection to be suggested, it is necessary for the reader to be acquainted with a few elementary principles of the science of electricitySuch a knowledge might, indeed, be presumed as already in possession of many of the readers of this paper; and they may perhaps save themselves the trouble of perusing the present number, and wait for the specific directions, to be proposed in subsequent numbers, for obtaining security against the dangers of thunder storms. It is supposed, however, that a still larger portion of the community, whose lives and safety are equally dear to them, need instruction in the simplest ele. ments of the science; and it is hoped, thai they will be induced to repose more confidence in the methods of protection suggested, and be more inclined to put them in practice, when they come to see i the reasons on which they are founded. 1. The first important principle, in respect to the subject before us, is that which relates to the conducting powers of different bodies. It is a remarkable fact, that while the electric fluid passes without the least apparent obstruction through certain bodies, it can scarcely pass at all through certain other substances, or it makes its way through them only with the greatest difficulty. Hence all bodes, in their relation to electricity, are divided into conductors and non-conductors. Of all bodies, the metals are the best conductors. But we may name as the most important of good conductors, metals, animals, water and the earth itself; and as the most im portant of bad conductors, we may mention, glass, airj resinous, substances, and such materials as compose our clothing, as silk, irool cotton ; also hair, and feathers. All non-conductors become conductors, more or less perfect, when wet. Thus air, when damp has its conducting power greatly increased, and the same may be said of wood, stone, brick and clothes. 2. Electricity pervades the surfaces and not the substances of bodies. A he' low tube of given surface will convey v i ectricity as well as a solid cylin.' \ 3. The passage of electricity through j even a good conductor, is soin -v. Iiat ioi- i peded as tne length of the conductor is in- i creased. On this account, a heavy | charge will sometimes pass from one point j to another through an imperfect condue. j tor, in preference to taking a longer route through a better conductor. 4. When electricity passes freely through a good conductor, it exliibiis none I of its peculiar mechanical violence; but I when its course is impeded by imperfect conductors, then its energy is manifested. Thus, when the electiic spark is transi mitted through an iron wire it passes quiei tlv without light or noise ; but when the wire is not continuous but broken, as in a chain composed of links loosely connected then sparks are seen at every point of interruption, or wherever two links are joined. And when a still worse conductor than air is made to interrupt the circuit, and the spark is powerful enough to break through it, then the effects are violent;? the non-conducting substance is rent as under, or exnloded into fragments, with I # a brilliant light and loud noise. It is by studying the powers and properties of natural agents that man learns 'to subject them to his control. Thus he learns to defend himself froin their violence, or even to make them labour for him. He compels fhe winds to waft his ships, the water fall to turn his machinery, and steam to execute his humblest us well as his loftiest purposes. In a similar way, by studying the laws of electricity, he has learned to subject the lightning to his dominion. Hitherto, indeed, he has, for the most part, been contented with merely defending himself from its fury; still, he hasalready begun to make it minister to his convenience. 1 now propose 10 onuw uuw we innjr avail ourselves of our knowledge of the foregoing simple principles, or laws of electricity, to secure our entire safety from the dangers of the same element as exhibited in thunder-starms, when although we are to deal not with a battery of a few feet or inches in dimension, but with one covering thousands of acres, and with a spark not merely a few inches in length, but with streams of the fluid often more than a mile in extent; yet so uniform is nature in her laws, that the same means by which we govern electricity in our humblest apparatus, empowers us to guide and govern the lightnings of heaveh. It is my intention to consider several precautions for safety during thunder storms, but I shall confine myself in the present Essay to the subject of Lightning Rods. The form of lightning rod originally suggested by Dr. Franklin, has the ad vantage over most of those of more recent invention, in simplicity and cheapness. The progress of electrical science since the first introduction of this rod and the results of experience i I the actual use of it for so long a period, have con spired to improve and perfect it, until it is now, in my view, when constructed according to established science rules, entitled to the fullest confidence, notwithstanding all the efforts that have been T made of late to disparage it. It is now made by several skillful blacksmiths of New Haven, who have teadily and faithfully availed themselves of the suggestion9 of men of science; and probably there is no city in the world, where the houses arc moie generally protected hv conductors than this. And here this rod has not been known to fail, during the fifteen or twenty years it has been in use. The conductor, when properly made, is as follows. It consists of a rod, or solid cylinder of iron, three-fourths of an inch in diameter, throughout, except the stem, | or part above the building, which tapers a j little, and terminates in three forks, or! branches, coated with gold leaf. The | several parts of the rod, (which are purchased at a cheap rate of the iron dealers in pieces about ten feet long,) are carefully united so as to preserve the continuity of surface, and to prevent water from corroding the joints. The union is effected by boring a hole in the lower end of each piece, and forming a corresponding tenon or gudgeon on the upper end. Then the upper piece, in each case, is made to close over the lower, and the two are pinned firmly together, making a neat and hardly perceptible joint. The stem, or part which rises above the building, is half the length of the space it is required to protect in every direction ; that is, if it is thirty feet from the part of the house where the stem is fixed to the remotest portions of the building, then the stem ris&9 above the ridge of the house fifteen feet. The rod is attached to the house by wooden stays. It descends into the ground J to the point of permanent moisture?r. j depth which will be greater or less accord- J ing to the nature of the soil, hut in a dry sandy soil like ours, is not less than six feet. On entering the ground, the rod turns away from the huilding and descends; obliquely. The entire rod is painted black, (with the exception of the gilt points,) and the part below the surface of the ground is covered with fine charcoal. If the building has but one chimney, it is generally best to attach the rod to that; but we must bear in mind that the kitch ?i .? 1__ !_ en chimney, being usually me oniy one in which a fire is maintained during the season of thunder storms, requires to be specially protected, since the vapour and smoke which rises from a chimney in which a fire is burning, are themselves partial conductors, and create a tendency in lightning to take that course. Where the kitchen is joined to the main body of the house, it may either have a separate lightning rod, or an arm may ascend from j the rod which protects the main building, ! and thus furnish to the kitchen chimney 1 a stem merely, while but one conductor decends to the ground. Le* us now begin at the top and view the m'. i in its several parts. The . i is made to terminate above in , nnfty hi uise electricity is known to flow ; much more easily, and with less violence i into a pointed conductor, than into one I terminated bv a ball or anv blunt figure. i / o The points must also remain bright, or at | least free from rust, because rust impairs the conducting power of metal. Some electricians, therefore, recommend tips of silver, or of platina, which is still belt T, i since it is not liable either to rust or melt. But a substantial coating of gold leaf will probably answer the purpose, and it is less expensive. It is not essentia! that there siould be more than a single point, and in Europe lightning rods are usually terminated in a single needle; but with us a top branching into three covered prongs is preferred, because it iooks'better. A needle of platina is the best of all terminations, but is somewhat expensive. Wooden stays are used to attach the rod to the building, because supports of tron would have some tendency to divert f Iim i-hartm intn thp hnilrlincr. This would b" ? ?- -?not be likely to happen provided the rod itself were well constructed, and in good ardextfor electricity takes the most direct co irse,. from which it wiil not be diverted unless by abetter conductor. Wooden, or iron bolfs Sttacherfto the walls of the house, wouii hot afford an exit? to the fluid as the (mine metal terminating in the ground. ; Still, the rod may be more or less imperfect and thus increas the liability to a lateral discharge, especially where the fluid, as is sometimes the case divides itself into different portions, it is advisable to connect the rod with the building by wooden and not metallic supports. Theyow& where different parts of the rod are united, must be formed so as to break the continuity of surface as little as n/ta-iihlp. ninrn pUrlriritv mppfs with a great resistance in passing through even a small space of air. A chain composed of large links is far less efficacious than a rod, and even a single link greatly im. pairs the qua lities of a conductor. The rod i9 directed to be painted black, be* cause the carbonaceous materials of which black paint is composed render it a better canductor than most others kinds of paint. But the most important circumstance of all is, the connection of the rod to the grcund. Sod, when dry and sandy, is a very bad conductor of electricity, and a lig ltning rod might almost as well term* ina te in a glass bottle as in dry sand. Moist earth, on the contrary, is a pretty good conductor, and there is little danger thf.t lightning will take any other course, if the rod opens a way for it to such a me* dium. It would increase the conducting, powers of the rod to make it terminate in two or three branches, each as large as the body of the rod ; but the charcoal powder, with which it is directed to be covered, being very retentive of moisture and naturally a very good conductor, answers a similar purpose, by increasing the amount of conductory surface at the lower termination. There is no part in the construction of lightning rods, which is so often imperfectly executed, as the connection with the ground. I have known the conductor of the steeple of a meeting house end below in a post, which served the double pur pose of support for the lightning rod and of a place for hitching horses; and of those rods which decend into the ground at all, many do not penetrate more than a foot, and terminate in a bed of sand. Now, whatever may be the form dnd construction of the conductor above, is thus terminated below, it would be unsafe. Copper would be preferable to iron for the part of the rod which decends into the ground, being less liable to rust. Tubes or hollow rods of copper are much used in England for the entire structure, instead of solid cylinders of iron ; and since electricity is confined to the surface of conductors, a tube of given -dimensions is as efficacious a.s a solid, and saves much of the material. Bu t copper lightning rods are still more expensive than those of iron, and therefore less likely to be generally adopted, while the rod of iron, simply, as before described, well gilded at the top, rising above the ridge of the building to the requisite height, continuous through out and descending to a depth at which the ground is permanently moist, is I believe, the kind of rod which, on account of its simplicity, cheapness, facility of construction, and efficacy, is best adapted to general use. For a common dwelling house, its cost does not exceed ten dollars, while others, in my view no safer, cost from forty to one hundred dollars. I ana aware, however, that objections have been urged against lightning rods of this simple construction, tending to impair confidence in them, and thus inducing the public either to resort to the more expensive kinds of rods, or to abandon the use of any. In my next Essay I propose to consider the soundness of these objections, and hope to be able to show, that the conductor above described and recommended, is entitled to the fullest confidence. TEACHER?' WANTED?$3000 SALARIES. AN ASSOCIATION of gentlemen in Che. raw, So. Ca. wish to procure Teacheis' for a Male and Female School; and offer the following Salaries: For the Principal of Female School (to be a married gentleman) $1UUU fer An. For a Female Assistant $500 44 44 For a Music Teacher, (Male or Female) $600 44 14 For a Teacher in the Male School $9 >0 4* 44 The pr ncipal cf the Female aud Teacher of tho Mule School must, each be fully competent to teach Latin. Greek, Mathematics, and all the branches usually taught in the best Schools.? The Female Assistant, will be expected, besides teaching the lower branches, to instruct in Drawing and Painting. The Mijsic Teacher must be competent to instruct on the Piano. I High moral chiracter required in all. Jt is desirable to have the Schools opened on the 1st. of Novornber, but, proposals will be considered from applicants who may not be prepared to enter upon their duties beforo the 1st. of January. The Teachers employed will be considered engaged until January 1843, at the above rates per a: num. i here wil bo a vacation of 4 wccks in September, and one week at Christmas. Address JA. GILLESPIE, Ch. Com. \ Sept. 15,18.1. 44 tf "DRUGS, 1TIJGDICIXES, Chemicals,[Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, &c. &c., for sale wholesale and retail by A. HOPTOxY, CHERAW, S. C. At his Drug Store, next door to Brown Bryan dp Brother, Where may bo had at all timos a general as sortmc-ij. of articles in the Urug line?recom mended to be of superior quality which will be disposed of on very moderate terms?Physicians and others wishing puro medicines, may rely on being supolied with them. May 26, 1841. 28 RECEIVING AND FORWARDIYG BUSIYUSS. THE Subscriber continues the Receiving and Forwarding of Goods and Produce, his Wharf and Stoie are in good order, and the room, ample. His charges are no more than those of other Houses in the the same line. BENJAMIN KING. Georgetown S. C. May 24, 1641. 39 tf ^ . NEW FEATHERS. LBS. Prime new Feathers, for WM Nr Nr sate at the lowest market price. by A. P. LACOSTE. September 14 1841. 44 tf For sale at the Bookstore. ASERON by the Rev. J. C. Coit, deliv. livered in the Presbyterian Church in Che. raw, "upon the occasion of the Se>ni.centenary celebration; prepared for the press, and published by tho author, as a testimony against the estab. lished religion in the United Slates " Price cents. August 4th, 840. 28?tf ~ FLOUR. A GOOD supply of fresh Ground superfine flour in srore and for sal^ cheap, by D. MALLOY. June 14, 1841. 31?tf BET.R1CHARD FURHAN'S SERMON, "VTV Pf TVP.D V.T1 in ?h(. RantiKt Church in this MDUAT Ul%ui/ JLr place in vindifcatian of the doctrine and practice of the Baptis denomination, for sale at the store of . P. LACOSTE. PROSPECTUS OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S BOOK ! Or Magizine of USEFUL AND ENTERTAINING KNOWLEDGE. There are many periodical publications, yet one more is wanted. The friends of general Education?the advocates of the diffusion of Useful knowledge?have long d> sired to see the comme nceuient of a monthly magazine demoted to the instruction and entertainment of Young persons of both sexes, conducted with a sole view to their improvement in Liiorature, science, and the conduct of life, written, not in the colloquial language which is addressed to Tory young children, but with such attention to the s yle as shall render it worthy the notice of these who are acquiring the art of forming their Literary taste; and filled with such various, original, and valuable matter as shall render the volumes when bound up, worthy a place iu the Family or School Library. It is the purpose of The Young People's Book to furnish such a Magazine. He has provided ample means fur the accomplishment of his objoct; and be pledges himself to the friends of liberal and judicious education throughout the United States that he will produce a work which shall be in every respect worthy of their attention and putronugo. There is a period iu the progress from early childhood to maturity, and that by no means a short one, during which the expanding minds oi young are seeking in every direction for useful Unntvia^iTo as wftli as intellectual entertain. ment. Every book, paper or pamphlet which prom, ires either, is eargerly read, and every circle or society of a literary or scientific cast is earnestly sought During this period the young person is not satisfied with that kind .of instruction which is given to mere children. Something ! more elevated?something nebrer the studies and pursuits of active life is requiied. A frier.c alw ya at hand who could point out the propel studies to be pursued, the true methods of devel opement in Literatuie and Science, the besl course of Reading, the surest processes of Investigation, the most recent authorities in Expcri* montai, and tiie movt learned in Historical research?a friend who could relieve the dryncst of abstract truth by a familiar anecdote, narrative or illustration?who could scatter a tew roses ol literature in the ragged paths of severe science, would indeed be invaluable. Such a friend not one Youth in a thousand, ol either sex, can have. There is no tolerable substitute to be found in any book we might say in any library. It is proposed in some meos. ure to supply the want of such a friend in The Young People's Book. One of the leading objects of the work will be to point out and illustrate by practical examples the proper methods of self instruction in the various departments of Literaiu*e and Art, to suggest appropriate departments of study am inquiry, to prescribe courses of Reading, and tc indicate the progrfss which may be made in the Sciences, so far as the limits of the work will allow. The forms into which the different branehei of instructihn and entertainment wi 1 be thrown will be regulated by the particular object in view at the same, and the elass of readers alwayi addressed. Essavs. Narratives. Anecdotes. Tales, Histo rical Reminiscences and Sketches, Critiques Descriptive articles in Geogaraphy, Geologj Natural History, Antiquities and Travels Biographical Notices & Poems will ail in turr become the vehic] s of intellectual developemenl and entertainment. The aid of the Arts o: Painting and Engraving will be invoked, anc every susceptible of graphic illustration will be accompanied by well executed Pictures. Ar? rangcment8 have been made for receiving, anti the publisher is now in the actual receipt ol periodical publ.cations of a similar design with that of tho Young Pcope's Book, From France, Germany and other parts of the con inent ol Europe. From these publica ions, and from the choicest pajts of foreign educational litera. turcin its variousd purtments, translations will be made of such articles as will serve to pro. mote tho main design of the work?the in. struction and entertainment of American youth The preservation, however, ot a t'uly National iKn InonInrtt inn t\f t \*t. rllltioo n/hinh f*Ve*TT op'lll ; H?V IMWU1VUVIVK VI ?MV ?f ??? ...V, r American scholar owes to his country, and th< exhibition of the capabilities of our early history, our traditions, our customs and scenery foi supplying all the materials of a copious and brilliant literature, w II be constant objects oi attention, and will form frequent topics of discussion, example, and illustration. In order to insure the competent execution of each department of the work, the aid ofexperi. en red writers, already favorably known to the public, has been secured, and ih" ediloria carc of the whole committed to John Frost, A. M., Professor of Belles Lett res of the High School of Philadelphia, whose reputation a? a practical teacher, and a writer in tne departments of edu. cation and polite literature, will form a sufficient guarantee, not only for the elegant and tasteful execution of the work, so far as language, style, a rid embellishment are concerned, but for its elevated moral and intellectual character, and for its invariable direction towards the improve, ment of its youthful readers in science, literature, and the concuct of life. U*The Young People's Book will be pub. lishea in Monthly Numbers, each to contain 35 Pages, embellished with numerous enj gravings. and neatly done up in an Ornamented C over. It will be printed on white paper of the I first quality, from a new and elegant type, cast | expressly for it. The form will be such as to make the volume* wlien compietea a mnasome add if ion to the shelves of the library. The fiist number will be issued on the first day of September, 1841. TERMS. Single Subscription, 1 year, $2 00 Thro Copies, 1 44 5 00 Six do. 1 44 10 00 Twenty do. 1 44 30 00 School Clubs dealt with on the nest liberal terms. Travelling agents will find this work one well calculated to advance their interests. A Remittance (postage paid) must always accompany an ordt r for ,he work. Address. MORTON McMICHAEL, No. 57 South Third Street, opposite the Girard Bank, Philadelphia. O*Editors, copying the above, will be entitled I totho work for orie year. NOTICE# Application wiii'be made at the next Session of the Legislature to revive the Charter of Incorporation of the Chersw Ao4l ademical Society. ^ July 18th 1841. 37-*4f Hats and Shoes. A LARGE and well selected stock for eal by A. P. LAC08TE. October 21, 1840. t. OTfifi,AP~i?~fflAH8HALL, HAVE just received among other desirable fancy goods, the following articles, via SHAWL*. Super Black Hernani,3-4 and 4-4, Handsome printed Mouselin De Laine from 7-8 to 6-4, Supr. Scarlet Merino 4-4 and 5-4. Do. Mode (Plain) colored Thy bet, Belvedere & Cabyle do. 6-4 and 84 GLOVES. A good assortment Ladies and Gentkinep'f 1 super colored and black H. Id. Beaver apd Buckskin. HOSE, Ladies super white and black Merino, Caafr mere and Ingrain Cotton. MOUSELIX BE LAINES. Rich Printed, Fancy black ground and Mode Colore. ALSO, Super Blue and wool dyed black cloths; 44 * >? Cflhnxreg and Satinetts Tea, and Loaf Sugar. SUPERIOR articles, for family nse, for sale by A. P. LACOSTE. October 2,1840. 49 tf Clothing. CLOTH and Blanket Overcoats, Cloaks, kl For sale very low, A. P. LACOSTE. Octoher 21, 1840. 49 tf * Saddles and Leather. A GOOD Stock for sale low, by A. P. LACOSTE. ^ . Octoher 21,1840. ^ NEW AND CHEAP GOODS. I Have just received a well selected assort, nient of staple and fancy Dry Goods ofdbe Luteal style and fashion for the season. Please call and examine tny stock befoo , purchasing. M. BUCHANAlt. } May 31, 1841. 29 tf ITOWEffBDi Methodist Hymns i2mo. do do 24mo. sheep, calf, and Morocco. . i Methodist Discipline late edition, t Watsons Dictionary, Life of Wesley, Life of Dr. Clark, Family Bible, sheep and cnlf, AP of which will be sokl at the New York prices. JOHN WRIGHT. April 10, 1841. nn A# u ! Dunlap Sf Marshall HEREBY give notice thst I bey will con ImM to sell their Dry Goods o?l), on the anal credit to punctual customers. J hey will sell their Groceries at the lowest 1 prices for cash only. 1 The very short credit at which groceries can now be bought, amounting with the excbfBf* 1 almost to Cash, with their limited capital compel* them to the adoption of this. . I Umbrellas JUST received a good assortment of 8ilk and Ginghams Umbrellas, i DUNLAP A MARSHALL I SDK KM AND TALLOW CANDLES FOR sale by A. P. LACOSTfJ ' October 121, 1840. 49 tf , LADIES SHOES: DUNLAP & MARSHALL have just receiv. ed direct from the Manufactory (Phita.}4GO 0 , pair Ladies and Misses Kid and Seal Slipper* t and shoes. ' Slate of South Carolina. f DARLINGTON DISTRICT. i Tiv the Court or Common Pleas. > of W. Hunter Sur'v. Dec. on seeled Hunter 6c DuBose Note, in Foreign I vs. Attachment, f B. E. DuBose. THE Plaintiil in the above stated c&*? having filed his Declaration in my office this day r and the Defendant having neither wife nor Auor ! ney within the limits of the said State upon who a conv of this atlachment could he served. | On motion of G. W. & J. A. Dargan PlantifF's Attorneys. It is ordered that B. E. DuBose de plead or demur to the same, within a year andat day from the date hereof or final and absoluo I judgment shall be awarded and given him. It is also ordered that a copy ofrbia order be published in the Farmers' Gazette once every three months for the spac< of a year and a day. S. WILDS DUBOSE. C.C. P. , Clerks Office, Sept. 23. 1840. r 46 1 ev 13 m, . SHERIFF SALES. I~~ ON Wnt. of Fieri Facias will tie fold'lo. fore the Court House door on (he first Men* , day and day following in October next within . the legal hours the following property vix: . Two Lots in Powe Town together with fhe improvements thereon levied on as the property ofHailey & i'owe, and known in the plan.of said Town by Mos. 18 (eighteen) and 33 (thirty three) at the suit of John Fraser & Co. v? Hailey & Powe, these lots will be sold ct the risk of the former purchaser unless he previous, ly com| ly with the condition of sale. fiSft Ar.rps of land more or le?i whrraon tha defendant residet on the waters of Lynches Creek bouuded west by Drury Cianton'a Uad. north by Durrel S< gars land, and s<Kitn by lands known bv the name of the Towers land; also one soprel horse one bay mare and one coil, twelvo head of cattle and thirty head of boga, at the suit of Burrel Segars vs. Dcntly Outlaw, the hor es, cattle and hogs will be oflfoired for sale on Tuesday the second day of cale'atdefts. residenco. tT4. 400 Acres of land more or less wheroon the defendant resides on Lynches Creek, bounded < south by J. C. Funderbnrks land, west by A. L. Funderburks land, on the north by the slate line and east by Peter \rants land at the suit of J. & H Funderburk vs Alexander A rant. , 199 Acres of land more or less levied on as the properly of Henry Funderburk on the Wa. ters of iiills Creek adjoining the land ofWtn. Biakem-y and others at the suit ot John Maaapy for estate J. Massev deceased vs. Jonea Moody William Fail and lienry Fundefburk. '. 150 Acr b of land more or lew whdffeoh the deferdan resides adjoining the land* of, John Jordan, Benjamin Crawley at .ti e suit of H. &, J. C Craig vs. N .tt. Strickland. Terms?C. sh?Purchasers to pay for necee. sary pipers ( ! ,/ JOHN EVANS, Sheriff G. 9.,' Chesterfield C. H Sheriffs ) Office. Sept. 9. 1841. $44 tf .. f