Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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of Atil.horo,' snll flint J \ jWHtfrc are often-deoeiv:*d i:i regard to ' own practices, We j?u< m jch .more ?na cri lis for nnnuro into the hog p n t . than wi p it iyto heap of cow ma. u e. m ' Dul wp m x as much mock., earth, with the cow dung ns w? do with Uie i hog dung, we show sd find that the burn manure would not last longer than that ; HKVtt ' . ^ . I PV lroni thfc hug yard. If wo put ten loads of materials into the vard f ?r one hojj. the .manure wiii he weak; if we put bi't I three or four, it will ho good. It is best 1 nlwavs to put in enough to absorb all the j liquids.??For each hog he would put in i tri'O or throe loads us soon as the yard 1 Xv is cleaned 0"tt in the spring, and would njd as much more :itdifferent times dur- , ing the summer. If lie wanted to put; ' .111 l?is hot; in imire on cold clay lands, hoi would put gravel into his hog yard. ??*>- > Vegetable Manures - Many f trmets m ss it in not turning tlie sward often enough; m tch m a nitre grows upon the Sand. Hut it will not grow upon the field for more than throe or four years. ]T??i* manure consists of the st os. roots fr-v .aa.~i Tuere will lie 1 m.iro of it at the end of .seven year*, Bfcteaxit the end of four. Therefore if Volt do aiot plow up a for mowing three or tour Vcfww, you loose the opportunity j uCmiklng i?way. The q uintity of | vogcwiuie in iucc uj>o.i tuuuutc ?? .MIU *? ; iw shout twelve Wit*. ^ gontlemcn i.'i^s neighbnrhw!, who i** jtooi and succekfnl farmer,-putt half of hi* annurtw:he long manure?upon - the award, ami turns it under. Manures also in the hill. Tulfo# off the corn in , -au'titijn, harrows the ground, and puts in rye an I hay seed. Hi* crops of rve have ***** hp^B good, and It is grass hfos done vvoll. Mr. Putnam (Editor,\ giid the practice j 1st described w ts such ts, ho liad follow, cd f?r years. II? turned clown one half of his WRiHiriv-the long manure?and let it rerdMU iUoro under sod.Tor five or* six1 yours, Tim corn had do no well?very jve!!-?ond tho gr.ta<i (which ho sowed a. mong tine corn in July had d ?ne well t?w ftrat lwo year-, and in the third and fourth held out letter than it had ever doiitf before on the prime fields. T'?is g plan of turning half the manure under! Ins sod, he hlf.ad od iv irm I to Is hut on * Id ones ho woytd keep it nearer the surface. . jf ' * -Mr." Rdfikfliinstrr would like to know was tiifc ex.w-rionce of farmers as to Mpj comparative nvinui's m cm> ( SHVoc manure for corn, and ofpul'injj a pa t HRnthoh;ii. He used n..cn to think ti? it fr he could not fury his in mum too deep, TiJft lie #* :> ?iiistak?n. ft is w litc.i seven years to hear from sow* that lie buried, h at no accou *ts Trom it have yet l>een feceived. fl * th:nks it hotter to form our i manures into composts unJ keep it pretty j near the -surface. Mr. Gardner, ofS^konk, said it toinaryin his vicinity to spread pnft ??f the manure on the surface and plow it in ; ?-md to put part in the hill. Tue best formers havo been accustomed to do this, and by this process they obtain their best 1 crops. Tue spreading of all the manure | - is now in1 >recommon than formerly. t Mr- P iloam said he had mado an ex- | pt'rifti *nt in 1^3. Half the manure (4 cords per acre) was turned u'ider tin* sod. Then, on a part ofth' field, the remain, inji half of the manure was put in the hill; on another part the mature was spread ^ ;on the surface of thi* furrows and harrow- ! ^ -^edjn. The corn manured in the hill jr;-'ctt<i best in Jumywas much the la'gost in the early pari of July, hut in October, the part where ih'i manure was all spread gave 31 bushels, where I hat inannreil in the hill gavi* 3d Had lie have judged " ' by the e\e, and with the impressions! iijM>n his mind made by the early part of J the growth, he probably should have said ? that the part manured in the loll did be*:; , J?yt fh*vbajf bushel told a dliferent story, i 51f\ Lathron, of Smith II idlev, thinks v ilhequestion, a-s to the proper place for the euamjrr, turns Upon the Wetness or dry. j orss of the soil. lie would not manure HesSstk Ii?rki Inn,-?* lull Ko wn:i|,| ? '> tllU IIJ'I ?!? ..... y.i heavy. There can be no general rule. llo would aid vise every farmer t<? have his horse manure thrown into tiie hog yards ; the hog* keep n from hurtling, and m'?k? it worth double what it would he if burned. . In his vicinity, much of the long ma. j r ruire is spread upon the mowing lands.? J These lands are nUo plastered, and then t"*i? good cropsare taken from th< in each year. He alluded particularly to several lots of land which thus treated, give four tons and more per 3erc, annually, f?w 0>any successive years. Mr. Utnnloy a-.ked whether manures usually ascend or descend/ which 1* most natural/ jllr. Putnam. JZavh is the most na. turni. fft l.ght and warm soj's, the manures take the git-eon** form rapidly, anil ascend. In coM and Wei lands,, they net better to be near the stfrfVe and let their fertilizing parts he carried1 down hy the wafers in which they are dissolved. - ? ? * ?. i ?i. * ? Vlr Stone, oJ iSeveriy, siaipu iu<u n fl>\i#hbor had renovated an old pasture, in tin* while clover,by spreading iho urine of his stock. r $r Cole, (E l Fannpr^Journal,] spoke writ of the importance of preserving ma. mvejiirom fermentation white so situated fhat the gases would escape; also, of protecting it from rain. His remarks we have not opportunity to report, The u-gwlatiire nJU^mhahty adj/Mrp the p/Vsent week, anir^ii^^thv r we exjiecteil. . ? From Mr. Upshur's reply (o the c'nr^o ?f di*unioiiis.rn made u^nirtst him hy Mr. Potts uc copy his letter lo the Ns'.l.ficalion por.ion of the South Carolina delegation in Congress, nnd the answers of j Messrs. Calhoun and Preston. Washington*. Foh. 11. Iftio. Gentlemen :?Von will perceive l?v i the certificate of Mr. E J ward \V. Jo^.n. j son, appended to the late publication of; .Mr. Do ts, that he represents me as a <lisu- J niout.-t, .11 consequence ?>f a supposed connex- ' ?t?n, in principle, in design, and in counsels, ' with tne null he anon nn?v?'in?Mit in IS ml h Carolina.. 1 was the first io defend your principles before he people of Virginia, up>nthe ground that tiny were conservative of ihe Union. Was I right in this, or was I, while J i ibought thai I was vindicating the true orine.ipies of tne Consiitu ion, aiding the designs , ot men who were anxious to il? strov it.' Mr. Johnson sa\s, m ?fleet, that I was I in tne habit of interchanging opinions ; with the nullification party in South j Carolina, Does he speak the truth in th t! lie sav?. also, that when mv services were desired as a writer for the Southern Review, it was "reported among my elo?e friends" in South Carolina, that I went beyond nulliti'ation, and was a disunionist, determined io d< vote mv future life to that cause." Is this true ? Which of von ever heard such a rumor? Bv which , of you will the truth of this statemont be sustained ? To such of you as know the fact, (and I think I can confi lently refer to Mr. Calhoun and Mr. Preston.) I appeal, to say if I was not actually selected to conduct the Sou'hern Review ? Mr. Johnson claims to have been vnur eonfi len'ial orgin. Ra pleased to nay whether ho in justified in the general statement he has given or not. An early reply will oblige vonrs, very respectfully. A. P. UPSHUR. Messrs. J C Calhoun, W-n. C Pro.ston. R B Riett, W Butler, VV Thompson, F , \V Pickens, P C Cillwel!, I E lldmos ( T DSimter, S II Butler. Washington. Feb. 14. 1242. Sir I have received voor note, ad- , dros.se.I t<> a portion of the Sooth C irolina j ddegition, inrlu ling rnvself, prop marling j several q lesfions in reference to the rer-' < tificare of .1/r, Elward W. Johns >n, np- 1 pen led to Mr. R >!t<i\s publication, to ( whieh I answer as follows : Your first q lestion is, does he (llr. j Johnson) speak tho truth, in saving < in etTbet, that von were in the habit of , exch ingingopinions with tho nullification party of S?uth Carolina ? I I answer, that I have no knowledge ( of anv correspondence of the kind, nor 1 navo I ever heard of any such before.? , You ha 1 none with me. and I infer, from 1 not having heard of any. that you had no 1 correspondence with any inemher of the . pittv, with whom I w;vi in (hu habit of, < intercom so. ? You next a?k if it is In*, ns stated l?v t hiirt, that when Vour servici*# were de. < <ired as a writer for the Southern Re. t view, it was repo-tud, amonj ain'inj vour j closs friend* in ?o:rh Carolina, thut'you went hevond nullification, and was a (lis. j inionist, determi ned to devote your future j life to that cause? T?? which von add < two other q lestions: Which of von ever 1 | heard of such a rumor? By which of j | von will the truth of this statement ho ! ( s istained ? < I reply, that I never heard of s.jrh a ? rumor; and that the certificate of Mr. i Johnston is the first intimation I ever had that such a one evrsted. It is due I to yo.i, in addition, to state that I hid frequent and full conversations wi h \ou in reference to the revival of the Southern Review?I think it was ahon' the tun? to which he refers, in lS.'M. 'The object in attempting its revival v as to discus; the questions in which the Suith- i ern portion of the lrnion was supposed to he particularly interested, in its com- 11 inercial, political and social relations :j and on the hotter understanding ?>f which, j hoih in that and the other sections, its prosperity an I safety were suppose I. in a great degree to depend. In our co iver? I' ' k - -?* ? .n-dii\r awiro ntltSCA.I suuons, mii iu?v<?- ?j v?. i< in review, and I can say, with confidence, that, in all that pissed, vou did not uiter a word that savored of disunion. On the contrary, one of the happy ennse- . quences anticipated was, that the effects ! of the discussion would tend to counter. | act causes which had then begun to ope. : rate, an I which were regarded as hostile to the Union. You ne<t appeal to such of the delegation who m iv have knowledge of the fact, to state whether vou were not actually selected to conduct the Southern Re ; view? For an answer, you particularly j appeal to Col. Preston and mvself. In answer, I state that such certainly j was my understanding. You finally ask. whether Mr. Johnston I is justified in claiming to be the confidential organ of the party ? All I can say is. if he was I was :gnor- 1 ' * A i L. t iL ? ant ol ir. l am noi a warn iii.n in?r? w;jh any confidential organ, nor did I conceive that the cause required one. We openly nnd manfully maintained what we he. j fieved to be a great constitutional princi-^ pie, which, so far from tending to disui nioo. was aminen'lv conservative in its j character. Thus thinking, the m iint'-nanco of the principles, in our opinion, required neither disguise nor secrecy on the part of jis fldv.-catc*. its force consisted in it* truth, an 1 that on free nnd full discussion { an I it was, accordingly, on that wo relied for it* support. With great respect, yours. &e. J L\ QAUiOUX. Wa?T.ItXGTON, Feh. 12, 1842. Sir I have tins rnwtjerU received your note of yesterday, a Id essed to micy I together With r t!ir? nullifi- niion party of South-Carolina, pr? potimling certain inquiries. In 'egnrri to the objects and designs of the nulliricatinn party, I have already thought it expedient, in eonsequer. *e of the imputations to which you allurle, to vindicate them in a communication to the " Intelligencer," and the " Independent," signed "A member of the Smith Carolina 1 Legislature from 1626 to 1633 to which 1 bog leave to refer you. To show to what extent I am able to asi'iw tlie responsibility of speaking, n? ; well for others as for myself, in regard to J any pupose of disunion in that contest. I beg 'cave to state that, at my instance, the H use of Representatives of the Sate .?f South C irolina raised a standing comm tee on Federal Relations, whose peculiar duty it was to take cognizance of the controversy with the General Gov. j eminent, and that I was chairman of it j until the contest terminated. This posi-1 lion, of course, made me acquainted with all the measures proposed, and brought me in communication with the chief actors in the politics of that day. iMv residence was at the Seat of Government, which afforded me an opportunity of extensive intercourse with every section of the State, and with the leading men of than the nullification party nl South Carolina. That party had its origin in pure, disinterested patriotism, and an ardent ; devotion to constitutional liberty. The attempt which has been made, by its enemies and opponents, to attribute to, that party design* to dis-olve the Union, is a \ilo calumny. The object was to perpetuate the Union, and preserve the integrity of the constitution. NuHifiea. tion was conservative, in its character, of theso two objects. Its advocates did not propose or contemplate voluntary secession, hut to continue the Union according to the spirit of the constitution, as it was ratified hy the different States; and South Carolina never intended to separate from theother States, unless she j should he driven from thorn, in defence of her principles. Extract from Gen. Wud.ly Thompson s reply. To vnur first question, I answer. that, from the beginning to the end of the millifi.-ati n controversy, 1 was in the hnhit of the fullest and most confidential commnnicntion with nearly all the leading men of the party, by letters, in private consultation, and in caucus, and that, with one single exception. I never heard a sentiment of unfriendliness to the Union uttered01 intimated. Hut, on thecontrary. the constant declaration of the utmost de votion to that Union, and a settled opinion (however mistaken it may have been) that the greatest guarantee for its per putuitv was to be found in the recognition of our principles. There may have Seen individuals of the party who thought a 1*. TTniort II I (ll.SiOIUI IWIl wi iik; u ui'iii u< iiiauic, i can only sav that I never met with such an one. I confidently assert that if there were any soch. they did not amount to on? per cent. <?f the party : and for this [ appeal to every member of the party of any prominence in the State. With the admitted head of that party, Mrt Calhoun, my relations, political and personal, were of the mp?t intimate character. hUtmSttSBBBS^' I every quarter of it. In endeavoring to propagate our principles, and rouse tlie people to th?'ir maintenance, I addressed popular assemblies in many of the districts from one extremity of the State to the other. With these facilities of ascertaining the general sentiments, as well athe opinions of individuals, I mako a so'einn disclaimer, for mv party as well iif mrsclf, of any design, purpose, or tvi>h, to destroy the Union. Subsequent to IS29, I never made an address to the people that I d:d not as<cr' my own devotion to the Union, and novet did so without a strong cxpressionof sym paty from mv hearers. It was an exciting topic, urged by us against the uncon sfihltional measures of which we com plained, that they were calculated to weak en the Union ; and tf enforced, as thereat oned, by unconstitutional means, might destroy it? We believed that our doctrines wore conservative, and I have seen no reason to chango that opinion. In short, there was no secret or in lirect pur pn*o whatever. Every ohjpct was op mi. | tv avowed, fairly put on record, and boldh unforced ; so that the public history of the controversy contains tho whole truth, ill mutilated and undisguised. During that controversy, I am not ware of any communication held with 1 you. I had none. I understood that, subsequently to the nullification contest, you had at one time consented to become the editor of the Southern Review, which, during tho period of our greatest excite, rnont, had been suspended. The most Mrn-'st off >rt made to reestablish it, was made by a direct trade convention/' in Charleston, a few years since, composed f nun of all parties in the South, whose iSjects were to sustain Southern interMs and principles, to vindicate and pro. ert Southern institutions, and tn devcl- j >po and invigorate Southern literature, t lever heard or imtgincd any other pur>o*e* than these, I have thus, sir. replied to your intermgatories of a general import, and. in n conclusion, beg leave to say, that I j do not regret to have ail occasion of j muting on record an explicit denial. I for myself and the gallant ansj patriotic [ men with whom I netod, of this charge ; if disunion, which has so often, and with ! men liulc truth, been brought against j us. I have tho honor to he, very respectful- k lv, vour obedient servant, WM. c. rRESTOX. Mr. Upsiirn. Extract from Mr. B itler s rrply. In reply, I will say, I think no p.m. j plo or paitv has over been more inistin. , derstood, or more grossly m:srepresented. j Those relations, nre now totally changed ; and, whilst 1 trust that ! could not bo induced to repeat any tiling to his disadvantage, which I had heard from hiin during the existence of those relations. 1 lake j pleasure in savin* that, in the fullest and j fiecst conversations with him. for hours ; and days at a time. I never had cause even to suspect that lie desired the dissolution of the Union. On the contrary. 1 well know that he has always regarded such an event as a great calamity-?one i of the greatest. I know no man more deeply impressed with the value of that Union, and no one whose opinions are so strong and settled that it never will he dissolved. I5ut, sir, is it for one moment to lie supposed that the men who were most prominent in that controversy, whilst in nil their speeches and public documents they professed an ardent devotion to the Union, were secretly plotting its destruc tion ? CONGRESS. FROM THE NATIONAL INTKLLTORNCER. Tli E THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH WEEKS of the Session of Congress hsve passed away without any effective progress ha v. ing been yet made in the great bust less ofthe Session, except by the discussion in the Senate of those fundamental principles, out of which, if at all, a system of public policy is to be re-erected worthy of the present consequence and future destinies of the Republic. iMensures, in. stead of the principles which lie at their foundation, would have been introduced, ind we dare say by this time matured, in ihc Senate, whose Members appear not to >e insensible either of the duty or there, ponsihilily which the exigency of public iff.nr* devolve* upon them, but that ur. ier thu Constitution it belongs to ti e leprcsi-ntative body to origin itr such Measures, the Senate having only, in re; ?ect to bills " for raising revenue," the aine power as it possesses in regard to ippointincnts to office by the President: hat is, the power of concurrence, with he additional power, however, of propos. ing amendments. Upon the measures lopi^os'irv In rnivi* a rcvpniif. thfri'inrH. VVw.-w., j ' ,lV ' ' he Senate cannot act, otherwise than !>v the expression of abstract opinion, by vhich expedient, resorted to on the pre. -ent eccnsion, it is hoped that some tune nay be saved which w ould otherwise he consumed in debate upon tiie House Bills when they come before it. Hence tl.o Resolutions propos d by Mr. Clay, and the Debate which is now going oil upon them. The Senate, then, has done all that is in its power to expedite the public busi. noss, whilst weeks and months are passing away and the House of Representatives has not yet approaohed either of the gnat inevitable questions of the Revenue and the Currency, having already occupied .much time, ineM??.g nearly all of the last two weeks, in the discussion of questions of minute proportion, or conseqie.ne.e, in comparison with those which yet hang with heavy aspect and no very happy portent over the remainder of this ses. sion. Meantiine. as the Secretary of the Treasuiy has officially informed the House the exp 'diont of Treasury notes to eke out a det dent revenue, though the only one by which, when it was resorted to, the Government could have been enabled to keep the wolf from the door for a sin gle day,* is known to he insufficient for the immediate wants of the Treasury. And, worse than nil, the revenue from imposts being nearly nil pnul into the Treasury in the new Treasury notes, the specie received for duties is not sufficient in amount to pay off the old Treasury notes (issued twelve months ago to renew previous) now daily falling due; the consequence of which is. that the bank at New York employed by the Treasury to redeem the Treasury notes, when nrriv. ing at maturity, out of the proceeds of the customs, has been obliged, within the last week, to suffer the Treasury notes to be protes\edfnrnan payment? The Treasurer of the Un led Slates, it is said, has been on a minion to New York, in the hope 01 making aomo arrangement for patching over this financial disgrace; but has not succeeded. What a spectacle is not this for a gieat agricultural, manufacturing, and eminently commercial People to exhibit ? What a disreputable pre lirainent for it to stand in ! Hut, admitting all this to he true, it may hi asked, how could the House of Reoresentat ves have prevented it.' To I which we nnswer. Must easily. The 1 Whig Administration had not been :i 1 week in possession of the reins of (tovei n- j ment, just a year ago, before it was I discovered that not less than twelve mil. | lions of dollars of money would he neces. j snrv to supply the absolute deficiency of means for meeting trio existing appropria. J lions for the public service; and. Congress being convened for the purpose of sup. I plying this deficiency, a loan to that a. I mount was recommended by the then ! Secretary of the Treasury, and nuthoriz- j cd, but upon terms (differing from those, advised bv the Secretary) which defeated j its object. Upon the strength of the j grant of this loan, considering it already as money in hand. Congress added sev. eral millions to the existing appropri ilions, thus enlarging the deficiency which the -i:-J i?i ?ll i j loan was to have siipoiien, nnu u uu I'COll | taken. Soon after Congress came to. gcthcr at this Session, nearly three months ago, the Secretary of the Treastirv verv plainly and explicitly disclosed t> the Houses, in hisotfieiaI report, the nctiial.state and prospects of the Treasury. He told them, in the first pfac\ that there would he a deficiency in the Treasury on . the first day of January of more than six hundred thousand dollars, and for the J wh??|e year a deficiency of means to the amount of more than fourteen millions of dollars; nnd to meet this deficiency here, commended to Congress to authorize an cx tension of the term within which the residue. not vet taken, of the loan already * authorized shall he redeemable, and the * re-issue of llio Treasury notes heretofore e authorized l?y law, amounting to five a . n: ..r. ~i.ll d millions <>| UOK.II9, IIIC MHI.IHV.V mill It;. quired, of S2 718.571) 63. together wilh an additional mi.fi of $3,000,000, a (stir, plur deemed necessary in the Treasury.) lo he Mipplied from additional duties upon foreign articles imported. Of these recommendations the two first were res. ponded to by the Committee of Ways and Means with the promptitude which dis. ( tinguishes the action of that Committtee. But no part of its report was acted upon by the House until the clamor of creditors e literally besieging the doors of the Trea- J xury induced the House to pass the bi.l [ for a reissue of Treasury notes; whilst the 1 main proposition, the extension of the ^ term ol the loan, upon which, as every business man will at once see, all the a operations of the Treasury for this year 1 must essentia ly depend?a proposition so J] reasonable that not a doubt concerning iT ^ can exist in the mind of any practical ' man?s:ill sleeps quietly upon the table ol * the House. As lor the third branch of { the Ways and Me ins, the revision of the TatiiT, which ought to he completed in view of all the interests concerned in ' it. as well as that of the Government, r within sixty days from this date, or at least before the 30:h of June next, the n I _ .L_ <1 day on which the dunes tinner me ? promise Act come down to the lowest rates, we shall ho agreeably surprised if H the final action upon it by Congress be cl completed before the dog days. The e?- c lablishment ofan adequate revenue from 1 imposts is. however, as we have already j H had occasion to remark, the one indispen * able measure, without which neither agri. r culture, commerce, nor manufactures can ' begin to raise their drooping heads, .?r v aspire to any thing like the prosperity ? with which they were blessed before the e era of exp riments began. For that pros, perity they are reciprocally dependent on 1 each other; and whatever depresses the ^ one must injuriously affect tho other. " On this mutual dependence of the three 1 great intepsts, a quotation apt to our " purpose has just caught our eye, from a speech delivered in the House of Repre- T scnlatives a good many years ago [but which is all the better for its age] by Mr. Calhoun, the present Senator, from South a Carolina, upon a motion by Mr. Randolph to strike out the minimum valuations on " -? ' cotton goods. ** iMminer ngru;uuuic. manufactures, nor commerce, taken sep. nratoly," said Mr. Calhoun, u is the cause w of wealth; it flows from the three com- ' hi nod, a ill cannot exist without each. The e s wealth of any sjnglo nation, or an indivi- j dual, it is true, may not immediately he derived from the three ; hut it always pre. n supposes the existence of the three sources, * though derived immediately from one or . 9 "% I? two of them only. Taken in its most en- . iarged sense, wiiliout commerce industry ^ would have no stimulus; without man?i ^ facturcs. it would be without the moans of production"; and -without ngncultnrer * neither of the others can -exist. When C' separated " entirely and, permanently, o thev must perish." Though certainly very desirous to see House of Representatives making more ^ rapid progress in the consideration oftho J groat questions of theTarifTnnd the Cur. ^ ireney, [a< inseparably connected, though twain asthe 5..un?se brothers,] wea-o not among those who doubt ol its ultimate n effieu nt action upon them. The discus. . sions of die last two or three weeks have j* shown the prevalence in the House ofnn inquisitive disposition, such as is favorable n id ttie reform of public abuses. The great '' mass of these abuses, however, are not to be ] discovered i'i the catalogue ofth-we expendt- j ' twrea winch pass annually and directly under !) the revision of Congress; such a4 the coutin- v gent expenditures of iheir own bodies, which y are a I war-.-under the control ami regulation r of each House, but in fiat great aggregate of > , expend.turn and emolument which appropria- 1 fed in masses, or ex'r <ctrd from the revenue r b-fore it reaches the Tre sury, arms the Exo- ^ cut ve with a patronage, of the extent of a wnich few even of the old .Members of Con p gress are folly aware. We have seen a r .Marsh d of 'he United S a*e< rece v ng pin >lu. I a men's to tfm am ?u/it of cg.ity thousand dollars a year, wli s' a proposition to aug nent 'he salary of the President of f lie United Stales " to one half of that amount (though not an un * reasonable proposition) would have be? n t scouted m cit er House of Congress. We v have seen a Collector ot the R venue, holding his own authority ai the absolute will ai d c oleasnre ??f the Everutive, enjoying himself a prineeiy revenue and wielding power over five e hundred subordinate agrnis dependent upon ' his pleasure for employment or. isin ssal with c or without cause, wtii 1st perhaps the House * of the Representatives has been debating for | - - ....V1.1,1 i\r vi//in11J not ! . (Jay* togeuier #in:iiin au horize an additional clerk or messenger to i ^ a public officer. Without any authority ironi Congress we have seen tlie number of ] ( agent* employed by tins Collector increased, ; ' from the time of .Mr. Adam's A ministration f up to the beginning of the present from some- r fhin? more than a hundred and fif y to five ( hundred?and the agregate emoluments ot j said officers angmoired from two hundred : tnousand to five hundred thousand dollars a year?snd yet this no: onlv without any augmentation ?f revenue requiring such an inqtnr- ' ing such an increase, but on die contrary with < if dunirii*h"d revenue. Tne !>?>stin ist'-r even of one of our cities receives (or has received) j an emoluments annua' y more ihan four times f the amount of the salary of tlie Cliiet Ju-tice, j of ih e I'nicd States; and as to t ie eor:upt on and was e <?l pjli.ic money under the coverot Indian treaties and .he Lite enormities, if the ' veil he ever rent fiom ihero hy L'tmgresr, the I incongruity of the tolerated practice? of public agents with the economy to wl ieh Congress , would hold thorn all it it kne.v how, wiii be i made sufficiently apparent. We mention | these things eunouslv only to illustrate the : j general observation, i???w very much more 1 j worthy of inquiry and reform by Congress are ' I trie expenditures by and upon public officers which do not pass heort? i&wnbers of (Congress ic? any form of legin'ativo review, and theretore wholly elude tlieu* a: teuton, 'Iran some of those which have been occasionally the ?i hfc.iniK,,.,! d# hue. Our reader* wdl have seen with pJoaweT] I thui the House last week escaped (ron? the | unprofitable dist us&iou coucofmng printing ' - - ... ? * nd the puMic pres-*, &c. Hy referring to a elect eoinmittee the inquiry into trie expedinrvcfetflbibliing a Nat-cn.it Printing Office/ - . ? measure which has b?'en often spoken of, nd la well wortny of consideration v>* ? From tho Tullahassee Floridian. Littlk Rivkr, Columbia Co.f > E. Florida, 28th Feb. 1842. y His Excellency R. K. CalL Sir?It is with feelings of tha deepest egret that I am compelled to inform you, d one of the most barhorous acts of Indi- ; in depredations. On Thursday last, at . -j toon, seven or eight Indiana were discov* >red in half to three quarter* of a mile of j? % ny house, making towards a neighboring iouso. I immediately sent a runner to ha? house, to apprize them?and through he neighborhood lor the same purpose; tut before the news could reach around i Mr. Richard Tullis' family, about two niles from me. (he being absent on bttsu iess.) fell victims to their barbarity, in the bliowing distressing manner. The lady, drs. Tullis, was shot dead ; a young lad/ vho was staying there, attempted to run with Mrs. T.'s infant two weeks old* nit was run after by an Indian, overta* .en, knocked down with the limb of * ree, and stabbed under each arm, (or leariy so.) to the hollow : she is yet r.live; l little girl, 8 years old, was shot with an ? rrow in the back, the barb or spike, ma do if iron, severing off part of the bone, and odging under a rib : she died last night ; i little hoy, six years old, was shot with ., i in arrow in the back near the Jmmm*, and nine out near the navel: he i* yet alive; -y^mSpj he next oldest was killed dead with an rrow; and the next oldest, a boy, was hot through the My, and died on Friday light. All of the children were shot, and v ffjp he arrows left in them, except the infant, jj rhich was n??t interrupted. The bouse f vas stripped, and the Indians made their * Yesterday about ten in the morning, hov made an attack on Mr. 0? teen's ioijm*, one and a half miles from the Nat* ~ ral Bridge, on the Santa-Fee river, killed ^^9 Irs. (). and were still firing on the houso rhen the express left for Alligator* I O THK MKDICAL FACULTY THIOUSHOUT T1IK STATIC OF SOUTH CA*"LI*A: (lEXTUUtsa;?Your professional avoc* ^ tions bring under your observation those ersons who have the misfortune to bo lind or denf and dumb. We take leave here fore 'o a*k your aid in bringing to ho attention of their friends the provision . k'hich the State has made for their educa* BS ^ ion, and we earnestly invoke vour influx & nee in persuading th* rn to avail themelves of it. Your experience has shown I inw difficult it is to persuade the parents r relatives of an unfortunate child, to end the sufferer from home. But your 1 - J f il.^ ABra unit nUonliolt whipb nnwicu^c m mc cuiv u,.M i bestowed upon these unfortunate be. igs at the many well conducted asylums is? ;>r the blind, and for the deaf and dumb, rhieh now exist in our country, will en. hJe you to correct this prejudice, and we rould entreat you to aid us in extending orrect information throughout the rang* . i f your practice. , J The Legislature has appropriated thq; um of 92.500, to be annually applied > the education of blind or of deaf and, umb persons, between the ages of 12 and 5 years. The Coven or of the State, lie Rev. P. ter J. Shanu, of Columbia, nd 0. G. Memminger, of Charleston, re the Commissioners to act on the sab* M-t, Kit her of these Commissioners cm e applied to. in behalf of person* wh? W&f nay desire to be educated, and they will ^ [take such arrangements as are requisite ur sending the children for education to he proper asylum. Blind children will & ic taken from any part of the State, and # ill he sent with care and safety to the '^.2$ isylum near Boston and deaf and dumb hildren to the Asylum at Hartford; and he friends of the children can ha vie them eturned hack to them when they may leetn it. host, and can ni nn nine* ^ -gamm nv information they inny desire, by ap. ?ving to either of ihe gentlemen above ' .'v. lamed. Ft is expected that the parents nd guardians of the children will bear nly sueh of the expense* of sending them n. as they are able to pay. But If they rc shown to be unable to pay any part, he Commissioners will then pay the -"V'.'v Parents may rest assured that their ihildren will he well taken care of, and j * iducated to the best ndvantage. Children rom all parts of the Union are now edii. :ated in these asylums and- are treated vith great kindness. Let the parent or riends of a blind child consider that by pa ring their child for a few years, it can >c taught to read and write, and its mind v .'an be opened to drink in the pure wa. ers of Christian knowledge; and its life nade one of comparative usefulness and ontontrnent. Itjcan be taught many -4*?1P hings which will not only assist in earnng its subsistence, but will tend to cheer > < Is desolation and solitude, and make it n some degree a member of the aociotr rom which inisfortune would seexn ouw - --.r, irwise to have excluded it To the deaf and dumb children, eduction is quite as valuable and it still more itsilv acquired. Surely no parent who , a informed on the subject will permit'|9H lirnself to deny to hit unfortunate child, )Iessinjrs which arc so freely offered by the Stalo. We respectfully solicit the gentlemen \v-gl r?f the Medical Profesaion throughout our J S ate, to make inquiry for those who are " *< subjects fur the hauni v of the Legislature, and to use their exertions in promoting it* benevolent intention. ^ C.G. MEtfMINGER. In hehqlf uf the Cammisstvcr*. General Cass, it U?aid,.*iU M?n retorn >om France, and he sttcece&4 e?4her by Mr. Waggaroan, ?( Louuium., or Mr. Predion,.#!'_?jJUt_h Caroliu*. " . J