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The Board of Trustees of ,the Bradford Springs Female Institute,will, meet at Sum terville on Saturday' to g'lth November fcxt, for the purpose, ele tingr a PRINCIPA L, * .ALE and FEMALE ASSISTANT, two FEMALE MUSIC TEA(l1ENS and aDUR '$ARn for the ensuing year, coi'higencing. on thp 1st Monday in February, .nd dJesing the last Friday in Novetfmber following. The'P1tINCIPAL, must he a maftried gen ;;~.. theman, of experience in teachin, n iopetent to. instruct in Natural and Mora 'hiliopihy, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geolov:-, inoany the .La tin and Greek classics--wIhose wife will bi/;qiired to have the entire superr iendance QIthe conduct of the Young Lac!e. when nut ojhe School Room. A salary, of one thou atnd dollars, per annum is olrered, 4i ih board of':himself, \vjfe, and any children hey may have under seven years of agze, free iof charge. The MALE ASSISTANT nmut he a gen tleman of irreproachable, char. 'ter, compe tent to instruct in Algebra, G oumetry, Plain Trigonometry, Rhetoric, ' the L-itin and Greek classics. The Saloe offered is Five hundred dollars, per anrdun, and board fur . nishedi. ieThe FEAML E /ASSISTANT must be competent t.i instjuct in Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithny tic, English Grammuar, Goo graphy and 1), tory. Salary Three hundred and fitly ti1ars, per annum, with board. A SuMry, Four hundred dollars per annum wittn1>oard, is offered for a Lady competent to -. instruct in Music on the Piano, and the French language. A Salary, of Founr hundred dollars per an num with board, is offered for another Lady .tq''w competent to instruct in Music on the Pin;uo, and Guitar, and who understands drawing and Painting in Oil ad.l Water colors. For a BURSAR and his Lady, who will be required to discharge each and every duty pertaining to that otfice a Salary of, Five hundred dollars, for twelve months conmien. cing 1st of January, is ofW'red with board of themselves, and their children under se ven years of age. ADDRESS, post paid, 1) B. Mc1AURIN, Secretary, SUMTERVIL1.1L1E. IIENRY D. GREEN, Presidlnt. Oct. 1st, 18.19. 51 (it T Charleston Courier, and Southern -Cleristian Advocate will please Copy t Wice a week until day of election, and forward their bills to. the Secretary. Annual Fair of the South Carolina Institute, For the Promotion of A ris, Mechanical Inge nuity and lumdustry. (IT Tho FIltsT' ANNUAL FAIR ef the above Inustitute will bo bnehl in Chaln~rle'stln, comn mnencing on Tt'a.nAr 2.uth f'orsginber next, umi continu~e cpen during the~ we,~ k. Specimenn of AltT, INGIENUJITY, .\lE. CH ANICA L, SKILL unsl INl DY'il'ItY' of ev ery description, is solicited for the IExhibaginn, fromn all the Southern States, amid IlIt l IU\ IJA will be awurded Io thnoso prese.nting then best spe cirnena. As this is the first ef~brm mn-mde in the South ern States to advamnce thne Mechmanic Atrts, bny me~ n-- of an Annual Fa~nir siimiar io those that have proved so beneficial to thne Northnern Mechanics, the Boaird of .lMa nagers earunest ly solicit the Co-operat ion of al mvwho leel an ii' terest in the prosp~erity of thne Southn, aind ap peal to every afechanni, .AJannacturer, and( all persons engaged ini pnrsuits ofskill aind in dustry of. whatever description, to send( somet specimuen to this Exhiibitioun, andl they hope that every district in this Stale and of our sister States wvill he represented at the Fair. A ll those who intend sending articles for exhibition, will please give notice to l~. Mi. . TATCH, Chairman Commuittee of Arrange ments, at as early a day as possible, and every Specimen sent.swill be carefully attendod to nad returned after the Exhibition. oFFICF~ns or 'rmtE INSTIT UTE. WM. GREGG, Presilent. W M. KIRK WOOD1, 1st Vice President. WM. M.LIAWTO'(N, 2d Vice President. E. C. JONES, Secretary. 11. S. GRIGGS, Treasurer pro tema. J)JltFECTOR S. Joseph Walker. C. D). Carr. G. N. steynolds, Jr. II. 1. Walker. J. H-. Taylor. F. J. Porebmer. WV. G. Desaussure. ( '. V. Rtnchairdson. L. M. Hatch. Wmn. Lobby. Oct 6 51 if Notice la hereby Wven, that application will ho made to the jAgislaturo at its necxt sossion, for an Act of ~ncorporation for' H armo mny Church. -G. P'LOWIDEN. Aug 21, 1849, i~ 4:3 3m TO KEEP SWEET POTATOES. As the time to dig sweet potatoes is now at hand, I would suggest a. R od for their. preservation through sin: ter, one which I-consider the most con venient and the surest to secure thio ends which are essential to keep pota=, toes with success, to wit : a piroper tem. perature, exclusion of light and damp. ness. The method is simply to 'throw the potatoes up in conical heaps of eight or ten bushels to a heap; covering them lightly with straw, then with tops, or, corntalks, and lastly with dirt, being careful to have the ground upon which you make the heap so elevated as in drain off all rain water, and the tops of the heaps so well secured, as not to ad mit water. I have suggested putting them in small heaps of eight or ten bushels, because when potatoes, put away for winter use, are once disturbed by breaking into them, decay is apt to commence very soon thereafter. By having them in small heaps, when once the heap is disturbed, it being small, you can use it before much injury is done. In keeping potatoes through the winter, a good deal depends upon the kind'of potatoo, and upon the time of digging them. I know from actual ex perience, that one variety will keep much better than another. The kind that I prefer for keeping, is known among the farmers in lay vieit its the yellow bark. Pototoes should al ways be dug as soon after the first good frost as can be. Do not sutllbr too much cold to come on them G. R. .Prince George County, Va., 1848. THE FARMER'S WIFE. The life of the farmer is so often praised for its peacefulness and inde. pendence, that the farmer's wife might very rationally be supposed to be the happiest woman in the world. From her relation to the "lords of the soil" she should be the lady of the soil, a peachful, healthy, independent woman. That the reverse of this is the general fact will be universally conceded by the wives of the farmers. A young farmer arrives at an ago when be thinks it time to get married and "settle down." Ile has had a res pectable education, and wants a woman that is his equal. lie looks about him, and makes his choice. She is a girl bred beside him in the countryr; has been well educated; reared bv careful parents, and is in the truest seiise a lady. She loves books. l'>ss ss:s skill and taste in music, and is in points fit- I ted to reign the queen of a happy home. She becomes the wife of the farmer, is ambitious to do as mnch as her neigh hors, and her husband is soon avaricious enough to allow the woman of his love to become the most devoted drudge. From thencefooth her life is one of the most unremitting toil. It is nothing but mend and patch, cook and bake, wash and iron, churn and make cheese, pick up chips, and draw water, bear children and nurse them. The fanily cuelarges, thme husband grows wealthy, becomes iimportanmt in coummunity, rides to townm every day, take~s eause when lie chooses; but the cares of his faded~1 and broken do.wn wife know nmo relaxation. She may outlive her husbanud, but rare ly does, awul not unfredue-ntly a second wife comies ini to share in thme money that shoumlil have been enijoyedi by heir predlecessor, through a iet old age of rest. Tfhis is no0 fancy sketch; it is drawn fromi Ife, amnd ini every county town anid neighborhood its truithfulness will be roeognized. Now we despise the good. for-nothinag of fashionabile life, as munch as any oine, and have no affec tion for dIrones int aniy hive. We are awvare that circumnstauces sometimes de imand extreme labor of tihe farmer's wife, but ini New En~igland those (circum stances do not prev-ail; and while we I would leave no woman to eat the bread of idleness, we would see the class of which we are speaukiing released fr-om theo circle of everlasting drudgery which deprives them of the privilego of relamx ation for a dayv, and the time wvhich they woul glamly (devote to -the ima torinal educadtionm of thir chmren Frmn this life thea- gid 'Ii.f .le da learn to shirink,. not becase' the' are t lazy', but becuseo the v k:.aw the y are to be sacrihicedl. No't because they do ui't wish to become his mistress, nmidi of'-all-work, nurse and boot-jack. Now the foundation of all this wrong is that avaricious spirit hiande~d doewn by father to son, which mnakes the dollar the stan dard of respectabuility', and land the on ly source of happiness. We hopo to ..-~' - 4 ~ * - seethe day when tlo .fairmer's \vife p shall 'share itvthe peacefulness and in- n dependenai E the farmQr's lot, and. e a call .upnr t6 Idoto eiinage in the re- t; form thotinsulvoeand toteach the lords of thedsoil, that there is,'something to t1 :efor besides ptatoes, and that .life t cinbe enjoyed inorotily. by a proper presevation ofthe. health, beauty, ac- f eomplishments arid good spirits of their ( coipanions.-S ptrinfield Republican. r Tlis picture does not suit Carolina, S Some fair citizen of Yankee Land how over may have had the misfortune to h sit for it En. flAN. b TuII Hons a. EYt.- Examine the eye irslt, wen the horse stands with h his head tthe moangor. Look care- d fully atthopupil of the eye, in the o horse; it3iis of an oblong form; carry the a size of the pupil in. your mind, then, v turn the horse about, bring him to a bright light, - and if the pupil of the e eye contracts, and appears much smal- t, for than it.wasin the darker light, then t you may be sure. the horse has a strong a good eye; but provided the pupil re- s mains nearly the same size as it ap- d peared in the darker light, the horse has a weak eye, therefore have noting I to do withhhn.-- Old Almana. p ti CLAIIBYOYANc..CY--SIR JOHN s FRANKLIN. The following. extraordinary state- 1 ment is vouched for lv the Mauhster Guardian as coiming from an oeli;er of the Royal Navy and of relialeo anthen- t ticity. As it was pablished several d days previous to the arrival of the Trne t Love, it furnishes one cf the most won- o derful illustrations of the uses and pow- i er-of mesmerism that can' be conceived, ( to such as place confidence in the state- s ment: 'n Frm the Manchester Guarding. "Sir: In the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last (29th September,) you t have inserted a short notice of inquiries . recently made of the Bolton clairvov s ant respecting the fate of Sir Jolini Franklin. which, besides being essen tially incorrect, seems calculated un necessarily to increase the uneasiness felt by his friends regarding him. As a party concerned, I feel it a duty, S therefore, though with some reluctance, to communicate the real facts to you in detail. If disbelieved, their publicationt can do no harm; and if ever so little credited, they are rather encouraging b than otherwise. "Being cast into a mesmeric state, then this woman asserted positively that Sir John Franklin is still alive, and n now compai atively well. HeI has uni dergone great hardships, but has over come them, and is in goed hope of get ting to England in nine months and a half, provided no unforeseen accident occm s. The lifleence bet ween the ap- n parent time where he is and at .Bolton (1 is nearly six hours, indicating a differ onee of lotgituode of from 85 to 9O. And afterwards, when asked, being still i the inesmeric state, to endleavor tot point on the nmap where he is, she puts her finger on the no'rthwest side of Hud ( Fon's, .Uay), which is noat ver-v far- fre a thiis longi:ude, thiough the iap .beIn n a v'ary small scale, and vecry incon. vemiently bound up1, ill a v'olumew of thle - Penny Cyclopcedia. andi~ required by her to be rested on heri head, not held to her eyes, and thusi reversed, no0 very piecise indication conl be so obtaineri "A~s she is perfectly uniinstructed. mnd unlable even to read or write, it seems scarcely possible to suppi~ose tha it nhie can know anything of' maps whaIt ever; and, turtheir, the inidica tion: thus )btainied , both by difference of time andii her her po'initin~ oni the imap, took then by'standhers qulite by sumrjrise~'. Theliy ad not the least itica of lokdingi for, Sir John ini this dlirectionii. And if his shiips iave b~een wrecked or abandonied on the west of B1iithia or towards Victoria Land, it is possible, thouigh it miay aip pear to us3 unlikely, thalt lie may' have tried to) return' to the eaist ward'of boo thia, which, whlen lie dep'artE, w as mipp(ose'l to be an: island. And if liey suceeedc ini OVercomig the~ vary" great s<n .liflieulties wihich vot-i have a'tnded ni meuh at rouite, tis -is *rees lv the di A\ nd ftu'her, if' he got this leh:.ii too s late in thei M(~slah to save the Huso~n's e Bay (A'iupauv sI :iiiiinu ship. his ownI h imp re-ssi'ni woubit~ inaturially be thiat lie ti wouldl be detained till the enisuinig spring, c which would just imake up the nine o months specified lbefore ho exp)ected to h he ini Englanid; this period not having n been given by the clairvoyant as ai pro- hi hecy, but as the impression, on ho iind, with whick. ho professed to. hie amoe mysterious means of communica. ion. "It is.,true that she said he bad only iree persons with him; but other par es of his men are following in.the same irection, though some way separated rom him. She .saw also theehela dead bodies) of others in diferoht ostures under the snow And she de Bribed graphically enough the deer, gild cattle, wild men, and rough tang. ,d forest that she *passed in going - to im, with an animal striped down the ack and sides, which leaps very far, nd may be the panther or wild cat. "She also professed to go and visit is ships, one of which she said was un er water, with very thick .imbers, the ther above it. And an old letter being 18s possessed from Sir Jamnes Ross, she rent to visit him too. For this pur oso, she said she had to go much farth r. He is fast in the ice, and unable ) turn his ship round, but intends re tuning to England when he can. She dded that it was snowing heavily when he saw him him; he had not seen Sir omn Franklin. The difference be ween this apparent time and that of "loton was nearly eight hours, corres onding to 110 deg. to 115 deg. V.; wil when required subsaquently . to how the plaeo oi the tuap, she pointed Banlaes' Land amost at once-a po ition full of prohahility. "Sir James Ross, s'ae says, is well. ut tiuch annovcl at being stopped. tunther shi. is not fir from him, and either of these have sails set. But here is a thirl ship mui:h nearer, un er sail, and coming a pparently frost heir directieu; her difference of time is nly two hours anad a hall'. correspond: ag to 85 degrees to 40 degrees west, Can this be the transport sent last pring to renew their suppl es?] She ientioned the ship first herself. Only no person in the room knew that such vessel had been sent; and, in his in. Brest for the principal persons concern, d, lie had not thought of the transport eut to their relief till this third ship ias mentioned. "She expressed great astonishment t finding the clocks differ so much, and id they should be sent to the watch. iaker to put them right. She also de. eribed Sir James Ross as being stout r than Sir John Franklin, and in be. r cased (-more squash' were her ords.) Sir John's cheeks, said she re somewhat sunk through his fatigue, ut his health is good, and lhe has now hundance to eat. 11cr description of is person n~as otherwise sufficiently ear, anid she respectfully mentioned is being bald. "These, then, were the pi incipal atemLts that were thus elicited. Iany other details were added, not ithout interest; but this communica on is already too long. Including the esmeermem', ftour permoms were present tiring the most of the time they were >llecte.d. They will gain various de rets of present credit, according to the maperamenut of' thoese who maiy receive omu; and in truth, it would s'em pre-O mture' ait present to jlace much recli iee on themci, thou gh in these (lavs, bnwe make thme lightning carry omr is verymdicult todraw the precise ne btwixt the p ossible and~ thme impoIs ble'. lIn any case, it wouid be fo'r the I'rest er' truthl that they' are r'ecom ded(, ben m cohusion'm is impoassib,'e. I enclose y cardl to authenticate my letter; but do not wi.h my nmle piulished. "1 am, sir, yocur most obedient ser [In refermenuco to the preLceding letter, e are desirous of'msaying, with a view ' iarding. our' opumions on the subhject oem misconIcephtion', that we vouch for 'thing bxey'ond the unexceptionuable au-* uority, as to thuets, and the writer, who an oflicer of mank ini the royal navy.] ELdialarykL (uardian. A' AFF"A IR ATI TIIE WHITE l()OUNTAINS. From rivato letters I learn that a oung hmu'lishmn namedi Stricklanud, a n ' (Sir George Struiekhcmod, an mi-i ieon the *th, neow~I'. lie arr'iv I in the;is omr y at few mf.mlthM cince, rm'ng lkt t..rs o. son'ue of our most (is ogished~lci einzens, from whom lie re ivedl o.very attenition. At the instance I Professor' Agassi:' and other friends5, ' undei look ai journey to tho White loonntauins. lie arrived ait the Noteh ouse on last Thrnadav'. Hn wa ac siroisofascendIn Moututaeingin Mr. Crawfor4, lis :shost,; arast ', h sought him noto"t.make th ttemipt'h roads being covered .Ayitl 6 . tercepted.in man ypla' caleatso water which rqn redravelling unsa Mr. Strickland, "imaihiitig .'that Mr Crawford waxnted to prcvcnt his puttinj up at a rival house, -turned a .deaf' ear to all attempts at dissuasion. An Eng lish:traveller anid a guido started :vit1 him, and they went together s; fug Mount Pleasant. Her6 hi2'0 yQpn ions declared their intontionuo '?turning back to the Notch house.. , LtrokIa 1d obstinately persisted intakin the roue. known as Fabyan's path; ok.'to the stage road. In vain did t ? c non strato and plead fith him, Nie warning nor solicitation could: iidiiW him to abandon his plan; and he accor dingly parted from his companions On Friday, Mr.' Crawford'called at Fabyan's and learned that Strickland had not arrived there. A search was immediately instituted; but it was not until Sunday that they found his body. His clothes had been prdviously discov ered in a bole in the Ammonnosulc river, where it was not more than two feet wide. His body, much bruised and lacerated, was discovered about a mile from this spot. It is supposed that he fell into the- water, and finding that he should freeze, in his desperation threw off his clothes. Another conjec ture is, that he discarded them, while suffering under mental aberration. Mr. Strickland was the heir to immense es. tates in England. He was a graduate of the University of Oatubridge, and about thirty-fivewyears of age. He had commended himself, while here, to ma ny literary friends, by whom hissad fate is much deplored.-- Wash. Riepublic. More Bloody Work in Africa. Some time ago we gave-an account of an apparently causeless and imless expedition against certain native towns in Africa, carried into effect bva con siderable English Governor ofsome pet= ty station on the coast. 'In looking over a London paper, not of a very re cent date, we fell tupon the annexed par-I agraph, from which it appears. that'a foray of the same nature has been exe. cuted by certain Frenchmen; but to what good end, or on what pretext, we are uot advised -XNew York Adverti 8er. lWstern Africa.--Letters from St. Louis, (Senegal,) of the 25th July, give the details of a simguinary engage ment which had taken place between the French troop's and the inhabitants of the village of Francyez, (Fontu To ra,) some distance up the river. The people from the neighboring villages had joined them to resist the invasion-of the 'French, and, encouraged by a vie ry which their countrymen had gained over the French, some forty years since, the negroes awaited the approach of their assailants with great firmness, not firing a single shot until the expedition was within 80 yards of them. The blacks were protected behind barri cades, and nothing but the muzzles of their muskets were visible.. At l-atn the fi:ing began, and, for twenty minutes, the most dleterminmed resistance was made; at length, the can non having panrtly demnolishied the bar ricades, a cbarge was ordered and they were soon carr ied at the point of the bayonet, when a general rout took place, the blacks throwing away their arms, and jumping into the river to swim to the opposite bank. Several discharges of grape were made at thm, and a numbher of them were killed, af' ter which the village and all the fields of maize were set fire to and destroy ed. T1hie loss of the blacks is consider ed to have been very great, although only f.fty of their bodies were found the rest havingz been thrnown into the ri-. Thle loss of the exnedition amounted to four killed and about thir ty wounded, seventee~n of whom were Europeans. Th le Governor himself was wounded, but not seriously,just as he was mounting his horse. MUsquITro CouNTav. -A writer in the Djuinm University ,Magazine th~us doeeribes the climato and productions of' M u.cu it, anid the description is equal ly e plicable to Nicaragua. I"The salubrious and mild climate oft Miosquito, pilaces it far above many oth er setdlements on the coast. A cool and regular bireeze tempers the torrid heat; and, nulike most of the West India Is lands, you are not baked for one hiour, a'nd then chilled anid choaked by a dutmp and maggy atmosphmere foir the rest of the dauy. The tempkerature .selom clrya . e t~n aa w ti x. $tor0e>s t t~i the body and elftstipi " otlrluav rialgmn .. ; mes od editit$ : r chone. tlia ifmvo stltikothe ia1ni r 4, g abloe timbo iroves rf -aige leuorps, citrn, tamarids, Guaylytn s aid cieanuts, are scattered in' p'rofusio 1 ttitough the valleys. Over the' pains '" i end mnountains arrow root, Casaai ' giugeryama potatoes and sar pall are indigenous. .T ho sugar cane gro 5 luxuriantly, sometimes~to the leisthif 6 eighteen ortwerity feet, and thu zrtoois . produce a large return1for six oi- ight years. Coffee and coeod of.the nest, -' quality may be raised in any piuantity and the soil is equally congenial to in digo and tobacco. rice, maize, Indian ." coin, buckwheat and silk grassi. ninny of our European roots, vegetables' ., t and garden stuffs have only to be plan ,. x f ti ted to yield a succession of crops un known in colder latitudes" t From this description 9f the cla n -to and wonderful variety of valiable pie duetions, the reader-can form some idea of the motives o1 Great Britain for em-' ploy ing that jesuitical policy which at ways distinguishes her interfarence and connection with savage tribes and-semi bdrbarous States, whose territory she . , covets. In this case, her desire of . gaining a foothold in the country was in creased by the fact that the State of Ni- _ caragua comprises within its own limits the only practicable ' route for a ship canal-by Way of the river San Juan ' Lake Nicaragua and the lake and ri'vier of Leon--to connect the waters of tho ; two oceans. :Hence Ther attempts " through the so called' MosUito King, % to gain possession of'tho :port. of :Safi Juan-de inti*' n ~ iotio h sane naie the key of tle whole comi r uication. - . " ...... * . v 5*' ' 'r f .inesota -There has thus fut been no political divisiorn in tliie'we1'oleito ry, but this does not suit the Deis. crats who have settled therein Tbey have issued a call for a "Diocratio Mass Convention, to meet at Paul on x the 20th inst and draw the party lines, and the "St. Paul's Pioneer" has been , , brought out for that patty. It has "' hitherto been neutral The Territorial Legislature has pas sod numerous acts and resolves-the more important among them being in accordance with Governor Ransay's . suegestion. Among them is a resol tion to fine absentee members three del lars for each offence; a Homestead Ex ' eumption bill; the temporary location of the seat of government at St. Paul, an& 8 to erect the public building. thre; t incorporate the Minnesota Agricultural Society; to provide for a territorial rev enue; to provide against the traific in: ardent spirits with the Indians; toestab- : lish a system of common schools; to or-. ganize a militia system ,&c. ,. The Govnerniment o1f the Territory is progr'eningly r'apidly. The bill to de line the qutalification of voters is similar ' to the Pennsylrania law, and excludes . . all but white persons.' ConuurroxorCorroN Goons. The editor of the New' Orleans 'Comn nercial Bulletin is a good compiler ot statistiecs, and In a letter to his paper, brings into prominent view some inter estinig facts with regard to our staple - "'4 and manufactories. Tlhe following ex- ~ tracts wi!! be found to possess some in- ~ -i* terest: "The present consumption of cotton 1 in the United States is estimated at 500 ,000 balesq per anum, which is mnore than the entire crop in 1824; but this. is by no means a correct estimate of thp'o whole amont consumed, for it includes only that p~ortion of the crop which,. having reached a sea-port, is oinbairked in tho statistics of the crop, andiods not include what may be consumed in the intrior, and which has never 'been* sent tea agaiport markel. There oro upwards of two huudred&and difty cot ton mills to. the South of Mason and D~ixon's line, and little'or no poien of the cottou consumod by these nillshee4 er' comes into the estimates of the grpp, and is not included in tho qunttsaul' to be consumed in the. Umntd S tates. Thien there is a vast quantity of cotton. that ia similarly situated, that goesup to, Mississipi i and Oh'io, utid out from th' Teunitessee and C'umberlan\,, fed' supply of the mills in Indiaa Ohio1 ' .