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Quarterly and Monthly Advertise. e onts gill be charged the same as a single heettion, and semi-ionthly the same as new ones. All Obituary Notices axcee,ling six lines, aid Cormmunications recommending Cand. ;dates for public offices or trust-or pulling Eibhitions, will be charged as Advertise. ments. ItrAll letters by mail must be paid to in. sure punctual-attendance. Male and Female Teachers WAN TED, The Board of Trustees of the Brndford Springs Female Institutewi!! meet at Sum. terville on Saturdav t'." !4ih Novembei next, forthe purpose, elct uni a PlINCIPAL MALE and FEMALE ASSISTANT, tw< FEMALE MUSIC T EACilEN S and a BUR. SAl. for the ensuing year, coinpnoncingo the 1st Monday in February, .ind iosing tlc last Friday in November followin. ~ The PRINCIPAL, must he a uimacried gen tIlenman, of experience in teachin-r,, rompeteun to instruct in Natural and Mlorad 'hlm.'ophy Chemistry, Mineralogy, Geolh :, ,u1a'y th: L'n tim and Greek clssics-w ho-e vi( wil b jj equired to have I he entire si s'pe 1C I n nlanec of'the conduct of the Young La'e wen ut of the School Room. A salary. ,'tone thou sand dollars, per annum is ollbr'd, nt ith board of himself, wife, and any chilren t1 hey mal have under seven years of a e, free ''" chirge The MALE ASSISTANT mnu- he a gen. thenan of irreproachable, charau'ter, comnpe. tent to instruct in Algebra, G ouetry, Plair Trigonometry, Rhetoric, Log' , the l a in ant Greek classics. The Salcv otfered is Five hundred dollars, per an dn, and board fur. nished. , The FE3.I.E A(SSISTANT must bc competent to mstiauct in Spelling, Reading, Writing, Orith mtit, English Granmmnar, Geo. graphy and l) tory. Salary 'Three hnlndred and fifty 4Silars. per annum, with board. A Sah'ury, Four hundred dollars per annun Wlt'board, is offered for a Lady competent tr inst ruct in Music on thie Piano, and the French language. . A Salary, of Four hundred dollars per an. num with board, is otThred for another Lad% e, competent to instruct in Music on the Pino and Guitar, and who understands drawing and Painting in Oil a.. Vater colors. For a BUlRSAR and his Lily, who wil be required to discharge each and every duty pertaining to that otlice a Salairy of, 1ivc hundred dollar,,, for twelve nmouhs comnen. cing 1st of January, is oll'red with boloare of themselves, and their children under se. yen years oif age. AI)DRESS, post pail, D) B. M1cLAUltIN, Secretary, SUJM l'Ii:itVI I1.,E. IIENIIY 1). (iloE?\, 1'residen!. Oct. 1st, 1849. 51 lit iL Charleston Courier, and Southern Christian Advocate will please Copv tw.rc a week until day of election, and forw:rd tlimir bills to the Secretary. Annual Fair of the South Caroliaa Institute, 1or the Promotion if* A rfs, Mechanical Iunge nuity and Imustry. hlJT The FIRST! ANN UA A I lAt of dhe above, Institute will I~e heII inm 4 'har-ston, :om.. maemncing onm Tlurano~ 2.eth foembeLr next, andt contionue cpen durinig thei we. k. Specimens of AllT, IN;FENU~T'y, .\t E. CiJANICAL. SKILL und INDtJ' ity Of CV, ery description, is solicited for the IExib~mionm, frotm al!lthe Southern, State.<, andl PIt t ~ ll U\t will be awarded to thuoso presetig' thm betp enmnons. tij. As this is the first eflhrt m-ule ini the South-i e'ra States to adv'nce the Mechian~ic Arts, bmy means of an Anunal Fair simiular Io those that have prove~d so beneficial to the Northmernt Mechuanics, the Bloard oh Alanagers earnmest lv solicit the co-operaition of all wvho teel :an in terest in the prosperity of thme SouthI, anid ap-. peal to every M~echian ic, ~Manufatdct urer, an md all persons enmgaged ini pnfrsuits otskuill anmd ini. dustry of whatever description, to, send somime specimen to this Exhibhit ion, and they hope that every district ini tis State atnd of our sister States will he repre.enmtedl at the Fair. All those wtho intend sendling artic les for exhibit iont, will please give not ice to L. . HATCh, Chaiirman Coi'unittee oif Arr'an~e mente, at as ear'ly a day a5 ptossile, andii overy Specimien sentt will be carefully attended to and returnedl after thme Exhibition. OFFle,ts OF TnEt INSTITUITE. WVM. GRI'EGG, P'resmlent. W M. KIRKWVOOD), 1st Vice President. WNM. M. L.A WTON, 2d Vice President. E. C. JONES, Secretary. ii. S. Gl{IGGS, Treasurer pro teem. IPitF.CTOJis. Joseph Walker. j C. D). Carr. G. N. tieynolds, Jr. If. D. WValker. J. H.TIa ylor. I F. J1. P'orctor. E. WV. Edgerton. I). N. M'Iimtosh, W. G. Desaiussure. I C. V. Iluhrdsotn. L.. M. hatch. | ViWm. L.ebby. Oct 6 51 ti Notice Is hereby W venm, that application will be made to the I ,gislatuire at. its next session, for an Act of Jamcorp)oraition foir iarmny t C'hurch.G.PO DN Ang 21, 149, 43 dim TO 'EEP SWEET POTATOES. As the time to dig sweet potatoes is now at hand, I would suggest a -melh od for their preservation through win ter, one which I consider the most con venient and the surest to secure the ends which are essential to keep pota toes with success, to wit : a proper 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 coriutalks, and lastly with dirt, being careful to have the ground upon :which you make the heap so elevated as to 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 potatoc, and upon the time of digng 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 liny veiiitv Ra the yellow bark. Pototoes should al ways be dug as soon after the first good frost as can be. Do not suibr too much cold to come on them G. Rt. Prince George Countty, Va., 1848. TIlE 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 farumer arrives at an age when he thinks it time to get married and "settle down." lie has had a res pectable education, and wants a woman that ishis ecua!. He looks about him, and makes his choice. She is a girl bred beside him in the counitry; has been well educated; reared hv careihi parents, and is in the truest sense a lady. She loves books. p $sssses skill and taste in music, and is in points fit ted to reign the queen of a happy home. She becomes the wife of ithe farmer, is ambitious to do as munch as her neigh hors, and her husband is soon avaricious enough to allow the woman of his love to becomuie the most devoted drudge. From thencefooth her life is one of the most unremitting toil. It is nothing but mend and patch, cool: and bake, wash aid iron, churn and make cheese, pick up chips, and draw water, bear children an' nurse them. ''hme finni v enlarges, the husband grows wealthy'. becomes importanit in comimunityv, rides to town every day, takes ea.se when lie chooses; but the ca rcs of hus faided and Ibroken dt1~uvu wife know mno relavationi. She may outlive lher hiusbatnd, but rare ly d1oes, an'1 not unmfreduentlyv a second wife comesQ ini to share in the money that shoulti have beena eaj..yed by her Ipredecessor, through a puiet old age of r mest. This isuio fancy sketch; it is dIrawn fronm lift, and ini every county town and neighblorhmood its tiuithfulness will be recogvnized. Now w e despise the good fior-nothing of fushioinable life, as much as any one, anid have no affeec tion for drones ini any hive. We are aware that circunmstauces somelltimies deC mnand extreme labor of the farmer's wife, hut in New Engiland those circum stancies do not ptrevail; and while we would leave no woman to eat the brecad of idleness, we would see the class of which we are speamkinmg released from the ciicle ofeverlasting~ dlrudgery- which deoprives thema of the privilege of relax. ation ihr a dayv, and tho time which they would glvily dlevotle to thei ma1: tormual educmation of thei chih'.re. From this life the~ gis ii *.r day learn to shin k, noi' t heeai i th are lazy, buit because they k;,o w they are to be sacrificed.- Not biecusei they do not wish to becomeo his nmistress, nmid of-all-work, niurse and biootjac-k. Now the foundation of all this wrong is thumt avaricious spirit handed downm by father to son, which makes the dollar the str dado espectability, and land the on ysoreof happiness. We hope to see the day when the farmer's wife shall share in the peacefulness and in dependence of the farmer's lot, and we call upon the .ladies to engage in the re form themselves, and to teach the lords of the~soil, that there is something to live. for besides potatoes, and that life cars be enjoyed more 'truly -by a proper presevation of the health, beauty, ac complishments and good spirits of their comnpaions.-Sp>ringfield Republican. This pieture does not suit Carolina Some fair citizen of Yankee Land how. over may have had the misfortune to sit for it. En. BAN. TILE IlORsE's EYE.--Examine the eye first, when the horse stands with his head to the manger. Look care fully at the pupil of the eye, in the horse; itis of an oblong form; carry the size of the pupil in your mind, then turn the horse. about, bring him to a bright light, and if the pupil of the eye contracts, and appears much snal ler than it was in the darker light, then you may be sure the horse has a strong good eye; but provided the pupil re mains nearly the same size as it ap peared in the darker light, the horse has a weak eye, therefore have noting to do withhim.--Old Almanac. CLAIB GYANCY--SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. The following extraordinary state ment is poached fm- hv the Maniebestr Guardian as comling fro:l an flilcr of the Royal Navy and of re'iable authei ticity. As it was published several days previous to the arrival of the True Love, it furnishes one cf the most won derful illustrations of the uses aual pow er of mesmerism that can'be conceived, to such as place confidence in the state ment: From the Manchester Gunerdinw. "Sir: In the Manchester Guardian of Saturday last (29th September,) you have insertel a short notice of inquiries recently made of the Bolton clairvoy ant respecting the fate of Sir John 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, therefore, though with some reluctance, to cominmunicate the real fiets to you in detail. If disbelieved, their publication cau do no harm; and if ever so little credited, they are rather encouraging than otherwise. "Being cast into a mesmeric state, then this woman asserted iositively that Sir John Franklin is still alive, ald now Com)paatively. well. Ile has un dergone great hardshii1p, but has over come ther, and is inl good hope of "et tinig to England in nine months and a half, provided no unfrioreseen accident ocens. The differcnce bet ween the ap parent time where he is and at IBolton is nearly six hours, indicating a dilfer enee of longitude of fr-omt 85 to .0C. And anfter-wards, whenr asked, being still mi thre mnesmerie state, to endeac~vor to ploint oni the map w here lie i.3, she puts her inger:.ci on the linrthn west shde of 1Inid sorn's, Bay, which is no' t ver-v fihr frem this longi:ude, though thre inap being oni a var-v smuall scale, arnd ver-y incon. venriently bound uip, ini a volumre of the Penny Cyclopaetdia. arnd required he her to be reCsted or heri hec~ll, not heI ohreye, andi( thusr reversedI, no veryv precise indication coubhl bo s-i obtained.c "'As sire is pecrfectlyV uninisti-ucted. and unatble even to reld or wrte it seems searcely possible to supp~~ose tha t shre can know anythitig of maeps wha t evei-; and, further, thre inldicat in thius obtai ned, hothb by diffe.-ren ce of tim ndi i lher hrer poinltini! oni the marip, took thre by-standlers quite by sutri-rise-. They had trot the least ia of looking for Sir Johntr int tis dhirecti'on. And if his ships ,have beenr w recked or abatndon-r ed oni the west of lothtia or towardis Victoria Lanrd, it is possile, though it many aip pia to uIs unlikely,- thant Ihe may, 'have tr-i''d to return to the east ward'of B~oo-' thia, whiebc, whe hr'irle dep ard, was suippos-I to li e u islaind. And~ if hie suicceeded.,( in toere.ni the v i-y gre-at djllicuilties whin-b iro have atene .nh rote)l, ih IZ 2re lV the i. r\eiionfin whet if l: e d i:u Andfnhe~if e gt i s l~ih t!If hate in the. s( i'In to sai e th:e Huidson's ay, 'it tl Sa sridtinit shrip, lies o";'t Iimnlu10s1'itn wounld natur ialv be, tha t lie wouil' ibe dietained till the eisuinig sp-rig, Iwhich wvouhld jurst mnake up the ninre months specified before ho expected to he in Engrlanrd; this per-iod rnot hnavinig ben ivo by thre clairvovant ins a um.o phecy, but as the impression on her mind, with which she professed to have some mysterious means of communica tion. "It is true that she said he had only three persons with him; but other par ties of his men are following in the same direction, though some way separated from him. She saw also tho shells (dead bodies) of others in diffcrent postures under the snow.' And she de-. scribed graphically enough the deer, wild cattle, wild men, and rough tang. led forest that she -psased in going to him, with an animal striped down the back and sides, which leaps very far, and may be the panther or wild cat. "She also professed to go and visit his shilbs, one of which she said was un der water, with very thick timbers, the other above it. And an old letter being als) possessed from Sir James Ross, she went to visit himt too. For this pur pose, she said she had to go mnch farth er. He is fast in the ice, and unable to turn his ship round, but intends re tuning to England when he can. She added that it was snowing heavily when she s3aw him him; he had not seen Sir .John Franklin. The difference be tween this apparent time and that of Bolton was nearly eight hours, corres pending to 110 deg. to 115 deg. W.; awt when required subsequently . to show the plaec on the map, site pointed to Blankes' Land altnest at once-a po sitiot full of probability. 'Sir James Ross, s'te says, is well, but much annvyed at being stopped. A:othor' shi. isn n- fIr fronm hint, and I liei:her of' thes. have sails set. But there is a thir I shir n i on:h tearer, un der sail, and corning aplarently from their directinm; her diiference of time is only two liours :ind a half. correspond trig to 3j5 degrees to 40 degrees west. (Can this be the transport sent last spring to renew their suppl es?] She mentioned the ship first herself. Only one person in the room knew that such a vessel had been sent; and, in his in terest for the principal persons concern ed,-he had not thought of the transport sent to their relief till this third ship was mentioned. "Sihe expressed great astonishment at fimling the clocks differso much, and said they should be sent to the watch maker to put them ri:;ht. She also de seribed Sir James Ross as being stout er than Sir John Franklin, and in bet ter case, (-more squash' were her words.)' Sir John's cheeks, said she are somewhat sunk through his fatigue, but his health is good, and he has now ahuidance to eat. Hler description of his persoi wauts otherwise sulliciently near, and she respectfully mentioned his being bali. 'T'hese, then, were the principal statements that were thus elicited. M:mtny other details Were added, not without interest; but this communica tion is already' too long. Itncluding the tict:OteerLZt'r, 1 ur pet Ja s were present during the most of the time they were collcctedl. 'fTies' will gain various de grees of present credit, according to the terniyeramenat of' thtose who tmay receive tthem; andl ini truth. it woubl senm pre matuo a t pre'sen t to i-laice nmuchi reli anteceon thIem, though int these. days, whI en we tiake the i lihtintg carr'zy our messag.es, andt the sun take outr portr'aits, it is very dhiticult to draw the pr'ecise line be'twixt the possible and the impos sible'. Ini any case, it wotldl be for the hi.. rest of' truth thatt ther ate reemd ed, wheco siitoni is impoessibde. I enclose inv card to atln.tutiete ttt letter; bit I do notI wvih nmy name published. "I am, sit', your most obedient ser vantt, 'M." [fui rceereneo to the precedingl1etter', we ae dsir'ous of' saying with ave of gain hg ooiniotns on the subject fro.m tiisconeotion 0, thamt weC vou~ich ihr ntothaing bieyontih e uniexceptionabtle au thority', as tj facts, aid the writer, who is ant Uthiert of rank in the royal tnavy.] EIU~diidur rGuar'dian. SA 'T A FFIAll A1 T'TIIE WIITE MOUNTlAI NS. Fr )om rI'ivaito letters I learni that a young h'n .;laum n eae N rick land , a soan " 'it Georget Str'ickIhmtd, aut cmi n.'aLnt F"i-Ith)aronet andl membe:)r of' I~ G-i at ,. nae':-i ii thle snowa~ 'an 'Ihire. .unt' t e M i :a1 . l i arri edi int thi car att u1' t onath since biniing f'* :t' noeS o'a our shmsttO dis tttina ishaai au ans, from wheti httle re eci ved e tvery attetion m. At the instance of Profesolm Agaissiz mnd othert frien,l. h". utidettook a jout'ney to thie White moutntains~.. le amttived at rte Noteh house on lnat T'u'ond. Un wna do. sirous of ascending Mount WVashingtori. Mr. Crawford,'his host, earnestly be sought him notto make. the attempt, the roads being covered with,. snow or in tercepted.in many places-by 'runletsof water which rendered travelling unsafe Mr. Strickland, imagining 'that 'Mr Crawford wanted to prevent his putting up at a rival house, turned a deaf ear to all- attempts at dissuasion. An Eng lish traveller and a guide started with, him, and they went together ats far'2tsa Mount Pleasant. Here hiscompari ions declared their intention of turning back to the Notch house. -;Strickand obstinately persisted in taking the route known as Fabyan's path, back to' the stage road. In vain did tbef remon strate and plead with him. Neither warning nor solicitation could iriduda 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 previously discov ered in a hole in the Ammrn9osuck river, where it was not more than two feet wile. 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. MJ r. Strickland was the heir to immense es tates in England. I He was a graduate of the University of Cambridge, and about thirty-five years of age. ie had commended himself, while here, to ma ny literary friends, by whom hiinad fate is much deplored.- Wash. Republic. More Bloody Work in Africa. Some time ago we gave-an account of an apparently causeless and aimless expedition against certain native towns in Africa, carried into effect by a con tsiderable English Governor of some pet ty station on the coast. In looking over a London paper, not of a very re cent date, we fell upon the annexed par 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 -1ew York Adverti 8cr. JW estern Africa.-Letters from St. Louis, (Senegal,) of the 25th July, give the details of a sunguinary engage ment which had taken place between the French trools and the inhabitants of the village of Francyez, (Fontu To ra,) some distance up the river. The people from the neighboring villages had jimed them to resist the invasion-of the French, and, encouraged by a vic ry which their countrymen had gained over the French, some forty years since, the negroes awaited the approach of theil assailants with great firinness, 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 thleir muskets were visible. A t l'mgtn the firing began, and, for twenty minutes, the mnost dleterminled resistance was made; at length, thle canl non haiving pardiy daemolished tihe bar ricades, a charge was ordIered and they were soon carried at tile point of the bay-onet, when a general rout took ;>lace, the blacks throwing away their al-mls, arnd jumping into the river to swim to thle opposite bank. Sever-al discharges of grape were made at themn, and1( a nilumber- of them wer-e killed, af ter which the village and all the fields Lt maize were set f ire to and destroy cad. Thei loss of the blacks is consider edl to hiave been very great, lhthoughI only f~fty ofthleir bodies were foamd thle rest havingr been tillOwln inito the riv(-r. Tho !oas of the exreditionu liunounited to four killed and about thir ty woundeod, Seventeenl of whlomf were Eu~ropean~s. The1 G~overn'or- himself' was wounded, but niot seriously,julst as he0 was miountinig his~ horse. MUsQUTtro Coux'rrnv. -A writer ini ho Du'>lin University Magazine thus l.'awribe~s the climato anid productions of' updliad the desciption seqa Iv r1 pliciable to Niaagua. "Thelv slauhrious anmiltd climate of Malpulto, places it far above many oth er set dements on the coast. A cool and r'tgular breeze temper-s the t(Wrrid heat; alnd, unlike most of the West India Is hInds, you are not haakedl for one hourW, and theni chilleid and enouked by a damp and muggy atmnosphere ir tihe res't of the day. T1he tclel-ature .seldom ran oy beyond 81 deg . aid ribtn tho dryoh id secs i, as at Hotduras, a bracn finvigorating 'atmosphoe rec stores alth to the body and elasticity to the spirits: r"''Musquito is blessed with a nd0 prolific soil and fertile ;ali-al .mopIld, -.' deep humero.us ra c irrigato the na and along their banls stretch vast fore is - of malog'a ,lgivnod'eder, SantxMa ria, lignumvito pine, r'osewood, caouth ehouc, copal, i-onwood and other yalu _ ; k able, timber. Groves of oranges, "r lemons, citron,tamarinds,Guaja phims aid cocanuts, arc scattered in profusion through the valleys. Over the plains and mountains, arrow root, Cassaa - ginger, yams, potatoes and sarsaparilla are indigenous. The sugar cane grow luxuriantly, sometimes' to the lengtho eighteen or twenty feet, and thc ratooifs produce a large returnfor six or eight years. Coff'ee and coeoa of-the finest;' ,' quality may be raised in any quantity - . and the soil is-equally congenial to in digo and tobacco. rice, maize, Indian cotn,back wheat and silk grass; andt iiany of our European roots, vegetables and garden stuffs have only to be plan. ted to yield a succession of crops un known in colder latitudes." From this description of the climate and wonderful variety of valuable pro duotions, the reader can form some idea of tGa of the motives of: Great Biritaini for em ploying that jesuitical policy which al. ways distinguishes her imnterfrcnce and connection with savage tribes and-semi burharous States, whose territory she covet.j. 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, > T Lake Nicaragua and the lake and river of Leon--to connect the waters of the two oceans. . Hence her attempts through the so called Mosquito "King, to gain possession of the- port of San Juan do Nicaragua' at tho mouth of the *.4' same name; the key of the whole com munication. Minesota.-There has thus far been no political division in this new 'Territo ry, but this does not suit the Deman crats who have settled therein. They . have issued a call for a "Democratioe . ". Mass Convention, to meet at Paul on - the 20th inst and draw the party lines, - - ' and the "St. Paul's Pioneer" has been brought out for that par ty. It has - hitherto been neutral The Territorial Legislature has pas sed numerous acts and resolves--the more important among them being in accordance with Governor Ramsay's suggestion. Among them is a resole tion to fine absentee members three dcl lars for each offence; a lHomestead Ex eiption bill; the temporary location of q the seat of government at St. Paul, and to erect the public building. there; t. incorporate the Minnesota Agricultural Society; to provide for a territorial rev enue; to provide against the traffic in ardent spirits with the Indians; to estab lish a system of common schools; to or- " ganize a militia system,&c. T1he Gov'ernment of the Territory is progres-ingly rapidlly. The bill to de fine the qualiication of voters is similar.-' to the Pennmsylvania law, and excludes , all but white persons. --':. CONSUMPTION OF CoTroN Goons. Tfho editor of the New Orleans Comn morcial liulletini is a good compiler or "'f statistles, and in a letter to his paper, - brings into prominent view somne inter esting factes with regard to our staple and manufactories. The following cx tracts wiUl bo found to possess some in terest: "The present consumption of cotton in the United Sta is estimated at 5,00,000 bales per anum, which is momre thtan the entire crop in 1824; hut this. is by no means a correct estimate of th,o' whole amo'unt consumned, for it includes only that portion of thoe crop which, having reached a sea-port, is oinbarked ini the statistics of the. crop, and d'oes not includle what may be 'consumed in th iurterior, and which ha~s never been . st to. a sIeapoPrt market. There are Y -p upwards of two hundr-ed and- fifty cot to'n mills to the South. of Mason and - Dixoni's line, and little'oor no por-tion of this rttou consumed by these mills ev er' comes into the estimates of the crop, and is not included in the quantity said to be consumed in the Ulmted States. Then there is a vast quantity of cotton that is sinmilarmly situated, that goes up to Mississippi and Ohio, and out frm the Tennmessee and Cumberlan'd, for th4 - supply' of thme mills in Indianat~ Ohio,