The telescope. (Columbia, S.C.) 1815-1818, October 29, 1816, Image 3
supported on a few Hticiu, h t u.< *6 allow a free
current of air between (liu mat ami the heap.
In thin way I have been enabled to preserve
put a tors quite plump, ami entire in taste, to the
cml of Sept. or till the succeeding crop lie sulll
?iently ripe to hi) used without loss > ami, loss
must always he Mistained in the quantity, when
potatoes are largely used before they In- nearly
ripe. N?v in thin way potatoes may he recov
ered in plumpness and taste when they have
jmlTer?d by injudicious exposure to air or heat,
or by necessary carriage. In July last I had oc
ca> 'tii to send some potatoes, for tho use of my
family, at sea bathing quarters, n distance of Hi
or IT miles. They were taken out of the pit,
nnd pat into a sack , but it was three or lour
days before they were sent off"; and when they
caine to be used they were found to have lost
much of their fine taste, and somewhat of thrnr
mealiness. I immediately inad?t a small pit in
the back ground belonging to *1?o house I po*.
sessi'd 5 in which when well watered the pota
to^* were put, wateied and covered as already
described. In five daytthe pit wt:a opened, anil
flic potatoes had reeowrc* both their dryness
and table.
??\ i KF.niNt; and r\rt r.N'tvt; kwixk.
't he following article is copied iVoni tlic Georg
ick l'apors for IH07; it may probably be inter
esting to some of our readers.?4* 1 was not long
hi nee at the house of a farmer in a neighboring
town, ami was pleased with his method offend
ing and fattening his swine on potatoes boiled
by steam. It was expeditious, simple ami clean.
Near the hog'a pen, was a small brick JVame
built on the ground, five or six feet in length,
open, at one end to receive the fuel, and closed
at the other, cxccpt a small chimney to convey
the smoke. An iron pot containing about ten
quarts was set in the frame and filled wit!)
water. A barret, with the bottom perforated
with holes, to admit the steam, was placed over
the pot and tilled with potatoes. The head was
placed on the top. and the edges covered w ith
a little clay tnoriar to retain the s{cam, am)
noineof it put rouud the bottom of the barrel for
the same purpose. A small quantity of fuel is
sufficient to boil a barrel.?-Tliey are boiled al-,
together by the steani which rises and pervades*
the whole mass, washes them clean ami extracts
from the skin, that bitter quality which is tasted
when they are boiled in water, and tho whole |
washing of the potatoes settles as a sediment in |
the pot. and appears of the color and consistency
of tar, after the water is evaporated.
When they are sufficiently boiled, it is known
by the steain lifting the cover and issuing out
at the edges. They are then taken out, clean
and mealy, with a shovel, put into a large tub
and worked'with ineal or t ail and put into the
troughs. Half a bushel of Indian meal is used
with a barrel of potatoes. Ten or twelvo large
hosts in flue order, consumed this quantity daily.
The above method is also undoubtedly the
best for preparing this common and very useful
root for the table, as thereby the bitter and
unwholesome quality of the skin is extracted,
which cannot he wholly separated from it when
boiled in water, and by its great dryness in this
way, it becomes u more salutary absorbent, and
palatable.
IMPROVED COW.IIOUBB.
In Glasgow, one of the curiosities shown to
strangers, and one of the greatest curiosities in
Dritain, is a cow-house, set up on his own plan,
by n Mr. Buchannan, an old but a very skilful
and successful master weaver. Iu this cow
house are kept constantly about 300 cows, iu
the neatest, most clean anil healthy order. The
house (one room) is a square building, the roof
supported in the centre by iron pillars. The
floor is boarded, washed clean and sanded. I
Small long stages, about a foot above the floor,
Are erected, each containing perhaps 20 cows, j
Those stages are just as wide as the cow is loug,i
and behind tho cow is a trough to carry away'
what falls from it. They are kept two and two
together, ore fed regularly with grass of some
kind, and watered; women attend upon them,
and groom them as men do horses, hut during
the nine months they are in milk. they never
change their situation, They live upon six
Square feet each j ~yet their skins arc always
?leek and silky, are fat and beautiful* The
moment they become di v they arc sold to the
butcher, for whom they ar?? highly fit. The
owner has a man or two travelling about the
country, purchasing new ones coming into milk i
the owner too keeps a farm, which the cows'
manure enables him todres? well. In this way
the business goes on like clock work, it being
but secondary to his weaving trade, und ha*
gone on for eight years ; no bustle, no rnnfu
sion i and he sells his grass milk for half the
price the Londoners sell the nauseous mixture,
though land is dearer than around London.
COTTON AND NT If, AH
A New-Orleans paper of Kept. 2d Hny??J* The
want of rain in goine of fl?o district* of thin Htate
and tlio Mississippi Territory, have in a cur.
tain degree, injured (he crops of cot(on : bu(,
in (he aggregate, (here will b? very large crop*,
more co((on perhaps will he railed and brought
into market thin fall and the emitting winter and
spring than ever has been in one year. Hugar
wop* will bo very abundant.
To Farmtra.?Tt in thought advisable by
Home experienced farmer* fo ntrip (he hunk* of
tho corn that in (ouc.hed by (he fros(. It will
be found upon examim?(ion (hat (he inner husk
being \"ry tcniler is 10 injured a* (o adhere to
the corn and become rotten?-(lie experiment
cannot make i( wove. The year of the great
ftickmnA was preceded by an eail> front which
?| oiled the corn. The sooner (lie husks are
opened (he better.? Vermont yn.
i Mr. Andrew Smi(h of Rutland, received,
?] M the Cattle Show at Dri^bion, the premiums
' for (he M and 2d quality ca((le, equal to $60,
< lor thi> first quality native fdieep, ft 10 j and af?
f terwanU obtained 855 extra price, in conae*!
quelle* <A (he animal* being exlra s('C.v.
?JJUU'-JUmUBJLBL
MliDICAL.'
niH TUB TKLMTOr*.
?Vr. I*orratn?Tho Iloopiog Cough, I Mnu
by (he newspapers, prevails generally through*
out Hie United States } and if reliance for the
cure is placed on a remedy, which I see co-?x
tensividy circulated in the news-papers, it mutt
l?e very fatal. I remember to have seen tlie re
cipe to which I allude in an almanack, but it
was ho absurd tliat I hardly expected an intclli*
gent editor of a news-paper would ever contri
bute to give it currency. The remedy is salt of
wormwood and cochineal. The salt of worm
wood will nut directly do harm : it will certain
ly do no good. The cochineal is only a coloring
ingredient. Now though these ingredient? are
harmless in themselves, vet they will do infinite
mischief by begetting a fulse security and pre
venting the employment of efficient remedies
I believe the presumption has occasioned the
death of hundreds ; and the printer who Arqt
gave publicity to it, perhaps only to gratify
some foolish or credulous nostrum hunter, has
much to answer for. Hooping Cough, like
small pox and other contagious disease*, must
run a cci tain courxc. Its progress cannot he ar
rested. The utmost that art can do, is to miti
ujrtto the symptoms and conduct it to n favorable
termination. Tlio lungs (the seat of the dis
ease) are the most effectually relieved by de
termining the circulation to tlio surface. We
find accordingly that an emetic (ulministercd ev
ery day, affords in most cases, astonishing re
lief. If, however, there is any inflammatory
deathesis in the system, indicated by flushing,
hard pulses and w*hitc furred tongue, &c. bleed
ing is an important remedy and should always
preccde the vomitting. I hope, Mr. Lorrain,
the reputation which your paper has acquired for
the taste and propriety of its contents, will give
some degree of authority to this attempt to re
strain the progress of a mischievous imposition.
Tl.'KSI) \ Y, OTTOnP.lt ?9, 1H1(?
r.uuriioNs.
inn Tin. sure i.un?.*Tfm:
Orangburg. John M. Kelder, Senator5 Ste
phen Curry untt llonrv M'Michael, Represen
tatives.
ForA\-?Robert Clendcnnn, Senator; Thomas
Robertson, William M'Gill uud James I)un',
Rcnresentatives.
Lauren* /Wsfricf.?William F. Downs, Rob
ert Campbell, Samuel Cunningham, Robert
Word, Representatives, I
Kingston.?Wni. H. Cirice, Senator; Willis
Ilawls, Representative.
Pendleton.?John Wilson, James C. Griflin,
Samuel A. Easloy, Col. John M'Millan, Isuiah
Kirksey, Capt. Andrew Millet, Representatives.
Marlborough.?John Evanu, Major Whit
field, Representative*. I
IVinyuw.?Major Keith, Senator; Tlmmas
R. Mitchell, Major Karr, Dr. Willis Wilkinson,
John L. Wilson, Representatives.
Ml Saint*.?Francis K. Huger, Senator j
William A. Rull, Representative.
Cites terfle Id.?Capt. M'Darrall, Senator; Col.
li'uvrv, Represciitative.
fit. //W?>m.?-Nathaniel II. Khodos, William
Uourkc. Representatives.
St. Peter*,?Major Winburn I?aughton, Sen-,
ator; Reuben Roberta, John Manor, Repre
sentatives.
Prince. William.?Gresham Smyth, John De
loach, Representatives.
HI. Lukes.?Richard B. Screven, Senator;
Win. D. Martin, Win. Hope. Representative*.
Hpurtanburgh.?Wm. Smith Senator; Samuel
Farrow, Jamo* IIunmet, Wm. Reid, and John
i Dodd, Reprc6eutnli\p.4,
} ion rov(.HRAS.
I For Charleston district,at present represented
| by Henry MiddleK-n, II. Middlrton re-elected.
I For the united districts of Colleton and Beau*
j fort, at present represented by Win. Lowndes
j ?Wm. Lownde* re-elected.
For the united district* ofGeorgetown, Horry,
Marion, Marlborough, Williamsbur^h and Dar
lington?James Krwin.
For the united districts of Fairfield, Newberry
and J<aurens, at present represented by Wui.
Woodward?Sterling Tucker elected.
For the united district# of Edgefield and Ab
beville. at present represented by John C. Cal
houn?John C. Calhoun re-elected.
For the united districts of Pendleton and
Greenville, at present represented by. John
Taylor?no return received.
For the united districts of Spnrtanbureh,
Union, York and Chester, at present represented
by Ken. Moore-?Wilson Nesbitt elected.
* Smtr rfth# P?t1 nmiott m'kii?hh? nirr
V'nk H 77 4fl) 1 a
Hoiirtuntinrfjh PI 7 4J 101? j(?
(I'C.'.r ilt?. r>ri2 5rt JS|
t'non 211 71? 112 iU
u<rr i?rr hhi .141
For the united districts of Lancaster, Ker
hliaw and Sumter, at present represented by
William May rant-?Stephen I). Miller elected.
Wp have received (says the Camden Gazette
of Oct. 24.) a letter from Wip. Mayrant, Esq.
tendering his resignation, of which tnu following
is a a copy.
*flr?te*borff, 31st Ortolier, 1816.
Sir,?The opening the Poll limes, fur this
Congressional District, speaks a language too
plain to bo mUunderHtood t By it I perceive that
my vote, In favor of the Compensation Bill, hus
tost mo tho confidence of my constituent# i not
wi?hing to represent people, whose sentiments
and feeling upon that point I cannot consistent
with my own opinions, advocate j I therefor* ro?
sign m v in ilic fourteenth Coii^fi'if!! give
tlicm u'u opportunity of electing some one wlm
may lend liift exertions to ro|ii.*at that law j to
them so odious* hut which opens the door ol
your national legislature to virtue and talent,
altho* poor, and takes from their pockets an
nually, one cent and nut quite a lull".
I am yuuiti with respect.
\VM. MAYRANT."
If it should appeur the circumstances have
not been exaggerated?if the American llajr has
bcon wantonly assailed, and tlie blood or
our brave countrymen causelessly shed?there
in but one course which this nation can pursue.
Let there bo no delay ; no time wasted in ap
peals to the Spanish court?bill let an immcdi
ale attack bo made upon some of the royal pos
sessions adjacent to our territory. We nave 110
hesitation 111 avowing tliCM? as our sentimnntj??
and such wilt doubtless become the universal
sentiments of the American people. Let us
have no negotiation j Ferdinand's officers are
himself?if they have, committed their country,
is it our fault ? The attack litis passed j let us
meet it as becomes a nation proud of its rights
and tenaceous of its honor; and not
l.ik* humble ?panielv 1 rk,
The f?i"t tlut tre:it.? un lo u kick. J'et. Int.
Treaty Commission.?The British ami Ame
rican commissioners, whose intended meeting
ut St. Andrew* has l>e?ii announced, have met,
and adjourned to May next, then to convene
in Huston. They have, we learn, made the nc-;
cossaty arrangements for procuring surveys,
and tho collection of documents and evidence;
relative to the territory in controversy. The 1
lion. Mr. Barclay has passed through town, on |
his return to New-York; and the lion. Mr.I
Holmes has proceeded to Brunswick to take
his seat in the Maina convention. Col. Austin,
one of tho agents to the conimiaMon, has return*
ed to town.?CetUincl.
A paragraph has been going the rounds of the
papers, stating, that the settlement of our
northcin boundary line, will give the United
States sixteen townships of Lower Canada, and
their fort and island, the Isle an Noix. We
have respectable authority for stating that this
report is entirely iuc rrect. Gentlemen who
are every way qualified, inform that they have
repeatedly taken observations on the spot, for
their own satisfaction, and have found that the
line, as it always lias been received, is the true
?15th degree or parallel of latitude. One of the
commissioners for Kfitlinjg this line passed thro*
town yesterday, and continued the above state
ment which induces us to give it publicity.?
Would it not be better that this and all report*
respecting this subject should bo suspended,
(ill the proper authority have decided on the
l>ouiidary question ??Portsmouth Gazette.
Unhappy Catastrophe.?Yesterday morning,
between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock, Tobias
I^ear Ksq.* accountant of the War department,
put a period to his existence, by shooting him
self through the head. We have not as vet
learnt the causes which led to the perpetration
of this unhappy deed. Mr. Lear was naturally
chccrfululm pleasant 1 011 the fatal morning, Mr.
L. breakfasted witli his family in his usual good
humor, and was proceeding as they thought to
his office, when the report of a pistil wa9heard
from tho back of the yard?Mr. Lear, son of
the deceased, immediately proceeded to the spot
from whence the sound appeared to issue, and
found his father weltering in hi* blood .?George'
tou ii paper Oct. 12
A real tragedy was exhibited at Sacket's Har
bor, a few days since, before a large company of
spectators. Attached in the show bill of a wire
dancer, appeared an advertisement of an Italian
sailor, who promised to exhibit wonderful feats,
such as the spectators had inner before seen.
Curiosity attracted a very full house. After
the first had performed his part of the enter
tainment, the sailor entered, called for a blank
et and pillow, and laid himself down upon the
floor. All eyes were turned towards him in
anxious expectation, when ho drew from his bo
som a pistol, clapped the mu/.cle to his ear, and
blew out his bfains! This closed the entertain
ment. As horrid as this deed Appears. the de
luded man who became its victim had undoubt
edly anticipated as much eclat, as lie does, who
deliberately goes out to shoot his friend, or to
lie shot?in a duel. And if there arc shades of
difference in the two crimes, the self-tnurdccr i?
the least ctiminul.?Jllbany Jlrgn*.
fiickn*$s at GantfaliHipe-?capt. Andrew*, who
arrived at Providence, ln*t week, from Point
Petre, Guadeloupe, states that, while there, he
t?aw in one day one hundred funeral*. The!
sickness continued with severity, when Cnpt.
Andrews flailed. Two of his rrew died while
in port, and one on his pussago home.?A*. I'.
Spectator.
JYbble Example.?Mijoi John Pinkerton hns
left, to cach of the two religious societies in
Londonderry, not fur from 8,000 dollar* for thr
support of the gospel j and 12,000 dollar* as a
fund to the academy l.itely incorporated in that
town by the name of Pinkerton Academy.
It may he interesting to many of our friends
to know that on the 1st of next month, Duncan
Mar line, Ksq. will re-establish the line of
mail stages between Payetteville, Camden, and
Columbia, which route has been recently inter
rupted or disused.??AW. int.
Perptrtual ?Vofi?M.~~Xntwithstanding the
numerous and signal defeats of adventurer* in
the grand scheme of perpetual motion, the Bos
ton Pntiiot inform* us that a new adventurer,
about i4 iniles from that town, is constructing
a machine, for which ho is about obtaining tet
ters patent !
Twenty spots (Mfc the 8alcm Gazette of the
Gilt inst.) were on the Sun, thrqugh a tel
escope otl Sunday last, w
? ?' ^h.
SV.\' \7t vriON i>? MAINV..
The oAiciul returns gtvo the following rent
Whole numberufvotca, ^
Five ?ninth:', 13.4HI !i
Votes fur separation, 11,1)27 r/i
Legislative deficiency, 53'i I4.
A postcript to tlio Portland Gazette of thetitli
in>;t. mentions, that the committee to wlioni the
subject was referred io con volition, have re*
ported in favor of iliu tie|?ainiiou of* the* District
itotwitliKtniidin^ the deficiency of voted, it-'- ?
i|uircd by the law. Hy the following extract of
a letter to the Kdilor of the Huston Daily Ail- jl
vurtiser, dated llruimvick, Oct. 7, IKlC, it will J8
be seen that some difficulty lms arUen as to tho,.]
construction to Ins given to tlio law for regula-'^
ting the proceedings of the convontion. " Sir? |
The convention is still kept together. Tlio .2
committee which waft agreed upon, and the list* '
handed about before the President won chosen, ;i
find it impossible as vet to understand the luw jj
or count toe vote#, although tliey were all op<Micil J
and a lint made of them in convention. It ap- '?
pears that the number of vote* wanting to mnlm |
the proportion of 5 to-J is 1223. Sonic of tho
leading reparation incu opposed this openifi;-;
and listing the vote* in convention?and indeed 4
it was probably decisive of the ultimate qucMfon. j
All manner of construction* have been given to >?
the law, but it is thought here that the honest '
men in favor of separation will prevent open ,
ft mid and violence. T'. at hus been ascertained
after a violent struggle in caucus. The Legis
lature will bu applied to again but they will
know how t<> put the (piustion upon proper
ground.*'
On the first day of November next the Light
at Charleston (S. C.) which is now a fixed one,
will be ultcred to a Revolving Light. At the
distance of 8 or 9 leagues the time of darkness
will be twico to that of light. As you approach
it the time of darkness will decrease and that of
light increase, until you get within three leagues,
when the light will not wholly disappear, but
the greatest strength of light will be as one to
forty four.
The 17. 8. Frigate Macedonian u undergoing
a thorough repair at the navy yard near llostou.
It i*.saia that she is so much decayed as to ren
der it necessary to rebuild the whole above tho
gunwale.
Kentucky Tobacco,?It is said that the cropj\
of Tobacco in Kentucky far excel any that wpro
ever before produced in that state. One letter
indeed states, that the production of thin year
wilt be ten fold greater than that of any former
year.
ACAOKMY OF IIJ K A UTS
On Saturday last arrived in this city those
celehrated Paintings of Mr. West, which for
some years past have adorned tlio walls of the
Philadelphia Academy. These Paintings at o
intended to be added to the extensive collection
now deposited in the apartments of the Ameri
can Academy of this city. We are hapny to
learn, that tlie public exhibition will probably
take place early in the ensuing xve.fiwlffetl
our citizeiiB will be gratified with a view of
many of the most valuable productions of their
distinguished countrymen. West, Trumbull,
Stewait, Alston, Leslie, and others. 11t&
Statuary belonging to this Academy is known
to be of superior value, and the Oircctors of
the Institution merit the highest praise for their
unwearied exertions in forming a united collec
tion of Stationary and Printing, which in point
of excellence is unrivalletl in this country, and
eminently calculated to diffuse a knowledge of
the principle*, and to spread a taste for tlio
practice of the Pin(} ArtB.?>V*. Y. Columbian
NOTICK.
THE 8uWrilter? hate removed the r PUY GOOD and
STATION A It Y STOItRS, into the.r new fire proof
??*!' k n?r?i-, where tliey liuve a geneval assortment of
IjUUl)!), suitable fur the present and upmrt.icliiit^ ica
sou, uiul hope to Ik: lavoicdwith n tilwreTM the public
patrnmgr. MORGAN 4c Gt'IltKY.
(Vilnmhii, Ort. 21. 45?tf
l'UltVIS, URYCK CO.
k T the Store near the State House, formerly occupied
2\. by the luto firnn of "Wm. imd IV Purvia," ai d
" Wm'. l'urvi* .mil Go."?have just rcce.vcd tlicir ?up
!>l> FALL it WINTKU GOODS,
comprising ana-Hiwirtmciitofull the Staple Articta* RC* I
! nerally wanted, which they will depone of on low tcrm??|g
i t'.tr I '.-wli, Produce at the market prite, or oil a reasonable
credit to tho?e who ore known U> l>o punctual hi irviliinfj ' >
the r payment#.
Iluv tig two Ship* in the RurnpennTrade, and intettd
:.y. ti> keep Imrit* constantly running (when the rly#pff
Will .. Im'.ti kt?ccii lliia and Charleston, tlwy will M'
aide to Mijiplr^otiutry Store-keeper*, l?y wjtotc.idc, at the
i lit.- ?oM tfowpible rates.
N. II. Tlil^wirncMly call on nil perunn* indebted to
the lute firm# of W. (i fl. Purvis, and \V. Purvm fit Co.
to <*oine firwurd and discharge their dchta out of the
the pi e-c.it crop, a* lemrer indulgence cannot he gi ?nud.
Columbia, Oct? 1ft, lHlfi 4l--6w
nU)lHWAl.S~FOH I'l'BLlsTUNG
nv ?fit?cHimoM
KF.l'QIlTS OK C, \HRS decided in the Court of Chun
. eery of the Hi.ite of Houth^tafolina, fromMw Revo
lution ne.rlv tliwn to the present time?Alto in the F/t'i:
tyC ain oi Ap|>culi?by flf'.XItY WVI. DESACftfU'HR,
Senior Judge ol the Court ol Ch..ncery, and pie-tiding
Juil A* in the Coiu l of Aiipe.d.v
Tin* work u .11 lie published in t?v> volumes ortavo,
each c*?i?t.i?i>in^r about p>gei, on gotd ptper, ami
with ii new t\;v The piniinpwdi !>e c ittr.enccd
in :? f< v week-., and will be finished a-.. pevdd; as |mhuii.
h.e , prol>.ihlv in the rour-aof'.!>c ye ?:?
The p.'.r'1 ia .ubserilHJrs w I! l-e s \ dollars for each
vo'wtic, inbr>.ird?' oi)i a modcViieadvance for e.sch vo
lume hound, if proper bind.r.jf can Ik: pronticd. The
money to he paid on the del\ei'v of t'.e S'vsks.
H'lb.nT.pt out w.ll he received at the IV.n'in --offices ft
I I'm ?k ?store in C dumbm?<md at the different Court.hou
e i hi ilieht-jte.
(INK ,CKNT URWAltl).
A1W0NIIK1) on the .lilt of Aujrtiat bit,an fndv.dcj
. young man noncd David llurigin, 14 yen . ol'apre,
S f v 6 or 7 inehe< high, fair Coniplex.crt, hhc evctt
With a blemish on the r glit, down look, >honlJer
ed, habitually addctcd to pilfering. All person* arc ;
forbidden to employ or haiwtr Mid youth, r.s fit* la*
???!? be put in f >rce pgaittst xttr.lt. ? P JlOY.
Kparfontatrj'h lt.strict, Oct. the tllf