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l.uvo been obw dhx a; . w. nvlM. H WWW no much loberogrettcd, if tho multipUoation of eol ttRMVCMto have tho contrary effect, of lowering the standard of education, or ofpre venting its progressive elevation. Let the competition among: them bo, not who shall have the meet pupil* within their wails but who ahelfaakotho best scholar*! The Commander-in-Chief having adopt ?d the mode prescribed by the Army regu lation* for Battalion Hevfew, and those not >eiag In the hand* of th. B^WRSfibn Review, nnd those not the handa of the officer* generally, I itant and Inspector General in order I hce uniformity In the practice of the Battalions throughout the State, I lied the Mlnwlno hmnos mroiigUout the State, .?? vnuscu the following extract, from the \rmy Regulation-*, to be published for the nformation of all concerned. Printer* will joaftr a favor on the Militis, by giving it a .llace in their papcri, :omplimekts Dv thocj's c.N-ncn RE VIEW. 1. A Battalion being In the order of bat le, the Commander will give the caution? Tkc Battalion wltl fireftare for Rtri'ifwi vlien the ranks will opened, In the manner n-cscribcd In the Regulation$ for the Ex rckt and Maneuvm of Infantru. 2. At the word March, the 1' icld and fcalf officers dismount; nil the company Officers, the colours, and Sergeant between hem? will advance four paccn to the front f the first rank, and place themselves op. Misite their respective positions in the order >f battle; the Surgeon's Mate, the Surgeon, 'aymatter, Quartermaster and Adjutant, >ii the right of the rank of Company Offi ers. In the order in which they are here nentloned, at intervals of n pace from < uch therj the Adjutant who is un the r Ik lit. vlll dress this entire rank, at the same time he band (if there be one) will advance brough the centre, and place itself in one -ank, mid way between the colours and the ine; the colour guard will replace the col on* and the quartermaster's sergeant and ergesnt major, in the ortler of their rank, 'ill place themselves on the right of the taut rank of the battalion. 3. The field officer* shall superintend the xcculion of these movements; nnd in giv igthc word stto.NT, the Colonel will place 'limself eight naccs, the Lieutenant Colonel ?nd Msiors ?ix paces each, i:i front of the :r*t rank, opposite their respective places ?the or?ler of bottle. 4. Willi n view to an increased front, hen the battalion is tu be reviewed singly, j le division of drummcis, with the Drum ?Isior on it* right, may be formed on t!?c | ignt of the battalion; next, the division of ionecrs, with the Corporal on it* right ;and, j istly, the Quarter Master'* Sergeant,. id Sergeant Major, on the right of the; hole. j 3. In this parade order, the battalion will i w*H the approach of the ptrsonugc who is ireview it; for whose guide, n camp colour ? ill have been placed some eighty paces in ont of tho colours, according to the extent f the line, and the plain in front of it. 0. When the reviewing personage is mid* ay between the camp colour and the Col* i?l, the latter will face about, and com* >and, BATTALION, PRESENT ARMS, rcsum g Immediately his proper front, when the hole will salute,?the la*t motion of the t'ord to coirespond with the last motion of; io fire-loc k. The drums, or baml?, will eat or piny, according to the rank of the :viewing personage; if it be the President r Vkc President of the United States, a ?arch; if the Secretary of Wat or a Major ?eneral, two ruffles; if a Brigadier Gene d,one ruffle. The regimental colours;.* >ne, will be dropped to a Brigadier Gene il; both colours, to the Secretary of War r a Major General; and nil colours or stan ards to the President or Vice President of te United State?. 7. If the reviewing officer be under the ink of Brigadier General, no compliment ill be pakl, by either the coluurs or music either will arms be presented to him, if a is inferior in rank to the commandant f the parade. Ia the latter case he will be ccelved with arms curried ft. When the reviewing personage who as halted until the proper complii re paid, advances, the Colonel win ?????? sil? pinvrr compliments re paid, advances, the Colonel will bring is sword to a carry, face to the line, ami rder, battalion, shoulder, Anxs; when he whole will remain perfectly steady, cx cpt li e Colonel, who resumes hi* proper t-ont. 9. The reviewing personage now turns ff to the right of the battalion, passes leace, in front of all tho officers to the left round the left, and behind the rank of the le closers to the right again. Whilst he passing around the battalion, i.o matter 'hat his rank, the drums or bands will play, nd When he turns off to take his sta* on, near the camp colour, the music will ease. 10. When tho music ccascs, the Colonel ill f.tto about, nndcommnnd, battalion, KAft IIAKK, CLOSE ORDER, MARCH. At tho third word, nil pcrsonr, except ie Colonel, who are in advnncc of their i oper placet. In tho order of ha-.tic, will c?s about,and at tho word march, the 'hole battalion will return to that order, the ; . oner officers re-mounting. The battalion vill then pais in review, in the manner pre* > rlked In the Negiifaliona for the exercUr id tnantuvret of Infantry. J. it. KAHLE, ? hijutant and Intfiect-jr (ienrral. Hour (i r a fit*.??? II rWm us f>len*nrr," yn Duff Ofeeri, ??to give olrrnlatlon to the ?oftpectuMOt Mr. Hagnct*? new paper, to printed *t Wellington City. There in this declaration a* mm.li *liftcrlty? ns iien a man *end* another nil invitation to it hi*throat, and nubtcrlhcthlmkcf hW most ?<M?iit tervant."--Dem. Pre*t. ,'TWa la not the flr*t Instance of nnintctli ('.'He, point!cm wit, which the Alderman h?4 formatted. It la among the proof* that " muddlettead?dne?i" hhUehtet chnrac* r-r*tfr.-?19r>. Tm.i I MP. I. 1 r~U?!?UJi.ii.H..W| WWIVWHIMiitA tHWWNVWWWV >1 FHID.W. UKPTKMbfcU IS, 18X9 4 /* <*< Adoora a>? v; ' moi?, like good citiaeoe, bolding thesafety oi u?o Union dourer than ???y Thing else, in IttW, wewjilwid to denounce the pro cvcdingii of the South, in Haiku to the Tariff; ai traitorous; and generoualy offered their services to the government to put down the factious rebels. Now sir, that tour readera generally, but luorepartiulariy those who attended thooel ebrated meeting in Baltimore nay know to what extent the friends of tbo Tariff policy are willing to go, in order lo eflbct their object, I iwqueat that you will publish in your paper, the fblowing extract from the sprech of Ralph Lock wood, Esq. dohveted before Urn American Institute, in the City ol New York. What Georgia and Bouth Car olina wished to avoid Skiing, even in de fence of their rights, it seems the TariffRee are determined to do in AutbenMM* of their oppressive system. It is to be hoped that the people of Bal timore. (i mean ofcourso the patriots and heroes) who are ever ready tofixee suhsniss (OA to the laws of their country, will at leaat bo as ready toaid Gen. Jackson in quelling '** Uiuir iwe nianuiacui *???) impoverished, but indiguant tribute rfes, of the South. If Robert Barnwell Smith became a traitor by resisting ag gression, what will the redoubtabkw of Baltimore, say of Mr. Lockwood, who re commends, a resort to arms, to continue in forcc an act which, to say too least of it, Is founded upon a doubtful power. We shall ?co. A CAROLINIAN. Extract from an add ret delivered before th'jimencan Institute, of I he c'Jy of \c\v York, July 4,1839/ by Jtal/ih Lack*vood fCtg. ftublbhed at the regueit of the Imtt tute. /lujfr 23. "II itwss possible to supposo that flic next Con grew could contaiu in itself such a number of traitors to tho manufacturing policv of the country, as to ondanger tho whole protective system; if it was possiblo to tmagino tho British interests in ue dis guise of "free trade," could find suporters enough to bring about a repeal of the sys tem, I should deoin tho country on the verge of a revolutionary precipice. I should | deem that a crisis had arrived, when it was necessary not to "calculate tho valuo of tho Union," as was tho oxprcssion of a cham pion of "Irco trade" at the 8outh, but whe ther tho rights and interests of three fourths of the Union, as well as the Union itself, could not bo maintained by thoir physical power. If their representatives could daro to betray them, it would bo time to pr ve to tho other fourth of this Union, (and the occasion would justify it) that though they might manage tho represen tatives, they could not cajole or overawe the people. They would havo tho right, and I hopo and !>oliovo they would exer ciso it, to line tho shores of our country with urius in thoir hands, and as the Brit j ish manufactures, to which thoir own had been ofR-ml up a sacrifice, should arrive, to j consign them, an our ancestors did their teas in former days to the bosom of tho , ocean. There (if I could advise) the mis tress of tho seas should Ikj sent to seek for her scattered wares, or, if she chose to do manl satisfaction from tho nation, sho could And tlicni ready on which element she ordered to receive it, by land or sea. I Surfi will Ikj tho short and only remedy I fsr the crisis, if hy possibility it should oc | cur. The Hnvtiitown (Kentucky) Herald con tains a report of a spccch which was recent ly delivered there st a Barbecue, by Mr. Clay. It contains the follo?ing passage: " He hoped that the executive and senate would not in their secrct con etaves concoct a treaty with any pow Icr by which the now flourishing indus | try ot this country should be paralyzed and prostrated. But, if they should be so for gctful of what belongs to them, and what is ) due to the people, as to ncgociate and ratify ; any such treaty, he hoped It would be re jected by the indignant voice of a free, but on the contingency of the conclusion of such a treaty, an insulted, injured and abused people." Mr. Width in his Nntional Gazette of Sept. 10, 1829, comments thus on the pre ceeding passage: "It is hardly possible Mr. Clay should bavc held this language: by which, virtually, the people are advised to infringe the constitution, and violate the national faith. The people lie under an ob ligation to obey the laws, when made and sanctioned by the regular authorities which the constitution ha? appointed to make and sanction them? and to observe and comply with such compacts n* their own servants duly empowered, huvc concluded with fo reign nations. Wi do not nnticipatc the emergency to which the orator referred; ami we protest against the doctine implied in the preceding quotation from Mr. Clay's spccch." The preecding extract irom Mr Lock wood's spcerli, we liavc ali cady published in n former Telescope: we think ft our duty to republish it, in connection with Mr. Clay'* tirade, for the purj>o*c of shewing, that we huve a ri|<ht to suspect a coalition ol tlio friends of McMm. Adams ami Clay to excite the people to absolute insurrection against the constituted authorities of the nn tion, if those .iuthoritle? should not demean themselves in conformity to the political no tions cfthe ex-president and hi* secretary, particularly in respect r.f the .imrrlran ?y? tem. As to Mr. Lock wood, we attribute bis speech to sheer folly and want of int< 1 lectj as to Mr. Clay, he was either mad at the time from disappointed ambition, or tipsy from his Uarbecue potntlon*. It may be said, that in our own paper, the Telescope, proposals of disunion have been made in case the American system should be finally fastened round the neck of the ?outh: and that Mr, Clay and his humble tribe of lawyers at lihurr, have as mueh right to recommend disunion in favor of i protecting ami prohibiting tariff, as we or our correspondents have, in opposition to fhat system of laws. Agreed, they have *o. I >f 7Wr#c<?*, preached up iru?*TtcUou mwl I civil war? Never* We havJvddand oof correspondents have xld. over and over,*... I we hope (t will again and over and over,be wii by irtand by thew, that dhankto isprefetabie to a brokoo tad violated constitution, to a system of fcvoored and priv'deged order*, fo inequality of laws, inequality of right*, ine quality of bortheaa, to aptl-Americaa aifd anti-republican systems.** whatever kind, to ?ir agriculture permanently Injure#, to themarket for our staple annihilated, to depreciated property landed and persoosjl, and to poverty stsrlng our chlldrea In the face. Wo hava said so: wcuy aot we hope our Legislature will say so, if after trial ?jf< ter trial, petition after petition, remonstrance after rffnonstanfce, %lt our efiorts to obtain juUke should be unavailing, and the yoke should be fattened and clenched on o^r necks. But which or m have ever rccommemlod Insurrection? Who in South Carolina, h i* over been an advocate of forcc? We ap peal *> our reader*, it there a man inSnudi Carolina who has ever thought of civil war, unless others should bring this calamity to our door* * No: not a man. We have u d, and 'ere long we will (trove (ay, ptwe) that If the union works njustice, any Mate may separate from that union, If sepcivtlon be felt as a duty. Noft forcibly, bat peaceably, without offering threat, insult or otTencc; upon fair and hon est, ay and upon friendly terms with tile rest of the union. Why should there bo war and quarrel, and violence ol conic it? lie sec no reason for it. On our part, It will neither be proposed, defended or pro voked. If the partnership docs not suit, us, let us quit it amicably, taking upon our selves every fair and honest liability, and responsibility. We seek no quarrel, we want no war, we will engage in nunc but such its is forccd upon us} we wiP. talis no measure, but what the coir mon nnd univer sal laws that govern contracts ?A whatever kind, and our reserved rightstt' nlei nurnwii constitution, will fully justify vj, in adopting. These are the positions whl*;h the Colum bia Tc/rico/ie will adopt lut'd defend. - Peace if we can with all the w?>rld, particularly with our neighbors. L'.t them act accord ing to their views of f,uancial expediency for their own bcncP.t; nnd if we cannot ifjree, let us sepcrat /, without ill lan};uagt, ili blood,or ill dec?',s, 'I here will be none on our ??art, unle ss ?clf defence should re luctantly coinp?;l us to resist forcible op predion by ) jstifiuhlc forrr. Whenever that necesssi *y comes, the sons of Souili Carolina wi'.l be found at their post. llut viol ?nt astiic propositionsof Mr Chi) nnd Mr. jT.ockwood appear, we are not sor ry to see them. In this country of free dis cussion, let every proposition of wlistcver kiwi be placed before the people, and de bited in the press. Public opinion will di? cide rightly when the whole of the question, under all its views and respects, shall be fully and fairly exposed, canvassed and sciutlnized. We are not afraid of truth, if it huvc fair play: and to public opinion tttus fully and fairly instructed, on this and <>n every other subject, the Teietco/ie appeals. A* Kditors ?f thlt paper we have nothing to do with any tenet or any tcctof religion or religionist*. Wc hold in rctpect the opinion* of our tubtcribcrt whatever they tarty be: they arc or ought to be, at free our own. Our butineM it newt and poli tics. If therefore, nny religious sect de part* from it* rcligiout character to hccomc political, or to embark in the trouUlesome quai rein of politicians, vo far and no iuithcr they come under the noticc of the pre**. Wc observe in many paper* particularly to the west, communication*and intimations of the determined intermeddling of tome of the leading religious tectt in tetulnr poli tics, and particularly, in a proposed renew ed nttempt to Mop the travelling of the Sunday's mail. An attempt, which wo had hoped and believed, the maattrly re|>ort of last tesdnn, brought in by Coi. Johnton of Kentucky would have tct at rest for ever. We find the missionary and bible s>>cic tic* nil und every of tltem denounced by variout congregation* of baptist* in North Cnrolina: wc find the name dcnund.itions by the body of (ierman Lutherans at Lan caster in Pennsylvania. We find meetings called of the farmer* of llui kt county Penu tylvnnin to denounce the improper political inter-meddling of the clergy: the tame meeting* of inhabitant* of the Northern Liberties for tlie sumo purposes: tuttowed up by meetings und resolutions of (lie me chanics of Philadelphia, in the Mctuiuixs Free Press. What docs all th'<* mean* I* it worth the while of the reverend gentlemen of any denomination to interfere in politics at all? Does it not tend to lessen tho high retpcct which they would otherwise receive? I* it not nn imprudent interference \o *ay the best oi it? Wc put llieic questions, very respectfully and in rwkI faith, being per suaded tiiat the cause of religkn it one thing?of *erul:ir politic* another: thnt they ought to be kept free and separate?perfect ly distinct from each othet: and wc submit thcte notions with great dcfercnte to all concerned. TAIUFF VKKACITY (From the N. Y. Mrr?'?mlle Adt*rll?#r.] In ywir ptiwr of this 1st ins!. I notice an extinct of a letter from Auguata, com n ten rlitorjr of the talent* and rmarcli of Mr. BurcMM, Member of OonimM from R. Island, and wtaUn* that he eatiniuten the liome consumption of cotton at 900,000 bale*, or 70 million*of pound*. "Q"mIui if jrou can eonfirm that statement, and "how much cotton mi consumed in inland 1894, according to Matkew Carey, and how rnich in I9M and IWT, according to the ?m 176,000 bales annually? S32&S??f,h "*1>u """ Tho charges havo been rang on 100 to 900,000 batea lor Um bat four years, always in bold assertion and round number*, wlulo any refutation or double expressed of their iaes| atalee, "the hocus dssaond is apial to oae-fifth part tho crop, and Increasiug." "Oct ^ 1890.?If the manufactures of the United States bo at jrncut 170,000, or 09 millions of pounds, wT nearly rival Ptanoe, and manfaciure about l-Otb as much as all Europe Imports." Nov. 11,1990.?"The home Mtfket cou Msrch 94,1827.?"It is well known thai our own manufacturers were the chief pur chasers in tho early part of last season: we expect that they will require 400,000 bale* in from 0 to 10 years, unloss destroyed by some suicidnl (>olicy; when tlioy shall reach tliat quantity, about 160,000 bales will bo made into goods for tho foreign market," ' Juno 101827.?"Tho present consump tion (of Cotton) in the U. 8. is supposed to bo at tho rate of 170 or 900,000 bales. Unlaw tho hopes of our manufacturers Khali ho blasted by their neglect to comment/the policy which those plaood in authority, by them, slutl! pursue the amount manufac tured at homo will soon exceed that requi site for both Franco and Switzerland" (in 1820 estimate at 230,000 bales." Oct. 13, 1827.?"Whether it is wisoor just to withdraw their support from faithful and long tried publlo servants, who fester and protect a system which creates a home demand for 200,000 bales of our Cotton." "Is it nothing totho Cotton Planters that nearly 1th of their whole crop has its mar ket at homo!" "Cotton yarn and coarse cotton goods are now cheaper in tho United States, than England.' Nov. 24.?"In tlio present ycartho mills will use about 70 millions, and before 1630 upwards of 100 millions, unless some suici dnl policy hliould be adopted by (Tonffrese. What a market is hero created! 70 millions at 10 cents, is 7 millions (of dollars)?a comfortable sum placed beyond the reach of foreign regulations." "Cotton twist No. 20, in England, is 40 c, in tho U. S. 32 c?a difference of 20 por cent. l>ec. 16, 1820.?"In two yoars more, cal icos may be profitably exported to England for consumption there." These assertions ami predictions are partly Mr. Nilos's and partly the llarrris convontion's?and equally merit the con fidence of tho cotton planter, the manufac turer and tho community. Thoy are de ceptive and f'altteiouM, and over have boon. And of Mr. llurgcs's round numlwrs of 200,000, I want soino hotter evidence than that of its emanating from a representa tive oven of the great manufacturing state of Rhode Island. ?luiu on Uiu Mitijccl ot CMtimatCM, l?y which those who placed cunAdvnco in them have Im'cii ko egrogiounly the Huflcrero hinco thu famoun Liverpool circulars of 182*2 aud I si), I call to your notico ^publication from thu OoHton Commercial ftacetto, (in thu Daily Advertiser of 12th July, 1828,) in which the writer as*ert* it "to ho within IkmiihU." Take the consumption for all Huropc in 1828, at 1,176,000 halo of Cotton, tho import fromtho United State* 670,000, Brazil* 176,000, Ecypt and E. and W. In die* 126,000, in 079,000, leave* 190,000 hale* (deficient) which "conxumpUon will out run the supply." "The fact in connexion with the pros pect* of 1820, an to tho supplv and demand lor Cotton, will, we apprvnend, cau*c a considerable advance on the May price* in England, which wo think, hill we main tained or probably augmented during the year 1829> Tho nrophqey of the above i* about on a par with those of Mr. Niles, and the liar rinhurg Convention. When will Th.'ori?ts and Speculators of ovcutN, learn wimlom from oxneriencot A ('OTTON 8P1NNKR. Wo have at times been inculpated by our friends, and often by our enemies, for harshness and coarseness of language to ward the prominent defenders of the Tariff policy. We plead guilty. It in too true that we have occasionally been tempted, a gamut tho rule* of prudence and politonesa, to call things by their right names, when tho wrong name came to u? In tho appearand* and with tho tasto of a dose of physic. Wo pray daily, in orth&lox lan guage, "lead um not into temptation;" but do what we will, temptation is ftilly deter mined to break in upon our best resolutions and put our good temper and forbearance to a severe test. For instance, Wo beg our readers to |>eru*o carefully the preceding list of exaggerated quotations purposely manufactured, to suit the base purposes <if the "American System;" Wo ask our readers if these are not wilful ml* 'oltca, committrd fur fraudulent purposes! We ask our readers, what is a wilful mis take thus contrived! We ask our readers, what is the epithet dun to Mr. Burgess and Mr. Nilos, if things aro to bo called by their right nainesl Wo ask our readers, what epithet wo deserve, if our politeness leads us, or misleads us, to call things by their tvronjf names. 1 Colonization fhrirty.-? Wc have been honored with a couple of Kssnyt in bchntf of this society, by the old veteran in the cause of monopolies and absurdities. "Ham ilton." F.very Ixxly knows this to he Mat thnv Carry of Philadelphia?a man who draws soheavlly upon his imagination for fact* and for reatonin/f, upon all Questions of na tional Interest that he is not worthy of any notice from any body whose object it truth. We hare no other reply to make to hit figures ami tallies and extracts and docu ments* than that it is remarkable the South em people sltould know so little lest about their own domestic institutions, and their own interests In relation to them than Mat then* Carey Mr. B??si the Governor, 1 Mr. John BorowlofChesU r nrMMiteil n litillkw fof tk who bold it Imm^ to yield obedience to law In certain particulars. At for In to terve onjur+w, and they tefuse to serve on juries. In general decline taking the oath of allegi ance. Many of then, however, nrt in other 4 respects exemplary cltbcnt, and not n few dbtingubhed themselves in the revolution ary war. Hb Excellency's Utter ought X think to satisfy U?t respectable body of there nan be no oftnee against Ood snd hb religion In yielding it a hearty and prompt obcdicnco whilst, they are In the constant enjoyment of its protection. Plane Hill, 25M Aug. Mr or.An sir.? 1 have received your letter enclosing the petition of John Sprowl, praying a remission of the fine imposed for his refusal to serve on c jui v, from religious scruples. lie who enjoys the protection of the laws, must obey (hem. It would be n convenient religion these hard times which would teach as a mo ral truth that a man ought not to pay hb mtofc ' The limitation to religious freedom by our constitution seems to be entirely in conformi ty with the principles laid down by the great lounder of Christianity, "render to Cissar the thing* tliut ait- Cssnar's and to God the things that arc God's. *' A* it is the incident of every sovereignty to protect It* own juriMliction', the law mutt decide wh it are the rights of the terrestrial sover eign and leave the couit of heaven hereafter to sustain its rights. As the petitioner would expect hit fellow citiscnsto act as jury men were lib tempo r.d rights invaded, I think it nothing but fair he should pay the fine hs a tribute to the law, for the preservation ?>oth of his right* of property and right of conscience. Your* with grtat irgard, STEPHEN D. MILLER. [With a great deal of pleasure we spread the following communication from one of our most practical, cnterptislng, wusible, and patriotic citizens, before the readers of the Telescope. We beg the attention of cnch of them to it, und invite them to use our columns freely, for the purpose of diffus ing or obtaining information upon n subject, which promises to be of great importance to South Carolina; which at all events, de serves a fair, nnd earnest investigation. We thank our correspondent for the lavor which he has done ui in occupying a |?or tion of (Mir columns so murh more profitably to the public than we could have done; and wc will add, that lie could not gratify us more than to continue Ids communications. VVc have the means of answering one or wo of the interrogatories of our corrcspon lent. During the year ending 30th of Septcm t?er 1828 there were imfiorted into the Uni te*: States 297,4.3 gallon* of oil, valued ?t 140,627 dollar*: 1,691,353 poundsof tallow, valued at 105,930 dollars; candle*, 399,569 pound*, vnlue, 28,866 -dollars; the most of this last wu exported. During the mine time there were ex ft or ted from the United State*, (of their do mestic production) a> follows: OIL. Spermsctii, pilaris, 297,276* value, J1W),4C0 Wlisl*k.otherfnli,?* 48A<468, value, 140,879 785,744 330,948 In addition to this there were exported o| Spermaceti Candles, 904,597 pound*, value, 255,378 dollar*. The amount of tonnage employed in the fisheries for the tame period of tihic van 24,278 tons. An able friend hat furnished u? with the information which follow* thro observa tions. At a future time we may add some thing more,?Ed. Trl ] To the Jiditor of the Tele?to/te. I cannot doubt that you have seen the ac count, sometime since published in a Pe tersburg!) paper, of the machine invented for hulling cotton seed. If my Hopes have not deceived my judgment, on the conse quences which may result from this discove ry, it is n subject of just surprise, that its immediate importance to the southern state*, has induced no notice of it, by the editors of their public prints. Every one wlio has had any thing to do with cotton seed, knows it contain* ? great deal of oil. Mritiy persons have, from time to time, made efforts to extratt the oil; I .imong them, more than fifteen year* since, but to no valuable purpose. The thought had never oeenred to me, th.?t it might be hulled, like rice, so as to seperntr the ker nels which contain all the oil. This is now accomplished by Messrs. Pollet and Smith, with all the facility, an to attendance and execution, of grinding corn. Their inven tion, as I understand it, consists of n granite cylinder, revolving within convex pices of the same substance, faced ami placed in a particular manner. A hopper, over the stones, supplies the seed; a wire seive, un der It, seperafta the hull from the kernel, drnplng through n curiVnt of air, from n wind fan, is delivered clean and ready for the press. Every thousand pounds of green seed cot ton will yield thirty bushels of seed; three bushels of seed, will turn out one bushel of kernels, nnd one bushel of kernels (by a certificate from Mr. Gideon Palmer, of New London county, Connecticut, now en gaged In expressing h) two gallons nf oil. This, In its raw state, ha* been long known to be only a little inferior to Rax seed oil, i>r all purpeeea to which this last la applied. Th? price, trttr ralne and ornament which sbel U paint oil i rn very valuable, at I Cdoce atteotJoni the { of It, however, will probably be for ight and machinery, If it can ba nadend lettable for those objects, without too much tapensc, of which I have no reason yet to Mr. Charlts E. Ruggles of New York ia? obtained a patent for refining otla, both uilmal and vegltable of every kind, which I have been told I* ?? rapid and sura." Ho kitweo the hemela and cottonseed ell at Mr. Palmer** mill and says, he can-make t a'good oil for lampa and machinery, by extracting the glutenous qualities it contains. He has sold the right of his invention for he State of Connecticut;a pretty good in Mention of its value. He Is new refining common oils successfully In New York* These are some of the circumstances, on whicht I have flattered myself that a new ind general source of hoomcb opening go a Mir abused country, and may probably be con tillered by yon, as entitled to yoerfttteq* lion. To discover new resourcee of the state; to point to pa the of prosperity not yet trodden, altho' not as animating, as to lead the charge of political conflict, Is not lesi sppropt lute to your profession, end may leave as nhiding consolations to a heart, like your*, alive to the pnbllo piospetky. I presume, therefore, I am net abont to ask e reluctant service of you. As one of your readers, then, 1 shall be very glad to see the result of such reflections and enquiries, sc easy to you, at you may be disposed to give In relation to the grneral viewa this subject may present; and particularly, as the rela tive value of cotton*seed oil, compered with other ?Us, nnd the quantity which, may b< produced in the southern country. Yot are near the source of great knowledge) and pomlhly, at a word, might have all yen) question* answered! perhaps, either fot practical objects, or as an amusement, b) ehimlcal experiments, U may have been ai re'<\y sat isCoctoiily tested, how far the glut enous matter, In snnie vegitable and othei oils, may lie extracted, so as to render them suitable for lamps and machinery, without deducting too much from their quantity *oi the process being too expensive. Tell u whence comes the oil, now.gene rally use< for lamps and machinery? How man] thou?ands arc appropriated by Cengres for Light-Housesalone? Whst does it cos the city of Charleston and Columbia to llgh thrir streets.* What number of gallons ar annually imported? How many whale men fitted out? How many lives risked What scat and oceans vexed to procure Hf Oil for lamps and machinery has become a great, increasing and necessary article of consumption, every where. If the enter prising Yankee's find it profitable to ex plore all the waters of the mighty deep for it, absurd Indeed would tt be in us, to suffer our exhaustlesa stock, lying, as it were at every man's door, from which we may oU tain it, to remain longer unemployed!! For myself, these enquiries might have been made privately, you can scarcely be at a loss to conjecture why I prefer to see them spread before the public, ? I believe our cot ton-seed, which has hith erto been used only as manure, may be converted into oil and sold ?t a great profit; certain I am, if you will instruct the cottoo planter how he may add ten dollars value to the labor, which now produces him a bale of cotton, you will do him a great favor and be, moreover, the conductor of a reasonable reward, to the inventors of n machine which will protmbly rank. In the cotton country, second only to Whitney's glnn. A COTTON PLANTER, flfr. AVi/or?About 33 years ago Dr. Geo. Hunter, Chrmist and Druggist of South Second-street, Philadelphia, having made some experiments on the oil of cotton seed, thought it worth" while to remove to New Orleans, where he carried two steam engines purchased by him from Olivet Evans, the one for the purpose of grinding cotton seed, the other to be employed in the manufacture rf white lead. I believe when he Arrived there, he did not find the place if? well suited to hi- purposes as he expect* ed, nnd he did nte set up his intended manu factory. He died there about ten years ngn. Ills widow and family I believe reside there yet. Afterwards nbout 181ft Col. Clark the ingenious inventor of the method of working itoats ngdnst a current by the agency of the current itself, made some experiments on the oil of cotton seed (or horning in lamps, lie brought some tome, ami we burnt it in comparison with some Spermncetioil. The cotton seed oil wan decidedly the best. I believe the common prnccse of freeing oil from muciliige, is,boiling it with sulphu ric acid and water, drawing it off, and then exposing it in glass vessels to the action o( the light for Komc months. Ily this means, 1 know it is greatly improved i whether any nmte expeditious or economical process is now used for the purpose I cannot say. The New Kugland patent I am not ac quainted with. I have no doubt of the superiority of cot ton seed, to linseed or the seed of the sun* flower for the purpose of obtaining oil of good quality at a cheaper rate* and I hope it will be tried. Yours, T. C. 8m?I was very glad to road in the Inst Telescope, a communication full of good sense, sound argument, ami genuine south em feeling*. signed 1j9w*pk* f rolling up