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' .. . i From the Mother's Magazine. J PARENTAL RESPONSIBILITY. There is in human nature, a strong pro- ( pensity to throw olf individual responsibili- , *y, and exonerate ourselves Iron) those , tiell-denying duties, which cost a strug- ( gle to perforin. W o have no fears that , maternal influence or obligation, will re- , ceive more attention than is due a subject . -of such vita! importance, one so intimate- j Jy connected with the best interests of , present and future generations; and ulti- " inately, with the renovation of the corld. t But there is danger that paternal respon- ( sibility will in a measure be overlooked, j or at least undervalued. That fathers may . feel themselves disburdened oftheir obligalions, by the recent efforts to bring mothers to a proper estimation of this influence, and to induce them to come fully up to x those high and holy duties imposed on t them by nature and the word of God. While providence has assigned to the < "mother, a station nearest the heart of her < ofFspring; while upon her is conferred the | honor of stamping the first impressions on -f ~ - t *? I? _ I the mind ot uitaucy; wnue sue aionc pos- j sesses that patient, untiring love, which f imparts line upon line, and precept upon t precept;?the same providence has consti- t tuted the father the execut' i head of his f -household ; and clothed him with power: J to command, aad authority to enforce j obedicucc. There is a dignify in his! name, a might of influence in his charac-. ter, that should most effectually co-opc- j rate with the mother in her tender assidui-; tics; and her difficult and arduous duties which are essentially requisite to the prop- j cr moral training of an immortal being for O O this world, and the world to come. It was for the neglect of this paternal re- c sponsibility, that Kli received those fearful and appalling denunciations from God, i . .. i u 1.- .U-- r~ WDlcn "SI10UIU HUIKC uuui UJU cats ui oury j one that heard it to tingle"?and the only t reasou assigned by the pen of inspiration j lor the terrific execution of those fearful j judgments, was, that "Eli's sons made ( themselves vi/c, and lie restrained them j not." The whole history conspires to s prove that it was in Eli's power to have j restrained his sons from wickedness, and ( prevented those awful results which fol-, ( lowed his neglect. That it was his indispensable duty to thus restrain them, and . that God who looketh on the heart, by t whom uctions are weighed, punished him 4or the sinful neglect of a known duty, and , .held the father responsible for ail the tre- * mendous consequences of his children's , sins. The sentence denounced against ( Eli, is of the most direct and personal . character?Jehovah charges the guilt on , him, "wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice, , and mine offering which I have command- ( ed,and bonorest thy sons above i?c?? , Behold, I will out off thine arm, and thou , dao on onpmv in mv habitation? for CUttJl aww ?**# VMW*?.j mmm ---j ? - I have told him that I will judge his house . forever for the iniquity that he knoiceth, be- j cause his sons made themselves vile, and ; . he restrained them not." There was, to be sure, a triple obligation resting on Eli: ^ ?As High Priest, he was bound to watch j over the purity of the institutions & worship , of the God of Israel; as magistrate, he was , to punish offenders, even though that of- J fender was his child; as parent, he owed it to himself, his family, and commnity, , to train up his children in the way they should go:?and by all these sacred and .endearing relations,he was under the high- ! est possible obligations to restrain his ^ children from those overt acts of wickedness by which the Lord's people were made to transgress, so that men abhorred the offering of the Lord, many were deterred from public worship, and religious 1 instruction, and consequently from repentance and eternal life, through his instrumentality. Eli* by his sinful neglect of duty to his children spread ruin over the nf (Ind. n.airon)nr( Ilia fllilHrftn's -- ^'V.v,i,vvw ...V- ? happiness, respectability, aud usefulness in this life, and destroyed their souls,? planted thorns in his own dying pillow, and embalmed his name in everlasting disgrace. The glory deported from Israel, the "Daughter of Philistia triumphed," and ho died of terror and grief. Like many parents, both ancient and modem, Eli practised upon the persuasive system of family government; he thought coercive measures to secure obedience was severe, and unnecessary; be hoped to talk them into compliance with his wishes; he told them their faults?the reports that reached his cars of their evil dealings; he expostulated with them, "why do ye so w ickedly?" he argued at length with thein on the nature and consequences of their sins against God; but having neglected the proper time for parental restraint and correction, he had lost his influence, lus sons did not respect him, and would no hear,?God had already given them up t( to their own hearts' lusts?it was too late Their unsubdued tempers, their unrestrained passions, had gathered strength un der this wicked indulgence, and like tht pent waters of an ice-bound river, burs over all these feeble inefficient barriers and poured u flood of iniquity over the land,?the consequences of which couk not now be stayed?the guilt of which restcd fearfully on his aged shoulders, and could not be expiated by offering nor sacrilice, or averted by bitter repentance 01 fervent prayer. The sword of retributive justice would now pursue his posterity, and consume them in the vigor of manhood, the tlower of their age; the IlighPriestliood would be wrested from them, r?nil frit-on Ia :i Imlior hrmoli nf llio \nrnn. ic family, and Eli's domestic character held tip to future ages as a beacon to warn them of the fatal effects of paternal neglect. And ure there no Elis at the present Jay, who may, in this dark and fearful mirror, see their own image reflected? no minister of the altar, who, front indolence, jr mistaken fondness, disregard the commands and authority of Clod, and suffer heir children to grow up without correction 3r restraint, till, too late, they discover :hat they have fostered the unholy propensities and headstrong passions of the cor. -opt heart, and formed characteristics in :heir children, which will bring disgrace mi their memories, and consume their learts with grief, and their eyes with tears, .n.l /l.tn>n tluu. nfJU Il'llfC ll'ltll tfir. &11U uun il 1111,11 l>i??t HUM g ivimi wvi *ow to the grave? And is the sin of not restraining your chil'ren, less offensive to God now, than in lie days of Eli ? Arc the effects of un estrained jiropcnsities less pernicious to the temporal and eternal interests of the :hild, or less deleterious in its influence >n the community ? The word of God, mill in precept and example, is full, clear ind decisive on this subject, and past experience, with the wail of ages, breaks rcsii on the car, as present evidence? hat the tremendous responsibility rests on iverv one who has been honored by the onguc of lisping infancy with the name ol Ait her. RiKAL ECOXOPIY. Analysis of Soils. fFrom tho Genessue Farmer." It has been given us the golden rule in igriculture. "To use such manures as vill make heavy land lighter, light land teavier, cold land hotter, and hot land :older;" or in other words to remedy the .InA.nt t.-liri 1 iivn r fl,nf m;lV l?? ..\15Ulli; II imiv.vi WW n order to do this we must know what hat defect is ; we must understand the laturc of the soil we arc to operate upon, n order to determine whether this or tiiat wind of manure is to be applied, or wheth;r a large or a small quantity is needed to )riug the proportions of the soil to the standard of fertility. It is therefore of iinjortance that the farmer should be uo juainted with the nature and proportions if the constituents of soils ; that he should ;no\v what those proportions are in such is are most fertile ; and also what they ire in the soil which he has to cultivate, rhis cannot ho determined with any decree of accuracy hut by analysis. Another consideration in favour of analysis of soils, is, that it will substitute pre:ision of language for the very indefinite ind unsatisfactory mode of expression tvhjch now prevails. Thus for instance, I.ntu-nnn <1 ontJilll T1 lift II AW iVJll u vui.UJ ...... .. :layty loam, often does not depend so much upon certain proportions of clay and sand, as upon the quality of the soil ?f the place where the term is issued. Iu 1 sandy region of the country, a soil mighl be termed clayey, while the same soil in ii clayey region would be called sandy. Another instance : a large c rop of some grain or vegetable is raised ; the success is principally owing to the nature of the soil; but unless the proportions of its ingredients are given precisely, instead oi describing its qualities by indefinite expressions, we are ut a loss to know liovs to imitate those proportions. The constituents of soils which more particularly influence their fertility, are these : 1. Slones and pebbles.?These generally have little other effect than to keep the lAA..n on/1 nnrmii! nc (li/iu irA ll>?ll:l)l\ 3V4i IUU?3C UI1U |h/i uo iuv.^ ui v hard and unchanging. Sometimes, how ever, they, absorb and retain water am also disintegrate and mix with the fine parts of the soil. 2- Silicious mat I tr.?This is common ly in the form of line and coarse sand Soils where this predominates arc little in jured by water, having little attraction fo it, and retaining it fceblv. They nevci winter kill wheat. 3. Aluminous mailer.?This is the pre dominant constituent of clay soils. Unli!;< the preceding.it has a powerful attractioi for water, and retains it strongly ; henc< clay will remain long suspended in wate while sand sinks immediately. Alumin ous soils sutfer from too inqch wet, am bake hafd in a dry season. 4. Carbonate of h'we.-r-This exists ii the form of limestone, chalk, and shells It is a principal constituent of marl. Soil; which have a due proportion of this ingrc dient, are naturally fertile and durable in i high degree. 5. Animal ty vegetable substances -Thesi improve the soil by operating in so vera ways. They give wannth to the soil, fur liish nutriment directly to the plant, ubsorl moisture and nutritious substances fion t the air, and render the soil loose and pre) scive it in a state of pulverization. 6. Water.?The power soils possess of i retaining moisture enables them to resist 1 - the effects of drought. In analysis, the : i quantity of water held by soils after being ] t exposed to the sun's rays, is that only 1 , which is considered as forming a compo- ' i cent part of them. I 1 The following method of analysing ^ soils, or ascertaining the proportions of 1 I their component parts, is, if carefully con- 1 ducted, sufficiently accurate for all practi- j1 ' cal purposes. c Specimens of the soil should be taken , about three inches below the surface, and from the average of the field. A conve nient quantity to experiment upon, after > stones are separated, is about 400 grains. ( 1. Separate by two sieves all the stones f and pebbles ; with one, those larger than a quarter of an inch in diameter, and with ( llw* nthr>r th?i<n Jp??. To pffi'pt this, the soil must be well dried in the sun and gent- ( 1 y bruised in a mortar. Then ascertain t by weighing, the rate per cent, each bears j to the original mass and note it down. t 2. The soil after weighing is then placed ( in a crucible and heated ten or fifteen j minutes to n temperature of about 300 ? Fahrenheit, constantly stirring it; and if ( a thermometer is not used, the proper degree of heat may be easily ascertained by t means of the wooden rod with which it is c stirred ; while the colour of the wood re- r mains unchanged it is not too hot, but as c soon as it begins to become brown, the 1, process must be stopped. It is then again ! t weighed, and thc loss is set down as wa- j j ter. j i 3. It is next returned to the crucible, j e and exposed to u high red heat, till no ; { blackness remains in it, repeatedly stirring j it with an iron rod so as to expose new ! c surfaces continually to the air. It is again f t weighed, and the loss denotes the amount > p of animal and readable mailer. ! I 4. Mix the remainder with three or tour t times its weight of water, stir it thorough- t ly for several minutes, until it is intimately jj diffused, and then suffer it to rest. The coarse sand will fall to the bottom of the vessel in about a minute, the finer in two 1 s or three minutes. The liquid is then j}, poured off into another vessel, the sand ! ^ dried and weighed, and its quantity noted i e down as silicious soil, j r 5. The decanted liquid is suffered to i ^ stand till it settles and becomes clear; it! i is then poured otf, and the sediment dried j e at a red heat, weighed, and set down as aluminous soil. a 6. Tlio presence of rarbonnte of lime in soil, (which is generally in small quan- j 0 \ : - 1:1.. 1 u.. i ill iVJCs?y lb iimci iuiiiuu uy puui h'q o upon it muriatic acid diluted with water, j f It* it contains carbonate of lime an cf- < a fervcsceuce immediately takes place in a , jj greater or less degree, according to the | n quantity. To ascertain the proportion of ? this ingredient, place a new portion of the soil in a glass vessel, and ascertain its c weight; aiso determine the weight of about; r a gill of diluteJ muriatic acid, and place j jj weights in one side of the scales to balance j. them both; then pour on the muriatic acid. ; n In three hours, all the carbonic acid from 1 p the carbonate of lime will have been driv- i d en oti', and after blowing it out of the vessel ascertain the loss of weight. Then as 22 i.s to 50, so is this loss to the amount | of carbonate of lime in tiic soil.* It may be important to be able to detect sulphate of lime (gypsum) in soils, though i it is not generally looked upon as a com- t! , ponent part. The following is Sir II. ii Davy's method : A given weight of soil g must be heated rod for half an hour in a j o , crucible mixed with one-third of powder- t r charcoal. The mixture must be boiled for L I u quarter of an hour, in halfa pint of water,' \ ( and the liquid passed tlirough a filter, and ' c ^ exposed fur some days to the air in an | c , open vessel. If any considerable quantity , t of gypsum exist in the soil, a white prccipi- ; t , tate will gradually form in the liquid, and N . the weight of it will indicate the proportion, j j ; The most fertile soils are those which j j contain a proper proportion of the different I ( - ingredients. The following arc the proper- L ( tions of a rich alluvial soii, given by Sir ( , John Sinclair as the most fertile for ( grasses. Silcw, (including stones and sand) t parts, alumine 7, carbonate of lime 6, t [ animal and vegetable matter 9. It also ( contained one part in 200 of gypsum, j The proportions agree very nearly with * those given by Professor Eaton of the best i ' river alluvion near Troy, (N. Y.) These ( ' were, Silcx, (including stones and pebbles) ' 75, alumine 7, carbonate of lime 3, decomposed animal and vegetaale matter 11, solu- ' r bio salts 1, water 3, A soil whose consti. tucnts approach these, cannot be unprodue- | tivc in any climate. The minuteness of the division of the -- - 4 parts of soil greatly influences its qualities. | j r In the first part of the above soils 185 parts J r only out of 400 could be separated by a | very fine sieve. Poor soils often have 300 ! { parts out of 400, of coarse materials, - The ultraetion which soils have for wa1 tor, so as to remain suspended in it when ] 3 mixed with it, also influences their qualities J 1 r According to Eaton, when any ?oil, or any ! * * portion of it, will remain suspended in wa- [1 J tcr over four fours, wheat sown iu it is of- 1 I ten " winter killed." Tlip river allufvion I 1 (above given) settled clear in two hours. ' * A clay alluvion of the following composi- ' * tion did not settle till 36 hours: silicious I - soil 48, alymnmous 39, carbonate of lime * ? 2, soluble salts 2, animal and vegetable J matter 5, water 7. * m I. ,1 ' I W 1 ? 1 9 | * Where accuracy id required, or whero the < proportion ?>f carbonate of lime is large, the limo , must bo deducted from the eilex, and the weight * the carbonic from the animal and vegetable 1 i matter. ^ In determining the standard proportions for a good soil, it must be remembered, that as different plants have different systems of roots, branches and leaves, they flourish best in different soils; bulbous rooted plants need a looser and lighter soil than fibrous rooted ; and plants having only short fibrous roots, demand a firmer soil than such as have long, and deep tap roots. It may also be observed, that a rainy region of the country needs a light soil, while i dry one needs a rich retentive soil, in orJer to prevent too much wet in the one lase, and drought in the other. A Silk Growing Country. [From the Northampton Courier.] France is considered a silk growing muntry, yet she does not grow sufficient or her own manufactures, and it is said, innually imports raw silk to the amount if $6,000,000. England, owing to the humidity of her dimatc, cannot raise the worms to advan1 j* ? age, ana lor ner numerous manufactories s obliged annually to import the raw raa* erial from other countries to the amount )f $17,000,000. It is stated that we im>ort annually of raw silk to the amount of tbout 10,000,000, and of the rnanufaclur;d over sixteen millions. Unless the United States push the culure of the mulberry and raising the co- j :oons, beyond any thing now in operation nuny long years must intervene, before we an supply the demand of our own marLets. Inhabiting as we do one of the >est climates in the world for mauufactur- j ng silk of the best quality, instead of payng ten millions of dollars uimnallv to othO ^ ir nations for the raw material, we ought o export two or three times that amount. It is said our imports of silk stuffs exced our export of bread stuffs?why is his ? Only because we do not duly apireciate and improve the means we ha"e. i.ct our intelligent farmers be convinced hat the silk business is profitable, and hen we can hope that every exertion will ie made to extend the cultivation of the nutberry and raising of cocoons. It is a matter of regret, that any one hould view the subject as a wild project nd say, that although it may he a good tusiness for a few years, if found lucrative, very body will engage in it, and glut and uin the market. We wish the subject could >e so represented to our fellow-citizens, as o impress them with the importance of ixamining the subject, on the broad scale if greater national importance than an v gricultural subject ever yet pursued. But if doubts and fears shall remain, we inly ask thern to commence the culture f the mulberry on a limited scale for a I ewyeais, not to interfere with auy other grioultural pursuit. Let the experiment e made upon some of our almost barien nd useless portions of poor, dry, stony ;ravelly soil. It may be asked, if the silk business an be made more profitable than any rop, why not take the best and richest md ? A fair question indeed, but such ind is not best for the Chinese mulberry, nd it would be desirable to have every atch of poor, waste, dry land devoted to orne useful purpose. From the Georgetown Union. Georgetown Harbor?Georgetown and Che raw Rail Road. As Paris is France, so as to Banks and heir stock,?Kail Roads and their stock; L seems intended, by the good folks of the ;reat city, Charleston shall be South Car' i _ .1. 11 1 iima. lmmeuiaiciy aner me itevoiuuou, lie soil of the upper Districts could not >e brought into profitable use. There vas scurely a marketable staple. The apital was naturally confined to the low country ; and, consequently, the characer of funded stock and Bank stock holIcn was restricted to Chareston and its 'icinity. Such a result could not then lave been a muttor of surprise or a probeni difficult to solve. But, since the suc:cssful, the eminently successful cultivaion of Cotton, perhaps during 1835-G, comparatively superior to that of the Western States, it must, to evrrv reflecting liind,' have been a matter of profound asonishment, that not only had no poor Cracker a share in a Bank; but he was concent to remain, through his Factors, a mere 1 J _ !>_*?! C lCpCUUt'lJl UII 111U li(lUA5 ui viiauudiuu* Perhaps this circumstance is to be ac- I :ountcd for, in the delusion created In' :hcBankof the State. Its project and , plan were well calculated to produce in contented and unambitious minds a feeling, the result of which would uaturallv jc the growing of cotton to buy negroes, ind the buying negroes to grow cotton ; jr, to use a hoiucly but expressive phrase, 4 to carry all our eggs iti one basket." Such, it is believed, has not been the case iu Georgia. Perhaps it may be said he has erred as much on the side of creating Banks as South Carolina has in so wholly abstaining from chartering them in her upper districts; but possibly, however great may have been the inconveniences site has sustained, they are more than counterbalanced by tlm benefits that young and rising State has derived. This ippears pretty evident, and in all probability will soon appear more so, in the prospect Georgia now and hereafter will ;>njoy, of having the two most important Kail Roads iu the South laid down through her territory ; when, without great exertion on the part of South Carolina, the whole of its territory East of the Broad, will, in all probability , in this age of improvement, be without any work of the kind. Until the Bank, cam multo laboret was erected at Columbia, the monied interests of the middle and upper country had no deposit for their spare cash out of the great city. The cotton buyers at Columbia, Camden and Cheraw, were dependent on the Factors, who, as stockholders, commission men, and sometimes as speculators, were deriving a truly manifold advantage from this monopoly. Hence the Columbia Bank had to sustain one defeat, before it could obtain legislative sanction. Hard was the battle it had to tight with the Bank of the State, aided, in fact, by all the Banks and . inonied interests of Charleston?these aided also by the Factors?and, thus combined, was then formed as virtual a monopoly, as ever existed in the days of commercial darkness. Too great an independence of these liberal gentry would have been witnessed, if country Banks, formed out of the capital and sustained by the confidence of the community, had been established. W ith their capital paper, they would have become ilie means of euabling the country I <. . i 1 mercuams to uuy couon j auu, ui tut; same time, of circulating to a large amount and a very useful and extensive profit, the paper issued on the faith and credit of their immediate neighbours and fellow citizens. To such feelings and motives mnv be attributed the slow progress which Camden made in obtainingeven a Branch of the Stale Bank. Also the difficulties experienced by Columbia, in procuring a charter, a difficulty equally experienced by Chcraw and Camden in similar applications?the latter liked to have failed altogether, for her charter was only had in consequence of the high favor iu which Hamburg was held by the Executive; and had not this been the case, the whole of the banking capital of the country above and just below the falls, would have been confined to the State Banks at Camden and Columbia and the chartered Banks of Columbia and Cheraw. Charleston can get charter upon charter and charter after charter; but, as was i r*% i i I_.a . ..A - opcnjy avowed in i^oiumuia lasi wimer, on the subject of the management of an Insurance office, the Crackers were, it is presumed, supposed to be ignorant of the principles on which a Bank was to be conducted, and therefore must depend on their superiors, the lords of the great city ; & in this way, with the exception of Georgetown, the whole of the Eastern section of the Slate was to depend on the Branch at Camden with a capital of $400,000?and, that of Charleston extended to an amount so great, as to ena lethe Mother'Bank to enlarge its accommodation to the already well accommodated low country, to the amount ol $?t'/3U,4U/ o/, ueaucung $120,200 27 for bills and notes in suit? the latter, it is presumed, a comparatively larger sum than is in suit in Georgetown ; and for which enormous crime, a large, wealthy and important District has not only been deprived of a Bank; but, in the splenetic efforts, to injure indirectly, if not directly, the Eastern sections of the State, the monied interests of Charleston, have actually, with all their "honied" expressions of attachment to their own beloved city, thrown the whole Pee Den country into the hands of New York?for now, that it has a Bank, Cheraw is hut an "Outpost" of the "Great Emporium;" and should Georgetown succeed in improving her Harbour and erecting a Rail Road front Cheraw, and continue to receive the benefits of the navigation of the Pee Dee, tiiere is no doubt a much larger portion of cotton will be shipped to New York, and an infinitely larger mass of dry goods brought into Eastern South Carolina, than possibly can ba at present. The words "710 doubt" are used under the strongest conviction that the Harbour can be improved, so as to admit 14 feet?and. if this deoth can be ob tained, there is perhaps n fair prospect that still greater can %be produced. But a draft of only 13 feet will suffice for a coasting or a West India trade ; and this depth, those cognizant of the subject, think, can most assuredly be attained. \ Such are a few of the ideas which strike the mind on a consideration of the leading facts on the subject. A necessary result is the modus operandi. But, before we allude to this, we will revert to Doc. 1G9 II. II. sess. 1835-G, by which, if a route surveyed, mapped, and prepared by Col. Lang for a Iload, from Portsmouth, Ohio,toLixville Mountain,near Morgantown N. C. with but little alteration, be adopted, it can be easily made subservient, not only, lirstto a lock &dam navigation of the Yad. kin and Pee Dee, and Catawba, Waterec and Santee; but, to a Hail Road down the banks of either river?one of which would, of course, be subservient to the mirr?ncn nfflfhlincr to till? Stimulus of Uiak 0 ing Georgetown a sea-port of importance ?especially, if a Road be first laid dowi] from Clieraw to the sea board. We car speak from the knewledge of the most influeucial persons on ihe Pee Dee, when we say, that from Clieraw and above, there h> as fine a site for a Rail Road, as is to be found in the habitable world. ( To he continued.) YADKIN AND PEE DEE RAIL ROAD. From the N. C. Watchman, June 18. In point of fertility, industry and resources generally, the valley of the Yadkin can vie proudly with any portion of the globe. In the application of this large amount ol money, this section cannot lightly be passed by; but we should make our claims known. We should ascertain facts?the amount of produce in a given scope?the distance and profile of practicable routes? the convenience, quality &c. of materials. For this purpose committees should be appointed to gather the necessary statistics. Not only that, we should invite the cc-operation of the people on such route as our meeting inay determine to espouse, and we i should, in addition to our ordinary repre- . sentation, send special delegates from all the counties on the designated line. This last named measure will not be necessary until we know whether the law passes. The other suggestions ought to be carried out at any rate. We presume that in the mighty tide of improvement this country wiU have ! some untertaking for facilitating her travel to market, whether ihe money comes from the Treasury or from the pockets of private entd!$fcjp&. Such information then as may be gathered from a free discussion and full examination of the subject cow, will be-of the utmost service on such future occasion- *. ' We are glad to know that every individual of the community, to whom the matter hits | been presented, has warmly adopted the I uiuimxtinn nn/1 tlmf rnintlomm nf" fltnPrl. | MIJU knv*fc gVUiiVtllvia v? ??-j-"? encc and ability will enter into the measure with zeal and energy. To the Farmer especially, this is a mutter of great importance?it is proposed more than to double his estate by the operation of money about | to be thrown into our laps?all that is ask! ed is, that he shall show a reasonable degree of sensibility to the subject. We hope, therefore, that every man, who has an acre of land aud a plough, or weeding hoe, will give us his countenance on this occasion. __ * >."? As it has now become probable that Congress will pass the bill to distribute the surplus revenue among the States, and as our ?:n .1 i__ :,!_j own omie win mus ue proviueu wiu? means of executing important works for the internal improvement of the country, it be- 4 comes the part ofa prudent forecast to urge the claims ofour community to a participation of the benefit that may be expected to accrue from this source. A Public Meeting will therefore take place at Salisbury, on the 4th of July next to ' consult and agree upon the proper mea- : j sures for connecting Salisbury, by means of a Rail Rad, with some important market. A general attendance of the citizens is request* ~ cd. MANY CITIZENS. Salisbury, June 18,1830. To light a candle at both ends is a sure-^^H way to burn it out soon?so, to commence j a work at two places, each individual directj ing his efforts towards one centre, is a cer| tain method of completion, as certain as in j this case would be its perfect and profitable condition, a proof of which is to be seen in the fact, that the Charleston Company, for "passage money of troops and ordinary travellers received 82,316 38 in obo day, exclusive of downward freight and passengers." Therefore, it is with infinite satisfaction we sec the people of Rowan at last aroused to the necessity of acting on this important subject?especially, if tlse wealthy influential, and intelligent citizens of Waccamaw will unite with them in as active u course of operations, at the mouth as they propose at the source of the Yadkin. If' this be the case there is no reason why we should not eventually see a perfect and profitable communication between Georgetown' and Mount Pleasant, at the mouth of thw Kenhawa, by both Rail Road and Lock and' uain iia?i^aiiui!? T!i?re will be little or no difficulty in exth-er passing up the Buuks of tlie Kenhawa;: or, in a union with some of the work? whichVirginia will complete to bring the commerce of the Valley to the harbours of the Chesapeake. -Hence, it will be no great matter of presumption, If, by a co-operationwith Virginia, we suppose ourselves landed in the vicinity of Rockford, N. and proceed from thence to Salisbury; and, thence passing down by Hendersonton, Blakely,Wadesboro', Snecdsboro', Chesterfield C. il. or Cheraw, Darlington aud Kingstree, arrive safely at Georgetown. At Salisbury we eventually should cross with the road from Yorkviile, Charlotte &c.?at Darlington with that alluded to in Document 1TSV Sess. 1834-5, page 51, and stated as passj ing thro' Barnwell, Sumpterville, Darling-ton, Ilarleesville, S. C., Fayetteville, &c. in N. C. to Norfolk?so that with a connec tion of the Yadkin & Tee Dee Kail Koad with those of Virginia and others that must Ik; laid down in N. and S. Carolina, there is little doubt it would be as useful and profitable a work as any that is to be formed. If a Sage from Charleston should deride the idea, because Georgetown is not as capacious a harbor as that of Charleston, it is 1 only necessary to observe, that, situated as is the provision market in the west, rendered cxhorbitanily high from the immense emigration to that quarter; it will be long: 1 before they have a quantity of provisions tospare?also, that if they had, such is the su1 pcrior consumption and more prompt and ' lucrative market of the dense population of the North, it will be always well to take it ! there first.?Again, that the prohibition ro 1 export to the West Indies,will, 'till this imi pediment is removed, compel all provision, whether of meat or breadstuffs? to pass to ~ ? 1 < -? - /l. mm.' i the ^t. JLawrence?nnu, lusuy, uwi, mj , nothing of the patronage of New York) ? for an export of produce,.provisions, or for coasting purposes, a port of 12 feet is nfeuv i !y, if not quite equal to one of 17; but" what I is most wanted in this section of country is I a Road, which, mcndcring through it, will convey the provisions which con be spared , and do come from the west, to those who want it. The scheme of amassing it in a bulk at Charleston or any where else, is * perfectly ludjerous; but, to the vistoas of Charleston there is no cod. Selfishness bis i there erected its throne; and no possible i idea seems to be entertained of thekdvan* > tage of freedom of intercourse; and, that