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keep them properly. Get your pastures all wei! set in grass; and so divided that you can have a constant succession of pasturage. Make all arrangements for an abundant supply of winter food, not forgetting to prepare suitable shelter for their comfort and their protection against the storms. And then get your determination well fortitied to give them unremitting attention at all seasons. Don't buy cattle and promise yourselves to get ready afterwards ; it won't do. There's no joking with the belly, and as little with the belly of a cow as aBy other animal Durham if cattle kept no better th3n the native stock, are little superior to the latter, except as propagators^ofa progeny, which with good keep, may be made perfect at will. In hardihood, wo believe them inferior to the common stock; they cannot, like the latter, "work for nothing and find themselves," nor give milk anl make fle6h without food. But only give both breeds high keep and full feed, and the difference in the Durhams is amazing. In comparison, the scrubs look like the lean kine of Egypt. We have many young acquaintances to whom we particularly address these suggestions ; ana they will promote their solid interests by appreciating them. And there are a number of youug friends in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, to whom we can impart some new and valuable information in relatio* to the pedigrees of Durham cattle? a subject of great concern just now, and properly so. Vvc communicate the information through the Franklin Farmer, to 6ave the labor of answering separately their inquiries, and for the further purpose of enlightening many more who would otherwise very probably seek it by private correspondence. So we save labor and postage. It is this.- In stating at due length the genealogy or descent of a high bred cattle, it is clearly understood that, however unexceptionable the pedigree, and however pure the blood of male and female ancestry, tne corn cross is a necessary and indispensable requisite to the perfection of the particular individuals named in the record. And if the pedigree of an animal shows him well descended from pure ancestry, the addition o that cross will make him a perfect specimen of a well bred race. Every animal to whose pedigree this cross cannot be added, should be rejected as a vile scrub. AGRICULTURAL PERIODICALS IN THE UNITED STATES. From the Genessee Farmer. Twenty years since there was but a single periodical in this country devoted to the great interests of agriculture ; and though much talent and ability was displayed by the conductor, it barely existed through some two or three of ifs first years.? This paper was the American Far mtr, published by J. S. Skinner, Esq. at Baltimore. In a country where ten-twelfths of the inhabitants were farmers,?a country that supported some five or six hundred political pflpers,?the propriety of a single agricultural journal, was by many considered problematical. The experiment succeed ed, howover, and the ultility of the paper was so obvious, and its benefit to the com. munity so great, that it was soon placed on a firm basis. After issuing some seven, teen or eighteen years it wts discontinued, or rather issued under a new name. After the American Farmer was established firm, ly, the Plough Boy was commenced at Aibany, by S. Southwick, Esq,, and was the means of diffusing much valuable infor. mation, and exciting inquiry and emulation among farmers. From some cause the Plough Boy did not receive the encouragement such a work required, and after a publication for a few years was finally discontinued. Another Journal, well conducted and rendering the cause of agriculture much service, was established in 1828, at New York, by S. Fleet, Esq., which was discontinued by the publisher in the gieat fire at New York in 1832. This journal was the New York Farmer. We have mentioned these pioneer journals, not only because they were the first, or among the first in time in this country, but b cause they did much towards convincing agriculturists that the system of cultivating the soil in this country was miserably deficient, that great improvements might be made in the preparation of implements, in the man. agement of manures, and in the general order of a farm; and none were so perfect in the business as not to be capable of being instruc.'ed. They conviuced many that agriculture was of itself one of the noblest o?sciences, that knowledge was essential to its successful pursuits, and that no man was born a farmer any more than a lawyer, physician, or divine. In giving a catalogue of existing agricul. tural periodicals in this country, we shall, so tar as we are able, notice them according to the time they have been published, merely stating ttiat the number we have before us, admonishes us that we must be brief in our estimate of their charucter and merit, where time has admitted of development in these respects. The New England Farmer is the oldest of our existing agricultural publications. It has reached its seventeenth volume; and bids fair we think to run a long career ot usefulness. Mr. Fessenden was its former able conductor; on his death it came un* der the supervision of the talented Commissionerof Agriculture for Massachusetts, the Rev. Henry Colman, and the great ad vantage he enjoys in virtue of his office, are made subservient to ihe general diffusion of sound agricultural knowledge through the Farmer, ns well us his annua! reports. The N. E. Farmer is published in the quarto form, weekly, at $2 50 per annum. The Southern Agriculturist is the next on our list, the first number of the twelfth volume being now before us. It is published at Charleson, S. C. editor B. R. Carroll, in monthly numbers of about fifty pages, at $5 00 per annum. It is well conducted, but principally devoted to the culture of southern productions, as cotton, rice, sugar, &c., and affords many interesting examples of the amount and profits of slave labor, compared with that of the free cultivator of the soil. Our own paper, the Genessee Farmer, is next. The Weekly Farmer has reached the ninth volume, and the monthly farmer the fourth. Both are in the quarto form, the first containing eight and the last sixteen pages each number. Weekly $2 00,1 Monthly 50 cents per annum. Of its j character and merits we shall be excused from speaking, any further than to say, that il if is intended for circulation through our it wlio!e country; that we design it shall at fi least equal, in practical utility, any similar u publication in tiie United States; and that o a most rapidly increasing circulation con- J; vinces us that our exertions are not unappreciated by our farming brethren. c The Farmers' Register, published at Pe. 11! i tersburg, Va., is a monthly periodical of 04 a pages at $5 00 per annum ; edi or, Ed- r mund Ruffin. The Register stands de- t servedly in the front rank of American r agricultural papers. The industry of the I edi or, his sound practical views, his ac| quaintance with the principles that govern r j vegetation, as developed in his valuable [ | Essay on Lime as a manure, and his free- a i dom of all cant and humbug, have uni:cd s \ to give the Register a deservedly high charj actor, which we trust it will long sustain.? r Such periodicals, while they contribute to t knowledge, elevate the profession of the farmer, and do much towards placing him ( in the commanding position to which the ( paramount utility of his avocation entitles him. The Register has reached its seventh 1 volume. < The Maine Farmer is a valuable journal, t published at Winthrop in Maine, by Mr. j Holmes, weekly, quarto, at 82 00 per an- i num. It has entered upon its seventh vol- i ume. In one respect the Maine Farmer l differs from any agricultural paper with i which we are acquained. It has a legal j department, devoted to the discussion of < such questions as are apt to arise among t farmers, and which may be exceeding use- ( ful in preventing expensive lawsuits among \ neighbors. < The Farmer and Gardener of Baltimore editit< d by IS. P. Kob?rts, is tno wortny s successor of the American Farmer, which 1 we have mentioned as the earliest agricuL tural periodical in (tie United States. It is f weekly, quaito, and furnished at $2 50 per ( annum. No paper in the country has done more for the silk cause than the Farmer, s and few understand the matter in all i:s 1 bearings than the able editor of that Jour? i nal. The Farmer has also taken a lively interest in the production of improved cattle < and sheep, and in this way has rendered j essential aid to the cause of agriculture * ? The Yankee Farmer, Portland, Muine, j weekly, quarto, S VV. Cole, editor, now in its fifth volume, $2 a year. , The Ohio Farmer, S. Medary, editor, is . the name of a quaro, semi-monthly journal, 1 published at Columbus, Ohio, Si 00 per ( annum. It has, like the preceedtng, reach- , ed its fifth volume. This journal has given many valuable original papers on subjects connected with farming and horticulture, 1 and has evidently exerted a most favorable influence on the agriculture of the vicinity. The Magazine of Horticulture and Bo. ' tarty, is a Boston monthly publication, cdi- ' ted by C. M. Hovcy, of which the object is 1 sufficiently indicated by the tide. It is { eminently useful to the florist and gardener, 1 and contuins engravings occasionally of rare ' and curious plants. The terms are S-3 00 per annum ; forty pages in a number. The Albany Cultivatort conducted by J Jesse Buel, h ?s just entered upon its fifth 1 year, under flattering auspices. It is pub- 1 hshed monthly, 10 pages quarto, at 81 00 ? per annum. The well known talent and t indjstry of the editor, and his rare combi- < nation of scientific and practical knowledge i in matters relating to agriculture, have given ? the Cultivator a high character and standing i among agr cultural periodicals. Its circu- ? lation is extensive. ? The Franklin Farmer, published at Frankfort, Ky., by F. D. Pe.it, weekly, | quarto, at $2 00 per annum, is one of the < mo3t spirited und ably conducted journals \ west of the Allegany mountains. In every | thing relating to the improvement of cattle . and swine, it is without a rivul, and on the < general topics of agriculturo it has done j much to introduce a more scientic and ra? j tional system into that State. It is now in ? its second volume. The Farmers' Cabinet, is published j monthly at Philadelphia, by , i:i . numbers of 32 pages octavo, at $1 00 per , annum. It is an excellent work, has an , able corps of contribuiors, and a good cir- < culation. A part of Pennsylvania furnish- j es some of the best specimens of farming in 1 the United States; and the diffusion of such , works as the Cabinet among an industrious , population will have a tendency to greatly j increase the number of such examples. The Indiana Farmer, is published week j ly at Indianapolis, at $2 50 per annum, j quarto, by Osoorn & Willets ; and though not exclusively devoted ,o agriculture, h.is exerted a favorable influence on the farming community of that flourishing State. I \ The Tennessee Farmer, Jonesboro', 16 ' pages octavo, monthly, at $1 00 per an \ | iium, J. t . JJeadericK, editor, i nis is me , first agricultural paper issued in Tennessee, 1 and is now in its third volume. The Rural Repository is a monthly re. , print of agricultural works of standard me. j rit, ("entire, compiled, abridged and origi. nal.") It is published at New-York, 40 , large octavo pages monthly, by S. Fleet, , former editor of the New-York Farmer.? . The talents of the editor, and the ample field before him for selection, gives the pro- . mise of an excellent work ; and the num. bers already before the public, (the second , volume is entered upon) show that any , reasonable expectations will not be dis- , appointed. ( ( The Silk Culturist, the first and a very i j valuable publication on that subject,?teas 1 published at Hartford, (Conn.) for three < years?and we believe it is still continued at I Weathersfield, though we have not seen i: 1 for the last year. 1 The Practical Farmer, Mechatiicsburg, i (Pa.,) a monthly quarto of eight pages, at '* $1 a year. 1 i * Mr. Skinner has again taken the editorial ' department of this paper as our readers have been | informed and restored tin original name, the ( American Farmer, and we are much pleased to , learn that the subscription list is rapidly increas. iug. Fp. Ch. Gazette. < American Turf Register and Sporting Magazine ?This Magazine has entered on s tenth volume, and has been transferred rom Baltimore 10 New.York, and is now nder the supervision of T. 0. Porter. Esq. f the 44 Spirit of the Times monthly ocivo $5 a year. None of the following publications have ompleted their first volume, and many of hem have but just appeared. To express i definite opinion respecting such, would in nosl cases boo premature act; but some of hem come forward under such auspices as o lead to high expectationsfroin their oircuation among the agricultural community. The Micma, Farmer, quarto, semi, nonthly, #2 00 per annum, David Clayton, >ublisher. A respeetacle paper we think, ind devoted to agriculture and the kindred iciences." Vol. 1. No. 7. Western Farmer, Franklin, (Tenn.) nonthly, quarto, (4 pages) F. Moore, edi? or. Si per uunum. Vol. 1. No. 7. The Cumberland Farmer, Gallatin, Tenn.,) monthly at Si a year. Vol. 1, No. >. J. A. Browning & Co., publishers. Farmers' Monthly Visiter, Concord, Vew.Hampshire, Hon. Is^ac Hill, editor, juarto, 16 pages, well got up, and published it 75 cents per annum. This monthly pa>er we are led to believe is destined to take i high rank among agricultural periodical ^ ind we think it speaks well for the cause et he farmer, when men who have attained to some of the highest oltices ?n tne gui ui mo leople, ore willing to devote their talents ind the information they must havo acquired, o the diffusion of agrirul ural knowledge. jov, Hill's Monthly V s'ter, we predict, vill be a welcome guest with thousands of >ur farmers. Wisconsin Culturist, Milwaukee, Wisconlin Territory, semi-m ntnly, $1 per annum. IV. P. Proudfif, editor. The National Si/k Worm, quarto, (4 lages) Philadelphia, price ?1. Thomas C. Jlark, ediior. Cheshire Farmer, Kerne, New-Hamp.hire, quarto, monthly, 50 cents annually, 3. Cooke, editor. A good little paper and vorthy of patronage. Michigan, Agriculturist, Detroit, H. H. Snelling, editor, quarto, weekly, pr'ce $2 00 )er annum. It is a valuable paper, and ihould receive an ample support from the armers of that young but flourishing State. The Maine Cultivator. 4 pages quarto, flnllowell, W. A. Drew,.*ditor, SI a year. It s edited with much ability, and the only Jrawback with which we hail its appearince, arises from the circumstance that Maine already possesses two excellent agricultural papers, and we fear that there is lot room for a third. The Farmers' Advocate, Jamestown, North-Carohna, 8vo. 16 pages, semi-month, y, $1 25 per annum. John Sherwood, edL or. Mr. Sherwood deserves credit for getling up an agricultural paper in that section Df the Uni'ed States, and the informa[ion his work diffuses will not be without its effect oil the agriculture of the State. Boston Cultivator, Boston ; vol. 1. No. 15 ; weekly, folio, $2 00 per annum, Wm^ 1 - ?*? -J!.? 'Pi.!. h,a rlniikt nnl LJliCKminSXT, euuur. x ins, uuuui iiui will be a valuable paper, though we are una. )le to perceive the particular necessity for mother agricultural paper in that city, where he ..round has been so 'ong and ably oc. rupied by the Ncw.Kngiand Farmer. The lumbers already issued evince agricultural skill, and a proper spirit of enterprise. There s a little leaninrr, however. ?nt, which should, we think, be eschewed is out of place in such a journal. The American Si/k Grower, octavo, (16 japes) Burlington, N J., Cheney & Broth. .ts, editors, monthly, $]. This is one ol he best publications devoted to the silk cub :ure in the United States ; embracing a jreat variety of practical articles, the result :>f experience in this country. It is got up ilso in very good style, and must be useful o all who are entering upon the culture of silk. Journat of the American Silk Society. Baltimore, mon'hly, 40 pages octavo, $2 jer annum, J. S. Skinner, editor. This is a work of authority, published under the directionjand patronage of the American Silk Society, and well edited, if the three numbers isssued may serve as a specimen. There can be no doubt that the silk culture must succeed in this country, but whether societies will advance it more effectually ban individual enterprise, remains to be seen. Such publications cannot, however ae otherwise than userul, as directing labor nto proper channels, and thus preventing nktnkr*s and dissaDDointment in the outset. We have thus brieffly noticed our agri. MilturnI periodicals, and if we have omitted my, will endeavor to give them a place anDther time. The list amounts to thirty-two, and nearly one half of the whole are still in their first year. There are probably 1,500,000 families in the United States that are devoted to agriculture, and that each of ihese should take a paper designed to sup. port their interests cannot well be denied. There would seem then to be room for as many or even more papers, such as we have noticed, than arc now issued, but that even ill these can succeed, is to say the least nroblematieal. It mny be doubted whether all the above papers circula:o more than 100,000 copies, and of these three-fourths of he whole are issued bv some five or six of he journals. A paper devoted to agriculure, to the arts or sciences, or even to literature, occupies very different ground from a political journal; and it by no means fol. lows that, because every county supports nne or two of the latter, that the same will be done by the former. To render the first what they should be requires the combined labors and observations of a large circle of individuals ; men of scientific resources, and men of practical skill ; acquainted with the modes of agricultural or mechanical manipulation, as well as the theories on which their business is based, and their labors and efforts directed to produce a com. mon result. To multiply journals of any kind beyond the means of adequate remuneration, is to lessen the incentives to emula. tion and excellence ; an 1 we cannot but i think that if in some of newly established journals, the material furnished them, had been poured into some of the already exis_ ting channels of communication with the farming community, it would havp been well for both. While wecordia ly welcome every new laborer to the agricultural field, we feel bound to state that in order to make an agricultural journal useful, difficul ies and labors of which the uninitiated are incompetent to judge, will in all probability be encountered, before the success, which we trust is in store for them, will be effectually secured. "THE CROSS TIMBER," IN TEXAS. Fr?m the Red Lander, San Augustine ot I March 30. The Cross Timber is a coniinuous series of forests extending from the woody region at the sources of the Trinity, in a direct line north across the interminable prairies of northern Texas, and the Ozark territory to the southern bank of the Arkans?s river. This belt of timber varies in width from 5 to 50 miles. Between the Trinity and Red river is generally from five to nine miles wide, and is so remarkably straight and regular that it appears to be a work of art. ; When viewed from the ad joining prairies on the east or west, it appears in the distance like an immense wall of woods, stretching from south to north in a straight line, the extremities | of which are lost in the horizon. There appears to be no pecul arity in the surface of the ground over which the Cross Timber passes, to distinguish it from the suiface of the adjoining country ; but where the country is level tho region traversed by ihe Cross Timber is level; where it is undulating, and where it is hilly, that also is uneven, conforming in every respect to the general fea'urcs of the adjoining country. The trees composing these forests are not distinguishable by any peculiarity from thoso which are occasionally found in the adjoining prairies, or in the bottoms b >rdering the streams which inters"Ct the Cross Timber. Oak, hickory, elm, white oak, post oak, holly, and other trees are found in it. The elm is often found in it growing luxuriantly fur from any stream and in apparently poor and sandy soil.? The blackjack, a species of oak, is found throughout its whole extent from the Arkansas to the "Black Jack Ridge," at the sources of the Trinity. The Cross Timber in its general direc tion does not perceptible vary from the true meridian. Dr. Irion informed us that, a few years since, he accompanied a party j of surveyors, who measured a line exten* ding forty miles due south, from the bank of Red river, near the Cross Timber; and found to their surprise, that the western border of the Cross Timber continued parallel with this line through the whole distance. As might naturally be supposed, the Cross Timber forms the great landmark of the western prairies; and the Indians and hunt?r?, whep describing their route across i the country, in their various expeditions, refer to the Cross Timber, as the naviga_ tors of Europe refer to the meridian of Greenwich. If they wish 10 furnish a sketch of the route taken in any expedition, they first draw a line representing the Cross Timber, and another representing the route taken, intersecting the former.? Thus a simple but correct map of the uf vwunirjr traversed in the expedition is at once presented to view. The remarkable uniformi y which char, acterizcs the Cross Timber, and its apparently artificial arrangement, under a particular meridian, has induced some persons to believe that it is a work of art, and owes its origin to the unknown race of men who have erected the mounds and ancient fortifications of the Mississippi valley. We can harlly imagine, however, for what useful purpose it could have been intended, unless as a land.mark to distinguish the boundary between two nauons. But whether it is the work of art or of nature, will probably never be determined. The lines of civilization are rapidly extending towards it, and soon the scrutiny of science will be forever checked by the de. stroying axe of the pioneer. JOURNEYMEN PRINTERS. There is said to be a scarcity generally j of Journeymen Printers, which is to be ascribed to the increase of book and newspaper priming, corresponding with the increase of population, and also to the fact that fewer apprentices are taken in this business.1 Within the last seven years there has been an oyident improvement in the character ' ? r? ? l and nanus 01 journeymen miners. Although the busiuess is by no means laborious or painful, and the press work exceedingly light of late, yet so it was that some years ago Journeymen printers, with exceptions of course, were ranked as an intemperate body of men, and of very unsteady characters. This may have been the cause why few boys of education and family were apprenticcd to the business. It is a pleasure now to witness the improvement in th^ charac. ter and deportment of Journeymen Printers ?they are behind no class of mechanics in reputation and business habits, and that fact should encourage parents of respectability to apprentice their sons to the business? provided they are disposed to learn some mechanical trade. Ofthe high character of the printing business, the rank it takes, and always will take, the great men who have followed it, and the great consequences re. suiting from it not a word is required to be said?it is the great moral lever which con. trols the civilized world.?N. Y. ktar. Opinion of an Editor's Veracity. From the Cadiz (Ohio) Organ. We do not know when our pride of per. sonal character was so much hurt as last week, when we were asked by a subscriber, after our paper had been issued, to give him, privately, a true statement ofthe result of the Virginia elections. This request he j made, so he said, that he might learn the result of the elections ; M for I see you and tne Sentinel moke statements as wide apart ex as the east is from the west, and I know it Vi i3 the custom of editors to hold out false lights an to the People. ca CHKKAW GAZETTE"! ? FRIDAY EVENING. JULY 5, 1839. ? " Bili Dixon" shall appear next week. 83 er The National Anniversary was celebrated dt yesterday in our town with the usual festivities. The assemblage to hear the oration was large a{ and respectable. The Declaration of Inde- ej pendence was well read by Mr. L. B. Prince, fil and the orator of the day, Mr. A. L. Benton, did himseif great credit. We were pleased tl in passing tho streets late in the afternoon, not a to 6ee a single indivi lual exhibiting the slight- X est evidence of intoxication. ^ ? We see from arrangements published for the celebration of the Fourth of July in Fay- c ettevilie, the reading of the Mecklenburg De- j, claration of Independence was to precede that ? of the National Declaration. Well managed banks seem to be declaring J large dividends every where. The derange- lc meni of the currency has enabled them to sell {( checks and draughts at high prices. d National Magazine and Republican ^ Review.?We have copied the Prospectus of 0 this periodical not that we have any thought (] of embarking on the sea of party politics; but a because the work is sent to us in exchange, t and for the information of those among our b readers who approve its politics. a Tho Democratic Review is an antagonist c publication issued also in Washingion, and 1 rendering a zealous support to the Adminis. tration. We have never seen a number of w it, but the editors of its party commend it. Pee Dee Agricultural Society. At an adjourned meeting of the Pee Dee Agricultural Society, held at Stinemetz's Hotel on Saturday the 22nd June, the following busi. ncss was transacted, to wit: After the reading of the minutes of the last meeting ihe following gentlemen were elected members of this society, viz. Gen. John McQueen, of Marlboro' District. Joshua David, Esq., do- do. Joel Emanuel Esq. do do. Capt.-ohn Terrel, do. do. Asbury Pegues, do. do. Col. Hugh Craig, of Chesterfield District. Thomas P. Lide, Esq., of Darlington District. John Taylor Esq., Chesterfield District.? W. H. Robbing E^q., do. do. Col. J. \V. Covington, of Richmond County, N. C. On motion of Maj. W. T. Ellerbe, Resolved, That the President appoint a committee of seven members to nominate delegates to the proposed Convention to be held at Columbia during the Session of the Legislature. Th following persons were appointed on the < committee to nominate delegates, A. Sparks, \ O. H. Kullock, J. W. Covington, Dr. MacLean, D. 9. Harllop, <?/. Joshua David. The committee recommended the following persons aB delegates, to wit: Col. John N. Williams, Hon. J. J. Evans, Dr. T. E. Powe, A. Sparks Esq. Maj. W. T. Ellerbe, Col. K. C. Dubose, Gen. John McQueen, Gen. Jas. Gillespie, Col- J. W. Covirgton, and James Wright Esq. The Society confirmed the nominations. On motion of Dr. Thos. E. Powe, ( Resolved, That those Districts having no Agricultural Society be solicited to co-operate with the Agricultural Societies throughout the State in sending delegates to the Agricul. J tural Convention proposed to be held in Columbia during the first week of the next sitting of the Legislature. On innfinn nf Gnn. John MrOnppn. ResolvedThat this Society recommend to other Agricultural Societies throughout the State, Wednesday of the first week of the next Legislature as a suitable time for the meeting j of the Agricultural Convention at Columbia. On motion of James VV right, Esq. Resolved* That eight me mbers be appointed from Marlborough District, four jrom Darlington District, and eight from Che sterfield district to ascertain as near as possible the number of ' acres planted in corn and cotton in the respective districts in the year *88 and '39; and report also the amount of money paid in '38 for | Western Pork and Bacon and Stock of every , kind; and also the average product per acre of , corn and cotton for 1838; also the number of . negro slaves. i The following gentlemen were appointed for i Marlborough; Gen. John McQueen, Joel i Emanuel, O H. Kollock, W. T. Ellerbe, 1 John F. Pegues, Joshua David, Saml. Sparks, and Col. John Campbell. For Chesterfield District, A. P. Lacoste, Jas. Wright, Dr. MacLcan, B. F. Pegues, K. C. DuBose, Dr. Thos. E. Powe, Col. Hugh Craig, L>. S. Harllee. For Darlington District, J. N. William* Alex. Sparks, T. P. Lide and J. J. Evans. On motion of Gem McQueen, Resolved, Thatif the Editor of the CherawGa. zette and Pee Dee Farmer will publish a Prospectus proposing to appropriate nine columns of his paper weekly to agricultural matter, and furnish each member of this Society with a copy of the Prospectus, it will be their, duty to use their best exertions to obtsin subscribers to the same and report at the next meeting of the Society 1 On motion of Maj. Ellerbe, Resolved, That the Editor of the Southern j Agriculturist be requested to publish the reso- | lutions passed at this meeting in relation to the ^ proposed Agricultural Convention to be held at ( Columbia the first week of the Session of the Legislature. Resolved, That the proceedings of the meet, ing be published in the Cheraw Gazette, j. On motion, the Society then adjourned. : D. S. HARLLEE, Scc'y. j' rhe Vice President.?The following is an tract from a letter written by Col. Johnson tee President of the U. States, in reply to t inquiry if he wished to decline being a ndidate for re-election. I have never authorized the decralation that was unwilling to be the Democratic candidate r a second term if my fellow-citizens desired I have no reasons which did not exist at y first nomination, why I should refuse the me station if re elected. I wish it, howev, distinctly understood that I have always iclared to all with whom I have conversed on is head, that 1 was not only willing, bat ould most cheerfully retire, if it should be icertained that it was the wish of those who ected me that another should be selected to 1 the place. In connection with the above we copy from ie Emancipator, the leading organ of the bolitionists the following statement of Col. ohnson's sentiments in regard to abolition. Vhether he is correctly represented or tfot re are unable to 6ay. Public Honors.?The following pro. eedings took place on Monday, June 2d, i the Board of Aldermen of ihe city of lew York. Alderman Purdy offered a resolution, lat, whereas it had always been the habit f DemocraticWepresnntatives of the people > show honor upon every proper occasion > much honored individuals, who had ren ered important services to their country; nd whereas, Col. Richard M. Johnson, Tice President of the United States on the ocas on of his recent visit to this city, had o: been treated with the respect usually ccordud to persons of his elevated station; hat a committee of three from each Board e appointed to invite him to visit this city gain and to receive him in a manner be* ormng that illustrious advocate of civil add eligious freedom*" Wnen Col. Johnson was here, on the iccasion above referred to lie look much rains to express to some of the ge ilemen ?f color his deep interest in the qnestion of heir rights and prospects, as all he should eave beh'nd him at death (his two daugh* ers) were identified in destiny with them.' -Je also declared that each of his own ilaves held a deed of emancipation, and vouid never serve any but himself. He ntroduced bis colored visitors to many of h public characters that called at his odgings, and expressed many sentiments ligiily honorable to his heart. Nor .s this interest in the cause of aboil* ion a thing of recent origin m the breast of HJol. Johnson. So long ago ns the agita* lion of the Missouri ques ion, although he was in fa\or of the admission of Missouri, he took occasion to express his sentiments ? in favor of the abolition cause, and of ifldi* vidua! and associated action to promote it, in a speech delivered in the U. S. Senate, Feb. 1,1820, hnd published in the National Intelligencer of April 20, 2820. the wheat crop. The Charlottsville (V*.) Advocate, of Saturday saysThe Wheat harvest in :his section of conntry, has commenced. The weather has been for several days very favorable, and we are pleased to learn that the crop gives fair promise of an a? bundant yield. The greatest complaint now is the irregularity in the maturity of the j:r.?in. Tne fields appear to ripen in spots, and there is un unusual portion of young wheat intermixed with the rpe. Most of the wheat we believe is now beyond the reach of ordinary contingencies, and it is believed to be conaidcrubly over an average croD. r IOWA. The Cincinnati Post says that a friend has just returned from a visit to this new TerrL lory and states that he never saw such a promise of an abundant harvest. He described one field of wheat which he saw on the prarie, consisting of six hundred and for* ty acres, which was a perfect level, so that it could be taken into one view, and was handsomely fenced j stalks were then two feet and a half high, and the growth most luxuriant. CHINCH BUGS. These migehievous little insects have, we regret to learn, commited great ravages upon the wheat crops in the adjoining counties of Chaiham, Orunge, Granville und Franklin, in some instances, whole fields have been entirely destroyed, and great fears arc entertained that they will next attack the corn,4 to which they also are very destructive. They cluster around the stalk in incredible numbers, suck out its substance, and it soon withers and falls to the ground. In some places, to prevent their reaching the corn, for whiClf they are marching in clouds, the farmers dig little ditches and fill them with straw, in which )lia hurra matrA n fnmnnrnrv half. and a/e ""ft" ** burnt?thTe operation of burning being frequently repeated, during the day. Although the bugs have wings they travel on the ground. They are natives of the forest; and it is saiJ that where the woods are occasionally burnt, they never become troublesome. RuleigbStar* * This they have already done to a considerable exten-, it is said, in Mecklenburg and Anson counties. % From the Edgefield Advertiser. Extract from a letter received by a gen. tlemun in this neighborhood, dated "Georgevil/c, Miss. May 10,1839. You would be astonished at the condition of things in this State. It is difficult to say, who is solvent, there has been so much speculation. Negroes sell pretty well in this countv, but lund, whic h a few years ago brought $30 per acre, now sells for seventy five cents. There are, to my knowledge* thousands of acres of good and fresh land, without cultivators. It is not uncommon to see men, who recently were worth 50 negroes, reduced to poverty. I think that there will be many emigrants from the old States, next fall. Now is the time to buy * excellent land, cheap."