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? ?? ,1 , s Ctnteou of the Southern Agriculturist FOR JULY. FRET. I?EDITORIAL AND ORIGINAL. Advantages to Chaileston and South.Carolina, to be dorived from a Direct Trade; with reflections on the Rail Road and Canal Communications of the South. With a Map. Emigration, by A Pine Land Planter. Cotton Culture ; by Fairfield. PART. H?SILSCTION8. Scientific Agriculture. Varieties of Indian Corn ; by Wm. P. Taylor. Experiments with Leached Ashes; by Daniel Easton. Beok Fanning; by H. C. Improvement. Education of the Farmer; By Cassander. Experiments on Manures, Ac.; by Daniel P. King. Old Field Cotton, Ac.; by Arator. Making and Salting of Butter. Improvement; by H. C. Culture of the Grape Vine. Diseases of Horses; by W. Mentelle, sen. Education of Fanners; by J. Holbrook. Manures ; by V. C. K. Rearing Silk Worms in South Carolina. PART. Ill?MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. Beaufort Agricultural Society; American Gro de Naples Silk ; Thomas Jefferson's Opin. j ions of Fanners; Silk Worms' Eggs; Tribute j to the Yankees; A Kccipe; uure ior ocours in . Hones; To Core Scours in Cattle ; Dysintery ; , * Poisoning; 5 Cure for Diarrhea ; Sore Eyes ; , For the Bite of a Snake; Another; For Burns ^ ."And Scalds; Another; Ringworms; Valuable Information to Artists and Antiquaries; For Sprains and Braises; Tincture of Reees; on ! ; ptalr'ng a beautiful and lasting White-Wash; Sure method of patting out the Fire of a Chimney; Ducks and Politicians; A proper cause 1 for Shooting an intimate Friend, &c. CONTENTS OP TH* JUNE NUMBER OP THE Journal of the American Silk Society. A first experiment of rearing silk worms un. der very disadvantageous circumstances, by Mr. Ruffin. The morus multicaulis crop in North Caroli. na. The prospects of the multicaulis. Silk manufactured in Pennsylvania. A firsf experiment in rearing silk worms. Rearing silk in South Carolina. Mammoth silk worms' eggs, and successive urops. Letter from J. S. Pleasants, on silk worms, and successive crops. Proceedings, and list of officers of the Talbot County (Md.) Silk Company. Ou the probable prices of the morus multicau. , lis. Large cocoons. Progress of the silk business in New Jersey. Domestic manufacture of silk in Virginia. On hilling plauts. Horses and oxen for teams. 1 How to have good eggs. Letter of H. L. Ellsworth, with simples of 1 native Mexican cotton, spider silk, and Cape of < Cood Hope tobacco. From tne (N. Y.) Spirit of the Times. | The M Journal or the American Silk i Society and Rural Economist," is the name a very capital monthly publication, in the pamphlet form, issued at Baltimore by Gideon B. Smith, Esq., the corresponding Secretary of the Society, the proceeds of which are devoted to the advancement of the Silk Cause in .the United States. Air. Smith is widely known i -? ?>?? ?j ~r , gVHUCUlOU Ul UUCUI> UiU VI IUUCU?I|SUIC application ; his taste for agricultural pursuits i generally has made him thoroughly acquainted, both theoretically and practically with all the "details connected with fanning and gardening, and few writers display more tact in imparting information on these interesting sub. jects than himself. For many years Mr. Smith was eogaged with J. S. Skinner, Esq.. in conducting the M Turf Register," sod the the M American Farmer," ana when the latter gentleman gave up those periodicals, their editorial management devolved upon himself A great many individuals connected with the press, with half the talent, and less of the industry of Mr. Smith, would have acquired a great name long ere this, while be has quietly kept on in the even tenor of his way, trusting to tisoe sod the result of hie arduons labor* OS place hie manifold deserving* before his countrymen in a proper and broader light. Mr. 8. for a long time has devoted much of hie attention to the culture of Si.k in thia country, and when the u American Silk Society" resolved upon the publication of a monthly journal, his information* talent, and experience* at once pointed him out as the very man of all others, *o superintend it. The Society could not have made a happier selection?their choice was a graceful compliment to a most , wo! thy man. And we have been gratified to < viatrnf hin unwearied exertions 4A7Wf hHOV *?? ? ?v ?? .. in favor of the Silk cause* and as a memento of the Soeietr's regard for him as one of the , earliest friends ana most f&tthfu! supporters of the patriotic objects contemplated by the So* ; ciety it has resolved to present him with a , handsome and substantia! token of public con* aider at ion. Mr. Skinner, we believe, was connected with the work at its commencement, but his onerous public duties prevented his giving that degree of attention to it which an . enterprize of the kind so imperiously demands; he has more recently assumed the editorship of the u Farmer," so that the conduct of the i u Journal" devolves entirely upon Mr. Smith, j whose original contributions, we have frequent- i ly remarked, are the most valuable articles in its well-filled pages. CROPS. Accounts from all directions represent crops as unusually abundant. A gentleman who left N. Orleans in May, and passed through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia, says cotton, corn and wheat all look nobly. Oats have been injured in many (daces. " -?1 .... ?IIA acmo I ne nu repeaieuiy paweu u*c? ?? ??? ~?? and says be never saw so fine a prospect before. The Army and Navy Chronicle contradicts, by authority, the rumor which said that Com* modore T. Ap C. Jones, of the United States Navy, had tendered bis services to the Tezian Government, and that they were declined on account of his advanced ape. The first knowledge the Commodore had of the existence of the report was a paragraph in the Boston Atlas. He has never entertained the remotest thought of ^leaving the service of his native country to embark in any other. From the Army and Navy Chronicle. AFFAIRS IN FLORIDA. Judging from the tone of the newspapers in that Territory, we should be induced to suppose that a great degree of excitement existed with respect to the late pacification of the Indians ; but other accounts, both oral and written, give a contrary impression, and represent that the excitement is confined to those wfip are interested in continuing the war, or for tome cause desire the total expulsion of the Indians. Among the latest and most positive testimony that we have seen, of the peaceable intentions of the Indians, and of the satisfaction of the inhabitants at the conclusion of hostilities, is that contained in a letter written to Major ( General Macomb by Colonels Warren and Mills, who commanded each a regimen of Florida militia, have traversed the whole Territory, and are familiar wtth the views and feelings of the citizens, This letter is so much to the point, that we requested and have obtained a copy for publication. Jacksonville, (Florida,) June 15,1839. General: You will no doubt have been some surprised at seeing, by the papers of St. Augustine andfTallahassee, the greatest excitement is stated by them to prevail in the country, in consequence of the treaty or provisional agreement entered into by you with the Indians. You may be assured that this feeling exists no where in the country. The nerve and sinew of the counties of Alachua* ( Plumbia, Duval, and Nassau, who have suffered so much by this war, most readily agreed long since that the expulsion of the Indians by an armed force was a matter to be erminated some twenty years hence; and, having suffered such great losses of property, as well as oflife, particularly for the last year, hail with great satisfaction the present arrangement, as affording the only probable assurance of peace and quiet. Those persons who are sd loud in their denunciations are for the most part men who have never been through the country at all, and are therefore unacquainted with the nature of the country or of the erieiny to be con tended with. It will readily oe aamwea uiai it would be much better to have the Indiana removed; hot if that ob)ect cannot be effected without each immense sacrifices, we say peace is actually indispensable. If they will keep to th>* limits assigned them, there will be no difficulty between ine citizens and them; and if, at any future time, the Government desire to remove them, it can much more readily be effected after all angry feelings shall have subsided, and when the country bordering the limits assigned them will be settled up. With sentiments of high respect, we are, General, your most obedient servants, JOHN WARREN, W. J. MILLS. Major General A. Macomb, Commanding United States Army. From the New York Era. JOHN C. CALHOUN. We have seen a copy of the reply of Mr. Calhoun to an invitation from the Committee of Arrangements, to deliver the Fourth of July Oration in this city: Fokt Hill, Junk 12,1899. Gentlemen?I have been honored by your note of the 25th of May, ^received the 9th inst) informing me that delegates of the De* mocratic ttepublican party, from the several wards of your city, had selected me to deliver the oration at the approaching Anniversary of Independence. I acknowledge with gratitude, the honor of being selected by so numerous and respecta* ble a portion of my fellow citizens in a distant section of the Union on snch an occasion, and am duly sensible of the obligation which it imposes; bat the great distance, and my numerous sua uiuispvusauiv cu|^imuw>?<r der it utterly impossible for me to accept. Among other grounds to which you have alluded, you have referred to the part I have recently taken in the Senate, as one of the causes of that favorable opinion towards me which has led to the intended honor that I am reluctantly compelled to decline. Permit me Eomv, in toking the pwition iHnoh /uu infer, there were difficulties of the most formidable character in the way, but had they been ten fold greater, they could not h?w dikmmd me from the course I took, so imperious was the sense of duty under which I acted. The currency was no new question with me. For many years it bad been the subject of my reSection* and the source of deep solicitude, and t had made up my mind, when the time arrived, that would force it on*the attention of the country and government, as to the part I would take if then on the stage of action. The derangement to which our country is mbject, is not accidental It is inherent in he system itself and in spite of every effort to correct it, will grow from bad to worse, till tome great and radical change is effected. In tbe mean time the community is doetined to pass through scenes of difficulty and danger greater than any heretofore experienced, unless the people should be timely aroused to apply an efficient remedy to the growing disorders. I hold it almost impossible, that there should be any state of things more corrupting to morals, or more paralyzing to industir, than an uncertain, vacillating currency, under th* control of private cupidity, such as ours is; and I am amazed, that the Wealthy capitalists, whose property exists in stocks and securities, Bre not the first to see it and take the alarm. They ought to see that tbe gains from the irregular working of such a system must be but momentary ana fallacious; and must be followed by s storm, if permitted to progress, which will scatter sucn acquisitions as leaves before a tornado. In taking my stand against the system, no partial or local considerations governed me. I stood up for what I honestly ahd sincerely believed to be tbe morality, the freedom and prosperity of the country, actuated by enmity to no class or section, but be lieving that I was acting the pan or a true friend of all those who were profiling by it for the moment, as well as of those who for the time were its victims. Whether in this ! Was mistaken, ! am con. tent to leave to time and experience to decide. Thus far I have seen nothing to shake my opinion, but much to confirm it, much to am. mate me 10 perseverance in the course I have taken, till an effectual remedy is applied to this among the most dangerous evils tnat can befal the country. For the very kind manner in which you have communicated the wishes of those you represent, you will please accept my sincere acknowledgements. I cannot but be highly gratified to learn, that many of my old friends in your great metropolis have not forgotten me, and 1 do assure you that few things would afford me more pleasure than would an opportunity to renew my acquaintance with them, as well as to form it with these more recent friends whoee approbation I have been so for. tunate as to gain, in the trying scenes through which I have more recently passed. Though circumstauces will not permit roe to accept the honor proffered, and to be present at yonr celebration, it will not, I trust, be con* sidered an intrusion to offer the following sen. liment? " Equality, in its broadest sense, of rights and privileges between citizen and citizen, pursuit and pursuit, and one portion of the country and another, the deep and solid foundation of our political fabric; preserve that and all is safe?destroy it, and the whole would rush headlong to the dust." To Richard J. Smith, Steven R. Harris, and C. H. Dougherty, Eeqrs. MORU8 MULTICAULI6 MANIA IN CUBA. The peaceable Habaneros, like our northern friends, it appears, are bestirring themselves about home made silks and satins. From the Havana Gazettes received cn Saturday, which came up to the 21 at June, inclusive, we learn that active preparations are being made to commence the cultivation of the ilforui Multicaulis oh ah extensive scale. For this branch of industry the climate and soil of Cuba, tt is thought, is particularly suited, and it is confidently expected that ere long, the raising of silk will prove a source of revenue equal in value to that derived from coffee and sugar. [N. O. Bulletin. It is doubtful whether the air is dry enough in Cuba for the worm. So. Ch. Gaz. The following, from the Louisville Journal has been published in mostef the Western papers. " The charleston railroad project at an end.?-a highly respectable gentleman of this city, recently from South Carobna, informs us that Colonol Blading, the President of the Charleston Railroad Bank, stated to him that he had given up all idea of pushing the railroad farther than Columbia, the capital of South Carolina. The Colonel said that the State of Georgia had put under contract a rail road from Athens, Ga. to Knoxville, Tenn., which, in connexion with the rail road now nearly completed, from Athens to Augusta, and with the rail road from Augusta to Charleston, would open a rail road communication from Knoxville to Charleston. The Col. thought that it would be quite ridiculous to ' hare two rail roads from uoarjesiou w oun* ville. S. Garolina abandons ber project, baU^s claims the credit of having spurred Georgia into the great enterprire; and she is none the less satisfied with having a communication with East Tennessee* that is made with the money of a rival State. From the Washington Globe. The following information is from returns made to the Post Office Department, and has been politely h&nied us for publication: Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodicals published in the United States, 1st July, 1839. Maine, 41 ! Now Hampshire, 2G I Vermont, 31 Massachusetts, at Boston 65, 124 Rhode Island, 14 Connecticut, 21 ! New York, at N. Y. city 71, 274 New Jersey, 39 Maryland,_at Baltimore 20, 48 Pennsylvania, at Philade^hia 71, 253 1 Delaware, 3 Diet, of Columbia, at Wash. 11, 16 Virginia, at Richmond 10, 52 North Carolina, 30 South Carolina, 20 I Georgia, 33 Florida Terriory, 9 Alabama, 34 Mississippi, 36 Louisiana, at New Orleans 10, 26 Arkansas, 4 ( Tennessee, 50 Kentucky, 31 Ohio, at Cincinnati 27, 164 Michigan, 81 j Wisoonsin Territory, 5 I Iowa Territory, 8 Indiana, 69 Illinois, 33 Missouri, 25 1555 < Of the above 116 are published daily, 14 triweekly, 30 semi-w??kljr. and 991 once a week.? The remainder are issued semtmont&iy, month ly, and quarter y. principally magazine and reviews. Many of thjuiai^r psp^s alio issue tri-jim fciy.-wmi-weekly*, and weekly. Thirty eight are in the German language, four in tbe French, and one in tbe Spanish. Several of the New Orleans papers are printed in French and English. ANOTHER LAND PIRATE. Aberdeen, Miss., McJf 28. A man by the name of JOHN GENT, who was somj time ago taken prisoner in Fayette County, Alabama, for stealing negroeV UKT horses and made hie escape, was retaken not long since by some of the citizens of this place, and carried within a lew miles of Talladega, i Alabama, when he broke custody a second time. There appears to be reward upon reward offered for the detection of tbia villain. While in Custody, and being so near the place o! bis destined confinement, and losing all nope of escaping, be made a public acknowledgment or the proceedings of his clan. We reel it our duty to remark, that prior to his escape, tje left, in the hands of the three gentlemen who had him in custody, several letters implicating several individuals?among whom is the President of the Planter's Bank of Aberdeen. These letters we intend publishing to the world. An arrangement has been made with the President of the Planter's Bank of Aberdeen?the most villainous of the kind ever contrived against ths community, it is also stated in one of these letters that they had determined upon making another individual President, for the better effecting their hefarious designs. We think that it is high timb the community should be up, and put down such base thievish clans. We shall publish one of these letters every week, until the whole is published. From the contents of the different letters, it seems that these land pirates are iu every State of the Union, and in Texas. They are not satisfied with merely stealing negroes and horses; but with the bills of the Planter's Bank, purchasing property and operating in the brokerage business, by placing different individuals of the clan in different sections of the country. We see from one of these letters that they have also made an arrangement for this man Gent to go to North Carolina with 979^000?this letter appears to have been I written by him while in Louisville, waiting for the President (Watlington) from JacJcsin, which seems to account for Watlington's absence from that time until the present This man's assumed name is J. T. Jones; some of the letters are signed **6001." and others "Jones," He also requires his associates to direct their letters to *Jor es,' as he is not known in this State by the name of *Gent.' A letter in one of the Boston papers, ftom Bu< nos Ayreu, confirms the report previously received, mac me uovernraeni ot cnac piace had demanded indemnity of the French for the injury sustained by the late blockade. This demand had broken off all negotiation, and although the French were desirous of ending the blockade, yet the Buenos Ayrean Government refused to hear any proposals unless the indemnity was paid.?Nat. IrUdl. Upwards of 500,000 persons have been conveyed on the Trenton Rail road since itscompletion, and out of that large number it is as* sorted that only two have been injured, viz. Mr. Steel, who was recently killed, and another who lost the use of his hand by an accident which occurred about twelve months ago.? Both of these persons were outside of the cars, smoking segars, and neither, it is said, would have been hurt, had ho occupied his seat in tbo car. CENTENARY OF METHODISM* The present year* being the first centenary of Methodism, is celebrated as such by the followers of Wesley throughout the world. In England more than a million of dollars bad been contributed as a thank-offering, at the last accounts, and a much larger sum is anticipated during the year. In the United States, the Methodist Episcopal Church have resolved on a similar celebration : and in various parts of the country, the work has commenced. An inmate of the county poor house, by the name of Bartow, has become suddenly rich by the decision of the Court of Chancery giving him a title to Some of the best property on Main street, lying between the Mansion house and the Little Buffalo Creek. Another instance of fortunc*s vagaries, is the fact that an i indigent young man, a journeyman cabinet maker, who died three years ago, was buried at the expense of a distant relative in this city. A letter has been received, within a day or two, inquiring whether he left a will, as a recent legacy has left him, or his heirs, a fortune of 100,000 dollars. [Buffalo Repub. IMPORTANT INVENTION. Mr. Frederick Le Mesurier, of this isj land, surgeon, has recently invented a new pump for ships and mines, on a principle | infinitely superior, for all practical purposes, discovered, tie is at present in London taking out a patent for it, and intends extending that patent to France, Holland and the United States. Some of the peculiarities of this pump are the almost total absence of friction?the impossibility of its gettiog choked by sand, wheat or even email stones?and a capability, in a small sised one worked by only one man, of livering a hogshead of water in a minute and a half. Larger sized ones, worked by two or more men, may be made to delivei* two or more hogsheads per minute; and in mines, where the pumps are worked by steam engines, the power may be immense, ly increased. We understand that the pis. ton is dispensed with, and that a vacuum is produced by dieans of an India rubber bag, Stretched on rings. Mr. Le Mesurieri it is reported, has been offered 42,000/ for the patent, it being foreseen that this pump must supercede all others, both in ships and mines.?Guernsey Star. STATISTICAL. TABLES. Extract from the speech of Mr. Caley, ib the British House of Commons, on the debate relative to the Corn Laws, March 13, 1839. National debt of England and other countries, with the proportion of such debn which foils on each individual. Debt per head Proportion of ? ? 8. D. England, 800,000,000 82 0 0 Prance, 194,400,000 5 19 7 Russia, 35,550,000 Oil 9 Austria, 78,100,090 2 7 8 Prussia, 29,?Ql,000 2 7 7 Netherlands, 148,500,000 23 5 51 ? 70.000,000 5 0 81 States, - ? ? ? ? uttauliu,. 18,974,000 2 11 2 Bavaria, 11,311,000 2 16 0 Sardinia, 4,584,000 1 1 2 Turkey, 3,067,000 0 7 8 Sweden, ? ? ? Portugal, 5.649,400 1 2 0 Denmark, 3,799,000 1 18 4 Rome, 17,142,000 7 9 0 Poland, 5,740,000 1 3 3 Saxony, 3,300,000 2 9 1 turnover, 2,284,000 1 11 0 fmtn, I,67<M>OO 10 2 Wirtembergj 2,505,000 1 12 7 Tuscany, 1,384,000 1 4 11 Hesse, (Darm. stadt) . 1,184.000 1 3 11 Hesse, (Electorate) . 220,000 0 1 1 Switzerland, ???? ? ? ? Norway, 252,000 0 9 1 East India Compa* ny's territories, 47,609,000 0 9 0 Comparative wages of English and Foreign Operatives, Operatives are paid in France 5s. 6d. pr week of 72 hours. Switzerland 5s. 5d. 62 Austria 4s. Od. 76 Tyrol Ss. 9d. 88 Saxony 3s. 6d? 72 . Bontu on the Rhine 3s. 5J* ?4 | Ths svferage wages being a fraction un. der 4s. por week. The average wages paid to hands similarly employed in Eng. land, but for fewer hours, be?ng 12s, a week, interesting scientific investigation. The New York Dispatch says that the recent and singular death of Mr. Withing. toe, by the explosion of a gas pif?e, has teq some of the practically scientific men of that city to commence investigations which may be of vast importance. The Dispatch remarks, on the experiment they have already made : " It is said that an examination of a gas pipe, has shown a do. posite of exceedingly fine particles, which, for their present purpose, me gctuiciuuu denominate u condensed permnnent electricity." The experiment was yesterday tried with a file, and a detonation, or instantaneous explosion Was produced by contact of thb file with the residuum of the gas. The key to the death of Air. Withington is furnished by the supposition, strongly sustaine i by the result ofthis experiment; that when he put his teeth to the pipe, they touched the deposit of condensed gas, and produced the melancholy accident of which our readers had the particulars. CURIOUS ICHTHYOLOGICAL PHENOMENON. We have received the following statement of an extraordinary fall of fish from a correspondent of undoubted veracity, who witnessed the occurence himself, at a place not more than twenty miles south of Calcutta, in the Sunderbounds, by way of the salt water lafces. About two o'clock, P. M. of the 20th inst, we had a very smart shower of rain, and with it there descended a quantity of live fish, about three inches in length, and all of one kind only* They fell in a l straight line or> the road from my house to the tank, which is about 40 or 50 yards distant. Those which fell on the hard ground were, a9 a matter of course killed from the fall, but those which fell where there was grass, received no injury; and I picked up a large quantity of them, " alive and kicking," and let them go into my tank. Some people suppose that the phenomena of this nature might take place through the agency of waterspouts, which draw up the fish, &c. from rivers and water tanks, and afterwards return them to the earth again in showers of rain; and there appears to be no other way of accounting for the phenomenon, or that fish should bo found so far out of their element. The most strange thing that struck me in connection with this event was, that the fish did not fall helrerskelter every where, or hero and there," but they feU in a straight line, not more than a cubit in breadth. The natives living in and about the place gave to the fish the name of uka ; but whether this be the right name or not, I cannot tell from my own knowledge. i canal across the isthmus of fanama. The republic of New Grenada has gran., ted to a company, tbe privilege or contract of making a canal, rail roa I or macadamized road, across this Isthmus. The com. panyis associated with the House ofS^Lomon & Co. of Guadalupe* and their agent is now in Europe, negotiating the means and making preparations for tliis en. terprize. The contract, is so clogged with unfavorable conditions, as to leave Utile hope that the enterprise will ever be consummated* The conditions are that the intermarlne communication must terminate at one end* in the town of Panama ; that a transportation duty of one per cent shall ac* crue to the government, if a canal be made; that the navigation of the river Chagrcs, in canoes, shall not be interrupted ; that ves~ sels under the New Grenadian flag shall pay 10 per cent less than others, that the company shall commence operations in three years from the date of the contract, under penalty of f25.000 ; that the privilege shall continue for 50 years after the completion of the work (for which six years are allowed) and at the end of the term, the canal shall become the property of the rtl. public. . TO COBRBs?6rrDENT0. We make room for the first and last stall*' zas of Emily's poem in answerto Bill Dixon, and advise "P. T." to send his dif&ctly to the [object of his thoughts and subject of hit dreams. Tis strange, tie strange, Oh passing strange, That men allow their nods to range On customs common to the fair, . While of their own tbey have no care. The Grecian bend I do deepise, And tnink too that "Bill Dixon's" wise In speaking witn so much contempt Of what e'en man is not exempt. Oh! for the day the longed for day. While "Grecian Bends''shall die away And "Pride" no longer feign content, On natural objects ail eyes bent. ? feMILY. M * " 8 P W M A B Ti Miss Mary McNamara, daughter of Cohmel McNanhra, of Salisbury, N. C. was thrown from a horse and killed on tbo lOth inst. Governor Gilmer, of Georgia, who waa ill, is recovering. The Baltimore and Ohio railroad company have appointed the Hon. Louis McL&ne to proceed to Burdpe to dispose of the bonds issued by Maryland and Baltimore in payment of their stock in Um company. Whilst raising ths rafters upon a wooden building in Yorkton, N. York, lately, the plete, on which were 15 men, broke, and precipitated them to the ground. One or two were killed and others much hurt. . Mr. Lyscom Brace, a Wholesale manufacturer of so da water and mead in Boston, was killed on the 4th inst. by the explosion of a fountain he was charging with gas. The Salem Gazette states that on the 4th July, 7006 pasengers were carried on .the Eastern Rail Road. The trains made twenty.five trips between Boston and Salem, and two trips be. tween Boston and Lynn; the largest number carried by one train was 553. No accident.'delay or confusion ocourred. The receipts were about one thousand dollars. The Legislature of Connecticut, have patted a law forbidding, on a fine of twonty dollars, any person to sell wine or spirituous liquors after January neat, without leave granted by the towns, and forbidding the towns to grant liberty to sell any to bo drank on the premises but tave. new A letter reached Montreal on the 16th June, from Hoderich, which states that the American brigands had taken and scuttled a steam boat on Lake Huron belonging.to the Canada Land Company. The particulars connected with it are not given. The crops are stated to be most lulu, riant, and that there is every prospect of a m- st abundant harvest.?N. Y. Morning Herald. The New York Sun says there are four hundred and seventy, ninety doctors in that city, le. gaily licensed, and one hundred and seventy, three undertaker -. The New York correspondent of the Baltimore Chronicle says that|Mr. C. C. Csmbreleng has taken p issage for himself and family, on board ol the Britieh Queen, and intends to pass some years in Europe. Distressing news, (says the St. Augustine Herald, of the 5th instant.) has been received in town, that Captain Mitchell and Lieut. Pugh, with 12 men of the 1st infantry, died lately of poison, at a station near Deadma Bay. The cause was subsequently discovered to have been a keg of white lead, thrown the well, Gooaberriea have boen raised in Wi mington, maininni, nnvnri), nf fmir inchflH ill &/VtOWaiO| U4VUaiuiii| u , . circumference, and weighing three quarter* of I an ounce. Counterfeit American gold piece*, bf the dei nomination of $5 hare been circulated at Lou* isville.-**'They look well enough, but can be de* tected by the sound. fifteen hew counties went established at the late session of the Legislature of Illinois. Resolutions declaratory of the power of the Legislature to annul all eot* df incorporation, (in other words to nuttier the constitution J it is stated, have passed the New Hampshire House of Representatives. S Fifty one barrels of flour, weighing about ,000 lb. were lately battled in rtoramon wag* by 6 horses 80 miles to Baltimore. The Steamer, "British Queen" being announ. ced as abodt to sail from a British port for New York, a westefn editor announced to hie readers I under the caption "Important? that Queen ViCi j toria was coming on a visit to this eountry. Judge Wm. Smith has consented that his name mav be placed on the list ef candidates for a scat in tho nest Alabama Legislaturo, There is said to be t partial revhrsl of the Specie Circular in the Weit. The Beeeiuers ef the Land Offices in Illinois refuse to take the notes of the Banks of that State, and only (eld or silver, or the notes of the Bank of Mis* souri. (Nat. Intelligenoer. There has been a very large fire in Eastoort, Maine, consuming a large portion of the ensL ness part of the town. Tne loss of property Is estimated at 340,000 dollars, 80,000 or whieh are insured. Fourteen thousand Sunday School Children were carriod from New York city to Staten Island in steamboats on the Fourth of Joly to | celebrate the day. They were visited by both the President of the United States, and the Governor of the State. An old lady, Hannah Gouge, aged 104 years, sf No. 135 Reade street, called upon the Presi* dent at his rooms in Now York, and remarked that she had seen every President of the Uuited State*, had shaken hands with Washington, and was quite delighted to see the present incumbent. She walked without assistance from her iwL* denee, but was escorted bach. It is statsd thai bni ihoutdni bnofc houses are now in progress of buiklinr in Ciaciqnsrt, end that five hundred more will be Ibuilt in the eoume of the summer. Even this infmoose amount ef new buildings will not supply the demand. ssbbabbbbbbbaasmsbmmbbsbmab^s cher aw price current. F a i d at, 3 vlt 19. Beefin market, lb| " ^ ' Bacon from wagons, lb J 19 194 by retail, lb j 14 16 Batter lb | 16 99 Beecwax lb 39 .94 Bagging yard 18 S9 Bale rope lb 10 124 Coffee lb 124 15 CoTTONj 12 14 Corn bushel 874 '1M Flour Country, bri 5| 7 00 Feathers from wagons lb 40 50 Fodder, 100 195 (fides green 1 lb .5 dry lb 1 III Iron lOOIbe 5 50 650 Indigo lb 79 250 Lime cask 400 4 50 Lard lb 196;; 15 Leather sole lb 22 *25 Lead bar ib 10 Logwood lb 10 15 Molasses gal 45 , 50 New Orleans gal 50 . tt4 Nails cut assorted lb ?6 9 wrought lb lb 18 Oats bushel / .50 Oil curriers gal 75 100 lamp 195 linseed 110 IBS Paints white lead keg 395 459 m Spanish brown lb 8 191 Pork IGOlbt 800 1000 Rice lOOIbe 560 625 [Shot, Bag 950 * lb 925 ;vv. Sdtfar lb 10 124 Salt sack 2 75 900 alt bush 100 Steel American lb 10 194 English lb 14 , German lb 12 J4 Tallow lb; 10 19 Tea imperial lb 100 1SV| hyaon lb tOfc Tobacco manufactured lb 19 50 Window gla?s8 x 10 90ft . 5* M 10' ** -3 stati ofsouth carom, i * chcsierfield district. } Court of Common Pleas. Shackelford, Boag 4k Co. 1 f TS. > Asst. William R. Griffith. ) WHEREAS William ft. Griffith hath this day filed hie petition in Una Court ale. ting that be ie now in Custody of the Sheriff Of Chesterfield District by virtue of a writ emtfee I a t_ al a. . . . .1 . , _ aartiponutnuum id un move iwwa cw< /"Ll" ingtbat a rale bo wired upon tbe laid Plaintiffs and all the other oreditera of bim the aeid Chtth personally or by tbcir Attorney to aopeer at the Codrt of Common Pleas for Chesterfield Oiatriet before the Jutices of said Court On the thifcl Monday In October necti to shew Cause if any they can, why the Petitioner should not been, titled to the benefit ot tbe act of the f sgMeteis passed for the relief of insolvent debtors, and hd having filed with his Petition a schedule of JUS Estate Real and Personal. It is therefore ordered that the said Plaintiffs and all other creditors of the said Griffith do epi pear before the Honorable thS Justices of tm Said Court at the time end plate above mention, ed to shew the estise if any, why the said Wfifiaa j R. Griffith should hot be entitled to the benefit bf tbe saidlAet and be discharged from confinement; at whion time the goods and effects of the sold William It Griffith will be assigned for the ben. efitof his creditors. ' ~ J. C. CRAIG, C. C. P. Clerks Office, July 18th, 183d. | . 86 3m RealEstate for bale. WISHING to consolidate my basinets, I offer for sale the following property, viz?My House and Lot where I reside, i? Bennettsville, Marlboro* District, South Carolina. The Lot contains 17 acres of land; the boom is very convenient, has 7 bed rooms, 5 bf which have fire places | it has a sitting room ahd a sepe. rate dining fdom with Ore places. Attached are all neoeseary out buildings, and a large said fertile garden; The situation it unsurpassed for beauty, health and pleasantness. Abo a tract of good pine laud Containing 600 acres, 100 of which are cleared and under cultivation, has comfortable dwellings, and the necessary out buildings, goof foncing, well watered and healthy; lying frithio four mi be of this place. . . \ Also, 415 acres of valuable pine UUkd, 50 acre# of which are Cleared and under ouftitatjon?--hae a food barn, log cabbins, good fenefaig; sttMkioh healthy, and has good water. It lidst wo mite# from (hie plaoej Both the tracts above msotiooed are well supplied with oak wood, ltghiwood, and pine timber for all purposes. Also, a tract Of 486 acres, Ijib# 15 miles below this place On Pee Dee Hvef t one half is good lowgrounds, the balance is lively upland I ?one hundred and forty acres of the best are cleared, fenced and recently cultivated?has on it tolerable Idg buildings, and a good teine bar, which has been used two year!. Terms favorable. Persons wishing to purchase will call and examine for themselves. Either tract will be sold seperato. D. M. CROSLAND* fiennettviile, July 12,1^39. , 36 it Sheriff s Sale. " /\N the first Monday in August next, within VF the legal hours, will>o sold before the Court House door, on i writ of fieri facias, one Dearborn Wagon and Harncw, levied on as the property Of Wm. R. Griffith at the suit of C. & G. H. Kelsey A Hoisted Vs. Wm. R. GriffithsTerms, cash. JNO. EVANS, Sheriff C. D. Chesterfield CoUrt House, Bbertflfc ) Office, July 15th, 1839. < July 19 37 9t_ n o r i c k. " My Wife, EUZABEtH CR&LEY, having left me without any just cause, (during my absence from home) this is to forwarn all persons from harboring Of trusting her on my account, as I will not pay %py debts of her contracting, from this date. JOHN CROLEY ChefterfioH District, Ju'y {[%!)' 3$-U* | f > 4