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c?? ?wmmrmmm?????? the fffry Italian, from the white mulberry I nnd the superiority of our own, in every es- i sential particular, was evideqt to the most I casual observer. These certificates will be i found annexed, together with his letter to < Matthew Carey, Esq.?to tho truth of the I statements of which Mr. P. called the par. ticular aiten ion of the meeting in a short i but emphatic address, earnestly soliciting , the members of the Society or any others i present to state oil the experience they had of a contrary kind, as his only object was to ; . get at the truth and nothing but the truth. < There was however, not one dissenting i Voice. i Mr. Leeds, of Philadelphia, spoke of the i efforts of Speculators, who were strenuously 1 exerting themselves to decry the Morus i M-ulticaulis, and the silk business generally, j in order to escape the inevitable ruin which < would certainly overtake them, in the event t Of not succeeding in their efforts, from the i imprudent contracts entered into by them < early in the spring to furnish immensequan- < titles of trees at 12 12 cents each, which < Uiey were now unab c to fill, except at an advance of at least from 100 to 150 per cent. Mr, L. also stated lus wish to purchase, for ' immediate use, ten or fifecn bushels of eo. coons from worms fed exclusvely on the Morus Mulucaulis, and to coutinuo the daily exhibition of Mr. Brooks' patent silk nia~ chine at his establishment No. 2, Franklin Place. He jus:ly contended that nothing would carry conviction to the public mind, with the same force, as these exhibitions. People wanted to see for themselves?and seeing would be believing. He also announced that he was ready to purchase, at a liberal price for cash, from one to ten thousand bushels of cocoons. . Mr. Pierce, of Mount Airy, who has been engaged in tlie silk business for the last eight years, on the white mulberry, remarked that, although he had hitherto doubts, strong doubts of the adaptation of the Morus Multicuult* tree Ho the production of silk,yet he was now,convinced, from experience, that -this was the food for the silk- worm, and so firm ly was he of this opinion, that ho designed the ensuing spring to plant one hundred acres with the Morus Multicaulis, to go into the cultivation of silk on an extensive scale, and was now making preparations to manufacture silk cloths for his umbrella estabinent in Philadelphia.. Mr. P. also impar. ted some very valuable information relative to his mode of preserving the egg until the time of katchiug, which was this : The eggs were removed to a cool cellar as soon os they had their natural color, after being laid;, when the cold weather came on, they were placed in a room without fire, and kept there through the winter ; they were then rolled up and put into a confectioner's sho w bottle, corked up, and the cork being slight, ly sunk below the top of the bottle, the cavity was filled up with mel'ed rosin, dec. entire. la A*fht/4u>? I ho air Thj? hr?H? U'Aa ihnA y W?V?W?J MIW Wl? ?UV WW>H? " ?W IIPK | put into a small keg, filled round with shaviogs, and after being heeded.up, was placed in the.ice-house until wanted. Mr. P. said (hat scarcely an egg failed in batching, an healthier worms be had seen nowhere. . Mr. .Ellis, of New Jersey, remarked that '.' too ipuch care could not be observed in the purcabse of eggs, be having been most womiy deceived iu the supply which ho had bought for himself. Out of thirty ounces, scarcely any hatched ; and as they were all or principally New England egjzs, he had i c6me"to the conclusion that the Yankees did < not make good eggs. There have, no doub', i been many similar failures, but (said Mr. ?.)as tbcre will be a large supply in the ;} market of this year's produce, there will bo no difficulty, if the eggs be purchased froui the |jrnducirs, of obtaining healtiiy ones. Mr. E. also stated that he had built a cocoonery this summer, 25. by 50 JeetfjcaIcuL ated to leed three millions of worms, for i twelve I Hind red dollars , and if the principle < of economy observed in the construction of i this balding were applied to those of smaller , dimensions adapted to small cultivators, the i expense of erecting a cocoonery would be very trifling, and ^very farmer in the com- i tnuniiy could go into itie business without diverting any hazardous amount of money frptn ibt-ir ordinary occupation* . ' The proceedings contain a letter from < Mr. Physick, tlie owner of Highfield Co. coonery, near Philadelphia, the largest in theU. States,tp Mr.'Matthew Carrey,for the following part of which we make room ; i premising that although Mr. Physick' might at present obtain the price stated by him for his silk made into sewings, yet that could not be done by ail now embarking in the silk culture, when they all get fairly on the way with the business ; because the de. tnand for sewing silk would not be equal to the supply. It >'b not the present price of sewing silk, but that of raw silk that culturists should adopt as the basis of their cal? . eolations of profit from the business. This however, Which at present is ?5,50 per lb. ought to satisfy any one. - , Perhaps it would be proper for me in this place to contradict the statement of persons unknown, that 60,000 worms fed o.. .Morus , Multicaulis perished, in one day at my estub. inent. Why,.- sir, we have not lost the twcllh part of that number during the whole | hummer; but if it were true, still it would j not be as many by thousands as all silk growers expect to lose out of so large a number us we have fed this summer, [2,000. j M00.J M. Camilie Beauvais, an eminent ail- < thority upon the culture of silk, asserts thai t the Frem.li usually lose 50 per cent of their 1 .whole crop. i I think, therefore, I am warranted in 9ay. i ing that the experiment of Uborating silk- * worms from Morus Muiticaulis at Highfield I ; Cocoonery has been crowned with complete ? , success, or at least with greater success i than usually falls to the lot of feeders upon the White Italian)Mulberry in France itself, a nation having the experience of centuries ' in this art?of centuries, I soy, for it is well 4 known that the first mulberry trees was in ' traduced there 6uring the time of the Cru- ' trades, by Giupafe, of St. Aubon, and plan. I' :ed three leagues from Mont Meliart ; and it is a matter of history that Charles the Severnh wore, atjhis entrance into Rouen, in 1449, a beaver lined with velvet, the most :ost y and elegant head ornament known at that time. Certain it is, that many speculators in Morus Multicnulis, without owning or rearing a solitary tree themselves, actually sold thousands of them at very low prices las* spring, confidently expecting to buy them at lower prices still, long before the time for delivering them in the fall. But, as the silk business is now fully ascertained to be no humbug, but rather a substantial reality, and the value of the tree having consequent, ly risen instead of fallen, it becomes a mat* :er of great pecuniary importance to them to put the fall prices down, ay, and keep them down, too ; and a* one means of effecting this object, I am told they have circulated a report far and wide that I purpose selling off my whole stock ; that, having tried the experiment fully, ( have found it would not do, have become tired of and abandoned it. But,sir, what is the truth? Why, so far . ? J _< __j _t?j?:?, r^i irom oeing urea ui auu auauut/mug u, i !? gratified beyond measure at having commenced it, nor could I possibly point out any other occupation so likely to please the generally of mankind as this?tne whole process, from hatching the eggs to manufacturing the most costly brocades, being replete with interest in all its stages?ay, and with profit, too: for,from the experience of this summer, I feel perfectly certain we can raise, upon a very moderate calculation, from the 100,000 Multicaulis trees I propose to reserve for my own use out of 400000 I have now growing, enough to plant my whole farm of 60 acres very thickly with them next year?not to sell, but to supply my Cocoonery with foliage for 15,000,000 worms, intended to be raised the year after next. My land is b) no means in a high state of cultivation, yet I feel cer. tain that the above number of worms can be fed from its produce when the trees are two years old ; and as 1,000,000 produce 333? lbs of raw silk, so will 15.000,000 produce 5,000 lbs. worth $50,000 when converted into sewing silk, at a cost of one dollar per pound, which 1 am told is ample when done on a large scale, from which deduct $5,000, and the nett profit of my 60 acres of laud will be $45,000. 1 allow nothing to pay for rearing the worms, because, when the mukicauiis becomes plen. tiful, we shall mow it down, and throw it, stems and all, to the worms ; the diminished expense of which, together with our present Slate bounty, being amply sufficient to cover this item. *: Perhaps you will consider me extravagant in tny calculations.* What! methinks I hear you say, $45,000 from 60 acres of thin land in one year ? Impossible! Be assured, however, my dear sir, that i was only a I'ttle while ago?not a year?more skeptical upon this subject than the most perfect ir.fi. del to ray present statement can be now ; but, having carefully examined facts and practice only?theory being totally disregardod?I cannot resist credence to the mass of evidence I meet with, both from ray own experience and that of other?, warranting theasseition that the above is only a part of what can be accomplished if energy, enterprise, and a small capital, go hand in hand to work. Mr. E. P. Roberts, whose sincerity cannot be questioned, states (after a careful Dr. and Cr. account with one acre) that $1,128 33 will most probably be found to be thenett profit from it, if devoted to the culture of silk, when the trees have attained 4 years of age, which would give $67,609 80 from 60 acres of land ; and the Rev. j D. V. McLean, of Freehold, New Jersey, actually raised, on one~sixteenth of an acre, last year, from roots of multicaulis planted that season, the enormous amouut of thirtyone pounds eleven ounces of cocoons, be. ing about 507 pounds to tho acre. Experfence, then, sanctions the belief that iny estimate is only a part of the truth. With these views, ynu will easily be persuaded that no consideration could induce me to sell all my trees. In tho early part of the feeding season, iny superintendent, Mr. Spencer, was decidediy in doubt respecting the advantages of the Morus Multicaulis, but is now a firm convert to faith in its superiority. Mr Os. ler, a well known and very respectable tailor in our village, assures us that our silk, reeled on one of my improved Piedmontese reels, is decidedly superior in every desirable quality to any he has ever seen of the pro* duce of this or any other country, from the white Italian mulberry. Now, sir, I should not have been discouraged if I had lost every worm I had attempted to raise this year, for the season has been so very wet, and the leaves so very succulent, that it is a perfect miracle to me they have not all perished. Well aware of the deep rcsponsbility I assume in representing the culture of silk from Morus Alulticaulis in such glowing colors, whereby many persons may be induced to embark in it their who'e capital? fht hard-earned savings of a life of toil? and also, of the just censure i should merit from them if I have knowingly deceived them ; still, I deliberately add, that every word abovo expressed is true to the best of my knowledge aud belief, and that 1 am firmly persuaded that the Morus Multicaulis s the most valuable tree on earth. , To Prevenx Horses being teased with Flies. Take two or three small handsful jf walnut leaves, upon which pour two or hree pints of soda and cold-water?let it inr fuse one night, and let it boil a quarter of in hour?when cold it will be fit for use, no nore is required than to moisten a spouge, ind before the horse goes out of the stable, et those parts which are most irritable be tmeared over with liquor, viz : between and jpon the ears, the flank, dec. A country girl attending a Quaker meet* ng was asked by a friend how she liked it. 4 Like it ! why 1 see no sense in silting for tours without saying a woid, it is enough to (ill the d?1." 44 Yea my dear," replied, le, * that is just what we want.' From the American Farmer. SONG FOB TUB TIPPLER. Fill up the cup, the bowl, the glass, With wine and spirits high, And we will drink tvhilo round they pass, To?Vice and Misery! Push quickly round the draught again. And drain the goblet low, And drink in revelry's swelling strain. To?Reason's overthrow ! Fill, fill again?fill higher still! Tho glass more warmly press? Fill up and drink, and drink and fill, To?Human beastliness ! Tush round! push round in quickest timeThe lowest drop be spent In one loud round to guilt and crime And?Crime's just punishment! Fill, fill again?fill to the brim, To?Loss of honest fame ! Quaff?deeper quaff?whilo now we driuk Our wive's, our childi en's shame ! Push round, push round with loudest cheer Of mirth and revelry ! . v We drink to?Woman's sighs and tears, And ehildien's poverty ! Fill up the glass?fill yet mora high! Thus soon ne'er let us part? Stun not nt u nmaii's tears and siplis. Give?Beauty's broken heart! Onco more ! while powcx yet remain, E'en with its latest breath, Drink ! to ourselves?Disease and pain, And infamy and death. A DISCOVERT OF THE ARTS. One of the most important recent discove rie6 is the one applicable to the reprinting < books, or reproduction of engravings. M. Di pont, a very industrious printer, was seekin the means of saving the'expense of etereotyp ing. With the assistance of a particular in he was already enabled to avoid the preserv. tion of the cliche?, which requires many ma terials, and much place and money, by th means of the preservation of a mere printc sheet which lithography afterwards reproduce whenever it was wanted, but doubting whethi the ink used upon that sheet would ictain i course of time the same properties, "he consu ted his brother, a very intelligent lithographe and the latter found what neither ventured ' expect. The new process is ipplicable not oni to fresh printed sheets, but likewise to the oli est books, and which is of far more interest, I Greek, Chinese, and Hebrew books. It coi sists in two operations. Over the page * engraving of wh.ch you want a copy you h a particular composition. It is placed upc the lithographic stone and pressed, the stoi reproduces, with scrupulous precision, tl original engraving or book. This impressu could not however, serve such as it is. It itself covered with the same preparation, it m; then print thousands of copies by the ordinal process of every sort of lithography. Five mil utcs suffice for both operations. The origin engraving may be restored to the portfol which has supplied it, for it has not been in tl slightest degree injured ; the book, thus whol reprinted, may undergo binding, and bonorafe resume its place in you> library. This ne process admits of a reduction of75percei upon the expenses of printing; and as for ei graving that which on copper would have coi 1000 francs will now cost 20 francs ! Wh: consequences wiil this discovery not yield ! i threatens the graphic arts engraving and prin ing, with a complete revolution. A man of th greatest talent in the art lays claim to priori! tn this discovery; as is always the case, whe success has been obtained claims come in.The wisdom of the central jury and patei laws must decide the question. The kjnj queen, Madame Ade.aide, and PrinceaaJJi* mentino. vutitcd again tb6 exposition MfrW amined the lythotographic produce of tli brothers. His majesty observing an engrave bead of Albert Durer, of 1527, which WJ wanting in his collection of tho Palais Royali ordered a copy of it and congratulated M. & Duponts upon a discovery whereby thei would be no longer any scarce engravings < books. [Paris Periodical. From the New York Commercial Advertiser, INTERESTING CEREMONY. Married on the morning of the 3lst ulti mo, at the Institution for the Deaf and Dum in this city, by the Rev. Dr. Milnor, Mr. J R. Burnett, of Livingston, N. Y.f t Miss Phebe Osborne of Castile, Gennese county, N. Y.. (a pupil of the institution.) We have seldom attended a matrimonii occasion of more agreeable interest tha the one above mentioned. It was a gala day at the institution. Th aunual examination of tho school at th close of the term had passed off successful! me day oeloro, ana tne summer vacauo was just commencing. The Secretary c State, in his official capacity, as supermen dent of schools, together with several othe literary gentlemen of distinction, had atten dedthc examination and ah expressed them selves highly gratified with the progress c the pupils, and the prosperity' oT the instiiu tion; the majority of the pu? is were jus about to take their accustomed summer tou tour into country, to visit their parents an friends, and/Ae wedding was to be the final of the term. IDalth, hope and happincs reigned among the inmates of the youthfu mute community, and the language of ever countenance seemed to be ucome haste t< the wedding?then haste to our homes." At nine and a half A. M. the bride am her maids were dressed and decked will flowers, and the bridegroom and several o his relatives arrived in carriages from town Four pretty deaf muto girls officiated u bride's maids, accompanied by two dea mute young men, and two of the young mei professors of the institution. Attended bi these four couples, the pair betrothed, at tei o'clock entered the large apartment in th west wing of the institution, where, in th< presence of an assemblage of two hundrci persons, they were to be united in u tin holy estate of matrimony." The ceremon; was solemnized after the Episcopal form by the Rev. Dr. Mil nor. (President of |h< institution, in his happiest and most impres sive manner. The interpretation of thi spoken words, sentence by sentence, to thi mute married pair, and the mute portion o the audience, was performed by Mr. Peet in his peculiarly elegant and forcible mod< exhibiting the sign language. The solemnities on the occasion were ter. T minuted by prayers and benediction. Tiien ajg^ followed the usual salutations, refreshments, sn)jt <fcc., and at 11 o'clock the bride, rffter taking an ofiectionate leave of her fellow pu- sfre< pils, her instructors and friends at the insti. and tution, departed with her husband and his oug friends, to her new home west of the Pas- l0 n sa'c# in t< Could we without invading the sanctity of vcnj domestic peace, and without holding up ^ private character before the public in un- P pleasant aspects,?could we give the details jee7 of the evil produced by the Grog Shops in j Columbia, alone, they would show to the most cusual observer the importance of the - work in which we are engaged. We do 8 not mean by this, that Grog Shops are 7th worse here than elsewhere, so far as their and simple character as places of Retail are con- of A cerned. Grog shops are pretty much on a the par, so fur as intrinsic moral character is the regarded, find them where you may. One entc definition .akes in the whole group?a Iew conj gilized curse to Health, to Property, to Morals, public and private, to Domestic 8 Peace, to Reputation, to the Immortal Soul. And without boasting of great logical skill, M we unhesitatingly assert, that every item of onr> this definition can be fully proven. We dre< bdieve that ail that^is wanted to f rove to 4*pl< the whole mass of our fallow.citizens, the tute truili of this, is simply to spread before them, dim on the authority of good men, whom they hav know, the details ol what Ardent Spirits p0W has done and is now doing in our State. maj We have said that Grog Shops in Columbia are no worse, considered simply as T retailing.houses, than they areclsewheie, 9 but in other important aspects, they are 0 1 incomparably worse than the generality of ac*? Liquor Houses. We believe that the Grog l^e Shops in Columbia do more injury to the dist i. State, than three times the same number lut< g elsewhere. The fact that our S:ate College per is located here, with a hundred and sixty int< ^ or a hundred and seventy Students, at an ve[] ^ age when habits and character for future a ri g life are in a formation state renders it incal- ^ ^ culably important thai Grog Shops in this td place be suppressed, if in no other part of the ^ ir Stat*?. 1 n Now, how is this to be effected ? As a ^ 1- preparatory work for it let the Citizens of r* Columbia, let the Trustees of the College, wa j? let the Members of the Legislature, let every hai j. Parent who expects to educate a son here mc 10 ?let tliem know what evils have been exi. perienced by our College, and through it, r 3T by every part of the State, from Grog J iy Shops, Oysier Houses, et omne id genus, cor )n in Columbia. We have no opposition to J? eating.houses?there should be such in w )n every Town ; but ail the places of that kind j is we have ever known here, were mere Grog mc iy Shops, with an eating department of secon- ^ y dary importance appended, by way of co. ^ dies! to the establishment. These are the cf, sort ofestablishments that lie in the path of the inexperienced and generous.hearted j Iy young student, and whose attracions induce coc ly him toenter?to return ; again and again lie q0, w returns, "uutlT tho f.*undation of dissipated s0( it habits arc laid, and he returns but to J- wreck the cherished hopes of an affection- raj Bt ate mother, and to carry down a father's rJ grey hairs in sorrow to the grave. Not a ^ few of the Students of South Uurolma Uol- ten ie lege have been entombed inthe Drunkard's wj, ty grave, and some of them almost before in manhood's seal was stamped upon their glu - brows. How much of this has been the an< work of Columbia Grog Shops, we know go not; that some of it has been, we do know. wo Wo writ? not fliis in nngnr, or with nn iin_ to ( ,e proper spirit of hostility to those places. >d This subject excites too many melancholy hj is retrospections to indulge in anger. It g" brings up associations of earlier years. It *r recalls the friends of opening manhood?the ' 6 gay, genereus throng oflight-hearted youth, )r with wiiom we were linked in joyous fellow. * ship. A lit lo mound of earth meets our t . eye hero and there, through the State, to tell i that death has been doii.g his work even An _ among them. Many have fallen in early k life, and but for the poison of the Gin Shop, j j some of these might still have been living. ?ca ^ We im ite the Graduates of the College to Ar respond to the. circular of the Executive f Committee, through onr columns. The I whole cannot be told, perhaps not half; but j a vast amount of startling facts can be Mu brought forward. We know something f .WI/. Mxina M/ul ein?orolv VVP auuui una ?n<jur;i. vtuoi ? >? wish, that we knew less from personal observation and experience. We understaud ^ ^ distinctly the operation of these places on St* our College, and for one we shall respond Oie ' to litis Circulars. t0<J^ Temperance Advacnte. I" CHfc HAW GAZETTE, Z ! FRIDAY EVENING. SEPT. 13, 1839. 1 ___ Bo* 1 State of the River.?One inch above low earl j water mark. clot a dec< e We saw, a day or two ago, a box of reeled 1 ,j silk made by Col. Hugh Craig, at Chester- ono y field C. H. The silk weighed 15 lb. and 1 0 is a splendid article. Wo wish some of ?? i t i ? stnd those who denominate what they are pleas. that jj ed to call the silk fever and Multicaujis ma* ser* f niu, a "humbug" could have seen it. It T i. woulJ have scattered their doubts to the toti< s winds. Co'. Craig has been engaged in w,li ^ the silk culture, on a small scale, for experi* * ment, the last several years. He has made supj 1 13 or 14 pounds annually for four or five years past, and this year he calculated to B make 100 lb. for which he had provided abundant foliage ; but through an oversight * 3 u- , . , ? pap in putting up his eggs he lost the greater it ^ ,f pnrt of them. Ho sold his silk last year and e for 85 50 per pound, and could have othc * got 86 but for a slight defect in the reeling; *ate 5 and he thinks the cost of making, less than ? amo f 82. But as he has promised, at our request, buti . to furnish for our columns a statement of To . . yet 3 his experience in the business, wo forbear to piac enter into further particulars. 'here was an alarm of fire in town two *50* It originated in the blackh'ssbop of Mr. Andrew Miller on 2d :t. The night being perfectly calm the house isolated (as Smith's shops ht always to be) the fire communicated 0 other building. This is tho third fire )wn within two years nt which incon. ience was cxperit need for the want of iic ladders, and still we believe none have 1 made I he twelfth annual Faiii of the ericas Institute will commence at NibGarden in the city of New York on the of October. It will be a most splendid interesting exhibition of the productions griculture and the mechanic arts from all most improved parts of our country. At last year's fair at least 150,000 visiters ired the garden during the exhibition, and :ributions for exhibition were received from ) persons, each of whom brought an aver, of from ten to fifteen articles. At the four fairs, jthere were awarded as premiums hundred and twenty gold medals, six hun1 silver medals, and about fifteen hundred amas?solely at the expense of the Insti; and the number will probably not be iniehed the present year. The Institute e purchased a steam boiler of sufficient rer to put in operation the most massive ihinerv which may be brought for exhibit )uring the last meeting of the legislature he state of New York, a resolution was ptcd by a meeting composed of most of active members of that body and other ;inguished individuals, requesting the insti 3 to call a convention of silk culturists, and sons friendly to this important and growing jrest, during the annual lair. Such a conition is accordingly invited to assemble, and oom has been appropriated for its use on evening after that on which the anniversa* address of the institute is to be delivered. We learn from an exchange paper that "Sunday Morning News'* of NowYorkj s seized in the hnnds of boys who were vking it about the streets on Sunday irning, for n violation of state laws. Raleioii and Gaston Rail Roao. Tito Raleigh Register says that the Cars will nmenco running, in a fow days, to Franklin pot, 17 miles only from that place; and the ole Road will bo finished by Christmas. Joth political parties claim a majority of the mbcra elect to the next Congross. Th< ingth of parties will not be certainly knowr tho body mocts, when the election of Speak will probably shew it. ^oricultueal Meetings.?Meetings havj re illy been held in Columbia and at Newberrj urt House for tho formation of Agricultura ciciics. The Columbia meeting authorized i wm'iMae tpp^in4 to the Agricultu Convention in November. American Phrenological Journal.?The Sep iber number of this periodical is before us ich is tho concluding number of Vol. 1.? j havo repeatedly recommended the woik ti dents of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy 1 avail ourselves of the present occasion to d< again. For notice, by tho conductors of th rk, seo advertising columns. Persons wishinj Luko the work may oddroee tho Editor ofthi icr. Phrcn. Jour, care of A. VValdie, Phiiade! l, William H. Berrott, Charleston, S. C. o: Colraan. N. York city, fho following is tho table of contents of th< i. bcforo us. t. I.?An Examination of Phrenology; intw< Noctures, delivered to tho Students of Colam d&n Colloge, D. C? Feb. 1837. By Thoma Jew all, M. D. (review.) t. II.?Case in which Character was inforrec rom Cerebral Developeincnt. t. III.?Phrenology in the Family; or the Jtility of Phrenology in Early Domestic Ed. ,tion. By Joseph A. Warno, A. M. (review.] r. IV.?Remarks on the Organ of Watchillness, r. V.?Phrenology in relation to Fatalism, Necessity, and Human Responsibility. By oseph A. Warne, A. M. icellant. 'hrenology in France?Dr. Vimont on Com. parative Phrenolgy?Mr. Combe. Lt&moeting of the Wardens and Vestry oi David's Church, Cheraw, hold on Wednesday 4th in9l. the following resolutions wero sdop. 1 ? ? * !_ be wardens ana vesiry or mis cnurcn iuuy sible of the affliction experienced by. this gregation and the other congregations of the cess in the death of their highly esteemed and rod Diocmn the RioHT Rsvukko Nathaniel ven. Resolved, that wo approve of tho y measures adop'ed by a part of our body to he the Church in mourning in respect to tho jasiid. 'hat we will wear crape on the left arm for month. 'hat Friday the 13th inst. be observed by this gregation as a day of Fasting, Humiliation Prayer, in view of our common loss, and ; tho Rector bo requested to perform divine ice in the church on that day. 'hat while we bow submissively to this visi. >n of the Almighty, wo warmly sympathize i tho farai y of tho deceased, and earnestly t that they may ho sustained under their sore tavement by Him who alone is able to render port and help in time of need. W. H. ROB BINS, Sec'y. of Wardens and Vestry. Mother Jonathan.?This is the title of a jr lately commenced in the city of New York; the largest paper published in the country; contains perhaps a greater variety than any :r. A weekly correspondent of the National illigencer from that city notices it as follows : "he Brother Jonathan is now the Goliah mg our weeklies, and its circulation, though eight numbers are issued, is already immense, those readers who desiderate a cheap and inoet valuable compendium of all that lakes e, of interost, in t. e course of a week, in 7 York, this great paper may be confidently recommended. Tho Evening Tattler fa the daily "tender" of Brother Jonathan, and fa the moat spicy diurnal publish d in Hew York. The present has been, and continues to be one of the most healthy seasons we have ever had in this part of the country. For the C be raw Gazette. Mr. Edtitor: It is an old saying that M ono black sheep infests the flock," but in this nineteenth century, the ago of improvement, that seems to be reversed. For example, the Grecian Bend, of universal fashion, first appeared among the whites, but now infects the blacks. Year's, respectfully, The following are the contents of the South, ern Agriculturist for September. Part I?Editorial and Original. Address, delivered before the Agricultural Society of Be nfort; by J. M. Verdier, VicePresident, at the Anniversary Meeting on the 15ih June last. m Proceedings of the Horticultural Society of Charleston. On Improving Wornout Lands ,by C. R. C. * Advantages of tho Culture of Cotton over Silk ; by Senex. Part II?Selections. Of Lime. . ;i Astonishing Facts; * Preservation of ?he Health of Negtfbt. lnnoculatiou or Budding. " Charcoal as a Cathartic. Do. Nutrive Qualities. Squash Vines. Origin of Silk Worms. Putting up and Transplanting Seeds. Varieties 1/ the Mulberry. The Mulberry Crop and Prices. Analogy of Medical and Agricultural Education. On breeding from Young Stallions. Vaccination. -irr Power of the Horse,?Spanish OxenWorking Cows. Method of ascertaining the Weight of Cattle. Statistics of Cotton. Part HI.?Miscellaneous Intelligence. Offic re, &c. of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina ; Sun "flower Oil; Preservation of the Peach Tree; Oyster Shells; Millet; . To Cure Salt.Rheum ; Extirpation of Gariick ; Hay-racks; Pulverize the Soil; Geology, use' ful to the Farmer; Statistical Tables; Newspapers, Magazines, and Periodicals. the fever is auousta. We extract the following sentences from a letter of Dr. Anthony of Augusta to the May* I or of that city on the character and origin of 1 the fever which has caused so great a panic ' among its citizens. "As rumor has spread far and wide the gratuitous falsehood that Yellow Fever and a ' contagious epidemic exist in Augusta, it may > not be improper, in order that truth, with its 1 wholesome bearing may obtain amongst our . friends in Charleston as well as elsewhere^ to state in connexion with the above, without restingtho truth on its bare announcement, . that so far as I have been able, to learn, no r case of Yellow Fever has originated in Augusta during the whole season; that the die* 1 ease by which our community has been visited ' is the samo in its general character with the . fevers which formerly afflicted our city by its annual recurrence in autum? the same with that which prevailed in Barnwell District, . South Carolina, the last season, and other dis, tricts in Georgia, and elsewhere that its occur, rence at this season, after years of almost tinparallelled health is fairly, and properly attri. a butable to a predisposition more or less gener. at through the country, arising from a summer o of unusual heat, followed by the cool easterly D breezes of approaching autumn. These cats. y es have introduced a fever, the general charao. * ter of which is primarily, injlamatory bilious 0 (over. Am the season has progressed, the gen * era! character of the fever has become more r simply inflammatory, or the ordinaiy febrile A symptoms produced by cold. All these cases ^ 3 have been found of easy control. A modifying cause has, however, operated with great pow. er on a small portion of the city, in a line of a } few hundred yards, directly leeward of the ' trash wharf?a'collect ion of putrescent filth deposited in the river occupying, above water, { a space of a quarter or half an acre. In the line of the easterly and north easterly winds ) which prevailed steadily for two or three weeks . over this wharf, a considerable number of cases ) were so modified as to render them highly * dangerous and in some instances uncontrolable, by the superaddition of congestive symptoms. 1 These cases in order to characterise their dif. ' ference are properly denominated "Congestive cases of bilious fever." This is the ordinary type of those cases of bilious fever, which ' cause death erlier than the senventh or eighth day, whenever it prevails. ' The Fall River Patriot states that Capt. ' Cummings, of the brig Taunton, arrived at that port, picked uo on the 28th of April, on Key Largo, E. Florida, a bottle containing the following note. If true, the vessel may i be found on the const of New Jersey. > Feb. 13,1839. The brig Margaret, from New Orleans, bonnd to Charieson, S. C., . Thomas Tyler, master, $150,000 in specie on board, six days out, now ofif the Island of Cuba, attacked by pirates in a small vessel enhnnnnr riaired. Thev have taken - OP? J ^ every thing, scuitlcJ the brig, and now have us in custody. This sly opportunity is now taken to lot the world know our situ* at ton. The pirate schooner is commanded by a black; most of the crew same color. (Signed; THOMAS AYMES, Passenger on board the brig. THE FABLE OF THE FOX AND THE FLIES. When a land office Inspector in Mississippi, V. M. G.treche, found Boyd the successor of Harris, a defaulter, "following in the footsteps i of his predecessor," he interpose his kind advice to the Secretary of the Treasury in the following terms ;? "The account of the receiver, which I have made out and transmit herewith presents against him a balance of $55,965 54. His own account makes it $53,272 73; it is also annexed. His assets of which I also send you the list, amount to $64,549 98, rating the land at $125 only, but might probably realize , double the amount The man seems realty penitent; and I am inclined to think, in com., mon with his friends, that he is honest, and has been led away from his duty by the example of his predecessor, and a certain loosness in the code of morality, which here does not move in so limited a circle as it does with us at home. Another receiver would probably follow in the footsteps of the two. You will not, therefore, be surprised if I recommend his being retained, in preference to another