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to the masters of steamboats on the Western waters, who allowed him to make long and, in some instances, repeated passage, and declined receiving any compensation. 44 These acts of politeness to the agent, and of benevolence to the society," says Mr. Holmes,44 call for and have my most sin cere thanks." In many parts of the country, especially West aud South, it is common with tavern keepers to refuse any emolument for the entertainment of clergymen. This custom, which arises from feelings of respectful courtesy towards men who have d?-voted their lives to the promulgation of the Gospel of Peace, is of a kindred nature with that which Mr. Homes experienced as tho ngeut ofa benevolent society. It is a custom honorable to the country. The clergy are the great public teachers of the community, and constitute, if true to their calling, the strongest conservative principle of the republic. Leaving it to others to acumulate, weahh, and to enjoy political distinctions, asking no support from Government, but depending on the liberalizing influence of the Gospel which they preach, their claims bigh respect, which they themselves urge Dot, it becomes us all inwardly to feel and acknowledge. Nothing to have arrested the attention of De Tocqueville during his travels in this country, so sirongly as the regard which was entertained by all classes towards their spiritual instructors, and the unhesitating confidence which clergymen themselves expressed in the certain, ty of the tenure by w> ich their functions were uphetd. He declares that in ull his intercourse with religious pastors, of nearly every denomina'ion in the United States, he found not one that express- d a wish for a union of Church and State, with a view to the better security of tho former ; but, on the contrary, all declared it as their opinion that such a measure would be in the highest degree injurious to the interests of both. We may hero observe that nowhere else has the expeiiment ever been fried of thus leaving religion to take care of itself, w ithw out the aid of Government to sustain it. The successful action of the system is one of the most distinguished features of our so cial and political organization. Bult. American. THE ROHAN POTATO. We have received from a Subscriber in Montgomery, county, Maryland, samples of a crop of the Rohan Pota'o, raised by him this season on his farm in tint counfrv. ?n L . . /. i ne poiaioes sent 10 us are 01 enormous sizo and weight, being also perfectly sound. The following information concerning this valuable product, extracted from tho letter which accompanied then, may be useful to many leaders: The Rohan potato, latterly introduced into this country, is remarkable for its large size, extraordinary productiveness, fine flavor, and farinaceous qualities as a late or winter table potuo, or for stock. For exporimcnt, I planted separately two potatoes, weighing each a pound, (being about half the size of tho accompanying,) and I raised from them 143 lbs. which is rather more than two and a third bushels : and I have reason to believe my whole crop (about 300 bushels) will fully equal tins increase. They arecenainly a most valuable in'roiction, and I doubt not will be universjlly cultivated ?giving an increase of moro than seventy fold. I procured my seed last spring of John A. Thompson, ofCatskill, who introduced the Rohan potato from Europe, lie informs me that just in proportion as they have become known, the demand for them has increased." Nar. Intel A NEW MOVEMENT. It has ofen been remarked that when valuable discoveries are made public, almost every body wonders why they were not thought of before?so obvious, generally is the utlity of the new project, and so simple are the means of its application. Such is the case with the plan announced in tho following paragraph, which wo cop) from a paper printed in Scotland. The combination of canal and railroad which it proposes is so evidently practicable and advantageous that one can hardly understand why it was not adopted much earlier in the age of railroad operations- N. F. Com. Adv. On Monday and Tuesday the following novel experiment of locomotive steam-power was tried on the Firth nnd Clyde canal. Mr. John M*NEtL,thc civil engineer of the Clyde navi??a!ion, has had constructed on the banks of the canal a railway upon blocks, on which a locomotive engine has been put, which was used on the above named days instead of horses, to draw the canal passage boats, and succeeded in taking them the whole distance of the lmn at the rate ol eight miles an hour. The company having as certaint-d ihe full succe-s of tho experiment, will construct a tramway along the canal bank, and will be able to take their passage boats in future at tho rate ofeighteen miles an hour. Among the new "movements, doings, and so on," in the city, is an effort to induce a colored population to go to Tiinidad.? The promise is to pay them for their labor, and to give them all the civil and political rights of Englishmen An agent of the Coloney is in the city, who has already cured ono hundred emigrants, who will be carried out free from expense to themselves. T?i? T : :n n a no Liuuisviiivj vrazene nonces an improvement in machinery that promises to be ' important. The invention is credited to a couple of young gentlemen, of Oldham County, Ken ucky, who have been engaged for some time in the business of millers.? The effect of the improvement, is to convert the weight of machinery into power. The inventors confidently assert, that a steam engine of fifty horse power,* can be run by the use of only one horse power acting upon the fly wheel. One of them was on a visit to Loutsville. for the purpose of having the experiment fairly tested. N. Orleans Bulletin. IMPORTANT DISCOVERT. A discovery has recently been made by Cieri, a celebrated decora'ive painter in France, that promises to be very useful.? The detection of some chemical affinity hitherto unknown, has taught him the art of fixing colors on stone. He can imitate murble, or paint subjects in the natural stone. The colors are so deep struck into the pores of rock, that it may be ground or polished without injuring them. N. O. Bulletin. A writer in the Knoxville Times recommend ihe abandonment of the Charleston and Cincinnati Rail Road, or at least that portion of it east of Knoxville. This recommendation is based upon the ground that there will be very speedily in operation a line of Rail Roads from Knoxville to Charleston, by a butter and shorter route? a reason which seems to us to be unanswerable. Tee following is the present state of the work : From Charleston to Augusta, 136 miles finished and in use; from Augusta to Greensborough, Geo. 100 miles, finished and in use ; from Greensborough to Madison, 20 miles, graded, but not laid with rail; from Madison to Decature, 50 miles nothing yet done; from Decatur, to Red Clay on the Tennesee line, 115 miles, 100 very nearly graded, and a heavy force at work , from Red Clay to Knoxville, 97 miles, 70 will be graded in sixweek9,and - i I there is a heavy force on the remamaer, ana the delivering of timber for ruling progressing rapidly. Thus we see (says ihe wriier in the Times,)** that of the whole distance from Knoxville to Charleston, (510 miles) nearly one-half is in use, while 426 miles are actually either laid with the rails, or are ready graded to receive tnem." If the i Charleston and Cincinnati Rail Road Com puny would omploy th ir resources in mak ing a Road from Knoxviile to Cincinnati, so as to open a communication with the Ohio river, it seems to us that they would effect a much more desirable object, both for the commercial interests of Charleston and the profit of the stockholders, than by opening a second Ra I Road line between Charleston and Knoxville, their own being every way less inviting that which is now so nearly completed. Kentucky Reporter. Gen. Gains lately married a widow in N. Orleans, through whom he claims property in that city to the amount of $12,000,000. The mother of Mrs. G. was first married to a man who was at the time married to another woman. A separation soon took place and she privately married a Mr. Clark, who in consequence of some disagreement separated from her without a public acknowledgemcnt of tl?o marriage, and married again. Mrs. Gaines was bourn of this private marriage. Clark afterwards made a will, acknowledged the legitimacy of the child and left her his sole heir. A Mr. Relf, his partner, took possession of the estate, under a former will, and is charged wiih having destroyed the last will. A suit is now brought for the recovery of the property. Extract of a letter from Houston Co. Geo., dated Sept. 24, 1839.?wIn the month of July, and the early part of August, the prospects of ho planter WUI" mmom?Uy* | flattering for at large crop of Cotton, but since then the unusually protracted drough which still continues, and the rust have in. 1 it in tku e nmn limn iKnn PVPI* T JUIWVJ II IIIVIVI Its Miv 9UISIU IIIIIV IIIUM " VI M. have known it before, and I am now satisfied that not more than two-thirds of what was then expected, and less than what was made last season, ran now be realized under any circums'ances." Corn.?A Galena correspondent of the Boston Atlas mentions the valley of the Wabash as th? com country of tho. United States, and states that contracts may be made at this time to deliver it in the autumn at 12$ cents per bushel. Corn in Missouri.?The Springfield (Mi.) Standard of a late date says : ** We do not r collect ever to have seen fin'Tcorn crops than there are in thisand the adjoining counties. There are fields of Baden corn in this reunty, which, it is confidently be? lieved by many, will produce one hundred bushels to the acre?some stalks contain thirteen ears. Common corn in the same proportion." Some of our country friends may also be surprised to learn that during the last year 597 vesssel arrived at this port; and that a single house, exported during one year, from June lS38to June 1839, 59,061 barrels of Turpentine ; and 3,133 barrels of Tar. Wdmington (N. C.) Chronicle. Extract of a letter from an extensive planter in Greenville District, Sept. 28, 1839?"Owing to the long and continued drought which has existed for the last two 1.1 - I- ! _ I 1 monins, anu me rust wmcn commeuceu in August, I am satisfied that the country between the Broad and Suvannnh Rivers will not make two thirds of a crop of Cotton." GREAT YIELD OF MULTICAULIS. A gentleman of this town purchased, last Fall four Muiticaulis Trees for which paid Si. He planted the buds, 1200 in number, of which 320 grew.?These 3*20 Trees he sold n few days ago for $160. A pretty fair profit on nn investment of Si, and loss than $5 worth of labor. Fayettevillo Observer. Hiddfn Treasure.?We learn that a young named Lewis Brigham, in North* borough, (Mass.) about :en days since, in digging for woodchucks, unearthed a metal kettle, containing near three pecks, by mea. sure, of old coin, of various denominations, about one-third of which was gold, and the remainder silver. The vessel was so completely decomposed as to be of no strength, and barely to retain its form. We do not understand whether the exnet amount of the money has been ascertained or not. SNOW AT BUFFALO. The Buffalo Journal of the 28th ulf. says the equinoctial storm of the day preceding wound up with a fall of snow, as liberal in quantity as it was untimely in season. It was followed at night, not by frost, but a perfi ct congelation. At a distance from the lake, on the highlands, the Journal says, the depth of snow was, at least six or eight inches. CH K li A. W G AZ ET V ? FRIDAY EVENING. OCT. 11, 1839. Several Advertisements have been received that were too late for this week's paper. Thoy shall appear next week. Agricultural Society.?In the notice ol the semi-annual meeting of this society "as it appeared last week, there was an error as to the time of the meeting. It wdl be on Friday the 18th instant. The election for member of Congress in this district, to supply the vacancy caused by the resignation of Col. Richardson, is to take place on the first Monday in November. The candidates we understand are Thomas P Ecans Esq. of Lancaster, and Thomas D. Sumter and John S. Richardson Esqs. of Sum' ter; all said to be for the Sub-Treasury. Managers for Cheraw. A. Blue, M. McCaskill, A.J Moses, The Yellow Ft-vcr in Charleston has abated dui not disappeared. '1 he greatest number of deaths reported in any woek was 16, w ich was the number in the first week of September. The number on the week ending Septambei 29ih was 4. The whole number to that date was 125. The whole number last year was 352. The first repor. ted last year was Aug. 23rd when 23 were repor. ted for the proceeding week. The last death r.'por ted in 1833 was on November 17. The fisrt death this year was June 18. Temperance in Darlington.?From a state, racnt published in the South Carolina Temper, ance Advocate by C ?pt in William Law of Dar< lington, it appears that the number of license! to retailers of ardent spirits in that dintrict were for the several years from 1829 to 1839, in the | order of the years as follows: 11, 17, 12,12 7, 6, 10, 4, 0, 1,0. The present year and two yean | ago no licenses were granted. Such is the fruil of the active exertions of Temperance Associa tions. Can tho same thing be said of any othei district ? - ? Agricultural Summary* "The weight of lime is increased from 301< 50 per cent by slaking ; and its bulk is trip, plod or quadrupled" Prof. Jackson. Purchasers,whether for building or manur ing should bear this in mind. Deciduous trees, that is those which shed thei leaves, may be planted at any time between th< fall of the leaf in autumn, and the openinj the of buds in spring. Evergreens should bi planted when growing. The best 'irae is sooi after the commencement of growth in spring l Holes for all trees transplanted should be duj three or four feet in diameter, to enable thi young roots to penetrate the loose eartl thrown in to to fill up the holes. Let plent of water be poured in o the hole in time c filling up when CV^Zgroanmin a giuwtRgsiati arc pTantcdT This will settle the earth auffi ciently without treading. Allan Pa.fn ronn.lfl in tliA f?n!fiuatnr R Rlf A BiiVll * Ugv V^WI ?W ?HV VUillTMkVI W) VA< kernels or grains of bearded wheat from a single grain. The number of stalks was 106 A. Dey reports, in the same periodical, tha he preserves his peach trees from the ravage of the worm by laying tobacco near the bod] of the tree over the roots both in the eprinj and fa 1, after scraping away the earth. Thi tobacco he covers with earth, and the fiJtra tion of the rain water impregn?t?! U?. tobacco juice, without injuring, the tree, ex pels or keeps off the worm. Mr. Samuel Saltmarsh of Northamptot (Maes.) says he expects to hatch out 150 oun ces of silkworm eggs, and feed five millions o worms next season, which he thinks will pro duce two thousand pounds of raw silk. H< thinks it will be impossible to overstock the country "with trees for several years to come and that the number of eggs saved this yeai will produce a much larger number of wormi next year than there will be trees in the coun try to feed. Mr. Curtis Carter of Richmond expects t< feed two or three millions of worms the nexi season. He fed this year in August frorr 250)000 to 270,000, wi h dry leaves when he could he get them, and wet, when he couU not. His worms did well, and spun in 2< days. A correspondent of the Farmer's Registei says: "One thing I know from experience and that is, all pigs should be either killed oi given away if they are littered at any other season of the year except the three spring months. Reason < are obvious." Hogs, like other animals, particularly whet fattening, should occasionally have salt. South Western Prosperity.?Marling' Stable Manure.?We extract the following sentences from a Virginia correspondent ol the Farmer's Register. All who hnvo land an 1 can marl, can make a superabundance here, and although they make in the sourh-west 10, 15,' 30, 40 and 50 thousand dollars annually, every tinker of them returns hero every fall, and after goring through with his bragging ta. bl"s?lie takes a man of marl by the hand, and says,u Old fellow ! or old friend ! walk aside with m^. I have thirty thousand dol lars worth of cotton ; half I have sent on to Mobile, the other half I ordered shoulJ be sent on as soon as ginned, and, enn you let mo have $1000 or $500?" This has not a good look. The same correspendent of the Register says: Manure.?Every farmer may, with ease, raise as much and even more manure at a very moderate price, than it costs him ic feed his horses, fatten his ho"s, hooves and _ n * , sheep, &c. I say the manure, if judiciously made, and husbanded, and applied, wil more than pay him for all costs in feeding and fattening. Fallow the land and tlier carry out and spread the manure. PEE DEE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. I The Semi Annual meeting of this Society i will be held at Cheraw on Friday the 18th ifist. when a general attendance of the mem - < bera is r- quested. I The following premiums will be awarded, j For the Best Stallion a silver cup of I the value of $30 { ' For the best Jack ' do do 20 | For the best yearling colt do do 10 . For the be9t yearling mule do do 10 | i For the best Bull not less than 2 years old. 20 , For the best milch cow a silver cup of the value of do do 15 ' For the best Bull Calf do do 10 For ** 44 Heifer Calf do do 10 For the best Boar do do 10 For 44 best Sow do do 10 < D. S. HARLLEE,Sec'y. i New York, Srpt. 28. I The domestic exchanges of the country ' continue in the same deplorable condition, and I grow worse instead of better. I Exchanges, < Philadelphia, 1-2 I Baltimi re, 3-4 i Richmond, 2 1-4 to 2 1-2 i North Carolina, 4 to 5 , Savannah, 10 to 12 ..A gusta, 10 to 12 y Charleston, 4 to 4 1-2 1 Appalachacola, 121-2 to 20 Mobile, 12 1-2 to New Orleans, 4 1-2 to 5 Louisville, o Nashville, 10 to 12 Natchez, 10 to 30 St. Louis, 8 Cincinnati, 4 to 5 Detroit, 4 to 5 Bank Notes. , Pennsylvania, 1-2 to 1 , Virginia, 2 1-2 to 2 1-2 i North Carolina, 4 to 5 Georgia, 10 to 12 > South Carolina, 5 to 7 ? Florida, 20 to 25 t Alabama, 12 to 13 Louisiana, 4 1-2 to 5 r Kentucky, 51-2 to 8 Tennessee, 10 Misiyssippi, 10 to 17 Missouri, 7 to 8 Ohio, 0 to 7 , Michigan, no sale. Indiana, 5 to 6 Illinois, 4 to 5 This is a pretty picture of "one country," - ' one constitution," ' one destiny." Do the farmers and planters of the South r and West calculate how many millions tlry s pay annually to banks and brokers in conse' quence of the derangement of the currency 1 B The banks and brokers arc not to be blamed 1 for availing themselves of the existing state of things to sell checks and bills at high prerai' urns, that is at the market price, any mere than s the planter is for selling his cotton at 16 or 20 cents, when that is its market value. Who ^ then is to blame 1 ' The question is one of great moment, and one which every individual who has any stake in the country is interested in answering.? That the present is not a necessary state of 3 things is proved by the past experience of the 1 country. Can no remedy be devised that shall ' not be worse than the evil itself! No one of 1 common intelligence and common sense doubts it. Men may honestly differ as to f what remedy would be most suitable; but I none can doubt that a remedy is practicable e and needed; nor would there bo very great dif ficulty of devising and applying one, if the ' -cultivators of the soil, who at last are the greatest looeers, whether they see it or not, would but burst the shackles of i party and regard less the hypocritical profes. sions of gambling politicians, who would prosf trate the most highly cherished institutions of . the country if they could thereby secure to ^ themselves the honors of office. ? 1 he death of Mr. John Chapman, President '*) of the George Town Bank is announced in r' the Charleston papers. i The schooner Caleb Nicholas, from New York for Charleston owned by Mr. Waterman , of Geo. Town and laden with storo bricks and t hay, was wrecked and los? near Sulivan's Is, land on the 28th ult. Crew saved. 5 A line of Packets, owned in Charleston, is to 1 commence running between that city and j Liverpool, on the first of February. Caotion to Thoughtless Daughters. r ?A young lady, the daughter of a confection er of Philadelphia, lately married against the r will of her father. The marriage was con. r cealed from the father 6ome days; but such \ was the effect upon his feelings when informed of it he became deranged and in that state, i delib rately purchased pistols and shot his daughter with one of them through the head, ' causing instant death, f A correspondent of the Alexandria Gazette I over the signature of 4,H. C. McL." furnishes an explanation of the report pub.ished some , time since of a duel between J. Sewcll Junes i of North Carolina, and a Mr. Wilson of New , York. While the writer was at the Dismal Swamp Hotel, Mr. Joues entered in a slate of apparent purturbation, and told him ^confidentially that he had just killed Wilson in a duel 1 and asked help to make his escape, lie shewed first, a copy of what purported to be the cor. respondeuce preliminary to the duel, and then the ground where he said it took place, meas| ured off, and here and there stained with blood. t He then directed his friend to a woman in a neighboiing house who had carried oifa handkerchief of Jones's, stained with blood, which he feared might be produced in evidenco against him. His friend went to the house and ' obtained the bloody handkerchief. The wo. man also told him that the dead body had I been carried off the ground by several men in a bag. At Jones's suggestion, his friend then I t??k his clothes and name, and went to Nor. , folk where the report of the duel had already , produced great excitement. Jones by the aid of his friend concealed himself until he made ??? ??? I g v> his escape to Norh Carolina. A fortnight u afterwards his friend met him on the way to * > . p Texas, which is the last account that hp gives ti jf him. The only dead body which could be * found in the neighborhood of the duelling 11 ground was that of a pig "whose mangled w throat" says the writer "fully indicated whence ra the blood flowed, by which the ground and handkerchief were so abundantly stained."? lont-s is not a natural fool and must therefore w have been crazy. * The citizens of Charleston in public meet** ing have determined to erect a monument to the memory of Gen. Hayne. tl For the Cheraw Gazette. j_' Society Hill, Oct. 5th, 1839. tl At a meeting of a portion of the Citizens af this place held this day, the following si resolutions were passed, viz: <1 Resolved, That a general meeting of the ? Citizens of the Village, and Vicinity be invitcd to take place at the Post Office on the ^ last Monday of the present mouth (being the 30ih inst.) at 12 o'clock, to take into si consideration the propriety of Petitioning it the Legislature, on the subject of ulhe licence law? " Resolved, That a Committee be appoin- 0 ted to give the necessary notice of the pro- ^ posed meeting; to have these proceedings publis .ed in ihe Cheraw Gazettetand Tem- s perance Advocate. k A private notice accompanying the above ^ was signed by several of the most respecta- li ble citizeos of Socio.y Hill. c 1 c Contentt of Farmers' Register' No. 9 1 Vol. VII. 1 Original Communication. j Nathaniel Bhcon. Reply to strictures. < On fattening bogs, by cold soaked and fermen- < ted food. I Memoranda. i Advantages of the three-shift rotation. I Green crops for manure. ( On the manuring of arable lands by their own vegetable growth.?Rotations of crops. No. I. Private correspondence, and remarks on private matters. The Florida Keys, and the Tropical Plant Nursery. Successive crops of cocoons in Tropical Flori- ' da. Remarks on the "distemper" of cattle. Remarks on making good pork and bacon. The morus multicauhs market and prices. j The Chines Tree Corn" or Grant Thorburn { Humbug" again. i Correspondence on the "Smith Fund." On extravagant and soood estimates of profits of silk culture. Private correspondence?marling and liming. 1 Monthly commercial report. On the rearing and breeding of cattle. History of sugar. Dutch butter. Milk sickness. Visit to tbo Farm of Elias Phinney. The Jerusalem artichoke. Holkham, the seat of the Earl of Leicester. New reaping machine. Cure for the poll evil. Letters from an agricultural apprentice to bis father. Practical treatment of bees. Fruit trees. Wool. Sweet potato plants started in hot-beds. Cedar quarries. Mode of producing fine sound peaches. Cultivation of cauliflowers. On changing the color of the hydrangea. < )n improving worn-out lands. The tea tree. Cultivation of mignonette. Bees?peculiar modes of management. Wintering bees. Different modes of preserving tomatoes, and l preserving them for the table. Mr. Phinney's piggery management. THB HABVLARO IMCTIOR. The elections in Maryland, both State and Federal, have, run stongly in favor of the Administration. We have not received full returns from every district, but there appears to be no doubt that tho election of seven of the eight members of Congress has resulted as follows : Second District.?Philip F. Thomas (V. B ) , in place of James A. Pearce, (Whig.) Third District.?J. T. 11. Worthington (V. B.) re--elected. Fourth District.?Messrs Carroll and Hilien (V. B.) elected over Messrs. Kennedy and Pitts, (Whigs.) Fifth District.?William C. Johnson (Whig) re-elected. Sixth District.?Francis Thomas (V. B ) re-elected, [Frederick and Washington counties hare given him a majority of about 500 over Mr. Price, which it is not supposed that Allegany (yet to be heard from) will change.] Seventh District ? DanieL Jenifer (Whig) re-elected The First District (Mr. Dennis's) is the only one not yet heard from, and in that two Whigs were in the field to one Administration man making the issue doubtful. It seems probable also that the Administration party have carried a majority of the House of Delegates of the State Nat. Intell. 8 U iii HI A R Y Tho John F.iravth annninted bv the President - ?w - w.... - - r? _ to run the boundary line between the U. States and Texas is not the Secretary of State as an. i nouncod in some of the papers, bat his son, the editor of a paper in Mobile. The Congareo is at this time passable, dry \ thod, at Columbia, by stepping from rock to rock. It is calculated that the profits of Mr. Hoyt, Colloctor of the port of New York, will this year amount to $100,000. We hear that contracts have been made in Wayne county, in this State, for the dolivery of Corn at 30 conts per bush il. Wilmington (N. C.) Chronicle. A machino has been contrived m London for hatching eggs, which turns out 100 chickens per day. The only secret is to keep up a uniform heat of about 98 degrees. A couple of fellows lately kidnapped a yellow girl near Newborn, N. C. and carried her off for sale. She escaped from tbem in Chatham county and made her situation known to the first man siio met, who had the kidnappers apprehonded and committed. A case is mentioned in the Lancet, a medical periodical of a man who had been hung 13 times fur capital offences, but was always cat down living, and at last died a natural death. On ex. amination of tho body by a surgcou it was found that the windpipe wae ossified. The Georgia Journal montions the case ofu jolly swain" who on the last day of last September saw in Milledgevlllo a country girl selling chickens with whose appearance he was so much pleased that, though a perfect stranger, ho wont p to her, und popped the question "Madam, ill you marry tea V She blushed, looked eur. rised, and after a scrutinising look at tbo man, om head to foot, she replied "Yea" A liceaeo ns procured, and the gordian knot forthwith ?d In Hinds and Madison (Mist.) ralaoble, lands ith cotton gins negro booses and other improve, tents, have been selling at from $2 to $5 per tre. These plantations would a few years ago ave brought $20 to $30 per acre. A fire lately occurred in Hatches, (Miss.) hich destroyed property estimated at $100,000, i originated in an unoccupied house, and is tcribed to incendiaries. The drought has greatly injured^ the sea istnd cotton. At the Methodist Centenary in Charleston bout $4000 were contributed. ThefCourief ays there is little doubt that the subscriptions* etore they close will amount to fire or six houeand dollars. A fire lately occurred in Aik in which de. troyed all the stores out one. 8tores and wellings burnt about 60. ^Loesjesttmated at >100,000. but little ensured. Fire caused by be carelessness of a clerk. Counterfeits of $5 gold pieces are in circu. itioQ. The citizens of Cazenovia, N. Y.f hawe reDived, in public meeting, to abolish the fash>n of wearing mourning clothes for the dead. Robbery.?A very aged widow residing i Froirburg, Md* was robbed a few days since f$9000, which she surrendered to the villain n condition of (unsparing her life. The robber as been arrested. n Posr?Tiie Snrimrfield "Journal ays the amount of pork prepared for the maret the present year will exceed that of all jrmer years. ^ The Naturalized Citizen* of this State will iold an adjourned State Convention at Syrauseon the 17ihlof October, to consider the ilaim of perpetual allegiance set op by Great Britain, wiih it" probable bearing on their right* ml safety. The Lamps of the Boston Light House, lave been lighted for some months past by oricr of the government, with a newly invented chemical oil; and the experiment, thus far, has >een entirely satisfactory in its results, as it 8 peculiarly adapted for the use of Light Houses, in every particular. Boston Post. CHERAW PRICE CURRENT* Friday, October 11. articles. kr | $ C. | $ C. Beef in market, lb 0 5 r 0 7 Bacon from wagons, lb 11 a \ 13 by retail, lb 14* a IS Butter lb 15 a 25 Beeswax lb 22 a 24 Bagging yard 18 a 25 Bale Rope lb 10 a 12) Coffee )b 12) a 15 Cotton, lb 10 a 11 Corn bush 87) a 1 Flour, Country, scarce brl 6 a 7 Feathers fm wagons lb 40 a 50 Fodder, lOOlbs 871 a 1 Glass, window 8x10, 50ft 3 25 a 3 37) , " 10x12, 50ft 3 50 a 3 75| Hides, green lb 5 a dry lb 10 a Iron lOOlbs 5 50 a 6 50 Indigo lb 75 a 2 50 Limo cask 4 a 4 50 Lard lb 12) a 15 Leathor, sole lb 22 a 25 Lead, bar ib 10 a Logwood lb 10 a 15 Molasses gal 45 a 50 , N O. gal 50 a 02) Nails, cut, assorted ib a 9 ?, wrought lb 16 a 18 O&Ls bash 50 a Oil, curriers gal 75 a 1 ?, lamp gal 1 25 a ??, linseed gal I 10 a 1 25 Paints, white lead keg 3 25 a 4 52 - , Span, brown lb 8 a 12 Pork lOOlbs 8 a 10 Rice lOOlbs 5 a 6 Shot, bag 2 50 a , lb 12) a 13 Sugar lb 10 a 12) Salt sack 3 a 3 25 ? bush 1 a Steel, American lb 10 a , English lb 14 a ??, German lb 12 a 14 Tallow lb a 12 ) Tea .imperial lb 1 ' a 1 37) ??, hyson lb 1 a 1 25 Tobacco, manufactured lb 10 a 50 A List of Letters REMAINING in this office, 1st October 1839, and if not taken out before the 1st January next will bo sent to the General Post Office as"Doad Letters.** A?Charles N. Andrews, Michael Allen, Mike Allen. B?Mary Brooks. C?J. H. Christian, R. C. Chieholm 2, B. ri : 4 fi campaign, j>M vuwmus) D?Lemuel S. Drake. Mycaijar Dick ins. E?Mrs. Elizabeth Ellerbo. John R. Edwards, G?Jamea Goodwin, Mrs. Rachel Grooms. H?James H. Hclcombe, Eli Hinson, Edmund Hinson or Angus McQaage J?Zsppabannih Johns Eliaba, Johnson. K?Alfred Knight, John R. Kenneay. Jstrtea G. Kelly. Ir?Harmon Lassetor. Miss Elizabeth Lynch, Daniel Levinet. M?John Malloj & Co. 3, M&lcom McLood, Duncan McCall, John McCollum, John R. Mar. tin, A. Mure bend At Co 2, C. McParlin, M. J. Mendenhali, Mrs. Christian McNair, Andrew Miller, Mrs. Alicia McCall, John Merriman. P?Harriet Prichard, Miss Leon&ra L. Pag. get, James Posfon. Q?Thomas Quick. K?R. C. Richardson, John R. Rice 2. S?Dr. Smith, W. Swett, John Stafford, T. Shiver, Georgo U. Scott. T?Mrs. L D. Throop, TborrillCurtis. W?William R. R. Wyatt, John Welch, Jack*on Wallace, Richard Welch, William Waddcll. V?Miss Mariurn Vann 2. Persons calling for theso letters will say they advertised. a BRYAN P. M. Cheraw October 7, 1839. 48 tf In Equity. Marion District?So. Ca. Malcom Stafford and ") Margaret Campbell I ^ I Mill As# tkftH ifiAn AUIIir P ?UVI aUMIi ? oi D. Campbell dee'd. { dee. vs. Moore S. Walter and wife et alioe. J IT appearing to my satisfaction that More S Waiter and Mary hie wife bain tad distributees of Duncan Campbell deceased, and Do. fondants in the above stated case, are oat of, and beyond the limits of this state. It is, on motion of Harltee anl Elliott Coropitinam*, Solicitors, Ordered that tbey do plead, answer or demur to the Bill of CompiiMt ir the Mid Case within three montbts from the date hereof, or theeaid Bill will be taken pro copfeneagaiftst them. i * t EDWARD B. WHEELER, Commissioner in E<juity; Commissioners Office, ) '* *' i Marion C. II. Oct. 11839 C 48 ' _ t:.. H *