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THE CAMDEN JOURNAL VOLUME 3. CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, APRIL 9, 1852. NUMBER 29. THE CAMDEN "JOURNAL, PUBLISHED SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY BY THOMAS J. WARREN. TERMS. The Semi-Weekly Journal is published at Three TViilars and Fiftv Cents, if naid in advance, or Four Dollars if payment is delayed three months. The Weekly Journal is published at Two Dollars If paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment bo delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following terms: For one Square (fourteen lines or less) in the l semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five Is cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, L seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-se,1 vcn and a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. |SSThe number of insertions desired, and tho edition to be published in must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will bo published semi-weekly until ordored.discontinued and charged accordingly. HURRAH FOR SPRING: by rodolpiie. Hurrah for bright-robed Spring! She comes with her angel-band, And sparkling gems o'er Earth upspring, As she waves her magic wa.id. Hurrah for the blooming flowers. The bursting buds, and the leaves! Oil soon they'll deck our bowers With the garlands Flora weaves. Hurrah for the perfumed breeze, As it sings in our fav'rite grove, Around the hallowed trees, The trysting place of Love. Hurrah for the glorious sunshine, The warm, bright days ol Spring, The merry notes of the joyous birds As they flit by on the wing! Hurrah for the gushing streams. Now freed from Winter's thrall, And dashing, 'neath sunny beams, To the leaping waterfall! Hurrah for mount and plain, The moon and stars so bright! Spring holds her court and reign At morn, at noon, and night. Hurrah for the honest Farmer! He labors now with zest, Prepares the soil, plants the seed,' Kind Heaven does the rest. Hurrah for the Farmer's boy! Oli well he guides his steed With a merry "Gee-wo-hoy," As his plough moves on with speed. Hurrah for the angel, Spring ! That smiles_o'er all the land, And bird and bee, flower and tree, Feel her reviving hand. Ma. Clat and tiie Goat.?Almost every body in Washington City remembers an old he goat which formerly inhabited Xaylor's livery on Pennsylvania Avenue. This animal was in all probability the most independent citizen of the metropolis, he belonged to no party, though lie ^ frequently- gave passengers 'striking' proofs of his > adhesion to the levelling principles, for whenever a person stopped any wfiere in lus vicinage, illy was sure to make at him, horns and all. The boys took delight in irritating this long bearded gentleman, and frequently so annoyed him that I lie would make war against lamp posts and trees | to their great amusement. One day the luminary of the west, llenrv Clay, was passing along the avenue and seeing the boys intent on worrying billy into a fever, stopped, and with his characteristic humanity, expostulated with them.on their cruelty. The boys listened in silent awe to the eloquent appeal of the great statesman ; but it was all Cherokee to Billy who?the ungrateful scamp?arose majestically on his hinder legs, and made a desperate plunge at his friend and advocate, Mr. Clay, though he had not 'slain a Mexican,' proved himself too much for his horned assailant, he seized hold of both horns of the dilemma, and then 'was the tug of war,'?for the Greek had met Greek. The struggle was long and doubtful. \ "Hah r exclaimed the statesman," "I have got you fast, you rascal! I'll teach you better manhere. But boys, continued he, turning to the laughing urchins, "what shall I do now ?" "Why trip up his feet, Mr. Clay," said they. Mr. Clay did as he was told, and after many severe efforts brought Billy down on his side.? TIa?/, nf tlin linvn lmrilnrinndv spominrr to say, I never was in such a fix before, j The combatants were nearly exhausted ; goaty had the advantage, for he was gaining breath all the while the statesman was losing it. "Boys," says he, puffing and blowing, "this is ratber an awkward business. What am I to do now ?" "Why?don't you know ?" said a little fellow, I making preparations to run as lie spoke?"all you've got to do is to let go and run like bla **!" * "Thou slialt not steal" is a statute law, both on/1 criiritiml Ka^Ii hiinmn on/1 /livlnn | UIIU WW* ilUIUUII OIIU UI'IUV f and the individual who violates it incurs opprobrium?disgrace, of the most lasting kind. " Thou slialt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain," is also a stattito law, both human and divine. So far as authority and reason and common sense are concerned it is not less binding than the law which forbids theft. How is it then, that society makes so great a distinction between them ? r From the Southern Cultivator. Sweet Potatoe Culture. Believing that the following extraordim yield of sweet potatoes with the system of c tivation adopted, would be inteiesting to y< readers, I furnish tficsame. To those of us livi on the seaboard, the potato crop we consi* ver\- important; and our planters have devol no little attention in ascertaining the best s tern of culture. The subjoined account, as } will perceive, was furnished to the Agricultu Society of Liberty county, by one of its inemh< Mr. G. B. Dean. I would further remark tl the gathering of the potatoes was under the pervision of a committee, of which 1 was clu man. "In 1845," says Mr. 1). " I cow-penned so: old worn out lands filled with carpet grass, and July 1 planted the same in slips. In the 1 of the same year, I dug the potatoes, and turn in hogs, which, by rooting, turned up and ex] sed the roots of this grass to the winter's co In tl e mouth of January. 1849, I listed it up five feet rows; in March I bedded up the grou and planted sweet potatoes about the 25th. put twenty bushels to the acre or five to t task, taking good care to have both ends cut c ' ?i - l 1 and cutting tneseea twoorinreemcnesm ieng placed them two or three inches apart in a trei: three inches deep. So soon as the potatoes 1 gan to come up, 1 shaved oft' the top of the t with hoes, some live tasks to the hand. T work destroyed all the fine grass, and the ph then came up finely. As soon as the potat< were all up some three or four inches, I list down with the hoe some three tasks to the hai Four days after, I run two furrows with t ~ ? * i 11 .1 1.11 iiuggles piougn, ana arewup tne ueu ucmgca ful to place the dirt well under the potato I allowed them to remain until the vines w< about twelve inches long; I then listed do1 again near the plant, very lightly turning up t vines carefully. After allowing them to reins two days, I broke up the alley by running or with the double mould board plow, deep in t eeutre. I then bedded up closely, returning t vines to their places carefully with the hand, did nothing more except to pick over in t month of June, all the grass. The yield w from nine to ten and a quarter bushels to t task row. One fourth of an acre yielded t' hundred and ten bushels, or at the rate of eig hundred and forty bushels to the acre. From the Laurenxville Herald. Too Many Horses and Mules. Mr. Editor:?You request a number on sor agricultural subject, for your new year's issue. I wish I could present your readers with a n< year treat that would be worth their attenti and the time it will take in reading. Before begin, let me wish them all a happy new vei | and many more of the same sort. I hope tli they have had a merry Christmas?that tli have had the creditor page of the printers ai merchant's Ledger duly marked with "recciv in full"'?and that they will begin their n< year's work with a light concience and a hope! heart. But I digress?my subject is the nu\ her of homes and mules that may he kept on t i farm with profit. Mr. Saunders, as mention j by Capt. Byrd, worked 55 hands and kept 1 mules; and we have every reason to believe \ ; S. is a thriving farmer. Does not this prose j matter for the reflection? (By the way, I ho | Capt. 13. will not forget he promised us son I remarks on this subject.) 1 do not know how j can better illustrate it than by supposing two c ' ses, and I believe 1 could find two real eases tli ! would illustrate it without a supposition. Bui suppose two cases?if the coat fits any one, 1 him wear it. Farmer A. Cultivates 10 acres com and tive of cotton to the hand, he wor three hands?therefore tends 30 acres in co and 15 in cotton, llis tract is 150 acres? ! in cultivation, one-half small grain, the other above, the remainder in woods and old fields.He has four horses, three lie thinks necessar so that each hand may have a plow horse, ai I ? .i . e i i.? lie Keeps llie IOUrill LH'CHUSC lie nun umc ? n waggon team to haul in his crop and go to tl market. 1 lis hwd is thin, and like all poor Ian stands drought badly, lie has a dry year, ai makes 5 bushels of corn per acre, viz: his crop corn, all told, is 150 bushels. Now every oi knows that this is but little, if any, more th: will keep 3 of his horses well. But farmer . has his crop of small grain?it won't all do, ai he must sell his cotton to feed his family and In ses every dry year, and even that won't do, ai thus farmer A gets in debt. Fanner B. has a farm of the same size ai quality as farmer A, but he clioses to take a ve different coim*-r-v A,s his land is thin he cho.? to third it, and puts 3C -,?cres in corn and eottc 30 in small grain, and 30 he rests. He has t same number of hands, but keeps but t.vo lu ses. He has a two horse wagon to haul fn 1 crop and carry it to market, and a buggy whi he says eats nothing, to convey his family Church. Now this is a small tend, and farm B determines to do the thing right. lie plo' his ground deep and thoroughly, and havii much of his own time, lie devotes it to makii and applying manure and planting and workii his crop in the most perfect manner. Beii deeply ploughed, and nicely tended, the druug does not hurt his crop so much as A's, and I ing richer from manure well mixed in with t soil, more than doubles A, hut he says he mal I .... lr, o/.f/.s 1 AO tuwliplv of P(iri) mill (ill flic s;u quanity of land double as much cotton as A, wi his small grain also better; he is able with go economy to support his family and stock fr<. his crop, and his cotton is nearly so much cl< gain. But this is not all?by his plan of nu agement, his farm grows richer, crop larger eve year, and in fact, lie promises, if ho lives lor to become rich, whereas A\s farm is gotti worse, and ho says h* thinks lie must sell and go to tho new countries, for no body c make a living here on such poor worn out lai And now, Sir. Editor, is this a fiction like u / ny of the tales that grace your pages, or is it not ' cold a faithful picture drawn from the life ? Among ging ny many of the faults of our own system of farming, com: ul- this is not one of the least, viz: we keep too ! pens jur many horses and mules. Now, in a politico- cur. ng economical point of view, (excuse the hard word) tions ler what advantages would result to the State by i be h Led men doing away with this one fault in what I my 1 ys- have called our system of farming! Make the I inter ou calculation. I have not seen tht return of the ideas ral late census, but say there are 200,000 horses and impr >rs, and mules in the State, which is probably not and < jat very far wrong, and probably only 150,000 is j su- needed?we then have fifty thousand excess,' jj lir- which, at $50 a head would make the startling | vcr sum of two million and a half of dollars paid to j wr(^ me the western States, and for what ? 50,000 hor- I voan in ses fed from one farm, and for what ? Our lands |" ? fall exhausted, worn out, by producing 2 1-2 millions i icd bushels of corn to feed 50,000 useless horses and -0 w i)0- mules, for what ? Surplus horses and mules, eat- j p]a?, Jd. ing the substance that should support an in- jje"^ in dustrious population, and driving them out from j jn_ j i:d the borders of the State, and for what ? again and j I again, echo says for what!! To conclude, Mr. I j>0'*ev lie Editor, I have no doubt I may bring a hornet's j anj itt'; nest down upon my head for what is said above, i S(,ej, th, hastily but sincerely. Be it so?if I am wrong, | mjst ich I hope some body will set us right?the truth 1 ti i be- will benefit us all. FRANKLIN. f.lct his From the Soil of the South. sej^ wt Negro Houses. nooh )L'S j Mr. Editor :?As there seems to be quite a pine: progressive spirit of improvement pervading the | flood j whole Southern country, in every branch of ag- 1 innu ^ie riculturc, plantation economy, and improvement j their re" I should be gratified, indeed, to see more atten- j tiniu ?'s' tioti manifested to the comfort and durability of wate -re neirro houses. That unpardonable liecrlect has 1 part< "n! prevailed in this particular among intelligent, j "J . practical and humane planters, is evidenced by a 1 hat, un cursory survey of almost every plantation through- I Time ,ce out our country. dowt J,e Men who clothe and feed bountifully, and pay ?' li attention to the cleanliness and general health a toj 1 of their negroes otherwise, seem unaccountably Oh ! e j careless, I might say, in regard to their planta- with ^ j tion buildings generally. The old excuse of ha- You lie j ving land to clear, and being necessarily com- way 'vo j polled in consequence of it, to make temporaty 'll | improvements is not so admissible now, as when, R< i some years since, a large portion of Georgia, Al- recer aba ma, Mississippi, Florida and Louisiana were reflet newly settled and rapidly populated. The loud, civili though prophetic sound, of the pioneer's axe is " ue no longer echoed by the hills, and his lonely and and 1 ? | hard-trodden paths have been upturned by the By t iw i gleaming plow-share, and exposed to the genial inter on influence of the meridian sun. The beast of the cer. 1 , J j forest have been aroused from their lairs, and brou irj their secret retreats converted into highly culti- ed; ,at j vated fields. Cities and towns are rapidly grow- toucl ev ! steam boats plow our grand and beautiful rod, id | rivers, and the t tarns cars glide most graceful- trave cd ! Iv through our valleys and hills, conveying to j the r nv ' distant markets the products of out industry and j nolo ill skill. To accomplish all these results, our plan- j the 1 71- tors have exerted their energies and expended j mem kc their Capital. The emigrant's cart has almost I and ed ceased to travel over our roads, and the migra- j const y , tory habits of our people are giving place to feel- j m fio [r. i itigs of contentment and notions of permanent Und< nt | improvement. Every thing bears the impress the t pe j of progress and permanency, save plantation Tl DC j ImilUings, WJiK'li continue iu wear mc litre ui c.\j>?i I neglect and decay. cours !a-1 Shall .such ho the case in future? J>t the rc- new at j spon.se be?Aro/ The tiller of the soil should that 11 , certainly be comfortably housed, as well as clothed ct j and fed. His very nature and peculiar temper- M of i anient require that he should be protected a- test < ks | gainst cold and inclement weather. Humanity rupti rn and the interest of the planter demand it. The conn )0 habits of the negro by nature are filthy and care- close is less?lie bestows but little pains to personal comj conti _ j fort and appearance, and hence attention on the The v i part of his owner becomes an imperrativc duty, tion id The ordinary manner in which negro houses are fornu ill constructed, speaks badly for the performauee of bred |lt. this duty. Leaky roofs and airy floors, in addi- all r tion to shocking chimneys and walls, are too judgi ?1 j often met with. A little more time and care in you i 0f; building, will secure both more comfortable and in th nc i durable houses. The house I would recommend How m I is, a single cabin, sixteen by eighteen feet, con- ! pear, ;\. structed of round or hewed logs, the openings litem id between them covered with weatherboards, brick ding cliinmevs iiiul shimde roofs.?The house should ners, n ~ ;*v " ? o - ? i,l be raised two feet above the earth, so as to ad- to m uiit of a free circulation of air beneath, thereby betni k1 preventing dampness, and the cleaning out of all rv tilth and trash that may accumulate there.? . ^ J trick chimneys are more secure against tire, and J'fe?1 ,ii, I the weather-boards render the house warmer, and lj'e. he I give a neater finish on the inside, than the com- Jnm i jr. inou board that is used, and dispenses with daubiis j i'ig with mud, as is generally done. Above the gu''f. cl, floor one or two openings should be preserved fn,t 1 t,j which, with a window, will admit of sullicient or ventHttti.'Hi'- as more or less air will find its whvl ' ^u>l ivs under the W^yjKT-hrirtfrfeT^nKr'through the roof, he oi u;r 1 am opposed to daubing tlie cracks with mud, ?g as it renders the house disagreeably warm du- "* ng ring the spring and summer months, and docs .'V 1 n,r allow of the ready escape of tho unwholesome . ~ lit exhalations pervading negro houses generally.? IS1-u ){i. There is no contention, as in the case of a dou- ? ,l lie ble cabin, about the right of the passage, (which sor'( ;es every|double cabin should have,) each one having ? ne his own way, and exercising his own control. 1 a th over every thing in and around his house. The p"' od houses should stand from fifty to seventy-five J'1'"?1 >m feet ajiart, as in the event of a tire occurring, 1 (u J .;lr hut one house may be burned?and the rows of ^ j m- houses should l>c one hundred feet across. ' 'M , rv The houses should have hroad and long plates, CRlto ig, l?> admit of considerable caves and projections thenng at each end, which protect their corners, sides ?ou ( oil and ends from exposure to the weather. The an weather-boarded cabins are objectionable, as be- ])i id. ing warmer in summer, in consequence of their there ia- walls not being so thick as those of log cabins, Rjci] er in winter, for the same reason. If nog were resorted to, they might be made very tollable?but this involves rather more exe than planters are generally willing to inI may, in a future article, give you my noi relative to plantation out-hawses, and should ighly pleased, in the meantime, to hear from fellow planters on these subjects; as by an change of sentiments, we may all gather i upon which to act in building houses, and oving our plantations in appearance, comtort convenience. Abator. .. <?>.. e must have been a good deal of an obserand something of a philosopher also, who e .as follows, in a unique paper, some fifteen ? ago: Man is never contented. lie is the fretful of trouble and care, and he will continue orry and fret, no matter how pretty are the things that are laid before him to please him. vill sometimes fret because he can find noth. 1* j. _1 i. T? 1 U - sj iret ciuoui. 1 ve kiiuwii jum buui a ixiuii ;lf. If lie were bound to live in this world or, he would fret because he couldn't leave go to another, "just for a change;" and now, ig that soooner or later he must go, and no ake, he frets like a caged porcupine, and is he would like to live here always. The is, he don't know what lie wants. I've seen about enough of this world tnyFor forty years I've been searching every : and corner for some pleasant spring of hap}s, instead of which I have only found a few -swollen streams, bearing upon their surface merablc bubbles of vanity, and all along by margin nests of young humbugs are conilly being hatched. I have drank of these rs nigh unto bursting, and have always de?d as dry as a cork. [n fact, I've been kicked about like an old nearly used up by the flagellations of Old >, and am now feeling the way with my cane 1 to the silent valley. But, yet, I'm happ*appv iis a clain at high water,' I sleep like >; but I don't cat as much as I used to. it is a blessed thing to lie down at night a light stomach, and a lighter conscience ! ought to sec me sleep sometimes!?The 1' take it ea?y' is a caution to children !" jads ake Civilizers.?Mr. Summer in a it speech uttered the following philosophical :tious upon the agency of Roads in advancing zation : Where roads are not, civilization cannot be; civilization advances as roads are extended, hcse, religion and knowledge are diffused ; course of all kinds is promoted ; the produ,he manufacturer, and the con<*um?ir uro nil ght nearer together ; commerce is quickenmarkets arc opened; property, wherever lied by these lines, is changed as by a magic into new values, and the great current of 1, like that stream of classic fable, or one of ivers of our own California, hurries in achanf golden sand. The roads, together with aws of ancient Rome, are now better rebercd than her victories. The Flauiinian Appian ways?once trod by returning prods and tributary kings?still remain as bc;nt representatives of her departed grandeur. .r fwvl tlin tm'iiI nnrt flu. sehnnlni!i*tf>r !irr? no chief agents of human improvement. ie education begun by the schoolnnisters is nded, liberalized and completed, by inter;e with the world ; and this intercourse finds opportunities and inducements in every road is built." ark of* Ill-Breeding.?There is no better jf ill-breeding than the practice of interng another in conversation by speaking, or noticing a remark before another h;is fully d. No well bred person ever does it, nor nues conversation long with one who does, latter often rinds an interesting con versaabrupt ly waived, closed, or declined by the er, without suspecting the cause. A wellperson will not even interrupt one who is in espects greatly inferior. If you wish to e the good-breeding of a person with whom ire but little acquainted, observe him or her is respect, and you will not be deceived, ever intelligent, fluent, or easy she may apthis grace proves the absence of true porss. It is often amusing to see persons prithemselves on the gentility of their manand putting forth all their efforts to appear 1 vantage in many other respects, so readily y all in this particular. notorious thief, beginning to be tired of bis onfesscd the robbery be was charged with, judge hereupon directed the jury to rind guilty on his own confession. The jury havaid their heads together, brought him in not y. The judge bid them consider it again; .hey still brought liiui in not guilty. The a asked the reason. The foreman replied, re is reason enough, for we all know him to ie ol'Tlic greatest liars in^tlic worto-y^^^ ,lun.?" Oh, don't tca>e me to-day, Charley; lot at all well." Charley?[twelve years -a man of the world]?" I tell you what it m are in love! Now, you take the advice fellow who has seen a good deal of that jf tiling, and don't give way to it!" id a patient to his physician, about five years after reading over the prescription of a dislislied friend of temperance, whom ill health obliged him to consult:? Doctor, do you think that a little spirits now then would hurt me very much ?" Why, no, sir," answered the doctor, delibly ; " I do not know that a little?now and ?would hurt you very much ; but, sir, if don't take any, it won't hurt you at all." itring the three months ending the 51st ult., > were 124,320 bbls. of tlour inspected j| raoud, Va. Au Indian's Description of Califor. nia. The Cherokee Advocate contains a long letter from one of the Nation. We select a few passages : " Persons, however, who intend coming to California with the view of making sudden fortunes, by gathering gold like pebbles or sand on the seashore, had better remain where they are, for I ; can assure them they will be sadly disappointed; the day is past and gone for this, and never did exist to the extent represented, or that many flattered themselves it did, when they left a good comfortable home to secure a fortune in a months ' or a year's time in California. Thousands have J returned home worse off than when they came, i and thousands are not able to return for want j of means. A few are making princely fortunes, : hundreds are rapidly making genteel fortunes by : trade; while thousands are slowly realizing a j business that will in a few years make them in' dependent. But, indeed, every man, who is either not too lazy to labor or too profligate to j save, is here doing well, much better than he 1 could do with the same means in any other conn i try now known to us on the face of the earth. " The spontaneous productions of this country exceed all I have ever seen anywhere. The i blossoms and the great variety of flowers that j cover the plains next the mountains, are really ! magnificent, of almost endless variety, kind, and ; colore. The wild poppies have appropriated to themselves thousands of acres next to the moun| tains. We could manufacture opium here with ! a vengeance, judging from the quantity of raw I material. The gram, grasses, and vegetables, that grow without cultivation, are superior to anything I ever saw; not so much from the 1 great number and variety of the articles as from ! tlinir run-tVwinn nnH nnalitr Cjr.inps. of ft most | *""" ?~ 1 J " r*;? i delicious flavor, and of several varieties, grow ! here in great abundance. Parsnips, of excellent quality, grow all over the southern mines, on the | banks of the creeks, and in the ravines, being much used by the miners as a substitute for the cultivated article. I have eaten of them, and found them good. I am told that there are many other vegetables growing wild, that resemble 1 those cultivated, and are used for food, and found i to be excellent; but as I have not seen or parta! ken of them, I will defer naming or describing them until I have done both. I The prevailing feed for animals in this section ; is wild oats; with clover on the coast, and occai sionally extending far back in the interior; This is superior feed both in its green and dry state. Timothy and other nutritious grasses are also found here, on the rivers aud on the plains, but the wild oat takes precedence of all others in ! the upper part of the State, and clover in tie lower part. The oats cover every hill and valley, j and nearly every foot of open land in the whole ! State, varying in height and quality according ; to soil and location. I have seen them as high , as the back of the tallest horse frequently, with j a large strong stalk and very good grain, and to | all appearance, in size and quality of grain, quite 1 equal to the domestic article, yet the heads are ' emoll in nnAriAnllAn f/V tllA cfollr Htl tllA I ijuiii; oiuaii in |;i uvu iv tiuv uiuim vu vuv hills and more sterile soils, it grows from knee to i waist high, makes excellent pasturage, and perfects its grain. Timber in the valleys and plains (is scarce, amounting in places to an entire abI sence of the article; and what there is ill these situations is fit for nothing but firewood. The prevailing timber (when any) in the valleys, plains, and water courses, is a kind of scrubby live oak, with a few other varieties not worthy of mention. " A party of my acquaintance have been to ! Ilumboldt Bay this summer, and they say it is ; certainly true that r of them rode their horses abreast into the hollow of one of these trees, (red-Avood) wheeled in it, and rode out again, still abreast. I have never seen any so large as : that, but I have seen many that Avould girt thirty leet, very tall and handsome; this timber is only found in the mountains, and on spots up ' and down the coast. There are red-woods uorth and south of this place, within tAA'enty miles. / . i I \ _1 J. Humboldt I5ay (near tne line 01 uregon) auuunua in this timber; it is pood building timber, and equal to cedar for fencing, being much like it in quality and appearance. Ship Fever in New York.?From various statements which have recently appeared in the newspapers, as well as from the death reports, there can l>e no doubt of the fact that ship fever prevails to a very great extent in different districts of the city, and that it is 110 longer confined to the emigrants who bring it, and the poor who inhabit the most unhealthy quarters, ! and come into immediate contact with the emigrants ; but it is preading in the city and the surrounding country, and in many instances is , fatal to persons in comfortable circumstances in life. It is peculiarly infectious, and at all times ! exceedingly dangerous. Now that the summer is setting in, the danger will be still greater, and every piecaution ought to bo adopted to guard aglinst. ? .V. Htraid.