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FOUItTJI OF JULY.
On Wednesday, Fourth of July. t‘ iC
citizens of Wavnesville and its vicinity, as
sembled at ?Be Academy, when the Declara
tion «f Imiependonre was read I»y Mr. Brown,
and a patriotic and spirited oration delivered
by the Rev. Mr. Baird. The ceremonies were
enlivened by tiie singing in fine style of two
Patriotic Odes, —one of them original. At
lwlf past 3, P. M., the Waynesvilie Social
Club, (composed mostly of Planters of Glynn
County, who retire to this place during the
summer months, to enjoy the salubrity of its
climate, and the pleasure of companionship
and near neighborhood) with their guests, sat
down ton most excellent and sumptuous din
ner. The soft shell Turtle, cooked nl/ Abra
ham’s, (a favorite dish with the club.) excited
universal admiration by its supcr-erce-fcnt per
fection',; (on such a subject, tautology in super
latives must be excused.)
After the removal of the cloth, the following
Toasts were drank in bumpers of D’uraujo:
By lh< President —The day we celebrate.
May it always find us and our posterity ns
liappy and prosperous.
By thi acting P ice /'resident —Ti e orator of
the tlay. His public spirit deserves to bo re
warded by the applause of patriotism and the
smiles of beauty.
By the Orator of the /Jay (a guest.)—The
institutions of our country. Preserved m
their purity, they deserve the warmest suppoit
from every patriot.
Tty Mr. Coon (a guest.)—The liberties <>!
our country, won by-the courage of our fa
thers. They are to be preserved by the vir
tue and intelligence of their sons.
By Mr. Handel Hayden (a guest.) The
members of the “social club.” May your
present prosperity and happiness never Know
diminution, nicy they continue until time
shall be no more.
lly Mr. (lit.rge Marsh, (an honorary member.)
Tiie memory of Washington; the father of
his connin', first in war, first in peace,ami first
in the item is of iiis couiitmnen.
By Mr. H. /•'. Grant {a member.) —The fair
of our country: unrivalled in beauty, unsur
passed in intelligence, the guardians of soci
ety, and the bulwark- of sociability.
By Mr. S. C. King ,’a member.)— The Cler
gy of our country. The bulwark of civil and
religious liberty.
By Dr. I)e/j<tr»rln (a member.) —Governor ,
Gilmer, A patriot, as true to his f'ueiul, as to !
lus State.
% Isaac Abrahams (a inoinhei }-■-
General Charles Floyd. The gallant s .ldi :,
the acomplitdiod gentleman.
By Mr. (>. Houstoun(i\ member.}- J. Ham
ilton Cooper, our Vico President. Though
absent, lie is never forgotten; we rejoice at his
recent miraculous escape, and for Ins coolness,
energy, and intrepidity, bis gallantry, single j
heartedness and devotion, in saving and pro
tecting the ladies ap.d children in Ids charge; |
we honor and are proud of him, as our fiend
and fellow member.
By a member. Success to our Internal Im
provements, begun at Brunswick, may they
steadily progress until they reach the Gulf of
Mexico.
By a member. The memory of La Faye! fe.
Tint apostle of liberty. The citizen of two
hemispheres.
By a member. The Fnion. May its value
never bo underrated by either North orit'outh.
By a member. The Army and Navy. Our
honest pride in peace, our trusty reliance in
war.
By a member. The Ladies
••Ah! woman in nnrlioiiis of eiee,
Uncertain coy, and hal'd to please.
When pain and anguish wring the brow.
A ministering angel thou."
MifraoMicain mm vmmm i
King Pmi.Lir. 'This distinguished brave of
the Seminole tribe, (says the N. (). True
American) expired on board of the steamboat
Liverpool, on bis way to Arkansas. At forty
miles below Fort Gibson, the tw o boats con
taining the omigating party, were brought into
the shore, the guards manned, and the body of
King Philip taken out and buried with the
honors of war. One hundred guns were food
over his grave, and the Indians, under Lien’.
Reynolds, commanding the party, permitted to
attend the funeral, appeared to be much moved
ntthe loss they had sustained.
Reported Death op Mititui.!.. The
Mobile Examiner of the 25th u!t. says :
—“Mitchell —well known about our city
as “the Pirate”—died this morning about
six o’clock. Several days ago ho was
imprisoned for riot, and by some means
made his escape. lie was retaken yester
day and bound, but while on his wav to
the prison, he managed to unloose himself.
In securing him, he made resistance, ami
the guard wasrobliged to shoot him down,
lie died from the wound received.
Mitchell was notorious for having been
engaged in several acts of piracy, and it
was supposed that he commanded tiie
much dreaded “low, black schooner,"
--which overlaid the Susquehanna. At the
time of his escape from prison, lie held a
privateering commission in tiie service of
Tex ami his purpose was to go on
board a boat at the wiiaif, and to
reach a vessel L ing at tiie Bulize ready
lor the expedition, lie had several com
panions fetfgaed vw.b ifim.”
Since the above v. as in type, say? the Mo
bile Chronicle of the fl*<th, we have been
informed that Mitchell is not dead, but
wounded. The fact, we are told, was
ascertained by a call at the Jail by
Phrenologist, lor his head—which, Mill
having a use for* he declined complying
with the request.
Adventi res op a bale op cotton.
— A bale of cotton was shipped on hoard
of the Great Western at New York on
the Gtliinst., arrived in King-road on the
22d, was sent to the new cotton-factory at
iir; to! on tl*p 23d, and on the 21th part
of it manufactured into yarn, wr«v (* xlilhit
cd, at a public meeting of the inhabitant ; ,
; s a ? p :vii!t: it of the first cotton ever
[From Blackwood's Magazine ]
anecdote of dcelling.
Close to the town of II , two gen
tlemen lived under the same roof of very
opposite principles—the one, .Mr. A. a
violent radical, the other a confirmed to
rv, captain B. Continued discussions pro
duced continued squabbles, and these
squabbles brought on enmity and antip
athy to each other. The tory who \v;m a
hali’-p'iy captain, and bad really seen scr
• vice with credit to himself, under strong
provocation challenged the radical, anJ,
to his surprise, the challenge was ac
cepted. The challenger, however was
not well pleased with himself for
risking the comforts and continuance of
his half pay so unadvisedly. V> hethcr it
was tlint his nerves, not naturally weak,
had during the peace been put by and
i oiled, together with his military weapons,
| and were not upon taking down quite lit
; for use; or whether continual thinking
alone upon the disagreeable subject, had
damaged them, the effect was the same;
an ’ had the feeling taken possession ol an
army instead of an individual, it would
have been called a panic. He at length
determined, as there were yet some hours
before the dreaded meeting, to go into the
town of 1! ,and consult a Irictid as to
how lie might best extricate himself from
the affair. On his way, in a marrow part
of tin* toad close to tiie town, unfortu
nately lie meets his enemy, a man of great
stature, and very violent; am! the road be
ing verv-iiarmw, lie is greatly put to, to
know how he should pass him. lint us lie
could not turn hack w ithout giv iug him the
advantage, ami losing that ol iiis coef.;-
enco with liis* friend, he thought it best to
look as fierce and determined as possible,
and so walk by. lie did so calling up j
with ;II liis effort u very terrible aspect. '
His big antagonist, too, must hate Inst
, ... ..
part oi intimidation to play, ami Ur relore ;
calls out to hi in as lie passed, “Mind;
your time and place, and bring your coiiiu
with you.” The captain was the more
frightened at this, and did not reach Ins
friend's house (a torv attorney) without •
plainly indicating iiis fear l»y hi-pale lace, 1
trepidation, and whole manner. He tells |
his friend, with little circumlocution, the:
dreadful predicament he is i:i—mentions
his recently meeting his enemy in the nar
row road, and enlarges upon his atrocious 1
blood-thirstv and cruel intent: >m —“ t >h,'
--ir, he hade me iii mghi:) coffin with me."
His friend first gave him a roup!-' nfgi.i.- -
es of wine, and then desired him to : t uid .
i• i the olio-.', and a-.'tired l eu tk :t 1m
would walk to the man’s residence, cu- 1
deavor to see- him, or near something v. liicii;
might prevent mischief. And upon this;
errand the v.Umie'v st .l ied, lie had ju: V)
passed the narrow entrance h lore m
tiomd, wlieii he saw a m u running
l ist, w!;o ‘slopped a moment, and a.-kid
him, for God s sake, to tell lu::i v. here 1;
should find the doctor, for that sir. A.
was dying. Tint he had been taken into
a cottage about an hundred yards nrther
on, v here lie remained in a verv desperai''
condition. This very much astonished
the attorney, expecting, nothin * less than :
to tind the object of Ins mission dying in
a cottage.—Thither, however, he ran,
and saw the most «urpri'-ie r Eight namely,
Mr. A. seated in the middle of the room
one old woman pulling a smelling-bottle
to liis nose, ate! another throwing water
■in his face. Alter awhile he came a little
to himself, but '.till faint and frightened t**
the last degree. Seeing the attorney, and
feeling himself somewhat under the pro
tection of the law, lie seized his hand,
and said
“ I'm verv glad, indeed., von’re come,
jsir—l*ll have the law of the villain—lie
liveth on the blood of the country” (the
jpooirv of fear, meaning he was an lialf
j pay oi!l cer.)
“ Whom, and what." said the attorney,
“ do von fear or mean!”
“ Wliv, that villain, captain B." replied
Mr. A.—“ ile wrote me a challenge—and
iso, ;i' I thought lie did it only to fright; u
me, God forgive me, 1 wrote and said I'd
j meet him. It isn’t long ago lie pass'd me
j going to the tow n, and 1 told him to mind
time and place, and to bring his coffin
with him, thinking ’twonld have led to
some jaw, ;.i;d there would have been an
end on't: but he looked ;;t me as if he
would have the heart's blood o’ me and i
know he's now gone lo luiv powder and
hail for my murder; but i'll prosecute
him, sir."
The lawver told him plainly that, lim
ing accepted the challenge, lie could not
prosecute, him, but an apolngv must be
I given. It eras given and it teas accepted;
the attorney riveted for ever to him two
friends, and acquired the reputation of a
mo t aide and most humane negotiator.
i'rn.i ts or Famii.i.i vritv. —"l wing in
bed of a boisterous, windy night, within
ear-sh<>t nt the roar of the sea-gods, one’s
imagination is verv apt to take advantage
of the occasion, to fancy how the night
fares w ith those, w ho, like I.ear, are ex
posed to the “pelting ol'ihr pitiless storm.”
i iie angry sen, w ith its wild garniture of
loam and billows, heaves and tosses before
•he mind, and w e see a ship reeling dread
l.dly to and fro, while the water make a
complete breach over her decks, and tiie
tempest strums and splits the bellying can
vass into tut;, r . t >ne is quite apt, just
tli u, to conclude that “brave mariners”
nave a hard tunooi it. and to expend a
very ! rge and verv melt s amount of
sympathy in their behalf. I’m whntcnre
they J->r the demons who are shriekin'*
above and beneath th.'J’l,. > ■ I; , . ;i !_
’ : ’ •me met ,m tv
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
contemns tLe danger ofskv and sea. Our
imagination cause as lubbers, who are
idauketted and wrapped up to tiie cliin,
more shuddering than the storm awakens
in the breasts of the honest tars, who, “high
upon the giddy nrist,” sway as securely
jas doth the young bird in its leafy nest,
, when the winds shiver in its native hough..
So also may the same hardihood be derm
led of llie soldier. We are not given to j
fancy much fun in a field of battle, when
the bullets are whizzing like hail, smiting
lo the earth the form of many a good fel
low. But how is it w:lh your old cam
paigner? Does he quake, and is liis step
unsteady ? No! It is his vocation, and
after the first round, the blood coursctli
uierri!'. on its “winding way” through his
veins, it hath no dread of grim carnage;
and it seemeth to bint more fitting to din
of a bullet than a doctor, ami to send the
sou! to its long home to the music of ar
tillery, a better way “of shuffling off its !
.mortal coil,” than to have-it forced out of'
its llesliy tabernacle by a fever, while stir
! rounded by the dolorous laces oi one’s i
kindred. Habit blunts the sense of dan-i
■ ger, ms well as tho sensibility which hath
j controversy with mini-juleps, and of the j
isailor, the seaman, and tiie toper, it may
be sail!, that familiarity hath hied con
tempt for what appears to us lookers on'
to he most imminent peri!.” [Knicker
bocker.
1 r
Lt. H.vmioi.pii. i he Journal of Com- !
I merce states that “this individual, who 1
; was rendered so notorious bv pulling I
i President Jackson’s nose a lew rears!
; ago, and against whom process hr been
i issued for that nssult, thougli never served, j
j voluntarily sought a trial for the offence. I
He was aware that the deputy marshal, at i
! Alexandria, had a writ for liis arrest, and j
; he came over to the District from Virgin
ia, and invited the officer to serve it,,
! which was done. lie was then bailed,
i being held in the sum of five hundred do]-!
lars. The trial will take place next v) t to
iler. Mr. Randolph lias required that i
Lien. Jackson shall bo summoned to at
tend as ;i v.itnios. <>f course, the old
General won’t come. All the Court can
do, in i!i" case, is to line Mr. Randolph
for the assault.
Tin' beautiful yacht Wave, built some i
ix rears since l>v Messrs. Brown A Bell,
of New Y or!;, alter tfe—models fiirrrisfiod
by the Messrs. Stevens, of Hoboken, was
-add last week to the L. S. Government,!
In .Mr. John i‘>. Steven.-, for 88099. It is
said to be the finest vessel of the class
afloat.
The Spirit oft he Times s ivs th it “v 'apt.
r'lockton, when Ist abroad, matched her
against a crack yacht of the IVovul British '
\ acht (dub for one hundred thousand
dollars; the English gentlemen who made
the match visited Liverpool a few davs :
alter, to consult tin? captains of the differ- '
'oil packets there upon the merit of the;
V, ave, ami finding thev hid waked up the
, wrong passenger, asked leave to draw the
match, to which (’apt. S. reluctantly con
sented. .Mr. Stevens is engaged upon the
model of anew vc.clit to re; iaae “the
Vi eve."
Taiu.eya vxn.—Wiiiie so many state-'
Uiiiitse.ri; made derogalor; to t!ie moral
ami political character of Talievraud, it'
niiiv he as well (s ivs the N’<:»v York
American) for the sake of justice and a
j right understanding of the subject, to
give the following remarks of Lord Vv e!I
--ington in the House of Lords (U't. 1831),
•in answer to some observations made hv
• Lord Londonderry, cone, ruing this re
markable iuiliv iduai.
Lord Wellington, after saving that uoue
of the great measures which had been
concerted or carried on at Paris nr Vienna
ji;: l been rc-Mved upon w ithout bis iuter
vetitiou, continued
“in ail tiie transactions in which I have
been engaged with Prince Talievraud, no
man could have conducted liimsef with
more firmness and ability, in r.-gard to
his own country, and with more upright
ness and honor in all his communications
with the Ministers of other countries,than
Prince Talleyrand. No man's public and
private character has even been so much
! belied as those of that illustrious individ
ual."
Lord Howard added—
“ That no man's private character had
been more shamefully traduced, and no
man's public character more mistaken and
misrepresented, than those of Prince
Talley rami."
The !i vr.i. or !1 i.tmr.sr.NTAl ives. —An
order was made yesterday, in the House
of Representatives, bv a large majority of
votes, for changing the interior arrange
ment of the I lull, so as to restore the ar
rangement which existed previous to the
vJd Congress,' reversing the seats of
.Members, and placing tiie Speaker's
Chair where it formerly stood, directly
opposite to its present position.
A colored boy from the Smith was
brought before a Judge at Boston, oil a
Habeas Corpus, and when the J udge told
, him that bv the laws of the Commonwealth
he was free lo go where he ple t. ed, the
i bov innocently answered, “then I will go
! back to my Missus.”
A sick man observed to iiis wife, “my dear,
I a:n not. well to-dny. \\ ill you prepare me a
light dinner!-" “Wlir.t will you have, Mr. A.!-"
■! “.Apple dumplings.” Tiiev were accordingly
j made, mid Mr. A. sat down solus to a dish of
eighteen. After having despatched seventeen
and a hall, lie; little son cried out, “O daddy
! gin me that.” He replied, “go aw ay my son,
poor dad i' sick.'
A Hit at run Marquis of Water
i oito. “What, my dear Lord Slap, what
is that collection of curious caps, mid * 1
‘ll a! Plucky, there isn't such a collec
tion as that in the world. What do you
think they are? They are the hats, caps,,
bonnets, or call them what you wili.ol till
tiie watchmen of Europe,’ answered his'
Lordship.
‘You don’t mean to sav it, Slap!’ cried I
Plucky.
‘Taken with my own hands, my dear*
Plucky—taken in hard tight; I intend to
make another tour for the coats—such
fun! I’ii have the whole costume before
I've done, from the common dress of an '<
English policeman, to the holiday suit of
a Janissary. That’s what 1 call real fun
—true humor —glorious wit.’
‘You have travelled, then, my dear
Lord?” asked Plucky deferentially.
‘Have travelled! I’ll show you tint 1
have i:i ;i minute—here, never mind the j
rest of tiie museum now,’ and Lord Slap
quitted the room, wherein were five hun
dred knockers, scrapers, barber’s poles,'
black dolls, dairy-signs of cows, golden
boot.-., ami other domestic instruments,;
and familiar types ol commerce. ‘You 1
ask me if I’ve travelled, eh? Here, Mame
luke,’ and Slap called to his servant,;
‘hand me my nosebag.’
‘My dear Lord!’exclaimed the astonish
ed Plucky. ‘A [iccr’s nose bag!’
‘Here it is!’ cried the noble lord, as the
servant handed to him a tolerably' large;
velvet bag, crammed with, apparently,!
sonic weighty substance. ‘Now, Plucky,
lad, you ttak me if 1 have travelled? i
will jmt trouble you to cast your eyes'
over these,' and with a word, the peer
emptied the bag of its contents, which
tell in a rattling shower upon the t able, i
‘Stone-!’ shouted Plucky, jumping at!
the sound.
‘Look at ’em, tiiev are stones, but look j
at ’em,’ cried the nobleman and born
senator w ith a triumphant air
Young Plucky picked up the stones!
one bv one, and having minutelv examin-'
<;d a dozen of theta, exclaimed—‘Good !
God! my lord, why, they’re noses!’
‘Every one of ’em—warrant 'em all j
noses,’ cried Lord Slap: ‘noses of both
genders, and of all shapes, from the nose
of Diana to the snout of Pan. ‘That's
fun, if you like. ‘A hundred noses!
And now 1 think, Plucky, you’ll not ask!
mo again if I’ve travelled.’
‘Really, my lord, I'm very dull, 1 don’t
seethe connexion of your travels with :
these noses,’ said Plucky.
‘Don't you? Well, then, permit me to j
illumine you, Mr. Plucky; and to assure;
you, upon the honor of a nobleman whose I
whole life, lie is proud to sav, has been !
spent in pursuit of the humorous, that:
these noses are from the most eminent!
galleries and gardens of the most superb 1
eitios of Europe.’
‘Copies?’ asked Plucky.
“Copies bod &\ I chipped them j
all off the original statues, with my own;
lingers, with my ow n hammer, and my;
own chisel,’ said the peer.
‘You did, my lord! ’ exclaimed the as-j
toniMscd Plucky.
‘1 dti!—it took me some time to do it,:
too, for I had to watch my opportunity. :
However, I Hatter myself that 1 succeed
ed wonderfully; indeed, 1 may say that 1
scarcely visited a city throughout the con
tinent that 1 didn’t quit it with a broken
nose. That is fun, if you like,’ exclaim
ed the mutilating nobleman.
‘Hal ha!' roared Rumpus; don’t you
call that.wit, Plucky? Isn't that life?’
‘Capita.!! I hadn't an idea,’ replied
Pluck, evidently dazzled by the briliquit
prospeetof distinguishing himself so sud
denly opened upon him.
‘However, enough of this, my hoys,
it is and and egotism in me to boast of
these tilings,’ ami Lis lordship gathered
the broken noses in a heap, and was
about to return them to the ba<*; seeing
the eye ol “lucky resting, as liis lordship
thought, wistfully upon the fragments, the
liberal nobleman asked—‘Will von have
one Plucky—one as a gage d’amite?’
‘No, no—not for the world,’ answered
the modes! Plucky, ‘ ’twonld be a mil
lion pities to spoil tho set.’
‘ Take them away, Mameluke, and
mind, you scoundrel, that you don’t lose
one.’—[Extract, from Douglas Jerrold’s
new work, “Men and character.”
From tiie Philadelphia l". sJ. Gazette. June ‘.’7.
We heard it mentioned yesterday, that
w hen the news of the destruction of the
Pulaski first reached New Y ork, and it
was believed that all on board had perish
ed, the lather of one of the ladies who it
was known had taken passage on board
that boat, proceeded immediately to Bal
timore, where lie arrived without hearing
further Irom'tho w reck. ()n entering the
public house, he inquired of the Landlord
whether he had received anv further in
telligence from the Pulaski.
“None," was the answer.
“Were none saved!” •
“None, it is believed, but the sixteen
first mentioned.”
“Do you know their names?”
“I do not remember them all, but the (
first was Mrs. . She and the others
are safe and well.”
I'iie inquirer fainted—it was his dauch
-Iti r. '
Cooi.. A fellow with a torn shift en
tered an editor s room in Wall street, and
thus saluted him: “Arc von the individual 1
that's to furnish copy for to-morrow's pa
per!'’ Tiie editor bowed. “Then fork it
lout—for 1 in one of the gentlemen that's'
ready to set it up!" [\. Y. Herald.
[From the Democratic Review.]
COTTON
“The production of cotton in the
Southern and South-Western States, may
lie fairly considered to have exercised a
more important agency than any other
•single circumstance in retrieving the
credit of the country both at home and
abroad. By furnishing a staple commod
ity of general necessity to a great amount,
this cultivation has enabled our citizens,
in all sections of Xhc United States, to fol
low their commerce without being con
stantly exposed to the disturbing influence
of the enormous sacrifices upon their re
mittances to foreign nations, to which
they were before subjected. In connec
tion with our tobacco, fish, lumber, rice
and breadstuff’., cotton has mainly ena
bled ns to pay for the articles of necessi
ty tis well as luxuries, which we have so
largely imported from England, France
and other countries. It has accord
ingly become one of the principal sources
of the wealth of our citizens, greatly ad
vantageous even to the States which do
not produce it. Our cotton crops have in
fact placed Europe in a staff; of greater
dependence upon us than we are upon
Europe, inasmuch as this commodity is
essential, not only to the prosperity, but
to the very existence of a great portion of
its manufacturing population. In this
point of view, the production of cotton of
the Lnited States may he regarded ns the
most important element of actual ’com
mercial independence.
The precise circumstances under
which its cultivation began in the South
ern States, the time when, and place
where, it obtained first a permanent foot
ing, arc involved in much obscurity. It
doubtless commenced upon so small a*
scale as to have attracted little general at
tention. South Carolina appears to be
entitled to tiie credit of its first introduc
tion as early as 1753 or IVSO, though it
was immediately communicated to tiie ad
joining State of Georgia, where it was
produced ntthe earlier stages of its culti
vation, in the largest quantity. The
great obstacle to its extension was the in
finite trouble and delay with which the
separation of the fibre from its seed was
attended. The species of cotton first in
troduced, known in commerce by the
name of upland, adheres to every part of
itssecd with great tenacity. Among the
early cultivators, the fibre was usually sep
arated from the seeds by the bands of the
laborers. A pound of clear cotton was
the usual task for the day’s work of a fe
male. The first planter who raised cot
ton upon a large scale as it was then call
ed, was Mr. Teake, of Savannah. In
IVSSliiscTop was 5,000 pounds in tiie
seed. This would make about 1,200
pounds of clean cotton by the present
mode of ginning. The difficulty which
lie experienced in procuring this crop to
he cleaned was so great, that he proposed
to liis correspondent in the North, to send
it to liim in the seed, under the belief that
the persons by whom it was manufuctul’cd
would devise some more convenient and
economical mode of preparing it for card
ing, than was in the power of the planter.
It was found, however, that cotton in the
seed was an unsaleable article among the
manufacturers. Rollers and the bow
string wore subsequently introduced to fa
cilitate the separation from the seed', and
continued in use until the saw gin was
invented; but ilie process with their as
sistance was exceedingly tedious and ex
pensive. After they had been universally
abandoned, upland cotton was known for
; many years in the English market us
“Bowed Georgia.” In fact, it is some
times quoted bv that name in the prices
current of the present day—more than
forty years since the instrument from
i which it was originally called lias been
; entirely out of use.
In 1*93, the difficulty which had so long
been tiie principal obstacle to the exten
sive and profitable cultivation of upland
j cotton, was effectually obviated by a
'young man from Massachusetts, who bad
been engaged to go to Georgia in the ca
pacity of a family tutor. Soon after his
arrival in that State, lie was apprised of
; the great inconvenience to w hich grow
ers of cotton wore subjected in preparing
it for market. With the characteristic
enterprise of his origin, and a prophetic
perception of its incalculable national
importance, he immediately racked his
invention for the contrivance of a reme
dy. The saw gin was not, ns has been
the case with so many valuable discover
ies, the offspring of a lucky accident,
but was tho result of a systematic applica
tion of earnest thought and powerful me
chanical genius. When it was originally
put in motion it was precisely identical in
principle and operation with those now
employed throughout the Southern and
South-Western States. For tiie sake of
I the credit of those States who have deriv
ed almost incalculable wealth from his
simple and ingenious invention, we wish
it was in our power to say that a fit re
ward had been bestowed upon Eli Whit
ney.
From that invaluable collection of the
leading statistics of our subject, we do- j
rive the following statements, to show the j
remarkable fact of the wonderful increase j
of its production, within the period of!
less than half a century. As the quanti
ty consumed in this country at various j
periods appears to he wholly a matter ofj
estimate and opinion, we take the ac-,
counts of exports from the United States,
which are clearly ascertained, as the i
means ol comparing the relative amounts j
produced
The quantity exported in 17‘JO ua s
400,000 lbs. In 1791, 200,000 lbs.’, and
in 1792, 150,000. Its diminution, dur
ing the two last years, furnishing even
m the absence of all other testimony, the
most conclusive evidence of the difficul
ty ol preparing the commodity for mar
ket to which we have adverted.
hi 1795, after the saw gin had begun to
opei ate to a considerable extent, the ex
port was 0,250,000 lbs. From this peri
od .he exportation has gradually increas
ed to its present extent—being in 1835
the last year stated by Mr. Woodburvq
330,.>00,000 lbs. From other authentic
sources we have ascertained that the ex
port of l!“3G was upwards of four hun
dred and twenty-three millions of pounds.
I iie whole of the exportation of cotton
from the United States during the three
first years before stated, would hardly suf
fice for the cargo of _a single ship of the
size usually employed in freighting it to
Europe; which, in 1830, if we add°to the
quantity exported, that used in the United
States, for domestic purposes and our ex
tensive manufactures, which cannot he
fairly estimated at less than one hundred
and twenty-five millions of pounds the
aggregate would not fall far • short of
enough to freight a thousand such ships.
Such a wonderful increase in the produc
tion of a single article, within so short a
period, cannot fail to fill the mind with
astonishment.
Second Departure of the Grea'i
Western. The sailing of this splendid
steamer, on her second voyage, has lost
none of the interest felt by the public for
tier success. It was announced on her
arrival, that she would sail on Monday, at
1 lb IM. Confident that her departure
would lake place, the wharves on the East
and North River were literally lined with
multitudes of spectators, eager to catch a
parting glance at this acceptable visitor.
A few moments before 4, the various
steamboats that had prepared to accompa
ny the steamer, were seen darting from the
w harves freighted with a multitude of la
dies and gentlemen. There were the fine
Steamboats New Haven, Belle, C. Van
derbilt, Passaic, Hercules, and Fairfield,
together with a vast number of small craft,
all crowded.
At 4 o’clock P. M. the Great Western
shut down her safety valves, and cut loose
from the wharf amid the cheers of thous
ands. She passed down the East River
with colors flying and music playing,
rounded past the Battery and gave three
cheers, which was returned by those on
shore. After standing up the North River
for a short distance, she took her depart
ure, and steered down the bay surrounded
by* the fleet of steamboats emimerarted
above. The wind was light from the
South, the sun shone bright and clear.
The shore of Staff n and Long Islands
were lined with spectators to view the
procession of Steamboats. After the
boats had passed the Narrows, one boat
after another sheered up alongside of the
Great Western, gave her nine cheers,
which was returned Irom on board, and
left her. The New Haven, Captain
Stone, was the last boat to separate. She
proceeded to sea, and on parting, ranged
alongside, fired two guns, and gave three
cheers, which was returned by an equal
number of guns and cheers. The Great
\\ estern being then at sea, stopped her
wheels, parted with her -pilot, and shaped
iter course for Old England. Long before
the sun sunk below the western horizon,
her hull disappeard, and her smoke only
could L>e seen mingling with the clouds".
Her speed down the Bay was so great
that our fastest boats found it difficult to
keep u jj with Her. She has 90 passen
gers on board, which we feel confident
will reach England in safety.
Indian Relics. The editor of the Hav
erhill Gazette says that during a recent vis
it to Maine, he saw a number of human
hones, which were dug out of the sand at
the mouth of the Kennebec river. A
tnong the bones were some of immense
magnitude, which it is supposed by those
of the medical faculty who examined them,
to have belonged to a person not less than
seven feet in height. There are a num
ber of sculls in a perfect state of preserva
tion. One of the skeletons when found
was in a sitting posture, and covered in
different parts of liis body with pieces oft
a copper kettle, the bottom being or. his
head. From the different articles found
deposited on the covering of the head, it
is supposed he was one of the chiefs;
there being a large quantity of beads, and
points of arrows made of stone. The
beads were composed of something verv
bard, and by rubbing them a beautiful
polish could be produced.—There were
eleven of the graves opened, all of which
contained more or less bones, a great ma
ny of which on being exposed to the air,
soon dropped to pieces. It is supposed’
(hat this place was used as a burial ground
for the Indians more than two .centuries
ago—hut from the circurnstnjice of the
copper kettle being discovered, the tribe
must have bad some acquaintance with
the English settlers on the Kennebec, or
as it was then called Sagadahoc— and it
is said that a small party, of about one
hundred persons under Sir ,George I‘op
hain, emigrated from England, and com
menced a settlement on the Sagadahoc as
early as 1697.
1 lie first step we take in the world,
frequently wins us its favor, or sets it a
gainst us.