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A REPUBLICAN INDEED.
Edward B. Dudley took the oath of
office, in presence of the Legislature, on
Saturday last, upon re-entering the office
of Governor of the State of North Caro
lina, to which he has been lately re-elect
ed by the People, on which occasion he
delivered a brief address. Wc invite the
attention of our readers to the manly sen
timents expressed in the following para
graphs, which formed a part of that ad
dress :
“But, gentlemen, I am far from look
ing to rny election as a mere personal
triumph. It stands on much higher
ground; for it is, in my estimation, the
triumph of law and order over doctrines
of the most pernicious and disorganizing
tendency. A spirit of bold disorders, of
daring and licentious riot, is abroad in
our country, and threatens the stability of
our institutions. Its watchwords arc ‘the
People against the Banks' —‘the People a
gainst the Aristocracy’—‘the Poor against
the Rich,’ &c. This wretched jargon is
of Europaen origin, and has been introduc
ed by foreigners into our happy country.
Here the base and the designing have ap
propriated them to the accomplishment of
their unhallowed purposes, and an effort
has been made to introduce into our State
these loathsome heresies.
“But, thanks to the public soundness
and intelligence, never was mischievous
folly more signally rebuked. Our people,
arc not yet steeped so deeply in moral or
political profligacy as to enact laws and
grant privileges but to abrogate them. —
They are yet to learn that it is right or
just to concede, at one moment charters, i
investing rights ami property, and, at the ;
next, to render llmm valueless by denuncia
tion, or to destroy them by violence.
“As to our aristocracy, gentlemen, I
need not tell you that our institutions
neither legalize nor recognise its cxis
tanco; that it lives lint in tlm diseased fan
cy of the worthless and envious leveller,
who, despairing to elevate himself seeks
to pull down others to his own poor stand
ard. We have no aristocracy but that
which superior industry, intelligence, ami
moral worth confirms, and of that what
Government would not he justly proud!
“But, gentlemen, there is danger in this
wanton madness; and it is our duty, as
patriots, as faithful representatives of the
people, to warn and to admonish them ol
the brooding mischief. Error and vice
should not be made the synonymies of
truth and virtue. The moral sense of the
community cannot bo trifled with with iin-1
puuity; it may become blunted and cor-;
rupted, for constant attrition will effect I
the soundest substance. Then, let tis
teach the mere partisan and the unprinci
pled demagogue that the end cannot justi
fy the means; that by destroying the land
marks between right and wrong, lie is
sapping the very foundation of our Govern
ment, and can receive no countenance
from ns, who have sworn, this day, faith
fully to execute the law. The man who
could direct public odium and public vio
lence,- by whatever indirection, against
one of the legalized institutions of the land,
betravs that destitution of principle which
fits him for crime and outrage of every
character; and he who could hurl a fire
brand against a chartered company, would,
be assured, to accomplish an end, dese
crate the very chamber in which you sit/'
BRANCH MINT IN GEORGIA.
We take the following information from
the Globe:
YVe have the pleasure of laying before
our readers the following extract of a let
ter from an officer of the branch mint in
Georgia, showing the richness in the gold
region there, and the favorable prospects
which attends the miners. Connected
with this subject, we have to remark that
the bill which passed the Senate at the last
session for extending the coinage of the
two branch mints, Georgia and North
Carolina, to the coining of silver change,
to wit: 25 cent, 10 cent, and 5 cent pieces,
is received in the Senate, and we presume
will encounter little or no objection, as
the additional coinage will occasion no
aditionai expense, will only occupy the
mint when it might otherwise be idle, and
will gave a supply in parts of the Union,to
which it would, with difficulty, come from
the mints of New Orleans and Philadel
phia, which alopc now coins silver.
“United States Bium ii Mint, )
Dahlonega, January 1, 1 "39. ♦
“Dear Sir: We commenced opera
nous iff FfffirtWrv y«.'»i,4he cvjjjiije not be
ing sufficiently advanced to enable us to
commence, before Sbxwe. that time, we
have received gold bullion amounting in
value to $140,000. This amount would
have been greatly exceeded, had there not
been a very great demand of laborers for
the railroads now in progress of construc
tion iu different parts of the Stale. The j
want of capital ami science among the
miners are among the causes winch con
spire to render it comparatively unproduc
tive. In point of climate, this country
will yield to none; and ns it respects scen
ery, is not inferior to Western Virginia.—
Considering how recently the country has
been settled, the society is very good.”
The accomplished editor of the New
York American, in liberally commending
the works of Carlyle, seems to think n
impossible to explain in what consists
their peculiar value or i irtue. We read,
we think, we admire; new combinations
of thought arrest us, new prospects open to I
tbe mind, history becomes paint in r, and
• hat which was metaphysically mysterious I
resolves itself, though tbe lens of bis Intel- ‘
lect, into absolute demonstration. It were
a hard task to analyze Carlyle, because
he can be judged by no ordinary standard
That which is weak, but tasteful, gives no
: idea of Ins style, which though new is
1 not ungraceful,—neither does he violate
j any one of the canons potential in the
I world of letters, so much as he mingles
! and harmonizes a combination of them
all. As to his chief r/tnrm, it is this.—
Every object in nature, or inanimate, is
| with him, provocative of thought.
ADVANTAGES OF ADVERTISING
The advertisrnent of a purse lost, in
a late paper (says the Newburyport Her
ald) led to an important and fortunate
discovery: for it is quite probable that the
theft to the detection of which it led, would
have remained undiscovered had it not
been for the advertisement alluded to, un- 1
ti! a much larger portion of the money had
been irrecoverably lost. The manner of
the detection was as follows:
Mr. Cot. man, who keeps a fancy dry
goods store in State street, on casting his
eye on the paper, and discovering the no
tice of a purse lost, mistrusted that a young
girl who was in his store the evening pre
vious, and purchased a bout live dollars’
worth of finery, while her exterior denot
ed the need of something more nccessa-!
ry and substantial, was the finder; and he
and Mr. 'Feel, who works in the same
shop, undertook to investigate the matter, j
They traced the money through several
channels, expecting to find only seven dol-
j lars, until one of the lads implicated, very
! much to their surprise, drew from his pock
j ct a roll of bills amounting to upwards of
\ ■Si | o, and declared that to he all he had
jof the money. Further inquiries led to
the detection of another hoy, and to the
recovery of the entire sum of S9BO (with j
the exception of only S3O to $35) stolen }
about a week since from the counting!
room of the Wessacnnicon steam mill.!
The young rogues, three in number, the !
oldest not 13 years old, managed the af
fair with remarkable adroitness. The mo-1
ney remained hidden under the Methodist
Meeting House until last Monday, just a[
week from the time it was stolen, when;
they commenced spending it in small sums :
the principal part being secreted in three '
new places.
[From tin; Nashville Banner.]
L m onk CoiiitKsi’oNnt’.NCF.. —Every bo
dy, almost, has heard of, or seen, Sn vs'
Dinsxiore, the Government Ollicer to
whom General Jackson, it is said, shew
ed hts pistol-passports. Diiismore was a
brave man and a wit withal. We have
beard it said that, when lie was Collector
oftlie port of Mobile,something not unlike
the following correspondence took place
between him and the then Secretary of
the Treasury. We vouch not for its truth
however. We only relate it as it was told
to us, some years ago! At all events it is
like Diiismore.
Treasury Departs!ext,
Washington, Jan. 15, 1822.
Sir. This Department is desirous of
knowing how far the Tombighee river
runs up. You will please communicate
the information.
Respectfully,
W. H Crawford.
S. Diiismore, Esq., Collector, Mobile.
Moiui.e, Feb. 7, 1822.
Sir: I have the honor to acknowledge
the receipt of your letter of the 15th, and
of informing you in reply, that the Tom
bighee does not run lip at all. Very res
pectfully,
S. Dinsmore.
lion. W. 1I C rawford, Secretary Treas
ury.
Treasury Dei* vutmf.nt,
Washington, March 1, 1822.
Sir: 1 have the honor to inform you
this Department has no further sevice for
you as Collector of Mobile. Respect
fully,
W. 11. Crawford.
S. Diiismore, Esq., Mobile.
Military, and Naval forces of Kurope.
j In tbe Ahuanach de Gotha for 1839, a
! publication of great authority and circula
tion on the Continent, there appears a
statistical table of the military ami naval*
I forces of all the Lowers of Europe.—
'Russian 130 sail, ami standing army of
1,090,000 men. Austria maintains an ar
mv of 400,000 men, exclusive of militia
of nearly equal number. France Ins a
, regular military force of 350,000, exclu
sive of the National Guards: and, in addi
tion, lias a fleet of 220 sail, of which more
■ than 100 art: irt Tlw " v ' ik W
ry forces of Great Britain and Ireland is
! set down at 100,000 men, exclusive of the
; East India Company’s forces; while thena
j vy is rated at 530 sail, either in cominis
| siou or ordinary, and mounted with 23,-
000 guns. The army of Prussia is calcu
lated at 250,000 men, with a Landwelir or
reserve of 350,000. She possesses no navy.
i One way to Empty a C\rt. —An hon
est son of Erin lately arrived at Baltimore,
was employed to drive a dirt cart. Not
j being an adept in the art and mystery of
[•hauling dirt, he was wofully perplexed
when he wished to empty the cart, and
I after as much nianauivering to get it in
to proper position, as would have sufficed
to move a seventy-four, he marched up
jto tlie horse’s head, seized the bridle with
a powerful grasp! and sang out with a
j hearty good will —“rare up, rare up!''
\ calculating, wc suppose, that the horse
j would elevate himself far enough to emp
! tv the cart ’
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
The following is the Select Committee
of the House of Representatives, appoint
ed to inquire into the charges exhibited a
gainst P. K. Lawrence, Judge of the In
states District Court of the State of Lou
isiana.—Mr. Johnson, of Louisiana, Mr.
Pope, Mr. Whittlesey, Mr. Campbell, ofj
South Carolina, Mr. Owens, Mr. Calhoun, j
of Mass., and Mr. Drotngoole.
Judge Lawrence, it will he recollected, |
is the person who attempted to remove
from office without cause the clerk ol the
Circuit Court of the United States, and
more recently took the highhanded tueas
lire of imprisoning for contempt two of
the deputy clerks, .at the very time that!
the case of the Clerk, which had been car-j
ried to the Superior Court of the United j
States, was yet to he tried before the lat
ter tribunal. —[Baltimore American.
POST OFFICES IN GEORGIA.
Two Post Offices have been discontinu
jed; Stone Factory, Elbert County, and
j Murr.iysville, Hall County.
The following Post Masters have been
appointed.
John M. Booker, Rehoboth, Wilkes
| County.
Isaac B. Payne, Vanwert, Paulding
County.
Job Lewis, Marengo, Jefferson County.
Philip Mathison, Panhandle, Stewart
County.
Stephen Groves, Red Ilill, Alurray
County.
General Hanking Law of New York.
The Comptroller of the State of Y. York
has made an official report of his proceed
ings under the General Banking Law.—
It appears by a table appended to the Re
port, that, up to the sth of January, there
were 55 associations, that the amount of
circulating notes applied for was $2,500,-
000; the total capital subscribed, $12,000,-
000, and the aggregate maximum capital
covered by the associations was 407 mil
lions of dollars.
A table is also given, which shows the
stock iss u'd bv the several Stales. The
amount issued and authorized to be issued
is *1 11,000,000, viz;
For internal improvments, 884.000,000
For Banking, 51,000,000
M heellaucous, 0,000,000
8141,000,000
1 \voi. rxtau y Suicide. —The Corydon
(In.liana) Investigator states that Mr.
Lewis Peyton, who lived near Leaven
worth, was killed 141!i ult. by the acciden
tal discharge of a rifle. He was engaged!
in butchering hogs, and took up a rifle |
with the intention of loading it to shoot]
one—some one observed that it was already ;
loaded, lie put his foot on the cock and
blew into the muzzle, when liis foot acci
dentally slipped and discharged tlie con
tents of the gun into his mouth.
! Introduction or Rice into Carolina.
Rice is a grain of India, and was intro
duced into Carolina by a mere accident.
In 1750, the master of a vessel from
Madagascar landed about half ; bushel of
jan excellent kind; from which small begin
ning sprung an immense source of wealth
to the southern provinces of America.—
Within little more than half a century
from that time, 1211,000 barrels of rice
were m one year exported from South Ca
rolina; 18,000 from Georgia; and all from
the rotnnent of a sea-stone in the bottom
of a sack.—[Ring’s Journey to the shores
of the Arctic ()cean.
Good Hit.—At a Whig meeting in
New York the other day one of the speak
ers told this anecdote—
Mr. W.,during his remarks, likened the )
sub treasury to the anecdote of the white
man and Indian, who hunting together, j
killed a turkey and a crow, arid on di
viding the spoils, the white man said to'
the Indian; “Now, I’ll take the turkey, j
and you may have the crow; or, if you !
prefer it, you may take the crow, and I’ll j
take the turkey” “Fmph,” said the In-!
ilian, “you no talk turkey to me at all.” j
And so with the spoils party, who seek to,
collect the specie for themselves, pros-1
trate the state money institutions, and!
leave irredeemable paper to the people; I
they don’t talk turkey to us at all—but |
the people will soon talk turkey to them.
Turning State’s Evidence.— A good
story has been told of George White, ofi
whom wc took occasion to relate an an
ecdote, a week or two since. He was
once arraigned for horse stealing, when
it was supposed he was connected v.\<h
extensive gang, which was making great
depredations in the country ruun.< Yudtit. ’
Many inducements were held out to White |
to reveal the names of his associates; hut
he maintained a dogged silence. An as
surance from the court was at last obtain
ed that lie should be discharged, upon,
which he made oath to rental all lie knew
of his accomplices. The jury were ac
cordingly suffered to bring in a verdict
of not guilty, when lie was called upon!
for the promised revelation. “1 shall he
faithful to *my word,” said he, “he it
known unto you, then, that the devil is
the only accomplice I ever had; we have
been a great while in partnership; you
have seen tit to acquit me—for which I
thank you; you may hang the devil if
you can catch lnm!”
1 _
A Parisian robber, who was seized in
the act of stealing in the shop of a tobac
conist, by way of excusing himself said,
that lie had never heard of a law which
forbade a man ti take snuff.
FROM ST. AUGUSTINE.
The Steamer Isis, Capt. Pearson, ar
rived yesterday, and to the captain we are
indebted for the St. Augustine News of
Saturday last. We extract the following;
St. Augustine, Jan. 12.
Lieut. Col. Harney, 2d Dragoons, ar
rived in town on Saturday last. We take
great pleasure in welcoming back into
Florida Col Harney. A more gallant and
efficient officer does not belong to the
service, and one who has borne his full
share of privation and peril during the
war, with the becoming modesty of a
gentleman.
Lient 11. W. Benham, Engineer corps,
arrived in town on Wednesday last, to take
charge of the reparing of Fort Marion,
and the Sea Wall.
Gen. Duncan L. Clinch arrived here on
Wednesday last, and took lodgings at the
Florida House. 1
The steamer Florida, Captain Nock,
has commenced her regular passages be
tween this place and Savannah. It is in
tended that she .will alternate each week,
in her arrivals here and at Picolata. Per
sons at a distance may now he assured, as
well as invalids desirous of a residence
in our climate, of a speedy transit on their
arrival at Savannah, in a very comforta
ble and handsome boat, and under the
command of a gentlemanly captain.
The Whig Legislature of North Caro
lina, have recently passed resolutions to
the following effect: The Ist resolution
condemns the Expunging Resolution
the 2d declares that the Senate of the Uni
ted States ought to pass resolutions con
demnatory of the act—the 3d denounces
the Sub Treasury system —the 4th de
clares that the public lands are the com
mon property of all the States, and con
demns the pre-emption act of the last
Congress—the sth declares that the pro
ceeds oftlie public lands should be divid
ed among the several States, according
to Federal population—the Gth denounc
es the extravagance of the administration
—I lie 7th declares that the Executive pat
ronage should be abridged—the Sth as
serts that the Senators will represent the
wishes of the people by voting to carry
out the resolutions—and the 9th directs
the Governor to forward the resolutions.
The present Van Burcu Senators in
Congress from that State, before the res
olutions had been officially communicat
ed to them, have anticipated their arrival
and have addressed a communication to
the Legislature, professing not to he able
;to understand whether these resolutions
i are intended as instructions to them or
j not. To this farsic manoeuvre of these
; Van Burcn Senators, so tenacious of office
! that it seems they will hold on unless they
! are literally knocked otf, the Legislature
have responded by adopting the following
scathing resolution:
“ Resolved , That the resolutions pass
ed by this General Assembly, and trans-i
mitted to our Senators in Congress, are
sufficiently plain and intelligible to be
comprehended by any one desirous of un
derstanding them; that we believe this
communication, anticipating the reception
of said resolutions and making inquiry as
to their meaning, is not iu good faith; and
that it would lie inconsistent with the self
respect of this General Assembly to make
any reply to it.”
Free Banking Law. We learn that
two companies have already been formed
under the act of the last session; one at
West Point in Troup county, the other in
Decatur county.
Many have been the predictions that
the act would remain a dead letter upon
the statute book that an association
would he formed under it but they were
mistaken, and there is now a prospect of
giving the system a fair trial.—[Milledge
ville Standard, 15th inst.
THE COAL TRADE, FOR 1838. !
The following is the quantity of Coal
shipped from the different regions in
1837 and 1838.
1837. 183«.
Schuylkill, 523,152 431,719
Lehigh, 192,595 152,099
Lackawana, 115,387 78,207
Beaver Meadows, 33.017 44,900
Hazleton, 14,221
Laurel Ilill, 2,001
804,751 723,813
723,813
Decrease in 1838 140,938 tons.
The consumption of coal, as near as
'can he ascertained, was w.\
Annual inc’se.
1831 177,000
1832 329,000 150,000
1833 413.000 84,000
1834 457,000 41,000
1835 550,000 100,000
1830 G>2,000 120,000
The consumption for last year, owing
to the ruinous effects of the Government
experiments on the currency, causing a
general depression of business, and the
almost total cessation of the manufactur
ing operations throughout the country,
was about 20,000 tons less than the pre
ceding year. Phis produced a consequent
dullness in the Coal Trade the past sea
son, which has been almost ruinous to all
engaged iu it.
Gen. Clinch has been elected President
of the Florida Peninsula Rail Road and ,
Steamboat Company.
The Spoils or Victory. —We learn
from Liverpool that Mr. Swartwout has
given a grand banquet to his friends in
that city, English and American, the price
ot which was seven pounds sterling per
man, equal to more than thirty-one dollars
per ticket. We trust, after this, that our
amiable friends of the Evening Post and
Argus will cense howling at the ten dollar
dinner at the Astor House. The Whigs
are no touch at all to the Agrarians, in
the matter of gormandising. Not enjoy
ing the spoils, our friends could only pay
ten dollars for the greatest banquet ever
got up at the Astor House. But general
Jackson’s pet Collector stops not at
THIRTY.—[Com. Adv.
Mammoth Steam Ship.— The Ameri
can says, “A friend has sent us the dimen
sions of an Iron Steam Ship, now building
to run from Falmouth to Calcutta, which
voyage it is expected she will make in 33
days. She is called the Uueen of the
East. She will measure 2017 tons; her
engines 000 horse power; draft of water at
greatest immersion, 15 feet; extreme
length, 310 feet; length of main deck, 282
do.; length between the perpendiculars,
270 do.; length of principal cabin, 128
do.; width oi beam, 45 do.; depth of hold,
30 do. There will be 10 private rooms
for pa engers, and 400 berths.
Discovert / of Mummies at Durango,
Mexico. —A million of Mummies, it is
stated, has lately been discovered in the
environs of Durango, in Mexico. They
are in a sitting posture, but have the same
wrappings, hands and ornaments of the
Egyptian. Among them was found a po
igtiard of flint, with a sculptured handle,
chaplets, neeklaces, &c., of alternately
colored beads, fragments of bones polish
ed like ivory, fine worked elastic tissues,
[probable our modern India Rubber
cloth,] tnockasins worked like those of
our Indians, today, bones of vipers &c.
It remains to continue these interesting
researches, and America will become an
other Egypt, to antiquarians, and her ru
ins will go back to the oldest of the world
showing doubtless that the ancestors of
the Montezumas lived on the Nile, and
that their luxurious civilization was brok
en up and overpowered by the hardy
hordes of Asiatic Tartars, who came down
from Behring Straits and the Rocky Moun
tains. The scenes of Attila and Alaric in
Rome and Greece, were rehearsed at an
earlier day on the shores of California
and the plains of Mexico. It is unknown
of the mummies above mentioned what
kind of enibalment was used, or whether
it was nitrous depositions in the caves
where they were found. A fact of impor
tance is stated, that the shells of the neck
lace are of a marine shell found at Zaca
tecas, on the Pacific, where the Columbus
of their forefathers probably therefore
landed from the Malay, Iliiidostan or
Chinese coast, or from their islands in the
Indian Ocean.—[N. Y. Evening Star.
The London Penny Theatres. —l will
just mention one other amusing proof ol
the familiarity which so generally subsists
between the corps dramatique at I’ennv
Theatres and the audience. It occurred
about eight weeks since, at Cooke’s es
tablishment in the New Cut. The piece
which had been performing was one of so
awfully a tragic kind, especially toward
the conclusion, that even two policemen,
a class of men not said to be remarkable
for tilthr susceptibilities on such occasions,
who had stationed themselves iu a dark
corner of the house, for the purpose of
pouncing on two young thieves, whom
they expected to make their appearance
that evening, could not refrain from af
fording some indications that they, any
more than the rest of the audience were not
insensible to the touching scenes which
were passing before them. The denou
ement was at length at hand. The piece
was a love one; and the lover, goaded on
by the violence of the green-eyed mon
ster’s operations in bis bosom determined
to be revenged both on his rival, and on
the mistress of his heart for countenanc
ingthe tender advances of any one but him
self. No sooner had he formed his deter
mination than he prepared to carry it into
immediate effect. He procures a pair of
pistols and a dagger. He loads the for
mer, and concealing them, with the dag
ger, under his cloak, seeks a meeting
with the intended victims. That meeting
he soon gets: lie discovers them both to
gether in very earnest and affectionate
conversation. He discharges one pistol
at his rival, and the other at his sweet
heart, and then plunges the dagger into
his own bosom. The whole three fall
almost instantaneously; but as they fell
and while the audience were all wrapt
in horror at the frightful tragedy, out came
from behind the scenes a ragged hoy,
with a corduroy jacket, and a basket in Ins
extended hand, and stepping over the bo
dies of the dying trio, as careless-like as
if lie had been walking on Waterloo
road, sang out, “Apples!—six a penny!”
A little dog, at the same instant, as if the
thing had been the result ofconccrt sprang
also from behind the scenes, and set up
a loud barking. The affair was infinitely
ludicrous, and converted, as if by some
magical influence, the horror and sorrows
wiih which the audience were overwhelm
ed but a moment before, iu consequence of
the dreadful tragedy they had witness
ed— into a loud and universal roar of
laughter which was only put an end to
by the fall of the curtain. [Grant’s
Sketches in Loudon.
[For the Brunswick Advocate.]
THE LUMBER BUSINESS. No. a
OUR RESOURCES AND IMPROVEMENTS.
Mr. Editor,
The causes which have heretofore prevent
ed the lumbering business in this section (and
of which I may yet speak) are now removed.
1 he ice lias been broken, the work has com
menced, and our natural wealth is becoming
known, and will eventually, if not by us, be
| k ro dght forth by the money-making world,
l'he question is not therefore shall, or shall
in>t, our timber be manufactured, and money
made therefrom, but the question is this,—
shall the citizens, who live in this section,
have a hand in the business to their own so
cial, intellectual, and moral, as well as pecu
niary benefit; or shall they let it fall entirely
into the hands of those, who neither reside
nor have any object here but to make money*
without regard to the social or moral inter
ests of the citizens of the South. This then
is the question, and one winch divides itself
into many branches and weighty considera
tions, the most important of which only, I can
now touch upon.
If the citizens retain their lands and manu
facture the timber themselves, they will of
course receive the profits, and they will be
expended among them to the improvement of
their estates and their own district If others
do their business, what will be the result, I
need not endeavor to explain.
In the second place, so far as the citizens
take a part, they have under their control a
branch of business eminently adapted to the
employment and improvement of youth. No
branch has, according to its amount, (and the
amount is or will not be small) connected
with it, a greater number of, or more varied
transaction, than the lumbering business.
None can employ more business young men,
and none is better calculated to fit them for
the various changes and conditions of life.
Such is the nature and amount of produce
furnished from mills properly located, with the
number of hands employed to carry them on,
such the number of vessels employed to take
lumber away, and bring supplies, sucli the
consequent amount of trade, and such the fre
quent occasions to send agents abroad, or em
ploy them to superintend various branches at
home, it may with propriety, and without di
minishing aught from the profits of mills, be
said that to each saw, or gang of saws re
quired, a door is opened for the services of a
smart business young man. I will repeat, and
the intelligent reader will sustain me in the
assertion, that no business in our whole coun
try is better adapted than the lumbering busi
ness to the intellectual and physical improve
ment of those engaged in it. In connexion
with it they deal with all men, under all cir
cumstances, and are led into business transac
tions of every kind where energy and activity
are necessary to give success. Os the want
of such opportunities for the young man, I
need not speak, nor need I say, if others have
the control of this business, that the young
men in this section will be none the richer for
it.
In the third place, I need only to observe,
that the manufacturing of lumber, as a matter
of course, will be carried on at the head of ship
navigation, and will serve to open and extend
the points of communication with all parts of
the world. Then it, is that many vessels and
many men, will be going and coming; and
planters are, or ought to be, too well aware of
the importance of having control over such
points, to need any explanation from me.
And now Sir, (to close my remarks for the
present on this part of our resources,) to doubt
that the lumbering business (if not by tho
citizens by others) will soon be increased, and
much of our timber now standing idle, be
turned into money, appears to me like doubt
ing that two dollars are worth more than one,
or that there is any reality in the projects and
improvements of our country and the age.
To stand indifferent to the scenes around us,
to do or say nothing tending to developc our
natural wealth, is to oppose the spirit of im
provement that now animates the entire coun
try, and which, I trust, is destined soon to
place the South on a level with the most im
proved parts of the world. But,
“ He that by the tcork would thrive,
Himself must either hold or drive.”
Reflector.
Morus Multicaclis in Europe. —From
letters just arrived by the Charles Carroll to
a mercantile house of this city, we hear that
all the Mortis Multicaulis existing in the larg
est nurseries of France and Italy, have been
bought at the most extravagant prices by
American agents. The speculation
oftlie silkgrowers in Europe, is now turned to
the culture of the Alpine Morns Moretti, or
Macrophylla, which are considered by the
best judges more fitted to any cold climate,
and more adapted to give a finer quality of
silk. The latter species (the Morns Macro
phylla,) bears very large leaves, and can, like
the Multicaulis, be propagated with the great
est facility by cuttings. —[N. ' • Star.
Bone and Muscle. —In answer to an
enquiry of a correspondent of the Philadel
phia Times, who sought to know how
many hones were in the body of a man
and how many nerves, that journal replies
There are 240 bones, 400 muscles and
tendons, 100 nerves, 100 cartilages and
leiriments, and 9 kinds of articulations of
joinings, in the mechanical structure of
the human body.
The office of the Wetumka (Ala.) Sentinel
and Advertiser, together with all its contents,
was consumed by fire on the 27th ult.