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[From tho Southern Recorder]
TO THE FARMERS OF GEORGIA.
If you have made up your mind to live
in folly, luxury and idleness or if you are
content to increase your indebtedness by
another loan, either from a bank or a shav
er, or if you can be fooled into a u-orlgage
of your Land and Negroes to a Free Bank
ing concern, it uill be lost labor to <-ive
run counsel.
The man whose head is filled with
schemes, will think the slow process of
well regulated labor and economy, quite
beneath the loftiness of his genius." What
ever else modern improvements have done,
and they h ive done much, there is not one
thing they have not, and cannot do.—
They cannot set aside the Divine decree,
that man shall eat his bread in the sweat
of Ms face, until he returns to tin: ground.
But because it is hoped the number of
reckless and silly people is small, while it
is admitted large numbers of all classes
end callings are far from the path of wis
<!(, .1 and safety, it is believed that they
have fallen into this path, rather by inad
vertancy and from the bad example of oth
ers, than by a fixed intention to bring ruin
upon themselves, and to entail wretched
ness upon posterity.
Surely it must he pleasing to every nrm
to perceive the business in which he is
engaged, prosperous at present and pros
perous iu prospective—doing well now
and a fair chance for well doing years to
come. The farmer whose fields are yield
ing an notion! increase production,growing
in fertility and beauty, must have a source
of independence and happiness, far beyond
the man who perceives every year a les
soning product, visible barrenness, and
i ureaie.uial poverty. That we may rout in
ti to do well, let us cast about on all sides
tor the ways and means of improving our
lands.
The fir t idea of keeping laud from ex
haustion, is to rest it from cultivation, and
Miller it t<> he coated over with ns much
'.■getalde matte- as possible. It io'believ
< 1 lint from two to three years resting of
fields at a time will go further to their re
covery, than the same amount of rest, by
au alternate cultivation; observation gives
this as a good plan—sutler fields that have
been previously in small grain, to lie un
cultivated at least one year.
The most fruitful sources of recovering
exhausted land, must lie from manure,
which has been suffered to lie iu waste a
bout the stables, gin houses, uud other
places, iu sr.ch quantities that had it been
properly disposed of, thousands of acres
now • uworliiy of cultivation, might have i
giien labor an abundant reward. Every
species of manure is more valuable than
gold 'lines, and should ’oe looked after and
carefully disposed of.
Perhaps the most that can he hoped for,
so long as our laud will y ield any thing a
bove subsistance, is to induce the farmer
ii carry out to his tield such manure
as can be easily obtained and advantage
ously disposed of. When this much Iris
been done, such will Ire found the reward,
that we may expert soon to find some ef
fort to increase' the quantity from such
sources as common sense may suggest.—
'Hie means of raising and using manure
in the farm, arc various am! very abundant,
i ml must be left to the thought and judg
ment of each planter for himself; the most
important part is to have the work dour,
..ml abundantly dour.
To preserve our land, repeated crops
of cotton must lie stopped; for kept in that
ile in state that cotton fields art', is to ex
pose them to he carried oil" both winter
ami summer by the rains.
It is impossible after all is done by al
ternation of crops, by rest ami by manure,
to fully and restore land.
W e niu.-t universally adopt the plan of
ditches, and horizontal rows an all our
• woken fields, if we will not leave to our
children a most cheerless and gloomy in
tvritaiicc. This plan has been practised
for several years successfully in Virginia,
and some few are trying it to advantage iu
this Blate. Perhaps it would be best to
commence in a small way a field or two of
a year, and sucliasvvill be most easily laid
< if by this means the practical knowledge
ui y be obtained and the laborers become
; •eu-tomed to the work.
It will not he denied that it is a work
i.tecli moi" worthy to engage the mind
■ I the farmer as to how he may most easi
ly obtain the food and raiment that pleas
’■s, than that he should make Imnsclf a
common disturber by a heated engagement
:it the party politics of the day—for your
selves, for your children, for your country,
! >r Philosophy and for Religion, being to
mm your thoughts and actions to prtsirer
tot- fields that are now fruitful, and to re
store those that have been made barren In
bad husbandry—wc may bestow our next
on slaves, and slave labor.
We have been vastly amused with the
Jnie-spejttch of Mr. P.‘y.vue of Y irginia in
the U. S. Senate, says the Louisville'Jonr
u::!, intended as a reply to Mr. Rives and
a general defence of the administration.
M e are curious to know whether Mr. Van
Buren feels flattered by it. The eulogies
it bestows on hint are truly funnv. The
Senator says:—“There is something li
onising in the thought of danger from the
sword iu the hands of our little President.
Why, sir. he could hardly lift a grena
dier’s broadsword,”
What a compliment to the leader oftlie
sturdy Democracy of the nation, the inheri
tor of the mantle and the treadcr in the
footsteps of the huge old giant of the
Hermitage! It if glory enough for the
loco foe os to under such a chief?
A Thrilling Incident.— When Mr.
Cambreletig mured, in Saturday night’s
sitting, that the House go into committee
lof the whole on the state of the Union,
to take up certain appropriation bills,
Mr. Chambers asked to withdraw the
motion to enable him (Mr. C.) to make
a statement; and Mr. Cambrtdeng having
withdrawn his motion, Mr. Chambers said
the statement lie -wished to make related
to a matter affecting himself, in some de
gree, and ho would therefore barely sub
mit it to t lie House to do hi the matter
what might seem right and proper. He
said he bad for some weeks past, and dur
ing the last session, been waylaid about the
rotunda and on the stairs and passage of
the Capitol by a lean, hungry, starved
looktng man, who met him at every turn,
land the vision of whose ghastly face
haunted him c en in his hours of rest.
Phis man had been one of the real la
boring men, a sub-contractor—who had
l macadamized the beautiful avenue imme
diately in front of the capilol during a
period of deep calamity and distress in
the city, when the cholera prevailed,
i he superintendent of the work having
reserved the right to abrogate the con
tract for anV delay or suspension of the
work, refused to permit the contractor to
suspend it, hut sent physicians among the
| laborers to advise them not to work early
in the morning or late in the evening, and
not to work hard nt any time. Diseas ,
death, and alarm dispersed the greater
pari ol the operative force., tlie contract
or was ruined, and the sub-contractor
was involved ,n all the worst consequenc
i <’s of the failure, and in debt for a great
part of :he labor.
He had repeatedly been imprisoned
j for debt, and separated from an interest-;
mg family for want of bread to feed them:
j disease had followed, and the man was
| now, and had been, for many months here
soliciting justice at the hands of the Gov
ernment, m a state of actual suffering for
the comforts ot life, while tins Govern
, ment owed him upward of five thousand
dollars, which for years ho lias been beg
ging for—yes begging for justice for lie
is broken iu spirit, and suffering has al
most made him mad. The Semite (Mr. 1
C. said) bail at last passed n hill for his
rebel, and this day while the House was
iu session, the committee over which he
had the honor to preside (and it was a|
high honor to preside over that commit- 1
lee, for they earned their daily bread) had
examined the bill, and ordered him to
ask leave to report it without amendment,
land ask a departure from all the rules,
which night obstruct its commitment to a
committee of the whole; and lie would
even ask that it should go to the commit
tee ol the whole on the state of .he union.
-Mr. C. begged leave to add that he had
some doubt whether this mini had not to
day committed a breach of the privileges
<d the House, lor w lien the committee of
claims emerged from their room, the poor
fellow, ns usual, was iu waiting at the
door in (ear and trembling, and on being
told the committee had decided to rc-j
commend to the House to pass his bill,
and that every effort would lie made to,
get it through, bis sallow face turned pale
as death, and the fountains of his eyes |
overflowed and the members of tiie ootti
mittee, without exception, though not
greatly given to the “inching mood,’’ join
ed m the jioor fellow's undignified ex
pression ol ieeiiikg. lie, unfortunate man,
• again saw in prospect his suffering wife
and little ones assembled around him, and
hinisel! treed Irom the danger of a return to
his prison—it depended iijinii the House
vv lift her it should he so or not.
[ I’ite good feeling ol the Mouse was
manifested by a general erv of “leave,
leave.” The bill was afterwards special
ly taken uji iu committee, reported to
the House, and passed after -1 o’clock in
the morning. ] —National Intelligencer, j
Awful ]]ijuositui and loss of Life!
News was brought to town yesterday, that)
an awful and fatal explosion had taken
place early in tiie morning, in the Black
Heath Coal Pits, in Chesterfield, bv which
there was a considerable destruction of
human life. Tiie explosion was what is
know n as a “lire damp explosion,” from
want of proper precaution. Between f»0
ami BO pit laborers and two overseers bad)
previously gone down. Three men at the
mouth of the pit were instantly killed.
The late of those who went down is not
known; but it is supposed few, if any es
caped death. They had not been reached,
according to the last accounts.
P. S. Since the above was in type,
wo have just conversed with a gentleman
from the Pit. He thinks that between 30
and 40 Ind gone below before the explo
sion—four of them had been gotten out,
who, it was supposed, would recover—
two others were seen dead; and cries and
groans were distinctly heard from some
who had not been reached.
So great was the "CotrsfemarrorF and
dismay that the accuracy of details could
not be relied on; and so great was the
terror among all iu the vicinity that the
proper efforts could not he promptly made
to get out the unfortunate laborers.
One ot the three at the mouth of the
Pit, alluded to above, is living with both
legs broken. The other two were imme
diately killed. The shatt and engine arc
hut little injured.—[Richmond Compiler,
19th inst.
! “Dick Johnson’s children, are as inno
cent as lambs”—says the Ohio Monitor ! I
“And as woody too ’ —says the Louis
i tile Journal.
BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE.
[From the Baltimore American.]
Snch has, of late years, been the at
tention paid to steam as a propelling agent
in navigation and manufacturing process
es, that every thing connected with its
history claims paramount interest. In
tire course of a debate which took place in
Congress on the 9th of February last, on
the propriety of presenting a gold medal
to James Rumsey, junior, as commemo
rative of the services of Ins father, James
Rumsey, in adapting steam In boats, Mr.
Rumsey of Kentucky, entered into a vin
dication of that gentleman’s claims to
originality of discovery. Accord, to
the account given by Mr. R , Mr. .1 .uses
Rumsey, who was a native of Maryland,
but had removed to Siieppardstown in V ir
ginin, first conceived the iib-a of applying
steam t-» the navigation of vessels iu July
or August of the year 1783. Owing to
the difficulties then attendant on having
machinery made, the ingenious individual
of whom we speak was prevented from
making an experiment in the matter until
jthe year 1781. The trial then made was
in private, and very imperfect; it was
sufficient, however, to convince the in-,
ventftr of the ultimate practicability of
his plan. In consequence of this convic
tion, application was made to the l/’gts-,
laturc of Virginia for an Met ensuring to
.Mr. Rumsey the exclusive privilege ol
navigating bouts by steam on the rivers
of that Commonwealth. About this
time, Mr. It. addressed a communica
tion to Gen. Washington on the subject
iu answer to which lie received a letter
iu which the General said that the idea
of Mr. ft. was “an ebullition of his geni
us’’rather than a thing applicable to any
beneficial practical purpose. In the be
ginning of the following year (January
1785,) the General Assembly of Mary
land granted to .Mr. R. a patent securing
to him the right to navigate the waters of
this Slate by steam; it was not however
until 1786 that the inventor lull at liber-)
ty to make a final experiment. At this
trial, winch took place on the Potomac,
the success of the clforl was admitted by
the spectators, among whom was Dr. A.
Alexander of this city, the boat being
propelled by steam alone, against the cur
rent of the river Potomac at the rate of
between four and five miles an hour. Ii
was 11 ■:, as Mr. Rumsey states, until
twenty years niter period that Rob
ert Fulton made his successful attempts ;
outlie Hudson river. After tiie experi- i
incut on the Potomac, Mr. Rumsey find
ing that he could not get such machinery
as In: required made, determined to go j
to England. Having reached London he
persevered, notwithstanding difficulties of
every description, in carrying on his plans)
until lie died suddenly of apoplexy. At
the period when Rumsey was in Loudon
Fulton was also there, and, if we may,
judge from certain alleged fiicts, there is
reason to believe that lie had an oppor-,
tunity of availing himself of the ideas of
Rumsey with whom lie was on terms of
great intimacy, lti the course of his re
marks Mr. K. seetns uinviilmg to deprive
Fulton of his share of fame, and only as
serts in behalf of his relative tlie claim to
originally. Asa proof of the acquaint
ance between these kindred spirits a
letter is quoted in which Fulton in writ
ing home had mentioned the I’ict. The
invention of the cylindrical boiler owes
its origin to .Mr. Rumsey, together with
many ofher valuable improvements in ma
chinery. The young man iu behalf of
whom tiie resolution was presented is
blind and (leaf- —and is obliged to work
at daily labor for support. Iu such a case
would it not he well for Congr ss in ad
dition t j a gold medal to give some more
available and productive evidence id’their
good will? As Americans we are grati
fied to find that our country lias thus an
additional claim to having given impulse
to tlie introduction of steam for the pur
|iosrs of navigation, particularly as on
the ground of originality the claims of Mr.
Fulton appear to us not to have been en
tirely sustained. It is hut justice here
to say that Mr. Fulton did not regard
himself as the originator, so much as the
improver, of Steam Navigation. Asa
native of Maryland Mr. It. is entitled to
our especial thanks for what lie has done.
Sub-Treasurers. —ln 1780, that dis
tinguished statesman and friend to liberty
and law, Edmund Burke, introduced his
famous plan of Economical Reform into
the House of Commons and sustained it
by a speech of surpassing power and elo
quence. He opens his argument with
seven propositions, to the last of which
wc beg leave to ask the attention of every
honest man, who marks the signs of the
times:
‘■Resolved, That nil subordinate treas
uries, ns the miseries of mismanagement,
and as naturally drawing to themselves
as much money ns they, can, keeping it
as long as they can, and accounting for it
»s latw as they can, ought to be dissolved.”
It seems to us one more clause is want
ing to square with the times, and that is,
“and run uirm/ as fast as tori / ran .” 1
[N. G Pi cnyune.
Order top. 8.">11,000 worth of Rain.
'l’he committee of the Pennsylvania Leg
islature, to whom Mr. Epsev’s applica
tion was referred, have reported in favor
of granting him 83-7,000 should lie cause
it to rain in time of drought over a terri
tory of 5,000 miles, or 850,000 should he
cause it to rain in sufficient quantities to
keep the Ohio river navigable during the
summer season from Pittsburg to the Mis-
MSeippi.
[From the Savannah Georgian.]
DESTRUCTIVE CONFLAGRATION.
About four o’clock yesterday afternoon
a fire broke out in the yard of the Savan-j
nail Steam Saw Mill Campany, on the
other side of the river, opposite the yard of
the Steamboat Company of Georgia. It
proceeded from au old building from one’
to two hundred yards below the mill, and
about I Os) feel long by 30 wide, the roof,
of which ignited from a snark from the 1
mill ripe, the wind at the time blowing j
strong from the North West. The build
ing was immediately in a blaze, and the
lire communicated in ten minutes or less
to the schooner Mi flora, of Providence, ly- !
ing at tiie wharf near. The fire was by
the wind rapidly extended to a cargo of
white pine boards on the wharf, owned
by Captain Vi m. Crabtrpe, jr., to which !
gentleman and George Hail. Esq., both)
of tins city, the building in which the fire
originated also belonged.
In this budding (on which there was
some insurance, not yet ascertained, in
the Howard Insurance Company of N.
York,) there was anew engine intended
for anew steam saw Mill about to be
erected, which was owned by the same i
gentlemen, and which we arc happy to!
learn is but partially injured. This en
gine was not insured.
The flumes also extended to to an
other old building, of same dimensions
as the former, the property of the
Estate of tho late Robert Isaac, which
was tdso totally consumed, as also a por
tion of a |>i!e of 330 chaldrons of Liver-’!
pool coal on the wharf, the property of
Messrs. Crabtree Hull. The wharf
heads have also been more or less in
jured.
The Schooner Malora wns the prop
erty of Col. R . J. Arnold, of Bryan Court- 1
ty, valued about 83,000, and wc regret
to learn, not insured. Tvtfo men on hoard
at tho time endeavoured to loose her from
her moorings, but before site could be
got adrift, they were compelled by the 1
and imes to desert her, in one of lhe boats. ;
She was afterwards scuttled-and when our j
informant left her had been burnt to the
water’s edge. i iie mill was fortunately
preserved.
While the second building was in flames, j
and before engines could be carried across)
tho river, tho alarm was again sounded \
and when we reached the scene, the old;
building on Reynolds square, on the loti
known as the old filature lot was in flames, ]
the roof having caught from a spark waft
ed several hundred yards across the river,!
which igniting like tinder threatened a
serious conflagration. The engines were l
however on the spot, and thought he ele-j
ment was very obstinate, by the timely
aid of water well directed by the Fire
men, and by tlie exertions of many cili
! zens, the lire was arrested, after destroy
) ing the double tenement wooden build
ing occupied by Mrs. Russell, as a board
ing house, and by Mrs. Austin, and ex
tending to a small double tenement also if
wood on St. Julian Street, occupied by
Mrs. Johnson and Mr. P. Carter, which
1 was totally consumed with out buildings
on the lot. The large building own
ed by Mr. Thomas Clark, and .Mr. Amos
Scudder, was under insurance, as we learn,
8809, made by Mr. Clark. Mr. Scudder
was not insured, on tiiis building or on
the other tenement which belonged to hitn.
II is loss, we regret to state, is therefore
heavy, as two other dwellings (not insured)
on the lot, one a double tenement on Lin
coln Street, were more or less destroyed
!>v th*Axmen to arrest the conflagration.
The dwellings of Mrs. Bourke, Mr. Seluey,
land Mr. Thus. S. Wayne were with other
contiguous buildings repeatedly on fire, but
preserved by great exertion. We regret to
learn that much furniture was lost by Mrs.
Russell and Mrs. Austin, and that two of
their hoarders Messrs. Roberts’ lost con
siderable, ns also a Mr. Gardiner.
We congratulate our citizens that it
proved not more serious in its eTocts, and
would urge upon Council the necessity of
procuring more hose, some of which prov
ed very deficient, and of keeping in good
repair the cisterns, from two of which in
the vicinity material benefit at this fire
1 was derived.
Another Murder. The Mobile
Chronicle of the 30th inst. says:
Public feeling was shocked yesterday
afternoon at the commission of a most
extraordinary and heart-rendering mur-)
dor. Mr George Ciiercuward, a highly
respectable and esteemed commission liter- )
chant, was instantaneously killed by the
discharge of a pistol shot, f.om the hands
of Mr. E. B. Churchill, also a very res- i
pectable merchant. The transaction oc-i
currcd at the residence of the latter, in ,
whose family the former hoarded. The)
parties were in an apartment by them
selves, and had but a few moments prior j
withdrawn from the dinner table. From
various indications, it would appear that
the deceased was shot from the rear—the
ball iraving entered behind tlye ear, and
penetrated to the brain. W e forbear from'
anv comments; the foregoing is the sub
stance gathered from the inquest. YV e un
derstand, this morning, that Mr.Churchill
lias been admitted to bail iu the sum ol
85000. On this also, wc forbear remark
ing.
Mr. Churchward was formerly of Nor
folk, Virginia.
If every one were honest we need not
lock our doors.
j If every body would mind his own bu
sipess, there would be more business
done.
A fact for posterity. —Under this !
head, the Norfolk Herald has the follow
ing relation:
On Friday last the steamboat Alabama
took up to Baltimore 23,000 mulberry
switches ( morus Multicaulis,) from 6 to
8 feet in length, the value of which, at
the lowest calculation, based upon actual,
sales all through the country, cannot be'
less than forty five thousand dollars. The
number of eyes or buds, upon these 22,-
000 switches, is ascertained by carefully,
counting them, to be two million, two hun
dred anil fifty-four thousand, which, ac- \
I cording to the prevailing prices, would
be considered cheap at tw o to two and a j
half cents a piece. The whole were rais
ed on fifteen acres of such lands as would
be considered well sold at ten dollars an
i acre in ordinary situations; and tho cost’
l of the cuttings, the expense of cultiva
tion, packing, freight, and all else, being
i added, the w hole would probably not ex
ceed one thousand dollars!—Who would
spin out his existence in a fruitless search
after the philosopher's stone—and who)
would think himself rich with a gold mine
on his estate, iu view of an example like
j this?
These valuable trees were the property
of Messrs. Collins and Pettigrew, two gen-)
tlenien with princely estates, near Eden
ton, N. C.. and were sent on to Balti
more in the care of an agent, to be there )
disposed of. They were packed up with
great care in boxes containing, we should
judge, about 250 trees in each.
A Shocking Murder. —The details
of a murder that has few parallels in the
annals of crime, are thus given iu the,
Morgan, Alabama, Observer:
YY e arc informed from private sources
that on last Saturday, a poor man who
was moving westward with his wife and
three little children, and driving a small
drove of sheep and perhaps a cow or two I
which was driven by his family, on arriv
ing in Florence and while passing through
met a citizen of that place, who rode in-;
to h:s flock and caused him some trouble
to keep it together, when the mover in
formed the individual that he must not
do so again or he would throw a rock
at him, tijion which some words ensued
and the individual again disturbed the;
flock, when tlie mover, ns near as wc
• learn threw at him; upon this the
thlesome man got off his horse; went
into a grocery, got a gun and came out
and deliberately shot the poor stranger )
iu the presence of his wife and little)
children. The wounded man then made
an effort to get into some house, when
his murderous assailant Overtook and stab- i
bed him to the heart with a bowir knife.
This revolting scene we are informed, I
occurred in the presence of many citi
zens who report says, never lifted their
voices in defence ot the murdered man.
The blood of a stranger rests upon them:
and the cries of a widow and three poor
little orphans, among strangers, who snf-;
sered a father’s blood to be spilt for so tri-)
vial a cause, must coiUaiuly pierce their
very hearts, and send the vengeance of
remc.se to the guilty soul "of such a dia-j
holical murderer.
A Farmer’s Daughter. —A few years;
ago, a farmer living a few miles from Eas-j
ton, sent his daughter on horseback to!
that town to procure small notes for one
of a hundred dollars. When she arrived!
there the bank had closed, and she en
deavored to efleet her object by offering :
it at several stores, but could not get her.
note changed. She had not gone far on
her return, when a stranger rode up to
her and accosted her with so much polite
ness, that she had not the slightest suspi
cion of any evil intention on his part. — 1
After a ride of a mile or two employed in
a very social conversation, they came to
a retired part of the rode, and the gentle
man commanded her to give him the hank
note. It was with some difficulty that she
could be made to believe him in earnest,
as Ins demeanor had been so friendly
but the presentation of-a pistol placed this
matter beyond a doubt, and she yielded to
necessity. Just ns she held the note to
him, a sudden puff of wind blew the note
into the road, and carried it gently several
yards from them. The discourteous
knight alighted to overtake it, and the lady
whipped her horse to get out of his power,
and the other horse who had been left
standing by her side, started with her.—
He fired a pistol, which only tended to in
crease the speed of all parties and the
young lady arrived safely at homo with
the horse oftlie robber, on which was a pair!
of saddle Iwigs. When these were opened,)
they were found to contain, besides a
quantity of counterfeit bank notes, fifteen :
hundred dollars in good money! The
horse was a good one, and when saddled
and bridled, was thought to lie worth at
least as much as the bank note that was
stolen.
i
An accident occurred, at the Walnut St.
theatre on Friday evening, during the
representation of the magnificent specta
cle of the “Cartarnct of the Ganges.”
During the performance, the horse iu as
cending the cartaract, missed his footing,
fell and broke his neck—Tha noble ani
mal we learn, cost five hundred dollars.
A few nights previous another accident
occurred in the performance of the same
piece, by which Mrs. llield and Mr. Pick
ering were considerably injured. Mrs.
H. we understand is still insensible from
the effects of the injuries received.
[Phila. Sentinel
Account of American Manufactures by
an Englishman. —At a great Ai ti-Corn
Law Dinner, recently given at Manches
ter, England, one of the speakers in the
course of his remarks, made the follow
ing statement: that iu 1814 the people ot
America consumed one hundred bales ot
j cotton. Last year the consumption was
1 nearly three hundred thousand bales, en
tirely the growth of the short period which
has elapsed since 1814. Site now stands
jin point of consumption, where we stood
in the year 1810. Sixteen years ago Low
ell, the Manchester of America, was a
desert. Its forests echoed.no sound but
that of the cataract. It now spins and
manufactures forty thousand bales of cot
ton per annum. There is a concentrated
water power, amounting to five thousand
horses’ power, which equals one half ot
the water power of Great Britain which
is applied to the cotton manufacture and
to one sixth of all the steam power so ap
plied. In 1835, America exported two
millions, eight hundred thousand dollars
worth of cotton goods. In 183 G and halt
of 1837 she exported twenty thousand
hales of her cotton manufactures round
the Cape of Good Hope to India aud Chi
na, and thirty-four thousand hales to the
markets of S. America. Neither is it in
the cotton manufactures alone that she is
advancing. In 1835, she had seventeen
mil ions of sheep and lambs. In 1838,
twenty-three millions, which, at three
pounds per head, would give sixty mill
; ion pounds of wool, the whole of which
is manufactured therg. Interior woolens
are sold as cheap in New York ns iu the
cloth-halls of Leeds. For the last two
years our manufacturers have worked with
i out receiving any profit.
A Revolutionary Hero Gone.—A
mong the foreign volunteers in the army
o( tho revolution the reader cannot hut
remember the name of Baron Steuben.—
After the treachery of Arnold lie could
cot bear to hear the name of the man or
any allusion to hint. Once, while review
ing a regiment of light .horse, lie inci
dentally heard the name which he so much
abhorred. He ordered the person hear
ing it to tlie front, and was astonished at
the appearance of a young and gallant
rider ot portly hearing excellently equipp
ed. “Change your name, brother soidier,”
said the Baron; “von are too respectable
to bear the name of a traitor.” “What
name shall I take, General?” said the sol
dier. “Any you please. Mine is at your
service.” An offer so honorable was
thankfully accepted, and the name of Steu
ben was entered on the roll. The soldier
whose name was thus changed, carried his
new name until the day of his death, which
occurred, last January. lie died at Steu
ben, in this state, aged 82. [N.'Y. Sun.
The Distribution of the Surplus.—
Our renders will remember that, at the
first session of the Congress which has just
expired, a law was passed, on the sug
gestion of the Treasury, postponing the
payment to the States of the further in
stalment of the surplus until the Ist of
January, 1833.
Inasmuch as no law was passed at the
recent session, prolonging the period of
postponement, the payment is now due
and demanded by the States; and the orig
inal appropriation being from any mo
neys in the Treasury not otherwise ap
propriated, we do not see hut that the
Treasury must, in obedienceto law, make
the distribution, or confess to empty box
es.—[New-York American. ™
M its. Doyle and Johnson. —YVe have
been informed that Mrs. Doyle, ofGirod
street, was conveyed to Baton Rouge, on
Sunday last, to he confined for life in the
prison ot'that place, in punishment of the
crime of which she was convicted in Jan
uary; and that Johnson, her accomplice,
is to he hanged on Friday next, 15th inst.
[N. Orleans Sun, 12th inst.
Johnson, the murderer, above alluded
to, was executed oil the IGth inst. Before
his execution, he confessed having mur
dered his own brother in Quebec, and
that lie had also been concerned in the
murder of a whole crew at sea. Yet this
great criminal had not attained his twenti
eth year when he was hung.
There are unpleasant rumors in town,
of hostilities among the Indians West
of the Mississippi. The Georgia Creeks,
headed by Mclntosh, are reported to be
iu arms, with the determination of making
war upon another tribe, the Osages, we
think; and some of the troops of the L .
S. have been dispatched Irom Fort Gibson
to the scene of hostilities with a view of
preserving peace. These accounts are
brought direct from the country, and
though we do not know that they are to
he implicitly relied upon, they are credited
by those more familiar than we are with
the scene of action. — [Mobile Journal.
A plan is said to be in agitation to es
tablish train roads by the side of the turn
pike roads, capable of competing for all
ordinary purposes, with railroads, and at
an infinitely smaller expense as well as
risk. The plan is said at this time to be
in operation at Llanelly, in Wales. The
cost, it is said, would be 1350/. per mile.
Thus train roads might have been made
to Birmingham for 146,0001. while the
railroad has cost 6,000,0001. [Rich.
Cotnp.
Kerned,, for the Gout - Board with the Prin
ter !