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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 8, 1842)
NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE, D.. COTTIIVG, Editor. No. 2.—NEW SERIES.] terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum if paid at the time of subscribing; or ‘Three Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi ation of six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless at the option tot the Editor, without the settlement of all arrearages. (£F L>. tiers, o n business, must h€ post paid, to insure attention. No communication shall be published, miles? we are made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy.five Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-five per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators, and Guardians,are required bylaw, to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published weekly for four months; ; r notice that application will be made for Letters of I Administration, must be published thirty days; j and Letters of Dismission, sir months. Mail Arrangements, POST OFFICE, ( Washington, Ga., January, 1842. $ j AUGUSTA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 0, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 21, P. M. ’ MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. ATHENS MAIL. ARRIVES. Saturday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Saturday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Thursday, at 8, P. M. J Thursday, at B,l’. M. LINCOLN TON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. | Friday, at 19, M. We are authorized to announce the names of the following gentlemen as Can didates to represent Wilkes county in the next Legislature : For the Senate, GEORGE W. CARTER. For Representatives, ROBERT A. TOOMBS, WILLIAM Q. ANDERSON, | LODOWICK M. HILL. JAMES D. WILLIS, for Senate. LEWIS S. BROWN, ) p R HENRY P. WOOTTEN, > 1 or , ~p rc RICHARD 1. lIALLIDAY, S ienlatlvei - COT TING & BUTLER, ATTORNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE over G. P. Co- j zart’s Store. January, 1842. 23 j JVotice. TIIE Subscriber expecting to remove from the County this fall, would earnestly re- D quest all those indebted to her to call and pay up. before the first day of November next. Those who pay no attention to this, will find their Notes in the hands of an Attorney for collection. MARY SHEPHERD. August 18,1843. 51 Reduction ! THE SUDscriber respectiuily informs the public, that owing to the change in times, lie will work at the following reduced prices: Putting in Main-spring, $2 00 “ Hair “ 1 00 “ Verges, 2 50 “ New Chain, 1 50 “ best Lunett Chrystals,. 75 *’ “ Flint “ 50 “ Common “ 57 A Cleaning Lever Watch, 1 50 “ Common “ 75 And all other work in proportion. 33* Work entrusted to his care will be prompt ly and faithfully executed, and as the prices are considerably reduced, he hopes still to receive a share of public patronage. 33* All work warranted, and unless satisfac tion is given, no charge made. R. H. VICKERS. May 5,1842. 36 ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. be sold on the first Tuesday .in Octo * * her next, before the Court-llouse door in the town of Lexington, Oglethorpe county, be tween the usual hours of sale, a Tract of LAND lying ami being in the county of Oglethorpe, known as a part of the Dye’s Ferry Tract, on Broad River, belonging to the Estate of Z. Reid, deceased. Sold pursuant to an order of the In ferior Court of Oglethorpe county, while sitting purposes. Tefffc made known on ifeuefc of sale. 1 REBECC A RER), Adm’x. X LINDSAY H. SMITH, Adm’r. -fill v 28,1849. 48 WAREHOUSE COMMISSION BUSINESS, BROAD-STREET, AUGUSTA, GA. WM A. BEALL &, Cos., * INFORM their friends and the public gener ally, that they continue tin: above business at their FIRE-PROOF WARE-IIOUSE, on Broad street, (formerly occupied by Rees & Beall,) and will receive and forward Goods of every descrip tion, collect Drafts, Notes, Bills or Acceptances; and hope, by strict attention to business, to merit a continuance and extension of patronage. JOHN ROBSON &Uo, Grocery Merchants, will act as our agents at Madison. September 1, 1812. IBt 1 Lands for Safe* fl— ’Pile Subscriber oilers for sale his Plantation, on Savannah River, forty miles above Augusta, containing (1,053) one thousand and tiliy-three Ac. e., adjoining lands of Messrs. Cantelow and Anthony ; about six hundred Acres in the woods, with a good framed Dwelliug-llouse, a first-rate Gin-llouse and Packing Screw, a barn Crib, and other out-buildings necessary for a farm. Also, one other Tract containing (140) one hundred and forly Acres, adjoining the above tract, the Land is of the first quality for Corn,'Cotton, or ] small grain, well watered with several good i Springs of as pure water as any in the ttp-coun- j try. Also, his House and Lot in the village of j Lincolnton, attached to which is (100) one bun- : dred Acres of Land, of which sixty is in the woods. If not sold privately, will bo offered to the highest bidder on the fourth Monday in Oc tober next. Any person wishing to purchase such Lands will be induced to trade after exam ining the above premises no doubt. The terms will be easy. N. FOX. Lincolnton, August 20,1842. I To the Planters of Georgia. A I’ENNY SAVED IS TWO PENCE EARNED. rj4ilE Subscriber is now offering to the Far -i- mers of Georgia, “MIMS’ WROUGIIT- IiiON PLOUGH STOCK,” invented by the Messrs. Seaborn J. & Marshall Mims, ol Oc lebbalian county, Mississippi, and patented by them. This PLOUGH in every respect is the most desirable PLOUGH STOCK ever offered to a planting ccanimmily. It combines durabili ty with convenience—it will last a great many years without repair or expense, and will admit of every variety of Plough Hoes,, (three tooth harrow excepted,) with perfect convenience and facility—it is not heavier than the'ordinary wood en stock, yet far stronger, and being so very sim ple in its construction, that any blacksmith in Lhpp.mn.itrv r.u u r.m L* iKy,. --* -- Sample Ploughs may be seen and tried at Mr. Dense’s Shop in Milfodgeville ; at Mr, Martin’s Shop in Sparta, and at Mr. F. B/Billingslea’s in Washington, Wilkes county. Let the Farmer examine the Plough, and he will purchase the right to use them. The Subscriber proposes to sell county rights on the most accommodating terms. D’ All communications on tins subject, post paid,addressed to me at Mi'dedgevdie, ov Wash ington, Wilkes county, will meet with immedi ate attention. B. 1,. BARNES, Agent for S. J. &. M. Mims. January 27,1841. 22 ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. ‘W/'ILL be sold on the first'Tuesday in De * ’ comber next, before the Court-House door in Washington, Wilkes county, between the legal hours of sale, a Tract of Land lying in said county, on the waters ofßeaverdam Creek, adjoining lands of Samuel T. Burns and others, containing six hundred Acres, more or less, (subject to the widow’s dower,) belonging to the Estate of Edward Jones, deceased. Sold by or der of the Honorable the Inferior Court of said county. Terms will be made known on the day ° “VeLIX G. HENDERSON, Adm’r. de August 25, 1842. 52 bonis non. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in Octo ber next, at the Court-House door in El bert county, agreeably to an order of the Honor able the Inferior Court of Elbert county, while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, three Tracts of land in Elbert County one containing Five Hun dred and ninety-nine acres more or less on Big Powder Bag Creek, adjoining lands of Reuben L. Tyler arid others, one on Gum Branch adjoining ; lands of J. Waters and others, containing two • Hundred and forty acres more or less; and the other containing blight Hundred acres more or less on Powder Bag creek, adjoining lands of ! John McDonald and others, being all the lands : belonging to the estate of Angus McCurry de- | ceased, lying in Elbert County; sold for the ben efit of the heirs of said deceased. Terms will be made known on the day of sale, this 22dJuly 1842. JOHN McCURRY, Admr. July 28. 48 THE Copartnership heretofore existing at Petersburg, Georgia, under the copartner ship name and style of SPEED, HESTER, & Cos., was dissolved on the 31st December last.— Said Copartnership being composed of Wade Speed, James M. Hester, and Uriah O. Tate. U. O. TATE. May 3, 1842. 3G months after date application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Ordi nary, for leave to sell a Negro Girl by the name of Polly, belonging to the Estate of Thomas Jones, late of said county deceased. MARTHA P. JONES, Ex’x. July 7,1842. m4m 45 1,40 UR months after date application will be made to the .Honorable the Inferior Court of Lincoln county,“while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, for leave’to sell a Negro man, belong ing to the Minors of Thomas Dallis, Jr., deceased. WILLIAM DALLIS, 1 G ~ ISAIAH COLLARS, £^* a * a ‘ ans ’ July 31,184’? m4rn 47 WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) SEPTEMBER S, 1842. JtttecrUanfem ISABELLE AND HER SISTER KATE, And their Cousin. BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE. Mistake .and misunderstandings are not such bad things after all, at least, not al ways so ; circumstances alter cases. I remember a case in point. Every body in the country admired Isabelle Edmonds, and in truth, she was an admirable cre-a-. lure, just made for admiration and sonnet teering, and falling in love with, and uc- i cordingly all the country of was in love with her. The columns of every Ar gus, and Herald, and Sentinel, and Gazette and Spectator, and all manner of newspa pers, abounded with the effusions, suppli catory and declaratory, of her worshippers; i in short. Miss Isabelle was the object of all j the spare “ideality” in all the region round about. Now I shall not inform my respect ed readers how she looked, you may just think of a Venus, a Psyche, a Madonna, a fairy, an angel, &c., and you will have a very definite idea on the point. I must run on with my story. I am not about to choose this angel for my heroine because she is too handsome, and too much like oth- I er heroines for my purpose. But Miss Is abelle had a sister, and I think I shall take her. “Little Kate,” for she was always spoken of in the diminutive, was some years younger than her sister, and somewhat shorter in stature. She had no pretensions to beauty—none at ail : yet there was a certain something, a certain—in short, sir, she looked very much like Mrs. A. or Miss G. whom you admire so much, though you always declare she is not handsome. It requires a very peculiar talent to be overlooked with a good grace, and in this talent Miss Kate excelled ; she was as pla cid and as happy by the side of her brilliant sister, us any little contented star, that for ages has twinkled on, unnoticed and almost \ eclipsed, by the side of the peerless moon. 1 Indeed, the only art or science in which | Kate ever made any great proficiency, was the art and science of being happy, and in this she so excelled, that one could scarce, ly be injier presence half an hour without feeling unaccountably comfortable them- ! selves. She had a world of sprightliness, a deal of simplicity and affection, with a dash of good-natured shrewdness, that after all, kept you more in awe than you would ever supposeyou could he kept, by sucha merry, good-natured little body. Notone of Isa belle’s adorers ever looked at her with such devout admiration as did the laughter-lov trig Kate. Nb one was so Tcndy to mu, wait and tend—to he up stairs and down stairs, and every where in ten minutes. : when Isabelle was dressing for conquest. In short, she was, as the dedications of books sometimes set forth, her ladyship’s most i obedient, most devoted servant. But if I am going to tell you tny story, I must not keep you all night looking at pic tures; so now to my tale, which I shall commence in manner and form the follow. log : It came to pass that a certain college val etudinarian, and a far off cousin of the two sisters, came down to pass a few months of his free agency at their father’s; and, as aforesaid, he had carried off the first colle giate honor, besides the hearts of all the la dies in the front gallery at the first com mencement. So interesting ! so poetic ! such fine eyes, and all that, was the reputation he left a mong the gentler sex. But alas, poor Ed ward, what did all this advantage him, so long as he was afflicted with that imutte'-a ble, indcscribuble malady, commonly ren dered bashfulness, a worse nullifier than any ever heard of in Carolina. Should you see him in company, you would really suppose him ashamed of his remarkably handsome person, and cultivated mind.— When he began to speak, you felt tempted to throw open the window and offer him a smelling bottle, he made such a distressing affair of it, and as to speaking to a lady, the tiling was not to he thought of. When Kate heard that this “rara avis” > was coming to her father’s, she was unac, ! countably interested to see him, of course l —because he was her cousin, and because |—a dozen other things too numerous -to j mention. j He came, and was for one or two days an object of commiseration as well as admira tion to the whole family circle. After a while however, he grew quite domestic ; entered the room straight forward, instead of stealing in sideways—talked off whole sentences without stopping—looked Miss Isabella full in the face without blushing — even tried his skill at sketching patterns and winding silk—reading poetry and play ed the flute with the ladies—romped and frolicked with the children, and in short, as old John observed, was a psalm book from morning to-night. Divers reports began to spread abroad in the neighborhood, and great confusion ex isted in the camp of Miss Isabelle’s admir ers. It was stated with great precision, how many times they had ridden—walked —talked together—and even all they had said—in short the whole neighborhood was full of “That strange knowledge that doth come We know not how, we know not where.” As for Kate, she always gave all admirers to her sister, ex officio; so she thought “that of all the men she had ever seen, she should like cousin Edward best for a brother,” and she did hope Isabelle would like him as much as she did ; and for some reason or PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. other her speculations were remarkably drawn to this point; and yet for some rea son or other, she felt as if site could not ask any questions about it. At last events appeared to draw towards a crisis. Edward became more and more “brownstudious” everyday, and lie and Is abelle had divers solitary* walks and con fabulations, from which they returned with a peculiar solemnity of countenance. — Moreover the quick-sighted little Kate no ticed that when Edward was with herself he seemed to talk as though ho talked not, when with Isabelle he was all animation and interest; that lie was constantly falling into trances and reveries, and broke ofl'thc ‘ thread of conversation abruptlyand,in short'! had every appearance of a person who ■ would be glad to say something, if he only j know how. “So,” said Kate to herself, “they neither ! ofthem speak tome ofi'tbe subject—l should think they might. Belle 1 should think would, and Edward knows I am a good friend of his ; 1 know he is thinking of it ail the time, he might as well tell me, and he shall.” The next morning Miss Kate was sitting in the little back parlor. Isabelle was gone out shopping, and Edward was—she did not know where. Oh, no, here he is, com ing book in hand, into the self-same little room ; “now for it,” said the merry girl, mentally ; “I’ll make a charge at him.” — She looked up. Master Edward was sitting diagonally on the sofa, twirling the leaves of his book in a very unscholar-like man- j ner; he looked out of the window and— then walked up to the sideboard and poured out three tumbers of water; then he drew a chair up to the work table and took up first one ball of cotton, looked it all over, and laid it down again, then another, then he took up the scissors arid minced up two or three little hits of paper, and then he began to pull the needles out of the needle-book, and put them back again. “Do you wish for some sewing, sir?” said the young lady after having very com posedly superintended these operations. “llovv ma'am, what?” said lie, starting and upsetting the box, stand and all, upon floor. “Now, cousin, I’ll thank you to pick up that cotton,” said Kate, as the confused col legian stood staring at tire cotton balls roll- i ing in divers directions. It takes some ! time to pick up the things in a lady’s work { box; but at last peace was restored, and with it came a long pause. “Well cousin,” said Kate in about ten minutes,, “if you can’t speak 1 can ; you have something to tell me, you know you : have.” “Well I know I have,” said the scholar in a tone of hearty vexation. “There is no need of being so fierce about it,” said the mischievous maiden ; “Nor of tangling my silk, and picking out all my needles, and upsetting my work-box, as pre paratory ceremonies.” “There is never any need of being a fool, Kate, but I arn vexed that 1 cannot suy”— (a long pause.) “Well sir, you have displayed a reason able fluency so far; don’t you feel as though you could finish? Don’t be alarm ed ; I should like of all things to be your confidante.” But Edward did not finish—his tongue clave to the roof of his mouth, and he ap peared to be going into convulsions. “Well, I must finish for you, I suppose,” said the young lady; the short of the mat ter is, Master Edward, you are in love, and have exhibited the phenomena thereof this fortnight. Now you know lam a friendly little body, so do be tractable and tell me the rest. Have you said anything to her about it ?” “To her—to who ?” said Edward, start ing. “Why, Isabelle, to be sure—it’s she, isn’t it ?” “No, Miss Catherine, it’s you!” said the scholar, who, like most bashful persons, could be amazing explicit when he spoke at all. Poor little Kate ! it was her turn to look at the cotton balls, and to exhibit symptoms of scarlet fever, and out that’s no con cern of mine. A Vegetable Compass. —A corresspon dent has sent to the Editors of the National Intelligencer a dry-pressed specimen of the Polar Plant of the Western Prairies. It is a species of fern, which generally attains the height often to sixteen inches, with one large flat leaf, whose plane always points to the North and South. The specimen was plucked from the Prairies near Fort Gibson, West of Arkansas. It is spread profusely in large beds over the Western Prairies, from the North-West to the far South-West. It has been seen in the Prai ries of Wisconsin and other regions East of the Mississippi. It is never found in the forests, or, in other words, out of the Prai ries. It has been well known to tiie hun ters and trappers of the West, and to the officers of dragoons; but it is believed that its existence has never (at least extensive ly) been made known to the world. Its plane is always in the plane of the meridi an, when not disturbed by high winds or external causes. The indications are al ways most accurate in the valleys, where the beds are shelered from the winds, and where the traveller finds them arranged in parallel positions, faithfully pointing out the direetionofthe meridian. The leaf is sym metrical, and thus there is nothing in its in dications to distinguish the North from the South. COLT’S SUBMARINE BATTERY. This terrible engine of destruction seems to us one of the most marked and important inventions of the present day—and destined to do much towards the prevention of the horrible calamities of war, for just in pro portion as national conflicts become more surely sanguinary and exterminating will they become of rare occurrence. By the agency of electricity, it will bo remember ed, Mr. Colt is able from any’ distance to explode his instrument under a vessel and thus send the largest ship careering through tiie upper element, certainly not after the most approved style of seamanship. How he proposes to deposit the battery under the vessel, with the requisite security and se crecy', is the unexplained marvel : we find in a communication to the Journal of Com merce the following suggestion of two ways in which it may be done : The first is similar to that employed by Fulton for his submarine Torpedo. One or more of these batteries are to be sunk at the Narrows, or any other narrow channel through which a vessel must pass in enter ing the harbor; if the channel be sufficient ly narrow, one battery will suffice; but if wider, tiie number must be increased to the number of times the width of the channel exceeds that of the vessel ; the wires from j them, properly numbered or placed, com- : municate with the shore, where a watch is to be stationed ready to make the connec tion necessary for tiie explosion the instant the vessel has placed herself in the situation to receive it. The other method that we shall mention, is more certain in its operation.—is suscep tible of a wider application, and lias the ad ditional recommendation of being more nov el in its nature: properly attended to, it can not fail of complete and triumphant success. It is as follows : A boat is to be construct ed upon the principle of the diving-bell or otherwise, with the machinery for its pro pulsion beneath the surface of the water, in any direction. Till very lately', the want of air fit for respiration, would have eliect ually prevented the use of such a boat, — ] the great degree of secrecy necessary in all j its evolutions forbidding the employment of j the usual upparatus connected with diving j bells for the supply of fresh air from above; j but thanks to the discoveries in science that ■ almost daily permit us to class among j things easily performed, those that were ! once thought impossible, the difficulty is now surmounted by the following simple means, for the discovery of which, the world of science is indebted to Col. Payerne, of London. Two chemical substances arc taken down into the boat, —the one, to ab- j sorb the carbonic avid gas as fast as gener- | ated by the lungs—the other, to give out oxygen gas to supply the place of that con sumed. The first of those is found in pure polassa, which readily absorbs half its own weight of carbonic acid gas,—the other, is the sulphate of potassa which, when heat ed, gives out a very large proportion of pure oxygen. With these two simple bodies, Col. Payerne lately’ descended in a diving bill to the bed of the Thames, where ho re- | mained for the long and hitherto unattain- : ed period of seven hours, cut off from all Communication with the upper air, without experiencing any of the unpleasant effects usually attendant upon such experiments, j to the great surprise of a number of disfin- j guished men of science, who witnessed his j performance without the knowledge of his i novel application of a couple of well known ; facts in Chemistry. A boat could thus be j constructed for sub-marine navigation,—to remain under water for any desirable time j within the limits of twenty-four hours, —to ! carry the batteries to their several points j of destination, —there to sink them or attach thorn to the vessel’s keel, as the case may \ be.— N. Y. Tribune. PLAIN SPEAKING. An exchange paper says “We have been often diverted at a tale of old times in New England—short to be sure, but to the point. It so fell out that two young people became very much smitten with each other, as young people sometimes do. The woman’s father was rich, the young man poor but re spectable. The father could not stand any such union, and resolutely opposed it, and tire daughter dare not disobey—that is to say she dare not disobey openly. She “met him by moonlight,” while she pre tended never to see him—and she pined and wasted in spite of herself. She was really in love —a state of “sighs and tears,” which women oftener meet in imagination than in reality. Still the father remained inexo rable. Time passed on, and the rose od Mary’s damask check past off. She let no con cealment “like a worm in the bud,” prey on that damask however: but when her fa ther asked her why she pined she always told him. The old gentleman was a wid ower, and loved his girl dearly. Had it been a widowed mother .who had Mary in charge, a woman's pride would never have givqn way before the importunities of a daughter. Men are not, however, so stub born in such matters, and when the father saw his daughter’s heart was really set up on the match, he surprised her one day by breaking out—“ Mary, rather than mope to death, thee had better marry as soon as thee chooses, and whom thee pleases. And then what did Mary ? Wait till the birds of the air had told her swain ot the 71 . .1 . K A PPEL, Printer. change, or until father had time to niter iiis mind again? Not a bit of it. She clap ped her neat plain bonnet upon her head, walked directly into the Street ; and then as directly to the house of her intended, o the street would carry her. She walked into the house without knocking—for knock ing was not then fashionable, and she found the family just sitting down to dinner. — Some.little commotion was exhibited at so unexpected an apparition as the heiress in the widow’s cottage, but she heeded it not. John looked up inquiringly. She walked directly to him, and took both hands in hers: “John,” said she, “father says that I may have thee.” Could she have told him the news in less words? Was there any occasion for more? From the Nashville Whig. EAST-INDIA COTTON AND THE COTTON TRADE. We have several times adverted to the increased and increasing attention paid to the culture ofCotton in the East-Indies, and the probable influence of that culture upon our own cotton-growing States. We have shown that Great-Britain was untiring in her exertions to improve the cultivation of Cotton in her India dominions, by the intro duction of the American mode of cultiva tion, that she might thus be able to supply her manufactories with cotton from that quarter, and thus shake off her dependence upon the United States for that important article. In this matter Great-Britain has a special eye to her own interests, and when they are concerned, she is known to be ov er vigilant. She loses no opportunity to increase her wealth and power as a na tion . The experiments which have already been made under the direction of American planters have shown that Cotton can be rai sed in India, and transported to England at a cheaper rate than it can be obtained from this country. The climate, soil, and low price of labor, favor this result, aud the time, we apprehend, is not tar distant when, availing herself of the product of her colo nies, she will lay such duties on other cot tons as will amount to a prohibition of their importation. When that event shall take place, which, (judging from the increase of imports into England from India,) we confi dently believe is close at hand, the South, ern States, which have been so violent a gainst a tariff of protection, will regret their opposition. Their eyes will be opened to the errors of that policy which, if carried out, will deprive them of a home market without opening them another. Their mistaken views will stand out fully before them, anil they will wonder they should have opposed a system which is one of the pillars of our indept ndence, and one of the great . ourco.-: of nab o.rj wealth and pros perity. When we look at the “ unre mute and exer tion-, of the English to improve tiie quality of the cotton of India ; “ when we consider the advantages it possesses in point of soil, climate and cheapness of labor ; and the continued and great increase of the supply of cotton in the English markets, it does not require the gift of prophecy to foresee, that the cotton trade between this country and Great-Britain will be totally destroyed, or materially impaired. Should Great-Brit ain impose a duty on foreign cottons that will amount to a prohibition, where are our cotton growing States to look for a market for their grral staple ? No other Europe an State will supply the place of that of Great-Britain ; the culture of cotton to a great extent, therefore, must be abandoned, or we must encourage our domestic manu factures & find a market among ourselves. Which shall be done ? The Patriot says I encourage, nay, protect our manufactures, infuse life and spirit into home industry, and make our country as independent of the products of foreign workshops, as she is po litically independent. The more we reflect upon it, the more are we convinced, that it is a short-sighted policy on the part of American statesmen to oppose the manufacturing interests of the country, upon the flimsy and fallacious pre text that one section is heavily taxed to sus tain another. Such narrow views are wor thy only of interested politicians, who can not see beyond the limits of their own States. To a different policy on the part of the statesmen of England, is that country in debted for her wealth and power, and so well are Her legislators aware of their im portance, that they omit no means of sus taining the manufacturing interests. Should the opinions of the leading politi cians of the South ever prevail, and our manufacturing establishments bo broken up, the cotton growing States will be among the first to feel its effects. They may not j now justly appreoiato the result, but the | time will come when they will feel it, and they will be found among the strongest ad vocates of the system they now condemn. Deprived of a home market both at homo and abroad, what will be the great staple of the South be worth ? Let the people of the South answer. Destroy our manufac tures by withdrawing from them that pro tection which is necessary to sustain them, and we will be dependent upon Great-Bri tain, for almost every article we wear, and we will most sensibly ieel that dependence, in the enhanced price of all such articles, while our country will be impoverished by a continual drain of our available means to pay for them. “ I shall draw on you at sight, as tho leech observed to the boy s legs. [VOLI ME XX VIII.
