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POBTRT AND MISCELLANY.
From the Louisville Journal.
AN EVENING HYMN by j. h. barbick.
Ereninsr shades are falling gently
O’er the Hlent scenes of earth,
Evening stars are beaming brightly
In their newly wakened birth ;
‘Tis an hour, wben kindred spirits
Walk in peneiveness abroad,
When the weary sou! inherits
Peace that dwells alone with God.
Now, while nature teems with beauty,
’Neath a woven roofof flowers,
We will join our hearts in duty,
While the psalm ofhfe is ours ;
While the woods and fields are teeming
With a blessine from on high,
We will cease from idle dreaming,
And unite in sacred tie.
While our souls with hope ascending,
Mount on silver wings of light,
We will long for life unending,
Free from shades of mortal night;
And our spirits shrinking never,
Snail await the welcome morn,
When from a'l of earth we sever,
Prom its fading beauty shorn.
And in groves that never wither,
va here the flowers immortal bloom,
Where no wintry winds will gather,
O’er ihe dark and silent tomb,
We will rise from sin and sorrow,
Rise midst scenes of bliss untold,
And our he rts the welcome morrow,
Shall await with harps of gold.
Time and space are stealing onward,
Onward to the opening grave,
Yet in death our spirits skyward,
Shall arise like freemen brave,
And the crown of life receiving,
Pr<>m the hand of God above,
We will live and unceasing,
In the light and smiles of love.
Glasgow, Ky., June 1849.
An Incident at Gen. Marlon’s Camp dur
ing the Revolutionary War.
The war in South Carolina was a bloody
and exterminating one. The English tories,
or loyalists—Carolinians by birth—to their
shame be it said, commenced die game of put
ling to death the whig prisoners they took, w ith
unparalleled ferocity. Neither sex nor age
were spared. Whole plantations were burnt,
rtid the owners hungup on the trees before
their own doors. The whig* did not long sub
mit to this, but commenced of retaliation.
Bloody errors and wrongs were committed on
both sides, murder and revenge were synony
mous terms and the strife was mutual. To the
credit of Marion be it said, that he never hung
a to ry when in command, except there was full
proof that he had been concerned in the murder
of a whig Then wo! to the poor wretch.
Pardon was out of the question.
The following incidents pertaining to the
disposal of a notorious lory named Hmchman,
are related of Major Castleton, familiarly called
•• Mad Jack.” who had been sent to Marion
with despatches from Gen. Greene. On pre
•eming the papers, Marion greeted the Major
with a smile saying,
** I perceive that the bearer of these letters
is Major Castleton, otherwise ‘Mad Jack.’
You see your fame has preceded you.”
*• I am Major Castleton, sir, and my poor
services have received greater fame than they
deserve.”
••No, no,”answered Marion, laughing.
“ I have heard from the lips of some of the
British officers I took prisoners, as well as from
our friends, of the wild exploit of a certain
Major Castleton, who went into Tarleton’s
camp on the Congaree, in broad daylight, pass
ed himself off as an officer of the new tory
levies, hob nobbed with Tarleton himself over
some old Madeira at dinner, pumped every
thing out of the usually cautious British officer
in regard to the next campaign, and was dis
missed from camp under a military salute, with
a present of Tarleron’s own pistols. But
come, supper is ready. My little staff is ab
sent on an expedition, and we will fall to.”
The supper consisted ofstewed and broiled
venison, beef-teak, corn hoe-cake, and roasted
sweet potatoes—plain, but substantial and rel
ishing fare to a couple of hungry men. for
t astieton had tasted nothing since breakfast.
I heir drink was a small flask of whiskey mixed
with the cool spring w-ter. They had nearly
flni-hed their meal when a fine looking officer
entered the lent.
“Ah! just in pot-luck time, Middleton.
Draw up your stool, lad—there is plenty left.
Major Castleton, Lieut. Middleton, my officer
ol all work— secretary and adjutant.”
The lieutenant bowed took his seat at the
and ate with an appetite that denoted a
long iast. Having satisfied his inner man he
turned to Marion and said, “Thank God! we
have got the scoundrel ”
“Thank God, indeed! Where is the tory
wretch ? •
“Under guard, with hands and feet tied.”
“ in hail an hours time,” said Marion, grind
ing his teeth, “ there will be one less murder
er in Carolina. Call all the officers in camp
together, and bring out the prisoner. Sum
mon the witnesses—he shall have a fair trial.”
Marion paced backward and forward, his eye
lit up with unusual tire He stopped abrupt
ly. “ Major Castleton. I request you will act
as judge advocate in this case. Knowing none
ol the parties you can serve impartially, and
you will see a specimen ofour stern justice.”
Five or six officers came into the tent, and a
benches for the court were ranged out
side. It yet wanted a quarter of an hour of
sunset. It was a strange wild place to decide
upomhe life or death of a fellow mortal. The
prisoner was brought in front of the court, his
hands ptnioned behind him. In truth, his face
bore the brand ofCain—-a bloated, swollen one,
marked with severity and cruelty in every li
neament.
“John Hinchman,” said Marion, in a tone
and with a look of disgust, “ what have you to
«ay fur yourself?”
“ 1 hope you ain’t agoin’ to murder a prison
er, general ?” said the trembling villian.
“Murder you! The witnesses are here—
proceed to trial, gentlemen,” said Marion to the
board of officers.
The first witness was a boy of tender years,
fair to look upon and gentle as a girl. His fa
ther, mother, and eldest brother had had been
hung two days bes ore by a bund of lories head
ed by the prisoner. It was a case of base bru
ta. murder (or the boy’s unoffending parents
were merely whig*, who had never taken any
active pan against the torjes. but had only shel
ter eo so toe friends ot their own way of think
ing. The evidence was clear and conclusive
that they were hung by order of the ruffian
prisoner. Ihe boy’s evidence was corrobo
rated by that ol a slave wi;o escaped and wit
nessed the execution of his master and mistress
from a clump of junipers. There was no de
fence, and a verdict of guilty, with a sentence
of execution at sundown, was brought in.
•‘Mercy! mercy! as yon may wish for it
yourself. General Marion !” screamed the mi
serable wretch.
*■ Contaminate not my name by mentioning
it,” said Marion, in a loud voice. “At sun
down you die! Only two minutes more of
Ufa remama for you. Look your lost upon the
tree-tops and the all but faded sun, and make
peace with God. Take him away men, and
throw the noose over one of the upper branch
es of yonder black oak. When the gun fires,
string him up!”
They dragged the miscreant away, scream
ing with terror, and the roosting birds rose
from their lairs, mingling their discordant cries
with the yells of the now shortlived wretch
The rope was thrown over the branches and
the noose placed around his neck. The sun
wpnt down, a gun was fired, and up he went
dangVn? iu 'he air !A few struggles of body
and* horrid contortions of countenance, and
then all was over.
“Major Castleton, you have witnessed,”
said the General, “ a specimen of the justice of
‘ Marion men.’ ”
Before the sun had fairly risen next morning,
Marion broke up his camp, sending the main
body of his band under Horry to unite with
Greene, taking with himself two hundred pick
ed men to surprise a British out post at Parker’s
Ferry, by a forced march of one hundred miles.
The Froze* Dead at St. Bernard. —The
scene of the greatest interest at the Hospice—
a solemn, extraordinary interest indeed—is that
of the Morgue, or building where the dead bo
dies of lost travelers are deposited. There they
are, some of them as when the breath of life
departed, and the death angel, with his instru
ments oflrostand snow, stiffened and embalmed
for ages. The floor is thick with nameless skulls
and bones, and human dust, heaped in confu
sion. But around the wall are groups of poor
sufferers, in the very position in which they
were found, as rigid as marble, and in this air,
by the preserving element of an eternal frost,
almost as crumbling. There is the mother and
child,a most affecting instance of suffering. The
face of the little one remains pressed to the
mother’s bosom, only the back part of the skull
being visible, the body enfolded in her careful
arms —careful iu vain, affectionate in vain, to
shield her offspring from the elemental wrath
of the tempest. The snow fell fast and thick,
and the hurricane wound them up in one while
shroud, and buried them. There is also a tall,
strong man standing alone, the face dried and
black, but the white, unbroken teeth firmly set
and Close, grinning from the fleshiessjaws—it is
a most awful spectacle. The face seems to
look at you from the recesses of the sepulchre,
as if it would tell you the story of a fearful death
struggle in die storm. There are other groups
more indistinct, but these are die two never to
be forgotten, and the whole of these dried and
frozen remnants of humanity are a terrific de
monstration of the fearfulness of this mountain
pass when the elements let loose in fury en
counter the unhappy traveler. You look at all
th is through the grated window ; there is just
light enough to make it solemnly aud distinctly
visible, and to read in it a powerful record of
maternal love in death. The little chi'd hiding
its lace in its mother’s bosom, ami both frozen
to death—one can never forget the group, nor
the memento mori. nor the token of deathless
love.— Dr. Cheever's Wanderings ,
“ The Bible, supposing it other than it pre
tends to be, presents us widi a singular phe
nomenon in the space which it occupies
throughout the continued history of literature
We see nothing like it; and it may well perplex
the infidel to account for it Nor need his sa
gacity disdain to enter a little more deeply into
its possible causes than he is usually inclined to
do. It has not been given to any other book of
religion thus to triumph over national preju
dices, and lodge itself securely in the heart of
greaicommiitiities,—varying by every concei
vable diversity of language, race, manners,
customs, and indedf! agreeing in nothing but a
veneration for itself. It adapts itself with facil
ity to the revolutions of thought and feeling
which shake to pieces all things else ; an J flex
ihly accommodates itself to the progress of soci
ety and the charges of civilization Even con
quest? —the disorganization of old nations—the
formation of new —do not affect the continui
ty of its empire. It lays hold of ihe new as
of the old,and transmigrates with the spirit of
humanity; attracting to itself, by its own moral
power, in ail the communities it enters, a
ceaseless intensity of effort for its propagation,
illustration and defence. Other systems ofre
ligion are usually delicate exotics, and will not
bear transplanting. The gods of the nations
are local deities, and reluctantly quit their na
live soil ; at all events they patronize only
their favorite races, and perish at once when
the tribe or nation of their worshippers becomes
extinct, often long before. Nothing, indeed,
is more difficult than to make foreigners feel
anything but the utmost indifference (except as
an object of philosophic curiosity) about the
religion of other nations ; and no portion of
their national literature is regarded as more
tedious or unattractive than that which treats of
their theology. The elegant mythologies of
Greece and Rome made no proselytes among
other nations, and fell hopelessly, the moment
they fell. The Koran of Mahomet, has, it is
true, been propagated by the sword ; but it has
been propagated by nothing else ; and its do
minion has been limited to those nations who
could not reply to that logic. If the Bible be
false, the facility with which it overleaps the
otherwise impassable boundaries of race and
clime, and domiciliates itself among so many
different nations, is assuredly’ a far more stri
king and wonderful proofof human ignorance,
perverseness and stupidity, than is afforded in
the limited prevalence of even the most abject
superstitions; or, if it realty has merits which,
though a fable, have enabled it to impose so
comprehensively and variously on mankind,
wonderful indeed, must have been its composi
tion ; so wonderful that even the infidel him
self ought never to regard it but with the pro
foundest reverence, as far too successful and
sublime a fabrication to admit a thought of
scoff or ridicule. In his last illness, a few days
before his death, Sir Walter Scott asked Mr.
Lockhart to read to him. Mr. Lockhart inqui
red what book he would like. “ Can you ask ?’
said Sir Walter, —“ there is but one ;” and re
quested him to read a chapter of the gospel of
St. John. When will an equal genius, to whom
•ill the realms of fiction are as familiar as to
him, say the like of some professed revelation,
originating among a race and associated with a
history and a clime as foreign as those connec
ted with the birth-place of the Bible from
those of the ancestry of Sir Waller Scott?
Can we, by any stretch of imagination, sup
pose some Walter Scott of a new race in Aus
tralia or South Africa, saying the same of the
Vedas or the Koran?” —Edinburgh Review.
The Accident and Loss of Life at Niag
ara f alls.— We copy the following telegraph
ic despatch to the Buffalo Commercial Adver
tiser, giving the particulars of the melancholy
accident at Niagara Falls on Thursday eve
ning :
Niagara Falls. June 22—Last evening at
a 4 before 8 o’clock, while a party of ladies and
gentlemen were visiting the Luna Island a
mnng whom were the lady and little daughter
of Mr. DeForesl and young Chas C. Adding
ton, and several others, and while the little
was standing on the very brink of the river,
and only some 30 feet from tue Falls, and hold
ing by the hand of a young gentleman, whose
name I have not learned, young A Idington
came up and said playfully, “ I am going to
throw you in. ” touching her lightly on the
shoulder—when she sprang forward with a
sufficient force to slip from the hand of the
young gentleman who held her.
She was instantly followed by Addington,
who caught her, and in the effort, was proslra
ted by the force of the water, throwing the lit
tle girl at the same lime so near the shore, that
the young gentleman who had her by the hand
nearly caught her, but lost his balance, only
saving himself by catching hold of some brush
on shore. Iu an instant young Addington and
the little girl were swept over the falls.
No human effort could avail them. A sin
gle moment threw them beyond the reach of
| ail mortal aid. Young Addington was a man
of excellent character, of high and generous
impulses. He was the only son of the bereav
ed family residing in Buffalo.
They are now here—their grief is intense
no event has ever cast such gloom over our vil
lage The body of the little girl has just been
recovered, and will be sent to Buffalo by this
afternoon’s train.
Miss Annette De Forrest was a very inter
esting child about nine years of age. Mr. Ad
dington was twenty one ; he was the son of S.
H. Addington, Esq., for many years a resident
of Buffalo
Chronicle and Sentinel.
A U Gr XJ
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 30, 1849.
Industrial Pnrsnlts.—Slave Labor.
Under the above heading the South Caroli
nian remarks:
“We are willing to be esteemed a monomaniac in
defence of ihe dearest interests of the South. We
do contend that the very system suggested by the
Chronicle will “ diminish the value of such labor and
tend to the abolition of slavery.” We areue this
from the fact that such an indiscriminate introduction
of “servants,” as mentioned in the succeeding para
graph, into a position which they are net designed to
occnpy, and which must bring them in conflict with a
class ihe South cannot appreciate too highly the en
terprising mechanics and artisans who have identified
themselves with us —will array a hostility against the
institution, both abroad and at home, which must be
disastrous in its results. The Chronicle says •
“ Suppose a rich citizen of Augusta withdraws 100
servants from making cotton and corn on his planta
tions in the country, and sets them at the more profita
ble business of making shoes, instead of buying them
of Massachusetts abolitionists. Would the fact that
hia servants earned for him $ 150 in place of $75 a
year serve to depreciate the value of his property in
them, or make him unsound on the slavery question? ’
Now, here we believe is the most deaHly blow aim
ed at this conservative institution, and herein is in
volved our greatest objection to a wide-spread system
of manufacturing. If a portion of the people of the
North are now opposed to rhis institution on political
grounds alone, bow much greater and how ranch more
general innst that opposition become when this cheap
er labor comes into immediate competition with the
pecuniary interests of the largest producing class at
>he Norrli ? Here is the peril. But waiving this ar
gument, would such a course be Just to a large por
tion of our own communities—would it besiijdo take
the initiative in a system whose results must be inju
rious to a class which constitutes the very sinews and
muscles of every community? No. And there is
danger in urging upon the South this hotbed system
of acquiring independence—a danger which every
cool and reflecting mind can easily understand, and
will aid in avening.”
The morbid imagination of onr contempo
rary sees “perils” and “enemies,” and “deadly
blows” and “ treason to the South,” where sane
minds discover none of these things. Far be
it from us to deal unkindly by the sick, no mat
ter how provoking their tantrums. In the full
ness of its trepidation, the South Carolinian
asks, “If a portion of the people of the North
are now opposed to this institution, (slavery)
on political grounds alone, how much greater,
how much more general must that opposition
become when this cheaper labor comes into
immediate competition with the pecuniary in
terests of the largest producing class at the
North ? Herds the ■peril ”
And this “ peril” is purely imaginary.—
When the citizens of the South make up their
minds that it is best for them not to raise any
hay, because the farmers of the North often
send 1000 bundles a month to this city, and
more to Charleston, Savannah and Mobile;
that it is best not to make shoes and boots, be
cause Massachusetts cordwainers will all turn
abolir onists if their Southern customers fail
them; that it is best not to make agricultural
implements, household furniture, edge tools,
cotton and woollen cloth, butter and cheese,
from the fear of offending the producers of
these articles at the North for Southern con
sumption; then will they be fit subjects for that
“eternal vassalage ” which Mr. Jefferson so
earnestly repudiated.
The theory of the South Carolinian is as
false as its reasoning is unsound. It is for the
interest of the mechanics and farmers of New
England with whom we barter, that onr slave
labor be made productive in the highest degree.
Such labor is always the most valuable to the
commercial world; for it calls into existence
the largest attainable surplus, over and above
the current consumption of s’aves for exchange,
whether we trade with Yankees, Englishmen,
Germans or Frenchmen. To suppose that
the civilized world is the gainer by Hie
waste ofhuman industry in unprofitable pur
suits, whether such industry be bond or free,
is about as silly an idea as was ever conceived.
The more productive a man can make his own
labor either in the workshop or in the field,
and that of his ox, his mule, his hireling and
his servant, the better it is for all consumers,
from man down to the insects that feed on his
cotton, his corn and his wheat.
Our contemporary is so uncharitable as to say
that the Chronicle “hates South Carolina;”
that it is “playing a deep game,” &c. Now,
we “hate” no human being, and our only
“game” consists in seeking to advance the true
interests of our readers, by suggesting such
improvements in agriculture, in manufactures,
in commercial exchanges, and in popular edu
cation, as they have the means to reduce to
practice. We urge no hot bed process for ex
tending mechanical operations at the South,
and diversifying its rural labor. We seek to
construct its prosperity, not through a tempo
rary excitement, nor on a sandy foundation;
but on the rock of good hard common sense,
and through the means of cultivated reason and
more skilful industry.
Money Matters, Trade, «fcc»
The Boston Transcript of Saturday after
noon says :
There is no new feature to notice in mo
ney matters during the past week. Money is
daily becoming more abundant. Surplus cap
ital continues to accumulate. Business con
tinues dull.”
The New York Post of Saturday afternoon
says:
“ Money is very abundant, and is readily
loaned at four per cent on call. This extreme
abundance of money, with the still greater pro
spective abundance from the large sales of
Government and State loans on foreign ac
count, and the coming supplies of California
gold, cannot fail to have, in no very long peri
od, some important effect on the general r usi
1 ness of the country, and speculation will be
come rife. Already engagements are being
made for large operations in the autumn.”
The fact that over eight millions of dollars
were subscribed for New York State bonds,
when less than two millions were desired, algo
indicates the great abundance of money. Im
migrants from Europe bring large sums into
the country.
Our Book Table*
Narrative of the United States Ex- j
pedition to the River Jordan and the Dead
Sea; by W. F. Lynch, U. S. N., Commander
of the Expedition ; with Maps and numerous
Illustrations. Philadelphia: Lea & Blanchard.
We have delayed noticing the above named
book till we had carefully perused its 508 oc
tavo pages. This task completed, we propose
to give it a brief and impartial criticism. It
professes to be “a narrative” of an “ United
States’ Expedition.” The author informs us
in his introductory remarks that he applied to
the Secretary of the Navy “ for permission to
circumnavigate and thoroughly explore the
Lake Asphaltites or Dead Sea and that his
application received a “favorable decision.”
It does not appear that any other person joined
Lieut. Lynch in petitioning for the use of a
public ship, and the appropriation of money
for the purpose named. The expedition, how
ever was “ ordered,” and the petitioner placed
at the head of it. The party sailed from New
York, Nov. 26, 1847, and returned in Decem
ber, 1848, with no other misfortune than the
death ofLieutenant Dale, second in command,
by fever contracted in the sickly regions vi
sited.
It is due to the Commander of the Expedi.
tionto say that, he took every reasonable pre
caution to preserve the health, and protect the
lives of the men who had volunteered to ac
company him in his somewhat perilous enter
prize ; the benefits of which the world has yet
to learn, beyond the personal gratification of
writing a readable book of travels. This was
doubtless the object of the expedition; and
many an one has cost the public more and been
worth as little.
Had Lieutenant Lynch taken more time
in preparing and penning his narrative for the
press and condensed it into one half the space
which it now occupies, it would have been
twice as valuable, and far more creditable to
the author. In his preface La an intimation
that “ a member of the party proposed the pub
licßtion ol a Narrative of the Expedition,”
“ who had not the responsibility of the enter
prize’ To prevent another from “stealing
his thunder,” the Commander fired his gun be
fore it was aimed or fairly loaded. This will
account for its grammatical errors, incongru
ous figures of speech and absurdities in matters
of science. We regret, these blemishes, for
the author is evidently a pious and most esti
mable naval officer. With all its defects his
Narrative contains a most interesting account
of the river Jordan from its source to the Dead
Sea; of the principal cities of Palestine and
Judea and of the Luke Asphaltites. As the
book will be extensively read for its religious
associations and doubtless pass through seve
ral editions, it may not bo amiss to point out
to the liberal publishers, who have issued the
work in the best style of the art, one or two
blemishes which they can correct. On page
424, in a reference to the Church built at Beth
lehem by the Empress Helena, we read:
“ But this church and the grotto of the Nativi
ty within it, has been repeatedly and accurately
described.” On page 505 the author speaks of
“ carbonate of lime and calcareous limestone;”
as though common limestone were not “ calca
reous.” There are many others which betray
ing rather bad taste in figures of rhetoric, used
lavishly in attempts at “fine writing,” than pal
pable errors of fact, or violations of grammar,
we pass by without notice.
Had the author explained to the popular read
er the well known natural causes which ren
der the water of the Lake Asphaltites salter
and heavier than that of the Mediterranean
and Atlantic, it would have added to the value
and instruction of his Narrative. Butin the
excess of his zeal to find super-natural agencies
for the production of natural phenomena, he
leaves us in the dark in regard to many impor
tant geological facts. Perhaps the official re
port to the Secretary of the Navy, yet to he
published, will be less dejune in matters of
science than the large volume before us. Wo
look for this report with considerable interest.
The Dead Sea is some 1300 feet lower than
the Mediterranean; and the city of Jerusalem
stands on a hill about 4000 feet above the level
of the Dead Sea. The northern portion of
this saline lake has an average depth varying
from 116 to 200 fathoms. The southern por
tion is very shallow, being only from one to
three fathoms deep—running out into a marsh.
The mean temperature of the air over its sur
face is very high, owing to various causes
which we will not stop to name; and conse
quently evaporation goes on with great rapidi
ty. In sounding, crystals of common salt were
generally raised with the mud from the bottom.
Beins so near a saturated solution, whenever
the wind blows the spray against the rocks or
other objects on the shore, they become cover
ed with incrustations of marine salts to a great
er or less thickness and remoteness from the
sea. This excess of salt will of course kill all
ordinary vegetation, and make the region de
solate. This superabundance of salt will some
day be transported to the Mediterranean by
railway, (which is but a short distance) and
extensively used as a fertilizer by the densely
populated countries in Southern Europe.
Sea salt is very valuable for that purpose.
Our chief objection to this “United States’
Expedition” is, that it had no eye to the useful,
bo far as we can discover, “ from beginning
to end.” The book, however, which it has be
gotten, is embellished with thirty admirably exe
cuted wood engravings, sketches and maps;
and it will well repay perusal. For sale at
Mr. Richards’ book store.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal,
edited by Paul F. Eve, M. D.—The July num
ber of this valuable periodical is on our table.
Its leader is a paper on the Pathology and Treat
ment of Cholera, as witnessed in the hospitals
of Paris during the recent epidemic in that city,
by J uriah Harris, M. D. of Georgia.
In looking over the cases reported in 14 hos
pitals, we notice that more than half the patients
died, taking the whole together. The post
mortem examinations were numerous and in
teresting to the profession.
Dr. Pendleton of Sparta has an instructive
article on the “Statistics of Diseases in Han
cock county.” He furnishes a table embrac
ing J. 613 cases, intended to indicate the sus
ceptibilities of different organs and functions to
disease at different periods of the year. The
1 example of Dr. P. is worthy of imitation by
! other practitioners.
Dr. Cooper of Perry, Houston County, gives
an account of an extensive Gun-Shot wound
which wastreated successfully.
Every Physician and Surgeon should take
one or more periodicals of this character. The
work before us is issued monthly in this city,
contains 64 pages in each number, and is sold
at $3 per annum. Published by Mr. James
McCafferty.
The Southern Cultivator for July,
Will be published and ready for delivery
this morning. The following list comprises
the principal contents of the current number.
Plantation Economy —Cultivating Corn ; Cul
tivating pine (and in Corn ; Broom Corn ; Proper time
for cutting Grain ; Grass for Stock ; Crowfoot Grass;
Grasses at the South; Rulesofthe plantation; Saving
Pea Vines; The Pea Question—Can it be settled?
Plantation Economy, No. V. —Sheep-Husbandry at
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Sheep; Swamp Lands in Cotton; Wet Soils *nd
their Drainage, No. VI; Wheat Culture, Plour, &c;
Why people get in the Grass ; Improving Worn-out
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ment of Negroes; Pork—raising in Stewart county ;
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Clothes—lrish Potatoes.
Horticultural Department.—Ladies 5 Sweeting
Apple; Setting out Fruit Trees ; Young Fruit Trees ;
the best Grafting Wax; Trimming Trees; Cultiva
tion of the Raspberry.
Agricultural Chemistry.—Manufacturing Gyp
sum ; Treatment of Marly Land ; Power of the Soil
to absorb Odors; Prof. Millington’s Lecture.
Illustrations. —Group of Thibetan Sheep; The
Ayrshire Cow, “ Ayrs;” Portrait of a Game Fowl;
Ascentive Filter.
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Public Meeting;*
In pursuance of a call published in the city
papers, a meeting was held at the City Hall to
make preparations for the celebration of the
approaching anniversary of American Inde
pendence.
On motion of T. W. Miller, Esq., bis Honor
the Mayor of the city, was called to the Chair
and John K. Jackson requested to act as Sec
retary.
The object of the meeting having been made
known by the Chair, on motion ol'Jas Harper,
Esq , it was
Resolved , That the citizens generally, of Augusta
and vicinity, be requested to unite with the Sons of
Temperance in the celebrutirn of the approaching an
niversary of American Independence; that a federal
salute be fired at sun-rise; that a sui able person be
selected to read the Declaration of Independence, and
that martial music be provided for the occasion.
On motion of James Harper, Esq., it was
further
Resolved , That a committee of three be appomted
by the chair to carry the foregoing resolution into es
feet, and that his honor the Mayor, be added to the
same.
Whereupon, the Chair appointed Messrs.
James Harper, N. B. Moore and Thomas W.
M iller.
It was further resolved. That the proceed
ings of this meeting be published in the city
papers.
On motion, the meeting then adjourned.
JAMES B. BISHOP, Chairman.
John K. Jackson, Secretary.
June 29, 1849.
Hon. Edward Stanley, has been nominated
by the unanimous vote ofthe whig delegates
from every county in the eighth district of
North Carolina, as their candidate for Con
gress.
O** The Northern mail failed last night
beyond Charleston.
Trees of India —The grass tree which
grows in India, it is thought, would flourish
equally well in the middle States of this coun
try. One ol our missionaries to China, Rev.
Mr. McGowan, writes of the grass cloth:
“I would call your attention particularly to
the seeds of the plant- from which the fibre is
obtained for manufacturing ‘ grass cloth. ’ At
the request ofthe Agricultural Society of India,
(at Calcutta.) I have drawn np an account of
the article, which may be useful to those who
may feel disposed to attempt its introduction
into the United States. The report will pro
bably appear in the transactions of that Society
lor 1848-’49. In my opinion the soil and cli
male of the middle States are adapted to this
plant. The cloth is expensive, owing to the
tedious manner of separating the fibre. It may
be presumed, that our mechanicians would
soon devise means for overcoming that difficul
ty. ”
Surveyor of the Port of Charleston. —We learn
from a private dispatch, received last evening,
from Washington, that W. Y. Leitch, Esq ,
has been appointed Surveyor of the Port of
Charleston.
A telegraphic dispatch was received last
evening by the agent of the Southerner an
nouncing her arrival at New York on Tuesday
morning, at 6 o’clock.
The Steam Skip Columbus. —A Telegraphic
dispatch received last evening by the agent,
slates that the Columbus returned to Philadel
phia on Tuesday lust, the 27th inst., for a new
cross head.— Charleston Courier.
Florida.—The people of this young State
appear to be in a great muss about the lime at
which the official life of the acting Governor
expires. It is indeed rather a strange state of
things. Mosely, the present incumbent, con
tends that he was elected for a given term, ac
cording to the organic law ofthe Stale, and that
term being not yet completed, he is the rightful
and only executive; whilst Brown, who was
elected during the last year and sworn in at !he
recent session of the Legislature, stoutly main
tains his right to the powers, privileges, and
prerogatives of Chief Magistrate. The diffi
cutty is, that in framing the State Constitution
an attempt was made to simplify the instrument,
and this being done by rather simple agents,
many of its most important provisions are left
without much of positive meaning. Mosely is
in office and seemingly intends to hold on ; but
it will never do to give it up so, Mr. Brown,—
Columbus Enquirer.
Rumored Indictments, —lt was currently re
ported in New \oik, on Saturday evening,
that the grand jury, during its silting on the
investigation ofthe Aslor place opera riot, in
dieted (.apt. Rynders, John S. Austin, James
Beckitt, Sye Shea, and several others, charged
with being concerned in getting np the riot
which occurred on the 10th of May at the As
tor place opera house.
Illinois U S. Senator —Several ofthe Demo
cractic papers of Illinois have declared in favor
of John A M’demand for U. S Senator, in
the place.ofGen. Shields, who was declared
ineligible. The race will probably be between 1
Breese and M'demand, from all the indica- t
i tious we have seen.— Balt. Sun.
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BY TELEGRAPH.
Transmitted for the Chronicle & Sentinel
Charleston Market*
Friday, June 29 p. m. Cotton. — Sales to-day
300 bales at previous rates. Waiting Steamer.
THE SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
Opinions of the Press*
The Southern Cultivator, for June pub
lished at Augusta. Georgia, is on our table.
Its contents afford a rich treat to the agricultu
rist who is desirous of accumulating a stock of
useful information with regard to his pursuits.
We bespeak forth© Cultivator a liberal pat
ronage It is worthy of it.— Yazoo Democrat.
The Southern Cultivator. —We have
received the first six numbers of the seventh
volume of this highly interesting and useful ag.
ricultural journal. The Southern Cultivator
is published monthly at Augusta, Georgia, for
the low price of one dollar a year. The num
bers before ns contain a goodly quantity of
well written and well selected articles upon al
most every branch of agriculture, embellished
with many elegant engravings. In this num
ber we publish a condensed prospectus of the
Cultivator so that ah who may wish an agri
cultural periodical, adapted to the South, may
know where lo procure the cheapest and the
best. —Bayou Sara Ledger.
From the Journal S$ Messenger.
Who £sc fueled Slavery from California f
Our neighbor of the Telegraph, with his usu
al adroitness, seeks lo change the issue in re
gard to the exclusion of slavery from Califor
nia.
1. He does not pretend to deny that the late
Democratic Administration selected the resi
dent regiment destined for California, from the
non-slaveholding Stales; nor duos he dare to
defend its policy in so doing.
2. He does not pretend to deny that Mr.
Buchanan in his appeal to the citizens of Penn
sylvania, plainly intimated that the selection of
this regiment from the North had been made
for the purpose of seithng the slavery question
in favor of the anti-slavery interests of the
North |pS
3. He does not pretend to deny that Mr.
Buchanan further urged upon his Democratic
friends to support Mr. Cass and the doctrines
of the Nicholson Letter, for the very' reason
that slavery had ceased to be a practical ques
tion. in consequence of the sending of Ste
phenson’s anti-slavery regiment to California.
4. He does not pretend so deny that, at the
time the meeting at San Francisco was held
and Col. Stephenson’s anti slavery resolutions
were adopted, the members of this disbanded
abolition regiment, true to the prediction of
Mr. Buchanan, did hold the balance of power in
California, and did take unanimous action in
favor of the Wilraot Proviso.
Our neighbor of the Telegraph is too saga
cious—he is too well acquainted with the his
tory of the country, and too familiar with (he
documents and records, to disputeany of these
propositions. Hence he is driven into the sub
joined declaration, which we copy from his
issue of last week. He says;
“Admitting, as the Journal 8? Messenger
states, that Col. Stephenson proposed at a meet
ing held at San Francisco, on the 24ih of Feb
ruary last, resolutions excluding slavery for
ever from the territory, is the ednor of the
Journal ready to admit either as a lawyer or
a v> hig, that the action of these squaiters in their
inorganic state, amounts to anything at all 7
We tell the Journal that his issue is a false one,
and that such reasoning in support of the right
ol this northern regiment to forbid emigrants
from slave holding States from taking their
property to this territory, would come with a
much better grace from Greely's Tribune , or
the Anti Slavery Standard, than from a Georgia
newspaper.”
Ho, ho! Mr. Truepenny, you are there, are
you ? As a lawyer, as a Whig as a man, we
do not believe that these ‘‘squatters in‘their in
organic capacity,” have any right lo settle this
question oi slavery, nor have we ever uttered
or intimated any such thing. We believe the
doctrine is worthy of Greely's Tribune and the
Anti-Slavery Standard ! Does the Editor of the
Telegraph go thus !ar ? Is he aware that this
is precisely the doctrine of Mr. Buchanan and
the Nicholson letter? It is possible that when
he supported Gen Cuss last summer, and sus
tained tnat letter, that he promulgating
doctrines which, according to his own confes
sions, would “come with a much better irrace
from Greely's Tribune, or the Anti Slavery
Standard, than trout a Georgia newspaper7”
Verily, ii an “open contession is good for the
soull, ’ our neighbor must have relieved his con
science ofa most enormous burthen.
We do not believe in the doctrine that the
people of California, in their inorganic capaci
ty, have the right to settle the question of sla
very, and the insinuation that w-e have done
so, is gratuitous and unjust. We leave that
doctrine to be advocated by Gen. Cass, by
the Telegraph, and by the Free Democracy of
the country. They sent this abolition regiment
to California, if Mr. Buchannan spoke the
truth for the express purpose of prohibiting
the introduction of slavery there, and of pre
venting Southern slave holders from carrying
their property hither; and we intend that they
ball be held responsible for the deed. Though
these men have not the power, in their “inor*
ganic capacity, 1 ' to act definitely upon the mat
ter, still we would remind the Telegraph that
thev are on the eve of a State organization.
I he meeting at San Francisco was held for
the appointment of delegates to a Convention
to form a State Constitution; the resolution
of Col. Stephenson was one instructing the
delegates lo sustain the Wilmot Proviso, and
engraft it upon the State Constitution. The
passage of those ami slavery resolutions in San
Francisco, was effected by means of Col. Ste
phenson and the disbanded anti-slavery regi
ment, which Mr- Buchanan declared had been
sent out to accomplish that purpose. The re
sult in that meeting settles the result in the con
stitutional Convention, and no one will doubt
the right of the State to act as she may think
proper; so that slavery is this day as virtually
excluded ' rom California, as if the decree had
gone forth. Now we repeat —“Who is re
sponsible for the result? Who inflicted this
great wrong upon the South ? Who has ex
cluded the slave holders from their rights?”
We answer, and defy contradiction, that tha
late administration formed the scheme, and ex
ecuted it. Gen. Cass and the leading Demo
crats ol the South, who approved of the Nich
olson Letter and the policy of Mr. Polk, in
sending out the Stephenson Regiment, were a
parly to the fraud. It was a deliberate scheme
to cheat the people of the South, and our
neighbor of the Telegraph, when he him led
down his proud standard last summer and
struck his flag to Gen. Cass; in other words,
when he ceased to war upon the doctrines of
the Nicholson Letter, and became the advo
cate of its author for the Presidency, did the
South a most grievous wrong.
It is not generous in him now to turn round,
and attempt to palm off his old, thread-hare,
abolition clothes upon the Whigs. He has
made his bed, and we shall expect him to occupy
it- H’e have never advocated eiiher the North
ern regiment or its right to exclude slavery
from California. We have stated what we be*-
heveto be facts, however, and we leave it to
the Telegraph and the Free Democracy lo ex
plain or disprove them.
Special Notices.
MECHANICS’ BANK. )
Augusta, June 29, 1849. £
next, being the 4ih of July
this Bank will be closed. Paper for discount oiual
be offered on MO.NDAY, the 2d.
j*3o HATCH, Cashier*