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J \V r . ,'c \V. S. JONES.
MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 13.
The Firemen’s Parade. —'J'he Charleston
Courier of Saturday says;—Our Fire Compa
nies paraded yesterday alter noon, in honor of the
visit of the Clinch Fire Company from Augusta,
and both guests and hosts presented a manly
and attractive appearance. The firemen ol the
city and Neck, with theirguests, lerined in Cum
hciland-street, at the Fhani.c Engine House,
ami marched in procession through the princi
pal streets of the city, both manhood and beauty
thronging to do them homage as they passed.
The beautiful engine of the gallant Georgians
attracted universal admiration. At the inter
section of Frond and Meeting-streets the en
gines were played off with vigorous sinew and
tine effect. The firemen then proceeded to the
Pavilion Hotel, were, we understand, a supper
was served in Capt. Tver’s best style, and the
evening was passed in festive enjoyment.
We are gratified to witness such interchanges
ol civilities between the military corps and tire
companies of sister cities—they ceitainly in
spire a noble emulation in (he performance of
manly exercises and the discharge of public
duty, and cannot fail to do much to clinch the
friendship of neighboring and even distant com
munities.
The Georgians leave here, inis morning, (or
Augusta-and we trust they will make a good
report id us in their hospitable city.
The Eighteenth Annual Fair of the Ameii
can Institute was opened at New Voik on Mon
day. Among the many beautiful spicimcns ol
art exhibited was a chrysta! vase, weighing 240
pounds, and valued at $2,000. Ii was inarm
fact tired at Wheeling, Virginia.
Further Arrests on Counterfeiters.—
The Charleston Courier of yesterday says:—
We understand the Hank of Charleston ins
leceived a letter from Gen. Bailey, their agent
in Columbus, inhuming them of the arrest, in
Kentucky, of two more of I lie gang ol rounler
leitcrs we alluded to a short lime since; bin the
most important part of the intelligence is, that
with these counterteiters there has been eap
itired the whole of their plates and a large number
of counterfeited banknotes. \Ve expect soon
to lie aide to report further arrests ol this widely
extended gang, as we learn from the President
ol the Bank of Charle-ton, that they aic in pos
session of information, and have adopted men
■••res, that will load to the total extirpation of the
most extended gang of counterteiters over or
ganized in the country. It is sincerely to be
hoped that the good people of Kentucky will
not permit the morals of that good State, to be
again degraded by their magistrates in admit
ting to nominal bail, the culprits lately ar csb d.
Health of New Orleans,— The Tropic of
the till) insl. says: —lt is now the (Irhdavof
October, and we have the authority of many re
• portable physicians, for believing that there has
not been a real genuine case of yellow fever in
Ihe city this season. It is now rendered nearly
certain that we shall not have any. The wea
ther lias been rainy, cold and disagreeable for
two or three days, but yesterday it cleared off,
leaving the atmosphere delightfully cool and
bracing. The city is believed to be perfectly
healthy, with the exception of slight colds, and
perhaps an occasional instance of ordinary (ever.
Absentees, whether acclimated or not, may hur
ry home as fast as they wish. The business
season is opening under very favorable pros
pects. * The number of buildings erected du
ring the summer, and still going up, is unusu
ally great; and yet, judging from appearances,
the new dwelling houses and stores will not
supply thi‘ demand. Strangers are beginning to
rush into the city, so that we anticipate a lively
winter.
I ,v portant Scheme. —The Postmaster Gene
ra! ha.-; issued an advertisement, inviting propo
sals for carrying the mails of the United States
to the following places:
!. From New York lo Liverpool, in England,
and back, or to Bristol, in England, and back,
or to Southampton, do. do.; 2. Prom New
'fork, by Cowes, in England, to Antwerp, in
Belgium, and back, or to Bremen, in Germany,
and back, or to Hamburg, in Germany, and
back; 3. From New York to flavie, in
France, and back, or to Brest, in Fiance, and
back; 4. From New York to Lisbon, in Por
tugal, and hack; 5. From New York by
Havana, in Cuba, to New leans, and hack ;
b. From New York, by Havana, to Cha
gress, in Colombia, and back with joint
or separate offers to extend the transpor
tation lo Panama, and up ibe Pacific, to
the month of the Columbia, and tbeuce to the
principal port in the Sandwich Islands, or trout
Charleston to the same, and back, or from
Pensacola,do. do. do., or from Mobile, do. do
do., or from New Orleans, do. do. do.; 7. From
New Orleans to Havana, and back, with an
offer lo extend to Kingston, in the island of
Jamaica, or from Mobile to the same, and
Hick, or from Pensacola to the same, and back,
or from Charleston lo the same, and hack,
with an offer to supply Key West.
The acceptance or non-acceptance of the
bids will be determined by the 31st day of
January next.
A Singular Vanity.— A woman recently
died in Marseilles, leaving a considerable for
tune. This female, says “Le Semop/wief had
gained nearly 200,000 francs by one of those
niysiciions industrial operations which are far
from being supposed productive. Placed in a
little boat, she passed along ihe vessels anchored
*•• port, and bought among other objects, frag
ments of cables and worn tope which she sold
again. As this tut tunc, obscurely amassed, in
creased, she made no change in her habits of
fife; lodged in a modest apartment, meanly
’■lad, and as poorly ted, she had no desire (or
luxury, hut that of a pompous funeral ceremo
li j ; consequently Hie left orders that her b-idy
should be placed in a most expensive coffin, and
conveyed to its resting place upon a sumptuous
car wish all the honors ol the church—which
was done.
The Boston Cornier ol M. unlay says:—
Speculation, iu a very considt table extent, in j
... . j
mining companies, is now carried on, nut only
in the great stock dealing cities, but iu tact, ail j
over Ihe country. Copper slocks command j
high premiums. The shares of the Lake Su- i
pciiut Company, on which a -mall assessment |
has been paid, are selling at SSOO each; Isle
Koval at $140; Pittsburgh at SBS; Union at
SSO, N< •.
Great Fire in Month e al. We find the fob j
lowing paiagtaph in ihe Moimeal Courier of
Saturday last:
i
Cue, Fur, Vue. — We strip ihe press lo say
that a lire broke out in Griitliniown about three I
o’clock this mot iiitig, and has continued to bum i
to the present, hour ((I o’clock,) and is not ye* I
got under. About 100 buildings have* aheady i
been destroyed. When we left the ground it
was iu contemplation to blow up one or two
houses, lo prevent its extending tun her.
A letter in the New York Commercial Ad
vertiser gives the following particulars;
The fire originated in a building on Queen
street, occupied as a coffee manufactory and
coppersmith's shop, where it could have been
confined had there been decision and power to
demolish a lew small wooden buildings in the
vicinity. The fire spread rapidly from building
to building over the entire block, fiom Queen
street on the North to Prince street on the South,
from Wellington street East to Gabriel street
West; one house at the corner of Queen and
Gabriel street, and pari of a building at the cor
ner of Queen and Wellington streets were
saved in a damaged condition ; the part of the
one at the coiner of Wellington and Queen was
cut in two and the burning end severed from the
other.
The file crossed Prince street, consumed the
next block through to Nazareth street, and
crossed Nazareth sheet, burning one or more
buildings on the South side of that street; two
or three were blown up to arrest the fire.
The buildings consumed were many of them
of a rather ordinarv kind, occupied by families
in the humbler walks of life, the distress and
miration therefore caused by tin’s fire are great.
There were a naif factory and casting shop, se
veral grocery and tavern stands, dwellings occu
pied by numerous poor families, a building
where Church service has been hob.! during the
Summer; also a handsome Methodist Church
and parsonage, several fine stone and brick
stores and dwellings, ami quite an amount of
properly destroyed.
Letter from Mr. Clay.— ln answer to the
resolution adopted by ihe Maine Whig Stale
Convention, Mr., (day returned the following
Id ter. The terms and sentiments of the letter
are honorable to Mr. Clay’s position, and ad
mirably consistent with his lifelong devotion
In tin* bed intcie-1•; of his friends and his coun
! ry : j
Ashland, Sept. 12, 1815.
Gentlemen:—! have Ihe honor to acknow
ledge iln* receipt of your official Idler, trans
mitting b> me a copy of a resolution adopted bv
the W hig (lonvemion assembled at Portland on
the 7t!i ol!., in which it has been pleased to ex
press sis continued confidence in me, and to de
clare its- conviction that a majority of the Ame
rican people is iti favor of the principles of ihe
Whig parlv, and that the issue of the last Pre
sidential elect ion ought not to be regarded as a
proof lo the contrary.
This testimonial, emanating from a body so
patriotic and distinguished as was that conven
tion, is received and will be cherished by me,
with feelings am) sentiments of profound grati
tude, and I requ-st your acceptance inbehalfof
the Convent ion, of my respectful acknowledg
ments.
Believing, as I sincerely do, Hint the the policy
and principles of the Whig party are best adapt
ed to the welfare of onr counlrv, and that its
present prosperity is attributable to them, I hope
that the Wiiig Convention of Maine may have
correctly interpreted the opinion of a majoiitv
of the A met ica-n people. So far as legislation
is concerned, whether there will he a conformity
or not to these principles and that policy, by the
domirant party, will he probably demonstrated
during the approaching session of Congress. In
any event, let us all unite in prayers for the hap
piness an I glory of our common country.
I am,gentlemen, with high respect, your friend
and ob’t serv’t, T. CLAY.
Messrs, William Paine, Andrew T. Dole,
and Oakes Angier, &c. &c. &c.
fjf A New-York physician gives notice that
he has engaged a clairvoyant, who is now ready
to look into the system o' invalids and prescribe
for their maladies.
Attention fisc World !
Kingdoms “Stand aside and let Old Chat
ham Speak.”
“Argues Old Chatham so goes the State.”
(Jock-a doodle-doo ! !
It is strange, passing strange, that the people
who have been told so often, that as “goes
Chatham so goes the Stale,” will not rest satis
tied so soon as they get the Chatham vole. On
Tuesday every one had au extra with the pic
ture of a chicken cock flapping his wings, and
mowing as plainly as a chicken cock could
crow, “Stan,//, aside unit at Old Chatham
speak.” “As goes Old Chatham so goes
the State.” Still the people will not be
content, they will seek (or news from Chero
kee, Richmond, Muscogee, Elbert, Greene,
and olhei small counties jit- I as if the election
was not. determined by the vole ol Chatham.
Chatham howe'er we ate hound to ray, like
other republics is ungrateful. Upon “ her san
dy soil, which is not congenial lo Whiggery,”
her “selected standard bearer, destined to grace
the Executive chair of Georgia,” received a beg
garly majority of fifteen votes! and yet the
(•hathamcock proclaims that the Democracy
of‘Old Chatham’ have achieved a glorious
victory,”—“one more such victory,” our friend
of (lie Georgian, may say with old Pyrrhus, he
remembers the rest of it.
In the meantime all disquietude should be, al
layed. Lei every anxious, uneasy soul wrap
himself up in the mantle of sleep, and lie re
signed. Alen. j/ict/i the die is cast, for “as
goes Chatham so goes the State.”— Macon Mes
senger.
Another Thieving Postmaster Caught.
Benjamin F. Brown, who has (or several years
past had charge of the post office al Northfudd,
N. H. some seventeen miles above Concord,
has been arrested and committed on almost pos
itive proof of purloining money from letters—
in fact a part of the plunder was found upon his
person.
AUGUSTA, GA.. TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1845.
Manufactures in the South.
We arc pleased to see the “South Carolinian”
taking a position in favor of the establishment
of Manufactures at the South. The Editor dis
courses to the Carolinians in his last paper
thus;
Mann fact ones. —it docs not necessarily in
volve a departure from the true pi inciples which
govern the Free Trade parly, when we utter a
few words in favor of Manufacturing establish
ments in South Carolina as one of the means of
inducing property again to exhibit itself in our
midst. ThaiSouth Carolina needs something
to excite a spirit of activity and enterpiise
amongst her capitalists and ; eople, no one tor a
moment doubts. More inattention has charac
terized our people as to this most available of ni
resources, than the people of tiny other State ol
the same age; it we except New Hampshire,
and there the suicidal system adopted by her
law givers in relation to what should be legiti
mately the natural occupation of her surplus
laborers is plainly pointed out by the general
poverty of the people and sterility of the soil,
which is observable as soon as th» traveller
cresses the line of that little State. Go else
where in the North, and prosperity smiles on
all sides—the soil once sterile is now rich and*
productive, and contentment adds a thousand
charms to the security of the happy laborer.
Even in the efforts that have been made here,
the greatest negligence has characterized their
i cginning and their ending. The only anxiety
<iii the part of the stockholders was to nay up
their instalments, and when this was done, or
even before this, they cast all responsibility upon
some itinerant machinist; who was interested
in making all operations of tin’s kind as unpro
ductive as he could possibly make them ; not
looking lo the fact that a disciplinarian, an ac
countant, and a man, who was strictly honest
and patriotic, was to be depended on. and that
hr. should have been advised by an enterprising
council.
Such gross negligence as tins, was the
history, also, of a sister State, until she dis
covered that anu overseer who made large cotton
and corn crops, and justly merited a highrepula
tian as an overseer, could also make large, (we
may say in some instances enormous) dividends,
at the head of Cotb n Factories.
ft is much easier to learn to arrange the me
chanical construction of machinery, than it is lo
learn lo discipline and have a sufficient amount
of labour done to the hand. Indeed to control
labourers well is a thing somewhat dependant
upon peculiarity of constitution, and not lobe
ariinire.il easily.
In our jonrneyings to and fro, we have long
since been assured that no investments could be
made which would pay half so profitably as
Colton Factories well attended, in this opin
ion we find our capitalists here, all concur: but
some of them prefer shaving paper at 2t) or 25 per
cent; others neither have the elevating spirit of
enterprise nor the nerve lo embaik in anything
new or anything productive of benefit to the
State at large. ,
If ought lobe remembered, apart from the
immediate dividends, that capitalists would in
calculably enhance the value of real estate both
in and for miles around onr city. Indeed our
whole up countiy would realize this result if
even the Factories should be confined to this
vie in ity.
b is a business of competition and would aid
tin' more if we could have many erected in one
place, and not only would the market he belter,
but we would have flie best machinists located
in our midst, a desideratum, the value of which
could not be well com puled until we enjoyed
iheir labour. I four smaller but more efficient
capi alisls (because more dependent on their
resources J could confer and negotiat. with
machinists, a proper and unconfrolabic direc
tion would be given to the erection of cot’on and
all other kinds of manufactories.
But it is much to he regretted, that those who
have the capacity and means of conferring with
machinists abroad, prefer to continue using
their capital in the various devices of extortion,
than using it in away, iu the aggregate, more
profitable to themselves, here, as well as to the
poorer classes.
We heard an old friend the other day, in
speaking of this lukewarm and unpatriotic feel
ing among our capitalists, remark, “that if
Ainsley ! Sail had lived to this day, Gill’s t Keek
would have been lined with Colton Factories
and our population ten times its present num
ber.”
If capitalists will not embark in such enter
prises, we advise those who have energy to go
in the business forthwith. Energy is capital.
Credit based upon character and enterprise is
capital and will be appreciated by our Banks.
For such persons tliev are intended most es
pecially to aid, and their officers know too wc 11
the great good that would result lo our State to
withhold iheir fostering kindness.
We have the material, the water power and
the health, and nothing is needed but a dose, in
vestigation into the facts lo secure our State from
utter ruin.
Since writing the above we had a conversa
tion with a full handed capitalist in Charleston,
who is willing to invest fifty thousand dollars in
Manufactures immediately, and from his known
discretion in the investment of funds, and the
management of fiscal affairs, we regard it as a
good omen, for at least candid confidence in
this work.
Concerning ftie payment of interest on Penn
sylvania bonds, the Money article of the Lon
don Times for Sept. Iff, contains the following
paragraph ;
The creditors of Pennsylvania who were dis
satisfied with the terms on which their arrears
of interest wereTo be converted into the five per
cent stock, are also displeased al finding that
stock subject to an income lax. which reduces
the interest to 4-J. The circular of Messrs.
Carnvnan, Whitehouse & Co, of New York,
calls this proceeding a “partial repudiation.”
On the other hand, some endeavor to justify it
by reference to our own income lax, winch is
borne by (lie foreign bolder of our stocks. This
defence is worthy of consideration, as the prin
ciple is the same iu bol.li eases, hut practically
iliete is a great difference between the foreign
creditois of England and thoreof Pennsylvania.
The latter is chiefly indebted to foreign money
for her improvements, and her English creditors
form a most important body, flic English
storks are chiefly held by the Englisii them
selves, and the foreign holders are a compara
tively sinall'number, who, without solicitation,
have purchased our securities. Add to these
considerations the tact that Pennsylvania sus
pended payment altogether lor some time, and
that, under these circumstances, a reduction of
interest immediately upon resumption comes
with a very bad grace.
Growth of a Manufacturing Town. —A
single school district in the town of Manches
ter, N. 11., which rigid years ago contained but
one hundred and twenty-five inhabitants, all
told, now has within its limits a'busy popnla
lion of nearly ten thousand. The whole
amount of cash dishuiscd by manufaclming es
tablishments is not far from seventy-five thou
sand dollars per month-sixty-four thousand
dollars of which are paid lo the operatives
alone!
From Chambers’ Edinburgh Journal.
Jugglers of India.
[ L’ht convention of a friend recently at rived
(torn India enables us to notice one or two of
the surprising performances ot the jugglers of
that country, which, though familiar to per
sons acquainted with eastern matters, may be
new Iu many ot the readers of these pages.]
A party of jugglers came forward on one
occasion to perform publicly in lire yard of the
barracks ot Madras. Many hundred of people,
ol all kinds, ages and denominations, including
the soldiery of the e.-tablislmicnt, assembled to
witness the exhibition, and some little tempo
rary arrangements were made that all might
hear convenh ntly. The leader ol the jugglers,
who were all, of course, natives of ; lindoslan,
requested the commanding officer to place a
guard ol men around the ‘.cone of display—a
precaution winch was adopted, and proved a
very wise one. The floor of the court, be it
observed, was composed of sand, firm and well
• rodden. On this ground then, after some pre
liminary tricks of an inferior kind, one man
was left alone with a little girl, the latter seem
ing about Bor 9 years old. Beside them stood
a tall narrow basket, perhaps 3 or 1 feel high,
by little more than a foot in width, and open at
the lop. No other object, living or inanimate,
appeared upon the ground. After a short
period spent by the man in conversing with the
gill, he seemed to get angry, and began to rail
loudly at her for her neglect of some wish of
his. The child attempted to soothe him, but he
continued to show an increased degree of irrita
tion as he went on. By degrees he lashed
himself into such apparent fury that the foam
actually stood upon his lips, and being natural
ly of an unprepossessing countenance, he look
ed to the white spectators at least as like an en
raged demon as might be. Finally his wrath
at t he girl rose seemingly lo an uncontrollable
height , and he seized her and pul her beneath
the basket or rather turned the open month ot
the basket over her person. She was thus shut
entirely up, the turned bottom of the bask, t
closing her in above. Having ilms disposed
of the child, in spite of her screams and en
treaties, the man drew his sword, which was
as bright as the surface of a minor, and he ap
peared as if about to wreak some further evil
on the object of his ire. And after some mo
ments, during which lie talked to himself and
to the enclosed girl, as if justifying his anger,
hedid actually al length plunge the sword down
into the basket and drew it out (hipping with
blood, or at least biood-cd diops! The child
screamed piteously from her prison, but in
vain ; for the man plunged the weapon again
and again into the scene of her confinement.
As he did so, the cries of the girl became faint
by degrees, and in the en 1 died away alto
gether. The deed of death was consummated.
So, at least, drought most cl the horror
struck persons who witnessed this action, Aml
well it was for the chief performer in it that
he requested a guard lo be placed, for it re
quired all the exertions of this guard *■> prevent
the aroused soldiery, who believed this to be no
trick, but a diabolical butchery, from leaping
into the arena and tearing the man lo pieces.
The excitable Irishmen among the number in
particular, ground their teeth against one
another, and uttered language not very compli
mentary to ihe juggler. Even the officers,
whose belter education and experience made
them less open to such feelings, grew pale with
uneasiness. But observe the issue of aii this.
When the man seemed to have carried, his
rage lo the last extremity, warned, pci haps, by
the looks of the soldiers that it would ho as
well to close the exhibition without delay, he
raised his bloody sword for a mo • cut before
•he eyes of the assemblage, and then struck ’.be
bask..l .smartly with it. The basket tumbled
over on one side, and on the spot which it had
covered, in place of the expected corpse of the
girl whose last groans had ju.-t been lira it!,
there was seen—nothing? No vestige of
dress, or any other thing lo indicate that the
girl had ever been there. The am; /: ment cd
the special rs was unbounded. :» was if
possible, rendered more intense, ■. •■■■■ alter toe
lapse of aie v seconds, Me Idcnti*':. .! gfi I
came bounding from the side oi the ward
—from among the spectators, feet, u seemed,
and clasped ihe juggler arc and the knees, with
every sign of afPvcimn, and without the slight
s-t maiK' of having undergone any injury
wha’ever. We have sai l the* astonishment of
the assembly was immeasurable; and it might
really "ill be so, seeing that the feat was per
formed in the centre of a court every point of
the circumference of which was crowded with
special.’!; whose eyes were never oft the per
formers for one instant. As to the notion of a
subterranean passage, the nature of the ground
pul that out of the question, and, besides, that
nothing of that kind existed was made plain to
all who chose to satisfy themselves oa the
subject, by looking at the scone of performances
when they had dosed. Every one was sure
that the girl had been put below the basket, and
that she did not get out of it in tho natural wav.
But she did gel out, an 1 how ? it is impossible
to say, though there can be no doubt that i! was
accomplished by some skilful manoeuvre,
A somewhat similar feat is sometimes per
formed with animals. A juggler will place a
lean dog below one of the baskets, and presto
pass! when be lilts up you v. iii behold a litter
of as fine pups as ever whipper-in could desire.
But most people will probably think the tree
trick a mote wonderful one than any of these.
A juggler in performing this, chooses cither a
small spot of earth, oi the clxent of two or
three feet squsre, or fills it with m fold for bis
ptrpose. Either of the ways will do. Having
this small plat ot earth before him, and his
spectators ranged around at a distance of two
or three feel, the juggler shows to the company
a mango stone, or the stone found in the centre
of the eastern iruil known by that name, which
varies in size from that ol an apple upward.
Tins stone the juggler then plants in the earth
al ihe depth of several inches, and covers it up.
Not many minutes elapse until the spectators
behold a small green shoot arise from the snot.
It increases visibly in height and size every
moment, until it attains the altitude of a foot or
so. It then begins to send oft’ branches from
the main stem; on the branches leaves begin to
appear, hearing the natural hue of vegetation.
Buds next present themselves; the whole affair,
meanwhile, assuming the regular aspect in
every particular, of a miniature tree some four
feet high. The buds are followed by Jil osseins,
and finally the green fruit of the mango meets
the astonished eyes of all the spectators.
“Look, but touch not,” is all the lime the hig
gler’s word, and he himself also preserves the
character of a looker on. When the fruit
.has arrived at something like a fair growth lor
such a tree, the originator of this extraordinary
vegetation plucks it, and hands it lo the spec
tators. This is the winding up of the charm.
The assembled persons handle the fruit, and
see nothing in it, in the slightest degree different
from the ordinary produce ot (lie mango, ela
borated by the slow vegetation of months.
Our informant on these points ate a portion ol
the ft nit brought fourth by this jugglety, and
found it to taste exactly like the raw mango.
The whole process now detailed, usually oc
cupies a quarter of au hour, from the planting
of the stone to the production of the fruit.—
Though he gives away the fruit, the performer
I does not part with the tree. This leal which
is perfectly familiar to all who have been in
India, is certainly an extraordinary one, and
affords the most effectual evidence of the power
of deception which the race of jugglers has at
tained.
Sale of Memphis Property.— A sale of
148 feet square subdivided into small lots, be
longmgto Dick &Hilf, being the lot of ground
on the north-east corner of Main and Adams
streets, was bid ot at auction yesterday, hv
several buyers, for an aggregate sum something
over SIO,OOO. The property, though eligible,
is not in the midst of business, and is consider
ed lo be of the third class in value. The
owners had offered it in a body for $5,500; it
was sold on one, two and three years credit,
the paper bearing interest from dale, which is
equivalent to a cash sale. Several other lots
adjoining on Adams, 37 feel front by 75 deep,
sold for something over SI,OOO each, same
terms. The city property from this corner
north, which has been languishing in value for
two or three years past, in enhancing in value
again, owing no doubt, lo the improvements
at and contiguous lo the Central Landing, and
the establishment ot the Naval Depot.—Mem
phis Eagle , 4 'h insl.
A Virginia l<’arm.
An agreeable correspondent of the Easton
(Pa.) Whig, in the course ol a recent tour lo
the valley of the Shenandoah, gives the follow
ing account ol the fine residence and farm of a
Virginia planter:
Virginia Farming. —Col. Tulley, who is ad
mitted to be one of the best farmers in northern
Virginia, has about 1200 acres in his planta
tion, of which about 900 are under cultivation,
and which is wholly surrounded hy a solid
limestone fence six miles in length, and vary
ing from 4to (J feet in height. He hat vests this
season 500 acres of wheat, which, notwith
standing the severe drought, he expects will
yit Id him about 12,000 bushels. One is struck
in looking over his fields to see how lice all are
from other grain and weeds. I asked him how
it was that in a field of 100 acres of most excel
lent wheat not a spear of rye was visible. He
said it was owing to the great care he took in
cleaning his seed wheat. That it twice clean
ing did not suffice he bad it cleaned again and
again until it was free from improper seeds.
The editor of “The Valley Farmer” thus de
scribes iu a late editorial, the pioccssofcultiva
tion pursued by Col. Tulley :
“ In the cultivation of his farm, Col. T. pur
sues what is call the ‘ five years’ shill system
and is as follows: he takes a field two years in
clover, and turns over the sod in the month of
August or early in September. From the sth
to the 15th of October, he sows a bushel and a
half to the acre, and harrows it in. After the
wheat is cut the field lies and becomes covered
with a thick and strong growth of ragweed. In
the following spring lie turns up with a plow,
and plants lo corn before the middle of April.
The corn is planted four feet apart each way,
and eight or ten kernels to the hill. The. culti
vation is principally done with a plow, begin
ning as soon as the corn is fairly up, and plow
ing it both ways about four times in a season.
At the second plowing the hoe follows, and the
corn is thinned to two stocks in the hill. The
hoe is seldom used but once, and the corn is
lulled no more than the plow will do it. When
the corn is so ripe that it will mature in ihe
stock it is cut, and the land put into wheat.
Sometimes he sows on the seed and plows it in ;
sometimes he first plows and then sows and har
rows in the seed, being governed by the ground.
After tiie wheat is sown the field is seeded in
clover. After the wheat is harvested nothing
is permitted to go upon the ground lo disturb
the young clover. The field then lies two years
in clover, when wheat again follows In the
spring of each year, half a bushel to an acre of
plaster is sown on the clover, and heavy crops
of grass are in this way secured. In this course
of farming he once raised from two acres of
land 80 bushels of wheat; from a field of sixty
acres, he averaged more than 30f bushels to
riie acre, and from a field of thirty acres. 65 bu
sirels shell corn lo the acre. He considers the
clover ano the plaster as the principal means ot
improving the soil; yet he is very careful to al
low no manure to be wasted. On the contrary,
he makes large quantities of it annually, which
he applies to the highest parts of his fields, turn
ing it under with the plow, which he prefers
to using it as a top dressing.”
The hai vest had commenced the day before
we arrived, and It was a pleasant sight to look
upon. Six or eight cradiers went ahead. They
wore followed by as many takers, they by as
many binders, while another group finished all
up. Besides this crop the Colonel has about
200 acres in corn and other summer crops in
proportion. His sheep and cattle aie of the best
breeds, and in bis herd are several buffalo cows.
The Park. —Gvcr2o fallow deer and a num
ber of elk sport in his par!.'. The #irlv dawn
is ushered in by the sweet carrolling of leather
ed songsters that here have no dread of man,
for no gun is allowed to be shot upon the pro
mises. The consequence is, that the birds
make their home within the reach of the very
windows, and thus sweet dreams are made still
.sweeter bv the delightful music that accompa
nies them, and which, mingling with Ihe blight
visions ot fancy as you be halt sleeping, ball
waking, make you almost wonder as you open
your eyes, whether you are not in the region so
glowingly described by the Eastern fabulists,
fn the woods mo, the squirrel chirps in the tree
above you and gambols from bough to bough
toaliract attention, not knowing man to be bis
foe. Another great advantage of this benificent
rule is, that the trees and plants in the neighbor
hood are preserved uninjured by those destruc
tive insects that are doing so much evil to flow
ers. fruit and giain throughout our land.
The Garden. —Adjacent lo the pleasure
grounds the Colonel has his fruit and kitchen
gaiden, containing about three acres, surround
ed hy a high brick and stone wall, ard filled
with ike finest kind of Unit and vegetables. In
it are found over a dozen varieties of the straw
berry, the choicest raspberry and other bearing
bushes. A spacious garden-house gives great
convenience in she cultivation of (lie ground
and gathering in and preservation of its pro
ducts. The basement is fitted to store away ihe
winter vegetables, r l he first floor holds and
keeps from injury from weather the garden tools
and implements, while above is a capacious
and well arranged pigeon-house. But although
much attention, as is seen, has been given to the
useful, the ornamental which lends to soften
and minister to the kindlier feelings receives
also the care of the Colonel and his fascinating
lad v.
Tin; Green-House.— Besides the beautiful
(lowers that line ily- many walks of the pleasure
grounds and are interspersed throughout them,
a fine green-house evinces the great taste for
the beautiful that pervades the owner. In re
lation to it Ihe editor of llic Valley Fanner thus
writes:
“ In the green house wc noticed a large col
lection of exotics, the fragrance ol which, when
the folding doors were thrown open, emitted an
odor through the moms that reminded us of
those strange romantic tales which lovers de
scant so much about, and which nine-tenths ol
them never realize eveirln iheir dreamy imagi-
VOL. IX—-NO. 123.
nations, Col. Tulley showed us many rare spe
cimens of the rose, honeysuckle, the magnolia,
the Rose ot Sharon and the Lilly of the Valley,
so beautifully mentioned in Scripture, and the
Bullrushof the Nile, such a» formed the ark
of the infant Moses. There we also found
the Lemon and the Orange tree blossoming and
bending ’neath the weight of their luxuriant
fruit. There are many more rare plants which
we should like to take notice of, but as we must
bring our remarks to a close on this subject we
would merely mention in this place, that the
most beautiful flower blooming in this vast col
lection, is the smiling, laughter-loving native
called '•mine hostess’ ”
We observed in the finest specimen of the
wax plant we have ever seen, a perfect curiosi
ty covering half ot one of the sides of the green
house, filled with clusters ot those delicate flow
ers. /
Exposure of a published
a year ago, some account ol the trial and con
viction of a Catholic Priest in Indiana (Ro
main»Weinzoeplin,) for an aggravated crime
upon a female of his Church, while at confes
sion. The testimony was of a revolting char
acter, and the wretch was consigned to the Pen
itentiary, loathed by all except a lew friends
who believed him innocent. Several months
elapsed, when circumstances led others to ap
prehend that he was the victim of a conspiracy.
An effort was about to be made to obtain a par
don, but he interposed against this, unless his
innocence could first be established, saying that
liberty and life were of no value to him with
out his good name. Recently, facts have come
to light which fully establish that innocence.
Schmoll, the prosecutor, who had gone off to
Missouri, there confessed the conspiracy to four
German acquaintances, who disclosed the facts
in a letter to Rev. Mr. Deydeir, of Evansville,
Indiana. One of the counsel of the imprisoned
Priest went to Missouri, and obtained affidavits
setting forth that ilie wife ot Schmoll, who
swore against the Priest, had been surborned to
do so by her husband, who threatened to aban
don her if she refused. —Albany Kve. Journal.
White Rick.—On Monday last we were
shown a beautiful specimen of this ancient rice,
crown Ibis year on !he plantation of Mr. Wm.
McElvcen, in Sumter district. The heads are
very large, and far surpass in size any we hive
seen of the gold rice. We are informed by Mr.
J. J. Dickinson, to whom we are indebted lor the
sample, that Mr. McElvcen has a very large
field of this rice, which will make an astonish
ing yield. The white hull rice was cultivated
exclusively, we understand, on the first intro
duction of the grain in this Stale —but it has
been almost entirely abandoned within the last
40 years. Indeed, we do not know a single
planter who now plants it for market. Some
few allow their servants to cultivate it, that it
may be distinguished from ihe crop of the pro
prietor ot the plantation. We observed, the last
summer, some beautiful specimens office on
high-land fields in Marion district, and Robpson
and Brunswick counties, in North Carolina.—
Georgetown Observer.
Very Bad Man.—A drunken tellow named
Smeck, of Hamburg. Berks county, Pa., shot
Milton Ride, a few days ago, putting 78 number
.‘1 shots into his leg. Smeck was indulging ihe
popular luxurj r of beating his wife; Rice inter
fered, and hence the peppering he received.
Fire and Loss of Life.—A fire occurred on
Friday night the 3d ins!,., by which a negro
cabin about a half a mile from Athens, was
consumed; and we are shocked to add, that an
old negro man, who occupied it, perished in the
flames. The cabin was upon a small place
owned by Mrs. Thomas.— Bonner.
DIED.
On .Sunday evening, 12th insf., at his residence
in Hamburg. Mr. James Hubbard, senr., aged
sixty years.
CO MMEKCI AIL.
New York, October 7.
A moderate amount of business was transacled at the
Hoard of Brokers this morning. Morney is in fair re
quest at •> per cent per annum- -the market is well sup
plied. Exchanges of all descriptions remain dull at
previous tales.
- Cotton ■ -The Foreign advices per Cambria, do not
appear lo have had much effect upon the Cotton Mar
ket-prices were unsettled at first, but have become
more steady at former rales. The quantity offering in
first hands is very much reduced, and as our prices are
considerably above what t Ire rales in England or France
would warrant, we are led to the belief that the busi
ness doing heic is chiefly speculative. The sales for
the last (tireedays amount to4,3>K) bales, as follows :
Upland <y Florida. Mobile Sf New Orleans.
Inferior none none.
Ordinary (it) 1 .' 7 (id
Middling 7f (it) 7# 7 $ (id 8{
Cood Middling 7| (it) 7# 7j fed 8
Middling fair ,7f (Id 8| SJ (it) 9f
Fully fair S| (id SJ S)| (id It*
Fine none none.
Flour -Western Flour is in demand, and large sales
of Genesee and Michigan have been made for export at
.f-1.87| one lot of Genesee (800 barrels) brought $4 94.
US AR IN E LIST.
Savannah, Oct. 10.
Clcaied— Brig Madison, lloey, N York; brig Echo,
Smith, Newport; sc hr Dover. Messeck, Havana.
Charleston, October 11.
Cleared —Ship Ambassador, Hadley, Liverpool.
4 DMINISTRATOR’S Sale.-Will
jT4_ be sold on the first Tuesday in December
next, in the town of Crawfordville. Taliafeiro
vOtinty, within the legal hours of sale, the fol
lowing negroes, to wit: Mary, a woman about
45 years old; Kitty, a woman about 27 years
old ; Maria, a girl about R years old ; and a ne
gro hoy, about 2 years old, belonging to Ihe es
tate of Barnard Murray. Sold under an order
of the inferior court of said county when sitting
as a court of ordinary. Terms made known on
the day. MURTHA GRIFFIN, Admr.
October 13, 194".
A DMINISTRATRIX^S-Sale.—Will
/l be sold at the late residence of George
McGlamorv, on Tuesday, the 25th of No
vember next, the following property, to wit:
household and kitchen furniture, horses, hogs,
cattle, &c., and other articles too tedious to
mention. Terms on the dry of sale.
NANCY McGLAMERY. Admr’x.
October 13. 1845.
MILLINERY.
4/IRS. WEAVER has the pleasure
i.v I to announce to the ladies of Augusta and
its vicinity, that she Ins opened at her old stand,
opposite the United States Hotel, a large and ele
pn„t assortment of MI LI.IN FRY—consisting of
Bonnets, Caps, Embroideries, Laves. Flowers,
Feathers, Gloves , and other Fanci/ Articles.
The Goods have been selected by herself with
much cure, and will be disposed of on the most
reasonable terms. ,
The Fall ami Winter Fashions lor velvet and
satin Bonnets, will be opened on the 13th of Oc
tober. o!0-3t
NEW ORLEANS MOLASSES
26 Mils, just received bv
s r> T. it. METCALF.
£2I*ONGES —Fine Turkey' Halhinp;
tj sponees, for sale hv
,»3 H AVI LAND. RISLEV & Co!