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Ta Youths.
Boys, do you ever Ihitilc that in a four short
years all Rio .cultivation of this vast globe will
be in your hands? That all the.bread, meat,
clothing, fruits, vegetables and flowers, must
be made through your energy and industry? It
is not then worth while to enquire into ftho
nnttiro of plants and of soils? You fill know
that trees produce fruit, wood, bark, loaves
and roots. Did you ever think, when pluck'
ing the downy peach, or mellow, juicy apple,
what the leaf was placed on tho limb lor ?—
You know that the roots are important to tho
life of the treoj do you not know lhat tho
loaves aro equally so ? You remember some
dry summer, when tho garden was quite
burned up, how green tho trees still kept ?—
What think you preserved them ? Why, when
tho ground was so dry that tho roots could
find no moisture, the lenves opened their ten
thousand mouths nnd sucked in the moist
gases of tho atmosphere, sustaining tho tree
by the breathing loaf. What, havo leaves got
mouths? You ask. Yes, nil loaves have
mouth*, through which they liroathe tho at
mosphere around us. There aro some with
mouths or pores on both upper nnd under
side, nnd some on only one side. One hun
dred and sixty thousand pores havo been
counted in tho leaf of the hydrnngm, the
syrningo and tho lilac. You now see tho
utility of the loaf in ner/bcl/ilg tho fruit nnd
wood of f trces. Thoro are perhaps gown
men that have never though ol this, and who
think that the roots aro iho only medium
through which tho tree feeds. But tho light
of science is now beaming over tho land, and
boys may learn what their fathers did not
know.
Remember, hoys, that there is nothing ap
pertaining to the earth’s culture but what you
are directly interested in. Soon all the vast
machinery ofngirculturo, arts nnd mechanics
will be in your hands, You must bo either
producers or consumers— therefore interested
in bringing the great art of producing to I lie
highest stale of perfection. You aro taught
in the schools tho highest principles of trndo
commerce, but that vt hich mukts nil trade
nnd commerce is neglected. Say not intend
to be farmers ; you liuvn got to bo fod nnd
clothed, and bow will that bo done without
tho funner ? It is not alone tho utility of
agricultural study thnt wo would commend to
boys, hut its beauty, also. Study it then,
boys, if nut from books, Irom nature ; and
tomember that nn enquiry once started in pur
suit of light and truth, goes on like the ac
cumulating snow ball,gathering all in its way,
until iho stmpio enquiring bny of to-day, be
comes tho enlightened man of to-morrow —
We will lolk more about this in the February
number.
A New-Kind op Fence.—Mr. John R.
Remington, of Montgomery, Alabama, ('he
inventor of the Remington iErial Budge) has
patented a new and useful invention. It is
a cement, for making solid fencos, as durable
as granite, and at a very reasonable cost of
construction. The chief ingrodient is sand,
and It can be easily manufactured by planta
tion hands. The cement is to bo located, and
the two legs of each let into the ground liko
common post. Tho cost to tho planter is
estimated at 10 cents per panel of ten feet by
five-four inches thick—far cheaper than
the wire fence, ft does not, or least should
not detract from iho merit o( this invention
that hails from Alabnmu, this time, rather
than from ‘Maine or Pennsylvania, or that the
modest little town of Montgomery ventures
competition with tho great manufacturing
cities of the Bast for the honor of originating
some of the useful discoveries of the ago.—
Charleston Courier.
Sermon at theOpenino of a Rail-Road.
—At the recent opening of the Cincinnati,
Columbus and Cleveland Rail-Road, Rev Dr.
Aiken,of Cleveland, preached a sermon on
the occasion, llis texe was m Nahum it. 4th
“The chariots shall rage in the Blreet, they
shall jostle one against another in the broad
ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall
run ITke lightning.”
Modern Science.—“Do you think people
are troubled as much with fle-boltoma:y now
doctor, as they used to bo before thoy discov
ered the anti-bug bedstead 1” asked Mrs. Part
ington of a doctor of tho old school, who at
tended upon the family where she was stay
ing.
“Phlebotomy, madam,” said the doctor
gravely,“is a remedy, not a disease.”
“Well, well,” replied she,“no wonder one
gets ’em mixed up, there is so many of, em;
w e nover hoard in old times of trousers in the
throat, or embargoes on the head, or neurolo
gy all over us, or consternation in the bowels,
as we do now-a days But it’s an ill wind that
don’t blow no body no good, and the doctors
flourish on it like a green base tree. But of
course they don’t have anything to do with it
—they can’t make ’em como or go.”
The doctor step) ed out with n gconleel
bow, nnd the old lady watched him till his
cabriolet turned /lie conic-, her mind revolved
on the intricate subject of cause and eikcl.
A Naval Aid.—A person, on whom the
le npernnee reformation had | r dared no effect
entered in a state of exhilaration, a temper
ance grocery in a neighboring town
“Mr,—’exclaimed ho ‘do you—keep any
thing good to take here ?’
‘Yes,’ replied the merchant,‘wo havo some
excellent cold water: the best thing in the
world to lake.’
* Weill know it,’ replied the Bacchante
there’s—nothing—that’s done so much for
navigations as that.
Fatal Affray in Edgefield.—We learn
the following particulars of a horrid shooting
nflair, which occurred in Edgefield District,
on the 25th in's. The pat ties engaged In it
ivero Elbert Hardin, William Treadaivay,
Win. Wilson and S'ophe.i Wilson. It appears
that tho difficulty arose between the Wilsons,
and the other two persons mentioned, in re
gard to' the line fence bewteen their planta
tions. The Wilsons proceeded to move tho
fence furlher in on their own land, when Mr
Burdin discovered it , and forbade them—
| threatening, at the same time to cut oil the
1 hands of tho negfoes-, who were moving (lie
rails. YYilson ordered tho npgroes to pro
ceed, whfch they did-
* J "Mrs. Hardin thfen sent off for Hardin and
Preadawny. On their arrival, it seems lhat
resisted the moving ot the fence—Har-
' .(lacking the Wilsons with ajrail. Win.
m ’ Treadavvny having guns. The
fy shots Wilson's taking
.■wi.o.socduel!, moi-
Since the above was written, we have
heard that Treadaivay did nut discharge his
guh,but that it was fired afterwards by Hardin
at Wilson, ns stated abave. Treadawny has
since died from the wounds infiicted-Hardin
is not yet dead, but the wounds are represen
ted.to be very severe.
We give the above particulars as we have
heard them from good sources. They aro
doubtless mainly correct. Wo understand
thnt Win. Wilson delivered himself up in
Hamburg yosteday, and was admitted to bail.
— Augusta Republic.
Till COURIER.
KOJUfl.
THURSDAY MORNING, APRH^
J. KNOWLES, EDITOR.
“ Should Congress at ang time exhibit its
purpose to tear upon our property, or withhold
our just constitutional rights, we stand ready to
vindicate those rights, in the Union as long
as possible, anil out of the Union when we arc
left no other alternative."
W. P Wn.Ki.vs, Esq,, is authorised to act
ns Agent for this paper. He will attend the
Superior Court! in most ot tho counties of
this Circuit, nnd we hope our friends will
avail themselves ot this opportunity to sub
scribe.
$3-- Tho accounts of the old firm of the
“Eagle & Bulletin” aro in the hands of Mr.
W. for immediate settlement.
F. M. Kddleman is authorised to act as
our Agent, in Atlanta Georgia.
oing over this very interesting essay, wo could but
thank God, that we were American in birth end
feeling, and feel surprise, (hat any should be found
so mad and wicked, us to attempt tho overthrow
ol a government liko ours,- distilling ns It does, to
much of every blessing. The other articles nre :
My Navel, or Vailellos of English file—Legends of
the Monastic Orders, as represented in the fine arts
—Lavongro—The Arts in Portugal—Southern-
Tho Ministry and the Agricultural interest. We
again say to our renders who nro fond of choice
and useful reading, subscribe to theso Reviews
without delay.
Agricultural-
An article on our first page, addressed “to the Plan
ters of tho South,” will nttract the attention of our roa-
dejv* It is from a now Agricultural monthly, entitled
tho “Soil of the South/’ which wo have noticed on a
former occasion, It is upon a subject of vital impor
tance to every class of our feilow-citizens. Because
wo are now blessed with abundant harvests, the fruits
of a virgin soil, wc are too prone to believe that our
lime stone lands are inexhaustible ; hence, year after
year they arc taxed with the most debilitating cropB,
drained of their substance, and the deluded furmer
ultimately finds that even his rich valley and bottom
fields look the worse for wottr. Every variety of soil
craves constant sustenance, either vegetable, animal
ortninetnl, as does the human system. To givo suit,
able nnd udequate nourishment to different plants tho
soil itself must be led and nurtured. And yet the
greater portion of farmers have acted upon tho princi
ple thnt nothing can produce something, nnd after
having year after year gathered abundant harvests,
from their originally fertile lands, without giving back
to it in return, one solitary morsel of vegetable, ani‘
mnl or mineral nourishment, they are surprised to
find it exhibiting, finally, symptoms of feebleness and
exhaustion. We shall hereafter resume this subject.
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Feb 20, 1851. THE PUBLISHER
Agricultural Sooiety.
Nearly every populous county in middle Georgia
has an Agricultural Association, and these sooieties
arc doing great good in that portion of our beloved
State. IIow is it that we have none in Cherokee
Georgia! Now is the time to organise them. Our
country is now young and vigorous ; with a soil and
climate thnt produces almost every necessary and tna,
ny of the luxuries of life. We want some association
which will enable farmers to teach one another, and
diffuse among the mas?es such information as shall
add to the permanent wealth, prosperity nnd happi
ness of this interesting portion of the South. We
want light upon wheat, grass, and even corn and po-
tatoe culture ; upon stock-raising, sheep husbandry ;
indeed, upon every subject thnt effects directly or indi
rectly the interests and reputation of every Georgian.
Let some of our intelligent farmers move at once In
this matter,.and show our friends below what the
Cherokee boys can do.
Washington Union-
The venerable and veteran Ritcuib, has retired
from tho Washington Union, and is to bo succeed-
e l by A. J. Donolson, Esq. nnd Gen. Robert Arm
strong, of Tennessee. For nearly half a century has
Mr. Ritchie been nisoolntcd with tho political press
of this country, and his rclirncy at this juncture,
will bo regretted by a large number of his personal
and political friends.
(Jty-The people of New Hampshire havo rejected
the Constitution recently framed by their delegates
in Convention. This is suid to bo tho first time
such a result lias occurred in this country.
QO-We regret to see in tho New York papers, the
announcement of tho death of M M. Noaii,
tho oldest nnd most popular editors in tho Union.
Mo died of parnlysis, nged about 07 years,
Senator Berrien-
We have perused with pleasure the very able speech
of this distinguished statesman, delivered in the U. S.
Senate, on the 21th of February last, in relntton to the
President’s Mesa »ge on the subject of tho slave rescue
at Boston. The style nnd tone of this document is
admirable, and its sentiments will be endorsed by eve
ry friend of Constitutional Union, North and South,
The continuance and enforcement of the fugitive slave
law i* justly looked upon as a test question ; if the
spirit of fanaticism shall expunge it from the statute
book, or by lawless violence render it inoperative, no
alternative will be left us, but to break up ourjpoliticnl
alliance with those who will not respect-our rights nor
their own constitutional obligations. The people of
Georgia in a spirit of conciliation and compromise,
in solemn Convention, have assented to tho peace
measures passed by the Into Congress; upon those
measures we have taken our position—there wc stand
and there we intend to stand : we can concede no
more.
There seems to have been some doubt in the minds
of many in relation to the political classification of
Mr. Berrien ; he is claimed, wo believe, by both parties
in Georgia, but probably at present belongs fully to
neither. We shall not quarrel with him for this, con
fident that at the proper time he will satisfy the pub
lic mind on this subject.
The North British Review for February 1ms
come to band, filled ns usual, with interesting and
useful articles. This valuable Quarterly, it may
be remembered was started under tho auspices of
the gifted Chalmers, nnd 1ms ever maintained
high character, us well on account of its religious
tone a3 its literary excellence. The 5th article is
interesting review of tho life and writings ofNcan-
dor, whose history is doubtless familiur to mnny ol
our renders. Below wiil be found the whole table
of con let i is t—
British and Continental Ethics nnd Chtistianity.
Rome and the Italian Revolution. Philip Dodridge.
Literature and tho Lubottr Question. Neander-—
Gold mines. Remains of Arthur II. Hallara. The
Social Position of Woinej. Sir Charles Lyell's
Judge Cole.
For the last few weeks tho columns of tho Macon
Journal & Messenger” have been mainly filled, and
well filled too, with the speeches and letters of distin
guished individuals, who were invited to the Union
celebration in that city on tho 22d of February. We
should have been pleased to have extraefed largely
from these patriotic effusions, but this is rendered tho
less important ob wc perceivo that they will be soon
published in pamphlet form, nnd we hope be exten
sively circulated. We cannot, however, forego the
satisfaction of givtng our renders an extract from tho
letter of the Hon. C. B. Colo, nnd it is especially
commended to the consideration of the old Democrats
of Cherokee:
“I have been a citizen of Georgia for twenty-four
years, and during all thnt time, I have acted and vot
ed with the Democratic party—atone time under the
cognomen of the Clark parly; and at another time
under tho name oi the Union party j and during all
that period, the preservation of tho Constitution and
the Union has been a leading feature in the principles
of the party. In 1832 the sentiment of General Jack-
son,“the Union—it mutt be preserved, n was received
by the Democratic party with anbouuded approbation
—and immediately a Union party was farmed, com
posed of many of both of the old parties, and under
that name, the new party triumphed by u large ma
jority. We were then, ns now, called submissionisls,
traitors to the South, and many other ugly names.—
But ugly names did not frighten us then, and I trust
they will not now. We triumphed then by tho strength'
of the Union in tho affections of the people, and shall
again.
“Tho right of secession, disunion and nullification
received no countenance by the Democratic party of
that day, But now we are denounced as Federalists,
Consolidationiats and Submisslonists, because we will
not embrace all these heresias as Democratic priucl*
pics. Acd we are twitted with going over to the
Whigs. Well, be it so. For myself, I do not core
whether I act with Whigs or Democrats, or whether I
am called Whig or Democrat, so that we can preserve,
unimpaired, tho Constitution and tho Union.
I never belonged to the South Carolina wing of the
Domocratio party—and I well remember tho day,
when the principles of South Carolina politicians were
anathamatised as hereticoland treasonable by the Dc
mocratio party of Georgia—but now we are told they
are the Democratic doctrines, and those who do not
embrace them, arc denounced as traitors to their party
and to tho south. It is true, that these denunciations
come, mostly from thoso who have joined the party
since 1840, nnd not from the leaders of tho party pri
or to that period, y/nd I protest against these politi-
cal heresies being engrafted into tho creed of the De
mocratic party of Georgia. If there arc any true De
mocrats in Georgia, who wish to follow South Caroli
na in her crusado against the Constitution and the
Union, let them do it, but do not let them retain the
nnmo of Democrats, or Whigs, or Unionists, but force
them to bear their true name.”
a‘‘ iftt* .i--ing2f(5vi xhe coup-
■ lr.uoh stoAbucul* iPfor^hV
inn , a
The two Extremes.
*• Wo know of but one way in which to appease
this clamor of the Southern newspapers and politl-
inns, und thnt is by having a fair understanding.
They nsked for tho admission of Texas; *hoy got
lhat. They wished for war with Mexico ; tliov got
that. They asked that tho Wilmot Proviso might
not pass; tlicy got their wish. They asked that ten
millions ol dollars might bo given to Texas, to con
sent to a bnnndary line; they got that. They asked
that a stringent law might be passed, to reclaim fu
gitive slaves; they got that. Yet they aro not satis
fied,”
Tho above extract is from tho Boston Atlas, a freo
soil paper which represents the principles and feel
ings of that party in Massachusetts.
Wo give below on extract from the Augusta Rc- W 8 :
public, once an influential whig, but now a load!
Southern High’s paper; by which it will bosoeh
that opposito extremes havo met. Wo leave them
to adjust their difficulty ns host they can. Both nro
laboring to up-root the best government on
one professedly, beenuso tho compromise measures
favor tho South; tho other because they nro u fraud
upon tho South. Now we shall not interfere in this
little family difficulty, for wc have some faint hope
thnt both parties may meet tho fato of the Kilken
ny cats. If thoy shall only succeed in demolishing
one another, there is yet some olmnco for the Union
“ Our feeble advice to Southern Rights
eland firm in opposition to t he compromise and to the
platform of the lute convention.
Thoy should, in our humble opinion continue
to oppose thnt “ compromise” as the chief of all po
litical frauds. Tho South has not obtained n soli
tary right from it, on tho contrary, lias lost every
thing, her rights, her political equality, and her
hitherto untarnished honor.”
The Old Dominion-
By the following report from n select com
mittee presented to the Virginia Legislature,
it will ho seen that the Old Dominion is not
likely to be seduced from her loyalty to the
Uuion by the earnest appeals of South Caro
lina. And yet it is to be remembered that
Virginia is a border State, and has probably
lost more fugitive slaves in one year, than
South Carolina ha* over lost since the adop-
ticn of the Federal Constitution. Indeed, it
, that those .States which
'torn abolitioh encroach-*
...unii'iilritiv'ri-ijeni to,tBit
wood.- He lins’-rtK) excel ent
ful !>r (hi) patronage or Ilia
States, can afford to live in the Union with
their Northern and Western neighbors, with
whom they have more immediate and con
stant intercourse, we think interior States
who are loss liable to danger and annoyance
from the abolitionists, should not particularly
complain. If, however, they should ever
find abolitionism too hot and aggressive for
them, and desire to quit tho confederacy, wo
hope thoy will have the cordial aid and sup
port of all their Southern sisters :
On Monday, Mr. Flournoy, from the
Select Committee, presented tho following
report, which he said had been unanimously
agreed to by the committee, and which ho
tiusted it would be the pleasure of the House
to adopt with like unanimity.
Whereas the Legislature of the State of
South-Carolina has passed on net “to provide
for the nppointment of Delegates to a South
ern Congress, to bo entrusted with the full
power nnd authority with tho view und in
tention of resisting fur.hor aggression, nnd
if possiblo of restoring the constitutional
rights of the soutlx, nnd If not, to recommend
duo provision lor her futuro safety nnd inde
pendence;” which net hns bee i formally com
municated to this General Assembly :
Be it therefore, Resolved by the General
Assembly of Virginia, Thnt whilst this Stn'e
deeply sympathises with South-Cnrolina in
the feelings excited by the unwarrantable in
terference of the non-slaveholding States, with
our common institutions ; nnd whilst diver
sity of opinion exists among tho people of
this Commonwealth in regard to the wisdom,
justice and constitutionality of the measures
of the Into Congress of the United Stales,
taken as a whole, and commonly known as
the Compromise Measures : yet tho Legisla
ture of Virginia deems it a duty to declare to
her sister State of South-Cnrolina, that the
people of this State are unwilling to take any
action fin consequence of the same) calcula
ted to destroy tho integrity of this Union.
2d. Resolved, That regarding the said acts
of the Congress of the United States, taken
altogether, ns nn adjustment of tho exciting
questions to which they relate, and cherishing
the hope that, if fnirly executed, they will
restore to the country thnt harmony nnd con
fidence which of late have so unhappily dis
turbed, the State of Virginia deems it unwise,
in tho present condition of the country, to
send delegates to the proposed Southern Con-
gross.
3d.Resolved, That Virginia earnestly and
affectionately appeals to her sister State of
South-Cnrolina to desist from any meditated
secession upon her part, which cannot but
tend to the destruction of the Uuion and the
loss to all ofthe States, of the benefits that
spring from it-
4th ilcjo/m/,That Virgiuia, believing the
Constitution of the United States, if faith
fully administered, provides adequate pro
tection to the rights of all the States in this
Confederacy, and still looking to that instru
ment for defence, within the Union; warned
by tho expediency of the past, the dangers of
the prerent, nnd the hopes ofthe future, in
vokes all who live under it to adhere more
strictly to it, nnd to preserve inviolate the
safeguard which it affords to the rights of in
dividual States and the interests of sectional
minorities.
5th. Resolved, That all legislation or com
binations designed in any way to affect the
institutions peculiar to the South, deserve the
most unquestioned reprobation, ns derogato
ry to the rights of nnd peculiarly offensive to
the Southern States, and must, if persisted in,
inovitably defeat the restoration of peaceful
and harmonious sentiment in these States.
6th. Resolved, That the Governor of this
Commonwealth be requested to transmit u
copy of these resolutions to the Executive of
the Slate ofSouth Carolina, with the request
that they be laid before the next Legislature,
and that copios be also transmitted the Ex
ecutive of each of the other States of this
Union—the State of Vermont only excepted.
From tho Savannah Republican.
The Boston Case—Judge Sprague’s Charge.
The March term of the United States
District Court for the District of Massa
chusetts commenced at Boston on Tuesday
of last w eek, Judge Spraque presiding.—
Tho grand jury being empanneled, they were
addressed by the Judge in an able charge,
the whole of which was devoted to the fu
gitive slave law and the necessity of enforce-
ing it. He proceeded to show that the law
was in accordance with the Constitution—
that the constitution, the laws, and comity
between the States required the delivery of
fugitives—that the “father of the Republic”
believed they should be delivered up—and
that the forcible resistance of any one law of
tho United States, with tho avowed deter
tninalion to make such resislnncoin all cases,
was treason, “tho highest crime which can
be committed.” The learned Judge further
“Tho constitution commands that fugitives
from labor shall be delivered up. The Sn
preme Court have decided that it belongs to
Congress (o provide the means. Congress
havo enacted this law. It is imperative, and
it will be enforced. Let no man mistake the
mildness and forbearance with which the
criminal code is habitually administered, for
weakness or timidity. Resistance must
make it sternly inflexible.
“Discussion is free. Men of all classes
and of every shade of opinion may, by argu
ment or even declamation, addressed to the
reason or the passions, endeavor to impress
new views upon the public mind. But if in
their opposition to the expressed will of so
ciety they pass from words to deeds, nnd
embody mischievous doctrines into criminal
acts of resistance to law, whoever they may
be, and whatever may be their position or
their ultimaie purposes, they must sooner or
later find that the law is irresistible and over
whelming. The people havo been so long
accustomed to absolute repose and security
under tho quiet administration of law, that
they are not easily brought to believe that it
can be obstructed, much less to contemplate
the consequences of its overthrow.”
The Judge then proceeds to argue with
great power, the question whether a man
may disobey and resist a law because his
"conscience” disapproves of it. We make
another, extract :
yjBut we are told by some that, the law
being inorally.vrfong, conscience tells. them
'“'•fiwafitJSSf'* 1 »t. ;Poj)#sjejic.e>. inctoed, hr to
jyPKlUSi
Jn
lead us to do great injustice. Some have an
impression that it is the divinity within them,
an unerring and infallible guide. Hence they
cannot believe or conceive that opposition to
their views can be conscientious. ‘It is this
lurking fallncy, this tacit assumption, of per
sonal infallibility, that makes them intolerant
towards others and inaccessible to argument..
I speak not to those who believe that they
have special inspiration from above, that ,a
miraclo has been wrought for their guidance.
“Such are beyond the scope of human rea
son, and fit subjects either of consecration or
a mad house, according as their belief is
founded on reality or delusion. But With
those who ere under the dominion of the es
tablished laws of the moral and intellectual
world, conscience is fallible. The annals of
the world abound with enormities committed
by a narrow and darkened conscience. A
man may incur great moral guilt, not indeed
by following his conscience, but by neglect
ing the menns of rectifying and enlightening
it. Its dictates ore varied, not only accord
ing to the mornl constitution, but the intel
lectual power nnd extent of information of the
individual. Tho purer tho motive the more
extensive the knowledge, nnd the greater
the mental ability the more enlightened will
be the conscience and the more correct its
decisions.”
We regret that we have not room for the
entire charge of Judge Spraoue. His rea
soning is clear nnd to the point, and reminds
one of tho sovernl steps of a proposition in
Euclid. After viewing the subject in nil its
aspects, nnd meeting and answering all the
objections that have been urged againBt the
execution of the law, he arrives at the sub-
limo conclusion, that “ to obey the law of the
land is to obey the will of God." Obedience
is a moral duty. This, he says, is os certain
as that the Creator made man a social being,
nnd designed that he should live, not in per
petual nnnrchy, but in peace and security ;
for humnn government is the only means
which Infinite Goodness has provided, for
preserving us from unceasing conflict nnd vi
olence.
Death of Jjhn S. Skinner.—We regret
(o state, says the Baltimore American of
Saturday, that a very serious accident befel
our former townsman, John S. Skinner, Esq.
yesterday. Mr. S., who is on a transient
visit to this city, when about to leave the
Post Office between 2 nnd 3 P. M. mistook
the door opening upon the cellar stairway
for that leading to the street. He was sud
denly precipitated into the cellar, receiving a
violent concussion which fractured the base
of his scull. He was immediately removed
to the private office of the Post Master, in
the Post Office Building; and had the best
medical and surgical aid. Hopes are enter
tained thnt from the locality of the Injury ho
may possibly recover, but the issue, we sin
cerely regret to add, seems quite doubtful
Later—Death of Mr. Skinner.—It is with
sincere regret that we announce the death of
Mr. Skinner, from the cause above mention
ed. The injury of his head was of a charac
ter to preclude relief from the ablest profes
sional skill, and at hnlf-post seven, yesterday
evening, he breathed his last. No man has
labored more faithfully and dovote fly for the
promotion of the Agricultural and Industrial
interests of the country than Mr. S., and his
death will be every where regarded as a pub
lic loss.
He was the pioneer of the American Agri
cultural press and conducted with ability for
many years “The American Farmer” and
lately the “ Flow, Loom and Anvil."
NAStlVILLB ANn ChATTANOOOA RAILROAD,
—The following letter from the President of
this Road to the Mayor of Charleston, which
we find in the Mercury, will be read with
lively interest by every Southern patriot.—
The spirit of progress now abroad in the land
will, in its rapid advancement, sweep out
sectionalism and disunionism, while it will
build up and render the South independent:
Nashville and Chatlar.ooga Railroad Office.
Nashville, (Tcnn.) March 17,1851.
To his Honor J. Schnierle, Mayor of
Charleston, S. C.—Dear Sir:—Our work
is progressing finely. We have twenty
miles of iron down, and about seven miles
more of timber laid ready, and will in this
way have within three weeks twenty-one
miles ready, iron and nil, and be running
over it. We had yestorday between 300
and 400 passengers on the rond. I ant sat
isfied that we will d'j an immense passen
ger business.
We have a good prospect now of a road to
Louisville, ICy., to Cairo, nnd to Memphis,
Tenn., nil of which will mo.it certainly he
under way within tho next twelve months.
We find the whole valloy of the Mississip
pi directing their main lines of improve
ments to Nashville, nnd by that hoping to
reach an outlot to their surplus products
through Charleston; and 1 have consequent
ly watched, with interest, the movements of
your State and city in preparing for direct
shipments and imports, by which your City
will be raised to a most enviable position in
the country. If you will examinethe census
returns, you will sse thnt the country imme
diately sunoundingNashville,say, Alabama,
Mississippi, Missouri, Illinoise, Indiana,Ohio
And Kentucky, are growing with a giant
gia Road, and will, .ao aeon as we learn they 1
nave paid, call on you. Our road is going;
on finely at all points, and wo will got sixty'
or eighty miles done this year.
We expect to get ten miles of road done-
from Chattanooga, also, this year.
Truly, V. K. Stevenson, President.
stride unheard of in the annals of man, nnd
our road, with the roads making and content
plated from all these directions, will place
Charleston nearer to tho principal cities of
these States than any Atlantic port North of
it; and the disastrous casualties on the wa
ters ofthe Mississippi recently, contribute to
devclope nnd forward this natural tendency
to reach the Atlantic at the nearest point,
and we are at Nashville, preparing ourselves
to forward this tendency by subscribing liber
ally to improve the river, and to the three
railroads, one Irom Louisville, one from Cai
ro, nnd one to Columbia, Tennessee, and on
the Big Bend of the Tennessee River..
We have in every way paid ou.t over a fifty
thousand dollars on what we no.w caij'your
division of our road, and; shall call on you
soon through our mutual triend, H. W. Con
tier, (who had advanced some money for cat-
riage on iron)tfor the.fust quarterly insta
The Methodist Lawsuit.—A New York
correspondent of the Pittsburg Advocate-
says that counsel in the suit of the Method
ist Episcopal Church, South, against the-
Methodist Episcopal Church, fur its share
of church property, are making progress, and'
that the case wilt probably he tried at the-
April term of the Circut Court in this city.
To Revive a Fading Flower.—Cut the-
stalk end hold it a few moments in the flame-
of the candte, and then set the flower again-
in the cold water, when it will recover ite;
strength almost visibly after this violent as
sistance, and blossom immddiately.
East Tennessee Sail
We nro highly grntified to learn that*
Mr- Estabrook, Xlormerly, Prsident of ourv
Universitj,) who has been for some time.-
engngedin sinking a salt well in Andeisom
county, nenr the residence of Maj. Rich
ard Oliver, has succeeded in renr.hirg n-
bold stream of strong anlt water, at a-deptht
of about five hundred nnd seventy feeL-r—
Tubes have been ordered nnd- nil possiblo
dispatch will be employed to commence
the manufacture of salt. Tho well is sure
rounded with n dense lorest of heavy-
limber, nnd is within one or two hundred
yards of inexhaustible coni beds, so that;
tucl will ever be cheap. Other wells will
soon be sunk, nnd tho prospeot now is that.
hitherto undiscovered source of woalth-
to East Tennessee is nbout to he unlocked.
We sincerely trust thnt those engaged in
this enterprise may realise their brightest
anticipations.
Neqro Banking.—Talking of Banks, re
minds me of the Negro Bank I once heard
of in Virginia. Cato, ("an old negro who-
was noted for his cunning,)had succeeded in-
making his fellow-servants in the neighbor
hood believe that banking was a very profita
ble businoss. So they concluded that they
would throw all their change together and
start a bank, old Cato taking care to have
himself constituted the bank, to whom all
the sixpences of all the darkies Id the neigh
borhood were duly paid over. And now,,
snid Cnto, “whenebah nignr horrow sixpence,
out ob dis bank to buy bacca, he got to come -
in free weeks and pay in twor sixpence, and
in dis way you see ebry sixpence bring nud-
ah sixpence, till after a while all dese niggas
he ns rich ns old mass G y.” ' And's
upon this principle the bank went into opera-,
tion, old Cato always taking care that every,
darkey should fork over according to bank'
rules. But in the course of time, some of
stockholders thought they “smelt a rat” arid
called on Cato to withdraw their capital from
the bank, when the following conversation
took place between Cato and Jack:
Jack—Well, Cato, we want to draw our
money from de bank and quit dis bankin bos—
ness.
Cato—Did you heah de news ?
Jack—No, what dat, Cato ?
Cato—Why, de bank broke lest night.
Jack—Who care what de bank do. 1 tell
you I want my shah ob de money.
Cato—-Well but I tell yen de bank brake.
Jack—I not talken bout dat. Isay whar
de mony !
Cato-Why yuo cussed fool, don’t you knpw
dat when de bank break de mony all gone
sartin.
Jack—Well, but whah dedcbble de mony
gone to!
Cato-Dat’s more ’an dis niggah know. All
he know bout it is, dnt when white folks
bank break de mony always lost, and niggah
bank no belter dan white folks.
Jack—Well, Whenebah dis niggah gage
in bankin agin, he hope dedebbil git him fus*
Cato—Berrj sorry de bank break, Jack,
berry sorry.
Here our informant left.— O. Statesmen,
ROME PRICES CURRENT..
CORRECTED WEEKLY BIT J, T. SAWBIB.
ARTICLE*. $ CTS. 9 0
Bacon, Hams.... a..
Side* , a ..
Bashing, Dundee yd a .. .
Ky.... 21 a ,
Gummy .-. t6Ja . ■ 1
Butter, Goshen lb 25 *... . t
Country 15 I., i
Beef, Forequarter, 21 a ... -
Hind do - 3a..
Candles, Box 20 a .. i
Spermaceti, .. a .. i
Adamantine .. 33 a .. ,
Coffee. Java, Seek .... 10 a .. 1
Cuba, a .. .
Lagnlra,... . a .. I
Kio 14 a .. 1
Cotton, 6 a . t
Corn \ .... . ■ 85 A . .11
Corn Meal,.... .... .. 85 a .. It
Cordage, Bate Rope; .. 10 a .. 1
Manilla, .... •• 18 a *« i
Cotton, .. IS a •• i
Flour, 3&n *.
Maceerl, No 1 per bbl ...... $15
No. 2 41 •• ,....$13
Nc. 3 “ •• .$10
Hides,Green, 1b 9a- .
Dry 8 f .. 10|,J
Iron, Swcdo,
English ....
Rod
Band
Hoop, ....
Lead ....
Molasses bbl pr gat. W. I. , ■.,
Syrup, ....
Nails, Kog, lb... J .
Rioe ....lb....
Salts, Liverpool per Sack ....
do do bushel. .,
Table, per box.
Sugar, N. Orleans, rb....
Fortorloo
Delta
Santaorus,....... .....
Refined , ,,.,
Laai, .
Crashed,
Clarified,
Tallow,
Wool, Raw, -.
Rolls,........ „
it ::
,. Ota ..
9 00 a ..2
i. 00 a .. I<
.. 15 a
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