Newspaper Page Text
■■ . •»^iT , "i^Ti^>fflliiyfi#”trtlf‘ ; -^v’ ■.< ,- •« v ' tt?: t £Piv •• - a a ___.. _ "S&iw. ■■ "‘ > - A
'sm ■*■'■■ ■\~!j
E df
Vm,. II No. B.]
t ►
If .V . 1
\ "" ——— ---'
&ht £®ashfu(jtonta!t
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY J
MORNING, BY j<
JAMES McCAFFERTY,
I the low price of one dollar per annum, for !
a single subscriber, five dollars for a clubofjl
six, or ten dollars for a club of twelve sub-1,
ji.f scribers — payment, in advance.
84 All Communications, liy mail, addressed to the
publisher, must be post paid to receive atten
tion. By the rules of the Post : Offiee Depart-
Ss ment. Post-masters may frank subscription
money for Newspapers.
I Advertisements will be inserted at the follow-; 1
ft ing retluced rates:—For one square, not ex-;
ceeding twelve lines. 50 cents for the first
insertion, and twenty-five cents for each con-!
I tinuance, if published weekly ;if semi-monthly j
37}; and if monthly 43} cents, for each con-;
tinuance.
| Agricultural Products of the U. S. in ’4 2.
The American farmer publishes the
following estimate of the value of agri
cultural products of the United States,!
I which it says is based upon the “tabularj
estimate of the crops of 1842,” made by
the Commissioner of Patents in his An-I
nual Report communicated to Congress.
The prices set down arc those which
prevail in this market, or such as are
supposed to be a fair average at other’
places. The actual prices here are de
signated by the letter a, those supposed:
bv the letter s.
J H s?sH».si IIS'S s li a
$ *s?.-- 2 SST J 3 S o
£ . * O To 3 C ~
£ n os, •Os' * *3
*-* • © - • oo • • ■ a
• o • a • -i » • • o
I 93 . 3 • 1 A • SJ* « •
M I (A I h I** a | S
I § . •■■■•■•. 3
w* toxto ►- w*l o _
~ w t* 4k A- CJI ~JOtOJDCO ** yO
f f gsiiiy wrnr§i I
pi t o
— ©OOOgSaCpOPCOaj 2,
8 •* * ‘ * • * r-j
a o
5 Cji ca t© X —* »/> li —-UyiO O' -I 2*
2- Oin ©- £
S* 2.2.^2.- ftOOfto —
BBO»X»»SC« « C/» M»O9CO «i
*ooso«o<i*«&o •• •• ft" a "ft v*
o
+f> • . *-• ss
C» o» *-•-*. 03 CD ►“ M 5 i
an o 2. o w p» w —pa oi ,2
p • —'a oi m© it *-i it *J M*“ cm *
2 C£HSBtie.BBBfi«BB^
j° Iw'Vi'o'H- 01 wwbtcn to w *■« w cr> © E*
to © C
g *.(OfiMCDOOO4i'WWCii. -O, p
Above is the vahie of the estimated
products of fifteen articles only, the
growth of 1842, amounting to six hun
dred millions of dollars ; and yet, as a
people, we are oppressed to the earth with
pecuniary debts and difficulties, and al
most without credit at home or abroad.
Such a state of things is unparalleled in
the history of the world, and it is useless
to blink the question longer, as there can
he no doubt but that, through the course
of ruinous measures, tending to the de
rangement of the currency, and the pros
tration of individual and public confi
dence, the interests of the farming and
planting classes have been paralyzed.
[Balt. American.
Cattle and Sheep of Great Britain.
We find the following in a late English
paper, and give it for the purpose of com
paring it with some of our own statistics
and prices :
“The total number of horned cattle
in the United Kingdom is estimated at
7,000,000, and the total number of sheep
at 32,000,000. Valuing the first per
head, at £lO, and the last at 255., both
together will give a total value of £llO,-
000,000.
In the United States, the census of'
1839, the number of horned cattle was '
15,000,000, and the number of sheep 20,-
000,000. But the difference in the esti
mated value is the most striking point in
the comparison. There the average va- 1
lue is put at about $45 for the cattle, and '
about $6 for the pheep. Here an aver*
age price of about sl2 for the cattle, and ;
61 50 for the sheep, must be considered l
a liberal estimate. This fact shows why i
the prices of meat are so high in Great i
Britain, and proves that we ought to be i
able to furnish them a supply of beef at /
remunerating prices. We think it clear f
that in the present position of trade, tar- 1
ifl’s and prices, a fair export trade in beef f
and pork to England may be expected, t
[Alban;/ Cultivator. i
AUGUSTA, GA. SATURDAY, JULY 29. 1813.
Effects of Salt upon Celery.
Some time ago, we pointed out the s
! beneficial effects of salt in growing aspar- i
agus. There is another plant cultivated i
;in gardens, which would be greatly bene
fited if a little more salt was added to its i
;food —for I believe the manure which it
icommonly receives, is as wairish to its!
taste, as brose without salt to a Scotch- i
man. Celery is the plant I mean ; I re
icollect gathering it in a wild state, somejj
jyearsago, on the north side of the Frith!
of Forth, in situations that would be wa-j
teredby spring-tides —and, I believe that,
;it is commonly found, both in England!
and Scotland, in ditches near the sea.
This season I gave a considerable qunn
* tity of salt to a row of celery, by putting!
lit between the plants some time after
they vVere planted. I then watered them
'freely, which carried the saline particles 1
down to the roots. This appears to have !
done the plants much good, for they grew;
remarkably well afterwards. From the
| Report of the Convent Garden market,
some time ago, it appears that celery this
'season, has been rather shorter than usu
al. Some of my plants to which salt was
!applied, measured by the middle of Sep r
tember, four feet in height, 30 inches ofl
which were well blanched,
j [Gardner's Chronicle.
;j Irish Potatoes.
We have received from Mr. Chgrles
i worth, a basket of fine potatoes, large,
' dry and mealy ; he invited us to see them
|dug—no, not dug, but raked out of the
I ground. The process of planting is so
■Jsimple mid at the same time so advanta
geous, tnat we intend trying it ourselves;
i it tlrmcrelv to lay the seed on the top of
the ground, and cover it about a foot
! deep with pine straw, and it is done ; no
linoro trouble, until they are ready for
braking out; the yield is much larger,!
land the potatoes better than hv the usual
mode of planting. —[Camden Journal.
Analysis of the Cotton Plant.
The resolution introduced by General
.Means, at the Agricultural Convention,
that funds be raised to pay the expense
of a thorough analysis of the cotton stalk,
seed and lint, is an important one, and
we hope will not be neglected.
An analysis of this kind will throw
much light on the proper culture of this
plant, at least so far as to indicate the
kind of soil best adapted to its growth,
and what manure is best calculated to
give it full developemcnt. It may serve
another good purpose. Analyzing the
plant when in a healthy state, and also
when it is affected by rust, may throw
some light on the origin of this disease,
and thus enable the planter, by knowing
its cause, to guard against its appear
ance.—[.S’. C. Planter.
Industry.
The following anecdote may give en
couragement to the industrious:
Not long ago a country gentleman
had an estate of £2OO a year, which he
kept in his own hands until he found
himself so much in debt, that to satisfy
his creditors he was obliged to sell the
half and let the remainder to a farmer for
twenty years. Towards the expiration
of the lease, the farmer coming one day
to pay his rent, asked the gentleman
whether he would sell his farm. “ Why,
will you buy it ?” said the gentleman.
“If you will part with it, and we can
agree,” replied the farmer. “That is
exceedingly strange,” said the gentle
man. “Pray tell me how it happens
that, while I could not live upon twice as
much land, for which I pay no rent, you
are regularly paying me a hundred pounds '
a year for your farm, and are able, in a
few years, to purchase it ?” “ The rea
son is plain,” answered the farmer, “you
sat still and said go —l got up and said
come —you laid in bed and enjoyed your
estate —I rose in the morning and mind
ed my business.”
J i
A correspondent of the Albany Culti- 1
vator says his horse was cured of inflam-!
■nation in the eye by the following!,
treatment: ||
“ Take sassafras twigs of a year’s c
growth; take the inner bark a handful i
to a pint of cold water ; let it stand for a j
feYv hours ; it will become thick, like the g
white of an egg; wash the eye out well; 1
it Avill remove the inflammation. For a c
film on the eye , pulverize loaf sugar as e
fine as possible; fill a quill with it, and c
blow it in the eye; it will remove the a
film. My horse was entirely blind, and t
the above cured him, so that he can see t
as well as ever.” i
To Salt Butter. —Beat well up to
gether in a marble mortar, half a pound
of common salt with four ounces oi'poAv
dered loaf-sugar; to every pound of ne%v
ly made butter, the milH being well
drawn off by beating, put an ounce of the
mixed powder, incorporate it well, put
the butter in pots for keeping. In about
a month—not before—it will be fit to
use, and it will continue for ten years as
•good as newly made. Try it.
! ~ll'll#©l£ !UL AWEiM B."'
POLITENESS.
An honest heart is the source of all
jtrue, genuine politeness. Much that is
branded with this cognomen bears ne
iniore affinity to it, than the heartless rev
erenceof holy thingsin the false professor
to vital godliness. With a heart lull of
affectionate solicitude for the good of
jevery fellow being, the most uninitiated
rustic may adorn the assembly of princes
and titled heads. To intelligent minds
he is all things, what constitutes a real
gentleman ; to those whose fondness for
hollow etiquette prompts to contempt and
, the finger of scorn, his example is at once
| useful and instructive.
INDUSTRY.
No young man of ordinary physical
and mental endowments, should harbor
the anticipation or indulgence of muni
• ment, from friends, relatives, or any
1 source other than his own personal exer
“ tions. Sloth is the prolific inducer of
1 many evils : so exclusively is this the
■ fact, that it is not, nor can it be, the pa
rent of a single virtue. It is the gan
grene which festers and paralyzes the
faculties of the mind no loss than the
1 body. But industry is ever honorable ;
if directed aright it will not fail to ennoble
the mind, impart vigor and health to the
'body, and secure many friends.
We may venture to assert, that no
youth who consumes his time in idleness
or amusement, has ever won the love of
a virtuous individual. As you value
| your character, your health, and above
all, in view of that day when the deeds
done in the body shall receive their re
ward, —when you shall render an ac
count of the talent committed to your
keeping, see to it, that you waste not
your days in unfaithfulness—your sub
stance for that which satisfieth not.
PROBITY.
The individual who lives in an habitual
disregard of truth, forfeits the confidence
of every good man ; —nay, of his own
associates even. Time, place and cir
cumstances, will not vary this established
law of effect; some unguarded expres
sion, either of utterance or action, will
not fjail to betray the hooded turpitude
that reigns within. Reputation, pros
perity, every thing in fact which makes
life desirable, is the ultimate toy to those
“who love, and make a lie.”
RICHES.
That man is most heartily to be con
temned who would arrogate to himself
the esteem and respect of mankind lor
what Providence or Fortune has put into
his coffers. It is not that which we
have, in the perishable objects of this
world, but what we are, that entitles us
to favor or regard. Wealth is the bane
of happiness to many of its possessors,
and without moral excellence the mines
of Golconda no more than the merest
farthing, will secure the esteem of men,
or favor of God.— [Boston Cultivator.
We find the following paragraph in
the Philadelphia American. It is a fact.
The bountiful host was the well known
Mr. Potter, and one of the happy guests
was Capt. Stockton of the Navy.
A Dinner worth having. —A gen
tleman residing within the vicinity of
this city invited his children—three
daughters and a son—to dine with him ;
on the Fourth of July. In the course of i
the meal, which we presume was one i
worthy of the celebration of Independ- I
ence, in every sense of the word, a pack- i
age was placed before each one of the <
four, containing security to the amount s
of Two Hundred Thousand Dollars — <
making of course in the aggregate Eight c
Hundred Thousand Dollars. This truly s
generous parent had already, as we learn, \
bestowed liberal allowances upon his t
children. We need hardly add that they s
are arrived at years of discretion, and s
can appreciate the affection, confidence I
and munificent spirit which prompted c
the gift. Large as it was, the father re- e
tains an ample fortune to his own enjoy- \
ment. Jl
Encouragement lor American Youth.
Amid the many advantages of a meth
od of government, such as wc have in
this country, over the governments of the
old world, not the least is, the encour
aging chance for poor but talented youth
to rise above the circumstances of their
birth. So plain and obvious, indeed, is
this fact, that it has already, been cur
sorily thought of oftentimes by all our
readers—yet it is a fact that seldom has
its due weight and influence in the com
parison of European and American gov
ernments. We think we may safely say,
that, in the matter we mention, this coun
try is in advance of every other on the
face of the earth.
It must ever he, in the ordinary meth-|
od of the events of earth, that the mighty
mass of people, the nine hundred and
ninety-nine thousandths, will remain
poor ; —poor, that is to say, in the worldly
acceptation of the term ; for, thanks to a
bountiful God, who causeth his Sun to
shine upon the proud and the lowly alike,
the true comforts of life and necessities
for happiness are scattered with an equal
and impartial hand. But to the mass,
poverty is the inheritance fixed upon
them at their birth—buckled upon their
backs whether they will or no. And
here, in this Republic, where the law rec
ognizes no lord, marquis, or duke, noble
by blood, every mother’s son of us stands
upon his own merits; here, in the race
for wealth and distinction, the power of
mind, whether it be in a carman, in a
1 merchant, in a shoemaker, or in a lawyer,
will certainly gain its own wages, if it
works for them.
Look at the principal men of our land,
at this moment —cast your eye over the
1 names of the long list of brilliant and no
ble characters, and you will find them,
nearly to a man, from what are called,
the lower walks of life. There is Van
Buren, the son of an ordinary Dutch far
mer—whose children, in any other land,
would have been Dutch farmers and dai
-1 ry-women to the third and fourth genera
! tion. There is Clay, “ the mill-boy of
1 the Slashes,” who has worked his way up
from an equally small beginning. These
are in political life—but in the social
circles of the well bred and intellectual
people of our city and neighborhood, we
venture to say the same rule will hold
good. No man who is intrinsically a
gentleman—no woman who is truly a la
dy—can be prevented from reaping the
i full pleasure of an equal communion
withtho “goodsociety” of this land be
cause he or she had parents that worked
hard, lived in lowliness, and were poor.
Now are not all these things encour
aging to the poor youth, of either sex, in
our country? Many a man, when ad
vanced in life, and occupying an honor
able stand among his fellow citizens, has
blessed that fate which made it necessary
for him to exercise his energies and his
powers of mind and body. Let us tell
the poor boy, whose eye may perhaps at
' ibis moment be persuing these lines, that,
however disconsolate such logic may
seem to him, it is well that he should be
without the enervating and corrupting in
fluence of hereditary wealth. The hot
house plant grows up, cherished, but
weak —beautiful and lovely, but frail and
short lived. The hardy twig which has
to strengthen its roots in the unsheltered
out-door rigor, and bear up against the
beatings of the wind and tempest, enjoys
a longer and a healthier existence. We
might pursue the comparison, showing
how akin is the effeminate child of luxu
ry to the blossom kept for artificial show
—while the sturdy son of penury, made
tough by his condition, is of real value
and use in the affairs of life.
A Mother’s Love.
Deep is the fountain of a mother’s love.
Its purity is like the purity of the “sweet
south that breathes upon a bank of vio
lets.” The tear-drop speaks not half its ,
tenderness. There is language in a mo
ther’s smiles, but it betrays not all her ■
nature. I have sometimes thought, while i
gazing on her countenance —its dignity t
slightly changed by the inelegant accent t
of her young child, as it repeated in obe- l
dience, some endearing word, that the r
sanctuary of the mother’s heart, is fraught a
with untold virtues. So fondly, so devo
tedly she listens to its accents, it would
seem she catches from them a spirit that d
strengthens the abodes of her affection, v
I have seen the mother in almost every n
condition of life. But her love seems j.
every where the same. I have heard
her bid, from her bed of straw, her dar
ling child (o come and receive the impress e
[O-N'e Dollar a Year.
of her li]>s, and, as her feeble strains min
gled in the air, I have thought there was
loveliness in them not unlike the loveli
ness of an angel’s melody. And I have
seen the mother at her fire-side deal out
the last morsel to her little ones so pleas
antly, that her own cravings seemed ap
peased by the pleasure she enjoyed. But
who, that it is not a mother, can feel as
she feels ? We may gaze upon her as
she sings the lullaby to her infant, and,
in her eye read the index to her heart’s
affections—we may study the demure'
cagt of her countenance, and mark the
tenderness with which she presses her
darling to her bosom, but wc cannot feel
the many influences that operate upon
J her nature. Did you ever mark the care
i with which she watches the cradle where
sleeps her infant? How quick she
catches the low sound of an approaching
footstep! With what fearful earnestness
she gazes at her little charge, as the
sound intrudes ! Does it move ? .Do its
slumbers break ? How sweet the voice
that quiets it! Surely it seems the blood
of but one heart sustains the existence of
both mothcq| and child. And, did you
ever behold’the mother as she watches
the receding light of her young babe’s
existence ? It is a scene for the pencil.
Words cannot portray the tenderness that,
lingers on her countenance. When hope
has expired, what unspeakable grief over
-1 whelms her?
Temper.
No trait of character is so valuable in
a female than the possession of a sweet
temper. Home can never be made hap
py without iy.Jt is like the flowers that
spring up insJpJf pathway, reviving and
| cheering us. llct a man go home at
night, wearied and worn by the toils of
the day, and how soothing is a word dic
’ fated by a good disposition. It is a sun
| shine falling over his heart. He is hap
py and the cares of life are forgotten.
A sweet temper has a soothing influence
over the minds of a whole family.—
Where it is found in the wife and mother,
;• you observe kindness and love predomi
, nating over the bad feelings of the natur
,al heart. Smiles, kind words and looks,
I characterise the children, and peace and
I love have their dwelling there. ' Study,
, then, to acquire and retain a sweet tem-
I per. It is more valuable than gold ; it
captivates more than beauty, and to the
close of life retains all its freshness and
power.— Portland Tribune.
National Debt of all Countries.
Excepting Brazil and the United States,
all the other American powers and Greece
owe several years’ interest on their loans.
Part of the Spanish debt, too, is many
years’ interest in arrears.
England, - - . £800,000,000
France, - . . 220,000,000
Austria, - - . 85,000,000
Holland, . . . 82,000,000
s P ain > - 75,000,000
Russia > - - - 60,000,000
Belgium, - . . 50,000,000
Prussia, .... 26,000,000
- . . 20,000,000
Denmark, - . . 4,150,000
Greece, - . . 3,500,000
Portugal, - . . 2,500.000
Columbia, - - . 6,750,000
Mexico, - . . 3,200,000
Brazil, .... 3,200,000
Pe ™, 1,200.000
Chili, .... 1.000,000
Buenos Ayres, . . 1,000,000
Making a total of £1,444,500,000
A Strong Hint.
The congregation of a church, in
Maine, a few years ago, in town meet
ing, proposed to increase the salary of
their old and faithful minister to an a
mount corresponding with the increased
expense oflivingand the increased wealth
of the society. The motion was in a fair
way of passing, when, to the surprise ot
every one, the old gentleman rose and
begged his friends not to vdte a larger
sum for him. On being pressed for the
reason, he declared that he was opposed
to voting any more money, because it
was so difficult to get what had formerly
been voted! The people were set into a
roar of laughter, the increase was voted,
and, what was better , promptly paid.
Better to be upright with poverty, than
depraved with abundance. He whoso
virtues exceeds his talents, is the good
man—he whose talents exceed his virtue,
is the mean one.
—— : ——jg ——
Never get into a passion because otftr
?rs will ix>t agree with you. in opinion.