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J. A. TrUXEIi, KDITOK.J VOLUME I. § otto. My Mother's Bible- Tiiis book is ail that's loft mo now, Tt-ars will •inLidU. .-.art— With tailoring lips and throbbing brow, I press it to my heart. # For many generations post, Hero is <• if U:ni!y tree: M Mother's hands this Bible clasp'd— She, dying, gave it me. Alt! well l do I re number those Whi.se nan; •» these records War; Who round the hearth st-ue used to close. After the evening prayer. Ami In ..ring what those page.*salid, Its tones my be- r; would thrift! Though ’.he. are with the silent dead; Here is theiiviuj si 11 ! My rati or read this Hoi., ho -k To sis! rs. bretl.er.s. dear': i! W calm was n.y r-.-r us t'.a r’s look. Who loved tiod's word to'.ear, Her aged face—l see it yet 1 What thrilling memories come! Again -J 0- little group is in. t Within the halls of Home: Thou truest friend man ever knew, Thy constancy I’ve triad. Wl ero all ware I've tbund thee true, M;. .ntiscll.-c and guide. Tiie mitt s oftart'e no treas ties give That could this volume buy ; . It’s leaching me the way to live It's taught me how to die. ItliSCfllilllCOllS. Her. E2ie!ingi&n ,W. Sanders. [CONCLUDED,] But we must pats on to the closing scene. Come, my brethren, let us cather around the living b-d of this honored servant of Christ, and see how he, who thus faithfully lived unto the Lord, can die unto the Lord On the 19th of June. 1851, he had an attack of vertigo, which was followed by a general and permanent prostration of his system. He had been feeble pre vious to this, but it was now evident that the brisk, elastic energy of his 1 system, which had borne him through so many toils, and held in check for many years .bis constitutional tendency to comsumption, had given wav, never effectually to re-act. His occasional improvements, which sometimes exci ted hope, soon gave place to greater de cline, and thus ,by degrees he sunk away. At intervals, he was able to take the open air in Xiis buggy, until last June; from that time he was eon fined to his house, and mostly to his room. For four months before his death he was confined to his bed: for three or four weeks he was unable to turn himself in his bed. and for sever al days he was unable to move any part of his body, except his hands and arms. In the meant : ■• he was redu ced to a state oFgrCat emaciation. and it beeam difficult to move him with out causing lum bain. With the exception of sonic short ! interval.;, his mind retained, to the last, ; its usual cl nrn .’ss. As one striking I evidence of this lingering vigor of his j faculties, during .the two or three months previous to Lis death, lie ar ranged alel eormummuted some im portant, p-wuniary plans. Un sold his plantation Aral some other valuable prop: rt v, hired out several of his ser vant. and dictated the details of a smaii farm and clearing in the. edge of fly; town. TTis spiritual stale during his long confinement was truly ink -resting.— The Lord, it seems, had kindly called his servant away, from those active la bors in which he had so faithfully served his generation, and in which he *o much delighted, that', by the re tired and quiet deciplino of the sick room, he might- more thoroughly teach him the lessons of child-like patience ;utd resignation, and impart the last finishing touch to his Christain charac ter. Uis progressive ripening for the skies was apparent to all. He sought diligently, and not in vain, for spirit ual improvement, lie carefully re viewed the blessed doctrin’es which he had so long and so faithfullj* proclaim ed, and found himself reassured of their excellency ami power. Grace, soveriegn grace, was the stay and re ; joieing of his heart. He could not flweU upon his own works as posses sing any merit to recommend him to the favor of God, and when his breth ren wou|d allude to his past services, he ijiygriablv directed (heir minds to % journal—pcbotcli to literature, f! clitics, inttr General StiHcellauu. ! the atonement of Christ a* his only ! hope. lie was uniformly composed band cheerful, but had no raptures. — i lie seemed satisfied to rest his hopes , upon the naked promises of God ; his I feelings might deceive him, but lie tilt that God’s promises could never | fail. At a Certain time his wife read i to him the account of the last hours of : Andrew Fuller, which ns lie stated, . very much accorded with the exerci ses of his own mind. The ruling pas* sion strong in death, is unetimes spok- I ell of; and what was this ruling pas- I sion in t.he ease of F> rot her Sanders, . | but the spirit- of benevolence? He ; thought, in death, of the wants of Zion, j and shortly before Lis departure gave | I particular directions a- out his annual : contribution to tin.'' Convention.— i Have yi ir financial committee gather 'd up the money sent hither? Then they have now in their hands the last lunation of the dying Sanders. H ’.earnestly sought for patience in; - affliction: it was the subject of his I ‘ . 1 : own prayers, and when ministering brethren visited him, he was particular ir iv«pmst them to present their peti j lions in ids behalf, that he might be j submissive and resigned. The last j two or three days lie seemed anxious, ; i he might fel an impatient de§i*e |to remain, or go hence; he wished .io lave no will of his own, to wait i'pii'd G"d\s own time, although it might prolong his sufferings, and delay his’entrance into eternal rest. To vis i iting friends he expressed great conti : dene*-in God, quoting 'passages like this—“ Though he slay me yet will l trust in him.' Shortly before he j expired, fearing that he had been too j anxious to depart, lie said to his friends j —“ I have sinned, pray that it may be i pardoned.” A f-w moments before he I ceased to breathe, he repeafed, with | great sati.tfaction, the expression of the I ]bsalm: st—v TANARUS! io.ug!i I walk tlirough ! the valley of die shadow of death, Ii J j will ie:;r no evil, for thou art with me : j thy rod ami thy staff they comfort me,” | •Shortly afterward-, he began to sink, | and lie passed away quietly without a struggle. He entered into his rest on the Lord’s day, the 12th of March, in the 65th year of his age. On the following Tuesday his re mains were conveyed to the College ' Chapel, where an appropriate funeral j discourse was preached by Professor j Hillyer, from Rev. xiv.: 13: “Bless- i jed are the dead, Ac. From the chapel, j his body was . borne to the village j i grave-vard, accompanied bv a larger I 1 •/ O . j I funeral procession than ever before en- ' i tered that enclosure of the dead.— i There, in that retin-d and peaceful grave-yard, n ar the the pleasant vil ■ hige which ho founded, and of which jhe was long a distinguished orna j men't; near the University which, had shared so largely in his labors and his j j love; within a lew feet of the remains j lof the venerated Mercer, with whom, ; j when living, lie had stood in faithful j • service for so. man y years, shoulder to j shoulder, heart to heart: there sleeps! | the precious dust of Billington McCar j ter Sanders. “Live and let Live”.—This, though an old and good maxim is fre quently disregarded now-a-days. Once th«ere was a time when—but we must not goto repining on account of de parted days—our business is with the present. “Live and Ft live,” is one of those mottos that may be variously ex emplified. We give but one instance: Suppose there was a village, and in that village suppose there was a newspaper that had an extensive circulation.— Suppose there were storekeepers also in that same village and that they Hula ’great many goods m their stores so dis pose ot. Now suppose that the Edi tor, Publisher, Foreman and Composi tors attached to the aforesaid newspa per, were in the habit of trading with these same shopkeepers whenever they happened to need any thing in mer cantile line. And suppose that these storekeepers, to save a few dollars, should fail to encourage their home newspaper by their advertising patro nage, thereby injuring themselves and defrauding (as it were) the printer pf his just and righteous dues. Suppose all this, and yam have a case which is the reverse of ‘ Live and 1 t live.” Ir, is easy enough from this to guess how the tiling should be* To apply these remarks, we ask the reader to see how many of the Edgefield merchants have thought proper to advertise in pgr col umns. No wonder we have an auc tion or two every year. We boldly -take the ground i hat the merchant .who <* -fuses to encourage the ' printer de serves not to bo encouraged liim self,--r/d/yc/jcW. (S. C.) Paper. without iu.au, r.ti'on on jiufuvtio.y » 8 EATONTPN, GA„ SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1854. S. tetephens, iluthorc&s oi u .Manshiftu and I'amine .ylwu Stephens is a native of a rural village in the State -of Maine, which Slate has produced one-third of the literary- men and women of the United States of the present day. Willis Longlellow, Dr. (Jhecver, t he authoress ot ” .Northwood,” Mrs. Seba Smith, “.Jack Downing,” John Heal, Win. Cutter, the, poet, Grenville Mellon, the pov t, Mrs. I’’ranees S. Osgood, were all natives of Maine, with-many others of note. Mrs. Stephens was born overrunning with genius. She had the privileges widen only a, country school could fur nish, and her associations were with the plain, farming population of an ob scure region,' where snows and granite contended against toil and comfort,— W ith her talents and mental superiori ty. sue could not be otherwise in New England, (where all clev< r women are, or were once school-mistresses,) than a teacher of,a village school. She wrote 'for the papers before seventeen. Her productions were brilliant and-crude, imt burning with the true poetic lire. V publisher became enamored of the verses, and on seeing the lair authoress i transient*-.d his. penchant to her. At that time she was a slender, tall girl, j with auburn (we dare not write red) ! hair, a (ail* high forehead, a Scotch j rose-and-white complexion and blue j eyes, sparkling with taste and imagin- ! alien. In manners, she was awkward and shy, a thorough country lass, igno rant of the world and the artificial forms of society. She could ride like an Arabian, teach like a Newton, write like a Homans, and captivate everybo dy by her conversation. Vet site had never semi a city—prehaps not a brick house or paved street. The publisher,- a quiet, amiable, sentimental gentleman, lost his heart; lie had the courage to propose to the “ village genius,” and she the condes cension to accept him. He married and took her to" the city of Portland. Here she vvaw dazzled by the libraries, the literary men, the brilliant society to which her graceful poetical articles in her husband’s paper introduced her. Her society -was, courted, and she be came a lioness in literature. Her rus tic naivete, her independence, her col loquial powers, her good sense and j wit soon rendered her a favorite with I intelligent gentlemen and the dislike of her own sex. In her poems she did not spare them, and she thus fell into an attitude of war with them, but with the advantage on the side of her keen and cutting pen. Yet Mrs. Stephens was. and is, one of the most amiable persons in the world ; and her phillippics were usually as just as they were well-aimed. ' She published • a book, and New York puuTishers negotiated with her for others. Sue removed to New York, to an atmosphere more genial for one of her independent ways, be Portland she* would often be seen 'gallopping alone at full speed down the main street, spring lightly to the pavement, throw the bridle cavalierly to bev hus band to hold; run into t.he office- to read proof; re-appeai* in 20 minutes, re-take the bridle, nod “ thankee ’’ to her lord, mount and off’ again, like a Cossack, or'as if riding . against wind and time. These and other eccentricities' ren dered quiet Portland not- so pleasant as at first, and she gladly took up her residence in New York, where, with the exception of a tour in Europe, she has since resided. Mrs. Stephens is" fully appreciated as a literary woman. She has no su perior among American female .writers in style and brilliancy of imagination. Her late work will place her at the head of Ann rlean female novelists. This ladv is now about thirty nine, very plain, bug in five minutes her Hashing eves, her fascinating conversa tion and manner make one forget'that, she’s not a Hebe. Mrs. Stephens visits editors and chats with tlicin in their sanctums with the* free dom of one of their own sex,, joins gentlemen of list* acquaintance on promenade with a free and easy way; hails a friend, Willis, Ilalleek or Mor ris, across Broadway an i is-altogether remarkably independent of 'Convention al forms; yet no authore-sis nforopopu lar or more liked by those who know her, and as a woman she never crosses the line of feminine modesty as to diminish-aught from that self respect which she’ claim's as a. woman, and which is irresistibly conceded to her. — Mobile Tribune. This Very, Latest ])g<j Case.— Wo have lately published - several re markable instances of canine sagacity, which arc supposed to have occurred in the Northern States, and have for some time indulged in the impression that Southern dogs ought to do some thing to distinguish themselves. The thing hast been done, and we think our dog is. a leettle -ahead. -A .lyiend of ours having been (Inly sworn op a map of the southern portion pf Michi gan, tpstifiies as follows: A largo Newfoundland dup, w.lfo rejoices in the a| > pel hit ion ,of “Through Tickets,” was strobing in the buck parl,of the town, when he encountered,a small boy who Hid wandered away fiogi his home. and was weeping bitterly. “Through Tickets,” contemplated the littc fellow for a moment, and reflected upon the propriety of giving hint a free passage home. His generous impulse prevail ed, and seizing the boy* gently by the coat, he urged him along until they chanced to come to a confectioner’s when he bought him two sticks of pep permint candy, and then conducted him home. We pause for a reply-. [A. 0. Delta. Table Mo vim; at im. i:\vr u>.—N. P. Willis, in a late Home Journal, de scribes some exhibitions of tin’s phe nomenon which took place atlas coun try residence, in the presence of “a judge of the City Bench, two lady lea ders of society (one from New York and the other from Boston,) a young lady just returned from Europe) « sub stantial merchant, and a Successful au thor, (Bayard Taylor.”) The company were assembled for the purpose of ma king trial of an “odic” or a sort of Spiritual prescription which had been sent Mr. Willis for the cure of consump tion, under which he is suffering. Af ter the trial, (which Mr. W. declares was followed by favorable results.) the following incidents occurred: “Our talk naturally led to experi ments at table moving; and One of the wooden-legged quadrupeds—an or-m'o lu table of the most steady habits, stand ing in the centre of the drawing-room —began to prance with our Boston friend’s laying her hands lightly upon it, and the next moment, (though she is a large and majestic lady,) knocked her and my little daughter Lillian pro- j strate upon the floor, very nearly up- ! set the Judge, and broke the arm of a j lotus-crowed statue of Melancholy j which was on a stand in the corner*.— i it appeared that Spirits invoked to j heal lungs, may also assault ladies and j children, damage furniture and break J objects of Art—mischievous ‘angels of mercy; to say tlie least. Under the | touch of one of our v isitors, (an inva- | lid lady who could scarcely walk across ; the room',) the tables, one and all, that j evening, seemed particularly ungov- j erliable. Two ot our neighbors who j chanced to come in,—(our venerable friend S. and a stout working farmer) —were obliged to hop out of the way, in the midst of their unbelief, to make room for the possessed mahogany pir- j oueting under the mere touch of her ; slender fingers. No two of the men present could, by holding oh with main strength, stop the one lady’s will pow er thus exercised—the table rising from the floor or gliding away, as if gentle men-wills were the only obstacle. The faces of the scared servants, who' were peeping in at the doors, would have been a study for Fuseli. The very tables they had becs-waxed every day! “ Os course we ‘ believed ’ nothing— any of us. But this was what we saw. “ I may as well add, perhaps that, to my own touch, the ‘possessed’ tables were wholly -insensible —as they were to the touch of all the gentlemen pre sent. The danced only with ladies: [Am Era. The Woman who If aunts Mario —The seat taken for [lie-season under the'name-of Coutfs is filled every ope ra night by that plustcr-of-paris-looking female who has accepted the cogno men. Hitherto it has generally been supposed that she was a manager’s myth—a lady got up for effect by Hackett, and romanced info notoriety at so much per line. This is a mistake. She is an English woman of large for tune—mad as a March hare, no doubt, i and just as desperately in love with the Marquis as a lunatic might,(be ex pected. to be. She brought to this country letters of credit from the Lon don banking house ol Coutts k Cos., to a large amount. She buys largely at Stewart’s, Gcnin’s, and other fashion able stores; [laying for her purchases in fifty-pound letters of credit bearing the signature and water-marks of Coutts j k Cos., and her own endorsement.— j Her real name is ‘Frances Sarah Gyle; j which she affixes in a very sane look- j ing hand to the aforesaid fifty pounds. Every time she visits tlie opera she ar rays herself in anew costume, and, if one may judge from Tier appearance, gives her lace anew coat of whitewash. She is staying at the St. Nicholas, and has with her a very nice looking lady’s maid, who seems quite in despair'at the vagaries of her mistress, whom she is very anxious to get back to Eng land again. Mario has had one inter view with the lair demented since her arrival, but what passed thereat, this deponent, not knowing, cannot say.- — The story about her having followed the handsome (but rather Jew-visaged) 'tenor to St. Petersburg and elsewhere, is all true. One ot these days she will have Grisi iu her hair.—.Y Y. Leader. - y. s Our Printer having complained the other day that his -umbrella had rusted and fallen to pieces in less than three weeks, the tradesman of whom he bought it refused to make him any al lowance, on. the ground that lie must have got i( iost / v< Miss Lucy- Stone. —This celebra ted advocate of woman’s rights, who has been lecturing all over the Union, and is said is about to be married to a wealthy gentleman of Cincinnati. The happy fellow is presumed to boa man ot great nerve, feo Lucy’s piigrarnage is ended, and henceforward it will bc°: Talife your time,, dear Lucy, Aiui mate.tin; coffee strong; Oh, rock tjie cradle. Lyey, And keep the baby warm.— S. Xem. In an error, Major, if we” under hand the ease. Our understanding is that when-one of the strong-minded marries, the offices and duties of moth er fall upon the man, and upon him are devolved all the cooking and ba by doings. Is it not so, Miss Lucy ? ha tort ton ( ( 5/) Jdresr. Dues not our accomplished friend ol the Press know, that it is only, the eapon that takes care of the • young brood, if other aid than the. maternal wing is required ? And certainly he does not suppose an v of the strong mind- and have-,any; fbutiuess for the neu ter gender. We humbly submit that lie wrongs Miss Lucy by his implica tion \-Mont. (A/a.) Mail. A liieatrk in Atlanta.—Among the numerous evidences of improve ment. now going forward in our thriv ing young city we may notice ala roe and commodious brick building, now nearly completed, on Decatur street, the second .story of which is being fit ted up for a theatre. The room will be ninety feet long and fifty wide, with a large and well arranged gal lery on three sides; the whole being sufficiently large to scat upwards of eight .hundred persons: The since, dressing rooms and other arrangements behind the scenes will be ample and convenient. Workmen are already engaged in painting the scenery,- and the theatre is expected to be finished, and open to the public with the perform ances of Mr. and Mrs. W 11. Crisp and their talented corps of actors-about the middle of nex*t month.— AH. intelli gencer. i 1 HE Newspaper.-In promotion of so desirable an object as tin; union of the intellectual with the useful, the nevvs pape.r is ail important auxiliary; It is more. It is typical of the communi ty in which it circulates, and is encour aged. It tells its character, as well as its condition; its tastes ns well ns-its necessities ; the moral as well as phy sical stamina of population and sod; it is the map whereon are traced our ten dencies and destinies-—the chart to di rect the traveler and settler to safe and pleasant harborage, or to divert them irom the shoals and quicksands of soci al degradation. At home, it brings to our firesides; it imparts to our house hold, it impresses on our children, its sentiment of propriety or its tone of contamination. Abroad it is regarded as our Oracle, and speaks; volumes tor or against us: In its business features may be discerned the indications of our prosperity or otherwise,' in a worthy, sense; but in its general complexion will be discovered our moral and spir itual faithfulness or disease. It is . the portraiture of our imperfections, as well as the chronicler of our advancement. [A at. hi teliigenter. A Profound Thought.— l do not know that J. ever suggested to you a fancy which has sometimes come into my head. 1 have/ thought, that bv analyzing a pain, I have becu able to find an-element of pleasure in it. I have thought, too, that by looking a pain fully,.in the face, and compreheiid mg it, i have diminished its intensity; Distinct perception, instead of ag grvating, decreases evil. This I have found when reading accounts of; terrible accidents, which at first made | me shudder. By taking them to | pieces, and conceiving each part dis-’j tiuctly, L Iftive been able to think of them calmly, and to feel that I, too, could pass through them. Sy.apathy increases'by the process, but not‘fear. The sympathy weakens the personal fear; but litis is not the whole expla nation. The soul by resisting- ti e first shudder, and by placing itself near the terrible, by an act-of the will, puts forth energies which reveal it to itself, and make it conscious of something within, mightier than suffering. The power ot distinct knowledge, in giving Courage, 1 have never seen insisted on, and 5 yet it is a part of my experience. The unknown, the vague, the dark, j what imagination invest with infinity— this, terrifies; and the remark applies not to physical.'evil alone, but to all others. —Vh gun ihg. lIKAitT—A rare article., sometimes, found in human beings, It is soou, however, .destroyed by commerce with the /world, or else becomes fatal, to its possessor. Our junior--partnor returned a pair of trqwsers to his tailor last week, be cause they were too small in the legs. “But you tiff'd me to make them as light’ as your skip,” said the tailor. UTruc,’j: rejoined our colleague, d0r...1 can sp down in niy skin, luitjril be split if I can in thosq breeches!'’Theitaffor cove in. ' ; A Miner,Ho iff. [from the cotton planter.l [No. 3.] Gov. Broom sir: Immedia -tely on ascertaining tlie result of my .first extensive experiment in manur ing and spacing cotton, I communica ted the facts to the “ Albany CfiTliva tor,,’ an agricultural paper that had, at that time, quite a- large circulation, in the cotton-growing States. My object as expressed at the time, was to have these experiments tested in various sections of the cotton-growing region. I gav the details carefully and min utely. I saw all the difficulties, and feared tlie ron/h in the hands of gen tlemen less interested than myself.— I The great principle of the improve ment was a fixed fact, The extraor dinary yield of cotton, the small area of land, naturally very poor, occupied m its production, and th Q home means employed, were facts too. striking, and of too much importance, to lie overlooked or slightly regarded by me. As I have stated previously, it mat tered not in a “first, crude experi ment,” what amount of personal trou ble it gave me to so adjust and ar range these home means to produce such extraordinary results. The great est diliicu’lty connected with this ex periment, was the trouble in getting a stand, next to an impossibility. L had never seen manure applied to crops in any other: way than in the hill, which succeeded finely with- corn, but with cotton it is entirely different. Whore the manure applied in thc-hills for cotton is worth the labor of ap plication, arid enough is used to pro duce a decided benefit, one half the ! hills at the. least,.will either- fail to come up or die immediately aft or coming up. This is an inherent dif ftieulty in the plant itse!tj from its tnody of germination, which Ia seer tamed dining the three succeeding years that 1 devoted to .the subject for the express purpose of overcoming this main difficulty. The cotton” seed, in the process’ of germi i ration, attracts from the surrounding soil, and from' the .atmosphere, an unusual amount of wa ter, as compared with other seed un dergoing this process. Any artificial condition of the soil, which 'concentra tes imriiediately about the cotton seed at this time an undue quantity of al kaline, gaseous matter causes': the fluid, contained in the tender, re ticulated, or mesh-like incipient vege table fibre, to' undergo a species of fermentation, which of course: destroys the, vitality of the young plant. The plant is subject to this influence where a remunerative quantity of good ma nure, either compost, guano, or chemi cals of any kind, has been used in the hill, even after having put out the third and fourth leaves. AYhother philosophically explained or not, the discovery of. tire -fact cost me three years of the closest investi gation. The tap root of* the cotton plantdoes not make its way into the soil a perfectly organized root; the. sprout which is the root leaving tire seed at the small end, t dips directly down ward, w here it .coirimences. ppur ing out a semi-fluid substance, which is attracted downward partly by gravi tation, and partly, perhaps, by electri city. This substance, like a' small streak of smoke, is remarkably fragile, constantly and rapidily descending.— It is the .riiould iri which the tap root is formed. Any persons who will take the trouble, can assertain this fact for himself. Thus it is easy to understand how it- is, that an imnatu-J ral alkalization of the soil in the im-J mediate vicinity of such condition oil vegetable existence, should affect itsJ vitality. At the end of the third year, I dip termined upon anew mode of appli\ cation entirely, which consisted in spreading all the manure used broad cast. This was done' by*'hauling the manure out on the lain! arid depositing it in heap rows, say thirty fegt apart, and the heaps 30 feet apart imthe rows,) with 10 bushels of mauure ,in each heap. The cotton-rows being first laid,- the manure was spread ..broad-oast; and the land bedded up. ()n or about the 10lit of April, the eott planted after a spacer, by .which the •hill's are regulated precisely as desired, | TERMS, $2,00 A YEAR; NUMBER 29. The result was a perfect stand, with the cotton healthy, and all of the same age. There is no difficulty in under standing the ciifference here in favor of broad-casting the manure, and in bed wng out the rows. It is not deposited, a hall-gallon in a place, but is incorpo rated evenly .and uniformly through! out all the soil. Theconseq.uon.ce is, that however rich the manure may be in alkaline matter, its thorough ia corjiora!io'i'i with the soil, so quickly and effectively dilutes it, as to render it entirely innoxious to young cotton.— J here was no part of the experiment which gave mo so much satisfaction as tids. la very planter knowsthe value of a first, uniform and perfect stand. I use tue term perfect, because by the use of of the spacer, I approximate nearer , a perfect stand than it is possible to ac complish by any other process. from the interest and close atten tion bestowed upon this subject in all its various relations, the season had not expired before 1 clearly saw—as 1 then thought, and as subsequent ex periment has and still is demonswat ing—a grand system of plantation econ omy, destined to revolutionize entirely the petty land-wasting custom of the country. You nor I, my very dear sir, may never live to see the day when that very last man shall cejfse to lay las cotton-rows up one hill and down the other, thus draining off the vitali ty of his land every three to three and a half feet, to the depth of his puny plow, or to waste the sure means of keeping up the futility of the fields, by feeding bis stock in the public road, cron the branch-side; but will the of science and experience before nmvk dom clearly points out the 6‘ourse which it is our duty to pumue while iwe do live, from a three-fijll binding eon;: .deration : first our in terest, then the true , interest of our country, and, lastlyJpe.obligation we are under to the true interest of our children, to use dingenth’ every means in our power, to inform ourselves and the public njliid as to the most economical rnoddpof plantation econo my. I have uq, jpitienoc with the inac ; rive', inoperatjvtffiriendship for agficul | turn! improvei|ln!s, of those clever gentlemen will tell me continually, j Sir, your Jyisteißs_ are beautiful, your manure, *,dnd manure making, with ■your glade ditching and horizontaling and yojr rotatiofs, &c., &c., are con ditionsmet tally essential to the improve ment <>f our agriculture, but! say they, likeyvlfy other country, tki s beauti ful forgst must be felled by the ruth less haudyof Mr. Carenot; all this mai den and fertile soil must first be ex hausted aid washed into the branches, gur linginfaire an dlimped water from the hands ofnature, and the fields dc ■ laced by gullies aml_ poverty grass,— and not till give in to a complete and porpet system of improvc l'uent. ; • I beg to be Mistkietly 5 understood here, as ailudinMo the great principles of improvcmentmnd not to any indi vidual. practice jfndcr it. In my own ■practice and system of rotation, which ; I have.had ii| successful operation here at La Place knee 184-6,1 am not im movably conftlent that I have hit up on that arrangWjemt under the princi ple; tliatjs the best re sult. So.igpgiWe am I, however, that it is- wojpProf general adoption in its main knurcs, that 1 feel no hesitation in:coj|iteifding it to the consideration us tlipe planters who have determin ed JB begin the good work of irnprove mmi. Asa matter of course, the cir opnstances of locality will, to some pbre or less extent, modify the prac but the principle remains the psune. Having thus disposed of the experi- Linents, I shall, in several subsequent ■lumbers, treat the subject as a matur ed system of plantation economy, show png, as I think, and, as my practice "clearly proves, the eminent advantage off a proper rotation, eveir in' cotton . In doing this, I shall res pond .to your various inquiries of stock, and mapurc making, kc. as in place. 1 Du. Cloud, A ’ ——r — - A brother us that when he was in prison fb J|bliing a justice of the ; p'eaec, he by the 10 s;v ■■ A lieutenant’s widow writes ta.com is lejrlN^nan^
