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-Editor and Publislier.
VOLUME 1
CHARLOTTE, N. C., OCTOBER 26, 1841.
S NUMBER 33.
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DR. C. J. FOX
Has just received a large and general assortment of
MEDICINES,
acuiie. 3»ai»««i, 9lls.
Dye-StidVs, PcrAiinerv, Tliompsoiiiaii
Medicines, Wines and Spirits for
medical use,
And a variety of other articlets, all of wliich he
warrants rjenuine, and Avill sell low for catth.
Charlotte, April 27, ISiO. 8....P
Bv. S. ©aWVDtll
RESPECTFULLY intbrnis those who
may feel interested, that ho has resinnetl
the practice of his Profession. He ex
pects to make arrangements which will
enable him to attend to the practice of Medicine ex-
clvisively. [Svigar Creek, Oct. 5, IS 11.
TO THE
Fashionable Public.
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THE CHARLOTTE
Female At'adeiiiv
n.L hf ro-openotl on
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I'liisr CLAs.-.
Iacl’ulin£r th*'' studies of the seei'iid, with'»
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ii’V. C'livmis-
THE Snbscriber.s respoci-
llilly tender their thanks to the
citizens of Charlotte, and the
public generally, tor the libe
ral patronage they have rec«‘i-
ved since they commenced the
Tailunng Business
in this place. From past ex
perience, thej’’ now have no
hesitation in saying that they
are prej>arcd to give general
satisfiction to all wlio may tavor them with their
patronage. All work done in their establishment
will be WARRANTED, SO tar as nmking and cutting is
concerned. Thev have just received their
FALL & WINTER FASHIONS
0ILi®(SS i^STIS)
REPAIRING.
STILL continues to repair Clocks and Walche.t in
the very best manner, if requested by the own
er to do so. He is w’ell supplied with all kinds of
materials. His Shop is in the Jewellery Store of S,
P. Alexander, situated South from the Courthouse,
between the “ Mansion Hovise ” and the Charlotte
Hotel.” it will be his earnest desire to do w’ork
faithfully, so as to merit encouragement.
ECr* His price shall be as moderate as possible
for CASH. [Cliarlotte, July G, 1841...l\v
Caution.
I HEREBY Caution all persons against trading
tor a note of hand, rLveji b^c myyelf to Timothy
li. Hugh cs, (Joseph RtqJ \vitn6ss,) for fifty dollars.
Said note is dated in Ociober, 1840, and made pay
able twelve months after date; and as Hughes has
not fullilled the contract for which it was given, I do
not intend to pay it, unless compelled by law,
JAMES WALKER.
Mecklenburg Co., Oct. 19, 1841. 32...F
“With SciH.soH.s sharp and Razor keen,
ril dress your hair and shave you clean.”
llllOliaparte, the Barber,
RESPECTFULLY informs his customers,
I renwved his establishment to the
east end of Col Alexander’s Long Row, a
few' doors east of the Courthouse, where he will be
pleaseil to see them at all times. He protesses to be
master of the Tonsorial Art,” and will spare no ef
fort to atfonlre enti satisfaction. Charges moderate,
to suit the times. [Charlotte, March 9, 1841.
WILLL\M HUNTER would inform his custo
mers and the public generally, that he still
continues the BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS at his
old stand, a few doors south-east of the Branch Mint
He will be hapny to receive orders in his line, and
pledges liimselt to spare no pains to give complete
satisfaction.
Orders left; at his Shop, or at the Office of the
•• Mecklenburg Jeffersonian,will receive immediate
attention. [Charlotte, March 5, 1841.
manure : but that afler his cattle had remained tvco
nights in a pen, hauled in a rich, clayey soil, from a
large swamp near him, and scattered this over the
pen, and the cattle ivas penned on this the third
flight, which was, of course, turned under too. He
thus not only enriched his land, but produced a per-
manent change in the physical structure of the soil.
We regret that we are not at liberty to use the
gentleman’s name, as the authority for the advanta
ges of this system, for he would be recognized by
many of our readers as a successful planter. And
in connection w'ith his success in planting, he remark
ed, it Vi owing icholhj to planting short to the hand, so
as to afford me an opportunity to manure highly.
From Elliott’a Husbandry, 1717.
FATTENING SWINE.
From the Western Farmer and Gardener.
PLAN TO REMOVE STUMPS.
Mr. Editor: Although I am not myself a practi
cal farmer, yet I love to see all the operations on a
farm carried on with neatness and economy. I own
a small farm of two hundred acres in Ciiampaign
county; and when I purchased it, the fields w'ere
greatly disfigured and encumbered with dead trees
standing, and with stumps. I wish that I might
have the pleasure of your company over the farm,
or indeed at the house (for every field can be seen
from the door) to show you the excellent condition
■which it is now in. There is scarce a stump or
bush to be seen, except some handsome shade trees
purposely left for sheltering the cattle in the heat of
summer.
The removal of these stumps has been accom-
iind v. ill continue to receiv.* regular report:; of I-'n-1
glir^h and Frcneli Farfhious.
Their Shop vrill be found iu the .south-east wiiij
of Mr. Leroy Springs’ brick building.
liETHUNE JOHNSON.
Charlotte, April 2c, ISIO. 7....y
I find by experience the best time to fatten swine | plished by a very simple and economical process,
which I w”ill attempt to describe, in the hope that it
may be beneficial to those who have theit lands en
cumbered with trees and stumps. Procure a dry
red-elm lever, about twenty feet long, and about 6
or 8 inches in diameter—a good stout log chain,
with two yoke of oxen; this is all the machinery^
that is necessary. The mode of operation is thus ;
wrap the log chain around the stump a little above
the ground, and make what is called a log-hitch;
lay the lever horizontally on tlie ground the large
end next to the chain and against the stumps make
the other end of the chain fast to this end of the lever,
drawing the lever tight against the stump; the cat
tle are hitched to the small end of the lever, and
driven round the stump in a circle, of which the le
ver is the radius. One revolution of the oxen around
the stump will generally twist out the largest of
them; but should not the power thus applied be suf
ficient to move the stump, the side roots may be un
covered and cut partly ofi; after this is done, the
stump w’ill be easily removed. You will find this
plan much preferable to any “patent stump extrac
tor” that you may have seen pufled in the papers.
D. L.
Administrator’s Sale.
J
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'i'].’’ l 'rc:;eh L..:i jm:! [-•»• s.'sr:
J >;a'.vi-iL’’ J’.’; I {Kiiiiiing i;i water Cwloi
Oriental TeiiitiiiL’’. pt'f eo’ir.se. . .
Wax Fruit or Flower.;. d-». .
Embrnidery in Silk and Chenille,
Lain]i Mat.=, Uttoinaris. »S:.e. vVi-. .
>. i;.:T ,>e.^s;on.
. ... 10
b', per sess. 10
. . . .. I'J
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Worsted ^ -
French Sachets. Scrc. n.', and Work l)a.skcts, / -
per coursi', y
1>. \Vi: 1IUT(TI1S0N.
I'riiicipaK
‘harloltt*, 11, ISn. U7...T
Having taken out Special Letter.^ of Admin
istration on the Estate of the late Jane T. Mat
thew.', the undersigned will proceed to sell, at the
late residence of said deceaseil, in Providence Set
tlement, on the 2nd of Xovembcr next, the tbllowing
property, to v.'it:
A G It-I CULTURE
ENGLISH
Stijool.
e. s. SKY
lIJi open a Srliodl in ilic inuncdiate viein’ily
of tiie Catawba Springs, l^iiicoln County, on
Monday the 20i!i in.staiit. The Stuilics will embrace
(ill the braiic]i‘.s re|uisitc to (|'jaliiy students for en
tering College.
TEllMS OF TUITION:
KngU.-ih KlnmenL"' and Arithmttic jor ten nios
KiUire JJn^li.ih Department,
Claffdical and Mathematical do.,
^tcnographij. to auij StudeM dtsirin^ it, gi'dti.s
no admiiision for less titan half ti f'^efision [two and
a half months) ej'Crpt on special agreement.
The reputation of Mr. Nkv a.s an instructor ot
youth, i.s so well known iu Western North Carolina,
as to require no coinrneudati!'ii. As to his capacity
and unv.’earied attention to thf advancement ol his
]'Upils, reference may be made to most ol the lead-
ng men of the adjoining counties.
Students can obtain ViourdLng at the Cutuw'ba
Springs, (Thos. Hauiptou'.';) on reasonable terms-i—
the distance from the Springs to the Se.iiool being
oidy one mile.
Catawba Springs, Se])f. li>, 1511.
HORSES, CATTLE,
And Hopfs ; Farming Utensils of every
description; two Road Wagons and
(bearing; one t\vo-horse Barouche and
Harness ; a quantity of COTTON in
seed ; a quantity oi' CORN, heat.
Rye, and Oats ; Hay and Fodder ; a
Cotton-Gin, with the running-works;
Household and Kitchen Furniture,
With various other articles not herein mentioned.—
'I’erms liberal, and inatle known at the sale.
WM. M. MATTHEWS, Admr.
Mecklenburg Co., Oct. 8, 1811.
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But
N. I>. All persons having claims [igainst the Es
tate of the late Jane T. Matthews, dec.'d, are here
by rexuired to present them for payment! within
the lime prescribed by law, properly authenticated,
or this notice will be pletid in bar ot’ their recovery.
And all those indebted to the same are requested 10
make seiilement without delay.
WM. M. MATTHEWS, Admr.
October 1:?, 1841. :n...ts
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MZWJ£
RESPECTFULLY informs the cit
izens ofCharlotte and the public gene-
n- V rallv. that he has opened a shop in the
town of Charlott«\ nearly opposite the
“Carolina Inn,*’ where he will be glad to receive
work in his line of business. Clocks, Watches, &c.,
will be repaired in the most substantial manner, at
short notice, on moderate terms, and warranted to
perlbrm well. A portion of public patronage is
respectfully solicited.
Charlotte, June 1, ISll. 13...F
COACH MAKING.
THE Subscribers having entered in
to copartners]lip, will carry on the above
business in all its various branches, at
the old stand formerly owned by Air.
Carter Crittenden, opposite the Jail.
All work WARRANTED ;—and Re
pairing done at the siiortest notice, lor moderate
charges.
CHARLES ()VERMAN,
JOSHUA TROITER.
Charlotte. Jiicc l-\ IS 11. I’-in
virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me
by James Iv. Alexander, 1 will proceed to sell,
for the purposes therein mentioned, on Friday, the
5th day of November next, the
Plantation, whereon said Alexander
novr lives, containing olG Acres.
The said plantation is six miles South of Charlotte,
near the Camden road. There is a large and good
and other buildings on the premisas, a W E L L of
excellent water in the yard, a good quantity of mea
dow, and timber plenty, and the situation is remar-
kaljle for good health.
ALSO;
THE STOCK OF
1 Horses, Cattle 4’’ Hogs,
and other articles. Terms made know’n on the day
of sale. SAMUEL W. NEEL, Trustee.
October 8, 1841. 32...3t
FARMERS rer^itiJrJ’LANTERS.
With the best agricultural writers, a farmer is a
man who grows grain, grass, roots, stock, &c., suffi
cient generally tor the support of his I'amily, and to
have something to spare. A planter, on the contra
ry, is one who grows cotton, tobacco and rice, and
purchases most his family consumes. Now it is fash
ionable for most people to have their preferences
even in the name of the profession, and so have we.
There may be some prejudice in our composition;
but from childhood the name farmer has at once
suggested the industrious, modest gentleman, who
made grain, roots, and provender, and devoted a
happy life in attending his stock, his family, and in
troducing and practising various rural improve
ments. The name planter, on the contrary, has al
ways suggested the purse-proud, stiff-necked, pom
pous cotton and tobacco grower. We admit, many
planter.^, so called, are modest, polite and highly ac
complished gentlemen, but our readers will excuse
us when we say, for several years past, it has been
the practice of a strolling class ot southerners to
spend their summers in this and oth er more northern
Stales, under the name of for what
purpose ? In some instances to put on the air of
wealth, in order to marry some of our ladies af lor-
tune, or tor some other corrupt purpose. F rom these
and other cosiderations, the term planter, to many,
designates a suspicious character. We therefore
ask our friends who grow tobacco, cotton, sugar and
rice, if the name of farmer would not be as accept
able to them as planter. The man who puts corn,
peas, and potatoes into the ground, with the expect
ation of gathering a crop, is strictly a planter as
any other, and we do not see why others should mo-
jiopoli/.e the name, or indeed take it at all. What
do our southern friends think ot these desultory no
tions '?—Agriculturist.
From the South Carolina Tempcrancc Advocate.
manure.
A friend of ours, w'ho deservedly holds a highraniv
as a practical Planter, in all its various details, gave
us, in conversation, the pian he pursues in manuiing
his land. He owns about a hundred and fitly head
of cattle, all of which are driven home in the eve
ning and penned. His cow pen is hall an acre in
size. He pens his caltlo in one place, three nights,
and then moves it forward, so as to cover hall an
acre more, and a plough follows immediately, and
turns under the manure, on the halt acre just occu
pied, so that nothing is lost by evaporation, xle
continues this throughout the year, at the end of
which, he has about a hundred and twenty acres
is to begin at the first of August, if you have old
corn. Hogs w’ill fat slowly in very cold weather:
they will eat much and fatten but little: if you
make a very warm house, they heat in bed and
catch cold when they come out into the cold air.
To save corn, sleep it in water or swill till ihe
corn grows very soft; this opens the parts: give
them the corn 'to eat and the w’ater to drink in which
the corn has been steeped: the liard dry corn, a
great deal of it, passeth through them undigested ;
this is the hardest part of the corn and that which
principally makes the flour. There is a tradition
that if you feed one hog w’ith corn, the dung of the
first w’ill fat another hog, and this dung a third.—
Although I believe this story to be fabulous, yet it
serves to show that the sense of mankind is, that in
the manner we feed swine, there Is a great deal of
loss..
I took the hint of steeping corn, from the advan
tage I once found by some corn I bought that had
been shipwrecked, and lain in the water till it was
grown solt.
Such is the difference in corn and in swine, that
it is impossible to fix it absolutely and know certain
ly how much there is saved by this method. It is
better than grinding, besides what we save in the
toll and the time and charge of the carriage ; for it
is lound by experience, that even bran, when steep
ed in water a long time, is much the better.
I asked an honest, judiciou.s neighbor of mine,
who had leisure to try this method of steeping corn
longer and with more exactness than I had
done, how much he thought was saved by it ? He
said, at bast one bushel in seven—he believed more.
Since the foregoing was written, a person of
good credit informed me that there being in his
neighborhood a dealer in horses, who was famous
for skill in making horses fat in a short time ; he de
sired the jockey to tell him how he did it: the se
cret was, to mix Indian corn and oats together and
soak it in water till it was soft; that in cold weather
he steeped it in a cellar, that it might be kept from
freezing.
My intbrmant told me, he had made trial of it
and found it did well, giving it to his horse in the
same proportion as he was wont to do of dry pro
vender.
Taken Up,
And committed to the Jail of this county, on the
27th of September last, a Negro man, about 20
years of age, round full face, smooth forehead, thick
iips, and flat nose, five feel 7 or 8 inches high, w*ith
a scar on the fore finger of the left hand, made, he
savs, by a cutting knife. The owner is requested tc
come forward, prove property, pay charges, and
take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law
T. N. ALEXANDER, Shenfl.
PRESERVING BEES IN WINTER.
The following extract from an old work on the
subject of raising and preserving Bees, may prove
beneficial to some of our readers who have a num
ber of those useful animals, and find it troublesome
to preserve them through Ihe cold season.
“ If they are left in their summer place, fronting
the sun, every bright day, even in December, tempts
many out. They find nothing, are of course more
hungry, and eat more on their return. Many of
them never get back j when they get out of the
warm sun into the cold wind, they fall stiff and die.
You may have seen hundreds lying on the ground
about your hive; if you pick them up. and warm
them in your hand, they A'ill come to. This shows
that they die of cold, not of sickness.
“ The best place to put bees in, is a dnj cold and
dark room or out-house, if you have it. (The colder
the winter, the better, if the air is dry. Damp cold
gives them the rot, as it does corn.) Put your bees
there the last w*eek of November, and let them sleep
quietly till the floowers begin to come out at the end
of February. Put the bottom board slanting, that
all the wet may run out at the door; or still better,
hang them up in a coarse cloth; this will let in air
and'catch the water. Weigh them before you put
them away and when you bring them out, and you
will find them much stronger, as wxll as heavier
than any you leave on their summer stands. Again,
I say, try it, even if you do not believe me. If you
have no such room or out-house, at least keep the
sun away from them, or put them on the north side
of your house, if the place is dry. Bees have lived
very well when buried; but this I would not advise
you to try. In Switzerland, a whole village clubs
together, and hires a cold dry room which they dar
ken, and put all their bees in. ’
directs.
Mecklenburg Coanly, N
C. Oct. 19. IP 11.
well maimred, and the manure all well turned un
der, so that he has lost none
The trouble of moving such a small pen so olten,
he thinks is less than it would be to wagon out the
same amount of manure, and scatter it; and then by
his system, he saves a vast amount that would be
lost by evaporation, if permitted to lie^ long
heap.
But he gains, too, in another important particular.
This secures for his cattle greater attention than
is ordinarily bestowed on stock, ana prevents his lo
sing a large number..
We asked if he did not haul straw and leaves to
; his pensi H» remarked that his land was alight,
1 eundv, Tioroes^oil, that vrculd not bear this kind ot
PREPARATION OF SEED WHEAT
Our young farmers who wish to raise wheat, are
reminded that they should carefully prepare the
seed before sowing, or they will b e in danger of hav
ing a smutty harves t. Neither rye, oats nor barley,
need any preparation; but w’heat is certain to e
smutty if sown several years successively without
cleasning the the seed. A convenient mode ot wash-
in n- it is to turn half a bushel of seed at a time, into
a tub nearly full of water, stir up the water smartly,
with a stick, and when it becomes foul turn it off, ta-
kin«»- care not to let the wheat run out; wash it then
in s'everal waters, and as long as the wheat will turn
the water foul; then turn the wheat in a basket for
a minute to drain off the water. It may now be
spread on the barn floor, or be put in a lime cask
v\ith fresh slacked lime, enough to give every kernel
a coating ; it should be well stirred up w^ith the lime
and it ought to remain in the heap at least twelve
hours before sowing, that all the smut may be de
stroyed.—Boston. Cultivator.
Preparation for Corn.—If you have a field that
you design for Corn next spring that is not in as
good tilth as you could wish, and have not manure
enough to spare to give it a good broad cast dres
sing, plough it up forthwith, sow it in JRye, at tho
rate of six pecks to the acre. In tlie spring, delay
ploughing as long as you can, to give the Rye a
chance of growing, then turn it under well, harrow
lengthwise and roll, then lay off your fields, and
plant your corn, giving to each hill half a shovelful
of manure, and a slight handful of plaster, or plas
ter and ashes. Then let the culture, afler the first
working, be altogether with the cidtivator, and un
less the season should conspire against you, you
may expect, and certainly will receive, a good crop
of corn.
FARMERS, CUT YOUR FODDER.
Messrs. Editors Cultivator : As the great mass
of farmers in this vicinity appear to be ignorant of
the advantage of making use of cut feed for their
stock, I will give you the outline of my experiment
this season, hoping that it w’ill be the means of in
ducing many others to make a trial. It was some
time in February last, that I procured an improved
straw cutter, (Gibson’s Patent) and having a quan
tity of rye straw, and knowing I should be short of
hay, I concluded by making the best use I could
with my straw, I could with little labor make a sa
ving equal to a ton of hay, w'orth .'^15; and thus
save more than one half the expense of the machine
this season. But the result is much more favorable,
for in addition to my rye straw, I had about three
tons of coarse fodder, consisting of different propor
tions of swamp hay, rye, wheat, buckwheat, and
pea straw, to this mixed mass I added as I cut it,
about one-fourth part hay. I fed this to my cattle,
(15 in number.) just as it came Trom the machine ;
they fed on it with a good relish, appeared satisfied,
and rather improved in condition. Instead, there
fore, of saving only half the expense of my ma
chine, I have saved more than the first cost, (jj^^O,)
and had I obtained one last fall, it would have saved
more that ^50.
I verily believe that one-third more stock might
be kept on farms generally by our would be econo
mical farmers turning to good account all their
coarse fodder. By obtainining a good machine. I
have saved three tons of good fodder which other
wise w’ould scarcely have been woith three hundred
of good hay.
To my team of horses, one span, I give 20 quarts
ground oats with as much cut straw as they will eat;
they prefer this feed to clear oats, and are in first
raj^ working order. The length I cut my straw, &c.,
is three fourths of an inch, although I see no objec
tions for cutting it longer for cattle. Brother far
mers, are not these things worthy your attention?
Purchase some good machine; every farmer ought
to have one.
RICHARD FISK.
Bennington^ Vt., May 15,1841.
Driving nails into hard wood.—We have lately
seen another experiment ot driving nails into hard
seasoned timber fairly tried. The first two nails, af
ter passing through a pine board, entered about one
inch, and then doubled down under the hammer; but,
on dipping the points of the other six or eight naik)
into lard, every one was driven home without the
least difficulty.
Carpenters who are engaged in repairing old
buildings sometimes carry a small lump of !ard or
tallow for this purpose on one of their boots or
shoes.—iVcu? Genesee Farmer.
LIFE.
This life, what is it ? say--
A peevish April day;
A little sun, a little rain,
And then night swe^s along the plain>
fac
And all ihitigs fade away.