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\ NUMBER 39.
YORKVILLE
Female Seminary,
(Yorkville, S. C.)
The Trusfeesofthe YORKVILLE FEMALE
SEMINARY, having engaged the services of
Instructors in whom they place entire confidenccj
their School will be opened on Monday, the 22nd in-
istunt.
The Trustees think they have just cause to rc-
coramend this institution as an eligible place for tiie
education ol children. The Village is noted for its
Jiealthfulness, and lor the high moral and religious
tone that pervades the community. The course of
studies to bti pursued is as extensive as is taught in
any snnilar institution. The discipline will be firm,
yet tempered with kindness; and the aim of the In
structors to make thorough and accomplished scho
lars, and to instil into the minds of the pupils, moral
and religious i)rinciple.
TERMS or TLITIOX, Pei Session:
In Spelling, Heading, and Writing,
The above, 2cith Knglifih CHrammar, Geo-
P C) E T R Y
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Weekly Aliiiaiiac lor December, 1841.
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■ ‘.i Kridny,
H .Saturday,
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19 31.
CHAHLUTTE
Female Academ>
graphij, and Arithmetic,
The same, 'iriih any of the folloicing: Na
tural Philosojthy, Chemistry, Astronu-
liiy, Geology, JJotajty, Xatural History,
Alental and Aloral Philosophy, Ijogic,
Hhetoric, the Evidences of Christianity,
Algebra, Geometry and the highe>' Ma
thematics, and the Latin and Greek
Languages,
Prench Language,
Music on the Piano,
I 'se of Piano,
Draicing and Painting.
Theorem and Mezzotinto, Jfa.r W'oik,
Shell M ’ork, Ornamental Xeedlc-^^ork,
each,
INSTRUCTORS:
Ihv. FEPDIXAXI) JACOns, A. M., Principal.
Miss ELIZABETH J. TP OTT .
Miss POZAXXA jr. G. TROTT, ^
Entrance money, One Dollar per Session.
1 BOARDING, including Fuel, Lights, and
1 Washing, can be obtained in respectable lamilies at
‘>0 00
10 00
20 00
00
S 00
G 00
\T.:'ILL le re-opened on (Irom S? to ^'lO per month.
» T the 1st dav of Octo- *
S S 50
the
b;"r next. Fupii.^ c an be ac
commodated with board-, ci-
tlur in resncetable tamilies
ill the viliugo. or in the Aca-
tleniy with the Teachcrs. at
SO 1)0r month.
Terms of Tuition per Session.
THIRD CLA.-^S.
Reading, Spelling, wiiii the Elements }
ofOeography and Arithmetic, ^
SEf'O.M) CLASS.
Rf'atling. ritiiig. English Granminr. ')
Emerson’s second jjiirt .Iriiluiietiv; and > .'^10 50
Oiii- y’s (-Jeogr.i’jiiy, >
FlilST CLASS.
Including the studies oftlie second, with'j
larger systems of Arithmetic and Gcu- •
graphy. Algebra, Composition, Bota- 1
ny. History—Xatural, Moral and Men- r ^IG 50
tal Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemis- |
try, Rhcioric. Ac.. &;c. J
KXTIM rmxciiE.^.
Instruction in ?»Iusic on the Pinno. per Session. §.'25
4^110 Ereuch Laiiuuiigt [xt sessiDii 10
Drawing and painting in water color.^ per sess. 10
 ii u'i't.il Teinti:lL^ pi'i* course, 10
'•\’ax i‘‘ruit or Elower.s. do (j
Yorkvillf, S. C
WILLIAM MOORE,
JOII.X S. MOORE.
A. S. KUTCHISOiX,
.lOHX A. ALSTON,
W. P. THOMASSON,
i. D. WITHERoPOON.
THOMAS WARREN,
S. SADLER,
MINOR SADLER,
M. G. SIMRIL, '
E. A. CRENSHAW,
F. II. SlMRIl..
II. F. ADICKES,
.1 I). GOORE,
W. P. McFADDEN,
Nov. IS. isJi
LINES
A LADy TO HEn SON WITH A PRTSENT OF A BIBLK.
Rimember, love, >v ho gave thee this,
^Vllen other days shall come;
AV hen siie who had thy earliest kiss
Sleeps in her narrow home.
Kemember, ’twas a mother gave
The gift to one she’d die to save.
That mother sought a jHedge of love
The holiest for her son;
And from the gifts of God above.
She chose a goodly one ;
She chose for her beloved boy
The source of light, and life, and joy ;
And bade him keep the gift, that when
The parting hour should come.
They might have hope to meet again
In an eternal home!
She said, his faith m that would be
Sweet incen.^e to her memory.
And should the scoflor, in his pride,
Lauixh that lond ! ;uh to scorn ;
And bid him cast thei)Iedge aside
That h*^ from yoi ’h had borne;
She bade hun pause, and ask his breast,
If //e, or SHE, had loved him best!
A parent’s ble.^sing on her son.
Goes wiih this h. jy thing;
Tlie love that wbuM retain the one
Must to the olhtr /‘ling ;
Remember! ’tis no id!.; toy,
A Mother’s G}r^—/^emember, boy!
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A O It I C r h T I' K K
New Cash Store.
L
!itv in Silk and r'lK^iilli
Worsted } -
j) Mats, ( Mio:;uiiiS, iv r. tS (• \
i-rencli Saci;c!s, Scrct ns, and \V'«irk Eiisketsj f -
I'cr course, ^ ^
S. D. NYE HUTCHISON.
Principal.
Cliarlotte, Se])t. 11, ISil. 27...t
ENGLISH
^H?i eis0sttal ScJjool.
CHARLES E. MOSS & CO.
AP.r: NOW nixLiviNo and or*n.\iNG a
Splendid A'iHuftmait cf
W
P. S. NKY
ILL 0})cn a School in the immediate vicinitv
V T ot the Catawba Springs, Lincoln County, on
^Monday the 20tli iustniit. The Studies will embrace
all the branches requisite to qualify students for en
tering College.
TERMS OF TUITION:
E^nqli.'h Elements and Arithmetic for ten mos. SIO
Eniirt Emrli.-h Drpaiiment. 15
Classical and Mathematical do., 22
Stenography, to any Sliulc.nt dtsiring it, gratis. But
no admission for less than half a Session (tico and
a halj }jumths) except on special agreement.
1 he reputation of Mr. Ney as an instructor ot
youth, is so well known in Western North Carolina,
as to require no commendation. As to his capacity
■ind unwearied attention to the advancement of his
lupils, reference tiiay be made to most of the lead-
men of the adjoining counties.
*'tiiden1s can obtain boarding at the Catawba
Spf/igs, (Thos. Hampton’s) on reasonable terms—
ihe stance from the Springs to the School beintr
only'one mile. °
Ca\awba Springs, Sept. 16, ISH.
In the Brick Store formerly occupied by Samuel A
Harris. Tlieir Goods were purchased in New-York
atid Philadelphia for CASH ENTIRELY, by one
of the firm. They Hatter themselves that tiieir
Stock will be found cheaper than any ever ottered
for sale in this place. As they intend to lo an ex
clusive CASH BUSINESS, they hope that none
will expect to purchase on tic.
Charlotte, November 2, 1841. 33...f
Taken Up,
ND committed to the Jail of this county, on the
27th of September last, a Negro man, about 20
year^: of age, round full face, smooth forehead, thick
lips, and flat nose, five feet 7 or 8 inches high, with
a scar on the fore fmrer of the left hand, made, he
says, by a cutting knife. The owner is requested to
come forward, prove proporty, pay charges, and
take him awav, or he will be dealt with as the law
directs. * T. N. ALEXANDER, Sherifl'.
Charlotte, N. C., Oct. 19, 1841. 32...F
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23001^
ILLIAM HUNTER would kiforrn his custo-
mers and the public generally, that he still
conlmues the BOOK-BINDING BUSINESS at his
md «taud, a few' doors south-east of the Branch Mint
He will be happy to receive orders in his line, and
pledgee lumsell to spare no pains to give complete
Hatistuction. j. ^ if
^ ^ Orders left at his Shop, or at the Office of the
* lecklenburg Jeuersonian,’^ will receive immediate
attention. [Charlotte, March 5, 1841.
\otes of Hand and Land Deeds ; also
Clerks’ and Slierills’ Blanks,
tor Male at Ofiiee.
PROPOSALS will be received by the Board of
Wardens of the Poor for Mecklenburg County,
until the 20th of December next, for a STEWARD
to take charge of the Poor Hou.=;c for the term of
one year from the 1st of January, 1842. Persons
desirous of the situation, will address their bids to
the subscriber through the Charlotte Post-Oflice, en
dorsed, “Proposals for Steward of the Poor House.”
On the 20th December the Board will meet and
make the election.
BENJ. MORROW’, Chairman.
Charlotte, Nov. 16, 1841. 36...5
Charlotte Journal will copy.
COACH MAKING.
THE Subscribers having entered in
to copartnership, will carry on the above
business in all its various branches, at
the old stand formerly owned by Mr.
Carter Crittenden, opposite the Jail.
All work WARRANTED and Re
pairing done at the shortest notice, for moderate
charges.
CHARLES OVERMAN,
JOSHUA TROTTER.
Charlotte, June 15, 1841. 12m
“With Scissors sharp and Razor keen,
ril dress your hair and shave you clean.”
Buonaparte, the Barber,
RESPECTFULLY informs his customers,
that he has removed his establishment to the
east end of Col Alexander’s Long Roav, a
few doors east of the Courthouse, w’here he will be
pleased to see them at all times. He professes to be
master of the “ Tonsorial Art,” and will spare no ef
fort to afTordre enti satisfaction. Charges moderate,
to suit the times. [Cliarlotte, March 9, 1841.
Almanacks!
A SUPPLY of Blum’s FARMERS’ & PLAN
TERS’ ALMANACK for 1842, just received
and for sale at this Office. ^.Thie Almanack is cal
culated for the meridian of Salem, N. C., and con-
’ tains a large fund of valuable inforniation.
November 2, 1S11. 31
From iho New Kju land Farmer.
A WORD TO FARMERS ABOUT ORCilAUD.S.
It will be denied, by few. or none, that a thrifjv
' t’ intr •'- ••• -i - r vliv- surest n.usi j»roa-
table sources, of the farmer's income. It costs, to
be sure, labor and time to bri»ar it to maturity j but
when it is brought there, it remains for years, re
quiring cach year but little attention, and repaying
the husbandman by an ample reward for his pains.
Now if such be the fact, why is it that so few
good orchard are to be found among us? Why
is it that the old orchards, planted by our grand-
sires, but sadly thinned by the hand of time and de
cay, are still seen, disfiguring many a plain and hill
side and yielding but a scanty harvest of knurled
diminutive ftult ? W'hy is it that our fatliers—nay,
that we ourselves have not been up and doing—do
ing something each year to bring forward a new
and healthful race of trees.
These questions have otlen occurred to me, as I
dare s.ay they have to others—and several probable
answor.s have also suggested themselves, w’hich it
may not be amiss to consider; for the subject, though
not new, is so important that it deserves repeated
consideration to impress its importance.
Many a farmer declines setting out young trees,
for the reason that he may not live to partake of
their fruit. He seems to reason with himself thus:
that as posterity never did any thing for him, so he
should do nothing for posterity. But to such an
one a better mode of arguing might be .suggested,
viz : tliat as those w’ho lived on this spot of ground
before me, have done something for me—something
at least, which I now enjoy—so am I bound to do
something for those who shall hereafter take my
place—or, in other words, if my ancestors did noth
ing towards rearing an orchard, I should now have
no orchard ; so if I do nothing in the same v-ay, my
children will have none after me. Many of the
trees that once stood here, he might say, I have cut
down for fuel, so that even when dead I reaped a
benefit from them. In the island of Japan, there is
a law that no one can cut down a tree without per
mission ol the magistrate ol’ the place, and even
when he obtains permission, must replace it imm.6'
diately by another. Now, by the latter clause of
this law should every one act who inherits an es
tate.
But again, liow know you that you may not live
to enjoy yourself the fruit of your labor ? You say
that you are old, and the chances are against you ;
and you reason thus year after year, making the
chances more against you, and let opportunities shp
by, opportunities, w'hich if improved, would turn the
scale the other way. But friend, let me tell you
that you arc not too old, if you set about the business
in good earnest. You do not know how much long
er your life will be extended, and perhaps you don’t
know how rapidly a young orchard, well taken care
of, will tread upon your heels. In the preface to
the valuable little work on fruit trees, by Robert
Manning, of Salem, he states that he was late in
life when he commenced the business of nursery
man. His friends remonstrated with him on such
an enterprise for one of his years, and treated the
project as visionary in the extreme. But he still
went on, and what is llie result? The author tells
us that he has lived to sell out many nurseries, and
to eat the fruit of many a tree of his own planting.
Let me state another case. A venerable clergyman
of New Rowley, Dr. Chandler, lived to partake ma
ny years of the fruit of some chesnut trees, the
seeds of which he planted after he was fifty years
of age.
Afler instances like these—and they might be
multiplied let us hear no more of the common ob
jection urged against rearing an orchard, that you
are too old and shall never live to see it grow up.
Go to w'ork at once about it, let your apprehensions
give way to anticipations—let doing take the place
of doubting—in a few years you will have the
satisfaction of witnessing a substantial change in
your orchards. °
But it is not from neglect alone to set out trees,
that young and thrifty orchards are so rare. Con
vinced of the necessity of making a beginning, ma
ny farmers procure trees and set them out, and°leave
them to fake care of themselves. The field selec-
ted for the purpose, w\'is that year laid down to
pass—the following year it is sodded over—and so
it remains as long as it continues to yield a fair bur
den oi grass. In the mean time, neither plough nor
hoe comes near the roots of the young trees° they
are grass-bound as firmly as was Gulliver when tied
to the earth by pack thread: they receive neither
heat nor moisture, nor air'. nay, they are not sup
plied with even an annual pittance of food. Is it any
wonder, then, that they refuse to grow ? How can
they when they have not one of the elements to
promote grow'th ? and if they had, hav’e not elbow-
room to grow in ? Ask the farmer why he does not
keep the field under cultivation—he w’ill tell you
that it requires too much manure, and he has other
fields that need it more, inquire of him why he does
not cultivate at least a small spot around each tree,
it is too much trouble, and besides he does not like
this forcing the growth of trees j they w’ill run out,
he says, faster than they will run up.
It is in Inis starving, neglecting system, as I con
ceive, lies the great reasons that we have so few
thriving orchards. Tre^^--—young trees—hke corn
or potatoes, must Iiave food, or they ''annot grow;
they must have cultivation, as plants have, or the !
weeds and grass w’ill choke their growth. Tree.s
or ai'v of the vegetalH? ra - • rr.ay I- siimulated to
' ‘'CC' xnc rank and luxuriant, consequently*
weak un.l short lived. But I have yet to learn that
good cultivation and a plentiful supplj- of manure,
are fatal to their health and longevity. W'here w^e
have one orchard in danger from these causes, there
are hundreds that from the want of them, are in pe
ril of coming to a premature grave. The contrast
between orchards well cultivated and those which
arc not, is so marked and striking, that it cannot fail
to attract tlie notice of every observer. The bark of
the former is healthy looking, smooth and glossy :
that of tlie. bitter is ol a sicklv hue. or moss-ccvered
The brar}ches of the lormer present me lasi years
growth of a great length: those of the latter scarce
ly give signs of any last year’s growth at all. I’he
leaves are large, green and glistening: those of the
other are pinched, yellowish and dull looking. Ef
fects so different, must proceed from causes as dif
ferent: and thes#' causes are, in general, none other
than the different modes of treatment or cultivation,
to which the trees have been subjected. Trees,—
properly taken care of, will yield fruit much sooner
and of better quality than those w’hich are but im
perfectly cultivated; whilst such as are altogether
neglected, will linger along only to mock the expec
tations of their improvident owner.
Ill
large trees especially, if the tar be scraped oflf i..
summer. Numerous are the orchards destroyed by
the canker worm, but I know and I have read of
none destroyed by the porcess of tarring.
ALLEN W. DODGE.
Hamilton, Oct. 20th. ISH.
EXTRACT
From an Essay on Agriculture,—“Its Dignity and Impor
tance.” By Gen. Dix, of Albany, N. Y.
In the countries ol Europe, the quarter of the
globe with which our communications arc most di
rect and intimate, the state of agriculture varies with
peculiarities of soil, chmate and political organiza
tion ; and as might be expected, the estimation iu
which It is held, is not every w^here the same. In
Russia the earth is cultivated almost exclusively bv
serfs, subject to the arbitrary will of the noble who
owns the soil. Manual labor, in any art, almost ne
cessarily partakes of the character of those by
whom it is carried on, and in Russia, therefore,
agriculture, as an occupation, is degraded. In the
northern parts of Italy, in the Netherlands, and ia
some of the German States, the soil, under judicious
systems ofhusbandry, and an elaborate culture, has
attained the highest degree of productiveness. The
southern part of Sweden, formerly subject to Den
mark, retains, in some degree, the reputation it once
enjoyed, as the granary of Northern Europe. Hol
stein, a dependency of Denmark, bordering upon
the northern bank of ihe Elbe, and the shores of the
German Occan, abounds in the richest fields of'grain.
and in numberless flocks of cattle and sheep, hi
I* ranee, a new impulse has been given to a‘>ricultu-
ral improvement, by the extreme subdivision of the
soil, which has grown out of the law of equal suc
cession and the confiscation and sale of lands be-
^ longing to the church and to the expartiated noble.s,
; who iblloweJ the fortunes of the Bourbons.
^ ^
1 o give a country the highest degree of wealth
and po.ver, wdiich it is capable of attaining, agri
culture must be sustained by con:merce and n)anu-
factures; but it may dispense with botli th«: iatt. r
and yei retain its prosperity. The condition of the
United States is fav'orable to all these pursuits; but
whatever may be the fate of our commerce and
manufactures, we must, as an agricultural country,
rank among the first nations of the earth.—The ex
tent of our territory, the extraordinary fertility of
our so:l, the adaptation of our climate to almost eve-
ry tepecies of production, our distance from other
Another evil to which young fruit trees are too
often exposed, even w'here they arc in other respects
w’ell taken care of, is the brou^sing of cattle. For
the sake of saving the after crop of grass, many
farmers turn their cattle i nto young -orchards, and
thus inflict upon them wounds from which they are
slow to recov'cr. It is not safe to let even calves or
yearlings run tvhere there are young trees. They
will get a nibble at them sooner or iater. Thus
browsed, orchards, if they survive the operation,
will be dw'arfish and scrubbed. They can be told
as far as they can be seen, and it may be safely pre
dicted that they w’ili be as worthless as they are ill-
favored. The best course to be taken with them is
to cut them oti' and new graft them. But this again
your improvident farmer will not do; it is too much
trouble, and if he did do, it w’ould be of no use, as
he w'ould again neglect to keep them from being
brow'sed. If such be the frequent ^act—and who
can doubt it ?—avc cannot fail to see another cause
of the deficiency of good orchard.'?. That deficien
cy will be supplied, only when young trees are
guarded as securely as are corn-fields and mowing
land.
But supposing a good orchard transmitted, as ma
ny such have been to the fiirmers of New England,
why is it that they are so fast disappearing? The
successive ravages of the canker worm have in ma
ny places, doubtless, contributed to this result more
than any other cause.—Tarring the tree, the only
effectual remedy as yet discovered, has in many
orchards been successfully practiced; but in more
instances, from being only occasionally performed,
has resulted in little benefit. When the grabs run
in large numbers, an omission to tar for a single
night may render abortive the operation, if repeat
ed every other evening in the season. It demands
careful watching, both in late autumn and early
Spring, to detect the day when those prolific marau
ders take up the line of march. But this early and
late W’atching is what most farmers will not or do
not attend to. Af^er the enemy is upon them, then,
if at all, they begin to make preparations for an on
slaught. I know’^ of a large orchard, once among
the most productive and valuable in the county of
Essex, now almost good for nothing but fire-wood,
from the unchecked depredations ot the canker
worm.
Look to it, farmers—look to it in season—look to
it constantly, that you meet this enemy and van
quish him. One or two yearly battles, vigorously
maintained, and you are rid of him.—Follow him
up day by day; do not spare the tar for fear either
of the expense or of killing the tree. The one ia
not to be named compared with the benefit you will
gain from it. Of rhe other there i.s little danger to
for exportation, show conclusively that our vast and
rapidly augmenting population can, and must be
sustained by the fruits of our ow'n industry. In this
field of labor we fear no competition. The i)roduc-
tions of our agiiculture have but one limit—the de
mand for them. Centuries must elapse before they
Will be limited, as in the densly populated States of
Europe, by the powers of the soil. We have not
only the ability of expanding to an immense degree,
by means of our vast unoccupied domain beyond
the lakes and the Mississippi; but we have the abi
lity of increasing to an indefinite extent upon the
surface we now’ occupy. For centuries after the re
action of centuries shall be felt from the west, (an
event too distant to enter into any estimate of our
future grow’th,) w'C may continue to multiply, and
yet be able, by a more prudent husbandry of the
powers of the soil, to furnish the additional consu
mers with the necessaries of liie.
SALTING HORSES.
A curious fact is mentioned in Parker's Treatise
on Salt:—A person who kept sixteen farming hors-
e.sj, made the follow'ing experiment with seven of
them which had been accustomed to take salt with
their food. Lumps of rock salt were laid in their
mangers, and those lumps previously weigliCil, were
examined w’eekly, to ascertain what quantity had
been consumed, and it was repeatedly found that
whenever these horses w^ere fed on old hay and corn,
they consumed only from 2 1-2 to 3 oz. per dav, but
that when they were fed with new hay, they look o
oz. per day. This should convince us of the expe
diency of permitting our cattle the free use of salt
at all times, and it cannot be given in so convenient
a form as rock-salt, it being much more palatable
than the article in a refined statt;, and by far cheap
er. A good lump should always be kept hi a box
by the side of every animal, without fear that it will
ever be taken in excess.—Famiers' Cabinet.
IMPROVED HUSBANDRY.
The vast improvements in agricultural products,
in roots, grain, fruit, and live stock—show what may
be done by judicious cultivation. It should be the
aim of every farmer to secure the best that can be
raised. The comfort of his family, and his porfits,
would thus be alike promoted. A little farm well
cultivated is more pleasant and profitable than great
deserts of land overgrown withmullens and thistles.
Thousands of farmers who now can scaree “ make
both ends meet” on a hunderd-acre farm, might re
alize double the income and tenfold comfort from
fifty well cultivated acres.
Certain, Cure for Frosted Limbs.—Dissolve haif
a pound of allum in a gallon of warm w'ater, and
soak the frosted parts before going to bed for ten or
fifteen minutes. I had one of my hands frost-bit
ten, and tried various remedies, expending five or
six dollars endeavoring to obtain a cure, but all to
no purpose, until I tried the above. In rny case, I
dissolved about three ounces of alum in a quart of
warm water, (keeping it pretty w'arm,) soaked my
hand three or four nights, when a cure w'as eflect-
ed.—.1 m e rica/i J 'o. c r.