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I JOSEPH W. HAMPTON, .“The powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the People of the United States, majr be resumed by them, whencvi er perverted to their injury or oppression.”—Madison.. -Editor and Publislier. VOLUME I, I CHARLOTTE. N. C., MAY 18, 1841. TERMS: The “ Mcchlcnbur" Je^crsonian ” is pubhshcd weekly, a Txco Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance; or Three Dollars, if not paid before the expiration of three months from the time of subscribing. Any person who will procure six subscribera and become responsible for their subscriptions, shall have a copy of the paper gratis ;—or, a club of ten sub scribers may have the paper one year for Tijcaity Dollars in advance. No paper will be discontinued while the subscriber owes any thing, if he is able to pay;—and a failure to notify the Editor of a wish to discontmuc at least one month before the expira tion of the time paid for, will be considered a new engagement, Adveriisemenis will be conspicuously and correctly insert ed at One Dollar square for the tirst insertion, and Ticen- ty-five Cents for each continuance—except Court and other udicial advertisements, which will be charged ticenty-Jire per ctnt. higher than the above rates, (owing to the delay, gene rally, attendant upon collections). A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements sent in for publication, must be marked with the number of insi-r- tioas desired, or they will be published until forbid and charg ed accordingly. 5^ Lcters to the Editor, unless containing money ni sums of nre Dollars, or over, must come free of postage, or the kS10Unt paid at the ofBce here will be charged to the writer, ja every msrZn'J*^ coliccted as other accounts. ^NUMBER 11. POETRY PROSPECTUS OF THE The p resent is the first effort that has been made to establish an organ at tlie birth-place of Ame rican Independence, through which the doctrines ol' the Democratic Party could be I’reely promulgated and defended—in which the great principles ol^Lib- orty and Equality for which the Alexanders, the Polks, and their heroic compatriots perilled their all on the 20th May, 1775, could at all limes find an unshrinking advocate. Its success rests chiefly with the Republican party of Mecklenburg—and to'them, and the Repubhcans of the surrounding country the appeal is now made for support. The Jeffersonian will assume as its political creed. tJiOsc landmarks of the Republican Party, the doc trines set forth in the Kentucky and Virgmia Reso lutions of 179S—believing, as ihe undersigned does, that the authors of these papers, who bore a conspicu ous part in framing our system of Government, were best qualified to hand down to posterity a correct ex position of its true spirit—-the best judges of what powers were delegated bv and what reserved to, the States. • It will oppose, Cl.-: dangerous to our iree institutions, the ^irit ol monopoly, which has been stealthily, but t^teadily increasing in the country from the founda tion ot our Gov’ernment. The most odious feature in thie K^i'stem is, that it robs the many, imperceptibh), to enrich the few \—It clothes a fev,* wealthy indivi- power not only to coolLtqI tho wa^ea of tnc liiboting iua.T\, u\ao a.i tVicir pleasure to inflate or depress the commerce and business of the whole country—exciting a spirit of extravagance, which it terminates in pecuniary ruin, and too often tlie mor al degradation of its victims. This system must be thoraughly reformed^ before wc can hope to see set • tied prosperity smile alike upon all our citizen:;. To aid in producing this jyeform, will be one of the main objects of the JefVersonian. It will war against ex- i'lusive privilegcft, or partial legislation, under what ever guise granted by our Legislatures: and, there fore, will oppose the chartenng of a United States Bank, Internal Improvements by the Federal Gov ernment, a revival ol the Tariff System, and the new I’ederal scheme of the General Government assum ing to pay to fl^reign money changers two hundred ^dUlions of dollars, borrowed by u few States for local purposes. As a question of vital importance to the South, and one which, from various causes, is every day assuming a more momentous and awful aspect, the Jellersonian will not fail to keep its readers regularly nnd accurately advised of the movements of the rVorlhern Abolitionists. It must be evident to all candid observers, that a portion of the party press of the South have hitherto been too silent on this sub ject. \V e shall, therefore, w’ithout tiie fear of being de nounced as an alarmist, lend our humble aid to cTssist in awakening the People of iht’ South to due vigi- lur.ce and a sense of their real danger. ° \\ hile a portion of the columns of the Jeffersonian ^'ill be devoted to political discussion, the great inte rests of Moral3, Literature, Agriculture, and the Mechanic Arts, shall not be neglected. With the choicest selections on these subjects, and a due quantity of light reading, the Kditor hopes to render niB sheet agreeable and profitable to aU classes in Bociety. paid, addressed to Ml Jeffersonian, Charlotte, N. C will be promptly complied witlh Postmasters are requested to act as Agents for the paper, in receiving and forwarding the names oi subscribers and their subscriptions. The Terms of the paper will be found above. , JOS. W. HAMPTON. Churlottc, Marcli 5, 1841. CataAvba Springs, THE Subscriber would inform the public generally, that he is prepared to entertain Visiters at the above celebrated watering-place, and pledges himself that no efforts shall be spared to render comfortable and profitable the stay of all who may call on him. Terms of board moderate, to suit the , THOMAS HAMPTON. Lincoln county, N. C., April G, 1810. •> The Camden Journal will insert the above •1 weeks, and the Cliarleston Courier, weekly, to the lun^unt of 3, and forward the accounts to *T. Pf. 33oolt=3}{nti(n0. HUNTER would inform his custo continue^tL^S^kJ^Tr generally, that he still old stand ^ BUSINESS at his He l^t ChZ soutli-eaEtof tlie Brach Mint. Plld"c8 hLsdi’'L‘“ “"J ratisfactioii Sivc complete \^klc„'bu” *.= Office of the ■jKcntion. ° AUSGEICHUNG. (imitated THOM THE GEBMAN.) The parched Earth said to an opening Rose That smiled like a babe in swadling clothes, “ Boast as you may your beauty and bloom, You owe to me your choicest perfume, Draini.ng my 1& and sucking my blood. Has made you so bright and crimson hued, And } ou think yourself of flowers the queen, 'Vith that scornful air and prudish mien, While I am dusty, and brown and bare, And look as a' I could not be fair.” And the Rose addressed in acccnts sweet, Tiie Bee, with his honey-laden feet— Boast as you may of your amber wells, The exquisite shape of waxen cells; Vou seem to forget from -whom you stole. And made of her heart a nectar-bowl, And how you rill.-d from hour to hour. The goldt'n dust uf my lovLly flower— ^ h’.Ist wo is m,’! I must pLiish soon. Blow in the morning and fade at noon.” ith a musical voice, hu* drooping wine, To man thus ppakc the provident thing—• Boast as you may ot your sweetest measures Thejr come from s;]'pmg niy honeyed treasures. You owe your fine thou-hts to my taper bright; "i our words that glow, and that tHsh-like light, l>ut my wax is all spent, and chokes my breath The pestilent, sulphurious emoko of D.ath; ^Nhilst you, too, shall lose ILtc’s fiickc'ting fiame, And return to dusr, from whence vou came.’’ A G II I C U L TURK ox THE VALUi: OF FIELD PEAS AS A CROP, And to prevert injv^ to Stock feeding ihcnon. To th3 Editor of tho Farmers’ Register : Sir: I have for scvend years plared a hicjh va lue on the pea crop, as peculiarly adapted to our agriculture and \'.'ait.s in tins section. It aj)pears to me more I'er'ilizing th:i!i any greon crop we grow, grows taller on noo- ' \v I, i-. - isily . planted, does not liindf‘1* us much during tiie busy season, and in every way, is a fine accompaniment to a corn crop, and famishes a fine amount of full and winter provender lor stock (which we are generallv' much wanting;) but I have heretofore thought it left my stock, partcularly my hogs, in an unhealthy condition, and on that account less valuable than it at first promised. I have used much inquiry and thought to find a remedy for this deluct, and hope I have succeeded; but it will be necessary to test the remedy more tullj, and on that account I send it to you, jf' vou think it v. orthy, fcr the use of your subscribers. Last fall I was conver.-^ing on that subject with a very honest practical farmer. He tolil me for a numbei ol year.^ he had used the pea crop in fatten ing the most Oi his stock, that they tiirove as kindly on that as on corn, and that none were injured 'jy it, anD he gave me his plan. He prepared in the pea field a large tight trough, and kept it at all times well supplied with salt and ashes dissolved in water. He never turned hungry stock into the field, only turning in his horses, cows and fattening hogs. I tried it last season, and the result was precisely'as he informed me; they all appeared fond of drinking out of the trough, and were healthy, and did well af ter they were turned off on other food. I used the precaution to turn my horses and cows off one or tv%’o days each week, and I would suggest that horses or oxen should never be put to hard work while filled with peas. Nor Vv'onld I suffer rny stock hogs to feed on them ; they are I thin!j more unhealthy lor young than older hogs. I cannot close this without giving you a hearty w ell done ’ for your bank comments in the Far mers’ Register for March, and the politi cal essays m the second number of the -Southern Magazine.’ J. S. Whitten. lofit^i^earTn a course) who Hirneelf with an kk Indians, has supplied at^he cfo^n observed to hie hearers *an it ia ^ preach to [les.” Srasshopper to wear knee buck- IMPR0\ ING LAND WITH PLASTER OF PARIS AND CLOVER, e are not apprised of the price of it in other paits oi the State, but in the tobacco raisinnr port'on of it, it has risen Avithin a few years, fronUen-and fifteen up to forty and filty dollars an acre. This however, is where plaster of par is is known to have a powerful eflect on the clover crop; and truly the influence of this substance in augmenting the pro ductiveness of the soil to which it is adapted, ap proaches as nearly to inscrutable magic, as any thing can well do. The reader who is not familiar with its action, could scarcely believe statements which might truly be made of particular instances of its efficacy. To mention a single case for exam ple w’hich w’e heard of on a recent very delightful \isit to the neighborhood of Nottingham, to celebrate the birth of an old frieid. An old exhausted field in Punce George’s County, w’^hich produced one hundred barrels, or five hundred bushels of corn, was afterwards sowed in oats with clover, w’hich w'as “ plastered ” at the u.sual rate of a bushel of plaster to the acre. The next spring the field w’as again plastered at the same rate, and the clover turned fn. The spring succeeding the same field was put in corn and tobacco. The portion of it appropriated to com, yielded tw’o hundred and forty barrels, or twelve hundeed bushels—and that part of it wbieh w^as planted in tobacco, gave twelve thousand w^eight, equal, in value, at lf^6 per hundred, to tw^o hun^-ed and forty barrels, or twelve hundred bushels more of corn, say at 60 cents per bushel-makino- an in crease in the product and its value qf tliis sinMe field, from one hundred barrels,^or five hundred bushels of corn, worth three hundred dollars, at six ty cents, up to seven hundred and twenty dolIa,rs worth of tobacco at six dollars per hundred, and seven hundred and twenty dollars w^rth of corn at sixty cents per bushel; aggregate,/oir/ee« hundred and forty dollars against three hmidred dollars ! or very nearly five for one increase of crop !—the re sult of two applications of Plaster 6f Paris, at the rate of one bushel per acre, and one.sowfing of clo ver seed at the usual rate of one gallon t^the acre, w ith the proper allowance of the Additional labor demanded for the culture and prep|raiion of the to bacco crop, over the same and (prcjbapl^, about 15 acres) in that which would have bfcen required for corn. But as tlie whole was probably then sow’n in wiieat, the greater quantity yielded by the land that was in tobacco, over that which w’lis in corn, tobac co being a less exhauster than cofn, and a much better preparative for wheat, w'DuUl in some measure make up for the difference in labor.) Does the read er who understands the case as \fe have stated it, wonder at the value of these lands ?—for w’e can assure him that the instance giveo will not be con sidered an extraordinary one in ;^l the low’er part of Anne Arundel—in all Prince George's and Cal vert Counties, and, we believe in a large part of Charles and St. Clary’s Counties, Under all the circumstances of the country, it should excite no surprise, tliat w'hile other securities, especially hank and other stocLs, declinc; land, and especially what is called plaster, and tobacco land, should rhe in full proportion. We have long fore seen and foretold this result. Nothing has been clearer to our perception, than tliai profits might be made by inve-sfmenl.s in the poorest kind of that land, and especially in Calvert County, which, being out of the way of public observation, would be the last to attract the notice of capitalists—but with which we were laii'.ilia'r, it being the one of our humble na tivity. In the upper part of tliat County, a wealthy gentleman, Mr. F. B. S., lately gave S-5 an acre for land, which not many years cjince ho had himself sold tor •'^15. How can it fail that land eo easily impro ved, and so convenient to mtirket, should be more and more in demand ? True, It takes a long time to change tlic*habiu of a peo^.Ic--to rh»ck and turn back the curren t of emigration ! A nation can’t tl.ink and art in a day; h»'nce they sometimes sub mit ten or twelve years to abuses before they can u.rj.. ihein off. When our oKl lands on the title- water courses were exhausted, before the quick and powerful regenerating ellect of Plaster of Paris was known; at a time when lots for tobacco could only be kept up by the annual use ol ayiirnal manure—:;o expensive in its application, from the labor it involves —when there was little natu. i^ » ’ -till less of ar tificial grasses for ’ , :• r . ils—bef>j'--' agricultural impl’Mnr'ats were so niguiy impruv**.] w’hen, in a word, all t!ie fruits of agriculture would scarcely pay the expense of producing them, it can be no cause of surprise that the worn out lands of the Atlantic border should have ’neeii abandoned for the cheaper and more fertile prairies and valleys of tne W est. Hence the tide of imigrants and emi gration took that direction, and though since, and at tins lime, what waa then natural and rational, and founded in sound calculation, has ceased to be so— as circunif-tances alter ‘.ases; yet. ibis'disposition to look to the Wt:st, having acquired the force of ha bit, with the blindne.ss of all prejudices, the effect continued alter the original cause had ceased; and men having money to invest, conlini.e to go or send it first up to the foot of, and then ovtr tlie mountains; away from the facilities to market, and the enjo}'- ments of a thousand comforts, exi.sting nearer home. But this westw’ard movement has spent its force, and accordingly our old tide-water region is rising in public esteem, and beginning to be appreciated as it sliould, for advantages as to facility of communi cation with the best markets, natural resources for luxurious living, and a capacity and readiness to re spond and vivify under the calls of skill and indus try, not excelled, if equalled, by any other lands in the w’orld. GOSSIPING. Tho following is exquisite—alas, that is should it’s truth. We publish it ia hope that it may reach some Avhoare guiltyj perhaps from mere thoughtlessness, ol tlie odious practice there set forth. I'fie miiror thus held up with such excellent fact, must reflect too detestable a picture to be endured for a moment. It is copied from a late work by Miss Se^lgew'^ick, called Means and Ends—from the section “ Gn Conversation GossiriNG.—The'most prevailing fault of con versation in our country, and, I believe, in all social communities is gossipin^^ As weeds most infest the richcst soils, so gossiping most aboimds amidst the social virtues in small towns, where there is the rnost ^ extended mutual acquaintance, where persons live in the closest relations, resembling ^ large fa mily circle. To disturb the swee t uses of the little communities by gossiping, is surely to forfeit the benefit of one of the kindest arrangements of Pro vidence. In great and busy cities where people live in to tal ignorance of their neighbors, wdiere they cannot know how they live, and hardly know Avhen the\’ die, there is no neighbovliood, rmd no gossiping.— But need there be this poisonous w*eed among the fioTvers—this blight upon the fruit, my young friends ? “ \ ou may und^rstand better precisely what comcs imder the head of gossiping, if I give you some ex- ani|vies of it. In a certain small tliickly-settled town there lives a family, consisting of a man, his wife, and his wife’s sister. He has a little shop, it may be a jew eller’s, saddler's, shoemaker’s or what \ye. call a store—no matter which, since he earns enough to live most comfortably, with the help of his wife and sister, wdio arc noted for their industry and economy. One would think they had nothing to do but to enjoy their o\vn comforts, and aid and pity those less favored than themselves. But instead of all thi.^, they volunteer to supervise all the sins, fol lies and short comings of their neighbors. The husband is not a silent partner. He docs his full share of the low work of this gossiping trio. Cto to see them when you will, you may hoar the last news of every family witiiin a half a mile. For example, as follows: ‘ gave Si50 for his new' wagon, and he has no nred of a new one; the old one has not run more than tw'o years.’ ‘ Mis. has got new hireii help | but she won’t stay long; it’s come and go there.’ •Mrs. had another new gown at meeting y*.Mt rday, which makes a fifth in less than a year, ail'I every one of her girls had new' ribbons on Uieir boniifti, it is a good thing to have rich friends; but for my part, I had rather w’ear my old rib bons.’ ‘ 1 here goes Sam Bliss’ people with a barrel of flour: it was but yesterday she w’as at the judge’s begging.- ‘ iN^one of the widow' Day’s girls w'ere at meet- but they can walk out as soon as the sun is Ue.wn.’ I’his IS but a specimen of the talk of these un- foitunatff people, w'ho seemed to have turned their homes into a common sewer through w^hich all the sins and foibles of the neighborhoo-d run. Yes— but their minds have run to w*aste, and there is some taint, I fear, at their hearts. The noted gossip, Miss , makes a visit in a After all, the problem arises, how" it is that in a district ot country, so aboimding in the good things w’hich land and water supply for the» sustenance of man so contiguous to the most populous cities, a district susceptible of being brought back to its ori ginal fertility by means and processes so cheap, should yet not increase, if it does not recede, in pop ulation? This problem maybe answered, but it will require some leisure and some thought—the lat ter we will bestow upon it, when we can get a mo ment of the former. In the meantime w'e lay it dow’n as our opinion, that the plaster and tobacco lands of the tide-water country of tlie United States, constitute the region where agricultural labor may be, and is applied wdth the most profit—and that “ by ci'id large^^ they offer to tlie capitalist the most safe and eligible inv'estment that can be made: taking in to the account, as it is fair to do, the pleasure of rural life quick and easy conmunication, w'hen desired, w'ith the great world, constant advice of w'hat is passing therein, vicinity to the beet schools, access to the society of the most intelligent and courteous; not forgetting, as wc should not do, all the game and all the sports that belong to the field and the brook ; all that dog can run into, or the gun bring down on the one—or the seine or the hook bring up out of the other.—American Farmer. New Hampshire is entirely free from a State Debt. What has kept her so ? Her unflinching' D&mocracy.—KendaWs Exposi tor, j town where she has previously been a stranger ' She divides her time among several families. SI.e is social, and w^hat we tbink is miscalled agreeable, for she is perpetually talking of persons and things. She w'ins a too easy confidence, and she returns home with an infinite store of family anecdotes, j She knows that Mr. and Mis. So and So, who are I su}>poscd to live happily, are really on bad terms, I and that he broke the hearts 6f two other w’omen ' before he married his w’ife; she knows the particu lars, but has promised not to tell. She has found out that a certain family, who for ten years have been supposed to live harmoniously with a step-mo ther, are really eminently wrctched. She heard that Mr. , w’ho apparently is in very flourish ing circumstanccsj has been on the brink of bank ruptcy for the last ten years, &c. Could this woman find nothing in visiting a new .scene to excite her mind but such trumpery ? We have given you this example to show you that tho sin of gossiping pervades some communities. This worn m did not create these stories. She heard them all, th^ individuals wdio told them to her little think ing that tney would become the subjects of similar remarks to the very persons whose affairs they W'ere communicating. What w'ould we think of persons w'^ho went about collecting for exhibition examples of the warts, w'ens and cancers with which their fellow beings were afflicted ? And yet would not their employ ment be more honorable, more humane, at least, than those gossip-mongers’'? We have heard such talk as follow's betw'een la dies, w'ives and mothers, the waives of educated men, and persons who were called educated u'omen ; ‘ Have you heard that Emma Ellis is going to ^Vashingtoii?’ ‘To Washington! how*^ on earth can the Ellises afibrd a winter in Washington?’— ‘ Oil, you know they are not particular about their d*bts and they have six girls to dispose of, and find it rather a dull market here.’ ‘ Have you heard the Newtons are going to the coantry to live V ‘ Bless me, no I w'hat’s that for 1’ ‘ They say to educate their childen; but rny dress maker, Sally Smith, wdio works for Mrs. Newton, says she is worn out with dinner parties. He runs the house dowm with company.’ ‘Oh, I suspect they are obliged to economise. You know she dresses her children so extravagant ly. I saw Mary Newton at the theatre (she is not much older than my C4race,) with a diamond ferri- oniere.’ ‘ Diamond, w'as it 1 Julia told me it was an aqua- marina. The extravagance of some people is shocking ! I don’t wonder the men are out of pa tience. Don’t tell it again because Ned Miller told me in confidence. He actually locked up all his wife’s worked pocket handkerchiefs. Well, what ever else my husband complains of, he can’t find fault w’tth my extravagance.’ Perhaps nqt; but faults more hemous than extravagance this poor woman had to account for • the pernicious uords for whiqh we may be brought into judgment. I hope it may appear incredible to you, my youug- fi’icnds, that women, half way through this short lifV, w'lth the knowledge of their immortal destiny, W'ith a w’orld w’^ithout them, and a world within to explore and make acquaintance w ithy the delightful interests and solenm responsibilities of parents up on them, should so dishonor God’s good gift of the tongue, should so w'aste their time, and poison so cial life. But be on your guard. If your minds are not employed on higher objects, and your hearts on better things, you will talk idly about your friends and acquaintance. The habit of gossiping begins in youth. • I once attended a society of young persons, from thirteen to seventeen years of 4ge, who met for benevolent purposes. ‘ Is this reading or talking afternoon V asked one of the girls. ‘ pleading,’ replied the President; ‘ and I have brought Percy’s Reliques of English Poetry to read to you.’ ‘ Is not there light reading ?’ asked Julia Ivers. ‘ These are old ballads and songs.’ ‘Yes, I suppose it will be called light reading.’ ‘ I’hen I will vote .^gainst it; mother can’t ap prove of light reading.’ Julia who had the highest of all minds, and the mo?t voluble of tongues, preferred talking to any reading, and w’ithout loss of time she began to a knot of girls, who too mucli resembled her. ‘ Did you notice Matilda Smith last Sunday ‘ Yes, indeed; she had on a new silk dress.' ‘ 7'hat is the very thing I w'anted to find out, w'hether you were taken in with it. It was nothing but her old sky-blue dyed.’ ‘ Can that be ? w hy siie iias worn it ever since she was thirteen. I wonder I did not see the print of tho tacks.’ ‘ I did, interposed another of the committee of investigation. ‘ I took a good look at it as she stood in the door. She couldn’t deceive me with aunt Sally’s wedding sl^-blue dyed black.' ‘ I don’t think^atiida would care whether you w ere deceived ot not,' said Mary Moriis, the young est member of the socitt)', coloring up to her eyes. ' Oh ! 1 forgot, Mary,’ said Julia Ivers, ‘that Ma tilda is your cousin.’ ‘ It is not beoLiuse she is my cousin,' rcolied Mary. * ^ ‘ Well, what is it then V Mary’s tears dropped on her work, but she made no other reply. She had too much delic4icy to I proclaim her cousin’s private good deeds; and she d?d iict li£)\v Matilda, having had a small sam of inoriey, wdiich w'as to have been invested in a instead to her kind ‘aunt Sally,’ who was sinking under a long indisposition \vhich her physician said ‘ might be removed by a journey.’ It w'as—and we believe Matilda little cared how' mnoli these girls gossiped about her dyed frock. Julia Iver.'s turned the conversation by saying ‘ Don't you think it strange that Mrs. Sanford lets Isabella ride out with Walter Isbel?’ J Yes, indecil, and what is \vorse yet. accept prc- - sentslrom him.’ ‘ ^ ‘ M\ hy! dose she exclaimed Julia, staring open her eyes, and taken quite aback by another person know’ing a bit of gossip which had not reached her cars. ‘Yes she does; he brought her three elegant plants from New' y ork, and she weares a ring which he must have given her; for you know the Sandfords could not afibrd to buy such things; and, besides, they never do.' I have given but a specimen of various charac ters and circumstances which Avere discussed, till tho yotmg gossips w'ere interrupted by a proposition from the president that the name of the. society should be changed, ‘ for,’ as she said, ‘ the little charities they did with their needles w'ere a poor offset against the imcharitableness of their tongues.’ There is a species of gossiping aggravatel by treachery; but, bad as this is, it is sometimes com mitted more from thoughtlessjiess than malice. A girl is invited to pass a day, a w'eek or a month, it may be, in a family. Admitted to such an inti macy, she can see and hear much that the family would not w’ish to have reported. Circumstances often recur, and remarks are made, from which no iiarm would come if they were pub lished to the w-orld, provided what went before and cainc after could likew'ise be known; but taken out of their connection, they make a false impression. It is by releasing the disjointed circumstanccs, and repeating fragments of conversation that so much mischief is done by those admitted into the bosom of a family. You know that the wild Arab partaking salt is a pledge of fidelit}’-, because the sak is a symbol of hospitality. Such a sacred gratitude for hospitality by never making any disparaging remarks or idle communications a1)out those into whose .^amiles you are, recieved. I know persons who w ill say un- blushingly, ‘ I am sure that Mr. So and So is not kind to his wife. I saw enough to convince me w'hen I was there.' ‘ ]\Irs. S. is very mean iii her fiimily.’ ‘ How do you know that'?’ ‘I am sure I ought to know, for 1 staid a month in her house. * ‘ If you vrish to be convinced that Mrs. L. has no government over her children, go and stay there a W'eek as I did.’ ‘ Tho B’s and their step-mother try to live happily together; but if you were in their family as much as I am, you w'ould see there is no love between them.’ Now' you perceive my young friends, that the very reason that should have sealed this gossip’s lips, she adduces as the ground of your faith in her evil report. # « * ♦ ♦ I have dwelt long on this topic of gossiping, my young friends, because, as I said before, I believed it to be a prevaling fault in our young and socia country. The only sure mode of extirpating it i.> by the cultivation of your minds and the purifica tion of your hearts. All kinds and degrees of gossiping arc as dis tasteful to an elevated character, as gross and un- w'holesome food is to a well trained appetite. It is said that a hundred thousaud Biblee, prnted in Span ish, have been circulated in Spain, by the English agf nta emco th« month of S^'pt mber last.