JDSKPli W. IIA.MPTOX,
-“The powers granted under the ConstitutioHj being derived from the People of tbo Unitoil States, iniy be reaumed by them, whenever perverted to their injury or oppresaion.”—Madiso)!..
Kditoi* and Piiblislier.
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CHARLOTTE, N. C , JANUARY 11, 1842.
NUMBER 44
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rilOSPECTTS OK THK
eJ cjulict aiicc .
iX'dioiiivti
|[IE State Tompcrancc Socit ty of North Ca-
rolinn, at its late meeting, dirt.cted the Exec
utive' ('oiiuiiittce to lake measures ibr the osjtahlisli-
liient, at iliis place, of a Journal, devuteil to the
:.- eise oi" 'rcn)perance.
l-.i :.l,cviii'nce to iheir \vi.‘;]iesy, and iinpresscii vvith
tl.^'. iiiipiutance of siu'li a piihlication, the coininittee
1' vv: deteriiuni'd, if sulilrient encoiinio^eiiient can
• !' ohtjiiieii, to is.siie the iir.'t iiniiiher off^ucii :i piib-
h-it^.t). to he called the XOllTII (.'AFJOLiXA
TK.MlM'iK AXCM*' IWIOX. on tlie lirst ol'Janua
ry next.
'I'he iiM'.linir ohjceL of tlie Union will he, the hs-
fceiDUKitiju of Tenipeiance jtiinciple.s. \Vc t^hall
eiulcM vor to present ui its page.s, a lull reeoi'd of the
Ji^o>^re^s in ihc Teinperancc eauso in our own
:ii ibn'iiin lands—of its elVect upon individuals and
einiununities—and original tirliclcs in defence of its
jirinejph's, aiul in reply to the various objections
ur'ri'd against it.
While, however, the i)roinotion .of Temperance
he the tirst and h'adini!: ohjee-t of oar Journal
: 1.' uur int-enlion, that its ]>ages sliall he diversified
by a irentTal summary of the most im[)ortant events,
oi' the ilav. and by particular attention to the inter-
e ed' A^'^fii'uhure.
In oarrving out tliis object, t!ie Comniittee look
v.iilv rontiilence to the iiriends of Temjierauce. par-
r.'Mlarly in \orth Carolina, for aid and £;upport. A
iu‘\v in'ipulse has been given to ihe cause in thi.-^
.-■ I'e. Were this tlio proper occa&ion, we could
;i t di' of what Iras been passing \imb'.r our own
. Vi which would send a thrill of joy thre^igh evi-
hen*n )lent he;;rf. The reformation of tlie ine
briate has commenced, and is .still going on with a
j. \v('r and succ; ss, which the most .sanguine never
,;>;red tv' anticipate. Give us but the means of coai-
i.uinie ■tion, and wc trust tliat an inlluencc v/ill go
v^ ih fiv.m the Capitol of the old North State, to its
•\ :i- dest boundary, that will teliuiion it.s happiness
;;d prosperity through all future generations^
r-rmit \is, tlien. most earnestly to appeal to every
nd of Temperance, .Morality, and good order, to
m’ us pf'oiupt/i/. As the object is to comnience
i the n*'w v«’ar, r/eA-vy ;>!i the part of its friends
niav he tatal. ' Let every individual, then, who feels
■'11 inf'rest in our success and every Temperance
le'etN • become responsil>le. (il oner., for the nvmi-
■ r if'ci'pit's which they suppose can he circulated
:i their vieinity, and forwanl tlieir names itnmeili-
ut 'lv. for 10, 20, or 50 copies, as tliey may think the
ileuiand ;.f iheir neighborhood may justify. In this
vvav unlv, oan wo hope for success in our ellbrt.
a meetnj of the Executive C.'onmiittee of the
?orth Carolina Temperance Society, the following
•es,:.lution wa; adopted: n7/m’a6-, arrangements
1 , been mad( to cimunence the publication of a
'i .•u'peranee Joa’tial in the City of llaleiiii, on the
5 r- , vet'k in Jamary next, ]>rovided One Tiiousand
^ ' s.T. d>iMan be obtained.
'That il be most earnestly recommend-
) eaeh of the Oliicers of the tState Temperance
>• ;, ;y, an.l to i!ie mend)ers of the State Coven-
; ■a. aiiil U* any who are friendly to the ctiuse, im-
i.;:'af:c!- the receipt ot’ this resolution ; to be-
•rav VI sponsible I’or trom ten to fifty Subscriberc>.
■ that t'ije, publication may cominL-nce at the time
eutemplatei!.
I'v :!rder of the Executive romniittee of the Xorth
,riro!ina JState Temperance Society.
TERMS:
The North Carohna Temperancc Union will be
]uiblished weekly on a medium sheet, (say 2() by lb
mchcs,) at One Dollar and Fifty Cents, per annum,
payable in advance. Letters containing Subscri-
l^crs names and remittances, must be directed, post
I'aid or free, to the Treasurer of the Society, Jesse
Bi{e:\vN, llaleigh, X. C.
llaleigh, November 2S. 1311.
Notice,
A SITUATION WANTED—as an English and
(‘las.sical Te:ichcr. in any good neighborhood
in the upper country, by a graduate of ihe South
’ ’arolina College, Applications to be addressed to
M.. Ebenezerville, York District, S. C.
Dcc^'inber 15. 1811. 41...3t
Ahtiaiiacks!
AGRICULTURE SHOULD BE MADE A
STUDY.
Tln‘re :ire l^\v if any pnrsuit.s that open so wide
;i field lor incjuiry as agriculture. It is true that
every boy of cominon capacity, who has been rais
ed on a farm becomes sufficiently laniiliar with the
usual farming operations to pursue the business in
:i w.'iy that enables him to get his hving. But in
most instances liis operations are carried on with
but little inquiry as to the most correct and best
principles of husbandry. He goes on this year as
he went last year, and as his father went for many
yearj. Moving onward thus in hisimvaried rounds
from year to year, the industrious and prudent man
may gain property, and be a respected and useful
citi/.en. But his pursuit would be more interesting,
and he would become a more intelligent man, were
he to oboerve more closely the immediate and the
lasting action of eacli kind of manure that he ap
plies; were he to note the elTects of each kind of
maniire upon each ditferent crop tliat he cultivates;
were he to calculate the cost of each crop that he
raises; were he to determine by careful observation
the soil best suited to each croj), w'ere he to deter
mine the best time and manner of applying manure
to each ; were lie to stiulij how to make as much ma
nure tis possible; Avere iie to satisfy himself fully as
(o the proper distances for hills of corn :ind rows of
roots ; were he to learn whence his plants derive
their principal nourishment, and in what s»ate they
take it up ; were lie to satisfy himself as t3 the parts
of the farm which are too acid or too cold to bo pro-
ductive ; w’ere he to learn carefully' wliat spots could
be greatly improved by deep plougliing; were he to
seek diligently to know what it W’ould be best to do
on each comparatively unproductive spot oftlic farm,
in order to make it fertile; were he to be observing,
study'iiig, thinking, reasoning and judging upon these
matters, there can be no doubt that without ever
reading a line upon agriculture, or making any oth
er experiment than what his usual routine afibrds,
that he would become a more intelligent and a more
si'iccessful tanner, than if’ ho beslow’ei! no particular
attention upoji these and other equally important
matters.
But while he may make important advances in
the art of agriculture without comparing notes with
his neighbors, and without reading, it is not to be
doubted chat most men could derive nuich benefit
from learning what the experience of others has
taught. Who knows so much that there is none oth
er wise enough to teach him any thing ? Who un
derstands larming better than all the men combined
.vho ever wrote upon the subject ? If there is any’
such man, he may' be excused from reading or study
ing. But sncli a one now’here exists, and they who
till the earth may' gain information from many a
written page.
Agricultural Papers.—And now when the even
ings arc long and the labors of the day' arc not very'
severe, let there be at hand some agricultural pa
per, or some treatise upon agriculture that you may
look into for half an liour or an hour. Many things
that you will read were written for somebody else,
and w’ill give you but little instruction. Other arti
cles will furnisii hints and facts which you may' turn
to good accoimt. Head—read and reHect—and you
v> ill become a w’iser and better farmer. Take an
agricultural ptiper, htive one that you can call your
own : preserve it oii file and it w'ill be to you on ma
ny occasions valuable for reference. There are pa
pers enough—weeklies at S2 per year, and month-
les at from 50 cents to .“liil. Take one or more of
them, for you will get from many a single copy',
knowledge that will be w'orth more to y'ou than the
price of all the numbers for a year.
Torcn Agricultural Societies or Associations.—Ma
ny' of you find that after being out in the wind and
cold all day', that you becoine sleepy' ami stupid when
you sit down to read in the warm kitchen. Here
lies one of the chief reasons why' farmers do not read
more. The warmth of the roon; and the sitting pos
ture invite them very strongly to repose. Reading
is, Ibr this reason, to mriny of them a dull and stupid
business. They' do not lack inquisitiveness or inter
est in tlieir business, so much as they lack ability to
keep themselves wide awake while attempting to
read, and tlius lack ability to get up much interest
in reading. For this reason, among otliers, we re
peat a recommendation -which was strongly' urged
in our columns last winter, that associations of far
mers living in tiie same immediate neighborhood, say
witliin two or three miles of each other, should be
Ibrmed for the purpose of talking over matters per
taining to agriculture. Let the exercises be read-,
ing, discussion, narration of experiences, or any thing
else that might furnish the most information in the
most interesting manner. Occasionally'’ a lecture
upon the subject might be procured. Should such
associations become general, more—much more ben
efit w'ould flow from them, than all the County State
or National Societies will confer, though these may
be very beneficial.
Get up one in your neighborhood.
farmer in Virginia ought to take your paper, but I
have made it my' business to bring it to the notice of
my' neighbor, concerving that in so doing I was be-
nefitting them and myself not less than the Editor.
The fruits of tliose exertions you have enclosed in a
ten dollar note, tor which you w'ill please direct your
paper to the following names. * * +
?»or is this all. From the columns of y’our little
work, I am satisfied that I have reajKid ten times the
amount of my subscription already in a single arti
cle. I am, therefore, still your debtor, and to repay
the obligation, in a measure I have concluded to
give you my mode of managing manure ; a pomi
upon whicli you very' proj)crly l.iV great stress, and
one upon which any opinion derived irom experience
may be valuable. For the last ten years I have
j)aid great attention to this subject, and iuive tried
every plausible method recommended in the agricul
tural periodicals of the day’. The result of those ex
periments has satisfied me, that the differ once be
tween one mode and another is much greater than
would be imagined, and that the greatest secret of
good farming consists in discovering the best mode
of preserviniT the valuable properties of manure.
The portions of dung which alibrd nutiriment to
plants aie volatile and soluble. They' are evapora
ted by' heat and dissolved by rain. Dung is expos
ed to the pernicious ettbcts of heat, cither in a pile
or when scattered, to the influence of the summer
bun and atmosphere. How then is it to be preserv
ed ? By applying it to a growing crop as soon as
made: I have heard a great deal of the nece.ssity
of fermentation, and the injury done by fresh nm-
nurc, that manure has a tendency to generate heat is
certahi, and that if applied fresh in loo great quanti
ties, it may produce too much heat for the healthy
growth of plants is certain ; and it is ccrtain also that
you may subject ii by time and exposure to a pro
cess by which it will be robbed of those properticp,
when you may api)ly it in any quantity with impu
nity, but with comparatively little benefit too. What
would be thought of an iuvalitl who would go to an
apothecary* and sa v." " Sir. I want some colomel that
you have had in the house lor many years, ol which
I can take a large quantity without danger, ’ and
what would reply, Sir. this, having lost its virtues
and become comparatively innoxious, is much more
valuable than the fresher article, and I must charge
you a greater price per ounce for it ■ It would be
just as reasoable. as to asssort that old manure is in
any case better than fresl!.
Satisfied of those facts, t pureuo the natural and
ot' rn:.L-.n^y it tHo tousuiess Ol u particular
boy, every morning, to collect carefully the deposits
f'rom my stalls, stable yard, hog pen, &c. and spread
it thinly upon some one of my growing crop
the crop is not out of the ground, and consequently
the leaf not so expended as to seize the grasses giv
en out in tlic process of evaporation, I have the ma
nure slightly covered with earth. Of course, if tiie
ground is too wet to be trampled, I wait until it is
dry .pjiough lor the puposc.
Now this may seem to some, who have been used
to heaping manure, and making compost, a very
theoretical mode of procedure. But let them try j .
and they will find it highly practical—they will HdcI, j
that they will obtain more tiian double the nutniiM iii ^
from the same quantity ot‘ dung, and they will .iiMe> ; .
M ISC E L. L. A N V
A CHRISTMAS JOKE.
One seldom hears a good story now-a-days;
the following is not bad. A year or two ago there
came to the lion, at , a pleasant looking, bust
ling, great-coated, commercial traveller sort of a bo
dy’. “Well, landlord, what have you got, eh?
oyster sauce, eh? bottle of sherry, good, eh? send
’em up.”—Dinner was served, the wine despatch-
led, and a glass of brandy and water comfortably
settled the dinner.
Waiter,” said the traveller, cooly and dispas-
Sionatpiy wiping his mouth w’ith a napkin. ” Wait
er, 1 itin u»vli>vrtrdiy jitiintcd.”
Sir?” said the waiter, “ expecting a love letter.”
“ I cannot pay you.”
Sorry for that, sir; I must call master.”—[En
ter landlord.]
My good sir, you sec this is rather awkward—
good dinner! capital! famous wine! glorious grog!
—but no cash.”
The landlord looked black,
i'ay next time—often come tiiis road—done
nothing to-day—good house yours—a great deal in
the bill w’ay'.”
The landlord looked blue.
“ No dirterence to you, of course?—pleasant here
—plenty of business—happy to take y^our order—
long cvcdit—good bill.”
“ There is my bill, sir—prompt payment—I pay
as I ofo.”
ly—for cheerfulness docs not begt t pain. Melan
choly, not more than the mind which wc hud sought
to direct, should not have expanded ; melancholy,
not that time, which had only developtil her from
should have put his finger so rudely on our fico
and iialt—but that, spared what she liad been called
to sufTer, wc had improved the favor so little.
W^e turned away to the front window, and tho
midday sunlight lay upon the landscape, around;
and the green fields, doited here and there by flocks
of sheep, stretched out at ease, wore an a.^pearance
of tranquilizing repose. Numproas female patients
were looking from their win^lows, cnioving the
scene, which soothed their 1. and led them to
healthful contemplation, The voice of the )ihysi-
cian seemed in harmony with all around; and a.s’
the gazers lifted their eyes towards him, we could
see that he was associated in tiieir minds with jilea-
sant thoughts and friendly inierft rcncc. riov/ high
the privilege to do good I How great iho reward
in having that benciit acknowledned ' '
A TRADITION.
In support of the doctrine that the three sons of
Noah were red black and white, wc bring the tra
dition of the Alarabou.'t, the priests of the most an
cient race of Africans, which says that after tho
death of Noah, his fJircc sons, one of whom was
white, the second tawny or red. the third black,
agreed to divide his property' fairly: w'hich consist
ed of gold and silver, ve.stmcnts of silk, linen and
w'ool, horses, cattlc, camels, dromedaries, sheep and
\h, but I must go without paying. IjCL us j goats, arms, lurn’ture, corn and other provisions,
see—bill 17.s\ Gd.; k t us have a pint of sherry to> bes'des tobacco and pipes.
’• Having spent the greater part of the dav' in as
sorting these dfferent things, the three sons were obii-
gether—make it up a pound—that will square it.”
Sir, I say you arc a swin41er, sir!—1 will have
my money?’
‘•Sir, I tell you I will call and pay j'ou in three
weeks from this time cxactly, for I shall have to
pass this road again.”
“ None of tha^, sir,—it won’t do with me—pay
my inoney', or I’ll kick y'ou out. ’
“ You will repent this,” said the stranger.
The landlord did repent it. Three w'eeks after
that day, punctual to his word, the stranger re-enter
ed the Ijion Inn, the landlord looked very foolish—
the stranger smiled, and held out his hand—Tve
come to pay you my score as I promised.”
The landlord made a thousand apologies for his
rudeness. ‘‘So many swindlers about, there’s no
knowing ’vhom to trust. Hoped the gentleman
u'ould ptirdon him.”
‘'Never mind, landlord; but como. let's have
some dinner together,—let us be friends. What
have you got, eh? a couple of boiled fowl?, ch?—
nice liulc ham of your own curing? good I—greens
fiotn your own garden, famous!—bottle of sherry
urid t..o boitlcti of poll; walior, this is excf llent.”
Dinner passed over—the landlord bobbed and
nobbed with the stranger—they passed a pleasant
afternoon. 'I'he landlord retired to attend to his
avocations—the stranger finished his “comforter”
of hr.indy and water, and addressed the waiter—
Waiter, what is to pay?’
•• Two pounds ten shilfings and threepence, sir.
including i!ie former account.”
And half a crown for yourself”
“ Mak* two pounds twelve shillings and ninc-
■. nee, sir,’ '• 'licd the wa’ter, rubbing his hands.
‘•Say two pounds aii I thirteen shillings?” said
-.•iC stranircr, with a beneficent smile, ‘-and call in
; -it'-r laiidlord, snuling tin 1 hospitable ]
i lie strangt.r merely 6aui, wiUi a ^i‘-rco lo'»k, '• I
iv/jd you seventeen and sixpence three weeks ago,
ged to defer the partition or tlio goods till the next
morning. They therefore smoked a friendly pipe
together, and then retired to rc.st, each in his own
tent.
After some liours sleep, the white brother awoko
before tiie other two, being moved by avarice, arose
and seized the gold and silver, together with tho
precious stones and most beautiful vestments, and
having loaded the best camels with them, pursued
his way to that country which his Vv-hite posterity’’
have ever since inhabited.
Ihe Aloor. or tawny brother, awaking soon af
terwards, with the same intentions, and being sur-
prised that lie had been anticipated by his white
brother, secured in great haste the remainder of the
horses, oxen and camels, and retired to another part
of the v.'orld, leaving only’ some coarse vestments of
cotton, pipes and tobacco, millet, lice. and a few-
other things of but small value.
‘‘The last lot of stuiT fell to the share of tho
black son. the laziest of tho three brothers, who
rook up his pine v.'ith .n mrlr^r 'h.-’y nlr. ,'in j wLiJo
he sat smoking :n a pensive mood, swore to ho ro-
vennred'.—{AiiquetU's Vuir. JFisf , vol. G. p. 117.
We liave inserted this tradition, not bccause we
think it circumstantially true, with respect to the
goods, &c.,^ but because we find in il this cue im
portant trait, viz: the origin of human complex-
ions, in tho family of Noah: nnd if the tradition is
supposed to I'c altogether a fiction, we would ask,
how came these Africans, the most degraded and
ignorant of the human race, by so important a trait
of ancient history—as that such a man, with three
sons, ever existed, from whom the three races were
descended, if it were not so ? and that they were of
three dilTerent complexions?—Avier. Anf/*/.
find that they arc relieved from a great quantity of and you kicked inc out of your house for it. ’
extra labor. Farmers are advised to accuniulate
largc banks of dung, mixed witli mud, w'eeds, 6^c.
For what purpose? That they’ may have on their
hands the labor of scattering it again at the very
busiest season of the year ? Instead of accumulat
ing the labor and running the risk ot constant waste,
let them scrupulously collect every thing they can
find in the shape of uuinurc and apply it as soon as
made.
By' this simple method they' fire relieved from the
necessity and expense of a stercorary', the filth ot a
manure pile, and the uneasiness arising from the an
ticipate labor of putting out their mtinure. They
certainly get all the benefit to be derived from iheir
manurOj and it would be hard for any other process
to accomplish more.
The plan 1 recomm^i^il is so novel and so oppo
site to preconceiveil opinions, that 1 am deterred
from putting my^ name to this article, tor fear ot the
ridicule it will excite. 1 hope, however, that some
one w'ith more resolution will give it a fair trial, and
report what I know he Avill find to be, the beneficial
result. With the most ardent wishes for the suc
cess of your periodical, which deserves the support
ot every farmer in Virginia at least, I remain
Yours, ^ P ARMER.
“ No words, sir; I ow’ed y'ou seventeen and six
pence. and you kicked me out of your houf^ for it.
I told yf^u, you would be sorry for it. I now owe
you two pounds thirt^'cn shillings, (and quietly
rirnmg aside his coat tail,) you must pay yourself
in a cliock on the same bank ; for 1 have no mo
ney now.”—Bell's Wcckhi Messenger.
The Sandy Hill Herald says:—“-We know a
man who has u'orked on an average sixteen hours
per day for the last twenty years, to )\ay note;
which he had endorsed, and for v.’hi.'h he never rc-
ceivcd the value of one farthing. He is now scv-
enty years of age. W^'e challenge tiio world to
produce a similar instance of int(*gritv.
An eminent artist lately^ painted a snr.*u' sto' in so
j naturally, that he caught a severe cold by .-filing
near it with bis coat off!
AiiUPPLY of Bu m’s FARMERS’ & PLAN
TERS’ ALMANACK for 1812, just received
and for gale at this Ofllce, This Almanack is cal
culated for the meridian of Salem, N. C., and con
tains a large fund of valuable information.
November 2, 1811. 13
ELANK WARRAVTS FOI? SALE
From the Southern Planter.
MANURE.
C. T. Botts—I am most happy to w'itness your
strenuous endeav'ors to improve the agriculture ot
our native State. No exertion has been wanlimg
on my part, 1 assne you, to sustain your enterprise.
I have not been satisfied with saying, that every
Randolph and Clat/.—The following are said to
bo the words of John Randolph which l^ed to the
challenge of Henry' Clay'to a duel in 1825.
were uttered, wc believe, in secrct session Oi the
Senate, and how they* found theii’ way' into the
newspapers, wc arc at a loss to know:
“This man—(mankind I crave your pardon)
this w'orm—(little animals forgive the insult) was
spit ■'’jt of tho womb of meanness—was raised to a
life than he was born to, for he was raised
society of blackgards. Some fortune—kind
to him—cruel to us—has tossed him to the Secreta
ryship of State.
“ Contempt has the property of descentling, but
she stoops far short of him. She would die before
she w’ould reach him; he dewlls belo\v hei fall. I
would hate him if I did not despise him. It is not
2chat he is but inhere he is, that puts my thougts in
action. That alphabet which writes the name of
Thersites. of blackgard,^o( sqaliditu, refuses J»er
letters for him.
That mind which thinks on what it cannot ex
press, can scarcely think on him. An hyperbole
ibr meanness, w'ould be an ellipsis for Clay.
A frentleman was asked why he hated Mr. G
“I do not hate him,” said he, “neither
do 1 hate bed bugs, but 1 don't liko to have them
nrotind me”
I'he editor of the United Slates Gazette is one
who has nourished the kindly feelings of human |
nature, anil in his frequent sketches they are thrown j
forward in beautiful relief Recently he visited tfie
Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, near Phila
delphia, and after giving an interesting description
of its arrangements, relates the following incident.
It is hard to tell whether it owes more to the facts
detailed than to the simple and touching dress which
he has given them.—N. Y. New Era.
One young lady, on being presented to Dr.
Kirkbride, persisted in calling him by the name of
the writer of this article; and no means that he
could adopt would convince her that he was not
ler teacher fifteen years since, (the Doctor must
lave been young then) btit when w'e entered the
room, the Doctor determined on a little triumph.
“Well, Mary,” said he, “here is Mr. Chand
ler.”
“So it is,” said she, looking up with a smile to
us. T . ,1
“Well now, Mary,” said the Doctor kindly,
“you will admit that I am Dr. Kirkbride, since
you acknowledge that this is Mr. G.”
Not at all, not at all,” said Mary; “ you are the
Mr. Chandler, though that gentleman bears the
same name.”
“ But,” said the Doctor, •• you see he was a teach
er at the time to which we refer.”
“ That may be.” said Mary, “but so were you
likewise. The Mr. Chandler to whom I went to
school, had not those wrinkles on his face, nor those
gray hairs in his whiskers—he wras not old.”
Beautiful, if not a perfect compensation, for im
paired intellect, is that remembrance which lives in
the sweets of childhood, and has all around it
young and spring-like as it ever was. Let others
Jrow“old—gray haira and wrinkled skin belong
not to that estate. It knows no fading—it acknow
ledges no affinity with decay. Time rolls on, but
it bears it not forward. Like the cuckoo bird, it
signs its eternal notes among spring flowers, and
hastens away with the sun, before a color fades, or
a leaf trembles in its sterm. And if the eonsiousness
of that mind in only of the innocence of childhood,
(and most innocent and lovely ^vas it, we remem
ber) may we not hope, (why, indeed, should we
doubt) that all of earth, w^hich Mary sees so plea
sant, will be to her only an opening to a state
where the mind shall expand to perfcct hapniness?
!?h meiancho-
Marcus Antonius illu.strates the subject of irgis-
lation by observing, that what is not f^r tho inter*
est of a whole swarm, is not for the essential inter*
est of a single bee.
An FjXtcnsice Swindling Shop.—I’iie Bank of
England covers five acres of ground, and employs
over nine hundred clerks.- Every thing tor the use
of the bank is made on its own prem.ises, and the
printing of its notes is a large item. A note re
turned to the Bank is never to be re-issued, but is
filed aw'ay', and at the end of ten years is burnt.
The workmen are busily at work' every day in the
year, save Sundays, in printing notes. At the an
nual burning, two days are required, with a large
fire to destroy the old notes; and ii employs two
men constantly in feeding the fires.
W^o turned away, not painetl. thou(
Great hand Operations.—'J^he St. i.iOuis Ga-
xette says:—There is an immense land claim call
ed “Glamorgan’s Grant”—which covers several
counties in Missouri, or at least parts thereof, inclu
ding, among others, St. Charles and Lincoln coun
ties. Recently one of our citizens has visited New
York and sold out their interests in this claim, to
the amount—judging from the deeds—of near ■ a
hundred thousand dollars. If the purchasers com
mences suit and recover, they wall oust hundreds of
occupants, and lay their hands on many* splendid
farms. This claim too sweeps a number of very
large claims, but still trifling in comparrison with
the mammoth Glamorgan.
Novel Bank Suspejision.—The Washington bank
has suspended and shut its doors, in consequence of
the sickness of the cashier. Oh 1 lordy Oh ! ior-
dy! Why don’t the directors get the cashier a box
of Brandreth’s pills, and thus enable the bank to
resume specie payments of some kind.
^eic York Herald.
There is a man in Boston so hot tempered, that
he burns his shirt to a tinder in one day’s wearing.
Absence of Alind.—It reported that a judge,
intending to sentence a prisoner to be hanged, pro
nounccd sentence on the sheriff and discharged the
prisoner.
In another case, a man inti nding to steal a sheep,
got a great dog by the cais.