S0iitan.
• 'J'liQ powers grunted wider the C'onstitutwn^ bciii§ derivedyroJti the J^eople of the Xjnis-ed States^ TTiciy }}e j'esufti&.l by thcrTij whenei er perverted to their injury or upprcssion.'^—Aludison,
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ru I s C I] L f. A X V .
J- ,.Li*AfiO:\(>K IS LIFE.
ScftCfrd)
re n .t -I ni'-i'c f -.lish not.'iai afloat in the
I'li'j Ui'* iij'j llii* i' i--: occupation (hat f^iv(’S
■ le; C l ( i irrtii On*; nccM[ntion, as the
■ vans -i a livin^r^” as tlie phrase govs, is
Cl = ly lii^'h arii crc’ditublu as aiiother, provided
I u U b'‘ lion )Mble, au i iu a'Tord ince vviih the
• i\vs-f i.)d atil man. I'hu in:in who holds the
harnui'Ts the iron, or driv'ejj iijs peg^ to sup-
I U’ his family with tho hecoi^aries of life, is not a
‘. ‘ it below tl';; on ■ who ineasurt-s l.tj>e behind the
;in! r, inyNtilies liHV at lh'‘ bir, or presides over
...- u’.'•]]■> o,‘ the nation. is a vulg’ar and
= r.ii -ujj. f--clin.r abroad in :li.- cfjinninnity on this
* I '1. {' itlu‘is inu>t (dU'Mie their sons for one of
■A li it i. ctii d the ‘•{earned pr()fessioas.'’ Daugh-
ji must marry a lawyer, :i doctor, a clergyman,
r I til'rchiiit. Horror! the ;^oocl lady would as
n t‘ ■ !. i' marrying her datjghtcr to a Winneba-
^ i, ;; t.-' a h Mindv, in Initrioui^, an I honest n>echan-
1* Wr.y, t’fiL* tiiuilv would bo dishonored! —
\ . no! 'File bu'^iiiii^ of a carpenter, a black-
iii:i, • r a farm;‘r. ii not so rcspeclable as that of
having not- s, drawing solidity from the desk, ped-
iiiig r )l'en Wi)od piils, or selling bnufl or tobacco.
\nd yet the dutiea of ail the leanu d professions, as
vt 11 as ihe-sf, of HI' rchants. are performed for the
r i re jj>(! >}ia! a 6h>-:*m.ilaT waxes his thread and
■ f rum r ril.mis his [)Olaltjes, viz; to obtain a liv-
-'iill a Set of miserable, upslart fools, who are
t uiiiv'fisally I-mv bred pe>ple themselves—
! . ide who h'we Im i^wn 1;^* i;j a ditch, endeavor to
th in sncjity artilicial disiinctions which the}’
=p!* *viil rh va‘.e them above the common mass
ii.tin wiii.di they were talii-n. and to give them an
importance which innate honestv could not com-
iiiii ! Libor is labor; honest labor is honest la-
' r; hunesty and honorable labor is the same, w'heth
r j'Tf irmed by the king or the beggar. anJ it is
j ' honorable in the one a.^ in the oLhcr. It is
”u. that all men by habit and taste are not permit-
1 lo {iiirsuo the same vocation, and there are natu-
1 Jivi^i >ns, not distinctions, as the word is com-
:.MnIy us-d. crtated bv harmony and taste. This
1.=' 1! should be. and lits us for the discharge of all
> r' pi '-'aliar duties that devolve upon us as members
s ‘ ety, B-ittosay becuuse a u: T.i p^TforniS any
Civ. n duty, \ujw('ver humble, thouirh necessary, de-
frades or renders him less meritoriotis than his
iK'ighli r who performs anotlier dut}’, yet not more
!ii'hlully, !s to siy we still ailhcre to trie monarchi-
'.:;1 j^rincij l: s of tho old world.
i ■■ t th * fi'Jii r . dn'i!- his son to so’ne honorable
al tig, and il ht; has predilections to any particular
^ j'-in s:>. a.' - ftt {j is the case, let him follow it, if it
V' issiM'’- it i:' th:' m:m that ennobh stho business,
i ' ‘ I U'tiii: ns that ennoldes the man: and not
n i ailionght u[Kin the distinctions in occupations,
'i. : ii ji' and hf)ne«t. that fools have attempted to
ij, I. t childitn be taught to be honorable,
n* St, ahd nnii„!;', to set a proper value upon the
riches (d til-' world, which is al best but a bubble,
owti in;.) e,\i^ten‘•e to-d:iy ?o burst to-morrow; and
CHARLOTTE, N. C., NOVEMBER 29, 1842.
S NUMBER 88
Mililary.—John Dudley, of Deerfield, N. H.,
a respectable and proper man, with a pretty good
opinion of himself, was honored with the commis
sion of captain in the militia. He was an old bache
lor, and had an old maid for a housekeeper, and till
ed his ground like an honest man. Ho was ac-
quaint(d with Governor Wentworth, and frequent
ly called upon him when at Portsmouth, that he
might tell his neifrhbors how'^ thick he was with his
Excellency. To a Id to his importaBce, he once
invit(^d the Governor to call upon hnn at Deerfield,
on his way into the country, and the Governor pro
mised to do so. The captain expected the visit
sometime in a certain week, and kept near his
house, busily employed. as‘usual.
One very warm day, his house-keeper came puf
fing into the tield, to inform him that a grand car-
riag*^, which must be the Governor’s, was at a lit
tle distance. The captain ran into the house, and
had hardly time to slip on his military red coat and
cocked hat, ere his Excellency drove up. With
his trusty sword in hand, Capt. Dudley ran into the
street, and assuming a true captain iike strut, paid
a martiil salute to his Excellency, who, on behold
ing him, burst out into a hearty laugh. This rath
er discomposed the man of the sword ; but he was
put to immediate flight by the followmg speech of
the Governor: Capt. Dudley, I am glad to see
you ; but think your appearance as a military man
would be somewhat improved, if you would add to
your uniform a pair of brceches —an article
which the good captain, in his haste to pay his res
pects to the Governor, had entirely forgotten I —
Boston Journal.
‘ ■ un■J■''l^^•u) 1 tliat the on!v true and real distinctions
in S 'Chty arc tlmse of vntue and vice, and the only
■ and en lurinjr riclns are an iiilellcci dulv culti-
lafiucnce Woman.—In the ordinary course
of tho world, in that intercourse of flattery and false
hood where cveiy one deceives and is deceived,
where all appear under a borrowed form; profess
friendship th(*y do n^t feel, and bestow praises only
to bo praised in return; men bowahe lowest to those
they despise me>st. But he who lives retired from
this scene of delusion e.tpects no compliments from
others, bestow’sthem only where they arc deserved.
All the insidious grimaces of public life are nothing
compared wiih the inspiring smiles of frienship
which smooth the ruirged road, and all our toils.
Of what value are all the babblings and vain
boastings of society, to that domestic felicity which
we experience in the company of an amiable wo
man whose charms aw'aken the dormant faculties of
the soul, and lill the m’nd with finer energies;
whose smiles prompt our enterprises, and whose as
sistance insures success ; who mspires us W'ith con
genial greatness and sublimity, who with judicious
penetration, weighs and examines onr thoughts,
our actions, our whole character ; who observes all
our foibles, warns us with sincerity of their coni«e-
(juences, and reforms us w'ith gentleness and afft-c-
tion ; who by tender conimunication of their thoughts
and observations conveys new instructions to our
minds; and bv' pouring the w’arm and generous
feelings of heart into otir bosoms, animates us in
cessantly to the exercise of ev’ery virtue, and com
pletes the polished perfection of our character by
the soft allurenients. In such an intercourse, all
that is virtuous and noble in human nature, is pre
served W'ith in the breast, and every evil propensity
dies aw'av.—merma7i.
/I Temperance .4/iecf/o^e.—The Washingtonians
are driving a noble bnslness among the old soakers
of this city. On Thursday evening the church in
Poydras street, was literally crammed, and njany
hard drmkerc?, we have no doubt, was laken out ot
the gutter. Among a great many pleasant anecdotes
related by ths speakers, w’as one defining the un
pleasant position of a certain Deacon who wanted
to he temperate without signing the pledge. He
had been importuned to that ell’ect until he became
po outraged that he arose, and before ihe temper
ance society, delivered a speech in tavor of moder
ate drinkin^^. He was allowed to proceed, and at
its termination, he seized hisliatand walked down the
aisle with great dignity. There was present an
old toper, who, at that moinotit, was abouc as full
as he could well be and being mightly tickled at the
Deacon’s speech, he staggered frorn hie seat, and
tippe the I)eacon on his siioulder, exclaimed, “I
say—hie—Dcucon, themes nujseutimcnts ! I’ll stand
by you—hie—old leller, in them ’ere doctrines! So
let'’s go out and liquor The Deacon, finding tha
his “moderate drinking” doctrines placed hmi in
such diegraceinl tellovvship, went back and signed
the pledge!—X. O. Jeffersonian.
The Jhlhrifcs, Tent. The following is the de
scription of the big tent,” which the IVIillerites
have erected at Albany, N. Y., where they intend
to reside until the end of the world, to take place,
as they say, on the 23d of April, 1843. “ The
first object that meets your view’, is the great tent,
or markee,” 110 feet in diameter, covering an
area of nearly half an acre. It is supported in the
centre by a pole 100 feet high, and around the sides
It is open around the bottom,
^.akts or uprights
. to let the air circulate freely within, and can be
if . cid xti .'ns so.ioo.ed. and a heart that knows no -j’j around so as to make it tight, should
the weather prove unfavorable. It cost $700, and
is said to bo the b* st spi cimen in the tent making
hne in the United States. Every part of the work
about it is really beautiful. The interior is fitted
up with rude benches or seats without backs. The
ground is covered with straw, to protect the feet
from the damp. It is said that 3,000 persons can
be comfortably seated, but that 2,500 only have been
accommodated under it.—Phil. Saturday Courier.
From tlie Globe.
Messrs. Blair &- Rives: Let me be permitted,
through your columns, to invite attention, in a brief
way, to the great inducements held out by a late
Act of Congress to settlement in Florida. That
Act grants, in fee simple, a quarter section of land
to every head of a family, or single man over eigh
teen years of age, who will settle in Florida, south
of the ninth township, prior to the 4th of August,
1843; and the only material condition is, continued
residence for five years, and occupation and cultiva
tion of five acres for four years of that time.
Nothing can be more attractive than the olTer of
such terms for settlements such a country as Flot'
ida. By means of its provisions, a freehold and
home is at once obtained without price, and large
families may be enabled, bv emigration, “to set up
in the world ” at once all their male members over
I which afford the most lujcuriant pasturage, and
which will never be appropriated to any exclusive
j use. I have 9oen the rich maiden cane grass reach-
ing-tv> the backs of cattle on Payne’s prairie, and
have had in view at one moment several tliousiad
head of stock grazing upon it. An inexhaustible
and profitable market for our cattle is afforded by
our propinquity to Cuba and other West India is-
landc, where they may be carried on the hoof, or
the meal jerked before shipment. A large jerking
establishment was commenced before the Indian
hostilities broke out, from which several cargots of
tasajo, or jerked beef, were shipped to Cuba. It
was (bund that the process of jerking could be prac
tised as successfully in Florida as in any part of
South America, New Orleans will also afioid a
large market for live stock of all descriptions.
The lumber trade will also afford profitable em
than is necessary to prerent them from ruimirg
wild—furnishing abundance of meat, butter, mdk,
wool, hides, &c., for domestic and farming pur; c. .ff.
He makes his own cotton and wool, and mr.y wti V-^
his own cloths at home. The palm (which is
everywhere in the forest) furnishes the best mater in';
for hats that can be ustd in that climato. In short,
he will need to buy nothing but his coffee and
and the last of these can be produced cheap!
in any quantity upon the coast.
1 need add no more than assurance to emi
of every hospitable attention and assist
those who have preceded them in this !^1
mise, and a cordial invitation to all wbo
ter their condition, the poor not 1
to come and cast their lot with us.
• u 1 * II -1 f.rr.oin . u 1 ploy‘ncnt to a great number of emigrants In the WAmi^o’
eighteen, and all their lemaie members, too, w’ho * • • r ,1, » ^ . u
l.~- Tlie Y. Chronii-le tells some good
Vungs. Aui ■niroihers there was one the other day
I It an In h p;\ir at ihe police ollice. The wife
I t 1 l.rougiit l\itio ihe otiice for thrashing her, w-hen
> I j'T tlie it'tiluenr'e ot' whiskey. Pat tried his elo-
{ueuc’C in all manner of ways to prevent her pnsh-
.jiiT her romjilaint, but in vain. Siie was inexorable.
1*' tidd her of her loneliness—she was deaf. He pic-
ired his hardships in a prison—she was untuoved.
H. promised reform -but she wouldn’t notice him.
lie begged Jier to let him otV, just that time—but
she was impatient to make the oath of complaint.
e magistrate was aIo imj)atient, and ordered the
'V man to begin. Pat begged one moment more,
■ »d throwing all his cunning into a last desperate
*’ rt, remarked that if she was lesolved to send him
nia> kwelTs she mu^t prepare for the consequences,
then were lots of pretty girls m prison there,
his triggered Judy. She turned and twisted and
t»'d about and begired to know if the ’Squire
*' ■ In't put Pat m a cell by himself; but his Wor-
■' H}*, fc-nufiing the joke, said, if sent, Pat must be put
anion? the girls. This settled the matter, and the
r >od woman turned and marched, although the
I* ming rogue heijged her to make haste and kiss
b's .k. The idea of the girls was more than she
J ■ fe^^iid.—liirhmoml Star.
J '*■ rstand your lather is dead,” said a man
•- -I'tle boy as he entered the house. “ Youre
r: VV| Ij, ;5 ; Jrii
- 1
Justice.—A notice wms recently posted up, in the
town ofPittsford. N. Y., calling a public meeting of
young men on the subsequent Friday evening, for
the declared purpose of “ doing justice to Henry
Clay.” A few ilays previous to the proposed meet
ing, a patriotic son of the Emerald Isle dropped in
to the shop of a wliole hog ” Whig, and thus de
livered himself: --An” so, auld chip, your next
President ii going to be hung next Friday, I see!”
“What do you n«ean?” cries Marble,in high dud
geon. ‘‘Mane, sure enough !” exclaims Pat, ‘‘Didn’t
I just spy a notice on yonder post, that there w’as to
be a meeting next Friday to 'do justice to Henry
Clay?^ and liow' can tliey do that without hanging
him ? Hang him they must, shure!”
Hochestcr Advertiser.
.4 True Tei^t.—Nothing, says a late writer, sets
so wide a mark between a vulgar and a noble soul,
as the reverential love of womanhood. A man who
’ out m t\vh*T room, as I always sneering at woman, is generally a coarse
will make haste to convert their clever lovers to
good husbands.
The operation of the Act is limited to two hund
red thousand acres; and as there is much room for
choice in locations, and there is already evidence of
much intended emigration, it behoves those who
contemplate removal to lose ?io time in reaching
there. Thu first comer will of course bo best ser
ved.
To the' weiilthy Planter, Florida is eminently
inviting ; because the fertility wf its soil, and the
richness and varie-ty of its staple productions, aflbrd
better return upon investments thaa-jnay be found
elsewhere in the South. But to the poor and the
moderate in circum&taocfSj it is, beyond compari
son, the paradise of earth. There are no freezing
winters to provide against by close houses, maga
zines of supplies for embargoed and shivering fami
lies, tending and feeding of stock, «&c. So far from
this, the climate may w^ell be likened to the North
ern Spring extended through the year. The
means of subsistence are obtained with less labor,
and labor is more productive, and industry more
quickly blessed with accumulation and plenty, than
is conceivable to the inhabitant of a less fortunate
region. The forests preserve a perpetual verdure;
all descriptions of stock range the open woods
throughout the year, revelling in abundance of pas
turage ; gardens are filled with a never-ending va
riety of flower and vegetable during every month;
fish and fruits abound everywhere almost to sur
feit; the soil is easily tilled, and the harvests are so
abundant, so rich, so various, and the climate so
agreeable to labor, that little is left to be desired in
the circle of physical wants. And where but in
Florida cun such blessings be enjoyed, with the
addition of the political and moral advantages
which American free government and social ad
vancement bestow’ ?
The most advisable time for removal w’ould be
in tho months of November aa I December. Those
who reach there in those months would have am
ple lime to prepare ground for cultivation and be
assured of good crops.
The principal productions to which the country
is adapted are. Sugar, Cotton, Tobacco, Oranges,
and other fruits, the Mulberry, Grape, &c.; Corn,
Rice, &c.
The production of S’lgar is from one to three
hogsheads per acre; ai:d of Cotton from one to two
thousand pounds. A bale to the acre of black seed
(sea island) Cotton has beon produced upon pine
land in the Suwannee region. The profitableness
of these staples may be estimated from the fiict that
General Clinch, from his plantation, (Lang Syne,
in Alachua county,) worked by between fifty and
sixty hands, received, for two or three years before
it was destroyed by the Indians, a nett annual in
come of tw'enty thousand dollars. Nor is the pro
duction of Sugar confined to large planters. Every
farmer, however small his means, has his field of
Sugar cane, which is manufactured by himself, with
wooden mills of domestic construction, and large
pots of the ordinary manufacture.
'Ihe Tobacco produced in Florida is similar to
that of Cuba, and is manufactured into Cigars of
the most admired quality. Its production requires
no capital, and light labor, and is very profitable.
The orange tree requires very little attention;
and a grove, south of the indicated line, once in
bearing, is an established fortune of certain and per
manent income. The tree is indigenous every
where upon the peninsula. Groves, of miles in ex
tent, of the bitter-sweet and sour orange, are found
in ail parts of it. From a grove of the cultivated
Orange, situated upon the St. John’s river, and cov
ering only ao acre and a quarter, a yield of ^1.700 |
in a season has been realized. A single tree in St.
Augustine has been known to yield six thousand
oranges. The ^rroves at i>t. Augtistine and its vi
cinity were cut dowm to the ground by the unpre
cedented frost of 1S35; but are rapidly recovering
their former beauty and value. In the region of j
country now offered for settlement, no injury was i
produced by that frost, nor are the trees ever afi'ect |
ed. A couple of trees of the sweet orange, grow -1
ing at Pilaklaka, (the residence of Micanopy, !
head chief of the Seminoles. about thirty miles souih
of the line.) were found in full vigor and bearing by
the army in 1836; and the lime, lemon, guava, cit
ron, pomeo-ranate, fig, cocoa-nut, pine-apple, and
other West India fruits, grow luxuriantly along the
peninsula. Peaches, melons, plums, and other fruits
common to northern latitudes, also thrive, and great
ly excel the more northern production in flavor and
richness.
The mulberry grows with wonderful luxuriance,
and in most parts of Florida preserves its foliage
throughout the year. Experiments in successful
progress, prove that the silk-worm is less subject to
diseases, and that the crop of cocoons can be more
o.^ten repeated in the season than in any other part
of the United States.
Indigo may also be produced with great profit.
A large quantity was annually exported from t lori-
da while a British colonv.
Corn grows finely. The average production per
acre is from 20 to 25 bushels. As much as 40 bu
shels has been gathered from the acre.
One of the most profitable sources of income (to
the poor man especiallly) will be the stock business.
Cattle thrive wonderfully. A stock of cattle run
ning in the woods at laige, and only driven home
to b'e milked, doubles in three years, as a regular
calculation The increase is sometimes greater.
There are extensive praires and ranges of pine land.
vicinity of the coast and water courses there is an
inexhaustible supply of the finest pine timber in
America. There need be no limit to the quantity
of sawed lumber exported to the West Indies and
Atlantic and Gulf cities. The Florida lumber
commands in market, I am informed, a higher price
than any other.
A ^rodt mistake exists^^^ipect to the health
and climate of Florida, Tnere^re particular lo
calities which have been found unheathy, as is the
case in every other part of the world ; but the pe
ninsula of Florida is a healthy country, and of mild^
temperature. I resided fof'Several years in the neigh
borhood of Micanopy—a village a few miles north
of the Indian boundary line—and I never knew of'
a case of fever, (n^
vcr of the West ai
Di*
herctofol
ernor ofj
solved oj
of the
to privi
gon boy;^
seek repos^
himselt
Slashei
Credll
Th# vm
Thoncytti Cort
!iwxne old *coon,”
iif October lart,
State. Co^jfia retires
iful and disgraced ”
” goea to Aehland to ^
ineering toils, and amuse ^
with the '• mill boy of ih^
^4re requested to exercise
ifce ” until they receive that "
iast beef.”—Dover Gazette. ,
e common ague
iginating;
settlemV
'dont
was informed that,
there was no exam pi
in the summer occasion^
growing out of exposuj
they are not more frequeril
in the South and Southwest, and
tal, in consequence of the constant
sea-breezes which waft across the
greater proportion of children live throj
gerous periods of infancy than in any
the United States. The best proofs, how^
such subjects are afforded by practical and actua
tests. Fortunately, the late valuable puhlicafion 6
Dr. Lawaon, the Surgeon General of the United
States army, upon medical statistics, affords details
of a conclusive character.
Dr. Lawson furnishes a table exhibiting the ra
tio of mortality,all causes, in the army in
Florida during the years 1836, 1837, 1838. and
1839. It appears that, with a mean strength of 10,-
476 lijen, there were 644 deaths, or 6 1-10 per cent.
This-includes deaths in battlCy?iViA from wounds
and casualties generally; and it should Ije borne in
mind that the exposures of an army in the field are
very trying to health. Dr. Lawson thus remarks
upon the table to which I have referred:
“ The ratio (of mortality) of the troops in Florida
(6 1-10 per cent.) varies little from the general ave
rage of troops serving in the South in time of peace
—a fact established by the result of statistical inqui
ries. It w'ill be seen that this ratio is lower than
that of the 4th infantry, on an average of ten years.
As an evidence that no extraordinary mortality has
been experienced in Florida, it is found that the ave
rage of the last three years, taking all the regiinenti
in the army, is 4 8-10 per cent.; and that although
more than one-third of the actual strength of the ar
ray served 111 Florida in 1838, yet the mortality of
the whole army is only 4 2-10 per cent.—a ratio
lower than the mean oi ten years.”
From the data contained in an abstract exhibiting
the strength of each regiment in the army, and the
deaths in each for a period of ten years, I gather
the following striking facts, to wit:
The mortality in the 1st regiment of dragoons
garrisoned at Forts Gibson, Desmoines, and Lea-
venw'orlh, is 6 3-19 per cent.: while that of the 2d
ling,—By a law of Congress, approv-
iT, 1842, it is made incumbent in all pay
or to the Treasury, whether made in the
itates or in foreign countries, where it be-
aecessary to compute the value of the pound
^^erling, that it shall be deemed eqtial to four dol^n
ti^s and eighty’four cents, and the same rule shall
applied in appraising meichandize imported,
e the value is by the invoice in pounds sterling,
of the foimer law, inconsistent with
ns, is repealed.—Lyford's Com. Jour.
ibrated dandies was in company s
other evening, and observ^
)odle. He advanced and beg-
larking that she ought to bav&j
■iiim as she had shown to a
V I never kissed my dog while
7|ie fellow look the hint and
A Xice Y(
Tenn., critic
tashions, saj
of ordinary s
canes. Rings, chauli^fclnt
er yet captivated a won
Gentlemen who exhibit
much labor at the toilet,
tion by the retl-icting pc
That’s a sensible ;jirl.
^ypung lady in Memphis.
1*8 modes of dress and
nev«r worn by men
li^ows alone carry
)ins of gold, nev-
"CQiumon intellect.
J^ir evidence of
in high estima-
jiemale sex.
F
A withering rebuke.—A
Ohio preaching in a neii
observed two young ladies
ping suddenly in his discoal
ly at them, he said: “ I obf
in the congregation earnestly^ _
tion, and as it is not a mark of tri
more than one to speak at a time ii
remain silent for a abort time to give them SW BfT-
portunity to finish their discourse, when I will re
sume mine.” The w'orthy minister, after standing
in silence a raoment or two, resumed his subject.
AT y. Ku'prcss.
War.—Voltaire thus expresses himself on war:
-"A hundred thousand mad animals, whose heads
arp covered with hats, advance to kill or to be killed
by a like number of their fellow mortals covered
with t'ubans By this procedure they want, at
regiment of dragoons, serving altogether in Ea^t i ^f
Florida, was only 5 1-10 per cent.
The average of deaths in the 3d regiment of ar
tillery, from 1829 to 1835, stationed along the coast of
New England, was 21 ; while the average of deaths
in the same regiment, serving in Florida, from 1835
to 1838, including casualties of war, waanot more
than 24.
In the 4th regiment of artillery the average of
deaths from 1829 to 1835, while stationed mostly
at Forts Columbus, Delaware, McHenry, and Se
ven, was IS 3 7; wfiile in the same regiment, serv
ing in Florida duiing 1836, 1837, and 1838, the
average of deaths was only 1'2 2 3
The foregoing facts are stjfficient to establifch the
healthfulness of the peninsula.
It is a remarkable peculiarity of the climate of
Florida that it has neither the frigidity of the North
ern loin'cr nor the intensity of the Northern sum'
mer. 'I'hu extremes of temperature are happily
modified.
']'he foliowin^r data, gathered from the meteoro-
of them have any claim, shall belong to a certain
man whom they call Sulian or to another whom
thej^^ call Czar, neither of them ever saw or ever
wiil see the spot so furiously contended for ; and
very few of those creatures w'ho are thus mutaally
butchering each other ever behel 1 the animal for
whom tliey cut each other’s throats! Froris time
immemorial this has been the way of mankind al
most all over the earth. Wiiat an exccss of mad
ness is this and how deservedly might a Supreme
Being crush to atoms this eartlily ball, the bloody
nest of such ridiculous murderers!”
logical tables of Dr. Law'son, will ilhistrate it:
C ‘
an temp. II.'
hcist degree in
1329.
92
03
100
93
A curt fur the Tooth-Ache.—The editor of the
National Forum has communicated to the publivJ
an ” infallible ” cure for the Tooth-Ache. The
remedy is simple, and its effect said to be almost
immediate, it is this :—Take equal parts of alum
and common sail, pulverise and mi.^ them; wet a
small piece of cotton, and cause the mixed powder
to adhere: th^n place it in the hollow tooth. A
sensation of coIJness will be experienced which
will giadually suUide, and w'ith it the tormeni ->1'
the tuoih ache.
101
97
QJ
Fort Snelling, 15.31
Eastport, (Alaine) 4:^,97
F't Howard, {Green bay) 14,93
Kosion harbor, 46,24
Council iihiflh, 50,50
New York harbor, 53
Tarr.pa. ( Florida.) 72,80
Upon this subject Dr. Lawson remarks :
‘•Although the wintrr at Fort Snelling is 47 deg.
73 min. colder than at Tampa Bay, the sunin.er at
the latter place is only 8 deg. 2i min. warmer, Al
though the mean annual temperature of Pet.te Co
quille is nearly 2 deg. lower than that of Augusta, j jK-soiutioi^s will
?>or.ia, ncarl'y 8 deg. and .ha. of For. G,l,.on
wards ol 10 tJegr. lower than at Tampa Lay, yet, in i
STATE TEMPERA-\CE CONVENTION.
A meeting of the M^ca^jers of the State Tempe
rance Socitty, at Udleigh, 3rd Nov. 1842,
Res.jhed, That a siafo Temperance Convention
he l;eli ia this City, on Friday 3 o’clock P. M.
IGih Dec ne.Yt. and that all the Societies in this
State be afRctionately and earnestly requested to
sen I deleg.it* s to the same.
Resolved, That the Editors in our State, friendly
to the cause, be respectfully requeste.d to give these
h the following Address, one or two
tneir respective papers.
all, the mean summer temperature is higfier. In tlie j T- o tne Oificers and ^lembers of al* the T. emper-
ihe mercury rises higher in every ance Societies in North Carolina : Brethren and
~ fellow laborer." in an enterprize, so full of incalcula
ble blessings to a numerous class of the family of
summer season,
other portion ot the United Stales, and even in Can
ada, than it does along the coast ot Florida. In six
years’ observation at Key West it was never known
to rise above 90 degrees.”
No condition can be more independent and happy
than that of the Florida farmer. With a ff^w' weeks’
labor in the course of the year, he supplies his crib
with abundant store of gram and roots, tie makes
man,
We, in conformity to the above Resolutions, do
cordially invite you to send on some of your most
efficient Members as Delegates to the Convention,
for the object of promoting the best success of the
rreat and good cause in which we all take such a
are
his own sugar and molasses, and may make his owti | jiTieresL Dtleirates from other States
Ilis table may be supplied, | resnectfully invited to the Convention.
HILL. ^’huirrnan
rum if he lequires it. llis taoie may do .uppucu, ,
at all seasons, with the finest fiih and game, the |
choicest garden stuffs, and tlie rarest fruits. Ilib
she»:p. hoirs, '3a(tic. goats require no more care
WAI
Vrii.L. Plck. Secretary