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r WiSflll YOl. II. XO. 83. trixteij ami rriiLisunn, rvr.ur tucsdat, Br BINGHAM ?c WI11TK. TJ.KMS : The subscription to the Wkstkux C.iholimax is Three IKUars per annum, payable half-yearly in advance. GC No paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid, unless at the discretion of the Editors ; and any subscriber failing to give notice of his wish to discontinue at the end of a year, will be considered as wishing" to continue the paper, which will be sent accordingly. AVhoever will become responsible for the payment of nine papers, shall receive a tenth gratis. Advertisements will be inserted on the cus tomary terms. m m Persons sending- in Adver tisements, must specify the number of times they wish them inserted, or they will be continued till ordered out, and charged accordingly. No advertisement inserted until it has been paid for, or its payment assumed by some person in this town, or its vicinity. CjAll letters to the editors must be post-paid, r they will not be attended to. iVegYues 1'oY Sale, And LANDS and MILLS to Rent. OS the third of January, 1822, at Mock's Old Field, will be sold, on a credit of sic and vine months, several valuable young NEGliOES, likely and of good character. At the same time and place, will be rented, for one year, the valuable Saw and Grist Milk, on Third Creek, belonging to the yrre of the late Col. Richmond Pearson, scnV.Vtfased. Also, the valuable Plantation between South River and Third Creek, containing about 150 acres of open land, all under good fence. Also, the Plantation known as the Old Place, containing upwards of 25 J acres, under good fence. And four or five other Plantations, of less value all belonging to said estate. J. A. PEARSON, Executor. E. PEARSON, Executrix. JVbr. 19, 1821. 6wt82 r!HE subscriber respectfully inforrns the citi 1 zens of the Western section of N. Carolina and the adjoining districts ofj. Carolina, that he has established the Book-Lading Jiusinest, in all of its various branches, in the town of Salisbury, N. C. lie has taken the store formerly occupied by Wood &. Krider, on Main-street, three doors north of the Court-I louse. Having devoted considerable time to acquire a competent knowledge of his business, in the city of Kaltimf-e, the subscriber Hatters himself that he will I able to execute every kind of work in his lin,' in a style and on terms that will give general satisfaction. Merchants and others, can have Jtlanb Hooks ruled and bound to anv pattern, on short notice, as cheap and as well finished as any that can be j brought from the North. Old Books rebound on the most reasonable terms, and at short notice. Orders from a distance, for Rinding of every description, will be faithfullv attended to. WILLIAM II. YOUNG. Salisb ury, June 8, 1821. 53 a rTiIE subscriber respectfully informs JL tue citizens ot Salisbury ami tne iifU. adjacent country, that he has removed ,1. the citizens ot Salisbury ami the from his late residence on the north side of the ( day, until the whole is sold. The real estate con Y'adkin river, on the main road leading from j sists of the well known establishment called the Salem to Danville, 15 miles from Salisbury, and j Catawba Springs, with the plantation and lands has taken the house formerly occupied by Capt. attached. The personal property consists of a Ja. Kridcr, in town, on Main street, a few doors ! number of very valuable Negroes, various kinds north of the Court-I louse ; where he is prepared of farm stock, household furniture, &.c. The to keep u House of Private Entertainment for ! terms, which will be accommodating, will be Travellers and citizens. He will at all times ; made known on the day of sale. furnish Stabling, Fodder and Grain for Horses. THOMAS HOLMES. Salisbury, Sept. 25, 1821. 78 N. B. Eight or ten BOARDERS will be taken at the customary prices in town. T?ACly HoWays 'ltiviY&. X AN awav from the subscriber, at Charlotte, X Mecklenburg countv, N. Carolina, a Negro ! liov bv the name of SIMON; dark complexion, stout made, and five feet seven or eight inches hiHi. He speaks low when spoken to. It is supposed that he will make towards the county months, in the Raleigh Star and Y estern Caro ;f Prince William, Virginia, as he was purchased i 1'mian, that unless he appear at the next term of In that county. 1 will give the above reward if i t'.p sii.l nesTo is delivered to Isaac IVllie. Con- cord, Cabarrus county, or 25 dollars if secured in any jail, and information given, so that I get him 3-rain. EVAN WILIE. March 21, 1S21. 50 N'viW SUxge. to YAeg. TinilE subscriber, who is rtXZ?yZis:k ttie U. Mates Mail net ween !aiT5t?vtsS Raleigh' and Salisbury, by vav of Randolph, Chatham, &x. respectfullv in forms the public, that he has fitted up an entire NEW STAGE; which, added to other iniprove- IllflUb tlKtt li:it; UPCIl lllUliv., Will ..ll.l.iv. 111111 IW carry PASSENGERS with as much comfort and i i v. .,.:n .,ai.i ,x .,o-a- to .ci- r.pnta i-.ntl.imii I " n:..- Cr.n fl.. vct i, I... ..v of IlaleiSi to the North, ore incited to tfy the -. .. oo i,, r.,.i, .,...-...,1 :,,!,. rlc trial to train a nreferei.ee. ' The Staffe arrives in Salisbury every Tuesday, 8 or 9 o'clock, and departs thence for R.dch I' 111 ILlllVill L 3 II 11 IJi: L,ill 1 K Vi -r nn- ' ' . - .-.- . .-1 . f . h..(. KA rn tw i i ltto rl stages in this part of the country. The'scarcity Jf f PJ,ea""S ) satistact.cn f of money, the reduction in the price of produce, "J. that the defendant in this case is without Zee. demand a correspondent reduction in everv thtf mi of ,tlus State, Ordered, therefore, that department of life : Therefore, the subscriber , Publication be made tor three months . the ,.A AmntA ir, ,1,,. .vf rwrn i estern Carolinian, for the defendant to appear the same day at 2 o'clock; it arrives m Raleigh Triday eveninpr, and leaves there for Syhsbury -7ii Saturday at 2 o'clock. .V.i23, 1821. 50 JOHN LANK. .non.R jfE'tv Goons. rill IE subscriber is now opening, at his Store JL in Salisbury, a large and choice selection or Dry Goods and Groceries, Just received from Charleston, Philadelphia and New-York; which will be sold at fair prices, and all kinds of country produce received in exchange. His customers and the public are respectfully invited to call, examine, and judge for 'themselves. J. MURPHY. I) -certifier, 1821. 3mUH Aug iYvsies THE subscriber having employed a compe tent person, will keep on hand a constant supply of Bread and Crackers, and Cakes, cf ev ery description, as well as the various articles usually kept in a Confectionary Store, all of which he will dis pose of on vcrv reasonable terms. THOMAS HOLMES. Salisbury, Th e. 18, 1821. SO An OvvvvsiMiV NYwiUeA. I WILL give liberal wages the ensuing car, to an Overseer of sober and industrious hab its, and good character. JOHN REAR1), Jr. J)ecember 10, 1821. 4wtS2 The celebrated Horse OR terms, apply to the 1 subscriber. It not sold previous to the 1 .51 1 1 of February next, he will again stand the ensuing Spring Season, in this place. 'MICHAEL BROWN. Sufisb"iv, Dec. 3, 1821. 7SIF15 30 VWAVays WewivvA. OKI 4 JAIL on the ni-ht of the 17th in- stant, a white man and two negroes. The white man is bv the name of John Prince, said : to have come from Grayson county, Virginia, who was confined on a c!iarg or.countertei:ing mon ey ; he is about 35 yc as of age, dark complex ion, about five feet ten inches high. One of the negroes says he came from Charleston, S. C. and that his name is Bill, and is a runaway; he is a trim built fellow, of a middle size and age, has been cropped, or lost a piece of one ear, 1 think the right car : The other is of a vellow com plcxion, heavy built, thick lips, and a small scar on his under lip, supposed to be about 35 years of age, says his name is Owen, and is a runaway from the state of Georgia. It is thought by some that Prince will pass for their master, and perhaps sell them. jp Any person that will apprehend them, and confine them in any jail, or bring them so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable expenses; or 10 dollars for each or cither of them. WM. ARM FIELD, Sheriff. Greensboro, Guilford Co. V. C. 1 November 26, 1821. SmtllM THE subscriber wishes to employ, immedi ately, two or three Journeymen Carpenters, to whom good wages and constant employ will be given. He will also take two or three lads of gooil character, as apprentices to the Carpen ter's Business. None need apply but such as arc sober and industrious. JOHN ALBRIGHT. Salinhurv, October 3, 1821. G9tf lsUxle, ul OavA. JiiAm WeAtV. the 8th of January will commence the r sale ot the real ami personal estate ot the late Capt John lieid, and continue from day to JOHN REID, ? ALEX. McCORKLE.S November 19, 1821. 7wt32 Executors. MF.CKI.EMiURG COUNTY. Q UPERIOR Court of Law, Fall Tern-., 1821... KJ Margaret Duil'ey vs. Robert Duftey l'cti- ton lor Divorce. It appearing to the satistac- tion ot Court, that Robert Dutiey, the detendant in this case, is not an inhabitant of this State : Ordered, that publication be made for three the Superior Court of Law, to be held for the county of Mecklenburg, at the Court-IIouse in Charlotte, on the sixth Monday after the fourth Monday in March next, and answer said petition, it will be set for hearing ex parte, and a decree made in favour of the petitioner. Witness George Graham, Clerk of said Court, at Office, the 6th Mondav after the 4th Monday in Sep tember, A. 1). 1821, and in the IGth year of American Independence. GEO. GRAHAM, Clerk S. C. Is. Vcv. 21, 1821. 78m3 ItUTHKUFOUD COUNTY : 1 a uum in i-jcas auu wuancr sessions, vjciu . ,r,-,, . i : V bcr Sessions, 1821 W ilham Arthur versus ! A. AT m- . i f III 1 d X : r next county Loan oi rieas ami quarter ; Sessions to be holdcn for the Countv of Ruther ; rtn at the Court House in liutherforcUon, on -uu' seconu .-.:oiuiay m January next, men ani hc ro to I; 'u! cr (lc,!1'ir' or judgment final wil K?C CR VTOV V C : Witness, IsAAl CRAION, C. (. or.? V the various kinds commonlv in use, for sale UlC OillCC Ot tliC "WiiSTERX C'iUOLIXIAX AGRICULTURAL. Hail ! first of Arts, source of domestic ease ; Pride of the land, and patron of the seas. FnOM THE AMEHICAX FAIIMER. On the Culture and best distances for plantia INDIAN CORN. ' Sih American yriters upon agricul ture, most generally have declared open war against the cultiyation of the invalu able Indian Corn or Maize, and almost without an exception recommend, that we should not cultivate our usual quantity, but increase our crops of wheat and grass. If, by their instructions, they mean to prevent us from wasting our time and la bor upon poor lands, under bad manage ment, they are right ; but, it is my opin ion, that we cannot grow too much of a gram, which, when we consider tne va rious uses to which it is applied, the con venience and economy with which it may be fed, may be justly esteemed a blessing to our happy country, beyond all other grain. It does not, indeed, sell for as much per bushel as wheat, bat for nearly as much as rye and, as a food for stock, it is more valuable than either. That it is a profitable crop to the grower, I give one fact in evidence : inquire of any in- elligent country merchant, and he will inform you, that the good corn farmers arc the money-making farmers and we all know that to this precious grain we are indebted for fat horses, fat oxen, fat beeves, fat hogs, fat poultry, and content ed servants. One year with another, the "air price of corn is about half the price of wheat, and this value seems to be gov erned more by the produce, than by in trinsic value. The land which will pro duce five bushels of wheat to the acre, will produce ten bushels of corn ; if twenty of wheat, forty of corn, and so on, in nearly the same ratio ; with this difference, how ever, that in some few situations, good wheat land will not produce heavy crops of corn, while, in extensive districts, first rate corn land will not produce heavy crops of wheat. The farmer, who attempts a crop of corn, must plant early, and cultivate with care and diligence, never suffering grass or seed to gain possession, nor the land to become baked, or with a hard crust, however clean it may be ; but these prin ciples are so universally understood, that any further remarks from me are unne cessary, and I proceed to what is not so generally agreed upon, the best distance at which to plant. Although we may have a good or bad crop upon an equal number of stalks, yet it is reduced to certainty, that a great crop cannot be made without a great many stalks ; and when I hear of eighty to a hundred bushels to the acre, I am convin ced that such great produce is not merely owing to a fortunate season, and good til lagc of good land, but also to the fact, that more stalks have been grown upon the acre, than is customary with us in Vary land. Impressed with this opinion, I have made various experiments to ascertain that distance which will unite most advan tages with the fewest disadvantages, where wheat or winter grain is sown among corn, and have at last settled down to rows seven feet wide, and two feet apart in the row. This is called drill planting, step corn, or hit and miss corn, a mode of planting occasionally practiced time immemorial. Two feet is the natural and easy military step, which the dropper soon acquires to great exactness. Our corn fields are upon a large scale, and most generally small grain is sown among the coi n. We will take a field of 250acies, and suppose it a -square, which will give us 200 perches each way. Jlills. At 7 by 2 feet you have in this field", 777,85 7 The most universal dis tance with us is 4 feet 6 in ches each way, and which gives to us 537,77s Difference, 240,079 But this is not the only difference, it is well known, that very little wheat is grown in the furrow or clearing out of corn ground, even upon prime and upon weak land, what little does grow cannot be saved. Your field then being200 perches square, at 4 feet 6 inches contains 735 furrows, while at 7 feet there is but 471 Difference, 264 which, allowing one foot in width to each furrow, makes a difference of twenty acres, or one twelfth less of wheat. The cross tillage wastes yet more, and in par ticular on fiat land for at the anqde of every crossing, a cup is formed, which not only retains superfluous water, but at which the soil is deteriorated by frequent ridging up the good soil, and by the frost retained in that cup. There is an ad vantage in seven feet drills, beyond the points enumerated nine feet the cut of a wheat cradle, taking two lands of four feet six inches each, is too great a sweep, except for long armed, skilful, and willing cradlers. Nineteen times out of twenty, the wheat is so scooped out, as to cut off the heads at the pointing in and out, with so little straw attached, that a vast propor tion of grain is lost. Upon an average of hands, a seven foot sweep is enough for clean work and, if you must .hurry, (which is in no case prudent,) you step longer, and strike deeper in. If my remarks meet your approbation, you shall hear further from Your obedient servant, F. 23 d .ox. 1821. On corn ground, the best wheat is on the ridge, the worst in the furrows, and a medium at the antrles of crossincr. The London Times gives a very laugh able account of an a-vk-zvard mistake which recently occurred in England. It appears, in short, that a popular preacher, who was intimate in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Whitbread, and a favorite with Lady Au gusta Murray, (Dutchess of Sussex,) had received invitations from both to dinner the same day. He wrote two notes in an swer ; but in his hurry sent the one inten ded for Lady Murray to Mrs. Whitbread, and that for Mrs. W. to Lady Murray. Ccnj of 'the first jYote " Dear Dutch ess, a thousand thanks for your most de lightful invitation. I must, I will accept it, though to do so I am compelled to put off the brewer and his wife." Copy of the second- A'bfe. The Rev. Mr. II. presents his respectful compli ments to Lady Elizabeth Whitbread, and regrets that the sudden indisposition of his aunt, lrom whom he has great expec tations, will prevent him from indulging himself in the high honor of waiting upon the family to dinner this evening." No man could ever have been more chagrined, than when he received the fol lowing note from Mrs. Whitbread : "Lady Elizabeth Whitbread presents her compliments to the Rev. Mr. II. and doubts not but that when fatigued with the society of Dukes and Dutchesses, he would kindly condescend to put up with the humble fare of a brewer and his wife." Medical Schools. Whilst that of New York has some more than two hundred students, Baltimore two hundred and thir ty, Yale eighty, and that of Lexington, (Ky.) one hundred and twenty, Philadel phia claims to have four hundred this win ter. From these data, wc may conjec ture the number of persons devoted to the healing art, throughout the U. States. We presume there cannot be less than fifteen thousand. lcd. Rep. IWGT.A'D .iVD FRANCE. mOM A LATE LOSDOX PAVER. Many good people in this country, ma ny of our readers, and a great majority, perhaps, of our reformers, conceive that France, in receiving the Bourbons to the throne, has lost all 'the benefits and pros pects of the revolution. This is so far from being true, that we should perhaps be justified in asserting that " the benefits of the revolution are reconciling the French to the restoration of the Bour bons." The immensely multiplied num ber of proprietors of land, which took place at the commencement of the revo lution in France, constituted a change in the condition of society, infinitely greater than the elevation or fall of dynasties ; or the success or defeat of monarchy on the one hand, or republicanism on the other. We believe, indeed, what general Foy as serted in spirit, to the chamber of depu ties that Napoleon's government was the only one that the people liked, or which was adapted to their character or their taste. We will lake a fart establish ed by the best English and French wri ters : cbout one 'half of the whole thirty five millions of the population of France are proprietors of the soil : while in Eng land not more than one-sixth are proprie tors, in a population of nine millions and a half. This fact alone constitutes an al most inconceivable difference in the con dition of the two nations. It is true the Courier and the Quarterly Review will de scribe the persons and appearances of these French proprietors man and wife work ing in the field together: and contrast their homes and comforts with the neut English cottage, and busy house-wife, with its domestic neatness, &c. which. those sleek and comfortable gentlemen so well know how to do ; and it is a very easy task to darken the shades in one pic lure, and heighten the colors of another. But the evils of English society are mov ing np-vards : they are advancing to that point from which the French revolution took up its terrible elements. It is par ticularly deserving of notice, too, that the aristocracy cf this kingdom are seceding from their natural and constitutional posi tion between the crown and the people ; and joining the former in Ids apprehen sions and defences against the latter. This were a convincing proof that the pil lars of our form of government are break ing down ; and that the whole frame of society is undergoing the most ominous change. In respect to our approximation to the state of France, previous to the revolution, we will quote two remarkable instances. The revenue of France, in the period alluded to, became such a perfectly mys tified system, that those who professed to regulate it, and direct it provisions, con id not comprehend its operation ; and when M. Neckar made out its scale of defec tion at ten millions his successor imme diately afterwards, stated it at eighty mil lions I The revenue of Great Britain is equal ly mystified, but infinitely more enor mous, and, in its operations, proportiona lly incomprehensible. statement of the revenue is dressed up to the tye, con trasted with itseff at different times, but particular periods but never in reference to its true and distinct objects ; just as we would measure the health of a patient, who has been in a bad and dangerous way for twenty years ! And we begin by say ing he is alive 7iow which is as much as he was sixteen years ago and therefore he is in as prosperous a way now as he was then! This is the argument of the doc-toi-s who get their fees as long as they are retained in his service ; and knowing the patient's fortune, would keep him alive, and make a merit of that, us long as he can pay them. Now we will give his ( John Bull's) doctors the credit to say, that if he were now politically, to die as a grub, and fate had already spun the shroud of the sleeping Chrysolite they, the said doc tors, would be the first, on his resuscitation in a changed nature, to admire his revolu tionary wings, and congratulate him on his political resurrection J if there were a hope that they might continue to be the fami ly physicians. In the next place, looking into the his tory of France, we find that, among the earliest symptoms of the disease, is a dif- ficulty of collecting the taxes. " It seem ed," says a writer, " as if all the powers of the state conspired their own ruin." The collecting of taxes formed an odious and rigorous Inquisition ; and the magis trates, at length, declared to the people that they could not sanction the excessive imposts of the government ; certain ex pressions, characteristic ot the condition of the people, were made in the parlia ment of Palis, and gave a cue to the spir it of the limes, and, France revolution ized, at a moment, like to the present in England, when efforts were being made to ameliorate political evils ; but which ef forts were beginning at the wrong end. We are partially attending to the corrupt state of the representation, which is not partially, but generally corrupt ; and should, therefore, be generally, and not partially, attended to : we have a committee cf agri culture sitting, composed of two classes cf 7nen, neither of which have any inter ests in relieving the present sufferers ; but are both endeavoring to ward off the evil from the apparently destined succeeding sufferers. it, I X