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Number 30 of Volume .
SALISBURY, N. C., SEPTEMBER 2, 1842.
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JOHN I. '811 AVER.
if
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mills establishment is now in complete operation.
X The Company are manufacturing
Cotton Yarn, Sheeting, Shirting
ami Osnaburg, of a tuperior quality,
SViE ihff offer to ihe public" at the lowest msrset
' . . mA a Ia I hast lnlarslf
lues, snd omnpare prices, .' "P1""1
lip rclisse . miuuuin"'"'i!k
Mtlubury.Junea.iHU.
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bjb - rilUE Subscriber hss opened s ruone
r'7m,r Huuwe. In Moeksiille, Dsvie County,
rJSSfi where be k prepared to accommodate
laSs! lVren and Travellers in style which
, teTwe will prove ssU.rsctory to all- who may fsvor
Jus wuhtbau custom. - """ , , . ,
IliaSublce wilrbsabuwlantly ftm.whed I with every
Ttffiiy WCf swy torne trneof iTOTt(Wrnn Harwell
sunt) icd with a variety oi I'M""1- - , ..
U. .i... wil bo moderate. All riotous and dis-
' . . ' . Jfc 111 bT
Marca II, ifw-
fo the Boeton Miiceltany for June.
CATOCIiyS. '
It was a breathless night in Juno. My windows
were all open, and yot ibe flame of my candle
scarcely flickered. 1 had become deeply interest
ed in the paei of a new book, and was beodlesa
of the lapse of tune, or the circumstances around
me, until suddenly a moth fluttered into the flame,
and the crackling of its flimsy wings attracted my
attention. Upon glancing at my watch which lay
beside me on the table, 1 found to my surprise that
it was already midnight. 1 determined thereupon
to read no more, and shutting my book, walked
across the room to draw the curtain, intending
immediately to go to bed, but the moonlight shone
bo pleasantly in at the Window, thai 1 was forced
to ail dowa and loan upon the sill, and gaze upon
the scene. There were a fow thin whitish clouds
hanging around the horizon, like tho distant ings
of ao enormous spirit, but otherwise, the sky was
perfectly cloudlra. Above, the moon was shining
peacefully, and below, tho world of green lay
dreaming in its misty shroud, half obscured, save
whore the curving river glancing in the moonlight
shone like a burutsued oeit or steel, . l nere is a
strange fascination in aitting in themooulight and
for almost an hour I sat leaning out into the air.
All was quiet save the monotonous musical curcle
of frogs in the pond, and at intervals the rustling of
green leaves as a tremulous breath of wind swelled
gently and then dieJ away, or the prolonged bark
ot some lar ou dog I had fallen into a vague
revive when 1 heard the bell strike the hour of
one. 1 arose and went to bed. Dut no sooner
' bad I left the window ttm 1 felt a sharp pain shoot
tnrougn my neau, wnicn auer recurring at inter
vols through the next half hour, finally settled into
a raging headache. My brain throbbed violently
and seemed loose in my bead, so that every mo
lion added to the pain. It wss as if an iron hand
compressed my temples within its griping fingers.
I lay thus tossing, restless and sleeping for several
hi Kirs, and finally fell asleep.
1 dreamed that I was lying beside a waterfall,
half asleep. The water rushed hissing dowa be
side me as if an ocean was loosened, and hurried
boiling fiercely, down a rocky declivity. The air
was dmzled with spray, which fell over me like
hot sparks, and the trees above me, seen through
it seemed at times human skeletons, which bent
their long bony arms down to my face, and then
slowly rwing uplifted themselves into the air, and
became natural trees again. A thousand circles
entangling and interlacing, dilated and contracted
incessantly, then slowly the motion decreased and
they kept creeping aiound more gently, until they
swam into a broad sea of smooth, glassy water,
and fading out of my sight,' It 11 the air above me
all calm and clear. Soon a small eve seemed
KUCIOty UMiKingai mensJ!r"w imur mau larger,
til ii it tilled ilie wide ting of the horizon ; then it
changed into a face which looked cluae into my
eyes ; gradually the features became distorted into
a hideous mask, sou j;niu?d, and then a thousand
niilatfaccrowUcd-osittpon tit!rep7liiitir the
air seemed full of them ; they were huddled to
gether snd tossed about without body like the
waves ot the ocean. Now I suddenly seemd to
bit crawling on my bauds and knees over slimy and
alippery rorks, which were covered with damp
the recognition by the soul of a diviner aonse, as
it was kaving its clay tenements and thought
that, perchance, even et the very moment while I
was pending over them to take a last farewell look,
'with this feeling in my heart, they were enduring
tho same fierce, burning tormonts the same feel
ings of horror and despair that now gnawed me
like a buroinir worm : it seemod to me as if all the
joys I had ever knewn on earth would not counter
balance so dreadful a doubt. : .
I heard my name called from below i I mnde
another effort, but my tongue was torpid and dull
icaut Dim a couio not resign myseu to ino
thought that. I was dead. 1 inwardly declared that
1 wouldmove I strove with almost superhuma
exertions, but in vein I could not tuke my )'
fiom that spot on the -wall, which had, .oecome
accursed because! must sea it.' Side-w'M through
my eyes I felt the pleasant annshin glowing iota
the room I and over my head this U flies hummed
and buzzed Incessantly, and crept now and then
across my face. ,
How long nod tedious seemed tue moments;
they were years to my excited ruin I and no one
came. An age ot torment aoemeu w nave punmi
when I board a light tap at my door I could not
answer it. Again 1 heard a louder knock ; 1 knew
it was my aiator, for she spoke and called me by
name. The door opened and she came forward
cautiously, and again spoke as ahe approached the
bed. She looked a mometit at me and touched.mo
I did not spook, but lay motionless with my eyes
strained at that iofornal rpot. She paused a mo
ment. and then, uttering 4 piercing scream, ran to
the door and called for my mother. Instantly the
horror of the cry brought the family to my bedside
They lifted my hand aid it full again upon the
coverlid. Tber fell of my heart there was not a
Suitor of a pulae, for all that it seemed to me as if
hell itself, could not be worse than the torment that
was enduring. I heard quick convulsive sobs
j1
gentle rustling of the waving r0, " '
stirred among the leaves. 1 ty4,.
glads ,me earth of the bluer"01
the wind
all the
npling
-r .i - I..
brooks, half sunliifhl. hal "T V"" V'
' ...... .r ' ios thill like colors on me
VVUIIIIIJE VIUUU3, WIIUTO
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I
and felt a soft hand smooth my bair from my fore
head. Some one said M lie must Have died in a
fit ; and yet how calm his face is." " Yes." was
i ' r .i slurs, ot mo moon, n mo
"rTJX ocean, and clung to the
die mrrii iV nearer I carne to loosing them. I
A" , "Lua dim whispering hum about the room
dthe clocked ticked loudly, and the clergy
m!a voice repeated those first sentences in the
vices f..rtho dead" i am the resurrection and
the light," Acc. r ? ' '
, Hi voice ceased I gave myself up to dcspoir,
I ..1 :4 tM. mau(ws mv lt tmha dreadful thoosht Out
1 was to be buried alive. Some ono hflod the lid
to screw it down ere 1 should be removed I I heard
' a fai-H oclamation fiom some one bending over
n-(: vl Una ! ha must be alive vet I there are
drops ol perspiration now upon his forehead!
Uri'ng a mirror and place it lo his lips, be way
brratha vet." It seemed that the extremity of my
sgony had wrung out a cold dew upon my skin. j
No sooner hud the words been spokeo than there
was a wild hurry. and suppressed exclamations of
fear, and doubt, and eurprte about the room.
What a moment of agony was tho next I the fear
fuUnticipation, lest, after all, there sholltd be no
Bin of breath, was wnrse than before. Tlie mirror
i u. -..I ikm I lima hv ill audden and
mam uruiigm,
fearful cry, that my real state, that of Catochus, was
at last known.
I w Med imtantlv : between my" lips a fe
drops ol brandy were forced, aod my liinbsand head
were fomented with heated tlotlis, with sucn ei
feet, that in two hours 1 regained n.y power of mo
tion and sat un, though roak from loss of blood and
entirely exhausted by the dreadful suffering through
a fiery ordeal. Believe me, these pains I wi
not suffer again, if the price should be a wjJ'JJ
of all the wealth and glory that the
tOW. BUCH wiiinriiis . .
m9,, ."7
rnilERE is a larco qusnUtv oi
of Plsnk. Scantlinf
I . I I t..m Ml
-...i -.i . k...unir maieriiison n -
I ih. iluw-V Charles h-hcr, on iJouth Ysdk.n Rivcr,-
rgnnerly Pearson's Hills.
- t ....n.iirffil e'iftice curled Msple Plsnk, suitable
t making nftose-iurunure m
the answer, M he probsbly suffered do pain and died
almost immediately perhaps in bis sleep." The
voices grew more distant and murnwriog wl
some one left the room. Soon the door opened
and the face of the family physician intercepted
the damned spot for a moment. Now, thought I
be will (now that 1 am not dead, and will relieve
me from this situation. 1U frit of my heart and
pulse for a moment, and ben I heard him my, in
answer to the anxious inquiries. " Yee, madam,
1 am sorry to say be it entirely gone. My art
can avail him nothing." The voices then became
lower, snd 1 listened in vain.
It was a long dark peuie then the shutters
were closed, and persons trod lightly across he
floor, snd spoke to each other in an under too, as
if the place were sacred. That silent aws which
pervades the chamber of death, and hushes lK
voice as if the senseless clay could hear, had f Js'
ed over their spiriuflike breath stain up- gls
I heard the low confused rnuVmur of v,ccs t'ronB
and then
wwii i eaw wsiinrw viiaiinivii - l -
the door onened and, sort iaedtrfief1jra&atn;
gazed at roe, while scalding tears fell upon my luce.
Then the room was.empticd of all persons, and I
was left alone 'in the darkness and stillness. I lis
tened for voices, for any thing was better than this
drearv stillness but in vm : a spell was on the
bouse: its sounds el laughter,. its loomrcps,
. a .
it nuns nira,,a-i w - . ,,na
d menial constitution comjrv
I rose en altered
. 1 .n: mt
The main incident al4hiaetr- .
batleir may soein, is loundedP ,f?cl- "nd h"
uouid , f JeT wrilor s experience,
occurred within a range ol f ,
rr" '! -'"S , aopearanca which may easily
f Vff a church in a neighboring eity, on
from the ya i....k i wa,
' " thai three bodiea had assumed aucb i
J, m could only ba accountod for on the sup-
".:.. nr iKii- tiavinir been buried white iu a sute
.? ...mimImI animation or ttunor, they having
turned over in their coffins upon the recurrence of
consciousness. Tho occurrence ol such a fact alone,
toirother with tho kuownexistonce of diseases which
anoint the wuUance of doath, should induce tne
extremes! cantion, and make it n matter ot duty to
apply before burial, such tests us leave no shadow
- u..il. vrl tn ih
m doubt aoo no room iur mmami wn
. V . D.
NIAGARA FALLS.
Lord'Morpeili has lcitot Niagara, the follow-
ing;
.NIAGARA-
-bav rubbed oftor atler im aoo smu y "1ue' "s 5 Thn .urimu ot the clumbers of the deep,
1 cheeks, and mg ,r Ihe moment when 1 sti.Kild be tUe to move nwu roen ind ra.ny.linleu dyes.
Any qutntity of sswd BhinClcs can be furn.ied at
very Xrt notice. Those Kh.n2les sre slw.y. m.de
m J hoart moo, or yellow poplr,-ot a regul.r i.xe.
no riiptinj, but can .be ntiletf on iti
fall from the saw -I'rice J. per 1,
WILUAMSON HARRIS,
Oiitof hoart pine, or yell
t ad require
m it tliry
tie UiiL
neccaiberni.lSlL.
the roiif
(0Ut
Act
Tf.
Wanted,
rMRF.tt or Mr funilies to work st the SslwWy
..-.. .r,ona hut tlKMA who CSH COt6 Well It).
no senile for industry, snd sobriety, need apply.
- J. KIIUUm imuiiiti.ni'-SeUury.June3.ieii-
tf
PORSAliB.
I'PIIE Subscriber hsvin? dctcrminl on removine to
the South, wishes to tlipoo of Ins valuable l Isn-
Ii'.ioa, lymtf wiunn inrce nnn- i nii -ite
wtd leading to Mr. lKke'a bridge snd to Lex-
P!taa.Sleinand lUleich,&c; it w tl same itirme. 17
"ma by W illiam H. Klsughtor, rtj.. nu i-.v-
wttj ccncrjllv wc 11 known. I no usca t-uu-
, el.nul
Uin nt i.:-i. i. rlMHwl aiul under cultivation, snd
wt ten of it first rito mcsdow land, it is wstereu oy
-ntis Cn-rfc and two branches which run through
"1snd. an excellent orchsrd, conswling of s grcst
uiy ot very chuice
Aprlr, Peach ami Clirrry Trcf s.
Tlicro ra two dwelling Houses ou tho trsct, the one
rned i( well cslculstcdlor a iwtino ol entertain
I "iLit h.-:..r lnr,.f tw-n aturv I uldins. vrry con-
n. rnjjurv out houses conveniently
Iged. nd supplied with su excellent sprnij? ol
"'tr. The ntbrr dwelling house is nesr ihe mcidnw
"ma iml a first rata gnrin-'.lrnm winch it is supplied
rAwjter.and a Urgu barn which mikcait conveniont
oacUniy away ,,y The sbovo property is pies
h'l,!f litustfld. anil rmiiarkiblv health.
T'e mbscribor bninir snxious to sell will jrivo s bar
V; tliese wiliini lor furtlier lulormation can be grat-
calling on tno promises, on the uoacrioer.
tniiM t nmvt.t'.H.
" inu. Ridge, Rowan Co., N. C,
April 20, Ml. S
i-rten aea weed. - At 1 smned slonrr. the sea-weei buatle and noise were irone : every step was care
U... tnks.. inlo .n.lia. ....I. I tUm. Amt.H Itlll anil aldW. ui W4 Vuioa H illj.l. So Weill
IU I.IV .HWB, Willi 1UV I VVH WVIWnt -- - , til
.efase-wrtB-aauxwus -erawtiwg teptrfee
lluti. alitnv aiila aoaiiMl mtf limha aiul
' . . . . ... . . ..' I I I . ir r .!. l.a ,tnr 1 1. In nrnmn
cast over me a dredlul chill or horror ; all my loen my-eu - '"""j t-"-K
(lesh emed to creep, and the very scalp to move which almost pressed the hie out of the body. As
on my skull. In the midst of my horror and lor- I lay lhA suddenly heard a bird s gush ot song ;
ment, 1 heard the wild ringing of a bell. I sud from the tree beneath my window j how j-.v-usly ,
denly and convuUively oiiened my eyea and heard it warbled, unconscious of the agony so ne.ir li
the breakfast bell ringing. For a moment I ex- nd how my heart sickened within me as Ihesrd :
rierienced the most grateful relief from the torment it. i-
of this niht mare, which tins more than once thus Soon persona came and wrapped me up in vlnte
affected ir.e and no one eau tell the glad gush of linon, and swathed my limbs and made4 the norri
feeling which came over me, when 1 found all this ble funeral arrangements. Some one said, Uw
horrible scene wns but a dream. Hay thus for a ghastly his eyes look," and then gently prosed
mi.rn.ni iiu,iLr i nfiim .iimii mit ihon rMniwJ down the lids ver the 4mII m my eyes Never
to spring Irom the bed and dress mvself immsdi. lUl that moment did 1 dream that that accursed ;
atelyjbul what was my eurpn and horror, when spot, vu which my gtzo bad been rivefed fori
I found I could not move. My hotly and limbs many hours, could become dear to me. Tlte
seemed rigid as marblo and of an intolerable thought that we are viewing an object, htwever ,
weight. I could neither turn my head, nor hand mean, for tho last time, always raises it m impor. j
or foot. My eyeball were fixed on a spot upon tnce, and gives it a fictitious charm ; anl now
the whito wall abovo mv head, snd 1 could neither this spot to me was the straw to a drowning man,
turn them nor draw down tho lid. lo vain 1 the silver line of sunlight in a prisoner a dungeon 1
.trove to move. I was perfectly stiff and stupid the lsst link with this visible earth. 1 strove i
and without the nower of motion. There seemed in in to keep open the lids slowly they yielded j
to be some appalling disconnection between the to the pressure of tho fingers, aud grsdualy the
will and Ihe muscular system-bctween the mind range of vision became more and more couhned,
and the body, as if mv living soul was chained until all was utter y out. Never before had tin
Mezentiui like to a dead body There was no pain " "" uu. . .
o..ly a learful sensation as if the whole air had came over roe like a gulpniug wave.
... . . i . . I I ..I. 1 .1 l.K Ir. rl Jmun . .u. I fl IhA
congealed into a firm tranxparciit amber, wnicn
keld me strictly imprisoned.
Suddenly, like the swift trsck of a falling star,
the thought shot across my mind that I was dead.
Yes, that could be the only solution ol tins dread
ful eniKma I was sure that 1 was dead, but Oh
liotl ' ran this be death T Had we been always
mitakeii, and did the soul remain thus to baunt
the body, without the ability to cast it off? Was
death only a suspension of power over this fibrous
masn" ami Ihi'mi tinrli ri-n-ir nii-ciy
adjuatod muscles ? Only the breaking ol one link
There's nothing groat or bright, thou glorious Fall !
Thou inavs t not to tno lincy s sense reran
i I .i - l: .I i . L.n
The Iteccy whiU-nees ol tho upper skies,
The troad ol a nines, thick'ning as lliey come,
The boom ot cannon, snd Ihe best of drum,
The brew ot besuty, snd tho form of grscc,
The pa an ion aud Hie powors ol our race,
The song ol nonor m lis loniesi nour,
The unresisted sw cp ol Roman pjtver,
Britunnia's trident on the szure sea,
America's young elwui of liberty ! . , .
Oh! may the wars thst madden in thy deep,
There epeml their rsge, nor climb th' encircling sleeps;
And, till the coutl-ct of ihy surges cease,
Tho nations ou ihy baoka repose in peace 1
Remarkable roc-i.-O" year ago, Mr. Caleb
liartshorn, of mis place, while chopping logs in
ihe woods, cut his owu fool off, just below the an
cle, with Ins axe. We are informed on the best
authority that a now loot has grown out since, in
lie place. It is one oi me most pni.im.imai
thiims we have ever heard of. Arkansai f.'u:.
n...llm,nl I Not at nil. What saVS the
poot
There is a Divinity that iW s our einfs
Rough hew them as wo will !'
Detroit Daily Advertiser.
if
aka Yot Sa Were.
I thought
that 1 should be laid down alive in the charnel house
among the decaying corpses and stilled Irom the
clear breath of heaven, famish, tf indeed I were not
dead then. All the frightful stories of such occur,
re nee that 1 had evor road came to my miad, and '
ihn hone of ultimate recovery nrew leeuier ami
feebler.
The night came ; and how dreary and unonding
it seemed. One after another I heard tho hours
ruck by the clock, unlil at last, irom pure exnaus-j u ,, f ,u ,, HiapimnmJ 1 ' .k. K..r, ioes not allow for the
lest my senwiliuii. ll umw nave ootu . ( Whla n ,ha,cab ,ho , oJ- lha b.-,KC,ng( lie gets nothing for it
tan f a anfiBiiniirtnfui. . - r .i.- i..... " a . . a .
A Deed of Separation. A good story was told
the editors at the expense of an I'.astern gentleman
who cdino to our city on a matrimonial specula.
iinn. The unlortunato subject of this practical
joke, it seems, had been married in the morning at
ono of our chief hotels and had gono with his
brido on board a steamboat to take pussage for
home, when the wife recollocted that in the conl'u
.ion ol her tinml, m natural to her new ocgroo,
IP DjlvUAIL
REMARKS OF MR. CALHOUN,
Of SOUTH CaBOMMS, -
U StMte, July 29, 1942,
On tho Tariff. ' Tho' proposition being to reduce the
duty on cotton bagging.
Ma. Caliioi-x said the duty proposed by this
Wd ha eollou' bagging wss hoavy, and would act -oppressively
on those he represented, and Ihe whole
cotton producing States, r ive cents on the square
yard equalled 0 1-9 on the running. The cost of
the article abroad this year was from 4 to 5 pence,
as he learned by a letter receivcJ recently from a
highly respectable importing house to lharieston.
Assuming 9 cents to be the average cost, a duly of .
019 cents on the running yard would ba about 03
por cent, ad valorem. It would take 6) yards for
a bale of cotton of 400 pounds, which would make
the duty on the bagging equal to 33 11-18 cents
the ble. . ,
B'ji as beavv aa would bo this tax on the bagt
glng, that proposed by the bill on the rope and
twiue was lull me more so. iney woum oc auu
ject to a duty of Q cents per pound I which would
equal, ou the rope, 150 per cep. ad valorem, ta
king the cost abroad from official documents. Un
the twine it would be less ( but bow much, he waa
not certain. It would probably, however, not fall
short of SO per ecert., and might be much more
Assuming 0 pounds of rope and a quarter of a
pound of twine to a bale, the. duty for the rope
would be SOcents, and the twine ll making, with:
hat foro bagging, ll i centa tne uaie
Aaaoramg that the crop of cotton this year would
be-two'millionB of bales, (which, from appearance,
I ould be ao under estimate,) the actual amount of
the duty on these tnree articles only, on the crop,
would be the enormous sum of 11,444,232 1 eeti
mating the average price for the year at 74 cents
per pound, (which, lie-apprehended, was toe high,)
Ihe gross amount of the crop in value would be
000,000,000, on whica t 1,422,222 would be about
i vein. a. wvuiu, vt wwiH, w iuva vi f
bales in a hundred, or 1 in 97, to the planter.
making an aggregate loss on the crop of 47,000
bales. Such would be the amount of the burden
ou the cotton planter, under the proposed duties oo
bagging, rope, and twine. It we were now delibe
rating on an income tax to raise revenue to meet
the wants ot the Government, instead oft duty on '
the imports, the share which would fall on the cot
ton planters, would not exceed the sum proposed
lo be levied on them by the duty on those three
items. The annual income of tho people of this
Union cannot be estimated at leas than 11,200,.
000.000. It is probably much more : but on that
sum a tax of 2 J per cent, would give a reveuue'of
$28,000,000, about equal to the sum proposed to
be raised by thia ball- If to this heavy burden
there be added the heavy 4isl of 4tier oppressive
duties proposed by the bill e almost every article
consumed by -lbs cotton planters, and which they
cannot traosfer to the shoulders i)f4luars, by-
ttngte duty Iff rtoi71avor,1somo conception may be
formed of the extent of the burdun which the
growers of this great staple must bear, should this
bill become a law. ' .
lie would now ask, why should such high duties
be laid on the articles used in packing and baling
the cotton 1 -tie could see no good reason for it.
On tho contrary, it seemed lo iiirn that, on sound
principle, and according to analogy, they ought to
bo eiiUci duty. Ireo, 4. -subject 4o very light one, -or
at least entitled to drawback on the shipment of
the cotton abroad. The process of ginning and
packing tho cotton after it has been cultivated aod
harvested, may be fairly considered as a maoufac
lure. It takes more machinery, and is "more ex.
pensive, than many which are highly favored by
this bill ; and it would be but justice to place the
materials necessary for the process (lbs tagging,
rone, and twine) on the same footing as those which
enter into the process of other manufactures sueh
as dye stun, raw bides, and omers til or wtnen
are oxempt from duty, or subject to very light ones,
oo importation, under this bill. Indeed, they are
entitled tea moro, favorable consideration. .Most
of the articles for which these are used, are sold .
at home j and the increased cost, on account oi the
duties, may bs laid on in their sale. Not so ia the
case of cotton. That is, for the most part, sold
abrffrt, where not a cent more can be bad for du ,
ties paid. Viewed in that light, they come fairly
under the drawback principle, as applied in the)
case of refined sugar from imported brown sugar,
or rum from imKrted molasses, and tho like, which
on shipment abroad, are allowed a drawback for
the duty on tho articles used in their manufacture.
The reason in the one case, is as strong aa in the
' other. The only difference is, that in one case the
I process is carried on in one portion of tho Union,
! and on the other in anothor.
Hut we are told that nothing is lot to a planter
in consequence of the duty 5 and that, for the ex. -traordinary
reason that he gets as much for the
banging by tho pound, in tho sale of the cotton, as
forThe cotton itself; and that, when the price is
ten cents or more per pound, be loses nothing. If
it were so, there is no reason why bs should be
deprived of the advantage by the imposition- of
nt there is l f""' mi.rata im
in ihe moroinir when 1 returned to consciousness,
I felt hands upon me they were lifting me into
my cofiiq t I heard them screw in screw after
screw uu'til the lid was fastened, and only tho nar
row space over my face remained open. I foil
the sides of the colhn jar and rub against my arms,
nglantl P feel ii a.ch awo" and I despaired that 1 should ever recover my
i -.m inift tin. power of motion.
IJVIv.
in the subtle chain, that connected all the faculties
and powers with their instruments t Perhaps the
soul was never freed until the body had rolled off,
little by little, into a mass of corruption, and ex
huled or fiillen In dry dual ; and I was destined to
inhabit the livi
from me snd perish, ere I could emerge into the
liirlit and beauty of a renewed life. This I had
never dreamed of, and all the joy and luxury of
exigence, all tho sense of light and sunshine and
fresh air, all the thousand ftind delights with which
God has strewn this pictured world, wero nol worth
such a price. Upon these lips tho worm should
feed, and I could nut drive them away ; these eyes
through which the soul had looked upon a mild
and glorious world, as through clear glasses, would
chutiire until ihev were loathsome and corrupted.
Oh tod I the agony of such a thought. Nothing
t k.n.wt imnninrd enunllcd it in terror I And
when I recalled the dead laces oi inose wnom i ;
had loved and buried, and remembered the benign
and placid amilo which ehnno upon them, like the
last foot prints ot tho freed and rejoicing spirit as
it fled heavenward, and which seemed to betoken
rim colfiu was lifted and nlncod upon n
Some one asked when I was to be buried I " This
afternoon," was the answer" ho has boon dead
two days," I had thon been unconscious for the
length of tho whole day. Now the luno instead
of drawing a weary length, scorned lo llv with ra
pidity like lightning. 1 lie past scemeu i imnwiT
long tho future was lore ahortcned to a breath, a
.n..niont. The clock licked laster and faster, and
time eecmeji to pour itself away in mpid moments, I
aa a rising thundercloud empties its Irerce, heavy
drops moro and more rapidly.
It was afternoon the company gatnerea mo
shutter creaked beide me, and tho window was
opened. 1 felt the warm breath of the spring air
.ma.ner left, to the creat mortification ol mo nus
band, who tore round like a madman, threatening
all sorts of vengcanco on the Captain. His rage,
however, was appeased, ami ho returned to wait
(or Iho next boat. It was remarked Ihat Ihe
nances which he occasionally bestowed on the
unfortunate reiiculo were any thing but compla
cent. X Y. Express.
The Moon Uninhabited. An old lu.ly, who had J
been reading tlie.lnmous moon etory very alien-1
lively remarked with cinpliasin, lliat tho idea il j
tho moon's being inhabited was incredible to be I
lievo; "for," said she, "what becomes of tho
people m tho now m wn. when there is nothing left
of it but a Ititle streak f
An Irishman once riding to market with a sack
of potatoes before hun, discovered thot his horse
' . . . 1 ...i.ahihiuui I.A iiniiinilM1. Out
was getting urou, imi r--
when he sells. In the great cotton market, (Liv.
crpool,) tho bale is stripped and weighed, and no.
thin" paid for but tho cotton sold. Somo small
allowanco is made for bagging, but nothing like
its price ; so that the duty in all cases is a dead
loss. It is mo absurd to supposo the buyer would
pay, when he can gel" nothing;-and we may bo
assured that, where no deduction is formally made
for tho weight of tho bagging, the buyer takes it
into account, in fixing the prtco ho gives. The)
bagging, rope, and twine, on a crop of two milliona
if bales, would weigh at least 30 millions of pounds
equal to 0200,0110,000 in value, estimating tho
price of cotton at the lowest rates a sum rather
too lurge Iur tno buyer or tne manutacturer to
present aa a gift lo tho fuclors annually. They
are not quite so generous as to do it intentionally,
and ;oo sagacious la do it by mistake. But the
Chairman of tho Finance Committee has road
from the documents, that the, whole amount of
cotton bassinir imported in 1840 was not quito
throe millions of yards ; and that at five cents a
...I over mv face like a delicious odor. 1 heard, saying,
a a . .
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li potatoes o woum rrive a revenue of only tlM.000.
the birds singing among
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the branches, and the praties, a i he was fresher thau tho poot bate.
I Ilovs he intend it should be inferred that only that
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