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ill t.Y'.i WILLI A3ID- COOKE, j AH INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. TERMS, ; TWO DOLLARS FEB AHITOI 9elttcu- to all tfje Sn tctxsts of Eije Souti), iterate,; gftuc-fttion, Sericulture, ltojs,fljc iWmfcet, &c. .4 ' VOL IV -XO. 10. RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1855. WHOLE NO. 165 ' '"",''' '. SELECTED STORY. From the Rational Magazine. ISTHER MALCOLM'S STORY. Hy lather returned Loum u!ie!al';enioim, ear lier than" usual. : I was sitting at the window at woik, aJ looked up when I l.eard the ftttle j g inleti gate op n .d, and then shut with a sharp: c ick. '...:". '...: hA Th'-re was a stiange mingling: of -pleasure an 1 pain in my faiber's 1. ok ; and though he seemi d io l urry up tl.e gudeu path, he iingcTr eal. I coul I i o.. make it out. ' You have succeeded better to-day,; my dear," taid my mother, when he euUnd the room. " Yes, ' Lucy periajs,"' lie. answered-, hesi i.itinly ; I do not know what to-' say about th t(. No-; I do not kn that I have," ho aJ ded has ily. "; ; My lather was a nvrv-antile clerk in search i f employment. A few months in-fore he had been ill, and we feared he would de; but God spued him. -When sufHch-n ly r. covend to return to U s ties, he found hi. situiitn ii titled "1 , an l Je was cat on ins own resources .Tuce resouices, a!a-! were verv' slender. ti . iii . . i i .. .1 .. j . i .1 . . .....I llis illness xi;iu sauy uiuim.si.e i incur, .iui i y ; : tne prospect .i.i a unary winier appro.iit:ng, iiud he kinetnjtioyed, tilled hitu with natural 'Concern. . ' " ' Our f imiiy was not large. It. had been larg er ; but dea h had oice and again and again entered it. . One Brother only an I .mysi'jf were left, ilarry yonnger than I. He vs about sixteen.-'aiei had h.ft seho -1 "lust -as my la h'-i's iilne s' biiiiiienced ; an i h -le was an- oth.r item in our di ar parents' a xiety.:-i llanv f -hail been edncat d for eoiiiiiing-iiou-e .ife.; but we had fe 'A frien :s nviie who coiihl as.st us in ihii matter; and he too was unemployed. My father had m i;e many eti'ous, had advei? tist-d afid anvic ed advvn;seiiietits, had soiiLrlu an ! obtained; interviews with employers, had see ned at tii. es i.liin reach ol what he sought and needed, htit s ' me f.uality aj.jie.ired to at tind h.s tloiiS. He was too la'e, i-r too early, or ii t young 'enough ; or he w as ignoisint of some iud spi ii-ab e foreign language. Ttmse only who have bet'ii similar ciivu ustanced kno. how inauv ill ideifts go io make no a successful aj.jilication, and r.wv litde, for a time ai h ast, s uccess seetris loMepend on proved e'tiiciene. and uiibi-tushed'cl)aiac:er. JiSi. ti is pass tor an explanation ; or shull 1 say further, that, an 4- te.icner of muse to iktl gi l.j, 1 was d ing the best I could, aud it wa but Ji il io ard my self-support. Further than thi , alas ! I had no" power.' " I no Hut uudeistand you Yil.iam,'-said my iimj her, in ivj nder to my father s some ha. C'liiiad ctoiy i.. formation. '" Ii.it I kar you have been again di al p tinted.'', My .father di-1- rot l imn diab ly rep'y ; an il we so -u nfterward- sat dowifto tea. ( "T have had' a- lib rat' oti r. to-dav, Luev.'f said my fiiher p esent y " or what, nppi ars tdJ '.be stn.li ; but it must rest with You whether T .c:in accept it or not." -I'h ie was a m turnful tone in his voic-, I thoug'.t, an t I wondeiad at . it, for goiicially he was h e'l'ul and h . et'ul. ' t'llo .v cau ii dep.. n l on me f my 'mother asked. . " ' "For how long woull you agree to,,a t with mtl ' sanI my tii tu-r. : ":To put, William.-'' anVl ruv mo.her's eoun t u nice wa s ui !e I with aim tv. oU do hot mean, by oar going ab.ro;. d 5'' " Ev. n .-o, uiy ih ar. I cm, if I p'ease. sail next month firlniia on bu-iness whiciu ;u tin shortest, w.ll take up' three years. Tne ' ter ns, a I said, are libjral ; but I saali uofgo with out your coi.S'-nt." M. mother h ard in s'lcnc. ; -she only asked, " Wiu-n must yoiidec de, Wiiliinn C' and was tul that iny father mu-t give his answer to morrow;. " . '- J To at was a soir tv ful tvenjug to us all. r!'ore we seperated for the night, ai d when were by ourselves, Isiid to my mother, '"You will nit let dear papa go. wiljyiU:" S.ie was a ki..d and indulgent mother; she wiis also a'prudent, thoiiglitful woman. " I - dare not answer your qu s.ion, E-tlier,'' she S;n l. ' You must wait til! to-moiiow, to know l v vie hav e decided."' . I lay awake that night. f-r ma' y houis. The raiuful possii i ny i f the long feperatiou which s-eiu d' to ihiea en us hi ed me wiih di-mav. i ' ) ,1 1 . ear, too, the v ic.-s of my father and "I'Vi'iei; j,, iu. r,.M1m bi.hivv ; a g-'.it'e muruiur . 11 g-snnnd it was.u.luit it 'prevent' d . me from sl'-epieg. I heard my father, too, in sLh nvi, taraet. praver ; a nl the t tiier- .was a sh- rt s n il e. Thev had. been in consult ition I knew, r a ui T 1, 1 ;n l-.;... !,.,. .I.o v. ,,lr JiriMld be It'was long past midn-ht w hen I heard ih.ir eps on the stairs, amUaw the pas-ing g immer of .heir li .ht th.ou.h the chmksof mv unlatch- e l d ti r, as tiiey Went so 'tly by. Wijen the house was quite still, I sunk into a trotib'ed s ttiiil er. '; ' - ' ! . The next d iy their decision was communica Vd to Harry and inc. ' ft was w hat .we! feared. My f ther th night it ri'ht to accept 'the' ap- . l)"intin .'nt, and my mother had consented, ,We had no time to waste in unavailing re-gret-, : we h id to prepare for my fa I.erV de- .partur.', and -he -to mike the best arrangements mhis power for our support during his long ab- , sji c, A small sum of money in liand, and an 0'dr upon his new employers for a quarterly advjuiie,to be deducted from hi salary, seemed to insure us from the dread of destitution ; and we hoped, too, that Harry would soon obtain employment. Thus fat all was well. The day of parting came. It was very pain ful ; but we determined to accompany my father to the dck, where he was to embark; and there we stood, a little family group, on the crowded deck of the ship, taking our last fare well a very sorrowful one; for how probable!' was (hat we were then parting neve , again to -niCTin.jthtlorf3ily fJittier tried tot:Onst)le us and keep up onr spirits ; but it was easy to see hflw much he himself needed to be cheered. You riihy think that we had neither sight nor, hearing for anything transpiring around u- yet, in that painful half-hour, we slightly noticed another group, somewhat like our own, i in another part of the deck. There were a middle-aged coup'e, a younger man, and two f.ir girls. They, like us, were evidently deeply affected : there was to be a parting there.- I Presently the group was broken up. I saw the eMeiiv gentleman in conversation with the cap tain f the ship ; and then, gently leading his wife to the ship's side, they disappeared. The votings gentleman and one .'f the girls followed, and the s'i-ter stood alone on deck weeping, th"Uirh striving courageously to suppr ss her tears,, while she waved her last adieu to her . , i fiend, blie, then, was to be a passenger, and a. solhary one. In a short time.the captain ap proached her, and kindly leading her away, they, vanished from vur sight. All this came to my memory af;erward ; at that time, though the s.-ene p.issed before my eyes, I little regaid etl it. - Th-n came our final parting,- the last Lies sing, the last coun el, the iast whispered, heart-, breathed prayer, the la-t kiss from a father's lips whi'.-h had never uttered a word but in kindness and love. A tew hours later, and the ship was f ir on its way, and we wh remained were parsing a d e in distuibod night in our lonely home.. After this, for some months, we went on much as before my father left us. My mother had eii ug'i to empl y her at home, and I with my music lessons. As to po ir Harry, he could get noihiigtodo, and li s face began to wear a look f premature anxiety. We d.d not become ricomihd to my father's absence, and we tiiought mu'ch of the long time which must e!ap e before we ""ould again me-it; but time softens even the pangs of separation, and we weie not.unhappy as had been predicted. Our greatest trial, perhaps, was on poor Harry's ac ciAint. We had had. two or three letters from my fa ther, in whkh he spoke hopefully of his pros poets, and cheerfully of his health and comfort jon ship-board. Tne first was written before the 'ship h ft the channel ; the next, and the next alter that, were wiitten on the voyag-,and sent l us !'V homeward-bou-id shijs. Then came a loi g silence, and after that win n we had bean to conjure up a host pf imaginary f'eais a long and we come letter. Mv laiher h d landed ' in safetv, and was ful ly engag. d in the business hicn had taken iHni abroad. lie was well, too, and compara-t.v-fly unafi' cted by the; climate. Ail this was a c iitse for thankfulness. But though safe when the h tier was wriit-n, my father had b- en in, great p ril. 'J'he latter part of the voyage hud t been disastrous. The ship in which he sailed j l ad eneoun ered heavy gales and storms, and j,hi' I been n. ar'y h.s:. For many hours, my ia- i tiier wrote. H'mr,t all l,..r. ,,f . . n..,i.- i . , , , , i liion.ing d iwn was given up by both passengeis and crew ; but the danger was averted and the ship saved. Li Ids former letters he had mentioned that among his fellow-passengers was a young lady wiih wh.'m he whs much interested.. Except ing that she had been plaeeoLlunder the Cap iaiu's protection. Mi.-s Ilerliert was solitary and imt'iiepded. He deseiibid her manners as very mod' St and winning, and her tones of conversa tion superior to that of the passengers in gener al. My father said that M.ss Herbert's loneli ness had fiist touch his sympathy, for lie thought of hi Esther, as placed under the same circumstances; and he had offered such atten tions as an elderly gentleman might with pro priety and courtesy show to a young stranger lady. Tliey were received gratefully, and after a time mv father and the younjr ladv had be come to each other as father and daughter. Miss' Herbert was g ing out to India as govern nes; in an Eng ish f.imiiy of rankand station in Carcutta. My father's destination was Madras. The events of the feaiful night had increased mv father's interest iu Mary Herbert, bycallit.g forth his admiration of her fortitude and faith in tiivirie love and proteCiion. While others , ' ' ' i -'""--'ng n.oeiu, out corn auu --m,. ? M Uie 0anS"r ,n7 ,aU,er WaS ner j l;Mt ,,o!' lie o much to support her ' a; to ?'U,,e b V" of fail, in the prospect Thro-j or sud leu and awful deaih. Thus much for Miss He.bert, of wh.m we sometimes talked wh-n miking of niy f.tdier for his letters had -awakeued an interest iu her fortunes ; and then t was that I remembered the parting on board the ship, and wondered whether the young lady I had seen w as the Miss Herbert of my father's story. My father had been away from us about a year, -when a cloud arose which threatened us with rain. One evening Ilarry came home, pa!e and. agitated. I shojldsay that he had at length succeeded in obtaining employment in an attorney's office; but his salary wa very small, and his situation merely temporary. - ' " Ilarry, dear, what is the matter?" asked our mother, anxiously. "Have you heard anything from Mortimer and Hughes to-day., mother?" he said hastily. Mortimer and Hughes was the firm for which our father was engaged. " Mortimer and Hughes !" exclaimed my mother, with increased alarm : " is it any ill tiding of your father J" she demanded hur riedly. ' , s " ' , -"""iso mother, no; it is "not that: but Morti mer and Hughes have failed their names are in this day's Gazette." ' Our sensations were at first those of blissful relief from the suffocating apprehension which Harry's first words had caused. Not that we thought indifference of the commercial failure ; but we had fully expected that Harry khad been charged with tidings of d-ath. When, howev er, we began to think calmly of the intel.igence our spirits sunk within us. The next morning my mother hastened to the city, and our worst apprehensions were confimied. Not only was my father's mission at an end, but he wou'd be left without emplovment in India, and unprovided even with the means of re urning' horn. X)ur in come was also, and of course, suddenly cut off. It was a hard case, my mother was told by the bankrupts' assignees, but it cull not be helped. There might eventually be something secured for us ; but they gave little hope even of this, for the firm was deeply involved, and the divi dend would be very small." My mother was not apt to give way to des pondency. Siie had that happy Ci nfidence in God's superintend ng and fatherly caro which nothing coul I tfl'ec ually and peimanently dis place, fou ided as it was on the promises of the gospel ; and that support did not fail her now. The burden was not removed, but she was help ed to bear it ; and her example inspired us, her children, with courag-; and energy. Ye began by retrenching onr hitherto com paratively smail expenses, and I exerted my self to extend my limited connection, so as to be fully 'employed in teaching. As to dear Ilarry, he mourned over his helplessness. The small lemuneration he received for his occasion al services in the attorney's office was not suf ficient for his own, support. Even this was at length withdrawn, and he was ara;n unem- 9 7 O ployed. I had obtained one new pupil. It was at some distance from home, but this was of small im portance comp ired witli the addiiional weekly receipt which it added to our income. One mor ning, in walking to Mrs. Lasceiles', my new patroness, I was caught in a haty a ad heavy shower of rain. It vexed me sadly. How little did I think that that veiy unwelcome shower would be the means of deliverance from thieat ening poverty. Mrs. Lasci ll' s was a trotherly, kind lady; and when she found th t her' little: girl's music teach er had walked through the rain, and was very wet, she insisted on my drying my garments, bv the parlour tire before I sr ive the 1 sson. She offered me refresments also, and ma le rr.e take them too " to keep the c'd out," as she said. These kindnesses were hardly through, when a knock was heard at th-- do r, and a ladv was introduced, whom Mis. Laseelles at once receiv ed as an intimate friend, without the formality of an announcement. "I was not coming to see you to-day,?' said the stranger, " but this unexpected shower has driven me to take refuge." I was puzz'ed wi.h the lady's looks. It seem ed as though the countenance was not altogeth er unknown to me, though I could not imagine wh rre or when I had seen it. It was an elder ly countenance, very plea-ant to lookiijon. though marked here and there with lines which told of past trials, I thought. I was about to retire? when Mrs. Laseelles stayed me. " Do not run away Mis- Malcolm. I am sure you cannot be dry yet ; and it is a serious thing for young ladies, you know, or for old ladies either;" she added, with a pleat ant smile, "to catch cold. You must not go, indeed, till you are quite ready ; Mrs. Herbert and I have no secrets to talk over." Mrs. Herbert ! I remembered it all the the parting scene on ship-board. This was'tbe lady I had seen, sorrowfully bidding farewell to her daughter : she was the mother of my dear fa ther's felow voyager. How strange! I thought; and I looked into the lady's face. She was regarding me earnestly also. "Miss Malco'm ! " she repeated. " My dear young lady, pard' n my curiosity: do your friends live in London?" . " My mother and brother, madam," I replied ; " but my father is abroad." "In India ? " aked the lady. " Y'es ; he" sailed more than a year pgo." "In what ship did he go out?" Mrs. Her- J bext inquired ; and her voice, I thought, trem bled slightly. I gave the name of the ship, and the name also of the captain. I am glad, I am very glad, to have met you. Miss Malcolm," she said tenderly ; and she took me kindly by the hand. " You do not know," she added, "how much I am indebted to your kind father, though I have never seen him ; and, how sorry Mr. Heibert and I have, been not t i have known your mother's direction, so that we cauld call on her to express our gratitude. You must let u do so now." Mrs. Herbert asked me no more questions then, except that she noted down our add.es ; and we soon sepiraUl, she going homeward, when the rain had ceased, and I to my pupiL A few days afterwards, however,she called upon try mother. I 1" Half an hour's conversation sofliced to ban ish from their minds the idea Jthat they had been life-long strangers to each, oi her. There was a bond uf sympathy in tne circumstances . i which had brought them togeAo the dear ones who were far away. There bond of sympathy; each had -pa-.- roany domestic son own, and lr i nV'CT -111 AopI in under them, "And there wayei a third, and a ftronger bond that which : unites heart, in? Christian love. " One is your Master, even, Christ, and all ye are' brethren." My mother lightly touched upon her present sources of anxiety, her uncertainty respecting my father's prospects, the loss of income arising, from the bankruptcy of his employers, and tr y ; brother Harry's want of occupation. Mrs. Her bert spoke a few words of encouragement and hope, and then she departed. " , We did not suppose we should know an7 mir'e of our visitor, now that she had performed her errand; but we were mistaken. Only a few days afterward, my mother received a short llote Would Mr. Henry Malcolm call on Mr. Herbert, at a certain office in the city, at a cer tain hour the next day ? Ilarry went, of-course ; and he returned in high spirits. Mr. Herbert had heard of a situ ation a clerkship my brother was well quali fied to till. lie had introduced Harry, and a'l preliminaries were arranged. The sajary was hberal, so liberal, as to be sufficient for the re duced ex enses of our.home: dear Harry thought it magnificent. Mr. Herbert was, of course, in his estimation, one of the pleasantest gentlemen Harry had ever met. Mv brothtr went day after day to the conn ting-house, and I to my pupils, to whom two others were added by the recommendation of kind Mrs. La-celles : and jf it had not been for our uncertainty about dear father, we should have been very happy. But some months pass ed, and we did not hear from him. At length came a letter; it contained good news. My father had indeed been put to much inconvenience by the failure of his employers ; but he had entered into another engagement, and was prospering, lie remitted money to us, which happilv we did not urgently need, thanks to good Mr. Herbert's exertions for Harry ; and the only drawback to the pleasure of his return to Eng'and. rosTs-CKii'T. Why shovld there not be a p tstscript t a lady's story, as welhas to a hidy's letter? Four years have yasscd away since my father anived in India. He is not theri now ; he is on his passage home. We expect him next month. ; and my dear mother is rather nerv ous when the wind is high, otherwise she is well and happy. Harry is gay as a lark ; his salary has twice been advanced ; and his employers have promised him another advance at Christ mas. At Christmas I suppose I must give up ti-aching music ; so George Herbert tells me ; and I I have promised. We are very friendly indeed with the Herberts; and Ma. y, who came home l ist year with the family in w hich she is governess, and who is a lovely, affctionate simple-hearted girl, says that we two ought to be sisters. I wonder hov many of these later events would have takenplace, and how many of our bright hopes w ould have beamed, if my father's sympathies had centred in himself, FARMER'S DEPARTMENT N- C. AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. Commons Hall, Jan. 13, 4. P. M. 1855. The State Agricultural Society met pursuant to adjournment. The President, upon taking, the Chair, re marked that an opportunity was then offered to gentlemen present who were not members, to join the Society, as the Treasurer was at t ie Secretary's desk, --ind would receive their names and initiation fees. Whereupon the following gent'emen appeared and became members, viz: Hon. David Outlaw, of Bertie; Hon. Asa; Biggs, of Martin; and Messrs Al. H. Caldwell, ; of liowan ; Win. Eaton, Jr., of Warren j James Banks, of Fayetteville ; and Benjamin LHowze, of Chatham. At the request of Mr. Rayner, the President expla:ned, in a very clear and forcible manner, the ol j-cts of the meeting. This Institution, he said, was not a local one it was general, in em bracing the agricultural interest of the whole State. It had its origin in the patriotism and public spirit of 17 gentlemen who met in tl is City, from different sections of the State, two years ago. To give encouragement to their ef forts, the citizens of W ake and Raleigh offered them grounds and the improvements for the purpose of an annual Fair, for exhibition ofsam pies, of improvement in the productions of the earth, in agricultural and mechanical imple ments, in articles of domestic manufacture, and in domestic animals. The great purposes of the Fair were to lead to the reclaiming and fertiliz ing our poor exhausted fields and improving our lands generally, by adopting the best method of making and applying manures, of ditching, draining and cultivating the soil ; to impart in formation and stimulate eflort in rearing and taking care of stock; to add. to our crops of wheat, oats, rye, rice, corn, cotton, tobacco, fec; to improve the method of getting turpentine and of procuring the spirits ; to advai ce the mining interests ; to develope the vast mineral resources of the State and to impart and im prove every species of the valuable fruits. . This, he said, was to be effected in two wavs the one by offering rewards of honor and pecuniary value to successful competitors ; the other in the ad vantage of bringing all our citizens ofen togeth er, communicating mutual instruction, arousing the zeal and energies of all, and; making them think and feel and act alike, in the great work individual and State improvement.; -Another ject.he Watedwas to encourage ,'feone ag- I UiiLwrn! mr. w! cVWifd1 !,f w.f.'S r .-Hac! o, uiii&e iuo oest seiecuoua ii oni me v-jvious ricultural works from abroad, and give the ex perience of the skilful and enterprising agricul turists of our own State. The honorable Presi dent then proceeded to adduce instances show ing the good effects of the Institution. He said, a gentleman, (Mr. Whitaker,) a member of the House of Commons from this county, one of the 'committee at the first Fair to examine imple ments, and who was also on the same committee at the second, had expressed to him his aston ishment at the great increase and improvement the articles of mechanical skid and industry ou exhibition at the latter over the former. Mr. VS., he believed, was in the Hose, and was re quested to say if he had not understood him correct)-. Mr. W. replied he had. The President then proceeded to comment upon the fact, that Mr. Sloan, of Guilford, a very enterprising and inteil gent farmer, had been induced to purchase in New-York an improved mowing machine which mowed five acres in two hours, and the hay was.almost ready at night to be hauled to his. bain. Thus was the work of fiv e good mow evs anl five o her men to aMst, for a whole day, i i, accomplished by this labor saving machine in twoj hours 1 How, he asked, were we to get sucli implements, unless we first knew their im portance and then their existence ? It was the province of the Fair aud of the Press to impart this; knowledge, and these could not be exa cted to exist by private enterprise alone. He next alluded to the improvement in fiuits, and j a d a handsome tribute to Messrs. Jushua and Thomas Linjiley, who are extensively and successfully engaged in the raising of fruit trees, and said he believed they had, by their own private.ent' ij prise, brought out the finest collection of peach es in the world. He spoke also in high terms of their fine apples, and remarked upon the ad vantages we shall have in sending these fi uits to 2vew-Y"ork two months before theirs ripen, the high prices they would command in that mar ket, their relative value to flour ; and their im portance, when the cereal fail, in contributing to suj p'y the poor with good and wholesome food. The foregoing, he said, were objects of our encouragement. And this encouragemant must be given in the shape of premiums. The funds tor these must be raised by the fees and dues of members and receipts at the gate ; but this would be inadequate, and one object of our meeting was to ask aid from the Legislature. This, he repeated, was indispensably necessary io encourage all branches of industry, the advan tages of which he here enumerated. Oar own mechanics, if properly encouraged, (he said) will equal in skill, as they do iu intel ligence and industry, any in the world. In speaking of sheep husbandry, he alluded to his own success in raising ihat profitable an imal, and promised any gentleman present, who would come to d.ne wiih him any day in the year, he would give him a dish of good mutton. He Concluded by remarking that he had thought it was his province to statj facts, and leave the j idgment of hi hearers to act without any m- reti icious appliances. He bad, indeed, in this matter a zeal he would not say a holy zeal, but ithat which was uext kin to it; for the en couragement of sucli improvements had be-n alluded to, was next to the advancement of our holy religion. All recollected, whose heads were grey as his own, our having, in former limes, to get out our wheat with flails, or by the du ty method of trampMng it out with horses. What improvements have we now and what a blessing to mankind are these improvements! lie ;then biiefly, but happily alluded to the mat erial aid, as the phrase now is, which other S ates, as a noble example, to us, have given to those improvements. In Georgia, they have a State Society, supported mainly b the public Trea-ury. In Virginia, where they have not morl zeal than we have though they talk breathe more they have three Societies. One has! a permanent endowment of 160,000. An other, he regretted to say, had attached to it a respectable portion of our own citizens, who, he thought, wuld do better to give their influence and means to their ;own State ; and was about expending a large fund, (which he thought was useless) on a modtl farm. He thought the money would do more good distributed in pre miums. All this, however,-was founded iu the right spirit, aud indicated to us our duty. , Hos. William A. Graham was next called out, and his remarks were highly entertaining and encoura,iug, and it is regretted that bur. a meagre sketch of them, as pf the veiy able and patriotic addresses of other gentlemen, can be o-iven. Gov. Graham commenced by saying, he was a very poor farmer, and desired to become a better. He had been so situated that he had not been able heretofore to attend this Associ ation, but no one had looked upon its progress with greater interest than he nad. He bel eved we had the elements of a great and flourishing Society. We bad now 900,000. inhabitants, and the materials to make a great agricultural State. This was the great pursuit of our people ; and he hoped by our united effort these resources would be brought out. The time was -when this work appeared discouraging, wbicn He unowea by alluding to the vast extent of our territory and the difficulties of getting to market : but the work of improvement, giving to the different sections of the State facilities for the transport ation of produce, had commenced, was advanc ing, and he hoped by our next annual meeting the citizens of the West, 150 miles off, would be enabled to breakfast at home and dine here. Similar expedition had already been ' effected. The citizens of ;.Wilmingt6ri ceJdow dine at means ot inter-communication would bring our, people together and make us a united and har monious people. To love our country, as re marked by Burke, we must make it lovely. Ours is already so, in many respects in scenery, cli mate, healthfulness, the abundance and diversity, of it productions, &c. but our object was to make it so by improvements ; and the energetic operations of the State Agricultural Society, would contribute largely to advance important branches of these improvements. He would therefore give it his cordial support. IIox. Asa Biggs being called upon, favored the Society with an interesting and patriot.c ad dress. He said he could not hope, in an associ ation of this kind, to throvy any light he was no farmer his attention had been turned to other subjects ; but on all occasions, either at home or abroad, he had never faded to give his influence to the cause of agricultural improve ment. He then proceeded to give the progress of the work in the county (Martin) from which he came. They had a county Society, of which he was a member ; and they made an exhibition - at ti e last Fair equal to any in the State. They are doing great good in that part of the country. The same result would flow from the State So cle' y. He had not heretofore been able to be come a member, but he had urged his friends to attend and to take an agricultural journal, and many were now ciiculated among them. It was out of his power to express the idea he had of the importance of this movement, which he hoped would receive every necessary encourage ment. The President had alluded to the turpen tine business, and the mode of getting the spirits This had been detrimental in the county ; but it was now giving out and the per.ple were turning their attention more to agriculture. lie believed the piney woods, and the sandy lands there were susceptible of improvement and capable of producing cotton and the grains almost equal to the river 1W grounds, which were subject to overflow. They were draining these lands, and collecting astonishing amounts of manure, and succeeding well. Wm. Eatox, Jr., Esq., of Warren, being call ed upon, taid, it was once remarked by a great man, Daniel Webster, of Massachusetts,- that , agriculture was the lion of America, and he never said anything in his life more just or more true. Ours is the great agricultural power of the woild. Great Briton, France and Russia are now seeking to gather laurels in the iron harvest of the field, but ours are the peaceful triumphs of the plough; and I contemplate with more pride these fruits of the victorious enti rprise of my countrymen, than an -ancient Roman d.d the . trophies borne by the legions of the republic, when they relumed to Italy clad with the spoils of conquered nations, an I of captive kings. We are principally a nation of agriculturists. North Carolina is decidedly and emphatically an agri cultural State, as much so as any State in the Union. Throughout our whole country, the em ployment of the planter is a favorite one, and is deservedly held in high estimation. Health and longevity ; peace, plenty and contentment ; an ardent patriotism, a manly independence, and a generous hospitality, are associated in the mind of an American citizen, with green fields and waving harvests. The poet has sung the plea sures of rural life, and has drawn from its scenes his most beautiful pictures, and his brightest imagery, and the philosopher has enjoyed with heartfelt satisfacdoa its calm and tranquil de lights. The greatest men of America have not deemed the' pursuits of agriculture beneath them, and the chief magistrates of the repul 1 o have retired from their exalted station to spend the evening of life among rural scenes and tie soft charms of cultivated nature. In the opinion of the wise and good of every age and every land, the pursuits of the husbandman are in a high degree honorable and useful, and eminent ly favorable to human virtue and happiness. I should be false to my country at large, false to my State, and false to the county of Warren which I have the honor to represeut in the Sen ate, if I did not, as a member of this General Assembly, do every thing in my power to ad vance ihe interests of agriculture. I look for ward to the dawning ot a brighter day in North Carolina. I look forward to the day when our exhausted fields of broomstraw and bramble shall be fertilized, and made to reward the labors of the husbandman and when the rich ard love ly valleys of the Catawba, the Y'adkin, the Cape Fear, the Neuse, ths Roanoke, and the Chowan shall teem with abundance; shall yield in pro fusion the luxuries and delicacies of life as well as its necessaries and comforts ; and shall sustain a numerous, a happy and an intelligent popul ation. A deep and lively interest has been re-, cently manifested in the cause of internal im provement. Railroads and other facilities of communication are certainly of great and inesti mable value; but unless we improve the soil, and increase the productive capabilities of the country, North Carolina can never become a very prosperous St?te, nor her people comfortable and happy, although commerce may spread out its white sails on her coast, and the locomotive may outrun .the steeds of the turf on its own j pathway from the ocean to the mountain. The Hon, D. M. Barringer being called up on, said the call was wholly unexpected, and he should refuse to answer it ii be did not fear an erroneous inference might be drawn from his silence, unfavorable to a cause which he most heartily approved." He was a lawyer and had- no ; great practical experience in agriculture yet he -was wilting to acknowledge that he had follow ed the plough, and was among those who; were 'i ii6T-i4shamedlbr .if id be lawn that waiaratiri- wprsing men.- ine great secret of success in these institutions, is the competitions they raise, and their tendency to bring us together and' make us North Carolinians in deed and in truth, as we are by birth and in name. He vividly portrayed the great and substantial improve ments which had been made in the State of Georgia through their instrumentality. He then proceeded to sustain the proposition that Inter nal and Agricultural Improvements go together; they help and depend upon each other; in the course of which he referred to the marked effect of Internal Improvements in the valley of the Catawba. On his return home, after five years absence, he had seen, under its influence, agri cultural products doubled, and more : Land that had produced 800 pounds of cotton, now produced 1800 pounds ; lands that had produc ed 12 bushels of wheat, now produced 30 bushels. This was owing to the correlative in fluence of Internal Improvements and Agricul tural Improvements upon each other. He con curred with the President, in his remarks not only as to the cereals, but the fruits, stocks, (kc. . Expressed the belief that Western North Caro lina was the best wool-growing country in the world ; adverted to the steps taken by Napoleon to import improved sheep ; he had a large.num ber brought from Spain ; and now the best wool is produced in France, and it is a source of great profit. By bringing, men together here, and by talking over these matters, we increase the desire to improve, and one result will be the establish ment of a great wool-growing business in the West. He concurred with the gentleman from Warren that this would be the greatest agricul tural country in the world, and North Carolina w ould be distinguished by the important part she would bear in that honorable vocation. Hon. David Outlaw, in answer to a call, said the call was as unexpected to him as to the gentleman who had just preceded him. He came there to receive, not to impart instruction. He then proceeded for a few minutes to speak in the happiest, mcst glowing and eloquent terms, of this important movement. He could not say ha had no experience in farming, but his attention had been turned to other subjects less to his taste. He would rejoice if his duties would allow him to devote his time exclusively to this delightful employment. He regarded the pursuit of agriculture the most virtuous and honorable calling in the world ; and he . hoped the young men of the country, instead of going into the professions, would follow it. When they see, (said he,) that you, Mr. President, and others whose reputation is not confined to our own State, but extends the length and breadth : of the country, are devoting your time and tal- i ents to this employment, they will be induced j to follow the example ; and much good will be ! accomplished. He concluded by remarking that ' he was willing to show his regard for the cause, ; by voting to give it substantial aid. Mr. BASKs,vof Cumberland, being loudly call- ed, arose", and, in his peculiar vein of humor ; and good sense, for a few minutes entertained the meeting. He said the remark was trite, but applicable, that it was dangerous to speak of war j in the presence of Hannibal. His situation re minded him of an anecdote of an old Scotch i lady, whose 6ons were taken by Napoleon and ; chained to other prisoners. When she was in- j formed of their misfortune, she exclaimed, u God j pity the man that is chained to my son Jemmy I ' lie could say, if the Society rested upon the i speaker, or any thing he could say, it was in an ! unfortunate predicament Cut the compliment of the call was intended to his county. .. He wished his friend Elliott, the President of the Cumberland Agricultural Society, was present. He could honor it by making a speech, giving " material aid," or by proofs from his own ex perience of the success of enligh tened, systematic farming. But Cumberland was not strictly an agricultural county. Her pursuits, (which be enumerated,) were diversified, all reciprocally acting upon each other, and giving encourage ments to the Agriculturist. He gave an amusing account of his early attempts at cultivating the soil, together with bis abandonment of it for other pursuits, and expressed the hope that he should finally return to it; for he never knew a Scotchman in his life, whatever might be bis circumstances or his calling, who did .not make farming his. ultimate hope and aim. . He hoped! the operations of the Society would excite a spirit of enquiry and emulation throughout the! State, that would lead to great and lasting im provement. He should be happy to contribute! something, however small, to advance the inter-! est and welfare of the good old Notlb State. He had always admired the just and noble sentiment expressed by the late distinguished associate of the President : ' "Carolina! Carolina! Heaven's blessing attend her ; ' . i " While we live we will eherish, protect and de fend her; ' "Tho' the scorner may scorn at, and witlings defame her, . . " Yet our hearts swell with gladness whenever we name her." , ; J On motion of Mr. Rayner at the close of this! add i ess the Society adjourned, subject to the! cau oi uie rresiaeni. j ? . - . -j e a i ... IH0S. J. LEMAY, Sm9S. v. i s-' hi I! ir - i -,