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TR1WSS.
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cription when paid within tiireo months, Two
douSrslf paymont is (lclnyuti to tho close ojf the
BURficrrjitlon year.
All subscriptions not clearly limited, Vluoo
considered as made fur an indefinite time, and
continued till a discontinuance IsJ ordered and
*11 arrearages paid.'
inserted at 70 cents per square
or th? fifst lns6vtion, and 37 1-2 cts. for tmcli
continued insertion. Lllmnl deductions made
fhittn^n ll?? *!%/? ?.??
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AlJUonimunieiitioiiH should bo Addressed
to the Publisher* post paid.
ZZI? 11 Z
TH'K I'OOU MAN TO llltf SON.
nv KI.1ZA COOK.
Work, vnrk,i n>j 1h?v, bo not nfrnid, '
J.oook lnlwr boldly in the fi\C6;
Tjxko up <)io hammor or the. pruidc.
Ami blunh o'ot for. your humb'.G plnco.
llohl up your brow in lionet pritle.
Though robf?h imkI fiWiirtl* Your tfnrirj* riinvbc, j
Such hiiiuU firo Hf.p-voiiH that proviso
'Jlio lifo blooctof tH<3 nation's tiVo.
-p"5W?W*li'f ' i
Th-JFvflh?nor >?\ tHc tolling port,
That fiwU uh in the furrowed fields;
Ttatnmwa crcst upon the heart
Worth more than all your qunrtcrod ohichta.
Work, work, my bny, mul nuirmur Uot, Jj, U,. .
Tho funtinn fcnrb betrftys no
The grime of forge-Soot lotivoH 110 blot,
Anil Inbor gl!d* tho mcytoodt nnnio.
An I rnnnis nover hnlf so blo*t
As xvIhmi thejkufty <1 jv is >-pont,
.So in t<> touks hid owning rust
A holiday ofgltvl ooutont,
OdiI yrmit thoo hut R <juiV?\JvoY,Jrg"
A gucnloii ffttr and Tutfc,
AM flu-n no'tjr U?i?k th> tntionl nr<1,
l)ut work. ittjy miy, vrorfr, ;uul trust.
)o ' SONO?BY vT l* MOItRlS.
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-n a* tt 1 i i- ?,J
J'niii IIICI* \VB 11, JUVO?AY C IIIUM nercr I
j'car^. lo\V; brtt fo/ovtfr !
>" t Wo must moot no more -^'or only
. ' Meet ns ?trimgeri-r7-J>rul ami lonely.
Fare Ihco well.
if-Vfc' fV '' f.
11.
Fnro ihoo well, love?how I Innguish
Forthe c (mac of nil my, anguish'I
Nono huve oyer met niul parted. .
So forlorty ami broken hcrirtetl. i
tfnrc tlfc<J well.
I \
Fftro t)\00 woii, "lovy L|U I jVyiinu
AU iuy truth f??r tlioo l'U chuii*lr,
And, \vh<>? lliou my requiem hcnrost,
Knoyr.'ti|l death I loved tlicc, iloiuoht, ;'
Pare tlioo well,
t: ; . r : '2(7 ' !
[Communicated.]
A Conversation between a Member
of tfhe lfeoisiature and
one op HIS CoNSTITUENl*
Majuhey?(Touching his hat,) Good
morning, Mr. B., how do you do, sir ?
Constituent.?Good morning, Mr.
)t, I am a})out as common; how
have you been T
IVI,- Vovy vteH, 1 thank yoifi how
yotii-family?
C.?All about. What did you cjo
in the Legislature? 1
'Inhere tw'as little done of any
importance except the measures pass- J
<?fl lookincr in <Im> ?-<iaio?on/>ft ?<*
ww .i,?v *
Tin' must important were: (lie '
bill proposing to the Southern $i*tes
a Southern congress and provMing
for the etectiow 6f deputies to a Stnte
convention and the Millitary Bill
talking uti appropriation -ftf three
hundred thousand dollars to arm the
(AfiXtt'iM I
e
f 4J#eht> filuM of the < *ovornoi* fifty tliotfs-i
i if! i It)' !;i i' :mi.! ih< in--m . < ! i!,:
(fitcs lift V pur eont ovfr Inst yoar's
i T i - ?? 4fwSSPWMf4# M
<\ Ves, O pretty pici-c lii'Imsiuc
JfcjflfrftAHtitaxes fifty per
cent^hcfi We were searketypblp to !
talking about it yesterday, and he
siiys that you voted for the Southern
congress and State convention, and if
tiipqe measures had not passed there
would have been no necessity for increasing
the taxes.
M.?Those measures ...might have
been adontrd. niifl ill .-.^.4
_ W7 HIV iU.WO IHJl.
have been increased* inasmuch as (he
hank of Ihe State offered to furnish
all the money we want. But we
ought not to grumble at the increase
rv . i
01 me taxes, lor wo are thereby,enabled
to reserve the funds of the Bank
to 1)0 used ftl a time when we wodld
feel the taxes than we mora' heavily
shall at preenst when money ispleiSty.
Cl?' * aln opposed to the Southern
congress and State convention. 1
am in favor of the Union and opposed
to any measure which tends to dis
nnioft.
M.?-Then yon ar<S a stjbnvR^ionist,
^xuil willing, for thd sake of (he t'Tuion,
to become a slave to the North. You
nre in favor of giving to the North
California with her millions of gold.
Vx.. C- r '
X WW. <111; 111 Ijiyor (U royillK up U1C, 101riloric3;
and paying (o Tc's.ajs seventeen
millions of dollars (the Tofcas
bonds ate to he issued at 5 per cent
interest, and the whole of them are
not to l)b lakeh up under fourteen
years," making the interest on the
!fclO,O0O,O(X).iust $7,QP0,000, and l>v
adding the principal nnd interest together
\ve have $17,000,000, vvhielj
is the actual amount which T
will receive,) for a port'rnof Ltfflplitory
to bo added to the
(knowing that Tok^lsIb deeply in debt
thisis also intended as a bribe to procure
her submission to all of the foul
...- i a!, a i - ii n .i
wrongs jjui pun ciitui Ol! !11C ir>OUJilP.ri)
Stales ^y the Federal Government.)
Yon are rtjso in favor of (he abolition
of the slave trade in the District of
Columbia ; and, in the pf .1 ho.
abolition of slavery in the .States.
Von ?mike your head, but you need
not, for your position as a Union-man
makes yon support all these measlirKrtl
1 " ' - * - 4
WIMO lint Mil l yuu IIIICIIU D1 |U)l0V--Whai
is'i io'rr.u"? Ih^vc-nq!^grpcs,
therefore I am not injured if
1 he oegros arc set free.
M.?You, sir, and all those persons
who labor for a _ livelihood';?Vh
more deeply Interred in the perpetuation
of slavoiv in I ho Koulti mnn
' J ;i?. ff ' ; >
all iho other d^e^to^cUiiCi-. I will
explain it to you l>y presenting to
your imhp^i,nntion a pio(uro of what
may happen in Soutii Carolina in less
than fifty years fi'Oin IcHl' y. Mr- B.,
you are iip,w t W^nt^-fiyo ye^Vi? ojc],
anctydu have Iwen married five yenv$?
anil you have a daughter jo$l ilpur
years of ai^o, a hofrutiful little H1m?
pyed, Fair slciim^d, rurlv-hended <nn.
' ('. /Hmt-fl a lari, the chtltt^rWBll
i ,1 1 nMsnw# ?jt3?i '
enough they sayMr?Thpti
sujjpose yon should flve
1o oe sevemy-five,years old, Nfpw, if
this d^ugnterof yours moiriosat .the
age of sixteen, she will marry twelve
years from this; time. Suppb.se she
has a daughter orie'vear afioi- innv?<i
age,' then thirteen ^fcars from now
you will bo a ^ramlfatl^en lot tbcjt
chiHftjWi'ry at sixteen alsp undj?av<e
a daughter one yeai' after man'iage,
then that great grandaffghter of yovtts
will be sixteen 'yeartf old just ibrtyfivo
years from thisViirie, aiid you will
be seventy-one years of age. W.'ell,'
suppose'that timo. 1ms Wiivn/f It ' ?
r. r "T*vr"" * i '
Sunday and ,yo.u Jiayp gpn^lo cjtujrcjh
with yonrrJtildronnnd grand' liiWri).
Tftx your invagination still ftjtthdr
nmtfiuvry the ftcryi'-e yj^<t!r? and'all 6f
yrtu starting for horifilvlyust in jiorit
of joii isymnvgriiatwfamps
fi l>cautiful Hp rightly girl of sixteen,
lull and graceful, in fact thov^ry piA- f
Un-o of Iwr great-grandmother iit tlic
timd'^bu minried. H$!'rlWW> T Maid,
iheft* jliit'hi front y&\h antfseefar.
E <>f with
i places her arm in his, ancl they
walk <;n laughing and chatting morily
together. About three months after
Ihisyoii i'e6cive an invilation to Miss
"U:\rv and Mdumbo's wedding*
What think you, sir, would he your
J^eupg.s under such circumstances ?
p.?(With set tqeth and a cloched
! r *V.v'
nsi.; i a chastise the impudent scoun1
drel!
M.?No; doubt if such tithing could
happen to you to-morrow, you would
; do something rush. JSut I doubt
very much if you would do it, even
twenty years hence, if things go on
for 'he next, hs they have for the last
Hventy years*, and suppose you were
to kill or maltreat him, what would
I 1m> vnill' unKnniiir Attn? "Vr?.. 1 1
- * 't'l'J '1?0' LWU WUllltl
boarraigned before a court; which
' would impanel a negro jury, listen to
ne^ro witnesses, be presided over, it
might be, by a negro judge; and adjudged
according to laws made by
j negro, logislators? What would be
'i .our chance for life or limb, my poor
j 1 ? Wt ' 1
Triiyii yuii wouui sutler tor
>iir sinf/jsure as you stand there.
1 C---(TjOol<ing astonishoO) My God!
! is.il possible that these things eanovl
or happen !
M.?Not only possible', hut as certainly
as the sun sliall rise tp-niorrow,
jSncha slate of things will be brought
abfiit if wo remain in thiaUninii.rrow.
. . J
oiled as it is, by Northern frecsoilers
jffnd abolition fanatics^
C.?Hut I cannot think that such
will eycr bo the case; why do you
imagine lliese things will be ?
JVL?I judge of the future by the
past; many acts of the Federal Government
for years gone by, go plaini
-f- fit ?* - ' '
I y iu siiu>vmai it is the intention of
JJI16 iree States to abolish slavery
\ throughput this Union; also, in the
constant demand for protection, on
the part of the North, Wo see Sat it
,is! their aith to make nshear u the
1 bVn'thon of the (General Government,
Whilst they reap all of the benefits.?
Then, Sir, look for a moment at the
present condition of the confederacy
' ?of what sort of material is it composed
7 Are not a majority of the
States (roe? are not a majority ofthe
'inhabitants of those Slates abolitionists?
are not'all of the Territories
free in efTwcl, and tQ be admitted into
: Ih^tlnion as free States? Jrlavpnot
an abolition congress, to rob us of
our rights, already gone far beyond
the poWer given them by the constii'thtion?
fiy v far sighted policy,
which has been pursued with unvv^i.VQrniff
steadiness, thov tmin rlnilv ar>
w %r o " '"T"V t%v'
cessions of Wealth and power, which
is drnw^i from the life blood of Ihe
South. Tlriis {heli* comparative pow
cr increases in a double .ratio. They
inake the South pay, each year,
$>30,000,000 for the support of the
General Government, and expend
nearly all of the monev to ont-irh thmr
6\vn country. So \ve pay, and have
; long paid, (his large amount for the
glorioijs privilege of being ruled by a
Yankee majority. According to the
i statement of tlk> Secretary of the
Treasury, in his last report to congress,
the Federal Oovorntponj( will
| jii)f>pUf.i<:s in 1852, to tin amount
; of$l38,148,330, exclusive of $13,387
544,00 interest ou the war debt. Aceottiitt#
t? the rate at which the kouIhern
Stdtos ?ohtributc to the support
of (Jje. (jJpyernment, thev will have
of 7"" \ , """ '
to pay twp-tjurds <?f pi? cnorjnous
sum, ftiui l ho same proportion of the
fut?tro expenditures of the Govcrn[ViajMi
that proportion will be
'wBraOl PMiili:! piy
|p>'l tnnt lVin Inn/la ,Y...r>
-VVPffmi* corpppHij
to the f.oldiei'8 of (he Mexican war
arid' the war of 1812, will he sttfiteifcfit'
to supply ?lio market, for a lohg
/{pa, ho %; revenue. now accruing
fl'Oin the r>? imiW>c to?rta ?..11 l -
* "u
lost for many ytMirs to coma- I hus
arc wo to bo mm It: to support h gt)Vffi&jjfflft
for by rtir? p*rnj.^lq
;&ujYio)iicr, un(f Wfs rionf-1
-t ' ? vi d "fryBf ""T f " > .fli
<K mh'xmw^ 'uvtil utterly miiM-i.
year many millions of dollars, and
which, bringing none of it back; depositee
the whole m the coffers of the
North. fc>oon,,by this means, will
the South bo exhausted: and soon
will the North become exceeding
I rich and powerful. Soon many of
i the territories vvilj be admitted as free J
' States, and I the freesoilors will then !
j have the power to alter the constitui
tion as thoy please, and abolish slavery
uucler it as amended. Wo shall
then be to ihe North wlial Ireland is
to England, and our children will j
i i- ?- " *?
uavu iu iiinijjriL' vviiii iijc negroes as
[ their equals, to intermarry with them,
! and our posterity will rejoice in long
heels, and ilal noses. Such will he
the people who will boast descent
from thn higbminded and patriotic
South Carolinians of the present day.
A_yei these arc to be the descendants
of the heroes of the revolution,
ji Ci-4l never thought of these things
before. If those who have negroes
Slt'it pnih/w) <l?" '? *'
....nv,u, mi; |juui who are meir
neighbors will suffer rtlso.
arc right, Sii, the poor
J are to be the ffceaiesl sufferers To
all tlio reasons why the poor arc in;
tercs'ted in this matter which I have
1 mentioned there is yet another to be
: added which is this: The Yankee
j capitalists believe it to be their interest
to abolish slavery in the South.
For, by the abolition of slavery.they
' will bring about the ruin of the cotton
planter,and that will ruin nearly
j all the capitalists of the South. Thus
j the cotton lands will be brought into
1 market at ;m extremely low price,
and tlipy with their immense capital
will he able to purchase the whole of
them. They will then send out their
Yniii&ee overseers to hire -the freei.egroes
and poor whites to till those
lands, and to make cotton fcr their j
Tvr~..itw... r."_i. " 1
j iHJimuin iiianuiacionos. \$y UllS
means they will be both planter and
manufacturer.
Having then the great cotton trade !
i of the world in thcrown hands, they !
j will become the lords of untold wealth, i
Thev arc; aware that the negro is j
] naturally indolent, and that he is gen- j
erally satisfied if he is fed and cloth- I
! cel. Therefore lliey believe they will I
be able to make the labor of the free j
j blacks more profitable to them, than
the labor of .the slave is at this time
! to his master. It will not be difficult
i for them to hire the necrro manfnr n.
bout his victuals auc! clothes, free of
I his taxes, doctor's hills, the support of
his wife and children, and besides,
they may turn him adrift when h?
becomes old or infirm. All the
whites who own negroes and other j
property in the South at the time |
wlu'll slnunvu slirill l>n ...111 i
i.. W.. - . .... J ? ?<> "V uiiujiouuut Will
cblleot together the wrecks of their
former fortunes and leave the country.
So it will be -only the poor I
white man who is noi able to get a*
way, or docs not wish to leave the
land where he was born and where !
his fat hers sleep, who will be left here
to become the equal of the negro nd
to sink, a? the free negro sinks, into
unredeemed degradation. The white
man wlio depends on his own labor
lor a subsistence, must inevitably
tako his position aloiig side of the ne'ro,
inasmuch as the latter,will constitute
a large majority in South Carolina
at least, and will of course reg"
ulate the price of labor. The negro
f Doing willing to work for a totality
I support, the white man will he domi
polled to (lie same. He will 1)6 dej
privod of all means of educating his
i children, and they will grow np in
I ignorance and idleness* and two gdnri'titinrto
u/il} nnl rtfl'ed fttiifiii
, >>V?I |/t?vu UTYCI y T7v?V* V
ihc races will become so mixed that
it will he difficult to And a pyre blood
ed white child in the land. " And
when ali thesti'thi(l(?$ hit * < come to
pass, the end will not yet have come.
\V t>on slavery, is abolished in the
South, the negro is to hYwe mrd to
exercise all the rights and privileges
of citizens, wHich the whites of this
hi$J other'Strifes now enj<Sy^'Thore
p at this time in South Carolina sqv-<
oral ti?ou8ftiHl mora Uhxcka tlmn j
whites- When alavtjry^.abaiisljnJ, J
agi?f est ami m'l ?i 1 rrwriT'iiivr'aaaa
and all the whites who can get aw.t.y
have left the State, thcro will then l>e
1 left an overwhelming majority of
blacks; consequently the State government
must fall into their hands.?
And who can tell what will be the con
| sequence 1
I G.~Iain no longer 'aUnion man.'
But I will henceforth go for secession,
as should every other laboring man,
who loves his country, lottos hisfamily*
serves his God > and does not tvant negro
grand-children.
A Looker-on.
The nnnonlll?ll Tree.
Among the plants of Guina, one
of the most curious is.the cannon ball
tree. It prows to the height of sixty
feet, and its flowers are as remarkable
for their beauty and fragrance,
as iJs fruit for fragrance and contraj
dictory qualities. Its blossoms are
! of a delicious crimson, annnnrinrfin
^ , , ---*3 *
large bunches, and exhaling a rich
perfume. The fruit resembles enormous
cannon balls,'whence tluMiamc
of the Iree, which has been attributed
to the noise which the balls make
in tailing. An eminent naturalist
says:
i "fjcnealb a pure anu^az>;iingtsky
j gracefulness is 6ver united to the
l /* i i ,li*i
nuxvnih^nn/i^ ^ *
, ...uQ.i.>Kuiiv,t vu imiuie; morse, inoma
| den streams only reveal their presence
in penile murmurs, or by thr
I silvery lig^t which they cast upon
j the rocks, or jhb soft.scund as tliey
1 trickle through the grass, or by the
i increased verdure with which they
j endow the plain. But when the si
> icnpc'Ot nature is broken by one ol
i those violent hurricanes of wind,
l which so often, in the torrid zoneI
blast all the hopes of the cultivator,
! you may hear the fruit of the cannon
I hall tree, whose bursting nrodnr.ps nn
I oft repeated echo, that resembles tiie
! rolling lire of a discharge of artillery.
I "From the shell, domestic utensils
I are Made, and the contents contain
I several kinds of acids, besides sugat
a -.? .. - v
I u.v.guiH, aim jurmsn mo materials
I for making an excellent drink in sick'
ncss; but singular as jt may appear
this pulp, when in its perfectly ripe
state, exceeds whatever is filthy, stinking
anil abominable in iwtnrp.vnt
Ihc scent is remarkably vinous, and
so permanent, that on examining
some portions of the fruit that had
been preserved in rum two or three
the native odor of the phi n't
was found to be so strong as to render
the apartment almost insupportable.
Insects revel in this filthy and
disgusting null)- Beetles and r>m
wigs feed upon it, while the fdrruicas
find shelter in the hollow of the shell.
IVomen''s Rights.?An English
paper publishes the following para"A
curious trial Was rccentlv held
nt TWwl/lW^v mm
uunoiuii. j nomas
Saverland, the prosecutor, stated that
he was in the tap-room wlieie the
defendant, Carolnio Newton, and
her sisfer, who had come from Birmingham,
were preSpnt. The latter
jokingly observed that she has promised
her sweetheart th"t no man
should kiss her while absent. It
being holiday time, Saverland conside'^d
this challenge, arit| cauffflt hold
oi ner and I isscd her. The young
women as a joke, but her sister, the
defendant, said she Would like as
Utile of the kind of fun as he pleased
Saverland told her if she was angry,
lie would kiss her also; he then tried
to do it, And they fell to' the grotlndOn
rising, the woman struck him;
nu uf4<iiu mew iw Kis?fncr? and in the
scufllesho bit ofl'hi^ nose, which she
spit out of her mouth. The uction
was brought (o recoyei' damages for
the loss of his no'se.--Tho defendant
said lie had no buisness to kiss her; if
she wanted kissihg, ^!ie had ahusband
to, kiss her, a hot4"/ looking man than
ever the prosecutor w^s. 'The jury
without hesitation, acquitted her; and
the chairman fjaid, thai if auy man
attempted to kiss a v^binan against
her will. nhf- hnd n < % *??>?
M.wfi M. IV \*ff
hi* no*e, if she had a fancy for $o
doing."
The one Phinh-^-lico Nhhh f femix
?which deicrved to fAvc.'-+A
,'sbip of v\w vtjaft overtaken by1 a
violent storm on th& (coast of Kam
sininnori, nnd dashficl to,
uftop a l'ccif. A rairof mtefflrot
cd to reach the shore ufoori a fragment
of tbb feck. In a little while he perceived
one of the officer**, M. Minfcki
struggling with the wiiyesAnd onbreil
W'JSiE
Grtd lifts it W Ucdbit, rind
go and toll my wife (hut I din with
[?>r upon mind.11 The -sailor
urgod? tlio oflker again declined* This
Cfl . ' '* ' - ^ 11*. i
twvr ' ? <? ??S
j noble combat lasted an instant; when
seeing- Ins superior determined to
refuse this anchor of safety, the sailor
pushed the plank with all his forre
towards him, and sank in the waves.
The officer was preserved.
Sninn inlnrnclinnr fitotc > ?
. -. w.. >/ ititvi uvi*i*u\/?o in iiiv. cm l y
I history of Georgia have been elicited
by the allusion in Mr. Webster's
speech, at the New England Festive*
in New York, to the fact that a copy
of the Bible, brought out in the Mayflower,
had been preserved for some
years in that State.
In the year 1G95, a colony of PilI
grim descendants sailed from Dor
Chester by Host On, and settled near
Charleston, S. O., on the Ashley river.
They remained there until 1752,
when the whole colony, the pastor
and his church, removed to what
was called St. Johns parish in Georgia,
but whose name has since been
chamred to Liberty count v. This
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name of Liberty is connected with a
historical fact, eminently honor ablo
to tlic Puritan character.
At an early period of our roVolui
ticnary movement, a meeting was
! held in Savaenah, to decide wheihnr
. deputies should ho sent to the Froviii*
! ?ipl General Congress to ho held at
l Philadelphia. It was decided in the
, negative; hut the deputies front St.
Johns Parish di&t&fitcrU and resolved
to send delegates, and faithfully to
abide b}r any resolutions adopted bv
j the General popgress. The arti
! cles of continental association adopted
bv that body, were adopted by
I the people of Sr. Johns. l>r. Lyman
j Hall, who subsequently Bigned the
'j Declaration of Independence, was
their delegate. This prompt patriotism
induced the Legislature of Georgia,
at a later period, to commemorate
the act by changing St. Johns
parish into Liberty county. In tho
chronicles of tho time, this Puritan
settlement was called a 'Pharos of
Liberty, in England's most loyal
' province of Georgia, renouncing ev.
ery fellowship that savored not of free
(i aom, and renouncing' every luxury
which contributed to ministerial coffers."
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Among the names 'of the settlers
in Libert^ ,onnty, are found tho
i Now England names of Osgood, Ba
I con, Baker, Quu.r'erman and Sum,
met'. Some of the descendant* nf
1 those patriots wfcre found in the lato
| convention of the State at Milledget
ville.?Mobile Register.
Cultivation of Cotton on the JV**tcrn
Coast of A frica.?The soil itself
is admirably adopted to the fritctifica.
r.CiU- -- j 'i ;- -
, ..w,, ui mi; uiauit uim mis is proven
I by the numerous specimens which
i are to be seen in almost every pieco
of ground, spontaneously and nntu,
rally growing amongst the fothor
| shrubs and trees, and supplying large
1 and well-filled pods of the soft, downy
substance. The rearing and culUvation
of the cotton plant would, in rny
opinion, he an acceptable kind of.cm
? ploy men t to the African laboretty and
: as the price of wn/rcs is not hign?
' the time occupied in bringing it to
perfection by.no means slow, tne return
would plentifully reward the
plahtcr ns Veil as the purchaser-?
The"qufflUy 6f the article produced
from the cotton plant of Sierra Leone
has already been pronounced to be
i iMrtn. filial ?BLis tAi -
.~.j uiu< v<i|^auiu wi a durante
I yet fine texture The extensive pof!
lions of land in the neighborhood of
Freetown, and indeed throughout
the eolony, which lie uncultivated*,
might be employed with advantagein
the growth of this article, for which
they are in cvpry respect fitted- The
! continent ol Africa, in fact, throujjhi
out, is, for the reasons airmdv off/..-.
I od, well suited to the cultivation of
i the cotton plant. The natives themselves,
particularly, as j'ou advanco
more into the interior nun up the Oam
bia, grow a good deal of it, and mako
very capital clothes for their own
use from the material which they
work after their own fashion- The
opportunities hflforded for the cultivation
of cottonj iri the vast tracts of
land bounding that river, and therca.
dine s, I imagine; with wh'ch it would ' .
he undertaken and carried otvby
their possessors, if a fair induceiacht
was hold nil! *
I.UV.U1) uu|^lll IIO?/ TO
l,c nasscd ovci; ix.our m?t}?HP?5
at the present nms.?Poilv i yiorr*
Tsconc bud tfie GaiWfy^xSjpSflRjAt I
The King pf Bavaria lias fmrMrd
tlic gigantic design of causing to ho
executed a series of nietures on 5ii.hiects
derived from the annals of all
limns and all nations - the who!< b<v
j injt destined to (r>rm a *ort oWneto
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