Western Carolinian

              bmbotbiegf dillrcdilto l_0_i yoii 1 s.ylisbyjtux x c t\5"ead.l ml.vi 1 1831 idtfo 4rt culture those 6f twenty one years are found by experience to be too short for improvement must lhe practice of hiring a man for one year by a share ofthe crop to lay otit all his skill and industry in killing laud and as little as possible in improving it suggested by the circumstances and necessities of settling a wilderness among the hostile savages be kept up to commemorate pbisted ayts dir bt n eveht tuesday &. white moral awl l\*\igions sisncic ttlinvav terms | the subscription price ofthe westeiix canot.i?.i..x is three dollars per annum payable half-yearly in advance j*no paper will be discontinued until all arrearages re paid unless at die discretion of the editors whoever will become responsible for the payment of nine papers shall receive a tenth gratis advehtisements will be inserted on the customary ja favour of tiie bible the celebrated sir william jones at the end of his bible wrote the following words : — " i have regularly and attentively perused these holy scripture ; ancl am of opinion that this volume independently of its divine origin con tains more true sublimity mo-e exquisite beau ty more pure morality more important history and liner strains of poetry and eloepjence than can bc collected from all other books in whatev er age or language they may have been written the unstrained application of them to events which tool place long after the publication is a solid ground for belief that they are genuine pro ductions ancl consequently inspired mr addison speaking ofthe superior perfec tions ofthe sacred volume to every human work says the great and gloiious truths which it dis covers to us are compared with those which we elsewhere acquire as the creator contrasted with his works " had iccro says hc " lived to see all that christianity has brought to light how would he who so fondly hoped for immortality have lavished out all the force of eloquence in those noblest of contemplations — the resurrec tion and the judgment lhat will follow it : — how had his breast glowed with pleasure when the whole compass of futurity revealed in these pages lay open lo his view ! how would he have entered wilh the force of lightning into the affections of his bearers upon those glorious themes which when enlarged on by a skilful christian orator make us break out into the same expressions as those of the two disciples who met our saviour after lie arose from the dead : " did not our hearts burn within us while he talked with ns by the way and while he opened , unto us the scriptures ?" the learned mr locke after demonstrating the truth of thc holy scriptures in various ways thus expressed himself lit a letter to a friend just before he died : — " study the holy scrip tures especially the new testament ; for there in are contained the words of eternal life the bible has god for its aulhor salvation for its end and truth for its matter without any mixture of error the pious leaning of man to his primitive state of ignorance and barbarity ,*, persons sending in advertisements must hail first of arts source of domestic ease ; pride of the land and patron of the seas unless this custom is abolished the attempt to fertilize mir lands is needless under thc frequent emigration of owners from stale to state ancl overseers from plantation to plantation it cannot bc accomplished impoverishment will proceed distress will follow and famine will close the scene it is a custom which injures both employers and overseers by gradually di minishing the income of thc one and of course the wages of lhe other wages in money would on the contrary correspond with a system of gradual improvement by which the condition of both parlies would bc annually bettered and skill in impi on ing not a murderous industry in destroying land would soon become a recom mendation to businesr and a thermometer of compensation — taylor specify the number of times they wish them inserted or they will be continued till ordered out and charged ac cordingly no advertisement inserted until it has been paid for or its payment assumed by some person in this town or its vicinity cc/*a11 letters to the editors must be post-paid or they will not be attended to so far from hating a system of agriculture among us very few have ever taken the trouble to discover or provide any basis for one — had archimedes proposed to move the earth without any thing for himself or his mechanism to stand on or an architect to erect a city without a foiin elation such projects woulel have been equivalent to ours for erecting a j*stem of agriculture up on the basis of the improvement of the land — of what avail is any rotation of crops thc best contrived implements of husbandry or thc most perfect use of those implements applied to a barren soil ? coulel a physician correctly call the administration of a slow poison a system of medicine because he used the best constructed lancets caudle cups syringes and clistcr pipes in killing his patient ? xev goods tji'ie subscriber is now opening at his store iu salts j bury a general and well selected assortment of dry goods hard-ware and medicines just received direct from new-york and philadelphia and laid in atpricies that will enable him to sell remark ably low his customers and the public are respect fully invited to call and examine for themselves all kinds of country produce received in exchange xa27 1 muri'iiy negroes and ijuvd foreign notice there will be sold on thursday the 24lh day of may next at the court-house in salisburv two likely young negroes and two hundred acres of land lying on the yadkin hiver adjoining the lands of john weant alex long sen and others at a credit of twelve months the property of adam srote deceased _________________ ezra allemong itlni'r it is absurd to talk of a system of agriculture without having discovered thut every such sys tem good for any thing must be bottomed upon fertility before tliereforc wc launch into any system we must learn how to enrich our lands the soil of the united states upon thc atlantic ocean is naturally thin anel exceedingly impov erished it produces however good crops when made rich alrpost under any species of cultiva tion to make it rich therefore ought to be the first object of our efforts as without effoct ing this all fta agricultural objects beneficial | to ourselves jr our country must full instead j of this for one acre enriched at lcust twenty are impoverished the disposition of our soil and climate to re ward husbandry bouhlifully is disclosed in the great returns bestowed upon bad culture by the very moderate degree of natural fertility pos sessed by the former the climate is beyond our power but the productiveness of the soil without the help of art is an encouragement for us to recollect how impiously we have neglected the cultivation of a deity so propitious but this deity has a rival demon called ignorance for whose worship lhe slave states have erected an established church with a ministry entitled overseers fed clothed and paid to suppress eve ry effort for introducing the worship of its divine adversary this necessary class of men are bribed by agriculturalists not td improve but to impoverish their land by a share of the crop for one year ; an ingenious contrivance for pla cing the land in these states under an annual rack rent and a removing tenant the farm froth several gradations lo an unlin ited extent is sur rendered to the transient overseer whose salary is increased in proportion as he can impoverish the land the greatest annual crop ancl not the most judicial culture advances his interest and establishes his character ; and the fees of these land doctors are much higher for killing than for curing it is common for an industrious over seer after a few years to quit a farm on account of the barrenness occasioned by his own industry and frequent changes of these itinerant managers of agriculture each striving to extract the rem nant of fertility left by his predecessor combine with our agricultural ignorance to form the com pletest system of impoverishment of which any other country can boast state of fh.wce we were yesterday favored with the i-ondon morn ing chronicle containing thc following accounts from i'ari it is somewhat surprizing considering the dale of this paper that the article subjoined has not before found its way into the prints of this country it is not yet too lale to be interesting — flat intel l'.mus feb 1 march 24 cabinet making lincolnton n c the public arc hereby respectfully informed that the subscriber late from london has commenced the above business which he will prosecute in all its various branches in a manner superior to any executed in this part of thc state 3 45 thos dews n b funerals pe hbrmed at the shortest notice the explosion au chataux and that of yes terday a le trcs^rie form part of a system which must scon terminate either in the most abject and disgusting slavery or in an insurrec tion similar to those of spain ancl naples — there is not a single person of good faith who is not certain that these explosions which hurt nobody are made by the court lo produce confu sion and obtain still more odious laws than those which now enslave france ; laws by which the blood of the leading libereaux may be instantly in their power the birth of the duke of bor deaux has redoubled the audacity of the pavilion marsan that is lhe pariy bf the compte d'artos and the law of elections has given back lo the chamber all the blood-thirsty deputies of 1815 badly as the king governs lie does not push on fast enough for the ultras ; they want to have the ministry entirely to themselves and to take off some of the heads of the opposition in order to intimidate the rest the press is not only perfectly enslaved but licentious the consti tutional papers cannot speak a syllable ; the fu ries of the drapeaux blanc quotidienne c every day vomit abuse and demands of ven geance and blood equal in horror lo those of the infamous marat mouchards infest every public assembly and penetrate every circle if you pay attention to the journals you saw lately that one of the spies of thc court brought forward as a witness was an old sefltcmbriteur the most iihportant subject of all which now occu iies public attention or rather private for there s no longer any thing public ia the process which is before the chamber of peers this consists of a charge of conspiracy or rather a plan of insurrection supposed to have existed on several points and to have extended to several garrisons of france and which was to have ex ploded on the 19th of august last whatever may be thought of this plot it is at least certain that spies and agents provocateurs were employ ed ancl that they had at leasl one of them direct connexion with mars'l marmont duke of ragusa seventy-five individuals principally officers have been implicated the chamber of peers though it has no legal existence as a judicial court no judicial organization whatever is to try the case the peers have most of them acknowledged their incompetence and resolved for the future not to bc involved in such difficulties it is bet ter however that in the present instance they should acl as competent than that the accused should be delivered to the arbitrary power of councils of war and he cours d'assizes as they arc now administered jl jj the celebrated wsfmb^k horse xatpolcon a zkj^aah hww in full health und vigor will ituiiu tlie enseing season at my stable in salisbury at the moderate price of twelve dollars the season seven dol lars thc single leap and twenty dollars for insurance ; which will be demanded as soon as the mare is discov ered to be with foal or the property transferred the season will commence the first day of march and end the first of august fifty cents to the groom iu evetv instance michael brown february 9 1821 38t50 similar tcstimoni&s in favour of the bible might be adduced in the immortal bacon lord vcrulani ; in the great sir isaac newton who wrote to prove lhe excellence of the scriptures ; in mr boyle who instituted means to elucidate their truth ; in mr west who wrote a treatise on the subject of lhe resurrection ; in lord george . i.yttleton whose illustrious rank received splen dor from his talents and who has done essential service to the christian cause by his admirable work on the conversion of st paul ; all these it will be observed were laymen and therefore cannot be suspected of any undue partiality for thc scriptures j and to such distinguished names might be added those of a milton a hale a johnson a cowper a bryant a beattie a cum description — napoleon is a beautiful sorrel ten years old this spring sixteen hands and one inch high of most excellent symmetry and possesses as much power and activity as any horse on the continent ; and as a race 1 horse stands utjiivak-d m b pedlgrl-f-.—sky scraper the sire of napoleon was jot l»y col holmes's famous imported horse dare devil who was bred by the duke of grafton and got by mag net out of hebe ; hebe was not bv chrysolite out of an own sister to eclipse sky-scraper's dam was the cele brated runnirfg mare tirade who was got by obscurity ; his grandam by celar bis grandam by tlie imported horse partner obscurity celar and partner were all fine bred horses descended from the best blood in england slow and easy the daw of napoleon was got by the imported hu.-se llaronet j her dam called camilla was got by ce phalus her dam who was sisterto brilliant and burn ts traveller was got by old traveller ; her grandam by fearnought out of col bird's famous imported mare killister the above pedigree of camilla was given by gen wade hampton of s carolina who bred her for gen gunn of philadelphia signed jno ali ston performance — i do hereby certify that napoleon has run four races all of which he lias beat with great ease ; the last over the salisbury turf beating branch's sir druid singleton's bay horse and jones's colt ; branch's and singleton's horse he distanced he has never been brought to the turf since ; and i do recommend him as a sure foal getter john thompson berland — laymen also most eminently distin guished for their lcarnini and science ; yet who deemed all their learning all science of little worth compared with what they derived from the book of god the excellent dr watts in his advice to a young man says whatever your circumstan ces may be in this world value thc bible as your best treasure j and whatever may bc your em ployment look upon religion as your best busi ness the bible contains eternal life in it and religion is the only way for you lo become pos sessed of it state of ttvriisbfqht cousrr court of pleas and quarter sessions for the second monday of january a d 1821 abel hill va fred erick f alley — original attachment levied on a negro girl and other property it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendant is not an inhabitant of this state it is ordered that publication be made in the western carolinian for three months for the defendant to come in answer plead or demur to this attachment or judgment will be entered by default and the prop erty levied on be condemned for pavment of said debt f isaac ckaton c c teat 1...a litorneijfur plaintiff 3m3g dr samuel johnson in his last illness called a young gentleman who sat up with him during thc night to his bed side ancl addressed him in these words : " young man attend to the advice of one who has possessed a certain degree of i mean not to speak disrespectfully of over seers ; they are as good as other people ; nor is it their fault if their employers have made their wealth and subsistence to depend on the impov erishment of half a continent thc most which the land can yield and seldom or never improve ment with a view to future profit is a point of common consent and mutual need between the agriculturist ancl his overseer ; and ihcy gener ally unite in emptying thc cup of fertility to the dregs the court ordered a previous examination by four peers and the chancellor who bad power to issue orders of arrest but could not liberate till after thc consent ofa committee of twelve — ten after bein more or less detained have been set at liberty ; ten have fled and one charged with contumacy fifty-five remain in custody ; on these the committee of i ive have made a re port by the medium of pastoret on the other band m ravez was appointed procureur general on lhe part of the crown ; but being appointed president of the chamber of deputies his substitute m jacquinot de 1'am svotice on the 1st of april was taken on the road between the poplar camp and salem four heists of the jfqtlowing description : one a dark bay and three of them light bay color two of them pace one of them is onjewliat hurt by a portmanteau ; no other particular ile*u marks twill give a handsome reward to any one ___> whi return the horses and secure the thief or give jeteimaiioii to me in orange count5 t on allauiance near jwjre mi.rpli or to john c blum salem n c so thc hors _. and thief the person supposed 4-oans taken them is a voung man of about 25 years wu-kmt fiv.j f.-.-t nip ii-.i-hc-i high fame in the world and who will shortly appear before his maker read the bible every day of your life plejsuhi thc most exquisite as weli us the most innocent of all enjoyments arc such as cost us least : reading fresh air good weather fine landscapes ancl the beauties of nature it is discovered in england from espcrience that short leases were the worst enemies to agri