Western Carolinian

              z ■ :... l vol hj saliisbuhlx 3 c t\jf.sbax 3\51a z 1821 jfo 56 in speculations of i&y own ; i shall on ly detail to you some principles de rived from practical farmers and which have been confirmed by my own expe rience pbxhtxo asd published evert tttesdat yadkin xttvig&tum company notice is hereby pven that the president and directors ofthe yadkin navigation company have required the payment of the sev enth eighth and ninth installments of ten dollars each upon every share subscribed to be made to the treasurer of the company or to such agents as they shall appoint to receive the same : and that payment of said instalments be made on or before the 6th day of august next or the shares of the subscribers failing to pay will be sold at auction at the town of salisbury north carolina on monday the 10th day of septem ber next francis locke president pro tern of the yadkin navigation company june 20 1821 55t8pl0 au the virtues have their appropri ate place and rank in scripture they are introduced as individually beauti ful and as reciprocally connected like the graces in the mythologic dance but perhaps no christian grace ever sat to the hand of a more consummate bt bingham & white iveugious the subscription to the western canoufriax is three dollars per annum payable half-yearly in advance terms : extracts from ha-to ah moke christianity has not on.y given us right conceptions of god of his holi ness of the way in which he will be worshipped : it has not only given us principles to promote our happiness here and to ensure it hereafter ; but it has really taught us what a proud philosophy arrogates to itself the right use of reason it has given us those principles of examining and judging by which we are enabled to determine on the absurdity of false religions " for to what else can it be ascribed says the sagacious bishop sherlock u that in every natiftn that name the name of christ even reason and na ture see and condemn the follies to which others are still for want of the same help held in subjection ?" allowing however that plato and antoninus seemed to have been taught of heaven yet the object for which we contend is that no provision was made for the vulgar vv hile a faint ray shone on the page of philosophy the people were involved in darkness which might be felt the million were left to live without knowledge and to die without hope for what knowledge or what hope would be acquired from the pre 1 posterous though amusing and in ma ny respects elegant mythology which they might pick up in their poets the belief of which seemed to be confined to the populace but there was no common principle of hope or fear of faith or practice no motive of consolation no bond of char ity no communion of everlasting inter ests no reversionary equality between the wise and the ignorant the master and the slave the greek and the bar barian 1st the soil should be drained from all superfluous moisture by enlarging natural or making artificial drains 2d the land should be kept rich by preserving its natural fertility or re storing it if lost by reit manure or ameliorating crops 3d it should be kept free from all noxious weeds and grasses by deep ploughing and frequent harrowing 4th we should never plant until the earth is in the most favorable state for 0j no paper will be discontinued until all arrearages are paid unless at the discretion of the editors ; and any subscriber failing to rive notice of his wish to discontinue at the end of a year will be considered as wishing to continue the paper which will be sent accordingly whoever will become responsible for the payment of nine papers shall receive a tenth gratis master than charity her incompara ble painter saint paul has drawn her at full length in all her fair proportions every attitude is full of grace every lineament of beauty the whole de lineation is perfect and entire wanting nothing who can look at this finished piece without blushing at his own want of likeness to it yet if this conscious dissimilitude induce a cordial desire of resemblance the humiliation will be salutary perhaps a more frequent contemplation of this exquisite figure accompanied with earnest endeavors for a growing resemblance would gradually lead us not barely to admire the portrait but would at length assimi late us to the divine original advertisxme_vts will be inserted on the cus tomary terms # * # persons sending in adver tisements must specify the number of times they wish them inserted or they will be continued till ordered out and charged accordingly state of ashe county george bower vs james m'guier : orig inal attachment returned to may session 1821 it is ordered by the court that publica tion be made in the western carolinian for three months that the defendant james m'guier appear at the next court of pleas and quarter sessions to be held for the county of ashe on the second monday after the fourth monday in july next and plead answer or demur other wise judgment by default final will be entered up against him 10wt59 thos calloway clerk the speedy germination and vigorous growth of plants these may be called the fundamen tal principles of operative farming and wherever they are carried into ef fect the soil never fails to reward the husbandman with a bountiful harvest there are many minor principles in the minutia of farming ; among which may be placed first in importance the rotation of crops or what in the books on farming is called the u ameliorating course all farmers agree in the ne cessity of a rotation of crops but they differ widely in their selections if the object of agriculture like all other arts be first maintenance and second ly profit a variety of considerations will present themselves in deciding on a judicious rotation i shall only men tion a few : as climate soil and mar ket with regard to our climate while we are led to admire the adven turous spirit of our forefathers whoj emigrated to this country with no other implements than the mariner'a compass we regret their neglect of the physical properties of the climate ; noi has their course been much amended no advertisement inserted until it has been paid for or its payment assumed by some person in this town or its vicinity c__j*all letters to tlie editors must be post-paid or they will not be attended to js*eyf who is contractor for carrying mail between salisbury by kcc respectfully in up an entire sta agricultural ashe county leonarb shown versus james m'guier original attachment returned to may ses sion 1821 it is ordered by the court that pub lication be made in the western carolinian for three months that the defendant james m'guier appear at the next court of pleas and quarter sessions to be held for the county of ashe on the second monday after the fourth monday in july next and plead answer or demur other wise judgment by default final will be entered up against him 10wt59 thos calloway clerk way forms new ments padded to other improves made will enable him to carry passengers with as much comfort and expedition as they can be carried by any line of btages in this part ofthe country the scarcity of money the reduction in the price of produce c demand a correspondent reduction in every department of life : therefore the subscriber has determined to reduce the rate of passage from eight to six cents per mile gentlemen travelling from tbe we6t to raleigh or by way of raleigh to the north are invited to try the subscriber's stage as he feels assured it only needs a trial to gain a preference the stage arrives in salisbury every tuesday 8 or 9 o'clock and departs thence for raleigh the same day at 2 o'clock ; it arrives in raleigh friday evening and leaves there for salisbury on saturday at 2 o'clock '_____________________________\ may 22 1821 5<)m hail ! first of arts source of domestic ease ; pride of the land and patron of the seas state of north-carolina ashe county t¥7*augh & finly versus james m'guier : ▼ f original attachment returned to may session 1821 it is ordered by the court that publication be made in the western carolinian forthree months that the defendant james mac guier appear at the next court of pleas and quarter sessions to be held for the county of ashe on the second monday after the fourth monday in july next and plead answer or de mur otherwise judgment by default final will be entered up against him 10wt59 thos calloway clerk of the president of the warren n c agricul tural society concluded another cause which has operated in no small degree to retard agricul tural improvment is our attachment to old customs and habits ; which not only rejects new improvements and experiments but often attacks them with ridicule j while no country gives less countenance to such prejudices our ancestors received this soil from the hand of nature rich with a vegetable mould which had been accu mulating for ages and which required but little more from their hands than to sow and to reap scarcely have two centuries elapsed before this rich lay er this magazine of food for plants is exhausted by their system of husban dry and the time has now come when our fields as descended to us exhausted of their pristine fertility require great labor and skill to furnish a plenteous harvest it was a question of easy solution with them when land was so plentiful as to be worth but lit tle more than taking up whether it was best to clear a new field when the old one was worn out or improve it consequently the system they pursued was a succession of exhausting crops without intermission then alternately exhausting crops and pasturage under the fallacious idea of rest until it was completely worn out — it was then aban doned and new land cleared to undergo the same deadly routine is it not time then to change that system which in so short a time has marked its course with such devastations ? john lane a religion was wanted which should be of general application christiani ty happily accommodated itself to the common exigence it furnished an adequate supply to the universal want instead of perpetual but expiating sac rifices to appease imaginary deities gods such as guilt makes welcome it presents " one oblation once offered a full perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world it presents one consistent scheme of morals growing out of one uniform system of doctrines ; one perfect rule of practice depending on one principle of faith ; it offers grace to direct the one and to assist the other it encircles the whole spnere of duty with the broad and golden zone of coal escing charity stanped with the inscrip tion " a new commandment give i un to you that you love one another christianity instead of destroying the distinction of rank or breaking in on the regulations of society by this uni - versal precept furnishes new fences to its order additional security to its re pose and fresh strength to its subor dinations by their day ignorant of our climate^^h some of the most palpable phenom which are obvious to the most care we are at th neyi goods the subscriber is now opening at his store in salisbury a general and well selected assortment of dry goods hard-ware and medicines just received direct from new york and phila delphia and laid in at prices that will enable him to sell remarkably low his customers and the public are respectfully invited to call and ex amine for themselves all kinds of country produce received in exchange iat78 j murphy of north-carolina | ashe koonrod smittiat vs james m'guier original attachment returned to may ses sion 1821 it is ordered by the court that pub lication be made in the western carolinian for three months that tlie defendant james m'guier appear at the next coi'rt of pleas and quarter sessions to be held for the county of ashe on the second monday after the fourth monday in july next and plead answer or demur other wise judgment by default final will be entered up against him 10wt59 thos calloway clerk sta observer it is true that some metrical and a few pluviometrical ob servations have been made but they were too limited in number and de tached in place to form any data for fixing the character of our climate j in an agricultural point of view however it is favorable to the production o a variety of crops as to our soil it is true we can boast of as great a variety as any section of country and that too with a capacity to produce as great a variety of crops ; but since it has lost its pristine fertility this capacity has become latent and it now requires skill and labor to arouse it into activity the most important consideration is our market — in this respect we are unfortunately situated as regards a va riety of crops we are not contigu ous to any large market in which we can dispose of every blade of grass we raise either in the form of stock or hay we have no populous villages to consume our surplus bread stuff and the proportion of unproductive consumers to those who raise bread private entertainment the subscriber takes this method of inform ing his friends and the public in general that he has established himself in the house for merly occupied by the rev peter eaton in the town of huntsville surry county n carolina ; and has been at considerable expense in making his rooms commodious and comfortable for the reception of travellers and all who may favor him with their custom his sideboard is pro vided with liquors of the best quality and his stables with every thing requisite for horses ; and hopes by particular attention to merit a share of public patronage mumford dejornatt state of north-carolina rutherford county robert k wilson versus william beaty : original attachment levied on land it is ordered that publication be made in the wes tern carolinian for thiee months that unless the defendant appear at our court of pleas and quarter sessions to be held for said county at the court-house in rutherfordton on the second monday in july next_^titd replevy plead or de mur judgment final will be entered against him and the property condemned subject to the plaintiff's recovery 6\vt56 witness isaac craton c c huntsville dec 17 1820 30 n b the subscriber continues to carry on the cabinet business ; and will execute all or ders with neatness and despatch for cash credit or country produce m d state of north-carolina wilkes coun j.y : court of fequity march term 1821 montford stokes versus john charmichael in this cause it is ordered that publication be made six weeks in tiie western carolinian that unless john charmichael who resides out of this state and is a defendant in this cause shall appear at the next superior court of law and equity to be held for the county of wilkes at the court house in wilkesborough on the second monday in september next and answer the bill will be taken pro confesso and heard ex parte march 19 1821 6wt55 j gwyn jun c m e were this command so inevitably productive of that peculiarly christian injunction of " doing to others as we would they should do unto to us uni formly observed the whole frame of society would be cemented and consol idated into one indissoluble bond of toy sale the well known stand in lexington n c known by the name of the swan tavern with one and a half town lots with good sta bles a kitchen and all necessary out-houses the dwelling-house is roomy and well furnished with furniture which may i?e had by the pur chaser also 130 acres of good land joining town the plantation is in a high state of cultivation i will make the payments easy as times are hard per terms apply to tiie subscriber in lexington michael beard l0wt58 is too small to afford a market among ourselves for such articles it gives me pleasure however to congrat ulate you gentlemen that our disad vantages in this respect are daily lessen ing from the highly praiseworthy and patriotic co-operation of our legislature with individual companies in the great work of internal improvement and from the great progress in clearing some of our large rivers particularly the roanoke we have a well founded anticipation that at no distant day we shall have a safe ex peditious and cheap conveyance for our produce to distant markets when that period shall arrive a new policy may dawn upon us it may then be our interest to enliven our farms with stock and to cover our fields with grain aud grasses but until that period does arrive our immedi ate policy would seem to be to raise only a sufficiency of bread stuff for the main tenance of our families and appropriate all the remainder of our time and labor to raise a greater surplus ofthe only market able articles among us which are cotton and tobacco limited as this policy ap pears to be it nevertheless opens a wide door for agricultural improvement for situated as the generality of our farms are we are obliged to appropriate our most fertile land to the culture of cotton or to bacco thereby compelling us to resort to the woods or exhausted fields for our bread-stuffs here then is the field fj>v agricultural skill to renovate orr ex hausted fields and to produce from thewk the greatest crops from the least labor here gentlemen is a wide field for our associated operations — and may the first fruits of our society be the arousing a general spirit of systematic improvement this is an auspicious period for our undertaking for al though agriculture has been carried on for ages by a greater number of peo ple than any other art ; although the light of science has illuminated the path of most other arts and fixed their principles it is but very lately that ag riculture has received the attention of men of science or men of capital hitherto it has had no fixed principles to govern its operations how nume rous and diversified for instance have been the opinions concerning the food of plants the operation of manures the utility of fallows and a variety of other important subjects on which the theorist has done but little more than exhibit an igenious imagination but lately from the numerous experiments and observations which practical far mers have published such an increase of knowledge has been acquiied and its principles have been so simplified that this may be called a new era in ag riculture i shall not take up your time in tracing these ingenious theo ries nor shall i weary your indulgence universal brotherhood this divinely enacted law is the seminal principle of justice charity patience forbearance in short of all social virtue that it does not produce these excellent ef fects is not owing to any defect in the principle but in our corrupt nature which so reluctantly so imperfectly obeys it if it were conscientiously adopted and substantially acted upon received in its very spirit and obeyed from the ground of the heart human laws might be abrogated courts of jus tice abolished and treatises of morali ty burnt ; war would be no longer an art nor military tactics a science we should suffer long and be kind and so far from " seeking that which is ano ther's we should not even " seek our state of north-carolina rowan countv court of pleas and quarter sessions may term 1821 henry williams vs william butler ; original attachment jesse a pearson and others summoned as garnishees it appear ing to tlie satisfaction of the court that tne de fendant is not an inhabitant of this state it is therefore ordered that publication be made for three months in the western carolinian printed in salisbury that the defendant appear at the next court of pleas and quarter sessions to be herd for the county of rowan at the court-house in salisbury on the third monday in august next then and there to replevy plead or demur or judgment will be taken against him by default ilwt63 test jno giles c r c c may 7th 1821 yifty bowars ue^ata ran away from the subscriber at charlotte mecklenburg county n carolina a negro bov by the name of simon dark complexion stout made and five feet seven or eight inches high he speaks low when spoken to it is supposed that he will make towards the county of prince william virginia as he was purchased in that county i will give the above reward if the said negro is delivwed to isaac wilie con cord cabarrus county or 25 dollars if secured in any jail and information given so that i get him agkin evan wilie march 24 1821 50 . the editors of the richmond enquirer are requested to insert the above advertisement six weeks and send their account to the office of the western carolinian for payment state of north-carolina rowan county court of pleas and quarter sessions may term 1821 richmond pearson's execu tor and executrix vs william langhorn john caloway and j 8 burwell original attach ment levied on land it appearing to the satis faction of the court that the defendants are not inhabitants of this state it is therefore ordered that publication be made for six weeks in the western carolinian printed in salisbury that the defendants appear at the next court of picas and quarter sessions to be held for the county of rowan at the court-house in saliabury on the third monday in augusft next then and there to replevy plead or demur or judgment will be taken against them by default 6wt58 test jno giles c ff.cc own but lot not the soldier or the lawyer be alarmed their craft is in no dan ger the world does not intend to act upon the divine principle which would injure their professions ; and till this only revolution which good men de sire actually takes place our fortunes will not be secure without the exer tions of the one nor our lives without the protection of the other st^aj hotse broke from the enclosure of the subscriber on the 4th of june a large gpy horse with a darkish colored mane and tail he is tall before and stoops behind and is nicked no other marks arc recollected if he has any he is also a wind-sucker ten dollars reward will be given to any person who will return said hone lo the subscriber or give him information so that he may get him again john klutts second creek rowan co ? jim ij 1821 5 3wt56