Western Carolinian

              v the western carolinian asuram ahid 17 mahnp^asi editors and proprietors published every saturday mornin jvumbcr 16 of volume 16 : salisbury north carolina september 19 1835 number from\>cg\iu\mg 708 results of experience an acre of mftlberry trees full grown will coed 040,000 worms and these as 300 cocoons are equal to a pound of silk will make if properly attended to 180 lbs which when reeled at the very lowest calculation would be worth 94 per lb equal to 9720 now let us see what would be the expense attending the feeding of the worms the experience of europe as well as that of our own country show that two persons aro competent to feed one million of worms the first woek 4 the second 8 the third and from 16 to 20 tho remainder of the time which for the sake of data we will set down at two weeks more this wo wish it recollected is the calculation of the number of hands requisite to attend to 1,000,000 worms but as we wish in all charges against the culture to bo rather over than under the amount we will tax the 040,000 worms with the expense of almost twice thai number for attendants and now let us see how the account will stand : thc western advantages nf those resuscitating bode of shell and other marl in tho tide water districts may be car ried fur beyond the highest point of their original fruitfulncss and that too at a cost which will bear no comparison with the increased amount nnd va lue of the produce which may be raised from a given quantity of land if this be practicable should not the whisperings of patriotism — tne vono ration for ancient and present asaociations — those ties which bind man to the place of his birth — should not these admonish him to make ono noble one generous effort in its behalf this question is so simple as oot to admit of debate — every virtu ous and ennobling impulse of the heart responds a warm a sincere and ardent affirmative they call upon us one and all to moke that effort who is there among us whose fortune it may have been to have been born in one of the old states of those states which laid the foundation of human liberty — no matter how humble his sphere of life — that does not feel the distinction an enviable one when we say this we mean nothing disparaging to tho now states — those vigorous and patriotic scions of ihe old stock — for god knows wo love them all in sincerity end singleness of heart then let each and all of those whom we address turn with re them are various ways by which it might bo — individuals may anil we hope will bogin it in the eastern slates it has already been laid hold of in every possible form — societies companies and individuals are there already exerting their re spective capacity to give it motion in connecti cut about four county societies have been specially formed for furthering its culture since tho 1st of march last and almost daily we soe notices nf new companies about being formed these things are aa they should be and we would appeal to the pride of the middle and southern states whose soil and climate are so much better suited to the culture of the mulberry not to let nur eastern and northern brethren outstrip us in this lucrative branch of hus bandry but rather join with them in the generous rivalry of brothers for the palm of victory and may we not here ask every agriculturalist living in those states immediately interested to step forward to the rescue in a business which equally con cerns all none should indulge in indifference of feeling what we ask therefore ia that some gentlemen in each neighborhood will take an active part and give an " impetus to the ball of the revo lution " — it needs but a beginning and he who shall be foremost in this glorious work of regeneration will deserve tn live in the fondest recollections of his countrymen tho organization of societies for agricultural purposes wherever ihey have been formed have conferred blessings ana we enjoin it upon those who possess influence to exert il now ; for note is tho time when their country needs it with statues busts portraits and natural curiosi ties the grounds and outhouses have been neglec ted mr jefferson's attention being absorbed from such personal concerns by the carea attendant on the superintendence of the university which when in health ho visited daily since the erection com menced by asiibel smith di joseph w hampton 1 the western carolinian is published every sa tubd.i at two dollars per annum if paid in advance or two dollars and fifty cents if not paid before tho expiration of three months 2 no paper will be discontinued until all arrcragosa are paid unless at the discretion of tlic editors 3 subscriptions will not bo received for a lo time than one year ; and a failure to notify the editors of a wish to discontinue at uio end of a year will be consi dered as a new engagement 4 any person who will procure eix subscribers to the carolinian and tako the trouble to collect and transmit their subscription-money to the editors shall have o pa per gratis during their continuance 5 1£p persons indebted to the f.dilars.may transmit to them through the mail at their risk provided they get the acknowledgment of any respectable person to prove that such remittance was regularly made terms op " at a short distance behind the mansion in a qu.rt shaded spot the visitor seesa square enclosed surrounded by a low un nurtured atone wall which he enter by a neat wooden gate it i the family burial ground containing ten or fifteen graves none of them marked by epitaphs and only a few dis tinguished by any memorial on one side of thin simple cemetery is tho resting place of the patriot and philosopher when i saw it the vault was just arched and in readinees for the plain stooo which is to cover il may it ever continue like washington's without a«v adventitious attractions or conspicousnee ; for when we or our posterity need any othor memento of oor debt of honor to thnae names than our simple inscription on paper wood or tone gorgeous tomb would be a mockery lo tboir memories when gratitude shall cease to concentrate iheir remembrance in tho hearts of our people no cenotaph will inspire the reverence we owe them »-_ ch = hsh = 5"a tt 1 1 3 1 3 |.§ 5 s ll l 8 st t r ° t *> ' * we s s s^sms«oo = ml m£?2 a 3-b l = ■ g**5-*s*_1 , is ■ s ".! a * is ________________________________________________________________■ "* fcj = — ■ ****** ~& _! ?_._«_ i jcc eo oqo£____qo i i h ■ cd i ° i h i f !__. i «■ s ll tf-.rms of apvknttsiwo 1 advertisements will be conspicuously and correct ly inserted ot 00 cents por square for the first insertion and 33j conts for each continuance : but where nn ad vertisement is ordered to go in only twice 50 cts will be charged for each insertion if ordered for ono in sertion only fl will in all cases bo charged 2 persons who nesiro to engage by the year will be accommodated by a reasonable deduction from the above . charges for transient custom ne wed affection — with renovated regard and an un swerving determination to make another manly ef fort one which shall oe alike worthy of ourselves and of our respective states the rotation of crops wherever tried with the aid of clover and plaster alone in many instances have wrought wonders in the way of meliorating the condition of ihe soil and where lime and an economical and discreet husbanding and application of those manures pro duced on estates have been adopted the improve ment haa been still more manifest lime it will probably be said is cosily — it is costly in one sense — to all who have to purchase it — to many whose localities are remote from its deposites its obtainment may be said to be impracticable ; but to thosn who live within a distance accessible to navigation its first cost whether that be twelve or twenty-five cents the bushel is not and should not be an object ; for it will pay an interest of more than an hundred per cent so also would the marl prove cheap to such as can procure it so as to have it delivered on iheir fields at these pri ces and we have been favored with the perusal of a corretpondence which shews that in some situ ations within the marl districts it can be delivered on tho landings of many gentlemen at from 6 lo 8 cents and in some situations more favorably loca ted at 4 cents the bushel no one acquainted with the fructifying properties of marl will ques tion tho correctneas of our aasertion when we state that by th application of from 100 to 200 bushels to ihe acre according to the degree of exhaustion of the soil to which it is to be applied its rate of yield may be raised from its present depressed state to from 20 to 80 bushels of whoat to the acre in favorable seasons that of corn to from 8 to 10 bbls and other articles of produce in like proportions the first cost of eithor lima shells , narles or ashes should not deter any fanner from trying thoir efficacy where they do not exceed the prices named as there can bo no question but that the investment would prove safe and of lasting be nefit to him who may make it tho farmers on long island new york pay from 6 to 10 cents a bushel for leached ashes then have to pay freight for fifteen or twenty miles of water carriage and the expense of land transportation from five lo six miles and still grow rich the modus operandi is easy of solution by the use of these ashes they make one acre produce what it formerly required three lo do and thus they save the expence of cul tivation and of labor on two acres together with the interest on the value ol the land william iv king of great britain and ireland late duke of clarence and third eon of george iii was born august 21st 1765 married july 1 lth 1818 her serene highness amelia adelaide louise thorese caroline wilhelmina princeas of saxe meinengen whnt a name eldest daughter of george frederick charles reigning duke of sarte mienengen and has had two daughters one dieil the duv of birth and the other lived a little less than three months there boiug no issue then living by the king the princess victoria daughter and only child of the duke of kent her father being dead is heir presumptive to the brit ish throne she waa born may 24th 1810 and is now july 1833 in her 16th yea hor mo iher the duchess of kent ie living and in connec tion with the eppoioted state guardians has charge of her daughter's education tho duchess of kent is a highly accomplished woman has personal charms and ia popular she is the daughter of the duke of saxe cobourgh saalfield the terms iheir apparent and presumptive to ihe throne will be obvious a appropriated ; tha former lo designate a son or daughter of the-reign ing monarch if one be living and the latter to point out the nearest akin according to the estab lished law for the descent of the crown when the king has no heir of his own body the brother nf william iv living are the duke of cumber land duke of sussex and duke of cambridge ; the latter vice roy of hanover ; the king'ssietorsliving are the princess augusta elizabeth mary sophia and amelia elizabeth and mary are widow the former of the prion of homhurg who died in 1820 the latter of the late duke of gloucester tho other three princesses are unmarried george iii bad fifteen children of whom nine are elive the prince and princesses of the blood royal are distin guished by the title of royal highness william iv being in hi seventieth year and hi constitution somewhat invaded by hading causes of mortality a demise of the crown aa it i techni cally called may soon be expected ; in which case the british nation in likely lo have a youthful queen if ihe princes victoria should be taken before her great uncle the crown will tall on the duke of cumberland and his family who has a eon prince george of cumberland horn way 87th 1819 next ia the duke of sussex whose children cannot succeed bi marriage having boon dissolved by parliament a illegal next is the duke of cam . bridge who ho three children one and the eldest » eon prince george of cambridge bom march 20th 1810 it ie expected that the princes vic totia will marry one of the georgeo her cousin in case of the failure of heirs legitimate lo the bri tish throne the parliaments competent to make a s|iecial settlement of the crown the house of brunswick however ha a large stock and proba bly will save tho parliament ihal trouble if not aa long as kings may be wanted at least for a long time yet to come — cotton's four years \. to insure prompt attention to i-ctters addressed to the editors the postage should in all cases he paid from the baltimore farmer and gardener fyom fay's sketches a splendid op the alps an appeal to the people of the old states particularly " among the many wagons conveying movers to the west which daily pasa throa«h this town waa one on tuesday attended by thirty fivo persons twenty-six of whom were upon it the others follow ed on foot they were five families from the west ern shore of maryland who had united in charter ing a single wagon the upper loading of which was bedding piled to tho height of 12 feet from the ground on the top of which 20 women and child ren were perched on tho next day four families containing 29 persons with a single wagon follow ' from the same neighborhood — wheeling gat much aa we talk of nature there are places where we feel that nur previous conceptions have been dim and narrow he who creeses the alps will experience this sensation minglod,.witl a certain ty that thousands of painters and poots and mil lions of others live and die without even suspect ing the power of scenery over the mind our journey across the splogen was to us a day me morable forever our recollection . are of gran deur — gloomy vasluess — awful eolitudo eternal sublimity there were moments during tho ascent of a kind strange and new to me whoever seeks something new under the sun if he has dwelt on a ' plan let him ascend a veritable mountain and he will find it awe amazement gloom won der and rapture during which you cannot smile combine lo elevate you the road wind up and up a mad stream white with foam thundering all day by its side amid slopes and clifft forests and valies — then a plain and a poor hut or a rag ged town and some beggars you pause and rest ; and then again up and up winding and turning — sometimes through tremendous ravines sometimes by msgnificient water-alls — sometimes along gid dy and yawning gulfs — yet still always up and up then the face of the earth changes and the grass fah-g nearly away and the naked everlasting rocks lift their gray backs through the soil the tem pest of six thousand years have beaten against them now the mad meal through a desert of endless stones broken and scattered about now through a long dv/k gallery wet and dripping — now at the brink of a tremendous precipice which your ima gination would receive as the summit of any moun tain but anon the toiling panting sweating horn drag you around in an angle of rock : and lo ! above you overhang other cliffe and other moun tains in the sky ; piles wells and pyramids oi snow and ice ; and so near their awful heights as to star tle you the white line runs yet higher and you be lieve not that it is your path still so far above you — and yet it i the earth is now totally changed and ihe tem perature and atmosphere and heavens are changed you wrap your heavy cloak around you in ihe bi ting cold dark clouds are rolling gloomily over your path and the white snow shines beneath you nnd the winter wind shakos violently the closed glaasee of your carriage ; and as the road still mounting and bending up and up turns your face now to the right — now to the left — von catch far below such awful gleaming of sublime scenery — such dim and depth of azure — such forms of cold blue lifted end built up around you in the eternal silenco and shrouded in the mist and storm that your very soul is hushed and chilled and you feel ae if deal the king of terrors hail hero fixed his home ; and were a spectre to stand in your path or to lean and beckon to you from his car of rolling mist you would behold him without starting for your imagination can scarcely be more excited — a cataract which on the plain would draw all eu rope to it as a fashionable resort is here no curio sity its lonely thunder swells end dies away in iho intermi nable solitude twenty times we thought ourselves at the height of this stupendous road and yet its zig-zag course appeared ever mounting tar before us up and up till the cold grew extreme nnd the darkness of night overlooked us ; and we were completely lost and enveloped in heavy wet cloud rolling around us like a mighty ocean 4 el s3 8 — we fcnow not what effect such paragraphs hove upon the feelings of others bul for ourselves we can in sincerity nnd truth aver that ihey cause the blood to course through our veins with more than icy-coldness we lovo we trust our whole country with all the ardor of genuine patriotism ; but as all human affections have their grades and de grees o are ours regulated with respect to that particular member of the great american family of states in which rt was our humblo lot to be born for marvland we cherish an affection which we will not name ; and although we rejoice with all the warth of young love in the advance of any member of tho confederacy in tho march of pros pcrity and greatness whei we see any evidence of tho downward course i things in the " old thir teen"-»lhat glorious galaxy whose chivalry anil blood wa the price of our freedom — as ia to be found in the paragraph which form our text wo confess it mukea us sick at hoart what is the spectacle presonted j in two short days sixty-four of our citizens from the same neighl-orhoorl ore seen passing through a ainglo town on tho ohio wooding their way to the far weet or aouth-wo.it | and how many there are who will follow our ima gination cannot conceive ; for il i but a fow months since we heard of a gentleman from one of the low er counties on the wostern shore of this state who was deputed as an agent for thirty-five fa oiling to go to the west to aeek out an eligible location for them lo emigrate to but why do they leave those green fields — those chorished haunts of their child hood wby do they depart from the soil whereon iheir forefather dwelt for centuries why do they desert thoee sacred fane in which their an cestors and themselves have so often nnd eo long offered up their anthems and their prnyers to him who listens in mercy and decides in justice t hnvo those green fields those haunts that soil and those tones no longer any bold upon the affections do not ihe associations of early life do not those con nexions formed in ihe spring-tide of iheir existence ever cross thoir minds — do not thoee fond recol lection of earlier and more lasting friendships re mind thorn of the thrice hallowed scenes which were once so dear to tbeml if reflections such a we s have described do not obtrude upon the thought of thoee whoee eyes are cast toward the setting un there is nn hope loft for human nature is nol what we took her to be : ihe is more obdurate than marble colder than the arm of death but if these thought do sometimes steal oner their minds there may still be hope that all may yet be well that the tide of emigration which almost threatens to take from many of the middle nnd southern members of the old states the healthful the indus trious the enterprising and the young may bo stay ed and thai thoeo who have contemplated break ing away from the tie of their youthful and more mature age may be prevailed upon to abandon their intentions and once more turn their thought toward the improvement of the loved soil that gave them birth ask thoea who have gom ir an going west why they have left or intend to leave their native hills and they wilt tell you " the ie morn out we admit that much of it is worn out and that in nurae/ou instances ils pro ducts do not repoy the toil end expense of cultiva tion hut then th'i is not ihe fault of the soil it was all originally kind much of it fertile and yield ed generous returns for the labor bestowed upon it bad tillage an injurious ayatem of cultivation and too long continuance in exhausting crops have brought it to its present deteriorated state ; but tbii cortainly doe not justify the conclusion ihal its former fertility cannot bo restored wo believo that all of thoeo worn out fields con be thus ro stored by the adoption of a judicious system of cul tun and that such a are within ihe reach of the b - 31 1 9 h ire then we have as the clear profit resulting from an acre of ground in the silk culture after making the most liberal allowances for all possible chargpa accruing — after allowing s20 for an acre of worn out inn.l which in manv cases would not bring one f mirth of that sum and but seldom more than a moiety after taxing one acre with nearly the expenses of labor for two and after pulling this silk at the lowest or minimum value — we sav after dealing thua hardly with the produce we have a clear profit on one acre thus appropriated of 565 80 this calculation allow 3,000 cocoon to make 1 lb of reeled silk whereas the experiment of mr elias frost of plainfiold massachusetts proved that 1,243 yielded him 7 j ounces nf silk when reeled being rather better than 18 ounces nf silk to 3,000 worms or of one pound to a fraction leas than 2,527 worms this experiment was upon a small scale it may be said — granted — it was upon a email scale but by due vigilance iinceasinglvigi lance and a proportionate increase of attendants the same result might be realized lo the extent of many acres we do not wish to conceal the feet from the agricultural community that those who enter into the silk business must imitate the worm in its toils he who expects without exertion dur ing their feeding to realize profit from thoir labor had belter not engage in it but if he will give during the very limited period cf iheir promotion here say five weeks — due vigilance be will in deed reap a harvest worthy of his garner the calculation of food for ihe worms is based upon the production of 108 full grown trees placed on an acre 20 square feet apart ; but the eame or a greater quantity of leavea might be rained on an acre of land planted in hedge six feet apart ihe fourth year after sowing the seed if the seedlings were pushed ahead by manuring and clean cultiva tion we have spoken of worn out land being adapt ed to the culture of the mulberry tree and we re peat lhat ihe experience of europe shows thai thin sandy or gravelly lands yield s nutriment which produces ihe finest most elastic and glossy silk ; but here we would not be understood aa wishing to recommend that the mulberry plant be confined to poor worn out lands without their being first libe rally manured ; and whether planted in standard trees or in hedges the soil should most assuredly be kept in a state of general tilth for the first four yoars by cultivation clover between the rows to be well plastered and a lay turned in twice dur ing thai lime taking care lo keep the young plants or trees free from the obtrusion of grasa or weeds would be sufficient toensuretheirsubeaquent growth potatoes or oilier roots a parsnips mangel wart set carrots or beets might also be raised between the standard or hedge rows so ihal while the mul berry waa maturing the ground appropriated to their culture could be made to more than repay fur all expense attending il thu would the bug bear of having " to wait so long be stript of ile hidcousneee a few word more and we will bring this article to a clone how shall tho great work be begun ? but there is another ji.m open to thoee who de sire to remain — afield rich in promise and which should gratifv even the most exorbitant thirst for the accumulation of wealth we allude to the silk cci.it.kb — a business which if well conduct ed is calculated of itaelf to make every owner of a amall farm comfortable each holder of a large one rich — we use both term in their broad and most ample sense as we have before remarked by the adoption of thin a a branch of husbandry thoee very worn-out field — which are now driving the people of new j ebsey m abvi.imo viboiiha nobth cakolma and south cabolina to seek homes among stranger and encounter all the hard ship and privation incident lo new and border eat tlementa — may be converted into so may mines of wealth we ask no man to go into it as on exclu sive business — we desire no one to risk ihe support of hi family upon it ; but we do ask we do coiyure every one who still clings with affection to his first home lo hi birth place to engage in it a a part of hi business let thoee who con afford to buy the trees from the various nureeriee in our country buy them and commence the work ao ihal tho in fluence of their example may be felt and followed let thoee who cannot afford lo mako an outlay for tho trees buy one two three or four ounce of the moras alba tho white or italian mulberry and begin the rawing of the tree for themselves let those who cannot spare a larger quantity of land than one acre appropriate that lo the culture of mulberry and let each eccordiog to his ability set in mulberry whatever number of acres which to him may seem fit and proper from the number named to fifty either in hedges or standard trees and we pledge ouraelf that if thoee plantations of the mul'mrry be nurtured with care and turned to ihe ejvanlage of which they are susceptible the necessity for emigration will cease to exist in ny of the middle or southern state ihore i not an acre of thoee very landi about to be deserted thai may nol thu in talk culture he made to produce more than twice aa much in value a any western or southwestern lands which might be procured if cultivated in tbe present staples of thoee state why then go beyond the boundary of domestic comfort in search of tlie land which abound in ihe element of wealth when that land is at your own door if you improve the resource which god has placed within your reach let us teat it by the patience of married people — one of the gnat officer of state belonging lo the seraglio of hie highnoss has just we ided a lady whoee face be had never seen before marriage such being the law of the country and who bad aa little pretention to beauty a the husband himself the day after her marriage the bride asked her liege lord to which of hie friend he would permit her to discover her face to all the world madam tartly aaid he except to me patience replied she ; you must now make the best of it " patience mad am retorted her husband " i have none " you don't do yourself justice said she you barn much more than your share ;— for fifty yean you have had directly under your eye the moat horri ble noee one could possibly see and you have not yet resolved to get rid of it the grave op jefferson the following i a description of the place where rest the remain of the sage of mont icello i " i ascended the winding road which lead from charlottesville to monlicello the path lead to a circuitous ascent of about two mile up the minia ture mountain to the farm and ihe grave of jeffer son on entering the gate which open into the enclosure numerous paths diverge in various direc tions winding through beautiful groves to the sum mit of ihe hill from the peak on which the houae stands a grand nearly unlimited view open upon tho thick woodod hill and fertile vallies which stretch out on either sid the university with it dome porticoes and coionndes look like a fair city in the plain chertu_.svi.le seem to be di rectly beneath no spot can bo imagined as com bining greater advantages of grandeur and seclu sion the house is noble iu its appearance ; two large columns support a ,. irtico which extends from this wing and into il the front door opens the apartment are neatly ftirnisbed and embellished a married couple in maine sued mutually a abort time since for divorce one of the ground en which the husband prayed for a separation waa that hi wife smoked — thai ba smoked day and night | and further thai he smoked before mnrriege bul concealed the habit from him until after their uni on the wife on her aide put ia a croee plea that the husbend chewed tobacco and not only chewed tobacco hut ate onion causae of disen tisaumion so strong added to diver others mutual ly alledged and proven were deemed sufficient by the court and the disgusted couple were allowed to aa parate and enjoy apart their detectable propessritiee choosing a wife is like dipping the hand into a bag containing ninety-nine eels and one make — ninety nine to one yon catch ihe anako nemh wrong m*jor noah i — revcrae tho picture