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convenient to convert this property into some other form that should place the 

 proceeds more immediately under his own supervision and management. 



The Editor of The Farmers' Library has authority to form a Company for 

 the purchase of the above properly, belonging to a gentleman than whom the 

 Union does not contain one of purer or more exalted character in " ail that can 

 give assurance of a man" of intelligence and probity. It is probable that the 

 property may be had on long time ; and that it aflbrds a rare scope for the estab- 

 lishment of foundries and flictories, and for a walk that would maintain 20,000 

 sheep. We publish the extract to upon the eyes of the public to the opportuni- 

 ties that offer for investment near at home, in old, civilized regions, blessed with 

 health and social advantages, instead of wandering away to distant and sickly 

 frontiers, there to be overrun or swept along by and with the restless and eagT 

 crowds pressing onward to the shores of the Pacific. The better way would be 

 to form a company here, and make a payment in the way of forfeit, securing time 

 to go to Europe and engage settlers. 



STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



At a late meeting of this Society, proceedings were had which indicate that 

 those who carry it on are looking to something beyond and above the mere ephem- 

 eral influence of exhibitions of rare things, such as large mules and sleek horses. 

 They are for setting and keeping the mind at ivork, to look into the sources of 

 public evils and of public prosperity, and to expose and lay them bare in such 

 manner as that men of patriotic impulses may the better and more certainly ac- 

 complish the noble purposes for which such men are born to society. After call- 

 ing Gen. Allston to the chair, Mr. Seabrook offered the following resolutions, 

 which he advocated at considerable length : 



Resolved, That Committees be appointed 

 for the following purposes, viz ; 



1. A Committee to report on the defects of 

 the present Free School system, and the 

 cJianges necessary to insure the accomplish- 

 ment of the end for which it was established. 



2. A Committee to report a plan by which 

 the agricultural capabilities of South Carolina 

 might be accurately ascertained, accompanied 

 by suggestions for their early development 

 and improvement. 



3. A Committee to prepare a digest of the 



views aflfecting the slave population of tho 

 State, and to report such as, in their judg 

 ment, oufjht to be repealed or amended, and 

 whether farther legislation on the subject is 

 re(iuired by policy or the public interests. 



4. A Committee to report on the expedi- 

 ency of lowering the legal rate f)f interest. 



5. A Committee to report on the expedi- 

 ency of clianging the present mode of work- 

 ing the public roads. 



6. A Committee to ask of the Legislature 

 the immediate abolition of the lottery license. 



We shall wait with hope and anxiety for the reports which may be expected 

 under these resolutions. We trust the Committees will inquire particularly into 

 the effect of the rale of interest on the interests of Agriculture, and whether any 

 plan may be devised that will place within the reach of prudent cultivators the 

 means of profitable improvement of their estates. That the whole face of the 

 country might be so improved, if capital could be placed in combination with pru- 

 dence, and with a reasonable degree of skill, such as disiin;^uishes those who. 

 with better preparation, follow other pursuits, we have but little doubt. — 

 The whole question, however, is one of the gravest character, to be entered up- 

 on with care and circumspection to elucidate it. One thing is very certain, that 

 there exists some strong attraction drawing capital and intellectual energy from 

 the country to the towns, which it becomes those who pretend to represent the 

 country to look into. And here we venture to propose this as a fitting subject 



