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SONG.
BT REV. DH. DETnI’XE.
I love to sing when 1 am glad,
Song is the echo of my gladness;
I love to sing when I am sad,
Till song makes sweet my very sad new :
‘Tis pleasant time when voices chime
To some sweet rhyme in conceit only;
And song to me is company,
Good company, hen lam lonely.
Whene’er I greet the morning light,
i\ly song goes lorth in thankful numbers;
And, ’mid the shadows of tiie night,
I aing me to my welcome si umbers :
Mv heart is stirred hy each glad bird,
Whose notes are heard in summer’s bowers;
And song gives birth to friendly mirth.
Around the hearth in wintry hours.
Man first learned song in Paradise,
From the bright angels o’er him singing;
And incur home above the skies,
Glad anthems are for ever ringing :
God lends his ear, well pleased to hear
The songs that cheer Ids children’s sorrow;
Till day shall break, uiul we shall wuko
‘S Where love will make unfading morrow.
Therflet me sing while yet ! may,
Like him God loved, the sweet toned Psalmist,
Who found in harp, und holy lay,
flirtttjrffl rfmt SWpsTbe spirit calmest:
l'or sadly here J need the cheer,
While sinful fear with promise blendcth;
Ob! how 1 long to join the throng,
Wlio sing the song that never endeth !
THE GLAs's^KAII.ROAD.
‘‘There wan moral in that dream.'*
[A dream oftlie ‘•Milford Bard,” duiing
ono ol his Ills of mania a potu.]
“It seemed to me,” said the bnrd, “as
though I had been suddenly aroused Irom
my slumber. J looked around and found
myself in the centre of a gay and happy
crowd. The first sensation 1 experienced
was that of being borne along with a pecu
liar gentle motion —a soil gliding motion.—
I looked around and found that 1 was in a
long train ol cars, which were gliding over
a railway. I could see lho train, lar, lar
ahead, it was turning a bend ol the railway,
and seemed to be many miles in length. It
was composed of many cars. Every car,
open at the top, was filled with men and
women—all gaily dressed—all happy, all
laughing, talking and singing. The pe
culiarly gentle motion ol the cars interested
me. There was no grating such as we
hear on the railroad. They moved on
without the least jar or sound. This, l say.
interested me. I looked over the side, and
to my astonishment (bund the railroad and
cars were made of glass. The glass wheels
moved over the glass rails without the least
noise or oscillation. This suit glidi, g mo
tion produced a feeling ol exquisite happi
ness. I was so happy! It seemed as if
everything was at rest with me—l was full
of pence.
While I was wondering over this cirum
slnncc, anew sight attracted my gaze. All
along the railroad, on either side, within a
foot ol the track, were laid long lines of cof
fins, one on either side ol the railroad, and
every one containing a corpse, dressed lor
burial, with its cold white face turned up
ward to the light. The sight filled me with
unutterable honor. I veiled in agony, but
could make no sound. The gay throng who
were around me only redoubled their sing
ingand latighter, at the sight of agony, and
we swept on and on, gliding with glass
wheels over the glass railroad, every mo
ment coming nearer to the bend of the road
which formed an angle with the road, far,
far in the distance.
•‘Who are those?” I cried at last, point
ing to tiie dead in their coffins.
“These are the persons who made ibis
trip before us,” was the reply ol one of the
gayest persons near me.
“What trip?” 1 asked.
“Why the trip we are now making. The
trip in these glass cars over this glass rail
way,” was the answer.
‘‘Why do they lie along tlie road each
one in his coffin?” I was answered with a
whisper and a half laugh which froze my
blood.
“They were dashed to death at the end of
the railroad” said the person whom 1 ad
dressed.
“You know the railroad terminates at an
abyss, which is without bottom or measure.
It is lined with pointed rocks. As each car
arrives at the end it precipitates its passen
gers into the abyss. They are dashed to
pieces against the rocks, and their bodies
are brought up here, and placed in coffins
as warning to other passengers; hut no one
minds it, we’re so happy on the glass rail
road.”
I can never describe the horror with
which those words inspired me.
“What is the name of this railroad?” I
asked.
The person whom I addressed replied, in
the same low voice.
i‘lt isthe railroad ol Habit. It is very
easy to get into these cars, but very hard
to get out. For once in these cars, every
body is delighted with the soft gliding mo
tion. The cars move so gently! Yes.it is
a railroad of Habit, and with glass wlieuls
we are whirled over a glass railroad to
wards a fathomless abyss. In a few mo
ments we’ll be there; and then they’ll bring
our bodies, and put them in coffins as a
warning to others but no body will mind it,
will they?”
I was choked with horror; I struggled
for breath—made frantic efforts to leap Irom
the cars, and in the struggle awoke. 1
knew it was only a dream; and yet, when
ever I think of it, I can see that long train
of cars move gently over the glass railroad.
I can see the cars lar ahead, as they are
turning the bend of the road. I can see
the dead in their coffins, clear and distinct—
on either side of the road—while the laugh
ter and singing of the gay and happy pas
sengers resound in my ears, I only see
those cold faces of the dead, with their
glassy eyes uplifted and their frozen hands
upon their shrouds. ,
It was a horrible dream.
And the bard’s changing features and
brightening eye, attested tlieemotion which
had been aroused by the very memory of
the dream. ’
It was indeed a horrible dream. A long
train of glass cars, gliding over a glass rail
way, freighted with youth, beauty and mu
sic, while on either hand stretched the vic
tims of yesterday, gliding over the railway
of Habit, towards ti e fathomless abyss.
“There was a moral in that dream.
GEORGE LIITARD.
Reader, are you addicted to any sinful
habit? Break it oIF ere you dash against
the rocks.
FULTON’S FIRST STEAM VOYAGE.
HY K. XV. HASKINS.
Some twenty years since more or less—
for I cannot fix the dale with more certain—
| ty—l formed a traveling acquaintance, up
on a steamboat on the Hudson river, will)
: a gentleman who, on that occasion related
1 to me some incidents of the first voyage of
Fulton, to Albany, in bis steamboat, the
Clermont, which I have never met with
I elsewhere. The gentleman’s name I have
lost; but I urged him, a’ tiie time, to pub
lish what be related; which, however, so
far as 1 know, be has never done. 1 have
several times repeated the facts as they
were told to me and have been often re
, (1 nested to . secant them from oblivion by
giving tla in to the press,
I chanced,said my narrator, to be at Al
bany, on business, when Fulton arrived
there, in his unheard of craft, which every
I body felt so much interest in seeing. Being
ready to leave, and bearing that this craft
was to return to Neiv York, I repaired on
board and inquired for Mr. Fulton. I was
j referred to the cabin and 1 there found a
plain, gentlemanly man, wholly alone, and
engaged in writing,
j Air, Fulton, I presume?
Yes, sir.
Do you return to New York with this
’ boat?
We shall try to ge t back, sir.
Can I have a passage down?
You can take your chance with us, sir.
1 inquired the amount to be paid, and af
ter a moment’s hesitation a sum, I think SO
was named. The amount in coin, I laid in
his open hand,and with his eye fixed upon
it, lie remained so long motionless that I sup
posed there might be a miscount, and I said
to him, is that light sir? i bis voused him
as from a kind of revery, and as lie looked
up at me, the big tear was brimming in his
eye, and his voice faltered as he said, ex
cuse me sir; but memory was busy as I
contemplated this, the first pecuniary re
ward i have ever received for all my exer
tions in adapting steam to navigation. I
| would gladly commemorate the occasion
| over a bottle of wine with you, hut really I
i am too poor, even for that, just now, yet I
trust we may meet again, when this will
not lie so.
The voyage to New York was success
ful, as all know, and terminated without
accident.
Some four years after this, when the
Clermont had bct>n greatly improved,and
her name changed to The North River, and
when two other boats, namely The Car of
Neptune and the Paragon, had been built,
making Mr. Fulton’s fleet three boots regu
larly plying between New York and Alba
ny, I took passage upon one of these for
the latter city. The cabin, in that day,
was below; and as I walked its length, to
i and fro, I saw 1 was very closely observed
i by one I supposed a stranger. Soon, how
| ever, 1 recalled the features of Mr. Fulton;
j but, without disclosing (his, 1 continued my
walk and awaited the result. At length, in
passing his seat, our eyes met, when he
j sprang to his feet, and eagerly seizing my
hand, exclaimed, “I knew it must he you,
| for your features have never escaped me; i
and although I am still far from rich, yet I
may venture that bottle now.” It was or
dered; and during its discussion Mr. Fill
ton ran rapidly but vividly over his expe
rience of the world’s coldness and sneers,
and of the hopes, fears disappointments and
difficulties that were, scattered through his
whole career of discovery up to the very
point of his final, crowning triumph, at
| which lie so fully felt he had at last arrived.
1 And in reviewing all these, said lie, 1 have
! again and again recalled the occasion and
I the incident of out first interview at Alba
i ny; and never have l done so without its
( renewing, in my mind, the vivid emotions
i it originally caused. That seemed, and
| still docs seem, to me, the turning point in
i my destiny—the dividing line between
| light and darkness, in my career upon earth;
for it was the first actual recognition of my
usefulness hy my fellow men.
Such, then, were the events coupled with
i the very dawn ofsteam navigation—adawn
: so recent as to lm still recollected hy many
—and such as Fulton there related them,
j were the early appreciations, by the world
! of a discovery which has invaded all wa
ters, causing a revolution in navigation
which has almost literally brought the very
! ends of the earth in contact. —liu ft'. Com.
’ *ldv.
SOURCE OP THE NILE.
A recent number of Bell's Weekly Mes
senger, (London,) contains a communica
tion from Macquen, the geographer, noth
j ing what he deems the discovery oftlie true
I source of the Nile—the Balirel Ahiad. or
White Nile, the principal brand) of the
most interesting and most veneinble of ri
; vers. “It is with no ordinary degree of
satisfaction,” lie says, “that I can state that
the great question is solved beyond the
1 power at cavil or dispute.” The discover
| er, as we learn from the communication, is
I the Rev. Dr. Krapl, a missionary from the
i Church Missionary Society, long stationed
in Eastern Africa, aid some ten years or
more since a resident in Southern Abyssi
nia. His latest station was at Rubbay lin
pev, near Mombas, in the Zangubar coun
try; whence, towards the close of last year,
lie made a journey into the interior towards
the North-West. “Ue reached,” says l)r.
Macqueeti, “as I find, on going over with
him the map I had constructed, with the
sources of the Nile laid down, I degree
South latitude, and about 35° SO’ East lon
gitude, to Kitni, the Capital of Umbokaai, a
a fine uni friendly people. There he saw
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
t > the North-West distant about six dav’s
journey, the Mount of Kenia, rising far
above the limits of perpetual (the
Chimborazo of Africa, and under the equa
tor,) from the not them base and the side of
which springs the liver ol Dana or Daena,
running to the Bay of Formosa; andjjto the
north ot it, lie was told, rose a river running
to the north, down which people went to
the country of the white people.? Dr.
Macqueeti adds that Dr. Krapf is in Lon
don, about to publish his journal, which is
to lie given to the public “in a lew days,”
which renders it therefore, the
thinks, as unnecessary,as it would bfeuntdtT,
for him to state any further particulars ob
tained from Dr. Krapf.
ELECTRO-MAGNETISM.
PROF. PAGE’S EXPERIMENTS.
A series of lectures have been given at
the Smithsonian Institute, in Washington,
hy Frol. I’nge, of the Patent Officejin illus
tration ol Ids recent experiments on Elee
tiu-Magnctisin as a motive power. He
states lhat there is no longer any <*>ubt of
the app'ication of this power as a siljbslitute
for steam, lie exhibited the most imjxis
. r. *AMf*crim urns over Witnessed in this
branch of science. An immense bar of
iron, weighing one hundred and sixty
pounds, was made to spring up by the mag
netic action, and to move rapidly up and
down, dancing like a feather, in the air,
without any visible support. The force
operating upon this liar lie staled to aver
age three hundred pounds through tn inch
es ol its motion. He said he could raise
this bar one hundred feet as readily as
through tea inches, and lie expected no dif
ficulty in doing the same with a bar weigh
ing one ton, or a hundred tons. UcJk’oukl
make a pde driver or a lorge hammer, with
great simplicity, and could make an en
gine with a stroke of six, twelve, twenty or
any number ol feet.
The most beautiful experiment we ever
witnessed was the loud sound and brilliant
Hash Irom tlie galvanic spark, when pro
duced near a certain point in his great mag
net. Each snap was as loud as a pistol;
and when lie produced ihe same spark at a
little distance Irom this point, it made no
noise at all. This recent discovery he sta
led to have a practical bearing upon the
construction ol an electro-magnetic engine.
Truly, a great power is here; and wTicve is
the limit to it?
He then exhibited his engine of between
four and live horse power, operated by a
battery contained within a space of three
culj c Icet. It looked very unlike a mag
netic machine. It was a reciprocating en
gine ol two feet stroke, and the whole en
gine and battery weighed about one ton. —
When the power was thrown on by the
motion of a lever, the engine started off
magnificently, making one hundred and
font teen strokes per minute; though, when
it drove a circular saw ten inches in diame
ter,sawing up hoards an inch and a quarter
thick into laths, the engine made bul
eight i/ strokes per minute. There was
great anxiety on die part of the spectators
to obtain specimens of these laths, to pre
set ve as trophies of this great mechanical
triumph. The force operating upon this
great cylinder, throughout the whole ino
t on ui two feet, was stated to be six hun
dred pounds w hen the engine was moving
very slowly; but he had not been able to
ascertain wnat the force was when the en
gine was running at a working speed,
though it was considerably less. The most
important and interesting point, however,
is the expense ol the powei. Prof. Page
stated that he had reduced the cost so far,
that it was less than steam under many and
most conditions though not so low as the
cheapest steam eng ties. With all the im
perfections of the engine, the consumption
of three pounds of zinc per day would pro
duce one horse power. The larger h:s en
gines, (contrary to what has been known
before.) the greater tlie economy. Prof.
Page was himself surprised at the result.
There were yet practical difficulties to be
overcome; the battery had yet to he im
proved; and it remained yet to try the ex
periment on a grande scale, to make a
power ol one hundred horse, or more.
Truly the ago is Irought with wonders;
and we can now look forward will* cer
tainty to the time w hen coal will be. put to
better uses than to burn, scald and destroy.
Nat. hit.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE LUNGS.
“Much has been said and written upon
diet, eating and drinking, but 1 do not re
collect ever noticing a remark in any wri
ter upon breathing, or the manner of breath
ing. Multitudes, and especially ladies in
easy circumstances, contract a vicious and
destructive mode ol breathing. They sup
press their breathing,and contract the hab
it of short quick breathing, not carrying
the breath halfway down the chest and
scarcely expanding the lower portions of
the idlest at all. Lacing the bottom of
the chest also greatly increases this evil, and
confirms a bad habit ol breathing. Children
that move about a great deal in the open
air, and in no way laced, breathe deep and
lull to the bottom ol the chest, and every
part of it. So also with most out door la
borers. and persons who take a great deal
of exercise in the open air, because the lungs
give us the power of action, and the more
exercise we take, especially out of doors,
the larger the lungs become and less liable
to disease, hi all occupations that require
standing, keep the person straight. If at a
table, let it be high, raised up nearly to the
arm-pits, sons not to require you to stoop;
you will find tiie employment muelheasiei
—not one balfso fatiguing; whilst the form
oftlie chest, and the symmetry oftlie figure,
will remain perfect. You have noticed that
a vast many tall ladies stoop, whilst a great
many short ones are straight. This arises,
I think, from the table at which they sit or
work,or occupy themselves, or study, be
ing of a medium bight; far too low for a
tall person, and about right for a sho#t per
son. This should be carefully corrected,
and regarded, so that each lady may occtt- |
py herself at a table suited to her. and tints
prevent llie possibility or necessity ol'stoop
ing.—Dr. l''itch.
INSTINCT OF BEES.
“I was visited,” says Steelman, “by a
neighboring gentleman, whom I conducted
up my ladder, but lie no sooner entered my
serial dwelling, than he leaped down from
the top to the ground, roaring like a mad
man, after which he instantly plunged his
head into the river. But looking up, I
soon discovered the cause of!.is disticss to
be an enormous nest of u ild bees, or loas
see-icassee, in the thatch, directly above my
head as I stood within my door: when I
immediately took to my heels as he had
done, and ordered them to be demolished
by my slaves without delay. A tar mop
was now brought, and the devastation just
going to commence, when an old negro
stepped up and offered to receive any pun
ishment 1 should decree, if ever one of these
bees should sting rue inp rson. ‘Masera,’
said he, ‘they would have stung you long
ere now, had jou been a stranger to them;
but they being your tenants, that is, grad
ually allowed to build upon your premises,
they assuredly know both you, and yours,
and will never burl you or them.’ 1 in
stantly assented to the proposition, and
tying the old black man to a tree, ordered
my boy Quako to ascend the ladder naked,
which ho did, and was not stung; I then
ventured to followed, and I declare upon
my honor, that even after shaking the nest,
which made its inhabitants Imzz about my
ears, not a single hi e attempted to sting
me. I next released the old negro, reward
ed him with a gallon of rum and live shil
lings for the discovery. This swarm of
bees I have since kept unhurt as my body
guards, and they have made many over
seers take a desperate leap for my amuse
ment, as 1 generally sent them up my lad
der, upon some frivolous message, when I
wished to punish them lor injustice and
cruelty, which was not seldom.
“The same negro assured me, that on his
master’s estate was an ancient tree, in which
had lodged, ever since he could remember,
a society of birds and another of bees, who
lived in tlie greatest hanin ny together;
blit should any strange birds c mie to dis
turb nr feed upon the bees, they were in
stantly repulsed by their feathered allies,
and if strange bees dared to venture near
the bird’s nests, the native swarm attacked
the invaders. Ills master and famiiy had
so much respect for the above asso iation,
that the tree was considerod as sacred, and
was not to he touched by any axe, until it
should yield to all destroying time.”
COSKERY, JANES &
WAREHOUSE & COMMISSK >.\ MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
ri'VIE undeisigned thankful lor the liberal patron
_l_ ugc of the past season, again lender their ser
vices to their friends and the public in the sale of Cot
ton and other produce at their Fire Proof War-house,
on Campbell-sireet.
('ash advances made, when required, on Produce,
and all orders from their friends f r Goods, bought at
thu lowest market prices.
COSKERY, JANES & CO.
John Coskery,
A. O. Janes,
Tiios. \V Coskery.
August 22 4 84
PEARCE A SI.IIPSGN,
WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION BUSINESS,
JACKSON ST., AUGUSTA, GA.
fBIHE undersigned, thankful for the libera! pttron-
A age extended them the | a?t season, would res
pectfully renew- the tender of their services, and hope
by rigid attention to all business entrusted to them, to
merit a continuance of public favor.
Li! oi a I on h advances made on produce in store,
when required.
All orders for Rope and Ragging, and Fami’y sup
plies, furnished at the lowest market rates-.
J. J. PEARCE.
J. R SIMPSON.
Sept 10 3m 33
D’ANTIGXAG, EVA AS & VO.,
WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
CONTINUE to transact the above business in all
its branches at their extensive Fire Proof Wore
House, situated immediately at the Georgia Rail Road
Depot, where they receive Cotton per Rail Read with
out charge for drayage.
Office and Sales Rooms on Broad-street.
Liberal ca-li advances made on produce in store.
Orders for plantation and family supplies filled at
the lowest market price.
Sept. 26 3m* 39
FRENCH & BUTLER,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL
GROCERY MERCHANTS,
• litgsista, Georgia,
A now prepared, at their new store, on the
■i A side ot Broad-street, to accommodate all
their friends with every article in ilieir line of busi
, ness. Orders for Goods eliuU be filled faithfully and
j promptly.
11. L. FRE\CTI, of Oglethorpe,
1 11. F. BUTLER, of Wilkes,
July'do ts :jj
ISAISI’A & fr'l'l/rOA,
COMMISSI O N M ERCHAXTS,
SAVANNAH, GEORGIA,
TTTIU. ?' vc strict attention to the sale ot Cotton,
T T and other produce consigned to them, and
promptly till orders for goods, at the lowest prices.
Jan. 3. bm 1
INDIAN MISSIONS.
fSAIIiI Biptist Churches of the State of Georgia,
A are requested to think of ihe poor Indian, and
in sending their contributions np to their respective
Associations, to set apart a portion of the same to the
support of the gospel amming this long neglected
I people.
It is hoped that he Treasurer of each Association
will forward to the undersigned the funds cn hand for
1 this object as soon ns convenient.
V. It. THORNTON’, Gen. Agent.
Public Square, Ga., Aug. 18;h, 1350.
SlSFtesTop associations
WANTED.
lAM desirous of obtaining’ the Minutes of the fol
io a ing Associations for 1819 :
Apalachee, Bethel, Columbus, Coosa, Ebenezer,
Flint River, Georgia, Heplizibah, Hightower, Pied
mont, Rock Mountain, Sarcpta, Sunbury, Tallapoosa,
Washington, Western, Chattahoochee, Chestatee, E
lij iy, Middle, Middle Cherokee, Mountain, Muckalee
Tugalo,Union, N'otley River, Stale Line.
\\ ill the Clerks of Associations, Moderators, o
other brethren, who may have a copy of any of the
above Minutes to spare, and who may tec this notice,
j forward one lo me, at Macon, and oblige, respectful-
I ly. &C., ELI BALL,
January 10, IS4!>.
M 1 W I Vt||,
Entire New Stock of Staple & Fancy Dry floods,
BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAP S &, BEADY MADE CLOTHING.
TOWN HALL, MADISON, GEORGIA.
HP 1 *? PROPRIETOR respectfully invites the attention of the adjoining counties, to his large and varied
Stock < *f new, rich ands sh.onalile GOODS, suitable for the season. Ili. stock has bepn bought in the
best markets, for cash. and will be sold at such prices as cannot fail to please. It is so customary to advertize
low prices, &c., for Goods, that he thinks it unnecessary to mention pricea Only call at the Town Hall
Madison, Georgia, and you will be convinced that he can sell Goods as cheap as anv establishment in tho
South,—Charleston or Augusta not excepted.
Families in the habit of buying Fry Goods in Augusta ore respectfully invited to call and compare his
prices and quality of Goods with those of Augu-ta. He hopes all that is necessary to have the trade remain
at home is, to keep as good an assortmen’ ami at as low prices as Augusta mill or can sell.
Ilis attention will be devoted principally to the sale of Dry Goods, and he has made arrangements in New
York to receive Goods monthly, which will enable him to have every new style of fashionable Dress Goods
far Lada e, as soon as they are’ worn in New York. This Fall Stock consists, in part, of the following Goods’
JB_a . V2v 491 Bit S* 9 T3T2 ~BL&. 13 gQ as T 9EB •
Rich Chenc Silks (new designs), Brocade and Damask Silk-, plain Camelcon Si : (:s, Satin de Client
Black and colored Gros de Rhine, a good assortment of plain and watered Black Sill.s
Black Matins and Matin de Clone Mantillas and Vissctts, Toil de Nord (anew article)
Poplins (plain and watered). Fr< rich Met in- s, Pat rainctta’s, Coburg’s, lire cade Leslies
Black and c cored Mohair Lustres, Black and Changeable Milk-warp Alpacas
All wool Muslin de Laities (plant and printed), all wo 1 Cashmeres
French, English and American Calicoes, Ginghams, Lustres, Chambe-gs. &c., Arc.. &c.
In this Store will he found every thing that is usually k"pt. in a Dry ( coils Store. Please call and see
the stock—you will find it to your interest to do so. It will a fjord the salesmen pleasure to show Goods bo
matter whether you buy nr not. Remember the Town Hall. The lowest price is nsktd. and there will on
no o-casion be a s ccnd price made—-My motto being ‘•Small profits and quick returns,” there wiil be <r r et
inducements offered to cash buyers. *
C. T. O’KEEFE.
Oclol cr 3 3m 49
INDEX JDB OFFICE.
all kindm of
plain k (Drnnmpntnl
SUCH AS
BOOKS. CIRCULARS,
PAMPHLETS, CARDS,
HAND BILLS, SHOW BILLS, fee.
Executed with neatuess and despatch.
A share of public patronage is respectfully solicit
ed.— Prices as low as elsewhere.
O’All orders thankfully received and promptly
attended to. Jan. 3,1860.
MERCER UNIVERSITY,,
PLAN OF SCHOLARSHIPS.
1. Permanent Scholarship; Price sloo.—This
entitles the holder of the certificate to receive tn
-truclion in any College class which he may be duly
prepared to enter. This r ght is perpetual, and may
he tran-ferred by a transfei of the certificate.
2. Family Scholarship; Price $2.0. —This enti
tles the person for whose benefit it is purchased, and
who must he designated by name in the certificate,
to obtain for any or all of his or her sons, cr step
sons, instruction in any College class which they
may he duly prepared to enter.
3 Individual Scholarship; Price $!00. —This enti
ties the individual for whose benefit it is purchased,
and who must be designated by name in tho certifi
cate, to receive instruct ton in any College class which
lie m y Ire duly prepared to enter.
4 (j’urc’t Scholarship; Pii r S2OO. —This entitles
the church,or Association of religious person?, desig
nated iu the certificate, to have, at all times, one
young man receiving instruction in any C< liege class
winch he may be duly prepared to enter; provided
lie be a young man of piety, in indigent circumstan
ces, and recommended by the church of which he is a
ni -iifi'.!*r f:-r good ciimhiet and promising talents.
6. C'-ei'-i'ii S hninrship; Price §SO. —Tilts entitles
the individual fi r whose benefit it is purchaser), and
who must he designated by min” in the certificate, to
receive instruction in any College class which he
may be duly prepared to enter; provided lie be a
y ting man of piety, in indigent circumstances, and
recommended by thechuirh of which he is a member
for good conduct and promising talents.
6. Students admitted on Scholarships are exempt
from the payment of tuition fees ; hut not from room
rent, and other experuses. They are required to he
■ übji-ct to the law? ike all other students ; and, if dis
missed by tho Faculty fi r in lolcnce or improper con
duct, thetr right to the ben fit if the scholarship be
comes forfeited, and, exceut in l’ermancnt and Church
Scholarship?, no substitute for the offending individu
al is admitted.
7. Tiie right of instruction secured by Scholarships,
does not extend to the Academical Department of the
University, except to the highest or preparatory class,
so long as that class shall continue to Do taught bv
the College officers.
O CIF Application for the purchase of Scholarships,
should be made to the Treasurer of the University, T.
J. Burner, Esq., Madison, who is authorized to grant
certificates.
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AUTHOR to greatly e nb.rptj tbo work by a Ming a
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Music never before published.
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contains over THREE HUNDRED PAGES of the
be-t music ever published for the CHURCH, and
Social Singing Societies selected from the best Au
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provements will be duly appreciated by a generous
and enlightened public. The New Edition of this
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Spirtanburg C. li , S. C., June 27. mly.
THE (OMHKSiOX.
7’ O T II E B A P T ISTS OF GEORGIA.
DEAR BRETHREN, —The first number of the
second Volume cf our little monthly sheet, en
titled “ The Commission ,” will be published on the
13th of January. We hope to he able to issue, the
coming year, 10.000 copies. With suitable effort, we
might secure 20,000 subscribers. Wiil not some
brother or sister, in each church, obtain a sufficient
amount to secure - an extensive disfrlbulion within its
limits ?
TERMS:
Single copy 25 cents per annum.
Five copies, 1 (() (j 0>
Twenty-eight copies,.. 6 (.0 do.
Fifty copies, H 00 do.
One Hundred copies,. .15 00 do
Companies will be mailed to one add’—*-
Immediate attention to this side— 1 ,s eurnestly so
licited. Will you not do u- ‘ ne favor to obtain as
large a company as in each neighborhood,
and forward the stress, with the money, to 11. K.
Ellyson, Riotirr.cr.d, Virginia. You may thus great-
I’- promote the cause of missions. On behalf of the
Board, JAS. B. TAYLOR,
Jan 3 Cor. Sec’y. F. M. B. S. B. C.
DH. D. O. O’KEEFFE,
RESPECTFULLY tenders bis professional ser
vices to the citizens of Greene County. He.
may be found at his office under the Odd Fellows’
Hall, Psnfield. Ga. 7 lv Fvb 14
[November 7, 1850.
LaGrange Female Seminary.
S3 ‘.3a> m
MILTON £ BACON, A. M.,
I’nncipal and Proprietor.
HENRY H. BACON, A. M„
Associate Principal and Instructor in Mathematics and
Natural Philosophy.
REV. HENRY 11. TUCKER, A. M„
Lecturer on Moral Science and Evirt’s of Christianity
MISS M. O. STEVENS,
Instructress in An dent and Modern languaues.
MISS CATHARINE CLARKE, “
ins.iactress in English Branches.
D. W. CHASE,
Professor of Vocal and Instrumental Music.
DR. S. M. BARTLETT,
MISS MARY BELL,
MISS EVELINA MACON,
Assistants in the Music Department.
MRS. MARY E. JO'JRDAN,
Instructress in Drawing, Painting, Needle and Fancy
Work.
boarding department.
MISS MARGARET MURPHY,
Superintendant.
c a rcTla is .
In once more presenting the LaGrange Female
Seminary to the notice of the public, the Principal
begs leave to remark that his is not one of those Insti
tutions whose merits the future alone can show-, nor
one whoso claims to patronage are based only on pro
mises of things to be. Jt points for the demonstration
of its merits, not to the future, but to the past. It has
been tri, and and proved. For eiylj years 111 succession,
it lias stood the lest of actual experiment. During
c.ich year of this period, its patronage has been larger
than in the year preceding, and there are now in daily
i attendance about one hundred and forty pupils. The
Principal has made for instruction com.
incnsurate with bis extensive patronage. It not mis
informed, he is warranted in saying that,
IN’ REGARD TO THE NI'JIBER OF INSTRUCTORS,
The ha Grange Female Seminary presents a stronger
array loan any other School or College , male
or female, in the Slate if Georgia—if
not in the entire south.
Nor and k?s the sty ngtli of tho Board of Assistant In
structors depend c.n!y upon numbers. There may be
those whose celebrity is more wide-spread, but the
Principal is free to declare, that if with unbounded
wealth at his control, he could command the very best
didactic talent that the whole country can afford, he
would not make a single alteration in his present
Board of Instructors. There is not one of them whom
lie would exchange for any ono else. He lias tried
them, and he knows their merits, lie knows that for
fidelity, tor persevering energy, for aptness to teach,
and lor ability to instruct in the branches respectively
assigned them—tin y are seldom equalled and never
surpassed.
It is, also, most fortunately the fict that, united to
this ability to instruct, there is combined with unusu
al powers of discipline, that amenity of disposition
and agreeableness of manner.--, on the part of the In
structors w hich, not only ensure the good will of the
pupil, but induce a sprightlmess and cheerfulness on
the part of the latter which contribute, in no small
degree, to their progress in intellectual improvement.
1 -e Principal has had on extensive, and somewhat
prolonged experience in the business of teaching, but
he has never, 1 til now, been ableto secure for his own
In titution, nor, indeed, lias lie ever observed else
where, a combination of talent so felicitous, and so
perfectly adapted to the purposes in view, as thnt
presented by hie present board of Assistant instruct
ors.
In reference to tho Musical Department, the Prin
cipal bogs leave to cull attention to the following
testimoioul from Prof. Milo P. Jewett: “
load whom u may concern: It gives me great
pleasure to state, that Professor 1). W. Chase, was at
t'o lie id oi the Mus.c Department, in this ins:itutiou,
■or seven years. Dining the whole period he con
ducted the Department with a science, skill, and en
ergy. which brought to the Institute a high reputa
tion. Such was Ills popularity, that, for several years
I gave hint a salary . f one thousand five hundred
dollars per annum, while no other Professor of Mu
sh in Alabama, coaid command over eight hundred
or one thousand dollars.
Professor Chase is regarded, not by myself only,
but by the entire community, as thoroughly versed
in the science of music, and’a most skilful teacher of
the Piano Forte, Guitar, Organ, Violin, Vtolincello,
&c. Nor was he less successful in Vocal Music.
lo eminent attainments, he adds an aptitude for im
parting instruction, a tact in discipline,and a practical
tk II in training his classes both vocal and instrumen
ts wire 1 have never been surpassed within my
knowledge. J
The bast proof of his superiority as a Teacher, is
frunu in the fact, that the great number of young la
dies taught by him, and now ornaments of society, are
pre-eminent for science, taste, and skill, both in sigh
mg and execution on the instrument. Atnatrru °
critics often recognize the pupils of Prof’
by the extraordinary accuracy, preci-U 1 an< brilllan *
cy of their vocal and instrumeniiu | F' r *‘ ,rman ’ : ® 8 - D
Asa man of nrobitv, honor pP inora , wort h, Pro
fessor Chase enjoyed’ the., ‘ e confidence of this
community. His lean ,he Judaon was a source of
the deepest regr<” “* t ‘* e cozens of our tow n, with-,
out distinct* ” “ P 31 " 1 )’ ° r denomination, and to all our
Patro” i evor . v “'bore. The friends of the Institute
„. aorne and abroad, feared the School would suffer
permanent injury, from the loss of his services; and
the most popular movement I could now make, would
be to re-engage him wi.hout delay. Nor could any
step be more agreeable to my own feelings; thus re
newing a warm personal friendship now cherished,
and which for seven years, up to the hour of our sep
aration, never knew a moment’s interruption or abate
ment.
The above language, though strong, actually fails
to do justice to the intrinsic merits, the eminent tap
ents.the distinguished services and the deserved ce
lebrity of the subject of this testimonial.
M. P. JEWETT, Principal, See.
Judson Female Institute, 1
Marion, Ala., March 21, 1860. $
MILTON E. BACON.
Principal of the L-i Grange Female Seminary, LaGrange, G,
May 50. >^7