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CONFESSION OF GOETHE.
The great German poet, with his won-,
derful insight into nature,and his vast range
of study, “’as spiritually blind, and a poor,
miserable sinner. Though possessed of un
bounded influence in the, world of letters,
and even at the royal court, he had no con
trol over his licentious passions, and Hved
frequently in open and degrading sin. He
could judge the character of oilier men with
sufficient severity, and discover with unerr
ing sagacity their failings, and their imper
fect aims, hut displayed his complacent ig
norance of himself, and of the divine char
acter by remarks like the following,border
ing on blasphemy: “1 had believed from
my youth up, that I stood on very good
terms with my God. I even fancied to my
self that after my various trials lie might
rather be in arrears to me, and I was daring
enough to think, that I might have some
things to forgive Hun. This presumption
was founded on my infinite good will, to
which as it seemed to me, He should have
given better assistance.”
It ie instructive to know that with all his
self complacence and worldly success, Go
ethe was never happy. Never was mortal
more prospered in life. He was the idol of
the court of Weimar, and of the world of
letters; the central object of attraction to dis
tinguished strangers; wealth and honor
were his constant companions, and he went
down into his grave, full of years. The
world thought him happy, hut lie makes
the following litter confession. “I have
ever been esteemed one of Fortune’s cliicf
est favorites, nor will I complain or find
fault with the course my life lias taken, yet
truly there has been nothing but trial and
care; and I may say, that in all my seven
ty-five years. 1 never had a month of genu
ine comfort.” Verily God “givetli to the
sinner travail,” and sowelh thorns in the
path of the wicked.
CON VERS ATIONAIT POWERS OF
GREAT MEN.
The late William llazlitt, a man gifted ;
with great powers of observation and ex
pression, was of opinion that actors and
authors were not fitted, generally speaking,
to shine in conversation. “Authors ought
to be read, and not heard;” and as to actors,
they could not speak tragedies in the draw
ing room, and their wit was likely to be
comedy and farce at a second-hand. The
biography of men of letters in a great meas
ure confirms this opinion; some of the great
est flames in English and French literature,
men who have filled books with an elo
quence and truth that defy oblivion, were
mere mutes before their fellow men. They
had golden ingots, which, in the privacy of
home, they could convert into coin bearing
an impress that would insure universal
currency; hut they could not, on the spur of
the moment, produce iho farthings current
in the market place. Descartes, the famous
mathematician and philosopher, La-Fon
taine, celebrated for his witty fables, and
Jill (foil, the great naturalist, were all sn
gularly deficient in the powers of conver
sation. Marmontel, the novelist, was so
dull in society, that his friend said of him,
after an interview, “1 must go and read his
tales, to recompense myself for the weari
ness of hearing him.”
As toCurneille, the greatest dramatist of
France, he was completely lost in society
—so absent and embarrassed, that he wrote
of himself a witty couplet, importing that
he was never intelligible but through the
month of another. Wit on papers seems
to ho something widely different f.om that
play of words in conversation which, while
it sparkles, dies; for Charles 11., the wittiest
monarch that ever sat on the English throne,
ftvasoo charmed with the humour of“Hudi
bras,” that ho caused himself to be intro
duced, in the character of a private gentle
man, to Duller, its author. The witty king
found the author a very dull companion;
and was of opinion, with many others, that
so stupid a fellow could never have written
so clever a book. Addison, whose classic
elegance of style has long been considered
the best niodtl for young writers, was shy
and absent in society, preserving, even be
fore a single stranger, stiff and dignified
silence. ‘
lie was accustomed to say that there
could be no real conversation but between
two persons, friends—and that it was then
thinking aloud. Steel, Swift, Pope, and
Congreve, men possessing literary and con
versational powers of the highest order,
allowed him to have been a delightful com
panion among intimates; and Young writes
of him that “he was rather mute in society
on some occasions, but when lie began to be
company he was full of vivacity, and went
on in a noble strain of thought and language, j
sons to chain the attention of every one to {
him.” Goldsmith, on the contrary, as de- !
scribed by his contemporary wriicrs, ap- 1
peered in company to hava uu spark of that (
genius which shone forth so brightly in his |
works, llis address was awkward, his 1
manner uncouth, his language uupothshed;
It c hesitated in speaking, and was always
unhappy if the conversation did not turn j
upon hinrself. Dr. Johnson spoke of him
ns an inspired idiot; yet the great essayist,
though delivering oracles to those around
him in pompous phrases, which have been
happily described as spoken in the John
souese tongue, was not entitled to be called
a good converser.
Nearer to our own tirno we have had
many authors whose faculty told twice.
Sheridan and Theodore Hook were fellows
of infinite jest; they coulJ “set a table iu a
roar,” and fill pages with pathos and wit of
sutfh a quality, that it makes their survivors
think, “we could have spared better mon.”
Burns was famous for Tiis colloquial pow
ers, and Galt is reported to have been as
skilful as the story tellers of the East in
fixing die attention of his auditors on lus
prolonged narrations. Coleridge was in
the habit of pouring forth brilliant unbroken
monologues of two or three hours duration,
to listeners so enchanted that, like Adam,
whose ears were filled with the eloquence
of an archangel, they forgot “all place, all
seasons and ‘their change;” but this wa# I
pdt conversation, ana few might venture
to emulate that “old man eloqueut” with j
hopes of equal success.
Washington Irving, in the account he
has given of his visit to Abbotsford, says of
Sir Walter Scott, that his conversation was j
frank, hearty’, picturesque and dramatic.
He never talked for effect or display, hut
from the flow of his spirits,.the stores ofhis j
memory; and the vigor of his imagination.
He was as good a listener as a talker; ap.
predated every thing that others said, how
ever humble might tie their rank and pre
tensions, and was quick to testify his per
ception of any point in their discourse.—r
No one’s concerns, no one’s thoughts and
opinions, no one’s tastes and pleasures,
seemed beneath him. He made himself so
thoroughly the companion of those with
whom he happened to be, that they forgot,
for a time, Ins vast superiority, and only
recollected and wondered, when all was
over, that it was Scott with whom they had
been on such familiar terms, in whose soci
ety they had felt so perfectly at ease.—
Chambers'” Journal.
•A POST AC I ESTO*RO M E IN ISSO.
It is stated tlf*flie English Catholic Di
rectory reports the names of twenty-five
ministers of the Established Church of Eng
land, three American Episcopalian minis
ters, one Scotch Presbyterian minister, one
Geneoesc Protestant minister, and one
French Protestant minister, who have join
ed the Church of Rome the past year; and
besides these, two lords, three countesses,
one honorable, two country gentlemen of
; wealth, twoenptains in the army,one mem
ber of Parliament, and one Doctor of Laws
—in all forty-two.
Converts to Rome are generally men of
more faith in tradition than of common
sense; more fond of novelty and change,
than ofany established scriptural principles,
and their loss to Protestantism should be
regarded merely as a numerical loss.—
While Popery has gained these forty-two
changing proselytes—several hundreds,pro
bably some thousands in this country, and
in Fiance, Italy and Ireland, plain men of
sound minds, enlightened by the Word of
God, have renounced the erfors of Popery,
and joined the Protestant communion.—
Christian Observer.
HANDWRITING *OF~DISTIN'GUISH
ED PERSONS.
Queen Elizabeth. —ln youth, the Queen’s
1 handwriting dear and regular, almost
as an engraving. When age had tamed the
old girl, her letters were spiteful, the lines
irregular, and the signature was a thing to
make one bless one’s self.
Martin Luther. — His handwriting was
firm and legible, though not very equal nor
very straight. Martin had strong passions,
as well as strong reasons for what he did.
Sir Thomas Moore. —By no means dis
played the calm firmness he possessed.—
The lines crooked and tumbling down hill.
Rubens. — Manly, bold, and with a careless
ease and dearness, denoting mastery of
hand.
Lord Bacon. —Very like an elegant mod
ern short-hand. Clear, neat, and regular.
The signature involved with broken lines,
as il a fly had struggled and died in a spi
der’s web.
Voltaire. — Very dear, regular, steady,
and straight; evidently not written rapidly,
hut with continuous ease, which might go
on writing book after book in just the same
way.
Oliver Cromwell. —Large, hold, legible,
steady, sharp, and straight, The signature
made ol halberts and pointed palisades.
Prince De Conde. —Not at all in aecor
dance'with the strong expression and Buf
falo features ofhis face.
Charlotte Corday. —Firm, clear, steady,
but not without emotion.
Cuvier. —Very like the writing of Char
lotte Corday, but not so strong and com
pact.
Danton. — Willful, daring, without meth
od or care.
George IF.—Not at all the very gentle
manly hand most people wouldexpect—rath
er like a housemaid.
Pope. —Very bad. small, full of indecision;
a very hedge-row of corrections.
Cardinal Woolsey. —A good hand, dis
turbed only by nervous energy and self
will.
Person. —Correct nfid steady; the re
verse of his personal appearance and hab
its.
Shakspeare. — Avery bad hand, indeed,
confused, crowded, crowded in the lines,
and scarcely legible.
j Napoleau. —Still more illegible. No let
ters formed at nil; the signature a mere lias
[ ty “scrimmage” with the pen.
SINGULAR*!'RAP.
They have a singular contrivance for
entehing wolves in Norway. It consists of
circto of st-x or eight -foe* in diameter, in
which slakes are driven so close to each
other that n ivoli cannot creep through, and
which are high enough to prevent their
jumping over them. In the midst of this
j circle a sifigle stake is driven, to which a
I lamb or kid is bound. Around this circle a
second is formed, ol which the stakes aie
j as close and as high ns the inner one, and
at a distance not greater than will permit n
wolf to pass conveniently, but not allow of
j his turning round. In the outer circle a
door is formed, which opens inward, and
i rests against the inner circle, but moves
easily on its binges, and fastens itself pn
shutting. Through this door the wolves
enter, sometimes to such a number ns to
> fill the ench ■sure. ..The first wolf now
! paces the circle in order to discover some
opening through which jip ran get at the
lainb. When he domes to the back of the
door whidli is in his way, he pushes it with
his muzzle, itclosos and fastens as lie pass
es by, and he goes the round tho second
! lime, without being able te enter the inner i
circle or to retreat from theouter. At length j
he perceives that he is a prisoner, and his
hideous howling announces to those who
have constructed the trap, that he is taken, !
[! who Immediately come and dispatch him.— i
’ ll is said that tKis sort of a trap is also eked j
tor foxes* hnd even occasionally for mic#.
• .*
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
LAMP GLASSES. v -
Kohl, in his “Russia,” mentions the fol
lowing curious anecdote “The Emperor
wished to illuminate the AlexanderTolumn
in a grand style; the size of the round limps
was indicated, the glasses bespoken at the
manufactory, where the workmen exerted
themselves in vain, and almost blew the
breath out of their bodies in the endeavor
to obtain the magnitude. The commission
must be executed, that was self-evident; but
how? A great premium was offered to
whoever should solve the problem.-■’Again
the human bellows toiled and puffed—their
object seemed unattainable; when fft last a
long-bearded Russian slopped forward and
declared he would doit; he had strong and
sound lungs—he would only rinse his mouth
first with a little cold water, to refresh
them. He applied his mouth to the pipe,
and puffed to such purpose, that the vitre
ous hall swelled and swelled nea rky to The
required dimensions—up to it—beyond it.
“Hold, hold !” cried the lookers-ou,V‘you
are doing too much, and how did yotl do it
all?”
“The matter is simple enough,” answer
ed the long-beard; “but first, my
premium?” And when he
the promised homily,.Tie*-JWS
had retained some of the water itA ids
| mouth, which lie had passed theifce Into
j the glowing hall,and there. becomin| stehn,
had rendered him this good serviem \
“THE lU.CE LAWS OF CONNECTICUT.-
The following extract is a literal cpy
j from the Connecticut code of 1609, restrain
i ing the use of tobacco : I
“tobacko.” •
“Forasmuch as it is observed, thdt mhny
abuses are crept in, by frequent taking of
tobacko,
“It is ordered by the authority of jthis
Courte, that no person under the; age of
! twenty one years, or any other, that hath
| not already accustomed himselfe to thefuse
| thereof, shall take any tobacko until iiec
hath brought a certificate, under the hands
of some, wlio are approved from knowledge
and skill in phisick, that it is useful for hiiu,
and also that lie hath received a license
from the courte for the same. And for the
regulating of those, who either by theire
own apprehensions, made it necessary for
them, or upon duo advice, are perstfaded to
the use thereof.”
“It is ordered , That no man within this
. colonye, after the publication hereof, shall
take any tobacko publiqtinly in
highways, or any barneyards, or upon train-
I)in dnyes, in any open places, under the
penalty ofsixpense for each offence ngdnst
this order, in any of the particulars thereof,
to bee paid without gaines.iyiug,! uppoii
conviction, by the testimony of one witness,
that is without just exception, hefote any
one magistrate. And the constables in the
several townes are required to
scnHnent to each particular courte, of siJHi
as the doe understand, and convict to bee
transgress of this order.”
INTEREStTnG*7nCIDENT. _
A colored man walked out m Lo'ndon,
and obswrved a stone-cutter at work upon a
block of granite which was to he placed in
the walls of an elegant building near,at
hand. He spoke to the stone-cuttei* of w
oilier building more elegant and dnrdile
than the one which lie was erecting. The
j stone-cutter asked where? I’lie colored
man replied in heaven. God had prepared
mansions for those who love him, which far
surpassed in elegance and beamy any ever
erected by man. The stone-cutter asked
him where he had learned these thtngs?—
lie replied, in Western Africa, from a mis
sionary sent out by the London Missionary
Society, and that he had come to England
to obtain an education, and return to preach
the gospel to his country men. The stone-j
cutter replied, I have been praying lor tlie !
conversion of the heathen the last twenty !
years, and have contributed a penny a week j
for this object. I bless God that lam per
mitted to see and converse with a convert- j
ed heathen. God has answered my prayers.
The Mother's Hand. —A pious mother, in her j
prayers with her litllo son, was accustomed.to
| lay her hand upon his head. She died while he
was yet too young to realize the loss w hich he
had sustained. He grew up a wayward;, boy.
A et in his most reckless and pass’onate parox
ysms, something seemed partially to restrain
j and rule him. He said it was a hand upon his
; head, like his mother’s hand. In his old age lie
i said, “If I am ever saved, it will be by that
mollier’s hand, and my Redeemer’s nierfcy.”
APPOINTMENTS.
By Divine permission, M. W. Yanwyere will
proac'-i as follow*, commencing on Saturday, the 12th
day of April, at Harmony, in Putnam county; on Sun
day, 13th, at Friendship, Greene county; on Monday.
14th, at Richland; on Tuesday, loth, at White Plains;
on Wednesday. 16tb, at Mi. Zion: on Thursday, 17th,
at Bethel, Hancock county; on Friday, 18th, at Ho
reb; on Saturday, J9th at. Klim; on Sunday. 20th, uy<
Long
on Tuesday, 22d, at Bethlehem; on M,\. ,
at Union; on Thursday, 21th, at night,
ville; on Friday, 25th, at Bister's; on Batu^ a y, 26th, ;
at Jackson’s; on Sunday, 271 h, at New Ueilud; on j
Monday, 23th, at Jordon’s; on Tuesday, Jyth, at Old I
| Bethel; on Wednesday, 30th, ut night, at Mnj. Cars- j
i well’s; on Thursday, Ist of May, at l.eij 3V dle; on j
Friday, 2J, at Providence; on Saturday, Hd,nt Dew
liait’s; on Sunday. 4'h, at Reedy Creel;; on Monday,
sth, at Bro. Beasley’s new church; on Tuesday, oth,
at Mt. Pleasant; on Wednesday, 7th, Hopeful; on !
Thursday, Bth. at Way’s M. II.; at night, at Bro.
Joshua Jounlan's; on Friday, 9th, at nigntj at Bro.
N. Smith's; on Saturday, lUlii, and Sunday, 11th, at
Brushy Creek: at night, at sister Lewis’; on Monday,
I illh, at Rocky Creek; on Tuesday, 13th, at nig'it, at
Bro. Jeremiah Freeman’s; on Tuesday, 2oth, at Big
Buck Head; on Wednesday, 21st, at Little Buck Head;
on Thursday, 22d, at Green Fork; at night, a* Bra
Hargrove’s; on Friday, 23J. at Sardis; on Saturday,
24th, at Bethlehem; on Sunday, 251 h, at JSo.tstord’s; i
on Monday, 28th, at Me Bean; on Tuesday, 27th, at 1
Piney Grove; on Thursday, 29th, at A'teidcen; on
Friday, 30lh, at Bro. Collier’s School House; on Sa
turday, 31st, at Kiokee; on Sunday, Ist of June, at
Bethlehem, Bethel; on Monday, 2d, at Damascus; on ;
Tuesday, 3d, at Double Branches; on Wednesday, I
j 4'-h, at New Hope; on Thursday, sth, at Salem; on I
j Friday, 6 h,at Greenwood; on Snurday, 7th,at Hcph- ;
zibah; on Sunday, Bth, at Kbenezer; on Mnjxlay,9lh, ;
I at Rehobo:h; on Tuesday, 10th, at Fishing Creek; on
Wednesday, 11th, at Beaver Dam; on Thursday, 12. h,
! at Sardis.
As many of the brethren do not take the Index, will
! the brethieu and friends that do take it, ftassegive
• publication to these appointments! 1 ibinkthey will.’
March 27,1851. 14
PliA.li OF SCHOLARSHIP
ADOPTED FOR THE
Baptist College at Pontotoe, •Hiss.
1 st. Permanent Scholarship, Price ¥SOO.
THIS entitles tiie holder of tiie certificate to re
ceive instruction in any College Class which :
she may enter. This right is perpetual, and may be j
transferred by a transfer of the certificate.
lid. Family Scholarship, Price 8250.
This entitles the person for whose benefit it is pur
chased and who may be designated by name in the j
certificate to obtain for any or allof his or her daugh- i
; ters or step-daughters instruction in any sol lege class
: which they may be duly prepared to enter.
3d. Individual Scholarship, Trice 8150.
T Ins entitles the individual for whose benefit it is ;
! purchased, and who must !>e and .'Signaled by name in :
i the certificite, to receive instruction in any college
class which she may be duly prepared to enter.
4tli. Charity Scholarship. Price 850.
This entitles the individual thr whose benefit it is i
purchased, and who must be designated by name in
the certificate, to receive instruction in any college
c!h-s which she maybe duly prepared to enter provi
ded she may be recommended by the church cr asso
ctation ot individuals by whom her certificate is pur
i chased.
sth. Minister Scholarship, Free.
The daughters of all ministers of the gospel of all
denominations, shall be entitled to receive instruction
in any college ciuss they may be prepared to enter,
! provided their parents respectively are in indigent
of ore not amply able to bear the re-
ot the usual rates.
bung ladies admitted upon scholarship, are
the payment of tpition fees; but not for
room rent or other expenses. They are subject Id
, college rules as other students, and when legally ex
! pelled their right of scholarship becomes forfeited,
and except in permanent and charily scholarships no
substitute for the offending individuals is admitted
7th. The right of instruction secured by scholar
j ships extends only to the college classes proper, and
not to the class or classes assigned to the preparatory
dep.i rt mest.
W. II Holcomb.
Jam lb Pav:s,
Hew. I re j,
T. C. GttKEswcon,
April 17. 10 Committee.
HEJARN SCHOOL,
S'xteen miles South of Rome, Floyd County.
FIMIE Trustees of this Institution give notice tlint
X they have continued the services of Mr. J. S. Is-
CK.vnA.it, A. M., as principal, and also they have se
cured the services of experienced and successful as
sistant--. Mr. Ingraham’s past success enables them
confidently to recommend him to parents and guardi
ans, ns a teacher of high attainments, and a judicious
disciplinarian for the faithful education and moral
training of youth, especially of voung men. This In j
stitutinn, during the past year, lias enjoyed a liberal
patronage, nnd the marked approbation of men emi
nently qualified to judge of its advantages.
The next session will commence the third day of
February, close the first of July, and be succeeded by
a vacation of two weeks. Tiie second session will
commence the 14th of July, and close the 12th of De
cember. *
Young men are fitted for any stage of their colle
giate course, and fur any variety of business pursuits.
The site of this Institution is not more distinguished
for the romantic beauty of its scenery, than for its re
markable freedom from all local influences that are
opposed to a successful course of mental and moral
training. Parents may rest assured that no pains will
be spared to make this a profitable School and a happy
home fur their sons. Persons desiring further infor
mation, are referred to the following gentlemen, who ;
have visited the School during the past year: Gov.
Lumpkin, Athens; lion. Washington Poe, Gen. Arm- i
strong, Macon; Rev. V. It Thornton, Greene county; :
Prof. .Moil, Penfield; Thos. J. Burney, J. B. Walker,
and Rev. C. M. Irvin. Madison.
Rates of Tuition, per Session.
Orthography, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic,s6 00
Eugli-li Grammar, Geography, U,. S. History, 12 00
Latin, Greek, and all the higher Eng. brtinches.lfi uO
Advanced classes pursuing the College course, 20 GO
Tuition is required in advance. Students charged
from the time of entering to the close of the session.
No reduction made for lost time, except in protracted
sickness. Board in good families, including washing
and lodging, nt from eight to ten dollars per month.
Young men over 1(3, applying for admission, mu>t
give satisfactory testimonials (either verbal or writ
ten,) of good moral character.
CARTER W. SPARKS, President.
J. Richardson, Secretary.
Cave Spring, Ga., Due. 20, I*so.
IV'E W FIK H.
TOWN HALL,
MADISON, GA.
CT. O’KEEFE and \V. V. STOKES, (of Mad
• ison,) Imvo associated themselves together for
! the purpose of carrying on a general Foreign and Do
mestic DRY GOODS AND CLOTHING BUSI
NESS, and would solicit a share of patronage from
their friends, and the public generally, and they con
fidently hope that any confidence placed in them will
be well deserved.
N. B.—To person* who pay their acconnts once a
! year, we will sell goods as cheap as any house in the
; South. But we will open no accounts except with
persons who pay yearly. Cash buyers will have all
‘ the advantages that their money can secure for them
anywhere.
.March, 1851. 13
TOWNHALL
CLOTHING ROOM,
MADISON, GEORGIA.
WE HAVE now anew and complete stock of
SPRING AND SUMMER CLOTHING.
| among which can be found every article suitable for
I Gentlemens’ wardrobe. We have also a fine stock of
: BOYS’ CLOTHING, to which we invite the atten
tion of both Ladies and Gentlemen. Our stock com- ;
prises ove*
1000 Coats, of all new styles,
500 ptirsol Plain and Fancy Pants,
SJO Vests, of all kinds, colors and qualities,
5.'0 Linen Bosom Shiits,
10 dozen Silk L T ndershirls,
i 1(H) “ Fancy Half Hose,
II - ~iV -|“ if Cravat* and Scarf*,
, if) “ French de Joinvillo Ties,
10 “ Fashionable Silk and Beaver Hats, white I
and black, manufactured by Beebe and Genin. j
| Leghorn and Straw Hats, ofall descriptions.
A beautiful stock of Broadcloth, Cassimere, Drap
j d’E’c, Caslimeretts, Linen Drills, and every kind of !
1 goods suitable for gentlemens’summer wear. Also, ;
i \\ bite Marseilles and Tinsel Vestings, from $1 to
i $lO a pattern.
The Clothing Room is next door to their Fashiona- :
| hie Fancy Dry Goods Store, and is intended exclu
; sivelv fora WHOLESALE ANDRETAIL CLOTH
ING STORE, as well stocked as any house in Charles
ton or Augusta. Persons living at a distance can or
i der goods with confidence, and mnv return them it not
suited. O’KEEFE it STOKES. i
Town Hall, Madison, March 1851. 13
SURGICALINSTITUTE.
DRS. H. F. & R. CAMPBELL have established
an iNFIRMARY in Augusta, for the treatment
| of Surgical and Chronic Diseases. They respectful
ly call the attention of the Profession and the public
to their institution. Necessary Surgical operations
| will be performed by l)r. Hexry F. Campbell; all
| other treatment will be rendered by them jointly.
Patients sent from the country will receive every
■ necessary attention during their sojourn in our city.
Oct 1 ts 44
HARDWICK & COOKE,
Factors & Commission Merchants,
BA Y STREET, SAVANNAH, GA.
R. S. Hardwick, }
}. G. Centre. \ Nov. 7
O -KEEFE & STOKES,
ARE DAILY RECEIVING a beautiful stock of SPRING AND SUM
MER GOODS, comprising in part as follows:
750 yards colored Dress Silks-among which are Pompadours, Damasks, Brocades, Chener* and every new
style that wall be worn this season.
200 yards Watered, Brocade and Damask Black Silks.
400 yards PI tin Black Silks, of all widths.
of new and most splendid styles, among which are: 9
Crape de Paris Grenadines, &c..&c., numbering over 1000 dresses, pFiced from 50c toftl 50 ner rant
10QR Funs, from 5 cents to $lO each— 10U0 Para-els, from 12} cents to *lO each * ’ ’
20U dozen Linen Cambric Handke'rchicfit.Tromt'j to die. each—French Erabr’d. from 1 to £lO each:
1 rcnch Spring and Summer Mantillas, from 5 to -*JO each, and of the latest Parisian styles
Super White and Salmon-colored Crape S awls, from 10 to 30 dollars.
American, English, and Siqicr French Bonnets, from 50 cents to 10 dollars.
300 pieces Bonnet Ribbons, from -t to 6 inches wide—French Embr’d Collars, Sleeves and Cuffs
A larjre assortment of French and Scotch Needle-Work, from the lowest price to the finest quality
A large stock of 1 Julies Fa-hionable Summer Gutters and Shoes a areat many new styles ~ ‘
A targe assortment of HOUSE FURNISHING GOODS, embracing Embr'd Curtain Muslins, all colors iff
Moreen (for window curtains), new de-igns in Turkey Red Muslins, iransparent Window Shades and Fix
tures, Worsted Embrd Piano and Table Covers, Imitation Marble and Rose-wood Oil Cloth Covers from net
cents to $1,50 per yard. “ ’
LINENS! LINENS!! LINENS!!!
12 pieces 10-4 11-4, 12 4 Linen Sheetings—l 2 pieces full width Pillow-rase Linens.
1(10 do. Rich trdson’s superior Irish Fronting Linens—lso 114, 12-4. 13 -1 and 1.1 A /w. ■■
Also, Crib and Cradle 2to 10 dollars. ’ 4 a “ d 14 4 Mafsellles Q^lta.
” All of which will be sold as low as in any house in the south. rv trepans t Cl ,
March 27, 1851. ■> R-bt,r t. &, STOKES.
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Penfield Female Seminary.
THIS INSTITUTION remains under the charge I
of Rev. P. S Whitman and Mrs. Caro ixe
Whitmas. The Winter and Spring Session of the
ensuing year, will open on the S'cond Monday in
January, and close on tiie First Wednesday in Inly.
The Fall Session wiH open on the Last Wednesday
in August and close on the Istli of December.
COURSE OF STUDY.
PREPARATORY.
Arithmetic, Reading, Spelling, Writing, Geogra
phy, English G ammar, Spencers Latin Lessons,
Grecian Mythology, History of Grecee commenced.
COLLEGIATE -
FIRST YEAR.
Tiie loitin Reader, Virgil, Algebra, Geometry,
Ancient Geography, History of Greece and Rome,
Pope’s or Cowper’s Iliad.
SEOO.XD YEAR.
Livy or Cicero. French Grammar, Rhetoric, Elocu
tion, Natural Philosophy, Botany, History of Fiance.
THIRD YEAR.
Telemaque, Collot’s French Reader, Horace, A--
tronomy. Animal Physiology, Intellectual Philoso
phy, History of England.
FOURTH YEAR.
Corinne. Racine, Elements ot Criticism, Chemistry,
Geology. Moral Science, British Poets, History of the
United Stales.
Exercises in Composition, Elocution, and Vocal
I Music are connected with the course throughout.
I Sacred History and Elements of Theology are pursued
: in connection with Bible Lessons on the Sabbath.
Latin and French, being e-senti il in the attainment
| of thorough and refined education, are introduced into
i the regular course and thus pursued without extra
charge.
Pupils admitted to a partial course pav according
to the classes with which they recite. For French,
however, an extra charge is made unless preceded by
Latin as laid down in the regular course.
RATES OF TUITION.
Spring Session. Fall Session.
Preparatory Studies, exclusive >
of Grammar and History, 8“
Grammar and History added,.... 18 12
Collegiate Course, 24 1(3
Music 24 16
Board, including fuel, lights, I ....
and washing, i J M
B M SANDERS,
Cli Ex Com. Ua. Bap. Con.
Nov. 28.1850.
(jcorgiii Female College.
Legislative Charter granted in 1819.
I rpHE SPRING TERM commences on the second
j A Monday in January, and ends on the first Thurs
day in Julv.
The AUTUMNAL TERM corntnenceson the first
Wednesday in August,and ends on the last Thursday
in November.
FACULTY.
GE& Y. BROWNE, President .
Mural Science and Mathematics.
P. LOUD,
Natural Sciences.
Miss R. C. PIERSON,
Rhetoric.
Miss E. OLIVIA DE XAVARIXO HIQUI,
French, Spanish and Italian.
Miss ANNA MARIA BENNETT,
Assistant in Mathematics.
Miss X. C. BROWNE.
Miss ROSALIE HORSLEY,
Miss M. M. BUMSTEAD,
M usic.
Mrs. S. LOUD,
Ornamental Branches.
Tuition per annum, in the Primary class $23; in
the Preparatory $33; in the College course $43. —
Languages; Latin. Greek, French, each sls. Music;
Piano or Guitar, SSO.
Board, washing, fuel, lights, &c., from $lO to sl2
per month.
No extra charge is MADE for the use of Piano, for
fuel, or for stationery, including slates, copy-books,
&.c .& c. ~= • -
Catalogues, containing further information, may be
obtained by application to the President
THUS. J. BURNEY,
-Secretary Board of Trustees.
Madison, Nov. 20th, 1850.
SOUTHERN HARMONY.
lliriralcft Sales.
OVER SO.OOO copies of the SOUTHERN HAR
MONY having beer, sold in a few years is alone
sufficient proof ofthe intrinsic value and great merits
1 of the work; and that it only has to be examined to
be approved. These unrivaled sales have enabled the
A.yTIIOR to greatly enlarge the work by adding a
great many choice Tunes, for CHURCH USE, to
i gether with a number of excellent new pieces ot
Music never before published.
THE SOUTHERN HARMONY, New Edition
contains over THREE HUNDRED PAGES ofthe
best music ever published for the CHURCH, and
Social Singing Societies selected from the best Au
thors in the world. Also, a great many origlina
pieces.
It is printed on excellent white paperand unusually
well bound. The Author feels sure that these im
provements will be duly appreciated bv a generous
and enlightened public. The New Edition ofthiß
work is on of the cheapest and largest of the kind
now extant.
For sale in all the large Cities in the United
States, and Booksellers and County Merchants gen
erally throughout all ofthe Middle. Southern, West
ern States, ’ and ’by tho Author and Merchants id
Spartanburg, S. C.
WILLIAM WALKER, A. S. H.
Sjnrtanharg IL, S. C., June 27. mly.
INDEX JOB OFFICE.
ALL KINDS OF
•Plain k (Dnnmituttil
seen as *
KS.ets, 8ar c ,S; ars
hand bills, show BILLS, Ac.
Executed with neatness and despatch.-
A share of public patronage is respectfully solicit
ed. Prices as low as elsewhere.
•SmoT 1 "’ ‘“"’l.T'.Sfr
For the Carr f
COUGHS, COLDS,
HOARSENESS, BRONCHITIS,
WHOOPING-COUGH, CROUP,
ASTHMA and CONSUMPTION
Among the numerous discoveries Science has made
in this generation to facilitate the business of life
increase its enjoyment, and even prolong the term of
human existence, none can be named of more real
value to mankind, than this contribution of Chemistry
to the Healing Art. A vast trial of its virtues through--
out this broad country, has pioven beyond a doubt,
that no medicine or combination of medicines vet
known, can so surely control and cure the numerous
varieties of pulmonary disease which have hitherto
swept from our midst thousands and thousands every
year. Indeed, there is now abundant reason to be
lieve a Remedy has at length been found which can
be relied on to euro the most dangerous ufief.tiotHX)f~
the lungs. Our space here will not permit us to pufc.
lish any proportion of the cures atTected by its use,
. but we would present the following opinions of eml-
I nent men, and ref-r further enquiry to the circular
which the Agent below- named, will always be pleas
ed to furnish free, wherein are full particulars, and
indisputable proof of these facts.
From the President of Amherst Col
lege, the celebrated Professor
Hitchcock.
“James C. Ayer—Sir: I have used your Cherry
Pectoral in my own case of deep-sealed Bronchitis,
nntl am Fatinfi <1 from its chemical constitution, that
it is an admirable rompoand for the relief of laryngial
arid bronchial difficulties. It my opinion as to its su
perior character con be of any service, you are at lib
erty to use it as you ihiwk proper.
EDWARD HITCHCOCK, L.L. D.
I’ fom the widely celebrated Professor
Sil/iman , 91. If., L.L. D., Profes
sor of Chemistry, Mineralogy, &c.,
1 ale College, Member of the Lit.
Ilist. Med. Phil, and Scientific So
cieties of America and Europe.
“I deem the Cherry Pectoral an admirable compo
sition from some of the liest articles in the Materia
Mcdica, and a very effective remedy for the class of
diseases it is intended lo cure.”
New Haven, Ct., Nov. 1, 1810.
Major Pattison, President of the
S. C. Senate, states he has used the'Cherry Pectoral
with wonderful success, to cure an inflammation of
the lungs.
From one of the first Physicians in
Maine.
Saco, Me., April 20, 1849.
Dr. J. C. Ayer, Lowell. Dear Sir: lam now con
stantly using your Cherry Pectoral in tny Practice,
and prefer it to any other medicine for pulmonary com
plaints. From observation of many severe cases, I
ain convinced it will cure coughs, colds, and diseases
of the lungs, that have put to defiaßce all other rem
edies.
I invariably reeojnmend its uso in cases of con
sumption. and consider it much the best remedy
known fir that disease.
Respectfully, yours, I. S. CUSHMAN, M. D.
Preparetl and sold by JAMES C. AYER, Practical
Chemist, Lowell, Mass.
Sold in Penfield by T. S. Hankin-ox, in Greens-’
boro by J. Cunningham &. Cos; in Athens by Hill &
Smith; in Macon by Payne & Nesbit; in Augusta
by llav.land, R si.ey & Cos.; and by all respectablcr-
Druggists throughout the Stale and country.
March 20. 4 m 43
PI AAO FORTES. ‘
rrMIE subset iber continues to deliver Hallet &
X Ai.les’s noted PIANOS, on favorable terms
and without any risk to purchasers.
DESCP.tPI ions.
The full size superior half-frame, fi octave.
The large celebrated iron frame, 6 octave.
The aame with front corners rounded.
*• full round (Centre Piano.)
“ “ or 7 octave.
. Either of the above with moulding.
Every Piano is warranted to give satisfaction and’
no payment is required until after it is delivered.
Music Stools and Covers included at Boston pricer.
Further information cheerfully given.
I>. S. WHITMAN.
Penfield, Ga., March 27, 1851. ly— n2
NOTICE. —Persons in the middle and upper sec
tions of Georgia wishing to be supplied with
our PIANO FORTES, with the certainly of obtain-;
ing instruments of the rar&u excellence, are hereby
referred to our agent, Mr. P. S. Whitman, of Pen
field, Ga.
(Signed,) HALLET &. ALLEN,
Boston, Mass., Jan. 27th, Msl.
[May I, 1851.