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VOLUME Iffl.
ATHENS, 6E0., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1858.
NUMBER 8.
Poetry.
Walsh, Mallory &. Co.,
IMPORTERS OF FOI1EIGN. AND COMMIS
SION AGENTS FOR
American Hardware,
211 Pearl Street, New York,
SOLICIT AX SXAMiXATION OF THUR OOODS.
January 13—44—ly.
C. & W. J. PEEPLES,
&t ilmu B
AT3 3NS AND GAINESVILLE, CA
PiuCTlctin tlio following counties:—Clnrk
Morgan, Walton, Jiickson, Lumpkin, Forsyth,
Half, Gwinnett, Habersham, ami Franklin.
Oun of the Arm will constantly attend these
eooulics, anil most or thorn will bo tiltcuded by
both partners. .
The office of c. Peeplcats over the store ofD.
g. jmUon. who can, at nlltime*.eitherheor Mr.
Hoggin*, give correct information as to our ali
enee or presence in Athens.
Dec. 4—33—ly.
W. H. H. WHITE,
RflUTOtKlMT TOOL® 53,
11 ROAD STREET. ATHENS.
Jan.1. 1851.
Spring-
A bursting into greenness.
A waking as from sleep,
A twitter and a warble
That mukes the pulses leap.
A sense of renovation.
Of freshness and of health,
A rottiug off of sordid fear,
A carelessness of wealth.
A watching as in childhood,
F< r the flowers that one by one
Open their golden petals
To woo the fitful suu.
A gush, a flush, a uurgle,
A wish to shout and sing,
As fill’d with hope nml gladness,
We bail the vernal Spring !
miscellaneous.
The Father’s Choice.
W. P. SA GE,
IV'tolcsGlc and Retail Jeweler
No 7, GRANITE ROW,ATHENS.
Jan. 1st. 1851.
DOCTS. HILL & SMITH,
Wholesale and Retail Druggists
ANl) DEALER* IN
PERFUMERY AND FANCY ARTICLES
No. 10, xaw amex ucoSj athkss.
mi. I, 1351.
TERRY & CO.,
WIIOLKSAl.a AXil RKTAIL DKALKUSI N
(lilts Caps Boots,
Shoes, Trunks, &«■
No. 7. GRANITE ROW. ATHENS.
Jnn. I. in.%1.
BT STLVANUS COBB, JR.
Mr. Abrl Veazie was President of a
heavy manufacturing company, a situa
tion which he hntl held f.ir many years,
and his interest in the corporation was
considerable, he was quit** wealthy,—
By nature, he was bluff and off-handed in
his manners, and the peculiar duties of
his office—coming in contact, aa he did
with people of all classes and dispositions
—had not detracted from his characteris
tic blunt ness. His family consisted of
some half dozen sons ami one daugh
ter.
The hoys had all grown to be men, and
were ensaged in lucrative business, while
Lelia, the youngest zhihl, just opening
into young womanhood, was the light
and joy of the old man’s household.
Among Veazie’s favorite clerks, there
was n young man named Robert Win
slow, who had lieen in the company’s off
ice several years, nod who, by his untir
ing applica ion and exemplary conduct,
had insured for himself not only a per
mnnent situation, hut also the respect and
confidence of this employer.
Young Winslow had a mother and sis
ter whom he supported, and with whom
lie lived; and, consequently, he was
obliged to economize with great nicety
in order to keep matters straight.
The fiscal year of the company was
drawing to a close, and for nearly three
weeks previous to the opening of our
story, Rolieit Winslow h d been iti at
tendance, at Mr. Veazie’s house, every
•* l tiut is my name, sir.”
“And mine is Dnnharo. You have
seen me at your counting house 1”
“Yea, sir—I remember.”
"Mr. Veazio tells mo you would prob
ably like to employ your time.to some
pecuniary advantage, duriug your vaca-
lion.”
Indeed, l should, sir,” restored Rob
ert, while a ray of pleasure Hashed over
his features.
Then I offei you a rare chance. 1
want you to accompany me to Troy,
there to assist in closing up the hooks in
a heavy firm who have failed and left
matters at rather loose ends.”
“And when do you want me to go?”
“Oh, this very night—now in half an
hour.”
Robert’s countenance fell as he heard
this, and after a moment’s thought he
said—
“I cannot go so soon. If you could
wait two hours, or postpone the matter
till to-morrow, I could go.”
“This is impossible, Mr. Winslow, for
the boat goes in half an hour, and the
business admits of no postponement,—
Veazm tells me that you would be just
the mau to up ravel and straighten out
these accounts, some of which have been
hanging for years, and are now put in
the hands of the creditors in that dubi
ous shape. I will pay your expenseaand
give you ten dollars u day, if you will go
with me,” f
“1 cannot go,” said Robert, in a some
what disappointed tone, but yet with de
cision. 1 promised my mother that I
NEWTON & LUCAS,
WUOLKSALK A»D RKTAIL DKAI.ERS IS
Dry Goods, Groceries,Hardware, feci week day evening, engaged in mmpar
would return before dark. My sister is
away, and would suffer exceedingly at
niy absence/'
You will have time to drop her a line
by the penny post, informing her of the
cause of your absence,” remarked Duu
ham.
The peuny post man does not go near
my dwelling after this hour,” returned
Robert. “No sir,” he continued in a
decided tone, “1 cannot go. I would not
leave my mother to suffer in ignorance
of my fate this whole night, for a hundred
times the amount 1 might earn by the la
bor. 1 thank you kindly for your con
sideration, and trust you will not blame
me for the result.”
“Ofcourse, 1 can’t blame you,” answer
ed Duultam, “though l ant Sorry you can
not go, 1 thought you needed the money/
“So 1 do need the money, sir,” respond
ed the young mao, with a slightly flush
ed face; “but 1 cannot take ii at the sac
rifice of what 1 consider my filial duty.”
“Very well—1 can find some one at
Troy who can do the wotk. Good even
ing.”
Unbel t responded it “good evening/’
end wended his way homeward. '1 he
circumstance'caused him some uneasi-
grunt me the faver I ask. Let me <b>
the writing here.”,
“This is a strange whim, Robrt. Ifo,
sirj if you cannot do. the work at my
house, I must strain my old eyes to <Ju '*
myself.”
“Mr. Veazie, you misunderstand me
indeed you do,” uttered Robert* in a
painful tone.
*• That can’t hardly be,” returned the
old gentleman, with a quiet smile, “since
I have no clue to any understanding at
all. But really, 1 shoujd be uuder obli
gations to you if you WififDF inform me
witli regard to the cause of this curious
affair.” _ „
For full two minutes the young man
sat wi h his eyes bent upon the floor;
bqt atdenglh he gazed up into the face
of his employer, and getting down from
his stool he said while his eyes glitter
ed with gathering moisture, and his lips a
trembled.
Mr. Veazie, you have ever been kind
and considerate to me, and I will not
now break the strict frankness and integ
rity which has thus far (parked all my
dealings with you. I trust you will not
blame me, nor think me presumptions
I did work for you^at your own dwelling
and you called vnur daughter to assist
me. Togather Lelia and myself exam-
ami ned and compared notes, and then
we conversed. Ere long, I began to be
anxious for the evening to come, that 1
might be again at her side, and . when
she came with her joyous smile, her hap
py look, and her sweet welcome, 1 be
gan to count the happy moments as
sands of gold. I almost prayed that my
work might liavo no end, so that slio
might ever be my companion in its pro
cess; and when the labor did draw to
a close, 1 felt sad and lonely. Then was
it that my heart awoke to a knowledge
of its situation. I had begun to love the
geutle being who had thus been my
unsought companion—I had loved her,
and her image was on my heart. 1
cannot deceive myself, sir, por will
prove ungenerous to you. No man
can govern the strong emotions nfthe
heart, though he may, if he bo wise
guard against the cause of these emo
tions. Mr. Veazie, I dare nut subject
myself to a iove that must be hopeless,
for, poor as 1 am my heart is as sus-
septible as others. Now you km ,w
all.” \ r
“You are honest, at all event*,” said
the old geiillemau, without any apparent
emotion.
“So I trust I may always be,'
turned Robert.
“ But do you think you arc very
wise ?”
“ I could not help m y emotion sir
“ And if they were so’pleasent as you
appreciated it if they had known—the
eep principle of paternal care' and kind
ness Which governed him; nor was Mr.
Veazie disappointed in his calculations.
1 he same heart that had cherished such
a pure and holy filial l„ ve proved a
cred altar for the affections of the hus
band, and Lelia never had occasion to
regret—but always blessed—her father’s
choice.
ness for a short time, but he soon forgot i ,,ave described. I »®e not w liy you should
it, and on the next day obtained a first ’ havc su «di a thing as ptevcuUng
rate job through the aid of Mr. Veazie;
No. 2, BROAD STREET, ATHENS.
.1 or 1st, 1351.
T. BISHOP,
Wholesale autl Retail Grocer,
NO. 1, BROAD STREET, ATHENS.
Jau.13,1850.
THOMAS H. WILSON,
Deal.in Ory»oods,«rocei*ies,A-
No.l, COLLEGE AVENUE.ATHENS,
tail, t*1,1350.
New Casta Stoic.
KENNY So SLEDGE,
Underlie old Central Hotel, opposite Norton
4* Lucas.
DEALERS IN
Dry Goode, Groceries, Hardware*
CUTLERY. CROCKERY, auj country
produce, generally.
ATHENS GEORGIA,
Nov. 18, 1353.
IBs 0-3a {KillILL ©® 0
DKALKB9 IS
SILK, r.lNCV AND 8T.VPLE GOODS, HARD
WARE, CROCKERY, GROCE
RIES, AC.
. No. 4, Granite Row,
iTHUI, OA.
Choice Family Groceries-
J UST receiving a large and complete assort
meat of the very Lest
Family Groceries;
Hermetically Sealed FRESH OYSTElfS
SALMON, CLAMS 4* LOBSTERS;
Assorted Pfeseryes, Pickles and
mo a. aiwr mmm a
—ALL BIX ns or—
pepper, Spice, extracts, Coomng
9Wlne, Sc.
For sale ohoap for cash by D. N. JUDSON
Athens, Oct. 14, 1852.
I RISH POTATOES fhr planting and table use.
—55 barrels Mercer Ityafipu; S$ barrels yel-
flvr do. 10 rod do, Just received and for vdo
.cheap for cash by D- N. JjUDSON '
Cfec. 30.
mo Coffee;
J UST reemed, a fresh sopnly of
COFFEE. KENNEY &
Feb. 3.
ime R70
F LOUR, FLOUR! just received .from
Pen field Stoatn Mill, a treshlot ofiliat choice
Finer, an l for soles, (Terms cash )
Fob. 17. D. N. JUDSON. Agt.
s
YRUP.—A choice article of New Or1<*ans 6y-
rnp, jmt received by
Nov. 13.
T. BISHOP.
) SACKS SALT large size and iu fine
order, for sale very low by
10. T. BISHOP.
ST-
. 4» Graijitc Row.
B. M. HILL &. CO.
ling some real French Printed de Laioes
ftSE
ing the vnriou-s nrcmints, and properly
arranging thorn, in viewnfn contemplat
ed change in the direction of the corpor
ation. Duplicates had to he taken of
all the principal ptqiers. ami in revising
them, the services ol'Lelia wore frequent
ly called upon, for the old man could
never he made to understand why .even
an heiress might not make herself use
ful.
Once or twice only had Veazie actu
ally called upon his child fi»r her services,
and on those occasions she would read
off the original accounts, while the young
clerk revised the duplicates. Lelia read
in Robert, and anon, when for a time
die labor was suspended, she hesitated
not to talk. There was none of that
formal restraint which fashion imposes
upon common visits, for their acquaint'
a nee had commenced under the easy,
non-committing auspices nf business, and
without nf aught hut that of business,
they wnded through some pages of the
company’s journal. Then, when at
length they conversed, they thought only
of social politeness, and their thoughts
and feelings free and unrestraind. The
third or fourth rime that Robert came to
the house, Lelia offered her services, and
while her father looked over her shoul
der, she read from the original drafts and
entries, and when the young man would
stup to make a note, or marginal refer
ence upon that dupicated, she would
peep over the lop pf rite large journal
and watch his handsome features, as they
worked and varied with bis laboring
thoughts.
Thus passed away three weeks. Ev
ery evening Lelia was sure to come into
her father’s study, and she was equally
sure to stay there till Robert wont away,
The old mau seemed indeed blind to the
fact thatthr se meetings were hegining to
result in snmethiug else beside the mere
tianspction of business.
“Well. Robert," said Mr Veazie, one
evening as the office was qbpiit being
gl.QSgd. "you can now have a short re
spite from tbe confinement "of the count
ing house. The affairs qf (he (concern are
all settled, and we shall not start again
under two weeks—so you con have that
tinje toy ourself, to enjoy $u4 improve as
you see fit.”
“I thank you kindly,’ sir, returned
Robert, “though I must say that I would
rather make myself busy than lie idle so
proff ____
“Bflt you haven’t had a resting spell
he&ife far fiiur years.”
“True, sir, hut my mother and sister,
need all my time, so 1 can hardly afford
to rest now/” ‘
"Well, never fear, Robert you shan 1
sufferTosgg* ‘ “
Veazie never held long;argu>p l enls l and
from his manner on tbe present occasion,
Robert knew that there was nothing
more to be said ; so ho put on bjs hat,and
started homeward. Epfeb-iKrji
“Mr. Winslow, 1 believe, sir V’ said a
gentlemen. ■;
au lnsutaiice Cilice, in copyiug puli
es.
Again Robert Winslow was at his desk
Mr. Veazie’s counting house. Busi
es had commenced in good earnest,and
here was a fair prospect of a long con- j
inuance of it. Nearly a week had pass
ed away. when one afternoon a young
gentleman called iu to see Mr. Veazie,
und remained in an earnest,close con vet-
satiou with tlie^ old maufur full five min
utes, and when he turned to go away,
Robert thought he heard something like
an oath drop from his lips.
“Presuming puppy!” muttered Mr,
Veazie, as ho sank into a chair where
his young cleik was writing, and pushed
u aek some dozen importaut papers.—
Why, Robert, the fellow actually had
the presumption to ask me for the hand
of my little Lelia, aud all he’s worth in
iho world is fifteen thousand dollars.—
Nut another bit of real wealth does he
possess. A pretty match for my daugh
ter truly. Ha! ha! ha!
Robert Wipslow’shapd trembled, and
bis face ciijpsnnpd, as the old m*n spoke,
and hu turne.d awayto hide theemotions
he cojuld not suppiess. Veazie took no
not ifte of the youth’a mar.ner, but haviug
delivered iho blunt opiniou, he drew
back the documents he bad a moment be
fore pushed away from him, and began
to examine their contents, while Robert
tried to calm his nerves so as to go on
with his business.
Towards nightfall, Mr. Veazie put
away the papers he had been inspect
ing, and having locked them up iu his
private desk, be began to put on his
gloves. *
“Robert,” aaid be, “are your even
iugs engaged during the present week?’
“Not particularly,” returned Robert,
as he wiped bis pen and put it behind
hiseil^
I want otir own private accounts
posted up, and if you will do it 1 will
amply compensate you for your extra
labor.” ' / ^ :
“Task no compensation, sir. It you
will bring yo#r bqojjs tp-paorrow, 1 JVt|l
take them home and post them with
pleasure/’
“No, no,—you will have to do it at my
boufe. 1 don’t wish to let my pri
vate books go from my sight. It will
take you but a few evenings to do the
wji.ole, and besides, you wpl need some
assistance }n deciphering the various ac
counts, for some of them have been made
by Lelia.”
“1 could vyisb that the labor might be
done here, sir; said Robert ip a hesitat
ing maimer, while a strange emotion
s "e|it over liis countenance.
“Done here, sir ?” iterated tbe eld
gentleman in susprise. “1 do not under
stand you. You found no fault in labor
ing at my house before. What have
you fopnd now iu the shape of au tA jec-
“Do not question me, sir, but pray
them.
Robert looked up into the face of the
old gentleman, but he made no answer
—be could not comprehend his employ
er’s meaning.
“Robert.” continued the old gentle
man, “it is Lelia who wishes you to
come and help her arrange rtiy house
hold accounts. Wou.d you refuse her
as you have me?”
Robert Winslow trembled, from head
to foot—-H« gnzeil into the face of.bis
employer, and thought hd Could detect
a kind meaning smile there, tie at
tempted to speak, hut his words came
not forth.
“Come,come, w uttered Veazie, let us
not heat around lh® bush any longer.—
I am not blind, and and consequently l
failed m t to see seme thing spaek loud
er than words. 1 took note of the gen
tle love god that danced in your eyes,
and 1 read the language that come up
from your heart and stcMnl in living char
acters upon your varying countenance
Do you suppose I should have been so
utterly regardless of both your owd and
my child’s welfare, as to have allowed
you to cherish tho flowers of affection
only that 1 might blight them at their
birth ? Lelia is a faithful, a jgentle, and
a loving girl, and if you love her tru
ly, you may confess to her your efior-
mous sin of Tove.”
“Mr. Veazie!” exclaimed Robert, I
cannot comprehend—I dp not. No,
no; you would not rape stlch a sweet
such a heavenly hope in tny bosm to
crush & again.”
“tinrk ye, Robert,” said tlio old ger.
tinman, as he took the clerk hy the hand
bad I desired to see my child married
to a heartless hag of gold, I had the
chance this very afternoon. The mau
who came here to ask roe for the hand
of my child, though be has fifteen
thousand dollars worth of gold, is yet
steeped in poverty. He has no heart*
I have watched your course for tb® last
five years with interest; find’ a week
a*o, when you refused a large sum
of money, which you much needed,
rather than your mother should suffer
a single night’s uneasiness on your ac-
poqqt, you proved yourself possessed of
a mine of wealth whjcb np legacy could
have brought you, and which could never
have been poured into your life’s coffers
by speculation. Mr. Dunham brougtli
me your answer, and when 1 heard il 1
resolved within myself that the *QH a\»d
brother who could so honor and Ipve his
mother and sister could n°t fe.il in P? a '
king a most excellent husbshdT; Now go
and tell all to Lelia, and if she accepts
your hand, your shall most freely, have
hers in return. There, don’t cry about
it, fofr you aitt’ sure she’ll haveyou yet^
TUe Story—The Rcclme of the
Hollow Tree*
Something over three years ago, a
young man, apparently about twenty-five
or thirty years of age, stopped at Brain-
bridge, a hotel, landing, situated at the
end of the Muscle Shoals, in this county
He gave his napne as Goins, from Knox
county,East Tennessee. He came with
crowd of flat boatmen, which annually
descend from tho upper waters of the
Tennessee, and tarry for a season at the
foot of the shoals. Goins had remained
after his migatoiy companions had all
gone their way. His conduct was ob
served to be sometimeseccentric, though
always quiet, taciturn, and approaching , ,
to melancholy, After a time he took up ln ® 3 !
his abode in one of those numerous caves
which are found in the high and precip
itous bluffs skirting along the northern
shores of the Tennessee river from Shoal
creek to Florence. The oneselecied by
his poor outcast was situated a few hun
dred yards from the ferry* and near the
public road. He was often seen sitting
at the mouth of his lonely cell, or lecliti-
ing on some projecting rock, basking iu
the genial rays of an autumnal sun. He
shunned all approach, and many were
tbe cold and heartless jeers passpd upon
him by the passcra by. Soon, however,
he disappeared, and all traces of him
were lost,. Two long years passed away
—years long to ho remembered, as hav
ing witnessed, one at least, of the most
dreary, protracted, and intensely severe
winters that ever frosted the bosom of
our earth. One day last December two
m'in were hunting over the Broken river
hills, attached to tbe plantation of Air.
John J. Craig, and discoveied Goins in
the hollow of a largo chestnut tree.-—
They knew him and conversed with him;
but he obstinately resisted all persuasions
to go home with them, and warned them
against any attempt to coerce him in.—
Thq men went home and reported their
Strange interview, and in company with
several other leturned t > the tree, but
Goins had gone ; they watched the place
for several days, but he never returned.
Thoy then procured a pack of hounds,
which had been trained to hunt fugitives,
and scoured the hills; the dogs soon
struck upon a trail, and dashed off under
full cry'for more than two miles to the
mouth of Shoal creek, hut owning to (be
rugged character of the country, the
horsemen could not keep tip, and the fu
gitive was lost in the waters of Shoal
creek. All further pursuit was then
abandoned, and many believed the whole
story fabulous, until last Sunday week, a
hoy belonging to Mr. A.P. Neely report
ed to his master that he had seen a man
upon the bluffs near a noted cave on the
plantation of Judge Posey. Mr. Neely
immediately collected a number of gen
tlemen and proceeded to tho spot indi-
ooioj. Tho <lay mro* one of the ipost In
clement of the season. On nearing tho
mouth of the cave they discovered the
shivering form of the poor wretch buried
beneath a covering of straw. He paid
no attention to their summons to come
forth, and oue of the party .(thoughtlessly
we hope) tossed in a dog, which making
a furious assault, brought the hapless re
cluse to his feet.
He then came out in a state of almost
perfect nudity, presenting a picture of
abject misery and squalid wretchedness
which utterly beggars all description, and
we shall not attempt it. He appeared
perfectly sane, but gave no satisfactory
reasons for his singular conduct, beyond
a general charge that the world had trout
ed him badly and he had determined to
to come out from it. He protested he
bad dope uo man harm, and begged to
be allowed to continue bis solitary life,
but he finally agreed to go homo with
Mr. JSastrage, which he did, and when
we last heard from him he was suffering
from a viqlent cold, contracted no doubt
by his sudden change from a worse than
savage to a civilized life.—Florence (Ala '
Gazette.
unknown to each other in connection
with their principal, and “ names his
views ;” ho wishes to exchange a lot of
superior enttnn stockings for some other
goods; he is not particular what kind,
as the transaction is for a friend, who is
desirous of “ closing his stock.” The
man at first can think of nothing which
he would , like to exchange for so large
a supply of stockings; but ot length a
bright .thought strikes him. ~ “ I have,”
said he*J‘ a consignment of cotton night
caps front an old correspondent, which
I shall not object to, exchange for your
stockings.” The hargnn was soon clos
ed. The stocking factor wrote hack at
once that ho had at length been en
abled to comply with the iuMniciioim of
his principal. He had exchanged his
stockings for “ a superior arlicio of
nightcaps/’ in an equal quantity, which
he was assured were likely to bo much
in demnud before a great while !
The next day came a letter from (he
nightcap agent, announcing his success,
and appended to the letter was a lug
hill of commissions! As Yellowpliiwh
would say, “Fanzy that man’s feel-
Fanuy Fern’s Best Thing.
We think Fanny Fern never wrote a
better pair of paragraphs than tho fol
lowing from the Olive Branch:
“ Look on this picti-re, and thrn
on that.—*' Father is coming!” and lit
tle round faces grow long, aud- merry
voices are hushed, and toys are bustled
into the rlosit, and mama glances nerv
ously at the door, and baby is bribed
with a lump of sugar to keep the peace;
and fatket’s business face relaxes rot a
muscle; aud tbe little group huddle like
timid sheep in the rorner, and tea is dis
patched as silently as if speaking were
prohibited by the statute book, and the
children creep like culprits to bed mar
veling that baby-dare crow so loud, now
that “Frthcr has come."
“ Father is coming!” and bright eyes
sparkle for joy, and tiny feet dance with
glee, and eager faces press against the
window-pane, and a bevy of rosy lips
claim kisses at the door, and pictuie-
bonks lie uurebuked on tlio table, and
tops, and halls, and dolls, and kites arc
discussed, and little Susy lays her soft
cheek against the paternal whiskers with
the most fearless “ abandon’’ and Char
ley gets a love pat for his “medal.” and
mania’s face grows radiant, and the
evening paper is read (not silently, but
aloud,) and tea, and toast,and tjmo van
ished with equal celebrity, for jubilee
hasartived, and "Father has comt"
ne.-s in trade insert tl.e'r virgin odver-
itsement, informing the world how hap*.*
py they si a'l be to wait on customers, ’'
can you read it without entering iofil*.
their new cqreerj
“ Business advertisements! Wasto
paper! You know not what you sayjS :
® IS ° ships which are to snil fijr every fcj
httrtwr in the world—those fabrics which P
have arrived from uvery commercial
trfart on the earth, this iron from Russia, r'
tQfi from C In im, cot ton from Georgia, trai*
gar from LouiaiatliH^do they nul preadh >
to Hsf at the corners of tlte streets,-at the .
entering in of tho gates, in our docks,
and in ou r custom houses aed exchanges,
sermntis on the (nutual dependence of
mankind?” ’. -' •
* Printing Presses.—In reflecting up.
on thp vast expansion of printing within
the last twenty years, it is Very "nat
ural to ask one's self the question :—
What kind of a machine is a printing
press? This is a very . easy question, ,
as most, questions are, but. it is a much
more difficult matter to give a clear and
satisfactory answer., Difficult though it
be, yet we* intend to give as plain and
clear an answer as cau he given with
out the: aid of cuts, to illustrate our
meaning. •:
The first Printing Press was construc
ted at btresburg, !rrt436,: by Conrnd
Saspace, undei the superintendence of
the imortal Gutenburg. It was asimplo
screw press with a wooden, platen at
tached to the eud of the screw, which
came down upon a sheet,of paper, rest
ing on the types, which were supported
on a wooden bed. fcJlratige as it'(bay ap- *
per to printers of our Hay. nevertheless/
true il is, that this rude and clumsy form*
of press was the only one used for more
than tlirv.o hundred and fifty years, du
ring which time some of tiro best printed
works extant were thrown off from the
Press. ;
It may sound strange to the ears of a
majority of our democratic republican
printers, to be told that the first innova
tion on this old screw press, so long in
use, was made hy an English nobleman,
yet such appears to - be the fact, for the
honoris due to the Earl of Stanhope,
[who, in 1798 made a most important
Climate and Soil-of Oregon.—The
following extract from a letter written
hy a Lieutenant of the 4th Infantry U.
S. Army, stationed at Columbia bar
racks, Oregon Territory, dated on the
4lh of March last, cannot but interest
our readers:
m This is the day for the Presidential
Inauguration, and 1 presume, will he a
gala day. at Washington. If you have
only such plasaut weather as wo are
blessed with, Gen. Pierce’s inaugura
tion in this respect; will be more propi
tious than any I have ever witnessed.—
This is certainly the most delightful cl;
male'in th.e world never cold in winter,
and the heat of summer never oppress
ive, with very few exceptions—perhaps
one year in six. The cattle of all kiuds
find plenty of grass to keep fat upon the
entire year ; the last thing a farmer
thinks of is ma)ri'>g provision for feeding
his cattle in winter. The soil is rema rk
ably rich, and yields enormously—fifty
bushels of wheat, or four hundred bush
els of potatoes per acre, for tho former
they get six dollars, and for the latter
two dollars, per bushell; so you aeo
farming is a lucrative business. The
country is remarkably adapted to graz‘-
ing, from-the fact that stock sledom re
quire to be fed. Sheep do not thrive
so well in tbe immediat vicinity of this
place; but-nearly .all that section of the
country washed by the waters of the
Puget Sound and its tributaries, is rep
resented as being a very fine sheep
growing part of Oregon. The emigrants
aro turning tlieir attention to that por
tion of the country ; many that came
over last fall, and have not yet located
themselves, are waiting an apportunity
to go there ar.d settle.
improvemeflT, by introducingiron in the
place of wood, as (he material of his
press, and the joint lever. Thus it ap
pears the first improvement in print
ing presses was made by one of Eng-
land's^ noblemen, three hundred and fif
ty years after the press was invented,
enabling him to throw off 250 impress
ions per hour: and ilia la&t improve**
ment, was made, as it were, bat yea**
terday, fifty yoats after, by ono of na-' *
lure’s noblemen, as seen in Hoe’s Eight
Cylinder Rotary Press, which will throw ■ t
off 20,000 per hour.
Many improvements and inventions
have been added tothehand press since
1798, and perhaps at thq present it is
a perfect machine. In 1811 Francis
Shield, from London established a man
ufactory for Printing Presses in. New
York. He oppenrs to have been the
first to take any pains to introduce the
improved press into thU country.
The Present Moment.—There is
no moment like the present-; not only,
so, hut moreover, there is no moment
at ail, that is, no instant force and ener
gy. hut in the present. The man who
will not execute his resolutions when
they are fresh upon him can have n«»
hope from them afterwaids; they will
he dissapated, lost and perished in the
hurry and skurry of the world, or sunk
in the slough of iud detico,—Scf-Cul
ture. v . -i -
A Fanny Commercial Transact
'.{lion
The Mining Rigister flay*.i^ill
be some time, if not longer, before we
shall awakeu tho echoes of our quiet
sanctum with a laugh so irrepressible as
a c-uffaw which just escaped us, at a mer
cantile anecdote inimitably related, by a
German friend;”
An old fellow liviug at Frankfort-on-
tbe-Main. sent to a business correspon
dent at Frankfort-on-the-OJer, a large
consignment of cotton stockings,^and at
tho same time, to another correspon
dent to the same place, an equally large
consignment of cotton nightcaps, the pro
duct of his own manufacture. He wrote
to each the price at whipb they were to
sell, but tho sunt designated was found
to be too large, of which fact they took
occasion to inform him. He yielded a
little in his demand, but Btjjj there was
no offer for his fabrics. Agajtl he wirtes
in reply to other letters of his corres-
. f . : ..a, cmnll<*r amount:
Tile Xcuripapcr, , ...
Eloquent Extract.—The following
extract is taken from a sermon deliver
ed bv the, Rev. Dr. Adams of New
York f .M
“ Why is any thing made public; but
the belief that it will be of interest to
others? Why is it announced that Isaac
and Rebecca were married on a certain
day last week but on the fcjjpposiltoii
that it will give you pleasure to know it.
And then lower down on the sheet, un
der the startling head of deaths, your,
eye runs along always with appre
hension lest it fall oh some well known
name, and reads that the aged father,
the young child, tho beloved wife, the
rich, the poor, the adtnired, the honored,
tho beautiful are gone; as it is not ta
ken for granted that even strangers will
liavo a sigh for tlio afflicted, and the
world respond in sympathy Jo the incur
sions of a common foe? ^
*# Read in this light, tho commonest
advertisements which crowd our papers
have a kindly order about them. Say
Robert Winslow did offer Lelia Vea
zie his hand and and she smiled a
most happy smile as she gave him he
in return. People woudered much at
the affair, and many attributed it to a
freak of the old man’s odity. They
knew not—and many could not have
poudonts, nannng a yet smaller^amount,, w ; th a 'cynic sne er aa-.lhoijgh you
nut weeks elaps , J c8 nondeut I were doubtful whether there was any
length he writes to each co.icsponoeut l ^ 1A> „ Qt „,,
to make some 5
fuctures; if they can’t get
them at least to exchange them, ro mat- . -. . ..
ter at what reasonable sacrifice for any j one to announce a fresh ^PP|y _ 0
other goods.
disposition of his maim-: thing honest in tbe world-, when a-8toie
1PV can’t eet money for | keeper advertises his wares, that it is all
- . sheer-selfishness, for if it i» pleanaqt for
and "wool, hard wavfepr muslins, is it not
TJhdeTthesei instructions, the stocking 'just as pleasant for one who wishes to
factor calls upon his nightcap agent, both | know it ? When a brace of young part-
Prolific—-A TruJi/ Great Woman.
—-Oii. the steamer Blue Wing, which ar
rived from Kentucky river yesterday,
was a mother and twelve children—rsix
pair of twins—from Washington couR-*
ty, Ky. She. together with her family,
are about to settle in Indiana. She has
been married hut seven years, andi is
how the mother of twelve live childreu.
Who can beat that ?—Iaouisville Cou
rier. ■’ * ism
Fn?m the Mobile Tiibunu
Colton Crop—Prospect of Prices.
Editors or the 'jCribgnE—In your
paper of Wednesday morriin^, 30th tilt;,
you publish a copy.of a hurried article
1 prepared for the “ Cotton. Planter."
edited by Pr. Cloud, which' appeared ,
in the March number of his paper.
HSeeing that article, as published, it ja
due to myself to say, that it abounds in ■
errors of copying or typography ; 'artd,.
having retained no copy, I can scarcely
correct it myself. However, so far as
the essential facts slated are concerned,
1 discover no error.
l.bave been well assured, that tbe Cot
ton lands under cultivation, and the fprets
employed could not produce such a ci on
as reckless and ignorent writefs have
chqsen,to estimate for the pastry ear,—
That of the year previous was acknowl- .
edged and proved to be a large one—-
the' receipts were 3,015,000 bales. As
it is ratlnual to all parties that the prices'
to which cotton went last spring—say
10 cents for middlings—which brought
forward all the cottons made not only
last year, but lho»e crops and parts of
crops,'which were held back fof Various
reasons, in th® ctmntry—it was impor
tant-to those who talc* an intcfesjt jU ^
those investigations to ascertain as near
ly as possible, how this was—ihat is,
how much of old cotton' entered into
those receipts of 3,015,000'bales. /
; Tfiree million bales in all the cotton
region, was regarded as not far from tho
mat);. Well, if this crop reaches 3,U0p,-
000, it Js 250,000 to 300,000 actually
larger than last year’s. And if wo con*
template that increase by comparison,
we must confess it as an erroneous one.
A crop one year.by extraordinary ™\ ia '
ea-as in 1346—may bo cut
worms; or. asiti tho past and tbe year
previously, by generally very favorable-
and long fieasops, very heavy and super-
bundant rains; neither of those: howev
er, furnish exclusively practical informa
tion upon which to found calculations.
The safest mode to arrive nt the actual
annual increase of production, i3 to tako
the last five years o.f production in the'
aggregate, and the five years then pro
ceeding iu tho aggregate. The smaller
aggregate subtracted front the larger,
leaves ten per cent of increase of the
one period oyer the 'other; This ton
per cent divided by the five will show *
the annual per cent of increase. It it* a.
fact, in which all engaged in raising
selling, or buying cotton, shouul know,
that the aunual average increabe ot