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Bymmotoi t lt ftfrivocat BY CHARLES DAVIS.] VOLUME 2. BRUNSWICK ADVOCATE. AGENTS. Bibb County. Alexander Richards, Esq. Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton. Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Pulaski “ Norman McDuffie, Esq. Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq. H'ayne •> Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance— $4 at the end of the year. O’No subscriptions received for a legs term than six months and no paper discontinu ed until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the publisher. CTAII letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. O* ADVERTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Dollar per one hundred words, for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for ev ery subsequent.continuance—Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per cent, added, if not paid in advance, or during the continuance of the advertisement. Those sent without a specification of the number of insertions will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. Legal Advertisements published at the usual rates. O*N. B. Sales of Land, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required, by law, to be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court-house in the county in'which the property is situate.— Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette, Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. Sales of NyAroes must be at public auction, on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, first giving sixty days notice thereof, in one of the public gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house,where such sales are to be held. Notice for the sale of Personal Property,must be given in like manner, Forty days previous to the day of sale. Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an Es tate must be published for Forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must brpnblished for Four Months. Notice for leave to sell Negroes, must be published for Four Months, before any oeder absolute shall be made thereon by the Court. JVJS IT STORE. JOHN FRANKLIN would inform his friends and the public generally, that he has re ceived by recent arrivals a general assort ment of DRY GOODS and GROCERIES, such as— Brown SHIRTINGS, Do SHEETINGS, Do Waltham do. Bleach’d Shirtings, Do Sheetings, Blue, Plaid, and Stripes, Hamilton Sheeting, DARK PRINTS, Buff do. Fancy do. Do CHINTZ, Li"ht GINGHAMS Striped, Glazed Plaid, Dark mixed SATTINET, Blue do Red FLANNELL, White do Light HANDKERCHIEFS, Madrass do Dark Fancy do Orange Plaid do Dark Plaid do Blue Romals do Flag do Spittlefield do Black Silk CRAVATS, White Cotton 1-2 Hose, Colored do Wool do do Clark’s SPOOL COTTON, Col’d Sewing Silk, Blue Flax Thread, White do do Pure IRISH LINEN, APRON CHECK. SHIRTING STRIPE, BlacK BOMBAZINE, Black MERINO, Cambric MUSLIN, Jaconet do, Cotton SUSPENDERS, Palm Leaf HATS, Silk UMBRELLAS, Cotton do Tuck COMBS, Dressing do Fine do PINS, NEEDLES, BUTTONS, Pocket KNIVES, Blue DRILLINGS, White do Washington JEANS, PORK, Lucifer Matches, Shoe Thread, BUTTER, LIQUORS, Brown Soap, Ladies’ Hose, white and col and, Bed Tickings, Side Combs, Variety CALICOES, Hooks & Eyes, Col and CAMBRICS, Foolscap and Letter PAPER, Ready Made Pantaloons, NEGRO CLOTH, &c. &c. SUGAR BUISCUIT, BUTTER do Coffee, Rice, Soap, Small Plug TOBACCO, Large do do Cut do do Whiting's Spanish SEGARS, American do RAISINS in Boxes, do in Drums, LEMON SYRUP, BRANDY, FRUIT, ALMONDS, CHEESE, LARD, CANDIES of every description, Brown SUGAR, TEA, MACKEREL, FLOUR, Apples, Salt, Sperm CANDLES, Tallow do Shaving SOAP, Shoe BRUSHES, Shoe Blacking, Fashionable Black Silk and other HATS, Medium Brim 1,0 Seal TRUNKS, Hide do Misses Leather BOOTS laced, Do Strap, Thick Brogans, Kip Pcg’«l, WOMEN'S Leather BOOTS. Ch.ldren sdo Women's Pumps, Boy’s Kip Boots, Col’d Lasting Heels, Black do do Bov’s Thick Brogans, Do Kip do Children s MOROCCO BOOTS Calf Sew'd Bootes, K.p I eg and do Women'* Strap Peg'd Shoes, Cow Hide Boots. . . Likewise an Assortment of 77A anti CROCK ERY WARE—which he offers for Sate at his NEW ESTABLISHMENT in this City, on as Reasonable Terms as ran he affortied. Nov 15 ts Hides - and Beeswax WANTED by RICE, PARKER & CO. Nov 1 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 29, 1838. POETRY. RETURN OF THE PARENTS. BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. Long had they sped O’er distant hill and valley—noting much God’s goodness in the riches of the land, The summer fruitage, and the harvest hoard, The reaper wrestling with the bearded wheat, And the proud torrent's glory when it shakes The everlasting rock, —nor yet forgets To sprinkle greenness on the lowliest flower That trembles at its base. Much, too, they spake Os pleasures ’neath the hospitable roofs Os severed kindred—how the loving heart From such communion learns to wipe away The dust of household care, which sometimes hang In clouds o’er the clear spirit. But anon The eloquent lip grew silent, —for they drew Near that blest spot, which throws all other lights Into strong shadow—home. At that full thought The bosom's pulse beat quicker,— and the wheels Moved all too slow, though scarce the eager steeds Obeyed the rein. And as the mother Somewhat, in murmurs, of her youngest boy, There came a flood of beauty o’er her brow, For holy love hath beauty, which gray Time Could never steal. 'T is there, behind the trees, That well-known roof, —and from the open door What a glad rush ! The son, who fain would take His mother in his arms, as if her foot Were all too good for earth, —and at his side The beautiful daughter, with her raven hair So smoothly folded o’er the classic brow, — The infant crowing in its nurse’s arms, — The bold boy, in his gladness, springing up Even to his father's shoulder, —lisping tongues, And little dancing feet, and outstretched hands Grasping the parent’s skirts, —it was a group That artist’s pencil never yet hath sketched In all its plenitude. And when I saw The brightness of the tear of joy, I felt How poor the pomp of princes,—and what dross Was beaten gold, compared with that dear wealth, Home, and its congratulation, —and the ties Which heaven hath twisted round congenial hearts To draw them to itself. MISCELLANY. OUR COUNTRY. BY JUDGE STORY. When we recollect what it lias been, and what it is, how is it possible not to feel a profound sense of the responsibilities of this Republic to all future ages! What vast motives press upon us for lofty effort! What brilliant prospects invite our enthu siasm! What solemn warnings at once de mand our vigilance and moderate our con fidence! The old world had already revealed to us, in its unsealed books, the beginning and the end of all of its marvellous strug gles in the cause of liberty. Greece! love ly Greece! the land of scholars and the nurse of arms, where sister republics, in fair procession, cliaunted the praise of liberty and the good—where is she? Her arts are no more. The last sad relics of her temples are but the barracks of a ruth less soldiery; the fragments of her columns and palaces are in the dust, yet beautiful in ruin! She fell not when the mighty were upon her. Her sons were united at Thernopylae and Marathon, and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hel lespont. She fell not by the hands of her own people. The man of Macedonia did not the work of destruction. It was al ready done by her own corruptions, ban ishments, and dissensions. Rome! republican Rome! whose eagles glanced in the rising sun—where and what is she? The eternal city yet remains proud even in her desolation, noble in de cline, venerable in the majesty of religion, and calm in the composure of death.— The malaria has but travelled in the parts won by the destroyer. More than eigh teen centuries have mourned over the loss of the empire. A moral disease was upon her before Cjesar had passed the Rubicon, and Brutus did not restore her health by the deep probings of the Senate Chamber. The Goths, and Vandals, and Huns, the swarms of the North, completed only w hat \ was begun at home. Romans betrayed i Rome. The legions were bought and sold, but the people paid the tribute money. And where are the Republicans of modern times, which clustered around im mortal Italy? Venice and Greece exist but in name. The Alps, indeed, look down upon the brave and peaceful Swiss, in their native fastnesses; but the guaran ty of their freedom is their weakness, and not their strength. The mountains arc; Jnot easily retained. When the invader comes, he moves like an avalanche, carry ing destruction in his path. The peasan try sink before him. The country, too, is too poor for plunder, and too rough for valuable conquest. Nature presents her eternal barrier on every side, to check the wantonness of ambition—and Switzerland remains, with her simple institutions, a military road to climates scarcely worth a permanent possession, and protected by the jealousy of her neighbors. YVe stand the latest, and, if we fail, probably the last example of self-govern ment by the People. We have begun it under circumstances of the most auspi cious nature. We are in the vigor of youth. Our growth has never been chock ed by the opressiou of tyranny. Our con stitutions have never been enfeebled by the vices or luxuries of the world. Such as we are, we have been from the beginning, simple, hardy, intelligent, ac customed to self-government and self-re spect. The Atlantic rolls between us and a formidable foe. Within our own terri tory, stretching through many degrees of latitude, we have the choice of many pro ducts, and many means of independence. The government is mild—the press free. Religion is free. Knowledge readies, or may reacli every home. What fairer pros pect of success could be presented?— What more is necessary than for the peo ple to preserve what they themselves have created? Already has the age caught the spirit of our institutions. It has ascended the Andes, and snuffed the breezes of oceans. It has infused itself in the life-blood of Europe, and warmed the sunny plains of France, and the low lands of Holland. — It has touched the philosophy of Ger many and the North, and moving onward to the South, has opened to Greece the lesson of better days. Can it be thrft America, under such cir cumstances, can betray herself? That she is to be added to the catalogue of re publics, the inscription upon whose ruin is, “they were, but they are not?” For bid it, my countrymen. Forbid it, Hea ven. I call upon you, Fathers, by the shades of your ancestors, by the dear ashes which repose in this precious soil, by all you hope to be, resist every project of disunion; resist every attempt to fetter your con science, or smother your public schools, or extinguish your system of public in structions. I call upon you, MoTHEns, by that which never fails in woman, the love of your offspring, to teach them, as they climb your knees to learn on your bosom, the blessings of liberty. Swear them at the altar, as with their baptismal vows, to be true to their country and never forsake her. I call upon you, young men, to remem ber whose sons you are, whose blood flows in your veins. Life can never be too short which brings nothing but disgrace and oppression. Death never comes too soon, if necessary, in defence of the liberties of our country. The unprecedented extent and contin uance of the depression of the Western waters, by which steamboat operations have been entirely suspended, and the trade and travel of that inland world vir tually brought to a stand, we apprehend will prove a most serious calamity to that quarter of the Union. Fears are now ex pressed that there will he no material rise of the waters before the rivers are cover ed with ice, and in that case their navi gation will not be practicable until the ensuing Spring. We trust that this may not be the case, but even if it should not, it will not take from the value of the hint so judiciously thrown out in the annexed paragraph:—[Balt. Am. It will have been seen by the various notices from western papers, that have ap peared for some time in this Gazette, that the rivers of the West and South West, have not risen sufficiently to permit the navigation of steamboats, and that in re gard to some of them, even loaded keel boats cannot float. This unfortunate, and at so late a period of the season, unu sual event, cannot fail to produce consid erable derangement in the commercial operations of the country. Millions of dollars worth of goods will probably! be prevented from reaching their places of destination in time for the fall and win ter sales; the consequence of which will be, that the purchasers cannot he as punc tual as usual in paying for them. In ad dition too to this source of embarrassment, the crops cannot reach their markets as early in the season as they ought to do; and indeed we learn that serious fears are en tertained in the Ohio for the crop of pork on account of the scarrfty of salt. The low ness of the water in the Ohio river has prevented the usual supply of foreign salt from coming up from New Orleans, and the usual supply of domestic salt from de scending the Kanawha. If we add to these things the deficient crops of corn ttnd potatoes in many parts of the coun- try, the unusual destruction of property by ! the September gales, and the obstruction |of our commerce with Mexico, we shall see abundant cause for prudence and eco nomy during the ensuing year, in order to prevent commercial ami indivdual dis aster. —[I’hilad. Gazette. Discovery of the remains of the Duke of Buckingham , beheaded at Salisbury. — A correspondent of the Salisbury (Eng.) Journal has furnished that paper with an interesting account of the recent discove ry of the mutilated remains of the cele brated Henry Strafford Duke of Bucking ham, who was beheaded in that city in 1483. History records, that Henry Straf ford, Duke of Buckingham, the “cousin of Buckingham” of Shakespeare’s imtnor tal page, having failed in his plan of in surrection against Richard 111, took ref- : uge in the house of his sevant Bannister,' near Shrewsbury—that he was betrayed into the hands of the King then at Salis bury, and suffered death in that city, with out form of trial, by decollation, and am putation of the right arm. Tradition as signs the court-yard of the Blue Bear inn as the scene of this bloody tragedy. Dur ing the alterations and improvements, which are still in progress, at the Sara cen’s Head inn, (which there can be no doubt formed part of the premises origin ally attached to the Blue Boar,) it became necessary to remove the brick flooring of one of the rooms, and dig to some depth. In the course of the operation, about eight inches below the surface of the soil, they came to a human skeleton. The place here indicated can only be a few yards,pos sibly feet, from the very spot where Buck ingham suffered decapitation. The re mains so discovered were evidently those of a human being, and the skeleton was complete, save that it wanted the head and right arm. I'Yuits of a drunken frolic. A few days since at a scrub race, Tishomingo county, Mississippi, the sportsmen after becoming somewhat fuddled, introduced anew inode of trying the bottom of their steeds, which by the way, proved as disastrous as it was novel. They took it into their heads to run four horses in opposite di rections at the same time. Off they went, in high glee; but on arriving half round the track they were suddenly brought to their senses—or rather their senses bro’t out of them—when on the coming to gether of their horses, they found them selves sailing to the ground like a hawk after a chicken. Two horses killed, and two men in a condition Init little better, was the result of their temerity. The names of the two individuals most injured, were Choat and Fidler the former of whom, three days after the occurrence, had not recovered his senses. From this example sportsmen should learn one lesson, at least—that is: never to get so drunk as not to know what they are at. —[Tusc.umbia Alabamian. An Incident in Court. The Boston Daily Advertiser relates the following in cident, as having taken place in the course of a recent trial in that city, on a policy of insurance. The suit was against the Ocean Insurance Company. The defendants put on the stand, ns a witness, one of the crew of the Francis, who testified to such conduct on the part of the master, at the time of the shipwreck, as amounted, if the witness was to be be lieved, to the grossest, as well as the most foolish fraud. Under the searching cross examination of Mr. Bartlett, however, the witness did not appear remarkably prom ising, and when he had closed his testimo ny, Mr. Webster rose and said that the witness had made some statements on the cross-examination which the defendants knew to be false. The witness had pre sented himself to the defendants a few days since, saying that he was one of the crew, and they naturally wished for his testimony; but he had made some state ments on the stand which they felt bound to-say were false, and which, if unexplain ed, must entirely destroy all confidence in his testimony. For his part he did not be lieve a word the witness said, and should throw his evidence out of the case. Mr. Loring thanked the learned counsel for the honorable course he had taken.—, It relieved the plaintiff's counsel from the; painful necessity of rebutting such evi dence, and the gentleman might be assur ed, that his high minded course would be ; fully reciprocated during the trial. Judge Story also expressed his gratification.— The course of the counsel for the defen dants was equally honorable to themselves and to the office that employed them.— J The witness was then ordered to step a side. During the preceding remarks his countenance might be said to exhibit the different colors of the rainbow. When leaving the stand he attempted to laugh, but it was hard work: a “sigh of extra; strength with the chill on!” Avoid argument with the ladies; in spin ning a yarn among silks and satins, a man { is sure to be worsted. [/Vom the Baltimore .imerican.] It is stated in the Louisville Journal of the Ist instant that several steamboats have been libelled in that city for non-com pliance with the Act of Congress. We are pleased to hear it, and we hope that there and elsewhere the Act will be rigid ly enforced. If there be one section of the Union in which more than in any oth er this stern enforcement of the’Act in question is demanded, it is that which is watered by the Ohio and Mississippi riv ers; for it is especially on those waters that the most fearful disasters have occur red and the most reckless sacrifices of hu man life have been witnessed. Nothing, in our opinion, could show more conclu sively the necessity of the Act of Congress than the evidences which have been mani fested of a deliberate intention on the part of some to disregard and set at nought its most humane provisions. A portion of the owners and officers of steamboats in that section of the Union, it would appear, are just beginning to learn and realise a truth which should ever have been present to their minds, that as public carriers of the persons and property of their fellow-citi zens they are responsible agents, both in a moral and legal point of view’. Had the many and terrible disasters whicli have shocked the country never occurred, there would of course have been no occasion for legislation on the subject, or had there been any, the law w ould have been a dead letter. But public opinion and public safety have demanded special legal protec tion from these wholesale sacrifices of human life and property, in a voice which Congress could no longer resist, and al though the Act may, not operate as a posi tive safeguard against disaster in every shape, we are satisfied that there is that in its letter and spirit which, if faithfully en forced, will render steamboat accidents, as they are termed, matters of exceedingly rare occurrence. It is said the public works of internal improvement in the State of Indiana, Illi nois, Ohio, and Michigan, will have cost, when finished, about fifty millions of dol lars. In Indiana alone six thousand per sons are employed on the Rail-roads and Canals. The Western States are making rapid advances, probably, unparalled in the history of the settlement of new coun tries. The increase in those sections in wealth may be learnt from the fact, that in 1798 the estimate of property within the union west of the Alleghany, as a ba sis of direct taxes, amounted to twenty six millions. It now, in the same section, a mouuts to twelve hundred millions. This rapid advance has not been without its ef fects on the older states. Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, are turning their attention to the subject of public improvmeats and endeavoring to give anew impulse to the enterprise of their citizens. Rail-roads, canals, &fc. are in process of construction, and every effort is put forth to make* the most out of the resources which nature has bestow ed upon them. If the signs of the times do not deceive us, the future will exhibit to the world a phenomenon in the progress of national wealth and power, which will surpass even the prodigies which the American union*hns exhibited. We hope Maine, so richly endowed by nature and capable of placing herself by the side of the foremost States in the Union, will not lag behind, but will avail herself of her natural advantages to the uttermost. [Portland (Me.) Standard. In Kentucky there are colleges for wo men, which confer on their pupils the ti tles of “M. P. L,” “M. A.” dtc. mean ing “Mistress of Polite Literature,” “Mis tress of Arts.” Somebody suggests an improvement, and recommends institutions which, instead of these titles shall give their students, “M. G. P.” Make Good Puddings, “H. G. C.” Has Good Children, “K. S. N.” Knit Stockings Neatly; “M. 11. II.” Make Husbands Happy.— [Mobile Enq. A cheap method of producing light from the use of tar and the coarsest oils has been discovered in France; and ex periments testing its practicability have been made both in France and England, i The eoinbtision is kept up by an artificial [current of air, the heat decomposing the oil and filling the tubes of the lamp with the gas. The light of a single lamp for a ; year is furnished at an expense of only forty cents. Interesting to Smoakkrs. An arti cle has been invented which very much [enhances the enjoyment of a cigar. It consists of a tube with a bulb in the cen tre for the reception of cotton, which ab sorbs all the oil of the weed, leaving pnre and unalloyed the flavor of the cigar. A Washington paper says that the Hall of the-Patent Office will be the largest single room in the world. The ceiling will be supported by one or two hundred pillars. The Portico will cost one hun-> dred and seventy thousand dollars. [terms ♦» ** m NUMBBSJMs “Federalism.”—ln Judge Gaston's " great speech, in the Convention called to amend the Constitution of North Carolina, we find the following anecdote, which is a humorous commentary upon the efforts now’ making Dy the Locofocos to brand the Whigs as “Federalists”: “A friend of his, who had been Jfpr ma ny years in the Legislature, but who had emigrated to the West, had occasion to pass thro’ the country which he had rep resented, on an election day some time af ter quitting public life. Stopping at a public house, he met with come old ac quaintances, well meaning but uninformed mqp, who soon entered into conversation on the subject of the business of the day. ‘Of course,’ ‘said the traveller, addressing himself to one of them, ‘you all go for Major A. here: you used to support him, tootlf and nail, in old times; ‘Why, no, sir,* answered the good man, 'we are not so mighty much for him as we used to be.’ ‘And how happens that 1 What has oc casioned such a change?’ ‘Why! haven't you heard, sir? Why, they say he’s turned a Featheral!’ ‘Turned a Featheral,' ex claimed the gentleman,—is it possible!- and pray what is a FeatheralV ‘I don’t exactly know sir, (rejoined the man,) but I allow it aint a human."—Raleigh Reg ister. A Singular Duel. The Richmond Whig in announcing the death of Col. F. B. I’ovall of Powhatan county, Va., ftir uishes a very interesting account of a duel that was fought some years since between that gentleman and Col. W. S. Archer of the same State. The terms were pis tols at 10 paces. The first fire was inef fectual and Col. Archer proposed, in or der to make quicker work of it, that both parties should have the privilege of advanc ing at the next fire within wnat distance and time they pleased. Col. Povali agreed. The word was given and the latter fired without leaving his place, hitting Col. Archer’s hat, and through it the eomb with which his hair was fastened. Arch er advanced until his pistol touched bis antagonist’s breast, exclaiming “Sir your life is in my hands—make acknowledg ment or I’ll blow you through in In in stant.” “I’ll make no acknowledgement,” answered the undaunted Povali, and ex posing his bare bosom to the instruaient of death, taunted Col. Archer to fire, in terms that indicated his unyielding firm ness of soul. "I will not kill so brave a man,” was the reply of the latter as he fired in the air. Col. Povali apologised, now that the means of intimidation were removed; they both shed tears, shook hands and proved the sincerity of the re* concilation by continuing ever after the best friends. A Beautiful Idea. Mr. Stephens, in his incidents of Travel, mentions that the tomb-stones in the Turkish Burying grounds are all flat, and contain little hol lows which hold the water after a rain, and attract the birds,who resort thitherto slake theil thirst and sing among the trees. Milledoeville Backs. The Races over the Milledgerille Course commenced on Mon day last. We loarn, by letter, that the first day’s race was won by Mr. Kannan’a Gohanna colt, he beating Mr. Rowell’s Tmflecok, easi ly—tiuie'fiot given, but we understand it was slow running. The second day’s puree, the Young Plate, was won in handsome style, in two heats, by Ix)vel & Hammond’s colt Buncombe, be beat ing Bonner’s colt Bassenger, Kenan'S Fylde colt, Thoines’ grey colt, and one other. No time given—race said to have been well eon tested. The third day’s purse, two mile heats, was won by Mr. Edmonson’s filly lone, beating Sanford’s Hedgeford colt Ibarra, Bonner’s,colt, and another, name not mentioned. The. prin cipal running was between Jane and Bonner’s colt—lbarra having been withdraws after the first heaL—[Aug. Const. Jacksonville, Nov. 8. Numerous vessels and steamboats are daily passing our city, bound to Black Creek laden with stores for the army. We are as ignorant of the whereabouts and doings of the arm as the moat remote settlers on our western faultier but it is said that posts have been established at various advantageoue points i® the inte rior. We believe there are some scattering In dians perambulating the M we ; have heard of no recent depredation*; except those committed on the poor laetSAMb who were unfortunately cast upon ovnSSm. Melancholy Shipwreck. We noticed, a few days since, thaLa vessel hound t?.Que bec had been lost off the mouth ofjhe C|sd our, and that it was feared moot Meet wri* lost. The mail of this dsybridgr the p*rtk> ulars of this sad disaster. The fMsel was the Colbome, from London, with a cargo *wihjflew| at the value-of #900,000. Forty pesMfMjim. are said to hare perished. Thera 000 in specie, which it was «q|<)o||iyMnld be saved.—[Phila. Gazette. Cheap Living.— The IMtal of fi|f Salis bury (N. C.) Watchmen give* the Ibffowing prices current in RoVran had neifhbduring 001101108.—“ New Corn ii 50 cejitß per bushel. Flour $3; Chits 30 cents; Bacon i5; Ritter 12 1-2; Lard 12 1-2; Beef 4 and 5 cents; Chickens $1 a dosen."