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Bvmtgtoicfe ftirtnecate. BY CHARLES DAVIS.] VOLUME 2> 6 RUNS WICK ADVOCATE. AGENTS. Bibb Count)/. Alexander Richards, Esq. Telfair “ Rev. Charles J. Shelton Mclntosh “ James Blue, Esq. Houston “ B. J. Smith, Esq. Pulaski “ Norman MeDuffie, Esq. Twiggs “ William H. Robinson, Esq IVayne " Robert Howe, Esq. TERMS. Three Dollars in advance—s 4 at the end of the year. O'No subscriptions received for a less term than six months and no paper discontinu ed until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the publisher. O’All letters and communications in relation to the paper, must be POST PAID to en sure attention. XT ADV LRTISEMENTS conspicuously in serted at One Dollar per twelve lines, or less, for the first insertion, and Fietv Cents for ev ery subsequent continuance—Rule and figure work always double price. Twenty-five per c«nt. 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. BY AUTHORITY AN ACT To provide for the call of a convention to re duce tire number of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia, and for other purpos es therein named. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the. Senate and House, nf Representatives of the state of Georgia in gen eral assembly met. and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the first Mon day in April, eighteen hundred and thirty nine, be, and the same is hereby designated and set apart as the day which the citizens of Geor gia, qualified to vote for members of tlie Legis lature, shall, at the several places prescribed by law for holding such elections, vote for del egates to represent them in convention, in number equal to their representation in both branches of the. Genera! Assembly, according to the last census; such election to he con ducted, managed, and certified under the same law's as are of force in respect to elections of members of tile General Assembly. Sec. 2. And be it farther enacted, That it shall be tjie duty of such managers to transmit to his excellency the governor the result of said elections under the laws now of force, con ducting, managing and certifying elections of members of the General Assembly, as aforesaid, within ten days after such election, whereup on it it made the duty of his excllency the governor, to issue his proclamation declaring the result of such election, by notifying the in dividuals severally elected to represent the good people of Georgia in convention, as con templated by this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted. That every citizen of the United States shall be eligible to a seat in said conventioa, who has attained the age of 25 years, and been an inhabitant of the state three years, immediately preceding the day of election, and who shall have resided one year in the county for whieh he shall be elected. See. 4. And be it further enacted , That each member returned as duly elected, shall, previ ous to taking bis seat in said convention, take the following oath or affirmation, viz : I do solemnly swear that I will not attempt to add to or take from the constitution, or at tempt to change or alter any other section, clause,or article of the constitution of the state of Georgia, other than those touching tiie rep resentation in the General Assembly thereof, and that I have been a citizen of this state for the last three years, so help me God. And any person elected to a seat in said convention who shall refuse to take the oath aforesaid, shall not be allowed to take his seat in said convention. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the members of said convention shall assemble on the first Monday in May, after their election, at Milledgeville, in the Representative Cham ber of the" State House, for the purpose of en tering upon and consummating the great ob jects of their convention, to wit: a reduction and equalization of the General Assembly, shall have power to prescribe their own rules and forms of business ; and to determine on the qualifications of their own members; elect necessary officers, and make all orders which they may deem conducive to the furtherance of the objects for which-such convention shall assemble. . . Sec. t). Andbcit further enacted, Thatitsliall be the duty of his excellency the governor, to give publicity to the alterations and amend ments made in the constitution, in reference to the reduction 01 the number of members com posing the General Assembly; and the first Monday in October next, after the rising of* said convention, he shall fix on for the ratifi cation by the people, of such amendments, alterations, or new articles, as they may make j for the objects of reduction and equalization of | the General Assembly only; and if ratified by a majority of the voters who vote on the ques- j lion of “Ratification,” or “No Ratification, | then and in that event, the alterations so by j them made and ratified, shall be binding on the people of this state, and not otherwise. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, Thatitshall be a fundamental article in the formation or a mendments of the Convention each coun ty of the State now organized » laid out, or which may hereafter be created by law, shall be entitled to at least one Representative in the Representative branch of the General Assem bly. The Senate shall be composed ot torty six members only, from forty Senatorial Dis tricts, composed of two contiguous Counties, and in the event of the creation of any new County, it shall be added to some contiguous Senatorial District; and that the said Conven tion shall not disturb the Federal basis in ap portioning the representation in the General Assembly of the State of Georgia. Sec 8. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the act shall have passed, his excellency the Governor be and he is hereby required to cause it to be published in the Gazettes of this State, once a week until the day fixed on by PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING, IN THE CITY OF BRUNSWICK, GLYNN COUNTY, GEORGIA. BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 2,1839. | this act for the election of Delegates to said Convention; as well as the number to which .each county shall be entitled in said Conven j tion, according to the apportionment of mem bers of the General Assembly, to be made un- If tke lute Census, taken and returned dur ! ing the present year. 1 Sec. 9. And he it further enacted, That the Delegates to said Convention be paid at and j after the same rates that the members of the General Assembly now receive: and that his . excellency the governor lie requested to draw ' his warrant on the Treasurer for the same, out | of any money not otherwise appropriated; and all laws and parts of laws militating against | this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed JOSEPH DAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, President of the Senate, j Assented to 2(«th December. 1838. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. TABLE : Showing the Representation of the sereral Coun | ties oj thin State by the late act of apportion | went. | Appling, ] Gilmer, 1 Muscogee, 4 Baker, 1 Glynn, I Newton, 3 ; Baldwin, 2 Greene, 3 Oglethorpe, 3 ; Bibb, :i Gwinnett, 3 Paulding, 1 | Bulloch, I Habersham, 3 Pike. 3 Butts, 2 Hancock, 3 Pulaski, 2 Burke, 3 Heard, 2 Putnam, 3 Bryan, 1 Henry, 3 Rabun, I Campbell. 2 Houston, 3 Randolph, 2! Carroll, 2 Hall. 3 Richmond, 3 Cobb, . 2 Harris, 3 Scriven, 21 Cass, 2 Irwin. I Stewart, 3 Columbia, 3 Jones, 3 Sumter, 2| Crawford, 2 Jasper, 3 Talbot, 3 Coweta, 3 Jefferson, 2 Taliaferro, 2 Chatham, 4 Jackson, 3 Tattnall, J ! Clark, 3 Laurens, 2 Telfair. 1 Cherokee, 2 Lee, 1 Thomas, 2 Camden, 2 Liberty, 2 Troup, 4 Dade, 1 Lincoln, 2 Twiggs, 21 Decatur, 2 Lowndes, 2 Union, 1 DeKalb, 3 Lumpkin, 2 Upson, 3 Dooly, 2 Macon, 2 Walton, 3 Early, 2 Madison, 2 Walker, 2 Effingham,l Marion, 2 Ware, 1 Elbert, 3 Mclntosh, 2 Washington,3 Emanuel, 1 Meriwether, 3 W'ayne, 1 ! Fayette, 2 Monroe, 4 Wilkinson, 2 j Floyd, 2 Montgomery, 1 Wilkes, 3 Forsyth, 2 Murray, 2 Warren, 3j Franklin, 3 Morgan, 3 j Total, 207! O’ All the papers in Georgia will publish j the above Act and Table weekly, until the first Monday in April next. Ail Ordinance To prevent Peddling at the Wharves, tfc. BE it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the city of Brunswick, and it is hereby ordained by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this Ordinance, any person who offers for sale or sells any goods, wares or merchandize, on board any vessel or boat, or on or near any wharf or land ing, in this city, without license for that pur pose, from the Mayor and Council, shall be subject to pay a fine ot not less than thirty nor more than one hundred dollars, for each and every offence; one Half of said fine to go to the informer and the other half to be paid into the City Treasury for the benefit of the city. And be it farther ordained by the authority aforesaid, That the City Clerk shall be and he is hereby authorized to grant licenses to persons wisning to sell goods, wares or mer chandize, on board any vessel or boat, or at or upon the wharves or landings in this city, and that for each of said licenses said Clerk shall ask and receive the sum of thirty dollars, which to shall pay into the city treasury for the ben efit of the city, and one dollar and twenty-five cents for his fees for making out the same.— And no license shall he granted for a longer time than six days from the date thereof. Passed Dec. 17, 1838. A. L KING. Mayor. Attest: Chas. Davis, c. c. jan 12—liw Cirorjjia—4-lviin Comity. WHEREAS Alexander W. Ww.lv lias applied to me for Cotters of Adminis tration on the Estate and Effects of John A. Wvi.i.v, late of said County, deceased — These are therefore tocite and admonish the kindrwd and creditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office within the time pre scribed by law, to shew cause if any they have, why said fetters should not lie granted. Witness the Honorable H. F. Grant, one of Justices of said Court, this third day of Jan uary, 1839. JOHN BURNETT. Clerk ! jan 12 C. O. G..C. Cieorjjia—t*lyi»n County. WHEREAS Mrs. Ann Pettigrew applies for Letters of Administration on the Estate and Effects of James W. Pettigrew, late of said County, deceased— These are therefore tocite and admonish the ! kindred and creditors of said deceased to be j and appear at my office within the time pre scribed by law, to shew cause, if any they have, why said letters should not be granted. Witness the Honorable Henry Ditbignon, one of the Justices of said Court, this third day of Jan. 1839. JOHN BURNETT, Clerk jan 18 C. O. G. C. Notice. 171 OUR months after date, application villi be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court of Wayne County, when setting for or dinary purposes, for leave to sell the land ly ing on the Great Satilla River, being part of ihe real estate of Sherrod Sheffield, de ceased, for the benefit of the heirs and credi tors. ELIZABETH SHEFFIELD, jan 12 Executrix. Notice. FOUR months after date, I shall apply to the Court of Ordinary of Wayne Coun ty, for leave to sell a negro man by the name of Caleb, part of the Estate of Richard W. j Bryan, deceased. MOSES S. HARRIS, jan 19 Admr. Eeots for Sale. PERSONS wishing to purchase lota in de sirable situations in this city can be accom ; modated on reasonable terms, by applying to ! the subscriber. N „v 82 A L. KING POETKI. MY MOTHER. .Xupoleon and the British Sailor. HV THOMAS CAMPBELL. I love contemplating, apart From all his homicidal story, The traits that soften to our heart Napoleon’s glory. Twas when his banners at Boulogne Arm and in our island every freeman, His navy chance to capture one Poor British seaman. They suffered him, I know not how, Unprisoned on the shore to roam: And aye was bent his youthful brow On England's home. His eye, methinks, pursued the flight Os birds, to Britain half way over, With envy, they could reach the white Dear cliffe of Dover! A stormy midnight watch, he thought; Than this sojourn would have been dearer, If but the storm the vessel brought To England nearer! At last when care had banished sleep, He saw one morning—dreaming—doating- An empty hogshead, on the deep Come shoreward floating! He hid it in a cave, and wrought The live-long day—laborious—lurking, Until he launched a tiny boat By mighty working ! Heaven help us! ’twas a thing beyond Description,— such a wretched wherry Perhaps ne’er ventured on a pond Or crossed a ferry. Fron ploughing in the salt sea field ’Twould make the very boldest shudder; Untar’d—unconipass’d—and unkeeled, — No sail—nor rudder! From neighboring woods he interlaced His sorry skiff with wattled willows, And thus equipped lie would have passed The foaming billows! The French guard caught him on a bench— His little argus sorely jeering, Till tidings of him came to reach Napoleon’s hearing With folded arms Napoleon stood, Serene alike in peace or danger, And in his wonted attitude Addressed the stranger:— “Rash youth! that wouldst yon channel pass, With twigs and staves so rudely fashioned; Thy heart with some sweet English lass Must be impassioned?” “I have no sweetheart,” said the lad; “But, —absent years from one another— Great was the longing that I had To see my mother.” “ And so thou shall! Napoleon said, “Ye’ve both my favour justly won, A noble mother must have bred So brave a son.” He gave the tar a piece of gold; And with flag of truce commanded He should be shipped to England Old, And safely landed. Our sailor oft could scantlv shift To find a dinner plain and hearty; But never changed the coin and gift Os Bonaparte. lIBCELLA\Y. SELF EDUCATION. The subjoined account of a most extra ordinary and successful instance of self education under great difficulties deserves to be inserted in every paper in the coun try. It shows what may be accomplished by industry and perseverance united with a strong determination and a passion ate attachment to a good object. The learned Gifford, one of the best classical scholars in England, was an apprentice to the shoemaker’s trade; and in his passion ate study of mathematics shut himself up in hours stolen from sleep, in a garret, and worked out his problems with an awl on some of the waste leather of the shop.— We design to revert to this subject again, but have at present only time for the an nexed letter. . “It is a great mistake to suppose that it is necessary to be a professional man in order to have leisure to indulge a taste for reading. Far otherwise. I believe the mechanic, engineer, the husbandman, the trader, have quite as much leisure as the average of men in the learned profes sion. I know some men busily engaged in the different callings of active life, whose minds are as well stored with vari ous useful knowledge acquired from books. There would be more such men, if educa tion in our common schools were, as it well might be, of a higher order; and if Common School Libraries, well furnish ed, were introduced into every district, as I trust in due time they will be. It is surprising, sir, how much may be effected, even under the most unfavorable circum stances, for the improvement of the mind, by a person resolutely bent on acquisition of knowledge. A letter has lately been put into my hands, bearing date the Gth of September, so interesting in itself, and so strongly illustrative of this point, that I will read a portion of it; though it was written, I am sure, without the least ! view to publicity: ‘I am the youngest (says the writer) of j many brethren, and my parents were j poor. My means of education were limit ;ed to the advantages of a district school, ; and those again were circumscribed by |my father’s death, which deprived me at j the age of fifteen of these scanty opportu nities which I had previously enjoyed.— A few months after his decease, I appren ticed myself to a blacksmith in my native village. Thither I carried an indomitable taste for reading, which I had previous ly acquired through the medium of the soci ety library-all the historical works in which I had at that time perused. At the expira tion of a little more than half my appren ticeship, I suddenly conceived the idea of studying Latin. Through the assistance of an elder brother, who had himself ob tained a collegiate education by his own exertions, I completed my Virgil during the evenings of one winter. After some time devoted to Cicero, and a few other Latin authors, I commenced the Greek; it was necessary that I should devote eve ry hour of daylight, and a part of the even- ( ing, to do the duties of my apprenticeship. Still I carried my Greek grammer in my i hat, often found a moment, when I was j heating some large iron, when I could j place my book open beforeme against the! chimney of my forge, and go through with tupto, tupteis, tuptei, and, unperceived by my fellow apprentices, and to my confus ion of face, with the detrimental effect to i the charge in my fire. At evening I sat down unassisted, to the Iliad of Homer, twenty books of which measured my pro gress in that language during the evenings of another winter. I next turned to the modern languages, and was much grati fied to learn that my knowledge of Latin furnished me with a key to the literature ofmostof the languages of Europe. This circumstance gave anew impulse to the desire of acquainting myself with the phi losophy, derivation, and affinity of the different European tongues. I could not be ! reconciled to limit myself in these inves- j tigations to a few hours after the arduous 1 labors of the day. I therefore laid down my hammer and went to New Haven, where I recited to native teachers in French, Spanish, German and Italian. I returned at the expiration of two years to the forge, bringing with me such books in those languages as I could procure. When I had read these books through, I commenced the Hebrew, with an awak ened desire of examining another field; and by assiduous application, I was enabled in a few weeks to read this language with such facility that I allotted it to myself as a task to read two chapters in the Hebrew Bible before breakfast each morning; this and an hour at noon being all the time that 1 could devote to myself during the day. After becoming somewhat familiar with this language, I looked around me for the means of initiating myself into the fields of oriental literature, and to my deep regret and concern I found my progress in this direction hedged in by the want of requisite books. I began immediately to devise means of obviating this obstacle; and after many plans, I con cluded to seek a place as a sailor on board some ship bound to Europe, think ing in this way to have opportunities of collecting at different ports such works in the modern and oriental languages as I found necessary for this object. I left the forge at my native place to carry this plan into execution. I travelled on foot to Boston, a dis tance of more than a hundred miles, to find some vessels bound to Europe. In this I was disappointed, and while revolv ing in my mind what steps next to take, I accidentally heard of the American An tiquarian Society in Worcester. I imme diately bent my steps towards this place. I visited the hall of the American Anti quarian Society, and found there, to my infinite gratification, such a collection of ancient, modern and oriental languages, as I never before conceived to be collect ed in one place; and, sir, you may imag ine with what sentiments of gratitude I was affected, when upon evincing a de sire to examine some of these rich and rare works, 1 was kindly invited to un limited participation in all the benefits of this noble institution. Availiug myself of the kindness of the directors, I spent three hours daily at the hall, which, with an hour at noon and about three in the evening, make up the portion of the day which I appropriate to my studies, the rest being occupied in arduous manual labor. Through the facilities afforded by this institution, I have added so much to my previous acquaintance with the ancient modern, am) oriental languages, as to be able to read upwards of fifty of them with more or less facility.” I trust Mr. President, I shall be par doned by the ingeniouwauthor of this let ter, and the gentleman to whom it is ad dressed, (VV. Lincoln, Esq. of Worces ter,) for the liberty which I have taken, unexpected I am sure by both of them, in thus making it public. It discloses a resolute purpose ofimprovement under ob stacles and difficulties of no ordinary kind, w hich excites my admiration, I may say my veneration. It is enough to make one who has had good opportunities for education, hang his head in shame.” Crab Apple Eloquence. —The follow ing jury speech was perpetrated in Pike county, Illinois, by a buck-eye lawyer of those parts. It was upon a case of a dead cow. Gentlemen of the jury—it are one thing for a man to be brought up, and it are i another thing for him to think he are: as , for that are man (his opponent,) I don’t j think he war ever brought up at all, but jist naturally fotclied down on a raft! He have saida great deal about vexatious; suits, and sich; but, gentlemen, if he had come dow to this court, and hadn’t found no suits on docket, I guess there’d a been another sort of vexations then. And vex ations or not, the gentleman gits ns many fees out on ’em as any body else. He told you that we have not proved our cow to be worth a single cent, and you don’t j know that she was worth any thing. Now i this are not the idea of a sound and legal | lawyer, but are the notion of a mushroom! { Sir, there never were a cow since the days of old Adam that war not worth a single cent —for if she warn’t worth noth ing for a breed cow, she are worth some thing for hide and taller, and the tail goes with the hide! He have said much more about our evidence. Now this are not a criminal case, and we an’t oblige to have prima facie evidence. Ifit war a criminal case like murder, then, before you could ] find him guilty, you must have prima facie evidence of the fact—l say prima facie , evidence that is, self-evident of itself! But this an’t a criminal case, and we an’t bound to have prima facie evidence. And now I think on’t the gentleman told you it war a civil suit for damages and he said the law, I read to you war for a crim inal offence. It war so, gentleman, and I read it to you to show you what we mought have done, if we had a choose to be vexatious as the gentleman supposed—we •nought have made a criminal case, but we did’nt, and now, gentlemen, I’ll tell you a case that came into my head, but I don’t know war it is. A man war tuck up for stealing ducks, and they tried him, and war going to find him guilty, when he proved that they war all drakes, and so they did’nt have prima facie evidence of the fact. But as I said before, gentle men we ain’t in a criminal case, and we ain’t bound to have prima facie evidence. The gentleman have said his client’s are a hard case. It are a hard case gentle men of the jury, and it ought for to be; for what says the good book—it says “The trangressors are all hard!” and that’s the reason why the gentleman’s client’s are a hard one. Mather Bvi.es. —He had the greatest readiness at a pun or repartee: and many instances of these, and of his sarcastic humor, are still repeated. A few of them will give an idea of his manner: After his trial, he was sentenced to confinement in his house, and a guard was placed over him. This was done for a short time, and then the guard was removed. On some further complaint, a sentinel, was again placed over him. He was soon freed, and no further noticed. In speak ing of these transactions, he said “Ac had been guarded, reguarded, and disregard ed."—Directly opposite to his housj:, still standing at the angle of Nassau St., which was formerly without pavement, there was a very bad slough in wet weather. It hap pened one day that two of the selectmen who had the care of the streets, driving in a chaise, stuck fast in this hole, and were obliged to get out in the mud to extricate their vehicle. Dr. Byles came out, and making a very respectful bow, said, “Gen tlemen, I have often complained of this nuisance witlwut any attention being paid to it; and I am very happy to see you stirring in this matter now.”—ln the year 1780, a most extraordinary obscurity per vaded-the atmosphere, on a particular day, which is always designated as ‘the dark day.’ The darkness, though perhaps not greater than what happens for a day or two in London almost every year, from an accumulation of fog and smoke, excit ed astonishment among people accustom ed <o a clear atmosphere, and to some timid minds a good deal of alarm. A lady who was a neighbor of the Ddfctor, though above any superstitious fears herself, yet sent her son, a young lad, with her com pliments to him, to know if he could ac-' count for the uncommon appearances of the day. His answer was, “JVly,dear, you will give your compliments to your mama, and tell her I am as much in the dark as j she is.”—A ship from London brought out 300 street lamps for the town of Bos ton. It chanced that on the same day a female neighbor, who was a new light, with a weak mind and whining manner that was not very pleasing, called to see him. Wishing to get rid of the visit, he soon asked, with a tone calculated to excite cu riosity, if she had heard the news. “Oh, no dear Doctor? what news?” “Why three hundred new lights have come over in the ship that arrived this morning from Lon- [TERMS *3 IN ADVANCE. NUMBER 35. don; and the selectmen have wisely order' ed them to be put in irons immediately.” His visiter at once hurried away in great anxiety to make further inquiries. The Vicksburg Duel. The following ! account of the recent duel opposite Vicks burg we copy from the Free Trader of | Monday the 3lst ult. j The ullima lex regorum, the final ap peal to arms, after the customs of the 1 darkest, days of chivalry, was resorted to on Saturday, (day before yesterday) on the Louisiana shore, opposite Vicksburg, between Alexander K. M’Clung, attorney at law in the city of Jackson, and John W. Menifee Esq. of the city of Vicksburg, brother of the Hon. Mr. Menifee of Ken tucky, now in Congress. The weapons used were yagers. The first fire proved harmless, only wounded the skirts of M’Clung’s coat. At the second fire M,- Clung only discharged his yager, the ball of which striking Menifee on the head, above tlie temple, chose to plough a ftirrow round the scull instead of passing through it. It was afterwards extracted, and the proba bility is strong that he may recover. A Scene in Court. —“l*call upon you,” said the counsellor, "to state distinctly upon what authority you are prepared to swear to the mare’s age.” ‘‘Upon what authority?” said the other, interrogatively. ‘‘You arc to reply, and not to repeat tne questions put to you.” “I doesn’t con sider a man’s bound to answer a questiou afore lie’s time to turn it in his mind.” “Nothing can be more simple, sir, than the question put. 1 again repeat it; Up on what authority do you swear to the an imal’s age?” “The best authority,” res ponded the witness gruffly. “Then why such evasion?—Why not state it at once?" “Well, then, ifyou must and will have it,” rejoined the ostler, with impurtdrbable gra vity, “why, then I had it myself from the marc's own mouth.” A simultaneous burst of laughter rang through the court. The judge on the beqeh could with difficulty confine his risible muscles to judicial de corum. The Book Making Business. —The following is an extract from a lecture on printing, delivered some time since be fore the Portsmouth Lyceum, md after wards published. After speaking of the establishment of the Harpers, at New- York, the author says, “At Brattleboro,” in our sister State, Vermont, is one which is deserving of notice. The printing es tablishment there keeps in operation [sev eral] power presses. Connected with it is a paper mill at one end, and a book bindery at the other, so that, (like the chrysalis, changing of a vile caterpilier to a beautiful butterfly, what enters at one end, the cast off covering of the human body, is, by a regular and rapid change brought out at the other extremity, beau tiful paper, finely printed and bound—a material for the permanent dress of the immortal mind. So rapid is the process that rags have been received at the mill in the morning, manufactured into paper and printed before night. The “Compre hensive Commentary” is now printing at that establishment. When it is complet ed. it wiii have consumed fifteen thousand reams of paper. Think not that the wool en or cotton manufactures aro the only ones [which benefit the agriculturalist,] for this one work will use the amount of a thousand bales of cotton in paper—and will have required the skins of sixty thou sand sheep for its binding'. We understand that during the five years ending with the present, there will have been published at this establishment about one hundred and sixty thousand imperial octavo volumes, averaging more than eight hundred pages each? The volumes contain each more than ten of the average of those issued by the. Har pers, the largest publishing house in America —making an amountof matter is sued, equal to one million six hundred such volumes as theirs! The business is now carried on by the “Brattleboro’ Typographic Cos.” incorporated in 1836. with the privilege of holding a capital of two hundred thousand dollars. [Vt. Phoenix. Small Mistakes. —As a minister and a lawyer were riding together, says the minister to the Sir, do you ever make mistakes in pleading! I do, says the lawyer. And what do you do with mistakes? inqured the minister. Why sir, if large ones, I mend them — if small ones I let them go, said the lawyer. And pray sir, continued he, do you ever make mis takes in preaching? Yes, sir, I have.— And what do you do with mistakes! said the lawyer, Why sir 1 dispense with them in the same manner as you do — l rectify the large and correct the small ones. Not long since, continued he, as I was preach ing, I meant to observe that the devil was the father of LiAaapsnd made a mistake and said, the father of lawyirs. Tliq mistake was so small that I let it go.