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VOL. I.
ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 22,1843.
NO. 28.
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Correrpondcncerf the Hartford Commit.
THE COPPER REGION.
Coffer Harbor, Sept 14th, 1845.
Within the last two weeks valuables discoveries
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combination of beauties like the soft attrac
tions of n beautiful woman.
The turning of llie Aniens on the Fila
ments, represent the thread of life —bow
easy broken, yet bow tenneions.
The Pollen is like unto a family of chil
dren in one bouse, united- in one brother
hood.
The form of the honey cups is anulagous
to the rays of the tun.
The uniformity of the Corolla, reminds
us of there being' nothing new under the sun
—that nil productions are of one work-man-
ship; and the variations in parts of the Hott
er, that there are no two thing alike.
Thus the contemplation ot the wonder
ful works of Nature expands the mind, and
lends it from grovelling humanity up to
Nat tire’s God.
This is rather strained for 4-5 is not a f, thong'
semetimrs there are but 4 stamens, then the f i
complete. The Variation here may be compared to
the fallibility of human nature, and tlic waiting ol
the liainmcr in this case shows the imperfections o
human productions.
POETRY.
T1IE COMING OP AUTUMN.
The leaves of the bough stirr’d
Are fading aud falling,
And die wind and the wood bird
Are mournfully calling;
And music around ns
Of landscape and river.
And feelings that laitind us,
Are passing forever.
The mists of the mountain,
With morning upspringing,
The chime of the fountain,
Its melody ringing;
The foam where the river burst
Up to die day,
And all by the sweet stream nnrs’J,
Are Passing away!
So hearts we have cherislied
When life was before us,
Are grown cold or perish’d,
A< years have roll’d o’er us;
Ami we look in the faces
Once glowing with gladness
And we find in their places,
But sorrow and sadness.
0, life, it is fearful 1
HVrc all of us sighing,
Thu moment wc’ro cheerful,
That moment We’re dying;
Anl Ml we have tasted,
And all wc have spoken,
Are hopes that arc wasted,
Aral hearts that are broken.
MISCELLANY.
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eating
Inch Christ was bound. Taking one of
l>c Stamens with its Anthca for n "ham-
™<r,” the remaining 4 formed the "cross.”'
fl>c three paimulls were the "three nails,'
nd three braclcas represented the three
‘loldicrs” who cast lots lor Iris, raiment.—
The time from the opening to the closing
>f the flower (when the weather is congen-
F) 1 ' ' ’ ’
M yet distinct, tepresented tbo “Trinity”
[ r Godhead. The two stipules on the sides
f f the flower designated the "two thieves”
fliat were crucified on each side.
The glands on the leaf, those women who
diended the tomb. The germ or bud, (in
font of the flower) the main source and
[ 0, intnin Tend of all the branches, represen-
rd the "only true and living God.”
playthings,obtained secretly from the house
on ilie grassy mound that covered her re-
=■ . . ,,, mains, in the vain hope of alluring her to
ere requisite before perm.ss.on co.dd he hig atfai nnl | \hen lav down, and
■ - to re-open the grave. 1 hose , |)0(|r nfl( . r hmlr moaninir nnd AV l,j n -
PREMATURE INTERMENTS.
Wc have, from time to lime, written a
number of articles on this subject, for the
purpose of demonstrating, by facts and au
thorities, the frequency with which persons
supposed to be dead arc hurried Urtlte grave
and the appalling consequences of such
inhumation. Wc perceive that the Paris
correspondent of lite Courrier tits Etuis
Unis, adds another instance to the melan
choly. Last winter, says the writer, a
young and handsome artiste died suddenly
of a violent malady. A young man, whom
her death had thrown into dispair, was
speaking to a celebrated physician about
her lost moments, when the Doctor remark
ed that it was not uncommon in such cases
to mistake for death, what was only a long
and deep lethargy. At these words the
young man was stricken with terror. “If
she were not dead !” exclaimed lie in ago
ny. Hut she had been buried the preceed-
" 'g day, and many and tedious formalities
ere requisite before permission could he
obtained! to re-open the grave. These
cre at last surmounted, the grave and
colfiu were rc-opcncd, \\ lien the friendly
Doctor who accompanied the trembling
lover, said—“She is dead: hut not more
than two hours, for I vet feel the warmth
uhoui her heart.” She had been buried
two days.
We suggested as a remedy for such.hor
rors, the retention of the presumed- corpse,
until incipient decomposition commences.
Hut as lids is liable to the objections aris
ing out of the offensiveness of decay, and
the harrowing of the feelings of the lamily
by being placed (w hich would happen in
cold climates) mnny'daysin the same dwel
ling with the dead body, a simpler, more
gecnble and equally effectual plan is prac
ticed in Germany, by mentis of wh.it is
termed a mortuary chamber. In other
ords, there is attached to every ceinetcrj
.. hall where the dead remain some lime be
fore being committed to the ground. In
this hall the body neatly attired is laid upon
couch—lieforc the lips is placed a mirror
„hich the slightest breath would cloud,
and between ihe fingeis a string, which on
the slightest movement cause* a bell in the
slit, clnsping'uronnd any thing within department of the keeper to ring. This
:tcli. This plant is said to have been hall is visited night and day hourly by vtg-
' '• ■ ilent inspectors, nnd it is stated, that not a
voor passes that the bell is not rung by one
of the supposed corpses.
Similar precautions should be adopted in
cverv buricl place in America. Indisputa
ble facts conclusively indicate their necessi
ty.—JVetr Orleans liee.
the finger-nails stained yellow'. Certain
ly, if after three days such a bride was in
troduced to a European, his first exchtma-
lion would be “Wash yourself, my angel!”
As there was neither music nor dancing
here, I was glad to hasten my visit 4o the
bridegroom, who ivns confined in another
room bv Arab marriage-etiquette. But lie
w-as alfowcd to move, talk, and look about
him; and, indeed, seemed very cheerful.
Here there was music. In a corner of the
room. the musicians were seated on the
floor, one beating upon two little kettle
drums, another striking a sort of dulcimer,
and the third laboring upon some little
stringed instrument—all three singing too
with ail their bodily might, in llic most dis
cordant tones that ran issue frrm the hu
man throat, mingling together wild screams
with guttural nnd nasal sounds—a 'rrrible
conecrt! I staved a little while, and then
made my escape, glad enough that I had
not to stay, like the other visitors, until the
next morning. I have nerves strong en
ough to encounter some hardship, hut not
for such amusement. Countess Ilahn
Hahn’s Oriental Letters.
BRITISH PAUPERISM.
According to a writer in Blackwood’s Magazine,
tlic number of paupers in Great Britain is 4,000,000
or one-eeventh part of tlic entire poponlation of the
seventy thousand persons in the empire whose an
nual revenno is $300,000,000, or about £3,300
each. This monstrous inequality of human condi
tion, in a country the richest and most industrious
the world has ever teen, is alarming to tlic last do-
AFFECTING INSTANCE OF AT
TACHMENT IN A DOG.
A little girl, the only nnd wcil-bclovcd
child of her parents, who arc residents of
Brooklyn, L. I. died a few weeks since,
and was interred in the private family bu-
rving-ground. A large Newfoundland dog
the private companion and playmate of the
child, was frequently missing from the
house after the funeral. When seen, lie
was observed to lie crest-fallen and droop
ing, lie refused his food, moped, nnd lost
flif.li day by day. These circumstances
exciting curiosity, the animal was watched
and followed iti his stealthy excursions,
empire. In England 1,500,000; in Ireland 3,300,- j have been made on many of the locations in this re-
000; in Scotland, 200,000. Since 1815, a period gion, and the tiling seems to be passing from a wild
of only thirteen years, there bat been raised for the speculation to a solid reality. ThTsUte or feelinr
relief of the poor in England alone upwards of! is much belter here than a few weeks since; tlto
£200,000,000, or about one thousand miUion </dot- 1 various Companies seem to be conducting their
lan. On the other hand, it has boon demonstrated, operations more with a view of making money by
by the returns of the income tax, that there are! mining* than selling stock.
*” *' 1 * L ~ ' 1 Tlie N. Y. and L. S. Company have just made a
valuable discovery by sinking a shaft at Agate Har
bor, which promises well. After excavating a few
days more 1 think they will have something bettor
. , even. But Dead River is probably their best tract,
give, and almost shakes ones faith in divine justice: the ores from It seem to be richest and roost abtui-
for its greatest effect is seen in the prodigious in-1 dant of any location cn Lake Superior. Professor
crease of immortality and crime. During the last Eights has just returned from it bringing a barrel o:
very fine specimens. This is the tract where indi
cations of gold arc said to be found, but not much
dependence can be placed upon this rumor. This
tract is viewed by all tho scientific men as one of
the most, if not the most valuable on Lake Superior.
Tlte prejudice which at one time existed against
this Company in consequence of the large tract of
country they hold', and its known rickncss, and the
disappointment of some at not obtaining it them
selves, seems to have given way to a better state of
feeling. Several of the enemies of theCompany
liave planted themselves in Boston, determined to
talk it down there, but they can do nothing in tho
end.
Mr. arrived here two days ago in a whale
heat, having run 80 miles one day, which howover
was not accomplished until 3 o’clock in the morn
ing, there being a strife between three parties which
should reach Copper Harbor first, and secure sever
al locations. The others have not yet arrived, the
severe gale of night before last having either driven
them into the lake or stopped their progress in eomu
way.
Col. McMnir has jnst arrived from Tennessee,
having received tho appointment of Survoyor.
There is another commodity found here which
has nvt been mentioned, viz: Agates of tlic first
quality mid enormous size. I saw one tho other
day 5 inches in diameter.
forty years, crime lias increased at a ten-fold great
er rate than population. It is obvious that a state
of tilings so radically wrong cannot long continue.
A general overturn must come, and the world will
experience even a greater shock than was felt at
the outbreak in France a little more than fifty years
since. What is terriblo in the picture, is the con
trast which it presents to tho contemplative specta
tor. Tho foreground is filled with all that can
please tho ere and captivate tho mind; but behind
that is a destiny of evil, on accumulation of hideous
objects, which absolutely appal tho stoutest hearts
that beat in human breasts. The wealth of Eng
land is no dream, hut a real, tangible matter; it is
no exaggerated thing, like the acconnts which we
have in eastern story of accumulations of coin and
precious stones in the treasury of this or that rtiler
—but it is solid, substantial, and an instrument of
real power. On the other liawl is tlie poverty of
masses, a poverty of so squalid a character, that
even tlie mendicity of Southern Europe appears
happiness by comparison with it. For, to appreciate
tlie entire evils of tho case, it must be clearly re
membered, that while the Uzznroni arc practical
philosophers, and almost literally produce nothing,
nnd it at length appenred lie went duilv to-tlie English poor are manv of tliem the hardest
the grave of his former friend and playmate, j workers on earth, nnd thaw who are idle would
deposited at each Visit, 80inc_ of the child’s work, could they find employment. England owes
her wealth to them. They have dug it from her
mines, they have created it in her factories and
workshops, they have drawn it from the waters of
every ocean “ from Zcmhlit to tho Line,” nnd in its
accumulation have perilled every thing that is dear
ill? piteously. His master was obliged ] to life. Their reward for all this is starvation to
finally to chain the animal to pul an end to! themselves and their children, or the bitter bread of
his nmlanrholy vigils, the continuance of
which would have cost the faithful inourn-
crhisexistcn-c. A more touching instance
of devotion and attachment has rarely fal
len beneath our notice.
forced charity, grudgingly provided by the hearts ns
cold os polar ice, and dealt out by hands that would
fain strangle the recipients of the churlish morsel.
What a commentary id this on tho |iopiilnr dogma,
that honest industry ever meets with its fitting re
ward ! Of old it was said that lie who would not
work, neither should he cat; now, ho who works,
or who is willing to work, cannot get food, except
as a pauper.
It is sad to think upon. And it adds to tho gloom
which tho contemplation of so block a picture ex
cites, when we observe that wo aro treading in the
THE PASSION FLOWER.
Tlic follow mg unique and very intcrcst-
ng description ol this peculiar and benuri-
l-'il flower—Passeflora Cearula—is furnish-
1:1 us by Mr. Alexander Parker, the vcnc-
l.'iUe anil well known botanist. It has
lsevcral varieties, some of w hich arc very
Irdv, nnd all easy of culture. They
I'Wr from every leaf, and run to a great
' eight, clasping around any thing within
•ucli. This plant is said to have been
mud in the garden of Uolhsauicnc, after
[' litist came iroin prayer. The flower he-
]■ i; so beautiful, fragrant nnd typical, it
I' at called the Passion Flower. The
I’ petals were likened to the “ten apostles”
I' vfluding Judas who betrayed, and Peter
I'Mio denied bis Master.
anakab marriaglceremonv
lie ‘Vroini of thorns.” Tlic style itself A marriage festivity bos always some
penredfor a "colnmn” to which the Jews thing of constraint nnd unpleasantness a-
those tuaiclactors ihai they scourg- bout it; the tiiiiHilt is annoying to the new.
I d- That no part of the story may be want- ly-wcdded pair, and the guests hardly know
|mi, the leaf is said to be the hand will* its why they must make themselves so merry.
'■ fingers, and the tendril the “cord" with But our European weddings have JMtbing
ELECTRICAL ANTICIPATIONS.
W c arc reminded by an English contem
porary, that when Franklin as engaged
in his galvanic experiments, which led to
so many discoveries, he exclaimed, “1
should never finish, il 1 were to tell you nil , , . , ,
my conjectures thoughts, and imaginations, r “ J , wWch h “!™ °
on the nature and operation ol this electric i “J* ‘ vast Wro-that wc M lowngthe Men.i-
flt •. » r j cal ignus Jutui which Imre led timt "peat race to
This was a prophecy, and it is now being thc f , mir - v ^ ,lf ’. whoso in “! iaUe tin?,
fulfiled. “About half a century ago,” says ?"*£w‘»* «P » «• cmp.rc.-tho terrible
the same authority, “Franklin proposed an
electric feast. He was projecting an enter-
o rival the torment of un Arab marriage
feast. The knot was tied about noon, ac
cording to the rites of the Greek church.
After mis the bribe was conducted iutoonc
chamber and the bridegroom into another
she sm rounded with Iter female relatives
and friends, and he with all the gentlemen
to keep him company ;—and thus,^separate-
IJ I) being three days, answered to the “re- ly, the couple were entertained with music,
'urrection” The drop of nectarious dew songs, dances, conversations, visits, eating
‘Ital falls from it at its opening signified the nnd drinking—onlv lor thee dnysandhree
Mood,” and the humiJapptSrance on the nights-no longer 1 What doyou ih.nkof
Mats the “sweat.” suih a colossal capacity for amusement ?
The flower, leaf and tendril being united 1 must confess that I was ”
’ ‘ • ■ -** with my half-hour’s visit. The master of
the house, a cousin of the fatherless bride,
received me, and led me into the ladies
apartment. As I entered they alLaroso
from the low broadsofa, so as to stand upon
the cushion, and at this evolution the bride
was supported on each side by he neigh
bors, ns it is a point of etiquette on such an
Ul'.lllt, JCttC*. R1V »• ««
luiniuenl to all the electrical philosophers
and amateurs, of the most novel description,'
when his scientific pursuits were suddenly
stopped by the breaking out of war. In his
announcement he says—“A turkey is to
be killed for our dinner by the electric fluid
—roasted bv tlje electric jack, before a lire
kindled by the electrified liolllc—the health
of all the electricians of England, (Icilaud,
France, and Germany, is to be drank in
electrified bumpers, under tlie discharge of
guns from the electric battery.”
At the time this unncuncincnt was made,
no doubt it was considered a good joke, but
Fianlriiti probably meant what he said—he
knew by the results which bad been pro
duced \vticn the science was yet in its in
fancy, that wonders must eventually be
developed, which the mind at that'time
could not, and even now cannot compre
hend. “It has been very lately recom
mended,” says an English paper, “by ju
dicious professors of this science, that butch
ers should kill animals, for sale, by this
process—thus depriving the act of its'appa-
rent brutality, and rendering the meal in
tlic highest degree, tender.” But wonders
are daily increasing upon us. These mi
racle mongers are continually bringing for
ward something surpassing its predecessors,
as the conjuror performs the simple tricks
at first, and leave the startling ones to the
last, in order that you may take away the
impression with you,
The anticipations now pressing upon us
in this line of discovery, are manifold, and
it is impossible to tell what invaluable bles
sings may flow from it, and what strange
revolutions may be effected in the moral
government of the world. Ships can now
be navigated—citiesilluminateabyit—can
non can be fired at the distance of hundreds
of miles: ships blown up at Rea by its pow
er friends can interchange thoughts though
in which it would stein are to be
engulfed “ tlie hopes of all men in every nation.”
ocenslon thatshe*sho'uid move as' little ns ; lakes may roll between them—we may
possible. I was allowed to ink s a seut be-! even allow our imagination the extent of ~
6i(lC her Qnd hud ft ftlir imilir r%f I*nn_ ! I.nndnn nitilnr find I Lilt I lift nrnfft!
tcraplaling her rcmnrkabl
■ 11*a indeed, nnd "very — — - - -. —— . —— r - - - - , - , ,
She must not speak a syllable, must not lo >k j lifluons tones, might by the transmission
-tor upon a person por change a feature, nor of her art through the wires, entertain at
\y---a i*: . . f • • _.*_n nn^r'vc to mnke this Inti point of; I ho same moment, the fosmonahies of a
f to ramification and spreadmg of he ppep np eye^o „„ £ mMr . dig ,, 6 , , own . And what o field for specu-
5afcvs«w?5«
. The expansion of the flower with n spring
reminds us of Creation bursting on the sight
,V|| h all its glory, and this taking place
Precisely at 12 o'clock, when the Sim is in
I 1 * highest meridian, shows that there C nn
Concord Freeman.
THE FACTORY GIRL’S SONG.
Air—“ Lney Neal.”
From day-1 iglit’s chill wo toil,
From mom till day is gone;
Tho’ eyes grow dim, tho’ limbs grow weak
Tho’ fainting, toil wo on.
O weary, weary life;
No hours to call our own;
Scarce tiino to eat, scarce time to sleep,
No joy to us is known.
No hours for home's delight.
No hours foir fire-side joys—
Our daily bread, our daily bread,
Each moment’s span employs.
O weary, weary Ufo, Sec.
The day-light boll awakes,
Ere night is fully ilea;
And wearily our limbs toil ou,
Long after day is dead.
O weary, weary life, dec.
Though head with dizzy whirl, _
Doth mock the spindle’s toil;
Though sickness pain the weary heart,
Still on and on we toil.
O weary, weary life, Sec.
O fora little rest!
O for an boar to pray,
That death would make a grassy bed,
To rest this weary clay!
O weary, weary life, &c.
Steam Packet between Charleston and New York.
—We leant from the Charleston Courier, of yester
day, that a subscription has been completed—half
of tho amount in that city and half hr New York—
for .the building of a steam packet ship to run regu
larly between the two ports. Sho will be construc
ted pretty much on the plan of the Cunard .teamen,
will be of the burthen of 700 too, and calculated for
carrying freight as well as passengers.—Sot. Rep.
worms!
A friend from Edgefield informs ns that a worm
have made their appearance in different parts of our
District, which are very destructive to all kinds of
vegetation—grass, peavines and Cotton—nothing in
the shape of vegetation escapes their ravages. He
also informs ns that they are similar to a worm that
made their appearance in this District many yean
ago, and were «i destructive that formers were ac
tually obliged lo ditch around fodder stacks to pre
serve them from their ranges.—Hamburg Journal
AMERICAN APPLES.
Robert L. l’ell, E.q., of Pullliam, Westchester
Co., has an orchard of twenty thousand apple trees,
all bearing Newtown Pippins. By trimming, and
llio application of the beat manures, ho has brought
tho fruit to unusual size and excellence,' Tho ap
ples are picked and packed in barrels without being
rolled nr jolted in carts, and so arrive in the very best
order for shipment. Lust year thoy were sold in
London at twenty-one dollars a barrel, and the mer
chant to whom they woro consigned, wrote that tho
nobility and other pcoplo of great wealth had actu
ally bought them by retail at a guinea a dozen;
which is some forty-live cents an apple, Mr. Pell
lias from three to four thousand barrels of tho ap-
npples this year, which are sold as fost as they ar
rive in market, at six dollars a barrel, and aro all
shipped to Englnnd. It is quite a business for ono
of our commission merchants to dispose of the pro
duce of this noble plantation.
The American apple, tako it ail in ail, is the most
valuable fruit which grows on the earth. We un
dervalue them because they'arc so abundant; and
even many American Fanners will not take tint
trouble to live like an English lord, though the trou
ble would be very little.—N. F. Jour, tf Com.
NEW KIND OF COTTON.
Mr. Hugh F. Izinging, living in Henry county, on
the Towaliga, eight miles from Gridin, brought to
our office lust week, a stalk of cotton, T hirh hafsilr
tlie New Orleans or Moneybnsh Cotton, whiefi bo
stated grew on second quality uplands, now twenty
years in cultivation without manure. Tho bush
was literally covered with pods. He stated that he
should gather from the field planted, at the rate of
1,500 pounds to the acre, while a patch of the com
mon kind, alongside of it, on the same kind of soil,
with tlic same attendance, would not produce more
than 400 pounds to tlie acre. His brother, last year,
planted in Harris county, fourteen acres of tho same
kind of cotton, on second quality gray post-oak land,
nnd gathered from 3,000 to 35,000 pounds per acre.
We are no planters, and know but little abont plan
ting, but the difference is so large and striking, that
wo think this cotton should command public atten
tion. Mr. L. will have some of the seed to spare, at
one dollar per bushel. He invites planters to call
and see tlie cotton for themselves. The stalk bro’t
in may be seen at our office.—CasstiUe Pioneer.
Baptists nr the United States.—From the Bap
tist Register for 1845, it appears that they number
5373 ministers, 9230 churches, 708,942 members.
They have 12 chartered college* and five theolo
gical seminaries. They publish fifteen weekly,
five semi-monthly, and five monthly religion news
papers, six monthly Magazines, and one Quarterly
Review. The recoipts of their principal benevo
lent institutions lor the proceeding year wore, for
the General Convention for Foreign Missions, #74,-
408; for the American Baptist Homo Mission Soci
ety about $50,000. and for the American and For
eign Bible Society, $20,577—/*■
A correspondent of tho St Louis Republican, Mr.
J. A. Hubbard, who had in early youth, (together
with his brother) been bitten fay a mad dog, states
that both were cured by drinking a strong decoction
made from the bark of the root of the black ash,
which is a wall known cure for the bite of a rattle
snake, drinking a wine glass fall throe times a day
for eight days. This is s very simple remedy, and
should have at least a trial. Ho gives tbo following
modo of preparing it Tkkojbo root of the common
upland ash, generalljr called tho black ash; peel off
the bark, and boil it strong—of this decoction drink
freely.
Execrable—" Why don’t yon take tho pledge l"
as tho woman said to her ‘gnde man* when (ha
handed Mm the little ’on.
