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=s= VOL. I. ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 22,1843. NO. 28. ===== ' ' Correrpondcncerf the Hartford Commit. THE COPPER REGION. Coffer Harbor, Sept 14th, 1845. Within the last two weeks valuables discoveries THE ALBANY PATRIOT, icr.l (SUED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORXIKn, BY NELSON TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON, Editors and Proprietors. TERMS. Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or Dollar!-- nt the end of the year. 1 \ | prtisfiisent? net exceeding twelve lines, will" . ' l : i, ,l at One Dollar for tlio first insertien, and cent* for each continuance. Advertisements UjUvin" the number of insertions s|icciticd, will I. nflUirfcd until torbid. . ‘ide? of I.and and Negroes by Executors, Adminis- . .’or*and Guardians, are required by law to lie in a public gazette, sixty days previous to tV,hv of sale. ( Ti» : safe* of Personal Property must be advertised •o iikc manner forty days. ■ to Debtors and Ctpditors of an (state must )>'pi:1i!i-licd forty days. Notice that application will lie made to the Court •Olinarv for li avc to sell land and Negroes, must V published weekly for four mnutbs. lily Advertisements,One Dollar per sqt-.are ,* T «u h insert iun. jyAll Letters on business must be post paid. 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. i.* 5, riir. t lor W, NG* *> 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.