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VOL. I. ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 12, lfc45. NO. 31. tH E ALBANY PATRIOT, PCBI48HE® EVERT WEDNESDAY WORKING, BY "nelson TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON, Editors and Proprietors. TERMS. -TVO Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, or Dolltrn at the end of the year. SnstisemenU not exceeding twelvo line*, will . at One Dollar for the first insertion, and ?IT-miu for each continuance. Advertisements ‘‘i Wjmrtheiwmbcrof insertions specified, will until forbid. <jie. ofland and Negroes by Execntors, Adminis- •u". an>l Guardians, are required by law to . he ^u rtwil in a public gazette, sixty days previous to ^TIk ulc» of Personal Property must be advertised like Bsuiner forty days. '’’Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an estate n ^iStfcettot application will he made to the Court , rwiurv for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must 1 "bS-cd weekly for four months. Monthly Advertisements,One Dollar per square jnchinseitkm. ji’All letters on business must bo port pout. MISCELLANY. : From Sears' Family Magazine. THE MAMMOTH CAVE, KENTUCKY. Among the physical wonders of the world this great subterranean tcuiplc, or rather ^ty of temples, takes piouiincnt rank. If . situated near Green river, in Kentucky, the entrance to which is by a pit forty feet ilcji, and one hundred and twenty in cir- aiiiileicnso. At the mouth of tlic cave we descended about twenty feet over stone Mips and then walked on horizontally for about one hundred and fifty yards to the dare called the rotunda. Each of us wnlk- !d with a lnmp in our band, preceded by our guide. At the rotunda wc halted for tew nioiiic ms, and our guide illuminated the place with a Bengal light. There are large vats lit re, used in our last war in mak- ag saltpetre. The care here branches off uto two avenues. Wc proceeded on in the main avenue-, to the church; the main avc- tiuc is about seventy feet wide ; the church sin the tide of the avenue, extending into tlie wall about one hundred and filly feet. The gallcrv is exceedingly natural. Scr- atoitiImvcbeen preached in this church— "a temple tmidc without hands.” As wc pissed on beyond the church we saw the , tints of the o xen nnd of the cart-wheels, titade there more than thirty years ago. After walking nearly a mile wc came to .1 Gothic avenue. This lends off from the main avenue tit the riglil. We ascended a •.light of steps about twenty feet, and then walked on-about two hundred yards when wc came to tit c registry-room. Thousands of names ha vis there been registered on the Veiling overhead. We passed on in this brenne till wts came to “Hercules’ pillar.” Tliis i.<a immense column standing midway mween the vratls of this avenue. It was ridcntlv formed by water dropping from he ceiling. 11 must be at least sixteen feet a circumference. “Stalagmite hall” is a -mdred yards beyond, in the same avenue, lere are some ten or fifteen similar colums the one above mentioned, differing only size. The next tiling of importance we ■fcsed, was “Bonaparte’s breast-work,” a -aturai breast-work of rocks extending at ;«side of the cu vc for twenty yards. Oi .'indred yards from the breast-work is “the Mirra chair.” This is a very large col- ; ua, extending from the ceiling to the floor, •wing in its side a well-formed arm ctiair.. I he next object wo noticed was an ele- 'diinfs head. The resemblance wus ex iling perfect. A few yards further you mne to the “lover’s leap.” This is a pre- l»ce at the side of the the avenue, so aeep “i but fow lovers would dare to leap itrc, evon if, sodnriiig, they should obtain «object of their a ffections. Directly a- 'fc the “lover’s lenp,” on the ceiling, is representation of on Indian in the act fly- '?• Wc now descended a crevice called [he “elbow crevice,” leading to another and ™othcr apartment of this immense cave, ‘her passing through “elbow crevice,” we 'me to a magnificent dome, called _“Na- dcon’s dome .” It will be impossible to [esenbe one half of what is to be here seen, ear “Napoleon’s dome” is a large dining tble, • • - ■ - — one, iviij ^airwoo-fj dining-tofile.”* A little die SECRET EXPEDITION TO THE GUU? OP MEXICO. Our government has made a movement within the last three weeks, which must be confessed to be os vigorous as it is se cret, but which we hope may end as well as it has commenced. This measure is in substance as follows: It is confidently reported among persons whose station and intelligence entitle them to credit, that when the protest and declar ation of the Mexican government against the annexation of Texas trenched London, and was officially communicated to our gov ernment by the Mexican Minister, orders were immediately issued to our naval com manders at Halifax, and in the West In dies, to send off by single ships as many vessels of war as could be 1 1 ’ descending the “steeps of time,” we came | that they have British corroboration of A- to a beautiful spring of water, called “Rich-! merican intelligence, on (his subject, some ardson’s spring.” We then passed on of our cotemporaries who met our state- through the “arched way,” by the “lady’s i ment referred to with little less than de- saddle pit,” which pit is about eighty feet rision, will begin tp think that some things deep ; then on to “Minerva’s dome,” once [ can be knawn in the city of New York be- the “labyrinth,” to “Louisa’s and Goran’s; fore being trumpeted through the London dome.” We then passed on by the “bot- ; press, temless pit,” into “Pensico avenue,” and •*■*-*■ by the “wild dome,” over the “great cross ings.” Wc then came to a pulpit of sta lagmite, with a book lying upon the pulpit. This is all the .work of nature, without art- It has received the nameefthe “devil’spul- pit.” We then passed through “pine-apple arch,” to “Getico grotto.” All this wp saw and passed the first day. We returned to the “cave house” about six in the even- in». The next morning we started at about eight o’clock, and went on through the main cave to the “deserted chamber,” and entered an avenue called the “humble shoot.” For a distance of about one hun dred yards, we passed an avenue where the ceiling is so tow that we had to stoop as much as possible. We then came to the “winding way,” a narrow serpentine passage, through * which only one person can pass at a time. This extends about fifty yards. At the end of the “winding way, wc came to a large chamber called the “great relief.” Wc thenpossed through “river hall,” over the “dead sen,” along n deep cascade. Wc then passed on to the “river Styx,” over which tnere is a natural bridge. Crossing this bridge, we soon found ourselves at the shore of the “river Lethe.” We there went on board a boat and were rowed by our guide about thirty yards, when we arrived at the “river Jor dan.” Our whole company entered the large boats at the shore of the Jordan, aud began to move slowly over its surface.— Part of the way the ceiling is ouite low, and iu other places very high. The whole distance-is more than half a mile. Mu> sic never sounded so sweetly to me ns when passing this river. The sweet tones of the never-ending echo, surpassed everything I hud over heard or imagined. After passing the river, we walked on about two miles, through many interesting scenes, when we arrived at the foot of the ladder that leads to “Mary’s vineyard.’ — We ascended the ladder about twenty feet, and came to a large hall, the walls, the ceiling, the floor, covered with clusters of the finest gropes. But we found when we touched then that they were ns solid as the wall itself. We then passed on through “Clevaland’s avenue,” through n great variety of rooms, until we came to “snowball-room.” The avenue here is n- bout eighty feet wide, the ceiling and walls covered with snowballs, some perfectly while, and some saturated with water, as natural as if thrown there by schoolboys, in there juvenile sports. Tuc walls ana ceiling, for more than a mile after passing the snowball room, are covered with flowers of every name and description imaginable. The only thing needed to make them true to life is color. Wc then passed on till we came to the “rocky mountains.” It is quite difficult to ascend these mountains. We were obliged to clamber over rugged cliffs, we ascended about two hundred Teen. We then descended the mountain on the other side. On the other side of the “rocky mountains” is a beautiful arbor called “Se rena’s ar'ior.” It received this name in honor of the wife of Col. Croatian. Mrs. Croghnn was the first lady wno ever en tered that bower. In the side of this beau tiful arbor is a spring of the most dclicous water. Wc here found ourselves eleven miles from the mouth of the cove. We then retraced our steps and reached the “cave house” about seven o’clock in the evening, having walked inoro thnn twenty- two miles, far, bcncat h the surface of the earth. Our third and fourth day’s excur sions weie, if possible, still more interest ing. The chief cilv which we visited on the third day, extends over on area of more than two acres. Wc passed into the cave about six miles, when wc came to llio avenue leading to the “holy sepulchre.” None can ascend there except the most bold and fearless.— Only two of our company had courage to plante her colonies in the most distant is- We were lands, is actually less in value than the an nual grassgrop in the British islands. The breaa stufTs annually extracted from our own soil amount to more than 800,000,000 bushels, and their value is almost tripple that of the aggregate exports and imports of the whole country. Our grass crop is worth $150,000,000, which is juhl twice the value of all bur exports to foreign coun tries. The annual Indian corn crop of Ten nessee and Kentucky alone amounts to more than 125,000,000 bushels, and fully equals in worth our exports to Great Brit ain and France, which constitute the bulk of all we part with to foreign countries — And what is not a little remarkable, the corn crop of these two. States is precisely equal in value to the entire oiton crop grown in all the States of the Union.” JV. 0. Delta. From the Montgomery Independent. GIANT BONES. There have been recently dug up in Williamson county, Tennessee, seveo u» ,/ ' . - . - 0 f fte WE will make liberal CASH AD VANCES on Cotton Stored in any , Warc-llouse in Albany. SIMS & CHEEVER. Albany, Oct. 29,1845, -9 d- ships as many J_ ver y low prices, a largo stock of Negro spared, and theghoc^ (gome very superior) Kip do^ Indies tine departure of which would not excite any Walking do., Kid 'Slops, Gaiters, Women’s l>»ther special notice. Concurrently with this or-Shoc*, Gent’s tine Calf pegged aud sewed Shoes, dcr, single ships have also been sent olTfino Calf pegged sad sowed Boots VVotcr-prooi do., from remote stations on the coast of Africa & p ' NCUON ’ and Brazil, and are at this time assembling) Albany, Oct. 29 : .9 3m. in the Gulf of Mexico. “It is thus the! Just Received opinion of Sir R. Peel,” says our authority] the BU b*cribet* pieces fino black and col’d “ gradually and secretly to assemble a con-1 JJ Brood Cloths, American and French Cassimers, sidernhlc naval force in the Mexican seas, black Silk and Satin Vestings, rich Wool do., com- which is to act ns occasion may arise—and mon do., Kentucky Jeans, a great variety o! cheap at all events, to prevent any blockade byl l’»ut Stull's for common wear. all of which they otter the American navv, should the Mexican ° n K? od .o.- 1 3™ ‘ * government proceed further in their declar-l Albany, Oct. 29,184* -9 3m. dtionof war.” STEAM NAVIGATION ON THE SU- WANEE. I Our renders may remember that it has been in contemplation for some time past, to establish a mail route by steamers upon the Suwancc, from Cedar Keys to Fort White, to be connected thence with the Si. John’s by Stogc. We arc happy to be informed that the necessary arrangements for prosecuting this useful enterprise, have been carried into effect. The Steamboat “Orpheus,” built at New Orleans, express ly for the purpose, has arrived, and taken her station on the route. Wc lenm that she is a most-beautiful vessel, 136 feet in length, and is fitted up in fine style with 18 elegant State rooms. Site will carry the United States Mail from Cedar Keys, to the new town of Santafcc, on the Santafee river, in Columbia co., once a week,and will run up the Suwannee to the flourishing town of Columbus. From the Suwancc, stages will convey passengers to and from the river St. John’s in connection with the Steamers from Savannah, thus Conning a direct line from Savannah to the Gulf.— the advantages of this route cannot be duly appreciated, until we have begun to expe rience its convenience. Travellers to Key West, New Orleans, Tampa Bay and Ce dar Keys, can now avail themselves of a direct and expedicious conveyance. It on ly remains to connect Cedar Keys with New Orleans by steam communications, and one of the greatest thoroughfares of the South, will be established in our Slate. The dangerous navigation around the pe ninsula, the reefs, the keys and the bars, would secure for this route, a vast amount of the traveling from the North to Louisi ana and Texas. From information we have received, we can confidently assure our readers that a line of steam packets will very shortly ply between the Suwanee and New Orleans. This, together with the line which as been established between New York and Charleston, will give al most uninterrupted communication, along the whole Atlantic coast with the Gulf.— This cannot but have a beneficial effect upon the settlement of Florida, and we feel warranted in foretelling its rapid growth as the result of these conveniences in travel. St. Jlug. Herald. AGRICULTURE AND COMMERCE. We are indebted for the following facts to the third qf the very valuable Lectures now delivering at New York, by Professor lle > thirty feet by ten. fi ts one solid ] ^ C nd. We made our wa^ up a precipice, ^Hebrew CommonwwuTh !*** ^ me, about four tec! nigh. It inm ca...-, almost perpendicular, .Or ftoOUt eigli.y feel; y « » |nain cau9c Q f this over-valuation of •aten-ooFs dining-table.”* A little dis- ,hen crawled through a narrow opening j commerc i a | n9 compared with agricultural wither on wc found an immense between two massive rocks: then passed: j imagineHio be this, that the .., of fader* like that thrown from a 0 n about ten yards horizontally, and came P jn# ^ comme %e lie muoh more upon the ■acksiniih’a furnace. We then proceeded to a row 0 f stalactite column* through d open lo lhe Scrutiny — —•*- —' found our * Md apprehension of the mass of observer* while those of Agriculture, on the contra- son >« three hundred yards to the end of w hich we made our way, and found our. •^■re Vc ! lue - selves standing at the mouth of the scpul- girtl "«ilien proceeded on in the main ave- c b re . Here the cave is about sixteen feet •tsjue until we canto lo the “giant’s coffin.” w jg e> l n the centre, between the wells, is a large atone in the shape of a coffin; wa8 a grave six feet wide and sixteen long, height is about five feet, and its length a bout eight feet deep. The soil was UP eighteen. . Directly over the coffin is apparently thrown up oh two sides, and al- |j* r gc panther, on the Wall. We then g^ at each end in equal quantities.— round the coffin, and entered the Though it has the appearance of soil, it is a solid stone. P 1 ranee > ceiling of the “deiiertod chamber” is , 1 more than four feet high, We paswd P>orough this chamber, about ten yards, l® * c came to a large dome,, called the pmpden bowl,” on account of a wooden 1 being found there when it was first At .one sitie of t&e wooden hW lhe “steeps qf. .ttnje.’P IfoM*" a wwr paw d°wqabout l- > over natural ston «e steps. twen- the frontlet Of PrhanSJuid bets (U AlXtaCtaifcUk) 1 had intended to nislw a day’s hilt ' • R refold In tor rents, however, I pulled ont my guidebook, and bal anced loog in staying dry i* tbs pi! Cary, and go ing wet to sec the wonders. Here are to be aera the swaddling ckah* of oar Saviour, the rqbc of tibo Virgin Mary, the ahrend of John the Baptist, tome oftbe manna of the Israelites in the wilderness, a lock of the Virgin’s hair, and the leathern girdle ol' the Saviour. Here, also, is fobs seen; (with more certainty,) the tomb of Charlemagne. The church towers that cover these marvelous sights, loomed np through the shower, bat my asaal philosophy o\ “making most of to day,” gave way for once. Prom ising myself to see the wonders'of Alxonmyrc- tsrn, I ordered my baggage into the ears, and rolled away through the rain; to the ftagiaWnamed city of Cologne. I got my first glimpse of the Rhine, through the window of an omnibus. From so prosaic a look-out, I may be excused for remarking, (what I might not have done, perhaps, from the embrasure of a rained castleO that it was a very ordinary looking river, with low banks, and of about the breadth qf the Roa- qurbanna at Oswego. A party of beer-drinkers, j, bearded and piped, sitting nnders bower of dried _ branches in front of a tavern, wore all that I could d see at the moment that looked either picturesque or b poetical. This was on the way from the rail-read b station to the hotel at Cologne. As it was the only ?view I had of the Rhine that does not compel admi- ration, I seized the opportunity to disparage it. In doing the cariosities of Cologne with s guide and sporty, I found nothing not thrice told in tha i many books. Fortunately for the traveller, things ■ newly seen are quite as enjoyable, though ever so ■for gone beyond a new description. I relished ex- 1 ccedingly my ramble through the narrow streets and ’over the beautiful cathedra], and I puckered my lips with due wonder at'the sight of the bonea of thu “Eleven Thousand Virgins” in the Convsat of St. Ursula. Alas, that of anything loveable, sack relics may have been a part I There was no choice, I -thought,between the skulls; yet there mtist have been! Idifierences of beauty that covered them. 1 I was lucky enough to bring the moonlight and Imy ryes to baron the caterdral at the aamo mo- •ment—the half-filled horn of the Queen of Stars ’pouring in upon the fine old towers a light of beau- iiful tenderness, while I strolled around thorn one o' mcnciatbeorening. Tbo cathedral of Cologne looks indeed a lovely confusion. And quite as lovely, t fancy, to eyes that have no knowledge of bow win dow and pinacle put their Gothic legato the ground. I believe in Gothic. I am sure, that is to say, that these interlaced points and angles have a harmony, in which lies architectural strength; and with this unexaminod creed in my mind, like capital in bank, I give to impressions of beauty unlimited credit-— This is sometimes the kind .of trust with which wo admire poetry. There is many a strain of Byron’s learned by heart for tho music that it floats* with, the meaning alone of which would not have immor talized it for a nameless poet “ The castled crag of Brachenfela,” for example. The noblo Cathedral of Cologne, however, like many others in Germany, stands knoo deep in common houses against the wall—a pitiful H UNT & PYNCHON have just received Car penter’s Tools, full setts Smith’*, Tools com plete, Knives and Forks, Butcher Knives, Carving do., a large assortment of Pen and Pocket do., stock and rim Locks, Butts and Screws, cut Tacks, Cotton niut Wnnl r-nnU Iron A N«i)«. tiwtlwf with a full have seen or examined them, lhai these bones belong to the genus homo. All the larger and characteristic bones are entire, and the skull, arins.and thig bones, knee pans, shoulder sockets and collar bones re move all skepticism as to tlicir humanity. The whole skeleton, wo are informed, is about 18 feet high, and must have stood full 19 feet ‘in his stockings' (if he wore any.) The bones of tho thigh and leg measure 6 feet 6 inches, so that our friend, ‘the Genera),’ could have marched erect, in full military costume, between the giant’s *Thc skull is described ns being about 2 feet by 3—the size of a flour barrel, and ca- wble of holding in its cavities near two mshels; a coffee cup of good size could, ... . - . , - ho put into the eye sockeis-nnd the jaw teeth, which arc all perfect even to the cn-, *^ te fj? 1 " * )l tl>0 00 08,10 of JeBn amcl would weigh‘from 81 lo 6 pounds, will ever qaah away. And aprepo* . ww some of the smnlfer ones which were loose, fOT «* ^ Fpf*' .«» <*><,*«■• have been weighed-the front teeth arc dm. the great prroce ofresence* «id I stepped re- missing. These teeth bear the evidence of t0 , 1,,8 * 1 “P m and breathed foronre, with- extreme age, from their cavities and nppa- ^t a doubt, the atmosphere of the gHJu.ue “IW.” rent diminution from use in wearing nway. i!n An eminent physician and anatomist, b »»^pdcdnpm|)yrimiibofweetne«»—the fjgfat properly assisted, is engaged in having- the skeleton pul together and the smolfdefi- ln g m T ■^^/ozdm singiebyle. Laurie* to bo ciencies supplied by art. We arc further informed by our fellow valuable in this world of small parcel* should be 1 guardedly shown to the enjoyer. Your* faithfully, N. P. WILLIS. From tie Report of the Commissioner cf Patents. THE CULTURE OF COFFEE. ter iqto this question, with the view of ' ‘ * of the cul tivation of the earth, aqd «vof vindicating the' wisdom of Moses, in founding upon it alone his policy. 1 Great Britain is decided ly the most commercial nation on the globe. IS IT TRUE 1 —The*fa^brought 4 by lhe .la^teame* Her trade with tire United States is nearly that lAat “ Experimental Squadron” had two-fold that which she carries on with returned to Cork near two month* in eon- any other counity, nection with the following extract from you the cn *'« i““iSstof Item Bell’s London Weekly Messenger, goes commerce both w “y®. a,1 f ™^ r ! n far toward confirming the account were- as much ,n . J cro P of 0413 nn 4 published near a month since, and beans in the Conner country, r^tiveto tlic fore* chanreternnd purpo- 1 “The whole foreign commerce of Great relative to the rorec, enurero cr Britain, in the pursuit of which she over- — r The pas- ses of the Pritish fleetireen y now .shadows the ocean with her fleet* and « narrow and diffic nU to phss. After lately arrived at thu port, remap* nowisnauows « citizen, who has purchased an interest of one fourth in this interesting and wonder ful curiosity, that it will be ready for exhi bition in about one month’s lime, when it A inoDeoroOT .gncultural papers men- will slart on its tour through the cmhzcd cojr „ u . fra lt tlmt may dreerre alrfol in some f m’i- Nc n..;/ii e i"": i ° r ^ Sonthcm State*. He speaks of a coffi-o ee- ■“ ““ * ” tate which he saw just before entering tho city of Cameras. Tho coffee trees, he ray* were planted in rows of ten feet from each other, under a treo with an umbrella-like head, called the traceari* which were about thirty feet apart In the West Indies, the banana, or plantain, are usually planted on the sunny side of the cofice tree to shade it from tho fierce beat of the sun. The cultivation, he add* It simple. It It said to Sourish well on the Jamaica mountain* at a height above the eea where the climate it quite as cold aa South Carolina, Georgia, or Louisiana; thebbqr ia also very light Tho tree, when once planted, will bear SO, and sometimes fifty years. Tbo prepara tion for market, to* it very simple! and may easily be performed by children. When ripe, itiis picked, then carried to a platform which covers sometimes - an area of several acre* made of plaster vwy hard and dry. There the berries are spread ont in tbo sun to dry; after which they are placed in a mill resembling a cider mill, where s heavy wheel parere over them and takes off the husk; it isthen cleaned by a common fiutand placed in bags for market. It is an interesting qumtibo whether it wfllbear the climate ot the Southern Slates; for (ays tire writer whom we are qsotisgJ if a* there can be little doubt, that for productiveness and facility, of culture, it wfil he preferable to any southern crop. It is to be hoped tho trial may yet bo made, anil thus the question practically decided. The addition of cofiee to oar home predhMS would save our citi- a large amount cf money which is paid abroad for the same. According to the statement of for eign imports for nine months ending 30th Xun* 1843. the quantity imported amounted to about 93,500,00.> pound* at a valno of about **500,000. It is not difficult to procure tho scad; and when cnee the fact is ascertained that it can be raised, we can have nodoubt that it would bocoorn a favor ite object, and divert much capital and labor from cotton raising; thus teadwtog that product mor* valuable. will shortly Ire among us here. Our fellow townsman keeps the price he paid for his interest a secret, but says that $50,000 has been offerod for tbo whole of this curiosi ty- [From the Ke» York Mirror.] LETTERS FROM THE CONTINENT OF EUBOPE. My Dear Morris:—If the water in Lake George were tanned to meadow, and its numberless tail isl ands left standing as hill* it would bo very like the natural scenery from Liege to Aix laChapelle—The railroad follows the meadow level, and pierces these little mountains to coatinuallj, that it has been com pared to a peedle pairing the length of a cork-ecrew. Liege war a scene of Quentin Darward, you will re member, and at present is lhe gunamitiiery of Eu rope, but it graces the lovely scenery around it, as a blacksmith in his apron would grace a ball-room, and I was not tempted toree much more of it than _ lay in the bottom of a bowl of soup. Nobonesof rv. ore ofamore retiring nature, and seldom Chariet the Bold, promised in tire guide hook, nor tdrtrnde themselves on public notice. It tusk, nor armonr of “Wild BoarofArdenns. Scott will not therefore fie deemed impertinent, was never bet* and hie descriptions of town and nor, I hope, altogether uninteresting, to en- castle, were, of conn* haagfaary. A river fa much more of an acquaintance than a mountain, and I never see cm for the first time without s mental salutation, especially if I have heard of it before. ThoVeedre would scarcely be caned a river fa our country,but it Unlovely little stream, that has seen a world of romance, what with love and war, and it runs visibly dark from the cioee- , and with a mare musical ness of the hin sides to it, ripple (if you pleaaej for the «piriU that haunt it- by railroad. Of course, It quite knocks a norel on the Bead tobe dragged through its scenes fry a loco- motive, andif you Care much for Qurabn Outward, you had better not isihoad it, from Brussels to the Rhine.