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ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 11,1846.
no, 48.
the ALBANY PATRIOT,
p rCBLISltt® EVE*Y WEDRE8DAY MORNING, BY
NELSON TIFT A SETH N. BOUGHTON,
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RiCiisMRD MM. CEJMUH,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albaxy, Georgia.
Will [>r
(My, Sumter, Randolph and Early, of tin-
We stern Circuit, Stewart, of the Chat
Math-Western Circuit, Stewart, of the ChalUhoo-
h,y. and Thomas, of the Southern Circuit.
tljjice under the “ Courier•” Office, Brood si,
TUOI. B. JOCDAX.
I. W. WARREN.
Warren & Jordan,
,ittoa.vjs *•« .«t a.i w,
STAUKVILLE, Lee County, Georgia.
TVrembcr 3,1815, 34 tf.
1VH. K. tie GRAFFESRIED,
Attorney at Law,
BL.1Kr.LY, Early County, Georgia.
Practices rt the South-westers Circuit.
Nov. 5. 30 tf.
D. YI. SEALS,
ATTORNEY AT LAV/,
EXON, Alabama.
tv Will practice in Barbour, Maccs, Russell
atel the ad inning counties.
Knou, Ala., Oct. 8, 1815, 26 ly.
ISo 3PBfcfcttB 9
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Albany, Georgia.
ant'd lit. 1845. 1 tf
ALEXANDER A. ALLEN,
ATTORNEY «4T JL.flY*,
Itniuhridge, Decatur Conufy. Georgia,
July 9,1845 1 3 y
BY CHARLES SWAEt.
Nay, speak no ill!—a kindly word
Can never leave a sting behind.
And, oh! to breathe each tale we’ve heard,
Is for below a noble mind.
Full oft a better seed is town, '
By choosing thus the kinder plan;
For if but little good be known,
Still let us speak the best we can.
Give me the heart that foin would bide—
Would fain another's fault efface;
llow can it pleasure human pride,
To prove humanity hut base?
No: let us reach a higher mood,
A nobler estimate of inau;
Be earnest in tlie searcii for good,
And speak of all the best we can.
Then speak no ill—but lenient be
To others' failings as your own;
If you’re the first a fault to sec,
Be not tlie first to make it known.
For life is but a passing day,
No lip may tell how brief its span;
Then, oh, tlie little time we etsy.
Let’s speak of all the best we can!
From the Literary Messenger and Review.
TO THE jEOLIAN IIARP.
BY W. C. JACK.
Whence comes that soft and gentle strain,
That breath which thrills tlic trembling string?
Sweet Bard of night, breathe once again;
Thy silken chords so sweetly sing.
THE COTTON PLANT.
The New York Farmer in an article up
on I lie Cotton Plant, says:
“Perhaps no physical event illustrates
more remarkably and clearly the superin-
tendance of Providence than the Cotton
Plane At this moment it has an impor
tant influence in preserving peace between
the two greatest maritime powers, and per
haps between the whole civilized world.—
The interest of all classes in Great llritain
arc directly or indirectly dependent on the
uninterrupted supply of cotton from the U.
States. A very large portion of The most
influential of the Southern Slates would be
reduced to bankruptcy by the suspension,
fora few years, of the demand for cotton
from Great iiritnin. The value of proper
ty, tliroughotii tlie cotton growing Stale*,
would be greatly deurcciaied by a riipinrc
between this and tlic mother country.—
The statesmen of Grcnt llritain and those
Slates foresee these and consequent evils,
and hence much of that unwillingness in
(ho Southern Slates to provoke a useless
and bloody war. Should a rupture lake
place, it would stimulate the growth of
colton in Ihc East Indies and in South
America, resulting probably in a perma
nent injury to onrSouiltcm section.
“When wc consider the apparently ac
cidental circumstances that led to the cul
ture of cotton in this country, and tlic im
mense and varied interests lhat Imvc grown
out of it—interests that affect the moral,
religious, social, political, and physical po
sition of the'wliole world—wc see n chain
of events that con owe its existence to no
oilier lltnn (he Creator himself.”
ono-fourth of the food of a pretty large fam
ily ia the year, while iu daily fare n ren
dered much inure varied, healthful and de
sirable by this element. No family is so
rich that it can properly afford to be with
out fruit of its own growing; none ought
to be so poor as to remain destitute of ii.
Our food is notoriously too gross and un
varied. Stop at a country tavern, in a re
gion where the choicest fruit glows almost
spontaneously if allowed to, and you will
Thy spirit songs I love to hear,
As ’mid the evening winds they move;
They lull as sweetly on the ear
As anthems from the liarps of love.
Nor sweeping blasts can e'er avail
Thy mellow music to prolong;
Nor sudden gush of ronghened gale
Invites thy wild and plaintive song.
But to tlie softer zephyr's sigh,
At evening’s pensive, hallowed hoar,-
In strains of wildest melody,
Thy harp reveals its mystic power.
Nor gilded harp by Ilouri strung,
Nor music from the choral nine,
Nor sweetest lay by syren sung,
Is music soft and sweet as thine.
Far echoing to the zephyr’s swell,
Tlty nutnliers on tlic night wind stream;
They wenvo a gentler, purer spell,
Than e’er was wove by song or dream.
THE COl’FER REGION.
Extract from a private tetter dated
Coffer Hardor, Lake Superior, j
January 8, 18JG.
Recent splendid discoveries have been
made in tlie Copper Mines of this region.
Tlic Pittsburgh Company on the Eagle
River location, have during the past month
opened a vein Leelre feet ieidc from the top
of the hill to Ihcbolloiu—over 2UD feet.
SHIPWRECK AND LOSS OF FOR
TY-FIVE LIVES.
We are indebted to J. T. Sherwood,
Esq., British Consul in this city, for tho
following particulars of a most melancholy
shipw reck and loss of life. The mate, Mr.
Rout. Mowbray, arrived in this city yes
terday, and has made his protest.
The British barque Ida, 550 tons bur
then. Win. Chambers, master, sailed from
In: regaled on tough steak or ritstV bacon “ he wtts ow *? e<, » Dec. JS,
is exceedingly rich in Copper and Silver.
They have taken out one large piece of
Native Copper and Silver, nearly pure,
weighing 2,ui.O pounds. It size is 5 feet
10 inches by 4 lect 2 inches, 10 inches
(hick in the centre and 7 inches on the edge.
Also, 2,1)00 lbs. of same quality in similar
pieces. They have 3,000 pounds of very
rich quality in barrels ready for shipping.
They have 53J tons of 10 to 12 per cciit.
ores, Copper and Silver, mined in Dccom.
her, and since 1 left last week I hear that
the vein lias improved. The Engle River
location of Gratiot also improves; returns
for December, 40 tons. Copper Fulls im-
PETER J. STROZIER,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ay.rfl 16,1845.
Albany, Georgia.
THE COTTON CROP.
vfrtl respect to the crop, ol which it is f£ cn «*• Tha ‘" 1 ' c | r . ‘ ocalion . s
oA tlmi .I,is u,LI nerinalnf the »•»« »!"«•_ From lie developments made
tf
THOMAS PINKNEY SMITH,
A TTORXE Y AT LA IF,
Albaxt, Georgia.
J;.ril 10, lilo. 1
tf
D. &. J. VASON,
ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
Albaxy, Georgia-
april 10,1815. 1 tf
DEARY J. STEWART,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Troupville, Ga.
August 13, 1815. 18 tf
expected that atthi. advanced period oft he on ^ djffere|lt vc|Dp> lllig co>iwry iuusl *
season, wc should be able to make some on „ J? .
approximation towards a correct esiiiunic, exceedingly rich.
fins rar s ssfWfc g**
cnee to the comparative statement of rc-. dn,c,, Washington City, Feb. IC.
' : -1, “The Ordinance Department this morn'
cetjrts accompanying; this Circular,, it will ; ; ved froin Mr . ' M cNair, the Assis-
be perceived that they show a deficiency » hnrsmment Sunerintendenl i
petC'
of no less
limn 182 9<fe hu es aminsifort tonl Government Superintendent al Cop.
Ilian 182,998 bales against last Harbor his monthly returns, and a more
year—an amount so large as to have ma- j ri.e_, i
call tl) and so-so coffee. For dinner, meat
again—probably pork—and for supper bread
and butler with cold meat or smoked beef.
Our average furmers’ fare is no belter.—
Now all are aware that this is wrong—that
animal loud ought to be eaten sparingly,
especially in the warm season; and thin
for children and others who do not perform
much rugged labor, it were belter eaten
seldom il at all. Rut all must cat to live,
and if they can’t obtain the best, they must
cat such ns they can get. The first mis.
lake made is lhat of forgetting that Fruits
arc truly food. Half the people eat them
at other than incai-iimcs—often in ihc evn-
ing—-when they arc posiively hurtful.—
Nothing is wholesome when nothing is
needed. But fruits, properly prepared, in
due variety and season, would soon lie pre-
ferred to meats by two thirds of the human
family if they lin'd a fair chance to become
acquainted with them. And immense is
the waste of life and health which would
lie prevented by a general infusion of fruits
into the common diet of our people. But
this can never be done until Fruit Culture
is rendered far more general and thorough
among us, so that each dwelling shall be
surrounded by its Apple, Fear, Cherry,
Peach and Plum Trees, Grape Vines, &c.
and every month, both of summer and win
ter, have its abundant supplies of fresh or
preserved fruils. The wise and philant Itro-
pic must help to extend the taste for these
blessings among the poor and improvident.
Wc wish it were possible to imbue every
tnan, but especially every young man, with
the desire of having a home of his own—a
home to lie adhered to through life. Next
to tlie home itself, an earnest, ov
desire for one would he n great blessing.—
There are few vigorous young mvn*>f fair
capacities who have not' missed opportuni
ties to save the cost of a cottage and piece
of ground by the time they are respectively
twenty-five years of age. Alter that, with
a family growing up, it generally srems
and often is impossible to save tlie first dol
lar. Bill within a mile of us there are
thousand of young tni’n now in destitution,
cursinglhcir hard emplovcrsor hard fortune
who.have already squandered in idleness
and dissipation the cost of such homestead.
Many have fooled it away on theatres, li
quors and tobacco alone. We know that
there is another side to this picture—that
the Poor suffer much that they cannot avoid
yet which' might lie obviated. Let us con
sider both sides always. But the deplora
ble fact that thousands who might hare teen
in comfortable circumstatnccs are sadly oth
erwise should lie specially pressed upon the
regard of the rising generation.
We wish onr Mechanics, Clerks, &c.
would every where lake to heart the im-
in government stores for Canada. From
thence sailed about 4th or 5th January last,
for St. John, N. B. On the 26th Ijems ’
. . . » * l,,u *v»n ijcing m
latitude 44 N. Ion. 53 3d W. gale (Void the
S. S. K. was thrown on her beam ends.
Otders were given to cut away the fore
mast, bill before they had time todosotho
barque righted, full of water. The captain
then ordered the long boat to be got unde* -
the lee, the other bouts having been lost.
The pnss-.ngers immediately rushed into
her ptomiscuotisly, followed ny the captain
and crew, to the number of 45. The pain
ter parted, and the boat dropped astern.
The land bore N. N. E distant about 3D
leagues by observation. The boat got
about two rabies length from the vessel,
when she shipped a sea, filled, and all iu
her perished. The mate, nine men, and
one young woman, remained on the wreck.
in the lops, from Monday morning until
Friday morning, when they were taken off
bv the sclir. Three Sisters of Eden, when
they were landed, much frozen and in des
titute circumstances; the mate being the
only one able to travel.
DARING ROBBERY.
A Mr. Linder, n passenger in the Mail
stage, had his carpet bag containing $7,-
5t)t), stolen at Lagrange, Ga., by a negro
ult. Alter
man on (lie night of the 21st i
considerable search, the negro was detect
ed by his passing oil Italf-euglcs as ten cent
pieces. A correspondent of the Charles
ton Courier says “The negro acknowledg
ed the crime—gave up two thousand dol
lars in gold—and went with the officer to
x a large manure pile in the rear of a stable,
errtihttg nn( j ciitg* up tlic bag, with
ip the bag, with other contents,
excepting $5,IKK) in bank bills, which ho
says, lie never saw.”—Sav. Rep.
'r ZZ "ho glowing description ofwhat has taken place
—^hnfumrnniaof 2 StMl HDD since I left, has indeed surprised nte. The
relied on a growth of upwrfs rf MJHVMW duty paid by (be Copper and Silver on the
tcrinlly stnggcicd
relied on a grewtl , - - . aitiy nun sy me Luppci wn auia ua mg
bales. At tins point, where the great in- p;iisb \ adjoining ours (the Albion)
crease over last year was an icipatc I, c cxccc d g onv other company on the point:
are still deficient m receipts, and al.hough , h off fc ia | s ,a, cmc nt shows. In a.ldi-
the low stage of Red River and some of . lb! a lne d a t one half
They have pure silver
The members of the Parent Washington
Total Abstinence Society of Boston, pre
edited to Gov. Briggs, a few craning*
since, a gold medal, as a token of their re
gard for tiis unabated zeal in the cause of
temperance. This Society bos enrolled
since its organization 39,tKill members, 800
of whom have attached themselves to
chttrclips. It expended last year $1,500
in providing food, clothing and lodging for
the reclaimed.—Sav. Rep.
portancc of owning a Home; wc hope our
young Furmers and Artisans of ll
en.MREES s. Uin'ujEY,
Attorney at Law,
HnxvkinHvillc, Cia.
Wilt attend promptly to ony hm-inos in the
promt; _
Southern ami South-western Circuits.
Nov. 2C», 1845, 33 tf.
Thomas MS. Donnelly,
Attorney at Law,
VIENXA, Dooly County, Georgia.
stage ot ma ntver nna some m , 0 Uli „ is nlso Stained at one half
the other smaller tributaries is adduced u» f| . i.—~
a suiltcieDl cause for these diminh-'hed ar- ■ ^
rivals, the argument appears scarcely valid; aa ,ar F c ».« eggandono mass
f copper lias been taken out entirely E!! rc
at all events not to the extent of the early wcjgWng oycr 8jx |limdre d pounds/ Th
estimates, and we naturally come
conclusion, in common with the majority
of those engaged in the trade, that the
production has been exaggerated. Wo
frankly confess our inability to form any
correct estimate tf the crop at present.”
entire returns from the whole country far
exceeds the expectations of the most san-
AT. Y. Tribune.
gutne.
XT Pixcticoi in mil the Courts of the Sonth-wcrt-
ern Circuit—puh'ki of the Southern, and Houston
of the Flint Circuit.
November ID, 1846, 33 ly.
IIICIIARD F. & J. LYON,
A'i'TOUMES 4- COUNSELLORS AT LAW,
ALBANY, Baker Co., Ga.
H AVE recently entered into a Partnership in the
Practice of Law. and will continue the pnte-
Practice of Law, and will continue the pno*
ticc in the several Courts of tbo counties of
Baker,
Mate,
Randolph,
Macon,
Dooly,
Decatur,
Sumpter, Mrtcin.
All matters NuUnitted to their care in any of theie
count iet/wiR'ineet with prom^ attention, and Be
hoopht to a speedy conclusion,
opril 30th fyl5 3 if
FROM THE ARGENTINE PROVIN
CES.
The Legislature of the province of Tu-
citman—the immense district which stret
ches west of the river Parana—after re
electing Cclcdonio Gmicrcz their Gover
nor for the ensuing year, have given to
him dictatorial powers as early as October
1, in view of the extraordinary exigency,
As tlic Anglo-French fleet is sailing up the
Parana, (he Stale of Tucuman win lie the
scene of nil offensive operations which take
place on its right bank. - We have Guticr-
ea’s correspondence with Rosas, on assum
ing the command. He seems io get with
spirit and promptitude.
In a letter front the President of the
J. LAW,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Ralabrlrtre, Decatnr Comity, Georgia,
Wilt attend punctually the Superior Courts of the
^ooutiei of I^my, Baker and Decatnr, of the Bootb-
FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES.
Passing through the village of Flushing,
famous for its Nursery Gardens, some weeks
since, we learned with pleasure that Ihc
business there predominant is very rapidly
extending on every hand. The demand
for voting Fruit ana Shade Trees, for cut
ting of the Vine, &c. &. has so greatly in
creased on every hand lhat new ana ex.
tensive plots of ground have recently been
planted, and still the demand forTrcesprcs-
Ilouse of Representatives of Tucuman to
their Governor, Gutierez, wp find this pas-
^n^Mfi.sfie County of Tboraqjoftho South-
In hr», 1845,
» r
sage:
“The Honorablo House of Representa
tives, observes with pleasure the contrast
between this shameful behavior of the
French and English ministers and the dig
nified and circumspect conduct of the U.
States. In the wish of lhat eieat nation,
the friend of liberty and republican princi
ples, we find a guaranty which testifies to
the justice of pur cmise. The Rcptcs.cn-
tatives do not hesitate to believe that the
firmness of this strong American, column
tope.”—Boston Daily Advertiser.
|lltl||IL-tl. mm si l‘« MD. »4Via.«»«*» a
ses hard upon the means of supply A
friend engaged in gardening at Brooklyn
cnsttallv remarked, sonic time since, that
all the Vine plants or cuttings in this vicin
ity arc not equal to the demand for them,
and that those set out are usually a year
too young for that single reason Of course,
the'Nurscry men are reaping fair rewards
for their outlay and industiy.
Yet the number of Trees and Vines hith
erto planted is nowhere in this country one-
fourth wha< it ought to be and must be.
Where land is so cheap and abundant os
with us, it is a shame that a single dwelling
out of the great chics is destitute of its
Vines and Fruit Trees Fruit is the cheap
est, the most palatable, and, used in mod
eration and at proper seasons, one of the
most wholesome articles of food. A dnyla
toil will procure a cart-load of it v where the
ft - * - ! _ jli> —*llw aMAtlvAV YwmsL
AN AFFECTING INCIDENT.
The following touching incident is from
>rk Mirror:
young Farmers and Artisans ol ilte Coun
try will steadfastly regard it. A man who
owns the roof that shelters him and tlic soil
from which lie draws his subsistence—and
few "acres arc requisite for that—need nol
envy any Nanob’s great fortune. The coun
try mechanic who owns his cot and his fer
tile acre is well off, especially if the latter
lie studded with fruit-trees. But our land
holders also ought to sec the advantage of
planting trees vigorously and continually.
A hou&c and lot (where the land is not loo
cosily) ought never to be considered com
plete without its trees any more than though
the house were without a roof. A place
well stockc-l with fruit trees is worth far
more than without them and'will rent for
more. Young men I plant now for your
riper tears and your children; old men!
plant for posterity and with a laudable anx
iety to leave the world something belter for
yoitr living in it. He who leaves to those
who survive him only a few trees cannot
be suid to have lived wholly ia vain.
THE TEMPTATION.
Wilson in the Planter’s, says that when
Marlin’s pninling of the temptation of
Adam ana Eve was being exhibited in
New Orleans, which represented ctir ma
ternal ancestor—-in the most beautiful of
created things—4n the act of presenting the
•n friitl to Adnm, with the serpent
the New York .
An eminent clergyman one evening be
came the subject of conversation, and a
wonder was expressed that he never was
married. “That wonder,” said Miss Por
ter, “was once expressed to the Reverend
gentleman himself in my hearing, and he
told a story in answer, which 1 will tell
you, and, perhaps, slight as it may seem,
it is the history of other hearts as sensalivo
and delicate ns his own.
Soon after bis ordination, he preached
onre every Sabbath for a clergyman in a
small village nol twenty miles from Lon
don. Among his auditors,, from Sunday
to Sunday, he observed a young lady, who
always occupied a certain scat, and whose
closc uileniion began insensilfly to grow to
hitfi an object of thought and pleasure,—
She left the church as soon ns the service
was over, and it so chanced that he went
on for a year without knowing her name ;
but his sermon was not written without
many a thought how she would approve it,
nor preached with satisfaction unless ho
read approbation in her face. Gradually
he came to think of her at other limes than
when writing sermons, and to wish to sco
heron other days thun Sundays; but the
weeks slipped on, and though he fancied
that she grew paler and thinner, he never
mustered resolution enough to ask her nmr.n
or to seek to speak with her. By those si
lent steps, however, love had worked into
his heart, and he made up his mind to seek
her acquaintance and marry her, if possible,
when one day he was sent for to minister
at a funeral. The face of the corpse was
the same that had looked up to him Sun
day after Sunday, till he learned to mako
it • part of bis religion and bis life. He
was unable to perform the service, and an
other clergyman officiated; and, after she
was buried, her father took him aside and
apologized for giving him pnin—bttt he
could not resist the impulse to tell him that
his daughter had mentioned his name with
her last breath, and he was afraid a con
cealed affection for him had hurried her to
tb- move. Since that said the clergyman
forbidden
looking intently with glaring eyes from
ampng the branches of the tree of Knowl
edge, each night the exhibition room was
crowded with spectators, and the utmost
silcnco prevailed in the absorbing contem
plation of this masterly creation of art.—
On one of these occasions, two Kentuck- iji . CHI1 , r luv
inn% who occupied seals in the rear of the queftio ' j look forward, only to the time
audience, were overheard to hold the foi- u . uca j (ba;l 8( .aak to her in heaven.
bargain is struck directly with mother Earth
though thiebuver at second hand often gives
th* prodoct nr a day’s labor for a hundreth
towing soliloquy:
“ I say, John, it was a tarnation ttnforlu-
nale thing for tu that the oM fellow eat
that ’ere apple.”
“Unfortunate t well, may be ao; but
how the d——I could he help it t Darn
mr buttons if I wouldn’t a* swalteiM the
■ i' s . • « .J. mm knnna rtf it Sf
I a ask’d mot"
The legislature of Louisian*, elected oa the 16tu .
General Momm W. Downs, «L» taoism of tie*
Democratic party. United States Senator, hi place
of Mr. Barrow, whose term expires ia March, 1&1T.
A correspondent of foe Nctt Orleans Piczyrae,
writing from Havana, says, that Gen. Santa Assn
openly preparing to return to Mtadeo.
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