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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, Editors and Proprietors. TERMS. TWO PoUsr* per annum, if paiil in advance, or p.iSlan at tlic end of the jear. Vlvprti^eoienta not exceeding twelve linn., will I inerted at Ouc Dollar for the lint insertion, and Mv rents for each continuance. Advertisement* ... Wine the number of insertions specified, will i t ublished until forbid. Mies of land a™ 1 Negroes l.y Executors, Adminis- , r ; ,. r , nnJ Guardian', are required by law to he ,/wrtised in a public gazette, sixty days previous to ,Av <f sale. The rales of Personal Property must be advertised POETRY. SPEAK NO ILL. . i:fcc manner forty days. Debtors ana Creditors of an estate must v'ntblbbcd forty days. hod forty. , \itire that application will be made to tlic Court ikiiuty for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must y rebli'l'ed weekly for four month*. '.Monthly Advertisements,One Dollar per square -carh insertion. j, All Letters on btuinem mtirt be j>o*t paid. ySUS&IBSSBNB&Jk ©ASimSo 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. rosrxsnEanraBff