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> “ Wltdem, Jhutlce, JWoderatUm.” VOL. I. ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, MARCH 23,1846. THE ALBANY PATRIOT, ., nWJSUEK EVBRY VVtDKKSDAY KORCTXr., IT NELSON TIFT & SETH N. BOUGHTON, Editors and Proprietors. TEAMS. TWO Dollars per annum, if pair! in advance, or Tbiei' Dollars at the end of the year. A-lyi-rti.-oments not exceeding twelve lines, will t,>it.sort'd at One Dollar for the first insertion, and i'iftv cents* for each continuance. Advertisements i^t bavin? the number of insertions specified, will i c ntibli.lied until forbid. 'sakf of Land sod Negroes by Exerutors, Adminir* .Tjtopsrd Guardians, are requited by law to l« aitBtiwd m a public gazette, sixty days previous to .yeiiav of sab'* Tkr sake of Personal Property must be advertised iilie manner forty days. .N' (ia ■ P? ,l,nr * iou Creditors of an estate must POETRY. WE SHALL BE HAPPY YET. IT MRS. JAMES CRAY. Fear not my love though clouds may lower, Whilst rainbow visions melt stray, Faith’s holy star has still a power That may the deepest midnight sway. Fear not! I take a prophets tone, Our love can neither wane nor act! My heart grows strong in trust—Mine Own, We shall be happy yeti GEORGIA CLAY. At a meeting of the New York Brook, lyn Institute, on (he evening of the 12th ulu, Mr. Baity to whom was referred a specimen of Clay from the soil of this State, made the following report: u This specimen of Clay was brought by a ~ ‘ hi to Mr. Hardee from Georgia, and handeu Mr. Pairidge to ascertain whether it was Fuller’s Earth and what was its probable value. Mr. P. tested it and found it was not Fuller’s Earth. He showed it to me, and I immediately found it was good Chi> l.naWisSwa forty Jay*. ‘ iotief that applf application will be made to the Conrt Ovlinaty for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must j', Mi,fad weekly for foy months. Mnutidy Advertisements,Ouo Dollar per square f.jr t-arh inFcrtif>n. * jy.Ml U*UcT» on buj*incp» must be post paid. IPSCKSJISS2®STAHa (Si^iaiBSa KlCML'tnn U. CE.IIZK, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Albasv, Georgia. Will practice in the Counties of Baker, Lee, Decs- K ,. Qnolv, Sumter, Randolph and Early, of the Stulb-Westem Circuit, Stewart, of the rhattahoo- Ihv.andTliomas, of the Southern Circuit. lj- fffire under the “ Courier" Office, Broad ft. z. W. WARKE*. TIIOS. B. JORDAS. Warren & Jordan, .ITT© RuVEVS mt T L.IIF, STARKVILLE, Lee County, Georgia. Diciinber 3,1845, 34 tf. NANKIN COTTON. Mr. Ca.mak:—By this innil I forward you a sample oi Nankin Cotton, in a uews. taper, which grew Irom seed I imported car from ftla‘ Wl. K. de GKAFFEYRIED, Attorney at Law, BLAKELY, Early County, Georgia. Practices is the South-westers Circuit. Nov. 5, 30 tf. D. .11. SEALS, ATTORNEY AT LAW, EXON, Alabama. aud longer than the Malta cotton, os coin- pared with some ungiuurd cotton with the imported scud. I plumed this cotton on u plantation where no other cotton grew, and giuned it in a gin where no other cotton was giuned, thus keeping it from being in jured by mixing with other cotton. It grew finely and was free from the rot which generally ptoves very destructive to our common Nankin. 1 have a few hundred bushels of thes ccd for sale, at two dollars per bushel. The IT Will practice in Barbour, Macoh, Russell ti»l lie- ad,,lining counties, llnnu. Ala., Oct. 8, 1845, 2G ly. seed imported cost me more Ilian double that price. They ran be forwarded to Columbus or Apalachicola by steamboats, :a Ho ISIo ATTORNEY AT LAW, Albabv, Georgia. tpril IB. 1815. 1 tf .ALEXANDER A. ALLEN, .ITTOR.VEV AT t.f IP, Cambridge, Decatur County, Georgia. July 9.1845 . 13 y PETERS. STROZIER, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Alraky, Georgia. spril 16,1845. 1 tf THOMAS PINKNEY SMITH, ATTORNEY AT LAW, i]*il 1C, 1845. Albany, Georgia. D. &, J. VASON, ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Albakv, Georgia. •pril 16,1815. 1 tf HENRY J. STEWART, ATTORNEY AT LAW Troupville, tin. August 13,1845. 18 tf CMM.lRIiES S. SM.IWEEV, Attorney at Law, Bawkinttvillr, CSn. Will a.'cod promptly to any business In the Southern Nov. 36,1846, iromplly i and South-western Circuits. Thomas B. If (>nnclly, Attorney at Law VIENNA, Dooly Cceuty, Georgia. IT Practices in all the Court* of the South-west ern Circuit—Pulaski of the Southern, and Houston of the Flint Circuit. November 19,1845, 32 ly. RICHARD F. & J. LYON, A7TORY1E8 tf- COUNSELLORS AT LAW, ALBANY, Baber Co., Go. JJAVE recently entered into* Partnership in fbo Wbal! though long uixioui years have passed, Since this true heart was vowed to thine, Ticrc comes, for us, a light at last, Whoso beam upon our path shall shine. We who have loved ’midst doubts and fears, Yet never with one boor’s regret, There comes a joy to gild onr tears— We shall be happy yet! Ah, by the wandering birds that find A home beyond the mountain’s wave Though many a wave and storm combined To bow them to an ocean grave— By Summer suns that brightly rise Though erst in mournful tears they set, By til Love’* hopeful prophecies, We shall be happy yet! AGRICULTURE. .I divided it into two pieces, and submitted it to a strong heat, sufficient to calcine or bake it into (what the Pollers term) the biscuit stale, as it appears in the unglnzed piece, which is the stale in which the pat tern is always put upon earthen-ware. I then took the other piece (which was in the biscuit state) and dipper it into potters’ glaze, and submitted it to a sufficient heat (o vitrify it, as it appears in the piece that glazed. I was tinder the necessity of ustnr L ..... but if it had been glazed with fine, while ’laze, such as is used for glazing the best ind of enrthen ware, it would have been quite white, instead of,yellow—<he white glaze for earihcn-warc is composed of dry " ■ li white lead, decomposed granite or Cornisl stone, si!ex r and glass. ialin. The staple is finer consider the discovery of this China Clay to lie very important, for it has hither to been thought that a fine description of carthen-warc could not be made in the U. Stole? for want of proper clay; but this proves that clnv sufficiently good can be found, if potteries were established fur making it into carlhcn-wnre. I Southern Cultivator. &c. I have an order for some of the see from a gentleman in South Carolina, which will be shipped to Charleston via. Apalach icola. Should you think the patrons of the Southern Cultivator would wish to procure any of the seed, you can give such notice in that periodical us you may deem proper. Your, very respectfully, Reuben C. Shorter, Sr. Eufaula, Ala., Jan. 1G, 1846. From the London Gardener’s Chronicle. FRUIT-TREE BORDERS. Nothing can be of greater importance to country gentlciiicu than a nourishing and productive gurden ; and if proper means arc allowed, there can be no reason why this should not be the case. True, there arc adverse situations and soils, opposed in some degree to the quality of their produc tions ; but gardening is an an, and lie who aspires at u masterly knowledge of that art, by dexterity end perseverance renders every object subservient to bis skill. A [The sample of cotton mentioned in Gen. Shorter’s le ettcr we liavo received. It is very beautiful in color, and the staple is verv fine and silk-like. Wc hope Gen. S. will be rc-amply rewarded for his enter prise in bringing this new article into the country, and introducing it to the notice of cotton planters. En. Cult ] [Southern Cultivator. From the Soutk~rn CuUiralcr. FENCING. Mr. Cajiak :—1 sec in the first numb* of the Southern Cultivator, in the report tnnde bv the Committee on the Agricul lure of Georgia, that they state that it be hooves (lie Georgians to begin to think of some substitute for the common mil fence. I a.n now making an experiment that I have no dpubt will succeed, nnd answer the purpose of the best kind of a mil fence. Wherever there is a fenco that will secure the farm for three years, ridge up a bed of land inside of the fence, in the same man ner that land is prepared for cotton, and open the ridge with a narrow plow, nnd if the ‘ the land is very poor open the ridge pretty deep and fill it with manure, and sow, or rather drill, China tree berries about the first of April. They should be drilled pret- thick, so that they may be sufficiently ...ick, and if they should come up loo thick they can be cut out to a proper stand. In three years they will ntake n fence suffi ciently strong to turn any kind of stock. S drilled about one-half mile lost year. The weather was very dry for some time after I planted the berries, and they did not cotnc up until late in May, but when ever the ground was properly prepared and moist I nave a fine stand. The best of them are from six to eight inches high. This year I shall plow and hoc them. I prepare this year about one mile more o of my plantation, nnd I have no Practice of Law, and will continue the prac tice in tbs several Courts of tho counties of dftKOM, Baker, JLcc, Boo19, Sumpter,' Irwin. All natters submitted to tbeir care in say of three counties, will meet with prompt attention, nnd be brought to a speedy conclusion, spril 30th 1845 S ty. J. LAW, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Dainbrldge, Decator Comity, Georgia, WBI sttend nanetenBy the Superior Courts of thn Counties of ESSer nnd Derelnrvof the Sooth- Weston, «nd a the Cpuntv of Thomse ofthe South- ernCweuiL July 9, W45, i»y shall , inside' of my . , , doubt that in three years they will answer the purpose as well, or boiler, than Ihe best kind of rail fence. The China is a tr?e of quick growth, end flourishea finely in the Southern States. The berries should be covered about two inches deep. Persons living in nn open pmrie country would do well to make the experiment, ns well as those who live where limber is inconven ient to be bad. Respectfully yours, &c. John Green. Rural Cora, Jan., 1846. Factory Girl*.—-There ere 6,320 femnlo operatives at Lowell. Of there, 2,714 are connected witheome Sunday School, either as teachers or scholars; 2,276 are church members: 527 have been teachers in com mon schools—They have *1,000,000 ,n the Savings’ Bank at Lowell. tank and banco wood, ip large quantities, ib annually, and lo no useful purpose, pro- duccd. The roots should never be allowed if it can possibly be avoided, to gel beyond the reach of atmospheric influences. It is in such a position alone that they can pro cure and assimilate the kind of aliment in- NO.50. dispensable to the fruitfulness of t he trees. en the borders are imperfectly drained, Ihe fruit produced is not only small in quantity, but of inferior quality and not fit for dessert or kitchen use, compared with such as is grown on dry and hcnhhv soil. Where the situation is bnd, it should not by bad gardening be made worse; every mean? should be adopted to modify an evil, of itself of sufficient magnitude. ' I should I tope that nobody would ever think of plan- ling trees in future without a complete ex amination of the condition of the soil, and particularly the subsoil, in order, if necessa ry, to apply those remedies which skillful gardening may suggest; nnd surely there is sufficient skill and talent among us to meet, if brought into the field, all the exi gencies of the case. One who has handled the Spade. Cuba Tobacco.—Mr. H. Bry, ofthe parish of Ouachita, Louisiana, lias sent to Mud* one hogshead aud three ttalcs of tobacco raised from Cuba seed. This tobacco, wc are informed, says the Ouachita Courier, “was pronounced bv competent judges to be equal in flavor, &c. f to the best Havana tobacco. This is the first shipment of this staple, wc believe, that has ever been made from this parish. The profit attending its cultivation, however, is calling the attention of enterprising planters lo Us production who will reap many rich harvests before their more tardy brethren embark in the undertaking. ’Wc hope, ore many years, to see our barren and profitless Pine Hill lands rendered invaluable by ihe cultiva tion of this staple.” We have .lie foundation of a Ratling Mill laid, and expect to start it by Decem ber next. ... .i We have fifty ions of pig metal on the way to Boston, Piovidence, Charleston, Sa vannah nnd Augusta, find ought to eupplr every foundry in Georgia if they know theur interest. We have the power of t|ie Etowah river five limes over in three miles, and where one million of dollars might now be profita bly invested.. Having hastily answered your question so pointedly referring to ray affairs, exetren me if I in turn ask one of you, lo-wit: What will you and your neighbors do rith your idle capital 1 Can’t yo o put idle people to work l ftci * " . you apply it with; so as to i especially*, your friend, 4*.. ’Mark A. Cooper. iron Work*, Cat* Co., Ga.. Feb. 2,184G X5* The following lines were sent by -•*. voting lady to her lover, whose name was Tin ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ’ “Nutt.” The nuptial knot was tied im mediately after their receipt: Why urge, dear sir, a bashful maid To change her tingle lot. When well you know Pro often said. In truth, I love you, NotL For all your point I do not care, And trust me on my life, Though you had millions, I declare I would, Nott, bo your wife. ipposing Itorougn and enthusiastic cultivator of (he soil reduces its obstinacy, corrects its bar renness, and causes the bark-bound, stun ted trees to assume a living and vigorous appearance. It may be assumed that these arc hidden and abstruse matters, wliicli be long exclusively to science, but we deny it; nrdeners know all this, and bad ones should set about learning without delay. Let such begin by casting off their preju dge their stand by the sale dices: let them Ink From the Southern Cuf/irotor. SOUTHERN INDEPENDENCE. Mr. Camak :—By Iasi mail some un know Itnnd forwarded to Messrs. Cooi-er & Stroup a number of the Cronicle 4* Sen tinel, containing nn ext met from vour pa per, iu which is copied a notice taken from a Weluinpka (Al.j paper, of certain very- superior castings about then said lo be de livering in Wctumpkn, front Mr. Moore’s Foundry in Alabama, staling also what he was doing, and how much, &c., after which you express a desire to know what Cooper & Stroup are doing, nnd you appeal to mo individually to inform you. Having at all times had a pleasant ns well «w profitable intercourse with you, I cheerfully avail myself of Ihe first oppor tunity to respond. First, we have loo much to do, to talk much or write much except on business. We are blowing two good furnaces with a capacity for 6 to 7 tons metal per day, FICTION. The love of fictitious narrative has its principle in human nature. The child lis tens with breathless interest to stories told by his nurse; the schoolboy amuses bun t-elfin hearing or relating talcs of wonder or terror ; the youth devours narratives of love and adventure; and even the 6ld man lias by no means lost all his interest in the memory of such things. The attachment, to.fiction arises partly front tho active na ture of the imagination, which is always attracted by the wild and wonderful j anil thus wc are disposed to look on feigned scenes raiher than real ones, as generally presenting something more to interest anil excite than is found in the ordinary courto of events. All of this is analogous to iho operations of our minds in solitude. Tho scenes w hich memory iccnll arc not accu rate pictures of the past, but that loose and general resemblance to it which we 6ce in fiction. Our views of tho future arc not of the future that will bc { but enchanting vi sions brighter than reality, and such as will never happen. The present, which is w tnerc point, occupies only a small portion of our thought. We live iu the past and the future,—in ideal worlds of ourown creation. The substance of our thoughts arc fiction (over of the inquiring and industrious, and their, producing from twenty to twenty-five tons course and success are alike clear. I per weeksuperior metal in thy form of All Fruit-Trees, of what ever kind, should machinery, agricultural implements, Itol- be planted on shallow ground, more especial- low ware, pig inetal and wrought iron In ly if the quality of the soil is adhesive. As machinery, weinake all kindsof gearing for a first principle the border should be dry; cotton mills, grist and saw mills, cotton gins and, if not naturally so, drainage, complete and horse powers threshers, wheat fans, and efficient, must Ik: introduced. The ploughs, tyc. Cast machinery for cotton drainage must, from its depth, entirely pro- factories, for looms, spindles, throstles anil vent the roots from gelling beyond it. The cards, arc made by us equal to any in the soil between the dninage and Ihe altnos- Union, pronounced so by the machinists at phcrc should be rendered friable by expos- the Coweta Falls ManufacturingCompn- urc to the elements, and when it partakes tty’s works at Columbus,Uro. These men of considerable tenacity I would urgently arc recently from Lowell, Mass, recommend nn admixture of stones, flints, j We are sending hollow^ ware to almost The schoolboy’s hopes, the lover’s paradise, the poets visions, the merchant’s gains, tho monarch ambition, all are fictions. “Wo arc such stuff ns dreams are made of.” la these day-dreams we are the heroes of our own romance, it will not be difficult to ac count for the interest which we feel in tho vagaries of our fnney. But we also hear or read of imaginary adventures, in which wc ourselves nave borne no part, with scarcely a less degree of interest, nnd wo account for this on the principle of Terence; ns men, we sympathise with every thing that is human. Present to us the natural nnd lively picture of an human being, rki brickbats, or nay similar material,'say to every pan of Georgia, and selling it at from the extent of one-fourth. These will enn- : 3) to 4) cents. Wc have a depot at New bie the rains to percolate freely through the i ton & Lucas’, Athens, were it may be bodyofearthin which the roots are. They j bought by wholcsalo at factory prie s.— ill also in dry weather hold moisture, and I Ten tons of it arc now on the way there. prosperity or distress, show us the working of his passion, or place before usrthe rapid nnd fearful changes of his life, and wo can not hr uninterested; for we have feelings within us which echo every one of his, nnd wc mako his adventures our own. ft mat- tend greatly to maintain the border in an equable slate. The roots under such cir cumstances will be satisfactorily placed , no water can remain or be held in the soil sufficiently long to prove * ’ with the ive injurious; the ilw stones intermixed with the soil will allow it fteely to pass into (he drainage beneath, where preparation must have been made for its passing readily off. No kind of fruit-bearing tree should ever be planted deep, (he proper position of the roots in planting is to stretch them care fully on the surface of the border, then to cover them loosely with soil to the depth of three inches; on this lay a slight covering of decayed leaves, merely to protect them from drying winds until the roots are per fectly established in the soil. The root9 are certain lo find their way downward, bill when (hey are do wit they are not so likely lo find tbeir way toward the surface. Fruit-Tree borders should never be dug with the spade. The surface may be stir red aud kept open with the fork, and then merely for the purpose of loosening the soil.- Tho roots should be encouraged to the sur face by the application of dressings of de composed leaves. Wood-ashes will occa sionally provo useful, and so will soot.— About the time specified in your extract from the Wetumpka paper, we delivered and sold at Welumpka a tan and a half of hollow ware as good as ever went to that market, tbequantity and character ofwhich we hope will not disparage that ofour neigh . We bor. We enn send more. Wc hove a depot in Augusta nnd Colttm bus, and hope soon to have in Macou. In strength and durability our wares and ma chinery have an advantage over most that coiiics'to Georgia. Wc are making about a half ton of mal leable iron per day when operating, and have on hand a stock of thirty tons bar iton and plough moulds for market. H’a L<r. re flrtltP nltll lllffel Mn These encourage the kind of wood likely to ‘ ' 1 * twe lve productive, and the produce ly different, both as regards size and quality, from that where heavy dressing of stable manure are applied, particularly when the borders ore Imperfectly drained, and the soil of considerable adhesiveness. Manure dug into borders thus circumstanced is only increasing the evil. The soil is constantly vfet and spongy. The ropts are surrounded with unhealthy fluid: the air never pene trates beyond the surface: consequently, MV have n flour mill that can grind eiel , and itinki to ten bushels per hour per run, good flour; two corn grists, one of which ” 1- - j <5,1 only is now operating, and grinds 5 J to 60 ishi ‘ bushels per day There is a population of about 400 de pendent on our operations for daily subsis tence, of whom, probably, two hundred are women and children, without work, who might be employed in cotton and wool fac lories at nominal prices. . We have water power without-hunt, in two miles and a half of the Kail Road to Charleston and Savannah. We consume annually about 25,000 bushels of corn, 3 to 500 barrels of flour, 100,000 1J» pork, besides other minor articles_; from 10 to 20 sacks coffee per month, besides sugar, salt, molasses, &c. This, sir, is a part of wiprt we are doing We arc building n Merchant Mill (of stone,) capable of manufacluring* 3 to 500 barrels flour per day. We are nutting op a wool carding mill for Mr. Buchanan, to which » to be added machinery for coarse woolen* tors not whether the subject ofthe fable bo lie a king or a slave; whether the adventures lie those ofthe field and the flood, or tho common events of domestic life; only let them bo faithfully depicted, and we sym pathize. Our interest Is in man, independ ent of adventitious circumstances.—BritirU Quarterly. Distinguished Arrival.—Charles LyelF, Esq., the distinguished Geologist, has ar rived in our city. We are happy that a person so eminent in the scientific world >erson l -— ^ . tas cotnc to our section of the Union. Wo greet him with a hearty welcome. Mr. Lyell has claims upon the attention of tho South; he has taken a proper and philan thropic view of our institutions, ana pub lished them to the world. His character, as a man ofscience, tsacknowledge t hrough- OrUant ope am Time*. Effect* ofthe •’Spirit.”—A Printer enmo here a few days since, and represented him self deaf and dumb. He also passed as a deaf mute, at Greensboro’ nnd Tuscaloosa, as we received a letter soliciting » situation for him. He reached here some days tinco -obtained a situation in the Alabama Bap tist office—worked steadily, until last Sat urday, when he commenced "a spree” and. yesterday the effects of the on the “hanmar’ were so powerful that, like tho animal Balaam rode, ho spoke—his tonguo was loosed, hi* ears unsealed, and he now, curses as fluently as any other impwtor-j— He colls himself Wilkin?, ofCwJohn IT. White, $c. Pass him round.—JUamon Review. . A hog slaughtered by Maj. Wm. Shcl- on, of Lafayette county, Ky., this season, iveighed 9*5 pound* nett/ weighed 9*5 pounds i frishtomA 1 iImmCw, sis-niwii attaskiiliB&2£Sj9S