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‘WISDOM—JUSTICE—MODERATION.’* vol. n. ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1846. NO. 2. THE ALBANY PATRIOT, is rmBisD itm ■iwumt Houmm, it NELSON TIFT. A SETH N. BOUGHTON, Editors ond Proprietors* TERMS. TWO Doibn. per it'inum, if paid in adnnee, or Three Dolfen at the end of the yenr. Advertisement, not exceeding twelve line*, will be inerted at One Dollar for the firat insertion, and Fifty eenU for each continuance. Advertisements not having the number of insertion, specified, will be published until forbid. Sale, of Land and Negron by Executors, Adminis trator. and Guardians, are required by law to he advertised in a public gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be advertised in like manner forty days. Notire to Debtors and Creditors of an estate roust be published forty days. ' Notice that application will be made to the Court of Odinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for four months. Monthly Advertisements, One Dollar per square for each insertion. IT All Letters on business must lie post paid. POETRY. EVE. BY ItEXXY XEELE. On seeing Bailey’s Statue of Ere at the Fountain. Nay—tie no sculptured art—’tie she—'tis she! The fatal fair, whose bright betraying smile Robbed man of Paradise, but taught him love! Oh, more than seraph beauty! Even man Is bet * a link lower than the Angels While woman—lovely woman—all divine. Transcends their glittering hierarchy.—This Well knew the subtle tempter who, albeit Himself the semblance of a child of light Could wear,—yet chose a brighter minister To lure to the fond ruin. Ah on such A fare as this, our primal sire might well Gaze away Eden! Who that hung on lips I .ike those, and listened to the uttering. Which made them eloquent, would desire The presence of angelic visitants. Or si gh for cherub warbling. ! Who that felt That soft heart to his, while o’er that neck, I/ek'd in love's fond embrace, his fingers twined Like ring-doves nestling round llie tree of life, Would deem she lured to death ? Yet, yet she smiles! Yet o’er her own sweet image hangs enamor'd; While still, and steadfastly as she, we gaze. And shaie her rapturous wonder—deeming her Scarcely less vital than onr*elvcs,und breathless I Inly from admiration! Heautifu!! •• The statue that enchants the world'’ no more lloasts undivided liomago ; Britain claims The laurel for her son, whose genius bids Its sweet creation start to life and light, lovely as Pallas, when the brain of Jovo Term'd with divine imaginings. “MISCELLANY. ANOTHER WONDER. Tbe Newark Daily Advertiser furnish* | cs an acconnl of a young woman livin THE MOTHER’S REWARD. I saw a cloud rising in the Western her* In a few moments it spread over an acconnt ol a young woman living 1 T™ “ , ,, T Middletown, MoLotSh Conm;r, ^ seventeen years of age, who is said to ex- ri vulet rtwt f rom a mounUklDf windiDg i„ hibil certain mngnelic phenomena of a wty through the valley and meadow, re- very singular nature; The account is ceiving each tributary rill which it met in derived from two clergyman of Middle- its course, till it became a mighty stream, town, who have visited the patient: bearing on its bosom the merchandize of “For four years past she has been af- many nations, and the various productions Dieted with some mysterious nervous dis- * ,,rro JJ n ^'"K country.. * £? ordey which has confined her to her bed d^j^fhesun rise'upon it; it started for nearly that whole pei lod. At first it inl0 | ife . |„ n hlile lime it spread ils bran- assumed I he form of Si. Vitus • Dance, chet and became a shelter from llic heal, which was followed some time ailerwaids “and the fowls of Heaven lodged in its with a remarkable sensilivness of the whole surface of the body, that made the slightest touch very painful, until recent ly it lias taken on its present marvellous character. She cats on an average not more than half a cracker iu 24 hours, and her I rowels operate only once in forty days —yet her face anil entire body remain full and plump, while the skin preserves the fairness and freshness of health. This may be considered ns belonging to the preternatural, and the physical; what billow has relation to the supernat ural and the spirilural. She fnlls into a sort of trance or callep- sy, in which condition her soul passes into the other world. Heaven is opened to her and she is able to sec and converse with its blessed inhabitants. They have she says, constant intercourse with this world. Deceased persons become the I guardian angles of those in wltotn they i lelt a special interest while living. She j told one of the clergymen present at ! this interview, who lived in the neighbor- : hood, and had lost a child a short time bc- ' fore that site saw the child's spirit look ing over his shoulder while he was cn- ' gaged in ptaycr at a certain time in his study- j The proofs given that she actually had ; intercourse with the unseen world, nre as follows—Rlood without any wound, appeared suddenly on the lorehead, nnd : each of the hands and feel; nnd suhse- I qiu-iitly on the posts and lintel of the door j of her "bed chamber the marks of which I remain to this time. These things are j vouched for by her mother, who is n rc- ! spot-table meiulterofilie Methodist Church nnd others. The genlleninii referred to j say, that she herself talks very rnlionully j on religious subjects, mid they cutne away ! favorably impressed so turus Iter sincere j tv was concerned." THE WEDDING RING. MAGNANIMITY. The love that exists la-tween voting j 1" Germany, during a war, a captain t . • .1 t,..«. I., v n f lit. h is been ol cavalry was ordered out upon a torug- heans the hey day of life, has he. n | He p|1| himself at the Will; ng ami felt, null jtron cx.n.ic- ">g < x,« < He H** 1 '""l*’ 1 ,' “ l \" C •it,VC of sister for sister, of I,milter for head ol Ins troop, and marched In.the | lri| ,her of a brother for his sister, his car- quarter assigned Inin. It was a solitary fvidsvniatc anti the sharer of hi* sports V «llev, '» « h '^ hardly anythmg hut '„ hi. “ griefs, ami the return of that wo™'«» !> e I^rceived. Finding tn raitr... 1^ | | | f Ibe midst ol 11 a small collage, lie up- ;3.5riJk “j i™>« «,*• ■*». •*» a voting wife aa.l .he object of her ear- l™? set my .mop to foragmg. Hie Lest 1. we, the creature ..filer thoughts and | ol ‘l man complied, and conducl.ng them lien lint, ini etc f . - ! „ 0 | ol the valley, after a <ptnrter or an S^aw* h W . haZ p.^"£X hoar’s march came to a fin. field of barley, them alT Indeed, H is all. in one, and i “Here 'S'vhal we are m search of. ex* tie that binds them is brnkenJchttmetl the captHtn ; father, you are a young mother is stricken down '/«*« and faithful guide. Watt yet a 1 earth, and death feasts upon few minutes, rephed the old man, fi.l- when the when the to the c<4ti earth, and death leasts upoi her lips, dimples and her smiles—when lhe young fitllicr i# snai«*hp<l away fn»m the side of her, the mother of his chihlren and the being ofliistenderest love—what a void is left! It was but yesterday that a friend—a young gentleman affine intellect, of a no ble heart, anti otic well .known to mnnv nf our readers, wits suddenly snatched by the hand of death from all the endear ments of life. Surrounded by every thing (hat could make existence pleasant anil happy—a wife that idolized him—chil dren that loved him ns they can only love, and friend* devoted to him—the summons came anil he lay upon the bed of death. But a few short years ago, she to whom he was wedded placed a bridal ring upon Itis linger, upon the inside of which he had a few words privately engraved. The husband would never permit the giver to read them, telling her that the day would come when her wish should hr gratified, and she should know the se cret. Seven years glided' away, and a day or two since, when conscious be must souq leave his wife forever, he called Iter to his bedside, and with his dying ac cents, told her the hour had come when she should see the words upon the ring, she bad given him, The young mother look it from bis cold Ginger, and though beart-strirken with grief, eagerly read the words—'I ho re lotcd (hot cm earth—I still meet thee in Heaton! . , H°w touchingly beautiful this simple incident 1 The garnered hopes of years rush into that single moment.as the words fall upon the pars of the young wife.— Sorrow and wedded love, and the bright dreams, of tbe world—the heart’s dearest treasures—tbe endearments or the life that is pash and the-bliss of the life that is to come—bow they , mingled at this boor, as tbe widowed mother lays aside the ring and weeps over [he lifelesss form of thehusband ofher bosom f branches.' 1 saw a little smiling bov stand by the side of his mother, and heard bint repeat trout Iter lips one of the songs of Zion. I saw nitn kneel at her feel, and pmy that Jesus would bless his dear parents, the world of mankind, nnd keep him from temp, tation. In a little time I saw him with the books of the classics under his arm, walk ing alone, hurried in thought, I went into a Sabbath School, nnd heard him saying to a little circle that surrounded him, “ Suffer little children to come unto me in a few moments afterwards, I went into the sanc tuary, and heard him reasoning of “ righ teousness, and temperance, and judgement to come.” I looked, and saw the same mother, at whose feel he had knelt, and from whose lips he had learned to lisp the name Eman uel. Her hair was whitened by the frosts of wiiiicr, Heaven beamed in her eye, glis tening with a tear; and I thought I saw in Iter tear the moving of a mother’s heart, while she reverted to days gone by, when litis Boanegers was firsl'dawning into life, hearing from her lips the voice of instruc tion ; and imptiring in child-like simplicity the way to be good, and I said, “This fs the rich harvest of a mother’s toil; those are the goodly sheaves of that precious seed which was probably sown in weeping ; nnd your gray hairs shall not be brought down in sorrow to the grave, but in the bower of rest you shall look down oh him who “ will arise' and cnll you blessed,” and finally greet you where your hope is swallowed up in fruition, ana prayer in praise. SINGULAR MARRIAGE. A widower at Camden who was not very young, liccnmp smitten with a young and beautiful girl, and married her. A short time after, the son of this man by a former wile, became also in love, not with a younger person, hut with the moth er of the father’s new wife, a widow lady still in the bloom ol lile. Ho offered himself and soon the young man and the wulow were united in the bands of mat rimony, so that in consequence of these two connections, a father lK-cninc the son- in-law nf his own son, anti the wife not only the daughter-in-law of Iter own son- in-law, but still more the mnther-in-law of her own daughter ( while thehusband of the latter is the faihcr-in-law of his tnollter-in-law, and luthe-in-law to his own father. Singular confusion may arisc, if chiltlirn should spring from these peculiar marriages. usefulness! It must lie a grout satisfaction, at the close of life, to be able to look hark on the years which arc past; and to feel that yon have lived, not lor yourselves alone, but that you have been useful to others. You ntay be ossured also, that the same freliug is a source of comfort and happi ness at any period of life. There is nothing in this world so good as useful ness. It binds your fellow creatures to you, anti you to them; it tends to the im provement of your own character, ami it gives you real importance in society.— Much Iteyond what any artificial station cun liestow. EXERCI8E. Throughout all nature, want of motion indicates weakness, corruption, inanima tion and death, Trencb, in his damp pris on, leaped about like a liott, in his tenet* of seventy pounds weight, in order to pre* serve his health ; end an illustrious physi cian observes: “ I know not which is the most necessary to the support of the human frame—food or motion. Were the exerci- of the whole of the body attended to in Drresponding degree with that of the mind, men of great learning would be more healthy and vigorous—of more gen eral talents—of more practical knowledge; more happy in their domestic lives ; more enterprising and attached to their duties a* men- In fine, it may with propriety be said, that the highest refinement of mind, without improvement of the body, can nev er present more than half a human being.” Anger, like powder, ignite* at the slight cst spark ; ana bursting from the humnu bosom, it scorches and withers all kindly feelings, and hurries the victim on to un premeditated crime and ruin. It lowers man in the scale of being and astimulates him to the brute that perishes. It drowns the voice of reason, ana degrades manhood; for it ever brings with it the consciousness of its own madness. It is unworthy of man, be the provocation ever so great; for it cannot restore peace, or undo the wrong already done. Then whose ever yield* to its influence degrades his own dignity, nnd lays himself open to censure, pity, and dis gust ; and “ exposes his weakest point for every enemy to strike against.” [Loteeil Offering. [rvsusaso »r asqtrzsT.] PARAPHRASED PROM THE EXPRESSIONS OF A DYING DRUNKARD. "LostI hat l I know forever lost—* To me no ray of hop* can come l My fete is sealed, my doom is fixed— But give me nun—I will have ram t “ Ob, Doctor don’t yon see him there 7 In that dark earner, there be tits: See t bow he twists hie firry tongue, And tt me burning brimstone epita I “Go chaso him out—look, here he coatee I Now on my bed be wants to stay!— lie shan't be them!—Oh God! oh God I Go wty, I say—go wsy, go way I “ Oh chain him fist—oh, tie him down I . Ah 1 now be deep* mo in bis arms! Down, down the window—close it tight t Ah, don’t yon bear my wild alarms ? “Fire! niter! help!—come quick!—I’ll die I Oh, take me off this burning bed! The smoke, it chokes—I cannot cry: There now—he’s catching at my head I •‘Oh, see! again the demon comer— Look! there he’s peeping through the glare! Mark how his horning eye-balls flash 1 How fierce he grins!—don’t let him pass 1 “ There stands his homing coach of fire I He smiles and beckons me to come— What are those words he's written there 7 * In bell we never want for room I” One load, one piercing shriek war betid, One yell rang out upon the air; One sound, and one alone came forth— Tbe victim died in wild despair I HARBOR DEFENCE. We observe that the inode of harbor de fence, by an ingenius “sub-marine explo. sire apparatus,” which low me patiently it little further.” The march was accordingly resumed, nnd at the distance of a mile they arrived, at another field of barley. The troop im mediately alighted, cut down the grain, trussed it, and remounted. The officer thereupon said lit his conductor, “ father, you have given yourself mid us unneces sary trouble; the first field was furlielter than litis.” “ Very true, sir,” replied the g«,od old man, “but it was not miue. , ‘ PRIDE. There is no vice to which the human race are so prone, nnd none so unsuitable to their nulure und condition, ns pride—- that self-love which springs up so rapidly in our souls, and leads os to view our own qualifications through a magnifying medium, which gives existence and reali ty to the phantoms of imagination. . Pride commences with our lile, grows with our growth, and spreads through all our con versation and conduct. She accompan ies us through every stage, condition and circumstance of our terrestrial course. She intermingles with almost every ac tion we perlorm, and every pursuit in which we engage. She attends us to tbe grove, in all the pomp, solemnity, and ex pense ol funerals. She engraves her os tentatious inscriptions on the stone that covers the mouldering body, and wlten that copy is incorporated with its original dust, and these wotirls of vanity are no longer legible, she attempts by escutch eons, and pedigrees, and genealogical legends, to perpetuate the name which wisdom had perhaps consigned to; obliv ion. This is mote or less Tbe foible, this tbe deformity, this tbe deep-rooted vice of all mankind. Pride appears in tbe cottage as well as tbe palace; she sits on tbe workman’s bench as well as on the , . monarch’s throne; she struts driving a totes for some of tu principal bones, flock of sheep as welt as in marching at which were wanting, made to assume a tbe head of a victorious army. moderately human appearance! ENGLAND AND THE UNITED STATES. At a recent public meeting in England, Lord Ashley said ol collon as an article of clothing:— “It is much more wholesome to wear than uny thing else; and I will tell you another thing, the whole of the army will shortly be clothed with itou that account. They were dependent on a single coun- try—that of America—for their supply of this article; and just let them see how dependent they really were in this res pect. In 1816, the quantity of cotton wool imported into this country amounted only to 86,000,000 tbs; and at the pres ent lime it hud increased to 640,000,000. Now they were dependent on a single natioii for the supply of that commodity, and next to the calamity of an inadequate supply of corn, would be that of an inade quate supply of cotton wool; for upwards of a million nfpersonswould be thrown out of employment without the means of obtain ing bread. It bad often times happened that in tbe warehouses of this country they bad not a supply sufficient for the consumption of a single month.” Tbe great skeleton giant, nineteen feet high, which was dug op a short time ago somewhere in tbe Suie of Tennessee, has proved to be, after all the marvellous stories told about it, nothing more won derful than the imperfect skeleton of a young Mastodon, set upright on its bind lrg% and, J»y the aid of artificial sobsti- Front tie Floridian. CULTIVATING FLOWERS. It bas been well observed, “If the ad miration of the beautiful things of nature has a tendency to soften nnd refine the character, the culture of them has a still more powerful and enduring influence.” It takes the form of an affection. The seed which wc have sown, the bud which we have nursed, the tree of oar planting, are to us as living, loving friends. In proportion to the care which we bestow upon them, is the warmth of our regard. They are also gentle and persuasive teachers of His goodness, who causelh the rain to descend upon the good and the bud, who forgets not the tender vine amid the snows and ice of winter, Imt hringelh forth the root long hiden from the eye of man, with vernal splendor or autumnal foliage. The proximity of flow ers to the dwelling, anti the core and cul ture necessary to their preservation, has been pronounced by meaicnl tnen as sal utary to health, as it certainly does pro mote cheerfulness of spirits, and its con comitant good humor and affection among the household. Were 1 cnlled on to select a happy family, I should certainly expect to find it in that house, surround ed by well cultivated flowers, nod a well stocked garden. Contentment, independ ence and cheerfulness, always associate themselves in the mind of the traveller, as being dwellers amid suclt beautiful scenes. But on the contrary, tbe stian- ger. on seeing a slattern house yard and without any of these little necessaries, Itoth to comfort and taste, is impressed immediately with the belief, that here dwells eitlier ignorance, or indolence, or intemperance. If lie would favorably im press the passing stranger—it we covet health and happiness “at home”—let nil cultivate flowers. The theory is fully proven, that health is promoted by hor* ticollure. By the placid countenances of those who use it ns n relaxation from the rxcilement of business nr the exhaustion nf study. The lessons learned among the works of Nature, nre of peculiar value in the present age. The restlessness and din of the rail-road principle which per vades its operations, and tht^spirit of ac cumulation which threatens to corrode every sensibility, are modified by the sweet friendship of the quiet plants. The toil, the hurry, the speculation, the .sud den reverse, which mark our own times, renders it peculiarly salutary for us to heed the admonition of our Savior, and take instruction from thelilliesof the field He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one previously grew, is uni versally admitted to be a benefactor; and I assert such also is he who beautifies a A LESSON TO GEORGIA “ With a population- exceeding that of Massachusetts by fifteen thousand, North Carolina is poor to a proverb; and can it he wondered at, while her own sea- K rts and marts of trade are entirely over- tkecl and neglected; where those who live upon the taxes raised from her im poverished citizens, instead of turning their minds towards the improvement of the State, as a Slate, lend their whole in fluence to enrich her neighbors of Virgin ia and South Carolina, at the expense of her trade nnd commerce!” The above paragraph is from n most admirable article which we find in the Wilmington (N. C-) Commercial, in which the writer is endeavoring to call the at tention of the people of that State to the impolicy nf so directing their great lines of internal improvement as to make them tributary to their neighbors. Alluding to Massachusetts, he asks i “What has made her what she is?— Her soil and climate arc inferior to that of North Carolina. It is the industry of her citizens and their union in directing their trade to one point—Boston—and thereby creating wealth and capital a- mong her own citizens, that has tended so powerfully to build her up.” Again he adds: “Look at the small Stale of South garden for the eye of the community.— ^ w<j m w on # r^^ntlMlJShtT. whiehdo good P'""*™’ ™ ch like wisely administered medicine. He cheers the invalid, and makes the eye of - ~~ he'nursued bv all coo- the child brighten with increased lutppf * uch ". wur *?.. n,a L? e -P U ?_ ness. He furnishes pure aliment for that taste which refines character, and multi plies simple • pleasures. This taste also promotes industry, and is prcliarly favor able to simplicity and virtue. “Pnias to the sturdy spade, And patient ptoagfi, tad shepherd’, ximpfo crook, And let the llgkt mechanic's tool be knifed With honor, which enessiag hy the power Of lose corapnnkxtahip, tbe feborer’e bud, Cota off that buid, with an itewerid ofnenct, Fiore n too bnxy eiwmrfl with th* hrnrt."_ LINN/EU8. i we have before no- liced ns having commended itself to the very favorable consideration or the naval committee of the House of Representative* in the last Congress, lias again been made the subject of a report from the seme com mittee of the present Ilobse, urging upon Congress such action as may be proper to apply the apparatus to the important pur- pose for which it i* designed. The inven tion appears, from the report, to hove stood the leal of the most rigorous professional experiment. The cost of it is very trifling, and it is declared by the very highest au thority, both scientific and’ practical, to be entirely efficient in ire operation. Such an invention, at such a time as the present, well deserves the attention of our national legislature. We hope that before the session closes, provision may be made to test its vhlue more fully, it farther test be needed, and to npplv it hereafter to the defence of our principal harbors, if any con tingency shall uccur to make such applica tion expedient as a measure of . defence or of precaution.—ff'ashinglon Union. Correspondence nf tie Washington Union. New York, April 6,1848. One of the leading arguments urged by the friends of the higbtteriff of 184S, was that it would keep the specie in the coun^ try, and strengthen the banks, &c. This plea they uttered on the passage of the hmr, and repeated it with incessant clamor da ring the Inst presidential campaign. The fallacy of the argument'was then pointed out to them. They were told, specie, like any other commodity of trade, would find itslevel; that whenever a demand grew up for it in Europe, it would leave the coun try, tariff or no tariff. The law still exists in all it* uneottal deformity, and yet we find specie has recently.commenced sliding from the country with extraordinary rapid ity. Within the brief period of two weeks Carolina, with a population of nearly 1G0.- 000 less than that nf our State—she has her Charleston, and her legislators direct all their energies to its improvement.— See the consequence—tbe great wealth concentrated there—by which she is en abled to prosecute her improvements. But what has North Carolina to boast of?—Raleigh bas heh Petersburg avd Richmond I! And the balance of the State has the lajctt to pay. Are not these words full of instruction to the people of Georgia l A simple change of names, and the picture will suit this State as well as North Carolina.— True, we have not yet become a bve word, but it cannot be denied that the labor of the Slate docs not enrich our own people ns much os it ought. Tbe wan ing prosperity of some of our cities proves that they are no longer the centre of trade und commercial prosperity—that their ratal, nboul half a million has floated off to England Cotton, the great staple against which foreign bills of exchange ere drawn to an enormousextent, promises to prove deficient in amount. All accounts concur in fixing the deficiency of the crop of 1845, now go ing forward, at not less than SIX),KOI) bale*. Estimating each bale at $30, would give a deficiency in value equal to $9,000,600.— Supposing this amount to be neutralised by an advance in value to $4,000,000 on the current prices compared with last year, still a hiatus of $5,000,000 would exist.— This amount, or clement in the operations of exchange, or in supplying the means of paying for purchases of goods abroad pre dicated upon the belief that that there would be no falling off in the yield of cot ton, compared with the preceding year, must be supplied by other mean*, nndlkat is specie. The importation of goods has been nag- tncnicd by the expansion of the ban Is scattered through the country. It is im material how high it may.be short of prohi bition, the expansion of the paper system never fails to encourage overtrading. * Ma ny persons who were swept down by the paper revulsion of 1836 and 1837, having passed through the bankrupt law, are igris among the active business men of the com- try, endeavoring to retrieve their fortunes. All this is just and laudable. But when bank expansions encourage free importa tions, the importers are anxious to artt to country customers, till the whole country becomes involved in overtrading. It is highly probable that, in fmm two to three months, from two to three million* of dollars of specie will be exported from this country to Europe, this will necessa rily embarrass our banks, to some extenr, who will dislike to call upon their cuetonfc- ers for collections, if they can ovoid it, as many who have extender! their business account of increased banting facilities w3t not be able to meet sudden demand* fer pavment without a risk ol suspension. • The result will be—and I wish yonr rea ders to bear it in mind—that the bants, with the leading whigjournnls, will charge all this derangement and tightness in the other States. We are truly glad tofind gu ment in coining election*. Their high that the people becoming sensible of tarifT was to keep the specie in the counter, Yet we have a high tariff, nnd. the spe- their condition and prospects, nnd that a change of policy is contemplated; a change which will concentrate at least oar own trade within our own borders. The.veiy able and patriotic article over the signa ture of “ Crawford,” which we recently copied from the Augusta Constitutionalist, gives promise (hat a better feeling is about to animate hitherto rival interests, and earned, at will terminate in making Geor gia at the South, what Massachusetts is at the North, at least, so far oor system oF internal improvements, onr borne in dustry, and consequent prosperity are cuocerned.—Sat. Rep. ceils, and better than those made by the hammer. Mr. G. bas applied for letters patent. The Seminole Indians.—The Van Bo ren Ark. Intelligencer says t “We learn from a gentleman who resides among tbe ----- m , . Seminotes that tbev are well pleaaed •entatives of the Untied State* refused to with thecoantry Uot bava lemovndto; Robert Follon the u ? e of iu hall to dc- He that u surety fo. a stranger shall and are clearing large farms ready tot liver a lecture on steam navigation, upon smart for it, and he that hsteih surety- cultivation the ensoingAuturner.” the groood that it vas a tistemry scheme. cie leaves the country, which is caused, they now say, by the ‘constitutional treas ury, tie. • - • FLORIDA REEF. ■' The value of property wrecked on Florida Reef in 1846, was $787,000.— The whole amount of salvage awarded, at Key West, $69,692—other expenses, $106,709. The wreckers generally ob-‘ serve goojl faith, and their right* are pro tected by the court. Key.West contains 1400 souls. J . The Boston Post says—“Mr Atthell’s picture of the End oFthe World, it is aop- posed, was destroyed on board of the Philadelphia and Boston packet Win.' PilL The picture was valued at $20,000 —about 86000 insured at tbe North' Amc- A Mr. Gray, of Middletown, Cl, haa rtcan Office, Philadelphia.” . invented a machine lor Rioting wrought The Witfiao. Piu was discovered to be. nails, which can bo worked by ooe horse on fire off tbw coast of Massachusetts, and power, and will tom out 100 lbs. per day. was run in towards the shore with a view They are said to be as smooth as cot of sending bar. It was the remark of an eminent divine that he had found more good in bad peo ple, and more bad it. gW people than Some years since, tbe bouse'of repre- ever he expected. ship is sure.—Proverb.