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ALBANY, BAKER COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1846.
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MISCELLANY,
Prom the Ifnltimrire Patriot.
A NEW l’LANKT—TUB GREATEST TRI
UMPH OP ASTRONOMY.
escape would reach it. In ibis, too, he I A “POPPING THE QUESTION” STORY, j THE BLOWING SPRING,
has proved 10 be correct. . . I A thousand devices and contrivances! A few davs ana we attended the ‘Blow-
MASTADON COTTON.
Wc mentioned last week, an instance
THE CAMEL AND THE NEEDLE'S EYE.
Lord Nugent, in his recent publication,
‘Lands Clasical and Sacred,' has given
an application of these words which at
once proves ihe fitness of the expression
for the object our Savior had in view.--
" ‘ " ’ ** -as about
the large
_ o ^ ^ __ _ ^ seeing a train
n comparison ol the heavens with Dr. most others that have come under our: of a small mountain. At the head of the j introduced into the county by our fellow-1 of cameL approaching, desired him to go
Brenicker’s map, saw a star of the eighth | knowledge. j Spring is the mouth of MMnall cave, the I citizen Alexander Compton, which he through ‘the eye ol the needlein other
magnitude not marked on the map, in the j The subject of it was a youngish bach-j entrance of which is low and the passage styles “Mastodon” cotton. It may, or words the small side gate. This his lord-
may not lie the same known by that name | ship conceives to be a common express*
in New Orleans, but it is every way its ' on » an< l explanatory ol our Saviour’s
equal. This year, on his plantation on! words; lor, he adds, the sumpler camel
Oyster Creek, be planted some 100 acres; cannot pass through, unless with great
—- -... v , ... . m- Buujrei 01 n was a yoongisn naen- j _ _
constellation of Aquaris, in the precise elor, a professional man affair tallenls: narrow. The only thing remarkable a
spot laid down by M. LeXerrier. On and quite good looking withal, who, Cir; bout the place, is a strong current of air
the next night Dr. G. was nble to verily , some fourteen summers since his minori- j sufficient to shake the weeds nnd grass
his discovery and to detect the retrogade j ty, had withstood all the shafts of the lit- around, and to chill a man completely ill
motion ol the planet, which motion was tie god, but was at length, all at once,I the shortest imaginable time, in the heat
also found fully In agree with that stated ;« pricked in the heart" by the sight of a of summer.
by M. Le Verrier. It was afterwards sweet,“blur eyed, rosy cheeked maiden of j The presumption however, with us is,
with this seed, and while his neighborsj difficulty, and stripped ol his load, his
make not over one-fifth of a crop, his will trappings, and his merchandise.’
of,”;;, e ,E' jvq wiucgSv *hig.
ican, nearly approaching to the Sea Is- GERY SOUTH,
land, than which it isa more hardy growth Since the adoption of abolition resolu
. , , . _ . ... and the fibre, though not so fine as ill this lions by the Whig Convention of Mussa-
sugpested to lie twice the distance ol that luckily for both parlies, however, he was stream is increased or diminished by wet latter, is of greater strength than wc have ! chusetts, it is not out of place to show
_■ <• .1 ... .1 , . . 1 “ ‘ ‘ “ 1 " 1 1 ■ ” im the mouth ever met in any variety. The yield to! the Southern section of the great. Whig
1 ‘ the acre is very great, the plant sending party the complexion of their political al-
oul more branches, which are loaded with j lies at the North. The Boston Clirono-
nalls, and during the picking season it type, in speaking of tho Mexican war, ul-
wnslcs very little when compared with ters such language as this :
other varieties. j “If the free states were not replete
There can he no doubt, it is a sort much | with the most canting by pocracy, and the
better to plant than any ever before cul- most heartless, cowardly, and crawling
tivated among us, and a knowledge of it, slavery, they would rise, one and all, ami
for two seasons before this last, which Isay to this slaveholding'President of ours,
lomlly proclaims its superiority, fully jus- “Come down from your scat j play tho
plnnel from the sun, two or three seconds i the veriest slave of hashfulness ; and or diy weather, the blast from
in diameter. though lie gazerl and sighed, and sighed of the cave is increased nr diminished.—
It has also been seen, ns we have stated j and gazed, incessantly, longing most des- However, this natural curiosity, like rnn-
Thn announcement made recently by in Washington and Cambridge, ami the I perntely to *• let out” his feelings, vet be ny others, may have been formed, when,
M. Le Verrier, to the French Academy, i existence of the new planet, to which, of could never screw up his courageto the j at the command of Gml, “the fountains
that there was another planet Ixyimd the course, the name of the discoverer will he sticking point; there was always at tliei of the great deep were broken, up and the
orbit of Uranus, lias been wonderfully de- given, is thus placed beyond all doubt—a ! critical moment—just as lie .was on the windows of heaven opened.”—Jonesboro'
lisc overv which will give the name of point of disclosing his heart’s secret—|(Tcnn.) Whig.
Le Verrier a place among the greatest ns-
irnmomers, nnd which, as it is the last,
so is it the greatest triumph which that
sublime science lias vet achieved.
K KN'MLWl HlTIl CASTLE.
a strange, choking sensation, as if lie were
gasping lor breath—and the words stuck The Moon 1/trough Lnrtl Haste's Tele-
in bis throat. He followed his dulcinea *cope.—Dr. Smresby, of Bradford, Eng-
very where; he paid hpr the most pres-Hand, still continues to lecture on the ap- lilies us in advising planters, before they , devil in our name no longer.” They
ittg iitirnlinns calling oftentimes twice jpeantnceof'theHeavens through the tnon- put in another crop, to inquire into the , would also follow up this event with a
or thrice a day ; he felt jealous, uncom- ster telescope of Lord Knsse. He dc- merits of the “ Mastodon,” u liirli, in our ‘back ground of action’ ill the 6hapc of ar-
A correspondent of the United Slates | fortalile, savage, and almost mmt-ixnj, if scribes the moon as appearing in great | opinion, is quite worthy of the praise we; tillcry and bayonets.
Gazette, gives a livelv summary of the site barely looked at or spoke two wrirds magnificence through this fumed iustru- have heatd bestowed on h.— Galoaton Wc know very well that the Whigs
• hurai-lerislii'S of the'venerable ' ruins of to another; lie blushed up tu his temples raenl, seeming like a gluts' of molten sil- j Civilian. | South of Mason’s and Dixon’s line, loathe
K- unilworth : I if her name chanced to mentioned i n ! vr, whilst every object of the extent of 1 ! the cant and fanaticism of the “liberal"
“From Coventry to Kennilwortli Castle connection with an other gentlemen, still one hundred yards was quite visible, and J A UULU 1 ItAl 1 f.K. 1 North, but they must see now that they
is six miles. The village ot Kennilwortli I he resolved and re-resolved, to bring mat- "‘•'Rees of the size of Ymkuiinstcr, might i Mi,n y * l, iries a,e " ,1(1 “! ,he . ,eat3 > ol ; are in political alliance therewith, through
I here fort*, he sni< I, be easily perceived strange adventures ami hari-breaddi. ih e agency 0 f the Websters and Winth-
. . J *. . . ! ..I 1 .i... c I • I.... y .. .... ...
it this disrnv -
adiniiation.—
law* nf nature
and ilull man
"«'■ apply
nice discovery.
oine curious as-
is of no importance. Tli- old castle is ' ters at once to the “ last and fearful ex- therefore, he saul, be easily perceived it strange aoiemurcs mm iiun-urcutnn lhe a „,. llt .y „( the Websters and Wmth-
sit iialed on a tising ground above the I trcinilv,” and though the lady heing a they had existed. He stated that there j escapes <d the free mounted trappers, but. r<1 p 3 , Hales and Giddings. What will
town. Your readers are too familiar with I woman of much gmal sense ami shrewd-! was no appearance ofsny thing of that 11 > ,,a . v " orU “ " ,a ‘ e mention one they do ?—Baltimore Argiu.
would be “driving at ” nature, neither was any indication of the | ' vh, ‘ ; h Richardson, a Krntucy man, well
his attachment, made! existence of water nor of an atmosphere, j kaow " >° l!a ‘ servants ol the company as
it to need a detailed description. Its
brief history is that it was founded in the
I-di century, existed, live hundred
years, ihe theatre of power and pleas
ure, chivalry and barbarism, feasting and
connie’., until it was dismantled by the
officers of Cromwell In die I7lli!centm v.
All llie tub s of rmnr nee have hud their
realization wilhing these ruined walls in
some period of their history.
‘dis outer walls, enclosing seven nrees,
are nearly annihilated. The ensile itself
was the lienu ideal of the ancient Baron.'
Vast in extent, massive—Its walls being
and rcciprncnliug
every advnnc
deli, acy—summer was
winter, and he had not yet got hismoull
linen, nor was ever likely to do so,
■II'MIIU 1115 . * I • (“It*
customary visit, and was walking about a ™ l ™nv°l the pieces of rock, driven out
the room,'silent more than usual, and j ol ,he vo !' a ■>"<’*, appeared to be laid at
..•ring only ....occasional remark on the var,ous . ll . ,8,anc f®' 1 l,0 u D(X ' ,m Snul 1,6
went her, Sec. she abruptly rose am! Icfi ( 'M >eL 'tc<l it would soon be competent to
the room, and Imk d in the jutir alone | Daguerreotype the image of the moon up-
from six to eight f.-et thick—lofty, filled ] ,„m,hrr! Mr. . for some stranee rea-!°" 1,10 s P f ‘ ca, »'". whieh could not be done
with feasting halls, guard rooms and rlun Lm. took frichi in a few moments after.! al P rPSFnt ’ a3 ,l "‘ lnoon wn * not « n * ,nnn -
monstrated to In' true.
The Boston Advertiser announces that
it was seen from the Cambridge Observa
tory on the evening, of the^fst and 23d
instant. It was found, without much dif
ficulty, with the five feet Equatorial, near
the stars, f. No. 76IS of the British Asso
ciation Callitliigue. The plunct bore il-
luminnlioii almost as well as the slur,
wlti’-h is rated of the 7th magnitude.
It was also seen from the National Oh
servalory in Washington on Friday night,
the 22d instant.
But it hud previously hren seen in En
gl. util, and the London Illustrated News,
received by the Caledonia, contains a
map of its place nnd appearancs in the
liravcns.
There is a sublimity al
rv which commands all ,
It demonstrates that tin
arc fixed and unchniigin
has been able to < oinprchcnd
them. This was no chance
li was not liist seen liv
trotioiiier. w ho was limiting liir comets,
or stray slurs, or engaged in usccrlainiiig
the correctness or incorrectness of maps
of the heavens. The fact of the existence
of the new planet was the woik of calcu
lation—it was a <h niottslration of mnlhc-
matir s—it was the conclusion of human
reason. The eccentric motions ol the
planet Uranus had Ibr a long lime intrud
ed much attention. It was seen, from
time to time, to wander more and more
from its predicted place ; and ibis anoma
lous movement, whilst it surprised also
confounded the astronomers. It could
not Lc accounted tor hv unv known law
of
IlCll
win
from
mom
his
anil reason hail given him, he entered up- j shows the habits ol our ancestors. Beer j he renewed the nssaull, but with equal-
on a series uf lulcnhilion, so minute and drank during the visit ilirec hundred and . |y discouraging and humiliating results,
■n extensive llmt they would have deter-1 twenty hogshead, besides wines and fi
red a less enthusiastic nstrnmnmer, front quors—the daily consumption being six-
uudcruikiog them, nnd which nothing but teen hogsheads of wine, forty hogsheads
the greatest perseveram e, ingenuity and of beer, mid ten oxen slaughtered every
skill could accomplish. j morning. As I roam over these desolate
The result ol fliese calculations he made halls, or stand on the crumbling lower,
known to the French Academy in the lat- this scene of extravagance and debauche-
tcr part of August. It was that there was [ ry, rises Ik-lore me.
u planet licvond the orbit of Umnus.of “There is the grand banqueting hall—
whose existence nothing was vet known, there is the roval dormitory—there is the
He stated he had not seen the planet. At till yard, where Knights strove and ladies
the time lie read his p:i|ier it was not in a smiled from the balcony almve. on mnng-
positinn to he seen, hut lie directed alien- led limbs nnd streaming blood. There
lion to die part of the heavens where it is the garden with a few ancient trees,
was, nnd indicated the time when it could where Lords and high lmrii dames snunl-
be seen. ererl and intrigued and whispered love
In the paper referred to, which he read and scandal. The same heavens are a-
hofnre the French Academy. M. LeVer-jhove—the same walks below—the same
ricr gives tin' method bv which he h is ' genile river gleams ill the sun and chimes
arrived nl his most remarkableronclusinn. its melody on its pebbly banks—but
He has rande use, he says, for the sake of; where is the noble Leicester anil royal
greater precision, of all the ancient ohser- and noble guests? They are beggared to
valions of Uranus, to the number of nine- common dust and the palace, ol tlieir ca-
tcen, made by Flamstrad. Bradley, May- r >us:il is a lonely solitude^—a sublime nnd
craml Lemonier. and the very great mini- stately, hut steadily wnisting ruin. The
lior of two hundred nud sixty two ohser- hull of the porter nnd*Ihe ample kitchen,
valions made at Paris nnd Greenwich Ik'- the npnrtmehts ol the domestics, alone
iwr
NAVAL.
fast failing into ‘ canoes, several miles in breadth; through *!ers of the mountains, used.to tell. It is U. g. ship ol-lhe-line Pennsylvania, wi
•t pot his mouth n,, e <*f them these was a line in cnnlinu- his boast that lie nevet carries provisions | ie huuhl into the Navy Yurd next wee
inee of one, about 150 miles in length,
nsislent with womanly I There was a vast number of extinct vol- |“ nc °f^lhc most astute and dare-devil ^tra- We learn, says the Beacon, that tho
_ y luril next week.
on his journey on the most dreary and 11„ be overhauled, &c.
distant travels. His good horse, his trus-j In addition to tho above wc copy the
ty rifle, his pistols, and his knife, his steel ] following from the Washington corres-
mid flint, his trafs, a coil of cord, and ! p „ n ,lent of the Baltimore Sun.
wallet are his only accompaniments, and j „ Washington, Oct. 22, 1S40.
“ Instructions were received at our
Mamma at last lost all patience, and ! ' vh , IL ' h raM ' n L a st,lu S a direction like a
Ic.ertnineil to hasten matters to a crises ; ,a,lwa - v ' ,' he ««wnil appearance, how-
o, one day. while he was making his! f ' ve , r ’ was ll ! 5e ‘"" ! . vast rum of nature;
his only trust is in providence. Furnish
ed with these, I have heard him say he I " ln8,ru f l,,,na ':' ere rc ' CL ' lv f“ at ,,ur
(ears nothing, over river or frozen lake, W 'he •learner
... ... i “ Water Witch” ready for service unmo
or mountain,or barren plain. .. .
Ho was once out alone, hunting bufTa-'
hi, aial at (he close of the day was reli-
ready lor service iinmc-
She is prohahly destined fur
the Rio Grande.
Orders have been issued from the
A NOVEL GRAVE.
Al last, vexed with himself beyond endn- i ° nc “ J»hu Blown,” writing from Gen.
ranee, he summoned once more all his I Kearney’s camp, “on the Plains, July
heroism, for a final, agonizing cflhrt.— , 22 ' 1 ’” ,hus descrilies an Iiidiun grave dia-
Nerving himself with the energy of des-1 covered on tlieir route:
pair, ns if nlmut to spring a powder mine “ I other evening at our camp, near
or face n cannon’s blazing mouth, he ll,e ‘crossing.’ I found in tho top a large
made n dead halt lielbre her, and, in j cotton-wood tree, the glare ol mi Indian
tones slightly tremulous, said—Miss —probably a chief—the Imdy wrapped in
will you m-a-r-rv me! “Yes, I skins, ami lifiil on mats resting on his
Sir-rce /” was the prompt reply, given in ! lo,l 8 R poles, which were passed across
a low, hut clear and unhesitating voire, {two huge limbs ol the tree. ^Another
with n rather nrelt look, while a deeper' [lackage, which Icouhl nut make out, I
blush crimsoned the cheek of the speaker. 1 vvas by some ol the men who climrd
i- i j;;, /, up to it, held his Ihiws, arrows, wnr-« lull,
| medicine gour<l, Sec. The birds had
** j picked several hole* through his wiuditfg
EA V E - At E > A\ I,. i s i lcol (0 g 0l al |,j s fl,. g ||. Over the whole
What is there man cannot save nnd j deposite, the skin which Imd probably
improve? By _ curbing ap|vtitc and re- | M ( . n used for his lodge, was stretched
straining passions—-hy observing pro- ; tightly, and lhe whole establishment was
deme and maintaining regularity, he '
may save his health,
ami thus preserv
pure, ns ennslanl
happiness to sustain anil cherish him un-| —
behind the fallen carcase, prepared to vessel, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, t«
meet his pursuers. In a moment one of '“ ,w n " ,rl >' r 1 ra< 1 l y (“r Service. In a lew
the Indians came within range of his rifle, ‘ la -V s sha Wl1 .'' c « m ‘-ered and ntaoued,
and was shot through the heart. The a "<b perhaps, Iml a long adieu In Quaker-
other loo seeing the fate of their compan- n A !?«««* ™ saatlf ; r l,,ok '“8
ion, halted for a moment, and then pro- ''F v " fl '. ,al ‘ ! ‘ l - , ? lic lia ®, ^ct. repainted
pared to surround the enemy; but ns the I black ’ "'Rh a white streak, mid her guns
first man Imd sent l.is hall whistling hy ar< ;. no "’ receiving the percussion lock,
the ear of Richardson, he himself drop- j bt ' r °f e P k >^d on hoard. As yet
pel from l.is horse from a hall from one wc are 33 " ho will be put m
of Richardson’s long,pistols. The third , ~ a " (l ,,f gallant sloop,
seeing this rather a danger..., s game to > { l,c I \’ r r ,sc " as . :u Ltgmnaf.r water
play, whipped l.is horse and was soon !? nJ provisions, previous to the 20,1. ult. A
out ol Sight! Richardson had then only I Iviier has l.cen r.-ccved ,n Baltimore vig
to gather the fruits of his victory. Ile H "vre, from an officer on board the Unf
caught the two Indians’ horses, mounted ^ tI 1 ^ at ‘: 8 ®l‘ire slop Lcxmglo.i, houm. to
oner loaded the other with the discharged Ca ! l 13 dal '<> al • ea ’
cargo of meat, and returned home with lude 29. longitude 40, August 7lhltt0.
two spare rifles and a good stock or am- AU "’f"' , U - S. hr,g Dolphin, all well,
mnniiLn wound to llie coast of Africa, was siioken
July 4th, lat. S :J1 N. Ion. 43 05 \V.
Two Government Steamers anived at! The U. S. iron steamers Mary Sutn-
liappmess tosusinin aim ciicrisn nun un-| _ —; ; T 1 er to New port, where they got supplies; j The Court Martial, convened on board
der labor nnd every hardship. He may \ Marriage Question.—W e mentioned the j f| p VVIMM | am | water, and left immediately 1 the Franklin, adjourned Saturday ntorn-
snve a fortune hy industry and denying j„;her day, that the Rev. Mr. McQueen, | n . r R raaos R miinen. We have not ina to Mondav. Lieuls. Thatchei and
duced
with
by theory in mo »«cno*ii«'s mi, i n.u .« jn..... , .- r . , ( „ \ _o ■ c- • si a it* o
equation of condition involving the cor-lough isieft organized, massive nnd fieao-! !• comes to us in brief minutes; to show the Presbytery of Favetievile; and that |, as l^eu reported.—Floridian.
rectionsnflhe elements of theorl.it of U- tifTil, ,o show what it was, nod every ut that preseniappl.cat,on is the sole do- r.i... ........ t-t i-' •
rnnus, together with lhe mass and the ele- \ wliere ihe wnisting wall nnd crumbling ■>' required of us; vet these so weave in
incuts of the orbit of the planet sought.— I tpiiier and creeping ivv give full cflecl to I!"nd make up our days and years, that
These equations contain nine unknown the impression of its decay. The quiet! tnisimprovcmenl.of the ptesenris alivavs
quantities of which approximate solutions repose of its position—the sweet lawn ! nl the expense of the future. * ,nP the
nre given by M. Le Verrier. I which cnrpi'ls its courts on which a few ; hours each duy wasted on triffes or in in-
8«i confident was fie of die correctness sheep are feeding—its ample gatdeu, with I dolence, saved anil daily devoted to im-
of bis enlmlntions that he did not wait to the remnant of expensive taste in ages past J provement is enough to make an tgnor-
verifv them by the appearance oft lie plan- combined with present senii-neglert—the :, nt man wise in ten years to provide
et J but nt once made the result known, as richness arid magnitude of the ivy which lax'iry of mtelhgence to a mind tnrp-
mathematical demonstration which dninlK-rs to the veiy top nnd there floats
could not be incorrect. He was sure that in triumph ir. the breeze—the case of nc-
the planet was where lie fixed it In lie— cess to every part produce the most plras-
but he was not sure that it could In’ teen, ing and ineiancholy cfleet upon the mied
though be was very confident a good tel-j of the beholder*
id with lack of thought—to brighten tip
and strengthen faculties perishing from-
rust—to make life a f uitful field, and
death a harvester of glorious deeds.
Cat/i. Adcoeale.
z . . ton is destined lor the Gulf of Mexico.
the ininoiily of that laxly had appealed to j — . . . | : —
the Synod of North Carolina. The Synod Capt. Thornton passed through Rich-. Capt. Winsor, of the ship Sunbeam, rc-
have'hud the Jong disputed ease before mond last oiglit, to join the army in Mexi-1 ports having spoken, on the ISth instant,
hem, and by a vote ol 34 to 10 sustained ! co. He will travel with the mail, and go miles to tlie east of Key West, U. S.
the Presbytery’s act of restoration. The ] reach his post at the earliest moment.— schooner F/rr/, hound to Norfolk, all well;
minority, although very smnll,Tiave de- we ore highly gratified tohear jhat the
tertnined to carry the case up to the next, Secretary of War very promptly gave
General Assembly, where we suppose, it Capt T. permission to join the army and
will be finally decided, and with it the in* re-organize his company for instant ser-
terrsiing question which it involves. vice. Capt. T. had designed to spend a
day with his friends tu Richmond, but
Good Butinas.—The New England hurried on to unite in a vigorous prosecu-
Iron Company, at Providence, ore ina-' lion of die war, upon which the adminis-
king twenty tons of first rate railroad i tration have so wisely determined,
iron daily. j ll.clunond Entjutrcr.
which vessel reported a tremendous gale
al Havana on the Uth, and that 60 ves
sels were lost in the Imtlxir of Havana.
Capt. Winsor did not understand whether
the City of Havana, or any part of the
Island liad suffered from the gale.
Ballus Stone, h revnlutionaiy. soldier,
died at Philadelphia, on the 22d ult. ogcij
103 years and 10 days.