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Albany, Georgia.
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SUMTER, LEE,
RANDOLPH, BAKER,
EARLY, THOMAS.
DECATUR, LOWNDES.
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Thumn and Lown-ltH of the Southern Circuit
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Xeatun. Gttirgii. | Bxinaridge, Geo.
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1TT3RNEV .1X11 COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
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e.lice i, at
starkville, lee coclty, ga.,
uhere lie .nay always he found, unless absent on
I’mitasional business.
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Starkville, May 14, 1852. 6 tf.
J, B. MrGUIRE,
Attorney at Law,
ThotntiHYillc, Georgia.
Will attend to all business entrusted to his care.
December 3. 1852. 8—35—tf
Scientific.
T. «. WESTFALL,
COUNTY SURVEYOR
AMD
LAND AGENT.
% Mr ILL Survey, Examine, and Report Lands in any part
*y of Baker county.
tST Always on hand, Mars of any or all of the Districts
Baker county. Office in Albany, Geo.
Albany, April 29.1853. 4—tf.
HE5RY R. FORT.
T. K DUNHAM.
FORT & DUNHAM
FACTORS ANDjy-
Commission iitcrcljants,
Savannah, «eo.
Referenceii—Col. R. H. Clark and J. L. Dunham,
Albany, Ga
July Ifl, 1852
Drs. W. L. &. J. A. Davis.
D R VV. L. DAVIS,takeslhis metiioJ of informing
his friends and patrons that he lias returned and
will now d'vote himself exclusively to the practice
m his profession. He has associated with himself
in practice, his brother
DR. J. A. DAVIS,
either of whom will lie found at their office, between
Jackson’s corner, and Godwin’s Hotel, or at their
resid nee on the west side of Jefferson Street, next
house to the residence of Rev. N. \V. Collier
Albany, March 12. 1852. 49—tf
Review of on Essay
ON THE INFLUENCE OF THE MOON UPON
THE WEATHER, &c.
BY T. D. X.
NO. 1*.
Amongst the many curious things which I
find in the Essay under review, is the declara
tion that the moon is a circular body. The
writer even intintjites that be has proved it, and
thus settled this long mooted question; for,
says he, “I have also shown that the Moon be
ing a circular body, and revolving upon its own
axis,’ mast necessarily have one of its sides al
ways illuminated, dec.” Now, I have searched
the Essay in vain for such proof or showing;
and the affirmation mast therefore rest alone
upon his ipse dixit. This error is really too
grosa for criticism, and I was disposed to charge
it upon the importunate compositor, who, it
Menu, was ever at his elbow calling for copy,
if it had not been affirmed so often. Of this, at
least, it cannot be said, that it it a novel idea as
it was, doubtless, the opinion of the earliest ob
servers of the heavenly bodies, as it still is the
notion of childhood. Need I tell the reader,
that the Moon is a spherical and not a circular
body like a grindstone or a cheese cake.
In my former review, I pointed out the erro
neous sense in which the author used the word
exhaling when he says, “the air in exhaling its
watery particles, dec.,” and in his reply, he ad
mils the error, and says that he meant to nse
the word imbibing; but, he forfeits the credit
for candour which he would, otherwise, be en
titled to, by his amusing attempt to prove that
I also used the word in a «rong sense. I had
set him right, by telling him it was the earth,
not the air Which exhales watery particles. To
which he exultingly exclaims,” but ifl am wrong
Hygrometer is also wrong. The best writers
say the sun exhales vapour, the vapours exhaled
by the sun <&c., since they are repeled not by
the earth but by the -on. If any of my readers
will refer to Johnson or Webster they will dis
cover that exhale is defined as to evaporate, to
draw out vajtours; now it is evident that the
earth does not draw out vapours but the sun.”
The whole critique is too Jong for quotation,
but it concludes thus, “has not Hygrometer
himself admitted that water was vaporised by
the heat of the sun f He has therefore contra
dicted and condemned himself It is an unphil-
osophical idea—an unpbilosophical expression
to say the earth exhale9 (evaporate) moisture;
and it is not now used by learned philosophers.”
The author admits that exhale originally
meant to breathe; so that, thb time was once
when it would not have been tinphilosopbical
to Bay, the earth hrcufht* *»»- ca^u/c« IWjnmr f
but, lie affirms that its meaning has greatly
changed. This will he news to the Lexico
graphers. Let the reader turn to Webster’s
Octavo, and he will find that exhale means,
“ To tend out; to emit, as vapour, or minute par
tides of a fluid or other substanceand in his
Quarto, he gives, as an example of the meaning
of the word, "the earth exhales vapourIt will
thus be seen, that the author, in flounderin'
ing, bat a pun deliberately studied oat, written
and printed, I venture to. suggest to the author,
whether it is exartly in good taste: however^
de gvsltbus ndti eit disputandem.
The pressure upon your columns, Mr. Editor,
of the opening campaign; admonishes me to
draw this Review to a close; atid I here close it
for the present. I am conscious that I have not
done justice to my task, hut I propose tri myself
at some future day, it may be years bfenefe; if
life lasts, and leisure and inclination concur, td
resume it. My main object is, however, ac
complished, if I have corrected the more promi- [fo truth*—one wha had more than usual faith in
nent errors of the Essay; and, also; taught the the power of kindness l *
author, that in carrying the war AAti AYriea, he came, be took ofFhia iroi
may get blows as well aa giro them, and, there,
ford, to he more careful hereafter, like a certain
illustrious General, about exposing bis rear.
HYGROMETER.
Inflntnce of Kindness.
The following account of the reformation of
a convict, published in the Prisoner's Friend,
give, a very forcible illustration ol the power of
love to reform even the most hsrden»l of our
race:—.
“Many years ago, there was brought to the
State Prison, in Connecticut, a man 1 of giant-
stature and of desperate character; one whose
Crimea had been for seventeen years the terror
of the' Utmntry; . The warden was a Christian—
a Christian not in name only, but in 'deed and
in truth’—j— -- L - *— 1 *-
miscellaneous.
Fiom the Water Cure Journal.
.•‘The exciting cause of Intermittent and Re-
mittent Fevers, as well as many of the forms of
Billions Fever, is well known to be those invisi
ble emanations coining from swampy, marshy
and other damp places, and arising from the
decomposition of vegetable products. These
have been designated usually by the name of
Marsh Miasmata, latterly, however, the Italian
word Malaria, which signifies bad air, has
been adopted, and is, on the whole, a more ele
gant and convenient term. As a medical term,
Malaria has, by some, been used to express any
kind of impure air, of which the writer wished
to speak; but among the best authors of the
present day. it means simply that kind of ira
pure air of which I am now speaking. Larue
portions of the earth are scourged with the ef'
feels of malaria; bot in no country, probably,
are intermitients and remittents more common
than in many parts of the United States. These
diseases attack persons of all ages; the infant
at the breast ia liable to them, as well as those
of advanced years The midille-aged, however,
are most subject to them, and males more than
females. Middle aged persons are usually more
actively engaged out of doors than either the
young or the older persons of community.—
Males, for the same reasons are more exposed
than females to malaria. Hence, therefore, the
explanation of the fapt* which I have stated
“Malaria is not perceptible to any of our or*
dinarv senses Of its physical and chemical
qualities nothing whatever is known; we judge
of it only by its effects. That there are emana
tions of this bind we know unequivocally, by the
fact, that the inhabitants of low, marshy places,
are subject to the particular forma of fever, of
which we are speaking.
“Temperature exerts an important influence
in the production of miasmatic emanations. It
is believed that no injurious consequences can
arise from the decomposition of vegetable mat
ters. provided the atmosphere does not range at
a higher degree than GO F.
Moisture, also is one of the necessary re-
H. Huntington, M. D.
RESIDENT DENTIST....Albany, Geo.
Office two d'Kjrs ea«t of J. C. Davis’ Store, and nearly
pposite Durham & Vaeon’s
June 11.1852. 8—10-tf.
Dr. F. C. LUNDAY,
(office Ukn IMIK WEST OF TIIK COST OFFICE.)
Tenders his professional services to the citizens of Albany
and surrounding country.
Albany, June 3, 1853 * 9—ly.
quisites to the production of Malaria. Moisture
... . r » • . . . .- , is not only a means of producing Malaria, hut
th.a slougl, of error, only sinks deeper and deep | hat a gre / t to it . r For thi *, re!l80n> nigllt
air is more dangerous to breathe in miasmatic
WILLIAM WALLACE.
VlLLIS A. HAWKINS.
HAWKINS & WALLACE,
ATTORNEY'S efT L.IYT.
8TARKBVILLE, LEE COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Having formed a Partnership, will promptly attend
to all business entrusted to them.
December 10,1852, 3f—tf
Law Notioe.
I j . Attend to Professional business in the
■> Superior Courts of Lee and Baker Counties.
GARNETT ANDREWS,
Attorney at Law.
DOCTOR SLAPPEY,
HAVING established an office permanently In this
ll place, will be in Town every day, between the
hours of eight o’clock in the forenoon and four in
the evening, prepared and ready to attend any and
every professional call.
It is perfectly unnecessary to ndd, a fair and just
equivalent will be expected, exacted in all cases;
because it is more than halt gratuitous any how ; and
it is always understood, the necessitous poor will be
attended to without fee or reward—so come on with
D.
Newton Ga., March, 19,1852 50 tf
April lg.’so
1 tf
J. LAW,
_ Attorney at Law,
HlikrMie, Occatnr Comity, Geo.
r* ill ttteml punctually the SuperiorOoiirtsoltlu
Uoontiesof Marly, Baker and l)ecHtur,of the -South
VMttrn.i'Kj oftlie County >f Thomasoftlie South
*rn Circuit.
A Pril 13, ’50 I tf
A. A. & G. Vi. ALLEN,
Attorneys at Law,
Decatur County, Geo
Apnl 12,'50 I tl
J. D. PHILLIPS,
aTTOR.VEV .IT L.IIF,
Calhoun, Gordon Connty, Go.
November 26.1852, 8—8*—It.
ALFRED H. COLQUITT^
ATTORNEY AT LAW:
. Newton, Baker Co., Georgia.
3reli.12.l85a 49 tf
DR. J. A, FLOURNOY,
[Office 3 doors East of J. C. Davis* StoreJ
Broad St., Albany, Ga.
Offers his profes-ional services to the citizens of Albany
rOct. 1.1852.
Medical Office.
er; and
“In the lowe t depth a lower deep.
Still threat’ning to devour him,
Open, wide — "
He also lashes me with bis playful satire, as
be calls it, for my pedantic style, and alledges
that I pulled down the dictionaries and hunted
up the tallest words I could find to put in my
article, and arraigns me for the use of the words
inter tropical, hyperborean, and incandescence.
Now, that the reader may jutlge which of us is
the most pedantic and has had the best luck in
finding tall words, to use his own chaste phra-
-seologv, I propose to make a short contrast in
parallel columns of the result of our labors.
HYGROMETER.
Interlrvpical.
Hyperborean.
Incandescence.
hammer Tillage of growing Crops.
Advantages of frequent Stirring if the SoS.
The benefits of deep and thorough pulvcritatiuQ
of the soil before planting a crop, are beginning to
be well understood by most fanners, bot only a
few seem to have any distinct idea of the importanea
bf keeping the surface of the ground mellow by ftq*
quenr stirring befweeu the growing plants, except
so far as may be necessary to prevent the growth
of weeds—and even this we should judge is net
deemed of much consequence by some who call
themselves farmers: ,We propose therefore to stale
thus‘Priehd/ you ar6 now placed in my cere;
it will be best for us to treat eacb other as Well
as we can. I shall try in make you aa romfor
table as possible, and shall he anxious to be your
friend; and I hope you will get me Into no dif
ficolty on your account There is a cell here
for solitary confinement: bnt I have never used
it, and I should be very sorry ever to turn the
key upon any human being in it You may
range the place as freely as l do; ouly trust me,
and I will trust yon/
‘The desperado, thoogh evidently surprised,
appeared bnt little affected by this kinduess, and
for weeks seemed to soften very slowly. True,
he was not violent, but sulky; at length word
came that he bad attempted to break prison!—
The warden called him, and charged him wilh
it, bht he gave no reply; his face was darkened
by a ferocious scowl, and bi» lips sealed with
snlky silence. He was told it would now he
necessary to put him in the solitary cell. He
was desired to follow the warden, who went be
fore him, carrying the lamp in one hand, and
the key in the other. In the narrowest part of
the passage, the warden, a little light-built man.
turned short around, and, with an eye beaming
with kindness, looked up full into the face of
the stout criminal, and said, *1 want to know if
you have treated me as I deserve. I have done
every thing to make you happy. I have trusted
you, but you have never given me the least con
fidence in return. And you have even planned
to get me into difficulty. Is this kind? And
yet I cannot bear to lock you up. If I only
had the least sign that you cared for me*—he
had no need to say more—it was a dead shot!
it had gone through the tough rind of his de
pravity, and had reached bis very heart! The
strong man was subdued; bursting into tears
be wept like a child. ‘Sir,* said he. *1 have been
a very devil these seventeen jears; but you
treat me like a map, and I can’t resiqt.it*—
•Come,’ said the victorious warden, let’s go
back 1* The free range of the prison was again
given him, and from that hour he becamrfaneic
onoo 10. ramming (.w wluiU.hn*!.
den, and fulfilling the whole term of bib im
prisonment with cheerfulness and content.
“The world is just beginning to understand
the meaning of the passage, ‘YVe love Him be
cause He first loved
HD1. jjm Mo WAUDUDEY,
S TILL offers his services in nil branches of his
profession to tiic citizens of Tbomnsville and
and vicinity.
He has at considerable expense htted up an In-
fermary. and is now prepared to take in Patients
from a distance, who may be laboring under any one
of the many chronic diseows to which mortality is
^He is a Botanic Physician (in which name he
glories.) and consequently discards all poisonous
agents, and seeks to aid nature with nature’s reme-
dl ”le will prescribe by letters, the patient stating
accurately his symptoms, and enclosing 85.
A largo assortment of Botanic medicines for sale,
done 9,1852. 14—tf.
14 . H. Vp GRAY,
AtUriey til Coansellor st Law,
Fort Gaines, Early County, Geo.
DR. R. i. BRUCE.
Jtyusirian & JDruggist.
Will atteto to thx practice ot his pxarasioir, and
yw, 0 H HAIYD A OOOO SUPPLY OP MEDICINES POR SAUL
Office atid Drug sSroua,
THOJIASYILLE, GA.
Nowsatar**, 185*.; *b^T-
Job Work
NEATLY EXECUTED
AT THE OFFICE OF THE
ALBANY PATRIOT.
T. D. M.
Equolibraled.
Conglomerated.
Partial vacuo.
In equilibria.
Schroeter.
Inflnitisimal.
In vacuo.
Ipse dixit.
Syziges, dfc.
In this short catalogue, 1 have only sampled
the Essay. In addition to a long list of hard
words and learned t<"ins, from dead as well as
living languages, the Essayist shows a wonder
ful familiarity with the writings of the learned
of all ages and tongues, from the Latin of New-
ton*a Principia, to the German of Schroeter,
and astonishes the reader with his array of re<
condite authorities. And this too, let it be re
membered, whilst writing under great restraint;
for he informs us, that he was influenced by a
purely benevolent spirit and wrote for the benefit
of the common people, “to overcome an athies-
tical sentiment to some extent prevalent even
among professors of religion, that the moon
controllAl the rain, &c. And hence,” says he,
i used the plainest terms possible.” And yet,
like the learned Dr. Hornbook.
“Their Latin names as tat he rattles,
Aa A, B, C."
All this learning oozes out in spite of him
We have a fable of the Ass attempting to play
the Lyon by disguising himself in the skin of
one; bat, in his case, the author would have us
to believe the whole thing is reversed, and the
Lion is trying to play the Ass, but in attempt
ing to bray, be naturally roars and is betrayed.
The artifice is transparent; and, to change the
figure, is in the jockey rein, for it is plain euoush,
that be is driving his spurs into the flanks of his
genius, at the same time that he is pulling the
reins and crying wo! wo!
The writer also endeavors to be witty at my
expense. He says, “in conclusion, allow me
to say that Hygrometer ia riding upon a high
horse; for he not only soars into hyperborean
regions, but he is also decidedly hypercritical/*
I would inform the reader, that here is an at
tempt to perpetrate a pun j for, without this in
formation, be might not detect it; at least, I had
read it several times, before the conceit caught
upon the obtuse angles of my intellect Now
the pun is allowed to be the lowest species of
wit; nevertheless, it is tolerated in conversation,
where it is off hand and the equivogue is striok-
districts, than the dry atmosphere after the sun
has risen.
‘It has been well ascertained that those who
expose themselves in a miasmatic region to the
fogs and dews of night, are more apt to be at
tacked with malarious fevers than such as remain
within doors while the atmosphere is hnmid.—
Submerging meadows, constructing mill-ponds,
and the like infertile places, sometimes give rise
to miasmatic fevers, whilst previously nothing of
the kind had existed.
It is somewhat a singular cirrumttance that
salt marshes do not produce agues. True, in
some situations, fevers of this kind occur near
salt water; but if the matter is examined closely
it will be found that agues occur only where
there is a stagnant fresh water.
“In regard to the influence of winds upon the
miasmatic poison, there are some carious and
interesting facts. I haze myself known persons
who resided upon high points two or three miles
from any swamp or place that could possibly be
suspected of generating any malarious influence,
but who were constantly subject in the latter part
of summer and autnmn to severe attacks of in
termittent and remittant fever. In one case of
this kind, which I have in iny mind—the resi
dence was situated in a southerly direction from
the swamp, some three and a half or four miles
distant; the winds were usually from the north
west, which I inferred was quite sufficient to
account for mslarions attacks.
“There are other effects besides, such as are
connected with fevers, which are found to arise
from inhaling the miasmatic poison, such as di-
arrhcca, dysentary, cholera infantom, cholera
morbus, Asiatio cholera, affections of the stom
ach, spleen, liver, neuralgia, &c. It has been
asserted that the race is liable to degenerate
under the long continued influence of malaria,
and that they become smaller and weaker in
their bodies, and less vigorous in their intellect
under sqcb circumstances' than in healthy lo
calities.
‘Some have supposed that, by strict care in
everything that pertains to health, it is possible
to prevent malarious fevers, however great the
exposure may be; but this doubtless is going
somewhat too far, although it must be admitted
that much may be accomplished by prophylac
tie measures in warding off the effects of mias
matic poison. To' account for the fact that a
person may contract disease under malarious in
fluence, however correct he may be in all the
rotes of bigiene, it is to be remembered that the
air which we breathe exerts aa great an influ
ence on health as the food we eat Hence it is
that the most sedulous hygienist,, who lives io a
miasmatic district, may, in spite of all bis good
care, yet become a subject of fever. But with
good habits, the chances are much greater to
run free from such attacks; and if one does
come on, it is much more readily managed, and
in all respects safer than in the individual who
livea freely and takes no care of himself.
Never approach a man with the faults of hit
relatives. ‘ r * r /, ’ ^
Grandeur of Man.
How great the solemnity and dignity of the in
dividual life ! Granted, the littleness of man, the
brevity of his personal sojourn, the limitations of
both his sphere and knowledge ; yet there is a stu
pendnus largeness impressed upon him. He opens
his bossm to the influences that are coming down
from generations past;and hardly has he received
them, ere he steps into the stream, adding hia own
power, and floating onward into the boundless fu
ture—a recipient of what baa preceded him—ai
agent of what follows—a transition point, where
effects acquire the properties of a cause. Thus
all humanity ia linked to the past, and linked to the
future—so linked that no one lives to himself, and
no one dies to himself. The past is ours as we
shall shape it, and the present, the great moral eddy
where these two ideas meet, deriving Us main sig
nificance from what hat been and what will be.
The incumbent of duty: the friend of God and
man, the philanthropist and the Christian, may re
gale his soul with the pleasing thought of 'being so
bound to hia species, that in living one life he will
live a thousand, and that his existence in its benign
eflect will be deposited in the bossotn of unborn
generations, " bo would not be a man, especially
one rising to the enviable privilege of making a
good and great impression upon bis species T When
we think of them in tbeir true relations, they seem
to be tutored angels sent to earth to touch mortal
notes, the melody of which will last forever. To
be a man, gifted with a sphere for virtuous artion,
allied with the totality of the race, bearing the stamp
of immortality, and floating in a stream of eternal
consequences—thia indeed ia a lofty eminence of
being. Let not such a creature make himself less
than he is. If he car, write to the profit of man
kind, let him wield the pen ; if he can preach, let
him sound oot the word of the Lofd; tf great plans
are projected for the world’s conversion, then let
him be tbeir earnest patron: let him put himself in
earnest harmony with God, and the best interest of
his species, and he will not have lived in vain,
prolonged effect, developing for ages, and rising in
significance to the end of time, when its history is
minutely traced, will catalogue him among its bnn
ored agents.—Evangelist
will speedily test by experience the truth of our
suggestions.
1. Asa preventive of injury from drout\ frequent
stirring «f the soil is of great advantage—and ia
our sunny climate, more or less injury to crops is
caused by drouth almost every summer. A mellow
surface allows the rains to descend into the soil,
instead of running oft into gullies and streattu; It
also prevents the rapid evaporation or return of
moisture from the soil into the atmoaplwTe, and In
dry weather it absorbs a greater amount of mois
ture in the form of dew, by allowing the air which
ia loaded with moisture at night to descend a con
siderable depth into the ground, and by preaent-
ing a vastly greater amount of particles to its influ 4
ence than a hard surface can do ; and these par .
tides becoming quickly cool at night, condense
vapor and cause dew, while a hatd surface gives
out the warmth received during the day, and thus
prevents the formation of dew. Every person mast
have observod that more dew falls, on a mellow sur
face than on a ha*d one.vtnd the sn^ beneath, ro
mains moist much longer during a severe drouth*
2. It enriches the soil, and thereby increases the
growth of the crop. This ia done by allowinj^iife -
rains to descend into the anil, aa above stated, and
thereby the ammonia which summer rains always
contain, ia absorbed and made available to the roots
of plants instead of being carried off into ponds sod
streams. The power of clayey and loamy soils to
absorb ammonia is one of the most valuable discov
eries which chemical science bat made for agricul
ture. '■ t
3. The nutritive elements cf the soil are rendered
m-we available, by the admission of air, as well as
moisture to the roots of plant*. Much of the food
of plants, like carbon, is either absorbed by the roots
in a ga«euiis form, or is rendered soluble by the ac
tion of gases by the fermentation in which atmos
pheric air is a necessary agent; hence it ia found
that manures are comparatively of but little advan
tage in wet clayey soils where the air has not fra*
access, and It is measurably the aame in dry soils
when the surface becomes baked and hard.
4. The destruction of weeds. We should not
UCTUI YT nniWltJ tmr, «nt HU* mtm*
tome faimers still holding to the mistaken notion
that weeds are an advantage in shading the gfbtind
in time of dronth ! Let such men consider that
every weed acts as a suction pump, drawing mois
ture from beneath the surface, and sending it off
by evaporation into the air, and also absorbing nu
triment from the soil—then the advantage of tbsir
destruction by frequent hoeing, dic.^yre think most
be obvious.
There are several other advantages, as the pre
servation of a more equal temperature in soils that
are frequently stirred, &c.; but fearing that our ar
ticle will be too long for farmers to read at this
busy season, we will not say more st pretent.—
Ohio Cultivator.
Antl-Biblo Convention.
Another reach has been taken by the fanatics of
of the North. A motley gathering, terming them
selves an Anti-Bible Couvenlion, was in session in
Hartford, Conn. during last week. Says the New
York Herald;
“The abolitionists, free soilers, spiritualists,and
strong minded women, of this region, have at length
got into a fair way of exhibiting themselves ia
tbeir true light as the enemies of Christianity, mor
ality and of every thing holiest and best in our in
stitutions. They have met in convention, to tb*
number of a few hundred in the city of Hartford,
for the purpose, as set forth in the call,of <reely and
fully discussing the origin, authority and influenc*
of the Jewish and Christian Scriptures. This call
was signed by some hundred and seventy per
sons, of both sexes—a suggestive fact oftheapresd
of infidelity, if not of insanity, in this latitude.**
The New York Times, of Friday, saya:
“The Convention will no doubt push its cordial
labors through to Sunday evening. Every moment
will tefl its tale of havoc made with inspiration.
Chapter by chapter, book by book, the cannon will
crumble beneath the glow, hot headed savana like
these always generate in friction of dispote. At lb*
adjournment on Sunday night the last blow will
have been struck. r l he fragments of the eternal
volume will cover the floor of the deliberative hall.
The work will have been achieved. The world
will be without a Bible. The philosophers will
trinmph in the anaihilation of their last enemy.**
Triads.
Three thing, to lore—courage, gentleness
affectionxteness.
Three thing, to wlmire—intellectosl power,
dignity, gracefulness.
Three things to hate—cruelty, arrogance, in
gratitude.
Three thing, to rererenee—religion, justice,
self-denial.
Three thing, to delight in—beaut;, frankness,
freedom.
Three thing, to wish for—health, friends, a
cheerful spirit. J
Three things to praj for—faith, peace, par'll;
of heart
Three things to suspect—flattery, pnritsnism,
sudden affection.
Three things to avoid—idleness, loquacity,
flippant jesting.
Three things to coltivate—good books, good
friends, good humor.
Three things to contend for—honor, country,
friends.
Three wings to govern—temper, impulse, the
tongue.
Punishment for Railroad Accidents.
The Gavernor of New Hamshire in hi. ntemg,
to the legialatnre recommend, that loss of life oe-
caaioned by railroad acridenta,wi termed, be indict,
nbleoffencee, and punishable by confinement to hard
labor for life, or a term of years, according to tbs
ggravation of the offence.
No Rain, No Rest.
The weather continues dry and sultry. We have
had no rain in this section worthy of being railed
a shower, for near three munths The crops and
Gardens are far spent, and ,11 the rain, that cad-
come upon them, will not bring them up to mom
than half a rrnp. Unless it does rein soon, tire cry,
for bread in this section will be general. Are we
to hare « famine or not 1 Will the almanack ms-;
ken tell net.—Southern Democrat.
The new police of Cincinnati. Coqs’eting bf niiw.
ly six ordinary end six River Policemen, have hsen’
aworn in by the Mayor and entered on their dutids.
The ruleato which they ere requirtd|o give their,
aasent enforceetrict temperance, prohibit all visit,’
to drinking place., except upon official butinere,
and command tbedsrloeure to the M.vor of ,11
place, of licentious or criminal reaort, where gamo
biingia carried on or whera liquor tosjid.
