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“WISDOM—JUSTICE—MODERATION**
VOL. XIII.
ALBANY, DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 15, 1857.
NO. 29.
(Hie ^llrang fittriot
PUBLISHED EVERY TI^i’.SDAY MORNING.
TEEMS :
Two D >i.laks per annum, payable invariably ifi advance.
Advertisements will be inserted in the Albanv Patriot
,t the rate of $1 per square for the first and 50 cents for
* w subsequent insertion. Advertisements handed in with
out instruction as to the length of time they are to run, will
be continued until ordered out, and charged at above rnlea.
Monthly advertisements will be inserted for One Dollar
^iSudverSsomente'pablished at the usual rates.
c u, 0 f Land'and Negroes by Executors, Administrators
j p rdians, are required by law to be advertised in a
Forty Days pt-vious to the day of sr le.
held on the First Tuesday in the
fhT’tween th«* hours of ten in the forenoon and three in
"I 0 ” 1 !! _,,,on at the Court-House, in the county in which
the *" ern .j^ated
Personal Property must be advertised in like
^Notice t^Debtore and Creditors of an estate, must be
Notice fhatapplication will be made to the Court of Or
dinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be pub-
Citations for Letters of Administration, Thirty Days; for
DUmission from Administration, Monthly Six Mon«w; for
£2 from r:,. a r.|i.n s hip Weekly UDjj. „
Rales for the Foreclosure of Mortgage, Monthly
Months; establishing lost papers, Weekly Three Me
Forty Days
r the Foreclosure of Mortgage, Monthly Four
•slab!ishing lost papers, Weekly Three Months;
celling tilth's from Executors or Adnvniatratore, where
» bond has been given by the deceased. Weekly lor Three
Month*.
©cncral ^bucctiscmeuts.
South-Western Railroad,
(general ^ttuertisements.
Drs. W. M. & J.H.Hardwick,
ALBANY, GA.
rjlENDER their professional nervines to the citizens of
J the city, and the public gene^Uy.
Midwifery, diseases of women arid children and
Feb. 12tfa, 1857.
46—ly.
Savannah Medical College.
rpHE Annual Course of Lectures will commence on the
JL Firat Monday in Notenjbcr next. The Preliminary
Lectures on the 19th October.
Faculty:
R. D. ARNOLD, M. D., Practice of Medicine.
P. M. HILLOCK, M. D, Obstetrics.
W. G. 5ULLOCH. M. D., Surgery.
J. G. HOWARD, M. D.. Anatomy.
J UJJIAH HARRISS, M. D., Physiology.
J. B. READ, M. D., Materia Medics.
JOSEPH JONES, M. D., Chemistry.
J. J. WEST, M. D., Demonstrator.
Chemical Lectures will be regularly, delivered at the City
Hospital. This Institution will accommodate over WO
patients. For further particulars address
J. G. HOWARD, Dean.
Savannah, July 16,1857 16—13w.
SCHEMXE FOR PASSENGER TRAINS.
L EAVE Macon at 2 a. m. and 3 p. m for Colum
bus ; arrive at Macon from Columbus at 54 min.
alter 10 a. m. and 15 min. after 6 p. m.
Leave Macon for Ainericus and Sumter City at 2
».tn ; arrive at A meric, us 36 min. after 6, and S mu
ter City 20 min. after 7 a. m. Leave Smnter City
10 min. after 1 p. m., and Americus 2 j». in.; arrive
at Macon 15 min. after 6 p. m.
Accommodation Train will leave Macon Mondays
Wednesdays and Fridays at 50 min.alter 6 a. m
arrive at Sumter City 25 inin. after 2 p. m. Return
ing, leave Sumter City at 30 min. after 7 a. m. Tues
days, Thursdays and Saturdays, and arrive at Ma-
c-m 1$ min. after 1 p. m., in time tor Passengers to
t*ke ilie Macon & Western Train at 3 p. in. for
A’loiu and the North-West.
Mail Stages to and from Albany, Tallabasse,
Tinunasvill** and Uainbridge, connects with regular
Train at Sumter City.
Pass'-ng**rs from South-western Georgia or Flori-
difurColiitnhiH, will take the 10 mitt, after 1 p. m.
Train at Sumter City, arrivo at Columbus 10 iniu.
Passengers Irotn Columbus and the West, for
Soulh-\ve>:* rn Georgia or Florida, should take the
1 p. in. Train, nr, on Mondays, Wednesdays and
Fridays the 15 min. after 4 h. tn. Train at Columbus.
Trains on South-western Road, connect direct with
Trains ot Cent nil Railroad to Savannali and Au-
l'f* First class Steamships leave Savannah
’eJaesdav and Saturday for New York—anu for
liia lelphia on Wednesday.
F.wtE—Cabin §25, Steerage §8.
GEO. W. ADAMS, Supt.
Micdu. D-'c. 18. l R5»>. 38-1 v.
J. R. Simpson,
(Successor to Simpson Sl Gardiner.)
Matfljousf jQ
AND COMMISSION MERCHANT,
COB. REYNOLDS & M’lNTOSH STS.,
AUGUSTA, GA.,
Will continue the Warehouse and Commisson Business,in
all its branches, at the OLD STAND of SIMPSON &
GARDINER, and hopes by strict personal attention to the
interest of hia friends and patrons, to merit a continuance
of the liberal patronage heretofore bestowed upon the old
firm. Cash advance» made on Produce in Store when
desired. t3T Bagging, Rope, and Family Supplies fur
nished at lowest market rates.
%3T Commissions for selling cotton, 50c. per bale.
August 20,1857. 21—6m.
Evans, Harriss & Co.,
FACTORS & COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
SAVANNAH, GA.
Tbe Artesian Well in the Desert.
A correspondent of the Moniteur de V Armes,
military French journal, gives an interesting
account of the finding water in boring an arte
sian well in the desert, by French engineers in
Algeria. The place was the oasis of Sidi
Bached, which had already become nearly burnt
from want of water, and threatened entirely
disappear; and tbe water was found and
rose to the surface on the 13th of March, from
tbe depth offifty-four metres, or about one hun
dred and fifty-seven feef. As* soon as tbe hard
>an or bed was pierced the water instantly rose
n tho pipes, pouring out a thousand gallons a
minute, at a temperature of twenty-four degrees
of Reaumer. The engineer estimated that as
soon as it had reached its level of ascension
fairly, tbe quantity would average about twelve
hundred and fifty gallons per minute. Think
of a fountain springing op in a wasting desert,
with a perennial flow of twenty hogsheads per
minute! The fountain formed is described as
truly magnificent.
At the moment of the water’s bursting forth
no Arab was present, but the news quickly
spread, and in a few minutes the whole popu
lation of the village rushed to the spot, and
threw themselves upon the works with such
frenzy that force was necessary to remove them.
Women and children lay down in the stream,
as if they had never seen water before. The
Bbeik of Sidi Rached could not repress bis emo
tion; he threw himself on his knees by the
trough and wept for joy. The next day the
inhabitants of the neighboring Arab villages
came to thank the engineer and to bless the
fountain, while in the evening there was a dance
pnd a grand merry-making, and this festival was
kept up for six days. In the meantime, the
people went immediately to work and con
structed a sluice to convey the vivifying stream
to the portion of the oasis which was dead for
the want of moisture.
Their object is to do exclusively a Planters’ business, and
a long experience in a similar business at Augusta, Ga.,
and Charleston, S. C., induces the confident belief that
they will be enabled to give entire satisfaction, in the sale
of Cotton and other Produce, to the Planters of Georgii
and Alabama who may favor them with their patronage.
ken im Office and Sales Room in Hodg-
iy-street f a few doors above the Exchange,
where they will be prepared, by the 15th of August, to re
ceive consignments of Cotton and other Produce, and the
orders of their friends, and Planters generally, for Bagging,
Rope and other supplies, which they will execute with
promptness at the lowest market rales.
;ir commissions . _.
WM.
ROBERT Y HARRIS.
WM. M. D’ANTIGNAC.
GEO W. EVANS.
DENSE’S
Chill and Fever Mixture.
O F all the remedies ever discovered for the safi
certain and effectual cure of the Chill and Fe
ver, n uir have more merited and received the appro-
Iwlum uf the public than
nciiM! , n Fever and Ague Mixture.
It Ins been in use for the last twelve years, and
tiie lVprietnr has never known a single instance
where ibis Mixture has failed to cure the Chill and
Fever, where it has been used according to the nd-
vice and directions accompanying it. One bottle ol
this Mixture is generally sufficient to cure two com
mon cases of Chill and Fever. It is n source of
' steal consolation to the Proprietor that lie has been
able to place so valuable a medicine before the pub-
beat such a low price; for while others have been
filing their Pills and Mixtures at the high price of
$1 5o per hnx or bottle, this Mixture lias been sell
ing it only §1 per bottle, being a large saving to the
purchaser besides tbe important consideration of pro
curing a better medicine. The public are most pos
itively assured that there is no Mercury, Antimony,
Arsenic, or any other poisonous substances, in any
shape or form 'whatever in this Mixture, but it is
composed entirely of simple but potent substances
web of which is calculated to assist the others in
expelling diseases from the system.
The Proprietor will insert the following lestimo-
mals,which will prove to the satisfaction of every
reasonable mind that DENSE’S MIXTURE never
foils to cure the Chills when taken according to the
directions that accompany each bottle.
The undersigned citizens cheerfully bear testimo
ny to the efficacy of Dense’s Chill and Fever Mix-
ture as many cases lv*ve been successfully treated
w . ,u onr ' ,W| ' personal knowledge, in which this
mixture was only used. #
E. D. Williams. Ga.
James Gillon, Ga.
Thomas N. Mims, Ga.
Col. E. Tarver, Ala.
Green Harris, Ga., and nu
merous others.
Prepared ami sold Wholesale Vnd Retail ky
A. A. MENARD, Druggist,
Macon, Ga.
frTSold in Albany, Ga., by Everett & Clark.
Feb. 12, 1857. 46—ly.
Fatten, Hutton & Co.,
SAVANNAH.
Fatten, Collins & Co.,
MACON.
COMMISSION MERCHANTS
I. PATTEN, 1 AND
. f>. HUTTON, 1 FACTOES.
Juno 18.1857. 12—ly*
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP.
T HE Finn of Webster &. Palmes is this day
solved by mutual consent. Either co-partner
is allowed to use the name of the firm in the settle
ment of the business. AH persons indebted by note
or account will please make-prompt payment.
JOSEPH W. WEBSTER,
GEORGE F. PALMES.
Savannah, July 1st, 1857.
CO-PARTNERSIIIP.
T HE Undersigned have this day formed a co
partnership for the purpose of carrying on a
General Grocery, Produce and Commission Business,
under the firm of Connerat, Webster &. Palmes, and
respectfully solicit the custom of their former friends
and patrons, and public generally.
^ JOSEPH V CONNERAT,
JOSEPH W. WEBSTER,
GEORGE F. PALMES.
Savannah, July 9, 1857. 15—3m
Plantation in Baker County
FOR SALE.
S ITUATED on the East side of Flint .
River, 10 miles below Albany, the ‘
River forming the Western Boundary,
containing 1346 acres, (moroorless) first
quality pine land, between 600 and 600 acres are in
cultivation,all of which is fresh, none of it having
been cultivated more than four years, 30 or 40 acres
will comprise all the waste land on the plantation.—
The improvements are a good Gin House, Overseer’s
House, Cribs, Negro Houses, &.C.
Tire ill health of the proprietor is his reason for
wishing to soil. Apply to S. H. Harris on the plan
tation,^ E. B. Ballon, Quincy, Fla.
ST Possession given 1st January next,
Albany, April 3,1867. . 1-tf
Albany City Lots for Sale.
THE Subscriber offers at private sale, to parties
who desire to improve, several very desirable
half acre and acre
Residence Lots
•n Albany. Also, desirable WARE-HOUSE and
BUSINESS LOTS, near the Railroad Depot.
NELSON TIFT.
Albany, April 2,1857. I—tf.
Albany Lots
For Stores and Dwellings.
¥ WILL Sell on liberal terms, my Lot on Broad
street, either with or without the improvements.
, as desirable a location as any in tjie city, and
'■fge enough for‘two lots with front of 26$ feet each
"y 2io feet back. I wi.ll also sell seven Store Lots
°PP°*Ue Messrs. Rn6t & Sims* Warehouse, on Jack
in street—each lot 30 by 105 feet.
* W »H also sell on the same terms, the following
R Cr e, half acre and quarter acre Lola suitable for
H 'dences—No. 32 on Commerce street. No. 89 On
alree L No. 90 on Pine street, Noe. 49 and 51
^ Fhatatre*. Noe 63j w> 51> 59 4n <J 61 on North
elr *t, No*. 3o and half df 33 on Residence street*
R.‘ K. HIRES.;
•Vbany, August 13, J857, $0—
Dougherty CoimtyLands for
1 AM oflering for **lo two (mall places
in Dougherty county. One contain,
ing Five Hundred teres; Eighty cleared
and in high state of eoliivalion. lying on
the Troupville road, seven miles Southeast
bany. The other place containing Seven Hundred
and Fifty acres, with 8ne hundred and fifty acres
cleared. 'Good Log Houses and'Wella of good Wt-
ron both places, laud fresh.
I will sell either or both places on good terms and
low price.. Any ooo wishing any further informa
tion in relation to the above Lands, can address the
subscriber at this place.
‘ JARED IRWIN.
Albany, July 30.1657. 18—
Land for Sale.
T HE subscribe!* offer for sale a tmall
and valuable eettlement of Land.
Nos. 316 and 318 fu the 9th dutnet of
Baker county, containing Five Hundred
Acrea—fifty of which are deadened. •
are first quility Pine Land, and cno be bought low
for.cash. They adjoin the land of Mr. James Had-
ler, and are convenient to a good
'Appl* to At & arn-WM. two mHes North of
place, or to Nklxow Tift, it Albxny
August 20,1857. % .
Moral Conragc.
Sidney Smith, in his workfen moral philoso
phy, speaks in this wise of what men loose for
want of a little moral courage or independenc of
mind: “A great deal of talent is lost in the world
for tbe want of a little courage. Every day
sends to the grsve a number of obscure men,
who hav? only remained in obscurity because
their timidity has prevented them from making*
a first effort; and who, if they could havebeeu
induced to begin, would in all probability, have
gone great lengths in the career of fame. The
fact is, that to do anything in this world worth
doing, we must not stand back, shivering, and
thinking of the cold and the danger, but jump
in and scramble through as well as we can. It
will not do to be perpetually calculating tasks,
and adjusting nice chances; it did very well
before the flood, where a man could consult his
friends opon any intended publication for a
hundred and fifty years, and then live to see
its success afterward; but at present a man
waits, and doubts, and hesitates, and consults
his brother, and his uncle, and particular friends,
till, one fine day he finds he is sixty years of
age; that he has lost so much in time in con
sulting his first cousin, and particular friends,
that he has no more time to follow their advice.”
Terrible Colisien.
We’ve talked somewhat and had our say
about those dears, the hoopers, that promenade
and crowd the streets, just like a band of troop
ers; but t'other day we saw a sight we cannot
help relating, and.so wiJJ tell it as was, without
one line abating. A lady young, and full of life,
rigged out in finery gay, was sailing*o’er tbe
crowded walks, before tbe breeze away. It
really was a splendid sight as thus she moved
along, borne by a stiff, North-western wind
that blew quite fresh and strong. She really
looked like some proud ship, just at tbe close of
day, moving along, with all sail set, from sky-
sail down to stay. The crowd looked on with
wondering eyes, and smiled them at the sight,
and frayed old Boreas to keep his breezes fair
but light. For such a craft as this they saw
with such a spread of sail, could scarce with
stand the howling blast, ore’en this present gale.
As this she skipped it o’er the walk she felt but
little gloom, and far ahead as she could see,
there was no lack of room; for little boys, and
boys grown men, like boats upon the river,
would leave the channel when their eyes the big
ship did diskiver. But suddenly the maiden's
eye and face grew dim with fear, coming op the
narrow walk, and drawing nearer, near anoth
er craft just like herself and spreading all her
■ail, with ’soldier’s wind/ was drawing through
the trail. There was no room——oh, city Bhanie 1
—for two scub crafts to pass, and should they
meet thus booming on, what sad results, alas!
Both saw the danger in their way, both trembled
with affright, and each asserted, ’neatb her lips,
that she alone was right. The crow*d looked
on, with blanched cheek, as on they nearer
drew, and thought that one would surely yield
and let the other through. Oh, foolish crowd,
did’st ever know a woman thus to yield, ac
knowledge conquered by her sex, and conquer
ed lefeve the field ? There was a crash, the two
had met, and thousands held their breath, and
closed their ears, they might shut out the fear
ful knell of death. For miles around, the air
was full of fragments scattered wide,’twas then
the crowd recovered them, and hastened to their
side. Oh! what a scene, an hour before where
youth and beauty reigned, was only seen a jan
gled mass, and ground with hoops was stained.
—Milhcavkie American.
that
A Wife’s Pbayeb.—If there is anvthiiy
comes nearer to the imploration ofRuthmomi
than the subjoined, we have not seen it: “Lord
bless and preserve that dear person whom Thou
hast chosen to be my husband; let his life be
long and blessed, comfortable and holy ; and
let me also become a great blessing and com
fort to him, a sharer in all his sorrows, a meet
help in all tbe accidents and changes in the
world; make me amiable forever in bis eyes and
forever dear to him. Unite his heart to me in
the dearest love and holiness, and mine to him
in all its sweetness, charity and complacency.
Keep me from all ungentleness, all discontent
edness and unreasonableness of passion and
humor, and make me humble and obedient, use
ful and observent, that we may delight in each
other according to Thy blessed word; and both
of us may rejoice in Thee, having for our por
tion the love and service of God forever.”
The Dbeam of Life.—How few of os at
tbe close of life can say, “I have filled and oc
cupied the position to which l looked forward
when a boy!” In tbe onward progress of life,
how often, in some stray moment of thought and
reflection, do we not find ourselves inquiring,
Is this as 1 hoped—have 1 enacted my
dream !”
The answer is invariably—No!
We look forward in childhood'—and only
look forwardj—without reflection. We build
up gorgeous palaces, we sketch a career of life
ail gold and sunahine—wbat are (hey, and where
are they, when years aober os !
The Blind Musician.
We have in our possession, in the shape of a
little blind negro boy, the most extraordinary
musical genius perhaps in tbe whole world.—
He is now eigbt^years old. About three years
ago he commenced, of his own accord, to play
on the Piano, and without any instruction, ex
cept from bearing others play, he now executes
the most difficult pieces from hearing them play
ed a few times—playing many of them at once.
We are making arrangements to tend him off
upon hit travels for exhibition. * For tho present
he is in the bands of Mr. W. D’Alembert, who
will exhibit him in this city during tbe present
week.—-Comer Stone.
Childhood.—“Good nffcht!” A loud clear
voice from the top of the stairs said that it was
Tommy’s. “Good night,” murmurs* little some
thing from a trundle bed—a little thing we calL
ed Jenny that fills a.very large place in the cen-
tre of two pretty large hearts. "Good night ”
lisps a little fellow in a plaid dress who was
christened Willie about six years ago.
"Now I lay me down to sleep,
I pray the J-ord my soul to keep,
lfl should die before I* wake—”
and riie email bundle in the trundle bed baa
dropped off to sleep, bot an angel will finish the
Stephen Allen’s Pocket Piece.— In the
pocket book of the Hon. Stephen Allen, who
was drowned several years ago by a steamboat
disaster, on the Hudson river, was found a prin
ted slip, apparently cut from a newspaper, of
which the following is a copy :
“Keep good company or none. Never be
idle. If your hands cannot be usefully employ
ed, attend to the cultivation of your mind. Al
ways speak (he truth. Make few promises. Live
up to your engagements. Keep your own se
crets, if you have any. When you speak to a
person, look him in the face. Good company
and good conversation are the very sinews of
virtue- Good character is above all things else.
Your character cannot be essentially injured
except by your own acta. If any one speaks
evil of you, let your life be so that none will be
lieve him. Drink no kind of intoxicating li
quors. Ever live (misfortune excepted) within
your income. When you retire to bed, think
over what you have been doing during the day.
Make no haste to be rich, if you would prosper.
Small and steady gains give competency, with
tranquility of mind. Never play at any game
of chance. Avoid temptation, through fear you
may not withstand it. Earn money before you
spend it. Never run into debt unless you see a
way to get out again. Never borrow if you
cun possibly avoid it. Do not marry until you
are able to support a wife. Never speak evil
of any one. Be just before you are generous.
Keep yourself innocent if you would be happy.
Save when you are young, to spend when you
are old. Read over the above maxims at least
once a week.
The Kansas Election.
Washihgtoh, Oct. 9.—Returns of the Kansas
election received here, show a large gain for the
Democrats. The majorities are—in Johnson, 1,700;
iu Leavenworth, 250; in Atchison, 60 ; in Doug
lass, 1,100. Both branches of the Legislature are
Democratic.—Sav. News,
Incidents and Accidents.
Tbos. Ballow, of Watertown, N. Y. lost, in
the space of eighteen days, five bright and heal
thy children by scarlet fever.
Maria Hall, an unfortunate female, was
thrown into tbe canal near Lowell, Mass., last
week, by unknown persons, and drowned.
Mr. Chas. Profit, master mechanic in the
Binghampton Railrod shop, waa instantly killed
his head coming in contact with.tbe bridge at
Palestine, N. Y., a few days ago.
Seven of tbe lynchers in Cedar county, Iowa,
have been arrested and bound over in the sum
of $1,000 each for trial at the next district
court. The Advertiser says (hey were all repu
table men, until involved in the recent lynching
operations.
On Monday the lightning struck the Metho
dist Church in Newburyport, Mass., setting fire
to the attio in three places. The fire was soon
extinguished. Three ladies were considerable
injured; one of them was struck down, and did
not recover under an hour.
A respectable citizen of Alleghany, Pa., has
lately been attracting public attention by cut
ting up soBie singular capers, in consequence
of having become a confirmed opium eater. He
has been snapping pistols at his family and
friends, and the other day he went to an under
taker and bought his own coffin, paying cash
for it. He has been sent to jail.
C. L. Haskins, of Chester, 111., was shot In
his own bouse on the evening of tbt 11th inst,
and will probably die. The ruffian who did the
bloody deed is named Winfield, and is supposed
to have been a convict from the Tennessee
State Prison.
Jacob Howard, an old man, living in Monroe
county, Va. y was found dead in bed, with his
throat cut last week. A bloody razor was found
under his bfed, wrapped in an apron. There
were no persons in tbe house except members
of the family: and it is not known whether he
was killed, or killed himself.
Mr. William Boulden, a farmer residing near
the Mano church, Cecil county, Md., whUe at
tending a threshing machine, last week, it is sta
ted, had bis arm torn to pieces to the elbow.-~
The accident eccured in the morning, and be
fore two o’clock, P. M., death put an end to his
sufferings. He has left a wife and family of
children.
Two young men, brothers, named O’Brien,
on Wednesday, went on board the steamboat
Richard Stockton, lying at the foot of Walnut
street, Philadelphia, when one of them fell into
the water; the other then jumped in to save his
brother, but was unable to do so, and before
assistance could be rendered, both were drown
ed.
The number committed to prison in Philadel
phia during the month of August, was 1491.
Mrs. Elizabeth Bennett, of Freehold, N. J.
who was last week on trial for the murder of
her child, has been found guilty of manslaugh-
r.
Last week, a son of Mr. Cornelius Hargraves,
thirteen years of age, residing in Fall River, ac.
cidentally fell into a boiler of hot water, in his
father’s factory and was so badly scalded as to
cause hi9 death next morning.
The organ and melodeon factory of Mr. John
T. Price, on Washington street, Roxbury, Mass,
and the stables of Mr. John Mcelroy, in the rear
of the sam, with one or two other buildings,
were burned, on Tuesday night, by an incendi
ary fire.
The Treasures of the Deep.
BY MRS HEM ASS.
Yet more, the depths have more! What wealth untold,
Far down, and shining through their stillness lies!
Thou hast the story gems, the burning gold.
Won from ten thousand royal argosies.
Sweep o’er thy spoils, thou wild and wrathful main!
Earth claims not those again.
Yet more, the billows and the depth have more!
High hearts and brave are gathered to thy breast I
They hear not the booming waters roar.
The battle-thunders will not break their rest.
Keep thy red gold and gems, thou stormy grave!
Give back t‘ ’ ‘
Tbe Steam Horse.
Elihu Burritt. tbe Learned Blacksmith, gives
the following poetic description of u Locomo
tive. Let any of our fine poets or orators beat
it, if they can:
“I love to see one of these huge creature,
with sinews of brass anti muteles of iron, strut
forth from his smoky stable, and saluting tfie
long train of cars with a dozen sonorous puffs
from bis iron nostrils, fall back into his harness.
There he stands, champing and foaming upon
tbe iron track, his great heart a furnace of glow
ing coals; his lymphatic blood is boiling in bis
veins, the strength of a thousand horses is ner
ving his sinews—he pants to be gone. He
would “snake” St. Peter’s across tbe<Desert of
Sahara, if he could be fairly hitched to it, but
there is a little sober eyed man in the saddle,
who holds him with one finger, and can take
his breath in a moment, should he grow restive
and vicious. I am always deeply interested m
this man; for, begrimmed as he may bo with
coal, diluted in oil and steam, I regard him aa
the genius of the whole machinery, as the phy
sical mind of that huge steam horse.” •
A Sensible Docteb.—A doctor in Nash
ville gave the following prescription for a sick
lady a few days since: “A new bonnet, a cash-
mere shawl and a pair of gaiter boots.” The
dy recovered immediately.
0^“The subscriptions in New York for the*
relief of those rescued from the wr6ck oftfae
Central America amounted on Friday to
365.
Prosperity shines on different persons much
in the same way that the son shines on different
objects. Some it hardens like mud, and whilst
others it softens 'like wax.
i and brave!
Give back the lost and lovely: those for whom
The place was kept at board and hearth so long.
The proyer went up through midnight’s breathless gloom
And the vain yearning woke ’midst festal song.
Hold fast thy buried isles, thy towers o’thrown.
But all is not thine own.
To thee the love of woman hath gone down.
Dark flow thy tides o’er manhood’s noble head.
O’er youths bright locks and beanty’s flowery crown.
Yet mart thou hear a voice—Restore the dead !
Earth shall reclaim her precious things from thee!
Restore the dead, thou sea!
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_ j broken preyer for her.
The Savannah Georgian says: We can but
congratulate the Democracy of the First Dist.
upon the glorious victory achieved by them un
der the most discouraging circumstances. Our
district has crowned itself with glory in this
contest, and presents a just claim to the appel
lation of “The Gibraltar of Democracy.”
Cheap Wheat.—The Iowa City Republican
states that farmers are offering wheat in that
city for 40 cents a bushel and cannot find pur
chasers. The Republican adds, “the same state
of facta is reported of the Muscatine and other
river markets, and indeed we may say of tbe
marketa generally of the State.”*
Agricultural Products of Califorria.—
According to the annual official statistics, the agri
cultural products of the State of California for 1856
were as follows ; Wheat, 2,337,229 bushels; bar
ley, 3,229,230 bushels; oats, 854,420 bushels; corn,
165,464 bushel* ; hay, 74.755 tous^; potatoes, 721,-
013 boshela. The total number of fruit trees grow
ing in the State is peach, 671,598; apple, 264,53]
pear, 25,806; cherry, 14,683; plum, 16,161; apri
cot, 11,047; grape-vines, 1,317,356- The increase
in all the above ever tbe previous year is very large.
The population of the State is about 360,000, in
creasing Annually about ten per cint.
Present from President Buchanan.—'Tbe
Nprfolk (Va.) Day Book aaya that a magnifi
cent gold chronometer and chain has been for-
warded by President Buchanan to S. T. Saw
yer, collect^ of that port, to be presepted . to
Captain ‘Johnson, of the Norwegian barkjE/Zen,
who rescued the Central America's passengers.
The watch is a present from the President^ add
cost three hundred end fifty dollars. • *
A New Yorker’s Idolatry.—-The Times
says, a large house is the god of a New Yorker's
idolatry. It is bis paradise, the bourne of his
striving, the heaven of his rest, the nurse of his
hopes, and the mother of his ambition. With
this he is proof against tbe arrows of fate. For
this he scorns delight, and lives laborious days;
and for this there is no scheme, however despe
rate, he will not rush into; no odds, however
great, he will not brave.
Washington, October 5.—Commodore Paul-
ding reports to tbo Navy Department that he
made a reconnoisance of the Isthmus of Pana
ma, and finds it well adapted to the construc
tion of an inter-oceanic canal. The highest
point of land to be overcome is only two hun
dred and eighty-six feet above the level of the
He estimates the cost for a canal, two
hundred feet wide and thirty feet deep, with
harbor improvements at each end, at only eigh*
ty million dollars.
A Strange Serpent.—Last week a gentle
man residing at California, a small, village on
the Monongahela river, in Washington county,
Penn., discovered in tbe cellar of Mr. James P.
Baiies a serpent, or something very much re
sembling that reptile,' which opon close inves
tigation, proved to be composed of animalcols,
or myriads. of littla worms, adhering together
by a glutinous substance, and forming tbe head,
Supply of Sugar.—Mr. Walsh, in his Paris
letter of August 6th to the New York Journal
of Commerce, says: “Sugar is faffing; the beet
root factories will supply this year two hundred
and forty million pounds. The isle of Bourbon
wifi produco one hundred and twenty millions;
the French West Indies will probably send a
hundred millions; altogether tbe supply will ex
ceed the demand in France.”
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God has written on the flowers that sweeten
the air—upon the breeze that rocks the flowers
upon the stem—upon the rain drops that refresh
the spring of moss that lifts its head in the des
ert—upon its deep obambers—upon every pen
cilled sheet that sleeps in the caverns of tha
deep, no less than opon the mighty sun that
warms and cheers millions of creatures which
live in its light—upon all bis works he has writ
ten, “None liveth for himself.”
A Tough Customer—A letter from Carolltonr
Missouri, to the Fairmont Virginian, says:
“Our nearest neighbor is Joseph Webb, who
was born iu Richmond, Virginia, in the year 1758,
September 3 *, he fought under George Washington,
aud voted for every President from Washington to
Buchanan, William Henry Harrison excepted.
He was also shot through the abdomen at tha
battle of Lundy’s Lane, and received a slight wound
in the Florida war, and was knocked down and
severely shocked at the earthquake at Madrid.
Taking it all into consideration, he has been A
tough old customer.”
A Singular Fact.—A stock raiser of Fayette
county lost eight colts one season, four of them
thorough breeds, and for of them common scrub
stock. He amputated the legs of all of them, and
boiled off the flesh, cleaning the bones thoroughly,
to learn by examination what difference, in respect
of bone, there was between the blooded and com
mon ones. On taking the bones ot the thorough
breeds, and holding them up to the light, he no*
ticed that they were almost transparent, as much
so as white horn. He tried the same experiment
wiih tbe bones of the inferior stock. They were
opaque, and transmitted fight no more than buffalo
horn. He then' tested the bonea by weight, and
found the thorough breed by far the heavier, show
ing their superior substance and eolidity. They
were hard and dense as ivory. This is a singular
fact—Louisville Courier.
Mobile akd Girard Railroad.—We under
stand that within a very few days some fiv£or six
miles of the Mobile and Girard Railroad will he
open for the transportation of freight and passen
gers. This will place it within five miles of Un
ion Springs, to where it is hoped it will be com
pleted in a very short time. The road is being
pushed forward with great energy, and we hope
the day is not far distant when we rosy be con
nected by this line, either by the new route pro
posed, or the old one, with the Golf.—Columhts
Sun.
Perhsylvakia.—Gov. Pollock, of Pennsylvania*
has‘called an extra eesssiuu of the Legislature to
devise some relief to the present financial troubles.
It it to commence to-day.—Montgomery Aarertiser
and Gazelle of the 0th.
The Sbmi-Werkly Mail to Texas—A New
Mail Contract—We understand, says tbe New
Orleans True Delta, that the contract for carrying- ’
a aerni-weekly mail from New Orleans to Texas,
(distributing points Galveston and !ndiano!a,)riyS*
been given to -the Vanderbilt line of steamers,
that run on the Inland route io connection with
tbe Opelousas Railroad Company. Tbe contract
will go into effect the firet of this month. The
mails will close every Sunday and Thursday morn
ing, at 7 o’clock.
0^7” The Abolitionists of New York in Slatq
Convention,have nominated Jos. McCune Smith
a negro of New York city.for Secretary of State.
The araoant of specie in the United States is
estimated at about $300,000,000, or equal to
$12 in coin for every man, woman and child In
themonntry. ‘
• We learn that Mrs- Spits died in' M4
w _ 0 # Georgii, a few day* ag<V while inhaling, ettor _ ^
body and tail of a serpent, in complete symetry., Jor tbe purpose of having a cancer extracted. t
Tbe snake was about eighteen inches io length, . ““
of • lightish green appearence/aod waa able 4o J”.
move slowly over the ground. The insects, al- yr,, ®' n th0, mor,t
though adhering together with* eohsfderable
pertinacity, were not difficult to detach.—p/tfs-
burg Union.
