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VOLUME I. ATHENS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JANUARY 18, 1855. NUMBER 42 1‘UBLISUEU WEEKLY, BY JOHN H. CII11ISTY, EDITOR IKD TROrRIETOR. Terms of Subscription, TWO DOLLARS per annum, if paid > trinly in ad Race; othern ii«',TIlREE DO 1,1, A Its v. ill he charged {KT - •*> nrder Ilia! the price of the papet may not he in the wav ;>fa large cirmUliun, t luhs will be supplied at the fnllowins rates. .^J^gsrx.copiosfnr - - - At these low rates, the Cash must accomjtauif the order. llatcs of Advertising* Transient advertisements will he inserted at One Dollar perfqnare for the first, and Fifty Cents per square fi»r e.icti subsequent insertion. Legal and yearly advertisements at the usual rates Candidates will be charged §5 for announcements, and obituary notices exceeding six lines iu length will be charged as advertise ■ ents. When the number of insertions isnotniarkedoii and advertisement, it will be published till forbid, and charged accordingly. NEW FALL GOODS, FULL SUPPLIES. WilliamJShear, (Augusta. Ga.) H AS received from New York his Fall sup plies of fancy and staple Dry Goods,em bracing a large and splendid assortmeut,suit- able for the fall and winter season, among which are Kich fancy colored silks, of new and beauti ful styles; plain black silks, in great variety of style and of superior quality; Rich Haris primed Delaines and fancy all- wool Plaids ; Lupin's col’d, while and b’ack Merinoes and plain col'd Delaines; a very large supply of small figured all-wool prin-. ted Delaines for children, of new and beau tiful styles; English and American Fancy. Prints, in a great variety of styles; superior Scotch fancy Ginghams o! new and beautiful winter styles; Elegant French EmL.'uiderics, embracing Ladies’ collars, chemisetts, uudorsleeves and handkerchiefs, of new and splendid styles; Ladies black and colored Cloth Cloaks aud Talmas, of the latest styles; Ladies’ rich em broiJered and plaiu Paris silk velvet Cloaks; A large supply of ladies’, misses pnd chil dren’s Hosiery , of the best make; Ladies’ and gentlemen’s superior Gauntlet Gloves; Ladies’ and misses merino Vests ; gen tlemen’s and youth's sifk and meriuo shirts and drawers; Superior Welsh, Saxony, gauze, silk-warp and heavy Shaker Flannels; superior Eng lish colored Flannels for ladies' sacks; Eng lish and Amerieau Cotton Flauuels of extra quality; A very large supply of Mourning Goods, JE3 for ladies' use, of superior quality; *" ■- * Superior 12-4 linen sheetings and pillow- * ’ NjpSUsc linens; .stifxni'or 8-4 and 10-4 table damask and diapers, sum) of extra quality; rich d t- rnask table cloths and napkins, some of extra size; Scotch and birdseye diapers, extra fine, for children s wear; heavy Scotch Diapers and Hucknb. cks for towelling; Superior whitney and merino blankets, of extra size and quality; supr crib blankets. Also a great variety of other seasonable ar ticles. suitable for family and plantation use. The public are respectfully invited to call and examine the assortment. W $. especially solicits a call from his long coutluued friends and patrons, and assures them that no exertion on his part shall be wanting t.> supply them with the latest and uioat de.-irable styles of goods at the lowest prices. Novi 6 Pferliam’s Third Gift Enterprise. 60,000 TICKETS ALREADY SOLI) 1 CALL POP PINA LMASS MEETING OF SI]A HEII0LUEItS, To determine «>u the disposition of the GIFT PROPERTY to ilte Shareholders. A T a raiding of the shareholders in l’er- O.JL liatu's Third Gift Enterprise, held on the of July, the following resolution was adopted: ‘•Resolved, That so soon ns it is ascertained that 80,000 ol the Gift Tickets issued by Mr. Perbaiu in his third enterp. ise, are sold, the Committee shall cull the shareholders toge ther at the most convenient place, for the purpose of instructing said Gonimhtoe in re gard to the ma: tier of disposing of the Gift -Property.” Having learned from Mr. Perham that GO. Of') of said tickets were sold, and that lit all probability the remaining 20,000 called for by the above resolution, would be sold by the first day of January next, we have determin ed, in accordance with the above opinion, to call a Mass Meeting of the Slum holders, at some place lo be hereafter named, on the 17tfc day of January, 18o.>, for the purpose desig n a led l>v the resolution. ROBERT BEATTY, Jr. J. L ATH HOP, B. S. ADAMS—Committee 100,000 l'ickcts Only at SI Each will be stilu. Each Ticket will admit Four Per sons, nil ut once, or poriions at different PERHAM’S BURLESQUE OPERA HOUSE, (H)3 Broadway, N. Y. Or to his other Entertainments in various parts ol the country. Each purchaser of one of these tickets will receive a cot-lifjeute en titling litem to one share in .100,000 Costly . tiiid Valuable Gifts;' a list of which lias nl- ' ready been ]tublished. Persons cun obtain -the tame in circular form, by addressing a note to the prupt ietpr. , Wow's the time to purehasr Tickets. t in order that the 100,000 Tickets may be [Aftposed of by the time specified, the subscri her offers the following inducements for per sons lo get up clubs. Each person who gets up a club oT ten sub-, scribors and forwards ten dollars to this cilice will receive by mail ur other conveyances, jV' Eleven Tickets. Each person who sends (at one time) oue hundred dollars, will have sent in like innn Jr ner One Hundred and Fifteen Tickets. Aud L -for I'll larger sums in exact propoition. f* - If it snould happen thntall the Tickets arc > BOJd whon the order is received, the money •will be returned at our expense for postage, at orders for Tickets should be nd- A 'drcoSjJ to J OSIAH P ERHA M, 668 Brandway., N. Y -»S3TMy Fourth Enterprise will be adver tised as aeon as tlm third one is ,closed. ’flu pickets already printed. Hec7 The * purchase of, the Galiapagos tslaniWs'-iaid to he ,a private speculation, lead of a national one. The country iU be relieved to Jeiru that the Govern is not going ltito the guano bust- teas.', _ WIIAT A.GREAT CITY EATS. The London Quarterly Review con tains a curious article on the eommis. sariat of the British uiptropoija^^Xrw- ing bow much beef, inuttou ana park, fish, oysters and game, bread, fruit and vegetables, milk, butter and cheese, is consumed annually in (hat city. The enormous appetite of a town of two mil lions of inhabitants can be realized only by the article in question. Take, for instance, the amount of butchers’ meat eaten in London in a year. Five hundred thousand head of cattle, Uvo million sheep, one hundred and thirty thousand calves, and one hundred and sixty thousand pigs are slaughtered annually for the British metropolis. Some of this meat is pre pared for market as far off as Aberdeen, in Scotland. It is a curious fact that but little more mutton appears to be ea ten iji London, now, titan there was twenty years ago, when the population was half-a-niillion less. If Stow, who wrote a. d. 169■<, is tohe believed, there was ten times as much pork consumed in the British metropolis, in his day, as is used now, though the number of in habitants has quadrupled. These facts show that the civilization of the table has advanced in London, even if society, in other respects, has not made extraor dinary progress. The quantity of fish, oysters and game eaten in the British metropolis surpas ses belief. Of oysters, five hundred milJicnsnre consumed annually ; of fresh herring, one hundred and seventy-five millions ; of mackerel, twenty-three mil lions; of red herrings, fifty millions ; of eels, ten millions : and soles, ninety-seven millions. The lobsters used are one million and a quarter ; the salmon, four hundred thousand;' the crabs, six hund red thousand ; the live cod, four hundred thousand; and other fish in proportion. Two millions of domestic fowls are an nually sent to the London market; a million and a quarter of rabbits; two Hundred thousand wild (lucks'; throe hundred and fifty thousand tame ducks; a hundred thousand turkeys; and as many geese. Four undred thousand pigeons ; one humlrad and fifty thousand plovers ; one hundred and twenty-five thousand partridges ; one hundred thou sand grouse; and si hundred thousand hares, sire devoured yearly by tiic epi cures of that great capital. Not less than one hundred millions of eggs are eaten in London from New Year to New Year. Nearly five hundred thousand quarts of milk, some of it brought from a distance of eighty miles, is poured down the throats of the eockneys, or devoured in the shape of puddings, dur ing each year. Fruits and vegetables are consumed by millions. London uses annually six ty millions of oranges, fifteen millions of lemons, a million and a half pounds of grapes, two hundred thousand pine-ap ple*. The amount of home-grown ve. getahles eaten is astonishing. Not less than thirty-five thousand persons earn a livelihood merely by filling the vegeta bles and dessert dishes of the/British metropolis. A single railway carried to London, last year, forty-five thousand tons of potatoes A million and a qunr ter bushels of cocoa-nuts are imported every year. More than.eight hundred millions pounds of bread are eaten. A thousand millions of tumblers of porter and ale are drank. So great is the de niand for water, that the London wells, for the last twenty-five year,-., have been diminishing, in depth at the rate ofa foot annually. At least one hundred thou sand porsons earn a subsistence directly, and four hundred thousand indirectly, by supplying London with eatables and drinkables. should lose the sale of his papers if he attended to it then, and if he did his mother and little sister must go without bread that night; for they had nothing tc eat save that which the daily sale of the newspapers brought. What should he do ? He paused awhile, and then said : “Mother, you had ratHer go hung ry to night. I am snre I would rather too, than keep the purse until to-morrow morning. Let’s see!” he put his hand into his pocket, and after fumbling a short time, drew forth three cents; “I’ve got money enough to buy a loaf of bread for little sister's supper and breakfast, and I will go without; so I will go at once away and carry the purse where the owner can obtain it.” Thus saying, he trudgod off, with the purse iu one hand and a large bundle of newspapers in the other. He whistled as he went; for, although pinched with cold and hunger, he felt happy because he was doing good. After disposing of the purse, and be ing called an “honest little fellow’’ by the police, he returned home, and relat ed to bis mother how lie had acted. She praised him for so doing, and said he must do right if he perished in the at tempt. The nex‘ morning, Johnny went from his home a little bluer and colder than usual, for he had no supper or breakfast to fill up his stomach, thereby keeping the cold out. At nightfall he was going home with a light heart, for he had sold papers enough to buy bread enough io last his mother, sister and himself one day! when he was met by the gentleman to whom he had delivered the purse on the previous day. “My little fellow,” exclaimed the gen- Icman, patting him on the shoulder ; the purse you left with me has been returned to the owner, who, by the way, is an intimate friend of mine, and to reward you lie has offered to take you into his employ, and see what he can make of you.” “Will he give me wages enough to buy my mother and sister bread ?” anx iously inquired the lad. “Yes,” returned the gentleman, “and more than that. Come!” lie added, “we’ll soon see what he’ll do for you.” Thus saying, he led the way to a large brick dwelling, nearly opposite to where they had been talking. A slight ting at the door-bell brought the owner of the purse to the door. He was informed by his friend that the lad before him was the one to whom he was indebted for the recovery of his lost pro perty. Johnny met with a warm and hearty welcome from his new-found friend, who not only promised lo take the honest hoy into his employ, but that his mother and sister should be made comfortable and happy. Tears of jov filled the little fellow’s eyes as he hast ened to inform his mother of his good fortune. His mother was overjoyed at the pleasing tidings of her son, aud she and Johnny never after had occasion to regret the latter’s conduct respecting the Lost Purse. THE LOST PURSE. ‘‘What are you going to do with it ?— What are you going to do with it?” ex claimed half-a-dozen ragged urchins, to a bright-eyed, thinly-clad news-boy who was holding a splendid purse in one of his purple-cold hands, that lie had taken but a few moments previous, from the sidewalk. “Return it to the owner,” answered the little honest fellow, in a firm tone. “A fool! a fool!” shouted the boys— “wouldn’t Catch us returning a purse tlwtt looked as though it had lots of money in it, as that does; let’s see how much there is,” spoke the eldest of the group, and made an attempt to wrest it from the boy’s hand. “It sbant he opened. It is none of your business what it contains,it is none of ours ; and' if you don’t loose your grasp upon it I will call the police,” re turned honest Johnny ic a commanding tone. The boys knew that Johnny would do as he said ; hence, they not only ceased tormenting him, but stole away as if the police were already upon their track. When alone; Johnny began to consi der w-hat it was best to do. There was no way, that-lie saw, by which the own er could bo identified ,f>y him. A thought struck him—he could deliver it to the office of the chief of police. But he The Quaker and the Lawyer.— ‘Friend Broadbrim,’ said Z phaniuh Straitlace to his master, a rich Quaker of the city of Brotherly Love,‘thou canst not eat of that leg of mutton at thy noon tide table to-day!’ ‘Wherefore not ? asked the good Qua ker. ‘Because the dog that nppertnineth to that son of Belial, whom the world call- eth Lawyer .Foxcraft, hath come into thy pantry and stolen it; yea, and he hath quite devoured it ?’ ‘Beware "Ft iend Zephaniah of bear ing false witness against thy neighbor! Act thou sure it was Friend Foxcrafl’s domestic animal ?” ‘Yea, verily, I saw it with my eyes, and it was Lawyer Foxcraft’s dog, even Pinchem.’ ‘Upon what evil times have we fallen !’ sighed the harmless sectary, as he wend ed his way to his neighbor’s office. ‘Friend Gripus,’ said he, ‘I want to ask thy opinion.’ ,1 am all attention,’replied the scribe, laying down his pen ‘Supposing. Friend Foxcraft, that my dog had gone into my neighbor’s pantry and stolen therefrom a leg of mutton, and I saw him and could call him by name, what ought I to do?’ ‘Pay for the mutton, of course—noth ing can be clearer.’ ‘Know thou, Friend Foxcraft, thy dog—eN’en the beast men denominate Pinchem—hath stolen from ray. pantry a leg of mutton, of the just value of four shillings and sixpence, which I paid for in the mar.iet this morning.’ ‘If it be so, then it is my opinion that I must pay for it!’ And having done so, >;he worthy Friend turned to depart. ‘ l’arry;yet a little, Friend Broadbrim:’ cried the lawyer. ‘Of a verity I have yet further to say unto thee : thou owi*sf me six and eightpence foi advice!’ ‘Then verily I must pay thee and it is ray opinion ,that I have toached pitch .Mid been defiled!’ When you see the fence down put it up—if it remains until to morrow tfie cattle may get over... Popping the Question by Loco motive Action.—Tlie Knickerbocker says the Savannah Republican hits oft' admirably in the following love dcclata- tion the regular clank and racket ofa locomotive engine under full headway. The lover’s “ brakes” and their of the locomotive are most scientifically .put on: By those cheeks of lovely hue.; By' those ey'es of deepest blue, Which thy very soul looks through, As if, forsooth, those clear blue eyes Were portals into paradise; By that alabaster brow ; By that hand as white as snow, By that proud, angelic form; By tiiat rounded, classic arm; By those locks of raven hair; By thsse vermeil lips, I swear; By the ocean, By the air; By the lightnings, and the thunder; By all things on earth and under; By the electric telegraph ; By my future “ better half,” By our vespers, by our dreams; By our nation and Te Deums; By young Cupid, by my muse ; By—whatever else, you choose ; Yes. I swear by all creation, And this endless “ Yankee nation That I love you like tar na tion ! [Whistles and stops.] THE PUNCTUAL MAN. Mr. Higgins was a very punctual man in all his transactions throgh life. He amassed a large property by untiring in dustry and punctuality ; and at the ad vanced age of ninety years was resting quietly upon his bed, and calmly' wait ing to be called away. He had deli berately made almost every arrange-; ment for his decease and burial. His pulse grew fait.ter, and the light oflife seemed just flickering in his socket, when one of his sons obs.vt<*'d — “ Father, you will probably live hut a day or two, is it not well for you to name your pall bearers ?” “ To he sure, my son,” said the dying man, ‘*it is well thought of, and I will do it now.” He gave a list of six, the usual num ber, and sunk hack exhausted upon his pillow’. A gleam of thought passed over his withered face like a ray of light, and he rallied once more. “ My son, rend me that list. Is the name of Mr. Wigoins there?” q “ It is, my father.” “ Then strike it off,” said he, emphati cally, “ for he was never punct :al—was never anywhere in season, and he might hinder the procession a tvhole hr,jr! ’ Ax English Officer Disgraced.— The London correspondent of the New York Tribune says: “ The case of Lord Forth has excited general indignation, it is as follows: He is a very young officer, a minor, and, as it seems, not much of a hero. In the battle of the Alma, he threw him self on the ground and screamed I am frightened, I can’t fight!’ Lord Riglan sent him word that in the next battle he was expected to distinguish himself by his gallantry, that his cowardice qaight he forgotten. But at Inkermann he again behaved as cowardly; two officers, therefore, were sent by the General-in- Chief to cast away his epaulettes, to break his sword, and kick him out of the camp. He returned to England a disgraced man ; his family disown him, and the clubs are closed against him. “ Mr. Brown, I owe you a grudge ; remember that.” “ I shall not be -fright ened, then; for I never knew you to pay any thing that you owed.” THE CHOICE OF INFANCY. THE TWO ANGELS. A child was walking in a shady green wood, by the banks of a-murmuring stream. Two angels appeared- to him, as he played with the sunny flowers that grew at his feet Said one*— “ I am the Angel oY Death,’ 1 and the other said— “lam the angel of life.” “If thou wilt come with me,” said the Angel of Death, as he folded his snow white wings, “ to my home around the throne of God, and dwell, the Saviour will give thee a golden crown of ever lasting life, and a heaven tuned-harp.” Then the Angel of Life said, with a smile of heaven-born beauty— “ If thou comest with me, I can but give thee the grovelling things of earth. I cannot guard thee from vice, as my twin brot her, the Angel of Death ; but if thou goest with him, beyond the glorious stars, where all is love, sin nor vice will never stain thy soul. Wilt thou go?” “ I will go with thee, Death Angel,” said the child. “ Glory be to God!” cried both the Angels. Then the Angel of Death took the soul of the innocent child and dis appeared beyond the silvery clouds, but the body of the child remained on earth to be united with the soul at the resurrec tion. “ Glory he to God! Glory be to God !” cried the sainted choir of the Lord, as the Angel of Death thrust opeu the golden gates of heaven, and laid the untarnished soul of the child at the feet of the Almighty. The mother wept and murmured at the death of her only child. “ Why weepest thou ?” inquired the guardian Angel of the Threshold, of the mother. “ My child is dead !” responded the mother. “ Then weep not,” said the Angel, ‘ for when I gaze up towards Heaven, ‘ see thy son walking by the sweet running waters of the River of Life, which proccedeth.from the Almighty’s throne, singing pi aises to God, Is it not far better that .he shauid be. there than here V “ Yes,” the mother answered, and she bowed her head, ceased her murmuring and said meekly— “ Lord, not my will, but thine he done.” NOT A FICTION. SLAVERY AND COMMERCE. sketch OF EDGAR a. Poe. j The whole commerce of the world It was a weary tale to tell how often turns upon the pijoduc s of Slave labor, he repented and was forgiven; how he What would commerce be without Cot- passed from the editorship of one maga- ton, Sugar, Tobacco, Coffee, Rice and zine to another; how he went from city Naval Stores? All these are the pro to city, pnd state to state—an energetic, ^ ducts of slave labor. It is a settled fact aspiring, sanguine, brilliant'matt—bear-Ubat free lahjr, cannot produce them in ing th<* curse* of irresolution—never sufficient quantity to supply the demand* const ant but to the seductive and dan- J of mankind. It has been said that one gerous besetments of .dissipation and , free laborer is equal to five slaves. If profligacy ; how friends advised him and this he so, why has not free labor been “ Can’t you give me a clean towel, captain?” “No, more than fifty pas sengers have used that towel there, and you are the first one that’s said a word against it!” A soldier boasted to Julius Cmsar of the many wounds he had received in his face. Caesar knowing him to be a coward, said to him—the next time you Tun away, you had better take care How you look back behind you.” The value of the taxable pn petty of Vermont is said to havtj been metre than doubled within the last ten years by the four hundred miles of railroad which intersects that State. The estimated cost ot those roads, .up to the present time, is twenty four millions of dollars, or fifty thousand dollars for every mile. — , Baltimore has one Presbyterian com municant to 118 of the population: Phila delphia one to 78 ; Pittsburj one to 47 ; Richmond one to, 59 ; Louisville- one to. 47 ; Nashville one to ,-22 : . Charleston one to aG; Columbia, S. C-, Qie lo do; Mobile quefo 44 ; New-Orleans-.one to 128; Cincinnati onp'to 153. WOMAN’S LAUGH. A woman has no natural’grace more bewitching than a sweet laugh. It is like the sound of flutes on the water.— It leaps from her heart in a clear spark ling rill, and the heart that hears it feels as if bathed in the £Ool exhilirating spring. Have yon ever pursued an un seen fugitive through tre«s, led on by her fairy laugh, now here, now there, now lost, now found? We have. And we are pursuing that tvandering voice to this day. Sometimes it comes to us in the midst of care, or sorrowor irksomejbusi- ness; and then we turn away and listen, and hear it ringing through the room like a silver bell, with power to scare away the di spirits of the mind. How much we owe to that sweet laugh! It turns the prose of our life into poetry, it flings showers of sunshine over the dark some wood in' which we are travelling, it touches with light even our sleep, which is no more the image of death, but is consumed with dreams that are the shadows of immortality. Mrs. Mary Collins, who is now living with her son near Abingdon, Ya., is probably the oldest person in that Slate, if not in the United States. She is cer tainly not less than one hundred and twenty, and is believed to be nearly one hundred and thirty. She is still able to at tend to much work about the farm, and lately was seen ascending a steep bill with a bucket of water. Items of this sort are refreshingin these days dftight stays, thin-soled shoes and consumption. A man called upon anunfortunate tradesman to pay a demad. - ‘ I can never pay it,’ said he. I am not worth a farthing, but I will give you my note. I am not so poor but that I can sign a note.” Aid to Savannah.—Duringthe pre valance of the yellow fever in Savanah the contributions received to aid in re lieving the distress and afflictions of.the sick and poor amounted to $56,494,88, “ Yankee,” describing an opponent, says “I tell you what, sir,that man don’t amount to a sum in arithmetic; add him up, and there’s nothing lo carry. A western editor says—“not much editorial this week—can't help it— another bouncing big boy in this shaniy —only happens once a year as we are trying to quit i” The whole number of Revolutionary pensioners oh the roll on the Jun», 1854, was one thousand, and' Vixty-nine, and the amount of pension paid last year was less titan seventy-five thousand dol lars. The ltereos of the Revolution will soon have passed away.' publishers remonstrated; how, at one time, he had conquered his propensity so as to call himself in a letter to a friend, a model of temperance and vir tue; and how at another he forfeited the high occupation (editor) which was the sole dependancc of his family, by frequent relapses into his former disso lute habits ; how he committed under the excitement of intoxication, faults and excesses that were unpardonable , how he forfeited the esteem of the pub lic, even whilst his talents commanded admiration ; how he succeeded in bring ing many literary speculations into life, which his vicious habits and inattention to business murdered in their youth; how he became a confirmed inebriate, w th only now and then a fitful hour or so with which to throw off on paper the vagaries of a miud rich wiih learning and imaginative fancies : how his young and beautiful vviie died, broken hearted, and how he became so reduced in ap pearance as no longer to be able tr. make his appearance among his friends; how his wife’s mother, constant to his fallen fortunes, and anxious to conceal his vices, went with his manuscirpt from office to office, and from publisher to puhli.-her, in search of means to support him; how, for a little while he shook off the lethargy of intoxication, and ap peared in the gay, aristocratic and weal thy circles of New York city; how he was caressed, and admired, feted and congratulated bythe beauty,fashion, and lelite how the efforts of his magic pen and toweriug genius were sought by rival publishers; how he was engaged to be married the second time to an ac complished, wealthy and beauiifot young lady; and how the engagement ^vas finally broken off through his return to his pernicious habits. It was a weary, melancholy tale indeed. The versatile, unhappy scenes of Ed gar ». Poe’s life were soon to close— snapped rudely asunder by his own hand? He had partly recovered from his dan gerous courses, and was engaged in de livering lectures in different towns.— These were unanimously attended; imd it was with something like renewed con fidence that the ardent friends of the employed in t he production of the above staples? It has been attempted, and lit every case in which it has been intro duced, has failed. The world follows its interest, and if free labor wus more valuable than slave, it would bt employ ed at this moment, in the United States, Cuba, and Brazil, which are all open to free labor. Anil herein note the greater liberality and self reliant strength of the slave over the free Statesr. The farmer freely permits the Northern capitalist to come in with his free labor and com pete with slave labor. The latter pass laws prohibiting the Southern capitalist from coming in with his slaves to com pete with Northern labor. Their pro hibitory laws are passed because they are afraid of slave competition ; whereas, the South, in the face of the pretence which lias been handed down from Wilberforce to these times, that one white laborer is equal in value to five slaves, throws her doors wide open and invites the free labor to walk in and try its hand, and it dare not come. What' would become of England, the aF&h- agitator.of abolitionism, fbut for CoMon, by the manufacture of which site has waxed fat and strong, while she curses the system by which it is produced, lly^ the way, will some one inform us why-' the English conscience has never suffered, as much from slavery in Brazil as slavery in the United States ?—Richmond Dis patch. Muggins observed on the door ofa house, the name of a physician and sur geon, and remarked that it put him in mind of a double-barrelled gun, for if one missed the other was sure to kill. A young man fell into the river near New Orleans, recently, and was imme diately rescued by an alligator, who very considerately swallowed him. Georgia Pine Lands.—As evidence of the great value of the pine lands in Southern Georgia, the Federal Union states that Mr. Woodson Wilcox, of Tel fair county, Georgia, made the past sea son, 8 barrels of Sugar, and 200 gallons of syrup to the acre, on pine land. Therei is not a finer country in the States than distinguished lecturer watched his con- j Southern Georgia, duct, which was now distinguished by ex- J treme sobriety. He eveu appeared to have renewed his vigor and you'h, and it was with pleasure and delight that his friends and acquaintances received him in to their society and homes again.— At the brilliant parties given at the About twenty mail robber- have, ol late been arrested and about half of them tried and co ivicted. TJte secret agents of the Post Office Department have certainly done a successful business. A Texas paper mentions a rumor that seat in t f A.v.rfvti-7 l ret I HICIIUWU.8 1 mill houses of generous acquamtances-at G cn. Houston, will resign his s which he was the hot, of the even,ng- , h e Senate on the 4:1, of March. Mr. Poe met with a refined and lovely The Southern Era notices the mar riage of Mr Joint II. Strange . to Miss Elizabeth Strange, all of Albemarle count)’—an event tiiat is very strange, hut saysnodouht the next event iu couise will be a little stranger. lovely woman, whom he had formerly known. Their friendship was renewed, an at tachment was reciprocal, and they were engaged to be married. Everything seemed to promise well; the dawn of the better k day apperred, and the wishful re formation so long coming, seemed to come at last! On a sunny afternoon in' October, 1849, he started to fulfil alite- i The purchase of the Gallapagos lib rary engagement, and prepare for his and is said to bo a private speculation, marriage. He arriv »d in Baltimore, 1 and not a very profitable one either, where he gave his luggage to a porter,' The story of the purchase by our Govem- with instructions to carry it to the rail ■ ment, for three millions of dollars, is road depot. In an hour he would set doubtless coined to give consequence to out for Philadelphia. But he would just j the I.-lands, and help the purchasers out take a glass before he started—for re- j of their bargain. The country will be freshment sake—rthat’s all.—Oh, fatal j relieved to learn that the Government hour! In the gorgeous drinking saloon he met some of his old acquaintance and associates who invited him to join them in a social glass. In a moment ail his good resolutions—home, duty, honor, and intended bride were forgot ten : ere the night had mantled the earth with'its dark canopy,fie was in h state of beastly intoxication. Insanity ensued ; he was taken to the hospital and the next morning he died a miserable, raving maniac. Poojr, unfortunate, misguided creature! He was thirty-five years old when this last scene of his life’s tragedy was enacted. Kind reader, this is no fancy sketch of drapery or fiction. No single cir cumstance here related nor solitary event here recorded, but happened to Edgar Allen Poe, the Editor, Critic and Poet, one of the most popular and bril liant writes in America.—Northern Or gan. Sure of his Bet.—“ I will bet you a bottle of wine_lhat you shall descend from that chair before I ask you twice.” .- “Gome doivn?„y‘ ^ >’i will not!” was the reply: ; “Then stop until I ask you a second gentleman having no desire to retain his position till that period, came down from the chair, and the party won the wager. is not going into the guano business. A monster lump of gold has been found in Calaveras county, California, its estimated value is 838,916. The whole mass, at some period, has appa rently been in a fused state. i,«* A pilot boat has returned to San Francisco with 870,000 recovered fruit, (lie wreck of the steamship Yankee Blade. __ The Virginia agriculturists have been greatly stimulated by the high prices of produce. A letter written from Rich mond states that the prices paid for the service of farm negroes will probably he mueli higher this year than la*t, while that paid for tobacco hands will, on the contrary, be lower. It has been noticed, as a signal coin^ cidence, that the second of December— the date of ratification of the late treaty of Austrian accession to the allied com pact—is also the anniversary of the re storation of the French Empire, under Louis Napoleon, the battle of Austerlitz, and the original accession of the House of Ilapslmrg. The amount of frauds of which com plaint has been made during the year 1854. n is said will not fall short of $4,(00,000. Sjii