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Caganriii-
The following -ketch ol the great ma-tet of
the Violin, as seen in Reading, Englam., isfi.m;
the “ Pen and Ink sketches of Populai Persons
and Places,” by a Cosmopolitan, written for the
Boston Atlas. Alter a sketch of the Revd.
John Howard Hinton, “one ol England’s
author preachers,”the writer proceeds:
Let me shift the scene, and bring upon my
paper stage another, and a far different charac
ter. He whom lam about to introduce has
long since “shuttled off his mortal coil,” but
his was a form which once seen could never he
forgotten; anil, as 1 have not yet fallen in with
a graphic description of him, 1 will try mv
hand, even though 1 shod I tail in producing a
“pen and ink” likeness of the greatest violinist
of modern times—Paganini.
On the day following that on which I heard
Mr. Hinton, the remarkable Italian was to per
form in the Reading Theatre, for the first and
only lime. He was then in the lull flush of his
brilliant reputation, and expectation was on
tip-toe to hear lite sounds ol his reported-to-be
magical instrument. He was the great lion of
the day, and a thousand exaggerated rumors
were in circulation respecting him. Some said
that his violin was his familiar spirit—others,
that he had acquired his extraordinary skill
whilst inearcetated in a dungeon at Naples, t<
some horrible£time; and there-were not « ant
ing those w.ho hinted tfel the devil had lent
him his violin, on the .stern eonrliiiCalhat after
playing on it for a number of years, he should
personally return it, and deliver up himself,
into the bargain, to the Fatherof evil. Ol course
great anxiety was manifested to see and hear
him; so having paid seven anti sixpence sterling
for a ticket, and it .vas haul to procure it at
that price, 1 got lightly packed in the pit of the
Reading Theatre, where 1 waited anxiousiy
for the appearance ol the lord of the “ unerring
(fiddle) bow.”
Several pieces were to be performed before
Paganini made his appearance, and these like
oysters and lemon before a Parisian feast,
served only as sharpeners ot the appetite for
what was to follow. This preliminary playing
and singing was doubtless very fine, but it
passed ofl heavily enough, and glad was 1 to
discover, by the aid of the programme, that
“ The Carnival of Venice,” by Paganini, was
the next piece.”
An interval ot a few minutes. The “gods”
of tfie gallery have sobered down. Nuts are no
longer cracked and the shells showered down
on the heads of those in the pit. The popping
' of ginger beer corks has ceased, and the cry ol
• * “apples an’oranges” is heard no more. ’The
pit folks have squeezed themselves into as
comfortable positions as possible, and alnngthe
boxes is seen a row of anxious laces, and a line
of ready opera glasses. There is a dead silence
in the house. The musicians in the orchestra
are all on the qui, vive; the first fiddle looks
amazingly anxious as it he knew that an ex
tinguisher was about to be put on him ; the
flutes rest with theirlips hell puckered up, and
fingers resting lightly on their orifices; the
clarionets stand with their reeds ready for vibra
tion, and the drum sticks describe an angle of
forty-five. There is a waving of the curtain,
and a prolonged sh goes round the house;
a little bell rings once, and the musicians fix
their eyes intently on their books, all but the
flutes, who squint at the stage,—another, and a
louder ring—and up goes the green baize. Up
—up—up—till the last fold of the curtain is in
visible, and there is the broad open stage, with
a grand piano in its midst. A gentleman,
dressed very neatly in black, with a music book
in his primrose gloved band, enters, bows, and
takes bis seat at the instrument. He looks
first at the attdier.ee, with quite an air of un
concern, as i f he had already seen and knew
every thing about the great man ; he has all the
calm consequence of a man who knows what
others do not know about him. Now he hems,
looks intently at the wing, and as he gives a
jerk on his chair, and takes off bis gloves, it is
evident some one is coming. How deathlike
is the silence!
With the slow and s'ealthy step of a tiger
drawing near enough to its victim, in order to
make the sure and fatal spring—noiselessly,
and with a horribly sardonic smile on his coun
tenance, glides sideways from behind the wing,
a being who startles every one who beholds
him. He is very tall, and so remarkably thin
that his black clothes fall loosely about him
his trowsers bagging as if they hung upon
poles. These trowsers were so large that, al
their termination, where they came in eontaci
with his small, lady-like shoe, the polished
leather ot which seemed just to cover the lips
of his toes, they seemed ot exactly the same
width, as his shoulders. His hips did not in
the least project, so that he seemed, from his
arm-pits downwards, to be of exactly the same
breadth; there was no projecting point to dis
turb the straight line. His double-breaMed
coat had long skirts, and was buttoned up close
to his chin, round which was a white cravat,
and a turned down collar. But, extraordinary
as was his figure, his face and head were the
great points of attraction and wonder; so much
so were they, that, when a first glimpse of the
face, especially, was caught, people involun
tarily drewjaaekyiwif (fev had seen a spectre.
pale, rhs.the centre of his
forehead, which had nothing "Vrrv remarkable
—3s to its developments, that I could see, at least,
his jet black hair was parted, and from thence
it fell down in curly, frowsy masses over his
shoulders. His eyebrows were dark, and, where
the outer parts terminated, there were deep/os.'<«
in the temples. His nose was slightly beaked,
andoneithersideofitwere the most remarkable
eyeslhat, Ibeliev.,mortaleverpossessed. They
were small, dark, and not sparkling, but of a lus
tre more resembling that ot polished steel, when
seen in a dimly lighted room, than anything else
I can compare them to. Their exptessfon, as
he smiled horribly at the audience, in recogni
tion ol their plaudits, and as he bowed his long
hack, was absolutely snake-like. As I said, he
cameonthe stage sideways, gradually as he
bowed and trailed, appproaching to near the
centre. His arms were so long that, as he bent,
the fiddle and bow which he held in one hand,
would have touched the stage, but that he held
them obliquely. At last he reached the front
and almost the middle of the stage, near the
footlights, drew himself tip to his full height,
held out his violin at arm’s length, surveyed it
as if it were the most beloved thing in the uni
verse, and then -lowly brought it to his shoulder,
with as much gravity as it it had been a deity
and he a devotee.
Willi a firm and decided air lhe great Maestro
planted his right foot a little in advance of his
left, which remained w ith the knee firmly fixed,
threw back his head, then inclined his left ear
towards his fiddle, smiling faintly, as if it were
saying something to him and he was intently
listening; and lastly, lifting his long fiddle-bow
high in the air, stood, with flashing eyes and
compressed lips, a lew seconds—motionless —a
perfect study.
At a nod from Paganini, the orchestra struck
up, and the pianisie’s lingers flew < ver the ivory
keys—but still, like a sorcerer with his wand,
stood the king of fiddlers with Ids uplifted bow.
At length a faint smile stole over his rigid and
marble-like leatutes, and every heart beat quick
ly, as his long arm descended, so gradually, that
you could scarcely see it move, and bringing
the lower ended the stick upon thestrir gs of the
instrument. To the disappointed of many,
however, it rose again, and remained an inch
■or two from the bridge, wlilst the exceedingly
iong finger-of his left hand struck a few notes,
which were heard sharply and distinctly, above
the warblings of the flutes and the grumbling
of the trombones. Once inure his arm ascends,
and now it comes down so delicately on the
smallest siring, that something like the shadow
of an exquisite sound is ht aid —“ so soft, so
sweet, so delicately clear/’ that it is heard as
distinctly asa silver rivulet is seen winding its
sinnous course through a vernal wood. It is
unlike anything one ever before head produced
from the instrument, or rather it teems as if the
sense of hearinghad been sharpened. And now
succeeds a flood of delicious melody, which
laps the audience in elysium. It is not, car not
be fiddling; and see the leader of the band has
forgotten himself, and sits in wide-mouthed
wonder, listening to the astonishing effects ot
Paganini’s genius. The Maestro, as his in
spiration becomes more profound, partakes in
the enthusiasm which he has created, and his
snakey eyes flash almost supernatural fire.—
He stqiles a ghastly smile, as he
“ Pour# forth the notes like enchanted wine,
Loosens the chord* in a silver shower?*
By a change in the composition, he now pro
duces the mos' discordant notes, and then sur
prises all by alternating them with snatches ot
almost celestial harmony. Now he moves to
tears, and anon convulses with laughter. His
violin lor a few.seconds almost roars; and then,
as he slowly draws the bow across the “quiv
ejiif*trings,” he elicits a sound
—“ so fine that nothing lives
’Twist it and silence.”
At length the spell ceases—the finale is play
ed, and with outspread arms, the bow in one
hand, and the fiddle in the other, he bows him
self off the stage, smilinghorribly, as when he
entered Irorn the wing.
Not the least interesting portion ot the pro
ceedings, were the astonished looks o! the
musicians; especially ot the fiddlers—and when
they commenced playing in the interval be
tween the first and second appearance of Pa
ganini, I could not help thinking ofthe couplet,
addressed by some one to a very indifferent
musician,
‘‘When Orpheus played so well, he moved Old ISick,
But thou mov’st nothing but thy fiddlestick.”
Not that the leader of that evening vai a se
cond rate artist. By no means; he was one of
the first in his line; but what excellence eould
stand, when compared with Paganini? Like
Cavanagh, the cel-br led rocket player, to
whom Hazlilt refers in his Table Talk—the
Italian had not only no equal, but no one stood
second to him.
The only musician who has been thought to
rival Paganini, is Ole Bull, whom most oi my
readers have doubtless heard. Few, however,
who have heard both, will be disposed to admit
that the latter is worthy to be named with the
former. Paganini possessed genius— Ole Bull
sedulously cultivated talent alone. Paganini
hopelessly distanced all competitors. Ole Bull
has been excelled by Vieux Temps. Artot, and
De Beriot. The former resembled, in his
moods ot inspiration, the rushing cataract; the
atter would be more appropriately symbolized
by the placid, rolling river. Energy, li.rce. pan
mon, boundless enlhusmmn belonged to the one.
Grace, tenderness, mildness, ai.d sweetness to
lhe other. Paganini demanded and leci ived
the fen,a»e due to exalted genius. Ole Bull
wins applause by the vei y power of his gentle
ness. In short, the Italian attained, scarcely
with an effort, to heights which lhe Norwegian
never can reach, though he devote a life-time
to the pursuit. Ido not wish to depreciate the
talents of Ole Bull; he is admirable, but he has
not, nor has any one else, caught the falling
mantle of the wonderful Paganini.
The celebrated violinist happened to be stay
in at lhe same hotel as myself, and the next
morning, as I was standing by the window, I
observed a crowd in the street below. On ask
ing lhe waiter what caused it, I learned that
Paganini’s chaise was at lhe door, and that the
people had collected to catch a glimpse of him,,
as he got into it “One fool, they say, makes
many,” and so I joined them. 1 had not waited
long before I saw him coming down the stairs.
He had on a blue cloth cap, from which hung
what appeared to be a bullion tassel, an.i he
was so muffled tin in the folds of a most volum
inous for lined cloak that I could see nothing of
him but his pale, hawk-like nose, and his two
dark, awful lookingeyes, which seemed to have
no occupation, but in anxiously looking after a
little boy, who, muffled up like himself, was
taken to the chaise in lhe arms of an attendant,
his own servant. This was his son, tire only
lifting thing, it is ,said, towards whom he exhib
ited anv mark of attachment. The landlord
told me that happening, one day, to enter his
guest's room unannounced, he found Paganini
lying on the floor, hugging and kissing the child,
with lhe uftnost earnestness. The great Fid
dler, however, was much enraged at the intru
sion, and immediately on the man’s retiring,
locked the door, a precaution he failed not to
take during the remainder of his stay.
Forgeries in Richmond.
A lew days since we noticed the detection
in Richmond, Va., of numerous forgeries, which
had been committed by a merchant of that city
J. H. Jurey, hitherto occupying a highly re
spec-table position in society and lhe commercia
community. When put upon his trial, while
laboring under the goadings ot a disturbed con
science, he openly acknowledged his guilt—
which was announced in a touching speech by
his counsel. The event is thus noticed by lhe
Richmond Tim s.
Cash op James H. Jurey.—This is one ol
the most extraordinary cases which was ever
brought to the consideration of a judicial tri
bunal in this city. The prisoner lias been for
two years or thereabouts a citizen of Richmond,
and during that lime, has conducted himself in
such a manner as to command the respect and
esteem of those who knew him. He was atten
tive to his business, regular in his habits, and
his neighbors all testily to his courteous and
obliging disposition. Such, indeed, was the
regard in which he was held, that his next door
neighbor, engaged in a business similar with
that he pursued, when interrogated by an officer
in one ot our Banks, in which J.’s forgeries had
been detected, but not knowing that such detec
tion had been made, gave J. a high character
as a merchant and a gentleman.
It is now ascertained that he has been for
seme time obtaining money by notes with forged
names—generally those of persons and firms at
a distance, well known in Bank—and that with
the money so obtained he has mainly conducted
his business as a grocer and commission mer
chant, with what prudence may be judged when
it is stated by those having charged ol his mat
ters, that there will be a surplus after the pay
ment of his Bank debts through the forged notes
and otherwise. He was first suspected by his
paying notes in Bank before they were due, to
prevent lhe sending of notices to those in whose
names they wete drawn. So much byway of
introduction to the pt esent state of his case.
Yesterday, at his own instance, Jurey was
brought before the Mayor, and by his counsel,
Ro. G. Scott, Esq., confessed his guilt, and
threw himself upon lhe mercy of the tribunals
of his country. Mr. S. ditl this in a speech
which drew tears from those present. We
never saw a man who seemed to suffer from a
deeper contrition than does Jurey. His case
will now be carried with little delay, accom
panied by his own confession, through the
courts, until finally disposed. His bearing and
confession must mitigate the censure visited
upon him.
Since the above was prepared, we have the
following substance of the remarks of Mr.
Scott, furnished originally lor the Star:
“ When on yesterday, lor the prisoner, 1 asked
you to postpone the investigation until to-day, 1
then gave assurance that 1 sought the indul
gence tor considerations, which, it 1 were per
mitted to disclose, would be satisfactory to your
judgment. You kindly and promptly granted
what 1 asked; and I will now, 1 hope, show that
it was under no ordinary circumstances that 1
requested the delay. Until Saturday last the
prisoner waslo me a stranger. On that day,
and in this the gloom and datkness ot Ins short
life, he solicited my professional services, and
has held counsel with tne in regard to this must
serious prosecution. In a professional life ot
now more than thirty years, and some fa
miliarity with scenes ot distress and desolation
in human affairs, in which every sympathy of
the human heart would be aroused in pity and
commiseration for the humbled sufferer and of
fender, I have never witnessed but one either
which has made so ueep an impression on my
own heart, as that of the unfortunate young man
whose case is now to be investigated. Early in
my Interviews with him, the first, the great, the
absorbing desire with him—one that seemed
lastened on his conscience and his soul, which
no human ingenuity, advise or reasoning could
shake—was truthfully to make known his error
ami promptly lo submit to such punishment as
the offended laws ot his country denounced
against him. Firmly, yet calmly, he was
warned am! admonished of the tearful conse
quences, which the execution of such a purpose
would bi ing on him. Nothing could shake him.
Neither the fear of punishment, nor the hope of
escape from this prosecution, made him hesitate
or pause. I have been commanded by the
prisoner to arrest this investigation. With a
delerminaiion>ftxed and unalterable, on yester
day morning, he repeated to me this command
I could not even then obey. Such a professional
responsibility 1 had never before encountered—
such another, I pray Heaven, 1 may never again
have cause to meet. 1 asked one night’s con
sideration—l asked it lor myself, not for this un
happy young man. lam again commanded by
the accused, possessed as he is with a tiill
knowledge ofthe awful import ot the admission,
losay to vou, sir, that he confesses his guilt, and
that no witness ne?d be called to prove it; and
bows in humble resignation to the punishment
by law prescribed for his crime.
A pious Christian, with a fair character, many
friends and a prospect lor the coming future
bright and cheering, he, in a moment ot weak
ness, has fallen tromthe ways of honesty and ot
virtue. He will not be tempted by any earthly
hope, to consent to add to this his guilt, by
falsely denying that guilt. While I thus speak
by the command an.l under the authority ofthe
prisoner, what terms can picture the condition
of his young, accomplished, devoted, now vir
tually worse than widowed wile, and bis not
fatherless, yet orphan child? With this theme
I cannot trust myself.
The scenesol woe and distress, which no hu
man tongue can describe, ol yesterday and of
the Sabbath, spring again fresh before me. The
approving cry of that wile, to her crushed and
humbled husband, yet sounds in my eats, “ Yes,
husband, tell all; conceal nothing—give tip the
last dollar to pay all you owe. Got! will forgive
all to a repentant sinner.”
The united wishes, then, of the husband and
wife I obey, when now, on his behalf, 1 submit
his case with the acknowledgment that he is
guilty of the charge made tn the warrant before
you.”
the toHowing imaginary dialogue the
St Louis Reveille canvasses the merits ol therfi'
three great violinists ;
A Unanimous Difference.l-- 1 - Well, you may
cal! him grand, if you like, but he don’t im
press we as- a*i--oh, you know--as that, other
one did !” What I you didn’t go. Miss Damper ?
—well, I never! Oh, don’t ask me about him !
—it’s—.it’s..-it’s inex.-pressiblr, that’s all I can
say 1” “ Pshaw, my dear—hold your tongue
allid—d humbug! Lucy Neal!—there, now,
‘there’s something that one can understand. A
‘ crowded room!’—of course there was a ‘ crowd
ed room;’ any thing from Europe will bring a
'crowded room.’” “Well. Ido hate an affect
ed man.” “Affected!” “Yes, I say affected
with his kissing his fiddle, and his small
waist; for my part, 1 wonder how any one can
call him ‘handsome?” “You do!” “ Yes. I
do!” “Oh, l eavens, if such a being were only
mine! I’d follow him through weal and wo,
through lowa or Texas; yes, I’d ” “ You’d
run away in pantaloons alter him, I suppose,
like that girl in Philadelphia; I hearyou, Miss
Sally!” “ Vat 1 link of Ola Bull!—bah! Has
you hear Vieux. Temps? Mais, mon dieu!
he was great artiste. Ah, oui, Ola ver great, too;
ver big bull, i! you like—mais, P7c«.r-7Vmps!
Artot. Zey was—ha'. ha!—zey is de Buffaloes —
ha! ha!” “ What ad—n ignorant set! Borghese
links of coming up here, on her way East, but 1
shall write her to rest. decidedly “ Ah, here’s
Signor Da Capa’—now, you’re a musician, nnd
what do think 1” “ What I link? You ask me
what I link? Ino link at all, d—n’ You hear
dat Polacca Guerricre, you no feel your heart,
tump -tump—quick ! —you no get you eyes,
and vou nose, and you mouse wide open ! you
no say, what you call, ‘ takey my hat’—d—n—
furore!—eb ? Den you no see all de Carnival
before you eye, eh?’ You no see Polichinelle!
You no hearde crowd swear, and de ole woman
scold, and de sugar-plums rain, and—d—n, you
no ‘cut off your leg,’ eh? Bah! you all ‘go
aheacs steamboats’ —vou all d—n *bust you
b-lers’—you—voil—‘Hurrah 'rex’—you ‘hur
rah li-ll!’ Diavolo’ Hurrah OU Bull? Viva
I' Maestro ! Vaa la Mttsir.a!
One of the results attending a recent geologi'
cal survey ot Canada was the discovery ot li
thocranhie s’one at a place called Rama, on
Lake Silicon. This stone is said to be of the
best quality, and similar material is obtained in
only one other place in the world—Solenhotcn
on the Danube. The supply at Rama is very
large.
THURSDAY MORNING. OCT. 9.
Mail iKRESULiRtriEs;—Our correspondent
at Cassville, is informed that our tri-weeklv
papers are regularly mailed on lhe morning of
their issue, and our weekly on Thursday, in
time for foe mail of that day. We are there
fore unable to account for lhe delay ot which he
complains.
Spurious Bills.—We are informed lhat bills
of (he denomination of one hundred dollars on
the " Southwestern Railroad and Banking Com
pany," are in circulation. There is no such
Bankin existence. The bills are said to be
, handsomely executed and well calculated to
deceive the unsuspecting, who are defrauded by
supposing them to be the genuine issues ot the
"Southwestern Ruil-mid Bank" of Chaileston.
Tub counterfeit on the Branch Slate Bank
at Athens, mentioned by us yesterday, was of
the denomination of ®5, instead ol ;$3, as slated.
New Mail Arrangement.
The Montgomery (Ala.,) Journal of the Ist
inst. says:—We understand that a new route is
in contemplation which will expedite the North
ern Mail to this place 12 hours in advance
of the present time. Several experimental
trips have been made at the desire of the
department, and so successfully as leave no
doubts ot its easy practicability—passengers
arriving here 12'hours before the mail. The
route is through to Atlanta, lhe terminus of lhe
Georgia Railroad, and from thence through La
Grange, West Point to Cnehaw, and this place.
Columbus will be supplied by away route, and
the distributing office will be removed to La
Grange or this place, which gives a great gain
in speed. In a matter of such importance to lhe
public, and demonstrated so practicable, we
trust the department will not delay lhe comple
tion of the arrangements.
Maryland Election—The Baltimore Ame
rican of the Gth inst., says Authentic and com
plete returns are in from all parts of the State,
and the result may thus be summed up:
Congress.— Of lhe six members chosen two
are Whigs and four are Locotocos:
Ist District John G. Chapman (W.)
2d “ Thus. Perry, (L. F.)
3d “ T. W. Ligon, (L. F.)
4th “ W. F. Giies, (L. F.)
. sth “ A. Constable, (L F )
6th “ Edward Long, (AV.)
Being a loss of four Whig members.
idousc ot Delegates.— The Whigs have elecled
43, and the locolbcos 39 Delegates—making a
Whig majority of/fer. The State Senate is
decidedly Whig.
Anti-Renters.a—Vn Steentmrg, one of lhe
party of Anti-Renters who killed Sheriff Steele,
has been tried at Delhi, N. Y., and found guilty
of murder. A large number of prisoners who
had pleaded guilty to indictments for various
degrees of crime, from mere misdemeanors to
manslaughter in the fourth degree, were arraign
ed and sentenced to pay fines varying according
to the degree of turpitude attached to their seve
ral offences.
The U. S. Treasurer’s weekly statement
shows the following sum’s on depositc to the ac
count of the United States, “ subject to draft:”
Ten banks in New Y0rk43,938.900
Chesapeake Bank, Baltimore 170 970
Three banks in Washington, 191,239
Corcoran & Riggs, Washington 484,707
Two banks in Philadelphia 503,052
Mint, Philadelphia 024,960
Judge Woodbury took the oath of office anti
assumed his seat on the bench of the U. S.
Circuit Court, as a Justice of the Supreme
Court, in Portland, Maine, on the Ist Oct.
Boughton arrived at Albany in the steamboat
South America, on 'Wednesday morning, in
custody of the Sheriff, on his way to the State
Prison in Clinton county.
The New Haven Courier slates that Mess rs
H. Asten&Co. have a contract with govern
ment for 30,000 pistols, at ©(>.so each—the con
tract to be filled within five years.
The Shawneeton Gazette says a woman re
siding in the Wabash Bottom, about eigtft
miles, from that place, died on the 31st uit.,
after-an illness of 14 hours, resulting tromthe
bite of a spider upon the lip.
Jacob Hays, High Constable ol New York
city, has completed his 74th year, and still re
tains his lormer activity and usefulness
Ute Mormon War.
The Hannibal (Mo.) Journal ol the 231 till,
contains the following letter, dated
'• Warsaw, Sept. 23<Z, 1845.
Sin:—Gen. McAllen has ordered out his bri
gade to march in three days to our county.—
Capts. Dunn and Singleton areal Augusta with
SOO troops—Col. Williams has ordered his
regiment to meet at Warsaw as soon as they
can inarch in. A delegation from Qdiney
went tip to Nauvoo on last night with orders to
the Mormons to leave, or they would bring
their forces against them and compel them to
leave. The Governor of lowa has ordered
out the troops in the Territory, the particular
object not known. We now anticipate a final
settlement ot our Mormon difficulties.”
In addition to the above, says the Journal,
we learn that 500 troops were on their march
to the seat ol v ar, from Pike conntf, 111. They
started from Pittsfield yesterday morning (24th
inst.)
A correspondent of the St. Louis Reveille
states that the Mormons were hauling grain
and driving cattle into Nauvoo, expecting a
siege ; and 1:« says:
" When the Mormons find themselves sur
rounded they will r treat to the Temple, and
then if they are routed, it will only be by the
hardest fighting that the country has seen lor
many years. The Temple commands the coun
try for miles around. The saintshnve 21 pieces
of artillery, (12 pounders,) plenty ofam munition
and are now laving tn a slock of provisions, by
plundering the old settlers, which will keep fa
mtneofflor months. If a siege is commenced
what will be the consequence it is impossible to
foretell. The whole country may riseenmasse;
but can Nauvoo be subdued by a force, com
manding as tne Temple does so wide a range of
and armed as the Mormons arc with 24
pieces of heavy artillery and 1.000 stand of re
volving rifles, besides common arms to any
amount.
"The Governor, it is said, will not interfere,
and it so, there is no telling the result of present
movements. The military ot ourcity, who are
so anxious fora brush with Mexico, had better
take up their line ot march tor the Holy City,
and try their steel and courage in the expected
siege of Naavoo.”
Later from South America.
By the arrival of the ship Courier, Capt.
JWolfe, at New York, Rio de Janeiro papers io
lhe2Bth ol August Lave been received. Among
the passengers are Hon. A. U. Everett, U. 3.
Commissioner to China, who returns on ac
count ot iil health; Amory Edwards, Bearer
of Despatches and Argentine Minister, and J.
Minor Clarkson, E<q.ot Philadelphia.
The U.S. irigate Raritan, Captain Gregory,
bearing the broad pennant of Commodore
Turner, and the U. S. brig Bainbridge, were
at Rio on lhe 28lb. The Bainbridge was to
sail for Montevideo on tbe29th.
ri he Journal ot August 28, contaius advices
from Montevideo Lu the 17th. On the 2d, Ad
miral Brown,commander ofthe Buenos Ayrean
squadron, made sail tor that port, buth te French
brig D’Assaiz and lhe English sloop-of-wa:
Comus opened their fire upon him and compel
led him lo come again to anchor. On the
atiernoon of lhe same day, the whole of Ad
miral Brown’s squadron was captured by the
French and English forces. The foreigners
landed, and the Argentines, among whom was
Admiral Brown, were placed on board the
steamers to be conveyed to Buenos Ayres.
At Monte Video the British and French co i--
'manders were filling out a flotilla of small
vessels, destined, it was said, loattack the island
of Martin Garcia.
The Journal contradicts a rumor that the
Brazilian squadron would depart from its neu
trality and aid the British and French in their
acts. ’1 lie squadron has been withdrawn.
The English and French residents at Buenos
Ayres, have decided not to depart, or break up
their establishments, in consequence ot existing
relations.
The Journal oi the 21st contains various of
ficial papers, issued at Monte Video; among
them are, a joint declaration from the French
and British Ministers, Baron Defiaudis and
Mr. Ousley, that their mission and purpose
were simply to ensure the perfect independence
of the Oriental Republic,, unaccompanied by
any idea ot invasion or acquisition ot territory ,
and a notification that the port ot Busco was
blockaded from the Ist nt August, neutral
vessels being allowed until the 12th to with
draw.
The British and French commanders had
landed a thousand troops, with orders to attack
Orobe if he committed any hostile act against
the city of Monte Video.
The town of Springfield, Mass., contains 10
cotton mills with 62,173 spindles, consuming
I last year 6,215,666 lbs. of cotton, and manufac-
turing 16,864,351 yards of shot tings, shirtings,
drillings, &,v. ’I fe capital engaged in the cotton
mmiufacture is $2,100,000; ‘and 493 male:.', and
1,255 females, find constant employment.
In the other mechanical establishments in the
town besides the cotton factories, over $1,000,-
000 of capital is invested, giving employment to
morethan 1000 persons. The United States
Arsenal is located in the town, at which are
manufactured annually 12 000 percussion mus
kets, valued at $114,000. Two hundred and
fifty men are connected with this Arsenal in
its various departments.
Jews in China.
This is tlie title of a work recently published
in London, the following interesting extract
from which we copy from the Jewish Chroni-
cle for October.
The Jesuit missionaries were but a short
time settled in Pe-kiug, when one summer’s
day, at lhe beginning of the seventeenth cen
tury, a visitor called upon Father Matthew
Ricci, induced to do so by an account then re
cently published in the metropolis, of the for
eigners who worshipped a single Lord of heaven
and earth, and yet were not Mohammedans.
Entering the house with a smile, he announced
himself as one of the same religion with its in
mates. The missionary, remarking how much
his features and figure differed from those pre
vailing among the Chinese, led him to the
chapel. It was St.. Jon Baptist’s day, and over
the altar was a painting ot the Virgin Alary
with the Infant Jesus, and the future Baptist on
his knees before them. The stranger bowed to
the picture as Ricci did, but explained al the
same time he was not accustomed to do so be
fore any such representations: only he could
not refrain from paying the uSual homage ot
the country to his great ancestors. Beside the
altar were pictures of the lour evangelists. He
inquired if these were not of the twelve. Ricci
answered in the affirmative, supposing him to
mean the twelve apostles. Then, returning to
lhe first apartment, he proposed questions in
turn, and an unexpected explanation ensued. 1
The stranger was a descendant of Israel,
and, during his survey of the chapel, had
imagined the large picture to represent Rebeka
with Jacob and Esau, and the other persons to
denote four of the sons ofJacob. <
It was some time before this simple explana
tion could be elicited, on account ot lhe misun
derstanding on both sides, which impeded lhe
use of direct interrogation. The visitor, how
ever, knew nothing of the appellation, Jew; he
styled himseit an Israelite, by nameNgai, a na
tive of Nae fung-foo,'he capital of the province,
Ho-nan, where, having prepared himself by
study for a mandarin degree, he had now re
paired to Pe-king for his examination: and led
by curiosity or a fellow-feeling for the supposed
fraternity ot his nation, he had thus ventured to
cad at the mission house.
He stated that in his native city there were
ten or twelve families of Israelites, with a fair
synagogue, which they had recently restored
and decorated at an expense of ten thousand
crowns, and in which they preserved a roll lot
the law, four or five hundred years old; ad
ding, that in Hang-chow-foo, the capital of
Chekcang, there were considerably more fami
lies, with their synagogue.
He made several allusions to events and per
sons of Scripture history, but pronounced the
names differently from lhe mode usual iq Eu
rope. When shown a Hebrew Bible, he was
unable to read i>, though he at once recognized
the eharac'.ers. He said that Hebrew learning
was still maintained among his people, that his
brother was proficient in it; and he seemed to
confess lhat his own neglect of it, with pre
ference for Gentile literature, had exposed
him to censure from the congregation and the
rabbi, but this gave him little'concern, as his
ambition aimed at the honors to be gained ffom
Chinese learning—a disciple rather ot Confu
cius than of Moses.
Three years afterward, having no earlier op
portunity, Ricci despatched a Chinese Chris
tian to investigate, at Nae-lung-fco, the truth of
this singular discovery. All was found to be
as describ'd, and the messenger brought back
will: him a copy of the titles and endings ol
the five books of Moses. These were com
pared with the printed Plantinian Bible and
found to correspond exactly; the writing, how
ever, had no vowel points. Ricci, ignorant of
Hebrew, commissioned the same native t onvert
lo return with an epistle in Chinese, ad: ressed
to the rabbi, announcing that at Pe-kicg h i was
possessor ol all the other booksol the Ota
lament, as well as those ot the New 'i’estat. ■
which contains a record of ttie acts of Me
siah, who is .already come. In reply the rabbi
asserted that Mesial, is not only not come, but
that be would not appeartor ten thousand yt are.
He added that, having heard ot the fame ol his
correspondent, be would willingly transfer to
him the government ofthe synagogue, if Ricci
would abstain from swine’s flesh, and reside
with the community.
Afterward arrived three Israelites together
from the same city, apparently willing to re
ceive Christianity; one ofthese was the son ol
the brother, already mentioned, of the first visi
tor. "They were received with kindness, and
instructed in many things of which their rabbis
were ignorant;” and when laustbl the history of
Christ, they all paid to his image the same
adoration as the entertainers did. Some buolis
being given them in the Chinese language, such
as, "A Compendium of Christian Faith,” and
others of the same nature, they read them, and
carried them home at their return. They de
scribed th- ir congregation hs on the brink of
extinction, partly from the decay oftheir nation
al language, and partly because their chief had
lately died at a very advanced age, leaving lor
his herediiary successor a son, very young and
very little versed in the peculiarities of their
religion.
These personages readily fell in with several
opinions ot the missionaries. Trigaut tells us
that they expressed a desire forpiclures ashelps
lo devotion, to he in theirsynagogue and private
oratoiies, particularly lor pictures ot Jesus.
They complained ol the interdiction fromslaugh
tering animals for themselves, which il they had
not transgressed recently upon the road they
must have perished with hunger. They were
likewise ready to renounce the right ofcircum
cision on the eighth day. which lheirwives and
the surrounding Heathen denounced as a barba
rous andcruel practice. And they held outthe ex
pectation that inasmuch as Christianity offers a
reliet in such matters, it would be easily adopted
among their people. Yet the author gives no
account of any consequent conversion.
It appeared on farther inquiry that the Chi
nese comprise underthe one designation, Hiemi.
/iwwy, the three religions of Israelite, Moham
medans, and the cross worshippers, descen
dants of early Syrian Christians, subsisting in
certain provinces, but occasionally distinguish
ing them thus: —
1. The Mohammedans, as the Hiowtabstain
ing from pork.
2. The Israelits, as the Bvmti who cut out
the nertes.ind sinews from their meat; and,
3. The cross worshippers, who retuse to eat
of animals which have an undivided bool;
w’hieh latter restriction, it was said, the Israel
its there did not observe.
We extract the following beautiful passage
rom the Report ot John CXuincv Adams, when
Chait man of the Committee on Manufactures
in the House of Representatives in 1831-2:
“ The energies of the human mind are ini
compressible. Long misapplied and wasted
as they have been in establishing systems ol
injustice and wrung, in riveting the chains of
tyranny, and in forging the fetters of oppression,
with W’hat tenfold elasticity, v ill they spring lo
the improvement of their own condition, when
in the lull enjoyment of their faculties—and in
the pos.-ission of peace? When populous and
civilized nations are engaged in war, the in
ventive genius ot their people is chiefly turned
to the purposes and necessities of their condi
tion, to lhe advancement of the warlike arts.
When they are at peace, the labors and disco
veries ot the mind are applied to the cultivation
of lhe arts ol peace. The honest pride, of every
nation, and its ardor lor self-improvement, is
stimulated by the example of every other.—
Eveiy nation is impelled not only to avail her
selfot the genius ot tier own sons, but to adopt
and to impress those if her neighbors, it is by
their improvements .in the mechanic, arts, and
hy their application lo manufactures, that the
modern nations of Europe surpass so tar those
ut the other quarters of the globe.
" It would be no exaggerated estimate to -ay
that the very recent inventions of lite steam
boat and of the railway have opened avenue.-,
ot power lo the nations possessing them, which
, their neighbors could not permit them exclusive
ly to enjoy, and retain, without sinking into a
state ot defenceless inferiority before them.—
The steamboat is an invention of our own
country; the railwayjs achieve
ment ot Enroneah ingenuity which we are
enabled to appropriate to our’ own uses, and
lhe immensity of the continent whicb wc in
habit, and the still tiiuhiplviiig millions of our
posterity, which iitr long ages will continue to
swarm upon its surface, and the Government
and r which we live, and the freedom of
thought and' speech, and of action which we
enjoy, seem as it adapted l>y the beneficent
hand of Providence, all to each other, for the
advancement of the welfare of human kind.”
Hanging.—The following story is in Spoon
er’s Vermont Journal of March 24,1194:
In lhe American Army under Gen. Lincoln,
in 1779, while he lav at the Three Sisters, on
the south side of the'Savannah river, to cover
South Carolina from the British troops, who
had at that time reduced Georgia, an American
soldier having been apprehended in attempting
to join the British, was ordered to be hanged.
He was accordingly hanged to a tree. Alter
remaining suspended a tew seconds, the rope
broke, and he fell to the ground. Being restored
to animation by proper assistance, he earnestly
entreated to be forgiven. A Col. Mason, who
commanded on this disagreeable duly, in formed
Gen' Lincoln of what had happened, The
General desired him to double the tope, and try
if that would not hang him. This was done,
and he was hung up a secend time; when,after
swinging about half a minute, to the astonish
ment of the spectators, first one strand ot the
rope gave wav and then the other, and he fell
(once more to the ground. Being brought to
lite again, he renewed his earnest entreaties to
be pardoned; and upon a representation to the
General that lhe rope was insufficient to hang
' -■ it ift.iii.h i tmd
oiliet to be had, he ordered the dciertci to be
dt iimmed out of the i Aimp,.w,ith the noose olHie
i>,pe about hi neck. Upon that two ot the
f.cavlelt men of the guard who attended him,
either of whot|tt weye heavier than the prisoner,
begged leave to tty the stfength'd the rope; and
.■ the doable of so
himself by his arnis by the single strand, while
able to keep his pudje the rope did not
bteak.
The Fuschia.
At the Bosloff Hc ■tiCuliural
Exhibition, (he
lidlow ing a n ecdotei ifa sre la ted by Iheß ev. V.
Choules, on the juniority of Mr. Shepherd, the
accomplished conservator of the Botanical Gar
dens at Liverpool, respecting the introduction
of that flowcry shi-Üb, the' Fuschia, into lhe
green-houses of Eitfippe:
Old Mr. Lee, a welt knowji nurseryman and
florist at Greenwich; near London about fifty
years ago, was one itjiy showing his variegated
treasures to a person; who suddenly turned and
said, “ Well, you tfaVe not in your whole col
lection so pictiy a fewer is one I saw to-day in
a window at Wappfog.”
“ Indeed, and whtifwtis this phoenix like?”
“ Why, lhe plant tyas beautiful and lhe flow
ers hung down like tasseds. 'from the drooping
branches: their color was the deepest crimson,
and in the centre a told Os rich purple.”
Particular inquiries were made as to the exact
whereabouts, anti Mr. Lcefposte.d off to the
■ d the o' ,
suit, and pronounced it a •/<«»
plant. He saw and: admired.
Enteting the humble dwelling, he said, “My
•jood woman, this is a nice plant ol youts, 1
should like to buy it.”
“ Ab, sir, I couldn’t st-ll it for no money; it
was brought me froftforeigniparts by my hus
band, who has goneagfom, and I must keep it
“ But I must have’.-ii,”
“ No, sir; 1 can’t spare it.” v
“ Here,” emptying his pockets, “here is gold,
silver and copper,’’, (his stock amounting to
more than eight guioeas.)
“ Well-a-day, this is a power of money.”
“ Tis yours, amfihe plant is mine, mv good
'■ "U.M. I’ll give tou one of the first vounc
k.L your lillsttand’s safe: I
' ■i.ufoed.” >
The bargain was>iruck, a'icoach ralfo.i, in
V. hich old Mr. Lee-■tsifl his Jtpparemlv deatlv
purchased flower wetwieposiled. On returning
home, his first off and festrov
every blossom and fed; the plant was divided
into small cuttings, which were forced into bark
feds and hot-bMii, and again sub-divided.
Every effort was eftploved to multiply the plant.
Mr. Lee became the delighted .possessor of three
hundred fuscllias, jIP giving promise ol line
blossoms. The twt which first expanded were
placed in his window. A lady came in, “ Why
Mr. Lee, my dear Mr. Lee, where did you get
this charming flowc.'?"
“’Tis a new thing,my lady—pretty, is it n. 41”
“ Pretty ! ’tis lovely ; its price!”
“A guinea, your ladyship;” and one ot the
two plants that evening stood in beauty on her
ladyship’s table in lier boudoir.
“My dear Charlotte, where did you get lhat
eleeant flower?"
“Oh,’lisa new thing; I saw it at old Mr.
Lee’s; pretty is it not?”
“ Pretty ! ’tis beautitul; what did it cost?”
“Only a guinea, and there was another
left."
The visitor’s horses trotted off to the suburb,
and a third beauteous, plant graced the spot
from whence the first had been taken. The
second guinea was paid, and the fuschia adorn
ed another drawing-room of fashion. This
scene was repeated- as new calls wet.- made
by persons attracted by the beauty of the plant.
Two plants, graceful and bursting into flower,
wete constantly seen oh the same spot. He
gladdened the failhfSl sailor’s wile with the
promised flower, and; before the season closed,
neariy three hundrevl guineas jingled in his
t :> -e, the produce of the sincle shrub from
th... window at Wnpping, as a reward of old
Mr. Lee’staste, skill, and decision.”
Anecdote of Alexander Hamilton.—The
following anecdote, recorded ot this distinguish
ed man in Gen. Wilkinson’s memoirs, places
in a strong light his extreme sagacity as a mili
tary counsellor:
A plan had been devised by Gen. Washing
u, u i.t’e the British army lav in New York,
lor seizing the person of Sir H. Clinton, then
the English Cnmniaoder.in-Chief. b was con
sidered, determined on, andon the point of be
ing put into execution, when Hamilton sug
gested to Gen. Washington, that although it
might succeed, and fora timeereate a favorable
imoression, he wasof opinion it would be more
advantageous to lheenemy than the Americans,
inasmuch as they kne v Clinton to be by no
means a forthidable'Kntagunist, were acquaint
ed with'his plaits and official habits; whereas,
if they removed him, his successor could hard
ly fail to be a more .efficient adversary. I his
view of lhe subject convinced Washington that
it was more advisable to preserve than u> re
move lhe British CommtUlder-in-Chiefj andtlie
project was absiufoned.
Moan Troops r<ij**n’E^A».—Five Compa
nies ol U. 8. i’foop»,)'ri s mi Portsmouth, Ohio,
and demined for Ari:traMs*Hav, arrived yester
day on board tlfo stchnier Oregon. They are
at present quartered a l ' the Barracks, below the
city, under the cb omand of Lieut. Col. Mc-
Intosh, and lhe following company officers:—
Capt. Scott, of comp. I. Ist Lieut. Whitall, 2d
Lieut. Whiting ; Capt. Merril, ot comp. K, Ist
Lieut. Root, 2d Lieut. Robinson ; Capt. Chap
man, of comp. G, 2d Lieut. Norvell, Brevet
Lieut. Smith; Lieut. Brooke, ot comp. A,
Brevet 21 Lieut. Pilcher; Ist Lieut. Stevensan,
of comp. B. 2d Lieut. Grisse, Brevet 2d Lieut.
Howe; Dr. Russel; M. T. Jamison, Suttler;
and Lieut. Irons, of the Ist Regiment Artillery
—in all 250 men, belonging to the Fifth Regi
ment U. S. Infantry.—A'. O. Bee, 3rd inst.
The population of the State of Indiana is
now about eight hundred thousand.
From the Southern -Cultivator.
Wheat.
In the courseof this month,those who intend
to plant wheat will be getting their ground in
order, and towards the end of the month they
will bo putting the seed in the ground. Very
much of the success of the crop and of the
quality of the grain will depend on the manner
in which the ground shall be prepared for the re
ception of the seed, nnd on the proper selection
and preparation of the seed itself. In the form
er particular—the preparation of the ground—the
practice of Southern planters has been very es
pecially careless: so much so, indeed, as to
have occasioned the remark that if, in those
St .tes where wheat is a main crop, the giound
were prepared and the seed sown in a manner as
slovenly as by many Southern planters, nothing
at all would be made- The great defect ir. our
practice in preparing for this crop, as well ns nil
others, consists in our shallow plowing. This is
to be remedied by subsoillng, about which there
has been so much said in the Cultivatob.
Then, as to the soil itself, the defect, in most
parts of the South, is the deficiency of lime and
potash. Every wheat grower ought, by all
means, to put on his wheat land, where thisdeft
cieney exists, at least ten bushels of lime, and
the like quantity of ashes, tn the acre. These
both contain essential ingredients of both straw*
and grain, ns has been repeatedly shown by anal
ysis. And where they are liberally supplied to
soils deficient in them, Other things being proper
tv attended to, there will be produeedlargc heads
of wheat filled with Inree, plump grains, nnd
straw of strength sufficient to hold such heads
up. If the lime and ashes cannot lie applied
when the wheat is sown, it will answer as well
—some say betkr—to def. rit till w inter. When
the land is poor, lhe American Farmer says, " the
cheapest as. well asrtfiajss.st manure that could be
ure I would t)e Gaaftfi, in the proportion of 150 to
pounds to the acre, to be mixed with about
ten times that quanfit-feof mould, and one bushel
of plaster. The who’k tri be mixed together,
li .es sowing thS grain, or any time during the
w ..er;” omitting the use of the harrow in the
lai: -r ease, of course.
Where Ghana cannot be had, the American
Farnti r recommends as a verv excellem eubsti
;me, the following mixture: —"Take 2 bushels
of ground bones, 2 bushels of ashes, 10 bushels
of rich loam or mould, 1 bushel of plaster, 2 bu
rn of salt, and 20 gallons of urine ; mix the
whole together well: let the mass remain for a
few d.T--s, when it will be fit to sow. The quan
tity h -re mined is intended for an acre, and
would, we have no doubt, tend to increase the
vic'd thirty-three percent, in the crop of wheat,
b -ides greatly improving the succeeding crops
of any rotation which miritt follow, and leaving
the ground in a ntelioratid condition.”
Where are we to get the bones ! you ask..
Yes, there is the difficulty in makiug use of this
prescription. We in the South arc not poor
enough yet to begin to save bones, but we soon
will be, going on as we do now. Let any one,
however, think tor a moment of the quantity of
bancs he- might save on it s plantation if lie were
to set about gathering up what are throw n out to
bleach in the sun, or be consumed by the abom
inable race of sheep-stealing dogs with which
the whole country b infested, and the difficulty
will vanish. Besides, you have only to create a
demand for ground bones, am! the demand will
be Speedilv supplied with the article from abroad.
■ The field of Waterloo, for many years after that
Wattle, supplied not only many of the wheat
fields of England with bones for the improvement
of the soil, but also many of the English millers
with hones for the improvement of the weigh: of
lheir floor, in the same way as some Northern
ntiffers are said to use Plaster of Paris toimprova
the weight of buckwheat flour for our Southern
markets, producing,an this buckwheat case, re
sults very surprising indeed, and profitable be
yond anvtntng that could be accomplished by the
application of the (sapid quantity of plaster lo the
soil where the buckwheat grew.
“ To prevent smut,” —wo quote from the Ame
rican Farmer —"al! seed wheat should be well
w ashed in clean waler, so that all the lighter
grainsand the seeds of weeds may be skimmed
off. To insure this, the wheat should be put in
to a hogshead, in email quantities at a time;
kept stirred, so that the impure grains and extra
' neons matters may be floated to the top. This
* process should be condtiued until all such are re-
> moved, and the water, which should be drawn
> oil and repleniehedoccasionally, eeases to be co
: iored by the operation. After this has been es-
* footed, let a brine be made of salt or lye of ashes,
sufficiently strong to bear an egg; cover the seed
wheat with it and let it soak tor twelve hours ;
then dtaw ell (he soak, spread the wheal on a
floor, sprinkle slaked lime or ashes over it, and
stir up the mass so as to coat each grain witli
the substance used. When this is done the
wheal will be ready for sowing. No more wheat
must be taken out of the soak than can be sown
each day, and care should be taken to plow it in
as sown, not more than about three inches deep.
The harrow and rotter should follow the plow.
Seed thus prepared and put in, will, besides be
ing exempt from smut, come up quicker, grow
more rapidly, and, of consequence, obtain u much
better series of roots before winter, than would
such as may be sown without preparation, and
therefore be better able to withstand the cffcctscf
frosts and thaws.”
Sir John Sinclair recommends, to prevent
smut, to run the grain very gently through a rid
dle into clean water, when not only the smut
bads, but the imperfect grainsand me seeds of
weeds, will float, and may be skimmed ofl at
pleasure. As a further means of preventing
smut, he recommends steeping the seed in any
oneof the following preparations: 1. Pure cold
water and lime. 2. Boiling waler and lime. 3.
Water impregnated with salt. 4. Urine pickle.
5. Lye of wood ashes. 6. A solution of arsenic.
T. A solution of blue vitriol.
Arthur Young sowed beds with wheat seed
that was black with smut. The first bed sown
with unwashed seed had 3*7 smutty kernels. A
bed with seed washed in clean water had 325 bad
kernels—washed in lime water, had 43 kernels;
in lye of wood ashes, had 31; in arsenic and salt
mixture, 28; steeped in limewater, four hours,
had 2; in lye, four hours, had 3; in arsenic solu
tion four hours, hail one smutty kernel; steeped
in lye 12 hours, had none; in lye 24 hours, none ;
in lime water 24 hours, none; in arsenic 24 hours,
had five smutty grains.
Smut, then, cm be gotten rid of. Everybody
knows how to escape, to a great extent, the ra
vages of the fly. We wish the same could be
said of rust, the only other serious malady wheat
is liable to. On this subject, notwithstanding so
much has been written, very little, we believe, is
known that is really useful. Both the cause and
cure are nearly as much involved in mystery ns
ever. Sir John Sinclair, in his Code of Agricul
ture, discusses the subject at length, and recom
mends as remedies that were most efficacious in
Iris time:
1. Cultivating hardy sorts of w heat.
2. Early sowing.
3. Raising early varieties.
•1. Thick sowing.
5; Changes of feed.
6. Consolidating the soil.
7. Using saline manures.
6. Improving the coursg of crops.
9. Extirpating all plants that are receptacles of
rust.
10. Protecting wheat plants by other crops.
Mr. Colman’s attention was directed to this
subject, in New England, and after experiments
carefully made, and extensive reading and obser
vation, he came to the conclusion that, early
sowing, from the best observation he had made of
wheat crops that had comeundorhis notice,from
the united and decided opinion of the British
wheat growers and from many American autho
rities, is to be strongly advised as a preventive of
rust. This may do in New England, but in the
Southern States early sowing exposes the crop
to the ravages of the fly.
Oflate,it has been confidently asserted that
charcoal dust spread liberally over the ground is
a sure preventive of rust. But here we wain
more light, and careful experiment alone can
furnish it. Who will not be willing to undertake
the experiments necessary to test not oniy this
matter, but also many others connected with this
crop!
“ Now then, farmers”—to use the language
of the Ohio Cultivator “one and all, what
will you do towards accomplishing this de
sirable object? It is vain for us to wiite or talk
or travel amongst you, if yon do not put forth the
necessary efforts to carry intocflect the measures
that may be recommended, or to test by experi
ments the plans of improvement that mav be
suggested by the discoveries of science. Here
then is work for you all! Sonic of you we know
have already engaged in it, and are acting upon
the numerous suggestions that have been made
through our columns, in regard to the manner of
tilling and enriching the soil; but there is need
of much more being done, and we want every
one to take a parr. In the first place all should
try to put in their wheat a little better this year
than formerly—this all can easily do, without
much addition’ll trouble, if they have made a pro
per use of their own powers of observation, or
have given any attention to the published ac
counts of the experience of others. Then we
want, also, that every farmer should make some
definite experiment this year, which may put to
the test some theory of science, or perhaps lead
to some discovery that will prove of advantage
to the farming community, when the results are
made known.
“This mav be done in a multitude of ways:—we
have published numerousarticies on the use of
different kinds of manures and fertilizing agents,
as lime, ashes, plaster, charcoal, die.: now let
each fanner who can obtain any of these sub
stances try experiments with them, by dressing
one portion of the field and leaving the other un
dressed. The same may be done with numerous
other kinds of manure and substances to be found
about the farm or neighborhood. Then, too, in the
mode of tilling or preparing the land, there is un
limited scope for experiments; plow a little deep
er than ever before, and if you can buy or borrow
a subsoil plow, try that on heavy soils, and be
sure in all cases to leave a portion of the field un
der ordinary tillage, so as to enable you to per
ceive the difference, if any.
“In the time and mannerpf sowing, and the
kind of seed, there is also room for a multitude nf
important experiments, which will suggest them
selves to the mind of every farmer: let them all
fe tried and the results published next summer
in the Ohio [.Southern] Cultivator, and the infor
mation thus obljiinod may be the means of add-
millions to the wheat crop of Ohio [Georgia]
for years to-~ome. and bringing prosperity and
liapniness tc —J farmers themselves.”
Fiorn the Southern Cultivator.
Decrease of population—Study of Agri
culture.
They are complaining about the decrease of
population in the interior of the State of New
York. And it is asserted, that unless something
is done Ay tin Legislature, to aid in improving the
sail, half the rural population will go to the West,
where land needs no improvement, for the pre
sen-, at least. Wheat, the great staple of western
New York, is now brought to Buffalo, from Illi
nois, Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin, at five
cents per bushel. In this state of things, it is
confidently asserted, that, without the aid of sci
ence, the wheat growers of New York will have
to give up the contest. Their condition is said
to be still worse, who make wool, pork, butter, or
cheese, according to the old system, o.t account
of competition from the West.
Under all these discouragements, however,
there is this to cheer us. It is said, that in
spite of the prolific production ot western soils,
and the cheapness of freights on the lakes, there
arc still some farmers in New York who make
money—and they do this, because they arc ena
bled, by the lights of modern science, to give a
triple value to every muscular movement, in
whatever work they set their hands about. That
is, their one head and pair of hands, can accom
plish more in the same time, than the three heads
and three pair of hands of those who work by
the old r«le, which, rejecting altogether the cs
sence of brain, seeks la accomplish every thing
by lhe use of mere elbow grease.
If those things are happening in the state of
New York,’ from western competition in the
growth of wheat, what may we not expect to
happen in the production of cotton, when the.
rich and extensive cotton fields of Texas shall be
brought into full cultivation, and into active com
petition with us who shall remain in the old
Southern States? With our exhausted soils, and
the markets of the world well-nigh glutted—not
from over-production of cotton, but because the
consumption of it is checked and restrained every
where by despotic laws—the prospect of such
competition would be appalling indeed, did we
not know, that by setting our shoulders to the
wheel, and calling ipou science for aid, we may
withstand It, successfully. We must study our
profession carefully. We must bring all the light
of Science to bear on every process we engage in.
" Why should not”—asks Dr. Lee, of the
Genesee Farmer, in an admirable article—"a
person study the profession which he is to fol
low through life ? Is the skilful cultivation of
the earth, a pursuit not sufficiently honorable to
be regarded as a profession? or is agriculture of
too small importance lobs studied as a science,
as well as practised ns un art? Why tills reso
lute, this protracted, this hitherto successful op
position to the study of rural economy ? We can
not comprehend it.
“ Is there really danger that the using genera
tion will Know too much about the nature and
properties of the things which ntnst ever form all
their annual crops? Are wc apprehensive that,
if thav study and understand the unerring laws
of Nature, so far as they relate to the improve
ment of the soil, arid lhe production of human
food, we shall have an oyer supply of tne neces
sariesand comforts of life! Bet haps it is thought
that nothing can be learned about the things that
unite to form the 20 bushels of " increase, from
one of seed, that God gives to reward the well
directed toil of the husbandman. It this is the
stumbling block, let us see if wc can not remove
it out of the way.
“ firmer eowa one bushel ox wheat) and har
vests twrntv. From what source does he dative
the nineteen, to say nothing of the straw that
supports the whole crop ? Unless the whole in
crease is an entire new creation of matter, of
course it must all come from somewhere. Now,
it is obvious, that it would be of no consequence
whatever, where this matter came from, or what
it was composed of, provided God gave an "in
crease” precisely according to the amount of la
bor bestowed, irrespective of lhe folly, ignorance,
or misapplication that might direct the same.
Bu? all experience confirms lhe truth of the re
mark that Heaven does not so reward the labor
of the farmer. The Author of our being inter
feres by no special providence to save the erring
.'A tdren of men from hunger, disease and death,
provided they violate the laws of Nature. If an
innocent child placesits finger in a burning lamp,
neither its innocence, nor its ignorance of the
properties of fire, will save it from the lull injury
and pain of a burn.
"God has conferred upon talking man, nut only
a sense of just accountability to his Maker, and
his fellow man, but reasoning faculties, memory,
and other powers, which, when fully developed,
will understand ail the natural laws that concern
his subsistence and happiness. These moral
and intellectual faculties seem to be created to no
purpose, unless they are awakened into life and
usefulness, by the physical and mental wants of
humanity. As a stimulus to rural industry, out
Maker has created a necessity fur man to "eat
bread in the sweat of his face.” This necessity
is moreover, "the mother of invention,” and the
parent of knowledge. Man’s necessities arising
from hunger, cold and nakedness, led him to the
use ot fire, and to make a thousand discoveries
in the arts. These necessities still exist in full
force- Undoubtedly the Creator could easily
have formed every acre of land, so that the most
ignorant man alive, might plow and sow it, and
reap 100 bushels of wheat on lhe aant. , ye r at
ter year for bis whole life time, without ioipjirifig
ils fertility. But ninth abundance would have
been an enduring bounty on iguoranee, It not on
vice and crime. Knor»ledgei» necessary to reno
vate any largo tract of country, which baa been
much injured by unwise tillage; and this know
ledge can be best acquired by uniting the study,
with th ■ praeticeof agriculture.
"The study of agricultural science, implies no
more nor less than the investigation of lhe laws
of our own being, as social, physical, moral and
rational creatures. It is only a question ol time,
when wo shall begin to learn what it is that forms
good broad, milk, butter, cheese, potatoes, beans,
peas, lean meat, wool, and bone. We can not go
on forever, increasing hungty mouths to be fed
three times every day, and wasting to the tune of
untold millions, the constituents ot our daily
food, ano not pay for our folly.
♦ A • * * * * ♦
“Every body knows that there would be some
difference in a loaf of bread, whether it was made
out of a pound of good wheat flour, or a pound
of oat straw I We arc wonderful nice about our
own food, but we expect our wheat plants to ela
borate fat, muscle, brain and bone for t:s, and use
materials as foreign from human flesh and blood,
as copper, arsenic, and lead! We are all exceed
ingly fond of good bread, milk, and potatoes,
while we heartily despise the patient study that
will inform us what arc the simple elementary
bodies that unite to make these articles of food.
We greatly magnify the importance of blind hard
work, as though man had the power to create a
bushel of corn out of nothing, by dint of pro
tracted and intense muscular toil. To study the
nature and propel ties of the substances that Na
ture must have to form 80 bushels of this grain
on an acre, is a perfect waste of time! A know
ledge. of these things can be of no possible use
to the practical farmer! Who cares to know
what there is in a kernel of corn, or a sound,
mealy potatoe? These thingscan be made out
of nothing, only work hard enough! A gallon of
human sweat, spread evenly over an acre of land,
is better than nil the agricultural science in the
world, because it can be sold any day in August
for fifty cents!
“If it were not for the indifference of farmers to
the spread of agricultural knowledge, rural in
dustry would raise at once 50 per cent in produc
tiveness and value. So long as the tillers of the
eartli shall work 12 or 15 hours in 24, to make
something out of nothing, the balance of the
world will give them but a precious little for their
service. And why should they! If a farmer
gives as much labor for one bushel of corn or
wheat as he should for three, ought he not to ex
change his badly directed industry, by giving
three day’s work for one with those that study
their business, and make every feur’s work tell
to the best advantage? We can not blind our
reasoning faculties, and then plead ignorance of
the things that form our annual crops, as a reason
why we should have more than the market value
for our produce. There is no alternative but to
lessen the hard work now expended in growing
all our agiicultural staples, by the aid of know
ledge. If we cruelly withhold this knowledge
from our sons, we indirectly give a bond that they
shall be the hewers of wood and drawers of water
for the better informed, and that too, at the
smallest wages, all their days.
“ Kind reader, if you have a son, and believe
with us, that the study of lhe laws of Nature will
do him nr harm, purchase for him Mr. Jas. F. W.
Johnston’s “Lectures on Agricultural Chemis
try,” latest edition, which will cost you but 41,25.
Let him buy as soon as he has thoroughly studied
Johnston. Boussingault’s “ Rural Economy,’
which will cost a dollar and a quarter more
These invaluable works should be in every com
mon school library in the state. We commend
them to the attention of all teachers of young
men in academies, and other seminaries. As
Text Books, thev may be regarded as standard
works in all debates; although they differ in
their respective analyses ot certain plants, such
as wheat, p itatoes, and a few others. But plants
differ in the proportion of their elements in differ
ent soils. The analyses of both are doubtless
correct in the particular eases to which iltcy refer.
“ There is scarcely ten farmers in the whole
State that feed all their cultivated plants, inclu
ding fruit trees, grape-vines, and strawberries as
they should be fed. The same is true, to some,
extent, in regard to feeding, with the most appro
priate and economical food, all domestic animals.
How important, as well as interesting, is the
study of the organic structure of all the living
things kept on the farm 1 These organized vege
table and animal beings possess many organd
and each organ has its peculiar office to perform.
“Do we work with or against the purpose of
Nature, in our treatment of all these vita! func
tions? Are we sure that we obtain the largest
possible crops of peas, potatoes and corn, from
any given amount of land and labor? or the lar
gest return in good pork, for the corn, peas, and
potatoes consumed by our swine? How is it in
regard to the production of grass, carrots, beets,
beef butter, cheese and wool! Whose wool,
worth 30 cents a pound, costshim the least mo
ney in land and labor! Whose cheese and but
ter yield him the largest profit or compensation
for his industry? xvhen we export 1000 tons of
cheese to England this fall, how much truly
valuable matter have we drawn from our pas
tures ? Where arc the precise things in boundless
quantity, that makes cheese, wheat, and wool?
" What madness to resist the study of these
things. The great “ Empire State,” with its five
hundred thousand field laborers, can not support
one agricultural school 1
“ ‘ O shame, where is[thy blush ?’ ”
JOB PRINTING.
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, PLAIN AND FANCY
Embracing
P.usikess Cards, Law Blanks,all kinds
Visiting »o. Warehouse do.
Circulars, Bill Heads,
Rank Checks, Receipts, in blank.
Hand Bills, or Pamphlets,
small, any color. I Labels. &c. &c. &c.
EXECUTED WITH NEATNESS AND DESPATCH
AT THIS OFFICE, and in a style not inferior to any
establishment m the Southern States.
jC?-* Law Blank* always on hand.
M A R R I ED-
On Tuesday evening, by the. Rev. Mr. Hard,
Mr. N. A. Ford, of Columbia, S. C., to Miss
Martha Pardue of this city.
At Rockmills, Hancock county,on the 2d inst.,
by the Rev. P. N. Maddux. Mr. Ransom S.Hall,
of Spartn, to Miss America, youngest daughter
of Mr. William Shivers, senior, of the former <
place.
On Sunday, 28th September, nt St. Johns .
Fhnrch, Huntington. L. 1., by the Rev. Charles '
H. Hall, Mr. I*. N. Strong, of New York, to
Miss Louisa Harriet, daughter of Charles
Hall, Esq. of this city.
Ucnnrture »r il»c Atlantic Steamers.
From England. From Ammea.
Cambria Sept I” f, ct. IB
Great Bri’ain Sept. *27 Oct—s
Hibernia Oct. 4 Nov. I
(■teal Western.... Oct. 11 Nov. B
Great Britain .... Nov. 22 Dec.2o
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<SO M MERCI A
AUGUSTA MARKET.
Wednesday, P. M.
CoWon—The foreign news has given an upward ten
dency to our market, which is characterized by con
siderable activity at prices ranging from 6 to Scents
for extremes—principal sales 7 to 7A. cents.
New York, Oct. 4, I*. M,
CW/on—By the arrival ofthe Cambria we have later
advices from abroad. The market here this morning
is rather at a stand, scarcely sufficient business having
been done to note the effect of the intelligence, 'lhe
sales for the week ending last evening were 97W bales,
principally on speculation, including 64U0 bales Up
land and Florida, ordinary to good ordinary tn 7c;
middling io good middling 7} (a) 7J ; m ; ddlin« fair to
fair (a) : and fully fair to good fair SJ (® Bjc ; 3300
Mobile snd New Orleans, ordinary to gaod ordinary
(7i) 7ic ; middling to good middling 7£ (a) ; middling
fair tn fairß} (a) * ; fully fair to good fair 9| (<}) 10c.
The arrivals during the sarnc period were 3283 bales.
Prices are about |of a cent 4P* higher than at the
clo*-e of last week.
Exchange •'Vht'xe is very little doing in Foreign bills.
We quote at 1091 (ci) 110 on London : 23| on
Paris.
■■■■■ ■■■■—■■■ _
FOR SALE.
THAT tract of LAND and
PLANTATION, containing9soaerra,
(more or less,) lyingin the county of Columbia,
10 miles above Augusta—bounded on the north
by the Savannah River; east by lands of Capt.
Stallings; south by Thos. W. Beall; and west
by S. Griffin—6oo acres under cultivation—the
rest is well timbered, and in the woods; the im
provements are cood.
Also, the tract whereon (he undersigned now
resides—containing 250 acres—7 miles from Au
gusta, and on which is a go >d two-story dwelling,
and ail other necessary buildings.
Great bargains will be given, as the under
signed is determined to sell, and remove West.
For terms, apply on the premises to me, nr to
B. H. Warren, Augusta. H. MUSGROVE.
08-4t*
ATWOOD’S PATENT HOT AIR
EMPIRE COOKING STOVES—Forsam
meror winter use. Its superiority over any other
Cooking Stove, consists in its simple arrange
ment, convenience and durability.
The descending and ascending flues, and the
introduction of hot air in the oven which equal
izes the heat andcarriesoff the vapor therein, are
principles never before applied to any other stove.
The oven of these stoves performs equal lo the
best brick ovens, and wll give meat the same
flavor as if roasted befoie an open fire.
The Mammoth. Stoves of this pattern (No. 8,)
are of sufficient capacity for the largest class of
hotels, steamboats and packet ships. Those
wishing to supply themselves with a Cooking
apparatus, will please call and examine them at
07-ts 11. F. CHEW’S.
THE subscri
ber continues to oc
cupy ins old stan<:
No. 169 Broad-st..
x opposite (he Eagle
< & Phnnix Hotel.
WjHM SXnMre foi
fa!c vcl 'y I,w flir
CASH,a lar:*eassort-
TXSSSI f ; ment of
!7"\ STOVES,
I - - -- consisting in part,
premium Cook
J Stoves, People’s Jo.
for wood or coal; Close Stoves,, for (.hutches,
Factories and School Houses, withall necessary
pipe ready made, to despatch orders, lie has
also in store, all sizqe of sheertopper, suitable
for valleys, gutters, heads, piptu>,tic. lin plate,
wire- block tin, spelter solder, with an extensive
stock of Tin Ware, at wholesale or retail. •
Grateful for the patronage heretofore receive.,,
he solicits a continuance of the same, pledging
liimself to execute . all orders with neatness and
despatch. 07-ts B. F. CHEW.
iVTEW ME PIC AL DICTIONARY.
! 31 —A Dictionary of Terms used in Medicine
and lhe Collateral . .Sciences, by Richard D. Ho- I
vu. A.M : revised by Isaac Hays. M.D. Re
ceived by ol C. E. GRENVILLE.
TIHJKSUAI, OCTOBER » A. M.
ELECTION RETURNS.
We annex returns of the vote for Governor in
/v/Zy o/u?counties, which show a gain in favor
ot Governor Crawford, over lhe vote for Pre
sident, in 1844, of 2400 votes. The majority
for Polk was 2049. This is therefore a suffi
cient gain to ensure lhe re-election of Governor
Crawford, and a corresponding gain will give
him a handsome majority in the Stale.
184a. 1844.
Counties. For Govbsnor. For President.
Cruwfvrd. McAllister. Clay. Polk
Appling, 152 142
Baker, 223 506
Baldwin, 315 268 324 307
Bibb maj. 82 706 862
Butts, 243 434
Burke 549 332 556 411
Bryan, 103 72
Bulloch 17 410
Chatham, 700 715 817 835
Clarke, 528 398 596 420
Chattanooga,.. 284 324
Columbia...... 522 277 492 307
Crawford maj. 16 377 454
Cobb 634 823 658 943
Cass maj. 250 655 1139
Coweta, 808 689 777 744
Carroll, 355 767
Camden, 104 218
Campbell, 205 543
Cherokee maj. 203 517 813
Decatur, 383 346
DeKalb, maj. 185 580 967
Dade 46 247
Dooly 269 507
Early 211 419
Emanuel 107 231
Elbert 999 186
Effingham 226 111 193 87
Faye'te, inaj.2o2 412 705
Floyd, 10 maj. 350 425
Forsyth, maj. 160 454 731
Franklin, 352 921 379 1059
Gilmer 219 511
Glynn, 92 23
Greene, 791 115 780 132
Gwinnett 779 763
Hancock, 507 307 515 330
Harris, 845 464
Heard, maj. 81 293 436
Houston, 659 723
Henry, 125 maj. 858 819
Habersham,.... maj. 350 323 967
Hall 529 599 489 697
Irwin 21 223
Jackson, 517 642 492 664
Ja5per......... 536
Jefferson, 544 84 579 108
Jones, maj. 30 397 455
Laurens, 685 15
Lee 335 121
Liberty 179 190
Lincoln 94 maj. 286 179
Lowndes, 427 362
Lumpkin 665 1254
Macon, 331 245
Mclntosh, 127 114
Marion 417 256
Monroe, 798 706
Morgan, 412 299 443 348
Murray, 303 699
Meriwether,... 695 832 688 926
Muscogee,lo7l 851 1190 980
Montgomery,.. 238 34
Madison 338 334 347 327
Newton, 896 471 1025 553
Oglethorpe,.... 576 172 626 241
Putnam, 430 351
Pulaski, 247 457
Pike, 659 877
Paulding 218 394
Richmond, 747 474 903 647
Rabun 33 224
Randolph 606 735
Sumter, 650 444
Stewart 892 813
Scriven, 257 278
Tattnall 338 64
Telfair 177 198
Thomas, 348 267
Troup, 1055 487
Talbot, 70 maj. 855 912
Taliaferro 411 54 386 67
Twiggs 389 467
Union,. 337 554
Upson, 258 maj. 643 384
Walker, 447 686
Walton 505 744 555 763
Ware 187 125
Warren 607 372 641 368
Washington,... 629 508 629 595
Wayne, 138 95
Wilkes, 410 325 430 389
Wilkinson,.... 387 560
Senators Elected.
IstDist. —Chatham county, •• •■Jadeson.
2d “ Bryan and Liberty Hiner.
16th “ Muscogee and Harris- •• -Calhoun.
21st Washington*.Jefferson--CuRRV.
22d “ Richmondand Columbia-MiLLEH.
23d “ Warren and Taliaferro.•• • Harris.
24th “ Hancock and Baldwin- -Kenan.
27th “ Crawford and Upson-••-Brown.
28th “ Meriwether and Coweta-.Lee.
31st " Fayette and Henry Stell.
33d “ Newton and Walton Hill.
34th “ Morgan and Greene Nickelson.
35th “ Lincoln and Wilkes Anderion.
37th " Oglethorpe and Madison-LoNG.
38th “ Clarke and Jackson Anderson.
42d “ Forsyth and Hall Kellogg.
Representatives Elected.
Wilkes Robinson, Hill.
Lincoln Jennings.
Richmond Jenkins, Rhodes.
Clarke Hull, Stroud.
Madison A tie.
Jackson B'U, Moon.
Green Armstrong, Sahford.
Effingham Guyton.
Washington Two Whigs.
Newton Baker, Livingston.
Coweta Berry, Perry.
Hancock Lewis, Brantly.
Cobb Tucker.
Warren Anderson, Burson.
Columbia Fleming, Shockley.
Henry Arnold—otherdoubtltl).
Morgan Harris, Prior.
Baldwin Harris.
Chatham Anderson, Ward,
Walton Jackson, Kilgore.
Burke Gordon, Royal.
Jefferson Sfapleton.
Muscogee Mustian, Howard.
Forsyth Tlwrnton.
Talbot Dixon, Owen.
Hall Baugh, Thompson.
Franklin AJorris, Knox.
Il- ard Smith.
Meriwether Ector, Roe.
Those in Italic are Democrats.
To the Voters of Richmond County.
IV As a Change in the Offices of Clerk
of the Superior and Inferior Courts is de
sirable, we suggest to you the name of HAW
KINS HUFF as a suitable candidate for both
offices. o7* MANY VOTERS'.
“" HATS! CAPS! BONNETS!!
FALL FASHIONS, 1845.
S MALLORY, & Co.,
have just received a large and
handsome assortment of Hats,
Caps and Bonnets, of every
variety, and of the latest and
most approved styles; to
which they respectfully invite
the attention o* their friends
nd the public generally, giving assurance that
hese goods are so laid in, that they can, and will
be sold at prices to suit the times.
Country Merchants are particularly invited
examine this stock, as extraordinary induce
rnents will be offered them to purchase.
524-ts MALLORY & CO.,
Masonic Hall building, Broad-street, Augustr.
P ASTILLES DE PARIS,” for
I the alleviation and cure of Bronchitis
and other diseases ofthe Throat. This remedy
is said to have been used by numbers of orators,
who have found it eminently efficacious.—
rjpCrndidates for the October election will do
well to notice this!
Also —Wistat’s Balsam of Wild Cherry ;
Swayne’s syrup of Wild Cherry ;
Houseman’s German Cough Drops;
New E gland Cough Syrup;
American Cough Drop*. &c.
For sale by HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO.,
au27 trw2:n Druggists.
CTRCUIMR.
THE subscriber having; just returned
from New York with a full and complete
supply of French, English nnd German cloths,
cassimeres and vestings, would most respectful
ly invite the attention of his former friends Qnd
patrons, and the trade in general throughout
the country, to his stock, consisting in part of
every variety and price of the following articles:
French. English aud German cloths; English
wool black, invisible green, olive, olive green,
and blue cloths; beaver, Saxagotha cloths and
fancy Tweeds: French, English and German
single and double width cassimeres and Doe
skin-; French and English woollen, velvet
cashmere and valentia vestings; buff and white
cashmcrctts; white and fancy marseillee, a new
article; black and fancy silk and satin vestings;
silk, worsted and alpacca serges; worsted and
woollen fancy linings, Ac. ac.; gentlemen’s
English. French and German silk, cotton, meri
no and lamb’swool shirtsand drawers; English,
Fr, nch and German half ho e, gloves and sus
penders; black and fancy silk and satin cravats
and scarfs; Spjtalfield. pongeand linen cambric
handkerchiefs; all of which he has selected for
cash, and feels confident that he is able to offer
such inducements to purchasers as cannot fail to
make it to their intercs' to extend to him a share
of their patronage. CHAS. LODTMANN.
Augusta, Ga., September 2, 1845.
The subscriber is happy to announce to
the public that lie has secured the services of
Mr. Bradford, who is an excellent cutter, from
the oity of New’ York. C. L.
Bagging and hope.—
300 pieces Kentucky Bagging, heavy and
£ good,
200 coils prime rope,
50 do common. For sale very low.
5 29 HAND A WILLIAMS
JUST received and for low—
-50 bushels Cow Peas, new crofn
25 bbls premium Canal Flour,
30 boxes fresh Raisins,
25 half and quarter boxes Raisins,
4 hhds prime Bacon Hams.
07-std& 1 tw BAKER de HART.
WATCHES, CLOCKSJEWEL
RY, SILVER AND PLATED WARE.
—Tho subscriber has returned from New York
with a large assortment of gold and silver Lever,
L’Epine and common Watches, gold guard and
fob chains, fine enameled breast pins, bracelets,
finger rings and studs, gold, silver and steel
spectacles, thimbles and watch keys, silver and
silver-plated table and tea spoons, silver-plated
tea setts, castorsand candlesticks, fine tea trays,
table cutlery, razors and penknives, coral neck
laces, card cases, with a variety of other goods
at low prices.
Clocks and Watches repaired and warranted
by F. A. BRAHE,
523-3 m No. 214 Broad st., Augusta, Ga.
NOTICE. —1 forewarn all" persons
from tradng for a certain preml’ssory note
made by me, and payable to M. W. McCraw, or
bearer, for thirty-two hundred dollars, dated tho
first or second day of March, 1842, and payable
on the 25th day of December, 1815; aa the con
sideration for which said note was given has en
tirely failed, I am determined not to pay the
same unless compelled by laxv.
J. T. JACKSON.
September 29, 1815. w4t
AMEnISTRATOR’S Sale.—On
the first Tuesday in December next, be
tween the lawful hours of sale, before the court
house door of Randolph county. Georgia, agree
able to an order of the honorable the inferior
court of Lincoln county, while sitting for ordi
nary purposes, will be sold: lot of Land number
28, in the 12th district of originally Lee. now
Randolph county, containing 202 J acres, adjoin
ing lots number 280 and 252: sold as lhe property
of the estate of Matthew Collara, late of Lincoln
county deceased, and for the benefit of the heirs
and creditors of lhe same. Terms on the day.
GEORGE COLLARS, Adrn’r.
Octobers, 1845.
LIST OF LETTERS’
REMAINING in the Pest Office at
APPLING. Ist October, 1845.
Hanson, Ann
Holsomback, Martha
Holliman, Abigail
Jones, A B L
Lamukin, Mercy
Lampkin, John
Lcseane, Harriet
KSWS.’
Morriaa, Wm A
Magruder, Geo M
Nepton, Silas
Rees, Jeremiah
Robertson, A H
Right, Peter
. Sully, Allen
Stead, Leonard
Smith, mrs Ann
Verdovy, James
Weaver, Aaron
Wright, Peter
Wellborn, Mary
Watkins, Ann
H. LEONARD, JP. M.
jL.no At ruinvr, 101 ”
Avery, A J
BcaUe, William
Beall, W«
Bealle, Tho’s E 2
Benton, Wm M
Benton, mrs M A
Benton, miss M L
Beck, Robert R
Crawford, Tho’a H
Crawford, mrs Mary
Crawford, A M
Cotton, miss Lucindaß
Cartlidge, James 2
Cochrane, M J
Crawford, Robin
Cook, Wm H
Cartlidge, I J
Clarke, J W
Collins, Cornelius
Fleming, James
George, Jordan
Green, Francis
Hughes, B H
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JEFFERSON County, Georgia :■—
Caleb Stephens of the 76th district, tolls
before me one Estray Bay Horse, four feet seven
inches high, about fifteen years old, both hind
feet white above the hoofs, with dark legs, and
has been badly foundered. Appraised by Mitchel!
Walden and Benjamin F. Perdue, at twenty dol
lars. JASPER VINING, J. P.
A true extract from the Estray Rook of said
county. F.BENEZER BOTHWELL, Clerk.
October 2, 1845.
NOTICE. —All persons having de
mands against the estate of Henry M urray
late of Lincoln county, deceased, are request
ed to render them in duly attested, within the
time prescribed by law, and those indebted to
said estate are requested to make Immediate nay;
ment. T. J. MURRAY, Adrn’r.
September 25, 1845.
RICHMOND County', Georgia.—ln
Equity in the Superior Court.
Administrator Fgbert B. Beall, deceased, vs.
Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, and
others.
All persons holding claims against Egbert B.
Beall, deceased, are hereby notified to appees be
fore me at the office of G. W. Lamar & Co., en
or before the first day of December next, and ex
hibit the evidence of their demands, in order that
they may be reported upo:: in conformity with
ths order passed in said esse.
e!6-lawtN27 E. CAMPFIELB, M. E.
WATCHES, JEWELRY, SILVER AND
PLATED WARE.
CLARK, RACKETT
it CO , have just received from
New York, a full assortment of
Hut ife GOODS, which they will sell on
as good terms as any house in the
country.
Fine Gold and Silver Lever, Duplex and Lepine
WATCHES;
SILVER AND PLATED WARE OP ALL KINDS.
Rich Gold Bracelets, Pins and Rings, with
Diamond; Topaz, gamett and amethyst sei
lings, enamelled. &c.,
Fine Pink Cameo Brooches;
Gold Spectacles of all styles, for oh ages;
Also, Spectaclesin Silver, German silver, steel
and shell;
Gold Thimbles; Pencil Cases; Pens and Letter
Balances;
Guard, Fob and Vest Chains, of beautiful styles;
Gold Miniature Cases, Lockets and Vina’greits;
Guard, Fob and Vest Keys and Anchors;
Gold Bracelet Clasps—Hair braided to order;
with a general assortment of Jewelry and Fancy
Goods of the latest Patterns;
Also, Silver Forks; Spoons; Knives and Cups;
Plated Castors; Cake Baskets; Walters and
Candlesticks;
Dixon & Son’s Britannia Ware;
Solar Lard Lamps, very cheap—and some of very
rich patterns, with plain and cut Shades and
Turbans;
Girandoles and Candelabras, gilt and silvered
withprisms;
Waiters. In sets and single; Bread Trays;
Andirons, Fenders, Shovels and Tongs. 08
• 5 DOLLARS HEWaRD. '
STRAYED OR STOLEN—
ffTTfA On the 23d September, a light Chesnut
11 sorrel HORSE, 14 hands high—his
hind-legs and face white—a lump on his back
caused bj’ the saddle—4 years old—long tail, and
full mana. Any information respecting him, left
at this office, will be liberally rewarded, and coat
paid, or I will pay the above reward, for the ap
prehension ol the Thief. PATRICK DUNN.
09-2t*
RICHMOND County, Georgia:
Whereas William Glendenning, adminis
trator on the estate of Robert Phillip, deceased,
applies to me for letters dismissory :
These are therefore to cite nnd admonish, all
and singular, the kindred and creditors ol enid de
ceased, tc be and appear at my office within the
time prescribed by law, to show cause, if any they
have, why said letters should not be granted.
Given under ijiy hand at office in Augusta.
9,1845.’ LEON P. DUGAS.
AUGUSTA SFBn STORE.
jg~.. Shaker Garden Seeds.
THE proprietor ot this estab-roR
llahnieitt begs leave to Inform the re
sidents of Augusta, and the country generally,
that he has opened, his Store, and han received a
fresh supply of New Seed, the growth of 1845.
Bird Seed, Onion Setts,
White and Red Clover,
Lucerne, Asparagus Roots,
' Rutabaga Turnip, Ac. Ac.,
The usual allowance made to conn try dealers.
06-sw4m J. H. SERVICE.
REMOVA! .
HAN D & FLEMING have removed
to the corner next below the Brunswick
Bank, where they offer a well assorted stock of
such articles as are usually kept in a Grocery
Store. Also a good supply of Blankets, Shoes
and Negro Cloths, all of which they offer on ac
commodating Terms and invite their Friends to
call and examine for themselves.
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inuufci I> U UJBD ‘TO SU IT T
TIMES.
Family medicines, choice
PERFUMERY and FANCY ARTICLS.
The subscriber respectfully invites the alter
tion of Physicians, Merchants nnd Planters, who
may be visiting this city, to his stock of Medi
cines. Great care having been exercised In their
selection, he is confident that the qnaiity of each
article is such as cannot fail to afford entire su
tisfaction.
The assortment of Perfumery .Fancy Articles,
Brushes and Combs, are the finest varieties of
French and American manufacture.
He recommends lhe Gentlemen to confi
dence, in their estimable, qualities, the shaving
Compounds of Piver, Guerlain, Roussel, Glenn
and others, which relieve the operation of sha
ving from in my ofits disagreeable attendants.
A'so, to the Ladies a splendid assortment of
highly perfumed Toilet Soaps—the Roman Kaly
dor arid Milk of Hoses, both delightful prcpnia
tims for the complexion, together with a great
variety of hair Oils, hair Dyes and other Per fu
mery.
Sands’, Carpenter’s and Buri’s Sarsaparilla,
Jaynes’ Expectorant, Carminative and Hair
Tonic, Evans’ Soothing Syrup for children
teething, Powell’s Balsam of Anr.lseed, an ex
cellent remedy for coughs and colds. J ebb’s
Rheumatic Liniment, and all the other popular
Medicinea of the day.
Orders from the country respectfully solicited
A liberal discount made for cash.
WM. HAINES, Jr.
lulfi-trwAwtf N 0.232 Brnsd-st... Augusta
NEW FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
WM. H. CRANE is now receiving
a fresh supply of
NEW AND FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS.
The following are a few of the articles to be found
in his stock:
Rich Bagdad and ombre cashmeres,
Cashmere decosse and muslin de laines,
Black bombazines and alpaccas,
Rich black and colored silks,
Extra wide chamelion satin striped silks,
New styles prints an J ginghams,
Lisle and thread laces and edgings,
Cambric and Swiss edgings and insertings,
A good assortment ol gloves and hosiery,
Bleached and brown shirtings and sheetings,
Low priced calicoes nnd blue homespuns,
Red, white, yellow and green flannels,
Bed tickings; Canton flannel.
Brown cotton drillings,
Russia and Scotch diaper,
Cloths, cassimeres and satthieis,
Kentucky jeans, kerseys, blankets, Ac. Ac.,
together with a well assorted stack of seasona
ble and desirable dry goods, which will be sold
cheap. s!7-dAw
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