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Let all wlio are afflicted with Asth
ma read the following letter: Mr. Seth W.
FcVWLB —Sir • having been afflicted for more than I
thirty years with the asthma, at times so severely as
to incapacitate me from attendance to business, and
having adopted many medicines without any but tem
porary relief, I purchased about three years since, of
Mr Edward Mat-on, your agent in this city, several
bottles of Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry, from the
eflectsof which I obtained more relief than from all
the medicines I had ever taken for that distressing
disorder. I have by tne repeated use of your valua
ble Balsam, been more free of pressure for breath, and
oppression on the than I had anticipated, and
in feed conceive myseli cured of this most dishearten
ing malady.
l Ido most cheerfully tender you this acknowledge-
which you will use us your judgment dictates.
Office, Portland, March 26, 1846.
C. I). MAYNARD.
None unless signed I. Butts, on the
wramxr. For MlOfg*® sale , nn ' l *>>’ ,lav| -
uro. Kislev &Co., T»K ,iAB “ a '" J
Wm. Haises ; also by Krug^ l ” generally m Geor
gla nl7-tw&wt
r . sale
and retail by *
523 H AVI IA ND. RISLEY & CP.
Compeaad Syrup of 1
Naphth*.-- Not only a positive but a warranted
cure for Consumption, and all other Diseases ol the
Lungs!
Da. Hastinq’s Compound Syrup or Naphtha
is the great remedy for Consumption, Decline. Asth
ma, Spitting of Blood, Night Sweats, Husky
Throat, Wasting of the Flesh, Bronchitis, Coughs,
Colds, and all Dieases of the Chest and Lungs.
This celebrated preparation is pleasant to the taste,
and is so speedy in its operations, that patients plain
|y feel its g«»d effects in a few minutes after taking
the first dose.
When Dr. Hastings had discovered the virtue of
Naphtha four years ago, ho announced it in a private
circular to a number of distinguished physicians in
various parts of England, with a request that they
would put its medical properties to the test, and re
port accordingly. The result was a host of testimo
nials of the moat favorable character, nearly all ol
which agreed in certifying that no medicine they hac
ever used could bear any comparison with it in re
lieving hacking coughs, curing Diarrhoea and stoj»-
ping night sweats. It wax also generally remarked
to have a wonderful effect in increasing the appetite,
weight, and spirit of patients; and io be a powerfully
efficient remedy in Billions and Asthmatic diseases.
Os these testimonials, which were all published at the
time, tn the Medical Recorder, nine spoke of its ex
traordinary influence in cases of Consumption —each
corroborating Dr. Hastings* opinion, that he had actu
ally discovered the great secret, so long anil vainly
sought for, namely, a preparation that would stop the
formation of Turbarcles on the lungs, remove those
already formed, and th<ia cure the most fatal ol all
maladies, and which had previously been regarded as
being altogether incurable. Dr. Williamson of .Man
chester thus writes •
; *'Under its influence, I have seen the emaciated
being on whose brow Death had seemed to have set
his seal, acquire invigoration and strength ; and ex
change hi* early mornings of intense suffering and
distressing cough, for the calm repose which alone ar
companies sound health **
Dr. Ware, ol Liverpool, says:—“ll regard Hast
ings* Syrup of Naphtha as ons of the first medical
discoveries oi any age, and consider its agency in
curing Consumption as established ueyond all doubt
or question.** Dr. Boyd of Lancaster, “ Hails it as
the great consumptive antidote and cure;” and Dr.
Hamilton, of Rate, pronounces it ‘-the only known
teinedy which may be relied on for removing Tuber
cules from the Lungs, and preventing the formation of
others."
Hastings* Compound Syrup of Naphtha is now be
ing used in nearly all our hospital*, and is also coining
into rapid use among all our In'st physicians, for
cooglie, colda, and all disease* of the lungs. It has
been recommended in the worst stage of consumption
by the celebrated physician, Dr. Mott,o< New York;
and Dr. Arnold, of Savannah, Ga., writing to the
agent at New York, under <late of Jan. 1943,
says: •* I received the half-doxen Hastings* Nay hlha
Syrup ordered from you, and am convinced that
Naphtha is the principal ingredient. Inclosed is
twenty-live dollars, for which you will send me two
dozen and a half bottles. I have two patients in the
Marine Hospital, whom I think will be benefited by
it." Price $1 per bottle. For sale by
HAVILAND, RISLEY & CO.,
flO-tw&wly t Augusta, Ga..Sok Agent.
Vy* Dr. Magniu * Ludna Cordial—A
sovereign remedy for Incipient Coueumption, lo.di
gestion. Nervousness, lai potency, Fluor Albas, Loss
of' Muscular Energy, Physical Lassitude, Female
Weakness, Debility, Jrc.
Price three dollars per buttle. For sale by
Havilxnp, Rislky & Co.. Thomas B.xrrett &
Ce., W. K. Kitchkn, and by Druggui* < generally.
110-twAwU t
D r ' UlUy’t Sar««|>*riU*» and Wild
Cherry PHU— The universal celebrity which
thia medicine has gained in every section of the
country, and the manv astonishing cures it has ef
fected. have establish.'.! its etficienc v bevo id all doubt
—as a general family medicine it has no rival. In al
caseset indigestion, Bilious Fever. Dvspepeia, Liver
complaints. Sick Headach, Jaundice, Asthma, Drop
sy, Piles, Chiltc, Worms, Disease nf the Heart, and
all affections of the Stomach and Bowels, I eKO\ S
PILLS will be found a oevcr-tAdiag remedy.
To insure the tuil benefit U these celebrated Pills,
they should be kept in the h**isc , that upoa the fust
eumiuencernent ot sickness tnev may beat once re
torted to. One dose then » - better than a dozen after
the disease has become established in the system. I e
Roy's Pills are purely vegetable, and so innocent that
tits infant of a month old may use if medicine is re
quire*!, notcnly with safety, but with a certainty at
receiving all the iMnehi raeJictne is capable of ienpar
ting. Feu ahw may use them during all the critical
periods of therrhve*. Leßoy’s Pills will insure the
health, aud produce regularity in all the functions oi
life. Price 23 cents per boa.
ffJ’Fwr sale by Haviland, Rislet A: Co..
Thom as Barrett A. Co., D*A> tigxacA BahßV.
AVm. H. Tctt, Wm. Haines, Wm. K. Kitchen.
J. E. Marshall; and by Druggists generally.
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exceeding six lines, will be inserted under this head
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„ ffkiiiial Profession.
JOHN DENNIS, M. D.,
botanic physician.
Respectfully tenders his professional services
to the citizens of Augusta and its vicinity.
at the E AGLE & PHCENIX HOTEL.
■* je2o 5m
MEDICAL CARD
' DRS. 11. F. <fc R . CAMPBELL,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Jointly tender their professional services to the
citizens of Augusta and its vicinity.
Office at the duelling of Henry Campbell,
Z where calls will at all times meet punctual atten
r tion. anl
N. M. SNEED,
DENTIST,
OFFICE AT WASHINGTON, GEORGIA.
1 Y~VHaving located as above, tenders his services in
the various branches of his profession, to the citizens
of Wilkes and the counties adjacent. The latter he
will visit occasionally, as his services may be requir
ed. nfQ.w
! Warehouse anU tfominission.
E. A. SOULLARD,
COMMISSION MERCHANT,
SAVANNAH, GEO. nB-ly.
Chas? p. ai uui~. -,
MeCALLA <fc ROMAIN.
COMMISSION MEIOH4NTS
n 6 APALACHICOLA....FLORIDA. ly
H. L. Jeffers. j W. S. Cothran.
JEFFERS t COTHRAN,
FACTORS AND COMMISSION MER
CHANTS.
AUGUSTA, Ga,, and HAMBURG, So. Ca.
jy-23 _
W. H. C. MILLS,
FACTOR & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Continues business at his old stand,
No. 176 Bay-street. Savannah, Georgia.
references:
Messrs. D’AntignacEvans, Augusta.
“ Charles Day Co., Macon.
R“ E. Padlefnrd <s• ‘ 0., Savannah ol
Drugs, Itknljandisf, &c.
HAVILAND, RISLEY At. CO.,
DEALERS IN CHOICE DRUGS
MEDICINES, &.C., &C.
NEAR THE MANSION HOUSE, GLOBE AND
U. S. HOTELS, AUGUSTA. <nyfl-ly
Jron -fouuiirics.
NEESON <fc TILKEY,
BAGLE IRON & BRASS FOUNDRY
AUGUSTA, GA.
Immediately above the lot of the old Planters’ Hotel.
Gearing for Factories. Mills, Gins, <fcc., and
■*t her castings, made to order. Also Patterns of every
deßcri|>tioii. All work warranted. Orders from the
country will receive prompt attention. ap22
Hotchkiss’ Water-wheels on hand and tn order.
Slttornka anti Solicitors.
JOHN K. JACKSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
XX A A XV XV XI X AXA AjAAW,
Angustii, Georgia.
Will practice in Richmond, and the neighboring
Counties of the Middle Circuit. Office next be
low Messrs. A. J. & T. W. Miller’s—Up Stairs.
References: — Messrs Mixer A Pitman, Boston ;
Messrs. Hoisted & Brokaw, S. C. Dortic, Blake &.
Br°wn, John K. Hora, C. O. Habited, New York;
Messrs. W. M Martin. L. M. &B. W. Force & Co.,
Charleston; Messrs A. J. (fc T. W. Miller, Adams
& Fargo, W. E. Jackson & Co., Augusta. 025-ly
W. MILO OLIN,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA,
Has removed his office tn the City Hall. d 5
WILLIAM BELL,
ATTORNEY AT LA W,
Crawfordville Gen.
Will practice in the counties of Taliafo* to,
Warren, Hancock, Greene,Oglethorpe, and Wil’ges.
inhlO-w
S. W. HOItTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
ELBFRTON, GEORGIA.
?T*J* Practices in the Courts of Elbert, Fr anklin,
Jackson and Madison Counties. mh2o -ly
n» _ , _
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LEXINGTON ...GA.
Refer to E. D. Robkrtson, Augusta, Ga.
Hon. A. B. LoNosraßßT. Oxford Ga.
Hon. John H. Lumpkin, Rome, 1 3a. ja!3
K. < . SilA( KELE()II i),
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
LEXINGTON, GA.
Reference. — Hon. A.H.Stephens,. Crawfordville.
Ga. ap23-wly.
JOHN LYON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
(Os the late firm of Richard F. dr. J. Lyon. Albany,)
will practice in the counties of Paulding, Cass, Chero
kee, Forsyth, Lumpkin, Union, Ctdiner, Murray,
Walker, Dade, Chattooga and Floy d.
in SPRING PLACE,, Murray county,
Georgia.
Refers to Gov. Chas. J. McDoo aid. Marietta; Col.
R. K. Hines, ol Maron; Hon. Lott Warren, Messrs.
Hora & McGuire. Hunt A Pyr.chen, Albany, Ga.
Messrs. A. J. &T. W. Miller. Augusta. 529-ts
«. PUTS AM,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Warrenton. Georgla« apl3-ly
FELIX C. MOORE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT
LAW,
Crawfordville • ■-Georgia.
<*F Will practice in al' the counties of the North
ern, and Greene county of theOcniulgee, Circuit.
Office in the Court-House. f 24 ly
Thus. M. Bkhrikn. | Jas. M. Pepper.
BERRIEN Jt PEPPER.
ATTORNIES AT LAW,
jy Will continue to practice in the Mi-Idle Circuit
of Georgia. Their office is in WAYNESBORO,
BURKE COUNTY, where one of them will at all
times be found. my29-w
JOSEPH < . WILKINS,
ATTORNEY ATLAW.
£> Wil] practice mall the counties of the Eastern
Circuit.
OFFICE IN RICEBORO, LIBERTY COUNTY,
• tieorgia. sll-tf
Jnq. L. Kirkpatrick. | Walter L. Warrbn.
KIRKPATRICK A WARR KN,
ATTORNIES AT LAW,
WILL prac’ice in all the Courts of the Mid
dle Circuit. Office on Mclntosh-street, opposite the
Constitutionalist range, Augusta, Georgia. tel-ly
ROBERT K. At BODING,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Appling, Georgia. f29-wly
JOHN R. STANFORD,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Clarke*ville-. Ga.
* ’ Will practice in the counties of </larke, Frank
lin, Habersham, Lumpkin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Vnion
Murray and Gwinnett, and in the Federal Circui
Court for Georgia. 17 •
EDWARD H. POTTLE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW
WARRENTON ... GEORGIA.
References —Messrs. A. J. & T. W. Miller. Augusta
Ga.; Hon.T.B King, Glynn county, Gx. |a!2-t
JONES Jt SHEW .MAKE,
ATTORNIES AT LAW,
WAYNESBORO, GA.
JOSEPH B. JONES and JOHN T.SHEW-
M AKE, having associated themselves in the practice
of Law . will promptly attend to any business entrust
‘ ed to them in the counties of Burke, Jefferson, Eiu.m
--i uel, Richmond, Scriven and Washington. iv 9
Linton Stvphkss. I J. L. Hibo.
STEPHENS lIRD.
ATTORNIES AT LAW,
CR AW FOR DVILLE, G A.
practice in all the Counties of the North
ern circuit. jylti-ly*
L. C. SIMPSON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
ATLANTA--. GEORGIA.
; Will promptly attend to all business entrusted
o his care. f'29-lv
' TO THE PLANTERS OF TIIK STATE
i OF OEORGI A.
AND THE ADJOINING STATES.
EAGLE FOUNDERS’. AUGUSTA. G*
1 l> CONSEQUENCE >fibe
price «'t C.'”.’n. we hared,
at the Sm-»w Hl4 low rate* :
Fir 7 *2O 00
For 7i “ 20 00
, For S “ 20 00
For 9 “ 22 SO
Fur 10 " 25 00
- Fur 12 •• 25 00
The above we warrant te work well, and when n't
• used for the Gin is capable ot running a pair ot M: .
Stones, for grinding Grata of all k.nds. Always on
hand and ’’or sale bv
A
> COPARTNERSHIP.
I\”K. THK USDKKSIGNED. have this
t VV dvr entered ’ntoCoparnmJiipsiaJertbrfirat
of HARDEN S RAMEY. aid saving purchased O. I
H Lu’a enure stack of Gmxis. now occupy his well
known stan I opposi.e Adams, Fargo & Co., and two
dcxMv below J & S Banes’ Hardware Store, where
w« are now receiving from the Northern cities sddi
tinnsto oar present stock, comprising SL GAR, < OF
FEE BAGGING. ROPE. IRON SALT. Ll-
QIORS of ail kinds, DRY GOODS SHOES,
HATS, LEATHERS. OILS, HARDWARE, Ac.,
which we are now offering on as reasonable terms as
any other ho ise in the city. We respectfully solicit
a shsre of public patr»«nage.
We have a!*' made aa arrangement with a Fire
i Pnvt’Brck Warehouse, convenient to Railroad and
M agoneis, and ail cotton and other produce consigned
to»Hir cane will be attended to free of cliarges. and do
Ipaiiks will bs spared to give general satist’act. n.
harden A ramfy.
Augusta. June 1, li4s. iyl-wtDl
Augusta, ®a.:
THURSDAY MORNING NOV. 16, 1848.
t The Election.
1 I Now that the smoke has cleared up in a few
<
1 States, we are enabled to afford the read-
- er some information of the probable ma
jorities—of course, they are not official, but
hey approximate the actual returns near
enough to satisfy the very general anxiety on
the subject.
8 -
Maryland.—The unofficial report ofthe vote
in Maryland foots up as follows:
Tay10r17,079
Ca 5513,693
Taylor’s majority 3,386
e Clay’s majority was 3,308.
’ Pennsylvania.—We have returns from all
the counties but seven, and the following is the
result:
Tay10r33.149
Cassls,Bl3
Taylor’s pluralityl7,336
The counties remaining to be heard from
are Cambria, Clearfield Crawford, Elk, For
• est Greene, Jefferson and Juniata. At the gu
bernatorial election they gave a majority of
2,387 for Longstreth, (Dem.)
The Free Soil vote in this State, so far as we
have heard from is 2421.
Delaware. —The following comprises the
- -xuui 01 tile nnrrjcui iiS tiriffigviifjrir—’
ware:
Taylor44s
Cass*.loo
Taylor’s plurality 345
Clay’s majority in Delaware was 312.
New-Jersey.—We have full returns from
the State of New-Jersey, the majorities of which
foot up as follow's:
Tay10r9,335
Ca 55.6,732
Taylor’s majority2,6o3
Clay’s majority in 1844, 833.
Legislature.— The Legislature stands as fol.
lows:—Senate: Whigs 13; Democrats 6. Whig
majority 7. House: Whigs 38; Democrats
18. Whig majority 20. Whig majority on
joint ballot 27.
Rhode Island.—We have returns from the
enture State of Rhode Island, which show the
folkiwing results :
T tylor 6 699
Cass3,6oo
V an Buren 7U5
Taylor’s majority over Cans, 3,099, and over Cass
and Van Buren; 2.334. Clay’s majority in the State
was 2.477.
Virginia.—The Richmond Whig of Monday
says :—The returns so far received are not yet
decisive ofthe result. In 90counties the Tay
lor majority is 416. In the same counties the
Whig gain over the vote of 1844 is 3456 —
leaving 2437 to be overcome in the remaining
46" counties. At the same rate of gain in these
la st as in the former, we should lose the State
by something less than a thousand.
The counties west of the mountains may
h ave increased that ratio—but whether enough
\o affect the result is doubtful. Nothing has
be en heard from the Kanawha region.
Vermont.— Congressional Election.— We
learn from Vermont that William liebard, whig,
has been chosen to Congress from the second
district, by about 200 majority over Webber,
democrat, who was supported both by the
Cass and Van Buren men.
in the third district, Hon. Geo. P. Marsh is
supposed to have been re-elected.
In the fourth district, Hon. Lucius B. Peck,
democrat, has been re-elected.
General Apathy Gone Over—The Whig
army (says the Pittsburgh Journal) has experi
enced a notable, if not lamentable defection.
General .Apathy, whose presence in all ourac
, lions, for many years, has been our constant
theme ; who has been our excuse in defeat, our
—B - . '
proach in the mouths of enemies—General
Apathy has gone over to the Democrats ? May
they never have a better leader, nor a more
; enduring, patient and submissive scape-goat.
He has done the Whigs good service many
and many's the time. People who could not, <
or would not, see that our candidates were
beaten by the simplest process in the world,
lack of votes on their own side, or possibly too
many on ’tother, found General Apathy a fair
and penetrable mark for their unexpended
- ammunition.
Having lost General .Apathy from their ranks
the Whigs have adopted Gen. Zachary Taylor, -
the very name of vigilance, activity and victory.
Advantages of Railroads.
The following extract from an article in that
valuable paper, the Kailroad Journal, will give
some idea of the advantages railroads have been
the means of bringing to property holders in
Massachusetts :
“ It is difficult to arrive, by demonstraion at
1 the true value of the railroads in Massachusetts
—or at the increased value of property, in con- ■
sequence of their construction ; but we think i
it cannot he beyond the mark to estimate it—in I
the city, and Slate at large, and the States ad
joining. benefited by them—at ten times their i
cost; or at least equal, annually, since their
average completion, to the entire cost ' f all
the roads in the State. No man. not familiar ’
with the position of things before their con- '
1 Rtruction. and now. can realize and appreciate
* their influence*. The very ground on which I
the U. S Hotel, where we now write and the 1
immense Worcester and Western railroad de
pots, and a thousand brick buildings, now stand.
was—if we may use a Hibernicism —water ten ’
B years ago; and the verv extensive flats around
Boston, always covered with water to the depth
of five to eight feet, at high tide will be speedi- '
ly filled in. and at no distant day he cohered '
with dwelling*, and workshops and mantifac-
• lories. And those results are owing mainly to
railroads, and very much to system of low
fares and frequent trains on the railroads."
Firs.—We regret to state that on last Satur
day morning between 1 and 2 o’clock, the
wood house of Dr James .M. Green in the rear
of his dwelling on Mulberry street, was discov
ered to be on tire The flames progressed so
rapidly as to spread to the kitchen and dwell
ing house, entirely consuming both, before
they could be arrested. Fortunately Dr. Green
saved most of his furniture. He has strong
reasons for believing that the tire could not
have been communicated any other way than
by the hand of an incendiary. What a misera
ble miscreant a man must be. that would thus
destroy property when he could have no pro
bable motive in view. Dr. Green’s loss in
houses and improvement* is about $4,000, and
we regret to learn he had no insurance.— Mont.
Telegraph, 141A in>t.
From the N. O. Picayune, 10M inst.
Late from Texas.
The U. S steamship New Orleans. Captain
Edward Auld, arrived at this port yesterday as
ternoon, in forty-three hours from Galveston,
whence she sailed on the 7th inst.
When the New Orleans left Galveston the
voteshad not been counted, but Capt. Auld in
forms us it was generally supposed that Gen.
Taylor would get a small majority on the is
land. but would lose the county of Harris.
From the Galveston News of the 4th inst..
we make two extracts :
A private letter from Houston reached us by
the boat this morning, announcing the painful
intelligence that Gen Moseley Baker died yes
terday morning, the 4th inst.. after a very short
illness. Our letter doe« not state the nature of
bis disease- We have only time to say that in
his death Texas has lost one of her oldest and
most eminent citizens. Gen. Baker has been
a man of great activity and enterprise through
life. He participated largely in the war of our
revolution, and w«» believe all have conceded to
him the reputation of a brave soldier, au able
officer and a true patriot.
Segcin. Oct. *2O. I’MS.
Mr. Richardson —Dear Sir: I have but little
of interest to write you. except that we have
unfortunately gut into another Indian war. and
that too. through the blundering conduct (or
something worse) of our rangers, in an expedi
tion that went up to the head of the Guadalupe
some two months past, and it is said killed
some of the Lipans and drove off* a quantity of
their horses.
The Indians have killed some twelve or fif
teen persons and taken a great many horses
from the upper country, and all for retaliation.
I have been informed that the Governor hasau
thortzed the raising of a force to operate against
them. The volunteers are to meet on the San
Marcos, near Gonzales, on the *22d inst.. for the
purpose of organizing.
Toe Indians, up to this time, have killed but
one or two old Texans
If anything ofcon sequence in this Indian war
»houkl occur. 1 may inform you.
Crops in Uns neiguborbood are very bad. with
the exception of pecans. We have a great
drought; the roads aud streets are deep tn dust
at this time.
Yours, truly, •••♦«.
Steamer Niagara Ashore.— The steamer
Niagara, hence for Bridgeport, Ct., struct on
a rock in going ihrough Hurl Gate; succeeded
in getting off aud was run ashore near the
gate. Passengers ail safe.—.V. F. Cam. Adr.
\3lh inst.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22. 1848.
From the Southern Recorder.
Decisions of the Supreme Court.
We are indebted to the courtesy of the Re
porter ofthe Court, T. R. R. Cobb, Esq., for
the subjoined decisions of the Supreme Court,
at its s ssion last week. The Court sat the
whole week, the business before it occupy ing
the Judges each day, as usual, from an early
hour in the morning to a late hour of the
night. The labors of this Court are truly oner
ous, and require strong physical health to a
chieve them.
Walker, ts. the State.—From Wilkes — l. An
indictment for Bastardy charging t e defend
ant with having refused to give bond and se
curity ‘ in terms ofthe law,” held sufficient.
2. A warrant requiring tne defendant to ap
pear before the Magistrate “to answer said
charge,” if not strictly in accordance with the
statute, is properly admitted in evidence to
prove the arrest.
Judgment affirmed. — Miller, for Plaintiff in
Error. —T. R. R. Cobb for Defendant.
Dearing, ts. the Bank of Charleston.—From
Richmond.— l. A decree against a non-resident
corporation, which has never appeared and an
swered, is void.
2- Such a decree is good against all residents.
and must be executed as to all property within
the jurisdiction, and, as a general rule, should
not be enjoined at me suit of the non-resident.
Judgment reversed.— Miller and Cumming,
for Plaintiff in Error.—Jas. L. Petigru and
Gould, for Defendant.
Jtrs ices of the Inferior Court of Scrircn, vs.
McCall and others.— From Scriven.— llllß47.
tiie Legislature appointed Commissioners to
Sil; erintend ihe building of a new court-house
and jail in Scriven county, and requiring the
Inferior Court to levy an extra tax to pay for
ihe same.
Held, Ist. Tha* mandamus would lie at the
missioned ’<» compel the
inferior Court is Tory id...
2d That the Superior Court will by manda
mus compel an Interior Court to execute bona
fide the trust reposed in them by the Legis
lature.
Judgment affirmed — Marsh, for Plaintiff in
Error. —Polhill and Stirnes, for Defendant.
Ga. RR. Banking Co., ts. Harris and
others.—From Greene — Ail civil suits must be
brought in the c-uiuty where the defen ant re
sides, and a judgment obtained by w.iiver on
ihe part of the defendantof all pleas to the ju
risdiction in another county, is void us against
ere itors.
Judgment affirmed. — Ilillyer, for Plaintiff in
Error.—Cone, for Defendant.
So. Ca. R. R. Co., ts. McDonald.—From
Richmond.— A foreign corporation liable to
attachment as a non-resident, under the statute
of Georgia.
Judgment affirmed — Starnes, for Plaiutiff in
Error.—M filer, for Defendant.
MalenJy Co.,vs. Hungerford.—From Rich
mond.—A notice served by an applicant for the
her. efit of die •• Honest Debtois’ Act” upon the
attorney of non-resident creditors, directed in
their firm name, held to be sufficient, and that
it was unnecessary to state the individual names
of die creditors
Judgment affirmed. — Miller, for Plaintiff.—
Cumming, for Defendant.
Nagle, ts. the City Council of Augusta.—
From Richmond.—Held, That the Cny Coun
cil of Augusta have the authority to regulate
the weight of loads to he carried by wagons
and drays in the corporate limits.
Judgment affirmed. — McGrath and Starnes,
for Plaintiff in Error.—Miller, for Defendant.
McWhorter,vs. Wright. Nichols Sf Co.—From
Richmond. — A conveyance by an insolvent
debtor to his surety of property, taking the
bond of the surety to pay the debts upon which
he is surety, is not void under the art of 1818. |
Judgment reversed.— Gould and Cumming, I
.... ... , WO.Z, ll I 111 II 1 .
for Plaintiff.—Miller, for Defendant.
Sibley, cs. Heard.—From Scriven.— .A and B
convoy a building to C and D, D subsequently
re-conveysto A —
Held, Ist. Ina suit by A against D upon an
implied warranty, that A was not estopped by
reason of the former sale.
2d. Th .t A being shown to be privy to the
defect of the title will be estopped.
Judgment reversed — Gould, for Plaintiff in
Error.—Miller, for Defendant.
Frederick et. al., vs. the City Council of Au
gusta.— Htld. Ist. That the Act of 1845, in
corporating the “ Augusta Canal Company” is
constitutional and valid.
2d. That while the Legislature cannot make
a citizen a member of a corporation without
his consent, still it is within its power to au
thorize a lax to be levied on the real estate
owners of the city, and leave it optional wi h
he citizen to accept or refuse the scrip making
him a stockholder.
Judgment affirmed. — Con?, for Plaintiff in
Error.—Miller, for Defendant.
Inferior Court of Scriven, vs. Ennis.—Held,
Tha* a Constable’s Bond with but one security,
if not good as a statutory Bond, is good as a
Judgment reversed.— Marsh, for Plaintiff in
Error.
tFarthen. vs. Brantley.—From Washington.—
Held, A Bill is not multifarious which seeks an
account and settlement of two successive
Firms, where it is charged that the business of
each was transacted by the same person, who
was a partner in both and Defendant, and it is
charged that the funds of the one are so inter
mingled with the ether by the Defendant, that
they cannot he distinguished.
Judgment reversed — Johnson &. Thomas, for
Plaimiffin Error.—Miller for Jenkins, for De
fendant.
Anthony, vs. Bronks—From Taliaferro. —
Held, Ist. An Injunction should not he grant
ed in Equity to restrain a trespass, unless there
will result from it irreparable injury.
2d. A Claim Bond should be made payable
to the Sneriff.
Judgment affirmed. — T. fl. R. Cobh, for
Plamhff. — L. Il Stephens, for Defendant.
Davenport, vs. Hardman—From Oglethorpe.
—A surety who Ims paid off a judgment for Ins
Principal is entitled to control the same though
it appear on its face to be dormant.
Judgment reversed.— T. R. R. Cobb, for
Plaintiff m Error
Anderson, vs. Darien Bank.—From Greene
—lt’no ori.inal notice is filed of the signing of
the Bill of Exceptions, tne writ of Error will
be dismissed
lint dismissed.— Cone, for Plaintiff.—Rock
well. for Defendant.
Corn Trade of Europe —The London Mer
caiitile Gazetie of October 27, concludes that
all the foreign grain lately in bond has been
liberated Whether, however, importers will
pay on future arrivals from abroad, may be
doubled, as the nine is not very far distant (Feb.
1. 1849,) when the existing corn law ceases.—
The chances are. therefore, that no further ad
dition will be made to the stork of wheat in the
kingdom during the next three month*, which
will afford holders of what is already there an
opportunity of realizing on more fivorhle
terms. Still, the Gazette does not anticipate
any rise of consequence on present rates.
Extraordinary Case.— There fell under
o.ir observation yesterday, says the Kingston
(I’lsterCo ) Journal, the most singular case of
disease we ever witnessed The subject is a
man named Snyder, aged 35 years, residing in
the town of Warwarsing in this county. Four ,
months ago he had an aitack of sickness, but
recovered and was to all appearance entirely
healed. About a fortnight after his recovery
lie was seized with drowsiness, and for some
time after, slept nearly two third* ot the day.
This disease continued to increase, until he !
would sleep two or three days without waking .
When we saw him yesterday, he was continu- i
ing an uninterrupted >leep of five davs. His
pulse is regular, though nut very full, his respi
ration is easy and natural, and his skin moist
and cool. If food or drink be placed in his
mouth, he swallows it; and he walks when led
by the hand and slightly supported. On Thurs
day last he awoke from a sleep of two days,
struck a Indy who was in the room violently
with a chair, and almost immediately after
wards sunk into his present slumber. He is
on his way to the New York hospital.
The Brig Wilsom Fuller Ashore. —The •
brig Wilson Fuller, which sailed yesterday for
Savannah, got ashore a little South of the point
of the Hook, at near high water. The steamer
Newsboy went to her assistance, and attempted
to haul her off*, but after parting two haulers,
(one of then, a new one.) she gave it up. as the
tide had fallen too much to start her. She had
received no damage up to eight o’clock last
evening, and it is thought will be got off* next
tide, with the assistance of a steamer. She was
heading about N. W.—.V. F. Cour Enq.
The Alpxca Umbrellx.—Among many
recent improvements in utilities which, al
though not to be classed precisely under the
head of “ Fine Art.’’ certainly appertain to it,
we have much pleasure in noticing novelty
produced by Messrs. San -ster. of Regent
street. by whom it ha* been patented. The
material w hich forms the screen in this umbrella
is composed of fine wool, a material as elegant
as silk, and at least'equally imp rvious to rain :
it is unnecessary to add. that no comparison
whatever can be made between it and cotton.
The forms have been, as far a* possible, at
tended to. The handles good in all the
specime s we have examined : some of them
are admirably carved aud others are skilfully
ornamented, and we have not seen me that
can be described as in bid taste. In fact, there
is now no class of modern manufacture which
the producer suffers to pass uninfluenced by
careful thought to Art. Art-J ‘urnal.
The Tea Plant in the United States.— The
planters and farmers of the Southern States
will be gratified to learn that seven cases of
black and green tea plants. Chinese stock,
have just arrived from London in the ship A
merican Eagle, shipped by Dr. Junius Smith,
during his late visit to that city. There aresoo
plants, of from five to seven years growth ;
a'l are designed by the Doctor for seed plants.
A small quantity of tea seed was brought out
by him in the steamer Britannia wh.ch was re
ceived m London over land from the North
west provinces of India. We understand the
Doctor designs to proceed soon to the South,
with a view of forming a plantation. More
plants and seed are expected from India and
China this season, and if we may judge from
the progress already made we have now the
means in hand of exiend.ng tea plantations
throughout such sections of our country as may
be found adapted to their culture.—.V. F Jour,
of Com
From the N. 1. Journal of Commerce. '
Music.
The approaching winter season promises no
small amount of pleasure in the way of concerts
and musical entertainments It cannot be doubt
ed that there has been a large amount of hum
bug in many ofthe performances and perform
ers of music in this city, and that the public has
been gulled into crowding the concert rooms
■if second and third rate performers while those
who were actually meritorious during the false
fever, might and must wait their time patiently,
hi the end, however. New York audiences re
ward the best musicians.
Music knows no law. It is as vain to con
fine it to any system of rules, as it would be to
confine the wind, that prince of musicians.
is conceded by all, that the AEolian harp is the
perfection of music, and that sounds “as it list,
etb.” It is very true that combinations of
sounds by fixed rules, may produce pleasing
effects, and that - in these combinations the un
skilful must follow rules or get out of their
depth. But the idea is too prevalent that these
rules are the standard of excellence, and that
music i only good as it conforms to them.
There is hut one true and unfading standard,
and that is the effect of music. It matters noth
ing at all whether rules be followed or forgot
ten, whether combinations be made according
to a fixed law or not; if the effect be that which
was intended, then the music is good. Hence
it is a false idea that none but a musician can
criticise performances The fact is the reverse.
Thus a botanist is seldom found who admires
the beauty of a flower with halflhe enthiTsiasni
of one who thinks it sacrilege when he picks it
to pieces, petal by petal, to know its genus and
class And no one pretends to regard botan
ists as the best judges of floral beauty. It is
most impossible for a man who i a thorough
musician to judge of the actual merit of a per
formance. A false note, an error in time, ajar
ring chord, will pain him and spoil the whole,
the nuu. gurney -hy t jusd jullows
the whole unity of themlFsic io enter his soul,
will be enraptured.
We have said that the standard of music is
its effect. This seeins to be so evident, that no
argument is needed to prove it- The barbar
ous nations of the North of Europe had this for
their standard, and there was sublime music in
the wild songs to which they marched There
was no sound so thrilling to the heart of a Ro
man, so maddening to the brain of a Vandal or
a Hun, as the chorus of one of these hymns, to
the sound of which tney threw down and trod
on the palaces of the Caesars.
The exile is moved to tears by the familiar
sounds ofthe old home songs. The wander
ing Jews could not sing the songs of Canaan
in a strange land, so deep was their effect.—
The Swiss in any land will pause and listen
tearfully to the Ranz des Vaches There is
not a song of Burns that will not win the heart
of any Scot. It matters not how sung, these
familiar sounds are music.
Sing a lively glee in the room of a mourner,
and you will have little thanks for it. The
most exquisite airs, will be harsh on tlie ears
that would listen for sounds akin to tin state of
the heart. A mournful song will be hissed in
a bacchanalian revel, though Caradori A.llen
herself sang it.
But in Church music, more, perhaps, than in
anything else, this truth is illustrated. We
have no disposition to quarrel with those per
-ons whose praise of God is done by hired
proxies, although we prefer to see it done in
person. Still in congregations in which the
singing is left wholly to a choir and organ, the
effect of that music on the congregation is the
best test of its merit, if it do not rouse to in
terest; if it falls on all ears as stale, uninterest
ing and unprofitable, then it is clearly poor mu
sic.
Whoever has been in one of the churches of
Scotland, and heard, the sublime music of hun
dreds of voices, old and young, generation with
generation, sing solemnly the quaint old
psalms, until the church trembled with their
praise, will bear witness to the perfection of
church music. They sing not in the best of
time, nor perhaps in the best of voices, but they
sing such music as can scarce y be surpassed.
When we hear discussions of this method or
that method of singing a tune, as io this voice
in the choir or that voice, one too high or one
too slow, we remember the nnhartnonious hut
melodious sound of hundreds of voices follow
ing the piecentor. who lined off the verses
while the old church was filled with the music
of the 107th psalm—
-1 “ Tnen arc they glad because at rest
And quiet now they be,
So to the haven He them brings
Which they desired to see.
The Copying Telegraph —Experimental
trials have been recently made of the copying
electric telegraph invented by Mr. Bakewell,
by which it is intended to make sac simile co
pies of written communications so that corres
pondents in distant towns may recognize each
other’s hand-writing. The experiments were
made between the Electric Telegraph Compa
ny’s branch station in Seymour street and
the needle telegraph would be sufficient for the
copying process. We understand that the
result was most satisfactory; and that legible
i copies of messages written in London were re
ceived at Slough with double the rapidity that
could be attained by the needle telegraph.—
The instruments were much smaller than those
that Mr. Bakewell expects to be able to trans
mit as many as 400 letters per minute with a
single wire. Independently ofthe great rapid
ity of which this means of communication is
susceptible, the copying telegraph would give
greater certainty to such information, not
only because errors of transmission would be
avoided, but the agent on recognizing the hand
writing of his correspondent, would act with
more confidence than lie can do on receiving
instructions of the authenticity of which there is
no proof. —Literary Gazette.
The Coal Trade.—The Pottsville (Pa.)
Journal, of Saturday, says :
The trade is decreasing, and the navigation
by canal will soon close for the seas in. Seve
ral of the collieries have stopped lor the season.
The price ofcoal on b.iard, at Richmond, for
white ash lump, broken, egg. arid s.ove, is $3
37. L Red a*h, from $3 53 to $3 75, according
to quality.
Beat This \Vn<» Can.—Our friend. Major
Richard Rowell, of this county, has sent us a
Potato of the Yam species, weighing 12 lbs. It
is nearly round, and measures 26 inches in cir
cumference.
Major Rowell, does not exhibit his agricul
tural products at public fairs. but those who
have enjoyed his hospitality, will stake his mut
ton. potatoes and turnips against the world.—
Fed. Union.
Extraordinary Fossils— The Burlington
(Vt.) Free Press says: We learn that about
three weeks since the workmen employed in
I excavating the summit cut of the Rutland Rail
road. Mount Holly, discovered a fossil tooth of
. great *ize. and in a fine state of preservation.
It lav in a murk pit. three or four feet below the
surface of the ground which, at that point un
derlies the muck. The tooth is about eight
inches long on its face and four or five broad.
and weighs, as an informant thinks, seven or
eight pounds. The color is a dark lead The
tooth was taken from the south side of the cut.
near the brink
A few days since, at the same point, on the
edge of the pit. a fossil horn was taken out,
more than four feet long and four inches in di
ameter. The color is darker than that of the
tooth, and both ends are decayed and gone.
The surfiice is hard and tough, and feels like
. horn. The pith is brittle ea-ily crushed be
i tween the fingersand unctuous to the touch
h is highly probable that more of these remains
will be found at or near the spot.
An Inquisitive Dutchman.
We clip the following from the “Autobio
graphy of a Travelling Printer.” as published
m the N. Y Sun. The disciple of Faust was
•• tramping it” through Pennsylvania, and late
one night walked up to a Dutch tavern, and
opened Han’s ear thus :
•• Ho. landlord!” Old Dumbiedikes bound
ed to his feet, breaking his clay chiboque in the
demonstration.
•• That was his pipe, I suppose, ’ interpolated
my critical cousin.
*• That was his pipe," replied I. Regarding
me with the suspicious examination of an offi
cer of the customs, he opened the comer of his
mouth and said—' Veil. Mishler Talking
I Stehich. vat do you vant ’’*
•• Refreshment and repose.*
“ Supper and lodging. I reckon.
•• Pe you a tarn Yankee pedlar, tnitchewelry
in your pack to che it te gals ’
“ No. sir: no Yankee pedlar.
*• A singing teacher, too lazy to vork
• No—no singing master-”
•' A chenteel shoe-maker, vat schtays till
Saturday night, and lays drungk in te porch
ofer Sunday ?”
•'No, sir; or I should have mended my
[ hoots before this. Bull am not disposed long
er to submit to this outlandish inquisiiion.—
Can you give me supper and lodgings ’
•• Torekly. But vol be you. A bookachent.
taken honest people’s money for a little lam
in’. that only makes 'em proud and lazy
•Try again, your worship.’
“ A dentist breaking te people s chaws at a
tollar a *chuag. and running off wit old Sham*
[ bock’s daughter
•• No sir: no tooth-puller.”
, •• A fernolojo h, den. feeling te young folks
hets like so m*ny cabbitch, and charging twen
ty-five cents fi»r telling their fortunes, like a
tarn Yankee’ ’
* •* No ; no phrenologist, your excellency.
• •• V’el. den. vol te title are you ? Choosttell
and you shall have some of te test sassage for
supper, and sebtay all night free gratis milout
charging you a cent, mil a chili ot whiskey to
star on before preakfast,”
' “ Very well, your honor- To terminate the
colloquy without further circumlocunon. I am
an humble disciple of Faust—a professor of
the art preservative of all arts —a typographer,
at your service ”
•* Votsch dat
A printer, sir—a man that prints books
aud newspapers.”
•*A man rot prints nooshepapers' Oh,
yaw.' yaw ’ By Cboopiter—aye.' aye! datch
it! a man vol brints nooshepapers—yaw !
Valk tip. valk up, Mishter Bnnter Cbeemes.
take the chentleman’s back off. Chon, pring
some junks to te fire. A man vot brints
nooshepapers* / rishlmaypetamifl did* t
tink you ras a tailor ri
Augusta, ©co.:
FRIDAY MORNING, NOV’R 17. 18*8.
The Election.
We subjoin all the additional news of the
election which has reached us. The prospect
in the three doubtful States of Virginia, Ala
bama and Mississippi, is now more favorable for
the success of the Cass than the Taylor ticket.
Georgia.—Through our exchanges and oth
er sources, we are enabled to furnish reports
from all the counties in this State but Dade.
We think the Whig majority will be between
2,900 and 3000, if the returns we have received
are correct.
Oct. Election. Taylor. Cass.
Emanuel 53 53 155 207
Telfair 135 107 lbs 150
Appling 131 139 63 m.
Union 300 525 230 m.
Gilmer-•• 175 596 453 m.
Alabama.—We have nothing later from this
State except the following Telegraphic Des
patch to the Messenger 3f Journal, which is so
favorable as to excite our doubts as to its cor
rectness : The despatch was forwarded on
Monday from Montgomery :
“A telegraphic Despatch from Montgomery yes
terday, stated that all but eleven counties in Alabama
had been heard from, and that Taylor was still 2000
votes ahead. In the counties to be heard from, Polk’s
majority was 2700 votes.”
Mississippi.—From this State we have re
turns from nineteen counties which show a
Whig gain of 17G3 upon the vote of ’44, when
carried th* State by 5.780. There are
forty counties to be heard from, unless the
average gains have been larger than in those
already heard from, the State has gone for Cass
by a small majority—a result which we regard
probable.
Virginia.—The Richmond Whig of Tues
day morning, says:
In 99 counties, the Whig gain is about 3800
—leaving bout 2000 majority on the vote of
’44 to be overcome in the remaining 37 coun
ties.
The returns received yesterday from 7 or 8
Western counties, show handsome gains—but
we fear they are not great enough. We have
not taken into the count, the partial returns
from Kanawha; and have heard notning further
from Little Tennessee.
It is possible we may have won the Old Do
minion—tho’ it is probable we have lost it by a
1000 to 1800.
Florida.—The Floridian, the leading Dem
ocratic organ of the State, announces the result
in that State, in the following good humored
strain:
“A lew words will tell the story. The State has
gone for the Whigs by an increased majority, from
700 to 1000.
“It is useless to grumble at the result. We are
soundly thrashed, and we cheerfully “acknowledge
the corn.” O<ir opponents have outfooted us in the
race, though we gave them as good a pull fir it as we
were able, under all the circumstances. All we have
now to do is to gather up our armor, and like Wel
lington’s Guards at Waterloo, ‘ up, and at them ’ a
gain.
Macon and Western Railroad Company.
The receipts of the Macon and Western Rail
Road Company fur the mouth of October,
1848:
From Freight •••$10,956 69
, “ Passengers 5,262 63
“ Mail 857 77
$17,077 09
Corresponding month last year 13 435 22
Increase (equal to 27 per cent.) $3,641 87
This, says the New York Herald, is a greater
increase than has been reported by any other
Road in the United States during the last six
months.
Railroad Items. —The increase of the in
come for July. August, September and Octo
her. of the North Carolina Railroads, oinpar
ed with the same month last year, is $83,761.
The receipts on the railroads from Sandusky
to Springfield, Ohio, are reported to be $2,000
per day. The road cost little over a million of
dollars.
Mrs. Armitage, the English giantess, is dead.
She weighed thirty-one stone, or four hundred
and thirty-four pounds, was four feet round the
inch round the hips, and twenty-two inches
round the arm above the elbow.
Rencontre. -We learn from the Montgo
mery Gazette, that a rencontre look place in
the streets of Montgomery on Thursday, be
tween Mr. P. A. Wray and one of his former
overseers, Mr. Lester. Mr. Wray, on receiv
ing some provocation from Mr. L., drew a re
volver, and fired three shots at the breast of
his apponent, at the distance of but three feet
from him. but fortunately for both parties, Mr.
L. was but slightly injured. Wray has been
bound over in the sum of $3,000.
Gen. James Taylor, Quartermaster of the
Northwestern army in the last war with Eng
land, died at Newport, Ky., on 'I uesday last,
having first deposited his vote for Taylor, with
the remark. I have given the last shot for my
country.’ The Judges ol election waited upon
him at his house. He was one of the officers
designated by Gen. Hull to draw up the arti
cles Tor bis surrender, which be indignantlv re
fused to do He was born in 1769, in Caroline
county, Va. and was, perhaps, the largest land
ed proprietor in the West.
Great Britain and the United States—
The London correspondent of the National
Intelligencer, in a recent letter, remarks that
the importance of Great Britain and the United
States to each other, in a commercial point of
view, will be fully understood, by a due appre
ciation of the two following facts : The United
Slates has exported, during the last five years
8 479.521 bales of cotton to foreign countries :
of these. Great Britain has taken 5,899 347. If
the foreign commerce of Great Britain be sup
posed to consist of one thousand parts, the
United States takes and pays for one hundred
and eighty one of those parts—Germany, the
next best customer, taking only one hundred
and one.
Noble Enterprise.— Ohio m Africa — We
learn that a benevolent gentleman of Cincin
nati offers to Mr David Christi, Agent of the
American Colonization Society for Ohio, the
sum of two thousand dollars for the purchase of
a portion of the African coast outside of the
present limits of Liberia, to be paid as soon as
the necessary arrangements are made.
His design is to offer the territory to the col
ored people of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, for
their acceptance, upon which to establish a new
•State, in connexion with the Republic of Li
beria. The Agent at Washington (the Rev.
Wm McLean) recommends that the purchase
be made northwest of Liberia, so as to include
the Galinas and those other ‘darkest dens of
the slave trade ’ The purchase would embrace
the coast between the Republic of Liberia and
Sierra Leone, and forever banish the slave
trade from that region — Cincinnati Gazette.
The Discovery of Herculaneum. —In no
ticing the wells of ancient Italy, we may refer
to a circumstance, which, al'hough trivial in it
se'f, led to the most surprising discovery that
has ever taken place on this globe, and one
which, in the interest it has excited, is unex
ampled. In the early part of the 18th century.
1711. an Italian peasant, while digging a well
near his cottage, found some fragments of col
ored marble. These attracting attention, led
to farther excavations, when a statue of Her
cules was discovered, and shortly after a muti
lated one of Cleopatra. These specimens of
ancient art were found at a considerable depth
be’ow the surface, and in a place which proved
to be a temple situated in the centre of the
ancient city of Herculaneum ! Tnis city was
overwhelmed with ashes and lava, during an
eruption of Vesuvius. A. D. 79. being the same
in which the elder Pliny perished, who was
suffocated with sulphurous vapors, like Lot’s
wife in a similar calamity. Herculaneum there
fore, had been buried 1630 years! and while
everv memorial of it was lost, and even the
site unknown, it was thu® suddenly, by a re
surrection then unparalleled in the annals of
the world, brought again to light; and streets,
temples, houses’, statues, paintings, jewelry,
professional implements, kitchen utensils, and
other articles connected with ancient domestic
life, were to be seen arranged, as when th ir
owners were actively moving among them.
Even the skeletons of some of the inhabitants
were found ; one, near me threshold of h s
door, with a bag of money in his hand, and ap
parently in the act of escaping.
The light which this important discovery re
flected upon numerous subjects connected with
the ancients, has greatly eclipsed all previou-
I sources of information : and as regard* some of
the arts of the Romans, the information thu*
obtained may be considered almost a* full and
satisfactory as if one of their mechanics had
risen from the dead and described them
Among the early discoveries made in this city
of Hercules (it having been founded by. or in
honor of him. 125‘J. B. C.) not the least inte
resting is one of its public wells; which.having
been covered by an arch and surrounded by a 1
curb, the ashes were excluded. This well was I
found in a high state of preservation—it still
contains excellent water, and is in the same
condition as when the last females retired from
it. bearing vases of its water to their dwellings,
and piobably on the evening that preceded the
calamity which drove them from it forever. —
Eicbank's Hydraulics.
A Voter of “76 ” —Tne Boston papers
state that Johnathan Harrington, the last survi
vor of the battle of Ltx»ugton, now* above 90
years of age. walsed a mile and a half to de
posit his vote for Gen. Taylor.
From the Mobile Register.
A Mobilian in Brazil.
We have received a letter from a friend, for
merly a citizen of Mobile, now a resident of
Rio Janeiro, the capital of Brazil, transmitting
us, together with a copy of the Jornal do Com
mercio, some interesting information in refer
ence to the condition of affairs in that country
His letter is dated on the sth of Sept., 1848
He says : “ I avail myself of the present con
veyance to send you a paper containing the Last
news from the river La Plata, which, as the
Portugal language is not so commonly under
stood as the French and Spanish, I have trans
lated. You will find it annexed Here every
thing remains quiet. The great question upon
which the two parties have committed them
selves is the enforcement or non-enforcemem
of the laws against the African Slave Trade.—
The party in power for the moment are strong
ly committed against this are vigor
ously appointing Anti-African Slave I rade
partisans to office. They have lately seized and
confiscated a lot of freshly introduced Africans.
This party unites a great mass of intelligence,
and is altogether Brazilian. It is opposed by a
well organized, wealthy, influential and active
party, composed of Portugese and Brazilians
who are far from despairing, though they are
under par for the moment I suspect that pub
lie opinion is not yet e dightened enough to
sustain the recent ministry, but they are on the
ultimately winning side, and like you Demo
crats, if they stumble, it will only be to light up
on their feet again. ”
He says in another place—speaking of the
American Minister to Brazil —“ Mr. Tod occn
pies the largest and finest private house in Rio.
Un the 29th ult., he gave a splendid ball to up
wards of 400 persons, Brazilians, Americans,
and English. It is said to have been the hand
somest thing of the kind ever given here, and
gave great satisfaction These things and hi
popular deportment make him a favorite with
the Brazilians. But all his popularity wont
m.'xke them pay our claims. A dozen men of
war would do more good than coaxingor feast
ing them. I know enough to tell you this with
confidence.”
Our correspondent seems likely to infuse a
spice of our Yankee energy and ingenuity into
Brazilian affairs. He says: “I have been ap
plying to the Government here for an exclu
sive grant to navigate the river Amazon by
steam. I had despaired of success, but at pre
sent I have pretty sanguine hopes. If they give
it to me, I can do them good service, and help
myself, and that too m the healthiest and most
delightful climate I ever was in. It is a little
singular, but nevertheless true, that right un
der the equator, the whole length of the Ama
zon, the inhabitants enjoy the most excellent
and uninterrupted health ; whilst, on all the
streams north of the equator in South Ameri
ca, they are more or less sickly. ”
We append the article from the Rio Jornal
do Commercio, of the slh Sept., which our friend
has had the kindness to translate :
“ We have dates from Montevideo to the 23d
ult. The fortified place of Colonia was taken
bv the forces of General Uribe on the 18th ult
The Com mercio del Plata states, that the gates
were opened by traitors, and the garrison was
wakened up late in the night by the presence
of the enemy in the public square In the midst
of the confusion created by this event, every one
endeavored to save himself. The only point
where they were able to make any resistance
was defended with gallantry, but in the end
they had to surrender.
On the 14th another shock of an earthquake
was felt in Montevideo, but was much weaker
and of leas duration than the preceding one.
From Buenos Ayres we have dates to the
20;h ult. A sanguinary act committed there on
the 18th. by order of General Rosas had strick
en terror into all hearts. A priest named Gut
tieres, curate of the parish of Socorro, in Bue
nos Ayres, had some time since seduced a
l.arontir fitm voir, nf ho.
young woman, twenty-two years ol age, oe
. longing to a respectable family of that city.—
. Whilst escaping by the way of Cornerites, he
was denounced by an Irish priest, taken pris
oner and conducted back to Buenos Ayres.
i where, immediately on his arrival and without
> trial, he was shot in the military camp of “San-
• tos Lugares, ” as well as the unhappy young
woman who had allowed herself to be seduced,
• and who was enciento. ”
Philadelphia Water-Works Broken.
Ou-Saturday morning, about five o’clock, a
breach occurred in the large basin and reser
voir of the Northern Liberties and Spring
Garden Water-works at Philadelphia, by which
the entire body of waler therein, amounting to
- between five and six millions of gallons, was
let out. The Bulletin says :
••This disastrous break took place on the
Southeastern side or end of the basin, and the
• great body of waler rushing with an impetuosi
f ty and power, almost inconceivable, forced
through and swept away from fifty to one
hundred feet of the walls of the Girard Col
lege grounds, on the north and south sides.
] About fifty or sixty feet of the embankment
has been carried away, and in addition to that,
a small portion of the partition wal* dividing
-me ic.'v. . w;'« hrnk-
’ en down. At the point where the breach oc
curred there is, in the range of the Girard
College walls, a creek and ravine, through
which the immense body of water swept, forc
ing its way beyond the walls into several ponds
1 and low places in the immediate vicinity. For
tunately no dwellings were within the scope
of its destructive course.
Soon after the breach, the supplies of water
to the citizens of the districts of the Northern
Liberties. Spring Garden and Kensington
failed, and no little excitement followed.
It is not known how long a time will be ne
cessary to repair the breach, but no doubt
some months will elapse before the works will
be incomplete and perfect operation.
The loss occasioned is estimated at twenty
five or thirty thousand dollars.”
From St. Kitts. —The New York Tribune
of Saturday has the following news:
“By the arrival, yesterday, of the British
brig /Antoinette, from St. Kitts, 20th October,
we learn that Capt. Flint was informed by Capt.
Bell, of the Brig Reindeer, from Martinique,
October 1, that the authorities had arrested
some nineteen negroes for depredations com
mitted on the white inhabitants They were
under trial for the offence, when about 2.000
negroes assembled together near the Court
house, and demanded their release. This the
authorities refused and ordered them to dis
perse immediately or they would be fired on.
Capt. Bell did not learn the result. He also
states that the blacks on the Island are in a most
deplorable condition, for the most part refusing
to labor. The planters have chartered several
vessels to go to the British West India Islands
to procure laborers. If this should not succeed,
they say their crops will all perish. The duties
have all been taken off American flour and
lard which is imported in French vessels.”
Spanish Difficulty Not Settled. —A
Madrid letter of October 21st, in the N. Y.
Herald, says:
“ The incident which I mentioned in my last
letter, as having taken place at the hotel of
General Saunders, the American Minister, is
not yet terminated. Apologies and offers of
reparation, by the dismissal of the offending
functionaries, were made, as I have already
told you. but ye*teroay it appears that Sig. Pi
dal. Minister of Foreign Affairs, having recon
sidered the ma‘ter, wrote a formal demand to
Gen. Saunders, requiring him to surrender his
servant to the authorities of the police. Gen.
Saunders. I am informed, denies the right of
’.he government to claim his servant and re
fuses to surrender him. What the issue of the
affair may be, is doubtful.”
Telegraphic Despatches*
Detroit, Nov. 9. 2 P. M.
We have the news. Gen. Cass desires it to
be understood that, in consequence of the “noise
and cons usion” of the election, he wishes to be
considered as withdrawing from ’he contest, as
he “ cannot expect to be heard ’
Kinderhook, Nov. 9, 2\ P. M.
Mr. Van Buren says he has not been under
stood in this canvass His ground was this:
if he could be elected, he was a candidate ; if
he could not be elected he was not a candidate.
He says he now sees he was not a candidate,
and therefore excuses his friends for not voting
for him.
Philadelphia. Nov. 8,7 P. M.
Zachary Taylor be at* one Race Certain — While
the result of the great Presidential contest, in
which Gen. Z ichary Taylor engaged in on
Tuesday, still hangs in doubt, his Philadelphia
namesake in horseflesh in a great match here
this afternoon with Grey Eagle, of Boston, at
once flaunts a most decided victory in our face.
Toe match was for $3 000. best three in five,
mile heats. The contest was spirited, and the
first, third and fourth heats were won by
Zachary. There were great number* in at
tendance, and much interest evinced in the re
sult.
Anecdote. —We remember somewhere to
hive r-ad a story of a youth, who hesitating in
his choice between two young ladies, by both
of whom he was beloved, wa- brought to a de
cision by means of a rose. It happened one
day, a« all the three were wandering in a gar
den. that one of the girls in her ha-te to pluck
a new blown rose, wounded her finger with a
thorn; it bled freely; and applying the petals
of a white rose to the wound, she said, smiling.
1 am a second Venus: I hive dyed the white
rose red.” At that moment, they heard a
scream; and fearing the other young lady, who
had loitered behind, had met with an accident.
Hastened Back to a««ist her The fair one s
scream had been called forth by no worse an
accident than had befallen her companion
She had angnlv thrown away the offending
flower, and made so pertinacious and fretful a
lamentation over her wounded finger, that the
youth, after a little reflection, resolved on a
speedy union with the least handtome, but
i more amiable of the two young friends. Hap
• py would it be for many a kind-hearted wo
man, did she know by what seeming trifles the
affection of those whom the loves may be con
firmed or alienated for ever.’
Protestant Convention in Paris.—On
the 9th of September, a National synod of the-
Protestant Churches in France was held tn Pa
ns. Tne purpose was to bring about a reorga
nization of the various churches. Ibis con
vention was the fir-t held since the revocation of
the edict of Nantes, the Goverment having pro
hibited heretofore the assembling of a National
Synod.
VoL.LXII.—NEW SERIES VOL.iXII., NO. 47.
A Hint for Good Manners.
A correspondent writing from England, says
that he has travelled over ten thousand miles in
[• the United Slates, without seeing so many in
stances of coarseness and vulgarity, as he has
witnessed in travelling over one-twentieth of
that distance in England. He says that, on
railroads and in steamboats in England, he has
frequently heard indecencies uttered in pre
sence of respectable women, which would
have excited general indignation in an Ameri
can conveyance, and perhaps have caused the
immediate expulsion of the delinquents, while in
England they were entirely overlooked as things
ofcourse. or noticed only as ‘ food for laughter.’
He admits that vulgarity is common enough eve
rywhere, and that those disposed to work with
such materials, can always find it ready; but that,
while it is not a popular characteristic in either
America or England, yet the former has no rea
son to be ashamed of her republican breeding, in
contrast with her proud mother, with all the ad
vantages of royal and aristocratic training.
This statement involves not oniy important
truths, but an important principle. Royalty
and aristocracy deprave manners, democracy
purifies them. Royalty and aristocracy de- j
grade woman, democracy exalts her. Why ? I
Man cannot violate God's fundamental laws I
with impunity. Retribution will surely come,
to punish with degradation, physical or moral,
or both. If God hath spoken through the New
Testament, then is equality God’s appointed
ordinance for man ; and this being admitted,
evil, in some shape, must follow ail disturbance
of equality. This equality is disturbed in
monarchies and aristocracies. When a social
constitution exhibits a gradation of classes, the
inferiors must regard the superiors as more
than men, or themselves as less. Common
sense contradicting the first position, the se-
I cond must prevail: and hence ail lower classes,
regarding their superiors in rank as no more
( than human, feel themselves degraded below
L the standard of humanity, and therefore indif
p ferent to the qualities which dignify human na
ture. And wherever men are degraded, wo
( men are the ilret and greatest sufferers by the
degradation.
t But if difference of rank degrades the lowest
classes, why does it not exalt and purify the
higher? Because it deprives them of social
accountability. An aristocracy independent of
all inferior classes for their power or position,
regard them with contempt in proportion to
their descent in the scale, and are therefore in
different to their opinion For social conduct,
they feel responsible to each other alone ; and
hence, if die chiefs among them set an evil ex
ample, the rest follow it, in open defiance of
all inferior classes. Among all nobilities, the
standard of social mannersis established by the
monarch; and hence, if depravity reign in the
palace, it eventually infects the whole order
Charles H. George IV, Louis XIV an I Louis
XV were profligate; and during their reign
the English and French nobilities were exten
sively or thoroughly corrupted. Each noble,
man or woman, seeing but licentiousness in
equals, and despising the opinions of inferiors,
was released from social restraints, and descend
ed accordingly. 'The example of the high was
extensively followed by the low ; and woman,
losing respect among patricians, could not re
tain it among plebeians. The effect of all this
in the degradation of woman, is visible in aris
tocracies t»the present hour, especially among
the lower orders.
But how does democracy purify manners?
Bv inspiring self-respect. In a social consti
tution where none are highest or lowest, where
the lowest may reach the highest position by
good conduct ami good manners, and the highest
must tall by misconduct, each finds any posi
tion within his reach, and is therefore inspired
with the hope, as well as the wish to rise. Im
provement of his condition being among pro
babilities. he is not content with degradation
He stands up before the highest with the con
scious dignity of manhood, desirous of proving
... ...» .
practically as well as theoretically, tnat, “he is
} as good as any man.” Then in proportion to
\ the elevation of man in the social scale, must
depend that of woman. When conscious of
j rights in himself as an attribute of humanity,
man is led to recognize and respect rights in
r woman; arid as he respects himself and other
men according to their dignity of character, he
is led to respect woman for the same reason.
All this being true, we shall find the best man
ners in the most democratic constitution of so
ciety.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Abolition Excitement at Bloomington,
* lowa. —A slave, Belonging to a person named
1 Hughes, residing in St Louis, Mo., escapeu the
’ other day,and was traced io Bloomington, lowa.
* where he had obtained employment as cook of
the American House His owner appealed to
’ the courts and arrested him, whereupon the
landlord of the American, and a number of
’ citizens, took part with the slave; their efforts
* were stoutly resisted by Mr. Freeman, the mas
-3 ter’s agent, who succeeded in retaining the boy.
While thus engaged. Mr. Freeman was arrest
ed by a peace officer, and taken before Justice
1 Cloud, to answer a charge of assail Itand battery
upon the landlord. Upon this charge he was
’ fined S2O and costs. After an investigation of
r>gfß itt arrant tbo Nogro, in which H was
proven that the Negro was a runaway, and that
»Ir. F. was duly authorized to deliver him to
1 his owner, the justice discharged the boy, and
' decided against his being taken. This decision
was hailed with applause, the slave warmly con
grainlated by many persons present, and walk
ed off arm in arm to the American House with
r a respectable physician, and was introduced and
treated as a character of some distinction. The
1 boy bore his marked honors with a grin ofsur
-1 prise.
For California. —The ship Sea Queen was
t chartered for a trip to California and home.
I either by Cape Horn or by Canton, at $2,000
a month, and the Government have obtained
the use of her for troops and stores for the
voyage out for $20,000. the first charterers re
serving to themselves only 400 tons of heavy
freight. The Government have also chartered
part of the new ocean steamer Oregon, for the
same purpose, and have 2,000 barrels flour on
the Silvie de Grasse. The Sil vie de Grasse,
which was formerly a Havre packet, goes out
to California full of various articles—part of the
cargo, and we believe most of it, paying S3O
per ton freight.
The Cold Weather and Snow. —At Bos
ton last Saturday morning, the thermometer,
at«nn-rise, marked 17degrees.
The Utica, (N Y.) Gazette mentions that on
Friday morning the thermometer at Deerfield
indicated one degree below zero at sun.rise.
At Butfilo on Thursday, snow fell to the
depth of nineteen inches Most of the ship
ping and many of the steamers were going into
winter quarters In alluding to the snow storm
the Commercial says :—“There has a greater
quantity fallen than at anyone time during last
winter ”
On Wednesday the snow was two feet deep
at Franklinville, Cattaraugus county, N Y.
At Milwaukie (Wis.) previous to the Bth,
snow fell to the depth of 6 inches, and a snow
st«»r<n had been experienced all the way from
Chicago to Detroit.
Lake Superior Copper. —A vessel recently
left the Sank St. Marie with the following car
g» of copper belonging to the Cliff Mine
e*> “
Company :
190 masse* native copper, ••••261.879 lbs.
101 barrels starnpc I ore, 56,506 lbs.
114 barrels mineral, 63,308 lbs.
Making 331.693 pounds besides some four
masses of native cooper, weighing 20<)0 lbs.,
belonging to the Pittsburgh and isle Royale
Company.
Eagle Killed. —M r. Dewees, of this county,
whileon ahum recently in Bibb, killed a bald
eagle in the act of feeding on a f«wn which had
been crippled by the hunters; but which the
eagle had found and killed. This stranger in
Bibb county, measured seven feet between the
tips of its wings; its talons measuring eight in
ches in length. Its weight when killed, was
eighteen pounds.— Ala. Monitor.
Changing their Tune.—The office-holders
at the capital have all at once discovered that
they are now, and always have been, good
Taylor men. The Washington correspondent
of the Baltimore Clipper writes as follows:
There have been many changes in political
sentiment within the last fifteen hours, to judge
from the enthusiastic expressions of clerks un
der Government who yesterday were Cass and
Butler men. How they could acquire the
cheek to huzza for Taylor, changing their form
er tune, can be accounted for only on princi
ple, viz:—a desire to hold on their situations.
We would rather retain a rabid, straight-out
political opponent in office, than to favor one
who was frightened to the other side by the
first shout of victory.
Against Fine Clothes —Good clothes are
’he embroidered trappings of pride, and good
cheer the very root of gluttony. Did man.
think you, come wrangling into the world a
bout no better matters than all his lifetime to
make privy searches in Berchen Lane for whale
bone doublets, or for pies of birds’ longues in
Heliogab tins’ kitchen ? No. no; the first suit
of apparel that ever mortal man put on. came
neither from the mercer’s shop nor the mer
chant’s werehouse Adam s bill would have
been Liken then, sooner than a knight s bond
now : vet was he great in nobody’s books for
satins and velvets. The silk-worms had some
thing else to do in those days than to set up
looms, and be free of the weavers. His breech
es were not so much worth as King Stephen s.
that cost but a poor noble ; for Adam's holyday
hose and doublet were of no better stuff than
plain fig-leaves, and Eve’s best gown of the
same piece : there went but a pair of shears
between them. An antiquary of this town has
set some of the powder of those leaves to show.
Tailors then were none of the twelve compa
nies; their hall, that is now larger than some
dorfesamong the Netherlander*, was then no big
ger than a Dutch bucher’s shop; they durst not
strike down their customers with large bills.—
Adam cared not an apple paring for their costly
hems. There was then neither the Spanish
slop nor the slippers galligaskin, nor the Da
nish sleeve, nor the French standing-collar,
your treble-quadruple ruffs, nor your stiff
necked rabatos. tha t have more arches for
pride than can stand under five London brid
ges. durst not then set themselves out in point
for the patent for starch could by no means be
‘ assigned. Fashion was then counted a disease,
and horse* died of it; but now, thanks to folly,
it is held the only rare physic, and the purest
golden as»es live upon it. — T. Decker.
©co.:
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SATURDAY MORNING,NOV. 18, 1848.
Political Forgeries.
The late canvass was prolific in its develop©-
! merits of political intrigues, frauds and forge
i ries, commencing with the “double-shotted’
lives of Gen. Cass, and terminatinr, in this
section,with the celebrated Hallett manifesto.
This last effort of the renowned Mr. Hallett
to seduce the people of the South into the sup
port of Mr. Cass, may be properly apprecia
ted when they are informed, that this same Mr.
Hallett is associated with and we believe one
of the Editors of the Boston Post. While
Mr? Hallett was in Washington, in his patri
otic devotion to Southern rights, (having pro
■ viously told the people of Massachusetts, that
the Baltimore platform was nothing more nor
less than the principles of the Wilmot Proviso,)
warning the people of the South against sup
t porting Gen. Taylor because of his alleged
favoritism of that proviso, his journal, the
Boston Post, was invoking the people of New
England not to support Gen. Taylor, because
the Post asserted he was pledged to some Vir
ginians to veto the Proviso! So much for Mr.
Hallett’s last Cards for the South and New
England. They form an apt illustration of the
manner in which the fair fame of Gen. Tay
lor has been attempted to be traduced. But
we will not descant upon these things, as our
purpose is to introduce to the reader’s atten
tion the following expose by the Baltimore Sun,
a neutral Democratic paper, of two gross for
geries perpetrated upon the old Hero for the
purpose of advancing the cause of Gen. Cass.
The reader will recollect what stress was laid
upon the letter to the Jersey man by the Demo
cratic organs, nnd will doubtless be curious to
ee how many of them will acknowledge the
forgery and fraud now the election is over:
Thb Time for Developments.— Political For
geries, 4'C. —Willi the day of voting for President the
time for abuse, recrimination and invention has (Kiss
ed away, and now follows a season of confessions and
detections. We have met with several passages from
• papers of both parties, in which the intensity of ex
citement has been advanced as an excusatory plea tor
intensity of expression; but there are soma tilings
that have gone a little beyond this.
The terse and classic style of Gen. Taylor’s mili
tary dispatches having produced an impression that
he possessed ail the requisites of scholarship f>r the
high office to which he was subsequently nominated
by the people, it became an object, appare illy, in he
course of the campaign, to assail him in this position,
and to disperse his literary abilities. Amongst (lie
means made use of was a letter purporting to tie writ
ten by Gen. Taylor, acknowle Iging the present of a
uar horse, and which was certainly done up in such
a peculiar style of composition as greatly to discredit
the epistolary capacity of the writer. This letter now
turns out to be a forgery, none such having ever been
written by General Taylor.
Another matter contained in a note, we think, to a
person in New Jersey, who transmitted it to the
Washington Union, was also used to some extent in
ihe campaign. It was commonly referred to us a
broad declaration, on the part of Gen Taylor, that,
even if he were President of the United States, his
opinions upon public matters would be neither im
portant nor necessary. The particular (tanigniph is
alleged to have been written by General Taylor as
follows:
“ I beg to assure you that I have uniformly de
clined yielding to similar requests, in the belief that
my opinions, even if I were the President of the Uni
ted States, would be neither important nor necesftry
to you, and I regret to add, that I see no reason for
departing, in the present instance, from that course.”
I he two words in italic “ to you,” were not in Hie
letter as published, yet it will be seen that they en
tirely relieve the paragraph of the construction put
upon it.
Groans of the Organ<
The veracious organist of Mr. Polk, in the
Union of the 11th inst., announced the triumph
of Gen. Taylor thus:
“We assume, therefore, for the sake of the argu
ment, as well as on account of the weight of the re
turns themselves that Gen. Zachary Taylor has been
elected President of the United States. In announc
ing this conclusion, we cannot of course, conceal our
disappointment and our regret. Our friends in vari
ous States have been mistaken in their calculations.
They have deceived us, and we have deceived others.
The Whigs owe their triumph, in fact, to a secret
and effective system of organization, which has tie
seen led to private and domiciliary visits; whilst the
• democrats, confiding too much in their strength, have
not exerted the necessary energy to counteract their
efforts. It was supposed that this enthusiasm was so
much abated as not to excite any serious fears. In
addition to these causes, there were numerous appli
ances which have contributed to swell the Whig voio
beyond calculation—pecuniary means, the influence
of banking capitalists and manufacturing monopolists,
i But it is unnecessary at this time to specify the vari
f ous other causes which have led to our defeat.”
‘ We wonder that it did not occur to the ven
erable organist to specify his oft-repeated and
grossly false representation about Gen. Tay
lor’s “ Extra Pay" as one of the causes which
contributed to his success. But he probably
thought it “ unnecessary" to enumerate this,
which has so well established the character of
his journal with the honest and patriotic of all
parties.
Triumph of the Telegraph. —An apt illus
tration pf the facility and rapidity with which
news is now transmitted, is afforded in the fact
that at 5 o’clock on Wednesday morning, the
day after the Presidential election—not twelve
hours after the polls closed—the Louisville
Journal published election returns from four
teen different States, extending from Vermont
as far South as Virginia, and Tennessee inclu
sive.
Florida Senator. —The Pensacola Demo
crat says—“lt is understood that George T.
Ward, Esq , is to be elected by the Whigs to
the United States Senate, from this State.”
Forgeries at Pittsburg. —The Pittsburg
Journal of Saturday, says—Several parties—
grocers lumber merchants, &c —of Alleghany,
have lately been cheated by forged endorse
ments and notes. The aggregate is considera
ble. We withhold names until more is known
relative to the affair. The guilty person has
hitherto occupied a highly respectable position
in the community. He has left, we under
stand, “for partsunknown.”
New use for Castor Oil— Castor Beans
Against Whales and Hogs.— The Alton Tele
graph says: “We were presented by Mr. E.
Morse, of this city, with one of his candles man
ufactured from castor oil, and were induced to
test its qualities with a sperm candle, and the
light of the former was decidedly more brilliant
and ex ensive than the latter. We could not
discover the least unpleasant smell from burn
ing the castor oil candle, and believe that they
are well calculated to supercede entirely the
use of the sperm candle. Mr. M. informs us
that they could be aflorded by the quantity at
twenty-five cents per pound—about one-half
the cost of sperm candles. ”
Ship Building in St. Louis.—Contracts
have been entered into for the timber to be
used in building a ship in that city. The ves
sel is to be three hundred tons burthen, and
will be completely fitted and rigged there. It
is asserted that sea vessels can be built there
on better terms than at New York, or on the
Ohio.
The preparations for lighting the city of
Washington with solar gas are going on stea
dily. Pennsylvania Avenue and the Presi
dent’s house will be lit up by the first of De
cember.
Natural Gas.—A vein of highly inflamma
ble gas was struck a few days since, while bor
ing for water in Franklin county, (Ky.) After
penetrating with an auger to the depth of nine
ty feet, nearly all the distance through solid
rock, the gas found its way in a large volume
to the surface, and when ignited burnt brilliant'
jy. The discoverer has introduced it into his
dwelling, and thinks the quantity which es
capes from the augur hole sufficient to light up
a city.
Horrid Murder.—An old, and inoffensive
man by the name of Isaac Sowell, was inhu
manly killed in this city on Saturday evening
last, by George Bassett, on account of some
slight difference in regard to the recent elec
tion. Bassett fled immediately and has not yet
been arrested. Macon Messenger, 15th inst.
A Sensible Remark.—“ When I am mak
ing up a plan of consequence,” says Lord Bol
ingbroke, “I always like to consult with a
sensible woman ” Lord Bolingbroke was an
Infidel, but a great man.
The Emperor Nicholas —His cabinet is a
plain room, and completely that of a man of
business ; he is never out of uniform, and nev
er lays aside his cocked hat and flowing white
panache, excepting he leaves the Capital.when
he wears a little white foraging cap. With the
noblestand most commanding form, he is of
( Herculean mould, and of an iron constitution.
' Regardless alike of bodily and mental fatigue,
controlling and inspecting every department
’ himself, he seems possessed of the power of
übiquity. Perfectly unattended, he is either
dashing through the streets in a little two horse
t dbrosky, or walking through the thoroughfares
viMiing rhe duexyards, barracks, hospital®, and
otner Government establishments. He arrives
when least expected, and the consequence is
that there is no negligence or inattention, but
precision and uniformity throughout.