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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
THE WEEKLY
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Lines orlcss) fortha first insertion, and Fifty cent
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Jor
VALUABLE NEGROES AT
EIIKCUTOR’S SALE Agreeable loan or-
I der of the Hoeorable the Inferior Court of Co
lumbia coenty, when titling for ordinary pnrpcse?.
will be idd, on the first Tuesday in JANUARY
ee*:, before the Court House doer in said county,
within rhe usual boars of sale, the following NK.
GROSS, vix: Han hi, and her in Lot child, Diily
“•rtf hie* sod. Sold as the prop jjty of W illiam CHetr,
late of said county, deceased. Sold in pursuance of
his will. Terms on the day of sale.
G. H. CLIErT.Ex’r.
- October 4, 1851.
V ALU AB I. E~ PLANTATION~AND
NEGROES FOR SALE.
ON THE first Tuesday in JANUARY next, .
will be offered for sale in Louisville, Jefferson
county, Ga., the Rea! and Personal Estate of George
O’K Whue, el sad county, deceased, consisting, (
la pe rt, el ab& it Five Thousand Acres of Oak, Hick- ,
«rry ind Pi»e LAND, on the eastern side of WiL t
iiamiun Swamp. Tbo Central Railroad rune through
the tract, from 112 to 115 mile posts. About 1,4 VO (
acre* are open and under goo I fences. The balance i
to heavily timbered, mostly with Pina.
Ai*»>, 42 NEGROES, about 32 of whom are
working bands. I
2,000 Acres, including the Plantation, will be of- s
lered ie one parcel. The ball nee in lorn es 500
aeres each. Live Stock, Implements, Corn, Podder,
with sundry other chattels, will be sold on the plant- 1
•den the day following.
» ■■■ 4* ■. I a V .4. —.— - —• _* _ X __ . ——— _ .
The while of (he above stated property may be
treat* d lor at private tale anterior to the firet Mon
day a November next. Terms will be liberal.
For farther particulars apply to
WILLIAM U. POE, Adm’r., Macon, Ge.
SejtotDbor 14. ISal el4-wiNl
FOR SALE.
TWO LOTS OF LAND. ooe in — K
C® Pulaski conn'y, containing Two Hun- 4*59
***• -Jredcvo and a ball (2J2j) A era*, known
ax lot No. 143, In tie 8 h <l’’s'rictof formerly Dooly
aannty. Also, eno in Decator county, known at
fat No. 363, in the 19th district, containing Two Hun
dred and Fifty (250) Acres. Persons wishing to
purchase the above !x)t«, w.il addrevs 'he uodeieign
«d ax Anguata. The terms will be liberal.
sl3-w8 A. W. hMODEM.
Savannah River Lands far Salo.
MTH C PLANTATIONS lying
four miles below Augusta, on the
Savannah River, known as
lue CAN(>E CREEK TRACT, containing about
ftOoae.*ee, iso«f which are well timbered, wrhOak,
Heucb, Poplar nod Hickory, Gin House, Screw,
Bafro Houses, Stables,dre., arson the place.
Aud the TUF.KNErT TRACT, containing 550
ser a, 175 to 220 of which are w<dl wooded, with
Miohary. Oak end Beech. Ad oining these tracts is
a body of uncleared land, of about 100 acres, on
which is a vary soperi r fiehery, and wlrcb may bo
tasfaded fa either track The cleared land is in n
high slate of cuhira ion, and is as well adopted to
ike culture ol corn and cotton as any lands on the
river. They are pro ceed from freshets by h : gh and
tetrong embankments thrown up sdih great labor and
expause, and are drained by a large aqueduct.
It is deemed n«e!eaa to particularise fait her, as
persons desirous of purchasing can always examine
tor theaiielres, by calling on the subscriber on the
premiss. WM. J, EYE.
Evelynn, Sept 9, 1851.
Terms—Ona-third Cash; the balance oce and
twoyeara, with interest. sID-wJru
LAND FOR SALE.
I OFFER a Tract of LAND for sals in ,
IS Warren county, about a wile and a half from
-L- Wrightsboro, and fire miles from Thompson's
Depot, Georgia Radroad, comaonly known as Wj|.
liams’H fiace, •ootaloing 977 acres, with a good por
tion of good woodland. This may ba purchased in
two parcels, as it can be divided into two farms.
This p!ais is good repair. Terms easy.
s 4 w 4 JURiAH HARRISB.
LAND FOR SALE.
I OFFER a Tract of LAND facials io
L'.4d*t u.‘ ; he
-A- raid hading from Augusta to Washington,
which crosses Little River at Pstcall's Lower Bridge,
coats inh ig about 1,200 Acres, fully 300 acres of
good wo id land, and a sufficiency of young pine te
furnish rails to keep up the fencing end supply the
farm with coal wood. The place is in good repair.
Terms easy. sLw4w JURIAH HARRIBS.
Columbia County Land.
MTU K subscriber ofleri far sale ‘
his FARM fa Colombia county, 27
milceabove Augusta, on the Augusta -A. >
hington road, containing Five Hundred and ;
Twenty*one (521) Acres, near’y one fourth wood- ;
tend. Persons wishing to purchase, will please call
•a the premises, or address the subscriber at Win- .
field, Ga. Eight Hundred Acres adjoiclag this land
•as be bought on good terras.
aa3o-wtf V. M.
EXECUTORS’ SALE.
I—A WK OFFEII, nt private sale,
Wpst that valuable PLANTATION of
the late Charles Guuningham, de
•cased, lying oa Reck* Contort Creek, in Jeff or- S
son ecunty, fire miles from Luuiaviile, centaluing |i
3,697 sores, which we will sell altogether, or divide J
into three tracts.
The Solitude tract contains• •• • 1,307 acre*. *
TheGranson do. ••■•1,120 da.
Tha Woo’atock do. ••••1,270 do.
Ail three of ihcoe tracts bare good Dweliiaga on 1
there, and a valuable Hili on one of (be tracts, with
Gin, running by water.
We also offer 150 NEGROEB, wi h MULES.
STOCK, PROVISIONS, Ao., Ac. |f not disposed
of at private eale, w® will poulvely sell ue Lande
al public oatcry, in Louhriile, Jeifereon county, on
the riret Tuesday In December neat, end the Negroee, '
Stoek, Provleiooe, Ac.. Ao., on the first TuwJay in
January. Terms I Pera!.
JOHN BONE’, )
WM. J. EVP., SFk’re.
OWEN P. FITZSIMONS)
Augusta, Geo.. Aug. 20. anTO-wtDl
FOR SALE.
MTU E subscriber cffers for sale KWfc
his valuable PLANTATION cou
taioing 839 j acres, in Ct lumbia coun- -A.
ea from Augusta, lying immediately on thh
road leading from Jas Luke’s, £*)., to Harden’s
Ferry. Ou the premises is a good DWELLING
HOUSE. end ail necessary out-buildings, with the
heal kind of well arranged Negro Houses. Th-re is
also an eicellent Gin House an I Packing Screw
There is abo on 'he premises a good spring and well
•f water. The Lands are fine productive cotton and
corn land, as good as is the oounty, and well situa
ted. Terms made easy.
Anyone wishing to parches* ©an get any 'nbrm.v
' wt wished by addressing rve at Eubank a P. O.
Columbia county, Ga. Any |eroo visiting the
piece, I will take great pleasure ia showing them
the pin at st ion. auR-tf A. C- JONES.
Plantation for Sale.
MTIIK subscriber oilers for sale. -dM*,
hh PLANTATION, four miles east
of Appling, Columbia county, and -A
from Augtu'j, couiaiuing about 975 acres,
one half of which h uncleared. Un the place is a
good oorelbruble DWELLING, w.th ail the neces
eery eut buildings, inc!udia< Negro Hence-, Cr bs,
Barn, Gin House, Packing Screw. Ac., all in good
repair, and amwt excei'.eat epring | and the whole
•reel ia very well watered.
Terms liberal, and po?*rwion given by or befor
Che first of January, I*B2. He can e’eo supply th
purchaser with 1J to 15iW bus >eteo*rii.
Persons who desire to parchase will please call and
as a mine the premises.
wtf M. E. HCGOIE.
FOR SA tB.
MTHK SVB4CRIOBH offen for
nie hi. family residence ia n>o
Tetra of Metletta. It >« lw‘ed In a de
_ trt ol town, is well Improved contains
•boat two aero. The dw.lling has nine rtx ms sad
um basement. .11 well finished. Fossesaioa oa ibe
•ad tbe first of July.
For terms, apply to Col. IKvid Dobbs, Win. P.
Young, or John F. Arnol.l ie tbe absence of
Aid ep3O w NEUON M. HENTON.
PLAJffTATIONFOXSALM.
-W. THE UNDERSIGNED offer. AS
hu PLANTATION for sale, containing
JL. the rise of 3. W Acres, 1,200 sens io -a
tbs woods, the most of wbieh ia well timbered. Lit.
<e Riser runs throughsaidland, •quail)dindiag it
tel. Witkoo oenely, miles irocn Vtuaiagt.-o, and
tMombia eocety, 13 u.ilas from Thomson Depot,
Georgia Rail Road | good iusproreasenls of every
Rind, iaelodtog Gris: and Paw 31 ids. Pries, to per
•are, aae-half to be pail on airing poesess en the
85th Deo neat, tbe balance irta ol interest I walra
months foUowiugJaee 12,1651.
jel9-wtf JOHN «. WEST.
NOTICE TO MECHANICS.
THE Subscriber baa on band a set cl MA
CHINERY, toads expressly fora Cabinet sad
Carpenters’ Shop. it nanatna of Daniel's Planing
Maohine, Fay's Mortice and Ter.endng Machire tb.
beet saw ia use, a Training Lathe end Boring Ma
chine, np red down Saw. CirealarSaw Alters, ot
dUfenmt sites, Tongas aad Groover, Belling, die.,
O>«oU< Bhatia, and two inch Shafting, all rinod
aad Saiahed ia the moat approved manner. Thin
machinery would be sold at a bargain, and warrant
edgood.
The nelwe-tber han also for sole, the Ma, blnerr
for aa tr-e riyad Saw Mill o anpietn, new and in
good order. Thia way <d rigging a Saw NiU ia de
cidedly preferable to the old’ wood war k plan. Il in
net aapensise, aad when once rwged. it rnoa much
hotter, and needs but I,tile r-p,u. This tnaebiMre
may be purchase at . bare.™, u lbt « dM . Ilb , r fe
eboai to engage in other buriMSß. Ihe above io aU
naw.
The snbaetibrr will aLo net a. Agon i a , wiie< op
os pareh*-:og noy kind <4 Machiner. i. .nil
bia adraatagea are such, that he feeta’ warranted ia
earing bo can give Mtwiaetfoe.
For referan.-r, inquire of ruost any ei tbe bosioew
•on el Madwan, Ga. Addroan,
H. N. ATKINSON,
Jell- w Boaeasron. N. H , re Kaduna, Geo.
HZTFXTn TM-fiKTVott
n«kby WM. HeTVrr,
ffiotelg.
EAGLE ANDPHCDNIX HOTEL.
Augnsta, .Georgia*
N7IAMILIKS and Gentlemen visiting Augusta
Ju will find the Eagle & Phoenix one of the most
comfortab’e and best kept Hotels in the S-.\lbern
[ States. The Rooms are large and well rc.it Hated.
My Tables are furnished with the best the market
affords.
, Omnibuesee are always ready eti arrival of Cara
and Steam Beets, 01-wiy JOHN RICKMAN.
FLOYD HOUSE,
MACONGEORGIA.
X-g-4 THIS WELL known end popular Ho
tel, having been recently repaired and put
* n ®o®plcte order, is now open for the re
ception of Boarders and Transient persons. The •
proj netor pledges himself that nothing shall be want- I
lag on his jars, to make and continue it one of the ■
mo>t popular Hotels in the South. <’
fjT The Ladies’ Department is under the special ■
care cf Mrs. JAMES, formerly ol Columbus, and !
favorably known to the travelling community, who i
will see that nothing is wanting to make visiting La- ,
dies and Families entirely at home, their eputment I
haying Deen newly and bcatifully furnished.
THOS. WILLIAMS,
A. B. Ha it well, Superintendent,
N. B. —An Omnibus will always be in readiness
to convey PasseDgero to and from the Railroad De
pots.
fjp The Alligator Line of Stages has its office per
manently located at the Floyd House.
jy3-w6mP. K. WRIGHT, Owner.
BRADFIELD’S HOTEL
f*. SOUTH-EAST CORNER
ox res |jjj[
PUBLIC SQUARE,
LaGrange,Georgia.
my24-w6m*
FRANKLIN HOTEL.
® BROAD STREET, Augusta, Ga.,
ori3 square above the Globe Hotel, on the
south sideot Broad s'teei.
vUD. B. RAMSEY, Proprietor.
ALEXANDER FEMALESEMINARY
IN Alexander, Burke County, will be opened in
October, under the charge of a competent male
teeeber, a Seminary for young ladies, in which the
course of instruction will be directed to the acqui
sition cf a practical, polite and finished education.
With the branches usually taught in institutions ofc
similar character, will bs connected, a complete sys
tem of oral instructions upon the Petaalosxian
method.
A circular will be issued hereaf er announcing
the terms and course of instruction. Applications
should be made to
a 14 wlm JOS. A.SHEWMAKE. Sec’y.
REUBEN RICH’S PATENT CENTRE
VENT WATER WHEEL.
CAUTION.-- Having been informed that a cer
tain person named REED, is vending a Water
Wheel upon which the wi f er is conducted by insane
of a spiral scroll, as npon “Reuben Rich’s Patent
Centre Vent,” we hereby nobly end caution the
public, that we will prose;ate, in all instances, for
any evasion or infringement upoo said patent, bmb
the maker and party using, ena will be thankful for
any information referring us to parties thus
iig. GfN'DRAT tfc GO.
Montgomery, Ala., June 11, JL&&O.
Is2l*tf
THE MONTGOMERY MANUTAC
TURING COMPANY’S IRON WORKS,
Montgomery, Alabama,
MAN UFA CTL’RK, in auoerior style. Hori
zontal and Upright STEAM ENGINES, of
al! sixes; Bream BOILERS; LOCOMOTIVES;
Gast-iron WATER WHEELS; Sagar MILLS;
Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, cf every variety, (in
cluding Hoxie’s continuous tee< for Saw Milla;) En
gine and Hand I ATH ES; Iron and Brass CAST
INGS, of all kind*. dt<., 4re.
AH orders ii e vr.u ieetNiMb,
5;24 UINDRAT A CO.
Cotton Gin Notice
'pilE VIDERSIGIIED takes this method
JL to inform the Cotton Planters of this vicinity,
that hehas opened a Shop in this city for the purpose of
Making and Repairing COTTON GINS. Having
been long engaged in the business of Gin Making,
he hopes o reccivo a libera! share of patronage.
JOHN L. HILL.
Shop near the Upper Market, Augusta.
jy22-d&weow4ni
LDMaai" ' ~
Subscribers having erected a Steam Saw
JL Mill, four miles west of Warrenton, Warren
county, are now prepared to deliver from two to
lour thousand feet of LUMBER per day at the War.
renton Depot, from which place it can bo shipped tn
any tcinl on the Georgia Kail ’toad, at short notice.
apl6-twtf rtf’l'V & NFAL.
■rDV?J.W Reld SCHOOL” IiF
WOODSTOCK,
WILD be opened on the Bth last. Tliore wieb.
ingle become member, of his school will do
welt to come immediately.
r'eptember 2rt. 1-51. w 3 TRUSTEES.
NOTICE.*
61YI1E Copartnership of Rcsuuzw & Snxw-
X make, in the practice of La>v, will be dissolv
ed on the first day cf October, by mutaal content.
Doth will continue the p.actioo aeparutely. Busi
ness (or Col. b. tuny be left with Mr. S. until he
'te'uri* b<u>e. all-w.li
LUMBER, LUMBER.
TIIK public ere informed that .nr Saw Millie
completed, and ia lull operation, and we are
prepared to fill orders for all descriptiouu of LIM
BER, at the shortest notice. Our Mill ia situated at
Deering, on the Georgia Rail R-ad, 30 Ollies above
AngiiMa. sJlLwl ItAKIIR, GRIiBItE CO.
GRENVILLE'S ALMANAC FOR 1852
IS NOW IN PKK’S. and will be ready for
delivery early In SEPTEMBER.
This Almanac will contain its usual amount of
etalietfeal information, eorreeled to the latert dates,
together with a revised list of ell tbs Post Offices in
Georgia—Many of Georgia and Alabama, .Interest
Tables, Ac , &C.
Orders from th. trade, or Merchants geneiatly,
shall have prompt attention.
J. A. CARRIE &, CO., PuLHeliere.
Augusta, August 27, 1851. au27-wlo
MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
TH K TWENTIETH COURSE OF
LECTURES ia tide Institution will rotumenee
' on the first Monday in NOV EM HER nett.
I G. M. NEWTON, M. D Anatomy.
• ■ . vmra.o u r. - .
L. A. DUGAS, M D.—bnrgery.
L. D. FORD, M. D—lnMitutem end Practice of
Me ir *•,
H. V. *». MILLER, M. D.-Phyeiotogy and P«-
rboloirieol
J. P. GAR VI a M. D. —Materia Medka and The
re peaiico.
J. A. ETE, M. D.-* and Diseases of
Women and Infants.
ALEXANDER MEANS, M. D.—Chemistry and
Pharmacy.
H.P.CAMPBELL, Mol)—Domoe.»tr\Urof Ajiat
""ROBERT CAMPBELL, M. D.-Asaittant Ik
monotrater.
A Coarse of Lectures on Me Heal Jurisprudence
will ba delivered by the cf Ma oris Modi
ea, and Cliaieal l ectures will be given regularly at
the City Hospital. Ample arrangements have ocen
made for the study of Practietl Anatomy.
ProfeMora Dcgas ani Means uro new in Europe,
and will return be to re ibe begirwiing of the Course
with many valuable additions to (he present mean*
for demonstration (a the various branches.
For any further information, application tuiy be
made to any meiubsr ci the taeuity, to
G. M. NEW TON, Dean.
Augusta, Jaly, 1851. jy3i wlia
Five Hundred Dolhara Reward.
HAND’S Patent Upright ENGINE, and Porta
ble SAW MILL, with iicMLie's Continuous
Feed.
There Mills are warranted superior to ail others
in uvo, combining cheapness, simplicity an I dura
bility, while taueh greater speed ia attainable, anh
little or no tendency to wear, there bciiu no weight
of (he follower or piston her»<i on the eytinder, acd
no weight ol er ova head cr cnonac'ion rod on the
slidae, as with tho horixiMital Engine.
The subscribers offer Five Hundred Do'lars re
ward to any one who will pre luce a superior Mill,
or one nf any other paten', th ar will ptrf« m equal
to (hare. Full drawings and specifications tarnished
appii santa, with por tculeia aa to terms, «Ito. AH
other oeecriptfons of Mills ere also manufaat”rsd at
short notice, and upon reasonable terras, an i war
ranted. Superior Upright and Horiswtal b’wgices
ol from 10 to 53 horse power, oeustantly cn band.
AJdres-% GINDR AT A JO.,
Ageats Montgomery VaaufacCuiing Company
Montgomery, Alabama. sH 3m
DKS. H.F. R. C AMPBELL have eotsh-
Ifohed an INFIRMARY in Aagusto, far tie
treatment of and t’Arnntc Diseases. Heie
respectfully caU (he attnatioa o; the Prolvsdon and
the public to their Institution. Nooeasery Surgical
operations will be performed by Dr. Hsmr Camp
sill; all ocher treatment will be rendered by them
jointly.
Patients sent from the country will receive every
necessary attention during their sojourn in oar city
COPARTNERSHIP.
undeniizned having thia day purchased of
JL John Clarke bis interest ia tbe late firm of
Clarke Jr Ramey, will conlinwe the GROCERY
BUSINESS, under the trm of Kamkt & St®sy,
and have now on hard a htgs acd general aseor -
ment cf goods, which will be disposed of wi tbe
most accommodating terms.
JOHN D. RAMEY,
jyU-wJm SAM L. G. STORY. _
.TUST RECEIVED at the
agricultural ware-
Augusta,a lotof C hoica
PLOUGHS, coasiatiag of Daalle Mould Board. Hil
Side.Subsoii, Eagle Self-sharpening ,andone and two
Hors Ploughs, otall descriptions. Also. Cylindrical
Ghuru?,Corn Shetlers,Corn Planters,StrawCutters
Crain Crtdles, Road Scrapers, Manars Forks'
fracks, 4ke., 4c.
ah!9-v CXRMICHAEI 4 FEAN.
('IOTTON, WOOL, Jlm CtwW ood Hrrre
7 CARDS Ol tav abov. celoknMßauaayo, are
of aaoqualtadouality, aad waatumlK—iin J, taka
iko ploca cl all othera. They are wMaafaat ured on
oar mw iaipraveJ nMchioary, and aoak yalr ia war
ranted every respeer. Oar tatariar Card.—tbe
ooanoa *• Wblttoaore’’ autup—are of the uaoa’
well known quality.
SdJ by the Hardware booses to all tbe .-itieo, aad
Coamrv Merobaota. aal to :ba trade, by the Mana
, faetureJ., JOS. B. SARGENT
mvIO wlv» 21 Clif-Sireti. .Yaw York.
BACOff.
. W E •" rreoi’’«g “ addiltonal aopHy of fia
’ ’ » B.him.-re Baeoa. Furehaaere taqoeKcJ
I • ealL .30 T. W. FLEMISO A CO.
RELIGIOUS.
3 - ■ • =1
A SERMON,
, Delivered in the Baptiei Chitrdi of Augusti, Gi
t on the b'jurth tiablnitA in September, by the
, Rsv. B. W. Whild.x, of Charleetor., S. C.
( Jbsbhiab 17: 9. The heart b deceitful above
all thin?, and desperately wicked—who can
i know Hl
■ ! The prophet here addresses the Jews, and
tells them in ths midst of their afß clions to
trust in God and notinman. " Cursed be the
man that trusted! in man. and maketh flesh his
■ arm, and whose heart deparlcth from the Lord,
for be shall be like the heath in the desert, and
shall not see when good comeih, but shall in-
: habit the parched place, in lite wilderness, in a
’ salt land and not inhabited. Blessed is the man
that traateth in the Lord and whose hope the
i Lord is, for lie shall be as tree plauted by the
waters, and that spreadeth out her routs by the
! river, and shall not see when host cometh, but
i her leaf shall be green “ and shall not be care
j ful in the year of drought, neither shall cease
I from yielding fruit. “Wo may think that we
trust God, and be deceived. Thia may have
boon the case with the Jews. Tbo prophet says,
that there is danger of It, for " the heart la do
dccitful above all things, and desperately wick
ed, 1 * and In order to give force to the truth, he
asks " who can know it 1" Similar to this is
the language of the Fsairaist. “ who can under
stand liis errors J “ Out of the heart," says
the Redeemer, proceed evil thoughts, inurdors,
ad’ilt.rics, thefts, blasphemies.” *• The carnal
mind,* says the oposlle Patti " is enmity against
God, is not subject to the law of God, neither
indeed con bo.
When Go 1 made man, ho “ made him op
right.'* In bis heart, was the love of holiness
but by tbo entrant e of sin into our world, man,
lost tho imace of hio Ma<wr; sin turned the
current o', h a aflections and destroyed his
relish for spiritual enjoyment. Mau has since
defied the Being, by whom he is sustained, and
trampled on the goodness of hie heat friend.
It is no proof against the trutn cf the text,
that some do not know that tl. ,-lr hearts are de
ceitful. Behold the drunk rd. lie decs not
know that he is a miserable usn i he talks of
h property, when he may m possess a farthingi
I. talks of hie strength, when ho maybe pros
n ite on the ground) he talks of his wisdom,
when he may be the laughing stock of the com
munity. The fact that helAiaAs g‘l is right, does
not ptove it to be so, and we pity him the more,
because he docs not know bis situation.
Seo too the maniac. He may scearound him
every proof that he is a prisoner, and yet he can
talk of lioerty. In the same way but bound by
a far stronger delusion than Ist by which tho
drunkatd, or maniac is boun may, the sinner be
bound. Ho knows not that;, is heart is deceit
lui, bat as ignorance in'.v ruttA'crtf or maniac
does not prove either r> t, neither does the
sinner's ignorance prove .hat he hae a good
heart.
rr«>. . .11
There ia a world of mystery without us: many
are the mystcri'M around us t but there is a little
world uit/iin, full of as great mysteries as tha
world without. This little world ia the heart.
Self knowledge is a most important kind of
knowledge, but very few acquire it. We can
more easily find out the character of our neigh
bors than ourowui, because there is a greater dis
position in men to examine their neighbors, ac
tions, than the actions, they themselves commit.
••A'nowMysrf/” was the saying of one ofthr seven
wise men of Greece. The study ol ovr own
characters, is as much neglected now, as it was
when the words v ere spoken, consequently bis
advice, is as valuable to tts. as to those who first
read it. Ha who spends bi. lime away from
home, la not apt to know much about what
takes place at hoots, do he who is not much
teilh Mniielf, is not opt to know, what is going
on within.
Though, however, there is uot as much sell
examination as there should be, yet Christiana
who examine themselves more than the im
penitent do, and consequently know mare of
their hearts, will tell ns that they are ot’en
filled with astonishment. Such strange thoughts
pass through their minds, and such strange
temptations present themselves, that each
thinks, ‘-surely no heart iv like my ‘leart.” They
sometimes feel their weakness and pray to Goi
lor strength, and when they receive it, they are
tempted to belive them reives bright Christians,
and then comes in self righteousness, and then
they forget the God in whom they should trust
and all is darkness and oddness again. Ths
poet well expresses the language ol the chris
tiai: as he looks with"!
•• What crowds of evil thoughts
What vile aliecions there,
Distrust, presumption, art'.nl guile
Pride, envy, slavish Is.r.”
What need for cash to pray. " Search me, O
God and try my ways I "
Ist. The deccitfulness of the heart, in the
disposition of mankind, to hide or palliate their
sine, and the total ignorance which mon olten
manifest with regard to their own characters
It la otten the case, that after an action is
committed, tluy do not ask, if they are ilghi,
but are endeavoring to justify themselves Lu
their caurc. This they aro apt to do, as soon as
an cells petformed,even though btforeii was per
formed they did not lake lime to ask “Is it
rightl" How apt are men to regard sin as a
triji l Whenever, oiy i.npcnitent Irimda, you aro
tempted thus to regard it, remember you arc
showing the mass ol decoilfulness which ia
written, for Gad's word declares that *• it is an
evil thing and a bluer” io sin again*', Him..
Alter •rod's word bae settled it, every oacubfc
brought forward, is only an additional proof of
the decoitfiilness of the nearL
We remark, that though wo are apt to excuse
en/y ourselves, yot it is sometimes the case,
when we do see otir sins and know onr faults,
wb may be led to regard with lavur, our neigh
bor who 1s guilty of the same acts as ourselves.
Wo know that if one man Is detected in a crime,
and another defends him, we are very apt
tc suppose that ho too is guilty.
We are general’;/, however, apt to think our
s s ns less heinous than the sins ot others. Self
Interest warps our judgment, end sccerdlng to
a plain illustration “though a man uiay nave
the beet eye. in the world, ho cannot see any
way but the way he turns them, and it is as easy
to shut the eyes of tho mind, as those of the
body.” TheJcws refused to lake the money,
which Judas laid at their foot, giving as a reason,
that it was the price < t blood, and tot It was the
blood they themselves had shed.
It Is owing to the dcceitfulncss of the heart,
that the impenitent hear the warnings of tho
Gospel, and do not regard them as having refer
enco to themselves. They are very apt to say
“ this concerns this or that or the other neigh
bor” but seldom will they say " this concerns
Thi Influence of «!f Is ttniverrally acknowl
edged. Though wo may auppose that there
it ,'io intention, toraako an erroneous statement,
anj to produce a wrong impression, yet wo
know that it is nafural l r each man to think.
Air catzMlsiuat. it is a very true Baying, that
•> there are two ways to tell a story.
The A-aviour who knew the heart, shows to os
our ptoneussa to this disposition. la his excel
lent sermon on the Mount, ho says -’’judge
that ye be not Judged, for with that ludgmeut ye
judge, yo shall be judged, and with wbat meas
ure ye mote, it shall bo measured to you again.
And why behoidest tuou the mote that ie in thy
brother’e, andconeidercet not the beam that is in
thine own eye. Or how wilt th»u say to thy
b.other, let me pull out the mole th it is io thine
eya, and behold a beam is la thine own eye.
Tuou hypocrite, first cast out tho beam out
of tiiiite era and then thou atia t see dear
|y to cast out the raolo out of thlae brother’s
eye.” in t'liw passage, asie generally known,
there Isa difturranco between the words ‘Bio-’r,’ and
•bcii<n,’ AJoforja a very small particle of matter
lieam is somelMliji exceedingly large, Tho object
of the Saviour is to show to ue, that we are very
ept to reprove others, not only for committing
the samr sins w hich we commit, but for com
muting sins lose heinous -or in other w ord* so
great is the deceitlulneseot’ lit. heart, that ths
greatest offender is apt to repi'ore ifla loss. Tho
one who is nearly blind ie talklog to hie neigh
bor about Ata biiadness, when hie neighbor is
oniy a little blind. Io all such we eau «ay-r
‘•physician heal thyself.”
4th. We see the deceitfulneae of the heart ia
tiicdisDoei'iou of men to compare their actione
with the actione of others. They forget that
their conduct is to bo measured and tried by lire
word of God, end not by the aciioitsof their
neighbors. Converse with one on the subject ol
religion, and he will tail us, tliat he is not as bad
as this or that or the other acquaintance. Talk
to another about his actions, and you hear the
answer, “I sm sure this is not as bid aa what my
neighbor does,’’ aeif the lact that a neighbor doee
worse, will excuse him.
Similar to this ie another error. Men compare
one sin, with another sin. Talk to ronw about
what they OO on tho Sabbath, or about using
wbat you may consider sinful language, and tiny
reply "if we never do worse than this, wo aro
sure there la no danger.”
Now does the tact that we have not done the
iMk-at, prove that we arc fanoeanf ? By no moans.
Our actions arc to be examined by tbe Bible, and
it is nut by comparing them with each other,
that we are to know bow sinful tney are. At tho
great day of account, the question will not be,
••how do you stand, compared with your neigh
bor. and how does one action stand compared
with another)** The question will bo—"how is
our character and out situation as tested by re
vealed truth 2” Romcniber impenitent hearers,
■‘every one of us must give account cf hitnseif
to God, and to our own master we stand or fall ”
6th. Waste the deceitfuiness of the heart in
the disposition of men to make exeueca to ne
glect tcllgion.
How various these excuses. Lke ihoe- invi
ted to the eupper- One says, I have bought live
yoke of oxen, and must go to prove them.
Auethet save, 1 have bought a piece and must
needs go and see it. Another says. I have mxr
rkd a wife, and therefore I cinnot come.
The excuses of tho impenitent ere often di
rectly opposed to each other. One tells us, tie
ean convert himself at any time, consequently,
Me need notpress upon him the claimsol religion.
Another says, he cannot convert himself, he mast
therefore wait for God to convert him.
One tells us he has no time ; another tells us
that he has time enough before him. But aa one
has observed, ‘-there is really but one reason for
the neglect of religion, men have no heart lor the
work. They have no inclination to seek after
God. Their hearts are averse to the holy duties
He requires”
6th. We sec the deceitfuiness of .the heart, is
the careles.iess of men about the firmness of
their hopes.
Some arc sa careless that they rest satisfied
with merely nearing the Gospel. ' Bat not the
Amc.-csol the word, but the d.ere shall bs justi
fied before G:d. Be ye doers of the word, says
, an apostle, and not hearers only, deceiving your
own stives ; for If a:iv be a hearer of tbe word
’ and not a doer, he is tike unto a man beh.'lding
his natu-al face in a glass for he beboldeth him
self and gosth h s way, and straight* ay forge;-
’ teth what manner cf man he wax. But wbo
, soever looketh into tho perfect law of liberty.
and conunneth therein, he being not a forgettul
I hearer, but a doer of the wotd, mis man shaii ba
blessed tn his deed.” As each man can more
easily recall the image of his neighbor's coun
tenance than bis owl:, so the forgetful hearer
. may more easily see his neighbor’s duty than his
own, when he hears, not tor the purpose of prac
ticing whs t he hears.
j If a man buys a piece of grouad. he ie very
api:« he sate that he has gopd •Itisr the
AUGUSTA, GA., SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1851.
same. 11 he is about to make a change of resi
dence, he is very apt to suppose that the change
will be for the better. If men makes con'ract
of any kind, they see to it, that it is an adoanta
?teous contract. Tills they do in matters pcrtain
ng to a life of thirty or forty y ears, but O, the
deceitfulucss of the heart I in matters pertaining
. to a life that never ends, they are careless and
• rem ss. They do not stop to aslt the question—
-8 "What aro my sins beyond the grave,
j How stands the dark account 1"
Few ‘ ‘examine” themselves to "see whether
they be in the truth ” Like a merchant afraid
I to examine his books, lest ha find his suspicions
> too Hue, so the sinner is atraid to look to ids
s hopes, lest he find that they cannot stand the
i teat, and hi a moment may be destroyed.
, Hero is a questfen asked in tho text. After
I Jeremiah says the “heart is deceitful above all
. things, and desperately wicked,” he asks —“who
i can know ltd” Who is there that knows the
i extent of doceitfulness and wickedness that
i dwells within the heart I
i If it was not fur thclntl’jence of self, which in
> fluence proves the dcceitfainess of the heart,
there would not be the same necessity that there
is, for courts of juslico in tho world—tor each
man would feel disposed to follow the golden rule
“all things whatsover, ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to them.”
2nd. Wo see the deceitfulness of the heart,
in the fact, that men are led to commit those
things against which they may have professed
and really may have felt the greatest abhor
rence.
Saul could give commandment that all the
fortune tellers should be driven from the land,
yet tho time at length arrived, when he even
coneulted one about tho affairs of his kingdom.
Peter could say," though I dis with tneo, yet
will! not forsake th :e, and though all men be
oliended, y;t will not I.” yat Peter, startled as its
was, at tho idea of denying his mastor, eodd so
far forgot him, as withcatha and curaeg, to s.ty
“ I know not of whom ye spea ?
I' ' . , *lol2'- - -■ ■-
at thvir I Hirer's Im 'issg saudda.v
the thought of taking ti'.S’Hfe-nt the’r BreriT-r, b»f
they could afterwards say, “ eomo iet us slay
him, and we shall see what will become of his
dreams.” It is very likely, too, that Judas when
becoming a disciple, would have shuddered at the
thought of betraying tho Saviour, yet Iho time
did come when he could say to the priest—
“ what will ye give that I deliver him up to
you J”
We have no reason to believe that David's nat
tural disposition was cruel, yet Ae could go so
far astray, a to devise means tor the death of
Uriah.
Some times, too, the liberal man may forget the
kind promptings of his bosom, and neglect to
relieve tho distressed.
We sometimes hear persons expressing sur
prise at the conduct of an acquaintance. The
very fact that they aro surprised shows that they
look for eomctiiing diiierent from tills acquain
tance. What ho has done is not of his usual
way of acting, or why the surprise I Wo see
therefore, that wc may, through the deceitfulnefs |
of the heart, bo led to do those things, of which w |
■i- . -
arc not in the general guiliy, for which we nave
had the greatest abhorrence.
3rd. We see the deceitlulnees of tho human
heart, ia the fact that men olten pass censure
on others, when they themselves areas guilty
as any.
We
the time of the Saviour, Urthey said “ il we!
had lived in the days ofour fathers, we would I
not have been partakers with them in the blood I
of the prophets t” yet at that very time they de- j
signed to take the life of Jesus. We see it also
in the conduct of David in the pr.sence of sa
tban.
“ The Lord sent Nathan unto David. And I
he came unto him, and said unto him, there were i
two nun in one city j ths one rich, and the other :
poor. The rich man had exceeding many flecks, I
and herds, but the poor mtn had nothing save i
oneli’-le cwe-latnb, which he had bought and
nourished up ; and it grew tip together with ,
him, and with his children, it d.d ert of h's own
meat, and drank of Ins own cup, and lay in his
bosom, and was unto him as a daughter. And
there came a traveller unto the ilchmaa, and he
spared to lake of his own flick and ot h's own
herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was
come unto him, bat took the poor man's lamb,
and dressed it lor the man that was corns to
him.” The object ol Nathan in the delivery of
In parable, was to convince David of Air sin, but
behold—“ David's auger is kindled against the
man and he says t > Nathan—as the I ord liveth,
the man that dene thia thing shall surely die
and shall restore the lamb four fold, because he
did th's thing, and because he had nopi'y.”
“He who had lived a whole year,’ says a
writer “in the unrepented commission ot ona
of th* blackest crimes, and who to secure to
himself the object for which he had committed
it, perpetrated another almost more bet sous,
eouid in an instant denounce death on the imag
inary eft'ender for a failt comparaiivsly trill ng.
“Seeinghe saw not, and hearing he heard not.'’ I
He immediately srw the wickedness aud barbarl- i
lyof the rich man’s proceedings, and his heart was j
in a moment tired with Indignation at tho
thought of it. Tho vehemence of his resent I
meat oven overstepped the limits of his natu.al i
justice, in decreeing a punishment disproportion- I
nd to the crime, while he remained dead to his
own delinquency. The Apostle Paul, in bls
Epistle to the Romans, uses the following lan-I
gttagr : “Thertrfo’e thou art inexcusable, O
man, whosoever thou art that judges! another,
for wherein thou judgest another, ihou con
domnest thyself, for thou that judgrs; doest th ■
same things. And thinkest thou this, O, man,
that judgest them which do such things, an J
doest the same, that thou sh'it escape tjje j idg
metitof Godl”
History has shown that there Is no wicked
neas so great, but that some have been found
prepared to commit it Continually are awful
disclosures brought to light, —continually does
tho press give us account of crimes which we
could not bclieva any mortal coni I commit, if It
were not that they were substantiated by indis
putable evidence. If auy'ntau, strlctiy moral,
stippos s ho has by nature abetter heart than his
neighbor, he should retnembrr that itis owing
entirely to the in'erposition of a higher powrr,
that his lifels not marked w’th crime, nut toany
better natural principle within.
Peter did not know what a treacherous heart
ho had, until ho was left to himrelf.
David did not know how far from God he could
wander, when unsustalncd by Grd’s grace.
Pau! regarded himself aakept by divine pow
er. “By ths grace of God” is his language, “I
am what I am.”
Some may shud.ler at the vices enumerated
In Paul’s epistle to the Romans, but these are
the natural Iruite of the heart of man, and in the
very characters brought to onr ilow. we can ece
whst w e naturally ar ■, and of what crimes we
should be guilty, with our fallen, linos: ctifted
natures.
“Thercia none righteous, no not one. There
is none that nndcrsiandeth, there is none that
secketh alter God. They aro gone out of the
way. They are together become unprofitable,
there Is none thatdoeth good, no not one ; their
■hroat is an open sepnichre, with their tongues
they have used deceit; the poison of asps is un
der their iips—whose mouth is full of c train?
and bitterness ; their feet are swift Io shel blood.
Destruction and misery arein their ways, and
the way of peace have they not known. There
is no fear of God before their eyes.”
This Is nnn's.clnrtcter in the eight of that
God that stretches tho heart and tricth the veins
of the children of man. hook at this s. J pic
ture, and see tn it your owu depravity.
Often is it the case, that this deceitfuiness of
the heart unni'ests itselt ifei in dra'.fi. When
Louis 15th was on bla desth bed, experiencing
the miserable tortures of disease brought on by
his excesses, he solaced himself with ths fol
lowing reflactions—l have been a great sinner,
doubtless, but I have ever observed the festival
of Lent, with scrupulous exactness. I have
caused more than one hundred thousand mass
es to be anil for tho repose of unhappy souls.
I have respected the clergy an 1 punished the
authorsof all Impious works, so that 1 flatter
myself that 1 have not bean a eery bed dine'ian.
Alas, alas, for mankind I They have in life
turned away from the Gospel hope, and
in death, knowing no'hingof its supports, they
find It neceesary to look tor all the good deeds to
which they 'hink they hove a clam, nnlare
sometimes deceived with the fatal etror, that be
cause they have done some good, all is well.
They forget that cne s.n is cf sufficient weight
to sink the soul to eternal destruction. How
then eaathey be saved without tits atoning blood
of tho 1 Jnnb 1 This, and this alone, can be their
plea before God.
JusaOVEMU".
If the heart be dce-.ltful wo sec that men can
be easily mistaken with regard to ths reasons or
mail tee of their actions. We may scorn to com
mit certain actions, from our ver • souls we may
de est them. So far, so right. Il wa examine
cur motives, we may detest th se actions, net
because slnfu. in the sight of G t, but because
unpopular among men. Perhaps if we find ont
our real motives, wc may do many things, be
cause honorable before men, and not because
pleasing to God- There ore many things which
God deters, which many detest who are not
professors of religion, snch as falsehood ard
theft. There are many things with which God
is pleased, »itlt which also man is pleased, such
as Übersli-y and honesty. Now, it may be the
opinion ot the world, aud not the word of God,
that loads us to hate what is vicious, and to love
wbat is virtuous. For an; thing we can tell, we
might b‘ willing to do what la sinful in the sight
of God, If it were not for the tear of losing the
good opinion of those around us. The q uestion
should be, “do we hate it because God hates it,
or do we hate it because man bates it?” There
is room for much deception here Our hearts
may lead us astray, and we tn ty thick we lose
God, and it may be wc only respect man. And
thia is proved f ont the fact, that though we d>
some things which are pleasing to God, we leave
others undone. We may refrain from immorali
ty, an 1 there is a good reason for it—it is anpep
afar | but though repentance and faith arc as
strongly cotumandedas is morality, we ueg’ect
these duties. If we can prove that in e.e case
we da not ca e tor God, it slould makeus>u?pect
our hearts, forin oth’r cases wo utay not care
for Him, even though wc may do what ilcccci
i mands.
If the heart Is deceitful and desperately wicked,
let us not trust it, ‘-ile that trustethin hie own
heart is a fool,” saystho wise man. ' 1 never
i trusted God, but I found Him faithful,” was the
i experience of a goo-1 man “I never trusted my
' own heart, but 1 found it false.”
i None of us would trust an indtvidsrl of bad
r character, did wc think there was the least proba
> bilttv of his deceiving us. We should be
careful how wc acted towards him How too ish, -
i therefore, to trust our hearts, when God's word
f assures us, that they will cerlainlj deceive us.
Far better for vs to trust ocr wont human
i foe. than our hearts, for man can only kill the
. body.
1 Fsr better for us to trust ourselves in ire
I jaws of the lion, or the iertx: ous tiger. Far bet
r ter let us look for safety ia the fangs of the viper,
i than plaaeourselvjsunder the guidance of h-.arte
[ so wret rhed, so deceitful, so wicked.
‘’F.-rcf al! the foes we meet.
' .Sone stoft mislead cm feet ;
• Note betray us into sin,
Like the foe that dwells within.”
i It the heart is deceitful and desperately wicked,
! we should ack God for new h s-te. We do not
- ssk tor too much at bls hands, we ask for » hat
r He has promised. His language is—‘-anew
s hsitt also wiU 1 give you. aad a oe* if lilt will I
put«ithfriyou, and 1 •illtake away the stony
bean cat es your flesh aad give yojsn heart ol
r[ flesh.” If only thepure In heart shall see God
• —ts "without holiness ~o mtn ean see the Lord,”
I- i how great the necessity for assistance from on
e high ! What need for each impenitent moral to
:t pray, “Create within n,e a clean heart.O God, and
i- I renew a right spirit within mol" “Can th
- Ethiopian cloanso his skin, and tho Leopard his
e spots 1 then may ye du good, that are accostoin
g ed to do evil.”
1 Do any foci the plague of a sinful heart? Bo
- i thankful to God that lie has caused it, but do
not despair. You may ask—is there no hope 1
can rny polluted nature be cleansed I—can my
sin-sick soul becurbdt <•!» there no balm in
, Gi'ead—is there no physician there 1” S’os
—there Is a balm, there is a physician. God will
meet ycu at the mercy seat tnd accept of you for
* Jesus* sake.
"Hialovoex'eods your highest thoughts,
r i Ho pard >ns like a God ;
; He will forgive your numerous faults,
, Through the Redeemer’s blood.”
• If the heart be deceitful and desperately wiek-
■ ed, how inconceivably great mint be the delu
sion of those, who think that they have good
hearts. It is not every one to whim the Saviour
; can say, as he did to Nathaniel—“behold an Is
raelite, indeed, in whom theie is no guile.” If
the impenitent have these good hearts, that they
speak of, why do we not see it more plainly ex
emplified by their lives of holiness and devoted
ness to God 1 “Keep thy heart with all dilli
gence, for out of it are the issues of life.” If
they dillilgently keep or wa'ch their hearts, we
should certainly see better actions than we daily
see. As from a good tree we have good fruit, so
from a good heart we ought to have a good life.
The heart being deceitful, there is no wonder
that awakened sinners, see so much within them
that is shocking to their thoughts. Many of
them supposed that they had good hearts, but
when God to themselves, “ themselves dis
plays,” it Is enough to trouble them, for their
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"lug, so the tenge. v.„
ful heart, are wo more securely bound by its <fe-
Distorts, more and more chained by its wick
edness. “Take heed lest there be in any of
you an evil heart of unbelief In departing
from the living God.”
31y hearers there isdanger in delay. Stay a
little longer, and you m-.y be willing t» be de
ceived. Stays litt’clonger, upon the plains of
Sodom, and your hearts may be forever steeled
against the messages of love Continue to en
courage the temptations of the wicked one, and
the suggestions of a deceitful heart, and God
may say-“he is joined to his idols let him
atone.”
Ono season after another of religious enjoyment
in tho church of Christ may pass, but bring you
no comfort and no hope. As in the sight of God
—as in view of a bed of death—as in view of
the judgment seat, I address you—“choose ye
this day who ye will serve. 7b morrorc, it m»y
be too late to choose, and the next Sabbath’s
j sun may rise nponyour grave.
MIBOBUBOUB M
TEiiITEkE AID NEWS.
THE DYING GIRL.
Open tho blind, dear mother,
Tbe liebt cannot hart me now ;
I am sinking, fast sinking,
And tbe fcrer ba. Itft roy brow ;
I feel the cold find gather,
And soon it wiil rise to my heart—
I fain would sec lbs sunset, "dear mother,
Again, befo e 1 deput.
Raise up my pillow, mother j
Take bold of my band once mote-*
Do not weejr—-laai going—
And my pains wilt soon be e’er.
Coma near, and aland beside me,
And pillow my hood on thy breast
II crows dark—am I dying, dear mother !
Farewell! itiaswe t thus to rest.
Extracts from tbs Nkw York Statc Ao
HtcuLTURAt. TuxaacTtoNa.—ErrscTs or
Diuixug.
Mr. Danis! Galea, of Sullivan, Madison
county, says;— * I have tried both open and
covered drains, bat have been most successful
with covered drains.. I commence by plough
ing deep in the dryeat part of the year, gene
rally in the latter partol August. 1 cau a.cer
tain where the springy places are, and can
better decide how to average my ditches. I
place the ditches so as to touch all the per
lions of the soil that are most moist, in order
to drain it aa complete as pruc tea!. [Mr. Gates
makes his ditcher to loose s ones an hie farm
and covers wi h (Ist stones orelabs. Ilia ditch
e» from 18 to 20 inches deep, and about 15
it ches wide. He has dimhos covered wi h
e'aba which have been mado eleven jears, and
are still in good preservation.]
* Aa to the expense, it is but I Ids more than
to finish properly a good open ditch with
»l ping sides. The objections to these la'ter
ditches are, that they so readily fill up. and oc
casion much waste of land. The results of
ditching hats. I think, increaied my land at
least three times its former na’ne I have raised
on thia land so reclaimed, tho season al or the
duelling was completed, the largest crops on
my farm of coru. potatoes, barley, and spring
wheat Some of it is now in n-eadow, which
yields the Gist quality of tuuothy grass, where
previous to Ra dr*Usd, it was scarcely
worth mow'tig afcd gathering, and the quality
very inferior.
Mr. Batten had 7 acres of low, wet land,
which becropp d wi fi oats for 4 years, putting
on 25 loads of manu-e to the acre each year.
11 e then u nderdrsined it, catting his drains two
and a half feet deep, and filling 18 inches with
stone, then filing up with earth; length of
d.ain on 7 acres, 203 rods, cost 30 cents per
rod. ilia cr< p bgfore draining, tcith manure,
was 31 bushels per acre. After draining, first
cropreilAoKt manure, 8I! | bu.-hels, and has con
tinued to produce well,'
Bremiss bktweir Sava'Xah sub Phila
iiXtrHii. —We ate pleased to sucounce to
onr readers the arrival in .'his city of Capt. J.
11 Peek, of Philadelphia, who eame ont in the
Florida yest-rday. Cspt Peck visits us on
business connected with the new line of steam
ships, soon to be established batween this port
and Philadelphia. His object, among other
things, is to procure a suitable wharf and to
establish hero an agency for the line; and also
to extend his scquaiutarce among onr citizens,
who we doubt not will extend io him every
courtesy and kindness.
Capt. Peck is to command the steamer “S'ate
of Georgia,” the first vessel on this line, and
wh ch, n e learn, will be ready to take her place
not later than the Ist of March. Capt. Peck
informs ns thU the work on the “Stata of
Georgia,” is progressing rapidly. Her frame
is sat up, ready for planking, and the heavy
parts of her engines are partly completed, at
the foundry of Messrs. Merrick &. Son. She
will ba 200 feet long on deck, 33 feet beam
21 feet hold; measuring 1060 tons. Her en
gine is a ride lever cylinder of 74 inches diam
eter, 8 feel stroke 1
The consort of the “State ol leoraia” rill
ba called the “Key Stone State,” and will be
finished with all possible dispatch. We shall
hail the appearance of these steamers in our
waters with pride and p'easure, and ere sure
that the increaring trade of Savannah and the
e mmercial prosperity of Philadelphia, when
brought into closer ptox mity by steam, will
greatly reward the enterprising proprietors of
this line and strengthen onr bonde of friend
ship with tbe city of “Brotherly love.”—Sas.
Iley.
We have several times lately nolieed the ad
dition of new vessels to our packet lines. The
new schooner Tybee arrived here yes'erday,
from B iltimore, where she was built. She is a
fine vessel, of about 175 tons, and for nea'nese
ar.d beauty of model surpasses anything that wo
have had in our waters for some time. Bbe is
o-vned bv Mr. James Girvin, of Baltimore,
Messrs. Brigham, Kelly & Co ■ of this eity,
and Captain Ross, (a gentleman well known
iu this c ty, and lurtnerly commander of the
packet brig American, batween this ei’y and
New York.) who will eomand hr. Th a Ty
bee is to run as a regular packet between this
city and Baltimore We wisti her and her
entsrpririag owners all success— San. Rep.
Mcibodist Poo* Coscsnv.—At the Gene
see Annuel Conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, hold week bes-re last,
Btsbop Janes presiding, the report of the
agents of tbu Book Concern in New York
was prosetited. From t.Ts report it appears
ihat the sales of the last twelve months ex
ceeded 9203,000, being an increase of $65.-
000 over the previous year, and exceeding all
former years. The profits of the new hymn
book were sl7 561. Tbe Christian Advo
cate and Journal has a circulation es from 25,-
000 to 29,000; the M soionary Advocate 20,-
009; the Sunday School Advocate 65000,
wi.h a yearly sale of Sunday school books
amount.ng to Tee AYuartir’y Re
view baa 3 000 suoscribers.
t is sel l that an ass-eiaticn of English eap
i alts s comprising Messrs. Baring and Meters.
Rmher-htid, with saveral of the largest Eagiiib
n>t wiy contractors, has been forn.cd for tbe
pa.n se of pnrchssini land ia Ireland, and re
selling or lettirg it tn farm’, thoroughly
dra ned. fenerd and otherwise fitted for enlti
vatrn on tbe Englttb m def
Gaoexn iso Vsorovsd—Cooztn axo Un
co. zed Fo.ip.—ln a communication from the
Society of Shakers, a’. Lebanon. New York,
in tbe Patent Oilice Report, we find the follow
ing upon the relative value of grrund and
□ ngruund. cooked and uncooked corn for
feeding and fattening cattle, &.C.
‘ The experienea of tuora than 30 years
leads us to esiet e ground corn at one third
higher than onground as food for cattle, and
especially for fattening pork; hence i: ha*
been ’he practice of our society fur more than
a qoar er of a century to grind al! car proven
der.’
' The same experience indaces us to put a
higher value upon eooked thin upon raw
meal, aud for fattening animals, swine particu-
Isrlv, we eonsidir 3 of csoked equal to 4
bushels i f raw meal.
Until within tbe lael three or four years, ear
society fattened annually for 30 years from 40,-
000 tn 50.000 pounds of pork, exclusive of
lard and offal fat, and il» the constant practice
to cook the mail, for which purpose 6 or 7
putash k*t.les are used.'
The shakers are a e’ove observing, caleu
latlrg people, and go iu for the practical re
al,ties cf fife ; and, ther-.f-re, in 'he esonomy
■ f toed, mur.be presumed to be good jadges
For ourselves, we are d spssed to believe the
conclusions to which they ha*e arrived are
correct —Ci- Farmer.
Large Ships.
Oar attention having been called to the unuana
number of ships carrying large cargoes of cottoi
from this port the !agt commercial year, we have ob<
tained from our neighbors, Messrs. J. P. Whitney &
Co , a libt ofoMps loaded by them carrying 3,03 C
bales cf cotton and upwards, via :
Snips. Tons. Ba r ca
Clara Wheeler 991 3,564
Hungarian •1,018 3,610
Trimountiin• 1,031 3 595
Rappahannock 1,133 3,906
James Nesmith 990 3,228
John and Lucy 991 3,218
George Baynes 993 3,652
Telamonl.l27 3,668
Clarissa Courier 999 3,380
Henson 963 3,140
William Nelron 1,030 3,239
Westmoreland939 3,504
John Havenl,o33 3,196
F. P. Sagel,lso 3,385
Antarcticl,lls 3,618
15 ships carrying away the emoniioua quantity of
51,703 bales of cotton, equal to 3 150 bales ach,
We also notice the following clearances last year
in addition to the above, vis :
Ships. Tons. Bales.
Lexington 841 3,064
Huguenot93s 3,135
Presidentl,o2l 3,761
New England 922 3,126
Hemisphere 1,024 3,328
Columbusl,3o7 4,109
Meridian••...l,2Bs 4,200
Seven ships canying- 24,718
bales, equal to 3.531 bales each ship.
These twenty.two ships thus carried 76 421 boles
cotton, and the Rappahannock and Meridian carried
ether cargo equ?l to 500 bales each—thus making
at Philadelphia and going as far East as Thomaston,
Me. The value of their cargoes was about four mil
lioDS of dollars, and the ships themselves about one
million and a quarter of do!! era.
Truly our Yankee friends build ships farter than
ws con grow cotton to loid them, and we will ven
tare to Intimate tba’ if they want to get good freights
for their splendid shins, they must not build them
quite so fast — Picayune
Lost and Found. —Among the lost things
found at the Crystal Palace, and advertised, is
one lady's bustle, ona pair lancets, one petticoat
soar eye-glasses, twenty two bags of various
colors, twenty eight banches of keys, one hun
dred and six’y eight parasols, one pistol, one
flask, sixty seven bracelets, two hundred
and seven y five shawl brooches and clasps
three hundred and nineteen pocket handker
chiefs, and any quantity of purses with sums of
money varying f om6d to £5. and finally nine-
ty children, boys and girls.
The Richmond Whig notices an invention
by Mr. Solomons, of Cincinnati, of what he
cilia ■ perfect substitute for steam, from
common wh ting, sulphuric ac'd and water,
he obtains carbon in the gaseous state ; and
with the power exerted by thisgss, he asserts
that he now drives a twenty-five horse engine,
and for one fortie’b the expense of steam,
lifts and lets fall 12.000 pounds, five times in a
minute This fluid, without any heat applied
at all, exerts a pressure of 510 pounds to the
square inch, wl ile water in the same unheated
state has no pressure but that of gravi y.
Sam Slick says, writing from England, “Ar
ter all, they haint got no Indgin corn here ; they
can’t ralsoit nor punkin-pies, nor pea nuts, nor
silk worms, nor nothin’. Then as to their farm
in’—Lord ! only look at five great elephant-look
in’ beasts in one plough, with one groat lumino
kin’fellow to hold the handle, and another to
carry the whip, and a boy to lead, whose boots
have more iron on ’em than the horses hull's
have, all crawlin, as if they were goin to a funer
al. What sort of away is that to do work ? It
makes memad to look at ’em. If there is any
airthiy clumsy fashion of doin’ a thing, that’s
the way they arc always sure to git here. They
are a benighted, obstinate, bull-headed people,
the English, that’s a fact, and always was.”
Wcman's Dazsi.—A late number of the
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal publish
es a paper, read before the Boston Society for
Medical improvement, by Dr. VV. E. Coalo,
on tho present fashion of dress atnongs' our
women, in relation to their health. The fol
lowing paragraphs merit the wise considers
tion of ail whom it concerns:
“ With a view of improving their shape, the
lower i art of the dress of women now con
state of six, c'ghr, or even more skirts, made
of various materials cotton —tho stiff woolen
material, intended fur curtains, called moreeu
flannel, and at times quilted with cotton wool
—weighing together, as ascertained by actual
experiment, tea, twelve, and even fifteen
pontidg. Esch es these is supported by a
string drawn very tightly round t!-e body. We
have seen the marks of these strings lor days
alter the skirts have been removed—we have
seen them even after death, Hera, then, is
the first satires of evil—the continued press
ure end cons'raint that these strings keep us,
evidently embarrassing greatiy the
within.
When to thia however, we add the weight
of the skirts, we cannot but a- once percei~e
how great an additional force is set to work,
particularly if its operation, as exerted upon
organs having amongst themselves a nobility
almost as great as that of fluid, he properly
estima'cd To protect the abdominal viscera
agai-stthis pressure, remember there is noth
ing tn tont at least save a thin partition of
woman’s soft and tennionlesa murclo. That
three viscera should ba forced downwards is
not surprising ; that they must in tutu exert an
equal force downwards on the pelvic viscera,
is apparent • • • » Here we have an
explanation fu'l. and we trust, convincing of
■he fr-quency of a disease in the youngest and
heartiest of the sex—which twenty yea’s ago
was considered pecu iarto those whose pow
ers of life were greatly exhausted try dcminds
upon them or were already on the decline
from age ; au explanation, I may mention in
parsing, not yet offered as far as I can ascer
tain, by any o'her writer.
Dr. Coale ssystiiatun'Hthe last fifteen years,
although the dress was at limes worn low on
tho chest, it was haug by broad shoulder-straps
ote’i coming from the shoulders high tip to
wards the sues of tire neck, i'riu’.s illustrating
the fashions of ll.i > co intry prior to the lime
I mintioned. and the costume* of England and
j France for any period, prove this. About
| filtern years since, asa balldress, the shoulder
straps were'eft off, so that the upper line of
the dress w«s perf c'.ly horizontal i and t is,
with the elastic views of delicacy so peculiar lo
fashion, was often low enough to disclose the
edge of iho arm pit. In tins style there was
danger of the dress slipping down, and it would
do so but for tho ingenious contrivance cl
whslehone uprights, me lo aer en is of which
are supported at the expense of the inner vita!
organs, over wh ch they are placed.
Ths earnings of the New York aud Erie
Railroad lor the Ist 25 days of September,
were 220,000 ; attd the remaining days of the
minth were expected to yield SIOO,OOO moro,
making atotai for the month I $32'7,000, or
at the rate of three and a half mil ions of dol
lars per annum.
The exports of Sugar and Molasses from
the porta of Havens and Ma'anzts, from the
’ Ist January to the end of August, 18SI, were
—from Havana, 733,454 boxes Sugar and 37,
843 iihds. Malaises From Matanaas, 329,757
bx» Sugar and 73 077 hbds. Molasses. The
exports of Molasses from Cardenas for the
same period were 85,064 hhda. Total, 1,063
211 boxes Sugar, and ISS ISlhhds. Mulsssps
The exports for the asms period tn 1850 wera
938,571 boxes Sugar, and 465,536 hhds. Mo
lasses.
, Eurofean Neootutioss CoacsrviNa Cu
ba. —The telegraphic despa ches sent from
London to Liverpeol on the eve cf depar
ture «f 'he American mail eteamar Baltic, just
arrived at few York, announce ssmewhat
confidently that negotiations have been open
ed between Spain, England, and France,
which are likely to result in a tresty.tba object
' of which will bs to preserve Cuba to Spain
with some such modifications of her Govern-
1 mant ss were mentioned in a paragraph pub
lished it> ibis paper lest week I: was also
understood hat a steamer would immediately
1 leave Havre with despatches from the French
1 Government end the American Minister at
Paris. We observe, hswtvar. that the Lnn
’ don correspondence of the Commercial Ad
‘ vertieer treats aspare fiction all idea of Eng
■ land being privy to any such engagement. A
1 few days probably wi.l solve the question.
Bxxrxrcx or rut Michigan Railroad
Conspirators—The twelve prisoners convic
ed of conspiracy lo burn the central railroad
depot in Detroit were brought up for sentence
1 on the 3S.h iust. Tne Advertiser says that
s when Judge Wing inquired whether they
or thier counsel had ought to say why ceu
f tenee turn'd not be passed. Fl ley, Williams,
Corwin, Dr. Farnham, Eben Price, Rickard
P. ice ana Lyman Campho, each rose, and pro
tested their innocence.
The Court sentenced 'hem to imprisonment
b in the state penitentiary ; Orlando D. Williams
, and Aim Filley for ten years each} Wm
- Cerwin, Aaron Mount, Eben Price, . icbard
1 Pr.ee, Dr. Farnham and Andrew J. Freeland
r for eight pears each; end Ersstus Champlin,
Lyman Champ'in, Willard Champlin, and
a Erastus Smith for five years each.
i ——
' The Pacific Railroad. —The St. Louis
‘ Republican of the 20th inst., announces the
1 return to that city from New York of Mr. Al
len, President of the Pacific R. R. Company
While at the East be had made contracts for the
constraction of a portion of the road, and bad
' ordered rails for the first division, about forty
’ miles, and locomotives and machinery for its
’ equipment, It is expected that cars will be
r running on a portion of the road by the 4 h of
. July next.
f
e Mr. Tod, Ameriesn Minister at Rio de Ja
-7 netro, was expected to leave th-re on bis re
turn norce about the Ist of September.
I- Farther Ma’hew is expected to leave New
~ York for Eng’and on the 25tb instant, in the
. U-8. mail Mesmer Atlantic, a free paasag
, having been tendered him by Mr. Collins.
e Toere arrived at New York daring Bunday
s and Monday last 2,‘291 imnigiao’.e from
Europe.
Tm RESOURCES ARD TRADE OF THE SOUTH.
a l —The policy of developing the resources of
> a the South, which are so abundant in the ele
3 . merits ot commerce, has been for some time
fc past a subject of much interest to Southern peo
-10 pie; and the design, in accordance therewith,
of opening and sustaining a direct trade with
9 Europe, by means of regular lines of steamers.
4 has already become so far matured as to render
0 its accomplishment, sooner or later, a matter
5 of certainty.
? The steady progress of internal improve
£ met ts in the Southern States, by which the
2 transmission of the products of great interior
g regions to the seaboard is facilitated and pro
-0 duolion iuelf continually increased, must re
q Tiire* as a necessary result, corresponding
9 facilities for the transportation of tho»e products
1 across the ocean. We may properly regard,
5 then, the movements now ou foot in the South,
5 for the establishment of lines of steamers
□ between Southern ports and the ports of
” Europe, as part and parcel of that great system
oi intercommunication which, beginning at
home, is destined to extend its connections
throughout the commercial world.
A Convention, as our readers are aw ire, has
• been recently held in Richmond, with a view
‘ ’o the concentration of the trade of the James
. River for the purpose of sustaining a line of
5 propellers to some European port. This
> movement was confined, we believe, or was
I intended to ba confined, to the State of Virginia.
) But a more general movement is now contem
plated, having larger aims in view on a more
I omprehensive scheme. A Convention/*> j’he
whole South, as we understand it, is invited to
' meet at Afacou, in Georgia, on the 27 hos Oc
tober next, and we take occasion now to allude
to this meeting to suggest the importance of
r having Bal imore represented In that body.
‘ Southern Atlantic seaports the city
. mtu w th, jr:
■WSthe materials of counaierce, first in reec-ur
cis and, wo hope, not behind any in respect to
enterprise and energy. Sorely it would be a
strange thing if a great Southern movement,
having reference to the development of South
ern capabilit es and the advancement of South
ern iateres's, should go on without the parlici
prison of Baltimore in it.
We would, therefore, commend this subject
to -he consideration of our business men, and
respectfully urge their early attention to it,
with a view to prompt acdon. Oir city and
her commercial interest ought tn be represent
ed by a Committee of our mostintelligent mer
chants and men of business in the Macon Con
vention, that our Convention, that our South
ern brethren, there assembled may have defi
nite and full information of the nsture, charac
ter and capacity of oar market, both with re
gard to its commanding relations with impor
tant domestic staples and also in reference to
its facilities of communication with Europe
We may claim our place iu that holy to re
ceive information, too, as well as impart it—to
exchange ideas, in fact; to comp ire cotjs; to
participate in common counsels, and to d sous
matters of general interest to the whole South
The occasion is too important to be lost
sight of. Our Southern trade, already large
and capable of immense extension, gives us a
deep interest in everything pertaining to the
commercial progre ecf the South—to say
nothing of the alßnities which bind all the
Southern States t gether by similarity of insti
totions common alike to Maryland and to
Georgia.
Gkohoia —The following is an abstractor the
Seventh Census cf tins State of Georgia, just
published by the Census Bureau at Washing
ton :
ton :
Dwelling houses in the State .. .91.011
Families 91,471
White males 266,(95
White females 255,342
Free colored males 1 3>B
Free colored females-••• 1,512
Total free population 524,316
Slaves 381,681
Tola! population 905 999
Federal representative population- - - • 753,326
Deaths during the year 9 920
Farms in cultivation 51,759
Manufacturing establishments producing
8509 and upwardsjanuuxlly 1,407
Rwoob Island. —The subjo'ned stalls lex rel
ative to the State of Rhode Island, as shown by
tho late census, are extracted from the official
stalenient of the Cenatts Buret a at Washing
ton :
Dwelling houses in the State 22,379
Families . 28,216
White males 79,417
While females 73 533
Colored males 16t>0
Colored females 1,884
Total population 117.514
Deaths during the year 2 211
Farms in cultivation 5,385
Manufacturing establishments producing
<509 and upwirds annually 8,1-44
The American Senroliiug KxperUtion
Arrival of the Advance,
Eer y this forenoon th- Advance, Capt. De
Haven, one of the vessels sent out by Mr,
Henry Grinnell to search for Sir John Frank
linarrived at the navy yard Brooklyn. We
have had an interview with E. K Kans, Esq ,
surgeon to lite expedition, to whose courtesy
we are indebted for ths following particulars.
It will he remembered that the latest previ
ous intelfgenca from the American vessels, the
Rescue, and the Advance, was to the 13 b of
September, 1850 reo ived through the English
papers. On that day they parted company
wi h the Eng hh squadron as men'ioned in
the despatches of Capt. Penny.
On the same night they wet e frozen in at
Wellington channel. From that point com
menced .lheir Northern drift, and they were
carried op the channel to latitude 75 25, the
greatest Northing ever attained in that meri
dian.
Fom that latitude they commenced drifting
again to the South, and in Novembrr, 1850,
en. red Lancas’er Sound. During this lime,
the violence of tho eruptions of the ice was
so great that they csuld keep no fires regular
ly lit on account of the motion of the vessel.
The raoruiry in the thermometer fell below
zero. The bedding froze tn every apartment
and even the coffee and soup became congeal
ed as soon as taken off the fire.
It was st this ti ne that the scurvy broke out,
attacking all the crews end officer, Captain De
Haven and Dr. Kano included. B/ dint cf
aesidujt s attention and conitant vigilance,
however Dr. Kona succeeded in keeping
down the disease, and fortunately brought
them all through the di-ease without losing a
single man. Anyone who sav Dr. Kane’s
eye when ho modestly mentioned this grat.iy
icg fact, would readily believe that bis atten
tion to his charge would be alike entauxiatic
and uniemilting.
The principal eruptions in the ice, «« may
here mention, occurred on tho 11th of Novem
ber and the Bth of Decomber, 1850, and the
13th of January, 1851. on which latter day the
erpedition en’ered Baffin's Bay. Daring their
continuance in this ice tho vessels were lifed
ap by the s era as high as sit feet seven or
eight inches, with a list to starboad of two feet
eight inches, the discomforts aud inconvenience
of which may well be Imagined.
During ibis whole time a'so the men had to
have their knapsacks constantly prepared, as
well as sleighs A: , not knowing but that e any
moment the vessels, strong as .hey were, might
be crushed by the ice. They were three weeks
without taking oft tbeir clothes. Fortunately
the iee lifted up, rather than crushed the vessels
which lay often at a considerable elevation un
'he crest of the upheaving iee.
From this metho vessels emerged on tl.e
10th of June, 185], sf er an imprisonment of
nine mon hr. During this time they had
drifted one thousand and sixty miles, —a polar
drift of unprecedented extent. Ths only one
in any way anal.agons with it, we believe, was
I that es Cspt Back, in Hudson's Bay, which,
however, did not compare with it in extent.
During this whole imprisonment in tbs ice, the
two vessels suffered comparatively little dam
age. The Advance lost her bob st lys and part
of her lalsa keel; the Rescue had her cutwater
and bowsprit literally chiselled off.
Having got both his vessels liberated, Capt
De Haven determined again to try to prosecute
bis search, and turned the Advance’s bead to
the Northward. He succeeded n reaching the
upper Melville Bay region, but was there
again hemmed in by ice.
From the he was not liberated until the 19 h
of August, at which t ms the season was so far
advanced that it was impossible lor him to
proceed aud accomplish his purpose, even
supposing everything should be favorable aud
no iee intervene.
Ha therefore reluctantly determined to re
turn home. The Advance called at the Green
land ports, where she obtained full supp les
of fresh meats, vegetables, &c., and Dr. Kone
soon had the happiness of seeing the scurvy
entirely disappear.
Capt De Haven's was the ttost severe
attack, and afforded a singular illustration of
cne of the peculiar features of tho disease.
A small wound on his finger made when a
schoolboy by a blow from a caue, and many
years ago completely healed and so-gotten,
was re opened by the disease. A similar result
attended a wound which Dr. Kano received in
the Mexican war, and indeed every man ex
hibited a similar illustration of this phase of
tfca disease.
T're expedi ion has retimed without the
loss of a man, which speaks volumes alike lor
the officers and men ; and is no mean praise
for tbe surgeon oftbe expedition.
The American vessels last saw the English
shio Prince Allert at 11 o’clock A. M. on the
1231 of August s ariding South East, having
given up, as Capt. DeHaven concluded all
hope of getting round the -ay ice, and making
ttie Southern passage. Capt. Dell, thinks it
. probable that she would reach Prince Regeni’e
inlet.
Not having bad time to visit the vessel her
self, we eannot spesk of her appearance after
her voyage. Dr Kane an exceedingly intelli
gent and affable gentleman, looks well al
though s rmewhat weather beaten.
He thinks, after seeing the region and the
resources on shore, that Sir John I rar kiin end
his crews are probably yet alive. The Ad
vance has brought boms the relics of Sir John’s
nsitto ihe place where three ol hie men were
1 buried.
Also two or three f squint sax flogs, cue o
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them not many weeks old, apparently very
f fine and intelligent animals.
Dr. Kane speaks in the highest terms of
> Capt. Dellaven, and we are sure that Mr
■ Grinnell must feel a proud satisfaction iu
, having set on foot the expedition.
i We learn from Mr. Grinnell that Lady Frank
lin entertains the same opinion as Dr. Kane
■ with respect to her nobl. husband.
Ai-mai. iw Bshalp or Rev. Ma. Mathew, —
Rarely, if ever, has any proposed beneficiary of a
public subscription had such an array of truly
honored names as the list affixed to the follow
ing appeal. No individual will tako issue with
such gentlemen on points upon which they so
strongly express themselves. The fund will He
raised, we apprehend, without difficulty or
delay, and the reverend gentleman, whom it
proposes to eld, bo sent home with a grateful re
membrance of American liberality. It will bo
seen that Henry Clay has interested himself ear
nestly in behalf of Mr. Mathe
AM Al-rXAL TO THS AMaaiCAlr rcsuc IM »K
--HALV oi-TSta vsnv asv. vatkcs mathew.
One of the greatest benefactor* of the human
family that our favoted country has ever enter
tained la about to leave us and to return to his
native land to die, after a life devoted to the
poor, the affi cted, and the friendless.
Fifteen years ago, the good and revered Fa
ther Mathew, stimulated by the benevolent de
si’e to Increase the comforts an* add to the
happiness of the people of Ireland, invited them
to join the temperance army, and with him to
abandon the use of ad that eould Intoxicate.
At hia invitation, that people, proverbial for
tbeir generous hospitality, laid aside longcher
fshed habits, in a few years, nearly eix million*
enrolled themselves among hie disciples, and
atlorded a self-sacificing spectaele to mankind,
the like of which La* lew parallels.
In.accomplishing so great an amount of good
e--
necessarily increased.) TlßrnaKcft were to be
clothed, me hungry fed, the orphan lodged, the
faltering encouraged, and , iB . .
til work could be procured. In their distress
many, nay, the most of these, turned to the good,
the eclf-denylng Father Mathew.
He hesitated not to give, so long a* ho had
anything to distribute t and when fever aud fam
ine overwhelmed ids country, and ho saw the
poor and the virtuous, whom ho had paternally
gathered around him, stricken down by the pes
tilence, he became unable to relievo only wtten
he had spent all ho possessed, and had exhaust
ed ail his credit in tils mission of mercy and
love.
The famine year left the •' Apostle of Tempe
rance” from twenty five to thirty thousand dol
la ain debt, incurred solely in behalf of suffering i
humanity. i
Reduced, thus, to a point where stronger men t
would despair, Father Mathew looked only (ora
new field of labor. Trusting in Heavon, he ac- <
ceptcd an invitadon which he hadhrcceived from |
different sections of our country, and came to ,
work among u». .
We have ail been witnesses of his zeal, and
of Ids devotion, in his sacred calling, since hl* !
arrival in J uiy, 1849. Regardless of health, for- 1
getful of fatigue, anxious only to feclaim the un- '
fortunate, and to win our youth to the ways oi I
sobriety, his labors have been unceasing. More 1
than half a ndltfon of our people hare taken the I
temperance pledge at bis hands. Every v here
he has gone lie has scattered the blessings of |
peace, of happiness, and of good will among men ;
broadcast over the land.
Fellow citizens ; It is our duty to proclaim
to you and to our country, that now, when his i
misson haa terminated, nothing awaits this good
and pious man on his raturn to his home, but in- 1
creased misfortunes and accumulated sufferings, 1
unless an effort be made to relieve him from Ids
pe-nniarv responsibilities.
We referyou to theeloquent an.l f-ellng let- t
*»■ (■'-'I. L 11 *—« /SI . . . 9 9 . ■
ter from Hon. Henry Clay to IL-rry Gnnncfl,
Esq, which we are permitted to publish. I -r tho !
full particularsof the good Futlie?-pi ntul po-‘
eltion, a position which wo have eiilesvued
br oily and truthfully to lay be ore yon.
Those wh i visit <ur country to umosr-r to our
atnnsanoeut end uhose in previous are rtwet a
transent as their visits, return to ibeir hriusa 1 n :ed
whith the prc< & of oor munificence aud gensrcsiiy.
Shall it be said, fellow-citizens, that our abundance
has bean poured out as water in these instincts, and
that we are insensible to the services ol this public
benefactor, who unh -sfiattngly cams among us, at
our call, and whoea active energies have sines been
lavishly daroted to cur wcinl and mo-ai impiore
ment, and to the permanent be-efit of our comtry 7
We have too much confidence ia the honor and
generous impulses of oar fellow-cilia ms lo doubl for
a moment either their i nnevolence cr their justice.
Wo feel assured that they wi.l cheerfully administer
to his relief, now that they understand Father
Mathew's position.
Those who arc willing to contribute to the Fall er
Mathew Fund are invi ed to send their donations to
Henry Grinnell, Esq., New York, who wi I aet as
treasurer; and friends in other parts of the I nion
arc requested, after having read this appeal, to adept
prompt mearnrrs to collect funds, which they are,
also, invited to forward to the same address, or to any
of the undersigned.
A. G. Kingsland. JI. H. Grinnell,
Hamilton Fish, Chs. H. Mars hilt,
James G. King, E. K. Collins,
L. W. Lawicnee, Sb-pho.-d Kmpp,
Robert Kelly, James Harper,
Simeon Draper, Tins. O’Conner,
Matthew Morgen, Johu W. Edmonds,
Win. V. Brady, Chas M. Leupp,
Terrorce Donelly. Robert Emmett, ’
Marshal U. Hid wall, .▼. l. cmdcn»gl">v | - ■
Greene C. Bronson.
Now York, Sept. 23, 1851.
Letter of Hon. Henry Clay to Henry
Hrlnneil, Bsq.
AsaLAsn, Wednesday, May 21, 1851.
MrDsxnSir: fbaveenjiyed die high satislac.
lion of meeting with Father Mathew, and entertiin
ingbim at my house. Ou his return to the city of
New York from the prosecution of his noble works
oi humanity aud benevolence, in tho valley of the
Mirsisdpfi, he d'd me the honor to call to ree me.
During his w Inurnment in the United Stales, he has
been again stricken with paralysis, wh eb, alrhough
it has not affecte-l tho oxpras.i m of bis I land and
benign couateaaiice, nor materially impaired hisar
ticclstien, disqualifies him from making those gieat
exertions to which be was accustomed in earlier lire,
and in robust health. Nevertheless, his labors, with
but little relaxation and repose, have been unremit
ting, and beer attended with the most encouraging
success. Upon descending die Mississii pi, be ad
ministered In one of the towns situated on its banks,
the pledge to seven hundred persons. He ascended
it, alter an interval of some months, and stopping at
the same town, he bad the gratification to find that
among the converts there were but three Instances ot
relapse.
I nave h d an opportunity of obtaining accurate
1 information Irora an authentic source (not frun him
self: his extreme deffeacy would res'rnia him from
making such a communication) as to the coudiii m of
tho pemnlary affairs of this good man. It Ims
deeply interested me, and united my warmest syie
pstliies. D rieg bis . ng and brilliant career in
Ireland, among Ihe millions of persona, the victims
of intemperance, or in dangerof becoming addicted
ta it. to whom he gore lhe pledge, he of eo met in the
, poorer classes of pen.onv, in great indigence and want
To some of these he supplied from his own parse,
money to afford them immediate to lef, wliieb, though
sma.l in par icularcases, in the aggregate amounted
to a consi lerabie sum. Toaid film in these lauda
ble charities, be was under the necessity cf borrow
i ing largely from bis friends, which he did under a
full conv'ctiin that he would bo able to reimburse
them from resources which he had entire confidence
In counting upon receiving, from a rich maiden aunt,
who bad premised tr make an ample p-rovision f r
him. H- r will to tba' effect was actually preparej,
is now in exi-laree; a short day wos assigned f r its
execution, end before it arrived she died suddenly
with lhe gout, and was found dead ip her bed.
Toe consequence is, that this great benefactor of
mankind, this true friend of the poor, is left in a
sta'e of great pecuniary embarrassment; threatened
by creditors on his re'urn to Ireland, end exposed,
himseifin o*d age, end under the infiooiice of die
ease and infirmity, toihat pinching want which, in
better days, and in more prosperous times, be so
generously relieved in ethers.
Tbe Bri’ish Government granted him a pension of
three hundred pounds sterling. Hot he has not re
ceived one tent of it, having scrupulously dedicated
tbe wlxle of it to tbe payment oi his debit. To ea
-1 able him tod tray unavo datdo expenses, during Ills
proreat tour in tbe Uaitvd Slates, be wan supplied
I wiib the requisite means by the liberality of a pub
i lie spirited gentleman in Liverpool.
This moot ex'.client and extraordinary man is
, about to depart from among ns, after baring, it is lo
p be hoped with tiie aid cf Prov’dcnce, redeemed near
, half a millicu cf inhabitants cf these States from one
\ of the most debssing of all pernicious ba bits. Shull
' be return without any staustaatial aaaai r eetalion of
’ the public gra'itudc toward him 1 Shall even no
I effort be tnad sto pot him at ease, and to smooth and
r soften tiie pillow of Ills declining years 11 think I
uro net deceived as to lhe generous hearts cf ray
■ countrymen, nor sato iho warm Inch hearts of bio,
. in believing that if ids actual condition wore grncr
j ally known, thousands would readily, end with the
r greatest alacrity, ruth to his relief. His fame and a
jnot appreciation of bis signal merits are secure, end
will be transmitted to the admit tion of the remotest
posterity. He will be regarded no one of the won
’ dem ot this remarkable sge. Kat wbat will that
• poreriiy think <1 tbe present generation, if be ba
> p erraii'ed to pine, ami languish io poverty and want
! and suffering, doting tbe remnant of a life which bus
been worn out by en exclusive devotion lo its ter
-1 viceel And such a glorious service! Wbat re
r preaches w.il act be msde for culpable inreosibilily
, lo tbe value oftbegreatest Loorai reform ever aebiev
, ed by one man I bfiall we, in the United States, en
deavor cot to meritany part ofthem 7
J Knowing well year public spirit and your gene
rous impulses, my o jest io addressing yoa is, to
ascertain if something cannot be done for Father
’ Mathew, worthy cf him, and worthy of vs, before
> he leaves cur shores On all occa iona of monifi
e ccuce we natuisily turn cur aiteotion to our great
p cities, and to yours as tbe first of them. We ought
to do somelhing, we can do s metbiog, lo the iule
-3 tier. lam ready, from my limited means, to eo--
p tribute my taite. But it is in the large cities, where
concert end co-opreration are creasy tobe brought
’ about, that meat can bs effected.
It lias occurred tc me that a few liberal and eo
f lirbtenad gentlemen es your city, favorabla to the
• object, might bare un informal meeting tu consult
’- together ; that they might organise a committee of
i subscription and collection, correspond with otter
• places, and thus accomplish the desired end. The
f pleasure of making the req-tisiu contribution should
be diffused among as many as may be convenient
3 end prac:iesble, without allowing that pleasure lo
r be monopolized! by only s few.
8 Will you, tu’f deer sir, turn these suggerions
over in your fertile mind, end if you aptj-rove their
object, giv-to it your powerful aid 7 lam faithfully,
1 your fi end, and obedient servant, H. Clat.
f Henry Grinnell, F.q,
I Avrora Borealis —About twenty noinotee
> to 7 o’clock Monday evening the nothern
it par’ of tbe heavens was bri’liantly illuminated by
a the Aurora Borealis or Northern light. Tbe
appearance at first presen ed, was that of the
. reflection ot a fire from a burning trits —but
r tbe size of the ere readily determined the ehar
i- acter of the phenomenon. When first seen,
the most vivid light was a little to the eart of
north, tu the variations from this point were
e considerable. Occasional corrnscations were
d seen, and altogether the sight was highly inter-
I- esting. Just below the inner edge o f the arc
's the sky was very dark. This beauuful phe
« notnenon appeared at intervals, jutting p
pencils Os “Til Wn o cloth —Ser.
jf Rap.
Amamica* Goods. —Under all tfe dream
r stances of uncertain and inadequate protection,
the progress of American invention still goes on
in some of the most important branches of
manufacturing industry. The Nsw York
Journal of Commerce has the following uo
tica of some of the new product* of the Arne
riaan^fill Company es Rockville, Connecticut,,
whose agents in Baltimore are Mesars. W. F
A A. Mubioch.
“Among the new thing* offered this week
are several designs by the American Mils,
Rockville, Ct., Mr. Kingsbury, the manager
of the mill, has recently returned from a trip
to Earope, but hisnew design* are not copies
of English good*. John Bu.l might, however,
be proud to own them. We refer to several
now design* in clouded motile* or mixtures,
both plain and striped, which, in felt, coloring
and finish, are superior to the same class of
imported. They are offered at $1 50.
Oceax Btkxm Navioation— PaorcLt-BB
i Stiahshi?*. —We are gratified to ttate that
Baltimore is soon to have a first class steam
propeller ship in her mercantile marine Two
enterprtstog merchants of this city have eon
eluded ell the pre'iminary arrangements for
building a ship of this description, in which
will be combined all tie recent improvements.
She is intended as a regular trader between
Baltimore and Liverpool, and we are confi
dent will not be long in service before she io
followed by otin rs of the same description.
Our ship-builder*, wbo are not behind i-ny in
their line, will take due care hat the pioneer
propeller ship shall speak for herself both at
horn* and abroad.
The propeller or screw engine is rapidly
growingjn favor, both in Europe and Ameri
ca; and in the former country is fast euper
cading the old mode of side whesl steamers.
A select committee of the British Hoose of
~mSS» U jS^2££ oin ’ ed ,o ""i :ire >»’<> the best
- Navy, formerly commander of the
•‘Great We* ern,” and more recently of the
-City of Glasgow”—the former beinr a ride
wheel steamer, and the latter a propeller.
The tes'imony of Captain M. is very detailed,
and is published infall in the English paper*.
He had crossed the Atlantic at all seasons of
the year anu hsd experienced all kind* of
weather in both ships, and gave a decided pre
ference to the propeller, both as regards sail
ing qualities, and also for carrying much lar
ger cargoes. Capt. 11. also stated, that wheth
er sailing before the wind orscuddiag tbiough
a gale, he much preferred the propeller, for
while in tide wheel steimers the fires had fre
quently to be put out during heavy storms,
leaving the ship almost at the mercy of the
waves, the propeller wa* never stopped, not
being in the least affected, no matter how high
the waves rose. He further gave it as hi* de
liberate opinion, that during the heavy gales
with which the A lantic is so frequently visited,
propellers were much less liable to damage
than paddle-wheels, and that he had always
felt sa re io the former than in the latter.
•‘The ‘‘S 8. Lewis,” a new steamer recent
ly built to run between Boston and Liverpool,
is a propeller, on the Loper plan, and is repre
sented as be : ng one of the finest vessels afloat,
much superior to stay English rhtp of her class
that has yet visited this country. She is to
leave Boston for Liverpool on her first trip
to morrow. It is said that on her trip from
Philadelphia (where she was constructed,) to
Boston, so perfect and quiet was the operation
of b tr machinery that her psssongers actually
were compelled to go below and satisfy them
selves by ocular de me nitration before they
w ould believe that tbe ergincs weroat worn.
The space occupied by the boi'ers and ma
chiaery in the ‘Lewis’’ is less than 35 feet in
length, while the apparatus of lhe steamer
'Cty of G'asgow” occupies 97 feet, at tho
same time that the engines in tho Lewis are
double the power of those in the latterl This
gain of room tor freight would in ■ short
time purchase a set of engines, and shows a
great improvement on the English pau of
bu lding props lers. It is said that Capt.
Loper has constructed 60 vessels, and his pro
peller has been uv-d in 70 in all.
The ‘ Rajah Wallee," is the name of a
beautiful new propeller now receiving her
machinery at Boston, where she was built.
She is 180 feet long, 26 feet 4 inches wide, 17
deep, and is of 600 tones capacity. She io
designed to run as a paskot between Bitavia
aud sever>l oilier ports on 'he coast of Java,
and after her msc'itnery lias been f'irly tesied,
her propeller will be unshipped, and she will
proceed to Batavia under caavass.— lSaltiiuort
Amt-icrn.
Tua Cost or a HaNDKEBCHizr. —In a
de-enptiou of tbe offerings of Belgium to tho
Exhibition, we find the following upon tba
laces and embroideries. The loss of sight,
aud thirty years of time wasted, the price of
an article of vanity .'
"Her carpets are rith and tasteful, and her
magnificent laces from Mechlin, Brussels, and
Valenciennes fully justify their old renown.
'Bus— liew-z—aiwii eiiosviouß -me ■■
excoed ngly beautiful that the most thorough
utilitarian is forced o praise them; while tho
raptures which they excite among tbe lady
visiters are positively indescribable. But
beautiful as they are.it is sad to think of tba
rears of sedentary toil expended iu twisting
together their almost invisible threads; and it
is very certain that, if laces and embro dcriea
ire still ta be used as articles of dress, in the
wiser, healtheir times that are coming, they
must be produced by machinery that will
necessitate no such loss of time and eyesight.
Look at this embroidered poeket handkerchief)
co'epicuotis even amoug its wonderful com
pauiuns ; how rich the traceries with which it
io covered, and the exquisite bordering, finer
than the flue lace; how incredible lhe doltcaey !
of to execution, which renders it, in its own
way, a per ect gem, a cktf <i rtuore, a nirlele
Examine it closely, fair ladies, and say who
among you would not be enchanted to have it
for your own I Aud yet, when you come to
know that <he embroidering on this identical
little square of baptists oca-, pind a woman
steadily during thirty years, nd that she be
came stone blind at the conclusion of her
arigjtue lark, whu among you could use it
without remorse!”
Mesic in the Court or King’s Bench
In 1*33. a trial occiired in the “Court of
King’s Bench,’’ be ween two publishers of
music, as to an alleged piracy by one es tbe
parti e, of a new arrangement of the old song,
•‘The Old English Gentleman.”
Sir Jamce Scarlet was counsel for one of tho
parties I.tigant, and Tom Cook, the Musical
composer, was a witness called by the oppo
site party. A« in professional honor and duty
bound, Sir James cross examiued Tom in the
si,a- p and flippant manner following :
Sir James—‘Now, sir, you say that tho two
melodics are the same ; but difl'erent. What
do you mean by that sir I’
Tom—‘l said tho notes in the two copies
were alike, but with a different accent, the
one being in common timo, the other in six
eiglit time ; and consequently the position of
the accented no es was different.’
Sir James—‘What is a musical accent I 1
Tom—‘My terms are a guinea a lesrou,
sir.’ (A luud laugh.)
Sir James, (rather rallied) —‘Never mind
your terms here. I ><sk von what is a musical
aceent. Can you see it 1*
Ton—‘No/
Sir James—‘Can you feci it!’
Tom —‘A mnsietan ean.’ (Great laughter.)
Bir Jtmes, (very angry)—‘Now, pray, sir,
don’t beat about the bush, but explain to his
lordship (Lord Denman was tbe judge) and
the jury, who are supposed to know nothing
about rrueic, tbe meanirg of what you ca l
accent.’
Tom—‘Accent in marie is a certain s”er«
laid upon a par ieular note, in the same man
ner as you would lay a stress lin n any giveu
word for the purpose of being better under
stood. Thus, if 1 wore to tay—“you are an
ass,” it rests on ass; bnl if 1 were to say ‘You
are an ass,’ it rests on you, Sir James.’
Reiteratedshou's of la’ghter by the wholo
court, in which the bench itself joined, follow
ed this repartee. Silsnce having been at
length obtained, tbe judge, with much seeming
gravity, accosted tbe chop fallen counsel thus :
Lord Denman—’Are you satisfied, Sir
James.’
Sir James, (who, deep red as he naturally
was, lo nse poor Jack Reeve's own words,
had become soarlet,) in a great huff Baid—‘The
wi nces may go down !’
And go down be did, amidst renewed laugh
ter, in which ail j lined, particularly tbe learn
ed brothers, except one who cidn’t ree any
joke in the ma'ter.
The Art or Making Ccttinus. —Tiie art
of striking p'ants from cuttings is one which
mainly depends for success upon preserving
the vital fluids from evaporation until the germ
or bud from which s new plant is to rprng
can become sifficient'y organ-zed to maintain
an iudepeu ’e-t *f, « pars', 3 iron, 'be bv'-rci
that bore ;* I'-,, n . «■ c find i.-nh vr-
sally in ;•■< < e <: fr p' ■ u.,.i t <>f bar, I
glasses, -r (. ;i gia ■ » >. < l>c, •f » hich ;j to
retain, ,r a s s'- ,■ r ’ tore, the. a r
which rurr m '- • < a ;tr.a- ea evapo
ration < u r.-t LO <I- “• r.n iijoriou- I ' nr, i.i
Bn atmosphere i—if '.‘ arg, >i v.i !. rapir.
Every one wl. • liasatieriip'cd to propagate
plantshy cn't i.,.s I.as, Irowever, found rortein
practical c tii uitiesiii bis way. He would
easily st weed w i>b i eiargoniutns. and Fuch
sias, and China Rosea, but when he attempted
to deal with Apples or Pears in ihe same man
ner, he will probably have failed. Among
the methods invented from time to time
to overcome such difficulties, and to
which we need not refer on the present occa
sion, is one by Prof. Delacroix, ofßesancon,
which appears to deserve ai'cnliou, both for
.is noveltv and ingenuity. This gentleman
. states that be, some years since, conceived the
idea of insoring tbe success of cuttings, by put
> tirg tha lower end in waler, and the middle in
earth a circu’ar ncision being made between
’ tbe earth and tbe water- This was not attend
! ed with ail lt,s advantages, he expected, but it
1 led to the discovery of the following plan,
which be designates a simple, econimical,
! and certain mode of propagation. His pro
gress is described in the following words:
‘■My eatting is placed entirely under ground
so as to form a subterranean eorve, es which
lhe convexity is uppermost, the middle of the
curve being on a level with the surface of tbe
soil. At this middle point there must be a
good eye, or a small shoot. In thia way the
whole length of tbe cutting i« protected by