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.IJljffiajpggdMMWMM' 11111 JI —■^•liiiilXßMp—jSSßwiuii——■— | g „ - * | <1 * N f :i M i z lHi iu bril ■il isl zwe sfMKI Tib'trti 11 w ErFini i la M ii i ll P a I J r Ocx &nr MHi a 11 / W' N z JVA ? <o> ______ . BY WILLIAM S. JONES. THE WEEKLY CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL I • Pwbllahed « vary Wednesday, XT TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM IM ADVANCE. TOCHBSo: INDIVIDUALS sending Ten “Bare, SIX cop lee of the Paper will be eent for one year,thatfumuhing the Papera! the rate of SIX COPIES FOR TEX DOLLARS, era free copy to all who tnay i incore ua /.'ae aub aeribers, and forward ns the mooer. TiKB CHRONICLE AND SENTINEL DAILY AMD TRI-WKKKLr, Ara alao published at this office, and mailed io sub scribers at the following rates, via.: Datsr Paraa, if sent by mail*->.87 poraanam. Tat-Was«t.T Parra 4 •• •• TERMS OF ADVERTISING. Is Wasser. —Serenty-five cents persqoare (12 Lines orlcss) fortha first insertion, and Fifty cent f*r Mchsubsaquentinsertion. 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 !» SKX•32*'*. "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 VOL.LXV -NEW SERIES VOL. XV-NO. 4b 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