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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
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CHRONICLE 8c SENTINEL
DULY AND THI-WEKK LY,
Are aJxo published at this office, and mailed to gubtcriber*
at tli« f ib firingratec, namely:
D ailt i* apish, if sent by m&U, $7 per anntzm,
Tai-VVaftKLi Papks, 4 u u
TCUTS OF ADYERTISIIG.
I» Wkeklt.—Seventy-five cent* per square (10 line* or
eM) for the first insertion, aod fifty cent* for each ȟbse*
uent Insertion.
COTOOSA SPRINGS, GEORGIA.
THIN DKUTI Ft t and att ractive Watering
Itace will I* open for the reception of visitor* on JKI
the 10th inst. The Owner* and Proprietor* have spared
no expense or pain* to make Cotoosa the Saratoga of the
South.
The accommodation* are ample for Five Hundred Per
son*. Handsome Cottage*, with plastered rooms, and
fire-places well arranged for families, may be engaged for
the Meaaon.
This truly wonderful spot i* situated In Walker county,
0a. f two miles from the W. and A. it. Rood, twenty-five
mile* from Chattanooga, and 11« milt* from Atlanta, (ia.
A splendid Omnibus and Hacks will be in readiness at
Cot'Kua platform to convey paaseijger* over a fine road to
the KpranjM.
The Proprietor* take thU opportunity to *ay that they
eel thankful for the liberal patronage they have received,
and they now *ay to Georgia nnd to the Kouthern Mate*,
that If they will give their encouragement they shall have
at Cotoosa accommodation*, comfort* and luxuries unaur
pasx»<i by any Watering place in the United Htate*.
wfiwttm BATTKY, HICKMAN k MoDONALP.
GROVE MOUNT ACADEMY.
rpiim ACAIibMV l* located in Burke county, on the
A Middle Ground Road between Augusta and Waynes
boro’, and 1* under the charge of Mr. J. E. Palm tut.
The Trustee* Vill, a* soon as there 1* a Class requiring
It, order SI,OOO worth of Philonophical and Chemical Ap
paratus for life use <>f the Academy.
The next Term will open on MONDAY, the 9th of AU
GUST next, and close with an examination, on THURS
DAY, the 2*l ot DECEMBER following.
Tuition for the Term S2O.
MOSES P. GREEN, )
FLIriHA A. ALLKN, V Trustee*.
Jy2l-w4 EDMUND PALMER, \
MARSHALL HOUSE.
rpHK subscriber having leased the above HOUSE,
X situat' dmi Broughton Mtreet, between Abercorn L.?u!
and Drayton street*, for a term of years, respectfully la
form* the cltixens of Savannah and the public generally,
that he in now prepared to receive boarder*, both regular
and transient, on the moat reasonable term*, and pledge*
himself, by strict attention to business, to merit the patron
age of the public. He Intends to make the Marshall House
a riM»r clam Hotel. Hi* table will be supplied with every
luxury that can be procured.
jy24-wlrn WILLIAM JOHNSON.
HOTEL FOR SALE.
npilK HOTEL,in this place, knowu us “WASH- JKk
I INGTON llAhb,” is ollcred for sale. It ha* six
teen sh-eping apartments, a large dining and two reception
room*, every necessary outbuilding, one of the largest and
best gardens in the State, with a line water lot for paster
age attached. This valuable pro|»erty will be sold on rea
sonable terms, and in view of the facts that It 1* the only
Hotel in the place, and our Rail ty.ud will be completed in
a few months, it present* extraordinary inducement* to
any one wishing to engage in that business. Apply to
JOHN 11. DYSON.
Inly 2:1. 1 \52. ___ jytl
COTTON GIN MAKING AND REPAIRING.
rplli; undersigned respectfully informs the Cotton Plant
.l era that he has taken the largo SHOP adjoining the
Kagte Foundry, where he is prepared to make and repair
nil kind of COTTON UlNrf ill the very best style. Thank
ful for the very liberal patronage heretofore extended to
him, respectfully solicits a continuance of the same.
Augu.* i, July 2*, K»2. j>2.Vwt.Nl JOHN L. IIILL.
14 J htul rather be right than Presidents
LIFE OF HENRY CLAY.
C1 150. 11. 11151111%’ A 4 0., Buffalo, have nearly ready,
I and will publish in a few days,
THE LIFE AND PULLIC SERVICES OP HENRY CLAY’,
of Kentucky; the Orator, tint Statesman, the Patriot, and
the PhilantrophiMt—which work has been preparing for
publication during the past year. It will be in one Large
and Elegant 12mo volume, of about f>oo pages; lly Kppcs
Eargent »nd Hot ace Greeley. 11 will alao embrace some of
his choicest Speeches, and will ho Illustrated with an accu
rate Fleet Portrait of the GREAT AMERICAN STATES
MAN,for whom is felt u worl< -wideadmiration.
The publisher* have determined to place the retail price
of the hook within the roach of every one, and to Agent*,
UunvaNsers, Ac., will give the m ist liberal discount* from
the annexed retail prices—sl.2s.
r m Good active Agent* wanted, to sell the above book,
to whom exclusive agency for a county will be given.
On receipt of *» u will forward one copy of the above
book, (for Agent* to use as a sample copy,) by mail, post
4<dc paw, to any place In the United State*, not exceeding
500 mile- from Buffalo, Chicago, or New York.
&r Rooks sent by mail must he pro-paid, according to
the new Pm'LotUcc law. Postage on this work is about 25
cent* for each and every 500 mile*.
Orders solicited from ail parts of the Union. Agents
could find pit; oflnnt and profitable em ploy men t in circula
ting tlii* de*irable memento of the lamented Henhy Clay.
r 4tr IVholciule prices for above nnd other saleable I
books, for which wc want Agents, wilt ha forwarded on ap
plication to us, IV-r Paid.
For furtherinnllcular.t, apply to
Mo.«2* CFO. 11. DKiiltV A CO., Buffalo,N, Y.
GORDON SPRINGS
AIll! XOll Ol'liX for the reception of visitors. First
dart Omnibuses will be run regularly from Tunnel ilill
to the Springs. O. W GORDON.
Jim.-, IS,V.'. JegO-vtim
nr Constitutional!*!, Charleston Mercury, Columbus
Enquirer, Savannah Republic an, Jourr.a ft Messenger (Ma
con), Christian Index nnd Southern Christian Advocate,
will copy 2 month*, nnd send hill to G. W. G.
lit I’I.VMEJIh.
THE ftUBM'UIIIICK vruuld respectfully inform Plant
ers, that he furnishes
SMALL GRIST MILLS,
Suitable to be attached to Gin Gears, of different sites,
and of different patterns at the lowest prices.
These Mill* have given the highest satisfaction, and can
be compared with any from the North.
Please g» v«i us u cuU before buying elsewhere.
YVM. R. HCHIRMER.
Burr Mill Ph.ne Manufacturer, Augusta, '
f&r 4; i jffii ® ©Mii 4; i tt hi.jt)
On Mclntosh street, two doors from Georgia Hail road
Hank.
JURT RKPKIVED, per steamer Africa, the largest
and best assortment of ENGLISH GUNS ever offer
ed In this city, comprising every variety, from London and
Birmingham maker*, at the lowest rate* for cash.
Double and Single Barrelled GUNS, uM nines and prices.
A tine assortment of Single aud Double Barrelled GUNS
or boy*.
RIFLES nnd Double GUNS, of my own make, one barrel
Rifle and the other Shot, a tine article for hunting deer and
Turkic*.
Colts*, Allen’s, and other REVOLVERS; also Single bar
relled, Self Cocking and Rifle PISTOLS, cast steel barrels.
Otmmnm Pistols, all kind* ; Percussion CAPS, of VVester
y Richard'*, Oox's water proof, YVaiker’a and G. D. French,
and Military Caps.
A grout variety of Powder FLASKS, Sliot BELTB, and
Game HAGS, of the finest Patterns.
Also, Wash Rods, Drinking Flasks nnd Cups, Nipple
Wrenches, Pocket Compasses, Screw Drivers, fine large
bunting tlorns, and everything in the Spoi ling line.
Being a practical Gun Maker myudf, and having these
Ipuis made to my order, expressly fbr this market, persons
buying will got a much better articles than Is sold at tho Hard
ware Store*, and at equally low price*, and all warrant
ed to shoot well.
I’owder and Shot, YVholesale and Retail, all varieties.
N. JL —RIFLES made to order, and all kind* of Repair
tui mnd ,'o-atocking GUNS, done in the best manner and
yrarrantod. ol<My Y n. ROGKRK
REUBEN RICH'S PATENT CENTRE VENT WA
TER WHEEL.
CtALTION.—HaviDK been informed that a certain per
) son named Kkko, is vending a Water Wheel upon
which the water Is conducted by mean* of a upirlal scroll, as
upon Reuben Rich’* “Patent iVptre Vent,” we hereby notify
and caution the public, that w# »dll prosecute, in all m
atanees, for any evasion or uj»on said patent,
both the maker and party using, and will bo thankful for
any information referring us to par tie* thu* uyspnssing.
GINDU a T A 00.
Montgomery, Ala., June 11, ISSO.
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM
PANY’S IKON WORKS.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
"If ANIFVC v riHK, In superior style, Ilorutoutal and
1H Upright STEAM ENGINES, of all stsce; Steam
BOILERS ; IaXX)MOTIVIB ; Cast Iron WATER WHEELS;
Sugar MILI.S ; Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, of every varie
ty, (including Hoxie'*continuous feet for Saw Mill*;) En
gine uml Hand LATHES; lrou aud Bras* CASTINGS, of all
.kind*, Ac., Ac.
All orders tilled with despatch.
(apt! grout aco^_
AUBUmniIUL IMPLE- i-R.
MRNTS.—The undersigned are
now receiving from the manufactur- _
«r»at tin* North, and will keep con
atautly on hand a large assortment of the best AGRICUL
TURAL IMPLEMENTS to be had in New York or New
England, or this city, &nd adapted to Southern Husbandry,
which they will sell low for cash.
CARMICHAEL A BEAN.
Augusta, Georgia.
IMPORTANT TO KILL OWNERS AND MANU
KAOTI IKKR&
Jmanmnnent in Water Wheete.
THK SI BM'Ktllt'KH aiv*o)e agent* far making an«l
vending the beet Water Wheel in the world, known as
Vandewatera Water Wheal. We cluUlcnge the World to
produce its equal. It has but recently been Introduced to
the public, and found to be far iu id?aaee of all other
wheel*, Kith In power and economy in water, every drop be
ing effective, and none wasted. This Wheel is not In the
if.'**! affected by back water. As* we prefer them being
fdaeed below tail water in every instance, consequently we
Het every inch of lread; they being entirely of cast iron,
simple of construction, are not liable to get out of order,
and are more durable than any wheel now in use. We
hare recently put one in operation for George Schley,
Kaq.» at his helville cotton factory, to whom we would give
reference. See certificate annexed.
Alt orders for Wheels or Territorial Rights, wfll meet with
attention by addressing the subscribers.
JAGGKB, TREADWELL k PERRY.
Albany, New York.
Or to their Agent, J. J. Kibbe, Augusta.
[CBETirtCAT*.]
Acucstx, G*., March 84,1551.
Jigger. Treadwell k Perry--Gentlemen:— I have the
grain! atwn of hifamvnp you that your Vandewater Wheel
was suc essfuUy pt»t in operation at my factory last week,
•n<t it worked to perfection. Its simplicity, durability, and
uniformity of speed, are reewnmadittaa alone ; but above
all, it# h.gbest encomium U the srnaU quantity of water it
Bakes as compared with other wheels. 1 have been using
one of Reuben Rich*# Centre V ent Wheels, ©f Urn* foci
and a half diameter, and eleven inch backet, the discharge
openings measuring inches. 1 di-pfaced that and put
n one of Yours of l««d diameter, With discharge open
nrußswarins JWUh'hrt, *ud wheel run the tame
•mount of machinery that the t&h Wheel had driven, and
here was n difference la favor of yoiin* of eight inches in
he depth of water in the tad race. lf«*el nu hesitation in
ecomuu-r.ding your wheel to all manufacturers ami mill
waters, believing it b the greatest wheel of the age. Wish
ng you success in the iuiroductou of so valuable an ixa
rovement, 1 main, very re*pectfuHy, «*«■. Ac.
mhiO-vly GEORGE SCHLEY.
IMIXIRTANT TO MANUFACTURERS.
rr>»|K tiI'BSCWDBIM are propA-td to xupply all
J ‘CorroN AND WOOLF.N MACHINERY,
of » «U|»rior quxi.ty, SHAFTING acl MILL GEARING,
with improved Coupling »ud Fuilcys, Seif-Oiling Uancvra
which require oiling only cm in three monihs); LOOMS,
f » grc.l wiety of r.menu, for FMMty *r.J Iwilied Goods,
rom One to Eightee n Shuttle*; <t!fO, for l*i*iu Goods, e»p»-
bl. of running from ISO to 1W pick* per r.iintite.
They arc enabled, from their extend** improvements, to
produce TARN'S and GOODS, with comparatively little
abor; and ait Manufacturers, before purchasing their Ma
hinery, will do weil to visit FhiUddphi* and xleinity.
Where they can see the Machinery srith all the latest im
provements, in full and successful operation; or they can
be referred to factories in almost every State South and
West, by addressing a line to the Subscriber*.
. ALFRED JENK3 * SON,
Feb. fclJUty Bri.K#buig, near Philadelphia.
N. B. Plans eg Factor!*#, w ith the location of lliflilMi J.
be riiuplwt method of driving, and calculation of speed,
f mrniabed free of charge. W ]y
AUGUSTA FRENCH BURR MTT.T. STONE MANU
faltorv.
rpH K subscriber, thankful for the kind patronage heretofore
A extended to the late ttrtn of Seautxu A IVigaxd, would
respoctf illy inform bis friends and the pubhr, that lie contin
nes to execute orders for his well known Warranted Trench
BI RR MILL STONE.*, of every desirable sixe, at the lowest
price and shortest notice. He «I*> furnishes
RSOPOB and COLOGNE STONES,
SML’T MACHINES, of various patterns,
BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best bread,
CEMENT, for Mill use.
And every other articU necessary In a Min.
Also, for Planters, small GRIST MILLS to attach to Ola
Sears.
All orden promptly attended to.
WM. R. fCIIIRMKR,
JjU Vtf PorriTlD, partner of flchlmer A Wlgsnd.
—j ~ —-^'
1852. PROSPECTUS 1852.
OF TUB
MIRMTIVAII
VOLUME X, FOR 1852. «
Dr. D.IVIEL H.V., "T D. RtDJIOVD,
EpROS. I A “SWTAM KdITOR.
TEEMS.—ONE DOLLAE A YEAE IN ADVANCE.
The BorTHEK.x <J bltitatoe i« iiwnc-J every month,
an>l ir* exelufively devoted t« Agriculture, Uorti
culture, Floric ulture. Domei*tieand Farm Economy,
Tillage arid Husbandly, the Breediuir and Haisinff
of Domestic Animala, Poultry and Bees, and the
general routine of Kouthorn .Hunting and Farming.
The new volume for 1652, will be issued on a royal
octavo sheet of 82 pig«a, with NEW TYPE, FI U F
PAPEB, AND BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTKATIONBI
It will contain a much greater amount of matter
than heretofore—will discuss a greater variety of
topics, and will be in every respect the best Asw
ctl.TcnAt. Paper in the Soctu 1 and equal to any in
tiio Union!
Friend* of Southern Agriculture!!
An the Cc ltivatou wan the First journal cntablishcd
in the Cotton (/rowing Mates, exclusively devoted
to the interests of the Planter; and as it has over
been an earnest and consistent advocate of those
interests, we confidently hope that, liaving fostered
and sustained it thus fur, cordial and generous
suj.port will still to continued.
Peanteks, Farmers, (yakdekers, Fitcrr Growers,
Stock Kaweib*, NcßsKiirvEN, and all connected in
any way with the cultivation of the soil, will find the
SocniKiatCultivator replete with new and valua
ble information: and richly worth ten times the
rifling sum at which it i * afforded.
TEEMS OF THE CULTIVATOR :
ONE cojry, one year, ::::::: | 1.00
KiX copses, :::::::::: 5.00
TWELVKcopien, :::::::: 10.00
TWENTY-FIVE copies, :::::: $20.00
FI FTY copies, : : : :::::: 37.50
ONE HUNDKEDcopies, : : : : : : 75.00
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
I SV Gentlemen who obtain snbneriptions, will
please forward them as early as possible.
XrfT All bills of specie paying Banks received at
par—and all money sent by mail will be at our
risu.
W. S. JONES, Publisher.
Augusta, Ga. f January 1,1852.
SPELL) INCREASED AND FARE REDUCED
22 Hewn ahead of the BarneeniUe Line .
DAILY LINK OF FOUR HORSE COACHES.
npHE PI’BLIC are informed that there i* a Daily Line
1 of Four Horse Coaches running between the terminus
of the Atlantaand LaGrange Rail Road and Columbus, Ga.,
via LaGrange and Hamilton, to which the attention of the
travelling public is invited.
Passengers by this Line will leave Atlanta at 4 o’clock,
A. M., and arrive at Columbus at 10# o’clock, P. M.,»ame
day.
No danger of delay, as there are Extra Coaches always
on hand to take all the passenger* that may wish to travel
this way. WM. IJRADFIELD.
IgGrange, Oa., April 1(5,1852. inyUMwAwOm*
LAND FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for Sale the PLANTATION
he nowrottideson, containing Four Hundred and
Eighty Acres, situated in Columbia county, thirteen miles
above Augusta, and about two miles from the Georgia
Railroad, in a very healthy section of country. A further
description is considered useless, as a purchaser is expect
ed to examine for himself. WM. M. THOMAS.
Bel Air, August 5,1852. au7-w4
ETOWAH IRON WORKS AND FLOUR MILLS
r|MII£ undersigned*informs his friends and the public
1 that he has, by the co-operation of friends, purchased
the ETOWAH WORKS, and will continue to operate the
Establishment as heretofore, and will be pleased to receivo
orders. He proposes to make a superior quality of MER
CHANT IRON ; also, HOLLOW-WARE and MACHINERY
CASTINGS.
JI« will also buy WHEAT and sell FLOUR, nnd has now
a superior article of Superfine FLOUR, which he will sell
low for ca*h. ftiiß-w4 MARK A. COOPER.
NOTICE.
IIIEIIKIW FORKWAKX nil persons not to trade
f>r a NOTE, made by me, payable to Ephraim Clayton,
for Seventy Dollars, dated about the 17th of January last,
and due the 25th of December next, ns the consideration
therefor, which was for the hire of a supposed Negro named
Frank, has failed, and 1 am determined not to pay the same
unless compelled to do so by law.
THOMPSON BANKS.
Lexington, Ga., July 22,1852. jy24-wliu
LAND AND MILLS FOE SALE.
r PIIK undersigned offers for sale Thirteen Hundred rfjgfc
I and Twenty-seven Acres, more or less, of Pine
LAND, all well timb red, about Seven or Eight Hundred
Acres of which is excellent Farming Land; a good SAW
MILL; twoOKIST MILLS, one for Corn and one for Wheat,
all nearly new and in good order; a large run of custom to
all of the Mills; a roomy two-story OIN HOUSE; a fifty
Saw COTTON GIN, of Griswold's make, to go by water; a
good COTTON PRESS, all nearly new; a DWELLING, and
other necessary buildings. The above premises is situated
near the mouth of Cane Creek, in the South-east part of
Meriwether county, Georgia.
N. B. A bargain can be had in the above property.
aull-wlO WM. M. AMOS.
/ ii:oiu;i\, c ot atv.—jnr.ugbt
v I to the Jail of this county, on Saturday, the 7th vO
Inst., a Negro Boy, 14 or Ift years old, 5 feet Bor 4 'ML
inches high, very black, and says his name is «JuL
GEORGE. He says he was brought to Georgia, from
Green county, North Carolina, by a Trader by the name of
Williams, lie sold him to a man by the name of McWhor
ter, and that McWhorter started home with him, and at
Union Point, on the Georgia Kail U<>ad, he got off the cars
and was accidently left, and that he does not know where
Ids master lives. The owner of said boy will please come
forward, prove property, pay expenses, and take him away.
J. MORRISON, Sheriff.
(iivcnshoi-n’, Aagoit 10,1608. aul2 w 2
$25 REWARD.
r> ANAWAY from the subscriber, living in Dal-
L las county, about the middle of last May, Two y.O
Negro Men named MAJOR and BKdSICK.
Major is about 80 years old, ft feet 6 inches high,
black complexion, heavy beard, converses well, and is a
very intelligent negro.
Bessick is about ‘-'1 years of age, ft feet, 0 inches high,
light complexion, (not a mulatto), with but little or no
beard, and is easily embarrassed and confused when a lit
tle frightened.
I bought Major in Richmond Virginia, last December, and
Bessick in the same city, in December, 1850.
I will pay Twenty-live Dollars reward for each one of the
Negroes, if delivered to me, or placed in a Jail so I can get
thorn. HARDAWAY YOUNG,
jy2B-8t Cambridge, Dallas county, Ala.
ADVERTISEMENT.
COTTON ANI) WOOLEN MACHINERY,
AND STEAM SAW MILLS AND ENGINES.
Tlllt lNHh\ COMPANY, Lawrence, Mass., will
promptly execute all orders for Cotton and Woolen
MACHINERY of all kinds, and will contract for whole mills
from the water wheel or steam engine to the finishing ma
chine. Steam Saw Mills for gangs or single saws. Ma
chinists’ Tools of every description. Locomotives and
Freight Caro. Machinery of all kinds on hand, either fin
ished or in progress, so that orders can be filled at short
notice. Terms are very low. Persons contracting for
Mills will be furnished with drawings for arranging the Mills,
without charge. GORDON McCAY, Agent.
'i VVLNi'Y-FVL CENTS REWARD.
THIS public arc hereby notified, that ou the 17th day of
July, inst., a man who calls himself J. W. BELL, run
away from the Johnson House, in this city, without settling
his bill for board; and also borrowed a fine Colt's Revolving
Pistol, which he carried off with him. The said Bell weighs
about 150 pounds, talks a great deal, very profane, has
down-cast Yankee brogue, large ugly mouth, one large left
front tooth out, has a supernumerary, or tusk on the right,
black hair, (little gray front,) black eyes, fair skin, beard
little inclined to be red, about 6 feet 10 inches high ; wore
off a black frock coat, black pants, black satin vest, and
black fur hat. Bell professed to be a Book-binder by trade,
and said he was from Montgcinc'y, Ala. Any information
respecting the said SCOUNDREL, will be thankfully re
ceived by the undersigued.
All newspapers friendly to this, will please hand him
around, and oblige * E. 11. GILLESPIE,
J. D. WELLS,
jy2B-w4 • Atlanta, Ga.
~5i,600 reward.
Dll. HUNTftSK'B celebrated SPECIFIC, for the cure
of Gonorrhoea, Strictures, Gleet and Analagous Com
plaints of the Organs of Generation.
Os all remedies yet discovered for the above com
plaiut, this is the most certain.
5J(y It makes a speedy and permanent cure without re
striction to diet, drink, exposure, or change of application
to business.
fiT* It is perfectly harmless. Gallons of it might be
tak* n without injuring the patient.
It is put up in bottles, with full directions accom
panying it, go that persous can cure themselves without re
sort iug to phyuJitux or others for advice.
One bottle is enough to perform a certain cure. Price ft.
It is approved and recommended by the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of London and has
their certificate enclosed.
IST It is sold by uppointment in Augusta, Ga., by
PHILIP A. MOIBE,
Under the new Augusta Hotel, and by W. H. A J. TURPIN.
Orders from the country promptly attended to. je*2
GLEN DINNING & CO S
lifARBLB tVORKb, Broad street, Augusta, Georgia,
if I Where we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large stock of both Italian and American Marble, for
Monuments, Toombs, Head Stones, Ac., to which we res
pectfully call the attention of those wanting work in our
iue. We are uow prepared to fill all orders at short no
tice, in as pood style and as low as work of the same quality
can l>e famished for from any establishment iu the United
States. Plans and prices will be sent those who cannot call
and examine for themselves.
P. S,—Orders from the country executed with neatness
and despatch. d 27
INTERESTING TO COTTON PLANTERS.
O It. PAKKiU'RST’g Patent Cotton Seed CLEAN
• ING MACH IN K, constructed without 8* ws or Ribs.
The Inventor of this Machine now hius the pleasure of an
nwcriiigUie numerous inquiries from Cotton Planters, res
pecting the performances and results of this Gin. It has
been fully tested by cleaning the entire crop of a large
planter near Columbia, 8. C., (a certificate from whom is
attended,) enhancing the value of the Cotton one and a
half to tw o cents per lb. over that cleaned by any Saw Gin.
This advance'll price more than pays for a Machine in one
year's average cron, the cost of it being only SBSO. Ii turns
out equally a.* much or more, than any Jnaw Gin ; is more
simple and perfectly safe to the ginner, inasmuch
as he cannot cut himself; and the great danger of fire, by
friction, in other Machines is entirely obviated.
Arrangements are completed, to build these Machines
in Augusta, far the State of Georgia ; and Cotton Planters
desiring them, are nwpectfolljr requested to send their or
ders to the subscriber. One of the Gius may be seen in
operation at my Steam Mill. W. U. GOODRICH.
Augusta, April, ISM. apl9
Copy of a certificate from Col. Wade Hampton, dated at
Millwood, Nov. 4,1850.
Mr. Parkhurst has been, far some weeks, at my plantation
adapting his Cotton Gin, originally intended for Long Cot
ton, to short staple. The experiment has been entirely suc
cessful. He has one Gin in operation, which will prepare
four bales of three hundred ami fifty pounds each, per day,
and the quality of the cotton is far better than 1 hare
erer eeen. By this process of cleaning cotton, the staple
is uninjured, while all the motes and false seeds are almost
entirely separated from the lint. I deem this discovery of
vast importance to the country, and i earnestly hope that
Mr. Parkhurst may be rewarded for it.
aullMrly W. Havptq*
SO TIC E,
DU. HRARY BACON having transferred his interest
in the firm of D. B. PLUMB k CO., to Dr. I. P.
the undersigned will continue the DRUG BUSI-
N ESS at the same stand and under the same firm name,
aad will clow up the business of the old firm.
D. B. PLUMB,
. 4 . I. P. GARVIN.
_Aogu*tn, January 315 1, 1552. fel
T uk GKOCERIMI. GROCERIES. ~
to tarry on the Wholesale
•iw,—lL ß 2Sirl? c *7 u ihelr Old Sund, just
sbove Globe lioiH, in the <-ity of August., tild they
viifl pabUc ttl * l .re now receiving Uieir
Full . upply of Hear, uia Fan,.,. Groceries, which they will
sell on the most rensonxWe terms, *
offer' for sale—
-100 hsie. lit inch Gunnv Cloth
600 ooiLfcraif inch
60 hluis. If. OrWsns end c..—
100 bbts. &.,«•, Crushed
800 bxg? prime I*U> sad Lsguir. GoCee '
8S che«» snd hslf “*
50 hh*ls. Cuba Molasses.
100 bbls. Hiram Smith »ntl BtUtimore Floor
100 boxes Sperm. Ads., xnd T»llow Csndw'
800 kegs Cut Suits. Ml sixes,
T 5 boxes Tobscco of vwriour quxlitim.
*6,000 lbs. Hum, Sides sod Shoulders/*
1,800 sseks Liverpool gsR.
—ALSO-
Bpiees, Pickles, Preserves Seexre, uid d vtides tuniil,
kept in the best Oroeeiy Houses. J
Strict xttenuon given to country orders.
.nIS-w J- R. A W. M. DOW.
BOLTiSU I'lAtlUk of warranted quality, tunilSSi
and put up in bold to order.
Mill Stone Plaster, pre|«ared for backing Mill Stones, cheap
and of the best quality, for by
WM. R. SCHTRMER,
ialß wtf Augusta. G»
1 ________ _
. Sfk'hhds. BACON;
S» “ SUGAR;
65u bbts. W'IIISKET;
100 “ FLOCK;
ra Store and lor sale, on 4 and 5 mouths time, with approv
*d sscnrlty. JOBS KERB'
WEEKLY
MISCELLANY.
From the Louisville Journal.
MEMORIES.
In silence and in solitude I love to gather all
The cherished thoughts of bygone hours, where like Au
tumn leaves they fall,
Bringing the hues of summer-time, when hope was fresh
and green,
To blend with the spirit’* ripened bloom and the harvest’*
golden sheen.
To wander through the vale of year*, where the stars of
memory ca **
Their soft and shadowy splendors o’er the ocean of the past,
And smile again, a* vanished joy* before us seem to sweep,
’Till startled by some keen regret we turn away to weep.
A look, a word, a music-tone, a perfume wafted by,
How often are they laden with some thrilling memory;
The loved—the lost- those we may meet no more as we
hare met, N
Vision* too sad to dwell upon, too lovely to forget.
I would not tear from memory’s wreath the tiniest bud away,
For all the gaudy flowers that shed their fragrance o’er to
day ;
And e’en the shadows of the past more dear and sacred seem
Thun joys which on the present cast a warm and glowing
beam.
I would not rend the smallest link of by-gone hours In twain,
If love could bring his brightest gems to mend the broken
chain;
Nor lo*e tme drop from memory’s cup (e’en were It dashed
with woe),
Though lift’s unbroken chalice still with pleasant might
o’erflow.
I would not silence memory’s harp, or break one golden
string,
If mirth’s loud anthems in my heart forever-more could
ring.
Nor quench the silvery lamp that beams within her holy urn,
To wander after meteors which far in the luture burn.
The present may be full of bliss—the pant tinged with regr%t,
But light and shade within my heart have mingled as they
met;
And if the tear for pleasures gone, should dim a smile to-day,
Moments of sunshine oft will o’er the clouds of memory play.
Canton-Place, La. Koei.
From the New York Evening Post.
TRIFLES.
A flower, given by one we love,
Is prised far more than sparkling gems,
A smile, a look, a gentle word,
Outweigh ts the costliest diadems;
Then why should we those trifles call,
Which make the sum of life the all
That man doth live for here below,
And make him joy or sorrow know ?
A tear upon the loved one’* cheek
Will make the haughtiest spirit quail,
A look of pain, of grief, or care,
Will turn the rose to lily pale.
Then why should we those trifles call,
Which make the sum of life the all
That man doth live for here below,
And make him joy or sorrow know ?
A look of scorn hath led to hate,
A kindly smile hath won a heart,
The one leaves but unhappiness,
The others joy shall ne’er depart.
Then why should we those trifles call,
Which make the sum of life the all
That man doth live for here below,
And make him joy or sorrow know ?
HEART WISDOM.
BY VUfCINT LEIGH HUNT.
*Ti* weak to pine for pleasures past, or scorn
To hoard their leaves still green in memory.
Our happiest days, like frailest flowers must di*
The winds that take the blossom, leave the thorn ;
To some hard trouble all of us are l*>rn.
Blessed Die day that’s passed without a sigh;
Blessed a day with sighs—if we can dry
The tears of those who have a cause to mourn.
How many hate, who might each othy love,
Did they but judge the living as if dead —
Stretched cold before them with dim stony eye*!
Diviner far than all the star* above
I* one forgiving word in kindness «aid—
One loving look that in the memory iies !
Compliment to the United States.— Tho fol
lowing compliment to our country is taken from
a late English paper;
“ While the people of most of the countries in
Europe go to logger-heads when there is any kind
of difference of opinion amongst them, and could
not for ages, and cannot elect a Bishop or a
Burgomaster, a Landamann, or a King, a parish
Beadle or a member of Parliament, without con
tests and conflicts, wasting money and time, gene
rating disturbances, and breaking heads or shed
ding blood, the Americans, by some simple and
reasonable method—caucus, log-rolling, conven
tion—manage quietly to bring all their disputes to
the decision of a numerical test.
41 For upwards of seventy years, during the most
of which tho old civilized states of Europe have
been convulsed with contests, insurrections, revo
lutions and wars—being ruined by police, soldiers,
and restrictions to prevent mischief when not en
gaged in bloody battle—the Americans have lived
in almost perfect peace, and have continually elect
ed throughout their states an immens* mass of of
ficials, from a hall porter to the President, without
more disturbance than is occasioned in Europe by
changing tho quarters of a regiment. The expla
nation of the phenomenon seems to lie in tho
common but general fact, that knowledge gives
skill.
“The youngest of nations, the United States,
profit by the experience of tlioir predecessors ; and
os they benefit by all the admirable machinery of
old Europe, for cultivating tho soil and manufactu
ring c’oth, besides inventing more new and admi
rable machinery of their own than is possessed by
any other nation except the English, so they ben
efit by using tho best machinery of government
previously known and in use in Europe, while
they have improved it by still better machinery of
their own. They are simply more skilled in the
art of government, as they are more skilled in the
management of steamboats and telegraphs than
most of tho people of Europe.”
Quoting Scripture.—A worthy deacon in tho
good town of F. was remarkable for the facility
which ho quoted Scripture on all occasions. This di
vine word was ever at his tongue’s cad, and all tho
trivial, as well as important occurrences of life fur
nished occasions for quoting lauguage of the Bible.
What is better, however, tho exemplary man made
his quotation* the standard of action. One hot
day no was engaged in mowing, with his hired
man who was loading olf, the deacon following in
his swath, conning his apt quotations, when the
man suddenly sprang from his place, leaving tho
swath just in’time to escape a wasp’s nest.
“What is tho matter?’’ hurriedly inquired the
deacon.
“Wasps!” was the laconic reply.
“Poh I” said tho deacon, “the wicked fieo when
no mnupursucth, but the righteous are as bold as
a lion, and taking the workman’s swath, he
moved but a step when a swarm of brisk insects
settled about his ears, and he wa» forced to retreat
with many a painful sting, and in great discomfit
ure.
“Aha 1” shouted the other with a chuckle, “the
prudent men forseeth the evil, and hideth himself,
but the simple pass on and arc punished.”
The good deacon had found ms equal in making
application of the sacred writing, aud thereafter,
was not known te quoto Scripture in a mowing
field.
The Stream of Life.—Life bears on like the
stream of a mighty river. Our boat at first glides
swiftly down the narrow channel, through tho
playful murmorings of the littlo brook, nnd wind
ing along its grassy border, the trees shed their
blossoms over our young beads, and tho flowers
of the brink seem to olfer themselves to our young
hands; wo are in hop*, w* grasp eagerly at th*
baauties around Us, but the stream hurries us on,
and still our hands are empty.
Our course in youth and manhood is along a
wider and deeper flood, and amid objects more
striking and magnificent. Wo are animated by the
moving picture of enjoyment and industry that is
passing before us ; we are excited by snort-lived
success, or depressed and rendered miserable by
some short-lived disappointment. But our ener
gy and dependence are both in vain. The
stream bears on, and our joys and griefs are left
behind us ; wo may be shipwrecked, but we can
not anchor; our voyage may bo hastened, but we
cannot bo delayed ; whether rough or smooth, the
river hastens towards its home ; the roaring of the
waves is beneath our keel, and land lessens from
our eyes, the floods are lifted up around us, and we
take our last leave of earth and its inhabitants,
and of our future voyage there is no witness but
the infinite and tho eternal. —Bishop llebtr .
Internatiokal Co!»ous»3 qp Science and Sta
tistic*.—Tlic National InteUigencor statog that the
efforts of Mr. Kennedy, ehiof of the Census
Ilureitu, of the establishment of un International
Congress of Science and Statistic*, have interested
a number of the distinguished literary men of
Europe in tlioir furtherance, and are likely to prove
altogether successful. Acting upon the sugges
tion of Mr. Kennedy the officers of the Belgian
Government, after corresponding with the savaus
of other European nations, have taken the initia
tive by calling a meeting at Brussels next month
for the purpose of organizing an International
Scientific Congress. Baron Quetelet, Director of
the Royal Observatory at Brussels, has addressed
Mr. Kennedy on the subject, explaining the steps
that have been taken ami the programme that will
be hereafter pursued. It is proposed to divide the
Congress into sections, each of which shall pursue
tho investigation committed To it. The first sec
tion will be devoted to “general statistic*, terri
tory- and populationthe second to “ production
au j consumptionthe third to “ the state of edu
cation and morals.” Tho Intelligencer suggest,
that as the formation of tho Congress was an
American idea it is important that this country
should bo «uitally represented in it.— Salt. Amtr.
♦
Domestic Affection. —The ancients exalted do
mestic affection into a household god, and one of
the most beautiful atiques now preserved is a gem
representing a draped figure of a woman worship
ping this deity, as it kneels upon a pedestal.
Croly wrote the following sweet lines upon it:
Oh! love of love*! to thy white hxnd is given
Os earthly happiness the golden key!
Thine are the joyous hours of winter's even.
When the babes ding around their father's knee;
And thine the voire, that on the midnight sea
Melts the rude mariner with thoughts of home,
Peopling the gloom with ail he longs to see.
Spirit! I've bugt a shrine ; and thou hast eome.
And on its altar closed—foreeer closed thy plume!
A Potemal Dodge.—Those who happen to live
jnst this side of the line, which for miles divides
Massachusetts from New Hampshire, escape the
rigorous operation of the Liquor Law, bv stepping
over, and thus beyond its jurisdiction. By a simi
lar process the Granite-ribbed commonwealth has
not unl'requently extended aid and comfort to the
line j outsiders of Maine. We have understood
that a number of liquor dealers in this vicinity
have recently taken up their abode in Pelham, and
other places’ in New Hampshire, within half an
hour's* ride. One individual has bought a piece of
land in that State, and put on it a building, so con
trived that his bar stands exactly up to the line in
New Hampshire, while his customers, as they
hold the glass to the mouth, drink in Massachu
setts ! This 1» a dodge potential which the law
cannot touch. —LowiU Ooar.
Varieties.— The slang phrase, “ I won’t do any
thing else,” is now politely rendered, “ Under
<he most incomprehensible conditions of sublunary
disarrangement, I will not be compelled to have
recourse to any dissimilar oourae of proeeedure.
A person once sent a note to a waggish Wend
for the loan of his aoow paper, Mid reoeived in re
turn hia friend's marriage certificate.
Winehell, the Humorist, tell* the following
which happened, to h» knowledge, eome months
since. A gentlemen seeing a crowd, and stepping
up to inquire the cause, thus aecoeted a son of
Ireland:
“Could you inform me what occasions this large
crowd !”
“Well, sir—ye* sir—l believe it is » funeral, sir. ’
“Thank yoa air. Could you tell mo who it is
that is dead I”
“Why, yes sir. As near as I can learn, sir, it’s
the man who is in the eojin, sir!”
How to make a Caxmom.—The following is an
Irishman's description of making a cannon!
“Take a long hole, and pour braes or iron around
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1852.
Drum the Button Olive Branch.
The Model Widower.
Begins to think of No. 2 before the weed on his
| hat looses first (floss. May be seen assisting young
girls to find a seat in church or ordering carts off
dry crossings, for pretty feet that are wanting to
Pass over. Is convinced he “Kt wot never mao* to
lire alone." Ilis ‘‘children must be looked after,”
or, if he hasn't any, he would like to be looked
after— himself! Draws a deep sigh, every time a
dress rustles past, with a female woman in it. Is
very particular about the polish of Ins boots, and
the fit of his glove; thinks he looks very inter
esting in black. Don’t walk out in public much
frith hit children, when he doet, takes the youngest!
Revives his old taste for moonlight and poetry;
pities single men all bis heart; wonders how they
contrive to exist I Reproves little John for saying
“ /'a.” so loud when he meets him in the street.
Sets fiis face against the practice of women’s going
home “alone and unprotected” from evening meet
ing. Tells the widows, his heart aches for ’em 1
Wonders which of all the damsels he sees, he shall
make up hit mind to marry. Is sorry he shall be
obliged to dieajpoint 'em' all but one ! has long
since preferred orange blossoms to the cypress
wreath. Starts np some fine day and re-furmshes
his house from garret to cellar; hangs his first
wife’s portrait in the attic (shrouded in an old
blanket, and marries a playmate of his oldest
daughter I
THE MODEL WIDOW.
Wouldn’t-wear her veil up, on any account.
Thinks her complexion looks fairer than ever, in
contrast with her sables. Sends back her new
dress, because the fold of crape on the skirt “ isn’t
deep mourning cnouglf. Steadfastly refuses to
Took in the direction of a “dress coat” for
one week 1 Wonders if that handsome Tompkins
who passes her window every day, is insane
enough to think, she will ever marry again ! Is
fond of drawing off her glove, and resting her little
white hand on her black bonnet, thinking it may
he suggestive of au early applioation for the same.
Concludes to give up the loneliness of housekeep
ing, and try boarding at a hotel. Accepts Tomp
kins’ invitation to “ attend the children’s concert,”
{just to please little Tommy.) Tommy is delighted,
and thinks Tompkins “ a very kind gentleman,”
to give him so much candy and so many bons-bons.
His mamma begins to admit certain little allevia
tions of her sorrow, * in the shape of protracted
conversations, walks, rides, calls, &c. (She cries
a Utile, when Tommy asks her if she hasn’t “ for
gotten to plant the flowers” in a certain cementry.)
Tompkins comes in, and thinks her lovlicr titan
ever, smiling through her tears. Tommy is tent
out into the garden, to male ‘■'■pretty dirt pies'. "’
(to the utter demolition of a new frock and trousers,)
and returns very unexpectedly, to find his mamma's
cheeks very rosy, aud to bo tossed up in tbe air by
Tompkins, who declare himself “ his new papal"
THE MODEL CLERK.
Has his hair and whiskers curled and perfumed
•very morning; wears a seal ring on his little fin
ger and no mistake! baa a praiseworthy ambition
to wear a bigger bow to his cravat than any man
of his inches on the street; never budges the
length of a yardstick, to wait on a female customer
who is neither young nor pretty, (unless his em
ployer stands by.) Makes it a point of conscience
to pass over to Irish women and children, all tho
crossed "fopensappennys" and questionable quar
ters and ninepences; thiuksite great proof ofdry
goods genius to “crack up” some obsolete shawl or
dress to the uuitiated, as thft “very latest fashion,”
“the/only one to be had in the city”—always tells
“cash”—to bo as slow as possible when a pretty
woman stands waiting fcfr “change.” It as obse
quious as a lackey to the iady whoso horses stand
prancing at the door, spinning a somerset, double
quick time, over the counter (to the damage of his
favorite ringlet) in order to pick up hes pocket
handkerchief. Believes in cigars, cologne, cream of
roses, “soft soap,” and swearing—rattans, rope
dancers, Roman punch, and “rows puts all he
earns on his own adorablo porson, and “never
saw the country, ’pon honor 1”
TOLLT.
For girls to expect to be happy without mar
riage. Every woman was made for a mother, con
sequently, babies are as necessary to their “peace
of mind,” as health. If you wish to look at meoh
aneholy and indigestion, look at an old maid. If
you would take a peep at sunshine, look in the
face of n young mother.
Now I won't stand that / I’m an old maid my
self; and I’m neither lemoncholy norindigestiblc!
My “ piece of mind'' I’m going to give yon, (in a
minute) and I never want to touch a baby with a
pair of tones! “Young mothers and sunshine!”
Worn to fiddling strings before they arc twenty
five! When au old lover turns up he thinks ho
sees his grandmother, instead of the dear little
Mary whouscdtomakehimfcelasifheshouldcrawl
out of the toes of his boots! Yes Imy mind is
guile made up about matrimony ; but as to "babies,"
(sometimes I think, and then again I don’t knowl)
but on the whole Ibelievel consider ’em a d ecided
humbug 1 It’s a one-sided partnership, this mar- 1
ringe! the wife casts upaUtlie accounts !
“ Husband” gets up in the morning, and pays '
his "devours" to tho looking glass; curls his flue 1
head of hair; puts on an immaculate shirt bosom;
ties an excruciating cravat; sprinkles his handker- 1
chief with cologne; stows away a French roll, an 1
egg, and a cup of coffee: gels into tho omnibus, 1
looks tlauntendicular at the pretty girls, and makes
love between the pauses of business during tho 1
forenoon generally. Wifo must “hermetically
seal” the windows and excludo all tho fresh air,
(bccauso the baby had “the snuffles” in the 1
night;) and sits gasping down to tho table moro '
dead than alive, to finish her breakfast. Tommy
turns n cup of hot coffee down his bosom; Juliana :
has torn offthestringof her school bonnet; James 1
“ wants his Geography covered;” Eliza can’t find '
her satchel; tho bu'cher wants to know if she’d 1
like a joint of mutton; the milkman would like -
liis money; tho ice man wants to speak to her '
“just a minute;” tho baby swallows a bean ; hua- 1
baud sends the boy home from the store to say his '
partner will dine with him; the cook leaves “ all !
flying,” to go to her “sister’s dead baby's wake,”
and husband’s thin coat must be ironed before ]
noon. “ Sunshine and young Mother* l" Where’s (
my smelling bottle 1 1
“Woman! she requires no eulogy.” '
Lucky they don’t 1 they wouldn’t get it from mo; J
I’ve had enough of’em, I have. I’ve crossed over i
to the “Philistines,” and much as I ever dare
speak te one of them, lest he should be lover or
husband to some of these viragos. Just cross tho ,
trnok once of some female friend (?) in love or
literature. Hornets aud nettles 1 tho way you’ll ,
get demolished 1 not that they won’t smile on you '
just the same; oh yes 1 but wait till your back is ,
turned—if the dissecting knife of friendship don’t
take you to pieces till your mental skeleton is an
anatomical curiosity, set me down for a fool 1 The
book you wrote will be miserable and unfeminine
—they disapprove your style entirely ; ten to one '
at the very time they arc trying a poor imitation
of it themselves. Then just let ’em catch you
looking at a geutlcmnn they have mentally appro
priated 1 they’ll compass heaven and earth, but '
thoy’ll put their foot on your presuming neck 1 .
Now I know I shall get my eyes scratched out for
this, but never mind, I’m used to it, in fact it is a
pleasant little excitement 1 There’s too many wo
men in the world, by half! there oint room enough
for ’em, nnlesß Congress “annexes” the moon.
Each one wants a world of hearts to herself, and it
stands toreason they can't have it, and what’s more
they shan’t while I’m about 1 Ferns are said to
be green, but I know better ! Some of ’em are
blue, and they are rank poison to some people too,
unless they let 'em alone. Fanny Fern.
A Whisper to Gentlemen.
BT FANNY FERN.
Jupiter Ammon I don't I wish I was a man, just
to ehow the masculines how to play their part in
the world a littlo better 1 In the first place there
ain’t a mother’s sou of you that has got as far as
A BCin the art of making love, land I’ve seen a
sow abortions in that way myself, as well as the
rest of the sisters.) What woman wants to be
told that “her feet and eyes are pretty,” or, “her
form aud smile bewitching!” Just as if she
didn’t know all her fine points as soon as Bheis
tall enough to peep into a looking-glass 1
No, you ineffable donkey, if you must use the
small coin of flattery to pay toll at the bridge of
her affections, let mo whisper a secret in your long
ears. Compliment her upon some mental attrac
tion she does not possess, (if you can find one.)
aud don’t wear the knees of your pet pants thread
bare at her feet, trying to make her believe that
she is your first lovo. We all know that is among
the things that were, after you were out of your
jacket and trowsers.
What a splendiferous husband I (Fanny) should
make, to be sure ! had Providence only ordained
it 1 Do you suppose when the mother of my
glorious boys wanted a sixpence to buy their shoe
strings, I’d scowl at her like a hyena, and pull my
porte-monuaic out of my pocket os if I were draw
ing a tooth ? Do you suppose, when her blue eyes
grew lusterless, and the rose paled on her fair
check, trotting round the domestic tread-mill day
alter day, that I’d come home at night sulky and si
lent and smoke my cigar in her face till her eyes were
as red as rabbit’s ? or take myself off to a club or a
game at nine-pins, or any other game and leave
her to the exhilarating relaxation of darning my
stockings i
Do von suppose I’d trot along like a loose pony
at her side in the street, and leave her to keep up
with me or not as her strength would permit ?
Do yon suppose I’d fly into a passion aud utter
words to crush the life from out r.er voung heart,
aud then insult her by offering a healing plaster in
the shape of anew bonnet ? And don’t you sup
pose, when the anniversary of our wedding day
came round, I’d write a dainty little note and leave
it on her toilet table, to let her know I was still a
married lover!
Pshaw 1 I’m sick of yon ail 1 You don’t deserve
the love of a generous, high-souled woman! If
you want a housekeeper, hire one and be done
with it. If you won’t a wife—but you don’t.
One woman will answer as well as another to
sew your buttons and straps and strings, and make
your puddings and—so on aud so forth.
Do you suppose wc have cultivated our minds
and improved tho bright and glorious gift of in
tellect, to the best of our capacity, to minister
only to your physical wants! Not a bit of it!
W hen that's over, wc want something rational.
Do you ever think of that, you selfish wretch 1
when you sit with your feet upon the mantelpiece,
reading the newspaper all to yourself, or sit from
tea-time till ten o’clock staring the ashes in the
grate out of countenance ?
Lord Harry 1 If I had such a block of a hus
band, I’d scare up the ghost of a lover some
where, if there’s any wit in woman I
_A company is about to be formed in London,
with a capital of one hundred thousand pounds,
in twenty thousand shares, for the purpose of in
troducing sea-wa; er for bathinginto the metropolis.
It is ascertained that the water of the German
Ocean is purer and better than the sea-water of
the Southern coast of England: moreover the
elevation of the coast along the German Ocean is
higher than Londan; consequently the sea-water
will have a natural tail to the metropolis, without
the aid of expensive machinery to raise it from
the ocean. Brighton lies below London several
feet, and the sea-water is not pure. It is therefore
proposed to bring sea-water through three lines
of pipes running alongside the Eastern Counties
Bail way, and buried in the ground. The water
will be taken from the coast at Lynn, which is
nearly one hundred miles from the metropolis,
and distributed at the west end of the town, each
mansion being adequately supplied at the annual
charge of about five pounds. The whole expense
of this novel scheme, it is calculated, will not ex
ceed one hundred thousand pounds, and it is con
fidently believed that shareholders will realize up
wards of 100 per cent, on the capital.
A Goon Scooxction.— A correspondent of the
Washington Bepublie states that the numerous
collisions at sea tha* have of late occurred in the
European waters have suggested the idea of
holding a convention of delegates from mil the
principal maritime nations, for the purpose of
agreeing upon certain rules of navigation, obliga
tory upon all the contracting parties. The princi
pal oracle of this agreement would be one com
pelling all sailing vessels to carry three lights of
different odors at night—os is now done bv all
ocean steamers—a heavy penalty to be exacted of
every ship discovered soiling without such lights.
It.is said that the Governments of France, Eng
land, the United States, Holland, Sweden, Den
mark, Spun and Russia have expressed their readi
ness to ooncur in such an arrangement.
Dtoco.ery of America by the Norweigans.
Tho following interesting communication con
sists of extracts from a familiar letter addressed
to a relative by our accomplished representative
at the Swedish Court, Francis Schroeder, of Ebode
Island, and will he found worthy of attentive pe
rusal :
S*CKHOUt, April 23,1852.
• * * In fact, my dear F , I suppose
that wa have all a kind of resentment, or at least a
disinclination, for the idea that Columbus was not
the first great explorer of the far western Atlantic.
With me the thought has always been unwelcome:
but whether it is because I am wayfaring among
the Northmen, and, therefore, am naturally asking
about their misty ancestors, or whether I have
been somewhat won over to their aide of the
question by what one meets among them at the
present day, the result has certainly been to give
me much interest in the Viking Kovers, and con
siderable faith in the chronicles of the Icelanders,
as well as in their curious old Sagas—traditions
originally oral.
Iceland was discovered and peopled nearly six
hundred years before the birth or Columbus, by
a race of Norwegian adventurers who preserved
their independence for four hundred years. They
had a constitution and a form of government
purely republican. One of their Presidents was
the renowned Snorrow Sturleson, whoso editorial
genius has made him tho delight of the Northern
antiquary ; but long before his time, and indeed
during the greater part of the period of tho Ice
lander independence, the chroniclers had been
regularly at their work.
There’ is, indeed, no donbt that early in life
Colnmbns went to Iceland, where the people
were, ns now, Bingularly well informod aud
proud of their ancestors, and of their ances
tors’ glory. There is no country, it appears,
in which the lower classes are so well informed.
An Iceland peasant will often address a traveller
in Latin, and recount to Urn whole chapters of
classic record of the olden times. That Columbus
escaped this we may ardently hope, but as he
reallv war in Iceland, and as setting sail with the
northern skippers he penetrated further, and en
tered several degrees within tho polar circle, it
seems just possible that, during this period of his
life, he may have learned some little of .
But this is treusen ; and let us resolve, dear F—,
never to believe that he saw or lacard a syllable of
those half dozen chroniclers who, at different
times, and with surprising uniformity, wrote from
the words of explorers themselves; Ist us. there
fore, bo resolved never to suppose that Columbus
ever learnod a syllable, unless the barnacle-covered
keg that was picked up in tho straits of Gibraltar
(and which they tell us was thrown overboard by
himself in a storm on his first voyage shall, at
length, disclose Borne terrible confessions, as it
were, in txtremis.)
Be this as it may, my friends ill Rergin olaim
that their ancestors not only were in America in
the year 1001, but had establishments there for the
succeeding three hundred and forty-six years; ,
and as old Bhode Island and Connecticut are much
concerned in the large and unliquidated claim, it
has been a labor of love to grapple with the Scan- :
dinavian lore, and I make it a task of love to write
while lam dwelling in the ancioqt “oflloina gen- ;
turn.” The old historic title we must admit to be
fair, if the sons of Scandinavia ever picknicked at j
the Spoutmg Bock; so let us look at her chronicles i
of A. D. 1001. • ,
Once upon a time there was a man—a Norwegian t
—whose name was Ileriolf, and who, with his sou j
Biarn, sailed about in ships, and trafficked from ,
land to laud. He was descended from Bari Ingolf; |
who, more than* hundred years before, had found
ed the colony in Iceland, and, like tho Vikings of ]
his native Norway, Heroilf and his son were most (
at home upon tho stormy sen. By some strange ]
accident, they were once, and for the first time ;
separated. The pious Biarn, in search like a j
northern Telemachus, wandered about in vain ,
from port to port, and at length turned his rest- ,
less prow to far away Greenland. Steering by the (
stars, and groping about the wide waste of ocean, (
with such experience as men in thoso old days ‘
could have (it was exactly eight hundred and fifty
one years ago,) the hold Biarn at first sailed with
no prosperous gales; but a fierce storm succeeding,
drove him miles and miles away to the south and
west, and neurly wrecked him on u wide, flat, and
muddy coast, which tho rover knew could not be
Greenland.
A vast summer-looking capo lay invitingly on
his larboard bow ; but the long prayed for south
west wind had risen liko another Mentor, and
Biarn, shutting out temptation, bore away from
Greenland’s joy mountains. Howard followed
close upon his self-denial, and he was locked in
his father’s arms. Meantime our friend Biarn hud
seen, and was the first of Europeans to see Amer
ica: but Ileriolf, and his son, thrifty traders both, •
had ever found the oceans and the shores their fa
thers had known quite vast enough for them, and
were therefore well content to ship » cargo for a.
homeward voyage. Lief, however, and Iceland
noble, and aou to tho Red Erie, resolved to pur
sue tho adventure. His fathor, Earl Eric, twenty
years before, had boou drivon from the peaceful
colony of Iceland because of his bloody nand.—
Collecting his sons and his liegmen, ho sailed
boldly away for tho west, eight hundred miles and.
more, and entered at last a deep bay which he call
ed Eric’s Ford, and named tho land around him
Greenland. Finding the now region as good as
Iceland, ho sent his son Liof to Norway with tnes
sages to King Olaf, describing the magnificence of
Greenland. c
Tho King, who was already a Christian, having
received from Leif the promiso of his father’s and
of his own conversion, sent them forthwith as
istance—men, provisions, missionaries, and final
./ ajiishon; so that churches and convents were
built in Greenland. In a word, the Greenland
colony was quite able to take up the unfinished
adventures of Biarn, and Lief was tho Champion.
His aged father himself would have headed the
enterprise, but his horse stumbled as lie rode to the
ship, and tho Northman eight hundred years ago
was warned by the omen. Lief, however, bestrode
a surer footed Btced, and embarked all undaunted.
His ship, manned by a crew of thirty-five fearless
rovers, sailed away through the maiden waves of
the West, and Biarn’s laud of promise rose to the
sight. It was Newfoundland, but the Northmen
culled it Hcllelnnd; aud unsatisfied with its flat as
pect, turned southward to pleasanter coasts and
landed ill Nova Scotia, naming it Markland the
land ol the plains. The favored ship, speeding
with the breeze, coasted along the beautiful and
shady regions, with corn and fruit growing wild in
tho fields—a Paradise land to the Northmen. Kiv
ers and lakes teeming with fish, and an atmos
phere soft and balmy in the “Skoredcmanad” (the
harvest moon of the year,) filled the measure of
temptation, aud the Northmen built their cabins
for the winter.
Tho ship was moored and all hands busy on
shore. One day, a German sailor, named Tyrker,
from Khinland, wandered of in thecharmingfields,
and came upon tall clustering vines bending with
rich clusters of grapes;, he seized an arm-full of the
ripest, and hastened to teach the Northmen how
on the hillsides of his native river, men made the
sparkling wine. “Vinland” cried Lief, “a deep
Skoal for Vinland 1” aud Vinland thenceforward
wa* the Northman’s name for our modern isles of
Rhode Island. Tho old authors thought the bap
tism unfortunate, spite of groves and the halcyon
verdure of the fields; the old authors were right,
for the wild grape broke the promises of Tyrker.
Leif returned in the spring to Greenland; the
winter had been far milder than his men had ever
known before, and so rapturous was tho general
report that Thorwald, Leif’s brother, embarked
tho same year. He passed the winter in tho cabins
of Leif, and in the summer made excursions into
tho country, discovering an archipelago of little
islands with leafy groves along the white shelving
beaches, but nowhere traces of man or beast, ex
cepting a single strange wood pile, in form like a
pyramid. A second winter was comfortable in the
old quarters, aud when spring came again the ship
was found to be so much disabled that half of the
•unirncr was required for repairing; a new keel
was needed, and the place of the sturdy shipwrights
was named “Kiellarnacs”—the cape of keel.
At length all was ready, and the helm was put
up for a eruise to the eastward. They sailed
along shore in calm summer seas, and, attracted
one day by the beauty of a deep ford, the ship
was brought to and anchored. Thorwald pulled
ashore with a boat’s crew, and was amazed to
discover, moored in a shady spot, three birchen
eanocs, with a red man sleeping in each. Im
prudently and barbarously, he gave instant orders
for their death. One, however, dashed with swift
paddle stroke across the ford, swifter than the
flight of Thorwald’s javeling; and when the
Northmen reposed, in their turn, fleets of the red
men covered the little bay—the cliff cohoes rang,
startled with war songs, barbed arrows and darts
hurled through the air, but fell harmless and
blunted. The Northmen braved the storm with
their stout buckles of hide.
The savages, whom Thorwald contemptously
names Skrcelingncs (puny men,) and who are thus
known in all tho Norwegian ballads and chroni
cles, believed it vain to contend against invulnera
ble strangers, and, after an hour's conflict, were
seized with panic and fled. They had done more
mischief, however, than was ever known to them
selves. One fatal arrow revenged their murdered
comrades, and struck down Thorwald himself with
a mortal wound. “ Let the cross,” said the dying
rover (the chronicles thus make him a Christian),
“ let the cross ofthe Saviour be laid on mv grave;’’
and his tomb was built on the headland Kors-naes,
the cape ofthe cross.
The survivors bore home the sad news to Green
land, whereupon Thorwald’s son, Thorsten (both
names are from the Scandinavian god of war*),
resolved to recover the body of his father. He
embarked oarly in the year 100*1, and took with him
ilia wife, the beauteous Gudrida, who was destin
ed, but not with your Thorsten, to be the first of
European females to cross the ocean, and to bear
upon its father Bhore a Christian child. With
Thorsten, however, all was unfortunate. Tempest
tossed and driven irrecoverably northward, his
ship was thrown far back in Baffin’s Bay, upon a
coast so far remote that he was forced to winter in
a fatal climate. Thorsten himself, and more than
half of his crew, fell victims to exposure, but hap
n" Gudrida returned and laid her husband's
j in the Christian’s tomb in Greenland.
Next year the most considerable expedition of all
was undertaken by a wealthy Icelander, Thorfin,
whose genealogy is carefully preserved by the
chroniclers, lie arrived in Greenland with a nu
merous retinue, in 1007, and, having espoused the
disconsolate Gudrida, became possessed of Thors
ten's right to all the establishments in Narraganset
Bay. He set sail propitiously, with bride and five
attendant bride maids. His cargo was a precious
collection of domestic animals, cuttle and sheep—
and he bad tools and weapons and abundant pro
vision. His ship, moreover, was manned with
sixty picked Norwegians—men whose nerves were
strung amid the dangers of their own Maelstrom,
and whose restless spirits could never brook King
Olaf s home reforms.
The voyage was in everything, prosperous, the
landing was safely effected, and the snmmer was
passed in establishing themselves for winter. The
cattle and tho sheep roamed in the pastures, and a
young bull throve so prodigiously that his strenoth
and ferocity surpassed anything the Norsemen had
ever seen. In the spring came the Skrmlingues
with precious skins and furs to tiaffie, but Bed
away dismayed at the frightful roar of the bull.
They came hack, however, enoouraged, and Thor
fin prudently commanded that no weapons what
ever be sold them. Gudrida and her women offer
ed cheese and sweet milk, and m return received
from the delighted Skralingues the most valued
commodities. Quarrels, however, could not be
avoided. The savages were forced to retire, and
the Norsemen had to guard their cabins with
stockades.
Three happy years were passed in tranquility.
The visits of the Skra:lingoes became peaceful •
and in the summer of the fourth year, leaving the
colony prosperous, Thoriin and and Gudrida, with
the little Snorro,t the Vin land-born son, returned
to Iceland. A cargo was sold. Crowds of volun
teers offered to go hack with them, and manv suc
cessful and prosperous voyages were made, tlnal
iy, Thorfin gave the directions of Vinland affairs
to other chiefs, and spent his later days in Iceland,
where he lived in an antique hall like a logman of
Norway. He died in a green old age, and Gndri
da, after a pilgrimage to Home, returned to a clois
ter and church which her son Snorro had built on
•Surnames or femilj names are oflate origin to Scandi
navia, and at the present day are to some extent not bind
ing in law. In Sweden a man may change his name at
pleasure, provided be be not noble; he is only required to
inform the pariah authorities of his purpose.
♦There are nearly two millions of people in Swede) who
hare no family name.
the lands of his father, and piously devoted the
remainder of her days to God.
Thns and thus runs the tale of aneieut mariners
of Norway; and thus and thus the old chronicles,
read nightly aloud to the family circlo, delight the
iv 1 winter evenings of modern Norwegians.
Different authors give the narratives with marvel
lous uniformity; but they appear more minutely
than elsewhere in the so-called ‘‘Manuscript of
Hatey”—written, its author asserts, from the
words of Thorfin himself. Iceland historians of
later dates speak abundantly of Vinland, but, as
the expeditions after that of Thorfin varied little
from his, the chroniclers contented themselves
with describing more minutely those only which
are remarkable. One, whom the critics have
considered among the most authentic, relates the
ston-of a Saxon priest. Johan, who went to fin
land a misaionary, and was there condemned to
death. In 1121 a Greenland bishop named Erio
undertook the same errand, but his fate appears
never to have been known, and indeed from this
period Vinland was gradually forgotten. Tho
colony of Thorfin does not appear to have been
much reinforced after his death. His successors
explored more southerly cousts, nnd landed in
New York and New Jersey. War broke out in
Narragansct with the Skruilmgucs ; and, notwith
standing the superior arms aud defences of the
colonists, the little band gradually wasted away ;
but not before they had built such monuments on
the Rhode Island coasts as will puzzle antiquaries
in centuries to come.
The expeditions of the Northmen were not con
fined to tho southern latitudes. In 1266, led on
by their priests, tiiey penetrated Barrow’s Straits
and Lancaster sound, not perhaps in seareh of a
north-west passage, but to pick up drift wood, as
they thought, from Siberia, and to kill she bears
and whales. At length Greenland was swept by
the plague ; a few straggling survivors wore mur
dered by tho natives, and, although Pope Nicho
las V. appointed a bishop to Greenland in 1445,
the chronicles of the North were dumb a hundred
years before Icelaud had fallen from her high es
tate ; she was u tributary, dependent upon foreign
kings, and all that her enterprise and the indomi
table courage of her Northmen heroes had fouud
on the western oceans, sunk deep below the hori
zon of human knowledge, until again brought up
by an immortal hero from the South, like “drown
ed honor by the locks.”
The gcnaral truth and fidelity of tho Iceland 1
Chronicles are thought well attested and modern ,
students see in vain through tho antique pages
tor a statement improbable or overstrained. liar- ■
mouy to a surprising degree exists in the narra- |
tives, and that they wore written at the time is
rendered certain by tho testimony of continental
contemporaries; and especially by the virtuous
Adam of Bremen, a priest who wrote less than half
a century after the first discoveries of Biarn and
Lief. i
Adam gathered his narrative from the King of
Denmark, Swayn, and other personagesof the day.
lie was long entertained at the Danish Court, and
speaks of the American discoveries as facts and
certainties every where known; and indeed when
wo bear in mind the hardihood of the ancient
Northmen, their great maritime skill and daring
and tlifit unquenchable thirst for rovingandadven
ture which led them to expeditions all as hazardous
as those to America, it boeomes less hard to have
faith in Biarn and shako hands with Adam of Bre
men. Old French and German writers say that
they found among certain northern tribes of In
dians distinguishing peculiarities quite sufficient
to satisfy them that they were “a colony of Euro
peans degenerated Into savages through misery
aqd destitution;” such are the words of the learn
ed traveller, Fathor Charlvoix.
But without continuing this overgrown letter,
I recommend to yon, dear F , asorios of light
summer reading for further information, as Doctor
Baumgarten, Bishop Pontoppidan, of Bergne, Tor
focus, Father Charlvoix, aud especially Adam of
Bremen, who wrote in the year 1046. Should yon
not find their tomes, or some of them in tho Red
wood Library, of which, however, l do not doubt,
our friend, the dovotefl Astor Library Chiof, can
certainly famish you such trophies of his late
Scandinavian research.
* * * # * * *
Yours, ever, F. S.
SHE'S DEAD by w. o. EENiorrT.
The sycamore shall hear its bees again—
The willow droop its green adown the sun;
But thou, 0 heart, shaft yearn for Spring in vain I
Thy Mays are done!
Even from the graveyard elms the rook shall caw
Os love; of love the dove shall make its moan;
New springs shall see the bliss my glad Spring .aw—
I, grief alone. •
0 heart! to whose sweet pulses danced the year,
The dirge above thy gladness hath been sung;
, The faded hours upon thy youth's sad bier
Have grave-dowers flung !
She died—anil with her died, 0 life, for thee,
The flush of love, and all hope’s cloudless dreams!
Sunless—of mirth henceforth thou, heart, must sea
But moonlight gleams.
0, shrouded sweetness! Lo! those lips are white;
The roses of the year no more are red 1
What Is the silver lily to our sight I
Thou—thou art fled I
O, life I O, sadness ! thou the deepening gloom
Os dying Autumn for thy skies would’st crave—
Would'st see all beauty, withering to the tomb,
Fade o’er her grave I
Mr. Charles Dickons has been discoursing very
eloquently abontflowers at the ninth anniversary of
the Gardner’s Royal Benevolent Institution. We
give a short extract from his beautiful address:
“Gardening,” he said “was invariably con
nected with peace and happiness. Gardens are
associated in our minds with all conntries, all do
grees of men, and with all periods of the time.
We know that painters, nnd sculptors, and states
men, and men of war, and men who have agreed
in nothing else, have agreed, in all ages, to de.ight
in gardens. W e know that tho most ancient peo
ple of the earth had gardens; and that where
nothing but heaps of sand are now found, nnd
arid in desolation now reigns, gardens once smiled,
and the gorgeouß blossoms or the East shed their
fragrance on races which would have been long
ago forgotten but for the ruined temples which, in
those distant ages, stood in their gardens. Wo
know that the ancients wore crowns of flowers;
and the laurels and the bays have stimulated many
a noblo heart to deeds of heroism and virtue. We
know that in China hundreds of acres of gardens
float about the rivers; and, indeed, in all coun
tries gardening is the favorite recreation of tbs
people. In this country its love is deeply im
planted in the breasts or everybody. We Bee the
weaver striving for a pigmy garde’n on his house
top; we see the poor man wrestling with the smoko
for liis littlo bower of Bcarlet runners; wo know
how verv many who have no scrap of land to call
their own, and will never have, until they lie their
length in the ground, and have passed forevor the
portals of life, still cultivate their favorito flowers
or shrubs in jugs, bottles, and basins; we know
that in factories and workshops we may find plants;
and 1 have seen the poor prisoners, condemned
to linger out year after year withm the narrow
limits of his place of confinement, gardening in
his cell. Os the exponents of a language so uni
versal ; of the patient followers of nature in their
efforts to produce the finest forms and the richest
colors of her most lovely creations, which we en
joy alike at all times of life, and which, whether
♦n the bosom of beauty or the breast of old age,
are alike beautiful, surely it is not too much to say
that such men have a hold upon our remembrance
when they themselves need comfort.”
A Salutary Thought. —When I was a young
man there lived in our neighborhood a Presbyte
rian who was universally reported to be a very lib
eral man and uncommonly upright'in his dealings.
When he had any of the produce of his farm to
dispose of, he made it an invariable rule to give
good measure ; over good, rather more than could
be rcq uired of him. One of his friends, observing
him frequently doing so questioned him why he
did it, told him he gave too much, and said it
would not be to his own advantage. Now my
friends, mark the answer of this Presbyterian—
“ God Almighty has permitted me but one" Journey
through the world, and when gone I cannot return
to rectify mistakes.” Think of this friends, but
one Journey through the world.
The Nations.— The population and area occu
pied by different nations is thus stated:
Acres. Population.
The area of the United
States is i,081,759,000 28,267,398
Os China 830,929,000 400,000,000
Os France 180,891,000 40,000,000
Os England and Wales.... *7,000,000 17,600,000
Os Ireland 20,400,000 8,000,000
Now, with such a comparison of territory and
population, what ideas of national grandeur ex
pand within the mind.
Worth Looking at. —Some of our friends, in
coming down town yesterday morning, were de
lighted with the appearance of 540 hogs, sleek, fat
and handsome, which they encountered on the
way. On inquiry, they learned that these interest
ing animals had just arrived by the Erie Kailroad,
in four day> from Cincinnati. Think of that!
Fresh Pork, alive and kicking, four days from the
Great West. Such are the wonders achieved by
steam.—A T . ¥. Jour. Com.
The public seem to be highly delighted that a
day is at last fixed for the adjournment of the pre
sent session of Congress. Better late than never,
say they. There has been a fear that there would
be no “interregnum,” and that the politicians and
E resident makers r.ow in the Capitol, intended to
old on until the fourth of March next, without
giving the country a breathing spell. They will
long be regarded as the Congress which distin
guished itself for its waste of time and money, in
idle talk, and political speechifying.— Alex. Gazette.
The Boquft Business. —Few persons are aware
of the extent to which this business is carried on
and the large sums that have been realized by it.
The noaegay season is at its height just now, and
we doubt not that the daily sales of flowers in this
city amount to some thous'and dollars. One of the
floral pedlers, we are informed, has amassed nine
thousand dollars by the sale of bouquets in the
ooursc of the last few seasons.— A’. T. Expreet.
A Missouri Fare. —One thousand acres in one
field, fenced with posts and rails, a mile and a half
square, and containing 150 acres of corn, 40 acres
of strawberries for the St. Louis market, 80 acres
of flowers, 50 acres of peach trees, and 2(H) acres
of other fruit, among wnieh are 2,500 pear trees,
200 acre* of mowing, and 80 of pasturage. One
row of pear trees is three-quarters of a mile long,
a protecting row of arbor vita l . All the orchard
ground is cultivated in strawberries, melons, or
something else. There are 600 sheep and 160 cat
tle kept on the farm. It is upon the prairie near
St. Louis, and has only been about six rears in
cultivation. It is owned by Ligerson & Brothers,
who seem to understand that, to make money by
farming, meney must be invested to begin with. —
New England Cultivator.
Fatal Affray. —On Friday last a difficulty oc
curred between William Tie! and Hiram Bowen,
Jr., a son of Stephen Bowen, in which Tiel receiv
ed a fatal stab from a knife in the hands of Bowen.
He died on Sundav from the effects of the wound.
Bowen was immediately arrested and brought be
fore Justices Corry ana Shaw, by whom he was
committed to jail to await his trial at the October
term of the Superior Court. — Atlanta Intel., 12 tk
hut.
Emigration of Colored People to J amaica. —The
Jamaica papers published the testimony of John
Wesley Harrison, a colored emigrant from South
Carolina in favor of Jamaica as a promising place for
the emigration of the free colorea people of the Uni
ted States. Harrison is a free colored man of respec
tabilitv and probity, who after being a planter in
South’Carolina, nas been induced to remove to the
Island of Jamaica, purchase a coffee estate and
turn planter. He testifies that the island has real
ised ins expectation in respect to the soil, climate,
the nature and value and variety of its productions
and the state of society in reference to persons of
color. The only disappointment, he savs, that he
had met with, is in reference to the laboring class
es. These he pronounces indolent and inefficient
beyond anything he ever before saw. Their mode
of working, too, and their tools both appear bad.
Ha had lost a great deal of money in trying to
carry on work with these unskilful, inefficient and
lazy laborers, four of whom are not more than
equal to one free black laborer in the State.
0 From the Eagle A Enquirer.
MRS. OLAT AT HER HUSBAND’S GRAVE.
" ITL VIRGINIA SMITH.
J “What was thy tale f Oh! gentle mate
Os him the brave and free,
Bound unto his victorious fate,
What bard hath sung of tAee f”
Deep anguish In her heart lay hid. There was no outward
i show
Os frenzied feeling, to reveal her bosoms crashing woe;
’ Her face was white and still; beneath a sable veil its lines
Lay rigid, as some frozen lake o’ershadowed by its pinez.
The mighty multitude around his mausoleum crowd;
Thtir sorrow found expression in a railing deep and loud,
A nation’s cry went wildly up, but nature had no tone
To shadow forth the grief of her who was his loved—his own!
Yet as upon her heart came back the memory of years,
When life was in its morning-prime, undimmed by clouds
and tear*;
A fearful consciousness upon her spirit slowly crept,
And ’neath its wakened agony she bowed her head, and
wept.
“ Dead—dead f—and can it be I atand beside thee all alone?
Gone—gone?—oh 1 break this solitude with one endearing
tone!
Alas! it is the first sad hour thou answerest not the love,
Os her who prized thy tenderness all earthly things above.
"Oh 1 dearer wert thou in thine age to this sad heart of
mine.
Than when the early bloom of youth, and manhood's pride
were thine.
For though the hand of Time had dimmed thy brow with
shades of care,
Thy soul was still my idol-shrine—no light had Aided there.
“Upon the haughty heights of fame, who brighter shone
than thou ?
With tameless lightning In thine eye, and glory on thy
Or who but thee within our home could bid my soul rejoice
n ita one soft note of melody—the music of thy Yoice ?
“Thine was a storn and stormy life beneath a blazing star,
Upon the statesman’s field of strife with wrong and woe at
war;
Thy course was as the eagle’s flight:—my path was not as
thine,
Upon the earth, and yet in Heaven thy portion shall be
“ I never sought to woo thee down—thy spirit would have
pined
To leave the eagle and the cloud, thine empire of tho mind;
And when the tempest dangers hung above thy noble form,
I could but kneel aud pray our God to save thee from the
stoijn.
“ Mfoe eje caught not tho parting beam that from thy
spirit shoue,
The smile that seemed to wander back from out a bright
unknown;
Yet more than ever thine beloved—in yonder starry sphere,
Shall live immortally the love that blest ui—even here 1”
CUpingt from Prentice.
The Democracy, who now think that it would
be a dreadful thine to make a military man Presi
dent of the United States, wore very anxious in
deed five yoars ago that a mere politician, Thomas •
11. Benton, should bo taken from tho Sonato and
placed over the head of Scott as commandor of
the armies of the United States.
Tho German Democrats in the first ward have
erected a hickory pole, and, not satisfied with a
pole, they have placed a bird ta roost in its branch
es. It looks very muoh like a gorged buzzard.
What the moaning of it is wo do not know. If
they were to place a horse with a man tumbling off '
his back up there, everybody would see the moan- '
mg of it.
Isn’t it a dreadfully awkward thing for a party
to nominate a Presidential candidate on account of 1
his supposed military achievements, and, in con- 1
sidcrabiy loss than two months, find themselves
under the absolute necessity of pouring forth their t
most violent denunciations against tno principle 1
of electing men to the Presidency for military 1
services 1 t
The Democratic editors try to mnko it appear, '
by the citation of British authorities, that the
British thrashed the Americans in tho last war. J
They know that the British are now for Gen. ,
Pierce, and they think, that, if they can convince (
their readers that tho British whipped us once, a
strong presumption will bo created of another ]
Britisn triumph.
Barnum has tho identical cent that Pierce gave
the boy for candy.—A’. Y. TriCuru.
Ho has sinco found that ball that shot Scott in '
the rear.— Oin. £nq. t
We wonder if ho has found one of thoso three
horses from which Gon. Pierso tumbled in Moxico, 1
or that “sudden emotion of tho mind” which 1
eaused him to faint, or a spocitnon of tho rod-hot
stones of lava among which he lay all night.
Tlie Democratic pnpors of Michigan seem very
indignant atthe Whigs for exposing Gen. Pierce’s
course in relation to internal improvements. They
think such conduct on the part of tho Whigs very
ungenerous and vory outrageous. “Darn ’em,
said a fellow ut the battle of Bunker Hill, “they
are shooting bullets at us.”
Wo see a great many quotations from tho Brit
ish papers, all expressing their joy at Gen. Pierce’s
nomination and their hope of his election. Their
expectation, as declared by tho chief of them, tho
London Times, is that Pierce, as President, will
make “a valuable ally of the commercial policy if
Great Britain." Now, fellow-citizens, if you
think it worth whilo to elect “a valuable ally of
the commercial policy of Great Britain,” go ahead
for Pierce.
Os course it is to bo supposed that tho Irish will
do this. Tho Loudon Times, which wants Piorce
elected in order that Great Britain may havo at tho
head of our affairs one of her own allies upon the
tariff policy, is the paper which recently announced
the important discovery that, although an Irish
man at home is worth nothing at all to England,
he becomes, as soon as ho emigrates to this coun
try, very serviceable to her by going with tho ultra
Democracy against tho protection of American
industry.
Mr. Forsyth, a Georgia editor and a flaming se
cessionist, has been trying to gaiu a little notoriety
in Wasliington city by writing letters giving rea
sons why all the (Southern secessionists ought to
vote for Gen. Pierco. One of his reasons is that
Piorce is “the creation and choice of Mr. Soulo and
the men who act with him.”
How do tho Kentucky Democrats like that ? A
Frenchman, who is also a vile plotter of treason
against the Government which protects him, is
the “creator” of Gen. Pierce 1 If that is a reason
why tho whole batch of disunionists ought to sus
tain Pierco, is it not a reason also why better mon,
Compromise Democrats, Union-loving Democrats,
ought to repudiate him '/
Anecdotes. —Last week, a worthy woman, com
ing to market, saw a hand-bill posted up by the
Democratic keeper of tho first toll-gato on tho
Bhcpherdsville road. She stopped to read it and
found it a call upon the Democrats to “Bally 1
rally! rally I” at Middletown for tho ratification
of the nomination of Pierco and King. “Pierco 1”
she exclaimed, “is that tho man that fainted in
Mexico ?” “It’s General Pierce,” replied the gate
keeper in a tone of severe dignity. “Oh well,
then, it’s tho man thut fainted in Mexico, and our
folks will havo nothing to do with him,” said the
old lady, putting her apectaoles in her pocket
and resuming her travels.
On Friday wo passed a house in this qity, where
a gentleman and his wife were about to take a
ride on horseback. The lady seemed a little afraid
of her horse. “Are yon sure he is perfectly
fentle,” said she. “Oh yes indeed,” replied the
usband, “as gentle as a pet lamb—why General
Pierce might ride him.”
The Louisville Journal says that it is perfectly
evident from ono fact that General Pierce is dread
fully unpalatable to the Democrats. Every Demo
crat that has swallowed him has ever since looked
as ugly in the face bb if he had swallowed a bad
egg-
Gen. Jaekson always had a poor opinion of Gen.
Scott, and no man was a better judge of human
nature than Gen. Jackson. —Pucks County (Pa.)
Democrat.
Gen. Jackson had a poor opinion of Mr. Clay and
of every distinguished Whig in the nation, but he
had an exceedingly high opinion of Mnrtin Van
Buren, Breston Blair, Sam’lt Swartwout, Reuben
M. Whitney, and a whole’hordo of depredators
upon the public treasury. — Prentice.
The Kid Treasure.— A queer story is told in
the Mount Holly Mirror, about tho discovery of
some of Capt. Kid’s treasure among the Pines. It
is stated that a man dreamed for several nights
successively that ho should find this treasure, the
place to be indicated by four iron bars projecting
from the earth. He went and found his dream
realized. Two hundred and forty thousand dol
lars had been discovered up to Monday night,
buried in iron chests, and the people have turned
out with their pickaxos in farther search for the
treasure. The utmost excitement is Baid to prevail
in the neighborhood.
A Codfish, supposed to havo wandered from the
fishing-grounds, was taken off Monbegan, a day or
two since, but the letters V R being found upon
him, it was clear that he belonged to Her Majesty
Victoria, and accordingly his captors let him go.
Their conscientious regard for the rights of others
will be appreciated, when it is stated that there
was no British cruiser in sight. The fish also bore
a distinct impression of two large oars, supposed to
bo the private mark of the Earl of Derby.—Dan
ger Mercury.
Death by Cloroporh. —A yonng man eighteen
years old, a German, at work in Carlton’s cooper
shop, on Tuttle’s wharf, East Boston, had ono of
his fingers caught in the machinery yesterday and
badly jammed. He called upon Dr. Folts to dress
it, who administered chloroform. While engaged
in the operation an unusual paleness was observed
in the face of the young man, and the sponge"was
taken away. Efforts were made in vain to restore
him to consciousness, but he soon ceased to live.
Cheap Gas Apparatus. —Ths Newark Adver
tiser notices an experiment which was reoently
made in that vicinity in lighting tho residence of
Mr. W. C. Dusenberry, President of the U. S.
Portable Gas Company, by the means of a small
apparatus which does not occupy but a few square
feet of space, and is said to require no more skill
in its management than an ordinary coal fire. The
gas is made from rosin, gives a clear brilliant light,
and burns without any unpleasant smell. The
cost of the gas thus manufactured is estimated at
$1.50 per thousand cubic feet; the price of the
apparatus is $l5O.
Progress or Steamboatcno in the Wist.—Thir
ty-eight years sgo, there were but four small
steamboats running on the Western waters. Dar
ing last year, 1851, no less than three hundred and
twenty steamboats were constructed; at Pittsburg,
112; Wheeling, 46; Cincinnati, 111; Louisville,
Cl. The aggregate amount of tonnage amounted
to 64,297 tons. The total number of passengers
carried on these steamers during the year, was
3,050,625. The marine insurance effected on hulls
and cargoes, amounted to $32,811,440.
For the aix months of the present year, there are
fifty-nine steamboata built or in progress of con
struction. Number of steamboata destroyed in
the eourse of the year 1851, belonging to tne four
districts above named, 44; of this number, 19 wers
snsgged and 18 burned. The number of Uvea lost
by these disasters, was 482.
Exploration of the Java and othzb Seas The
British Admiralty have despatched a well-appoint
ed surveying ship and tender for the purpose of
exploring the Java and China aeas. A correspon
dent of the National Intelligencer adduces this fact
as one that should have its- influence with Con
gress in promptly providing for a Uke reconnois
sance and exploration.
A mob in Cincinnati a few evenings since attack
ed a powder magazine, broke open the door, car
ried off more than seven hundred kegs of powder,
which they threw into a pond, and did considera
ble damage to the inside of the building. The
powder was worth $4,000. This magazine WAS be
lieved to be dangerous to the lives of the citizens,
and the suthoriUes, though often requested, had
neglected to remove it.
President Fillmore’s Brother.— The Minneso
tian says that Mr. Fillmore, brother of the Presi
dent, who visited Bt. Paul last spring, in the capa
city of Government timber agent, has returned
with his family to that city, with the intention of
residing there. He is a mechanic and in hia change
of residence Detroit loses s vsluable citizen*
YOL. LXVI.-NEW SERIES VOL. XVI.-NO. 33.
From the Cotumbue Enquirer.
Supreme Court Decisions.
July Term , 1852—0< Americue.
Thornton vs. Lank— From Muecogte.—\. The
mere remark of tho preaiding Judge in a civil case,
in his charge to the Jury that the decision of the
d law was his province, and if ho erred, the Supremo
Court was the corrective tribunal, ia not of itself
sufficient ground for tho reversal of tho judgment,
s 8. The peculiar phraseology of the oath pre
scribed for special Jurors, docs not authorize thorn
to decide upon the “equity” of the case in their
opinion, disregarding tho decision of the Court
upon the law.
! 3. In order to show real estato subjeot to a judg
ment, prima facie , it is necessary either to prove
, title in tho defendent, or else possession in the
defendant at the time of, or subsequent to the
rendition of the judgment.
1 4. While the law requires an execution to bo
filed in office on or before the next term of tho
> Court, yet tho levy or return of FuUa Ilona may
. be made at any time, after received or before re
turned. .
, 5. Whore tho chartor of a Bank provides for tho
keeping of a transfer book, in which transfers of
t stock were required to bo made. Held, that an on
try of n trausfor of stock in this Book is against
i one already a stockoldor, prima facie ovidence of
his assent to such a transfer.
6. The recitals in an not of the Legislature are
prima facie evidence of the fitete stated, subjootto
do rebutted by other evidence.
7. Where tho Legislature authorizd an Aeeignee
to be sued at law, for debts due by tho Bank of
whioh he was assignee, a contession of judgmoDl
by tho Assignee in a suit at law, ia evidence of his
acceptance of the Assignment under tho act.
8. It is no objection to a judgment oonfossed by
a defendant as Assignee of a Bank, that he was at
tho time presiding Judge in tho Court in which
the confession was entered. This proceeding is
not subject to the objection of a judge presiding
in his own causo, there being in fact no trial.
9. The plea of Sul tiel Record applies only to a
Rocord widen is the foundation of the Action. It
does not apply to a Record, whioh is set out merely
as inducements, and is a part of the evidence.
10. If a pleaconoludes both to tho Court and tho
country, it may be amended by striking out which
ever is surplusage.
11. The case of Lank vs. Morris (decidod in VII
Georgia Reports) reviewed and affirmed.
12. Where a Bank Chartor imposes a personal
liability upon the stockholder for tho redemption
of its Bills, aud at the same time gives tho Bill
holder a remody at law directly against the Stock
holder for this liability, Held that tho forfeiture
of tho Chsrter of tho Bank does not extinguish this
liability of the Stockholder, nor impair the remedy
of the bill-holder.
13. The decision of the CourtinLane vs. Morris,
(X Ga. Reports) holding this to boa statuary lia
bility. and barred only in twenty years, reviewed
and affirmed.
14. Under tho Charter of the Planters & Me
chanics Bank of Columbus, providing that “the
stockholders” shall be liable for the redemption of 1
tho Bills, Held, that all tho stockholders are liable t
who wero such when tho Bunk failed ; or who had (
boon previously stockholders and had not given the
notice of thoir transler os provided by tho Chartor, 1
or who transferred within sixty days ofthe failure, t
15. When tho holdor of any number of shares ;
of Stock, has paid tho pro rata amount of the lia
bility for Bills attaching to his Btock under the 1
Charter, the Bill-holder cannot rcoover from any
transferee of that etock, any additional snm.
16. Tho “ ultimate liability ” of the stockholder 1
accrues, whenever judgment is recovered against 1
tho Buuk or its Assignee, and the legal assets ex- j
hausted. A return of Sulla Bona is prima facie ■
evidence of that fact. H. Holt and Toombs for 1
plaintiff; Berrien and Law for def’t. 6
MoDocoald el al ve. Dougherty et al—From
hfutcogee.— l. Whore a Receiver has been appoint
ed on tho filing of a Bill in Equity, it is a matter
of discretion with tho Court, to discharge or re
tain the Receiver on tho coming in ofthe answers.
2. Whon a creditor files his Bill, in behalf of
himself and the other creditors—up to the time of
the deorec—it is the individual ease of the oom
dninant and ho may settle, compromise or dismiss
t. And the defendant (being tne debtor) may re
lieve himself by paying or tendering the specific
debt.
8. Whether a defendant (not being the debtor)
may tender tho amount of tiie creditor’s claim ana
thereby stop tho litigation ? Query.
4. The Chancellor cannot by an order at cham
bers, order third persons (who claim adversely to
the debtor) to deliver up to tho Receiver property
in their possession.
5. An amendment to a sworn Bill must bo made
Upon oath, oven if it be to make new parties.
Benning and Holt for pl’tf; Dougherty for deft.
Gii.ukst ve. Hardwick— From (Stewart. —l.
Where an Exeoutor brings a suit, a» Exeeutor for
the amount of the purchase money at a sale, as
Executor, and subsequently, ponding the suit, he
is removed from his trust, Held, that he caunet
>roseeute the suit in his individual character,
larrison for pl’ff.; Gaulden for deft.
Kendrick ts. McCary— From Stewart.— l. A
father, who brings suit for tho seduction of his
daughter may recover damages exceeding the ac
tual service*, though the daughter may be oyer the
age of 21, proyided, Bhe continues to reside in the
fathers domioil. Harrison for pl’ff; B. S. Worrell „
for deft. B
Nicholson and WrFK vs. Spencer.— From Stew
art.—l. A Guardian stands in loco parentis, and
has the same discretion in judging of what is ne
cessary for his ward, as a parent has for his child.
2. Where a tradesman seeks to recover for ar
ticles furnished, as necessaries, it is incumbent on
him to show that these were necessaries, and that
the Guardian did not furnish his ward with neces
saries. £uoker for pi’if. in Error j Harrison for de
fendant.
Mitcham vs. the State. — From Stewart. — l.
On the trial of criminal cases if the witness testi
fies that tlio offence was committed “at Floronce
in the county of Stewart,” it is sufficient without
adding “ana State of Georgia.”
2. Where the iudictmont charges the decease to
be William K. Morris, und the brief of the Testi
mony taken by order of the Court, designates the
deceased as “ W. E. Morris,” is not a ground for
new trial; the question of tho identity being deci
ded by Jury.
8. Tho declaration of the slayer, within “one or
at the farthest, two minutes" from the homicide,
should be admitted as a part of the res gestae.
4. It is the duty of the presiding Judge to arrest
counsel who go out of the case to argue upon facts
which are not in avidence. If he fails to do so,
(not being requested to do so,) and the opposing
counsel in reply go out of the evidonoe to state
other facts—it is the duty ofthe Judge, (on being
requested) to arrest the counsel and hold tho argu
ment within the testimony. And if the presiding
Judge refuses so to do, it is Error.
5. The hypothetical expression of an opinion by
a Juror, that “if the evidenco was as he had heard
it, the prisoner ought to be hung, does not dis
qualify him. Ganlden and Harrison for Plaintiff;
Solicitor General and Tucker for deft.
Bushin ts. Shields & Ball. — From Stewart. — l.
In order to entitle a doed to go to probate, it is ne
cessary lor the witness to swear to the signing,
sealing, and delivery of tho deed.
2. Where a fi. fa. is lost, a copy should be es
tablished under the rule for establishing copies of
offloe papers.
8. A party holding the oldest lien, who waives
his right in saver of younger heirs, to that extent
loses Tiis lien, so far as the third person is con
cerned.
4. It is error for the Court to say that there was
no evidence on a point in issue botweon the par
ties. B. 8. Worrell for pl’ff; Tuoker for def,t.
Stamper et al. vs. the State —From Baleer. —l.
Where in response to a scifa vs. Bail on recogni
zance, the court ordered the Bail to pay the Solici
tor General 6 per cent on the penalty of the Bond,
Held, thutthis is Error, no such fee being allowed
in such a case. Strozier for pl’ff; Solicitor Gene
ral Lyon for deft.
Carey, Assionee vs. Hoxey et al.—From Musco
gee.—l. The general ruloin Equity is, that all the
persons in interest should be made parties:
Wherever it is impracticable to make or serve par
ties, they may be omitted or stricken from the
Bill. Dougherty for pl’ff; 11. Holt for deft.
Exeeutor of Murray vs.. Torrance and Mc-
Douoald — From Muscogee —l. It is in the discre
tion of the Chancellor to open a decree pro confes
so, and allow an answer to bo filled. This Court
will not control that discretion except in a case of
abuse. W. Dougherty for pl’ff; Benning for deft.
Shorter vs. Haroraves, Administrator— From
Muscogee.— l. The legal Guardian, of a minor,
may maintain a suit in Equity in behatf of his
Ward.
2. Where one of two Administrators, has wasted
the Estate, the Distributees may proceed against
him, without making the other Administrator a
party defendant. W. Dougherty for pl’ff; Benning
Outlaw and Another vs. toe Administrator
or Fetter — From Lee. —l. A Bill of quia timet
will be sustained in behalf mortgages, who are
merely sureties and whose liability may never oc
cur, if there is a probability of its occurrence.
Ilawkins for McCay for pl’ff; Brown for deft.
A Story wito a Moral.— Mr. Bones, of tho firm
of Bones <fc C'o., was one of thoso remarkable mo
ney-making tncnfl whose uninterrupted success in
trade had been the wonder and afforded material
for tho gosßip of the town for seven years. Being
of a familiar turn of mind, ho was frequently in
terrogated on th# subject, and invariably gave as
the secret of his success that ho minded his own
business.
A gentleman met Mr. Bones on the Assandpike
bride. He was gazing intently on the dashing,
foaming waters as they fell over the dam. He was
evidently in a brown study. Our friend ventured
to disturb his cogitations.
“Mr. Bones, tell mo how to make a thousand
dollars.” ✓
Mr. Bones continued looking intently at the
water. At last he ventured a reply.
“Do you see that dam my friend f”
“I certainly do.”
“Well, here you may learn tho secret of making
money. That water would waste away and boos
no practical use to anybody, but for the dam. That
dam turns it to good account—makes it perform
some useful purpose, and then suffers it to pass
along. That large paper mill is kept in constant
motion by this economy.—Many mouths are fed
in the manufacture of the article of paper, and in
telligence is scattered broadcast over tho 'land on
the sheets that are daily turned out; and in the dif
ferent processes throagh which it posses, money is
mode. So it is in living of hundreds of people.
They get enough money. It passes through their
hands every day, and at the year’s end they are no
better off. What’s the reason 1 They want a dam.
Their expenditures are increasing, and no practical
good is attained. They want them damned up, so
that noting will pass through their hands without
bringing a return and accomplishing some nseful
purpose. Dam np your expenses, and yon’ll soon
have enough, occasionally to spare a little, just like
that man. Look at it my friends.”
Horrible Affair. —On Sunday Morning last the
body of a man named Francis Kirksey, was found
on the track of the Macon and Western Railroad,
in this city, having been run over by the cats of
the Morning train for Newnan. When the body
was discovered a number of circumstances were
observed, leading to a strong suspicion, that the
person had been murdered and his body placed on
the track during the night. The body exhibited
marks of recent violence which could not have
been effected by the ears. Subsequent develop
ments, during the day, led to the arrest of Rufus
Horton. John Bryan, Wm. Carrol, James Carrol,
James Sexton, and A. J. Morns. The last named,
we understand has been discharged. The others
are now examination before Justices
Correy & Sliaw. There ere numerous rumors
afloat through the city in regard to the matter, but
we refrain from firing publicity to any of them,
preferring to wait until the matter shall have un
dergone a thorough investigation before the proper
authorities.— Atlanta Intd., 1 <Uk in*. V
Anotbbb Dbbatiablb Point. —Six sailors were
arrested, on theirarrivalatNew York,on Wednes
day, from France, charged with stealing a large
amount of jewelry there. None of it was found
on them, and a question has arisen aa to whether
they can be given up to that country.
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Bailroad du
ring the month of June were from passengers
$85,150.25; freight $27,729.27—t0tal $112,879:62;
incrcaae over the Mine month last year slß,l J s|,sft <
A little thought.
w l. Taoniuairni.
Where the sweet waters met
i Gracefully sweep ng,
Lay the white violent
Peacefully sleeping
And a star-shadow foil,
l Silvery gleaming,
Soft on the snowy bell
Blissfully dreaming.
Up from the ocean’s lone
Storm-haunted dwelling,
Came a deep thuDder tone
Mournfully swelling.
Through the air solitude
Cloud banners waving,
Marshaled the tempests rude
Angrily raving. ,
Morn o’er the billows shone,
Playfully roving,
Where has the flow’ret flown
Lovely and loving f
Ear down the chilly tide
Broken and faded.
Wanders the “ fairy’s pride,"
Lorn and degraded.
Thus on the stream of yean
Youth Is a blossom.
Hope, like the star, appean
Bright on Its bosom.
Age is the coming cloud
Faltering never,
Sorrow the tempest crowd,
Blighting it ever I
Niw Korrs of thi British Wist India Stfah
»i:a vu. Savannah.— The Bahama Herald of the
10th nit. says: “ Various reports being in circula
tion respecting the new route about to be adopted
by the Royal West India Mail Compay, for an im
proved means of conveying the Bahama mails, and
communicating monthly between Jamaica and
Chagres, we are authorized to state that the follow
ing is the proposed arrangement:
“ The English mail of the 2d of the month will
leave Jatnaica on the 22d at 4P. M;; will reaoh
Inatiga on the 24th at BA. M.; leaving at 8 the
same morning, will reach Nassau on the 28th at
10 A. M., and leavo the same day at 8 P. M.; will
reach Savannah on the t9th at one in the morning
and leavo on the 4th of the following month on her
return at 10 A. M.; will reaoh Nassau on the Bth at
5 P. M., and leave on the 7th at noon; will reach
Inagua on the 9th at 9 P. M. and leave the same
afternoon at four ; will arrive at Jamaica on the
11th at 8 A. M., and leave on the following day at
three in the morning; will leach Chagres on the
14th at 4P. M., and leave on the 18th at 5. P. M.
and will arrive again at Jamaiea on the 21st at 8
A.M.
"The above arrangement* will be brought into
operation as soon as the “ Oonuay," of 880 tons,
now roeeiving now boilers at can be
completed. The mails to and from Turks Island
will, by the proposed plan, be exchanged at Inagua,
to and from whence they may bo easily conveyed
by a boat, if one be provided by that colony for that
purpose."
The following is a statement of the net revenue
arising from Letter Postages, Newspapers, &0.,
sud the amount credited contractors lor the trans
portation of the Malle in the several States and
Territories for the fiscal year ending SOth June,
1851.
States and Territories. Revenne. Transportation.
Maine 889,760 92 $02,645
New Hampshire, 59,902 20 80,277
Vermont, 08,906 44 62.81 T
Massachusetts 858,120 72 185,128
Rhode Island, 89,828 84 12,858
Connecticut, 110,971 81 86,828
New York, 988,977 18 $82,766
New Jersey, 66,166 20 60,761
Pennsylvania, 896,699 91 172,800
Delaware, 12,021 88 9,280
Maryland 121,868 61 158,888
District of Columbia, 11,109 46
Virginia, 141,079 1* 170,08*
North Carolina, 46,647 0T 104,929
South Carolina, 76,108 62 108,005
Georgia,, 101,749 42 160,06*
Florida, 18,798 24 82,866
Ohio, 286,811 24 288,101
Michigan 62,887 69 77,966
Indiana, 88,688 03 83,284
Illinois 110,194 02 164,608
Wisconsin, 60,726 88 40,104
lowa, 26,668 8* 27,656
Missouri 88,787 95 1»!,40*
Kentucky, 86,472 42 167,911
Tennessee, *4,185 8* 81,879
Alabama, 75,987 75 142,824
Mississippi, 56,884 01 $8,179
Arkansas, 17,215 58 68,879
Louisiana, 116,986 06 (4,766
Texas, 28,474 12 198,214
Oalifarnia 227,182 8* 1*0,280
Oregon, 8,282 04 19,988
Minnesota, 1,874 1$ 1,678
Now Mexico, 248 8$
Utah 718 90
Nebraska, 26 17
Bauoaoe of Travellers Arrivino in Great
Britain.—The British Board of Customs have is
sued tho following now regulations relative to the
admission of small quantities of sagare bronght to
that oountry in baggage of parties from abroad for
private use, it appearing that eegara are now fre
quently imported in baggage unaccompanied by
tho owner, viz:—“That when segars are accom
panied by the proprietor 8 lbs. bo allowed to pas
sengers arriving from tho Continent or other ehort
voyages, and 7 lbs. to passengers from the East and
West Indies or other distant voyages without fine
or special application mado to the board in eaeh
ease, provided they shall appear to be unoonsumed
stores; but, should the quantities oxooed those
stated, application must be made to the board for
their directions as to the amoumt of fine to be
levlod; that when tho eegnrs uro not aooompanied
by tho proprietor any portion of the voyage, a fine
to be levied on the whole quantity on application
to tho board In tho übuol manner, and when a pas
senger proceeds overland from India, accompany
ing his baggage and offeots as for as Malts, and
then forwards the same to this country in another
vobbol, the board will decide as to the remission of
the fine or otherwise, according to the circum
stances of each oase.” These regulations are to be
mado general and acted upon at all the ports in lhn
United Kingdom for the future.
Discontinuance of Dost Offices.— Our readers
may havo observed in our weekly report ofthe op
erations of tho Post Office Department that an un
usually large number of post offices have lately
been discontinued.
We learn from the Department that muehincon
vemence and irregularity in the settlement of the
accounts of Postmasters has resulted from neglect
on the part of many oi them in the smaller offices
to make punctually their quarterly returns, at re
quired by law and the regulations of the Deport
ment j and that aa some of them, even after their
attention has been specially and repeatedly oailed
to their duty in this respect by circular letters,
have persisted in negleoting it, tho Postmaster
General has found it necessary to adopt the rule
that a postmaster failing duly to make his quarterly
returns, and wlio, having besn twice notified of hit
neglect by successive circulars, persists in it, shall be
removed from office; and that when upon such re
moval no suitable successor oan be found to fill
the vacant office, it shall be diseontiued. We un
derstand, that when a post office is dis
continued from this cause, or because a person ap-
Cod postmaster has failed to exocute his offloW
, it is only noccssary for those persons Inter
ested in its oontinuance to recommend a suitable
person for postmaster to secure its re-establish
ment.—AW. Intel.
Georoia Military Institute,— We find in the
Marietta Advocato the following interesting para
graphs in reference to tho late examination of the
classes of tho excellent and popular military school
in that place:
“ The examination for this term of the elaseee
of tho Institute, took place on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday of laat week. We regret that we
heard only the chutsee in Plane, Descriptive and
Analytical Geometry. The manner of conducting
the examination, under the direction of the
Board of Examiners, was such as to test folly the
scholarship of the young gentlemen composing
thoso classes. They acquitted themselves in such
n manner as to show application and diligent study
on their own part, os well as thorough instruction
from Maj. Brumby and Capt. Kobcrtson, who have
had charge of the mathematical department.
“ Wo understand that additional instructors will
bo shortly at their posts. Tho successful sud per
manent establishment of the Institute may be oon
sidcrod os settled. Tho system adopted in the In
stitute, combining physical training with a course
of utudy designed to prepare young men lor the
practical business of life, must commend itself to
public favor. All that is now needed the aequi
sition of Philosophical and other apparatus, and a
Library. This no doubt will be procured when
the claims of the Institue to publio favor are fully
examined and appreciated.”
Commerce of Holland.—By a comparative state
ment of tho imports, exports, and trassit of mer
chandise in Holland during tho first six months of
1852, published in the Staata Covrant, it is shown
that the quantity of raw cotton imported in that
period is nearly double that imported in the some
period of 1851. Cotton yarn also shows sn increase
of fully one-third ;the value of iron Imported has
been increased by nearly 1,500,000; florins; the
the quantity of raw sugar. 15,000,000 lbs.; ooffee,
10,000,000 lbs.; rioo, *,000,000 lbs.; leaf tobacco,
6,000,000 lbs.; snd tin, by 1,000,00# lbs. In ibo
exports there has been an increase of 1,200,000
florins’ value upon iron, $,000,000 lbs. upon raw
ootton, 8,000,000 lbs. upon coffee, 1,000,000 lbs.
upon sundry manufactured goods, *,500,000 lbs.
upon rice, 600,000 lbs. upon sugar, 6,000,000 lbs.
upon leaf tobacoo, and 1,000,000 lbs. upon ootton
yarns.
Several establishment* in the East have, within
a year or two past, become quite famous for certain
artic es of woollen manufacture, and among the
moB valuable and generally known of these
fabrics, are various styles of shawls. One Arm in
New York has produced some very superior speci
mens of this work. The patterns are in number
upwards of five hundred, exhibiting a wonderful
diversity of colors and their combination.
The Chaplain in the Indiana Legislature recent
ly opened, it is said, the session with a general
prayer, which he closed with the following invo
cation : “And the Lord have mercy on our legis
lators. Spare their lives until they msy return to
their homes, and then put it into the hearte of the
people to keep them there, and return men of tem-.
perate habits and sentiments, who will do
good.”
It appears that the Fishery difficulties are not
confined tdour side of the Atlantic, for v/« ob
serve the following paragraph in onr late European
fllea:—The steam advice-boat Ariel pnt j nto
Cherbourg, on the 10th instant, with ' 4 (j, other Eng
lish boats, which she had taken Arinin,. within th.
French lines.
In Montreal recently - <U it was brought .gainst a
railroad oompany r#eOTW u, # Ta lne of a oow
, u° n 6 ° f th ® Th * company sat up
the plea that the oow was a trespasser, and put in
incidental claim for damage* resulting from th*
collision, by whioh the cars were thrown from th*
track. Th* Court diamisted th* plaintiffs action
sn4 sustained the Company’s claim for damage*