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BY WILLIAM S. JONES.
CiIRONKJIsE Ss SENTINEL.
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(• Published efery W ednestUy
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CHRONICLE So SENTINEL
DAILY ANDTBM*KKKL.Y,
Are all'* publ**tl*d at Dus office, an*l mailed to sahserjb.-
»t tlie following rati*, namely:
slams Papas,lf tentby mail,. a°“ nrl -
Tw-Ti rKt-r Paeaa, 4 “ “
JEHUS OT ABVERTISmi.
It Wanu-T.—Seventy-five oenia jier lqoare (10 line* or
**H) fur the first insertion, and fifty cent* for each »üb«e
-uent inecri.on.
TO PLAATRKS.
rpHB fllllaCKllll lt srould respectfully inform Plant-
A efs. that he furnishes
RMALL GRIST MILL*,
Suitable to be attached to Gin G<far», of different uses,
anii of different patterns at the lowest prices. •
These Mills have given the highest satisfaction, and can
ht ojrnpared with ar/y from the Worth.
Pkhs. giro u. a calt beforebttfng^*.™^^
Burr Mill fitone Manufacturer, Augusta, O*. JaP-ly
REUBEN EICH’S PATENT CENTRE VENT WA-
Tl.lt WHEEL.
CNALTMI.N.— frastngbwm informed that a certain per-
J son named Ua>», Is vending a Water Wheel town
which thy w ater,a conducted by means of a -plrlal scroll, as
op .n fteuhen Kleb's “Patout Centre Vent, ’ sre hereby notify
am caution tlis public, that we will proiecute, in all in
•tsnees, far any evasion or Infringement upon said patent,
bo h the mal» i and party using, and will be thankful for
any Information referring ua to parties tints trespassing.^
hfmitgnn.ery, Ala., Junelt, 1830. Jeitl-tf
THB MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM
PANY'S TIION WOttKii.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
MS AIKAfTCRK, in superior style, llorlxontal and
Upright PTE A W ENfilNitif, of all sises; Steam
BOILERS ; LOCOMOTIVES ; Cast Iron WATCH WHEELS;
Sugar MILLS ; Saw aud Grist Mill IRONS, of erery varie
ly, (inriaditig Ho. ii:Scontinuous f‘.et for Haw ;y r.n
giae and Hand LATHES; Iron and Brass CASTINGS, of all
kinds, Ac., Ac.
All orders filled with despatch.
apgS (11NDRAT _ .
IMPORTANT TO MILL OWNERS AND MAHD
PAOTUHEBS.
UnrlseiVod /mjiriwsmemt In Wider Wheels.
TUB MLUeif/'lllHl'.ltei are sole sgentsfvr making and
vending Uie beat Water Wheel in the world, known as
Vsndewater s Water Wheel. We challenge the World to
produce its equal. It has but recently been introduced to
the public, and found to be far In advance of all other
wheels, both In i»wer and economy in water, every drop be
ing etfeotire, and none wasted, This Wheel is not in the
least affected try buck water. As we prefer them being
placed below tall water in every instance, consequently we
get every inch of bend; they being entirely of cast iron,
simple of construction, are hot liable to get out of order,
and aro more durable tlmn any wheel now in use. We
have recently put one in opersilon for George Schley,
Esq., r.t his BelnUe cotton factory, to whom we would give
reference. See certificate annexed.
AM orders for Wheels or Territorial Rights, will meet with
attention by addressing the subscribers.
JAGG Kit, TREADWELL A PERRY.
Albany, New York.
Or to their Agent, J. J. Kibbk, Augusta.
[OtaTiriOATß.]
AvnrsTA, Ga., March 24,1851.
dagger, Treadwell k Perry—Gentlemenl have the
gratification of ir,forming you that your Vandewater Wheel
was successfully put In opera! lon at my factory last week,
ami It worked to perfection. IU simplicity, durability, and
uniformity of speed, are recommendations alone ; but abuse
alt, Its highest encomium is the small quantity of water It
takes as compared with other wheel*. I have been using
one of Beubeii Rich’s Centre Vent Wheels, of three feet
and a half diameter, and eleven Inch bucket, the discharge
openings measuring 400 {lichee. I displaced that and put
n one of yours of sir. feet diameter, with discharge open
ngs measuring 870 inches, mid your wheel run the same
amount of machinery that the Rich Wheel hart driven, and
here was a difference in favor of yours of eight Indies in
he depth of water in the tail race. I feel no hesitation In
ecouiinendlngyour wheel to all manufacturers and mill
When, belisving it is the greatest wheel of the age. Wisli
ng you success ill the introductou of so valuable an Im
rovement, l main, very respectfully, your*, Ac.
mli’lii wly - GEORGE SCHLEY.
IMPORTANT TO MAN UF ACT UREHS.
Tllll rit'HSt'llllJi B are prepared to supply ail
kinds of
COTTON AND WOOLEN MACHINERY,
of a superior quality, SHAFTING and MILL GEARING,
with litip'roved Coupling and Pulleys, Self-Oiling Hangers
which rmiilre oiling only.once In three months); LOOMS,
f a great variety or Patterns, for Saucy and Twilled Goods,
rom One to Eighteen Shuttles; also,for Plain Goods,calla
ble of running from ISO to ITU picks per minute.
They are enabled, from their extensive Improvements, to
produce YARNS and GOODS, with comirarativcly little
ahor ; and all Manufacturers, before purchasing their Ma
ll lair/, will do well to visit Philadelphia nnd vicinity,
where they can see the Machinery wifli all the latest Im-
Iwivrenicnts, In full nnd successful operation; or they can
>e referred to Rectories In almost every Slate South and
West, By addressing a line to the Subscribers.
’ ALFRED JKNKH A SON,
Feb. 1852. fels-ly Uridesburr,near Philadelphia.
N. B. Plans of Factories, wtfti the location of Mndiinory,
he simplest method of driving, and calculation of speed,
tarnished free of charge. w ly
S2O b£wabd.
f">ANAW AY from the subscriber, on the 17th mj
IV of July last, my Ne/jro Man JEFFKRBON. lie TO
Is about 2ft or 26 years of ogt, ami about 6 feet, 8 or ' Si
9 Inches hijrli, rather blucV, and has one of his upper **l2l
front teeth broken off. He Is a smart, intelligent Negro,
And writurt a tolerable good hand; is quite handy with
tools, and 1 think wilt write himieir a pami, and stop about
some city and go to work. He will no doubt change his
own name and that of his owner. I will pay Twenty Dol
lars for Ida delivery to me, or to have him lodged in some
Jail so that I can get him. 8. BLACK.
Batonton, Putnam county, Ga. au27-wtf
~ TEN DOLLAKS KEWARD.
RAN AWAY fiord the undersigned, a Negro **
Fellow named HA .»KV,commonly called HA It-
KY
plexlon, does not usually auswer very promptly —XS.
when spoken to, Is easily made to laugh, which resembles
rather what Is called giggling. He has been gone about 4
months, and is known to have been about the plantation
of It. A. Allen ami others, on the river swamp; has also
keen seen in the viciuily of Augusta, and ou the Savannah
ami Louisville Hoads leading thereto. The above reward
will be paid, for his delivery at the residence of the under
signed, or in Urn Jail at Augusta, with due notice of his ap
prehension. A. C. WALKKU,
00-ts • Near Ricbmoud Factory Post Office.
SEOUGHT TO JAiL,
IN I.IiXrOL.VIOA, LINCOLN COUNTY,
<ia., on the 2Mh day of October last, a Negro
Fellow by the name of JEFF, and says he is some- -HE
time called ADAM. Faid fellow is of very black -JLX.
complexion, thick lips, slow spoken, und is about ft feet 6
Inches high. No peculiar marks observed upon his person.
Fay* he belongs to Mathew Perryman, about 1 miles from
Fort Guinea, Ga., and was sold to Sir. Perryman by Wil
liam Bell. The owner of said boy will please come for
ward, prove property, pay expenses, and tak*» him away
LUKE LANBDKLL, Jailor.
Llncolnton, Ga., Nov. 10. nld-w4w
STKAYED,
• the subscriber In Burke county, two
I 1 MITLICB, one white, the other dark brown,
nearly black, with some soars on its shoulders. Yr~y?
A suitable reward will bo paid to any person Suim&m
who will deliver Ihem to me, or gtve stub information <s«
will enable me to get them. JOHN GRESHAM
Burke county, Nov. 4. nft wA^
AUGUSTA FRENCH BURB MILL STONE MANU
FACTORY.
Till; suliKribur, thankful for the kind patronage heretofore
ext,unled to til.' late firm or Bcuibmkk A Wioand, would
realactfulG ‘itfomi his friend, and the public, tltat lie contin
ue* to execute order# for his well known Warranted French
BURR MILL STONES, of every desirable site, at the lowest
price and shortest notice. Uc al*i tumishei
KSOI'US and C'OI.OGNF STONiy,
SMUT MACHINES, of varion# pattera.,
BOLTING OLOI'HS, us the he«t brand,
CEMENT, for MUI use.
And every other article necessary in a Mill.
Also, for Planters, small GRIST MILLS to attach to Gla
Gears.
All orders promptly attended to.
WM. R. SOHIRMER,
JalS wlf SurvlTlng partner of Sehirmer A Wigan£.
81.000 REWARD.
Dll. HUN TUB’S celebrated SPECIFIC, for the cure
of Gonorrhea, Strictures, Gleet and Aualagou# Corn.
plaints of the Organs of Generation.
;yf“ Os all remedies yet discovered for the above com
plaint, this is Hie most rertAin. .
fSt" It makes a»;eedy and permanent cure without rc
•tricti >o to diet, drink, exposure, or change of appbcati,n
to business.
{V it harmlesa. Gallon, of it might be
taken without injuring the patient.
PIT tt is put up in bottles, with full directions accom
panying it, so that person# can cure thenuelrei withoutre
•orting to pivysielan# or oilier, for advice.
One battle is enough to perform a certain eure. Price (1,
it i# approved and recommended by the Royal
College es Physicians and Surgeous of London and ha.
thetr certificate enclosed.
tv It la sold by appointment In Augusta, Ga., by
PHILIP A. MOISK,
Dnder the new Augusta Hotel, and by W.II. AJ. TURPIN.
Gr iers from the country promptly attended to. je2
W. H. A J. TUEFIN.
, SBCOIVOStBS TO W. 11. TVBrtX,
n OTFKH TO PHYSICIANS, Planters, Mer- ,
Mi chants, and Hie public at large, a choice und
T3r well assorted Mock of DRUGS AND MEM- Yjf-.
frn CINFS, Oils, PAINTS, DYESTUFFS, Glass Ct
and Putty, Brushe. of every description, Straw Brooms,
Spirits Turpentine, Ac., Ac.
We purchase OUT good, for cash, and are prepared to sell
on the most uivautugeous terms. Merchants will find it to
their interval to lock at our prices. Ail articles w.trrannxl
to be wiiat is represented. Giv eus a call and satisfy your
selves. _# »»
PHIL IP A. MOIBE.
UifVRTW AXI> IHUU* U* f)
fly DRUGS and MKDICJNI*, PAINTS, OILS, MET#
yg dvr STUFFS, WINDOW GLASS, IIRI’SH- VJi
IS KS, PERFUMERY. PATENT MEDICINES, Q>
INSTRUMENTS, Ac., Ac.
_.Vo. ’.55 I N.V(Vf, wavier fie A*?<!<•>" /Mes.
Vi .5 now on hand a very large Stock of the above artiel- s,
which are otfriwd for tale at very low prices, and on accom
modating terms.
{Sf- Country Merchant*, Physicians and Planters are
n vltisl to call and examine, before purchasing elsewhere.
J»l6-w _ _ _____
D- B. PLUMB A 00.
4 AKK constantly receiving fresh and pure v
M| Medicines, Chemicals, Choice Perfumery, j
TV Toaet Artiel.' Ac., at their estahUshraent Yjj
Ow between T. S, Holt 1 aod Post Ofiice corner. A. *
Medicines carefully dis)H'rs< d at all hours, by cahing at Mr.
Barnes’, owner O.ten and Mdntnash strrts niit
ffAIIH undersigned would caR the ,
L attention of Meecliants anti -.
Planters to the extensive stock of _ V*y,
AGRICULTURAL IMPLFIMKNTS,
which they keep in connecrhm with HARDWARE -rd
CUTLERY. Their stork of PLOW#. HARROWS. CI'LTI-
V ATOKA Corn SUF.LLSUS, Straw CUTTERS, Grain CR A
DLES,F*n MILLS, FANNERS. BOILERS, and all articles
in the Agrktulcutturai line, ts net equalled in the State.
The? are prepared to order at fits shortest notice the best
kinds of HOKSK POWERS, THRESHERS, Smut Mv-
CHINIS, or any article* in their line of busine*. Titry
•re also Agents for the lloetou Belting Company, and have
now Oil Stand India-Rubber Steam Packing HOSE an.l M e
chine BELTING. CARMICHAEL A BEAN.
• ofil-wly -
FAIRSANK S PATENT
IILtTFORM AND t Ol XTEH SCALES, W All
-1 RANTED.—Adapted to every required op. ratvoo of
W-tchUu-—a* Rail Road Seales, for Trains ar dngie Cars;
Warehouse Scales, Dormant and Portable; Heavy Portable
ole# on Wheels for Foundries, RodincMills, Ac. STORE
CALKS of all site#; COUNTER SCALES, Ac.. Ac.,formic
YV. ft J. NKLSON, AgcutA- mhl
COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
Tilt; undersigned having THIS DAY formed a Copart
to rship, under the name and style of ALLEOLD A
WIN’GFIKId), forthe purpose of tranutu’.itlf the GROCKR Y
SH’SINKSS,*rA.-de«.'ie (to,! cr#o«f, re#l>ertfully solicit Hie
patronage of their friends and the pnbiif generally.
Store otvpesite Messrs. HRniy A Clayton’. Warehouse,
Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
M. L. At Bocn. 1 T. T. Wtxrrvxh.
Nov. 2R. 1852. nkf-dfiAtwC
Those indebted to the nnderegoed. either by note or *c
eount, win please make iwytot-rt ntthoni delay.
M. L. ALLEOCD.
PARTNERSHIP. .
THE I’SDKRIRUAEU, who hare lone been tea*
nec,«d wi.h Hie CARRIAGE lICSIMMd of the late
IT. A ITosutv. bavc this day formed a Partnership under
the style and fi-'m of WYMAN A DAKROW, for continu
ing the but Inc*# atllie tame Wore.
G. N. WYMAN,
AuguaUv,Oct. Ist, 2852. J. DARROW.
We baynea aand, and are receiving, an awirunent of
CARRUGSe, ROCRAWAYb, BUGGIES, HARNESS and
Orders received for budding various riylev of vehmlau
We i vepectfutoeolkita tiiani of Bawooage.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1* 1852.
» • 7 ,
1853. PBOSPECTUS 1853.
OF THE
SOUTHERN CULTIVATOR
VOLUME XI, FOR 1853.
Dr. BASIEL LEeT j" ~
and > Editors.
U. UEDUOTD, ) _
TERMS —ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
TuxSodtheb-v (Jl ltivatoh is tissued every month,
end ia exclusively devoted to Agriculture, Horti
culture, Floriculture, Domesticand Farm Economy,
Tiilatrc an l Huabwndry, the Breeding and Raising
of Dome lie Animals, Poultry and Bees, and the
gc n. online of .Soutliern Plan ting and Farming.
i iie lin-t number of tile new volume for 1868, will
of issued on the first of January. At will he print
ed on a sheet 80 by 44 inches, each number form
ing 82 pages, or 884 page# per year, with NEW
TYI’K, Flbr I'APKK, AND BEAUTIFUL IL
LUSTIiATIONS. It will afford full and free dis
cussion to all topics of interest to the Agricultural
community, and will be in every respect the east
Aohioeltokal I’ackr in Tint Soltu ! and evjual to
any in the Union!
Friends of Southern Agriculture!!
The CvL'n vatoh was the FTbkt journal established
in the Cotton Growing States, exclusively devoted
to the interests of tiny Planter; and as it has ever
been an earnest and consistent advocate of those
interests, we confidently trust than having fostered
and sustained it thus far, your cordial and generous
support will bo continucdand increased.
Plastkiis, FAKitkus,Gardeners, F'kcit Growers,
St<s;k Raisers, NnisEBVMRK, end ail connected in
any way with the cultivation of the soil, will find the
SorriiKiwCciTiVATonrojdete with new and valua
blc information; and richly worth ten times the
rilling sum at which it is afforded.
TERMS OF THE CULTIVATOR l
ONE copy, ouo year, I 1-00
SIX copies, :::::::::: 5.00
T.VKI.VE copies, :::::::: 10.00
TWENTY-FIVE copies, :::::: $20.00
FIFTY copies, : ; : 27.50
ONE HUNDRED copies, : : : : : : 75.00
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
JSf" Gentlemen who obtain subscriptions, will
pi 'a#o forward them as early as possible.
~yAll lulls of specie paying Banks received at
par—and all money sent by mail will be at our
W. S. JONES, Publisher.
Augusta, Ga., November 17, 1852.
EDUCATIONAL.
MESON ACADEMY, LEXINGTON, GA.
rpHE Exercise* of tills Academy, now temporarily »us-
JL pended, will be resumed again on the First MONDAY'
in JANUARY next. The Trustees take pleanure in an
nr uncing to the people of Oglethorpe county, and to the
public generally, that they have been ho fortunate as to
secure, for another year, the services of Mr. Thomas B.
in the Male, and of Miss E. K. Kiluan, in the Fe
male Department of the Academy. This fact alone, they
consider a guarantee of success, and predict that the
friend* of the Academy will have the gratification of seeing
it in a more flourishing condition during next year than at
any past t 1 me. Ail who have attended the examinations and
exhibition* in this Academy, the present year, will readily
te.-tify that never were Pupil* more proficient, or Teachers
mere accomplished and deserving. The Trusteeshaving at
their disposal a large bonus fund, are enabled not only to
command the first order of talent in the respective de
partments of the Academy, but also to furnish - very oon
vmiency that may render instruction a pleasing duty, and
learning a delightful task. They are confident that no
in dilution holds out greater inducements to those who
wish to give their a sound, practical education
without subjecting them to the temptations which so often
lead the young astray, than Meson Adhdemy.
in intents ure prepared lor any Class in College. Board
can be be obtained in families, or at the Hotel, as low or
lower than in any neighboring Village. There are two
efcs.-doiis, spring and Fall, of six and four months duration
respectively. A vacation of two weeks is given at the
clo. e of the former.
TERMS.
First Cla.ss—Spelling, Reading, Writing, and Montal
Arithmetic, per Quarter, $4 00
Secohd CLAb3—Arithmetic, Geography, English Gram
mar, Reading und Composition, per
Quarter, 45 00
Third Class —Algebra, Geometry, Mathematics, Na
tural Philosophy, Astronomy, Chemis
try, Rhetoric, Kvds. Christianity, Men
tal and Moral Sciences, per Quarter,.. |G 00
Foluith Class—Languages, Ancient and Modern, per
Quarter, |b 00
For further particulars, address
GEORGE R. GILMER,
n<i-w3m Chairman Board Trustees, Lexington, Ga.
WARRENTON MALE AND FEMALE SCHOOLS
r {''UK subscriber takes pleasure in informing the public
JL thiit the Trustees have secured the services of Miss
Augusta B. Corns, of Augusta, as preceptress of the Fe
rn ile School; ami that the Term will commence on the Se
cond Monday in JANUARY. Miss C. comes recommend
ed by gentlemen of known character and capacity to judge,
from tills and other States, as fully qualified in every re
spect for her charge. Mr. Gbohgc L. Bosimt, of Colum
bia county, a Graduate of Columbian College, D. C.,
who hus been engaged in teaching for several years,
has been employed to take charge of the Male*Depart
iuciit. Mr. B. is well known as a gentleman of acquire
m nts and good character, ami no doubt is entertained but
that entire satisfaction will be given. No better or more
healthful location can be found in any part of the country.
These Schools are kept distinct, and situated in different
parts of the Town. We respectfully invite Parents and
Guardians to assist in making these Schools respectable in
number, standing and influence. Board may be had in
private families from 48 to 410 per month.
ARDEN R. MERBIION,
Sec. Board of Trustees.
Warrentou, November 8,1552. n5-tJall
WBIGHTSBORO’ HIGH SCHOOLS.
rplIE Trustees of these Institutions tHke pleasure in an-
J. notmeing that they have engaged Mr. C. C. Richauds,
A. M., to take charge of the Male, and Miss M. Augusta
\V ALKKR the Ferale Departments the ensuing year. Os the
high qualifications of Mr. Richards as a Teacher, his seven
years success in this Institution, and the present year at
Auburn, Alabama, give ample proof. For energy, disci
pline, aptness to teach, and literary acquirements, he has
few equals. Miss Walker has taught with great success in
Alabama three years, and has given ample satlsfactien to
Trustees und Patrons, as the Principal of the School the
present year. The location is healthy, and the inhabitants
of the village moral. Board can he obtained in good fam
ilit-a at $lO per month. Those desiring to board with the
Male teacher can do ho at the same prices.
Terms o? Tuition in Male Department, for Primary Eng
lish Studies 412.60 for Term of ft months. Higher branch
es of English and the Classics, 4‘20 per Term. In the Fe
male 4Jb per Term, for primary studies, and 416 for the
higher branches usually taught in such Schools.
The first Term will commence 2d Modday in January,
1852. EDWARD W. JONES,
Wrightsboro’, Oct. 19. wtJall one of the Trustees.
GEORGIA MILITARY INSTITUTE.
next Term of this Institution wilj commence on
JL MONDAY, JANUARY 10,1553. Additional BuiWings
havihg been erected, there will be accommodations for 180
Cadets. A copy of the Regulations will he sent to any
person desiring further information, on application to the
undersigned. A. V. BRUMBY, Superintendent.
Marietta. Oct. 10,
TEACHER WANTED,
TO take charge of Bascom Academy, Scriven county,
Ga., for the ensuing year, 1553. This Institution is
situated iu a healthy and pleasant part of the county, sur
rounded by good society.
No person neW apply unU*s he is a regular graduate, of
good moral character, and capacity to teach aWth* branch
es usually taught in a good English Seminary, together ,
with some of the Languages. Apply to the undersigned
Trustees, Mill Haven P. 0., Scriven county, Ga.
R. M. HERRINGTON,
B. PRE.SCOTT,
J. B. DELL,
m. n. SHARPE,
/. ft. KITTLE,
W. L. MATHEWS,
W. H. NUNNALLY,
nT-w6 Trustees.
A TEACHER WANTED
take charge of the Rock Spring Academy for the
I year LSS2. A salary of Four Hundred (4oo) Dollars
will he given, or the perquisites of the School. For particu
lars apply to the subscriber, living 14 miles north-west of
Washington, Wilkes county, Georgia.
019-w*n L. M. HILL.
WANTED.
A SITUATION, as Teacher of the common English
branches, by a young Gentleman who can come well
recommended. Would like to commence the first of Janu
ary next. Address, post paid, X. Y. Z., Bereelia, Colum
b..i county, «i t. t*ol-wtf
TEACHERS WANTED.
ri'HK TKl'fe I'tlvfe t f Orion Institute, being desirous of
Jl engaging competent TEACHERS to take charge of the
Classical, Primary and Ornamental departments, would
call the attention of Teachers to this. Applications can
he handed in to the Secretary. By order of the Board.
W. U. ROBERT, Sec’y.
Orion, Pike co., Ala., Nov 7,1562. nl6-w4t _
GROCERIES. GROCERIES.
rpilE subscribers continue to carry on the Wholesale
A and Retail Grocery Business, at their Old Stand, just
above the Globe Hotel, in the city of August*, and they
beg to Infrrm the public that they are now receiving their
Full Supply of Heavy and Fancy Groceries, which they will
sellou the most reasonable terms.
—THEY NOW OFFER FOB SALE—
ItX> bales 46 inch Gunny Cloth,
600 coils ha Ilf inch Bale Rope,
std hhds. N. Orleans and Muscovado Sugars.,
Ibo tb!#;. Stuart’s Crushed and Granulated do.,
100 bags prime Rio and Lagnira Coffee,
3ft chests and half chests Tea,
SO hhds. Cuba Molasses,
100 b'ols. liirain Smith and Baltimore Flour,
100 boxes Sperm, Ada., and Tallow Candies,
SOO krg* Cut Nalls, all sioes,
7ft boxes Tobacco es various qualitiefl,
85,000 lbs. Hams, Sides and Shoulders,
1,500 socks Liverpool Salt.
—ALSO—
Spices, Pickles, Preserves Segars, and all articles usually
kept in the best Grocery Houses.
Strict attention given to country orders.
auivu* J. R. A W. M. DOW.
TO PLANTERS
are now daily receiving, at our Old Stand, in addi
t > tion to our present Stock, a large assortment, se
lected expressly for Planters’ use, comprising—
St. Croix, P. K., Muscovado, and N. O. SUGARS;
Crushed, Powdered, Loaf and Clarified Do.;
Rio, Java and Lagnira Coffee;
Green, Hyson and Black TEAS;
SALT, in sacks and Bulk ;
PPPPFJt, SPICE and GINGER:
TREACLE, SYRUP and MOLASSES; •
BRANDIES, WINES and CORDIALS;
Domestic LIQUORS, of all qualities:
IRON, NAILS, STEEL, AXES and Wagon AXLES;
BELLOWS, ANVILS, VICF.S and Screw PLATES;
Trace, Tongue, Stay. Leak and Halter CHAINS;
Hollow WARE and SAD-IRONS;
BAGGING, ROPE and TWINE;
SADDLES, BRIDLES and WHIPS;
BLANKETS. KKKSKYS, SHOES and HATS;
Harness and Sole LEATHER, Kip and Calf SKINS;
Lamp and Tanner’s OIL:
SOAPS, CANDLES and f TARCH;
TOBACCO and SEGARS;
And many other articles too numerous to mention, which
will be soki upon *? good terms as any house in the city.
»S4-wly BUFORD, BEALL A CO.
GROCERIES. GROCERIES.
THE robeeriber* are receiving their usual well assorted
Stock, and have in Store, a frill supply of Fresh Goods,
consisting, in part, of—
l,oui* sacks SALT;
50 bales heavy Gunny CLOTH;
lftfi coils N* S', and \ inch ROPE;
1,000 lbs. TWINE;
50 bbls. Canal and Baltimore FLOUR;
*M> bags Rio, Laguara and Java COFFEE 1
20Hints. SUGAR, assorted;
50 bbls. Crushed and Coffee SUGARS;
SO,OO6tt*.BACON, Sides and Shoulders;
s,ooi> “ Philadelphia Cured HAMS;
6,000“ Tflwneasee KHOULDM;
5,000 M Ua?t LARD, in bbls. and kegs;
NAILS and IKON, assorted. To ail of which they ask
the auenUra of Planters and Merchant*.
HAND A FLEMING.
HORSE STOLEN.
STOLEN from the cauip of the Subscriber, near
Warventon, Ga., on the night of the 13th >gf3| V
m*t % a BA Y HORSE, about 6 years old, 16 hands high,
black mar**, tai, and lego, and a white saddle mark on the
hack. Abo, one of his front teeth is out. A Eberal reward
will be p«M to any person for giving such inf ormaaiun that
7may gel him. Address roe at Augtwu, Ga., to the lfilh
Dec. next, after that time at Leathenrood Store, Henry
Ya. W. M. DAYIS.
_nl7-w3 ,
BALTIMORE ADVERTISEMENT.
200,000 >^OOolte!su6rU)KES;
’folHK) email Family HAMS;
. 2o<> bbte. LARD.
For «alu fc’f the und. retimed, who keep* cocuntly on kind
a laryr Mux: k of Pitot ISIOA'S. Partie. seodjoy order.,
may rely oo yetting them filled at a* torn rare., a. if bay
i at: iu person. aßOKtit A THOMAS CAtiriURK.
i»18 _ 44 fiouthJtreet Baltimore M
nOLTMU cunm, *1 wmraiitod quality, taniahed
&£&£? MSI SUnai, cheap
iUSva Auguta, Qa
WEEKLY
CHRONICLE & SENTIML
miMagMl"
THE WORTH OF WOMAN,
ntou tux r.EaUA* or schillek.
Honored be woman! .he b-am. on the sight.
Graceful and fair, like a being of light;
Reader, around her wherever she strays,
Rose, of Mis. on our thorn-covered ways;
Roses of Paradise rent from above, •
To be gathered and twined in a garland of Love.
Man, on passion’s stormy ocean,
loosed by surges mountain high.
Court, the hurricane’s commotion.
Spurns at reason’s feeble cry.
Loud the tempest roars around him,
Louder still it roars within.
Flashing light, of hope confound him,
Stun, with life’s incessant din.
Woman invites him with bliss in her smile,
To cease from his toil and be happy a while;
Whispering wooingly—come to my bower—
Go not in search ofthe phantom of power—
Honor and wealth are illusory—come!
Happiness dwells iu the temple, of home.
Man, with fury stern and savage.
Persecutes his brother man.
Reckless if he bless or ravage,
Action, action —still his plan.
Now creating, now deatroying,
Ceaseless wishes tear his breast;
Ever seeking—ne’er enjoying;
Still to be, but never blest.
Woman, contented in silent repose.
Enjoys in its beauty life’s flower as it blows.
And waters and tends it with innocent heart.
Ear richer than man with his treasures of art;
And wiser by far in the circles confined,
Than he with hi. silence and lightso. the mind.
Coldly to himself sufficing,
Man disdains the gentler art.,
Knoweth not the bliss arising
From the interchange of hearts.
Slowly through his bosom stealing.
Flows the genial current on,
Till by age’s frost congealing,
* It is hardened into stone.
She like the harp that instinctively rings,
A# the night-breathing tephyr soft siglison the strings,
Responds to each impulse with steady reply,
Whether sorrow or pleasure her sympathy try;
And tear drops and smiles on her countenance play,
Like sunshine and showere of a morning in May.
Through the range of man’s dominion.
Terror is the ruling word—
And the standard of opinion
Is the temper of the sword.
Strife exults, and pity blushing,
From the scene departing Hies,
Where the battle madly rushing,
Brother upon brother .lies.
Woman commands with a milder control—
She rules by enchantment the realms of the soul;
As she glances around in the light of her smile,
The war of the passions is hushed for awhile,
And discord, content from his fury to cease,
Reposes entranced on the pillows of peace.
Falling Ilea, es and Fading Flowers.—An Autumn
Revery.
BY EDGAR MAY.
The following very pretty piece of rhapsody is
by a correspondent of tlio St. Louis Sunday Ke
publican:
A voice is floating on the breeze, plaintive as the
sorrow-laden tone of Kachnel weeping for her
children, and sadly, mournftiliy musical as a cathe
dral requiem for the dead. Its melting cadences
sink and swell witli the breathings of the blast—
now soft and sad as the memory of buried love
—now pouring forth its tendorest notes like a
mothor’s lullaby over her sleeping child—and now
wild and weirdly plaintive as the wail of u broken
heart. And thus it speaks:
“From the vnlo wlieio the flowers lat®tvcre
blooming, loome,” says the autumn wind, “ with
death upon my wings. A lovely and a gorgeous
spot it was, when tho young spring flower first
burst forth from the parting sod; I saw them bud,
und bloom, and blossom. I saw the countless
colors form and glitter on their cheeks—and with
a light pinion I b re their perfume upward to the
sky. lseautiful they were when the early dew
decked them like a fairy host, with diamond
circlets round their brows; and beautiful when the
mid-day sun robed them in its hues of light.—
Beautiful they were,” says the autumn wind;
“ but a day came when their beauty faded as fades
the dying’ glories of an evening sky. They laid
no voice to speak their woe—but silently and sad
ly they bowed their heads, and bent them to the
earth. They are dead now, and the vale is
desolate.
“ From the tangled wildwood I havecouie,” says
the autumn wind, and its voice is horse as the rising
tempest’s braath, “ with death upon my wings.—
When tho young trees were budding in their
spring-time’beauty—when the ancient monarch’s
of the woods robed themselves in their customary
suits of gorgeous green—when vino nnd rose-tree
put fortli their young blossoms to the sun—when
tho thin blades of grasß peered from their wintry
homos, and witli busy hands wove their carpot of
green for the forest halls—when, where the rain
bow’s wing hud rested, beneath the warm son, a
thousand wild flowers sprung to rival that rain
bow’s varied beauty—whero the stream that had
slept in winter’s arms, awoke, like a young girl on
her bridal morn, and burst from its icy embrace,
au.l witli a smile, and n laugh, and a cheer for the
spring, sprang up and away through the forest
wild, to meet the sun’s warm kiss in the vale be
yond ; and when the rays of the summer sun could
scarce force their path of light through the thick
drapery of the o’erhanging trees, making a weird
mysterious glow in the dim aisleß of those green
forest halls—then,” sayß tho autumn wind, “ my
voice mingled softly and swoetly with the notes of
birds and the hum of insects, and a glorious an
them we raised in those grand temples to the God
of tho green-wood. But changod is tho forest now :
the young buds have withered—the onoe green
leaves ore clothed in hues of silver and gold, and
aro fulling to the earth with a sad and melancholy
sound like the waving of spirit-pinions—the vine
has drooped, and clings with its dying arms for
succor aud support—the tree itself stands bare and
lone, stretching out its gaunt and giant arms, like
11 warrior disrobed of his armor, aud death and
desolation are triumphant in tho tangled wildwood.
“From 0 village grove-yard I havo come,” says
the autumn wind, and its voice is wild os the
shriek ofa despairing soul, “with death upon my
wings. When the spring was young, a blithe and
merry breoze was I, and I ployed gaily with tho
golden curls of a fair young girl, whose sunny eyes
and smiling lips were as full of joy as her pure
young heart of innocence nnd truth ; and a moment
I lingered on her warm young lips, to taste their
fragrant breath. And a cool and gentle breeze
was I, when I camo with balm anil blessing on
my wings, to the chamber of that fair young girl,
and fanned her heated brow, and cooled with my
wing the fever of bor licctic cheek; and lingered
aguin on those fragrant lips, now so hot and parch
ed ; but I knew their purity was gone, for a ser
pont’s tongue had drank their innocent treasures,
and the heart so light and pure was a sepulchre
now of her buried love andffor (blighted hopes.
But once again I visitod that fair young girl, and
then herbrow was marble-like and cold, her cheek
was pale and wan—her lips were white and fixed—
her soul had fled. And now from her gravo I
come,” says the autumn wind, “and desolation
and death are in the home she once made happy.”
“ I come from the vale and the forest yild, and
the young girl’s grave,” says the autumn Wind,
and its voice is sweet and clear as a bugle note,
“ and I know there isdesolation and death abroad ;
but many au autumn past aud dead have I swept
my way oypr the world—and I know that as au
tumn’s icign ip br;ef, and winter’s rule is stern
and strong, as surely bosh shall yield to the
spring’s reviving breath—end the flojy.ers in the
vale shall bloom again—and the taug“ed wildwood
bo green once more. As eacli succeeding year
hath its spring-time, so hath each soul a new life
iu a better world—and the spirit of the fair young
girl whose form is sleeping in its autumn tomb
liatli woke ere n,ow to an eternal spring. Then
weep not,” says the autumn wind, ‘i that the leaves
should fall and the flowers fad,e—weep not, that
the grove shpuld claim its own when tho fullness
of time liatli come—l>«t look beyond the autumn
and the grave, and ip tpa rich promise of an
eternal bloom, and hope and peace.-’
Scene in a Coubt Boom.—The Richmond (Va.)
Republican of the Ist inst., relates the following
apone in a court room in that city:
On Friday last, while John A. Johnson was
undergoing a triid .on the charge of feloniously
killing a negro, a scene took plane in the court
room that can never be effaced from thp memory
of those who witnessed it. Mr. Thomas P. Au
gust, one of- the counsel for tho defence, hud
jasl olesed a beautiful and touching appeal to the
court and jury, snd Mr. Young, for the common
wealth, had arisen to end his duty,* when Mrs.
Johnson, tho wile of the prisoner, leading her in
fill),t boy by the hand, walked up io Mr. Ywith
her arms outstretched to heaven, her cheeks suf
fused in tears, fell upon her knees and begged
him for God sake not to proseeyte tier husband.
The little boy, too, as if understanding that his
protector was in danger, sobbed aloud, for mercy.
Such a scene in a court-room, we have never
bo tore witnessed. The prosecutor turned deadly
pale, and stood as if transfixed to the spot, his
feeling and his sense of duty apparently strug
gling for the mastery. Searce a dry eye could be
seen in the room, and business was eptircly sus-
E ended until Mrs. Johnson, was removed. But
er appeal to justice had not been lost. The pent
np grief of a wife bad burst the bars of conven
tionalism, and like an electric spark had found a
lodgement in the hearts of the beholders. For the
moment we felt that if wo had the power though
the prisoner were doubly guilty, the seif-sucrafi
cing devotion, the undying love, the public inter
cession of that wife had sufficiently atoned lor the
crimes of the husband, aud w| would bid him go
in peace and sin no more.
When the manifest feciing of sympathy which
exhibited itself on every countenance present, had
somewhat subsided, the prosecution proceeded,
the case was given to the jury, and a verdict of
not guilty returnsd-
Mav the scenes we have attempted to describe
ever turn fresh upon the memory of )tr. John
son, turning him aside lrom vice and crime,
whenever it shall present itself, is our earmst
P«7? r -
Lons Kafole«< w Jfiw Yobx City.—’The
Brooklyn Daily Advertiser, moralizing upon the
rapid ascentof Louis Napoleon up the loader of
ambition, from positive poverty, to superlative
grandeur and power, recoils some reminiscences of
his sojourn in that city many years ago: The
Editor says :
‘■What strange events havo occurred yithin a
few years in reierence to that man ! We knew
him whilst be was residing in New York, at a
lodging house in £eade street then kept by a gen
tleman who now occupies a high official position
under the French Government. At that time he
waa very poor, and very dissipated,
profligate in bis habits, and without the pecuniary
ability to indulge to the full bent of his inclina
tion the culpable propensities which characterized
him. he was frequently expelled from pertain pla
ces in which wc obtruded himself and more
than a dozen times was the occupant ot a cell at
the old Jail iu the Park, long since tom down.
Not long prior to hia leaving the United States,
he was arrested for a misdemeanor committed by
him at the disreputable house of a woman whose
establishment he often visited, and the writer of
this articia was employed professionally by him to
save him from tho threatened consequences of ids
rcckleaness and indiscretion. We little supposed at
that time that the thoughtless gay young man, who
was then oar client, and who is still indeiA—j to
us for counsel ices and disbursements) would be
come Emperor of France- Such, however, is now
Jjia “manifest destine” although we believe that
his Ktfiization of ambitions hopes and aspirations
will but hasten the fearful doom which unques
tionably impends over him.”
rifo
PraaftASE or Cuba.—The National Intelligencer
has the very beet authority for saving there is no
foundation for the statement going the rounds of
the press, purporting to be an extract from a Mad
rid letter, that the American minister to Spain had
lately renewed the offer ofl9#,ooodnros— as before
offered by Jthe Govertmenl under President
—as a price for the sole or the island of Cuba. No
each offer has been m*de by the present admires
tfnijpug
....
■ 11 1 | INI I
Arlesian Weils.
A correspondent asks us what is the principle of
the Artesian wells. He says that he often reads of
I boriug for water through soldid rock, but cannot
I understand by what agency the water, when reach
ed, is forced to the surface.
Has our correspondent ever passed through a
railroad cutting! If so, lie has probably noticed that
the rock does not lie horizontally, but at an angle;
in other words, it dips more or less, to use a term
of the geologist. Now a strata of rock will some
times extend for scores, even hundreds of miles,
dipping in this way, before it finally turns again,
ana re-appears at the surface, even" when it does
so turn, which is not always. Sush a strata forms
a large dish, as it were. If our correspondent will
imagine a region of country, lying within such a
strata, and if he will further imagine this district
to be so rocky that water will not collect in it, but
rungiff—in this case re will have all the ingredients
for a country ot Artesian wells, provided there is
the additional circumstance, that outside this stra
ta, or, to curry out the simile, under the di»h, the
soil is gravelly, or sandy. For, iu such a case,
water front fains will sink into the ground, und
pass under the strata, there it will remain until the
rock is bored through, when it will rise of course
to the surface. This is what an Artesian well is.
Any person may make an artificial Artesian well,
on a small scale, by taking a common tin hand ba
sin, and inserting in it a bed of earth, which is it
self contained in a larger vessel,tlien,pouring water
upon the eartk"between the basin and the vessel
in which it is placed, and, when the earth is com
pletely saturated, [lertbratiiigtho bottom of the ba
sin, for, in this event, the water will rise in a jet to
the top of the basiu, or the level of the earth. In
this rude experiment, the tin, of which the basin
is made, roughly represents one strata of rock, and
the larger vessel another strata, while the earthy
matter stands tor the gravel, saud, or pervious
rock, between the two stratus. It will be seen that
the same principle raises the water to the surface,
in the ease of an Artesian well, as elevates the wa
ter in our houses ; the preusure of water itself be
ing the motive power;* in the one case there is a
bed of soil, between the strata ot rocks which
forms a natural conduit, and iu another there are
artificial pipes.
To our scientific readers, this explanation of what
is so familiar to them,may appear scarcely called for.
But our correspondent is not singular in his igno
rance. AVe have frequently heard otherwise intel
ligent persons ask what an Artesian well was. In
fact, if persons more generally understood the
principles of such wells, wo should have less of
fruitless attempts to here for water, because it
could always be told where success might be look
ed for, and where not .—Phil. Bulletin.
Accidents on Kailroads—Singular Verdict.
We learn that a verdict was rendered in the Su
perior Court of Bibb county, last week, against the
Macon &, Western Railroad Company, for Five
Thousand Dollars. The facts as detailed to us are
these:
Several months since the plaintiff applied to the
conductor of a freight train for passage over the
Road. lie was told that the passenger train would
leave in two hours or thereabouts, and that he had
better wait for that—and further, that the Com puny
did not like to convey passengers over their Road
in a freight train. The plaintiff persisted iu his ap
plication to go by the freight train, and finally he
and some few others who desired to tako passage,
were conducted to a box ear and informed that they
could go in that. Accordingly, they all took their
places in the box car of the freight train. On ar
riving at one ol' the stations, the plaintiff left the
box car and got on a platform ear, loaded with
cross-ties. While there, the engine ran over a cow
and his arm was broken, so that it had to bo am
putated between the elbow and the wrist. The
other passcugers who remained in the box car in
which they were originally placed with the plain
tiff, escaped without hurt.
For the injury thus sustained, the plaintiff
brought suit. Judge Powers, before whom the
case was tried, we understand, charged that he was
not entitled to recover, and that lie, and uot the
company, was in the wrong. The Jury, neverthe
less, brought in a verdict of Five Thousand Dollars
damages 1 The case will doubtless be carriod up to
the Superior Court of the State, a tribunal happily
established for the asrrection of errors.
It docs not become us to pass upon the law if
the case. That belongs to the province of the
Judge. It must bo evident to the dullest intellect,
ns Judge Powers charged the Jury, that the plain
tiff himself was in tho wrong, aud consequently
was not entitled to damsges. But we may animad
vert upon the unjust and evil policy which a certain
class of persons pursue towards Railroad compa
nies. They not only make exhorbitunt eluirges for
the right of way and for stock killed, but they Jo
all in their power to harrass aud iujuro them. They
seem to look upon Railroad companies as soulless
monsters, which may be villified and defrauded at
pleasure. It cun hardly he necessary to say, all this
is wrong. Every Railway in Georgia is a monu
ment to the energy and enterprise of the citizens,
without which their condition would indeed be la
mentable. While, therefore, wc would uot en
oourage public corporations iu wrong, it is our du
ty to protect them in their just rights. They are
indispensable agents iu the material mid social ad
vancement of the people, the truo value of which
can bo estimated only by comparing our present
with our past condition "when Railroads were un
known. There are merchants now living on the
lino of tho Macon and Western Road, who have
travelled all tho way to New York on horsc-back
or by private conveyance to purchase their sup
plies. Perhaps some member of the Jury which
rendered the above mentioned verdict has per
formed this feat. If so, ho ought never to be al
lowed to take a seat ill a rail-ear again. —Suvantiuh
Republican.
NOVEMBER.
Sullen by fits, unloved of all the year,
Forlorn November glooms upon the world,
Wraps his chill feet-among the leaflets sere,
And hails aloft the banner’d clouds unfurl’d 1 <
No more the sun with Midas power supreme,
Holds u proud court o’er Autumn's yellow vales —
Denuded lands now crave each scanty gleam;
Hush’d are the rills, and hushed the nightingales,
Dumb, as in fear, the old earth’s tuneful bands —
Dead the sweet flowers I—and dyin day by day
Glad Nature’s smile 1 Like Xiobe she stands,
Her warm life ebbing in a mist of £ghs, I
Her tears congealing in her rueful eyes,
Her garments blanch’d, and in her heart decay! ,
The Liquor Law in Now Hampshire.
The opinions of tho Judges of the New Hnmp- ,
shire Superior Court were read in the Senate of that i
State on Friday. They state generally that it is ■
very even upon the moat cursory read-, ;
ing, that the bill is drawn without reference to th 3 j
State Constitution; and they specify the following |
points of conflict: I
First. Tho bill confers on justices an extent of i
authority the constitution does not sanction, par- 1
ticularly in respect to power it gives them to pro
liounce n sentence ol'forfeiture ou liquors seized I
for a violatiou of the law. 1
Secondly. The biil provides for no trial by jury, i
or for appeal and trial by jury beforo a higher 1
court. The Constitution provides that in all (son- 1
troversies concerning property the parties have a 1
right to trial by jury.
Thirdly. The seventh section of the act conflicts 1
directly with the Constitution of the United States. <
This sootion provides that no action can be main- :
tained in any court iu the State, either in whole or
in part, for intoxicating or spirituous liquors sold i
in any other State or county. No law of this i
State can deprive a citizen of the United States of
the right to eul'orce a claim of debt before the tri- i
bunols of this State.
Fqurth. Liquors are property. The law in re
cognising them as such in the fourth section,
when in the hands of town authorities for sale and
mechanics for use, canuot, by the force of a few .
phrases, moke property lose its character when in
other custody.
Fifth. Double or increased penalties in cases of
conviction under appeal, because it operates as a
penalty upon the party claimingan appeal, conflicts
withlns right to appeal, and cannot DC supported
by the Constitution.
Sixth. The bilLis designed by its provisions to
demand excessive bail and render'll difficult for the
accused to procure sureties. If it had been added
that the accused should not have tho benefit of
counsel to defend him. the parallel between the
present law and the practice in England in former
days would have been complete.
Seventh. The conviction of a principal through
any act of an agent is held to he unconstitutional,
she accused should be confronted with the witness
es against him, says the 'Constitution; but the
liquor biff says No; and it is, therefore, opposed
to the constitutional rights of the citiaen.
Eighth. The people have a right to bo secured
against all un reasonable searches of their dwellings,
.et cetera, and all search-warrants must bo under
oath according to the Constitution. But searches '
and arrests may be mado according to the bill
without warrants on oath, and it is thus unconsti
tutional,"
The Judges conclude by stating that some of the
objections are of the most serious character. The
opinion is signed by Judges Gilchrist, Woods,
Eastman and Bell.
[The Bill referred to is framed on the principle
of the “Maine Liquor Law,” and has not yet pass
ed thp Legislature of New Hampshire. The
opinion of tne Judges as to its constitutionality
was invited bv a vqte of tint Senate.] —Rational In
telligencer.
Public Debt.—The following is the reported
Public Debt of the Union and the several States
composing it on the Ist of January, 1850:
ruuscK or the general and state governments.
PCBLIC DEBT.
United 5tate5,..564,228,32s Texas, $14,050,291
Maine 970,000 Arkansas, 8,852,172
Massachusetts,. 6,081,047 Tennessee, 8,837,650
New-York 28,987,249 Ohm 19,178 *2#
New-Jersey,.... 62,596 Michigan, 2,648,y39
Pennsylvania,.. 40,424,787 Indiana, 6.556.437
Maryland, 15,900,000 Illinois, 16,642,795
Virginia, 14,400,507 Missouri, 956,261
North Carolina,. 977,000 lowa, 55,000
South Carolina,.. 8 622,089
Georgia,. .
Alabama, 10,885.958' Total, 1848, 15i.e10,706
Mississippi, 7,171,707
Louisiana, 16,238,131 Inc. in 7years, $76,661,940
Since 1850, the national debt has been slightly
reduced, and the debts of the States not much in
creased iu the aggregate, though Virginia, and per
haps one or two Others, have added something to
theirs. But, instead of State debts, we have an
enormous increase of county debts, Railroad Com
pany bonds, city water loans, &c., .of which a
very large proportion has been sent abroad to pay
for "railroad iron and good*, and sold at a conside
rable discount. The amount of our foreign debt
never increased so rapidly in any former period as
it has done’during the present year: and the'
bonds are now flooding to Europe by millions. One
of tbe*e days there will come an end to this, but
for the present money ca-y and cotton in brisk
demaud—so who cares ? “ After me, the Deluge. ’
— y. T. Tribune.
The Cheeoeee I^tion al< 'ouxcil.—The Nation
al Council of tho (Merokee Nation recently assem
bled, when John Sosa, the principle chief, sent
his annual message. It is an able und patriotic
document. He congratulates the council upon the
general harmony and unusual prosperity of the
Cherokee Nation; recommends provision for the
payment of the public debt; appropriations to
public schools; the founding of a national library ;
encouragement to agricultural instruction ; liberal
salaries to the judges, in order to secure an en
lightened and independent judiciary, finally a judi
cious development of the manifold social, intellec
tual and political privileges they are permitted to
enjoy, and by which the CheroKee* nave made won- !
dert'ul progress in the pursuits and knowledge of |
civilized life. The New Orleans Bulletin, in refer
ring to this message, asks, “how long will it be
before a star glitters on our national banner, indi
cative of the admission into the Union of the State
of Cherokeel Such a thing is tar from improba
ble.”
The Dish Brigade, as the representatives of Ire
land in De British House of Commons are termed,
have augmented their demands very considerably
of late, in view of the extreme closeness of party
Strength in the House, and the importance thus
given to their votes. They have started a project
for the entire abolition of the Protestant Church
Establishment in Deland, and the substitution or
thorough religions equality. The Irish members
axe to oppose any government which will not cou
; cede tins.
The Hon. C. Covey, Senator from Washington
county, N. Y-, died from the effects of the injuries
received in the recent explosion on the Zanesville
and Marietta steamboat Buckeye Belle.
If ray*. Elegy.
The following is a portion of Gray’s fine Elegy,
which came upon the fading memory of Mr. Web
ster in his dying moments. The singular appro
priateness of the poet’s sentiments to the time and
occasion, will be at once recognized:
The curfew toll# ihe xneil of parting day.
The lowing herd winds slowly o’er the lea.
The ploughmen homeward plods his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness and to me.
Now fades the pUmmering landscape on the sight.
And all the air a solemn stillness holds,
Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,
And drowsy tinkling# lull the distant folds.
Beneath those rugged elms, that yew trees shade,
Where heaves the turf iu many a mouldering heap,
Each in his narrow cell forever laid.
The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep.
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And alt that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
■ Await alike the inevitable hour;
The path of giory leads but to the grave.
A Successful Atmospheric Railway.
To the French belongs the credit of having
brought to a successful issue the experiment of
an atmospheric railway ou a large scale. This
motlo of propelling cars has been adopted at St.
Germain, a city about fifteen miles from Paris. —
The distance run is five miies and a half—the last
half mile with an ascent of three aud a half per
cent. The ascent was too great to be overcome by
an engine in all weathers. Tho following des
cription of the machinery employed is given by a
foreign correspondent of the Ohio State Journal:
“ An iron tube is laid down in the centre of the
track, which issunk about one-third of its diame
ter in tlie bed of the road. For a distance of
about 5,500 yurds the tube has a diameter of only
\% feet, the ascent here being so slight as not to
require tho same amount of force as is required
on the steep grade ascending to St. Germain,
whero the pipe lor a distance of 8,800 yards is two
feet one inch in diameter.
“The manner of applying the atmospheric pres
sure to tlie propulsion of the train is exceedingly
simple. The air is exhausted from the entire
length of the tube, so as to produce , a perfect va
cuum just before the arrival of eacli train, which
is every half Lour, by mcatis of powerful and
beautiful engines, somewhat resembling those at
lSpirmount. These engines are placed two of two
hundred-horse power at St. Germain, and ondeach
at the towns of Nauteree and Clanton, in the val
ley towards Paris.
“ To each engine is adapted two large cylinders,
which exhaust fourteen cubic feet of air per second.
The pressure in the air caldron (chaudieres) at
tached to the exhausting machines is equal to six
absolute atmospheres. It will he readily under
stood that when this long tube is completely ex
hausted of air, if a piston so nicely adjusted to the
size of the tube as to render it air-tight is allowed
to go loose at one end, it will rush through to the
other end to fill up the vacuum. To .apply the
motivejpowcr, therefore, to the propulsion of the
train, it is only necessary that this piston bo at
tached to the train of cars in such away as to drag
them along after it.
“ This was the great difficulty to encounter; but
so admirably and so simply was this overcome,
that tlie engineer assured us that an accident of
auy kind seldom ever occurrred. Throughout
the entire length of tlie tube, a section is made in
the tep, leaving an open space of about five inches.
In cacn cut edge of the section there is au offset,
to catch the edges of a vulvo which fits down upon
it.
“This valve is made ofa piece of sole-leather
half an inch thick, having plates of iron attached
to it on both the upper and corresponding under
side to give it strength to resist tlie suction of tlie
vaccum, which are perhaps one-fourth of an inch
in thickness. They are not quite us wide as the
leather, but wide enough to touch the offset in the
section.
“The plates arc about nine inches long, and their
ends, above and below, are placed three-quarters
of an inch apart, forming joints, so as to give tho
leather valve pliability, and at the same time firm
ness to resist the powerful atmospheric pressure
which is brought to bear on it when tlie air is ex
hausted. Tho entire length of the valve, from one
end of the tube to the othor, is attached to one
side, like a cellar door, for example.
“From the back side of the piston astrong iron
rod passes up through the aperture, which is made
by raising up the edge of tlie valve, and is attached
to the bottom of the foremost car. As fast as the
piston passes along the valve is released from
pressure behind it, the loose edge is liberated, aud
tho bar of iron which is attached to the car a foot
or more behind tho piston-meets with no obstruc
tion to its passage.
“The pressure of the atmosphere on the valve
in front of tlie piston, where tlio vacuum still ex
ists, is so great that there is no danger of the bar
of iron exerting pressure so far forward as to loosen
tlie pliable valve; but, to render the matter more
certain, and to obviate all doubt, a slide pn the
bottom of tiie car slips along on tbo iron plate of
the valve over and in advance of tho piston, and
presses firmly down. Every part of the tube is
kept well oiled. The rate at which trains ascond
varies from fifteen to twenty miles tho hour, ac
cording to the load.
“ When wo went up there were six cars very
well filled with passengers. After the ascent com
mences two bridges across the Seine and one
viaduct of twenty feet high and wide arches are
crossed, and one long tunnel through the brow of
tlie hill and ltndor the King’s terrace is passed,
whore the road is paraboiically curved.
“Tho road lias now been in operation five years,
and so safely and so well has it. worked that tlie
experiment is regarded os entirely successful.
The cost of tho entire machinery was eleven mil
lions of francs. The cost of working it, or tlie
dividends which the road pays, I did not ostertoin.
Decline in the Value of Monet. —A late num
ber of the North American Review contains nil
article on the increase of tho precious metals, nnd
tlie consequent reduction in tlie valuo of money.
The writer shows that, from the year 1500 to 1545,
(according to Humboldt’s tables,) the supply of
tlio precious metals obtained from America were
about $8,000,000 a year. From 1545 to 1000 tho
supply averaged 11,000,000 a year. Tho supply
was largely increased from 1750 to 1800, the highest
rate estimated at $35,800,000. About tlie year 1808
tlie annual supply was estimated at $48,987,000, of
which $12,648,000 was gold,aud $36,289,0005i1ver.
For the ten succeeding years there was but little
increase in the supply, and down to the wars in
tlie Spanish American colonies, according to Jacob,
the supply from tlie American mines did not ex
ceed $20,000,000 a year. In 1834 McCulloch states
tlie supply from all the world at $30,000,000. In
1847 this supply was increased by tlie products of
tlie Russian mines to $67,000,000. The products
of the California and other mines havo swollen tlie
amount in 1852 to $178,284,600; in gold $138,834,-
000, und in silver about $39,000,000 from all the
world. Tho supply in 1852 is about six times as
large as it wus twenty years since. No reduction in
tlie supply is anticipated for a number of years.—
Should there be a reduction in the products of tlie
California mines, those of Australia will at least
mako good any deficiency.
An important difference appears in tlio present
increase and that of formers years. It is this: tho
present increase is in geld, while that of former
years was nearly all in silver. This difference has
already produced a groat ehango in the relative val
ue of gold and silver, and a still greater change is
looked for. The Review, in consideration of the
matter, thinks it but tlio exercise of ordinary cau
tion to assume that '‘the annual supply of tM pre
cious metals will not fall below a hundred millions of
dollars for many years, and that in a quarter of a
century, this supply mill depreciate money to one-half
or one third its present calus."
Tlie general opinion is that the value of money is
reduced in the precise ratio of the increase of the
quantity. There can be little doubt that the largo
incrense in the quantity of the precious metals will
occasion important changes in the value of money,
but no cause for alarm is seen in that. Tlie opera
tion will be very gradual, and must continue for
many years. A decline in tlio value of money will
increase wages, and the price of agricultural and
manufacturing products, as well as real estate. In
this general and gradual change there will bo no re
vulsion to produoe general distress. — Cin. Gazette,
TnE Mississippi.— De Bow’s “ Roview” for the
present month reiferutes the appeals often urged
upon Congress fqr grants to carry out enlarged
improvements attlie mouth of the Mississippi.—
Three plans have been presented and discussed at
different periods for the aocomplisliment oftbe ob
ject. One is to deepen by dredging-machines two
of the principal passes, at an estimated cost of
$370,0U0 with a subsequent annual expenditure of
$72,000. Another, to close all but one ot the pass
es where they leave the river trunk, estimated
cost $527,000. The third, to cut a ship canal from
a poiiit below Fort Jaakson #o the gulf costing,
including all contingencies, $10,000,000. Con
sidering the immense commerce of this great in
land sea, any ot these amounts is insignificant in
comparison ’with the end to be accomplished. De
Bow publishes a diagram representing the ap
pearance of the bar in May last, when property
valued at $1,500,000 was detained. It is compu
ted that thelossos from detention alone would in
a single year pay for almost the enure improve
ment. "she Review remarks;
“ Upon the aingleitem of freights alone it is es
timated that the use of smaller vessels to which
the shallowness of water is driving the commerce
ofthc Weßt. instead of those of largest size and
capacity, will be attended with a loss of $2 per
bale, or $2,500,000 annually upon the cotton crop;
—and equal!)’ as much, perhaps, upon the total of
other articles of export. In all about $5,000,000
per annum I”
What Whissey(!s Good Foe.—The Lynchburg
Express States that two sons of the lata Hezekiah
Fuqua, of Bedford, (near Liberty, in Virginia,) to
gether with a little negro, a few days since, were
severely bitten by a snake. The lads went out
hunting, and having qtarted a rabbit, ran him into
a hollow log, when one ot the boys put his hand in
to haul him out. Verysoon he felt something bite,'
or as he thought the scratch of the hare. His
brother tried with a like sensation, so ho declined
repeating the ooeration. Then little Cuff (brave
a# Co.sari tries It »itli like success. In a few mo
ments the hands of the | arties commenced swel
ling at an alarming rate, when medical aid was im
mediate!) procured. The physician dosed them
with liqior, until the patients became thoroughly
intoxicated, and after recovering from the effects
of the medicine, the swelling subsided, and we are
happv to bear the trio arc now convalescent. The
log was split open, aud to the surprise of all, a
large copperhead snake exhibited himself in ail his
native jeroetty.
The use whiskey as a '. are for the bite of a snake,
we understand, was practically tested in this eoun
ty . few weeks since. A negro man, belonging to
Col. David Gibson, of this vicinity, was bitten by
a copper snake,,and in the course of half an hour
drank about a quart as whiskey, and was relieved
from the effects’ resulting froth the bite. —Romney
( Va.) InUllPjencer.
Large Immigration.—' The ferry boat yesterday
brongbt to the city, from Quarantine, nearly spv n
hundred German iiamig»ants, being a larger num
ber than had before been brought to the city at any
one time. There were a few natives of England
and Scotland among them. From all accounts, the
i Fall emigration now setting in from Europe will
be immense. Within the r,a*t three or four days
some ten ships arrived 1 at the port of New Orleans,
nearly all of which carried German, English and
slrish"mmigrauts, destained for this and other We-
1 tern States.
i Mr. Richard, the German agent in this city, in- '
forma Dr. Coleman, of the Board of Health, that he \
has reliable advices which give the number who :
have been registered at Bremen and other German
seaports, for transportation to New Orleans, at be- .
tween thirty-five and forty-thousand. The great- .
er part of this number will arrive in this and the *
coming month. Dr. Leavenworth, of Quarantine,
has information that there are at this time nearly,
three thousand German immigrants in X«w Or
leans who are looking about for the means to reach ■
this city. For two weeks past, scarcely a boat has j
arrived at our port for the South, whose decks
were not filled with this class of emigrants .St. '
lauu Republican.
w
The number or hogs raised in the five States of
Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Indians snd Tennessee
during the year ISSO, is estimated at over twelve
millions.
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VOL. LXVI.-NEW SERIES VOL.XVI.-~NO. 48.
From thj LmtiarVle SoumaU
A REQUIM OF SUMMER.
Spring time and summer, like a pleasant dream,
Have vanished, and the chilling autumn winds
Wake me to stern and cokl reality.
My joys are gone! the sweet delight I’e drunk
From Lilly cup and violet—-music sweet
My soul hai heard from the low whispering
Os summer leaves—the roses that I've loved
Till it has seemed that all of life was bright
As the rich glowing crimson of each bud —
The .-unset clo ids where purple blends with gold.
And golden hues with carmi le, till they make
A fitang throne for the great king of day—
These I have watched, until my spirit caught
Their airy lightness—but yet more I’ve loved
The very light, the sunuy summer light,
So like a smile on all of nature's face, *
And in these warm and genial rays I’ve felt
That even dark-eyed sorrow must be glad
And heart# might bud and blotom like tee dowers.
But now I hear the night-wind wail, I know
With sail wing ’tis flingiug off the spell
Os gladness that the hours of summer wove
Around my heart—it pitilessly tears.
In each strong sweep the faded leaves, and now
I hark to hear its rustling hushed and low
Like solmn footsteps—al»! ’tis lingering still
Among its trophies thickly strewn around
Half sorrowing o’er its won ton revelry.
More leaves are falling, falling like the tears
That mourners shed upon a new-made grave.
And these are signs of universal grief
Upon the grave of summer; e’en the clouds
Have roDed the sky in a gray mourning garb;
One twinkling star holds back the sorrowing veil
And the pale moon looks on the sombre scene.
The last bright moon, in joyous harvest-time,
Shone on the thousand trees in their green dress,
Leaves danced like fairies in the sweet moonbeams,
And dew-drops glistened on them bright and pur#
As guileless thoughts in happy childhood's heart;
Rut cunningly comes sin —the tempter paints
The world’s gay pleasures in such brilliant lights;
Thus did the wily frost-king, iu each bower,
With liis cold breath he won them to his will,
With one touch of his icy wand he changed
The lovely green to dyes of red and gold;
And that was but in mockery of decay,
For now the brilliant colors have become
The brown of age, “the sere and yellow leaf.”
Sadness, a dove chilled by the wintry blast,
Has nestled down within my heart, her wing
Dropoing with night-dews, she has folded round
My spirit, that would mingle its own sighs
With the wind moaning thro’ the leafless boughs.
But Hope with magic finger startles me,
,4 nd bids me list not the sad requiem
My spirit sings me, she would point to scenes
That like enchantment rise before my eye.
Pictures of spring-time and of trees all clothed
In blossoms, tender, grass so green, the earth
Seems like one mossy couch; pure bubbling streams
Laughing aloud in and in glee,
The imagery is brightening till it blends
With all the glorious colors of the summer
Rejoicing in a festival of flowers.
This landscape vanishes, and now I see
The spirit that has shed such dazzling light
Upon my vision—heavenly trust and faith
Rest on her brow, calm as the shades that lie
Bosomed in beauty on a forest lake;
She waves her silver pinions, and the cloud,
That close my spirit-eyes, is all dispelled;
And through the vista dim, of coming years
That one by one must perish, pass that time
When like the autumn leaves wc all must fade,
By the star-teams of heavenly hope, I strive
To look into that clime where she had birth.
Alas! this world were all too sad, had we
Once seen the glory of that realm, and e’en
In wayward dreams of heaven’s own blissful joys
The spirit is bewildered, but we know
There summer never dies, nor faded leav##
Float on “the river of eternal life”—
But in a beauty earth has never known
“ The tree of life bears its twelve golden fruits,”
And far above its amaranthine flowers
Its glorious summit glow eternally
In the unfading arch of rainbow light
That circles round the throne. Dora Kblsov.
From the Olive Branch.
Bashful Men.
BY MRS. DENISON.
Wo never yet saw agenuinelv bashful man who
was not the soul of honor. Though such may
blush aud stammer, und shrug their shoulders
awkwardly, unable to throw forth, with euse, tlie
thoughts that they would express, yet commend
them to us for friends.
There ure fine touches in their characters that
time will mellow and bring out; perceptions as
delis at* as tlie faintest tint is to the unfolding rose;
and their thoughts ore none tho less refined aud
beautiful that they do not flow with tlie impetuosi
ty of the shallow streamlet.
We are astonished that such men are not appre
ciated ; that ladies with really good hearts and cul
tivated intellects will reward’the gallant Sir Mus
tachio Brainless with smiles and attentions, be
cause he can fold a shawl gracefully and bandy
compliments with Parisian elegance, while they
will not condescend to look upon tho worthiest
man who feels for them a reverence so great that
every mute glance is worship.
Tlie man who is bashful in the presence of ladies
is their defender when tlio loose tongue of the
slanderer would defame them; it is not he who
boasts of conqnestj or dares to talk glibly of fail
ings that exist in his imagination alone; his cheek
will flush with resentment, liis eye flash with au
ger, to hear the name of women coupled witli a
coafso oatli; and yet lie who would die to defend
them is lpast honored by the majority of our sex.
Who ever heard of a bashful libertine? The
anomaly was nevor seou. Easo and elegance aie
his requisites; upon his lips sit flattery, ready to
•pay court alike to blue ey es and black; he is never
nonplussed; he never blushes. For a glance, he
is iu raptures; fora word, lie would professedly
lay down his life. Yet it is ho who fills our vile
city dens with wrecks of female purity ; it is he
who profanes tlie holy name of mother; desolates
the shrine wheredomestio happiness is throned;
ruins the heart that trusts in him; pollutes tlie
very air lie breathes—and nil under tlie mask of a
polished gentleman.
Ladies, a word in your oar: havo you lovers and
would you possess a worthy husband ? ' Ohoose
him whose delicacy of deportment, whose sense of
your worth, leads him to stand aloof, while others
crowd around you. If he blushes, stammers even
at your approach, consider them so many signs of
exalted opinion of your sex. If he is retiring and
modest, lot not a thousand fortunes weigli him
down in the balance, for depend uponjt, with him
your lifo will be happier with poverty than with
many another surrounded by tbo splendor of
palaces.
Write Letters. —Not to everybody, nor to all
that ask you, or you will be taxed beyond your pa
tience, and nnd it hard to shake off a troop of un
)rotitable acquaintance. Not to all the girls who
lavo made your heart flutter, lest you kiudle
flames you will not bo able to feed, —lest you write
soft tilings that will look ridiculous in your biog
raphy,—lest some offended damsel be down upon
you lor breach of promise. Not to all youreousins,
lost your classics be neglected and your business
suffer. A classmate in college was reprimanded
by tlie’ professor for neglect of College studies.
The delinquent plead that the circle of liis corres
pondence was so largo that lie could not find time
to attend to liis Euclid.
Writo punctually to those with whom you hare
business connections. A great many, who lack
neither iudustry nor resolution, find it extremely
hard to write a business note of half a dozen lines.
Like rail cars, it is easier to run forty miles on their
track thtin a rod out of tlie way on either side. A
friend or ours who had suffered much for lack ot
letters from ids vessel when on her voyages, gave
a package of oil letters, directed to lnmself, into
tlje hands of the captain, with positive orders for
him to drop one into the post-offioo of every port
where he touched. The post-mark on the corner
answered his purpose.
Write to your sister. Your letters are a luxury
to her that she prizes above above her jewolry, ana
they cost you nothing, or near it. Be at charges
for a sheet of paper and a thimble full of ink. The
cigar you are smoking cost a» much as the postage
ot it. The cigar ends in ashes and smoke; the let
ter strengthens the family tie, and adds a strand to
the blessed cords that bind the members of a com
mon home togotlier.
Write to your mother. If you are in good com
pany, she will see it in your letters and be com
forted iu your absence. If von neglect to write,
her affection has hard struggles with her fears to
assure her that you have not gone astray. Have
not time! Take time from the ouckgpmmon
board, from the calls of ceremony, from the society
of companions, from sleep, from meals; when you
have not time to writo to your mother, you have
not time to look at u crowd gathered in the street,
lie vtJio nmdfotimc, gave you time enough. What
have you done with it?
W rite to your father. Your postponement thick
ens the white hairs on his reverend head. Are
you busier than he ? and he writes to you. He will
not misinterpret your silence; he can trust his
boy. Ileknows vouare on abusvtide—the stream
runs fust. He will forgive you if you do not re
cognize him waving his good wishes from the bank.
But he must go up soon; and when you have time
to look, his manly form may have departed, Give
him the costlpss solace of frequent letters, that lie
may know to tiie last lie is not forgotten. Write
to him to-day.—A”. Y. Times.
A Reason for Noisy I’rayino. —A worthy phy
sician of Baltimore, a member of the Society "of
Friends, has a favorite negro coachman, who is as
bright and shining a light in the church, as is
possible for « piece of ebony to bo. Ycru know, I
presume, thy blacks pursue their devotions.
Well, Sam was in the habit of selecting his mas
ter’s kitchen as tbe scene of the devotions which
he led; and these religions services were not con
ducted entirely on a plan which a Quaker would
altogether approve. The doctor, however, is fa
mous far his good nature, and he endured the
boisterous piety of his servant and his friends
with wonderful equanimity. One night, however,
when they had been unusually “ powerful in
prayer,” the doctor thought proper to administer
a gentle reproof. So, the meeting over, the zeal
ous servant was summoned belore bis master.
“ Sam,” said the oid gentleman, “ why does thee
make so much noise in prayer? Doesn’t thee
knot? that the Almighty is not far off, but nigh
unto thee; neither is his ear deaf that it cannot
hear ? He can hear thee as well when thee whis
pers as when thee r'Sirs."’ “Massa Doctor,” re
plied Sam, full of confidence in his superior theo
logical lore, “you isn’t read the Scriptera wid no
kind ob’tention.” “How*so, Sam . “Why you
done forget, ’pears to V\i 3 now it says dar, Ilol
oreti be dy name!” The Doctor gave up in des
pair, for there was no answering that “argument.”
—Knickerhocler Magazine.
Filling Teeth over Exposed Nerves.—Dr. S.
P. HullibeD, ot Wheeling, Va., has discovered a
method whereby the cavities of teeth over exposed
nerves may be successfully plugged up. It is this.
The diseased parts of tlie tooth are removed to
make it apt&ront that the nerve is exposed. The
fan jis perforated through the gum into the nerve
caviiy. The opening should be about the size of a
small knitting needle; its object is to open the
blood vessels oftbe nerve, which will at once be
known by the flow of arterial blood. The cavity
of the tooth may then be filled without the least
fear of pain or ui consequences. This plan has
been successfully practiced in a great number of
cases. Ilitherto'a tooth having an exposed nerve
could not be filled and prevent pain and toothache.
—Scientific American.
Mrs. Partimoton’sLast.— “Doeskaacmanifest
any taste for poetry, Mrs. Partington % n asked the
schoolmasters wife, while converging on the
merit* of the youthful Partington. The old lady
waa basting a chicken that her friends had sent her
from the country. “ Oh, yea,” aaid the old lady,
smiling; 44 he ia very partially fonc of poultry, and
it always seems as if he can’t get enough of it.”
The old spit turned by the fire-place in response to
her answer while the basting was going on. 44 1
mean,” said the lady, 44 does he show any of the
divine afflatus.” The old lady thought a moment.
44 As for the divine flatness—l don’t know about
it. He’s had all the complaints of children, and
when he was a baby he fell and broke the cartridge
of hia nose, but I hardly think he's had this that
you speak of.” The roasting chicken hissed and
sputtered, and Mrs. Partington basted it again.—
Carpet Bap.
We learn that on Saturday night the steamboat
Francis S kiddy, when on her way up, ran into the
bow of the steamboat Battle, which was coming
down the river, Both boats were injured, and
one man ia reported to be missing • the occurrence
took place near RonJout.— S. FT Com. Ade.
The twe steamers which left Xew York on Sat
urday for the Isthmus took out each about six
hundred passengers,
SUBSTANCE OF A SERMON,
Preached in Baltimore in the State of Maryland,
before the General Conference, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church, December 27,1784; at the Or
el motion of the Rev. Francis .isbury, to the ojice
of a Superintendent.
By Thomas Coke, LL. D.,
Superintendent of mid Qeterch.
‘‘To the angel of the church in Philadelphia, write, These
thiugs saith lie that is holy, he that is true, no that hath
the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shuUeth;
and shutteth, and no man openeth. I know thy works ;
behold, 1 have set before thee an open doorgand no man
can shut it: for thou hast a li’tle strength, and hast kept
my word, and hast not denied my name. Behold, I will
nuke then of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are
Jes s, aud are’ not.R but do He ; behold I wi” muke
them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know
that I have loved thee. Because thou hast kept the word
of my patience. I also will keep thee irom the hour of
temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try
them that dwe'l upon ths earth. Behold, I come quickly:
hold last that which thou hast, that uo man take thy
crown.” Key. ill, T—ll.
The most important part ot' a minister’s duty is
to insist on the fundamental truths of Christiani
ty. But he is called occasionally to consider subjects
u more confinod and peculiar nature; and tho in
tention of the present meeting more*especially re
quires such an attempt. I shall therefore, with
tho assistance and blessing of God.
In the first place, vindicate our conduct in the
present instance.
Secondly, open the words ol my text.
• And thirdly, delineate tho character of a Chris
tian Bishop.
The Church of England,{of which the society of
Methodists, in general, havo till lately profossod
themselves a part, did for many years groan in
America under grievances of the heaviest kind.—
Subjected to a hierarchy which weighs evory thing
iu tue scales of politics, its most imporlaut inter
ests wore reneatedly sacrificed to tho supposed ad
vantages of England. Tho churches were, in gen
eral tilled with tho parasites nnd bottlo companions
of tho rioh and the great. The humb'e and most im
portunate entreaties of tho oppressed flocks yea, the
representations of a general assembly itself”' were
contemned and despised; every thing sacred must
Uo down at tile feotof a party, the holiness and
happiness of mankind bo sacrificed to their views;
and the drunkard, the fornioator, and the oxlor
tionor, ti'iurapLed over bleeding Zion, because they
were faithful abettors of the ruling powers. But
thoso intolerable fetters are now struck off, and
tho antichristian union which bofore subsisted be
tween church and elate is broken assundcr. One
happy consequence of which has beon the expul
sion of most ofthoso hirelings! “who ate the fat
utid clothed themselves with tho wool but strength
ened not the diseased, neither healed that which
was sick, neither bound up that which was
broken, neither brought again that which was
driven away, neither sought that which was lost."
Ezok. xxxiv, 8, 4.
Tho parochial churches in general being hereby
vacant, our people wore deprived of tho sacraments
through the greatest part of these States, mid con
tinue so still. What method can wo take at this
critical juncture ? God has given us sufficient re
sources in ourselvos, and, after moture delibera
tion, wo believe that wo are called to draw them
forth.
“But what right havo you to ordain?” The
same right as most of the reformed churches iu
Christendom: our ordination, in its lowest view
being equal to any of the Presbyterian, as origi
nating with there presbyters of the Churolt of En
gland.
“But what right havo you to exercise the epis
copal office I” To me the most manifest and clear.
God has been pleased, by Mr. Weßloy, to raiso up
in America and Europe a numerous society well
known by tho name of Mothodists. The whole
body have invariably esteomed this man as their
chief pastor, under Christ. He has constantly ap
-1 pointed all their religious officers from tho highest
to the lowest, by himself or his delegate. And wc
are fully persuaded there is no oliurch office which
he judges expedient for the welfare of the people
intrusted to his oharge, but, as essential to his
station, he has a power to orduiu. After long
deliberation ho saw it his duty to form hiß society
in America into an independent church; but lie
loved the most excellent liturgy of tho churolt of
England, ho loved its rights and ceremonies, and
Jierofore adopted them in most instances for the
present case.
Besides, in addition to this, we have every qual
ification for an episcopal church which that of Al
exandria (a church ot no small note in tho primi
tive times) possessed for two hundred years. Our
bishops, or superintendents, (as we ruther call
them,) having teen elected or received by the suf
frages of the wliolo body ot our ministers through
tho continent, assembled in general conference.
“But don’t you break the succession ?” The un
interrupted succession of bishops is a point that
has been long given up by the ablest I’rotestant
defenders of episcopacy. Bishop Hoadley himself
in his celebrated controversy with Dr. Calamy al
lows it to be unnecessary. His words urc, “To
the thirteenth question I answer, that I think not
an uninterrupted line of succession of regularly or
dained bishops necessary.”! lie also grants tho
authenticity oftho anecdote givon ub by St. Je
rome, which informs ub that the church of Aloxau
dria, mentioned above, had no regular succession
from tho timo of St Mark the evangelist tho first bish
op of that church, to tho time of Dyouysiuß, a space I
of two hundred years : but the college of presby I
ters ou the deatli of a bishop eloctcd another in Ins
stead. We are also informed from the epistle ot
St. Clement to tho Corinthians] writtou soon after
the death of St. Paul—a writer of wliose works are '
next in precedence to tho cannon of Scripture, and j
probably written by immediate inspiration—that 1
tlie church of Corinth was then govornod by a col- j
lege of presbyters. And from tho epistle of St. '
Polyearp to the church of Phillippi,! written in 1
the year of Four Lord 118, we also flud that the 1
Christian Phillippians were thon governed by a :
college of presbyters. So the primitive Christians j
wore so far from esteeming tho regular succession '
us essential to the constitution of a Christian 1
church, that in some instances episcopacy itself was *
wholly omitted.
But of all the forms of church government, we 1
think a moderate episcopacy tho best. The execu- (
tive power being lodged in tho hands of one, or at ‘
least a few, vigor and activity are given to the re- )
solves of the bodyjand thoso two essential requisites ‘
for any grand undertaking are sweotly united calm- 1
ness and wisdom in deliberating and in the oxo- e
cutive department, expedition and force.
“But are yon not schismatics by yonr separation J
from the Church ?” A Christian church ie a body *
of professors who holi the fumlamentale of the
Christian religion in doctrine and practice. But
we are not iguorant—we cannot he ignorant, that
the chief part of tho clergy and members of tho t
church of England (so called) do either tacitly, or a
explicitly deuy the doctrine of justification by faith e
the knowledge of salvation by the remission of sins, \
und the witness oj the Spiritof God —points which r
wo esteem mostfundamental, yon essentially neccs- i
snry to constitute a child of God. Wo are not—we r
cannot bo ignorant, that they justify as innocent c
many oftho criminal pleasures of the world—card 1
playing, dancing, theatrical amusements, &c.— a
pleasures utterlyinconsistent with tho union and r
communion with God. And, though wo admire c
their liturgy, and we determined to retain it witii a a
few alterations, are cannot, we will not hold con- t
uection with them till the Holy Spirit of God has i
made them see and feel the evil of the practices, r
and tho importance of the dootriues mentioned 1
above. And for the schism (if it must have the i
name) we are cheerfully roady to answer at the bar
of God. t
“Why then did you not separato before?” It i
has long been the desire of the majority of tiie i
preachers and people. But they submitted to the 1
superior judgment of Mr. Wesley, who, till the c
revolution, doubted the propriety of the step. 1
“But did not your preachers constantly exhort the i
people to attend the service of tho churoli of En- c
gland?” In general they did, from a full persuu- 1
sion, drawn from experience, that wo had no l
other alternative to preservo our society, but an ad- t
herenee to the Church of England which wastotally c
destitute of real discipline, or a formation of our- ]
selves into an independent church and some of c
them, perhaps, did this with a degree of impru- i
deuce which I cannot defend, i
But I proceed to open my text,
“To the angel of the church in Philadelphia ]
write.” It is evident to every discerning reader ,
that the words bishop, elder overseer, <fcc., are ay- t
uonomus terms throughout the writings of iSt. (
Paul. Nor do I rcoollect a single instance in the [
New Testament where any peculiar title is givon (
to the superior officers of the church, (such us were ;
Timothy and Titus,) except in the epistles of our ,
Lord to the seveu churches of Asia, where they are ,
distinguished by the nameof angel—the prime mee- j
sengersofChrist to his churches. St. John wrote the t
Revelation in the isle of Patmoe, near the close of (
his life, when the gospel had gained considerable ,
ground in the world, and many numerous socie- <
tics of Christians had been formed. Among the (
principal of these were the seven churches of Asia, ,
which wore evidently (what we now call) episco- ,
pal churches. For it will hardly admit of a doubt ,
butthese capital societies hud m each of them a t
college of presbyters. And had thien been all on |
an equality, our Lord would never have directed ,
iliese epistles respectively to a single Angel. And ,
ulhf them, being thus addressed, we have reason- j
able ground to presume that the chqrehes in gon- f
ural, even before the death of St. John, were of j
the episcopal order. A.ndof how great an impor- ,
tance must the office of these angels have been t
when the Lord addressed himself only to them, as t
if the welfare of their respective churohes entirely
depended on thorn I ,
“These things, saith hq that is holy, he that is ,
true”. Who is of purer eyes than to behold in- j
iquity with approbation, and* delights in sincerity .
and truth, tne everlasting fojmtain of truth and 1
holiness, who therefore demands the deepest at- .
tention. ,
“He that had the key of David, he that openeth .
and no man shatteth; and shntteth, and no man ,
openeth.” In allusion to the Governor of a city, *
who had the full command of the gates thereof; ,
so has the Lord Jesus, of whom David was a type, *
over the new Jerusalem, to open it to the faithful
and shut it against all that defile.
“I know thy works.” lam acquainted with all .
thy gracious tempers, thy fervent zeal, thine abun
dant labors for the welfare of my Church and the ,
gloAr of my name.
“Behold, I have set before thee an open door, J
and no man can shut it.’ 1 ’ I have indulged thy fer- j
vent spirit, have enlarged thy circle of action, and 1
will so clothe thee with my strength, that no power 1
on earth shall be able to restrain thee in thy glori- 1
ous coarse.
“ For thoq, Last a little strength, and lias !
kept my word, and hast not denied my name.” 1
Tiion hast a little measure of the divine power
within thee, and has been a faithful steward of it. 1
Thou hast confessed my name before this wicked 1
generation, and barnfc a faithful testimony to the
word of my truth.
“Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of '
Satan, which say they are Jews, and uo "hot, but
do lie; behold, 1 will make them to copee and wor
ship before thv feet, and to know that 1 have
loved thee.”. Those who despise thee, who pre
tend to be of the true circumcision but are *Ji. great- 1
e»t enemies of the real circumcision or tne heart,
I will bring them to thy feat, aud compel them to
acknowledge that thou art my beloved, and that j
I hays honored thee. How high waa this excel
lent man in the esteem of his Lord i And how
ought the recollection of this to kindle every spark '
*,f holy ambition in the Aithful superintendents of
his church.
“Because thou hast kept the word of my pa- i
tience, I also will keep thoe from the hour of i
temptation which shall &>me upon all the world to ,
try them that dwell upon the" earth.” Because i
thou hast been faithful, and hast endured hardship
and followed me, 1 will hide thee under the covert i
of my wings from all the judgments and calami- ■
ties which I will inflict on mankind, to try them, .
: and aift them, and separate the faithful from the ,
i W “Behold, I come quickly : holdfast th« which 1
' thou hast, that no man take thy erown.” I 'hall
soon appear to bestow on thee thy glorious reward
—that peculiar crown which I have reserved for
f *The Assembly oiViiginia,
tl am deeply comscioiv* that the observation by no
[ mean# reaches o the whole body of the clergy of the Church
• of England. There are many of them whose characters \
* greatly esteem, and at whose feet 1 should think it an hour
or to sit.
tLondon edition, Oct. 17 12, p. 489
[Clem., Ep. i, Met. xliii, xlvii, liv, lvii, pp. 178, 174, ITT
178.
( Si’olycarp.ad Phflip. Salutat.,»ect. v,vi,xi.,pp.186,188,
my beloved servant, who, through in.y grace, has
been so faithful a co-woiker with mo in m.y grout
plan of general Therefore, ho'd fust
; thy love, thy zeal, tmne important activity, that no
man step into thy pltce before the work 1 have
> given ihee to be finished, and take thy crown—the
exceeding woighiof gloiy which I havo kept for
thee in store.
Having just touched on tlie general tharacierof
this amiable bishop* of the church of Philadelphia
as displayed in my text, which, had it been tho
, will of God. we could wish to have Been at fuller
i length, I proceed to consider the grand cnai acter-
I istica of a Christian bishop.
1. Ilis humiliiy. Tins is the pt99irtalrix vitin~
\ turn , the guard of every other grace. As some one
j beautifully observes other graces, without hum)lt
. ty, are liko a flno powder in the wind without a
| cover. Let a man be ever »o tealoua, ever so la
boriouß yet if he wants humility, ho wiU be only
I like Penclopo with her web in the aocieul fable,
[ undoing at one time what he does at auother.—
There ia something interwoven with human na
ture which immediately rocoi la at tho very appear
ance of pride. Hut this man in clothed with hu
mility. When no other grace Rhinos forth, Still
we discern this beautiful veil. Wo give him cred
it for everything. Aud when in spite of all his
cau.ioD, some bidden gem peeps out, it sparkles
with redoubled lustre. But abovo all, ho is a ves
sel lit for his Master’s use. His eye is single, 1c
moves directly on ; bis otdy desire is to gtoiity
God and benefit mankind, yea he lives for no oth
er end. Ile ia“in a strait beiweea two, having a de
sire to depart and bo with Christ,” and at tho
same time a fervent desire to be a blessing to n»s
fellow-creatures. “He is crucified to the work!,
and tho world to him.” And liis soul disonlangleu.
from every selfish view, and emptied of every sel
fish desire, is a fit receptacle of all the divine gifts
which God is to bestow. He continually lies at iho
feet of his Lord, and tho language of his heart
“Not unto uie, not unto mo, tnit unto thy name, O
Jehovah, bo all the praise!”
“Blow back the livers to the sea,
>nd let my all be lost in Thee.”
There is no impediment in his soul to tho divino
operation, lie is us tho clay in tho hand of tho
potter, as the pen in the hund of tho ready writer
His humble spiritsimply iuquircs into tho will of its
God, and when that is discovered, confers no longer
with flesh and blood but fulfils it with the most
entire resignation and great delight.
2. His meekness. This is a passive graco. It is the
sacred ballast of the soul—the ovenuess, that
divino serenity of spirit which “is not provoked,”
which npthing can move to wrath—tho moderation
spoken of by St. Paul, which harmonizes all the
passions, and holds every power of the heart in
sweot subjection—it ties them all to tho horns of
of the altar. In this tho Christian bishop emi
nently shines. Amid all the contradictions of
sinners, and tho provoking of tongues, ho still
retains his gracious temper, and discovers no
emotion but that of pity and compassion—all is
softness, all is love. This is tho quiet spirit, whoso
price is great in tho sight of God. 1 I’et. iii. 4.
It is the spirit of tho Lamb, whose voice was not
hoard in tho streets; who was oppressed and
afflicted, yea, was brought as a lamb to tho slaugh
ter; ami ns a sheep before her shoarers is dumb,
so he opened not his mouth. 0 how contrary to
to the spirit of tho meek and lowly Jesus is turbu
lence and violence of many who call themselves
the ministers of Christ! “ liut tho sheep will
flee from such, for they know not their voice.”
3. His gentleness. This is an activo grace, which
flows but in the converse and the carriage. It is
Christian courtesy. This also tho Christian bishop
possesses in a high degree. “Grace is poured
into his lips,” for “ out of the fulnoss of his Lord
ho roceiveth gruco for grueo.” Nothing that is
grating drops from his mouth. Ilia very reproofs
arediptin oil. How insinuating is all his language,
while the hearer hangs upon his tongue 1 His
words “ drop like tho gontlo rain from heaven
upon the place benouth.” His looks, and every
gesture, and every feature, beam forth love. This
is a key to open hearts with. What an amazing
field oi' action does this engaging temper, accom
panied by the blessing of God, gradually open to
lis zealous soul! Ho makes religion uppear amia
ble even in the judgment of the world itself. And
excepting when employed in the severer dudes of
his function, he knows nothing of tho pain of giv
ing pain.
4. His patience. This is the graco that “ endures
all things”—that flows out ill sufferings andtriuls,
and bears up tho soul undor every difficulty —mb
ponders erescit. The more it is exercised, tho
stronger it grows. Let us view the Christian
bishop in this respect. Behold, with whatasteady
paeo he moves ! Equally unshaken by tho smiles
or frowns of men, ho gently moves along, like a
mighty river, that bears down all before it, and
yet waters every fertile meadow on its sides. His
great Zerubbabcl proceeds before him, and every
mountain drops into a plain. His soul “ lookß to
.Joshs, who endured tho cross, despising tho
shame,” and earnestly endeavors,
11 To trace bin example, the world to disdain,
And constantly trample on pleasure and pain.’ l
Ho Bmilcs at persecution, and thanks his God for
the opportunity of displaying an example to the
world of tho religion he proclaims. Tims does ho
go on, till he has finished the work which God has
riven him to do. And when the organs of his
aody have been weakened and enervated by the
diseases whioh Booncr dr later assault tho mortal
frame, ho still puts forth iiis little strength for tho
glorious cause in which lie has boon so long en
gaged, till having “fought tho good fight, and
finished his course,” ho drops asleep in tho arms of
his God.
5. His fortitude. His soul is far above tho fear
of temporal dangers. He possesses this cardinal
virtue in all its strength and vigor. Ho “adds to
his faith, courage," 2 I’et. i. 5. And though it is
so divinely tonipored by all tho softer passions, as
to be hid to all but the discerning eye, when not
drawn out to notion; yot thoro it over resides,
even in his inmost soul, like an iron pillar strong.
Butwhou the church, which he fosters in his anx
ious bosom, is in danger, ho always steps out the
foremost. Ho stands in the front of the battle, nml
endeavors to receive himself all tho fire of tho
enemy. Liko a faithful shepherd ho stops between
tlie wolf and tho sheep, and is perfectly willing to
lay down his life for their sake. If you touch tho
church of God, you touch yio apple of his eye.
And though he is not entirely ignorant of tho
value of hrn life and labors, yet when tho causo of
Zion calls him forth, “ho mocketh at fear, and is
not affrighted, neither turneth he back from the
swordho holds his once suffering, but now ox
altcd Savior. He looks up to the noble army of
martyrs, “tho cloud of witnesses,” and follows
their glorious track,
“Pain, want defies; enjoys disgrace;
Glories at dissolution near.”
6. His impartiality. This is tho rarest of ail
the virtues, and yet one of tho most important for
a ruler of a church. Thoro is nothing more intol
erable to mankind than purtiality in him that go
verns ; and it always springs in part from a mean
ness and baseness of mind. It meet* with such
immediate and effectual resistance, that all tho
reins of discipline are dropped, and tho vineyard
of the Lord thrown open to evory boast of prey.
But tho Christian bishop is “without partiality
and without hypocrisy.” Ho moves by equal
rules. He seeks not the praiso of mon, butserv
eth the Lord Christ. He meots with tho constant
and effectual support of those whom only he es
teems —the upright and tno good. And when tho
welfare of the church demands tho separation of u
rotton member, however rioh, however honorable,
however powerful, ho clothes himself with the dig
nity of his office and executes the will of God.
7. His zeal. In this lie is eminent indeed. For
though it is softened and corrected by tho other
graces, yet it wraps up his hoart in the interests of
Zion, and tho zeal of tlio Lord’s house eats bi n up.
He pants for tho conversion of the whole world,
and cries out, with the souls underthe altar, “How
long, O Lord?” How far dooß his rapid spirit
rise above the honors, the riches, and the pleasures
of the world! He leavos them at a distance be
hind. His whole attention js swallowed up
by greater things than these. While the men of
the world are variously employed in the pursuit of
earthly otyccts, he endcuvors. in the Spirit of his
Lord, to extract honey out of every flower, good
out of every evil. 11c watches tho opportunity, and
runs through every open door, and “spends, and
is spent,’’for thegood of mankind.
8. His wisdom. This reigns over all his soul.
He is prepared f r it by the God of nat arc, and en-
with it by the God of grace. He was born
to govern. He is “as wise as a serpent.” Ills eye
continually pervades the whole oirclc of his work,
and yet who so blind os lie ? Isa. xlii, 19. He is
all car, aud yet none is so deaf. He sets his feet
in the centre of his sphere, and feels the smallest
motion through every parallel. He knows with
clear precision when to sneak, and when to bo si
lent ; when to move, and when to be stifl; when
to parry, and when to thrust. He bus a quick dis
cernment of men and manners; but he “lays bauds
suddenly on no man.”. His choioo of laborers pro
ceeds from the ripest judgment, aud from tho
clearest evidonee thut can be procured. He feels
all the strength of his resources, as If they were
wholly centered in himself and knows how and
when to draw them forth. Ho is acquainted with
the various views, the knowledge, the situation,
the circumstances und the wishes of the people;
and the various gifts, graces, and abilities of the
pastors. He makes them all to tally. He brings
out all his force against the common enemy, he
spreads out all his sails to every favorable wind,
he keeps in motion every wheel of the machine,
and uses to. the uttermost every person and every
thing within his power for the glory of God and
the prosperity of bis ohurch.
9. His communion with. Qod ami confidence in
him. Those support him under all his trials. He
lives within the veil. His soul cleaves to God ; and
he waters all his endeavors with fervent prayers.
He bears upon the altar of his heart the interests
of the church of and sends them up to
the throne of graco with all the sacred fervor Os
devotion. He spreads out all his hopes and all his
fears before his God, and “makes all his requests
known unto him;” and then returns to his Tabors
with cheerfulness and vigor. He “walks with
flod,” and moves with * full confidence and di
vine assurance of success, so far as the means he
uses can answer the great end of every thing lie
docs—the glory of God and the good of man
kind.
Lastly: his seriatim***. Though ho lies at tho .
feet of all tho lovers of Jesus, yet he never debases
himself, .He knows his station, and “magnifies
his office.” The enemies of God may fear und
hate him, but they cannot despiae him. No light
ness of spirit is observable in him; all is dignity as
well as love. The company of the greatest Upon
earth affects him not. lie lives in tuo presence of
his Master, and says notliing but what is becom
ing the audience chamber of the King of Kings.
O, what a blessing to the world is the man who
answers this description, “a polished shaft in the
qniver” of Gcal, “a burning and a shining light!”
His spicea are continually perfuming tlie place
where he is, (Cant. iv. 1«.) and “rivers of living
water flow out of his belly* (John vii. 88,) for the
benefit of allamangavhom lie sojourn*. When be
visits a people, he comes “in the fulness of the
blessing of the gospel, and hia Master’s ffeet are
heard before him.” He husbands every golden
moment, picks un every fragment of time, and de
votes his Utile all to the service oi Ids Lord. He
looks with the deepest contempt *on filthy lucre,
and is perfectly satisfied with the “riches of
Christ.”
“O thou lover of souls, who wiliest not the
death of a sinner, have pity on the world 1 Ke
member Calvary, hear the pleading Intercessor,
and raise up men after thine own hcait, full of the
Holy Ghost, full of love and full of zeal! Guide
them by the Spirit, accompany them with ih'no
omnipotence, that they may tread down the king
dom of Satan nnder their feet, and on its rains
bnild np thy glorions church,” •
You may now easily perceive the dreadful ef
fects of raising immoral and unconverted men to
the government of the church. The baneftil influ
ence of their example is so extensive, that all the
skill and cruelty of devils can hardly fabricate a
greater curse than animiigous I'mop.
But, “Othou man of God, follow after righteous
ness, godliness, fhitb, love, patio ice, und meekness
Be thou an example to thebelievers, in word, in
| conversation, in charity, tu spirit, in faith, in pu
rity. Keep that which is committed to thy trust*
Be not thou ashamed of tho testimony of our Lord
hut be thou a partaker of the afflictions of tho gos
pel, according to tho power of God. Endnrc
hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. Do
the work of an avangelist, aud make full proof of
tby ministry.” And thy God will open to" thee a
wide door indeed, whioh all thine enemies shall
*1 here use toe word bishop la Its present tease, as sig
nifying «n officer of a church superior to the pretbyteo.
not be able to shut. He will carry his gospel un
der thy direction from sea to sea, vea perhaps from
one end of the continent to Ibeolhor. Only feel
thiac importance,and feel thy danger, and let “not
the loot of nride come against lliee;” But pre
serve tuyseif in all humility, and chastity, and
holy love, and thou shaft be a vessel of gold in the
sanctuary of God, thou shall bring millions to
-righteousness immediately or lemoloiy, and shalt
shine In glory as asm' of the first magnitude lor
ever and over. Dan. xu. 8.
0 thou who art the Holy One aud the irne, con
secrate this thy servant will) the fire ofdivino low,
separnto him for the most glorionspurposes, mako
hima star in thiuo own right haoct, and fulfil ill
him and by him all the good please vo of thy good
noss!
REMEMBRANCE—bt r. m. o. f
I.
Think of me kindly when my life is o’er
I ask no tear; I ask no useless sigh;
But when the heart that loved thee throbs no more,
Let not its memory in thy bosom die;
Forget tho errors that have caused tlie pain,
Think only of tlie virtues that you knew,
When, linked together in love's willing chain,
Life o’erouj pathway its sweet blossoms throw.
n.
Think of me kindly when my ”fe is o’er:
Thou line west—thou alone—the heavy care,
The poisoned arrows that my bosom tore,
The wounded spirit, and its tie ret despair;
Thou knowest—thou alone—when God'S own hand
Poured in the bairn that made those sorrows cease.
When atllieUon at his kind eommand,
Brought with them messages of hope and peace.
in.
What gricflmth touched me that thou hast not felt f
What joy hath blessed me that thou hast not shared ?
Our hearts together at one altar knelt,
Our feet together to one shrine repaired;
And wheu these ties have ail been snapped in twain.
To reunite upon this earth no more,
t Etill let their gentle memory remain ;
Think of me kindly when my life is o’er 1
Savannah, Ga. [A'/iMorbocier.
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o The U. 8. mail steamship Cresoont City, Henry
ir K. Davenport, -U. S. N., commander, arrived at
s Now York at lmlf-pnst 4 o’clock Monday morning,
r Horn New Orlouns, via Havana, louviug tho latter
it port on the aftoruoou of the 16th instant. Sho
has experienced a succession of heavy northern
c gales. It will be booh that she landed hor passen
,t gers and mails on this occasion, though Purser
" Smith was not allowed to land, aid it was declared
a the steamer would not be allowed to come inagaiu
c with him onboard. The annexed particulars are
n given by the New York Journal ot Commerce, of
f Monday:
The Crescent City arrived off tho Moro, on the
f 15th instant, aftor sun set, and had to romain out
-1 side until tho noxt morning. The Spanish steam
o frigate Isabol Sognndo, which was cruising off tho
s port, spoke the C. C.; aud after learning hor name
e aud destination, bossed on. Alter entering
. the port, to which Wio objection was made, tho
t Captain of the port came alongside, and informed
1 Captain Davenport that tho mails and all persons
- could lund, except Purser Smith.
, Upon Captain Davenport expressing himsolf
i pleased at the termination of the difficulties horo
. tofore existing, tho captain of tho port assured him
3 that it was only for this trip, but should 'Mr. Smith
1 return in the ship from New York, no communi
cation with tho shore would bo allowed. Captain
i D. expressed his regret at this, and remarked that
3 the difficulty was becoming more complicated by
> this measure, and thut although tho right to ox
| elude any individual from the island, whom tho
| authorities might oonsider prejudiced to its tran
i quility, was not denied, bo could not concede tho
i same to the Captain General to prohibit the mails
, and all passengers; simply because one person on
i board was obnoxious to his Excellency,
i To this no reply was made. Cupt. Davenport
was told when he left Havana for New Orleans on
i tho outward trip, that tho ship would not be por
; mittod to enter tho port on her return if Mr. Smith
caino in her. But it seems the Captain General
i was induced to change his mind a lew days pre
vious to herarrival, in consideration that the voy
age would not he completed until hor return to
• New York, and that no change could take placo in
tho officers before that timo.
On l lie ovo of sailing, Capt. Davenport received
a note from Messrs. Drake & Co,, enclosing a copy
of one to them from Martin Galiuno, tho |>oliticui
Secretary of tho Captain General. Tho letter,
together with one troin Captain Davenport to
Messrs. Drake & Co., will lie found below. "
Thcro were three Euglish war steamers io Hava
na, and tlio report was that they were waiting to .
sco the result of tho Crescent City affair, many sto
ries being in circulation about bar being tired into,
&c.
Judgo Shnrkoy.tlio American Consul, a gentle
man who has upon all occasions proved himself
worthy of tho high trust reposed in him, called on
board tho Crescent City und hud a long conversa
tion with Capt. Davenport upon the state of affairs,
at Havana.
Tho passengers and officers of the boat who went
nslioro, wero treated with the utmost politeness
and attention by tho Cubans.
Tho following arc the letters referred to abovo:
[translation.]
Political Secretaries Office, )
Havana, Nov. 10th, 1852. )
Notwithstanding that thore remuius-in full force
and vigor, tho ordor of his Excellouoy the Govern
or aud Captain Go 1 erul, which 1 communicated to
you on tho 4th of September lust, relative to its be
ing forbidden that Mr. Smith, uu cmployco of tho
American steamer Crescent City,should return to
this Island,aud also tho entry of suid vossol into this
port, should she convoy him, as tho spceiul conces
sion made by his Excellency on tho last voyage of
Buid vessel to New Orleans, und on her return to
this port, which sho has effected to-day, might bo
interpreted in a doubtlul munnor, it being a con
cession foundod oil spooiul reasons, of which his
Excellency the Minister Plenipotentiary of her Mu
esty at Washington haß a knowledge, his Excel
lency instructs me to say to yon that in future tho
said ordor will bo enforced; so that boing informed,
of this particular, you may eowrnunioute tho infor
mation to whom it may condom,*und thereby avoid
that, through bad intelligence, third parties being
injured, God preserve you many yoars.
(Signed,) Martin Galiano.
To Mcssrs. Drako & Co., Consignees of the Ame
rican steamer Crescent City.
U. S. M. Steam Ship Crescent City, I
Havana, Nov. 16,1852. j
Gentlemen : —1 am in .ocoipt of yonr ftivor of
this date, enclosing an offloial lettor from the Sec
retary of tho Captain General, by which I learn
that this ship will not be permitted to ontor this
porl on her return from New York, should Mr.
Smith bo on board. 1 was in hopes this matter
was settled. However, I eun assure yon that Mr.
Smith will return in the ship, and the consoqtion
cob. whatever they may bo, the Spunish authorities
will he responsible for.
I am, respectfully, ji,nr obedient servant,
H. JC. Davenport, U. S. N.
Com’g Crescent City.
Statistics of the U. S. Census.—Tho N ow York
Times notices the Census of 1850 thus :
in respect to territory, it appears that during tho
last ten years, wo linvo extended the area of tho
United States from 2,055,158 to 8,280,572 sqiiuro
miles, without including tho great lake ), or the sea
bays.
The population gained by these accessions, is
172,000. No full return*have as yet come in from
California, but assuming its population, partly by
estimate, at 165,0011, tho whole population of the
Union is 23,268,488. Absolute increase from 1840,
6,11)4,035; luerease per cent., 86.28; or, deducting
that from the addition of territory, and tho relative
increase is 85.27 per oent.
The number of whites is 19,680,728, and tho
relative increase of the last ten years in 88.28 per
cent.
The slaves amount to 8,204,089; relative increase,
28.81 per cent.
The number of free colored is 428,661; relutivo
inorcase since 1840, 10.96 per oont.
If v e refer to the duta of previous tables, it ap
pears that the increneu of tho whites in the Union
every decade since 1790, bus boon very equal; be
ing lowest from 1820 to 1880, (83.95 per cent.)
With the slaves the greatest increase was from
1820 to 1880, (8(1.61 per con.!.) and the least, from
1830 to 1840, (23.8 per oent.) The average in
crease of the ‘ ree colored, on the other band, lius
regularly diminished siaco 1790; being 82.2 per
oont. in the first decade, 25.25 in the third, and
rising a little In the fourth, it falls in this lust to
10,96 per eent. A fact worth considering as re
speotsytie probably dostiny of this race.
In the most favored country of Europe, the Re
port stutes, tho decimul inorcase is less than IJ£
per cent, per annum while In the United States ir.
is 8% per oont. In 40 years, with the present rate
of inoreaso on both continents, the population of
the Union will exceed that of England, France,
Spain, Portugal, Sweeden and Switzerland com
bined.
, As respects the rate of increase in the different
Now England States, during the last ten years, it |
is greatest in Rhode Island, (85.57,) and least in a
Vermont (7.s9)—which is also the least in tho j
whole Union.
\yhat is somewhat remarkable, the rate of in- |
crease In the great States of New York, Pennsyl
vania, Ohio and Maryland, is less than in either
Rhode Island or Massachusetts.
In the whole Union, Wisconsin shows the great
est ratio, (890.4*;) next, lowa, (845.84;) then Ar
kansas, (114.85;) and Michigan, (87.88.)
Tit »<>r Tat.—Tho following we found on our ta- n
bl» lust evening under envelope: S
“ A young lady of the Upper Tendom, and a wit
at that, walked into a store at No. Chartres street I
to-ilay, und inquired of a dandy-looking young
clerk if he had uny subdued mouse coiorea silk.— ' U
‘ No, madam, but we have some enraged rat colored I
silk; will yon look at it i” The lady, as a matter ,S
of course, left.” |f
If the lady was unknown to the dandy-looking
clerk, and her question was a technical one, re- ■
ferringloa peculiarly colored silk, the dandy
looking clerk’s answer was decidedly uncalled tor &
und impertinent, if tho case was otherwise, ami
tho lady intended to be “smart,” sho received only ■
♦what she merited. S
Some fashionable ladies appear to labor under S
- the impression that tiie youngmen in dry and fan- - S
ey goods stores are placed there merely to bo ||
the subjects of their slightest whims und caprice . 9
On tho other hand, some clerks render themselves Sj
extremely disagreeable by the free and easy stylo ||
of their manner to ladies, bearing tho semblance vt B
courtesy, but in reality stamped with familiar im- ■
pudonco.— N. O. Pic.
Hints to Farmers.—Toads are the vety best pro
tectum of cabbage against lice. 9
Plants, when drooping, are revived by a lew
granis of camphor. ■
Pears are generally improved by grafting on the
mountain ash. ga
Sulphur is valuable in preserving grapes, &c., f 1
1 from insect*.
In feeding with corn, 60 lbs. ground goes as hir |Sj
as 110 lbs. in tho kernel.
Turnips of small size have double the nutritions
matter tnat large ones have,
Kuta Baga is the only root that increases in nu
tritions qualities as it increases in blzo.
Rats and other vermin are kept away from grain
by sprinkling garlic when packing the sheaves.
Money skillfully expended in drying laud by
draining or otherwise, will be returned with ample • j
interest,
False Invoices.—ln the U. S. District Court at
Buffalo, Hon. N. K. Hall, presiding, a verdict was
given for the United States against the* importers B;lt
trout Canada of 78,000 feet of lumber. The im
porters of this lumbor, it is alleged, gave a false
valuation of tlio oostol'tbc lumber, with intent to
defraud the revenue, aud upon this ground the
seizure was ordered
This decision establishes that goods imported at
an under valuation, are liable to forfeiture, when
ever afterwards it may be found. % i®
At a recent meeting of the Board of Trustees of
Oglethorpe University, a change was made in the S
arrangement of tho terms of the Collegiate year, by
» which, hereafter, the Commencement in thut Insti
tution will take place in July or August. This is
a very judicious change. The Commencement, I
heretofore, Ims taken place in November, a season '
of the year when very few have leisure to attend a 9
literay festival. Occurring, as it will, hereafter, at ;
a period of comparative leisure, it will doubtless |
attract large'erowds to the quiet village of Midway, 1
which, by the completion of the Gordon and Mift
edgeville Railroad, bus teen rendered us accessible
aa any point in tho State.— Jtur. <fc Mm,