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«v WILLIAM S. JONES.
<;.j v > \ ICLE & SENTINEL.
T ! B W V, Elk L Y
U rufcii«ti#*<t npf| Wfliir^ay
AT TWO IM* L».l It S PER iJIil
IN ADVANCE.
Til r l,' 111 11 INDIVIDUALS «n.:Dg q. Ten DoUar*,
?l •. . »l tl«- Vfjtr w.t be seat for one year, thnafnr
iil.hiti/ ■ . at to* rate «(
»IX < OP(K4 FOR IBV >»Ot,l.\llH.
or a five r. py to ail who may procure u< .ff*« aubscrlbar*'
and Inert *t,\ . - he money.
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
DAII V AND TUI* WEEKLY.
Are alto poMltieo a. Lhie office, atvl mailed to eabaerfber.
at ihrfoSbWiug t Jj*, namely:
Daly f'ipaa.il lent by mail, IT per annum.
ran Waasir Pa-ar, „ * “ “
TERRS OF ABTERTIBIIIS.
La WiMinr.—Seventy-five ceole per square (10 tinea or
1 :>t) fear the flnt Ineertlon, and fifty cent* (or each •übat
q tent Ineertlon.
FLANK ROAD.
AUGUSTA, GA. raa. 22, 1533.
ABTICI4W OP AWtII.TiMK.VT of an AHoclation
formed for the purpose of construct! '■* a PLANK
HOAD, from or m ar the basin of the Augusta Canal to the
North eastern corner of the United States Arsenal let, Ip
tli- Vlll,ire of Summerville, under the act of the General
Aso nibly of the State of Georgia, entitle,! “ An Act to au
thor.se the incur;*,ration of joint stock companies for the
construction of Macadamized, Graded or Plana Row is.”
approved on the 23d day of February, 1900,under which
aoollratlon will be made to the Inferior Court of Richmond
county f u leave to cot.struct tho said Plank Road a ter (be
expiration of thirty day*.
Ist Arll' ls Pin'.. The undersigned agree to auociate
themselves fur the purpose aforesaid, under the name and
style of n,e Hummerville Plank Road Company.
2nd. A c/.' its Second. Thehuelnessof the Company shall
be conducted and managed by a Hoard of three Directors,
to be elected annually by the Stockholders, In the election
of whom each share shall entitle the holder thereof to one
vole. The sai l Directors shall elect one of their number
to be known as President of the Company, who shall pre
side SI nil meetings oi the Hoard, sign ad contracts made by
the Company, superintend the business thereof, and dis
charge all dher duties which may be assigned to him by
the Board of Directors, iheir Bye-I.airs, or thoee of the
Company.
81. Article. Third. The stock of each subscriber, an !
all monies paid thereon, shall be liable for all dues to the
Company, whether the same be on account of Instalments
on hi 1 original subscription, or any other account.
dlh. Article Fourth. To constitute a meeting of the
Co ,u|.a ny, there shall be present the owner, or represent i
tive- f at least one half of the capital stock.
6th. Article Fifth. These Articles of Association maybe
allerc I at unv meeting of the Ptockholders, by a vote of the
holders of two-thirds of the stock represented at such meet
log.
J. W. Da vi fa, Roar. V. Poa,
Col. 11. 11. Cuxmuo, 0. 1. Jasxixs,
J. It. Bci.st.aT, Bn. Thoxis,
TV. P. OIKNICIIAn, J. A. Assutr,
J. 8. Wilcox, W. P. PaMBKUTOa,
W K. Kitcii**, ' W. A. Waltou,
M. Wii.xiasox, Hon. E. Stab N vn,
Hour. A. Ukid, Jon. 8. Baas,
Jons llosss, 1). U. Ashi.sr,
Isaac Hasar, Hasav Monas,
It. 11. Wihkkx, Rev. 8. B. Davis,
L. 0. Wabkeb, Dr. Taos. Battby.
fel>2B-w6t _e ;
DR CHAMPION'S ANTI-BILIOUS, ANTI-DYS
PBPTIC, PURIFYING, CATHARTIC PILLB,
A\l AUKANTKD purely vegetable. Price23o.'nts per
Vl box. Dr. Champion's Vegetable Aguo Pills, sScents
per boa.
These well known reliable Medicines can be had genuine
of the only authorised Agerds in Augusta.
11AV1LANO, HI.EY A CO.,
WM. K. KITCHEN, and
D. 1). PLUMB A CO.
N. 11.—The public are cautioned against buying else
where, as theicare spurious imilalious of both the Anti-
Bilious, and Ague and Pever Pills In market.
DAVID MILEY,
ma'9 wßm* Agent for Georgia and Youth Carolina.
M PORT ANT TO MILL OWNERS AND MANU
FAOTUKKK3.
Unrtv<Ule'f Improvement in Water Wheels.
THE i < itJUM 'KII!!Cll8 are aole agents for making and
vending the best Water Wheel iu tho world, known as
Vandewalor 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 iu power and economy In water, every drop be
ing effective, anti none wasted. Thi* Wheel is not in the
least affected by back water. As we prefer them being
placed Mow tail water in every instance, consequently we
get every inch of head; they being entirely of cast Iron,
Simple of construction, are not liable to get out of order,
and ure more durable than any wheel now in use. We
have recently nut one In operation for George Hchley,
Bnq., at hie liclville cotton factory, to whom we would give
reference. Hce certificate annexed.
All orders for Wheels or Territorial Rights, will meet with
attention by addressing the subscribers.
JAGG UR, TREADWELL 4 PERRY.
Albany, New York,
Or to their Agent, J. J. Kinaa, Augusta.
[OIBTirrCATB.]
AuquutA, Ga., March 24,1851.
Jajrgcr. Treadwell k Perry-Gentlemenl ha?o the
gratification of informing you that your Vandewater Wheel
wan fluceoMfully put in operation at my factory last week,
an.l it worked to perfection. lt» simplicity, durability, and
aniforruity of speed, are recommendations alone ; but above
all, ita highest encomium is the small quantity of water It
takes 09 compared with other wheels. I have been using
one of Hcuben Rich's Centre Vent Wheels, of three feet
an I a half diameter, and eleven Inch bucket, the discharge
openings measuring 400 Inches. 1 displaced that and put
n one of yours of six feet diameter, with diacharge open
ngs measuring 270 inches, and your wheel run the same
amount of machinery that the inch Wheel had driven, and
here was a difference in favor of yours of eight inches in
he depth of water in the tail race. I feel no hesitation in
ecorumendingyour wheel to all manufacturers and mill
wners, believing it Is the greatest wheel of the age. Wish*
ng you success in the Introducton of so valuable an ira
rovoment, 1 main, very respectfully, yonrs, Ac.
mh2o-wfy GEORGE SCHLEY.
NOTE LOBT.
jOfcT about one month ago, a PROMISSORY NOTE,
J drawn by James Anderson, for One Hundred aDd Fif
ty Hollars, date January 20th, 1862, and due January Ist,
1868. The public are hereby cautioned against trading for
said Note, ns payment haa been stopped.
JOHN R. VOLLATON.
Kurke county, March 6,1958. murG-wiP
NOTICE.
rpHK KtllM'UIUKIt* have THIS DAY associated
1 with them In their Book unit Stationery Bii«im's«, Mr.
CHARLES 8. MdiCINNIE, and will conduct the same as
heretofore, under the stylo and Arm of JOS. A. CARRIE
A 00. C. E. GRENVILLE,
January Ist, IS.VL jan4-8m JOS. A. CARRIE.
NOTICE,
A 1,1, persons indebted to the late Arm of ADAMS,
HOPKINS A Co., are requested to make payment.
Claims uot paid, or arranged for payment at an early
Jav, Kill, without discrimination, be placed in suit.
I'll* death of Mr. Adams rendersthis course Imperative,
and k« trust those Indebted will promptly settle the de
mands against them. Lambeth hofkins,
FRANCIS T. WILLIS.
February flth, 1868. fel>7-iv»m
1 ~ NOTICE.
rkVlblf to caution the public against JAMES WARD,
who married a »Ife and forsook her three days sfter
wards, without the sll htest provocation.
Ills whereabouts are not Shown, but I have reason to
think lie has gone to the Cherokee country, or Alabama.—
The public will do well to beware of his deceptive arte, as
be Is a walking Imposition on community.
ARGIL BLACKSTONE, Sr.
February 88,1868. marß-w6t»
NOTICE.
A 1,1, I* Lit SO IMS are notiAed not to trade for a PRO
MISSORY NOTE, made by me, and also signed by
Wm. ulena, Jr., about the Arst of January last, for Eight
lluudrud uod Fifty Dollars, payable to Wm. A. Stone, or
hearer, and due tho 26th of December next, the considera
tion having roiled. WM. 11. GLENN.
Millstone, o«„ Feb, 86,1866. _ mar3-w4
NOTICE.
■\\7 ANT KG, at Newton Factory, Oa., an experionoed
V» WCAVfc.lt, to take charge of the Weaving Depart
ment. Also, tenor twolwe YOUNG LADIES,to operate
in said department. Experienced bauds would be pre
ferred. The place Is healthy, and go d Board can be had
on Very moderate terms. For further particulars, address
JOHN W. WEBB,
President of the Newton Manufacturing Co.
Newton factory. Oa., Feb. 22d, 1868. febßC-»tf
ram * langb'Aoth,
ixroaraas or
HARDWARE,
No. 186 Jtfii rket strret, rWadetpMa.
TTfE arc now receiving direct from the manufacturers,
V> u full assortment of CUTLERY, GUNS, PISTOLS,
SPORTING APPARATUS, TRAYS, FIRE IRONS, Ac., Ac.,
of ex ru quality and choice patterns, as well as a very
large stuck from the cheapest makers.
-A!,?'),—
Builders and Plantation HARDWARE, In great variety.
Merchants visiting the east are solicited to examine our
goods and prices.
CMT" Orders will have prompt attention.
BEN. FIELD,
MllS wßmo T. F. LANGSTROTH.
NOTICE.
A 1.1. FKRriONS are hereby notiAed not to trade for a
y V NOfk', given by ra to Elijah Michael, or bearer, for
Fo "li-three Dollars, dated March 16th, 1868, and due De
cember 86th, 1863, as the consideration for which siid
Note was given has laded, and 1 do not intend to pay it
unless compelled to do »o by law.
B. L. MOORE
Oglethorpe county, Ga., March 88, 1863. marSliwS
iO DOLLARS REWARD-
IthiT in CrawhirdvlUe, Ga., on the 8d inst., a —yj
.J a RED HOUND. Said dog is very trim
made, Hnc hair, the toes of his (ore feet unusually long,
an I generally paces In preference to trotting. For infor
tuation that may lead to his recovery, or on his delivery
the above reward will be paid. Address either
C. JOHNSON, Raytown,
or R. R. ASBVRY,
marlf-wCt* Double Writs, Oa.
25 DOLLARS BEWABO.
I WILL pav the above reward for the appreheu- mjL
sion and delivery to myself, or to the keeper of gp
any safe Jail so that I get them, my two men, 'IL
, DICK and BLANY. Dick is about 88 years old, 6J 2.
feet Id Inches high, black with pointed features, white
eyes, and talks as low country Negroes usually do. Blany
is about 88 years old, about 3 feet 6 inches high, slightly
yel 'owskin, uli faced, talks sensibly and with a good deal
of confidence. I think they will travel together, and will
endeavor to make t eir way to Sooth Carolina by the way
of Augusta. The above reward will be paid for both, or
half of it for either. a H. SHEPARD.
Jefferson county, Fenn’s Bridge, March 14th, ISBB.
mxrld-dlAwtf
20 DOLLARS REWARD7
R a V A W AY from the subscriber, near Hawkins- Me.
villc, Ga., on the 86th November last, my Ne- 5?
gro boy PAUL. He is about 85 years old, 6 feel, 9Tf
or 10 inches high, weighs about I*o or 175 Iba.,—noJCL
parti liar ro »rts about him recollected, except a very high
projective forehead, and black. He is probably making
his wsv to a free State when last seen. He was travelling
with some unknown Irishman. The above reward will be
paid for such information that I may get him.
” -wtt It. W. RADFORD.
NOTICE.
11*!®^ tlllT TO JAIL in Crawfordville, Talla- •-
A , Ga., a Negro boy, who calls him- GV
self JAt U, and says he belongs to one MaJ. Antler- nk
soa ,of Green county, Ga. He is about 14 yea-s old
ar. l black complexion. The owner wil' eons forward,
P™ v ,', Property, pay expenses, and take him ont of Jail.
WM ALEXANDER,JaiIor.
AUGUSTA FRENCH BUBB KILL STONE HANU
factory
T'asg&tssasaggssrß;
re.-nectfully inform hi* friends and the pnbUc. that he contin
nes to execute orders for his wen known Warranted En-ncO,
BURR MILL STONES, of eeery dedrmble
priso and shortest notice.. He also furnishes
ESOPI'S and COLOGNE STONES,
SMUT MACHINES, of various pattern!.*
BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best brand? *
CEMENT, for Mill use.
And every other articla necessary In a Mill.
Also, for llanters, small GRIST MILLS to attach to Gia
Gears.
Ail orders promptly attended to.
, WM. R. BCHIRMKR,
isl Swtf Survirteigjsartnvr of Sehirmer A Wigand.
SI,OOO REWARD.
DR. HUNTER'S celebrated SPECIFIC, for theoure
of Gonorrhoea, Strictures, Gleet and Analogous Com
plaints of the Organs of Generation.
jj* Os all remedies yet discovered fbr the above com
plaint, this is the most certain.
7?" It makes a speedy and permanent cure without re
itriction to diet, drink, exposure, or change of application
te business.
tyf It it perfectly harmless. Gallons of it might be
taken without injuring the patient.
fW (t is put up in bottles, with full directions accom
panying It, to that persons can cure themadres without re
sorting to physicians or others for advice.
Quo hot He it enough to perform a certain euro. Price gl.
Iff" It is approved and recommended by the Royal
College of Physicians and Surgeons of London and has
§jl their certiffcate enclosed.
ty It is sold by appointment In Augusta, Ga., by
■R PHILIP A. MOIBE,
f Unde the new Augusta Hotel, and by W. H. A J. TURPIN.
. Orders from the country promptly attended to. JaS
-. \
1853. PROSPECTUS 1853.
or the
M'l'Hm CIIITIVATUii
VOLUME XI, FOB 1853.
Dr. BAA ILL LEeTi
AND > Epitob..
D. EED4OID, )
TERMS.—ONE DOLLAR A YEAR IN ADVANCE.
The Socthebn Cultivator in issued every month,
End in exclusively devoted te Agriculture, Horti
culture, Floriculture, Domesticand Farm Economy,
Tillage and Husbandry, the Breeding and liaising
of Domestic Animals, Poultry and Decs, and the
general routine of Southern Planting and Farming.
The first number of the new volume for 1853, will
be issued on the flr-t of January. It will be print
ed on a sheet 30 by 44 inches, each number form
ing 82 pages, or 084 pages per year, with NEW
TYPE, FINr PAPER, AND BEAUTIFUL IL
LUSTRATIONS. It will afford lull and free dis
cussion to all topics of interest to the Agricultural
community, and will be in every respect the best
Asuiccltlkal Paper in the South ! and equal to
any in the Union!
Friends of Southern Agriculture! I
The Cultivator was the First journal established
in the Cotton Growing States, exclusively devoted
to the intcrestxi>f tho Planter; and as it has over
been an earnest and consistent advocate of those
interest*, woconfidcntly trust that, having fostered
und sustained it thus lar, yourcordial and generous
support will be continued and increased.
Planters, Farmers,Gardeners, Fruit Growers,
Stoc* Raisers, Nurserymen, and all connected in
any way with the cultivation of the soil, will find the
Southern Cultivator replete with new and valua
ble information; and richly worth ten times the
rifling sum at which it is afforded.
TERMS OF THE CULTIVATOR 1
ONE copy, one year, ::::::: $ 1.00
SIX copies, it:::::::: 5.00
TWELVE copies, :::::::: 10.00
TWENTY-FIVE copies, $20.00
FIFTY copies, : : : :::::: 87.50
ONE HUNDRED copies, : : : : : : 75.00
ALWAYS IN ADVANCE.
X9T Gentlemen who obtain subscriptions, will I
please forward them as early as possible.
rJf All bills of srEcix paying Banks received at
par—and all money sent by mail will bo at our
riaa.
W. 8. JONES, Publisher.
August*, Ga., November 17, 1852.
POMEGRANATE COTTON.
TWO yearn’ experience with thi< variety of Cotton ha*
proved it to be the mout pr* dactive COTTON grown
in this Motion of country, as i* shown by the report of Gen.
Hendrick, Col. Jones, Col. Waters and other.*-, who have
planted this Cotton the present year. It should be p ant
ed one-fourth thicker than other Cotton, both in the rows,
and drills, the rows two-and-a-half, and not over three feet
on the best land. It should be topped about the last of
July.
t3T* Price of the Seed per bushel, SI.OO
D. DICKSON.
Covington, Ga., Dec. fl, 1852.
CERTIFICATES.
Newton Couktt, Ga., Nov. 14,1852.
We planted, this year, Mr. Dickson’s Pomegranate Cot
ton. It is, decidedly, the best Cotton we ever cultivated,
yielding more than any other variety on the same quality
of land.
Moses A. Cunningham, John Bass, Gustavns Kendrick,
of Butts county.
John Smith, F. 11. Heard, John C. Watters, of Jasper
county.
Jesse L. Baker, Permedus Reynolds, Matthew Osburn, of
Jasper county,
Thomas Nelms, Alfred Livingston, Matthew Whitfield,of
Jasper county.
Wliliam B. Wright, Nathan P. Lee, Cordy Goodson.
John Franklin, John 8. Weaver, Richard L. Sims.
Newton Count*, Ga., Oct. 14, 1852.
We planted Mr. Dickson’s Pomegranate Cotton this year,
side by side with the common Cotton on the same day—no
differe' ce in the land or cultivation. The Poioegranati
produced, fully, ono-third the most, and bolls larger, and
staple finer. A. W. PATRICK,
J YMKB PERRY,
A. P. TORRENCE.
A few Beed may be had, on early application to
JanS-wtf J. J. PEARCE, Augusta, Ga.
SIOOO REWARD.
THE AllOVIi REWARD will be paid* to any one
who will produce a preparation superior to
DR. FRANCK’S SPECIFIC,
For the cure of Gonorrhuea, Gleet, Syphilis, Strictures and
all diseases of the Kiduies and Bladder. It is preferable
to ail others, because,
Ist. It contains no mineral, whatever.
2nd. It is purely vegetable,
Bd. ItYequircs no change of diet.
4th. It toaves no bad odor on the breath.
sth. It Is pleasant to take.
6th. It has fiill directions, thereby obviating the uccee
lity of consulting a Physician.
7th. It generally cures in four or five days.
Bth. It does not injure the stomach.
oth. It promotes healthy digestion.
10th. It is a general purifier of the blood.
This Specific is prepared by the most able Physician In
London, and sold by WM. H. TUTT,
feb2B-wtf Sole Agent in Augusta.
FOR THE WEST INDIA ISLANDS A CHAGRES
BV THK DKITIHH KOYAL HAIL HTBAMtfUIP
CON WAY,
Capt. 850 Tons Burthen.
THIB STKAMHHIP is designed to sail
from Savannah, Georgia, on the 4th De
cember next, and same day of each following
Chagres, touching at Nassau, N. P., Inagua, (with the
Turk's Island mails,) and Jamaica. She will be due at
Ohagrea on the 14th of each month, and return on the
18th, by same route, to Savannah.
As this service contemplates arrangements only for a
limited number of passengers, persons who desire to avoid
crowded boats, will find the route a desirable on<> ; and in
valids, who wish to spend the Winter among the W“st India
Islands, may find conveyance in tho Company’« Steam
ships, twice a month, between Jamaica and the following
ports,in addition to those named above:
Antigua, Gu&daloupe, St. Kitts,
Barbadoes, Havana, St. Lucia,
Oarriaoon, Honduras, St. Thomas,
Carthagena, Jacmel, St. Vincent,
Demarara, Martinique, Santa Martha,
Dominica, Montserrat, Tampico,
Grenada, Nevis, Tobago,
Grey Town, Porto Rico, Trinidad,
Vera Orua.
THK RATXB OF PAO&AOK ARI *.
From Savannah to Nassau, SBO
** “ Inagua, 55
*' “ Jamaica, 80
*' ** Chagres, 80
(Including Steward’s fees,)
and in proportion to the other Islands.
6 WT Each Ship carries an experienced Surgeon.
Freight and specie conveyed on the usual terms. For
engagements, apply to ANDREW LOW & CO.,
n7-w6m Agents, Savannah.
HAND, WILLIAMS A WILCOX,
NO. 1 HAYNK STREET, CHARLESTON, S. 0.,
Ark sow rkckivinu
-1600 bags prime new crop RIO COFFEE.
200 hhda. P. R. an,l N. 0. SUGAR.
100 “ Clarified N. 0. “
200 bbls. Refined SUGAR, A, B, andC.
100 “ Crushed and Powdered SUGAR.
200 boxes Sperm and Ada. CANDLES.
100 lihds. Cuba MOLASSES.
100 bbls. N. O. •>
100 •> New York SYRUP.
100 boxer.sup. Garb. SODA.
8f Vi POWDER; SHOT; LEAD; TOBACCO; SB-
G * 1 'Ac., Ac.; all of which will be sold low.
- B. O.,March let, 1868. marl-w2nio
A BLACKSMITH WANTED?
THK SIUsUIIUhII wishes to employ 1 or 2 JOUR
NE YM AN BLACKSMITHS that understands Carriage
Work, to whom good w. ges and constant employment
will be given. None but good workmen need apply.
LUCIUS MANSFIELD.
Lompkln, Feb. 81st, 1868. marl-wilt
THE MONTGOMERY MANUFACTURING COM
PANY’SIRON WORKS.
MONTGOMERY, ALABAMA.
\AAKUFACTtJRE, in superior style, Horizontal and
Jl Upright STEAM ENGINES, of all sizes; Steam
BOILERS; LOCOMOTIVES; Cast Iron WATERWHEELS;
Sugar MILLS ; Saw and Grist Mill IRONS, of every varie
ty, (Including Hoxie's continuous feet fbr Saw Mills;) En
fine and Hand LATHES; Iron and Brass CASTINGS, of all
kinds, Ao., Ac.
All orders flUed with despatch.
apß2 OINDRAT AJX).
CARDS, CARDS.
COTTON, WOOL, Jim-Crow and Horse Cards of the
above celebrated stamps, are of unequalled quality, and
wherever Introduced take the place of all others. They are
manufactured on our new improved machinery, and each
pair is warranted in every respect. Our inferior cards, the
common 11 Whltemoro ” stamp, are of the usually well known
quality.
Sold by the Hardware honses in all the cities, and country
Merchants, and to the trade by the Manufacturers.
JOS. B. SARGENT,
mylO wly* 24 CliffStrcet, New York.
GLENDINNING & CO’s"
MARBLR WORKS, Broad street, Augusta, Georgia
Where we have on hand and will continue to keep a
large stock of both Italia! and American Marble, for.
Monuments, Toombs, Head Stones, Ac., to which we res
pectfully call the attention of those wanting work in our
ine. We are now prepared to fill all orders at short no
tice, In as good style and as low as work of the same quality
can be tarnished for from any establishment in the United
States. Plans and prices willbe sent those who cannot ca
and examne fbr themselves.
P. B.—Orders from the country executed with neatnes
and despatch. d 27
PARTNERSHIP
THK UNDERSIGNED, who have long been con
nected with the CARRIAGE BUSINESS of the late
H. 8. UoiDLT, have this day formed a Partnership under
he style and firm of WYMAN A DARROW, for continu
ng the holiness at the same store.
G. N. WYMAN,
Aognsta, Oct. let, <B6B. J. DARROW.
We have on hand, and are receiving, an assor
CARRIAGES, ROCKAWAYB, BUGGIES, HARNESS and
TRUNKS.
Order* received for building various styles of vehicles.
We respectfully solicit a share of patronage.
Oct. Ist, ISSB. dSAwtmos WYMAN A DARRO
~ FRANCK S SPECIFIC,
PREPARSO BT
ROBERT FRANCK, M. D.,
LONDON,
IS a certain, speedy and permanent cure for CERTAIN
DISEASES. It is sold by WM. H. TUTT,
marS Sole Agent, Augusta.
W. H. A J TURPIN.
SUCCESSORS TO W. B. TCRPIN,
n OFFER TO PHYSICIANS, Planter*, Mer- Q
degf chants, and the public at large, a choice and SC7*
V W well assorted stock of DRUGS AND MEDI- YE?
IM CINES, OILS, PAINTS, DYESTUFFS, Glass
and Putty, Brushes of every description. Straw Broom*.
Spirits Turpentine, Ac., Ac.
We purchase our goods for cash, and are prepared to sell
.n the most advantageous terms. Merchants will find it tt
thelr interest to look at our prices. All articles warrante.'
to be what is represented. Give ns a call and satisfy your
lelvee. s2S
PHILIPPA. MOIBS.
fUrORT!* AND DSALKR IN n
DRUGS and MEDICINES, PAINTS, OILS, SR?
DYE STUFFS, WINDOW GLASS, BRUSH- ya
ES, PERFUMERY, PATENT MEDICINES, tM
INSTRUMENTS, Ac., Ac.
No. 185 Broad Street, under Vie Augusta Hotel.
Has now on hand a very large Stock of the above articles,
which are offered for sale at very low prices, and on accom
updating terms.
A# Country Merchants, Physicians and Planters are
nvlted to calfeaind examine, before purchasing elsewhere.
jal6-w
D- B- PLUMB Sc CO.
constantly receiving fresh and pnre n
Medicines, Chemicals, Choice Perfumerv, flu
Toilet Articles Ac., at their establishment Yff
between U. S. Hotel and Post Office corner.
Medicines carefully dispensed at all houri, by calling at Mi'
Barnet', corner Green and Mclntonsh strets n2B
THK undersigned woold call the e-w.
attention of Merchants and
Planters to the extensive stock of v s
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BROKfiX HKARTS.
“Do I believe in broken heart* f” For shame! my
own Belle; how could yon nsk that question! Be
lieve thi* ‘ ha>p of a thousand strings,’ which the
loving Creator baa given man, to soothe his trou
bled »oul as he treads the stormy path of life, can
ever be destroyed, hushed? No, by all that'*
beautiful, that doctrine finds no place among my
‘atticles’—my creed speaks not of it. “You may
break, you may ruin the vase if you will;” the fair
form may be laid with it* mother dust, but the
jewel it shronded, will nuinjnred rise before the
throne of Heaven’s High King, he tuned by His
hand and through eternity give forth its songs of
Love! Does man't heart break f—ls the fairy beau
ty of woman’s bestowed, that it may be (rail?
Shall the tempered steel prove inferior to the iron
oro f Batievc it not, ina chert. Some hearts
bend, aye, till they quiver—but break! O! they
never break. Each fiery trial gives fresh strength.
“We return—we return—we return no more!
The heart’s jroang dreams when their bloom is o’er,
The love it hath poured freely forth,
The faith In affection—deep, fond—yet vain,
Three are the lord that return not again."
Can it be from ‘ Merrie bnvlnnd’ that mournful
pliant arises, or did Atlantic storms tincture it as
they wafted it hither ? Did the sad poetess know
nothing of the fountain of Heavenly Love in whose
sparkling waters bruised hearts bathe and regaiu
tho brightness earth has soiled?
Nevcrfeur Love, my friend, when it comes—open
thy heart wide, take it in, cherish it as a priceless
boon; then, when it has become a part of thy be
ing, should God say ‘ root it out aud cast it from
thee,’ rebel not, bow thy pride, aud with a meek
and quiot spirit say ‘Ho doetb nil things well.’
‘ Verily thou shalt have thy reward.’
You knew me, my friend, in my Spring-time.
Do you remember myproud I cart, and would you
know what tamed my haughty spirit ? Read my
journal:
“ Feb’v. 2nd. —Music, sweet music, is borne upon
the still air. What an hour for music to charm—
midnight, with ita bright thoughts, sweet fancies
and mystic dreams! It is gone, the notes have died
away—so soon passeth all that is blissful—delight
is our portion for a season—we look, and it is not;
then we say all is vanity. But it is not all vanity,
It gives us giimpses of Heaven—Heaven tho home
of the holy, loving, omniscient God—where the
pure in heart dwell. Oh! if it is bliss, ocstacy, rap
ture to meet e’en for one short hour a congenial
spirit, a kindrod heart, amid tho falsehood, mask
ing, mockery of this world—what, aye, what will
It be to dwell forover and forever with unnumber
ed hosts of sympathizing souls ; with them pass
an eternity in raising hosannas to the God who
lias created, lovod and saved them—whom we
will then hunt), for we shall see Him as He is.
All merciful Father, permit me so to love Thee,
thou great Unknown ! Send flory trials if 'they
alone can “lend me to the Rook that is higher than
I!”
“ Feu. 20.—Well, Mctu! another bright, blissful,
romantic dream has boon yours. For two weeks
were you blessed with happiness such as few of
tho matter-of-fact-people of this world ever enjoy.
Those fourteen days contain a long life-time of
bliss, more than ninety-nine porsous out of every
hundred enjoy in three score years and ten. The
*bliss lias past, the dream ended—but yon do uot
mourn over your mistake—you do not wish the
dream had never boon. Oh! no. that fancy, that
error, that ramble in fairy-land was too fruitful
with happiness, with ccstaoy, to be repented, now
your eyes are opened. Though you have left that
laud of dreams, of enchantment, and returned to
tho dry routine of every-day-life, those wander
ings will, in memory, still cling to yon, as fragrance
to the withered rose leaf. You wish no Lethean
watem to flow over those charmed hours, tho re
membrance of them will bless yon, if you never
again experience snch joy. You do not object to
take life In such a condensed form—you thank
God for the bliss, and will ask Him to aid you to
bless Him in sorrow. The ideal gentleman, with
Apollo-like appearance, cultivated intellect and
high-birth, you have so lon£onght, has crossed
vonr path. You imagined he loved you at first
sight, imagined hitn a congenial spirit, a kindred
heart, fancied you loved him, and dreamed—dream
ed bright, happy, and silly dreams—revelled in
joy a season, then woko to realize the text, 1 (his
also passeth away!’ Courage, Meta! cling to the
motto, be ‘ thankful for the past,’ take bopo, love
and faith to cheer your onward way.
“ Once again lam contented, happy. I have no
longer tho roving, unsatisfied spirit, whieh.for so
many long months shadowed my brightest hourß.
My heart has found what It sought, a mate—aye,
ita other half. Le-Dream and I met in the bnll
room as strangers, but tho wild woods tore tho
veil from our spirits, and (hey mot as old friends,
the one was not finished till tho other joined it.
What a glad, joyous time it was for my poor heart.
How happy wo were, for lie loved me—he did love
•ne. W onder if he loves me now ?—if ho ever
thinks of mo?—if we will over meet again!—and
how ho will fcol?
“ How often 1 havo to monrn my folly, my want
of sense—what proof of a consummate simpleton
lea in the words, he lovod me, he did love mo.
Tell me now. vnin ninny, your reasons for that
assertion. ‘Lk-Dream’s eves spoke admiration’
—indeedll l Ho did some things that indicated
love’—amazing 1 Then yon are sure he was a
male flirt, a dashing follower of the beau mend*,
who delights to triflo with frail female hearts!
Think you it is probable, that ho, the talented, the
handsome, tho courted, would bestow ono thought
on tho country girl, when out of her presenoo !
How do you like tho thought that his graceful form
may even now be bending before a higher than
you, his brilliant eyos flashing their love light up
on a fairer face than youra. Folly 1 folly! what is
your heart?—a worthless trifle, that you bestow it
unsought? What aro you murmuring, ‘Your
h’nrt is sick, mb in love, and few are tho mortal
mon who deserve its dovotion 1 Why then leave
it unguarded?’ ‘Your lonolincss, your yearn
ing for sympathy, for lovo, gives each new comer
a ‘ key.’ Bah 1 that is a lame excuse} why not,
‘fond dreamer,’ persuade thyself ‘earth has no
heart with a tone to send thee back the spirit of
thine own 1’ Why not 1 soek that heart in Hea
ven,’ whither the loved and lost are gone.
“ What a sad, sad reality it is to have a desolate
heart—to he all alone in the world—to feel there
is something about yon to repulse love—that you
may he called to live on, on, on, in this dreary iso
lation, for mayhap a score of years. OhGod have
mercy 1 a pain, quick and sharp, darted
through my chest, u thrill of exquisite delight fol
lowed it, for I thought I might die while young;
might be permitted to leave soon this world of
trial and go to Heaven, where the troubled soul
linds peace and rest.
“ As the brilliant, gorgeous hues of an autumnal
sunset fade away, so dies in my heart one of tho
most beautiful, bright, exquisite dreams that ever
blessed an earth-born creature. God grant that
as tho moon and stars iu their soft, qniet beauty,
come to cheer us when the sun sinks, so may love
for Him, for Heaven, for holinees, replace earthly
passions in my bosom.
“ The fading hues of the glorious sunset, were
hidden by a dark and gloomy cloud, which told of
a coming storm The storm came—a furious, de
solating tornado—it swept through my heart, bend
ing and tearing up the finest portions. Then I
rejoiced that it had passed, mourned the ruin, the
desolation, but blessed the calm—Oh! it was hut a
lull, tho winds staid to gather fresh strength—then
on they came—“orct and exulting, determined that
nought hut a blank, desert waste should bo left,
where once all was freshness, bloom, bliss. Is it
over now ? Is the poor, crushed heart left to a
-ad, lonely, quietness ? Now, that the dreams of
childhood are torn up, the blissful fancies of youth
swept away, what is to strengthen the weak heart
for coming years ? What evils enable it to strag
gle on all weary and desolate, yet submissively and
contentedly. When, now and then, a bright hope,
a high resolve of past years breaks mysteriously
on the blight and gloom, will there be no rebellion
in the onoe proud and hanghty soul ? Oh 1 can it
be? is it possible that /, the builder of air-castles,
the weaver of bright dreams, am to be forever ex
cluded from my home in the rich domain of Fancy!
No, 1 will not believe it. Surely Lx Dbeax loves
me—how can ho help it ? wo were so like each
other, our souls met, mingled, became one. How
was it that we could not he strangers ? Oh ! my
heart is his, and his heart is mine—l feel it, I know
it, our spirits are together this very moment, they
were made to be one, so struggle no more Lx-Dkxaji,
submit and oome to me, for I’m weary! Oh! so
weary
“ He is sick—poor fellow!—has been very sick.
What bliss to have beeu his nurse, to have bathed
the burning brow, administered the cooling draught
to the parched lips, to have smoothed the soft pil
low, and calmed the restless spirit with reading,
conversation, love, —bliss too great lor such as I.
Oh! for one peep, to see how he is employed, how
he is altered. Wonder if in the weary hours of
sickness, he had no thoughts of the wild flower,
he stooped in his bright career to bend over and
bless. That wild flower thought of him—thinks
of him now, longs to be near him, to refresh, to
comfort him with its sweetest fragrance! Like to
know if ho never wishes to have that strange plant
for his own, to prune, cultivate, and cherish, till
it becomes his soul’s delight. God bless him!
make him well! make him great! make him good 1
“ The thrilling notes of the serenading baud,
pouring through my open window, just now aroused
me ; I got up to listen; as I leaned my head in the
window, memory carried me back to the cold,
bright nights of winter and fancy piotured the tall
dittinffm figure of him who haunts my every hour
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AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 0, 1853.
—the thought of him steals over me with the
cool soft breeze of early morning; aa I sit at
toy sewing the low music of his well remembered
tones breathes around; when I siug, the thought of
him, lends glee or sad nest Vo the strain ; in my lone
ly afternoon ramble* he is by mv side: when 1
look on the glories of the setting sun, I think of
him, of the ll*ur when our souls first met; when I
read, his beaming face, hi* flashing eye look* out
from the page. In the morning call, the evening
dance, the game of cards, in the silent watches of
the night, he is with me—thoughts of him increase
every pleasure, heighten every sorrow, steal over
me in my devotions and follow my soul to Hea
ven. Does he never think of me? Am I alto
gether unworthy of his iove ? if so, why did hi*
eyes, his lips, his actions speak the contrary?
What are my early dreams of love, compared with
this deep, earnest, almost idolatrous homage —but
the freshening breezes that usher in the gale—the
dawning light which precedes the * king of day.’
Will he never, never come ? Oh ! that I were a
bird, that I might hover o’er him,sing to him, be
near him!
“Another disappointment, strange neglect from
Le-Dbeam ; the blow fell rather heavily, consider
ing my numb state—the old still feeling came over
my heart. Bat the cloud swept by, and hope came
oat more brightly from the passing shadow. I
cannot help thinking lie loves me, that he is think
ing of me now with the calm confidence of trust
ing love. Vanity! he maybe in the club room,
the gayest of the gay. Down! Mr. Doubter, I say
he tkall not forget me, I will liannt him—as the
light laugh, or sparkling bon mot, issues from his
lips, mv form shall greet the eye of fauey. The
God of Heaven made our hearts alike, and one
they will be. Can it be, that I was created to be
his comforter ? Then, indeed, will my fate be no
moan one. I’d rather far be bis servant in a Wes
tern cabin, than mistress of “marble halls with
vassals at my feet”—aye, than queen of the world,
the idol of millions* This love sounds like idola
try, but it is not; I would not put him before my
God. No, God first and ho next, my best, dearest
earthly gift. W hat a strange character he is; im
pulsive, yet thoughtful, enthusiastic; eager, yet
self-controling. What agreat.good man he might
be.
“ This from the scoffer thou bast won,
More than this, he gives to none."
“Wonder if somebody 1 know wrote that piece of
poetry. Well! I can be satisfied with that—to
know my imago is hidden in the inner sanctuary
of his heart; to know another cau never bo to him
what I have been; to know that whatever tie may
bind,-his thoughts will sometimes recall the past,
my image start up before him, calling forth feel
ings of the bitterest agony; the most exquisite
sweetness; to know, ‘ when other eyes their tale
of love shall tell,’ he’ll think of me, is bliss. Bliss
it is to think that, struggle as he may, the love
will still live.
“Come, Le-Dueah, tell me why you act so strange
ly ; you know yon love me; think you I can bo
deceived on that point ? Nover, whllo momory
paints your searching gaze, your bright eager glance,
your look of tenderness. Then, why behave so 1
are yon trying me? If so, I must say, such con
duct is not manly, or kind. Think of the sad, lone
ly days, the despairing hours, the wild rebellious
struggles to which you doom me. I would say
beware, lest you arouse the sleeping pride, but the
warning would be vain; the first look , into your
glorious eyes, the first tone of yonr rich voice
would recall tho dying dream. Oh! it is such a
sweet dream, such a glowing dream, it has twined
itself around tho finest parts of my being; lias
burnt itself into my heart. How sweet is the mem -
ory of the pleasant smile, the indulgent look which
fell on mo as in by-gone days I looked up at one
bright face—tho kind loving answer to remarks
others would have scorned. Oh! that is why I
bowod my l-.anghty spirit and submitted to heart
bondage. Others seek my weak points to contrast
them with my strong ones, rejoice in the foibles,
ridicule thorn. He saw in them something to give
spice, intensity ta his love, marked them only by
u twinkle of the eye, a kindly word. How vivid
is tho remembrance of that flattering manner, that
flushed, sparkling face, those flashing, burning
eyes; of the raised hand, so vainly striving to hide
their beams. Well do I romotnber the delicate
compliments, the carefully worded sentences, the
averted face following the soul-lit glances. Oh!
you aro honorable, LeDueam, you should have lived
in the days of chivalry, when knights gave their
lives for a single smile from beauty! But it is not
strange that you, so handsome, talented, fearless
should look higher than 1. You may win a heart
as devoted as mine—one linked with a brilliant in
tellect, and cased in a beautiful form, veiled by an
exquisite face, and pooping through fascinating
manners. May you find a being as fair, as bright
as angels are, to comfort you in sorrow, to joy in
your joy, to bless yon through life, and lead yon to
Heaven. God gran tit!
“My first love, after I put by childish things, was
one of the fancy ; the heart was exercised, but
there was no intellect in it. What a quiet shy girl
Meta was then, h w devoted was that her flist
love, it cropt into her heart unsought and nestled
there, sometimes diffuaing joy, sometimes sadness.
How she dreomod through tho long school days,
her eyes chained to the text-book, her mind and
heart far away roaming in fairy land. Yoars
passed, a proud learned man was by Meta’s Bide,
he worked upon the intellectual parts of her be
ing—hour after hour lio would look into her mind
—flatter her by tho interest he took in turning ovsr
its contents—he took and gave, ho liked her fresh
thoughts, and gave in return those he bad found
in books. It was intellectual sympathy, no hoart
communion, as Meta fancied. Time wrought
changes, pride brought sorrow; they were no
longer friends.
The lonely heart turned upon itself, rebellion
took the place of submission, charity died, misan
thropy sprang up, and storms raged.
It is nijjht, the hall ia lighted, mirth roles tho
hour; Mcra, now a woman, meets tho love of her
school days, the surprise gives unwonted bright
ness to each face. They talk of old times, of old
friends, till their hoarta grow light and their eyes
flash. 1 Oh! tho old love, the old love it worketh
sure and well.’ A handsome stranger—Le-DbeJß
—is presented; he is nearer, much nearer, her
beau ideal than the favorite of her girlhood; but
she recalls old dreams, and her eyes turn from the
handsome stranger, to rest on tho smiling face she
loved in by-gone days. Again she meets the old ■
love in the dance—then ho is gone, bnt Le-Drbah
is by her side.
“Again, it is evening, the chairs are drawn close
ly around the parlor fire, their occupants, impatient
for the sound of the viol, open the dance. There,
in the corner, sits Meta, looking better than usnal;
that dark silk is beooming, it shows to advantage
her well proportioned form, and her dark hair ie
confined at the back of her head and allowed to
fell in ringlets—one would think in such a scene
she would be happy, but see what a sad, sad look
rests upon her face. Memory and imagination
are at work; she is reviewing the days, when a
school-girl, she danced in that room, with one by
her sfde she loved.
“ The room has changed, the dancing begun—
there she is, what a common-looking partner she
has; how slowly she moves; what indifference is
written on her face. Lookwhat a magical change,
pride has disappeared, love and joy smoothed the
brow, lighted the eye, curved the lip and lent
new grace and animation to each motiou. The
mystery is cleared, as with flashing eye and beam
ing smile, she bows to that gentleman at her side
—it is the friend of yore.
“ Meta rides with Le-Dkeam, her enthusiastic ad
miration of tho wild scenery, draws upon her a
searching gaze, and, as they linger, watchißg the
sun set, admiration mingles with the scrutiny. As
those wor.drous, those splendid eyes look into
hers, vanity is excited—the heart tonchod. Then
follow the gay re-unions, the charming rides, the
communion of souls around the hearth in Meta’s
home—then he is gone, leaving but one parting
sentence, one Bingle promise to cheer the lonely
hours of his absence.
“It is finished—the proud soul is humbled,
scorns, detests itself—sin has brought its punish
ment and I bow me to it. Pride, aye, pride that
rebelled against God and man, has been nursed in
my heart from childhood. I have worshipped my
self.
“ And you would be a teacher, forsooth, one of
the higher order—not of the vain knowledge of
earth, the sciences which delight, the speculations
which charm, the dreams which bless the man,
these, in your humility, you would leave to others
while you soar above, propose to deal in higher
things, the eternal truths which concern the Great
I Am. All your wild romantic dreams of earth
born happiness were nothing to this, they appear
humility's self, when compared with this last freak
of a presumptuous mind. Have done, vaunt
er 1 Debase not such things by thy unholy touch.
They tell me I will go deranged some day, and
when I ask why, say—Oh, you change about with
such incredible swiftness; now dead, the next
minute mad, and then wild with glee. But I will
never be mad, my heart is too elastic; to-night it
is light with ‘ gladsome mirth,’ filled with hopes
too extravagant and wild to be trusted to this, my
bosom friend. The Le-Dbeak babble has bursted,
its rainbow tints gone, forever gone; but one
air-castle is left, the ‘ pet dream’ still lives—a sweet,
blissful dream it is. Oh! the deep, still joy it
gives, must be like that angels feel. What quiet
happiness falls on my heart when I view that hope,
afar off! it is too bright, too dazzling to bring near.
When I dwell on it, a chill dread of disappoint
ment steals over me, and I shudder.
“ Once more I’m with strangers. Bose-land,
beautiful Bose-land is my happy home. Belle,
writes that she thinks it strange I ean be so happy
here. Her sentiments, she says, * are,’ be it ever
so humble, ’there’s no place like Home! Vary
good sentiments they are, my dear; I hope you do
not mean to insinuate mine are different. Be as
sured, one of my many reasons for loving Bose
land, is that it is humble. But, ma there, this is not
•my home. Ob, no; neither gay Paris, nor sunny
Naples, much less this secluded spot, can boast
ifi*:.
i each a home as mine. Would you believe it!
: though the sun’s rays are excluded from my home,
1 it i* brighter and warmer than ‘ a day on the line.’
Flowers, rich flowers bloom there; sparkling foun
tains make soft music there; all, all in that bright
place is beautiful. A Heart is my home, Belle,
darling.
“How wicked ofßelle to hint, that, though I could
teach ‘young ideas bow to shoot,’l would never
out a respectable figure in woman’s true sphere,
certes, because I do not lovo the kitchen and dairy.
Oh, Belle! Belle! in pity spare me! Will I never
do anything but listen to the time table and ding
dong dong on the piano. Am I doomed to the life
of an old maid teacher; fated to see my pet pup: a
one after another marry and leave me unlovt d.
Heaven is mereithl, I will not believe it. No, one
day (I will hope) I shall step into a large, strong
heart, lock the door, that nobody will ever be able
to get me out, and then won’t I cut many a ca; er
in my prison house. If the .owner of the heart
belongs to the alligator part of creation, I ahall not
have a very pleasant time, for, (low bo itspoken,) I
fear I will never learn to love the mysteries of
baked-beef, roast-turkey, plumb-pudding and jel
lies. But, if the gentleman loves a warm heart
better than good eatables, I—l’ll queen it then 1
1 How very happy I am, now that I am so busy.
If it was not for the bothersome Botany and the
plaguing herborisms, I’d be sure of a high stand
ing in my school: but Ido bolievc those good peo
ple are Botany-mad, think it the sumum honvm of
an edui-ation. Now and then, only now and then,
a sad, dreary feeling comes over ine, and I think
there is nothing worth living for. A* I look on
tho fifty young faces before me, iu school, I won
der if auy of the hearts whioh beam from them,
indulge iu day-dreams, as bright as those that
blessed my girlhood, and Isay to myself uo, for
their world is smaller, their imaginations loss fer
tile than mint was. I think of the umny bitter
disappointments I have suffered, and wonder if
crushing sorrow, dark despair, will everatiffen
those mobile features, will ever quench the light
of those laughing eyes. May God Almighty Mess
and preserve my pupils.”
Well, Belle, love, are yon sißk of the: volumin
ous extracts from my journals, Or are you thank
ful for the light they throw on some of the myste
ries in the life of your frieud? 1 did not intend,
when I began, to give you so much of my inner
life, but I thought oue fact, with a lady, does more
than a hundred reasons, so I told you all, that you
might seo the conflict and the victory—might know
that, though my heart bowed, it did not break.
You know, Belio, the brilliant oorruscations of
your intellect, always cast ray etronger mind into
the shade; that whilo you are blessed with the fai
ry form and winning behuty of a poetess, I have
the coarse heavy features of a mathematician, but
if you will excuse the ‘ half slauder’of personal
commendation, I will, with all modesty, venture to
say, I havo the advantage in one little matter—
the heart. An assertion fully proven by my hun
dred thouiand love scrapes, each as strong, as
deep, as your penchant for Harry. What think
ma Belle! Now, if my wild, ungovernable heart
defies the Lords of Creation, laughs at the thumps
of life, need you fear that yours, caged as it is, will
not have a safe passage through the world? Your
question is answered—l believe not in broken
hearts. Neither would you, conld you see me
dancing to aud from school, and when the mail
oomes showering letters upon me, hear the merry,
ringing laughter with which I receive the,pelting.
The old people wonder, the school-girls smile, but
on, and on I laugh, till puro want of breath stops
me, then I dart from the room, springu p the stairs,
rush into my chamber, drop into a chair, and
amuse myself with the cracking of sealing-wax.
So you will not come to see me in my now home.
You are afraid of mo f The sparkling, boautiful,
fascinating Mabel, afraid of the brown, ugly, silly,
crazy Meta! Fancies her friend so bright a lumi
nary at Bose-land that eh* would only be a reflect
or! Strange!’ wqnderfnl! marvelous! Though
you sway the sceptre in our own fair town, think
you’d havo to yield it to me, in this quiet place.
A pretty compliment, truly ! An insinuation that
these people are not sufficiently refined or poetical
to appreciate Mabol, therefore would prefer the
more every day-material of which Meta is com
posed. Very modest, my friend is! Never fear,
Belle, that you will not bo well received at Bose
land, ‘ big, little, you.ng and old,’ would bow be
fore that wondrous beauty of yours. To be frank,
I have changed my mind about wishing you beio.
I am confident you would take every heart frc-m
mo. Then, what would become of my happiness,
my love for teaching! Oh !if you knew bow the
artless expression of love from my little ones,
blesses my heart and charms away the vexation
and fatigue of a day’s work, you would not wish
to steal ray treasure. Stcal-it you would, most as
suredly if you came; each and all would forget
Miss Meta ; so darling, please stay away. Don’t
come, please don’t come, not even for a week’s
visit. You know—as that girl (I have forgotten
her name) said of little Francesca—you are my
fate. That Grecian face of yours always gets be
tween me and my heart affairs, it steals my boaux,
not only them, it steals my friends, my relations.
Oh! it is a wicked face—that pretty face of yours,
—and—and—jußt to tell the truth and shame hypo
crites, lam most outragoously afraid of it. I won
der, in the name of all that is probable or possible,
if you will never lose any of that marvelous beau
ty, if I will ever be able to look at you without
fooling there is no shadow of hope for me. Stay,
I wonld not have you less fair, I but want a little
added to my own face, that I may gain just one
heart to love me—you may have all the world be
sides. Even that is not of vital importance, for I
fancy I have not very many years to live, aud I
would like toshow vain man that there can be an
old maid who is happy, and not anxious to marry.
Self-respect can exist where there is no pride;
those who have no joys of their own can rejoice
with others; where there is peace there must be
happiness.
Though I veto your appearance here, I do not
object to your letters, so bo quick, and send a few
scintillations to your own Meta.
from the Irish Penny Journal.
THE WORTH’S CHANGES.
“ Contarini Fleming wrote merely, This.”
D'l»raela,the younger.
The solemn Shadow that bears In bis hands
The conqueror’s scythe and the glass of sands,
Paused once on his flight where sunrise shone
On a warlike city’s tower of stone;
And he asked of a panoplied soldier near,
“ How long baa this fortressed city been here ? ”
And the man looked up, man’s pride on bis brow,
*' The city stands here from the agee of old;
And as it was then, and as it Is now,
So will it endure the funeral knell
Os the world be knofied.
As eternity’s annals shall tell.”
And after a thousand years were o’er,
The shadow paused ever the spot once more.
And vestige none of a city there,
But lakes lay blue, and plains lay bare,
And the marshalled corn stood high and pole,
And a shepherd piped of love in a vale.
“ How! ” spake the shadow, “ can temple and tower
Thus fleet, like mists from the morning hour ? ”
But the shepherd shook the long locks from his brow—
“ The world is filled with sheep and corn;
Thus was it of old, thus is it now,
Thus too will it be while moon and son
Rule night and morn,
For nature and life are one.”
And after a thousand years were o’er,
The shadow paused over the spot once more.
And lo! in the room of the meadow lands,
A sea foamed far over saffron sands,
And flashed in the noon tide bright and dark;
And a fisher was casting his nets from a bark.
How marvelled the shadow! “ Where then is the plain ?
And where be the acres of golden grain ? ”
But the fisher dashed off the salt spray from hia brow—
“ The waters begirdled the earth alway.
The sea ever rolled as it rolleth now;
What babblest thou about grain and fields?
By night and day,
Man looks for what the ocean yields.”
And alter a thousand years were o’er.
The shadow paused over the spot once more.
And the ruddy rays of the eventide,
Were gilding the skirts of a forest wide;
The moss of the trees looked old, so old!
And the valley and bill, the ancient mould
Was robed in sward, an evergreen cloak;
And the woodman sighed as be felled an oak.
Him asked the shadow—“ Remeo.berest thou
Any iraee of a sea where wave those trees P’
But the woodman laughed, said he, “I trow.
If oaks and pines do flourish and fall.
It Is not amid sea—
The earth is one forest all.”
And after a thousand years were o’er,
The shadow paused over the spot once more.
And what saw the shadow ? a city again,
But peopled by pale mechanical men.
With workhouses filled, and prisons, and marts,
And faces that spake exanimate hearts
Strange picture, and sad ! wasthe shadow’s thought;
And turning to one of the ghastly, he sought
For a clue in words to the when and the how
Os the ominous change he now beheld:
But the man uplifted his care-worn brow—
u Change ? What was life ever but conflict and change?
From the ages of old.
Hath affliction been widening its range.”
Enough; said the shadow, and passed from the spot;
At last it is vanished, the beautiful youth
Os the earth, to return with no to morrow,
All changes have chequered mortality’s lot.
But this is the darkest —for Knowledge and Truth
Are but golden gates to the Temple of Sorrow!
Bice Blancmange^— This forms an excellent ac
companiment to preserves of any kind, or to
baked apples. It is made as follows:
Pat one teacupful of whole riceiDto half a pint
of cold water, when the rice cracks, or begins to
look white, add one pint of milk and a quarter of
a pound of loaf sugar. Boil it nntil the rice has
absorbed the whole of the milk, stirring it fre
quently the whole time. Pat it in a mould and it
will turn oat when quite oold. If preferred hot,
it may be again made warm by being placed in the
oven for a short time. It may be flavored with
lemon, cinnamon, <fec., bnt is moat wholesome
without, and forms both an elegant and very
economical dish at any time.
The Child we live roR. —It would be unwise in ug
to call that roan wretched, who whatever he suffers
as to pain inflicted or plea* nre denied, has a child
for whom be hopes and on whom he do&ts. Pov
erty may grind him to the dust; obscurity may
cast ita darkest mantle over him; the song of the
gsy msy be far from his own dwelling, his face
may be unknown to hie neighbors, snd his voice
may be nnheedad by those among whom he dwells
—even pain may rack his joints, snd sleep may
flee from his pillow. Yet he has s gem with which
he would not part for wealth defying computation
for fame fillings worlds ear. for the luxury of the
highest wealth, or for the sweetest sleep tost ever
sat upon mortal eye.— Coleridge.
The Nashville True Whigseya that the uotes on
the Bank of East Tennessee are not redeemed in
that city, or received in Bank.
MR. CUYTO.fi ON TUB MONBOB DOCTRINE.
Mr. Monroe’s declaration was made in his
seventh annual message’ to Congress, on tho 2d of
December, 1828.
i “We own it,” said ho r “so candor and to the
amicable relations existing Wween the United
States and the European pftwera to declare that we
should consider any attempt on their part to ex
tend their system to any portion of this hemis
phere as dangerons toour peace and safety. With
the existing colonies and dependencies of any Eu
ropean power we liavo cot interfered and shall not
interfere. Bat with the Governments which have
declared their independence, and maintained it,
and whose independence wc have on great co,n
aideratious and just principles acknowledged we
could not view any interposition, for the pur
pose of oppressing them, or of controlling in auy
other maimer their destiny, by a European power
in auy other light than as the manifestation of
an unfriendly disposition toward the United
States.”
This celebrated declaration, which is ofteu quo
ted as a pledge to go to war with any European
nation which shall attempt to colonize any part of
thiahemisphere, is not a declaration’by the Presi
dent to a loreigu country, but a more recommen
dation to Congress to declare, first, that we think
any attempt to extend the European system, thst
is, to make a European colony in this hemisphere,
would be dangerous to our peace aud safety ; rnd
secondly, that auy European interposition to con
trol the destiny of an established American Govern-,
maut would be viewed by us as a manifestation of*
an uuiriendly disposition toward the United States.
Congress utterly refused to adopt the reeonmiou
dation at the time, and has eversince refused to
make any such declaration. Mr. Mnnroe made no
declaration himself; but in pursuance of,the
power given him by the constitution, to recom-'
meud to Congress such measures as he should
deem expedient, ho said, in his uiessuge to the
two Houses: “We owe it to ourselves to deelsre.”
&e.; that is, he recommended to Congress (in vir
tue ofttlie rightto reoommeud given him by the
constitution) to make this declaration in some re
solution or other proper form, and he wus pledged
by it to nothing more than this; that if Congress
shaped such a resolution, or made such a declara
tion, he would approve it. There was uo pledge in
it to my power on earth but his own countrymon
in Congress assembled. Tho American Govern
ment could be committed only by the vote of both
Houses of Congress, approved by the President.
The proposition recommc ded by Mr. Munroe
was warmly opposed by tho very Congress to
which it was submitted. No such declaration was
made, or attempted to be made, by Congress :
but Mr. Clay, who was an ardei.t supporter ot Mr.
Monroi’s Administration, did at the time propose
a resolution to the House of Representatives,
which was intended to approach the declaration but
even that failed. His resolution was, “that the
peoplo of these States, would not seo, without se
rious inquietude, auy forcible interpositionliy the
illiedpowers of Europe, in the behalf of Spain,
to rtduce to their former subjection thosi parts of
the Continent of America which have prceluitned
aud established for themselves, respectively, In
dependent Governments, and which have been
solemnly recognised by the United States.” Evon
had this passed, it was but a poor response to the
recommendation. It did not adopt Mr. Monroe’s
language or its equivalent, and it restricted “the
serious inquietude” wc should feel, to the cause
of a forcible interposition hp'jhe allied powers to aid
Spain'. But Mr. Clay’s resolution, even when
thus diluted, backed by all the influence which
he and Mr. Wcbstor exerted on the occasion, nov
er passed the House of Representatives. Hon.
James K. Polk, during the debate on the Panama
mission, tells us the fate of Mr. Clay’s resolution,
and Mr. Webster’s kindred Greek resolution,
which was delcatod by a largo majority, at the
-ame session. As Mr. Polk is ofteu cited as an
advocate of the opinion that Mr. Monroe’s Presi
dential message had pledged the nation to adopt
the policy which Mr. Monroemerely recommended
I beg to quote the following passage from his speech
on the Panama mission, in 1826, as not only show
ing that he did not oonsider such recommeudtjtions
as he aud Mr. Monroe gave to Congress, us in any
-ense binding upon this Government, without the
•onf""t of Convress, but also to show the fato of
Mr. Clay’s resolution:
"Beiuro lie concluded, Mr. Polk said he would
say a word in relution to the pledge winch it was
r-aid the nation had given in relation to our South
American policy. When tho message of tho late
I’rerident (Munroe) of tho United Statos was com
munieatud to Congress, it was viewed, as it should
have been, as tho mere expression of opinion of
the Executive, su omitted te the consideration and
deliberation of Congress; aud designed probably
to produce an offoct upon tbe councils of tho Holy
Alliance in relation to their supposed intention to
interfere in the war botwoon Spain and her for
mor colonies. That effect it probably had an
agency in producing ; aud if so it had performed
its office. The President had no power to bind ,
tho notion by Bitch a pledge. The sound and so
ber judgment of the people of the U nited Statos
had not been brought up to the conclusion that we
could, iuany event, rnako common cause with tho
republics ot the South, or involve ourselves in the
calamities of war in their behalf; all oursympathios,
all our good feelings were with them; wo wished
them success ; but self-picscrvation is the first law
of nature and of nations; we were then as wo hoped
we still were, unprepared to depart from our set- !
tied policy. As a strong eviaenco of what tho
opinion of this House then was, the present Secre
tary of State (Mr. Clay,) then a member of the
House, had submitted a resolution, responding
to the sentiments of tho message of tne President.
Tbe Greek resolution was submitted, too, at the
same session, by tho honorable member from Mas
sachusetts ; the fever was up; we seemed to bo
then, if wc ever had been, propared to go into a
political crusade in bohalf of others. Tiie sober
judgment of the House intorposed; the Greok re
solution shared its fato, and sleeps upon tho ta
ble. Mr. Clay saw clearly that tne same late in
evitably awaited his South American reqplfltkm,
with only this difference, that it would probably
have been negatived by a much more overwhelming
majority. It was not called up. He, however, ef
fected ono object; he prevented any expression of
opinion. By submitting his resolution, others
were induced not to do so, with an expectation of
having an opportunity of voting on his. And
now it is said the national honor is pledged to act
up to the declaration of that message. For him
self, he did not so consider it; and for one, he
never could agree to endanger the peaco of the
country by Bonding ministers to the consultative
assembly at Panama ”
In the same celebrated debate on the Panama
mission, Mr. Buchanan opposed tho mission en the
same grounds.
SDeakimr of the Monroe declaration, he said:
“ It answered the purpose for which it was in
tended, and tho danger which then threatened tho
southern republics has passed away. This declara
tion contained no pledge to any foreign government.
It left ns perfectly freo. but it has since been con
verted into such a pledge by Mr. A lams’ Admin
istration, and, although they have not framed for
mal alliances with the southern republics, yet they
liavecommitted the country in honor to an alarming
extent.”
“ Mr. Clay,” said he, “ has gone to such extrem
ities in the cause of these ropublips, that, in this
particular, prudent men would feel disposed to
compliment his heart at the expense of his under
standing.”
Mr. Buchanan’s complaint against Mr. Clay,
which, he thought, wont to show the weakness of
Mr. Clay’s head, was this—that he had instructed
Mr. Poinsett to bring to the notice of tho Mexican
Government the message of Mr. Monroo, and that
Mr. Poinsett had said to tho Mexican Government
that “the United States had pledged themselves
not to permit any other power to interfere with
the independence or form of government of the
Spanish American republics.” I know that it is
claimed that, in Mr. Buchanan’s instructions to
Mr. Hisc, he asserted the Monroe doctrine; but
on careful examination of his language, it will be
found that he did not instruct Mr. Hise to make
any such declaration, and only said that European
interference with tho domestic concerns of the
American republics would “jeopard their inde
pendence and ruin their interests,” and in the
very next senMiice he assigns a reason why the
United States ®cline to resist such interference.
In the same he tells Mr. Hise, that “it
is our intention to maintain our established policy
of non-intervention In the concerns of foreign
nations."
Such arc the words of Mr. Polk and Mr. Bu
chanan. Their acts, or omissions to act, were still
more significant of their opinion of the binding
force of the Monroe doctrine. The letters of Bm
trago, thoSecrotary of State of Nicaragua, to Mr.
Buchanan, on the 12th of November, 1847, and of
Guerrero, the President or Supreme Director of
that Sta e, to President Polk, on tho 15th of No
vember, 1847, implore the enforcement of the Mon
roe doctrine. Not one word of reply —not any
kind of notice was ever given by either of them
to Nicaragua, that such letters were received. The
most impassioned eloquence, urging again and
again that Nicaragua was about to fall a victim to
British aggression, and entreating the United
States to interfere, on the very principles advanced
by Mr. Polk himself, in his message at tho first
session of the 29th Congress, and reiterated in his
Yucatan message, was of no avail. The solicita
tions of Salidas and Castellon, and the warnings
of Mr. Livingston, our consul at Leon, were equal
ly ineffectual. There teemed to be no chord in the
bosom of that administration, which vibrated to
the tonch of those who kneeled and begged for
succor in this dark hour of their distress. The
Monroe doctrine was laid aside—the President’s
own recommendation to Congress had, we must
suppose, also, like Mr. Monroe’s, “ performed it*
office." The British in their ships of war “Alarm”
and “ Vixen” entered the Ban Juan river, without
even a remonstrance from our Government, on the
Bth of January, 1848, and while Mr. Polk and Mr.
Buchanan slumbered over all these forewarnings
of the fate of Nicaragua, took the town of San
Juan and changed its name to “Greytown,”
stormed the fort of Serapaqui, and in the island
of Cuba, in the midst of the magnificent lake of
Nicaragua, dictated their own terms, as conquerors,
to the unhappy people, who, relying upon onr sup
posed promises of help, contained in the Presi
dent’s previous public avowal of the Monroe doc
trine, had dared to wage war and expend their
blood in defense of their native land.
The documents before Congress exhibit on the
part of our Government the most cold and con
temptuous silence—a perfect indifference to all
the appeals of our weak sister republic, and her let
ters were never answered until they were answer
ed by Zachary Taylor, who hat been to much abused
for not carrying out the Monroe doctrine. His let
ter to the President, and mine to the Secretary of
State of Nicaragua are among the published doc
uments before you, and how fully they refute the
calumnies which have for three years filled a por
tion of the psrtv press of this country and dis
graced its character for veracity, all men are now
free to judge. The Secretary will read the letters :
Dxi-AKTifiNT of State, I
Washington, May 3,1849. f
Sib : I have the honor to acknowledge the re
oeipt of the communications which your Excellen
cy addressed to this Department, under dates the
12th November, 1847, aLd 6th March, 1848, rela
tive to the seizure by the British of the port of
San Joan de Nicaragua. These communications
have been read with painful interest, and have led
to a determination on the part of the President
of the United States to accede to the request of
the government of Nicaragua for the interposition
of the good offices of this government in a friend
ly manner and spirit toward both Great Britain
and Nicaragua, lor the purpose of adjusting the
controversy with reference to the Mosquito shore.
Instructions have accordingly been transmitted to
the Minirter of the United States at London,
which it is hoped may be instrumental toward in
ducing the British Government to respect the just
rights of Nicaragua, and toward effecting a satis
factory accommodation of all the matters in dis
pute. . » .
I avail myself of this ooeasion to offer to your
Excellency assurances of my most distinguished
consideration. ? LATT^*:
His Excellency the Miuister for Foreign Affairs
of the Bepublic of Nicaragua.
v ZACHABY TAYLOB,
President of United States of America.
Washikoto.v, May 8,1849.
Deab and Good Feiemd : I have to acknowledge
the receipt of your communication of the 15th
December, 1847, which have been read with lively
and painful interest. The Secretary of State of
the United Btates has this day addressed a note to
the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nicaragua, ex
pressing the sympathy of this Government for the
injuries which that State believe* ehe ha* received
8•, ' . •- ~. r .\ ■, 1 A _ 'r-i*L v "'
in consequence of the forcible oocnpation of the
port of San Juan by British authorities, and men
tioning the friendly steps which have been taken
by as with a view to obtain redress therefor. Your
Excellency may be assured that oar efforts to this
end, in an amicable spirit aud manner toward
both Nioarogua and Great Britain, will be cordial
and zealous, and will bo animated by the desire
which we sinoerely cherish, that tho just territo
rial rights of Nicaragua may be respected by sll
nations, and that she may advance in prosperity
and happiness. Yoar good friend.
Z. Tatxob.
To his Excellency the
Dmsoroß or thk State or Nicaragua.
By the President:
Johs M. Clayton-, Secretary of State.
Daring the administration of Mr. Polk, the
British aggressions in Central America were con
stantly increasing. The attack in 1848 was made
lust six days after the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
by which we acquired California.- Jt blocked up
onr passage to the Pacific. The war with Mexico
was army of Taylor was unemployed.
If it were desired to provo the troth of the Monroe
doctrine to the British, a few Philosophers could
have been selected from the “army of occupation”
that would have been most convincing in their
arguments. Thackeray says, there is nothing like
a good rattling article from the throat of a niue
pouuder to carry, conviction in such oases. Why
not act upon the idea of Louis Napoleon, and
“throw the sword of Breunus into tho scale of
civilization?” The answer is, Mr. Polk preferred
to adhere to tho doctrine of his speech on the
•Panama mission, and did not regard this govorn
raeift as bound by his recommendations of the
Monroe doctrine to Congress, because Congress
had not adopted them.
* * « » tt a *
Indulge mo in a few more words to close tho
history of tho Monroe doctrine. On the 29th of
April, 1826, the House of Representatives adopted
au amendment to a resolution declaring it ex
pedient to appropriate’ the fluids necessary to
enable the President to send ministers to Panama,
which amendment was indeed a eomplote nega
tion of the whole Monroe doctrine. This amend
ment was carried by a party vote, all tiie leading
men then belonging to the' Jacksou party voting
against tho Monroe declaration and in favor ot the
amendment, and ail tho leading men supporting
Mr. Adam’s administration voting against the
amendment. Thia amendment, which was a com
plete stiller of the whole Monroe declaration, ob
tained ninety nine votes, among which were tlioso
of Messars. Buchanan, Forsyth, Houston, Ingham,
McDuffie, McLane, and Polk!
It is very remarkable that the Democracy, at
the very origin of their present party, totally ro
pudiated the whole declaration, and came into
power on the prinoiple of Washington’s doctrine
of non intervention. It has been often said, and
there is mnoh reason to believe, that Mr. Adams,
who was Secretary of State at tho timo Mr. Mon
roe proposed the doctrine, was entitled to tho pa
ternity of it. Mr. Calhonn onco intimated so
much in the Senate. It was tho principal topic ot
discussion in Congress during the administration
of Mr. Adams, and it was generally bcliovod at
the time that the roassertion of tho Monroe princi
ple in Mr. Poinctt’s instructions, and in the course
adopted by the advocates of Mr. Adams in favor of •
tho Panama mission, drove Mr. Adams from pow
er and secured the election of President Jackson;
whoso party, shortly after his election, assumed
the name of tho Democratic party. Amoughiemost
ardent advocates was Mr. Van Buren, the great
CoryphMus of that party, who, in a speech iu tho
Senate, opposing tne Panama mission and the
Monroo doctcine, said:
“I will venture to affirm thoro is not a member
on this floor who will avow his willingness to ontor
into a stipulation to resist attempts by the Euro
pean powers to colonize any portion of this con
tinent. If mistaken,” said Mr. Van Buren, “I
desired to be corrected. No, I am not. No,
thank Heaven, a policy so opposite to all the feel
ings of the American people, so adverse, as I
firmly believe it to be, to its true interests, has no
friend, at least no advocate, on this floor.”
This speech was pronounced the ablest deliver
ed in Congress since Mr. Pinkney’s reply to Mr.
King. I could fill volumes from tho speeches of
Mr.llayne, Mr. Rives, Mr. McLune, Mr. Calhoun,
and all the ancient leaders of tho Democratic party
against this Monroe doctrine. But 1 will not
longer, and in this manner, trespass upon your
patience by the introduction of thoir opinions.
The Senator from Michigan (Mr. Cass) was perfect
ly correct when ho said that this declaration of
Mr. Monroe had lain, ever Binoe its origin, a dead
letter on our records. His recent attompt to re
vive it by his resolution, at tho last session, closes
tho history of tho Monroe doctrines. That reso
lution met with such violeut opposition from his
own party as to give ns the assnrauoe that no
President who should undertake to act upon it
could bo sustained. With all similar resolutions,
recommendations, and declarations, it was con
signed to “ that same ancient vault where all the
kindred of the Capulets lie.”
Railroad Ikon.— The following speculations as
to the advance of the price of iron are from the
Boston Railroad Times :
The sudden and great advanco which has recent
ly taken place in the price of railroad iron, is a
circumstance of unusual importance to various in
terests of this country. In less than a year tho
price of railroad iron in Great Britain—which is
the principal seat ofits manufacture and its control
ling market—has advanced from £5 or $25 to £lO
or SSO per ton. There is every reason to believe
that it will continue to rise, and not stop short of
£l2 or £l4 per ton. Six year* ago iron went np in
much the same way, rising in a very brief period
from £5 to £l2 per ton. This advanco then was
produced as it is now, by tho projecting and con
structing of a great uumborof railroads, with tho
ossential difference that the mania at that noriod
was confined ohiefly to England, whereas now it
is diffused over many countries, raging most furi
onsly in our own, and embracing a much vaster
aggregate of projects. Tho railroads in progross
which produced the great advanco in iron in 1847,
did not exoeed three thousand miles in aggregate
a much larger amount was project
ed, partially abandoned. The ill
eet-trußMßFCapital in these British railroads caus
ed thomoSt disastrous commercial revulsion ex
perienced in Great Britain.
It ruined many hundreds of her richest mer
chants, and produced along continued prostration
of every industrial interest, from which it requit
ed years of patient labor and economy to recovor.
From the best information accossibio to the pub
lic it appears to bo quite certain that there are now
iu progress, and actual course of construction, in
Europe and America, at least twenty thousand
miles of iron railroad, besides a vast amount of
projected railroads not yet begun, which we do not
tako into account. Os this amount of railroad in
progress, five thousand belongs to Europe and
fourteen thousand atlenst, to this country, exclu
sive of more than one thousand miles now con
structing in Canada. We have seen a list made
out of the railroads now under way in each State,
which amounts in the aggregate to"more than tliir
teen thousand miles; and which list Ims understated
rather than overstated the truth, for in this State
alone it omits sixty miles of railrond in actual con
struction, and haß made similar omissions as to
other Statos. However incredible the aggregate
may appear at first sight, it is impossible tor 'he
most careful scrutiny to make any deduction from
it.
Railroads roquire at leaßt ono hundred tons of
iron per mile for a single tract, and of the roads in
progress in Europe one thousand will ho double
track road. It follows from this that the railroads
now in the course of construction in Europe and
America will require for their completion no less
than two millions four hundred thousand tons of
iron. To make this quantity will occupy all rolling
mills in the world, which are engaged in the manu
facture of railroad iron, at least six years—those
of Great Britain furnishingthreoefourths, and the
United States, France, and Belgium the remain
ing fourth. The best authorities do net estimato
tho largest quantity of railroad iron in any ono
year even aB high as fonr hundred thousand tons,
yet even at this rate it will take six years to fur
nish iron for the roads already begun.
The neoessary consequoncoof thisstateof things
is, that tho price of railroad iron will not only keep
up, but farther advance, and be maintained at
very high prices for a very long time. This will
make the mannfacture ot railroad iron the best
manufacturing business that can be undertaken iu
this country for some years, for it is affirmed on
the best authority, that tha article which is now
selling at S7O, with every prospect of advancing
at least SBO per ton, pays a fair profit to the maker
at SSO per ton.
Tho advanco in iron will nearly double the cost
‘ of many of the railways at the west and south, for
the cost of grading upon some of them was less
per mile than the cost of ttie iron, even before it
advanced. The profit to a few of tho companies
which have secured their iron at low rates, will be
very largo. The English railroad companies are
nowcompelled to pay $lO per ton more for their
iron at home, than the price at which our railroad
companies were enabled to obtain it abont a year
ago, freight and duties included.
AwrcL Calamity. —The startling intelligence
reached this place yesterday morning, about ten
o’clock, that the jail of the District was consumed
by Are, together with all the prisoners confined
within its walls. This report was soon after con
firmed by the following letter, from Dr. Craig,
Clerk ofthe Court, to which we refer for particu
lars Cheraw Oaz., 30 tk inst.
Chesterfield, C.H., March 29, 1863.
James Powell, Esq.—Dear Sir: The Chesterfield
Jail was consumed by fire this morning, about 3
o’clock, destroying the lires of eight persons. The
fire was first discovered in one of the front rooms,
used as a cook room. When first discovered it
was then too late to render assistance to the pris
oners up stairs, sufficient to mako their escape.
The names of those consumed are Mandaville
H. Hall, Robert Dickson, John Parr, Frances M.
Hall, Wm. Grooms, Malcom Martin, prisoners;
Mrs. Martin, wifo of Malcom Martin, John Martin,
brother of Malcom Martin.
The last two were on a visit to Malcom Martin.
Jas. W. Jowers und Ricbhrd Dickson wore dis
efiarged yesterday, sc they escaped. W. W. Camp
bell was in the debtors’ room, and was turned out
in time to be saved. Every exertion was used to
save the lives of the prisoners and bnilding, but
all failed. Yours, Ac., J. C. Cbaio.
For Liberia. —The Chesapeake and Liberia Tra
ding Company has chartered the fine Baltimore
ship Banshee of Messrs Hugh Jenkins A Cp*, for a
voyage to tho several ports of Liberia. Bhe is to
receive her cargo, water, provisions, and the emi
grants from Maryland and Western Virginia, at
this port, and sail on the 25th of April. . She will
take on board some 150 or 200 emigrants in Hump
ton Roads, and then proceed direct to Monrovia,
Bossa, and Cape Palmas, landing the Maryland
emigrants at the latter place. The Banshee is a re
markably fine, fast sailing ship, having very spaci
ous accommodations between decks. Those de
sirous of emigrating oonld not avail themselves of
a more favorable opportunity.— Baltimore Sun.
A Crash.—A singnlar incident occurred in ear
city yesterday, about 11 o’clock, a. m. It had been
noticed for several days past, that the South-east
end wall of the Floyd House had bulged, near the
ground, and on Friday morning last, a portion of
ft, aboat ten feet in height and width, fell into the
alley on which it is located. No serious apprehen
sions were entertained for the safety of the build
ing, and the wall was being re-built. Yester
day morning, however, the danger becoming evi
dent, the occupants of the rooms at that end of the
building had retired from them, and the workmen
from their labor on the wall. A con-Merablenum
ber of people were present watching the result,
when the entire end with about twenty feet of the
front and back walls, and roof tumbled to the
ground. No personal injury was sustained by any
one. A valuable stock of groceries, in the lower
story, owned by T. C. Dempsey, is under the ruins.
Eight rooms, in the second and third stories, with
valuable furniture, (generally belonging to the oc
enpanta,) are destroyed. This accident is proba
bly owing to the long continued rains, and the na
ture of the soil, (formerly a pond) on which this
end of the building was located. It has been
erected about twenty-five years.— Macon ,f/urual
and Mtetenger, 80th ult.
Our lady readers, who sport velvet uautillas,
will perhaps prize the followmg recipe;
To raise the pile of velvet, cover a hot smotliing
iron with a wet doth, aud hold the velvet firmly
over it; the vapor arising will raise the pilo of the
velvet, with the aeaUtanoe of e slight whisk-
VOL. LXVI.—NEW SERIES VOL. XVII.-NO. 14.
From Fraser’s Magatine.
Female Resolution. “
No! I wIT never see him more,
Since thus he likes to roam,
An i when ha cab stops at the door,
John says—l’m not at home I
He emtled lost night when Julia smiled,
(They must have met before;)
If thus by her he Is beguiled,
I'll never see him more t
I’ll sing no more the songs he loved,
Nor play the waltaea o’er;
Nor wearthe colors he approved,
I’ll never please him more!
I’ll conquer soon love’s foolish flame,
As thousands have before.
Look strange whene’er I hear hia name,
And ue’er pronounce it more!
The p’ait of hair I must resign,
Thatnextmy heart I wore;
He, too, must yield that tress of mine
He stole when truth be swore I
The mini ture I used to trace.
And feel remantic o’er,
I’ll tear from its morocco case,
And—never kiss it more!
Thia ring—his gift—l must return,
(It makes my Anger tore ;)
Then there’s his letters—those TO burn,
Aud trample on the floor I
1 His sonnet, that my album graced,
(My tears thus blotit o'er,)
The leaves together thus I’ll paste,
And ne’er behold it more!
I’ll waltz and flirt with Ensign G— ,
(Though voted oft a bore I)
In short. I’ll show my heart Is free,
And slth for him no more!
If we should meet, his ere shall shrink,
M/ scornful glance before;
Gods, that’s his k ock! here, John! I think
Iffsee him just —once more!
llow to Tkkata Wits.—First, git a wife; sec
ondly, he patient. You may have great trials and
perplexit es in your bueiuoss with'the world; but
do not, therefore, carry to your home a cloudy or
contracted brow. Your wife may have many
trials, which, though of less magnitude, may have
.j>eeu as hard to bear. A kind, conciliating word,
a fonder look, will do wonders iu ohasing from her
hyow all clouds of gloom. You encounter your
difficulties in tho open air, fanned by hoaven’s
cool breezes; but your wifo is often shut in t>om
those .healthful influences, and hor health fails,
and her spirits loso their elasticity. But oh! bear
with her; she has trir Is and sorrows to which you
are a stranger; but whioh yonr tondoruoss can do
privo of all their anguish. Notice kindly her
efforts to promote your comfort. Do not take
them all as a matter of course, and pass them by
at tho atone time being very sure to observe any
omission of what you may consider duty to you.
Do not treat hor with indifference, if you would
not sear and palsy her heart, which, watered by
kindness, would, to tho latest day of your exis
tence, throb with sincere and constant affection.
Sometimes yield your wishes to hers. She has
proferoneos as strong as you, and it may bo just
as trying to yield hor choico, as to yon. Do you
Hud it hurd to yield sometimes t Think you ft is
not difficult tor her to givo up always ? If you
never yiold to her wishos, there is dangor that she
will think you are selfish, and care only for your
self; and with such feelings she oannotlovous
she might. Again, show yourself manly, so that
your wife nmy lookup to you, and feel that you
will act nobly, and that she can confiide in your
jndgmont.
The Ugliest Man Yet. —“ Tho West is a great
country," writes a clever correspondent of a Nor
thern paper, “tall things happen here now and
then. Having occasion to pass through tho upper
lakes last Juno, I was happy enough to find my
self a passengor on board that palaco, of a boat, the
Empire, Emperor Howo commanding. My travel
ing companion for the timo happened to be a tho
rough bred Wolvorino of a fellow ; one who feared
God and loved tho ladies, but who was with
al a most abominable stammerer. Wo hadn’t
beon long aboard when tho captain called our at
tention to a most remarkable looking individual,
seated at the other end of tho cabin. 1 am not my
self particularly handsome, and have seen some
ill looking men in my day, but so ugly a man
as this nevor crossed the soope of my vision.—
Howo declared him emphatically, tho ugliest man
that ever lived,’ whereupon my friend S— offered
to wager half a dozen that he had soon a worse ono
in the steerage. Tho bet was at once accepted and
S— started off for his man, who was to be brought
up for comparison. He found the fellow, who was
a bit of a wag, as an intolerably homely man is apt to
bo and after tho promise of a ‘nip,’ nothing loth to
oxhibithimsolf. As they entered the oabin door,
my friend with an air of conscious triumph, turn
eel to diroct attention to bis champion, whon he
discovered tho follow trying to insure suecoss by
making up faces. ‘St—st—st—stop 1” said he,
‘no—no—nonoof that! You st—Bt—stay just as
God Almighty made you 1 You ca—ca—oan’t be
bo beat!’ and he wasn’t ”
Preventive or Potato Rot. —Mr. H. Penoyor
publishes alotter in tho St. Bonis Republican, ma
king known a euro and proventive of the potato
rot, which ho sayß himself and others have tried
with complete success, and found that it not only
provents the rot, but restores the potato to its
primitive vigor, and increases tho size and quan
tity of the product. His remedy is aB follows:
Take one peck of fino salt and mix it thoroughly
with halfabushol of Nova Scotia plaster or gyp
sum, (the plaster istho best,) and immediately af
ter hoeing the potatoes the second timo , or jußt
as tho young potato begins to sprinkle on tho main
vines next to tho ground a table spoonful of tho
above mixture to each hill, and be sure to get it
on the main vinos, as it >s found that the rot pro
ceeds from a sting of an insect in the vine, and tho
mixture coming iu contact with the vine, kills the
effect of it before it roaches tho potato.
Americans in Paris.— A Paris letter of 7th inst.,
says—
The first presentation of ‘Americans to Louia
Napoleon, since ho has been Emperor, and to Mrs.
Bonaparto, since she has beon Empress, took place
at tho Tuileries, on Thursday night. About sixty
Americans and soventy English were introduced
to their Majesties. Tho ceremony is briefly this:
Tho gentlomon and ladies to bo presented, form a
double line, tho gentlomen on ono side, and the
ladies on the other, as if they were to dance a
Virginia Reel. Spaco onongh is left between for
their Majesties to pass easily. The Americans
had one half of tho presentation room, and the
English tho othor. The practice of tho Emperor
would scorn to bo to address somo remark abont
every third person, as the names of the prosentees
are mentioned to him, those of tho ladies by their
ambassadress, and those of tbo gentlemen by their
ambassador. The American portion of the cere
mony was oasy, graceful and highly suooessful;
their Majesties were gracious in the extreme.—
Lord Cowly made a botch of the English intro
ductions ; and an inconsod Lord was hoard to re
mark, “ Thoso Americans always do everything
bettor than any one else; we cut no figure at an
next to them.” The Emperor looked wed; better
indeed, more at ease, more desirous of ploasiDg,
than I have evor boforo seen him. Tho Empress
wore white flouncos, bothiu her hair, and scattered
in tusteful profusion ovor her dress. She had a neok
lace of largo pearls around her neck, but not a sin
gle diamond. The American ladies that had put
on all their foloandas, to compete with hor Majes
ty, shone in undimmed brillianoy. Wo made a
very striking display. I doubt whether thirty
iiaiulßOmer womon woro evor collected on an oc
casion of tho kind. More than once tho Emperor
seemed to singlo out a lady of more than ordinary
beauty, and call tho Empress’s attention to her.—
After tho presentation there was dancing and a
topper. Their Majesties waltzed together, and
were once or twico bumped in a moat unseemly
maimer by Americans wno had grown dizzy, and
had lost tho power ol propoily guiding their foot
steps. It was past ono when their Majesties re
tired. The festivities continued, however, after
their departure, and when the olook strnek three
the company had not yet left.
Showing the Dead.— Thore is a curious custom
at Havana of laying out bodies in state during the
Dighl before burial. They are placed close to the
open window, fronting the street, on a oouch raised
four or five feet from the ground. The corpse is
surrounded by high wax tapers, and the whole
room illuminated. Frequently, when returning
from a lurtulia or a ball, I have been startled by
seeing the fixed and rigid features of some old
gentleman or lady dressed in their best attire, and
apparently reclining before the window. It used
to appear an unnecessary mockery of death, dres
sing out a corpse and in a new suit of clothes, with
tight patent feather boots, and white neckoloth.
I remember one night in particular, I was return
ing home through one ofthe by streets, whon see
ing the lower windows of the house illuminated,
and concluding there was a body lying instate, I
wont towards it. There, close to the window, so
olose that I could have touched it through tho bars,
lay the body of a young girl about fifteen years of
age. She was dressed as if for a ball, with flow
ers in her hair, and white satin shoes on her feet,
her hands crossed on her breast, her eyes closed,
and her mouth slightly opened; and altogether her
face and expression was one of tho most beautiful
I have ever seen.—Sullivan's Rambles.
Population op Great Britain.—The population
of Great Britain is as follows:
Males. Females.
England and Wales 8,762,586 9,160,180
Scotland 1,868.622 1,507,162
Ireland 8,176,727 8,889,067
Islands in tho British seas.. 65,511 76,<05
Army and Navy of the king
dom 167,604
Total 13,586,052 14,082,814
The annual increase for forty years has been %%
per cent.— Sav. Couv.
Population of Ireland.— The population of Ire
land is put down as follows:
Year 1821
“ 1831 7,767,401
« 1811 8,175,124
“ 1851 6,516,794
A decrease in ten years of 1,659,380, at the rate
of 20 per cent—a fearful dimiuuition.
This appalling decrease extended to 31 counties
and cities, varying from 9 to 81 per cent. The
greatest decrease was in the oonnty of Cork, whose
population varies as follows:
Year 1841 778,898
“ 1651 551,152
A reduction in ten years of 222,246—equivalent
to 28 per cent.— Sav. tour.
Lunacv from Spirit Rappings. —The case of Mr.
George Doughty, a gentleman of considerable
property, residing at Flushing, L. 1., who was
victimised out ot some $15,000 by the Spiritual
Rappers, was decided yesterdsy by the Commis
sioners. The jury rendered a verdict of lunacy,
and ordered that his property, (about $30,000,) be
divided among his heirs. But why not continue
the investigation, and determine who are the
more than criminal offenders against law, com
mon sense and religion I The State prison is en
tirely too good for them.— N. Y. Mirror.
Treatment of Scarlet Fever.—Dr. Thomas P.
Hereford, of this city, in a communioatian which
appears in tho Alexandria Gazette, thinks that too
much physio has been un error in the management
of scarlatina. He says during thirty years prac
tice he has found that the less aotivo medicine he
used tho greater wus his success in the treatment
of this disease. Ho disclaims any motives (of
vanity or self interest in his statement. His treat
ment is described as follows:
“In conclusion, I will say my treatment of scarlet
fever is very simple. Open the bowels regularly
every day with some mild aperient medicine,
such as castor oil, senna Ac., and keep tho patient
at rest and comfortably warm; sponge the surface
with tepid water two orthree times a day ; while
it is hotter than natural admit fresh air, live on a
bland diet, such os a oupfull of arrow-root, several
times a day, toast water for common drink. Gar
gles made of strong sage tea, honey and alum, or
borax, may be us«|l from the commencement if
the throat is affected.
Ou Friday night the Philadelphia police arrest
ed Jack Stephens, the fugitive Portsmouth (Va.)-
bank robber. Before ho was finally seonred he
s hot aoe officer through the hand with a revolver,
Childhood „ I
BT (lEORUKD. PRKNTICK. ' . M
’Tta »ad, yet iwfr t, to lUteo . v 9
To the soft wind’s gentle swell,
And think we hear the music
Our childhood lov< d so well: . JgH
To gase out on the even
And he boundless fields of sir,
And ■ eel again our boyhood’s wish,
To roam like angels there. "• M
There are many dresms of gladness
That cling around the past,
And from the tomb of feeling,
Old tl oughts come thronging-fast;
The fo< ms we lored so dearly,
In the happy days now gene,
The beautiful! and lovely,
So fair to look upon.
Those bright and gentle maidens,
Who seemed so formed for bliss,
Too glarious and too heavenly . 9
Tor such a world as this!
Whose dark, so t eyes seemed swimming
In a sea of liquid light; »
And whose locks of gold were streaming , •I
O’er brows so sunny bright.
Like the brightest buds of summer.
They have fallen frt m the stem;
Vet, oh 1 it Is a lovely dream.
To fade from earth like them.
And yet the thought Is saddening,
To muse on such as they, I
And feel that all the beautiful
Are passing swift away I
That the fair ones whom we lore,
Grow to each loving breast.
Like tendrels of the clinging vine,
And perish where they reet.
Items.
A California turkey, (says the Pioayune,) haa ar
rivod in New York, weighing one hundred and
seventy five pounds. A goutlomun liailiug from that ?
auriforous country says ho has frequently Been
them much larger. Humph.— Exchange.
Wo hope that man who doclurcd a turkey to be .
the illest sized bird in the world—that it wus a
tie too large for the stomach of one man, and not
enough for two—will now be satisfied. Lot him 'Tg
bo found and introduced to a California turkey.— • -fS
i Southern Republic.
Tub Yoono Sovereigns.—The followiug is the 'yw
rontino of the daily occupation of tho royal ohil- ‘3
dren in England. Kind early, breakfast tit eight *
and dino at two. First hour after bieakfast, the ' £
olaasics; next, themodorn grammatical instruction, |
being also carefully given; next, military oxeroisos
for the boys, then muaio and dancing, then the
riding sobool; music and drawing for the girls, ■ •
then the carpenter’s shop, and, oocasionallt. tha ,
laboratory; thou khootieg in the royal gardens, /■ (
then supper, then prayers, then to hod. Such are * J
the daily occupations of these young people. . v
‘ Nigger, who am do fuss man dat intordnoed ;"»|j
salt perwisshnns into do navy V
‘ Dar, now you’s too hard for dis colorod indl
widual.’
‘lt was Noah, nigger, whun ho took Ilum board ||
the ark.’ #
A Poet’s Dkborution of the “ Eiuosson.”—Tiro 1
Homo Journal, whioh looks upon tho world with \
tho droamy oye of poetry, thus daguerreotypes the ,■
“ Breathing Engino t”
“ A caloric ship is a steamer with the devil out
of it—a ship of the raiUonlum—agontio, sufo and •
quiot craft, that will go silently, yot swiftly over
tho waves as the poets and Swedonborgians im
agine a celestial bark may oonrse her way through
from sphere, bearing beatified immortals on er
randß of love.”
Another New Invention. —A scientific gentle
man in Evansville, Indiana, has been engaged
duringtho last two years, perfecting an instrument , ,
to enable the sight to ponctruto through t he human ,
body, and has already brought the work to point
that guurantcos him ultimato success. Flesh, a
viewed through this tolosoope, is ronderod trans-
Earout as glass, and has a pink tinge. Ho turned
is mind to this project nineteen yours ago, since f
which time he has givon it utmost constant
thought.
How (says the Athens Ala. Herald.) only sea '1
what that man in Indiana has done. We hope his
“instrument” won’t let any one see through it -x
body’s clothes. Anyhow, too Junior thinks ho "
will got ono of the things, thut he may look in und
see when its time to quit oatiug.
Dr. Brown courted a lady unsuccessfully for many %
years, during which lie overy day drunk lior lioulth,
but being observed at last to omit the custom, a J
gentleman said—
“ Come, doctor, your old toaßt.
“ Excuse mo, as I cannot makoj,hor Ilrown, Pit •
toast her no longer," v '
A critio in Putnam's Monthly , says that it is hot
ter to hear Alboni in one good song, than Soiling 3
through a whole opera. Another critio who bo- J
lievos that diet has its effect upon the voice, give* 9
tlie following deliberate opinion :
The only difference, beyond doubt, ]
Twixt Bontag and Alboni, r
Is, that the one eats sour-krout,
The other maooarani.
At an oyster supper, the other day, in Albany,
there wore presoui—one father, tliroo daughters,
ono son, ono mother, one brotiior, throe grund- *
daughters, throe sistors-in-law, one uncle, one
brother-in-law, three aunts, four cousins, ouo
wife, one nophow, ono grand-son, three nieces,
ono husband, and threo sisters. And yet strange to
say, there were only four persons present.
All humane and benevolent people will be glad
to know that tbo man who was “ourriod away by
his feelings.” has returned safely to the “bosom of
his family,” after a short but painful absoneo.
On, Poetree ! —The following “ touohlng" and
luscious effusion can hardly fail to awaken a re
sponsive coho in tho hearts of thoso who are at all
susceptible to tho influonco of “divine pooay.”
There 1b a “liquid lull” about thorn that is really
“ immense”—aud the last line is particularly
“ rich.” But read for youreelvos, and weep:
Believe me, my corpulent fair,
I love your fat arms and full face,
Ob, my heart! in your eye kindles love there,
And I sink in your warmer embrace. ■ v
The poor buzsing fly does the same,
While yet inexperienced and callow; ~ -r
First bums his bright wings in the flame, - J?,
And then tumbles Into the tallow.
Gold has been discovered at Now Zoaland, near
Coromandel Harbor.
* 1 * ti\ l
A correspondent of tho Now York Mirror name*
the Hen. Win. Evorott as a candidate for the Presi
dency in 1856.
Tho Legislature of Louisiana passed joint reso
lutions, tendering Ex-President Fillmore tho hos
pitalities of tho State.
We see it stated that ooal haa boon discovered ‘
in the Territory of Utah, and that it is thought to
exist there in large quantities.
In England out of sixteen members of Parlia
meet whose cases have been decided on by elec
tion committees, thirteen have beon unseated.
During 1852, the Governor of New York grant- *
od 168 pardons from the State Prison, aud 72 from
local prisons.
Mr. Willis, bookseller, of Covont Gardon, Lon- :»
don, him purchased the celobruted Bowyor Bible,
on whioh £B,OOO hud boon expondod, for £405.
The IVakulla Times says that on tho 22d inst. a
tornado passed over the town of St. Marks, and
blew down tho store of Mr. George Hines. For
tunately no lives were lost, Tho vessels lyiug at
tho wharves broke their fastenings, but did not
reooivo any damage. -
We have received by tho Asia a statement from
the Bank of England, of a week later date, show
ing un increase of nearly £BOO,OOO atening tu it*
stock of bullion. Its advances on securities, how
ever, have also increased £500,000 sterling, show
ing a continued active demand for money.
The amount of specie held is £18,894,812 ster
ling.
The Memphis Whig says]that extensive prepara
tions are making for the erection of a large nnrnbet
of new buildings in that city the present season.
A machine for dusting carpets is in operation at
Louisville. What next!
A man named Foy was arrested at Boston on
Friday, on tho charge of robbing tho U. 8. Mail. yv
He had charge of the mail between Boston aud .
Newburyport.
The following incident “ came off’’ in a certain fjfisj
poor-house in Now Hampshire. A young clergy
man visiting the establishment, seated himself by
the sido of s deaf old woman, whon this convorsa- *
tion ensued:—
Cler 'ymsn (shouting)—“ How old aroyon, my . |
good Madam !’•
Woman—" Eighty-eight years old, como last 'j;
May.”
Clergyman (in a sad tone)—" Eighty-eight yegm •
old 1 Before eighty-eight years shall have pass. ■ ',i
od over me, I shall be food for worms!”
Old Woman (horrified) —“Worms, did yon say I *
Are you troubled with ’em t I never know’ll i
grow’d-up men-folks to have e’m bad I” "M
The clergyman was obsorvod to oomo away very <
suddenly, after that question and answor!
A Washington letter in tho N. Y. Journal of
Commerco says:
The treaty with Great Britain for the mutual
concession of the right to tho people of each coun
try to hold roal estate in the other, is a very im
portant measure. It met with somo opposition
yestorduy, hut it may be ratified to-day, or post
poned until next session. The treuty would, it is SB
believed, bring a considerable amount of British
capital into this country for investment. . Beal es
tate, almost everywhere in this country, will in
crease in value, together with the increase of popu
lation and of facilitiee of communication.
A return to the British House of Commons has
been issued, showing that the amount paid under
reciprocity treaties, up to the 81st of Doc., 186 L
was £802,202 19s. 6d., and in the year ended 81st
Dec., 1852, £41,857 65.; making a total to the year
1852 ot £844,060 ss. 6d. These payments are a*
made out of the duties of customs, as the difference ”
for foreign vessels admitted under reciprocity trea
ties, at the same duty as British vessels. ■
The Earthquake at Watertown (N. Y.) on the
12th instant was, as wo find, predicted to the day j
in the winter uumbor of tho Rainbow, which wue
published nearly three months ago. This is, we ;jj
are informed, the twenty-sixth earthquake occur
ring as publicly predicted weeks previous by Dr.
Chapman within a year, besides auroras, storms,
and various phenomena. Fifteen of tho»e earth- ,
quakes occurred, it appears, on the precise days he . vjj
predicted. Dr. Chapman’s Theory of tho Physical
Cause of Meteorological Changes is plausible and S
interesting.
Cotton Picker.— The editor of the Panola (Miss.) •Ui
Picayune says, be has Been a machi uo for the pnr- *
pose of picking cotton, whioh bids fair tp be very
useful to the planting community. Tho muebine
in question is not a perfect one; it Is oyily a tem
porary one for experiment, to tost the" principle;
but from what the editor has seen of it, he has
no doubt it will be perfected so that it can he
made to pick from five hundred to eight hundred
pounds of cotton per day. Itis simplein construe- J
tion and light in weight, and is the invention of a /■
Mr. Burdine. If the machine, when perfected, can
do what is claimed for it, it will be of Immonse . dam
benefit to the planting interest.— Picayune.
We iearn that Mr. William F. Ritelie, the well ~ •Ra
known editor i f the Richmond Enquirer, will soou q®
ioad to the by menial altar the distinguished uc
tress and estimable woman, Mrs. Mnwatl. It >®
Mrs. M.'s wish to take a farewell leave ofthe stag®
in our principal cities. She owes this to die many
wurm friends, whom she has made in her histrioin®
career, and we hope that her “liege lord Unit is o
be,” will iuterpose no objection— Bouton Tran* i ?wM
seript."
A subscription hus been suited ut New York tor J§A
the reliefofthepasnoiigorsol'tlie barque Catherine
Augusta, whioh sailed from that port in October
last for Australia with about 180 passengers, and ■ *
was oompelled on tho 22d of Deoember, to pul ./yd
into Rio de Janeiro, and at last accounts iron® ',l
thence the passengers were in a very deplorubl® *,jj|
slate of suffering and destitution, and the vessel. ■ 3
it wa» feared, would be ooudemned. v 7W&