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YEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. . COTTING, Editor. No. 15.—NEW SERIES.] V NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. i terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum, if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three Dollars atul Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi ration of six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless at the option of the Kditor, without the settlement of all arrearages. Letters, on business* must he post paid, to ‘insure attention. No communication shall he published, unless We. are made acquainted with the name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Sete.nty.fire Cents and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-five per cent, to those who advertise by the year. Advertisements not limited when handed in, will be inserted till for bid, and charged accordingly. Sales of Land and Negroes by Executors, Ad ministrators, and Guardians, are required by law, to be advertised, in a public Gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sales of Personal Property must be adver tised in like manner, forty days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Ne groes, must be published weekly for four months; notice that application will be made for Letters of Administration, must be published thirty days; and Letters of Dismission, six months. AGENTS. THE FOLLOWING GENTLEMEN WILL FORWARD THE NAMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUBSCRIBE I J. T. cj- (r. 11. Wooten, 1 . A. D. Statliam,Danburg, Mallorysville, B. F. Talom, Liueoln- Felix O. Edwards, Pe- ton, tersburg, Elbert, O. A. Lticket!, Crawford- Gen, Grier, Raytown, ville, Taliaferro, W. Davenport, Lcxing- James Bell, l’owelton, ton, Hancock, S. J. Bush, Irwington, Wm. B. Nelms, Elber-| Wilkinson, ton, | Dr. Cain, Cambridge, John A. Simmons, Go-i Abbeville District, shen, Lincoln, I South Carolina. Take JYotice, ALL persons who have not yet paid their TAXES, are requested to come forward and pay them immediately, as I have ma ny and urgent calls for the money. J. C. WILLIAMSON, Tax Collector and Receiver. December 3, 1840. 14—2 t WASHINGTON Jftale Academy, An Assistant will be wanted in this Institution for the next year, who shall be competent to in struct in the branches of an English Education, usually taught in Academies. Application to be made to JOHN J. HUNT, Principal. Washington, Ga., Nov. 26,1840. 3t 13 NOTICE. Persons indebted to the Subscriber, are ex pected to make payment by the 25th day of De cember. iMr. A. A. Cleveland, is my Agent dur ing my absence. PAUL J. SEMMES. Nov. 26. 3t 13 NOTICE. The Copartnership heretofore existing between the subscribers, was dissolved on the first day of January, 1840, by mutual consent. The business will be continued in the name of J. A. Jones. The patronage of former customers is politely requested. J. A. JONES. J. N. WINGFIELD. Nov. 26. 3t 13 JYotice , Those who are yet in arrears to the late Concern of LANE & WINGFIELD, are informed that their business must be closed early Ais Wiiifer. MARK A. LANE. A. S. WINGFIELD. Washington, Nov. 12, 1840'. 11 3t oir We are authorized to announce Mr. J. C. WILLIAMSON as a Candidate, at the election in January next, for RECEIVER and TAX COLLECTOR for the County of Wilkes.—Oct. 1. (5) ts. (JCr We are authorized to announce Major JAMES B. LANDERS, a Candi date for RECEIVER and TAX COL LECTOR for Wilkes County, at the elec tion in January next.—Sept. 17. (3) ts. To Rent , THE LAND belonging to the ESTATE of BENJ AMIN CATCHINGS, late of Wilkes county, deceased, from the 10th of December iiext ANN A RNETT, Adm’trix. Oct 22, 1840. 8 ts. I XT JYotice This,£% The Copartnership heretofore existing between the Subscribers, was dissolved by mutual consent, on the Ist day of Novem ber, 1840 1 . The Notes and Accounts of said Firrrt (together with the Accounts of THOMAS LAWRENCE, which have been transfer red to LAWRENCE & PETEET,) have been assigned to Robert A. Toombs and D. G. Cotting, Esqrs., Who arb alone autho rized to settle the satne ; ahd to whom those indebted to both Concerns are re quested to make immediate payment. FREDERICK LAWRENCE. CHENOTH PETEET. Nov., 1840. 11. st. WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) DECEMBER 10, IS 10. FEMALE SEMINARY: CHANGE IN THE VACATIONS. The present division of the year into three terms,including a long vacation of two months in the Summer, having been found inconvenient, the Board, at a recent meet ing, adopted the following resolution : “ Resolved, That, after the Ist of Jan nary, 1841, the year shall he divided into two terms, of five months each, including a recess of one week, in the middle of each term ; and that the first term shall com mence on or about the Ist of January, and end with the last of May, the second term shall commence on or about the Ist of July, and end on the last of November—the months of .1 une and December being months of vacation.” Extract from the minutes, E. M. BURTON, Secretary. Nov. 12, 1940. 11. 4t. • finsfist de Laines, Just received, direct from New York, a handsome assortment of MUSLIN DE LAINES, which will be disposed of on reasonable terms, bv the subscriber, MARK A. LANE. Washington, Nov. 19, 1840. 12 3t Just Received , A few pieces, latest stvle, PLAID BONNET RIBBONS, of superior quality. WILLIS & CALLAWAY. AVashington, Oct. 29. 9 ts. ct* Look Here. XD BARGAINS ! BARGAINS !! fJMIE Subscriber is now receiving and opening a large Stock of Goods, purchased by him self in New York, at reduced prices, which he oilers for cash at lower prices than ever bought in this market. His customers will be furnished on a credit as usual, at very reduced prices. Those who wish bargains, would do well to call and examine his stock before purchasing lesewhere. The assortment is general, and comprises al most every article usually kept in a Retail Dry Goods Store. MARK A. LANE. October 15, 1840. 7 ts. Tailoring, PTIHE Subscriber respectfully informs the Citi -* zens of Wilkes county, that he has located himself at Major Johnson Norman’s, nine miles west of Washington, where he will be happy-to serve all Who may wish to have any thing done in his line of business. All his work will be exe cuted in the most neat, faithful, and fashionable manner. The following are his cash jiric.es : Making first-rate Coat : : : : §6 (10 Edging Do. : : : 3 00 Ditto, second quality : : : : 5 00 Ditto, third quality : : : : 4 09 Ala king Pantaloons or Vest : : 1 50 Ditto, Overcoat : : : : : 7 00 Cutting Coat :::::: : 50 Ditto, Pantaloons or Vest : : 25 He will be thankful for anv custom in his busi ness ; and as his prices are very low, he lias de termined to keep no books, and do altogether a cash business. JOHN 11. RHODES. September 14, 1840. (3) ts. WAREHOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS. R. B. WHITE, ®“’ jQf Georgia. ihiMiiMieirt, fIA HE Warehouse is fire- A proof— eligibly located above high-water mark. All Cotton consigned per Railroad, will receive prompt attention. September 3, 1840. (1) GEORGIA : Wilkes County. Superior Court, JULY TERM, 1 840. fIMIE petition of James 11. Spratlin, respect fully sheweth to the Court, that James Jones, of said county, did, on the eighteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and forty, for the purpose of bet ter securing unto the said James H. Spratlin the payment of a note drawn by the said James Jones, on the ninth of May, and year aforesaid,for one hundred and fifty 52-100 dollars, and payable to the said James 11. Spratlin one day after date, mortgage unto tiie said James 11., the tract or parcel ol land lying and being in said county, on the waters of Clark’s Creek, ana ad joining lands of John C. Dodson, John T. Woot ten, and others, containing sixty acres more or less : And it appearing to the Court that the note for the securing of whose payment the said mortgage was given, has not been paid, and the time at which said note and mortgage became due, lias long since expired, and that the said James H. Spratlin prays that a Rule Nisi may be granted for the foreclosure of the Equity of redemption in and to the tract of land so mortgaged as aforesaid, and that the same may be sold. On motion, it is therefore ordered by the Court, that unless the principle sum due of one hundred and fifty and 02-lUO dollars, together with interest accrued and the cost thereon, shall be paid into Colirt by the next Term of the Su perior Court of said county, the Equity of Re demption in and Unto the said mortgaged premises shall be forever barred and foreclosed, and the said tract of land mortgaged as aforesaid be sold: And it is further ordered, that this rule be pub lished in one of the public gazettes of this State once a mouth for four months, or served on the mortgagor or his special agent, at least three months previous to the sitting of the Court in which the money is directed to be paid. True copy from the Minutes, 2d September, 1840. JOHN H. DYSON, Clerk. [Nov. 12. 11. Continued from Indep. Press.] PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING. | THE BROTHER JONATHAN: EDITED BY N. P. WILLIS & HASTINGS WELD. The largest and cheapest Paper in the World. Published every Saturday, by Wilson & Cos., 102, Nassau-street, New York, AT THREE DOLLARS FER ANNUM IN ADVANCE. Upon entering the second volume of this pioneer in the introduction of newspapers of its class, the publishers may be excused lor congratulating themselves upon the con tinued prosperity and advancement of their periodical, from its first number to the pref sent time Aware that competition js the life of business, they expected, and have met with rivals—those rivals have, so far, been essential aids to the publicity and cir culation of the JONATHAN. New rea ders have been made,where comparatively, few existed before, and the taste created for the elegant literature of tge two hemis phere, carried into all parts of the country, and accessible to all, has produced a de mand for the BROTHER JONATHAN, which it is gratifying to state is constantly on the increase. With sueli addition to their resources and emoluments, the publishers have aimed to give a commensurate increase to the va lue and interest of their sheet. In addition to the labors of the gentlemen whose names are announced as editors, the publishers avail themselves constantly on the in crease. For the foreign correspondence of the JONATHAN the services of Isaac C. Pray, jr., have been engaged ; and his fine literary taste will also be exercised in he selection of things rare, new, and worthy, in the European literary mart. Selections from the cream of the foreign magazines will, of course, be continued. In the progress of improvement, anew feature has been added to the BROTHER JONATHAN —the publication ot now and popular Music. Every paper will contain something in this way, new and pleasant; reference being had in the selec tion, rather to sueli pieces as all can sing and play, than to recherche compositions, suited only to the scientific. Anew font of music type has been purchased, and a gentleman engaged to superintend this de partment, of excellent experience and knowledge of Music. This will enable us to give Music a publicity which it never enjoyed before ; to carry the same themes for carol to the sylvan maid in the farthest backwoods, which delight the party in the city drawing-room. A simultaneous po pularity will thus he enjoyed all over the country by such compositions as are adapt ed to the public taste, and worthy of the public favor. Whatever other improvements may sug gest themselves, will be adopted ; and no pains spared to make the JONATHAN a welcome visiter to all sortsof people,whose tastes are worthy of gratification. Other periodicals may be addressed to particular opinions, or particular cIasses—JONA THAN will wander free, “ from the grave to the gay, from lively to severe and strive, with all the aid he has enlisted, to compose the whole circle. To give, in a word, a Cyclopedia, of whatever may be desirable in a literary magazine, and weekly newspaper. He appeals to the past for vouchers of what he can do—and what he can, he will. Terms : —Three Dollars a year in ad vance. For Five Dollars, two copies of the paper will be sent one year, or one copy two years. In no case will the paper be sent out of the city unless paid for in ad vance. {Yfr All communications and letters should be addressed, postage paid, to WILSON & CO., 162 Nassau-street, New York. Nov. 12, 1840. 11. ts. For Sale , A PLANTATION, THIRTEEN MILES FROM COLUMBUS, ON THE LAGRANGE ROAD. rrUIU Subscriber would sell low and upon ac commodating terms, a PLANTATION, 13 miles from Columbus, on the Lagrange road, containing I'WO HUNDRED ACRES of LAND; forty acres of which were cleared last year. There are upon the premises a good Dwelling House, and every ne cessary outhouse ; and well supplied JJ j J |jj|sp witli good water. For further particulars, apply to A. R. LYON. October 8, 1840. (6) s.m.3m. ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Will be sold at Elberton, on the First Tuesday in JANUARY next, between the usual hours of sale, the following property ; to wit, ONE HUNDRED and EIGHTY ACRES of LAND, more or less, lying on Beaver Dam Creek, adjoining Haley Butler and others. Sold as the property of George Turman, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said de ceased. WILLIAM PULLIAM, Adminis’tor. Nov. 5, 1240. 10. m2m EXECUTORS SALE. On the First Tuesday in January, 1841, agree able to the last will and testament of Thomas Dallas, deceased, late of Lincon county, will be sold at the Court House door of said county, SIX HUNDRED ACRES of LAND, more or less, being and lying on the waters of Soap Creek,adjoining lands of Messrs. Guise,Merceer, and Frazer. Terms made known on the day of sale. WILLIAM DALLIS, Executor. REBECCA DALLIS, Executrix. Nov. 5, 1940. 10 ADMINISTRATORS SALE. Pursuant to an order of the Honorable thelnle ferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting forordinary purposes, will be sold at the Court House in Washington, on the First Tuesday in JANUARY next, the following property ; to wit, ONE DWELLING HOUSE, with a kitchen attached and a Grocery Store, now in the occu panev of Robert M. Moon; ONE HOUSE, oc cupied by Dr. Ficklen, and Cutting & Butler; ONE HOUSE, occujiied by W. ii. Moon, as a Saddlery—all on Main-street. Also, a HOUSE and LOT, comprising about throe acres, adjoining Daniel Lee and others. Also, NINE NEGROES, among whom is an excellent Bricklayer and Plasterer. All being the property of John Retan, deceased. Terms —Twelve months credit, bond and so- i curity being given. LEWIS S. BROWN, ) Administra- JOIIN 11. DYSON, ( tors. Nov. 2,1840. [Nov. 12. 11. Con. f. In. Press.] EXECUTORS SALE. On the 14th day of December, 1840, agreeable to the last will and testament of Thomas Dallas, deceased, late of Lincoln county, will be sold at public outcry, at the late residence of said deceased, All the PERISHABLE PROPERTY belong ing to the Estate of Thomas Dallis, deceased, viz., Corn, Fodder, Wheat, Oats, Pease, Horses, Cattle, Sheeji, Hogs, Geese, Plantation Tools, Wagon and Gear, and sundry other articles. Sale to continue from day to day, till all is sold. Terms made known on tiie day of sale. WILLIAM DALLIS, Executor. REBECCA DALLIS, Executrix. Nov. 5, 1840. 10 ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE OF PERISH. I ABLE PROPERTY. Will be sold on Thursday, the 10th day of De cember next, at the late residence of Mildred Carlton, deceased, ALL the PERISHABLE PROPERTY be - * longing to the ESTATE of MILDRED CARLTON, late of Wilkes county, deceased, consisting of Household and Kitchen Furniture ; Stock of Horses, Cows, Hogs, Corn, Fodder, &c. Terms will be made known on the day ol Sale. ANN ARNETT, Adm’trix. October 22, 1840. 8 ADMINISTRATORS SALE. Will be sold at Elberton, on the First Tuesday in JANUARY next, between the usual hours of sale, tiie following property; to wit, ONE HUNDRED ACRES of LAND, more or less, lying on Beaver Darn Creek, adjoining Haley Butler and others. Sold as the property of Violetta Turman, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors. WILLIAM PULI,IAM, \ Adminis- THOMAS J. TURMAN, ( trators. Nov. 5, 1840. 10 m2m ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Will be sold on WEDNESDAY the 13th day of January next, at the residence of John T. Dent, deceased, late of Wilkes county, all the Perishable Property belonging to the estate of said deceased— consisting of CORN, FODDER, HOUSE HOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE. ALSO, Will be rented and hired at the same time and place the Plantation and iXe gTOes, belonging to the estate of said de ceased. THOMAS BLAKEY, Adm’r. December 3, 1840. 14—tds ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Will be sold at the Court House in Cassville, Cass county, on the first Tuesday in Februa ry next, agreeable to an order of the Honora ble Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting for ordinary purposes. LOT OF LAND number 534, 19, 3, Cher okee originally, now Cass county ALSO, On the same day, at Cutlibert, in Randolph co. Lot numher 216, in the fourth district, originally Lee, now Randolph county. ALSO, At the Court House door in Wilkes county on tiie same day (215) two hundred and fifteen a cres of land, more or less, on the waters of Clark’s creek adjoining Lewis Moore, and others. All belonging to the estate of John Moore, deceased. Terms made known on the day of sale. SARAH MOORE, Adm’x. J. P. HAMMOCK, Adm’r. Decembers, 1840. 9t—l4. ADMINISTRATORS SALE. Agreeable to an order of the Honorable the In ferior Court of Stewart county, while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, will be sold on the First Tuesday in JANUARY next, at the Court House door in said county, within the usual hours of sale, A NEGRO WOMAN, named Laura, belong ing to the Estate of A. 11. Shepherd, deceased. Said woman sold for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said Estate. JAMES M. SMYTHE, Adm’tor. ANNE E. SHEPHERD, Adm’trix. Nov. 5, 1840. 10 ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Will be sold on the First Tuesday in February next, before the Court-house door, by order of the Hon. the Inferior Court of Wilkes county, between the legal hours of sale, the following property; to-wit, ALL that Tract or Parcel of Land, known as the Crosby Tract, lying on the waters of Kittle Creek, in said county, belonging to the Estate of William H. Daniel, late of YVilkes county, de ceased. Terms at time of sale. D. W. McJUNKIN, Administrator. Nov. 19, 1840. 12 ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. Will be sold on the FIRST TUESDAY in JANUARY next, at the Court House door in Wilkes county, agreeable to an order of the Hon. the Inferior Court of said county, while sitting for ordinary purposes, rjlWO LIKELY NEGRO MEN ; one by the name of Billy, an excellant. Blacksmith, and one by the name of Collin. • Sold as the property of Thomas C, Porter, de ceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. Terms will be made known on the day of sale. AUGUSTUS W. FLYNT, Oct. 29,1840. 9 Administrator. NEGROES FOR SALE. Will be sold at the residence of the subscriber, on the State Road, seven miles below Washing ton, Wilkes county, on Saturday, the 2nd of j January next, to the highest bidder, TEN or TWELVE likely NEGROES;! among which is a good wagoner and first-rate l field hand ; a first-rate Cook, Washer and 1- roner; another good Cook and Field-hand ; some very likely boys,girls, and children. The above are Negroes of good families, and can be well recommended by all persons who know them. Terms will be Cash, for a part of the Negroes, and Notes payable twelve mouths after date, for the balance. WILLIAM BARNETT. Xm-. 20. 4t 13 ADMINISTRATRIX’S SALE. Will he sold on Thursday the 31st day of De ! comber next, at the residence of the late Mrs. Benedict Ann Crews, in Wilkes county, all the [ j jierishable property of said deceased, consisting of Household and Kitchen Furniture, Plantation | Utensils, together with the crop of Cotton, Corn, Fodder, Oats, Potatoes, Pens, Kc. Terms, all . ii!',.; under §5. cash, over that sum 12 months credit. ELIZA MAN KIN, Adm’x. Nov 20 13 EXECUTOR’S SALE. Will lie sold on Wednesday the oth day of January next, at the late residence of James Ridgway, deceased, in Elbert county, a part of the perishable property belonging to the estate of said deceased, consisting of Horses, Cows, Sheep Gcals, one Road-wagon and geer, one Still, and many other articles not here mentioned. Terms will be made known on the day of sale. ROBERT C. RIDGWAY, Ex’r. Nov. 10. 5t 13 MISCELLANEOUS. From the New Orleans Picayune. PRAIRIE SKETCHES. Legend of Pawnee Rock. —The rock is cleft as if by the lightning, and one portion of it stands inaccessible, except by a dan gerous jump from the other part. Thus deserved, this solitary heap of stone bears some resemblance to the huge head of a buried monster, with its jaws open, gasping for air and liberty. From the legend, as told, and even to this day believed by the Pawnees, it is evi dent there had been in practice among the Great Medicines a system of imposition very similar to the exploded religious char latanry of ancient times in other countries. This petrified Gorgeon was represented by the priests as the bad spirit who caused earth-tremblings, storms and inundations of the land. lie was at certain times of the year to be conciliated with presents, and in hunting seasons especially plentiful stores of the finest buffalo meat were always plac ed in the jaws of Pawnee Rock before the hunters dare venture upon regaling them selves. When war was to be made or sickness spread among the tribes, or any calamity or danger threatened the people, the first thing thought of was a pilgrimage to the rock, where prayers and presents were duly offered up, and the pleasures of Manito was made known with mysterious j solemnity by the priests. Malefactors were I sometimes dropped into the bad monster's ! jaws, tied hand and foot and left through j the night to his fate. Then the next day j the whole tribe would return and find the j clean picked bones of the criminal scattered j about the rock. Os course he had been eaten by the earth fiend, and none but the cunning priests themselves ever suspected the wolves of the unhappy man’s death. They tell also how this monster of stone was once free and used to travel about the land drinking the rivers dry, tearing up the trees, upon which he existed, and tumbling in the night great stones down the moun tain side. It was him, they say, who caus ed the prairies, by eating away the trees and even tearing up their roots, so that they never sprouted again. At length Manito enchained him here in the earth lest he should destroy the red men, and now he is quite harmless, save that now and then he groans and spits forth storms and shakes the earth with struggles to he free. A terrible punishment, it is said, is sure to fall upon any who are rash enough to i interfere with the fate of a condemned crim inal, and one little story is told, of deep and pathetic interest—doubtless, too, the rela- | tion of an actual occurrence—which we I shall here set down, if possible, in thesame simple manner in which we heard it. A white hoy, the son of a Canadian trap- j per who was drowned in one of the forks of (lie Piattc, had fallen among a tribe of Pawnees, and lived with them until man hood found him one of the bravest and most expert of the young warriors of the nation. He loved the daughter of (he chief in whose wigwam he had been nurtured, and the devoted Indian girl gave up her whole heart and being to the young American. Though Indian in all his habits and tastes, he vet possessed instinctively the superior intelli gence of his own nation, and, though yield ing obedience to the superstitious observ ances of the tribe, his lip curled in deris ion whenever culled upon to practise them. The priests read these thoughts in the young Canadian’s mind, and his destruc tion was soon resolved upon. Being in high favor with the whole tribe, they could not proceed directly against him, but thro’ the girl he loved, the old chief’s daughter, they determined to inflict their first stroke of revenge. An alarming visitation of the small pox soon afforded the vengeful Great Medicines an opportunity to carry out their designs. They addressed the Great Spirit with mys tic rites and incantations, and then pro nounced to the tribe the will of Manito that the old chief’s daughter should be sacrific ed to the stone fiend of the prairie. Dis- Yl. J. K APPEL, M m r inter. j [Jilting one of those decrees was a thing j never dreamed of among the Pawnees, and the young Canadian knew that to offer ev | en the slightest opposition Would be to turn | the whole nation against him, even to the I very father of his betrothed, and inevitably j stamp his own destruction. The priests j expected him to oppose the decree, which was the end they aimed at, as then they would have pronounced the same doom up on himself, and nothing could have saved him or the poor Indian girl. So only de spair or the alternative of some desperate stratagem was left for the voung white lover. The day of doom arrived, and a mourn ing train of warriors and women left the village and set forward to the distant rock. 1 The •song of sacrifice was ehaunted at j nightfall, and the young betrothed of the white man was consigned to the rocky jaws of her lonely desert bridegroom, while [he poor Indians turned back to their hpmes again, believing the angry s|iirit was ap peased and they would now be released from the terrible disease under whied they were groaning. That night the young white man disap peared from the village and was never heard of more. The Indian legend ends here, and nothing further is told of the for est girl and her lover. But as the tra ders elaborate the story, it would seem that the lover sought Pawnee Rock in the night, released his betrothed, and, not daring to be seen again among the Pawnees, they wandered about the wilderness, seeking to reach the white settlements of Missouri.— Not many years since a rude cross was discovered upon the bank of a small creek which the Santa Fe traders cross in their progress, and upon digging beneath it, the bones of a female were found, together with beads and ornaments such as are usually worn by a Pawnee girl. This incident has been attached as a sequel to the Legend of the Rock, and the place ts now pointed out as the poor girl’s lonely grave. But the most ingenious story teller among the old travellers has never yet attempted to finish the narrative with the fate of the young white warrior. MARINER’S COMPASS. A shepherd of Italy, by the name of Mag. nes, was the first to discover the properties of the loadstone, a mineral which gives po larity to iron, from the circumstance of his walking over a quarry, and smajl portions of this stone adhering to the iron nails irt his sandals. In the year 1324, John de Gioja, a han dicraftsman of Naples, first discovered that a piece of iron rubbed with loadstone, and then suspended on its centre of gravity, had the property of pointing to the north star, and he was the first to apply needles on centres for the purposes of navigation. John tried his needles at different places in Italy, and moored a vessel in the Medi terranean, to ascertain whether this mag netic power was the same on water as up on land. The name of the magnet was given to the loadstone, and to the needle. The division of the “shipman’s card,” was first made into four quarters, then into i 16 and 32 points, and ultimately into 300. The graduation was progressive, and ! marked out upon a moveable disk. It was not until the middle of the last century that the needle and card were combined, and hung on a common centre. In the time of Columbus, nearly two hundred years after the discovery of the magnetic needle by John de Gioja, the card was placed under the needle. It is worthy of remark, that this highly useful instrument, discovered, not invented through any scientific or theoretical de ductions should still continue to puzzle and baflle the philosopher in his attempts to discover the cause of its variation in the different parts of the earth.. To the Italians we are indebted for the compass, and early enterprise in navigation and to a Philadelphian for the discovery of j the quadrant, by Godfrey.— Hunt’s Mag. Depth oj the Ocean. —The sea was re j cently sounded, by lead and line, in lati i tude 57 degrees south, and 85 degrees 7m. west longitude from Paris, by the officers j of the French ship Venus during her voy age of discovery, at a depth of 3470 yards, or 2 1-2 miles, no bottom was found. The weather was very serene, and it is said, the hauling in the lead took sixty sailors upwards of two hours. In another place in the Pacific Ocean, no bottom was found at the depth of 4140 yards. Sui/or’s Yarn. —A sailor wasoncetelling of a country where the sun was so hot that the inhabitants used no fire. “How do they bile their vittles then?” said an elderly lady. ‘•Why, you see,” said Jack, “a big glass is rigged in the tops of the chimneys, which brings the sun in a fodus right into the kettle.” “La, me ! what a curious world,” said the old lady, as she replaced her spectacles on her nosh.— Syracuse Signal. A lady once heard a man preach, and was so enraptured with him that she sent him a letter to the following effect:—“Dear Sir, —There’s my hand,(my heart you have already,) with my fortune, which is very considerable. Will you aedept ? I am, <fec. Anna.” The clergyman, unmoved by the entreaties of the lovely fair one, replied in the following terms:—“Madam,-Give your hand to industry, your dowry to the poor, and your heart to God.”— The lady must have been sixty at least. [VOLUME XXVI.