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I>. . CIOTTINW, Editor.
No. 44.—NEW SERIES.]
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AGENTS.
the following gentlemen will forward the
NAMES OF ANY WHO MAY WISH TO SUBSCRIBE I
J. T. cf- G. H. Wooten, A. D. Stalham, Danburg,
Mallorysville, B. F. Tatum, Lincoln-
Felix G. Edwards, l’e- ton,
tersburg, Elbert, O. A. Luckett, Crawford-
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ton, 1 Dr. Cain, Cambridge, j
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sheo, Lincoln, I South Carolina.
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CUTTING & BUTLER,
ATTORNIES,
HAVE taken an OFFICE over Cozart &
Woods Store.
March 11,1841. 28
Look at this!!
n I, being thrown into circumstances
I.Ronf® which render it desirable to break
up house-keeping, offer my well
kimwn residence, in the Town ol
Washington, FOR SALE. Should any one in
cline to purchase, he will of course call and ex
amine the premises. It has a FARM attached
of over 300 Acres, and combines the benefits of
both Town and Country.
JESSE MERCER.
June 17, 1841. St 42
Copartnership JYotice.
JM. & W. ADAMS having associated with
. them J. C. FARGO, will continue the
GROCERY BUSINESS at their old stand, un
der the firm of ADAMS, FARGO & Cos., and to
date from the Ist instant
J. M. & W. ADAMS.
J. C. FARGO.
Augusta, June 8,1841.
O” All those indebted to J. M. & W. Adams,
(particularly on open account,) are earnestly re
quested to make early settlements.
J.M.&W.A.
June 17. 43
JYotice.
riIHE firm of McMILLAN & VINCENT was
this day dissolved by mutual consent. All
persons indebted to the concern, will please set
tle their accounts forthwith.
11. McMILLAN.
E. VINCENT.
June 23,1841. 4t 43
XT The business heretofore conducted by Me
ridian & Vincent, will be continued, at the same
by the Subscriber. Grateful for the liber
uppatrenage which has been extended towards
him, he will continue to merit it by the skill and
faithfulness with which his work shall be exe
cuted, and by the liberality of his terms.
H. McMILLAN.
June 24. 43
NEW GROCERY.
THE Subscriber has opened a FAMILY
GROCERY, one door West of Mark A.
Lane's Brick Building, Maine-street, Washing
ton, Georgia, where he /iflers for sale the follow
ing articles :
Porto Rico, Muscovado and St.
Croix SUGARS.
Loaf, Pulverised, Crushed and
Havana SUGARS.
Java, Rio and Cuba COFFEE.
Green and Rlack TEAS.
N. O. and W. I. MOLASSES.
White Wine and Cider Vinegar.
Teneriffe, Madeira and Malaga
WINES.
L. Porter and Cordials, assorted.
Raisins, Almonds, Prunes, Cur
rants, Preserves, Pickles,
Mace, Citron, Nutmegs, Rice,
Soap, Tobacco, Snuff and Sogars.
With a general assortment of Articles kept in a
Grocery and Confectionary
Store.
All of which will be sold low for Cash only.
T. C. HEMPHILL.
June 24, 1941. ts 43
NEW GOODS.
rpilE Subscriber has just received from New
A York and Charleston, a splendid assort
ment of
Fancy iV Staple Dry
GOODS,
ADAPTED TO THE PRESENT SEASON.
Also, he has on hand, anew supply of
Hardware, Cutlery,
Crockery, Saddles, Bri
dles, Shoes, Hats,
Drugs and Medicines,
Bonnets,
Factory Yarn Cloth,
J J
And a General Assortment of GOODS usually
kepi in a Retail Dry Good’s Store —all of which
will he sold on reasonable terras for Cash or
Credit.
A. A. CLEVELAND.
May 20,1841. ts 38
SHOES ! SHOES !!
A FRESH assortment of SHOES has just
been received, all of which have been made
to order.
Have now in process of making, a large supply
of NEGRO SHOES, of the best Stock, which
will be offered for sale next fall. Planters, who
have been in the habit of buying in Augusta, are
requested to examine my Stock before making
their purchases. A. 1,. LEWIS.
June 24, 1811. 43
HOUSE OF
aji The Subscriber having lately taken
■ •liiil™ a large and convenient HOUSE in
ill'.lff the ‘Town of Washington, (Wilkes
county,) Georgia, has opened it as a
House of Public Entertain
ment,
And begs leave to assure his friends and the pub
lic generally, that nothing shall be omitted on bis
part, which will conduce to the comfort and ac
commodation of those who may favor him with
their patronage.
ROBERT H. VICKERS.
XT The Southern Recorder, at Milledgeville;
Chronicle and Sentinel, Augusta; and the Moun
taineer, Greenville, S. C., will publish the above
weekly, for three months, and forward their bills
to this office for payment.
May 6, 1841. 36
notice.
TIIE Subscribers having had their Books and
most of their Accounts consumed by the
late Fire, would respectfully solicit those indebt
ed to call, without delay, and settle either with
CASH or by NOTE, the amount due as near
as their memory will serve them —for this matter
wili be left entirely to the Honor of a great many;
and we trust no one will be found taking the ad
vantage of our situation ; but that all will come
forward, like honest men, to our relief.
BURTON & PELOT.
N. B.—Call at the Bank, on E. M. Burton, for
settlement.
March 11. ts 28
BLANKS
SHERIFFS, CLERKS, &c.,canbe supplied
vviih the following BLANKS, at the Office
of the News and Gazette :
Sheriff’s Deeds,
Sheriff’s Executions,
Tax Collector’s do.
Ca. Sa’s.
Letters of Administration,
Do. do. with will annexed,
Do. Dismission,
Do. Guardianship,
Administrator’s Bonds,
Guardian’s do.
Delivery do.
Subptenas,
Bench Warrants,
Recognizances,
Writs of Assumpsit,
Do. Debt,
Commissions for Interrogatories,
Warrants of Appraisement,
Marriage Licences, &c. &c.
Hir Any kind of Blauks can be furnished at
short notice. Anril, 1941.
WASHINGTON, (WILKES COUNTY, GA.,) JULY I, 1811.
AGRICULTURAL.
MOTRIL COTTON.
The Cotton cultivated at Motril, may he
called the “Vine Leaf” plant. It grows
best in temperate climates.
The soil should bo light, open and loam
y, where, if necessary, it may be irrigated,
arenacious, argillaceous, calcareous, and
free from stones ; very rieli ground gives
more foliage than blossoms. Ground too
rich rots the roots, and dry, hard, tenacious,
stony earth, prevents their penetrating.—
The plant requires occasional moisture, ei
ther from rains, very heavy dew, or irriga
tion, and a general rule as to sites well de
fended from winds.
The earth is prepared by deep hoeing
(in Spain) at four periods, late in the au
tumn, in September, at the commencement
of spring, and before planting. Northern
exposures require planting in trenches, and
preserve the young plants in severe wea
ther.
Manure required only for poor lands ;
much manure makes the plant too flourish
ing. Cowdung for sandy r soil, horse dung
for clay.
Seed before planting, should be soaked
24 hours in drainings from manure heaps;
a ley of soot or ashes, that they may sprout
quickly, because much rain at the time of
sewing is apt to rot seed. This will be dis
covered if the plant is not up in 8 or 10
days, and must be renewed.
Planting may commence when there is
no fear of frost, and just about when rain is
expected.
Cultivation is either from nurseries or on
the field ; the first is best in coldish situa
tions for the preservation of the young
plants, for the selection of the healthiest
sprouts for setting out, and as occupying
less ground at this epoch. In the beds, sow
in lines 4 inches apart and 3 deep, and the
seeds about the same apart. There will
be a facility and despatch in planting if the
seeds are moistened and rolled in earth to
prevent their adhering to each other. The
bed and plants kept clear of weeds. The
field planting is by raising ridges of about
a palm high, a foot in width, and on the
sides of which, exposed to the sun, in holes
three fingers deep, three palms apart, four
seeds are placed. After the plants are up
they must be cleaned of weeds and the
ground kept loose around them.
For transplanting, it will bo observed,
that the plant in first coming up, with the
accompanying weeds, gets the better of
them in luxuriance ; but after some days,
the contrary will bo the case, and this is
the proper time for transplanting them; this
done in holes, in rows, three palms apart,
four or five plants in a hole or hill, with suf
ficient space for a plough to pass. Weeds
pulled up, and the weakest of the plants
also, leaving only one in each hill. From
the commencement of flowering to the dying
of the flower, the field should not be enter
ed, it being injurious to shake the flower.
If the plants become parched, water will
restore them. If too luxuriant, no water,
and even the head of the main shoot may
bo nipped ofl’ with the nails, which is also
requisite, at all events, when the plant is a
bout a foot high, in order to give force to the
lateral branches, which produce more fruit
than the main shoot.
The plant lives 12 (twelve) years, if well
taken care of, and continues to produce ;
but here (in Andalusia) it is grubbed up
after six years. The first year it is allow
ed to grow at discretion, unless too luxuri
ant. It is to be pruned in the spring of the
second year (that is, after having given one
crop) and trimmed down within six inches
of the ground, cutting all oIF close to the
main stem ; next spring, two branches are
left close down about six inches long from
the stem, cutting all others. Next spring
all but three or four shoots are cut away in
the same manner, the strength of the plant
being considered. After about four months
it commences to flower, and at this epoch
every operation should be suspended that
may shake the bush or brush away the
flowers.
The plant has its infirmities, one of which
is announced by the leaves turning yellow
and falling off by degrees ; this is particu
larly occasioned by sudden changes of tem
perature and rapid transition from heat to
cold. This is mostly observed in May, and
lasts about twenty days; if repeated, it is
very destructive. High winds and frost,
excessive heat or rain, with insects, &0.,
all arc injurious to the plant, as well as to
many other objects of agriculture.
REMEDY FOR THE BLACK AVEA
VIL.
Having never seen any remedy for the
black weavil, which has proved so destruc
tive to the wheat crops after they have been
housed or garnered in this part of the coun
try, and I suppose generally through the
whole of the wheat growing countries, 1
would state, for the benefit of those whom
it may concern, that l have discovered a
sure remedy, so far as my experience has
gone—say for the last five or six years—
which is simply this : One sack of Liver
pool blown salt thoroughly mixed with one
thousand bushels of wheat or half a bushel
of salt to one hundred bushels. Since 1
adopted this plan I have not seen a black
I weavil in my wheat, or houses where it is
i stowed away, although kept until it was
\ very old, but before this my wheat was ve
: ry often so cut and spoiled, as to be render
|cd totally unfit for the market. The quart-
I tity of salt here recommended, is not suffi
| cfent to injure the wheat in flavor or taste :
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.
and the remedy will bo found as efficacious
when applied to rice.— Farm. Cabin.
J. P. Webb.
TICKS ON LAMBS.
Among the many remedies used by far
mers to rid their lambs of these noxious ver
min, we know of none more speedily effica
cious in the application, than that of new
Rum. It is almost instant death to them,
and far more salutary in its effects upon tho
lamb, and far more economical than tobac
co, or, indeed, any of the various articles
we have ever used, in our warfare with the
tick. Try it farmers. The expense is
trivial, not exceeding 40 cents, at most, for
a flock of twenty lambs, or twocents a head,
which, for a speedy and effectual remedy,
that leaves the lambs bright and sprightly,
is “ cheap enough.” — Yankee Farmer.
A CERTAIN CURE FOR FOUNDER
IN HORSES.
Take alargekettle of water and make it
boil. Lead the horse to the kettle if he be
able to walk ; if not, take the water to the
stable. Commence with a swab and wash
the left fetlock before, then the right, then
the fetlocks behind, then wash the legs in
the same manner, then the shoulders and
body; rub the horse dry and he will be
well in a few hours. There is no danger
of scalding the horse, if the above direction
be pursued. This remedy is on the author
ity of one of the best farriers in this place,
and is worth to every farmer double the
price of his subscription to this paper.
Jacksonville I/lonian.
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Ncw-Orleans Pickayunc.
NOTICE FOR A TOURIST.
“ Madam,” said a free-spoken, warm
hearted, enthusiastic and a little quizzical
son of old Kentucky, while paying his de
voirs to one of the famous lady tourists of
America, “ Madam, you should have been
born in America : the greatest country in
the known world ; nature lias clustered all
her stupendous and dazzling works upon
this land, and yon should be among them !
We have got the greatest men, the finest
women, the longest rivers, the broadest
lakes, the tallest trees, the widest prairies,
the highest waterfalls, and the biggest
hearts in all creation.”
“ Madam, go and see the Falls of Niag
ary. May the lord take a liking to you,
my dear ma'am, if I didn’t think I’u waked
right up in futurity when I first seed that big
slantcndicular puddle! (Slantendicular’s
an alge-ira word, ma’am, you maynt’t
know it.) Why, Madam, I could tell you
something about them falls; but you musn’t
put it in your book, ’cos nobody’ll ever be
lieve it. The people that live round ’bout
there, all lose their speech and never hear
each other speak for years, with the noise of
the cataract ! Fact, ma’am, true as that’s
a pencil and note book you’re taking out of
your pocket. Why, there was a man liv
ed there ten years, and he got so dec]’ lie
never knew a man was speaking to him till
a pail of water was poured down the back j
of iris neck ! When you go to see the falls,
ma’ain, you must do all the talking you
want betbre you get within twenty-five
miles of them, for after that not a word of
any kind can be heard !”
“ Then, madam, you should go and see
the great cave in Kentucky, where the bats
hibernaculate in countless nonillions.—
There is not such another hole in the ground
to be found upon the face of the earth.—
Madam, if you go back to England without
seeing our mammoth cave, you’ll put your
foot in it, —no, beg pardon, excuse me—
that’s quite impossible—but you’ll leave a
pretty big hole in the book you’re going to
write. There is no end known to it, mad
am, and there is a salt water lake in the
middle of it twenty-five miles broad. One
of the rooms is called the ‘ Antipodean
Chamber,’ from the unpronounceable fact
that a man can just as easy walk upon the
ceiling as upon the floor ; and in this same
apartment there’s a natural fountain of pure
brandy!”
“ You haint been South yet, have you,
ma’am ? you haint seen the Mississippi
river and the city of New Orleans ? Well,
ma’am, New Orleans is a hundred and
twenty.five feet below the level of the sea,
and the Mississippi runs through a canal
bridge right over the city ! The inhabitants
are chiefly alligators and screech-owls,
(which last word has been vulgarly per
verted into Creole /) Their food is chiefly
gum, procured from trees in the swamp,
and which they call gumbo. Epicures
have a way of making it exceedingly rich
by putting in fiddle strings made from ver
min caught in cellars, and which is called
vermicelli! There is a paper published
there called the Pickaroon, the name -being
well chosen as significant of its professed
piracies upon Kant’s Philosophy, Baron
Munchausen, the Pilgrim’s Progress, Joe
Miller, Washington Irving, and Bell’s Life
in London. It is a violent and stupendous
political print, and the government of the
! country has in vain endeavored to suppress
it. One of the peculiar marks about this
extraordinary city, is the entire absence of
those small quadrupeds of the genus mus,
commonly known as rats ! One was seen,
many years ago, by a citizen, who brutally
murdered the unknown creature, but ho
was immediately tried, sentenced and hung
for the enormity. There are no hotels fit
for respectable entertainment in the place,
and the only house for a stranger to visit
i are Me ssrs. Fudge and What's-his name’s
! Log Cabin, and the King's Bench, which !
was formerly a court of Justice, but is now
the fashionable tavern. The prisoner’s
bar is now counter-fitted and called
‘ King’s Bar /’ Next door to tliis are the
St. Charles’ stables, which are about to be
transformed into a theatre.”
“ You will hear, madam, a great deal a
bout the floating population of New Orle
ans,’ a phrase which you will understand
when I tell you that the town is half the
year under inundation from the Mississip
pi ! You should have been born in Ameri
ca, my dear ma’am, but as you were not,
you may possibly die here, and that’s some
consolation for you !”
Our readers are informed that the work
for which these notes were taken may be
expected shortly from the English press.
EVERY YOUNG MAN SHOULD
LEARN A TRADE.
An Editor of one of tiie weeklies says lie
inserted two advertisements in his paper—
one, calling for a young man to serve as
clerk in a dry good store ; the other for an
apprentice to the blacksmith trade. By
the close of the week, when the next paper
went to press, there had been fifty differ
ent applications for a situation in the tape
and calico store, and not one in the black
smith shop.—This ease, perhaps, pretty
well illustrates the gross mistake which is
committed by young men in seeking for the
most honorable employment for file. And |
why, pray, should it bo regarded as more j
fashionable, and therefore more honorable |
to ply the yardstick and measure tape and ;
buckram, than to wield the sledge and the
hammer at a blacksmith’s anvil \ Is it
more conducive to health ?—No ; on the
contrarv, want of exercise which shall
call all the functions of the body into effect
is destructive of health and life. Does il
give the individual more opportunity to e x
hibit his strength, agility and ing unity.’!
No; for the duties of a clerk at his writing ,
desk or counter required little bodily rlferi,
and about as little real ingenuity. Do s,
it make the young man more useful to so.
ciety and the world ? No ; for the mere
waiter upon the demands of fashion, can
never compare, in point of actual useful-I
ness, to the ingenious and industrious rue- j
chanic. AVe repeat, wherefore then, is a j
situation as clerk in a retail store more I
honorable than a situation at the anvil, the 1
carpenter’s bench, or the farmer s plough ;
No reason in the world can be given wb}
it should be so ; and therefore, we decide j
that it is not and must not be deemed more
fashionable than sturdy labor, the world!
has too long been wrong side up in this mat- |
ter ; it is time it changed its position.
A good trade for a young man at twenty
one years of age, is worth more to him than
SI,OOO given him as capital to begin with \
as a merchant. That capital may—and |
the chance is, it will disappear under the j
reverses of fortune; but a trade can never be j
taken from by thieves or sheriffs. By t lint j
he can always get a living and a good one, i
if he is industrious and honest. A trade
which requires bodily exercise is condo-!
cive to health and cheerful spirits, (t is J
free, too, from the perplexities which attend j
a life of purchases, sales and speculation, j
A trade, therefore, is worth more than a
clerkship, and if what is worth the most j
should bo regarded as the most desirable l
and tho most fashionable, we must insist j
upon it that the fifty young men who ap- j
plied for the situation betbre alluded to,;
were very foolish in their preference.
\V e trust the time is coming, when labor ;
shall he considered no disgrace ; nay,when
it will be respected as truly honorable :
and when idleness and vice, though they !
may strut in all the displays of a false and
pernicious fashion,will find their disreputa- i
ble level far below the honest man who j
eats his bread by the swet of his brow.— j
When this state of tilings shall arrive the j
tendency of our republican institutions will \
be felt in the excellence of their ultimate j
results.— Maine Cultivator,
TIGHT LACING USED UP.
If the Paris correspondent of the Nation
al Intelligencer is to be believed, says the i
New-York Sun, tight lacing in that metro- |
polis of fashion and folly, tiie French capi- j
tal is “ done for”—most essentially “used
up !” The artists of taste in Paris, have
resolved to leave Dame Nature to her own
discretion, and from this out the fair sex
arc to breathe freer and easier. The most
cruel bondage under which the sex iiave so
long groaned, is broken ; the female lungs
can now riot in the room which is left them
to play, and the heart has “ scope enough
and verge to heat.” The news appears al
most too good to be true; but if it is a
“ sure enough” fact, we can with truth call
it one of the greatest reformations and ame
liorations of the age. If the fashion once
gets to be “ the rage,” wc should not be at
all surprised to see the thing carried so far
that our ladies will even wear hoops round
tiieir waists to prevent their clothes from
pressing too hard. Fashion carries her
votaries where she pleases.
Mode of Burial in Greenland. —ln Green
land the dead are buried in a sitting pos
ture, dressed in their best clothes. As the
earth is shallow,or frozen,they build toombs
of stone, and cover the body with plates or
mica slate or clay slate, to preserve it from
carnivorous animals. The kayak and
hunting instruments of the deceased are
placed at the side, of the grave, and they put
a dog’s head into that of a child, in order
that its spirit may audio the helpless in-
M. .1. liAPI’EL, Printer.
fant to the land of souls. On their return
to the house, they continue their lamenta
tion in a sort of monotonous howl, at the
conclusion of which some refreshment is ta
ken, and each departs to his own dwelling.
—Edinburg Cabinet Library, No. XX VIII.
Iceland, Greenland, and the Faroe Isles.
Air. —The chief excellence of that meas
ured strain of music called air, resides in
the beauty ol its melody, the symmetry
of which lays hold ofour affections in a pe
culiar way. When addressed to the gent
ler passions, its tender expressions arc more
intelligible than words, of which few are
necessary to assist its meaning ; and the
less it is encumbered with them, the more
powerful is its charm. Melody demands
the expression of its own thoughts, before it
attempts to express the ideas of the poet;
“ a means exclusively its own, and which
acts upon us in a pleasurable ways” Its
power ofcalling up ideas of the past, upon J
which the mind loves to dwell, is often a 1
source of great delight: with music of this
kind, the singer seldom fails to please ; lie
trusts to the charm of tho melody rather
than the force of the words; recollecting,
that 11 wc must first please the car before
we can touch the heart.”
A Skim Milked Cheese with a vengeance.
—Up at the west end of the city, there is a
good natured, fun making negro, named—
“Parsis,” who hovers round the groeery
stores in that neighbourhood rather more
than is desirable. Like many other gen
tlemen of color he prides himself upon the
thickness of his skull, and he is always up
fora bet upon his butting powers ; and well
lie may be. for his head is hard enough for
a battering ram. The other day lie mad'’
a bet in a store that lie could butt in the head
of a flour barrel, and he succeeded, lie
then took up a bet to drive it through a very
large cheese, which was to be covered with
a crash cloth, to keep his wool clear of
cheese crumbs. The cheese, thus envclo.
pod, was placed in a proper position, and
Parsis, starting off like a locomotive, bu
ried his head up to his ears in the inviting
target, Parsis now began to foci himself
irresistible, and talked up “purly consider
able.” A plan however, was soon con
trived to take the conceit out of him.—
There being some grindstones in the store
for sale, one of them was privately taken
up, and wrapped up in the same manner as
the cheese had been, and looked precisely
as if it were a second cheese, and Parsis
readily took another bet for ninepence, that
be would put his head through it as easy
as he sent it through the > first. The inter
est of the spectators in the operation be
came intense. Every thing was carefully
adjusted, and upon tho word being given,
Parsis darted offlike an arrow at tho am
bushed grindstone ; he struck it fair in the
centre and the next instant lay sprawling iu
the middle of the floor, upon which he re
coiled. For some minutes he laid speech
less, and then he raised himself slowly up
pon his knees, ami scratching his head, said
with a squirming face,—“Dam hard cheese,
dat, massa. Dey skim do milk too much
altogedder before dey make him ; dat’s a
fuc. ’ ’ — Pickayunc.
The importance of Bursting a Baler. —
So common an atfair has the bursting of a
steamboat become, that it appears to be a
question in relation to the qualifications of
a captain, whether lie lias been the hero of
one or more explosions !
The story runs that two steamboat cap
tains on the Mississippi quarreled tho other
day, when one discoursed the other after
the following pious strain: “ Get along
you uneircumcisefl'vavmint! You feel as
big as a mammoth on stilts, bekase you
have peeled two or three old women and a
nigger. I'd have you to know that l have
scaled seven ladies, fourteen planters, and
a member of Congress—to say nothing ol
niggers a few, and a smart chance of young
ladies.”— Picayune.
The state of society in Texas may he
guessed at, after reading the following par
agraphs from the San Augustine Journal
and Advertiser of last month :
“ There has been so much shooting in
and about our city latterly, that we recom
mend people who venture about much, t •
procure if possible, a suit of steel armour,
that will fit, front, flank, and rear, espcci
ally the rear—wherein they can ensconce
themselves, and hid defiance to the leaden
bullets. Not being able to procure the
steel equipage ourselves, we have substitu
ted a few reams of paper, bv which means
wo are well fortified for outdoor excursion,
i and our office is in the best possible state o
defence, having our guns mounted in such
a manner that wo can fire either a broad
side, or “rake fore and aft,” at pleasure.
The case of Dr. Eldridge. —The Phila
delphia Inquirer of Monday says ;
In this case tho Judges heard the argu
ments on both sides on Saturday, and a
greed to release the Doctor, provided he
would enter into a recognizance of $100(>
in liis own name. He refused his dis
charge on these terms, and was conveyed
> back to Moyamensing. tie also demanded
j tho return of the money that had been ta
ken from him. Subsequently,however at
i the desire of his friends, ho gave the re
-1 quired bail, and was discharged.
j Au organ is now being erected in France*
j with 6000 pipes, some of which are 51 feet
iiu !• ugth -it ill weliih 12,000 pounds
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