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About News & planters' gazette. (Washington, Wilkes County [sic], Ga.) 1840-1844 | View Entire Issue (June 9, 1842)
NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. . G. COTTIPVG, Editor. No. 41.—NEW SERIES.] NEWS & PLANTERS’ GAZETTE. terms: Published weekly at Three Dollars per annum ■if paid at the time of subscribing; or Three 1 Dollars and Fifty Cents, if not paid till the expi l ration of six months. No paper to be discontinued, unless at the j option of the Editor, without the settlement of all, f arrearages. O’ Letters, on business, must be. post paid, to insure attention. No communication shall be ■ published, unless we are made acquainted with the ■ name of the author. TO ADVERTISERS. ’ Advertisements, not exceeding one square, first insertion, Seventy-Jive Cents; and for each sub sequent insertion, Fifty Cents. A reduction will be made of twenty-live 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. Mail Jkrr&sigemeikts. POST OFFTCE, i Washington, Ga., January, 1842. \ AUGUSTA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 5, A. M. CLOSES. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 2|, P. M. ’ MILLEDGEVILLE MAIL. ARRIVES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. CLOSES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 11, A. M. CAROLINA MAIL. ARRIVES. Monday, Wednesday, and Friday', at 11, A. M. CLOSES. Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, at 8, A. M. ATHENS MAIL. ARRIVES. Saturday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. CLOSES. Saturday and Wednesday, at 9, A. M. ELBERTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Thursday, at 8, P. M. j Thursday, at 8, P. M. LINCOLNTON MAIL. ARRIVES. CLOSES. Friday, at 12, M. | Friday, at 12, M. NEW SHOES. rjnO-YVIT, the following: Ladies’Kid, Call, JL and Prunelle Walking Shoes ; Women’s sew’d Kip Shoetees ; Boys’ Calf and Kip Shoes, sew’d and peg’d ; Coarse Brogans, making my assortment complete from the smallest size to the largest extra size, low for Cash. A. L. LEWIS. December 16, 1841. 16 • YiPlice, * J'OITN 11. DYSON, Esq. will act as my A gent during my absence from the State. WILLIAM JONES. May 12, 1842. 37 mYotice* A LL persons indebted to the late firm of Mc \IILLAN & VINCENT, are requested to make payment immediately to JOHN H. DYSON. January 8, 1842. 19 Warning* “’VT-tl’lCE is Hereby given, that the time for j_N making Returns of Taxable Property will expire on the 15th day of June next. All who are then m default, wJi subject themselves to a double Tax. G. G. NORMAN, Ree. Tax Returns for Wilkes county. N. B.—l will attend in Washington on the first Tuesday in June—also, on Tuesday and Wednesday the 14th and 15'li days of June. May 26,1842. 3* G. G. N. For Sale • * A HOUSE and LOT, well im- P rovetl an< l pleasantly situated in the |S;jiW Town ol Washington. For further particulars, apply to STEPHEN G. PETTUS. May 10,1842. 28 Stolen, - From the Subscriber’s Stable on fcTX Augusta Road, seven miles below Washington, a BAY HORSE r >out eight or nine years old, near sixteen .lands high, heavy made, very deep through the shoulders and a little white on both hind feet, trots very rough, and may be made to rack a little ; he is in very good order. Any in formation respecting the Horse will bo thank fully received, and a liberal compensation paid to any person who will return him to WILLIAM CORNE [.[SON. June 2,1842. 40 GEORGIA, { Whereas, James M. Smythe, Wilkes county. ( Guardian of Mary 11. Smythe, applies to me for Letters of Dismission. These are therefore to cite, summon, and ad monish, all and singular the kindred and credit , urs of said Minor, to be and appear at my office within the time prescribed by law, to shew cause (if any they have) why said letters should not be granted. Given under my hand at Office, this 9th dav of May, 1842. JOHN 11. DYSON, c. c. o. May 12. m6m 27 A N D “VXJTATCIIES, Clocks, and Jewelry of every description repaired and warranted, by A. W. KING. Washington, April 28,1842. 35 IZeduclion ! THE Subscriber respecttully informs the public, tiiat owing to the change in times, he will work at tlie following reduced prices : Putting in Main-spring, $2 00 “ Hair “ 1 00 “ Verges, 2 50 “ New Chain, 1 50 “ best Lunett Chrystals, 75 “ Flint “ 50 “ Common “ ;;7< Cleaning Lever Watch, 1 50 “ Common “ 75 And all other work in proportion. CF \\ ork entrusted to his care will be prompt ly and faithfully executed, and as the prices are considerably reduced, he hopes still to receive a share of public patronage. dX All work warranted, and unless satisfac tion is given, no ciiargc made. R. 11. VICKERS. May 5,1842. 30 To the Public. THE undersigned will commence a School in the house formerly occupied by Mrs. Allison, on Monday the 18th instant, designed to he one of a permanent character. This Institu tion does not appear before tiie Public in an atti tude of hostility to any other, but only in that of friendly rivalry, soliciting a share of public pat ronage so far as it may merit. It is tiie desire ot the Subscriber to connect the interest ol the community with that of this School. This he will endeavor to do, first, and chiefly, by perse vering eflbrt on his part to raise the standard of solid Education, and to confer its benefits, to the utmost of his ability, upon those committed to bis charge: And, secondly, by reducing the Ratos ot Tuition so as to correspond with the present pecuniary pressure, which lias touched our own community as well as tiie country generally, with its withering influence. Pupils will be prepared lor admission into any College, either Northern or Southern. Rates of Tuition : Ist. Orthography, Reading, Writing, with El ementary Geography and Arithmetic, !$4 50 per quarter. 2d. Practical Arithmetic, Algebra, Geography, Grammar, Natural and Mental Philosophy, Lo gic, Belle-Letters, and Chemistry, !$0 25 per quarter. 3rd. Latin, Greek and French Languages, Ge ometry, Day’s Course ot Mathematics, including Logarithms, Trigonometry, Mensuration of Heights and Distances, and Surveying, $8 per quarter. A. L. LEWIS. N. B.—Stated recitations in the Bible will be required ol all the Pupils sutiiciently advanced to profit by them. April 14, 1842. 33 f TIE Copartnership heretoiore existing at Petersburg, Georgia, under the copartner ■■ h.p name and style of SPEED, HESTER, & Cos., was dissolved on the 31st December last.— Said Copartnership being composed of Wade hineei!, James M. lfester, and Uriah O. Tate. U. O. TATE. nay 3, 1812. 36_ \DMINISTRATOR’S SALE. T\7"ILL be sold before the Court-llouse door ” * m the town of Washington, Wilkes coun ty, on the first Tuesday in July next, a Negro Man, named Sandy. Sold as the property of Matthew Faver, deceased. Sold for the purpose of mak ing a division among the heirs, the first children ol Nathan Eckles, deceased, being the heirs in this case. Terms made known on the day of sale. THOMAS FAVER, Adm’r. April 21,1842. of Matthew Favor, dec. GEORGIA, l Whereas Baker Lipscomb, Wilkes County. Guardian of Wylie M. Pope, applies lor Letters of dismission. These are, therefore, to cite, summon, and admonish, all and singular, the kindred and creditors ot said Minor, to be and appear at my office, within the time prescribed by law, to show cause, (if any they i . o,; why said letters should i:o no granted. ’•riven under my 'hr ml at office, this 23d of March, 1842. JOHN H. DY. Clerk c. o. March 31. m! til ‘•'EOkGIA, l Whereas, James M. Smythe, it ilkcs court it. ( , 1 .utters ot Dismission - Si n le, deceased. These are, t here lore, to cite, iirrron, and ad monish, all ands ,r, the ki.-iied and credi tors of said decease Vs, boa id :at my of fice, within the time pre-crib by r.w, to show cause (if any they have,) why ,0 p . ers should not be granted. Given under my hand at office, this 9th of May, 1842. JOHN 11. DYSON, c. c o. May 12 mfim 37 months alter date application will be made to the Honorable !’ie Interior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Or dinary, lor leave to sell the I run! belonging to the estate ol Edward Jones, deceased. FELIX G. HENDERSON, Adm’r. April 1.1842. de bonis non. riOCR monihs after date, application will be JL made to the Inferior Court of Wilkes county, while sitting as a Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell the Land belonging to the Estate of Joseph Bell, late of said county, deceased. MARY H. BELL, Adm’x. May 26,1842. m4m 39 1,1 OUR months after dale application will be made to the Honorable the Inferior Court ol Wilkes court, while sitting as a Court of Or dinary, for leave to sell a lot of Land, No. 233, in the 10th District, Carroll county, Ga., belong ing to the Estate of Rebecca Allison, deceased. G. 1,. RAKESTRAW, Ex’r. March 17, 1842. m4m 29 PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING WiSHI\GTO\, (WILKES ( OIM'V, GA.,) .1I AE i>, 1842. CUTTING & HUTLER, ATTOHNIES, HAVE taken an OFFICE over (1. I*. Co zart’s Store. January, 1842. 23 To tltc Planters of hieorgia. A PENNY SAVED IS TWO PENCE EARNED. r pHE Subscriber is now offering to the Far- 1 -1- mers of Georgia, “MIMS’ WROUGIIT IKON PLOUGH STOCK,” invented by the j Messrs. Seaborn J. & Marshall Mims, oi Oc lebbaiian county, Mississippi, and patented by ! them. This I’LOUGH in every respect is the ; most.desirable PLOUGH STOCK ever offered to a planting community. It combines durabili ty with convenience—it will last a great many 1 years without repair or expense, and will admit of every variety of Plough Hoes, (three tooth ; harrow excepted,) with pertect convenience and i facility—it is not heavier than the ordinary wood en stock, yet. tar stronger, and being so very sim ple in its construction, that any blacksmith in ilie country can make them. Sample Ploughs may be seen and tried at Mr. Dense’s Shop in Miliedgeville ; at Mr. Martin’s Shop in Sparta, and at Mr. F. B. Billingslcu’s in Washington, Wilkes county. Let the Farmer examine the Plough, and he will purchase the right to use them. The Subscriber proposes to sell county rights on the most accommodating terms. 11 j” All communications on this subject, post paid, addressed to me at. Miliedgeville,or Wash ington, Wilkes county, will meet with immedi ate attention. 15. L. BARNES, Agent for S. J. & M. Mims. January 27, 1841. 22 A NEW VOLUME. May Ist, 1842. THE SATURDAY POST. A Family Sheet of the Mammoth Class. A New Volume of the popular family News paper, the Saturday Evening Post, printed in Philadelphia, was commenced on the first ot May 1842, beautifully printed on the finest white lin en paper. The’ Post is the oldest and best es tablished paper in the Union, having already got to the commencement of the Twenty-third Volume, while scores of papers which have been started in the last twenty-three years, have passed away forever, the Post still maintains its proud position in point of circulation and profit, at the head of the family newspapers of the day. The great size of the paper enables the propri etors to give a greater variety of original and se lected matter than can be found in cotemporary sheets. The paper lias been greatly Enlarged and Improved, And now appears in handsome new type, and has received the praise of many editors of taste, as “the handsomest family sheet in the Union.”— Our efforts have been directed to the combining of beauty and simplicity, with utility and taste The Post is printed on a stout, white paper, ren dering it neat and durable for filing ; while in size it surpasses every other weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, and has received from its contem poraries the title of The Philadelphia Mammoth.. The great size of the paper enables us to give all important Congressional Proceedings at length,and all reports and other public documents in lull, together with occasional Congressional Speeches in full. Literary Department. The Post is acknowledged to be the first news paper in the country in the quality and quantity of its Original Tales, Essays, Poetry, and other matter. The following contributors ;.ro a war rant of its merit: T. S. Arthur, author of “ Temper.-nee Pied;; ,” “ The Broken Merchant,” and oihe temper ance Stories. Professor J. H. Ingraham, author of •< Lafil e,” “ Kyd,” &c.&c. Jesse E. Dow, author of the “Logo! Old Iron sides,” &c. &c. Loujs Fitzgerald Tasistro; R. M. Walsh ; Miss E. Leslie; N. P. Willis ; Mrs. Emma C. Embu ry ; Mrs. A. F. Annan ; Mrs. Lambert; Janies 11. Dana; Lewis J.Cist; Lydia Jane Pierson; Theo. S, Fay ; George P. Morris; Francis S. Osgood ; Allred B. Street; Thomas J. Beach ; J. Milton Sanders, author of “The Miami Val ley;” S. D. Anderson; Lydia 11. Sigourney ; F. W. Thomas, author of “ Clinton Bradshawe,” “ Howard Pinckney;” C. Theresa Clarke ; Miss J. Estelle; John G. Whittier; Mrs. C. H. W. j Esling; Mrs. R. F. Nichols; Mrs. Amelia B. Wei by; J. Tomlin; .1. Ross Browne; Lucy Seymour; Mrs.Maryll.Parsons; Mrs. Caroline F. Orne ; Mrs. M. St. Leon Loud ; Mrs. AnnS. Stephens; JT S Sullivan ; Mrs E C Stedman; Mrs Caroline Lee Ilentz; William Wallace. 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As friends and neighbors often wish to club together to facilitate remittances, we offer to such or to any person who will secure us the names and money, the following Inducements to Chibs. 3 copies for 5 dollars, in advance, post paid. 7 “ *< [() (i 4i <( it it It, is to bo understood, that to entitle any per son to the benefit of the above terms, all arreara ges must be first paid, and the subscriptions must be remitted in advance post paid. We adhere to the cash system. Editors who may copy this Prospectus, and forward us a copy will receive our thanks, and a regular exchange. GEORGE R, GRAHAM & CO. Third and Chesnut S/rppf. Philadelphia. From the U. S. Gazette. ORIGINAL SONG. BY A LADY. Air—“ Auld Lang Syne.’’ 1. Leave vain regrets for errors past, Nor cast the ship away; But nail your colours to the mast, And strike for Harry Clay! From him no treason need be fear’d, Four cause he’ll ne’er betray; W hat name to freemen so endear’d, As that of Harry Clay! 3. No vain abstractions fiil liis head, To lead his heart astray; For every noble promise made, Is kept by Harry Clay! 4 ’ Then let not treason’s hated form Thus fill you with dismay, But gath’ring strength to breast the storm, Stand fast by l larry Clay! 5. Rise bravely for one effort more, Your motto thus display; Protection for our native shore! Sustained by Harry Clay! fi. And o’er our gallant chieftains grave Pledge we our faith this day, In weal or wo, no change to know, ’Till triumphs Harry Clay! Chorus. ’Till triumphs Harry Clay, my boys, ’Till triumphs Harry Clay; In weal or wo, 110 change to know, ’Till triumphs Harry Clay. iWftccUancoiis. MARRIED IN SPITE OF THEIR TEETH. A choice Anecdote. —Old Governor Sal tonstall, of Connecticut, who flourished some forty years since was a man of some i humor, as well as perseverance, in cflec j ting the ends lie desired. Among other anecdotes told ofhim by the New London people, the place where he resided, is the following : Os the various sects which have flour ished for their day, and then ceased to ex ist, was one known as tire Rogersites, so called from their founders, a John, or Torn, or some other Rogers; who settled not far from the goodly town aforesaid. The distinguishing tenet of the sect was their denial of the propriety and scriptural ity of form of marriage. “It is not good for a man to be alone.” This they be lieved, and also that one wife only should “cleave lo her husband,” but then this should be a matter of agreement merely, and the couple should come together and live as man and wife, dispensing with all forms of the marriage covenant. The old Governor used frequently to call upon Rogers, and talk the matter over with him and endeavor to convince him of the impro priety of living with Sarah as he did. But neither John or Sarah would give up the argument. Jt was a matler of conscience with them —they were very happy together as they were—of what use then could a mere form be? Suppose they would thereby escape scandal ; were they not bound ‘to take up the cross,’ and live according to the rules they professed ? The Governor’s logic was powerless. He was in the neighborhood of John one day, and meeting with him, accepted an in j vitation to dine with him. The conversa tion as usual turned upon the old subject. ‘Now, John,’ says the Governor, after a debate of the point, ‘why will you not mar ry Sarah? Have you not taken her to be your lawful wife ?’ ‘Yes, certainly,’ replied John, ‘hut my conscience will not permit me to marry her in the forms of the world’s people.’ ‘Very well. But you love her?’ ‘Yes? ‘And respect her.’ ‘Yes.’ ‘And cherish her, as boneofyour hone, and flesh of your flesh?’ ‘Yes, certainly, Ido.’ ‘And you love him, and obey him, and respect him, and cherish him?’ ‘Certainly, I do.’ ‘Then,’ cried the Governor, rising, ‘in the name of the laws of God, and of the Com monwealth of Connecticut, I pronounce you lo he husband and wife ?’ The ravings and rage of John and Sarah were of no avail—the knot was tied bv the highest authority of the State.— Bos. Mail. Punctuation. —lt was at least a century after the discovery of the art of printing, before any other marks of punctuation than the colon or period was used. About that time a perpendicular stroke, like a paren thesis without its curves, was introduced to designate the pause of a comma. The notes of exclamation and interrogation was not used till the early part of the last cen tury. Law books were formerly printed as law documents arc now written, without stops, which rendered it somewhat difficult to understand the meaning, and hence a rosc the well known phrase, “ the trlorious j uncertainty of the law THE SUN AT MIDNIGHT. A steamboat leaves Stockholm every j week, touches at Gefle, Hudiksvall, Hen nosand, Unich, and other pointson the wes tern coasts of the Gulf of Bothnia, at Wash on the eastern, on its way up toTornea, at the head of the gulf. This voyage is a ve ry pleasant one, and gives an opportunity to those who wish to go up to that very nor thern city at the summer solstice, or on St. John’s day, when from the neighboring mountain they can have their faith confirm ed in the truth of the Copcrnican system. I For at that epoch, Ihe sun, to those who are lon that elevation, does not descend below the horizon, but is seen to decline to the northwest, and verge more and more to the j exact north, until it reaches at midnight its I lowest point, hut it is just visible about the j horizon. In a few minutes it is seen to | commence its upwards course towards the I northeast, and thus continues its glorious 1 progress until it reaches again its zenith in the south. Even to one who is at Stockholm at that epoch, the nights for two or three weeks are sufficiently light, from the re flection of the sun’s rays, owing to its being so little beneath the horizon, for the per formance of almost any business. We hap pened about this time four year ago, to he going up the promontory, of Upsala, and were obliged to travel all night; and we 1 have a distinct recollection of reading a lct j ter at midnight with ease, even whilst pas j sirtg through a forest. And the year after i at the same season, we often whiled away : our leisure moments by sitting at the win -1 dows of the house where we stayed, on the I English quay in St. Petersburg, a city i which is situated in the same deg. N. of j Stockholm, and reading until midnight.— j During that period scarcely a cloud was to j be seen in the sky, which had both day and , night, that light which is peculiar to these j northern regions at that portion of the year i and which is occasioned by the rays of the sun striking the atmosphere of tiiat portion of the earth at so small an angle. Scarce ly a star was visible in the heavens at night, and the moon, even when full, hardly formed a shadow. At that season there is something unnatural and deathlike in the appearance of things as night sets in. Ilu- ! siness comes to an end before the sun goes down, all nature falls into stillness and re pose whilst it is yet light. And if you have j been unaccustomed to such a state of things j you seem, as you pass the streets, whether ‘ it be of Stockholm ofSt. Petersburg, Hen- ‘ nosand, orTornea, to be in the midst of a city which is uninhabited. No living thing perhaps is to be seen any where, as you pass street after street, save some solitary sentinel, with his grey coat and musket.— Bards travels in Europe. LOCUSTS. This is a “locust year.” In many places the woods for miles and miles in extent, are alive with these singular insects. Durintr the morning and noon hours of the day the forest is filled with their monotonous noise. The periodical visits of these insects in multitudes excite tile wonder and curious inquiry of some, and the ridiculous appre hensions of others. It is said by some that they appear every fourteenth year; others say every seventh. All we happen to know on tins head, is, that the last visitation of j locusts occurred the same year that the big j elephant ‘came round;’ hut whether that e? vent was just fourteen years ago, passeth our present ability toeompute. ‘This child’ trudged three miles, one broiling hot June day, with a lonesome quarter of a dollar in his pocket, to see the elephant,—and well remembers having his cars dinned all the way with the choral song of the hundred thousand millions of locust-cs! There are, or have been, very erroneous and very superstitious notions indulged concerning the locusts. In times past, cer tain deep philosophers, who were specially learned in entomological matters, did de clare that they bored down into the bowels of the earth for the space of seven years, and bored up t’other seven. A decided bore. They might find more profitable em ployment than this.—lt has been quite a prevalent opinion that these wonderful lit tle sojourners carry upon their wings cer tain prophetic signs of corning events. For instance, when two W’s can ho made out on their wings, War ami Want are prefig ured ; two P’s indicate Peace and plenty.— Some sharp-sighted folks, we understand, have discovered, the letterE on their hacks this year, which, in their sapient judgement betokens war with England.—But perhaps the most popular fallacy is, that they com memorate the plague oflocusts in Egypt. This notion was probably adopted because they are called locusts, and because thev are said continually to utter the name of Pharaoh. We could never satisfy our selves oftho correctness of this latter asser tion, —being situated similarly of the fel low who ‘cold ‘nt see the town for the hous es,’ —the whole innumerable multitude keeping up such a jabboring din, that it is difficult to ascertain what any particular individual does say. However, a few large insects appear every year, called locusts, and which, we believe, bear a pretty exact resemblance to those at present under con sideration ; they utter a sound which may very readily be fancied to resemble the word P-h-a-r-ci-o-h, sung with a peculiar cadence and prolongation of the sound.— The sound is strictly wild and pensive, and not at all unpleasant to the observer and lover of nature.—Early in June, when vegetation is approaching its fullest luxuri ance under the shining hot sun; when the ’ sultry glimmering, stvled “Larrcnce dan ITI. K APPEL, Printer. cing,” appears over the sunny fields and along the hot lanes; when the morning war blers have sought the cool shades, and their songs are hushed; —when no sounds ap proach your ears, hut the lazy “tvo-hoy” of the distant ploughman—the impudent “bob white ” or some solitary partridge—and the shrill Phoraoh-ing of two or three locusts, each in his lonely green hush, —you have a subduing, overpowering sense of the pre sence of sultry Summer. Our locusts arc nothing moiethan aspe cies of large grasshoppers, and hear no re resemblance, in their habits, to the great destroying locusts of the East. They are an innocent, harmless little people, incapa ble of devouring a single leaf or blade of grass. But these locusts of Egypt “cov ered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened ; and they did cat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left, and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, throughout all the land of Egypt.” Commentators on the bible, and natural ists, say that the locust (of the East) be longs to a genus of insects known by the name Grylli: which includes three species, Crickets, Grasshoppers, and Locusts. The I great brown locust is about three inches in length, resembling in its general appear ance a grasshopper; but its mouth fitted with an apparatus enabling it to destroy vegetation with great facility. Eastern travellers relate that they come in vast clouds, which extend from fifteen to eight teen miles in length, and from nine to twelve in breadth, so as to obscure the brightest day. Both ancient and modern writers ve rify the scripture account, that they come and go in the direction of the wind. “And Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the Lord brought an east ; wind upon the land all that day, and all night, and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.”—Exodus, x 13. “And the Lord turned a mighty strong west wind which took away the locusts, and cast them into the Red sea ; there remained not one locust in all the coasts of Egypt.”—lb. I x. 19. We have no account that these fearful insects ever appeared in our laud. Greens. Put. Tin; Aeeaolitj:. —A New Invention. — This is anew instrument of most ingenious C? ! invention, and of great importance to sci ! ence. The purpose it is intended for is to ascertain, to a mathematical certainty, the aera of any irregular given surface, or the square of a circle. It is of material use to surveyors, who by means of it, can ascertain the exact contents of any given plot, no matter how irregular. It is ascer taining the surface upon the known princi ple of ascertaining solids. We have all heard ofgiving the number of cubic inches in a handfull of brush, by placing the same in water, and measuring the amount dis placed. This instrument acts upon the same principle in regard to surfaces. It consists of two plates of glass, of very even and regular surfaces, placed together in a frame, so close together as to admit only a piece of common drawing paper between them. It is of a retangular form and closed on three sides, the fourth being open to ad { mit a given amount of quicksilver. The area in the frame, occupied by the quicksil ver is then ascertained. The plot correctly cut on the paper is then introduced, and the space between the glass plates being no greater than the thickness of'tlio paper, the quicksilver is displaced, as water would he in a vessel in which any solid is introduced. They are now occupied by the quicksilver, with the plot in its midst, is measured and ascer. tained, and the difference between this and that occupied by the quicksilver alone, gives the exact area of the plot. It is the invention of Dr. Thomas Wood, of Smithfield, Jefferson co., Ohio, who has secured his evention hv patent. It has been I adopted by the Legislature of Ohio, for the State Surveyors. The Franklin Institute lof Penn., have presented a medal to Dr. Wood for his invention, after a careful ex | animation of the instrument, to which they give in a certificate, the most unqalified re commendation. It is one of those simple inventions that strikes you at once, and founded as all simple inventions, are upon the principles of truth, produces admira tion and conviction at first sight.—Pitts burg Daily Amcr. Beans. —The people down east are death on beans ; cold baked beans; beans ‘boil ed in a bag ;’ beans mixed with corn ; string beans ; beans in all their variety and excellence. They are folks who ‘ know beans.’ On Sundays, especially, do they attack these poor innocent vegetables. A good old Dominie who labored in one of these bean eating towns, made a calcula tion, by which he concluded that he preach ed to about four bushels of beans every Sunday. A ;ongregation of vegetables. Something new under the Sun. —A new enemy to the cotton planter lias made its appearance in Panola and DeSoto counties, Mississippi, in tiio shape of innumerable Snails, which eat up and destroy the plant, commencing with the leaf, and ending their repast with the hud. They are apparently the common sized snail without a shell, such as may be found adhering to the bark iof trees in wet weather. Several entire j cotton plantations have been ruined by 1 th'-m. Memphis Enquirer. [VOLUME XXVII.
