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Newspaper Page TextSljc Columbus Cnquirer. A STRICT CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTITUTION AN HONEST AM) ECONO.UICAL ADJIINISTUATION OF THE GOVERNMENT. I VOLUME XXII. itlio I COLUMBUS, GROIICIA, rUHSDAY MORNING FKBRUARY 20, 1810. NUMBER 8. PKOFKSSIONAI, CARDS. JAMES S. CALHOUN, 'naif. , COM .MIU S.ffG CORGI V, th'"diy general agent. s\ti iti> vv, ri:mti Mtv it, in in. ORTY DAYS r : ;r Ordinary, up« ^.'"'.'nlily , must be pub- 3 <1 ‘jcttlimr n<* Military mill ml to business h of Onlinnn . accom|»niii. , i| by a ropy «*l tin* bond nr ncreenu'nt. io make Titles to Mini, must Is* publisbeil THREE MONTHS. Notices by E«eriitnr« or Ailniinistrators or Guard inm*. "i applieation i«» the ('mirt o^Onlinary for leave to sell Laud or Nrens**- of ait estate, four months. Noticks by I’v-i iiiors nr \iliuinistrator». to the Debtors ami t'raditon* of an estate, tor six weeks. Pall and Winter Clothing. J. II. ML R IIY, Warren's Arcade, No. 3, >ek of H \s rccive.l Ills stork of l’U.L AND WINTER < 'LOTI I IN*?, eniiHistino „f every article of tren- tl**ia .i"s wc.irmij apimrel. Cloaks ami Over Coals, Sack, Fro.-k ait-l Dri-'S (’o.its. Pants an I N'.-sts ..| every style, i Sli.rt- ml Draw-rs of .very variety,lfitnillverebtefs,(.’ra- Vas. Si iek-, Hats, Caps an I l ialirellas. Dec. 19 _ 63 8m CROCKERY' ! CROCKERY' ! .1 Y o mul Sj 'i hi trim nl just received AT (.’()\VI)KItY S CROCKERY STORE. | 1 SPLENDID i 8 SORT ME NT, T1MIIRYCING all the new stylesaml varieties of ' JLj " bite n rat tile ami llowritit' blue ; diniutr, tea ami toil-* vv ire : also French China, at ure.ttly rniluee.l pri ce- : iliimm. lea and eoflee ware. Fancy Framli, uill ! baml ami vv lute tea sets, white ami gilt teas ami coflee , in set-or by the dozen ; colored dishes, casseroles, but- ! ter>. i.Mpoi-. sugars, creams, cake plates, card ami fruit i Taney : Flower Vase* vases and lio.pi.-t lioldc sed miblels, tumblers vv mes. Rich (Jilt and Fane inn.'-, randiestji k-. Gnnna tilitss-warr.riit and pr fruit ImiwIs, dishes. Iain|»aml decanter-. S|n-ci * jar-, ca— tor-, fine and cointnnn cut and pressed bottles, extra. i Ml.\ 1.\ Tl ItE, L.\RI) t\" SOL [It LAMPS hall, amJ glolw Lanterns, hall and factory ham?- . imrs ami side lamps, t ible cutlery, spoons ami tea trays It PITTA MX. ENGLISH AND American, in sets, or separate soup and wince ladles, can dlesticks, Ac., Ate. —ALSO— Porter's Patent Composition Hunting Fluid, 1 (a L'ood and cheap light,) ami fluid lamps. LARI) OIL, and a general variety of merchandise, which the public are iu\ tied to examine. Jan. 9. 18 IN. ‘2 tf REFER KNITS: R. U. \ l.E X ANIHHt, Hines Holt. lie-,. Dim: i. Mi Dona TIIOG I>. PARKE, Jf. D. (J L E N X V I L L K , llarboar Comity* Ala* Jan an. 1819 5 3m IIOOPFII A: DFNCAN, ATTORNEYS \T LA IV. Oy Mnif be addressed and Consulted at Cranford, Ala atnl (’idnmhus, (ho. II. Ditncan. (». D. Hooper. Feb. (>. ft flm AYER \ IIMIRISON, auction ami nnniissio\ COIA MBPS, UKORGI.\. WII.I. ATTEND PROMPTLY TO ALL Rt'SI.NESS CON- SIliNKD TO THEM. Feb. fi. f» It CHAMBERS A FLEWELLEN, ATTORNEYS AT I* AAV, Col limbus, tin. £9* Office on Broad street, over Ennis's Hardware store. XVM. It. CHAMIIERS. A. C. FLKWKLLEV. Fell. I 7 tf J. T. FLEWELLEN, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Colunilms, (in* Fab 1,1848 _ ?tf H M. C. PGIIKIND, ATTORNEY AT LAW, G’17TII HI5IIT, LA. W ll.l. oraetlce in the eountien of Handplph, Stew- nrt. I-’nrlv. Lee and linker. April 93, It?-10. igif LAW NOTICE. AM i MERCHANTS, AT ENTION !! WILL receive by tie* 1st of February next, 300,|..zon (lifliirent qualities Palm Leal lints, fra vliiclt I sliall offer at wholesale induce Merclmiils to buy of me, rathe York or elsewhere. Enquire of Columbus. Jan 30,1819 that will 1 in New > tf rcsttmimi the praetice of the l.AW. My 1 office is over the store of J. J. McKemlree, on the West side of llroad street. JOSEl’HDS ECHOLS. Nov. 14,1818 48 tf JOHN L. STRPHENS, Attorney at Law— Latirangc, Ga. Will attend the < ’ourts of the I ’oweUi Circuit, and Harris Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit. May 25, 1848. ly MARTIN J. CRAWFORD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Columbus, (i cor tria. •yy |Lf. attend regularly the Courts of Harris and liled t counties. Any business given him will Hi-office i-on llroad t nrdialelv in front of H. : Jan If*. 1819 . Smith’s building im 3 3m* CANDIES ! CANDIES !! ay NOTICE.—(iEO. STRUPPER. of the late firm of .1. A G. SrtirppF.R, ra-qicri fully informs his friends and the patrons ot the late lirm, that lie will con* tinue the lliisine-s, at the Old Stand, on Randolph street, lir-t door front llroad st., where lie is now mn-tuntly maim fact it ring bis celebrated Hurd (audios, which he will sell at a reduced price for cash. (I. S. solicit- a romjKirison by pnn basers, of the quality ami of bis Candies with any other house, either lien* •r els, ( oliinibiis. Oct. 3. HIS, 42 fan Nourse, Stone & Co. A I* A EACH icon A, Fla. B. F. Nourse Co. NEW ORLEANS, to a tiissiov it i: in u \ vis. II. W. Brooks, JI. II. Stone, II. F. Non liste ner. 21 ST A HR & Co., Auctionrm unit Pair mission llrrrhuuls, K U F AULA. (ALABAMA.) m:\itv Ki\u a sox, ( ■NON TI N I E at their-land, a few doors above the J Hank of St. .Marys, ami near the Post-Office, and nr- n-reiving from .New York a ScitMiiiublu supply | of Hoods, and have on hand a good slock of Croce- ■ ri> - of all kinds, consisting in |>art of Sugar, Collet*. Null, Itagging, Itopc, Arc. nil kinds ol country nroduce. October 28. 184« tf 45 'ohnuhll-, •pi. 80 They will as usual buy ; Refer to ll fun HATHTS31 WHITE & SO. Com mission llncliutils, NEW ORLEANS. Ad v.nices mnde on HliipmontH of Cotton, ami Produce purchased upon the usual terms. Sflrctrti |Jortcj>. John O. Winter, Hill, Dawson <Y i . Smith A C Pre > Columbus, Go 49 tf N OTICE.—All persniiR indebted to ERASTI'S ; Nov. 24 REED, either by account or note, nro requested tirallm. N B IIKKI). at ll.e rtor» of W. A. Sir An- ! 1*1111. A l» i: l.l* 111A flrt*u, mill ieltlf » illimit ilelny,asallaminnbinml imten ISSI4JN HOCSllj* b " pl “ Wd ! n>rU* mle of Colton, Cotton Yarns, I.UKK IIKKI). Sr. | Sheetings, Osnnhnrgs, i\*c. Vgunt for Enwtu* Iteej, | CARLTON li MOORE, No. Ilf, North Third street.! !3 tfj A NILE.— Arm out buildings, it Ii:l- I lot of 25 acres wit limit the premises, Apply to Jam 83 FOR • house with th' « of lum! attached to it tnile, to he sold with o uit the purchaser. E. <i. FOSTER. 1 f,t Agent for the At Company, Richmond A I lie W-SirS: < -o., Rockingham. N. in Co., Wayninnnsville, Ga. 1818. Iy27 T O BOATMEN, PL\NTERS, and every bmly that ^ wants to keep dry hi rainy weather : We have ju«t n*ceived nil a-sortinetil of all the articles made of India Rublier. Midi on Overcoats, Cloak*, Over- | tlm time hauls, Smtwe ters. limiting 1}"*•_»L'5*!fl^K^his, Philailelphin, June STATES LEWIS* House, Sign and Oriinmeufal Painter, OPPOSITE TIIK MARKET. fry All orders promptly attended to, at priceu to suit '2 tl) Dec. 28 N OTICE—All persons are hereby notified that Tiiomas Bassett, of the 772*1 di-trict, (*. M., toll* before Perry Browning, a Justice of the Peace in and fnr -aid district, a bay Ftlley, about -three years old. three of Ii<*r leg-while nearly to ln*r knees, appraised at thirty dollar* by Plmri“ Bay and Hilary Pratt, Doth freeholders. Taken from the E-tray Rook. ISAAC MITCHELL, Clerk. Fell 13 7 2t N OTICE.—All persons interasted are hereby no tified that Thomas Terry loll?, before Sterling S. Jenkins, one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the 771t!» district, G. M.. a mouse colored mare Mule, with out any brand or mark perceivable, nipiiosed to be 18 or 20 years old ; appraised by Abraham Odum ami Edmond Jenkins at ten dollars. January the 6th, 1819. ISAAC MITCHELL, Clerk. Feb 13 7 2? TO BRIDGE BUILDERS. rrMIK Inferior (Nmrt ol Mu-eogee county, will receive |_ .--.i!-d proposals until the first Monday in Mardi i,.-xt, for building two bridge*, viz: one nerotw Pine Knot creek m-ar Sclmm|***rt .- nulls, and one aero«*H„Bull creek on the old Macon roadm-ar Butt’s old mill. The • udertuker will be required to furnish all the materials, uod m ike good and substantial bridge*, to b- was ranted to stand, and Is* kept in good order for a term not le— than five years; no timber to lie used that is not heart ami sound. Persons making proposals w ill be particular t„ Blau- tlie kind <>f liridne they |.r..|«i%e I., build whether lattice or otherwise, and the tune for which it i lo be warranted to stand, and be kept in ord *r. Bond with good security will Is 1 required lor the faithful perform ance of the undertaking. By order of said Court. * JV>- JOHNSON, c. c. o. Feb. f>. 1849. 3» r > Wll. II. KIMIIROI Gil A SON, COMMISSION ME nail A NTS, APALACHICOLA, FLA. August 15, 1848. 35tf T'IS. A NEW HOTEL. •LAXTERS' HOI SE lias bom thoroughly __ iretl and newly fitt**d up with furniture. It is Hilmiteil at ihe corner of ()g|.-ilior|K! and Bryan stro-* -. where the siib*crils*r will b** glad to see hi* friends nml nil others who may favor him vvith a call, and try his table and bed rooms. T. A. BRANNON. Columbus, Nov. 21, 18IS. 49 3m WHKJIIT’S .a. rpilK “Wright II* !■ | I be o|ieried • Saw and Grist-mills, Steam En gines, Ate. Ate. T HE undersigned informs hi* friend* ami the public* that lie i* now prepared to furni-h estimate* and Drawings, and to contract for all descriptions of Saw l mill-. Grist-mill*. Arc. »Vc. either by-team or water pow ! er. on the latest and most approved principles, and to erer and put the -ante in ojieration on the most reasonable terms. Addre— js»-t paid po*t office, Columbus, Ga. to be left at the office of thi • f«per. to oe ten WM. F. SERRELL. | N. B.- Drawings and estimates for Bridges, Public and Private Buildings, Machinery, Ac. furnished. March 28 )1}JL Hew Fu'C|>roof Warehouse. T HE subscribers will contin te the Mill’C- Iiohsi* nml Coiiuaii8Mion Hn»i- )| ( * Ss in the new Fire pro Buildmg ete.-ied by us last winter, on Front and Ron bdpli streets. We are prepared to make CASH ADVANCES on Cotton ami to furnish our customer! with ROPE nml BAGGING at the lowest market rates rrr Our charges will be as low as other good houses. b E S. GREENWOOD. EDWIN GREENWOOD. Columbus. Sept 23.1946 40 if B—We have one of Kllllock’* 1*»*0- grcfcslve Piwer Presses put up in Warehouse, for re-pneking round into square bale Cotton. HOUSE. ihc.” at Lumpkin, will 15th day of Neutemlter; nlnrged and improved; when vv** will be glad | to **-e our fri-iid* and tie* travelling public. M. WRIGHT and LADY. j Lumpkin, Go. 8ept. 5,1848. 88 if E. T. TAYLOR At CO’S. j IMPROVED C()TT0N GINS. T HE siib-crib'-r* r**s|.<*ctiuHy inform tlmir friend* nnd ; tie* public, that tli-y have comph'tcd their exten sive Building, nnd have, removed tle-ir Cotton (.in • MHiiulnctory from Girard, Alabama, to the city of | ' Columbus. They arn prepared to furnish any number of their I SUPERIOR IMPROVED COTTON (HNS, | j at notice ; ami invite all those who are in 1 want of a very tui|ierior GIN to send them an order, or call til their .Manufacturing E-Uildisliiueril and select such an article a- theyjnay want. They have tin- i-xclu-ivc right of tnanufnctiuing the : celebrated Hobbit** Mctul Hoxiug, which is con- I sidered sitjs*rior to any article in use fnr ls*arings and i journals. All of their Gin- will Is* -iipjili'-d with Boxes coinjsiscd of this metal, which will prevent the possi bility' of a Gin’s ever catching fin- from friction. ftT’ All work done hi this c-tablishmeut i* warranted to [jive satisfaction. E. T. TAYLOR A CO. Columbus, April 25, 1848 19 tf 'POSITIVELY FOR SALE. M V HOOK AND LOT in Columbus. In my ah sence apply to ('ol. Bank*. Sept. 1*2 [39 tf] W DOUGHERTY. Sew York nnd Knvnnnnh Line of Orean Slenmers THE splendid new steamer CHER- I OKEE, (’apt Tlmma* Lyon, (late of 1 the- Wm. S -ahrmik.) h-av - Savannah i fnr N**w York on Wednesday, the20th Dec# mlvr. IM Janitnry. 17th January, 31*1 January, and on every alternate Wedne-Jay tleTeafter. Th.- ship i- 1.259 tons bur- then, built expre-dy for this trade, in the most substan tial manm-r, and with every regard to safety, comfort and speed. Tin* second steamer f*»r tin* line, the TENNESSEE, i* launched, and will Is* randy early in the Spring so that one will leave New York and Savannah every Wed lie-day. Tin* facilities anil advantage* offer ed by tin* line n» th** travelling public of Georgia, Ten- j nessee. Alabama, and Florida, it i* hoped will Ik? tried and duly appreciated. DSPlVr-en* intending to take tm*«ag*?in tld* line, are assured that the Cent ml Railroad Company, will, when ever necessary, run a */jecial train to suit the arrival and departure of tin* steamers. For Freight or pa-age. apply to RADELFORD .v FAY, Savannah, or SAM E. L. MITCHELL, 191 Frout-st. Dec. 80 12m New-Yor Hrligioti* Iutolllgciicc. The 1* lorida (’onferenco of the Methodist Episcopal Church closed i is session on Monday night. The up- pointments will he found below : APPOINTMENTS. Tali.aiiassf.k DiRTittivr.—Ira L. Potter, P. K. Tallahassee—Samuel Woodbury. Leon Mission—Viiga*tii* I). Russell. Wacitlla .lame* H. M. Ganlner. Monticello—J. L Jerry. (One to lie supplied.) Quincy—James Harris. Gadsden—John \Y. Mill*. South Gadsden Mission—To be supplied. 'I’ll uuaaville—Peyton I*. Smith. Rambridge—John Slade. Blakely—John Penny. Spring Creek Mission—Joseph.!. Seely. Flint River Mission—Seaborn G. Childs. Albany—JohnC Ley. Warrior Mission—James M. N. Lowe. Reuiikn II. Lpckky ami (.iiikon A. Mai.i.ktt nre ap|H»inted to the Fletcher Institute, at Thoinnsville, Georgia. Nkwnanvii.i.k Distiuct—IF. W. (Sriflin, /•./*;. Madison—Bubert II. Ilowreii, John M. Ilenry. Hamilton—Thomas N. Gardner. Coluinhia—William M. Kennedy. Newnansville—William Choice. Marion—Tlionia* W. Cooper. Santa Fee Mission—To lv supplied. Benton Mission—Robert S. Tucker. llill-b..ro’ Mi-*i..,i—Lemy (J. Leasly. Key West—Alexander Graliam. Sr. Mary’s District.—Y. /*. Richardson, P. R. St. .Mary’s—Moses C. Smith. Nassau—Malilon Bedell. Black Creek—Edwin L. T. Blnke. Jacksonville—Franklin Stewart. St Augu*iine Mission—George W. Pratt. Brunswick—Geo. C. Clark. Owen W. Stanley. Satill.i Mi-*ion—John J. Richards. Ilolinesville— Nelson Conner. Waresbora’ Mission— 1 Thomas Taylor. Irwin—Joshua Caraway. \Albany Patriot. Judge Cluii ltoii’s Lecture lit fore the I aunj’ Men's Library Association at Augusta \N e lutvo been favored, attyz the Suvanntvn Georgi an, with a copy of ibis beautiful address. It consists of a series of sketches presenting death in many of its forms—upon tho battle-field, the hunting dock, the Christian’s bed—all drawn with tho graceful, cloqueut pen which Judge Charlton is known to wield. As we nre unwilling to break the chain of incident by which he illustrates his immediate subject, we pass over sev eral brilliantly depicted, and extract tho following, a picture, not of Death, but of Life i " My lliotnc lias saddened you my I tourers! hut I must not I wave you so. Even at the inconsist- eney of a digression front my subject, I must bring the smile back to your lips, the pleasure to your hearts. I have drawn for you many pic tures of death *, let the sketch lor you now a brief, but bright scene of beautiful life. It is the mar riage nbar: a lovely female, clothed in all the freshness of youth and surpassing beauty, leans upon the arm of him, to whom she lias just plight ed her faith, to whom she has just given up Iter- Bell forever. Look in her eyes, ye gloomy phi losophers, and tell me if you dare, that there is no happiness in earth. See the trusting, the he roic devotion, which impels her to leave country, jia rents, all, for a comparative stranger. Shelias launched her frail hark upon it wide and stormy ' Host; she has handed over her happiness and doom ) lor this world, to another's keeping; hut she has j done it fearlessly, for love whispers to her that Iter j chosen guardian and protector, bears a manly and ti noble heart. Oil, woe to him that deceives her. ()h, woe to him that forgets liisu.illi and his manhood! “ Her wing shall tbs Eagle flap, O’er tin* false hearted, III* life blood tie* wolf shall lap, Ere life be. parted : •Shame and dishonor *it, On hiK grave ever: Ble**ings sliall hallow it, Never! Oh,never!’! Wo have all read the story of the husband, who, in a moment of hasty wrath said to her, who, hula few mouths before had united her fate to liis, “ if you are not. satisfied with my conduct, go, return to your friendsund to your happiness.’' “ And will you give mo back that which I brought to you?” asked the despairing wife. “ Yus,” ho replied, “ all your wealili shall go with you : J co vet it not.” “Alas!” she answered, “I thought not of iny wealth—I spoke of my maiden affec tions—ol my buoyant hope—of my devoted love: can you give these hack to me?” “ No!” said the man, iis he flung himself at her fliut—“No! I can not restore these; hut I will do more—I will keep them unsullied and untainted; I will cherish them through my lift*, and in my death ; and nev er again will I forget, that I have sworn to pro tect, and to cheer tier, who gave lip to me all she helil most dear.” Did I not tell you that there was poetry in sl woman’s look—a woman’s word ?— Nee it hero! the mild, gentle reproof of love win ning hack from its harshness and rudeness, the atom and unyielding temper of an angry man.— Ah, if creation's fairer sox only knew their stron gest weapons, how many of wedlock’s fierce bat tles would he unfoiight; how much of unhappi ness and coldness would lie avoided!” C'jtAi't Shawls.—There are many who may not know how the Canton Crape is made, and a short sketch may not ho out of place. When the Crupe shawl comes from the weaver's loom, it is perfectly smooth and resembles gum silk cloth.— But the threads of which this cloth is formed, arc trill do with one thread harder than the other, and for deeper craping the warp is harder twisted than the weft. The difference of twist in the warp and weft as the crapes are twilled, forma all the crimping of the crape, hut not until it undergoes the process of boiling. This is done by honing th' 1 shawls in fine while soap for ti considerable time, which removes the gum from the silk, and by the warp swelling more than the well, the slntwls come out of the boiler with that line crisp so much admired. All this crisp can he shaken out again by sireciting the shawls on stenters— lienee, in the fir* «$ing operation, care must Ite ex ercised not to strecii them too much. The embroidery of these shawls is performd af ter the gmn is removed. For this purpose, the pattern is printed on the shawls with fugitive Id tie, and the flowers are then wrought with the needle. After this, the shawls are sent to the dy er's to he dyed and dressed. Sometimes they are embroidered before the gum is boiled off’ but this is not a good method, as silk is deteriorated in lustre by boiling in soap any longer than merely to remove the gum ; and to embroider with spun 1 silk en the gummed fabric, would require the em broidery silk to receive too much boiling, and thus dim its lustre. Tho use of soap to remove the gum of raw silk cannot h * recommended, hut it is the best and the cheapest wait which we are acquainted. Many of our fair ones will, no doubt, be surprised to be told that tlmir crape shawls have been boiled for two or three hours in soap. Many suppose that boiling in soap would utterly destroy any silk fab-i ric. This, in a measure is true; the operation is a nice one—but there is not a silk dress worn in! our city, that has nut, in the yum, been boiled in soap. The reason why the Chinese finished silks have , a finer lustre than the English and French, is ow ing to the gum being removed by a tedious and . expensive process ol steeping the silk in a cold spirituous liquor. In the raw state, before the gum is removed, the crape is of a dirty yellow . color, hut tho boiling in soap removes tho yellow gum, and the whitish silk appears. But still ill is not yet white. It has to he dyed for this pur- j |>ose. Nome may think this strange, hut it is a practical fact.—Scientific Ameiican. riiihllioutPs Home. ItY ItOltKIlT JOHNSON. Then* nuv«*r was a ltap|*ii*r hmne, Titan that vvhirli gave me birth ; The fields in which I used to roam, Seemed none so hrii'lit on earth. The brook that rippled by our door, My youthful limbs did lave ; And sweetest flowers grew on that shore, That ever kissed the wave. The path that lay aeross the lawn, Where ! my playmates met, The vine, the hedge, the waving corn, Are present with me yet— The brown school-house a-down the latte The villaKe. church and choir; But those vv ill not return again, Nor youth my form inspire. Though time Ini* left us many a Joy, To gild our earthly lot. Yet never have I, since a hoy, Found here so blest a spot. The bird* sang sweetest near our cot, 'I’he sun-flower shone more fair, And fond eiiilenrmeuts, ne’er forgot, Sent pleasure to ns there. Though sturdy manhood’s on ns now , And cold may use it* guise. Time’s mark* w ill gather on the brow, And dimness seal the eyes; But still tin* dream of youth’s bright day v here* ’n fill our breasts, though faraway, With thoughts of childhood's home. I’ri ' The A Song.—Bv D. Stuart. Though life is frail and fleeting, Ami time is on the wing, I will not grieve while those who love Null fondly to me cling ; Their smiles shall he my sunshine, Their word* shall he my cheer, And wa ll laugh ;iml weep together, (Jiiui closed is lilh’s career! Ami time will fly so swiftly I shall nu| feel his wings. If one who loves me more than all Still fondly to me clings ; Though other flowers are faded, This shall not loose Its hlootn, But he the heart’s sweet passion flovvt And ever yield perfume ! “ l»ut it right hack where you took it from!” as It" girl said when her lover stole a kiss. jttfacfllaucoun. The l*o»r (■ill ami Ihc Angels. “ Sleep, saintly poor one ! sleep, sleep on ; Ami waking, find thy labors done.”—Lamb. Once upon a time there lived in a. far off' coun try place 1 lie name of which has long since passed into oblivion, a young girl, whom wo shall call Alice, with an aged mol her dependent upon her exertions for their sole support. And, although sit sill periods they fared hardly enough, st ml some times oven wanted for bread, Alice never suffered herself to ho cast down, placing her whole trust in I lint who “ lumpers the wind to the shorn Isunb.” And when better dstys came again, who so glad and thankful sis tlisit young girl ? It may he all very pretty and picturesque for poets andsirlists to picture themselves calm, and peaceful scenes of rural loveliness, in the fore ground of which they generally place some happy village maid, silting in the cottage porch at the sunset hour, and singing merrily til her wheel; even as hright-eved and glad-hearted damsels of our own limes take up tlmir sowing only as a pleas ant excuse to la* silent and alone, that they may indulge in sweet and gentle mtisings. But let us not forget that that which is a pastime to the few may he to the many a weary and never-ending toil! engrossing the day that seems so long, and yet is not half long enough lor all they have to do —breaking into the quiet hours set apart by na ture lor rest, mid mingling even with their truub- hled dreams. 'Finis it was oftentimes with our poor heroine ! And yet she sung, too, hut gene rally hymns for such sprang most readily to her lips, ami most in Imrmony with her lonely and toilsome life; while her aged mother would lie for hours listening to what seemed to her as a gush of sweet and prayerful music, and not questioning hut the songs of the good upon earth might, he heard and echoed by the angels in heaven ! For years Alice had contrived to lay by enough to pay tho rent of their little cottage, ready against the period when it should become due: hut now, either from the widow’s illness, or the hardness of the times, which over proves in seasons of na tional or commercial difficulty iuo»t heavily upon those least able to struggle against its additional weight, the day cante round and found her unpre pared. It so happened that the old laiidloul was dead, and his successor was one of those stern men, who without being actually hard-hearted, have a peculiar creed of their own with regard to the poor which they are never weary of repeating, holding poverty to he hut another name for idleness, or even crime!—u baneful error, w hich has done much to plunge its unhappy victims into their present fallen condition ; and yet even he was touched by tears and meek deprecating words, and consented to give her one week’s grace in the which slit* reck oned to have finished and got paid for the work she then had in the house. Ami,although the girl knew that, in Order to effect this, she must workday and night, she flared not ask for longer delay, and was even grateful to him for granting her request. “ ll will he ti lesson to Iter not to he behindhand in future,” thought her stern companion, when he found himself alone; “ no doubt the girl has been idling of late, or spending her money on that pale colored hoed she wore, instead of having it ready as usual.” And yet, sleeping or waking, her grateful tlutnks haunted him strangely, almost win ning him to gentler thoughts—we s ty almost, for deep-rooted prejudices such as his, were hard, very hard to overcome. Alice returned home with alight heart. “ Well said the widow anxiously. “ All right, mother; with God’s blessing we will yet keep the dear old cottage in which you tell me you were horn.” *• And hope to die—” “ Not yet—not yet, dear mother!” exclaimed tho girl passionately. “ VVlial would become of your poor Alice, if she were to lose you ?” “ And yet 1 am but a burden on your young life—” “ No, no—a blessing rather.” Alice was right; labor and toil only ask an ob ject—something to love, and care and work for, to make it endurable, and even sweet! And then, kissing her mother, but saying not award of all she had to do, the girl look off* the well preserved hood and cloak, which had given rise to such un just animadversions, and putting them carefully aside, sat down in a hopeful spirit to her wheel. Tho dark cloud which hud hung over her in the morning seemed already breaking, ami she could even fancy the blue sky again in tho distance. Allihaiday she only moved from her work to prepare their simple meals, or wait upon the help less but not selfish invalid, who Imi for the eyes of watchful love ever bent upon Iter, would have sir.veil painfully to perform many a little duty for herself, rather than tax those willing hands, always so ready to labor in her behalf. And when night came, fearing to cause that dear mother needless anxiety, Alice lay down quietly by her side, and watching until she had fallen asleep;and then rising noiselessly, returned to her endless task.— And yet, somehow tin* harder she worked tho inoro it sceiikd to grow beneath her weary lingers ; the real truth of the matter was, she had overrated her own powers and was unaware of the much longer time it wrttild take for tie* completion of the labor than sin* allowed herself. But it was too late to think of all this now: the trial must he made, and Heaven, sin* doubted not. would give her strength to go through with it. Oh! happy—thrice hap py—are they who have deserved to possess this pure a tid child-like faith, shedding its gentle light on tho darkest scenes of life ! Morning broke at length over the distant hills ; and Alice. Hinging open the casement, felt refresh ed by the cool breeze, and gladdened by the hum ming of tin* birds, already tip and at their orisons; or exchanged a kind of good morrow with the peasants going forth to theirearly labor. No won- that those rough, untutored men, gazing upwards on her pale calm face, and listening to her gentle tones, felt a sort of superstitious reverence in their hearts, as though then* was a blessing in that kind ly greeting that boded of good. The widow noticed, with the quick-sightedncss of affection which even the blind seem gifted with in tin* presence of those they love, that her child looked, if possible, a thought paler than usual: and for all the bright smile that met hers every time Alice, feeling conscious of her gaze, looked up from her work, marked how wearily the heavy eye lids drooped over the aching eves, and yet she never dreamed of tin* deception which had been practised in love to soothe and allay her fond anxiety ; and the girl was well content that it should be so. It so happened that about noon, as she sat spin ning in the cottage porch, the new landlord passed that wav on horseback, and was struck with her sadnnd wearied looks; for of lateshe lm<l indeed toil ed far beyond her strength, and this additional fa tigue was almost too much for her. But still that stern minsaid within himself: "It is ever thus with the poor, they work hard when obliged to do so, and it is a just punishment for tiieir improvi deuce and idleness at other times. And yet,” he added, a moment after, as he turned his liorse’s head, half lingeringly, “ she is very young too. 1 Alice looked up at the sound of retreating foot steps, hut too late for her to catch that half re lenting glance, or it might have encouraged her to ask an extension of the time allotted her—aye, even if it were hut one single day! hut he Had passed on ere the timid girl could banish front her mind the fearful remembrance of his former harshness. “ L then* nothing that I can do to help you, my Alice u«Ued her mother, who grieved to see her toil so hard. “ Nothing: unless, indeed, you will tell nte some tale of old times, as you used to do years ago, when I was a child.” “ Why, you are but a child now,” said the wid ow, with a mournful smile; and then, inwardly comparing her lot with that of other girls of the same age, .die relaxed into a train of sad and si lent mtisings; and Alice knew that they were »ad, by tho quivering lip and contracted brow. “ (’nine, mother dear,” said she, “ I am waiting to hear your story.” Am! then the widow began to relate some sim ple reminiscences of bygone times, possessing a strange interest lor tho lonely girl, wlm know so little of life sa ve in these.homely and transient re- vealings; falling asleep in the midst, through weariness, for she ever grew weak and exhaust ml sis night canto on; but presently awoke again half bewildered. “ Where was, !. Alice,” asked the invalid gently. “ Asleep, dear mother! I was in hopes,” replied her companion, with a smile. “Oh ! forgive me, I could not help it. But you will not sit up very long.” “ No, no; good night*” “Goodnight, and God bless you, my child!” said the widow; and a few minutes afterwards Alice was again the only wakeful thing in that little cottage, if indeed she could he called so with her half-closed eyes and wandering thoughts, although it is true the busy lingers toiled on me chanically at their task. Tho very clock ticked with a dull, drowsy sound, and the perpetual whizzing of her wheel seemed almost like a lul laby. Presently the girl began to sing in a low voice, in order to keep herself awake, hymns as usual— low, plaintive and soothing—wliilo tho widow heard them in her sleep, and dreamed of h*. *n. But all would not do, and she arose at length and walked noiselessly up and down the room, trying to shako off* the drowsy feeling that oppressed and weighed upon Iter so heavily. And then, opening the casement sat by it to catch the cool breath of night upon her fevered brow, and watch the my riad stars looking dovAt in their calm and silent beauty upon earth. How naturally prayer comes at such times as those. Alice clasped her laded hands involunta rily, and, although no words wore uttered, her heart jirai/ed! We have called her, in our love, pure and innocent, hut kIio of her holier wisdom knew that sin* was hut n weak and erring crea ture after all, and took courage only from remem bering that there i» One who cureth even for the very llowers of the tk*ld, and how much more for the children of earth. But gradually, as she sat thus in tin* pale starlight, the white lids dropped over the heavy eyes—her hands unclasped and sank slowly mid silently down—the weary and toil-worn frame had found rest at last! And then the room seemed filled on a sudden with a strange brightness, and where poor Alice had sat erst while at Iter wheel, is an angel with white shining Imir, and raiment while and radi ant as a sunbeam; while .another hends gently over thesluinheror, and looking first at her, and then at her companion, smiles pityingly : and the girl smiles too, in her sleep; and ns if still haunt ed by her favorite hymn tunes, sings again very faintly and sweetly, iiutiS the sound dies lingering ly away at length upon the still night air. Fast and noiselessly ply these holy ones at their lovo task, vv bile the whizzing of the busy wheel, ac companied by a gentle rushing sound,as of wings, alone disturbed the profound silence of that little chamber. And now morning broke again over the earth, and their mission performed, they have sped away to their bright homo rejoicingly. Alice awoke trembling from her long aud re freshing slumber, thinking how site must work doubly hard to redeem those lost hours. She drew her wheel towards her—she looked wildly at it, rubbed her eyes to ho sure that she was not still dreaming; and then gazed around the quiet apartment where all remained just as she had left it; but the task, the heavy task, for which she had marked out four more weary days and nights of toil, and feared even then not having time enough to complete it, lay ready finished be fore her ! But after a little time, the girl ceasing to wonder, or remembering to whom she had pray ed on the previous night, guided by an unerring instinct, knelt down and poured out Iter heart in a gush of prayerful thanksgiving to heaven! And we can almost fancy the angels standing a little way off', smiling upon each other and on her, even as they had done before, and rejoicing in their own work. We are told, in the legend, that from that hour the widow and her good am! pious child never knew want again. It may be that Alice’s em ployer was pleased with her diligence and punc tuality ; or the landlord shamed out of his preju dices hv the unlooked-for appearance of the glow ing and happy lace of his youthful tenant, thre3 days before the appointed time, with tho money ready, and grateful thanks beside, for whut she termed his kindness in waiting so long for it; or there was a charm in that web, woven by holy hands, which brought Alice many more tasks with better payment, aud longer time to complete them in. The only thing that makes us sad in this simple and beautiful legend is, that the age of such miracles should have passed away. And yot, fear imt, ye poor aud suffering children of toil!—only he gentle and pure-hearted as that young girl—trust us she trusted—pray as she prayed—and be sure that Heaven, in its own good time, will deliver you. Character of Jeffreys*—by macajilay. The gre it man was loft in Guilford’s custody; but a marked indignity was at the same time offered to him. It was determined that another lawyer of more vigor and audacity should ho called to as sist in the administration. The person selected was Sir George Jeffreys, Chief Justice of the court of tho King’s Bench. The depravity of this man has passed into a proverb. Both the great En glish parties have attacked his memory with emu lous violence; for the Whigs considered him their most barbarous enemy, and the Tories found it convenient to throw on him the blame of all the crimes which had sullied their triumph. A dili gent and candid inquiry will show that some frightful stories which have been told concerning him are false or exaggerated; yet the dispassion ate historian will he able to make very little de duction from the vast mass of infamy with which tho memory of the wicked judge has been loaded. He was a man of quick and vigorous parts, but constitutionally prone to insolence and to the an gry passions. When just emerging from boyhood, he had risen into practice at the Old Bailey bar, a bar where advocates have always used a license of tongue unknown in Westminister Hall. Here, during many years, his chief business was to ex amine and cross-examine the most hardened mis creants of a groat capital. Daily conflicts with prostitutes and thieves called out and exercised his powers so effectually that ho became the most consummate bully ever known in his profession. All tenderness for the feelings of others, all self- respect, all sense of the becoming, were obliterated from his mind. He acquired a boundless com mand of rhetoric in which the vulgar express hatred and contempt. The profession of male dictions and vituperative epithets which composed his vocabulary could hardly have been rivalled in the fish market or tho bear garden. His coun tenance and his voice must always have been un- amiahle; but these natural advantages—for such lie seems to have thought them—he had improved to such a degree that there were few who in his paroxysms of rage, could see or hear him without emotion. Impudence nnd ferocity sat upon his brow. The glare of his eyes had a fascination for tiie unhappy victim on whom they were placed; yet his brow and eye wore said to be less terrible than the savage lines of his mouth. His yell of fu ry. as was said bv one who had often heard, sound ed like the thunder of the judgment day. These qualifications he carried, while still a young man, from the bar to the bench. He early became a common sergeant, and then recorder of London. As judge at the city sessions he exhibited the same propensities which alterward, in a higher post, gained for him an unenviable immortality. Already might he remarked in him the most odious vice which is incident to human nature, a delight in misery. There was a fiendish exultation in the way in which he pronounced sentence on offen ders. Tlteir weeping and imploring seemed to titillate him voluptuously, and he loved to scare them into tits by dilating with luxurious amplifica tion on all the details of what they were to suffer. Thus, when he had an opportunity of ordering an unlucky adventuress to l>c whipped at the cart’s tail, 4 Hangman,’ he would exclaim, 4 1 charge you to pay particular attention to this lady! Scourge her soundly, man! Scourge Iter till the blood runs down! It is Christmas, a cool time for mad am to strip in ! Nee that you warm her shoulders thoroughly !’ Ho was hardly less facetious when Iky passed judgment on Ludowic Muggleton, the drunken tailor who fancied himself a prophet.— ‘Impudent rogue!’ roared Jeffreys, 4 thou shalt have an easy, easy, easy punishment !* One part of this easy punishment was the pillory, in which the wretched fanatic was almost killed with brick bats. By this time the nature of Jeffreys had been hardened to that temper which tyrants require in their worst implements. He had hitherto looked for professional advancement to the corporation of London. lie had therefore professed to himself a Roundhead, and had always appeared to be in a higher state of exhilaration when lie explained to Popish priosts, that they were to be cut down alive, and were to see their own bodies burned, than when he passed ordinary sentences of death.— But as soon as he had got all that the city could give, he made haste to sell his forehead of brass and his tongue of venom to the court. Chiffinch, who was accustomed to act as a broker in infa mous contracts of more than one kind, lent his aid. He had conducted many amorous and many polit ical intrigues, but he assuredly never rendered a more scandalous service to his master titan when he introduced Jeffreys to Whitehall. The rene- gado soou found a patron in the obdurate and re vengeful James, but was always regarded with scorn and disgust by Charles, whose faults, great as they were, had no affinity with insolence and cruelty. ‘That man,’ said the king, ‘has no learning, no sense, no manners, and more impu dence than ten carted street-walkers.’ Work was to be done, however, which could he trusted to no man who reverenced law, or was sensible of shame; and thus Jeffreys, at an age at which a barrister thinks himself fortunate it he is employed to lead an important cause, was made Chief Justice of the King’s Bench. His enemies could not deny that he possessed some of the qualities of a great judge. His legal knowledge, indeed, was merely such as he had picked up in practice of no very high kind; but he had one of those happily constituted intellects which, across labyrinths of sophistry and through masses of immaterial facts, go, straight to the true |Hiint. Of his intellect, however, he had seldom the full use. Evon in civil causes his malevolent and despotic temper perpetually disordered his judgment. To enter his court was to enter the den of a wild beast, which none could tame, and which was as likely to rage by caresses as by at tacks. lie frequently poured forth on plaintiff's, and defendants torrents of frantic abuse intermixed with oaths and curses. His looks and tones had inspired terror when he was merely a young advo cate struggling into practice. Now, that he was at the beau of the most formidable tribunal in the realm, there were few indeed who did not tremble before him. Even when he was sober, his vio lence was sufficiently frightful; but, in general, his reason was overclouded, and his evil passions stimulated by the futnosof intoxication. His even ings were ordinarily given to revelry. People who saw him only over his bottle would have sup- |Kised him to be a mail gross indeed, sottish, aud addicted to low company, and low merriment, but social and good-humored. Ho was constantly surrounded, on such occasions, buffoons, selected for the most part, from among the vilest pettifog gers who practised before him. These men ban tered and abused each other for his entertainment. 11c joined in their ribald talk, sang catches^vith them, and, when his head grew hot, hug" J J fdrunken f kissed them in an ecstacy of drunken fondness.— But. though wine seemed to soften his heart, the effect a few hours later was very different. He often caiue to the judgment seat, having kept the court waiting long, and yet having but halt slept off his debauch, his cheeks on fire, his eyes staring like those of a maniac. When he was in this state, his boon companions of the preceding night, if they were wise, kept out of his way, for tne rec ollection of the familiarity to which he had admit ted them iuffamed his malignity, and he was sure to take every opportunity of overwhelming them with execration and invective. Not the least iniious of his many peculiarities was the pleas ure which he took in ~ L 1 ** nullifying those whom, in his nts of mauldlin ten derness, Tie had encouraged to presume in bis favor. The services which the government had expect ed from him were performed, not merely without flinching, but eagerly and triumphantly. His first exploit was the judicial murder of Algernon Sid ney. What followed was in perfect harmony with this beginning. Respectable Tories lament ed the disgrace which the barbarity aud indecency of so great a functionary brought upon the sdmiu- istration of justice, but the excesses which nUcd such men with honor were James. Jeffreys, therefor*, h Charles, obtained a seat in the peerage. This last honor wasa sij royal approbation; for, since the jumci of the realm had been remodeled in the W tury, no Chief Justice has been a lord of tnent. — -*N We are allowed eeye Ihe Wuhiagtoo lateSgeneer, January 34Ui to pibitfi Ihe (bUewiug ertwst fteu • letter from «n offioet in the aqaadron of Commotion Jonee, who give# » vivid aud lifc-Iikt picture of Ihe state of thing, in Celifaniuatth. time ofhi. writiuf Uhited State* Shit Ohio, ) Moeterey, California, Nov. 1, IMS ( We arrived here on the 9th of laat month. The weather for the last fortnight haa been dehghtfU, very much like our finest October weather at homo. The pleasant seaBon has just commenced. It will be impossible for persons at a distance to realize the state of affairs here. Gold is the only subject discussed. It is bought and sold in gro cer’s scales. It is selling for $11 an ounce here, *10 at San Francisco, and at the mines. » is worth over 18 in the United States. Atths mines it is the only medium of exchange. The price of a glass of grog is a pinch of goto. In* Indians had at first no idea, and have scarcely any now, of its relative value. They would offer ail they had for anything that pleased them. A man from the mines told me that lie had sold a blanket for S980 in uold, and the hat that he wore np mere (an indifferent one) for «64 Every onethM can possibly do so, has gone to the mines, l neie are some fifteen or twenty vessels at San Francisco, which cannot leave because their crews nave de- serted. They offer 850 a month, and cannot get men at that; the usual wages were about 019.— Those who reap most in this golden harvest are the small traders, for, as a matter of Connie, toe necessaries of life are scarce. One of UMM informed me that he retailed flour at pound, and said it had gar at per pound'* bars, pickaxes, *— price. The mine, miles Ion to be mat tlier. A @1,000 a days. I sawn, about two months; — about 01,500, a month. .. r — pounds has been found. The largest piece th have seen weighed 1 pound two ounces. The most that is found is small and fine. A man will leave a place at which he does not find more than an ounce a day. The machines are very rude ; in fact, it would be profitable to work thto which escaped them, were there not richer wont all around. There were about ten thousand per sons working. People areflocking all aroand^The mines are said to be inexhaustible. The present low price of gold cannot long last: for 1 suppose a mint will soon be established. Nor can the ne cessaries of life long remain as they are, though they will be high for some time. Nothing for con sumption is made here, but cargoes are on their way from South America and the islands, and no doubt capitalists will soon have their agent* which alone would bring gold nearly to it* proper valw. I had a revolver, worth about $13 in the United States: as a special favor I parted with it for H ounces of gold, equal to $65 in the Uuttod Statre. Persons are Been with gold valued at thousand* of dollars, who, a few months since, would bufl considered themselves fortunate in having twe” dollars in their possession. Doctors arc mai) fortunes fast. Their fee at the mines for feeling pulse is an ounce of gold. It is said that some them are making $100 per day. It is very aickly now at the mines. [From W. B. Seabrook’i Eway.] Rotation of Crop*. j The subject of a rotation of crop*, it latarerd- ing but little to assert, is not understood in the cotton-growing region; nor perhaps in uis United States. The unsonndness of the excreUonary theory of De Candolle ha* at length been »atU. factorily determined by a Scotch chemist, who has re-established the principle, that every plant abstracts from the soil ita specific aliment, of which, by long cultivation in a single crop it may be wholly deprived;and that unless thi* aliment be restored, it must remain unfit for profitable cultivation. When arable land ia allowed to lie fallow Sir two or three years, ita productive ca- pacity becomes groatly improved. By u» rotting of the grass,f which absorbs no potash, and the decomposition of the substances by which aaUM ingredients are let free, it is again enabled to're ward the labors of the husbandman. The fact and the reason soon led to a broader field of ex amination. It U now known that the |“J“ r 5 r , the land from a green crop is less than if it had been allowod to ripen. According to the chemi cal researches of M. lAUSsure, too ashes of the plants of peas (Pismn Pativum) when green con tain only 17.95 per cent of phosphate of lime, but that when ripe, they yield 23 per ““i' The wheat plant which held 10.76 per cent in flower, contained 11.75 per cent in its ma ‘“* d .***5“, Th« same result was obtained from other ptanta that absorb the most from the atmosphere; plant* hav ing the smallest system of leaves most exbanat the soil of common nutritive matter. Planm withdrawing the same aliment from th* aou will mutually injure one another, if growii beijde eacii other; on the contrary, if they obeoro unUDCM of different kinds, they may not only *dvantago- ously be cultivated eiae by side, but be reared »B succession. Where potash abound*, tobacco might be made to follow wheat, or wliret tobacco. In the cereals phosphates are invariably present f the narcotic plants do not require there sstta The wool of cotton substract* from the trace of tho phosphate of potass*{ the reed per cent.; the wool 35.44 per cent, of th* pbo*- pliate of lime; the seed 61.64 par cent. The ash of the cotton seed moreover ha* treoU tbe pho*- plioric acid, (the most valued mineral conintoere of a soil) possessed by fibre. Coin twre from tho soil less potass* and lime, but more pho*phc*to acid, than cotton; and swret potatoes more potw* sa but less lime and phosphoric acid. The mam crops of the planter therefore, ahrertith* same in gredients from the soil, though in di*roiit p<ropor. tions. The practice of planting onto on tad ret apart for cotton is obviously injorion****lj>W*Uy if the cotton stalks be removed or burnt; tor «* ■ * •• Ls«* —liitn tA IBA flOU OK only do y the very I ceeds wh potash.) iShsifiTre si trJXStoSSh*xs Up. °Hewalersd plants with amlntto'.of lions not only without injury, but to their isHinsI Tim efi tGi*js contains carbon 45 psruenH hydwre »I D&IESBACH ATTACKXD ST A Ijct National Theatre Boston, on Tnred*y.» bach placed a newly importodogto UL^ with* lion, lioness and ngar,b«t the Itattsftnj pears, soon got into a fight with the and at it they went “ tooth and nail Th* Mpu says and But lion off his head, the ca_ his bac_. _ last accounts tremel than dued, Driesbach ran to q«*U the fight, with ^t* 1 * pieces of joist, and at last entered thscag*— his power over the bestows* at an eod- Tito seised him and threw himdown, tost ton **»y uu nis head, and bit him severely oo hi* ngto **to» which bled profusely. _ He made his esesp* #• ige, with his clothes completely tore!) ick. Medical aid was caned, sod B*to accounts we learn hi* wonnas, n°*»» L - ely painful, are not reritnu. It wenfortoji* i three hours afterward* that the lirewaf—*- I, and rendered obedient to the krepst*. ^ Fatal prayess.—There uaedto be* HP upon the bench of s court, in a nrighbtotognwj whoseJorU was the passing of stotottJto upon all poor wretch* that cameegtohl en or two malefactors. A caMhroaf e day to be sentenced, and eaysjhe Jn jre inttomanr in such caaee, winding n1 #> ™. „joe:—“ And may the Lord have mwey nftn mend you old aon|, for I never knew spy bo** to live long, A Paris caricatar* npniw kick from Lsmaitto*, wh*to Cavalgnao, wfcsi* to *— sen; and recel ingooe by Louis Nasaison; Ll ureWjn—’ ir 34 ates. ne of

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Columbus enquirer. (Columbus, Ga.) 1828-1861, February 20, 1849, Image 1