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COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, Dec. It I*3o.
liAHGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
California for Buchanan.
By a dispatch received on Saturday, to be
fouud under the telegraphic head, it will be
seen that California cast her vote for Bucha
nan.
Steamer Ben Franklin.
The Ben Franklin, Capt. Berry, arrived at
our wharf from Apalachicola yesterday morn
ing, heavy ladoned principally with salt, and
will leave for Apalachicola and intermediate
landings at 10 o’clock this morning. For
freight or passage apply on board.
Her cargo of salt is for sale. See advertise
ment.
Arrest of a Stolen Negro.
Deputy Marshal Robinson received o i: Sa
turday, from Macon, the following dispatch :
“ Some I’olico officer in Columbus will look
for a black boy 13 years old, about three foot
high, smart and quick spoken. Supposed to
he stollcn.” JOHN BARTON.
The negro on the arrival of the train was
duly arrested, hut the thief escaped. The hoy
says ho belongs to Mr. Barton, who lives at
Rod Bluff on (he Ocmulgce, twelve miles
below Macon. The hoy cameup with a cotton
wagon to Macon and there was induced by the
thief to come to Columbus.
The thief is about 5 feet 8 inches high, well
formed, blue eyes, dark hair, with a small
patch of beard under his chin, and had on
when here a pair of checked pauts. Can’t
somebody catch this thief and send him back ?
Knoxville Market.
The Register of the 27th Nov. quotes Bacon
to 9sc.; superfine Flour $5 50 to $6;
White Wheat $1 10 per bushel; Butter 12$ to
1(1$; Pork $0 per hundred; l'eas 50c. per
bushel, and Corn 75c. per bushel.
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, Large Beet.
The editor of tho Wilmington N. C. Journal,
lms been presented with a beet raised by Mr.
W. 11. Toler, in Duplin County, weighing ten
pounds. The editor says it is a magnificent
vegetable, perfectly sound and healthy, and of
a clear blood red throughout.
Kentucky Election.
Kvery county in Kentucky has been heard
from, save three, and Buchanan’s majority is
7,501. The three counties unreturned gave
185 Democratic majority last year. Wc sup
pose tho majority will not vary fifty votes from
7,700.
Vote of Florida.
Tho Floridian of tho22d ult., gives tho offi
cial returns from eighteen counties, showing a
majority of one thousand one hundred and
twenty-eighty for Buchanan—a gain on the
Democratic majority for Governor, at the Oc
tober election, in the same counties, of one
*’ ind and forty-one.
The Mayor and Aldermen, of Nashville,
Tennessee, have declined sending delegates to
the Commercial Convention to come off at Sa
vannau, on the Bth inst.
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Official Vote of Illinois.
Buchanan 105,344
Fremont 00,180
Fillmore 30,451
By tho above, it will be seen that Buchan
an’s majority over Fremont is 9,164.
Ohio Election—Official.
Cincinnati, Nov. 24.—The following is the
official vote of Ohio for President:
Fremont 187,497
Buchanan 170,874
Fillmore 28,125
tierret 156
From Key West.
The Key West Key of the Gulf of Saturday
last says:
Gen. Harney lias determined to make that
place the principal military depot of tho depart
ment of Florida.
On Weduosday the United States revenue
• utter Sea Drift, Lieut. Randolph, returned
from l’unta llussa —to which place she had
conveyed (leu. Harney and suite—and report
ed tho arrival at that place of tho “bark Ark
wright, from Boston, with five companies of
the 4th Artillery, under the command of J. Is.
Scott; also, a bark from New Orleans, with
several companies of the sth Infantry. No
Indian news.— Sav. News.
Walker to be Annihilated.
Our telegraphic dispatches inform us that
the government, of I’eru and Chili have
joined for the overthrow of Gen. Walker, in
Nicaragua. Wo learn, also, from a letter re
ceived in New York, dated, Gautemalu, Octo
ber lid, that—
la addition to tho troops now in Leon, un
der command of Gen. Paredes, -,000 more
will march by the end of October ; part will
go by sea, and part by land.—those by sea in
two vessls under escort of an armed schooner;
and (100 men from the republic of Salvador
will join this force. They will probably be in
Leon by the middle of November.
The last news received from Costa Rica is
that 1,000 men would enter the south of Nica
caragua to act in union with those of Guata
mala, Salvador and Honduras, all combined
and pledged to support tho provincial govern
ment of President Kiras.
When these troops join those now in Leon
they will have over 8,000 men, well armed and
equipped—consequently Walker will soon dis
appear.
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Nicaragua.
The Steam Ship Texas left New York on Sat
urday for San Juan, Nicaragua. She took
out between four and five hundred passengers,
a large proportion of whom were recruits, en
listed in Now York and Philadelphia, it is said
for Gen. Walker.
The charge of dishonesty and treachery
made by Mr. Edmond Randolph sgainst Gen.
Goicuria caused the latter to send to Mr. Ran
dolph on Saturday morning a verbal chal
lenge to mortal combat, which Randolph re
fused to receive, and required his communica
tion to be made in writing. Ueu. Goicuria im
mediately sent in a written challenge, which
was promptly acccepted. The New York He
rald is informed that arrangeumpts had been
made for a hostile moeting between the parties
on Monday morning.
f Customs and Habits in Central Africa.
The following letter which we copy from
the South Western Baptist, was addressed to
the Rev. J. C. Sale, of Auburn, Ala. Mr.
Clarke is a Baptist Missionary in Central Afri
ca, sent out by the Southern Baptist Conven
tion :
Ijaye, Aug. 4, 1856.
Dear Bro. Sale: In my last favor, 1 closed
with a description of building houses, and an
allusion to tho house hold customs of tke coun
try. Permit me to add a little more on that
subject. I remarked, that parental government
was patriarchical, vestod almost entirely in the
hands of hint who is calied, “Dale,” or gov
ernor of tho house. To this individual every
one in the compound look up, us their rightful
ruler, without whose consent, no step of im
portance can be taken. Between the families
and friends residing in the respective com
pounds, there is a strong feeling of attachment,
strikingly manifesting itself wherever occurs a
difficulty with another family. Not uul're
quently a number of families will lie found re
siding in the same house, each distinct, with
every article necessary for conducting their
household affairs. Sheep, goats and chickens
are all seen, mingling promiscuously together,
in one compound, in considerable harmony,
evincing the good disposition and forbearance
of the animals.
A man is entitled to as many wives, or con
cubines as his position and wealth will seoure.
The regulations of marriage bear some resem
blance to the ancient eastern custom. A girl
may be espoused to a man a number of years
before the inurriage is consuinnted. The court
ship steps are about as follows: If a man fan
cies a girl or woman, he visits her parents and
makes them a present of cloth, kolanuts, &c.,
with the understanding it is to bctrotli to him
their daughter. I flic proves successful after
the lapse ot some months or years, he returns
and makes a second present of courtesies, and
gives notice of the time lie expects so con.su
mate tho nuptial ceremony. At the specified
time lie appears in company with his friends,
and after the usual festivities, takes his bride
to his own house, where, for a time, she is de
livered into the charge of some of bis female
relatives or friends. Tho burial of the dead
is attended with more show and greater re
joicing than any other custom 1 have witness
ed. Nearly all burials arc made in their com
pounds, and under the projecting rocks of the
houses. Before the burial lakes place, the
body of the deceased, tightly bound with cloths
is, sometimes paraded about the streets, on
the heads ot men, and followed by the mourn-
CVS, liioro for tho purpose of a money specula
tion, than manifesting their grief. But the
grand festivity of rejoicing for the dead, takes
place after death, a longer or shorter time, in
proportion to tho ability of the friends and re
latives to make an honorable demonstration of
their weulthfcand inilueueo. Usually the crowd
sometimes several thousand, collects in the
market, where with instruments of tuuvic,
dancing, and a very reckless squandering of
couries, to the eager multitude, they pay their
last tribute ot respect to the departed. Money
is profusely scattered in every direction, over
the heads of the agitated crowd, and in the
tices, already freighted with the boys deter
mined on a prize, by the friends ofTho deceas
ed, even to tho last cowry. The drum boats,
the fife squeaks, the gun tires, the dance goes
on, strikingly more indicative of a gladsome
jubilee, than a grateful remembrance of de
parted worth. Such is the folly of ,debased
man. 1 need hardly add that these exciting oc
casions arc greatly intoxicating to tho admiring
crowd.
1 here is a peculiar custom
that prevails extensively through the country,
no doubt ot ancient origin. One object of it is
to keep the iemale part of the population in
subjection to thoir lords and masters. The
superstition is founded on the doctrine of the
reappearance of departed Spirits. For in
stance, a man, in company with some friends
goes out to the bush, there secrets himself,
changes Ins voice, announces his return to the
world as a spirit, and requests a dress of his
family, in which he may make liis appearance
in the town. (>1 course the women, the dupes
ot credulity, bestir themselves, and they soon
put together a garment, may well be called, the
burlesque on all dresses. Not unfrcqueutly, it
is a polish of various colors and cloths, almost
frightful to look at, of sufficient size to cover a
man from head to foot, not leaving a particle
ot human flesli. In this dress lie arrays him
self, with a club in hand, and enters the streets
a terror to man, woman and child. Every
one gives the way at iris approach, as it is
death by the law to whosoever touches him.
There can scarcely be any figures more grotes
que than some of these men present. Every
woman must admit, on pain of death, that said
persons aro spirits, or keep forever silent.—
The men of course all understand the cheat.
All boys, of proper discretion and age, are
taken to the bush, and there inducted into the
secrets of the order. Tho institution is very
simple, principally consisting of strong obliga
tion to keep inviolable the secrets of the order.
Tho cbiet objects of this silly custom are to
secure money by imposition, and keep tho fe
male part of the population in subjection.—
The grace and politeness of tho people, indi
cate an elevation several grades above that of
the uncultivated barbarian. No people are
more giveu to salutations than the “Yorubas.”
It is a continual, good evening, or good morn
ing, how is your health and your family, No.,
&c. It is a circumstance most rare not to have
your salutation returned. A peculiar custom
is their mode of living. Most of tho food is
evoked in the streets at regular stations, and
retailed for cash. No credit in this country.
Articles of provision are so very cheap and tho
quantity for a moal so small that this mode of
living, under existing circumstances, amounts
almost to all absolute necessity. Tho venders
of provisions adopt much the samo plan i'or at
tracting attention, as city street venders of
civilized countries. Under such culinary re
gulations, where the whole population aro day
laborers, the conveniences for such a class are
most marked, as every part of the city, furn
ishes till the articles of diet necessary for daily
consumption. The vessels used for cooking
purposes, aro of native manufacture, and vari
ous descriptions ; pots, and frying pans, deep
and hollow, water pots, .to., well adapted to j
the present state of the culinary art. Various ‘
kinds of provisions are well prepared to suit
the taste of tho epicure. Seat yourself in a
cooking department in America, and you may
have no idea how the business is done here,
with tho difference, it is iu the open air or un
der sheds. I must now close.
liver yours affectionately,
W. CLARK!!.
Improved Plan of Steering Perry Boats.
John A. Bernard, of Cauiden, N. J., has in
vented a plan for steeriug ferry boats, by
which both rudders are made to act simulta
neously, so that a double steering power is ex
erted, operating at opposite extremities, and
causing the boat to turn in a circle one-half as
great as when but one rudder is used.
•V letter from Temesvnr, Hungary. says:
several hundrod miles of the villuge of Sztim
ltu, near Arada, have abjured the Greek reli
gion and become Catholics.
T ;'igrapbl to tLo Baity ‘.:uri..
From New Orleans
New Orleans, Nov. 26.
Cotton easier, and sales to-day 8,500 bales. |
Middling lIJ- to ll^c.
Groceries —Flour $7 12$; Bacon—Sides 7e.,
Shoulders 6c.; Pork unsettled.
Sterling exchange 8 per cent. prem. New
York l discount.
New Oui.ea.ns, Nov. 29.
The sales of cotton to-day were 14,500 bales
without changes in prices. Sales of tiie week
51,000. Stock on hand 280,178 bales. In
crease of receipts over last year 59,020 bales.
Groceries—Lard 12c.; other articles without
change.
Freights are better, cotton to Liverpool sev
enteen thirty-seconds ; Grain ten pence ; Bos- j
ton Jc. Exchange dult.
Calitornia for Buchanan.
New York. Nov. 29. ■
The steamship Illinois arrived this morning
.brings intelligence that California had gone |
for Buchanan.
Important from Kansas.
Chicago, Nov. 20. — Advices just received j
from Kansas statetbnt Marshal Donaldson posi
tively refused to-arrest Hayes, who was clmrg- j
ed with the murdering of Buifum, and who
had escaped from prison. He expressed a de- 1
termination to resign his office in preference to j
making the arrest.
Governor Deary had suspended Judge Le
compto from the discharge of his Judicial du
ties.
Augusta, Nov. 27. —Our advices from Lea
venworth, K. TANARUS., arc to Friday, 21st. The
sales of the Delaware tract lands, which began j
on the 17th, were progressing favorably and
quietly.
The reserve Kansas Lauds arc selling rapid-
Jv at auction. The price paid is $1.53 per
acre.
Judge LeCompto has issued process for con
tempt of court against Gov. Geary.
Telegraphic Improvements.
New York, Nov. 27—A trial was made to
day of Hughes’ Printing Telegraph, and with
the luilest success. Messages were despatch
ed in both directions on one wire at the same
time, and with great rapidity.
Conviction of Falconer.
Petersburg, Ya., Nov. 24—Alexander Fal
coner, the defaulting treasurer of the Peters
burg and Weldon railways, was convicted to
day and sentenced to two years’ imprisonment
in the penitentiary.
News and Humors in Washington.
New York, Nov. 28.—Advices from Wash
ington state that Peru and Uhili have agreed to
contribute men and money to overthrow Gen.
Walker in Nicaragua. Peru proposes to give
§1,000,000, and Chili one thousa nil men.
file, President hesitates in receiving Gen.
Ferrer, us the Minister from Nicaragua, in
consequence of Goicouria's developments.
The Now York Tribune says that it is cur
rently reported that Mr. Buchanan has ten
dered to Gen. Lewis Ca-s the office of Secreta
ry of State, which has been accepted.
Suicide of Lieut. Walker.
New York, Nov. 22—Lieut. John S. Walk
er, United States Navy, hung himself to-day
at the Mansion House. Chambers street.
He was under orders to j.umtlio sloop-of-war
St. Marys, at Panama.
We were much pleased to witness yesterday
afternoon, a trial of a Waer wheel, invented by
our fellow citizen, Mr. Charles Scholl. To
us, the success of it seems beyond a peradven
ture. We do not profess to any proficiency
in mechanics, but the machine is so simple
and performs its work so well that we even
could understand it. We saw it, with our own
eyes, raise a weigit of six pounds, using only
seven pounds of water, which is 80 percent.—
This is considerably more than has ever been
done before. Mr. Scholl has applied for a
patent. We wish him all success, — Savannah
Republican.
Election Anecdote.
We learn that a gentleman of respectability,
well known in this community, went to the
polls on Tuesday, the 4th of November, to
vote. lie gave his name as Mr. , and
offered an open ticket to tho Judges. llis vote
was challenged by a gentleman standing by,
who remarked:
‘Excuse mo sir. I have no disposition to
impute to you anything improper; but you
are certainly not Mr. , for he is my near
neighbor, and 1 know him well. He is nearly
bald, and his few remaining locks are quite
grey, while yours are both dark and luxu
riant.”
My dear sir,” replied the gentleman, “I am
the very person you speak of; and but a short
time ago was both bald and gray. A few
weeks since I bought at the Madison Book
store a bottle of Wood’s Hair Restorative, and
you are a witness of the wonderful transform
ation it has effected.”
He voted without another word.— Madison
Visitor.
A Mammoth Clock.
It is stated that tho dials of tho English
Parliament clock arc twenty-two feet in diam
eter, and are the largest in the world with the
minute hand. Every halt’ minute, the point
of the minute hand moves nearly seven inches.
The clock will go eight and a half days, and
strikes only for seven and a half, so as to indi
cate by its silence any neglect in winding il
up. Tho mere winding of each of the strik
ing parts will take two hours. The peudelutn
is 15 feet long; the wheels arc of cast iron;
the hour bell is eight feet high and liiuo feet iu
diameter, weighing from fourteen to fifteen
tous. The weight of the Laminar is tuurcwt.
Accident.
We learn that last evening’s train on the
Georgia. Railroad ns it came into the city ran
against a young girl by the name of Cassell,
aud threw her against a rock and fractured
her skull. It is reported to be a bad case, but
hopes are entertained of her recovery—.iit
f/iistu Sentinel.
The New England States are represented a<
voting for the first time as a unit at the recent
election. The contrary (says the Baltimore
Sun) is the fact. Every New England State
went against Mr. Jefferson in the contest of
1801; and in that contest, says the New York
Express, tho orthodox clergy (as they styled
themselves) were ns active as in the “present
campaign. Mr. Jefferson was opposed from
the pulpit, Sunday after Sunday, during the
whole canvass; was called an Infidel, un Athe
ist, a Jacobin, a dealer in human flesh, aud
charged with being the father of his slaves.
The busuess, however, was overdone then as it
will be now. reaction commenced, a,nd at the
election of 1805 every New England stato ex
cept, Connecticut went for Jefferson.
The p” * ellcr for tho Uu.i 1 State- steam
frigat ‘ o iragua is made of brass, and is said
to be ■ : , irgest iu the world, weighing over
81,Qu _ tuuds.
GEIfEiIAL ITEMS.
The Selma Sentinel aanounces the death of
W. P. lteeves, Sheriff of Shelby county, Ala.
Mr. Yaletine Austin was killed at Memphis,
on the 12th, by tho premature discharge of a
cannen, while filing a saluto in honor of the
election of Buchanan.
John Foss and George S. Clark were killed
iri Dover, N. H. on the evening of the 19th
instant, while firing a saluto iu honor of Bu
chanan’s electiod.
Thomas Hatcher, lately of Worth county,
who escaped from tho Macon Jail, on his way
to the Penitentiary, was recently killed near
Jacksonville, Florida.
A celebrated physician, boasting at dinner
that he cured his own hams, one of his guests
observed : “Doctor, I would sooner be your
ham than your patient.”
Mrs. Dawson Atkinson, of Beech Island, re
cently sent to the Edgefield Advertiser, sam
ples of fine potatoes —one of which weighed
eleven pounds.
“Henry, my love, 1 wish you would drop
that hook and talk with me, 1 feel so dull.”
A long silence, and no reply, “Oh, Henry, my
foot’s asleep.” “Is it? well, don’t talk, dear,
you might wake it.”
Blankets were first made in Bristol, in Eng
land in the year 1738, by a poor weaver, whose
name was Thomas Blanket, and who gave his
name to his peculiar manufacture of woolen
cloths.
“Heading makes a full man,” says Bacon ;
and “Fashion makes a full woman,” says
Punch; for certainly a woman, as she is dress
ed according to the present fashion, could not
tv ell be made much fuller.
The original Sabbath in England, in the year
950, commencod on Saturday at 3 p. m., and
lasted till day-break on Monday. Iu the reign
of James 1., 1600, a fine of one shilling was
imposed by act of parliament on every person
absent from church on Sunday.
The first newspaper iu the New World is
said to have been printed at Boston, and bears
the date of September 25th, 1090. This little
herald of knowledge created alarm among the
powers that wore, and its publication was in
terdicted and suspended.
L. M. Martin, Esq., of Georgetown, D. C.,
has been appointed to the first class ($1,200
per annum) clerkship in the War Department,
(Quartermaster General’s Office.) made vacant
by the recent death of the late Tobias Mar
tin.
A news boy was heard to say that he had
quit selling papers, and gone into the mesme
rising business: “1 get five dollars a week for
playing.” “Playing wliat,” asked one of his
comrades. “Possum,” replied the boy.
Dr. Thomas Edmondson, a well known citi
zen of Baltimore, died at his country residence
on tho 24th instant, after a brief illness. He
was a gentleman of wealth, fine scientific at
tainments, and distinguished for his patron
age of the industrial and fine arts.
Thirty miles of the Knoxville and Kentucky
Bail Road were let to contract, to responsible
parties, at Knoxville, on the 16th inst. The
work is to be commenced immediately, and
the thirty miles to be completed by October
Ist 1858.
Reports received at Washington from the
United States Surveyor General for Utah show
that he has made considerable progress in sur
veying the settled portion 3 of that vast and
troublesome territory.
“We celebrate” says Jean Paul, “noble ob
sequies to these we love, by drying the tears
of others, than by shedding our own; and the
fairest furneral wreath we can hang on their
tomb is a fruit-offering of good deeds.”
The Supreme Court of New York hus deci
ded that a widow has no right to pledge a cer
tificate of penson to the attorney who procures
it for her, because Congress intended to secure
the benefit of its bounty to the pensioner per
sonally, and to place it beyond the reach of
creditors.
“1 stand,” said a western stump orator, “on
tiie broad platform of she principles of ’9B and
palsied be my arm if I desert ’em.” “You
stand on nothing of the kind,” interrupted a lit
tle shoemaker in the crowd ; “you stand in my
boots, that you never paid me for, and I want
the money.”
The Illinois Legislature, it is stated, is di
vided. The Democrats have one majority in
the Senate, and tho Republicans one majority
iu the House; but the Lieutenant Governor
elect is a Republican, and that gives the lat
ter a tie iu the Senate. The State is to be re
districted by tho Legislature elect.
The recent floods in British India, according
to the Calcutta correspondent of the London
Times, swept away whole towns from tho fu.ee
of the earth, and caused the los3 of between
4,000 and 5,000 lives, besides the destruction
so incalculable amounts of property.
The new electric light recently patented by
the American inventor in England, and yield
ing tbe most intense and beautiful illumination
yet attained by science, will, it is stated, be
usod on board the steamship Adriatic. Those
who have investigated this important discove
ry assert that, under favorable circumstances,
tbe electric light can bo scon at a distanco of
forty miles.
“M v dear Amelia,” said a dandy, “I have
long wished for this opportunity, but hardly
dare speak now, for fear you will reject me ;
but 1 lovo you—say you will be luiue ! Yotfr
smiles would shed”-—and then he came to a
pause ; “your smiles would shed”—and then
he paused again. “Never mind the word shed,’*
says Amelia, “go on with the pretty talk.”
An honest Duchman in training up his son
in the way he shouid go, frequently exercised
•him in Bible lessons. Ou ouej of these occa
sions he asked him : ‘Who vus dat would no
sleep mit Botiprer’s vife.’ ‘Shosoph.’ ‘Dot’s
a goot poy. Veil, vat vas do reason he vould
not shleop mit her?’ ‘Don’t know; shgoso
lie vasn’t shleepy.’
A powder horn was discovered a few days
since, on ouo of tho “Hunting Islands,” near
the mouth of the Morgan River, in South Car
olina, marked, “Randolph.” It is the only
trace ever discovered of the revenue cutter
Hamilton, (’apt. Randolph, which was lost,
with all hands, off Charleston Bar, S. C., in
1851), and never heard of.
\V. Gillmore Simms, on Tuesday night, de
livered a lecture in New York ou “South Car
olina in the evolution.” He defended his na
tive State from the attacks that have been
made upon her, aud gave a very interesting
account of tho trials and hardships through
which she passed during the revolutionary
war.
‘The first theatre ever established in Ameri
ca was at Williamsburg, W, September, 5tL,
1752. lue Merchant of Venice and Garrick’s
farce of Lethe were performed.
As the above item has had a good circulation
may a well remark that a theatre was es
tablished iu Charleston, S. C., 171R1, the loca
tion in Queen street, then known as Dock-st.
UAII.V SUN Ot'Hl'i;.
Columbus, Dec. 1, lSic
COTTON—The sales Saturday shows au improve,,!
ot'Ac- >n our market. We quote Good Middlin'. • ’
ll'A to Sales of tho day 347 bales, uudr .! ‘
385 bales.
MACON, Nov. 29—COTTON—Prices ruugc I'roni
He. Demaud good, and the market more buoyant 0 ;
previous to the news by the Persia. J ‘ 141
MONTGOMERY, Nov. 28—COTTON—There was,
animation in the market to-day—prices up 1 c rj o(i
400 bales changed hands, from 10-K to 11% 4 V A “
are very light, owing to the bad roads. MSCei PU
SAVANNAH, Nov 28—COTTON—Sales tosliv
bales ut prices ranging from 9Jx| to ll%c. ‘ -
That Luminary.
The Columbus Sun shines on in ever inercas
irig light. How it can find time to post up ;•
old fogy neighbors—watch abolitionists, k ei .
the town awake with news, and its readers i!
a good humor with fun, all for five dollar
year, is a mystery. Its course in denounci,.,
Brewer so promptly deserves all praise.— p.
baity Patriot.
Preserve Your Hair.
To those who are not aware that each p a)l ,
cuter hair on the head is a hollow tip'!
through which the fluids circulate which Cl>l .’
vey nourishment, and impart its peculiar
of color, it seems incomprehensible how resto.
ratives can produce a renovating inline,,,,.
While preparations of this nature were (mti u !
ted to quacks, and ignorant manufacturers q
perfumes and cosmetics, much and irrepaiaU e
mischief was inflicted on many a credit!,,! ‘
and deluded sufferer. But when seiemi:
men like Professor Wood, bring the lights. ;
physiology and chomistry to bear upon t;J.
treatment of such specialities, the result is the
compdete success which the certificates of then
sands relieved sufferers hear testimony t„.
See his advertisement. —Detroit Catholic Ail:.
HIED
la Chambers county, Ala., on the 23d of Nov. jp.
Augusta McCraw.
“ None knew her but to love her—
None mimed her but in praise.”
IiON VIVANTS
61. find at CELLA'S, fresh Cove Oys xtsk
t v ters, Lobsters, Crabs, Salmon, andjs^ 4 ) /* 1
Alibut in hormetrically sealed cans of any /
size. Call before all are gone-
December 1,185 U.
SALT SOR SALE.
WHO SACKS new now landing from the bn
IV/V.IV7 Franklin, and for Bale at thewharf. Call ,x,i
Decemb r I, 1830. THOMAS BEKuy,
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
iJGUR Good House Carpenters. Also—Wanted to l,ir,
for another year, five or six good Negro Carpenter
for whom tile highest wages will be given. Apple „•
my shop near the Market House. 1 ‘
Dec. X-ts ROBERT THOMAS.
LOST.
A PORT MONIK, containing one hundred
dollars in gold, with sundry notes and If “•
papers.- A liberal reward will he paid toll .IT ;
any person that will deliver the same at the
otiice of Troy Manufacturing Company, No. 4n liroar 1
street.. ‘ Dec. l-'it
Office IHuseogee Rail Road,
COLUMBUS, Nov. 28, i
DELEGATES to the Commercial Convention at Su
v.innah, on the Bth of December, on presenting ih
•evidence of appointment at this will be present. •;
with a free ticket to Savannah.
J. L. MtJSTIAN,
N'ov. 20. 8t President and Snp't.
FOB SALE.
TWO desirable residences, pleasantly located in tie-
X city of Columbus. For further particulars appiv!
Nov 29-ts GEO. W. DILLINGHAM.
WINDOW SHADES.
SOME beautiful WINDOW SHADES of every prict—
Just received by
Nov 2‘J-tf DILLINGHAM & DENSON.
BASKETS.
TjIVKRY conceivable variety of BASKETS just receive
Ju by Nov 29-ts DILLINGHAM & DENSON.
30,000 X>o3L*Xjaau^l.S!i:
WORTH OF DRY GOODS
AT COST.
IMIE undersigned, desirous of retiring from bn-iii.”
for a time in consequence of bad health, oifers Lis
ENTIRE STOCK AT COST.
The stock embraces every thing usually kept in a Dry
Goods Store, such as rich Silks. Cashmeres, Meriuul,
Poplins, ligured and plain DeLaines, Calicoes, pini::
Linseys, black aud brown Shirting and Sheeting, Tick,
ing. Hosiery, Embroideries. Irish l.inens, and Lliu-n
Lawns, Linen Cambric Hanttkerehiefs, plain llriuxtiM.
and Embroidered; Jaconet and Swiss Muslins, print'd
Muslins, Ginghams, J,tidies Cloth and Velvet Cloaks and
Talmas, white and red Flannels, Under Shirts and Draw
ers, Ginghams and Cambric Head Handkerchiefs, Table
Lumen, Towelling. Cloths, Cassimeres and Vesting
Kentucky Jeans, Tweeds, Kerseys, Blankets, Hats, Caji-.
Hoots and Shoes, Bonnets, Bonnet Ribbons, Itueli.-.
Tabs and Flowers.
Expecting to sell out the remainder of his stock t'-
other parties (who will take his place) by the Ist nf
March next, ho will, up to that time, sell at cost.
A good opportunity is now offered to retailers to re
tailers to replenish their stock before Christmas, ami L
the public at large to obtain cheap goods.
Columbus, Nov. 29, 1850. A. HUNTER.
$3,500.
T. M. lIOGAJI’S ANNUAL
CHRISTMAS GIFT LOTTERY,
FOR ISSO.
The drawing will take place at 2 o’clock on Thursdsv
the 25th day of December next, iu front of
HARRISON A McGEIIEK’S AUCTION ROOM.
Tickets Five Dollars each.
’ IMIEItE are 250 magnificent prizes, consisting of Fine
L Gold Watches, Gold Coin, Double Barrel Guns, Silver
Ware. Gold Jewelry, Fancy Articles, and last hut lv’
least, a likely Negro Boy and Girl.
Seven hundred numbers will be placed in the whe.-i
and two hundred and fifty drawn out, the first drawn
number taking Prize number one (See Scheme). Th
second, Prize number two, and so on until the Prizes are
all drawn. This scheme for this year presents iiiiprc “.
dented inducements to those desirous of investing in such
an enterprise.
Persons at a distance who wish to purchase ticket -,
will please address the undersigned enclosing l ive Del
lars and their orders will he promptly attended to,
HARRISON a” MeGKIIEK.
Columbus. Nov. 27--td No. 59 Broad Street.
Less than they Cost In New-York,
•_>fY PATTERNS Striped aud Plaid SILKS at £l2.
OG 22 patterns striped aud plaid all woo) DeLanc- at
Call soon and get first choice, as they will soon I”
all sold at (N0v.28.) ATKINSON’S.
HOUSE AND DOT FOR SAUK.
MMIK undersigned offers for sale the House - _.
Ind Lot where he now resides. The build
lugs are all new. Persons wishing to purchase |||.
would do well to examine my place, as it is oneJLkLX
of tho most desirable ami pleasant locations in the city
Nov. 26. 1856. 6t F. G. WILKINS
SILKS AT COST.
J >EING desirous of reducing our extensive t< h 1
X) SILKS before removing to our new Store (in
eupied by .). ft. l'emhi i toil A C 0.,) we offer them al <
Those desiring BARGAINS will find it to tlielr advant
age tocall soon. CALHOUN AJUJINSONi
NOV. 26. 5S Broad Street.
.1. .1. JOHEfi
At die old stand of Jefferson A Hamilton, corner
ten and Franklin Streets,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
Has in Store, a fresh supply of
FAMILY GROCERIES,
C ((INSISTING iu part of Fresh Goshen Cheese and h"-
! ter. Lard. Bacon Hams, Sides and Shoulders.
aud Sweet Potatoes. Onions by the merxure, barrel
string, Peas. Corn. Molasses, Sugar, Collee, Ac.
MEAL and FLOUR at Mill prices, and Country I 1
dime generally.
Nov. 20. 15..0. ly
FOR RENT.
mm: Office formerly occupied by the Bank of St Alai”
I it in commodious room, with a good vault, situ" 1 ’
ia a central part of the city and well calculated l" 1 . 1 ’
Bank Agency or Insurance Office. Rent low. En'l' 111
of Nov 27—4 t JNO. C. BY s’
CARPETS and blankets
AT COST.
tITR offer a Hue lot of Carpets and Blankets at e ■*-
Nov. 28. lm S. ROTHCIHLD *