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ADDRESS OF HON. A. 11. STEPHENS,
OF GEORGIA.
Before the Maryland Institute, on the evening of 2 Sd
February, in Commemoration of the Birthday of
Washington.
Respected Auditory. —ladies and Gentlemen! —
I need not assure you that I feel very much em
barrassed in rising l to address you under the cir
cumstances in which I appear before you. I had
expected to be preceded by another gentlemen,
who would have presented the most prominent
points for the evening’s entertainment ; but I
find myself in the foreground instead of the shade
of the* picture. I am'also admonished by the <
place of our assembling, a building dedicated to
mechanical skill and art, that all who bring offer
ings for exhibition here should have them perfects
ed by the exactest rules of correct taste and due
proportion. What I have to say will be the crude
thoughts which the time and occasion suggest.
When I gave my reluctant consent to be thus sit
uated, I said to the friend who urged me to it, as
no other person could be got to assume the task,
“Well, prepared or unprepared, I’ll speak. It
shall not be said that the birthday of Washington
goes begging for an orator.” You will please then
bear with me. Resides your kind indulgence, I
have but one support on which I rely, and that is
the consciousness that out of the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh. The occasion presents
a theme with which all our hearts should be full.
It is our country, our whole country, and nothing
but our country ! We have just heard read the
Farewell Address of the Father of this, our Coun
try. This mayjustly be considered the last will
and testament of our common parent to us, his
children. It bequeaths a rich legacy of wise les
sons and precepts which deeply concern our
future political welfare that should never be for
gotten.
I propose, first, to sav something of the author
i|MKof these lessons, and then say something of tlie
lessons themselves, and their bearing upon our
present and coming interests.
In speaking of Washington, it is not my object
to attempt a delineation of his character, or to
pronounce a eulogy becoming his name and his
memory. Well might I shrink from an underta
king which the ablest and the best men in his own
day and ouis have failed to succeed in. There are
some things in nature which defy the powe* of
the pencil ; and Washington’s is a character that
no hand can portray. Its merits are to be appre
ciated only by the emotions its excites by actual
contemplation ; we must look at it, behold it, and
study it to realize its grand proportions and gigan
tic structure. Some suppose and maintain that
circumstances make men; that circumstances
made Washington. Not so. Men make circum
stances. It is true that events and accidents may
occasionally give position and notoriety to even
small men ; and in the whirl of public affairs un
deserving men may sometimesget attached to their
names and memory what we call distinction and
fame. Such, indeed, may be called the creatures
of circumstances. But those great events that
mark epochs in the history of nations and in the
history of the world are the works of men, and
they always bear upon them the impress of the
master spirit of the times. Great men make the
subjects of history ; little men only figure in them.
All greatness is, of course, comparative ; and
with mind it is in some respects as it is with mat
ter —the same law obtains in the intellectual as in
the material or physical world. There is something
in blind not unlike what is called gravity or gravi
tation in bodies. Each and every one wdthin the
sphere of its influence acts and is acted upon by
all others. Bnt the larger, denser, and greater
always predominates in its power over the smaller
and weaker. The lesser is subject to the influence
of the greater. This is true of the heavenly bodies,
as our school books teach us. A similar principle
governs mind and intellect. And, tested by tliis
principle, where does Washington stand? What
was his influence over his associates, and who
were his associates ? They were Franklin and Jef
ferson, and Hancock and Hamilton, and Madison,
Samuel Adams and John Adams, Jay, Lee and
Patrick Henry, and many others who will live in
history as peers amongst the greatest men both as
\ orators and statesmen, that this earth has ever giv
r- en birth to. “There were intellectual giants in
those days.” No mistake about that. And these
were the* men on the stage with Washington when
the greatest drama of the world came off—the
American Revolution—and the establishment of
the Constitution of the United States. I speak of
those events as constituting the greatest drama
of the world—because, though history may give
us an account of more bloody battles and* more
tragical incidents, yet never had there been before
nor has there been since anything like a similar
contest, in which the true principles of human lib
erty were not only involved but successful.
The success of our arms and the establishment
I ot our independence was but a scene in that dra
matic act. The great -work was the establishment
of the principle of self government amongst men.
That was no easy task. Every age has produced
men who could win victories and overturn em-
Sires. But no age ever before or since has pro
uced men who had the ability, the forecast, the
integrity, the will, the patriotism, and the philoso
phical statesmanship to construct a form of gov
ernment, or political organism, by which rational
liberty—liberty regulated and protected by law—-
could be enjoyed equally by every citizen of the
State. Such is American liberty ! And in it is
involved a problem that the law-givers of the
world from the days of Moses to the meeting of the
rf*. Philadelphia Convention were not able to solve.
But by them it was solved—we live happily and
prosperously under the success of the experiment
And who was among these greatest of the worlds
great men ? To whom were all eves in any peril
and in any danger turned ? To whom did alllook
in the field as well as in the Cabinet ? It ovas
Washington ! Great as were Franklin, Jefferson.
Madison, Jay, and Hamilton, and Adams, they all
looked to Washington as the ruling spirit of the
day. He was if you please, the great central sun
about and around which the others,as lesser orbs, re
volved in their majestic spheres, each being himself
the centre of another, but a smaller system. When
the struggle with the parent country first com
menced, all looked to him to lead the armies to
victory and triumph. When the articles of Union
needed revision, all looked to him to give directions
to their councils. When the constitution was
formed, all looked to him as the man to put the
system in operation. View him when you will or
where you . will —in the parlor or in the public
in the army or in the convention, as Gen
eral or President, in adverse or propitious fortunes
—and you will see him at all times, “first in peace,
first in war, and first in the hearts or his country
men.”, Tell me not that such a man owes his
greatness to circumstances. He bore nature’s
stamp of true nobility of soul ! He bad the
genius not only to throw off a Government which
was then the best the world had, but to recon
struct and establish another and a better in its
stead.
There are many points in this great man’s char
acter that it might be agreeable to dwell on. It is
often no less pleasant than profitable to philosophize
on character.—With this view biographies are en
tertaining and # instructive. Character is motitive
exemplified by action; and its study is the best
key to those secret causes which often determined
the fate of nations. In Washington’s character
there is nothing more strking than the entire ab
sence of selfishness—that nutriment on which un
holy ambition feeds, llis action was prompted by
a sense of duty, and from no desire of what is com
monly called glory. Office with him was a high
trust which he never sought and which he never
held either for its honors or emoluments. He never
flattered either the King when he was a subject,
nor the people when he was chosen to be their ru
ler. And no man could ever say that he was de
ceived by him. Truth, fidelity, temperance, fru
gality, sobriety, fortitude, courage, patience, for
bearance, witk undeviating integrity and honesty
—that honesty which you have just heard read as
an irdunction in his Farewell Address as the best
policy in ail things—shine as bright virtues in his
character. Wbat lessons might be taken from a
study of his life and acts by many of those in our
day who aspire to statesmanship bv no nobler
deeds than tricks and intrigues ; by scheming, con
triving, colluding cheating, misrepresenting, and
even by.
“Rending the pregnant hinges of the knee
Where thrift may follow fawning.”
You see in him none of the wily arts of the de
magogue or crafty politician. In all tilings he was
open, frank, bold, and right. There was about him
a perfect simplicity of character as well as grandeur.
Some men we read of we contemplate with emo
tions similar to those we experience in beholding
a beautiful landscape—such are Fenelon, Addison,
or Sir Waltar Scott. Others have those traits which
awaken feelings akin to the terrible—such are
Genghis Kahn, Tamerlane, and Bonaparte. But in
Washington we have an approximation to the
highest order of the moral sublime. What virtue
was wanting in him, or what vice was ever laid to
his charge ? Some venture criticism from the fact
that he availed himself of the assistance of others
in the preparation of some of his State papers.
This only snows his justcr claims to true greatness.
Wise men will always avail themselves of all the
aids tlfcy can procure to carry out and perfect their
high designs. Sir Christopher Wren did none of
the manual labor in the erection of that magnificent
creation of genius which will render las name as
enduring as the dome of St. Paul’s. He Was the
designer, the architect, the constructor; So with
Washington. He planned, he superintended the
structure. The aids contributed to him by others
w'ere no more to the grand result his genius gave
by the proper application then the quarrying the
stone and dressing the marble were to the designer
and ideal constructor of that towering monument
to his memory of which your city may justly be
proud. He had commanded of the intellect of the
age. And he brought proper materials, from what
ever quarter he found them, to aid in roaring and
finishing the majestic temple of American liberty
which is now the worder and admiration of man
kind. He was the master builder, and in him was
“A combination and a form indeed,
Where every God did seem to set a seal
To give the world assurance of a man!”
It is said that perfection is not the lot of human
nature. It is also said that the sun has spots on
it. If there be any defect or blemish in the char
acter of him whose birth-day we now celebrate,
they must be like those spots on the sun—they
can’t be seen, at least with the naked eye. No one
has ever yet seen them in his case, even with a tele
scope. No, lam too fast! It has lately been dis
covered by one from abroad, whose advent amongst
us has been hailed by certain latter-day saints in
politics as a second Messiah, that he was slightly
touched with a certain species of obliquiti/ in his
nolitical vision; that he did not see straight; that
xie was in great error, at least in some"of those
precepts which we have he" d to-night.
This brings me to that part of my >ject. I was
'rst to speak of the counsellor, *ai then of his
counsels. The heed we give to advice should de
pend somewhat upon the w orth and estimation we
nave for him who gives it. The teachings we have
heard to-night, then, should certainly be respected
in consideration of the source from which they
come. They relate mainly, so far as I shall allude
to them, to two subjects.
The first is the relation which tho people of the
States bear toward each other in the c. npact of
Union.
The second is the relation which wq as a people
bear toward other nations.
Both these subjects are of vast importance to the
peace, quiet, and prosperity of the people of the
U. States, and on both did Washington dwell in
his last words to his countrymen, with the earnest
ness of a departing father in his dying in'unctions
upon the children of his love and his" hope. The
first of these objects with him was the Union of
the Stat es. For he saw that without union we
should soon be without liberty. Ho had not read
history in vain, lie saw that if once the Stal es were
divided, border jealousies and dissensions would
soon spring up; that wars the most implacable
would follow; and that our career, so nobly begun,
would be cut short and end ultimately in despo
tism. Hence he has invoked us to look to the
Union as the “ palladium of our political safety and
prosperity,” and to frown down the “first dawning
of every attempt to alienate any portion of the peo
ple of one section of our country from the rest, or
to enfeeble the sacred ties whica now link together
the various parts.” lam here to-night to advocate
tho Union upon these principles. What has it not
already done for us ? What rapid and unprecedent
ed advancement have we made under its influence
in commerce, in art, in science, and in every thing
that elevates, ennobles, and dignifies man! What
would have been our condition without it ? Im
poverished, discordant, and belligerent petty sov
ereignties, without power at home, and without
respect abroad!
We cannot, therefore, be too ardent in our at
tachment to the Union, when ave consider its ob
jects, and what it is capable of effecting, so long as
those objects are kept in view. But allow me, fel
low-citizens—and I have the privilege as well as
pleasure of thus addressing you under the pro
visions of this Union—to say that upon the subject
of the Union and its preservation we must not let
our zeal take the place of knowledge. The Union,
with the Constitution as its basis, is a con plicated
and delicately constructed system of Government.
It is a political organization, and it is with it, as it
is with all other organizations or organism, there
are certain general principles that must be looked
to when we consider what will probably disturb its
operations. Its best friends, then, will be those
who most carefully study those general principles,
which may be denominated the In ws regulating its
existence. To understand how to preserve it re
quires a thorough knowledge of its nature; its or
ganic structure, as well as the relations and func
tions of all its points. Life in my body is an
emanation of the animal organism of tho various
Farts of my physical frame. To preserve this life
must observe the general laws or princples that
regulate it. The Union is the life, the spirit, and
soul of our body politic. To preserve it there are
certain general principles to be observed. One of
the first of them is a constant attention to the ob
jects for which it was formed. The life ar d spirit
of the Union spring from tlie objects for which it
was formed. To preserve its life and sj irit, the
bare name, without the substance, must always be
held subordinate to the original or vital principle.
M hen the soul has departed the dead body may
remain for a while, but the energies and functions
of the living man will be gone to return no more.
So with our Government. Nothing is more essen
tial to its existence and preservation than that
harmony and domestic tranquility in all its parts
which were amongst the prominent objects of its
creation. Every attempt, therefore, to alienate the
affections of the people from their Government, as
well as every attempt to invoke the action of the
Government on such objects as will have this ten
dency, should be indignantly frowned down by every
true lover of his country, wherever his lot may be
cast. This is Patriotism. I am not one of those
who believe that patriotism is indigenous to any
particular locality in our country more than anoth
er. It is a plant of as spontaneous and luxuriant
a growth upon the green mountains of Vermont
and the granite hills of New Hampshire and Mas
sachusetts, as it is upon the broad savannahs of the
South or the rich prairies of the West. Lad and
jeckless men may be found in all sections. But
we have never yet passed a crisis (and v e have
had many in our history) when there was not pa
triotism enough in all parts, when thoroughly
aroused, to rescue us from difficulty. From this
fact alone the friends of the Union upon the prin
ciples of the Constitution, here to-night, nave
abundant reason to indulge a confident l ope for
the future. But I must pass on. The other point
I promised to allude to is the subject of our foreign
relations. This is becoming a matter of grave and
momentous importance for the consideration of the
American people. It was a matter that the far-see
ing eye of Washington did not overlook.' lienee
his emphatic and solemn warning which you have
just heard “ against the insidvus wiles of foreign in
fluence (/ conjure you to believe me, my fellow-citi
zens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constant
ly awake.”
Tnis was the language of the patriot and sage
in his last words to his countrymen. The hand
that penned it has long since returned to its moth
er dust; but tlie same voice still comes from his
tomb at Mount Vernon, and here this night invokes
you, for his sake if not your own, to hearken to
that voice. Again he says : “ The great rule of con
duct for us in regard to foreign nations it, in ex
tending our commercial relations, to have u ith them
as little political connexion as possible.” Fiona that
day to this—for more than half a century—we have
followed that advice. Our motto from that time to
this, in the language of Mr. Jefferson, h is been
“Friendship with all nations—entangling alliances
with none.” —And I am proud to say that no Amer
ican—no son of Washington, not even tlie most
degenerate—was the first to advocate a change of
this policy. It was reserved for the son of anoth
er and a distant clime—a man, too, who had aban
doned his own country in the hour of her peril, to
come here to teach us how to make ours great,
prosperous and powerful. For the honor of Ame
ricans, I say, be it spoken, that this first attempt to
arraign the wisdom of Washington on this ques
tion of our foreign policy was made by a foreigner.
Would that I could say that no Ameriotfi had
yielded to “the insidious wiles of his influence.”
But the virus has taken effect; it is spreading
through the land ; and we now hear it openly pro
claimed, in many places, that it is time for us to as
sume our position amongst the nations of the
earth; that it is time we had a foreign policy.
What does this language mean ? Is it intended by
those who use it to convey the idea that we have
gone on for upwards of sixty years in a career of
prosperity never before equalled, without any fo
reign policy? Was not the rule laid down by
Washington, and acted on by every Preside nt from
his day to this, a policy * It was a policy. It was
and is the policy of attending to our own business,
and letting other nations alrnie. It was and is the
policy, the time-houerad policy, of non-in ierveu
tion. It may not be a foreign policy, but it is a
Washington policy ; by an observance of wl ieli we
have come to be what we arc—one of the first na
tions of the earth. Are we to be told that il is now
time for us to assume a place amongst the Powers
of the world? Did not our forefathers do that
when they compelled Great Britain, in 1785 to ac
knowledge our sovereignty and independence?
Had we no position amongst the great nations
when France sought our alliance in 1795 aid ’96,
which overture was rejected ? Had we no position
in 1812, when wo again met in combat our fid en
emy, and the most formidable for them in the world?
Had we no position wnen British fleets w r ero driven
from our seas, and her invading armies were cut
down and beaten batfc from our shores ? W ere the
heroic deeds of our naval officers, to w’hose memo
ry a marble monument has been erected on the
Capitol grounds, performed before we had suffi
cient power to be felt? Was the gallant and daring
defence of your own city, which you have put in
living remembrance on your own public square, all
done without a foreign policy, ana before we were
enabled to take a place amongst the nations of the
earth? Be not deceived, my fellow-countrymen,
we have had a policy from the beginning It is
a good policy ; it has worked well. Let us adhere
to it.
[concluded to-morrow.]
New York, March 6.— The steamer Baltic sailed
to day about two o’clock with 31 passengers and
|7o,ufio in specie. From 7 o’clock last night to 9
o’clock this morning she took in 1,000 tons of coal
and 800 tierces of flaxseed and was ready for sea.
Among her passengers is E. Lytton Bulvyjr, En
glish attached at Washington,
dtjmmidc an^mtkl
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
THURSDAY MORNING,.. ..MARCH 11, 1852.
Mr. Jenree was the Instructor in Penmanship,
whose presence in the City we designed to announce
yesterday. The types often misrepresent us.
The ..Union Convention,
In their card, calling the Convention of the Union
Party, which we published some days since, the
Central Committee state the object of the Conven
tion to be “for the purpose of taking into consid
eration the propriety of sending delegates to the
Baltimore Presidential nomination.”
In giving publicity to this card, the Journal and
Messenger thus notices this peculiar phraseology:
“The call of the Central Committee, it will be
observed, is fora Convention “for the purpose of
taking into consideration the propriety of sending
delegates to the Baltimore Presidential nomination. ’’
The plain inference from this phraseology is, that
the Convention when it assembles can only consider
the question of sending delegates to the Baltimore
Convention. Against this statement of the object
of the Convention we protest, and deny the au
thority of the Central Committee to make it.
Whatever authority the Committee has, is derived
from the Legislative Caucus of the Union Partv, re
cently held in Milledgeville. The second resolution
of that Caucus provided for the creation of a Cen
tral Comir’ttee, and expressed the objects of its
creation. That resolution is in the following words:
“ Resolved, That in order to perfect the policy, ansi
to carry out the weld settled principles of the Consti
tutional Union Party a State Central Committee <f
seven, he appointed hy this meeting, whose duty it shall
he, at ike proper time, to call a Convention, composed
of double the number of Representatives from each
county, to assemble at the Capital at such time as said
Committee may designate, to take into considera
tion THE NEXT PrESIDENTAE ELECTION,”
“There is no authority given to the Committee
by this resolution, to call a Couvention to appoint
delegates to the Baltimore Convention, or any
other Convention; but simply “to take into con
sideration the next Presidental election.”
“We know that this call for a Couvention, as it
is now published, is not approved of by some of
the gentlemen w+iose names are attached to it, and
we must believe that its phraseology, to which we
object, was inadvertently adopted." Be this as it
may, we would earnestly "urge our friends to send
delegates to the Convention, untrammelled and
uninstructed, except to maintain the principles of
the Union Party, and to select as delegates their
wisest and best men, who mav by their action, se
cure the fruits of our recent victories, and inaugu
rate a canvass which shall give us still more bril
liant success, and consolidate our power.
According to our notions, it is matter of little
consequence how the call is worded. The supreme
power in this country is in the People; and when
they, or their delegates, assemble in convention,
they will not be apt to pay much deference to the
opinions of the Central Committee, unless in ac
cordance with their own, or ask of the Committee
what subjects they shall or shall not discuss and
act upon. Those who drew the call, we presume,
are very anxious tosend delegates to the variegated
Baltimore compound of Free-Soil and Secession
Democracy; hence the particular phraseology,
which was designed to keep that matter promi
nently before the people. This we like, and shall
endeavor to aid the Committee in keeping the
question in a very prominent position before the
Union Party of Georgia.
Foreign Policy of the Administration.
There has probably never been an administra
tion of this government, whose foreign policy has
been more eminently successful, and which was
so universally approved by the intelligent, conser
vative and patriotic portion of the American peo
ple, as that of Mr. Fillmore. That there should
be found those who oppose, condemn, and even
denounce, in opprobious terms, that policy, is not
only natural but to be expected ; nay, desired, for
the opposition of extremeists and ultraists always
affords high evidence of conservatism and earnest,
devoted patriotism in political affairs. Their op
position and denunciations are therefore infinitely
more to be courted than their praise ; for they
servo to warn the masses, as a light-house the
mariner of breakers, of the dangers of approach
ing too near their positions. That Mr. Fillmore
should have drawn down upon his own and the
heads of his cabinet, the condemnation of such
men, while they have, with an ability unsurpassed,
sedulously guarded and protected the interests
and honor of the nation and the rights of the citi
zens, should be cause of gratulation to every lover
of his country. It augurs well for the republic,
because it gives assurance that they are building
up the country, promoting the prosperity of the
people, and finishing, perfectingand strengthening
the glorious fabric, reared by the hands of patriots,
sages and sires against the assaults of the des
tructives.
We have been led into these reflections on read
ing the following appropriate, and well-timed ar
ticle from that able, conservative journal, the New
Orleans Bulletin:
“ The firmness, masterly diplomacy and inflexi -
ble maintenance ot the individual rights of Ameri
can citizens and of the honor of the country, dis
played by Messrs. Fillmore and Webster, in their
official intercourse with foreign nations, have
attracted wid- -spread, if not universal, admira
tion. The direction of foreign affairs—now im
mensely important, and becoming more so every
year —could not have been confided to an abler,
truer, or a more patriotic statesman. The present
illustrious Secretary of State has added new lau
rels to the unfading wreath which already encircled
his brow by his wise, prudent, careful and tnms
cendently able management of the vast, compli
cated and momentous concerns committed to
charge as chief of the State Department. Without
his cool, cautious head, immense knowledge of
international law, profound, yet thoroughly practi
cal—the decided and' positive, irresistible in argu
ment, yet courteous nature of his official corres
pondence with the representatives of foreign gov -
ernments, the United States would, there is scarce -
ly room for doubt,, have been involved ere this in
costly, bloody and ruinous wars—alike destructive
to commerce, industrial pursuits, to progress and
prosperity, and to the diffusion of free principles
and republican institutions throughout the earth.
To his patriotic and unequalled diplomacy, which,
while it preserved peace, maintained unsullied the
honor ot the country and the rights of the citizens
entitled to claim the protection of its flag, the
present harmonious relations of the United States
with European powers is to he mainly attributed.
The foreign policy of the administration may be
assailed by unscrupulous demagogues who are only
enabled to obtain potoriety during a hotly contest
ed canvass, by the virulence of their abuse, the
baseness of their slanders, and reckless and bois
terous conduct, just as the agitation of a body of
water brings to the surface the fool and noisome
substances which had been hidden beneath. As
in the waters, so in the political world. When
agitation subsides, both descriptions of filth, un
man and vegetable, disappear to their natural depth,
only to be witnessed again by the operation of
fintnlar causes.
But, while the pimps of the opposition may take
pride in their assaults upon the foreign policy of
the administration, and enjoy the dirty work in
proportion to the baseness of the calumnies they
may invent, it is a source of gratification that the
statesmen of the party hold to, and express open
ly, entirely different opini ons.
Gen. Cass, at the conclusion of his remarks on
the resolution calling upo,u President Fillmore for
information relative to the firing upon the Prome
theus by a British vessel of war near Greytowu,
justly said:
“‘I must express my gratification, in looking
over the papers, at the ground taken bv Mr. Crit
tenden in his communication with the french and
British Ministers. He lai d down the true doctrine,
the doctrine for which we have always contended ;
and I trust the administration will firmly adhere
to it. They will meet, lam sure, with the general
concurrence of the country. This is precisely one
of those questions before which party disputes
should bo bushed, and which appeal to the hearts
of the whole American people.
When the foreign policy of the President is en
dorsed by such a man, it seems to us that propriety
would dictate to opposition organs a cessation of
their gross and unwarrantable attacks.”
We think it is Dow Jr., who gives the following
quaint advice in on* of his “Patent Sermons
Let your home be provided with such comforts
and necessaries as piety pickles, potatoes, pots and
kettles, brushes, tongs, brooms and benevolence,
bread and charity, cheese and faith, flour, affection
cider, sincerity, onions integrity, vinegar, wine
and wisdom. Have all these always on hand, and
happpiness will be with you. Dont drink anything
intoxicating—eat moderately —go about your bu
siness after breakfast —lounge a little after dinner
—chat after tea—and kiss after quarreling ; and all
the joy, the peace, and the bliss this world can
afford shall bo yours, till the grave closes over yon,
and your spirits are borne to a brighter and a hap
pier sphere. So may it be.
Geokolv State Convention. —The Union Cen
tral ComAittee of Georgia, have called a State i
Convention at Milledgeville, on the 22d of April, c
for the purpose of taking into consideration the t
measures recommended by a legislative caucus last n
winter. From appearances, the scheme of Cobb,
Toombs and a few others will fail, and the Union t
men of that State will not be transferred like cattle t
to the support of a Baltimore Convention, with i
Freesoilers, Cobb is now on at Washington, and 1
large expectations seem to be entertained of bis <-
ability to bring the Union party into alliance with s
the Northern Freesoilers and Anti-compromise i
party. These will be disappointed. t
We clip the above from the Montgomery Jour- J
nal for the purpose of correcting the erroneous |
impression, into which that paper has fallen in re- s
l ation to the position of the Hon. R. Toombs, to
whom we are satisfied the Journal would not in- *
tentionally do injustice. It is sufficient, therefore, ]
for our purpose, to state tliat Mr. Toombs does not f
favor the policy of sending delegates to the Balti- 1
more Convention, On the contrary, he approves ’
of the position of his colleague Mr. Stephens. 1
In justice to Gov. Cobb, whose presence in
Washington is subject to misconstruction from the ’
above paragraph, it is proper to remark, that he was
on his way to New' York, in the discharge of an
official duty, (the negotiation of the States’bonds,)
and availed himself of the opportunity thus afford
ed, as he w r as passing through *to spend a few days -
among his numerous friends in Congress and :
Washington City. To which no reasonable exeep- 1
tion could be taken by the veriest caviller, for “a |
strict construction of the Constitution and the re
solutions of ’9B and ’99.” i
Fine Cotton. — A crop lot of sixty-four bales of
Cotton, said to be the finest sold in this market
this season, was sold by Buford & Beall yes
terday, at cents. It was made by J. Gartrell,
Esqr.,of Wilkes County.
The Rabun Gap Road.
The following communication, wffiieh w'O copy
from the Charleston Mercury , contains more sound
practical, common sense view's and suggestions in
relation to this Road, than any article we have seen
in a Charleston journal. We will not even except
the wise reflections and sago counsels of that fa
mous railroad manager, Col. James Gadsden, late
President of the Charleston road:
Messrs. Editors :—But n few w'eeks have passed
since the word “Rabun” was made known for the
first time to the Charleston public; and already,
our merchants, in the language of Judge O'Nead,
“with their accustomed liberality, will not fail to
subscribe at least $250,000 ! A good many jokes
w'crc passed some years ago upon a Railroad mania
in England; caricatures of school boys steaming
their iron-horses by various lines towards the
school bouse, were struck off, and drew smiles from
the boldest projectors on this side, self-satisfied
that they would never be victims of a mania. But,
unfortunately, some kinds of infatuation are too
common to human nature in all climes, and the no
tion that there can be no limit to the liberality of
our merchants deserves to be discussed. They,
doubtless, are anxious not to forfeit all claim to
this compliment, and yet there are many who very
reasonably desire the objects of this liberality to be
presented in more lights than the usual ones of ex
travagant praise before they determine on action.
A short review of those instances where Charles
ton has already ventured her capital, may remind
them that thev now have irons m the fire which
will require all their attention to manage advan
tageously.
The “liberal” argument lias made Charleston
embark in two very important investments—the
Nashville Road and the Memphis Road, together
nearly a million dollars; the former, and the hea
viest, was made some time ago, but not long
enough yet to call it anything but an experiment—
the other is quite recent.
It was generally understood that a condition,
and a very just one, was attached to our $500,000
in the Nashville Road—this w r as that its construc
tion if not begun at this end, should at least bo car
ried on simultaneously from both ends. Instead of
this, we read of nearly a hundred miles on the
Nashville end being completed before one has been
put iu operation on this, thus losing to the city an
interest on her investment for all this lost time. If
there w'as such a condition, and as far as we have
heard, such w r as the case, it has been grossly viola
ted by that Company; if there was not, an act of
injustice to our largo contribution has been com
mitted in the face of our representation in their
board of directors. So far then this has not paid.
In the case of the Memphis Road, although no
such violation has occurred, yet the interest of
Charleston has been decidedly slighted. Instead
of locating a line from Decatur by Gunter’s Land
ing to Rome, thus affording a near approach to the
air line between Memphis and Charleston, an evi
dent twist has been made northwardly to join the
Nashville Road, and in view of the speedy comple
tion of the great Lynchburg and Knoxville Road,
this deflection lias “an awful squinting” towards
Virginia. The port of Norfolk, according to Lieut.
Maury, has as good prospects as, and a better har
bor than Charleston ; so that there may be in time
more propiety in saying the Memphis and Norfolk
than the Memphis and Charleston Road. A glance
at Kenan’s late map will illustrate this. Thus the
liberality of our merchants perhaps will have to
content itself with the dividends of the Memphis
Road, while a large part of their business goes to
Norfolk. To return :
When the word Rabun first appeared, it w r as in
connection with Chattanooga; we now find it
coupled with Knoxville ; and that a hasty exami
nation of a route from Anderson to that place has
been made, upon which we are told we should sub
scribe $250,000. In the instance of Chattanooga it
is reasonable to suppose that the inconvenience of
transportation at Augusta would go far towards a
considerable outlay, but it is questionable w'hether
this would be less in building a new Road (and
such an one as the Cliatt uooga bossiness requires,
none of the modern trestle trap-stick one horse
Roads) than what would be needed to bur out
Augusta, and double track the Georgia and Caroli
na Roads. In fine, if Augusta is the only barrier to
our trade, cannot her consent be procured by a
Icl" sum than will be needed to build a new' Road
around her I If she is not the only barrier, and
another line is necessary to do tlie business of
Chattanooga, we venture to say that a double track
could be laid from that place to this, alonside of
the old line, for less than it would take to build the
Rabun Gap Road and relay the Greenville Road,
which, if travellers stories and the detail of crashes
be true, will require it ere long. The State Road
of Georgia is ready graded for a double track; but
the cause of complaint is not so much the want of
room, as the wretched system of management which
must attend all roads subject to the changes of
State politics.
Now, the line from Rabun to Knoxville can have
no effect at all upon Augusta. Is all trade from the
interior of Georgia, Alabama, West and Middle
Tennessee, to go up to Knoxville, and then down
to Charleston by the Rabun and Greenville Roads?
If it does not, and accumulates at Augusta, as it
will do, of what avail then will be our proposed
$250,000? Augusta is the difficulty; and any
scheme which offers itself now, should be put to
this test: “can it help this difficulty?” The city
has heavy investments in two Roads, which must
bring their produce to us through Augusta, and it
would be neglecting this interest, t« invest in ano
ther entirely distinct direction the money we
should apply toward the removal of the Augusta
obstacle, w'hich holds back our returns from those
two Roads. To divide time and money between
these two Roads, which, by dexterous management,
may be of immense value to her, aud another
which is of minor importance, does seem no saga
cious policy.
Let us then cease “y«/>-ing” over a new and
doubtful route among the mountains, wish the Ra
bun Road all success, but take care of our already
important difficulties in the way of that rich trade
destined to pass over the Nashville and the Mem
phis Roads. Halifax.
Spirits and Segars.—lt is said that the Secretary of the
Treasury’s Reports will show the curious fact, that in the
fiscal year, ’SO-’sl, the amount of imports of
JJrandy were $2,124,000
Other Spirits, 466,000
$2,590,000
Whilst of Ssgars alone there were.. $2,521,000
The number of passengers, who, during the past year ar
rived at New York, is thus stated :
Passengers from Foreign Ports, 209,051
Passengers from California, via the Isthmus, 15,207
Total, 817,288
Taxes in New Orleans.— The New Orleans Del
ta attributes the decline of that city to the enor
mous taxesjmposed on real and personal property:
It says the annual tax on the meats and vegeta
bles consumed there, amounts to $200,000. Gro
ce r s who sell liquor by the quart and pint pay an
nual license of $l5O each. Wholesale merchants
and other t raders pay a tax of S4O. Retail dealers
are taxed 14. Commission merchants pay a license
of S4O. Boarding houses or hotels with bars
arc taxed $250 a year, and another dollar for
each boarder, they are prepared to accommodate,
boarding houses without bars are taxed S4O each.
Restaurants with bars pay a tax of $450, each Bil- ■
Hard table is taxed4o. Livery stables are taxedlsso
a year. Commission merchants tempoarily in New
Orleans are taxed SIOO. Bathing houses pay $l2O ;
a year. And so on through all kinds of pursuits ;
W'hether necessary for the public welfare or immor
al in their character 3nd tendency with very little
discrimination.
A bill has been reported in the Virginia Legis
lature, authorizing a loan of $1,000,000 of the :
State bonds, to enable Ambrose Thompson to es- i
tablish a fine of steamers between Richmond and i
Europe.
New Route to San Francisco.— lt is announced
in the New York Herald that a company has been 1
organized and tt charter obtained fir a new route 1
through Mexico to California. It proposes to run i
a line of steamers from New York to Vera Cruz,
and from this point to cross overby land and water
to the Pacific—from Vera Cruz by one of‘the na
tional roads of Mexico to Puebla, and thence, leav
ing the city of Mexico to the north, in a westerly
line, to Coiacualco on the Mescala river, two hun
dred and ten miles, and hence by steamers down
said river four hundred and fifty-nine miles to its
month, where it is known as the Zaeatula river,
thence’by stelftn ships to San Francisco. By this
route the distance to San Francisco from New York
is stated to be nearly two thousand miles less than
by the Panama route, and some five hundred miles
shorter than the Tehuantepec.
The company which has been organized upon this
uew route u entitled “The Mexican Ocean Mad and
Inland Company,” aud was incorporated by the
Legislature of York iu July last. It cpmuri
ses such men as Simeon Draper, John Cruder,
Samuel Wetmore, Jr, George Bird, and A. C. Ram
sey, and their associates. The capital stock of the
company is $2,500,000. The advantages which
the Company has secured from the Mexican go
vernment are, the exclusive right of way by this
new route, and the exclusive right to the trans
portation of all foreign mails across the republic of
Mexico for fifteen years. —Charleston Courier.
Norway and Sweden. — A Religious Revolution.
—ln Finmarck, which, is the remotest northern
region of Norway, almost lost in Arctic snow's, a
revolution is now raging, which, although purely
religions, is attended with all the disastrous cir
cumstances of political troubles. The inhabitants
of this desolate region, persuaded by Missionaries
of some sect whose tenets have not transpired,
have repudiated Christianity, and especially the
seventh commandment, banished the priests, and
now adopt the Missionaries, who profess to have
received them directly from Heaven.
The Bishop of Drohtbeim, in whose diocese
Finmarck is situated, immediately upon receipt of
the intelligence, despatched two of his clergy to
the scene of excitement who were instructed to
show the inhabitants into what errors they bad
fidlen. These gentlemen arrived, and found that
the report was less startling than the actual state
of things. Universal dejection reigned in Fin
marck, labor was abandoned, the churches were
deserted, and the pastors driven away.
In the streets and in the houses men, women
and children lay upon the ground, with their gar
ments torn, their heads strewn with ashes, and
bitterly lamenting that until then they had lived in
a false* faith, ignoring the true God and meriting
eternal suffering. The ecclesiastics despatched by
the Bishop apprised Him that the fanaticism was so
obstinate and the confusion so profound and uni
versal that they saw no other means of preserving
the peace of the country and saving the inhabitants
from their own fury, than the intervention of the
military power. In consequence of these, repre
sentations, the Governor of Drohtbeim has des
patched a nigh officer of police and an armed force
to Finmarck. The result of the movement is not
yet known.
The Loudon Morning Advertiser has been as
sured from a source, in which it lias every reason
to place reliance, that a tacit if not distinctly ex
pressed, understanding bad been come to, prior
to the resignation of the former, between Lord
John Russell and the Earl of Derby—that in the
event of the latter nobleman coming into power,
no step would be taken by Lord John Russell, as
the new leader of the opposition in the House of
Commons, which would impose on Lord Derby the
necessity of an immediate dissolution of Parlia
ment, inasmuch as it is considered that it would
be much more desirable to allow the estimates to
be voted, aud the more public business to be trans
acted, before making an appeal to the country.
Should nothing occur to prevent this understand
ingbeing carried out, Lord John Russell and Lord
Derby think that the more urgent business might
be got through by the Ist June, and that after a
brief the Parlirment could be dissolved
at such a time as would defer the elections
until after the harvest. All this, however, it
must be borne in mind, proceeds on the assump
tion tliat matters will go on smoothly enough with
the Derby Ministry to admit of the arrangement
being carried out. — Ch. Gonr.
Hatching of Fishes. —At one of the late sessions
of the Paris Academy of Sciences, Mr. Coste took
occasion to remark to the society that he had suc
ceeded in hatching salmon and trout from eggs
hr night from a distance. He exhibited a glass
globe, half filled with water, with a bed of sand at
the bottom. A multitude of redish, half-transpa
rent creatures, were darting with extreme vivacity
from one side of the bowl to tha other. Each one
was about as big as a grain of hemp seed. Two al
most imperceptible black points seemed to be the
eves, and a slight, though remarkably active ex
crescence, the tail. The eggs from which these
embrvo salmon were produced were sent to the
College de France from Mulbausen, where they
M ere packed, if the expression may be allowed, by
the engineers of the Rhone Canal. They were
placed in a tin box, wrapped up in a mass ot moist
aquatio plants, and sent by diligence. M. Coste re
ceived them forty hours after they were taken
from the waters of the Rhone, and immediately
placed them in a basin, through which he caused a
steady current of water to flow. A few days after
their immersion, they gave birth to numerous
hearty young salmon ; their health was so good as
to enable them to pay a visit to the Academy at a
very early period of their existence. The success
of the experiment seems to render it probable that
salmon maybe acclimated, and learn to live in re
servoirs of fresh water.
Pennsylvania. —The Cass delegates, thirty-three
in number, in the late Democratic Convention at
Harrisburg, Pa., submitted a strong protest against
the action of the Buchanan delegates, who com
posed a majority of the Convention, and declare
their conviction that the action of the Convention
is “pregnant with the seeds of dissatisfaction and
discord in the ranks of the Democratic party of
Pennsylvania.” Among the subsequent proceed
ings of the Convention was the introduction of a
series of resolutions, adopting the platform laid
down by the Baltimore Convention of 1844-4 S,
sustaining the Compromise measures ; in favor of
the Fugitive Slave Law; urging Mr. Buchanan as
the only choice of the Democracy of Pennsylvania;
and instructing the Pennsylvania delegates to vote
for him from first to last. Sundry amendments
were proposed and discussed with much warmth
and feeling. A call was made for the previous
question, to silence debate and cut off further
amendments. The Convention sustained the call,
and the resolutions were finally adopted—the Cass
men fighting most desperately up to the last mo
ment.—Baltimore American.
California Items.— The Government schooner
Sierra Ne Vada left San Diego on the 25th for the
mouth of the Colorado with company ‘F.,’ 3d Ar
tilery, aboard. She takes out Major Andrews as
Commissary and goes to commence supplying the
post at the Gila ; the troops are as an escort to the
provisions in going up the Colorado. In two or
three weeks Maj. Heintzelman starts with all the
infantry in the southern district except the compa
ny at El Chino, for the purpose of re-establishing
the post at the Gila. Already a temporary depot
is formed at Los Vallecitos, the last waters, for the
purpose of supplying across the Desert. Heint
zelman goes out to whip the Yurnahs before estab
lishing bis post, and therefore takes more troops
with him than are intended for its permanent gar
rison.
“China” is the name of a large settlement near
Jackson, composed entirely of Celestials. They
arc a very quiet and industrious community, and
have done much toward unfolding the vast resour
ces of this country. A large number of Chinese
passed through Mokelumnc the past week, cu route
for the camp above named. Additions from the
late arrival from Hong Kong are daily flocking into
this county, and before long we may expect to
see quite a town where Little China now stands.
Mr. Clay. —The Washington Telegraph of Sat
urday afternoon says:
We have for some time forborne alluding to the
condition of this illustrious gentlemen, because no
positive and decided change could be noted. But
we haue now high gratification in being able to an
nounce that bis health is improved, and that were
the weather more favorable to day he he would en
joy a drive out. IVe have reason to belive that be
fore many days shall pass his voice will be heard
in the United* States Senate.
Chevalier W ikoff Convicted. —The Genoa Mer
cantile Courier of the 14th, contains the following:
A curious case was lately tried by the Tribunal
of the First instance of our city—namely, the ille
gal seizure of Miss G. C. Gamble, by an American,
M. Henry Wikoff, with a view to exort a promise
of marriage, or, at least, one-half the fortune of the
young lady in case of failure. A Frenchman,
Louis Vannaud, the courier of Miss Gamble' and
a Genoese, Luigi Carallsri, were accused of being
his accomplices. The latter was aquitted, and the
two others sentenced to 15 months’ imprisonment,
California Emigration. —Some idea of the rush
to California, and of the crowds who throng the
Isthmus awaiting a passage, maybe formed from
the fact that the steamship Golden Gate, which left
Panama on the 12th tilt., for San Francisco, took
up thirteen hundred passengers ? The Now Or
leans, on the same day, took up six hundred. A
large number also took passage by sailing vessels,
bet ween the first and 14tn of February, and there
yet remained mainat Panama between four and five
and persousthous awaiting a conveyance to Califor
nia.
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Destruction of Valuable Court Papers.— The
office of the clerk of Kenton county, (Ky.) court,
entered on Sunday night, and all the papers, ]
records, and $70,000 in bonds and notes, were put
in the stove and burned up. It was done it is sup-*
posed, by some of the litigents, and $2,000 reward 1
nas been offered for their detection. 1
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Arwsrmao I?icio»nt,—thtnng I of
1849, when the cholera was hurrying mult unties to
their last rest, t. highly respectable and interesting
family was sate d by the epidemic. Five of it*
memi»crs were prostaated at one time, and such
was the’alarm cfneighbors that no one came to
their assistance at the critical moment. When all
seemed hopeless there was one, the youngest child
of scarce tlypi.c summers, who had been providen
tially spared forHie occasion, who hies ministered
as an angel ! Her eldest sister requiring the great
est attention, was the special subject of the little
one's care.
And while the patient was withering under the
weight of disease, the little creature watching with
intense interes the pal lad countenance of her sis
ter. An unbidden tear traced her cheek, she seem
ed striving to divine some remedy that would
alleviate the pi in of the prostrated form before Lor
and suddinglv quitting the room, as on the wings
of love, procured a glass of cold water, returned,
and climbing ou a chair near the sick bed, presen
ted the sparkling draught, and in lisping accents,
said:—“Brink tliis my dear sister, it will euro
you.” She spoke as one who knew', for the pa
tient recovered—though not until after the angel
nurse had passed into the 4! world ol spirits,” irom
the same disease ; but her memory lingers as fresh
as the violets that bloom round her resting place.
Snake Bite Cured. — A little soil of Mr. John
Taylor of this county was bitten by a large mocca
sin several day s since, and was cured by the I red
use of gin and tobacco ; the one token internally,
the other applied to the wound.
That was lucky, and we are glad the little fellow
w r as relieved by such common remedies, if they
may be so called, and such as are used for the lessor
ills of humanity. Persons should be certain, how
ever, of a bona Jid r snake bite, before they re
sort to this prescription, else it may result in some
thing loss than u cure. —Sandersvide Georgian.
"VVe learn from the New York Herald that at the
recent monthly meeting of the American Institute
in that city an animated, discussion took place in
reference to the proposed Crystal Palace. Some
desired to oppose it strenuously, while some desir
ed to let it alone, or rather, to eclipse it by a bet
ter fair. All the proposition were finally voted to
be laid ou the table, mid the Institute adjourned
without doing anything. There was one interesting
fact came out in the discussion, that never saw the
light before—it was that the real inventor of the
plan of the Crystal Palace in London was Mr.
James Bogarduqof New York, the inventor of
iron houses whom the pattern was undoubtedly ta
ken.
New Bkick Making Machine —The Woodstock,
(Va.) Tenth Legion says that Mr. Lorenzo Sil
bort of that place, has invented a machine that will
turn out from JO,OOO to 100,000 bricks per day. it
is said to be very simple, and can be worked by
any amount of horse power.
A Norfolk despatch of the 6th inst. says, hands
are still at work on the wreck of the ship Philena,
which went ashore some days ago off Cape Charles
on her passage to Baltimore, endeavoring to save a
portion of her cargo. The ship will prove a total
loss. Her bow continues to sink. Most of her car
go will also be lost.
Chicago is the most rapidly growing city in the
Western country. It has row a population of 40,-
000, (although but 28,000 in 1850,) and real estate
is selling at higher prices than can be obtained any
where else.
It is rumored that a person from this city, who
recently vent to Panama, lias succeeded in obtain
ing la’-gc advances from parties there, on letters of
credit purporting to be issued by a bank in this
city, but which are found to be forged.—A’. Y.
Post.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
F¥NERAL NOTICE,
The Friends and acquaintances of Mr. and Mrs
1. S. Tuitle and of Dr. George M. Newton, are invited to
attend the Funeral of Mrs. Tittle, from the residence on
Walker Street, at 3)4 o’clock THIS AFTERNOON.
Irish Volunteers, Attention !— Attend a meet
ing of the above Company at the Oglethorpe Drill Room,
corner of Green and Jackson-streets, on FRIDAY, the 12th
hist., at 7)4 o’clock, P. M. By order.
Capt. J. B, CAMPBELL.
T. P. Fogarty, Sec’y. nihll-2
Augusta and Waynesboro’ Railroad.—An In
stalment of Twenty Dollars per share (the seventh and
last) on subscriptions to the Capital Stock of the Augusta
and Waynesboro’ Railroad, has been called for by the Board
of Directors, payable on or before tin* first day of April next*,
at the office of the Secretary, Jos. Bancroft, No. 117, Bay
Street, Savannah A. K. LAWTON, President.
*** Scrip for full stock will be issued to subscribers on pay
ment of this Instalment, and surrender of former receipts.
mhll-wtAl
SST” W e are requested by Dr. J AMES B. WALKER, to
say that he respectfully declines being a Candidate for
Member of Council. mlilO-2
W illiam K Kitchen, Esq., is nominated as a
tit person for election ’■‘ -the office of Mayor, in April next,
wh#i, it is understood, the present incumbent will not be a
candidate.
Mr. Kitchen is thus nominated at the instance of many
citizens, and, if elected, will accept and faithfully discharge
its duties. fe22 A VOTER.
ZvfP" .Mr. Editor:—Please announce Dr. WM. E.
DKARTNG as a Candidate for the office of Mayor at the
ensuing election in April, and oblige
fe2o MANY VOTERS.
fF’U e are authorized to announce JOHN PHIN
IZY, Sr., as a Candidate for the Office of Mayor of the City
of Augusta, at the ensuing Election in April next. mh4-*
are authorized to announce 11. R. PIfIL
POT as a candidate for Council in Ward No. 1. mbit)
fhgf" Second W ard.—Gen. GEO. W. EVANS, and
W. H. MAHARREY, Esq., will be supported for Members of
Council from the Second Ward, by MANY A OTERS.
mh4
We are requested to announce Gen. GEORGE
AV. EA'ANS and JAMES M. DA'E, as candidates for Counc i
in AVard No. 2, at the ensuing election. nib9*
\\ e are requested to announce BENJAMIN
CONLEY, AVILLIAM E. JACKSON and ROBERT H.
MAY as Candidates for Council in AVard No. 8, at the ensu
ing election. rnhl-*
Messrs. Editors Please announce JAMES
HARPER ami AVM. H. GOODRICH, as candidates for
inhere of Council for the Fourth Ward, and oblige
nihti* Many A'otfrs.
Beebe’s Spring Style Hats for 1552. Just re
ceived, per express, by
fet> J. TAYLOR, Jr.., & CO.
A Desirable Family Medicine.—AVe would
cordially recommend every Family to k*ep a Bottle of
TUTT’S PECTORAL ELIXIR in their house. Besides be
ing a certain cure for Coughs, Asthma, and Pneumonia, it
is an infallible remedy for Croup and Bowel Complaints.
mh6 •
(’base «5 i Darker, Dentists, Augusta, Geo.—
Office over the office of the Chronicle & Sentinel.
References —Augusta—Dr. AVtn. S. Jones, Dr. Jas. D.
Mackie, Win. A. Ramsay, Esq. Sparta—Rev. AVm. S.
Stokes, Dr. AAm. Terrell, Hon. N. C. Sayre. Oxford —
Rev. Geo. T. Pie - ce, D. D. Milledgeville—Dr. T. Fort,
Hon. H. V. Johnson. Ja29
D. S. Chase, M. D. | E. AV. Marker, M. D.
yW Ready-Made Clothing, at Reduced Prices.—
CLAYTON & BIGNON are now disposing of their Winter
Stock of Ready-Made CLOTHING, at very reduced prices.
They have a very good assortment on hand. Persons ia
want of any articles in their line, will do well to call and
examine their Stock, at 197, Broad-street, Metcalf’s Range.
ja27-lm
Portrait*— Charles Berger, Artist from the A
cademy of Munich, Bavaria —grateful for the encournge-
Anent given him the past season, informs the Ladies and
Gentlemen of Augusta and vicinity, that he has taken Rooms
over Miss Catonnet’s School (two doors above Clark, Rack
et! &. Co’s.) and is prepared to furnish Portraits of the best
xeoution at short no ice. The public are respectfully im i
togive him a call.
A few more Pupils in Drawing can be accommodated.
References. —Messrs. T. Clanton, Thos. Richards, J. Gard-
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63^“"Leigh, Tucker dc Perkins’ Improved sky light
dagderrkan gallery.—The Pictures now being taken at tliis
establishment, by the aid of an entirely new Apparatus and
Sky Light, arranged expressly for the purpose, are pronoun
ced by all, superior to any that have ever before been offered
in this city.
AVe have lately received a new stock, consisting of every
variety of plain and fancy Cases, into which pictures will be
nserted in the neatest and most careful manntr.
Particular care will be liestowed on the arrangement of
family groups, and to the attitudes of single pictures.
A general assortment of Plates, Cases, Polisliing Materials
lc., constantly ou hand for sale. oil
pgr* A most va liable Family Medicine.—Dr. C.
AVilliams’ Pulmonic Balsam of Wild Cherry and AVood Nap
tha is not only the best Cough Remedy, but it also has a
remarkably prompt t fleet in diseases of the Bowels, Cholic ,
Diarrhoea, Sick heeulache, Cholera Morbus, Cramps. Ac.,
hence it is a valuable Family medicine, and is peculiarly
adapted to summer :orap!aints in children. In diseases of
the Lungs, nothing :an equal its efficacy. See advertise
ment in another column. felS-dlm m
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