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N. B.—Sales of Lands, by Administrators, Ex
ecutors, or Guardians,are required by law to be held on
tlio first Tuesday in the month, Ik-tween the hours of 10
in the forenoon, and 3 in the afternoon, at the Court
House in the county in which the land is situated. No
tices of these sales must he given in a public gazette
sixty days previous to die day of sale.
Sales of Negroes must be made at a public auction
on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual
hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county
where the Letters Testamentary, ot Administration or
Guardianship, rnav have been granted, first giving sixty
days notice thereof in oneol the public gazettes of this
State, and at the door of the Court House, where such
sales are to be held.
Notice for the sale of Personal property must Ire given
in like manner forty days previous to the day of sale.
Notice to the Debtors and Creditors of an estate must
be published forty days.
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Ordinary for leave to sell Land, must be published for
FOUR MONTHS.
Notice for leave to sell Negroes must be published for
four months, before any order absolute shall be made
thereon by the Court.
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SOUTHERN SENTINEL
Job Office.
H AVING received anew and extensive assortment \
of Job Material, we are prepared to execute at
this office, all orders for JOB WORK, in a manner which
can not be excelled in the State, on very liberal terms,
ami at the shortest notice.
We feel confident of our ability to give, entire satisfac
tion in every variety of Job Printing, including
Hooks, Business Cards,
Pamphlets, Bill Heads,
Circulars, Blanks of every description,
Hand Bills, Bills of Lading,
Posters, djr.
In short, all descriptions of Printing which can be ex
ecuted at any office in the country, will be turned out
with elegance and despatch.
Dyeing and Renovating Establishment.
BERTHOLD SENGER
VTTQULD respectfully inform the ladies and goiitle
> V men of Columbs, and vicinity, that lie is still at
Ins old stand on Broad Street, near the Market, where
he is prepared to execute all work entrusted to him, in
the various departments of
Dyeing, Scouring,’ Renovating, & Rleaching
new and old clothing. Ladies’ Siiks, Merinoes, and
Satins, cleansed of stains and impurities, and colored to
any shade. Also finished to look and wear as well as
new.
Cotton, Silk, and Woolen goods bleached or dyed, in j
the very host manner, and with despatch.
Also, Moscrine Blue, Turkey Red, &c. &c.
Gentlemen's garments cleansed and dyed so as not !
to soil the. whitest linen.
Carpeting renovated and made as good as new.
All orders thankfully received and promptly ex
ecuted.
Columbus, March 21, 1850. 12 ts
Planters, Take Notice.
Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Factories, Gin Gear, j
Rice Mills, and Sugar Mills.
rpHE firm of AMBLER & MORRIS are now !
1 ready to build any of the above named Mills, pro-|
pelted hv Water, Steam or Horse. Our work shall be j
done in the best possible manner, and warranted inferior ‘
to noue now in use. Both of the above firm are practi- j
cal men. and attend to their business in person, and will |
furnish Engines for Steam Mills, Grist or Saw, and set j
either in complete operation. The finn ean give the best
assortment of Water Wheels and Gearing, of any in i
t lie Southern States, and will say to our employers, ts a |
Mill or any of our work does not perform in the busi
ness for wbieh it was intended, no pay will he exacted
Try us and tee. AMBLER & MORRIS.
Jan. 24, 1850. _ 4 _ l _ y _
Important
TO MILL OWNERS AND PLANTERS.
rpHE undersigned will contract for building Rock
1 Dams, or anv kind of rock work and ditching, in
anv part of this State or Georgia, in the most improved
manner TIMOTHY B. COLLINS,
Fort Mitchell, Russell, County. Ala.
Dec. 6, 1819. 4 'J 6m
To Physicians, Druggists
AND
COUNTRY MERCHANTS.
DR. J. N. KEELER &. RRO. most respectfully
solicit attention to their fresh stock of English,
French,German and American Drugs, Medicines,Chem
icals. Paints, Oils, Dve-stuffs. G lassware. Perfumery, &.C.
Having opened anew store, No. 294 Market St., with a
full supply of Fresh Drugs and Medieines, we respect
fully solicit country dealers to examine our stock” be tore j
purchasing elsewhere, promising one and all who may
be disposed to extend us their patronage, to sell t%nn
genuine Drugs and Medicines, on as liberal terms as any
other house m the city, and to faithfully execute all or
ders entrusted to us promptly and with dispatch. One ot
the proprietors being a regular physician, affords ample
guarantee of the quality of all articles sold at their es
tablishment. We especially invite druggists and country
merchants, who may wish to become agents for Dr
Keeler’s Celebrated Family Medicines, (standard and
popular medicines,) to forward their address. Soliciting j
die patronage of dealers, we reseed'd lv remain
Wholesale Druggists, No. 249 Market St., Phil a.
Oct. 11, 1849,
Marble Works, ’
East side Broad St. hear the Market House,
COLUMBUS, GA.
HWE constantly on hand all kinds of Grace Stones
Monuments, I'ombs and 1 ablets, ol American,
Italian and Irish Marble. Engraving and curving
done on stone in the best possible manner ; and all kinds
of Granite Work at the : yj ADDE jq
P. S.—Plaister of Paris and Cement, always on hand
for sale. .
Columbus, March 7, 1850. 19 **
NORTH CAROLINA
Mutual Life Insurance Company.
LOCATED AT RALEIGH, N. C.
rpHE Charter of this company gives important advan
-1 tages to the assured, over most other companies.
The husband i an insure his own life for the sole use and
benefit of liis wife and children, free from any other
claims. Persons who insure for life participate in the
profits which are declared annually, ana when the pre
mium exceeds 830. may pay one-half in a note.
Slaves are insured at two-thirds their value for one or
five years.
Applications for Risks may be made to
JOHN MUNN,
Agent. Columbus, Ga.
Office at Greenwood & Co.’s Warehouse.
Nov. 15,1849. ts
TO RENT,
r piLL the first day of January next. The old printing
J office room of the “Muscogee Democrat
Apply at this office. “•
SODA’ WATER AND ICE CREAM.
I. G. STRUTTER,
RANDOLPH STREET, COLUMBUS GEO.,
I"> ESPECTFULLYinforms the public that he has
V fitted up his SODA FOUNT, for the season, and
is prepared to furnish tins healthful beverage with any
kind of choice Syrup.
His ICE CREAM SALOON is also open,for the re
ception of Lathes and gentlemen. Parties furnished at
the shortest notice.
April 18, 1850. 18 6t.
VOL. I.
Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine
AND
CO M MERCIAL RE VI EW.
Established July, 1839,
BY FREEMAN HUNT, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
Published monthly, at 142 Fulton street, New York,
AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
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view,” will continue to include in its design every
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ever else shal 1 tend to develope the resources of the coun
try and the world, and illustrate the various topics bear
ing upon Commerce and Commercial Literature; and
we may venture to say that no work heretofore published
embraces in its pages so large an amount of information
on all these subjects, as the nineteen volumes now com
pleted.
Our means of enhancing the value of “The Mer
chant’s Magazine and Commercial Review,” are con
stantly increasing; and with new sources of information,
and extending correspondence abroad, and otherfaeilities,
which nearly ten years’ devotion to a single object has
enabled us to make available, we shall be able to render
the work a perfect cade mecum for the Merchant, Nav
igator and Manufacturer, as well as to the Statesman,
Commercial Lawyer, and Political Economist, and in
deed, all who desire information on the multifarious op
erations of business life.
“I am a man, and deem nothing which relates to man
foreign to my feelings.”
Youth and Manhood.
A VIGOROUS LIFE, OR A
PREMATURE DEATH.
READ!!
KINKELINE ON SELF-PRESERVATION.
Only Twenty-Five Cents.
THIS BOOK, just published, is filled with useful
information on the infirmities and diseases ol the human
system. It addresses itself alike to Youth, Manhood
and Old Age, and should be read by all.
The valuable advice and impressive warning it gives,
will prevent years of misery and suffering and save an
nually Thousands of Lives.
Parents by reading it, will learn how to prevent the
destruction of their children.
tSF A remittance of 25 cents, enclosed in a letter,
addressed to Dr. KINKELINE, 1 Human street, Phil
adelphia, will ensure a book, under envelope, per return
of mail.
Dr. K., fifteen years resident Physician, 1 Human st.
may be consulted confidentially.
He who places himself under the care of Dr. K., may
religiously confide in his honor as a gentleman, and
confidently rely upon his skill as a physician.
Persons at a distance may address Dr. K._ by letter,
post paid, and be cured at home.
Packages of Medicines, Directions, &,c. forwarded,
by sending a remittance, and put up secure from Dam
age or Curiosity.
Booksellers, News Agents, Pedlers, Canvassers, and
all others supplied with the above work at very low
rates. [April 4. 14 ts
Memphis Institute.
HSDICAL DEPARTMENT,
r r , IIE regular course of Lecture? in this Institute will
I commence on the first of November, and con
tinue until the last of February. The Anatomical De
partment will be opened and ready to receive students by
the first of October. The Memphis Department will be
under the direction of the following
PROFESSORS.
Z. Freeman, M. D.. Professor of Anatomy.
R. S. Newton. M. D., Professor of Surgery.
H. J. Hut.ce, M. LV, Professor of Theory and Practice
of Medicine.
W. Byrd Powell, M. D.,jProfeasor of Physiology,
Pathology, Mineralogy and Geology.
J. King, M. D.. Materia Mediea, Thera
peutics and Medical Jurisprudence.
J. Milton Sanders. A. M., M. D., Professor of Chem
istry and Pharmacy.
J. A. Wilson, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Dis
eases of Women and Children.
CLINIQUE LECTURERS.
Medicine. —Prof. H. J. Hulce.
. Surgery. —Prof. R. S. Newton.
Z. Freeman, M. D., Anatomical Demonstrator.
The fees for a full course of lectures amount to $lO5.
Each Professor’s Ticket, sls. Matriculator's, $5. Dem
onstrator's Fee, $lO. Graduation, S2O.
Those desiring further information will please address
their letters (post paid) to the Dean ;* and students ar
riving in the city will please call on him at the Commer
cial Hotel. 11. S. NEWTON. M. D..
Dean of the Faculty.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
Hon. E. W. M. King, Professor of Theory and Prac
tice of Law.
John Delafiicld, Esq. Professor of Commercial Juris
prudence.
Terms per Session §SO
All communications pertaining to this department must
be addressed to E. W. M. KING, Esq.
Memphis, Tenn., March, 1850.
The Faculties, for intellectual abilities, moral worth
and professional acquirements, will compare favorably
with the most distinguished in our country. The medi
cal faculty constitutes an anomaly in this or any other
country—all of them arc able lecturers and the best of
teachers.
Those who contemplate our geographical position,
and the extent of our population, can have no doubt as
to the eligibility of our situation for an enterprise of the
kind. As to health, including all seasons of the year,
we deny that any other city has more. _
A common error exists in the minds of many students
relative to the place of studying medicines; those who
intend practicing among the diMises of the West and
South should certainly educate themselves at a school
whose Faculty are particularly acquainted with those
diseases.
That the public may be satisfied of the permanency of
this school, we feel it our duty to state, that the Trus
tees and Faculty form a unit in action, which augurs
well for its future suceess ; and that the peculiar internal
organization which connects them, cannot be interrupted.
E. W. M. KING,
President of the Memphis Institute.
April 11,1850. 15 ly
TROY WOODEN-WARE
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
VRE now ready to commence operations, and will
promptly supply all orders with which they may
be favored, for ever} - description of
Hollow Wooden-Ware,
embracing Buckets, Tubs, Pails, Cans, &c.&c. The
Company will be ready by the Ist of March to enter ex
tensively into the manufacture of
CHAIRS,
of which they will be able to turn out a very superior ar
ticle.
TUR KING.
Bed Steads, Wagon Hubs, and every other description
of Turning, neatly done.
The Manufactory is situated at the mouth of Mulber
ry Creek, 12 mdes from Columbus, 20 from Opelika,
and 22 from West Point. The Company is thus afford
ed facilities for transportation in ever}’ direction, and
will be able to furnish their goods in every section of the
country at short notice, and on reasonable terms.
Orders left at the stores of P. Spencer, or B. Jef
ferson, in this city, will be promptly tilled. All orders
through the mail, must be directed to R. G. Jefferson,
Columbus, Ga. We shall be happy to accommodate
the world generally, and our friends particularly.
N. B.—Persons wishing to purchase privileges for
manufacturing purposes, can do so, as there are a num
ber of Water Lots upon the premises for sale.
Columbus* Jan. 3, 1850. 1 ly
A CARD.
deGraffenried & Robinson,
BOOKSELLERS AND STATIONERS,
OFFER for sale the’ largest assortment of School,
Miscellaneous, Law, Medical and Theological
Works; NOVELS, &e. by the most popular authors;
i Stationery ot all kinds. Letter and Foolscap and
’Wrapping PAPERS ; Ink, Pens, Slates, &e. &c. &c.
cvr ■ BOOKS,
Os every kind, for sale, and made to order, &c.
3, B. DE GRAFFENRIED, *j*. ROBINSON.
Columbus, Jan 31, I s so ts
County Surveyor.
IMIE undersigned informs his friends and the Planters
-of Muscogee county, that he is prepared to make
official surveys in Muscogee county. Letters addressed
to Post Office,Columbus, will meet with prompt atten
tion. WM. F. SERRELL,
County Surveyor.
Office over E. Barnard &. Co.’s store, Broad St.
Columbus, Jan. 31,1850. 5 ly
MRS. BARDWELL,
XYTOULD inform the Ladies of Columbus and its
V v vieinitv, that she has just returned from New Y ork
with a handsome stock of MILLINERY, LACE
CAPES, doe., and trusts the Ladies will give her an
early call. She opened on Wednesday.
April 11,1850. 15 ts
TEAS! TEAS!
DIRECT from the “Canton Tea Company,” just re
ceived and for sale by
ELLIS,'KENDRICK do REDD.
Feb. 7,1850. 6 ts
NOTICE.
THE firm name of “M. H. Dessau, Agent,” is changed,
from this date, to M. H. DESSAU.
Columbus, Feb. 7, 1850. 6 ts
METALLIC OR VULCANIZED
Rubba Machine Belting.
AAA FEET of the above BELTING, suitable
*)UvD for all kinds of Machinery—from 1 to 20
inches wide—warranted superior to leather or any kind
of belting in use, for its perfect equality of width and
thickness*, which it will retain, and for its great strength
and durability—does not slip on the pulleys and costs
less than the leather belting. Sold by the subscriber at
ten per cent, on manufacturers’ prices.
Also. 300 lbs. Steam Engine PACKING, for Piston
Rods, Straw Jionts, Cylinder Heads, &c.
Also, 500 feet of Vulcanized Steam Engine HOSE,
for Hydrants passing hot or cold water, dec.
WADE & CO.
Sign of the Golden Saddle.
Columbus, April 4,1850. 14 ly
Q AAA FT. of Kimbel’s Patent Machine stretched
O.UUU LEATHER BELTING, from 1 inch to
14 inches, suitable for all kinds of Machinery, Gin
Bands, &c. Sold by the subscriber lor ten per cent,
advance on the manufacturers’ prices.
* WADE &. CO.
Sign of the Golden Saddle.
Columbus, April 4,1850. 14 ly
M Globe Hotel,
BUENA VISTA, MARION CO., GA.
BV J. WILLIAMS..
March 14,1850. 11 ts
DE BOW’S COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF
Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Internal Im
provements, Statistics, general Literature, etc.
Published in New Orleans, at $5 per annum.
The bound sets of this Review complete, from Janu
ary, 1846, nearly four years, maybe had at the office.
These volumes contain a mass of information in re
gard to the population, resources, wealth and progress
of the South, in every department of industry, etc. to be
had from no other source, and must constitute an im
portant addition to the library of every planter, merchant
or citizen.
A few sets remaining, for which the proprietor solicits
orders.
Planters having estates for sale or wishing to pur
chase, by advertising in the Review, will be able to reach
the whole planting interest of the South. Address
J. D. B. Df.BOW,
New Orleans.
Williams & Howard,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
ROBT. R. HOWARD. CIIAS. J. WILLIAMS.
April 4, 1850. 14 ts
J. I). LENNARI),
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
TALBOTTON, GA.
WILL attend to business in Talbot and the adjacent
counties. All business entrusted to his care will meet
with prompt attention.
April 4, 1850. 14 ly
KING & WINNEMORE,
Commission Merchants,
MOBILE, ALABAMA.
Dec. 20,1849. [Mob. Trib.] 15 ts
THIS PAPER
IS MANUFACTURED BY THE
Rock Island Factory,
NEAR THIS CITY.
Columbus, Feb. 23, 1850. 9 ts
RANDOLPH SHERIFFS SALES.
1 V T ILI, be sold on the first Tuesday in July next.be-
V V fore the court-house door in the town of Cuth
bert, Randoph county, within the usual hours of sale, the
following property, to wit:
One lot of land, number 50, in the in 4th district of
said county, levied on as the property ol Joseph If Ellis,
to satisfy sundry fi fas from a Justices Court of said coun
ty, in favor of Robert Bruce, vs. Joseph B. Ellis, and
three in favor of Jesse B. Key, vs. Joseph B. Ellis. Levy
made and returned to me by a constable. Property point
ed out by L. A. Goneke.
Lot of land, number 82, in the 6th district of said coun
ty, levied on as the property of Fountain White, and
West Lane to satisfy one fi fa issued out of a Justices
Court of said county, in favor of Samuel T. Andrews,
or bearer, vs. Fountain White, and West Lane. Levy
made and returned to me by a constable.
Lot of land, No. 22, in the 4th district of said county,
levied on as the property of Wm. VV. West, to satisfy
sundry fi fas issued out of a Justices Court of said coun
ty, in favor of Nathan G. Christec,vs. Wm. W. West.
Levy made and returned to me bv constable.
Lot of land, number 58, in the 9th district of said
county, levied on as"the property of John H Jones, to
satisfy four fi fas issued out of a Justices Court of said
county, in favor of Delaware Morris and others, vs. Jno.
11. Jones. Levy made and returned to me by a con
stable.
One negro boy by the name of Jaim, about three or
four years old, levied on as the property of John H. Jone?,
to satisfy two fi fas issued from the Inferior Court of
said county, in favor of Gray Harris, vs. John H Jones.
Pointed out bv said Jones.
RICHARD DAVIS, Sheriff.
By SAMUEL RIGSBY. D. S.
May 30, 1359. .22 tlst July.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
ANTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in July next, at
VV the market house, in the city of Columhus, the
following property, to wit:
City lots number 236 and 237_(with the improvements
thereon,) each containing a half acre, known as the resi
dence of the late Daniel RcDougakl, levied on to satis
fy a fi fa from Muscogee Superior Court, in favor of Jas.
S. Watson and Wm. C. Watson vs. John H. Watson
and Benjamin W. Walker, executors.
Also, a house and lot on the Norther Liberties, known
as the residence of Thomas Morris, levied on as the
property of said .Morris, to satisfy a fi fa from Muscogee
Inferior Court in favor of Kennith McKenzie, vs. said
Morris. FRANCIS A. JEPSON, Sh’ff.
By A. S. RUTHERFORD, D. S.
June 6. tds
STEWART COUNTY.
XT7TLL be sold before the court house door in the
V V town of Lumpkin. within the usual hours of sale,
on the first Tue day in July next, the following proper
ty, to wit:
The north half of lot of land number 130, in the 23d
district of Stewart county, levied on as the property of
Silas Gilmore, to satisfy a fi from Stewart Superior court,
in favor of James M. Clarke, vs. Silas Gilmore. Levy
made and returned to me by former Sheriff.
Also, John Reynold’s life estate in and to the follow
ing negroes, to wit: Ann, a girl about 23 years old, and
Emily, her child, about 2 years old, levied on to satisfy
a fi fa issued from a Justices court of the 796th district,
g. m., in favor of James Buys and other fi fas in my
hands. Levy made and returned to me by a bailiff.
The north half of lot of land number 162, in the 21st
district of Stewart county, levied on to satisfy a fi fa
from Stewart Inferior court, in favor of Ellison Patterson,
Fletcher Mathis and John McGraw, levied on as the
property of John McGraw. Property pointed out by
sai cl McGraw.
Also, one new Bugey, levied on as the propety of
James A. Howel], to satisfy a fi fa issued from Stewart
Inferior court, in favor of Jane Bird vs. J. A. Howell.
JOHN M SCOTT Sh’ft.
June 6. tds
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 6, 1850.
. MAY DAY POEMS,
COMPOSED BY
MRS. CAROLINE LEE HENTZ,
[Concluded.]
autumn.
Vain her boasting—Gracious Queen,
Thy imperial smiles to win,
Though her gorgeous skie3 are bright,
Faints the spirit, ceath their light;
Withering in her sultry g ; de,
Flowers, their dying breath exhale;
Basking, in her noonday beam,
Sinks, and dries the crystal stream;
Nature, languishes, and prays,
For my softer, gentler ravs,
Oh! how sweet! my golden gleam,
After summer’s scorching beam;
Oh ! how mild ! my harvest moon
To the burning stars of June, ,
Then the rich, abounding-hoard
Os fruit, that crowns my pleutious board,
What can spring or summer tear,
With it3 luxury to compare!
All oh! Queen —thy own shall be
Chosen, fairest, best by thee.
WINTER.
Though last, not least I dare to claim
All that my sisters ask of fame;
Let spring, exulting boast of flowers,
Os genial gales and sunny bowers;
Let summer glory in her beams,
Her starry skies —her silver streams;
Let Autumn, praise her milder rays;
Her harvest moon, her golden days;
All are not worth the joys that glow;
Warming my sunless, waste of snow,
The social bliss my hours impart,
The fireside pleasures of the heart;
Oh! Queen of May—thy regal day,
As brief, as bright will pass away,
But if on me snail rest thy choico
Thou shalt possess far holier joys,
Than spring or summer can bestow,
Or Autumn’s votaries ever know.
QUEEN OF MAY.
Fair rival sisters, sweet the strain
Your lips have breathed, and not in vain
Are all your varying charms displayed,
My praise to win,—my choice to aid.
Dear spring! I love thy blooming flowers,
Long may they beautify my bowers
And shed their fragrance on my breast,
Thou art the fairest— thou art best.
Bright summer, beauteous are the beams
That light thy skies, and gild thy streams,
Thy dazzling claims, my lips avow,
Thou art the best—the fairest, thou.
Sweet Autumn ! lovely is thy dower,
My spirit owns thy gentle power,
And while thy charms, my lips attest,
They own thee, fairest—dearest best.
And thou fair winter, Oh ‘ how dear
The home-born joys thou’st promised here;
My heart with lond affection turns,
To where thy fireside altar burns,
When in its waimth, my soul find’s rest,
I’ll call thee fairest—own thee best
Hope, personified by
MISS JANE SHOTWELL.
I come with my anchor, twined with flowers,
To rejoice with you in the blooming hours,
My name is Hope, and where’er I stray,
The blossoms spring up and adorn my way.
Where the flowers are sweetest, I linger there
And bid them a brighter beauty wear,
I wander beneath an arch of blue,
And give its to sapphire a deeper hue.
I walk on the banks of the rolling stream,
And give to its waters a silver gleam;
The green leaves bow, where my footsteps rove,
And the young birds chirp in the leafy grove.
I heard a strain, of joy and of mirth,
I saw the Bowers, plucked from the bosom of
earth,
I saw the May-banner by fair hands borne,
And I knew, twas the coronation morn.
Then I gathered my blossoms of fairest kind
And around my anchor in garlands twined,
And hastened hither, that I might pay,
An offering sweet to the Queen of May.
Oh! May-day Queen, let Hope lie thy friend,
To life’s darkest hours, I brightness can lend,
I color the future, with rainbow like dyes,
Though born of the earth, I’m a child of the skies
The Nymphs, Echo and Iris. —Ist Nymph —A.
Neiad.
MISS ANNA SANKEY.
Oh! I rejoice,for winter’s reign
No more is felt on hill and plain,
The liberated stream once more
Rolls in sweet music from the shore,
The trees, their green, green robes assume,
The flowers in glowing beauty bloom,
And I, who long in icy chains,
Have mourned in winters cold domains,
Free as the bird upon the wing,
I come my song of joy to sing,
And as w ith bounding steps I past,
Dew from my silver urn I cast,
And every floweret, raised its head,
Reviving from my airy tread.
2nd Nymph—A Dryad.
MISS EMMA KIVLIN.
Nymph of the fountain! I rejoice
To hear once more thy silver voice,
Sweet as the murmur of thy waves,
Cool, gushing, from the coral caves.
Soon as my leaves their music heard,
With sudden thrill their veins were stirred,
The green blood danced—each drooping bough
With kindling life began to glow,
Released from bonds, my grateful heart
Longed its young raptures to impart,
To some fair nymph, who feels like me
The exulting joys of liberty.
Ist Nymfii.
Hark ! what choral voices swell ?
Sweet the theme on which they dwell.
CHORUS.
Oh! happy day ! Oh’joyous day
Hail to imperial, blooming May.
Echo—Blooming May
2d Ntjieh.
Whose accents lingering clear and sweet,
The choral harmonies repeat ?
Echo—Harmonies Repeat.
3d Nymph — miss victoria hoxey.
’Tis echo of the airy tongue
Who dwells the deepest shades among,
Seldom her graceful form is seen
On flowery plain, or valley green,
But near the rock and ruin gray
Her stilly footsteps, love to stray,
Come forth, sweet sylvan mocking bird,
Nor cheat us with one airy word.
Echo —One Airy Word.
3d nymph.
In vain you seek our search to elude,
Voice of the woodland solitude,
Thy white robes with the zephyr play,
Come, hail with us the Queen of May.
CHORUS.
Voice of the greenwood, come and pay,
Thy offering to the Queen of May
Echo—The Queen of May.
Echo—(corning forth from her retreat)
MISS MARIA KIVLIN.
Oh! gentle nymphs! I fain would hide,
In my rocky cave, by the mountain side,
But the voices of youth on the breeze were borne
And I knew ’twas the coronation morn,
And I left my lonely home to repeat
| The lingering sounds of their accents sweet,
j Oh !• never yet on my airy tongue
Have strains of sweeter melody hung;
j They breathe of hope, of joy, of love,
i They fill with music this Slay-day grove,
j I will bear the sounds to the hills away,
j And tell the rocks of this fair May-day.
CHORUS.
Yes! tell the rocks, and woods the lay
That we breath for our Quuen, the Queen of
May.
Echo —The Queen of May.
I But hark ! from above what music floats?
i ’Tis Iris, I know her heaven-born notes,
j She comes with the seven fold beams of heaven.
Iris—miss Georgia warren.
| I’ve left the rainbow of the skies
J To cull the flowers of May,
| And in this wreath the rainbow dyes,
j Their seven-fold beams display.
j The same fair hues are blending here
i But these are born of earth,
| While those that span the heavenly sphere
Partake my glorious birth.
Let the sweet, garland gently fall,
And o’er her head incline,
Who reign’s the maiden Queen of all
That bow around her shrine.
And tell her, when its blossoms fade
To raise her eyes on high,
And see unchanged, by earth’s dim shade
The rainbow of the sky.
Dialogue between. Miss Lizzie Ward and Miss
Hannah Moses.
Ist MISS LIZZIE WARD
I come with a garland, I come with a song
To bear my part in this youthful throng,
To lift my young voice, like the birds of heaven.
And praise my Creator for blessings he’s given.
2d MISS HANNAH MOSES.
I come with sweet blossoms, to strew in the
bower,
Where reigns o’er her maidens, the Queen of
the hour.
Oh ! glad is my heart, and the incense oflove,
Ascends up to heaven, in this beautiful grove.
Ist
All nature, with love, and with gratitude beams,
The birds, and the blossoms, the vales and the
streams,
Then surely our voices, in chorus should rise
And bear up our praise to the blue-bending skies.
’ *♦ 2d
The flowers that I scatter, will fade and decay,
We too, like the blossoms, will wither away,
But may-flowers once more in their beauty will
bloom,
And the blossoms of life, spring again from the
tomb.
(The Garland of flowers, in which the rest of the
young ladies, were included, having been recit
ed and published on a former occasion, is omit
ted now.)
The planting of the May-Pole,
Ist TOLE BEARER.
Now e’re we part, companions dear
We’ll plant our flowery banner here,
While rallying round it, bright and fair,
May’s votive maidens, may repair.
2d POLE BEARER.
Then let this spot an altar be,
The cffjrings flowers, the votaries, ice,
Let Nature grant her smile benign
To this her fairest, sweetest shrine
The pupils then, descending from the bower,
marched around the May-pole to the music of
the band, scattering flowers as they passed, then
forming a circle round the throne, Miss Sophro
nia Woodruff came forward in the centre, and
delivered the following
Farewell Address.
The gladsome hours are gliding past,
Even now their parting shades are cast,
Like all that’s fair, we pass away
Leaving the fading flowers of May,
Oh! maidens dear, we will not mourn,
These joyous moments will return
But when a few more blooming years
Have passed away mid joys and fears,
And sadder scenes, and darker hours,
Succeed to pleasure’s fleeting flowers,—
Oh! maidens dear, we then shall mourn
O’er joys that never will return.
But there’s a land of promise fair,
To w hich our pilgrim steps repair,
A shining band have gone before,
And strewed with flowers the pathway o’er,
Then maidens dear, we will not mourn
O’ex joys that never may return.
Farewell, thou beauteous bower of May,
Ye votive wreaths and garlands gay,
We go ’mid other scenes to dwell,
Friends of the young! farewell, farewell.
London.
Its Wealth—Misery—Pauperism and Crime.
The city of London, within the walls, occu
pies a space of only 270 acres, and is but
the hundred-affd-fortieth part of the extent
covered by the whole metropolis. Neverthe
less, it is the parent of a mass of united and
far-spread tenement, streaehing from Ham
mersmith to Blackwall, from Holloway to
Camberwell. A century ago, according to
Maitland, the metropolis had drawn into its
vortex one city, and borough, and forty-three
villages. Despite its vast extent, still its in
crease continues to be so rapid that every year
further house-room has to be provided for
20,000 persons; so that London increases
annually by the addition of a town of consid
erable size. At all times there are 4,000 ex
tra houses in the course of erection. By the
last return the metropolis covered an extent
of nearly 45,000 acres, and continued up
ward of 260,000 houses, occupied by 1,820,-
000 souls, constituting not only the densest,
b it the busiest hive, the most wondrous work
shop, and richest Link in the world. The
mere name of London awakens a thousand
trains of varied reflections. Perhaps the first
thought it excites in the mind paint it as the
focus of modern civilization, of the hottest, the
most restless activity of the social elements.
Some turning to the West, see it is a city of
palaces, adorned with parks, ennobled with
triumphal arches, grand statutes, and stately
monuments; others, looking at the East, see
only narrow lanes and musty counting-houses
with tall chimneys vomiting black clouds,
and huge masses of warehouses withdoors and
cranes ranged one above another.
Yet all think of it as a vast bricken multi
tude, a strange incongruous chaos of wealth
and want—of ambition and despair—of the
brightest charity and darkest crime, where
there are more houses and more starvation,
than on any other spot on the earth —and all
grouped round the one giant Gentry, the huge
black dome, with its ball of gold looming
through the smoke (apt emblem of the source
of riches!) and making out the capitol, no
matter from what quarter the traveller may
come.
’ Those who have only seen London in the
day time, with its Hood of life pouring through
its arteries to its restless heart, know it not
in its grandest aspect. It is not in the noise
and roar of the cataract of commerce pouring
through its streets, nor in its forest ships, nor
in its vast docks and warehouses, that its true
solemnity is to he seen. To behold it in its
greatest sublimity, it must be contemplated
by night, afar off’, from an eminence. The
noblest prospect in the .world, it has been
well said, is London viewed front the suberbs
on a clear Winter’s evening. The stars are
shining in the heavens, but there is another
firmament spread out below, with its millions
of bright light glittering at our feet. Line af
ter sparkles, like the’ trails left by meteors,
cutting and crossing one another till they are
lost in the haze of the distance. Over the
whole there hangs a lurid cloud, bright as if
the monster city were in flames, and looking
afar off’ like.the sea by night, made phosphor
escent by the million creatures dwelling with
in it. At night it is that the strange anomalies
of London are best seen. Then, as the hum
of life ceases and shops darken, and the gau
dy gin palaces thrust out their ragged and
squalid crowds to pace the streets, London
puts on its most solemn look of all. On the
benches of the parks, innitches of the bridges,
and in the letters of the markets, are huddled
together the homeless and the destitute. The
only living things that haunt the streets are
the poor wretches who stand shivering in their
finery, waiting to catch the drunkard as he
goos shouting homeward. Here on a door
step crouches some shoeless child, whose
day’s begging has not brought it enough to
purchase it even the twopenny bed that its
young companions in beggary have gone to.
There where the stones are taken up and pil
ed high in the centre of the streets in a flag
of flume—there, round the red glowing cork
fire are grouped a ragged crowd, smoking or
dozing through the night beside it. Then as
the streets grow blue with the coming light,
and the church spires and the chimney-tops
stand out against the sky with a sharpness of
out line that is seen only in London before
its million fires cover the town with their pall
of smoke—then come sauntering forth the
unwashed poor, some with greasy wallets on
their back, to hunt over each dirt heap, and
eke out life by seeking refuse bones or stray
rags and pieces of old iron. Others on their
way to their work, are gathered at the corner
of the street round the breakfast stall, and
blowing saucers of streaming coffee drawn
from tall tin cans, with the fire shining crim
son through the holes beneath; whilst already
the little slattern girl, with her basket slung
before her, screams water cresses through the
sleeping streets.
Yet who, to see the squarlor and wretch
edness of London by night, would believe
29 only of the London bankers have cleared
through their clearing-house as much as nine
hundred and fifty four millions pounds ster
ling in one year, the average being more than
three millions of money daily—or that the
loans of merely one house in the city through
out the year exceed thirty millions? Who
could have visited the Rockery of St. Glie’s
as it existed but a few months back, and have
seen the unutterable abominations of this re
treat of wretchedness, this nest of disease, at
once the nursery and sanctuary of vice—
where in one house alone, Mr. Smirke tells us,
were huddled together eleven men, thirteen
women, and thirty children—where as many
as sixty of the foulest of the London lazzaroni
often sleep in the same abode; who could wit
ness this want and wretchedness, and yet be
lieve that this country is “the bank of the
whole world,” as the late Mr. Rothschild call
ed it in 1832; or that “all transactions in In
dia, in China, in Russia, and indeed in every
other empire, are guided and settled in this
country.
It is impossible to believe that any among
us should want a roof to shelter his head by
night or a crust to quell his hunger by day,
| when we find that the amount of the property
i insured against fire is valued at more than
i five hundred millions sterling, even though,
| according to the returns made of the fires
in the metropolis during 1836 and 1837,forty
per cent of the houses, amounting to two fifths
of the whole were entirely uninsured? “A
very short excursion into the worst part St.
Giles’s says Mr. Smirke, “will be enough to
convince any one through the medium of ev
ery sense, that it was built before the whole
some regulations respecting buildings and
cleansing were in force. Indeed, there is
scarcely a single sewer in any part of it; so
that here, where there is the greatest accumu
lation of filth, there is the least provision
made for its removal.” And yet, in the Hol
born and Finisbury division alone —close
neighbors—the length of main covered sew
ers is 83 miles, the length of smaller sewers
to carry off the surface water from the roads
and streets 10 miles—the length of drains lead
ing from houses 204 miles—an extent almost
equal to the distance of London from Edin
burgh. The amount of money spent and the
vastness of apparatus employed simply in
lighting London and the suberbs with gas,
would seem to dispel all thoughts of poverty.
According to the accounts of Mr. Headley,
the capital employed in pipes, tanks, gas hol
ders, and apparatus of the London gas works
amounts to £2,800,000 and the cost of light
ning averages close upon half a millfon of
money per year; no less than 1,400,000,000
feet of gas being annually consummed, and
upwards of nine millions being used on the
longest night, giving a light equal to half a
million pounds of tallow candles.
‘•The consumption of butchers’ meat” says
an excellent authority, “is nowhere so great
in proportion to the population as in London.
The population which obtains a supply of an
imal food from the metropolitan markets a
mounts to two millions. Now calculating i
the number of cattle and sheep sold in smith- ;
field in 1849, with the number ot pigs and,
calves from the returns of a previous year, and ,
averaging the dead weight of each according i
to the judgement of an intelligent carcus I
butcher m YVarwick-lane, the gross weight’
of animal food which is furnished by the
Smithfield market M ill amount to two hun
dred and seventy millions eight hundred and
eighty thousand poundsof meat annually con- i
sumed in the metropolis alone. At the low ‘
price of 6d. per pound the above quanti- !
ty, amounts to £6,847,000, and dividing this
quantity umong a population ot two millions,
the consumption of each individual will aver
age 130 pounds of meat in tho course of the
year, so that it seems almost impossible to be
lieve that any living soul within or without
the city walls should ever want a dinner.
The amount of crime in London is almost
as amazing as its wealth. About 36,000’
criminals pass through the metropolitan goals,
bridewells and penitentiaries every year. In
one year the number of persons taken into
custody by the metropolitan police for various
infractions of the law amounts to 05,000 and
is—equal to the whole population of some of
our largest towns. The criminal districts of
tho metropolis are peculiar. Larcinies in
dwelling-houses were most numerous in white
Chappel in one year, and in St George’s-in
the-Borough in another. Larcenies on tho
person, on the other hand, were most com
mon in Convent-Garden at one time, and at
another in Shadwell Highway robberies,
and shop breaking occur most frequently in
the eastern and southern districts, as White
chapef, Southwark, Lambeth, Mile-end, and
Poplar. The parish of St. James usually fur
nishes the largest proportionate number of
cases under the head of arunkardness, disor
derly prostitutes, and vagrancy. Clerken
well is distinguished for the greatest number
of cases of horse-stealing, of assaults with at
tempt to rescue and wilful damage. Common
assaults are said to be most frequent in Cov
ent garden and in St. George’s-in-the-East;
coining and uttering counterfeit coin in Clerk -
enwell and Covent-garden; embezzlement in
Whitechaple and Clerkenwell; and pawning
illegally in Mile-end and Lambeth. Murder
has been found to be most prevalent in Clerk -
cnwell and Whitechapel, manslaughter iti Is
lington and Clerkenwell, and arson in Mary
lebone and Westminster. One thing is at
least clear, that, judging from the limited num
ber of facts supplied to usT, Clerkenwell
would seem to hold a bad preeminence for
the number and nature of the offences com
mitted within its limits. The Constabulary
Commissioners who had access to the best
sources of information, made a return of the
number of thieves and suspicious characters
within the boundaries of tho metropolitan
police, and the following is the result of their
investigation:—They divided the wholo
into three classes, and they found, Ist that
there.were 10,444 persons who had not visi
ble means of subsistance, and who are believ
ed to live bv the violation of the law, as by
habitual depredations, by fraud, by prostitu
tion, &c.; 2dly—of persons following some os
tensible and illegal occupation; but who are
known to have committed some offence, and
are believed to augment their gains by ha
bitual or occasional violations of the law,
there were 4,853; and 3d!y—there were 2,-
104, persons not recognised to have commit
ted any off ences, but now as associates of the
above clas#s, and otherwise deemed to be
suspicious characters. Besides this return,
the Constabulatory Commissioners also ob
tained another, giving the number of houses
open for the accommodation of delinquency
and vice in the metropolitan district namely,
houses for the reception of stolen goods, 227;
houses for the resort of thieves, 276; number
of brothels where prostitutes are kept, 933;
number of houses of ill-fame where prostitutes
resort, 848; number of houses where prosti
tutes lodge, 1,554; number of gambling-hous
es, 32; and number of medicants’ lodging
houses, 221.
NO. 23.
Who is General Lopez?
This question has frequently been asked,
’ since the sailing of the Cuban
The subjoined sketch of his career, we find 1
in the Philadelphia Bulletin, condensed from
a long account in a New Orleans paper:
Narciso Lopez was born of wealty pa
rents, in 1798 or 9, in Venezuela, and is now
a little over fifty years of age. He was the
only son that grew to manhood, though he
had numerous sisters. He was trained to the
saddle, as is the cilstome in South America.
His father being obliged by civil disturbances
ro remove to Caraccas, where he entered up
on a commercial life, his son Norciso super
intended a branch of the House at Valencia,
in the interior. Here, during the troubles of
Boliver’s time in 1824, young Lopez took
i a prominent part on the popular side, and
narrowly escaped from massacre. At length,
when reduced almost to desperation, he en
listed in the army, as his only chance for life.
At the end of the war between Spain and the
insurgents, Lopez found himself a Colonel, at
the age of 23. lie had also received the cross
of San Fernando, as a further reward for var
ious gallant deeds during the war. On the
evacuation of the country by the Spanish ar-
I my, Col. Lopez returned to Cuba.
| Since that time, (1823,) Lopez lias been a
’ Cuban having married and established himself
jin the island. He was known to be possess
led of liberal principles which prevented
him from obtaining office in the island, and
thus remained in retirement. During the
first of the Carolist troubles in Spain, Lopez
happened to be in Mardrid with his wife, Urg
ing a private claim on the gonvernment. He
distinguished himself on the government side:
was made first aid-de-camp to the Command
er in Cheif, Gen. Valdez, and received sever
al military decorations. He become the
warm personal friend of Valdez, who was to
wards the most pupular Captain General of
Cuba. He was for a time, Commander in
Chief of the National Guard of Spain, and,
subsequently Commander in Chief of several
princes. During all this period of favor with
the royalist party, it is said that he remain
ed faithful to his democratic principles; and
though caressed by the Queen Mother, Chris
tina, he despised and distrusted her.
On the insurrection which ended in the ex
pulsion of Christina from the regency, Lopez
was made Governor of Madrid, a post which
he held until Espartero became regent, when
he positively refused to hold it spite of the so
licitations of Espartero. As Senator of the
Kingdom, from the Liberal city of Seville, he
studied the politics and institutions of Spain,
and then first learned the condition of the
Spanish colonies, and especially the oppres
sion under which Cuba, the country of his
adoption, labored. The expulsion of the Cu
ban deputies from the Cortes further disgust
ed him, and, resigning his office, he de
parted for Havana, not without some trouble
in obtaining permission.
At this time, (1839,) General Valdez was
Captain General of Cuba. During the vari
ous political troubles of Spain, Lopez held
different posts of honor and emoluments in the
Island, but, at length he resigned all except
his rank as Ganeral, and the then undertook
the working of an abandoned copper mine,
as a pretext for returning to the Central De
partment. Here he began to mingle with
people and concert a plan for the liberation
of Cuba. The enterprize of last year, which
miscarried so completely, was the result of
his first efforts. The second effort, better
matured and more extensive, is now on
foot.
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comet rise at V
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‘Set ’ you black fool—it don't set no what—
when it gets tired of shining it goes in its hole.’
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