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THE BROKEN HEART.
BY WASHINGTON IRVING.
“I never heard
Os any true affection but ’twas nipt
With care, that like the caterpillar eats
The leaves of spring’s sweetest book, the rose.”
[MIDDLETON.
It is a common practice with those who
have outlived the susceptibility of the early
feeling, or have been brought up in the gay
heartlessness of dissipated life, to laugh at all
love stories, and to treat the tales of romantic
passion as mere fictions of novelists and poets.
My observations on human nature have induc
ed me to think otherwise. They have con
vinced me that however the surface of the
character may be chilled and frozen by the
cares of the world, or cultivated by mere
smiles by the arts of society, still there are
dormant fires lurking in the depths of the cold
est bosom,, which, when once enkindled, be
come impetuous, and are sometimes desolat
ing in their effect. Indeed, I am a true be
liever in the blind deity, and go to the full ex
tent of his doctrines. .Shall I confess it ? I
believe in broken hearts, and of the possibility
of dying of disappointed love! Ido not, how
ever, consider it a malady often fatal to my
own sex, but if I firmly believe that it withers
down many a lovely woman into an early
grave.
Man is the creature of interest and ambition.
His nature leads him forth in the bustle and
struggle of the world. Love is hut the embel
lishment of his early life, or a song piped in
the intervals of the acts. lie seeks for fame,
for fortune, for space in the world’s thought
and dominion over his fellow men. Tbit a
woman’s whole life is a history of the affec
tions. The heart is her world : it is there her
ambition strives for empire—it is there her
avarice seeks for hidden treasures. She sends
forth her sympathies on adventure —she em
barks her whole soul in the traffic of affection;
and if shipwrecked, her case is hopeless—for
it is the bankruptcy of the heart.
To a man the disappointments of love may
cause some biller pangs; it wounds some feel
ing of tenderness—it blasts some prospects of
felicity. Ilut he is an active being; he may
dissipate his thoughts in the world of varied
occupations, or may plunge into the tide of
pleasure ; or, if the scene of disappointment
be too full of painful sssociations, he can shift
his abode at will, and taking, as it were, the
wings of the morning, “can fly to the utter
most parts of the earth, and be at rest.”
But woman is comparatively a fixed, a se
cluded, and a meditative life. She is more
the companion of her own thoughts and feel
ings, and if they are turned to ministers of sor
row, where shall we look for consolation (
Her lot is to be wood and won, and, if unhap
py in her love, her heart is like some fortress
that has been captured and sacked, and aban
doned and left desolate.
How many bright eyes grow dim! flow
many soft checks grow pale! llow many j
lovely forms fadeaway into the ’ tomb, and
none can tell the cause that blighted their love
liness! As the dove will clasp its wings to its
side, and cover and conceal the arrow that is
praying on its vitals—so it is the nature of
woman to hide from the world the pang of
wounded affection. The love of a delicate
female is always shy and silent. Even when
fortunate, she scarcely breathes it to herself,
but when otherwise, she buries it in the re
cesses of her heart, and there lets it cower and
brood among the ruins of her peace. With
her the desire of her heart has failed—the
great charm of existence is at an end. She
neglects all the cheerful exercises which glad
dened the spirits and quickened the pulses,
and sent the tide of life in healthful currents
through the veins. Her rest is broken ; the
sweet refreshment of sleep is poisoned by
melancholy dreams; “dry sorrow drinks her
blood,” until her feeble frame sinks under the
slightest external injury. Look for her a lit
tle while, and you find friendship weeping o
ver her untimely grave, and wondering that
one who but lately glowed with all the radi
ance of both health and beauty, should so
speedily be brought down to darkness and the
worm. Aon will be told of some wintry chill
some casual indispositisn that laid her low.—
But no one knows the mental malady which
pre\ iously sapped her strength, and made her
so easy a prey to the spoiler.
She is like some tender tree, the beauty and
pride of the grove, graceful in its form, bright
in its foliage, but with the worm preying at its
heart. We find it suddenly withering when
it should be most fresh and luxuriant. We
see it dropping its branches to the earth, leaf
by leaf, until, wasted and perished away, it
falls in the stillness of the forest; and as we
muse over the beautiful ruin, we strive in vain
to recollect the blast of the thundbolt that
could have smitten it with decay.
I have seen many instances of women run
ning to waste and self-neglect, and disappear
ing gradually from the earth, almost as if they
had been enhaled to heaven, and have repeat
edly lancied that 1 could trace their death,
throughout the various declensions of cold,
consumptions, debility, languor, melancholy,
until 1 reached the first symptoms of disap
pointment love. But an instance of the kind
was lately told me. The circumstances are
well known in the country where they happens
ed, and I shall but give them in the manner in
which they were related.
Every one must recollect the tragical story
ofE , the Irish patriot. It was too touch
ing to be easily forgotten. During the trou
bles in Ireland, he was tried, condemned and
executed, on a charge of treason. 11 is fate
made a deep impression on public sympathy
—he was so young, so intelligent, so gener
ous, so brave, so every thing that we apt to
like in a young man. His conduct under trial,
too, was so lofty and intrepid. The noble in
dignation with winch he repelled the charge
of treason against his country, the eloquent
vindication of his name, and his pathetic ap
peal to posterity, in the hopeless hour of con
demnation—all these entered deeply into eve
ry generous bosom. And even his enemies
lamented the stern policy that dictated his ex
ecution.
But there was one heart whose anguish it
would be impossible to describe. In happy
days and farier fortunes, lie had won the af
fections of a beautiful and interesting girl, and
daughter of a celebrated Irish barrister. She
loved him with the disinterested fervor of a
woman’s first and early love. When every
worldly maxim arrayed itself against him
when blasted in fortune, disgrace and danger
darkened around his name, she loved him the
more ardently for his sufferings. If then his
fate could awaken even the sympathy of his
foes, w hat must have been the agony of her,
whose whole soul was occupied bv his imaged
Let those tell who have had the portals of the
tomb suddenly closed between them and the
being whom they mot loved on earth—w ho
have sat at its threshold as one shut out in a
cold and lonely world, from whence all that
was most lovely and loving have disappeared.
But then, the horrors of such a grave, so
frightful, so dishonored! there was nothing for
memory to dwell on that could soothe the
pang of separation ; none of those tender
though melancholy circumstances, which en
dear tfio scen° nothing fn m p H sorrow into
those blessed tears sent like the dew of heav
en, to revive the heart in the anguish of the
parting hour.
To render her situation more desolate, she
had incurred her father's displeasure by her
unfortunate attachment, and was an exile from
her paternal roof. But could the sympathy
and kindly offices of friends have reached a
spirit so shocked and driven in by horror, she
would have experienced no w ant ot consola
tion, for the Irish are a people of quick and
generous sensibilities.
The most delicate and cherished attentions
were paid her by families of wealth and dis
tinction. She was led into society, and they
tried, by all kinds of occupation and amuse
ment to dispite her grief, and w in her from the
tragical story of her love. But all in vain.—
There are some strokes of calamity which
scathe and tear the soul —which penetrate the
vital seat of happiness and blast it, never again
to put forth bud or blossom. She never ob
jected to frequent the haunts of pleasure, but
she was as much alone there as in the depth
of solitude. Walking about in a sad reverie,
apparently unsoncious of the world around her
she carried within her an inward woe that
mocked all the blandishments of friendship,
and “heeded not the charmer, charmed he ev
er so wisely.”
The person who told me her story had
seen her at a masquerade. There can be no
exhibition of far-gone wretchedness more
striking and painful than to meet it in such
a scene—to find it wandering like a spectre,
lovely and joyless, where all around is gay
—to see it dressed out in the trappings of
mirth, and looking so wan and woe-begone,
as if it had tried in vain to cheat the poor
heart into a momentary forgetfulness of sor
row'. After strolling through the splendid
rooms and giddy crowd with an air of utter
abstraction, she sat herselfdown on the steps
of the orchestra, and looking about for some
time w ith a vacant air that shomed her insen
sibility to the garish scene, she began, with
the capriciousness of a sickly heart, to w arble
a plaintive air. She had an exquisite voice,
but on this occasion it was so simple, so touch
ing—it breathed forth such a soul of wretch
edness, that she drew a crowd, mute and
silent around her, and melted every one into
tears.
The story of one so true and tender could
not but excite, in a country remarkable for
enthusiasm, interest. It completely won the
heart of the brave officer, who paid his ad
dresses to her, and thought that she, so true
to the dead, could not but prove affectionate
to the living; she declined his attention, for
her thoughts w r ere irrevocably engrossed with
the memory of her former lover. He, how
ever, persisted in his suit. He solicited not
her tenderness, but her esteem. He was as
sisted by her convictions of his worth and her
sense of her ow n destitution and dependant
situation, for she was existing on the kindness
of friends. In a word, he at length succeed
ed in gaining her hand, though with the
solemn assurance that her heart was unaltera
bly another’s.
He took her with him to Sicily, hoping a
change of scene might w r ear out a memory of
early woe. She was an amiable and exem
plary wife, and made an effort to be a happy
one. But nothing could cure the silent and
devouring melancholy that had entered into
her very soul. She wasted away into a slow
hut hopeless decline, and at length sunk into
the grave, the victim of a broken heart.
It was on her that Moore, the distinguished
Irish poet, composed the following lines:
“She is far from the land where her young hero
sleeps!
And lovers around her are sighing;
But coldly she turns from their gaze and weeps,
For her heart in his grave is lying.
She sings the wild songs of her dear native
plains.
Every note which he loved awaking—
Ah! little they think who delight in her strain’s,
llow the heart of the minstrel is breaking!
He had lived for his love, for his country he
died;
They were all that to life entwined him :
Nor soon shall the tears of his country be dried,
Nor long will his love stay behind him.
Oli make her a grave where the sunbeams rest,
When they promise a glorious morrow ;
They’ll shine o'er her sleep like a smile from the
west.
From her own loved island of sorrow !”
From the Spirit of the Times
A MISSOURI POLITICAL SPEECH.
BY J. B. H. OF SHADY HILL, MISSOURI.
Browns Hotel, Washington,May 13, 1850.
Mr. P. — Sir :—As the daily prints in this
city are filled w ith interminable speeches in
tended for Buncombe, I have concluded to
send you the following spicy and patriotic ef
fusion, originally intended for the same mar
ket, being an extract from a stump speech ro
cently delivered in Missouri, and leaving it to
you if it doesn’t take the shine off’any thing
that has emenated from tlits great focus of
wit and eloquence. j. r. h.
“Friends and feller citizens of this conflic
tious community—what I’m speakin’ of I al
lude to, I say, a crisis has arrir. The w heels
of our government has stopped—the machine
ry’s deranged—the rudder’s unshipped—the
biler’s bursted—h—l’s afloat, and the river’s
risin’. Our glorious ship of State that, like a
bob-tailed gander’s been floatin’ majestically
down the peaceful current of time, has had its
harmony disturbed and it's now driftin’ with
fearful rapidity towards the shoals and quick
sands of disunion, threatenin’ to dash every
thing to flindrigs, and pick itself up in the end
agone goslin. Hearken no longer, ye wor
thy denizends of Hog Hole and Terripin
Neck, and the adjacent regions to that siren
voice that whispers in your too credulous ears
the delusive sound, peace! peace! for peace
has done, sloped flowed to other lands,or div
to the depths of the mighty deep, or in the
more emphatic language of Tecumseh, when
nddressin the assembled hosts on the plains
of Marathory, on the eve of battle he ex
claimed :
‘•Go flickerin’through the fogs of other climes,
To aid the miser watchin’ of his gimes.”
“Or of Alexander the Great at the battle of
Bunker’s Hill, who, in the agency of despair,
frantically shrieked,—“Gone glimmerin’ thro’
the dreams of other days, a school boy’s tale,
the wonder of an hour.”
“Feller citizen’s—in our halls of legislations
confusion runs riots, and anarchy reigns su
preme. Arouse, then, shake off the dew drops
from your huntin’ shirts, and fall into ranks.
Sound the tocsin! beat the drum! and blow
the toot horn, till the startled echoes, rever
batin’ Irom hill-top to hill-top, and from go
pher-hill to gopher-hill, shall cause the ada
mantine hiUs of New England, the ferrugin
ous deposites ot Missouri, and the auifarious
particles of Californy, to prick up their ears,
and in whispered accents, inquire of their
neighbors : “What can the matter be ?”
“Feller citizens—l repeat it, to your posts!
and from the topmost peaks of the Allegha
nies, bid defiance to the universal Yankee na
tion,by shoutin’ the terrific watchword, ‘who’s
afraid ?’ in such thunder tones, that quakin’
with terror, they shall forget that niggers is.
Don your rusty regimentals—burnish up vour
fire locks —gird on your trusty broadswoards |
—bid farewell to your crusty helpmates—
mount your lusty chargers, and save the na- j
tion or burst your biler!
“Feller citizens—The great bird of Ameri
can liberty’s flowed aloft, and soarin upon the ;
wings of the wind, is now hoverin’ high o’er
the cloud capped summits of the Rocky
Mountains, and when he shall have penetrat
ed into the unknown regions of unlimited
space, and then shall have duv down and lit
on daddy’s wood pile, I shall be led to ex
claim, in the grand, the terrific, the sublime
language of Paul the Apostle, in his celebrat
ed epistle to the Aborigines; ‘Root little pig
or die!’
“Feller citizens—The times is critical—
blood’s gwine to be poured out like soap-suds
outen a wash-tub, and every man what’s got
a soul as big as the white of a niggers eye,
’ll be ready to fight, bleed and die for his coun
try ! Them’s the times! You want men in the
council of the nation what you can depend
on! i hat’s me! Elect me to Congress, or
Governor of the State, and I’ll stick to you
through thick and thin, like a lean tick to a
nigger’s shin! 1 am not gwine to make an
electioneerin’ speech. I’d scorn the act.—
You know’ me; I've been fetched up among
you. Already on the wings of a toploftical
imagination, I fancy I see you marchin to the*
polls in solid phalanx, and with a shout that
makes the welkin ring, ‘ Whoorah for Hone V
come down on my opponent like a thousand
of brick to a rotten pumpkin.”
“Feller citizens—l tell you now what I’m
goin’ to do if I’m elected to Congress, and
what I’m goin’ to have done if ejected Gov
ernor of the State. If elected to Congress
I’m gwine to vote for a law allowin’ them
Northern fellers, men and wiimnin, what loves
niggers so w r ell, to marry as many of ’em as
they want, and are able to pay for. I’m op
posed mentally and morally, constitutionally
conscientiously, to extending slavery in any
shape, manner or form, under any circumstan
ces whatever, further North than the pint of
the hub what the axle-tree of the North pole
turns on, or further South than the 901 h deg.
of South latitude. I’m gwine to vote for an
nexing to the United States Cuba and Cana
da—all the territory north of 49, and all
South of 48—GO, to the southern extremity of
of South America, together with Great Brit
tain and her possessions, and Europe, Asia
and Africa. I’m in favor of buildin’ a rail
road and ship canal from the village of St.
Louis situated, as the most of you are aware,
in this State in the vicinity of Alton, in Illinois,
to San Francisco, by cuttin’ a tunnil plum
through the bowels of the earth, straight as a
die. I’m gwine to vote for a bill givin’ O’-
Reily the privilege of bildin’a telegraph line
to the Moon, and grantin’ him the exclusive
monopoly of the same for ten years, with the
exception of 100 shares each which Old Zac
and the man in the Moon shall be allowed to
take. As we’re gettia’ crowded for room, I
shall go forlettin’ down the falls of Niagara a
button hole or two, for the purpose of drainin’
the lakes and rnakin’ ’em fit to live in, so that
our cramped population which now almost a
mounts to 3 1-2 on an average in eacli town
ship, can have elbow room. I’m in favor of
passin’ a bill votin’ the Mississippi and Mis
souri rivers nuisances, dangerous to life and
property, from the immense number of acci
dents that’s constantly happenin’ on ’em and
to have ’em filled up immediately, with all their
branches, except Salt River, the navigation of
which I’m in favor of leaving unobstructed for
the benefits of defeated politicians. I’m
gwine to vote for a bill grantin’ premiums for
encouragin’ the growth of hemp as from pres
ent appearances there’ll soon be a great de
mand for that article by the government of
the United States, for the benefit of nnmerons
individuals, both in public and private life,
who are plotting treason against the Union.
I tell you what it is boys I know Old Zack,
and it would just do him good to swing up a
few thousand of them traitors, abought as
high as the feller what Seripter tells about.—
And I tell you now, I’m gwine to vote as
strong as pizen for movin’ the Seat of Gov
ernment of the United States from Washing
ton to our own quiet and venerable Vide
Poche.
“If I elected Governor, I’m gwine to have
the walls of the Penitentiary and the county
prisons levelled with the ground, and all laws
for confinin’ men in the same, for crimes and
misdemeanors, repealed, as the trouble of re
prievin’ convicted criminals is a great and un
necessary tax on the time of the Governor,
that might be much more agreeably employed
in playin’ brag and poker, and in loungin’ a
bout the bar-rooms and street corners talkin’
politics.
“I'm gwine to have the seat of government
of the State moved from Jefferson City, either
to Nigger Heel or Pin Hook, or else to the
mouth of the Bee Gum Fork or Shave Tail.—
I’m gwine to have a law passed to keep milk
trom turnin’ sour in thunder storms, and to
keep wimmin from standin’ on their heads at
camp meetins. And I’m gwine to have an
other one passed to cause hickories to peel all
the year round and another one, still, for the
exsulsion trom our borders of prairie wolves
and abolitionist, the extermination of prairie
flies and galinippers, and annihilation of fleas,
bed bugs and muskeeters.
“Them’s my sentiments! Three cheers for
Hone ! There, that’ll do. Come now let’s
liquor.”
The following good story is from the Lite- ;
rary World.
Iwo English tourists having arrived at :
Boston during the snow season, ordered a
sleigh, having heard of such a thing, in a gen- ‘
eral way, without being conversant with the ;
particulars of it. *
“Will you have one buffalo or too ?” asked
the hostler.
“Why, says the cockney, looking a little
frightened, “We’ll have one the first time, as
we’re not used to driving than !”
“Tea and Coffee Pie,'’ said Mrs. Parting
ton, looking over Gibb’s bill of fare; “Tea
and Coffee Pie ! I wonder what in natur,
that is ; but Boston folks are so full or no
tions. Mr. Paul once had an indication to
dine with Governor Brooks; and when he
came home I asked him all about what he had
that was good, and he said that they had
three kinds of pie—pumpkin pie, apple pie,
and cheese! Dear soul, he got sick arter it,
and the doctor told him he must regulate his
astronymical habit, or he would die of a per
plexity.” The rememberance awakened feel
ings that had long slumbered, and a tear fell
from her eye, upon the box she held in her
hand, putting out one of the eyes of Hope,
that was weighing anchor, on the cover.
CUTTING WHEAT Ac
We invite the attention of our Planting
readers to the following suggestions furnished i
at our request, by a gentleman of much expe- I
rience in his vocation, and who is here regard- i
ed, where he is well known, as one of the ;
best practical Farmers in Georgia,—one too,
whose farm abundantly testifies to his sound
judgement and good management in all that
pertains to neat and skillful husbandry. We
desire especially to induce a careful conside
ration of hi: suggestions at thL time, upon a
subject of great importance, as they are em
inently appropriate and seasonable:
[Ed. Cronicle and Sentinel.
From the Chronicle and Sentinel.
Mr. Editor:—You ask some remarks on this J
subject, and as the period is at hand for har- ,
vesting, I may’ say something that will inter
est those engaged in its “culture.
A veriety of opinion exists in regard to the
proper time for cutting, and not having very
much experience, I feel some diffidence in of
fering a guide to others, but incline to the belie
that this grain is left with us in the South,
hitherto, to ripen too much, for the reason,
that hogs might be turned upon the stubble
to collect the shattered grain, &c.; but as we
now have fine mills and a ready market at re
munerating prices, it is fair to presume that
self-interest will prompt a correction of this
error. A second reason, which should have
a like influence, is the fact, that the straw
j when secured early and bright is doubly pal
atable and nutritious for cattle, especially if
sprinkled with salt when housed.
Another consideration is, that vour barn
I will contain nearly fifty per cent more, trom
| the moisture produced in sweating and set
i tling from the use of salt, and you will be
1 spared the necessity of giving it separate
ly.
In “Shocking” this grain, a little more care
would amply repay the farmer; as many,
from the lack of barns, are obliged to allow
to remain in the fields, subject to all kinds of
weather, until leisure from other crops per
mits them to thresh it. 1 would prefer shocks
of a sugar-loaf form, not more than six or
seven feet high,so that the two ‘Cap-sheaves,’
which should be large, may be well secured
from the wind.
In regard to the variety best suited to our
climate, I may be permitted to say, that one
trial of the Northern seed (obtained from the
most successful cultivator near Rochester.)
has satisfied me that our own white wheat is
far the best, being more than a month earlier,
and consequently’ less liable to disaster for
that period. Another reason, seed from the
North abounds in cockle, onion, charlock,
and other weeds, the result of sowing upon a
clover ley, where perennial weeds cannot ea
sily be extirpated. Wheat following corn, or
any other crop cultivated clean, is necessari
ly’ free from all foul weeds. One other* rea
son—our wheat comes off the last of May',
and affords ample time to sow Cow Peas
broad-cast, by the last of June, the most de
sirable time; and from experience for near
twenty years with Perse, I would urge upon
all who have not made trial of this course, to
apply Gypsum (one bushel to the acre) any
time after the peas are up: plough in this
crop as late as possible before frost; sow
wheat and harrow in, and you may rely upon
a good yield. Much I know, has been said
to encourage the general growth of this crop
—to those who have tried it, it may he super
fluous—to those who have not, 1 can safely
say that it is the cheapest renovator of old
fields that can be adopted, and being with-
I in the reach of all, may be used to any cx
| tent.
N. B. Early harvesting, lengthens the space
! in which your work must he accomplished.
Respectfully,
Your Neighbor.
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no tears of exposure, detention from business nor re- j
striction in diet; from the certain and speedv relief it j
gives, it is now the most popular remedy of the day.— \
Ten thousand eases have been cured effectually by it
during the past year. Prepared hv a practical physician, j
the afflicted can rely with confidence on its curative :
powers over diseases of this character. Full directions
accompany each bottle.
CA L TlON. —Ask for the American Compound, and
purchase only of the Agents. 294, Market st. Phila
delphia, and of Danforth A Nagel, Columbus, Ga.
June 20,1850. 25
- washington~house7~
Chcsnal Street, above Seventh Street,
PHILADELPHIA,
IS central,in the immediate vicinity of the most im
portant public Institutions, the best and most fash
ionable places of business, and the attractive public
Squares ot the city. In the important requisites of light
and ventilation, two principal objects aimed at in the re
cent enlargement and thorough improvement of this
House.it is not exceeded, perhaps, by any establishment
in America. To strangers, therefore, the position is pe
culiarly desirable. The subscriber returns thanks to nis
friends and the public for the liberal patronage they
have extended to him, and assures them that ne will
endeavor to merit a continuance of their favors.
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M WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
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FIRST of JULY, for the reception ol Visitors, under j
the management ol MtCOMB & DUNCAN. !
WALKER DUNCAN H. B M’COMB !
June 13 ; 1950. 34 4?
Planters, Take Notice, j
Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Factories, Gin Gear,
Rice Mills, and Sugar Mills.
rpHE firm of AMBLER & MORRIS arc now
.L ready to build any of the above named Mills, pro
pelled by Water, Steam or Horse. Otir wofk shall be
done in the best possible manner, and warranted inferior
to none now in use. Both of the above firm are practi
cal men, and attend to their business in person, and will
furnish Engines for Steam Mill 3 , Grist or Saw, and set
either in complete operation. The firm can give the best
assortment ot Water Wheels and Gearing, of any in
the Southern States, and will say to our employers, if a
Mill or any of our work does not perform in the busi
ness for which it was intended, no pay will be exacted.
Try us and see. AMBLER’ & MORRIS.
Jan. 24, 1850. 4 ] y
Dyeing and Renovating Establishment.
BERTHOLDSENGER
YYJ’OL LD respectfully inform the ladies and gentle
t \ men of Columbus, and vicinity, that lie is still at
his 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, & Bleaching
new and old clothing. Ladies’ Silks, 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
tlie very best manner, and with despatch.
Also, Moporinc 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 a? new.
All orders thankfully received and promptly ex;
eeuted.
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METALLIC OR VULCANIZED
Rubba Machine Belting.
£ AAA FEET of the above BELTING, suitable
AIUUU 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 it? 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 RACKING, for Piston
Rods, Straw .Tionts, Cylinder Heads, &e.
Also, 500 feet of Vulcanized Steam Engine HOSE,
for Hydrants passing hot or cold water, &c.
WADE & CO.
Sign of the Golden Saddle.
Columbus, April 4,1850. 14 ly
Q AAA FT. of Kimbel's Patent Machine stretched
O.'JUU LEATHER BELTING, from 1 inch to
I 14 inches, suitable for all kinds of Machinery, Gin
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Sign of the Golden Saddle.
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DE BOW’S COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF
Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Internal Im
provements, Statistics, general Literature, etc.
Published in New Orleans, at S3 per annum.
The bound sets of this Review complete, from Janu
j arv. 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 seta remaining, for which the proprietor solicits
orders.
Planters having estates for sale or wishing to pur
chase, by advertising in the R eview. will be able to reach
the whole planting interest of the South. Address
J. D. B. DkBOW,
New Orleans.
RANDOLPH SHERIFFS SALES.
XTTILL be sold on the first Tuesday in July ncxt.be-
V \ fore the court-house door in the town of Cnth
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 of Joseph B. 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 R. Ellis. Levy
made and returned to me by a constable. Property point
ed out by L. A. Goneke.
Lot of land, number 82, in theGth district of said coun
ty, levied on as the property of Fountain White, and
Wert 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 countv,
levied on as the property of Wm. W. West, to satisfy
sundry fi fas issued out of a Justices Court of said coun
ty, in favor of Nathan G. Christee, 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.
H. Jones. Levy made and returned to me by a con
stable.
One negro boy by the name of J aim, about three or
four years old, levied on as the property of John 11. Jones,
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 .Tone 3 .
RICHARD DAVIS, Sheriff.
Bv SAMUEL RIGSBY, D.S.
May 30, 1350. 22 tlst July.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in July next, at
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 MeDougald, 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, IT S.
June 6. tds
STEWART COUNTY.
Y YTILL be sold before the court house door in the
V t 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 ]3O, 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 Justice? 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 21 -t
district of Stewart county, levied on to satisfy a fi fa
from Stewart Interior court, in favor of Ellison Patterson,
Fletcher M athis and John McGraw, levied on as the
property of John McGraw. Property pointed out by
said McGraw.
Also, one new Buggy, levied on as the propetv of
James A. Howell, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Stewart
Inferior court, in favor of Jane Bird vs. J. A. Howell.
JOHN 31. SCOTT Sh'ft.
June 6. tds
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ticle of Wrapping Paper.
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Office in the South comer Room of the Ogle
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Mar 33, 1950. late EUi* % Gray.
Dr. deGBAFFENKIED’S
CELEBRATED
RHEUMATIC LINIMENT.
I
I.v introducing this medicine to the people of the l nit
: ed States,, for sale, the proprietors beg leave to submit
the following statement of Dr. de Graffenried, its discov
erer and inventor:
The undersigned frankly states that he has pre°cribed
this medicine for the last t weutv-two years, in all forms
of Acute and Chronic Rheumatism, with a success un
paralleled in the annals of medicine : and he has no hes
itation in saying,, that it is decidedly the most valuable
j remedy ever vet discovered for the relief of this most pain
’ fill and distressing malady.
Hu note-book contains upwards of three hundred ca-
I res. in which it has been u.-ed withiu the above named
period, and in no single instance has it come to his knowl
i edge, of its having failed to effect a cure when persereved
| in. M any of the ca 3 es were from four to ten years stand
ing ; and what may appear yet more remarkable and ex
traordinary. is. that when the patient has been once re
lieved, the disease is permanently cured, remains so, not
a solitary instance having been reported to him of itsre
! turn.
All he would ask for this remedy is a fair, impar
tial and patient trial, for the results he entertains no ap
prehension.
Up to the time ot this discovery’, the undersigned had
well studied the origin. progress, and character of this dis
ease,and is well assured, had consulted every author on
its treatment, who had written or been translated into
: the English language, and had used all the remedies of
any notoriety then in vogue with the profession, with
however, very rarely any relief to poor suffering hu
| manitv.
It has baffled the skill and science of the most eminent
Physicians and Surgeons of our own, and of every other
I country. But the undersigned flatters himself that hiss
remedy will cure this most painful disease, when all oth
ers have failed, and that he shall have been an humble in
: strument In the hands of God, of relieving the human
| family of a vast amount of suffering.
! E. L. de GRAFFENRIED, M. D.
It is for sale at Dr. R. A. Wares Drug store Columbus,
and by Agents in all the principal cities and towns in
the United States. Price 85 per bottle —none genuine
withour the signature of the discoverer on the side label
of the bottle, and across the cork.
de GRAFFENRIED and Cos., Proprietors.
CETIFICATES.
.Tone's Hotel, Philadelphia, March 3d 1850
Col. A. B. Ragan —Sir It affords me great pleasure
to be able to hear testimony to the efficacy and virtues
ot Dr. de Graffenrieds Rheumatic Liniment.
I have been sorely afflicted for the last six years with,
what I believed to be, and what eminent Physicians of
this city pronounced, Rheumatic gout,for several winters
past I have been confined to my room and bed nearly all
the time. In January last. I had an attack as violent if
not more so than usual, which prostrated me for about
; tlree weeks; on your receommer.dation I commenced
I the use of this Liniment. (With I must confess but little
faith). It? effects were astonishing and decidedly bene
ficial from its first application. In a few days my back,
wrists ancles were entirely relieved (and so contin
ue) of all soreness, pains, and the swelling’s reduced,
with the use of less than one bottle. I have been in the
discharge of my ordinary business ever since.
1 consider it an extraordinary, and decidedly the most
efficacious remedy for this disease which I have ever met
with. And most cheerfully recommend its use to all
who may be afflicted with it.
Respectfully Yours, N. W. BRIDGES.
Jones, Hotel.
Baltimore March, 30 1850.
Dr. de Graffenried — Dear Sir ; For the last twelve
years I have sufle:cd very severely with the Rheumatism,
having been nearly one fourth of the time confined to
my bed by it. I have had the best medical aid to be
found in various cities in the United States, with little
or no benefit. I have also tried innumerable strongly
recommended remedies, which have failed to effect a
cure. I spent the last summer at the White Sulphur and
Hot Spring? in VirginN. to little purpose. After my return
home. 1 so far recovered, as to be able to walk about a lit
tle. About six weeks since. I had a very severe attack
which again confined me to my bed, I was in great pain
andscarely able to move my limbs, when a friend of
mine called and informed me that you had discovered
an infallible remedy, and had cured many, ar.d amongst
them, one of my friends, and showed me a letter from
: him stating the fact. 1 was induced to try your Rhcu
-1 matic Linament, and take pleasure in infomiinig you that
! in less than twenty four hours from the first application
! I was perfectly free from pain, and continue so, up to
| this time. lam now able to attend to business, and
fondly hope all those afflicted, as I have been, may he as
speedily relieved, a? I have been with your medeeine.—
Wishing you all the Blessings you deserve Dear Sir.
Your Greateful and Ob’t Serv’t
GEO. WARDSWORTH.
Columbus Ga.. Oct. 20, 1849
Dr. Do Graffenried—Dear Sir : I take pleasure in giv
ing you the particulars of my affliction by. and relicffroin
j Rheumatism. During the spring of 1844 I was afflicted
with a very severe attack of Inflammatory Rheumatism.
1 employed all the most celebrated remedies then known
and used in similar cares, aided by medical advice, until
September, 1845, with no satisfactory result whatever.
I was then induced, by a rheumatic acquaintance, to try
your Liniment, as something new, and which had cured
him ; and in one month, from the time I commenced the
application, I was well , arid clear of the Rheumatism as
1 ever was, and have continued so to this time.
Yours, truly, L. C. MORTON.
FROM COL. A. K. AYER.
Dr. E. L. do Graffenried—Learning that you are about
to manufacture for the public, your valuable Rheumatic
i Liniment, I take pleasure in stating that I believe it
one of the most valuable remedies ever used for that
common and most distressing disease, having witnessed
its effects upon a negro man of mine, who had been af
flicted for four years, until almost every joint was en
larged, and the body otherwise emaciated. By the use
of four or five bottles, in three weeks lie was relieved en
tirely from pain.
Columbus Ga., —Oct. 24,1849.
A. K. AYER.
Columbus, October 30, 1849.
Dear Sir—About the first of April last, I came to Co
lumbus to get medical assistance, and was advised to
call on you, as having a reme ly that would afford me
speedy relief. I was taken down in January last, with
a violent attack of Rheumatism in nearly all my joints
1 so badly, that I could not pull of my shoes without aid ;
! nor could I ascend or descend steps-, or pull off my
j clothes without assistance. My right arm and hand
were nearly useless ; the fingers contracted and swollen;
the right knee swollen and stiffened, so that I could not
bend it but very little. Up to the Ist of April, I was all
fife time in suffering and pain ; I rubbed with your Rheu- 1
j matic Liniment my limbs three times, ar.d was the next
! morning enabled to de-cend a long fight of steps, with- !
| out aid of crutch or stick, and back to my room—l could
| also bend my knee and bring it up to the chair, which
the previous day, 1 could not have done if iny life had de
j pended on it. 1 could also rue. open and bend my sing
! ers, wich was an imbossihility the day before. I rose in
i the morning from my bed entirely relieved of pain. I
used one bottle and an eight ounce vial of your Rheu
; matic Liniment, and in fen days, I was relieved. I
would riot have been in the condition which I had been, |
I ten days before I called on you, for any amout of money ‘
j which could be given me : for what is life worth when
jin constant pain and misery ! I consider your Rheumat
ic Liniment, the most valuable medicine in the world. I
am, dear sir, vour friend.
J. 11. SMITH.
Columbus. Nov. 1. 1849.
Dear Sir—My negro woman Patience, a cook, had a
1 stilff neck from a painful Rheumatic, affection, for six or !
i seven years, and could not turn her neck except with the :
; body. I was induced to purchase a bottle of your Lin
! iment, which was applied in August or September of
1818. One bottle entirely relieved her and she now has
the use of her neck as well as ever she had ; arid up to
this time, it has not returned.
GARLAND B. TERRY.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1 1850.
Dr. de Graffenried—Dear Sir: Having been afflicted,
for some time past, with a severe attack of Rheumatism,
arid having heard of the wonderful effects of yourßheu
, matic Liniment, I was induced to try a bottle of it; and
j after three days, I was so much relieved as to be able to
; leave the house and attend to business. I have perfect
ly recovered from the disease, and would cheerfully re
commend the Liniment to oil those who are afflicted,
GEORGE HOOD, 27 Powell street.
Columhus Ga., Oct. 13,1849.
Dr. E. L dc Graffenried—Dear Sir : Agreeable to
your request, 1 give inv testimonial as to tne virtue of
your Liniment in the cure of Rheumatism. Being at
: iacked in one joint ofiny finger, last winter, with acute
’ Rheumatism, and haying used many of the unnumbered
! prescriptions for its cure, with but little benefit, I made
j application of two bottles of your Liniment, which I am
! happy to say relieved me in a very short time. I can re
j commend its use to all persons affected in like manner.
Very respectfully, F. S CHAPMAN.
I can testify to the efficacy of Dr. de Graflenried’s
Rheumatic Liniment in the case of Mr. F. S. Chapman,
as it came under my immediate observation.
October 13, 1849. R. A. WARE, M. D.
Dear Sir—Some time in Jauary last, Mrs. McKee j
was taken very ill with Inflammatory Rheumatism in her ;
shoulder joints, extending to her elbow joint and
arm, which disabled her from using her arm almost en
tirely ; and from the pain, want of sleep) and great rest
lessness, for not less than six weeks, 1 was iuduced by
my friend, Mr. Luke Reed, to call on you for a bot
tle of your Liniment, and by using hall the bottle, she
was entirely relieved, and trie relief was manifest or sen
sible after three or four rubbings. lam ot opinion, it is
one of the most valuable remedies that hasever been dis- i
covered, for Rheumatism: that is, from my own knowl- i
edge, and that which I have heard from others.
Dr. E. L. dc Graficnried. H. C. McKEE.
Columbus, Oct. 19th 1849
Dr de Graffenned —Dear Sir : Itake pleasure in sav
ing, I have a boy who was so badly afflicted with Rheu
matism, that he could not raise his hand to his head, and
had nearly lost the u: eof his arm. I used the fourth of
a bottle of your Rheumatic Liniment, which relieved
him entirely. I consider it a most valuable remedy for
the cure of Rheumatism
RANDOLPH L-. .MOTT
Memphis Institute.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
r pilE regular course of Lectures in this Institute will
JL 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.
PI. J. Hulcf, M. D., Professor of Theory and Practice
. of Medicine.
VV. Byrd Powell, M. D., Professor of Physiology,
Pathology, Mineralogy and Geology.
J. King, M. D.. Professor of Materia Medica, 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. PI. 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 ; ana students ar
riving in the city will please call on him at the Commer
cial Hotel. R. S. NEWTON, M. D.,
Dean of the Faculty.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
Plon E. W. M. King, Professor of Theory and Prac
tice of Law.
John Delafield, Esq. Professor of Commercial Juris
prudence.
T erms per Session SSO
All communications pertaining to this department must
be addressed to E. W. M. KING, Esq.
Memphis, Tenp., March, 1850.
Tlie 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 are 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 tlie place of studying medicines; those who
intend practicing among the diseases of the West and
South should certainly educate themselves at a school
whose Faculty are particularly acquainted with those
diseases.
That the public may * c satisfied of the permanency of
this school, we feel it* our duty to state, that the Trus
tees and Faculty form a unit in ac tion, which augurs
well l'orits future success ; and that the peculiar internal
organization which connects them, cannot be interrupted.
D. W. M. KING,
President of the Memphis Institute.
April 11,1550. 15 ly
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inate valuable information on these subjects.
[Farmer df Mechanic.
Practical men in all the varied walks of me
chanical ami manufacturing industry, engineer
ing, &c., will find this work a treasure which it
will be to their profit to possess.— Troy Daily
j Whig.
We have carefully perused the numbers, and
have no hesitation in saying that it is the best
j work for mechanics, tradesmen, and scientific
men, ever published, for it contains minute in
formation on every branch of the mechanical arts
and sciences, expressed in a style and language
intelligible to any reader of ordinary capacity.
[Gloucester News.
We are sure we are doing the mechanics of
Norwich and other parts of Connecticut, a ser
vice by bringing the work to their attention
[ Norwich Courier.
We consider it one of the most useful and
important publications of the age. No mechan
ic can afford to be w ithout it. —Newark Com.
Courier.
Os all the various publicationshaving for their
object the elucidation and advancement of the
mechanical arts and sciences, none that we have
seen is so full of promise as this.— Buffalo Com.
Adv.
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to the scientific and practical engineer and me
chanic. The plates are beautifully executed.
[ Globe.
This great Dictionary is one of the most use
ful works which has been published for years,
and the low price at which it is sold makes it ac
ceptable to all.— South Carolinian.
Ought to be taken by every one desiring to
keep pace with the progress of art and science
in every one of the labors of civilized life.
[ Rondout Courier.
It is designed after the principle of Ure’s Dic
tionary, only that it is more devoted to the me
chanical and engineering professions and above
all it is valuable as accomplishing for American
j machinery and works of art. —Scientific Ameri
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vance, shall receive the work through the post
office, free of expense.
JUST RECEIVED,
A LARGE lot of Miscellaneous and School Book.-*
Also a large and beautiful assortnientcf Stationery,
fine Letter and Note Paper. Envelopes, &c.
rtGRAFFENRIED & ROBINSON.
i April 13.