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From the New York Observer.
THE HOMES AND BURIAL PLACES.
OF DISTINGUISHED MEN, NO. XI.
FROM THE NOTES OF A I.ATE TRAVELLER.
SHAKSPEARE.
Route to Strut for d-upon-Anon by Oxford —
House in which Shakspenre was born—Col
lection of articles once belonging to him —
His burial place.—The descendants of his
sister.
A visit to the birth place and grave a Shaks
peare now forms an almost indispensable por
tion of the tourist’s wanderings in England. :
The little village of Stratford on Anon does J
not lie upon any of the railway routes, but no
one can regret this when riding over the forty
miles between it and Oxford. This section
is not celebrated for its scenery, but it has
those characteristics which render nearly eve
ry English landscape pleasing, and which
make one desire to linger and more perfectly
note them in memory. One loves to dwell
upon the fine cultivation of the land; the
beauty of the hedges, sweet with blossoms
when we saw them ; and'the homes, cottage
and hall, looking out from the shade of trees.
We were going to Liverpool, and so ar
ranged our plans as to visit Oxford, Stratford,
Warwick, Kenilworth Castle, Coventry, and
Birmingham, on the way. At Oxford we
looked through the most noted colleges and
libraries; thought and talked of Dr. Pusey ;
visited the Martyr’s Monument, —memorial of j
constancy to a faith from which the learned j
men of Oxford are first to turn aside, and j
proved that the town is justly celebrated for J
its contracting influence on the traveller’s ;
purse. From Oxford we went to Woodstock,
and saw Blenheim, the magnificent estate of
the Duke of Marlborough, whose park-wall is
eighteen miles in circuit. But we forgot the
warfare of creeds, and scholastic lore, and
ducal granduer, as we approached Stratford,
and crossed the “soft-floating Avon.”
Our first visit was to the house in which
Shakespeare was born, a quaint, little struct
ure which needs constant repairs to keep it in
existence. Like many of the houses of the
lower class in Great Britain and Germany, it
is only a wooden frame filled in with white
washed clay. We passed through a lower
room, apparently kitchen and parlor, but
beautifully neat, into a narrow ante-room, and
up a short flight of stairs, to the place in which
the great poet first breathed—a small apart
ment, with very low ceiling, and without oth
er furniture than one or two small tables.—
The walls were covered with autographs, and
there was also a book in which visitors record
their names and residence. As I turned over
the leaves of this volume, and saw titled
names, and the writing of the gifted and good
from different lands, 1 thought of the power
of genius w hich could thus bring pilgrims
from the highways and their wonted haunts,
—for what lto see no smiling villa, nor cas
tled pile, nor even a ruin of some elder time;
but a litte dwelling, rude without and unfur
nished within. It contained no work of geni
us—picture, or statue, or book—but mind
had been there, and even those bare walls had
caught the glow of its immortality. The
consecrating power of thought never before
seemed so real to me. While I gazed around
the room seemed to expand, and to be filled
with the beings of another time and the poet’s
creation. They swept past my memory, not
as a procession of phantoms, but as realities.
Side by side with our new-world party were
kings and queens, courtiers and knights, lov
ers and maidens, witches and fairies, an in
congruous assemblage. The fancy could not
last, but I shall never forget the place and
hour in which it seemed so real.
Not far from the birth-place of Shakspeare
isa collection of relics bearing his name.—
►Some of the articles, as a few chairs, a table,
writing-desk, a box, one or two small pictures
and an inkstand, are very xvell proved to have
belonged to him, and it seems a pity that they
have been removed from his old home. Here
too, are several volumes containing the names
of visitors. The attendant was eager to show
ns the handwriting of George IV, but all that
royal profligate ever wrote did not seem to us
worth so much as the few time-discolored
tracings from the poet’s pen, also preserved
there.
A third place, and the most interesting of
all, is the church in which Shakspeare is bu
ried. We had seen his monument in West
minister Abbey, a full length statue leaning
on a pedestal, on which a scroll also rests
bearing those glorious lines from the Tem
pest:
“The cloud-clapred towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea all which it inherit, shall dissolve,
And like the baseless fabric of a vision,
Leave not a rack behind.”
But the monument does not mark the rest
ing-place of the poet: he lies in the church at
Stratford, the most appropriate spot on earth.
It is well that he sleeps near the haunts of
his childhood. Life indeed seems brief where
the way is so short from the birth-place to the
tomb, but it is of use for us sometimes to feel
how long the shortest day of existence may
he made, when used by the gifted and good.
I never had so little feeling that Shakspeare
was of a past generation and dead, as when I
stood by his grave.
The church of Stratford is beautifully situ
ated. A large yard filled with trees surrounds
it, and behind it glides the Avon. Passing
through a fine avenue of lime trees, we reach
ed the door, and little caring for some titled
one whose tomb our guide would have us no
tice, pressed on to the chancel. There is the
unadorned granite tablet, sunk in the pave
ment, which covers the remains of the poet,
and on which is inscribed the warning epi
taph which, according to tradition, he wrote
himself.
“Good friend, for Jesus sake forbear
To die the dust enclosed here ;
Blese be ye man yt spare thes stones,
And curst be he yit moves my bones.”
Notwithstanding the want of internal evi
dence as to the authorship of these lines, there
seems little reason to doubt that they were i
written by Shakspeare; at all events, they
have helped to keep his grave undisturb
ed. It is said that efforts were at one time
made to remove his remains to Westminister
Abbey, but were relinquished on reading this
epitaph. It was probably written to prevent
his bones from being thrown into the common
charnel house of the parish.
Near the grave of Shakspeare is a monu
ment to his memory, erected within the first
seven years after his death. This is a half
figure of himself, placed under an arch be
tween two slight Corinthian columns. He is
represented as leaning on a cushion in the
act of writing. This is wrought in a kind of
Iree-stone, and was originally colored, the
more perfectly to imitate life. The w retched
taste of innovator has led to the re-painting
ot the whole in white, thus taking away much
of its value as a life-like and original repre
sentation of the poet. Happily a copy of
the colored head has been preserved and is
exhibited in the “Shakspeare collection.”
We left this place unwillingly, and still
turned to gaze upon it as we rode away.
The sunshine of May rested on the roof and
spire of the church, and flickered down throu’h
the lilted branches of the trees. Shadows
played fitfully on the green sward and on the
river flowing so silently behind the church.
Willow's dropped over the margin of the
stream. It was a pleasant, quiet scene.
It is well known that Shakspeare had no
descendants beyond the second generation,
but his sister John Hart, named in his will,
is still represented by a family in Stratford.
All its members are in humble circumstances.
A spirited appeal has been made to the Eng
lish public in their behalf, with the hope of at
least obtaining the means of edticatien for the
children, but it has not met with a cheerful,
generous response. Some of the most popu
: lar authors are interested in the matter, and
it is hoped that something will yet be done to
relieve the misfortunes, and raise the social
position ot “the only sentient, conscious, and
rational things connected with the memory o
Shakspeare.” No other homage to his fame
has been withheld, and far more worthy
would be such a tribute from his grateful ad
mirers, than any costly monument or worship
of gathered relics. M. E. F.
Franklin at the Fireside. —Never have
I know n such a fireside companion as he was
both as a statesman and a philosopher; he
never shone in a light more w inning than
when he was seen in the domestic circle. It
waAnce my good fortune to pass two or three
w’eeks with him at the house of a gentleman
in Pennsylvania, and we were confined to the
i house during the whole of that time by the un
| remitting constancy and depth of the snow.f
But confinement could not be felt where Dr.
j Franklin was an inmate. His cheerfulness
and bis colloquial powers spread around him
a perpetual spring. Os Franklin no one ever
become tired. There was no ambition of el
oquence, no effort to shine in anything which
made any demand either upon your allegi
ance or your admiration. His manner was
just as unaffected as infancy. It was Na
ture’s spell. He talked like an old patriarch
and his plainness and simplicity put you at
once at your ease, and gave you the full and
free possesion and use of all your faculties.—
His cheerfulness was unremitting. It seemed
to be as much the systematic and salutary ex
ercise of the mind, as of its superior organiza
tion. His wit was of the first order. It did
not show itself merely in occasional corusca
tions, but without any effort or force on his
part, it shed a constant stream of the purest
light over the whole of his discourse. Wheth
er in company with commoners or nobles, he
was the same plain man, always most perfect
ly at bis ease, his faculties in full play, and
the full orbit of his genius forever clear and
unclouded, and the stones of mind were inex
haustible. He had commenced his life with
an attention so vigilant that nothing had es
caped his observation, and every incident turn
ed to advantage. His youth had not been
wasted in idleness, nor overcast by intemper
ance. He had been all bis life a close and
deep reader, as well as thinker, and by force
of his own powers, had wrought up the raw
materials which he gathered from books with
such exquisite skill and felicity, that he had
added a hundred fold to their original value,
and justly made them his own.
[ William Wirt.
Behold ! how Great a Fire a little Spark
Kindieth.
“Mrs. Smith,” said Mrs. Brown to her next
door neighbor, yesterday, “your Sal makes a
common practice of throwin’ her slops right
down in front of my door, and I don’t like
it.”
“Well, Mrs. Brown, since you have spoke
about it, I must say that your Bill does more
than that; he chucks dirty water in our Sal’s
face, and even tore her dress a few days ago.”
“Well, dear knows, Mrs. Smith, you needn’t
say nothing about my Bill, for your Sal is
the w’ust child in the neighborhood; all the
neighborhood says so, and what all say must
be so.”
“All the neighbors says so, does they ? and
what does they say about your Bill, I’d like
to know ? Take core Mrs. Brown—don’t put
me in a passion, or I may say more than you’d
like to hear. People that live in glass houses
oughtn’t to throw stones.”
“Say what you please, Mrs. Smith, but take
care and dont violate the law, or I’ll put you
where the dogs won’t bite you.”
“Ah! you will, will you ? You dirty huzzy!
you put a decent woman in prison, will you ?
better take care you don’t get there yourself;
it’s where you ought to have been long ago, if
what even-body says is true.”
“There, I’ll make you prove that—yes, I
wib. Sal, get my bonnet and shawl. I’ll see
if there’s no justice for me,” and Mrs. Smith
hastened off to a magistrate to get a warrant
tor Mrs. Brown. The magistrate and the con
stable were the only persons who mad any
thing by the operation.
Laws of Health. —Children should be
taught to use the left hand as well and as
much as the right.
Coarse bread is much better for children
than fine.
Children shoulcTsleep in separate beds, and
should not wear night-caps.
Children under seven years of age should
not be confined over six or seven hours in the
house—and that time should be broken In
frequent recesses.
Children and young people must be made
to hold their heads up and shoulders back while
standing, sitting or walking. The best beds
for children are of hair, or in winter of hair
and cotton.
From one to one pound and a half of solid
food it sufficient for a person in the ordinary
vocation of business. Persons in sedentary
employments should drop one-third of their
food and they will escape dyspepsia.
Young persons should walk at least two
Ilnurs a day in the open air.
Y oung ladies should be prevented from ban
daging the chest. The author has known
three cases of insanity, terminating in death,
which begun in this practice.
Every person, great and small, should wash
all over in cold water every morning.
Reading aloud is conducive to health.
The more clothing we wear, other things
being equal, the less food we need.
Sleeping rooms should be furnished with a
fire-place, or some mode of ventilation besides
the windows.
Y r oung people and others cannot study much
by lamp-light with impunity.
The best remedy for eyes weakened bv
night use, is a fine stream of cold water fre
quently applied to them.
Scene in a Railroad Office.—Dutch
man.—“lvants to get pao fora pig vat ter rail
road is runned over.”
Secretary.—“ How came the engine to run
over your pig!”
Dutchman.— “Vy, mine pig was cornin’ a
long and ter railroad was coinin’ along and
ter pig did not see ter railroad cornin’ along,
and ter pig vent to run under ter railroad ven
it was cornin’ along, and ter railroad runned
over ter pig ven he vas cornin’ along.”
Secretary.—“My friend, I don’t think this is
a case in which the road ought to pay.”
Dutchman.—“ Den, afterwards, I keeps my
pigs from eoiniif along venter railroadis coin
in’ along.”
If Louis Napoleon is not a great man, he
is clearly an amiable one. A gentleman re
cently called on a coach.maker, and bargain
ed with him for a handsome carriage.
“What is your lowest price ?” he inquired.
“Three thousand francs,” replied the coach
maker.
“That is not dear,” said the customer.
“Dear ?” cried the coach-maker; “but for
the revolutions and that stupid fellow at the
head of the government, it would be worth six
thousand francs.”
“Sir,” said the president, “I am the stupid
fellow you speak of! Send the carriage to
the Elysee, and my secretary shall have the
money ready for you.”
The coach-maker was “putrified,” as Mrs.
Partington says.
Popping the Question. —Sally, don’t I
like you ?
Law, Jim, I reckon so.
But don’t you know it Sally ? Don’t you
think I’d tear the eyes out of any tom cat that
dare to look cross at you!
I spect you would.
Well the fact of it is Sally, I
Oh, now don’t Jim—l feel all overish.
And Sally I want you to—
O hush, don’t, I Oh—
I want you to-night to get —
What, so soon. Oh no, impossible. Fa
ther and mother would be angry at me.
How be mad at you for doing me such a
favor as to m
Yes, dear me, I’m so agitated.
But there is some mistake, for all I want
to have you to do, is to — mend my shirt col
lar.
Matrimonial Felicity. —“My love,” says
Mrs. Foozie to her husband, “oblige me with
twenty dollars to day to purchase anew
dress.”
“Shan’t do any such thing, Agnes —you call
ed me a bear yesterday!”
“Law, love, that was nothing—l meant by
it that you were fond of hugging.”
“You little saucy puss, [sound heard like
the explosion of a pistol] but here’s a fifty.”
In a Horn. —The origin of this ssying is
thus answered; “In olden times before glass
es were introduced, it was the custom to
drink out of horns. William the conqueror
had one that held a quart. When he drank
out of it, be usually pledged his guests “in a
horn,” and no one could leave the table with
doing the same thing. Hence the origin.
“Ma’am, your shawl’s dragging in the
mud.”
“Well, suppose it is, isn’t it fashionable!”
A poor woman, who lived in the old coun
try had two children, one of whom dying, she
caused to be buried there; soon after coming
to America the other died, also, and it was
buried here. Wishing to commemorate the
place, she put a gravestone with the following
inscription: ,
“Here lie two children dear—
One in old Ireland, ’tother one here.’! -
A last resource. —An Irishman lost his
hat in a well, and was let down in the bucket
to recover it; the well being deep and ex
tremely dark withal, his courage failed him
before he reached the water. In vain did he
call to those above him to pull him up, they
lent a deaf ear to all he said; till at last quite
in despair, be bellowed out: “Be St. Patrick,
if you dont draw me up, sure I’ll cut the
rope.”
A FRIGHTENED DARKEY.
‘Lora mighty, massa! you dont know how
I was skeered yesterday” exclaimed a sable
son.
“How so, Quashy ?”
“Well, John, who lives a little back here,
asked me jist to fetch up his horse, which
comes down here a feedin’, in a little opening
which turns off the road out dar. So about
sun-down I takes my tin pan, and goes down
to look for ’im. Well, as I went along, jest
afore I came to the opening, I tort I’d try to
dance a jig what the sailof men used to sing
and dance down at the fort. So I begin—
tink a tink on the pan, and singing the
words—
“ Did you ebber rec de debbil—
Shubble grabble, ahubble grabble—
Wid a wooden iron shubble,
And an iron wooden ladlel”
“All dis time I was lookin’ down to see if
I keep de step. Den, jist as I turn into de
opening, I begin again—
“Did you ebber see de debble,” &c.
‘O, Lorra, massa! I hear somethin’ growl,
an’ I look up, an’ dar w r as free of em—free
of the orfullest big bairs, makin’ mutton ob
dat hoss. I heard de Oregon fellers say,
when you meets a hair you’ve got to keep on
doin’ jist what you’ve been doin’ on afore, or
dey will pitch into you. So I tries to keep
on singin’ and dancing,’ but my heart was up
in my inouf, an’ my feet was heavy as lead,
an, all I could do was to keep tink a tink a
little on de pan. At last I shuv dis foot a lit
tle back, an’ den fodder; an’ bym-by, I got a
little bref to sing,
“Did you ebber, did you ebber—”
‘All dis while dem drefful hairs were look
ing at me, wid de blood runnin’ out ob dar
moufs. Well, massa, I kept on tink a tink;
did you ebber? an’ shuv back faster and fas
ter, until I slip by de dorner of the clearin’;
an’den, massa, if you ebber did see light
nin’ come down a dead pine tree, you see
how dis nigger streak it. I run all de way
to John’s house, an’ dar I fell down mos’
dead. Well, dar I lay pullin’ an’ blowin’ till
John come out an’ giv me amouful ob brandy
an’ bym-by, I got bref enougn to tell him a
bout it, an he’s goin’ to get folks td turn out
for a bair hunt; but he won’t ketch dis child
goin,’ I don’t belief.’
From the Southern Cultivator.
Fruit Culture in the South.
Fruit culture is not sufficiently attended to in
the South. There are many who are opposed
to all innovations, and by their ridicule effect
more than ten such as I can remove. The ve
ry idea of bringing fruit trees from abroad, or
from the east or north, arouses a holy horror.—
They are satisfied we have the best, and will
listen to no dissatisfaction from any other
source.
A few years since, at a little society meeting, I
allude to fruits, their culture as a source of profit,
the possibility of sending fruit to New’ Orleans,
up the river, to Cuba, and may be even further.
I was deemed crazed as I had always been.—
Many attempted ridicule in a small way. Yet
I have seen in my own day and time that even
Mississippi is arousing from her lethargy. We
can even now send off peaches, apples, and
pears, and m a very few years Mississippi will
tell a tale that will astonish even the Bostonians
—though they may ship 10 to 11,000 barrels
per year. This was done in ’43 and ’46, and
no doubt in ’SO they will, if a good year, send off
20,000 barrels.
A friend of mine is now planting down over
4000 grafts of pear trees for his own use, having
a fine orchard even now r .
The pear is comparatively unkonwn in the
South, but the day is dawning when we will all
know’ it. When it is known that this fruit is in
ferior to no other, ripening and eatable from
early in May until even May again by being ta
ken care of—this we have to learn and to get
right varieties—we will then see orchards,
I trust I will be the humble means of
spreading before the South much valuable in
formation, especially as to pears and peaches. I
have now ready for putting out 40 new varie
ties of the pear, which’, varieties already in
orchard, I now number 198 varieties.
1 endeavor in planting all trees to place them
no deeper than they grew in the nursery, and
do not like having a deep hole uidess well drain
ed, upon our clay lands. I use surface soil only
for manure, unless I have well rotted cotton
seed, and then use them sparingly.
I prefer trimming all the year, though with a
large orchard we cannot give such attention. I
I have pruned all winter, and even in the spring,
and prefer to prune after the leal is out, as the
wound heals earlier, and makes less dead wood
to be covered. But in our cotton country we
must rely upon wintry pruning, being careful to
prune out all crossing limbs, water sprouts, and
all suckers or sprouts from the roots. It the
tree makes many water sprouts it is best to cut
the roots putting out freely, which will cause
less sap to be collected. But one good bearing
year, or leaving trees one year in grass, will gen
erally remedy this defect.
I have had more difficulty with cherries than
I anticipated; and really there appears to be so
much doubt as to growing cherries, that I have
postponed any further trial until I am able to
start with 100 varieties, and will then use
dwarfs until I can grow seed, when I will try for
new varieties, and my own gratting. 1 think the
stem of the tree should be protected by its own
limbs until the tree has size and barkage
enough to protect it against the sun. All my
varieties have died off. and invariably the south
western exposed surface of the tree has been in
jured by the sun ; notwithstanding I have striv
en to encourage side limbs low down.
My peach have worms in them, but they are
growing so fast that the worm has not been en
abled to check them. I have about 2000 peach
trees, and some 6, or 700 apple trees, and loose
five to ten times as many apple as peach trees.
I prefer March to bed up land for peach trees,
and plant upon the ridge. I use cotton seed,
100 bushels per acre, yearly, for three or four
years; plant cotton between rows, and thus
keep land improving and trees in great vigor. I
have supposed that there is lime enough in my
land, and if not that the 100 bushels of cotton
seed will give it. At all events I can show size
and thrift not to be excelled any where.
Many people do not prune enough ; they may
cut out limbs occasionally, but I cut off ends ol
small limbs’ to a considerable extent on some
trees, thus checking the production of the leaf
more than by taking off limbs.
M. W- Philips.
Log Hall, Feb. 15, 1850.
TROY WOODEN-WARE
MANUFACTURING COMPANY,
ARE now ready to commence operations, and will
promptly supply all orders with which they may
be favored, for every 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.
TURNING.
Bed Steads, Wagon Hubs, and every other description
of Turning, neatly done.
The Manufactory is situated at the mouth of Mulber
ry Creek, 12 miles from Columbus, 20 from Opelika,
and 22 from West Point. The Company is thus afford
ed facilities for transportation in every direction, and
will be able to furnish their goods in every section ot 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 filled. AH 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. 2,1850. 1 ly
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OF ‘
“THE SOUTHERN PRESS.”
AN association of sixty-three members of Congress,
Senators and Representatives, have constituted the
undersigned a Committee to superintend the establish
ment of a Southern Press at Washington city, to be de
voted to the exposition and defence of Southern Rights
institutions—the dissemination of correct information as
to Northern Policy, and the course of Political Af
fairs generally, without reference to the old party lines of
Whig and Democrat. Arrangements arc now in pro
gress, promptly to insure the issue of such a paper under
the title ot
“TIIE SOUTHERN PRESS,
for the conduct of which, suitable Editors have been en
gaged, who will also receive the aid of a number of em
inent and able contributors.
There will be both a tri-weekly and a weekly is
sue—the latter to contain substantially the same matter
as the former, and intended to reach those points of the
country whose mail facilities are limited,
A Daily issue will bo added hereafter, should it he
deemed advisable or necessary by the press and people
of the southern States.
The paper will not be exclusively political—but will
embrace on its broad sheet the General News of the
Day, Domestic and Foreign, by mail and telegraph;
Commercial and Agricultural Intelligence, Literary
Criticisms, Original Essays, Literary and Miscellaneous;
and, in short, all those items of general interest, the col
lected aggregate of which constitutes the interesting and
valuable Newspaper. Great care will be taken to give
full and correct Reports of the Proceedings and Debates
in both Houses of Congress, as well as the action of the
iocal Legislatures on the Southern question.
A limited number only of Advertisements will be re-
ceivcd—the main object being to furnish a large amount
of reading matter.
The paper will he printed on a sheet equal in size to
those of the othor Washington papers, and the material
will be procured especially for the purpose.
It is confidently hoped that every true friend to the
South will aid in procuring subscribers, and forward the
names, with the amount subscribed, to some Southern
Representative at Washington, forthwith.
Postmasters are authorized by law to remit subscrip
tions free of postage.
TERMS:
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gress, and Semi-Weekly during the recess, the
price will be per annum $5 00
Weekly paper 2 50
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advance, and the cash accompany the name sent.
All porsons procuring ten names shall be entitled to
receive a copy gratis for one year.
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R. TOOMBS,
J. THOMPSON.
tw Editors, and papers friendly to the enterprise,
will please publish this Prospectus, which will entitle
them to an exchange with the newspaper. All who
comply with this request will send a copy of the paper
containing it to the Committee.
Washington, May 25, 1850.
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sex and constitution, at all times and seasons, there is
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striction in diet; from the certain and speedy relief it
gives, it is now the most popular remedy of the day.—
Ten thousand cases have been cured effectually by it
during the past year. Prepared by a practical physician,
the afnietea can rely with confidence on its curative
powers over diseases of this character. Full directions
accompany each bottle.
CA UTlON. —Ask for the American Compound, and
purchase only of the Agents, 294, Market st. Phila
delpliia, and of Danforth 6c. Nagel, Columbus, Ga.
June 20,1850. 25
WASHINGTON HOUSE,
Chesnut 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 1
Square? of 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 his
lriends and the public for the liberal patronage they
have extended to him, and assures them that he will
endeavor to merit a continuance of their favors.
A. F. GLASS.
June 20, 1850. 25
£s* WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS,
MERIWETHER COUNTY, GA.
THIS delightful Watering Place will be opened by the
FIRST of JULY, for the reception of Visitors, under
the management of McCOMB &c DUNC AN.
WALKER DUNCAN. ’ M. B. M’COMB.
June 13, 1850 ts
Planters, Take Notice.
Saw Mills, Grist Mills, Factories, Gin Gear,
Rice 3lills, atid Sugar Mills.
rpjlE firm of AMBLER & MORRIS are now
JL ready to build any of the above named Mills, pro
pelled by “Water, Steam or Horse. Our work shall be
done in the best possible manner, and warranted inferior
to'none now in use. Both of the above firm are practi
-1 cal meh, and attend to their business in person, and will
furnish Engines i'o4 Steam Mills, Grist or Saw, and set
either in complete operation. The firm can give the best
assortment of 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.
Trv us and see. AMBLER & MORRIS.
! Jan. 24, 1850. 4 ly
I
Dyeing and Renovating Establishment.
BERTHOLD SENGER
■V*7OULD respectfully inform the ladies and gentle-
V V men of Columbus, and vicinity, that he 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
n °Cotton, Silk, and Woolen goods bleached or dyed, in
the very best manner, Und with despatch.
Also, Moserine Blue, Turkey Red, &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. .
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METALLIC OR VULCANIZED
Rubba Machine Belting.
k /\AA FEET of the above BELTING, suitable.
O,UUU for all kinds of Machinery—from 1 to 20
inches wide—warranted superior to leather or anv 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, &c.
3 WADE & CO.
Sign of the Golden Saddle.
Columbus, April 4,1850. 14 ly
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•UUU LEATHER BELTING, from 1 inch to
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DE BOW’S COMMERCIAL REVIEW,
A MONTHLY JOURNAL OF
Agriculture, Commerce, Manufactures, Internal Im-
Provements, Statistics, general Literature, etc.
‘ublished in New Orleans, at $5 per annum.
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arv. 1846, nearly four years, may be had at the office.
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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.
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orders.
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chase, by advertising in the Review, will be able to reach
the whole planting interest of the South. Address
J. D. B. DeBOW,
New Orleans.
RANDOLPH SHERIFFS SALES.
WILL be sold on the first Tuesday in July next, be
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 of Joseph B. Ellis,
to satisfy sundry fi fas from a Justices Court oi’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 ol land,number 82, in the 6th district of said coun
tv, 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 hearer, 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. Christee, vs. Wm. W. West.
Levy made and returned to me by 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 Jaiin, about three or
four years old, levied on as the property of John 11. Jone 3 ,
to satisfy two fi fas issued from the Inferior Court of
said county, in favor of Gray Harris, vs. John II Jones.
Pointed out by said Jones.
RICHARD DAVIS, Sheriff.
By SAMUEL RIGSBY, D.S.
May 30, 1850. 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 McDougnld, levied on to satis
fy a fi fa from Muscogee Superior Court, in favor of Jas.
S. Watson and Win. C. Watson vs. John 11. 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. J EPSON, Sh’ff
By A. S. RUTHERFORD, D. S.
June 6. tds
STEWART COUNTY.
XTTILL 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 Janies M. Clarke, vs. Silas Gilmore. Levy
mado and returned to me by tonnor 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 790th 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
said McGraw.
Also, one new Buggy, levied on as the propety of
James A. Howell, to satisfy a fi fa issued from Stewart
Interior court, in favor of Jane Bird vs. .1. A. How-ell.
JOHN 31. SCOTT Sh’fl.
June 6. * tds
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May 33, 1859. late Ellis Gray
I Dr. deGRAFFENMED’S
CELEB HATED
RHEUMATIC LINIMENT.
I.v introducing this medicine to the people of the Unit
ed States,, for sale, the proprietors beg leave to submit
the following statement of Dr. de Grafienried, its discov
erer and inventor:
The undersigned frankly states that he has prescribed
this medicine for the last twenty-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
remedy ever yet discovered for the relief of this most pain
ful ana distressing malady.
Hi.’ note-book contains upwards of three hundred ca
ses, in which it has been used within the above named
period, and in no single instance has it cometo his knowl
edge, of its having iailed to effect a cure when persereved
in. Many of the cases 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 its re
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 of this discovery, the undersigned had
wellstudied 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
manity.
It has baffled the skill and science of the most eminent
Physicians and Surgeons of our own, and of every other
country. But the undersigned flatters himself that his
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 $5 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 he able to hear testimony to the efficacy ana virtues
of Dr. dc Graffcnrieds 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 lied nearly all
the time. In January last, I had an attack as violent if
j not more so than usual, which prostrated me for about
three weeks; on your reccommendation I commenced
the use of this Liniment. (With I must confess but little
faith). Its 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.
I 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. d.c G ruffe nr led —Dear Sir ; For the last twelve
years I have suffered 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 Springs in Virginia, to little purpose. After my return
home, I so fitr recovered, as to he able to walk about a lit
tle. About six weeks since, I had a very severe attack
which again confined tne 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, and amongst
them, oi#’ of my friends, and showed me a letter from
him stating the fact. I was induced to try your Rheu
matic Linament, and take pleasure in informinigyou that
j in less than twenty four hours from the first application
j 1 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, as T have been with your medecine.—
Wishing you all the Blessings you deserve Dear Sir.
Your Greateful and Ob't Sevv't
GEO. WARDSWORTH.
Columbus Ga., Oct. 20, 1819
Dr. De Grafienried—Dear Sir : I take pleasure in giv
ing you the particulars of my affliction by, and relieffrom
Rheumatism. During the spring of 1844 I was afflicted
with a very severe attack of Inflammatory Rheumatism.
I employed all the most celebrated remedies then known
and used in similar cases, 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,! was well, and clear of the Rheumatism as
I ever was, and have continued so to this time.
Yours, truly, L. C. MORTON.
FROM COL. A. K. AYER.
Dr.E. L. de Grafienried—Learning that you are about
to manufacture for the public, your valuable Rheumatic
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 he 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 remedy that would afford me
speedy relief. I was taken down in January last, with
a violent attack of R heumatism in nearly all my joints
so badly, that I could not pull of my shoes without aid ;
nor could I ascend or descend steps, or pull off my
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 j
the time in suffering and pain ; I rubbed with your Rheu- j
matic Liniment my limbs three times, and was the next
morning enabled to descend a long fight of steps, with- !
out aid of crutch or stick, and back to my room—l could I
also bend my knee and bring it up to the chair, which i
the previous day, I could not have done if my life had de- j
pended on it. I could also use, open and bend my fing
ers, wich was an imbossibility the day before. I rose in :
the morning from my bed entirely relieved of pain. Ii
used one bottle and an eight ounce vial of your Rheu- !
matic Liniment, and in ten duvs, I was relieved. I |
would not have been in the condition which 1 had been,
ten days before I called on you, for any anrout of money
which could be given me ; for what is life worth when
in constant pain and misery! I consider your Rheumat
ic Liniment, the most valuable medicine in the world. I
am, dear sir, your friend.
J. 11. SMITH.
Columbus, Nov. 1, 1849.
Dear Sir—My negro woman Patience, a cook, had a
stilfl'neck from a painful Rheumatic affection, for six or
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
1848. One bottle entirely relieved her and she now has
the use of her neck as well as ever she had ; and up to
this tune, it has not returned.
GARLAND B. TERRY.
Philadelphia, Feb. 1 1850.
Dr. de Graflenried—Dear Sir: Having been afflicted,
for some time past, with a severe attack of Rheumatism,
and having heard of the wonderful effects of your Rheu
matic Liniment, I was induced to try a bottle of it; and
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 Lin-ment to all those who are afflicted
GEORGE HOOD, 27 Powell street.
Columbus Ga., Oct. 13,1849.
Dr. E. L. de Graflenried —Dear Sir: Agreeable to
your request, I give my testimonial as to the virtue of
your Liniment in the cure of Rheumatism. Being at
tacked in one joint of my finger, last win ter, with acute
Rheumatism, and haying used many of the unnumbered
prescriptions for its cure, with but little benefit, I made
application of two bottles of your Liniment, which I am
happy to say relieved me in a very short time. I can re
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.
, Hear Sir—Some time in Jauary last, Mrs. McKee j
vyas taken very ill w-ith Inflammatoiy 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, I was induced by
my friend, Mr. Luke Reed, to call on you for a bot
tle of your Liniment, and by using half the bottle, she
was entirely relieved, and the relief was manifest or sen- j
sible after three or four rubbings. lam of opinion, it is j
one of the most valuable remedies t hat has ever been dis
covered, for Rheumatism: that is, from my own knowl
edge, and that which I have heard from others.
Hr. E. L. de Graflenried. H. C. McKEE.
Columbus, Oct. 19th 1849
Dr. de Graflenried —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 use of 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 |MIE regular course of Lectures in ffris Institute will
X 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 bo
under the direction of the following
PROFESSORS.
Z. Freeman, M. D., Professor of Anatomy.
, R. S. Newton, M. D.. Professor of Surgery.
11. J- Het.ce. 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 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. Hclce.
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. Matrieulator’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. R. S. NEWTON, M. D..
Dean of the Faculty.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
Hon E. W. M. King, Professor of Theory and Prac
tice of Law.
John Delafif.ld, Esq. Professor of Commercial Juris
prudence.
Terms per Session SSO
All communications pertaining to this department must
be addressed to E. VV’. 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 ottr 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 diseases of the West and
South should certainly educate themselves at a school
whose Faculty are particularly acquainted with those
diseases.
Jfhat 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 forits future success ; and that the peculiar internal
organization which connect 3 them, cannot be interrupted.
E. W. M. KING,
President of the Memphis Institute.
April 11,1850. 15 ly
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