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COLUMBUS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1858. To Advertisers. We havea word to say to our friends and pat rons who address the public through our columns, and, especially to the patentees and vendors of medicines We have received numerous applications for this privilege, which we have felt it our duty to reject, from the fact that the advertisement was expressed in language which is offensive to pro priety and delicacy. We make it a rule not to in sert anything in the way of an advertisement which decency would not sanction in our editorial columns. The propriety of this determination will be con ceded, when it is known that our paper is a daily visitor to the parlor and fireside of nearly every family in our city, and to the homes of many re fined and modest people beyond those limits. The idea that our poor thoughts are scanned by their fair inmates, we dearly cherish. It is one of the chief rewards and comforts of our toil. We shall bj pardened, therefore, we trust, whenever we re f xso to offend them. When they may uot be exclu ded by these considerations, we shall always te “thankful for small favors—larger ones in pro portion.’’ _ Columbus Guards. This gallant company, Capt. Semmes, com mander, paraded on yesterday afternoon for tar get practice. The weather was iuclement and their number was not so largo as we are accustom ed to see in their ranks, but the markmanship will make a favorable comparison with any we have yet heard of. Besides the averages reported be low, the shooting’ was remarkably fine and the general average was, perhaps, superior to any thing ever before achieved, in that exercise, by the company. Lieut. Hodges was the successful con testant for tho prize—a massive and beautiful gold pen and holder. The following are the three best averages of shots. Lieut. Hodges, 2%. Private Sheppard 3%. Capt. Semmes, 3%. A Governor Elected. Columbia, S. C., Dec. 10.—Tho fourth ballot for the Governship was taken to-day, three hav ing been had yesterday without result, and was reported as follows: W. H. Gist, ... 81 Jas. H. Irby, - 78 Total, - - - 159 Necessary to elect, - 80 It will be seen that W. H. Gist is accordingly elected Governor of South Carolina for the next term of two years, from Dec., 12th, 1858. Char. Courier. Rumored Arrival op a Slaver. —The Sa vannah Republican of the 11th inst., says: “We learn from pretty good authority, that a vessel has at last succeeded iu evading the vigilanco of our cruisers and landing a cargo of slaves upon the soil of the States. The vessel, we learn, is the schooner Wanderer, which our in formant states, arrived in St. Andrew's Sound, near Brunswick, Monday last, and landed w- # —< xcua on one of the neighboring islands. A portion of the cargo, it is thought, were sub sequently sent up the Satilla on hoard of a steam er.” The Fugitive Slave Law in Vermont.— The Legislature of Vermont, which adjourned a few days ago, had before it a bill, the practical though not the avowed effect of which, would be to render the execution of the fugitive slave law impossible in that State. This bill was energet ically opposed as beiug unconstitutional, which friends denied, and was indefinitely postponed the Senate by a vote of nineteen to eight. Interesting to the Coffee Trade. —All the rominent firms in tho coffee trade in New York nave, in a response to representations from the trade in Baltimore, agreed to allow no tare on Rio coffe sold by them on and after the Ist of Janu ary next, but to render bills to the purchasers at the gross weight per weigher’s return. * MILLED GEVILLE CORRESPONDENCE. Milledgeville, Dec. 11th 1858. In the Federal Union of this morning under the head of bills on their passage in the Senate ap pears the following. The bill was taken up To open tho Chattahoochee river 30 feet in the channel from its mouth to the mouth of the Ches tatee river. Mr. Colquitt said he ho hoped the bill would be laid on the table for the balance of the session.— He was surprised that a bill affecting so directly the interests of his constituency should have es caped the vigilance of his colleagues in the other branch of the General Assembly. It cleared out for the passage of fish one-third of the channel of the Chattahoochee river from the Florida line to the Chestatee in Hall county. It would destroy the water power of tho city of Columbus. It would interfere with vested rights and was a most iniquitous bill. The bill was laid on the table for the balance of the session. I am informod by one of my colleagues, Mr How ard, that he was not present in the House at the time of the passage of this bill, and also that Mr. Mott was under the impression that all obstruc tions were to bo removed from the river commenc ing at West Point instead of the Florida line. I say this much injustice to these gentlemen, whose fidelity to the interests of a common constituency I shall be the last to question. PEYTON H. COLQUITT. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE Washington City, ) Dec. Bth. 1858. } Gentlemen: I take the liberty of enclosing an interesting article upon Texas, which I think would be acceptable to your readers. I cannot say that there is anything new here. The mess age does not give universal satisfaction to the Southern Democrats. Many of them object to “the specific duties” recommendation, and some to the Mexican policy of taking armed occupation of Chihuahua and Sonora, I doubt whether Mr. Buchanan has strengthened his administration by the message. It is undisguisedly announced here by Cobb and his friends, that war to the knife is t > be waged against Douglas in the South as well as North. To this I should not seriously object, if u were not coupled with the understanding that the war is for’.the benefit of Mr. Cobb. If he can become the main instrument in breaking down Douglas, then he is to receivVthe renown of the conqucrer in a President nomination at Charleston. This movemen if persisted in, must create division among the<Democratic party at the South, as it is evident |at Douglas has many warm friends even in Georfia, and however unac ceptable he may be to the irge mass of tho De mocracy of the South, t cannot be disguised that Cobb is scarcely lessso. If Douglas is to be ostracised at the South, md I think he ought to be, Cobb is not the man o rise upon his ruins. His ultra “Union” proclvities, and his unweary ing courtship of Northern favor and support, would make him the weakest of all candidates in the ranks of the State lights Democracy of bis own section, and give an easy victory to any repu table Southern candidate of the American party. Let all true Southern Democrats keep aloof from this internecine war of two rival and vindictive champions who have only their own selfish ends in view, and neither of whom have sufficient merits or claims or hold upon popular sentiment to justify a division of our ranks and an angry contest. The speech of Judge Jackson at Mil ledgeville, during the present session, was the commencement of the war of Cobb upon Douglas in Georgia. Jackson is the relation of the former, and doubtless speaks his sentiments and wishes. I have neither political faith in or partiality for the “little giant” and I am decidedly opposed to his nomination as the Democratic candidate for the Presidency at the next election. I consider the South entitled to the candidate, and there are many men of eminent talents and sound political views and character who would combine elements of strength and success, far superior to either of the parties above named—such is Hunter of„ Va., Pearce, of Maryland, Breckenridge of Ky., and if we have to travel out of the slave states for a champion, Gen. Jo. Lane, “the Marion of the Mexican war,’ would bear our standard as proudly and as bravely and I hope and believe as tri umphantly, as he did the glorious banner of our country on many a hard fought field of Mexico. He is a Southern man by birth, education and sympathy, he is sound in politics aud in judgment; he is “honest, capable and faithful to the consti tution” —and would arouse an enthusiasm in his behalf amongst tho masses of every section of the Union which would sweep every thing before it. More anon. Yours, Ac., A SOUTHERN DEMOCRAT. Washington, Dec. 10, 1858. The recent movement in your State Senate, growing out of a decision of the Supreme Court of Georgia has risen to the rank of a national ques tion, and the able speech of your Senator on the occasion, will hereafter find a place among our national annals;’ “obsta principiis” is a safe rules and never more applicable than when our judi ciary is to be assailed because its action does not harmonise with the ephemeral tone of popular caprice. The urn and the shell are only wanting to make the system complete, if ostracism is to be the test of tho integrity of our Judiciary. Butlonly wish to say that the action of your Senate on the mat ter is the subject of general approval and congrat ulation, not only in the Federal Metropolis, but by the Press of the county so far as I have seen. I enclose you a paragraph from tho Journal of Commerce, copied this evening into the National Intelligencer. Your Senator (Iverson) has already made a good movement towards retrenchment by a mo tion of which he has given notice to the Senate ege. This is the great monster abuse of tho day. Tho impeachment of Judge Watrous of Texas is the only matter of any importance yet up in the House. A trial it is believed will be ordered with what result no one can predict. —Macte virtute ! From the New York Day Book, Dec. 4. Progress and Resources. In answer to inquiries as to the ability of the State of Texas to satisfy land claims donated by her for railroad purposes, now due and to become due, I herewith present such information as I gather from my notes and other evidences at hand, mostly taken from official and statistical records. Other and general information hero given being the result of my personal observations, made while traveling over the State for several consec utive years to the present season. No one famil iar with the subject will presume to controvert the statement. The area of tho State of Texas has been estima ted by most geographers to contain 257,504 square miles. The Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State, in his official Report dated Novem ber Ist, 1857, gives the area at 274,336% square miles, or 175,594,560 acres. This estimate is probably accurate, as the calculations are made from actual surveys returned to his office. Of the various claims of land grants and claims which have been satisfied from this vast territory, are those originating under the Governments of Spain, Mexico, and the State of Coahuila and Texas, the Republic of Texas, and the State of Texas.— Those from Spain, Mexico, Coahuila and Texas being originally written and recorded in the Span ish language, are usually called Spanish grants. Of these there have been titled 22,584,454 acres.— The titles to about 1,200 leagues or 5,313,600 acres have been declared void by tho Constitution and courts as having been fraudulently issued, leav ing 17,270,384 acres of valid Spanish grants. There have been other grants and claims con firmed by the State Legislature amounting to 3,741,241 acres. Claims originating under the Republic and State of Texas, amount in the aggregate to 47,- 788,449 acres, and may be divided as follows : irstand Second Class, Reported Recommended and PConfirinedby the Courts, amount to 30,471,910 acres. Claims issued’ under special acts 1,310,441 “ Bounty and donation lands ....._ 5.285,763 “ Land Script 7 2,047,586 “ Colony Companies, viz ; Fishers and 1 Miller’s Colony 1,735,200 acres; Mer- ( cer’s Colony 811,720 acres; Peter’s I 4,657,960 “ Colony 2,lll,o4oacres, equal t*.... j University and school lands 2,275,992 “ Special grants to seminaries 121,894 “ Denf and dumb, lunatic, blind and or phan asylums 400.000 “ Pre-emption claims reported 335.267 “ Settlers’ claims within Miss, reserve... 40.584 “ Claims of railroads filed 512,000 “ Patented to the National R. R 27,116 “ To which add the amount confirmed by Act of 1854 3,741,214 Moking total amount returned for patent 51,529,690 “ Add to this the amount covered by valid Span ish Grants and we have 68,800,574 acres already appropriated from the gross amount. And leav ing 106,793,986 acres as Public Domain yet to be absorbed by railroad and other enterprises. The State of Texas has granted 44 charters to railroad companies, of which 17 have been forfeited, leaving 26 charters still in force. Of these there are 11 in progress of construction, to wit; Houston and Texas Central R. R. when comple ted will be about 350 Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado R. R... 160 Galveston. Houston and Henderson R. R...... 240 Houston Tap R. R 7 Houston Tap and Brazoria R. R.. 48 San Antonia and Mexican Gulf R. R 135 Mexican Gulf and Henderson R. R. 140 Washington County R. R 25 Sabine and Galveston Bay R. R. and Lumber Company * 783 Memphis, el Paso and Pacific R. R., to connect ‘with 8. P. R. R .. 225 Making their aggregate length whea completed ab0ut............ - 2,233 Some of the railroads whose charters are still in force run nearly parallel and so near others al ready in progress of construction, that their neces sity is obviated for the present, and will no doubt be abandoned for sorae time to come or until the growth of the country demands them. Of these tiie La Salle and El Paso Railroad will be obvia ted by the construction of the San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad and its connections the Texas and La. Railroad by the Southern Pacific Railroad—the Sabine and Rio Grange Railroad, by the Sabine and Galveston Bay Railroad and Lumber Cos., and its connections —the Powder ; Horn, Victoria and Gonzales Railroad, by the j San Antonio and Mexican Gulf Railroad, making j five roads whose aggregate length is about 1,755 ! miles, what will most likely be abandoned for the reason assigned. Of the remaining charters in force no efforts are being made to prosecute their work so far as I am advised, and lam of the opinion, from their localities, that the public do not require them to be built, and capitalists in this age of railroad ex perience are too tenacious of their means to invest when the probabilities of remuneration are against them. If, however, they’ should be built in the course of time, their aggregate length would be about 983 miles. Those in actual progress of construction, will, when completed, answer all the wants of the country for many years to come.— From the above calulation, it will be seen that the railroads now being constructed will be about 2,223 miles in the aggregate, and the roads which will probably not be built would amount to about 2,738 miles, making in all about 4,961 miles if all were completed whose charters are in force. Sup posing the full amount of 4,961 miles were to be built beyond a doubt, and the liberal donation of 16 sections per mile granted by the State should be required, tho appropriation would absorb 79,- 376 sections, or 50,800,640 acres. Add to this 68,800,574 acres, less 512,000 acres included in the classification of claims returned for patent,and we have 119,089,214 acres to satisfy every valid claim against the public domain. It has been supposed by persons not acquainted with the'State of Texas that a large portion of her territory is a desert or barren plain, unfit for cultivation, and that a considerable portion of the . lands which would inure to railroad companies, is worthless. This : ;ea is not well founded, and only provokes a mile from one who is familiar with the State; lor it a well established fact that there is not to ,>e found within the limits of the United States an area of equal extent with Texas where the-soil is so universally good. These ap prehensions arise mainly from the fact that there is a large scope of country about three hundred miles in length from North to South, and an average width of 90 miles, known as the Llano Estacado or Staked Plain. This section of the country lies in the Northwestern part of the State and embraces about 27,000 square miles, and be ing mostly destitute of timber and water is sup posed to be of no value for agricultural purposes, •although it produces a good coat of grass, and water is found in some places. The government of the United States has made attempts to pro cure water on ,the Llano Estacado by Artesian wells, but whether the experiment will succeed is still in doubt, although geologists and others con fidently believe an abundant supply of water will be obtained. Should this bo the result, the Sta ked Plain will be profitably occupied as a grazing country for extensive herds of cattle. But allowing the Llano Estacado to be a sterile waste, and entirely useless, it would only reduce about 10 per cent, of the whole territory, or about 27,000,000 acres, when added to the 119,089,214 acres admitted as valid claims to be satisfied, and we will still have left 29,505,346 acres of produc tive soil belonging to the State. I have suggested that of the 4,961 miles of rail roads whose charters are in force, 2,738 miles will not be built. I think the estimate fair, .and the friends of the roads thus excepted would not be slow to concede the point. Should this calcula tion prove correct, there would be 43,508 sections, or 28,037 120 acres to be added to the 29,505,346, which would swell the amount of Public Domain to 57,542,?66 acres. Thus, after deducting every valid claim of all classes of titles, whether emana ting from Spain, Mexico, Coahuila and Texas, the Republic or State; and all claims for railroad pur poses likely to accrue for many years, and the largo allowance for waste land, we find the vast amount of over 57,000,000 acres of productive Soil beloiutiilii to tluj State ■<’ ■”*'*“'* *“ lurtiiev enterprises. Tho resources of Texas are not well understood by persons whose interests have not led them to inquire, and especially in the northern States, ex cept to a few enterprising merchants in the com mercial cities of New York and Boston. Her soil and climate are diversified, producing almost ev ery variety of grain, fruit and vegetable grown North and South—all the cereal grains, the or ange, almond, banana, fig, apple, pear, Ac. Asa wheat producing conntry she has no superior east of California, the average yield being about 25 and often 40 bushels per acre, weighing from 65 to 70 pounds per bushel. I have seen while pass ing in the northern counties—Collin, Grayson and Fannin, whole crops of wheat that I was in formed would weigh 72 pounds to the bushel, and I have no reason to doubt it. The average yield of most wheat growing States of the North is about 15 to 18 bushels per acre, and the standard weight of 60 pounds is not generally attained, while the soil of Texas will produce one-third more per acre, and holds at least 15 per cent, ad vantage in weight. Northern Texas is well adap ted for raising wheat, and harvesting is done in May, and the day is near at hand when she will export flour of superior quality much earlier than other States. Asa grazing country she ranks among the first. It has been ascertained that the cost of raising a cow three years old, is 30 dollars in New York and New England, and in tho Wes tern States, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, &c., it costs to raise a three year old bullock about 15 dollars, while in Texas the actual cost of rais ing a three year old steer to the large stock raiser will not exceed fifty cents. Sheep thrive remark ably well, and wool-growing will soon be one of tho great staples of Texas. She is already one of the principal cotton growing States, and is be ginning to attract the attention of the whole com mercial and manufacturing world interested in that important staple. She is a part of the great highway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and when her system of railroads is carried out, will be the distributing Depot for the products of all countries that pass over our Continent. And resting as she does, several hundred miles on the Gulf of Mexico, railroads must and will be reliev ed of their heavy burdens by their seeking ma rine transportation at her seaports—whether they consist of the rich products of China or the heavy metals from the mines of Mexico'. And here I will add that sooner or later the seaports of Texas will receive the products of northern Mexico for distribution : for we have practical evidence that even now without railroads but with pack mules, the article of lead can be delivered from the mines of northern Mexico through Monterey at Corpus Christi on the coast of Texas at less than two cents per pound freight. The lumber from her vast pineries in the East will afford profitable em ployment for railroads in carrying it to supply the demands in the West; and her grain growing North will send its products to the coast and re ceive in exchange the sugar from her own soil. Texas is in her infancy, but she is growing in moral, physical and political strength, and will soon stand a giant State in the South. Her popu lation is rapidly increasing, and the inhabitants alive to the importance of early development of her resources, and ere long her influence will be felt in every department of agriculture, manu- ; factures and mechanics ; and although she was ! conceived in anarchy and born in a rebellious i struggle for Political Freedom, her moral and in- j tellectual powers are subjects of admiration. So I will she continue under her present liberal views 1 of education. Her educational fund is $2,000,- 000, 3,000,000 acres of land, and ten per cent, of the revenue of the State. The last Legislature made a liberal appropriation for the endowment of a State University of the first class, and if I am informed aright, this Institution will be an im provement if possible upon the model schools of learning in both the Old and New World. The design is to present her youths with a finished, education, and during the Lecture season Ameri can scholars of every class —Lawyers, Doctors and Divines, Poets and Painters, Orators and Statesmen, manufacturers, tradesmen and mechan ics, will have free access to her Libraries, and without expense share alike the knowledge ac quired under her hospitable dome. That Texas will be a manufacturing State is certain, for she is pregnant with mateml for manufacturing purposes; such as cotton, woo, hides, coal, iron, lead, &c., with unlimited water power to propel machinery. The climate will a low of white labor, and I think I may venture the assertion that in a few years San Antonio, Gauda loupe, Blanco and San Marcos rivers, will ame machinery rivaling the spindles of New England an d w hy ? Because the manufacturing capital ist will discover that Texas will be a more profit able theatre for his operations. It costs less to live,and operatives of the North will seek ernploy ment where their labor is better remunerated, ana where they can enjoy the advantage of a mild and healthy climate, and where they can occupy a social position equal with the merchant prince or sovereign planter. In Texas the laborer is worthy of his hire, and in social position he stands upon his moral worth, and is not a menial like his class, or hired ‘'help” in Massachusetts. Nor is there a pauper in the State. The luxuries of life are at his command —wild game of all kinds in abun dance; the brook trout in her mountain streams, and oysters in her bays equal in quantity to the best Saddle Rock oyster in New York. The grape grows spontaneously, and a superior quantity ot wine may be had for the simple cost of manu facturing. Though Texas is an infant State she possesses the elements to sustain an Empire—nay, she is an Empire of herself. She has capacity to yield more bales of cotton than is now produced in all the cotton-growing States of the Union. She can supply the whole South with first quality of flout one month earlier than any other grain produc inp*section. Her natural pastures are extensile enough to supply the inhabitants of every city in the United States with superior quality of beef at an actual cost of raising less than one cent per pound. Her streams can furnish water power for all kinds of hydraulic purposes to an indefinite ex tent. Her thousands of hills and fertile valleys are covered with herds of horses, cattle and sheep while the herdsman surveys his flock grazing, with joy and satisfaction. Her mountains, hills, valleys, plains and streams, for landscape scenery surpassingly picturesque and beautiful —and the traveler, while pursuing his journey from hill to hill, or mountain to mountain, is enchanted with the ever changing scene, as a child with the trans posing powers of the kaleidoscope. J. R. Sprague. The Championship op Savannah. —'For the second time within the present year has our city been disgraced by a prize fight. On yesterday morning, John Manning and Enoch Robinson met in “the ring,” on a green just south of the Gulf Road depot, and fought seven rounds. Both were badly bruised, but which was victorious we did not feel sufficiently interested to learn. There was considerable betting, and a largo crowd col lected to witness the disgusting combat. It is an unpleasant duty tp lay before our readers the fact that such an affair had been perpetrated in a city where there is so little of the bravado as we claim for our own, and we do it with feelings of the deep est repugnance. We look upon such displays of mere brute force and obstinacy as revolting to every sense of humanity, and we hope the parti cipants will meet with such punishment as their crime against good order and society deserves.— Republican, 9 th. Alleged Forgery. —A man calling himself Samuel Adams, but whose real name is supposed to be J. S. Stevens, and who hails, we understand, from LaGrange, Ga., was arrested by officer Mc- Gibbony on Saturday last, charged with having forged a check for SB7O on Charles J. Williams of Columbus, Ga. The circumstances we understand to have been as follows: The check was presented at the Banking house of Josiah Morris, in this city, for payment, when suspicion was raised as to its genuineness. A telegraph was dispatched imme diately to Columbus and the suspicion of forgery, confirmed by the answer of Mr. Williams. Me- Gibbony afterwards made the arrest, and Adams was taken before Justice Bugbee who held the ac cused to bail in the sum of SI,OOO to appear and answer the charge at the next circuit court. Not being able to furnish the requisite bond, Adams was committed. While before the Justice, Adams made an unsuccessful attempt to swallow a paper which is supposed to have been another forged check. In this attempt he was frustrated bv Me h hnnrr wKa k! — K r- *’ tL * - him “deliver” the paper. Several letters and oth er checks purporting to be drawn by Adam G. Foster, and also supposed to be forged, were found in his possession. These are in the hands of the Justice. —Montgomery Advertiser, 13 th. inst. House Standing Committees.— Washington, December 7.—The standing committees of the House will be announced on Thursday, to which time the adjournment took place, to enable the Speaker meanwhile to arrange them. According to usage, the committees of the first session are continued during the second, with such altera tions as may be necessary to fill vacancies. Mr. R. Ten Brocck is now in New York, and is about to leave for the South. Holloway’s Pills cleanse the blood of all de generating particles, and render it a pure and healthy fluid. Its action is gentle, but sure and reliable. Fever and ague and the periodical dis eases most prevelent on this continent are pre vented by a timely use of this marvelous remedy, and cured by a course of the same according to the directions that accompany each box. UsguSold at the manufactory, No. 80 Maiden Lane, New York, ancl by all Druggists, at 25c., 63c., and $1 per Box, Dec 6 dwlw RHEUMATISM. A case of three months standing cured. George W. Henderson, of Pittsburgh, says; “After suffering for three months with Rheuma tim, a part of the time so severely as to confine me to my bed, I have been entirely cured by using Boerhave’s Holland Bitters. I have had one at tack since, but found almost instantaneous relief in the same medicine. It is in my opinion, a sure remedy for Rheumatism.” See Advertisement. Dec 6—lwdw. DARBY’S nviD, The Great Premium Disinfectant t A MAGNIFICENT PITCHER was awarded it at the Alabama State Fair at the recommendation of a special scientific committee, who pronounced it supe perior to any similar agent now in use. Besides its strictly disinfecting uses, it may be most advantageous ly applied as a therapeutic agent in the following cases: All putrid diseases, salivation, sores, ulcers, burns, fresh wounds, removing stains, destroying bad breath, curing stings, softening and whitening the skin in bath ing, and especially in limestone countries, where the water is hard, in making it soft, bv pouring a few drops into a basin full of water. Read what is said of it: You would confer a general good hv using means for its general introduction and use— More than fifty citizens of Auburn. The best and most efficient preventative of conta gious diseases now in use.— Auburn Gazette. We advise our friends to try it, by all means.—Mont gomery Mail. No one who has used it once will consent to do without it.— Tuskegee Republican. We have used it about our premises with entire satis faction.—Savannah Rejrublican. Superior to Labarraque’s French Liquor.— Carres. J\Tational Intelligencer. Has received the sanction of medical men in the leading cities of the South— Atlanta American. These things Prof. Darby assures it has done, and we believe he would not even think, much less say so, were it not the case.— Southern Christian Advocate It is a most effective and powerful combination. It sh'ould be used everywhere. It will not disappoint you as a disinfecting agent. — Holmes Steele, M. D. Endorsed by Physicians in Charleston and Colum bia, S. C.; New York, Augusta. Savannah, Atlanta, Macon and Columbus, Ga: Montgomery , Selma and Mobile Ala; and New Orleans, La. Hospitals, corporations, ship masters, manufacturers, planters, physicians, furnished by the gallon at reduced rates. For sale by druggists and country merchants gener ally, from whom orders are respectfully solicited. Try at least one bottle. Price 5o cents. Follow di rections. Olr'Manufactured only in the Laboratory of J, DARBY, Auburn, Ala. FOR SALE IN COLUMBUS BY DANFORTH, NAGEL & CO. BROOKS & CHAPMAN, J. S. PEMBERTON & CO. dwl—dwtf DAVID YOUNG. WOOD'S HAIR RESTORATUV E. This Restorative for making the hair gm, stopping its falling out, restoring gr£ , original color, is becoming more celebrated All the quack nostrums are giving way Three fourths of the mixtures for restoring beautifying the hair, do it more injury < _ S • They burn it up, destroy the life at its roots;make the hair fall off, and produce premature But Prof. Wood’s Restorative may be relied upon as containing nothing which can in any manner be injurious to the hair, whjle its sucoess m ac complishing what it pretends to do, has been ver ified in hundreds of cases. We advise gray heads and heads getting bald, all who wish to save their wool or obtain anew stock, to get a bottle ol 1 roi. Wood’s Hair Restorative.—A T . Y. Democrat. Sold by all Druggists in this city, and by deal ers and druggists generally throughout the United States and Canadas. nov24 wd2w. FREDERICKS’ PHOTOGRAPHIC TEMPLE OF ART. 583 and 587 Broadway New York. The largest and most magnificent Galleries in the world. „ , Photographs in Oil, Postel or Water colors from the size of life to the smallest for Lockets and Breast I ins. LIKENESSES OF DECEASED PERSONS, SIZE OF LIFE. Correctly made from Daguerreotypes or Ambrotypes. The public of Columbus and vicinity are particularly requested to bear this fact in mind, that trom a small and indistinct Daguerreotype a and guaranteed Photograph Likeness colored in Oil, Postel or \\ ater Colors, can be made by the process observed at this Establishment. FREDERICK’S MINIATURETHOTOGRAPHS, For presents in families, handsomely colored and put up in small Velvet Cases, Lockets or Brooches. Tins Picture is superior to the Ivory Miniature, from being a correct likeness. . Daguerreotypes and Ambrotypes, made at all prices. C. D. FREDERICKS. Daguerreotypes or Ambrotypes of Living or Deceased Persons can be sent by Express and the Pictures made from them returned with the copies in from three to four weeks , and guaranteed to be satisfactory. December 14—d3m. Early County Mortgage Sales. WILL be sold before the Court-house door in the town of Blakely, Early county, Ga., within the usual hours of sale on the first Tuesday in February next, the follow ing property, to-wit: One negro woman named Galaly, sold to satisfy a mortgage fi fa in favor of Bemis k &; Prescott as the property of Neliam H. Wood. Also at the same place, on the first Tuesday in March Two lots of land, numbers 119 and I*2o, in the sixth district of Early county, to satisfy two Mortgage fi fas, one in favor of H. O. H. Nesbitt vs. N. H. Wood; the other in favor of Thomas Nesbitt and Starnes, vs. N. H. Wood, Trustee for Mary L. Wood, said property pointed out in said fi fas. ANTHONY HUTCHINS, Sheriff. December 13. 1858. w-tds GEORGIA —Muscogee County: ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE.—By virtue of an or der from the Honorable Court of Ordinary of Muscogee countv, Ga., I w ill sell at the Market House, in the city of Columbus, Ga., on the first Tusday in in February next, within the legal hours of sale, two Lots half acre each, in-the city of Columbus known by numbers 599 and 581. with all improvements thereon sold as the property of James L. Garrard, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said estate. — Terms of Sale Cash. E. BARNARD, Adm’r. Columbus, Dec. L3, 1858. dtd BROWNWOOD INSTITUTE Near LaGrange, Ga. THE Session for 1859, will be opened Monday lOtli January. It wil consist of two Terms—one of six months, the other of three. FA® HETTY* WILLIAM JOHNS, Principal and Proprietor. nstmetor in Political Economy,Moral & Men. Science. EDWARD R. DIGKSON, Instructor in Ancient Languages and Physical Science. D. P. BLACKSTONE, Instructor in Mathematics - Pure and Mixed. • Literature. R M. HEARD LADY, Boarding Department. It w r ill be the policy of the Principal to employ none as Associate Teachers but the most able and efficient. He takes pleasure in presentingthe names ofthe learn ed and accomplished individuals w hose services have been engaged as co-workers in the gre-at cause of Ed ucation. Mr. Dickson, has been, for years a devoted student of the classics. His scholarship in this department is unexcelled; while in other fields his researches have been thorough and ample. Asa Christian gentleman, an excellent disciplinarian, and an able teacher, he is equalled by few. Messrs. Blackstone and Dennis are men of ability, and much moral worth. As an evidence of this, “it need only be stated that they taught their walkthrough College and obtained its degrees by their own unaided efforts. THE COURSE OF STUDY is ample, embracing the various branches ofthe ordinary college course. It is at the same time, designed to afford the advan tages to those who are preparing to enter any of the college classes. It is progressive and systematic; but not sterrotypert—to befpassed over bv every pupil in a fixed period, at a given number of strides, irrespective of capacity, scholarship and mental habitude; but that prescibed foreach individual will be regulated according to his mental capacities and contemplated future course Acting on the theory that boys should learn first those things which they are to practice when they become men, they will be required to pav special attention to those branches of study that are to fit them for business and the duties of an active life. The mind is not treated as a mere receptacle; but as a thing oflife, growth and action; the prime object is to develop its energies—nurture and train itsexpanding powers; to mould and guide aright its various and com plex emotions; to bring into active exercise all its fac ulties; and to present in full and just proportions an * educated practical man. and not a graduated dunce or learned automaton. The pupil is taught to think, to reason, to investigate. He not only learns to compre hend what is said, but to examine the “substratum and understand the reason ofthe proposition. In the study of the Latin and Greek languages pu pils are exercised in translating, both orally and .in wri ting, from tile foreign into their vernacular and vice versa, until by frequent and /epeated application, ev ery principle becomes easy, and every w ord is rendered familiar. By this and a careful study of the idioms of the languages, they bectmie not mere translators inele gant and inaccurate, but linguists. The institute is furnished with ample philosophical and chemical apparatus, Mathematical instruments, Mineral Cabinet, Maps, Skeleton, Physiological Charts and a well selected library of several hundred volumes. 1 o these such additions will be made as the improve- ! ments in science and the wants of the institution may demand. In addition to the familiar lectures and illus trations with which the recitations and exercises in every department w ill be interspersed, extended lec tures on various scientific subjects will be delivered > whenever the circumstancas render it necessary or expedient. The discipline and rules of conduct will be such as are recognized and taught in the Sacred Scriptures— such as comport with reason and propriety—and such as are approved by experience and common sense. In short, every pupil will to do right. Students from other institutions applying for mem bership will be expected to furnish testimonials of their moral and student like deportment. The buildings will be neatly fitted up and ‘thorough ly renovated, so that nothing in the outfit will be wan ting for convenience and comfort. By a division of labor, with an efficient faculty and limited number of students, Brownwood, it is believed, will offer advantages equalled by few institutions in the land—combining those ofthe higher Seminary with the best select private school. EXPENSES. Tuition. Spring Term. Autumn Term. Primary Department 520.00 SIO.OO Intermediate 30.00 15.00 Collegiate 40.00 20.00 Boarding, washing and lodg’g 14.00 per month. Payment—by the term, half in advance; the balance at the close Of the term. A pro rata deduction will be made from the board in cases of protracted absence—but not from tuition. For further particulars apply to the Principal. December 11, 1858—d&wtf. JUST RECEIVED, Choice goshen butter. Best quality Cheese—all kinds; Breakfast Bacon, Smoked Beef, Pickled Beef; Pickled Pork, Smoked Tongues, Pickled Tongues; Smoked Salmon, smoked Halibut; White Beans, New Mackerel, % and bblB; New ShadJ^bbls. Fresh Salmon and Lobsters in cans. ALSO, Raisins, Currants, Citron—all kinds; Nuts, Candies, Sardines, Pickles, Preserves and Sauces; FIRE WORKS, of every description, „ , , „ van Marcus * Colnmbus, Ga. Dec. 9, 185S. —dtf 4,000 GRAFTED FRUIT TRKRs From Fentriss’s Nursery, N. C J U at 31 r eceiv f( j by Ellis & Mathis. P Enquirer and Bun copy. SELLING ANFhirTnt negroes ON COMMISSION Either Privately or at Alirt,, BY ELLIS & MATHIS. Columbus, Ga., Dec. 9, 1858. , , 1 tod * By ELLIS & MATHIS ADMINISTRATOR’S SALE. ’ AGREEABLY to an Older ofthe Court Of Orri of Muscogee county, I will sell in front of Mathis* Auction Room, in the citv of Cnlnmh. * Saturday the 18th inst, all the personal nro7 rt V c George Gullen, deceased, consisting in Bar Rom! / tures, Two Fine Billiard Tables, Chairs. Decanter■’ i quors, Cigars, Mirrors, Oil Paintings. &c. rs ’ L| - Ellis & Matthis, Auctioneers. 1 RMA JecS-dtdi SILKS, SHAWLS, AND DRESS GOODS * JUST RECEIVED AT THE ONE PRICE CASH DRY GOODS STORE. 140 Broad Street-—Masonic Building JAMES M/fillUti Has just opened a magnificent assortment of SILKS, SHAWLS and FANCY DRESS GOODS. purchased at recent New York Auction Sales for (’ash at an immense sacrifice: 5,000 yards Fancy Dress Silks at 50c. worth 81. 5,000 “ Black Silks—all widths; 50 pieces Printed all wool Delaines of the veri best quality, at 50 cents per yard; 50 pieces French Merinos—ail shades; 20 “ Union Marino Plaids, splendid quality 100 Ricli French Robes a’Les—beautiful Goods; ’’ 50 Rich French Valencias and Poplin Robes—very choice. ADLSO. A Large Assoitment cf FANCY DRESS GOODS, MEW ©ITYIL m 9 Bought at a reduction of 25 per cent., on the price usu all paid for such goods: 25 Pieces ARABIAN CROSS OVERS— Heavy quality and beautiful colorings; 30 pieces POILE deCHEVRE, highcolors- New and choice designs. 15 pieces VALENCIAS —very handsome. 20 pieces COLUMBIAS BAYADERE— Of highest lustre 5 pieces ELVIRAS —anew and beautiful article 10 pieces. Plaid LASTING® CHENE — Superior quality and coloring Together witli other styles of Geed^ ADAPTED TO A FIRST CLASS TRADE,. Also, A LARGE STOCK OF FINE BED, :ets, White and Colored Flannels, . XjtXisnzsisr AND HOUSE KEEPING GOODS IN GENERAL A Large Stock of Calicoes and Homespuns, Of every description at very low prices. CLOAKS, SHAWLS A ND TALMAS. In great variety. Buyers are invited to examine, compare and judge before making their purchases. Remember the address James jVTo FMiillix)s. 14tO flrnadl Street. ’Two Doors below J. B. Strapper’s. ONE PRICE ONLY. Every article markedat the lowest. Columbus, Ga., Nov. 10, 1858. d&wtf MO SILQWgg,’ A full assortment of Bajou’s Kid Gloves, open ed this morning. JAS. MePHILLIPS, 140 Broad street. Masonic Building. “important to ~ Planters & Country Merchants. J. MePHILLIPS Would call attention of Buyers to his large stock of Foreign and Domestic DRY-GOODS, As he has a buyer residing in New York, he will at ail times be prepared to offer goods to the Trade for Cash ‘only) at the lowest New York Cost pi ices by the bale or package. Plamers will find they can save money by buy ing their KERSEYS, JNEGRO BLANKETS. &c.,from him, his stock is extensive and his pri ces rr.uch below that of any other store in the South. Call and see his goods and prices, and thus post yourselves upon what you can get for your mo ney and what goods are worth. Remember ihe address, JAMES MePHILLIPS, 140 Broad Street,. Two doors below J. B. Strupper. Oct. so..d&w th ■ AT J. W. PEASE & CLARK'S BOOK STORE. THE following is a list of new books & / EgAn. inst received. i Life and Adventures of Kit Carson.the ■SuaMv nestor of the Rocky Mountains. Self-Made Men, by C. B. Seymour; Frederick the Great, by Thomas Carlysle; Sir Walter Raleigh and bis Times, by C. Kingsley; The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, by Olivet Wendell Holmes. Life and Labors of Daniel Baker, by bis Son; Public and Private History of Louis Napoleon; Piney Wood Tavern or Sam Slick in Texas; Arabian Day, a comparison to Arabian Nights: Debit and Credit; Electron, by W. C. Richards. A NEW SUPPLY OF Miles Standish Courtship; Vernon Grove; Memoirs of Rachel. Just received by J. W. PEASE & CLARK. Horticultural and Agricultural Works How to lay out a Garden by Edward Kemp; Ladies Companion to tlie Flower Garden; The Flower Garden by Joe Breck; Lindley’s Horticulture,'edited by A. J. Downing Leibiz Agricultural Chemistry-; Milch Cows and Dairy Farming by C. L. Flint; Buist on the Rose Culture; Downing’s Fruit and Fruit Trees of America; Downing’s Landscape Gardening. At. „ , J- W. PEASE & CLARK’S Columbus, Dec. 11—dwtf. Bookstore. BALD HILL HOTEL, CUSS ETA, CHATTAHOOCHEE CO, GA: THE subscribers offer the above property for sale on reasonable terms. If not disposed aisi of it will be for rent the ensuing year. Apply W. 8. Johnson, Esq., Cusseta, or to the subscribers at Columbus, M. BARSIIALL, J. P. ILLGES, Dec 13—d3twtf L. T. DOWNING. * HOUSE A.3ST3D LOT FOR SALE. MTHE Dwelling House on Oglethorpe StreeC, lately occupied by Mrs. Anna Spencer is for sale on liberal terms. If not sold by Christmas it will be rented for the next year. For particulars enquire of R, P. Spencer or LAMBERT SPENCER. November 24,1659. dim.