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SaUiKilli Nleulil^t.
The sky is clear, and the whisilin;: winds
Welcome the birth of winter's reiT’i :
While the spitted leaves —!i . glilt ring tears
From the eyes of mourners, dim with tears—
O'er the woods and the fields are lain.
But the leaf must fade
From its wonted green,
And the hardy stem
Will alone be seen !
And thus, too, will perish,
The loved ones we cherish,
lit their beauty and bloom :
The rays of the morning,
Their temples adorning,
Must lightthein to the tomb ’
Yet that withered leaf, in verdant p:ide
Once bid defiance to the blast:
And proudly tossed to the phrenzied air,
Its velvet mail, now yellow and sear,
By the sun of the summer past.
And thus shall the young
Grow withered and gray,
And the beauteous form
Return to its clay !
The chord will be broken,
The ever-prized token
Which hath held it to life
The spirit ascending
In Heaven s music blending,
Or eclipsed in Hell’s strife !
The mighty wind, in its heedless wrath,
Hath the pine and the oak o’erthrown,
Whose heads have reared to the morning sun,
Their spires to mark when its course w as done ;
Their beauty and their pride have flown.
And thus shall the great,
Like the tow’ring oak,
In a moment fall
’Neath the victor's stroke.
The charms of their treasure,
Or soothings of pleasure,
The arrow caunot stay ;
And a few feet of earth.
Is the right of their birth
For the body of clay !
Tlio river and brook are frozen o’er,
The water ceases in the rill ;
While the forest birds, drooping and cold,
Their beads ’neath the feathered wings enfold,
And sit from morn to evening, still.
And the time draws nigh,
When our living breath
Will bo frozen up
In the ice of Death.
The gloom of its coldness,
Will dampen the boldness,
Os the friends of our youth
And left in its sorrow,
No help can we borrow,
Save tlio Spirit of Truth I
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From the Lady's Dollar A'eicspujjer.
Pride of Wealth.
In this country, where tliere are so few oppor
tunities afforded to gratify tire vain pretensions
of those who aspire to distinction, either by the
attainment of elevated stations, or by the pos
session oftitles, it is not strange that mere wealth
should assume so many ridiculous airs, putting
to the blush our professions of republican equal
ity', and at the same time denying that prece
dence to virtue and good sense which is gene
rally awarded to those qualities even by mon
archists aud aristocrats. Nowhere, perhaps, arc
the assumptions to which we allude, more appa
rent in the etiquette of society and in the rela
tions of families, than in this, our goodly city of
brotherly love, and sorry are wotrrbfc compelled
to make the truthful admission. Wealth, no
matter how accumulated, is here the false kqy
that unlocks many a false heart, and opens wide
many a door that stands forever closed upon near
and poor relations and former friends ! Instan
ces of the kind to which wo allude could be pro
duced without number, but one will be sullicient
for our present purpose.
The case to which we refer, however, is not
only an instance of the superciliousness and
pride of wealth, but of the vast difference that
exists in point of respectability between those
industrious and plodding personages Wholes*i.e
and Retail. Notwithstanding the dissimilarity
apparent in their names, theselwain are brothers
and are both heads of large families. They com
menced the world together in what is called a
small way, each appearing to pursue his humble
but honorable vocation with commendable in
dustry and zeal. But from some cause or other,
Wholesale happened to be the most prosperous,
and in the course of a few years was not only a
bie to change his name and enlarge his business,
but to assume anew and more elevated position
in good society. He removed into a splendid
mansion among the “upper ten,” leaving his less
fortunate relative in the possession of bis hum
ble apartments in the rear of his shop window,
in which he still displays, as he has done for
years past, the various articles of his trade and
commerce with the world.
With these changes, however, in the good for
tune of the elder brother, came also a change of
the heart, and a total obliteration of all its for
mer affections. All intercourse between the two
families, which for years preceding hud been in
timate, pleasant and confidential, was gradually
discontinued, until, as at present, they became
entirely estranged.
There are now no returns of those unceremo
nious visits, once so full of cordiality and cheer
fulness. No recurrences of those unpretending
family parties, in which were harmoniously
blended all the fraternal and social affections,
and which were wont to shed over the hearts of
all connected with the brothers, the genial in
fluences of love and happiness. Prosperity—
how strange ! —and yet prosperity—believe it as
we may —has brought all this gloom and cold
ness into the midst of that little circle, once ra
diant in smiles, and whose bosoms once glowed
with all the warm and generous sentiments ex
cited by mutual confidence and esteem.
This, gentle reader, we repeat, is one instance
out of many that exist in this, our city of brother
ly love, of the heartlessness of wealth, and oftlie
empty distinctions which elevate to a position
iu that which is termed “good society ” But
only reflect what a sacrifice lias to be made of all
the tender memories of the past. ! —of all those
recollections of mutual affection and regard,
cherished from the earliest infancy, up, and
through all the struggles and vicissitudes of man
hood '• All these, and more than it is necessary
for us here to call to mind, must first lie stricken
from the tablet of the heart, otherwse you can
not aspire to move iu the shadow of those who
were but yesterday, as it were, shop-keepers and
humble retailers of threads and needles, hut
whom some lucky or unlucky whirl in the wheel
of fortune lias suddenly made wealthy, and con
sequently proud, indolent, and rshamed even of
the companionship of their nearest relatives,
who are still struggling in the very occupations
in which they themselves commenced laying the
foundations of their wealth ! And this, too, is
Republicanism !
The Word “Sei-ah.”—Tbe translators of
the Bible have left tlie Hebrew word Melali,
which occurs so often in the Psalms,as they found
it, and of course the English reader often asks
his minister, or some learned friend, what it
means. The learned have no!agreed in relation
to the definition of this word. The Targums
and most of the Jewish commentators, give to
the word the meaning eternally, forerer. Rab
bi Kimelii regards it as a sign to elevatethe voice.
The authors of the Septuagmt translation appear
to have regarded it as a niusi.ul note, equivalent
perhaps, to the word repeat. According to Lu
ther and others, it means sr/rnre. Gesenitis ex
plains it to mean, “Let tbe instruments play,
and the singers stop.’’ Wocber regards it as
equivalent to sursuin conlu —up, niv soul ! Som
mer, after examining the seventy-four passages
in which the word occurs, recognises in every
ease “an actual appeal or summons to Jehovah.
They are calls for aid and praiers to be heard,
expressed either with entire directness, or jf not
in the imperative, ‘lDur Jehovah ! or awake
Jehovah ! and the like, still earnest addr. s-« s
to God that lie would remember and hear," <ke
The word itself he regards as indicating a Idas;
of trumpets by the priests. Seluli, itself, he
thinks an abridged expression used for lliggamn
Selali : Higgaiun indicating the sound of the
stringed instruments, and Selali a vigorous blast
of trumpets.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, DEC. “Li, 1848
J. P. Robinson, and J K. llar
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Merry Christinas !
This is the first occasion, dear reader, that
we have had to congratulate you since we have
launched our little bark upon the sea of adven
ture. The return of this joyful holydty has no
doubt been-anxiously expected for some time,
and many have laid up in anticipation a store of
pleasures which they mean to enjoy.
The young people, of course, will not forget
to provide the time-honored pocket for the visit
of the mysterious and exceedingly benevolent
old gentleman—Santa Claus. We cun by no
means tell them any more of this much-loved
character than they already know—which is,
that very early on Christmas morning, it is said,
he very noiselessly creeps down the chimney,
and ifprovision has been made for him, lie very
speedily takes out his little store of presents,
and then, after taking a peep at the unqonscious
sleeper, be goes back up the chimney, and then
dashes off to visit someone else. What a cu
rious creature lie must he ! For lie will come
to every little boy's, and every little girl’s room,
leave every one something, and then it gone,
•vithout waiting for thanks—all over the world
in one morning, and that before any onegetsup!
To the man of years, Christmas day recalls
many pleasing recollections and saddening mem
ories. It makes him think of bye-gone times,
when he was a hoy, and joined with the happy
throng of playmates in firing crackers, shooting
guns and pistols, &c., and the merry laugh
comes ringing iu liisears, prompted at some lit
tle witticism, or provoked by the fantastic ca
pers of the clown of the day. But then the sad
thought comes, that among all these comiian
ions of his childhood, whose features are so
fresh in his memory, but few", very few, now
meet him with their bright smiles, and he al
most involuntarily sighs, as he thinks of the
lonely graveyard, and the cold earth which lias
laid upon their breasts for years—and the admo
nition fulls with a deep thrill on his soul, that
ere long he must lie there too '
To the Christian, this is the most interesting
of all periods of the year. It reminds him that
on the morning of that day, a Redeemer was
horn, to linger out a life of toil and suffering,
and then to die upon the Cross for the salvation
ot the world, lie feels deeply grateful for that
unbounded love which prompted the Saviour
to die for the sins of a corrupt and fallen
race. Together with this, the fact that Christ
mas Day has been set apart us a day of Thanks
giving and Prayer, for the unnumbered bless
ings oftlie past twelve months, the child ofGod
can hut look upon it with joy and reverence.
To all, it will be a peculiar day, and we can
hut reiterate, as our welcome, the caption of
this article, that it may be a happy, profitable,
Merry Christmas !
The Position of the South.
It is lamentable that the spirit of discord has
crept into our confederacy, and that sectional
jealousies, feelings and interests have been cre
ated, nursed and harbored, until we see noth
ing hut aggression on the one side, and renewed
efforts for compromise and harmony on the
other. But such is the case, and every day that
we live brings to our view some declaration of
hostility, and heaps additional insult and un
provoked attacks upon us. And why is this?
What have we oftlie South done to our North
ern brethren to justify these virulent assaults ?
Have we been warring against their interests,
or undermining their local institutions ? Have
we been casting fire-brands among them, to dis
turb their domestic peace and concord ? In the
name of common justice, let us demand a hear- j
ing—a privilege given to the criminal at the hnr j
of equity—upon this subject; let us prove \\ belli- !
er we are aggressors or the aggressed.
Is it because we huve ail institution, peculiar
to tile Southern and so; if the Western Slates,
which is opposed to their sense of justice end
liberty ?
This appears to be the ostensible reasen vvliv
we are to be insulted, revilej, spurned and as
saulted within our own territories, and upon
our own soil. It is proper, then, that we ex
ami tie a lew of t he argu in cuts urged bv our North
ern brethren against this institution, and the
authority which they claim to have for a waii
t in attack upon it.
It is , they proclaim, in opposition to every
principle of divine justice, and to the spirit and
tenor oj the Declaration cj Independence of the
tinted tStaii s ; theiefare , the people of the Free
States are acting in accordance >ci:h philanthropic
malices and feelings, if they vse every hone ruble
means of discontinuing the evil.
In connection with the assertion that slavery
at the South is opposed to divine justice, they
affect to believe that some terrible consequence
will befall not only the Southern States, but al
so the people oftlie whole Union, for the blight
ing scourge. This is, truly, a discriminating
view of Si vine justice, to suppose that the guilty
and the innocent vvoulj alike share the fruits of
a transgression of moral law ! Then, because
tiieSoutii keeps under subjection a race menial
ly and physically incapable oftlie enjoyment of
liberty, she is thereby to incur the displeasure
of God, and that displeasure is to be entertained
towards the North—a section entirely free from
the avowed evil —to an equal extent with the
perpetrators oftlie crime ! This is most cerluin
tainly an aspersion against that Being to whom
all hearts are open, and all secret motives re
vealed, and cannot hear the scrutinizing glance
of truth for a moment. If, however, we allow
that slavery is an evil, and that the judgment of
God will follow ils continuance, upon v\ iiom
should those judgments full, if tint udoii the per
sons who have supported and advocated ibis
system of bondage ? If the North, then be free
from slavery’, she will also be free from the
curse attending it. What, in litis view of the
subject, lias she to fear from slavery as a trans
gression ol moral law, and an opponent of divine
justice ?
11l the next place, they assert that the Decla
ration of Independence condemns our svsteui of
domestic servitude. In proof of this, they bring
forward the sentence that “«// men are created
free and equal,'' and hold it up with a boasting
challenge to contradict its apparent meaning.
Weil, what does it imply ? Why, that all men
receive, at their birth, the legacy of their fathers
freedom, equality, anil privileges, as a heredita
vy right, or, that the civil and religious liberty
of tin; father should lie transferred and handed
down to the son, and, except where liberal Gov
ernments degenerate, and remain so for ages : or
in the case of a country whose Government has
never acknowledged the perfect civil equality of
its people , no one has a claim, us an innate prin
ciple, to more privileges of citizenship than had
the preceding generation. Well, then, if the
present generation of slaves proceeded from one
in bondage, and they hare never had any priri
leges guarantied to them by any form of primitive
Government— therefore, they have no rights
wrested from them by degenerating laws—are
not the descendants of Africans in the South en
joying ail the privileges and immunities of their
immediate ancestors? As well might this senti
ment lie quoted to prove the truth of Fourierism,
or to lay the foundation of a Joint Stock Compa
ny, as in the present instance—for, in the char
acter it here assumes, it is most evident that all
men arc not created (or born as the phrase has
been perverted by the wisdom of the fanatics,)
free and equal —nor can they he so without
subverting the very pillars of society. Some
men inherit large fortunes, and others do not
come to the possession of a farthing—are these
“created equal ”? Some possess rare talents,
and others are idiots—and arc these “equal,” in
a latitudinariun sense?
Liberty—-if it is to he a bless ng rather than a
curse—must he accommodated to the circuit!-
s:nncps and capacities ofn people for its enjoy
ment. Would von institute a comparison lie
-L-'»'Cii the reckless, free, untrammelled life of
thesavage, to the refinement and civilized free
dom of an American citizen? Both have liber
ty—but how different are the means of its en
joyment. We have lately seen the quivering
sitliludc of a European nation—now trembling
on tlie very verge of hopeless anarchy—whose
populace have yet to learn, in the difficult and
precarious school of experience, liow» to wield
their own fortunes and to govern themselves.
And this is in a civilized country, where free
dom has been partially tasted, and where they
had the example of a great and powerful nation
to serve as a guide. It the French people were
unprepared for the full developement of liberty,
and if they are even now in a state ofmde i
sion as to their form of Government—the vari
egated opinions in relation to which almost pre
clude the possibility of determining upon any
individual one, permanently—what must be the
effect of a sudden transition, from slavery to
freedom, of a race entirely ignorant of almost
! everything which such avastchange in theiraf
i Fairs would demand ? Any thinking man will
| reply, inevitably their ruin. Shall we govern
| by the same laws, regulations and institutions
of American citizens—which, it may’ be added,
even many of these do not understand—a race
entirely dissimilar to us; a race which cannot
comprehend the proper use of liberty, or the
sacrifices and duties which are necessary to its
preservation? Will any reasonable man say
that this would he benefitting either the white
citizen or the negro? The first would he com
pelled to associate with, and acknowledge one
as his equal, who knew nothing of the rights,
privileges, or responsibilities of a freeman—and
the other would he called upon to exercise intel
lectual and moral capacities which lie did not
possess.
But there is a query, which deserves to be no
ticed here, of vast importance, for it involves
the sincerity of the intentions in abolishing this
involuntary servitude. If the Northern people
are really actuated by the feeling of philanthropy
| which they profess, why do they not feel in their
j pockets for Southern slaves and Southern slave*
J holders; compensate the owners of negroes for
ihi-ir property; transport the liberated class to
Liberia, or elsewhere; and—for it is but the
beginning of this humane mission—establish a
Government ; introduce free institutions ; and
keep a standing armiMo secure uninterrupted
peace? This would certainly he worthy the
exalted minds, and the flowery imaginations of
those model .Imerican freemen, Garrison, Gid
i>inc;s&. Uo. It would truly he a gallant ex
ploit, worthy the heroic and sympathetic Abo
litionists! What a theme for the vivid fancy of
some aspiring agitator—to engage in such a tcor
thj cause, with such worthy motives, and then,
after cohabiting with a refined and accomplished
Etheopian, arrive at the immortal honor of be
ing Secretary of State to a negro President!
But who is it that cannot see, through this
flimsy, tottering, incompetent plea of philan
thropy, a desire to reduce the political influence
ol the South ; to render Her the supplicant of
the North, bowing and cringing to her august
command, and receiving with thankfulness an
occasional crumb of political comfort } It is
sectional jealousy which has blinded the influ
ential men of the North, and they have held out
to their followers at home, and to I'ie citizens
oftlie Southern country, that they are guided
by a generous wish to relieve the miseries of
suffering humanity. This unprincipled hypoc
risy is only rivalled hv the iinputence and da
ring perseverence with which tiny advocate it.
We see—not withstanding the tender emotions
and wholesale philanthropy of Northern fanat
icism—tin account of mass meetings for the pur
pose of preventing the poor froii starving in their
streets —yet such things frequently happen. We
hear of no petitions being sent to Congress for
the abolition of street-begging and public pau
perism, orfor the benefit oftlie widows and or
phans oftlie penny less. Yet they persist in tna
l.mg a vehicle of philanthropy, and use their
earnest endeavors to lice a class of people, w liieh,
if they had any just disciimination or discretion
about them, would not exchange situations with
these mad philanthropists. Surely, they have
forgotten that “charity begins at home”—and
when they are able to say, We have no starving
poor; no beggars; no needy countrymen —then
they should come and give us advice concerning
our slaves, but not till then !
But what now is the use of argument with a
class of men who have become ferocious in their
aggressions, and threaten to assassinate our
President elect, if ho refuses to sanction one of
their favorite measures? Can we expeet reason
or justice from them? We fear not.
It may he argued that we are looking upon
the dark side of the picture—that the Northern
Free Soil Party does not seek to abolish slavery
in the States; they only wish it excluded from
the conquered Territories. We answer—if a
familiar, but common comparison be allowed—
that the spider did not avow its secret intention
to the foolish fly, when lie invited her into his
beautiful parlor, but after the latter became en
tangled in the well, resistance was vain, and she
fell a victim to her own credulity. So also the
Abolitionists—now the Free Soilers, for the
sake of plausibility and expediency—profess no
desire to meddle with slavery in its present state
of existence in the States—oh no! But, if we
listen to their empty and unmeaning assertions*
and permit them to pass the Wilmot (or any
other kindred) Proviso, they will demand, by
the authority of a majority in Congress, t lie abo
lition of slavery even in the States. They are
aware, as is every well-informed Southern man,
that the soil, climate, productions, etc., of a
large portion of California, and N. Mexico, pre
clude the feasibility of Southern slave labor,
and that it is not probable slaveholders will
ever carry any considerable amount of that pro
perty there. All that they desire is, that we
acknowledge the right of Congress to legislate
upon the Slavery question, in what form they
care not, and if we do that, they will tell us
that the right of Congress is no plainer in pre
venting the extension of slavery, than in abolish,
ing it; and as we have confessed the one, wo
must submit to the other—thus literally con
demning us by our own act.
We have indulged iu these rather lengthy re
marks, from a solemn conviction that the sub
ject of them is daily growing more important.—
Wo have no political enmity to vent—no ambi
tious expectations to advance—no party feeling,
or partizan views to prompt us in the discharge
of abuse of villifying epithets. But we feel that
the storm is coming, and that it will require the
utmost energies of both political parties, united
as one man, to breast it. Why should we be
divided among ourselves, quarreling about tri
fles, and trying to persuade ourselves that the
people of the North do not intend to injure
us? They may say so, and we tnay endeavor
to believe it, —but do not deeds speak loud
er than bare assertions? Surely it is time
that wo should adopt some method of resistance
—secure union among ourselves—when the
North is bearing down upon us an undivided
front of opposition. Disunion is a dreadful rem*
cdy, but it is far preferable to depopulation and
a quiet surrender of our rights and interests.—
But we do not fear dissolution—if the South be
true to herself, and boldly contend for her in
terests, a compromise, satisfactory to both sec
tions, will follow.
Congress
The Slavery question was introduced into the
Senate, on the 13th inst., by Mr. Benton, of
Missouri, who presented a memorial from New
Mexico, askingfor the establishment of a civil
government, the exclusion of slavery, and pro
testing against annexing any paa of their terri
tmy to Texas. He recommended its reference
to :he Committee on Territories, but Mr. Cal
houn denounced it as being insolent and
iusilting to the South, and hoped it would be
claised with similar petitions by laying the mo-
tioi for its reception upon the table.
This occasioned a spirited debate, in which
Messrs. Benton, Calhoun, Westcott, Ber
kun, Foote, Clayton and llale took part.
Mr. Westcott said the petition was signed
but by fifteen persons, and as there was no evi
dence of these being delegates appointed by the
people, he denied that the memorial could he
considered as the voice of the people of New
-Mexico.
Mr. Hale moved to amend the motion of the
Missouri Senator, so as to instruct the eoinmit
t(jc to report a bill in accordance with tile pray
ef of the petitioners.
-Mr. Calhoun said he should vote against .Mr.
Benton’s motion, to receive the petition.
The vote was then taken, and the memorial
received—yeas 33, nays 14—as follows :
( 1 f.as —Messrs. Allen, Atchison, Atherton,
Badger, Baldwin, Benton, Bradbury, Breese,
Butler, Cameron, Clarke, Clayton, Corwin,
Dayton, Dickinson, Dix, Dodge, Douglass,
1 eldi, I- ilzgetahl, Hale, Hamlin, Johnson, of
'ld , Johnson, of La., Metcalfe, Miller, Niles,
Pearce, Spruasce, Sturgeon, Underwood, Uo-
Inini, Walker—33. 1
Nays—Messrs. Berrien, Borland, Calhoun,
Davis, of Miss., Downs, Fitzpatrick, Foote,
Houston, Hunter, King, Rusk, Turney, West
eolt, Yulee—l4.
In the House, on thesatne day, Mr. Palfrey
asked leave to introduced a hill to abolish slave
ry in the District of Columbia.
Objection being made, the vote was taken,
and leave refused— yeas fill, nays 82.
Mr, Root offered a resolution instructing the
Committee on Territories to report bills estab
lishiwg Territorial Governments for New Mexi
co and California, excluding slavery" therefrom.
A motion to lay this resolution on the table
was lost—yeas 80, nays 107.
The resolution was adopted—yeas 108, nays
80.
In the House, on the !4th, tiie death of Mr.
feivis, of 8. Carolina, a member of the House,
was announced, whereupon that body adjourned.
In the Senate, on the 14th, Mr. Benton, from
the Military Committee, reported a hill authori
zing a contract with Messrs. Aspinwali. and
others, tor a transportation of Government sup
plies over the isthmus of Panama, on condition
that they construct a railroad across it. The
bill was made the special order for Monday, the
18th.
“What shall we do with Johnny?”—Our
readers have seen Sam Slick’s advice to “old
Diivvle about his hopelul son, who bid fair to
make a “considerable of a smart man ” We
think it very good counsel. What a change it
would make, if everybody should
in tho same way as the Y’ankee clockmaker!
The least evidence of youthful precocity, is ta
ken as a proof of transcendunt genius, and im
mediately the little urchin is marked out for a
great man, and his professional career is foitli
with settled upon, before he can possibly have
any voice in the matter. This is the reason
why ve have so many briefless attorneys, and
physicians without patients. Os course these
callings arc to have occupants, hut they should
be allowed to choose, who intend to follow
them.
Iniecision.— Nothing is so injurious to a
niau’i success in the world, as indecision—and
most especially indecision of character. A va
ciilatng, wavering person, never accomplished
an oiject worth mentioning. If a man deter
mines to be a doctor, and to study two years for
preparation : and if he changes his mind at the
end of twelve months, and devotes the remain
der el’the lime to the law, the consequence is,
the two years expire, and lie is neither a physi
cian nor a lawyer. One should calmly and
caref'u.ly select some pursuit in life, and then
resolvi, in the very teeth of opposition, to at
tain tin object; why, if he remains true to his
promise, there is no such thing as a failure. It
is a gre.it deal better for a man to play the jevvs
harp, for n penny-a-day, than to be a “jack of
all trades, hut a master of none.” Yet an un
decided Ilian will try all professions and trades,
to see which lie likes best. A business of" any
kind will never suit anybody—he should suit the
business. That is impossible, without inflexi
ble resolution.
sln. Clav. —The Cincinnati Chronicle of the
Bth inst. states that Mr. Clay has entirely re
covered from his late attack and is every day
gaining his strength, being able to ride out in
bis carriage in good weather. He intends to
spend the winter in the milder climate at the
South, and expects to start for New Orleans in a
fortnight.
ITT In Great Britain there are but 016,000
families employed in agriculture. In the Uni
ted States there are over 3,000,000. In the' for
mer there are about 2,000,000 employed in the
manufactories ; in the latter about 701,000. The
freedom and prosperity enjoyed here are far su
perior to those in Great Britain, whose whole
policy, external and internal, is regulated by Iter
manufactures.
Patent Wagon. —A Mr. Start, of Smyrna,
has made an improvement in manufacturing
wagonsfwhich will certainly be a great advan"
tage to the farmer, inasmuch as it will effect a
great saving of labor. The bed of the wagon is
placed on small rollers, fixed in the frame work
on which they rest, and in front is a fixture for a
lever, by which a lad can run the wagon bed
back, aud shoot the contents on the ground.
Election or Senators. —Messrs. Sebastian
and Borland, have been elected U. S. Senators
from Arkansas
Mr. Whitcomb lias also been elected from
Indiana-
Geological Action of the Tides. At the
late Scientific Convention at Philadelphia
communication on this subject from Lieutenant
Davis, U. S N., was presented by Profess,,,
Pierce. By a study of tidal currents on
North-Eastern coast of the United States, Lieut
Davis has been led to the discovery of a connec
tion between the ocean tides and the current",
and the alluvial deposits on its borders and its
depths. In order to illustrate Mr. Davis’s view*
more fully, Professor Pierce entered into son,,,
of the details upon which they have been form,
ed.
For this purpose he exhibited a number „f
charts, the first of which represented the dep (j .
site around the Island of Nantucket. The tidal
current becomes freighted with sand, and as it
strikes the island is deposited. Yet the current
which is acting there all the time is not only d e .
positing, but is also taking it away—so that, all
the time flowing in every direction, and uni’vcr
sally distributed, not very much is distributed i„
anyone place. The depositesare nearly equal,
ly made at various points.
The extremity pf the Island has been suppo*
ed to be formed of deposits coining from the Isl
and itself, (that is, by the shifting influence of
the changing current,)- hut this is shown not to
he the case ; that portion of the Island being
solely formed by the tidal currents. As an in
stance of the force of these currents, Professor
Pierce cited the following : —A short time ago
a ship was wrecked at one end of the Island,and
the keeper oftlie lighthouse at the other end ac
tually gupplied himself with fuel from the coal
which was originally deposited at its farthest
extremity, by the mere force of these currents.
Bricks have in the same manner been carried
and at Siaconset, there is now standing a chim
ney actually built, oftlie bricks which were car
ried all round the Island in the smie way.
Mr. Dickson related a remarkable incident
where, at the Island ofGalreston, in 1833, a ves
sel from New Orleans was wrecked (at the South
end) with a considerable amount of specie. The
officers of the Custom House took immediate
measures to recover the valuable cargo, and in a
very little time the workmen reported the vessel
nearly covered with sand. A few weeks after,
at tlje other end oftlie Island—some twenty eight
miles or thereabouts—some fishermen brought
up some of the doubloons. They were arrested
and imprisoned on a charge of robbing the
wreck, -their protestations of having found the
gold at so great a distance not being credited for
a moment, until scientific research convinced the
authorities that the metal was really carried to
that distance, of course by the force of the eur.
rent. An instance oftlie way heavy bodies are
transported.
Dr. Gould observed that he was never able
to find sea-weed on the bench when the wind
was toward the shore, but always when blowing
off the land deposits were made upon the beach.
This he had heard accounted for as the effect of
an undertow, which acts alwa s iu a reverse di
rection to the action oftlie wind.
A New Kind of Wheat. —A new variety of
lliO A rrmnf L’ •» IV’isvnt Im* recently **"•*•* *!•*•"«■***•
cred iu Russia. It is called the Kolos, or large
eared Wheat, on account of the peculiar beauty
of its ears. At present it is limited to mere
seed wheat, and is worth twice as much as the
ordinary kind. One other and important pecu
liarity of this grain is. that it is less affected by
drought than any other kind : and is more pro
ductive and ripens earlier. This important dis
covery was made by a peasant, who, being a
close observer of nature, detected in his crops
certain ears which were larger and became ripe
more speedily than the rest of the crop. These
he collected and sowed separately, and the result
was an abundant harvest, and the introduction
of anew and valuable variety of wheat. The
event had created a great sensation amongst the
agriculturists and grain dealers at St. Petersburg,
Although it is, perhaps, a kind which would re
sist excess of moisture, it might be quite benefi
cial on high lands us being capable of withstand
ing the effects of drought. The event is inte
restingspeculatively ; and a« such, we would
direct the attention of our agricultural readers to
the subject, as this wheat, when imported, must
he important to farmeYsin many sections of our
country.
Something New on Foot.—The N< w Y r ork
Tribune says : “We’ll tell the ladies a pretty
secret, and they will promise faithfully to say
nothing about it—except to their particular
fiiends. Anew style of dress and evening slip
per is coming into vogue this winter, which will
decrease the apparent dimensions, while it will
greatly add to the invisible fascination of all the
pretty leet in the metropolis. The new slipper
is made of black or bronze satin, with three or
four bands of India rubber running round the top
and the instep ornamented with a good sized ro
sette, of the same color as the slipper. Isn’t it
charming and quite refreshing, after the dull
monotony of square toes and plain gaiters ? The
new style is of course from Paris, that love of a
city, where they get up ribbons and
slippers and insurrections, a merveille , and at the
shortest notice.”
'JJW. B. Seabrook, Esq. has been elected
Governor, and W. H. Gist, Lieutenant Govern
or of the State of South Carolina ; and the Hon.
A. P. Butler re-elected U. S. Senator from that
State, for six years from the 4th of March next.
O’John B. Floyd, Democrat, lias been elect
ed Governor of Virginia.
Distressing. —A New York paper states that
there are thirty thousand persons, men and
women, in that city at the present time, who ei
ther cannot get any work to do or are compell
ed to do work at prices bordering on starvation.
Deafness.—M Bonnaeoijt of Paris, a Mili
tary Surgeon, gave an account before the British
Academy of Sciences, at a recent sqgsion, of a
method used by him in cases of deafness, to dis
cover whether the nerve of sound has lost all its
susceptibility. He has ascertained that the skull
is a good conductor of vibration, and that if it be
struck by vibrating objects, the nerve of the car
is acted upon whenever its susceptibility has not
been entirely destroyed.