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r.OITKI) AMI PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BV ip/M,/.f.?/ is. cr.ntntso.Y. MSIIIWJWHHM IHI II I HI [FOR TUB SOUTHERN MUSEUM] Epistle to .Ulus LUly l!o-n!ine. 1 leave my home, tis Irue Imt lor a lime, To seek retirement s cooling simile ; And though I shall return again eio long, My life or thine ere that may fade. ’Tis proper, :lien, hr dare my heart untold, And speak in tones both fond and tree : To-scan a hidden mine in mem ry’* store, The pleasant hours Ive spent with thee! M v lips have not confess'd what they had wish d 5 My pen hath dared not to essay, To paint my feeling for thee, or to hint That thou dost light my gloomy way. And yet 1 fear this trnthful strain of mine— The tone, the words, the melody— Thou’ltdeem poetic fiction, hut they tell - Os pleasant hours I’ve spent with thee ! Far, far, within its depths, my ardent soul Hath nursed thy form with tender cure, But then I shrink —perhaps it is too true A thought of thine I cannot share ; If so, 'tis painful, yeti'll fondly cling To thoughts alone my property : And while despair shall wreathe its serpent fold, I’ll think of pleasant hours with thee ! Would that the offer of a constant heart Could move acceptance in thy mind ! The soothing answer would my fear allay, ’Twould for my life fresh roses bind. But should’st thou not accept the homage due From one who fonder cannot be : O bid me not, I ask, to think no more Os pleasant hours I’ve spent with thee ! Otice I, a minstrel then but new to song, Did’st think I held another dear: But future moments bid delusion fly— Her mem’ry cannot prompt a tear. That feeling was hut transient, soon to fade Like bubbles on the sparkling sea : But like the granite, sketched with iron pen, My pleasant thoughts still livo for thee ! If, in tnv rovings, I shall chance to meet A form like thine—a beauteous eye — Or should another’s voice fall on my ear As thine hast fell, in times gone by : O how will memory then, on eagle's wings, Return to hours of heartfelt glee, And bring again the soul-refreshing view Os pleasant hours I’ve spent with thee ! And should I meet with one of kindred name Within these wanderings of mine, Mv tongue shall dwell upon its joyful sound; And gladly bless it, for 'tis thine. My feeble pen shall hymn thy worthy praise— Fore’er in bloom a laurel tree — And when bereft of all, oh may I lack No thought of pleasant hours with thee ! By thee encouraged, on Parnassus’ height, A simple, unlearned songster, I Shall sweep down to its base each rival lyre That dares to warble forth a sigh. Thou hast encouraged ; aye, in by-gone time, A wreath of laurel wov’nfor me : Not by thy hand, but yet as fair and proud, By thoughts of pleasant hours with thee ! 1 Iremble, now that I huve dared to make Confession from mine inmost soul, Lest it should ne’er be mine to know, in truth. These artless lines thy will control. But oh ! the rudest hand may strive in vain To wrest the ivy from the tree : And thus around my heart shall fondly cling The thoughts of pleasant hours with thee ! But oh ! I fear—have I no cause to fear r I never need affection claim, Or merit but a moment of thy time, Unless it be in Friendship’s name. If so, it is thy will, 1 murmur not, But yet my harp will cheerily Strike with more fervor on the glorious past: The pleasant hours I’ve spent with thee ! Now, Lilly, list while to the courts of Heaven I breathe for thee an earnest prayer : O God ! look down and bless this beauteous one, May she Thy richest bounties share ! And, Lilly, I will never cease to scan, Though years on years in time shall flee : Thy form, thine eye, thy voice, thine ev’ry word, Mij thoughts of pleasant hours with thee ! But lest upon thy patience I trespass, Or weary thee with fruitless verse, I ask, to this confession of my love, Thou mayest reply, good or adverse ; And whilst suspense shall clothe this secret vow, And thine own eye these linos doth see : My heart will find a relish for its food, Its thoughts of pleasant hours with thee ! And, Lilly, think, ere that thou dost reply, What feeling prompts this ready strain ; That he who utters it hath never feigned, Or dwelt upon the tono in vain. But one who knows thy gentle, trusting heart, Thy gifted mind, from flatt’ry free : One who hath dwelt, with pleasure unassumed, On thoughts of pleasant hours with thee ! Juke, 1848. W. P. 11. Cholera Items. The following statement was published by a clergyman in the London Record—it will be read with interest at the present juncture. “Two such remarkable cases of the almost instantaneous cure of Indian cholera have taken place in my parish, that I feel it right to employ the medium of your paper to make them known to the public. L give the medical account both of the attack and of die remedy in one of these cases. The merit of the discovery and the application of the remedy is due to a Mr. Brady, a medical practitioner of this place. 1 may add that two other medical men, in o'her places, have been led to use the same means, and they have done so with die same success. The re port of Mr. Brady is as follows :—‘On my arrival I found the patient presenting all the symptoms of malignant Asiatic chole ra, in an advanced stage ; the features collapsed and ghastly; extremities and tongue cold ; burning sensation in the stomach and aesophagus ; pulse rapid and scarcely perceptible ; voice diminished to a whisper; stomach exceedingly irritable, and the ejections from the bowels present ing the usual rice-water appearance : the sight gone, and all the voluntary muscles affected by spasm, so that the patient wri bed with agony. I immediately ad ministered a large tea spoonful of the chlo roform mixture (containing about six mi nims of chloroform and Ibrty of turpen tine.) in a glass of dilute brandy ; and ap plied mustard poultices to the calves of the legs, the abdominal and tlioraic mus cles. Thirst was re ieved by drinking plenty of water, nearly cold. Notwith standing the ir.itable state of the stomach, I had the satisfaction to find that the chlo roform draught was retained, as well ns the fluid drunk after it, and was followed by no dejection. I now (half an bout af ter the draught) gave a pill with a few grains of calomel. In another hour, I ad ministered again the same dose of chloro form, and soon after repeated the pi i Tlu; stomach retained both; the pulse rose in power and became slower ; toe spasms less frequent ; and in an hour : f ter the second dose, she was bathed in a profuse perspiration, and expressed her self comparatively free from all uneasy sensations. The attack was completely subdued, leaving behind it a good deal of debility, from which she is rapidly recov ering.’ “It is remarkable that the chloroform thus taken internally does not affect the brain, and appears not to be followed, like brandy, and other stimulants, by the smallest prostration of strength. /The se cond case to which 1 have referred varies in no one leading particular from this, and these are the only two which have oc curred in the village. 1 send this state ment in the hopes that those who have larger opportunity will put this remedy to a more extensive test. ■ My own convic tions are so strong of its efficiency that 1 should not hesitate to apply it if the neces sity arose.” Dr. Dickson, the celebrated and popu lar author of the Chronothermul system, applies his principle of time and heat, to the treatment of cholera. He gives chlo roform in ihe early stages, as an anaes thetic. He also recommends the cautious use of kreosote, phosphorus, and strych nia ; also, hydrocyanic acid. He po nounces calomel, cayenne, asafcelidu as puerile agents in attacks of the disease. Dr. Janies Hill, resident surgeon at the , Peckbam House Asylum, (England,) | states, that he has tried chloroform in ten cases of malignant cholera, with complete success ; six of the patients having per fectly recovered, and four being conva lescent. The Be'gian papers speak of anew remedy for the cholera having been dis covered by a young physician, employed in the hospital pf Berlin, where its effects, it is said, have been astonishing. The agent employed is the trichloride of car bon, and M. Dumas, the celebrated French chemist, is mentioned as being engaged in investigating its effects. The physicians at Constantinople have recommended the use of figs, with great success, as a preventive of cholera. This fruit is said to exercise a healing influence upon the stomach and bowels, and is niglny useful in diseases which inariifes! themselves in a derangement of the diges tive functions, and commonly precede an attack of the cholera. Dr. Maranzelle, of Vienna, has pre scribed cuprum and vellutrum album as preventives to the cholera to 150,000 peo ple, and notone of them fellvictims to the disease. Dr. Ross, a London physician, of rep u'ation, infers from a careful examination of the statistics of the cholera, that opium and calomel have produced the fewest re coveries, and a saline treatment the most. 'I he Medical Times says that a broad flannel roller worn around the stomach and chd’Sf, is the best of all preventives of the cholera. It also says that good sound food is perfectly safe to be eaten. Per sons subject to looseness of the bowels, should avoid soup, and adhere to animal food, well roasted, and to bread. Good old port wine, italfirmt, is the best of al drinks; brandy and spirits should be avoided. It says cholera is not contage ous, but no family should remain in a house where there has been a case of the disease. Facts in Hi ilium:.— One fact is, that a square form secures more room with a given cost for outside walls, than any oth er rectangular figure. Great length and little width may afford convenient rooms, but at increased expense. Anoter fact is, that vcutillution is an es sential in a human dwelling. No ether consideration should exclude this, 'flic* halls, windows, and doors should be so siiuated with regard to each other, that a full draught of air can be secured, at any time, in the summer season, by day and night through the whole house. The sto ries should be sufficiently high to afford a sufficiency of air in all the rooms. Nine feet is a good height for lower rooms, and eight for upper. Bed rooms should also be larger than they commonly are. Great injury to health is the result of sleeping in small, close apartments. The third fact is. that a steep roof will not only shed rain and snow far better than a flat one, but will last immensely longer. The fourth fact is, that a chimney in or near the centre of the building will aid to warm the whole house, while if built at one end or side, the heat will be thrown out and lost. The fifth fact is, that a door opening from the outside into any principal room, without the intervention of a hall or pas sage, costs more than it saves, in the free ingress of air into it. The sixth fact is, that the use of paint is the best economy, in the preservation it affords to all wood work The seventh fact is, that if the front door is made at one side instead of the middle of the front, a portion will be saved, and for small houses this should not he forgot ten, but for large houses have the main door and lobby in the middle of the house. M A CON, G A 7 SATURDAY MORNING, DEC 30, 1848 IFpMessrs J. I’. Robinson, and .1 K. Mar mon, are authorized to receive subscription* for t lie Southern Mi slim, in uny of the South Western Counties of Georgia. The Crusader. This is anew month’y paper, to he publish ed in this city, hy Professors F.llison, Myers Thomas and Hancock, ofthe Wesleyan Female College. We are sure, if there is a guaranty in an array of editorial talent, the “Crusader” will meet with the most gratifying success.— Unlike, however,its namesakes of the tenth and eleventh centuries,it will prosecute a war of ex termination against the foes of Temperance, un der the patronage- not of the Popes of Rome, nor of tlie Kings of F.urope—hut of the gallant, in vincible Sons of Temperance. Marching under the banner of “Love, Purity and Fidelity,” its influence will he felt, not only in the exercise of each of these Christian virtues, hut hy dissipa ting the mists of ignorance and superstition, and in the establishment of the light and liberty of truth. The Editors are too well known, and their respective abilities are too highly appre ciated, to render comment, as to the ehara ter ofthe work, necessary ; it is only required that the friends of the cause do their duty, in sup, porting the “Crusader,” to make it an effi cient ami well-disciplined warrior in the cause which it will advocate.. For terms, etc., see the Prospectus on our Fourth Page. Saturday Post. — We tire indebted to the publishers of this valuable paper for an ex change. The “Post” is a mammoth weekly, filled with original matter of the highest order, and numerous selections from the best Literary periodicals and newspapers. There is one pe culiar feature ill this journal, which is wanting in many other Literal} papers. We allude to its instruction tales, and solid, genuine, sensi ble reading matter. Asa specimen, we refer to the story on our First Page Messrs. Deacon St Peterson publish the “Post” in Philadel phia, al $2 per annum, payable in advance. Ladies’ Dollar Newspaper. —ls any of our fair readers desire a good Northern newspaper, suited to their own taste, we recommend them to take this one. It is well printed, and to in. timate that it is ably edited, we need only state that a Lady edits it. We have looked all over it, in order to ascertain—we admit some curiosity in this regard—whether she is a Miss or no, hut in keeping with the ingenuity ofhersex, she has carefully excluded everything which would be a clue to the discovery. However, it is none of our business, and we have only to say that the paper is well worthy of patronage. To Advertisers. —The arrangements now ■making to extend the circulation of our paper in this city and the surrounding countrv, already warrant the filling up of our advertising co lumns. The success of our enterprise lias far exceeded our most sanguine expectations, and, in the first two weeks of its existence, our edi tion is as large, as we contemplated publishing in the first volume. This is cheering to us,and we need hut the aid of the advertising public, to make our paper of more interest to the mass of the people, and to improve its size and appear ance. No pains shall he spared on our part to render all of our patrons an abundant return for their support. We do not wish the public to judge ofthe Museum from the published issues —there are many leading features wbicii we have, as yet, been unable to present to our read ers, by which we expect to enhance the value of our paper. Nor have we been furnished with an exchange list, to make our selections, which, together with other circumstances, needless now to mention, have prevented a variety in the news department. In order to make these additions, it is desirable that we be aided by the mercantile class. Still, we do not heir for their patronage ; we are confident that the pub licity given to their advertisements will amply justify the expense, and we think that our mer chants need but the knowledge oftheir interests, to act in accordance with them. Another Railroad. — A meeting of the Oc mulgeo Railroad Company took place at tlie In dian Springs on the 15th inst. and resolutions were adopted appointing a committee to address the citizens of the counties of Jasper, Butts, Morgan and Monroe, on the propriety of build ing a Railroad from some point on the Georgia Railroad to some point on the Macon and West ern Railroad—and a day was fixed upon to open hooks for subscriptions to the stock—and ap pointed Commissioners to receive tlie same. Sugar. —Several farmers in the lower part of this State as well as of Mississippi, are turning their attention to tlie cultivation of the Sugar cane. It is said that it does not require rich land to produce it, and that the elements which form the cane are such as to make it flourish more profitably upon the poorer quality of soil. The Gold Mania.— Upwards of SIOO,OOO worth of California Gold was received at New York on tne 14th inst. Thirty-ships are adver tised to sail with despatch from the above port for California, eleven front Philadelphia, and six from Baltimore. Tlie Close of Hie Tear. Before another issue of our paper, we shall have entered upon a New Year. Next Monday will either herald in a yearofjoy and happiness, or mark the advent of new sorrows, new trials and afflictions. It isan important matter that the dawn of 1849 may find us resolved to spend its days more profitably, more advantageously to ourselves, and to our fellow-creature*. In con nection with this thought, tlie few remaining hours of the present year could not be better occupied, than in careful self-examination and meditation upon the events which have occurred during this period, interesting to ourselves, as individuals, and ns a community. In reviewing the recollections of the past — the hours which can never more return to us — there isan intermingling of joy and sorrow, oc casionally the beauteous features of the how o* hope are suspended over our skies, and again they are darkened hy impending storms —the black clouds seem to threaten us with their sullen vengeance, atjd the raging thunders keep continual warfare—and then the beautiful bow appears, and the muttering thunders die away, and the clouds disappear with the Heavenly promise stamped upon them. \Ve have seen the young and the fair—the pride of companions and the hope of parents — commence this, the dying year, with bright prospects, and visions of future enjoyment dan cing bewitching y before the enraptured gaze But now the slender oak waves its head above the marble record, which tells us, that the body rests beneath the neighboring dust, hut that Ihe spirit is in the unseen and eternal world. Her hark was gaily fitted out—the buoy of hope free 1} danced on the water’s surface— and the soft, gentle breeze, and the unrippled sea, seemed to invite her to tlie pleasant voyage But alas! for the expectations of youth ! The wooing breeze became a relentless gale ; the glassy sea became fretful and agitated ; and the roaring billows followed in quick succession, until the hark was driven by the wind and waves upon the breakers, and there shattered to pieces ! We liavi : seen the statesman—the brave and the spirited ofby-gone times—bowed down be neath the weight of fourscore years, yet with a youthful heart, grappling witli the fell destroyer, and disputing with time for each new furrow up on his cheek—hut at last yielding to the dread ful summons of Almighty power, and hurried before the tribunal of Justice, to give the final account. .Many years had he been sailing on to ward the ocean of eternity, with a nation’s ho nors circling around his brow, and the praise of thousands to hallow his moments of repose.— But the unwilling spirit y ielded, and at last he experienced with all its fullness, “t/ic last of earth." The song of joy and gladness has been hushed, and the keen dart of sorrow has chilled anil frt zen no the warm gushings of ihe tender heart, and bathed in disconsolation the hopes and de sires ofthe aspiring multitude. The anxious parent has bent over the cradled infant, and wiped the drops of cold perspiration from its pale forehead—while his piercing eye marked each restless movement of the little suf ferer. The purple lip and quivering eye threw tlie lust remaining hope away, and he calmly watched tlie progress of the invisible reaper, till every earthly beaut} was shorn from the with ering form, and the la<t long breath severed the tie between the mortal and immortal. The wife has followed, with a slow and mea sured tread, to the waiting cemetery, tlie last remains of him, the partner of her joys, and the friend of her youth ; and felt, as she turned off from the fresh green grave, that she was alone in the bleak and stormy world, without a kind iieart to advise, or a ready hand to help her through the journey of life. The voting and trusting heart, arrayed in tlie effulgent beauty of its Maker’s communicative attributes, lias sprung forth in the vigor of ear- Iv ambition, essaying even to pluck the honors of intellectual greatness from those of riper years. And the world has turned away, in dis pleasure and contempt at the seeming insolence. But all of these arc past—they can never re turn again. The joys, the sorrows, the hopes, and the fears of twelve months are gone—the deep lake ofoblivion lias received them into its yawningchnsm. And now, to think of duties unfulfilled, privileges unenjoyed, and desirable ends unuttaiued, is our province • to treasure up only those which will serve as monitors, to pre pare us for the better enjoy incut and application of the future. Among these thoughts, no one is better qualified for profiting us than the com parison between the closing year and the end of time: that great and final day, when, in the words of Scripture, every man shall be judged according to his deeds; when the mask of the traitor will he torn away, and the secrets of afi hearts will be revealed. As the wasting shadows of time pass before us, here and there we see a wakeful sentinel keeping guard upon his soul, while upon every hand the blind, benighted beings of earth grope about in the dark, in search of temporary plea stiresand transient enjoyments, which perish in the using. But the heralds of salvation have gone forth and proclaimed the reconciliation of creature and Creator to the heathen world ; the gloom of ignorance is dispelled, and sin and Sa tan alone make desolate the green earth. The policy of Omnipotence has been fulfilled, and the archangel pronounces the dread decree. No days, or weeks, or months, are now to mark the lapse of time, but the past is to come up be fore us for our acquittal or our condemnation.— How solemn would we feel, were we assured that, on to-morrow night, we should hear—in stead of seeing a bright New Year’s morning dawn over the Eastern horizon—the awful sen tence pronounced that time shall be no more ! \Ve know not that this will not be so, and there fore should he prepared to meet all emergencies. To all of our friends, whether they he young or old, we most cordially present onr congratu lations, and wish that they inay so pass awav each dying year, that the succeeding new one may find them in’the possession of health, hap piness and prosperity. With thissentiment, we conclude this article by wishing all a peaceful, Hatpy New Year ! Congress. “The Southern members assembled in the Se nate Chamber ou the night ofthe 22d inst.— Every State was represented except Delaware. Mr. Metcalfe presided as Chairman and Mr. Venable acted as Secretary. Mr. Benton was absent. After some consultation a committee was ap pointed, consisting of one from each State rep resented, whose duty it shall be to report wlia* what the South should do and what are her all absorbing interests in relation to the slave ques tion now agitated in the country. The Committee were also auihorizcd to report what course is best and most likely to aid ill sus taining and maintaining Southern rights and in stitu.ions. After some further business, the meeting adjourned to nice! again on the loth January, 1849.” We copy the above from the Washington ror respondencc of tlie Baltimore Patriot, and, in oUr opinion, it is very significant ofthe present situation of our domestic affairs. The occasion ofthis movement was the passage of a hill to abolish the slave trade in the Distriet of Colum bia. Mr. Stephens, of Georgia, was appointed Chairman of the Committee, and several meth ods of procedure were presented. Mr. Calhoun, of South Carolina, proposed a plan for immedi ate action, hut it was rejected. We gave our opinion ofthe truly embarrassing position ofthe South, at the present time, in a preceding issue, and we can but consider the recent devclope inentsin Congress as confirming the truth of our statements, and proving that our fears were not entirely needless. The crisis, we believe, has arrived, and whether we are prepared to meet it or not, is the question now. Can it he that Southern men will not, or cannot, see the ob ject of Northern Anti-Slavery encroachments.' Will they not demand the interference of Con gress in the abolition of this institution in the States? What is the difference between the Dis trict of Columbia and the State of Georgia, so far as legislative action is concerned } It is true Congress is the exclusive Legislature ofthe Dis trict, hut then, the question arises, did the peo ple of the District petition Congress for the pas sage of a hill for the abolition ofthe slave trade? If not, then have the Representatives of Free States assumed an authority not guarantied to them, and therefore it is equivalent to a question of power, rather than justice, and we new wai* for farther proceedings in the matter with intense interest. O’ Judge Charlton, of Savannah, deliver ed a Lecture on the “Poetry of Death,” in Au gusta on the 2,lst inst. It is spoken of hy the “Republic,” “Constitutionalist,’' and “Chroni cle,” as being a highly creditable effort. O’ The Cholera has appeared in New Or-’ leans. Several new cases were reported, and several deaths also. Many persons were leaving the city to avoid the pestilence. In twenty-four hours, ending 20th inst., ticenty-frur cases were admitted into the Charity Hospital, and tliirty- Jirc deaths. The Board of Health say, although the disease is on the increase, they cannot con. aider it epidemic. Counterfeit Money.— We learn from the Wilmington Chronicle, of the 20th inst. that counterfeit Ten Dollar notes on the Bank of Cape Fear, are in circulation in North Carolina. They have been passed offby a three men who were making their way towards the lower part of the State of South Carolina. They are all young men, two of them about twenty-five or thirty years of age, tall and well proportioned, shy and timid with down looks ; one with black whiskers; the third about twenty years of age, ordinary size, blue eyes and fair complexion. The counterfeit hills are clumsily exeuted and differ in several respects from any ever issued hy the Bank. They have in the centre ofthe upper part a female figure holding a cup to the beak of an Eagle, which appears with outspread wings behind her. Nb genuine note of the Bank of any denomination has such a vignette. They are made payable to J. Jewett, notS. Jew ett, as are some ofthe genuine. After the word “Dollars” in the lower line of ihe genuine notes jln-re is a period. The counterfeit notes have no stop after the word “Dollars.” The paper is of lighter color than any used hy the Bank. The date is August Bth, 1847. Ohio. — The Legislature of this State is still disorganized, both Houses opposing every move ment of each other. The people are getting tired of this ridiculous system of anarchy, and we may soon hear of another Cromwell, dis solving the unruly .Assembly. O’ lion. G. E. Badger, Whig, has been elected United States Senator from North Caro lina. Kentucky. —This is the Banner State as ap pears from the following official returns : For Taylor and Fillmore, 66,927 For Cass and Butler, 49,743 Majority for Taylor and Fillmore,.. 18,184 Wl> icli was the largest, in proportion to the population, cast in November last, Florida be ing next. New York Dry Goods’ Trade. —The Day Book, of December Btli, says :—“ French and German Cloths, bought last year at jjs2 per yard, are oow selling at $1 25. Cassimeres, that sold in 1847 at $1 40 a yard, are noiv selling at 85 and 90 cents. Alpacas, that eight weeks ago sold at 30 cents a yard, are now worth only 22 and 24 cents. Prints that last year brought 10 cents a yard, now sell tor 7 and 8. Brown Sheet ings that used to sell for cents, now sell at 5, and other things in proportion.” Fertility of Texas. —Several farmers at Bastrop and Austin have raised eighty to one hundred bushels of corn to the acre this season, and one or two have raised one hundred and ten bushels to the acre, without manure. Mummies. —The Texas Star states that a mill ion of mummies have been discovered in the en virons of Durango, in Mexico. They are in a sitting posture, hut have the same wrappings, bands and ornaments as the Egyptians. Colton Planters' Convention. The Planters in various sections of th e cotton growing States, are becoming interested in the question of holding a convention to devise means to reduce the amount of cotton produced. Having expressed our views on this subject in a former article, we shall content ourself with the remark that in our view, in order to attain the object desired, an extensive unity of action of tins cotton planters is indispensable. A conven tion may secure this desirable object ; as “in union there is strength.” The Planters’ Club and citizens of Hancock county, Ga., at a recent meeting, proposed the following as one of the means which might he adopted : “In each county in each of the cotton grow in. States, let llie Planters form themselves into a Society or Association, with a presiding officer and corresponding Secretary. These Societies or Associations being formed, each one may send a delegate to a State Association, which will have a presiding officer and corresponding Seere tary. Each State and each County being organ izeil to produce concert of action, it will only ho necessary that the States he represented in an Association or Convention, which may meet an iiually or biennially ; and the first meeting may he decided on as to time and place by the Corres ponding Secretaries of the State Associations. It is suggested that the meetings he annual, and held at the capital of each of the States in suc cession. It is to he expected that the State's Association will he able to give the most saluta ry action to Cotton planting and to Southern agriculture generally. This plan is not very complex, nor would it require much time or mo ney to put into operation or continue it.” The citizens of Hancock offer this plan ns one means, whilst they are ready to acquiesce in any that may be considered better. At a meet ing id the Hancock Agricultural Club w hich a dopted the report, a resolution was unanimously passed pledging the members present, with ma ny that were not members, (and all consented) to abide the decision of a Southern Cotton I’lnn ters Convention, in relation to reducing the crop of Cotton for the next or any subsequent year; and a committee of two to each distriet were ap pointed to ascertain how many Planters in the county ol Hancock would pledge themselves to abide the decision of said Convention in relation to reducing the cotton crop ; and to report on the Bih of January, 1849. AVe learn from Ihe Vicksburg Whig, that a largo meeting of the Cotton Planters of Wash ington county, Mississippi, took place at Glenn ville, on the 16th inst. at which resolutions sub stantially the same as those adopted at the Han cock meeting were passed, and the “Association of Washington County Colton Planters" formed. As the time and place of holding tlie Conven tion have not been determined upon, we would suggest Macon, as a central and convenient place to assemble, and the 15th of February next, as the day. But those most deeply interested can determine these questions for themselves and net accordingly. Isthmus or Tehuantepec. —The New Or leans Bulletin states that the house of Manning it Mackintosh, of Mexico, who have taken charge of the great undertaking for opening a water communication between the two oceans* througlfthe Isthmus of Tehuantepec, have al ready begun a road for the transportation of all the materials necessary for this great work. Tl e road is preparing for the purpose of establishing at once a temporary communication to the point where already the river Coutzacoalcos aiid the fine lakes bordering on the Pacific, and running into that ocean, can he navigated safely and with facility for the distance of forty miles, by vessels oflarge tonnage. The undertaking is, at present, under the su perintendence ofthe celebrated engineer Moat;, to whom is due the discovery ofthe track through this isthmus. The lands through this w hole district are cel ebrated for thejr extraordinary fertility and it abounds in timber of the greatest value, both for ship-building and furniture. The road now opening is to be completed within the ensuing eight months, and negotiatior.sare now progress ing between the undertakers and our Post Office Department, for the regular transmission of the American mail hy this route. Oaks. —Prof. Beck says, the oaks of the forest are known, with tolerable certainty, to attain the ages of 806 ~r 900 years, and are the most aged trees that we possess. Pines are stated hy Dr Williams, in his history of Vermont, to live from 350 to 400 years. Copper. —Five hundred tons of copper arrived at New York recently from Valparaiso. It is the first of anew kind of trade with South A inerica and the United States. Heretofore the copper ore of that region was sent to England* now it has begun to take a different route. The smelting business in ihe United States, (of all kinds of metals,) is built in its infancy. Mechanics. —The New York Mirror, in a recent number, has the following: “The bar is no longer the resort of the ambi tious youths of our country. Tlie median lo departments are being preferred. There are now thirty young gentlemen in this city, that have received liberal educations, who are serving , their “ times ” as shipwrights, architects, car- j penters, dtc. In a few years the United Slater will have the most accomplished mechanics in the world. Anew class is springing up who will put the present race of mechanics in A' o shade. The union of a substantial education with mechanical skill will effect this. Indeed, already wo could name some mechanics who are excellent mathematicians, acquainted with French and German,and able to study the boohs in those languages connected with their voca tions. Heretofore, fond fathers were wont to educate their sons as doctors or lawyers, to in sure their respectability and success. That da} is passed. Mechanics will now take the lead, and in a few years will supply tlie larger portion of the State and Federal legislatures.” O’ Three new cases of Cholera and two deaths, at tlie New York Quarantine on the S£*d inst.