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' EDITED ASD PI BI ISIIFD WEEKLY, BY
IIARItISOX A nVERS.
A Home iu the Heart.
Oh ! ask, ask not a home in the mansions of
pride,
Where rich marble shines out in the pillars
and walls ;
Though the roof he of gold, it is brilliantly robl,
And pure joy is not found iu the torch-lighted
halls.
But, oh ! seek thee a bosom all honest and true,
From which love, once awaken'd, will never
depart ;
Then turn, turn to that breast, like the dove to
its nest—
And you'll find there's no home like the home
in the heart !
Secure thee a spirit that is warmly sincere, —
That will heighten your pleasure, or solace
your care—
A pure soul you may trust, as the kind and the
just;
And he sure that the world holds no treasure
so rare.
Then the frowns of misfortune may shadow
vour lot,
The cheek-furrowing tear-drops of sorrow may
start —
But a star never dim sheds a halo for liitn
Who can turn for repose to a home in the
heart !
EPIGRAM.
Great Jove, within a shower of gold,
Once want, I've heard, a-wooing ;
This fashion of the times of old,
Succeeds in times ensuing ;
If vou doubt my word, go try it,
You’ll gain a heart, w hene’er you—buy it
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CELIBACY AND BUTTONS.
“You heard us talking! Ay, sir, I lie
old 1 story ; grievances, sir, ’twixt man and
Woman',” said the hermit. “And what is
tha’, sir TANARUS” wo asked. The hermit, shaking
his head and groaning, cried, “Buttons!
buttons!” “Huttons!” said we. The
hermit drew himself closer to the table,
Ami spreading his arms upon it, leaned for
ward with the serious air of a man pre
pared to discuss a grave thing. “ Hut
tons,” he replied. Then, clearing his
throat, he began : “In the course of your
long, and as 1 hope well spent life, has ii
never come with thunder-bolt conviction
upon you, that all washerwomen, e'ear
starehers, getters up of lino linen, or what
ever name, Eve’s daughters—for as Eve
brought upon us the stern necessity of a
shirt, it is but just that her girls should
wash it—under whatever name they
cleanse and beautify flax and cotton, they
are all under some compact, implied or
solemnly entered upon among themselves
and their non-washing, non-standing, non
getting-up sisterhood, that by means sub
tile, and almost morally certain, they shall
worry or drive all bachelors and widow
ers soever into the pond of irredeemable
wedlock ?”
“ Has this tremendous truth, sir, ne'er
struck youl” How—by what means]”
we asked. “Simply, by buttons,” an
swered the hermit, bringing down his
clenched fist upon the table. “ I will take
a man who, on his outstart in life, sets his
hat a cock at matrimony—a man who de
fies Hymen and all his wicked wiles.—
Nevertheless, sir, the man must wear a
B hirt— the man must have a washerwoman.
Think you that that shirt, returning from
the tub, never wan’s one—two—three—
buttons? Always, sir, always. Sir, tho’
I am now an anchorite, l have lived in
your bustling world, and seen, ay, quite as
much as any one, of its manifold wicked
ness. Well, the man—the buttonless man
at first calmly remonstrates with his
laund ess. He pathetically wrings his
wrist at her, and she promises amendment.
The thing shall never happen again. The
week revolves. Think you the next shirt
Has its just and lawful number of buttons !
Not a bit.”
Starting at tlic word we looked, we fear,
reproachfully in the hermit’s face. “ Par
don me ; let it be as if it bad never been
said,” cried the anchorite —a deeper tint
dawning in his face, and his eye looking
suddenly moist'. “ Pardon me, but the
heart has strange cords ; even buttons may
sometimes shatter them.” We bowed,
and begged the hermit to proceed. “ Well,
sir,” said our host, after an effort, “ week
af or week the poor man wrangles with
liis washerwoman; from the gentleness
of even maidenly complaint the fenton
atrance rises to a hurricane of abuse ; and
stlir the washerwoman, it would seem, is
bound by oath to her unmarried sisterhood
to bring home no shirt complete in its but
tons. Man —the fiercest of his kind—can
not always rage. He becomes tired
ashamed of clamor. He sighs, and bears
his buttonless fa'e. llis thoughts take a
new turn. In his melancholy his heart
opens ; he is softened, subdued, and in his
hour of weektiess a demon voice whispers
to him, 4 Fond foolish man, why trust thy
buttons to an alien 1 Why helplessly de
pend upon the needle and thread of one
wbo loves thee not, hut thy shilling ?
Take a wife; have a woman of thine own
who sisal! take care for thy buttons.’ The
tempter is strong. The man smiles dis-
trustfully, but still he smiles.
44 Th3t very night—it so happens lie goes
ti a house warming. He is a partner at
cards with Miss Kitty. She never did look
soattractivc. And then her voice—’twould
coax a nail out of the heart of an oak.—
The man thinks of hisjbuttons ; and before
he-leaves the house Kitty has been brought
to confess that she doesn’t know what she
mav do—she may marry, and she may
not.” 44 Is it possible V’ we cried, with a
laugh. “Sir,” said the hermit, 44 ’tis not
a thing to idly laugh at. Take fifty match
es, ami be assured of it, if you sift ’em well,
out of forty at least you will find buttons
in some shape at iho bottom of ’em.” “It
may be,” said we. “It is,” cried the her
mit, with c motion. “ Asses arc led by
their noses—men by their buttons.” —
Douglas Jcrrold.
Napoleon’s Prophecy now in coUrse
or fulfilment. —‘ Before fifty years,’said
Napoleon to Las Casas, one day, at .St.
Helena, ‘ Europe will he Republican or
Cossack.’
‘ Then, if my son is alive, he will he
called to the throne amidst the acclama
tions of the people. If he is no more,
France will become a repub ic again ; for
no hand would dare t » grasp a sceptre
which it could not wield.
‘ The B anch of Orleans, though agree
able, is too weak, it clings too much to the
other Bourbons, and it will have the same
fate, if ii cb.es not prefer living as simple
citizens, whatever changes arrive.
‘Once agaiu France will he a republic,
and the other countries w ill foil >w its ex
ample. Germans, Prussians, Po'es, Ital
ians, Danes, Swedes, and Russians, will
j in her in a crusade in favor of liberty.
They will arm against their sovereigns,
w ho will hasten to make them concessions
in order to retain a part of their ancient
authority; they will call themselves con
stitutional kings possessing limited pow
ers. Thus the feudal system will receive
its death blow'; like the ocean mist, it will
vanish before the first ray of the sun of
liberty.
‘ But things will not rest there, the wheel
of Revolution will not stop at that point;
its impetuosity will increase five fold, and
its rapidity in proportion. When a peo
ple recovers part of its rights, it becomes
enthusiastic from victory, and having tast
ed the sweets of liberty, becomes more
enterprising in order to obtain more. The
.States of Europe will he, perhaps, for some
years, in continual state of agitation, like
iho ground a moment before an earth
quake; but at last the lava breaks forth,
and the explosion ends all.
‘ The Bankruptcy of England will he
be lava which will shake the world, dc
eour lings and aristocracies, hut cement
by its outbreak the interests of democracy.
Believe me. Las Casas, as the vines plant
ed in the ashes which cover the feet of
.Etna and Vesuvius, produce the most de
licious wines, so the tree of liberty will be
come immoveable when it has its roots in
the ‘ revolutionary lava ’ w hich will over
flow all the monarchies. May it flemish
for ages ! These sentiments may appear
strange tc you iu my mouth ; they are
mine, however.
‘ I was born a republican ; but destiny
and the opposition of Europe made me
Emperor. I now await the future.’
Old Friendships. —The changes of
time, place and circumstance all contribute
most effectually and in a thousand ways
to alter the relations we sustain to others.
Incidental circumstances, new employ
ments, new interests, new social relations
often deprive friendships of the longest
standing and the most intimate character
of the attention which is essential to their
very existence, leaving them to die a na
tural death. Frotracled absence, distance
of place and lapse of time, especially w hen
epistolary commerce is"inconvenient, hard
ly ever fail to quench the ardor of any at
tachment, save that magic Love which
knows neither distance nor lapse of time,
overleaping the one and overlooking the
other. But History records few instances
«f friendship like this. The alterations
and fluctuations of social life to i often be
come the means of changing affection to
d.shkc, and friendship to hatred. Yet the
state of that man’s or that woman’s mind
is littlo to be envied, who does not cherish
a green spot in his hear: in memory of old
friendships long ago lost, sundered, bro
ken —who does not keep alive in his heart
of hearts a single taper on the tomb of old
loves and friendships, of the joys and sor
rows and friends of by-gone days.
'They who would consign to deep oblivi
on all the past, because it haunts them,
who would break the last link that binds
them to their former existence, should re
member that thus they stake their whole
happiness upon the present. Like a gam
bler who lisks his whole fortune upon a
single throw of ibe dice, if they lose they
have nothing left. They are morally and
socially bankrupt.
“ If storms should break, unclieered they go,
A dreary waste before thorn.”
Yet does it not sometimes happen that
we would give worlds, were they ours to
give, to recall the memories, sincere and
Complete, of one old love 1 Does it not
sometimes happen that amid the revolu
lions of the social world, we meet again an
old friend as one meets with a lost trea
sure ? And how difi'erentthe feelings with
which vve gleet such a friend, if conscious
that we have been true to him, from those
where our conscience accuses us of hav
iug been forgetful and treacherous 1 If
it is good to be always patient in well do
ing, it is good also to iememberalways all
who have been once dear to us. The
memory of such attachments, of the kind
feelings and kind ollices which composed
them, forms a most important part of our
social being. And where from time to
time, after longer or shorter intervals, we
meet such friends, as ships meet on the
wide ocean, how pleasant to 44 review the
scenes of other years.” Hr. Johnson was
of the opinion that we should keep our
friendship in constant repair, by supply
ing the places of those who are lost, very
much perhaps as a committee or a club
fills vacancies by re-election. But in our
opinion they are undeserving of new
friends who arc capable of forgetting the
old. ° "
M A C O A_.
SATURDAY MORNING, JAN. 20,1*4!).
Proceedings of Connell.
The Proprietors ot the “Southern Museum”
having been elected City Printers, the Prorecd
ings of the City Council of Macon, will hereaf
ter appear in this paper.
The contract for keeping the Streets and Lanes
of this city in good order for the ensuing year,
will he let out on Monday evening next. See
Proceedings in another column.
Appointments for Macnn District.
The Georgia Conference closed its annual
session in Augusta on Thursday afternoon. The
following arc the appointments for the Macon
District :
John \V. Glesx, P. E.
Macon —Waller IS. Branham.
Colored Charge. —John M. Marshall.
Vinerille —Win. M. Crumley.
Milledgerille. — Wiley G. Parks.
Eatonton. —lsaac Boring.
Clinton. —Francis W. Baggerly.
Monticello —J. Blakely Smith.
Forsyth. —John P. Duncan.
Cullodm. — McCarrcll Pcurifoy.
Ft. Valley. —James Dunwoody.
Ft. Valley Mission. —Thomas C. Coleman.
Perry. —George Bright.
Ormulgee Mission —John M. Bright.
Goofy's Lady’s Book.—The February num
ber of this vaiuahle periodical lias come to hand.
It is a magnificent number, so far as mechanical
execution is concerned : the contents we have
not examined, hut presume the articles are iu
keeping with the known character of the work.
O’We have received “Wright's Casket,”
published monthly at Philadelphia, at 25 cents
per annum. It contains a great variety of use
ful and interesting matter, and is well worthy
the patronage of the public.
j Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.]
• FROM WASHINGTON.
In the Senate, on Tuesday, [lGth inst.,]
Mr. Douglas offered an amendment to his
California State bill, obviating the ob
jections to that portion of it in favor of
assignees of Military Land Warrants’
The amendments underwent discussion.
The bill settling Land titles and fur ma
king a survey in California and New
Mexico was also discussed. Mr. Breese
made a speech in reply to Mr. Benton.
In the House, Mr. King, from the Com
niiltee on Naval Affairs, introduced a bi'l
providing for the construction of the Pa
nama Railroad, ten thousand copies of
which were ordered to be printed.
The business done was unimportant.
The Civil and Diplomatic bill, and the
Mileage question came up, and were a
gain debated.
The Southern Meeting.
The meeting of the Southern membets
of Congress took place at Washington on
Monday evening, [loth] organized as be
fore, and remained five hours in session.
Mr. Calhoun presented the report of
the Sub-Committee, and it was discussed.
Messrs. Clayton, Stephens, Toombs, and
others, opposed the adoption of the report.
It was advocated by Messrs. Calhoun,
Westcott, Jefferson Davis, Martin and
Bailey.
The final result was the recommitment
of the Report by a majority of two, to an
adjourned meeting to be held on Monday
next.
Our correspondent remarks that the
Whigs declined further co-operation, and
that the report to be made on Monday
next, will be adopted by the Democrats
and a few Whigs.
Messrs. Houston, Rusk and McKay,
are also stated to be oppose to the Report.
New Yorli JTiu-ltets.
Cotton. —The advices from New York
are up to 5 o’clock, on Tuesday afternoon.
Cotton was rather inactive at a decline of
fully one-eighth of a cent since the recep
tion of the news by the steamer. Some
buyers were demanding a further reduc
tion.
Rice had also declined. Sales of 200
tierces had been effected at 3g.
Government Secutilies were firm at the
last quotations.
Several vessels were in quarantine at
New York, having the Cholera on board
(UpWe learn from the Washington correspon
dence of the Charleston Courier, that the Report
of the Southern Committee recommends nothing,
but gives a historical view of the rise and pro
gress of anti-slavery movements in this country.
It leaves to the Southern States to determine
upon the mode of redress.
“Very little is said on the most irritating of
all the topics relative to slavery—that is, the dis
Acuities interposed by Northern legislation in
the way of the apprehension and delivery of fu
gitive slaves ; hut the sub/oct is alluded to as one
of grievance in the report.
Ido not think, nor is it the general impres
sion that the House will, at this session, pass any
hill respecting slavery in the District of Colum
bia. They may pass a Territorial bill with the
Wilmot Proviso, and it will, possibly, pass the
Senate, since Illinois has instructed her Senators
in the matter, and he arrested by the Executive
veto.”
(C/ - Hon. Thomas Metcalfs appointment by
the Governor of Kentucky, as U. S. Senator,
has been confirmed by the Kentucky loisla
turc.
COMPETITION WITH ENGLAND.
I The remark made in our last paper, that in a
few year* foreign markets will be supplied wish
our fabrics, grains and meats, was not the fruit
of idle speculation. No solid reason can be
I urged why it may not be so. In the instance of
cotton fabrics, at least, in the manufacture of
which England is our great competitor, we have
every advantage over her.
First, we have the great advantage of produc
ing the raw material in our midst. Then, as the
difference between the cost of transportation Horn
the plantation to a factory here and a factory at
Manchester, so will be the difference in the
cost of the raw material to the two manufactur
ers. Were it not for this advantage, small as it
may appear to he at the first hiusli, it would not
long remain debatable whether we can suc
cessfully compete with the pauper labor of that
country—the impossibility of doing so would
soon be made apparent.
Secondly, if we work up enough of our cotton
crops (which will certainly be the case, sooner
or later, dependent upon the gradual or rapid in
crease of factories in the cotton-growing States)
to reduce the supply of England below her de
mand, this will at once drive her from the field
of competition, and increase the price of her cot
ton fabrics at home.
Thirdly, the result will be the same in all the
manufacturing districts of Europe, and then wo
shall have an open field.
A portion of the capital daily accumulating
among us will he invested in factories—these
will multiply, and effect the great commercial
change we have so iiastily and imperfectly
sketched above. We have caught a faint glim
mering of the idea, and will leave to those who
are more deeply interested the demonstration of
our theory.
lii regard lo supplying foreign countries with
our breadstuff's, there is not so much concern.
Iu this branch of commerce competition will he
between the Northern and Southern Slates. In
this, the latter have the advantage, as the sub
joined extract from an article in the Eulavv
(Ala.) Whig, will shew :
“It may be argued that a market cannot be
found for wheat, if its culture is generally gone
into. We would reply to this that wheat should
only he a pait of the planter’s crop ; and if such
is the case a market, either at home or abroad,
can be found for all that will he produced. A
good market can he found in our own section of
country fur large quantities, and a vast market
may be had, almost as convenient, in the West
Inliis B fire Northern wheat is gathered,
Southern planters can manufacture their wheat
i ito flour and ship it to market; thereby sccur
i ig to themselves the earliest and generally the
best market. This position is susceptible of
proof, from real occurrences, as connected with
the Richmond (Va.) Mills.”
The foregoing remarks, coupled with the fol
lowing article, which shows the position wc oc
cupy among the nations of the earth ns a pro
ducing people, sustain us in the belief that our
prediction, made in reference to Georgia, will
be completely fulfilled :
“ A writer in the English Agricultural Ga
zette makes an interesting comparison of the
products of the United States with those of
France. The population of the Uuitid Stutcsis
set down at twenty millions, and that of France
at thirty-five millions. The proportion of the
agricultural population in America is given as
80.4 per cent.; commercial 2.5 ; and manufac
turing 17-1. The writer observes that the agri
cul ural productions of the United States, com
pared with its inhabitants, are enormous, viz :
UNITED STATES. FRANCE.
Horned Cattle, 14,071,583 !1,035,538
Sheep, 10,311,384 32,151,430
Horses and Mules, 4,335,660 3,192,337
Pigs, 27,301,203 4,040,721
He also contrasts the grain crops of the two
countries, showing the comparative amounts
produced of each kind, in hectolitres, as follows :
L’WIT ED STATES. FRANCE.
Wheat, 30,000,000 60,000,000
Barley, 1,500,000 16,000,000
Rye, 6,000,000 27,000,000
Oats, 44,000,000 48,000,000
Indian Corn, 135,000,000 7,000,000
Buckwheat, 2,500,000 8,000,000
14 The United Slates,” says the same writer,
“ produce annually 70,000 tons of wool, 600 tons
of hops, 300 tons of beeswax, 10,000,000 tons of
I ay, 95,000 tons of hemp and flax, 100,000 tons
of tobacco, 40,000 tons of rice, tons of
cotton, 60,000 pounds of cocoons of silk worms,
77,000 tons of sugar, and 5,000 hectolitres wine.
The produce of the farm-yard or cow-house, is
estimated at £7,000,000 (.$35,000,000); that of
the orchards, £1,5GO,000; forests, £2,720,000.”
The total amount of agricultural produce a
inounts to the enormous sum of £137,730,150
sterling, or $693,650,800. The manufactures of
the United States, though yet in their infancy,
are rapidly increasing, and the writer puts down
the amount of capital embarked in manufacto
ries of various kinds, at £56,757,912. Consid
ered in all respects, therefore, lie concludes:
“ America may be classed next to Great Britain,
as the second agricultural and commercial coun
try in the world.”
Interesting Surgical Operation. —Dr.
Paul F. Eve, says the Augusta Chronicle and
Sentinel of this city, performed the operotion of
lithotomy last Saturday at the Hospital, and re
moved from the bladder of Mr. O'Brannon one
hundred and seventeen stones, the largest of
which weighed two drachms, seventeen grains.
Wc have seen the pebbles. They ar j tclrahe
deous (four sided) and have all the sharp angles
rounded oil'by friction one against another.
Their aggregate weight is four ounces, three
drachms, thirty-eight grains. They have been
accumulating twenty years.
Prof. Eve performed the operation with much
skill, and without pain to ihe suhjuel, lie being
under the anodyne influence of Chloroform.
[UTTIie Cholera had abated at New Orleans
on the 13th, and entirely disappeared at Mobile
on the 15th inst. It was also disappearing up
the Mississippi river at the latest dates.
(TT The amount of Treasury notes outstand
ing on the let inst was $10,532,089 31.
THE CTTTOX INTEREST.
Several remedies have been suggested for the
cure of the present prices of cottons. A gene
ral Convention of Planters has been advised, (a
good suggestion, by the way, if it is possible to
assemble a full body,) to deliberate and fix upon
the best Than to reduce the crop. We merely
mention the fact to shew that causes are at work
which will have a tendency to lessen the next
crop of cotton in the Southern States. That is
to say, although it may be as large as the present
one, yet many who would plant full crops if
prices jus ified it, will turn their attention to
other and more profitable productions Labor
and caprsal will naturally flow to those channels
in which they will be most profitable. And
men are too intimately acquainted with their in
terests, to he long in the discovery of what does
not remunerate them for their labor and the use
of their capital, or slow in applying the remedy.
Hence, if it he a fact as we believe it is, that at
the p event prices cotton will not pay the ex
pense of growing it, w hen compared with the
productiveness of labor and capital applied to
other objects, then will it be true that the next
crop of cotton will be less than the present one—
and so on, until prices become better. In this
state of things, we see the hud of greater pros
perity to the South. Ilerinexliaustible resources
will he more completely and rapidly developed
—more diversified employments opened—and
her l b >r, capital and products will be equalized.
But to show the probable good resulting from
a reduction of the cotton crop, and the invest
ment of labor and capital in other objects, we
append extracts from a highly interesting and
valuable article in a lat “ number of the New Or
leans Commercial Times :
“A crop of 2,400,000 hales was assumed as a
full average, at prices not materially varying
from five cents. Let us compare the very short
cr >p of 184 G, with the quantity of cotton raised
in 1848, and trace the results; say 1,778,600
bales at ten cents, amounting to $80,000,000,
against 2,400,000 hales at five cents, equal to
$51,000,000 —presenting the singular fact of an
increase of 621,400 bales, and adecline in value
of $26,000,000 ! To what agency is this attri
butable ? Has the consumption been so greatly
diminished in two years as to bring prices down
to one-half of their former level ; or has such a
revulsion taken place in the money circles, that
the crop cannot be brought and held to its usual
destination ? Some cause is at work to produce
this difficulty, and we shall offer a few plain
thoughts on the subject, tending, as we conceive,
to justify the position wc assumed iu the outset,
in regard to over-production. * * *
Our opinion is, that a standard of production and
consumption, as nearly uniform as can be estab
lished by the arrangement of labor, is the great
security fur all who are, in any way, connected
with the citton iptcreat, whether in the growth,
manufacture or final disposition of the article.
In the change of labor which wo recommend
in relation to cotton, wc carefully avoid ex
tremes at the beginning. Wc have seen very
intelligent contemporaries, who agree with us
on the necessity of some equilibrium, in our
capacity for production and consumption ; who
estimate our excess, already at 800,( 00 bales;
and who are of opinion that the corresponding
ratio of labor should be at once diverted into
ot' er channels. On this predicate, the transi
tion would be one-third from cotton, which,
with all due deference, we think rather too vio.
lent. It would probably excite fears, alike inju
rious to agriculture and commerce, by disturb
ing the laws of supply and demand, which are
most beneficial when most secure from sudden
and great interruption. We have selected the
medium course as the most advisable—let us
say that 400,000 bales ought to he omitted from
the production, which would be one-sixth of a
full average crop ; and the capital thus liberated
would establish and work machinery to the value
of $12,500,000. Let the proceeds he invested
in additional cotton mills, and so on from year to
year, until a thiid, or even one-half, the crop of
the United States shall be manufactured at home.
When this, or any approximate result shall he
attained, then good prices for cotton will be per
manent, with the upward slide in our favor
from the very tendency of the change.
“Our manufacturing establishments being on
the increase, whilst the production of cotton is
kept steadily at one point, say 2,000,000 bales-
Europe will at once see the danger of a thin
supply of the raw material; and, consequently,
prices will assume an aspect calculated to decoy
back to the cultivation of cotton much of the
capital which had been withdrawn from it, and
invested in other pursuits. So long as our de
monstrations for manufacturing are solid and
progressive, wc shall keep our friends on the
other side of the Atlantic in a most obliging tem
per; they will always he willing to pay us full
prices for an article indispensable to their pros
perity, and which they can obtain from no other
source to an extent and of a quality to answer
their purposes Instead of our being in a state
of vassalage to them, as we have been hereto
fore, in our cotton trade, relations will be entirely
reversed, and we shall possess the ability, if not
the will, to prescribe our own terms.”
(TT’Tlie Charleston Courier of the 17th inst
tates that the steamer Richland was burnt on
the 14th inst. having blown up near Britton’s
Ferry, about 30 or 40 miles above Georgetown.
It is said eight or ten persons perished, amongst
whom were Messrs. John McFarlan, Taylor,
Davis and lady. The boat was on her way from
Cberaw to Georgetown, and was owned ey Cap
tain Brock, and was not insured.
Georgia Stocks. —The Augusta Chronicle &
Sentinel of the 3d inst. says :
“Cluite a large sale of Bank stock took place
at our market house this morning. The follow
ing are the prices they brought ; 230 shanes
Mechanics' Bank stock for $lO5 a 100 3-4 ; 60
shares Georgia Railroad & Banking Company
stock for SB4 1-3 a 85 1-2; 14 shares Bank of
Augusta for S6O ; 7 shares Augusta Insurance
nun Banking Company stock for $107; and
$759 in GcorgiaG per cent. Bonds for 00 cents.”
A dentist of Durham has lately used gutta per
chn, for the manufacture of sets of gums for arti
ficial teeth.
EDITO.’IS AND NEWSPAPERS.
Those who have the pleasure of reading f rftm
day to day, or week to week, the productions <,f
the editor, rarely reflect upou the incessant toil
trouble and vexation entering into tbe perforin’
ance of his duties. At one time there area huu
dred subjects, more or less, irrelevant to each oth
er, to be conned over or penned for the benefit or
amuscincntofhis readers,—the next mail arrives
and lo ! there is nothing of interest in his eu
changes. Now he is thrown altogether upr> 0
his ingenuity; and various, as well as strange
are the expedients resorted to by the poor fellow
at such untoward times. The labors of an edi
tor are well portrayed in the following par*,
graph from a late speech delivered by the editor
of the N Y. Courier &. Enquirer:
“ Consider, again, how articles are written
If a lawyer is to defend a horse thief, he takes
a week to collect evidence, and sift and arrange
it, and then he comes into court prepared to
make the best of a bad case. But if the tele
gjaph brings word at midnight that all Europe
is involved in war, you gentlemen expect that
we of the press should lay down the law of na
tions in regard to it, on your behalf, in time for
breakfast next morning ! And then scriyta
manent— when once written down, the judg.
ment must stand.*’
But, newspapers. Who can estimate the
value of newspapers ? Probably their great
number and cheapness prevent their necessity
from being seen, and we desire to place them
in their true position bpfore the eyes of the
world. They give a healthy tone and direction
to public opinion—they arc an important auxili-.
ry to trade, commerce, agriculture, the fine arts
and the deep sciences,—they correct vice el e .
vate the standard of morals, and disseminate
beautiful truth—and they scatter with liberal
hand the diamond gems of knowledge among the
masses. We have an interesting and remarka
ble proof of the great truth of the last mentioned
attribute of the press in the following narrative.
It is an ‘o’er true tale,’ no doubt :
“ Some years ago, a lady, noticing that a
neighbor was not in her scat at church one Sab
bath, on her return home stopped to inquire
what should detain such a punctual attendant
On entering the house she found the family busy
at work. She was surprised when her friend
addressed her: ‘ Why, la ! where have you
been to-day, dressed up in your Sabbath clothes
I o meeting. ‘\V by, what day is it ?’ ‘ Sun
day.’ ‘Sal, stop washing in a minute t Sabbath
day ! W.II, I did',,l know it; for my husband
has got so plaguy stingy he won’t take the pa
pers now, and wc know nothing ! Who preach
ed ?’ ‘Mr. Ilodgskinsnivey.’ ‘ What did ho
preach about?' ‘His sermon was on tbe de
struction of tiie world, and the day of jwdgment.’
‘ Mercy on us ! is the world destroyed ? Well,
■veil, it might be destroyed a dozen times, and
we would know nothing about it ! It wont do
—we must have the newspapers again ; for every
thing goes wrong w ithout the paper. BilHias
almost lost liis reading, and Polly has got quite
mopish again, because she’s got no poetry sto
ries to rend- Well, if we have to take a cart
load of potatoes and turnips to market, I am dc
termined to I'avc n newspaper.’ *’
Moral. —Every one should make a similar re
solve.
PATIENT CONTINUANCE.
There are not a few young men who fritter
away their lives in dreaming of what they will
do to-morrow. Days, months, vears, mark their
rapid flight upon the heads of such ; and still we
find them dreaming of what they will do to mor
row. No advice will he given to these—the
task would he fruitless. But there is a class of
young men, a few degrees removed from the
former, upon whom advice may not he altogeth
er lost—those who have industry, hut are defi
cient in the faculty of patiently continuing in
one pursuit. We see such at onetime applving
themselves to a trade, then to the study of medi
cine, or the law, and now to something else ;
and the result is that several years arc thrown
away—literally lost to them. The probability
is, that if the time thus wasted had been employ,
ed in view of a certain end, it would have been
attained. They have industry, truly—but they
exhaust themselves beating Ihe air—they labor
to no purpose. Their faculties require direction
to, and concentration upon,some specific object,
and the most direct way of securing it. Then,
if they w ish to attain such object, through some
particular vocation, they must patiently continue
in \\ hatever vocation they may have first select
ed, or into which they may have been forced by
circumstances. I.et him who chooses, or is
forced by circumstances, to be a mechanic, or
farmer, or merchant, or physician, or lawyer, in
commencing bis career in life, abide the issue of
such choice or compulsion. Let him call upon
the energy of stern, inflexible will to move him
in a straight line to an honorable end. Patient
continuance in his calling, whatever the obsta
cles to be surmounted, will certainly insure iiis
success.
Ohio Legislature.—This body have not yet
satisfactorily arranged their difficulties. There
was nothing but swearinfi, wrangling and quar
reling. The Democrats claim that Weller is
elected.
tUr* Peter C. Brooks, the wealthiest land
holder In New England, and father in-law of
Edward Everett, died on the Ist inst. His for*
tune is estimated at between 7,000,000 and
000 dollars.
(O’Gen. Thomas Brown, Whig Governor
elect of the State of Florida, was inaugurated
before the Legislature on the 13th inst. on which
day also that body closed its session.
Submarine Telegraph.
An electio telegraph is to bo constructed from
Dublin to Holyhead, to communicate at the lat
ter place with the English lines. Os course the
telegraphic wires will repose on the bottom ot
the channel, and will be submarine for the dis
tance of about thirty miles, we suppose. Noth
ing like this lias been jet attempted, wc believe;
and wc are not sure but the ttme will come when
it will be seriously proposed to stretch a line of
w ires across the Atlantic. But we cannot see
how it will be accomplished. We will not de
ny the possibility of it though, seeing that many
things pronounced to he impossible have come
to pass within the last thirty years.— Globe.