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EDITED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
WM . B . HARRISON.
CITY PRI.XTETi
[rOR THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM ]
A VALESTIXE,
ADDRESSED TO A FEMALE FKIF ND -
Here's a health to thee on this festal day,
And a wish, and a smile, and a sigh
And a hope unseen, and a thought unheard,
That they meet with thy favoring eye.
Thy health I sing may it ever be fair ;
And thy rosy cheek, and tiiy harmless glee
And thy gen’rous heart, may it never sear—
Nor thy cheek grow pale,nor thy mirth less free’.
Thy sparkling eye, thy ruby lip,
Oh, may they still of pleasure sip !
Beauteous in youth, ardent in truth,
Brilliant in mind, gen’rous and kind—
Heaven bless thee, my friend !
My wish I note : may thy gathering years,
Bring thy dearest hope, and the brightest sky,
Be the future thine; time lessen thy cares,
With desires possessed, and contentment nigh.
May faith and charity unite
To lead thee to the Infinite.
Harmless and gay, fair as the day;
Clear as the dawn, mild as the fawn—
Heaven bless thee, my friend !
My smile I give : with these quivering lays
I approve thee w'ell; I respect thee more ;
Tho’ the deed be frail, yet the will is praise,
And the heart sincere, in its treasured store.
My sigh, I fear, must be unknown,
Thou wouldst not list its musing tone :
But midst this life, in joy or strife,
’Neath reeking pain, or pleasure's reign—
Heaven bless thee, my friend !
And now I send my humble Valentine,
And in its folds an humble prayer entwine,
That all its blessings may be ever thine ;
Good day, my friend, think oft of me and mine !
W. P. H
Feb. 14, 1849.
Douglass Jerrold’s “Man made of Money.”
The racy author of “Mrs. Caudle’s Cur
tain Lectures,” has written an interesting
novel under the above head. It is well
spoken of by those who have had the pa
tience to read it, and, from a hasty glance
at a column or two, we conclude that it
is full of the characteristic eccentricity of
that writer. Where he found the substan
tial “Man made of Money,” we do not
know, for we have yet to find one whose
pockets are made of that article, and much
less do we hope to see a veritable walking
gold-mine. We have seen men, howev
er, who were worth their weight in gold,
but they seem to be fast disappearing, be
fore the would-be progress of fame-fam
ished politicians and embryo immortal
originals for future monuments. Such an
individual would create as much conster
nation in our mind, as would fill the won
derful intellect of a scientific star-gazer, at
the premature appearance of a comet. —
But to our extract. Duyckinck’s Litera
ry World, speaking of Jerrold’s “Man
made of Mony,” says :
“Our author has taken a fashionable
London diner-out—a married bachelor;
and after pestering him to death with the
pecuniary importunities of a wife fond of
a good wardrobe and the filling the pock
ets of her‘darling sod has made him a
wish which (rash man that he was!) was
readily granted. He wished he was made
of money and he was ! Not that he be
came scaled with bank notes; or made
eagle-eyed with gold pieces ; or had his
head covered with gold thread by way of
hair, the while mint drops coursed thro’
his veins and arteries. Oh, no! hut his
heart was converted into a dull mass of
pound notes ; his bones were marrowless,
and there was little speculation in his eyes;
as little as appears in the vision of a
‘ducked’ member of the ‘third board’ when
an unlucky fingering of ‘Harlem’has burn
ed holes in his bank account. Outward
ly he continued a man ; inwardly he was
a bank ; hut without the power of increas
ing his capital ; or withstanding a ‘with
drawal of the deposits.” r I bus made of
money (having hut to put his hand to his
heart and draw at sight —not the slightest
check to his operations in that way) —he
went through the world ; pandering to his
wife’s love of display and feeding the
vulture of the world of fashion ; meantime
his inward joy and peace of mind perish,
and himself became a fitting Siamese twin
for the “Haunted Man.” He bought out
his early friend; exiled his son ; bankrup
ted a truth-loving physician ; and gave up
his daughters as prey to fortune-hunters.
He was shot through the heart in a duel ;
but the bullet came out at his hack, and
not a sign remained save a delicate hole
through the after emission of bank notes
from his bosom treasure. Consequently
the world said he was the devil; grown
one from that root of evil which threads its
way into the groundwork of all society.
“There was another drawback. That
he was morose and selfish; unfeeling;
that his May of life had fallen into the sere
and yellow leaf; that his joy proved unsa
vory ; were small matters. But the of
tener he drew forth a hank note from his
heart, the thinner he became. As heal
thy in look, and speech, and action as
ever; but frightfully emaciated. He
was a fortune to an ‘old clo’ dealer ; and
equally so to the tailor of his early pover
ty whom [with honor be it saidj he did not
desert in his prosperity.
“Jericho [that was his name] w as no lo
gician ; deep as he might have been, but
his thoughts were below the reach of re-
I flection’s book; or he would have been
painfully cognizant of the slight tenure lie
possessed in life. Man made of dust
returns to dust, was a matter of fact that
he had never conned ; or he might have
gone further by the help of analogy, and
learned that man made of banknotes was a
mere mass of primitive tinder. This was
unfortunate, as the sequel proved ; for
using one of his own notes as a match, lie
‘combusted spontaneously,’ and only a
spark [was it of gratitude ?] remained for
his friend, the Devil.
The novel contains a pertinent moral.
We are all of us made of money, more or
less ; the greater our degree the greater
our bondage to his Satannic majesty. If
the love of gold corrupt our blood [and
that beyond the reach of Sands or old Dr.
Jacob Townsend :] poisons our affections;
and banishes joy from our heart’s premi
ses ; will be even like unto poor Jericho;
and our memory when dead will he just as
evanescent as were his corporeal remains.
Our genius ; our industry ; our capacity
for the driving bargains ; are all parts of
our nature ; and it is through them we
are made of money. Let the career of
poor Jericho, as the reader follows him
chapter by chapter through his eventful
life, from the time his forehead is made
the pulpit of two moralizing fleas to the
time his earthly fabric dissolved and left
no wreck behind, he a warning against
too profuse a sacrifice at the altars of Mam
mon.
“Literary California emigrants, if you
would stay behind, ‘go to Jericho."'
Tlie Next Legislature.
It is not at any time inopportune to urge
the importance of selecting for the Legis
lature competent and reliable men—men
of the best judgment and abilities. At the
approaching election it is particularly des
irable that sucli men should be chosen, on
account of the many important subjects to
he acted on at the nextsessiori, and which
if not then disposed of, cannot be reached
for two years longer. The next Legisla.
ture will have under conisderation the
question of a change in the Tax law ; a re
vision of the whole body of the State laws ;
of a reform in the Militia system and the
establishment of a system of general edu
cation. By Resolution of last Legislature
the Governor was requested to appoint
three suitable persons as a Committee to
enquire into the state of Education in
Georgia, to report to the next Legislature
on the operation of the present Toor
School law, to recommend any alteration
in the same that may to them seem advis
able, or to suggest a plan for general edu
cation if considered by them expedient,
accompanied by a suitable hill for carrying
out the same. Though, by the resolution,
the Committee thus appointed must not
expect compensation for their labor in pre
paring this report, theie is no doubt that
suitable men have undertaken, or will un
dertake the task for the good of the State
and the cause of Education. By another
resolution, the Judges of the Supreme
Court, were requested to make a report
to the next Legislature, stating any exis
ting defect in the laws of Georgia, and
suggesting a remedy fertile same, and also
to give their opinion on the expediency
and practicability of so condensing and
simplifying the laws as to place them more
within the knowledge of the citizens gen
erally. Besides these subjects, there vvill
he brought up for action, other matters of
general importance or of local interest,
that will make it highly desirable that each
county should have able, efficient and in
dustrious members to watch over, and la
bor, and act for the good of their immedi
ate constituents as well as of the State
generally.— Cherokee Advocate.
Tun Three Great Events in Eu
rope.—Three great events claim, at the
present moment, our cheif attention—the
advance of the Russian troops into Hun
gary, the approach of a French army to
Rome, and lastly, the prospect of a serious
contest between all the existing govern
ments of Germany and large masses of
the people, already pledged to risk every
thing in defence of national unity and
Democratic institutions. We believe that,
in this country .those events are unanimous
ly regarded by men of all parties with
serious apprehensions and sincere regret.
They bode no good to Europe or to the
times we live in.—They menace the world
with a conflict of extreme parties. But,
as the tempest blackens day by day, it is
impossible to deny that the chances of
these differences diminish, and they are
left more and more to the arbitration of
the sword. Yet, even when this conflict
has been fought and won, the victorous
party, whichever it may be, will bo alike
embarrassed to restore the tranquillity of
society and the authority of government,
either by the force of military despotism
or by the license of unlimited Democra
cy.—London Tones, May 10.
THE CHOLERA.
Much causeless alarm is felt in anticipa
tion of the approach of this disease. It
most generally attacks the exposed, im
prudent, or dissipated. Any course of
life that disturbs the healthy functions of
the body, will create a predisposition, and
therefore, all who would escape must give
ordinary attention to the preservation of
health. Temperate habits, cleanliness, a
quiet mind, and attention to business, are
the best safeguards in the midst of this or
any other epidemic. In regard to sanita
ry regulations, the following, which have
been adopted in London, are based upon
one of the most minute investigations that
was ever made into the circumstances at
tendant on an epidemic disease. The
London Lancet says: “These simple
measures are worth all the nostrums or
specifics which have ever been vaunted
for the cure of cholera.”
Let every impurity, animal or vegeta
ble, he quickly removed to a distance
from the habitations, such as slaughter
bones, pig-sties, cess-pools, and all other
domestic nuisances.
We do not believe that animal putrefac
tions are ever connected with epidemic
diseases, but there can be no objection to
their removal from habitations.
Let all uncovered drains he carefully
and frequently cleansed.
Let the grounds in and around the hab
itations he drained, so as effectually to
carry off moisture of every kind.
Let all partitions he removed from with
in and without habitations, which unneces
sarily impede ventilatiou.
Let every room be thrown open for the
admission of air ; and this should he done
about noon, when the atmosphere is most
likely to be dry.
Let dry scrubbing be used in domestic
cleansing, in place of water cleansing.
Let excessive fatigue and exposure to
damp and cold, especially during the
night, be avoided.
Let the use of cold drinks and acid li
quors, especially under fatigue, he avoid
ed ; or when the body is heated.
Let a poor diet, and the use of impure
water in cooking or for drink, be avoided.
Let the wearing of wet and insufficient
clothing be avoided.
Let a flannel or woollen belt be worn
around the belly.
[This has been found very serviceable
in checking the tendency to bowel com
plaint, so common during the prevalence
ot the cholera. The disease has, in this
country, been always found to commence
with a looseness in the bowels, and in this
stage is very tractable ; it should, howev
er, he noticed that the looseness is fre
quently unattended by pain or uneasiness;
and fatal delay has often ocrurred from
the notion that cholera must he attended
with cramps. In the early stage here re
ferred to, there is often no griping or
cramp, and it is at this period that the
disease can he most easily arrested. ]
Let personal cleanliness he carefully
observed.
Let every cause tending to depress the
moral and physical energies he carefully
avoided.
Let crowding of persons within houses
and apartments be avoided.
Let sleeping in low or damp rooms he
avoided.
Let fires he kept up during tire night in
sleeping or adjoining apartments, the
night being the period of most danger
Lorn attack especially under exposure to
cold or damp.
Let all bedding and clothing be daily
exposed during winter and spring, to the
fire, and in summer to the heat of the sun.
Dr. Drake, a physician of Cincinnati,
whose acquaintance with this disease is
said to he as extensive as that of any prac
titioner in the West has published some
suggestions on the subject, worthy of no
tice :
1. That leaving the city can do no pos
sible good. The disease is not contagious.
1 he cause of it has already spread through
the city and been received into the bodies
of the inhabitants. Those who escape
to the country, are more likely to be ill
than they that remain at home.
2. Epidemic cholera has no premonito
ry symptoms. The diarrhoea, which is sup
posed to be its forerunner, is the disease
itself, in it first stage ; as positively so as
when advanced to vomiting, or coldness
and collapse.
3. The disease may be generally stop
ped, it it cannot then, it cannot afterwards.
It cannot even then if the patient contin
ues on his feet. His life dependes on his
lying by.
4. All persons who hay; worn flannel
during the winter, should keep it on un
til the epidemic has passed awav.
llow TO prevent thf. Cholera.—A corres
pondent of the Journal of Commerce says that
a town in Tennessee has entirely escaped the
scourge of the cholera the past winter, not a case
ofit having occured there, notwithstanding every
other town in the vicinity suffered from it se
verely. This has been attributed, and no doubt
correctly, to the free and universal use oCquick
lime, fresh from the kilns, which was scattered
hrough the gutters, cellars, privies and yards.
Its disinfecting properties seizing with avidity
on all impure and deleterious gases are well
known, and where plentifully used, will no doubt
under ordinary circumstances of prudence and
cleanliness preserve the health of any cities and
villages in the United States.
O’ A letter from an officer in the United
States Navy, dated San Bias, March 23, is pub
lished in the Brooklyn Eagle, gives the follow
ing information :
“The Warren, St. Marys, Ohio, Dallas and
Store Ship were at San Fra-ncisco. Several sail
ors have been shot fur desertion. Gen. Smith
was temporarily on board the Ohio. Court mar
tinis were in full blast, for the trial of deserters
from the different ships.”
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JUNE 9, 1849.
City Taxes. —Those of our city readers who
have failed to make their Returns, will hear in
mind that the Books will be closed on Friday
next. Sec advertisement.
nJIVe learn from a correspondent at Marietta
that on .Monday night Inst, whilst the “ Sable
Melodists” were performing at the Court House
in that village, a difficulty arose attlie door be
tween the agent, Mr. Weston, (brother of Mr.
J. M. Weston,) and a son of I)r. Randall, in
which tile former was dangerously stabbed twice
in or near the abdomen, and bis recovery was
considered doubtful.
g.j’At a meeting of the Democratic party of
Bibb county, held at the Court House on Tues
day last, the following gentlemen were appoint
ed Delegates to the Democratic Convention, to
nominate a candidate for Governor of Georgia,
viz: H. Newsom, S. B. Hunter, R. A. Smith
and T. R. Bloom, Esqs.
The Whigs hold a meeting at the Court House
to-day, to appoint Delegates to their Convention.
THe Mechanics’ Society.
We regret that we have not heretofore noticed,
in detail, the formation of an association of Me
chanics, together with those friendly to the Me
chaliic Arts, to the diffusion of instructive and
valuable information among the laboring classes
in our city, and to effect their moral and litera
ry, as well as pecuniary, advancement. That
such a society is calculated to be of great bene
fit, not only in the prescribed circle of its mem
bership, but also throughout the whole commu
nity, we have not the least reason to doubt. On
the contrary, the experience of Northern cities
plainly indicates, that wherever the working
men unite themselves to an association for their
mutual improvement, the price of labor is satis,
factory, and Mechanics are more intelligent and
liappy. The motto, “united we stand, divided
we fall,” will hold good in this particular as well
as in many others, and it is a mistaken idea that
laboring men have any individual interests which
this association will undo. It is doubtless the
case that in various branches of the Mechanic
Arts there is a spirit of competition and rivalry
among those who follow these several callings-
But as far as our observation extends, the object
has been to excel in diminishing the price, and
not in perfecting the work, and, so extensively
has this principle pervaded the working masses,
that, with a few exceptions, we can find no one
fully acquainted with every department of his
trade, or prepared to execute his work with a
faultless finish. This state of things has been
brought about, during depressions in monetary
affairs, by the employers who seem to have es
tablished in their own minds the false theory,
that if a thing be cheap, it must of course be
good. We presume it vvill require no argument
to show that, instead of the interests of contrac
tors and workmen coming in contact, they are
one and the same. Give a good price for labor,
and you have it executed well—the article made
.will last a hundred per cent, longer than if you
paid less for it—the Mechanic will put iris wits
to work in order to produce something unri
valled ; every exertion to perfect it will be en
couraged by- the consciousness that he is reward
ed for his trouble. On the other hand, give
him an inadequate price, and he is compelled,
in justice to himself, to slight the work—and,
of course, the first is not benelitted, and the last
is injured.
The question then arises, will this Associa
tion remedy these evils ? We answer that it
will. If Mechanics will resort to a place where
they r could take counsel together, how lone is
it probable they would take to devise means
for a remedy ? They have the power, and why
vvill they refuse to exercise it in their own be
half? If they should fix the rates of labor at
any reasonable standard, would not employers
he forced to comply ? But if they do not see fit
to concert arbitrary measures, they can still ac
complish the end, by consulting one wilh ano
ther, and devising more lenient, and less exci
ting means. We have, then, to urge upon all
laboring men who desire to advance their own
interests, that they carefully consider the sub
jeci, and lend a helping hand to those worthy
gentlemen who have already united themselves
with the Society. #
Two Public Lectures have been delivered be
fore the Mechanics’ Society, the first by S. T.
Chapman, Esq., and the last by Robert B.
Lester, Esq. The first we noticed soon after
its delivery—the latter we had not the pleasure
of hearing, but we are told it was a very credit
able production. We are authorised to say that
this Society will adopt a Constitution at its next
regular meeting, on Thursday night next, at the
Council Room, and an entire attendance of the
the friends of Labor and Mechanical Improve
ment is earnestly solicited for that occasion.
The Georgia and Tennessee Railroads.
We learn that Gen. Duff Green has re
cently completed a favorable contract with the
East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad Company
by wliich he will be enabled to complete the
Iliwasseo Railroad to Dalton, where he had pur
chased some $30,000 worth ofproperty. There
are about twenty miles of this road already gra
ded in Tennessee, and a fine bridge across the
River. The grading on that part of the Road
South of the Hiwassee river, and a part of that
in Georgia, has been already put under contract
in short sections, to efficient and energetic con
tractors—and the balance ofthat part lying in
Georgia, tvill be placed under contract immedi
ately.
We are also informed that the cars run to the
Tunnel on the State Road—and that there arc
but four hundred feet to cut through, which is
being excavated at the rate of one hundred feet
per month. The contractors indulge the hope
that they will have the Road completed to Chat
tanooga by the first of October next. May their
expectations be fully realized—and this work
prove an enduring monument of the wisdom and
enterprise of the people of Georgia.
HEALTH.
We invite the attention of our city readers to
the Proclamation of the Mayor in another co
lumn. There is much room for improvement in
various parts of the city, and if the citizens gen
erally will but co-operate with the public Au
thorities in reporting all nuisances to them, we
may expect a continuation of the good lieallh,
which a kind Providence has so bountifully
bestowed upon us as a community, for several
years past. None hut those who have been de
prived of this blessing, can duly appreciate this
great boon, which indeed may be said to he
the rich man’s happiness and the poor man’s
wealth. Without it, what are the world’s rich
es and honor?—Nothing but “sounding brass
and a tinkling symbol.”
By the term health is ordinarily understood
that state of the body in which every organ per
forms its appropriate functions, without pain or
inconvenience. This may be considered the
lowest definition of the term health ; and yet
without extending it, we shall find from obser
vation on ourselves and others, that health is the
most scarce commodity in creation. If we make
the inquiry of our friends and neighbors, or of
every man and woman we meet in our inter
course with society, we shall not find one, per
haps, who vvill declare unequivocally, that he or
she is well. They have all taken cold, or have
a head-ache, or weak eyes, or pains in the limbs,
or have tne dyspepsia, or some other fashionable
or unfashionable disease. The fact then, that
either real or imaginary disease is almost univer
sal, cannot be questioned, unless we admit that
veracity has left the world—for every person is
sick according to their own testimony.
Whence then, may vve not ask, is the cause of
this universal absence of health ? It is certain
ly not because this blessing is not desirable, for
every body young and old, male and female, are
found travelling because they are “out ofhealth.”
Millions of dollars are annually expended not
only upon the Faculty, whose professional edu
cation fits them to preserve and restore health,
but millions more, upon those empirical charla
tans, who speculate upon health and life at hap
hazard. A multitude of our population are em»
ploeyd more than half the days of their earthly
pilgrimage, in following hard after health.—
They compass sea and land—visit watering
places, far and near—ride and sail under every
possible modification—they alternately eat and
starve—drink and famish from thirst—plunge
into cold and hot water, salt or fresh—journey
to the North and South, East and West—take
advice and physic—drink stimulants and lose
blood—and all these, and n thousand other means
are employed in pursuit of health, without ever
overtaking it. True they are getting better and
better all the time, until they die ; and it may
be remarked that those who follow the chase af
ter health most zealously and rapidly are the
most unsuccessful—having more when they com
mence the pursuit, than ever afterwards—al
though they think themselves betterjust before
they end their race in the grave than ever before.
Hence the only persons who arc unequivocally
well in their own estimation, and whom you
cannot persuade to acknowledge themselves sick,
are those who are sinking from consumption, or
some similarly fata! malady.
Let it not he supposed, from this artless narra
tive of simple truth, that the want of lieallh, so
prevalent, is imaginary in the sufferers, for no
thing can be more real. It is its reality that
ought to interest us all, in the inquiry vve pro
pose to make, for it cannot he denied, that in
our country, as well as in other countries, so far
as civilization has extended, every body is out of
health more than half the time. While it is
equally true, that in our Western wilds, and in
the isles of the sea, among the savages, the un
civilized children of nature, thousands die of a
good old age, who never had a fever in their
lives, nor complained of being in had health.
And it ought not to be forgotten that among our
primitive fathers who settled this continent, the
standard of health was far above what it is now
among their descendants—and the same remark
will be found to apply to the progenitors of the
present race in every civilized country.
Why is it then that our countrymen are so
generally and universally without health ? We
have seen that it ts not because it is undervalued
—nor because it is not pursued with industry
and zeal. Nor can it be because the Creator has
inflicted upon this latter generation any judicial
visitation. The secret of the whole matter, wo
think, is to be found here:—“God made man
upright, but he has sought out many inventions.”
California.— The reader will find a late and
interesting account from this Territory, in ano
ther column. At a public meeting held at San
Francisco a resolution was passed against the in
troduction of domestic slavery or free negroes as
apprentices, by indenture or otherwise, to be
employed in the Territory of California.
A Convention of the people of California is to
be held at Monterey on the first Monday in Au
gust next, for the purpose of forming a State
Constitution, preparatory to the admission of
California into the Union.
Conventions. —The Whig Convention for
nominating a candidate for Governor of Georgia
to be supported by that party at the election in
October next, will be held at Milledgeville on
the 25th inst.
The Democratic Convention for nominating
a candidate to be run by that party will take
at the same place on the 11th of July next.
Explosion.— We regret to learn that the steam
boat Emily, Capt. Jones, burst her boiler at Ap
alachicola on the 28th ult.justas she was in the
act of leaving for Columbus. There was a full
cargo and thirty five persons on board. The
Captain had a rib broke, and the Ist Engineer
and assistant engineers, and five others badly
scalded ; and six others were killed The cause
of the disaster is supposed to have been some
defect in tlie head of the boiler.
Declined —The Hon. Jas E. Bf.lser has
refused to accept the nomination for Governor
tendered him by the Taylor party of Alabama.
Ihe Mon. \Y. 1,. Yancv has also declined to
become a candidate for Congress from that State
in opposition to Mr. Hilliard.
Tlie Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.
The Tallahassee Floridian Sc Journal of the 2d
inst. says : “ We felt much gratification in read
ing the following sentence from the last Jackson
ville News, under the above head :
“ We understand that the projectors of the
Railroad are taking active measures to in-ureits
speedy construction. The Euginccrs may be
expected on the route by the beginning of next
October.”
When the hill granting an act of incorporation
to a Company for the establishment ofa Railroad
from the Atlantic to the Gulf, was first brought
forward, we attached little importance to it, from
the fear that after the charter was granted no
thing farther would ever he heard of the project.
But on making inquiry, we learned with infinite
satisfaction that the plan, so feasible in itself and
promising so much profit to its undertakers and
benefit to the State, had engaged the attention of
far-sighted men, who not only possessed the a
bility but the determination and disposition to
make it successful. This Road once completed
New Orleans and New York vvill be brought
within five days travel of each other. Thegreat
route for travellers, and for the transportation of
an immense amount of merchandize between
those cities, being made to run across our State
vvill give to Florida a degree ofimportance which
she can hope from nothing else.”
Latest from Europe— We received the
relegraphic accounts per steamer Europa, to the
26th ult. on Thursday last. The week’s trans
actions amount to 40,000 hales—imports for the
same time about 125,000 hrles, nearly all Ameri
can. The stock at Liverpool was estimated at
700,000 bales 1 500,000 of which were American
nix’The Cholera is increasing in New York
tliere were one hundred and forty new cases
in that city from Friday to Tuesday last, forty of
which proved fatal. It is also spreading in Phil
adelphia, Norfolk and Boston.
lEUThe Griffin Whig of the 7th inst. states
that on Saturday last a cotton stalk of this year’s
growth was brought tu Griffin, which measured
fifteen inches in height, had seven well formed
limbs, and as many squares, which grew on Mr.
T. Williams’ plantation in that vicinity. The
field from which it was taken had been planted
before, but had come up since the frost. The
Whig remarks, however, that the cotton crop
generally in that section is less promising than
for many years past. The corn crop is also very
backward, and promises to repay the planter but
a scanty remuneration for his labor.
[CyThe receipts of Cotton at Augusta and
Hamburg up to the Ist inst. amounted to 279,764
bales—being an excess of nearly 100,000 bales
over those of same date last year.
1 he Overflow. —The New Orleans Pica
yune of the 29th ult. says : “The truant waters
of “Father Mississippi” continue to encroach
upon our city, and the song of the gondolier, or
rather the shout of the Municipality boatmen, is
fast nearing St.Chorles Street. The inundated
streets present novel and exciting scenes, and,
apart from the melancholy reflections caused by
the disastrous state of affairs, there is muck to
amuse. All sorts of aquatic conveyances are
brought into requisition, and these are now to
be seen at all corners wailing to convey passen
gers through avenues where carriages and cabs
were wont to roll. Through many of the
streets, however, the authorities have caused
gunwales or plank walks to be constructed,
which prove a great convenience. It was im
possible, in the haste in which they were put
up, to make them firm. The traveller is obli
ged to step with great caution, and even then
primly dressed gentlemen are occasionally seen
to disappear for a time beneath the dirty flood.
With the fine prospect of stopping the crevasse,
however, we have reason to hope tiiat inis siate
of affairs vvill not last much longer.”
Fires.— A fire occurred at Mobile on the 28th
ult. which destroyed SBO,OOO worth of property.
At Charleston on the 4th inst. a fire broke out
in a building in the rear ot Mr. Else’s residence
which consumed property worth $15,000 before
it was subdued.
Another recently occurred at Columbus, Miss,
where several thousand dollars’ worth of pro
perty was also consumed.
In a city in China four thousand houses have I
recently' been destroyed by fire.
Accident to Hon. Wm. Moseley—The
Griffin Whig of the 7 tfi inst. says: “He ex
ceedingly regret to have to chronicle the occur
rence of so sad a misfortune as has happened to
our much esteemed friend, Hon. Wm. Moseley.
“We learn that one day last week, while ri
ding out, he was thrown from his buggy, and had
his scull fractured, and several of his ribs bro]
ken, and the last vve heard from him, he wts
lying in an insensible state, with but little hope
of his recovery.”
Nlw Composition for Sion Letters.— Tho
Scientific American says i “Mr. John A. Parks, /'
of this city, has discovered anew composition I
for making ornamental letters for signs, and for I
making mouldings and other works of au own f
mental character. Tlie composition can bo !
struck out with dies in a press, while in a soli j
state ; and afterwards it becomes quite hard, but j
possesses great tenacity, and is not easily bra-1 i
ken. For sign leiters it is a thousand fold better; |
than wood, and can be manufactured at oae
half the cost. It is capable of taking a very fio* t j
polish.
Electric Light. —Daguerreotypes have bars
produced in Dublin by making use of the Eh c
trie Light in place of the sun’s rays—the marks' 1
fidelity of outline, with the depth and delicacy
of shade, elicted the highest admiration. After
the complete success of the experiment in *l ,al
respect had been established, anew test of t ,|f
power ofthe Electric Light was essayed—na" 18 '
ly, the preparation of the plate on which 1,11
portrait is fixed. In this novel and inger" 01 "
appliance the utmost success also rewarded lllC
efforts of the experimentalists.
Since the year 1810, 1,400 persons have bf (!
executed in England, for crimes which ate 1,5 1
longer capital.