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EDITED AND PHIISHKD WEEKLY, BY
WM. It . HARRISON.
CITY PR I. V TER
[foe the southern museum ]
To a Profraard Infidel.
Ala* ! that man should dare to tempt
Jehovah’s chastening rod,
By scorned aversion to the truth
That nature hath a God !
For even the beasts, that daily graze
Beneath the azure skies,
Or drink from purling streams, look up
To Him with thankful eyes !
The warbling songster, as he flits
About from tree to tree,
Ke-echoes the Almighty's praise
In his wild melody.
The little flower, whose thirsty hud
For weeks hath lacked for rain,
If but a sprinkling shower falls
Its beauty smiles again.
There are no skeptics here but thou,
Poor creature of a span ;
The summer's heat, the winter’s cold,
Condemn thee, doubting man !
And shall the beasts,and birds, and flowers,
Proclaim the Lord of all—
And thou, the noblest of His works,
Refuse thy Maker's call ?
Oh, no ! discard the foolish thought
That iseeps fhee from the truth ;
A'rid sfrfve to gain Jehovah’s smile—
The Guide and Guard of youth !
llis presence in thy soul will prove
What thou hast oft denied,
And whisper gently ifi thine car :
For thee the Saviour died !
W. P. 11.
British Requisitions in India.
The English press is discussing, in con
nection with the annexation of the l’unjaub
the commercial value of that country. Ex
tending between the 2Sth and 39th paral
lels of north latitude, and between the 71st
and 77th meridians of cast longitude, the
country has a medium position correspon
ding nearly with that of Northern Africa
and the American states. With mountain
ranges in the northern poition which
reach an elevation of two or three miles,
and with broad plains descending towards
the south until they are scarcely above
the level of the se3, all varieties of climate
are obtainable, as well as every descrip
tion of natural produce. The five rivers—
the Indus, the Jhelum, the Chenab, the
Ravee and the Sutlej—whence the terri
tory derives its name [from the two Per
sian words, pun}, five, aub, water,] afford
a navigation of not less than 1960 miles,
together with such facilities of irrigation
as many be turned to account euen by the
simplest methods. The products of the
Punjaub, those of the northern portion,
with Cadmere, and its harvests of saffron
and its important manufactures of shawls,
estinialed at £300,000 annually, together
with the plains of Attock and Peshawur,
which are covered with rich crops of rice,
of wheat and of barley, are extremely
varied. The mountains, moi cover, yield
dings and dyes, and fruits, while their sides
are covered with gigantic pines. There
is also mineral wealth, although under
Sikh rule, it has never been developed,
lion, copper, lead salt, coal, nitre, plum
bago, and even gold mines abound. The
Central Punjaub is mostly a bushy jungle
or a pastoral waste, and large herds of cat
tle constitute its wealth. The plains in
the vicinity of the Indus are not surpassed
in fertility by any in the East. The chief
products are wheat and other grain, indigo
rice, sugar, opium, cotton, hemp, &c.
Amongst animals deer atid camels are
numerous. Buffaloes and sheep are also
found in large herds and flocks. The
flesh of cattle is, however,respected by the
Sikhs who only use the milk of the cow and
wool of the sheep, in addition to the skins
or hides of either animals which form an
article of export. In quiet times the com
merce of the Putijaub has been extensive.
It reached its highest point during the late
years of the rules of Runjeet Singh, since
when it has declined, owing to the nume
rous robberies vexatious exactions, and
the withdrawal of money to places of se-
curity. The manufactures consist chiefly
of silks, cotton, leather, arms, ami shawls
—Next to Latliore, the chief manufactu
ring towns are Umritsur, Mooltan, Shooja
bad, and Leia. Most of their productions
are remarkable for quality, and nothing
hut misgovermnent could have kept the
commerce of the country form rapidly
augmenting.
As regards population, no regular cen
sus Tias ever been taken. It was compu
ted by Burnes at 3,500,000, exclusive of
theCashmerians and some other tribes,
who might amount to 1,200,000 more. In
1544 the customs and excise duties of the
Punjaub amounted to about £250,000
or to one thirteenth of the whole revenue
of Runjeet Singh, which was estimated at
£3,350,000. The chief portion of the re
mainder of this revenue was collected by
assessments on the produce of the land.
Qcarrel between the Bonapartes.
—The following circumstantial account of
the quarrel, between Louis Napoleon and
his cousin, is from a late Paris paper:
“A considerable sensation has been cre
ated in Paris, by a quarrel which took
place two days ago, between the Presi
dent of the Republic and his cousin, Na
po’eon Bonaparte, the late Ambassador at
Madrid. It is hardly necessary to state
that the quarrel has arisen with respect to
the dismissal of the latter from his office
as Ambassador. It appears that Napole
on, in the first place, called upon his sis
ter, the Princess Demidoff, when his lan
guage with respect to the President was
so violent, that she intimated to him that
she would dispense with his farther visits.
He then proceeded to the Palace of the
Elysee, and had an interview with the
President. Avery violent scene took
place respecting the letter written by the
President, on the subject of Napoleon Bo
naparte's speech to the deputation which
waited on him at Bordeaux, in the course
of which, and after a great deal of recrimi
nation on both sides, Napoleon suddenly
called the President a bastard, and told
him that he was not only a kite’s egg put
into an eagle's nest, but that the whole of
the Bonaparte family knew him to be so.
A scene followed which baffles descrip
tion. The President flew to his sword,
and declared that he would immediately
fight the slanderer ; but the attendants in
terfered, and the parties were separated.
Still the President insisted that the stain
on his honor should be wiped out by a du
el, and appointed two friends to make ar
rangements on bis side for the meeting.—
In the meantime, however, a council of
Ministers was called on the subject, and it
was resolved that the duel should not be
allowed. M. Odillon Barrot, and all the
Minis'ers, declared that the President, as
the first magistrate in the State, could not
fight, and that such a thing could not be
thought of. In this state the affair at pre
sent remains, but it is unnecessary to say
that the nff’air creates an immense sensa
tion at Paris, and greatly complicates the
position of all parties at the eve of the
election.”
Poor Ireland !—The Dublin cortes
pondentof the New York Journal of Com
merce, writing on the Ist of June, gives
the following sad picture of Ireland :
“Ireland now exhibits the spectacle of
a people so exhausted by misguided ef
forts, that she has no longer power to act
for her own preservation ; so paralysed is
she by failure in a hopeless cause, as to
have no energy left to extricate herself
from the slough into which she has plung
ed ; so discouraged by disappointments in
attempts to effect what was unattainable,
that she has no heart left to strive for a
practicable good. Her condition is pitia
ble in the extreme, and at the same time
so embarrassing as to baffle the calculation
and confound the judgment of the most
astute statesmen. After an eleemosynary
support of four years continuance, she is
manifestly in a far worse condition than
when the calamity overtook her. All the
efforts, public and private, that have been
made for her relief, have proved unavail
ing either in arresting the evil or in pla
cing any portion of her people in a better
condition. ‘The truth,’ says the Advo
cate this week, ‘is too sad, too pressing.
The people are dropping dead by the way
side, or crawling into their famine and
pestilence-stricken hovels, to die of star
vation ; the prisons are filled with unfor
tunate wretches, who have taken refuge,
in legal crimes, from similar fates ; the
poor houses throughout the land are glut
ted, casting off - tlieir surplus by death on
ly ; and twenty-two unions in Ireland are
bankrupt. The contractors for food for
many of them must stop the supply if ex
traneous ready money aid be not given.’—
‘I cannot,’ said a gentleman from Clara to
the writer, ‘go from my own house in any
direction, without seeing some persons
dead, or dying of hunger by the road side,
or in the fields, and hundreds are contin
ually to be seen in the same dreadful con
dition.’ ‘I travelled,’ said another, ‘over
part of Mayo, where two years ago, I saw
not less than two hundred and fifty thous
and pounds value in live stock; but on
this last journey, I saw not a living ani
mal, except a Curlieu and a Plover.’ ”
Pacific Rail-boad. —A correspondent
of the National Intelligencer, speaking of
the contemplated railroad between the
Atlantic and Pacific, says—
An attentive examination of the map
and the best and most reliable accounts of
the country between the Mississippi and
the Pacific indicates Memphis as the most
favorable point for starting the proposed
nad to the Pacific. Passing through the
State of Arkansas to New Mexico, the
course of thi rivers is such that very few
of them would have to be crossed, and,
keeping about the thirty-sixth degree of
latitude to the Pacific, would give this
route the advantage of a milder climate
than a more northern route. The south
ern position of the route here recommen
ded would render it more convenient to
■ be approached at suitable points by tradeis
from Mexico, who with their pack mules,
would come with safety at any season of
the year, and get their supplies of dry
goods, light hardware, and other articles
that vve could transport by means of a
railroad. Such a road would give us
speedy aceess to our valuable possessions
on the Pacific, and cause the intermediate
country on the line of the road to be occu
pied by permanent settlers. I hope that
public attention will be effectually direct
ed to the work, and that sectional feelings
and party tactics will not be permitted to
operate against one of the most beneficial
scbemc3 of the present century
From the Savannah Republican.
Communication hetnren \rn-Vork and
New-Orleans.
Messrs, Editors: It was my design in
the communication which I addressed to
you yesterday to show that the proper
route for avoiding the navigation of the
Cape of Florida and connecting New-Or
leans and New-York, is by Railroad from
Pensacola to Savannah, and ocean steam
ships at respective ends of the line.
The fact has been presented that this
route i«, in straight lines, by the map of
the United States, the shortest route. It
is very plain that it will be the most expe
ditious route, because near five hundred
miles of the way will be by Railroad
through a remarkably level country. In
point of profitable investment, the Geor
gia route must certainly surpass the Flor
ida route, because it will go through the
heart of the most fertile and virgin Cotton
region in the United States—a region al
ready well peopled and destined to sus
tain a very large population. These re
marks are applicable to routes made up of
land and water carriage.
We should not, however, shut our eyes
to the fact, that in a short time, the Rail
road of South and Norfh Carolina will be
connected. Nor should we fail to consid
er what will be the effect of that junction
of Railroads on the communication be
tween New-York and New-Orleans. If a
straight line be drawn on the map, from
New-York city to the city of Pensacola,
it will be found to pass into Georgia, not
far above Augusta—to run a very short
distance Wcstwardly of Macon, and to
pass out of the State very near to and a lit
tle South of the city of Columbus. If the
existing lines of Railroad be now recollec
ted and considered, it is very certain that,
whatever may be the plan of joining the
North and South Carolina Railroads—
whether by Wilmington, Manchester, &c.,
or by Raleigh or Charlotte, the city of Au
gus'a will be on the line. The tendency
to this has been seen by many for vears
past ; the fact that the State of Georgia is
to be entered by Railway from the North
and East at Augusta, cannot be disputed.
It must be admitted that the line of Rail
way from New-York to Augusta, will be
as short as the ocean line from New-York
to Savannah, and consequently, to St. Ma
rys, Georgia. As Railroad speed cannot
be approached by steamship speed, it is
manifest that the most expeditious plan of
carrying the great mail of the U. Sta'es
will be by Railroad through Augusta , if a
Road is built from Augusta to the 80 mile
station of the Central Railroad. The
Government will not, four years hence,
pay for the carriage of mails by sea be
tween New-York and the South Atlantic
coast. \\ herever the mail shall shall go,
many, in fact the greater number of men
on business will go. We should then look
at Augusta as the starting point in Geor
gia whence the mails and consequently
much travel will go, to and fio, across the
State. In this connection the intelligent
reader will not fail to see the great impor
tance to Augusta—Savannah and the Cen
tral Road—to Macon and Southwestern
Georgia, Southern Alabama and Western
Florida, of a Railroad from the citv of Au
gusta to the Central Railroad. This lat
ter road built, and then the N.Orleans mail
route must of necessity be brought through
Macon and the Southwestern Railroad.
The commanding position of the Slate of
Georgia in the matter of internal commu
nication of the Union ie now apparent to
every one. We hold the key to the West;
we have opened the door by the Western
and Atlantic R®ad. We hold the kev to
the Gulf of Mexico ; let us now but open
that door also, and we will arrive at a
point of prosperity, the equal of which but
few of our sister States will ever see.
Let me say a word for Savannah, and
shew the great advantage she has over the
City of Charleston. The latter city strain
ed all her strength to get the trade of Geor
gia, and ot the \\ est through Georgia.—
She failed in her true policy of looking
North instead of South. The great me
tropolitan route, between the North and
South, might, if Charleston had pursued
her true course, have been through "Wil
mington and Charleston and Savannah—a
route through all the Southern sea-ports
on the Atlantic line, instead of a line
through the middle country. But now
that great route approaches Charleston no
nearer than Branchville, it cannot be made
to approach Savannah nearer than the SO
mile station of the Central Road. Both
Savannah and Chaileston then are off the
main Railroad route.
But whilst it is seen that the great mail
of the Union will so pass Augusta, it does
not follow that the great mass of promis
cuous travel will be by the same line.
The combined line of steamships and Rail
road by way of Pensacola and Savannah
will be short of the mail line in point of
speed, but it will far surpass it in comfort
and ease of travel, and moreover it will
prove the cheapest line between the two
great points New-Orleans and New-York.
Open the line from Macon to Pensacola,
and the traveller from New York will
reach New-Orleans in ninety-six hours,
and the line itself will be supported and
fairly compensated upon a through rate of
$35 the passage. Savannah being so
much to the South and West of Charles
ton, and so much nearer New-Orleans,
lias the advantage of the last named city.
In a word, tbo opening of a Road from
Augusta to the Central Road, and from
Macon to Pensacola, will secure the City
of Savannah against all rivalry whatever.
The people of Savannah have looked at
this state of things—they have invested
some $400,000 in the Southwestern Rail
road ; that line will go on. They have
striven to obtain the Road from Augusta
to the Central, and every sign is now pro-
I pition for this crowning work. C.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Strain Navigation with Enropr.
Mr. Editor : We were pleased to see
the notice taken in your paper of the pros
pects and importance of a direct communi
cation by steam between Charleston and
Liverpool. This subject was discussed
many years since, as tar back as 1839, in
the columns of the Mercury by the writer
of this article ; and the midle passage, by
the middle and calm latitudes of the Wes
tern Isles and Bermuda, pressed oh the
public consideration. Whether the pro
ject was then considered premature, (al
though many years succeeding that in
which our most sagacious statesmen were
urging the importance of a direct trade be
tween Charleston and Europe,) or the
want of enterprise and means interposed
obstacles to its execution, it is certain no
action was taken on the subject. It is
greatly to be regretted, that at asubsequent
period, the capital which was placed in
our New York steamers had not been
fiirst applied to steamers to Liverpool.
The Southerner and Northerner only ren
der us more tributary to New Yory, or an
indirect trade with Europe which has to
pay i:s tribute. The effects of that enter
prise is evinced in the efforts since made
in Philadelphia and Baltimore to perfect
their communications by steam with
Charleston, and to retain a trade which was
passing from them, and which they fore
saw they would lose if the communications
with New York were preserved with so
much certainty and frequency as the Nor
therner and Southerner had rendered it
Charlestown may expect therefore to be a
mere ferry landing, and her citizens con
tinue to be hewers of wood and drawers
of water for the Northern cities, of larger
capital and greater enterprise, if they do
not awaken to their true interests, and per
fect the communications by steam direct
with England. She is the manufacturer
and the great consumer of nearly one half
of the Cotton crop. The returns, appre
ciated in value, by their ingenuity and
manipulations, should find a market in
the ports from whence the original produc
tion was exported. It is the true policy
of lhe South as producers ; it is true policy
of the country which manufactures ; it is
the reciprocation, as least cost, and of
course greatest profit to each, to have no
intermediate agent In tax, while tlTey % vend
vvhat-they have bad no instrumentality in
producing. Our internal and our exter
nal communications are intimately connec
ted. As we extend the former, and en
large our trade with hitherto inaccessible
but productive regions, so must we im
prove our relations and connections with
those countries which consume our pro
ductions, and re construct them into other
articles of commerce and additional value.
Charleston can alone attain that position
in the commercial world which her position
gives claim to by this policy. We should
aid and encourage with all our means this
great project. Frequency and freedom
of intercourse with Great Britain by the
agency of steam, and cheapness of trans
portation of the raw material, where, by
great capital and cheap labor, it can be
most advantageously manufactured, will
make Charleston all that the most sanguine
have anticipated. The Western market
for the purchase of manufactured goods
should be here —in Hayne, King, and
Meeting streets —near to our Railroad
Depots, and not in New York, Philadel
phia or Baltimore. Our Railroads give
us ready access to the interior. We are
by them nearer and more certain of con
veyance to the greater part of the South
west than any Atlantic port; and if the
goods which Suit the Western market
could be purchased here on the same terms
few of the Western merchants would go
beyond. But direct trade and steam nav
igation with Europe would enable us to
sell cheaper ; we could offer greater in
ducements to Western travellers, who
daily pass through us, at additional ex
pense to themselves, by the Wilmington
and Northern Steamers, to halt and trade
with us. To accomplish this, however,
we must perfect the first object. We
must render our intercourse with Europe
frequent, certain and expeditious, and
which steam alone can effect. That these
views are now beginning to awaken atten
tion, that after a Rip Van Winkle nap of
some ten or twelve years tn the sleepy hol
low of hope, we are beginning again to
turn our eyes towards a direct trade with
Europe, is truly gratifying. That others
have been directed to the same object, and
even a Company in England have made
overtures in favor of the enterprise, is the
more encouraging ; and if we fail to meet
them, Charleston is content to remain the
mere ferry landing of our more Northern
and more enterprising cities. STEAM.
East Tennessee and Georgia Rail
road. —We are gratified to learn from a
reliable source, that the whole of the work
(with the exception of three miles) be
tween this place and Red Clay, has been
let to responsible and energetic contractors
nearly all of whom have commenced oper
ation. Those who have not, arc only de
tained from the work gathering up hands
and tools. It is estimated that about two
hundred hands will be engaged on the
work in course of ten or twelve days. Mr.
Pritchard, the Enginer in charge, seems
to be an intelligent, energetic, and work
ing man—wholly intent on building rhe
road.
It may not be amiss to remark (and we
have it from good authority,) that all ser
vioes rendered, and work done on the
road, is paid for in good Tennesssee mo
ney.
Gen. Green is absent on the line some
wheie in Tennessee, but we understand
will pe hereinafew days.—[Dalton Eagle.
From ehe Federal Union.
Georgia Institute for tile Deaf and Dumb.
It was our good fortune to have been
present at the closing exercises of the late
Examination of this interesting but infant
institution.
For many yaars, it will be remembered
by our readers, that annual appropriations
| were made by the State, for the education
I of her indigent deaf and dumb at the insti
j tution at Hartford, Connecticut. The last
j Commissioner who had the control of this
jjust but generous munificence, the Rev.
j J. H. Campbell, in hunting up the individ
uals entitled to it, ascerlained the number
to be considerable. This consideration,
in connection with the fact, that their pa
rents and friends almost uniformly object
ed to their removal from the State, led to
an entire change in the mode of tlieir ed
ucation.
The Legislature of 1547 organized a
board of commissioners, who were appoin
ted by the Governor, and to whom was
committed the w hole subject. They were
authorised to establish a school at Cave
Spring, in Floyd county, to collect as ma
ny of the indigent as could be accommo
dated, and to erect there appropriate
buildings. To defray the expenses of the
school an annual appropriation was made
of $4,500, and to cover the expense of the
building, a specific appropriation of $3,-
500, with any unexpended balance of the
annual appropriations. With this fund
the commissioners have just completed a
substantial, beautiful and appropriate two
story brick edifice, 70 by 40 feet. In the
centre above and below, is a broad pas
sage ; one end arranged for the accommo
dation of the male and the Other for the
female pupils.
In the expenditure of the funds employ
ed in the building, it may be safely affirm
ed, that here is one instance at least, where
the State has been fairly dealt by. They
have been employed judiciously and eco
nomically. The enterprise is one honor
able to the Slate, and the building one up
on which her citizens can look with pride
and pleasure.
Since the opening of the school, the ac
commodations have been limited, and the
number of pupils necessarily small. The
number has at no time exceeded twenty.
1 lie Principal, Mr. O. P. Fanning, is ad
mirable adapted to bis vocation. He is a
proficient in his duties, and his whole soul
is engaged in building up and extending
the usefulness of this noble charity. He
is assisted by Mr. Edwards, himself a
mute, and if we mistake not, a beneficia
ry of the State. The examination was at
tended by a large crowd of interested vis
itors, all of whom concurred in admiration
of the proficiency of the pupils and the fi
delity and ability of the instructors. At
the close of the examination, an eloquent
address was delivered by Judge Wright,
and on the day following, the Sabbath, re
ligious services appropriate to the dedica
tion of the building to its high and noble
purposes, were performed by the Rev.
N. Greene Foster, of Augusta.
i o some it may appear strange, that the
institution should have been located in one
corner of the State. The design of this
was, that it might derive patronage from
the two contiguous States, Alabama and
Tenuessee. This expectation has already
in part been realized, and now that ac
commodations are prepared, it is anticipa
ted that the next term will commence with
double the number of its former pupils.—
The location is retired, salubrious, sur
rounded by a community distinguished for
its morality, and where the expenses for
board are remarkably low.
We cannot close this notice of an insti
tution in whose prosperity every friend of
humanity must feel an interest, and every
Georgian a laudable pride, without ma
king two suggestions. One is, that every
unfortunate mute in the State should be
hunted up and sent to this institution. To
this end we respectfully solicit in its be
half, the co-operation of the entire press of
the State. The other suggestion that we
would make is, that the limited means at
the disposal of the commissioners, have not
enabled them to complete the designs they
have commenced. A small additional ap
propriation is needed to erect out-build
ings, to enclose the grounds with fences,
to decorate them with trees and shrubs,
&c. Such an appropriation, we are sat
isfied, will not be withheld by the next
legislature.
Nashville and Chattanooga Rail
road. —TheChattAnoogaGazett of the 6th
inst. says :
“The Engineers on the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad have moved tlieir
camps Jo the line on this side of the river,
and are now engaged in surveying and
definitely locating the road from the river
up to this place. We understand that
the worn is progressing reasonably well
on the road beyond the mountain and on
the tunnel.”
The same paper remarks of the Geor
gia Railroad :
“We had the. pleasure of an interview
with Colonel Mitchell, Chief Eegineer of
the State Road, one day last week, and
he authorized us to say that the work on
the road was progressing as rapidly as
possible, and that it was the calculation to
have the cars running into Chattanooga
early in October.”
There is a peculiar tendency in hu
man nature to consider anything belong
ing to, or emanating from self, superior to
every other object, no matter from what
source ic may be derived. The buzzard
can always detect features of charming
beauty and surpassing excellence in its
own young.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY' 14, 1849.
O’ We are requested to state that in conse
quence of the removal of the Methodist Church
the customary services will be held To-morrow
during the usual hours, at the Female College.
Accident. —Y'esterday afternoon, as Messrs
E. Foote and L. O. Reynolds were riding down
the hill in the upper part of the city, the horse
became frightened an ran off throwing both of
! the gentlemen from tile buggy, the latter of whom
j was stunned for several hours afterwards, so as
|he insensible—we are pleased to state, however,
| that at the time of going to press this morning’
| he was convalescent and considered out of dan
ger. Mr. Foote escaped uninjured.
EpWe learn from the Charleston papers that
the City Council of that city has authorized the
Mayor to appoint Delegates to the contemplated
Railroad Convention shortly to be held in this
city, for the purpose of endeavoring to connect
Macon with Charleston by Railroad.
Convicted—Elisha Reese, charged with
the murder of Mrs. Pratt, in May last, was tried
yesterday in the Superior Court of Bibb county,
Judge Floyd presiding, and after an impartial
hearing of the testimony, a verdict of “Guilty”
was returned by the Jury, after an absence of
about fifteen minutes. Counsel for the State-
Solicitor McCunc, Messrs. Stubbs tc Lester and
R. A. Smith. For the Prisoner—Messrs. Lanier
& Anderson and Poe & Nisbet.
Gubernatorial Convention.
The Delegates to the Democratic Convention
assembled at Milledgeville on Wednesday last
and organized by the appointment of Judge G.
Andrews, of Wilkes, President, and J. T. Smith
and Mr. Patton, of Milledgeville, Secretaries.
Governor G. W. Towns was unanimously nom
inated as the Democratic candidate for re-election
after which the Convention adopted the Virginia
Resolutions and adjourned. Not having receiv
ed the official account of the proceedings, \vc of
course cannot publish the Resolutions, &c.
(CPWe have received the July number of
Holden’s Magazine,” being the first of the Fourth
volume, consequently a good time to subscribe.
It is fully equal to any previous number and is
published monthly at New York, by C. W.
Holden, at $1 per annum, in advance.
I. O. O. F.
The R. W. Grand Encampment of the State of
Georgia I. O. O. F., held its regular Annual
communication in this city on Wednesday, the
lltli iust. All the Snbordinates under its juris
diction, with a single exception, were represent
ed. Theit Returns exhibit evidence of increas.
ing prosperity in the Patriarchal department of
the Order in this State. The Officers elected
for the ensuing Term, are
C. Catlin, M. W. Grand Patriarch.
E. Trice, M. E. G. High Priest.
P. G. Thomas, It. W. G. S. Warden.
11. P. YVestcott, R. YV. G. J. Warden.
W. M. Morton, R. \\\ G. Scribe.
E. C. Granniss, R. W. G. Treasurer.
J. A. Knight, R. W. G. Sentinel.
G. Patten, R. YV. G. Representative to the
Grand Lodge ofThe United States.
Central Horticultural Association.
At an Exhibition held by this Society in this
city on Pucsday last, the following Premiums
were awaked, viz :
To Joseph Bond, for the best half a peck of
Peaches, (Early York,) $2, or “Downing's
Fruits, &c.”
To Simri Rose, for 2d best do. (seedling free,)
sl, or “New England Fruit Book.”
To P. S. Carolan, for the best peck of Apples,
sl, or “American Orcliardist.”
To Robert Nelson, for the best three Melons,
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To Robert Nelson, for the best display of
Roses, cut Flowers (named,) “Parsons’ New
YY r ork on the Rose.”
To Mrs. YVin. Gray, for 2d best do. do. “Buist’s
Manual on the Rose.”
To Robert Nelson, for the best display of
Dahlias, (cut flowers named,) $2, or “Mrs.
Loudon's comp to Flower Garden.”
To Mrs. YVm. Gray, for the best and most in
teresting collection of Green House Plants, in
pots (named,) $2, or do. do.
To R. Bockliofl', for the best Fuscliia (in a pot,)
$L
To Mrs. J . J. Gresham, for the most beautiful
Oleander, (in a pot,) sl, or “ Princa on the
Rose.”
To Mrs. Robert Nelson, for the best and most
appropriate design, (a beautiful Temple formed
of moss and cut flowers,) $5, or “Mrs. YVirt’s
Flora.”
To Mrs. Robert Nelson, for the best Bouquet,
suitable for the Centre Table, $2, or “Parsons’
YY r ork on the Rose.”
To P. S. Carolan, for 2d best do. do., sl, or
“Flora’s Interpreter.”
To Mrs. Robert Nelson, for the best haad
Bouquet, sl, or “Mrs. Loudon’s comp, to Flow
er Garden.”
To Mrs. S. Rose, for 2d do. do., “Buist’s Man
ual on the Rose.”
To P. S. Carolan, of Montpelier Institute,
for the best display of Vegetables,
To G. YV. Fish, for 2d do. do. $1 50.
To P. S. Carolan, of Montpelier Institute, f° r
the best half dozen Beets, fsl.
To Thomas YV. Collins, for the best halfpeck
of Tomatoes, sl.
To J. L. Davis, for the best three head of Cab
bage, $2.
To G. YV. Fish, for 2d do. do. sl.
To P. S. Carolan, for the best three YVatef
Melons, $2.
To J. T. Dozier for three 2d do do., ,$L
The Exhibition closed on YY’ednesday, when
many of the articles were sold at auction.
There were a variety of fruits, flowers,
other articles offered, which gave evidence ol
the increasing interest which is being felt in d’®
community on the subject of Horticulture, an “
we hope the friends of the cause will persc' fi|,s
until their efforts shall be crowned with abun
dant success.