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EDITED AIK PUBLISHED WEEKLY, f> V W yi . It . II A H K 1 s o \ . CITY 1' R I.V T R . [for the southern museumJ Voting Willard tile Won Id-He. Tounj; Willard is a bonny lad, In brood) lotb and in satin ulad : No man a neater boot e'er hail, Or finer dick and collar ; And when be walks be struts right on, As if a Lord, a Duke, or Don, Though not a man beneath the sun More seldom sees a dollar. His face is hairy as a goat's, Though on its looks he often (fonts, And swears the maker of his coats Thinks him a second Byron ; And if the tailor should hy chance E’er happen to enlarge his pants, lie frets and foams, and raves and rants To make him sew the pair on. Ilis st raps are fixed so tight around Ilisfccf, that should they lose their ground, I would not vouch where he’d he found, For a bootless task ’twould be ; II is head so light would soar away, Regardless what the whiskers say, Or whether he would plead or pray, Onward, upward, they would flee. I've often heard young Willard say, That when he walks the streets the day, Above his head on either way Ladies to their w indows hie ; As if a sight of nature rare Within the streets, had called them there : While I •e, with proud and manly air, Doth unheeding pass them. lie vows that half the men in town Are jealous of his great renown, Whilst all the girls the country round Are fighting 'niongst each other, Each disputing for her merit Willard’s title to inherit ; While one says if she don’t bear it She ne’er will have another. O what a pity ’t is to be So blind as not our faults to see : For lam certain that if he Once could look through others’ eyes : He would be templed to deride, And view with scorn bis foolish pride, Which long hath won him far and wide The sad name of Fashion's Prize ! W. I*. 11. Prom the Augusta Republic. Imprisonment tor f>ol»t. Against this relic of barbarism, that 1)0$* so long covered our land with shame, vvv are proud to know that the press, without a single exception, has raised its voice. It is one of the statutes that the people ex pect the next Legislature to repeal. It mocks, with bitter derision, all our lofty pretensions to equality, and all our boasted perfection of freedom. It sits like a jug gling devil over the peace of society, and bolds in perpetual terror half the virtues that bless mankind. It has been abolish ed in twenty-four out of the thirty Stales that compose the Union, and we blush lo own that the star of our own beloved Georgia is still under its mephitic eclipse. But may we not hope that when our next Legislature shall have closed the labors of its session, that nue honest man in Geor gia shall be as free as another ?—that if wealth must make a difference among men, that difference shall cease before it reaches our birth-right ?—that if energy is driven to the wall, it shall not therefore he trod den down, but that it shall have a blade to battle with as long as it has courage and strength to strike 1 —and that degradation shall no longer, in this free land, he the consequence of -unavoidable misfortune ? The piide of every nation is a sentinel upon its watcli-towcr. Men without per sonal pride care hut little about national glory, and therefore whenever you humble the citizen you wrong his country. It is time, we think, that the poor laborer be permitted to earn this daily bread in peace. Too long already has the ravenous jaws of a gloomy prison gaped upon the work bench and the anvil. It is trifling with the most sacred rights of the humbler classes to say that our piesent honest debtors’ act is sufficient to vindicate the dignity and guaranty the freedom men were horn to enjoy. Suppose, by accident, by mistake, by thoughtless negligence, or by a stupid ignorance of the requisitions of the law, a debtor’s attorney fails to serve bis credi tors with a copy of the schedule of his ef fects in time, is the prison not his inevita ble doom 1 if the law is administered, he yond the possibility of a doubt, such must be his fate. If there are any who think tliis law, as it stands, equal to the probable emergencies of the practice, we trust that they are few in number, and in influence, powerless. But wo do not stop here, as may have been already inferred. We say strike imprisonment for debt from our Statute Book. It has no redeeming vir tues, and its evils are many. We will not undertake to enumerate them all here, and examine at length their malign pro clivities. But one we will mention; were there no more, we honestly think it would alone he sufficient to warrant that statute’s repeal. It is simply this: The effect— coercing a man to make a surrender of all his property, be it much or little, (save what is exempt from execution ) to disclose all his private affairs, and then come up in open court and swear himself out of the clutches of an officer—has upon society, ana still more upon the unfortunate indi vidual who has it to do ; it is hound, in nine cases out of ten, to do ten-fold more harm than good. The Statute of the State makes special mention of the articles an tl.n'vo.it debtor may have exempt from levy. He cannot take the value of the same, in any thing that may be endeared to him or his family, hy any of those name less ties that bind the human heart to those favori'e objects. And we have known men that would perish in prison before they would surrender property, around l which the affections of their warm hearts ! were woven, worthless though it might he, | to a stranger; and the imprisonment of such a man, under such a state of facts, would he a cruel and inhuman wrong—a blasting slur upon the society in which it might happen, and u withering commen tary tijion the wisdom and foresight of the law-givers of the laud. And yet it might happen to morrow in the refined ami hospitable c’ty of Augusta. Man was made lo hold his head erect, and he is prone to smother hisgriefs, conceal his misfortunes, andstillstruggle on for the goal of prosper ity, and if, in the event ofalittleset-back.he is to he dragged to prison, or his misfor tunes blazed upon the records of a court, where it must appear until doom’s day, that an oath was all that saved him from the dungeon, his proud spirit droops, his proverbial energy relaxes, and his noble heart sinks within him. lie soon becomes a drone in the hive, w hen far otherwise had it been, if his sacred person and more sacred honor, had not been insulted with abrupt molestation and undeserved re proach. Among the purest and best men that ever lived, may be found many who were cast out upon the strand of penury, who met with disappointments and' reverses, as men do now every day, and it does not follow that because men fail in their pecu niary engagements that they are therefoie corrupt—that because they come to want that they alone are to blame, or are culpa ble at all. Take away from this bright world the light that poverty has bequeath ed, and now sheds upon it, and a daikness deep and awful would impall it. Hush the music that the humble in life have left us, and now make for us, and you'll have a silence reigning in the heart and the mind’s world that will make men fear to live. To he plain —merit must he fostered, industry encouraged, integrity trusted, charity cultivated, and all distinctions that are odious trampled in the dust, if you would have a people prosperous and hap py. Nothing commends a country more to the world’s admiration and applause than the elevation of her people—than laws that hold out the light of hope over the wanderer's path to the brink of the grave. We trust, for the honor of the State we love, for the sake of a people so worthy of happiness—in reproach of the hast, in compliment to the future, and as a itjuty to the present —that the Legislature that meets at Milledgcville this coming winter will etitit'e itself to the gratitude of its constituency and the respect of all good men, hy wiping from our Statute Book imprisonment for debt, and thereby remove the train of evils incidental to its existence from the shoulders of our peo ple. Even from those “ who feel by tea son and give by rule,” we have a right to the support of a hill to repeal this obnox ious statute, because the best interests of the country —the greatest good of the greatest number—demand it. Individuality. —There is babling mote than enough ; but among it all, one finds huh: true speech « »r true silence. The dullest Mind has some beauty peculiarly ils own ; but it echoes, and does not speak itself. It strives to write as schools have taught, as custom dictates, or as sects pres cribe ; and so it stammers, and makes no utterance. Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles, but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles or a string of mould candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion J The frost never paints my windows twice alike. Chinese Savings. — Some of the ordin ary expressions of the Chinese are sarcas tic enough. A blustering, harmless fellow they call *’a rut falling into a scale and weighing itself.” Overdoing a thing they call “a hunchback making a bow.” A spendthrift they compare to ‘‘a rocket which goes off at once.” Those who ex pend their charily ou remote objects, but neglect their family, are said “to hang their lantern on a pole, which is seen afar, but gives no light below.” 10“ The first vice is running in debt, and the second is lying, which rides upon debt’s back. Cotton in Egypt. —Wilmer & Smith’s Times of 20ih Sept, says : The introduc tion of cotton, now one of the great sta pies of the country, and in quality rank ing neatly at the head in the Manchester market, is wholly attributable to Mehemet Ali; as also the extended cultivation of flax. The production of the former arti cle is close on 200,000 hales a year, which, taken at §9 per cantar (the present price,) will produce some whet e about *£700,000. Flax is falling off in quantity, because its quality has not been found to suit the Eu ropean market; its staple, owing to the rapid growth of vegetation, being course and brittle. Cotton is not a favorite pro duction among the fellahs ; it requires too much labor and attention, and its gather ing is troublesome. One house in Connecticut makes 8230,000 worth of pegged shoes every year; another $500,000 worth; and in Massachusetts, the aggregate value of this kind of manufacture was stated to be $lB - 000,000. Bad principles, like thistle seed, have wings. Cicorgiu ami her Improvements. The following notice of Georgia, and i her progress in improvement, from an in ; telligent and observant planter of South ! Carolina, who has 6pent some time during the summer in the upper part of the State, is very flattering, and, coming from a source so competent to judge, is a compli ment worthy to he treasured hy every . Georgian : Every body who has travelled over Georgia this year, seems to be struck by the energy, enterprise and gn-ahend-itive ness of her people. Bright, flourishing towns and villages are springing tip like magic along the lines of Railroad ; the woodman’s axe and the plowman’s whistle may he heard where, but a few years since, the whoop of the savage, or crack of the huntsman’s rifle only greeted the ear. It is astonishing to witness the pro gress being made in all the arts and ap pliances of civilization. Cotton manu factories are springing up not only on eve ry water-fall, hut all-powerful steam is often employed to set the spinning jenny in motion, in the very heart of civilization. Flouring .Mills, which can convert the far mer’s grain into the luxuries of life—pa per mills which furnish the materials for the press gang, to operate upon the polit ical, agricultural, artislical, scientific or literary destinies of a people—iron found ties which can supply the world with that great staple indispensable to the machinist, the agriculturist, the culinary or literary departments. Gold, too, is found in ahundtnee in up per Georgia—gold, the great leveller of distinctions, the root of all evil, the repre sentative of all value, “ the heal and front ot our offence” in half the errors of our life, is hero scattered in profuaon. Min eral Springs to which the invalid may re pair tor health—mountain scemry beauti ful and gorgeous enough to clia-m the e\e °1 the most enthusiastic worshipper of nature’s beauties and nature’s wonders, and breezes pure and bracing eaoimh to infuse new life into enfeebled frames. All these things have inspired us with new hopes of the sunny South, and renewed love for its charms. The Mountain scene ry of Georgia is truly beautiful—often sublimely beautiful. We have seen noth ing in all our travels over this Vestern continent to surpass Toccoa, the beautiful 1 ullulah, the terrible—no mountain view more enchanting than Yonah or Tray —no valley more l ively than Nacv>ochee, nestled in the bosom of its beautiful moun tains and iriiga’ed hy the bright watered Chattahoochee. Now that Railroads traverse the entire State, there can be no excuse for our citi zens spending their dollars at the North, amongst those who war against our insti tutions and insult our people. We have been pleased to see the effort making to supply every thing the country demands. It was truly gratifying for us to stumble one day upon a dairy in the valley of Na coochee, built hy the wayside, and super intended hy a very intelligent and polite young man, who seemed throughly ac quainted with his business and anxious to give us every attention and information in his power. Th s estubli shment is some 70 feet long, two sto:ies high,and a basement, lutlie basement, the boilers, presses, coolers and vessels are kept. The upper stories con tain drying rooms, in which tables ate ar ranged upon which the cheese ate placed. Avery simple and ingenious- machinery is propelled hy water power, hy means of which fans play to and fro over the cheese incessantly, night and day, so that a fly cart never light upon them fora moment, the whole establishment is cheaply and admi rably constructed, and reflects much credit upon the enterprise and skill of Messrs. Williams and Hubbard. Maj, Williams we were informed, was entitled to the credit of setting on foot the dairy poiject in the valley, and we hope it may prove really successful, as it deserves to he. There is no reason in the world why Geor gia, instead of being an importer of cheese, should not he an exporter. We hope to see the example followed by South and North Carolina, and to hear of cheese being shipped to all parts of the world, from the sunny South. If the farmers of the mountains who possess such facilities for raising stock, would only improve their breeds of domestic animals, the people of the seaboard would not he tinder the ne cessity of sending North for Goshen but ter, \ ankee cheese and pickled beef. There can be no excuse for a people keep ing poor stock, where a great quantity of grass can he grown fur winter hay, and where inexhaustible quantities of wild pea vines and mountain grasses flourish from April to November. It is high time farmers should look to this mattei ; it is one of vast, importance. How maxy Miles a Printer’s Hand 1 ravels. —Although a printer maybe set ting all day, yet in his own way he is a great traveller, or at least his band is, as we shall prove. A good printer will set 8000 ems a day, or about 24,000 letters. The distance travelled over hy his hand will average about one foot per letter, go ing to the boxe3 in which they are con tained, and ot course returning, making two feet every letter he sets. This would make a distance each day of 45.000 feet, or a little more than 0 miles; and in the course of a year, leaving out the Sundays, that member travels about 3000 miles ! In the course of twenty five years, an ordinary life time in the pursuit of an avo cation ; the printer’s hand will have trav «:lled a distance equal to three trips at ound the globe! MACON, G A . SATURDAY MORNING, NOV 3, 1849. TfiE Eulogy. —ln consequence of the indis position of tiie family of t ho Hon. A. 11. Chap pell, who was appointed to deliver in this city yesterday, a Eulogy on the life and character of ox-President J. K. Folk, the exorcises designed for that occasion, were postponed. Judge Sharkey’s Address. —This patriotic speech we. find in the Mississippi papers. It is spokon very highly of wherever it lias been re ceived. The sentiments contained in this truly Southern address arc ably defended, and tha nr I guments in favor of a hold, decided position in regard to Northern encroachments, strong and impressive. The subject has, however, been so often treated in and out of Congress, that we presume it unnecessary to publish the article en tire. The minds of the Southern people are, or should be, made up on this question, let us, .therefore, prepare to act, and show our enemies that we are united in the front of opposition, and then we shall look for an amicable adjust inentof domestic difficulties. \\ iNGKiEi.n s Address. —We have received from the publishers, Messrs. Hunt «Sk Campbell, a copy of the Address delivered before the State Temperance Convention at Marietta in June last, hy- A. fe. \Y r ixgfield, Esq. Front a hasty glance at the contents of this pamphlet, we are persuaded that it is one of the ablest efforts that we have ever seen. We sincerely wish that it may find its wav to every fireside in Georgia, and he as productive in advancing the interests of the Temperance cause as it will doubtless he in creating an enviable literary reputation for the young and highly talented author. llolden s Magazine —for November, is as filled with an interesting variety. The original publisher, Mr. Charles W. Holden, having died in California, the work has changed hands. The present proprietor promises more improvements in tjie mechanical and literary department. Price §l. Gi'itiul Loiisc of Georgia. Tito Grand Lodge of Ancient Y’ork Masons, commenced its annual communication in this city, on Tuesday last. The craft is in a very prosperous condition, numbering one hundred and sixteen Lodges, (thirty-four of which Icing recently chartered,) were each represented. At 11 o'clock on Thursday a procession of the Order, numbering one hundred and sixty members was formed in front of the Lodge in this city, and proceeded to the Presbyteran Church where after appropriate singing and Prayer, the following Officers were publicly installed fur the ensuing year, viz: Wm. C. Dawson, M. W. Grand Master. John Hun ter, It. W. D.G. Master, Dist. No. 1. R L. Roddev, R. W. I). G. M. “ “ 2. James F. Cooper,R. W. D. G. M. “ “ 3. VVm. S. Rockwell, R. W . 1). G. M . “ “ 4. A. A. Gaulding, S. G. Warden. Wm. K. Kitchen, J. G. Warden, Leroy Patm.lo, S. G. Deacon. L. C. Simpson, J. G. Deacon. J. E. Wells, G Treasurer. Simri Rose, G. Secretary. Rev. J. C. Simmons, G. Chaplain. W. B. Bowen, G. Marshal. Jno.Calvin Johnson, a \\ m. P. Brooks, v Grand Stewards. C. Campbell ) D. E. Butler, Grand Pursuivant. T B. Daniel, Grand Tyler. Alter which the Annuel Address, was deliv ered before the Order and a large audience of ladies and gentlemen, by Robert 11. Griffin, Esq , of Savannah. This address was very ciiastc and appropriate, abounding in beautiful allusions lo the noble objects which Masonrp had in view, in ministering to the distresses and promoting the happiness and welfare of the hu man race. The Grand Lodge of Georgia is now divided into Four Masonic Districts, from each of which a Right Worshipful Deputy Grand Master is elected,who are constituted the Grand Lecturers of the State, to whom is given in charge the directing and making uniform the mode of work it; their respective jurisdictions. The Ist and yd Congressional Districts constitute the Ist Ma sonic District, &c. Thf. State Road. —We learn tfiat the per foration through the Tunnel took place on Wed nesday last, when a passage of about six feet was effected, leaving twelve perpendicular feet more to be excavated for some distance to com plete it, which will probably take place by the first of January next. Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.— The Knoxville Register of the 27th ult. says: “ Mr. Stevenson, the president of the Nashville and Chattanooga Rail Road, lias recently re turned from Liverpool, whither he had gone to purchase iron for the road, making the trip from Liverpool to Nashville in tiineteen davs. We learn from the Nashville Union that Mr. Stev enson purchased 10,340 tons of iron at a cost of $39,60 per ton, delivered in New Orleans free of all charges, duties included. This is a re markably good contract, inasmuch as the iron is to be of “ the very first quality.” The purchase of the iron at so low a price is said to be saving to the company of $350,000 on tho original etT timate.” The Engineers have located the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad front tho Cumberland Mountain to Chattanooga, without determining however, whether they will cross the river in Alabama or Tennessee. The Directors will meet next week when it will probably be deter mined whether or not the Road will be put under contract forthwith,from tho point where it cross es the river to Chatanooga. CrFive thousand five hundred bales of cotton were sold in Cltarles'on o:t Wednesday lust, nearly all of which was at 11 cents per pound. HyTlte Atlanta Intelligencer of yesterday states that 3,218 bules ofeolton were received at Atlanta during the month of October, 2,834 of which went down the Georgia Railroad. Bacon scarce tlifcfo. Annexation of Canaria. The adherents to the British policy in Canada have framed a protest to the memorial for annex ation to the United States. It reads as follows . “ We, the undersigned, in habitants of the city of Montreal, owing arid acknowledging allegi ance to Her Majesty the Queen, having read a certain Address to the people of Canada, in which separation Irnrn British connection and a union with the United States of America are re commended as presenting the only practicable remedy for the evils which affect this Province do hereby solemnly and deliberately record our dissent from the precipitate and ill-advised conclusions which the authors and signers of that address have arrived at. \\ e heliev e there is nothing in the present depressed condition of Canada which may not he promptly and effei-tua ly remedied by the adoption of a well considered system of legisla tion, without having resort to a measure revolt ing to our feelings, revolutionary in its charac ter, and tending to the dismemberment of the British Empire. Those views we arc prepared to maintain by all constitutional means. Anxi ously alive to the importance of promoting the material interests of this our native or adopted country, and of preserving unanimity and good will among all classes of our fellow citizens, we cannot but express an earnest hope that means may be devised, without delay, to restore prosperity to this province, cement the ties which have so long existed with the Mother country, and allay an agitation which may otherwise’ prove formidable.” I he movement which occasioned this protest, grew out of the deslracted condition of Canada, and the inability of the English Government to provide for the peace and safety of the country-; together with the desires of some restless and un easy republicans to become free from all depend ence upon monarchical powers. But we doubt whether the course taken by the friends of an nexation in Canada will he sustained in this na tion hy the popular voice. We have now an immense territory, a great portion of which is yet without any congressional provision or terri torial government, about which we arc undeci ded, and in the settlement of which our guaran teed rights and sectional honor are involved, and vve fear that the responsibilities of our present possessions are too onerous for us to hear. With out a revival of the same spirit which framed the Amcrciun Constitution, these contested points will not be settled peaceably; and, even admitting that vve are willing to accept the over tures of Canada, this same question would pre vent our affording timely aid. The people of tile South and Southwest could not fail to see that the Northern portion of this confederacy will gladly consent to this proposed annexation, because its inevitable effect would he to strengthen and confirm their incendiary at tempts upon the just and lawful intciests of slaveholders : while the North, possessed of the numerical power,and claed with success, would rush blindly upon the consummation of a pur pose which would sever the social, religious and political ties of the whole Union, and utter ly demolish the beautiful structure of American freedom. In this view of the matter, vve think it perfectly safe to assert that the proposed an nexation neve.r will be seriously entertained by tho wisdom and patriotism of the United States. We have territory sufficient for the present, and if vve succeed in an amicable and satisfactory adjustment of existing internal disputes, vve shall have grilled honor enough and power enough for a century. The experience of for mer Republics forewarns us against a rapid and imprudent extension of territorial limits, and if we fail to regard the presages of danger in the distance, vve shall be overwhelmed in the ruins of our polical systems, and rivet upon ourselves a hopeless anarchy. If Canada wishes to test the value of Repub licanism, and its application to her own people let Iter proclaim Iter independence and maintain it, against all opposition, and when she has proven that she really seeks to be free, and that her people are capable of self-government, then will we extend to Iter the hand of friendship, and tho bond of union. But otherwise, we can not see what obligation we are under to Iter peo ple, that will warrant us ii, hazarding our po litical existence in a war with a powerful King dom, and in the agitation of civil contentions and sectional jealousies. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Montreal, speaking of the protest, says : “ \\ lien I saw it on Saturday afternoon, it had but twenty-six names to it. These were,doubt less, the original signers, and there is as little doubt that there will be a considerable array of names to ibis as well as the other document, though I doubt exceedingly if officials and would-be officials are left out, whether they will have a third of tite number'of genuine names. One of the chief of those who were circulating it, was a Post-office clerk ; another, a gentle man interested in the buildings,at present occu pied as a Parliament House, and so on. The mercantile men who have put their names to it, are those whose business would be likely to suffer from Annexation, in consequence of the high duties on the British goods they sell, or else persons engaged in some of tho old protec ted trades, in whom the habit is still strong, and who still indulge the vain hope of a return to the old state ot things. Generally it may be noticed that the men who are established here ns Colonists, go for Annexation, whatever their immediate interests may be, while bachelors and ship-owners, whose property is equally at home at Liverpool as at Montreal, stick to the old order of things.” Perils at Sea.— Cnpt Hosmer, of the bark Janet, and a boat’s crew, were separated from the vessel while in pursuit of whales in the Pacific, and were upset through some mis management, and after righting the boat, re mained several days without food or warter, un til they were reduced to the extremity of casting lots, in order to flirnislt provision for the crew and one of the men was actually eaten tip by the remainder! Soon afterwards a dolphin jumped into tlie boat, and a number of birds flew so near as to bn ciuglit by the perishing mariners, while a welcome rain afforded them water. After gaining the shore, a thousand miles from where they were cast off, they were taken on board a vessel and provided for. A Hard Lot —A Scotch gentleman rocently sold <OO shares of the United St ites Bank, at $2,->0 per share the same having been purchased at $127 cash in 1836. His loss wa5568,550 sides eight years interest. Lunatic.— Charles F. Hoffman, the talented poet, is now in the Baltimore Hospital, a mis erablc, unfortunate, pitiful, raving, desperate maniac ! EF Col. Fremont, says the Washington Re. public, has accepted the appointment of chief of the Mexican Boundary Survey, in the place of Col. Weller, removed. A Rare Occurrence !—Frederick a Bre mer, the celebrated Swedish novelist, refused to exhibit herself to the curiosity of the would-be great people of New York, and when the car-i. ages of literary dandy ism rolled up to the doer she sent word that she could not receive coinpa’ ny that day, and upon their returning the next morning, it was found that she had retired to the country ! A Small Speech. -Col. Benton’s speech, re cently made in Fayette, Missouri, occupies ticcnty-Jiec columns of the Jefferson Enquirer. Empty wagons make a great deal of noise ! A Dangerous Plavthing.—The Winchester Republican tells of a little child in that town, which, having strayed away from its nurse, was* found m the yard, pleasantly engaged in tickling with a switch a very savage-looking snake. 10” A German paper mentions the death „f a police serjeant from lock-jaw, produced from a bite on the thumb from a drunkard whom he was taking into custody. The wound healed apparently, in seven or eight days, and on the" third day afterwards the convulsions began. ITT A convention of slave holders in Mary land is seriously talked of, to consider measures to prevent the constant absconding of slaves. Monument™ the Rev. Ignatius A Few 1 lie Journal and Messenger of the 31st ult. says: “A Monument to the memory uF tliis distinguished Div ine, and Mason, was erected on Friday last, the 2Clh insl., at the Village of Oxford, Newton county, hy the Grand Lodge of Georgia. A special communication had been ordered hy the Grand Master for its erection, at which there was a large assemblage of the Brotherhood from almost every portion of the State. Nearly all the Grand Officers were present. Sixteen Lodges were fully represented by their officers and members, and thirty-five others hy more or loss of their members; ami nearly five hundred appeared in the procession. A large procession was formed, of the Grand Lodge, the several Masonic Lodges and Broth ers, the Faculty, Alumni and Students of Emo ry College, Civil Officers, &c., which moved to the College Chapel, where religious services were performed by the Rev. Bishop Andrew, with suitable and excellent music hy the choir. An eulogy on the Life anil Character of Dr. Few, was delivered by the Rev. Brother Dr A. M EAS9, in his usual eloquent and happy style, and few men could have done the subject more ample justice. 1 lie procession then repaired to the Monu. merit, when its erection was completed and a suitable Address delivered by Past Master, Yei.. vf.rton P. King, of San Merino Lodge. A brief address was delivered hy the Grand Mas ter, W. C. Dawson, ami the usual services of consecration and dedication were performed, with prayer hy Rev. Br. H. C. Carter, the Grand Chaplain, and the Rev. Dr. Geo. F. PIERCF.. Ihe Monument Inn! been in preparation for some time, the expenses of which were contri buted, principally, by the Subordinate Lodges of the State. It is about tvvcntv-two feel higli, constructed of massive blocks of marble, of neat appearance, and correct proportions; and will loi g remain to tel! to future generations of the virtues and services of the man who hasde served and received such a tribute from his fcl low-men to perpetuate bis memory.” Omnibus Business in New York.— An om- I mhus driver communicates some interesting I statistics to ibe Evening Post : YVe have J licensed omnibusses now running, owned If I some dozen or more different proprietors. E>d I omnibus costs, new, $550, making their aggie I grate cost $200,800. Each omnibus earn?, M I an eve rage, $lO a day, and S3OOO a year. Tin I whole earn $3,7G0 per day, and $1,128,000'1 year. Their expenses are always rated each per day, and $1,500 a year, making thß aggregate cost of tho whole $564,000 a )*• I Flic profils, therefore, of each omnibus to it*l proprietor is $5 a day, and $1,500 a year; tho nett profits of all ;he omnibusscs in tbecdfß is $564,000. I Lard Oil.— ln Cincinnati it is calcufated the* 11,000,000 pounds of lard will be run into laid oil this year, two-sevenths of which aggrT* will make stentine, the residue oil, say about®!' 000 barrels of 43 gallons each. There is tils® 1 * establishment in that city extensively engtig* l " extracting the grease from the residue oftheM and will probably this year operete in this «’! on 30,000 hogs. This concern alone is "’■P 1 ; ted to turn out this year 3,000,000 lbs. of 3,000,000 lbs. ofstearine have been made is**■ year into candles and soap in these factorial 11 * they can make 6000 lbs. of candles per are™ day throughout the year. f Cure for Rheumatism. —Take a "fl spirits of turpentine, to which add hnlfu of camphor; lei it stand till the camphor solved,then rub it on the part affected, andi I *'® never fail of removing the complaint. should ho applied after the part is well with turpentine. Repeat theapplicali« n n! ing and evening. It is said to bn equal!)' *' E bio for burns, scalds, bruises and spraiob failing ofsticeess. We can vouch forit sC ® C ‘B oy in rheumatic affection. I Exri, onion — .A sewer in London r* rellt ploded, blowing up the cast iron plates c ° the main holes, and shocking tho whol® JH hot hood. The flames came through th c over tho gutter-holes. Tito explosion "t" Bp ed by an attempt to draw off'llte pest' 1,1 por of tho sewer, by connecting it wit# * » ney of a soap factory. |