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KIIITED AND PUBLISHED WEEKLY, BY
W 71. B . II ARRISON,
CITY P R IAT E R .
[WRITTEN rOR THE SOUTHERN MUSEUM J
DECEMBER IS IIKKF. I
BT WILLIAM P. HARRISON.
A friend is waiting in tlie iiall,
A friend to many dear,
Because he does not visit ns
But once within the year.
The frost is on his heavy cloak—
The cold winds in his voice—
And thoogli he does not dare to smile,
He bids us all rejoice.
Who is it ? Languid belles and foppish beaux ;
He’ll teach you every one, before he goes !
Hear the night-winds ! they are sighing
To their friend and patron dear :
Welcome! old December! cold December !
We are glad to meet you here !
Come, let us ask him to a seat,
As friendly people do,
And then, perhaps, while lie remains
He’ll treat us kindly too.
Behold! another visiter
Is standing by his side ;
A thousand toys and candied forms
Upon his fingers ride.
And who is he? Aha! we now perceive !
'Tie Santa Claus, prepared for Christmas Eve !
Hear the children ! they are shouting
To their friend and patron dear:—
Welcome ! kind December ! good December !
w e are glad to see you here !
Butlo! the stranger has a scroll
Extended in his hand—
It ch romcles the birth of one,
Within a foreign land,
Who led in poverty and pain
A sufTring life below,
And died upon the Cross, to snatch
A world from endless wo.
What does that mean ? The Holy Scriptures say
The stranger brings our Saviour’s natal day !
II ear the Christians ! they are singing
To their friend and patron dear :
Welcome! kind December ! bless’d December;
• We arc glad to see you here !
Beneath his arms, in ample folds,
The stranger brings a shroud,
And as he often gazes there,
He weeps and moans aloud.
He weeps because tlie winding-sheet
So shortly must entwine
Its chilly length around the corpse
Os Eighteen Forty-Nine.
Why dues he moan ? Because the dying year
Will never more enjoy iiis friendly cheer.
Hear the nations ! they are praising
Pity in their patron dear :
Welcome! kind December ! old December !
We are glad to sec you here !
But look ! the stranger’s face is calm,
His eye is mild and clear—
He promises to introduce
Us to a better year;—
He says ’twill be a joyful one,
No sorrow and no pain ;
A twelvemonth crowned with happiness,
And marked with plenty’s reign.
Will it be so ? It surely must, for more
Than twenty times lie’s told us so before !
Hear the people ! they're rejoicing
With their friend and patron dear :
Welcome ! kind December ! good December !
We are glad to see you here !
Macon, Dec. 1, 18-10.
Milledgeville, Nov. 2S, 1549.
The following bills among others, have
passed the House :
To exempt from Road duty persons en
gaged in keeping in repair the several
Railroads in this State.
To authorise certain deeds to be read
in evidence, and to make legal their re
gistry.
To lay offa new Judicial Circuit in this
State and to fix the time of holding the Su
perior Courts in the several counties there
of, and to add other counties to the West
ern Distiict.
To amend the various acts heretofore
in force in relation to the city ofSavannah.
To amend the charter and change the
name of the Memphis Branch Railroad
and Steamboat Company of Georgia.
To authorise aliens to receive, purchase,
hold and convey, mortgage or devise real
estate.
To incorporate the Union Steamboat
Company of Georgia and South Carolina.
To prohibit the Reporterof the Supreme
Court of this State from incorporating into
said reports the arguments and briefs of
counsel further than a statement of the
points made, and a brief of the authorities
referred to by said counsel.
To alter and amend the Gth section and
3d article of the Constitution of the State
of Georgia.
To give painters, tinners and copper
smiths in Richmond county and the city
ofSavannah a lien for work done on hous
se in the same.
To extend the time for the completion
of the Ocmulgee and Flint Railroad and
Canal Company.
To exempt Emory College and other
Colleges in this State from taxation, and
to place them on the same footing with the
University of Georgia.
To incorporate the Coosa River Steam
Boat Company.
To incorporate the Cherokee College
of Georgia, in Floyd county.
To incorporate the town of Albany, Ba
ker county.
For the relief of the citizens of Dooly
county, so far as relates to the recording of
papers, and to extend the time of record
ing deeds in said county.
To amend the several Attachment laws
To limit judgments at law, and protect
the title of innocent purchasers in certain
cases.
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING,DEC. I, 1849.
To Correspondents. —“ Philanthropes” will
excuse us lor not publishing his “Ode to the
Museum,” ns we could not do so with any jus
tice to our modesty.
“ S.” is in type, and will appear next week.
“ Laudator temporis acti,” will find a place in
our next issue.
Our country readers will find an interest
ing article on the fourth page of to-day’s paper,
on the subject of planting cotton, &e., taken
from the Laurensville Herald. It is from the
pen of an experienced planter of South Caroli
na, and will amply repay a perusal.
Til e Legisi. atu re.— Our correspondent s let
ter was not received last night—we learn ver
bally, however, that the Railroad connection bill
passed ill the House yesterday and would proba
bly pass the Senate. The Company is author
ised to cross the River three miles below the
city, if ajunction cannot be effected here.
Our Second Volume.
To-day we enter upon anew volume of our
paper. The experiment of twelve months lias
convinced us that a third paper will be sustained
in Macon—and we are gratified to state to our
city friends that our subscription list numbers
almost every man of business within its limits.
Many who predicted our failure in the outset
are now among our patrons, and very many who
asserted that it was impossible to make a neutral
paper interesting, have we trust, been persua.
ded to the contrary. Notwithstanding, we have
not made the “Museum” what we desired to
make it, yet, the testimony of very many
friends is decidedly in approbation of our efforts.
At all times, we have endeavored to remain
aloof from partizari politics, and to do strict
justico to both the great political parties of the
country. Upon the questions, of a domestic
nature, we have endeavored to advocate the in
terests of truth and justice. In short, we have
labored to make our sheet a newspaper, liberal
upon all subjects,bigoted upon none.
If our readers approve the course wo have ta
ken, and are now pursuing, we ask their aid in
extending the circulation of our paper, promis
ing, if this be sufficiently granted, to improve
the appearance and the contents of the sheet-
The second volume we hope to render accepta
ble to present patrons, and many others who
will, we trust, sustain us in the effort to estab
lish a useful, interesting, and liberal paper.
Death of Gf.n. Clinch. — We regret to an
nounce the death in this city, of Gen. Duncan
L. Clinch. He arrived here some ten days
ago, and was attacked with erysipelas, which
despite of the most skilful medical aid, put an
end to his earthly career on Tuesday evening
last. 11 is family were in attendance, and all
that effection or friendship could perform was
done to alleviate his aflliction—hut all in vain
His remains wore escorted to the Central Rail
Road Depot on Wednesday evening by the
Macon Volunteers, Cupt. Conner, and Floyd
Rifles, Capt. Ross, whence they were conveyed
on Thursday morning to Savannah, in charge of
a Committee from each Company. Thus has
fallen in our midst, a patriot and soldier, who
has served his country faithfully both in the
field and the councils of the nation. He leaves
a wife and four children we believe, and a very
large number of relations and friends to mourn
his loss. “ Requiescat in pace.”
Accident. —On Thursday last as Mr L. \Y
Babcock, of this city, was on a hunting expedi
tion a few miles in the country, while in the act
of crossinga fence placed his right hand on the
muzzle of the gun, which at that moment fired,
lodging the contents in his hand, which was so
much injured thereby, as to render amputation
necessary, and was accordingly performed by
cutting off three fingers on the same. Mr.
Babcock is an industrious young man, a carriage
maker by trade, and has by this accident, become
maimed for life.
Laurensville Herald. —This sterling week
ly has been recently improved and is now one of
the best papers published in the interior of
South Carolina. We would advise those wish
ing a paper from that section to subscribe for the
Herald.
Latest from Europe. —The steamer Canada
has arrived, bringing Liverpool dates to the 17th
ult. Cotton had advanced Jd. per lb , and the
sales during the week amounted to 50,000 bales,
equally divided between speculators and the
trade.
Mr. Rives has been accepted by the President
of France as our Minister.
The British Parliament has been prorogued
until the 16th of January.
Mr. Bulwer, it issaid, briHgs instructions to
resist energetically any interference on the part
of the United States with the Mosquito Govern
ment. It is also said England will not interpose
to prevent the annexation of Canada to the Uni'
ted States,provided the people of the provinces
desire it.
W aynesboro’ Road. — We learn from the
Republican that the whole of the $400,000 of
stock in this Road lias been taken in Savannah,
with the exception of about $30,000 —and that
the work will commence about the first of Janu
ary next.
State Road. —The cars will run through
from the Tunnel to Chattanooga to-day. The
Tunnel will not be completed probably before
February next.
South Carolina. —The Legislature convened
on Monday last, and on Tuesday the Governor’s
Message was delivered. It is an able document
and favors a Southern Convention, calling upon
the Legislature to invest tire Governor with pow
er to call a convention of the people of the State
to define the course to bo pursued in the event of
the passage by Congress of the Wilmot Proviso
The State debt is $3,310,896 81, payable from
1850 to 1870. The Governor recommends the
winding up the affairs of the State Bank after
1860, and withdrawing banking powers from it
previous to that time. The la.o hour at which
we received the Message prevents a more par
ticular notice of it at present.
IVlacou vs. Cirilliii.
Our amiable friend of the “ Jeffersonian" reads
us a lecture in his paper of Thursdny last, for
having the audacity to say a word in favor of
removing the Seat of Government to Macon.
We did not intend to arouse the martial feelings
of the Major, as we are decidedly in favor o*
peace, but if the Legislature shall follow the ex
ample of a departed statesman, and say “the
deposits shall hr removed,” we are inclined to
think the hardest will have to fend off. The
»‘Jeffersonian,” after quoting the sentence in
our last paper, that making a distance of sixty
miles in order to gain twenty is not good policy,
says :
“ Perhaps not; hut, we will ask, does going
sixty miles, in order to lose twenty,come nearer
harmonizing with the popular notion of policy ?
You seem to have forgotten, my dear sir, that
Macon is not the only place that people come
and go from.”
We do not exactly understand how it is that
the State House is to go sixty miles to lose twen
ty, should it come to Macon. Surely Mr. Cline
does not call \f sixty miles from here to Milledge
ville ? If he does, we shall alter our figures to
a loss of one hundred and thirty to gain twenty
—which, by parity of reasoning, would be the
result of a removal to Griffin. But if the Scat
of Government is changed from its present lo
cation, it will be done from a settled conviction
of propriety, rather than a desire to place it in
the exact centre of the State, so far as distance
is concerned. The citizens of Macon have,
however, decided not to press the question at
the present time, and therefore we do not sup
pose that it would accomplish anything to spec
ulate upon the subject. The sense of justice
and the consideration of advantage are unani
mous in our favor throughout the State, —selfish
interests and the reasoning of numerical power
to the contrary notwithstanding—and whenever
the state of circumstances admits of it, we shall
urge our claims in an honorable way.
(O’ Austria, which is a corn-growing coun
try, produces thirteen bushels to the acre
France, fourteen bushels, America, eighteen
bushels, Poland, twenty bushels, and England
is estimated to produce from twenty-eight to
thirty bushels to the acre.
CC/” In Turkey, whenever a storekeeper is
convicted of telling a lie, iris house is painted
black to remain so lor a month. If there were
such a law in force in this country, what a
sombre and gloomy appearance some of our ci
ties would present !
(CP It is reported that Frederic of Hesse, pre
sumptive heir to the throne of Denmark, is
about to marry the daughter of Prince Alberto*
Prussia. This would be very advantageous to
Prussia, which has so many reasons for wishing
to exclude from Denmark the inlluence of Rus.
sia and Sweden. Prince Albert has now a fair
opportunity ofbeing useful, for the first time, to
his country', by giving away bis daughter to
promote the commercial interests of Prussia in
the Baltic.
UjP Mr Wise, the great hair restorer, has pro
duced quite a sensation in Baltimore, by the ap
plication of his tonic. “ I have seen says a cor
respondent, some four or five of his patients. 1
saw them before the application was made, and
since. That their heads were bald is without
question ; now they present quite a flourishing
suit of young hair; and, what is equally aston
ishing, one of them lias been relieved entirely
from a severe headache which he had suffered
for years. If this be the effect of Mr. Wise's
discovery, and the facts presented to me to-day
leave no doubt,the world should know it.”
(O’ A horse recently performed the very ex
traordinary feat of swimming from the west
shore of Alburg across Lake Champlain to
Rouse’s Point, on the New York side, being a
distance of four miles. What could have induc
ed the animal to set out on this voyage it is im
possible to conjecture, unless he had been read
ing the late account of Mr. Poe’s performances
in this tine.
O’ The printers now on a strike in Boston,
are discussing the propriety of establishing a
book and job printing office. They also pro
pose the publication of a large commercial paper
morning and evening. The company, it is said,
will consist of a hundred men—among them men
of ability—who will each pay into the concern
S3OO.
(O’ Montgomery Martin states that of £50,-
000,000 of taxes, two millions and a half rich
people pay £11,530,000; eight millions of the
middle classes pay $25,440,000; and fourteen
millions of the working classes pay £13,030,-
000.
(O’ The Columbia South Carolinian says that
Richland District numbers within her population
a lady entitled to the veneration and esteem of
the present generation, Mrs. E. llorms. She is
the relict of a Revolutionary soldier who was
killed at tho siege of Savannah. This venera
ble lady is now in her one hundred and sixth
year, and we are informed has never been out of
this her native district.
ID* The steamer Autocrat, Capt. Goslee ar
rived recently from Memphis, brings down 4,700
bales Cotton, averaging 520 lbs. to tlie bale, be
ing the largest cargo of Cotton ever brought to
New Orleans.
Useful Custom. —lt appears from Lewis’s
history of Linn,that in the early times of Mas
sachusetts it was the custom for a man to go about
the ineeting-houscs during divine service and
wake the sleepers. He bore a long wand, at
one end of which was a ball and on the other
was a fox tail. When he observed the men a
sleep he rapped them on the head with the
knob, and roused the. slumbering sensibilities of
the ladies by drawing the brush slightly across
their faces.
Gas Company. — The citizens of Savannah,
in a public meeting, have instructed the city au
thorities to subscribe for stock in the proposed
Gas Company, not exceeding $30,000. The
streets of Savannah, together with the public
buildings, are shortly to be lighted with Gas.
Fi res —At St. Louis, on the night of the 14th,
the castor oil manufactory of Henry T. Blow
was destroyed by fire. The losa is estimated at
$120,000, of which $48,000 is covered by in
surance. Five dwelling houses adjoining were
also destroyed. The whole loss will be about
$150,000.
The Monlesano house, situated about 5 miles
below’ the city of St. Louis, was burned down
on tire same day. Loss $9,000, on which there
was insurance of $5,000.
Cooper’s Block, in Covington, Ky. was burn
ed oil the 16th ult. Loss about $6,000.
Cholera. —A letter from Carthagena gives a
frightful account of the ravages of the Cholera
in New Grenada. The disease made its appear
ance about the last of May, and remained until
the latter part of August. During this time, out
of a population of 11,000, (exclusiec of the city
of Carthagena,) 2400 fell victims. It raged
with equal violence in the interior and oil the
Magdalene river, where about 1900 died in two
months. In Bogota ithadnot yet made its ap
pearance, and the most frightful alarm was felt
on account of its near approach, on the 10th of
September.
Alabama Coal. —The Chief Engineer and
the Commander of the British steamship Dee,
have given a certificate 106 tons of Tuscaloosa
coal is equal to the best Welsh, with which
that vessel used to be furnished in the West In
dies. This is very important information to the
Alabamians—Mobile will soon be a great depot
for British vessels trading, by the new Naviga
tion Regulations, between the West Indies and
the United States.
Canada. —The Montreal Courier represents
that there is a strong and daily increasing feel
ing in Canada in favor of annexation. The
Montreal manifesto, issued a month since, has
added fuel to the ilatnc, and, according to the
Courier, the days of the present “Baldwin La
fontaine ministry” are numbered.
Sermons. —A question has arisen in Paisley,
Scotland, as to whether sermons openly deliver
ed in public arc copy-right property—which will
probably come before the Court for decision.—
The facts of the case are of the ordinary kind-
A reporter makes notes of a sermon and announ
ces it for publication. The preacher enters his
demurrer; and the intending publisher intima
ting his intention to persist, an interdict has
been applied for and granted—preventing the is
sue of the work until the legal right shall have
been tested.
Naval. —Orders have been given by the Na
vy Department tliattwo of Francis’ Life Boats
shall be provided for each ship in the service—
one a Copper Cutter, the other a Galvanized
Iron Boat of smaller class. The experiments
made by the Department for four years past,
have led to this decision.
Marine Disasters. —The steamboat Dcclar
alion, on her passage from New Orleans to Mo.
bile, went to pieces and sunk in the gulf—no
livts lost.
The ship Hanover, of Bath, Capt. Rogers,
from Cadiz, with a full cargo of salt, in attempt
ing to run into the river, struck on Pond Island
Bar, and almost immediately went to pieces.
All hands on board, seventeen in number, per
ished.
The Liverpool and Philadelphia packet ship
Tuscarora, went ashore about a mile North of
Indian river, near Cape Henlopcn. No lives
lost.
(O’ Intelligence from Chihuahau to 24th Sep
tember, states that the cholera was raging there
fearfully, carrying off fifty to sixty persons a day
out of a population of about 15,000 souls. In
Murango the epidemic had been equally fatal.
(O’ It is said that the entire number of suffer
ers by the explosion of the Louisiana, at New
Orleans, will not fall short of two hundred.
(O’A Committee was appointed at a Public
Meeting in Eufaula, Ala., on the 17th lilt., for
the purpose designated in the annexed resoly.
tion :
Resolved, That this meeting appoint four del
egates to Milledgevillc, Georgia, to memorialize
the Legislature of Georgia, upon the subject of
the Southwestern railroad, and to petition said
body for an amendment of the charter of the
said Railroad, so as to authorize the construction
of the same, or a branch thereof, to the town of
Eufaula.
(TT We learn from the Riclimand Enquirer
that three children were suddenly taken dan
gerously sick, in that city, on Sunday week,
after partaking of portions of a candied basket
of artificial fruit, bought at one of the confec
tionery stores, but manufactured in another city.
O’The New York Express says, a gentle
man residing at Worcester, Mass., who arrived
from California in the Empire City, steamer,
gives a melancholy picture of affairs in Califor
nia, and predicts that the next steamer will bring
intelligence of a general smash up there.—
Property, he says, is tumbling down, wages are
reduced, and hundreds of persons are begging
for chances to work their passage home in the
steamers, guaranteeing, at the same time, to pay
their passage after their arrival here.
Peddling Tombstones. —Fashion makes a
great many nuisances in society. It is fashion
able to write obituary notices in high sounding
praise, and almost anybody can have a feeble
immortality penned by a kind frier.d now-a-dnys.
It is fashionable to have tomb-stones loaded witli
the virtues of the deceased, and the enterprising
Yankees are equal to the times, for, if we can
credit the papers, one of them is engaged in the
business of peddling tomb-stones in Northamp
ton county, Pa. lie has a wagon-load of ready
made articles with him, only wanting the names,
and stops at the houses hy the wayside to inquire
for customers.
(D”The Pennsylvanian states that three million
seven hundred and thirty thousand dollars of
California gold had been received at the U. S.
Mint, in Philadelphia, up to Nov. 24th.
(LpClueen Victoria is reviving the fashion
of wearing ear-rings. i
State Tariff Convention. —ln accordance
with a widely circulated call, a Convention of
citizens of New Jersey, interested in manufac
tures, was held at Trenton on Wednesday week,
and a series of resolutions were adopted, to the
effect that the Tariff of 1846 had proved an ut
ter failure; that to continue it was to keep the
doors of the factories of New Jersey shut; that
the State's Delegation in Congress be urged to
secure a wise modification of the measure, and
that an address to the people of New Jersey,
setting forth the views of the Convention, be
prepared and published. The Covention was
large, and composed of many of the most influ
ential citizens of the State.
Revenue. —lt is stated, with what show of
probability is not very clear, that Uncle Sam’s
pockets, will want just twenty millions of dol
lars to pay the expenses of the Government for
the fiscal years ending the 30th June, 1850 and
’sl. A chance to make political capital for
somebody.
Lola Montf.s. —Tliis notorious woman’, ac
cording to the last accounts, lias recovered her
husband, Mr. llcald. lie insists that he was
persuaded by others to leave her,ngainsthis will.
She threatens vengeance against those who
have been endeavoring to separate them.
Mackerel. —The fears of a short supply of
this delicious fish, are dissipated, and they are
now caught in great numbers near Halifax.
Ragged Schools in London. —At a rasrged
school meeting, held in London recently, the
Secretary stated, that there were eighty of these
schools in London, in which ten thousand chil
dren were instructed, and that the number of
teachers reached to one thousand.
Casualty. — A few days ago, a daughter of
Daniel Cameron of Berlin, and a daughter of
Ira Cameron of Middlesex, Vt., were drowned
by falling accidentally through the railroad
bridge near the mouth of Dog River. The girls
were cousins, one aged 17 the other 10,
Horrible Crime. —A Mrs. Simpson poisoned
her husband in Fayetteville, N. C., a short time
since. A true bill lias been found against her
by the Grand Jury, and a reward offered for her
apprehension—as she has absconded.
Singular. — A fond couple who got divorced
in Brooklyn the other day—the husband having
become a base inebriate—grow almost distracted
at their separation, lie reformed and courting
his wife over again, they were re-married last
Saturday in New York !
The Sabbath Day. —A Memorial to the Le
gislature of SoutliCarolina has been prepared in
Charleston, to prohibit the running of Curs or
other labor upon the Railroad, upon the Sabbath
Day. The Scriptures arc decided in their con
demnation of the “ wicked, and all the nations
that forget God,” and what more effectual way
can be practised to banish moral and religious
impressions from the mind—thus making the
true object of the Lord’s day a nullity—than for
a State to permit unnecessary labor therein.
We hope the present Legislature of Georgia will
prohibit the desecration of Sabbath by all law
ful means—whether Railroad Companies or
other parties are guilty.
Lottery Fraud. —Messrs. Pluilon «fc Cos. of
Providence, II 1., having set up a claim for $30,-
000, — which they allege had been unjustly ob
tained from them by Messrs. Clark and l’inriey
agents, of Hartford, who agreed, after the draw
ing was over to feign a sale of the successful
ticket—withdrew the suit recently, in as much
as they had no proof to conviction, and also as
the sale of Lottery Tickets was illegal in Con
necticut at the time— two very good reasons !
Avarice. —There are some people in tli e
world that would quibble at the expense of a
relation’s burial clothes But we have never
heard of a man’s setting a value upon his own
child’s life! Read the following :
“The father of young Barnum, who was kill
ed hy the Montcsquious—the French Counts—
at St. Louis, lias instituted a suit against those
persons, to recover damages for the loss of Ii is
son’s services, lie being at the time of his death
a minor. The damages are laid at $3,000.
Under the writ issued all the property of which
tlie Montcsquious were possessed on the arrival
at St. Louis was seized by the Sheriff to abide
the event of the suit
A cousin-german of the above miser exists at
Rlicins—an old man who has made a large for
tune hy lending money at a rate higher than the
law allows. Having been implicated in an af
fair of usury, he was in danger of trial, and
hung himself, lie was, however, cut down,
and having seen the rope lying on the floor cut
in two, exclaimed, “ Why spoil anew rope by
cutting it i could you not untie it.”
A Sudden Death. --Mr. Allen Andrews, of
Belfast, Laurens District, S. C., fell dead a few
days ago, whilst transacting his usual business.
He was 62years old.
Affecting Incident. — The following touch
ing paragraph is from an account of the recent
loss of the bark Elijah Swift:
“The next morning, in searching for fresh
water, we found an infant, six weeks old the
son of Mrs Bailey; i' had been washed upon
the rocks the morning before, and had remained
there twenty-six hours; it was alive, and ap
parently sustained but little [injury ; we imme
diately carried it to the serving ladies, to whose
motherly care it owes its life.”
is said tlmt more money is expended by
the eity of Boston for education, than the Eng
lish Government for its seventeen millions of
people ! It is also added that the eity of Phila
delphia expends more in education than Bos
ton.
O' An exchange tcdls a “good one” on the
proprietor of a quack cure-all, who gave out that
his medicines would cure the consumption,
though the patient was reduced to a skeleton.
Whereupon the student of the village doctor
led up “ the old” skeleton, which belonged to
the office, to his lodgings to be cured.
Sugar Jumb i.ks —Two pounds of Hour, three
quarters of a pound of sugar, the same of butter,
one nutmeg; to be linked in a moderate oven.
O' Walker, Item., has a majority of 1011 in
Louisiana for Governor.
Another “Rape of the Lock.”—a
grogs
outrage was committed recently at the Bo*t
Museum. After the play was over, and w|,j|
the audience were passing through the | ow ?
hall toward the outer door, a young lady i n ,| *
crowd, who wears her hair in long rin®|,
down her back, heard behind her the sharp c|, t [
of a pair of shears, and turning instantly s h e
saw a tall person in a cloak pressing Uirou-|
the crowd, with vvliat she thinks was a pairtf
scissors in his hand. She afterwards ascertained
that two or three ringlets had been clipped f fom
her hair, close up to her r.cck. An alarm was
instantly given, and an effort made to detect the
villain, but it was unsuccessful.
Treasure in Maine.—3 he Augusta (Mp
Banner states that a farmer in the vicinity of
Lubec, in that State, while ploughing i n |,j,
field, struck against a box containing no less
than $96,009 in doubloons. It is not known
how tlie treasure came there.
Booker’s Gold Mine.—A letter from Buck
ingham county, Va., says :
“We are getting out a lot of the richest speci.
mens of ore 1 have ever seen come out of this
mine, and more of them. I would not be sur
prised if we were to get in the course of ne „‘
week, with what we have on hand, threeor
four thousand dwt. Every blast we make/,
better and better. The rock is so linked to„.
tiler with gold, that vve have to wring it apart
It is a sight worth looking at. 1 have never
seen anything to come near it since tlie Tinder
Pocket, which was found in Louisa county some
years ago, and from which $15,000 were ob.
tamed from a small space in u few days. Ibe
lieve it equal to that.”
Something Nf.w —The Horticulturist say,
musk-melons are delicious when cut in slices
about tlie fourth of an inch thick, and fried ex'
actly in the same manner as egg plants. Who.
ever tastes them so prepared, will immediately
make a memorandum that egg plants arc thence
forward tabooed, and that melons, “rightly un
derstood,” are as melting and savory in their
ripe maturity.
Mexican Claims —lt is said that claims have
been presented to the Mexican Commission, the
petitions for many of which have not of course
been received. The treaty appropriates but
$3,250,000 to meet the whole amount, and the
division will be piu rata upon tlie amount, al
lowed by the board, under approval of the Sec
retary of State.
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad.— President
Swann’s report shows the entire ability of the
Company to complete the road to Wheeling, and
have it in good working order by the Ist June,
1852. It will require, beyond the available
means of the Company, but $1,250,000 to effect
so important a result, and it is not doubted tha t
tliis sum will bo forthcoming in due time.
Emigration. —The Journal des Debats states,
that under date of Bremen, Oct. 18, that emi
gration from Germany continues to an alarming
extent. In the course of the last year, over 57,-
000 had embarked at the port of Bremen alone,
of which 8,000 had taken their departure with
in the last month, and nearly all of them to the
United States of America.
Singular I rediction. —The following sin
gular prophesy has been attributed to the cele
brated Lorenzo Dow :
“ I would not be a king in 1848; I would not
be a grave-digger in 1849; I would not be a
soldier in 1850 ; 1 would be either, in 1851.
Chinese Pirates. —The Hong KongGazcite
of August 28th, gives accounts of a number
of depredations on merchant junks, bv a pirat
ical licet of upwards of 60 vessels. In one case
they captured 40 sail of merchant craft which
they completely gutted, stripping the vessels of
their anchors, cables, rigging, sails, &c., and af
terward held the hulls to ransom at front $5,000
to SIO,OOO each,according to their value. Two
square rigged vessels bad also been taken by the
pirates, and a laJics brooch, with the initials
“\\. L. worked in gold wire, found in posses
sion of one of the pirates.
I o Painters. —lt lias recently been found,
says a late numberof Newton’s London Journal,
that zinc white may he employed with great ad
vantages as a substitute for white-lead , for paint,
ing and other purposes. This substance issaid
to produce no disease allied to the painters’ col
ic, and it is also stated to be unchangeable.
I he Sandwich Islands. —So rapidly is tlie
native population diminishing, that the probabil
ity is, that by the end of the next ten or fifteen
years, scarcely a native will be found on the
Islands. Indeed, one of the oldest resident
physicians there, has expressed the opinion thit
this result will be realized within tho next dm
years. Four-fifths of the population have dis
appeared since the visit of Capt. Cook, a period
of seventy years, and about one-fifth of the
remnant have died within tlie last year. The
missionaries estimate the number of deaths dur
ing the past year at ten thousand, or more than
one-tenth of the whole population. A majority
of tho infants born were among the victims.
The present population of tho Islands is about
eighty thousand.
Cure for Cancer. —The extract of wood
sorrel, used as a plaster through the day, and
slippery elm bark at night, will cure any can
cer that has ulcerated, or that has not live skin
over it, in that case the skin should be broken
in some way. To burn a piece ofspunk on the
place, is a good method, then apply the salve, as
before directed. Tlie extract is obtained sim
ply by pounding the common sorrel in a com
mon morter, or other vessel, and pressing out
the juice, then put it in a pewter dish or basil)/
and place it in the sun, until it dries to the con
sistence of tar, when it is fit for use.
Reasonable.— A member of tlie New Jersey
Boyden Company, who lias returned from Cali’
fornia, seems to he disappointed with his visit-
He informs the Newark Advertiser that the g°hl
was plenty, but very difficult to procure, a
the proportion of those who made fortunes was
no greater than among business men in the
States, tlie business being wholly a matter ot
chance. «