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sareaiaiatßa argoiairsi 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. «