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Horace Jcunison, of Newton, ftfass., obtained
a verdict of s'2ooo damages, in the suit of a
slander against Win. White, of Watertown.—
•flic slander was an accusation of stealing tripe,
jjenor Ilurbide, Mexican Minister of Finance,
| retired from the office, and is succeeded by Sen.
j y r Don T. Elorriaga.
Mr. Julian, Congressman from Indiana,
iiaJ a third attack of hemorrhage of the lungs,
which it is feared, will prove fatal.
At a recent meeting of the French Academy
■of Sciences, M. Arago announced that M.d'Heri
court,just returned from his travels in Abyssinia
lias brought with him a medicament, which he
had seen employed with entire success, incases
■ofconfirmed hydropltodia. The traveller offer
cJ a quantity of it sufficient for all necessary ex
periment.
Not long since a matrimonial alliance was for
med between one of the grand-daughters of the
late John Jacob Astor and Mr. de Nottbeck, a
Russian gentleman of wealth and distinction,
visiting this country on a mission from his Em
peror.
Two splendid steamers are building in En
gland, for tho Cunard line. They are to be up
wards of 2000 tons burthen, each, and will bo
propelled by engines ofßoo horse power. They
are to bo called the Asia and the Africa ; and are
to be ready by the ensuing spring.
The New York Albion of the 24th says that
the Island of Tigrc is a valuable acquisition to
any naval power. It is well wooded and water
ed. It might have been purchased by the
British Government for five thousand pounds
several years ago.
The South Carolina papers announce that
Hon. George McDuffie’s health has declined so
tiiat lie cannot survive much longer.
Anew shipyard has been opened at Glouces
ter, on the Delaware, West Jersey, where a
steam propeller, a small steamer, aud a schooner
are now in progress.
Bishop Waugh has declined supplying a min
ister to a Methodist pewed church at Cincinnati,
lately organized, but said lie would present tlii ß
particular request to the next annual meeting of
the conference, for its decision.
Laborers in the harvest field in Oregon re
ceived six dollars per day during the last har
vest.
James A. I licks, recently of Boston, and ac
ting Spanish Consul, was lost overboard, off'
Bermuda, on his passage from New York to St.
Thomas, whither lie was going with his family
for his health.
The St. Louis Era describes anew steam boat
now in course of construction in that city, and
•nearly ready for launching, which, it says, will
the the largest boat on the Western waters, ller
length is to be 317 feet, and her breadth 33 feet.
(ion. G. A. Parsons has been removed from
the office of adjutant general of Missouri, and
Win. G. Minor, Esq., lately editor of the Jeffer
sonian Inquirer, appointed in his place.
Major Brawn, tho now engineer, appointed by
the Emperor ofltussia, to superintend the con
struction of the great imperial railway, sailed in
the Canada.
| Mr Lawrence, the American Minister, has ta-
Ikcn a lease of Earl Cadogan’s largo and fine
Linjnsion in Piccadilly, London.
I Two-thirds of the Natural Bridge property in
Hirginia was sold on the 3rd inst., to Col. Woo.
«r,of Henry County, for SG,OOO. lie is pro
prietor also of the other third.
■ Joseph Bulch, Esq., President of the Mer
fcliatiu' Insurance Company, died at his residence
■at Jamucia Plain, Mass., on the 7th, in the filth
(year of his age.
I A duel was fought on the Gth inst ,in Arkan
lsas, opposite Memphis, between Charles Irwin,
lof Memphis, anil Mr. Gibson, of Somerville,
I Tennessee, which resulted in Mr. Irwin being
I shot in the side.
I Colonel Louis de Bikkesy, one of the most
■distinguished officers in the Hungarian army,
■lias just died at Paris, in the twenty-ninth year
■ •of his age.
I The Cincinnati Times states, that during the
■destructive fire in that city, the rear wall of L.
■Pugh it Cos Pork House, full out, burying a
■number of persons beneath the ruins. Their
i*>mncs could not be ascertained.
I A child 7-i years old was tried in Newark on
B* he 12th inst., for attempting to burn a barn.
Bh: confessed to the attempt, and in the absence
■"hit House of Refuge or persons to take proper
leharge of him, he was sent back to the jail for
jhic presont.
[ David Dickerson of Sussex Cos., who enlisted
[and went to Mexico, in tho company from Dela
|ware, went through the whole campaign and
[returned unscathed, died from the effoct eC-R
[drunken debauch, on Saturday night, tho Ist.,
|>nst., in a stable near Georgetown.
I Wo read in the Helena (Ark.) Shield, that a
(•nan muiicd Henry Yerby, having been killed in
■bat vicinity, four of bis slaves were suspected,
P’>d arrested. Twoofthom were subsequently
the other two were tied to a tree and
W ur <icd to death.
I ur glaries have become so frequent in Lynn,
■^ ass > *bat it is proposed to establish a volun
j§ ,Vr night-watch.
■ Iho Baron Gerolt, who lias returned to the
Pnitcd States as Minister of the Kingdom of
Prussia, arrived in Washington.
Double Engles will soon bo coined nt the
■ ''adelphia Mint, under the act of tho last Co
n
l. 1 ;* Kentucky Convention have inserted an
Kill' " 'a* o 'h® new Convention requiring all
[ ccrs ,: nd members of the bar to take theduell-
■ n a oath.
■ M"-strawberries, a second crop, were picked
■ ‘ ain 6 °n thanksgiving day.
■ r J’
■ "o or thro youths were drowned in the vi
fcr! '° r l ' osto,; . a few days since, by falling
■ ll ’"Sb t lie ice whilst skating.
l iln lle ( 0110,1 Factory of Mr. James, a* Rising
■Chi' 1 ' Vil * burned last week. Lussslo,-
The Irish Convicts O’Brien, McManus, Mea
gher and O Donohoc, arrived in the brig Swift,
at the Cape of Good Hope on the 12th of Sep
tember. She sailed the next day with them for
Van Dicman’s Land. John Mitchel reached
the Cape in the Nepturc on the 19th of Septem
ber. Seven out of 282 convicts on the Neptune,
died during the voyage.
Rev. William Aikman, late of the Union
Theological seminary, N. Y., has accepted the
call to the sixth Presbyterian church of Newark.
Col. Fremont has written to the government,
signifying his intention to resign his position as
commissioner to run the boundary line between
the territory of the U. S. and New Mexico.
The committee of the board of Aldermen of
New York, reported against indemnifying Mr
James 11. llackett, lessee of the Astor Place
Opera House, for damages sustained during the
riot.
Prince Ilohenlohen, well known as a miracle
monger, died in Vienna lately.
A vessel called;tho “Whig,” of New York,
sailing under American colors, was captured on
the coast of Africa by the British man of war,
Fire Fly. She had on board GOO slaves.
The Detroit Tribune of the sth, has intelli
gence that Lewis Cass, Jr., Charge to Rome, was
very ill at the latest dates.
HerrKransy, the distinguished Hungarian pa
triot and vocalist gave a concert in Albany on
Tuesday evening.
By recent advices from Bolivia, we learn the
probability of the discovery of another gold re
gion. An Indian, it is affirmed, by the side of a
stream in tho Andes, near the city of La Paz,
picked up 14 pounds in the course of a few days.
No less than 3000 people are alleged to have
quitted La Paz for the scene of operations.
The Hon. Mr. Van Allen, Minister of the
United States to Ecuador, arrived at Guyaquil
in the United States ship Falmouth on the
21st of October. The Governor of the province
put at his disposal a war steamer, in which he
left on the first ult., accompanied by the United
States Consul at Guyaquil, N. P. Game, Esq ?
He probably reached Quito on the Bth ult.
On Saturday, the Ist iustant, the officers of
the State Government of Lousiann, with the
records, &c., were transferred by a steamboat
from New Orleans to Baton Rouge, the new
seat of Government.
The Rt. lion. T. Bahington Macaulay was
re-elected Lord Rector of the University of Glas
goiv, on the lfitli ult., without opposition.
Rev. Alexander T. Macgill, D. I), formely
pastor of the second Presbyterian Church of
Calisle, has been elected President of W ashing
ton College, at Washington, Pa ,in place of the
Rev Dr. McConaughcy resigned.
The sale of the Pews in the First Babtist
Church, Brooklyn, a few days since, produced,
it is said, a surplus of $3,000 beyond the entire
expense of re-building the church.
A watchmaker in Liverpool has succeeded in
drilling a hole through a sixpence edgeways.
The diameter of the hole in the coin is the four*
thousandth part of an inch in size, and barely
sufficient to admit a fine hair.
A revival of religion has been under way for
a fortnight past, in tho Methodist Episcopal
Church, at Urbanuu, O , under the ministrations
of the Rev. J. S. luskip. Within the period
named, upwards of 100 persons have connected
themselves with the church.
The church of Rev. Dr. Backus, in Baltimore,
has contributed, within tho last 13 years, the
sum of $150,000 for charitable and benevolent
objects, or $11,538 per annum.
George Lee, Esq , a merchant of high stand
ing in New Orleans,died in that city on the 4th
inst , aged GO.
Berklioad buildings, in Buffalo, were burn 1
recently, and the fire then extended to the
buildings occupied by the Courier office, the ma
terials of which, with the presses, are mostly
destroyed.
The editor of the Kent News, published at
Chestertown, Md., was married a few days
since, to a lady said to be worth $50,000.
The Insane Asylum at Harrisburg, is 400 feet
long and averages four stories high. It is nearly
roofed in.
John B. Gough, the Temperance Lecturer, is
in New York city, carrying on tiie good work.
The Kentucky Constitutional Convention has
adopted, by a vote of 76 to 17, a provision de
claring that Preachers and Ministers of the
Gospel shall not be eligible to a seat in the Gen
eral Assembly.
What word of four syllable can be spelled
with three figures and two letters? Extenuate
—x xo u. a.
A grey-haired man. who said that he had once
been a member of the Legislature of New York,
and subsequently served as a Colonel of a mili
tia company, has been arrested in St. Louis for
a scries of petty thefts in stores in that city.
1 don’t trouble myself about other people’s
business, but this is exclusively a personal
f/rttrsc-onal) affair,” as the pick-pocket said,
when he helped himself.
llcv. Dr. Upfold, Bishop elect of the Protcs
tant Episcopal Church in Indiana, left Pittsburgh
on the 10th instant, to be consecrated at India
napolis on the 16th. lie will return shortly
and retain the charge of his parish in Pittsburgh
until next spring.
We see that Mr. Joiui Smohc has married Miss
Susan Jnn Scaur. Susan is not the first cigar
that has ended in smoke.
A Connecticut family, on a visit to the South,
to save postage, drew on the margin of a news
paper, a child’s face, an awl, and well with
buckets, &c., thus interpreted, —“ We have an
infant—all arc well.’’
The trial of Ashbell Kellogg for the murder
of his son, took place at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
a short time since, and resulted in a verdict of
acquittal, on the ground of insanity.
There arc now in the British Navy List, 191
admirals, bol pc ' captains, 676 commanders,
and ”000 lieutenants.
Col. J Pr.igay and Major Fornet, late of the
Hungarian army, arrived bv the Europa. The
former was colonel under Klapka, at the siege of
Cornorn. 110 was present in thirty-eight bat
tles, and lias with him the highest testimonials
of his valor and worth.
“ Are those bells ringing for fire ?” inquired
Simon of Tiberius. “No, indeed,” answered
Tibe, “ They have got plenty of fire, and the
bells are now ringing for water to match.”
The Niagara Chronicle of the fitli inst., says
that there is a rumor to the effect that fourteen
American schooners have been seized for smug
gling on the Welland canal.
A person looking at some skeletons the other
day, asked a young doctor present where he got
them, lie replied, “ lie raised them.”
A Collection for Poor Students is proposed to
be established in Oxford, England, with an en
dowment of JE30,000, a portion of which has
been already subscribed.
There is a gentleman out West who is so ten.
der-hearted, it is said, that he refuses to take
milk because he would be depriving the inno
cent calves of it.
“ We’ll gaily chase all care away
And banish every sorrow,
Subscribers pay your debts to-day,
And we’ll pay ours to-morrow.”
The editor of the N. O. Crescent, in his last
number, acknowledges the receipt of a pump
kin pie—a good pie—a glorious pie—in fact a
Southern pie with Northern principles.
The schooner Mohawk was wrecked at Os
wego, on the 7th instant, and two persons
drowned. The cargo, consisting of 9000 bush
els of wheat, was all lost.
The German Reformed Synod of Pennsylva
nia, during their recent sessions were occupied
jn an animated debato on the subject of the
preparation of a liturgy for the use of their
churches. To a limited extent, this church has
used a liturgy, but the proposition was for one
more full and extended. It met with some op
position, which in the end was overruled and a
committee was appointed to prepare anew form.
A gentleman in Buffalo, sent a communica
tion to Halifax, via New York, to which an an
swer was received in five hours from the time
the despatch was left in the office at the former
place.
A Correspondent of the New York Mirror,
vvritingfrom London says, “on the 20th of No*
vember, at the age of sixty-two, died one of the
artistic lights of the age, William Etty, R. A.
Like “ his favourite,” Robinson Crusoe, the
painter was born in the city of York, and like
Renibraut, his father was a miller.
Mr. Andrew McKee, an old and respectable
citizen of Charlottsvillc, Va., committed suicide
on Thursday evening last, by hanging himself
in his own house.
Tho beautiful blue color imparted to steel in
struments, is formed by grinding Prussian blue
with varnish. This will not stand heat.
Thirty-six vessels have sailed from the United
States for San Francisco within two weeks.
The Plicnix Bank in West Rhode Island was
robbed lately of upwards of $15,000, in 1,2, 5,
10 and 20 dollar notes. A reward of SIOOO is
offered for the robbers. The Bank w ill imme
diately call in its circulation.
John S. Ladd, a member of the Freewill
Baptist Church, and whose reputation w as other
wise good, hanged himself in Deerfield, N. 11.,
on Friday' week, aged fifty years.
There are now 5G Polish exiles in the city of
New York, and others continually arriving.
The Mormons are now founding anew colo
ny in lowa, about 15 miles north cf their pres
ent settlement, in Pottawataniic county.
The Stock of tho Charleston Gas Company is
now quoted at $32 per share—the par value
being $25-
It is stated that the usual average yield per
month of the Griffin Gold Mine in Georgia, is
from eighteen hundred to two thousand penny
weights.
The Cincinnati Gazette states that O'Reilly’s
Telegraphers intend to send the President’s
Messago to tho West, at there own expense, as
a compliment to the press.
In Norfolk, (Va.,) population 15,000, there
were only 11 deaths in November.
Hall McAllister, Esq ,has recieved the ap
pointment of District Attorney, for San Fran
cisco.
Four ships recently started from Liverpool
together, and arrived oil’ New York together,
having never lost sight of one another during
the passage.
Thomas Dun English has connected himself
with the “Jeffersonville Democrat,” a paper
published in Tazewell county , Va.
Tho London Times, speaking in the same
connection of the three mile panorama of the
Mississippi exhibited in that city and the rail
road to the Pacific, remarks that life indeed
was short, but American art was very long.
Tho Churchman says that the report that
five Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church
have signed a call for a special meeting of the
House of Bishops, is uot true.
Iu the Mayor’s Court, Providence, It. I,a ver
dict of S2BOO was rendered against tho Rev.
Dr. Pohlam, his son having accidentally shot
a boy named Yates, about two years since,
which rendered him a cripple.
The salary of the Rev. Mr. Wheeler, a Bap
tist Minister at San Fransisco, liu3 been fixed
at $lO, 090 per annum, payable monthly and in
advance.
Tho’wliolo immigration this year from Eu
rope, into New York, so far. amounts to 230,-
-133, over 41,000 more than arived in all the
last yoai.
Tho Rev. Win. 11. Harrison, of Jackson
North Carolina, has been called to tho Rector,
ship of St. Luke's church, in New York city, to
supply the place of Dr Forbes, who has joined
tile Roman Catholic Oht ;i Ii
About $3.>,«J00 have been raised in Ndw Or
leans, within a few months, to pay a debt on
the Poydras street Alethodist church. A num.
her of the individual contributions, are from
SSOO to SIOOO each.
Ibe new Catholic Church in Taunton was
demolished by the wind on Saturday afternoon,
Ist inst. The walls were of brick and unfinished
at the gable ends ; the roof was partly boarded.
Loss estimated at $5900 which will fall upon
the contractors.
According to the recent census, there are 92,
471 inhabitants in eighteen counties of Iowa;
an increase, in two years, of ahought one fourth
It is estimated that the general census will
show a population, in the entire State, of over
200,000 ; sufficient to entitle it to three repre
sentatives iu Congress.
Rev. Mr. Perking, Unitarian minister, com
mitted suicide on Friday last, at Cincinnati,
by jumping ofl'tlic ferry boat.
A bill uniting Charleston and the Neck has
passed both houses of the Legislature of South
Carolina.
On the 2Gth ult., James Jackson Jarves pres
ented his credentials to the Secretary of the
State, and was recieved as a special commis
sioner of IJis Majesty the King of the Hawaii
an Island, to the government of the United
States.
The Corpse of Marian, the celebrated /Ero
naut, who made a baloon ascent some weeks
ago from Barcelona, and had not been heard of
has been discovered on the Spanish coast.
The Conington (la.) Friend, of the 17th ult,
says that Mr. Hannegan has tended to the Presi
dent his resignation as Minister to Berlin. He
was expected home by Christinas,
ihe Supreme Court of New Jersey has given
1 homas E. Deacon S2BOO damages against J.
S. &W. H. Slireve for back-watering the wheels
of plaintiff's mills, located upon Racocus Creek-
There is before the Mexican Congress, a pro
position made by a citizen of the United States,
to build a railway from Vera Cruz to Acapulco
on the Pacific,passing through the city of Mexico’
A Daguerreotype picture of the moon has been
taken by a Canandaigua artist. It was sent to
the President of Harvard College.
Mrs. Miller, the woman who sought to cover
the disgrace of abandoning her husband and
children, by leading to the impression that she
hud commited suicide at tho Falls of Niagara,
lias not been arrested, as it was said, at Syracuse.
Among other projects for quieting the agita
tion of the slavery question, so far as tho Distrct ;
of Columbia is concerned, is anew one for the )
establishment of a territorial government over I
the District, upon the non-intervention plan. j
Several of the Jamaica papers take stroug |
ground in favor of annexation to the United I
States.
The Bank of England has reduced its rate of
discount fiom 3 to 2.J per cent.
Cleveland was lighted with gas for the first
time on the 7th inst
The California Company, under Audubon,
was 8 mouths and 29 days in reaching San Die
go—s ill a long way from the gob! region.
Law passed the South Carolina Legislature on
the sth inst , by a very large vote, providing
for the punishment oftrafickers of spirituous
liquors with slaves, by public whiping for the
first offence.
Mrs. Julia Folio fell dead in the streets op
Toronto, on the 22d ult., from over excitement
in her efforts to procure bail for her son, a lad
about ten years old, who had been detected, with
several other youths, in the act of stealing in a
garden and ludged in jail.
The publishers of the Blue lien’s Chicken
at Wilmington, Del., have been convicted for
libel, on Zenos B. Glazier,of that plaee.
At the late District Court,Fort Madison, lowa
there were two and twenty-five cases j
on the docket! But a few years since, that dis
trict of country did not emlraceas many inhabi
tants. A renin liable instance of the progress op'
civilization.
The annual expenses of the Royal Family of]
Great Britain are estimated at abont $3,500,000.
It is slated that the asual average yield per j
month of the Griffin Gold mine in Georgia, is '
from ISOO to 2000 penny weights.
Some of the ablest inen in Texas are coming i
Out in support of the sited taken by Governor
Wood, iu his message, relative to the Texas
boundary, and the State’s right of jurisdiction
over Sautu Fe.
Bartium has recently introduced into his Now j
York Museum, anew wonder in the shape of a ]
Black Greenland Whale, fifty feet in length,
and which weighed, when taken, seventy tons! j
It is a leviathan of the deep, and atiracts thou-j
sands of visiters.
Tho Constitution adopted by the people of'
California is the same nearly, as that ofNew York
and several of our States.
The cholera has been very fatal among the
Indians in Northern Wisconsin, lately. About ,
sivlv of the Menomonies have died since Octo
ber 15th. It has been aggravated by their im
prudence and intemperance.
Ten new steamers are now being completed at
i Rtsburg. Seven of them arc of the largest
class.
A Jury in *\c\v York gave in a verdic t of sl,- ,
OOl) damages last week, ngani.'d ll lIIJU ' or " n ]
ting a letter in which he called n respectable j
woman an improper character.
It is thought that the railroad in Broadway,
New York, iscortain to be built. Many of the 1
previous opponents of the project have changed
their opposition into approval.
Mr. Xenophon Argvros, Greek envoy to the I
United States, is now on his way to his country, j
His object is to conclude a commercial treaty j
between his Government and ‘lie United States.
The trial of Nathaniel Childs, at St. Louis:
charged with embezzling a large amount of gold
coin belonging to the Bank of Missouri, has ter- j
minated in the acquittal of the accused.
Capt. Cannon, of the steamer Louisiana, has!
been acquitted of all blame in the matter of the
explosion oft! vessel.
Thomas Moore, the Irish melodist, is, we re
gret to learn, still ce fined to Jus bed by severe
indisposition.
Klapka, the Ilung; m General, by the way,
is expected here by l Ist of January. Airan
gomenla «ro already t .mg to i;ive him such
a welcome as he einilie tljr and«». i ves.
Council Cimitilier, }
DtcxMHKii 28, le 19. j
REGULAR -MEETING.
Present—The Mayor.
Aid. Ayres, Babcock , Carhart, Ross Dibble,
Sliinliolsur aud Sparks.
Absent—Aid. Collins.
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read
and confirmed.
The Bridge Keeper reported Tolls for tho
week ending ibis day, $174 50.
The Committee on Public Property respect
fully report adverse to the Petition of L. J.
Groce, Agent, for a part of the Street to enlarge
his lot on Spring and Magnolia Streets. Thu
report was received and adopted.
The Finance Committee beg leave to report
in favor of the following Bills and recommend
tiicir payment, to witj
Win. Scott’? for $75 00.— Charles Collin's for
$lO 00.
Tho Committed also beg leave to report ad
verse to the Bill of Justices Court lor $5 50.
Shinholser A- Whitehurst's Bill for Sewer in
Cotton Avenue, amount $2 GO, parsed.
Bills referred to the Finance Committee, viz :
“Southern Museum,” and “Georgia Telegrflpk.
Shinholser & Whitehurst’s Bill for the Fourth
Quarter’s Contract on Streets, was received and ;
referred to the Street Committee.
The Street Committee to whom was referred
the Petition of R. A. L. Atkinson, and E. A.
Nisliet, report adverse to the Petition.
Win. Collins’ Bond us Street Contractor for
ISSO, was received and approved.
A Communication from George A. White was
received and on motion, it was laid on the table
for the ballanceof the year.
The Committee on Public Property report the
following Resolutions, and recommend their
adoption :
ttesolrrd , That the Macon Manufacturing
Company he permuted to close the Alley be
tween Lots Numbers Twelve and Thirteen, on
the South-Western Two Acre Lots in the City
of Mac in, and tui ti er, that the said Company
have leave to extend their Lots recently pur
chased from James A. Ralston, up to the line of
the advanced trouts of the two acre lots.
Ileso'ved, That the Spring Lot below tho resi
dence of James A Ralston, be conveyed to the
said Manufacturing Company for the purpose of
their using the water from said Spring, leaving
an Alley of Thirty Feet between said Lot and
the Lot of Ralston. Provided, that said Com
pany shall not he allowed to build any houses
on said lot.
AYRES, v
ROSS, \ Committee.
SHINHOLSER,)
’J’he above Report was received and adopted.
Council then adjourned to Friday next, at 7
o’clock, P. 51.
Attest, A. R. FREEMAN, c. c.
Ur' ’l lie Friends of THO JJ VS
Ii A ii Ii V and DAVID J. DAVIS,
announce them as candidates for the offices of
Sheriff'and Deputy Sheriff' for the County of
Bibb, at tho election on the first Monday in
January next.
! nov 17 51—ts
j ID' We liavc been requested to
j announce 11. <4. JETT Id ICS, ns a candi
j date for re-election to the office of Clerk of tho
j Itifctior Court ofßibb County, at the election in
January next.
j nov 17 51 —ts
I tD’SAMLUEL ATI4.INSON is a
, Candidate for Clerk of the Inferior Court of Bibb
■ County, at tho election in January next.
nov 10 50— *
1! j Wc Dave been authorised to
announce IN C. biIEiCWODI), as u can
didate for Tux Collector oh Bibb county, at tin;
election in January next.
nov 24 52—ts
(LT We have been requested to
i announce JAMES IS. BENNETT, as a
j candidate for Coroner of Bibb county, at the
election on the first 51onday in January next,
dec 15 3—ts
D JESSE iliOStiUM is it candidate
for Coroner of Bibb County, at the Election in
January next.
nov 10 50—ts
D’Tlie friends of G£O ECG EM.
LOilAUi , announce him as u candidate for
re-election for the office of Mayor of the city of
Macon, for tho ensuing year.
dec 2!) MANY VOTERS.
Notice.
A LL persons are cautioned against trading for
xA. a certain pronaisory note, for Four Hundred
and Fifty Dollars, signed by myself, and dated
on the 30th of February, 1849, and payable by
the first day of January next, to Mustian &. Mott,
or order, as the consideration for which said
note was given has failed, and [ will not pay said
note until the consideration is fullv complied
with. i). DEMPSEY.
Macon, December 29, 1849. 5 3t
Quirk time ! quick time I!
Daguerreotype portraits taken
in from three to twenty seconds, at the Cook
Il.ici'tlmriN It oo Sts, Millb"erry St., near the
new Hotel. Also, in operation, the new and
most astonishing improvement in the art : that
of executing two correct Likenesses of one sub
ject, side, front, or back views on one Piute, at
the same sitting. Single Pictures taken at re
duced prices. Hours for operating are from 9
A. M., to 4, P. 51. Likenesses taken as well in
cloudy, as in fair weather.
The Public are respectfully invited loculi aud
examine tho specimens.
Instrucliohs given in the art.
J 51 HART, Jr list.
dec 29
Sous ol' Teuipcruuce.
Tomocuichi Division No. 1, will celebrate
its Anniversary and the introduction of the Order
into the State, THIS (Saturday) EVENING —th
of December. Tim Members of Tomocliiehi
Division, and all others of tho Order, whose
convenience it may ::iit, are invited to assemble
at Ti;Mfi.KA.scn II LL, on Tillß SATURDAY
EVENING, at h o'clock, where u Procei ,on
will be f.u i ! in . proceed to flic Baptist Church,
at which place art Oration will be delivered bv
Brother J.E. Wu.i.r.TT,.of Pcnfield University
The PuLlk arc i. spectftilly invited to attend.
J K. II \ K MON, 5
.1. G. ROGERS, Committee
E. SAI BSttl liV, V of
•I.C. GILBERT, 51 I>. j An;,r: S°-
P. A. S’l it HILL, J
■Journal .Messenge r aud 'Eel. graph * opy
dec 29 42t
Si tbit County Academy.
i rriHE EXERCISES in the Male Dkpakt-
I me XT of this Institution will be resumed on
TUESDAY, the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY,
at 9 o'clock, A. M. A competent Assistant
! has been engaged, and every effort will he made
to render the Avndemy worthy of public confi
dence. I'. A. STKOBEL, Rector.
I ** 4—:*t
j Wanted to Heut, or Ptirdiaxc.
• i A comfortable Dwelling House in a
| a pleasant and convenient part of ike city,
Jl-ifl.pur particulars anplv at this office
dec 22 ** 4—tl
buperioi' Teas.
A splendid lot of TEAS, both
r: ■,ifjji Green and Black, warranted fine,
M just received not from the Canton
113.;*,: Tea Company of New York, at
W. FREEMAN'S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street,
dec 1 I
SELLING OFF AT C OS I’ !
find Store forlltcnt.
fIMIE Subscribers having learned by sad cx
-I perience that they have, by entering the
mercantile business, “missed their calling,” now
offer their GOODS at cost , for the purpose of
seeking some humble retreat in the less frequent
ed paths ofliterature.
L. J. & A. J. ROBERT,
Cotton Avenue,between Messrs. Bray and Fitch's
dec 8 2—2
One Hundred Dollars Reward,
UJ ILL be paid for the apprehension and de
livery to tho Jailor of Bibb county, of
THOMAS BURGE, of Marion county, who
killed Riciiahu Altman, of Crawford county,
in this city, on the 14th of November.
GEO. M. LOGAN, Mayor.
M aeon, Nov. 24, 1849. 52-3 t
Northern Butter.
i)A FIRKINS PRIME BUTTER, of tho
I ....ii i.„ . ; i ....... i’.ii
fresh from some of the best dairies nt the North.
Just received by W. FREEMAN,
doc 8
Wanted Immediately*
rinvo OR THREE JOURNEYMEN CABI-
I NET-51AKERS. None except good work
men, and such as are willing to make themselves
useful, need apply.
WOOD & BRADLEY. •
net 20 47—ts
Notice.
fIQIIRTY DAYS after date, application will
I lie Hindi! by the undersigned to the City
Council of Macon, for a Lease to a Lot ofGrouud
situated on the East end of the North West
Commons, immediately at the junction of First
and Wharf Streets, extending Westward to tho
line oftiie Alley iu Square Sixty-six, (GG,) and
Nortluvard to or near the llivcr—to be used for
the Southern Botanic Medical College and
Botanic Garden. And also, for leave to occupy
a small portion of the rear of said Streets.
51. S. THOMSON,
dec 1 I—st
Notice.
rpiIIRTY DAYS after date application will
T he made by the “ Macon Manufacturing
Company,” for permission to close the Alley
between the Two Acre Lots, Numbers Twelve
and Thirteen, on the South West Common, and
for a Lease of the Lot on which the Spring is,
near Mr. J. A. Ralston’s.
JOHN J. GRESHAM,
nov 24 52—5 t
Oysters, lTesli Oysters.
LMNE, Large, Fat, Fresh OYSTERS, will bo
« received every night and sold by the Pint,
Quart or Gallon, at such prices that every body
must have some. The Oysters will he received
and must be sold nt sonic price or another—so all
you lovers of good Oysters, walk up and get a
few, at W. FREEMAN’S,
dec 1 1
E3attis, Butter, Syrup, Ac.
/"I INCINNATI Sugar cured HAMS
\J GOSHEN BUTTER
New Orleans Sugar House SYRUP
A few Jars of very white Leaf LARD.
All of choice quality, just received and for
sale by GLO. T. ROGERS,
dec 1 Cherry Street.
Sundries.
OPF.RSI OIL and CANDLES
O Kio an and Java Coffee
Crushed and Powdered Sugars
Champaigne and Madeira Wines
Nuts and Crackers of all kinds
Sardines and Lobsters
Pickles by the Jar or Gallon
Codfish, Mackerel and Sliad
Superfine Wheat and Rye Flour
Fine Starch, Mustard, Tapioca
Spices, Chocalate, &c., at
W. FREEMAN’S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street.
dec 1 1
Tt:sc C lie wing Tobacco.
C 1 11. &S. LILIF.NTHAL’S well known
1 • superior fine Cut Chewing TOBACCO,
in papers and cans. Also, various brands of
Chewing Tobacco—some ofwhich the knowing
ones say cannot be beat. Also, various brands
of CIGARS, which are just good enouch. For
sale at W. FREEMAN’S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street. .
dec 1 1
New Bice.
19IVF. Tierces of prime quality, just received
and for sale by GEO. T. ROGERS,
dec 1 1
New YorkSteum Uellneit Cumlics
V STILL Larger assortment of CANDIES,
just received and for sale as low as any
Candies in Town,at W. FREEMAN’S,
dec 1 I
Apples ami Mercer Potatoes.
k BARRELS in fine order, for sale by
Si 1 dec I GEO. T. ROGERS.
iliickwtieat, Ac.
j I W I SACKS Fine Buckwheat
I VM * 50 boxes new crop Raisins
25 do superior Cheese
Just received at W. FREEMAN'S.
dec 1 I
Canal amt Baltimore Flour.
1 Ajk WHOLE and Half Barrels FLOUR.
I 5 M * Just received and for sale low by
dec 1 GEO. T. ROGERS.
Clieese.
'ey BOXES of superior quality, in large and
/ -) small boxes, just received and for sale by
dec 1 GEO. T. ROGERS.
Cuba Molasses.
Aj v HDDS, in line order, just received and
S' ' for sale low by
dec i GEO. T. ROGERS.
Single Horse Dra>.
\ SINGLE HORSE DRAY and HARNESS
u V nearly new, tor sale cheap by
dev 1 GEO T ROGERS.