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A Touching Scexe. —The New York Tribune
records the following beautiful incident connec
toJ with the attentions of the Hungarian refu
gees: —“On Monday morning, three Germany
evidently workingmen, went to the Astor House
and asked to sec the Hungarians. They were
immediately introduced, and remained some
timo in conversation with Gov. Ujhazy and
family. Finally twoof them withdrew and left
llie third, who continued to talk but seemed to
have something tu say which he could not get
out. At last, addressing Mile. Clara, the daugh
ter of Mr. Ujhazy, he said that as exiles who
w ere remote from their country and friends and
whose property had been confiscated in conse
quence of their devotion to freedom and people's
rights, they must be in an embarrassed condi
tion. Then drawing from his pocket a bank
note he said, “Fraulein, this is but little, for I
am poor man, and have only what I can earn,
hut I could not refrain from giving the tribute
of my mite to you. Receive this, I beg you as
the heart ottering of a workman to the defenders
of liberty.’ Mile. Ujhazy, who had not expec
ted anything of this kind, and was rather em
barrassed, replied in a tone of emotion, that she
was deeply grateful for such kindness, but that
they were not in a condition to ask it, when her
father said : “Take it, my daughter, and feel
thyself and us all more honored than if a mon
arch had bestowed millions upon thee !” at the
same time warmly pressing the hand of the no
ble laborer, and assuring him that they could
nevef forget him. Wo leave our r caders to im
agine the scene.’
Melancholy Affair. — We learn (says the
IS. O. I’icayune of Monday) from a passenger
on the steamer Antics Crocker, from Red River
this morning, that an affair of honor took place
at Shreveport on or about the 20lli ull., between
the Hon. D Hester, formerly a Representative
of Ca Ido parish, and Ur. Green, of Shreveport,
ill which both parties lost their lives.
Abundance of Gold. —Nearly sixteen mill
ions of gold is lying in the coffers of the Back
of England, unemployed. The heavy receipts
of this commodity from Russia and California,
excited much interest among the political econo
mists of England; and causes the future effects
of such a plethora upon the currency of the
country to become a fruitful topic of discussion.
A Nation of Convicts. —The English Gov
ernment is in want of anew convict land-
Australia, so long a depot for outcasts, lias be
come so strong and aristocratic, that she refuses
to receive more convicts. The same feeling ex
ists at the Cape of Good Hope, so that Britain
must hunt up some corner of the Globe, for a
new penal colony. Australia not only refuses
to receive convicts, hut, with her nearly three
million inhabitants, begins to talk about inde
pendence from the mother country. It would
be a phenomenon to see the transported vaga
bonds of England rise into a competing and
rival empire.
A Monster Ox —There is an ox in Cam
bridge, Mass-, which now weighs 3,700 pounds,
and it is thought by good judges that iu less
than three months time he will weigh nearly if
not quite 5,000. His owner, Justin Marey, Esq ,
states that the animal never has been stall-fed,
and that he intended to fatten him during the
present winter. He was raised in Stanstead,
Canada, by Lewis E. Rose, Esq., and measures
eleven feet frotn the nose to the rump, six feet
in height, and nine feet six inches in girth, and
is but seven years old.
Methodists in England.— lt is stated that
the members of the Wesleyan Society, in Great
Britain, number 348,274, and estimating tbo
numbe.r of attendants and hearers at two-thirds
more, the whole number of persons of this per
suasion is about 900,000, besides which there
are 100,000 Methodists of other classes. The
significant facts are stated that the Government,
as administered by Sir Robert Peel, had owned
itself defeated in a favorite measure solclv by
the Wesleyan Methodists' opposition ; that the
I Wesleyan Missionary Society takes the lead in
I the matter of income, while no other denomina-
I turn has attempted anything like its centenary
fund—about <gt 1 ,"300,000.
Nicaraguan Affairs.— We find the follow*
| mg paragraph in the United Service Gazette :
j “ We have heard, from good authority, that Lord
Palmerston is determined to allow of no Arneri-
I tan interference in Nicaraguan affairs, and that,
at all events, British interests shall not be
menaced either on the West Indies’ side or the
Pacific side of Nicaragua. llis Lordship, we
are informed, has acted most promptly in the
matter, and that, in order to forward despatches
to the Commander in Chief in the Pacific on the
subject, the West India packet was detained lor
sumo hours at Southampton. Rear Admiral
Hornby, it is said, is ordered up with his squad
ton to cruise in the neighborhood of Panama, and
to he within call of the British Charge d'Affairs
®t Nicaragua."
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" ,lv Course of Trade.—Among tho impor.
■ by the Empire City are several casks of
I China ware, chests of tea, and several packages
1 silks, direct from China, and consigned by
I Jvnn and Livingston, San Francisco to
I I-i' ington, Wells and Go., of Now York. These
I ne the first direct importations from China to
I this city by way of the Isthmus, the forerunner
Ia valuable trade.
■ , " AMS -—The Southern Cultivator notices some
■ lls exhibited at the Georgia State Fair, which
■ y l . rt) "ae, two, three, and four years old. Tho
■ , Vl ys the owner refused to divulge his se
■ '!' u t as we have fortunately become posscss
■ ("|, Ul ' , ’. We hero give it. Procure some good,
(l' 1 "’ hickory ashes, have them perfectly dry;
• )' ol, r meat from pickle on a dry day ; sprin
' e the ashes over the meat pretty thick, being
nil ■ lU>l * {noc * c more salt than what
i as"' 1 , ‘ l " ; Hien hang tip your meat as high
bv l !° , ? blc; s,nn^e •* v 'iHi cool smoke, made
I f’- nr y Wood ;ho sure to take it down be-
I ° 1 '! s V'PP ,!r fly makes his appearance, being
■ it ~ lerj ' n this climate the first of March ; pack
I I,'- v 0,1 a dry day in casks ; first a layer of
I einils 111 ( ! >er *' ecl, y -Iry hickory ashes ; second, a
I .i n .l*"|i * cl>ni c “'* s i vVe.; cover vour cask snug
I ham,'® H ’ ■ vo ' l mi y rUrit *«*>’ about your
The Cotton Crop. —The following is an ex
tract of a letter from a respectable source to the
New Y ork Journal of Commerce :
“New Orleans, Dec. 14,1849.
We have concluded to drop you a line on the
prospects of the Cotton crop, as we perceive you
are getting up estimates in your city. Piices
here continue firm, notwithstanding the late de
cline per “Europa,” as the general belief in the
undoubted shortness of the crop is gaining
ground daily. The late advices from the prin
cipal shipping ports on the rivers, report that
two-thirds of the Cotton is in, and that the fall
ing off in the receipts at this port will be very
evident in January.
The writer (J. W.) having lived some fifteen
years in the interior, has ample means of infor
mation on the subject, and were we to alter our
first estimate of the crop (2,200,000,) we would
reduce rather than increase that figure. It is a
great mistake you seem to be falling into in New
York, that the fine weather for “ picking'' would
naturally increase the crop. In ordinary years
it would no doubt do good, and it has, we pre
sume been beneficial in Georgia, where they
had much rain, but in this State, Mississippi,
Alabama and Arkansas, where heavy rains con
tinued up to a late period, the fine weather lias
done no good in making new Cotton, the new
formations having rotted and been destroyed by
the worms together.
We are getting accounts now daily from the
interior, that there is great disappointment on the
part of the planters, as to the yield, and vie
have but little doubt ourselves, that the great
hulk of the crop will be at the ports in Februa
ry, as it is now, in fact, all gathered. Thu good
roads and high piices have induced planters to
forward to market, and this will account to you
for the heavy receipts. Several rivers also have
been navigable (Tennessee and Tombigbee,)
owing to the continued rains in August; so tha l
we havo received some 40,000 bales from North
Alabama and Tennessee already, never before
received till after January. The same case at
Mobile, as regards the Tombigbee river. We
therefore repeat that we consider 2.200,000 bales
a high estimate of the crop.’
American Tf.a. — The New Y r ork Journal of
Commerce publishes a letter from Ur. Junius
Smith, dated at Greenville, S. C., by which it
appears that he still entertains sanguine hopes
of being able to compete successfully with the
Chinese in the cultivation of tea. Ur. Smith
says that his expectations are fully realized, and
gives an interesting history of Ins first experi
ment in the culture. He at first limited himself
to one acre, and having obtained satisfactory
results from this, his plantation was cp.l; irl , e( j
and lie now states that he expects r.ey't Spring to
plant out forty acres. In a Pamphlet published
in 1848, on the subject of tea, Dr. Smith esti
mates that 547 pounds may be grown upon an
acre, and that at this rate it would require only
20,109 acres to supply the total consumption in
the United States. Experiment has proved that
thoplant will stand cold weather without injury.
A Painful Incident. — A correspondent of
the New York Evening I’ost comments upon the
scene of the House presented when the dupli
city of Mr. W.J. Brown was first discovered, and
details an incident which carries with it a moral
that should not he lost.
“One of the most painful incidents in this
whole scene I have not yet mentioned. It was
taken fnrgranted on all hands, before the House
met, that lirown would be elected on the first or
second ballot. He had prepared his installa
tion speech, and his poor wife had gone with
him to tiic House to share his triumph She
was in the gallery of the House when his pros
pects were so ignominiously blasted Had that
fact been generally known to the members, it is
probable that she would have been spared much
of the agony which the scene before her must
have occasioned "
Naturalization of Females. —Many women,
says the New York Tribune, who come from
Europe and intend residing perrnaneiilly in cite
United States, think, as they cannot expect to
vote, there is no use of their becoming natural
ized ; hut this is a very serious mistake. By
the law, the property escheats to the State, and
it is the duty of the Attorney General to see that
estates, which would descend to the wife, if she
was a citizen, arc taken by the State. Previous
to the year 1845, public informers could draw
the one-eighth of property informed of thus
seized, but by change of the law this is no lon
ger the case. It is now lefttn the power of per
sons who are at enmity with a widow thus to
inform and have her all taken away. Os course,
cases of this kind are few ; the widow is usually
allowed to enjoy property unmolested, hut she
cannot make a title to it, and if she attempts to
sell, or when she dies and ln-r heirs dispose of
her estate, litigation almost certainly ensues,
and on examination he State seizes the property
in dispute. Gases of this kind are constantly
occurring; thousands of dollars are thus lost
annually. and all women not naturalized should
become so at once.
Indiana Colleges, &c.—We learn from
Gov. Dunning’s annual message to the Legisla
ture of Indiana, that there are five universities
and colleges in that State ; Indiana Asbury Uni
versity, which presents a catalogue of 295 stu
dents ; Indiana Uni\ ersity, which numbers 197 ;
Hanover College, 183; Wabash College, 148,
with a library of 6000 volumes and a rich geo
logical cabinet, and Franklin College numbers
145, making an aggregate of 968 scholars receiv
ing collegiate instruction.
Cruf.l Haste of Accusation.— A young
girl, at service, in a wealthy family in New York,
was accused of stealing two wine-coolers which
hadbeen missed. She was committed to prison,
where she contracted a sickness which caused
her death. Recently, the family being about to
repair to Europe, commenced packing their
plate, when tho wine-coolers were found undis
turbed.
A Swindler. —Public notice has been given
from Princeton, N. J , warning Southern parents
against an impostor who has been levying money
at the South, chiefly in Alabama and Mississippi.
Ho is described as representing himself at some
places as a student from Princeton College, at
others as one from Yale ; sometimes going under
the name of Simpson, and at other times assum
ing tho names of young men atone and other of
the above colleges. In this way he lias been
entrusted by the parents or guardians of students
with sums of money, etc., to bring on to them.
Several of the students at Princeton have been
thus swindled to a considerable amount. To
prevent such mishaps in future, this notice is
given. He is about five feet six or seven inches
in height, thick set, with sandy hair, and has one
of his eye teeth considerably decayed and dis
figured.
There is an oak on the domain of the Grand
Duke of llesso Darmstadt, which is believed to
he a thousand years old ; its trunk measure*
I thirty-six feet in circumference. 4< istlieolnfcsl
I rce in Germany.
ITEMS.
Mr. Mappin, of Sheffield, has invented a razo r
possessing the keenness of the lancet point,
while it retains the temper and lasting qualities
of the steel.
St. Petersburg is to be lighted with electricity,
by order of the Etnperor, if practicable. Expe
riments on n large scale arc being made in vaii.
ous parts of the city for the purpose.
Several of the Indian Chiefs concerned in the
late disturbances on Lake Superior, have been
examined at Toronto, and discharged from arrest,
at least for the present. The general feeling at
Toronto is that the Indians have been shame,
fully treated by the whites.
It is estimated that there are in London 28,577
needle-women, under twenty years of age, the
average earnings of each being four pence half
penny a day.
By a typographical error in one of our exchan
ges, we learn that two cows were cut into
calves by the railroad train.
Two daughters of Dr. Bathurst, late Bishop of
Norwich, England, have lately been received
into the Roman Catholic Church.
A young German Catholic Priest, named Au
gustus Schmidt, committed suicide in Baltimore
on Sunday last, by hanging himself in the loft of
an out-house.
A child of Philip Mordecai, between four and
five years old, was burned to death at Norfolk,
on Friday, by setting fire to its clothes, while
playing with lucifer matches. It had been lef t
alone only five minutes.
Henry Rex Browne, the negro that escaped
from Richmond, Va., last summer, by being pac
ked in a box and shipped xs merchandise, is now
getting up a panorama of “The Slave Trade
and Life on a Plantation.”
A lady recently died at Berlin, after inha
ling ether to deaden her nerves while a tooth
was drawn.
The New Y'ork sun speaks ot persons in that
city, moving in fashionable society, who are
nothing but spies supported by foreign govern
ments to watch the actions of private individuals
and public men, and especially their uv/n gouir
trymen, to report to their governments.
We learn from the Floridian that
ten thousand dollars hf.vts Direr,.ly been subscri
bed towards tl'.e establishment ofa acotton fac
tory in that place,
Sunday, the 16th of December, was the anni
versary of the destruction of the tea in Boston
harbor, which took place in 1773, seventy-six
years ago.
A sailor, convicted of striking a superior offi'
ccr, recently reccived2s lasheson his bare hack,
witli the cat-o’-nine-tails. The punishment was
inflicted on board the U. S. sloop of war Ger
mantown at Norfolk.
In France the political excitement has taken
the form of individual duels. Half a dozen
have occurred, and all with bloodless results
M. Pierre Bonaparte figure in no less than three
or four.
During the performance of’Romeo and Juliet,'
at the Sheffield Theatre, England, lately, Mrs.
Saville, who enacted the part of Romeo, attack
ed Tybalt under such stage excitement, that
she actually stabbed him in the side. The near
ly murdered Tybalt (Mr. Ualfc) is recovering.
The President of France, and several other
benevolent persons, have raised a capital of
of above $20,000 for building loading houses
for the working classes.
It is said that General Haynnu, in reply to a
lady who besought pardon for her husband, sla
ted that an armistice would bo issued on the first
of January, JBSO.
An influential and wealthy German, Mr. Hol
zcndorll Viermannsdoff, proposes to form a soci
ety for the emancipation of'tlie people in Europe,
to commence with preparing the way by their
moral improvement.
W. 11. Prescott is said to he. engaged upon a
“Life of Philip the Second of Spain,” which
will bo published during the coining vear.
The annual arrests in London for criminal
offences are said to he 8,500, and the number of
known thieves and pickpockets 116,538 !
A gentleman largely engaged in hog-slaugh
tering this se.ason, says the Cincinnati Commer
cial, estimated that the number of hogs to be
slaughtered this year will exceed 400,000. Up
to Saturday week, about 250,000 had been killed
and packed.
Tiie London papers speak highly of anew
invention by a Mr. Hall, by which ’lie combus
tion of coal in steam furnaces is rendered as per
fect as possible. The floor of the furnace con
sists of long bars inclined at a considerable an
gle, and slowly moved backwards and forwards
in a certain order by means oferentrics working
on the small axle, which act upon teeth, with
which the bars are supplied.—The machinery is
said to bo simple and effective.
It is said that gutla perclm can be used for
large printing letters, and that impressions from
metal types.
The whole number of Indians in Florida does
not exceed 822, and only 137 of these are war
riors,— the rest wonen and children. It is strange
that such a handful of people are so frequently
capable of disturbing the public peace.
The Lake Trade of New York and Boston
for the year IB4T it is estimated. \vjl| amount to
nearly $75,000,000 in value. This commerce
is said to double itselfevery four years. In 1844
it was more than $84,000,000.
The Convention of the. State of Kentucky has
decided to incorporate in anew Constitution, a
clause excluding anyone who has fought a duel,
or sent a challenge, from office in the Common,
wealth.
The Cuban revolutionists have revived tho
schemes, und opened an office at Washington,
as the head quarters af the leaders and promo
ters of tho enterprise.
Attached to the various religious denomina
tions in the United States, there are over 30,000
bishops, ministers, priests, or clergy.
It is recorded in Chinese history that in the
reign of King Ti, (A. D. 555,) “the people be
gan to sit with their legs hanging down ;" i. 0.,
they used chairs !
The foundation or content must spring up in a
man’s own mind ; and lie who has so little knowl
edge of human nature ns to seek liapincss by
changing anything but his own disposition, will
waste his life in fruitless efforts, and multiply
the griefs which he purposes to remove.
A London paper says that portraits in oil of
any size, are now taken by a photngrophic pro.
cess in sitting nfaltalf a minute. The process
is ea I led ph o t o-prosopon.
It is estimated that not less than twenty-two
millions of pounds sterling offoreign capital have
been invested in English securities, in conse
quence of the disturbed state of Europe during
t he last eighteen months.
A government expedition has been sent out to
explore the Pimienta, a part of the mountain
chan of the Cordilleras, with a view of ascer
taining whether there exists in that region a city,
and a people, with whom no communication has
as yet been established.
It is stated that the hangman of the Mannings
will probably realize £l5O by the sale of the
clothes of the wretched culprits. He received
seventy guineas from Madame Tussaud, for the
suit in which Rush was executed ; anil she is
reported to have made £ISOO by the exhibition
of her wax model of Rush, in her famous gallery.
Dr. Scoresby in a recent address nt Whitby,
Yorkshire, expressed his confident belief in the
safety of Sir John Franklin and his
upon the supposition that had there been any
catastrophe, some few of the one hundred and
forty scientific and hardy voyagers would cer
tainly make their way to some fishing station.
A meeting was recently held in London, ad
vocating the abolition of capital punishment
Several judges, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Ewart, and
other members of Parliament were present.
The question is to be brought before Govern
ment speedily.
At Stockton-upon-Tees, a theatrical piece has
been produced called “Rush ; or, the Stanfield
Hall Murder,'* in which all the shocking inci
dents of that horrible affair aic represented, not
omitting the distinguishing exhibition of the ex
ecution.
A post runner at Orkney,near Berwick, whose
daily travel on foot was thirty-two miles, with
about eight miles of additional offerries—lately
died. He hud been thus occupied during a peri
od of twenty-nine years, and consequently had
traversed in all 117,000 miles by land on foot,
and 1,000 miles by sea across ferries, making a
total of 130,000 miles.
A copy of “Doomsday Book" has lately been
presented to Dr. Shepherd’s library at Preston,
by Mr. Pender, the Mayor of the town.
Mr- T. P. Lewis, son of the Celebrated come
dian, has bequeathed £lu,ooo to the National
Gallery of London, with the request that his
father s por'Taiimny be there exhibited.
Ur. B'jckland, the geologist, proposes a plan
f°r supplying London with freshwater in any
quantity, by means of an open canal, which
should receive the rain water from an area of
some 2,500 square miles, which now flows into
the Thames, near Henley.
It is remarked that on the recent observance of
the public thanksgiving day in England, there
was nota single instance of police interference
or arrest in London—a fact unparalleled even
on a Sabbath. On that day £4OOO was collec
ted at the various churches in contributions for
the poor.
Her Majesty’s ship Pandora arrived at Ports
mouth from the Pacific a few weeks ago, with
gold dust to the value of £IOO,OOO on freight.
Mr. D’lsraeli has stated that the lands of Bri
tain are mortgaged for an amount twothirdsas
great as the national debt. And the interest on
these mortagages, and the interest on the nation
al debt, and the support of the whole govern
ing aristocracy, comes upon the back of the la
borer.
The Roman Catholics observed a day of pub
lic thanksgiving in their churches, on the 25th
of November, as none of the Catholic clergy,
in London, had died of cholera.
A splendid cxibition of French industry, in
cluding superb furniture, tapestry, jewelry &c.,
wasrecently opened to the British public at 13
George street, Hanover Square. Among other
curious works of art, were a magnificent missal,
made for the Queen of Spain, and some splen
didly carved liine-ivood book covers.
The last British Navy List states that there
are 671 vessels, large and small, in the British
navy. Numerically, this is the largest naval
force in the world, but the list includes various
craft to a great extent useless.
An invention of novel character has been
madein Paris. By a simple yet ingenious me
chanism, the foldingof the newspaper, which
has hitherto been performed by the hand, is
now effected by a peculiar machine. With the
assistance afone person to attend to it, ibis nia.
chine will fold 2000 newspapers an hour.
During the performances of divine service in
the Episcopal church at Honesdale, N. J. on
Christinas eve, part of the plastering of the ceil
ing became detached, and fell to the floor, a dis- :
tance of twenty feet. The church was crowded
in every pari, except exactly where the plarter
ing fell, directly in front of the pulpit, yet no
lives were lost.
Dr. King, the American Missionary in
Greece, is now assisted in various educational
labors at Athens, by Professor Sophocles, a 1
Greek. For several years he was connected I
with Harvyard College, in Massachusetts. Prot. '
8. is untiring in his eflorts to reform and enligh- j
ten his country men, and regai dless of the former I
popular out cry against I)r King, and the perse- |
secution he has suffered. Sophocles stands reso
lutely by him.
When water freezes it forms itself into crys
tals with interstices, and expands : hence, ice
swims, and is eight parts in one hundred ligh
ter than water. Some metals and sulphur also
expand when crystallizing, while other bodies
contract. Salt water docs not freeze till four
degrees lower.
Combustible bodies will not burn if dipped in
a solution of potash, or phosphate of lime, or
muriate, sulphate, and phosphate of ammonia,
with borax. The alkaline substances arrest the
hydrogen, or prevent its combination with uxy
gen.
A Warning for the Parkman Case. —Some
months past, a gentleman named Giles, a native
of VV'ales, and once a wealthy merchant of Bris
tol, England, who boarded at a respectable house
in Chamber street, Now York, disappeared. At
the time, every inquiry was made to ascertain
his whereabouts. A body answering tho do
scriptinn stated was discovered in the North
River, and his friends recognized tho remains of
the missing man. A day or two past the miss
ing gentleman turned up at Ward’s Island. Ho
became ill, where Jic remained ever since his
seclusion.
Headley’s Miscellanies. —Mr. Headley has
published a card, disclaiming all responsibility
fur the two volumes of miscellanies, made up
of fugitive pieces which he has written, at vari
ous times, for tho magazines and newspapers.
The book is übnut to be published by JohnS.
Taylor. Mr Headley furthor says that ho in
tends to publish such of hi* fugitive pieces as
may seem to him of sufficient value and interest
for such preservation, in a form at once authen
tic, and more acceptable to the public than the
work issuedby Mr. Taylor.
In the Wrong Box. —A verdant juror at the
Philadelphia Criminal Court, lately, went into
court and took bis scat in the prisoner’s dork.
After a little while ho discovered ho was in the
wrong box sontehow, and was leaving bis scat,
when he was collared by an officious officer and
brought back. With some difficulty he defined
his position, and amidst much merriment was
transferred to the other box.
The Largest Yet.— The sales of Cotton in
our market Monday, says the last New Orleans
Weekly Crescent, were fifteen thousand bales,
the largest business of any one day since the
season commenced. Prices have not only .re
covered the decline which ensued after the un
favorable news by the last Liverpool steamer,
hut are an eighth to a quarter of a cent higher
than immediately before its receipt.
Council Chamber, )
Ja shaky 4, 1850. J
REGULAR MEETING.
Present—The Mayor.
Aid. Ayres, Collins, Ross,Dibble, Shinholser,
and Sparks.
Absent Aid. Cnrhart and Enbcock.
The Minutes of the last Meeting wereread
and confirmed.
The Bridge Keeper reported Tolls for the
week ending this day, $ —
Rail-Road Tolls for the month of December,
$445 26.
T he I inance Committee report in favor of the
payment of the following hills :
“ Georgia Telegraph,” $152 38
‘ Southern Museum,” 100 51
rite Street Committee report in favor of the
payment of Shinholser Sc Whitehurst’s bill,
S6O0 —for the Fourth Quarter's Contract on
Streets.
David Reid's hill for Storage on damaged
Powder, amount $!) 50—passed.
The Sexton's bill for expense burying Six
Paupers, by order of Members of Council, from
August 24th, to November 18th, amount $36 00,
passed.
Powers & Whittle's bill for professional ser
vices in case Macon Sc Western Rail Road Com
pany, vs. The City of Macon, amount SSOO 00,
was passed.
The Finance Committee to whom was referred
the Petition of D. Dempsey, respectfully report
that they recommend a reduction of Tux on the
assessed value of his Real Estate of Nine
Thousand Dollars.
B. F. ROSS,
J B. AYRES, ) Committee.
On motion of Aid. Collins,
Resolved , That the Powder belonging to tiie
City be sold at Auction on the 11 til instant, at
II o'clock, A. M., at the Market House.
On motion,
Resolved , That the Pump Committee he al
lowed until next Meeting of Council to report
upon A. Richards’ hill.
On motion of Aid. Ayres,
Resolved, That all persons that havo been
doubled on their Commutation and Poll Tax,
be releived from the same, by paying the regular
Tax and Cost, before the 6th inst.
Council then adjourned to Wednesday next, nt
7 o’clock P. M.
Attest A. R. FREEMAN, c. c.
O’ The friends ofGEOItGE M.
LOGA NT, announce him as a candidate for
re-election for the office of Mayor of the city of
Macon, for the ensuing year,
dec 29 MANY VOTERS.
!*P* The Friends of T II O HI A S
RAGR Y and DA VI D J. !> A V I S,
announce them as candidates for the office.s of
Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff for the County of
Bibb, at the election on the first Monday in
January next.
nov 17 51—ts
57 We have been requested to
announce E. G. JEFFEK S, as a candi
date for re-election to the office of Clerk of the
Infetior Court ofßibb County, at the election in
January next.
nov 17 51—ts
57SABHJEL C. ATKINSON is a
Candidate for Clerk of the Inferior Court of Bibb
County, at the election in January next,
nov 10 50— *
5T YYe have been authorised to
announce E. C. SHE It WOOD, as a can
didate for Tax Col lector of Bibb county, at the
election in January next.
nov 24 52—ts
ID" We have been requested to
announce JAIIES it. EENNETT,as a
candidate for Coroner of Bibb county, at the
election on the first -Monday in January next,
dec 15 3—ts
O* JESSE MORRIS is a candidate
for Coroner of Bibb County, at the Election in
January next.
nov 10 50—ts
MACON MARLET, JAN 5-
COTTON—The demand has been good du
ring tiie week. Wo quote lU a XOgc.—principal
sales 10jJ a lO.Jc.
Dental Card for ISSO.
PUTNAM &. DOMON,
OFFICE NEAR C. A. ELLS &, SOS, MULBERRY ST.
All operations Warranted.
rpEETH Extracted and Temporary platesim-
X mediately inserted, to be worn during the
period of absorption without extra ciiarce.
The result of the use of J\feto Materials, (‘Hills
Stopping,’ prepared Silver, Cadmium, See.,) for
plugging much decayed Teeth,has so far exteded
our expectations, that we now urgently recom
mend their use wherever Gold cannot be firmly
packed.
It is a fact conceded by all writers on the sub
ject, that the prime cause of decay and irregu
larity in the Teeth, originates at the time of
shedding the first set ; therefore, we propose to
givo the required attention to all Children who
may he placed under our charge, for_/iec dollars
a year -, this will include Polishing, Extracting,
Arranging, Ac.
Superior Dcntrifire and Soft Brushes for dis
eased gums, constantly on hand.
Dentists Instructed in New Improvemrntscon
nccted with the Plato department on reasonable
terms. C. S. PUTMAN,
HENRI DORION.
jan 5 6—ly
Quick time! quicklime!!
Daguerreotype portraits taken
in from three to twenty seconds, at the Cook
Daguerrf.an Rooms, Mulberry 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 Plate, at
the same sitting. Single Pictures taken at re
duced prices. Hours for operating are from 9
A. M., to 4,P. M. Likenesses taken us well in
cloudy, as in fair weather.
The Public are respectfully invited to call and
oxarnine the specimens.
Instructions given in tho art.
J M HART, Artist.
dec 29
Superior Teas.
a A splendid lot of TEAS, both
Green and Black, warranted fine,
just received not from the Canton
Tea Company of New York, at
W. FREEMAN'S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street,
dec 1 j
W anted to ltcut, or Purchase.
-A A comfortable Dwelling House in a
[' !■ pleasant and convenient part of the city,
C-Ail,Fur particulars apply at this office.
<J '“ 4—ts
Notice.
\UU persons arc cautioned against tradingfof
a certain promisory note, for Four Hundred
and fifty Dollars, signed by myself, and dated
on the 30th of February, 1349, and payable by
the first day of January next, to Mustian A Mott,
or order, ns the consideration for w hich said
note was given lies failed, and I will not pay said
note until the consideration is fully complied
with. D. DEMPSEY
Macon, Decemher 29, 1849. 5 —3t
Bibb County Academy.
EXERCISES in the Mall Depart.
-I. ment of this Institution will be resumed on
TUESDAY, the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY,
at 9 o’clock, A. M. A competent Assistant
j has been engaged, and every effort will he mad*
to render the Academy worthy of public confi <
donee. P. A. STROBLL, Rector. *
dec 22 4 — 2 t
One Hundred Dollars Reward,
\\l IUL be paid for the apprehension and de-
T ? livery to the Jailor of Bibb county, of
THOMAS BURGE, of Marion county, who
killed Richard Altman, of Crawford county,
iu this cilv, on the 1-ltli ot November.
GEO. M. LOGAN, Mayor.
Macon, Nov. 21, 1849. 52-3 t
Northern Butter.
,1A FIRKINS PRIME BUTTER, of th«
W* / well known quality received every Fall,
fresh from some of the best dairies at the North.
Just received by YV. FREEMAN.
dec 8
Wanted Immediately,
rp WO OR THREE JOURNEYMEN CABI-
X NET-MAKERS. None except good work
men, and such as arc willing to make themselves
useful, need upplv.
WOOD & BRADLEY.
Oft 20 47—ts
Oysters, Fresh Oysters.
IjMNE, Large, Fat, Fresh OYSTERS, will b«
received every night and sold by the Pint,
Quart or Gullon, at such prices that every bodv
must have some. The Oysters will be received
and must he sold at some price or another—so all
you lovers ul'good Oysters, walk up and get a
lew, at YV. FREEMAN'S,
dec 1 1
Hams, Butter, Syrup, Ac.
CIINCINNATI Sugar cured HAMS
J GOSHEN BUTTER
New Orleans Sugar House SY’RUP
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.
O PERM OIL and CANDLES
O Rio and Java Coffee
Crushed and Powdered Sugars
Chatnpaigne and Madeira M ines
Nuts and Crnckers of all kinds
Sardines and Lobsters
Pickles by the Jar or Gallon
Codfish, Mackerel and Shad
Superfine Wheat and Rye Flour
Fine Starch, Mustard, Tapioca
Spices, Chocalate, &c., at
YV. FREEMAN'S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street.
dec 1 i
Fine Chewing; Tobacco.
f I 11. & S. LILIENTIIAL'S well known
vy . superior fine Cut Chewing TOBACCO,
in papers and cans. Also, various brands of
Chewing Tobacco—some of which tire knowing
ones say cannot he hoar Al.n «’»r:et:s brands
of CIGARS, which aic just good enough. For
sale at YV. FREEMAN’S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street,
dec 1 ’ 1
New Bice.
I7IVE Tierces of prime quality, just received
and for sale by GEO. T. ROGERS.
dec 1 1
New York Steam Befitted Candies
* STILL Larger assortment of CANDILS,
Xx. just received and for sale as low as any
Candies in Town,at YV. FREEMAN'S.
dec 1 1
Apples and .fiercer Potatoes.
f V BARRELS in fine order, for sale by
£\J dec 1 GEO. T. ROGERS
Buckwheat, Ac.
1 fl(| Fine Buckwheat
L ' *l/ 50 boxes new crop Raisin*
25 do superior Cheese
Just received at W. FREEMAN’S.
dec 1 I
Cana) and Baltimore Flour.
1 nn WHOLE and Half Barrels FLOUR.
I / Just received and for sale low by
dec 1 GEO. T. ROGERS.
Cheese.
BOXES of superior quality, in large anfl
small boxes, just received and for sale by
dec 1 GEO. T. ROGERS.
Cuba flolasscs.
AA HHDS. in fine order,just received and
-wU for sale low by
dec 1 GEO. T. ROGERS.
Single Horse Dray.
A SINGLE HORSE DRAY and HARNESS
nearly new, for sale cheap by
dec 1 ' GEO. T. ROGERS.
Notice.
THIRTY' DAYS after dato, application will
he made by the undersigned to the City
Council of Macon, for a Lease to a Lot of Ground
situated on the East end of the North West
Commons, immediately at the junction of First
and Wharf Streets, extending Westward to the
line oftlie Alley in Square Sixty-six, (66,) and
Northward to or near the River—to be used for
the Southern Botanic Medical College and
Botanic Gardon. And also, for leave to occupy
a small portion oftlie rear of .aid Streets.
M. S. THOMSON.
dec 1 l—st
Notice.
npIIIRTY DAYS after date application will
X 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
lor a Lease of the Lot on which the Spring is,
near Mr. J. A. Ralston’s.
JOHN J. GRESIIAM.
nov 24 52—5 t