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ykt GREAT CAVE OF KENTUCKY. This is undoubtedly one of the greatest wonders on the American Continent, and is now attracting much attention both from Europeans and Americans. Hundreds visit it every year, but few have t.je courage to go far’ into its depths. However some few, more daring than others, have within the last law months, made some very in teresting discoveries, a brief an v.int of which, together with a brief description of the cave, we clip from the Journal of Com merce: “The cave is eight miles from the Dip ping Springs, and eight and a half miles from Pruit’s Ktiop. The turnpike from Louisville to Nashville, runs within six miles of it “ The improvements within the ‘nve com mences about a half mile from the mouth, in that branch formerly known as the Great Bat room, but now as Audubon’s avenue, named by the proprietor after his old friend, the celebrated ornithologist. They consist rf chambers 14 feet square and 10 met high. The chambers are placed aside of the wall in the cave and 10 feet apart. A handsome pannel door opens upon the avenue, and to the side of those to be occupied by families are sliding doom. A curtain of ten feet in width extends from one chamber to the other, and when let down and the sliding door opened, a communication from one chamber to anotner can be had without be ing seen by those promenading the avenue. The reasons which influenced the proprie tor in selecting this situation, were its iso lated position, its vast size, GO feet wide by as many high, its contiguity to good water, its affording a pleasant promenade to those wishing to visit the hotel above, its greater convenience and cheapness than if it had been a more remote distance; and, more over, it is at ‘he nearest point where the atmosphere is uniform during winter and aumtner. “Owing to the extensive hotel which the proprietor is erecting above ground, there have been only four or five chambers erect ed in the cave, they exhibit a most pictur esque appearance. I have no doubt that the hotel above will be measurably deserted as soon as the necessary number of cham bers below are completed. A restaurant will be established at a convenient distance from, the chambers. The c e possesses peculiarfitness for such an establishment; becnuse meats, butter, &c., will keep any length of time. Cooking will be performed with alcohol. Such an establishment as this is imperiously called for by the community. Last winter a number of persons laboring under chronic diseases intended to take up their abode within the cave, but were dis appointed, owing to the accommodations Within Hot being completed. The pecu liarity of the air of the cave, its extraordin ary influence on the health as well as disease, Would constitute a perfect study for the medical philosopher. Its temperature is 60 degrees Fahrenheit summer and winter. It is never a degree above or below 60. I Nothing putrifies in the cave. The water pipes which conducted the water to the salt petre vats in 1310, are now in perfect pre servation, and the com cobs left, where the oxen were fed, thirty years ago, are as sound as they were at that day. Lamps burn with more brilliancy within then with out the cave. This occurs in every part of it. The cave is abundant in minerals, such ns the sulphate of lime, or gypsum ; stem and glauber salts; nitrous earth, chalk, sand, flint pebbles, red and grey, ochre calcareous spar, chalcedony, chrystalized carbonate of lime, chrystals of quartz, &c. Tiie disco veries recently made in the cave greatly ex ceed in extent all that was known at the period of your stay there. A gentleman of unquestionable veracity and who has ample opportunity for acquiring correct informa tion, having resided there in its vicinity for thirty years, gives it as his opinion, that there are not less than two hundred square miles of cave. No wild beast, reptile, or vermin, has e*er been seen in the cave. No dog has ever been prevailed upon to enter the Mammoth Cave; ofteu hj3 this been tried. What this peculiarity results from ] know not. Nothing inhabits tho Mammoth Cave but the bat during the winter, and they are confined to a particular spot. lam told there are rats, but I have never seen them. The country south of the cave, which in 1912 was barren, is now grown over with timber. “No man can form the most remote idea of this most wonderful of all Nature's won ders, except by a visit to it; and to describe it, with all its recent discoveries, would re quire a volume. The discoveries made in the cave the last two years, are in the esti mation of many, better worth seeing than all the caves previously known. They con sist of numerous branches of avenues, domes of great size and beauty, and a river, terminated by a lake. Until recently no person had explored that branch of the cave in which the bottomless pit is situated be yond the pit; now tho most interesting and extensive part of the cave is beyond the pit. For this discovery we are indebted to a gen tlemau from Georgetown named Stephen son. He ascertained that the pit was noth ing but a chasm of great depth extending across the cave, and therefore got a ladder of sufficient length to reach over. On this ladder this daring man, the guide, and some two or three others, crossed this deep and frightful chasm, and on reaching the oppos ite part, found themselves in a cave of con siderable size, which, after exploring to the distance of two miles, brought them to the celebrated river of the cave. It is in this region of the cave, unknown until the last two years, where you meet with the great dome, the cataract, (he river, the lake, and gigantic staligmite columns. “In order to gratify the numerous visitors with a view of this deeply interesting sec tion of the cave, tho proprietor has had a large and strong bridge, with suitable rail ways, erected over the bottomless pit, rocks have been removed so as to render walking pleasant in the different avenues, stair steps nave been placed where required, boats are in readiness for those who feel inclined to take an aquatic excursion on the liver, and Bengal lights can be had by suoh as wish to witness the sublime spectable which is exhi bited by an illumination of ihe various domes. “ The river is three miles from the mouth of the cave. Where you first strike it, it js not very wide but of great depth; as you descend, it becomes wider; and it has a gentle current. 1 have never descended the river more than half a mile, but it is fiom the point where you first see it to the lake five miles; and Mr. Corin, a highly respecta ble lawyer, and a former representative of Warren county, informs me that there is a sufficiency of water in this river to float the largest class of steamboats. It is in this river where those fish without eyes have been found. Professor Davidson, of Tran sylvania University, who wrote a pamphlet respecting the cave, says that those fish had eyes and were blinded by light; in other words, that the apparent want of eyes arose from the sudden contraction of that organ occasioned by the stimulous of light. This is not the cause; a professor of the Louis ville institution anatomized the head of the fish, and says there is no indication of there being such an organ. The lake of the cave has never been explored—some few have attempted it, but they have become alarmed and abandoned the enterprise. Stevenson, of Georgetown, ventured further than any other person. lie passed, while on it, I am told, the mouths of four rivers or caves filled with water. It is of great depth, and is supposed of great width. This, however, I conceive doubtful! os I cannot conceive of the existence of an arch of sufficient expan sion to admit of great dimensions. In de scending the river to the lake, the mouths of a great many caves were seen, all of which are to be explored.” No Newspaper. —The time is coming when flie man who has the means (and who has not ]) and does not take a newspaper, will be looked upon by his neighbors as a fish without a fin, a crow without a wing, a .blind horse, a mole, or what you please. Such an individual might do well enough to live in the manner of a Robinson Crusoe, but be has no excuse for thrusting himself a mong those who do take newspapers, and are better informed, to gather whatever politi cal or general intelligence they may choose todrop for him. We know many such men, and might name them, but we refrain ; but you, gentle reader, can point them out your self.—American Union. Characteristic of Farmers. —Farmers sel dom affect a mystery of their agricultural operations, as is the case with most other occupations. A farmer is always free, rea dy, and communicative—and this has been a characteristic of the husbandman from time immemorial. It is related of Ischomu chus, a complete husbandman, described by Xenephon in liis economics, that “all other tradesmen are at great pains to conceal the chief parts of that art. Dut if a farmer has either sown or planted his fields with care and propriety, he is happy in having them inspected—and when asked, will conceal nothing of the manner by which he brought his works to such pet lection.” Domestic Medicine. —The castors on a dinnertable are said, by a late London work, to be a kind of medicine chest, containing drugs of great vis .tie*. 1. Salt. —This is a decided cathartic, in the dose of from half an ounce to an ounce. It is also a vermifuge in large doses. Crim inals iu Holland were formerly sentenced to live without salt, and became terribly af flicted with worms. 2. Vinegar. —This is refringerant and diaphoretic, and applied internally, is mo derately stimulant. If an over-dose of soda has been taken, or any other alkali, it is a certain antidote. 3. Mustard. —A mustard emetic is said to he infallible in Cholera. 4. Olive Oil. —This, says the dispeusa ries, is “demulcent, relaxant and laxative.” It is an antidote against acrid poisons, and seems to bo obnoxious to worms, killing them, it is suposed, by stopping some of their breathing holes. Besides, it relieves the pain occasioned by the application of pungent acrid substances to the skin. 5. Pepper. —This cures diarrhea and the relaxed sore throat. Pipcrinc, the alkaloid extracted from the pepper, has currcd tbe ague, in the hands of Dr. Meli and others. “To keep good gates and fences, save much time and labor in preventing tres passes ; much loss of crops from depreda tions : and best of all, it saves much wrang ling and ill will among neighbors, about mischievous stock.” Millet. —A writer in the Albany Cultiva tor, in answer to the inquiry—W hat kinds of grass is best suited to the Southern cli mate 1 recommends this crop as follows : Having had some experience ten years past, 1 will venture to answer the question, as I have never failed to obtain a good crop of Millet, when tho ground was rich and properly prepared, viz. by twice ploughing, and harrowing clean. I usually sow a bushel to the acre, and cut it as the seed be gins to turn yellow ; cure it is any other hay, and horses or cattle prefer it to clover or timothy. It matures in about sixty days aud may be sown from April until the first of August. Vegetable Serpent. —No curiosity of the vegetable world, that we ever saw, equalled that shewn us a few days ago, at the store of Messrs. Hogan & Lyon in this city. It was a vegetable, resembling Ihe gourd or squash species, 5 feet 5 inches long and in cii cumference, at the largest swell. It was green, except the ten greyish horizontal strips that run taneringly from the head to the tail ; and had the exact appearance of a snake of that size, even the contortions and lumps of the bodv, with the curled and sharpened end. We understand that it grew suspended from the post, which ac counts for its general straightness ; but that other vegetables on the same vine, that rested on the ground, assumed curling atti tudes, with head erect, as if to strike. It was raised in the garden of L. G. McMillan. Esq., of Elyton, Jefferson county, and is said to resemble in its interior, with perfect exactness, the organization of a snake. Hundreds of persons have seen it, and all express their wonder at this seipentine’ freak of nature.- Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Monitor. The Mount Vernon Farmer. —The fame of Gen. Washington as a soldier and states man is universally known and highly admir ed by all who appreciate talents, worth, and love of country ; but his character as a far mer was less known in his day, and his me mory in this respect is not venerated ac cording to its desert. Possessing ample means and the most ardent love of rural life, he was one of the first experimental and practical farmers in Virginia His es tate at Mt. Vernon consisted of 10,000 acres of land in one body, equal to about 15 square miles. It was divided into farms of con venient size, at distances of 2,3, 4 and 5 miles, from his mansion house. These farms he visited every day in pleasant weath er, and was constantly engaged in making experiments for the improvement of agri culture. Some idea of the extent of his farming operations may be formed from the follow ing facts—in 1787 he had 500 acres iu grass—sowed 600 bushels of oats —700 acres of wheat, and prepared as mucli more for corn, barley, potatoes, beans, peas, &c., and 160 with turnips. His stock consisted of 140 horses, 112 cows, 235 working oxen, heifers and steers, and 500 sheep. He constantly employed 250 bauds, and kept 24 ploughs going during the whole year, when the earth and the state of the weath er would permit. In 1786, he slaughtered 150 hogs, weighing 18,560, for the use of his family, besides provisions for his ne groes. —Silk Guitarist. Mouth Water for the Thrash. —Take of the inside bark of Sweet Gum, Pissimon, Red Oak, Pine and White Oak, equal quantities of each, about a single handful. Also the bark of Blackberry brier root, and Sumac (shoe-make) root, about one of each. Put the above in a half gallon or gallon of water, and boil until tho water becomes ve ry strong. After boiling, take about a pint | of the wafer, add to it, while warm, one spoonful of Alum and two or thiee of Ho ney. Take a spoonful of the mixture and wash night and morning. Take a fresh cloth every time the mouth is washed, and throw away what of the w ater is left from washing.— Temperance Advocate. Means of renewing poor Lands. —lt is a well established fact, that any lot of poor land may be enriched to almost any extent by planting it from year to year with sweet potatoes and turning in the whole crop of vines every autumn. Let our planters try the experiment and satisfy themselves. Select a piece of your old fields and be willing to incur the trivial expense of seed and planting. How soon can you reclaim all your old pine fields which now make such an unsightly appearance among our best plantations.— Warren ( N. C.) Repor ter. Curefor Worms. —l will give you a fact which may profit some of your readers. I took charge of my estate twenty-seven years ago, having, from that time until now, from thirty to sixty in a family, and within that time have not lost one child under twelve .years, (either black or white) with tbe ex ception of one a few hours after its birth ; and I attribute it principally to the following remedy, which keeps themfree from worms: Take the fat of old bacon sliced and fried in a pan until the essence is all out of it; take out the rind first; then put in as much wormseed as is necessary, (vulgarly called Jerusalem oak,) as much sugar or molasses as will make it palatable—give it three mornings in Succession. Tho children will eat it freely ; some you will have to restrain from eating too much. Incredible as it may appear, 1 have known as many as one hundred and twenty or thirty large worms come from a child of three or four years old. I usually give the medicine spring and fall.— Farmer's Register. A Certain Cure for Founder in Horses. — Take a large kettle of water and make it boil. Lead the horse to the kettle, if he be able to walk ; if not take the water to the stable. Commence with a swab and wash the left fetlock before, then tbe right, then the fetlocks behind, then wash the leg in the same manner, then the shoulders and body, rub the horse dry and lie will be well iu a few hours. There is no danger of scald ing the horse, if the above directions be pursued. This remedy is on the authority of one of the best farmers in this place, and is worth to every farmer double the price of his subscription to this paper.—Jackson ville Illinoian. Culture of Silk. —We are glad to see that Tennessee is beginning to take an interest ill the culture of silk. The Agricultural Society of Davidson is worthy of all praise. At a late meeting of the Society premiums were awarded for five yards of silk velvet, five yards of plain silk, four silk shawls and other minor articles, all made in Tennessee. Cheese madefron Potatoes. —Cheese, it is said, of an extremely fine quality, is manu factured from potatoes in Thnringia and part of Saxony, in the following manner : After having collected a quantity of pota toes of a good quality, giving the preference to the large white kind, they are boiled in a chaldron, and becoming cool,they are peel ed and reduced to a pulp either by means of a grater or mortar. To five pounds of this pulp, which ought to be as equal as possible, are added a pound of sour milk and the necessary quantity of salt. The whole is kneaded together, and the mixture covered up and allowed to remain for three or lour days, according to the season. At the etui of this time it is kneaded again, and the cheese placed in little baskets, where superfluous moisture is allowed to escape. They are then allowed to dry in the shade aud placed in-layers in large pots or vessels, where they must remain for fifteen days. The older the cheeses are, the more tlieii quality improves. Two kinds of them are made. The first, which is the moit com mon, is made according to the propositions above indicated ; the second, with four parts of potatoes, and four parts of cow or ewe milk. These cheeses have this advan tage over every other kiud, that they do not engender worm, and keep fresh for a great number of years, provided they are in a dry situation and in well closed vessels. Two friends who had been separated a great while, meeting by chance, one asked the other how lie did? He replied that hi was very well, and was married since the} last met. • That is good news indeed.’ ‘Nay not so very good, neither, for I married i shrew.’ ‘That is bad too.’ ‘Not so bad, neither, fori had two thousand pounds with her.’ ‘That is well again.’ ‘Not so well neither, for I laid it out in sheep, and they all riieJ of the rot.’ ‘That was hard in truth.’ ‘Not so harJ, neither, for I sold tin skins for more than the sheep cost me.’ ‘Aye, that made you amends.’ ‘Not so amends, neither, for I laid out my money in a house, and it was burned.’ ‘That was a great loss, indeed. ■ ‘Not so great a loss, neither, for my wife was burned in it !’ A culprit being asked what ho had to say why s nttnceof death should not be record ed nga ust him, replied, ‘lie had nothing to say, ns too much had been said about it al ready.’ Power oj Prayer. — A minister, whose nn me it is not necessary now to give, had a son who wrs quite a rogue, and withal something of awi g. One day the boy had been guilty of some misdemeanor, for which the father called him to an account, when the following dialogue took place. ‘John, you have done wrong and I must punish you.’ ‘Very well.sir, just as you say.’ ‘Then take off your coat.’ ‘Certainly, sir.’ ‘ Now take off your vest.’ ‘Just as you please, sir.’ • Now, my son, it is my duty to flog you.’ ‘ Yes, sir, but father would it not be best first to engage in prayer ?’ This was too much for the old man, the waggery of the boy completely overcome Inin,'so without either prayer or flogging he dismissed the boy, while he turned to relieve his risihles. v Sympathy. —While the noble work of Kenil worth was going through the press, n gentle man called on its printer, the late Mr. Bullan tyne, to settle some business, and found him in an agnnv of sorrow. It was sometime be iorc the visiter could extract an answer from the worthy gentleman, but at length he said, “ for God’s sake, leave me alone. I have been so deeply affected by the death of poor Amy Robsurt, that I cannot attend to any business to-day.” A knight in the time of Charlemagne, find ing himself on his death-bed, desired that ItL hereditary enemy, over the Rhine, might be asked to compose his epitaph. The other wrote, “God be merciful to the soul of Sir von , brave, generous, noble in bis life and in his death. 1, Sir von , his enemy, say these words, and engrave them deep in the stone, that the tears of his friends may with less ease obliterate them.” Jesting with Death. —While an astrologer was being led to the gallows, the spectators reproached him for not having forseen his fate. “I have drawn my horoscope three times,” he replied, and three times it inform ed me that 1 should be raised above all oth ers ; to-day is my destiny fulfilled, for 1 shall soon seethe whole world at my feet.” Let the Puppy have his Collar • —The late Lord Albemarle having been spoken to bv a Scotch nobleman to solicit for him from King George the second the Green Ribband, did so ; but his majesty refused, saying, “he would not bes'ow it onone who had constantly opposed the Court.” “ Yes, Sire,” said Lord Albemarle,” but lie means to be more pliable fertile future.” “ Well, don’t care for that he is a puppy and shall not have it.” Tire King having said so turned to go away when Lord Albemarle asked what answer he should return to the applicant. “Tell him he is a poppy,” “Well, but sire, he is a puppy that issinoerely inclined to follow his master.” “ Aye,” retorted the King, “are you sure of that ?” “ Perfectly so, Sire.” “ Well, then,” said the King, “ let the puppy have his col lar.” “When did you ever see a living thief with out a body ?” said a servant who wished to persuade his master that some roguery had been committed by a ghost. “When the miller looks over the mill window,” said the master. An old lady being informed that Mr. Wood was to be run for Congress, expressed hei fears that he would be out of breath before he got there, J.iinsetjeo Jeejebhoy, a Parsee gentlemai of Bombay, has been knighted by the Qu®ei of England. A queer-sounding title, Sii Jarnseljee Jeejebhoy ! A DEAR KISS. A curious trial was recently held at Mid dlesex Sessions, in England. Thomas Sa verland, the prosecutor, stated, that on the day after Christmas, he was in the tap room where the defendant, Caroline Newton, and her sister, who had come from Birmingham, were present. The latter jokingly observed that she had promised her sweetheart that no man should kiss her while absent. It being holiday timo, Saverland consideted this a challange, and caught hold of her and kissed her. The young woman took it as a joke, and her sister, the defendant, said she would like as little of that kind of fun as he pleased. Saverland told her if she was an gry, he would kiss her also; he then tried to do it, and they both fell to the ground On rising, the woman struck him; he agait tried to kiss her, and in the scuffle she bit off his nose, which she spit out of her mouth. The action was brought to recover damages for the loss of the nose. The defendant said he had no business to kiss her, if slu wanted kissing she had a husband to kiss her, a better looking man than ever the pros ecutor was! The jury without hesitating acquitted her; and the chairman said that if any man attemted to kiss a woman against her will, she had a right to bite off his nose, if she had a fancy for so doing. A sour Child.—A prisoner before the Police Court last week, in Philadelphia, gave the following interesting sketch of his “birth .md broughting up.” ■ “ I was born weeping—my dAddy used to chaw wormwood afore I was born, an d mother made a practice of gettin drunk on vinegar. When I was a little boy, ibobody wouldn’t allow me to nuss their children, for they sed I made ’em dyspeptic—l looked s° completely sour—so tltey sed. When 1 went to school, I was always in for the likins, and I do believe 1 bagged it for every boy in the school. At last I got married, and my wife left me in three months. There’s no use of askin tvlry. She sed they was no use of livin with me, because if we had chil dren they wouldn’t be anything but walkin vinegar casks—if they was boys—and it they tvas gals they’d be mere jugs of cream o’ tartar set on legs to physic all tho world by their sulemcholy phizzes.” Chit Characteristic. —“By thunder, Bill,- ain’t the times hard enough to draw tears from a handsaw ?” “Darn it,don’t speak of it ! We’re all go ing to tired—las fast as we can. Thibbles & Lepps failed this morning.” “The deuce they did !” “ Fact, I assure you.” “By the wav, Bill, how much did that watch cost, if it’s a fair question 7” “ Cost—guess ?” Well, it’s a screamer, but in these times vou should have bought it for a hundred and fifty.” “ Sir, it cost just a hundred and thirty— chain and all.” Well, that is cheap, but how in heaven’s name did you manage to raise the needful ?” *• Oh ! well, you know the times are mon strous tight, and a fellow should he as eco nomical as possible, so I bought it on tick.” Boys, (Jo you hear that ?—There is a so ciety of young ladies in Hartford, who pledge themselves not to receive the addresses of any young man who has not signed the tee total pledge. At the temperance meeting, not long since, a fair one offered the pledge to her friend, saying, “ John, will you sign that ?” He hesitated, and finally declined. “ Then,” said she, “ you will understand, 1 skill not be at home next Sunday evening.” Rather Amusing—A Cross Examination. —A witness examined in one of the courts of Illinois, upon trial concerning a horse trade, was asked by the counsel for the de fendant, how the plaintiff generally rode? Witness: He generally rides a straddle, sir. Counsel: How does lie ride in company ? Wj uess : If he has a good horse, lie always keeps up. Counsel’ How does he ride when he is alone ? Witness :■ Really,sir, I cannoi say, for I was never in Company with him when lie rode by himself. Counsel: You may stand aside, sir. Crooked Story. —“ You have rather a crooked character, Mr. Jones.” “Rather so, but not so crooked as a tree 1 once knew. It was the tallest butternut I ever saw. Standing close to it one day, in a thunder storm, 1 saw a squirrel on one of the topmost branches. Tho lightning struck the same branch, about three feet above him, ana’ the squirrel started. The lightning had to fol low the grain of course, and the squirrel went straight down. So confounded crooked wa> that ties, sir, the squirrel by my watch got to the bottom precisely three minutes be fore tiis lightning.” “That’s a lie, I know!” exclaimed the landlord. ‘‘A lie! true as any story ever was. I afterwards saw the ‘reecut down and made into rails for a hog pasture. The hogs would crawl through twenty times in a day, and so thundering crooked were them are rails, that every time tlie hogs got out, they found themselves back in the pasture again.” “ All, Bob, good morning.” “Good morn ing, Dick.” “How did you make out with your speech last night?” “Bad enough.” •*H#wso?” “ My voice failed me !” “Why, 1 thought you had .a powerful voice?” “It tilled the room, to be sure, but it soon emp tieo it.” Wliat's in a name. —The New Hampshire Whig says it once heard of a faectous person whose name was “ New,” who named h:s first child “ Something,” as it was “ Some thing New.” His second was christened “Nothing,” it being “Nothing New.” Definition of a Lover. —A lover has been pithi y described as a man who, in his anxiety to obtain possession of another, has lost pos session of himself. An Irish recruit was asked by his officei —‘what’s ycur height V to which Pat replied, ‘the man that measured me tould me it was five foot ten—or ten foot five ; I’m not ex actly sure which, but it was either one or to l her.’ TME PUZZLER. GEOGRAPHICAL ENIGMA. I am composed of eighteen letters My 8,2, 7,4, 5,12,16, 7,2,15,10, 17,16 is one of the United Slates. My 2. 12, 2,8, 6, 13 is a River in Georgia. My 9, 2,17, 4, 10, 12,6, 14,15,2 ,s a village in Geor gia. My 4, 13, 8, 17,6, 1, 11, 6,3 is a River in the United States. My 9,2, 17, 7,2, 13 is a County in Georgia. My 12, 5, 16, 7, 15, 6, 11, 4,2, 17 is a City in the U- States. My 1, 16,8, 4, 13, 6 is a River in South-Carolina. My 5,2, 3, 11, 4,2, 17 is a To* nin Texas. My 12, 15, 2, 17, 9, 13,14, 15 is a Town in Ireland. My 8,6, 10, 11,11,13 is a River in the east of Rus sia in Europe. My 9,16,14, 4,16 is an Island in the Mediterranean Sea. My 12,14, f>, 16,7 is a Cape on the Coast of Ireland My 5, 13,12, 15, 16 is a celebrated Mountain. My whole is the name of a what ? S. Madison, Georgia. StJ* Answer next week. American Hotel, MADISON, GEOBGIA. THE subscriber, grateful for the patronage he has re- A ceived since the above establishment has been open, respectfully informs his friends, and the Travelling pub lic, that ho is prepared to accommodate all who may give him a call. J. M. EVANS. April 5, 1842. 1 APVEIOTIItIEIMIENIi'a. Alfred A. Overtoil, Attorney at Law, MADISON, GEORGIA. Office, one door north of the American Hotel. April 5 lyl E. D. Williams & Cos. Auction and Commission Merchants, MACON, GEORGIA, rjAV'ING taken the Fire proof Store, next below that H of s.'essre. Rea &. Cotton, Commerce Row, is now prepared to offer every facility in their line. Their de voted attention will be given to all business entrusted o their care, and correct retonis made as early as pos sible. They solicit consignments, and a share of the business generally- , April 5 ] yl A List of Letters pF.MAINING in the Post Office at Madison, on the !•- Ist of April, 1842. A. Adams, Nipper Aldredpe, James F. Adair, William Allen, Nsthantel N. Adair, Mary A. Autry, Philip Adler, Julius M. Ball, James Boggess, Bennel Benefield, Emily Brewer, Drury Ball, Jeptha Boswell, Elijah Ball, Eliza Brown, Henry Butts, Jacob C. Bogle, Tarbett & Co.- Barrington, John C, Crim, John Chamberlain, Charles V- Coleman, Mrs. Chapman, Anderson Cabine6S, John C. Cushing, J. TANARUS., 2 Clark, Seaborn J. Cunningham, Jesse Caldwell, James, 2 D. Dewitt, A. H. Daniel, John M ,2 Dearnmnd, William Davis, Samuel r. Douglass, Asa Davis, Ehenezes Dawson, John E, 2 F. Floyd, William [Fielder, William Foster, Mrs. Francis, 2 ‘Fuller, R.M. G- Garner, Samuel William Hendry, Samps-n, 2 Holden, Knly Hadawav, Thomas L. Hart is, E. L. Hungerford, John F. Hearn, William Hearn, Frances Head, J. J. Ilanson, Richard Jackson, Cavil, 6 I Jay, Zack Johnson, Martha IJackson, Daniel C". K. . - Kemodle, Richard, 2 (King, A. W. L. Lane, Henry B. (Long, Joseph Lane, S. W. ~ lLawrence, Hugh _ M. Mustir, D. R. Mo'dy, William L., 2 McNeal, John T. McCnlpin, Alexander Moody, John L., 3 McMoyhand, Woodard .UeCay, J. U. N. Nolan, Thomas P Pocket, Sarah R. IPace, Elizabeth Ptyor, Garland I R. Reed, Hugh K-, 2 Robey, Miss June Robertson, M. M. Raney, Mrs Elizabeth* Ragland, A. M. Reason, Rebecca Radsky, J. R >gcrr, William P.- 8 . Slaughter, Mrs Tbursey Spruce. George Sewel, William Seats, Thomas Stafford, Reuben Slaton, Elisha Stanton, James Shaw, Robert J. She, Mrs. Mary T. Trotter, Hinson, 2 ITomfin, Hezekiab Thomas, William* R. I V. Vason, Mi<=s Manila E., 2 I Vests, A. P. Vason, J. M. W. Ward, Mrs. Ann Watts, James J. Wade, John W. Woods, James Wright, John C. Woods, John Weaver, Albon Woodley, Wdlianr Walker, Tabitha,- (colored Wade, Mr*. Mnry woman,) Whitfield, William Warring, N. E. Wilkins, Thornton & Cov Wilson, James F. Wright, John S. Persons applying fir letters contained in the abov list, will please say that thev are advertised. JOHN S. WALKER, P. M. April 5 3wl Groceries and Staple Dry Goods, At the Depot of the Georgia Rail-Road f TITE offer for sale, for Cash,or in exchange for Cotton, ™ Clarified and West India Sugars, all (jualities, Java, Cuba and Rio Coffee, a large assortment, All sizes IRON, a large quantity, ‘Nails, all sorts; Weeding Hoes; Trace Chains, 10,000 lbs- Geo. Bacon Hams, Sides and Shoulders, 3,000 lb.s superior Lard, Castings, iJ.'ack-smilh’s Tools, Mill Saws, Ac. 40 sacks Hopping’s and Henderson’s and Wilson’* Flour, Nc>. l, Corn and Corn Meal, in any quantity, Bagging of all kinds, and Bagging! wine. Bale' Rope, Molasses. Salt; Paints, assorted. Linseed, Lamp and Tri-’in Oil. Mackerel, Venison Hams, Irish Potatoes, Hard-ware, Carpenter’s Tools, Axes, riles. Locks of all kinds ; Washing Tubs, Buckets, and all sorts of Tift Ware, Chairs, Spinning Wheels, Candles, Soap and Tallow, &c. &and. Also a tine assortment of BROAD-CLOTHS ana SATTINETTS; Prints and Calicoes, All kinds of bieached and unbleached Homespuns, Jacconett Muslins, Bobbinetts, Leghorn, Straw and Willow Bonnets, Mens’, Boys’ and Ladies’ Shoes, assorted, Factory Yarns tmd Coarse Cloths. Our assortment of Goods—for Family use —both in food and raiment, comprises every article usually kept in a store, necessary fur daily consumption. Call and -ee us ! We pledge ourselves to put all our slock of goods at prices to suit the times. JOHN ROBSON & CO. Madison, April 5,1812. I nonumeiifs, Tomb Sc Head Stones. THE subscriber is prepared to furnish to order Mon- A uments, Tomb Stones, Head Stones, and Slabs of every description, carved and lettered to suit purchas ers—all of w hich will he made of the best Marble, and delivered in Madison at prices suited to the times. Letters addressed ’n the subscriber in relation to the same, and left at the Post Office will meet with atten tion. 11. PRESTON. Madison,’April 5,1842. sw*l Masonic Notice. A Regular Communication •? V/. Madisom Lome will be 4 held at the Masonic Hall, on Friday Evening next, at 7 °’ c l° c k- As business of im portnnee will be laid before E the Lodge, a general attend, nnce of the fraternity is re. - Brethren visiting our town are invited to attend. Per order of the W. Master. CHAS. F. HOFFMAN, Secretary. April 5, 1842. itl PRINTING!| y THE subscriber respectfully informs the citizens \) \ A of Madison, and the public at large, that hisA Y Printing Office having been removrd to this place, V yis now in successful operation. His variety of <> > JJlaln anb Ornamental Cnpe <*> A being quite extensive,enables him to execute ev-A Yeiy description of Y ♦ J)®® raMTOM® 2 y with neatness, and despatch. Printing in Colors O A executed in the neatest style, on paper of every A Y kind, on silk, or any other material that the custo- Y O mer may select. A A Every variety of Attorneys’ and other l LEG-AL blanks, h y neatly printed, to order,at short notice,and at fairy A prices. Orders by mail must be poet paid, or they A Y will not be taken from the Post Office. Y <> C. R. HANLEITER. 6 X Madison, April 5,1848. X