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covered, the Worm was suspended an inch from the floor. It appeared to l>e dead, with its two ends drawn together so that it ■was in the form of a ring, suspended by two cords descending from the under side of the table, in the form of the letter V.— The little architect which could not ItaVe weighed two grains, was discovered active ly running up and down, first one cord then the other adding each time a fibre to give it strength. When satisfied they were strong enough, he ascended to the table, fastening himself by two of his legs to the Imard and, hauling in his rope like a sailor. The worm was seen to swing towards hint like a pen dulum, and thus to rise from the flunr two or three inches, but on the opposite side the cord gave way, showing signs of a sud den rupture, and fall of the suspended worm. He now made all fast where lie was, leaving s gout or knot where he had been opera ting, and descending to the worm soon reached and repaired the mischief. And now by a similar operation from this side the worm was made again to rise from the floor. Thus in about half an hour the worm was raised about eight inches from the floor, where it was Buffeted to remain. The angle on which the cotds operated had now become very obtuse, and the further elevation no doubt more difficult; but the triumph was sufficient. He had by bis skill and energy, secured for himself an ample store ; he had placed it out of the reach of the ant and although Us enormous bulk was more than twenty times his own, he de manded neither aid from his neighbors or othei tools than he always had about him.— Whyshoul dmanbe proud ? — FcdcralUnion. Rule* of Life. — Little joys refresh us like house-bread, and never bring disgust; Attd great ones, like sugar-bread, briefly, and then bring it. Trifles we should let not plague us only, but also gr atify us ; we should seize not their poison bags only, but their honey-bags also; and if flies often buzz about our room, we should like Do mitian, amuse ourselves with flies, or feed them. For civic life and its micrologics, we must acquire an artificial taste; must learn ij love without esteeming U ; learn, far as it ranks beneath human life, to etrjoy it like another twig of this human lfe, as poetically as we do the pictures of it in ro mances. The loftiest mortal loves and seeks the same sort of things with the meanest; only from higher grounds and by higher paths. Be every minute, man, a full life to thee ! Despise anxiety and wishing, the future and the past! If the second pointer can be no road pointer into an Eden for thy soul, the month pointer will still less he so, for thou livest not from month to month, hut fiom second to second ! Enjoy thy existence more than thy manner of ex istence, and let the dearest object of thy consciousness be this consciousness itself! Make not the present a means of the future; for this future is nothing but a coming pres ent ; and the present, which thou despisest, was once a future which thou desiiedst!— Stake in no lotteries—keep at home—give and except no pompous entertainments— travel not abroad every year! conceal not from thyself by long plans, thy household foods, thy chamber, thy acquaintance!— lespise life, that thou inayest enjoy it! — Inspect the neighborhood of thy life; evety shelf, every nook of thy abode ; and nest ling in, quarter thyself in the farthest and most domestic winding of thy snail-house ! Look upon a capital as a collection of villa ges, a village as some blind alley of a capi tal; fame as the talk of neighbors at the street door; a library as a learned conver sation, joy as a second, sorrow as a minute, life as a day ; and three things as all in all; God, creation, virtue !— Jean Paul. The Gentleman. —Some one thus truth fully describes him: “Moderation, deco rum, and neatness, distinguish the gentle man ; he is at all times affable, diffident, and studious to please. Intelligent and po lite, his behavior is pleasant and graceful. When he enters the dwelling of an inferior, he endeavors to hide if possible the differ ence between their rank in life ; ever wil ling to assist those around him, he is never unkind, haughty, nor ovei bearing. In the mansions of the great, the correctness of his mind induces him to betid to etiquette but, not to stoop to adulation ; correct prin ciple cautions him to avoid the gaitning table, inebriety, or any other foible that could oc casion him self-reproach. Pleased with the pleasures of reflection, he rejoices to see the gayciies of society, and is fastidious up on no point of little import. Appear only to be a gentleman and its shadow will bring upon yew contempt; be a gentleman, and its honors will remain after you ate dead.” In connexion with this, Abbe Bellegard’s remarks on ill-bteeding ate not out of place. ** 111-breeding,” says the Abbe, “ is not a single defect, it is the result of many. It is sometimes the gross ignorance of deco rum, or stupid indolence, which prevents us from giving to others what is due to them. It is a peevish malignity which in clines us to oppose the inclinations of those with whom we converse. It is the conse quence of a foolish vanity which hath no complaisance for any other person; the effect of and whimsical humor which soars above all the rules of civility ; or lastly, it is produced by a melancholy turn of mind which pampers itself with a rude and disobliging behavior.” It would not be unprofitable employment for any one to examine his own conduct and see how far it squares with the above. To have the appearance of a gentleman is one thing: to be a gentleman, another. Think of it. —One glass of liquor each day, at 6] cents, cost 822 18 a year; this •mount would pay the insurance of 83000 on a man’s life. What a handsome sum for a person to leave his family, and how easy the means can be obtained by hundreds of our fellow-citizens who have large families depending on their daily earnings. We •ay in kindness to drinking men, think of this. Take from the rum seller that which would leave your family free from poverty when your labors are done here upon the earth. N. Y. Organ and Washingtonian. A temperate, industrious, and frugal bo dy of mechanics, is the mainspring ofa cities prosperity, A thrilling story. —ln the month of June last, a pedlar and his wife presented them selves at sun-down, at the door of a little farm-house, at Brie, in France, and request ed permission of the farmer to stay over night. A small room was assigned to them, as the farmer’s wife was confined to her bed. Tho next day wgs Sunday, and the farmer and his servants went to church. The ped lar p.lso started to go, and there remained in the house, tlie wife of the farmer, a new born infant, the pcdlar’s wife, with feigned illness, and a child of six years of age.— Scarcely had the people gone out when the pedlar’s wife, armed with a knife, presented herself at the ised of the sick woman, and demanded her money or her life. The poor woman, sick and weak, delivered up her keys, and desired the little boy to show the apartments. She rose softly from her bed, followed the pedlar’s wife, vsiihout being bet:rd, and having beckoned the child out of the room, locked the door. She then di rected the child to run for his fathet, and de sire him to bring assistance. The child did not lo*e an instant, but, by a surprising fa- j tality, met the pedlar on the road, wlm had stolen ftom the church to assist his wife in the preconcerted robbery. The pedlar ask ed the child whet e he was going, who in genuously said he was going to seek his father, as an attempt was made to rob them. The pedlarsaid it was now unnecessary, as he himself would go and protect his moth er ; and taking the child by the hand, they returned to the house. They knocked at the door, but the farmer’s wife, not recog nizing the voice of her husband, refused to open it, the pedlar made vain efloits to in duce her, and finally thieatened to cut the child’s throat, and then break it open. Fu rious at being unable to prevail upon her, he executed his horrid tin eat by killing the chib'. Afteir committing this useless ciime, he tried td> get into the house to save his own wife, ap time pressed and the farmer might returnlfrom church. His attempts failing, he mounted the roof and descended the chimm y. The farmer’s wife, almost faint ing, nr v saw nothing to deliver her from certatr death. The wretch was almost down l te chimney and about to enter her cham'o r, when, collecting all her strength, she, by sudden inspiration, drew the pailles sce (st aw bed) to the edge of the hearth, and as ptickly set fire to it. The smoke in a few inutes enveloped the assassin, who, not be ig able to re-ascend, very soon fell into tl fire, half suffocated. The farmer’s couraj nus wife lost not her presence of mind, ut, in this half blindod state, struck him s< eral severe blows on the head with the pc er, which put him beyond the chance of imt ediately recovering his senses. Ex haustc I with fatigue and mental agony, she licrsel fell senseless on the carpet of her chants er, and remained in this situation till her In sbatid and'hts servants returned from churcl . The dead body of the child at the gate o ‘the farm-house, was the first horrible spectu rle that struck the eyes of the unhap py fatlier. They forced open the doors, and, after paving recovered to life the farmer’s wife, they seized tho two culprits and deliv ered them over to justice. The pedlar sur vived his wounds and burns, but both he and bis portlier received the punishment due their crime. Which will you do? —One of two things must de done in this country. Parents must expend money to educate their chil dren, or they must pay taxes to build peni tentiaries and to punish crime. There is a great mistake about what is called educa tion. Some suppose every learned man is an educated man. No such thing. That man is an educated man who knows himsell, and takes accurate common sense views of men and things around him. Some very learned men are the greatest fools in the world; the reason is, they are not educated men. Learning is only the means, not the end ; its value consists in giving the means of acquiiing, in the discipline which, when properly managed, it gives the mind.— Some of the greatest men in the woild were not overstocked with learning, but their ac tions proved they were thoroughly educated. Washington, Franklin, and Sherman, were of this class ; and similar, though less stri king, instances may now be found in all countries. To be educated, a man must be able to think, reason, compare and de cide accurately. He may study metaphysics till he is grey, and languages till he’ is a walkng polyglot, and if he is nothing more, he is an uneducated man. There is no class in the country who have a stronger in terest in the proper education of children than farmers; and the subject should re ceive from them the attention it deserves. Hazel Eyes. —Major Noah says that a hazel eye inspires at first a Plutonic senti ment, which gradually but surely expands, and emerges into love as securely founded as the Rock of Gibraltar. A woman with a hzel eye never elopes from her husband, never chats scandal, never sacrifices her husband's comfort to her own; never fault finds ; never talks too much or too little ; always is an entertaining, intellectual, agreeable, and loveable creature. We nev er knew but one uninteresting and utiamia ble woman with a hazel eye, and she had a nose which looked, as the Yankee says, “ like the little end of nothing, whittled down to a p’int.” Incomparable orbs!— There is a depth of expression, a sparkling glance that appeals directly to the inner man, a confidential and affectionate inspi ration ; an intellectuality; and many other things thine undisputed right, which has won our devotion and our admiration.— These arc the women who makes amends for all the faults of the sex, certain. Sheridan said beautifully, “ Women gov ern us ; let us try to render them perfect, the more they are enlightened, so much the more so we shall be. On the cultiva tion of the minds of women depends the wisdom of men. It is by woman that na ture write* on the heart* of men.” “ The future destiny of the child,” said Napoleon, “is always the work of the mother,” and that great man failed not to repeat, ou all suitable occasions, that to his mother he owed all his greatness. a (Dm wmm i&p Hunt'* Merchant*’ Magazine. — With the January number before us commences the tenth semi-annual volume of this standard magazine. The work has now been in ex istence four years and a half, during all which time it has mainlained in a remai kahle de gree a character for ability and practical utility second to no work of similar design either at home or abroad. Its articles are uniformly well consideted, and accurate in the information they convey. Among its contributors are numbered some of the most distinguished men of our lime and country; and the ability and industry ot Mr. Hunt, the editor, has imparted to its literary and statastira’department an enviable reputation, and rendered it authorative in all matters pertaining to the range of subjects falling within its scope. It has attracted the at tention of the principle commercial nilminis -11 at ions of Euiope ; and is, vve learn from umb milled authority, taken by the British and Fiench lioaids of trade, by such men as Baring & Brothers, Rodet. &c. The nine volumes aheady completed furnished an amount and vatiety of information on the subjeats connected with the commerce and resources of the country trade, manufactures, mercantile law', tegulations ol commerce, &:c. now here else to be found in a single work—no, not in a hundred To the mer chant, statesman, or political economist, it is invaluable : and its past volumes should he found on the shelves of every public libra ry, and in the private library of every person of general intelligence. — Phila. Chronicle. One Way. —A lady in Paris recently went to a store for the purpose of pntchas ing a shawl. After looking at a number of shawls, she aereed to take a particular one, and threw a 500 frank bill on the counter, out of which she intended the merchant to take his pay. At that instant, and before the merchant had a chance to pick up the money, a gentleman with n.ustaches and all the other extras that a Frenchman usually sports, rushed into the store, apparently in a great rage, and exclaiming “ Ah! mad am, this is the way you treat your husband —this is the way you squander my money ! ’ he gave her a smalt box on the ear, which knocked her senseless, he picked up the note, put it in his pocket, and walked off— The attendants in the store, of course paid no attention to the brute if a husband, but betook themselves to reviving the fainting wife. After she recovered they com menced condoling with her on the brutal treatment of her husband, when they ascer tained for the first time, that it was not her husband, hut a thief, It was however too late—he was clean gone. Sunday at New Orleans. —A letter of re cent date from New Orleas, published in a St. Louis paper, gives the following ac count of he improper manner in which the Sabbath is observed in the former city : A grand review of the military by the Governor, took place on Sunday, when about 5,000 troops turned out—cvaalry, ar tilery and infantry. In addition to the mili tary volunteers, which evinced much dis cipline, the races attracted the attention of thousands of strangers. The various exhi bitions conflict with the good order and qui et which should exist on Sunday, and dis turb the meditations of those more serious ly disposed. Full bumpers of egg-nogg. See., were served up gratuitously at various hotels in the evening, and three theatres and two masquerade balls were in full ope ration. March of Illustration. —Young woman hood ! “ the sweet moon on the horizon’s verge” a thought matured, but not uttered —a conception warm and glowiug, not yet embodied—the rich halo that precedes the rising sun—the rosy down that bespeaks the ripening peach—a flow’er— A flower which is not quite a flower, Yet is no more a bud ! Exchange paper. Young womanhood! molasses touched with a little brimstone, spread on bread not buttered ! a being all joints and angles, not filled out—an unformed form, deformed by stays —a pulid tiling that loves the ripening peach—a young woman— A woman which is not quite a woman, Yet something more nor a gal. Brooklyn News. Young womanhood ! a half tnoon not yet ris —a cake baked,but nnttutned—hot corn, all hot and smoking, not yet sold—a tich curdle which precedes the coming of but ter—the thickening down upon a gosling’s back, that bespeaks the future goose ; a butteifly— A butterfly which is not quite a butteifly. And yet aint a caterpillar no how you can fix it. Sunday Morning News. Electors of President. —The next election sot Piesident will be decided under the new apportmetit of the electors; and for the convenience of politicians we give the fol lowing statement of the number to which each State will be entitled. Lay it by, or cut it out and put it up, that you may be prepared sot calculation ; Maine 9. New Hampshire 6, Massachu setts 12, Vermont 6, Rhode Island 4, Con necticut 6, New York 36, New Jersey 7, Pennsylvania 26, Delaware 3, Maryland 8, Virginia 17, North Carolina 11, South Carolina 9, Georgia 10, Alabama 9, Louisi ana 6, Mississippi 6, Tennessee 13, Ken tucky 12, Ohio 23, Indiana 11, Michigan 5, Illinois 9, Missouri 7, Arkansas 8. Total 875. Necessary for a choice 138.— Detn. Signal. A Man of Business. —A gentleman was in treaty with a London horse-dealer for the purchase of a mate, but could not agree by <£lo. Next morning, however, making tip his mind to offer to split the difference, he posted off to the stable-yard, where the first person he met was the groom. •• Mas ter up, Joe 1” said he. “No master be dead,” said Joe, “ but he left word for you to have the mare.” “ I can marry any girl I please,” said a young fellow boastingly. “Yes, for you can't please any,” instantly rejoined a blue eyed damsel. Monument to the Officers and Soldiers who Fell in the Florida War. —The imposing ceremonies which took place in 1842, (says the St. Augustine Herald, 9th im-tant,) on the occasion of the inhumation of the re mains of'those who had fallen during the recent desolating conflict in our territory, must have formed an indelible impression on the minds of those who had the melan choly satisfaction of participating in them. During the past week a very neat and plain marble monument has been erected over the spot where the sacred relics of those who fell intheircountry’seause, are deposit ed in their last resting place—at the south side of the Barracks’Gat den. The monument is an Egyptian obelisk, surmounted by a blazing urn, and is 21 feet high. On the tour faces of the monument ire the following neat and appropriate in set iptions : Sacred to the memory of the Officers and Soldiers, killed, in Buttle, and died oti service during the FLORIDA WAR. On the West face : This conflict In which so many gallant men, Petished in battle, and by di ease, Commenced 25th December, 1535, and Terminated 14th August, 1542, On the South face : A minute record Os all the Officers w ho perished And are here and elsewhere deposited, As also a portion of the Soldiers, Has been prepared and placed, in the Office of the Adjutant of the Post, Where it it hoped, It will be carefully and perpetually Preserved, On the East face: This monument Has been erected in token of respectful and Affectionate remembrance By their comrades of all grades And is committed to the care and preserva tion, Os the Garrison of St. Augustine. A word to the wise. —A wise man about to build a bouse sits down and calculates how much it is to cost. A wise people about to elect a President should sit down and calculate how much he is to cost. Let us apply the test .to Mr. Van Buren. Madison’s eight years expenditure, when the nation was engaged in war, and subject to heavy extra expense, was 8144,634,939 Montoe’s S years expenditure, 101,463,490 Adams’four years, 50,501,914 Vun Buren's four years, 140,555,321 Van Buren for four years cost the nation neat ly as much as Mr. Madison’s eight years, including three years of war. It cost about $36,000,000 more than Monroe's eight years, and $90,000,000 more than Adams’ four years. For this immense expenditure of money in time of peace, the people receiv ed a bankrupt Treasury and a debt of $28,- 000,000. Truly, if Mr. Van Buren cost so much when tried before, is it likely lie will cost much less if tried again.— Geneva Cour. Mr. Van Buren in Pennsylvania. —The following paragraph from the Harrisburg Argus, a most thorough going tocofoco pa per, is only one among the many manifes tations of the unpopularity of the promi nent candidate against Mr. Clay in the Key stone State. The Argus says : “ This State is just as certain for Mr. Clay, with Mr. Van Buren for our candid ate as Kentucky. The party cannot be ral lied for Mr. Van Buren. We do not ex press this opinion in condemnation of Mr. Van Buren or his administration. We ad mired and supported both the man and his acts. But it is worse than madness to at tempt to disguise the fact, that Pennsylva nia will be a Whig State next fall if Mr. Van Buren is our candidate.” THE H (U) M © 1%1 ®T , The following is an original Anecdote of one of our humorons old ftiends, in regard to himself from the State of “ Rip Van Winkle.” We understand there existed once a Stay Law, by which any one taking advantage of it, might stay judgment for eighteen months. An old friend of ours, whom we ee every three or four weeks, from that State, was one day thrown by a horse and dangerously hurt; as soon as the intelligence of his misfortune was received, many of his neighbors and ft iends crowded in to see him. Among the rest, was an old pious Baptist Minister, who after look ing on the unfortunate for some minutes, took a seat in a room hard by and commenc ed giving utterance to his pious specula tions. Turning to his elbow friend, he ad dressed him thus; “I think, neighbor Jones, that this is a judgment of God on our old friend Stephen : what do you think 1” Ere he could reply, Stephen, who overheard tho remark, asked loudly, “ What did you say, Unkle Jacky I It was a Judg 7/icnt ! a judgment sot what ] If that was all, I could stay the judgment for eighteen months, hut I am awfully afraid it is an Ex ecution /” Affectation Extraordinary. —“ Mamma,” exclaimed a beautiful girl, who had suffer ed affectation to obscure the little intellect she possessed, “ what is that long green thing lying on the dish before you I” “ A cucumber, my beloved Georgina,” replied the mamma, with a bland smile of approbation on her darling’s commendable curiosity. “ A cucumber! I always imagined, un til this moment, that they gtew in slices !” Hallo, mister,” said a Yankee to a team ster, who appeared in something of a hurry, “ what time is it I and where are you going] How deep is the creek I and what is the price of butter 1” “ Past one —almost two—borne—waist deep—and eleven pence,” was the reply. Pointed Remarks. —” Do you keep pins and needles ]” inquired a strapping follow the other day at a dty goods store. •< Yes,” replied] the store keeper, “all soils of needles and pins.” ” Well, then, I will have some ten-pins ami terra-pins /”— N. O. Crescent City. At a religious meeting which was much crowded, a lady persevered in standing on a bench, thus interrupting the view of oth ers, though repeatedly asked to sit down. A reverend old clergyman at last rose and said gravely, “ I think if the lady knew that she had a large hole in each of her stockings, she would not exhibit them in this way.” This had the desired effect; she immedi ately sank down on her seat. A young minister, standing by, blushed up to the temples, and said, “Oh, brother, how could you say what was not the fact V’ •• Not the fact!” replied the old gentle man, “if she had not a large hole in each of her stockings, 1 should like to know how she got them on.” Rights of Property. —A negro having purchased a hat, was observed to take it from his head on the fall of a shower of rain, and to manifest considerable alarm to preserve it from the wet. On being remon strated with for his supposed stupidity in thus leaving his head exposed, he wittily observed, “ Hat belong to me—head be long to massa.” There is a good deal of saucy wit in Lord Byron’s anecdote of the fair astronomers. He says, some literaiy ladies being asked how they could be sufficiently interested in astronomy to spend so much time in watch ing the heavens, replied, that they had a great couriosity to see whether there was really a man in the moon ! The Art of Shopping. —“ What’s the price of this article 1” inquired a deaf old lady. “ Seven shillings,” said the draper. “Sev enteen shillings !” she exclaimed ; “ I’ll give you thirteen.” “ Serin shillings,’* re plied the honest tradesman, “is the price of the article.” “Oh! seven shillings,” the old lady sharply rejoined; “I’ll give you fee.” *■■■——■wPßPJoaa————>i ©osa©d m & l □ For the “Southern Miscellany.” LETTER FROM MAJOR JONES. NO. XXIX. Pincvillr, January 19/7t, 1 S I 4. Mr. Thompson : Dear Sir —Ther aint nothin strange not uncommon tuck place in Piueville sense I wiitmy last letter, but that aint sayin ther wont be before long. I expect to write you a letter one of these days with some news in it that’ll make your hair stand on eend with joy and gratification. But wc mustn’t count our chickens before they’re hatch’d, you know. Some body sent me a “Federal Union” newspaper tother day, and as shore os I’m a livin man if I knew who it was I’d have him indicted for perjury. It really bangs all the lyiinst things I ever did see, and how upon yeath a man ever could git sich a mon strous mean opinion of the people as to sup pose they'd blieve sich stuff, 1 can’t see iuto it. I red some of it jest for curiosity, and among other things l read a letter from some feller in Washington what’s tryin to write the notion into our people that Mr. Stephens and Chappell aint no account, and that Stiles, and Cobh, and Lumpkin, and . Haralson, is great men, rite agin ther own knowedge and belief. He says— “ Mr. Stephens, made his debut yester day; and disappointed every body. The empty newspaper puffs, which bad swelled so much his dimensions for political effect, had prepatcd his hearers to expect some thing quite smart; but among friends and foes 1 heard but one opinion, which was, that he is a sure enough * baby.' ” Now, did you ever read sich a piece of infernal insurance 1 Mr. call him a shore enough baby! Now, what kind of metal must a man’s face be made out of that could print siclia thingas that in Georgia 1 Brass couldn’t begin to do it—it must be real slub-and-twist gun barrels, mixt with rat-tail files, and tempered by old Belzebub himself in the hottest corner of the infer nal regions. They call Alexander H. Ste phens ashore enough baby ! whentheechos of his voice hasn’t died yet in the valleys of the Cherokee Country, wher he met and triumphed over ther Goliahs and Sampsons rite in their own camp, aud made them flee before him like rahits from woods afire. I reckon Stiles didn’t think he had a baby to deal with when he met him before his own party last summer, nor Lumpkin, when he backed out from the debate on account of “ phisical inability”—the baby was enough for him that time, and so he was for Cobb, and Cohen, ar.d the Rev. Mr. Colquitt, and the whole gang of lokyfokys that set on him last summer in the Cherokee Country like so many cur dogs on the trail of a deer, but who turned back like hown pups would from a panther, some of ’em with a flea in ther ears, and all ther tails pulled out. Mr. Stephens han’t got quite so much phisical incumberence about him as Mr. Lewis, of Alabama, but he’s all Whig, what ther is of him, ami it would be a glorious thing for the Country if ther was a few more sich Whig babys. Small as he is, it wouldn’t be a very thrivin bisness for one of them gobs of reorganized hog-meat and hominy to tackle him in debate, at home or abioad. I’m perfecily willin people abroad should take Mr. Stephens for a Georgia baby, like the old man at the Charleston Commercial Convention, who said if that was a Georgia boy, he’d like monstrous well to see a sam ple of Iter men. But the lokyfokys mustn’t call him so here at home, if they don’t want to be laughed at. But Georgia's got somethingbesidesbahya at Washington. If any body thinks we han't got some great Georgians, jest let ’em read this— * “Gen. Haralson as you know, at the head of the military committee, is daily be coming more popular and has shown him self a handsome, and efficient debatant, Mr. Cobb, upon every occasion, upon which he has found it necessary to make any remarks, has shown himself ptompt and firm, taking strong vieus, enforcing them in a manly and becoming manner. Mr. Stiles, distinguished himself \n the remarks he made upon the death of Milieu. It was pronounced, by the oldest members and the best judges in the House, to have heen the most appro priate and the best delivered of anything of that kind ever pronounced there. Thrice great praise from every quarter. Mr Lumpkin has not as yet, made a spech • but is found always at his post, and his friends here have no feats of his sustaining himself with credit to himself aud the State” Thar now, aint that enough to make us feel proud 1 Only to think what s lin| e travelin has done for them fellers. Only a lew months ago they wasn’t a match for o Ur baby, and now they’ve got to be monstrous men—peifect Congress lions. One of’em has got to he “ a handsome and efficient de batant,” another to “ taking strong views ” (not liquor,) another lias “distinguished himself,” and Mr. Lumpkin is “ always at his post. I Link of that! he’s always at his post ! What’s the Country got to fear now, when Mr. Haralson is a “ handsome debatant,” Mr. Cobb “ takes strong views,” Mr. Stiles has “ distinguished himself,” anj Mr. Lumpkin “is always at his post” ]f any body’s got any fears that justice won’t be done to the Georgia malitia, let ’em re member that Gen. Haralson “ is at the head of the Military Committee,” and ia a “hand some and efficient debatant;” if any body fears that Texas won’t be’lowed to come into the Union and that the abolitionists sre gwineto kidnap all the niggers in Gforgia, let ’em remember that Mr. Cobb “ takes stiong views;” if any body is fraid that they ntay get elected to Congress some time and dye without a funeral notiee in the papers, let ’em remember that Mr. Stiles has “distinguished himself ’ in that line; and if any body’s fraid that the Gov erment is gwine to run away and Congress is gwine to Swart wout, let ’em lemember that Mr. Lumpkin “ is always at his post I” Oh ! what a consolin thought, as the old woman said, to know that Mr. Lumpkin “is always at his [lost.” I sed ther wasn’t nothin new down here well ther haiut been much—but ther was one of the curiouscst live things here tother day from Augusta that ever was seen in these parts. It was sort o’ tween a dandy and a gote, but on a slight examination it would have passed very well for a old mon key with its tail cut off'or tucked up nnder its cote. The most distinguished feature about it was a little impeitincnt lookin gote-luiot that stuck rite strate out from its chin, jest like these little gotes what they have in the mountains with tails drawd up so tight that them hind feet dont hardly touch the ground. It had o cap on its head and a outlandish lot-kin bag cote. It went round town without any body with it, and I never was so glad Mary was to home at the planta tion. At first my dog was gwine to take hold of it, hut soon as it turned round so he could see its face he just snuffid a little and diapped his tail and walked off. The far: was, he couldn’t make out what sort of a var ment it was, Bimeby it spoke to somebo dy and then Smart knowd it was some kind of a human, but he krp Ms eye on him all the time. 1 never did ‘blieve in Metcmpsi chosisism as they call it, before lately, but nowr I cant help but ’blieve somethin in it. Whether people really do turn into animals or not after they’re dead I won’t pretend to say, hut one thing I’m certain of, and that is, that some people git to be monstrous nigh monkeys and gotes before they do die. Now, that little feller that was down here tother day wouldn’t take more’n about five minits work to make a complete billy-gote of him, and I aint. certain but I’ve seen some monkeys that had more sense than he had. Imitation seems to be the greatest talent of sich fellers, and monkeys is first rate at that, you know. If they can help it, I don’t see what our young dandies make sich gotes of themselves foi. If it's to be conspicuous, they don’t gain nothing by it— for people is sure to ask questions about ’em, and then ther’re sure to find out, that they aint much—generally some nincom noddle, that’s sprung from nothing aud don’t know how to live in decent people’s cir cumstances. You must let me know if Mr. Clay comes to Madison, for I’m bound to see him if he comes within a hundred miles of Pineville, crap time or no crap time. No more from Your friend til deth, JOS. JONES. SYMBITI AL. MARRIED, On the evening of the 16th instant, by Wm. Seele, Esq.. Mr. THOMAS LOYD, of Jasper County, to Miss MARY ANN PARKER, of Newton County. On the 18th instant, by Robert A. Prior, Esq., Mr. THOMAS L. HADAWAY, to Miss EMILY AT KINSON—aII of this county. In Clark county, on the 18th instant, by John Nor ton, Esq, Mr CHARLES L. FIELDING, of Hart ford, (Connecticut,) to Miaa ELIZA BLAKELY, of the former place- MONEY TA®IL E □ EXCHANGE. (CORRECTED WEEKLY FROM THE AVGUSTA TARLBS ) Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, par. Bank of Augusta, : : : : : i par. Branch Bank of the State of Georgia, at Augusta, par. Bank of Brunswick, : : : : t : par. Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, > par- Mechanic’s Bank of Augusta, : : : : par. Bank of St. Marys, ■ : ; ii : P*r- Bank of Milledgeville, : : : i : par- Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah, s par. Branches of ditto, > : i > par- Agency of ditto, at Greensboro*, Commercial Bank, at Macon, : : ; : par- Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, Savannah, t par. Branch of ditto, at Macon, : par- Planters'Bank, at Savanrah, : i : s par. Central Bank of Georgia, : t 3a 4 die. Central R. R. &. B'k’gComp’y, Savannah, 4 a 5 dis. Bank of Hawkinaville, i : : 3 dis. Phoenix Bank of Columbus, s : ** dis. All other Banks in the State not quoted. Alabama Notes, i : i i 6a 8 die* South-Carolina Banks, : : : : t P* r * IV. G. A A. G. Foster, Attorneys at Law, MADISON, GEORGIA, Will pay prompt and strict attention to claims entros ed to their management. january * V 44