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lieu* C»«*' S|h-mH unit Gen. Taylor’s Message.
\Ve have never been more forcibly reminded
of the old truth, that time “ at last sets all things
even,” than we have been in contrasting these
two productions, and the promises, and warnings
which were their forerunners. During the late
Presidential canvass the friends of our Chief
Magistrate urged vehemently that not only was
the inevitable inference of General Tati.or's j
Southern residence and interests in our favor,
and recommended him to onr choice, hut that
tiiis same inference in regard to Gen. Cass’ loca
tion was adverse to the South. Then all sorts
of letters, and all sorts of constructions upon
them, pro and con, were stunning our ears bv
one eternal din. Gen. Taylor was Southern
to the core, and Gen. Cass as unsound as rot
ten could be. 11 is opinions as to the right and
expediency of the Territories electing their ov\ n
municipal policy, enforced by distorted extracts
from his Quintuple letter, were paraded all over
the land, and with such plausibility as to delude
the minds of thousands. The man who tri
umphed in the army—and lie who suffered the
wrong, were both to he passed upon hy the same
inexorable judge, and “time has at last set all
things even.” What friend now of Gen. Tai -
lor, but must feel that we have been heartlessly
sacrificed, and hy a Southern President—while
the Northern man, who from interest, sympathy
and even instinct, was to have been our relent
less enemy—has, after sacrificing himself at
home, from his just and conservative spirit to.
wards North and South, now stood up in the
Senate of the Nation and placed our cause upon
an impregnable basis, and in the same instant
that our Southern President was concerting a
message better calculated than any paper that
ever issued from its department, to inspirit our
enemies, and depress and break down the spirit
of his best friends. Well may the South ex
claim, “ This is the unkindcst out of a!!.” I:
will be a lesson we hope fruitful of good to us
all, for coming time. It will teach us that men
in the infinite scope of national vision and na
tional well being, are as nothing. That the
proudest name—the most darling child of for
tune and fame among us, should not have it in
his power to betray us, much less to have it in
his hands to deal a fatal blow upon us. While
it will teach us also, that but otto plan in future
elections will do for us, and that plan is, to com
pel every candidate for our suffrages to tell his
own tale—to define his own position.—Thutliis
life must first make out his patent of merit, and
his own words must be his hostages for future
good conduct. It will teach us that no set of
men in their profligate cabals are. to exercise a
vicarious conscience for any man seeking our
favor, and the responsibilities which that favor
must impose. The hare idea, one would sup.
pose, of that contutnaeeous silence which some
candidates have maintained, would prove abhor
rent to the high spirit of this people, and the
surest precursor of deft tit. But so far from this
being the fact, it really seems that this expedient
of keeping a still tongue, is the only one that
can really restore the desperate fortunes of an
aspirant. Suppose for example, that the facts
now, for the first lime, fully disclosed bv the
California message, had been fully and fairly
avowed to this people pending the election of
its author, what would have been his fate? No
man can doubt it. It would have been com
plete and ignominious defeat. Without endors
ing fully every position assumed in this speech,
it yet, is a bow shot in advance of the surrender
message of “a Southern President and a slave
holder.” We expect from Ibis day to see a tre
mendous re-action in favor of such a course as
(ii n. C vas lias so nobly pursued, and a much
mure improbable event occurs, tiny one week in
the yea-, than that thousands and thousands of
men who voted and electionered against the
Senator from Michigan, will with enthusiasm
support him against the present incumbent.—
Nothing but Omnipotence could prevent the
election of Gen. Cass over Gen. Taylor, if
these gentlemen should both maintain their
present positions in regard to the slavery ques
tion. And a lucky thing it would he for the
peace and uuion of these Stales, if the country
could get such a proof of a just appreciation,
on the part of our people, of the Northern man
"■ho throws himself into the breach to save us.
IV hen Gen. Cass was so strangely deserted hy
i ‘hr Mouth we feared that ‘(would be a long time
| hr lore another Northern politician would arise
in our midst, the open advocate for the Consti
tutional rights ol the South, But we seer that
injustice or ingratitude are not enough to alienate
| SIIC 'I' noble minds from the truth and the coun
; !r . v ' though it may estrange them fioin vs, so
deserving of anything but fidelity. With but a
1 small phalanx of such men as Cass and I)ick
t'sox, the South is not without a resource, that
"ill not fail us, till it goes hard indeed with the
country.
\\ e publish below the closing remarks of
bon.C.iss, on the constitutionality and expedi
rucy of the ilmot Proviso. W o regret that our
Omits preclude the possibility of inserting this
ntns’erly effort of Gen. Cass, which we have
rca< * "''*•> a great deal of satisfaction. Southern
i "mti just see t lie noble sentiments expressed iu
L "'r Senate of the United States on the 22d nit ,
I !llls statesman anil patriot. Hear him :
' ;i> Wilmot Proviso is urged upon the
I k"»uiid of its expediency. It is opposed upon
I 1 m. ground of its iinconslitutiou ility. * * * *
I "Ml lake part in no such crusade against the
"utii, trout whatever motives it originates. * *
I n, ue ,ecll instructed hy the Legislature of
| 1 to vote in favor of tins measure. 1
I" i believer in the right of instruction, when
■’ll txcrc ' si 'fi mid under proper circumstances
■ii |j c <lro ,l,,| latio ,, s upon the exercise; hull
■ pli‘ K< ' k l ° nßrpr,; ’' n their excentorap
li,, ' 1, "7 J" not concern my present
I (lj 1 acknowledge the obligation of the
I 'au t ' ,ns kavu received,and cannot act in
I'eii, 111 l ° Nor can I act in opposition
I 'lie i'. nv n °®nviclions of the true meaningof
I Imu r W lion the time comes, and
I |ir,u't | r ," 1 |' llrod tn VO,u "I ,nn tl,is "leisure, as a
I gm c| . ®kill providing for a territorial
I ‘l'llv tn ii **/ know how to reconcile my
I hl ' suit 7 , ;'‘" ls,al " ro witll ">)’ duty to myself,
c "dcriug n t rust I enu no langer fulfill.”
C orresponciciice Southern Tribune.
Milledgeville, Feb. 1.
Mr. Harrison —Both Houses of the General
Assembly have during the last week, been en
gaged in the public business from 9 o’clock, A.
M to 9 o clock at night. Much progress has
been made since my last and some measures of
general importance passed and some of great
weight sacrificed to the genius of haste and
economy. Strange to say, the Tax Bill reported
by the Finance Committee, was lost on a vote
taken on a substitute for that bill, proposing the
old bill of abominations, with some slight modi
fications. The vote, however, has been recon
sidered and it is to be hoped, for the interests
and honor of Georgia, that we w ill have affirmed
by the Legislature, the great principle of ad
valorem taxation. To give an instance of the
injustice of the present plan, permit me to state,
for the benefit of y our readers, the fart, that it
was stated by a member in the hearing of your
correspondent, that one of the citizens of his
county owned eleven thousand head of stock
cattle. Say these cattle are worth the extreme
low price of $3 per head, and we have a man
worth in stock more than $30,000. And what
are his taxes on all this wealth ? Why not one
sous. This fact was announced just on the heel
of an amendment offered to the Tax Bill of the
Committee, proposing to exempt cattle from its
provisions. Alas for this people, the miserable
maxim of all sharpers in political economy, is
100 prevalent, that one portion of the communi
ty is hut a quarry to be pounced upon by the
other half, and that it is unnatural to expect the
interests of every part of the community to con
sist with each other.
The Eastern Branch Railroad from Macon to
Charleston, was lost yesterday, and on motion to
reconsider the vote was yeas 33, nay s 66. This
isa great measure and the House did not seem
to be prepared to place so much power as this
Charter was Itkely to invest citizens of another
State with. There was unprecedented excite
ment while the discussion raged.
The South- Western Rail Jload appropiation
bill is up this morning, and will, no doubt, be
lost by a most decisive vote. The Cherokee
members are strangely oblivious (many of
them,) of Ibe great liberality of the State to
their portions of the State. This measure is of
incalculable importance to the State, and the
whole country. No project in the history of
internal improvements, at least in this State,can
compare in the vast and far-reaching interests
involved in this South-Western Road. But
money, money, and the fear of popular testric
tion brought down on the beads of representa
tives ol the country, by their own connivance,
is the great bar, that closes the public treasury,
and is to retard and cut till’ the splendid career
in State advancetnci|4 we have begun.
The hill of Mr. MeDoco alii, making it penal
to hut on elections, was lost last night—and on a
motion to reconsider, was lost this morning.—
It is strange that so moral and expedient a
measure should not have passed any Legisla
ture in this Union.
The Senate to-day are preparing their heavy
artillery to do buttle for the South. The Joint
Report is to be acted on this morning, and it is
thought there will lie some angry discussion. I
am sorry to be obliged to say that the fate ofthe
Report, Resolutions and Bill, is doubtful in the
Senate. Three leading Democrats, it is said,
will take ground against the Report, unless the
Missouri Compromise shall he ingrafted. This
wasaftor a full discussion, rejected hy the House
and will not he concurred in hy that bodv,
should it pass the Senate.
At this moment the House is calling the yeas
and nays on an appeal from the decision of the
chair, (Mi AY onr.it l, chairman,) sprining out of
a hill introduced from the Senate, changing the
tune of Congressional elections, 't his bill clear
ly conflicts with the law of Congress now in
operation on this subject, and will not pass, we
think. There is an ardent wish on the part of
the members to adjourn at an early day, and
could the people see the labor of the House
running through twelve hours per diem, they
would not listen with complaecti'y to the op
position attempted hy a few, to the extent of the
session.
The adjourntnient w ill no doubt take place
about the fifteenth.
Clrv Council. —The following gentlemen
were elected hy the City Council, last evening •
City Jlsscssors —E. E. Brown, 1). Flanders
and T. L. Ross.
Pump Contractor —John Knight.
City Hatch —Warren Wood, ll.W.Shaw and
N. Dukrs.
(1 i’Wo received a few days ago, the following
from the Chief Engineer of the State Road:—
Atlanta, Jan. 28, 1850.
Mr. Harrison —Enclosed I send you a copy of
a letter which I have just received from lion.
John I’. King, President of the Georgia Railroad
& Banking Company, w hich 1 ask to he insert
ed in your paper as an act of justice due me.
Yours Respectfully,
WM. L. MITCHELL.
(copy)
Augusta, January 26, 1850.
Du An Mitchell— As I have stated toothers,
so at your request, I can say to you, that I had
neither part or lot iu arranging \our day sched
ule on the State Road.
You never consulted me about it until you had
resolved on it,and 1 believe applied for it. You
then only consulted me to know if we could not
give you more time than tin’ schedule allowed
you, by running ahead of the si hedule.
I considered a clay schedule very desirable for
you, and for the Rome road ; hut as the old one
w as much the easiest fur our Road, and was more
agreeable to the Macon & Western, I refused to
interfere with the Department for a change,
though requested by others to do so.
Yours, very truly,
JOHN P. KING.
Wm. L. Mitchell, Esq., Atlanta, Ga.
The Mysterious City. —The leaders ofSte
phen’s Travels is Central America will recol
lect li is report of a native city hi the mountains,
which has had no communication with the rest
of the country for ages. The Government of
Chiapas lies sent out an expedition to the Pimi
cnta,n part ofthe mountain chain of the Cordil
4cras, with a view to set at teat the question
Tee Cultivation of Sugakin South-we*-
tekx Gr.oßotA. —The Albany Patriot of the 25th
instant, says: “Judging from present appear
ances, this section will, within a few years,
produce a considerable amount of sugar for ex
portation.
A.E. Lawton, Esq. an intelligent planter, has
just returned from Louisiana, where he has
been, to observe the various processes of culti
vating and manufacturing sugar, and to examine
the character and quality of the land for
agricultural purposes. In a recent conversation
with Mr. Lawton, lie gave us the following in
formation.-
He visited many of the sugar and cotton plan,
tations on the Mississippi and Red Rivers, and
he describes the land as unsurpassed in natural
fertility, but subject to so many easualities as to
mere than balance this advantage. After a
thorough investigation of the advantages and
disadvantages, he decidedly prefers the choice
pine land which he is now cultivating near this
place, for the production of either cotton or sugar,
to the far famed lands of Louisiana.
The advantages of the planter here, are, that
the country is much more healthy, crops are
more certain, land is cheaper, and on an aver
age of five or ten y ears, they will y ield more
than the Louisiana lauds.
Besides the cotton crop, Mr. Lawton culti
vated about 16 acres in sugar the past year.
He procured an iron mill,similar in construction
to the steam mills used for grinding cane, with
which, operated by three mules, lie can make a
barrel of sugar per hour. The cost of the mill
put up was only two hundred dollars. The
yield, from that part of the crop which lie macu
lae lured, was 50 per acre. This vear Mr
Lawton is planting over sixty acres of cane.
Mr. Lawton says he prefers making sugar
here at five cents per lb., to making coitng at
ten cents, and he considers this the best cotton
country in the world.
The Depot at Chattanooga —The Ring
gold Republican of the 26th iust. says “This
depot is crowded with freight, which is accumu
lating rapidly every day. It is filled with every
variety of produce, and the spacious platform is
covered with cotton. Owing to the unpreceden
ted bad weather and the condition of the new
track, the cars have been taking oil'the freight
slowly from this point ; but in a few day s every
tiling will he moving with a perfect whiz !”
The Varioloid in Cincinnati —The Cin
ciunai Nonparicl of the 17th say s: “It is cstiuiatd
thul six thousand persons or neaaly one-fifteenth
of our population, have hud the small pox or
varioloid during the last four months. It is
spreading to a considerable extent in Convinglon
and Newport. Like the cholera, it bears a
milder form now than it did in 1832-3, when it
'ollowed in the wake of that hreadful scourge.
(O’ Kossuth is believed to have embarked for
the United States, under tlie arrangement for the
exit of refugees from Turkey.
Sugar Crop. —We learn from the Now Or
leans Picayune, that the sugar crop of Louisiana
for the year 1819 will turn out better, perhaps,
than was expected some time ago, and may not
he much behind that of 1848. But there does
not seem to be much uniformity intlie crop,
it being much better in some districts than in
others.
O’A cotcinporary remarks, that a comparison
ofthe census of 1830 with tliuluf 1840,discloses
the remarkable facts, that in the past ten years,
the while population in Eastern Virginia has
decreased 19 in every 1000, the slaves have d(G
creased 50 in ever} 10. t(), and the free negroes
have increased in the same period 70 in every
]OOO I In Western Virginia, the whites have
increased 167 in a thousand, and the slaves only
5 :n a thousand, and the free negroes have in
creased 191 in a thousand.
O’ The Springfield Republican states that the
U. S. Armory at that place, turns out fifteen
hundred muskets per month,- besides rapidly
changing the flint lock muskets iu the arsenals
to percussion locks, and making a few carbines.
The number of men employed there by Gov
ernment is larger than any previous period in
t lie history of the establishment.
The North West Passage.— A letter in the
Courier and Enquirer dated at Mazaltan on the
23d of November, in noticing the arrival there
of the British frigate Ampliitrite, says :— “They
have discovered a N. W. passage in lat. 73 and
about 30.}, and gone one degree and a halffur
ther North than any vessel lias previously been.
They have discovered anew continent—but
on account of ice could not approach nearer than
fifteen miles to land. Did not find Sir John
Franklin, and on account of ice were forced to
leave.
1 111 - Nicaragua (Question. —The Secretary
of Navy lias ordered a portion of the Home
Spuudron to c\tend its ontise along the coast of
South America, for the purpose of exercising a
proper supervision of the national interests in
that quarter, and extending that confidence to
American citizens which is derived from the
occasional presence of our naval power, where
there is no immediate protection of their persons
or properly, except, that afforded by the general
policy of civilized nations
Sugar Cui.tuisk w Flohioa. —Prior to the
late Indian war, there were soimie twenty large
sugar plantations in operation along the Atlant
ic coast south of St. Augustine. These were en
tirely destroyed by the Indians. They can
now he purchased a*, almost the prices of the
wild lands—from three to ten dollars per acre.
Col. Marshal, the present season, hus a crop of
two hundred bogheads of sugar, worked with
but 25 hands, upon one of those old groundup
plantations (l)tinlawtou) upon which hu has
been but three years. At present prices, his
crop is worth ten thousand dollars, and he has
been engaged the past season in erecting his
machinery for its manufacture. These Sugar
lands arc ali situated upon or very near to nava
gable streams, in close proximity to the Ocean,
and presuming every facility for transport
ing.
Tile Cotton Crop.
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Inquirer
makes the subjoined remarks and estimates in
relation to this subject, which we commend to
the attention of our readers. Nothing excites
so much attention at present in the mercantile
world, as the cotton crop of America. It seems
now to be generally conceded at the South, that
the yield will not exceed 2,250,000 bales, and
many say this is too high by at least 150,000.
It's very evident, therefore, that high prices
must rule for a long time to come ; for admitting
that the crop of 1850-51 should exceed all oth
ers, and reach 2,800,000 hales, the great reduc
tion of consumption which must take place this
year will evidently so enhance goods, and open
such a demand for them, that manufacturers
will work full time and pay high prices.
In making the following estimate, we think
we arc in reasonable figures, and have drawn
reasonable conclusions. If we are correct, the
the increased value of this crop, and the coming
one,over the two last, will be enormous, am
ounting to many millions of dollars, and must I
have a great effect upon trade. The last crop ■
averaged S3O per halo, equal to cighty-two and |
a half millions of dollars. The present will
average, at a low estimate, SSO per hale, worth
one hundred twelve and a half millions. The
next we will give no estimates upon. But, to
our figures :
Bales.
Estimated crop ofcotton for 1849-50, 2,250,000
To be distributed as follows :
America, 500,000
Europe, Continental, 750,004)
Great Britain, 1,000,0002,250,000 ,
Estimated stock of cotton in Great
Britain, Dec, 31, 1849, 400,000 I
“ Receipt from America, ” 1,000,009 j
“ “ Other countries, 250,000 j
1,650,000
Reduce consumption one-third, say to
23,000 bales per week, 1,200,000
And we will have stock, Ist Jan., 1851, 450,000
Nearly the same as now ; hut the reduced con
sumption must long ere that hove had a serious
effect upon the prices of many goods, and if they
have risen, the consumption will increase, and
the stock full very much below the above figures.
It will be seen that the amount ofcotton allowed
to Great Britian presumes that the European
Continent and America will take their usual
quantity— France and hercontincntial neighbors
spin almost entirely from fine numbers, and
hence the raw material does not tell so strongly
upon them, and prices of goods have risen in
full pioportion to the rise in cotton. America
alway s has taken her quantity, and ns her spin
dles have increased, she will probably continue
to get as last year, 500,000 bales. If it he true,
and it is generally admitted, that the slock in
hand throughout the world is 200,000 hales less
on the first of January, 1850, than the first of
January, 1849, and that the present crop in
America will only he 2,250,000 bales, or 500,-
000 short of last year, it follows that 700,000
bales less cotton must be spun this year than
last, unless the stocks at the end of the year be
reduced to a very low point. The recent move
ments in cotton at the South show pretty con
clusively that they arc well satisfied now that
the yield this year will not exceed two and a
quarter millions of bales, and if such is the case,
“ fair” cotton will probably reach 15 cents, per
pound.—Exchange will rule at morderate prices,
and money also, and trade be in all probability
active and profitiable throughout the year.
England cannot receive her fair proportion of
the crop, unless she bids spiritedly for it, and the
recent advices show that she will. Her control
as heretofore, is passed for the present, and a
threat of contraction is useless, inasmuch as
such contraction is now inevitable.
Slavery in Maryland. —A hill introduced
into the Mary land House of Delegates, provid
ing for the abrogation of all laws prohibiting the
introduction ofslaves into the State. By the ex
isting laws, slaves cannot be brought into Mary
land, without special enactment. A slaveholder
moving from another State, cannot bring his
slaves with him, unless with the consent of the
Legislature.
Lady Miners in California. —A youngman
from Maine, writing to his friends from Califor
nia, say s liis parly found, near the Sacramento,
and almost thirty miles from any other digging,
two intelligent and beautiful young ladies, with
no attendant except an old grey-headed negro,
whom they had enticed to accompany them,
and who is the servant of the father of one of
them. The eldest of these girls is not twenty.
It sectns their imagination had become excited
by the gold stories which they had heard, and
they had determined to try their hands at mak
ing a fortune. The old negro was past work,
and was left in the camp during the day to look
after the household affairs, and keep watch,
while the girls pursued their morning opera
tions. When the party reached their camp, the
old darky was alone in it, but the girls came in
during the day, and received their visitors hos
pitably. They expressed no fear of being mo
lested or robbed, and said that they should leave
for home when they had accumulated SIO,OOO,
they had already gathered $7,000. They were
from Florida, and the y oungest ran away from
cliool to enter upon the expedition.
Counterfeits.— The Columbus Enquirer oj
lhe29th ultimo, says: “ A great number of spu
rious half dollars, and a considerable sprinkling
of quarters,arc afioat in this locality. They can
he easily detected, being coined of the sorriest
sort of pewter, and clumsily fashioned at that.
Dealers in small funds will do well to look out
for them, nevertheless.”
Improved Hot Air Engine.—W<* learn by the
Philadelphia News that Dr. Evan J. I’ursey,
of that city, proposes to construct an engine
to he propelled by heated air, which com
bines many' advantages over engines of
this kind that are in uso at present. The
project, we have heard, lias occupied the
attention of the Dector for a long time.
Resolutions ol (lie l*uiiil»cr City
Wilis’ Convention.
Whereas, it has been ascertained, through
the public prints, that those claming to be citi
zens of California have met in Convention and
adopted n Constitution, with a view of of apply -
I mg for adinisssion into the Union as one of the
| States of this confederacy ; and, whereas, said
! Const it lit ion prohibits slavery in said contem
plated State ; and, whereas, the Territories of
California and New Mexico arc the common
property of the United Slates, in which the
citizens of each State have an equal right and
interest in common with carli other; and
whereas, members of Congress from the non.
slaveholding Slates have exhibited a reckless;
disregard of the rights of the South, and have
manifested a settled determination to restrict and
limit slavery hy ilie passage ol the Wilmot Pro
viso, a submission to which would degrade cv- |
cry freeman of the South, and which, if ac
quiesced in, would destroy the equality of the
States and people of the Union.
lie it Resolved , That this is no time for the 1
South to dally. That our opposition to the !
Wilmot Proviso should lie hold, firm and uncom
promising; and should our Northern brethren
force upon us the necessity hy interfering thus
with Southern rights, the entire South, disre
garding all other political differences, with one
mind, one heart,and one voice, with all they
have, should be ready to protect, defend, and
maintain llieir rights—that where there is no
equality, there is no Union —and whilst a disso
lution of this Union would he regretted and de
plored ns a great national calamity by every
patriot, still this Union is only valuable and
dear to us for the justice and equality which
the Constitution, which binds us together, guar
antees to the citizens of each and every State,
and iu the event of the consummation of such
threatened aggression, it would be the impera
tive duty of the Southern people to declare, in
solemn Convention, that they disavow and
every alliance or union with such Stales as de
ny to us and equal participation in the enjoy
ment in the Territories of California and New
M exico.
Resolved farther, That we recognise no right
in those who occupy the Territories of Califor
nia and New Mexico, to form a Constitution
and invest themselves with State sovereignty
that inasmuch as Congress has established no
rules or regulations respecting such Territory,
they are not clothed with such power—tint! in
the absence of any law ns to citizenship, defin
ing the qualification of voters, or the eligibility
ofthose to give form to, and establish a Consti
tution, such an act should be regarded ns tin act
independent of the Government of the United
States, and therefore nugatory and void.
Resolved, That should Congress pass any law
effecting the lights of the slave holder, eith
er in States holding slaves or the District of
Columbia, or any of the Territories in tile Uni
ted States,the Southern States could not submit
thereto, without compromising their rights under
the Federal compact, and degrading themselves
and that they would perfer a dissolution of
the Union, ra.her than the dependencies upon «
Government that held them subservient to the
unscrupulous demands and requisitions as a
heedless majority, influenced by the worst spir
it of fanaticism, and wlio utterly disregard the
sacred behests of the Constitution they arc
sworn to support and observe.
Resolved further, That the question ns to
whether slavery shall exist iu California and
New Mexico, isa proper subject to be settled by
the Terrritories after they become' sovereign
Stales.
Wilbur Fisk, D. D.— The Ladies’ Literary
Repository, for January has an interesting sketch
of the Life of Wilbur Fisk, describing the diffi
culties which lie encountered in his early en
deavors to procure an education.
“1 once knew a young man, who, without
property, or parents, or other friends, to help
him, at the age of twenty, walked four miles
one stormy night, to borrow a Latin grammar,
and the next night after having closed a school
lie was teaching, walked five miles to obtain
from a young lady, who, more fortunate than
lie, had been to ‘ the academy,’ some instruc
tion how to study Latin. That homeless youth,
who took his fust lesson in Latin, at the age of
twenty, from a girl much younger than himself,
has occupied for twenty years and more an im
portant position in the literary institutions of
the country, having educated thousands. Does
not that girl, who readily stopped her spinning
wheel to teach him Latin, deserve a part of the
reward fur the good that has been done by lier
pupil in the cause of education?”
The Next Presidency. —General Joseph
Lane has been nominated, in Indiana, for the
Presidency in 1852.
Twenty Dollar Gold Pieces.—Two dies
which have been struck of this new coin, have
been condemned, and it will probably be three
or four months before it comes into circulation.
Cure of Cancer. — 'l lie extract of wood
sorrel, used ns a plastor through the day, and
slippery elm bark at night, will cure any cancer
that lias ulcerated or that has not live skill over
the skin ; should he broken in sonic way.—
To burn a piece ofpunk on the place, is a good
method, then apply the salve as before directed.
The extract is obtained simply hy pounding the
common sorrel ill a uiorter, or vessel and pres
ing the juice, then put it in a pewter dish or ba
sin, and place it in the sun, until it dries to the
cosistcnee of hr, when it is fit for use.
The above we select from an exchange, and
we do not endorse it, but merely at present what
is held to he good for this inveterate evil. Ox
alic acid would answer as well, as the sorrel, in
our opinion. We have seen a receipt recom
mending a poultice of cranberries for the same
disease, and it may bo that this acid, oxalic,
which has been found in both, possesses sonic
great virtue to cure the cancer.
IF-T Anew invention, constructed in Franco,
enables the Lyons manufacturers to weave velv
et in w idths of six to twenty-four feet. Hither
to velvet could only be produced verv narrow.
Light and Heat from Water. —The dis
covery made lately, by Henry W. Paine, Esq f
that light and heat may be produced by a simple
process, from the decomposition of Water, is
, said to hare been ino« successfully tested by
Mr. Paine, who is now in Washington city, with
| one of bis machines in full operation. It pro
duces 200 cubic feet of hydrogen gas and 100
i lecl of oxygen gas per hour, the actual cost of
! which is only one cent; and this quantity, is
I said to be sufficient to give light equal to three
i hundred common lamps for ten hours, or to
warm an ordinary duelling twelve hours, or to
supply beat sufficient for a one horse power
steam engine. No smoke and no more steam
than is desirable is produced. If all that is said
of it is true, it will create a revolution in manu
factures, and seriously affect the coal interest.
For all purposes of light and heat and ordinary
manufactures, nothing in the shape of fuel- will
he required except a small supply of w ater.
ffj’TliuN. V. Commercial says that a gen
tleman who recently met .Mr Macaulay in Eng
land, states that the historian is Itisily engaged
upon his third volume, Lut that >t will not be
ready for a year or fifteen months.
MACON MARKET, FEB. 2.
COTTON—We have no material change to
notice in the market since onr last report
We quote 11 a cents—principal sales 11} a
12 cents.
Boarding:.
■ i The undersigned will furnish Board
jj and Lodging for two or three Gentlemen.
-IfJIDM, A few Day-Boarders call also be accom
modated. For terms apply to
JOHN K. HARMON,
At Messrs. Wood dfc Jewett’s Store,
jan 26 3■ -3t
Superior Teas.
-j A splendid lot of TEAS, both
|jQ Green and Black, warranted fine,
IU just received not from the Canton
tiiay Tea Company of New York, at
W. FREEMAN’S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street,
dec I 1
Bibl> Coimly Male Academy.
IN consequence of the increasing number ol
- applicants for admission, the subscriber lias
employed a Second Assistant, in the person of
Mr. F. T. Polhii.l, a graduate of Mercer Uni
versity. Mr. I’. has had several years’ experi
ence us a Teacher, and is well qualified to give
instruction. A limited number of I’upils will
be received. P. A. STIiOBEL, Rector,
jan 26 3—2 t
T't’iaalc Seminary.
A 1 RS. WM. 11. ANDERSON, respectfully
I’l informs the Public that she has effected
an arrangement with the Trustees, by which the
use ofthe Bihli County Female Academy has
been obtained fur her School,
jan I 2 I—ts
M anted lin in ctl in fd y,
TWO OR THREE JOURNEYMEN CABI-
J NET-MAKERS. None except good work
men, and such as arc w illing to make themselves
useful, need apply.
WOOD & BRADLEY,
orl 20 47—ts
Knud l ies.
C PERM OIL and CANDLES
)A Rio and Java Coffee
Crushed and Powdered Sugars
Chnmpaignc and Madeira Wines
Nuts and Crackers of all kinds
Sardines and Lobsters
Pickles by the Jar or Gallon
Codfish, Mackerel and Shad
Superfine Wheat and Rye Flea,
Fine Starch, Musturd, Tapioca
Spices, Choealute, &e., at
W FREEMAN’S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street,
dec 1 j
Hums, Butter, Syrup, Ac.
( 11NCINNATI Sugar cured HAMS
V,' GOSHEN BUTTER
New Orleans Sugar House SYRUP
A few Jars of very white Leaf LARD.
All of choice quality, just received and for
sule by UFO. T. ROGERS,
1 Cherry Street.
Fine Flicwing Tobttcco.
ri 11. iV S. LILIF.NTH A L’S well known
* . superior line Cut Chewing TOBACCO,
in papers and cans. Also, various brands of
Chewing Tobacco—some of which the knowing
ones say cannot be beat. Also, various brands
of CIGARS, which aie just good enough. For
sale at \V. FREEMAN’S
Cheap Store, Cherry Street,
dee I l
New Bice.
Tierces of prime quality, just received
and for sale by GEO. T. ROGERS,
dec 1 J
Culm Molasses.
\ IHIDS. iii fine order, just received and
v‘ for sale low by
dec I GEO. T. ROGERS.
Oysters, Fresh Oysters.
LWNE, Large, Fat, Fresh OYSTERS, will ba
1 received every, night and sold by the Pint,
(lunrt or Gallon, at sueb prices that every body
must have some. The Oysters will be received
and must be sold at some price or another—so all
you lovers of good Oysters, walk up and get a
few, at ' \V. FREEMAN’S,
dec 1 1
Cuuul and Baltimore Flour.
|(jj\ WHOLE and Half Barrels FLOUR.
I ' M I Just received and for sale low by
dec l GEO. T. ROGERS?. *
Cheese.
'y BOXES of superior quality, in large and
s small boxes, just received and for sale by
dec I GEO. T. ROGERS.
Apples and Mercer Potatoes.
Z)i\ BARRELS in fine order, for sale by
—' ’ dec 1 CEO. T ROGERS.
Buckwheat, Ac.
1 / ki V SACKS Kino Buckwheat
I ' *V" r»0 boxes new crop Raisins
25 do superior Cheese
Just received at W. FREEMAN'S,
dec 1 l
New Fork Steam Ketiued Candies
A STILE Larger assortment of CANDIES,
-al_ just received and for sale ns low as any
Candies in Town, at W. FREEMAN’S,
dec 1 1
Solace's Fine Cut Tobacco.
SOMETHING very superior, just ’received
and lor sale by GEO. T. ROGERS
Sept 2D
