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i 0 . %irnlttm’, jllmnifiutnrrs, &r. “Ships ©f the Dfsrrt.” \V e noticed some days ago the arrival of several Syrian Camels at Baltimore, intended for the estab lishment of an overland line to California- The New A ork Herald says it is informed, from, a re liable source, that Messrs. Sands and Howes are about to establish the line forthwith; and that the first caravan will leave Independence, Missouri, some time in June next. These gentlemen have already thirty-one camels in this country; and there is a vessel now on the way from Algiers to New Orleans with twenty-two more, making fifty-three in all; most of which have been selected of a good brood stock. A caravan of 2 5 or more is to leave each point once a month, and continue through the year. The Western Journal of St. Louis, for the month ot January, gives the follow ing interesting letter upon the subject of introducing these animals into Texas, as a means of defence against the marauding tribes of Indians with which her western border is continually harrassed. It is a fact well known to eastern travellers, and especially to those who have visited the mountain regions of Syria and Arabia, that the camel is as ser viceable on the rough mountain path as in the moving sand of the desert. The dry bed of a torrent is the caravan’s high road across the mountains and foot prints the guides through the plains. The tough india-rubber-like .soles of the camel’s feet are affec ted neither by the burning sands, nor bv the loose, sharp-edged stones strewed over the range of rocky mountains, running from the Taurus to the Indian ocean. The long legged, sure footed and indefati gable animal makes its way through heavy mud, crosses the rapid torrent, steps over huge stones and other impediments, which it often encounters with a heavy load and sometimes perhaps the additional weight of the lazy driver upon his back ; while the mule would be unable to travel over the same ground, though without any load w hatever. It takes but half a minute to secure the camel in its kneeling position by the bridle string so that it can neither rise nor move until released. It is un heard ot that camels ever have been affected by the stampede or the panic disturbing so often the beast of burden in the west. The camel wants no shoeing, no bit, no carriage; a caravan of a hundred in Indian file requires but two men to keep it moving with all order—one at the head and one at the end. The camel drinks only every second day, but it may be deprived of water for three or four days to gether without any effect on its health or its vigor ; it will perform an eight days’ journey with no other food than a three pounds’ weight of oil cake and a few handsful of grain or beans per diem. The common day’s journey of caravans of burden camels in Syria and Arabia is from twenty-seven to thirty English miles, and the load on such journeys is between from four to five hundred pounds. Egyp tian camels, reputed the tallest and strongest breed, will carry for the short distance of six hundred to one thousand yards from ten to twenty cwts. The India mail is conveyed from Suez to Cairo —a dis- The Cavass (express) of the Egyptian government mounted on running camels or dromedaries perform the said distance with one animal in six to eight hours. The running camels moves with ease for weeks together, at the rate of eighty miles a day, while no horse can go longer than one day, to a day and a half, at the same rate; they are evidently the only animals upon which the Texans can undertake to outstrip and subdue the border tribes. The camel is also very successfully employed for draught, as the writer of this article observed in Al exandria, (Egypt,) and by the English Engineer de partment at Aden (Arabia Felix.) In this respect it is far superior to the slow and greedy ox; it draws as much as two oxen, walks twice as fast, and eats but for one. The camel may be broken in when three years old, and is useful and active to the age of eighteen or twenty. Amongthe Mohammedans c;i iei‘- flesh is an ar ticle of food; when young it i• not easily disting uished from beef. CannTs milk is the chief food of the Bedouin, and the hide of the animal is consid ered superior to every other for sandals. The camel is certainly more useful than either the lama, mule, horse or ox, as well on account of its superior strength, frugality, endurance, and willing ness, as for its adaptability to every climate and every soil. The one-bumped or Arabian camel would answer best to the climate and soil of Texas, New Mexico, and lower California, and the two-humped or Baetri an to northern California and Oregon. The Arabi an camel is fleeter than the latter, and no doubt could be imported w ith less cost from the Moroccan coast into Texas, than the Bactrian from the mouth of the Amoy rive r. I have thus enumerated some of the advantages which would render the introduction of the camel into Texas an inestimable benefit. The honor of the idea belongs to the Spaniards, who had import ed some camels into Mexico shortly before the revo lution, but they destroyed them at their retreat from the country, unwilling to leave the breed to in surgents of such a powerful auxiliary to man in peace and war. There is no reason why the camel should not be as serviceable to man on the prairies of Texas and the mountain regions of Mexico, New Mexico, California and Oregon as in the correspond ing tracts of the old world —the line of country from Orenburg (Syberia) to Mogadoxa, (east coast of Af rica) and from Pekin (China) to Mogadore (west coast of Africa.) It would be acclimated as soon and as easily as the “genus equus,” no species of which existed in the western hemisphere until the Spaniards imported the horse and ass ; meanwhile the new w orld already possesses an animal ot a cor responding species to the camel —the lama. On board ship the camel kneels of its own accord during heavy seas and rises when the vessel is steady again, unlike the horse, which tires itself out by rolling with the vessel and standing always on its legs. The menagerie conductors never lose an animal in crossing the sea from Egypt to England, and from England to the United States. The camels will serve as “ehevaux de frise” against cavalrv attacks, if need should l>o, as no horse un acquainted with the sight and noise of those animals dares to approach. The depredatory Indian tribes would have no longer a shelter in the swiftness of their horses and the barrenness of their retreats it hunted down by a corps of “lancer-riflemen” mounted on the re nowned Morroccan dromedaries! If the Bedouins of Africa, with the dromedary for auxiliary, resisted French soldiers for twenty years, and the Bedouins in Syria, Kurdistan and Arabia the Turkish Nezans (regulars) for evermore, how long will the Bedouins of America resist the Anglo Saxon command, on the borders of their new territorial acquisition, assisted by this powerful aux iliary —the running camel, the ship of the desert? The following is the largest estimate that can be made of the expense of importing one hundred carn al- from Morroeco to Corpus (’hristi. One hundred camels at an average price of SSO - - $5,000 Twenty colored attendants at sls a month for three months - - 900 Agency for superintending the purchase, the loading and landing of animals 1,000 Travelling expense ... 000 Freight of attendants and camels from Morroeco to Corpus Christi - - 5,000 Insurance 2 per cent, on $U7,500 - 350 Food, water and stabling of the camels from the time of purchasing - 4,000 To the time of landing Corpus Christi and victuals for the attendants, pres ents to brokers, merchants and un forseen expenses - 050 Amount brought forward - * $17,500 i Allowing for saddles, harnesses, tents, water bag of India-rubber, cordage, blankets, cooking utensils and arms 2,500 ‘ , < The cost of the one hundred camels at Corpus Christi, ready for a journey will be-- $20,000 or S2OO a head —not including the very improbable chance of losing some on the voyage, which is al ready accounted for in the extreme estimate ot first cost, freight and expenses in general. I never have seen a burden camel sold for more ! than SSO, but I bought some myself in the lied Sea as low as %3 to $5 a head. Running camels I have | seen selling for S2O up to S2OO ! Admitting only of eighty passengers at SIOO a person to San Diego or San Francisco, guaranteeing so by this limited number the uninterrupted jour neying with a speed of thirty miles a day, this trip would only produce SB,OOO, but compensating large- I ly for expenses and loss of interests up to a country where such a useful animal is worth at least SI,OOO —if it should not be thought proper to employ it in the transportation line between the Sacramento I and the Diggings, or to return with fortunate ad venturers at S3OO a person! either to Missouri, Arkansas or Texas. Faking the average weight of a person to be one hundred and fifty pounds, the passengers, baggage, arms and provisions two hundred and fifty pounds, and a reservation of weight for water and food and victuals for the attendants, one hundred pounds, the ! burden of the animal for the greater part of the journey will be reduced to about three to four hun dred pounds, as it is not always necessary to carry water and food on the journey, and as the travellers prefer always to follow the camel on foot during the cooler parts of the day, therefore thirty miles per diem is a safe average for the whole length of the journey. EMANUEL WEISS, A Swiss traveller in Syria and Arabia. Memphis, Tennessee. Progress of Tea Culture in the Tinted States. Our fair readers (says the Journal of Commerce) will be much exhilarated by the following letter, showing, apparently, the entire success of the ex periments made in South Carolina by Dr. Junius 1 Smith, in the cultivation of the tea plant. It would appear also that there is a prospect of obtaining a much more delightful tea on this our republican ; soil than ever has been or can be brought from Im perial China. One thing, though, is indispensable, if we would enjoy this pleasure, viz : we must hold fast to the Union; otherwise, none of the choicest ; teas will be permitted to cross Mason and Dixon’s I line. Communicated for the Journal of Commerce Greenville, (S. C.) May 1, 1860. Dear Sir : Although the winter lias been ratb yet lam happy to say the tea plant maintains its ; ; original physiology. The same laws which govern ! the plant in China, Java, and India govern it here, j ) Not a single deficiency in my small garden. Every i plant has taken effective root, and early in April the leaf buds came out in great profusion, all starting 1 ! from the foot of the old leafstalk. About the 20th ! April the buds, influenced by increased temperature, j followed their Chinese paternity, and began tode-, velope an abundance of the most delicate leaves in regular season for the first gathering for the nianu ! factureof the choicest quality of tea. Were it pru dent to relax in the slightest degree the reciprocal j action of root and branch, and thus delay the vigor, I growth blossom, and fruiting of the matured plant, I I could now gather a sufficient quantity of leaves to make a small supply of first-rate tea. But I compel myself to forbear the indulgence of a curiosity dear to my heart. The fact that the foliage puts out at the same time that it does in China, affords another practical evidence of the adaptation of the American climate j to the grow th of the plant, and demonstrates the physiological fitness of a plant indigenous to China to the culture of our own country. The final result’ depends upon our own industry, and we have no ! more ground for fear or apprehension of failure, than ; we have in transplanting a peach, tree from France to America. The leaf is now of a light pea green j ’ color, and nothing can be imagined more tender ; and delicate. I can now understand why it is that! we cannot obtain the first quality of tea from China. The first growth of the leaf is so delicate that it is 1 quite impossible to divest it of humidity by firingor roasting, to sustain so long a voyage, besides the al most certainty of utterly destroying its rich and precious aroma. I can now understand why it is that a Chinese official of wealth and dignity will pay a hundred dollars a pound for tea grown in liis j own country. The quantity of buds and early j leaves, compared with a general gathering of leaves fully grown, must be small indeed, and the value > enhanced in proportion to the scarcity. We have yet to learn the effects of different soils, i climate, and locality, in the various tea growing districts of our own country, both upon the growth of the plant and the quality of the tea. We have no reason to suppose that these effects will be less j diversified here than they are in China; but gatlier i ing instruction from the tea cultivators in China, Ja va, and India, I think we have no occasion to culti vate a poor soil in a tropical climate, or one border ing upon it, and thus produce an inferior quality of ted. We certainly ought to produce the best, and none of the inferior quatities grown in China. In many respects we possess natural and peculiar ad vantages, which neither China, nor Java, nor India, do or can possess. T)ur market, whether European or American, lies at our door. We are spared the expensive and injurious process of firing or roasting the tea leaf to prepare it for foreign markets. We hav e abundance of fme cheap lands, with all the di versity of soil, climate, and aspect, that the plant can require. Our transportation, facilitated by riv ers, canals, and railroads, is so short to shipping ports, that the actual cost will not be one quarter so i much as itr is from the tea plantations of China to j Canton, the port of shipment. More than all, eve ry farmer, certainly in the middle and southern States, may grow his own tea in his own garden, i without the slightest interference with his ordinary agricultural pursuits. With these exclusive privile ges in our hands, if we do not cultivate our own tea, then I think we ought to be tributary to those who call us barbarians. Yours, truly, JUNIUS SMITH. An AroLOGY.—A lawyer in a neighboring county addres sed the Court as “gentlemen,” instead of “your Honors.’’— After he had concluded, a brother of the bar reminded him of his error. He immediately rose to apologize, thus. 51ay it please the Court—in the heat of debate, I called your Hon ors gentlemen. 1 made a mistake, your Honors.” The gentleman sat down, and we hope the Court was satisfied with the explanation. ?is ft i©mft ijl limn. From the Southern Cultivator. Torn Culture. Mr. Editor: —Having seen several articles on | the proper mode of planting and cultivating Corn, and as it is our most valuable crop, I have conclu ded to give you my experience with the same. In the first place, I differ with those who contend that this valuable crop is not planted sufficiently close, to produce as much corn as the land is capa , ble of tearing. I believe that if the proper distance : were observed in the hills, each way, that every i stalk would produce an ear of corn. If this be a ; fact as it must be, as no stalk of corn is naturally ; barren, it will be seen, by making a calculation of j the number of stalks on an acre of ground, and the i number of ears to the bushel, that not much over ! half the stalks produce an ear. This, then is a con clusive argument against close planting of corn.— But there is no doubt the distance that corn should be planted, depends greatly upon several circum stances. The richness of the soil, the climate, the ; mode of culture, and the variety of corn, should all j betaken into tlie account, in deciding the distance |it should be planted. On rich bottom or upland, we may say plant closer than it would be practi ; cable on poorer soil. The same kind of soil, in a warm climate, will not bear as close planting as it will in a colder climate. It is evident that if two j persons, planting the same kind of land, the one ; breaking his land very deep and carefully draining it, he would be able to plant much closer than the , other, who plowed his land very shallow. A small, I flinty stalk will bear much closer planting than a large growing stalk. Notwithstanding what lias been said, I am well satisfied that, in this section, as well as in many others, the corn is crowded entirely too close; the average distance being about four feet each way, two stalks in each hill. The average crop is about twenty bushels; perhaps something less. I have, for two years, made an experiment, to test the truth of what Isay. In 1846,1 planted ten acres of poor land in corn, 4 feet by 3, one stalk in each hill, worked it as I did the rest, and when I gathered it it yielded nearly as much as the rich land —the ears being much better matured. Last year, I planted ten acres of thinner land than tlie balance of my crop, planting it 4 feet by 3, as stated above, work ed in the same way as the rest of my crop, which was planted four feet each way, two stalks in the hill; and, when I gathered my crop, the piece plant ed one stalk to the hill, made heavier corn and more of it —which, to my mind, proves that close planting is not the best. ‘ I believe that 4 feet by 3, one stalk in the hill, is close enough for any of our upland. I make, as an everage,from 20 t 025 bush els per acre. Yours, Uuly, J. AY. ATKINS. Monterey , Butler county, Ala. Feb. 1850. From the Savannah Georgian. Anew Colony in Georgia. AY e have had the pleasure of a visit from John Blake, Esq., agent of the Georgia Emigration Com pany, of London, who has been sent over for the purpose of examining their lands in Irwin county, in this State, and reporting the most favorable plan for bringing them into immediate use. AYe have also I been permitted to examine Mr. Blake’s report, and have received from him much information as to the views and designs of the company, which, if carried out, must result in much good to our beloved State. The compauy now owns about 150,000 acres of land, in fine body in Irwin county, and Mr. B. has been instructed to examine it particularly as regards its adaptation to the culture of cotton, and the advan ; tages it possesses for the manufacture of that article. ; Mr. Blake strongly recommends the latter .project, ailil ilistlv remarks that. Irwin Minntr inT nro .J‘ trie Desx cot ton growing sections of the fstate, and ; that Baker, Lee, Thomas, and Dooly, four of the ; counties adjoining it, would furnish more cotton than the Company, however extensive would ever require, I including a large proportion of long staple cotton. | As to the quality of the lands belonging to the Com ! pany, lie remarks that, with reasonable industry, ; they can be made available for almost any purpose 1 the Company may desire; and that lie lias seen * sugar made in Irwin county that would bring in the I English or Irish markets thirty-eight shillings per hundred pounds, and cotton, wheat, corn, oats, and barley, growing most luxuriantly. In noticing the climate of Georgia, Mr. B. re- j marks, there is not a more delightful or healthy lo cality in the world than that selected by the com pany in Irwin county, entirely free from swamp and all other local causes of disease, it possesses in its present state all the appearances of a well tended demesne, and will yield with care most, if not all of the fruits grown in Italy, Spain, or any other conn- j try in Europe. As to its water power, Mr. B. says, there are seve- j ral bold streams running through the lands, but he 1 does not deem them sufficient for manufacturing purposes, and to supply that deficiency, he asserts j that for centuries to come there will be an abundance of timber for fuel and all other purposes. Pure wa ter for drinking can be found within twenty feet of the surface in all parts of the county, and the run-’ ning streams will furnish enough at all times for purposes of irrigation. Air. Blake strongly recommends the plan of, sending out a colony composed of agricultural la borers and factory operatives, as well as the imme diate erection of towns at Barnard, Layola, and the terminous on the Oemulgee of the Ocmulgee and Flint River Rail Road. He also urges upon the Company lhc completion of that railroad and enu merates many of the advantages to be deriv ed from its use when finished, lie says that by putting up saw mills in the vicinity of each town the timber that would otherwise be wasted on the lands intended for cultivation could be rendered available for building purposes, and the surplus offered for sale in this and the European markets; also, that many advantages would accrue from a division of interest between agriculture and manufactures, as each would in turn consume a large portion of the products of the other. Mr. B. concludes his report with a glowing description of the natural advanta ges Georgia possesses over most of the other States of the Union—the numerous facilities for reaching our seaboard, and the safety with which vessels can arrive and depart with their golden treasure at all times and seasons. AVe hope that Mr, B’s report will be favorably received by the company he repre sents, and that all his anticipations of success and happiness in Georgia may be fully realised. The Culture of Flowers. BY AGUICOLA. I lie nature of a plant, generally, must be the guide by which to act. No one would think of flooding a cactus with moisture, nor of planting a lil)’ in a bed of dry sand, yet it is well to make nu merous experiments, for by this means alone can any fact be clearly ascertained. All know that vines j need trailing ; aquatic plants, moisture; and bulb lous roots, rich earth; follow these first truths of na ture, and the minor points will gradually be dis covered. 1 n a flower garden the earth should be mellow and rich ; its chief beauty consists in its arrangement. A well designed garden should consist of oval, cir cular, square, triangular and other shaped beds, handsomely arranged, bordered with box or privet, and intersected with gravel walks, and walking grass paths. Great skill is required also in plant ing the beds. Many varieties of early and late blooming flowers should lie planted in each bed, in order that there may be a continual succession of bloom. In the transplantation of plants, great care should be laken not to place a plant in a soil different from that from which it is removed. Many are verv neg ’ IWent concerning this. They remove a plant from a loose soil and sunny spot to a place where the ground is hard and damp, and then wonder why the plant droops and dies. Plants possess a wonderful pow er of accommodation, and by proceeding gradually, almost their very nature may be changed; but one should no more expect that a plant transferred from a sheltered nook to an exposed situation should flourish than that the animals of Africa should dwell in Lapland. Plants should seldom be showered by the water ing pot, but their supply should be afforded them Iby flats and under soil. Drenching is decidedly hurtful, for though it may cool the earth and appa | rently revive the plant, yet, the rapid evaporation that “takes place from the leaves, will, generally, cause the plant to languish. Plants, moreover, should be watered very regularly, for nothing will sooner destroy them than to soak them one day, and then neglec t them for a week. The general oversight of the garden requires as ; much care as skill. Sowing the seeds, transplanting, watering, manuring, pruning, and cherishing the plants, are pleasant duties; but the toil of the cul- I tivator will be poorly paid, if he has not a strict care for the appearance of his parterre. All gravel walks ! should he frequently cleaned and rolled. The borders ! sould be kept free from weeds, and neatly trimmed. Every lawn and grass walk should be often mowed and rolled, so as to give them a smooth and carpet like appearance. Decayed plants, stalks, and dead leaves should be freequeutly and carefully removed. In tine, the cultivator himself will daily see matters to which he should attend —vines to be trained ; plants to be propped up, and others to be cut down; seeds to be gathered; and a hundred things which prudence, experience, and good sense will prompt j him to perform. —Great West. j Cljt Ulinnorisf. “ Let dimpled mirth his temples twine, With tendrils of the laughing vine.” The Dublin Gent: OR THE SELF-WAITING DINNER TABLE. An Irishman fresh from the banks of the Lissy, who was an fait at cutting a dash upon a small capi tal, having graduated in that best of all schools for forming such a character —the city of Dublin—met with a paragraph in one of the papers about a “self waiting dinner table,” and not being very deeply versed in the abstruse mysteries of mechanics, was somewhat puzzled to know its purpose. Passing by a down-town restaurant, about 2 o’clock, I*. M., the same day, he saw on a circular table, covered with a snow-white diaper, a round of spiced beef, a cold turkey, and a pair of cold roast chickens, with bread, salt, knives, forks, napkins, and all the other etceteras to constitute a comfortable cold dinner for four. It was ordered by one of a party of that num ber going out to the Regatta, who promised to re turn between three and half-past four o’clock. Our Dublin Gent having been perambulating the city, taking a look at the lions, it being his first visit to the Crescent, passed the restaurant again at three, and there was still the plentiful supply of cold edi bles. Being, truth to say, somewhat puzzled where to dine, conjecture began to exercise itself in his mind, to divine the cause of the tempting viands, being so long untouched, w hich seemed to say, “come and eat us.” An idea struck him, and to him it was a happy solution to the mystery. He conclu ded that the table which lie had descried through the glass door of the restaurant was no other than the self-waiting dinner table,” of w hich he had read in the paper that morning. “And be me honor,’’ said he, soliloquizing, “a mighty tine invention it is; B'WjUF - As fur of a shocking bad -hat w ith a “wipe” which for 1 some time had not seen a mangle, adjusted the collar of a not over-clean dickey, stroked down his goatee, and assuming an easy, confident air, walked into the restaurant, and seated himself at the round table with round ot beet, turkey, chickens, Arc., before him. Before he was well seated the obsequious waiter, thinking he was one of the party for whom dinner was ordered, was at his side, w ith an—“ Allow me to take your hat, sir ? ” “ 1 hat hat’s a tile, me friend,’* said the Dublin Gent, presenting it to him with a dignified air. “Ah, you is a funny gentleman, I see, sir,” said the waiter, “to call your hat a tile.” ‘Acs, John,” said the Dublin Gent; “shall I call you John ? —never knew a waiter with any other name. The name in my opinion unfits a man for any other calling. But as I was about to say, John, some of the more vulgar of humanity carry bricks in their hats—l wear a tile on me head. Now about this dinner ? ’’ “ Been waitin’ this hour,” savs John. “How excessively accommodatin'! ” said the Dub lin Gent. “Why, sir,” says John, “we are always accom modatin’ to good customers.’’ “ Glad to hear it,” said the Ihiblin Gent; “I shall patronise your establishment.” And during this conversation he was dissecting the cold chickens in a manner that would have done credit to a student of Surgeon’s Hall. “Anything to drink, sir,” said John. “ Dhrink ’ ’’ said the Dublin Gent; “is that tcait in’ for me too l “ “Es, sir,” said John, “it lias been in the coolers for the last hour.” Dublin Gent—“Then let me have a bottle of it, me boy; the best claret, d’ye mind. Ye have Irish whiskey, too, haven’t ye ? ” John. —“Es, sir.” Dublin Gent “Some of Joliny Power’s, I have no doubt?” John. —“Don’t zacley know, sir; I know its pow erful strong, howsomedever.” Dublin Gent.—“ Thin be the time ye hink I have the claret drunk, providin’ I’m not drunk meself, as well as the claret, bring me materials for a rousin’ tumbler.” John. —“AVerry good sir; (going) you shall ’ave it.” Dublin Gent.—“ John, a word with you. John re turns.) John stop a moment; let me take a phre nological glance at that Jove-like brow of yours, that cerulean eye, that intellectual mouth, and that a qucline nose. (After a pause.) John you may go. You have not been born great, but you are bound to achieve greatness! ” John.—(Going.)—“That's an uncommon civil gem’an.” Dublin Gent, solus —(discussing the edibles be fore him, meantime,) —“Well be the memory of me honored ancesthors, I have heard, long before I put me foot in this city, which be the same token, was but the day before yesterday, that this was a great country —surprising for its energy—wondherful for its inventions! and, for this latther quality, 1 have now-a proof before me, in this self-waitin’dinner ta ble. Why, self-constituted philanthropists, in my unhappy counthry, claimed great credit for inventin’ soup kitchens, by which the unfortunate pisantry might be taught slow starvation ; hut here’s an in vention —this self-waitin’ table—that furnishes a dinner, free gratis for nothin’, such as the Duke of Leinster might not blush at settin’ before his guests ! Talk of quanhers! but if I’m not in good quartkers now may I never live to see the statue of ould King William in College Green ! haven’t I the four quar thers of two chickens before me ?—that’s eight quar thers more; and is not that sixteen quarthers-—not to spake of the round of beef, the wine, the w hiskey punch in perspective, and other little trimmins ? Whugh ! this is is quarthers fit for the mess of her majesty’s own heavy dragoons.” Thus he went on talking, not forgetting “the avtin’and the drinkin.” Finally, remembering the w hiskey punch, he called “John.” i John.—“Es, sir—within a minute. Dublin Gent.—“ John, what about those materials or the whiskey punch ? ” John—“ They’re a waitin’ for you sir. ’ Dublin Gent.—“Oh! they’re waitin’ for me, are they ? Thin, of course, it would be downright im politeness if I were to keep them a waitin’ tor me any longer; so hurry them up, John, me boy ! but see here, John, why do you say a w aitin’ —why do you use the indefinite article *a,’ there, before the participle ? ’’ John. —“I doesn't know, sir.” Dublin Gent.—“ You doesn't know, there’s more of it; John, my good fellow, I fear your early edu cation has been villanously neglected —but, never mind, bring me the materials ; 1 may take the trou ble of instructing you in the rudiments of refined literature one of these days.’’ (Sings and mixes his punch.) “Oh, fill the bumper fair, Every glass we sprinkle O’er the brow of care, Smooths away a ” The closing part of the last line w as lost in a loud and simultaneous ironical whistle! ending with, ! “AYby, what the d—l have we got here i ” from ; four amateur aquatic sporting gentlemen —the very i same who had ordered the dinner, and for whom it had been prepared, “Look here, old fellow,” said one of them, “you appear to be taking it comfortable. Since you have taken the liberty of sitting down to the dinner w hich we had ordered and paid for, why did you not in- 1 vite some ofyour friends ? ” Dublin Gent. —(In one of his blandest and most blarneying tones.) —“Gintlemen, it will give me in i finite pleasure to do that same thing now. Sit down, j The fact is, that in puttin’ me legs undher your ma- j ! hogany, I find I committed a devil of a blunder, j You, no doubt, would call it a bull. But never ! mind, I have a sovereign in my pocket yit —when I that is gone I’ll never ow n allegience to another—sit 1 down, I say, there is plinty still for you all. Com mince on the could turkey; it’s cut up to yer hand ; and w hile ye’re operatin’ on that and a slice of the | spiced beef, I’ll ordher a beefsteak at my own ex pinse, and mix as delightful a round of punch for ye as iver was drunk at Dunleary; I’ll give yet a ; song of my own composition into the bargain.” “Well, boys,” says one of the quartette, addres- j sing his associates, “what’s the use of making a muss; he appears to be a jolly, good fellow, though, doubtless, hard up —let us take him at his word.” About this time the proprietor of the restaurant, a Frenchman, came up, who, like John the waiter, thought all along that the Dublin Gent was one of those for whom the dinner was ordered; but, being now undeceived, he began to look pickles at the Dublin Gent, and to utter a series of sacra Irlandias to him ! “O, shut up, old snuff skin,” said the Dublin Gent, “if the gintlemen themselves feel satisfied, what right have you to keep jabbering about the mistake, w hich was nothing more, after all, than that 1 mistook the dinner waiting for them, to be a self-waiting dinner, or in other words, a dinner that was waiting for me ! ” The gentlemen were satisfied; they sat down and made a most hearty dinner. The Dublin Gent, in the meanwhile, amused them with anecdotes of O’Connell, Lord Norbury, Curran, and others, and wound up w ith a song, and a second round of w liis- , key punch. They parted, mutually delighted with each other’s society; each one of the four gave the Dublin Gent his card, telling him that whenever he chose to call at tin ir address he’d find a dinner laid for him on a self-waiting table! Coaxing up an Expression. j er’s shadows ere the substance faded, stepped into a Dagurreotv pe establishment, recently to sit for their “picters.” J he lady gave precedence to her swain, who she said, “had got to he tuck fust and raal natral.” He brushed up his tow head of hair, gave a twist or I two to his handkerchief, asked his gal if his sheert collar stood about X, and planted himself in the operator’s chair, where he soon assumed the physiog nomical characteristics of a poor mortal in a dentists’ hands, and about to part with one of his eve teeth. “Now dew look purty! ” begged the ladv, casting at him one of her most languishing glances. The picture was taken, and w hen produced, it reminded t lie girl, as she expressed it, “jist how Josh looked when lie got over the measles ! ” and as this was not an era in her suitor’s history particularly worthy ot their commemoration, she insisted that “he should stand it again.” He obeyed, and she attended him to the chair. “Josh ’ said she, “ jist look like smi lin and then kinder don’t.” The poor fellow tried to follow the injunction. “La! ’’ she said, “whv you look all puckered up.’’ One direction followed another, but w ith as little success. At last growing impatient, and becoming desperate, she resolved to try an expedient which she considered infallible, and exclaimed, “I don’t keer if there is folks around.”— She enjoined the operator to stand ready at his camera, she then sat in the feller’s lap, and placing her arms around his neck, managed to cast a shower of flaxen ringlets, as a screen between the operator and her proceedings, which however were bet raved by a succession of amorous sounds w hich revealed her expedient. AYhen this “billing and cooing’’ had lasted a few minutes, the cunning girl jumped from Josh’s lap, and clapping her hands, cried to the as tonished artist—“ Now you have got him, put him through!” tUUUMIII I ll—■ futling it Thick. Many years since, there did dwell in a certain town, not a hundred miles from that far-famed place where orthodox divines are fitted up for their pro fession and calling, a certain I>. D. notorious for his parsimoniousness, which would occasionally run into the wildest extremes, “Like a peach that's got the vallers. With its meanness bustin out.**— llvsea Bigloyj. One day this doctor of divinity chanced into a hat store in the city, and after rummaging over the wares, selected an ordinary-looking hat—put it on his reverend head—ogled himself in the glass— then asked the very lowest price of it—telling the vender that if he could get it cheap enough he thought he might buy it. “But,” said the hatter, “that hat is not good enough for you to wear —here is what vou want,’’ showing one of his Wst Wavers. “Tis the Wst I can afford, though,” returned the i theologian. Well, there, doctor—l’ll make a present of that Wst Waver, if you’ll wear it and tell your friends whose store it came from. I'll w arrant you'll send me customers enough to get my money back with interest—you are pretty extensively acquainted.” “Thank you—thank you !” said the doctor—lns eyes gleaming with pleasure at raising a castor so cheaply—how much may this Waver W worth J” “We sell that kind of a hat for eight dollars,” re plied the man of nap. “And the other ?” continued the reverend gentle man. “Three.” “The man of sermons put on the Waver—looked in the glass —then at the three dollar hat. “I think, sir,” said he —taking off the Waver, and holding it in one hand as lie donned the cheap ‘tile,’ tie,” “I think, sir, that this hat will answ*er my pur pose full as w ell as the Wst.” “But, you’d Wtter take the Wst one, sir, it costs you no more.” “B-u-t —b-u-t,” replied the parson hesitatingly— “l didn’t know—but —per-haps—you would as lief I would take the cheap one—and leave the other— and perhaps you would not mind giving me the dif ference in a five dollar bill.'’ A Hoosier Attorney on Capital Ptitihhneit, The following oration was delivered somewhere at the west, by oae of the profession, who would ! seem to have quite an aversion to capital punish j ment: “May it pleflse your lordship and Gentlemen of : the Jury —Tlie'case is as ele.tr as ice and as sharp to j the feeling, as “no"’ from y-V.ir sweetheart. The I Scripture saith, “Thou shall not kill;” now if vou j hang my client, you transgress the command as I slick as grease and as plump as an egg in a loafer’s face. Gentlemen murder is murder- committed by twelve jurymen, or by a humble individual like my i client. Gentlemen, I do not deny the fact of my cTiont: having killed a man, but is that any reason why vou should do so ? No such thing, GentlcfOeii.- may bring the prisoner in guilty, the liangma* may dohis duty, but will that exonerate you l Nostleh tiling. In that ease you will be murderers. Who is prepared among you for the brand of Cain to be stamped on his brow to-day ? Who freemen, who in this land of liberty and light ? Gentlemen. I will pledge my word not one of you has a bowie-knife ora pistol in pocket; no Gen tlemen, your pockets are oderiferous with the per-’ fumes of cigar cases and tobacco; you can smoke the’ i tobacco of rectitude in the pipe of a peaceful consci> | once! but hang my unfortunate client and the scaly aligators of remorse will gallop through the inter i nal principles of the animal vertebra, and youranato* ! mica! construction is turned into a railroad fertile grim and gory goblins of despair. Gentlemen, be ware of committing murder. Beware 1 say. Remember the man who attempted to steady the ark, and tremble. Gentlemen, 1 adjure by the A merican Eagle, that whipped the game-cock of crea tion and now sits roosting on the magnetic telegraph of time’s illustrious transmigration, to do no mur~ der! and lastly, Gentlemen, if you ever expect to wear 1 oots made of the free hide of the Rocky Mountain buffalo, and to sum up all, if you even ex pect to be anything but a set of sneaking, loafing, rascally, cut throated, braid< and, small ends of humani ty, whittled down to indistinctibility, acquit my cli ent and save your country.” The prisoner was acquitted. A Rich Love Letter. April Ist, 1850. Most transcendent and egregious Miss *. Would that my pen were dipped in the dyes of the rainbow, plucked from the wings of an angel, and wended with the prayer of an infant's wit!—then might 1 expect to paint the burning brightness of that flame which thy thrilling eloquence has enkindled. Thy sun beam of sentiment! soft moonlight of in< and sty ! thy voice is as gentle a- the first stirring of an in fant’s dream—thy step light as the silken footed zeph yr which fanned with the wing of perfume the new born j aradise —thine < yes are two brilliants sto len from a sera] hie crown —tliy lips are riven rose buds, moistened with the honeydew of affection— thy words are like drops of amber —thy teeth ar snowy flakes sot in a 1* dos verbena. Sweet spirit of cam] hor,doul le distilled essence of homopathy, se ur-crc ut of my hoj es, sorce of my thought*, butter milk catsup of my fancy, tiger lily of innocence, logwood of perfection—tlieu art the- julep of my dreams, ginger pop of mywnkiftg \isioiis, and cher ry bounce of my recollection. Thou art harmless as a tiger. 1 andsome as the elephant, meledious as the lion, meek as the hyena, spotted as the lee>pard, bright as the straggling rav of shivering, sneezing sunlight, ] assing the mortal e-rae-ks of an olel barn loft, or a greased streak of blue lightning churned I to consistency in the milky wav, and peppered with a show er of turnip topes, come ts and pereexm root* -“**-’* ‘* ‘• ---- -* the soul! pickled pumpkin! preserved crab of the garden llcsp>cr,de. Thy glance is as melting as old butter in summer time—thou art a drop of water from the I cup of the gods, or juice of a rotten pine apple.— Aberdeen Independent. GREGORY. Anecdotes from my Scrap Book of 1701. Selected fur the Georgia Citizen. Saturday Mght not Holy Time. Strong Argc.vkxt. —There* was once an illiter ate but wealthy man in New Jersey by the name of licach. lie rcsieled in a remote corner of a Presby terian parish, of which Pr. Dickinson wa* the pas tor. It hap; cued that a minister of the Church of England came that way and organized anew parish, in the limits of which Mr. Reach was included.— Highly delighted w ith the new order of things, he became very much devoted to the minister and to the novel services of the church. I Lis zeal led him to make a visit to his former minister, 1 >r. 1 >. for the purpose of showing the latter his error. “J have come Pr. I fickinsou, to tell you that you arc w rong sir. - ’ “All! in what am lin error, Mr. Reach !" — “AY by, in keeping Saturday night as holy time." — “You will have thegooduess B’onto tell me what authority you have for sayingwjjbr Wft-i'S *bis • ’ ‘A\ hy, the Bible, sir, savs, l the eve9* n nd the mor ning were the first day’ Don’t you see that“l see the text indeed, but cannot ] crccive what War ing it has; please name another, that shall W more obvious to my understanding.” “Well sir, ‘/or as Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly, so shall the son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth’ Then, sir, I pre sume you understand that ?” “No sir, l confess. I cannot see what either of these texts have to do with Saturday night.'’ Possible! what, the great Dr. Dickinson —President of a College, and cannot see ; the force of that text “Xo, sir, 1 confess lam not able to understand your idea in quoting it.” “I wih you to understand this thing distinctly, and I will therefore quote to you one more text. i on these t /co hang all the law and the prophets ,’ there fore it is the will of God, that all Lawyers and : Prophets should be hung. Don't you see that ?” ‘‘l | must give you the argument, Mr. Beach, I confess \ that lam not able to argue with you.” Mr. B. rc i tired proclaiming his victory over Dr. D. telling his astonished neighbors that the latter acknowledged to him that he was notable to hold an argument with ! him. Whenever we see a man of this description who quotes much scripture which he does not under stand, and thinks that he thereby refutes the propo sitions of his opponent, we generally feel disposed to tell him this story, and give him the argument x Anecdote of an Ignorant Lady. —A Lady* I whose beaut)’ rather than good sense, engaged her a companion in life, who held a public office, in the beginning of the late war, was in company with a number of women when the times were the topic of conversation, and it was suspected by one, that the lady’s husband was in favor of the tory interest, but she, with great spirit, contradicted it, asserting that “she knew and all the neighbors knew, and many of them could not but know, that her husband was one of the greatest libertines in all that part of the country.” OR TIIE WAR-PATH AND ITS INCIDENTS. A Story of the Creek Indian Disturb*®* ces of 1130. BY W. C. IIODGES. A supply of this new and interesting novel by a young gentleman of Columbus, Ga. has been received and will be kept for sale (Wholesale and Retail) at this office.— Also at the Book Stores. Persons at a distance w ill k* M three copies sent by mail or otherwise, on receipt of $3 . in gle copies, 40 cents. Macon, Mareh 21, ISOO *