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VOL. I. ‘■fjjj; talsluiMlA ST/Mil to published, every Friday morning, in Macon, Ga. on the follow. CONDITIONS : V paid strictly ta orfrancc - * per annum If not so paid - * * • 300 “ “ Legal Advertisements will be made to conform to the following pro visions of the Statute. . Sale* of Land and Negroes, by Executors, Administrators and Guard ians, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette, sixty day* previous to the day of sale. These sip“ must be held om the first Tuesday iu the month, between the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the Court House in the county in which the property is situated. The sales of Personal Property must be advertised in like manner for lf Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for four months. , ....... Citations or letters of Administration must be published thirty days —for Dismission from Administration, monthly, six months—for Dis mission from Guardianship,/orfy days. Rules for foreclosure of mortgage, must be published monthly, for four months— for establishing lost papers , for the full space of three month*— for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators where a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Professional and Business Cards, inserted, according to the follow ing scale : . , . for 4 lines or less per annum - * *• 00 m advance. “ 6 lines “ “ * * - 700 a “ u la u u u . . SlO 00 “ “ ty Transient Advertisements will be charged sl, per square of 12 li H e or less, for the first and 50 cts. for each subsequent insertion.— Ur thesa rates there will be a deduction ot 20 percent, on settlement, when advertisements are continued 3 months, without alteration. jy All Letters except those containing remittances must be post paid or free. Postmasters and others who will act as Agents for the “Citizen” may retain 20 per cent, for their trouble, on all cash subscriptions for warded. OFFICE on Mulberry Street, East of the Floyd House and near the Maiket. •fljf 1$ net's Climn; For the Georgia Citizen. TO A FIXED STAR. Tale, pale star from thy ether dome Mark’st thou the earth's dim-lighted zone 7 Thy beacon light hath burnt for years Amid decay, and birth, and tears. Know'st thou the change that wraps our hearth's, Os fair forms fled, with tones of mirth— See’est thou the tears we daily shed ’Oer grassy tombs of the early dead ? The strings of thrilling harps are mute- And idle hangs the mournful lute— While gloom and silence dims the hall, Where never more their sound may fall. And hearts that die from slow decay Like flowers shut from light of day And eyes that glanced loves softest light. Grown cold and stern ‘neath anger’s might! Know’st thon all this, oh ! burning star A* spirit-like tl— *-**’-♦ ’ Dost hour the wail from anguish riven As cloud-like it soars to heaven. / Sees’t thou the smoke of battle fields, Plumes crushed in dust and broken sh ields ? Cans’t thou that maids fair form descry Where hope, and love forever fly 7 Or dost thou hold the forms we love, As spirits pure like those above ? Shedding thy light to cheer the soul, When free from all of earth control. If not, Oh! star, what mission then Bear’st thou unto the hearts of men ? Whose lives are but a clouded sky— A dream, a breath that flashes by. We know notwhenoe the cloud hath gone— The dreams bright hues hath ever flown— Rest they upon thy brighter shore 7 Do spirits dwell there evermore 7 Oh 1 tell us, are our visions vain Os Heaven's bright and flowery plain, Does hope and love and all we have Ne’er rise from darkness of the grave 7 Thou’rt mute oh star; we'll hope again, That all our seekings are not vain— That life is but aftempest given To waft our bark to some bright Heaven. M. H. OMSTEAD. Otcgo, Nrtc York. LILIES OF LOVE. No. 2. CANZONET TO MYRA. BT T. ft. CHIVERU, M. D. Luz de mi Alma. ’Twas not within the lighted Ilall, Where fashion gaily shone; Nor was it at some Festival, Where beauty reigned alone; But far oft*from the scenes of pride, That thou wert dear to me, I gladly turned from all beside, And gave my soul to thee— To thee—alone to thee ! I gladly turned from all beside, And gave my soul to thee. I sought thee not amid the throng, Where joy was wont to reign; And seeking thee—though Bought so long— I sought thee not in vain. And now that nought can e’er divide Thy loveliness from me, I gladly turn from all beside, And give my soul to thee— To thee—alone to thee ! I gladly turn from all bes'de, And give my soul to thee. And now that thy dear voice is heard; In eloquence and love; And tha t our vows are registered By holy hands above; And that thou art mine own souls bride, And shalt forever bo; I gladly turn from all beside, And give my soul to thee— To thee—alone to thee ! I gladly turn from all beside, And give my soul to thee. BOMEBTXO FBX.XCXTY. Rich,though poor My low roofed cottage is this hour a heaven, Music is in it—and tho song she sings, That sweet-voiced wife of mine arrests the ear Pt my young child awake upon her knee ; And with his calm eyes upon his master’s face Hy noble hound lies crouched—and all here— AH in this little home—yet boundless heaven— Are in such love as I have power to give Blessed to overflowing. ftiiscellnttt. Mercantile Honesty. A stranger to mercantile operations, as carried on in our large commercial Cities would infer from the following letter, which the Dry Goods Reporter reads to its immediate “parish,” that deception, or lying, was the besetting sin of the dry goods trade. The readers of the Merchant's Magazine are, of course, “all honorable men,” conscious of their own integrity, and will not, therefore, consider our co temporaries’ statements at all applicable in their case. Still it may be well to read the lecture, for the gratification of those who feel thankful that they are “not as as other men.” Men who have nev er taken offence at the preacher’s generalizing; it is the “thou art the man’, or the prophet Nathan, that convicts or arouses the indignation of the sin ner. But for the homily. Lying or misrepresentation is of course involved in almost every instance of gross fraud; hut the party deceits which are daily practised in the world are among the most disgusting things in it, and the spirit which prompts them is found to mar the character of many whose standing in the eyes of the world is otherwise very fair. In treating of this subject, we have no doubt we shall tread on the corns of some who are tender on this point, but we have no fear of their crying out; the very men who allow this vice in themselves to an extent which would be alarming to them, could they fully realize their true character, would be crushed before they would acknowledge it to the world. The manufacturer will over estimate the cost of his goods, that his agent may get a good price for them. The commission merchant will misrepresent his stock, or profess to have made a cash advance, which compels him to force the goods off “ruinous ly low,” when he is all the while chuckling over the sale. lie will go out with a sample card of the last case to close an invoice, when he has a “few more of the same sort left.” lie will assert posi tively that he lias just sold to A. 13. and C. large bills of the same kind of goods at much higher pri ces than he is now asking (all which is imaginary or grossly exaggerated ,) or that the house addressed (upon which assertion he assumes a very deferen tial air), is the only house to whom he would offer the article in question at so low a rate. The import er will look you full in the face, and assure you that his goods cost him more than he is asking you, when for more you should in truth read less ; or if lie have hold of a very green'un, will pass off stale goods which have kept shop most pertinaceously for years, as new styles just brought out. The jobber will go from house to house, when he is purchasing, cheapening goods, telling A that 13 is underselling him. inflicting the same talc on 13, with o ucouiauvc mat A has offered, nun the ) same goods at a less price than 13 is now asking ; and threatening C and D alternately to cease buying from them, unless each will do as well by him as he boasts he can obtain of the other. Sometimes if he has bought a case or bale of goods a little too high, or when he has them at home, his clerks, (all ol whom are called to give an opinion on it) think he has paid too much, he will send back the bill asking a deduction, saying that he has seen the goods else where at less price, when the truth is lie has not seen them iu any other store, and does not know where else to look for them. The retailer goes about to buy in the same way, repeating many imaginary offers of goods which have been made to him at extraordinary low prices, and which it is a w onder he did not buy, so much does the price seem under the market. And yet when he comes to sell out these very goods, how obvious he is of the exceeding liberal terms upon which he could have purchased them ! How valua ble they have become ! llow- choice the colors and styles which he so much condemned when buying! llow cheap do the goods look to him now, that he pronounced so very dear w hen he purchased them ! What romances will he tell about the cost, the col ors, or the quality, when displaying them to a cus tomer ! “Is that the lowest that you can take for these lawns, Mr. Scissors t” “Yes Miss, the very best, and a bargain they are; I bought them at auction, where they were closed out at a great sacrifice, and I offer them to you pre cisely at cost.” “But I saw the same goods over at Shears <fcco’s at five cents a yard less.” “NoFthe same goods at all, ma’am —theirs are steam colors — quite an imitation article, and not near as wide as these.’’ The lady being timid about colors, is at last per suaded to pay the price, and the shopkeeper pock etshis 15 percent profit with as much complacence as if he had only drawn out his purse to give a dol lar in charity. We shall not go on to give the characteristic mis representations of private customers, or persons who go about merely to shop, as we are writing princi pally for merchants. Let none of our readers think that what we object to is tlie amount oj profit made by this false dealing : in most instances tho prices obtained may be none too high. But we object in toto to the manner in which the thing is done. VY e $o not believe that this system of deceit, practised in the various ways we have described, and in a thousand others to which we cannot now allude, is at unnecessary to a lucrative business, and its influ ence upon general character is very bad. We write very plainly, because we believe that there is no controverting the statement, that a large number of persons engaged in trade do daily make statements in reference to busiuess transactions as matters of fact, which they and those immediately about them know to be matters of fiction. It is no excuse to say that this is the case in all trades and professions —that every body practices story telling to serve their own interests. The question is not whether this deceit is worse for a merchant than for any other man, but is it wrong or right as a mat ter of principle ? No one, we think, will argue this with us, for all mankind in their creed acknowledge truth as one of the cardinal virtues. Still many practice its opposite who we are sure would not do it could they once fully see its evil tendency. Even as a matter of policy it will not serve long unless managed with a skill and memory beyond the pow er of most persons to command. It is not necessa ry to the character of an expert salesman. I e true requisites for this area thorough knowledge 04 human nature, perfect command of the business in hand, courteous manners and a ready tact in adaptr ing one’s self to the different humours of the vari ous class of buyers. He who attempts to supply the place of these with that species of trickery or cunning which depends upon the forgery of a well turned tale, will in the end be detected and despi- “Jn&cpen&tat in all things —Neutral in Nothing, ” MACON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY, 26, 1850. sed. And those truly respectable merchants, who, by misrepresentations, however slight, seem to give countenance to such a course, are doing themselves and the community a great wrong. This system of deceit has also a very injurious ef fect upon young persons just entering upon a mer cantile education. Example is often more potent than precept , and many a dishonest clerk has taken his first lesson in deceit from his employer. The old addage that “familiarity breeds contempt” is of questionable truth in any application—and certainly false in this, that an intimacy with vice lessens our horror to it, and increases our liability to contract it. Is it reasonable to expect a boy to be always true to us, if we daily put lies in his mouth to deceive oth ers ? What force would liarrangues upon the duty of morality have upon a young man whose daily tuition in business led him in an opposite direction ? “Edward,” says Mr. Bargain, “take this bill down to E. F. & Co’s, and see if they won’t allow you half a yard on each piece of these satinetts. You can tell them, if they ask you, that you measured a piece or"two, and they fell that much short.” The boy comes hack in a short time with the de duction made. “They questioned me pretty close,” says he, “but I stuck them out of it.” Here his sense of the morality of the transaction is all swal lowed up in his anxiety to please his employer and succeed in his mission; but he has taken his first lesson in .deceit, and if he prove an apt scholar, who is most to blame ? We beg our mercantile friends to think of these suggestions, and see if any part of them will apply to themselves. We are none of us quite perfect, and the best have still room to mend. — Hunt's Mag. College Reform. In December, 1849, a meeting of the corporation of the Brown University was held, when the consid eration of some changes in the system of education, was referred to a Committee, of which Professor Wayland, President of the Institution, was appoint ed Chairman. At an adjourned meeting held in March last, the report of the Committee was read, and it was subsequently ordered to be published. We have been favored with a copy in pamphlet form. It is a highly interesting document. The Committee directed their attention to the system of University Education in Great Britian—to the pro gress and present state of University Education in this country —to proposed reforms and changes, and to the subject of collegiate degrees. They state that a College in one of the English Universities is a foundation composed of a master, tutors, fellows, and students. The fellows are generally resident graduates, supported by tlie foundation. The mas ter has the government of the whole society. The teaching is done by the tutors. The course, of study, embraced originally a term of four vears. though i „i: - -.1—,. years is ucual peri od of residence for an under-graduate. At Cam bridge, almost the whole of this time is devoted to tho study of Greek aud Latin classics. All the Colleges in this country have in some de gree been copied from the models thus described in the Old World. We have made some changes, but they have not been for the better. But the present system, the Committee contend, is erroneous, and tlie result is, that the number of those who are seek ing a collegiate education, is actually growing less, and this, moreover, at a time when the subject ot education has attracted the attention of our whole community to a degree almost unprecedented in our history. They therefore urge, that in view of the past, the present and the future, a system of instruct ion should be established, adapted to the wants ot the whole people, and they submit the following plan : 1. The present system of adjusting collegiate study to a fixed term of four years, or to any other term, must be abandoned, and every student be al lowed, within limits to be determined by statute, to carry on, at the same time, a greater or less number of courses as he may choose. 2. The time allotted to each particular course of instruction would be determined by the nature of the course itself, and not by its supposed relation to the wants of any particular profession. 3. The various courses should be so arranged, that in so far as it is practicable, every student might study w hat he chose. The Faculty, however, at the request of a parent or guardian, should have au thority to assign to any student, such courses as they might deem for his advantage. 4. Every course of instruction after it has been commenced, should be continued without interrup tion until it is completed. 5. In addition to the present courses of instruc tion, such should be established as the wants of the various classes of the community require. 6. Every student attending any particular course, should be at liberty to attend any other that he may desire. 7. It would be required that no student be ad mitted as a candidate for a degree, unless be had honorably sustained his examination. In such stud ies as may be ordained by the corporation; but no student would be under any obligation to proceed to a degree, unless be chose. 8. Every student w r ould be entitled to a certificate of such proficiency as he may have made in every course that he has pursued. The course of instruction to he pursued in this In stitution might be as follows : 1. —A course of instruction in Latin, occupying two years. 2. —A course of instruction in Greek, occupying two years. 3. —A course of instruction in three Modern Lan guages. 4. —A course of instruction in Pure Mathematics, two years. 5. —A course of instruction in Mechanics, Optics, and Astronomy, either with, or without Mathematical Demonstrations, one and a half years. 6. —A course of instruction in Chemistry, Physi ology and Geology, one and a half years. 7. —A course of instruction in the English Lan guage and Rhetoric, one year. 8. A course of instruction in Moral and Intellect ual Philosophy, one year. 9. —A course of instruction in Political Economy, one term. 10. —A course of instruction in History, one term. 11. A course of instruction in the Science of Teaching. 12. —A course of instruction on the Principles of Agriculture. 13__A course of instruction on the Application of Chemistry to the Arts. 14.—A course of instruction on the Application of Science to the Arts. 15 __A course of instruction in the Science of Law. Some of these courses would require a lesson or lecture every working day of the week, others only two or three in the week. Any Professor might be allowed to conduct the studies of more than one course, fhe could do it with advantage to tlie Insti tution. Should this idea be adopted, aud the instruction given in this College be arranged on these princi ples, it would be seen that opportunity would be af forded to modify it as experience should prove de si l-able. Some courses may be abridged or abolish ed, and others added or extended. The object of the change would bo to adapt the Institution to the wants, not of a class, but of the whole community. It is by no means to be taken for granted, in a coun try like our own, that every College is to teach tlie same studies, and to the same extent. It would be far better that each should consult the wants of its own locality, and do that best, for which it possess ed the greatest facilities. Here would arise oppor tunity for diversified forms of excellence; the knowl edge most wanted would the more easily become dif fused, and the general progress of science would receive an impulse from every institution of learning in our land. It is justly argued that many young men who in tend to enter the professions, are unwilling or unable to spend four years in the preparatory studies at College. They would, however, cheerfully spend one or two years in such studies, if they were al lowed to select such branches of study as they chose. If we except the ancient languages, there are but few of the studies now pursued in college, which, it well taught, would not be attractive to young men preparing for any of the active departments of life. The scheme here embodied is one of great import ance, and aims at a thorough revolution of the sys tem of College instruction. The idea is, to allow stu dents an opportunity to adapt their studies to the particular calling to which they intend to apply themselves. Tlie whole story is told iu a single re mark, by Professor Wayland, that we have in this country one hundred and twenty Colleges, forty-two Theological Seminaries, and forty-seven Law schools, and we have not a single Institution designed to furnish the agriculturist, the manufacturer, the me chanic or tho merchant, with the education that will prepare him for the profession to which his life is to be devoted. Our Institutions of learning have gen erally been endowed by the wealth of the product ive classes of society. It is surely unjust, that a sys tem should be universally adopted which practically, excludes them from the benefits which they have conferred upon others. — Inquirer. From the Merchants’ (N. Y.) Day Book. PAPERS ON TOBACCO. BY A WOMAN. X g®- 3 ’ 1 said about the use of tobacco by ministers and physicians. It seems to me mere is more ex cuse for allopathic physicians and ministers for indulging in the use of tobacco than for any other class of men, poisoners excepted. The regular faculty believe in poisoning, and there is no good reason why they should be excluded from their own creed. As for ministers, they are shut out from amusements and manual employment, and under such cir cumstances it is very natural that they shfiuld get into some sort of mischief, and public opinion exhonorates them from all blame if they destroy health, life and usefulness by tobac co, and so far from being deposed, or expelled from the church for this semi-suicide, they have their expenses paid on an European tour for tho recovery of their health. And sometimes the only use of their migration seems to be to keep the moths from cabins, state rooms, and other apart ments appropriated to their use, and piously exercise the pa tience of friends and others, upon whom they are quartered in their pilgrimage after health. It is thought by some that in the days of primitive Chris tianity, spittoons were not articles of church furniture, and that the fervor and eloquence of Paul and others were never enhanced by “ fine cut” or “ regalia.” Some vears ago the almost universal prevalence of bron chitis among ministers caused much enquiry. The people have begun to look for causes in the 19th century. It was found that preaching in churches so badly ventilated that the air was palpably paralysing every nerve by tobacco, and com mitting many other sins against health, was quite sufficient ta cause bronchitis, or as it was commonly called, the minis ters’ disease. Os all the cases of ministerial bronchitis which I have seen, I have never seen one that was not accompanied by the use of tobacco; still there may be such cases, for people may do themselves sufficient wrong to earn the dis ease in other ways, but one of the readiest ways to procure it is to take this narcotic poison. It is a melancholy fact, that if our juinisters know the best way to heaven, they do not always know the best way on earth. One oi the most uncomfortable sins connected with the use of tobacco is the sin against decency, trorn the pro faned pulpit to the filthiest bar room its noisome exhalations arc everywhere. Men are moving pest houses, in which tobacco is stored, to be exhaled by the breath and the skin, and one must be shut up from his kind entirely, or he breathes of necessity the evil. If you pledge yourself not to take the weed, you must go out of the world to keep the pledge. Ladies who have a horror of tobacco are sadly punished for all attraction to the “ gentlemen.” Enter the studio of the artist and you find a palpable offense in the atmosphere, if not in the brain of its occupant. The minister brings pro mising texts of scripture, with a poisonous breath, to com fort the aftlieted. ♦The poet repeats tho verse all redolent of the weed; and numberless stories and editorials are spas modic with it, and valuable for kindling coal fires. The plagues of this poison are legion. The development and harmony of humanity alone can deliver us from them entirely. The German physiologists estimate that out of twenty deaths of men between the age of eighteen and thirty-five years, one half originate in the waste of tho constitution by smoking. Several years ago some oarefully collected statistics on tobacco consumption were published by the Rev. Mr. Fowler. These estimates must fall a good deal below the actual amount at present consumed, but these might be sufficiently alarmiDg if thing could alarm the people on this subject. Mr. Fowler estimates the annual cost of the article at $10,000,000; the time lost by its use, $12,000,000; and the pauper tax that it occasions, $3,000,000. The consumption of tobacco in this country is eight times as great as in France, and three times as great as in England, according to the population. Americans are excessive in every thing, from morus multicaulis and tobacco to a rush for California. Medical writers give the following symptoms as results of the habitual use of tobacco in any form. Though all these symptoms may never occur in any one case, yet they are the aggregate of the symptoms in different cases. Dizziness or pain in the head, dimness of sight and occasional temporary loss of. sight. It is true when the nervous energy is wasted in expelling poison, the circulation of the blood is, impeded, and conges tion of the brain and pain in the head is a very common con sequence. There is also neuralgia or nervous pain in the head. Dimness of sight, and occasionally temporary loss of sight. The optic nerve suffers from the poison with all the other nerves, and hence one reason for the forest of spectacles we see everywhere. Paleness or sallownea9 of complexion.—Ths skin becomes clouded and sallow for tlie reason that the nervous power which should make it dear, fresh and healthful, is struggling with or lying prone under poison and canuot therefore do its legitimate work. Sinking, or pain at the pit of the stomach.—Few persona seems to be aware that digestion is a nervous process. That health of the nervous system is needed to carry on healthy and painless digestion. If the nerves are exhausted of their vital energy, and diseased by any means, by excessive labor, by dissipation, or poisoning, the stomach being largely sup plied with nerves, and digesting our food by means of the vitality of these nerves, fails in its work and gives notice of its failure by pain or sinking faintness. An enfeebled state of the voluntary muscles manifested sometimes by trembling of the hands, sometimes by weak ness or hoarseness of the voice. The nerves govern our motions, and also the voice, hence disease of the nerves will affect both. Another symptom is disturbed sleep and a starting from the early slumbers with a sense of suffocation. Men bargain for restlessness and nightmare, and pay for it by the use of tobacco, and then go to the doctor to cure them of the poison by a worse one perlxaps, if a worso can be found. Epileptic and convulsive fits are caused by tobacco. These are diseases entirely nervous. Confusion or weakness of the mental faculties, peevishness or irritability of temper, instability of purpose are given as consequences of the use of tobacco by honest medical men ; whether the users will be honest enough to plead guilty to these effects I am unable to guess. Seasons of great depression of spirits, long fits of melan choly and despondency, and in some cases, entire and per manent mental derangement have been caused by the habitual use of tobacco. Indeed, it is to be feared, that the buoyant, springing life of health which bears oue up with an ever sustaining rest in the midst of arduous effort, is unknown to the tobacco user. He may have delicious dreams at times amid the intoxication of the weed, but he pays dearly for them iu the ills we are enumerating. The steady, even flow of joyful health cannot depend on a hat-tull of cigars. But there is another consequence of the use of tobacco tliat is frequently seen, and this is palsy—and this is em phatically the disease of an exhausted nervous system. The nerves in their struggle with the poison become exhausted and loaded with it, the consequence is paralysis in its various forms from a palsied limb to himiplegia or completeness. The mode in which people accustom themselves to take tobacco is one of the strongest proofs of its poisonous nature. It is only by stealing into the system by little and little, grad ually debauching the powers of life, that any one can take it. Most men have the same experience as a little boy some seven years of age, who was heard to say to a little playmate of about the same age, “ When I first began to smoke it . . , , , . .. not make me made me as sick as a horse, but no'” ** sick at all.” TV lien to I'"*'’ 1 '"*'’ lo uiK6U 111 small quantities the vital energy not alarmed, and the strong effort is not made to expel, that is made when the quantity is large. Thus grain after grain is introduced, and remains in the system oppressing the nerves, diseasing all the tissues, clouding the mind, causing different kinds of illness, and a craving for more with an appetite as insatiable as the grave. And yet people who use tobacco will assure us that they enjoy perfect health. In their dictionary, perfect health is defined as having headache, dizziness, dyspepsia, low spirits, numbness of the limbs, perhaps with a prickling sensation, sure forerunner of palsy, and a great many other troubles that they feel obliged to resort to tobacco or some other sti mulus, or the doctor to cure. If the physician tells them to leave tobacco, thov at once conclude that “he does not un derstand their case.” Like the drunkard they feel better for taking tobacco, shall they not take what makes them feel bet ter 7 They have a high value for their own experience and that is decidedly in favor of tobacco. From the Baltimore American. The Census BUI. The Census Bill having passed both Houses of Congress and received the signature of the President is now a law. Its provisions are very full, precise and discriminating; and as a piece of legislation it is worthy of the age, its progress and increasing civilization. An important feature was added to the Bill in the form of an amendment offered by Mr. Vinton in the House of Rep resentatives. This clause enacts that if provision shall not be made by Congress to take the census iu 1860 by the first of June, the present Act shall remain iu force, and the Secre tory of the Interior is empowered to proceed at once in the work. In connection with this, it is further provided that until anew apportionment of representation in the Lower House shall be made by Congress the number of members in the House shall not exceed two hundred and thirty-three. Two matters of importance and often of great difficulty are here simplified and made definite and easy. When the cen sus returns all come in, the Secretary of the Interior taking the aggregate federal population of the United States and dividing the whole number by two hundred and thirty-three may ascertain at once what is to be the ratio of representa tion. It will then be a very simple matter to allot to each State the number of Representatives to which it is entitled, and to notify the Governor of the same. That brief process is all that is necessary, should this Act remain permanent, in order to arrange the troublesome business of new apportion ments every ten years. The Census Act contains six schedules of which an ab stract may not be uninteresting: The first relates to the free inhabitants, and the name of every one, with his abode on the first of June, is to be given. Profession, occupation, place of birth, married or single, age deaf or dumb, pauper or convict, insane or idiot, white, black, non-ability to read, if over twenty years of age, are all to be given. Schedule two, relates to slave inhabitants, the owners of slaves and the number of slaves ; the fugitives from the slave States, and the number manumitted, with their age, sex, color, and natural afflictions. Schedule three, relates to productions of agriculture; to the names of owners, agents and managers; the acres of and unimproved ; the cash value of farm, and value of farming implements; the horses, mules and asses; the working oxen, milch cows, and other cattle ; the shoep and swine; value of live stock, and of animals slaughtered during the year; tlie bushels of wheat, beans, peas, buck wheat, barley, potatoes. (Irish and sweet) clover, grass seed, rye, corn, oats, flax seed, the pounds of r>ee and tobacco, the bales of ginned cotton (400 lbs. each) the value of orchard products, market gardens, pounds of cheese and butter, flax, 1 hops, silk caooons and maple sugar, tons of water and dew rotted hemp, hogsheads of sugar, (1000 pounds each) gal lons of molasses, and value of home made manufactures. Schedule four, names the products of industry, the name of each corporation, oompany, or individual producing an nually articles of the value of SSOO, each kind of business, capital invested in real and personal estate; quantity, kind, and value of raw material used, including fuel, the kind of motive power, the average number of hands employed, the number and cost of male and female labor, and the annual quantity, kind and value of each product. Schedule five , relates to social statistics, as the aggregate value of real and personal estate; the State, county, parish, town and road tax; the colleges, academies, schools, free anti otherwise ; the amount raised for soltools, a til received for them from public funds $ the libraries and newspapers ; the public paupers, and their color, birth and cost: Sunday schools; the churches, their name, and the number each will accommodate; the criminals convicted and iu prison during the year ; the average of wages by the year, mouth and day, and whether with Or without board; and the aver age and short crops. Schedule six, asks for the name of every person who died during the year; the age, sex, color, whether married or single, mouth of death, place of birth, disease, profession or trade. Thus ends die list, comprising ninety-two questions in tho six schedules. The information expected is ns to the year ending J une 1,1850. (Original Talley of Diamonds. BY T. H. CHIVERS, M. D. XXVII. Man is a compound being of soul and body. His body is a vitalized unit, resulting from tbe aggrega tion of its manifold parts, wbieh is the expression, or manifestation, of the relations which the toul sus tains to Nature, to Man, and to God. The power of this expression, or manifestation, is precisely in proportion to the vitality of the Organic and Animal Man, resulting from the reciprocal vital action of each part. The organs of Animal Life connect him with the External World. The organs of organic life assimilate the nutritive edibles of the world, by the vitality inherent in each organ, to his body, or ag gregate unitary whole. This compound nature, iu unity, constitutes the normal evolution of his indi vidual life in Time. His first transformation takes place at birth; the last, at death. Hut, from his birth to his death, there is a manifest difference in the capacity of these two lives, (the Organic and the Animal,) to manifest themselves in the normal state, which connects him with. Nature, with Man and with God. It is the most perfect in his man hood. Now, in passing from his infancy to his old age, he is not only, through his Organic and Animal Life, a Numeral, but a Functional Man —that is, he is a Numcro-Functional being —because, as I hav e before said, he is au unit of an aggregation of organs all at work, within themselves, to build themselves up into the Perfect Man. When they are all healthy, and perform their various offices uninterruptedly, (and in the time prescribed by the Deitvjdhey main tain themselves, and Man, through tl*m.,in a nor mal coi.jUkion r i j tuamvaiu the Organ ic and Animal Life iu a healthy condition, hut they enable these two Lives to manifest the inuate do sires and aspirations of the soul in a normal manner. As long as this is the case, there is a synchronico musical relation kept up between them, which evin ces itself into tbe harmonious relations which sub sist between the soul, (which presides over them) and the external world. The expression of this vi tal relation between the various organs of the body, (which is the innate language of the pure life,) is rhythmical. Man is a triological unity—he is made up out of soul, body and spirit. This tripartite nature of his being was fully recognised by St. Paul. Now, it is plain that whenever any discord takes place in the melodious relations which subsist between these organs during their normal functional action, which constitutes the unity of the two Lives, (the Organic and the Animal,) a corresponding abnormal action must exist in the soul—as it is only through a heal thy body that the soul can be truly manifested. It is in this state that the true Physician can see the necessity in Nature of a Medical Botany, which shall so correspond with bis abnormal condition, as, by a Scientific Combination, will restore it back to its primitive normal condition again, Then will the soul be manifested in its true nature as before. It is by the functional inequality of all the organs of Organic and Animal Life, that the Harmony of the unitary Man is made up. It is by maintaining this perfect state that he can act oui the will of God upon the earth —or, in other words, live out the pure excelsior life. Now, it is worthy of remark, that the progressive increase iiytunctional perfection of all these organs of Organic and Animal Life, down to their decrease and dissolution, is typed in the menstrual changes which take place in the pale-faced satellite of the Earth —the Moon. Thus, Man has his beginning, or transition of being in time, at birth, which cor responds w ith the first phasis of the Moon; his pe riod of increase from infancy to youth, which cor responds with her apogee, or full; his period of de crease in old age, which corresponds with her change from her apogee back to New Moon again; and hie end, euthanasian-metamorphosis, called death, which corresponds with her return upon herself back into New Moon again, in an everlasting round of changing, (still remaining the same sweet Moon, as Man the same being,) forever typing, through all time, his progression and declension. Tims, Man becomes hierarchialized among his peers in Time. Man’s nature is also typed by the Morning, Noon and Evening of the day. The Morning answers to his youth ; the high Noon, (which is tho luminous apogee,) to his Manhood; and the Evening to his decline. So, the various seasons, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. The reason of this is, be cause there is a definite relation subsisting between the body of Man, (which is the image of the Body of Heaven,) and the*Sacred Numbers of the Sun and Moon, —the heavenly “Signs, and Times , an l Days , and Years,'’ of the “ Father of the Ages' * Read what the prophetic scriptures of the inspired L>aniel say of the astromioal cycles. The “time, times, and the dividing of timesP make forty-two prophetic Moons, or 1260 days or years. God cre ated the world iu six days. A thousand years to Him are as one day. The sun-clad woman of the apocalypse, who was pregnant with the Divine promise, of the ever-blessed Messiah, trod, in her travail, through the tardy to her consuma ted glory in the Heavens, wish the “ Moon beneath her feet.” Thus the Moon was made her minister during the long lapse of ages in which the unborn “ desire of the Nations ,” reposed in her bosom. But when his final transmutation takes place in his Ultimate State, his soul, in harmony with the Universal Sotil sliall enjoy an eternal youth, above sickness, in tho Paradise of God. He shall there undergo no more transmutations, nor be liable to those diseases which are incident to a life susceptible of change in time. This is the difference between tbe Present and the Ultimate State of Man. The formula of his life consists in an eternal aspiration, or ceaseless desire, to assimilate itself to the Infinite source of all things. A3 the subterrestial radices, in all their j manifold ramifications, are the'types of the capillary NO. 18.