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VOL. I. iTHi s published, every Saturday morning, in Macon, Ga. on the follow ing CONDITIONS : If paid strictly in advance - • 82 50 per annum If not so paid - * - -3 00 ““ Legal Advertisements will be made to conform to the following pro tons of the Statute:— Sales of Land and Negroes, by Executors. Administrators and Cuard ans, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette, sixty days previous to the day of sale. These sales must be held on the first Tuesday in the month, between he hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the ‘Court llou*c in the sounty in which tlw property is situated. The sales of Personal Property must be advertised in like manner for il days. Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must bo published forty days. Notice that application will he made to the Court of Ordinary fox leave to sell Land anti Negroes, must In published weekly for four mouths. Citations or letters of Administration must be published t/rirfy days for Dismission from Atitwiwiatration, monthly-, sit months —for Dis ‘mission from C;uardianstMp,/orfy days. Hula for foreclosure of mortgage, must be published monthly, for .four months —for establishing lost papers, for the full spc.ee of three ’-months—' for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators where ; n bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months. Professional and Business Gauds, inserted, according to the foilow 'wy scatc: Eor 4 lines or less per annum - - 85 00 in advance. “ 6 lines “ “ * * * <OO “ “ ln .. “ “ - 810 011“ “ j-y Transient Advertisements will be charged fl, per square of 12 IPtKS or less, for tlio first and 50 cts. for each subsequent ‘insertion. —’ On these rates there will he a deduction of 20 percent, on settleme.ut when advertisements are continued 3 months, without alteration. jy All Letters except those containing remittances must be pvst[ paid or free. Postmasters and others who will act as Agents for the “Citizen’ may retain 20 percent, for their trouble, on all cash subscriptions for warded. OFFICE on Mulberry Street, East of the Floyd House and near the Market. 13 rnffss in na l €arit s. KELLAM & BELL, Attorneys ut Law ami General Land Agents, Atlanta, 4 <ia , Will practice in DeKalh mid adjoining enmities: mid ill lh* Supreme Court at Decatur “-Will also visit any part of the country for tho settlement (3. ilaims, cjj-o. without suit. ?! r Bounty l.vsa Claims pttl e :cutei> with despatch. Office on White Hull St., Dr. Denny’s Drug Store; A. R. KELLY*. * *• A - BKLl “ s7 & R. P. HALL, Attorneys at Lair , Macon, (ieersia. “I )T{ \(TICE in Ribb. Crawford, Houston, Upson. Monroe. Macon, I Dooly. Twiggs.Jones and Dike counties; and In the Supremo Court at Macon, Decatur,Talbottou and Americas. jyi tFncic uvmt .'jcott, Cuui vrt ic Co.'s Store. April 4, 1850. “ 2—ly Win. K. cl*e(i LI AFFENREID, Attorney & Counsellor at Law. MACON, GA. JJ” OFFICE MULBERRY BTKET, XKARLY OfPOSITK \V-ASnI XCSTON * - _ ‘SfMarch 21,1850. I — l - v JoSTUrnLLEN, ATTORNEY AT L A VV ? SAVANNAH, GEORGIA. June 28th. 1850. 14 —D 25 AV X# asi ( Mm 3? 8 AND NOTARY PUBLIC, —MACON, CEO. C COMMISSIONER OF DEEDS, Ac., for the States of J Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Fieri- | da .Missouri. New \ ork. Massachusetts, Connecticut. P*#nu- ; svlvsnia. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Arkansas, Maine, iSte. Depositions taken. Accounts probated, Deeds and Mort- | frames drawn, and all documents and instruments of writing prepared and authenticated for use and record, in any of the j above States. Residence on Walnut street, near the African church. j j T’ Public Office adjoinin'; Dr. M. S. Thomson s Botan- j 1c Store—opposite Floyd House. Macou, June 23, 185(1 D—ly REMEMBER! T VTII.FN in your extremity that Dr. ill• 8. THOMSON is j \ \ still in Blacon, Georgia, and when written to, sends j Medicine by mail to any part of the country. Pont give up all hope without consulting him. June 7, IFSO- 11—ts BOUNTY LANDS, TO OFFICERS AND SOLDIERS Who served in thr. war of 1812 with (treat Britain, the , Indian tears of 1790, and 1830, and the war with Mex- < ico of 1817-8. rpHE UNDERSIGNED has received from the proper Re- L purtments, tho necessary papers to esinblisli all or any i nl din above claims, under the recent acts of Congress. He ! will also make out claims under the Pension Act, ns well ns i all others against the United States for Lost Horses, Lag gage, elc. Information furnished gratis. Charges moderate. Claims of Widows, Heirs, .fee., particularly attended t„. tit JOSEPH A. WHITE. f Ijc Tsi otfs Cnrnrr, Our I'nion. BY MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. Ho! Eagle of our baiuled States, ’ AVilt drop thine olive fair : And bid the shafts of war and wo Speed bursting through the air ? And the soaring eagle answered, W aving his peace branch high, “ No! freedom's chieftains gave the trust— I’ll guard it till I die!” Yc stars, that shine in sparkling blue Upon your banner’d field — .Shall half be stricken from your place And half in clouds concealed; But silent were those glorious orbs, With dread amazement fraught— Each trembling in its crystal sphere At the dark traitor thought. •On, human hearts, to concord trained By sires who stood of yore, As brothers when around their homes The Lion tramped in gore ; Will yc the heritage they won, With ruthless hand divide ? Or rend the Gordian knot they drew Around yc, when they died ? Then from the Pater Patriie’s tomb, Beneath Mount Vernon's shade— And from the hero's bed who sleeps In Nashville's beauteous glade— And from green Quincy’s honored breast, Where sire and sort rep;>se — 11 Break not that hand ” —a fiUerrm voice In deep accordance rose. Hark-—hark o'er forests robed in snow- - In sunny, flower—crowned valet — ®tfn &s#pn From where the Atlantic’s thunder tone The far Pacific hails ; From mart, and dell, where millions dwell, By prairie, lake and hill— Rolls on, the full, sublime response, “ Wt NEVER. NEVER will!” A Son!? of the Railroad. Through the mould and through the clay, Through the corn and through the hay, By the margin of the lake, O’er the bleak and dreary moor, Ou wo hie with screech and roar! Splashing! flashing! Crashing! dashing! Over ridges, Gullies, bridges I By tho bubbling rill, And mill— Highways, By-ways, Hollow hill— J umping—bumping— Rocking—roaring Like 40,000 giants snoring J By the lonely hut and mansion, By the ocean's wide expansion, M here the factory chimney smokes, V\ here the foundry bellows croaks — Dash along ? Slash along! Crash along! Flash along, On ! on ! with a jump, And a bump, And a roll! Hies the fire-fiend to its destined goal! O'er tho aqueduct and bog, On we fly with ceaseless jog, Every instant something now, Every instant lost to view, Now a tavern —now a steeple— Now a crowd of gaping people— Now a hollow —now a ridge— Now a cross-way—now a bridge— G rumbl e —st u mbl e Rumble—tumble— Fretting—getting in a stew 1 Church and steeple, gaping people— Quick as thought are lost to view, Every thing that eye can survey ! Turns hurly-burly, topsy-turvy ! Each passenger is thumped and shaken, As physic is when to be taken. By the foundry, past the forgo, Through the plain and mountain gorge, Where cathedral rears its head, Where repose the silent dead ! Monuments amid the grass, . Flit like spectres as you pass! If to hail a friend inclined, Yt -•>>■ J wjiir. l ‘ p;~--~-J,!—lie's left bellincW Rumble, tumble, all the day— Thus we pass the hours away. C. T. Wolfe. V ■- I—.— I . . I J J IHkflliimj. Have a Flower in your Room. A fire in winter, a flower in summer! If you can have a fine print or picture all the year round, so much the better; you will thus always have a bit of sunshine in your room, whether the sky be clear or not. But, above all, a flower in summer! Most people have yet to learn the true enjoyment of life ; it is not fine dresses, or large houses, or elegant furniture, or rich wines, or gay parties, that make homes happy. Ready, wealth cannot purchase pleasures of the higher sort; these depend noton money, or money’s worth ; it is the heart, and taste, and intellect, which determine the happiness of men ; which give the seeing eye and the sentient nature, and with out which, man is little better than a kind of walking clothes horse. A snug and a clean home, no matter how tiny it he, so that it be wholesome; windows, into which the sun can shine cheerily: a few good books, (and who need be without a few good books in these days of universal cheapness?)—no duns at the door, and the cupboard well supplied, and with a flow er in your room !—aud there is none so poor as not to have about him the elements of pleasure. Hark ! there is a child passing our window calling “ wall flowers !” We must have a bunch forthwith ; it is a penny ! A shower has just fallen, the pearly drops are still hanging upon tho petals, and they sparkle in the sun which has again come out in his beauty. How deliciously the flow er smells of country and nature! It is like summer coining into our room to greet us. The wallflowers are from Kent, and only last night were looking up the stars from their na tive stems; they are full of buds yet, with their promise of fresh beauty. “Betty! bring a glass of clear water to put these flowers in!’’ and so we set to, arranging and display ing our pennyworth to the best advantage. But what do you say to a nosegay of rosc-s? Here you have a specimen of the most beautiful of the smiles of Na ture ! Who, that looks on one of these bright full-blown beauties, will say that she is sad, or sour, puritanical ? Na ture tells us to be happy, to be glad, for she decks herself with roses, and the fields, the skies, the hedge-rows, the thickets, the green lanes, the dells, the mountains, the morning and evening sky, are robed in loveliness. Tne “ laughing flowers,” exclaims the poet! but there is more than gaiety in the blooming flower, though it takes a wise man to see its full sig nificance —there is the beauty, the love, and the adaptation, of which it is full. Few of us, however, see any more deep ly in this respect than did Peter Bell ; “ A primrose by a river’s brim, A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.” What would we think or say of one who had invented flow ers—supposing, that before him, flowers were things un known ; would it not be the paradise of anew delight ? should we uot hail the inventor as a genius, as a god ? And yet these lovely offsprings of the earth have been speaking to man from the first dawn of his existence till now, telling him of the goodness and wisdom of the Creating Power, which bade the earth bring forth, not only that which is useful as food, but also flowers, the bright consummate flowers, to clothe it in beauty and joy ! See that graceful fuehsia, its blood-red petals, and ealyx of blushing-purple, more exquisite in color and form than any hand or eyes, no matter how well skilled and trained, can imitate ! We can manufacture no colors to equal thoso of our flowers in their bright brilliancy—such, for instance as the Scarlet Lychnis, the Browallia, or even the Common Poppy. Then see the exquisite blue of the humble speedwell, and the dazzling white of the Star of Bethlehem, that shines even in the dark. Bring one of even our common field-flowers into a room, place it on your table or chimney piece, and you seem to have brought a ray of sunshine into the place. There is ever cheerfulness about flowers; what a delight are they to the drooping invalid ! the very sight of them is cheering; they are like a sweet draught of fresh bliss, coming as mes sengers from the country without, and seeming to say “Jnbqjeniient in all tilings—Neutral in Notljing.” MACON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 30, 1850. “Come and see the place where we grow, and let thy heart be glad in our presence.” M hat can be more innocent than flowers? Are they not like children undimmedby sin ? They are emblems of purity and truth, always anew source of delight to the pure and the innocent. The heart that does not love flowers, or the voice of a playful child, is one that we should not like to consort with. It was a beautiful conceit that invented a language of flowers, by which lovers were enabled to express the feelings that they dared not openly speak. But flowers have a voice to all, to old and youug, to rich and poor, if they would Itut listen, and try to interpret their meaning. ‘‘.Tome,” says Wordsworth— “ The meanest flower that blows con give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.” Have a flower in your room, then, by all means ! w ill cost you only a penny, if your ambition is moderate *, and the gratification it will give you will be beyond all price. If you can have a flower for your window, so much the better. What can be more delicious than the sun’s light streaming through flowers—through the midst of crimson fuchsias or scarlet geraniums ? Then to look out into tho light through flowers—is not that poetry ? And to break the force of the sunbeams by the tender resistance of green leaves ? If you can train a nasturtium round the window, or some sweet peas, then you have the most beautiful frame you can invent for the picture without, whether it be the busy crowd, or a distant landscape, or trees with their lights and shades or the changes of the passing clouds. Any one may thus look through flowers for the price of an old song. And what a pure taste and refinement does it not indicate on the part of tho cultivator! A flower in your window sweetens the air, makes your room look graceful, gives the sun’s light anew charm, rejoic es your eye, and links you to nature and beauty. You real ’ ’ cannot be altogether aloue, if you have a sweet flower to look upon, and it is a companion which will never utter a cross thing to anybody, but always looks beautiful and smiling. Do not dosp-.se it because it is cheap, and everybody may have the luxury as well as you. Common things arc cheap, and common things are invariably the valuable. Could we only have a fresh air or sunshine by purchase, what luxuries these would be; but they are free to all, aud we think not of their blessings. There is, indeed, much in nature that we do not yet half enjoy, because we shut our avenue of sensation and of feel ing. We are satisfied with the matter of fact, and look not for the spirit of fact, which is above all. If we would open our minds to enjoyment, we should find tranquil pleasures spread about us on every side. We might live with the an gels that visit, us on every sunbeam, and sit with the fairies who wait on every flower. We want some loving knowl edge to enable us truly to enjoy life, and we require to culti vate a little more than we do the art of making the most of the common means and appliances for enjoyment, which lie about us on every side. There are we doubt not, many who may read these pages, who can enter into and appreciate the spirit of all that we have now said; aud, to those who may .still hesitate, we would say—begin and experiment forthwith; and first of all, when the next flower-girl comes along your sircct, at once hail her, and'/ ‘lave a flower for your room!’’— Eliza Cook's Journal. ~ .riiriH Text.—Who can find a virtuous woman? for her pjHce Is far above rubies. Virtuous women are not as scarce novv-a-days, as they evidently were in Solomon’s reign, as will be discovered by the specifications lie makes, thus— “ She seekoth wool aud flax, aud worketh wil lingly with her hands.” Hired laborers are technically denominated “hands,” and so are the slaves on the other side of the liver. The inacuracy of the above account consists in the use of the term, “hands” for servants of botli sexes, it being generally confined to the males. The correct position of the description is, that the virtuous woman is willing that her ‘hands’ or servants should do her work. “She is like the merchant ships—she bringeth her food from afar.’’ This simile has generally been considered very correct. Merchant ships usually carry small bur dens, in proportion as they are swift sailing and sty lishly rigged; and the more expensive and beauti ful they are, the less profitable are they. “Her food is brought from afar,” that is to say, her tea comes from China, her sugar from the West Indies, and other luxuries from all parts of the world. “She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maid en.’’ There is a little incorrectness here, which may, perhaps, he in the translation. The true meaning of the verse probably is, that the virtuous woman, when she gives a party, sits up all night, and gives a supper to her visitors, allowing her maidens to eat a portion after them. “She considereth a field, and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.” That is to say the virtuous woman being occasion ally tired of the town, persuades her husband to buy a country seat, and, by the labor of the hired hands, to ornament it with vines and fruit trees. “Shegirdeth her loins with strength,and strength eneth her arms.” This is strictly correct. The virtuous woman re quires a strong girdle around her loins, in order to make her waist as small as fashion requires; and she must strengthen her arms, in order to draw her girdle as tight as is necessary. “Her candle goeth not out by night.” This may refer to the parties she either gives or attends —I rather judge it applies to tho common custom among virtuous women of the present age, sitting up in bed all night reading novels. Her can dle, of course, cannot go out by night, whether she gives a party or goes to one. “She maketh herself coverings of tapestry —her clothing is of silk and purple.” That is to say the virtuous woman is dressed in most expensive style, and the richest materials are used for her clothing. This text of a virtuous wo man being easy to the public, it is not extraordina ry that it should be a favorite one. But, without proceeding further, it is evident that at the present day,, virtuous women, instead of being as scarce as in the days of Solomon, are quite as plenty as is necessary and convenient for the supply of the wants of the community ; and on enquiry like that at the head of this chapter would not now tend to increase any man’s reputation for wisdom.— Cist's Advertiser. (CUP’ A man out west thus advertises his wife:— On the fifth of July on the night of Monday, Eloped from her husband; the wife of John Grundy ; His grief for her absence each day growing deeper, Should any one find her, he begs them to— keep her! To Make Rich Sausages. —Thirty pounds of chopped meat; salt, 8 ounces; pepper, 2 1-2 do.; two tea-eupeful of sage, and one and a hall do. of sweet r marjorum. Pass tho two last through a fine sieve. If you prefer it, thyme and summer savory may be substituted for the latter. From Arthur’s Home Gazette. LETTER TO A TOI IG WIFE, FROM A MARRIED LADY. My Dear Lizzie : —I have just received the plea sing intelligence of your marriage with one so wor thy of your trust and affection. Os course, you are very happy ; for there is no more perfect happi ness for a young and loving woman than to center her heart’s best feelings upon one being—to feel her destiny bound up in his—to become, as it were, a very part of his life. Perhaps, at such a time, my dear girl, it may seem unkind to throw the least shadow o\ 7 er ftic bright sky of your happiness; but I cannot refrain from giving you some little advice now, at the outset of your new life. You are looking forward —are you not ?—with perfect confidence to the future. You think the sea upon which you are launched, will e\'er remain calm and untroubled as now ; that you will go on forev er thus, joyous and happy—thus, free from care and sorrow; but, Oh, roinenlber, there is no sun shine that is not clouded o\'er sometimes ; no stream so smooth as to be always undisturbed. Then, make up your mind to have cures, perplexities, and trials, such as have never troubled you before; and be prepared to meet them. As yet, you are to your husband the same per fect being that you were before marriage, free from all that is wrong—your follies even regarded as de lightful. You are now placed upon a pedestal—a very goddess ; but, belitwe, me, you must soon des cend to take your place among mortals, and well for you if you can do it gracefully. —Believe me, dearest, I have no wish to sadden your spirit—only to pre pare it for the trials which must come to perplex it. You must learn to have your faults commented upon, one by one, and yet be meek and patient un der reproach. You must Darn to have those say ings which you have heard praised as witticisms, re garded as mere nonsense. You must learn to yield even when you seem to be in the right; to give up your will even when your husband seems obstinate and unreasonable ; to be chided when you expected praise, and have your utmost endeavors to do right ly regarded as mere duties. But, be not cast down by this dark side of the picture. You will be hap pier, spite of all these trials, than you have evet been, if you only resolve to be firm in tho path of duty; to strive to dojvell always; to return a kind answer for a harsh word, and, above all, to control your temper. There may be times xvben this may deem impossible; but always remember that one angry word provokes another, and that thus the beautiful gem of wedded affection is tarnished, un til what seemed to be the purest gold is found on ly gilded brass. Amiability is the most necessary of ail virtues in a wife, and perhaps tho most diffi cult of all others to retain. Pray fervently for a meek, forbearing spirit; cherish your kindly impulses, and leave tho rest to your Father in Heaven, I shall, if you like, write you again upon this suh- You know I have been weddqd long enough to'have bad some little exqUrfeneef ,r 7triu ’ if it Gur benefit you, you are welcome to it. Adieu for a while, Ever your friend, Carrie Mekton. The Ruling Passion. —Tho force of habit was well illustrated by an anecdote told us of a former professor at the Medical School in Cambridge. We have it from one of the students, who was present ou the occasion. After the delivery of a lecture, the professor said: ‘Gentlemen, to-morrow 1 shall have the pleasure of dissecting a body before you. I had hoped to have that satisfaction this afternoon, but unfortunate ly the subject was not exactly ready, not being quite dead. He is, however, without a doubt de funct by this time and to-morrow you may rely upon a rare treat.’ The next day the students were in the hall early to see the scalpel used. There was no corpse on the dissecting table, and every time the door opened e\‘- ery eye was turned to witness the advent of what Mantalini would style ‘a dein’d body.’ By and by the professor solemnly strode down the aisle to his desk, with his hands behind him, and melancholy look. Taking his stand he addressed the students thus: “Gentlemen, I expected yesterday, as I announced, to have the pleasure of dissecting a subject here this afternoon. But lam sorry to state, gentlemen, that much to iny disappointment, as it will be yours, the disease, unfortunately, has taken a favorable turn, and the patient is now in a fair way of recovery.’ “ Open to Conviction.”— The following capital description of character is from Dickon’s “House hold Words.” It hits oft’ to the life, a cla<s of ob stinate, self-willed persons who, while making loud professions of candor and fairness, maintain all the while a mulish stubbornness of opinion, upon which arguments are spent as idly as grape shot upon Gi bralter: “ Mr. John Diggs is a man who always carries his will before him, like a crown on a cushion, while his reason follows like a page, holding up the skirts of his great coat. Honest hearted, and not without generosity, he is much esteemed in spite of his many perversities. He possesses a shrew and observation, and a good understanding, when once you get at it, but his energies and animal spirits commonly carry him out of all bounds, so that to bring him back to rational judgment is a work of no small difficulty.— He is open to conviction, as he always says, but he is a tip top specimen of the class who commonly use that expression; his open door is guarded by all the bludgeons of obstinacy, behind which sits a pig headed will, with its eyes half shut.” New Printing Machine. — TKe recent invention of Jep tha A. Wilkinson, of Providence, R. 1., of a rotary printing machine different from any other now in use, promises to work a great revolution in printing. The motions of the press are rotary, and the type being placed on cylinders, each print a separate side of the sheet. The paper is only cut as it comes front the press, being placed on the press for printing in large rolls as it comes from the mills, and as many thou sand yards in length as may be desired. The paper being taken from the mill, and of the necessary degree of damp ness, is printed, cutoff into sheets, and folded by the press at the rate of 20,000 sheets an hour, requiring only one man to place the rolls upon the press and remove the papers as print ed, cut, and folded by the machine. Its cost is less than a double cylinder Napier press, and it is said to possess great advantages over any other press in its effect upon the type. Remedy for the bite of a Rattlesnake. —The remedy is nothing more nor less than equal quanti ties of hoarbound and plantain, bruised and squeez ed until you get a table spoonful of juice for a man, and half a pint for a horse ; and if a man, let him drink it—and if a beast, drench him with it. The dose may be repeated in twenty or thirty minutes, until the swelling and sickness begin to subside, lu severe cases ; but usually one dose will aus\Ver ev ery purpose iftakeu in season. For many years I have known this remedy, and though I have not personally had occasion to make use of it ou others —none on myself—yot I have never known of a failure. If the fang of the reptile should penetrate a vein, and diffuse a poison within the blood vessel, and be almost instantly conveyed to the heart, there is said to be no remedy for it; but otherwise, the juice of plantain and hoarbound will surely effect a cure. In one case, where the patient was so badly swol len as to close his eyes aud and stiffen his fingers and other limbs, three closes, with as many applications upon the wound effected a cure. Sugar Refining. —One of our New York contempora ries speaks of a newly-invented process for refining, or clean ing sugar, which is about to be employed in one of the re fining establishments of “hat city. The sugar mixed with molasses, until it has a semi-fluid consistency, is thrown into a revolving stove, with meshes so close as to confine the grains of sugar, while it permits the molasses to escape; aud the sieve being revolved with prodigious velocity—two thousand revolutions a minute—the molasses is driven out by the centrifugal force, leaving the sugar behind, clear, white, and, it is said, perfectly dry, resembling what is called refined brown sugar, and needing but one more operation to convert it into the loaf. Tho sieve refines two hundred pounds at n time, and in the short space, we are told, of two minutes. — U. S. Gazette. Interesting to Iron Founders. —An ingenious machin ist of Washington, Mr. C. Warner, has just matured a most singularly contrived machine for making moulds in sand for iron-founding. We learn from the Republic that the sand that is fed into a hopper, not unlike that of a grist mill, is carried through various processes, and finally brings out the perfect matrix of any model applied. It is not only adapted to iron tubes, or other long and slender objects, but is suscep tible of being applied to the production of mould of other forms. Another invention by the same gentleman consists of anew mode of connecting iron pipes, which greatly facili tates the laying them, and in such manner that they may bo readily removed joint by joint, without disturbing the ad joining sections, when change or repair is necessary. A Lusus Nature. —A cob of Indian corn, which in size and shape exactly resembles the human hand, has been brought to our office. Tho four fingers and thumb are dis tinctly marked. The thumb alone is a little defective, being larger in proportion than tho thumb of the human hand, hut in all other respects the resemblance is perfect. The fingers are delicately formed, and the whole presents the counter part of a fine female hand. This curious object grew upon the farm of David Clarke, of Dauby, Tompkins county. The owner was in the act of taking it to a friend of his, who he said was minus a hand, when the person who exhibited it to us obtained possession of it. The corn having been boiled off, the cob now remains an object of great curiosity.— New York Sun. .-, “ v jfr.-tP The Natchez (Miss.) Courier says; We can count up about forty-six political journals in the State. Os those we exchange with ull but two or three. Thero are besides four neutral papers, not one of which, we believe, has the slight est affinity to di; unionism. The political press we classify as follows. Whig, and for tho Union, 22 Democratic, and for tho Union, 7 and avowedly disunion. 5 “ and strongly agitation ist, 9 and favoring the Governor’s proclamation, but opposed to disunion as a present remedy, 2 Unknown, 1 Thero is one remarkable thing too about this. Everyone of the five avowedly disunion presses is published, it is be lieved, in a community decidedly opposed to tho pernicious dotrine they inculcate. Tho Governor of Pennsylvania has issued his Procla mation, declaring fifteen Democratic and 10 Whig Members elected io Congress from that State. political. The Resources of the South. The New \ork Courier, in an article on the commercial consequences of disunion, furnishes many interesting facts. We copy tho following table, which shows the products of the Slave States for three years: 1849. 1848. 1847. Cotton, $95,250,000 74,620,000 72,905,000 Tobacco, 6,616,741 5,756,360 11,008,200 Rice, 2,841,964 3,575,895 3,091,215 Naval Stores, 1,624,190 1.564,319 1,798,612 $107,332,895 88,816,574 88,803,027 Sugar & Molasses, 18,417,500 16,486,000 32,746,430 Total, $125,750,395 105,302,574 111,549,430 Os which there were exported to Foreign countries, during the same period, derived from official returns, viz: 1849. 1848. 1847. Cotton, $66,096,967 61,998,294 53,415,878 Tobacco, 5,804,207 7,551,122 7,242,056 Rice, 2,569,362 2,331,824 5,605,896 Naval Stores, 815,161 752,303 759,221 $75,615,700 72,633.543 65,023 The same paper furnishes a table of the products of the Free States during the same period as follows : Extorts of all kinds and goods;— 1849. 1848. * 1847. $50,420,484; $48,584,744; $65,203,956 Statement of the value of imports into the United States for the last three years , designating the proportion re ceived at the North and at the South. 1849. 1848. 1547. New York, 92,736,497 94,525,141 84,167,352 Boston, 26,327,874 28,647,707 34,477,008 Other Northern p’ts. 14,716,030 14,200,043 11,161,667 Total North, 133,780,361 137,372,891 129,806,027 New Orleans, 8,077,910 9,380,439 9,222,969 Charleston, 1,310,591 1,485,299 1.580,658 Other South’n. P’ts. 4,658,577 6,760,298 5,934,978 Total South, 14,077,078 17,626,036 16,738,605 The exports of the Slave States exceed that of the Free States by one-half; while the imports of the North exceed those of the South in the proportion of 133,000,000 to $14,- 000,000. Why, asks the New Orleans Crescent , should a state of affairs so unnatural exist? Why should not New Orleans and Mobi’e, Savannah and Charleston, enjoy the advantages from the foreign goods received jn exchange for the products of the Southern plantations ? Is there any principle of po litical economy which mil bates against the commerce of these cities ? Dirge ships carry away from our levee full cargoes of unmanufactured cotton, of riee, and tobacco, why should they not return loaded with that same cotton manufactured. New Orleans, and the other Southern cities, carry on a di rect export trade with all parts of ih* world ; what prevents an import trade equally extensive ? That it is not done is the best answer. New York and Boston must have advantages j to counterbalance those which apparently are in favor of the i South. The goods received in payment of Southern pro ducts, are carried to New York, where they pay insaranoe, pilotage, tonnage, wharfage, dravage, rents, profits. They are reshipped, and again the different chargee are incurred. The freight, insurance, and charges from Liverpool or Havre to Charleston or New’ Orleans, are but little more to New York, while the charges from New York to New Or leans are almost the same as those direct from Europe to any !of the Amercan ports. In truth during six months of tb> year, the Southern ports arc more accessible than either New ; \ ork or Boston. The canals and railroads which strike into the \\ cst, undoubtedly give those cities an advantage, bat 1 Charleston and Savannah are rapidly approaching the Ohio i with their railroads. The presen', unnatural course of trade can be, in some degree, attributed to the ridiculous feeling cherished in the South that mercantile pursuits were of a menial character. The old families of Carolina would not al low’ their sons to enter a counting house. In 1837, a South ern Convention, was held at Augusta, to encourage a direct trade with Europe, and an address was published which gravely set forth that commercial pursuits were not derogato | ry to the character of a gentleman! j Instead of w asting their time in the formation of Southern associations and committees of safety to carry on a content ! plated system of espionage , they would far more efficiently promote the cause of the South, by encouraging its feeble 1 foreign commerce, and assisting to bring back the trade of the ■ country to its legitimate channels. Fugitive Slave Law among the old Puritans. —A writer in the Boston Courier cites the follow ing: “It may interest the readers of these papers, as a piece of curious antiquarian history, to know the ori gin of the practice of restoring fugitives from service. In the articles of confederation between the United Colonies of New England—namely. Massachusetts, New Plymouth, Connecticut, New Haven, &c. made in 1043 ; and made, as the preamble declares, by those who ‘all come into those parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to en joy the liberties of the gospel in purity with peace*” —there is the following provision: ‘lt is alsoa greed that if any servant run away from his mas ter into any confederate jurisdiction, in such case, upon certificate from one magistrate in the jurisdic tion out of which the servant fled, or upon other due proof, the said servant shall be either delivered to his master, or any other that pursues and brings such certificate or proof.’ “Thus it appears that tho rendition of fugitives from service iu this country commenced more than two hundred years ago, and, what is remarkable, the mode of proof prescribed by the agreement of the Colonies is precisely analagous to one of tho modes provided by the act of 1850 ; the only dif ference between them is the more elevated charac-’ ter of the tribunal ‘in the jurisdiction out of which the said servant fled,’ before which the proof is now to be made, and the greater caution m tho proceed ings. 1 presume that the subjects of this compact between the Colonies were rather white servants and apprentices than negro slaves, which in 194$ were probably very few in number. It was very common in those early times, more than at present, for master mechanics to take indentured apprenti ces, who, if they absconded, were (and now are) li nk! e to be arrested and returned to their masters, as persons held to labor or service in the State whence they fled.” The same rule now prevails in regard to white fu-* gitives as was adopted by the early puritans of New England in relation to runaways, and is applied by the law of 1850 (as it has been by the law of 1793)- to fugitive slaves. A man charged with crime, and fleeing to another State, is surrendered up on the simple certificate of an authorised agent, without trial or inquiry into the reality of his guilt, or any appeal to the writ of habeas corpus. His guilt is left to be ascertained in the State from which the fugi tive fled. But the Northern fanatics contend for a rule for runaway blacks different from that to which white runaways are subjected, and are ready to tear the sacred Union asunder to effect their weak and wicked purpose. Christianity an if the Union. —-Most nations in the formation of their governments have made re ligion the basis of their political institutions, snd have considered a religious creed as necessarily in alliance with their civil regulations. The framers of our constitution did not, because they believed* that religion was most successful and most influen tial when left free and untrammeled to make its way by the force of truth, not only being tolerated by the State but enjoying full protection in the perform ance of its worship and the administration of its rites or sacraments. And it may be mentioned as a proof of the value of our institutions, that thera is here a more open and manly avowal of the truth of religion, however they may be thaw is to be found in any other country in the the world. What a contrast is thus presented to serious and reflecting minds, between the United States and many other lands—especially those un der different ecclesiastical rule! It is because relig ion is left to the unconstrained and voluntary sup port of a free people, who have free access to the Bible. Christianity asks of the government protec tion only. Let the strong and far reaching arm of the civil power be extended over it for this purpose y and it is more than a match for all the civil princi ples that oppose its onward progress to the attain ment of a universal dominion over the understand ings of men. It is pleasant, let us add, to think that the religion of the Bible has a mighty hold upon the great American family in this Union—a hold too firm we trust, ever to suffer ns to sunder tho ties that bind us together as one people. It prov ed its worth in the perilous hours of our national conflict for freedom in the dark and stormy days of the revolution—in “the times which tried tho souls’ ot good and brave men—in the solemn de liberations of the council chambers, when patriots were reminded that while they deliberated for the safety of their country, halters were prepared for their necks—and in the desperate onslaughts of the battle-field. Yes, the land we inhabit is consecra ted by the tears and prayers of pious men, and was watered by the purest blood that tyranny ever caused to flow. And if that dreaded day shall ever come, when this mighty Republic shall be dismem bered and torn to pieces, and the strong hand of despotism shall gather its scattered fragments ar.d sway the sceptre of power over this wide and rich domain—where brother shall meet brother in mor tal conflict, and the thunder of battle reverberate a long our hill-tops, and peaceful vales; it will be af ter the national sense of the value of religion has decayed—the national sentiment corrupted, and in fidelity shall have enthroned itself in the auctions of the people.— £ish">p Otoy. NO. 36.