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A merry Christmas and happy New
Year to you ally and a thousand of them.
I wish you mav all rise to your respec
tive pinnacles in life— to the highest apex
of yodr ambition, and a lofty crest on your
heads beside. I hope Santa Claus will
accord! the friendly wish.
A water-melon merchant once said,
oiy a sudden demand: “water-millions
has ris,” and other commodities too,
these times, has ris. Banks and hank
agencies has ris. Cotton and pork has
rjs ; fashions and dress has ris, and con
sequentially as how, debts and lawyers,
sheriffs and bail ids has 1 is, and a jail and
taxes has ris too, truth, justice, and char
ity has ris, all making a pretty fait price
current on a jumping and sliding scale [
1% ihebest o?yt is. iheviias all ris hee%j
upward,"all 10-Xjng up in Uie world,
the boy said, when the butcher knocked
him flat on his back. Better than all,
Griffin has .ris, her Schools, Acadeu'iies,
and Colleges has ris, in the literary mar
ket, heads up though, as the poppy said
to the violet in the garden, and Sancha
Pansa, when tossed in the blanket, heads
up, gentlemen, if you please. Yes Grif
fin will/go ahead in despite of all the
prophets of Nineva agkinst her prosperity
dPfank roads, rail roads, and mud roads
can’t kill her. Her name is and will be
Griffin, no matter what others may call
her. 1 As tq the College no\v in agitation,
its site ought to be in the West to coun
terpoise those in the East and South, to j
prevent the city from careening and ca, -
sizing in those directions. The tim e
Schools in the North will keep the town
on a level there, and the Male Academy
will keep the line of gravity in the cen
tre, so we wilt be in no danger of a bour
laversement, or the city turning a summer
set, or practicing grpund and lofty tum
bling, especially if the Mayor, Marshal,
and Council keep a sharp eye to wind
ward, and the city rigged alant and her
main brace hauled taut. Wont we be
well fixed ? All that is necessary to
complete the arrangement, is for a gay
eon of France, cleve de Paris , whose head j
is in an inverse ratio to the activity of
his heels, and practiced in the poetry of
motion, to come among us, and take the
large saloon in the Masonic, flail, and
announce to de ladies and de gentlemans,
dat he vill have Je grand honeur pour
teachezde leetle pug dog pour dancez on
del eg behind, and parlez vous fiancois, vat
you call it, bow-wow, in de true Parisian
accent. Wont we be accomplished ?
My young friends, as we told you he- j
fore, get up in Griffin a Lyceum. You
will learn more in it, than in schools—
learn things beside words—facts and not
theories, realities and not metaphysics.
Do not sacrifice your life, soul and body
in pursuit of the everlasting dollar—do
not keep up (hat everlasting quarrel
about money.
“ Mollv the Wad and 1 fell out,
And what do you think it was about;
Mollv had money and I had none;
So that’s the way the quarrel begun.”
You were created for a higher destiny,
being made a little lower than the angels,
and your aims should be kept up to that
standard Keap a good look out for old
Alchohol. He is your enemy, vs you ad
mit him to too close a familiarity. If
hard labor and close application make j
you dyspeptic, cholickv, rheumatic ori
troubled with thefantods or mully grubs,
step into the drug store, and take some;
of Dr. Wolfe’s cordial, “ Scheidam
schnapps,” and when j’ou bolt it, don’t
be chasing the D—l round the stump,
but stand up square and plump. Take
only so much—if you take any more you
will slip, and the poet says, “ She slips, !
and as she slips she slides along ” —that
is, you will advance in life heels up and
heads down, which would be a most
unhappy dekelter. Bear in mind the Vir
ginia negro’s hymn :
“ Shout, shout, the D— i’s about,
Sjut the door and keep him out.”
FI LI US NULLIUS.
The New Year.
The Augusta Constitutionalist of the
first inst. thus apostrophises the New
Year:
Anothci time-tnark has been reached
by the thronging myriads, who toiling
and struggling in the great battle of life,
have survived the casualties that beset
our mortal pathway duiing the year just
closed. Many sank in the exciting con
test for existence, for wealth, for plea
sure,for distinction, under the exhaustion
of age and long suffering. Many fell
paralyzed under the prostrating influence
of disappointment and of vital energies
vainly exerted. Many serenely closed
successful careers after long lives of pros
perous endeavors, crowned with wealth
and the world’s honors, and in peace with
God and man. Many were cut off in the
bloom of youtli, with the roses of health
untimely withered upon the cheek, and
the glowing fires of hope and ambition,
which throw their brightest golden halo!
around the dreams of the young alone,
chilled and extinguished by the icy hand
of the destroyer. Many of those among
our readers who have now entered upon
the New Year with bright hopes and
bounding hearts —many who have long
looked to this period for the realization
of cherished plans and deep laid schemes
of success and fortune, may ere its close
contribute to. swell the great catalogue
of mortality bn whose pages anew vic
tim is enrolled at every beat of the pulse.
We gladly turn from sorrowing remin
iscence, and glowing prediction, to the
indulgence of pleasing hopes and antici
pations.
For our readers and citizens generally,
for all whose eyes may scan these lines,
wo cordially wish a happy and a pros
perous New Year. May the close of it
lipd them all more prosperous than at its
beginning, and doubly provided in all
things which will contribute to their wel
fare and true happiness.
The.past year has been an eventful
one. To our country it has been marked
by peace, plenty and prospeiity. It will
be memorable as the year in which two
of her greatest and most patriotic sons,
“full of years and full of honors,” were
gathered to their lathers amid the tears L
of a sorrowing people. It will be mem
orable as the year in which our country
men gave to each oilier renewed assuran
ces of attachment to the Constitution and
the Union by the almost unanimous ac
claim with which they have elected to
the chief magistracy a man whose whole
life lias been a pledge of devotion to both.
Among many things enumerated for
which this year will be memorable to the
city of Augusta, the Constitutionalist
meutious the introduction of gas light,
the projection of a Flat k Road to th<
nearl of the State, and'the appropriation
of a handsome purse for the -establish
ment of an Orphan Assylum.
THE JEFFERSONIAN
GRIFFIN, JANUARY 6, 1353.
Hon. B. M. Charlton and lion. Joseph
W- Jackson will please accept our thanks
for valuable public documents, lately for
warded from Washington.
I
jl We are pleased to state that Mr. Blake
io;, .late Os the American thiion, has bought
opt,one half of the Reporter, and in future
that’ paper will be published ’by Messrs.
A. A. fty&ELY- & W. 13. Jones. . We
know been ** theste gentlemen well, and!
can recommend them to the patronage’
of the people of Troup county, in all save
tlmjr Whiggish predilections. May their
eyes be opened to the error of their politi-,
cal ways.
The Methodist^Conference.
is usual for editors to publish the list
j to stations and circuits of
the ministers of the.M. E. Church after
the conference, but omitting, as we did, to
publish any paper last week, the time has
become so long since the publication of the
list in other papers, that every one who
feels any interest in it, has already seen it.
We therefore do not publish it.
Thomaaton and Barnesville Railroad.
Mr. John D. Gray has taken the con
tract for building this road, and will com
mence it forthwith. The road will be
built in good style, with a T rail. The
route is a beautiful level, and very favor
able for a rail road. Length, sixteen
miles.
Health of Senator King.
The Washington Union of the 24th ult
remarks:—“We rejoice to learn that the
health of Senator King has much improved
within the last two days. He no longer
needs the attendance of a physician, and
it is confidently hoped that lie may soon
appear in the Senate chamber.
GriiUn Cotton Statement.
Receipts from Ist Sept, to 31st
Dec. 1852 15,020
“ same time in Usl 13,487
Increase 4,533
Much of the Cotton, we understand,
remains in the warehouses, for wannt of
conveyance to take it to the Depot. The
above only embraces what has been sent
away.
Magistrates’ Election.
| At an election held in Griffin on Satur
day last, Alexander Bellamy and C. 11.
Carroll were elected Justices of the
Peace, and David Brown and Theo
docious Cook bailiffs, for the Griffin dis
trict.
Spalding County.
At an election held in this county on
Monday last, the following was tiie re
! suit:
For Inferior Court.
A. A. (building,
J. B. Beall,
• Jason Burr,
B. W. Ferrill,
Wm. Crittendon.
For Receiver.
K. P. Bolton.
For Collector.
Richard Lawrence.
A good Court—three Whigs, two Dem
ocrats. Receiver Whig, Collector Dem
ocrat.
Appointment by the Governor.
Gov. Cobb lias appointed the lion.
Edyvin R. Brown of Americus, Judge of
the Superior Court of Ibe Southwestern
Circuit, vice Hon. Wm. Taylor,'decease!;
New Advertisements.
VVV call the attention of our readers to
the new advertisements of the Synodicai
Female College, Miss Newell, Mr. Brian
Newell, Messrs. Cloud & Shackleford,
and others, which will be first on the op
posite page.
The Cotton Market.
At last accounts from Liverpool, Cot
ton had advanced an eighth of a penny
—about a quarter of a cent. It com
mands in this market at this time eight
and five-eighths.
Jolm Williams, colored, was arrested in
New York recently, charged with pick
ing a lady’s pocket of half a pound of Dutch
cheese. Reader, did you ever smell a
whiff of the genuine article, when fully ripe
and mellow ? Cologne is no where along
side of it. It Qut-sourcrouts sourcrout.
! ‘
Advices received firm Port-au-Prince
(St. Domingo) to the 14th ult. state that
the yellow fever was raging there dread
fully at that time, and that upwards of
fifty Americans had died there within a
few months.
Professor McC.yy not Dead.
In onr last we copied from a Savannah pa
per an account of the death of Professor Mc-
Gay, said to have died of cholera at Apa
lachicola. We are happy to say this ru
mor was premature. The Professor arri
ved at Athens, his home, in safety, on the
23d ult. with his health much improved l>y
liis journey- , * “ I
The New Ye?.r. j
With tills paper we commence the’
New Year, and anew volume, improved |
with new type. For the past patfunagej
of our office we feel’gyitefully indebted
to our numerous and stimulated
to make still further improvements in the
course of a short lime. I’he career of
an editor is arduous, and not always agree
able. He has many palates to rater for,
many’ opinions to meet, and sometimes i
those of liis wirmest personal friends to
encounter. If he will do his duty to
himself and hiscoun’ry he must act from
principle, not always agreeable to person
al interest. Such a course we have en
deavoted to pursue, and we know we
have given offence to i levy in cow- 1
quence. We di 1 not expect it otherwiw. j
We did not hope to please every body'.
But we are gratified to know also that our
■friends believe wc mean well, and the
i
j most of them Still give us their cordial
confidence and support. Our opinions
,-have, for thp tuest part, been treated
j with great liberality, wjtere they have
not been able to command appiobation
Our business has considerably increase.'!
during the last year and confidence ha
not been withheld.
• With such kindness towards us w;.
feel stimulated to proceed with renewed
alacrity 7 and energy. Our preparations
for business are very complete, our types
mostly new and of the latest fashions, and
we commence the labors of anew year
determined that the mechanical ’work
of our office shall be executed in the best
style and at as low a pi ice as it can be
done any where. We trust our friends
will keep in infnd, that while we are al
• ways grateful to obtain new subscrip
■ tions, the ad verlisements and job print
> ing are always the main stay of a politi
cal printing office ; and while much is
done in a political newspaper office for
which the proprietor obtains no pay, he
must depend upon the advertising and
job printing to sustain him.
We tender to our friends the best wish
es of the season, with ourth nksfor their
confidence and patronage, and pledge our
selves that no pains shill be spared on
our part, duiing the ensuing year, to
make our paper as interesting and useful
as the best in the State.
Our friends have done much of late to
increase our subscription list We trust
they will continue their exertions, and
that each one will endeavor to add at
least one new name to the list,, if not
more.
The Tariff and Surplus Revenue.
The advocates of further protection t o
the manufacturers of the United States,
made quite a “pile” of the surplus revenue
remaining in the treasury of the United
States, estimating it at no less titan eigh
teen to twenty millions of dollars; and in
order to get rid of this large sum, pro
posed, early in the session, that the import
duty should be taken off from the raw ma
terial, and a minimum tax, for the benefit
of the manufacturer, put upon the manu
factured article. Thus the manufacturer
would be enabled to obtain his raw mate
rial cheaper and sell his manufactured ar
ticle at a better profit. This proposition
was recently before Congress, but reject
ed, and upon its failure it is immediately
found out that the surplus revenue lias
been much exaggerated; that after meet
ing the indefinite appropriations required
for the service of the last three quarters of
the present fiscal year, the surplus- in the
treasury will not exceed seven or eight
millions, instead of twenty, as had been so
often stated; and that a surplus to that
amount is none at all too much to keep on
hand against contengenics. Europe, it is
now said, is in quite an unsettled state,
this continent is by no means tranquil, and
there is no knowing what may turn up
suddenly to require, that amount of money,
and perhaps much more.
North Carolina Senator.
The Legislature of North Carolina has
failed to elect a United States Senator, in
place of lion. Willie M.yxgum, whose term
expires on the 3d of March next. A
number of candidates were tried on buth
sides, and a iargo number of balloting.,’
had, but no one could obtain a ma
jority of the whole number of votes. The
Democrats have a majority on joint ballot
of two members. All the llrilroad pro
jects for extending the Central Railroad
east to Beaufort Harbor or west to the
Tennessee line, having failed for tire pre
sent—they will be carried thoough next
session it is said. The State debt at [ire
sent existing or to be created within a
short time for Central Railroad and other
works, is about $4,000,000.
The Monks of St Bernard.
The intelligent reader is not unacquaint
ed with the well authenticated tales of the
good deeds of these good fathers—their
general kindness and hospitality on all oc
casions, but their more active exertions in
extending their good offices, guidance and
hospitality to the bewildered traveler in
the inclement passes of the St. Bernard,
when journeying over the Alps from
Frajice to Italy. Who has not heard of
the good monks of St. Bernard, and their
dogs, endowed with almost human sagaci
ty? The Paris correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican-, announces a removal of
their location. He says:—“The Monks
Os St. Bernard, after exercising so long and
so nobly the rites of hospitality, among the
snows of their lofty solitudes, are preparing
to abandon’ their establishments, which
will shortly’ bo rendered useless by the
opening of th§ tunnel of Menoa. The
good brethren will establish themselves be
side this tunnel, and again- proffer their
wqrltbru'nowual, hospitality to'travelers “on
this.new route.”
The New Cabinet.
We clip the following paragraph- from
a.late Sava/niiah Refitl!lean, and consider
the deductions from the New Hampshire
Patriot quite reasonable. oTie statement
!in the paragraph we are much pleased
with, that “no man will be proscribed be
cause he has in time past belonged to par
ticular sections of the Democratic party.”
This is right; precisely right; why should he
be? lie has ulwavs been aI) -moi :a’ and
j though he may hve dhi-’ ■ I wile por
tion’ of- his, -brohyen,’ e on. on Cardinal
Lppinto,jin days .go , by, when the occa-’
sion which edited hie ouestion before the
‘people no longer exist..-, the dispute be
j jwcen brethren should cease also. Where j
j are there two men of • independent minds, I
both equally honest, who ever thought a
like on every question brought before
them? If we are to keep up an eternal
quarrel with each other for every old dif
ference of opinion, we shall never be at
pace oven with our most intimate friends’
* The article alluded to is as follows:
’} “General Pierce’s Cabinet.— The Con
cord (New Hampshire) Patriot, publish
i ed in the immediate vicinity of General
; Pierce’s residence, ‘and edited by a gen
tleman on whom lie has conferred a mark
of personal favor and confidence, has an
article on the construction of the new
Cabinet which bears internal evidence of
. authority. It announces that the attempts
, now being made by papers and individuals
jto press particular parties upon General
’ j Pierce’s attention, will prove ineffectual;
1 the President elect having—it says,—a
j full sense of his responsibility, and* a full
. j determination to judge for himself in re-
I gard to the myn who shall be called to his
j council. States arc reminded that
1 1 all cannot lie represented in the Cabinet,
• (and that the supposed claims of sections
lor persons must yield to other consider.!- !
: tions. On two other important points the j
‘.Patriot speaks with great explicitness.— j
It declares that no man will be proscribed
because he has in past time belonged to
particular sections of the Democratic party;
and that the circumstances of having be
longed to a previous Democratic Adminis
tration will not be a reason for accepting
or rejecting any one.”
j “Ion,” the Washington correspondent
: of the Baltimore Sun, alluding to the article
in the New Hampshire Patriot, says:
j “The views presented by the New Hamp
shire Patriot, as the policy which will gov
ern Gen. Pierce in the election of his Cabi
net, have produced quite a sensation here.
Nothing could be more” acceptable than
; such views to the great body of the party
■ who united in the nomination of General
Pierce, upon the Baltimore platform. No
i clique of the party is excluded. All who
were in the light are to share in the feast.
All are put on equal ground as to party
merit, and all are left satisfied with their
chance in the lottery of seven prizes to a
thousand blanks.
“if the freesoii and State-rights demo
’ chits acr ’reft out of-the .cabinet, it will be
for the reason only that ther” is no room
for them. If the men who have hereto
fore held office, and the Presidential aspi
rants, should be left out, it will be for the
same reason. All are called-, though few
can be chosen. Rut it is satisfactory to
know from the oracular disclosure—what
was, indeed, generally believed before—
that Gen. Pierce’s Cabinet will consist of
I “men of broad national views,” and of men
who, in feeling and opinion, will constitute
| a unit.”
; Since the above was put in type a Wash
ington dispatch, published in the New
York Herald, says that the Cabinet will
probably be selected from the following
i gentlemen, to wit: R. M. Hunter, now
Senator from Virginia; Charles G. Greene,
I editor of the Boston Post; Mr. Dickinson,
tof New York, late a Senator from that
j State; James Guthrie, of Kentucky, late
| a member of the House; Jefferson Davis,
j Senator from Mississippi; David Tod, of
Cincinnati; Rusk, of Texas; Slidell, of
Louisiana; Gwin, McAllister and Weller,
of California. Here are four more names
. .. ■
than enough, as the Cabinet is composed
of only seven members. It is said Mr.
Hunter lately made Gen. Pierce a visit,
by invitation. This gives countenance to
the above as far as lie is concerned, but
not further.
Thß Columbus Times.
Wc see that this sterling democratic pa
; per has been merged with the Columbus
Sentinel, and Col. Forsyth withdraws
from the oorps editorial. Tib? corns loses
a high-toned noble soul, in the retirement
of Col. Forsyth. He thus speaks of his
successor:—“With my retirement, the
“Times” enters into anew career, new hands
and anew combination. It is to be united
with the Southern Sintincf, under the con
duct of-my late associate, Roswell Ellis,
Esq. and Col. Tenant Lomax, the editor
of the Sentinel. I could not leave my old
tavorite. in better keeping. There are no
two men of my acquaintance in whose hon
or and integrity I feel a surer confidence
titan in those two gentlemen. Col. L6mnx,
vv-io will K theprineip and Editor, is already
known Ut (lie public, having made his mark
as an accomplished and forcible writer
and a Democrat of the State Rights
school. Mr. Ellis has labored long by my
side in the business and fiscal department
of the “Times,” and has exhibited an tiu-j
tiring industry and an unflinching in teg- ‘
rity, that deserve to Win, and I confident
ly boliov.c wd!-win, success and fovttiue.” I
We regret to see also that Mr. Locke
retires from the Savannah Re/Hiblicnn.
Mr. L. like Mr. F. is a gentlemau in the
truesensc of that ter.m, honorable, liberal,
high-mindml, rnd although ft political op
ponent, we have ever been happy to con
sider him a personal friend, ami part with
him with the kindest wishes for his fu
ture career ii life.
Tlie Cincinnati Commercial gives tlic ]
following detail an attempt to defraud
sundry Insurance Companies, in the case
of the Martha Washington, lately buVnt on
the Mississippi, by which not only the boat
was burnt, but a number of lives destroyed:
—•“Sonic time last January, Capt. Cum
mings, brother-in-law of the Chapins, pur
chased the steamer Martha Washington,
and put her in the New Orleans trade.—
On her first trip the Chapins made very
heavy shipments on her of what purported j
to be boots and shoes. It is now said that
Capt. Cummings and the Chapins had ef
fected an insurance on the boat and ship
.ll ‘.t.; on h.er tmounting to one hundred
ami Uv > ity-fivo thousand dollars, and the
boxes supposed to contain boots and shoes,
were filled with rubbish of no value what
ever, and that theJioat was set on fire and
wholly destroyed with a view to recover
this immense insurance. Capt. Cummings
is now, we learn, in New Orleans, and
measures have, been taken for his immedi
ate arrest, if it has not ulready been done,
i It will be remembered that sixteen person.-
j were lost by the burning of the boat, and
!wc learn the parties arrested are now
| charged with murder, as well as fraud.—
i Xissane and Chandler are’ also charge' 1 J
i with being parties to the attempted fraud.’ j
Tho Vice President.
An exchange paper says: —The \ ice
President elect, Air. King, is 72 years o’
age. Ills symptoms are very aggravated,
and he suffers as Mr. Clay did in his last
illness. His cough commences in the eve
ning, and lasts till ten or eleven o’clock,
when, exhausted, he falls asleep. He is at
tacked again about two in the morning,
and coughs violently and incessantly til!
seven or eight. Nothing seems to give
him relief, and unless a change speedily
takes place, he cannot survive. His friends
seem to have no expectation of his recov-
I cry.
i In the,event of Mr. King not being alive
; on the 4th of March, Air. Atchison would
; continue to exercise the duties of President
I of the Senate, and in the event of the death
both of Mr. Pierce and Mr. King, he would
become acting President, and continue un
til the Constitutional provisions to fill the
vacancies should have been fulfilled. In
order to secure the benefits of the act cited
above, it is usual for the Vice President
to resign his office a day or two before the
expiration of his term, in order that the
Senate may elect a President fro tern., who
shall act as President of the United States,
on the occurrancc of the circumstances sug
gested during the long recess.
A Gigantic Proposition.
This is a great country, and certainly
1 some of the propositions to improve it are
on a scale to match. The project of an
immense rail road across the United States
and Her territory, from the Atlantic to the
Pacific, has been introduced into the Uni
ted States Senate by Air. G win. Accord
ing to this plan, the road is to have at its
eastern end, on the Alississippi river, two
lines, connecting it with the Atlantic thro’
the North and South respectively, and two
at its Western etui, connecting it with the
Pacific through Oregon and California.—
The contractors for its construction receive
in payment alternate sections of public
lands forty miles wide through the States,
and eighty miles wide through the inter
: veiling territories. At the end of thirty
years it is to be surrendered to the United
States. The mail, troops, and other trans
j portations of the Government, shall al
i ways be free upon it.
In a memorial to Congress on trio ne
cessity, importance, and practicability of a
Railroad from the Alississippi to the Pa
cific Ocean, the question of its profit is
considered. Pi fr y thousand persons go
‘annually to California, and it costs each
S3OO to get there, making a sum of $15,-
000,000. Supposing that the Railroad
can carry them for S2OO, this travel will
yield $10,000,000. The road will lie 2,-
000 miles long, ami it is estimated wj]|
cost SAO.OOO per mile, or an aggregate of j
$100,000,000, so that 50,000 passengers
would yield an interest of ten per cent on
travel alone. It is further assumed that
at least $5,000,000 will annually lie de
rived from freight, and that it will cost, to j
keep the road in repair, $5,000,000, which I
would still leave 10 per cent, for the Go.
vernment, or the stockholders, or the con
tractors, whoever should build it. There
are many schemes for this enterprise, and i
many‘estimates, but they must all be, in a ;
prujedt so vast, and over a country so lit- 1
tie known, nothing i)QUv t° * )C relied up. |
on than mere gm
Fiance and the United States.
la addition to what we have already
said on the outside of to-day’s paper, in re
gard to the movements of the new empe
ror of France and their possible effects up
on this country, we copy the following pa
ragraph from the New York Herald, show
ing, if true, that members of Congress are
not without their fears and apprehensions
also:
There is an important movement on foot
in Washington, in regard to our foreign
relations and the recent movements of
France in Ilayti and Mexico. The pre
j sent Congress intends to assume the initta*
‘■five in supporting the new administration
j in taking bold and high ground in its rela
| tions with the strong powers of Europe,
’ and in the protection with the weaker na-
{ tions of the earth. Our Washington letter,
! published in another column, intimates
this. It would not at all surprise us to see
an appropriation of fire or ten millions of
dollars, to be placed unreservedly in the hands
of Gen. Pierce, for the preservation of peace
■a nd the honor o f the republic in the. approach
ing crisis; We are entering upon an e
vcntful period of our history.
He that would make a dour of gold,
must drive in a nail every day.
Tssrig on hie Treatment and Management
of Slaves, written for the Seventh An
nual Fair of the Southern Central Ag
ricultural Society. By Robert Col
ei ns, Macon, Georgia.
A fiiehil, perhaps the author himself,
has favored us through the mail from
Macon, with a handsomely printed little
i pamphlet, bearing the above title. W e
have perused its contents with much
pleasure, b very clear and com
prehensive view of the trea'ment and
management of slaves ; and like every
i thing else proc< e ling from the mind of the j
talented author, is of a highly practical i
and economical character. This little]
book should be obtained and read by eve- |
ry plan'er in Georgia, as containifig hints !
and suggestions alike useful to all who I
have the care and management of the 1
class of which it treats.
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Death of Judge, T.-.ylo
An Albany correspondent of the Savan
nah Courier , under date of the 27th ult.
announces the unwelcome news of the
sudden death of Judge Taylor, on his
way from Baker Court, at the house of
his relative, Major Brooking, of Baker
county. He died from the effects of an
ittack at Newton, produced by eatine
lysters. lie had only fairly entered up
m the duties of his office—had given very
general satisfaction, and much good to
’ he country was expected from his ad-.
I ministration of the laws. Major Brook
I whose house Judge Taylor died.
[ -vas seized Tjole.J'v with the same dis
ease, and died very o’jdJt.t'y the
morning after Judge Taylor. He .va”
one of the most respectable and influen
tial citizens of the County, beloved by a!
who knew him.
In Senate.
Washixotox, Dec. 23. —Air. Cass sub
mitted the following resolution, which was
laid over:
Resolved , That the President be request
ed to communicate to the Senate, ns far
as may be compatible with the public in
terest, any information in the Department
of State respecting the establishment of a
new British colony, in Central America,
together with the copy of a proclamation,
if received at the said Department, issued
by the British authorities at the Balize,
July 17, 1352, announcing that “her most
gracious Alajesty our Queen, has been
pleased to constitute and make the Islands
of lloatan, Bonaeco, Utilla, Barbarat,
Helena and Alorat, to be a colony, to be
known and designated as the colony of the
Key of Islands,” and signed
By command of Her Alajesty’s Superin
tendent.
Ai'Grsxrs Faim. Gore, Col. Sec’v.
~ And also, what measures, if any, have
been taken by the Executive to prevent
the violation of that article of the treaty
of Washington of July 4, 1850, between
the United States and Great Britain, which
provides that neither party shall “occupy,
or fortify, or colonize, or assume dominion
over Nicaragua, Costa Rica, the Alosqui
to Coast, or any part of Central America.”
A despatch from Washington of the
21st ult. says—“ The U. S. Senate passed
a resolution to-day, conferring the grade of
Lieutenant General on Wini-teld Scott,
by a vote of 34 to 12.
Death of G n. Bennett.
The Macon Telegraph of the 4ih inst.J
says : We regret to learri the death of
General Joseph Bennett, bv a fall from
the second story of a building on Third
| street, about 10 o’clock on Sunday night,
i from the effect of which lie died between
1 3 and 4 o’clock on Monday morning.—
| Gen. Bennett was a native of New York',
j and came to this city in the year 182.3
; wirh one of the first stocks of goods ever
] opened in the city. He was afterwards
’ elected Brigadier Genera! of this Brigade,
I and subsequently a member of the Legis
lature from this county.
The editor of the New York Evening
M irror having been presented with a rose
plucked from a grave in Greenwood, on
i the 13th ult., he says :—“ It is so fresh,
J fragrant and fair, that wo should have
j hesitated long before robbing the tomb of
i its touching adornment. Like the per
sistent, enduring, eternal love of woman,
it continued to bloom and smile amid the
decay and desolation of Winter; keeping
watch with the sentinel stars over the
loved ones sleeping ip the still chambers
j below.
“ Beautiful token of some true heart’s
affection ; beautiful witness of Nature’s
tenderness, — its leaves should have been
left to fall on the bosom that nursed it, j
before the snow’s cold, shroud is laid up-!
on tiie naked breast of the common moth- j
I er of us all. ”
I ______
Mr Wadlf.y.—The State Road.—
Many of our contemporaries of the press
throughout the State are expressing a
good ileal of satisfaction that the rumor
| of die contemplated resignation of the Su
perintendent of the State-Hoad has been i
; contradicted “by authority.” We are
stiU inclined to think, however, that their
gratuiations on this point will be of short
auruiiul'i. In connection wi’h the sub
ject, we notice by the i~‘ Icdcd Union, |
that Mr. Millen lias resigned It's post a*
.Superintendent-of the Central Railroad,
,to take effect from the Ist of January.
Who is to take his place has not yet trans
pired,-though according to the Union, ru
mor about Milledgeville says Mr. Wad
ley. Madame Rumor has had it about
Atlanta, notwithstanding the contradic
tion, that Mr. Wadley’s resignation had
been tendered and accepted, to take effect
about the Ist of January. Still it may
be nothing but rumor, and as it is quite
possible that the contemplated arrange
ments may not have been carried out in
exact accmdence with the views of Mr. (
Wad ley, it is also quite possible that
someone else may fid the vacancy on the
Central Road.and the Superintendant o(
the State Road continue to hold his pre
sent office. — Jlllanta Intelligencer 3 )lk till.
Lazy Boys.
A lazy- boy makes a lazy man, just as
sure as a crooked twig makes a crooked
tree. Who ever yet saw a boy grow up
in idleness that did not mako a shifiles*
vagabond when be became a man, unless
be bad a fortune leit him to keep up ap
pearauces? The great mass of thieves,
paupers and criminals that fill the peni
tentiaries and alms-houses, have come
up to what they are by being brought up
in idleness. Those who constitute the
business portion of the cotrurmniiy, those
who make great and useful men, were
trained up in their boyhood to be indus
trious.
When a boy is obi enough to,Virgin to
play in the street then he is old enough
to he taught how to work. Os course
we should not deprive children of health,
j ful, playful exercise, or the time they
should spend in study, hut teach them to
Work little by little as a child is taught
at school. In this way he acquires hab
its of industry that will not forsake him
w hen he grows up.
Many persons who are poor let their
children grow up to f. nrteen or sixteen
years of age, or till they can
them no longer, before they put them to
j labor. Such children, not having any
I idea of what work is, and having aoquir
j ed habits of idleness, there is a repulsive-,
1 ness in all labor set before anif
I get it done, no matTjT le ‘ r
They are
1 dull at wois. *he con
do not slick to one thing but a
time; they rove about the world, getin
to mischief, and finally find Their way to
the prison or al^5 house.
Fpuutcal Scbsistance A merchant
in Boston writing to a lady in this oitv.
who s a firm believer inspirit Rapping*,
informs her that he has recently hetu7n
w excursion to the spirit land. He
brings the intelligence that Daniel Web
ster is in the third heaven, though he
does not state anything in relation to the
nature of his employment there ile also
<ays that l’rof. Webster, the murderer of
Dr. Turkman, is in the first heaven keeping
.a\ ern, and. that Dr. Turkman’ is board
■i.g e/'t his bill with him.— A’ Y,
Book.
Tlie Newspaper in a Family.
A school teacher, who has been en
gaged a long time in his profession, and
witnessed the influence of a newspaper
upon the minds of a family of children,
writes to the editor of the Ogdensbuig
Sentinel as follows:
1 have found it to lie a universal fnc‘,
without exception, that those scholars,
of both sexes and of all ayes, who have
had access to newspapers at home, when
compared with those w ho do not, are
1. Better readers, excelling in pronun
ciation and emphasis, and consequently
read more understandingly.
2. They are better spellers, and define
words with greater ease and accuracy.
3. They obtain a practical knowledge
of geography, in almost half the time
requires others, as the newspaper has
made them familiar with the location of
important places, nations, the’ Govern
ments and doings on the globe .
4. ‘They are belter grammarians, for
having become so familiar with every
variety of sty le, in the newspaper, from
the common-place advertisement to the
finished and classical oration of’.he states
man, they more readily comprehend
meaning of the text, and consequently
analyze its construction with accuiacv
e>. 1 hey write better compositions,
using better language,- containing more
thoughts, more clearly and connectedly
expressed.
6. 1 hose young men , who have for
years been readers of newspapers, are
always taking the mad i"n the debating
society, exhibiting a mote extensive
knowledge upon a greater variety of sub
jects, and expressing them views’ -
| greater fluency and clearness in their jjss
of language.
PRICES OUpiMT.
Griffin January 6, 1853
•JAG iIN'J, Dundee, per vard.... 14 ..
Cos. Kentucky,. .per yard a --
„ Gunny per vard 15 „ 15
BALL ROPE, Kentucky,..per ll> Jit n !*>
‘G. iMiinilta, peril).. 15
Bit AN I >Y, Pmoli per ga1.... 61) b
Cognac per gal... 100 ii
BACON, I lams, pei ll> |g lt
,l, >. *>• biers, peril) 10 a 12*
I, , U ’ t?i(les,. per l!> 194 a 15 „
ti J I I Eli, Country, peril).... 15 a 20
do Goshen, perlb ■>;, n 95
Bt'B'GV AX, per 11>.... 1C a S'.)
CURN per Ivjisli 40 s it*
d' Meal, per bush 50 6't
COTTON peril..... 8 B5
COFFEE, Kio, peril) 12 l2
Cuba, peril) 0 a 12
an- Java peril) 14 a H
Cllb.'.SC, Box, peril) lit a J 5
,l(> - Cask, perlb... 10* a 12i
CASTINGS, , peril..... 5 a-’
C.\ N’ DLES, perm, peril) 45 n 50
‘to. fallow, perl.) 10 a—
b LOtJlt, N. Y . and Baltimore, bid... 500 a €OO
b>. Ciiunny peril) 3 a 3
GLASS, 8 X 10 per box.. .1i75 „ 30)
Ho. lo><l2, per box.. .300 b>o „
j GRINDSTONES, peril) 21 a 3
litUN, I loop., per ||, g* a 10
d". Baml, perlb f, a 8
„ do. Bar, per 1b.... 5 a
KERSEYS, per vard 15 n 2')
LKM>, Bar, perlb 8 a 10
MACKEREL, pei bid.. 1000 a l'.oo
VIOL XSSESr per gal 35 35
N.\ I LS,. peikeg... 5 a 5
NEGRO SHOES, Russel, pair, 100 a 110
do. Stout Black, 100 a 120
CO tV Obi?, per lb 40 a f>o
SUGAR, Laf, ‘ per 1b...'. 12 a r 5
do. St. Croix, perlb 10 <j 12
do. New Orleans, per lb y a—
SAL I’, per sack.. 2.00 a—
do per bn.-.b 1,00 a—
STEEL, German, ..peril) i5 a 17
do. Cast, perlb 20 a 25
TWINE perlb 20 a25
TALLOW, perlb 10 a 12
TRACE CHAINS, per pair.. 50 a 500
W nIS K in',-. -por gn 1... 35 a
m & a ta a iaa>
On Tuesday the 2lst.£* iceiiiber lasi, bv Eld. D*
Swobe, Mr. Jks-e L. Ekahs, to Miss Maiit A. b-
Smith, d.iuglr.'cr of John li. S nilli, all of liS“;rv
co inly.
Oil Tuesday t!i” 21-t December last, nt I lie re
sidence of E i E.lmondson, in the e.nuivtv ofFavette,
by John C. B r .s*-{.Sp-Es|. Kbih’kn it. Roger*, to
Miss .MaktiO J. bn.M ..xdsjn, ail ufsai 1 couiiiy.
In Pike county, on Sunday The 2d inst. by the
Rev. A. G. ILib n, Mr. JeNATHAX i, .Mu.VF.it, to
Miss Nasci ItnouHD, daug
land, lute deceased, ail ul said enmity.
On the'l6 b Oecemlier !a'st, hy Tb’V. O. C. Gib.
son, Mr. John A. Frvkh, of Barnesville, to .Miss
Lizzie Smith, daughicr-ol’ It v. Duvn Smith, o<
Monroe eiMi'ufy,
Mabruos! thou hast hut little nerd of praise;
Ii nobler re.dm-Gliaii eartii, mid beams of light,
In verso as musical as tlr'u art bright,
• Willi eloq icuce, ne’er to mortals given,
Lyres with strings inspired of Heaven,
And lutes celestial, sing marriage praise.
Georgia, Fayette Comity.
WHEREAS Mareclliis b. Melntix-b, nppljf£)
to me lor tellers pf.jGnardiansbip.upbii the
person anil property o| Samuel L.. Mcßride, *i and
Andrew .1, Ale, Brule, minors of W illiam
ol Carroll comity. These are therefore to rite amt
admonish all and singular the kindred and friends
of said minors,, to be and appear at my office, with
in Ihe time prescribed by law, to show cause, it ony
they have, why snid letters ot guardianship, should,
not be granted said, applicant. \Vii!u:ss my ha mi
at otfice,,'his.t.lic 3.t January, 1353,
I — G, C. ivLNG). D, Oidiiiary
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