Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

’ [COMMUNICATE?.] 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. ,-g < ....-V 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 , . Si :